I was assuming that infantry soldiers would use it after they shot up a building. It would be nice to see what damage you inflicted before going in. By that time the folks inside probably have a good idea that they have visitors. The article itself seemed jsut as focused on armor which you generally do not use to sneak up on anybody.
Well, I have a very common name. It would be nice to know what web pages a potential employer is looking at and give me the chance to refute any association. Honesty goes both ways.
The article does not explicitly say anything about his lawyer, and it sounds like he is doing this on his own. Whether he is right or wrong it will probably not matter unless he can find himself a decent lawyer. Going into legal proceedings without a lawyer is a train wreck in progress.
The only thing worse than trying to find sex on the internet is to get legal advice on the internet. Either way you are going to receive it the same way.
Bubelah, part of the point of the article is that this was a correlation they weren't expecting to find. That's what science is. You collect data based on a rough idea of where you should look and only when you've looked at the data do you start finalizing your conclusions on what you're looking at. That is not science. In science you make a prediction based on sound principles, and then you design a set of controlled experiments to test your hypothesis. If you simply collect data based on a rough idea you are going to find correlations simply due to chance alone. If you happen to find an unexpected correlation then you re-evaluate your ideas and then come up with a new set of experiments. To present your work before confirming unexpected findings is irresponsible.
So if I read this right, if you purchase brand new, high priced technology it may not give you the same kind of bang for the buck as tried and true established technology. I... am... shocked....
I would have strongly disagreed with your sentiment a short time ago but have changed my mind recently. The things in the article looked like fun but will have a hard time being accepted.
The thing that changed my mind is that I had to install a machine with Vista on it, and it was my first experience with the new OS. The machine is a new dual core Intel with 1Gb of memory. It should be a screamer but is essentially the same as the 5 year old XP machine it replaced. The secretary who has to use the machine did not like it at all and wanted XP installed. To my shock the reason was not about any of the things that I thought were "important" but really just amounted to "its different."
I used to have high hopes for a world with linux desktops but that has been dashed. Too many people prefer the old and comfortable to the new and cool. Apple and MS have the right idea. Get'm while they are young, although the Wii does offer some glimmer of hope.
This is one more reason not to pay money to watch grown men sweat a lot and scratch themselves. A few more of things like this and I am going to just give it up completely.
How come the word "hacker" needs the adjective "ethical?" It is bad enough that the word has a negative connentation (sp?) out there in the world. It should not have to be modified if it happens to be used in a positive sense here.
Wow, it is almost as if you might read the news! Fortunately for all of us our two economies are so intertwined that this amounts to mutual assured suicide. (Let us hope that MAS is much better than MAD.) The bad news is that some political leaders on both sides probably have no problems with slitting their own country's throat just for dogma's sake.
I guess the most heartening thing to consider is these guys eventually cross that threshold where the consumer resentment goes from smoulder to explosion, and maybe the backlash settles it once and for all.
You should not underestimate people's ability to bow to these kinds of pressures. We live in a world where most people do not think twice about waiting for a dvd from netflix in the mail. Sneakernet as a way to deliver bits is alive and well.
I read the articles but did not listen to the mp3, and the articles had little information. The surprising thing though is the openness at which the real issue here is control. Some people are so bent on control that they fail to see the difference between information/ideas and physical things. Sadly we are still a long way from the day that people can produce and distribute their own media. There are a few people who are able to do it, but it seems that even those small gains are under constant attacks from a wide variety of powerful entities.
This is just another stupid generalization. There are some areas where you can do good computer science without math. There are other areas where you absolutely need mathematics. For example, you cannot do scientific computing without mathematics. Broad generalizations like this for a wide spread field just shows the ignorance/narrow mind of the author.
I live in NY, and I am glad for the work that Eliot Spitzer has done. Now that Cuomo is the AG he is trying to make a name for himself the same way Spitzer did. Spitzer took on powerful interests within the state. Cuomo is taking the easy way out and going after out of state entities like colleges who have less than ethical relationships with loan organizations. Cuomo is a corrupt politician just trying to get his name out there. I fear that in the end his little adventures are going to go badly, and it will not reflect well on the state of NY.
That was my first thoughts. I was a little surprised to read that they *think* that Google knocked them down because of links from low quality sites. I did not think Google does this, but if it is true it opens up a whole new way to threaten people. Build a low quality spam site and then threaten businesses with adding a link to their site. A new kind of corporate blackmail for the internet age.
I was going to disregard the assumption because I assumed that the page was set up by the Dell marketing droids and was the subject of many many exciting meetings. Imagine the discussions on which distribution they should say based on the perceived nerdiness vs coolness factors. Riveting.
I think that you are confusing "has character" with "is a character." In some ways he seems like a class A jerk, but I respect him for funding EFF even if he does not always agree with him. I also like the idea of a nerd owning jocks (except for the racial overtones).
Enterprise Applications Consulting analyst Joshua Greenbaum said Oracle's gambit puts Red Hat in a "very dangerous position" because it doesn't own intellectual property and is just offering services.
First, Oracle is not offering the same thing as Redhat. They do not have the same kind of support. Second, Redhat owns something better than intellectual property. They have kernel and application programers. They have the people who can offer customized support and insight that few can match. Third, Redhat understands and cares about open source. Despite what a few whiners around here say, Redhat supports the community and takes on people who attack it. They have built tremendous good will. I can't see Larry going after people who attack the GPL. Larry only cares about Larry and Japanese statuary.
I made no statement as to whether or not this should justify any loss of civil liberties. You made that up out of whole cloth.
What I said is that our troops matter. For me, the implication is that when politicians get up and say that we are safer and terror attacks have been reduced they are absolutely wrong. The number of terror attacks has sky rocketed and our troops have born the brunt of it.
This is the worst of all possibilities. We are not safer and we face politicians who wish to reduce our civil liberties.
Have they bothered attacking us in the last 5 years or so?
The answer is yes. Everyday western troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are attacked. Whether or not you think that western troops should leave is up for debate. The one thing that should not be up for debate is whether or not those people matter or count. The troops have been put directly in harms way and the attacks that are happening to them are very real and matter a great deal. The fate of the troops should be figured in to the grim calculus of what constitutes terrorism against the west.
Beautiful use of statistics and just the sort of thing...
They do not say if they are reporting the number of cameras by user or if they go by the number of pictures. For example, if they go by picture they are telling us who uploads the most pictures, if they go by user they are telling us how many cameras are used. They do not discuss the methodology.. They also do not provide numbers nor graphs. It is an awful way to communicate statistics.
Well, I just tried it and told my wife that I have 500 google points. Apparantly, 500 google points is worth a long lecture about the time I should be spending with my daughter. I'm hoping that 1000 google points will get me something better, but I've been wrong about these things before...
Okay, this is obvisouly the worst kind of karma whoring possible. How about we take Bruce's highest moderated replies and we all post our own questions?
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I was assuming that infantry soldiers would use it after they shot up a building. It would be nice to see what damage you inflicted before going in. By that time the folks inside probably have a good idea that they have visitors. The article itself seemed jsut as focused on armor which you generally do not use to sneak up on anybody.
They probably should have. Unfortunately the only way to ask him now involves a ouija (tm) board.
Well, I have a very common name. It would be nice to know what web pages a potential employer is looking at and give me the chance to refute any association. Honesty goes both ways.
Maybe the submitter doesn't understand the word partisan,...
Another interpretation is that a poster on the internet does not understand quotation marks.
The article does not explicitly say anything about his lawyer, and it sounds like he is doing this on his own. Whether he is right or wrong it will probably not matter unless he can find himself a decent lawyer. Going into legal proceedings without a lawyer is a train wreck in progress.
The only thing worse than trying to find sex on the internet is to get legal advice on the internet. Either way you are going to receive it the same way.
According to the article (you know the one that is linked above) he said this:
So if I read this right, if you purchase brand new, high priced technology it may not give you the same kind of bang for the buck as tried and true established technology. I... am... shocked....
I would have strongly disagreed with your sentiment a short time ago but have changed my mind recently. The things in the article looked like fun but will have a hard time being accepted.
The thing that changed my mind is that I had to install a machine with Vista on it, and it was my first experience with the new OS. The machine is a new dual core Intel with 1Gb of memory. It should be a screamer but is essentially the same as the 5 year old XP machine it replaced. The secretary who has to use the machine did not like it at all and wanted XP installed. To my shock the reason was not about any of the things that I thought were "important" but really just amounted to "its different."
I used to have high hopes for a world with linux desktops but that has been dashed. Too many people prefer the old and comfortable to the new and cool. Apple and MS have the right idea. Get'm while they are young, although the Wii does offer some glimmer of hope.
This is one more reason not to pay money to watch grown men sweat a lot and scratch themselves. A few more of things like this and I am going to just give it up completely.
How come the word "hacker" needs the adjective "ethical?" It is bad enough that the word has a negative connentation (sp?) out there in the world. It should not have to be modified if it happens to be used in a positive sense here.
Wow, it is almost as if you might read the news! Fortunately for all of us our two economies are so intertwined that this amounts to mutual assured suicide. (Let us hope that MAS is much better than MAD.) The bad news is that some political leaders on both sides probably have no problems with slitting their own country's throat just for dogma's sake.
You should not underestimate people's ability to bow to these kinds of pressures. We live in a world where most people do not think twice about waiting for a dvd from netflix in the mail. Sneakernet as a way to deliver bits is alive and well.
I read the articles but did not listen to the mp3, and the articles had little information. The surprising thing though is the openness at which the real issue here is control. Some people are so bent on control that they fail to see the difference between information/ideas and physical things. Sadly we are still a long way from the day that people can produce and distribute their own media. There are a few people who are able to do it, but it seems that even those small gains are under constant attacks from a wide variety of powerful entities.
This is just another stupid generalization. There are some areas where you can do good computer science without math. There are other areas where you absolutely need mathematics. For example, you cannot do scientific computing without mathematics. Broad generalizations like this for a wide spread field just shows the ignorance/narrow mind of the author.
I live in NY, and I am glad for the work that Eliot Spitzer has done. Now that Cuomo is the AG he is trying to make a name for himself the same way Spitzer did. Spitzer took on powerful interests within the state. Cuomo is taking the easy way out and going after out of state entities like colleges who have less than ethical relationships with loan organizations. Cuomo is a corrupt politician just trying to get his name out there. I fear that in the end his little adventures are going to go badly, and it will not reflect well on the state of NY.
Actually, what really irks him is the idea that he has to drive from Provo to Salt Lake City just to get 3.2% beer.
(Note to the indignant: I used to live in Logan UT... as if that makes it any better.)
That was my first thoughts. I was a little surprised to read that they *think* that Google knocked them down because of links from low quality sites. I did not think Google does this, but if it is true it opens up a whole new way to threaten people. Build a low quality spam site and then threaten businesses with adding a link to their site. A new kind of corporate blackmail for the internet age.
I was going to disregard the assumption because I assumed that the page was set up by the Dell marketing droids and was the subject of many many exciting meetings. Imagine the discussions on which distribution they should say based on the perceived nerdiness vs coolness factors. Riveting.
I think that you are confusing "has character" with "is a character." In some ways he seems like a class A jerk, but I respect him for funding EFF even if he does not always agree with him. I also like the idea of a nerd owning jocks (except for the racial overtones).
I made no statement as to whether or not this should justify any loss of civil liberties. You made that up out of whole cloth.
What I said is that our troops matter. For me, the implication is that when politicians get up and say that we are safer and terror attacks have been reduced they are absolutely wrong. The number of terror attacks has sky rocketed and our troops have born the brunt of it.
This is the worst of all possibilities. We are not safer and we face politicians who wish to reduce our civil liberties.
The answer is yes. Everyday western troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are attacked. Whether or not you think that western troops should leave is up for debate. The one thing that should not be up for debate is whether or not those people matter or count. The troops have been put directly in harms way and the attacks that are happening to them are very real and matter a great deal. The fate of the troops should be figured in to the grim calculus of what constitutes terrorism against the west.
They do not say if they are reporting the number of cameras by user or if they go by the number of pictures. For example, if they go by picture they are telling us who uploads the most pictures, if they go by user they are telling us how many cameras are used. They do not discuss the methodology.. They also do not provide numbers nor graphs. It is an awful way to communicate statistics.
Well, I just tried it and told my wife that I have 500 google points. Apparantly, 500 google points is worth a long lecture about the time I should be spending with my daughter. I'm hoping that 1000 google points will get me something better, but I've been wrong about these things before...
Okay, this is obvisouly the worst kind of karma whoring possible. How about we take Bruce's highest moderated replies and we all post our own questions?