Would this same logic apply to voice mail if you are purchasing it from your telco provider? In that case it resides on the providers server or other such system, and is no longer in transit. Can the telco snoop in there to find out if their competition is leaving you messages about switching? Can the USDJ walk in and ask to listen in just to find out what you're up to?
Another thing, in many modern switched telco networks, at some-point the data being transmitted is probably in some sort of buffer somewhere - does that count as in transit - or can it be freely snooped?
It's one thing to be a strict constructionist, it's another to be altogether stupid - or evil. I don't really see how this could be construed as within the spirit of the law, let alone the word.
The only redeeming factor here is that the decision does at least imply a reasonable understanding of the technology, it's just an unfortunate outcome. Maybe it's a case of understanding just enough to do damage. . . .
There are actually a couple of other alternatives as well.
1. There's BioDiesel - which has vastly lower particulate and CO2 emmisions. It's also often produced from waste vegtable oil, is non-toxic, and domestically produced.
2. There's a system known as "Multi-Fuel" which injects an additive to improve combusion. Usually this is something like Liquid Propane or LNG. This reduces emmision by fostering more complete combustion of the base fuel.
When it was new my 2000 Jetta TDi got wicked good mileage - made it from Ohio to the Bay Area (the long way) on less than 4 tanks. There are all sorts of stories on the TDi Club pages about these VW's long legs.
Now it's a little older, runs only in San Francisco city traffic, and burns B100 (bio deisel) so YMMV definitely applies.
You gotta love ADTI's assertion that one person couldn't possibly write and OS. When I was working in a university computing services group - our CS students all had to write their own (however simple) OS as part of an Operating Systems course. They had to do so in order to graduate.
Of course one man can write an OS. Then, afterwards, thousands of volunteers worldwide can make it a GOOD os.
Actually - they can fireball, though I don't know what exactly caused the fireball.
A few months back we had an older laptop charging on a desk in the office (one of our trainers was going to be taking it to a customer site - and our IT staff had just given him a new battery) At some point - it made a loud popping noise - and basically exploded. There was a brief fireball (imagine bad TV effects) and a small fire. It dies down quickly, and was out before we got there with an extinguisher. So everyone's just sort of staring at it when - boom, it blows again. This time it set the cube on fire, and we fogged it with the extinguisher, evacuated and called the FD. All the while the guy whose machine it was is mumbling - "That's my LAPTOP. I work with it in my LAP"
My first was a TRS-80 Model IV Portable - this gigantic sewing machine looking, suitcase sized luggable with 2 5 inch floppy drives and a 800 baud modem. Still sitting in my parents attic last I checked . . . but that was like 3 years ago.
I'm oversee an it department. While we're lucky enough to have a highly technical user base there are still users that need a little help. And some of them will have to write at&t.
"Solutions" like this do little to stem the tide of spam, they only shift the burden to others. Now, in order to ensure that my users can send email to the customers and contacts they need at att&t, I have to keep them up to date with our whereabouts on the net?
Earlier this year we had to deal with a spat of denied messages cause when a number of large organizations blocked our entire address block because they believed it was a DSL block. This was the only reason. Not that spam originated from any of these addresses,
The only way to stop spam is to stop the spammers. The only way to stop the spammers is to stop those that pay them or otherwise make money trough the spam.
Broad use of a challenge/response type system actually massivly increases the mail volume - a legitimate email (one that's not yet been whitelisted) will usualy generate traffic = 2x the origional message.
1. Initial message is sent. 2. Challenge system responds with request for verification, often attacing origional message. 3. If the end user is real, they then respond to authenticate.
Traffic volume is actually less then for the illegal spammers. Of course in theory, no one sees is.
We experimented for a while here using Marco Paganini's Active Spam Killer project - it did do an admirable job of preventing users from having to see unsolicited emails, however there were a couple of issues.
1. The challange/response model added substantial additional traffic to our primary MTA
2. The challange itself REPLIED to a UCE, thus verifying the address and making it a saleable commodity.
I finally settled on a combination that utilized Spamassassin as an initial test, then checked used ASK as a challenge response system for those users who wanted additional protection.
You realize, this will result in your getting beaten up on a regular basis. Later, after most of the emotional scaring has healed and you've made a few non-pixelated friends, someone will give you a job, and likely they'll then be scared to call you when they've "deleted the internet" or some such. Life has come full circle. Well kinda.
It seems that as soon as there is a decline in the US Economy, some organization or another will immediately call for a reduction in immigrant workers. Sure, in the past there have been myriad abuses of the system. I'm certain that there are cases where domestic workers have been laid off in favor of "guest" workers.
However, the proposed solution here almost universally put the burden of this abuse on the workers, when in fact it belongs entirely on the employer who's unethical practices led to the "need" for such reforms.
In addition, I have to object to the idea that strengthening academic requirements would in anyway improve the efficiency of the programs.
I work for a mid sized software company. Like most companies in our sector, from time to time we've had H1B workers. We've also traditionally had a worker base made of of those who might best be described as "hackers" in the old sense of the word. Very talented, very effective engineering staff, who are none - the - less almost ENTIRELY self educated.
In what was does improving the educational standards ensure that the individuals have the "special skills" needed?
But in this image on the IOpen website, it sure looks like, well, they pasted the image on to that pretty little notebook. Hmm, windows on a TiBook . . .
"Join the Army. Travel to exotic places. Meet exotic and interesting people. And Kill them."
Or at least try. IF you are a true geek, too many dorritos, too much Mountain Dew, and far too much Everquest will likely have resulted in a physique, well, not fit for military service. Oh well. Darn
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Aside from gaming, what are we planning to use these for?
I can see the use in design, nd maybe medical imaging? Any others?
I'm not disparaging the technology, or those who want one (I do) I'm genuinely curious . . . 3D is one of those "cool" things we've all had on our minds since watching our godzilla 3d movie as a kid, now that it's "here" how are we going to make use of the technology?
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Like many of the die hards in my office, I thought OS X was an improvment over Mac OS, but I stuck by my linux installation as my primary work station for quite some time. A couple of weeks ago- with the release of 10.2, I decided I would switch over on an experimental basis. With OroborOSX and XDarwin, as well as the Mac OS X developer tools, I'm pretty much sold at this point.
I now have a workstation that runs most (if not all) of the Unix ish apps I need to do my work, as well as the propritary applications I used to have to switch to windows for.
Sure, I still have three boxes on my desk (Linux WS, Mac g4 desktop, and cheesy little windows laptop) but I'm increasing using ONLY the OS X system. I'm pretty much sold - as are most of the other's on the engineering/it team I work with.
'course at home - I still run linux - but I don't need MS Office as much there. I'm still sold on Linux as a platform, all but a very few server installations I'm working with at this point are linux, and I'm not about to get rid of it all together - but the next machine I'll buy will be a tiBook (though if you're listening apple, we need a damed two button mouse)
Of course long hours degrade code quality. When you have to trade in the Dew for serious, non-carbonated amphetimines in order to meet a deadline - something's gonna suffer.
No - really.
Anyway, my company recently changed our development style to take some pressure off the engineering staff. Whereas previously, 14 hour days were somewhat the norm, those have now been seriously reduced. Those with famlilies actualy get to see them. Those without, get to play Final Fantasy X until 4 AM. Overall, moral is better, and there's not been a signifigant change in output - and the quality is improving.
This whole war on terrorism thing got interesting when attitudes began to forget the "fighting to protect your" clause of "Fighting to protect your freedom."
Well - everyone should stop whining, Join the ACLU and write their congressmen/women.
Well - at least as far as I can tell - there's still no SMB printing - after having enabled all the other samba goodness, why didn't apple add SMB printing capability. (I mean having an OS X 10.2 system print to a SMB shared printer)
I know there are products like Dave availble - but really?
I've been strugling for the last couple weeks to get my wife's little Ibook to print properly to our little home wireless network.
I stubled over to the show a couple times in the last few days - only a couple blocks from the office here. All the geeks in the office agreed that it was deeply deeply lame. 'Bout the best thing to come of the show was the elastic badge holder thingy.
The floor seems empty, the booths seems thin, and the coolest thing I think I saw was this handheld voice rec translator - and it was running Windows.
And - RedHat seems like a bunch of revolutionaries compared to the other exhibitors. They actualy use the words Open Source.
Way downhill from last year (where's Ximian and the cool jungle booth?)
I for one am glad - both as a developer having to support to highly divergent platforms, and as a unix head who's had to work with the classic OS. I like OS X. It's unix (almost) my mom could use. There's a lot to be said for that.
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Would this same logic apply to voice mail if you are purchasing it from your telco provider? In that case it resides on the providers server or other such system, and is no longer in transit. Can the telco snoop in there to find out if their competition is leaving you messages about switching? Can the USDJ walk in and ask to listen in just to find out what you're up to?
Another thing, in many modern switched telco networks, at some-point the data being transmitted is probably in some sort of buffer somewhere - does that count as in transit - or can it be freely snooped?
It's one thing to be a strict constructionist, it's another to be altogether stupid - or evil. I don't really see how this could be construed as within the spirit of the law, let alone the word.
The only redeeming factor here is that the decision does at least imply a reasonable understanding of the technology, it's just an unfortunate outcome. Maybe it's a case of understanding just enough to do damage. . . .
There are actually a couple of other alternatives as well.
1. There's BioDiesel - which has vastly lower particulate and CO2 emmisions. It's also often produced from waste vegtable oil, is non-toxic, and domestically produced.
2. There's a system known as "Multi-Fuel" which injects an additive to improve combusion. Usually this is something like Liquid Propane or LNG. This reduces emmision by fostering more complete combustion of the base fuel.
When it was new my 2000 Jetta TDi got wicked good mileage - made it from Ohio to the Bay Area (the long way) on less than 4 tanks. There are all sorts of stories on the TDi Club pages about these VW's long legs.
Now it's a little older, runs only in San Francisco city traffic, and burns B100 (bio deisel) so YMMV definitely applies.
Actually, since many diesels get much better milage than gasoline cars - even if the price is exactly the same, you save up 30% per mile.
My diesel Jetta (currently burning a mix of about 75% BioDiesel to 25% petrodiesel) gets around 40MPG.
You gotta love ADTI's assertion that one person couldn't possibly write and OS. When I was working in a university computing services group - our CS students all had to write their own (however simple) OS as part of an Operating Systems course. They had to do so in order to graduate.
Of course one man can write an OS. Then, afterwards, thousands of volunteers worldwide can make it a GOOD os.
Actually - they can fireball, though I don't know what exactly caused the fireball.
A few months back we had an older laptop charging on a desk in the office (one of our trainers was going to be taking it to a customer site - and our IT staff had just given him a new battery) At some point - it made a loud popping noise - and basically exploded. There was a brief fireball (imagine bad TV effects) and a small fire. It dies down quickly, and was out before we got there with an extinguisher. So everyone's just sort of staring at it when - boom, it blows again. This time it set the cube on fire, and we fogged it with the extinguisher, evacuated and called the FD. All the while the guy whose machine it was is mumbling - "That's my LAPTOP. I work with it in my LAP"
My first was a TRS-80 Model IV Portable - this gigantic sewing machine looking, suitcase sized luggable with 2 5 inch floppy drives and a 800 baud modem. Still sitting in my parents attic last I checked . . . but that was like 3 years ago.
I'm oversee an it department. While we're lucky enough to have a highly technical user base there are still users that need a little help. And some of them will have to write at&t.
"Solutions" like this do little to stem the tide of spam, they only shift the burden to others. Now, in order to ensure that my users can send email to the customers and contacts they need at att&t, I have to keep them up to date with our whereabouts on the net?
Earlier this year we had to deal with a spat of denied messages cause when a number of large organizations blocked our entire address block because they believed it was a DSL block. This was the only reason. Not that spam originated from any of these addresses,
The only way to stop spam is to stop the spammers. The only way to stop the spammers is to stop those that pay them or otherwise make money trough the spam.
Broad use of a challenge/response type system actually massivly increases the mail volume - a legitimate email (one that's not yet been whitelisted) will usualy generate traffic = 2x the origional message.
1. Initial message is sent.
2. Challenge system responds with request for verification, often attacing origional message.
3. If the end user is real, they then respond to authenticate.
Traffic volume is actually less then for the illegal spammers. Of course in theory, no one sees is.
We experimented for a while here using Marco Paganini's Active Spam Killer project - it did do an admirable job of preventing users from having to see unsolicited emails, however there were a couple of issues.
1. The challange/response model added substantial additional traffic to our primary MTA
2. The challange itself REPLIED to a UCE, thus verifying the address and making it a saleable commodity.
I finally settled on a combination that utilized Spamassassin as an initial test, then checked used ASK as a challenge response system for those users who wanted additional protection.
The only way to save enterprise is to put Archer in an orange sweatshirt and have him die every episode.
You realize, this will result in your getting beaten up on a regular basis. Later, after most of the emotional scaring has healed and you've made a few non-pixelated friends, someone will give you a job, and likely they'll then be scared to call you when they've "deleted the internet" or some such. Life has come full circle. Well kinda.
There's never enough snow (falling now here in Tahoe) Wax up them powder boards.
It seems that as soon as there is a decline in the US Economy, some organization or another will immediately call for a reduction in immigrant workers. Sure, in the past there have been myriad abuses of the system. I'm certain that there are cases where domestic workers have been laid off in favor of "guest" workers.
However, the proposed solution here almost universally put the burden of this abuse on the workers, when in fact it belongs entirely on the employer who's unethical practices led to the "need" for such reforms.
In addition, I have to object to the idea that strengthening academic requirements would in anyway improve the efficiency of the programs.
I work for a mid sized software company. Like most companies in our sector, from time to time we've had H1B workers. We've also traditionally had a worker base made of of those who might best be described as "hackers" in the old sense of the word. Very talented, very effective engineering staff, who are none - the - less almost ENTIRELY self educated.
In what was does improving the educational standards ensure that the individuals have the "special skills" needed?
my $0.02
But in this image on the IOpen website, it sure looks like, well, they pasted the image on to that pretty little notebook. Hmm, windows on a TiBook . . .
"Join the Army. Travel to exotic places. Meet exotic and interesting people. And Kill them."
Or at least try. IF you are a true geek, too many dorritos, too much Mountain Dew, and far too much Everquest will likely have resulted in a physique, well, not fit for military service. Oh well. Darn
Aside from gaming, what are we planning to use these for?
I can see the use in design, nd maybe medical imaging? Any others?
I'm not disparaging the technology, or those who want one (I do) I'm genuinely curious . . . 3D is one of those "cool" things we've all had on our minds since watching our godzilla 3d movie as a kid, now that it's "here" how are we going to make use of the technology?
Like many of the die hards in my office, I thought OS X was an improvment over Mac OS, but I stuck by my linux installation as my primary work station for quite some time. A couple of weeks ago- with the release of 10.2, I decided I would switch over on an experimental basis. With OroborOSX and XDarwin, as well as the Mac OS X developer tools, I'm pretty much sold at this point.
I now have a workstation that runs most (if not all) of the Unix ish apps I need to do my work, as well as the propritary applications I used to have to switch to windows for.
Sure, I still have three boxes on my desk (Linux WS, Mac g4 desktop, and cheesy little windows laptop) but I'm increasing using ONLY the OS X system. I'm pretty much sold - as are most of the other's on the engineering/it team I work with.
'course at home - I still run linux - but I don't need MS Office as much there. I'm still sold on Linux as a platform, all but a very few server installations I'm working with at this point are linux, and I'm not about to get rid of it all together - but the next machine I'll buy will be a tiBook (though if you're listening apple, we need a damed two button mouse)
The press release says something about Mean Time To Failure in excess of 1,000,000 hours?
114 Years? Ok. Never had a drive last that long . . .
Of course long hours degrade code quality. When you have to trade in the Dew for serious, non-carbonated amphetimines in order to meet a deadline - something's gonna suffer.
No - really.
Anyway, my company recently changed our development style to take some pressure off the engineering staff. Whereas previously, 14 hour days were somewhat the norm, those have now been seriously reduced. Those with famlilies actualy get to see them. Those without, get to play Final Fantasy X until 4 AM. Overall, moral is better, and there's not been a signifigant change in output - and the quality is improving.
This whole war on terrorism thing got interesting when attitudes began to forget the "fighting to protect your" clause of "Fighting to protect your freedom."
Well - everyone should stop whining, Join the ACLU and write their congressmen/women.
Well - at least as far as I can tell - there's still no SMB printing - after having enabled all the other samba goodness, why didn't apple add SMB printing capability. (I mean having an OS X 10.2 system print to a SMB shared printer)
I know there are products like Dave availble - but really?
I've been strugling for the last couple weeks to get my wife's little Ibook to print properly to our little home wireless network.
I stubled over to the show a couple times in the last few days - only a couple blocks from the office here. All the geeks in the office agreed that it was deeply deeply lame. 'Bout the best thing to come of the show was the elastic badge holder thingy.
The floor seems empty, the booths seems thin, and the coolest thing I think I saw was this handheld voice rec translator - and it was running Windows.
And - RedHat seems like a bunch of revolutionaries compared to the other exhibitors. They actualy use the words Open Source.
Way downhill from last year (where's Ximian and the cool jungle booth?)
Our CEO took the whole company in the middle of the afternoon. Otherwise, well - I'm sure some of us would have been missing.
I for one am glad - both as a developer having to support to highly divergent platforms, and as a unix head who's had to work with the classic OS. I like OS X. It's unix (almost) my mom could use. There's a lot to be said for that.
Walk down to your local highschool. Walk over to the kid with the purple hair and the /. tshirt.
Tell him you'll give him or her a free laptop, and 5 cases of Code Red if they can break in and tell you how they did it.