"As soon as this is done the code will be available for download. Stay tuned."
Besides, the MiB don't operate on the entire planet. Perhaps that's the best argument for releasing something which may have questionable applications as open source - you can't undo it once it's done.
This is extremely difficult to do. Each turn or curve or long distance run introduces an error which, after several movements accumulates into "I have no idea where I am". People and animals get around this with landmarks and chemical trails. And since this is a vacuum cleaner expected to cover the entire surface, the latter doesn't make much sense. The landmark is the IR beacon.
As oppose to mapping, I'd suggest setting up other "landmarks" which point the way to the charging station. The general direction of the charger will do. In other words, the charger is attractive and the pointers are directionally repulsive.
Some coworkers and I saw the 3:30 showing here in Atlanta. The movie cuts to Vader's mask being put on for the first time and one of the guys in our group whispers "wait, now who is this guy?".
Who needs a stalker when you can have an obsessive girlfriend in the comfort of your own home?
You know, if he does something you don't agree with, you could just discuss it with him instead. Or better yet, break up with him if you can't get him to stop surfing porn.
Wow, if you can publish an article about not loading the same data over and over again, then I've got some work to do!
How about an article on how to make an application run the same operation over and over instead of repeatedly executing it from a cron job?
Or an article about keeping your strings in a string table instead of dispersing them throughout your code?
Or perhaps I could write about how to use cut-and-paste to aid in producing Javadoc instead of typing @parameter over and over again?
Is this jackass for real? Publishing this garbage is almost as bad as filing for patents on trivial extensions of ideas. I hope the author at least realizes the only good to come from it is to pad his resume.
No, we need to get rid of cars for all but specialized purposes (rigs, concrete trucks, military, etc.) and switch to personal rapid transit.
There's no reasons to use band-aid solutions to make cars follow vitual tracks on the road, think for the driver on following other cars, rate of speed, timing intersection crossings, or any other proposal made when a vehicle that IS on a track, IS controlled by computers and not driven by passengers does this more simply and efficiently.
Classic river crossing problem. We need to take a step back to move forward.
Oh yes, in summary, this country is on it's downward spiral, and should be split into three which better reflect the needs of the people; otherwise, the Federal Government needs to be cut to 1/10th its size and the authority reseated in the States.
Can't do much of anything. You see, the company I work for currently requires unpaid overtime from their slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Hemployees. So I'm required by unwritten rule to work 60 hours per week.
After working out to combat my docile job, cause my butt is size 31, not 53, getting food, etc. I don't have time to throw sheets of paper at phony representatives who could give a rats ass about my opinion. They don't even read the resolutions they pass, what makes you think anyone is really reading letters to the critters?
I don't own a TV, I don't listen to pop radio, I don't play video games. I make effective use of my time, and I can tell you, there is no time to sit in on 4 hour long county committee meetings to listen to our "leaders" go over the last meeting minutes and roberts rules of order.
Don't give the SOB more credit than is due. This is damage control to prevent a wildly popular new idea from sending S.678 to the Supreme Court chopping block prematurely based on a 1st Amendment battle.
This way, the other crap in this bill doesn't end up challenged in courts quite as quickly.
But this type of information has details which get stale quickly. What good is the SSN, Name, birthday when you can't provide a current address because the victim moved. Or died. Or married.
It's a race condition. Whoever did this would be wise to move soon, if they haven't already. How long was the period between when they thought it was 30k and 300k? A few weeks? Consider that a lead in the race.
I disagree. Your employees can be unhappy or desperate and commit fraud because of things they do in their own time. In fact, it's more likely that disgruntled employees got that way because something at work was merely the straw that broke the camel's back.
Counterexample: Lets say I employee you in my accounting department. You marry a man who after the honeymoon admits to have over 3 times your annual household income in debt. You start embezzling money from my company.
The underlying problem has nothing to do with foreigners being untrustworthy. Prosecution of criminals in other countries is far more complicated, particularly when the countries don't share the same fundamental basis for prosecution - copyright law, patent law, *personal privacy*.
Political appeasement between the two countries government for damage countrol isn't good enough. You can try to hide behind the "that's racist" tree and flail your arms, but the fact is, it is more risky to spread your clients personal information outside of the circle of law your company operates and your clients live.
And frankly, there is no excuse for doing it. Systems can be built in such a way that a customer can call a foreign call center and say "I need to update my address". They give an account number and the system doesn't display their data, it simply provides fields to the CSR to validate what the customer tells them, one piece of data at a time. Then give them a new set of fields to enter the new address which updates the account. All without handing over all of the information necessary to impersonate the individual.
The Requirements are simple to define:
The system must not permit the CSR to view customer information - only account and billing. The system should validate that individual elements of information given by a customer are correct. The system should allow individual elements of the customer information to be updated.
Given AOL's history, there are other limits we should expect from AOL's service:
1. Extended phone calls must be made with a series of 4 minute calls. 2. The service will require a dialup line, and won't be available by TCP/IP over an existing ethernet connection until later. 3. All conversations with people you haven't spoken with in the past must begin in a conference call. Please have your gender, age and availability ready to answer questions from other people on the call. 4. When on a call, you won't be able to pick up another phone in the house without disconnecting the first phone. 5. Even though there are hundreds of phone available, you will have to use a boxy AOL manufactured phone with oversized buttons with graphics which have to be downloaded over the aforementioned dialup connection. 6. Despite having signed up for there service, you will be shipped additional phone receivers occasionally, packaged in plastic or tin boxes. 7. You can only contact men with the service, but the receiver will randomly change the pitch of the other person to make them sound like a woman.
I never realized this before, but after looking at the imagery for Lake Lanier, I noticed that Google has blanketed all of North America with copyright notices! Everywhere! (c)2005 Google!
More or less yes. There was a collaborative infrastructure in place because of its academic origin. It had sponsorship in the form of supportive professors, as oppose to trying to start in a corporate profit center. And prototypes were available - Minix, piles of research material, dry runs...
It's competitors could never be equal because the environment wasn't equal. On the same level for a few days, perhaps, but that's ambiguous. The rate and direction matter so much more than a snapshot in time.
That thing pegs my cpu. Is there any way for me to limit that in Linux? I'm on a laptop and really don't have a desire to set my pants on fire in an airport.
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Perhaps, but then you've salinated the waste water. That's hardly something you want to dump in your garden.
Blockquoth the article:
"As soon as this is done the code will be available for download. Stay tuned."
Besides, the MiB don't operate on the entire planet. Perhaps that's the best argument for releasing something which may have questionable applications as open source - you can't undo it once it's done.
While becoming a nun might be an extreme way to avoid senility, there are lots of
Oh! Hahahahehehehahahahahhaha ha ha. Hehehehe. Hee Hee. Heh.
Okay, perhaps it's not that funny.
This is extremely difficult to do. Each turn or curve or long distance run introduces an error which, after several movements accumulates into "I have no idea where I am". People and animals get around this with landmarks and chemical trails. And since this is a vacuum cleaner expected to cover the entire surface, the latter doesn't make much sense. The landmark is the IR beacon.
As oppose to mapping, I'd suggest setting up other "landmarks" which point the way to the charging station. The general direction of the charger will do. In other words, the charger is attractive and the pointers are directionally repulsive.
Some coworkers and I saw the 3:30 showing here in Atlanta. The movie cuts to Vader's mask being put on for the first time and one of the guys in our group whispers "wait, now who is this guy?".
We're still punching him as I type.
gee, thanks for that. But his point was the infrastructure, not your family.
Who needs a stalker when you can have an obsessive girlfriend in the comfort of your own home?
You know, if he does something you don't agree with, you could just discuss it with him instead. Or better yet, break up with him if you can't get him to stop surfing porn.
Pegasus mail.
Netscape mail.
AOL.
UUNet.
http://www.skywebexpress.com/
I'm not sure it will ever take off, but the idea has so many possibilities and has been under research since the 70's.
Wow, if you can publish an article about not loading the same data over and over again, then I've got some work to do!
How about an article on how to make an application run the same operation over and over instead of repeatedly executing it from a cron job?
Or an article about keeping your strings in a string table instead of dispersing them throughout your code?
Or perhaps I could write about how to use cut-and-paste to aid in producing Javadoc instead of typing @parameter over and over again?
Is this jackass for real? Publishing this garbage is almost as bad as filing for patents on trivial extensions of ideas. I hope the author at least realizes the only good to come from it is to pad his resume.
Skydiver 1: Is it working?
.... I feel like I forgot something... my charger .... or ....
Skydiver 2: What?
Skydiver 3: He said, IS IT WORKING?
Skydiver 4: Mine is up!
Skydiver 1: Okay, so is mine now.
Skydiver 2: What?
Skydiver 3: HE SAID, HIS IS WORKING NOW!
Skydiver 2: OKAY THANKS!
Skydiver 4: Start the game already.
Skydiver 2: What?
Skydiver 1: Okay Cool, I can see everybody!
Skydiver 3:
WHUMP!!
No, we need to get rid of cars for all but specialized purposes (rigs, concrete trucks, military, etc.) and switch to personal rapid transit.
There's no reasons to use band-aid solutions to make cars follow vitual tracks on the road, think for the driver on following other cars, rate of speed, timing intersection crossings, or any other proposal made when a vehicle that IS on a track, IS controlled by computers and not driven by passengers does this more simply and efficiently.
Classic river crossing problem. We need to take a step back to move forward.
Oh yes, in summary, this country is on it's downward spiral, and should be split into three which better reflect the needs of the people; otherwise, the Federal Government needs to be cut to 1/10th its size and the authority reseated in the States.
Federal concensus is an oxymoron.
Can't do much of anything. You see, the company I work for currently requires unpaid overtime from their slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Hemployees. So I'm required by unwritten rule to work 60 hours per week.
After working out to combat my docile job, cause my butt is size 31, not 53, getting food, etc. I don't have time to throw sheets of paper at phony representatives who could give a rats ass about my opinion. They don't even read the resolutions they pass, what makes you think anyone is really reading letters to the critters?
I don't own a TV, I don't listen to pop radio, I don't play video games. I make effective use of my time, and I can tell you, there is no time to sit in on 4 hour long county committee meetings to listen to our "leaders" go over the last meeting minutes and roberts rules of order.
Don't give the SOB more credit than is due. This is damage control to prevent a wildly popular new idea from sending S.678 to the Supreme Court chopping block prematurely based on a 1st Amendment battle.
This way, the other crap in this bill doesn't end up challenged in courts quite as quickly.
But this type of information has details which get stale quickly. What good is the SSN, Name, birthday when you can't provide a current address because the victim moved. Or died. Or married.
It's a race condition. Whoever did this would be wise to move soon, if they haven't already. How long was the period between when they thought it was 30k and 300k? A few weeks? Consider that a lead in the race.
One of the first links I checked out from the google results he lists is apparantly some ddos perpetrator's weapons list page.
Go Figure.
I look forward to the day you say or do something stupid.
Nope. A majority of the people who still believe that voiting in a two party system works are happy that Bush was re-elected.
The majority of the poeple in the US did not vote for Bush.
Personally, I think the Democratic party shoud disband and let the Republican party implode on itself.
I disagree. Your employees can be unhappy or desperate and commit fraud because of things they do in their own time. In fact, it's more likely that disgruntled employees got that way because something at work was merely the straw that broke the camel's back.
Counterexample:
Lets say I employee you in my accounting department. You marry a man who after the honeymoon admits to have over 3 times your annual household income in debt. You start embezzling money from my company.
The underlying problem has nothing to do with foreigners being untrustworthy. Prosecution of criminals in other countries is far more complicated, particularly when the countries don't share the same fundamental basis for prosecution - copyright law, patent law, *personal privacy*.
Political appeasement between the two countries government for damage countrol isn't good enough. You can try to hide behind the "that's racist" tree and flail your arms, but the fact is, it is more risky to spread your clients personal information outside of the circle of law your company operates and your clients live.
And frankly, there is no excuse for doing it. Systems can be built in such a way that a customer can call a foreign call center and say "I need to update my address". They give an account number and the system doesn't display their data, it simply provides fields to the CSR to validate what the customer tells them, one piece of data at a time. Then give them a new set of fields to enter the new address which updates the account. All without handing over all of the information necessary to impersonate the individual.
The Requirements are simple to define:
The system must not permit the CSR to view customer information - only account and billing.
The system should validate that individual elements of information given by a customer are correct.
The system should allow individual elements of the customer information to be updated.
Given AOL's history, there are other limits we should expect from AOL's service:
1. Extended phone calls must be made with a series of 4 minute calls.
2. The service will require a dialup line, and won't be available by TCP/IP over an existing ethernet connection until later.
3. All conversations with people you haven't spoken with in the past must begin in a conference call. Please have your gender, age and availability ready to answer questions from other people on the call.
4. When on a call, you won't be able to pick up another phone in the house without disconnecting the first phone.
5. Even though there are hundreds of phone available, you will have to use a boxy AOL manufactured phone with oversized buttons with graphics which have to be downloaded over the aforementioned dialup connection.
6. Despite having signed up for there service, you will be shipped additional phone receivers occasionally, packaged in plastic or tin boxes.
7. You can only contact men with the service, but the receiver will randomly change the pitch of the other person to make them sound like a woman.
What did I miss?
I never realized this before, but after looking at the imagery for Lake Lanier, I noticed that Google has blanketed all of North America with copyright notices! Everywhere! (c)2005 Google!
More or less yes. There was a collaborative infrastructure in place because of its academic origin. It had sponsorship in the form of supportive professors, as oppose to trying to start in a corporate profit center. And prototypes were available - Minix, piles of research material, dry runs...
It's competitors could never be equal because the environment wasn't equal. On the same level for a few days, perhaps, but that's ambiguous. The rate and direction matter so much more than a snapshot in time.
That thing pegs my cpu. Is there any way for me to limit that in Linux? I'm on a laptop and really don't have a desire to set my pants on fire in an airport.