Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. One backup to rule them all is not going to work. And for mission critical files would have to be backed up several times.
it depends on the type of visa he is seeking. An F1 or J1 visa would suffice for most internships, especially short term internships. Of course, he still has to get an internship/fellowship with an institution that sponsors F1/J1 visa.
the main problem comes when you're attempting to get an H1 visa - those are hard to get. You need a company to sponsor you, and they need to show that they can't find an American to do the job - that's really hard for an internship. in the past we were able to have interns, esp. W European interns, on a B1 (tourist) visa, but that has changed in many places.
if he finds an internship with an organization in the US, he can ask them if he can be an intern under a B1 visa. Might not be the best way, but it could work.
I think the danger with books on this topic is that by the time you get them to the publisher, and printed, and distributed, half the content is about to be out of date, and the other half will not be current after one year.
I'm not knocking the book, but in tech matters, I rather keep up via web/new media. tech-philosophy books, now that I like and buy.
rather then make sure they have a techie in attendance so that they may learn something and find a workaround the issue, Boston's lawyers suggested that burying your head in the sand (or, alternatively, in the piles of garbage and crap in Boston) will solve the issue just as well. "As long as we don't let them say it publicly, it does not exist" one Boston official explained the position.
this is why I love government bureaucrats. They tend to be smarter then the average bear.
I always found Orwell to be a visionary. Not like Nostradamus, but in a specific way - of attracting attention to the possible undercurrents of events and their consequences. I look forward to seeing what he recorded as his personal thoughts.
at the same time, you should hire shrinks and priests to make sure that the soldiers don't build it up, leave the service, and can't cope with what they did. And yes, you should feel uncomfortable. I don't trust anyone who is not.
welcome to crappy moderation on slashdot. sorry, but I think the best thing everyone here can do is make sure they metamoderate seriously and by reading the context. Maybe that way we'll get somewhere.
and, btw, he was not a troll. But I would mark him as flamebait. I know the effect is similar, but it does make a difference. He wanted to start a flame war, not just to put his two cents in without reading the article.
the experience of a drone pilot seems to me to be the very definition of detached and distant. i mean compare their experience to say, plunging a knife into a guys heart and covering his mouth until he stops struggling so his screams don't alert anyone else? now that's vivid and personal if you ask me
I think this is exactly the point of the story, that it is very personal. You might not hear the gurgling sounds, but you watch the missile all the way in, you see the damage, and you're expected to review it and make sure the target was struck. I don't think it's remote at all. On the contrary, it's a lot more similar to being personally involved in the killing, and as a society we're not used to it anymore. Read the first posting on this thread - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=640311&cid=24528945 - for a good account of what it means to be a drone pilot.
the article is about falsifying information on the passport to get it through security at the airport. The point about major holes in identity protection is also valid - but a whole new can of worms that comes from the half-assed implementation of e-passports.
that's not trolling (though I would have kept the language more civil). MS is not in the habit of pulling stuff like that, or at least I have not heard of them doing do.
they have always said that the existance of water would make the discovery of life more certain. if indeed they confirmed the existance of water, it seems to me very likely that they will also find at least the building blocks of life if not evidence that basic lifeforms once existed on Mars. It's still a long way from confirming the existance of advance life forms, and even a longer way from confirming the existance of civilization.
i would find it incredible if, after finding life, they did not find any traces of aminoacids or any other building blocks. frankly, i think not finding any evidence of life even though water existed on Mars would be a bigger discovery then finding that some single cell life existed once. but that's just me.
Honestly, the OS should not matter. Anyway, I am using Vista. It's stable on XP SP3. As for the sites that break - random stuff. Tho most often if crashes when I open a new tab of gmail (right after log on). FF2 worked great both on Vista and on PCL0S 08. I haven't tested FF3 in PCLOS - maybe when I get some time.
look, I hope it's just me. Maybe I'll do a scrub, and reinstall it. Heck, I still have it on the computer, I just don't use it anymore until I have time to dig in and see where the conflict is. But if it's not just me, and it' actually buggy, it will hurt them.
as for the rest of the questions - come on, don't be silly. how many/. users do you think there are who don't have an updates anti-virus?
honestly, since FF3 came out, I switched back to IE7. For whatever reason, FF3 crashes on me at least 3-4 times a day, so why use it. Too bad too, I really liked FF2.
so what you're saying is we should all stop having any expectations from anything anyone does as long as they place the word beta next to their product. thanks.
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I think it was because it showed the logo. But I can't imagine how a decent lawyer could not have argued that is is being used under "Fair Use."
Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. One backup to rule them all is not going to work. And for mission critical files would have to be backed up several times.
it depends on the type of visa he is seeking. An F1 or J1 visa would suffice for most internships, especially short term internships. Of course, he still has to get an internship/fellowship with an institution that sponsors F1/J1 visa.
the main problem comes when you're attempting to get an H1 visa - those are hard to get. You need a company to sponsor you, and they need to show that they can't find an American to do the job - that's really hard for an internship. in the past we were able to have interns, esp. W European interns, on a B1 (tourist) visa, but that has changed in many places.
if he finds an internship with an organization in the US, he can ask them if he can be an intern under a B1 visa. Might not be the best way, but it could work.
I think the danger with books on this topic is that by the time you get them to the publisher, and printed, and distributed, half the content is about to be out of date, and the other half will not be current after one year.
I'm not knocking the book, but in tech matters, I rather keep up via web/new media. tech-philosophy books, now that I like and buy.
rather then make sure they have a techie in attendance so that they may learn something and find a workaround the issue, Boston's lawyers suggested that burying your head in the sand (or, alternatively, in the piles of garbage and crap in Boston) will solve the issue just as well. "As long as we don't let them say it publicly, it does not exist" one Boston official explained the position.
this is why I love government bureaucrats. They tend to be smarter then the average bear.
That's not a troll; that's funny :)
I always found Orwell to be a visionary. Not like Nostradamus, but in a specific way - of attracting attention to the possible undercurrents of events and their consequences. I look forward to seeing what he recorded as his personal thoughts.
at the same time, you should hire shrinks and priests to make sure that the soldiers don't build it up, leave the service, and can't cope with what they did. And yes, you should feel uncomfortable. I don't trust anyone who is not.
welcome to crappy moderation on slashdot. sorry, but I think the best thing everyone here can do is make sure they metamoderate seriously and by reading the context. Maybe that way we'll get somewhere.
and, btw, he was not a troll. But I would mark him as flamebait. I know the effect is similar, but it does make a difference. He wanted to start a flame war, not just to put his two cents in without reading the article.
the experience of a drone pilot seems to me to be the very definition of detached and distant. i mean compare their experience to say, plunging a knife into a guys heart and covering his mouth until he stops struggling so his screams don't alert anyone else? now that's vivid and personal if you ask me
I think this is exactly the point of the story, that it is very personal. You might not hear the gurgling sounds, but you watch the missile all the way in, you see the damage, and you're expected to review it and make sure the target was struck. I don't think it's remote at all. On the contrary, it's a lot more similar to being personally involved in the killing, and as a society we're not used to it anymore. Read the first posting on this thread - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=640311&cid=24528945 - for a good account of what it means to be a drone pilot.
OB Simpsons: But I'm mad now!!! (Homer when he finds out there is a 5 day waiting period to buy a gun)
I'll keep my towel handy
They also announced the event will be webcast live.
Just in case they doom-sayers are right, we can at least watch it live. Gots to love the webcasting.
the article is about falsifying information on the passport to get it through security at the airport. The point about major holes in identity protection is also valid - but a whole new can of worms that comes from the half-assed implementation of e-passports.
It's becoming obvious that low-tech paper is preferable in both elections and passports.
yes, cos god knows, paper passports were NEVER falsified.
see, that's why you should take a hammer to that sucker. And when the border guard asks you what happened... say that you sat on it :)
The Spartans were doing it 2200 years ago. And, honestly, so should we.
that's not trolling (though I would have kept the language more civil). MS is not in the habit of pulling stuff like that, or at least I have not heard of them doing do.
they have always said that the existance of water would make the discovery of life more certain. if indeed they confirmed the existance of water, it seems to me very likely that they will also find at least the building blocks of life if not evidence that basic lifeforms once existed on Mars. It's still a long way from confirming the existance of advance life forms, and even a longer way from confirming the existance of civilization.
i would find it incredible if, after finding life, they did not find any traces of aminoacids or any other building blocks. frankly, i think not finding any evidence of life even though water existed on Mars would be a bigger discovery then finding that some single cell life existed once. but that's just me.
Honestly, the OS should not matter. Anyway, I am using Vista. It's stable on XP SP3. As for the sites that break - random stuff. Tho most often if crashes when I open a new tab of gmail (right after log on). FF2 worked great both on Vista and on PCL0S 08. I haven't tested FF3 in PCLOS - maybe when I get some time.
look, I hope it's just me. Maybe I'll do a scrub, and reinstall it. Heck, I still have it on the computer, I just don't use it anymore until I have time to dig in and see where the conflict is. But if it's not just me, and it' actually buggy, it will hurt them.
as for the rest of the questions - come on, don't be silly. how many /. users do you think there are who don't have an updates anti-virus?
honestly, since FF3 came out, I switched back to IE7. For whatever reason, FF3 crashes on me at least 3-4 times a day, so why use it. Too bad too, I really liked FF2.
Never to late to pay attention to what's going on around you. ;)
it's gotten better, but there are still problems. See the following two links: NY Times article Wikipedia discussion
I'll start rickrolling my email. that will teach spamers.
so what you're saying is we should all stop having any expectations from anything anyone does as long as they place the word beta next to their product. thanks.