The legal situation in both countries are different, but it's interesting that Germany's interior secretary just told the parliament that better electronic surveillance does not require significant changes to existing laws, but rather better trained personnel and better use of already existing data. (I am paraphrasing. See here for the German original.)
Yeah, their web site gives me real confidence. See http://www.agendacomputing.com/sw_browser.html for example. Anyone can make mistakes, but that's just sloppy.
How about some out of the box thinking?
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Maybe thinking a bit outside the military/law enforcement boxes would help. For example:
Instead of curtailing civil liberties, let's pay airport security a living wage and train them appropriately.
Instead of using a lot of law enforcement resources, secret searches, sealed warrants etc to disrupt a terrorist financial network, just pick the first publicly traded bank you find supporting terrorists. Then have GWB make a public statement that the US sees bank X as an accessory to terrorism, have their stock drop through the floor and be amazed how other banks start checking their accounts more carefully.
Offer a couple of billion dollars to Afghanistan if they kick out the Taliban and drop millions of leavlets explaining to Afghanis how much that would mean to each of them. (Say, if you were rid of the Taliban tomorrow, you would have a roof, enough seed and animals to be reasonably wealthy, a TV...)
Air drop 5 million cheap transistor radios, set up your own radio, and jam (bomb) their radio stations.
Set up field hospitals and food distribution sites just outside the borders of poor terrorist supporting countries.
Get more independent of oil. That doesn't require more drilling, but just more efficient use. You would be surprised how little oil the US actually gets out of the Middle East.
Publish a real list of all the terrorists and states you want to go after and declare your intention to ask US companies to boycott anyone that does business with them. Publish a monthly list of companies that do. That won't help in Afghanistan or the Irak, but some other states might still want to have some contact.
And, most importantly, go after the leaders and the infrastructure, not the foot soldiers.
This might not be a popular response for/., but I have a bunch of laptops and notice that I always carry the lightest one if in any way possible. For most of the things you do on the road, anything you can buy nowadays is plenty powerful enough. Another rather important consideration if battery life. I have pretty good luck borrowing power in airports and hotels, but a laptop that shuts down after less than 3 hours is annoying.
As far as quality goes, I had pretty good luck with Dell, some with Sony and none with Toshiba and IBM. But YMMVW. If your company is buying, get the replace-and-send-back warranty.
>Electronic toll boxes in Illinois are specifically banned from using toll payment times to track down speeders. Otherwise no one would use them, and it was apparently more important to ease congestion by cutting down on tollway backups than it was to catch speeders.
No, that is to prevent the state from having to jail every man, woman and child in Chicago. For the ones who haven't been there, the speed limit is 55mph or less and the average speed is 85mph on 355, 78mph on the Tri-state and speed of light on 88 and 90.
Not that people drive slower on the other,non-toll expressways.
You are comparing apples and oranges. A click through requires far less effort and interest than a visit to a car dealer or or even calling someone. Which translates into far lower follow through rates. Also, with bingo cards, phone calls..., the company gets address information that they can use to follow up. With click-throughs, you don't. Unless they fill out some kind of information request form.
And furthermore, click-through rates have come WAY down over the last couple of years and simply don't justify the prices most of the websites asked for. If a $10,000 ad in a major magazine gets you exposure to 100,000-300,000 people and you get a 1% response rate, you are infinitly better off than if you pay $5,000 for 10 CPM at some obscure web site and see no firm opportunities spring up.
Something that I have seen work reasonably well is using CVSweb and designating only one or a few people who are allowed to submit files to CVS.
This allows everyone to download the versioned documents with a minimum of fuss while making it very hard to screw up CVS. The basic mode of operation is that writers who want to change an existing piece download it from CVSweb, edit it and them send it to the CVS person to commit it.
You can run into a bit of trouble if multiple people check out documents for editing simultainously, but in a shop with 50 people that shouldn't happen too often and you require them to submit changes quickly.
There is a pretty useful way around this. Set up a bunch of email groups like mycompany-chilli, mycompany-garagesales and so on. Then simply don't subscribe anyone by default and let them figure out what the salient groups are by themselves. And, of course, go after everyone that posts to a work related group.
It not only keeps the load down for people who want to get their work done, but it also channels the distructive energies of the "But Merciful God..." group
According to the Mercury News, "CueCat scanner is not catching on with consumers as quickly as predicted". Not as quickly? Their scans are down by a factor of 5, their registered users use it less than once a months on average, for crying out loud!!!
I don't even know why this ends up on/., except for showing the death throngs of the most pathetic business plan that even came out of the.com bubble. I somehow have the feeling that cue(less)cat will stand tall as business school material for decades to come.
"we give away millions of dollars in free, easily hackable hardware that requires you to schlepp your magazine to your TV or computer so we can send you spam" is not a business plan,it's sheer lunacy. On top of that, they made utter fools out of themselves with their cease and desist compaign.
I just hope everyone who invested in this looses their shirt. The person to endorse this product is not Lisa, it's Homer: "DUH"
Your's is morre rediculous. The problem is not that schools teach students the virtues mentioned. It is that they stop there. Slam me, but IMO everyone who follows these steps will likely have more success and frankly be someone I rather hang around with. But, there have been arguments made that people can be too smart for menial jobs, or that encouraging creativity, couriousity and critical thinking make people unsuitable for menial jobs, or dangerous in general. All the way from ancient times, through Nazi educational plans for occupied territories, to arguments made around the time of Brown vs board of education, to those yahoos in Maryland who kicked out a cop for scoring to high on his test last year.
And, quite frankly, critical or contrarian thinking is not one thing that is encouraged by the US school system. Or by society as a whole, see the constant PC debates. If you want to make a better case that school systems try to different cultural values, try Japan or Singapore which have a highly normative school system.
Re:What about the KAL flight 007 tragedy?
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I don't think this applies here. This is a theater defense system with a about 100 miles range. No one in their sane minds would fly a civil aircraft within a hundred miles of US/Nato going to town in a major conflict. Also, all the F-15, 16, 22 flying around it might be a good indicator which one is civil and which one is a USAF plane.
According to DOE statistics (http://www.eia.doe.gov/), the United States imported 10.6 million bbl/d of oil in 1999, representing 54% of total U.S. oil demand. Around 46% of this oil came from OPEC nations, with Persian Gulf sources accounting for about 23% of U.S. oil imports during the year.
At the same time, the United States consumed 19.5 million bbl/d of oil in 1999. Of this, 8.4 million bbl/d (or 43% of the total) was motor gasoline, 5.0 million bbl/d (26%) "other oils," 3.6 million bbl/d (18%) distillate fuel oil, 1.7 million bbl/d (9%) jet fuel, and 840,000 bbl/d (5%) residual fuel oil. U.S. oil demand is expected to increase by about 110,000 bbl/d (0.6%) in 2000.
Considering that the approximatly 2.4 million bbl/d are less than a third of the consumption of motor gasoline, wouldn't you agree that an effort to improve gas milage by 28% or reducing general consumption by a bit over 10% would enable the US to significantly reduce their strategic interest in the Gulf, while helping the environment and a couple of other issues?
If you take the Schwartzschild radius, the point where the escape velocity equals the speed of light, it's radius would be about 3000km. Compared to the size of the Milky Way, that's a pinpoint;)
The Schwartzschild Radius is 2 * gravitational constant * mass of sun / (speed of light^2 )
Of course the poor Linux folks have Acrobat Reader, comes with a lot of distros and you can download it from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.htm l Ghostscript work too, of course. By the way, which moron designed the new Adobe website? This thing is beyond useless.
Most of the discussions I hear and work I see is towards makeing algorithms safer. On the other hand a lot of security gets compromised by a large number of protocol violations, human errors (like dictionary passwords, pet names etc) and other means like reading electromagnetic emissions, bugging or bribing. Where do you see the optimal division of effort?
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The legal situation in both countries are different, but it's interesting that Germany's interior secretary just told the parliament that better electronic surveillance does not require significant changes to existing laws, but rather better trained personnel and better use of already existing data. (I am paraphrasing. See here for the German original.)
Yeah, their web site gives me real confidence. See http://www.agendacomputing.com/sw_browser.html for example. Anyone can make mistakes, but that's just sloppy.
Maybe thinking a bit outside the military/law enforcement boxes would help. For example:
Instead of curtailing civil liberties, let's pay airport security a living wage and train them appropriately.
Instead of using a lot of law enforcement resources, secret searches, sealed warrants etc to disrupt a terrorist financial network, just pick the first publicly traded bank you find supporting terrorists. Then have GWB make a public statement that the US sees bank X as an accessory to terrorism, have their stock drop through the floor and be amazed how other banks start checking their accounts more carefully.
Offer a couple of billion dollars to Afghanistan if they kick out the Taliban and drop millions of leavlets explaining to Afghanis how much that would mean to each of them. (Say, if you were rid of the Taliban tomorrow, you would have a roof, enough seed and animals to be reasonably wealthy, a TV...)
Air drop 5 million cheap transistor radios, set up your own radio, and jam (bomb) their radio stations.
Set up field hospitals and food distribution sites just outside the borders of poor terrorist supporting countries.
Get more independent of oil. That doesn't require more drilling, but just more efficient use. You would be surprised how little oil the US actually gets out of the Middle East.
Publish a real list of all the terrorists and states you want to go after and declare your intention to ask US companies to boycott anyone that does business with them. Publish a monthly list of companies that do. That won't help in Afghanistan or the Irak, but some other states might still want to have some contact.
And, most importantly, go after the leaders and the infrastructure, not the foot soldiers.
This might not be a popular response for /., but I have a bunch of laptops and notice that I always carry the lightest one if in any way possible. For most of the things you do on the road, anything you can buy nowadays is plenty powerful enough. Another rather important consideration if battery life. I have pretty good luck borrowing power in airports and hotels, but a laptop that shuts down after less than 3 hours is annoying.
As far as quality goes, I had pretty good luck with Dell, some with Sony and none with Toshiba and IBM. But YMMVW. If your company is buying, get the replace-and-send-back warranty.
>Electronic toll boxes in Illinois are specifically banned from using toll payment times to track down speeders. Otherwise no one would use them, and it was apparently more important to ease congestion by cutting down on tollway backups than it was to catch speeders.
No, that is to prevent the state from having to jail every man, woman and child in Chicago. For the ones who haven't been there, the speed limit is 55mph or less and the average speed is 85mph on 355, 78mph on the Tri-state and speed of light on 88 and 90.
Not that people drive slower on the other,non-toll expressways.
You are comparing apples and oranges. A click through requires far less effort and interest than a visit to a car dealer or or even calling someone. Which translates into far lower follow through rates. Also, with bingo cards, phone calls..., the company gets address information that they can use to follow up. With click-throughs, you don't. Unless they fill out some kind of information request form. And furthermore, click-through rates have come WAY down over the last couple of years and simply don't justify the prices most of the websites asked for. If a $10,000 ad in a major magazine gets you exposure to 100,000-300,000 people and you get a 1% response rate, you are infinitly better off than if you pay $5,000 for 10 CPM at some obscure web site and see no firm opportunities spring up.
Something that I have seen work reasonably well is using CVSweb and designating only one or a few people who are allowed to submit files to CVS.
This allows everyone to download the versioned documents with a minimum of fuss while making it very hard to screw up CVS. The basic mode of operation is that writers who want to change an existing piece download it from CVSweb, edit it and them send it to the CVS person to commit it.
You can run into a bit of trouble if multiple people check out documents for editing simultainously, but in a shop with 50 people that shouldn't happen too often and you require them to submit changes quickly.
There is a pretty useful way around this. Set up a bunch of email groups like mycompany-chilli, mycompany-garagesales and so on. Then simply don't subscribe anyone by default and let them figure out what the salient groups are by themselves. And, of course, go after everyone that posts to a work related group.
It not only keeps the load down for people who want to get their work done, but it also channels the distructive energies of the "But Merciful God..." group
According to the Mercury News, "CueCat scanner is not catching on with consumers as quickly as predicted". Not as quickly? Their scans are down by a factor of 5, their registered users use it less than once a months on average, for crying out loud!!! /., except for showing the death throngs of the most pathetic business plan that even came out of the .com bubble. I somehow have the feeling that cue(less)cat will stand tall as business school material for decades to come.
I don't even know why this ends up on
"we give away millions of dollars in free, easily hackable hardware that requires you to schlepp your magazine to your TV or computer so we can send you spam" is not a business plan,it's sheer lunacy. On top of that, they made utter fools out of themselves with their cease and desist compaign.
I just hope everyone who invested in this looses their shirt. The person to endorse this product is not Lisa, it's Homer: "DUH"
Your's is morre rediculous. The problem is not that schools teach students the virtues mentioned. It is that they stop there. Slam me, but IMO everyone who follows these steps will likely have more success and frankly be someone I rather hang around with. But, there have been arguments made that people can be too smart for menial jobs, or that encouraging creativity, couriousity and critical thinking make people unsuitable for menial jobs, or dangerous in general. All the way from ancient times, through Nazi educational plans for occupied territories, to arguments made around the time of Brown vs board of education, to those yahoos in Maryland who kicked out a cop for scoring to high on his test last year. And, quite frankly, critical or contrarian thinking is not one thing that is encouraged by the US school system. Or by society as a whole, see the constant PC debates. If you want to make a better case that school systems try to different cultural values, try Japan or Singapore which have a highly normative school system.
I don't think this applies here. This is a theater defense system with a about 100 miles range. No one in their sane minds would fly a civil aircraft within a hundred miles of US/Nato going to town in a major conflict. Also, all the F-15, 16, 22 flying around it might be a good indicator which one is civil and which one is a USAF plane.
Ma certo:
distance = 1/2 accelleration*time^2
The closest distance between Mars and Earth is about 100 million kilometers (I refuse to do this in miles)and want to cover it in a week
0.5*acc*(7*25*3600 second)^2=5*10^10 meter
Gives you about 0.27 meters/second^2 or about 1/40th of Earth's gravity. Peachy
According to DOE statistics (http://www.eia.doe.gov/), the United States imported 10.6 million bbl/d of oil in 1999, representing 54% of total U.S. oil demand. Around 46% of this oil came from OPEC nations, with Persian Gulf sources accounting for about 23% of U.S. oil imports during the year. At the same time, the United States consumed 19.5 million bbl/d of oil in 1999. Of this, 8.4 million bbl/d (or 43% of the total) was motor gasoline, 5.0 million bbl/d (26%) "other oils," 3.6 million bbl/d (18%) distillate fuel oil, 1.7 million bbl/d (9%) jet fuel, and 840,000 bbl/d (5%) residual fuel oil. U.S. oil demand is expected to increase by about 110,000 bbl/d (0.6%) in 2000. Considering that the approximatly 2.4 million bbl/d are less than a third of the consumption of motor gasoline, wouldn't you agree that an effort to improve gas milage by 28% or reducing general consumption by a bit over 10% would enable the US to significantly reduce their strategic interest in the Gulf, while helping the environment and a couple of other issues?
If you take the Schwartzschild radius, the point where the escape velocity equals the speed of light, it's radius would be about 3000km. Compared to the size of the Milky Way, that's a pinpoint;) The Schwartzschild Radius is 2 * gravitational constant * mass of sun / (speed of light^2 )
Of course the poor Linux folks have Acrobat Reader, comes with a lot of distros and you can download it from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.htm l
Ghostscript work too, of course.
By the way, which moron designed the new Adobe website? This thing is beyond useless.
Most of the discussions I hear and work I see is towards makeing algorithms safer. On the other hand a lot of security gets compromised by a large number of protocol violations, human errors (like dictionary passwords, pet names etc) and other means like reading electromagnetic emissions, bugging or bribing. Where do you see the optimal division of effort?