Makes you wonder which side of her mouth tells the truth doesn't it?
She's a Republican Neo-Con. Her mouth isn't what side that noise is coming from.
Re:Why can't a government employee use Yahoo?
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Palin Email Hacker Found
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So we have two people: (1) Sarah Palin, who may or may not have crossed a "blurry line". (2) Some punk who obviously broke the law, caused chaos, and distracted from other issues during an election for the US President.
(1) Sarah Palin, who is actively interfering with an investigation into "Troopergate" (a bipartisan investigation, one that the deciding vote was cast from the representative of her home town, I would also hasten to point out), has a record of abuse of power, corruption, and mismanagement.
(2) Some kid who broke the law, caused chaos, and chipped the little mask of Professionalism and Competence that Karl Rove is trying so hard to put around Palin and McCain.
She wasn't using the account for gov business, at least not based on what was posted on wikileaks, or according to the purported "Hacker". It was personal e-mail, in some cases about how she and others were being treated personally in the political arena, but not anything related to official government business.
As Officer Bar Brady says "Nothin to see here, move along now".
Yeah, the emails with "CONFIDENTIAL" in the subject line from other officials in her administration really screamed "Not official government business" to me, too.
* government users should not take yahoo (who ever came to that idea?)
That's the real story here. Palin, a Vice President candidate, is using private email addresses in order to hide things from investigators. Screw the "hacker" -- discovering and reporting this kinda thing, if it had been done for Obama, would have the Fox Noise jerkasses nominating him for a medal. He'd be interviewed daily. "So, just how heroic ARE you fighting back against such a corrupt, corrupt regime?
Don't get too distracted here. The real story is "Palin is hiding something."
On a USB device? Why would a USB device need direct access to memory (esp. when the iphone is not a fast device itself)??? Complete and utter nonsense.
DRM, and you're right: Complete and utter nonsense.
And I'd be pretty pissed too if someone copied things from me and published them as their own work.
I would side more with Rowling if the lexicon weren't so clearly a work of love from the author, a work that could arguably be fair use (as mentioned in groklaw, there's a good possibility that if he'd just stuck to the main books, he would have won), and if she hadn't come out and said that she'd used the website as a reference guide.
I haven't read the lexicon so I don't know how much of it really is copying, but she's been a bitch about the situation while he's been nice and tried to do the right thing. He tried to work with her, she seemed hopeful for a while and then pulled all support. That was a pretty dick move on her part. I hope that he can edit the lexicon some more and try to publish it again, this time without including the reference works that Rowling's put out and with more of his own words than hers.
I'm pretty sure she even admitted that she used this same freaking lexicon in researching her own convoluted backstory.
Lets put this another way. If this story wasn't about a BILLIONARE suing the operator of
Seriously, are we really asking what a creationist book burner thinks about technology? She's literally 1 step away from Ted Stevens, hell she even supported his Bridge to Nowhere (until it became a political hot potato) and was a major member of his PAC. Reading up on JUST what has been found out in the first 24-48 hours after McCain chose her (but, apparently before he vetted her) she's by far the most corrupt politician that I've read up on in a long while.
In short, she's a female version of George W. Bush. Her views on technology probably involve leeches and "internet tubes." Don't be swindled by the current spin cycle coming out of McCain's campaign -- she's woefully inexperienced and completely unsuited to even run a small town of 5000 -- hell, the almost threw her out of town and she drove them so far into debt they won't get out for 100 years.
12:32 am - Google Chrome Impressions - Feels very very clean. - Does not import successfully from Firefox 3, epic fail - Does not import from Netscape formatted HTML bookmark file -- failsafe from above. - Does not support ctrl-S to save, wtf. - Does not support middle-click-auto-scroll -- I don't use it but Sarksus in the PA forum IRC room was unhappy about it.
It's nice but it needs to be able to properly import from Firefox 3, HTML files, and support standard-ish key commands. I am not sure I could drop Firefox for it (although I get the impression it's based on firefox's codebase, I donno why) but it's definately worth looking at. With Google backing it it could dent IE's marketbase.
The new tab thing that shows thumbnails of your most visited sites is very nice. The Incognito feature is brilliant.
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Google Chrome, Day 2
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The User Agent String is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13" For comparison, IE was 53.8%, Firefox was 34.6%, Safari was 3.5% (non-Chrome) , Opera was 0.7%, and there was even 0.05% of traffic from an iPhone.
Hold it. Google Chrome is based on Mozilla's codebase?
How long until we see cross-project code pollination? I'd love to see Chrome support all Firefox plugins, for example.
A private meat packer company wants to test all of it's beef products for safety and health issues and to reassure their export customers that their products are safe. Ok, that's a good thing.. right? RIGHT? and the USDA will NOT allow them. uh.. that's a bad thing.. right? BAD? UH?
Bad for us, good for the meat industry, which wants to keep the fact that more or less our entire system of slaughterhouses, hell, everything from calf to steak is a huge clusterfuck of ignored regulations, unhygenic conditions, and other various fun things that might take Mr. John Q. Public and turn them off juicy, succulent beef. (And chicken, and pork, and...)
Hell, these are people who sued Oprah just for her saying she wasn't going to eat burgers anymore.
..guess we'll just see how long Nintendo manages to keep him around with ridiculous policies like this in place..
How is this a ridiculous policy? The man takes his hobbies and interests and turns them into multi billion dollar franchises. And he has done this repeatedly!
I'm sure there are no end of Sony and Microsoft reps that would gladly throw $TEXAS at him to get him to switch teams, and no doubt they're paying several people $OREGON to watch what he says in interviews to try and figure out what new innovative game he's going to come out with next before they do.
Personally I like the fact that the US's rights are enshrined in the basis of our legal system instead of an after thought that could be legislated away easily if a different party came to power.
I have always said that I will help properly identified authorities, if they politely ask me. If they try and sneakily do stuff, I will block then every way I can.
I don't think I would do the same with other peoples information though. In fact, according to the law here in the UK, I am not allowed to do that. We have the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act. Surely you must have something like that?
Nope. Here int he US, our current Motto is "The Government Can Do No Wrong -- As long as it's Republican."
Your country has a surprisingly large number of rights that we lack, particularly in the consumer protection areas.
Even if this weren't the case, they are ourservants and they knew that when they signed up for the job, so either way they are utterly failing to represent us. That's true even if you don't like a crude joke about Jenna.
I seriously doubt George W Bush... hell, ANY member of the Bush clan, has *ever* considered themselves civil "servants". They consider themselves the ruling class, pure and simple. I fear this is an entirely too common opinion of the "elite" nowadays...
And yes drilling will help. The very news of drilling will bring oil prices down. Speculation of approval of drilling has already brought prices down already, over $20 under the high of $147. Gas prices at least where I live are down $0.15 - $0.20 since six weeks ago. Tell people you are drilling and yeah, the oil won't enter the stream for 10, 15 years but the speculative properties alone will drop crude by another $20 or $40, easy.
Well, a major, MAJOR problem right now is the fact that a speculative market even EXISTS. Deregulation -- particularly the "Enron Loophole" that McSame's little buddy Phil Gramm created -- really screwed us there. Sans "Speculative Markets" we wouldn't be seeing $140/barrel oil, at least not for another few years yet.
But no, I for one don't particularly believe in Tinkerbell "Clap your hands if you believe" Economics. Offshore Drilling will not make a BIT of difference otherwise the Oil Companies would have done it with the exceedingly LARGE amount of offshore land they already own.
No, this was a political stunt in an election year. Nothing more. Hell, the ban is still in place, all Bush and McSame did was remove the second tier ban. They did absolutely nothing, and are proposing doing absolutely nothing.
A bandaid on the huge sucking chest wound that is our post-Enron economy.
How is this offtopic? Experiences with Real Player were so unsatisfactory that many people I know won't use ever use a RealNetworks product.
*buffering*
Perhaps because it's 5 year old FUD that doesn't apply anymore, ever since Real actually started doing good things -- like ignoring codecs that are probably violating their IP and supporting Open Source Media Initiatives.
Seriously. We get it. Real circa 1990 sucked. Real circa 2008 is actually a pretty good company. Hell, they even added a "download this stream" button to RealPlayer, in open defiance to the MPAA/RIAA. We should be CELEBRATING stuff like this, not attacking them for mistakes of their pas... *BUFFERING*
Not trying to troll, here, but, as an European with limited understanding of American law, I need to ask: if states can just arbitrarily decide if they'll enforce them or not, isn't it kind of pointless to have federal laws?
No, because the state doesn't have a choice if federal agents impose on their sovereignty and enforce them anyway.
Several states in the US have legalized Marijuana, in each case they've been stopped from acting on that by federal law.
Excuse a non American dude here, but if growing pot within the boundaries you describe is legal according to the state, how can it be illegal nationally?
Which one of the systems has precedence?
Excellent question. I believe the founding fathers of our country intended state law to take precedence.
Yeah, feel free to try and explain that to the guys in full swat team gear and automatic rifles.
I fully agree with you, mind you, but, the powers that be have decided they have the power to decide this, and, well, they have bigass firearms behind them.
Even easier to believe that they didn't know this was the case, or knew but did not understand.
This doesn't sound reasonable. If management behaved like this they would have been fired before this guy was -- the management problems would be greater than the technical ones.
Obviously you're new to the whole "business" thing. Incompetent managers don't get fired, they get promoted.
You're a twit. People learn by making mistakes. As senior guy it's your job to create learning experiences (situations in which your backups can make mistakes without doing serious damage) to teach them the concepts of the care you take when doing your work.
If you're not training them and you're actively denying them the ability to make the same mistakes you did once, you're doing yourself, the company and them a disservice and an unprofessional job.
Who says he's not letting them make their mistakes? He's just not letting them make them, you know, on the production database server that controls, say, Payroll. Let them screw up some legacy system that no one uses.
There is no -- no -- reasonable way to expect a System Administrator to have to compound his job by intentionally allowing unqualified people full access where they can do serious damage "so they can learn." Especially if the powers that be know about this (and obviously support him on this) and expect him to clean up after them.
The other sysadmins are being paid to do a job, not to break things so they can watch someone else fix them. If they need to learn, buy a book.
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Makes you wonder which side of her mouth tells the truth doesn't it?
She's a Republican Neo-Con. Her mouth isn't what side that noise is coming from.
So we have two people:
(1) Sarah Palin, who may or may not have crossed a "blurry line".
(2) Some punk who obviously broke the law, caused chaos, and distracted from other issues during an election for the US President.
(1) Sarah Palin, who is actively interfering with an investigation into "Troopergate" (a bipartisan investigation, one that the deciding vote was cast from the representative of her home town, I would also hasten to point out), has a record of abuse of power, corruption, and mismanagement.
(2) Some kid who broke the law, caused chaos, and chipped the little mask of Professionalism and Competence that Karl Rove is trying so hard to put around Palin and McCain.
She wasn't using the account for gov business, at least not based on what was posted on wikileaks, or according to the purported "Hacker". It was personal e-mail, in some cases about how she and others were being treated personally in the political arena, but not anything related to official government business.
As Officer Bar Brady says "Nothin to see here, move along now".
Yeah, the emails with "CONFIDENTIAL" in the subject line from other officials in her administration really screamed "Not official government business" to me, too.
* government users should not take yahoo (who ever came to that idea?)
That's the real story here. Palin, a Vice President candidate, is using private email addresses in order to hide things from investigators. Screw the "hacker" -- discovering and reporting this kinda thing, if it had been done for Obama, would have the Fox Noise jerkasses nominating him for a medal. He'd be interviewed daily. "So, just how heroic ARE you fighting back against such a corrupt, corrupt regime?
Don't get too distracted here. The real story is "Palin is hiding something."
On a USB device? Why would a USB device need direct access to memory (esp. when the iphone is not a fast device itself)??? Complete and utter nonsense.
DRM, and you're right: Complete and utter nonsense.
Expect Slashdot comments to blame Vista too.
Expect it to actually be Vista's fault, but Apple will code a workaround.
And I'd be pretty pissed too if someone copied things from me and published them as their own work.
I would side more with Rowling if the lexicon weren't so clearly a work of love from the author, a work that could arguably be fair use (as mentioned in groklaw, there's a good possibility that if he'd just stuck to the main books, he would have won), and if she hadn't come out and said that she'd used the website as a reference guide.
I haven't read the lexicon so I don't know how much of it really is copying, but she's been a bitch about the situation while he's been nice and tried to do the right thing. He tried to work with her, she seemed hopeful for a while and then pulled all support. That was a pretty dick move on her part. I hope that he can edit the lexicon some more and try to publish it again, this time without including the reference works that Rowling's put out and with more of his own words than hers.
I'm pretty sure she even admitted that she used this same freaking lexicon in researching her own convoluted backstory.
Lets put this another way. If this story wasn't about a BILLIONARE suing the operator of
The Harry Potter Lexicon
and instead suing
Harry Potter Wiki
Well, i think there would be a bit more /. rage going around, eh?
Seriously, are we really asking what a creationist book burner thinks about technology? She's literally 1 step away from Ted Stevens, hell she even supported his Bridge to Nowhere (until it became a political hot potato) and was a major member of his PAC. Reading up on JUST what has been found out in the first 24-48 hours after McCain chose her (but, apparently before he vetted her) she's by far the most corrupt politician that I've read up on in a long while.
You guy should read the Open Letter (confirmed true by conservative sources) about what she's pulled in her short stint as a poltician. It's a laundry list of disgusting nepotism and mismanagement.
http://thezaftigredhead.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-letter-from-someone-who-knows-gov.html
In short, she's a female version of George W. Bush. Her views on technology probably involve leeches and "internet tubes." Don't be swindled by the current spin cycle coming out of McCain's campaign -- she's woefully inexperienced and completely unsuited to even run a small town of 5000 -- hell, the almost threw her out of town and she drove them so far into debt they won't get out for 100 years.
12:32 am - Google Chrome Impressions
- Feels very very clean.
- Does not import successfully from Firefox 3, epic fail
- Does not import from Netscape formatted HTML bookmark file -- failsafe from above.
- Does not support ctrl-S to save, wtf.
- Does not support middle-click-auto-scroll -- I don't use it but Sarksus in the PA forum IRC room was unhappy about it.
It's nice but it needs to be able to properly import from Firefox 3, HTML files, and support standard-ish key commands. I am not sure I could drop Firefox for it (although I get the impression it's based on firefox's codebase, I donno why) but it's definately worth looking at. With Google backing it it could dent IE's marketbase.
The new tab thing that shows thumbnails of your most visited sites is very nice. The Incognito feature is brilliant.
The User Agent String is
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"
For comparison, IE was 53.8%, Firefox was 34.6%,
Safari was 3.5% (non-Chrome) , Opera was 0.7%, and there was even
0.05% of traffic from an iPhone.
Hold it. Google Chrome is based on Mozilla's codebase?
How long until we see cross-project code pollination? I'd love to see Chrome support all Firefox plugins, for example.
A private meat packer company wants to test all of it's beef products for safety and health issues and to reassure their export customers that their products are safe. Ok, that's a good thing.. right? RIGHT? and the USDA will NOT allow them. uh.. that's a bad thing.. right? BAD? UH?
Bad for us, good for the meat industry, which wants to keep the fact that more or less our entire system of slaughterhouses, hell, everything from calf to steak is a huge clusterfuck of ignored regulations, unhygenic conditions, and other various fun things that might take Mr. John Q. Public and turn them off juicy, succulent beef. (And chicken, and pork, and...)
Hell, these are people who sued Oprah just for her saying she wasn't going to eat burgers anymore.
..guess we'll just see how long Nintendo manages to keep him around with ridiculous policies like this in place..
How is this a ridiculous policy? The man takes his hobbies and interests and turns them into multi billion dollar franchises. And he has done this repeatedly!
I'm sure there are no end of Sony and Microsoft reps that would gladly throw $TEXAS at him to get him to switch teams, and no doubt they're paying several people $OREGON to watch what he says in interviews to try and figure out what new innovative game he's going to come out with next before they do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_and_British_governments#Civil_liberties_and_rights
Personally I like the fact that the US's rights are enshrined in the basis of our legal system instead of an after thought that could be legislated away easily if a different party came to power.
Yes, if only that were true...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATRIOT_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
I have always said that I will help properly identified authorities, if they politely ask me. If they try and sneakily do stuff, I will block then every way I can.
I don't think I would do the same with other peoples information though. In fact, according to the law here in the UK, I am not allowed to do that. We have the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act. Surely you must have something like that?
Nope. Here int he US, our current Motto is "The Government Can Do No Wrong -- As long as it's Republican."
Your country has a surprisingly large number of rights that we lack, particularly in the consumer protection areas.
i do agree, this is way off topic... BUT, do we have an extradition treaty with paraguay?
No. Why do you think he bought a house in Paraguay?
Even if this weren't the case, they are our servants and they knew that when they signed up for the job, so either way they are utterly failing to represent us. That's true even if you don't like a crude joke about Jenna.
I seriously doubt George W Bush... hell, ANY member of the Bush clan, has *ever* considered themselves civil "servants". They consider themselves the ruling class, pure and simple. I fear this is an entirely too common opinion of the "elite" nowadays...
And yes drilling will help. The very news of drilling will bring oil prices down. Speculation of approval of drilling has already brought prices down already, over $20 under the high of $147. Gas prices at least where I live are down $0.15 - $0.20 since six weeks ago. Tell people you are drilling and yeah, the oil won't enter the stream for 10, 15 years but the speculative properties alone will drop crude by another $20 or $40, easy.
Well, a major, MAJOR problem right now is the fact that a speculative market even EXISTS. Deregulation -- particularly the "Enron Loophole" that McSame's little buddy Phil Gramm created -- really screwed us there. Sans "Speculative Markets" we wouldn't be seeing $140/barrel oil, at least not for another few years yet.
But no, I for one don't particularly believe in Tinkerbell "Clap your hands if you believe" Economics. Offshore Drilling will not make a BIT of difference otherwise the Oil Companies would have done it with the exceedingly LARGE amount of offshore land they already own.
No, this was a political stunt in an election year. Nothing more. Hell, the ban is still in place, all Bush and McSame did was remove the second tier ban. They did absolutely nothing, and are proposing doing absolutely nothing.
A bandaid on the huge sucking chest wound that is our post-Enron economy.
How is this offtopic? Experiences with Real Player were so unsatisfactory that many people I know won't use ever use a RealNetworks product.
*buffering*
Perhaps because it's 5 year old FUD that doesn't apply anymore, ever since Real actually started doing good things -- like ignoring codecs that are probably violating their IP and supporting Open Source Media Initiatives.
Seriously. We get it. Real circa 1990 sucked. Real circa 2008 is actually a pretty good company. Hell, they even added a "download this stream" button to RealPlayer, in open defiance to the MPAA/RIAA. We should be CELEBRATING stuff like this, not attacking them for mistakes of their pas... *BUFFERING*
Exactly, but full-featured and better-performing.
For A Microsoft product?
Obviously you're new around here.
If you decide that drug-law is a states rights issue you allow Utah to make sale or possession of condoms a crime.
Modded troll, but damn, that's a good point.
Not trying to troll, here, but, as an European with limited understanding of American law, I need to ask: if states can just arbitrarily decide if they'll enforce them or not, isn't it kind of pointless to have federal laws?
No, because the state doesn't have a choice if federal agents impose on their sovereignty and enforce them anyway.
Several states in the US have legalized Marijuana, in each case they've been stopped from acting on that by federal law.
Excuse a non American dude here, but if growing pot within the boundaries you describe is legal according to the state, how can it be illegal nationally?
Which one of the systems has precedence?
Excellent question. I believe the founding fathers of our country intended state law to take precedence.
Yeah, feel free to try and explain that to the guys in full swat team gear and automatic rifles.
I fully agree with you, mind you, but, the powers that be have decided they have the power to decide this, and, well, they have bigass firearms behind them.
This doesn't sound reasonable. If management behaved like this they would have been fired before this guy was -- the management problems would be greater than the technical ones.
Obviously you're new to the whole "business" thing. Incompetent managers don't get fired, they get promoted.
You're a twit. People learn by making mistakes. As senior guy it's your job to create learning experiences (situations in which your backups can make mistakes without doing serious damage) to teach them the concepts of the care you take when doing your work.
If you're not training them and you're actively denying them the ability to make the same mistakes you did once, you're doing yourself, the company and them a disservice and an unprofessional job.
Who says he's not letting them make their mistakes? He's just not letting them make them, you know, on the production database server that controls, say, Payroll. Let them screw up some legacy system that no one uses.
There is no -- no -- reasonable way to expect a System Administrator to have to compound his job by intentionally allowing unqualified people full access where they can do serious damage "so they can learn." Especially if the powers that be know about this (and obviously support him on this) and expect him to clean up after them.
The other sysadmins are being paid to do a job, not to break things so they can watch someone else fix them. If they need to learn, buy a book.
It is his fault. His behavior was unethical, at the very least.
Professional administrators document their work in such a way that if they leave, someone can take over where they left off.
This guy was an unprofessional twit.
Have you actually worked with Government IT workers? I mean, on a regular basis?
Not giving them admin access to the network was probably the most professional thing he could have done.