Considering that Google revealed Ms Port's identity in response to a court order, and Google's TOS have clear language about this type of situation, I think all the talk about suing Google is moot.
You can legally walk onto the Pentagon "reservation" as it's called, passing no checkpoints (I'm talking about being in the parking lot), and you cannot take photographs. It's posted.
Years ago I had a girlfriend who rarely smoked. She started having episodes of severe depression with hospitalization, with diagnoses including personality disorder and I believe schizophrenia. During these times she would smoke nearly non-stop. Self-medicating?
I witness that all the time. Approach a car (with no other cars around) with me doing about 70. I'm closing the gap because car ahead of me is doing less than 70. I move into left lane, as I pass, I notice the car is now keeping up with me. I have to accelerate - car still keeping up with me. I floor it, by 80 or 90mph I have enough distance to move ahead and get back in right lane. Then I cut my speed back to 70. Look in mirror - and that car is falling back, back... to the 60 they originally were doing.
I've concluded that there are many sociopaths on the highways.
And anything that may get the average S. Korean to take computer security seriously and not roll their eyes dismissively when you make secure practice recommendations, is a plus in my book.
"Mono is clearly more popular than Java. I've been using desktop Linux as my primary desktop for three to four years, and use just a handful of Java apps day to day," O'Grady said.
Clearly he gives no information about the numerous (more than a handful) of Mono apps he's using day to day on Linux. Oh, previously in the article they mention Tomboy, Banshee, and Gnome Do. So what are all the others too numerous to mention?
On any platform I use (Windows, Linux, OS X), I user fewer than a handful of Java apps each and every day. And you know how many.Net or Mono apps I use (including on Windows)? Fewer than that.
I suppose going from zero Mono apps in popular use to 3 or 4 does represent a "spike" in Mono development, but I'd hardly say it's evidence of Mono outpacing Java development on Linux.
As for outdated versions of Eclipse on popular distros, of all the people who would go to the trouble of updating to the latest version regardless of whether it was packaged with the distro, developers would. Pointing out a lack of code completion or integrated debugging in Eclipse is a laugh.
"Services include visual design, user interface design, information architecture, design engineering, project management, interactive data visualization and Web application-level functionality."
"At some point, the reporting requirements and frequency of updates for the site might be changed or expanded and would therefore require further design and integration, the notice states." (money pit - government customers are infamous for changing or adding on new requirements and projects are never delivered)
"The site must also:
* Evaluate data quality to optimize large, highly complex, rapidly changing datasets.
* Automatically replicate data.
* Standardize, normalize and cleanse data.
* Respond quickly to requests for data.
* Link to high-value business processes, such as fraud detection."
I feel $18 million is deservedly bad press at this time, and I'm certain there's a lot of waste and padding, but this is not, as some posters here seem to think, just a web application like a shopping cart.
but Mono is certainly a strong enough competitor to stop C# being synonymous with Microsoft's implementation.
I don't see this as realistic from a management point of view. To them, the entire selling point of C# is.Net, and.Net's entire selling point is that it's from Microsoft.
I know of teams with existing Java applications whose management sends them to.Net classes because they are considering switching (rewriting) to.Net. For performance? Stability? Productivity? Technical reasons? No! Because it (.Net) is, ipso facto,.Net, the new and shiny thing from Microsoft!
Other than programmers scratching their personal itch developing in C# on non-Windows, how likely do you think it is that an employer of any size will opt to use Mono or any other non-MS C# for putting product out the door or implementing in-house systems?
In all my encounters with others using C# and.Net, they are Microsoft all the way, down to the stereotype of being unaware that non-Microsoft solutions for anything IT (databases, programming languages, IDEs, etc) even exist.
Yes, the Internet can be a distraction, and it can be a wealth of information. It's up to the person using it. Just as I could walk into a library intending to learn something valuable, but be waylaid by the periodicals section - ooh, look, the New Yorker! Bicycling Magazine! Road & Track! and suddenly my hours have wasted away on trivia.
Why do you call BS? It's very possible. Speaking for myself, one of my neighbors is a Secret Service agent for the VP, and another neighbor is a CIA analyst. These people do exist, you know.
To the GP: There are harsh penalties for spamming a military domain (harsher than spamming non-.mil); I'd think there would be similar penalties for unsolicited sales calls to government agencies. Instead of a complaint to the FTC, an email to your government client and/or the IT department running your govt-supplied phone might have been a better course of action.
I've gotten several of the postcards and some phone calls back when I had a 2000 model car whose warranty was long-expired, and I understood straight away that it was a 3rd party company trying (deceptively, IMO) to get my business. When we purchased a new vehicle in 2008, and my wife got one of their phone calls 2 months later saying our warranty was going to expire that day unless she took action to extend it, she was understandably confused, especially since the caller claimed they were with Mazda. When she told the caller that she didn't know the VIN and she asked some questions, the caller hung up.
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully it will also feature increased stability, and not much bloat.
Liskula Cohen was still the blogger, right?
No, she's the model. Says so in the first sentence of the summary. Also in the first sentence is the information that Rosemary Port is the blogger.
Considering that Google revealed Ms Port's identity in response to a court order, and Google's TOS have clear language about this type of situation, I think all the talk about suing Google is moot.
You can legally walk onto the Pentagon "reservation" as it's called, passing no checkpoints (I'm talking about being in the parking lot), and you cannot take photographs. It's posted.
I guess I'm lucky. I do Python on weekdays, with the occasional foray into Java and rarely C#, and on evenings and weekends I do Obj-C and Haskell.
They've been saying this for ages. Certainly during the 1960s, and what do you think Pink Floyd's The Wall had to say about education?
Shocking!
Well, I didn't submit the patent application in XML, that's already been patented!
Years ago I had a girlfriend who rarely smoked. She started having episodes of severe depression with hospitalization, with diagnoses including personality disorder and I believe schizophrenia. During these times she would smoke nearly non-stop. Self-medicating?
I'm patenting complaining about Microsoft using XML. I'll make a fortune.
I witness that all the time. Approach a car (with no other cars around) with me doing about 70. I'm closing the gap because car ahead of me is doing less than 70. I move into left lane, as I pass, I notice the car is now keeping up with me. I have to accelerate - car still keeping up with me. I floor it, by 80 or 90mph I have enough distance to move ahead and get back in right lane. Then I cut my speed back to 70. Look in mirror - and that car is falling back, back... to the 60 they originally were doing.
I've concluded that there are many sociopaths on the highways.
I guess they do it right in Soviet Russia....
Lucas, Prince of Darkness.
Also, the reason why the Brits drink warm beer (Lucas refrigerators).
It's right on the 'Buy' page: http://www.penumbragame.com/buy.php
Right.... because hoping some good will come of a computer intrusion is just like hoping for the deaths of people to make a political point.
And anything that may get the average S. Korean to take computer security seriously and not roll their eyes dismissively when you make secure practice recommendations, is a plus in my book.
"Mono is clearly more popular than Java. I've been using desktop Linux as my primary desktop for three to four years, and use just a handful of Java apps day to day," O'Grady said.
Clearly he gives no information about the numerous (more than a handful) of Mono apps he's using day to day on Linux. Oh, previously in the article they mention Tomboy, Banshee, and Gnome Do. So what are all the others too numerous to mention?
On any platform I use (Windows, Linux, OS X), I user fewer than a handful of Java apps each and every day. And you know how many .Net or Mono apps I use (including on Windows)? Fewer than that.
I suppose going from zero Mono apps in popular use to 3 or 4 does represent a "spike" in Mono development, but I'd hardly say it's evidence of Mono outpacing Java development on Linux.
As for outdated versions of Eclipse on popular distros, of all the people who would go to the trouble of updating to the latest version regardless of whether it was packaged with the distro, developers would. Pointing out a lack of code completion or integrated debugging in Eclipse is a laugh.
"Services include visual design, user interface design, information architecture, design engineering, project management, interactive data visualization and Web application-level functionality."
"At some point, the reporting requirements and frequency of updates for the site might be changed or expanded and would therefore require further design and integration, the notice states." (money pit - government customers are infamous for changing or adding on new requirements and projects are never delivered)
"The site must also:
* Evaluate data quality to optimize large, highly complex, rapidly changing datasets.
* Automatically replicate data.
* Standardize, normalize and cleanse data.
* Respond quickly to requests for data.
* Link to high-value business processes, such as fraud detection."
(source: http://www.washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2009/06/15/Recovery.gov-board-seeks-vendor.aspx/)
I feel $18 million is deservedly bad press at this time, and I'm certain there's a lot of waste and padding, but this is not, as some posters here seem to think, just a web application like a shopping cart.
More here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/nl2hld
And now you can do it in Python with Pyjamas.
but Mono is certainly a strong enough competitor to stop C# being synonymous with Microsoft's implementation.
I don't see this as realistic from a management point of view. To them, the entire selling point of C# is .Net, and .Net's entire selling point is that it's from Microsoft.
I know of teams with existing Java applications whose management sends them to .Net classes because they are considering switching (rewriting) to .Net. For performance? Stability? Productivity? Technical reasons? No! Because it (.Net) is, ipso facto, .Net, the new and shiny thing from Microsoft!
Other than programmers scratching their personal itch developing in C# on non-Windows, how likely do you think it is that an employer of any size will opt to use Mono or any other non-MS C# for putting product out the door or implementing in-house systems?
In all my encounters with others using C# and .Net, they are Microsoft all the way, down to the stereotype of being unaware that non-Microsoft solutions for anything IT (databases, programming languages, IDEs, etc) even exist.
Regardless of age, there are laws against sex with people with diminished mental capacity, who cannot give consent.
Yes, the Internet can be a distraction, and it can be a wealth of information. It's up to the person using it. Just as I could walk into a library intending to learn something valuable, but be waylaid by the periodicals section - ooh, look, the New Yorker! Bicycling Magazine! Road & Track! and suddenly my hours have wasted away on trivia.
Why do you call BS? It's very possible. Speaking for myself, one of my neighbors is a Secret Service agent for the VP, and another neighbor is a CIA analyst. These people do exist, you know.
To the GP: There are harsh penalties for spamming a military domain (harsher than spamming non-.mil); I'd think there would be similar penalties for unsolicited sales calls to government agencies. Instead of a complaint to the FTC, an email to your government client and/or the IT department running your govt-supplied phone might have been a better course of action.
I've gotten several of the postcards and some phone calls back when I had a 2000 model car whose warranty was long-expired, and I understood straight away that it was a 3rd party company trying (deceptively, IMO) to get my business. When we purchased a new vehicle in 2008, and my wife got one of their phone calls 2 months later saying our warranty was going to expire that day unless she took action to extend it, she was understandably confused, especially since the caller claimed they were with Mazda. When she told the caller that she didn't know the VIN and she asked some questions, the caller hung up.
I'm really glad someone went after these scum.
Old news.
Small UAVs May Recharge on Power Lines
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,158240,00.html