"If the cell phone is the new tool of freedom..." is a faulty premise so the rest is irrelevant.
The only effective "tool of freedom" is the one that denies your oppressor the ability to oppress. In most cases, this is effective violence executed properly against the proper target(s). Any communication that does not serve this purpose is just so much noise.
I avoided PHP as long as I could, finally was compelled to give in and become proficient in it. Now I want to dig out those parts of my brain that know about PHP, and particularly those that store memories of the miseries I've experienced in dealing with the work of "coderz". Dig them out with a spoon that's seen a few laps around the garbage disposer and hasn't been washed since.
... stick it to the man by boycotting the SOB. Block google's ad servers, safe browsing service, and analytics via your favorite web filtering widget (I use squid, myself) and don't conduct your web searches at google.com (I don't). Don't buy their ads, or from those who have bought them (I don't).
Futzing around with their ads just annoys them while boycotting them decreases their profits. Which do you suppose is more likely to be noticed by the board of directors?
Objects in low orbit are not stationary so they can be tracked when they pass within the coverage area of a spacetrack station, and their trajectories plotted. Some will have unstable orbits due to their odd shapes and/or any rolling or tumbling, but the deviations are generally not large and can be recalculated on each pass. We've been doing that for years.
Yes, it does suck for those who've got high value vehicles in harm's way, but it's not like no one's ever dealt with that problem before. The lower the orbit, the greater the risk -- they must have known that before they launched the first Iridium.
I hate that you've compelled me to point out that tracking the objects is not the same thing as controlling them. Is that something you really needed to have explained to you?
Actually, any piece large enough to pose a threat to anything we care about can be tracked, and by what counts as ancient technology: the AN/FPS-85 phased array spacetrack radar, for example.
Take a look at StopForumSpam.com. I've got it installed on a vBulletin forum and it works very, very well to prevent spambots from registering. Every now and then one sneaks through, but it's a lot less than I was seeing before.
Sorry, youngster, you are not giving those of us who were building e-commerce web sites "way back in the day" before there was an Amazon.com nearly enough credit. One-click was obvious even before they did it; the reason no one else offered it is because it's stupid.
All e-commerce sites I built before Amazon.com existed (and before "e-commerce" was the widely accepted term for them) stored account details that were pre-populated in the checkout forms after successful authentication. It was common as dirt, and even those customers who were beyond the reach of 56k dial-up expected it to work that way.
Yes, indeed, it was obvious even "way back in the day".
Uh... I'm older than you and still write code every day, so your street cred is shit with me. A UI is not an operating system, and an operating system is not a UI.
Unix wrawks, period.
Go back to your blankie and the nice lady will bring you a cookie. Thank you.
I've just reviewed my vest pocket copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and I do not see any qualification of the Fourth Amendment to limit its scope solely to intrusions by government.
As one with experience in the field, I cannot take seriously any author who would utter the term "robocar" when referring to Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems, or "AGVS".
True but a society must also take care to protect it's most vulnerable members.
There are readily available, affordable and even free technical means by which any concerned parent can prevent his or her child from being accidentally exposed to pornography. Should a parent fail to do so, the failure is on the part of the parent, not the society.
It's not the presence of a law that kept my children and so far has kept my grandchildren from being accidentally exposed to pornography (online, on television, wherever) but the presence of parents who care.
Obama's just another stinking politician. There was never any reason to expect otherwise. He's not just some guy from out of left field who came along with a happy message and got lucky. To become the DNC's anointed one, he had to make deals and secret promises and had to receive the blessings of the moneyed interests that have been in control for many decades. He's as much an insider as any other politrickster at this point.
What does owning property have to do with being a human being and a citizen? Nothing. What does having "something invested in the government" have to do with those things? Nothing, again.
The thing that should bother you most isn't that you're an elitist jerk, but that being an elitist jerk doesn't bother you at all. How a person can become so devoid of both compassion and shame is a mystery to me.
Because then the Democrats can push into the forefront the fact that Foul knowingly lied to the UN in his weapons of mass deception speech.
Of every treacherous member of the Bush administration, Colon Foul was the one in the position to know best that what he was doing was lying. He'd made a speech in February of 2001 stating that Saddam Hussein "... has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." Then in February of 2003 he told the UN that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in its possession less than a year after the first speech. The obvious question: How can we be expected to believe that a heavily sanctioned, cash strapped, impoverished Iraq either developed or purchased those weapons in less than a year? And ON WHOSE WATCH did they do so, if they did?
Please, powers that be, please please please put Colon Foul on the McCain ticket!
The problem of security holes in commercial software products is not one of developer apathy, but instead is a consequence of resource constraint. Which is just a nice way of saying that during the push to achieve an unreasonably accelerated product launch date with a short staff, small things get overlooked by developers, and the big things get overlooked by management.
"Hey, boss, we've got a potential remote exploit here. We can't ship this garbage." "We have to ship. We'll catch it on the first patch cycle." "Uh, boss, we've never before caught anything on the first patch cycle. Why should we expect this one be any different?" "Good question. Here's another: Who's going to sign your paycheck next week if we don't ship this product on time?"
Clueless writer dorks should know when to shut up.
When I was foolish enough to work for wages, I always took a red pen to the salary negotiations. With it, I struck out every non-compete clause before signing the employment contract. Some HR folks freaked out over it, but it never cost me the job.
If it had ever cost me the job I was seeking, I would have considered it a very cheap exit out of what could otherwise have been a very expensive experience.
"Using solar power to run air conditioning in the desert just makes sense..." is at least somewhat debatable. Be that as it may, you might want to at least think about ditching the air conditioner for a swamp cooler.
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OK, how about "the desire to be free is the new, er, not so new tool of freedom?"
Okay, to the extent that motivation is a tool in your definition. But I've yet to spend the money I wish I might have. :-)
"If the cell phone is the new tool of freedom..." is a faulty premise so the rest is irrelevant.
The only effective "tool of freedom" is the one that denies your oppressor the ability to oppress. In most cases, this is effective violence executed properly against the proper target(s). Any communication that does not serve this purpose is just so much noise.
I avoided PHP as long as I could, finally was compelled to give in and become proficient in it. Now I want to dig out those parts of my brain that know about PHP, and particularly those that store memories of the miseries I've experienced in dealing with the work of "coderz". Dig them out with a spoon that's seen a few laps around the garbage disposer and hasn't been washed since.
Give me Perl, mod_perl, and Catalyst any day.
... stick it to the man by boycotting the SOB. Block google's ad servers, safe browsing service, and analytics via your favorite web filtering widget (I use squid, myself) and don't conduct your web searches at google.com (I don't). Don't buy their ads, or from those who have bought them (I don't).
Futzing around with their ads just annoys them while boycotting them decreases their profits. Which do you suppose is more likely to be noticed by the board of directors?
It is also true that I can see an object the size of my computer display at 20 inches, knowhuddamean?
Objects in low orbit are not stationary so they can be tracked when they pass within the coverage area of a spacetrack station, and their trajectories plotted. Some will have unstable orbits due to their odd shapes and/or any rolling or tumbling, but the deviations are generally not large and can be recalculated on each pass. We've been doing that for years.
Yes, it does suck for those who've got high value vehicles in harm's way, but it's not like no one's ever dealt with that problem before. The lower the orbit, the greater the risk -- they must have known that before they launched the first Iridium.
I hate that you've compelled me to point out that tracking the objects is not the same thing as controlling them. Is that something you really needed to have explained to you?
Well... maybe the article is correct, since I lost all memories of the system when I was debriefed 25 years ago. ;-)
Actually, any piece large enough to pose a threat to anything we care about can be tracked, and by what counts as ancient technology: the AN/FPS-85 phased array spacetrack radar, for example.
My Perl IDE is called XEmacs. Perhaps you've heard of it?
Take a look at StopForumSpam.com. I've got it installed on a vBulletin forum and it works very, very well to prevent spambots from registering. Every now and then one sneaks through, but it's a lot less than I was seeing before.
Sorry, youngster, you are not giving those of us who were building e-commerce web sites "way back in the day" before there was an Amazon.com nearly enough credit. One-click was obvious even before they did it; the reason no one else offered it is because it's stupid.
All e-commerce sites I built before Amazon.com existed (and before "e-commerce" was the widely accepted term for them) stored account details that were pre-populated in the checkout forms after successful authentication. It was common as dirt, and even those customers who were beyond the reach of 56k dial-up expected it to work that way.
Yes, indeed, it was obvious even "way back in the day".
It pains me to have to point out that you have misconstrued the point I was making.
Google is a commercial enterprise... 'nuff sed.
Uh... I'm older than you and still write code every day, so your street cred is shit with me. A UI is not an operating system, and an operating system is not a UI.
Unix wrawks, period.
Go back to your blankie and the nice lady will bring you a cookie. Thank you.
I've just reviewed my vest pocket copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and I do not see any qualification of the Fourth Amendment to limit its scope solely to intrusions by government.
Maybe I'm just blind?
As one with experience in the field, I cannot take seriously any author who would utter the term "robocar" when referring to Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems, or "AGVS".
Thanks for playing, Brad. Have a nice day.
True but a society must also take care to protect it's most vulnerable members.
There are readily available, affordable and even free technical means by which any concerned parent can prevent his or her child from being accidentally exposed to pornography. Should a parent fail to do so, the failure is on the part of the parent, not the society.
It's not the presence of a law that kept my children and so far has kept my grandchildren from being accidentally exposed to pornography (online, on television, wherever) but the presence of parents who care.
Obama's just another stinking politician. There was never any reason to expect otherwise. He's not just some guy from out of left field who came along with a happy message and got lucky. To become the DNC's anointed one, he had to make deals and secret promises and had to receive the blessings of the moneyed interests that have been in control for many decades. He's as much an insider as any other politrickster at this point.
And that captive market is... The US Department of Defense, which is consuming 16 gallons of fuel per day per soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq by their own accounting.
Yeah, yeah, let's blame OPEC.
What does owning property have to do with being a human being and a citizen? Nothing. What does having "something invested in the government" have to do with those things? Nothing, again.
The thing that should bother you most isn't that you're an elitist jerk, but that being an elitist jerk doesn't bother you at all. How a person can become so devoid of both compassion and shame is a mystery to me.
Because then the Democrats can push into the forefront the fact that Foul knowingly lied to the UN in his weapons of mass deception speech.
Of every treacherous member of the Bush administration, Colon Foul was the one in the position to know best that what he was doing was lying. He'd made a speech in February of 2001 stating that Saddam Hussein "... has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." Then in February of 2003 he told the UN that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in its possession less than a year after the first speech. The obvious question: How can we be expected to believe that a heavily sanctioned, cash strapped, impoverished Iraq either developed or purchased those weapons in less than a year? And ON WHOSE WATCH did they do so, if they did?
Please, powers that be, please please please put Colon Foul on the McCain ticket!
The problem of security holes in commercial software products is not one of developer apathy, but instead is a consequence of resource constraint. Which is just a nice way of saying that during the push to achieve an unreasonably accelerated product launch date with a short staff, small things get overlooked by developers, and the big things get overlooked by management.
"Hey, boss, we've got a potential remote exploit here. We can't ship this garbage." "We have to ship. We'll catch it on the first patch cycle." "Uh, boss, we've never before caught anything on the first patch cycle. Why should we expect this one be any different?" "Good question. Here's another: Who's going to sign your paycheck next week if we don't ship this product on time?"
Clueless writer dorks should know when to shut up.
When I was foolish enough to work for wages, I always took a red pen to the salary negotiations. With it, I struck out every non-compete clause before signing the employment contract. Some HR folks freaked out over it, but it never cost me the job.
If it had ever cost me the job I was seeking, I would have considered it a very cheap exit out of what could otherwise have been a very expensive experience.
"Using solar power to run air conditioning in the desert just makes sense..." is at least somewhat debatable. Be that as it may, you might want to at least think about ditching the air conditioner for a swamp cooler.