Snowden has actually said he would go before a jury of peers, in an open trial. The problem is that he faces a military trial, behind closed doors, with no actual representation. So this public statement really is a huge farce.
The only thing that's amazing about this is that I got email spam about this new "development possibility" before the story was even on slashdot (yes, I have bad spam filters). It's so ridiculous how companies apparently think that it's ok to send unsolicited email just because my address shows up on google play for an android app. Avoid at all cost is therefore my take-away.
Hi, I'm the "typical" white male in CS gradschool. My subjective view is that CS has one of the lowest number of women compared to other STEM disciplines. I'd estimate that typically there are about 5% tops in classes or at conferences. For various reasons I think that this situation is a shame for the community and society as a whole. What do you think can be done to improve this?
Read the entire paper, not the summary. There are some interesting points there. One is that NSA does not have a shortage of cybersecurity experts. That's because they train them. It takes three years of full-time training. The agencies that complain that they can't find anybody aren't investing in their people in the way that NSA does. Other agencies don't invest in their people like that.
I think that's really an unfair comparison. Do other agencies have the insane funding that NSA has? The lack of accountability (and by that I mean they don't have to justify their spend as much). Also, as the article noted, the NSA is except from these pay scales.
This is typical of employer whining about not being able to get the people they want. Sure, the companies who want people with some very specific skill set, right now, often at low pay, can't find them. Organizations that are willing to train people don't have those problems.
And this goes to show that you missed the points of the report. Most federal agencies are forbidden from paying decent wages because they have to use the pay scales that the government sets.
If you want to make the point that the government pays shit, then you should phrase that differently...
The anonymous submitter has a very different idea of what constitutes significant than I do... 7% girls may be infinitely more than 0, but is still not very much over all!
I really like my Lenovo T-series laptop. Sure, it may not live up to the legendary build quality back when it was an IBM, but it is still pretty good. It has all the user replacement options that are standard, a good keyboard and screen. It's not getting an award for its looks, but well, who cares.
While the article may not have very diplomatic wording, the essence is true: I installed Linux Mint about a year ago, and liked it. But I had to switch to a different distribution after a couple of months because there were virtually NO updates coming in at all. I'd say that Ubuntu updates like crazy, but no updates at all in several months makes it very likely that they just don't have enough manpower to provide such a service. And that does make your distribution vulnerable. My experience may be outdated, but I'd bet it's still the same given this article...
> AMD/ATI also has introduced MANTLE Api for lower level access than DirectX which is cross platform. This may turn into a very important API as AMD/ATI have their GPUs in the next generation Sony and Xbox consoles as well with a large marketshare for game developers to target
I read somewhere that that's unfortunately not true; Mantle will not be available for the new Xbox or Playstation. My speculation is that Microsoft and Sony don't actually want to be THAT compatible as it would make porting too easy...
So they were not extorting, they just wrote an algorithm that does the extortion for them. Great blame game, if they hadn't written the algorithm themselves...
This is cool to hear. I don't use Macs, but hopefully any cross-platform implementation could eventually be extended to allow Linux support. That would be real news!
And I still see less then 1 per month in my Inbox. _THIS_ is the price I am willing to pay to allow Google to filter my email.
I do agree that gmail's spam filter does not let much through, in truth, it is way too aggressive. Are you subscribed to mailing lists? Often it'll just tag some random message as spam. I've had various things end up in spam over the years, and really wonder how many landed in there that I never noticed (who checks their spam folder every couple of days?).
Recently I got very upset because I tried to sell something on craigslist, and sure enough, an offer ended up in spam. Of course I didn't check until a couple of days later, and by then the person wasn't interested any more. Since I'm going to start job hunting soon, I can't really afford the uncertainty the gmail spam filter introduces, and plan on moving my email elsewhere.
I love DotA, and I would be so happy about a game based on the concept which has a native client. I'd hope though that it included some kind of AI script. And similarly, one great thing about DotA is that Icefrog updates the game every now and then, I wonder if they'd do a similar thing for HoN.
If i'd elaborated, i wouldn't have made first post!
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So in summary, it's one of these stupid "first post" first posts because your elaboration clearly shows that you are not answering the question - which was about home directories and not about code / websites. Managing those is clearly different....
Nope, I disagree. I have no problems with a text installer, but I still think the live cd installer is a useful feature. I'd prefer to use that if I have the option.
I just think it is nice to have the option to do something with the computer while it's installing. Installing is I/O heavy, so i.e. surfing the web or playing a little game does not slow it down.
... Presumably they allowed software players for a reason, despite knowing they were way easier to hack than hardware players.
Uhm, you do realize that actually watching a BD movie on a laptop or computer is done in software? Obviously this has to be supported, even big companies are not that dumb. Heck, I bet BD is decoded in software on the PS3.
For me Quake had some of the best mods ever. For Quake I there was Future vs. Fantasy, a great mod where you could play as different characters either from the future, or from the fantasy realm.
Quake II had a great one called Action Quake, which is somewhat similar in playing-style to counterstrike. But it had nice things like if you got hit in the leg, you'd bleed, and have trouble walking, until you applied a bandage. Thery were so much fun at the time!
They stayed a lot in my mind, though lately all I've been playing is DotA...:-)
This is definitely not the first time in recent years that we hear S3 can compete with ATI and Nvidia again. As much as I'd like to see that, I certainly won't believe it until I see some decent independent benchmarks.
Huh? I was logged in to gmail all day yesterday and am logged in today. I am receiving and sending plenty of email from that account. What's the problem?
Uhm, please read at least the freakin' summary! It says right there that not all users are affected...
I thought they just spent all their time removing features for new releases these days.
I don't understand how years and years back, Gaim had rudimentary support for voice and video (the most requested feature) and tons of other features. In the past 3-4 years of development, voice and video was never finished and is no longer an option to even compile in I do believe. AFAIK they just didn't have the manpower to improve upon the rudimentary audio and video support. Pidgin's goal has always been to work on many IM networks, and if you had followed at all what goes on on the mailing list, then you would know that they are not against integrating audio and video support at all, they only want the code to be of good quality. So all they need is for some people to step up to the task:-).
1. attend random funeral 2. come back late at night, dig up corpse and skin it 3. glue skin to your blow-up doll 4. ??? 5. profit! note: steps 1 and 2 can be replaced with doing the job yourself - "it puts the lotion on it's skin"
Are you kidding me? Did you even read anything of the even the summary? The whole point is that they are using infrared cameras, which don't give a crap whether it's a cold corpse or a dummy... because they'll look pretty much the same heat wise (unless step 4. is a method to create a warm-blood zombie... but then I think it'll be preferable to just use the regular lanes)
Wow, this is amazing. They ordered computers, which were never used... shouldn't that be an outcry? That school-district must have had a terrible administration at that point. I really don't see how the argument that they never used the equipment has anything to do with why or why not they should pay the bill. Afterall, IBM delivered, so why should they not get paid?
If it wasn't for the fact that the administrators that created this mess are probably all not working there anymore, I'd say they should pay the full amount, with interest, as punishment for wasting the taxpayers dollars!
Doesn't anynoe think it's odd that this story about an AMD donation was posted by "Core 2 Duo", which is linked to the Intel page? Since there's no user page for that name, I'm assuming that it's not a person, but somehow a special submission... odd, together with this new Intel Opinion center... might it have caused some bias?
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Snowden has actually said he would go before a jury of peers, in an open trial. The problem is that he faces a military trial, behind closed doors, with no actual representation. So this public statement really is a huge farce.
The only thing that's amazing about this is that I got email spam about this new "development possibility" before the story was even on slashdot (yes, I have bad spam filters). It's so ridiculous how companies apparently think that it's ok to send unsolicited email just because my address shows up on google play for an android app. Avoid at all cost is therefore my take-away.
Hi,
I'm the "typical" white male in CS gradschool. My subjective view is that CS has one of the lowest number of women compared to other STEM disciplines. I'd estimate that typically there are about 5% tops in classes or at conferences. For various reasons I think that this situation is a shame for the community and society as a whole. What do you think can be done to improve this?
Thanks!
Read the entire paper, not the summary. There are some interesting points there. One is that NSA does not have a shortage of cybersecurity experts. That's because they train them. It takes three years of full-time training. The agencies that complain that they can't find anybody aren't investing in their people in the way that NSA does. Other agencies don't invest in their people like that.
I think that's really an unfair comparison. Do other agencies have the insane funding that NSA has? The lack of accountability (and by that I mean they don't have to justify their spend as much). Also, as the article noted, the NSA is except from these pay scales.
This is typical of employer whining about not being able to get the people they want. Sure, the companies who want people with some very specific skill set, right now, often at low pay, can't find them. Organizations that are willing to train people don't have those problems.
And this goes to show that you missed the points of the report. Most federal agencies are forbidden from paying decent wages because they have to use the pay scales that the government sets.
If you want to make the point that the government pays shit, then you should phrase that differently...
The anonymous submitter has a very different idea of what constitutes significant than I do... 7% girls may be infinitely more than 0, but is still not very much over all!
Hey, I know Arnold Schwarzenegger did some unpopular things, but I haven't heard anything about the book burning.
Turns out Schwarzeneggger isn't the only Austrian dude out there who ended up in government in another country...
I really like my Lenovo T-series laptop. Sure, it may not live up to the legendary build quality back when it was an IBM, but it is still pretty good. It has all the user replacement options that are standard, a good keyboard and screen. It's not getting an award for its looks, but well, who cares.
While the article may not have very diplomatic wording, the essence is true: I installed Linux Mint about a year ago, and liked it. But I had to switch to a different distribution after a couple of months because there were virtually NO updates coming in at all. I'd say that Ubuntu updates like crazy, but no updates at all in several months makes it very likely that they just don't have enough manpower to provide such a service. And that does make your distribution vulnerable. My experience may be outdated, but I'd bet it's still the same given this article...
> AMD/ATI also has introduced MANTLE Api for lower level access than DirectX which is cross platform. This may turn into a very important API as AMD/ATI have their GPUs in the next generation Sony and Xbox consoles as well with a large marketshare for game developers to target
I read somewhere that that's unfortunately not true; Mantle will not be available for the new Xbox or Playstation. My speculation is that Microsoft and Sony don't actually want to be THAT compatible as it would make porting too easy...
So they were not extorting, they just wrote an algorithm that does the extortion for them. Great blame game, if they hadn't written the algorithm themselves...
This is cool to hear. I don't use Macs, but hopefully any cross-platform implementation could eventually be extended to allow Linux support. That would be real news!
And I still see less then 1 per month in my Inbox.
_THIS_ is the price I am willing to pay to allow Google to filter my email.
I do agree that gmail's spam filter does not let much through, in truth, it is way too aggressive. Are you subscribed to mailing lists? Often it'll just tag some random message as spam. I've had various things end up in spam over the years, and really wonder how many landed in there that I never noticed (who checks their spam folder every couple of days?).
Recently I got very upset because I tried to sell something on craigslist, and sure enough, an offer ended up in spam. Of course I didn't check until a couple of days later, and by then the person wasn't interested any more. Since I'm going to start job hunting soon, I can't really afford the uncertainty the gmail spam filter introduces, and plan on moving my email elsewhere.
I love DotA, and I would be so happy about a game based on the concept which has a native client. I'd hope though that it included some kind of AI script. And similarly, one great thing about DotA is that Icefrog updates the game every now and then, I wonder if they'd do a similar thing for HoN.
Oh come on, if you're asking about this issue seriously, how can you omit what languages you speak?
If you only speak English, then your options are obviously limited, the English speaking countries are quickly enumerated.
Or, if you are willing to learn a language, then that is an important piece of the puzzle, isn't it?
If i'd elaborated, i wouldn't have made first post!
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So in summary, it's one of these stupid "first post" first posts because your elaboration clearly shows that you are not answering the question - which was about home directories and not about code / websites. Managing those is clearly different....
Nope, I disagree. I have no problems with a text installer, but I still think the live cd installer is a useful feature. I'd prefer to use that if I have the option.
I just think it is nice to have the option to do something with the computer while it's installing. Installing is I/O heavy, so i.e. surfing the web or playing a little game does not slow it down.
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Presumably they allowed software players for a reason, despite knowing they were way easier to hack than hardware players.
Uhm, you do realize that actually watching a BD movie on a laptop or computer is done in software? Obviously this has to be supported, even big companies are not that dumb. Heck, I bet BD is decoded in software on the PS3.
For me Quake had some of the best mods ever. For Quake I there was Future vs. Fantasy, a great mod where you could play as different characters either from the future, or from the fantasy realm.
Quake II had a great one called Action Quake, which is somewhat similar in playing-style to counterstrike. But it had nice things like if you got hit in the leg, you'd bleed, and have trouble walking, until you applied a bandage. Thery were so much fun at the time!
They stayed a lot in my mind, though lately all I've been playing is DotA... :-)
This is definitely not the first time in recent years that we hear S3 can compete with ATI and Nvidia again. As much as I'd like to see that, I certainly won't believe it until I see some decent independent benchmarks.
Huh? I was logged in to gmail all day yesterday and am logged in today. I am receiving and sending plenty of email from that account. What's the problem?
Uhm, please read at least the freakin' summary! It says right there that not all users are affected...
Who the heck modded the parent "informative"?
May I suggest the non-existant mod "ironic"... come on, even if you know none of the shows, the tone should have made it a bit obvious!
I don't understand how years and years back, Gaim had rudimentary support for voice and video (the most requested feature) and tons of other features. In the past 3-4 years of development, voice and video was never finished and is no longer an option to even compile in I do believe. AFAIK they just didn't have the manpower to improve upon the rudimentary audio and video support. Pidgin's goal has always been to work on many IM networks, and if you had followed at all what goes on on the mailing list, then you would know that they are not against integrating audio and video support at all, they only want the code to be of good quality. So all they need is for some people to step up to the task
Wow, this is amazing. They ordered computers, which were never used... shouldn't that be an outcry? That school-district must have had a terrible administration at that point. I really don't see how the argument that they never used the equipment has anything to do with why or why not they should pay the bill. Afterall, IBM delivered, so why should they not get paid?
If it wasn't for the fact that the administrators that created this mess are probably all not working there anymore, I'd say they should pay the full amount, with interest, as punishment for wasting the taxpayers dollars!
Doesn't anynoe think it's odd that this story about an AMD donation was posted by "Core 2 Duo", which is linked to the Intel page? Since there's no user page for that name, I'm assuming that it's not a person, but somehow a special submission... odd, together with this new Intel Opinion center... might it have caused some bias?