Didn't a New York Times reporter just go to jail for not naming a source? He said "usually", so how is he mistaken? I suppose you are referring to the case of Judith Miller being jailed in 2005. Her contempt charge and jailing was controversial for the very fact that it was unusual.
The wireless already works with the Linux that it ships with. According to the thread, it's Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon that has a problem with the wireless on it.
That was my reaction. Consider that a few days ago, this story generated comments such as "I should patent being a patent troll". Well, IBM has the money to do just that. Maybe they are as sick of this as the average slashdotter.
Not only do they use Zope, but they left the Example Applications in the acl_users folder, and its publicly accessible, and people have uploaded mp3s and other media to it. So this law firm could now be liable to the RIAA for illegal distribution of copyrighted material. The ironing is delicious!
It's just competition, doesn't annoy me. Fairly standard practice for a company to say, "unlike the competition, our product does this", especially when you are not the market leader. Market leaders are assumed to be the best, so competitors have to knock them down a notch and challenge the assumptions. Look at Ford's recent ads. Guy pulls up at night next to a competing product, and starts going over all the ways the Ford is better than the other car. Mazda has an ad where a Toyota owner is ridiculed for going the "normal" route of buying a Corolla, instead of the "more feature-full" Mazda. Hey, I managed to get a car analogy in here!
And "The Steve's" point is spot-on. With Apple, you don't have to decide between levels of product like you do with Windows. Home Basic? Home Premium? Ultimate? Apple is saying they designed an OS with lots of new features, and you get all those features if you buy the product. Simple as that.
In Virginia the pool of GOOD web designers and engineers must be tiny. Because AOL has, in your opinion, poor design, and because you had a bad experience with an AOL account, you make that conclusion about the talent pool in Virginia? And I suppose one of the best employment markets in the entire country, with some of the highest living standards and educational levels, couldn't attract people with talent? And as another poster noted, NYC is another high-tech hub. The high tech world doesn't revolve around Silicon Valley.
2 kids. Both a rear-facing infant carseat and the older one's carseat fit with no problems in both a Jetta and a "japmobile". No contortions required. Same story now that we have one in a child's car seat and a full-size booster seat for the older one. If you have 3 or more kids that require child car seats, then you've got a point. Otherwise, this is a bogus argument.
But they did have IDs (drivers licenses) obtained through fraud and through exploited weaknesses in the system. Some of those who assisted them were later charged with unlawful production of identification documents and conspiracy to commit identification document fraud. The group of 9/11 hijackers had over 60 drivers licenses among them, which they used as proof of their residency in wherever they wanted to claim to be from. Several states revised their requirements for obtaining licenses due to 9/11.
Same here - no recollection of how, when, or why I ended up on Slashdot. I know it was no later than '99, possibly '98. Never heard of Chips and Dip. Apparently I held off on registering an account.
Maybe if someone posted the most common Slashdot memes and when they arose, like Natalie Portman and grits, I could have a better idea of when I started visiting.
Federal law-enforcement officials said the FBI was taking a look at the incidents -- and Unisys's response -- but said the allegations were so far not viewed as a major breach of national security. "The FBI is making sure that this was not something out of the ordinary," one official said, noting that attempts by hackers to infiltrate U.S. government computers are "everyday occurrences."
One key issue is whether Unisys failed to install the security programs or whether DHS cut them to save money. Unisys has urged the FBI to look at what the company recommended the agency needed versus what it was willing to pay for.
Dena Graziano, a spokeswoman for Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D., Miss) the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said congressional investigators found "there were several systems put in the closet that should not have been. What we don't know yet is who had them put there."
No, you're wrong. And these days, Unisys' business is far more service oriented, rather than providing 1970's dinosaur technology. And the services are in line with (competitive with) the services other contractors provide.
Out-of-country non-nationals are not about to be supporting contracts to DoD or DHS that require security clearances.
State of fear? Hardly. In the late 1990s I visited Italy and was surprised to see police (perhaps Carabinieri) in Genoa holding submachine guns. The only state of fear put into me wasn't of them (or the Italian state), it was wondering if I'd wandered into a bad neighborhood.
Back then you didn't see that kind on weaponry on police in the USA, so it had a "whoa" factor for me, but now you sometimes do see it, especially at airports. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. They aren't suppressing me. "State of fear" describes standing in sight of the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, and hearing reports that another plane was on its way.
The cops certainly are NOT supposed to draw their weapons down on you for your lack of speaking to them, or cooperating with them. Unless you appear to be a deadly threat. Try walking down the street with a shotgun, and not speaking to or cooperating with the police officer who asks you to identify yourself. Oh, she didn't have an actual weapon? Ok, try walking up to the White House gates and hanging around with a guitar in a gig bag, or a pool cue in a bag, slung over your shoulder, and then ignore any inquiries about what you've got there.
Yelling "don't tase me, bro" isn't going to help lessen the response.
I love these low-digit pissing matches, suddenly some seriously low numbers come out of the woodwork. I myself can't recall if I registered right away when I began reading Slashdot - was registration a feature right from the beginning?
I was in Ontario and Quebec last month, and though the official rate at the time was about 1 CAD =.94 USD, if you used US cash the vendors/businesses would treat it as 1 to 1, no change. But I noticed on the way home that the tollbooths in New York state had signs stating that Canadian currency would be treated as 80 percent of a dollar!
And by the way, I'd consider moving there, even given the currency parity.
On my work-supplied Dell laptop running Windows XP, I never could find the configuration option to change the fact that, whenever I rested my wrists heavily at the base of the laptop, to either side of the touchpad, the mouse cursor would jump around, window focus would change, or I'd launch an application. Damn Windows!
Oh goodie, a car analogy. While you are correct that modding your car's engine management system could void your warranty, it would only void any warranty for engine repairs. But if your electric window motor burned out on your modded car, you'd still be covered.
Likewise, there should be no cause for the computer retailer to deny a claim on a physical defect that is not related to anything the OS can affect. What if he'd wiped the drive and had no OS on it, but liked to open and shut the laptop and it developed the crack? They'd still deny his claim because it wasn't running Windows? The OS is immaterial.
Latest project news: March 2007. Let's add a comment as the site suggests by visiting the DotGNU Wiki - oops, page not found. I could try the software, there's a link to DotGNU 0.1 release. Oh, they say it's "mostly for historical interest". Ok, what about Portable.Net? At least I can get to the source on Savannah... oh, it also dates to March 2007. Time to check the mailing lists. The Developers list, last post July 2007. At least the Portable Developers list is active in September. 1 post.
You might want to re-phrase "they are producing" unless they really are but trying to keep it a secret. I don't want to disparage the prior work of the DotGNU developers, but my confidence level in choosing.Net for non-Windows isn't exactly helped by being pointed to their project today.
A store manager would not risk making such a serious accusation unless he thought he had reasonable belief that the guy stole something.
From reading the blog, it appears that the store manager made NO accusation. He followed the customer to the parking lot and blocked his departure based solely on the fact that the customer refused to display his receipt. And he probably wasn't asked to show his receipt due to suspicion - many stores require ALL exiting customers to show their receipt. My local Guitar Center does, and Costco does as well AND the person marks the receipt with a felt-tip pen.
The customer wasn't a dick when walking out the door, by his account. He was asked for a receipt, said "no thanks" and continued on his way.
The customer suggested to the manager that he, the manager, accuse him of theft and call the police if that's why he was detaining him. The manager did not. So much for the manager suspecting him of theft. The manager was either just pissed that someone dared not comply with the receipt-showing policy, or he had no experience or training in how to deal with such an occurrence.
If Ohio's laws truly do not require display of a driver's license or other ID when requested by police, then this police department is going to pay. I would think there would be serious consequences for the Circuit City employee(s) who detained him without accusing him or actively alerting law enforcement.
How timely. I'm on contract to the government and have a clearance, though not high enough to require a polygraph. My questionnaire asked about past drug use, but I was not required to submit to drug screening. My corporate employer also did not require drug testing. I've been with them several years.
Now my employer is under a subcontract with a much larger, very well-known IT company, and they say all their employees and contractors (and subcontractors) must be proven drug-free. So suddenly it's "take the drug test or you can't work for us".
I'm curious as to which IT companies require drug screening. I'm not really sure why the requirement rankles me so - I never was much of a drug user, and what I did do was over 15 years ago. It's just that it seems demeaning and invasive. I was a trusted employee for years, suddenly I have to remove myself from some cloud of suspicion?
And what does it benefit the IT company to be able to say they drug-screen their contractors, if the government who uses them in classified situations doesn't care enough to require it?
If all the biggies in IT doing government/military work require this, I may as well resign myself to it, but it sucks.
For instance, I'm hired by an IT company that has a Federal Government division. I work for that division on a contract with a government agency. I work at a government site, using government computers and equipment. 100% of my work is providing services for the government.
Am I a government employee? No. Do I have a government job? No. Are there government employees working alongside me? Yes, but that doesn't make me one of them.
No he didn't. Parent said the speed differential made no difference on the Autobahn. Responder said the speed differential *did* make a difference, and offered personal experience and an explanation of why it does. Namely, a huge speed differential can get you in trouble if a car ahead of you cannot judge your rate of approach (or doesn't even see you yet) and they move into your lane to pass a car ahead of them. The disparity of the two speeds means you're likely to ram right into them before they even realize your car is barreling down on them.
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The wireless already works with the Linux that it ships with. According to the thread, it's Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon that has a problem with the wireless on it.
That was my reaction. Consider that a few days ago, this story generated comments such as "I should patent being a patent troll". Well, IBM has the money to do just that. Maybe they are as sick of this as the average slashdotter.
Not only do they use Zope, but they left the Example Applications in the acl_users folder, and its publicly accessible, and people have uploaded mp3s and other media to it. So this law firm could now be liable to the RIAA for illegal distribution of copyrighted material. The ironing is delicious!
It's just competition, doesn't annoy me. Fairly standard practice for a company to say, "unlike the competition, our product does this", especially when you are not the market leader. Market leaders are assumed to be the best, so competitors have to knock them down a notch and challenge the assumptions. Look at Ford's recent ads. Guy pulls up at night next to a competing product, and starts going over all the ways the Ford is better than the other car. Mazda has an ad where a Toyota owner is ridiculed for going the "normal" route of buying a Corolla, instead of the "more feature-full" Mazda. Hey, I managed to get a car analogy in here!
And "The Steve's" point is spot-on. With Apple, you don't have to decide between levels of product like you do with Windows. Home Basic? Home Premium? Ultimate? Apple is saying they designed an OS with lots of new features, and you get all those features if you buy the product. Simple as that.
2 kids. Both a rear-facing infant carseat and the older one's carseat fit with no problems in both a Jetta and a "japmobile". No contortions required. Same story now that we have one in a child's car seat and a full-size booster seat for the older one. If you have 3 or more kids that require child car seats, then you've got a point. Otherwise, this is a bogus argument.
But they did have IDs (drivers licenses) obtained through fraud and through exploited weaknesses in the system. Some of those who assisted them were later charged with unlawful production of identification documents and conspiracy to commit identification document fraud. The group of 9/11 hijackers had over 60 drivers licenses among them, which they used as proof of their residency in wherever they wanted to claim to be from. Several states revised their requirements for obtaining licenses due to 9/11.
Same here - no recollection of how, when, or why I ended up on Slashdot. I know it was no later than '99, possibly '98. Never heard of Chips and Dip. Apparently I held off on registering an account.
Maybe if someone posted the most common Slashdot memes and when they arose, like Natalie Portman and grits, I could have a better idea of when I started visiting.
What about these Buddhists?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/472155.stm
More on that line of thought in Wall St Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119067563990437958.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Federal law-enforcement officials said the FBI was taking a look at the incidents -- and Unisys's response -- but said the allegations were so far not viewed as a major breach of national security. "The FBI is making sure that this was not something out of the ordinary," one official said, noting that attempts by hackers to infiltrate U.S. government computers are "everyday occurrences."
One key issue is whether Unisys failed to install the security programs or whether DHS cut them to save money. Unisys has urged the FBI to look at what the company recommended the agency needed versus what it was willing to pay for.
Dena Graziano, a spokeswoman for Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D., Miss) the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said congressional investigators found "there were several systems put in the closet that should not have been. What we don't know yet is who had them put there."
No, you're wrong. And these days, Unisys' business is far more service oriented, rather than providing 1970's dinosaur technology. And the services are in line with (competitive with) the services other contractors provide.
Out-of-country non-nationals are not about to be supporting contracts to DoD or DHS that require security clearances.
State of fear? Hardly. In the late 1990s I visited Italy and was surprised to see police (perhaps Carabinieri) in Genoa holding submachine guns. The only state of fear put into me wasn't of them (or the Italian state), it was wondering if I'd wandered into a bad neighborhood.
Back then you didn't see that kind on weaponry on police in the USA, so it had a "whoa" factor for me, but now you sometimes do see it, especially at airports. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. They aren't suppressing me. "State of fear" describes standing in sight of the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, and hearing reports that another plane was on its way.
Yelling "don't tase me, bro" isn't going to help lessen the response.
Sounds like typical geek over-engineering. Just submit papers under different names while staying the same gender, sheesh!
I love these low-digit pissing matches, suddenly some seriously low numbers come out of the woodwork. I myself can't recall if I registered right away when I began reading Slashdot - was registration a feature right from the beginning?
I was in Ontario and Quebec last month, and though the official rate at the time was about 1 CAD = .94 USD, if you used US cash the vendors/businesses would treat it as 1 to 1, no change. But I noticed on the way home that the tollbooths in New York state had signs stating that Canadian currency would be treated as 80 percent of a dollar!
And by the way, I'd consider moving there, even given the currency parity.
On my work-supplied Dell laptop running Windows XP, I never could find the configuration option to change the fact that, whenever I rested my wrists heavily at the base of the laptop, to either side of the touchpad, the mouse cursor would jump around, window focus would change, or I'd launch an application. Damn Windows!
Oh goodie, a car analogy. While you are correct that modding your car's engine management system could void your warranty, it would only void any warranty for engine repairs. But if your electric window motor burned out on your modded car, you'd still be covered.
Likewise, there should be no cause for the computer retailer to deny a claim on a physical defect that is not related to anything the OS can affect. What if he'd wiped the drive and had no OS on it, but liked to open and shut the laptop and it developed the crack? They'd still deny his claim because it wasn't running Windows? The OS is immaterial.
Yes, I remember DotGNU and Portable.Net.
.Net for non-Windows isn't exactly helped by being pointed to their project today.
How's that project progressing?
Latest project news: March 2007.
Let's add a comment as the site suggests by visiting the DotGNU Wiki - oops, page not found.
I could try the software, there's a link to DotGNU 0.1 release. Oh, they say it's "mostly for historical interest". Ok, what about Portable.Net? At least I can get to the source on Savannah... oh, it also dates to March 2007. Time to check the mailing lists. The Developers list, last post July 2007. At least the Portable Developers list is active in September. 1 post.
You might want to re-phrase "they are producing" unless they really are but trying to keep it a secret. I don't want to disparage the prior work of the DotGNU developers, but my confidence level in choosing
Crap, I didn't get the memo.
A store manager would not risk making such a serious accusation unless he thought he had reasonable belief that the guy stole something.
From reading the blog, it appears that the store manager made NO accusation. He followed the customer to the parking lot and blocked his departure based solely on the fact that the customer refused to display his receipt. And he probably wasn't asked to show his receipt due to suspicion - many stores require ALL exiting customers to show their receipt. My local Guitar Center does, and Costco does as well AND the person marks the receipt with a felt-tip pen.
The customer wasn't a dick when walking out the door, by his account. He was asked for a receipt, said "no thanks" and continued on his way.
The customer suggested to the manager that he, the manager, accuse him of theft and call the police if that's why he was detaining him. The manager did not. So much for the manager suspecting him of theft. The manager was either just pissed that someone dared not comply with the receipt-showing policy, or he had no experience or training in how to deal with such an occurrence.
If Ohio's laws truly do not require display of a driver's license or other ID when requested by police, then this police department is going to pay. I would think there would be serious consequences for the Circuit City employee(s) who detained him without accusing him or actively alerting law enforcement.
How timely. I'm on contract to the government and have a clearance, though not high enough to require a polygraph. My questionnaire asked about past drug use, but I was not required to submit to drug screening. My corporate employer also did not require drug testing. I've been with them several years.
Now my employer is under a subcontract with a much larger, very well-known IT company, and they say all their employees and contractors (and subcontractors) must be proven drug-free. So suddenly it's "take the drug test or you can't work for us".
I'm curious as to which IT companies require drug screening. I'm not really sure why the requirement rankles me so - I never was much of a drug user, and what I did do was over 15 years ago. It's just that it seems demeaning and invasive. I was a trusted employee for years, suddenly I have to remove myself from some cloud of suspicion?
And what does it benefit the IT company to be able to say they drug-screen their contractors, if the government who uses them in classified situations doesn't care enough to require it?
If all the biggies in IT doing government/military work require this, I may as well resign myself to it, but it sucks.
It's just you.
For instance, I'm hired by an IT company that has a Federal Government division. I work for that division on a contract with a government agency. I work at a government site, using government computers and equipment. 100% of my work is providing services for the government.
Am I a government employee? No. Do I have a government job? No. Are there government employees working alongside me? Yes, but that doesn't make me one of them.
No he didn't. Parent said the speed differential made no difference on the Autobahn. Responder said the speed differential *did* make a difference, and offered personal experience and an explanation of why it does. Namely, a huge speed differential can get you in trouble if a car ahead of you cannot judge your rate of approach (or doesn't even see you yet) and they move into your lane to pass a car ahead of them. The disparity of the two speeds means you're likely to ram right into them before they even realize your car is barreling down on them.