It is great propaganda to get a human into space. It becomes a thing of national pride to do so. Because so much care needs to be made to ensure the human (or other life form) is safe the guidance and control of the rocket needs to be extremely refined.
Here is where the fun begins: The same technology to put a human into space is the same technology to launch a warhead and get it close enough to its target fairly reliably. (That's bad for the target)
Of course you aren't protected by any government so anyone may attack you (physical or electronic). Who will come to your defense? Certainly not the US and most other western countries. (Unless it was in their economic interest, which warez... etc is not)
International court systems won't come to your aid because first they would charge you with infringing on international copyright issues or other similar laws before dealing with your problem.
OK Troll boy. So your saying that anyone who cannot afford a "tank" (or chooses to drive an economical or environmentally friendly car) deserves their fate when in an accident with an SUV?
So, in other words, if they decide that they want only Windoze on their network (read: Microsoft leans on them a bit...), can they just boot all MacOS/Linux/BSD/etc. users off, saying that they might "impair the Services?!"
The first part says that they may limit your OS. The second part says if you happen to choose another OS or hardware device, it better not fsck up the network for others. But read carefully, it really includes any device including Windoze machines. So if someone hacks your NT box and somehow uses it for a DOS attack. Then you are violating 2.5.
If you take the position you'll want to quit. If you don't take the position - you'll be fired. You may try alternative 3:
Be the guy who hires the second in command. Then... this is where things get tricky. After the 2nd in command is hired: switch positions with him. You get your old job back - and you just hired your new manager so you have the least chance to complain about your new manager - you hired 'em.
They are patenting the process for testing web sites. They are being somewhat specific and vague. Specific because there are details in the abstract, but vague because some of the details still leave the patent very broad. For example:
analyzing the HTML for errors storing results in the database - Store in an RDBMS? or is a text file considered a database? Also is the analyzing on the content returned or the checking the HTTP header? Or do they imply HTTP header is part of the HTML which it is not.
. Preferably, the test configuration... - Preferably? Heh? How can you get a preferably in a patent? Either you do it or you don't. Then you file 2 patents. Preferably leaves wide open whole for various implementations which violate the patent.
It is somewhat specific because it takes the HTML coming back and creates a new HTTP request based on the response. (Sounds like a bot now)...
How many science projects can get 70 satellites for $72 million? Almost 1 million per satellite. You couldn't get a better a bargain than that even if it were on ebay.
Of course software sucks because we need to also change it every time the hardware changes. We have good software out there that was designed for specific devices. Then we have tons of crappy software that was designed and redesigned over time because of changing hardware - or the design was crappy but it was modeled so it may be easily portable.
The answer: Stop redesigning hardware... wait a second, thats rediculous.
For the jaded person. They can read about the hole. Get it to work, explain it to someone else then have the other person write it up with a much worse picture than MS. No copyright violation done since the writer never read the original post. But more damagin since the writeup was not done through the MS FUD factory.
For those who wish to be a little too hard core. The 1st edition which only covers version 4 is perfect intro to perl. After that, work your way through the man pages (in HTML). You'll notice many of the perl books are rehashes of the man pages. (I use man pages loosely, since all the perl docs can be seen in HTML and mush easier to read and navigate).
Or retraining. New products mean retraining for each person plus the learning curve to be as efficient as before. Let's take a simple estimate of a week of training for each user and 1 hours time for each user is worth $30.
6000 people(?) * 40 hours * $30/hr = $7,200,000
Thats a lot of money just for training before the logistics of converting each computer and the data on each computer.
This is not meant to be FUD but I hate flamebait contained in the posts of stories.
They may be making a correlation between your search criteria and what you had clicked on as a match. With any luck, with such data they can make their search engine better.
Here is the
press release.
Their market is not for general sites like slash, yahoo, etc. This is a business oriented product for storing digital assets, so they may easily be cataloged and transformed into a format a user may see. From their press release, some example apps:
Corporate digital asset collections
Real estate sites
Online catalogs/retail companies
Auction sites
Libraries
Medical sites
Geospatial imagery/government agencies
Corporations are storing everything digitally now: pictures, instructions, etc and need are searching for a way to manage all of this. This product is attempt to fill that void.
In a nutshell, this will be a specialized format that we will see for businesses that need to pass digital assets to the user.
Aggreed. Since java is generally slower than C++ or C. It may be time to rewrite code to a faster (less portable) language.
An alternative is identifying your slow code and rewriting those areas to native code. (which makes the Java application platform dependent but faster.)
If under the subscription model, upgrades are free, this follows practices other companies already use.
For example: for some developer packages we use, we pay lots of money for the package and support but we also get free upgrades as part of the agreement.
In a nutshell, as much as it sounds like this sucks for personal use: this may be an ideal situation for businesses. Businesses get "free" upgrades and are always on the most recent version of software.
I believe when a part of a law is marked as unconstitutional, the entire law is unconstitutional. Would that mean that the spending bill would need redrafted? What if the money was partially spent? (Reality check: all the money would be spent by the time it makes its way through the courts). But what happens to the money?
Also in PA, we use antiquated machinery that works great. But that is a different topic.
It is the states that dictate who are the rep's for Fed gov't. It may be a mistake to give the Fed gov't power on how the states may hold its elections. This is an uncharted constitutional area and allowing the Fed gov't to rule how elections are held may sway the voters. Remember the stories of gender/race bias in standardized tests? The same may occur if the fed gov't imposes rules on voting. (What is good for one state, may be horroble for other states) My arguement is using the slippery slope, but my main point is: There are some areas that need to be taken care of by the states and not by the Fed Gov't. This particular topic needs to be handled by the states.
Reality check. The electoral gives more power to small states than they would with a popular vote.
For example: If it weren't for their 2 Senate seats and 1 house seat, Wyoming's influence tiny influence would be even considereably smaller than it is now. The same can be said for other scarcely populated states. The electoral college keeps politicians "honest" in that the they need to win the State and not just enough people across the US.
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Here is where the fun begins: The same technology to put a human into space is the same technology to launch a warhead and get it close enough to its target fairly reliably. (That's bad for the target)
International court systems won't come to your aid because first they would charge you with infringing on international copyright issues or other similar laws before dealing with your problem.
Good luck!
Sure! That is why EMC and IBM are major players in the project.
OK Troll boy. So your saying that anyone who cannot afford a "tank" (or chooses to drive an economical or environmentally friendly car) deserves their fate when in an accident with an SUV?
The first part says that they may limit your OS. The second part says if you happen to choose another OS or hardware device, it better not fsck up the network for others. But read carefully, it really includes any device including Windoze machines. So if someone hacks your NT box and somehow uses it for a DOS attack. Then you are violating 2.5.
It is the CHIPSET with the bug. Not the Pentium IV chip itself.
Be the guy who hires the second in command. Then... this is where things get tricky. After the 2nd in command is hired: switch positions with him. You get your old job back - and you just hired your new manager so you have the least chance to complain about your new manager - you hired 'em.
Good luck.
Been there and seen that on ./ already.
analyzing the HTML for errors storing results in the database - Store in an RDBMS? or is a text file considered a database? Also is the analyzing on the content returned or the checking the HTTP header? Or do they imply HTTP header is part of the HTML which it is not.
. Preferably, the test configuration ... - Preferably? Heh? How can you get a preferably in a patent? Either you do it or you don't. Then you file 2 patents. Preferably leaves wide open whole for various implementations which violate the patent.
It is somewhat specific because it takes the HTML coming back and creates a new HTTP request based on the response. (Sounds like a bot now) ...
How many science projects can get 70 satellites for $72 million? Almost 1 million per satellite. You couldn't get a better a bargain than that even if it were on ebay.
The answer: Stop redesigning hardware... wait a second, thats rediculous.
I guess this could be an input device for public terminals. This mouse may not be vandal proof but it may be vandal resistent.
For the jaded person. They can read about the hole. Get it to work, explain it to someone else then have the other person write it up with a much worse picture than MS. No copyright violation done since the writer never read the original post. But more damagin since the writeup was not done through the MS FUD factory.
Most of this documentation also comes with the ActivePerl distribution.
For those who wish to be a little too hard core. The 1st edition which only covers version 4 is perfect intro to perl. After that, work your way through the man pages (in HTML). You'll notice many of the perl books are rehashes of the man pages. (I use man pages loosely, since all the perl docs can be seen in HTML and mush easier to read and navigate).
6000 people(?) * 40 hours * $30/hr = $7,200,000
Thats a lot of money just for training before the logistics of converting each computer and the data on each computer.
This is not meant to be FUD but I hate flamebait contained in the posts of stories.
Do not get the first edition! It was horrible. Form the review, it seems like they got the second edition right.
They may be making a correlation between your search criteria and what you had clicked on as a match. With any luck, with such data they can make their search engine better.
Corporate digital asset collections
Real estate sites
Online catalogs/retail companies
Auction sites
Libraries
Medical sites
Geospatial imagery/government agencies
Corporations are storing everything digitally now: pictures, instructions, etc and need are searching for a way to manage all of this. This product is attempt to fill that void.
In a nutshell, this will be a specialized format that we will see for businesses that need to pass digital assets to the user.
An alternative is identifying your slow code and rewriting those areas to native code. (which makes the Java application platform dependent but faster.)
For example: for some developer packages we use, we pay lots of money for the package and support but we also get free upgrades as part of the agreement.
In a nutshell, as much as it sounds like this sucks for personal use: this may be an ideal situation for businesses. Businesses get "free" upgrades and are always on the most recent version of software.
I believe when a part of a law is marked as unconstitutional, the entire law is unconstitutional. Would that mean that the spending bill would need redrafted? What if the money was partially spent? (Reality check: all the money would be spent by the time it makes its way through the courts). But what happens to the money?
It is the states that dictate who are the rep's for Fed gov't. It may be a mistake to give the Fed gov't power on how the states may hold its elections. This is an uncharted constitutional area and allowing the Fed gov't to rule how elections are held may sway the voters. Remember the stories of gender/race bias in standardized tests? The same may occur if the fed gov't imposes rules on voting. (What is good for one state, may be horroble for other states) My arguement is using the slippery slope, but my main point is: There are some areas that need to be taken care of by the states and not by the Fed Gov't. This particular topic needs to be handled by the states.
For example: If it weren't for their 2 Senate seats and 1 house seat, Wyoming's influence tiny influence would be even considereably smaller than it is now. The same can be said for other scarcely populated states. The electoral college keeps politicians "honest" in that the they need to win the State and not just enough people across the US.