Seriously: If this leak is so damning to God's one true church, won't he smite the site with the internet's version of fire and brimestone? Sit back and enjoy the (virtual) fireworks.
Or is it more that the church is worried about the economic impact of this more than the spiritual one?
It is to bad, after watching the PBS documentary a year ago on the Mormons I became aware of some of the good work they do through their charitable foundation. This cause me, who had long been strongly anti-Mormon (or more specifically anti-religous), to reconsider my opinion of their church. However it is moves like this that will reverse my opinion...
keep mision critical systems off-line. Do I need to repeat it? Perhaps with wireless routers there is an issue, but the ones in the picture looked to be of the wired variety. If they are on closed systems, with good physical security, it doesn't matter how many back doors they have.
We have one of these in our neighborhood too. One guy put up a sign that says, "I can't poop in your yard, so pick up after your dog when he poops in mine"
He still finds a stinking pile every few days. No amount of yelling or shaming gets through to her either. I have pictures, but so far the police are uninterested. I'd gladly pay for a camera to be installed if that is the evidence they need.
Sure it isn't why the cameras were installed, but if it catches just one of these inconsiderate pricks it has already made the world a better place.
I am confused though: If they do a poor job of identifying criminals enough for prosecution why are they good at gathering evidence aganst dog poop leavers?
Exactly what I would do. If the letter wasn't certified and didn't clearly arrive with ample assurance that I would have to receive it, I'd just recycle it. Maybe I'd call up one of my friends who went to law school, but only if we had something else to talk about anyway.
OTH it might be amusing to send them a bill for the balance on the postage. I never would pay to receive a letter.
This thing was sent from one country to another, anyone who has sent important documents to another country knows you send them by private carrier not the gdam government service. More so if there is a deadline involved.
Bookmans in Tucson, AZ. I sell them my games whenever I'm out there as well. They even by the $hitty old stuff. Give you extra bucks if you still have the box and manuals etc...
I buy my books for a substantial discount from a used book dealer and sell them for only slightly less than I paid when I'm done, or pass them around friends and family first. Can you give me an e-book that I can do this with?
I'd love to see how your e-book reader would hold up in my kitchen with a copy of "Joy of Cooking" on it. I'm guessing one good dousing in hot bacon grease would more than ruin the screen, while it only made my JoC smell funny, well... one page is a little see-through now.
Seems like there are a number of very substantial hurdles for e-books to overcome, I'm guessing the solution involves some sort of wood based material...
Or if I am driving a car I made myself up into the mountains. You can bet I let people know where I'm going, I'd probably even get someone to follow me in a manufactured car.
Pluto thought that it was all about the performance and the art. He/She/It (which is it by the way? probably depends on your country) didn't realize that public perception meant more than quality of ones work.
In all seriousness I think astronomers lost sight of the true issue. Who is to say that someday we won't discover a star with only a handful of Pluto sized objects and no others orbiting it, will we then declare this star system to be planetless? Considering that such an object could probably be set up to contain a reasonabally sized community it seems a little silly to refuse it the designation of being a planet... They totally should have gone with a classification scheme; eg. something like the biologists have developed for plants and animals.
If you drive into a flooded wash which has been marked by cones and signs as closed to traffic you will be billed for the cost of your rescue. Always seemed pretty straightforward to me.
In Mr. Fossett's case there was no flight plan filed. To my mind it seems once he has violated that basic tenet the state should have felt no ethical obligation to search for him. If his relatives wished to call for volunteers or offer a bounty to encourage searchers, that is their decision.
As a teenager I played hours upon hours of Mario Kart while drinking craptacular beer (what can I say I was a teenager). I was so horrible at it in the wee hours of the morning, that I was (and still am) easily convinced that operating a real motor vehicle in such a condition is foolish at best. I say let the people play and learn how hard it is to drive when: you have slower reaction times, you can't judge your speed, you confuse left and right, and finally the two kickers, you are seeing double and the world is spinning in circles.
Foot touched the wall that's a drink Sunrise that's a drink Sunset that's a drink passing over Europ, you guessed it, take a drink Houston calls last person on the communication takes two drinks. etc.
before we spend to much time and money winning the next one? Personally I'm all for just leaving Iraq and letting our military go back to what they do best, buying bigger badder guns, and expensive toilette seats. But if the majority consensus is that we need to stay in Iraq until we "win", I sure would like to see DARPA working on technology to bring that idea to fruition.
I don't hear of to many combatants in Iraq using armored vehicles (for Gods sake the Iraqi army goes out there in
pickup trucks), so why don't we set the magneto molten tank slayer aside and pick up one of those projects on detecting and destroying IEDs or armoring our vehicles against them. While we are at it how about a device which stops car engines from a distance. Next it would be nice to address the reason we need to be there to begin with, Oil dependence, maybe DARPA should work on some alternatives; someday our airforce is going to need a way to fly fighter jets without oil, regardless of what war we are fighting; seems like we might as well start working on that problem.
Then let's address the problem our military has recruiting, maybe DARPA should work on developing techniques for bringing soldiers without high school diplomas back up to speed, or ideas for getting soldiers with Felony waivers to avoid a life of crime after being trained for killing by the military.
And finally something warm and cuddly like super cute genetically engineered puppies we could air drop all over the middle east to try and get those folks to relax.
Or how many mistakes they make. Personally I can't fill in a webform without using backspace a couple of times.
Checking for typos might be good as well, I'm sure I make far more than your standard computer-bot.
I'm just amazed that gasoline isn't going for 10$/ga. as it seems people would be willing to pay that (not without a little bit of bitchin').
So if I could make "green" gasoline for any amount less than the current cost of gasoline I'd be selling at a penny less than real gasoline. Or maybe I could get away with adding a 10 percent "saving the planet without making any real changes" charge.
Not the search of our laptops, but the number of people who think TSA-Airport Security == Customs Inspection
The two are, for the most part, completely distinct interviews/searches. One has the primary goal of protecting aviation, the other has the primary goal(s) of protecting the US as a whole, US citizens as individuals, and enforcing US laws pertaining to the importation of goods and the travel of people. On top of this they are conducted by separate LE entities, at least for the time being.
In the first case having things like nail clippers are bad, in the second having a potato is bad.
I'm all for allowing the government great freedom to conduct searches at border crossings in an effort to verify that those coming in are not in the act of committing a crime, however I feel it is pointless as it appears that just about anyone can cross the border at will so long as they don't do it at a crossing. Until we stop people from just walking in, the only ones we will catch at the airports and other official crossings will be the idiots and those to out of shape to walk for a couple of days in the desert.
It's been awhile, but I seem to remember that ROTC at my alma mater was populated mostly by engineers. It seems that maybe the stateless military forces aren't the only ones that have figured this point out.
In a similar line of thought: what do most cadets major in at the academies?
biking is not feasible for the majority of the population I hope I'm wrong, but when gas is 10$/ga. and 100 mpg cars are still a pipe dream I would expect this to change. Personally I'm trying my best to set my life (home, work, spouse's work) up so that I'm not reliant on some fancy new (read expensive) technology when a 100 year old technology can solve the same problem now.
A year ago 3 of 6 Wi-Fi setups I could get from my house were unsecured and could be used, although only one of them had a strong enough signal to be reliably useful. Now 1 of 10 are unsecured. I live in a poor neighborhood with many retired renters, it seems like if they are figuring out (or stumbling across) how to secure their router than anyone can.
I have a 15 mile rt commute to work, with another 15 for errands on the weekend, gives me 90 miles a week. My current car (Toyota Corolla) gets 30+ miles per gallon. If I ride my bike to work 4.2 days per week (right now I do 5 days a week but I guess I could cut back). I can get my gasoline usage down the equivalent of a 100 mpg car.
or if you rather, if I move to 1.2 miles from work (a bit pricey as I work on a college campus, but not undoable) I could get my gasoline usage down the equivalent of a 100 mph car. By combining bike and car usage I can dial things to somewhere in between.
X-prize foundation, I'd like my 10 million in small bills, you only need to give me the award once, thanks!
If you purposefully aim your science at religious fundamentalists you are only giving credence to their silly myths. Fine if you share these views, but scientifically dishonest if you do not.
I live in Franklin county and vote in every election by mail. Of course I have no idea if my vote is counted (I do seem to have a knack for picking the losers). I like the mail in voting because I get to take my time with the ballot, I typically look up each candidate on google and in the local paper, read their positions on their websites, and check out what some of my friends are saying about them. I'm insulated from the idiotic emotional adds of the last few days before the election date, typically my ballot is in the mail two weeks before the big day. The only thing I dislike about it is that I have no way to check that my ballot even arrived at the county election board, much less whether it was correctly scanned. I do keep a photocopy of my completed ballot until the next election cycle, but this is more to remind me when a friend asks who I voted for in a particular race, or as evidence if it turns out there was a problem.
The thing about local elections is there are many races where I have never heard anything about any of the candidates. If I were to try to do this in a voting both without the internet I would end up either not voting for these races or flipping a coin. Add to this that the ballot propositions are written in the most cryptic sinister sounding language ( my impression is that they run it through a couple of cycles of Google translate with a few foriegn languages before putting it on the ballot).
As others have said, the possibility of vote buying is not a reason to deny me the right to verify my vote, rather it just means we need to make sure that this is a heavy felony with the harshest allowable punishments. I have trouble believing someone could buy enough votes without it becoming known to the authorities and public. I have no trouble believing that a motivated hack could figure out a way to manipulate the vote on an electronic machine without leaving any trail at all (Why can the logs be disabled??).
In the US it is a question posed to your next of kin or estate. I think the default answer is "no" which seems silly to this atheist. As with many things dealing with your final days it is important that as many people as possible (particularly the ones to whom the question will be posed) are aware of your wishes. The reason for Donor cards is that in the case of organ transplant there is not always time to contact the next of kin for permission to take these delicate tissues. Other parts such as tendons, bone, and cadaver usage for medical training or testing, are less time sensitive and can wait for the relatives to be asked.
We should be able to use our bodies as payment for the cost of our care and treatment. It is so horrible that following a death families are often hounded by the hospital looking to collect money for a service which ultimately failed. My family is instructed to get what they can until all of my earthly obligations are taken care of, and then to donate what remains to a worthy cause.
So what about http://ratemyprofessor.com/ ? Should this site be shut down also, it has every problem you point out except that it is about professors not police...
That's funny I haven't looked at the site in awhile and they now have a "Your professors strike back" section.
But what if you were the Police office who unfairly got poor reviews because you arested someone who deserved it...
They are people too with families and life outside of work. Being a policeman is not a good job if you want to be popular. As a college professor students can post reviews about me to ratemyprofessor. However even more importantly promotion decisions are strongly based off of student evaluations filled out at the end of each semester. I'm a person with a family and life outside of work, yet my career is inextricably tied to what anonymous people say about my work. For my part I embrace the criticism, it helps me become better at my JOB. I have no respect for someone who wants to be protected from criticisms about their work and behavior. While it is certainly true that evaluations where the evaluator has to go to some effort on their own part, have a slant towards the less flattering, they still provide useful feedback for improving ones performance.
Unfair poor evaluations are a fundamental problem with this process, however they are usually easy to spot: one of my colleagues got the following, "He actually expects you to remember what he says in class". Clearly this student's poor assessment of his professor is likely less than accurate.
Reading all these comments...there seems to be a common theme that "There is no shortage of IT workers, just a shortage of good ones."
Why is that? I'm really asking because I don't know. Why are the majority of practicioners of our profession bad? This doesn't happen with other professions does it? (doctor, lawyer, etc.) This is from outside of IT looking in but; I postulate that for college bound students there is a perception that the amount of work an IT person is expected to do prior to and after being hired is not sufficiently compensated by the career opportunities, pay, and perhaps most damaging for the field, job security. The obvious fix from the corporations' pov is to import workers who, in their home countries, expect fewer career opportunities, less pay, and less job security. The obvious fix from society's pov is to let corporations increase the compensation packages, and throw in some job security assurances. Either of these solves the problems and results in more qualified individuals going into the field, however only one of them fixes the problem for good.
What recourse would IT professionals have if there was an oversupply of highly qualified people? Would they be able to convince the government to start exporting workers in order to keep wages from being suppressed? snort!
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Seriously: If this leak is so damning to God's one true church, won't he smite the site with the internet's version of fire and brimestone? Sit back and enjoy the (virtual) fireworks.
Or is it more that the church is worried about the economic impact of this more than the spiritual one?
It is to bad, after watching the PBS documentary a year ago on the Mormons I became aware of some of the good work they do through their charitable foundation. This cause me, who had long been strongly anti-Mormon (or more specifically anti-religous), to reconsider my opinion of their church. However it is moves like this that will reverse my opinion...
keep mision critical systems off-line. Do I need to repeat it? Perhaps with wireless routers there is an issue, but the ones in the picture looked to be of the wired variety. If they are on closed systems, with good physical security, it doesn't matter how many back doors they have.
We have one of these in our neighborhood too. One guy put up a sign that says, "I can't poop in your yard, so pick up after your dog when he poops in mine"
He still finds a stinking pile every few days. No amount of yelling or shaming gets through to her either. I have pictures, but so far the police are uninterested. I'd gladly pay for a camera to be installed if that is the evidence they need.
Sure it isn't why the cameras were installed, but if it catches just one of these inconsiderate pricks it has already made the world a better place.
I am confused though: If they do a poor job of identifying criminals enough for prosecution why are they good at gathering evidence aganst dog poop leavers?
Exactly what I would do. If the letter wasn't certified and didn't clearly arrive with ample assurance that I would have to receive it, I'd just recycle it. Maybe I'd call up one of my friends who went to law school, but only if we had something else to talk about anyway.
OTH it might be amusing to send them a bill for the balance on the postage. I never would pay to receive a letter.
This thing was sent from one country to another, anyone who has sent important documents to another country knows you send them by private carrier not the gdam government service. More so if there is a deadline involved.
Bookmans in Tucson, AZ. I sell them my games whenever I'm out there as well. They even by the $hitty old stuff. Give you extra bucks if you still have the box and manuals etc...
I buy my books for a substantial discount from a used book dealer and sell them for only slightly less than I paid when I'm done, or pass them around friends and family first. Can you give me an e-book that I can do this with?
... one page is a little see-through now.
I'd love to see how your e-book reader would hold up in my kitchen with a copy of "Joy of Cooking" on it. I'm guessing one good dousing in hot bacon grease would more than ruin the screen, while it only made my JoC smell funny, well
Seems like there are a number of very substantial hurdles for e-books to overcome, I'm guessing the solution involves some sort of wood based material...
Or if I am driving a car I made myself up into the mountains. You can bet I let people know where I'm going, I'd probably even get someone to follow me in a manufactured car.
Pluto thought that it was all about the performance and the art. He/She/It (which is it by the way? probably depends on your country) didn't realize that public perception meant more than quality of ones work. In all seriousness I think astronomers lost sight of the true issue. Who is to say that someday we won't discover a star with only a handful of Pluto sized objects and no others orbiting it, will we then declare this star system to be planetless? Considering that such an object could probably be set up to contain a reasonabally sized community it seems a little silly to refuse it the designation of being a planet... They totally should have gone with a classification scheme; eg. something like the biologists have developed for plants and animals.
If you drive into a flooded wash which has been marked by cones and signs as closed to traffic you will be billed for the cost of your rescue. Always seemed pretty straightforward to me.
In Mr. Fossett's case there was no flight plan filed. To my mind it seems once he has violated that basic tenet the state should have felt no ethical obligation to search for him. If his relatives wished to call for volunteers or offer a bounty to encourage searchers, that is their decision.
As a teenager I played hours upon hours of Mario Kart while drinking craptacular beer (what can I say I was a teenager). I was so horrible at it in the wee hours of the morning, that I was (and still am) easily convinced that operating a real motor vehicle in such a condition is foolish at best. I say let the people play and learn how hard it is to drive when: you have slower reaction times, you can't judge your speed, you confuse left and right, and finally the two kickers, you are seeing double and the world is spinning in circles.
Foot touched the wall that's a drink
Sunrise that's a drink
Sunset that's a drink
passing over Europ, you guessed it, take a drink
Houston calls last person on the communication takes two drinks. etc.
before we spend to much time and money winning the next one? Personally I'm all for just leaving Iraq and letting our military go back to what they do best, buying bigger badder guns, and expensive toilette seats. But if the majority consensus is that we need to stay in Iraq until we "win", I sure would like to see DARPA working on technology to bring that idea to fruition.
I don't hear of to many combatants in Iraq using armored vehicles (for Gods sake the Iraqi army goes out there in pickup trucks), so why don't we set the magneto molten tank slayer aside and pick up one of those projects on detecting and destroying IEDs or armoring our vehicles against them. While we are at it how about a device which stops car engines from a distance. Next it would be nice to address the reason we need to be there to begin with, Oil dependence, maybe DARPA should work on some alternatives; someday our airforce is going to need a way to fly fighter jets without oil, regardless of what war we are fighting; seems like we might as well start working on that problem.
Then let's address the problem our military has recruiting, maybe DARPA should work on developing techniques for bringing soldiers without high school diplomas back up to speed, or ideas for getting soldiers with Felony waivers to avoid a life of crime after being trained for killing by the military.
And finally something warm and cuddly like super cute genetically engineered puppies we could air drop all over the middle east to try and get those folks to relax.
Or how many mistakes they make. Personally I can't fill in a webform without using backspace a couple of times. Checking for typos might be good as well, I'm sure I make far more than your standard computer-bot.
My bike gets 20 miles to the Burrito.
/ga. as it seems people would be willing to pay that (not without a little bit of bitchin').
I'm just amazed that gasoline isn't going for 10$
So if I could make "green" gasoline for any amount less than the current cost of gasoline I'd be selling at a penny less than real gasoline. Or maybe I could get away with adding a 10 percent "saving the planet without making any real changes" charge.
Not the search of our laptops, but the number of people who think TSA-Airport Security == Customs Inspection
The two are, for the most part, completely distinct interviews/searches. One has the primary goal of protecting aviation, the other has the primary goal(s) of protecting the US as a whole, US citizens as individuals, and enforcing US laws pertaining to the importation of goods and the travel of people. On top of this they are conducted by separate LE entities, at least for the time being.
In the first case having things like nail clippers are bad, in the second having a potato is bad.
I'm all for allowing the government great freedom to conduct searches at border crossings in an effort to verify that those coming in are not in the act of committing a crime, however I feel it is pointless as it appears that just about anyone can cross the border at will so long as they don't do it at a crossing. Until we stop people from just walking in, the only ones we will catch at the airports and other official crossings will be the idiots and those to out of shape to walk for a couple of days in the desert.
It's been awhile, but I seem to remember that ROTC at my alma mater was populated mostly by engineers. It seems that maybe the stateless military forces aren't the only ones that have figured this point out.
In a similar line of thought: what do most cadets major in at the academies?
A year ago 3 of 6 Wi-Fi setups I could get from my house were unsecured and could be used, although only one of them had a strong enough signal to be reliably useful. Now 1 of 10 are unsecured. I live in a poor neighborhood with many retired renters, it seems like if they are figuring out (or stumbling across) how to secure their router than anyone can.
I have solutions already in place:
I have a 15 mile rt commute to work, with another 15 for errands on the weekend, gives me 90 miles a week. My current car (Toyota Corolla) gets 30+ miles per gallon. If I ride my bike to work 4.2 days per week (right now I do 5 days a week but I guess I could cut back). I can get my gasoline usage down the equivalent of a 100 mpg car.
or if you rather, if I move to 1.2 miles from work (a bit pricey as I work on a college campus, but not undoable) I could get my gasoline usage down the equivalent of a 100 mph car. By combining bike and car usage I can dial things to somewhere in between.
X-prize foundation, I'd like my 10 million in small bills, you only need to give me the award once, thanks!
If you purposefully aim your science at religious fundamentalists you are only giving credence to their silly myths. Fine if you share these views, but scientifically dishonest if you do not.
I live in Franklin county and vote in every election by mail. Of course I have no idea if my vote is counted (I do seem to have a knack for picking the losers). I like the mail in voting because I get to take my time with the ballot, I typically look up each candidate on google and in the local paper, read their positions on their websites, and check out what some of my friends are saying about them. I'm insulated from the idiotic emotional adds of the last few days before the election date, typically my ballot is in the mail two weeks before the big day. The only thing I dislike about it is that I have no way to check that my ballot even arrived at the county election board, much less whether it was correctly scanned. I do keep a photocopy of my completed ballot until the next election cycle, but this is more to remind me when a friend asks who I voted for in a particular race, or as evidence if it turns out there was a problem.
The thing about local elections is there are many races where I have never heard anything about any of the candidates. If I were to try to do this in a voting both without the internet I would end up either not voting for these races or flipping a coin. Add to this that the ballot propositions are written in the most cryptic sinister sounding language ( my impression is that they run it through a couple of cycles of Google translate with a few foriegn languages before putting it on the ballot).
As others have said, the possibility of vote buying is not a reason to deny me the right to verify my vote, rather it just means we need to make sure that this is a heavy felony with the harshest allowable punishments. I have trouble believing someone could buy enough votes without it becoming known to the authorities and public. I have no trouble believing that a motivated hack could figure out a way to manipulate the vote on an electronic machine without leaving any trail at all (Why can the logs be disabled??).
In the US it is a question posed to your next of kin or estate. I think the default answer is "no" which seems silly to this atheist. As with many things dealing with your final days it is important that as many people as possible (particularly the ones to whom the question will be posed) are aware of your wishes. The reason for Donor cards is that in the case of organ transplant there is not always time to contact the next of kin for permission to take these delicate tissues. Other parts such as tendons, bone, and cadaver usage for medical training or testing, are less time sensitive and can wait for the relatives to be asked. We should be able to use our bodies as payment for the cost of our care and treatment. It is so horrible that following a death families are often hounded by the hospital looking to collect money for a service which ultimately failed. My family is instructed to get what they can until all of my earthly obligations are taken care of, and then to donate what remains to a worthy cause.
So what about http://ratemyprofessor.com/ ? Should this site be shut down also, it has every problem you point out except that it is about professors not police...
That's funny I haven't looked at the site in awhile and they now have a "Your professors strike back" section.
They are people too with families and life outside of work. Being a policeman is not a good job if you want to be popular. As a college professor students can post reviews about me to ratemyprofessor. However even more importantly promotion decisions are strongly based off of student evaluations filled out at the end of each semester. I'm a person with a family and life outside of work, yet my career is inextricably tied to what anonymous people say about my work. For my part I embrace the criticism, it helps me become better at my JOB. I have no respect for someone who wants to be protected from criticisms about their work and behavior. While it is certainly true that evaluations where the evaluator has to go to some effort on their own part, have a slant towards the less flattering, they still provide useful feedback for improving ones performance.
Unfair poor evaluations are a fundamental problem with this process, however they are usually easy to spot: one of my colleagues got the following, "He actually expects you to remember what he says in class". Clearly this student's poor assessment of his professor is likely less than accurate.
What recourse would IT professionals have if there was an oversupply of highly qualified people? Would they be able to convince the government to start exporting workers in order to keep wages from being suppressed? snort!