This is a better strategy, nonetheless, if the mail-in is high enough, I'll go through with it. Filing Better Business Bureau complaints is a great way to get service.
Heck, try explaining what procmail does to your standard Exchange admin (admittedly, this overlaps non-geek a lot), and you'll still get blank stares and questions about how many CALs you have to buy (is it one per filter rule?)
See, this is why Canada will always be second fiddle. I mean, here you go applying "logic" and "business sense" -- not to mention, strategy -- to matters OBVIOUSLY better dealt with using chutzpah, truthiness, gut feelings, and stubborn, malicious incompetence. For the Mafiaa, it's obviously not about the money, the customers, the artists, or even being "right," it's about winning the global war on commies. I mean drugs. Wait, terrorists. no, like terrorists, but less 'splodey and more cutlasses. Pirates! Right. fighting the evil pirates. Yarr.
Though I'm for impeachment, it probably won't happen. I'm especially for impeachment *hearings* which will bring so many skeletons out of the closets that we could, perhaps, undo some of the damage wrought by the current regime - like, maybe, restoring some privacy, reigning in the executive branch, and ensuring civil liberties. And bouns; maybe it'll work out and we don't have to wait the next 500+ days out of Bush's term!
I'd even take it a step further; though I may not entirely agree with the punishment fitting the crime; but in a general case of person accused of computer/IT related crime on probation and still allowed to use a computer (as opposed to getting the Mitnick treatment) - require them to use a non-alterable kiosk type system. They can PortableApps some software on a flash drive; but overall it's a locked down system allowing them to practice their legal trade while restricting their ability to do (and tracking any instance of) further crime. Add a locked tower with chasis-open detection; locked bios with no flash/CD/etc. booting, and a few unscheduled visits (via VNC/RemoteDesktop/SSH/etc.) to the system to check for naughtiness, and you have a reasonably (key word) way to ensure probation compliance. Sure, a dedicated hacker (in both the original and the criminal senses of the word) could get around it, but it'd be hard to not leave any evidence; which would pretty blatantly be violating your probation.
What would be truly excellent is Google Earth + Celestia with maps for each planet; with the ability to choose a point in space (say, at an address using G. Earth) and look up and see the night sky with the ability to change local time, etc.
This is one thing I do respect Google (and a pitiful few other companies) for - admitting mistakes. So many hassles and PR disasters could be averted by just admitting you FUBARed and are willing to make amends. Hell, our foreign policy could learn from that, even.
OK folks, read up on the public/private datamining partnerships post 9-11. I recommend:
Jerry Berman, "Security, Privacy and Government Access to Commercial Data," and
Zoe Baird and James Barkdale, "Building a Trusted Information-Sharing Environment,"
which both are published in _Protecting What Matters: Technology, Security, and Liberty Since 9/11_ by Clayton Northouse
And you can probably preview some of their text in Amazon or Google.
The basic point is that the government has been data mining private company data to try and predict criminal/terrorist activity, but has been operating without any good privacy or civil liberty guidelines or oversight. Worse, the public/private nature of the activity leads to very murky distinctions in who (govt or private contractors and data clearinghouses) "owns" what, and where said data lives and gets backed up.
Another major issue here is the total lack of mechanisms for redress if your information is incorrect, compounded by differing goals of the various organizations collecting said data. A company errs on the side of more data with which to sell you stuff; it's no sweat off their back if they lose the cost of a poorly directed bulk-mail garden supply catalog because you let a friend use your loyalty card to buy their fertilizer every week for a discount (bad example, sure, but you get the point?). If said fertilizer gets implicated in a bomb making plot, the fact that you have weekly purchases of it tied to your name becomes very important to the government, at a high potential cost to your freedom.
You people are such cynics! I for one believe that the government has learned its lesson and this project will never return. I'm sure however that there was some public/private partnerships to pull the data together, and that the govt will soon be able to contract out for the same data it used to just have internally. I wonder how attending a peace rally affects your credit rating?
Well then maybe Skype should put more effort into getting their Linux and Mac versions up to date (video support, anyone?) Less worries about mass rebooting, at least...
I'd go so far as to say that even in university, you should take at least a full minor outside of your "core" major; e.g. C.S. with a philosophy minor (and not just modal logic courses), or heck, a language, history, regional studies, international affairs - whatever. Something to give you some rounding and outside interests.
(I have 3 minors, and a generic honors major; I studied special relativity and James Joyce's Ulysses, so this is coming from a biased source. OTOH, since college I've worked at a dotcom, freelanced, taught English in Venezuela, worked on Education/ICT policy in Jamaica with the Peace Corps, worked on technology commercialization in Austin, volunteered IT support for an awesome Nicaraguan fair-trade organization, and gone to grad school for sci/tech policy. It's been pretty fun.
It seems that the light is coming from the plasma, not the laser, so changing colors might not work. Also, you have to have one laser per pixel. I'd imagine to have two balls, one directly above another, you'd have to be able to tilt another laser to focus its beam at that location (if that makes any sense)
Also - the current display can make 1000 balls? meh. That's a 10px x 10px x 10px display. It's awesome, sure, but the photoshop jobs they're showing are a LONG way off; right now we're looking more at led scroller type displays.
This is spot on. Many companies don't see the business interest in responding to security flaws until it hits full disclosure. It doesn't logically follow that we should jut go straight to full disclosure. Let the company know that there's a flaw, and that you will disclose said flaw in some reasonable timeframe that balances the patch time with the severity of the flaw. Insightful companies will get to work patching, the rest will be gruff or nonresponsive... and then you disclose and they get around to patching. Long-run, companies will learn to patch before disclosure to reduce bad press, or risk losing customers to companies that do, which will get better reputations as being more secure.
If you're going to start ripping (pardon the pun) on MP3 sound quality, compare it to a clean vinyl record at least; comparing it to a CD, as the parent has shown, is a poor argument - it's possible to make an mp3 that exceeds the quality of a CD. Now, I myself am firmly in the mp3 (or ogg or flac) camp, but will at least accept criticism from the vinyl camp. But CDs? c'mon.
But, you see, if you phrase it this way, using clear logic, then the story is boooooorrrriiingggg - "Open Source Advocates: We like openness!" *yawn* "OSS Users dislike moves away from closed source, like moves towards open source" - *zzzzzz* Where's the conflict? where's the excitement? You can't have "fair and balanced" reporting unless there's a conflict!!
You see, ATT is preparing a new content delivery system, so soon your bill may include:
Date - Transfer Method - Type 08/07/2007 - Data Transfer - Data 08/07/2007 - Tubes - An Internets 08/08/2007 - Sneakernet - l33t w4r3zzz 08/08/2007 - Quantum Entanglement - Welcome Basket of Oranges from The New ATT!
and so on. So lay off, they're planning for a much wider array of services no doubt, and what seems contentless now will soon have great meaning!
Slashdot Mirror
This is a better strategy, nonetheless, if the mail-in is high enough, I'll go through with it. Filing Better Business Bureau complaints is a great way to get service.
"continue to monitor and enforce any anticompetitive conduct to ensure a competitive broadband marketplace"
Like, maybe, cutting out copper infrastructures when installing FiOS, locking the current and any future customers in to one vendor?
Antitrust lost its fangs under Clinton and the rest of its teeth under Shrub. It's not even bother to gum corporations anymore.
I'm reminded of a quote by some NASA Scientist, on the NEAR probe: "We have no fuel on board, plus or minus 8 kilograms"
HTTP Referer
Yeah, they really meant; "HTTP Reefer-er"
If you look at them from the right angle, it's a large, flashing arrow-shaped sign that reads "Eat at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
Heck, try explaining what procmail does to your standard Exchange admin (admittedly, this overlaps non-geek a lot), and you'll still get blank stares and questions about how many CALs you have to buy (is it one per filter rule?)
See, this is why Canada will always be second fiddle. I mean, here you go applying "logic" and "business sense" -- not to mention, strategy -- to matters OBVIOUSLY better dealt with using chutzpah, truthiness, gut feelings, and stubborn, malicious incompetence. For the Mafiaa, it's obviously not about the money, the customers, the artists, or even being "right," it's about winning the global war on commies. I mean drugs. Wait, terrorists. no, like terrorists, but less 'splodey and more cutlasses. Pirates! Right. fighting the evil pirates. Yarr.
Though I'm for impeachment, it probably won't happen. I'm especially for impeachment *hearings* which will bring so many skeletons out of the closets that we could, perhaps, undo some of the damage wrought by the current regime - like, maybe, restoring some privacy, reigning in the executive branch, and ensuring civil liberties. And bouns; maybe it'll work out and we don't have to wait the next 500+ days out of Bush's term!
I'd even take it a step further; though I may not entirely agree with the punishment fitting the crime; but in a general case of person accused of computer/IT related crime on probation and still allowed to use a computer (as opposed to getting the Mitnick treatment) - require them to use a non-alterable kiosk type system. They can PortableApps some software on a flash drive; but overall it's a locked down system allowing them to practice their legal trade while restricting their ability to do (and tracking any instance of) further crime. Add a locked tower with chasis-open detection; locked bios with no flash/CD/etc. booting, and a few unscheduled visits (via VNC/RemoteDesktop/SSH/etc.) to the system to check for naughtiness, and you have a reasonably (key word) way to ensure probation compliance. Sure, a dedicated hacker (in both the original and the criminal senses of the word) could get around it, but it'd be hard to not leave any evidence; which would pretty blatantly be violating your probation.
...when applied to the US. The WTO has quite a lot of bite with most developing nations. Just clarifying your statement.
What would be truly excellent is Google Earth + Celestia with maps for each planet; with the ability to choose a point in space (say, at an address using G. Earth) and look up and see the night sky with the ability to change local time, etc.
Stellarium's pretty good too, for just star-gazing. Though Celestia still rocks in terms of flying around the solar system/galaxy/whatever.
This is one thing I do respect Google (and a pitiful few other companies) for - admitting mistakes. So many hassles and PR disasters could be averted by just admitting you FUBARed and are willing to make amends. Hell, our foreign policy could learn from that, even.
OK folks, read up on the public/private datamining partnerships post 9-11. I recommend:
Jerry Berman, "Security, Privacy and Government Access to Commercial Data," and
Zoe Baird and James Barkdale, "Building a Trusted Information-Sharing Environment,"
which both are published in _Protecting What Matters: Technology, Security, and Liberty Since 9/11_ by Clayton Northouse
And you can probably preview some of their text in Amazon or Google.
The basic point is that the government has been data mining private company data to try and predict criminal/terrorist activity, but has been operating without any good privacy or civil liberty guidelines or oversight. Worse, the public/private nature of the activity leads to very murky distinctions in who (govt or private contractors and data clearinghouses) "owns" what, and where said data lives and gets backed up.
Another major issue here is the total lack of mechanisms for redress if your information is incorrect, compounded by differing goals of the various organizations collecting said data. A company errs on the side of more data with which to sell you stuff; it's no sweat off their back if they lose the cost of a poorly directed bulk-mail garden supply catalog because you let a friend use your loyalty card to buy their fertilizer every week for a discount (bad example, sure, but you get the point?). If said fertilizer gets implicated in a bomb making plot, the fact that you have weekly purchases of it tied to your name becomes very important to the government, at a high potential cost to your freedom.
You people are such cynics! I for one believe that the government has learned its lesson and this project will never return. I'm sure however that there was some public/private partnerships to pull the data together, and that the govt will soon be able to contract out for the same data it used to just have internally. I wonder how attending a peace rally affects your credit rating?
Well then maybe Skype should put more effort into getting their Linux and Mac versions up to date (video support, anyone?) Less worries about mass rebooting, at least...
We can dream, can't we?
I'd go so far as to say that even in university, you should take at least a full minor outside of your "core" major; e.g. C.S. with a philosophy minor (and not just modal logic courses), or heck, a language, history, regional studies, international affairs - whatever. Something to give you some rounding and outside interests.
(I have 3 minors, and a generic honors major; I studied special relativity and James Joyce's Ulysses, so this is coming from a biased source. OTOH, since college I've worked at a dotcom, freelanced, taught English in Venezuela, worked on Education/ICT policy in Jamaica with the Peace Corps, worked on technology commercialization in Austin, volunteered IT support for an awesome Nicaraguan fair-trade organization, and gone to grad school for sci/tech policy. It's been pretty fun.
It seems that the light is coming from the plasma, not the laser, so changing colors might not work. Also, you have to have one laser per pixel. I'd imagine to have two balls, one directly above another, you'd have to be able to tilt another laser to focus its beam at that location (if that makes any sense)
Also - the current display can make 1000 balls? meh. That's a 10px x 10px x 10px display. It's awesome, sure, but the photoshop jobs they're showing are a LONG way off; right now we're looking more at led scroller type displays.
This is spot on. Many companies don't see the business interest in responding to security flaws until it hits full disclosure. It doesn't logically follow that we should jut go straight to full disclosure. Let the company know that there's a flaw, and that you will disclose said flaw in some reasonable timeframe that balances the patch time with the severity of the flaw. Insightful companies will get to work patching, the rest will be gruff or nonresponsive ... and then you disclose and they get around to patching. Long-run, companies will learn to patch before disclosure to reduce bad press, or risk losing customers to companies that do, which will get better reputations as being more secure.
If you're going to start ripping (pardon the pun) on MP3 sound quality, compare it to a clean vinyl record at least; comparing it to a CD, as the parent has shown, is a poor argument - it's possible to make an mp3 that exceeds the quality of a CD. Now, I myself am firmly in the mp3 (or ogg or flac) camp, but will at least accept criticism from the vinyl camp. But CDs? c'mon.
Oh man, you've (rather, Randall has) me figured out!
But, you see, if you phrase it this way, using clear logic, then the story is boooooorrrriiingggg - "Open Source Advocates: We like openness!" *yawn* "OSS Users dislike moves away from closed source, like moves towards open source" - *zzzzzz* Where's the conflict? where's the excitement? You can't have "fair and balanced" reporting unless there's a conflict!!
Is he leaving a sinking ship, or jumping ships to help the new round of candidates?
You see, ATT is preparing a new content delivery system, so soon your bill may include:
Date - Transfer Method - Type
08/07/2007 - Data Transfer - Data
08/07/2007 - Tubes - An Internets
08/08/2007 - Sneakernet - l33t w4r3zzz
08/08/2007 - Quantum Entanglement - Welcome Basket of Oranges from The New ATT!
and so on. So lay off, they're planning for a much wider array of services no doubt, and what seems contentless now will soon have great meaning!