Last time I checked,/. had over half a million subscribers.
If they had over a half a million subscribers, I think CT would have had a much nicer honeymoon. They have over a half a million user accounts, most likely a much smaller amount which are active, and a much smaller amount still which actually pay to use/.'s service.
I wouldn't mind knowing how many actual subscribers they have, though.
What was the last successful boycott of a company the size of Walmart?
I agree with your sentiment - I'd love to see FatWallet pursue their claim. But I hate the slashherd mentality always rushing to boycott something. Choose another route to protest because boycotts simply do not work anymore.
That's particularly a bummer when you DO get VRSA and decide to try to treat your infection with triclosan and find out, hmm, it's resistant to that TOO.
If your doctor is treating your VRSA with triclosan, I highly suggest you switch doctors.
Nobody is going to treat something resistant to vancomycin with an over-the-counter antibiotic. "We're only admitting you to the hospital to soak the insurance companies. You could really just fix this at home by washing with SoftSoap."
Of course, if you're just trolling, then congratulations. I guess you just popped a woody.
Siphoning gas from your neighbours tank is dead simple. But people don't do it. Why? It's stealing.
No offense, but bad analogy. The reason people don't siphon gas out of my tank is because if I catch you, I will beat the living fuck out of you. I have yet to see the MPAA/RIAA kick somebody's ass for "pirating".
No one can dupe 1.5 million dollars out of thin air in the real world.
Enron and WorldCom pulled a hell of a lot more than that out of thin air. And I'm sure the wealthy that hire really good accountants do the same thing.
Of course, if you already own the stock or have stock options, you love it when people drive the price up irrationally.
Actually, you only love it if you can sell it while it's high. Paper money can't buy shit. If you hold it until the bubble bursts (as it always does with irrationality) you'll probably be pretty pissed that you didn't sell it while you could. Somebody is always lefting holding the bag when it bursts.
I'll tell you some of the things I've learned the hard way. I'm 27, been lifting only seriously since 1/1/00 (yeah - new years resolution because I got tired of not getting anywhere).
The first thing I learned was lifting alone will not burn enough fat. I did not reach my fat goal until I started rowing for 30 minutes 4 times a week.
Diet is really important. I went through a divorce and ended up doing things like eating one bowl of cereal in 3 days. I kept lifting and lost body mass. Everybody says diet is important but seeing my body change once I got my diet squared away again really helped me understand how important it was.
Lastly, and most important, YMMV. It seems like everybody has a different way to train. I like talking to people and switching up my lifting because that seems to really work for me, but everybody's got a different way of doing it. What I think is key (especially for people just starting out - not so much you) is developing a routine that you're comfortable with. It's much more important to have something you'll stick with. A less demanding program that you stick with for 4 months will do tons more good than a very demanding routine that you can only sustain for 4 weeks.
Disclaimer: I love working out and do it religiously but I only can spare about 45 minutes a day. It sounds like you spend more time at it than I do.
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4. Missing feedback - The system is unbelievably complex. For example, how does one simulate the response of the earth's biology to climate change, or even to CO2 concentration change? How much does this affect the resulting climate (hint - potentially a whole lot)> There are lots of other complex subsystems that also cannot be modeled.
As soon as I finish A New Kind of Science, I'll be able to model all that and more for you!
This is quite simply the most idiotic thing that I have ever heard. To suggest that turning off a server is an acceptable way to test your disaster recovery plans is the most irresponsible way to run a ship that I have ever heard of. ... You simply tell everyone that the server is down, and then ask "What do we do now?"
Well, it didn't look like anybody else bit, so I will. Anything less than what sphealey does would not constitute a test, IMO. Sitting around talking about what to do is pointless unless you're actually going to go through with it. That's just like hiring a paper MCSE who has no experience. Without actually shutting down a server and making people do the restores, you have no idea whether it will work and whether your people can actually handle it. Pressure helps too because people fluster and f*ck up under pressure. The more you bleed in training the less you bleed in combat.
I helped my boss set up the disaster recovery plan and we made a representative from every department burn a Friday night driving into our Sungard site to make sure all their stuff worked. If I was interviewing someone who told me they test stuff the way you suggest, that person would not get hired.
Fiction is otherwise, but it's still a shared common experience. We all know Luke lost his hand in episode 5. We all know Han was encased in carbonite. We all know Yoda dies in episode 6. These are as much facts for us as the 1986 world series or the Apollo moon landing or 9/11/2001 or Tiennanmen Square.
I can see your point about a shared common experience, but I think you're crossing the line between fact and fiction. People died at Tiennanmen Square. That's completely different than Mr. Lucas rewriting his own story. You can't erase the deaths of so many people. You can't just sweep their lives away as if they never existed. But if Mr. Lucas wants to change his story so be it. He is, as many have pointed out here on/., a storyteller. Many stories get refined as they're told. Chris Rock gets to refine his jokes. I hear bootleg live versions of some of his routines and I can see why those versions didn't make it onto the album because they don't flow as well or the timing wasn't as good. Those were public performances and part of someone's shared experience. If Mr. Lucas wants to refine his work, so be it.
As anthropomorphizing puts human characteristics on to non-human objects, you're putting the characteristics of facts onto fiction. You're talking about something one guy pulled out of his head. It's not like the '86 World Series was something that one guy dreamed up one day and put out there. Unless of course, you're a solipsist, and then there would be no difference between fact and fiction.:)
Even through Colorado and Utah, everything was flat.
Actually, if you RTFA (I know, it's/., yada yada) he mentions something about that.
On his first try, he drove a Porsche and "didn't do enough research," he says. "I drove the Interstates with a 35-mm wide-angle lens. Interstates bypass small-town America, and when I-70 goes through the Rocky Mountains, you just get close-up rock faces. Besides, the car was so low-slung I got a lot of guardrails."
So then he went and did it again with a Ford Explorer. Gotta admit - I have to give the dude credit for doing that twice.
Barring the conspiracy theories about the US assassinating it's own citizens, if you're close enough to implant this chip in somebody - wouldn't you just kill him/her then?
I can't see Osama rushing off to get one of these.
I think a better analogy is people who buy cars based on horsepower. Yes, horsepower is a reflection of how much power it has, but torque is better - and horsepower won't tell you how fast your car is (weight is just as important). But many people just say "Yeah, well I've got 170 HP and you've only got 150 HP".
but in this case, if somebody wants to leave their box open - through ignorance, laziness, or some other ineffable reason - that is their choice
Leaving your box open harms me if it's used to attack me. This sounds like the smoker's argument that they should be able to smoke wherever they want. Of course, society is increasingly disagreeing with that argument.
Of course the other point I think that needs to be made, is that I believe the majority of those people don't WANT their boxen to be open. That's why they call it exploited. I don't think it's their choice. I don't believe negligence, by definition, is a choice. Personally, I would chalk lack of patching up to lack of foresight (it's a little gentler than stupid).
Government Intervention....What would really get interesting is if the Feds pass some sort of laws, either making people responsible for keeping their systems secure, or defining what kind of liability software manufacturers are exposed to in these circumstances
With no legislation being passed after the massive DDoS attacks last year on EBay, et al - I seriously doubt anything is going to passed now. I thought that situation was the best chance for legislation. Since many of those companies don't make any money unless people can get to their site, I expected them to lobby heavily for some stiff penalties. When big companies stand to lose big money, you usually see laws passed. So if it didn't happen then, I seriously doubt it will happen now.
As a marketing major who switched over to computers, one of the things I miss is that lack of quantification. It takes very little time now to figure out I screwed up. In marketing, it seemed like a "less than effective" marketing campaign could always be blamed on other things like salespeople or a downturn in the economy.
I wish I could blame my latest coding mistake on Bush's tax cut!
IANAL, but IIRC from my (US) criminal law classes, it was lawful to take back property that was stolen but you couldn't violate any other laws to do so.
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Last time I checked, /. had over half a million subscribers.
/.'s service.
If they had over a half a million subscribers, I think CT would have had a much nicer honeymoon.
They have over a half a million user accounts, most likely a much smaller amount which are active, and a much smaller amount still which actually pay to use
I wouldn't mind knowing how many actual subscribers they have, though.
Haha. 7 months after my (now ex) wife moved out she had a baby (not mine). Haha!
:)
Of course, this is one of those things where it's a lot funnier now.
How do you spell B O Y C O T T ?
I spell it W-A-S-T-E O-F T-I-M-E.
What was the last successful boycott of a company the size of Walmart?
I agree with your sentiment - I'd love to see FatWallet pursue their claim. But I hate the slashherd mentality always rushing to boycott something. Choose another route to protest because boycotts simply do not work anymore.
That's particularly a bummer when you DO get VRSA and decide to try to treat your infection with triclosan and find out, hmm, it's resistant to that TOO.
If your doctor is treating your VRSA with triclosan, I highly suggest you switch doctors.
Nobody is going to treat something resistant to vancomycin with an over-the-counter antibiotic. "We're only admitting you to the hospital to soak the insurance companies. You could really just fix this at home by washing with SoftSoap."
Of course, if you're just trolling, then congratulations. I guess you just popped a woody.
Siphoning gas from your neighbours tank is dead simple. But people don't do it. Why? It's stealing.
No offense, but bad analogy. The reason people don't siphon gas out of my tank is because if I catch you, I will beat the living fuck out of you. I have yet to see the MPAA/RIAA kick somebody's ass for "pirating".
No one can dupe 1.5 million dollars out of thin air in the real world.
Enron and WorldCom pulled a hell of a lot more than that out of thin air. And I'm sure the wealthy that hire really good accountants do the same thing.
If you'd only patented it,
But, Doc-Witness should not be able to patent it because there's prior art.
Ok, ok... we all know they'll get a patent for it anyway, but it should, in theory, be defeatable with prior art.
Of course, if you already own the stock or have stock options, you love it when people drive the price up irrationally.
Actually, you only love it if you can sell it while it's high. Paper money can't buy shit. If you hold it until the bubble bursts (as it always does with irrationality) you'll probably be pretty pissed that you didn't sell it while you could. Somebody is always lefting holding the bag when it bursts.
The situation may be new, but the people are the same (except that we run the economy now. BWAHAHAHAA).
And you certainly have done a fine job recently.
I'll tell you some of the things I've learned the hard way. I'm 27, been lifting only seriously since 1/1/00 (yeah - new years resolution because I got tired of not getting anywhere).
The first thing I learned was lifting alone will not burn enough fat. I did not reach my fat goal until I started rowing for 30 minutes 4 times a week.
Diet is really important. I went through a divorce and ended up doing things like eating one bowl of cereal in 3 days. I kept lifting and lost body mass. Everybody says diet is important but seeing my body change once I got my diet squared away again really helped me understand how important it was.
Lastly, and most important, YMMV. It seems like everybody has a different way to train. I like talking to people and switching up my lifting because that seems to really work for me, but everybody's got a different way of doing it. What I think is key (especially for people just starting out - not so much you) is developing a routine that you're comfortable with. It's much more important to have something you'll stick with. A less demanding program that you stick with for 4 months will do tons more good than a very demanding routine that you can only sustain for 4 weeks.
Disclaimer: I love working out and do it religiously but I only can spare about 45 minutes a day. It sounds like you spend more time at it than I do.
4. Missing feedback - The system is unbelievably complex. For example, how does one simulate the response of the earth's biology to climate change, or even to CO2 concentration change? How much does this affect the resulting climate (hint - potentially a whole lot)> There are lots of other complex subsystems that also cannot be modeled.
As soon as I finish A New Kind of Science, I'll be able to model all that and more for you!
This is quite simply the most idiotic thing that I have ever heard. To suggest that turning off a server is an acceptable way to test your disaster recovery plans is the most irresponsible way to run a ship that I have ever heard of.
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You simply tell everyone that the server is down, and then ask "What do we do now?"
Well, it didn't look like anybody else bit, so I will. Anything less than what sphealey does would not constitute a test, IMO. Sitting around talking about what to do is pointless unless you're actually going to go through with it. That's just like hiring a paper MCSE who has no experience. Without actually shutting down a server and making people do the restores, you have no idea whether it will work and whether your people can actually handle it. Pressure helps too because people fluster and f*ck up under pressure. The more you bleed in training the less you bleed in combat.
I helped my boss set up the disaster recovery plan and we made a representative from every department burn a Friday night driving into our Sungard site to make sure all their stuff worked. If I was interviewing someone who told me they test stuff the way you suggest, that person would not get hired.
Fiction is otherwise, but it's still a shared common experience. We all know Luke lost his hand in episode 5. We all know Han was encased in carbonite. We all know Yoda dies in episode 6. These are as much facts for us as the 1986 world series or the Apollo moon landing or 9/11/2001 or Tiennanmen Square.
/., a storyteller. Many stories get refined as they're told. Chris Rock gets to refine his jokes. I hear bootleg live versions of some of his routines and I can see why those versions didn't make it onto the album because they don't flow as well or the timing wasn't as good. Those were public performances and part of someone's shared experience. If Mr. Lucas wants to refine his work, so be it.
:)
I can see your point about a shared common experience, but I think you're crossing the line between fact and fiction. People died at Tiennanmen Square. That's completely different than Mr. Lucas rewriting his own story. You can't erase the deaths of so many people. You can't just sweep their lives away as if they never existed. But if Mr. Lucas wants to change his story so be it. He is, as many have pointed out here on
As anthropomorphizing puts human characteristics on to non-human objects, you're putting the characteristics of facts onto fiction. You're talking about something one guy pulled out of his head. It's not like the '86 World Series was something that one guy dreamed up one day and put out there. Unless of course, you're a solipsist, and then there would be no difference between fact and fiction.
When a solicitor comes to the door and rings the doorbell, program it to scream, "What the fuck do you want?"
Let me know when you figure out how to differentiate a salesperson. I don't think my mom would appreciate that very much when she comes over.
Actually, if you RTFA (I know, it's
On his first try, he drove a Porsche and "didn't do enough research," he says. "I drove the Interstates with a 35-mm wide-angle lens. Interstates bypass small-town America, and when I-70 goes through the Rocky Mountains, you just get close-up rock faces. Besides, the car was so low-slung I got a lot of guardrails."
So then he went and did it again with a Ford Explorer. Gotta admit - I have to give the dude credit for doing that twice.
I can't see Osama rushing off to get one of these.
Don't they have to have your address to let you vote? How else do they insure you're allowed to vote in that election?
Man, I should have voted in FL as well as here in DE. Me and a bunch of friends could have solved that whole mess ourselves. :)
Sorry it took so long to reply, I was finishing off a fifth of Jack. :)
Leaving your box open harms me if it's used to attack me. This sounds like the smoker's argument that they should be able to smoke wherever they want. Of course, society is increasingly disagreeing with that argument.
Of course the other point I think that needs to be made, is that I believe the majority of those people don't WANT their boxen to be open. That's why they call it exploited. I don't think it's their choice. I don't believe negligence, by definition, is a choice. Personally, I would chalk lack of patching up to lack of foresight (it's a little gentler than stupid).
With no legislation being passed after the massive DDoS attacks last year on EBay, et al - I seriously doubt anything is going to passed now. I thought that situation was the best chance for legislation. Since many of those companies don't make any money unless people can get to their site, I expected them to lobby heavily for some stiff penalties. When big companies stand to lose big money, you usually see laws passed. So if it didn't happen then, I seriously doubt it will happen now.
As a marketing major who switched over to computers, one of the things I miss is that lack of quantification. It takes very little time now to figure out I screwed up. In marketing, it seemed like a "less than effective" marketing campaign could always be blamed on other things like salespeople or a downturn in the economy.
I wish I could blame my latest coding mistake on Bush's tax cut!
Does anybody know whether or not we would be able to get that same information under the Freedom of Information Act or some Congressional reporting?
--Dave