But the barriers to contributing are high. You may not only need to learn about the application, but you need to learn any number of arcane editing and versioning tools, and then convince someone in authority to accept and include your changes.
I will appreciate the natural aversion to this idea, but we need *another project* to mediate the needs and products of open source documentation.
There are some translation websites that have been fabulously successful by making it extremely easy for volunteers to contribute translations to projects. There's nothing (that I know of) that makes it easy to match up the existing bad documentation, the user needs for new documentation, and the tools needed to easily integrate new documentation. There are some good documentation production tools - that doesn't need solving again - but the process needs some automation.
Wikis are better than nothing, but the structure is not guided and volunteers will always need guidance to succeed (and obviously wikis haven't solved the problem). The Arch Wiki is really great, but that's sadly an aberration, not typical. Nearly every Sourceforge wiki is useless, for instance. Arch has earned itself a kick-ass community and I bet a small number of volunteers were instrumental in "erecting the cathedral".
Most people blog on their own sites due to the obstacles involved with contributing good documentation. Fundamentally, it's a coordination problem, and that's something tools are good at solving.
Many people call themselves Christian but would not want a Christian Rock reception. You can target fans of some of the CR bands, evangelical preachers, etc. Start as narrow as possible and expand until you get some bites. A custom campaign url is probably useful for your tracking.
... that my friends have recommended and posted about. Once in a while I post about an effective product or amazing deal.
There's a simple algorithm for achieving such results: produce an impressive product.
For everything else, there's a CPM (no, not the z/80 kind) ad program. Word of advice: make the ad as incipid and vapid as possible, to save on non-converting clicks.
No kidding - Free having access to spectrum would be horrendously bad for the incumbent corporations' profits. We can't have that now, and, my, what coincidental timing! Thank goodness we have the FCC looking out for the "public interest".
There are some that are skype compatible. You can then encourage the families to buy a video phone or if they are tech savy they could skype as well.
That's what I did, and Skype/Microsoft grew tired of the old protocol version and it stopped working after about two years. They either killed their embedded edition or the vendor (Grandstream) didn't want to license it to update old phones. Same thing happened to me with proprietary D-Link devices before that - I figured going Skype would avoid the problem, but silly me.
I guess they still work as SIP devices, but as videoconferencing devices for older folks to use, they failed in less than two years. Not exactly zero maintenance.
WebRTC might actually be the best bet, but it's early in the cycle to make a great guess. Proprietary stuff will certainly become obsolete.
The first question that comes to my mind is how much would it cost to just fix the damn pipes?
Make sure you're not assuming that the $4.4B that somebody is going to get is a bug, not a feature. Some people will get extremely rich from this expenditure and that's a powerful motivator.
What's the big deal with a few dead cabbies when the City has millions of dollars of medallion sales at stake?
DoL puts a human life at about $8M in value. A medallion commonly costs a quarter million. So, 8*4 = 32. Do one in 32 cabbies die? No, so "society" comes out ahead (while netting the City a nice kitty).
Is that discount chain a media related product? Because if it's not then it meets their criteria.
It might, but that's still silly. If they were based in Germany and came up with "K-Mart" as their name, Americans would mock it. Let's work with people as they actually exist.
Xtreme Broadband Media Center or whatever would have kept the momentum.
They're not preying on gullible kids, they're taking advantage of stupid and irresponsible parents
Or parents who think that they can just let the kids do what they want now, to shut them up, and dispute the charges later with the credit card company. That way they don't "have to be the bad guy" with their kids either, by saying "no".
It's really screwed up, and I've seen it most in broken families.
My kids both have Android devices, and once in a while they'll get a gift card for a holiday, but by and large they just find stuff to do that's free. Do they have to earn their way up in games? Yep, just like we did as kids (here I'm willfully ignoring turning my paper route money into quarters at the arcade).
Nah, Plus Photos needs an insane frenetic unusable landing page like Hangouts and then only ten percent of the features of Picasa, so they can go ahead and kill Picasa and then kill Plus Photos in two years when nobody uses it.
Allowing the NSA, DHS and CIA (hell, even the IRS, for that matter) to continue to operate as they are allowed to will swallow up the last vestiges of America and its dream.
Don't forget the Fed, which funds all this.
The dystopia exists now but it's not too late to turn back.
It's actually the collapse of the Fed's product that will be the only thing that can scale it back. It could resolve nicely or turn into a nightmare - here's hoping for the best!
So why is lying to Congress not a punishable offense?
Congress used to keep those in contempt of Congress in jails in the old Guard rooms until they agreed to cooperate (or the session ended). The room that's now the House post office was last used in 1934 to hold a prisoner. Both the Legislature and the Judiciary have almost entirely abdicated their powers to the Executive Branch since then.
These days we have a sitting Attorney General who is convicted of Contempt of Congress (which carries a *minimum* one month jail sentence) and roams about freely and the Legislatures' intelligence committees are employed by the "intelligence community" directly (same as the Fed owns the banking committee). The Legislature really has no actual power to enforce its proceedings at this point.
See, this isn't a crime, it's just the employer checking up on his employees' work. I guess a couple of them thought they were due a raise and made a stink. A low-level employee was blamed and will probably be scapegoated/fired to make this all go away and then business will carry on as usual.
if the concept of private property is now only the province of libertarians
The way it's going, if you "still" believe in private property you're either a libertarian or you've given up on compulsory political systems entirely. All the other factions believe in some degree of community ownership of everything.
That makes the whole concept dead on arrival. Anything that requires a connection is no damn good, aside from a remote terminal, I suppose
How else do you plan to distribute a CRL? The firmware can get programmed with the updated certificate store when you have access to the CRL, but it can operate fine offline without it (accepting the enhanced risk).
Looking at the pictures of Skellig Michael [aside: didn't Michael Skelling used to be an NPR reporter?] it seems very likely that the stacked-stone huts will be used in the new films.
If this is a sign that there's no nexus around Tatooine, this thing might actually have legs!
They are a Finnish company and that fact is well known worldwide.
Most people knew them for their snow tires before their cell phones. He must not live in the snow belt. I'm glad they separated the two businesses - I still buy Nokian snow tires and I sure as hell don't want Microsoft involved in my winter traction!
The macro universe is also how the universe really works.
Only when it doesn't disagree with the quantum result.
People used to think that the Earth was the center of the universe, then some allowed that maybe the Sun might be the center of the universe, but really it was always about, and still is, the "me" being the center of the universe.
The approximations of reality that we sense with our ape-minds is really useful, but far from anything True(tm) or objective. What we feel to be "intuitive" is just a collection of rubrics that happen to work well to keep higher order animals alive. That we can even explore QED is a freaking miracle.
"Oh, but those entangled particles must be separate entities because they look like they are separate in our perception of space" is one of those. "But I have a ruler!"
That's how many people (mostly children) have died of malaria since the investigators knew they had a working vaccine in the mid-90's.
That vaccine might actually see the light of day this year, but the regulators are hinting that they might deny approval because it's not tremendously effective in infants.
Because, you know, IN FUCKING THEORY, somebody might get injured from the vaccine.
I'm sorry, the blood of ten million mostly-children on the hands of regulators gets me a bit worked up. And now they're staring at their naval because an investigator might also have a drinking problem? Oh, man, I better hit submit before I say something I might regret.
completely and utterly fuck over the RIAA and record labels in their war against the people.
In my dream world they go after these morons for barratry, baseless prosecution, and everything else they can find, get them all disbarred with the Copyright Office, and burn down their houses.
Well, no, in my dream world there's none of this "imaginary property" crap that tries to shackle real property, but as far as a happy medium, we could even negotiate the part about burning down their houses (always open bold).
So, pray tell, if writing your representative is worse than useless, what's the action that would actually work?
Working to obsolete that system.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is an enormous opportunity cost that ought to be left to people who cannot participate in society in a more meaningful way. e.g. Libertarianism is an abject failure by every conceivable measure. Intent isn't important, it's results, and things have *not* gotten better. Yeah, 1 out of 10 battles are won, but any General can tell you how that war will go.
Right. See if it meets PCI requirements (you need to at least be able to reference them if you're in this line of work). If so, leave a note with the employer as to what might (will) happen and move on.
If every port on the VLAN is 802.1x certificate-authenticated you might not need to actually worry. Hahahaha, yeah, I'm sure it is....
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But the barriers to contributing are high. You may not only need to learn about the application, but you need to learn any number of arcane editing and versioning tools, and then convince someone in authority to accept and include your changes.
I will appreciate the natural aversion to this idea, but we need *another project* to mediate the needs and products of open source documentation.
There are some translation websites that have been fabulously successful by making it extremely easy for volunteers to contribute translations to projects. There's nothing (that I know of) that makes it easy to match up the existing bad documentation, the user needs for new documentation, and the tools needed to easily integrate new documentation. There are some good documentation production tools - that doesn't need solving again - but the process needs some automation.
Wikis are better than nothing, but the structure is not guided and volunteers will always need guidance to succeed (and obviously wikis haven't solved the problem). The Arch Wiki is really great, but that's sadly an aberration, not typical. Nearly every Sourceforge wiki is useless, for instance. Arch has earned itself a kick-ass community and I bet a small number of volunteers were instrumental in "erecting the cathedral".
Most people blog on their own sites due to the obstacles involved with contributing good documentation. Fundamentally, it's a coordination problem, and that's something tools are good at solving.
only because the Adobe software was subject to a buffer overflow encoded in the Ruffles halftone.
Many people call themselves Christian but would not want a Christian Rock reception. You can target fans of some of the CR bands, evangelical preachers, etc. Start as narrow as possible and expand until you get some bites. A custom campaign url is probably useful for your tracking.
... that my friends have recommended and posted about. Once in a while I post about an effective product or amazing deal.
There's a simple algorithm for achieving such results: produce an impressive product.
For everything else, there's a CPM (no, not the z/80 kind) ad program. Word of advice: make the ad as incipid and vapid as possible, to save on non-converting clicks.
No kidding - Free having access to spectrum would be horrendously bad for the incumbent corporations' profits. We can't have that now, and, my, what coincidental timing! Thank goodness we have the FCC looking out for the "public interest".
There are some that are skype compatible. You can then encourage the families to buy a video phone or if they are tech savy they could skype as well.
That's what I did, and Skype/Microsoft grew tired of the old protocol version and it stopped working after about two years. They either killed their embedded edition or the vendor (Grandstream) didn't want to license it to update old phones. Same thing happened to me with proprietary D-Link devices before that - I figured going Skype would avoid the problem, but silly me.
I guess they still work as SIP devices, but as videoconferencing devices for older folks to use, they failed in less than two years. Not exactly zero maintenance.
WebRTC might actually be the best bet, but it's early in the cycle to make a great guess. Proprietary stuff will certainly become obsolete.
The first question that comes to my mind is how much would it cost to just fix the damn pipes?
Make sure you're not assuming that the $4.4B that somebody is going to get is a bug, not a feature. Some people will get extremely rich from this expenditure and that's a powerful motivator.
What's the big deal with a few dead cabbies when the City has millions of dollars of medallion sales at stake?
DoL puts a human life at about $8M in value. A medallion commonly costs a quarter million. So, 8*4 = 32. Do one in 32 cabbies die? No, so "society" comes out ahead (while netting the City a nice kitty).
You gotta learn to think like a psychopath!
Is that discount chain a media related product? Because if it's not then it meets their criteria.
It might, but that's still silly. If they were based in Germany and came up with "K-Mart" as their name, Americans would mock it. Let's work with people as they actually exist.
Xtreme Broadband Media Center or whatever would have kept the momentum.
They're not preying on gullible kids, they're taking advantage of stupid and irresponsible parents
Or parents who think that they can just let the kids do what they want now, to shut them up, and dispute the charges later with the credit card company. That way they don't "have to be the bad guy" with their kids either, by saying "no".
It's really screwed up, and I've seen it most in broken families.
My kids both have Android devices, and once in a while they'll get a gift card for a holiday, but by and large they just find stuff to do that's free. Do they have to earn their way up in games? Yep, just like we did as kids (here I'm willfully ignoring turning my paper route money into quarters at the arcade).
Nah, Plus Photos needs an insane frenetic unusable landing page like Hangouts and then only ten percent of the features of Picasa, so they can go ahead and kill Picasa and then kill Plus Photos in two years when nobody uses it.
or a car that is stopped completely (doesn't see it at all)
Ouch. This is rare, but I've seen it.
I'd be afraid if I was on a 50-mile stretch without having to think about speed my mind would wander, and I wouldn't notice this stopped car.
I'm the guy who never uses cruise control unless it's flat and empty for as far as the eye can see, though, so maybe I'm atypical.
Therefore, Congress will pass a law making itself exempt from CIA/NSA spying and the rest of the country be damned.
It's already illegal - you think the CIA is going to care about another law to ignore?
he'd have been fired on the spot for lying to his superiors for months and trying to cover up his own incompetence.
The boss can lie to his underlings all he wants. You seem to be going by book-learning on which is which here and ignoring the data.
Allowing the NSA, DHS and CIA (hell, even the IRS, for that matter) to continue to operate as they are allowed to will swallow up the last vestiges of America and its dream.
Don't forget the Fed, which funds all this.
The dystopia exists now but it's not too late to turn back.
It's actually the collapse of the Fed's product that will be the only thing that can scale it back. It could resolve nicely or turn into a nightmare - here's hoping for the best!
So why is lying to Congress not a punishable offense?
Congress used to keep those in contempt of Congress in jails in the old Guard rooms until they agreed to cooperate (or the session ended). The room that's now the House post office was last used in 1934 to hold a prisoner. Both the Legislature and the Judiciary have almost entirely abdicated their powers to the Executive Branch since then.
These days we have a sitting Attorney General who is convicted of Contempt of Congress (which carries a *minimum* one month jail sentence) and roams about freely and the Legislatures' intelligence committees are employed by the "intelligence community" directly (same as the Fed owns the banking committee). The Legislature really has no actual power to enforce its proceedings at this point.
See, this isn't a crime, it's just the employer checking up on his employees' work. I guess a couple of them thought they were due a raise and made a stink. A low-level employee was blamed and will probably be scapegoated/fired to make this all go away and then business will carry on as usual.
if the concept of private property is now only the province of libertarians
The way it's going, if you "still" believe in private property you're either a libertarian or you've given up on compulsory political systems entirely. All the other factions believe in some degree of community ownership of everything.
That makes the whole concept dead on arrival. Anything that requires a connection is no damn good, aside from a remote terminal, I suppose
How else do you plan to distribute a CRL? The firmware can get programmed with the updated certificate store when you have access to the CRL, but it can operate fine offline without it (accepting the enhanced risk).
Looking at the pictures of Skellig Michael [aside: didn't Michael Skelling used to be an NPR reporter?] it seems very likely that the stacked-stone huts will be used in the new films.
If this is a sign that there's no nexus around Tatooine, this thing might actually have legs!
They are a Finnish company and that fact is well known worldwide.
Most people knew them for their snow tires before their cell phones. He must not live in the snow belt. I'm glad they separated the two businesses - I still buy Nokian snow tires and I sure as hell don't want Microsoft involved in my winter traction!
The macro universe is also how the universe really works.
Only when it doesn't disagree with the quantum result.
People used to think that the Earth was the center of the universe, then some allowed that maybe the Sun might be the center of the universe, but really it was always about, and still is, the "me" being the center of the universe.
The approximations of reality that we sense with our ape-minds is really useful, but far from anything True(tm) or objective. What we feel to be "intuitive" is just a collection of rubrics that happen to work well to keep higher order animals alive. That we can even explore QED is a freaking miracle.
"Oh, but those entangled particles must be separate entities because they look like they are separate in our perception of space" is one of those. "But I have a ruler!"
That's how many people (mostly children) have died of malaria since the investigators knew they had a working vaccine in the mid-90's.
That vaccine might actually see the light of day this year, but the regulators are hinting that they might deny approval because it's not tremendously effective in infants.
Because, you know, IN FUCKING THEORY, somebody might get injured from the vaccine.
I'm sorry, the blood of ten million mostly-children on the hands of regulators gets me a bit worked up. And now they're staring at their naval because an investigator might also have a drinking problem? Oh, man, I better hit submit before I say something I might regret.
completely and utterly fuck over the RIAA and record labels in their war against the people.
In my dream world they go after these morons for barratry, baseless prosecution, and everything else they can find, get them all disbarred with the Copyright Office, and burn down their houses.
Well, no, in my dream world there's none of this "imaginary property" crap that tries to shackle real property, but as far as a happy medium, we could even negotiate the part about burning down their houses (always open bold).
So, pray tell, if writing your representative is worse than useless, what's the action that would actually work?
Working to obsolete that system.
Politics is an enormous opportunity cost that ought to be left to people who cannot participate in society in a more meaningful way. e.g. Libertarianism is an abject failure by every conceivable measure. Intent isn't important, it's results, and things have *not* gotten better. Yeah, 1 out of 10 battles are won, but any General can tell you how that war will go.
Right. See if it meets PCI requirements (you need to at least be able to reference them if you're in this line of work). If so, leave a note with the employer as to what might (will) happen and move on.
If every port on the VLAN is 802.1x certificate-authenticated you might not need to actually worry. Hahahaha, yeah, I'm sure it is....