You gotta remember this is a country where they can get away with charging you something like US$5K ( last I knew anyhoo ) to "inspect" your car when it gets to be 5 years old IIRC. We'll know things have changed there when infuriated mobs linch the inspectors and the politicians who created them.
When the logs of Chicago voting machines get this same kind of scrutiny it will be news. This is ancient and not very useful apocrypha. Roll on paper ballots.
Well what would you expect from a country where five years after you purchase a new automobile you have to pay a team of gummint "inspectors" something of the order of US$5K to "inspect" your vehicle. This is widely believed to be a ploy designed to force people to purchase new automobiles every 5 years or so. Good for the manufacturers, sucks to be a Japanese consumer though. Any politician who tried that here would wind up hanging from a lamp pole.
Add their backdoors to your backdoors And so, ad inifinitum.
( after Jonathan Swift IIRC )
Seriously though, why would anyone who had concerns about the security of their data trust the latest shrink wrapped stool sample from M$ any farther than it could be flung. The only practical use for such technology is yet another M$ attempt to lock the user to their platform and that should be of concern to the courts wherever you are.
I dare say we'll never be treated to a headline saying that the OS stopped the UGV dead in its tracks a la USS Yorktown. Cheap #^@$*^)!Al-Qanadian software....
So lets see, power is generated by a propellor driven by passage through the surrounding medium. Hmmm, now where have we seen this before? Oh yeah, its called a ram air turbine. Common on airliners for a long time. And-uh more fundamentally, as several posters have pointed out regenerative power recovery is not a new concept ( 1870 if one message is correct ). Sheesh, lawyers.
Tice was fired because he was obssessed with a particular colleague and repeatedly accused the colleague ( a visible minority female ) of being an agent of a foreign power.
Tice was apparently not in position where he would have had any visibility of the programs he is claiming to out.
The programs Tice is claiming to have knowledge of are apparently residue from the previous administration. I suspect this fact will make the Dhimmicreeps lose interest very quickly particularly if the accusations about Klintoons misuse of NSA intercepts to spy on Republicans can be substantiated.
I expect that the Republicans would like nothing better than to have Messers kennedy and Schumer subpoena Tice to appear before the Senate Justice Committee.
If you actually had to implement the idea, so-called submarine patents and in particular abominations like Lemelson's patent mill wouldn't be a problem.
weather services have been into serious high tech for a while and they are public oriented so its hardly surprising they'd glom onto leading edge tech to disseminate their results
Its Al-Qanada. Citizens don't have rights as we know them. They have privileges subject to the whim of the gummint. And the whim of gummint is usually that of the Liberal Party, who, unless you've been living in a cave these last few months have revealed themselves to be venal and corrupt on a banana republic level. Regulated businesses in Al-Qanada are often monopolies. Tyese monopolies are awarded to friends of gummint and hang the public interest. Satellite TV is a good case in point. It took the gummint two or three years to decide which of the competing monopolists would get the nod. In the meantime, the citizenry found a number of inventive ways around the lack of service which the gummint then proceeded to try and shutdown. Not having to worry about elections every two years, the Liberals basically ignored public anger figuring it would blow over by the time of the next election. Such is life in Al-Qanada...
Withholding a paycheck could get yer boss in dutch with the state labo(u)r department. You perhaps ought to remind him of this. And absent any goodwill you might still feel toward the firm you owe him nothing. Less than nothing given his behavio(u)r.
A thought occurs. Its not so much they object to shooting animals over the internet its that they're afraid someone will take it the next logical step and start shooting politicians. Vermin are vermin after all.
Helloooooo! This story is so 1990's. Must be a slow day at the Merky. I'm not in the Valley anymore but has traffic gotten that bad? Even at its worst it was still possible to go a fair distance ( 1st & SC in SJ from Mouton Vieux ) for lunch in a reasonable time.
Well D'uh! Anyone who hasn't been asleep for the past half century ought to be well aware of the fact that the entertainment industry's accounting practices would be listed under fiction if they were a published work.
The grinding sound you hear is a legion of assault lawyers sharpening their weapons. The first time a "player is revoked" the revoker will get sued out of existence.
"Why the heck didn't the gov't just ignore the whiners and pull the $1 bill?"
Because here, every two years our elected representatives need to pay careful attention to what the electorate are saying. Its not like, oh say, Canada, where the Gummint can do something people hate just after an election and wait 5 years for things to blow over.
Last week I realised I needed some way of generating a bunch of stuff on the fly as prep work for a current project. It had been mentioned in my hearing that Python was acceptable within the constraints for the overall program. Figuring it was at least worth a look, I spent a day playing with Python basically putting together the things I needed to to do the task. In spite of a couple of disruptions, my code was fully functional and more or less ready for primetime by COB Friday. I wouldn't use it for the real-time parts of what I'm doing if only because the framework being used is suitable as it stands ( C++/C/FORTRAN ) but for most other things it rocks. I plan to push for making Python the standard glue language at the office.
Backward compatibility... I'm sure you heard about the further delay in Winders Longhorn. Know why that was? They had to can the WinFS part and go to a plan B. Some verbiage was mentioned about resource forks a la Apple HFS(?). The insurmoutanble problem was apparently there was no way to make WinFS backward compatible. My source sez it wasn't a question of performance at all.
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You gotta remember this is a country where they can get away with charging you something like US$5K ( last I knew anyhoo ) to "inspect" your car when it gets to be 5 years old IIRC. We'll know things have changed there when infuriated mobs linch the inspectors and the politicians who created them.
When the logs of Chicago voting machines get this same kind of scrutiny it will be news. This is ancient and not very useful apocrypha. Roll on paper ballots.
Well what would you expect from a country where five years after you purchase a new automobile you have to pay a team of gummint "inspectors" something of the order of US$5K
to "inspect" your vehicle. This is widely believed to be a ploy designed to force people to purchase new automobiles every 5 years or so. Good for the manufacturers, sucks to be a Japanese consumer though. Any politician who tried that here would wind up hanging from a lamp pole.
Add their backdoors to your backdoors
And so, ad inifinitum.
( after Jonathan Swift IIRC )
Seriously though, why would anyone who had concerns about the security of their data trust the latest shrink wrapped stool sample from M$ any farther than it could be flung. The only practical use for such technology is yet another M$ attempt to lock the user to their platform and that should be of concern to the courts wherever you are.
I dare say we'll never be treated to a headline saying that the OS stopped the UGV dead in its tracks a la USS Yorktown. Cheap #^@$*^)!Al-Qanadian software....
Stop! Stop.
So lets see, power is generated by a propellor driven by passage through the surrounding
medium. Hmmm, now where have we seen this before? Oh yeah, its called a ram air turbine.
Common on airliners for a long time.
And-uh more fundamentally, as several posters have pointed out regenerative power recovery
is not a new concept ( 1870 if one message is correct ).
Sheesh, lawyers.
IBM
A few details:
Tice was fired because he was obssessed with a particular colleague and repeatedly
accused the colleague ( a visible minority female ) of being an agent of a foreign
power.
Tice was apparently not in position where he would have had any visibility of the
programs he is claiming to out.
The programs Tice is claiming to have knowledge of are apparently residue from the
previous administration. I suspect this fact will make the Dhimmicreeps lose interest very quickly particularly if the accusations about Klintoons misuse of NSA
intercepts to spy on Republicans can be substantiated.
I expect that the Republicans would like nothing better than to have Messers kennedy and Schumer subpoena Tice to appear before the Senate Justice Committee.
In short, bring it on.
IBM
And where in Quebec will they be building this, Canadian
politics being what they are?
If you actually had to implement the idea, so-called submarine patents and in
particular abominations like Lemelson's patent mill wouldn't be a problem.
Yes.
And along with our "best wishes", a cricket bat.
IBM
Vote Fraud....
Hmmm....
So how IS life in Chicago.
Parenthetically it looks like the law may finally be catching up with the Daley's. Not before time either.
weather services have been into serious high tech for a while and they are public oriented so its hardly surprising they'd glom onto leading edge tech to disseminate their results
Its Al-Qanada.
Citizens don't have rights as we know them.
They have privileges subject to the whim of the
gummint.
And the whim of gummint is usually that of the
Liberal Party, who, unless you've been living in a
cave these last few months have revealed themselves
to be venal and corrupt on a banana republic level.
Regulated businesses in Al-Qanada are often monopolies.
Tyese monopolies are awarded to friends of gummint and hang the public interest.
Satellite TV is a good case in point. It took the
gummint two or three years to decide which of
the competing monopolists would get the nod.
In the meantime, the citizenry found a number of
inventive ways around the lack of service which
the gummint then proceeded to try and shutdown.
Not having to worry about elections every two years, the Liberals basically ignored public anger
figuring it would blow over by the time of the
next election.
Such is life in Al-Qanada...
Better mousetrap.
Beaten path to door.
If there's a market for something and you build it
or improve on the basic model that implies a certain
amount of creativity but what do I know.
Given the embargo one wonders where the Cubans got their Winders copies.
Screwing with the US Gummint is one thing, Gates takes no prisoners.
IBM
Withholding a paycheck could get yer boss in dutch
with the state labo(u)r department. You perhaps
ought to remind him of this.
And absent any goodwill you might still feel toward
the firm you owe him nothing. Less than nothing given
his behavio(u)r.
A thought occurs.
Its not so much they object to shooting animals over
the internet its that they're afraid someone will
take it the next logical step and start shooting
politicians. Vermin are vermin after all.
Helloooooo!
This story is so 1990's.
Must be a slow day at the Merky.
I'm not in the Valley anymore but has traffic
gotten that bad?
Even at its worst it was still possible to go a fair
distance ( 1st & SC in SJ from Mouton Vieux ) for
lunch in a reasonable time.
Well D'uh!
Anyone who hasn't been asleep for the past half century ought to be well aware of the fact that the entertainment industry's accounting practices would be listed under fiction if they were a published work.
IBM
The grinding sound you hear is a legion of assault lawyers sharpening their weapons.
The first time a "player is revoked" the revoker will get sued out of existence.
FCS is short for Future Combat Systems not Future Computing System.
Its the whole shooting match not just the computational infrastructure.
"Why the heck didn't the gov't just ignore the whiners and pull the $1 bill?"
Because here, every two years our elected representatives need to pay careful attention to what the electorate are saying. Its not like, oh say, Canada, where the Gummint can do something people hate just after an election and wait 5 years for things to blow over.
Last week I realised I needed some way of generating a bunch of stuff on the fly as prep work for a current project.
It had been mentioned in my hearing that Python was acceptable within the constraints for the overall program.
Figuring it was at least worth a look, I spent a day playing with Python basically putting together the things I needed to to do the task. In spite of a couple of disruptions, my code was fully functional and more or less ready for primetime by COB Friday.
I wouldn't use it for the real-time parts of what I'm doing if only because the framework being used is suitable as it stands ( C++/C/FORTRAN ) but for most other things it rocks.
I plan to push for making Python the standard glue language at the office.
Backward compatibility...
I'm sure you heard about the further delay in Winders Longhorn.
Know why that was?
They had to can the WinFS part and go to a plan B.
Some verbiage was mentioned about resource forks a la Apple HFS(?).
The insurmoutanble problem was apparently there was no way to make WinFS backward compatible.
My source sez it wasn't a question of performance at all.