I don't agree. Someone who opts to use Bing, for whatever reason (such as it being the default search site in the IE search toolbar) isn't thinking they are searching on a Microsoft site. They think they are on a search engine site. When I use Google for search, I don't think I'm on a Google site, related to the Google corporation.
Obviously, if I search on microsoft.com or msdn.com, I expect Microsoft-related results. But the search engine is supposed to be a search of the whole Internet, unrelated to the company providing the search engine.
Having autocomplete be biased towards nonsensical "hints" that promote their own products is dishonest.
To be fair, a Google search for 'android' will give hints all relating to Google Android, and the first several search results are about Google Android, not robots. But a Google search for Windows or Microsoft doesn't attempt to shanghai you off to something related to Google, or GNU, or Linux, etc.
It appears the servers in question were used for serving up web sites. Probably publicly-facing web sites. So, what sensitive information was at risk? There are already regulations about what content can be approved to sit on a DoD server with a publicly-facing web site.
In the US they are most often located on the urinal itself (not on the porcelain, but on the pipes), just about chest-high, where you normally would find the flush lever.
If you claim that common usage of portability is the ability of a program running on your computer to also run on your friend's computer, which is running the same OS as yours (or can fake it, via Wine) - then what programs would you say are not portable?
When valuing a programming language for its portability, it means apps written in that language run on disparate operating systems, not that it runs on the same OS on the computer down the street. That's not just geek terms, that's what it means.
That's my thought - why can't these be "object detectors", with no need for a visual screen? Inform every passenger that they must not be carrying any objects on them other than their clothing, scan them, and have the scanner detect shapes. If something is there, raise an alarm that gets that person pulled for extra scrutiny, much like a metal detector.
He agrees that Apple does care about security - read again. But he argues that they are not open about the details of what they fix, which as you point out, is incorrect.
I'm a big fan of his, and I live in the United States. I haven't seen him in a long time, but I did see him several times in the late 1980s and the 1990s and got the chance to speak with him for awhile. (I think you must have meant no one UNDER 20 has heard of him).
The only downside was having to see Michelle Shocked.
On my only trip through New England, I stopped at Franconia Notch park and my wife and I peered through the fog and mist to spot the Old Man. Finally we saw him, after lots of "is that it? I don't know. Over there... that's it!"
I cannot imagine tourists doing the same to spot a sculpture or some monument put there to commemorate the Old Man.
If the natural arches in Arches National Park in Utah fell over one day, would we want to reconstruct them? I'd say no. Nothing lasts forever. Preserve and protect, sure. But recreate?
I agree that the Autotrain (or the regular train) can make sense compared to flying, mainly due to the increased hassles of air travel. And yet it's still cheaper to drive from DC to Orlando, which my family recently did. I'm put off from train travel specifically because Amtrak makes it as, or nearly as expensive as flying. And nearly $1000 for a family of four to take the train (and car) round-trip to Orlando? I'm driving. If rail travel became as economical as in Europe, then I'd prefer train to driving, and I support taxes especially on gasoline to make rail travel cheaper.
From reading the NASA pdf's, it appears that a Mars mission isn't planned at this point, just blue-sky. A return to the Moon seems very much in the works, whereas the descriptions about Mars were couched with words like "possible", "one day", etc.
Is it too much to ask for people who read a supposedly tech site actually read, and perhaps think, before pounding their keyboards with things like "how's that little thing going to get 6 astronauts to Mars?", "NASA is stoopid", and the like?
Its proposed use is to carry up to 6 astronauts to the space station, and from there, 4 to the Moon. For the Moon missions, Orion will travel along with the Altair lunar lander.
These Mars-bound vehicles will be assembled in low Earth orbit. There is no reason to believe that 4 or 6 astronauts would be confined to the small Orion capsule for the duration of a Mars voyage.
On a side note, I was 5 years old when I watched the first manned landing on the Moon. It's amazing to me that a manned Mars mission may happen when I'm in my 70's. Certainly not how I imagined things when I was young.
No one but my family sees my Apple logo that's down in the basement.
The price difference has meant no more "honey fix the computer". I mean NONE, in over 3 years. No reinstalls. No slowdowns in performance and wondering or worrying that it's infected. A greatly reduced incidence of cussing out the computer (yeah, it still happens occasionally, but not nearly on par with Windows). No head-scratching "weirdness", like personal preferences disappearing, programs that used to work stopping to work.
Oh, it's been worth it, believe me. No flaunting needed, but if that myth keeps you feeling smug, enjoy.
Piracy, or any variation thereof, is a CIVIL OFFENSE.
There is a big FBI warning at the beginning of every movie DVD I watch that tells me otherwise.
And from the back of one of my music CDs: "Warning: Unauthorized reproduction of this recording is prohibited by Federal law and subject to criminal prosecution."
He isn't being punished for stealing music, he's being punished for distributing it without authorization.
Go ahead and steal a CD from Walmart - but then also advertise that you'll give a copy to anyone who asks, and give a copy to thousands. That's an apples to apples comparison.
we Americans have just been brainwashed into thinking that diesel==bad
The interesting thing is that America's dislike of diesel passenger cars is in some part due to none other than GM, due to GM's horrible Oldsmobile diesels of the 1980s. Instead of just giving GM cars a bad reputation, it gave diesel engines a bad reputation in the mind of American buyers, and American manufacturers didn't offer another diesel car after that.
so when you throw out your 2 year old incredibly obsolete Mac Mini
Or when you sell it for $200 to $300 (or more), which is what G4 PPC Minis are getting on eBay now.
I don't use my 2nd year (as in, bought the second year they were made) Mini for intensive games, but it serves me well as my main desktop at home, for regular home computing needs, plus software development. And I upgraded the RAM myself, and could upgrade the drives if I wanted to.
When Snow Leopard is released, I'll sell my Mini for a couple hundred, and put that towards a new $600 Mini that will last me the next 3 to 5 years. Works for me.
The contention that a house's longevity is measured in the duration of its first roof is silly.
It's not uncommon for a house to undergo at least one roof replacement during its useful life. My house's total roof replacement, with quite a bit of rotted wood replaced, cost less than 1 percent of the assessed value. My house was built in 1935. Nearby is a town with homes built in the 1700s, and they are lived in.
Who in Japan is living in 1000 year old houses? You are confusing the length in years of continuous habitation with the age of homes today's people are living in. North America has 1000 year old structures, but nobody is living in them.
And I've been to Japan. Missed the "thousands of year old" houses, though.
My my first thought was - what was this blueprint doing on the NIPRNet? But I know of several incidents in which someone emailed classified attachments on the low side, and everything had to be shut down while things got scrubbed. Not often, but it does happen.
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I don't agree. Someone who opts to use Bing, for whatever reason (such as it being the default search site in the IE search toolbar) isn't thinking they are searching on a Microsoft site. They think they are on a search engine site. When I use Google for search, I don't think I'm on a Google site, related to the Google corporation.
Obviously, if I search on microsoft.com or msdn.com, I expect Microsoft-related results. But the search engine is supposed to be a search of the whole Internet, unrelated to the company providing the search engine.
Having autocomplete be biased towards nonsensical "hints" that promote their own products is dishonest.
To be fair, a Google search for 'android' will give hints all relating to Google Android, and the first several search results are about Google Android, not robots. But a Google search for Windows or Microsoft doesn't attempt to shanghai you off to something related to Google, or GNU, or Linux, etc.
It appears the servers in question were used for serving up web sites. Probably publicly-facing web sites. So, what sensitive information was at risk? There are already regulations about what content can be approved to sit on a DoD server with a publicly-facing web site.
It also adds unique tools to help the user make important decisions.
Like a sack of oranges to beat you with?
So now I'm mentally ill? And here I thought I don't get any respect, now I get less!
So you're saying cement is also a substance before it's mixed with water? And not wet?
In the US they are most often located on the urinal itself (not on the porcelain, but on the pipes), just about chest-high, where you normally would find the flush lever.
If you claim that common usage of portability is the ability of a program running on your computer to also run on your friend's computer, which is running the same OS as yours (or can fake it, via Wine) - then what programs would you say are not portable?
When valuing a programming language for its portability, it means apps written in that language run on disparate operating systems, not that it runs on the same OS on the computer down the street. That's not just geek terms, that's what it means.
That's my thought - why can't these be "object detectors", with no need for a visual screen? Inform every passenger that they must not be carrying any objects on them other than their clothing, scan them, and have the scanner detect shapes. If something is there, raise an alarm that gets that person pulled for extra scrutiny, much like a metal detector.
He agrees that Apple does care about security - read again. But he argues that they are not open about the details of what they fix, which as you point out, is incorrect.
Finally. I was scrolling for that.
I'm a big fan of his, and I live in the United States. I haven't seen him in a long time, but I did see him several times in the late 1980s and the 1990s and got the chance to speak with him for awhile. (I think you must have meant no one UNDER 20 has heard of him).
The only downside was having to see Michelle Shocked.
I think it's a silly idea.
On my only trip through New England, I stopped at Franconia Notch park and my wife and I peered through the fog and mist to spot the Old Man. Finally we saw him, after lots of "is that it? I don't know. Over there... that's it!"
I cannot imagine tourists doing the same to spot a sculpture or some monument put there to commemorate the Old Man.
If the natural arches in Arches National Park in Utah fell over one day, would we want to reconstruct them? I'd say no. Nothing lasts forever. Preserve and protect, sure. But recreate?
I agree that the Autotrain (or the regular train) can make sense compared to flying, mainly due to the increased hassles of air travel. And yet it's still cheaper to drive from DC to Orlando, which my family recently did. I'm put off from train travel specifically because Amtrak makes it as, or nearly as expensive as flying. And nearly $1000 for a family of four to take the train (and car) round-trip to Orlando? I'm driving. If rail travel became as economical as in Europe, then I'd prefer train to driving, and I support taxes especially on gasoline to make rail travel cheaper.
Whoooosh! (and that's not the sound of a toilet flushing)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
From reading the NASA pdf's, it appears that a Mars mission isn't planned at this point, just blue-sky. A return to the Moon seems very much in the works, whereas the descriptions about Mars were couched with words like "possible", "one day", etc.
Is it too much to ask for people who read a supposedly tech site actually read, and perhaps think, before pounding their keyboards with things like "how's that little thing going to get 6 astronauts to Mars?", "NASA is stoopid", and the like?
Its proposed use is to carry up to 6 astronauts to the space station, and from there, 4 to the Moon. For the Moon missions, Orion will travel along with the Altair lunar lander.
For Mars missions, "Orion could rendezvous in low Earth orbit with vehicles that will take explorers to other destinations in our solar system such as Mars." http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/306407main_orion_crew%20_expl_vehicle.pdf
These Mars-bound vehicles will be assembled in low Earth orbit. There is no reason to believe that 4 or 6 astronauts would be confined to the small Orion capsule for the duration of a Mars voyage.
On a side note, I was 5 years old when I watched the first manned landing on the Moon. It's amazing to me that a manned Mars mission may happen when I'm in my 70's. Certainly not how I imagined things when I was young.
Sorry, Logan is not available, he's gone out for a run.
No one but my family sees my Apple logo that's down in the basement.
The price difference has meant no more "honey fix the computer". I mean NONE, in over 3 years. No reinstalls. No slowdowns in performance and wondering or worrying that it's infected. A greatly reduced incidence of cussing out the computer (yeah, it still happens occasionally, but not nearly on par with Windows). No head-scratching "weirdness", like personal preferences disappearing, programs that used to work stopping to work.
Oh, it's been worth it, believe me. No flaunting needed, but if that myth keeps you feeling smug, enjoy.
Star Wars Kid
Piracy, or any variation thereof, is a CIVIL OFFENSE.
There is a big FBI warning at the beginning of every movie DVD I watch that tells me otherwise.
And from the back of one of my music CDs: "Warning: Unauthorized reproduction of this recording is prohibited by Federal law and subject to criminal prosecution."
He isn't being punished for stealing music, he's being punished for distributing it without authorization.
Go ahead and steal a CD from Walmart - but then also advertise that you'll give a copy to anyone who asks, and give a copy to thousands. That's an apples to apples comparison.
we Americans have just been brainwashed into thinking that diesel==bad
The interesting thing is that America's dislike of diesel passenger cars is in some part due to none other than GM, due to GM's horrible Oldsmobile diesels of the 1980s. Instead of just giving GM cars a bad reputation, it gave diesel engines a bad reputation in the mind of American buyers, and American manufacturers didn't offer another diesel car after that.
so when you throw out your 2 year old incredibly obsolete Mac Mini
Or when you sell it for $200 to $300 (or more), which is what G4 PPC Minis are getting on eBay now.
I don't use my 2nd year (as in, bought the second year they were made) Mini for intensive games, but it serves me well as my main desktop at home, for regular home computing needs, plus software development. And I upgraded the RAM myself, and could upgrade the drives if I wanted to.
When Snow Leopard is released, I'll sell my Mini for a couple hundred, and put that towards a new $600 Mini that will last me the next 3 to 5 years. Works for me.
The contention that a house's longevity is measured in the duration of its first roof is silly.
It's not uncommon for a house to undergo at least one roof replacement during its useful life. My house's total roof replacement, with quite a bit of rotted wood replaced, cost less than 1 percent of the assessed value. My house was built in 1935. Nearby is a town with homes built in the 1700s, and they are lived in.
Who in Japan is living in 1000 year old houses? You are confusing the length in years of continuous habitation with the age of homes today's people are living in. North America has 1000 year old structures, but nobody is living in them.
And I've been to Japan. Missed the "thousands of year old" houses, though.
My my first thought was - what was this blueprint doing on the NIPRNet? But I know of several incidents in which someone emailed classified attachments on the low side, and everything had to be shut down while things got scrubbed. Not often, but it does happen.