Yup, and what's worse is that those people aren't even generally the people at the top.
My current situation is nice in that I respect the people above me. Working at a contractor before this, I interracted with a number of companies, and found that that was not even generally the case.
Ok, so, digging through webster we see that the ground is the surface of the Earth.
Now, we see "surface" 1 : the exterior or upper boundary of an object or body 2 : a plane or curved two-dimensional locus of points (as the boundary of a three-dimensional region) 3 a : the external or superficial aspect of something b : an external part or layer
Ok, so, now that we have surface, we can accept definition 1, that it's a boundary, in which case, you are correct.
If we accept definition 3, however, I am correct, because the mass of that layer is contributing to the Earth's gravitational pull.
Conspiracy theorists are convinced that the reason that NASA is holding back data on Deep Impact isn't because they haven't analyzed it yet (science is, of course, a fast process, which is why most PhD's finish grad school in weeks), but because they accidentally killed some aliens on the surface of Tempel 1.
They're also convinced that this is tied into the occult.
So, there you have it. Waiting for full analysis is for good scientists. If you want to be a proper crackpot, you just make up what happened.
More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized."
Oh no, my two sources of zealotry are colliding. Eeek! It can't be evil if Apple does it, right... but DRM is always evil, right?/. I need you! Tell me what to think!
The scenario we're discussing is not that sort of scenario.
You won't give an advice to your friends? You won't share what you know?
Advising someone not to purchase something, and boycotting something, are two different things. I don't recommend sleeping pills for long study sessions either.
Or not, with a good combination of knowledge and luck. Or the Adversary kills itself by jailing enough smart people to cripple its own R&D and manufacturing. You also should always have a plan B, eg. using the jail time to learn some higher math, and practice playing chess.
They could plunge us into a dark age and continue operating with no problems.
From the impression I had of Google, there not looking for an Ivy League degree, just raw smarts.
Well... Google has visited Cornell at least once, to take job applications, since I've been there.
If you log in from the CS department computers (or, at least the ones in the Masters of Engineering Lab), you get a link that says "Graduating? Come work for us!"
So, actually, they're at least looking for Ivy Leaguers from my school. That said, they also had a booth at AAAI. They're, essentially, looking for the best people, wherever they can find them, from what I can tell.
There are times in history when extreme solutions gain on attractivity.
Down, boy.
Isn't not buying their product a sort of a boycott?
Not if I don't go around telling everyone else not to buy their product.
First, you have to *know* about it. Second, what can ensure that the "safe brands" won't get a driver update in couple months...
The EFF is finding out which printers are naughty and which are nice. Don't download the patch that puts nasty pictures of your mother up on the Internet. It's pretty simple really.
Other possibility: freedom may also be a privilege of the smart. Few people will mess with $10,000 printer in an attempt to disable the watermarking chip, but put it to a $100 one and geeks with soldering iron start swarming. Remember that a PIC16F873 costs under $2.
Today we are chipping Playstations. Tomorrow we'll chip printers.
The next day, we'll be sitting in a federal penitentiary for having crazy ideas about "anonymity" and "not submitting to strip searches on the way to work.' Nah, for all of my optimism, society is going down the tubes. Fortunately, I've turned this all into a game "How quickly can we Plunge into a New Dark Age."
you could get protection if you come out and reveal your employer is a racist who told you he refuses to comply with the law and hire blacks, or fired women who got pregnant rather than give them the benifits the law requires.
Yeah... your definition of whistleblower protection is a little bit too narrow mmmmmkay?
Whistleblower protection covers any number of criminal acts. Fortunately for most companies, having giant gaping security holes isn't illegal. However, whistleblower protection would also apply, for instance, in the case that you were working for an agency that was burying nuclear waste in a playground rather than a proper disposal channel.
Certain computing systems absolutely must operate reliably. Unfortunately, modern engineering does not offer a solution to the problem due to a number of constraints.
Essentially, teams setting out to write flawless systems will be practically incapable of doing so in reasonably complex instances.
Because of this, we use redundancy. It is of note, however, that people have been killed by buggy software, and that this is something that we can control with proper practices (by which I don't mean any of the more asinine things that the industry has come up with).
Instances of software both behaving well, and killing people because of malfunctions, can be found in domains such as health care and the military.
No, instead, we just shouldn't buy their products. It's pretty simple. If you don't BUY products designed to take away your freedom, then you keep your freedom.
Unfortunately, moving the herd of sheep to the safe brand is impossible, making it impossibly expensive, but, I guess that freedom is a privilege of the wealthy.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to Slashdot, where Online apparently necessitate being Online at all.
Apparently you're some sort of lesser techie.
Yup, and what's worse is that those people aren't even generally the people at the top.
My current situation is nice in that I respect the people above me. Working at a contractor before this, I interracted with a number of companies, and found that that was not even generally the case.
Just imagine how funny it would be to see a bunch of post office employees playing paintball in uniform!
Dude, we totally SlashDOS'd DEFCON!
/. You got pwnd!
We are soooooo 1337! ph34r
MF COBOL
There's no reason to be profane.
Ok, so, digging through webster we see that the ground is the surface of the Earth.
Now, we see "surface"
1 : the exterior or upper boundary of an object or body
2 : a plane or curved two-dimensional locus of points (as the boundary of a three-dimensional region)
3 a : the external or superficial aspect of something b : an external part or layer
Ok, so, now that we have surface, we can accept definition 1, that it's a boundary, in which case, you are correct.
If we accept definition 3, however, I am correct, because the mass of that layer is contributing to the Earth's gravitational pull.
The ground is contributing to the mass of the planet, thereby increasing the earth's gravitational pull, correct?
IE, if I annihilated half of the Earth, the Earth would have half as much gravity. This means that the ground plays a role in this process.
Things don't want to fall to the ground; the ground is merely in the way.
Please go back to physics class. The ground is definately not merely "in the way" of the motion of the object falling into it.
Yes.
Conspiracy theorists are convinced that the reason that NASA is holding back data on Deep Impact isn't because they haven't analyzed it yet (science is, of course, a fast process, which is why most PhD's finish grad school in weeks), but because they accidentally killed some aliens on the surface of Tempel 1.
They're also convinced that this is tied into the occult.
So, there you have it. Waiting for full analysis is for good scientists. If you want to be a proper crackpot, you just make up what happened.
More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized."
/. I need you! Tell me what to think!
Oh no, my two sources of zealotry are colliding. Eeek! It can't be evil if Apple does it, right... but DRM is always evil, right?
Down, boy.
:-D
The scenario we're discussing is not that sort of scenario.
You won't give an advice to your friends? You won't share what you know?
Advising someone not to purchase something, and boycotting something, are two different things. I don't recommend sleeping pills for long study sessions either.
Or not, with a good combination of knowledge and luck. Or the Adversary kills itself by jailing enough smart people to cripple its own R&D and manufacturing. You also should always have a plan B, eg. using the jail time to learn some higher math, and practice playing chess.
They could plunge us into a dark age and continue operating with no problems.
We can always try to fight and slow things down.
Who says I'm not
From the impression I had of Google, there not looking for an Ivy League degree, just raw smarts.
Well... Google has visited Cornell at least once, to take job applications, since I've been there.
If you log in from the CS department computers (or, at least the ones in the Masters of Engineering Lab), you get a link that says "Graduating? Come work for us!"
So, actually, they're at least looking for Ivy Leaguers from my school. That said, they also had a booth at AAAI. They're, essentially, looking for the best people, wherever they can find them, from what I can tell.
There are times in history when extreme solutions gain on attractivity.
Down, boy.
Isn't not buying their product a sort of a boycott?
Not if I don't go around telling everyone else not to buy their product.
First, you have to *know* about it. Second, what can ensure that the "safe brands" won't get a driver update in couple months...
The EFF is finding out which printers are naughty and which are nice. Don't download the patch that puts nasty pictures of your mother up on the Internet. It's pretty simple really.
Other possibility: freedom may also be a privilege of the smart. Few people will mess with $10,000 printer in an attempt to disable the watermarking chip, but put it to a $100 one and geeks with soldering iron start swarming. Remember that a PIC16F873 costs under $2.
Today we are chipping Playstations. Tomorrow we'll chip printers.
The next day, we'll be sitting in a federal penitentiary for having crazy ideas about "anonymity" and "not submitting to strip searches on the way to work.' Nah, for all of my optimism, society is going down the tubes. Fortunately, I've turned this all into a game "How quickly can we Plunge into a New Dark Age."
you could get protection if you come out and reveal your employer is a racist who told you he refuses to comply with the law and hire blacks, or fired women who got pregnant rather than give them the benifits the law requires.
Yeah... your definition of whistleblower protection is a little bit too narrow mmmmmkay?
Whistleblower protection covers any number of criminal acts. Fortunately for most companies, having giant gaping security holes isn't illegal. However, whistleblower protection would also apply, for instance, in the case that you were working for an agency that was burying nuclear waste in a playground rather than a proper disposal channel.
What about images that are composed of unusually large pixels?
Not true.
Certain computing systems absolutely must operate reliably. Unfortunately, modern engineering does not offer a solution to the problem due to a number of constraints.
Essentially, teams setting out to write flawless systems will be practically incapable of doing so in reasonably complex instances.
Because of this, we use redundancy. It is of note, however, that people have been killed by buggy software, and that this is something that we can control with proper practices (by which I don't mean any of the more asinine things that the industry has come up with).
Instances of software both behaving well, and killing people because of malfunctions, can be found in domains such as health care and the military.
Duh, if nobody wants your product, you probably can't afford to host it anywhere reputable.
If you could, people would just not go there anyway.
Nobody says, "Hey, lets all go to BonziBuddy.com!"
Shot is extreme.
Boycotted is too.
No, instead, we just shouldn't buy their products. It's pretty simple. If you don't BUY products designed to take away your freedom, then you keep your freedom.
Unfortunately, moving the herd of sheep to the safe brand is impossible, making it impossibly expensive, but, I guess that freedom is a privilege of the wealthy.
...putting up fliers with radical propaganda that asks for things like "no secret trials," and "stop requisitioning my library and medical records."
s/Frontiers/Frontier/g
Yahoo, in Sunnyvale, also is a major competitor, though its executives have yet to express any interest in aerial images.
Of course they are...
Who uses photoshop? Clearly the vast majority of PC users have little use for photoshop.
It's like 3D Studio Max... It was just a neat piece of software to pirate. Not everyone is an artist.
Not in Texas they wont.
;-)
If it's anything like voting anything aside from Republican in Virginia, it's purely symbolic
Oh, if they meant source code, rather than passwords, it's a lot better than I thought it was (but still wrong).