Nothing but a very short, low-on-detail slagging off of independent secuiryt researchers with totally nothing about how she does her job and what her department does. She does touch on some good points, such as clients not wanting to implement fixes during critical reporting periods, but fails to mention that systems that are used for such reporting are usually never exposed to the evil internet. Don't read the 'article' - don't post stories like this onb/. again please.
I believe it is imperative that/. reclassifies all its sections now. Here are my suggestions: - Mind control - Amateur rocketeers - Nigerian IT - Tactics in software license negotiation
... that I like best about podcasts. The professionalism lauded by other posters is the worst way to go. In this context quality is ONLY about knowledgable and/or enthusiastic presenters (The Rock and Roll Geek Show, Linux Linc Tech Show, LUG Radio) who can share their passion with the listeners. Worrying about what sponsors, bosses, Adam Curry;) and iTunes think about a podshow will kill it. I guess I have a different viewpoints for US readers because here in the UK the BBC dominates the radiowaves and their off-peak presenters have the kind of knowledge and enthusiasm I'm talking about (the peak time presenters are pretty plastic though). Can't mention reality without giving a shout out to the most real of radio presenters - John Peel (RIP).
I have no problem with the military angle (with the usual caveats). IMHO manned spaceflight is unnecessary when robots and computers would do just as well, if not better.
... that this will likely be the last Shuttle into space and more than likely the last non-commercial manned mission into space (because I'm convinced that Virigin Galactic will get there before NASA does again) I think we should all pause and think what has been achieved by NASA in the past years. The global impact of men on the moon, satellites providing worldwide telecoms, fun with gyroscopes, all those cool sci-fi movies, their rather long software development guides, Richard Feynman's star turn at the shuttle inqury... it's been fun. Without manned missions NASA will probably shrink rapidly in the public mind and return to its military roots. Thanks for the memories!
Two points: If you are regarded by your company's clients as an eseential person then you have signed your own termination warrant; no company will allow a single person to be essential to the running of a business - they always seem to get rid of such people even if it is to their detrement (jealousy I guess). Secondly, the only way to progress in most modern companies is to bring in revenue; failing that, only introduce systems if you can provide metrics on how the system improved profit. if you can't do that then don't introduce any new systems.
never mind the effects and the acting, they're a minor distraction. If Joss didn't need actors and a set then you'd still get the best bits - the plot and the script. Joss really should try going to radio (whoops! I meant podcasts;) The last bit of the first (?) trailer has a clue to the brilliance of his work. That's why we're all so excited about it. Wouldn't it be cool if the production team from the new Battlestar Galactica got together with Joss...
How is this different from applying a weighting to PageRank? Will the owners of the pages / sites deemed to fall within the set of trusted seed sites get any money for all their hard work (i.e. hand-maintaining pages of links)? What if such an owner decides to link to a page of commercial or spam links - will they get any money from the owner of the linked site? Is this a possible method of abuse? Will that cool poster of links between websites now become 3D to give trusted links more prominence?
See here http://www.lego.com/eng/starwars/videogame/default.asp?bhcp=1 for a link to a videogame advertised in my local shopping centre - what the hell is the world coming to?
He is sometimes an idiot (getting people to co-sign mortgages) AND he's gay (which earns him enemies for sadly obvious reasons) AND he is a friend of Tony Blair (which earns him enemies from his own side). Nonetheless he did help to architect Labour's first election win for many years and I think he had a good reputation within his local constituency (Hartlepool - where they hung a monkey because they thought he was invading Frenchman- a long time ago of course but still very funny). He has been forced to resign a couple of times but usually for incidents blown-out-of-proportion by his enemies, but unfortunately for incidents just like this one. if he's doing anything wrong this will surely be the end for him.
I like him 'cause he's as stupid as I am.
From the Guardian profile: - Neil Kinncok: "He's not half as good as he thinks he is and not half as bad as everyone else thinks he is."
Distance from New York to Bergen (Norway) = 3365 Nautical Miles (www.distances.com) Longest ocean swim = 197 km (122 miles) from Mexico to Cuba by Australian Susie Maroney (38 hours) (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com) Note: 1 Nautical Mile = 1.1508 miles
If I were them I would crash the download servers before it's too late...
But see that I believe that all parties involved have genuine concerns and good and honourable intentions - but there is some sort of basic difference of point of view; e.g. (and please tell me if I'm inaccurate in any of these examples) Linus believes in the OSS development model for Linux but also believes in protection for the products of media companies (e.g. DRM), Tridge likes to open up closed systems without breaking the EULA, McVoy believes in developing a good product and then protecting it. None of these sentiments are wrong; but they do need further exposition and I would like to understand where the balance is between all these issues. A reasoned and lawyer-free debate (no offense to lawyers!) would interest me greatly. This would take the debates and points-of-view started by Stallman on to another level.
As a publically listed company isn't Microsoft required to avoid any action that could reduce shareholder value? So really they had no choice but to cave to the religious right (if that is what they did - maybe the Bill itself was flawed in some other way). It is Microsoft's duty to support Bills that make life better for the US population because it is the right thing to do AND because some of their employees and customers may be helped by the Bill, but it is not their duty to put their company at risk. How big's the risk? Well the oft derided Bush won a recent election on a platform that included pandering to the religious right, so there must be a sizeable sector of the US public that could be whipped into an anti-MS frenzy. Anyway, if you guys are so bothered then a first step would be to stop making 'gay' jokes; no evil intent meant I'm sure, but they continue to make light of a sensitive area of peoples' lives.
I cannot see any justification for the slamming that Tridgell is getting and it's worse that it's coming from a very respected figure, so maybe _I've_ got something wrong here; it's time the ethical argument _was_ tested and debated between Torvald and Tridgell in the open so I can read what both sides really think and I can make up my own mind. Torvald can't be talking c**p but neither can Tridgell - maybe here is a chance for us all to study a very important debate; if BitKeeper would play ball then maybe Tridgell can speak out openly. Hey, maybe even Richard Stallman could get involved (only joking;)
"One thing a Southern boy will never say is, 'I don't think duct tape will fix it.'" That's so cool, but obviously means I'll never want to visit the South without my own personal surgeon.
At last I can avoid all those sticky nosey colluding people and all that sickly social interaction and STILL EARN A LIVING! Thank you so much Sony! No, I'm not joking, I really mean it. Thank you Sony; I owe you my new life...
Evans was my attempt at a little humour;) Of course he would have been c**p, but to give him his due, he was responsible for some memorable moments on TV & radio, including the "classic" homage to Captain Scarlet / penguins in Toothbrush show and the whole 'I love Billy Piper' episode.
At last a good choice! Tennant is the just the sort of 'light' actor that can be driven by the role and not look like a big fish in a little pond (as Eccleston did). Nonetheless, I would have preferred Chris Evans (talented-yet-flawed DJ/TV presenter/Billy-ex) because he has obvious character; or Eddie Izzard (surreal comedian) who could have written his own lines and used his own clothes;) and made the show something really special (and funny too!) but in an interview on fanboy Johnathan Ross's show recently Eddie was very reluctant when pressed about the role. Evans is effectively banned from the BBC I guess, and would have taken the show in a far more alcoholic/Chelsean kind of direction until the day he decided to have every other millenium off...
This is so wrong in so many ways... First of all, the woman on the web page looks like she is holding something other than a TV remote, which is quite off-putting in a rather pleasant way. Secondly, it is well known that the only way to defend oneself against the mind altering effects of TV is to talk back to it - so what will happen when I do? 1) TV licence request lands on my door. I say to my TV: "I'm not paying you b*****d, go ahead and fine me"; my TV says: "This is the news from the BBC."; the new TV remote starts to look for a channel about me and eventually tunes into the spy camera hidden in my TV by the NBL. 2) BBC Question Time comes on the air (a popular political discussion panel show with an interesting mix of politicians, newspaper editors, and one comedian). I say to my TV: "Why am I still watching you?"; my TV says: "It's all the fault of the electorate."; the TV remote starts to look for a channel about you, and eventually tunes into the hidden camera in your house, planted there by the NFL. 3) Pop or American Idol comes on the air (a popular gay talent show). I say to my TV: "Oh for the love of God."; my TV says: "You can't sing, you can't dance, but Paula likes you."; the TV remote finds all the TV programmes starring God and eventually shows me an episode of South Park (the one with God in it, obviously) closely followed by an episode of Alias (the one with God in it, obviously). 4) Enterprise comes on the air (a popular sci-fi show starring a man last seen travelling through time on the command of Mo Sislack). I say to my TV: "Please dump Data"; my TV says: "You are a Vulcan"; the TV remote will dump the core out of set-top-box and my TV will die. Luckily TV remotes don't work in my house, not since I covered everything in tin foil...
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing but a very short, low-on-detail slagging off of independent secuiryt researchers with totally nothing about how she does her job and what her department does. She does touch on some good points, such as clients not wanting to implement fixes during critical reporting periods, but fails to mention that systems that are used for such reporting are usually never exposed to the evil internet. /. again please.
Don't read the 'article' - don't post stories like this onb
I believe it is imperative that /. reclassifies all its sections now. Here are my suggestions:
- Mind control
- Amateur rocketeers
- Nigerian IT
- Tactics in software license negotiation
... that I like best about podcasts. The professionalism lauded by other posters is the worst way to go. In this context quality is ONLY about knowledgable and/or enthusiastic presenters (The Rock and Roll Geek Show, Linux Linc Tech Show, LUG Radio) who can share their passion with the listeners. Worrying about what sponsors, bosses, Adam Curry ;) and iTunes think about a podshow will kill it.
I guess I have a different viewpoints for US readers because here in the UK the BBC dominates the radiowaves and their off-peak presenters have the kind of knowledge and enthusiasm I'm talking about (the peak time presenters are pretty plastic though).
Can't mention reality without giving a shout out to the most real of radio presenters - John Peel (RIP).
I have no problem with the military angle (with the usual caveats). IMHO manned spaceflight is unnecessary when robots and computers would do just as well, if not better.
... that this will likely be the last Shuttle into space and more than likely the last non-commercial manned mission into space (because I'm convinced that Virigin Galactic will get there before NASA does again) I think we should all pause and think what has been achieved by NASA in the past years. The global impact of men on the moon, satellites providing worldwide telecoms, fun with gyroscopes, all those cool sci-fi movies, their rather long software development guides, Richard Feynman's star turn at the shuttle inqury ... it's been fun.
Without manned missions NASA will probably shrink rapidly in the public mind and return to its military roots. Thanks for the memories!
Two points:
If you are regarded by your company's clients as an eseential person then you have signed your own termination warrant; no company will allow a single person to be essential to the running of a business - they always seem to get rid of such people even if it is to their detrement (jealousy I guess).
Secondly, the only way to progress in most modern companies is to bring in revenue; failing that, only introduce systems if you can provide metrics on how the system improved profit. if you can't do that then don't introduce any new systems.
never mind the effects and the acting, they're a minor distraction. If Joss didn't need actors and a set then you'd still get the best bits - the plot and the script. Joss really should try going to radio (whoops! I meant podcasts ;) ...
The last bit of the first (?) trailer has a clue to the brilliance of his work. That's why we're all so excited about it.
Wouldn't it be cool if the production team from the new Battlestar Galactica got together with Joss
... in sunny Wolverhampton, the fleshpot of the UK.
See http://www.lugradio.org/live/2005/ for all the exciting news, blogs and photos.
bah!
So people who work in the same lab actually stay near to each other; people like football; meetings require preparation.
Wow! Who'd have thunk it...
How is this different from applying a weighting to PageRank?
Will the owners of the pages / sites deemed to fall within the set of trusted seed sites get any money for all their hard work (i.e. hand-maintaining pages of links)?
What if such an owner decides to link to a page of commercial or spam links - will they get any money from the owner of the linked site? Is this a possible method of abuse?
Will that cool poster of links between websites now become 3D to give trusted links more prominence?
You could try using PassPack from http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware/ - I have no idea how it compares to password safe but it is portable.
See here http://www.lego.com/eng/starwars/videogame/default .asp?bhcp=1 for a link to a videogame advertised in my local shopping centre - what the hell is the world coming to?
Yes!
England is great!
We have nukes to protect us against the French!
In England, French Fries are called chips!
We have English mustard!
He is sometimes an idiot (getting people to co-sign mortgages) AND he's gay (which earns him enemies for sadly obvious reasons) AND he is a friend of Tony Blair (which earns him enemies from his own side).
Nonetheless he did help to architect Labour's first election win for many years and I think he had a good reputation within his local constituency (Hartlepool - where they hung a monkey because they thought he was invading Frenchman- a long time ago of course but still very funny).
He has been forced to resign a couple of times but usually for incidents blown-out-of-proportion by his enemies, but unfortunately for incidents just like this one.
if he's doing anything wrong this will surely be the end for him.
I like him 'cause he's as stupid as I am.
From the Guardian profile:
- Neil Kinncok: "He's not half as good as he thinks he is and not half as bad as everyone else thinks he is."
Distance from New York to Bergen (Norway) = 3365 Nautical Miles (www.distances.com)
Longest ocean swim = 197 km (122 miles) from Mexico to Cuba by Australian Susie Maroney (38 hours) (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com)
Note: 1 Nautical Mile = 1.1508 miles
If I were them I would crash the download servers before it's too late...
But see that I believe that all parties involved have genuine concerns and good and honourable intentions - but there is some sort of basic difference of point of view; e.g. (and please tell me if I'm inaccurate in any of these examples) Linus believes in the OSS development model for Linux but also believes in protection for the products of media companies (e.g. DRM), Tridge likes to open up closed systems without breaking the EULA, McVoy believes in developing a good product and then protecting it. None of these sentiments are wrong; but they do need further exposition and I would like to understand where the balance is between all these issues. A reasoned and lawyer-free debate (no offense to lawyers!) would interest me greatly. This would take the debates and points-of-view started by Stallman on to another level.
As a publically listed company isn't Microsoft required to avoid any action that could reduce shareholder value? So really they had no choice but to cave to the religious right (if that is what they did - maybe the Bill itself was flawed in some other way).
It is Microsoft's duty to support Bills that make life better for the US population because it is the right thing to do AND because some of their employees and customers may be helped by the Bill, but it is not their duty to put their company at risk.
How big's the risk? Well the oft derided Bush won a recent election on a platform that included pandering to the religious right, so there must be a sizeable sector of the US public that could be whipped into an anti-MS frenzy.
Anyway, if you guys are so bothered then a first step would be to stop making 'gay' jokes; no evil intent meant I'm sure, but they continue to make light of a sensitive area of peoples' lives.
I cannot see any justification for the slamming that Tridgell is getting and it's worse that it's coming from a very respected figure, so maybe _I've_ got something wrong here; it's time the ethical argument _was_ tested and debated between Torvald and Tridgell in the open so I can read what both sides really think and I can make up my own mind. Torvald can't be talking c**p but neither can Tridgell - maybe here is a chance for us all to study a very important debate; if BitKeeper would play ball then maybe Tridgell can speak out openly. Hey, maybe even Richard Stallman could get involved (only joking ;)
"One thing a Southern boy will never say is, 'I don't think duct tape will fix it.'"
That's so cool, but obviously means I'll never want to visit the South without my own personal surgeon.
At last I can avoid all those sticky nosey colluding people and all that sickly social interaction and STILL EARN A LIVING! ...
Thank you so much Sony!
No, I'm not joking, I really mean it.
Thank you Sony; I owe you my new life
Evans was my attempt at a little humour ;) Of course he would have been c**p, but to give him his due, he was responsible for some memorable moments on TV & radio, including the "classic" homage to Captain Scarlet / penguins in Toothbrush show and the whole 'I love Billy Piper' episode.
At last a good choice! Tennant is the just the sort of 'light' actor that can be driven by the role and not look like a big fish in a little pond (as Eccleston did). ;) and made the show something really special (and funny too!) but in an interview on fanboy Johnathan Ross's show recently Eddie was very reluctant when pressed about the role. Evans is effectively banned from the BBC I guess, and would have taken the show in a far more alcoholic/Chelsean kind of direction until the day he decided to have every other millenium off...
Nonetheless, I would have preferred Chris Evans (talented-yet-flawed DJ/TV presenter/Billy-ex) because he has obvious character; or Eddie Izzard (surreal comedian) who could have written his own lines and used his own clothes
and you'll find this article (http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001084.html) which talks about an even stranger flying vehicle.
This is so wrong in so many ways...
First of all, the woman on the web page looks like she is holding something other than a TV remote, which is quite off-putting in a rather pleasant way.
Secondly, it is well known that the only way to defend oneself against the mind altering effects of TV is to talk back to it - so what will happen when I do?
1) TV licence request lands on my door. I say to my TV: "I'm not paying you b*****d, go ahead and fine me"; my TV says: "This is the news from the BBC."; the new TV remote starts to look for a channel about me and eventually tunes into the spy camera hidden in my TV by the NBL.
2) BBC Question Time comes on the air (a popular political discussion panel show with an interesting mix of politicians, newspaper editors, and one comedian). I say to my TV: "Why am I still watching you?"; my TV says: "It's all the fault of the electorate."; the TV remote starts to look for a channel about you, and eventually tunes into the hidden camera in your house, planted there by the NFL.
3) Pop or American Idol comes on the air (a popular gay talent show). I say to my TV: "Oh for the love of God."; my TV says: "You can't sing, you can't dance, but Paula likes you."; the TV remote finds all the TV programmes starring God and eventually shows me an episode of South Park (the one with God in it, obviously) closely followed by an episode of Alias (the one with God in it, obviously).
4) Enterprise comes on the air (a popular sci-fi show starring a man last seen travelling through time on the command of Mo Sislack). I say to my TV: "Please dump Data"; my TV says: "You are a Vulcan"; the TV remote will dump the core out of set-top-box and my TV will die.
Luckily TV remotes don't work in my house, not since I covered everything in tin foil...
The NNSA "working to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction"
we'll be able to count all the WMDs in Iraq!
Hooray!