"Takedown notice" usually refers to a procedure defined in the DMCA that allows someone alleging copyright infringement to demand that an ISP take a site down. This is not what is happening in this case. Microsoft has no means of forcing Lindows to take the site down without a lengthy legal process.
Factually incorrect, and do some research. Cease and Desist orders were available and used long before the DMCA was a twinkle in your RIAA chairwomans eye.
Party A says to Party B that Party B is doing something that is wrong. Party A gives Party B an opportunity to cease doing something before Party A proceeds with legal action that will be very costly for both parties, but probably more so for Party B.
Where would they get their food from? You think tokyo japan raises enough food to feed it's citizens? You think tokyo japan makes enough oxygen to provide air for it's citizens?
What is scary is that one might think you actually put thought into the drivel that is your comment.
Put a bubble over tokyo japan and everybody would die in a week.
Put a bubble over your house, and you would die in a week. Except nobody would care in that case.
Right now Tokyo is able to import all those things from places that are not densely populated. You mean like 10 kilometers outside of Tokyo?
What do you do when everyplace is like Tokyo
Put question marks after my sentences, just like I do before every place is like Tokyo.
I don't want to be melodramatic, but how happy do you think those six billion people would be.
Raised in a megatropolis? Probably fairly happy because they wouldn't derive happiness from living, "out in the country" or suburbs. They could always take trips out to get away from it all. It would provide more resort communities outside of the city.
It could be good. I still lament at the idea, purely because I don't have any faith that humans aren't rude and stupid creatures by default.
I can't even go to the supermarket without some person standing in a doorway, blocking an entire isle, or just being plain rude to someone else.
That's not entirely true. While there may be SPACE for them, the area doesn't have the resources to support them. An example that's too close to home for me:
No, not in Texas. But, you know... there are plenty of other places that do have the resources to support 6 billion people. Like, islands. Desalination plants, with plains outside for food sources, it would be rather easy.
Poor planning is what people see when they look at "environmental problems." If you build on a dustbowl, you get a dustbowls worth of water.
While this statement is true, it's disingenuous as a reply to population concerns. When people talk about population problems, they aren't worried about the amount of physical space each person takes up.
If the entire population of the earth can reside on less than 1% of the land mass, why wouldn't it be easy to support that? The main problem with sustaining economies is distribution. Removing the distribution aspect of it makes efficiency increase.
The real issue is whether people consume resources faster than they can be replentished, which is an obvious problem in many areas ranging from water rights in the American West to the depletion of fisheries.
As someone who has ties to several families that are in the middle of the water issues, they are being stupid. It's their own fault there is a water shortage, and only their own fault. They knew about the coming problems well in advance. It would be similar to the Y2K thing, except ignoring it until December 1st.
The Earth's biosystem and humanity's changing technological capabilities combine to create a complex system for which we cannot make certain predictions to the degree of precision we need to determine the planet's carrying capacity.
If everyone lived in the same area, and it was designed for that purpose, efficiency would skyrocket. It would not be the mish-mash of broken systems we have now.
It's all hypothetical, but one thing remains: We're no where close to saturation.
Not to bash Americans, but what is the optimal population (or carrying capacity) for the Earth? A rhetorical question, sure, but one that needs more serious study than the oft neglected WHO reports.
You could fit 6 billion people into Texas, and it would be less densly packed than Tokyo, Japan.
I've coded with GTK for a lot longer than a week. I would have been happy to code with Qt for at least a week, but it doesn't have bindings for any of the languages I use. This rather heavily influences my opinion on which one "we should throw out".
Which language do you use and why? If you use the best language for the job methodology, which is the best methodology to use, why have you not coded in Qt?
The fact is that we should not throw out any of them because they both are good toolkits. If you do code with both of them, you will realize the strengths and merits of both. Until you do code in both, you cannot make a suggestion as to which to throw out.
What precognition? I said pretty much the same thing in the previous discussion about this. I'm just saying that it's not a new thought I had.
What he was telling you is that you look like a tool when you say, "I've said it before, and I'll say it again." Especially on a topic so damned obvious as this one. If you haven't said it before, we'd wonder just how stupid you are.
It's all about our eyeballs. Searching is probably in the top 5 of Internet activities don't you think? Behind email and im and just browsing. If you can control how people find stuff you can direct their course... like controlling a river.:-)
I'm actually talking about the hype about everybody, "Taking on Google." It's just silly. The CNN article says that Amazon is specifically not targetting Googles general search market, but to perform niche ecommerce searches. It's just this celebrity death match style coverage that is like beating a dead horse.
SCO? RedHat? How many companies really want to be the king of search engines. There can only be one Plow King.. er, Search King.. er wait, he's already sued google, too.
Nonsense, I got an email from "Japan" telling me I should take control of my mortgage rates. It was extremely intelligable, well-written, and that surprised me because English is not a thoroughly learned language in Japan.
Of course the problem is that if you only need to do this once a year (because your phone has dies) where did you get the muscle memory from? 10 years ago I used to know dozens of phone numbers, now i don't know any... in the rare event i use a different phone i look up the number in my mobile:).
My office phone doesn't have an electronic phonebook, and it's pointless for me to use my cell when that phone is sitting right next to me. I have to really stop and think about what my GFs number is but I can dial it instantly, or I can just push and hold 2 on my cell.
I don't even have a home phone though, just cell phones at home and cable internet. Good way to live.
man.. ever heard of this thing.. umm... what was it called, oh yeah, phonebook functionality that has only been on all(that i've seen) for the last 10 years?
I congratulate your smart ass approach, but you missed what he was saying. He was talking about borrowing someone elses phone, like say, if your phone has a dead battery. Then, trying to dial a friend and realizing that you have memorized the muscle movements but not actually the number and you look like a total dork attempting to airdial a number and hope you get it right.
however, the phone model seems like a hip'n'trendy model rather than model for real usage(7 series, lacks mmc card, funky design..)
I agree. Shit, if you want a good phone just go to Japan, buy a GSM phone, unlock it.
You might find the G4 1Ghz / OS X lets you multitask better, and get MORE work done than the 3.5Ghz P4.... and in that case, clock speed is irrelevant, right?
Agreed, or I may not. I don't buy into the clockspeed argument so much, but I do know that the rate of speed on the x86 side influences just how productive a system is.
I'm still a bit iffy to spend that much on a laptop. Historyically, for me laptops last at best 2 years. That's $500 a year for the lowest end new PowerBook. I hope it lasts longer than 2 years.
Any company that is headquartered in Japan is approved and good.
If you see the text, "NTT" or "Japan" than you must have a positive knee-jerk reaction, and say things like, "The island of Japan is doing wonderful things to promote the open source initiative, and they truly grasp what open source is. As well as having hot (japanese school girls|blue or pink haired chicks|big robots!)
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Get out your katakana charts, kids, because Babelfish doesn't do it for you, ya' know!
The katakana in the article is "Linux", so everywhere you see non latin characters replace it with Linux.
P.S. How the hell do you type in Japanese on here? It works on Slashdot.jp, but it converts it to う or something.
I'm not going to tell you that a G4/1Ghz is faster than a 2.4Ghz P4......but...
My original post should have read that I can use a 1.4Ghz and be happy. I do think a G4 1Ghz would suit me well, however in the future I think it would be less so because I do tie up the CPU quite a bit. I like being able to run a compile in the background while writing documentation. Multitasking is what I strive for.
You might find you actually get more work done with less stress on the *cough* slower mac... and that's really the point, isn't it?
My laptop is dying, and it will probably be replaced with a Mac. However, I do want to use one for a while to see how it actually works. Just start up a build (MySQL for example) and write up a doc, and if it works smoothly then it wins. I don't care if it's a mac or a PC.
The RIAA doesn't need a search warrent to get information that is publically available. People are putting their illegal goods up for anyone to see and you can't selectivly choose who sees it just to avoid prosecution.
The difference is you have to use Kazaa (or Kazaa Lite) to get to that public information. Think of it as a club, that has very loose membership requirements.
Yes, and I'm *sure* you can easily hire the best of the best software developers who are really enthused about writing bug tracking and content management systems! err.... nevermind.
I enjoy writing CMSs. They are fun. Finding heuristics to organize data in different ways and deliver that in a manner that is meaningful is a challenge, much like a good game of chess.
Anybody can store documents, just like anybody can move pieces. But, like both, to the untrained eye all it is is just shuffling things around.
You need people who are good competent developers, but aren't primma donna superstar types who know how good they are.
The best programmers are those who don't know everything, but know how to find it. It's a thought process, one that shows you that in order to be the best you must continue to learn. The true top form of any discipline will be humble. Except for musicians and clowns.
It's a balancing act to build a competent team that works well together, and knows each other's strengths and weaknesses. Frankly, that's just as important than having "all top 1 percent developers" in the long run.
Definitely agreed. You can have the 10th percentile developers that work in great harmony together, and accomplish much more than having the top tenth of a percentile working in defunct manners. The personality and environment is more influential to a projects completion.
I'd try to go work for Joel, except I don't want to live in New York.
Don't allow VPN access. As for the infected laptop, read some of the other comments on this thread.
Wow! What a great idea. I guess all the people who travel can just work offline.. Oh wait.
Checking windowsupdate.microsoft.com every day sounds like the best option.
Yes, leave it up to the actual systems users to patch. Right.
Any admin that is worthy of keeping his/her job should know that there are minimum security standards that must be enforced when using Windows (or any other system). Then again, I forgot, this is the government we are talking about, right? They hire just about anybody, right?
The problem is that you have no clue what their security and precautions are. If the government hires just about everybody, why don't you try to go work at NASA, the NSA, or the CIA. I'll send you a nice bottle of wine if you get hired.
1.) Use a firewall to block unnecessary access from the external network
They probably do. Then a user VPNs in with an infected machine against policy, or brings a laptop in and plugs it in. This happens at my work, too.
2.) Patch Windows often
Define "often", please. It could be once a month, once a quarter. I'm sure they have change control plans.
3.) Use anti-virus software and update the definitions often
See above.
I would have thought that the State Department would at least do these minimums (to keep its systems "safe from evil-doers"), but I guess you can't even expect that much from government work.
No, it's just that it's easier to assume that you are smarter than them and assume you know their network and systems.
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"Takedown notice" usually refers to a procedure defined in the DMCA that allows someone alleging copyright infringement to demand that an ISP take a site down. This is not what is happening in this case. Microsoft has no means of forcing Lindows to take the site down without a lengthy legal process.
Factually incorrect, and do some research. Cease and Desist orders were available and used long before the DMCA was a twinkle in your RIAA chairwomans eye.
Party A says to Party B that Party B is doing something that is wrong. Party A gives Party B an opportunity to cease doing something before Party A proceeds with legal action that will be very costly for both parties, but probably more so for Party B.
Where would they get their food from? You think tokyo japan raises enough food to feed it's citizens? You think tokyo japan makes enough oxygen to provide air for it's citizens?
What is scary is that one might think you actually put thought into the drivel that is your comment.
Put a bubble over tokyo japan and everybody would die in a week.
Put a bubble over your house, and you would die in a week. Except nobody would care in that case.
Right now Tokyo is able to import all those things from places that are not densely populated.
You mean like 10 kilometers outside of Tokyo?
What do you do when everyplace is like Tokyo
Put question marks after my sentences, just like I do before every place is like Tokyo.
I don't want to be melodramatic, but how happy do you think those six billion people would be.
Raised in a megatropolis? Probably fairly happy because they wouldn't derive happiness from living, "out in the country" or suburbs. They could always take trips out to get away from it all. It would provide more resort communities outside of the city.
It could be good. I still lament at the idea, purely because I don't have any faith that humans aren't rude and stupid creatures by default.
I can't even go to the supermarket without some person standing in a doorway, blocking an entire isle, or just being plain rude to someone else.
That's not entirely true. While there may be SPACE for them, the area doesn't have the resources to support them. An example that's too close to home for me:
No, not in Texas. But, you know... there are plenty of other places that do have the resources to support 6 billion people. Like, islands. Desalination plants, with plains outside for food sources, it would be rather easy.
Poor planning is what people see when they look at "environmental problems." If you build on a dustbowl, you get a dustbowls worth of water.
While this statement is true, it's disingenuous as a reply to population concerns. When people talk about population problems, they aren't worried about the amount of physical space each person takes up.
If the entire population of the earth can reside on less than 1% of the land mass, why wouldn't it be easy to support that? The main problem with sustaining economies is distribution. Removing the distribution aspect of it makes efficiency increase.
The real issue is whether people consume resources faster than they can be replentished, which is an obvious problem in many areas ranging from water rights in the American West to the depletion of fisheries.
As someone who has ties to several families that are in the middle of the water issues, they are being stupid. It's their own fault there is a water shortage, and only their own fault. They knew about the coming problems well in advance. It would be similar to the Y2K thing, except ignoring it until December 1st.
The Earth's biosystem and humanity's changing technological capabilities combine to create a complex system for which we cannot make certain predictions to the degree of precision we need to determine the planet's carrying capacity.
If everyone lived in the same area, and it was designed for that purpose, efficiency would skyrocket. It would not be the mish-mash of broken systems we have now.
It's all hypothetical, but one thing remains: We're no where close to saturation.
Not to bash Americans, but what is the optimal population (or carrying capacity) for the Earth? A rhetorical question, sure, but one that needs more serious study than the oft neglected WHO reports.
You could fit 6 billion people into Texas, and it would be less densly packed than Tokyo, Japan.
I've coded with GTK for a lot longer than a week. I would have been happy to code with Qt for at least a week, but it doesn't have bindings for any of the languages I use. This rather heavily influences my opinion on which one "we should throw out".
Which language do you use and why? If you use the best language for the job methodology, which is the best methodology to use, why have you not coded in Qt?
The fact is that we should not throw out any of them because they both are good toolkits. If you do code with both of them, you will realize the strengths and merits of both. Until you do code in both, you cannot make a suggestion as to which to throw out.
What precognition? I said pretty much the same thing in the previous discussion about this. I'm just saying that it's not a new thought I had.
What he was telling you is that you look like a tool when you say, "I've said it before, and I'll say it again." Especially on a topic so damned obvious as this one. If you haven't said it before, we'd wonder just how stupid you are.
Personally, I say we just throw out QT and standardize on GTK :)
If you actually had a good reason for that, then I would agree with you.
Code in GTK for a week, then code in Qt for a week. Tell me which one we should throw out then.
It's all about our eyeballs. Searching is probably in the top 5 of Internet activities don't you think? Behind email and im and just browsing. If you can control how people find stuff you can direct their course... like controlling a river. :-)
I'm actually talking about the hype about everybody, "Taking on Google." It's just silly. The CNN article says that Amazon is specifically not targetting Googles general search market, but to perform niche ecommerce searches. It's just this celebrity death match style coverage that is like beating a dead horse.
SCO? RedHat? How many companies really want to be the king of search engines. There can only be one Plow King.. er, Search King.. er wait, he's already sued google, too.
It's all just reminiscent of this.
Nonsense, I got an email from "Japan" telling me I should take control of my mortgage rates. It was extremely intelligable, well-written, and that surprised me because English is not a thoroughly learned language in Japan.
If only I had a mortgage.
Of course the problem is that if you only need to do this once a year (because your phone has dies) where did you get the muscle memory from? 10 years ago I used to know dozens of phone numbers, now i don't know any... in the rare event i use a different phone i look up the number in my mobile :).
My office phone doesn't have an electronic phonebook, and it's pointless for me to use my cell when that phone is sitting right next to me. I have to really stop and think about what my GFs number is but I can dial it instantly, or I can just push and hold 2 on my cell.
I don't even have a home phone though, just cell phones at home and cable internet. Good way to live.
man.. ever heard of this thing.. umm... what was it called, oh yeah, phonebook functionality that has only been on all(that i've seen) for the last 10 years?
I congratulate your smart ass approach, but you missed what he was saying. He was talking about borrowing someone elses phone, like say, if your phone has a dead battery. Then, trying to dial a friend and realizing that you have memorized the muscle movements but not actually the number and you look like a total dork attempting to airdial a number and hope you get it right.
however, the phone model seems like a hip'n'trendy model rather than model for real usage(7 series, lacks mmc card, funky design..)
I agree. Shit, if you want a good phone just go to Japan, buy a GSM phone, unlock it.
You might find the G4 1Ghz / OS X lets you multitask better, and get MORE work done than the 3.5Ghz P4.... and in that case, clock speed is irrelevant, right?
Agreed, or I may not. I don't buy into the clockspeed argument so much, but I do know that the rate of speed on the x86 side influences just how productive a system is.
I'm still a bit iffy to spend that much on a laptop. Historyically, for me laptops last at best 2 years. That's $500 a year for the lowest end new PowerBook. I hope it lasts longer than 2 years.
But they are an RIAA member. Hence the confusion.
That is Sony America. Sony, as in the Japanese company, isn't. Yes, it's a wholly owned subsidiary, but it is a (mostly) separate entity.
Wait... Sony is from Japan. This whole slash-bot thing is harder than it used to be.
They make the Aibo, they have to be cool.
No anchovies? You have the wrong man.
Anything that has to do with Japan is cool.
Any company that is headquartered in Japan is approved and good.
If you see the text, "NTT" or "Japan" than you must have a positive knee-jerk reaction, and say things like, "The island of Japan is doing wonderful things to promote the open source initiative, and they truly grasp what open source is. As well as having hot (japanese school girls|blue or pink haired chicks|big robots!)
Get out your katakana charts, kids, because Babelfish doesn't do it for you, ya' know!
The katakana in the article is "Linux", so everywhere you see non latin characters replace it with Linux.
P.S. How the hell do you type in Japanese on here? It works on Slashdot.jp, but it converts it to う or something.
I'm not going to tell you that a G4/1Ghz is faster than a 2.4Ghz P4......but...
My original post should have read that I can use a 1.4Ghz and be happy. I do think a G4 1Ghz would suit me well, however in the future I think it would be less so because I do tie up the CPU quite a bit. I like being able to run a compile in the background while writing documentation. Multitasking is what I strive for.
You might find you actually get more work done with less stress on the *cough* slower mac... and that's really the point, isn't it?
My laptop is dying, and it will probably be replaced with a Mac. However, I do want to use one for a while to see how it actually works. Just start up a build (MySQL for example) and write up a doc, and if it works smoothly then it wins. I don't care if it's a mac or a PC.
The RIAA doesn't need a search warrent to get information that is publically available. People are putting their illegal goods up for anyone to see and you can't selectivly choose who sees it just to avoid prosecution.
The difference is you have to use Kazaa (or Kazaa Lite) to get to that public information. Think of it as a club, that has very loose membership requirements.
Yes, and I'm *sure* you can easily hire the best of the best software developers who are really enthused about writing bug tracking and content management systems! err.... nevermind.
I enjoy writing CMSs. They are fun. Finding heuristics to organize data in different ways and deliver that in a manner that is meaningful is a challenge, much like a good game of chess.
Anybody can store documents, just like anybody can move pieces. But, like both, to the untrained eye all it is is just shuffling things around.
You need people who are good competent developers, but aren't primma donna superstar types who know how good they are.
The best programmers are those who don't know everything, but know how to find it. It's a thought process, one that shows you that in order to be the best you must continue to learn. The true top form of any discipline will be humble. Except for musicians and clowns.
It's a balancing act to build a competent team that works well together, and knows each other's strengths and weaknesses. Frankly, that's just as important than having "all top 1 percent developers" in the long run.
Definitely agreed. You can have the 10th percentile developers that work in great harmony together, and accomplish much more than having the top tenth of a percentile working in defunct manners. The personality and environment is more influential to a projects completion.
I'd try to go work for Joel, except I don't want to live in New York.
Don't allow VPN access. As for the infected laptop, read some of the other comments on this thread.
Wow! What a great idea. I guess all the people who travel can just work offline.. Oh wait.
Checking windowsupdate.microsoft.com every day sounds like the best option.
Yes, leave it up to the actual systems users to patch. Right.
Any admin that is worthy of keeping his/her job should know that there are minimum security standards that must be enforced when using Windows (or any other system). Then again, I forgot, this is the government we are talking about, right? They hire just about anybody, right?
The problem is that you have no clue what their security and precautions are. If the government hires just about everybody, why don't you try to go work at NASA, the NSA, or the CIA. I'll send you a nice bottle of wine if you get hired.
Until then, why not just stop with the arrogance?
1.) Use a firewall to block unnecessary access from the external network
They probably do. Then a user VPNs in with an infected machine against policy, or brings a laptop in and plugs it in. This happens at my work, too.
2.) Patch Windows often
Define "often", please. It could be once a month, once a quarter. I'm sure they have change control plans.
3.) Use anti-virus software and update the definitions often
See above.
I would have thought that the State Department would at least do these minimums (to keep its systems "safe from evil-doers"), but I guess you can't even expect that much from government work.
No, it's just that it's easier to assume that you are smarter than them and assume you know their network and systems.
...our penises, credit ratings, and mortgages are all in tip-top shape as is!
California has more SUVs never driven off road (penis extension), was the home of the dotCom bubble, and has the most inflated real estate in the US.
You are so damned right.