Indeed, if the company wants to sell more stuff to the military, maybe a mandatory spelling refresher would help. You aren't going to win contracts by talking about tools for the disposal of orders drafted by city councils et al.
Yeah, yeah, spelling shouldn't matter, but it *does*, especially when you want someone else to believe that you know what you're talking about.
Yes. Remove crew capsule; attach MIRV bus. Or do engine research for peaceful purposes, have engine knowledge for any other purposes. See the reason? Both sides got a lot of understanding and hardware that were useful for things other than planting the flag and collecting rocks.
And yes, the Soviet Union's science and technology people were darned good, and still to be respected no matter where the borders are drawn today.
No accident, that. The strategy is known as "arm the enemy to death." If your economy can support a faster arms race than the other guy's for longer, you win.
The point right now is not, "will Intel do the Right Thing", since they probably have agreed not to, but will Intel (and others) see a benefit in working to change that situation, both in present circumstances and in future contract negotiations? People who want a more open firmware environment probably won't get what they want today, but we need to see if we can get some of the Big Boys to see profit in making it happen tomorrow.
Bad news. Netscape released several 6.x and 7.x versions. If NMCI, whoever they are, didn't approve those, what makes you think they will wake up long enough approve the new one?
What a great idea! Instead of taxing fuel, which must be carefully measured anyway, let's create a pile of new, expensive technology to do approximately the same thing by taxing something nobody previously cared to measure. While we're at it, let's make sure that the new technique no longer measures something important (i.e. fuel turned into air pollutants) but something with no other value.
Exactly. Using taxes to control behavior almost never works well. Taxation is for raising money for public works, not for punishing people who do what they feel they need to do.
Ever wondered why newspaper pages are so big? Someone decided to tax newspapers based on page count, so the publishers went to fewer, larger pages. Ever wondered about those long, tall, really skinny houses in some cities on the U.S. east coast? Some idiot decided to tax houses based on fontage. I can't wait to see how Californians try to avoid this tax -- I expect it'll be worse than any problem abated by the tax.
I hope that Mr. Blunkett has noticed that loyalty cards get borrowed all the time. I've actually had store clerks ask me if I would care to lend my card to the person in front of me at checkout, so that customer could get the advertised price on something.
(I also hope this is becoming clear to the data miners who originally believed that their numbers would mean something.)
Okay, what's the official rule on how many countries you have to include before you may use the coveted "International" logo? I always thought it was two.
It's still just a plain vanilla text search, though. Lots of sites are working day and night to create high-quality metadata for their holdings and share those data around, going out of their way to expose such metadata to spiders, but where do you go to find a search engine which can be told to, for example, find articles *by* $WELL_KNOWN_SCIENTIST as opposed to articles *mentioning* $WELL_KNOWN_SCIENTIST?
I don't recall any statement of there being any component of the mark other than the number. Sure, it could be as fancy as a stock certificate, but we aren't told that. What we *are* told sounds more like the beast stamping his "chop" on everything he owns. The whole idea seems to be, "you are not a unique individual anymore."
"How many service providers you use digitally sign their mails to you?"
Ironically enough, one: Microsoft. This is one of their business practices that I wish everyone would adopt. I would love to live in a world where it was reasonable to set up procmail to silently toss any unsigned mail and expect to lose nothing of value. If you ever get an unsigned email seeming to come from me, it's a fake.
In fact that's one reason I don't carry on electronic correspondence with my bank: they never mention signing/encryption and I won't trust such correspondence without them. I think that banks actually are missing out on a natural side business, as certification authorities for their cusotmers.
DK is easier to get people to switch to (since the ISPs just force it on their customers without asking) but it's weaker: it authenticates the ISP, not the sender. I probably know how my cousin Herman treats his secrets, and how much to trust him; I know nothing about how e.g. Earthlink protects its ability to identify its customers, or its own secrets.
For business communication, I don't see why "the PR guy" or any other person directly involved with customers would even be *permitted* to generate or manage keys. When a corporate security officer becomes aware of a key compromise, *he* would revoke the signature and issue a new one, and since he does it all day long we would reasonably expect him to know how to do it right.
So, they will understand that a message vetted by their ISP or even their browser is not necessarily from who it says it is from, since the signature is attached by the original sender's ISP and depends on the security of the purported sender's password and equipment?
Most phishing *attacks* are laughable. Most phishing *successes* fall into that category.
Really, I must've read a hundred of these things and my first thought is always, "*this* mess is from an internationally respected business? did someone spike the water cooler?"
Of course, if my bank would simply sign all electronic communication and tell all customers to disbelieve and immediately report any unsigned ones seeming to come from them, it would be an awful lot harder for scammers to fool any customer who cares.
"the police knock on your door, saying they were called to the mall where your child was caught shoplifting on CCTV."
I fear that the vast majority of/.ers will blame the shop owner, since he is the one who had the CCTV installed. When someone gets caught doing wrong, the blame must always be attached to the one who caught him, yes?
There should indeed be a sort of formality. It's called a "subpoena" and it comes from a judge, not the police. If the cops don't have one, they shouldn't be assumed to have the privilege of demanding that information.
There's a thousand students in my kid's school. How many *additional* people would they have to hire in order to do a visual check every hour on every student? Remember, the admin.s there now have work to do in the office...*administration*, you know.
Imagine the howls if your idea were adopted, and people figured out that the school is now swarming with *guards* checking up on everyone all the time.
Some stuff that works in a school of 50 does not work in a school of 1000. (However I agree that if printed IDs are not working, RFIDs won't work any better for mostly the same reasons.)
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Just think of it as sarcasm, and it makes sense.
Indeed, if the company wants to sell more stuff to the military, maybe a mandatory spelling refresher would help. You aren't going to win contracts by talking about tools for the disposal of orders drafted by city councils et al.
Yeah, yeah, spelling shouldn't matter, but it *does*, especially when you want someone else to believe that you know what you're talking about.
Booch's _Object Oriented Analysis and Design_, but I didn't get it at Amazon so that could explain their error. :-)
Probably by running a quick query:
SELECT quantityonhand FROM booksinwarehouse SORTED BY quantityonhand DESCENDING
and taking the first ten rows.
(Yes, I typed that off the top of my head, and I don't wallow in SQL 8x5 every week.)
"all about conquering space, for some reason."
Yes. Remove crew capsule; attach MIRV bus. Or do engine research for peaceful purposes, have engine knowledge for any other purposes. See the reason? Both sides got a lot of understanding and hardware that were useful for things other than planting the flag and collecting rocks.
And yes, the Soviet Union's science and technology people were darned good, and still to be respected no matter where the borders are drawn today.
No accident, that. The strategy is known as "arm the enemy to death." If your economy can support a faster arms race than the other guy's for longer, you win.
The point right now is not, "will Intel do the Right Thing", since they probably have agreed not to, but will Intel (and others) see a benefit in working to change that situation, both in present circumstances and in future contract negotiations? People who want a more open firmware environment probably won't get what they want today, but we need to see if we can get some of the Big Boys to see profit in making it happen tomorrow.
Bad news. Netscape released several 6.x and 7.x versions. If NMCI, whoever they are, didn't approve those, what makes you think they will wake up long enough approve the new one?
Fair enough. (We need some standardization of what words like "about" mean!)
I note, however, that there is no list of relevant keywords (let alone precise definitions for them) or discussion of the grammar of search requests.
What a great idea! Instead of taxing fuel, which must be carefully measured anyway, let's create a pile of new, expensive technology to do approximately the same thing by taxing something nobody previously cared to measure. While we're at it, let's make sure that the new technique no longer measures something important (i.e. fuel turned into air pollutants) but something with no other value.
Exactly. Using taxes to control behavior almost never works well. Taxation is for raising money for public works, not for punishing people who do what they feel they need to do.
Ever wondered why newspaper pages are so big? Someone decided to tax newspapers based on page count, so the publishers went to fewer, larger pages. Ever wondered about those long, tall, really skinny houses in some cities on the U.S. east coast? Some idiot decided to tax houses based on fontage. I can't wait to see how Californians try to avoid this tax -- I expect it'll be worse than any problem abated by the tax.
...MS and SBC are also working on ways to deliver water, heating gas, and electricity via IP.
I hope that Mr. Blunkett has noticed that loyalty cards get borrowed all the time. I've actually had store clerks ask me if I would care to lend my card to the person in front of me at checkout, so that customer could get the advertised price on something.
(I also hope this is becoming clear to the data miners who originally believed that their numbers would mean something.)
Okay, what's the official rule on how many countries you have to include before you may use the coveted "International" logo? I always thought it was two.
It's still just a plain vanilla text search, though. Lots of sites are working day and night to create high-quality metadata for their holdings and share those data around, going out of their way to expose such metadata to spiders, but where do you go to find a search engine which can be told to, for example, find articles *by* $WELL_KNOWN_SCIENTIST as opposed to articles *mentioning* $WELL_KNOWN_SCIENTIST?
I don't recall any statement of there being any component of the mark other than the number. Sure, it could be as fancy as a stock certificate, but we aren't told that. What we *are* told sounds more like the beast stamping his "chop" on everything he owns. The whole idea seems to be, "you are not a unique individual anymore."
"How many service providers you use digitally sign their mails to you?"
Ironically enough, one: Microsoft. This is one of their business practices that I wish everyone would adopt. I would love to live in a world where it was reasonable to set up procmail to silently toss any unsigned mail and expect to lose nothing of value. If you ever get an unsigned email seeming to come from me, it's a fake.
In fact that's one reason I don't carry on electronic correspondence with my bank: they never mention signing/encryption and I won't trust such correspondence without them. I think that banks actually are missing out on a natural side business, as certification authorities for their cusotmers.
DK is easier to get people to switch to (since the ISPs just force it on their customers without asking) but it's weaker: it authenticates the ISP, not the sender. I probably know how my cousin Herman treats his secrets, and how much to trust him; I know nothing about how e.g. Earthlink protects its ability to identify its customers, or its own secrets.
For business communication, I don't see why "the PR guy" or any other person directly involved with customers would even be *permitted* to generate or manage keys. When a corporate security officer becomes aware of a key compromise, *he* would revoke the signature and issue a new one, and since he does it all day long we would reasonably expect him to know how to do it right.
So, they will understand that a message vetted by their ISP or even their browser is not necessarily from who it says it is from, since the signature is attached by the original sender's ISP and depends on the security of the purported sender's password and equipment?
How exactly does one get from "medical and environmental research" to "complex social problems"?
OTOH I'd like to see a grid take on greed, apathy, irrational hatred, illiteracy/innumeracy/general ignorance, and the like.
I care who the sender is, not what domain he sent from, and for that the sender already has a choice of PEM and OpenPGP.
Most phishing *attacks* are laughable. Most phishing *successes* fall into that category.
Really, I must've read a hundred of these things and my first thought is always, "*this* mess is from an internationally respected business? did someone spike the water cooler?"
Of course, if my bank would simply sign all electronic communication and tell all customers to disbelieve and immediately report any unsigned ones seeming to come from them, it would be an awful lot harder for scammers to fool any customer who cares.
"the police knock on your door, saying they were called to the mall where your child was caught shoplifting on CCTV."
/.ers will blame the shop owner, since he is the one who had the CCTV installed. When someone gets caught doing wrong, the blame must always be attached to the one who caught him, yes?
I fear that the vast majority of
There should indeed be a sort of formality. It's called a "subpoena" and it comes from a judge, not the police. If the cops don't have one, they shouldn't be assumed to have the privilege of demanding that information.
There's a thousand students in my kid's school. How many *additional* people would they have to hire in order to do a visual check every hour on every student? Remember, the admin.s there now have work to do in the office...*administration*, you know.
Imagine the howls if your idea were adopted, and people figured out that the school is now swarming with *guards* checking up on everyone all the time.
Some stuff that works in a school of 50 does not work in a school of 1000. (However I agree that if printed IDs are not working, RFIDs won't work any better for mostly the same reasons.)