The same spin doctors that run the drug war are now being employed in the Imaginary Property war.
"Mister Threepwood, it is MY experience that there are only two kinds of pirates: Those who are committing acts of wanton savagery, and those PLANNING to commit acts of wanton savagery!"
- Admiral Ricardo Luigi Pierre M'Benga Chang Nehru O'Hara Casaba the Third, Monkey Island 4.
If you don't have a creative contribution to add to this world, you sure as hell shouldn't be getting paid to sit around all day publishing.
I think it's possible to have a successful publishing-only system: one which adds value by filtering noise, checking facts, and rearranging materials for easier readability. I just don't know of real-world examples.
(I almost wanted to point out Slashdot itself, then I realized the Slash system was created by Rob Malda himself. Same for Wikipedia, by Ward Cunningham.)
unless it came with a completely hard shell of some sort.
Hey dAzED1, if you have money... Two words: Panasonic Toughbook!
And several earphones (mix of noise-cancelling and ordinary ones). I'm guessing the wires will break sometimes, due to the rough treatment of these gadgets. (A soldier wearing 80 pounds of gear won't be willing to treat the gadgets gently.)
(For the laptop: Be sure that all games and apps inside don't require Internet activation. Include an image of the hard disk, non-syspreped.)
Please ignore the subject "Scout vs Sniper". Just realized his brother is a medic. Sorry, my bad.
Medics don't use thin needles like our everyday hospitals. They use THICK ones, like the inkjet refill syringes that we use!
Also, medics inject one another on a regular basis during their medic training. Almost all of them have arm veins that have collapsed from too many injections!
Return fire to shoot a sniper? No, you take cover instantly and hide damn well first! There's no chance to measure the impact vector on the dummy, so you'll have to approximate the origin of the rounds (bullets).
If you have countersniper measures, you stay damn well hidden, then locate and shoot him, using either a sniper scope and rifle, or grenade launchers and machine guns. If not, you throw smoke grenades, stay low, and get the HELL out of there!
Well, I thought some of the comments in TFA were pretty good, so I quoted them here. After posting, I realized I wasn't adding value to the discussion.
I was being entirely redundant. My apologies. I must have been drunk.
Not trying to jump to Google's side, but just want to consider other aspects...
From TFA's readers comments:
--- "Richard de Vries" (submitter of this Slashdot story) - March 7th, 2009 at 2:04 am PST
It's legit alright. I reported this issue to Google on February 24th. Last Thurday I was notified it had been fixed. I knew this would cause a few discussions about cloud computing and the beta-status of most of Google's applications. I work for a small company. We use Google Docs a lot and we unintentionally shared some internal documents with a few clients. None of these were ultrasecret and the issue was quickly discovered, but you can imagine what could go wrong. I can say, however, that I'm very happy with the way Google handled this. The e-mails were polite and helpful, the issue was resolved fairly quickly and they have gone out of their way to correct erroneous shares and they sent e-mails to all affected users. They knew they would get reactions like this article, but they did the right thing.
Regards,
Richard
--- "Alyx Flannery" - March 7th, 2009 at 1:33 am PST:
Please. Let's see how many millions of documents were shared.. oh wait, there weren't. Unlike all the recent Credit Card compromises we have heard about. And those would be from not what we would consider "super-naive" companies. This is FUD plain and simple.
But perspective folks, this isn't the sky falling. A poorly configured server exposed to the Internet will give more info away and is a larger threat due to bots and zombies.
--- "Musashi" - March 7th, 2009 at 3:07 am PST
Cloud Computing Questions: 1. Who owns the data/documents/content? 2. How much access do the data custodians have to your data? 3. How much access SHOULD they have? 4. During an outage, what, if any, recourse do you have to continue doing business with your various collaborators? 5. How secure is your data in the cloud? How patched is the cloud environment? How well monitored is it for violations? 6. Just how interconnected are the various Google sites? Calendar, mail, Docs etc.
I only use Google docs for convenience of sharing a few minor docs. Until I get satisfactory answers to the above questions, nothing business critical or remotely private will be going up.
--- "Musashi" - March 7th, 2009 at 4:21 am PST
Classified business files being shared between business partners over in the cloud can be extremely valuable - especially to a competitor! Just imagine you're discussing a new product (a new killer app, or product) amongst your colleagues before you've patented the idea and that leaks out (without their knowledge); I'm sure you'll be more worried about that.
Many small businesses are using the cloud (Google or others) to do just that. Their Intellectual Property is extremely valuable to them.
--- "Jean Vincent" - March 7th, 2009 at 9:42 am PST
Sharing information on the web will always have some limitations, but the risk of sharing data without our knowledge can happen with any digital device, including personal computers or companies servers.
Small businesses need to make the choice by assessing their abilities to secure their documents better than Google or other online services.
I think that in that specific case Google could have handled the matter faster and should also have responded to the email from Andy. The final response seems appropriate, they have fixed the problem and notified users.
I also agree that the Beta-forever practice that Google has pioneered is not responsible and undermines users' rights on the web.
Finally there is a lot of confusion in this article and others between the term 'Cloud Computing' and 'Online services'. Cloud Computing is a deployment technology for service developers competing with web hosting, ded
Now, just let me install DOS 6.2's ANSI.SYS in my CONFIG.SYS, and surf to some other BBSes... hmmm... what does "keyboard remapping" mean, and why does it say "FORMAT C:"?
Agree. ScummVM has anti-aliasing built right in, so the old VGA (320x200, 256 colors) games actually look better in ScummVM. My favorite anti-alias filter is HQ3x.
I've been playing Monkey Island 1 on it. The words actually look nice.
There's also support for Roland MT-32 sound card, if you have MT32_CONTROL.ROM and MT32_PCM.ROM. Not all old LucasArts support the MT-32, though. See also this message on old games music.
Credit goes to wwwillem (253720) for the idea in his comment (March 03, 2009):
"Lest there be any doubt... the toxic effect [...] have had on the judicial process... the decision-making process... in the clearest possible terms... can be no misunderstanding... the extraordinary 2-day settlement... who has corporate, decision-making, power... with any limits or range attached to it", etc.
"Lest there be any doubt that Brown University's Planetary Geosciences Group graduates Samuel C. Schon, James W. Head, and Caleb I. Fassett, study authors, NASA Martian crater dating, really do 'get it' about the presence of water in recent Mars history, all such doubt should be removed by the paper his team just released (http://geology.gsapubs.org - March 2009, either slashdotted or slow). It shows the Martian gully system is craterless, possibly as young as 1.25 million years old (see bottom right of photo). In the paper lead study author Schon spells out, in the clearest possible terms so that there can be no misunderstanding, that at the extraordinary HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...
Slashdot Mirror
I've got the courage and skill of a master swordsman!
I am your BROTHER !!
The same spin doctors that run the drug war are now being employed in the Imaginary Property war.
"Mister Threepwood, it is MY experience that there are only two kinds of pirates: Those who are committing acts of wanton savagery, and those PLANNING to commit acts of wanton savagery!"
- Admiral Ricardo Luigi Pierre M'Benga Chang Nehru O'Hara Casaba the Third, Monkey Island 4.
If you don't have a creative contribution to add to this world, you sure as hell shouldn't be getting paid to sit around all day publishing.
I think it's possible to have a successful publishing-only system: one which adds value by filtering noise, checking facts, and rearranging materials for easier readability. I just don't know of real-world examples.
(I almost wanted to point out Slashdot itself, then I realized the Slash system was created by Rob Malda himself. Same for Wikipedia, by Ward Cunningham.)
Thanks for your correction. :)
unless it came with a completely hard shell of some sort.
Hey dAzED1, if you have money... Two words: Panasonic Toughbook!
And several earphones (mix of noise-cancelling and ordinary ones). I'm guessing the wires will break sometimes, due to the rough treatment of these gadgets. (A soldier wearing 80 pounds of gear won't be willing to treat the gadgets gently.)
(For the laptop: Be sure that all games and apps inside don't require Internet activation. Include an image of the hard disk, non-syspreped.)
But never the target of insurance companies. How strange.
God bless these brave soldiers!
Please ignore the subject "Scout vs Sniper". Just realized his brother is a medic. Sorry, my bad.
Medics don't use thin needles like our everyday hospitals. They use THICK ones, like the inkjet refill syringes that we use!
Also, medics inject one another on a regular basis during their medic training. Almost all of them have arm veins that have collapsed from too many injections!
(True for the Singapore army anyway.)
For bonus points: c) return fire instantly.
Return fire to shoot a sniper? No, you take cover instantly and hide damn well first! There's no chance to measure the impact vector on the dummy, so you'll have to approximate the origin of the rounds (bullets).
If you have countersniper measures, you stay damn well hidden, then locate and shoot him, using either a sniper scope and rifle, or grenade launchers and machine guns. If not, you throw smoke grenades, stay low, and get the HELL out of there!
Well, I thought some of the comments in TFA were pretty good, so I quoted them here. After posting, I realized I wasn't adding value to the discussion.
I was being entirely redundant. My apologies. I must have been drunk.
Not trying to jump to Google's side, but just want to consider other aspects...
From TFA's readers comments:
---
"Richard de Vries" (submitter of this Slashdot story) - March 7th, 2009 at 2:04 am PST
It's legit alright. I reported this issue to Google on February 24th. Last Thurday I was notified it had been fixed.
I knew this would cause a few discussions about cloud computing and the beta-status of most of Google's applications. I work for a small company. We use Google Docs a lot and we unintentionally shared some internal documents with a few clients. None of these were ultrasecret and the issue was quickly discovered, but you can imagine what could go wrong.
I can say, however, that I'm very happy with the way Google handled this. The e-mails were polite and helpful, the issue was resolved fairly quickly and they have gone out of their way to correct erroneous shares and they sent e-mails to all affected users. They knew they would get reactions like this article, but they did the right thing.
Regards,
Richard
---
"Alyx Flannery" - March 7th, 2009 at 1:33 am PST:
Please. Let's see how many millions of documents were shared.. oh wait, there weren't. Unlike all the recent Credit Card compromises we have heard about. And those would be from not what we would consider "super-naive" companies. This is FUD plain and simple.
But perspective folks, this isn't the sky falling. A poorly configured server exposed to the Internet will give more info away and is a larger threat due to bots and zombies.
---
"Musashi" - March 7th, 2009 at 3:07 am PST
Cloud Computing Questions:
1. Who owns the data/documents/content?
2. How much access do the data custodians have to your data?
3. How much access SHOULD they have?
4. During an outage, what, if any, recourse do you have to continue doing business with your various collaborators?
5. How secure is your data in the cloud? How patched is the cloud environment? How well monitored is it for violations?
6. Just how interconnected are the various Google sites? Calendar, mail, Docs etc.
I only use Google docs for convenience of sharing a few minor docs. Until I get satisfactory answers to the above questions, nothing business critical or remotely private will be going up.
---
"Musashi" - March 7th, 2009 at 4:21 am PST
Classified business files being shared between business partners over in the cloud can be extremely valuable - especially to a competitor!
Just imagine you're discussing a new product (a new killer app, or product) amongst your colleagues before you've patented the idea and that leaks out (without their knowledge); I'm sure you'll be more worried about that.
Many small businesses are using the cloud (Google or others) to do just that. Their Intellectual Property is extremely valuable to them.
---
"Jean Vincent" - March 7th, 2009 at 9:42 am PST
Sharing information on the web will always have some limitations, but the risk of sharing data without our knowledge can happen with any digital device, including personal computers or companies servers.
Small businesses need to make the choice by assessing their abilities to secure their documents better than Google or other online services.
I think that in that specific case Google could have handled the matter faster and should also have responded to the email from Andy. The final response seems appropriate, they have fixed the problem and notified users.
I also agree that the Beta-forever practice that Google has pioneered is not responsible and undermines users' rights on the web.
Finally there is a lot of confusion in this article and others between the term 'Cloud Computing' and 'Online services'. Cloud Computing is a deployment technology for service developers competing with web hosting, ded
it's like.. a balloon, and... something bad happens!
It floats on water. More air = easier to float. What's wrong? :)
I demand a handle (hole) and force feedback (vibration) features in Kindle 3!
For CowboyNeal to use.
Go ahead and erase THIS mental image.
Nice ANSI graphics! Great work.
Now, just let me install DOS 6.2's ANSI.SYS in my CONFIG.SYS, and surf to some other BBSes ... hmmm... what does "keyboard remapping" mean, and why does it say "FORMAT C:"?
Ah, the audio delivery of Yehat's rant: ... Were ... NOT ... Defeated !! Never, Never, in a thousand years ..."
"We
Supremely impressive.
You fight like a dairy farmer!
Agree. ScummVM has anti-aliasing built right in, so the old VGA (320x200, 256 colors) games actually look better in ScummVM. My favorite anti-alias filter is HQ3x.
I've been playing Monkey Island 1 on it. The words actually look nice.
There's also support for Roland MT-32 sound card, if you have MT32_CONTROL.ROM and MT32_PCM.ROM. Not all old LucasArts support the MT-32, though. See also this message on old games music.
You fight like a dairy farmer!
I refer to page 10 in the PDF:
The complete postings, with nude images, are attached as Exhibit E).
Where's "Exhibit E"? I demand that the PDF includes Exhibit E!
Does your "Hello World" look like this?
But if the eyelash is still in place, and the pencil lead was broken, it's the IPOL who searched your room.
How would you yourself enter the room without disturbing the lead? What if a trench coat misses the eyelash, yet enters the room in your style?
I'd say, establish safe houses all over the country - ten in each state! Even more than Eraser (film).
I think I watch too many Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. :)
A porn star downloading porn would be like a programmer reading Slashdot!
Does "Hello World" in BASIC count me as a programmer?
Posting comments in the most recent articles allow us to get +3 Insightful easily. For some, it has turned into a game.
Credit goes to wwwillem (253720) for the idea in his comment (March 03, 2009):
"Lest there be any doubt ... the toxic effect [...] have had on the judicial process ... the decision-making process ... in the clearest possible terms ... can be no misunderstanding ... the extraordinary 2-day settlement ... who has corporate, decision-making, power ... with any limits or range attached to it", etc.
We can put these words into a template!
You'll need 50.1% approval to pass the motion.
Let's see, there are 1,500,000 Slashdot members...
Hi NYCL,
the summary (TFS) should have been written as:
"Lest there be any doubt that Brown University's Planetary Geosciences Group graduates Samuel C. Schon, James W. Head, and Caleb I. Fassett, study authors, NASA Martian crater dating, really do 'get it' about the presence of water in recent Mars history, all such doubt should be removed by the paper his team just released (http://geology.gsapubs.org - March 2009, either slashdotted or slow). It shows the Martian gully system is craterless, possibly as young as 1.25 million years old (see bottom right of photo). In the paper lead study author Schon spells out, in the clearest possible terms so that there can be no misunderstanding, that at the extraordinary HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ...