Here's a hint - In science the word theory means something different than it's use in general parlance. A theory is the best explanation for the facts that we have. Just like the theory of grativity is the best explanation of gravity we have . Evolution happens. A theory in science isn't a guess. ID has no scientific components. It has no predictive value. It's theology.
Read the specs Mighty Mouse Specs. It has optical tracking so it uses a freakn' laser, not a little ball. Do they even make mice that use physical tracking anymore? All my mice for the last 5 years have been optical.
Back when I worked for VA I remember going to Linux World in New York and just replaced their entire back trading network from VAX to a huge commodity cluster running Linux. That was back when VA still sold hardware and VA sold them the cluster. Linux isn't being installed on the desktops at these firms, but huge linux clusters to facilitate and speed trading.
This has been the case for every update for IE since 5.5. IE ships with the OS. It defaults to MS Search. They have always done this. This simple problem is that MSN search sucks. Until MS fixes that huge glaring problem, no one will use MS search. Every time Google comes up at slashdot, someone always posts,"In longhorn search will default to MS, killing google." Well default or not, it's easy enough to change. Until MS search actually is a good as Google will competition be a problem for Google. Despite the 150 million dollar ad campaign for MS search they were only able to steal roughly.03 % of the market from Google in June.
They need a better search product. Search isn't about search web pages. It's about finding the information you need.
He never said Cheney sent him. That's simply a lie. What he said was that the office of the vice president requested the CIA look into this Niger matter. The CIA chose Joe Wilson as he already done this sort of work before (Valerie did not send him to Niger on here own. That's just silly.) He was an ambassador to Niger and Gabon and knew all the players in the area and had completed covert work for the CIA before. Here's the quote "In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake -- a form of lightly processed ore -- by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office." Media repeated false GOP talking point on authorization for Wilson trip to Niger
Really most of her neighbors knew? How do you know? Because you are repeating a talking point? I have seen article where her "neighbors" say CIA? I thought she worked in energy. How could she work in the CIA with those twins? That last one was pretty funny to me.
What about her cover company Brewster Jennings & Associates? There's a reason you don't out intelligence agents. There is a HUGE amount of collateral damage. It's got a Wikipedia entry as a front company for the CIA now. No damage done to intelligence there.
It completely fucked up the cover company she established. "Yet Plame's association with a non-official cover (NOC), by default, means that she was covert, pure and simple. Brewster Jennings reportedly "suffered greatly" as a result of the disclosure, according to a knowledgeable source. Another source reported that at least one Brewster Jennings NOC operating in a hostile intelligence environment was executed by counter-intelligence agents as a result of the White House disclosure. Other B&JA assets were forced to abandon their ongoing operations to identify networks involved in weapons of mass destruction proliferation. The CIA has been working on a damage assessment report on the Plame/B&JA disclosures. If no indictments of White House officials result from the Fitzgerald investigation, look for parts of that highly classified report to be leaked and then look for more imprisonments of journalists who refuse to divulge the source(s) of those leaks. Word from intelligence sources is that the damage assessment report is "devastating.""
No they don't. Read my quotes. They clearly state that she waqs no longer a NOC because her cover was blown - Also blowing the cover of every associate of hers at her cover company and undoubtedly many of her sources.
Wilson saying he couldn't comment is the minimum you are supposed to do. That data was classified and her past status is classified. That's why you don't talk about it.
Outing the identity of a undercover operative isn't the only crime here my friend.
The fact she was a CIA operative was still classified information and leaking classified information is still a crime. That's one of the reason why the CIA referred it to the Justice Department.
If you actually read the article you will note that his wife stopped being a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her cover. She wasn't a bureaucrat. She was a NOC.
From the SAME Newsday article
"In an interview Friday, Wilson said his comment was meant to reflect that his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent because of the leak, not that she had stopped working for the CIA beforehand.
His wife's "ability to do the job she's been doing for close to 20 years ceased from the minute Novak's article appeared; she ceased being a clandestine officer," he said."
Sorry but that doesn't change the fact that the current book buyers bought the books in good faith. They rendered payment and recieved the goods. The relationship between the book store and the distributor has no effect on the transaction. Let's take a hypothetical.
Book Seller A goes bankrupt. The distributor is owed hundred of thousands of dollars. Can they go after the customers? No. Because the customers acted in good faith and purchased the items.
Um sorry that's not quite right. By selling the book, receiving funds for it and providing the goods for the funds, a sale has taken place. By its actions clearly the bookstore intended a sale to take place. The customers didn't steal the books. The goods are the consumers. The publisher can certainly sue the retailer for breaking the street date but that's something entirely different.
Clearly you know nothing about First Amendment law or the commercial code. The minute that someone buys the book, it's theirs and they can talk about. The injunction was for preventing people from talking about the book, not preventing the retailer from selling it. A book buyer who in good faith walks into a book store and buys a book before the street date is not the one at fault here. It's the retailer for selling the book. The minute I pay money for something in a store and recieve the goods - It's mine, although I don't own the copyright. If I were one of those guys it would be on Ebay right now.
The moment the book was sold, it was considered published. The injunction is for people who purchased the book, not a penalty for the bookstore that released it early. In the US this could never happen as that prior restraint of free speech.
Injunction limiting the speech of the book buyers is completely asine. Read the injunction
Largely because there needs to be a compelling reason to restrain free speech. I guess the possibility that someone might not buy the book because Dumbldore dies in it overlooks those nasty free speech considerations.
Don't worry it. It will reside in a repository somewhere, in an obscure format. They will want to collect everything and will soon find out that the signal to noise ratio is horrible.
"Automating much of this serveillance is one of the holy grails of the intelligence community."
The intelligence commmunity was so in love with signal intel that they allowed our human asset base to decay so that it will take years to rebuild. Good job intelligence community.
Is it just me or does any one worry about the long term effects on your eyes? I mean no knows the effects and I cannot imagine that it's good for the eyes.
I don't think the levels of professionalism are actually all that different. If Drupal had been my project, it would have never gone down EVER. Blaming your upstream provider is one thing but people have an expectation of sites being up. I expect systems to stay up years at a time with proper maintaince. Many of the systems we have done are entering their 5th & 6th years running continously with minor patch downtime for portions of the cluster.
I also expect people to do capacity planning and notice that, "Hey maybe we should do something about this slow ass hosting like getting our own small cluster." My suspicion is that they don't have a sys admin and were afraid to make the leap. (or just not enough cash to buy the machine)
I suspect that this project will recover from this hiccup. They have gotten pretty popular (The Google Page Rank of drupal.org is 8) but are not deployed in too many corporations. Many of their customer testimonials are smaller installations.
I tried their system after going on a CMS binge where I played virtually every product on the market. Despite it being in PHP I was pleasantly surprised by this system. Maybe they will grow into MySQL or maybe they will wither away. I chipped in to help them as I have other projects (like perl.org).
My fault for filtering AC posts. I suggest you do so too, you will find it less stressful. To be completely fair you did say I had a "fetish" for drupal and was a "hobbyist". Fetish & "hoobyists" a fairly loaded terms. I agree 100% with you for their fuck-up. As one of the founders of my company I carried the old pager for years to moniter the data center. I suspect we differ on the degree to which this will hurt them. Crisis management always defines the quality of a company.
Well that certainly helps with your credentials. I guess I could if I so wanted give you a similar list of Fortune 500s we did work with etc. Suffice it to say I have a similar background with a company about 12 people smaller. BTW you did see that you weren't quoting my post? That those two quotes weren't mine right?
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a hint - In science the word theory means something different than it's use in general parlance. A theory is the best explanation for the facts that we have. Just like the theory of grativity is the best explanation of gravity we have . Evolution happens. A theory in science isn't a guess. ID has no scientific components. It has no predictive value. It's theology.
Read the specs Mighty Mouse Specs. It has optical tracking so it uses a freakn' laser, not a little ball. Do they even make mice that use physical tracking anymore? All my mice for the last 5 years have been optical.
Back when I worked for VA I remember going to Linux World in New York and just replaced their entire back trading network from VAX to a huge commodity cluster running Linux. That was back when VA still sold hardware and VA sold them the cluster. Linux isn't being installed on the desktops at these firms, but huge linux clusters to facilitate and speed trading.
I found a mirror here
Stop it already, he' dead Jim. I think the servers got slashdotted. Never have seen Google go under in a slashdotting.
This has been the case for every update for IE since 5.5. IE ships with the OS. It defaults to MS Search. They have always done this. This simple problem is that MSN search sucks. Until MS fixes that huge glaring problem, no one will use MS search. Every time Google comes up at slashdot, someone always posts,"In longhorn search will default to MS, killing google." Well default or not, it's easy enough to change. Until MS search actually is a good as Google will competition be a problem for Google. Despite the 150 million dollar ad campaign for MS search they were only able to steal roughly .03 % of the market from Google in June.
They need a better search product. Search isn't about search web pages. It's about finding the information you need.
He never said Cheney sent him. That's simply a lie. What he said was that the office of the vice president requested the CIA look into this Niger matter. The CIA chose Joe Wilson as he already done this sort of work before (Valerie did not send him to Niger on here own. That's just silly.) He was an ambassador to Niger and Gabon and knew all the players in the area and had completed covert work for the CIA before.
Here's the quote
"In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake -- a form of lightly processed ore -- by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office."
Media repeated false GOP talking point on authorization for Wilson trip to Niger
Really most of her neighbors knew? How do you know? Because you are repeating a talking point? I have seen article where her "neighbors" say CIA? I thought she worked in energy. How could she work in the CIA with those twins? That last one was pretty funny to me.
What about her cover company Brewster Jennings & Associates? There's a reason you don't out intelligence agents. There is a HUGE amount of collateral damage. It's got a Wikipedia entry as a front company for the CIA now. No damage done to intelligence there.
It completely fucked up the cover company she established.
"Yet Plame's association with a non-official cover (NOC), by default, means that she was covert, pure and simple. Brewster Jennings reportedly "suffered greatly" as a result of the disclosure, according to a knowledgeable source. Another source reported that at least one Brewster Jennings NOC operating in a hostile intelligence environment was executed by counter-intelligence agents as a result of the White House disclosure. Other B&JA assets were forced to abandon their ongoing operations to identify networks involved in weapons of mass destruction proliferation. The CIA has been working on a damage assessment report on the Plame/B&JA disclosures. If no indictments of White House officials result from the Fitzgerald investigation, look for parts of that highly classified report to be leaked and then look for more imprisonments of journalists who refuse to divulge the source(s) of those leaks. Word from intelligence sources is that the damage assessment report is "devastating.""
No they don't. Read my quotes. They clearly state that she waqs no longer a NOC because her cover was blown - Also blowing the cover of every associate of hers at her cover company and undoubtedly many of her sources.
Wilson saying he couldn't comment is the minimum you are supposed to do. That data was classified and her past status is classified. That's why you don't talk about it.
Outing the identity of a undercover operative isn't the only crime here my friend.
The fact she was a CIA operative was still classified information and leaking classified information is still a crime. That's one of the reason why the CIA referred it to the Justice Department.
You should stop parroting RNC talking points.
If you actually read the article you will note that his wife stopped being a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her cover. She wasn't a bureaucrat. She was a NOC.
From the SAME Newsday article
"In an interview Friday, Wilson said his comment was meant to reflect that his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent because of the leak, not that she had stopped working for the CIA beforehand.
His wife's "ability to do the job she's been doing for close to 20 years ceased from the minute Novak's article appeared; she ceased being a clandestine officer," he said."
Oops. She was a spy dumbass
Sorry but that doesn't change the fact that the current book buyers bought the books in good faith. They rendered payment and recieved the goods. The relationship between the book store and the distributor has no effect on the transaction. Let's take a hypothetical.
Book Seller A goes bankrupt. The distributor is owed hundred of thousands of dollars. Can they go after the customers? No. Because the customers acted in good faith and purchased the items.
Read the Uniform Commercial Code to understand what constitutes a sale.
Indeed you have hit one of the key components of copyright, control of distribution.
It's the book store's fuck up, not the book buyers.( Unless they bribed one of those underpaid clerks)
Um sorry that's not quite right. By selling the book, receiving funds for it and providing the goods for the funds, a sale has taken place. By its actions clearly the bookstore intended a sale to take place. The customers didn't steal the books. The goods are the consumers. The publisher can certainly sue the retailer for breaking the street date but that's something entirely different.
Clearly you know nothing about First Amendment law or the commercial code. The minute that someone buys the book, it's theirs and they can talk about. The injunction was for preventing people from talking about the book, not preventing the retailer from selling it. A book buyer who in good faith walks into a book store and buys a book before the street date is not the one at fault here. It's the retailer for selling the book. The minute I pay money for something in a store and recieve the goods - It's mine, although I don't own the copyright. If I were one of those guys it would be on Ebay right now.
The moment the book was sold, it was considered published. The injunction is for people who purchased the book, not a penalty for the bookstore that released it early. In the US this could never happen as that prior restraint of free speech.
Injunction limiting the speech of the book buyers is completely asine. Read the injunction
Largely because there needs to be a compelling reason to restrain free speech. I guess the possibility that someone might not buy the book because Dumbldore dies in it overlooks those nasty free speech considerations.
Don't worry it. It will reside in a repository somewhere, in an obscure format. They will want to collect everything and will soon find out that the signal to noise ratio is horrible.
"Automating much of this serveillance is one of the holy grails of the intelligence community."
The intelligence commmunity was so in love with signal intel that they allowed our human asset base to decay so that it will take years to rebuild. Good job intelligence community.
Is it just me or does any one worry about the long term effects on your eyes? I mean no knows the effects and I cannot imagine that it's good for the eyes.
I don't think the levels of professionalism are actually all that different. If Drupal had been my project, it would have never gone down EVER. Blaming your upstream provider is one thing but people have an expectation of sites being up. I expect systems to stay up years at a time with proper maintaince. Many of the systems we have done are entering their 5th & 6th years running continously with minor patch downtime for portions of the cluster.
I also expect people to do capacity planning and notice that, "Hey maybe we should do something about this slow ass hosting like getting our own small cluster." My suspicion is that they don't have a sys admin and were afraid to make the leap. (or just not enough cash to buy the machine)
I suspect that this project will recover from this hiccup. They have gotten pretty popular (The Google Page Rank of drupal.org is 8) but are not deployed in too many corporations. Many of their customer testimonials are smaller installations.
I tried their system after going on a CMS binge where I played virtually every product on the market. Despite it being in PHP I was pleasantly surprised by this system. Maybe they will grow into MySQL or maybe they will wither away. I chipped in to help them as I have other projects (like perl.org).
My fault for filtering AC posts. I suggest you do so too, you will find it less stressful. To be completely fair you did say I had a "fetish" for drupal and was a "hobbyist". Fetish & "hoobyists" a fairly loaded terms. I agree 100% with you for their fuck-up. As one of the founders of my company I carried the old pager for years to moniter the data center. I suspect we differ on the degree to which this will hurt them. Crisis management always defines the quality of a company.
BTW Ignore the AC trolls my friend.
I just saw that AC post. Needless to say I filter out AC posts. I suggest you do since you decided to flame me for someone else's post.
Well that certainly helps with your credentials. I guess I could if I so wanted give you a similar list of Fortune 500s we did work with etc. Suffice it to say I have a similar background with a company about 12 people smaller. BTW you did see that you weren't quoting my post? That those two quotes weren't mine right?