Here's an experiment, to convince you that the myth of the lazy jobless guy is just that -- a myth. Approach someone without a job (preferably one who isn't insane, as so many homeless folks are). Offer them a fulltime job (no benefits necessary) at minimum wage doing something that is within their capabilities. I guarantee that 90% of the welfare / disability recipients you make this offer to will accept your job offer.
As an employer I can give you the results of a very similar "study"
Approach someone without a job. Offer them 3 times the minimum wage (granted no benefits) doing something within their capabilities. Find out that about 2 out of 3 are not interested because "sh*t I ain't doing no stinkin fast food work!". Find the third person that accepts the offer. Hire him.
By the 2nd week, find out that on at least 1 day a week (on a 5 day work week), the person does not show up for work and does not call to say why. Talk to them about it. Maybe get one good week out of them. By the 5th week, find out that they never come back.
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Or on a related issue, find someone that is getting government disability checks for a moderate disability. Hire them. Find out that they are doing a pretty good job. Give them a raise. 6-12 months later, they find out that their $800 a month disability check will be getting cut since they are now making $2000 a month working....So what do they do...You guessed it, they quit their job.
Neither of these are isolated incidents. I have direct knowledge of each event essentially happening tens of times.
Now, this is not the same thing as saying "all people without jobs don't want to work" nor is it saying that "all people on disability checks don't want to get off of disability if they are capable of it.
However, anyone who this that this is not a fairly widespread phenomena is fooling themselves and not making decisions based on reality.
As for other points in your bogus post:
For the cost of what Canada spends on helicopters for the miitary, every single jobless person in the entire country could be supported. That's not to say that we shouldn't buy helicopters, it's just putting things in perspective. (Note that I'm just referring to welfare/disability assistance and foreign aid, not something genuinely expensive like healthcare).
This seems pretty bogus as well. First of all, a lot of thay money you spend on helicopters is to pay the salaries of people that build and maintain them. Ignoring that for a moment, looking at the Canadian budget:
http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html
Your entire freaking defense budget is 18.3 billion dollars. Lets just make believe that for some reason 10% of that is for helicopters. (1.83 billion).
The most recent data I could find for the number of jobless in Canada was
http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html
It shows 500,000 getting regular unemployment checks. I assume since you are complaining that someone needs assistence that is not getting it that the "actual" number of people you are worried about is even higher..But for the sake of argument, lets assume that it is just these 500,000 that you want to help.
Gee, we can spend a whopping $3660 on them instead of buying/building/maintaining a single helicopter.
That seems pretty useless, . Of course don't forget that you will need a bunch of workers, facilities, forms, etc to manage this program. Lets be kind and claim the the governement can do this for 10% of the money they are paying out. Wow, that still leaves a little more than $3000 a year we can just give away to people to do...umm..What are they going to do again? Oh that's right, they can be human shields that we throw at the people that invade the country because we have no helicopters.
Actually, those controls over how the information is organized and who's allowed to post content where is exactly the point. I've used Microsoft's Sharepoint and Content Management before, which are integrated with Active Directory so they don't require another login. When a company moves toward collaboration software, especially something like content management, it is explicitly to control things. The Content Management provides an approval heirarchy, and even Sharepoint defines who can contribute where. Wiki's tend to get too scatterbrained because people aren't making an effort to keep the information put into them organized in a consistant way.
Exactly!. I've had to manage both a sharepoint site and a wiki with users of similar skill levels.
With the wiki, users were adding content all over the place and as the person managing the site I had to go in an clean it up and move things around to keep it pretty.
With Sharepoint, I almost never have to do anything because it is such a piece of bloated garbage with so many controls that users neither contribute nor visit the site. It is great. I think I finally solved statement 2 in the slashdot running joke!.
1) Install sharepoint
2) Sit back and do nothing to manage it because no one will use it.
The reason it is used in the article though is that in the problem space where SPARK is most likely to be used, LOC/Day is still the most common method used to measure productivity (even for product that are developed with different approaches)
It is full of problems, but I honestly have not seen a "better" approach that really worked. Function points were big for a while but counting them is more difficult (though honestly probably not more difficult then when the LOC/day crowd starts getting into the Equivilent LOC/Day math used when modifying an existing product).
Several people on the thread have scoffed at LOC/day for productivity...I have not really seen anyone else present a viable alternative.
The other thing to keep in mind is that there are other measures in place as well on most jobs like this such as defect density, rework, etc.
All of these metrics have their problems to but in the end, when you are going to spend millions of dollars writing software, the pointy hair bosses (rightly so) do not want some guy just saying something like "Well, I think it will cost 1.5 million dollars because I submitted an ask slashdot question and that was the average response"....Whether or not such an approach would end up with a better estimate of productivity and final cost is left as an excercise for the reader.
First of all, the subject line clearly should have been "I don't have broadband yet you insensitive clod..."
Secondly,
I won't pay more for something I would rarely use. It would be like buying a very expensive 160 mph sports car and only using it to drive to the store a mile away.
Except you can pick up more chicks with broadband... Chicks dig broadband.:)
However, the bulk of applications available in OSS are indeed bloated and very difficult to port because the C code they were built on was dependant on too many third party shared libraries....
People have different coding preferences, I am a minimalist and I like sleek, elegant code that gets a lot of work done in a few lines. Other people prefer to write their code out so that is is more readable to them rather than efficient for the computer. Both systems have their place- don't get me wrong -but for production systems code efficiency is the key. The fewer the number of lines of assembler the compiler must interpret the better.
Moderated to insightful?? Unless you mean that you write all of your C code as inline-assembly this makes no sense at all. And of course if you do mean that then this just mostly makes no sense since the # of lines of assembler the compiler has to interpret may have nothing to do with the efficiency of the code.
There is a strange mixing of concepts between interpreters, compilers, assemblers and random words that I just can't follow.
You were awful close to stringing together enough intellegent sounding pieces of "conventional wisdom", but why do I get the feeling that your code looks like:
It's ok to write whatever you want. It's not ok to beat up whoever you want.
You would write that you pedephile, fag boy, cheap jew, drunken irish bastard...
It may be techinically ok to write whatever you want. It does not mean that people can't get mad at it and want you fired. (but of course I agree it doesn't mean he should be assulted). Heck, for all I know (did not read the article) I might even be on the side of the professor, but the fact that he got beat up does not minimize the concerns of the people that he offended (the vast majority of which did not take part in the beating).
...I hate to burn Karma to make the point (since I suspect a few moderators won't read enough of the comment to get the point), but I just really hate Anonymous cowards.
If you put on a programming fair, you are not going to be able to teach anyone computer programming in a day, but you will spark their interest. Give away a few CDs with C tutorials on them or something, and maybe, just maybe, a few kids will try them out.
Give high school students CDs with C tutorials on them...Ugg..Why don't we just give them crack pipes. I've seen the damage a few months of C programming can do to a yound mind..It is not pretty.
(on a side note) Boy this is a scary discussion. Seems like a lot of anonymous cowards!
To quote the parent
One of the main reasons that gaming is only popular among males under the age of 30 is that the majority of people working in the industry are men under the age of 30.
I'd actually turn that around. I think one of the main reasons that the majority of people working in the industry are men under the age of 30 is because they are the ones that want to play the games.
I see a lot of students that "want to get into writing games". They don't think they are going to get rich doing it. They think they are going to have fun doing it.
Why no. I am not aware of anything called D)-178B Level A. Tell me, is it some FAA certified approach to software development that prevents typos in subject lines:)
No. It does not just say you can't sell them repackaged open source software.
Read clause d
Unless SELLER has obtained LOCKHEED MARTIN's prior written consent, which LOCKHEED MARTIN may
withhold in its sole discretion, SELLER shall not use in connection with this Contract, or deliver to LOCKHEED
MARTIN, any Prohibited Software.
So, if you win a contract with Lockheed Martin you can not use GCC (for example) unless they approve it. (SELLER Shall not use in connection with this Contract). Granted I suspect they would propably approve it but clauses that are this strong have a (a hate this overused term) "Chilling Effect" in that most engineers are not going to want to take the time to spend 2 months arguing with lawyers and management that they should be allowed to use the best tool for the job. They will just cave and use some proprietary tool that has a license clause that says "No use in DoD contracts" which of course will sail through because no one will read it (It is proprietary so it must be good)...
It certainly is not prohibited by the LM policy.
And yes, I am aware they use Ada. Does not mean I will cut them that much slack. I agree they need a policy like this. I just think this one goes a bit too far in some areas and the wrong direction in others.
This was clearly written by someone that got freaked out by a Microsoft or SCO buddy. They ban several specific liceses, then the GPL then any license that is GPL compatible... Granted it has the "not limited to" clause but banning GPL compatible free licenses without banning non-GPL compatible free licenses makes no sense whatsoever (So they want the BSD advertising clause imposed on them and really really don't want the version of the license that imposes less on them....)
Great. Now we can be sure that the only way to read any of these documents will be with IE 4.0 since they will prohibit even the sound of the word open source (sorry PDF. See clause 11) and given that they are a defense contractor you can bet they will lock in to some proprietary SW version that is 4 versions older than what is current.
Natural selection is very very poor at selecting for attributes that only become important after peak reproductive years.
Sure there is the "wisdom of the elders" effect and a few people the reproduce (mostly males) in the later years but given that the vast majority of people die from skin cancer after they would have reproduced and given the historical lifecycle/reproductive cycle of humans it is not really all that surprising of an outcome.
If they were playing excerpts of the movie because they were studying horses I think they would be covered.
But if the teacher just put the movie in to give the kids a break on a hot summers day and allow him/her to grade some papers without being bothered...I am pretty sure that would fall outside of fair use in the USA.
I can accept the fact that there is a framework to grant wiggle-room for "unique" situations, however after personally witnessing spills due to proprietary office documents coupled with stupid users I would be hard pressed to ever accept a process that allowed downgrading MS Office documents.
I agree with you. I am not saying I think exporting word documents (or PDF documents) is a great idea but it can be and often is allowed. In fact, it is fairly easy to get something like a word document export approved (where portions of.doc format are still not known and therefore who knows what is really in it).
It is hard to get some special custom engineering binary format approved (where the contractor has 100% knowledege of file format and can account for exact meaning of every byte).
In any case, it is quite clear that the DSS policies do allow for this sort of thing and the fact that the PDF file appears to have been obfuscated before export implies that it is at least possible that someone was trying to follow an approved procedure.
In the end, it probably does make sense to allow careful export of these documents because the alternative is that people will work on senstive documents on unclassified systems with the intension of "filling in" the classified details later after moving the document to an appropriate system. This can just as easily result in a different human error where secret information is accidentally entered into the document and it is then visible for all to view without any proper review/approval.
As for your link, we either just slashdotted the navy (I hope we didn't bluescreen another destroyer) or it is not available on the plublic network.
The rules actually vary a bit from system to system but it is possible to get approval to export unclassified word documents and PDF documents from a classified system if the appropriate procedures are used.
In this case this could be:
a hoax or,
it could be that the proper procedures were not followed or,
it could be an intentional leak.
Nothing special about those possibilities since they pretty much are the same possibilities with any release of information like this.
Check out the response in the annotated NISSPOM Chapter 8 (available within http://www.dss.mil/infoas/index.htm) which has embedded Q&A from an industrial security letter (which carry essentially the same weight as NISSPOM itself)
page 12 of the PDF says
36. Issue: Paragraphs 8-306b and 8-310b discuss the "trusted download" process where electronic files and/or media can be created at a classification level lower than the accreditation level of the IS without going into sufficient detail of the review process or program. Because of the many different vendor platforms and applications (e.g., word processing, database, electronic mail, spreadsheets) additional guidance is needed.
Answer: Every vendor's platform and application are unique and each requires a thorough review by the ISSM and DSS before they can be used to create classified or unclassified files and/or media. DSS has developed a "standard" for the trusted download process that can be found at http://www.dss.mil/infoas/index.htm. If the ISSM is unable to implement the DSS "standard," the SSP must include a description of how and why the contractor has deviated from the standard under the vulnerability-reporting requirement of paragraph 8-610a(1)(c). If the ISSM is unable to provide any acceptable countermeasure to mitigate this vulnerability, the ISSM must notify and get acceptance from the GCA/data owner of the additional risk.
Unfortunately for us, we don't have the option available to the novel's post-human conscious software characters of escaping an impending gamma-ray burster by migrating to a higher spacetime geometry.
Speak for yourself.. I am out of here.
Love,
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Those things aren't very healthy. They are high in sodium (260mg), as most prepackaged foods are. You're much better off making a PBJ from scratch. The regular jar of Smuckers Jelly has 0mg sodium in it.
Yes yes..Evil company is bad sticking sodium into this food so they can kill our children...I love how you point out that Jelly has 0 mg of sodium and yet these things have 260 mg... Gee..I wonder why..
Let me go make my own..Ok..I'll start with 2 slices of healthy wheat bread. Add a serving of peanut butter and top it off with that special 0 mg jelly you found.
Bread - 128mg sodium per slice = 256 mg
2 Tbsp of peanut butter =150 mg
Total for my homemade version = 406 mg sodium
Whew, thank god a dodged that corporate bullet and made my own at home.
I think most people here are really missing the point of this story. Up until now, the only jobs that were being outsourced to India were call centers, software engineers and a few other white collar jobs.
With this event, something much more serious has taken place. We have begun to outsource criminal activity. Oh the horror. What about the children of the criminals in the US? Where will they get their crack money?
This is very serious. We need to act now to prevent tossing away the lives of those in the US who have worked sometimes for their entire lives committing crime. While it might be possible for an engineer or call center employee to be retrained for a new job, we have lots of experience that says we are not very good at retraining out crimininals. After all, there are only so many CEO positions available in the US.
...now I get to have twice as many problems than I have now with XP 32?:)
This is a common misconception. 64 bit computing does not give you twice as many problems as 32 bit computing. Each time you add a bit you double the problems so in fact you will have 2**32 more problems. The only issue I see is that many of the problems do not really show any increase at 64 bits yet so we will have to wait a while for all of the vendors to port them.
I hope this clears things up;)
What I don't get is why so many slashdotters are AGAINST the use of IP law as it stands.
It is the only thing that protects you when you write code and release it as GPL.
Without it, anyone could steal your code and use it how they wish. Microsoft could make a proprietary Linux and sell it and market it to take over.
It protects the work you do, and coming down harder on the people who work AGAINST IP just sounds counterproductive.
First of all, you (somewhat) make the same mistake that is made about every two days in these threads where you assume that "slashdotters" are a semi-monolithic Uber brain that things with a single thought.
There are those here that like the GPL and write GPL code. There are those here that hate the GPL and wish we used BSD liceses everywhere. There are those here that pirate music. There are those here that would never pirate anything.
Granted you did say "so many slashdotters" so to some extent I'll give you a pass on that one. But, to help you understand my problems (sorry, no insight into the Uber brain) with "IP" laws.
My biggest problem is not with the laws themselves but the methods that certain groups are trying to push to enforce those rules. Things like Digital Rights Management (DRM) really bother me. Do I want to pirate music or software? NO, but I do find the concept of digital rights management offensive. It treats me like a criminal AND it prevents me from making fair and reasonable use of a licensed product in a manner that is consistant with decades of tradition.
Why stop with Digital Rights Managment? Why not add Oral Rights Management. Sure we all have the right of free speech but there clearly needs to be limits on it. We would not want people screaming fire in a crowded theater. Since we all know people can not be trusted not to do that we better insert microphones in everyone at birth so that there speach can be monitored and any attempts to say the wrong thing can be stopped immediately. Then we will pass a law saying that it is a crime for people to try to remove those mikes.
Finally, I (and perhaps others) do have a problem with the idea of Software Patents..Although in particular I would say it is not so much SW patents that trouble me but the granting of obvious patents. As an engineer I of course hate the word "obvious" since it really is a subjective term but it has been applied to Patent law for centuries however recently I think the concept of "obvious" has lost its power.
There are numerous examples of Patents being granted for approaches that would be the first thing you would suggest as a solution to a problem . This is wrong. Granted even here there are gray areas but lets try a few:
Problem - "Hey engineers, we are loosing too much business because people get half way through putting stuff in the online cart and stop without completing all of the clicks. What can we do?" - Answer - One Click shopping...Cha Ching Patent...This is wrong.
Ok..Not exactly me..but my company. We have used products from AdaCore Technologies. http://www.gnat.com/.A couple of years back, the cost for several supported seats for both a self and a cross compiler (for embedded work) with a few small add ons was something like $25k.
We'd gladly pay it again. The product was great. The support was great and we had access to the source code which is a real help in an embedded environment .
As a fellow leftie, I have also found that the tech arena has a disproportionate number of left handed people.
It does not necessarily follow (by the way) that left handedness is correlated with intelligence or any other positive brain function. If your assertion is true an equally plausible explanation could be that lefties are dysfunctional and not able to relate socially and that people with these traits tend to gravitate toward interests that allow them to avoid human contact. I don't point this out as a fact or to bash lefties (even some of my friends are lefties;) but as a reminder that correlation is not causation.
...Adobe? Please.
In the PC world nothing beats
Sony Vegas these days. The DVD authoring component is pretty average but Vegas/Windows is arguably the strongest competition to Final Cut/Mac... I just wish they would at least port their network render engine (if not the whole thing) to Linux so I could add my Webserver into the render farm pool...
I've seen some demo's of Vegas working with some of the under $5k prosumer HD cams and it is amazing.
This was originally made by Sonic Foundry (of Soundforge fame) but the company was bougt by Sony a year or two ago. Surprisingly they have not appears to break this family of tools.
..but instead producing toxic and radioactive waste for which we still have no long term storage solution
Trading one serious problem for another is not smart behavior.
You know, this is a commonly used line however I really disagree with it. I can just see people like this falling off of a cliff and not grabbing a rope on the way down because they have not figure out how to climb up it yet.
Remember, life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. If you wait for the perfect solution before you do anything then you will never do anything.
Now, perhaps I missed the part of your post where you offered some real alternatives to the existing carbon based fuels?
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Or on a related issue, find someone that is getting government disability checks for a moderate disability. Hire them. Find out that they are doing a pretty good job. Give them a raise. 6-12 months later, they find out that their $800 a month disability check will be getting cut since they are now making $2000 a month working....So what do they do...You guessed it, they quit their job.
Neither of these are isolated incidents. I have direct knowledge of each event essentially happening tens of times.
Now, this is not the same thing as saying "all people without jobs don't want to work" nor is it saying that "all people on disability checks don't want to get off of disability if they are capable of it.
However, anyone who this that this is not a fairly widespread phenomena is fooling themselves and not making decisions based on reality. As for other points in your bogus post:
This seems pretty bogus as well. First of all, a lot of thay money you spend on helicopters is to pay the salaries of people that build and maintain them. Ignoring that for a moment, looking at the Canadian budget: http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html
Your entire freaking defense budget is 18.3 billion dollars. Lets just make believe that for some reason 10% of that is for helicopters. (1.83 billion).
The most recent data I could find for the number of jobless in Canada was http://www.fin.gc.ca/taxdollar/text/html/pamphlet_ e.html
It shows 500,000 getting regular unemployment checks. I assume since you are complaining that someone needs assistence that is not getting it that the "actual" number of people you are worried about is even higher..But for the sake of argument, lets assume that it is just these 500,000 that you want to help.
Gee, we can spend a whopping $3660 on them instead of buying/building/maintaining a single helicopter.
That seems pretty useless, . Of course don't forget that you will need a bunch of workers, facilities, forms, etc to manage this program. Lets be kind and claim the the governement can do this for 10% of the money they are paying out. Wow, that still leaves a little more than $3000 a year we can just give away to people to do...umm..What are they going to do again? Oh that's right, they can be human shields that we throw at the people that invade the country because we have no helicopters.
With Sharepoint, I almost never have to do anything because it is such a piece of bloated garbage with so many controls that users neither contribute nor visit the site. It is great. I think I finally solved statement 2 in the slashdot running joke!.
1) Install sharepoint
2) Sit back and do nothing to manage it because no one will use it.
3) Profit!
The reason it is used in the article though is that in the problem space where SPARK is most likely to be used, LOC/Day is still the most common method used to measure productivity (even for product that are developed with different approaches) It is full of problems, but I honestly have not seen a "better" approach that really worked. Function points were big for a while but counting them is more difficult (though honestly probably not more difficult then when the LOC/day crowd starts getting into the Equivilent LOC/Day math used when modifying an existing product). Several people on the thread have scoffed at LOC/day for productivity...I have not really seen anyone else present a viable alternative. The other thing to keep in mind is that there are other measures in place as well on most jobs like this such as defect density, rework, etc. All of these metrics have their problems to but in the end, when you are going to spend millions of dollars writing software, the pointy hair bosses (rightly so) do not want some guy just saying something like "Well, I think it will cost 1.5 million dollars because I submitted an ask slashdot question and that was the average response"....Whether or not such an approach would end up with a better estimate of productivity and final cost is left as an excercise for the reader.
Moderated to insightful?? Unless you mean that you write all of your C code as inline-assembly this makes no sense at all. And of course if you do mean that then this just mostly makes no sense since the # of lines of assembler the compiler has to interpret may have nothing to do with the efficiency of the code.
There is a strange mixing of concepts between interpreters, compilers, assemblers and random words that I just can't follow.
You were awful close to stringing together enough intellegent sounding pieces of "conventional wisdom", but why do I get the feeling that your code looks like:
for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2 ))P("|"+(*u/4)%2); /P
You would write that you pedephile, fag boy, cheap jew, drunken irish bastard...
It may be techinically ok to write whatever you want. It does not mean that people can't get mad at it and want you fired. (but of course I agree it doesn't mean he should be assulted). Heck, for all I know (did not read the article) I might even be on the side of the professor, but the fact that he got beat up does not minimize the concerns of the people that he offended (the vast majority of which did not take part in the beating).
To quote the parent
I'd actually turn that around. I think one of the main reasons that the majority of people working in the industry are men under the age of 30 is because they are the ones that want to play the games.I see a lot of students that "want to get into writing games". They don't think they are going to get rich doing it. They think they are going to have fun doing it.
Why no. I am not aware of anything called D)-178B Level A. Tell me, is it some FAA certified approach to software development that prevents typos in subject lines :)
Read clause d
Unless SELLER has obtained LOCKHEED MARTIN's prior written consent, which LOCKHEED MARTIN may withhold in its sole discretion, SELLER shall not use in connection with this Contract, or deliver to LOCKHEED MARTIN, any Prohibited Software.
So, if you win a contract with Lockheed Martin you can not use GCC (for example) unless they approve it. (SELLER Shall not use in connection with this Contract). Granted I suspect they would propably approve it but clauses that are this strong have a (a hate this overused term) "Chilling Effect" in that most engineers are not going to want to take the time to spend 2 months arguing with lawyers and management that they should be allowed to use the best tool for the job. They will just cave and use some proprietary tool that has a license clause that says "No use in DoD contracts" which of course will sail through because no one will read it (It is proprietary so it must be good)...
It certainly is not prohibited by the LM policy.
And yes, I am aware they use Ada. Does not mean I will cut them that much slack. I agree they need a policy like this. I just think this one goes a bit too far in some areas and the wrong direction in others.
This was clearly written by someone that got freaked out by a Microsoft or SCO buddy. They ban several specific liceses, then the GPL then any license that is GPL compatible... Granted it has the "not limited to" clause but banning GPL compatible free licenses without banning non-GPL compatible free licenses makes no sense whatsoever (So they want the BSD advertising clause imposed on them and really really don't want the version of the license that imposes less on them....)
Great. Now we can be sure that the only way to read any of these documents will be with IE 4.0 since they will prohibit even the sound of the word open source (sorry PDF. See clause 11) and given that they are a defense contractor you can bet they will lock in to some proprietary SW version that is 4 versions older than what is current.
Natural selection is very very poor at selecting for attributes that only become important after peak reproductive years. Sure there is the "wisdom of the elders" effect and a few people the reproduce (mostly males) in the later years but given that the vast majority of people die from skin cancer after they would have reproduced and given the historical lifecycle/reproductive cycle of humans it is not really all that surprising of an outcome.
But if the teacher just put the movie in to give the kids a break on a hot summers day and allow him/her to grade some papers without being bothered...I am pretty sure that would fall outside of fair use in the USA.
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
It is hard to get some special custom engineering binary format approved (where the contractor has 100% knowledege of file format and can account for exact meaning of every byte).
In any case, it is quite clear that the DSS policies do allow for this sort of thing and the fact that the PDF file appears to have been obfuscated before export implies that it is at least possible that someone was trying to follow an approved procedure.
In the end, it probably does make sense to allow careful export of these documents because the alternative is that people will work on senstive documents on unclassified systems with the intension of "filling in" the classified details later after moving the document to an appropriate system. This can just as easily result in a different human error where secret information is accidentally entered into the document and it is then visible for all to view without any proper review/approval.
As for your link, we either just slashdotted the navy (I hope we didn't bluescreen another destroyer) or it is not available on the plublic network.
Let me go make my own..Ok..I'll start with 2 slices of healthy wheat bread. Add a serving of peanut butter and top it off with that special 0 mg jelly you found.
Bread - 128mg sodium per slice = 256 mg
2 Tbsp of peanut butter =150 mg
Total for my homemade version = 406 mg sodium
Whew, thank god a dodged that corporate bullet and made my own at home.
With this event, something much more serious has taken place. We have begun to outsource criminal activity. Oh the horror. What about the children of the criminals in the US? Where will they get their crack money?
This is very serious. We need to act now to prevent tossing away the lives of those in the US who have worked sometimes for their entire lives committing crime. While it might be possible for an engineer or call center employee to be retrained for a new job, we have lots of experience that says we are not very good at retraining out crimininals. After all, there are only so many CEO positions available in the US.
First of all, you (somewhat) make the same mistake that is made about every two days in these threads where you assume that "slashdotters" are a semi-monolithic Uber brain that things with a single thought.
There are those here that like the GPL and write GPL code. There are those here that hate the GPL and wish we used BSD liceses everywhere. There are those here that pirate music. There are those here that would never pirate anything.
Granted you did say "so many slashdotters" so to some extent I'll give you a pass on that one. But, to help you understand my problems (sorry, no insight into the Uber brain) with "IP" laws.
My biggest problem is not with the laws themselves but the methods that certain groups are trying to push to enforce those rules. Things like Digital Rights Management (DRM) really bother me. Do I want to pirate music or software? NO, but I do find the concept of digital rights management offensive. It treats me like a criminal AND it prevents me from making fair and reasonable use of a licensed product in a manner that is consistant with decades of tradition.
Why stop with Digital Rights Managment? Why not add Oral Rights Management. Sure we all have the right of free speech but there clearly needs to be limits on it. We would not want people screaming fire in a crowded theater. Since we all know people can not be trusted not to do that we better insert microphones in everyone at birth so that there speach can be monitored and any attempts to say the wrong thing can be stopped immediately. Then we will pass a law saying that it is a crime for people to try to remove those mikes.
Finally, I (and perhaps others) do have a problem with the idea of Software Patents..Although in particular I would say it is not so much SW patents that trouble me but the granting of obvious patents. As an engineer I of course hate the word "obvious" since it really is a subjective term but it has been applied to Patent law for centuries however recently I think the concept of "obvious" has lost its power.
There are numerous examples of Patents being granted for approaches that would be the first thing you would suggest as a solution to a problem . This is wrong. Granted even here there are gray areas but lets try a few: Problem - "Hey engineers, we are loosing too much business because people get half way through putting stuff in the online cart and stop without completing all of the clicks. What can we do?" - Answer - One Click shopping...Cha Ching Patent...This is wrong.
Ok..Not exactly me..but my company. We have used products from AdaCore Technologies. http://www.gnat.com/.A couple of years back, the cost for several supported seats for both a self and a cross compiler (for embedded work) with a few small add ons was something like $25k. We'd gladly pay it again. The product was great. The support was great and we had access to the source code which is a real help in an embedded environment .
"Evolution proceeds at a snail's pace toward imperfection and ends in extinction".
Still this is a pretty interesting approach to kernel tuning.
I've seen some demo's of Vegas working with some of the under $5k prosumer HD cams and it is amazing.
This was originally made by Sonic Foundry (of Soundforge fame) but the company was bougt by Sony a year or two ago. Surprisingly they have not appears to break this family of tools.
Remember, life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. If you wait for the perfect solution before you do anything then you will never do anything.
Now, perhaps I missed the part of your post where you offered some real alternatives to the existing carbon based fuels?