ActiveSync is the protocol, created by MS, that Exchange is based on, but that is used by a couple of other systems, most notably Google's sync.
Errr, I see. I think.
How on earth did Google get to use MS protocols? Or is this something that, inexplicably, MS have let the specifications out into public knowledge?
Ref IMAP etc. I think I understand the reasons, and I dumped the idea of trying to understand more fully years ago. Instead I'd just dump everything from my mailboxes onto the desktop machine with POP, then when I would go abroad, I'd copy the mail system and archive onto my laptop. I tried to get my head around synchronisation and shit like that, but gave it up as an incomprehensible waste of time. It's not as if you can ever successfully communicate between different client's accounts anyway, nor should you even attempt it (client confidentiality).
If the Good Lord had intended us to develop complicated synchronisation protocols, he would never have invented the memory stick. Or indeed, the Zip drive. Or indeed, the concept of a compressed archive that you can span across multiple floppies (all of which I've used for synchronisation in the past.)
an interesting read if for no other reason than to get a peek inside the day-to-day issues the Xbox Live Enforcement team deals with."
Definitely a new meaning to the word "interesting".
Does anyone even know anybody with an Xbox (Live, Enforcement, or whatever version)? I don't (as far as I know).
Actually, the article may well be interesting, but more likely as a view into the depths of political correctness than because of who the author is. Would he stay out of jail in Germany, for example?
Napolitano added she hoped the US could get to a place in the future where Americans would not have to be as guarded against terrorist attacks
Getting "to" a place implies that the place that you wish to be is not here. This is a step forward.
It is also the deathknell for Napolitano's career in politics, because it implies that the here and now is not the best possible state in the best of all possible worlds.
as they are and that she was actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized.
Perhaps try looking at how a politically disaffected person becomes radicalised into an radical politically disaffected person, and then further radicalised into a political protester and so on, eventually leading to them becoming a terrorist. Or does that raise too many politically awkward questions?
Hint : the second largest factor in the continuing shut-down of the Irish terrorism problem has been the political actions to bring the political wings of the Republican movement into the conventional political process. But the more important factor has been the continuing erosion of the basis for Republican sentiment by the subsumption of both Britain and Ireland into the Greater Europe, coupled with the Irish (people and government) saying "we don't care if you want to politically unite with us ; we don't want to politically unite with you." That has steadily undermined the basis of the fight, leaving the politically-minded members of the Republicans no choice for retaining some degree of power but to leave terrorism behind and (re-)enter conventional politics.
(Yes there are also a number of pathological specimens on either side. That's what the police are for.)
I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.
Don't most people by this day in age, just have a spare laptop in their kitchens for looking up recipes, etc?
Where? Outside the cooker hob, sink and drainer, I have approximately 1.5 sq.m of counter space containing about 0.4sq.m of dishwasher, kettle, microwave and food containers. I could prepare vegetables or read something from a laptop.
There's a reason that I print recipes and have fridge magnets. It gives me somewhere to hang the recipe while I'm cooking.
Tunes? What's wrong with leaving the door open so that you can hear the system in the living room next door? It's not like you ever close that door anyway.
Oh, I see. You use the laptop as a cutting board. Ingenious.
Sometimes it feels like there are approximately two people in the world who understand the political structure of the EU,
One of whom is dead, and the other isn't talking.
I still find it amusing that Eurosceptics claim that "people didn't think they'd be signing up for a European government when they voted in the referendum of 1975". I understood perfectly well that the question of Europe was one of whether or not to become part of a "super-state", and I was too young to vote. Too young to even get away with trying to vote. So, what the Eurosceptics are really saying is that they think that the population of the country are on average stupider than a young child.
Well, since I don't use Apple stuff (tried a MacBook a few years ago ; wasn't impressed, except by the fact that I sold it for more than I paid for it), and I only use Exchange when it is what is provided by this week's client (MDaemon at work, with I'don't-know-what for mail access in the office), and I've not bothered to even try to set up email access to any phone that I've owned since 2000, I can see how utterly important it is is to the normal man in the street.
It's not incredible that there are good reasons for some companies to want to drive email down their worker's throats while the sit in a traffic jam somewhere. But then we're not talking about personal phones are we?
So Google's "ActiveSync" (whatever that is) has the potential to do the same. OK. That's a good reason not to install it on my phone. If it's available for Nokias. It might even be a reason to find out what, if anything, "ActiveSync" does. If a client, or my Boss wants to put it onto a phone of theirs and then hand me the phone (in return for a 24 hour a day invoice), that's their choice with their phone.
CC's have had PINs the entire time here in Canada. Probably everywhere else too.
Was over in Canada around a month ago. Several times in my first few days the ATMs wouldn't accept my Chip'n'PIN cards, but the "swipe-only" readers would accept the same card.
Off the back of an envelope, I'd say that around 1/3 of the ATMs I looked at were swipe-only.
(I'd got all new cards, due to having my pocket picked shortly before ; this may have been why the rejection rate was so high.)
... I'm going to ram it up the jacksey of the next person who says this:
Many countries have agreed in principle to try to stabilize emissions at 350 ppm by century's end,
Many countries have agreed etc to REDUCE their future emissions so that future CO2 concentrations (get it? CONCENTRATIONS !!) reduce to no more than 350ppm.
And even the 350ppm target CO2 concentration isn't by any means guaranteed to lead to a stable climate. Just a less wildly unstable climate.
I do pity your children more than I pity we who are making these problems for your children.
While that would work on the average Crypto Nerd - I think you underestimate the die-harded-ness of Linux users who would fight to the death to defend the freedom of Open Source. Why do you think Stallman sleeps with swords?
On bad pollution days, I'd finish up a PT run and start hacking up black crap.
I don't smoke. Never have. Never will.
Why not? It's not like it's going to do you any additional harm to what your conscript service did for you.
(SK does still do conscription, doesn't it? Or did I misunderstand my trainees when I was there last year?)
I shudder to even envision how bad it is in China.
In and around Beijing was the claim in the article ; in and around large Chinese cities in general would be a fair interpretation to take. China is a big place, with many people intent on following the American Dream.
Why should I take the goods out of my shopping cart,
Your shopping cart? Not one that the store owns and loans to you to try to maximise your spend in their doors?
only to put them back in the cart, to take it away to a packing place, to pack them out again into my (Umweltfreundlich!) shopping bags?
You're missing what is being optimised here : what is being optimised is not your "experience" as a customer (which explains the lack of shop staff lining up to give you a BBBJ while you shop) ; what is being optimised is [$Budget-Market]'s use of their employee's time. Any experience that you have after the second that your cash has hit the bottom of that cash drawer is paid for by the Marketing or Customer Relations departments, not by the Cashier department.
You are a paying cog in the machine that is consumer marketing. It shows in things like this.
Actually, I quite like the honesty with which it shows in things like this. The lies, deceit and politicking that most stores go through to inform you that you are their "valued client" is exposed as sham by this example of cost-benefit analysis written in public. I should comment on that next time I have a marketing android asking me how I feel about the stores new fragrance while I'm trying to get home for a shit. (Did you notice? : Aldi/Lidl (in the UK at least) don't waste money on customer shitters.)
Oh, by the way, I shop at Penny-Markt. Their cash registers have big bays after the scanning, and are separated by a wooden swivel bar that allows the bay to be used by two different customers at the same time.
Several store chains over the years have used this system ; it died out (i.e. was demolished and rebuilt) some years ago, implying that measurable cost savings could be made with other systems. And that those cost savings were sufficient to pay for the not-trivial costs of demolition and re-building of the cash desks.
Now if they would hire some teenagers to pack my stuff for me.
They would have a higher wages bill which would be passed on to the customers.
Aldi is the worst offender: after your purchases get scanned, they are pushed to a packing place that is smaller than an average dinner plate. If you don't pack fast enough, they push your stuff onto the floor.
The way that the system is meant to work (at least in the several Aldi(i|s ?) I use regularly ; Lidls too) is that you unload your cart onto the conveyor, then you go past the cashier (who notes anything in the trolley and challenges you on it ; stop shoplifting!) and then s|he starts to scan your goods, placing them on the "dinner plate" area. You take each scanned item from the "dinner plate" area and deposit them back into the empty trolley. You then pay, and take the trolley away to pack your goods into the rucksack (dump them in the car, or whatever), while the cashier gets on with the paying work of processing the next customer.
You still need to take your trolley back to the storage area to release the coin that freed it from it's chains. So why would you not have your trolley with you at the checkout?
It seems pretty obvious to me, and it is actually very efficient. Which is part of the reason, I suppose, that Aldi (and Lidl) have relatively low prices. (The main reason that I go there is that they have things on the shelves that I can't normally get. Bottled cherries and good sausage in particular.)
Ah, perhaps like me, you want to arrange the cans at the bottom of the rucksack ; uncrushable veg on top of them ; household chemicals in the side pockets, then crushables in the hand baskets? That you do on the big wide shelves at the front of the store, not blocking the payment tills from their allotted purpose of processing payments.
Now that I think about it, I suspect that there was a time-&-motion man somewhere in the design of the system.
(I should add : I don't recall ever seeing an Uwe Boll film and knowing it. So I'll have to find out who he is now.
OK ; reading done. So he's a guy who turns video games into movies, then punches his critics in the face. Considering that only a deranged lunatic could have expected the movies to be anything other than a waste of money, brains and time, then I can't see what's to be objected to.
Hmmm, I wonder if Ali would be up for a night of beer, nachos and Uwe Boll films. Sounds like it could be a laugh.)
Dead people don't commit crimes. The death penalty has allot going for it.
... but not as much as compulsory sterilisation of all potential parents at... well there's no need to specify an age, as long as it's done in utero. That way, once the inevitable changes have worked through the system, nobody commits any crimes any more, plus the people who demand and implement the policy alway know that they've injured no one.
From the Moon, or a moon of an as-yet-undetected planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, or $extrasolar-planet-of-your-choice, every particle of every planet of the solar system they can detect is a celestial object.
Stop being so parochial. Everyone.
the whole article is worth diddly-squat.
Normally I'm not too critical of the editors, but this one suggests that they're not letting enough air into their crack-pipes and are somewhat more confused than normal.
Not even up to the level of "stupid".
Preprints are interesting in their own right. My collection of preprints (culled from the Departmental Library with permission, when the library was having a throwing out session) includes the signatures of one of the first geochronologists, on several papers documenting improving methods of geochronology and the first really scientific estimates of the age of the Earth. I also have the signature of one of the last people to see Malloy and Irvine on Everest.
While I'm a Friend of Bletchley Park (it's only a few miles from my home town), I'm debating with myself whether to contribute. Turing's early work was done IIRC at Cambridge, and his later work at Manchester ; they have as much "right" to the preprints (signatures, notes...) as Bletchley Park. Though in the popular mind, Turing is most strongly associated with Station X.
They have one, oppressive version of a religion imposed on everyone.
No they don't ; they have multiple, mutually-contradictory and self-contradictory versions of religion, which most adherents try to impose on others regardless of those other's opinions on the matter, and back it up with violence up to and including the use of multiply, indiscriminately lethal force.
The "they" you refer to are obviously "people who follow any religion", as distinguished from "people who do not follow any religion". Once seen from that perspective, the murderously schismatic conflicts between (for example) the three forms of Abrahamic monotheism (the Judaisms, the Christianities, and the Islams) pass out of the realm of comedy and into farce. They're all a dangerous bunch of idiots, not worth further distinguishing.
i agree... but replace all "incompetence" with "negligence"... the difference being "i didnt know" vs "i didnt care"
Most people who get to any level in the drilling game that involves brain work instead of muscle work, understand fully that their fuck-ups can result in them getting personally dead. "didn't care" doesn't last long ; "didn't understand" or "didn't know" is much more likely.
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ActiveSync is the protocol, created by MS, that Exchange is based on, but that is used by a couple of other systems, most notably Google's sync.
Errr, I see. I think.
How on earth did Google get to use MS protocols? Or is this something that, inexplicably, MS have let the specifications out into public knowledge?
Ref IMAP etc. I think I understand the reasons, and I dumped the idea of trying to understand more fully years ago. Instead I'd just dump everything from my mailboxes onto the desktop machine with POP, then when I would go abroad, I'd copy the mail system and archive onto my laptop. I tried to get my head around synchronisation and shit like that, but gave it up as an incomprehensible waste of time. It's not as if you can ever successfully communicate between different client's accounts anyway, nor should you even attempt it (client confidentiality). If the Good Lord had intended us to develop complicated synchronisation protocols, he would never have invented the memory stick. Or indeed, the Zip drive. Or indeed, the concept of a compressed archive that you can span across multiple floppies (all of which I've used for synchronisation in the past.)
an interesting read if for no other reason than to get a peek inside the day-to-day issues the Xbox Live Enforcement team deals with."
Definitely a new meaning to the word "interesting".
Does anyone even know anybody with an Xbox (Live, Enforcement, or whatever version)? I don't (as far as I know).
Actually, the article may well be interesting, but more likely as a view into the depths of political correctness than because of who the author is. Would he stay out of jail in Germany, for example?
Napolitano added she hoped the US could get to a place in the future where Americans would not have to be as guarded against terrorist attacks
Getting "to" a place implies that the place that you wish to be is not here. This is a step forward.
It is also the deathknell for Napolitano's career in politics, because it implies that the here and now is not the best possible state in the best of all possible worlds.
as they are and that she was actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized.
Perhaps try looking at how a politically disaffected person becomes radicalised into an radical politically disaffected person, and then further radicalised into a political protester and so on, eventually leading to them becoming a terrorist. Or does that raise too many politically awkward questions?
Hint : the second largest factor in the continuing shut-down of the Irish terrorism problem has been the political actions to bring the political wings of the Republican movement into the conventional political process. But the more important factor has been the continuing erosion of the basis for Republican sentiment by the subsumption of both Britain and Ireland into the Greater Europe, coupled with the Irish (people and government) saying "we don't care if you want to politically unite with us ; we don't want to politically unite with you." That has steadily undermined the basis of the fight, leaving the politically-minded members of the Republicans no choice for retaining some degree of power but to leave terrorism behind and (re-)enter conventional politics.
(Yes there are also a number of pathological specimens on either side. That's what the police are for.)
I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.
Well 'Duh!'
Don't most people by this day in age, just have a spare laptop in their kitchens for looking up recipes, etc?
Where? Outside the cooker hob, sink and drainer, I have approximately 1.5 sq.m of counter space containing about 0.4sq.m of dishwasher, kettle, microwave and food containers. I could prepare vegetables or read something from a laptop.
There's a reason that I print recipes and have fridge magnets. It gives me somewhere to hang the recipe while I'm cooking.
Tunes? What's wrong with leaving the door open so that you can hear the system in the living room next door? It's not like you ever close that door anyway.
Oh, I see. You use the laptop as a cutting board. Ingenious.
Sometimes it feels like there are approximately two people in the world who understand the political structure of the EU,
One of whom is dead, and the other isn't talking.
I still find it amusing that Eurosceptics claim that "people didn't think they'd be signing up for a European government when they voted in the referendum of 1975". I understood perfectly well that the question of Europe was one of whether or not to become part of a "super-state", and I was too young to vote. Too young to even get away with trying to vote. So, what the Eurosceptics are really saying is that they think that the population of the country are on average stupider than a young child.
Depressingly, they may be right.
It's not incredible that there are good reasons for some companies to want to drive email down their worker's throats while the sit in a traffic jam somewhere. But then we're not talking about personal phones are we?
So Google's "ActiveSync" (whatever that is) has the potential to do the same. OK. That's a good reason not to install it on my phone. If it's available for Nokias. It might even be a reason to find out what, if anything, "ActiveSync" does. If a client, or my Boss wants to put it onto a phone of theirs and then hand me the phone (in return for a 24 hour a day invoice), that's their choice with their phone.
'Nuff said.
Did you know that "FTW" ("for the win") is a direct translation of "Sieg Heil"?
Oh, so that's what the acronym means.
Does it mean anything in real life? (Obviously I know that "Seig Heil" is the German release of the rather shoddy British car, the "Triumph Acclaim".)
CC's have had PINs the entire time here in Canada. Probably everywhere else too.
Was over in Canada around a month ago. Several times in my first few days the ATMs wouldn't accept my Chip'n'PIN cards, but the "swipe-only" readers would accept the same card.
Off the back of an envelope, I'd say that around 1/3 of the ATMs I looked at were swipe-only.
(I'd got all new cards, due to having my pocket picked shortly before ; this may have been why the rejection rate was so high.)
Many countries have agreed etc to REDUCE their future emissions so that future CO2 concentrations (get it? CONCENTRATIONS !!) reduce to no more than 350ppm.
And even the 350ppm target CO2 concentration isn't by any means guaranteed to lead to a stable climate. Just a less wildly unstable climate.
I do pity your children more than I pity we who are making these problems for your children.
While that would work on the average Crypto Nerd - I think you underestimate the die-harded-ness of Linux users who would fight to the death to defend the freedom of Open Source. Why do you think Stallman sleeps with swords?
I call Rule 34.
This is a really quite disturbing image.
[SHUDDER]
Sorry Dr Stallman.
On bad pollution days, I'd finish up a PT run and start hacking up black crap.
I don't smoke. Never have. Never will.
Why not? It's not like it's going to do you any additional harm to what your conscript service did for you.
(SK does still do conscription, doesn't it? Or did I misunderstand my trainees when I was there last year?)
I shudder to even envision how bad it is in China.
In and around Beijing was the claim in the article ; in and around large Chinese cities in general would be a fair interpretation to take. China is a big place, with many people intent on following the American Dream.
Why should I take the goods out of my shopping cart,
Your shopping cart? Not one that the store owns and loans to you to try to maximise your spend in their doors?
only to put them back in the cart, to take it away to a packing place, to pack them out again into my (Umweltfreundlich!) shopping bags?
You're missing what is being optimised here : what is being optimised is not your "experience" as a customer (which explains the lack of shop staff lining up to give you a BBBJ while you shop) ; what is being optimised is [$Budget-Market]'s use of their employee's time. Any experience that you have after the second that your cash has hit the bottom of that cash drawer is paid for by the Marketing or Customer Relations departments, not by the Cashier department.
You are a paying cog in the machine that is consumer marketing. It shows in things like this.
Actually, I quite like the honesty with which it shows in things like this. The lies, deceit and politicking that most stores go through to inform you that you are their "valued client" is exposed as sham by this example of cost-benefit analysis written in public. I should comment on that next time I have a marketing android asking me how I feel about the stores new fragrance while I'm trying to get home for a shit. (Did you notice? : Aldi/Lidl (in the UK at least) don't waste money on customer shitters.)
Oh, by the way, I shop at Penny-Markt. Their cash registers have big bays after the scanning, and are separated by a wooden swivel bar that allows the bay to be used by two different customers at the same time.
Several store chains over the years have used this system ; it died out (i.e. was demolished and rebuilt) some years ago, implying that measurable cost savings could be made with other systems. And that those cost savings were sufficient to pay for the not-trivial costs of demolition and re-building of the cash desks.
Now if they would hire some teenagers to pack my stuff for me .
They would have a higher wages bill which would be passed on to the customers.
Aldi is the worst offender: after your purchases get scanned, they are pushed to a packing place that is smaller than an average dinner plate. If you don't pack fast enough, they push your stuff onto the floor.
The way that the system is meant to work (at least in the several Aldi(i|s ?) I use regularly ; Lidls too) is that you unload your cart onto the conveyor, then you go past the cashier (who notes anything in the trolley and challenges you on it ; stop shoplifting!) and then s|he starts to scan your goods, placing them on the "dinner plate" area. You take each scanned item from the "dinner plate" area and deposit them back into the empty trolley. You then pay, and take the trolley away to pack your goods into the rucksack (dump them in the car, or whatever), while the cashier gets on with the paying work of processing the next customer.
You still need to take your trolley back to the storage area to release the coin that freed it from it's chains. So why would you not have your trolley with you at the checkout?
It seems pretty obvious to me, and it is actually very efficient. Which is part of the reason, I suppose, that Aldi (and Lidl) have relatively low prices. (The main reason that I go there is that they have things on the shelves that I can't normally get. Bottled cherries and good sausage in particular.)
Ah, perhaps like me, you want to arrange the cans at the bottom of the rucksack ; uncrushable veg on top of them ; household chemicals in the side pockets, then crushables in the hand baskets? That you do on the big wide shelves at the front of the store, not blocking the payment tills from their allotted purpose of processing payments.
Now that I think about it, I suspect that there was a time-&-motion man somewhere in the design of the system.
this is all about his friend who works with Wikileaks and the US government. Nothing to do with the TSA.
The TSA aren't a branch of the US Government?
*NO ONE* should be subjected to a Uwe Boll film.
Not even Uwe Boll himself? Whoever he is.
(I should add : I don't recall ever seeing an Uwe Boll film and knowing it. So I'll have to find out who he is now.
OK ; reading done. So he's a guy who turns video games into movies, then punches his critics in the face. Considering that only a deranged lunatic could have expected the movies to be anything other than a waste of money, brains and time, then I can't see what's to be objected to.
Hmmm, I wonder if Ali would be up for a night of beer, nachos and Uwe Boll films. Sounds like it could be a laugh.)
Dead people don't commit crimes. The death penalty has allot going for it.
... but not as much as compulsory sterilisation of all potential parents at ... well there's no need to specify an age, as long as it's done in utero. That way, once the inevitable changes have worked through the system, nobody commits any crimes any more, plus the people who demand and implement the policy alway know that they've injured no one.
From the Moon, or a moon of an as-yet-undetected planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, or $extrasolar-planet-of-your-choice, every particle of every planet of the solar system they can detect is a celestial object. Stop being so parochial. Everyone.
the whole article is worth diddly-squat. Normally I'm not too critical of the editors, but this one suggests that they're not letting enough air into their crack-pipes and are somewhat more confused than normal. Not even up to the level of "stupid".
Does this mean that I'm going to have to find out WTF a Twit is, and how to Tweet one's nose at them?
If you want to feel worse about it (as a human) then think what might have been if he had lived 25 more years and had enjoyed the appropriate support
He'd have got into a pissing contest with Vint Cerf, and the IP4 address space would have been 64 bits wide.
[Obligatory M$-bashing] Bill Gates would have stuck with his college courses instead of dropping out and writing BASIC interpreters.
World hunger would have been solved in the late '70s.
Preprints are interesting in their own right. My collection of preprints (culled from the Departmental Library with permission, when the library was having a throwing out session) includes the signatures of one of the first geochronologists, on several papers documenting improving methods of geochronology and the first really scientific estimates of the age of the Earth. I also have the signature of one of the last people to see Malloy and Irvine on Everest.
While I'm a Friend of Bletchley Park (it's only a few miles from my home town), I'm debating with myself whether to contribute. Turing's early work was done IIRC at Cambridge, and his later work at Manchester ; they have as much "right" to the preprints (signatures, notes ...) as Bletchley Park. Though in the popular mind, Turing is most strongly associated with Station X.
Hmmm, I'll have a think about that over lunch.
When's the last time someone was jailed in the US for saying bad things about Jeebus?
More importantly, when will be the next time?
They have one, oppressive version of a religion imposed on everyone.
No they don't ; they have multiple, mutually-contradictory and self-contradictory versions of religion, which most adherents try to impose on others regardless of those other's opinions on the matter, and back it up with violence up to and including the use of multiply, indiscriminately lethal force.
The "they" you refer to are obviously "people who follow any religion", as distinguished from "people who do not follow any religion". Once seen from that perspective, the murderously schismatic conflicts between (for example) the three forms of Abrahamic monotheism (the Judaisms, the Christianities, and the Islams) pass out of the realm of comedy and into farce. They're all a dangerous bunch of idiots, not worth further distinguishing.
i agree... but replace all "incompetence" with "negligence"... the difference being "i didnt know" vs "i didnt care"
Most people who get to any level in the drilling game that involves brain work instead of muscle work, understand fully that their fuck-ups can result in them getting personally dead. "didn't care" doesn't last long ; "didn't understand" or "didn't know" is much more likely.