I don't have the backgroun in security to seriously disagree with you. But I do think the two examples you offer are not exactly compelling. Microsoft can get away with signing its own certificates for the same reason they get away with having a browser that isn't very standards compliant: they control 90% of the user base. And the military can require all its users to install special certificates because, well, they're the military.
Right, they deliberately screw up so that people will login to bitch. Never mind all the people who think Slashdot has gone downhill, so they don't login at all.
Hey, maybe Jason Blair was supposed to get caught plagiarizing his stories. Think of how much extra attention the New York Times has gotten from this "scandal"!
I mean if you are not against gay marriage, if you don't think pre-emptive war is a good idea, if you are pro life then why are you are republican. Before anybody says anything about fiscal responsibility or smaller government I will ask you to go look up the track record of republican presidents regarding those items.
So because George Bush is a hypocrite about fiscal responsibility, the rest of the Republican party can't even talk about it?
The assumption that the Republican == Right Wing (particulary Religious Right) is a pretty recent one. Through most of its history the Republican Party has actually include a wide range of opinions. The only way the Republicans have been consistently more conservative than the Demos is that the Repulicans are always more supportive of big business.
Right now, the GOP is dominated by a bunch of intolerant neocons and religious zealots who make life hard for any Republican politico who doesn't believe exactly what they do. But that's only been going on since the early 90s, and is beginning to hurt the GOP badly. For somebody like Bloomberg, it makes a lot more sense to stick with the Republican party, where he can find more like-minded folks, than to go back to the Democratic party, where he couldn't even get nominated to run for his current office. And eventually he's going to be one of the folks running the party, once the rank and file tire of the antics of Tom DeLay and similar zealots.
It's a bit more than jumping the fence. The places where the fence is easy to get past are the most deserted, and thus the most dangerous. The death rate due to dehydration and exposure is huge.
Her parents were in denial. They kept insisting that their daughter was responding to visual stimulus. The experts kept telling them they were seeing no such thing, but they didn't want to hear it. And the experts were right: the autopsy showed no visual cortex left.
These folks were the wrong people to be making decisions on behalf of their daughter. They stated repeatedly that even her express wishes were not relevent. Only their irrational believe that she would recover was important. All the people who made them into heros are idiots.
But as introverted and "leave me alone and let me work" as most programmers and IT personnel are, why would you force them into a room and waste more of their time getting to an environment they hate?
Because developing serious software is a team effort. "Leave me alone and let me work" too often becomes "I know the right way to do this part of the project — the restof you are idiots, so go fuck yourselves." The result is software where the pieces don't fit, and the overall product bears little resemblance to the original design goals.
And if you read it in an article, it must be true.
My experience with telecommuting is that it breeds inefficiency and lack of communication. But it looks good to the bean counters who now dominate corporate management. Such folks are always looking for line items to cut, and fuck the long term consequences. And real-estate is a big line item, especially in Silicon Valley. Telecommuters don't need offices, which means smaller corporate campuses. And if you hire people to work from low cost-of-living locations (my current manager telecommutes from Wisconsin), there's less pressure on salary.
I find it very interesting that HP is suddenly bucking this trend. Perhaps this is a reaction to the management style of the late, unlamented Carly Fiorina, who by all accounts was the ultimate bean counter.
I can't comment on X-Files, which I always found unbearably dumb. But your criticism of Lost seems poorly considered. They did not "change the plotline" from season 1 to season 2. The characters are still on the mystery island. They've simply answered some mysteries, brought in new ones, and changed the story emphasis accordingly. Did you expect every episode to be about hunting wild boars?
You're focusing on the wrong problem! Note that this idea comes from the people who make the chips. This is a solution to a problem that's important to them.
I don't think it would help you learn to touch type, I think it would hurt.
My experience is that it neither helps nor hurts. I learned to touch type in pre-computer days, in a "typing lab" where none of the typewriters had labels on their keys. Then about a decade later I decided to brush up my skills on my own, using a regular typewriter and a practice book I got from the public library. Comparing the two experiences I have to say there was little or no difference. Then again, maybe the first time I got into the habit of not looking at the keyboard, something that might not have happened if I'd started out with labelled keys. I guess it's all about how much self-discipline you have.
...jokes tend to get tired quickly, then after they get tired they get annoying.
A fact quite unknown to Slashdotters, who never let a day go by without saying, "I, for one, welcome our new [insert topical reference here] overlords."
Bullshit. I've bought a fair amount of expensive hardware over the years on eBay (including two laptops), and never gotten stuck. The closest I ever came was when I bought a PDA from a flaky dude who kept telling me he'd send it to me as soon as he figured out where he'd put the charging cradle. Complaints to eBay and PayPal soon took care of that.
Which is not to say that eBay isn't a risky place to buy stuff. I'm sure I'll get stung eventually. But I've managed to put that day off long enough to make eBay shopping a valuable resource. The trick is to be careful what you buy from who. I would certainly not bid $650 for an item being sold by somebody with no sales history!
It's a thin client, period. Those of us who like "real" PCs will never make our peace with these glorified terminals — but the decision makers are in love with them, because of the low administrative cost. And if you're a big company with thousands of employees using thin clients, it makes sense to have them permanently installed in your walls.
If you haven't seen this before, it because you've only worked for companies where everybody has his own PC. I guess that's still the majority, but the trend is towards thin clients.
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I don't have the backgroun in security to seriously disagree with you. But I do think the two examples you offer are not exactly compelling. Microsoft can get away with signing its own certificates for the same reason they get away with having a browser that isn't very standards compliant: they control 90% of the user base. And the military can require all its users to install special certificates because, well, they're the military.
As usual, conspiracy theories are the first resort of the lazy.
Hey, maybe Jason Blair was supposed to get caught plagiarizing his stories. Think of how much extra attention the New York Times has gotten from this "scandal"!
...why you can no longer buy Spearmint Mentos in the U.S.
With Mentos, it's amusing. With a lot of complicated hardware, it's just another gadget.
The assumption that the Republican == Right Wing (particulary Religious Right) is a pretty recent one. Through most of its history the Republican Party has actually include a wide range of opinions. The only way the Republicans have been consistently more conservative than the Demos is that the Repulicans are always more supportive of big business.
Right now, the GOP is dominated by a bunch of intolerant neocons and religious zealots who make life hard for any Republican politico who doesn't believe exactly what they do. But that's only been going on since the early 90s, and is beginning to hurt the GOP badly. For somebody like Bloomberg, it makes a lot more sense to stick with the Republican party, where he can find more like-minded folks, than to go back to the Democratic party, where he couldn't even get nominated to run for his current office. And eventually he's going to be one of the folks running the party, once the rank and file tire of the antics of Tom DeLay and similar zealots.
It's a bit more than jumping the fence. The places where the fence is easy to get past are the most deserted, and thus the most dangerous. The death rate due to dehydration and exposure is huge.
These folks were the wrong people to be making decisions on behalf of their daughter. They stated repeatedly that even her express wishes were not relevent. Only their irrational believe that she would recover was important. All the people who made them into heros are idiots.
My experience with telecommuting is that it breeds inefficiency and lack of communication. But it looks good to the bean counters who now dominate corporate management. Such folks are always looking for line items to cut, and fuck the long term consequences. And real-estate is a big line item, especially in Silicon Valley. Telecommuters don't need offices, which means smaller corporate campuses. And if you hire people to work from low cost-of-living locations (my current manager telecommutes from Wisconsin), there's less pressure on salary.
I find it very interesting that HP is suddenly bucking this trend. Perhaps this is a reaction to the management style of the late, unlamented Carly Fiorina, who by all accounts was the ultimate bean counter.
All Slashdot needs are editors who aren't terminally lazy. Zonk is by far the worst.
In other words, it's not for hosting content on a cell, it's for providing a web-based user interface for applications that run on a cell.
Your balls have been outsourced?
Slide rules? You don't get out much, do you?
Or you could buy some earplugs.
I can't comment on X-Files, which I always found unbearably dumb. But your criticism of Lost seems poorly considered. They did not "change the plotline" from season 1 to season 2. The characters are still on the mystery island. They've simply answered some mysteries, brought in new ones, and changed the story emphasis accordingly. Did you expect every episode to be about hunting wild boars?
You're focusing on the wrong problem! Note that this idea comes from the people who make the chips. This is a solution to a problem that's important to them.
Take a look at other marketing campaigns. Most of them are built on exactly this kind of doublethink.
Which is not to say that eBay isn't a risky place to buy stuff. I'm sure I'll get stung eventually. But I've managed to put that day off long enough to make eBay shopping a valuable resource. The trick is to be careful what you buy from who. I would certainly not bid $650 for an item being sold by somebody with no sales history!
If you haven't seen this before, it because you've only worked for companies where everybody has his own PC. I guess that's still the majority, but the trend is towards thin clients.
I think if somebody stole $400 from you, you'd want more than bad feedback.
OK, I missed that statement. Does indeed count as extortion — though rather inept extortion.