Meanwhile there are people arguing free speech rights only apply when the government is attempting to restrict them, conveniently ignoring the fact that if there were any multinational corporations around when the founders set this place up maybe the Bill of Rights would have been a little tighter.
If you don't like your employer's attitude on these issues, you're still free to walk, you don't need a pair of ruby slippers to click three times and wish you were home. Enough people have the guts to walk out on an oppressive employer they may get the message, particularly if you mention it in an exit interview.
I've disagreed with employers and managers (who may or may not represent the employer above their own ego) and spoken my mind a number of times. It's usually best to form a plan to address grievances rather than uttering disparaging remarks in the break room or anonymously on the web or in the news. If there's nothing to be gained then have the intelligence to go. I truly despise hearing people whine about how they hate what's going on in their workplace, but don't do anything about it.
As opposed to what? Employement in the pre-union days of the early 20th century, where workers were little more than chattel and their minds didn't matter? Orgainization was seen as a step towards communism and fought hard and bloody. Now you just post anonymously about how your thoughts aren't your own.
Blog anonymously and with a healthy dose of paranoia.
No, cheapskate, hire a lawyer to advise you on protecting any ideas of your own which you think may be of significant value. If you've come up with a zinger which may make your fortune, you don't have to stay with your employer and bitch about it, go take a risk on your own and leave the job.
Don, we need to procede with action against Cats for freedom for all merikans, can you do it?"
"Well, I think we have a few more reservists, what do you have in mind? Tabbies, Siamese, that sort of thing?"
I guess it's time to stock up those sound-proofing materials, I can't stand metal-grinding noise.
Hmm. So the robot would literally be using it's tool. Kinda strips the metaphor.
Seriously though, what is the incentive for robots to reproduce? If they're so smart, they would've realized that they can simply upgrade or replace parts. They might enjoying sexing, but certainly not reproducing.
Overproducing would suggest their limited intelligence, by overtaxing renewable resources, foolishly wasting non-renewable resources and generally filling the place up with junk. There a good example of that around here, if I could just remember where...
you know that a robot is a redneck if it's got half a dozen humans lying around it's front yard.
If I were Bill Gates I'd shell out some money for that stuff.
And then what? Dig a hole in your back yard and burn everything in it that challenges your vise-like grip on the IT market? Or file it away, with a very Blofeld-ish, "Quaint, quaint."
Seeing as almost all of our local stations have been consumed by mega-corporations such as Clear Channel. We have nice exciting playlists that repeat about once a half hour.
I guess for sports, national public radio and the like this might be a cool thing. Or for college radio shows that play at odd hours (it always seems that the only shows I like are on at 3 in the morning)
I feel it's almost a concept too late for the show. We're probably not that far from a generation which says, "AM? FM? What are these strange things you speak of? Can I get that at the iTunes store?" where all they know of is what they download or listen to over the web.
What I need is something to record From the Web audio to my HD for later playback, and I'm pretty sure such a thing is out there if I look, or maybe just a few tricks.
What would I want to record radio for? Unless I'm so cheep as to want to make MP3's out of music DJ's blab over.
As if anything done by government is EVER "swiftly" undone. This would just lead to even more problems. Don't know what they would be yet, but I would bet almost anything on it.
Oh, I dunno about that. We've had trade disputes with Canada over lumber, Italy over shoes, France over wine, etc. for ages. It's just a natural extension of the idea into commerce by wire, so to speak.
I think I speak for a lot of Slashdot when I say that one of the coolest things we might see in our lifetime is the development of quantum computing. Once we figure out the basics, it is going to transform the way we computer simply out of the sheer computing power we'll be able to throw at things.
It'll be region coded. All the real power and functionality you want will be available in another region.
Seriously, who didn't see this coming? Who loves clueless legislators? Spammers do!
You get what you vote for.
The day the feds take a real step toward busting spam is the day they enjoin certain IP addresses from connecting into the United States.
It may seem a fantastic idea, but I doubt it would be that hard to pull off. If the PRC get bent out of shape about it, just have Condi fire off a letter explaining the injunction will be swiftly removed once the violator steps into line.
Of course, we hope such powers are only used for good and not evil...
I wonder if a 3d applet containing some 3d forms would be harder to decode. Sounds like a good project for someone bored!
That's what I thought this was going to be about. Imagine my disappointment at more of the same. What about a Q/A based upon an image?
I.e.
The boy has how many apples in his left hand?
Animals, Left to right (cat, dog, bird)
With enough style these could be much more difficult than those damn words, which even I with my above average visual acuity, have difficulty decyphering (imagine the problems this presents for the visually impaired!)
I think google is throwing stones at random hoping that atleast one will hit the mark like the search engine thing.
That's pretty close to Microsoft's business model. They got lucky on the O/S and have made big zorkmids on Server and Office. Most of their other forays, quite a few, have lost them massive piles of cash.
Google isn't trying to push crap on people that they don't need, they just make it available and all the cost is in development, with little invested in hardware or marketing. Word of mouth works well for them (escpecially on/.)
Your title at least sounds interesting, as does the premise (I love WWII). The chapter I mentioned sounds like an AM seminar at a chemical engineering trade show in Duluth.
Imagine training dozens, if not hundreds of people in codebreaking to contend with undecipherabls upon which lives and the tide of war may hinge. Marks made some good points. He also painted an unflattering portrait of how politics within an organization can be deadly.
According to the BBC, Regular Blackberry use 'could damage thumbs', experts warn.... But US and UK doctors said repetitive use could cause arthritis or harm tendons in the thumb.
And years ago I got a GyroMouse which required the right thumb to press mouse buttons and was definitely less strain that the index finger
pushing down all the time. Maybe I should be glad I'm back to an old-stlye mouse. Meanwhile, how about millions of people using their thumbs on all those
Game Boys and such? Are we headed for an epidemic of arthritic thumbs? It could make tobacco settlements look tame.
A sneak peek at chapter 7:
Solution of polygraphic substitution systems polyalphabetic substitution systems
and that's just the title. Pack a lunch for this one...
A good read along with this would probably be Between Silk And Cyanide: A Codemakers War, which gets into, among other things, creation of more secure codes during WW II. An excellent read (I currenly have The White Rabbit on order (story of Yeo-Thomas' activities in France, capture, interrogation and imprisonment))
RHEL 4 will have Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 certification.
While Microsoft will have nothing of the sort, unless they've lied through their teeth, yet the US Government still will used hundreds
of thousands of instances of Windows on PC's throughout countless bureaus.
RedHat will lobby, "Look, we have a totally transparent operating sytem, if it is in any way compromised it will likely be fixed in less than 24
hours and we can work with you to handle logistical details of patching all necessary computers. In the long run we're cheaper, reliable and
immediately accountable." To which, a government all to used to chutzpah and hubris over the past few years will reply, "We don't like transparency, haven't you
learned anything by now? Clearly our Great Benefactor in Redmond is a better patron and we totally believe him when he tells us that
insurgents are behind exploiting security holes."
MythTV is one of the most promising linux products for encouraging people to try.
A MythTV PVR isnt so hard to make for the slightly above average user and is a great excuse to try linux.
Sure, but don't you expect at some point the Media Powers That Be will divulge their ultimate plan, when the ask US Congress to approve certain requirements for recording Television and effectively criminalize unapproved PVRs (those which don't erase stuff after so much time, those that don't automatically include some sort of DRM to prevent you burning DVDs of shows to give to your friends, etc.)?
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If you don't like your employer's attitude on these issues, you're still free to walk, you don't need a pair of ruby slippers to click three times and wish you were home. Enough people have the guts to walk out on an oppressive employer they may get the message, particularly if you mention it in an exit interview.
I've disagreed with employers and managers (who may or may not represent the employer above their own ego) and spoken my mind a number of times. It's usually best to form a plan to address grievances rather than uttering disparaging remarks in the break room or anonymously on the web or in the news. If there's nothing to be gained then have the intelligence to go. I truly despise hearing people whine about how they hate what's going on in their workplace, but don't do anything about it.
As opposed to what? Employement in the pre-union days of the early 20th century, where workers were little more than chattel and their minds didn't matter? Orgainization was seen as a step towards communism and fought hard and bloody. Now you just post anonymously about how your thoughts aren't your own.
Blog anonymously and with a healthy dose of paranoia.
No, cheapskate, hire a lawyer to advise you on protecting any ideas of your own which you think may be of significant value. If you've come up with a zinger which may make your fortune, you don't have to stay with your employer and bitch about it, go take a risk on your own and leave the job.
think of me as an open source
Cats. Haven't you heard?
Don, we need to procede with action against Cats for freedom for all merikans, can you do it?"
"Well, I think we have a few more reservists, what do you have in mind? Tabbies, Siamese, that sort of thing?"
Next Up: Sky Spam
Hmm. So the robot would literally be using it's tool. Kinda strips the metaphor.
Seriously though, what is the incentive for robots to reproduce? If they're so smart, they would've realized that they can simply upgrade or replace parts. They might enjoying sexing, but certainly not reproducing.
Overproducing would suggest their limited intelligence, by overtaxing renewable resources, foolishly wasting non-renewable resources and generally filling the place up with junk. There a good example of that around here, if I could just remember where...
you know that a robot is a redneck if it's got half a dozen humans lying around it's front yard.
Which was a pretty cool show when it first aired, but the same could be said of TOS.
How about _completely_ new series, with no canon to worry about, no old fans to grouse about "how it was better back in the day" etc.
Babylon 5 seemed to do that. What's the big fear about trying likewise again?
upn is scared, nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyaahhh-nyah
And then what? Dig a hole in your back yard and burn everything in it that challenges your vise-like grip on the IT market? Or file it away, with a very Blofeld-ish, "Quaint, quaint."
Where's that old C64 when I need a few hundred thousand... man, what people will pay for outdated tech!
I feel it's almost a concept too late for the show. We're probably not that far from a generation which says, "AM? FM? What are these strange things you speak of? Can I get that at the iTunes store?" where all they know of is what they download or listen to over the web.
What I need is something to record From the Web audio to my HD for later playback, and I'm pretty sure such a thing is out there if I look, or maybe just a few tricks.
What would I want to record radio for? Unless I'm so cheep as to want to make MP3's out of music DJ's blab over.
Oh, I dunno about that. We've had trade disputes with Canada over lumber, Italy over shoes, France over wine, etc. for ages. It's just a natural extension of the idea into commerce by wire, so to speak.
It'll be region coded. All the real power and functionality you want will be available in another region.
Life sucks and then you upgrade.
You get what you vote for.
The day the feds take a real step toward busting spam is the day they enjoin certain IP addresses from connecting into the United States.
It may seem a fantastic idea, but I doubt it would be that hard to pull off. If the PRC get bent out of shape about it, just have Condi fire off a letter explaining the injunction will be swiftly removed once the violator steps into line.
Of course, we hope such powers are only used for good and not evil...
That's what I thought this was going to be about. Imagine my disappointment at more of the same. What about a Q/A based upon an image?
I.e.
The boy has how many apples in his left hand?
Animals, Left to right (cat, dog, bird)
With enough style these could be much more difficult than those damn words, which even I with my above average visual acuity, have difficulty decyphering (imagine the problems this presents for the visually impaired!)
That's pretty close to Microsoft's business model. They got lucky on the O/S and have made big zorkmids on Server and Office. Most of their other forays, quite a few, have lost them massive piles of cash.
Google isn't trying to push crap on people that they don't need, they just make it available and all the cost is in development, with little invested in hardware or marketing. Word of mouth works well for them (escpecially on /.)
Google is an advertising company. If their results are skewed, people might start using a competitor, and they lose out on ad revenues.
Unless ... they're attempting to attract their advertisers to register through them.
dum-da-dum-dum dum-da-dum-dum-DUM!!!
Me, too. I've even got a couple coffee mugs and am hoping for a shirt.
cheap domains might help Google's plans for world domination."
I for one welcome our new Goo-Goo-Googling Overlords.
Imagine training dozens, if not hundreds of people in codebreaking to contend with undecipherabls upon which lives and the tide of war may hinge. Marks made some good points. He also painted an unflattering portrait of how politics within an organization can be deadly.
And years ago I got a GyroMouse which required the right thumb to press mouse buttons and was definitely less strain that the index finger pushing down all the time. Maybe I should be glad I'm back to an old-stlye mouse. Meanwhile, how about millions of people using their thumbs on all those Game Boys and such? Are we headed for an epidemic of arthritic thumbs? It could make tobacco settlements look tame.
celebrities such as David Beckham using them.
He doesn't need his thumbs anyway.
A good read along with this would probably be Between Silk And Cyanide: A Codemakers War, which gets into, among other things, creation of more secure codes during WW II. An excellent read (I currenly have The White Rabbit on order (story of Yeo-Thomas' activities in France, capture, interrogation and imprisonment))
While Microsoft will have nothing of the sort, unless they've lied through their teeth, yet the US Government still will used hundreds of thousands of instances of Windows on PC's throughout countless bureaus.
RedHat will lobby, "Look, we have a totally transparent operating sytem, if it is in any way compromised it will likely be fixed in less than 24 hours and we can work with you to handle logistical details of patching all necessary computers. In the long run we're cheaper, reliable and immediately accountable." To which, a government all to used to chutzpah and hubris over the past few years will reply, "We don't like transparency, haven't you learned anything by now? Clearly our Great Benefactor in Redmond is a better patron and we totally believe him when he tells us that insurgents are behind exploiting security holes."
Now if it were Demonslayers of Catan they might be onto something...
Sure, but don't you expect at some point the Media Powers That Be will divulge their ultimate plan, when the ask US Congress to approve certain requirements for recording Television and effectively criminalize unapproved PVRs (those which don't erase stuff after so much time, those that don't automatically include some sort of DRM to prevent you burning DVDs of shows to give to your friends, etc.)?
it'll move underground and be known as MythterTV
I think that's where we perfected the Guantanamo Prisoner Status idea.
Dunno, Mitnick only did 10 months, same for Abene.