I'm a Linux nerd, driving carefully down the road.
The guy in front is a hardware vendor, drives like an idiot.
His bad driving certainly isn't my fault, but when his car crashes, it becomes my problem.
Oh, and there's a Linux newbie in a Honda Civic driving along behind me. He wants to bolt insanely expensive flanged speed-holes onto his ride, and it's apparently my problem (though not my fault) that the vendor has crashed because that distracts the newbie into crashing into me...
The problem is the school's zero-tolerance drug policy.
I agree completely; IMHO these sorts of policies are made by those who assume local administrators don't have any intelligence or common sense that can be counted on.
No, no, no.
The policy is made in the assumption that the people at the sharp end have either no common sense or will not have time to think and consider the consequences of their actions.
The policy is made to be rigid, inflexible, "one size fits all", with no grey area left for interpretation.
which would perhaps be fine if
the policy was well worded and
the personnel applying the policy were well trained.
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
"Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules,â the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, âoeonly that she was never caught."
This shows the attitude of the school district officials involved. Even the presumption of innocence is seen at being irrelevant.
did you spend any time at all in higher education? Or was it so long ago that the PC brigade hadn't started making terms like "blackboard" into unwords?
Look at maps of Europe at any time from around 1100AD to around 1800AD.
Feudalism doesn't rely on territorial contiguity. An entity can hold scattered territories within other territories (enclaves) or have privileges within other sovereign territories.
Big corporations are often called transnational for a good reason. Comparing them to feudal states is useful. The chaebol and keiretsu systems may be even closer to feudalism than American conglomerates.
Or is Shell a "digging in the ground and under the sea and moving fluids around in tubes" company?
Oil extraction companies have a lot of technical expertise in drilling down through mud and rock, often starting at the seabed, to reach pockets of oil and gas bearing "sponges".
What Shell is doing is recentering on the technical expertise it has, rather than adding a different technology in the same broad energy game.
Adding a carbon sequestration business is using that technical expertise and simply reversing the flow and changing the fluid. From getting oil or gas out of the ground, Shell wants to put carbon dioxide into the ground.
[the proposal is] so bad that it can be described accurately as a bait-and-switch program designed to make people (1) pay lots of money (2) believing they're now free to file share and then find out that (3) file sharing systems will still be sued out of existence and (4) the users themselves, despite paying, will still be liable for massive lawsuits. It's basically a plan to give the record labels tons of money, handed over by universities (so users have no chance to opt-out) without actually changing anything.
In fact, this would be the universities giving up-front financing for future legal action against file sharers.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
If you want to communicate effectively with me, you need to use mutually intelligible language. If we both understand what is termed "non-standard English", then OK, it works, so long as we both understand it.
You can transpose letters here and there for sarcasm or humour, such as writing "thnaks" instead of "thanks" and I'll understand perfectly well.
If you start using the word "stupid" to stand for "stupidity", I'll probably not get the message you're trying to transmit.
If you go too far, I may even believe the very opposite of what you are trying to tell me, with possibly costly or dangerous consequences.
That this was one stupid or ignorant individual is of no importance. This individual is at the checkout after being selected and trained.
The behaviour of that individual demonstrates that the selection and training processes are inadequate.
Selection and training processes are a matter of company policy, ergo the unsatisfactory performance of that individual is simply a manifestation of company ethos.
Which is my attempt at pompously saying "yeah, it the fault of the company overall".
They're put together at Sennheiser HQ in Hanover, Germany, right next door to the farmhouse where the company was founded -- on 1 June 1945, just 23 days after Germany surrendered to the Allies. And not as Sennheiser either, but as 'Laboratium Wennebostel'.
When the article can't even get the name of the lab correct (it should be Laboratorium Wennebostel), I can't trust anything in it.
The whole question of violent crime is clouded by bad statistics.
The police forces of England and Wales do not collect, collate, analyze or publish the number of knife attacks, injuries or fatalities.
The data collected are for all cut and stab wounds, and so include those made by carpenters' chisels and gouges, screwdrivers, scissors, saws, and probably pens and chopsticks as well.
If I've understood, and this is not necessarily the case, I admit, the judge has just decided that he is authorized to modify contracts in order to give financial benefit to particular groups of investors. He is effectively interfering in the market. Is that his job?
Let's imagine that I enter into an employment contract with a company, and this contract says that in certain circumstances I can leave and get a payout (let's say 12 months salary).
This payout is to compensate me for the time it will take for me to find another job. The cost and risk in known up front to both parties; the company and me. The contract is signed by authorised signatories of the company, who get this authorisation from the directors, who ultimately are authorised by the shareholders to make decisions about hiring and compensation policy.
Now along comes a judge, who says "I think that this contract is detrimental to the share price, ergo detrimental to the finances of certain shareholders; I have decided to unilaterally modify or annul this contract as I see fit".
The judge is appointing himself to be a kind of super-president of the company: not elected to the board by shareholders, but with some kind of moral right to interfere in the company's policies and practises.
Please feel free to correct me if I've got hold of the wrong end of the stick, but from reading TFA, that is my interpretation.
Like Syrinx, I was puzzled to not find anything on my Verizon account pages like the screensots in Gozmodo's article, or like the descriptions here.
I receive paper bills, but pay on-line. I had no written notification, Verizon says I have no messages pending, and I couldn't find anything about sharing CNPI on the website...
Now I know why.
Gizmodo, Slashdot, I want those ten minutes of my life back, you insensitive clods!
I've ridden on trains in many countries, and it's not unusual for a train to arrive after a 3 or 4 hour trip and then either slow to a crawl for the last mile, or sit in a kind of staging area outside the station for a few minutes.
It seems clear to me that if you want to run the trains so that they arrive on time, you try to make allowances for potential delays.
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The declared purpose of patents is to put designs in public view, with the reward being legal protection for the patent holder to make the device or license it to others for a certain time.
If Rambus or any other corporation or person applies for a patent on a device, this is no longer "secret"
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Look, this is where you need a car analogy.
I'm a Linux nerd, driving carefully down the road.
The guy in front is a hardware vendor, drives like an idiot.
His bad driving certainly isn't my fault, but when his car crashes, it becomes my problem.
Oh, and there's a Linux newbie in a Honda Civic driving along behind me. He wants to bolt insanely expensive flanged speed-holes onto his ride, and it's apparently my problem (though not my fault) that the vendor has crashed because that distracts the newbie into crashing into me...
K.
Maybe this will be more use, then.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-9.04-beta
It wasn't really difficult for me to find it, starting from the page whose link I posted...
about three click and twelve seconds, all told.
And if that is still not good enough, then I suggest you go back to whatever you usually do when you don't get everything spoon-fed to you.
K.
You could look at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta to find out.
Or wait until Saint George's Day.
Note: This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on April 23rd, 2009.
K.
Indeed, the article at http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2008/12/pc_power_manage_1.html ends with that nonsensical question, and claims that the forrester report costs $279.
But if you follow the link, Forrester's report in entitled "How Much Money Are Your Idle PCs Wasting? but costs US $749
K.
The problem is the school's zero-tolerance drug policy.
I agree completely; IMHO these sorts of policies are made by those who assume local administrators don't have any intelligence or common sense that can be counted on.
No, no, no.
The policy is made in the assumption that the people at the sharp end have either no common sense or will not have time to think and consider the consequences of their actions.
The policy is made to be rigid, inflexible, "one size fits all", with no grey area left for interpretation.
which would perhaps be fine if
K.
Another quote from the article.
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
"Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules,â the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, âoeonly that she was never caught."
This shows the attitude of the school district officials involved. Even the presumption of innocence is seen at being irrelevant.
K.
I wish Linus would just come clean and say what he thinks, instead of beating about the bush.
K.
whoosh!
did you spend any time at all in higher education? Or was it so long ago that the PC brigade hadn't started making terms like "blackboard" into unwords?
K.
Look at maps of Europe at any time from around 1100AD to around 1800AD.
Feudalism doesn't rely on territorial contiguity. An entity can hold scattered territories within other territories (enclaves) or have privileges within other sovereign territories.
Big corporations are often called transnational for a good reason. Comparing them to feudal states is useful. The chaebol and keiretsu systems may be even closer to feudalism than American conglomerates.
K.
Or is Shell a "digging in the ground and under the sea and moving fluids around in tubes" company?
Oil extraction companies have a lot of technical expertise in drilling down through mud and rock, often starting at the seabed, to reach pockets of oil and gas bearing "sponges".
What Shell is doing is recentering on the technical expertise it has, rather than adding a different technology in the same broad energy game.
Adding a carbon sequestration business is using that technical expertise and simply reversing the flow and changing the fluid. From getting oil or gas out of the ground, Shell wants to put carbon dioxide into the ground.
K.
From the article:
[the proposal is] so bad that it can be described accurately as a bait-and-switch program designed to make people (1) pay lots of money (2) believing they're now free to file share and then find out that (3) file sharing systems will still be sued out of existence and (4) the users themselves, despite paying, will still be liable for massive lawsuits. It's basically a plan to give the record labels tons of money, handed over by universities (so users have no chance to opt-out) without actually changing anything.
In fact, this would be the universities giving up-front financing for future legal action against file sharers.
K.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
If you want to communicate effectively with me, you need to use mutually intelligible language. If we both understand what is termed "non-standard English", then OK, it works, so long as we both understand it.
You can transpose letters here and there for sarcasm or humour, such as writing "thnaks" instead of "thanks" and I'll understand perfectly well.
If you start using the word "stupid" to stand for "stupidity", I'll probably not get the message you're trying to transmit.
If you go too far, I may even believe the very opposite of what you are trying to tell me, with possibly costly or dangerous consequences.
K.
I disagree.
That this was one stupid or ignorant individual is of no importance. This individual is at the checkout after being selected and trained.
The behaviour of that individual demonstrates that the selection and training processes are inadequate.
Selection and training processes are a matter of company policy, ergo the unsatisfactory performance of that individual is simply a manifestation of company ethos.
Which is my attempt at pompously saying "yeah, it the fault of the company overall".
K.
From TFA:
They're put together at Sennheiser HQ in Hanover, Germany, right next door to the farmhouse where the company was founded -- on 1 June 1945, just 23 days after Germany surrendered to the Allies. And not as Sennheiser either, but as 'Laboratium Wennebostel'.
When the article can't even get the name of the lab correct (it should be Laboratorium Wennebostel), I can't trust anything in it.
K.
Moaning minnies.
The whole question of violent crime is clouded by bad statistics.
The police forces of England and Wales do not collect, collate, analyze or publish the number of knife attacks, injuries or fatalities.
The data collected are for all cut and stab wounds, and so include those made by carpenters' chisels and gouges, screwdrivers, scissors, saws, and probably pens and chopsticks as well.
K.
The British gov't has systematically distorted statistics and selectively presented data in order to advance its own agenda.
This latest ploy probably has little to do with crime, and more to do with bringing in more cash to fund the gov't's pet projects. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7780057.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7781030.stm
K
Right!
So don't block by IP range.
Here's the very simple way to do what is wanted.
Now, how you go about deciding who gets an account is entirely up to you.
Do you ask for a zip code? People could just answer whatever they like, so this is not reliable.
How about a code that you print and mail to the person who wants an account? The user enters this one-time code to unlock the new account.
It sounds a lot like the proof of address requirement for getting a municipal library card or for enrolling kids in elementary school.
Maybe you could have people physically come round and show a driving license and utility bill...
K.
A plug-in? Surely not...
How about, Google stores a cookie with a value that says "don't track me with Google cookies"?
K
If I've understood, and this is not necessarily the case, I admit, the judge has just decided that he is authorized to modify contracts in order to give financial benefit to particular groups of investors. He is effectively interfering in the market. Is that his job?
Let's imagine that I enter into an employment contract with a company, and this contract says that in certain circumstances I can leave and get a payout (let's say 12 months salary).
This payout is to compensate me for the time it will take for me to find another job. The cost and risk in known up front to both parties; the company and me. The contract is signed by authorised signatories of the company, who get this authorisation from the directors, who ultimately are authorised by the shareholders to make decisions about hiring and compensation policy.
Now along comes a judge, who says "I think that this contract is detrimental to the share price, ergo detrimental to the finances of certain shareholders; I have decided to unilaterally modify or annul this contract as I see fit".
The judge is appointing himself to be a kind of super-president of the company: not elected to the board by shareholders, but with some kind of moral right to interfere in the company's policies and practises.
Please feel free to correct me if I've got hold of the wrong end of the stick, but from reading TFA, that is my interpretation.
K.
Like Syrinx, I was puzzled to not find anything on my Verizon account pages like the screensots in Gozmodo's article, or like the descriptions here.
I receive paper bills, but pay on-line. I had no written notification, Verizon says I have no messages pending, and I couldn't find anything about sharing CNPI on the website...
Now I know why.
Gizmodo, Slashdot, I want those ten minutes of my life back, you insensitive clods!
K.
I've ridden on trains in many countries, and it's not unusual for a train to arrive after a 3 or 4 hour trip and then either slow to a crawl for the last mile, or sit in a kind of staging area outside the station for a few minutes.
It seems clear to me that if you want to run the trains so that they arrive on time, you try to make allowances for potential delays.
K.
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And what is its unladen weight?
The declared purpose of patents is to put designs in public view, with the reward being legal protection for the patent holder to make the device or license it to others for a certain time.
If Rambus or any other corporation or person applies for a patent on a device, this is no longer "secret"
K.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
Smells a little like Plan 9...
K.