That's exactly right. The executive order is an order to every member of the executive branch. Certain acts of congress give the president discretionary powers, making some executive orders effectively law, but not in this case AFAIK.
Then why not just attach a fake box to the suspect's head and tell them it's a real brain scanner? I'm sure they never get to see the results anyway, so why build the real thing when you can fake them with little cost? They must be building the real thing because they expect real results.
Uh, how can the very first post be redundant? Anyway...
Smithers: Well, Sir, you've certainly vanquished all your enemies: the Elementary School, the local tavern, the old age home...you must be very proud. Burns: [stuffing money into his wallet] No, not while my greatest nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and energy. I call this enemy...the sun. Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing...block it out! [another button raises a shield over the model town] Smithers: Good God! Burns: Imagine it, Smithers: electrical lights and heaters running all day long! Smithers: But Sir! Every plant and tree will die, owls will deafen us with incessant hooting...the town's sundial will be useless. I don't want any part of this project, it's unconscionably fiendish. Burns: I will not suffer your insubordination. There has been a shocking decline in the quality and quantity of your toadying, Waylon. And you will fall into line, now! Smithers: [pained] No...no, Monty, I won't. Not until you step back from the brink of insanity. Burns: I'll do no such thing. You're fired! Burns: [laughing] Take that, Bowlerama! [stomp] Take that, Convenience Mart! [stomp] Take that, Nuclear Power Plan -- [stomp] oh, fiddlesticks.
What would be a good idea though would be a mechanism whereby some sort of write-once memory device was implanted in the BULLET, and the act of firing the round wrote the user's ID to the bullet for later retrieval
Ok, you've watched one too many bad Sylvester Stallone movies. Please return your Blockbuster card immediately.
And what changed between NYC being an unsafe city to being a safer city? Gun laws? No, not much. The police force was drastically increased in size. That and the nationwide drop in crime since abortions became legal and common helped make NYC much safer.
And what makes you think it's almost impossible to buy a gun in NYC? If you have no criminal record you can have a permit after waiting the required time. Then go shopping. I know people who have legal firearms in this city.
If the company is choosing and configuring the routers it's possible they set each one to log connections. That way if they trace back to the router the router's logs will tell them the rest. I don't know of any routers that have enough storage capacity for such details and volume, but it's possible.
I looked into this a little bit for my apartment building. Every ISP in the area requires a "commercial-grade" connection for so many users. The cost is so astronomical that it's much cheaper for each of us to get separate service. ISPs in the NYC area don't like to give customers many options.
Ten years ago you had something automated that determined where the files should go and moved them appropriately? It analyzed usage patterns? I'd really like to know what older systems had such features as I've never seen them.
In a capitalist republic, politicians only have one source of income: taxes.
As I stated in another post, if you're referring to taxes on citizens you're incorrect. The federal government of the US operated for over 100 years on trade tariffs alone.
My accountant is my father, so I think I'll pass on the assassination. Just take a look at the tax tables. Fed+state+city can easily add up to 45% or more.
Just an FYI... the US operated just fine without taxing its citizens for over 100 years. Of course the government didn't provide too many services, but it did provide the few things its supposed to.
I've been giving about half my earnings to the government for many years. In other countries 50% tax gets you a complete education, medical care, a higher standard of living (on average), and other things. In the US the same amount of tax gives us a poor education and no medical care (for most of us). Hell they won't even fix pot-holes any more. I'd rather go back to no taxes, tariffs on trade to support the government, and I'll work with my neighbors to fix our own pot-holes.
Microsoft doesn't write software that runs on Cisco routers (AFAIK) but they do write software that can be used to run wireless appliances. They use their own software for web servers, file servers, desktops, version control, etc. yet not for their wireless appliances. It doesn't make much sense.
LAMP has a lower TCO than Windows/IIS/SQL Server/.NET, even when the cost of software licenses is dropped to zero, yet they run their sites on their own software. Linux file servers can run more efficiently on less hardware than Windows file servers, yet they use Windows file servers. SVN is far more flexible than VSS yet their developers use VSS. Their motto is to eat their own dog food. Yet this time they didn't swallow it.
This isn't insightful. Microsoft has written their own embedded software for access points and other devices. Apparently there aren't any hardware vendors that support it yet or I presume they'd use their own software.
I don't know why it's still so dominant either with so many tech-savvy people promoting firefox to their friends and relatives.
But back to the standards, I really don't think there's such a thing as "getting too far ahead". A standard is a standard. Implement it if and when you feel like it. Physical things are invented first, then widely used later. If someone comes up with a great idea, write it down and try to get organized group approval. Hopefully someone will later implement it.
Good interview, but I have to disagree with this: "The dominant browser on the web hasn't been updated for years, and it doesn't make sense for specifications to get too far ahead."
Create the best design for the problems at hand and publish specifications. It's up to developers / vendors to implement it at whatever speed they wish. If the monopoly has no incentive to conform to standards there's no reason to wait for them to catch up. The rest of the world can move on and smart users can choose to switch.
MoveOn.org was founded for exactly one purpose, and named appropriately. After the fiasco which brought about their creation passed, they focused on a wide-ranging set of issues. They get many thousands of people to send emails and letters and the government hears them. They get their message across. Now that they can also raise millions of dollars for politicians some actually even listen.
Sure things have changed there a lot in the last few years. But they were just like Enron except for Enron's shell companies used to multiply deceptive financial reporting. Microsoft's financials were under investigation for many years.
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That's exactly right. The executive order is an order to every member of the executive branch. Certain acts of congress give the president discretionary powers, making some executive orders effectively law, but not in this case AFAIK.
Really? I get modded down every rare once in a while and I'm still at Karma: Excellent.
Problem is Disney hasn't built much positive karma in the last many years. But it would take a massive amount of mod points for us to silence them.
Then why not just attach a fake box to the suspect's head and tell them it's a real brain scanner? I'm sure they never get to see the results anyway, so why build the real thing when you can fake them with little cost? They must be building the real thing because they expect real results.
If you want just the jokes (plus a few insightful comments) check out Seen On Slash.
Uh, how can the very first post be redundant? Anyway...
Smithers: Well, Sir, you've certainly vanquished all your enemies: the Elementary School, the local tavern, the old age home...you must be very proud.
Burns: [stuffing money into his wallet] No, not while my greatest nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and energy. I call this enemy...the sun.
Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing...block it out!
[another button raises a shield over the model town]
Smithers: Good God!
Burns: Imagine it, Smithers: electrical lights and heaters running all day long!
Smithers: But Sir! Every plant and tree will die, owls will deafen us with incessant hooting...the town's sundial will be useless. I don't want any part of this project, it's unconscionably fiendish.
Burns: I will not suffer your insubordination. There has been a shocking decline in the quality and quantity of your toadying, Waylon. And you will fall into line, now!
Smithers: [pained] No...no, Monty, I won't. Not until you step back from the brink of insanity.
Burns: I'll do no such thing. You're fired!
Burns: [laughing] Take that, Bowlerama!
[stomp] Take that, Convenience Mart!
[stomp] Take that, Nuclear Power Plan --
[stomp] oh, fiddlesticks.
What would be a good idea though would be a mechanism whereby some sort of write-once memory device was implanted in the BULLET, and the act of firing the round wrote the user's ID to the bullet for later retrieval
Ok, you've watched one too many bad Sylvester Stallone movies. Please return your Blockbuster card immediately.
And what changed between NYC being an unsafe city to being a safer city? Gun laws? No, not much. The police force was drastically increased in size. That and the nationwide drop in crime since abortions became legal and common helped make NYC much safer.
And what makes you think it's almost impossible to buy a gun in NYC? If you have no criminal record you can have a permit after waiting the required time. Then go shopping. I know people who have legal firearms in this city.
there's no need to create spurious conspiracy theories
Would this be Slashdot if we didn't?
The WRT54GL is in the mail. Your target is Steve Ballmer. Now GO!
If the company is choosing and configuring the routers it's possible they set each one to log connections. That way if they trace back to the router the router's logs will tell them the rest. I don't know of any routers that have enough storage capacity for such details and volume, but it's possible.
I looked into this a little bit for my apartment building. Every ISP in the area requires a "commercial-grade" connection for so many users. The cost is so astronomical that it's much cheaper for each of us to get separate service. ISPs in the NYC area don't like to give customers many options.
You're right. It's not the end-user's responsibility. It's their legal obligation based on the terms of service they agreed to.
Why would there be people camped outside your house if the whole point of the project is to get wi-fi coverage over very large areas?
Ten years ago you had something automated that determined where the files should go and moved them appropriately? It analyzed usage patterns? I'd really like to know what older systems had such features as I've never seen them.
In a capitalist republic, politicians only have one source of income: taxes.
As I stated in another post, if you're referring to taxes on citizens you're incorrect. The federal government of the US operated for over 100 years on trade tariffs alone.
My accountant is my father, so I think I'll pass on the assassination. Just take a look at the tax tables. Fed+state+city can easily add up to 45% or more.
Just an FYI... the US operated just fine without taxing its citizens for over 100 years. Of course the government didn't provide too many services, but it did provide the few things its supposed to.
I've been giving about half my earnings to the government for many years. In other countries 50% tax gets you a complete education, medical care, a higher standard of living (on average), and other things. In the US the same amount of tax gives us a poor education and no medical care (for most of us). Hell they won't even fix pot-holes any more. I'd rather go back to no taxes, tariffs on trade to support the government, and I'll work with my neighbors to fix our own pot-holes.
Microsoft doesn't write software that runs on Cisco routers (AFAIK) but they do write software that can be used to run wireless appliances. They use their own software for web servers, file servers, desktops, version control, etc. yet not for their wireless appliances. It doesn't make much sense.
LAMP has a lower TCO than Windows/IIS/SQL Server/.NET, even when the cost of software licenses is dropped to zero, yet they run their sites on their own software. Linux file servers can run more efficiently on less hardware than Windows file servers, yet they use Windows file servers. SVN is far more flexible than VSS yet their developers use VSS. Their motto is to eat their own dog food. Yet this time they didn't swallow it.
This isn't insightful. Microsoft has written their own embedded software for access points and other devices. Apparently there aren't any hardware vendors that support it yet or I presume they'd use their own software.
Well what choice do they have when it comes to imbedded wireless APS.
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As someone else has pointed out there's a "Windows Embedded" product which is supposedly capable of acting as a wireless access point: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/default
You don't need "a full blown box sitting there wasting space and resources." It's for small devices.
I don't know why it's still so dominant either with so many tech-savvy people promoting firefox to their friends and relatives.
But back to the standards, I really don't think there's such a thing as "getting too far ahead". A standard is a standard. Implement it if and when you feel like it. Physical things are invented first, then widely used later. If someone comes up with a great idea, write it down and try to get organized group approval. Hopefully someone will later implement it.
Good interview, but I have to disagree with this: "The dominant browser on the web hasn't been updated for years, and it doesn't make sense for specifications to get too far ahead."
Create the best design for the problems at hand and publish specifications. It's up to developers / vendors to implement it at whatever speed they wish. If the monopoly has no incentive to conform to standards there's no reason to wait for them to catch up. The rest of the world can move on and smart users can choose to switch.
MoveOn.org was founded for exactly one purpose, and named appropriately. After the fiasco which brought about their creation passed, they focused on a wide-ranging set of issues. They get many thousands of people to send emails and letters and the government hears them. They get their message across. Now that they can also raise millions of dollars for politicians some actually even listen.
You think? Until mid 2003 they conducted the exact same financial manipulations that Enron was criticized for. See the following for details:
Sure things have changed there a lot in the last few years. But they were just like Enron except for Enron's shell companies used to multiply deceptive financial reporting. Microsoft's financials were under investigation for many years.