A person that owns 5% of the company can vote themselves onto the board. (practically, it only takes about half that.) and then as a director demand to see that information.(subject to the rules of not using that information to hurt shareholders with a smaller stake in the company.)
So, while the guy who holds one of 300 million shares does not have the right, there are at least some shareholders with that ability, if they care. Which makes it at least a little bit different.
The military doesn't seem to think that much of the launch codes, why do you?
If you and a partner have defeated the base security, and gained access to, and secured the launch controls of the nuclear missiles, how much greater of a hurdle is it going to be to get the launch code?
The existence of the launch codes does reduce the chance of an accidental launch, just like paper cutters that require you to press two buttons more than three feet apart reduce the number of limbs accidentally chopped off.
I am sure that their are things that should be kept secret, but that information is smaller than one might first assume.
I was scared away from internet porn by one of the old alt.binaries.erotica groups (I can't remember the exact group, but goatse and tub girl would have fit right in.)
That's right boys and girls, despite what the local priest said, you probably are not a sexual deviant, and you probably don't want the confirmation of that.
A decade ago when I was looking for documentation for ruby I found lots of sites in Japanese.
Fortunately the code snippets were clear enough that it I survived not being able to read the commentary around the code.
In my little corner of the world, I only find Chinese language content when I go out of my way looking for it. With some regularity I run into Dutch, German, Japanese, and Russian sites when looking for various information.
I suspect that there is more to my not running into Chinese websites than just because they are not in English. Then again, my internet usage may be a sufficiently unusual pattern to be meaningless in the big picture.
'I can't take slow typists seriously as programmers,' wrote Coding Horror's Jeff Atwood last fall. 'When was the last time you saw a hunt-and-peck pianist?'
When was the last time you ran a program where the WPM of the developer affected the quality of the code? Because the frequency of and careful regularity and emotion seriously affects piano performances whereas the symbols per minute inputted by a developer is independent of the speed, quality or maintainability of software. Sure, you might put forth that they can produce much more code or much more comments but let's face it: I'll take quality over quantity in regards to code any day of the week.
A short simple anecdote was my Greek professor in college. Taught me pattern recognition and I went to his office hours where he was pecking away at the keyboard having just been forced onto English QWERTY. The old man still wrote some pretty badass pattern recognition algorithms in Matlab for the course. Might have taken him all week to peck them out while looking at some recently published papers but the stuff was pretty efficient and easy to read for Matlab. I took him pretty seriously.
At my high school, in order to take advanced placement computer science courses, you had to pass some WPM typing course. Rarely have I felt a course to be such a complete waste of time and genuinely a turnoff to people looking to study programming.
I find that there is an indirect relationship between code quality and typing speed in junior programmers.
Programmers that type quickly are more prone to write one off disposable programs, and hence are just more practiced. Once you have seven years of coding experience or so, I doubt it matters.
The observation is probably something that was noticed early on and just never really reevaluated.
Although FreeBSD purged perl from core a long time ago so that people did not have two versions of perl, base and the version from ports for real work.
At least this was someone that was consciously challenging a probably unjust, unconstitutional law, as opposed to someone that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That said, I really hope the law is invalidated by the courts.
Clearly, the submitter wants to audit the code to make sure the software is not phoning home, allowing the software authors to steal his great-great-grandparents' identities.
Mothers maiden name is a common security question.
Trojaned Genealogy software could help with that aspect of identity theft.
So they're finally catching up with gNewSense. This is very cool. It's not for everyone but it's great to have it available.
gNewSense probably has almost as much non-free software in it as Debian, if not more, because debian has more people looking over source files for license violations.
Most of the non-free software is non-free common in free distributions is old, and nobody knows exactly who wound up with it when the original company went under or was bought out and sold off a few times.
There was a redhat engineer (IIRC) that posted a fairly long blog about getting a small program released as opensource software. Most of his time was spent on tracking down the owner, and convincing the owner that they owned the software, they then had to verify that the software was theirs before they would release it.
Debian wrote license check, not gnewsense. and if you don't run license check, an dmanually inspect the warnings. I don't really know how you know what the license of all the programs on you r machines are.
nothing new here, it was know from ages that isotopes have a different weight.
nothing is changing, especially not the atomic weight of atoms.
their value is revised, but the value all by itself is as constant as it ever was.
I can see some changes in that it seems like one might be able to find the average atomic weight of some Al and make an educated guess at where it was mined, It also means that if you are looking for a particular isotope, it might be worthwhile to start with ore from one location rather than another.
While I agree that they seem to be overstating the significance, this may have real world effects, so it is at least a small advance.
The big difference is that Governments and Corporations exist to serve the population at large (corporations do not exist solely to enrich their owners, they have a charter that is granted to them by the state, and the state says that it is in the interest of the state for this business enterprise to exist, the shareholders tend to not care about that so much and more about their return on investment.), therefore the population at large has a compelling reason to know what corporations and governments are doing.
Individuals, in democracies, need to be granted a certain amount of privacy and confidentiality as they are, theoretically, the ultimate rulers of the country.
The way it is supposed to work is that the people are not accountable to the government, but rather the government is accountable to the people.
A similar situation exists between parents and children. Parents are expected to violate their preteens privacy when the parents suspect that there is a problem that needs investigated, while children are considered to not be responsible for their parents actions.
It's great to not trust the regular user, but there should be a way for an administrator to get root privileges without hacking.
With a little hacking, an administrator should be able to make it so that only the administrator's custom version of chromium is allowed on the machine,
That sounds like the ultimate enterprise smart dumb terminal, that can go on the road, http blocked, https only, this could be a solution for remote machines that need access to the corporate network.
Personally, this seems like a more useful item for enterprise use than consumer use. But that is just me.
Chromium was fine on my old dell laptop, (after I figured out how to install it, being as it couldn't boot directly from the usb port.)
Sounds like "as closed" to me. I can see not letting apps modify the system without user consent, but I'm appalled by the idea that the person who pays several hundred dollars for a computing device shouldn't be able to do any damned thing he pleases to it.
Several hundred dollars seems rather high for a chrome os device.
The ones that are actually for sale, that I have seen, have been marketed to call centers, on the assumption that they will just connect to the corporate intranet.
Personally I can see Chrome OS as pretty much the perfect kiosk OS.
But, the article does say that 45 of the cases were in the last two years, so the problem is probably more like 0.11 percent of jury trials.
An interesting statistic would be the average length of the trials that were invalidated due to "internet misconduct". The cost to the participants in civil trials is usually about $5,000 per day per party, so for a two hour trial, the cost would be fairly minor, but a 40 day trial, the cost of the tweet could be starting to look like real money. If the cost of those 90 incidents was less than $200,000, then the problem close to non-existent. If the cost of wasted legal fees was closer to ten million, than maybe more needs to be done about the issue.
While this would suck if it was your $20,000 in legal fees (average for a four day trial in the US) that just went up in smoke because of a twitter post, is one case in every other state per year a crisis?
This seems like a tempest in a teapot, something for judges to deal with, and worry about, but San Francisco, California Seats hundreds of juries a year. One medium sized city. this doesn't seem to be an issue beyond being a new problem for judges. A comparative study about which Jury instructions seem to result in greater compliance seems like a reasonable result of this data.
Haven't you heard the latest news? Assange is a anti-American pedophile that orchestrated 9/11 attacks by hacking into the planes. Oh, he also killed 100,000 Iraqis and almost 10,000 soldiers, not to mention spreading fear through the globe for the last 200 years... Do I have that straight?
Anyway, when will the real media that have access to all these files (including New York Times) start to do their jobs? They are the ones that have the clout and resources to not be steamrolled like Assange has.
Sorry, but divulging classified information is certainly a felony, it's black-letter law (National Security Act).
In the US, just because something is written as a law doesn't mean that it is the law.
The US uses British Common law as its basis for laws, which means that common practice, and precedence of how previous cases revolving those sets of facts are more important than what is written in the code books.
The reason that Westlaw and others publish annotated copies of the law, is that without knowing how the courts have ruled on a law, you really don't have any idea what the reality of the law is.
There are many laws on the books of all levels of government in the United States that the courts have ruled unenforceable due to conflicts with the constitution or other laws, and on occasion, even because they did not properly overturn previous case law.
Parts of the National Security Act have been found to not hold up to judicial scrutiny.
I actually like legislators that spend time removing laws that have been struck down by the courts as it makes the laws easier for non-lawyers to read.
Turn on anonymity and get google in a random language, based on the country of the proxy server you are connecting to google from
Hello,
I just wanted to reply to this tiny bit of your post - Google honor your browser settings. If you get a random language when using google you have not configured your browser correctly.
IE: Tools > Internet Options > General > Languages > Add.. (put in your prefferred language here). Select your language (e.g. English) and move it to the top of your list.
Firefox: Tools > Options > Content > (Languages) Choose. Add your language and move it to the top of the list.
Now, no matter if you go to google.co.uk, google.fr, google.com, google.it it will be in the language you have set up in your browser.
A note, (assuming you want English as your language, and are an American) You need to have en-US, en-UK, en, and possibly a couple other English versions to make sure the setting takes, as the standard (last time I checked) tells the webservers to only act on exact matches, not fuzzy matches, apache still only does exact matches AFAIK.
This an even bigger issue if you have a second language that you read, but would rather get pages in your primary language.
Slashdot Mirror
A person that owns 5% of the company can vote themselves onto the board. (practically, it only takes about half that.) and then as a director demand to see that information.(subject to the rules of not using that information to hurt shareholders with a smaller stake in the company.)
So, while the guy who holds one of 300 million shares does not have the right, there are at least some shareholders with that ability, if they care. Which makes it at least a little bit different.
I have never heard any rumors nor seen any documentation the the launch codes have ever been changed from 000000000. http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm
The military doesn't seem to think that much of the launch codes, why do you?
If you and a partner have defeated the base security, and gained access to, and secured the launch controls of the nuclear missiles, how much greater of a hurdle is it going to be to get the launch code?
The existence of the launch codes does reduce the chance of an accidental launch, just like paper cutters that require you to press two buttons more than three feet apart reduce the number of limbs accidentally chopped off.
I am sure that their are things that should be kept secret, but that information is smaller than one might first assume.
As has been previously posted the launch code for many (most?) of them was 00000000 until at least 1977, http://en.wikipedia.org/wki/Permissive_Action_Link
Oh. I was hoping it was the porn.
I was scared away from internet porn by one of the old alt.binaries.erotica groups (I can't remember the exact group, but goatse and tub girl would have fit right in.)
That's right boys and girls, despite what the local priest said, you probably are not a sexual deviant, and you probably don't want the confirmation of that.
A strange amount of php info is in Dutch, and Nginx still has a lot of documentations in Russian.
KDE has a fair amount of things in German. There is a strong FreeBSD community that posts in Japanese.
Not exactly a normal set of searches.
A decade ago when I was looking for documentation for ruby I found lots of sites in Japanese.
Fortunately the code snippets were clear enough that it I survived not being able to read the commentary around the code.
In my little corner of the world, I only find Chinese language content when I go out of my way looking for it. With some regularity I run into Dutch, German, Japanese, and Russian sites when looking for various information.
I suspect that there is more to my not running into Chinese websites than just because they are not in English. Then again, my internet usage may be a sufficiently unusual pattern to be meaningless in the big picture.
Now that would be a business model for litigation. (hope the sarcasm comes through.)
slower than that of the programmers that use shell scripts to write their code :)
'I can't take slow typists seriously as programmers,' wrote Coding Horror's Jeff Atwood last fall. 'When was the last time you saw a hunt-and-peck pianist?'
When was the last time you ran a program where the WPM of the developer affected the quality of the code? Because the frequency of and careful regularity and emotion seriously affects piano performances whereas the symbols per minute inputted by a developer is independent of the speed, quality or maintainability of software. Sure, you might put forth that they can produce much more code or much more comments but let's face it: I'll take quality over quantity in regards to code any day of the week.
A short simple anecdote was my Greek professor in college. Taught me pattern recognition and I went to his office hours where he was pecking away at the keyboard having just been forced onto English QWERTY. The old man still wrote some pretty badass pattern recognition algorithms in Matlab for the course. Might have taken him all week to peck them out while looking at some recently published papers but the stuff was pretty efficient and easy to read for Matlab. I took him pretty seriously.
At my high school, in order to take advanced placement computer science courses, you had to pass some WPM typing course. Rarely have I felt a course to be such a complete waste of time and genuinely a turnoff to people looking to study programming.
I find that there is an indirect relationship between code quality and typing speed in junior programmers.
Programmers that type quickly are more prone to write one off disposable programs, and hence are just more practiced. Once you have seven years of coding experience or so, I doubt it matters.
The observation is probably something that was noticed early on and just never really reevaluated.
Perl is still alive and well on BSD systems :-)
Although FreeBSD purged perl from core a long time ago so that people did not have two versions of perl, base and the version from ports for real work.
Maybe ssh X11 forwarding with compression would help?
What I have done to get X over ssh to work acceptably over dsl.
Set a simple theme for gtk and qt apps. Having images as the background for menu items seems to slow things down.
In addition to enabling compression, make sure that ssh is configured so that CompressionLevel is 9 instead of the default of 6.
Finally, if I am running a windowmanager remotely blackbox (and its offspring) are really light on network resources.
I have not had to do anything else to get things working acceptably.
The Chicago artist Chris Drew was charged with a felony and faces 15 years imprisonment for making an audio recording of his own arrest:
http://www.c-drew.com/blog
http://www.wellesparkbulldog.com/news/chris-drew-granted-a-continuance-in-free-speech-trial
http://chilaborarts.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/why-is-it-a-felony-to-record-your-own-arrest-c-drew/
At least this was someone that was consciously challenging a probably unjust, unconstitutional law, as opposed to someone that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That said, I really hope the law is invalidated by the courts.
Clearly, the submitter wants to audit the code to make sure the software is not phoning home, allowing the software authors to steal his great-great-grandparents' identities.
Mothers maiden name is a common security question.
Trojaned Genealogy software could help with that aspect of identity theft.
So they're finally catching up with gNewSense. This is very cool. It's not for everyone but it's great to have it available.
gNewSense probably has almost as much non-free software in it as Debian, if not more, because debian has more people looking over source files for license violations.
Most of the non-free software is non-free common in free distributions is old, and nobody knows exactly who wound up with it when the original company went under or was bought out and sold off a few times.
There was a redhat engineer (IIRC) that posted a fairly long blog about getting a small program released as opensource software. Most of his time was spent on tracking down the owner, and convincing the owner that they owned the software, they then had to verify that the software was theirs before they would release it.
Debian wrote license check, not gnewsense. and if you don't run license check, an dmanually inspect the warnings. I don't really know how you know what the license of all the programs on you r machines are.
It's more of a boning when you're trying to do a netinstall and the installer disc no longer has your "non-free" NIC driver.
My favorite was having to compile my ethernet drivers for a fairly recent version of solaris (8 or 9),
The hardware was either intel or realtek, so not exactly off the beaten path.
An entire DVD, and they couldn't figure out how to shoehorn in some binary ethernet drivers.
nothing new here, it was know from ages that isotopes have a different weight.
nothing is changing, especially not the atomic weight of atoms.
their value is revised, but the value all by itself is as constant as it ever was.
I can see some changes in that it seems like one might be able to find the average atomic weight of some Al and make an educated guess at where it was mined, It also means that if you are looking for a particular isotope, it might be worthwhile to start with ore from one location rather than another.
While I agree that they seem to be overstating the significance, this may have real world effects, so it is at least a small advance.
I'll have a stab at your request.
The big difference is that Governments and Corporations exist to serve the population at large (corporations do not exist solely to enrich their owners, they have a charter that is granted to them by the state, and the state says that it is in the interest of the state for this business enterprise to exist, the shareholders tend to not care about that so much and more about their return on investment.), therefore the population at large has a compelling reason to know what corporations and governments are doing.
Individuals, in democracies, need to be granted a certain amount of privacy and confidentiality as they are, theoretically, the ultimate rulers of the country.
The way it is supposed to work is that the people are not accountable to the government, but rather the government is accountable to the people.
A similar situation exists between parents and children. Parents are expected to violate their preteens privacy when the parents suspect that there is a problem that needs investigated, while children are considered to not be responsible for their parents actions.
It's great to not trust the regular user, but there should be a way for an administrator to get root privileges without hacking.
With a little hacking, an administrator should be able to make it so that only the administrator's custom version of chromium is allowed on the machine,
That sounds like the ultimate enterprise smart dumb terminal, that can go on the road, http blocked, https only, this could be a solution for remote machines that need access to the corporate network.
Personally, this seems like a more useful item for enterprise use than consumer use. But that is just me.
Chromium was fine on my old dell laptop, (after I figured out how to install it, being as it couldn't boot directly from the usb port.)
Sounds like "as closed" to me. I can see not letting apps modify the system without user consent, but I'm appalled by the idea that the person who pays several hundred dollars for a computing device shouldn't be able to do any damned thing he pleases to it.
Several hundred dollars seems rather high for a chrome os device.
The ones that are actually for sale, that I have seen, have been marketed to call centers, on the assumption that they will just connect to the corporate intranet.
Personally I can see Chrome OS as pretty much the perfect kiosk OS.
Well, edge cases are news. Sort of by definition.
But, the article does say that 45 of the cases were in the last two years, so the problem is probably more like 0.11 percent of jury trials.
An interesting statistic would be the average length of the trials that were invalidated due to "internet misconduct". The cost to the participants in civil trials is usually about $5,000 per day per party, so for a two hour trial, the cost would be fairly minor, but a 40 day trial, the cost of the tweet could be starting to look like real money. If the cost of those 90 incidents was less than $200,000, then the problem close to non-existent. If the cost of wasted legal fees was closer to ten million, than maybe more needs to be done about the issue.
Something to think about sometime I guess.
While this would suck if it was your $20,000 in legal fees (average for a four day trial in the US) that just went up in smoke because of a twitter post, is one case in every other state per year a crisis?
This seems like a tempest in a teapot, something for judges to deal with, and worry about, but San Francisco, California Seats hundreds of juries a year. One medium sized city. this doesn't seem to be an issue beyond being a new problem for judges. A comparative study about which Jury instructions seem to result in greater compliance seems like a reasonable result of this data.
Haven't you heard the latest news? Assange is a anti-American pedophile that orchestrated 9/11 attacks by hacking into the planes. Oh, he also killed 100,000 Iraqis and almost 10,000 soldiers, not to mention spreading fear through the globe for the last 200 years... Do I have that straight?
Anyway, when will the real media that have access to all these files (including New York Times) start to do their jobs? They are the ones that have the clout and resources to not be steamrolled like Assange has.
No, the pedophiles that sell preteen boys for sex are the US defense contractors. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/213720
Sorry, but divulging classified information is certainly a felony, it's black-letter law (National Security Act).
In the US, just because something is written as a law doesn't mean that it is the law.
The US uses British Common law as its basis for laws, which means that common practice, and precedence of how previous cases revolving those sets of facts are more important than what is written in the code books.
The reason that Westlaw and others publish annotated copies of the law, is that without knowing how the courts have ruled on a law, you really don't have any idea what the reality of the law is.
There are many laws on the books of all levels of government in the United States that the courts have ruled unenforceable due to conflicts with the constitution or other laws, and on occasion, even because they did not properly overturn previous case law.
Parts of the National Security Act have been found to not hold up to judicial scrutiny.
I actually like legislators that spend time removing laws that have been struck down by the courts as it makes the laws easier for non-lawyers to read.
I'm sorry, but which enemy? The american public?
Judging from the reaction by the US government, Visa, EBay, MasterCard, and Amazon, that would seem to be a reasonable guess.
Turn on anonymity and get google in a random language, based on the country of the proxy server you are connecting to google from
Hello,
I just wanted to reply to this tiny bit of your post - Google honor your browser settings. If you get a random language when using google you have not configured your browser correctly.
IE: Tools > Internet Options > General > Languages > Add.. (put in your prefferred language here). Select your language (e.g. English) and move it to the top of your list.
Firefox: Tools > Options > Content > (Languages) Choose. Add your language and move it to the top of the list.
Now, no matter if you go to google.co.uk, google.fr, google.com, google.it it will be in the language you have set up in your browser.
A note, (assuming you want English as your language, and are an American) You need to have en-US, en-UK, en, and possibly a couple other English versions to make sure the setting takes, as the standard (last time I checked) tells the webservers to only act on exact matches, not fuzzy matches, apache still only does exact matches AFAIK.
This an even bigger issue if you have a second language that you read, but would rather get pages in your primary language.