So what if Childs is an asshole, it's his right as an American to be one.
Boo-hoo if the SF IT dept risk management plan couldn't handle a rogue employee refusing to give up the password.
It's a pretty dangerous precedent if people can be legally forced to disclose information against their will. Isn't that what the 5th amendment was for?
Prosecutor: Does your mother have AIDS? YOU MUST ANSWER Witness:...Yes Prosecutor: BURN HER AT THE STAKE!!!!
Personal automated air transport should not be that tough.
All the components that are required to build a pilotless VTOL aircract are readily available. For example:
2 seater Bell or McDonnell Douglas helicopter with a NOTAR system.
Multiple redundant parachutes. Both vehicular and personal
GPS. Use it to fly the damn thing. Yes Im serious! If it loses signal, it can just go set down on the nearest flat bit of ground. I just don't see the software being really that big of a deal to write.
If the cost could be brought below 400K upfront and <20K annually to run. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
BTW Moller is a charlatan, and convicted fraudster. I have alot of venom for conmen like this who set back social progress by displacing R&D money from real inventors. How has that jerk not been stripped of his UC-Davis associate professorship?
It's a personal question. For me, they mean everything and I don't work in the industry for this reason.
Regardless, they are asking you to renegotiate the terms of your employment.
You should work out how much invention rights are worth to you. Then sign a new contract for an amount greater than that. If your a half decent negotiator this should be no problem.
That clause applying 6 months after employment termination is in my opinion unreasonable. I wouldn't even consider it unless they were willing to payout 6 months salary upon the completion of your employment contract for the term that you will be unemployable.
Linux Devices has a fairly comprehensive list of just what technologies 'GPL Java' encompasses. The std libraries are GPL with the classpath extension.
A few months ago I was shopping for an all-in-one device. I settled on the Nokia 6230i.
It auto syncs my calendar via bluetooth when I walk in the front door of my apartment. It has an expandable memory card that I currently store 512 megs of mp3s on. Other standard features include java, camera, audio recorder, fm radio etc. On the other hand, battery life is pretty shit. I play 1-2 hours of music with it a day, and usually it needs to be recharged every 2nd or 3rd day. It does charge fast though.
I am pretty happy with it. Though if I were buying a mobile device today, I would seriously considering going with the Samsung D600.
I'm shopping around for a bug/issue tracker at the moment as well. There are quite a few. This is a central problem with OSS, it's easier to write a new one than use someone else's.
That is, there are too many problems with configuration management.
In the time I have invested trying to find the right package, I could have written one that would have supported my needs quite adequately.
But if anyone knows of one that is dead easy to setup, eg. uses sqlite or something like that as a backend, please post in this thread...
GNU Screen is a featured packed window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes. You can detach from remote screen sessions and the program will continue to run. You can then re-attach later; an essential feature if you use ssh alot.
From the release announcement: With the development of the new debian-installer, this release features a new, modular and sophisticated installation routine with integrated hardware detection and unattended installation capabilities.
One problem for newbies solved.
Now if they only come up with a friendly alternative to dselect that lets you mix and match packages from the unstable tree, I might start reccomending debian to newbies. Heck, I might even use it myself.
Disclaimer: I am not a climatologist and this is not my area of research.
When Mount Kilimanjaro erupted in 1912 it released more CFCs into the atmosphere than every county released during the entire industrial revolution.
Do you read alot of Rush Limbaugh? He wrote something similiar in one of his books.
As I understand it the flaw in that argument is that the chlorine spewed from volcanic eruptions is water soluble, and washes harmlessly out of the atmosphere. Man made 'chlorofluorocarbons' do not.
According to this website, temperature differentials resulting from volcanic eruptions injecting gases and particulate into the stratosphere are temporary and last only 1-2 years.
This could make speech recognition a higher bandwidth computer input method. The keyboard is currently king, for the following reasons:
1. Speaking the amount most knowledge workers touch-type would be physically strenuous. 2. It's culturally weird to talk to a machine. Imagine sitting in a cube farm with 100 voices talking to their machines. Too chaotic.
This would seem to solve both problems. It probably has applications for the disabled too.
Although I am a card carrying member of the Human League, I for one welcome our new borg-like future. This technology shall usher in a new era of effective human to machine communication as we dutifully tend to the collective goals and chores of the hive mind.
On the same token though, any reputable person in the field would agree that a hardened version of Microsoft's OS is not any less secure than a hardened version of Linux.
Yes they would. There are heavily stripped versions of the Linux kernel in use. The remaining code has been analysed for vulnerabilities or extensively modified with in-kernel security features. Please show me where you can get a Microsoft kernel with the same features as systrace. There are tons of other useable kernel patches which demonstrate other impressive security features, not available on the windows platform.
Have you reviewed the paper? My guess is not. Before making straw man arguments make sure you have all the facts.
Yes I have read the paper. Try not to make spurious assumptions next time.
These sell outs always surprise me. Your reputation is the most valuable thing you "have". Once that's gone, you are nothing more than some guy who lives in a van down by the river.
If you are going to derive your research from presupposed conclusions it helps to AT LEAST choose a plausible sounding conclusion.
As a genuine security researcher , I don't think anyone knowledgeable in the field believes that Microsoft has a more secure OS than a hardened version of Linux.
Speaking as an academic, it is somewhat disappointing to see this kind of spin besmirch the ivory tower of a university institution.
Does anyone know of a (free) linux vnc client that does resolution scaling?
Using scroll bars to navigate around my remote desktop is a pain. I'd rather it was just shrunken into a smaller window, but you only seem to be able to do this on windows client->linux server, not vice versa.
I am also open to alternative windows server/linux client remote desktop solutions.
Once they start throwing P2P users in jail, most of slashdot will be wearing one these things (beep beep- Robert is walking near his computer, probability of crimethink 100%) As long as it runs Linux, y'all should be right. (My explodo-collar has an ssh client)
But seriously folks, violent crime is negatively correlated with education. I'd rather force a criminal to get a PhD (an exaggeration) than release a tagged bull back into the wild to resume it's undomesticated ways.
The entire corrrectional system needs to be rethought. Consider that private corporations are running U.S. prisons. These companies- they derive benefits when lawlessness flourishes. Talk to an economist and he will tell you why this is a big concern.
Ideally you would want your doctor to lose alot of money when you die. Same thing applies here. If those privatised prison companies were paid money to decrease the rate of violent crime measured by local police departments, it would happen.
A few weeks after 9/11 the Canadian government gave the U.S. government full access to all government data on Canadian citizens, with no apparent quid pro quo. Fair enough, I probably would have given the kitchen sink too, but what would have been nice is some agreement outlining eg. more economic integration between Canada and the U.S., a la the very successful NAFTA treaty.
Because now it's harder for me to travel 5 minutes north (yes, that's right, I'm Canadian and the U.S. is to the NORTH of my house) to see my friends in the U.S., over an invisible dotted line drawn by politicians. And no, I'm not talking about Alaska.
The U.S. and Canada are symbiotes both economically and security-wise. More integration is better for everyone. I think a really good idea is Canada becoming a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico.
As David Brin frames it - I've stolen his opinion for this post, the key issues are transparency and egalitarianism. The fact that we can look is not the problem. The problem with surveillance cameras is when people can look at us, but we can't look back.
Wouldn't it be better if a women going to her car can look at surveillance cameras up the block to make sure she will arrive safely? Or a citizen's watch groups can virtually patrol it's own neighbourhood?
The key problem is when a select few can control and abuse the technology and possibly enforce the law selectively. For example, corrupt cops losing video evidence of them beating someone to death.
I'm not completely sold on the idea, but it's an opinion worth considering. Transparent Society
I'm a North American, currently living in Australia. The flight seems to take forever when you factor in the inevitable layovers and flights on each continent to the final destination. As a general rule I won't pay for first class service, but I would pay at least twice my usual amount for 'fast' class. Maybe Concode should have tried the LAXSydney route.
Or has python strayed from it's original philosophy of 'one best way to do it'?
I used python in the 1.5 days. The syntax was incredibly clean. Nowadays the language has tremendous idiomatic power, any programming language researcher should be familiar with it.
But that power has brough alot of complexity. At the end of the day, languages are tools and the learning curve to understand (particularly others) python code seems to be increasing.
Fedora.us was the original home of the Fedora project, which started out as 3rd party packages for Red Hat Linux. I wouldn't them 3rd Party any longer now that RH has publically stated the projects are integrated.
Also, Red Hat uses it. They just call them 'Development, Test, Updates'. Look here.
Slashdot Mirror
It's alot worse than you seem to know.
I've been having problems with gmail for 4 days now. My mail STILL isn't being delivered.
I have sent two emails a day (morning and evening) to my Yahoo account over the last 4 days.
None have been delivered. This still isn't fixed.
So what if Childs is an asshole, it's his right as an American to be one.
Boo-hoo if the SF IT dept risk management plan couldn't handle a rogue employee refusing to give up the password.
It's a pretty dangerous precedent if people can be legally forced to disclose information against their will.
Isn't that what the 5th amendment was for?
Prosecutor: ...Yes
Does your mother have AIDS? YOU MUST ANSWER
Witness:
Prosecutor:
BURN HER AT THE STAKE!!!!
Yay Mcarthyism
Sounds like the smartest Cuban leader I've heard about in awhile...
LOL @ OpenOffice competing with Microsoft Office.
They cant win any market share and they are giving the goddamn thing away for free.
A random WYSIWYG wiki (deki perhaps?) has way more potential to crush MS Office than Openoffice.
The "lets fit" for A4 mindset is finally evaporating.
If OpenOffice wants to have even the slightest relevence they would turn it into an HTML editor. Save
HTML is the only format that matters. OpenDocument and all that is a big joke, because no one cares about document file formats anymore.
Personal automated air transport should not be that tough.
All the components that are required to build a pilotless VTOL aircract are readily available. For example:
If the cost could be brought below 400K upfront and <20K annually to run. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
BTW Moller is a charlatan, and convicted fraudster. I have alot of venom for conmen like this who set back social progress by displacing R&D money from real inventors. How has that jerk not been stripped of his UC-Davis associate professorship?
Dear Jim R. Wilson,
Contact openchange. Give them money. That is all.
What are your inventions worth to you?
It's a personal question. For me, they mean everything and I don't work in the industry for this reason.
Regardless, they are asking you to renegotiate the terms of your employment.
You should work out how much invention rights are worth to you. Then sign a new contract for an amount greater than that. If your a half decent negotiator this should be no problem.
That clause applying 6 months after employment termination is in my opinion unreasonable. I wouldn't even consider it unless they were willing to payout 6 months salary upon the completion of your employment contract for the term that you will be unemployable.
Linux Devices has a fairly comprehensive list of just what technologies 'GPL Java' encompasses. The std libraries are GPL with the classpath extension.
That's interesting.
I wonder if Arnold would get the vote if you wrote in something like:
'Conan The Governator'
A few months ago I was shopping for an all-in-one device. I settled on the Nokia 6230i.
It auto syncs my calendar via bluetooth when I walk in the front door of my apartment. It has an expandable memory card that I currently store 512 megs of mp3s on. Other standard features include java, camera, audio recorder, fm radio etc. On the other hand, battery life is pretty shit. I play 1-2 hours of music with it a day, and usually it needs to be recharged every 2nd or 3rd day. It does charge fast though.
I am pretty happy with it. Though if I were buying a mobile device today, I would seriously considering going with the Samsung D600.
I'm shopping around for a bug/issue tracker at the moment as well. There are quite a few. This is a central problem with OSS, it's easier to write a new one than use someone else's.
That is, there are too many problems with configuration management.
In the time I have invested trying to find the right package, I could have written one that would have supported my needs quite adequately.
But if anyone knows of one that is dead easy to setup, eg. uses sqlite or something like that as a backend, please post in this thread...
GNU Screen is a featured packed window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes. You can detach from remote screen sessions and the program will continue to run. You can then re-attach later; an essential feature if you use ssh alot.
From the release announcement:
With the development of the new debian-installer, this release features a new, modular and sophisticated installation routine with integrated hardware detection and unattended installation capabilities.
One problem for newbies solved.
Now if they only come up with a friendly alternative to dselect that lets you mix and match packages from the unstable tree, I might start reccomending debian to newbies. Heck, I might even use it myself.
Do you read alot of Rush Limbaugh? He wrote something similiar in one of his books.
As I understand it the flaw in that argument is that the chlorine spewed from volcanic eruptions is water soluble, and washes harmlessly out of the atmosphere. Man made 'chlorofluorocarbons' do not.
According to this website, temperature differentials resulting from volcanic eruptions injecting gases and particulate into the stratosphere are temporary and last only 1-2 years.
This could make speech recognition a higher bandwidth computer input method. The keyboard is currently king, for the following reasons:
1. Speaking the amount most knowledge workers touch-type would be physically strenuous.
2. It's culturally weird to talk to a machine. Imagine sitting in a cube farm with 100 voices talking to their machines. Too chaotic.
This would seem to solve both problems. It probably has applications for the disabled too.
Although I am a card carrying member of the Human League, I for one welcome our new borg-like future. This technology shall usher in a new era of effective human to machine communication as we dutifully tend to the collective goals and chores of the hive mind.
On the same token though, any reputable person in the field would agree that a hardened version of Microsoft's OS is not any less secure than a hardened version of Linux.
Yes they would. There are heavily stripped versions of the Linux kernel in use. The remaining code has been analysed for vulnerabilities or extensively modified with in-kernel security features. Please show me where you can get a Microsoft kernel with the same features as systrace. There are tons of other useable kernel patches which demonstrate other impressive security features, not available on the windows platform.
Have you reviewed the paper? My guess is not. Before making straw man arguments make sure you have all the facts.
Yes I have read the paper. Try not to make spurious assumptions next time.
These sell outs always surprise me. Your reputation is the most valuable thing you "have". Once that's gone, you are nothing more than some guy who lives in a van down by the river.
If you are going to derive your research from presupposed conclusions it helps to AT LEAST choose a plausible sounding conclusion.
As a genuine security researcher , I don't think anyone knowledgeable in the field believes that Microsoft has a more secure OS than a hardened version of Linux.
Speaking as an academic, it is somewhat disappointing to see this kind of spin besmirch the ivory tower of a university institution.
Does anyone know of a (free) linux vnc client that does resolution scaling?
Using scroll bars to navigate around my remote desktop is a pain. I'd rather it was just shrunken into a smaller window, but you only seem to be able to do this on windows client->linux server, not vice versa.
I am also open to alternative windows server/linux client remote desktop solutions.
I welcome Adobe's efforts to work with the open source community.
That being said, I am still too afraid to use any Adobe products after DmitryGate.
I think it's going to take alot more from Adobe to win the trust and respect of this community, or at least this member.
I should mention that I am also a former Adobe customer.
Once they start throwing P2P users in jail, most of slashdot will be wearing one these things (beep beep- Robert is walking near his computer, probability of crimethink 100%) As long as it runs Linux, y'all should be right. (My explodo-collar has an ssh client)
But seriously folks, violent crime is negatively correlated with education. I'd rather force a criminal to get a PhD (an exaggeration) than release a tagged bull back into the wild to resume it's undomesticated ways.
The entire corrrectional system needs to be rethought. Consider that private corporations are running U.S. prisons. These companies- they derive benefits when lawlessness flourishes. Talk to an economist and he will tell you why this is a big concern.
Ideally you would want your doctor to lose alot of money when you die. Same thing applies here. If those privatised prison companies were paid money to decrease the rate of violent crime measured by local police departments, it would happen.
A few weeks after 9/11 the Canadian government gave the U.S. government full access to all government data on Canadian citizens, with no apparent quid pro quo. Fair enough, I probably would have given the kitchen sink too, but what would have been nice is some agreement outlining eg. more economic integration between Canada and the U.S., a la the very successful NAFTA treaty.
Because now it's harder for me to travel 5 minutes north (yes, that's right, I'm Canadian and the U.S. is to the NORTH of my house) to see my friends in the U.S., over an invisible dotted line drawn by politicians. And no, I'm not talking about Alaska.
The U.S. and Canada are symbiotes both economically and security-wise. More integration is better for everyone. I think a really good idea is Canada becoming a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico.
As David Brin frames it - I've stolen his opinion for this post, the key issues are transparency and egalitarianism.
The fact that we can look is not the problem. The problem with surveillance cameras is when people can look at us, but we can't look back.
Wouldn't it be better if a women going to her car can look at surveillance cameras up the block to make sure she will arrive safely? Or a citizen's watch groups can virtually patrol it's own neighbourhood?
The key problem is when a select few can control and abuse the technology and possibly enforce the law selectively. For example, corrupt cops losing video evidence of them beating someone to death.
I'm not completely sold on the idea, but it's an opinion worth considering.
Transparent Society
I'm a North American, currently living in Australia. The flight seems to take forever when you factor in the inevitable layovers and flights on each continent to the final destination. As a general rule I won't pay for first class service, but I would pay at least twice my usual amount for 'fast' class. Maybe Concode should have tried the LAXSydney route.
Or has python strayed from it's original philosophy of 'one best way to do it'?
I used python in the 1.5 days. The syntax was incredibly clean. Nowadays the language has tremendous idiomatic power, any programming language researcher should be familiar with it.
But that power has brough alot of complexity. At the end of the day, languages are tools and the learning curve to understand (particularly others) python code seems to be increasing.
UH, YES...
Fedora.us was the original home of the Fedora project, which started out as 3rd party packages for Red Hat Linux. I wouldn't them 3rd Party any longer now that RH has publically stated the projects are integrated.
Also, Red Hat uses it. They just call them 'Development, Test, Updates'. Look here.
So actually it is you who is mistaken.