In Germany democracy emerged in spite, not thanks to, American occupation. You should read up on it, it's fascinating. It's as if the US did everything in its power for democracy NOT to see any uptake.
And surely you don't want to use the methods used in Japan to instill democracy in other countries. And besides, how is it a democracy if there's only one party?:-) That's the kind of democracy they have over in Russia. Sure, on paper it's democracy. They hold elections, have parliament, etc. But there's a giant conservative ruling party and fringe liberal parties that barely get any seats in the Duma (their congress) and the power of the people is quite limited because of this.
>> US-based Syrian political activist George Ajjan created >> a web site promoting democracy in Syria, only to find >> GoDaddy blocked anyone inside Syria from seeing it
Give me a single example when a country became democratic (long term) due to the US "promoting" democracy there. You can't do it. Democracy by definition has to come from the "demos" - the people. For it to stick, democracy has to be the point where society achieves its lowest potential energy state, so to speak.
They're just used to it. Both current and future releases of Windows are inferior to a well setup Ubuntu machine, assuming you don't need Windows games (which I don't).
I say this as a (former) lifelong Windows user. I recently switched jobs and decided that it's ridiculous to develop software for Linux using Windows. So I switched, and forced myself to stay there for a month, running Windows (for Outlook, mostly) in VMWare.
It's been three months now, and I can tell you, I'm not going back. Once Evolution starts supporting Exchange I may drop Windows completely. This is a bit of a scary thing to experience, too. It's as if you walked on crutches before, and then you all of a sudden discovered that you don't need them. I now have Linux everywhere and I actually PREFER it to alternatives. And keep in mind, as a former Microsoft employee I have access to their company store, so cost of software is not an issue here.
In addition to that, my wife switched, too. She had to take an online exam, and didn't know how to reboot our desktop PC into Windows. So she took it in Ubuntu. I then noticed she started using OpenOffice spreadsheets. Then I saw her browsing and playing games. Maybe I should throw a Linux partition onto her MacBook, too.
For a commercial vendor, GPL licensed code is not "open" or "available" at all. They have to code it to the spec, and code to the spec they did. How is it their fault that the spec is busted?
Microsoft, in turn, should warn governments about OpenOffice's subpar support for Office 2007 formats. Assuming you want to be fair on this one, of course.
I know they do. It would be stupid for them not to have sniffers. There are ways to defeat the sniffers, though, since their efficacy heavily depends on the presence of chemical marker vapors. Seal the thing into an airtight container, wash it really well with organic solvent and distilled water.
Also, shoe bomber (who used PETN) went undetected by sniffers, which tells me that unless the airport employs dogs, there is (or at least was) no sniffing outside the intrascope path. Which is easy to test - just rub a bit of C4 onto someone's clothing and watch them go through a TSA checkpoint.
>> new scanners now require you to remove EVERY object from your person, no matter what it is
That's a good thing. Otherwise I could stuff my pockets with C4, strap some more to my thighs, and put the fuses into my carry-on, and no one would stop me from bringing this shit on the plane. Grab a few glasses (or break a mirror in the bathroom, assuming it's made of glass), break them, put the pieces around the explosive core to act as shrapnel, put it all into a tin can, stick the fuse in and blow it up.
I don't have any Al-Quaeda training, I'm merely an engineer, but if I had the motivation, it would not take me long to figure out a way to blow up a plane, TSA or no TSA.
This scanner would prevent a lot of these scenarios, particularly if the subject didn't know he/she is being scanned. Of course it doesn't prevent the case where I hide C4 in my colon (don't laugh, you can hide enough there to cause some major damage), but that one would be kinda hard to prevent.
FWIW, equation editor in Office 2007 is already great. To the point where many people who don't know LaTeX and have Office 2007 don't have to invest the time into learning LaTeX. I still prefer LaTeX myself, but I have already invested the time into learning it, and it was HARD to learn.
If you haven't yet seen Office 2007 equation editor, check it out before you bash it. They really did a great job on it. Too bad the rest of Word sucks ass if you want to do structured formatting.
That's OK. By then Russian GLONASS will be fully operational and both the Europeans and the Chinese are thinking of launching their own satellite navigation systems. Out of these three, chances are at least one will be available for the US to use in case of a global conflict.
Why would talented hackers want to expose themselves like this to NSA? That's what I don't get. It's like submitting freaking fingerprints to the police before you rob a store.
And I can tell you that the entire original Register article was pulled out of author's ass. The CNet article just extended that ass pulling, Goatse style. Must be a slow news day. None of this will ever end up in Live Search. Nothing to see here, move on.
Try the Powerset demo, compare it to even current Live Search or Google. Realize that this is just Wikipedia they've managed to index, even at that quality. Scratch your head and wonder why Microsoft paid $100M for it.
Yay for Java apps becoming even more over-engineered than they already are. What really cracks me up is that Spring is presented as a "lightweight" solution, or indeed a solution that solves significant problems. I will take a hand-coded factory over an XML configuration file, so I can step right into it in the debugger without any problems. I will pass around a context object to avoid using AOP and be able to debug my apps. Some parts of Spring are nice, but people seem to use the worst ones. And as a result, you're condemning yourself to JAR hell, since Spring pulls in a dozen JARs, some versions of which might not match with the ones you use in your app. People just cross their fingers and hope it will work.:-)
The problem is that a lot of the Java devs I've met don't think they can let out a fart without using Spring, IoC and AOP and as a result they drastically overengineer the simplest programs and make them hard to maintain and debug.
I had to get a waiver from Legal so that I could download porn without repercussions. A part of the system I was building at the time had a non-recursive web crawler in it, and it did not discriminate what it was downloading. If the input contained kiddie porn, it would download that as well. Thankfully, my work did not require me to view any of that stuff.
A good friend of mine works on spam detection in Live Search. Studying porn, malware, etc. sites is a job requirement for him, and nothing is exempt.
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What I do need is better memory, because the way it is right now, it's pretty much bursting at the seams. I want it to be like it was when I was in my teens. I could read three pages of text once and then recite them pretty much word for word. I felt like I could keep information in my head indefinitely. Complex words (e.g. DNA, NADF, etc.), formulas, numbers, War & Peace - it was all effortless.
A little less than two decades later, I don't remember what I ate in the morning. I would gladly pay 5-10% of my substantial income every year (I hope someone from Big Pharma is reading this) to get my memory back.
Do people actually read these books cover to cover? I at best just skim through them and read the parts that interest me. I don't have the time to read 700 page technical book where 70-80% of content is either redundant or irrelevant.
I'm a Linux user myself (including desktop), and while it works for me, after quite a bit of tweaking, I'm fully aware that other people are not as well versed in technology as I am.
If there is a weak point to Microsoft it's the server, and server software development frameworks. Nail the core scenarios there. Get single sign on, directory integration and ACLs working out of the box. Continue kicking ass on the Java ecosystem side (can I have Sun Java in CentOS and RHEL while we're at it?). Fix busted ass userland user/group management tools that don't support domain users.
Interesting. We use perl scripts and Pentaho to do VERY high volume ETL. One could argue it's a bit Rube Goldberg, but it also works without a hitch, and software cost us $0.
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In Germany democracy emerged in spite, not thanks to, American occupation. You should read up on it, it's fascinating. It's as if the US did everything in its power for democracy NOT to see any uptake.
And surely you don't want to use the methods used in Japan to instill democracy in other countries. And besides, how is it a democracy if there's only one party? :-) That's the kind of democracy they have over in Russia. Sure, on paper it's democracy. They hold elections, have parliament, etc. But there's a giant conservative ruling party and fringe liberal parties that barely get any seats in the Duma (their congress) and the power of the people is quite limited because of this.
>> US-based Syrian political activist George Ajjan created
>> a web site promoting democracy in Syria, only to find
>> GoDaddy blocked anyone inside Syria from seeing it
Give me a single example when a country became democratic (long term) due to the US "promoting" democracy there. You can't do it. Democracy by definition has to come from the "demos" - the people. For it to stick, democracy has to be the point where society achieves its lowest potential energy state, so to speak.
They're just used to it. Both current and future releases of Windows are inferior to a well setup Ubuntu machine, assuming you don't need Windows games (which I don't).
I say this as a (former) lifelong Windows user. I recently switched jobs and decided that it's ridiculous to develop software for Linux using Windows. So I switched, and forced myself to stay there for a month, running Windows (for Outlook, mostly) in VMWare.
It's been three months now, and I can tell you, I'm not going back. Once Evolution starts supporting Exchange I may drop Windows completely. This is a bit of a scary thing to experience, too. It's as if you walked on crutches before, and then you all of a sudden discovered that you don't need them. I now have Linux everywhere and I actually PREFER it to alternatives. And keep in mind, as a former Microsoft employee I have access to their company store, so cost of software is not an issue here.
In addition to that, my wife switched, too. She had to take an online exam, and didn't know how to reboot our desktop PC into Windows. So she took it in Ubuntu. I then noticed she started using OpenOffice spreadsheets. Then I saw her browsing and playing games. Maybe I should throw a Linux partition onto her MacBook, too.
>> So where is the documentation for the docx
>> format Word creates today
It's in the same place where you can find documentation for files the current version of OpenOffice produces. Nowhere.
Although in the case of Office, you can at least unzip the files and take a look at the XML, since they're nothing but XML these days.
Plenty of info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
and here:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
By that token, then, OO's poor support of Microsoft formats is also OO's fault. Which was my original point earlier in the thread.
For a commercial vendor, GPL licensed code is not "open" or "available" at all. They have to code it to the spec, and code to the spec they did. How is it their fault that the spec is busted?
Microsoft, in turn, should warn governments about OpenOffice's subpar support for Office 2007 formats. Assuming you want to be fair on this one, of course.
I know they do. It would be stupid for them not to have sniffers. There are ways to defeat the sniffers, though, since their efficacy heavily depends on the presence of chemical marker vapors. Seal the thing into an airtight container, wash it really well with organic solvent and distilled water.
Also, shoe bomber (who used PETN) went undetected by sniffers, which tells me that unless the airport employs dogs, there is (or at least was) no sniffing outside the intrascope path. Which is easy to test - just rub a bit of C4 onto someone's clothing and watch them go through a TSA checkpoint.
>> new scanners now require you to remove EVERY object from your person, no matter what it is
That's a good thing. Otherwise I could stuff my pockets with C4, strap some more to my thighs, and put the fuses into my carry-on, and no one would stop me from bringing this shit on the plane. Grab a few glasses (or break a mirror in the bathroom, assuming it's made of glass), break them, put the pieces around the explosive core to act as shrapnel, put it all into a tin can, stick the fuse in and blow it up.
I don't have any Al-Quaeda training, I'm merely an engineer, but if I had the motivation, it would not take me long to figure out a way to blow up a plane, TSA or no TSA.
This scanner would prevent a lot of these scenarios, particularly if the subject didn't know he/she is being scanned. Of course it doesn't prevent the case where I hide C4 in my colon (don't laugh, you can hide enough there to cause some major damage), but that one would be kinda hard to prevent.
FWIW, equation editor in Office 2007 is already great. To the point where many people who don't know LaTeX and have Office 2007 don't have to invest the time into learning LaTeX. I still prefer LaTeX myself, but I have already invested the time into learning it, and it was HARD to learn.
If you haven't yet seen Office 2007 equation editor, check it out before you bash it. They really did a great job on it. Too bad the rest of Word sucks ass if you want to do structured formatting.
Just allow the motherfucking diesel cars to be sold again in all states.
That's OK. By then Russian GLONASS will be fully operational and both the Europeans and the Chinese are thinking of launching their own satellite navigation systems. Out of these three, chances are at least one will be available for the US to use in case of a global conflict.
Why would talented hackers want to expose themselves like this to NSA? That's what I don't get. It's like submitting freaking fingerprints to the police before you rob a store.
You don't understand. I'm not "accusing them of lying". I know it for a fact that they're lying.
>> a new search engine based on that work
Thas was made up by The Reg and regurgitated by CNet. Kumo is NOT "based on that work".
And I can tell you that the entire original Register article was pulled out of author's ass. The CNet article just extended that ass pulling, Goatse style. Must be a slow news day. None of this will ever end up in Live Search. Nothing to see here, move on.
Try the Powerset demo, compare it to even current Live Search or Google. Realize that this is just Wikipedia they've managed to index, even at that quality. Scratch your head and wonder why Microsoft paid $100M for it.
Yay for Java apps becoming even more over-engineered than they already are. What really cracks me up is that Spring is presented as a "lightweight" solution, or indeed a solution that solves significant problems. I will take a hand-coded factory over an XML configuration file, so I can step right into it in the debugger without any problems. I will pass around a context object to avoid using AOP and be able to debug my apps. Some parts of Spring are nice, but people seem to use the worst ones. And as a result, you're condemning yourself to JAR hell, since Spring pulls in a dozen JARs, some versions of which might not match with the ones you use in your app. People just cross their fingers and hope it will work. :-)
The problem is that a lot of the Java devs I've met don't think they can let out a fart without using Spring, IoC and AOP and as a result they drastically overengineer the simplest programs and make them hard to maintain and debug.
I had to get a waiver from Legal so that I could download porn without repercussions. A part of the system I was building at the time had a non-recursive web crawler in it, and it did not discriminate what it was downloading. If the input contained kiddie porn, it would download that as well. Thankfully, my work did not require me to view any of that stuff.
A good friend of mine works on spam detection in Live Search. Studying porn, malware, etc. sites is a job requirement for him, and nothing is exempt.
What I do need is better memory, because the way it is right now, it's pretty much bursting at the seams. I want it to be like it was when I was in my teens. I could read three pages of text once and then recite them pretty much word for word. I felt like I could keep information in my head indefinitely. Complex words (e.g. DNA, NADF, etc.), formulas, numbers, War & Peace - it was all effortless.
A little less than two decades later, I don't remember what I ate in the morning. I would gladly pay 5-10% of my substantial income every year (I hope someone from Big Pharma is reading this) to get my memory back.
It probably won't be as comfy as the NASA version, but it will get there and back.
Do people actually read these books cover to cover? I at best just skim through them and read the parts that interest me. I don't have the time to read 700 page technical book where 70-80% of content is either redundant or irrelevant.
I'm a Linux user myself (including desktop), and while it works for me, after quite a bit of tweaking, I'm fully aware that other people are not as well versed in technology as I am.
If there is a weak point to Microsoft it's the server, and server software development frameworks. Nail the core scenarios there. Get single sign on, directory integration and ACLs working out of the box. Continue kicking ass on the Java ecosystem side (can I have Sun Java in CentOS and RHEL while we're at it?). Fix busted ass userland user/group management tools that don't support domain users.
That should be a good start.
Interesting. We use perl scripts and Pentaho to do VERY high volume ETL. One could argue it's a bit Rube Goldberg, but it also works without a hitch, and software cost us $0.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJSuduTrPs&feature=player_embedded
I'd rather have a Mac, tax or not.