I already am. Check out banksimple
We are still a few months away from launch - it takes quite a bit of time and money to start a bank. But its far from impossible.
According to the story, they met online when she was 15, and he was in his early 20s. Two years later, when she was 17, they arranged to meet for sex. As far as I know, the age of consent is 16, meaning that a 17 year old can legally agree to have sex with an older person. I don't see how the monitor committed a crime, unless he propositioned her before she turned 16, and that might be difficult to prove in court. As for AOL being liable, that's a stretch too. They probably disclaim all liability in their terms of use, and unless she can prove some fraud or negligence on the part of the employee, I don't see how they can be held liable. This whole story smacks of a frivolous lawsuit by somebody who just realised that she might be able to embarass a big company into settling rather than face publicity.
I had this teacher who also did some network consulting. He told us of a case where he knew somebody was logging on at a client's site using his password, but he couldn't figure out how his password was being hacked. He noticed that whenever he was logging in, a particular secretary used to hang around. He confronted her and she confessed to using his account. She was an experienced typist and claimed that she could figure out what he was typing by listening to the keystrokes a few times.
Both the Copyright Act 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000 are Indian laws. I doubt that the Copyright Act would have any DMCA like provisions that could apply on this case. Not so sure about the Information Technology Act. It was hailed as a great piece of forward looking legislation when it was introduced. Any Indian lawyers care to comment?
So I guess there are advantages to outsourcing beyond plain old poverty alleviation in third world countries. But I wonder how long it will be before the US uses the WTO to push "intellectual property rights" down the throats of Indians?
The Java desktop system is really nothing but a branding strategy by Sun. Its basically a linux box with Java and Staroffice. The "Java" tag is an attempt to benefit from the hype around Java.
But if Sun is going to use this as a platform to innovate, it could help Linux a lot. Sun has the marketing dollars to push the adoption of this platform, especially in emerging markets where Windows isn't entrenched already. We could see a whole new generation of users who are more familiar with Linux via JDS, than with Windows.
For me, it would be more like 26 hours by flight, since I am currently in Washington DC. Thats not counting the 2-3 hour long queues outside most polling stations in Bangalore.
But considering the security these Deibold machines seem to have, maybe I can vote in DC in November!:-D
The specs for the Indian EVM. This is definitely going to be the most widely deployed and used e-voting machine in the history of mankind. Seems pretty secure, except for the lack of a paper trail. But with 600 million eligible voters, I guess the lack of a paper trail means a lot of forests have been saved. Besides most attacks against the election system tend to be pretty unsophisticated , ie, boot-capturing and voter initimidation.
Looks like this machine will definitely go a long way in ensuring the fairness of Indian elections. Maybe I'll even vote next time.
The AP is a powerful media organization, agreed, but Slashdot?? Despite its tremendous power to bring down powerful web servers with one simple post, Slashdot does not reach the vast majority of Americans.
While the program was unified under Poindexter, it was easy to publicise, easy to criticize, and easy to attack. Now that there are 20 different projects run by N different agencies, how are you going to stop it? Since oversight is so much more difficult, this may even end up being more of an invasion of privacy then the original TIA plan.
"The whole congressional action looks like a shell game," said Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks work by U.S. intelligence agencies. "There may be enough of a difference for them to claim TIA was terminated while for all practical purposes the identical work is continuing."
So most of the projects continue, but under a different name. And this time I am sure they will be much better hidden from the public eye. 1984 anybody?
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Electronic Warfare for the common masses. Just another example of civilian uses of orginially military technologies.
I did some work on a web-site, and one of our major requirements was that we had to maintain our google ranking while we migrated. We had some heavy optimisations in place, even changing the way our application worked, to optimize our google raking.
Turns out a very large fraction of our traffic was through google. I guess in the future I am going to be seeing (and building) a lot more of web-sites optimized for google.
This is just one more among the many costs of having more than one system of measurement.
1. Cost of learning -> americans who travel anywhere in the world have to learn how to use SI units. And its an unpleasant shock for foreigners when they are confronted with the Imperial system in the US. How many hours of useful productivity are lost as a result? 2. Cost of manufacturing -> Global manufacturers of equipment such as thermometers and speedometers have to maintain more than one setup, so that they can sell in the US and other countries. Think of how your cars could be cheaper if the US used kmph instead of mph. 3. Cost of errors -> By having more than one system, we introduce the possibility of errors while converting. Human nature being what it is, somebody will eventually goof up. How much do these errors cost?
Offset against these costs is the cost of converting from Imperial to SI. This is a one-time cost that can be achieved relatively painlessly, as Britain showed in the 70s. By avoiding it for so long, the US has only wasted more time and money.
American King's Ransom?? Who was the last King of America? And not so long ago, Indian Rajah's were famous for ostentatious displays of wealth. Even after they lost their kingdoms in 1947, most of them still do pretty well, thank you.
Top Indian CEO's average something around 250,000 - 1,000,000 + USD a year. While thats significantly less than their american counterparts, its still a pretty penny. And the difference in compensation is even more stark, considering that an entry-level programmer makes 5000 USD a year in India. As the Indian economy booms, there is a huge demand for skilled middle and top-level managers.
The funny thing is that if any of the American execs actually took your advice, they would probably find that their quality of life in India is a lot better (Aside from the occassional power failure, oh wait, that happens in the US too). A dollar still goes a lot further in India then it does in the US.
Don't worry, it will all even out in a 100 years or so. The rupee will rise, incomes in India will rise, and growth will slow. Look at Japan in the 80s.
Hey I submitted the article because a guy at work pointed it out to me. I am a bit new to CM, and this seemed like the sort of really crazy idea that works.
Now I am going to take a look at subversion. But I don't think I could achieve the iron control of file structure thats needed for this approach to work.
The first example in the letter is org.jboss.logging.XLevel vs.
org.apache.geronimo.core.log.XLevel
Both seem to be copied from log4j's examples.customLevel.XLevel
However, there are much more substantial allegations made here
I think there are 2 APIs discussed here. One is the standard test API consisting of TestCase, Test, etc. The other being the API for extending JUnit to support new functionality. I understand that you had problems with the latter, but not with the former? So you have rewritten it, while still supporting the standard test API. The idea being that people can reuse their existing suites, without having to rewrite them. Or have you rewritten both APIs, and also tacked on support for the "old" test API? What were the reasons for this decision? And is your tool now easily extensible? I still find it hard to believe that a total rewrite is really necessary. Not that I haven't advocated the same myself in more than one project for much shakier reasons:-D.
I have recently begin to use JUnit and ran into problems right away with the classloading mechanism. If any of you have wierd problems with inheritance relationships breaking, try modifying the excluded.properties file inside the JUnit jar. This worked for me.That said, it would have been nice to be able to modify this without having to unjar anything. However, I wonder why they rewrote it from scratch. Wouldn't it have been simpler to redesign the problematic parts. And I also find it interesting that they have written their project to be compatible with existing tests. Does that means that JUnit's interface is not problematic, only the implementation? Seems to me like more of a case for JUnit 4.0 then a complete re-write from scratch. The follow up articles should be interesting
Slashdot Mirror
I already am. Check out banksimple
We are still a few months away from launch - it takes quite a bit of time and money to start a bank. But its far from impossible.
According to the story, they met online when she was 15, and he was in his early 20s. Two years later, when she was 17, they arranged to meet for sex. As far as I know, the age of consent is 16, meaning that a 17 year old can legally agree to have sex with an older person. I don't see how the monitor committed a crime, unless he propositioned her before she turned 16, and that might be difficult to prove in court.
As for AOL being liable, that's a stretch too. They probably disclaim all liability in their terms of use, and unless she can prove some fraud or negligence on the part of the employee, I don't see how they can be held liable.
This whole story smacks of a frivolous lawsuit by somebody who just realised that she might be able to embarass a big company into settling rather than face publicity.
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I had this teacher who also did some network consulting. He told us of a case where he knew somebody was logging on at a client's site using his password, but he couldn't figure out how his password was being hacked. He noticed that whenever he was logging in, a particular secretary used to hang around. He confronted her and she confessed to using his account. She was an experienced typist and claimed that she could figure out what he was typing by listening to the keystrokes a few times.
Always the first to leave a sinking ship
Both the Copyright Act 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000 are Indian laws. I doubt that the Copyright Act would have any DMCA like provisions that could apply on this case. Not so sure about the Information Technology Act. It was hailed as a great piece of forward looking legislation when it was introduced. Any Indian lawyers care to comment?
Google Cache of original mastercard joke. I can't believe MasterCard sent a C&D over a scik joke.
So I guess there are advantages to outsourcing beyond plain old poverty alleviation in third world countries. But I wonder how long it will be before the US uses the WTO to push "intellectual property rights" down the throats of Indians?
The Java desktop system is really nothing but a branding strategy by Sun. Its basically a linux box with Java and Staroffice. The "Java" tag is an attempt to benefit from the hype around Java.
But if Sun is going to use this as a platform to innovate, it could help Linux a lot. Sun has the marketing dollars to push the adoption of this platform, especially in emerging markets where Windows isn't entrenched already. We could see a whole new generation of users who are more familiar with Linux via JDS, than with Windows.
For me, it would be more like 26 hours by flight, since I am currently in Washington DC. Thats not counting the 2-3 hour long queues outside most polling stations in Bangalore.
:-D
But considering the security these Deibold machines seem to have, maybe I can vote in DC in November!
The specs for the Indian EVM. This is definitely going to be the most widely deployed and used e-voting machine in the history of mankind. Seems pretty secure, except for the lack of a paper trail. But with 600 million eligible voters, I guess the lack of a paper trail means a lot of forests have been saved. Besides most attacks against the election system tend to be pretty unsophisticated , ie, boot-capturing and voter initimidation.
Looks like this machine will definitely go a long way in ensuring the fairness of Indian elections. Maybe I'll even vote next time.
The AP is a powerful media organization, agreed, but Slashdot?? Despite its tremendous power to bring down powerful web servers with one simple post, Slashdot does not reach the vast majority of Americans.
While the program was unified under Poindexter, it was easy to publicise, easy to criticize, and easy to attack. Now that there are 20 different projects run by N different agencies, how are you going to stop it? Since oversight is so much more difficult, this may even end up being more of an invasion of privacy then the original TIA plan.
"The whole congressional action looks like a shell game," said Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks work by U.S. intelligence agencies. "There may be enough of a difference for them to claim TIA was terminated while for all practical purposes the identical work is continuing."
So most of the projects continue, but under a different name. And this time I am sure they will be much better hidden from the public eye. 1984 anybody?
Electronic Warfare for the common masses. Just another example of civilian uses of orginially military technologies.
How much new revenues will this new plant bring into Dresden? 600 million plus seems an awful lot of money to get just 1000 additional jobs.
Unless the city going to get substantial revenues from taxes, or increased business opportunities for vendors, it seems like a huge waste of money.
I did some work on a web-site, and one of our major requirements was that we had to maintain our google ranking while we migrated. We had some heavy optimisations in place, even changing the way our application worked, to optimize our google raking.
Turns out a very large fraction of our traffic was through google. I guess in the future I am going to be seeing (and building) a lot more of web-sites optimized for google.
This is just one more among the many costs of having more than one system of measurement.
1. Cost of learning -> americans who travel anywhere in the world have to learn how to use SI units. And its an unpleasant shock for foreigners when they are confronted with the Imperial system in the US. How many hours of useful productivity are lost as a result?
2. Cost of manufacturing -> Global manufacturers of equipment such as thermometers and speedometers have to maintain more than one setup, so that they can sell in the US and other countries. Think of how your cars could be cheaper if the US used kmph instead of mph.
3. Cost of errors -> By having more than one system, we introduce the possibility of errors while converting. Human nature being what it is, somebody will eventually goof up. How much do these errors cost?
Offset against these costs is the cost of converting from Imperial to SI. This is a one-time cost that can be achieved relatively painlessly, as Britain showed in the 70s. By avoiding it for so long, the US has only wasted more time and money.
American King's Ransom?? Who was the last King of America? And not so long ago, Indian Rajah's were famous for ostentatious displays of wealth. Even after they lost their kingdoms in 1947, most of them still do pretty well, thank you.
Top Indian CEO's average something around 250,000 - 1,000,000 + USD a year. While thats significantly less than their american counterparts, its still a pretty penny. And the difference in compensation is even more stark, considering that an entry-level programmer makes 5000 USD a year in India. As the Indian economy booms, there is a huge demand for skilled middle and top-level managers.
The funny thing is that if any of the American execs actually took your advice, they would probably find that their quality of life in India is a lot better (Aside from the occassional power failure, oh wait, that happens in the US too). A dollar still goes a lot further in India then it does in the US.
Don't worry, it will all even out in a 100 years or so. The rupee will rise, incomes in India will rise, and growth will slow. Look at Japan in the 80s.
Hey I submitted the article because a guy at work pointed it out to me. I am a bit new to CM, and this seemed like the sort of really crazy idea that works.
Now I am going to take a look at subversion. But I don't think I could achieve the iron control of file structure thats needed for this approach to work.
The first example in the letter is
org.jboss.logging.XLevel vs. org.apache.geronimo.core.log.XLevel
Both seem to be copied from log4j's examples.customLevel.XLevel
However, there are much more substantial allegations made here
I should warn you that living in Bangalore will probably cost you more $300. More if you plan to buy a car. :-)
There has been a lot of confusion lately, so let me try and clear some up
:-)
President Kalam spoke at theInternational Institute of Information Technology, Pune, known as isquareit
This has nothing to do with International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad , or with Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. Dunno they same to love the IIT acronym, wonder why?
Is this my imagination, or is this a duplicate?? btw, FIRST POST
I think there are 2 APIs discussed here. One is the standard test API consisting of TestCase, Test, etc. The other being the API for extending JUnit to support new functionality. I understand that you had problems with the latter, but not with the former? So you have rewritten it, while still supporting the standard test API. The idea being that people can reuse their existing suites, without having to rewrite them. Or have you rewritten both APIs, and also tacked on support for the "old" test API? :-D.
What were the reasons for this decision? And is your tool now easily extensible?
I still find it hard to believe that a total rewrite is really necessary. Not that I haven't advocated the same myself in more than one project for much shakier reasons
I have recently begin to use JUnit and ran into problems right away with the classloading mechanism. If any of you have wierd problems with inheritance relationships breaking, try modifying the excluded.properties file inside the JUnit jar. This worked for me.That said, it would have been nice to be able to modify this without having to unjar anything.
However, I wonder why they rewrote it from scratch. Wouldn't it have been simpler to redesign the problematic parts. And I also find it interesting that they have written their project to be compatible with existing tests. Does that means that JUnit's interface is not problematic, only the implementation? Seems to me like more of a case for JUnit 4.0 then a complete re-write from scratch.
The follow up articles should be interesting