It would have been better for ISP's to establish a separate subdomain that includes a keyword such as "kidnet" or something, then legislate that adult content providers block client connections from the "kidnet" subdomains.
That way, if you wanted to be censored you could express your interest by picking up a kidnet account and responsible content providers could comply with little effort.
They are trying to patent a subset of the functionality of searching by regular expression. Just read Section 4 of the Backgroud of the Invention:
Unlike text strings, numerical information is more difficult to locate using the typical "find" function provided by current word processing application programs. Users are able to locate a text search string in a document using a typical "find" function because they have a preconceived knowledge of the string that they are looking for. For example, if a user is looking for the name "John" in a document, the user can easily modify the search string to match the desired string through a relatively small number of iterations. However, if a user is searching for a number that they do not already know, a telephone number for instance, it may be very difficult to locate the number in the document. The user may be forced to scan through the entire document until the desired number can be located. This can be very time consuming and frustrating for a computer user, especially if the document is a long one.
Microsoft hired some people who don't know how to use regexp and are homebrewing their own solution and trying to patent it!! So if someone makes a predefined expression to search for all telephone numbers in a doc and put's the results in a box, it's patent infringement. Outstanding!
This is what happens when you work in your own little world but you have and abuse the power to affect everyone elses. You show your ass.
Yes, that's right folks. Because I'm buying their kids a laptop. Me and my closest friends, geographically speaking. Our taxes are buying a bunch of kids that I don't have equipment that will be obsolete real soon which most of them will never know how to truly use. Except as email and chat hardware of course.
So don't worry about it! Move to Georgia, specifically Cobb County. Sure, we'll force your kids to listen to Creationism being equated to Natural Selection, but they'll be hearing it from an mp3 on their very own iBooks!
You ought to read the post he/she was responding to. And the following sentence while you're at it:
"Not even a majority of registered voters, I don't think."
So, Captain Obvious, the grandparent's statement that Bush was elected by a majority of Americans was wrong, and the parent's response was on target, and you need to go back to school and learn to read.
What about being erroneously flagged as a felon and revoked of their right to vote?
or re-districted so their vote is marginalized?
or relegated to a district with antiquated voting equipment which caused fewer people to be able to vote by the time the polls closed?
or told by their employers they could kiss their jobs goodbye if they missed their shift. After all, voting isn't a holiday or required by law?
and let's not forget that our political system is a bipolar dog and pony show where the two parties put up staged spats from time to time and present candidates who tow the corporate line. Plenty of people recognize that politicians in the US are liars, thieves and wimps who are afraid to rock the boat.
or several other things.
Remember, voting is a statistical sampling. In that sampling errors are made. So try to be more polite to people who couldn't or didn't vote.
An Example of an Essential Liberty: The freedom to seek out or create food for your personal survival without someone obstructing you in the interest of power.
Take your three people and distill what is important to all of them. Those are the essentials. The Artist may not want to make war, the Farmer may not want to create art, the warrior may not want to farm. They all want to do more than sit in one place and starve to death because someone else gets power from making them do so.
And I disagree that they all want security from the state. Most people would be fine having a group of neighbors in the same place or situation as them with which to struggle together. None of them believe another person who doesn't share their situation can know what's best for them. Ask a farmer, warrior or artist some time - it's a common theme.
The state's primary purpose is to defend borders. But when that task is done, the leaders have a tendency to turn inwards and dictate from higher up.
yeah, sorry about that. I'll get the project updated this weekend and switched to Maven 2 instead of Forrest for the website and build. Been working on Maven 2 lately, but just about ready to finish up there with my contributions.
What exactly is an unpadded estimate? The only way to provide such a thing would be to run off statistical analysis of past efforts and provide the median and standard deviation to the boss. Otherwise, estimates are always rounded up because there aren't enough significant digits to do anything but.
I think the reason they are all lizards is that politics in the US is a messy field of bushes where it's hard to track what's going on.
If we clear the brush and harass anything left crawling around, the lizards are bound to leave. I don't think they would stay around if several million people were enthusiastically watching their every move.
Worked out the numbers. The average citizen in the US is only interested in a few committees. Works out to about 10 bills or resolutions per week. And let me tell you, a lot of them are utterly useless - "Contratulate so-and-so for model citizen behavior..." garbage.
As far as keeping up as the content providers, thomas.loc.gov does it for us. We just need to scrape. And at least the house (xml.house.gov) is working towards xml formatted bills and resolutions. Special interest opinions could be RSS feeds. Hell, may even support blogged rss opinions about bills.
Need to do it as an application - don't want to keep the persons choices on a central server and want very interactive behavior from the app.
If I get far, you'll know because I'll mysteriously die in a car crash. Heh.
Problem is the parties consolidated early on into only two relevant ones. If the Democratic party implodes or disbands deliberately, I'm almost certain the subgroups in the Republican party would diverge into their own parties. It's common-enemy crap.
That and a torrent of irrelevant crap making a bunch of noise while the important issues slip by.
I'm thinking a non-web-based application (e.g., Java Application) getting information from thomas.loc.gov & the legislative branches' XML initiatives.
Eventually we could summarize voters opinions and send an inconspicuous email with the statistics to the appropriate representative.
I could use some help on this idea. Been pondering it for a while with no momentum:
Thought about this some. The app will have tabs for each committee. You configure it to only track those committees you are interested in. The rest would be greyed out.
Estimated, given the volume of measures being reviewed, that the average Johnny would have 10 bills or resolutions per week to review.
Johnny wouldn't have to catch up after a vacation or getting behind. He'd simply pick up with the current bills. His vote during election time just has to be based on *something* the representative or senator did, not what they said they would do. Even if it's only one bill, it's better than televised talking head crap.
Bills Johnny made a choice about that changed after the fact would be highlighted for more review.
We could have options to receive rss feeds from interest groups with opinions about the bills. To help Johnny make his choice.
How about we all get together and write an application which makes tracking bills and resolutions easy for the layman. You can pick and choose the ones you agree with and the app will create a report during election season sumarizing who to vote for based on your picks?
These things, these adjectives, they actually mean something and serve the purpose of specificity. Try not to ignore them, will you?
His point was that you must endure the threat of physical harm while engaging in those activites required to promote and emphasize those principles which are essential to our spirit and freedom (actual freedom, not how the word is used today).
You quoted this:
why would the boss ask you for an estimate in the first place?
And resonded with this: I'll take a wild stab in the dark with this one... because he wants to know how long something will take?
I said: Besides, the boss doesn't have enough information to allow for problems since you're the one familiar with the work, not the boss...Otherwise, why would the boss ask you for an estimate in the first place?
So you cut the rhetorical question out of context and then answered it.
okay, your response is ridiculous. You actually took sections of sentences, making completely different thoughts and then responded to those new ideas.
Not worth responding to with any great effort. Sorry.
I'm not on a high horse, perhaps you should try to read with a smile on your face or some other tactic to keep from transferring your cynisism to other people's thoughts.
There are so many things wrong with your response: 1. I'm not on an ego trip. 2. someone probably put it together on their own time instead of, you guessed it, someone higher up giving them more leeway to get more involved in the details. Google taking the idea serously not the programmer. 3. I'm not talking about more landing sites (duh), I'm talking about all of the observations they made while at the Apollo landing sites. 4. I'm not complaining, I'm expressing a wish. 5. No, I'm not shutting my hole and I have build one myself as a java app. But I don't work for Google.
Jackass.
But since your so sensitive, let me rephrase to avoid hurting your feelings:
It really would be swell if you could find named surface detail that those wonderful brave American Partriots went through so much effort and risk to observe and annotate. God Bless America!
While my own undertakings are pathetic by comparison, it's fun and enjoyable to be able to make connections with the Glorious Champion Programmers of Google and my sorry little hacks.
Companies change bosses like toddlers change shirts. I'm not going to be the point man on a disaster on account of drawing a fool in the next round of reorganizations.
Besides, the boss doesn't have enough information to allow for problems since you're the one familiar with the work, not the boss. Nevermind the obvious conflict of interest he or she has when reporting up to whittle the times down.
No, you're definately wrong on this one. Otherwise, why would the boss ask you for an estimate in the first place? You as the worker, are accountable for the difference between your estimate and the outcome. Period.
Besides, it makes the *TEAM* look like rock stars when something's done before the deadline. Is it really dishonest that you got there by expecting the unexpected? Just because Star Trek simplified the idea doesn't mean its dishonest and self centered.
Please stop letting hollywood science fiction influence your ethics and decision making. Sheesh!
Assuming that NASA or someone has more detailed imagery of at least this area (given it's significance), is there any chance of having these points listed as well. You can always leave the rest of the moon at it's current dairy detail:)
Thanks, neat idea btw.
So Close and yet so far.
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I wish they would have taken this more seriously. The moon actually have a massive number of named points of interest which would be nice to be able to look up.
Personally, I name all of my software projects after features named during the Apollo landing missions. For a second there, I thought I might be able to provide a url in the javadocs to a map of the actual landmark for the team. While not very useful, it certainly would have been educational.
you realize that lawyers don't coach their clients to sue people that don't have money right? If you didn't have the coverage, your career wouldn't be more risky. Hell, I write billing system software and I have only enough liability insurance to convince the client to sign the contract. And not a peseta more.
they only sue when you have an insurance company signed up to pay. Love those lawyers!
Given the way these guys were ambushed on the show, I thought I'd share a pic putting the intelligence of the host in perspective, mullet and all. Post an appropriate caption for it if you like.
Um no. You are not responsible for the morally corrupt actions of people you know. That's like blaiming a Target cashier for not refusing to sell a kitchen knife set to someone who makes a joke about feeling stabby in the cashout line and then goes off and kills their family with the knives.
The cashier didn't do it. The murderer did. He didn't scam people, his acquaintence did. Try to keep it straight, will you?
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It would have been better for ISP's to establish a separate subdomain that includes a keyword such as "kidnet" or something, then legislate that adult content providers block client connections from the "kidnet" subdomains.
That way, if you wanted to be censored you could express your interest by picking up a kidnet account and responsible content providers could comply with little effort.
Enforcement would be clean as well.
Or am I just naive about the whole thing.
They are trying to patent a subset of the functionality of searching by regular expression. Just read Section 4 of the Backgroud of the Invention:
Unlike text strings, numerical information is more difficult to locate using the typical "find" function provided by current word processing application programs. Users are able to locate a text search string in a document using a typical "find" function because they have a preconceived knowledge of the string that they are looking for. For example, if a user is looking for the name "John" in a document, the user can easily modify the search string to match the desired string through a relatively small number of iterations. However, if a user is searching for a number that they do not already know, a telephone number for instance, it may be very difficult to locate the number in the document. The user may be forced to scan through the entire document until the desired number can be located. This can be very time consuming and frustrating for a computer user, especially if the document is a long one.
Microsoft hired some people who don't know how to use regexp and are homebrewing their own solution and trying to patent it!! So if someone makes a predefined expression to search for all telephone numbers in a doc and put's the results in a box, it's patent infringement. Outstanding!
This is what happens when you work in your own little world but you have and abuse the power to affect everyone elses. You show your ass.
Yes, that's right folks. Because I'm buying their kids a laptop. Me and my closest friends, geographically speaking. Our taxes are buying a bunch of kids that I don't have equipment that will be obsolete real soon which most of them will never know how to truly use. Except as email and chat hardware of course.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7416
So don't worry about it! Move to Georgia, specifically Cobb County. Sure, we'll force your kids to listen to Creationism being equated to Natural Selection, but they'll be hearing it from an mp3 on their very own iBooks!
You ought to read the post he/she was responding to. And the following sentence while you're at it:
"Not even a majority of registered voters, I don't think."
So, Captain Obvious, the grandparent's statement that Bush was elected by a majority of Americans was wrong, and the parent's response was on target, and you need to go back to school and learn to read.
What about being erroneously flagged as a felon and revoked of their right to vote?
or re-districted so their vote is marginalized?
or relegated to a district with antiquated voting equipment which caused fewer people to be able to vote by the time the polls closed?
or told by their employers they could kiss their jobs goodbye if they missed their shift. After all, voting isn't a holiday or required by law?
and let's not forget that our political system is a bipolar dog and pony show where the two parties put up staged spats from time to time and present candidates who tow the corporate line. Plenty of people recognize that politicians in the US are liars, thieves and wimps who are afraid to rock the boat.
or several other things.
Remember, voting is a statistical sampling. In that sampling errors are made. So try to be more polite to people who couldn't or didn't vote.
Tell that to the North Koreans.
An Example of an Essential Liberty:
The freedom to seek out or create food for your personal survival without someone obstructing you in the interest of power.
Take your three people and distill what is important to all of them. Those are the essentials. The Artist may not want to make war, the Farmer may not want to create art, the warrior may not want to farm. They all want to do more than sit in one place and starve to death because someone else gets power from making them do so.
And I disagree that they all want security from the state. Most people would be fine having a group of neighbors in the same place or situation as them with which to struggle together. None of them believe another person who doesn't share their situation can know what's best for them. Ask a farmer, warrior or artist some time - it's a common theme.
The state's primary purpose is to defend borders. But when that task is done, the leaders have a tendency to turn inwards and dictate from higher up.
yeah, sorry about that. I'll get the project updated this weekend and switched to Maven 2 instead of Forrest for the website and build. Been working on Maven 2 lately, but just about ready to finish up there with my contributions.
Maybe Politico will get going after all.
What exactly is an unpadded estimate? The only way to provide such a thing would be to run off statistical analysis of past efforts and provide the median and standard deviation to the boss. Otherwise, estimates are always rounded up because there aren't enough significant digits to do anything but.
I think the reason they are all lizards is that politics in the US is a messy field of bushes where it's hard to track what's going on.
If we clear the brush and harass anything left crawling around, the lizards are bound to leave. I don't think they would stay around if several million people were enthusiastically watching their every move.
Idealistic, I know but intersting thing to try.
Great information! Thanks. I always thought they recorded the actual choices of each Senator later.
Perhaps if the project gains momentum we can push people to harass legislators for a few choice bills:
* no anonymous voting.
* elimination of riders.
* legislation in layman's terms.
Wishful thinking, I'm sure. But might as well try, because right now, Johnny can't vote.
Worked out the numbers. The average citizen in the US is only interested in a few committees. Works out to about 10 bills or resolutions per week. And let me tell you, a lot of them are utterly useless - "Contratulate so-and-so for model citizen behavior..." garbage.
As far as keeping up as the content providers, thomas.loc.gov does it for us. We just need to scrape. And at least the house (xml.house.gov) is working towards xml formatted bills and resolutions. Special interest opinions could be RSS feeds. Hell, may even support blogged rss opinions about bills.
Need to do it as an application - don't want to keep the persons choices on a central server and want very interactive behavior from the app.
If I get far, you'll know because I'll mysteriously die in a car crash. Heh.
Problem is the parties consolidated early on into only two relevant ones. If the Democratic party implodes or disbands deliberately, I'm almost certain the subgroups in the Republican party would diverge into their own parties. It's common-enemy crap.
That and a torrent of irrelevant crap making a bunch of noise while the important issues slip by.
I'm thinking a non-web-based application (e.g., Java Application) getting information from thomas.loc.gov & the legislative branches' XML initiatives.
Eventually we could summarize voters opinions and send an inconspicuous email with the statistics to the appropriate representative.
I could use some help on this idea. Been pondering it for a while with no momentum:
http://polico.sourceforge.net/
So far I have a command line scraper so far which takes Johnny's zip code and tells him who his reps are. Need to pick it up again...
Thought about this some. The app will have tabs for each committee. You configure it to only track those committees you are interested in. The rest would be greyed out.
Estimated, given the volume of measures being reviewed, that the average Johnny would have 10 bills or resolutions per week to review.
Johnny wouldn't have to catch up after a vacation or getting behind. He'd simply pick up with the current bills. His vote during election time just has to be based on *something* the representative or senator did, not what they said they would do. Even if it's only one bill, it's better than televised talking head crap.
Bills Johnny made a choice about that changed after the fact would be highlighted for more review.
We could have options to receive rss feeds from interest groups with opinions about the bills. To help Johnny make his choice.
How about we all get together and write an application which makes tracking bills and resolutions easy for the layman. You can pick and choose the ones you agree with and the app will create a report during election season sumarizing who to vote for based on your picks?
Instead of the crap the politicians are spewing.
Then it won't matter who belongs to what party.
essential liberty. temporary security.
These things, these adjectives, they actually mean something and serve the purpose of specificity. Try not to ignore them, will you?
His point was that you must endure the threat of physical harm while engaging in those activites required to promote and emphasize those principles which are essential to our spirit and freedom (actual freedom, not how the word is used today).
Uhm, yeah:
You quoted this:
why would the boss ask you for an estimate in the first place?
And resonded with this:
I'll take a wild stab in the dark with this one... because he wants to know how long something will take?
I said:
Besides, the boss doesn't have enough information to allow for problems since you're the one familiar with the work, not the boss...Otherwise, why would the boss ask you for an estimate in the first place?
So you cut the rhetorical question out of context and then answered it.
The rest I leave as an exercise.
okay, your response is ridiculous. You actually took sections of sentences, making completely different thoughts and then responded to those new ideas.
Not worth responding to with any great effort. Sorry.
I'm not on a high horse, perhaps you should try to read with a smile on your face or some other tactic to keep from transferring your cynisism to other people's thoughts.
There are so many things wrong with your response:
1. I'm not on an ego trip.
2. someone probably put it together on their own time instead of, you guessed it, someone higher up giving them more leeway to get more involved in the details. Google taking the idea serously not the programmer.
3. I'm not talking about more landing sites (duh), I'm talking about all of the observations they made while at the Apollo landing sites.
4. I'm not complaining, I'm expressing a wish.
5. No, I'm not shutting my hole and I have build one myself as a java app. But I don't work for Google.
Jackass.
But since your so sensitive, let me rephrase to avoid hurting your feelings:
It really would be swell if you could find named surface detail that those wonderful brave American Partriots went through so much effort and risk to observe and annotate. God Bless America!
While my own undertakings are pathetic by comparison, it's fun and enjoyable to be able to make connections with the Glorious Champion Programmers of Google and my sorry little hacks.
God Bless though Programmers Too!
Companies change bosses like toddlers change shirts. I'm not going to be the point man on a disaster on account of drawing a fool in the next round of reorganizations.
Besides, the boss doesn't have enough information to allow for problems since you're the one familiar with the work, not the boss. Nevermind the obvious conflict of interest he or she has when reporting up to whittle the times down.
No, you're definately wrong on this one. Otherwise, why would the boss ask you for an estimate in the first place? You as the worker, are accountable for the difference between your estimate and the outcome. Period.
Besides, it makes the *TEAM* look like rock stars when something's done before the deadline. Is it really dishonest that you got there by expecting the unexpected? Just because Star Trek simplified the idea doesn't mean its dishonest and self centered.
Please stop letting hollywood science fiction influence your ethics and decision making. Sheesh!
And someone would confirm this for me, their contact email address for this project bounces back. So much for the feedback line.
t ml
:)
Here is what I sent:
USGS has a list of named features surrounding the Apollo landing sites
available here:
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/moon/moonland.h
Assuming that NASA or someone has more detailed imagery of at least this
area (given it's significance), is there any chance of having these
points listed as well. You can always leave the rest of the moon at it's
current dairy detail
Thanks, neat idea btw.
I wish they would have taken this more seriously. The moon actually have a massive number of named points of interest which would be nice to be able to look up.
Personally, I name all of my software projects after features named during the Apollo landing missions. For a second there, I thought I might be able to provide a url in the javadocs to a map of the actual landmark for the team. While not very useful, it certainly would have been educational.
you realize that lawyers don't coach their clients to sue people that don't have money right? If you didn't have the coverage, your career wouldn't be more risky. Hell, I write billing system software and I have only enough liability insurance to convince the client to sign the contract. And not a peseta more.
they only sue when you have an insurance company signed up to pay. Love those lawyers!
Given the way these guys were ambushed on the show, I thought I'd share a pic putting the intelligence of the host in perspective, mullet and all. Post an appropriate caption for it if you like.
I think you have a point:
1. Create new Funny Inside Joke moderation
2. filter out the jokes.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Um no. You are not responsible for the morally corrupt actions of people you know. That's like blaiming a Target cashier for not refusing to sell a kitchen knife set to someone who makes a joke about feeling stabby in the cashout line and then goes off and kills their family with the knives.
The cashier didn't do it. The murderer did. He didn't scam people, his acquaintence did. Try to keep it straight, will you?