You could argue that "Indian" is really just English. I've worked with a number of people from India over the years and one of the interesting things I learned is that English has effectively become a common tongue in India.
The reasons for this are two fold. The first is that many schools teach classes in English from the beginning. The second reason is that English in a neutral language that doesn't leave any particular native group feeling like another native group's language was selected over theirs.
India has dozens of official languages and that makes conducting trade and education very difficult. The net result is that it is easier to conduct education and business in English. Along with law it's turned out to be one of the best things India ever got out of being a former English colony.
I wonder how many people there are living in ivory towers that criticize this type of research whilst being oblivious on how many millions of lives have been saved because of it? How many drugs and other medical break troughs could only only have happened by using animal testing? What are people proposing, we go back to the days of using prisoners and societies undesirables? Do these people propose that we go without testing and hope for the best with live humans (which is really just going back to the question of who becomes the test subjects)?
/i lump such people in with global warming deniers and their like
I don't think I've ever seen such an uplifting tale about christmas lights before. From tacky to beautiful, whoever thought ruffling North Korea was in the cards?
Think Star Wars here, it's actually on topic. Think Jar Jar Binks and avoid any homicidal tendencies that come to mind.
What most people don't realize is that Jar Jar Binks wasn't a character, he was an advertisement. He was advertising the ability to create a fully functional actor for a movie on behalf of his studio to the industry.
This is the same idea, you find the features you want, replicate them well enough no one can tell and you can now axe the cost of labor. You can also be safe from things like 'model get DUI' or other such unpleasantness. Your also safe from an actress aging, getting pregnant, dying from an overdose and so on.
This of course has been helped by models and actors being so heavily Photoshopped that we've arguably already crossed the uncanny valley by changing the public perception of what a person/should/ look like. For lack of a better way to put, the public generally can't tell and only those in the industry are going to know better or even care.
Just as the last fighter pilot has already been born, at some point we will also say the last model / actor has been born. It's outsourcing plain and simple.
People that once thought it was the problem of factory workers and weren't concerned are going to get a really rude wake up call. The precedent was set with other industries and I can't think of any industry that is/safe/ from it.
This is just astroturfing. Pretty much any type of popular forum site is going to have large numbers for accounts that have been set up for astroturfing my third parties.
I recall a while back fark all of sudden got crapflooded by pro-chavez bots. Admins simply need to find astroturfing accounts and delete them. Nothing new here.
No, I'm a real person, not an astroturfing drone. I just happen to be a real person that is tired of crap conspiracy theories. This is supposed to be a geek site, not an x-files are real site!
Set up your home computer with a second monitor and a VM. Use the VM to work remotely. That way your work computer is always squeaky clean and your privacy is assured.
I've worked remotely before and this worked quite well. That being said, having worked remotely for an extended period of time I can safely say that I worked/more/ when I didn't have to go into the office than when I did.
obvious from the article that bloggers' rights can vary by state, depending on the 'shield laws' in force."
How is this any different than what's been the status quo with gun rights for years? I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I've seen an anti-gun rant justifying some states having stricter gun laws.
Now that speech is being given the same treatment were supposed to be outraged?
Then I'm of the opinion that/all/ of our rights should apply in all our states and see absolutely no difference between these laws and legal decisions.
I'd like a little consistency in my moral outrage please.
Be be even more blunt, your example is wrong. They have not been producing tidal power there since the 1950's. My point stands, it is very doable to make a tidal power station, it's not very doable to keep a tidal power station.
Variations of harvesting ocean energy go back to at least the 1800's. All of them start with free energy, we'll use the tides or waves or currents. I'm sure with some googling you could find variations going back even before then.
All of them end with the lesson that sailors learned thousands of years ago. The sea is a harsh mistress. To be put more bluntly, every single one of these ends with a variation of 'maintenance costs exceeded projections and we're going to hold off on future deployment until the technology improves'.
At some point you think mankind would re-learn that nature is still perfectly capable of issuing things that are beyond our ability exploit and leave well enough alone.
Love the idea, as a matter of principal I like renewable energy forms. But to get real it's impractical and it might as well be the patent offices #2 automatic refusal right behind perpetual motion machines.
So while the server have a self destruct button with the thermite option for the disks? The government gets all the best toys, surely they can order this from their vendor...
I like Firefox, I think it's mostly a good program (never mind it's epic memory leak history). That being said the thing that absolutely killed them in the enterprise was the version stunt they pulled this summer.
They spent years trying to get into the enterprise and then shoot themselves in the foot. Enterprise admins cried foul and explained that would create hell for them logistically. Firefox said damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead and ignored them.
I would imagine that the versioning stunt probably cost Firefox a fourth of the enterprise that had either finally accepted them or was finally willing to put them into production. They desperately need someone who works in industry on the inside to explain to them how things are done.
At no point did I every champion 'inaction'. Please read more carefully what I actually wrote and not what you thought that I wrote.
At no point in time did I say that I was opposed to fighting pollution, that our current course of action or inaction was ok or otherwise.
My point was the people are too hung up on 'change' and that we have lost sight of the core basics of being good environmental stewards based on it's own merits.
I tried to make my point on change by showing that it was inevitable and that life will adopt and change regardless of what we do or don't do. I was also trying to make the point of our arrogance on the environment and to remind people that we ultimately just one cog in the environment.
Climate change has become a straw man that takes away from the core issues that actually matter (coal power plants are rampant, roll backs of standards for things like arsenic in the water an so on).
Climate change is inevitable, we will see Darwin's theory of evolution whether we want to or not. By no means do I argue that we should be reckless and allow widespread extinctions of our own making.
I fully support that we should be environmentally responsible and should fight pollution. My point is that we should do these things for their own sake and to get away from the straw man argument that is climate change.
I'm not here to drive a pro pollution political agenda. I'm making my comment because I think a lot of the scientific community has lost it's way and we need to get back to the basics of being environmental stewards for it's own sake.
Actually what I mean by being good neighbors is that we should not pollute for the sake of not polluting. My point is that global warming / climate change is a straw man and we need to move away from that argument.
Look at the damage that was done from the East Anglia University emails. The entire thing has been a distraction at best and caused years of scientific setback in terms of public credibility.
When the climate change straw man gets propped up than it becomes the focus instead of things like conservation and minimizing pollution. These are perfectly sound arguments that deserve to be propped up on their own merit.
Climate change is inevitable and were wasting countless billions and an enormous portion of our scientific knowledge budget trying to fight it. Those resources would be better spent on things like research into Thorium reactors and a hundred other things that/would/ benefit both the environment.
Nature is extremely versatile and life has and will always find a way. Change the environment enough and most of what's out there will die except for a few things that survive, learn to adapt an ultimately thrive. Mass extinction simply means new opportunities for new creatures and the geological record shows this time and time again.
This has been the case from the small mammals that replaced the dinosaurs to the those that learned to thrive in the oxygen that was poisonous to the life that lived before that.
Man is very arrogant, to think that we should be the judge and jury of every species on the planet. We need to remember that we only one of countless other species of this planet and to be good neighbors.
Change is inevitable, it's probably my biggest gripe against people that are vehement about global warming, this idea that nothing should ever change. Just because a bird species used to stop at this place means that it should always stop at this place.
It's as if these people didn't realize that change is the only thing consistent about our planets biological history. From snowball earth to tropics in the arctic our world has never had a 'normal'. We need to learn to balance ourselves against our planets inevitable future of change.
How about a simple one sentence explanation of what HyperCard was that doesn't sound like marketing speak? If you really want people to read what you write might I suggest the use of paragraphs?
When I first toyed with Linux in the 90's I smoked a monitor by setting the refresh rate higher than it would support. Whilst it hasn't been possible to do this in many years you could have likewise called that just as much of an attack as this printer issue.
People discover printers, copiers and so on are really just dedicated computers and attack them. If your a professional and your surprised something like this is happening than you've just outed yourself as incompetent.
Most modern infrastructure management tools like Altiris can easily perform a pxe boot function. Set up a wipe job, link it to the MAC address and wipe it. Bonus points for having an auditable trail if that's required by your flavor of regulation.
Two companies have just been bitch slapped for getting uppity about a common name in world market. How many other inane intellectual property disputes could have been resolved or prevented by doing this?
I happen to rather agree with you. My point was that people need to stop empowering facebook by turning over their lives to it on a daily basis. All that does is give facebook more of a commodity to sell. Without their product (your data) facebook becomes just another blip in web history.
To understand facebook it might help to use google as an analogy.
Google is an advertising company that happens to provide services that inspire people to see the ads that they sell.
Facebook is a data mining company that happens to provide services that inspire people to provide the data that they sell.
They both offer advertisements, the both do data mining. In many ways the companies are very very similar. The biggest difference is the interface that is presented to the public. They both offer most of their services in exchange for what they need to sell to make a living.
If you don't want to pay the price than don't take the service they offer. Or, just click the buttons to avoid telling the world about the things you'd rather the whole world not know.
/not a facebook fan and thinks people waste way too much time on it
It's a culture issue on the concept of server up-time vs service up-time.
I developed the patch management process that is used on the servers of one of the largest trading companies in the world. I got started on this at the time after hearing one of the server admins brag about an up-time over five years. What he was really saying was that he hadn't patched his servers in over 5 years. Unless your running a mainframe or a certain flavors of Linux a reboot is required for many patches.
When one of those servers go down the cost is measured in the millions of dollars per minute. The culture took as a matter of pride to make sure that never happened. The best perceived way to avoid this was avoid anything that could affect server up-time. Since patching necessarily involved rebooting the server it simply wasn't done.
Changing this culture was a half year long internal political fight that boiled down to a single thing. I posited the argument that server up-time should no longer be tracked as a metric and should instead be replaced with service up-time.
During that half year period I developed the process (working with a lot of other teams) for patching these servers without affecting service up-time. Doing so involved creating a SLA that had server maintenance windows defined for specific times. It also explicitly defined that service availability would not be affected by having a server be unavailable during those very maintenance windows.
Ultimately the culture was so entrenched that it literally took upper management handing down orders from on high that server up-time was no longer allowed to be tracked as a metric. In the end we were patching our servers on a routine basis and doing so without impacting service availability.
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You could argue that "Indian" is really just English. I've worked with a number of people from India over the years and one of the interesting things I learned is that English has effectively become a common tongue in India.
The reasons for this are two fold. The first is that many schools teach classes in English from the beginning. The second reason is that English in a neutral language that doesn't leave any particular native group feeling like another native group's language was selected over theirs.
India has dozens of official languages and that makes conducting trade and education very difficult. The net result is that it is easier to conduct education and business in English. Along with law it's turned out to be one of the best things India ever got out of being a former English colony.
I wonder how many people there are living in ivory towers that criticize this type of research whilst being oblivious on how many millions of lives have been saved because of it? How many drugs and other medical break troughs could only only have happened by using animal testing? What are people proposing, we go back to the days of using prisoners and societies undesirables? Do these people propose that we go without testing and hope for the best with live humans (which is really just going back to the question of who becomes the test subjects)?
I don't think I've ever seen such an uplifting tale about christmas lights before. From tacky to beautiful, whoever thought ruffling North Korea was in the cards?
Think Star Wars here, it's actually on topic. Think Jar Jar Binks and avoid any homicidal tendencies that come to mind.
What most people don't realize is that Jar Jar Binks wasn't a character, he was an advertisement. He was advertising the ability to create a fully functional actor for a movie on behalf of his studio to the industry.
This is the same idea, you find the features you want, replicate them well enough no one can tell and you can now axe the cost of labor. You can also be safe from things like 'model get DUI' or other such unpleasantness. Your also safe from an actress aging, getting pregnant, dying from an overdose and so on.
This of course has been helped by models and actors being so heavily Photoshopped that we've arguably already crossed the uncanny valley by changing the public perception of what a person /should/ look like. For lack of a better way to put, the public generally can't tell and only those in the industry are going to know better or even care.
Just as the last fighter pilot has already been born, at some point we will also say the last model / actor has been born. It's outsourcing plain and simple.
People that once thought it was the problem of factory workers and weren't concerned are going to get a really rude wake up call. The precedent was set with other industries and I can't think of any industry that is /safe/ from it.
This is just astroturfing. Pretty much any type of popular forum site is going to have large numbers for accounts that have been set up for astroturfing my third parties.
I recall a while back fark all of sudden got crapflooded by pro-chavez bots. Admins simply need to find astroturfing accounts and delete them. Nothing new here.
No, I'm a real person, not an astroturfing drone. I just happen to be a real person that is tired of crap conspiracy theories. This is supposed to be a geek site, not an x-files are real site!
How does a crackpot theory like this make the front page? What's next JFK assassination theories or little green men tucked in freezers in Area 51?
Just a little bit of professional editorial work, that's all I ask.
Set up your home computer with a second monitor and a VM. Use the VM to work remotely. That way your work computer is always squeaky clean and your privacy is assured.
I've worked remotely before and this worked quite well. That being said, having worked remotely for an extended period of time I can safely say that I worked /more/ when I didn't have to go into the office than when I did.
obvious from the article that bloggers' rights can vary by state, depending on the 'shield laws' in force."
How is this any different than what's been the status quo with gun rights for years? I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I've seen an anti-gun rant justifying some states having stricter gun laws.
Now that speech is being given the same treatment were supposed to be outraged?
Then I'm of the opinion that /all/ of our rights should apply in all our states and see absolutely no difference between these laws and legal decisions.
I'd like a little consistency in my moral outrage please.
Be be even more blunt, your example is wrong. They have not been producing tidal power there since the 1950's. My point stands, it is very doable to make a tidal power station, it's not very doable to keep a tidal power station.
Variations of harvesting ocean energy go back to at least the 1800's. All of them start with free energy, we'll use the tides or waves or currents. I'm sure with some googling you could find variations going back even before then.
All of them end with the lesson that sailors learned thousands of years ago. The sea is a harsh mistress. To be put more bluntly, every single one of these ends with a variation of 'maintenance costs exceeded projections and we're going to hold off on future deployment until the technology improves'.
At some point you think mankind would re-learn that nature is still perfectly capable of issuing things that are beyond our ability exploit and leave well enough alone.
Love the idea, as a matter of principal I like renewable energy forms. But to get real it's impractical and it might as well be the patent offices #2 automatic refusal right behind perpetual motion machines.
So while the server have a self destruct button with the thermite option for the disks? The government gets all the best toys, surely they can order this from their vendor...
I like Firefox, I think it's mostly a good program (never mind it's epic memory leak history). That being said the thing that absolutely killed them in the enterprise was the version stunt they pulled this summer.
They spent years trying to get into the enterprise and then shoot themselves in the foot. Enterprise admins cried foul and explained that would create hell for them logistically. Firefox said damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead and ignored them.
I would imagine that the versioning stunt probably cost Firefox a fourth of the enterprise that had either finally accepted them or was finally willing to put them into production. They desperately need someone who works in industry on the inside to explain to them how things are done.
At no point did I every champion 'inaction'. Please read more carefully what I actually wrote and not what you thought that I wrote.
At no point in time did I say that I was opposed to fighting pollution, that our current course of action or inaction was ok or otherwise.
My point was the people are too hung up on 'change' and that we have lost sight of the core basics of being good environmental stewards based on it's own merits.
I tried to make my point on change by showing that it was inevitable and that life will adopt and change regardless of what we do or don't do. I was also trying to make the point of our arrogance on the environment and to remind people that we ultimately just one cog in the environment.
Climate change has become a straw man that takes away from the core issues that actually matter (coal power plants are rampant, roll backs of standards for things like arsenic in the water an so on).
Climate change is inevitable, we will see Darwin's theory of evolution whether we want to or not. By no means do I argue that we should be reckless and allow widespread extinctions of our own making.
I fully support that we should be environmentally responsible and should fight pollution. My point is that we should do these things for their own sake and to get away from the straw man argument that is climate change.
I'm not here to drive a pro pollution political agenda. I'm making my comment because I think a lot of the scientific community has lost it's way and we need to get back to the basics of being environmental stewards for it's own sake.
Actually what I mean by being good neighbors is that we should not pollute for the sake of not polluting. My point is that global warming / climate change is a straw man and we need to move away from that argument.
Look at the damage that was done from the East Anglia University emails. The entire thing has been a distraction at best and caused years of scientific setback in terms of public credibility.
When the climate change straw man gets propped up than it becomes the focus instead of things like conservation and minimizing pollution. These are perfectly sound arguments that deserve to be propped up on their own merit.
Climate change is inevitable and were wasting countless billions and an enormous portion of our scientific knowledge budget trying to fight it. Those resources would be better spent on things like research into Thorium reactors and a hundred other things that /would/ benefit both the environment.
Nature is extremely versatile and life has and will always find a way. Change the environment enough and most of what's out there will die except for a few things that survive, learn to adapt an ultimately thrive. Mass extinction simply means new opportunities for new creatures and the geological record shows this time and time again.
This has been the case from the small mammals that replaced the dinosaurs to the those that learned to thrive in the oxygen that was poisonous to the life that lived before that.
Man is very arrogant, to think that we should be the judge and jury of every species on the planet. We need to remember that we only one of countless other species of this planet and to be good neighbors.
Change is inevitable, it's probably my biggest gripe against people that are vehement about global warming, this idea that nothing should ever change. Just because a bird species used to stop at this place means that it should always stop at this place.
It's as if these people didn't realize that change is the only thing consistent about our planets biological history. From snowball earth to tropics in the arctic our world has never had a 'normal'. We need to learn to balance ourselves against our planets inevitable future of change.
How about a simple one sentence explanation of what HyperCard was that doesn't sound like marketing speak? If you really want people to read what you write might I suggest the use of paragraphs?
Good catch, you should submit that as a news story! Slashdot editor edits news story. Just make sure you submit the story with your own typo.
I'm the guy who responded to their user feature request a few months back with a request that they hire a professional editor...
When I first toyed with Linux in the 90's I smoked a monitor by setting the refresh rate higher than it would support. Whilst it hasn't been possible to do this in many years you could have likewise called that just as much of an attack as this printer issue.
People discover printers, copiers and so on are really just dedicated computers and attack them. If your a professional and your surprised something like this is happening than you've just outed yourself as incompetent.
Why is this a news?
Most modern infrastructure management tools like Altiris can easily perform a pxe boot function. Set up a wipe job, link it to the MAC address and wipe it. Bonus points for having an auditable trail if that's required by your flavor of regulation.
Two companies have just been bitch slapped for getting uppity about a common name in world market. How many other inane intellectual property disputes could have been resolved or prevented by doing this?
I happen to rather agree with you. My point was that people need to stop empowering facebook by turning over their lives to it on a daily basis. All that does is give facebook more of a commodity to sell. Without their product (your data) facebook becomes just another blip in web history.
To understand facebook it might help to use google as an analogy.
Google is an advertising company that happens to provide services that inspire people to see the ads that they sell.
Facebook is a data mining company that happens to provide services that inspire people to provide the data that they sell.
They both offer advertisements, the both do data mining. In many ways the companies are very very similar. The biggest difference is the interface that is presented to the public. They both offer most of their services in exchange for what they need to sell to make a living.
If you don't want to pay the price than don't take the service they offer. Or, just click the buttons to avoid telling the world about the things you'd rather the whole world not know.
/not a facebook fan and thinks people waste way too much time on it
It's a culture issue on the concept of server up-time vs service up-time.
I developed the patch management process that is used on the servers of one of the largest trading companies in the world. I got started on this at the time after hearing one of the server admins brag about an up-time over five years. What he was really saying was that he hadn't patched his servers in over 5 years. Unless your running a mainframe or a certain flavors of Linux a reboot is required for many patches.
When one of those servers go down the cost is measured in the millions of dollars per minute. The culture took as a matter of pride to make sure that never happened. The best perceived way to avoid this was avoid anything that could affect server up-time. Since patching necessarily involved rebooting the server it simply wasn't done.
Changing this culture was a half year long internal political fight that boiled down to a single thing. I posited the argument that server up-time should no longer be tracked as a metric and should instead be replaced with service up-time.
During that half year period I developed the process (working with a lot of other teams) for patching these servers without affecting service up-time. Doing so involved creating a SLA that had server maintenance windows defined for specific times. It also explicitly defined that service availability would not be affected by having a server be unavailable during those very maintenance windows.
Ultimately the culture was so entrenched that it literally took upper management handing down orders from on high that server up-time was no longer allowed to be tracked as a metric. In the end we were patching our servers on a routine basis and doing so without impacting service availability.