I'd posit that having everything Murdoch-related excluded from Google is a feature for google, not a problem.
I'm a fan of google, but at the end of the day, they're a for-profit, public company. Some unfriendly competition will keep them on their toes. And though bing seems to finally be a competitive search feature from Redmond, it will take more than just a few dirty tricks to unseat the almighty google.
The list isn't accurate, because I'm pretty sure they would have to at least hat-tip to F. Kafka , expert on the process of making and enforcing laws using mysterious agencies and refusing to share the details about how one might go about breaking (or not breaking) the law.
To be fair, the new hardware is a huge improvement - still not up to virtualization, but I don't think that's a reasonable task to expect out of a machine meant primarily to be rugged and cheap.
Also, if you haven't updated your software to the latest build, you're missing out on a lot of performance tweaks. You might also consider overclocking it to 500mhz - you can find detailed instructions on the OLPCNews forums.
But streaming/rental frees you from burdensome "ownership" responsibilities; you are as free as a bird to listen to whatever tracks the service provider lets you while they let you listen! Who wants to be able to keep things, or have unpopular music, anyhow? Ownership is slavery. DRM is freedom. Open access takes a lot of work and thought.
Hold on, let me go grab my Kindle so I can polish my "1984" references.
You are all forgetting the pain when crypto was a tightly controlled "munition", but only in digital form - cryptographers travelling overseas would print out their code and research, travel, and then OCR it back in (it was illegal to post online for dissemination overseas as well).
Wait forever behind people who simply don't understand the technology Try to decode the screen which is only showing 1/2 of the data Guess at how much each hour is worth Wait forever while the super-slow modem tries to verify your card Walk 1/2 back to your car to pull out quarters because the card reader is (jammed with gum | not working | claiming to work but not printing a receipt and/or failing silently) End up with 5 tickets printed for a minimal charge, all concurrent in permitted parking time.
These are in the bucket with bathroom hand-drying solutions - sometimes, the simple, non-flashy, non-automated old technology just works best.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like "web over email," and of course there's already TOR. It smells of a propaganda tool more than honest free access to information.
iHobo: it's a cell-phone user. An iPod listener. An Internet communications leech. A cell-phone user. An iPod listener. An Internet communications leech. A cell-phone user. An iPod listener. An Internet communications leech. Are you getting it?
Yes, yes and yes. We simply can't get involved here -- the US has meddled far too much in Iran's government in living history, and there's no way for us to help now without causing more problems later.
You know, I practice abstinence. I practice it more than anything else - 20+ hours EVERY DAY I practice it, but still it doesn't work for me.
It's those other hours that I'm not practicing -- steep drop off effects.
IIRC, IANAD, but the 99% effective rating is not a per-encounter rating, but for a year of usage - i.e. 99% effective means that among 100 couples using it as their only form of birth control, 1 couple will conceive over the course of that year. Them's the breaks, and why it's usually a good idea to use 2 different methods. Bagging it also prevents things other than babies...
Well, give the guy some credit - TOR and not doing anything stupid (like, I dunno, privoxy and disabling java, javascript, image loading, etc.?) will help the email problem out. It could be done, at least. Not saying this guy has to date displayed the intelligence to think that he might get caught and should avoid it, but hey. He hacked the site. That's... well, probably not totally trivial?
One thing you can say in Microsoft's defense, though -- they've really cut down the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish cycle. Remember when it took like years for them to go through that?
You might try lowering some of your requirements; the OLPC XO-1 is built to withstand those conditions, but is low-powered computationally (and has almost no storage capacity). Putting a few of those together for different purposes, or see what hardware the OLPC folks are putting together for their "school server" . You might also contact the folks at Inveneo for some ideas, but at the end of the day it's probably easier and more cost-effective to buy a good power-conditioning UPS and an AC unit with a good filter.
OTOH; I can think of some value - install a ton of cross-platform software and a bootable DSL Linux, a-la Tactical Tech's NGO-in-a-box: http://www.tacticaltech.org/sectoolkit and send it -- with relevant and clear instructions -- to a relevant NGO, or with some FoaF who's joined the Peace Corps, etc.
I wholly agree that shipping random-junk-tech is more likely to contribute to a problem, there are some occasional uses for old tech.
I was going to suggest burning any leave you have accrued as your "fourth week," but getting something on file with HR and making a few bridges with colleagues to get you future good recommendations is probably the better plan.
Also, CYA - export your email files, now, to a USB stick/CD/whatever and take that offsite. Set up a cc/forward rule for all email post-export, and take any other relevant docs (signed hardcopies of previous performance reviews, for example) offsite -- best to CYA in case you get escorted out ahead of schedule.
Since you work in tech, you probably don't have a union. They could've helped with this.
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I hear it also runs Duke Nukem Forever like a dream!
I'd posit that having everything Murdoch-related excluded from Google is a feature for google, not a problem.
I'm a fan of google, but at the end of the day, they're a for-profit, public company. Some unfriendly competition will keep them on their toes. And though bing seems to finally be a competitive search feature from Redmond, it will take more than just a few dirty tricks to unseat the almighty google.
The list isn't accurate, because I'm pretty sure they would have to at least hat-tip to F. Kafka , expert on the process of making and enforcing laws using mysterious agencies and refusing to share the details about how one might go about breaking (or not breaking) the law.
To be fair, the new hardware is a huge improvement - still not up to virtualization, but I don't think that's a reasonable task to expect out of a machine meant primarily to be rugged and cheap.
Also, if you haven't updated your software to the latest build, you're missing out on a lot of performance tweaks. You might also consider overclocking it to 500mhz - you can find detailed instructions on the OLPCNews forums.
Man, I have a lot of code that I've written and/or use which I better make open for their perusal. Oh wait, it already is. Job done!
But streaming/rental frees you from burdensome "ownership" responsibilities; you are as free as a bird to listen to whatever tracks the service provider lets you while they let you listen! Who wants to be able to keep things, or have unpopular music, anyhow? Ownership is slavery. DRM is freedom. Open access takes a lot of work and thought.
Hold on, let me go grab my Kindle so I can polish my "1984" references.
Hey! Where'd it go???
OK, sometimes moderation amuses me. How did that comment get bumped up for being "informative" ??
Thank you all for not making a slashfic joke
You are all forgetting the pain when crypto was a tightly controlled "munition", but only in digital form - cryptographers travelling overseas would print out their code and research, travel, and then OCR it back in (it was illegal to post online for dissemination overseas as well).
The stupidity is overwhelming at times.
Wait forever behind people who simply don't understand the technology
Try to decode the screen which is only showing 1/2 of the data
Guess at how much each hour is worth
Wait forever while the super-slow modem tries to verify your card
Walk 1/2 back to your car to pull out quarters because the card reader is (jammed with gum | not working | claiming to work but not printing a receipt and/or failing silently)
End up with 5 tickets printed for a minimal charge, all concurrent in permitted parking time.
These are in the bucket with bathroom hand-drying solutions - sometimes, the simple, non-flashy, non-automated old technology just works best.
Are apostrophes also a controlled substance?
And correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like "web over email," and of course there's already TOR. It smells of a propaganda tool more than honest free access to information.
Microsoft has issued 175 killbits fixes so far.
So, how many kilobytes of killbits is that?
iHobo: it's a cell-phone user. An iPod listener. An Internet communications leech. A cell-phone user. An iPod listener. An Internet communications leech. A cell-phone user. An iPod listener. An Internet communications leech. Are you getting it?
Since when did anyone start planning to adopt MS's latest and greatest before SP1 anyhow? (or for that matter, a gen-1 Apple product, etc. etc.)
Me too.
Oh wait, Comcast doesn't have any competition for high-speed where I live.
Go go gadget free market!
Yes, yes and yes. We simply can't get involved here -- the US has meddled far too much in Iran's government in living history, and there's no way for us to help now without causing more problems later.
It might cause some fat pipes to pop up...
What? I'm talking about bandwidth!
You know, I practice abstinence. I practice it more than anything else - 20+ hours EVERY DAY I practice it, but still it doesn't work for me.
It's those other hours that I'm not practicing -- steep drop off effects.
IIRC, IANAD, but the 99% effective rating is not a per-encounter rating, but for a year of usage - i.e. 99% effective means that among 100 couples using it as their only form of birth control, 1 couple will conceive over the course of that year. Them's the breaks, and why it's usually a good idea to use 2 different methods. Bagging it also prevents things other than babies...
Well, give the guy some credit - TOR and not doing anything stupid (like, I dunno, privoxy and disabling java, javascript, image loading, etc.?) will help the email problem out. It could be done, at least. Not saying this guy has to date displayed the intelligence to think that he might get caught and should avoid it, but hey. He hacked the site. That's ... well, probably not totally trivial?
Now, getting the money without getting caught...
One thing you can say in Microsoft's defense, though -- they've really cut down the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish cycle. Remember when it took like years for them to go through that?
You might try lowering some of your requirements; the OLPC XO-1 is built to withstand those conditions, but is low-powered computationally (and has almost no storage capacity). Putting a few of those together for different purposes, or see what hardware the OLPC folks are putting together for their "school server" . You might also contact the folks at Inveneo for some ideas, but at the end of the day it's probably easier and more cost-effective to buy a good power-conditioning UPS and an AC unit with a good filter.
I was expecting the punchline that SP2 bricked Vista. I'm sure it'll show up sooner or later.
Man does /. need a +1 Dry Sarcasm mod.
OTOH; I can think of some value - install a ton of cross-platform software and a bootable DSL Linux, a-la Tactical Tech's NGO-in-a-box: http://www.tacticaltech.org/sectoolkit and send it -- with relevant and clear instructions -- to a relevant NGO, or with some FoaF who's joined the Peace Corps, etc.
I wholly agree that shipping random-junk-tech is more likely to contribute to a problem, there are some occasional uses for old tech.
I was going to suggest burning any leave you have accrued as your "fourth week," but getting something on file with HR and making a few bridges with colleagues to get you future good recommendations is probably the better plan.
Also, CYA - export your email files, now, to a USB stick/CD/whatever and take that offsite. Set up a cc/forward rule for all email post-export, and take any other relevant docs (signed hardcopies of previous performance reviews, for example) offsite -- best to CYA in case you get escorted out ahead of schedule.
Since you work in tech, you probably don't have a union. They could've helped with this.