If you don't like spamhaus, don't use their blocklist. How hard is that?
Spamhaus lists IP addresses that send spam. If the ISP ignores complaints or moves the spammers to a different IP, then it will list the netblock or the whole ISP. Those of us who use their list appreciate it. It reduces the load on my email servers by thousands per day. Don't blame the messenger.
As soon as I read this bizarre plot I looked for the word "informant" and there it was:
The case began in May, when a Drug Enforcement Administration informant with ties to high-level leaders of Los Zetas told agents of a bizarre conversation
This looks like another entrapment case so the anti-terrorism squad can justify their existence. I find it really hard to imagine Iran getting involved with a used-car salesman to assassinate a diplomat.
Who would pay for expensive new inventions if patents weren't assigned to a company? And if the company can't sell its patents, then there wold just be a new company created with every patent and they would just sell the company. There's a way around every restriction when you try hard enough.
Besides, there's no point in patenting web technology. If it only works in one browser, then web sites won't use it. They were already burned by IE-only stuff in the past. How many people here have had to fix a website that some clod put up using Active-X crap?
Law student here, so take this with a grain of salt. The due process clause essentially purposes to prevent unfair service of process against people. For example, certain methods of process (i.e. serving someone), like mailing them a letter, may not be valid in certain circumstances. Due process takes into account primarily fairness in the service of process and whether the process is reasonably calculated to provide notice to the party being served.
So you must think that its ok for the government to kill Americans without trial, since "due process" only applies to process servers. Wonder why it says "deprived of life" in there? Is there much loss of life in the process server business you think?
Anything that can't be automatically tested should probably be redesigned to have some test hooks added. I/O can have some kind of loopback or test fixture, GUI testing is easy to automate, it's generally rare error conditions that can be hard to simulate. Those are the cases where you might need to add a way to inject errors upstream to force the condition.
Most places simply accept that not using those types of tools helps the bottom line, and that it is the job of managers and developers alike to keep the goals in mind and have the vision to see them through to completion, or that bug tracking is an aspect of Support.
When you only have a couple people, you can get by without continuous integration tools or automated testing. The problem is convincing the business that growth is more than just adding warm bodies.
What's the deal with CI? What's wrong with merging at completion of work units -- like 2-3 weeks instead of daily?
#1 can be bad if some manager is just pulling stuff out of a catalog and imposing it on the developers. It can be good if the developers are on board with the process and had a hand in tailoring it to the way their group works. Technology alone doesn't make a good process.
Sure. So when the kidnappers send one of your fingers and demand ransom, they can prove its yours. It never had anything to do with abductions; it was to help them solve crimes. It reminds me of the show "The PJs" where everyone ignores the van giving out free flu shots. The driver yells out "We'll find some other way to get your DNA!" as he drives away. Very funny show.
You're saying that "disagree with the government" is more broad than "with psychological issues"? Who doesn't have psychological issues?
I know someone who is an occasionally violent schizophrenic when she doesn't take her meds. You think she should be locked up? Throw away the key? What exactly are you advocating? The cops already know about her. Her file must be huge. There's no money to do more than they do now. What new class of people are they going to identify and what are they going to do with this information that they can't do already?
Please think for 5 seconds before supporting a new intrusive government program that has no hope of success for its stated purpose, but just another possibility of being abused.
It can't happen as long as we presume innocence until proven guilty.
The DHS is reaching for new ways to achieve visible results without doing the hard work of battling for the budget needed to hire and train really smart, perceptive people for sensitive posts like TSA agents at airports.
When machines get smart enough to predict someone's future crimes, we're all going to be unemployed, anyway.
When I read the summary, the first thing I thought was that if they are working on this then they have too big a budget now.
As a culture, we find that the most appropriate treatment of people who disagree with the government is to isolate them and help them, forcibly. We also find that they are not "wrong" and don't need to be punished, but require help. I don't readily see how an act of violence in this case is a critical point where we force help on the unwilling. So, why not force it earlier and prevent the violent acts?
ICBM technology was only available for minotaur after equivalent published work had been done in civilian programs (mostly NASA).
Your other examples did not come out of the big weapons programs. DARPA was always separate and doing joint research with universities, so more open. I did not know that Sony and Philips were part of the US military - you have opened my eyes.
Who said anything about 3D animation? That was years later. You forget that the original IBM PC was a command-line interface machine that ran BASIC. Apple popularized the 2D graphical user interface. See:
Pixar, and the equally influential Xerox PARC, were never aimed at home users, but they developed graphics and the graphical desktop that made Apple famous. But don't forget that Pixar rendering engines and Xerox workstations were $10 - 50,000 range. Apple figured out how to put that technology into sub-$1000 systems.
Gates created the IBM PC as much as anyone who worked for IBM. Nolan Bushnell belongs on the list for personal computing, he started the gaming industry. Commodore was not as groundbreaking or influential as the PC, Apple and Atari, tho.
Nuclear weapons research, ICBMs, Trident missile submarines - many trillions of dollars. None of it contributes to civilian uses, all innovations since the 40's are still classified.
When we stored tapes at an offsite backup, they were picked up in a locked metal box by uniformed security guards who delivered them to their protected site. These days it has shifted to VPN. Never heard of just having tapes sitting in an employee's car. What was the offsite backup? A shoebox in his closet?
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If you don't like spamhaus, don't use their blocklist. How hard is that?
Spamhaus lists IP addresses that send spam. If the ISP ignores complaints or moves the spammers to a different IP, then it will list the netblock or the whole ISP. Those of us who use their list appreciate it. It reduces the load on my email servers by thousands per day. Don't blame the messenger.
This is perfect to outfit my team of Ninja bodyguards. The assassins won't know who to attack.
Salary: $174,000
Average cost of campaign for House: $1,000,000
Average cost of campaign for Senate: $4,300,000
so what do you mean by "paid for"?
As soon as I read this bizarre plot I looked for the word "informant" and there it was:
The case began in May, when a Drug Enforcement Administration informant with ties to high-level leaders of Los Zetas told agents of a bizarre conversation
This looks like another entrapment case so the anti-terrorism squad can justify their existence. I find it really hard to imagine Iran getting involved with a used-car salesman to assassinate a diplomat.
Who would pay for expensive new inventions if patents weren't assigned to a company? And if the company can't sell its patents, then there wold just be a new company created with every patent and they would just sell the company. There's a way around every restriction when you try hard enough.
Besides, there's no point in patenting web technology. If it only works in one browser, then web sites won't use it. They were already burned by IE-only stuff in the past. How many people here have had to fix a website that some clod put up using Active-X crap?
Law student here, so take this with a grain of salt. The due process clause essentially purposes to prevent unfair service of process against people. For example, certain methods of process (i.e. serving someone), like mailing them a letter, may not be valid in certain circumstances. Due process takes into account primarily fairness in the service of process and whether the process is reasonably calculated to provide notice to the party being served.
So you must think that its ok for the government to kill Americans without trial, since "due process" only applies to process servers. Wonder why it says "deprived of life" in there? Is there much loss of life in the process server business you think?
Constitutional Law - you fail it.
Doesn't the 5th amendment to the constitution require laws to be clear and fair?
Anything that can't be automatically tested should probably be redesigned to have some test hooks added. I/O can have some kind of loopback or test fixture, GUI testing is easy to automate, it's generally rare error conditions that can be hard to simulate. Those are the cases where you might need to add a way to inject errors upstream to force the condition.
Most places simply accept that not using those types of tools helps the bottom line, and that it is the job of managers and developers alike to keep the goals in mind and have the vision to see them through to completion, or that bug tracking is an aspect of Support.
When you only have a couple people, you can get by without continuous integration tools or automated testing. The problem is convincing the business that growth is more than just adding warm bodies.
What's the deal with CI? What's wrong with merging at completion of work units -- like 2-3 weeks instead of daily?
#1 can be bad if some manager is just pulling stuff out of a catalog and imposing it on the developers. It can be good if the developers are on board with the process and had a hand in tailoring it to the way their group works. Technology alone doesn't make a good process.
It's 183 furlongs, ok?
Sure. So when the kidnappers send one of your fingers and demand ransom, they can prove its yours. It never had anything to do with abductions; it was to help them solve crimes. It reminds me of the show "The PJs" where everyone ignores the van giving out free flu shots. The driver yells out "We'll find some other way to get your DNA!" as he drives away. Very funny show.
/etc/init.d/sarcasm start
Please. It used to be service sarcasm start but we've switched to systemctl start sarcasm.service now.
She won a Guggenheim grant. What have you ever done? Oh, nothing. Maybe you should be euthanized. You're more of a drain on society than she is.
You're saying that "disagree with the government" is more broad than "with psychological issues"? Who doesn't have psychological issues?
I know someone who is an occasionally violent schizophrenic when she doesn't take her meds. You think she should be locked up? Throw away the key? What exactly are you advocating? The cops already know about her. Her file must be huge. There's no money to do more than they do now. What new class of people are they going to identify and what are they going to do with this information that they can't do already?
Please think for 5 seconds before supporting a new intrusive government program that has no hope of success for its stated purpose, but just another possibility of being abused.
It can't happen as long as we presume innocence until proven guilty.
The DHS is reaching for new ways to achieve visible results without doing the hard work of battling for the budget needed to hire and train really smart, perceptive people for sensitive posts like TSA agents at airports.
When machines get smart enough to predict someone's future crimes, we're all going to be unemployed, anyway.
When I read the summary, the first thing I thought was that if they are working on this then they have too big a budget now.
As a culture, we find that the most appropriate treatment of people who disagree with the government is to isolate them and help them, forcibly. We also find that they are not "wrong" and don't need to be punished, but require help. I don't readily see how an act of violence in this case is a critical point where we force help on the unwilling. So, why not force it earlier and prevent the violent acts?
FTFY
ICBM technology was only available for minotaur after equivalent published work had been done in civilian programs (mostly NASA).
Your other examples did not come out of the big weapons programs. DARPA was always separate and doing joint research with universities, so more open. I did not know that Sony and Philips were part of the US military - you have opened my eyes.
It can only be attributable to human error.
Who said anything about 3D animation? That was years later. You forget that the original IBM PC was a command-line interface machine that ran BASIC. Apple popularized the 2D graphical user interface. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
Pixar, and the equally influential Xerox PARC, were never aimed at home users, but they developed graphics and the graphical desktop that made Apple famous. But don't forget that Pixar rendering engines and Xerox workstations were $10 - 50,000 range. Apple figured out how to put that technology into sub-$1000 systems.
So much for IBM, Atari and Commodore.
Gates created the IBM PC as much as anyone who worked for IBM. Nolan Bushnell belongs on the list for personal computing, he started the gaming industry. Commodore was not as groundbreaking or influential as the PC, Apple and Atari, tho.
Nuclear weapons research, ICBMs, Trident missile submarines - many trillions of dollars. None of it contributes to civilian uses, all innovations since the 40's are still classified.
Its between Kryptonite and.Cavorite.
When we stored tapes at an offsite backup, they were picked up in a locked metal box by uniformed security guards who delivered them to their protected site. These days it has shifted to VPN. Never heard of just having tapes sitting in an employee's car. What was the offsite backup? A shoebox in his closet?