You DO realize that technology volunteers at schools usually don't actually engage in teaching, don't you? Fear not hordes of those evil angry unionized lazy teachers chasing after you with torches and pitchforks.
The OP failed to mention how many of these things needed archiving. A couple hundred? Redundant disks (don't even bother with RAID) spun up once a year or so. Ten thousand? Tape. No question. It has proven and well-known long-term reliability. But you must meet the media's storage requirements to achieve the media life specs. (If you can't do that, there are any number of off-site tape storage places that can.)
BTC's are indeed interesting in a geeky way. And indeed I participated most vigorously in several stories about it. (Personally, I reject it for a lot of reasons that mostly have to do with the complete economic ineptitude of the creation curve.)
But they are not so interesting that we need twice a week stories about it that have absolutely nothing to do with its geeky aspects.
Slashdot needs a "Number of days since last BitCoin Story" thing on the homepage, kind of like those "Number of Days Since Last Accident" signs at some factories.
I can't imagine we'd need more than three bits (unsigned) to express that value.
That article to me seemed to be nothing more than a bunch of sour grapes and gossip from anonymous sources. I'm not saying RIM is, in fact, a thriving titan of mobile technology on the cusp of taking over the world. What I am saying is that that article provided no more useful information about RIM than US Weekly has about the Celebrity Train Wreck of the Week.
This guy reminds me a lot of Hans Reiser. Absolutely no remorse, and obsessed with how "fairly" he was being treated and wanting everyone to know how mean his victims were, vs. at least pretending he was sorry and getting out of prison prior to collecting Medicare.
This man is truly a depraved and evil person. Not only did he try to frame his current neighbors, he harassed and stole from his previous neighbors. When the Feds attempted to go easy on him, he fired the lawyer that scored this sweetheart deal and withdrew his plea. He then proceeded to blatantly violate the terms of his release from prison. Well after the trial had begun, he pled guilty a second time. Because this wasn't nearly enough fun, he tried to withdraw his plea AGAIN (that failed.) He also added attempted witness tampering to his list of crimes, because apparently he wasn't going to be locked away for enough time yet. (But he did it via mail sent from prison! I guess he didn't get the memo that except for mail to your lawyer, all letters to/from prison can be read. Whoops!)
He shows absolutely no remorse for his actions; to this day thinking this "revenge" was justified. (He even tried to get the victim's testimony disqualified because they failed to obtain a construction permit for work done on their basement and therefore they could not be trusted. Talk about the (cast iron) pot calling the stainless-steel kettle black.)
Was he TRYING to dig his hole as deep as possible? About the only thing that could have made him worse off would have been a pro se defense, followed by trying to attack the judge during the trial.
Locking guys like this away is what we have a justice system for. Good riddance.
A fish beat the crap out of a clam by hitting it against a rock? I'm not quite sure this qualifies as "tool" use. Now, grabbing the rock, and beating clam with it, or using it to pry open the clam... that would sound more "tool-like."
The head of the Food and Drug Administration confessed to being aware that there are purveyors of ineffective quackery.
The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted that criminals exist in the United States
The chief of the Secret Service acknowledged that counterfeiters are, as we speak, illegally producing counterfeit copies of the nation's currency.
The head commissioner of the FTC sheepishly confirmed that there exist online stores that have no intention of delivering ordered items.
The chief of the Drug Enforcement Agency was cornered into saying that drugs considered illegal under U.S. law are regularly sold and consumed by citizens.
And lastly, the "Deputy Undersecretary Schaffer of the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate confessed to being aware of foreign technology that had been imported with spyware, malware, and other security risks."
No $hit, Sherlock. They are a law enforcement agency. Such agencies exist because laws are being violated. We'd be pretty upset if they denied this was the case. Where is the story here?
If the wife has an ownership interest, it's just fine. It's no different from breaking down, hitching a ride home, and calling a tow truck to tell them where to find it so they can take it to the shop. Why does it matter if the wife is present or not? If her name is on the title, she can remotely give others permission to do whatever with the car, (short of selling it, that usually requires a notary.)
Members of the military do need to transact business with the outside world. Sign up for websites, order a book from Amazon, whatever. As long as the public e-mails aren't used for classified information, what, precisely, is the problem?
I don't think IBM is declining to actually manufacture the chips because they don't know how; rather it's because IBM doesn't have fabs large enough to make the chips in sufficient quantities. IBM's fabs are sized for CPU production, not mass-scale memory chip manufacture.
IBM no longer has anything whatsoever to do with Hard Drive manufacture, they sold that business to Hitachi years ago. IBM does sell storage equipment (quite a bit of it), but it contains drives made by somebody else.
Yeah, I'm no where near anything resembling a high rank, yet I got a Vine invite also. I rather enjoy the program (got some rather nice free stuff, and some crap too, all reviewed honestly), and Amazon makes the disclosure quite explicit.
One of the strengths of the Vine program (vs. vendors mailing stuff to random bloggers) is that vendors have zero leverage over Vine reviewers. A negative review does not in any way impact eligibility for future Vine-distributed products. (I've written some pretty scathing reviews for some of the stuff I've received, yet I just got a 2TB NAS box last month for review.
I will admit that the "This review provided through Vine" note was only after the FTC decreed it was deceptive not to make such a note. Prior to that, it was optional.
- He thought humans must have intervened in the middle of the game because the machine did something he didn't expect. But no actual evidence whatsoever was provided for this serious charge. - He asked for the machine's logs, but IBM refused to provide them. If he wanted the logs, he should have made that part of the agreement beforehand. IBM probably withheld them at the time to preserve secrets on exactly how the machine worked, which could have given Kasparov an advantage IBM didn't want him to have. - IBM changed the programming between games. Which the agreement allowed it to do. - IBM "must" have cheated because it refused to do a rematch and immediately retired the machine. What did he think Deep Blue was? A product announcement? Of course it was a publicity stunt! IBM never pretended otherwise. Did he think Poughkeepsie was going to start rolling them off the assembly line and start selling the software on the internet? Of note here is that this was around the time the RS/6000 (now pSeries) product line began to take off, eventually eclipsing Sun. (pun not intended) So the machine did exactly what it was supposed to do there...
That's the first time I've ever made an unpopular (yet coherent) comment, gotten 15 replies, and yet been modded down. That's some quality moderating there.
The article makes the bold claim that "IBM's Deep Blue cheated to beat Garry Kasparov" the link they give mentions merely that Kasparov made such an accusation, and that the accusation was repeated in a documentary. On what basis did he make such a claim?
I know this is an unpopular view here, but I don't have any problem with it, as long as your whearabouts once your vehicle crosses a private property line is inadmissible. The cops can already get this information by dangerously and expensively tailing you or flying over your head, and they can do that without a warrant; why should obtaining the same information from a GPS be any different? I just don't see how your whereabouts of your vehicle on public roads creates any expectation of privacy.
To the argument that the GPS device is a modification to your property: I don't see how it's any more of a modification than the meter maid putting a chalk mark on your tires.
There should be reasonable suspicion, to be sure (just about any law enforcement activity requires it), but I don't think a GPS tracker crosses the line into needing probable cause and a warrant. Tracking your location on public roads is neither search nor seizure. The govt. built and owns the road; if you don't like it, don't drive.
I couldn't watch the video (slashdotted?) but the picture of the object he made looks like a proof-of-concept for solar sintering, not a finely-manufactured object that meets any kind of standard for quality.
Don't get me wrong, this is a really cool machine, but it's more "wow" value right now than something you'd want to buy.
Niche trade mags aren't any better than large IT mags/websites. Even the "popular" IT trade press has long-form articles here and there. It's just because, since it isn't your field, your B.S. detector doesn't work nearly as well.
We aren't just talking about a poorly-written story, or maybe copies of some government documents usefully collected together, or eHow putting together article compendiums.
Most of the spam this article (and the other articles) have been referring to have been one of the following:
1) Somebody else's articles, posts, e-books, etc. Copied entirely without attribution or compensation to the original author. 2) Public domain works where the "editor" did a really bad job copying it over, and where there are other, superior, 99-cent (or free) versions available. Of course, you don't realize it's badly done until you've purchased it. 3) Just completely random junk that has nothing to do with the title.
It's all well and good that Amazon charges a listing fee of $0, but this is, as recent articles have pointed out, producing quite a bit of crap spam. It's not the least bit "democratic" to enable anyone to post books for free if genuine creative books are drowned out by spammed crap, keeping anybody from ever actually seeing the content.
I don't see a $10 listing fee as being that much of a deterrent for someone that has actually produced a real book (think of the value of the number of hours that go into even a short book), and a big deterrent to those that produce worthless spam.
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You DO realize that technology volunteers at schools usually don't actually engage in teaching, don't you? Fear not hordes of those evil angry unionized lazy teachers chasing after you with torches and pitchforks.
The OP failed to mention how many of these things needed archiving. A couple hundred? Redundant disks (don't even bother with RAID) spun up once a year or so. Ten thousand? Tape. No question. It has proven and well-known long-term reliability. But you must meet the media's storage requirements to achieve the media life specs. (If you can't do that, there are any number of off-site tape storage places that can.)
BTC's are indeed interesting in a geeky way. And indeed I participated most vigorously in several stories about it. (Personally, I reject it for a lot of reasons that mostly have to do with the complete economic ineptitude of the creation curve.)
But they are not so interesting that we need twice a week stories about it that have absolutely nothing to do with its geeky aspects.
Slashdot needs a "Number of days since last BitCoin Story" thing on the homepage, kind of like those "Number of Days Since Last Accident" signs at some factories.
I can't imagine we'd need more than three bits (unsigned) to express that value.
The widely-quoted "90% of the world's crops depend on bees" is simply wrong.
The vast majority of the world's caloric intake comes from grains, legumes, and tubers, the vast majority of which require do not bee pollination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees
That article to me seemed to be nothing more than a bunch of sour grapes and gossip from anonymous sources. I'm not saying RIM is, in fact, a thriving titan of mobile technology on the cusp of taking over the world. What I am saying is that that article provided no more useful information about RIM than US Weekly has about the Celebrity Train Wreck of the Week.
This guy reminds me a lot of Hans Reiser. Absolutely no remorse, and obsessed with how "fairly" he was being treated and wanting everyone to know how mean his victims were, vs. at least pretending he was sorry and getting out of prison prior to collecting Medicare.
This man is truly a depraved and evil person. Not only did he try to frame his current neighbors, he harassed and stole from his previous neighbors. When the Feds attempted to go easy on him, he fired the lawyer that scored this sweetheart deal and withdrew his plea. He then proceeded to blatantly violate the terms of his release from prison. Well after the trial had begun, he pled guilty a second time. Because this wasn't nearly enough fun, he tried to withdraw his plea AGAIN (that failed.) He also added attempted witness tampering to his list of crimes, because apparently he wasn't going to be locked away for enough time yet. (But he did it via mail sent from prison! I guess he didn't get the memo that except for mail to your lawyer, all letters to/from prison can be read. Whoops!)
He shows absolutely no remorse for his actions; to this day thinking this "revenge" was justified. (He even tried to get the victim's testimony disqualified because they failed to obtain a construction permit for work done on their basement and therefore they could not be trusted. Talk about the (cast iron) pot calling the stainless-steel kettle black.)
Was he TRYING to dig his hole as deep as possible? About the only thing that could have made him worse off would have been a pro se defense, followed by trying to attack the judge during the trial.
Locking guys like this away is what we have a justice system for. Good riddance.
A fish beat the crap out of a clam by hitting it against a rock? I'm not quite sure this qualifies as "tool" use. Now, grabbing the rock, and beating clam with it, or using it to pry open the clam... that would sound more "tool-like."
Also, in today's breaking news:
The head of the Food and Drug Administration confessed to being aware that there are purveyors of ineffective quackery.
The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted that criminals exist in the United States
The chief of the Secret Service acknowledged that counterfeiters are, as we speak, illegally producing counterfeit copies of the nation's currency.
The head commissioner of the FTC sheepishly confirmed that there exist online stores that have no intention of delivering ordered items.
The chief of the Drug Enforcement Agency was cornered into saying that drugs considered illegal under U.S. law are regularly sold and consumed by citizens.
And lastly, the "Deputy Undersecretary Schaffer of the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate confessed to being aware of foreign technology that had been imported with spyware, malware, and other security risks."
No $hit, Sherlock. They are a law enforcement agency. Such agencies exist because laws are being violated. We'd be pretty upset if they denied this was the case. Where is the story here?
If the wife has an ownership interest, it's just fine. It's no different from breaking down, hitching a ride home, and calling a tow truck to tell them where to find it so they can take it to the shop. Why does it matter if the wife is present or not? If her name is on the title, she can remotely give others permission to do whatever with the car, (short of selling it, that usually requires a notary.)
Members of the military do need to transact business with the outside world. Sign up for websites, order a book from Amazon, whatever. As long as the public e-mails aren't used for classified information, what, precisely, is the problem?
This is pretty much how the AS/400 / iSeries works.
I don't think IBM is declining to actually manufacture the chips because they don't know how; rather it's because IBM doesn't have fabs large enough to make the chips in sufficient quantities. IBM's fabs are sized for CPU production, not mass-scale memory chip manufacture.
IBM no longer has anything whatsoever to do with Hard Drive manufacture, they sold that business to Hitachi years ago. IBM does sell storage equipment (quite a bit of it), but it contains drives made by somebody else.
Yeah, I'm no where near anything resembling a high rank, yet I got a Vine invite also. I rather enjoy the program (got some rather nice free stuff, and some crap too, all reviewed honestly), and Amazon makes the disclosure quite explicit.
One of the strengths of the Vine program (vs. vendors mailing stuff to random bloggers) is that vendors have zero leverage over Vine reviewers. A negative review does not in any way impact eligibility for future Vine-distributed products. (I've written some pretty scathing reviews for some of the stuff I've received, yet I just got a 2TB NAS box last month for review.
I will admit that the "This review provided through Vine" note was only after the FTC decreed it was deceptive not to make such a note. Prior to that, it was optional.
I read that article. What a joke.
His "evidence":
- He thought humans must have intervened in the middle of the game because the machine did something he didn't expect. But no actual evidence whatsoever was provided for this serious charge.
- He asked for the machine's logs, but IBM refused to provide them. If he wanted the logs, he should have made that part of the agreement beforehand. IBM probably withheld them at the time to preserve secrets on exactly how the machine worked, which could have given Kasparov an advantage IBM didn't want him to have.
- IBM changed the programming between games. Which the agreement allowed it to do.
- IBM "must" have cheated because it refused to do a rematch and immediately retired the machine. What did he think Deep Blue was? A product announcement? Of course it was a publicity stunt! IBM never pretended otherwise. Did he think Poughkeepsie was going to start rolling them off the assembly line and start selling the software on the internet? Of note here is that this was around the time the RS/6000 (now pSeries) product line began to take off, eventually eclipsing Sun. (pun not intended) So the machine did exactly what it was supposed to do there...
My window isn't sitting on public property. My car does nearly nothing BUT travel on public roads.
That's the first time I've ever made an unpopular (yet coherent) comment, gotten 15 replies, and yet been modded down. That's some quality moderating there.
The article makes the bold claim that "IBM's Deep Blue cheated to beat Garry Kasparov" the link they give mentions merely that Kasparov made such an accusation, and that the accusation was repeated in a documentary. On what basis did he make such a claim?
I know this is an unpopular view here, but I don't have any problem with it, as long as your whearabouts once your vehicle crosses a private property line is inadmissible. The cops can already get this information by dangerously and expensively tailing you or flying over your head, and they can do that without a warrant; why should obtaining the same information from a GPS be any different? I just don't see how your whereabouts of your vehicle on public roads creates any expectation of privacy.
To the argument that the GPS device is a modification to your property: I don't see how it's any more of a modification than the meter maid putting a chalk mark on your tires.
There should be reasonable suspicion, to be sure (just about any law enforcement activity requires it), but I don't think a GPS tracker crosses the line into needing probable cause and a warrant. Tracking your location on public roads is neither search nor seizure. The govt. built and owns the road; if you don't like it, don't drive.
I couldn't watch the video (slashdotted?) but the picture of the object he made looks like a proof-of-concept for solar sintering, not a finely-manufactured object that meets any kind of standard for quality.
Don't get me wrong, this is a really cool machine, but it's more "wow" value right now than something you'd want to buy.
Niche trade mags aren't any better than large IT mags/websites. Even the "popular" IT trade press has long-form articles here and there. It's just because, since it isn't your field, your B.S. detector doesn't work nearly as well.
We aren't just talking about a poorly-written story, or maybe copies of some government documents usefully collected together, or eHow putting together article compendiums.
Most of the spam this article (and the other articles) have been referring to have been one of the following:
1) Somebody else's articles, posts, e-books, etc. Copied entirely without attribution or compensation to the original author.
2) Public domain works where the "editor" did a really bad job copying it over, and where there are other, superior, 99-cent (or free) versions available. Of course, you don't realize it's badly done until you've purchased it.
3) Just completely random junk that has nothing to do with the title.
It's all well and good that Amazon charges a listing fee of $0, but this is, as recent articles have pointed out, producing quite a bit of crap spam. It's not the least bit "democratic" to enable anyone to post books for free if genuine creative books are drowned out by spammed crap, keeping anybody from ever actually seeing the content.
I don't see a $10 listing fee as being that much of a deterrent for someone that has actually produced a real book (think of the value of the number of hours that go into even a short book), and a big deterrent to those that produce worthless spam.