The IT sector is actually ahead of most industries in terms of being green. They can be 100% green operationally, today. Running completely on electricity means you can be as green as your source. It's not IT that's the problem.
Not quite true, there is the CO2 cost in making computers - we would get better if we did not replace machines so often.
Then there is the cost of printing paper, ink & all sorts of consumables.
On another note, why in the name of fuck is Slashdot posting anything from the Daily Star? The newspaper is most famous for its page-3 topless girls and their sheer determination to use words with as few syllables as possible.
So what if they have pictures of totty in their pages, that is not what is being linked to. The Daily Star do not seem to have made the story up, the write up seems as good as you get anywhere else. It appears that the Daily Star alterted the MOD about their stupidity so they are the origin of the story & deserve credit for that.
If you are such an intellectual snob that you won't read the Daily Star, here is the story on the BBC.
Management should ensure that those should be properly trained to do their job. Those responsible for putting stuff on web sites (or where ever) should know what they are doing. Would it be acceptable to say ''he blew up the nuclear sub because he didn't know how to manage the reactor'' ?
This is an old issue and it's not excusable that the application didn't give a warning.
The application was probably instructed to turn the background black, it was probably not instructed to make certain text unreadable.
This is a management issue but, as ever, I can see them just blaming some muppet at the bottom of the pile.
There is a lot of time and effort that goes into fulfilling one of these Open Records requests, someone has to pay for it. I suspect that the vice chancellor of the university will have a little chat Professor Bill Cronon telling him what it cost and suggesting that he doesn't cause such an expense again or else....
They always do. They are now charging Liberty Media $200/hour while chasing a fantasy. They don't care what they do as long as they earn some money -- parasites!
This is the way to go, it is what I use when I want to send encrypted email. There are some big problems with PGP/GPG where government could help, these are:
not enough people use it. A government push would speed adoption, if government departments use it then others will follow -- that is probably all that they need to do.
helping with key management and verification. I would be happy to pay a small charge (say £10 one off) to have my key verified against passport,...
Once they have done that then the normal commercial forces would kick in: some people would pay for s/ware that works, others would use FLOSS; it doesn't really matter -- it is the standard that is important.
Mail signing -- encryption is a completly different problem from spam prevention, we must not conflate the two.
It is somewhat naive to try to say ''best'' across all domains. Red Hat (and to a lesser extent) SUSE are very important in the commercial sphere. This is because of the nature of PAID support - something that large companies demand. It all depends on where you are viewing things from.
Eg: http://www.123people.com/s/tolkien that turns up Tolkiens by the page full — do you think that some of them might have something to say about their name being grabbed by the estate of an author — even if he was a good one ?
Yes - MS bought ISO votes in many countries so that OOXML could be fast tracked.
Fast tracking is reserved for what are usually de-facto standards with multiple implementations. OOXML is not implemented by anything, anywhere; the ISO vote was a fraud.
Actually there are no implementations of OOXML/DIS 29500. The MS.docx format certainly does not conform - although MS tries to give the impression that it does.
Try reading the facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement., section 4.1: You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
Presumably a law upholding (ahem) organisation like the US government and its agencies will want to abide with agreements that they enter in to ???
Why can they just lie and expect to get away with it. So does that imply that I can lie on my tax form and also expect to get away with it ?
I am sorry: this is not acceptable. Governments seem to regard the law and good morals as something that others need to obey, not themselves.
What about the individuals who manage these fake accounts, if I ordered an employee of mine to lie they would be liable to prosecution just as I would be; why
should government employees be any different ?
If Iran/pakistan/n.korea/... had created Stuxnet and it had targetted military infrastructure in the UK/USA/Israel/... imagine the broohaha, the passionate outpourings from politicians, the chasing down of those who wrote it.
But the USA/Israel did it: so that somehow makes it OK ?
I would love to believe that what you say is right. Unfortunately you are applying logic to this; we are dealing with people who put gut feel far above reason and who (generally) don't know the difference between the two.
Is religion carried by a gene or a meme ? If it is a meme then there is more hope for us all that the problems caused by religious belief will gradually die away through better education.
However: people will act in a way that is most beneficial to themselves with the result that many will defer to or feign religious belief as a way of avoiding problems. Non believers tend not to go around discriminating against believers, but some[**] religious people do act against those who are not religious or who follow a different set of beliefs than they do. Examples are Teachers [who] Back Away From Evolution In Class and religious wars.
[**]: read this carefully, I said ''some'' not ''all''
The other day, a student confronted her in class and said, "You may have come from a monkey but I certainly didn't."
So, what did your wife reply ? I trust that she asked the student where he thought that he came from and looked at the quality of the evidence for both theories.
Assertions by either side are valueless -- there are theories a plenty about all sorts of things, the only ones that we should give much credance for are those where there is evidence to support them. No evidence: it is a fancy idea, a fantasy - come back when you have evidence and predictions that can be tested.
In Europe, this ain't even an issue. Evolution isn't taught in school,
Not true: when I went to school (England in the 1970's) evolution was taught. Competing theories such as larmarkism and the bible story where given as alternatives and we were then shown that the evidence (experiments, observation,....) supported evolution through natural selection. That was done the right way.
TLDR; Amazon prevents you from selling for cheaper on other outlets, or giving away free downloads or FOSS if you want to charge on the Amazon Appstore.
That is very easy to get round: produce an almost identical product that has a different model/version/... number and sell that at a different price.
This trick is played all the time on the high street, shops that say something like:
price match on the same item
often know that they are quite safe
since the fridge/hi-fi/camera/... manufacturer produces an item with a unique model number that is only sold to them, in reality it is no different to the model sold next door. OK: only the large chains can do that trick.
Slashdot Mirror
With a review after 42 days I was expecting to read "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters ....
The IT sector is actually ahead of most industries in terms of being green. They can be 100% green operationally, today. Running completely on electricity means you can be as green as your source. It's not IT that's the problem.
Not quite true, there is the CO2 cost in making computers - we would get better if we did not replace machines so often.
Then there is the cost of printing paper, ink & all sorts of consumables.
On another note, why in the name of fuck is Slashdot posting anything from the Daily Star? The newspaper is most famous for its page-3 topless girls and their sheer determination to use words with as few syllables as possible.
So what if they have pictures of totty in their pages, that is not what is being linked to. The Daily Star do not seem to have made the story up, the write up seems as good as you get anywhere else. It appears that the Daily Star alterted the MOD about their stupidity so they are the origin of the story & deserve credit for that.
If you are such an intellectual snob that you won't read the Daily Star, here is the story on the BBC.
Most users are non-technical.
Management should ensure that those should be properly trained to do their job. Those responsible for putting stuff on web sites (or where ever) should know what they are doing. Would it be acceptable to say ''he blew up the nuclear sub because he didn't know how to manage the reactor'' ?
This is an old issue and it's not excusable that the application didn't give a warning.
The application was probably instructed to turn the background black, it was probably not instructed to make certain text unreadable.
This is a management issue but, as ever, I can see them just blaming some muppet at the bottom of the pile.
You could study for a decade or two ...
The point is that you can, in principle, do it. The chances are that you know people who have done it -- in some scientific field or another.
Can you do that with religion (ie a faith) ? No -- that is the difference.
There is a lot of time and effort that goes into fulfilling one of these Open Records requests, someone has to pay for it. I suspect that the vice chancellor of the university will have a little chat Professor Bill Cronon telling him what it cost and suggesting that he doesn't cause such an expense again or else ....
My ringtone is a bit of Mozart, he died a couple of hundred years ago -- far enough to be out of copyright even for these guys.
They always do. They are now charging Liberty Media $200/hour while chasing a fantasy. They don't care what they do as long as they earn some money -- parasites!
This is the way to go, it is what I use when I want to send encrypted email. There are some big problems with PGP/GPG where government could help, these are:
Once they have done that then the normal commercial forces would kick in: some people would pay for s/ware that works, others would use FLOSS; it doesn't really matter -- it is the standard that is important.
Mail signing -- encryption is a completly different problem from spam prevention, we must not conflate the two.
It is somewhat naive to try to say ''best'' across all domains. Red Hat (and to a lesser extent) SUSE are very important in the commercial sphere. This is because of the nature of PAID support - something that large companies demand. It all depends on where you are viewing things from.
And what do you do when your house burns to the ground with both your cheap virtual machine and BackupPC?
If you were competent you will have arranged an off-site backup, maybe not every day but at least occasionally.
Eg: http://www.123people.com/s/tolkien that turns up Tolkiens by the page full — do you think that some of them might have something to say about their name being grabbed by the estate of an author — even if he was a good one ?
Yes - MS bought ISO votes in many countries so that OOXML could be fast tracked.
Fast tracking is reserved for what are usually de-facto standards with multiple implementations. OOXML is not implemented by anything, anywhere; the ISO vote was a fraud.
Actually there are no implementations of OOXML/DIS 29500. The MS .docx format certainly does not conform - although MS tries to give the impression that it does.
There is a huge difference between Iraq and Zimbabwe. ....
Yes: the difference is that Iraq is sitting on a lot of oil, Zumbabwe isn't. One is of interest to the west, the other isn't.
Try reading the facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement., section 4.1: You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
Presumably a law upholding (ahem) organisation like the US government and its agencies will want to abide with agreements that they enter in to ???
Why can they just lie and expect to get away with it. So does that imply that I can lie on my tax form and also expect to get away with it ? I am sorry: this is not acceptable. Governments seem to regard the law and good morals as something that others need to obey, not themselves. What about the individuals who manage these fake accounts, if I ordered an employee of mine to lie they would be liable to prosecution just as I would be; why should government employees be any different ?
If Iran/pakistan/n.korea/... had created Stuxnet and it had targetted military infrastructure in the UK/USA/Israel/... imagine the broohaha, the passionate outpourings from politicians, the chasing down of those who wrote it.
But the USA/Israel did it: so that somehow makes it OK ?
Do they detect the proximity of the car navigation system and enter an infinite loop saying: ''Are we there yet ?''
I would love to believe that what you say is right. Unfortunately you are applying logic to this; we are dealing with people who put gut feel far above reason and who (generally) don't know the difference between the two.
Is religion carried by a gene or a meme ? If it is a meme then there is more hope for us all that the problems caused by religious belief will gradually die away through better education.
However: people will act in a way that is most beneficial to themselves with the result that many will defer to or feign religious belief as a way of avoiding problems. Non believers tend not to go around discriminating against believers, but some[**] religious people do act against those who are not religious or who follow a different set of beliefs than they do. Examples are Teachers [who] Back Away From Evolution In Class and religious wars.
[**]: read this carefully, I said ''some'' not ''all''
The other day, a student confronted her in class and said, "You may have come from a monkey but I certainly didn't."
So, what did your wife reply ? I trust that she asked the student where he thought that he came from and looked at the quality of the evidence for both theories.
Assertions by either side are valueless -- there are theories a plenty about all sorts of things, the only ones that we should give much credance for are those where there is evidence to support them. No evidence: it is a fancy idea, a fantasy - come back when you have evidence and predictions that can be tested.
In Europe, this ain't even an issue. Evolution isn't taught in school,
Not true: when I went to school (England in the 1970's) evolution was taught. Competing theories such as larmarkism and the bible story where given as alternatives and we were then shown that the evidence (experiments, observation, ....) supported evolution through natural selection. That was done the right way.
I always did wonder what the facebook strategy for making money was, I now understand: implement hopelessly secure systems and sue those who break in.
Brilliant - I just wish that I had thought of that!
I wonder if the eventual recommendations will include something saying that top posting is bad. If so then the pope will go up in my estimation.
Trimming of multiple copies of old signatures would be good as well! I suppose that avoiding HTML email would be too much to ask for.
TLDR; Amazon prevents you from selling for cheaper on other outlets, or giving away free downloads or FOSS if you want to charge on the Amazon Appstore.
That is very easy to get round: produce an almost identical product that has a different model/version/... number and sell that at a different price.
This trick is played all the time on the high street, shops that say something like:
price match on the same item
often know that they are quite safe since the fridge/hi-fi/camera/... manufacturer produces an item with a unique model number that is only sold to them, in reality it is no different to the model sold next door. OK: only the large chains can do that trick.
So if the big boys can do it: why can't we ?