God, sounds like a management problem, or more accurately, a management system failure, more than anything else.
Sort of gives the lie to the idea that good engineers will make good managers. Not often enough that you can always count on it. Although it is good if the managers do understand the technical issues, of course.
Of Couse, this is along the lines of looking in through windows from the buildings from across the street.
If your server is in a oversized closet opening into an inside room, then the odds of someone actually doing something with it from the outside is pretty slim.
Of course, If you have to worry about a hacker from inside the company, then you have other problems as it is.
You're just karma whoring by ridiculizing a simple request for images. Do yo always tend to scrutinize anyone asking a f%*g question ?
Anyone familiar with the magazine will know that they do many pieces without pictures. And yes they also do occasional photo essays. But the written word is their forte.
For example, I doubt that you would want to see the linux kernel published as a picture book. You would need too many crayons.
The basic concept is that this is a magazine that specializes in the written word. Do not complain when the when there is a lack of pictures, because this is not the main audience they cater to.
The ability to read books and magazines without pictures is a rare and valuable commodity these days. Which shouldn't stop anyone from enjoying pretty pictures as well. Just know what you are looking at.
This is a magazine known as intended for people who are used to material that has small print and printed without pictures. It comes from a tradition where the skill of the author had to make do because the technique of photographic illustration had not really made into print yet. The first issue of The Atlantic Monthly appeared in November of 1857, and billed itself as a "journal of literature, politics, science, and the arts." The Atlantic Monthly is where war-reporting in the American press was made into an art, with dispatches from Civil War battlefields by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (!)
In other words a magazine that never presumed it's audience was stupid or uneducated, but had a curiosity about the world, and a certain level of education.
Just how extensive is the MS patent of the DRM OS?
Is this one of those things that many years after the fact, when they get around to marketing their own product, they turn around, and tell everyone else that they are in violation of the MS Patents, and either cease and desist, or give up the family jewels?
Do we face a situation where people are doing all of Microsoft's work for them? Why should we bother?
Maybe SlashDot can get paid to run with a star wars themes for a week or to around the time of the film release. Spread some of that Lucas Marketing money around.
Sort of like what the Register does from time to time. Corporate themed sections.
Can you just hear the midi now?
There has got to be some way to keep it all "tasteful"
[problem is, some folks _would_ see this as cool.]
The Barnes and Noble corporate site doesn't have a press release yet. For that matter, neither does Amazon, although I would expect someone to say something, if for no other reason than they are both publicly traded, and it will be difficult to keep things completely under wraps.
After all, this is something that involves huge amounts of money. and investors/owners will want to know some details.
I can see Disney and others trying to extend their copyrights indefinitely so as to hold onto their franchise.
After all, would you want to see an un authorized Mickey Mouse pr0n flick? (never mind....)
the thought is enough to make Disney spin in his refridgerator.
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You do the maintanence on the code that is not obfuscated, then you obfuscate it when you actually publish it. You just permanently save the clear code (which you wrote in the first place) for doing your mods, while only compiling and releasing the obfuscated mess. You don't ever even need to look at the obfuscated code - you only use it for compiling and public release.
I recall a friend of mine who worked on a project that was designed obfuscated in the first place. Var names like vEh45c01, etc.
all proprietary, all aobscure, god forbid if the guy who designed it were to have an accident.
That said, would keeping the clear code represent a legal obligation? Since after all, the clear code is really the source, not the obfuscated stuff that you compile from.
It is evident from the information that we have already, that all biological forms of life are descended from one form back in the dawn of time.
If we ever get off the rock, it will be interesting to see if the forms of life out there all use the same coding in dna, etc. or are using other forms.
In a similar vien, all, if not most of the computer languages out their are based in some way on English, etc. I wonder which progamming would look like if it was all based on japanese or chinese. how much would be similar, and how much would be profoundly different? It is not all mathematics, after all.
The Art of writing and education is difficult in its own right, and not everyone knows how to put things together. Often you have to correctly analyse what concepts are fundamental to the understanding of more complex concept.
As an example, I can recall a man who came into the store where I was working, and who asked me how much "virtual memory" cost.
Besides trying not to laugh there was the problem mentioned above.
The fundamental concepts missing were the concepts of "memory" and "virtual", along with a larger mental model to enable the average person to organise the concepts into something useful when dealing with computers. [The usual mental model I use for beginners is one of a computer = your information factory. Hard drives = warehouse, etc.]
It is possible to arrange things inthe manner of "GradusadParnassum" (graded steps)
Without proper technique in this area, It is very easy to make a bloody mess of it. It is a skill in its own right, separate from knowledge of the area to be taught in the first place.
Or consider the case of two border guards on a shared Island in the Bering Straights. One half the Island Is US, One half the Island Russian. While standing at the border chatting, one guard reaches across the border into the pocket of another to pick the pocket. You pick the which side does the picking.
Case Two: Same Scenario: Border Guards are both civilian
Case three. Russian Civilian border guard, shows the Ameriocan civilian border guard displays a poster filled with vile russian pr0n, which upsets the American.
Case Four: A russian civilian displays a poster across the border with information potentially illegal in the US. If it was easily readable, that would be one thing. If it was only so readable when you got ahold of a set of decent binoculars, etc that is another. (The american would have to make the effort to access the information)
the Judge will be very amused by the argument, compliment them on how clever it is, that then say something like that
even if the Internet is physically removed from the US, or is not attached to the US, etc. the people and companies doing things on the Internet do have physical real world assetts such as buildings, bodies, etc.
In other words, since you need meat space assets to do things on the Internet, then the law can grab the meat space assets. This is law being applied to an alternate dimension, the Internet dimension, if you will, which has it's own analogies to the Physical world, but which does not always connect to it.
Given that the points which are relevant are where this touches the physical world, such as computers. If I was a pick pocket who could reach from Britian to France to pick a Pocket, where does the crime take place? On Planet earth, obviously, but it could be argued that it takes place in France, not Britain. Since the events started in a meat space location, and ended in another meat space location, with meat space consequences, the intermediate media might not be relevant. On the other had, if you could have something that never originated in meat space, and never connected to meat sdpace, then the argument might have merit.
hmmm, this argument may not have the results that the Russians want.
Question is, why is it he makes these stupid remarks to an Australian audience? Wait, the Australian government is a little crazy on the subject of technology to begin with.
I guess, he tries it there, to see how it goes, then if he isn't shot down too badly, he can try it in the USA.
Must be part of the "a little fascism is good for the soul" crowd
I have seen a number of sites based entirely on flash. Some were pretty cool for what they did.
One thing I did not like was that some of the ones I liked were entirely unlinkable. I could not even bookmark a page for my own referance. Great for designers wanting to keep absolute control over their content.
Bottom line, I never went back.
never mind that I wonder how a search engine will index a flash site. Heck, they usually do static pages only. Even java script calls to offsite get bypassed, nevet mind Flash.
So you have a great page that can only be ignored by search engines. Not that this is the way most sites get known, but it is a real issue.
Get Microst C# today. Be on the cutting edge of Microsoft Virus spreading technology.
More successful virus writers use Microsoft compared to any other operating system. You too can be a successful virus writer. Get in on the cutting edge made by a company that knows how to mess with people.
[/sarcasm]
etc.
I just call all of these these Microsoft viruses. Makes life much easier.
The US Constitution and Bill of Rights must must must trump ALL other laws and regulations - for US citizens. YOUR country's constitution should be the sole definer or YOUR rights too. You in country X should not be held to the laws of Afghanistan.
Well this gets into the issues of "it is alright to beat my wife" if for example when the tailban were in power.
The simplest solution is that the laws of a country are valid for that country, and you are subject to their laws while you are there.
The flip side of this is the lunacy of an american getting prosecuted in Tennesee for an adult website in San Fransico (actual case)
but applied to the international level.
If your plot is going to be twisted, every now and again you need to explain it to Watson. I really don't see a good solution...
You have to have a good way to connect the dots so that things fall into place. Or else you wind up with two-parters. This has sometimes been done well with many of the visuals.
All too often writers, people in debates, etc make a logical leap, and what has happened is that we do not see the step by step connecting of the mental dots that make it all gel. You have to slow that process way down so that you can judge the relevancy of the information as each peice drops into place.
Sort of like a jig saw puzzle where many, but not all of the pieces are in fact the same shape.
I wonder what the legal recourse is no something like this. There are a number of cases where someone won by default, such as the coed vs the wild party girls tape folks. Since it is not a criminal case, as such, what are the legal options.
We have also seen how perfect encryption is fundamentally impossible, although being good enough for government work may get by.
Somehow, the connection between this and the SSSCA could mean that Microsoft could be the only legal OS in the US. Purely coincidental of course.
I think this should be investigated, just in case my paranoia has a legitimate case to make. Microsoft has a habit of too many convenient coincidences.
Maybe they'll all go to jail because they will not be able to obey the law and provide an impossible result. I'm not holding my breath.
I can imagine a phone company saying "If you want busines grade service, you need to pay for it"
Maybe as a perk of telecommuting, the company could pay for a business line, or negotiate a special deal if it has a bunch of folks telecommuitng. Then the support would really be there, at least I would hope so. (heh... right)
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Sort of gives the lie to the idea that good engineers will make good managers. Not often enough that you can always count on it. Although it is good if the managers do understand the technical issues, of course.
Now they have to go debug the management system.
ouch.
If your server is in a oversized closet opening into an inside room, then the odds of someone actually doing something with it from the outside is pretty slim.
Of course, If you have to worry about a hacker from inside the company, then you have other problems as it is.
Anyone familiar with the magazine will know that they do many pieces without pictures. And yes they also do occasional photo essays. But the written word is their forte.
Obviously, to answer your critique this should have appeared in National Geographic This is a matter of Taste.
The written word is preffered for many things.
For example, I doubt that you would want to see the linux kernel published as a picture book. You would need too many crayons.
The basic concept is that this is a magazine that specializes in the written word. Do not complain when the when there is a lack of pictures, because this is not the main audience they cater to.
The ability to read books and magazines without pictures is a rare and valuable commodity these days. Which shouldn't stop anyone from enjoying pretty pictures as well. Just know what you are looking at.
In other words a magazine that never presumed it's audience was stupid or uneducated, but had a curiosity about the world, and a certain level of education.
Is this one of those things that many years after the fact, when they get around to marketing their own product, they turn around, and tell everyone else that they are in violation of the MS Patents, and either cease and desist, or give up the family jewels?
Do we face a situation where people are doing all of Microsoft's work for them? Why should we bother?
Talk about stifling innovation!
Sort of like what the Register does from time to time. Corporate themed sections.
Can you just hear the midi now?
There has got to be some way to keep it all "tasteful"
[problem is, some folks _would_ see this as cool.]
After all, this is something that involves huge amounts of money. and investors/owners will want to know some details.
After all, would you want to see an un authorized Mickey Mouse pr0n flick? (never mind ....)
the thought is enough to make Disney spin in his refridgerator.
I recall a friend of mine who worked on a project that was designed obfuscated in the first place. Var names like vEh45c01, etc.
all proprietary, all aobscure, god forbid if the guy who designed it were to have an accident.
That said, would keeping the clear code represent a legal obligation? Since after all, the clear code is really the source, not the obfuscated stuff that you compile from.
If we ever get off the rock, it will be interesting to see if the forms of life out there all use the same coding in dna, etc. or are using other forms.
In a similar vien, all, if not most of the computer languages out their are based in some way on English, etc. I wonder which progamming would look like if it was all based on japanese or chinese. how much would be similar, and how much would be profoundly different? It is not all mathematics, after all.
The documentation just to track down the actual use of the variables, etc etc etc will be insanely complex.
Never mind the poor sod who has to go through it after and figure out what it does.
They have saved money on development issues, and transferred them out to Tech support isssues, thereby multiplying the costs.
Of course, to gain all of the legal benefits, they would probably have to erase all of the connections to the source as it was.
As an example, I can recall a man who came into the store where I was working, and who asked me how much "virtual memory" cost.
Besides trying not to laugh there was the problem mentioned above.
The fundamental concepts missing were the concepts of "memory" and "virtual", along with a larger mental model to enable the average person to organise the concepts into something useful when dealing with computers. [The usual mental model I use for beginners is one of a computer = your information factory. Hard drives = warehouse, etc.]
It is possible to arrange things inthe manner of " Gradus ad Parnassum " (graded steps)
Without proper technique in this area, It is very easy to make a bloody mess of it. It is a skill in its own right, separate from knowledge of the area to be taught in the first place.
Case Two: Same Scenario: Border Guards are both civilian
Case three. Russian Civilian border guard, shows the Ameriocan civilian border guard displays a poster filled with vile russian pr0n, which upsets the American.
Case Four: A russian civilian displays a poster across the border with information potentially illegal in the US. If it was easily readable, that would be one thing. If it was only so readable when you got ahold of a set of decent binoculars, etc that is another. (The american would have to make the effort to access the information)
Given that the points which are relevant are where this touches the physical world, such as computers. If I was a pick pocket who could reach from Britian to France to pick a Pocket, where does the crime take place? On Planet earth, obviously, but it could be argued that it takes place in France, not Britain. Since the events started in a meat space location, and ended in another meat space location, with meat space consequences, the intermediate media might not be relevant. On the other had, if you could have something that never originated in meat space, and never connected to meat sdpace, then the argument might have merit.
hmmm, this argument may not have the results that the Russians want.
Question is, why is it he makes these stupid remarks to an Australian audience? Wait, the Australian government is a little crazy on the subject of technology to begin with.
I guess, he tries it there, to see how it goes, then if he isn't shot down too badly, he can try it in the USA.
Must be part of the "a little fascism is good for the soul" crowd
One thing I did not like was that some of the ones I liked were entirely unlinkable. I could not even bookmark a page for my own referance. Great for designers wanting to keep absolute control over their content.
Bottom line, I never went back.
never mind that I wonder how a search engine will index a flash site. Heck, they usually do static pages only. Even java script calls to offsite get bypassed, nevet mind Flash.
So you have a great page that can only be ignored by search engines. Not that this is the way most sites get known, but it is a real issue.
this is going to put a big crunch into the always on crowd.
What are the current vibes on this?
More successful virus writers use Microsoft compared to any other operating system. You too can be a successful virus writer. Get in on the cutting edge made by a company that knows how to mess with people.
[/sarcasm]
etc.
I just call all of these these Microsoft viruses. Makes life much easier.
Well this gets into the issues of "it is alright to beat my wife" if for example when the tailban were in power.
The simplest solution is that the laws of a country are valid for that country, and you are subject to their laws while you are there.
The flip side of this is the lunacy of an american getting prosecuted in Tennesee for an adult website in San Fransico (actual case) but applied to the international level.
You have to have a good way to connect the dots so that things fall into place. Or else you wind up with two-parters. This has sometimes been done well with many of the visuals.
All too often writers, people in debates, etc make a logical leap, and what has happened is that we do not see the step by step connecting of the mental dots that make it all gel. You have to slow that process way down so that you can judge the relevancy of the information as each peice drops into place.
Sort of like a jig saw puzzle where many, but not all of the pieces are in fact the same shape.
God bless, what will happen next?
Understand, this is a novel thought for some USians
Obviously, IANAL
Sounds like these are being discovered just about in time.
;-)
Unless, of course, some of them are occupied. But what are the odds?
We have also seen how perfect encryption is fundamentally impossible, although being good enough for government work may get by.
Somehow, the connection between this and the SSSCA could mean that Microsoft could be the only legal OS in the US. Purely coincidental of course.
I think this should be investigated, just in case my paranoia has a legitimate case to make. Microsoft has a habit of too many convenient coincidences.
Maybe they'll all go to jail because they will not be able to obey the law and provide an impossible result. I'm not holding my breath.
Maybe as a perk of telecommuting, the company could pay for a business line, or negotiate a special deal if it has a bunch of folks telecommuitng. Then the support would really be there, at least I would hope so. (heh ... right)
Home businesses would be in a different class.