Extra!, the paper magazine of the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
FAIR analyzes how the media reports, what they report, what they don't report, and calls out their biases.
They've done a lot of work around telecommunications policy , looking at what the governement is saying, what business is saying, and how it will affect you and me.
They don't speculate--I love them because they are so analytical. They are data heads who use the LexisNexis database to stastistically evaluate how the media does. Is there a conservative bias in media? They'll give you the numbers and let you decide.
I recently started using Basecamp from 37Signals for tracking projects. It's basically a "plogging" system with to-do lists, milestones, file uploading, and one of the most intuitive interfaces I've ever used on the web. I've been tracking internal projects in the way described in the article--I think it's great.
It also makes it really easy to make client-extranet plogs where clients can comment on your entries. Really slick.
"Apparently they try to uninstall the MyDoom virus and then take over the PC to start their own malignant work."
When a big worm comes out, wouldn't it be possible to write another worm that would utilize the backdoor, get rid of the worm, and then hang about to make reinfection impossible?
My organization took care of the worm in the first few minutes after it started spreading, but there seem to be a lot of people still out there who aren't protected (if the number of inbound mails my mail server quarantines each day is any indication).
If someone in a white hat wrote a MyDoom imobilizer worm, and then released it, wouldn't that put a speedy end to MyDoom in the wild?
It's great to see how different news orgs handle headlines. MSNBC makes pains to name the Government as the offender in it's headline, "Government agency exposes day-care data". Slashdot is a little less breathy and indicates the true source of the leak, the out-sourced coder.
Both could be called correct, but more interesting is how the positioning of the story indicates the inclination of the news source. MSNBC is part of the mainstream news establishment that has been telling us for years that the government hasn't done a good thing since kicking the British out of Yorktown.
Slashdot speaks to a lot of developers who don't ever want to work for a place called "RentaCoder", and don't have a lot of respect for anyone who would.
Personally, I much prefer the Slashdot take on the story.
You can buy a PC with a DC power supply. It has worked well in off the grid locations in Central America. I think a laptop would be a better solution, since you'll probably be returning to urbanity at some point.
some Segway HTs may not deliver enough power, allowing the rider to fall. This can happen if the rider speeds up abruptly, encounters an obstacle, or continues to ride after receiving a low-battery alert.
Your moral standing on war notwithstanding, is funding defense contracting the most efficient way for a society to make technological advances? I'd posit that there are better ways to have the same outcome, get the same cool products to market, without having to build weapons of mass distruction which then have to be sold to someone to justify their creation.
Yeah, there is a market for war machines, and the liberal marketeers out there will say the market gets filled, but think about it--we're that market! Our defense budget (paid for by our tax $$) is larger than the rest of the world's combined. We could migrate spending to other industries that can develop technologies without the expensive, inefficient step of producing $450 M planes.
Ah, if only the US system believed in freedom of information! The reason so many of us are negative is that when you look at this development against the backdrop of lies and deceit, you have to be a polyanna to not be cynical. I'm all for freedom of information in Iran. I think it's great that they now can use anonymizer.com. But when I see that the US government has funded it I think about Iraq.
We went into Iraq to get rid of Husein and his WMDs. We knew they had WMDs because Bush told us. He had no proof, but he said trust me. The NY times published a number of front page stories on WMDs from an anonymous Iraqi source. That source turned out to be Ahmed Chalabi (Harpers, 9/03). We went in to Iraq holding the flag of Democracy. And then after we kicked out the thugs, we flew Chalabi in from Reston, VA, and then gave the country to Haliburton and Brown and Root.
We can all be overjoyed by the opening up of some ports for Iran, but you can't ignore the myriad other events that say we don't give a damn about freedom of information, or the Iranian people.
The members of the regime already have the ability to do this anyway. What the US is funding here is the ability for the people being oopressed by that regime to do so. There's a big difference. You show your ignorance by not recognizing the difference.
I put my statement inside -sarcam- tags for a reason. Or government doesn't believe all the WMD and nuclear capability stuff any more than I do.
Iran is a potential threat much in the way that France is or the soviet union was--they present alternatives to our system of running things. The soviet union had to be destroyed because it was a competing system, not because it was evil. The US is much like MSFT in this way. Who cares if other options are better, worse, or indiferent--if they are an option other than ours, they must be destroyed.
Why does our government work for the freedom of others, while chipping away at ours daily? Has freedom been reduced to a tool to pry open restrictive regimes to the point where our system can rush in and clamp things down in the "correctly" restrictive ways?
sigh.
-sarcasm-
And now that our tax dollars are being used to allow members of a radical Islamic regime (one that harbors terrorists and has WMDs) to anonymously look at all the bomb plans burried in steganographied images on eBay, aren't we opening ourselves up for more terror?
-/sarcasm-
Makes you wonder if anyone believes that Axis of Evil crap.
Microsoft emphasised that products such as Yukon and Exchange Server were undergoing thorough testing -- both internally and via independent third parties -- prior to their release to the market.
Hey, they're TESTING! Wow, they really are taking this trustworthy computing thing seriously. Mr. Chase may have said a similar thing if he hadn't been comped, as reported in the diclaimer at the bottom of the article:
Brendon Chase travelled to Tech Ed as a guest of Microsoft.
I work for NPower, a nonprofit that works with other nonprofits to help them use technology. We do all sorts of things around technology: training, planning, building networks, building applications--all at heavily subsidized rates.
We also match volunteers with nonprofits that need help and don't want/can't pay consulting rates.
I don't know where you are, but there are 9 NPowers nationwide [check our site] plus a number of "sister" organizations of ours do similar work in cities we don't have a presence in, like Compumentor in San Francisco.
Check us out. Also check out N-TEN, a national membership organization of nonprofit technical assistance providers.
when the contracting agency can't acocunt for $1 trillion? That's more than the rest of the world spent on their military last year. With that kind of accountability, I'm amazed any project gets over 80% done.
Actually, this is exactly what Bill would say at this time. When Gartner says to hold off on Linux development, the business world pricks up its ears. When a few days later, Bill makes a casual statment that Microsoft code has been SCO'd, all of the sudden this is a trend. Linux has major IP problems, is what business will hear.
Bill won't probably ever give details about what IP he's talking about--he doesn't have to. The value of his statement is that it highlights MSFT's long shadow looming over OSS. Specific threats would be refutable--his statement is not.
Net effect? A wonderful chilling effect (in Bill's eyes) on open source development with no costs for MSFT.
When attorneys new to Open Source have access to another attorney who is experienced with Open Source licensing, especially the GPL, the process goes much more smoothly. One way we can help is to produce a reference for attorneys, or programs for attorneys at our meetings.
Does anyone know of a reference quide or set of resources that might help IP attorneys start thinking about the GPL and open source?
I'm working on building a cross-corporation (non profits) knowledge sharing network that will likely rely heavily on GPL like language. I expect the legal conversations to be less than fun. Any resources for convincing IP lawyers that there are other ways to do things would be much appreciated.
Slashdot Mirror
Extra!, the paper magazine of the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
FAIR analyzes how the media reports, what they report, what they don't report, and calls out their biases.
They've done a lot of work around telecommunications policy , looking at what the governement is saying, what business is saying, and how it will affect you and me.
They don't speculate--I love them because they are so analytical. They are data heads who use the LexisNexis database to stastistically evaluate how the media does. Is there a conservative bias in media? They'll give you the numbers and let you decide.
Subscription is $21/year.
What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?
Unicode friendly worms!
It's a lot faster if you don't have to dig up your computer before you install Linux on it.
Rumsfeld is starting his Strategic Log for the war in Iraq titled, "Iraq: A Long, Hard Slog"
I recently started using Basecamp from 37Signals for tracking projects. It's basically a "plogging" system with to-do lists, milestones, file uploading, and one of the most intuitive interfaces I've ever used on the web. I've been tracking internal projects in the way described in the article--I think it's great.
It also makes it really easy to make client-extranet plogs where clients can comment on your entries. Really slick.
gone out and read Oryx and Crake after reading the Slashdot review
"Apparently they try to uninstall the MyDoom virus and then take over the PC to start their own malignant work."
When a big worm comes out, wouldn't it be possible to write another worm that would utilize the backdoor, get rid of the worm, and then hang about to make reinfection impossible?
My organization took care of the worm in the first few minutes after it started spreading, but there seem to be a lot of people still out there who aren't protected (if the number of inbound mails my mail server quarantines each day is any indication).
If someone in a white hat wrote a MyDoom imobilizer worm, and then released it, wouldn't that put a speedy end to MyDoom in the wild?
It's great to see how different news orgs handle headlines. MSNBC makes pains to name the Government as the offender in it's headline, "Government agency exposes day-care data". Slashdot is a little less breathy and indicates the true source of the leak, the out-sourced coder.
Both could be called correct, but more interesting is how the positioning of the story indicates the inclination of the news source. MSNBC is part of the mainstream news establishment that has been telling us for years that the government hasn't done a good thing since kicking the British out of Yorktown.
Slashdot speaks to a lot of developers who don't ever want to work for a place called "RentaCoder", and don't have a lot of respect for anyone who would.
Personally, I much prefer the Slashdot take on the story.
You can buy a PC with a DC power supply. It has worked well in off the grid locations in Central America. I think a laptop would be a better solution, since you'll probably be returning to urbanity at some point.
some Segway HTs may not deliver enough power, allowing the rider to fall. This can happen if the rider speeds up abruptly, encounters an obstacle, or continues to ride after receiving a low-battery alert.
or if the rider is fresh from a tennis match with Poppy, rushing to an appointment to bomb some unsuspecting nation back to the stone age.
Your moral standing on war notwithstanding, is funding defense contracting the most efficient way for a society to make technological advances? I'd posit that there are better ways to have the same outcome, get the same cool products to market, without having to build weapons of mass distruction which then have to be sold to someone to justify their creation.
Yeah, there is a market for war machines, and the liberal marketeers out there will say the market gets filled, but think about it--we're that market! Our defense budget (paid for by our tax $$) is larger than the rest of the world's combined. We could migrate spending to other industries that can develop technologies without the expensive, inefficient step of producing $450 M planes.
Just a thought.
When you tell them your CD didn't play, don't tell them what device it didn't play in. Let them figure it out for themselves.
Telling them makes you an unpaid beta tester!
What will it mean to have no new IE till 2008?
Ah, if only the US system believed in freedom of information! The reason so many of us are negative is that when you look at this development against the backdrop of lies and deceit, you have to be a polyanna to not be cynical. I'm all for freedom of information in Iran. I think it's great that they now can use anonymizer.com. But when I see that the US government has funded it I think about Iraq.
We went into Iraq to get rid of Husein and his WMDs. We knew they had WMDs because Bush told us. He had no proof, but he said trust me. The NY times published a number of front page stories on WMDs from an anonymous Iraqi source. That source turned out to be Ahmed Chalabi (Harpers, 9/03). We went in to Iraq holding the flag of Democracy. And then after we kicked out the thugs, we flew Chalabi in from Reston, VA, and then gave the country to Haliburton and Brown and Root.
We can all be overjoyed by the opening up of some ports for Iran, but you can't ignore the myriad other events that say we don't give a damn about freedom of information, or the Iranian people.
The members of the regime already have the ability to do this anyway. What the US is funding here is the ability for the people being oopressed by that regime to do so. There's a big difference. You show your ignorance by not recognizing the difference.
I put my statement inside -sarcam- tags for a reason. Or government doesn't believe all the WMD and nuclear capability stuff any more than I do.
Iran is a potential threat much in the way that France is or the soviet union was--they present alternatives to our system of running things. The soviet union had to be destroyed because it was a competing system, not because it was evil. The US is much like MSFT in this way. Who cares if other options are better, worse, or indiferent--if they are an option other than ours, they must be destroyed.
Why does our government work for the freedom of others, while chipping away at ours daily? Has freedom been reduced to a tool to pry open restrictive regimes to the point where our system can rush in and clamp things down in the "correctly" restrictive ways?
sigh.
-sarcasm-
And now that our tax dollars are being used to allow members of a radical Islamic regime (one that harbors terrorists and has WMDs) to anonymously look at all the bomb plans burried in steganographied images on eBay, aren't we opening ourselves up for more terror?
-/sarcasm-
Makes you wonder if anyone believes that Axis of Evil crap.
Hey, OJ was acquitted, wasn't he?
Microsoft emphasised that products such as Yukon and Exchange Server were undergoing thorough testing -- both internally and via independent third parties -- prior to their release to the market.
Hey, they're TESTING! Wow, they really are taking this trustworthy computing thing seriously. Mr. Chase may have said a similar thing if he hadn't been comped, as reported in the diclaimer at the bottom of the article:
Brendon Chase travelled to Tech Ed as a guest of Microsoft.
Hardhitting journalism.
I work for NPower, a nonprofit that works with other nonprofits to help them use technology. We do all sorts of things around technology: training, planning, building networks, building applications--all at heavily subsidized rates.
We also match volunteers with nonprofits that need help and don't want/can't pay consulting rates.
I don't know where you are, but there are 9 NPowers nationwide [check our site] plus a number of "sister" organizations of ours do similar work in cities we don't have a presence in, like Compumentor in San Francisco.
Check us out. Also check out N-TEN, a national membership organization of nonprofit technical assistance providers.
From the article: Am I going to use this software as it's been marketed?
Not as it was designed, mind you, but as it was marketed. We all know that in the "21st Century" (TM) marketing is reality.
And tech support is always marketed as a smiling blond woman with the headset on saying, "How can I help you today?"
I get a warm numb feeling just thinking about it. Problem? I don't have a problem...
Fact-based UNIX Debunking. Why confuse the argument by trying to have it match reality?
when the contracting agency can't acocunt for $1 trillion? That's more than the rest of the world spent on their military last year. With that kind of accountability, I'm amazed any project gets over 80% done.
Actually, this is exactly what Bill would say at this time. When Gartner says to hold off on Linux development, the business world pricks up its ears. When a few days later, Bill makes a casual statment that Microsoft code has been SCO'd, all of the sudden this is a trend. Linux has major IP problems, is what business will hear.
Bill won't probably ever give details about what IP he's talking about--he doesn't have to. The value of his statement is that it highlights MSFT's long shadow looming over OSS. Specific threats would be refutable--his statement is not.
Net effect? A wonderful chilling effect (in Bill's eyes) on open source development with no costs for MSFT.
When attorneys new to Open Source have access to another attorney who is experienced with Open Source licensing, especially the GPL, the process goes much more smoothly. One way we can help is to produce a reference for attorneys, or programs for attorneys at our meetings.
Does anyone know of a reference quide or set of resources that might help IP attorneys start thinking about the GPL and open source?
I'm working on building a cross-corporation (non profits) knowledge sharing network that will likely rely heavily on GPL like language. I expect the legal conversations to be less than fun. Any resources for convincing IP lawyers that there are other ways to do things would be much appreciated.
Ah, a new hell for us parents:
"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"
"No, 63% to go."
"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"
"No, 62% to go."
"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"
"No, 61% to go."
"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"
"sigh"