I'm surprised this opportunity hasn't given Microsoft the impetus it needs to do the "whole widget" thing, like it seems to envy in Apple. Really, with Microsoft owning Dell, many of the corporate players who buy IBM, HP, et. al. would quickly jump ship to avoid the finger-pointing the 3rd parties are capable of getting away with. Since the DoJ consent decree is expired, it would seem like the right time, but perhaps this becomes easier after the private sale is complete.
I agree, it would be an improvement for most of the reasons you listed. But also consider that the current form of government reflects the technological state of society (communications, travel, etc.) at the time it was formed. The subsequent advancements in technology ought to be reflecting an advancement of what the form of governance itself looks like.
Look at the Star Trek cosplay, not the firearms we're stocking up on!
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
I cringe at the mere thought of encrypting my whole main drive, OS and all. Bleaaggghhh! But if you don't, you have to clear your logs once in a while.
Yeah, if you're not encrypting your swapfile or temp space, you should make sure your laptop is never stolen or seized.:)
Even at that, with automatic bad block reallocation, fixing it after the fact isn't good enough for the highest level security.
It's no different - you back up the files to the encrypted volume at the file level. If you're stuck on Windows there are some special files/locations (I think, still?) but Windows backup utilities know how to deal with this. I was using Ghost from a DOS image to do file-level backups of NTFS volumes in the 90's. Re-validating the restore on the new hardware under the Windows Genuine regime is the harder problem (but there are tools for that too).
With a linux machine, none of these problems are relevant - installing grub to the hard drive is the only part that takes some non-obvious knowledge.
aside: "OFTE" seems to stand for "On The Fly Encryption" - an initialism I hadn't heard used by IT folks before... but anyway....
Why aren't you backing up your files from one encrypted volume to another, at the file level? It sounds like you're doing block level backups of your container files. Do you not trust your backup computer to have those volumes open and decrypted at backup time? Dealing with block-level diffs isn't an easy way to approach the problem, but you could look at mirroring a copy-on-write filesystem, or a dedicated backup application that does its own block diffs and maps for incrementals.
I use LUKS on linux for my backups, and then the backup drives go offsite. But the backup computer is allowed to access the files while the backup is running - which isn't a problem for the risks I'm trying to defend against. If you can't trust your backup computer, another approach is to run Windows as a VM and handle your backups with linux, which has a lower intrusion rate.
If you make someone uncomfortable, it's harassment - intent doesn't matter - and managers are personably liable. The corporate world has gone over the edge about this stuff.
Absent other artificial advantages, this sort of attitude ought to be self-limiting - it would drive away the thinking, creative folks, giving more sensible competitors quite an advantage.
So is talking about sexual body parts inherently sexist or something?
No. But it is against puritanical sensibilities, and the modern puritans have no trouble running to things like 'sexism' to try to enforce their values, however intellectually dishonest that might be.
Because the head is good and the body is evil. Perhaps you've missed the memo.
I'm actually really happy with the GIMP for any graphics work I do, but I can't even find a linux video editor that's as good as iMovie from a decade ago. Heck, I can't seem to get one to run for 10 minutes without crashing!
This makes me sad, and also curious as to why the GIMP is succeeding but the video projects aren't.
Oh, c'mon, now, who doesn't want to see Apple embroiled in a greener than thou battle with the absolutists?
Note to manufacturers: if you do anything responsible, we will publicly castigate you for not doing more (probably until you just give up on doing anything at all).
Sounds like it's simply a coordination problem. I know a bunch of people who would buy a copy of CS (from Amazon, say) and then mail it to a reseller if they could make $100 for their time. Then the reseller could mark it up another $100 and mail it to a customer in Australia.
They're bigger than gasoline spouts. So you can't put diesel in your gasser, but you can put gas in your diesel.
Actually it's the reverse.
He was talking about the diameter of the fuelling nozzle (and corresponding opening in the fuel filler neck). If you have a gasoline car, you just cannot get a diesel fuel pump to fit into it.
So, change up the graphics to make the game look and play just like an iDevice factory. Call it iFactory. Make Apple reject a game that honestly mirrors their own business practices.
Last I heard it was about 6700 tax codes, after figuring in all the state, county, and local taxes and various classes of specially-tariffed items.
But the heaviest burden would be on merchants in States that have no sales taxes. They'd be suddenly required to collect sales taxes for other States, which they're not equipped to do, all because those other States don't feel like enforcing their own tax codes.
Baloney. Steve Jobs would lie to make his products look better. Remember when the iPhone launched and we heard about how nobody wants native applications, that JavaScript and HTML are the future? That was just because the SDK wasn't ready. There are numerous examples of this and also how he thrashed competitors' products when his copy was behind schedule.
This new guy may or may not have believed what he was saying (how could he, really?) but he was good at toeing the party line for his employer. In Guthrie's parlance, "You're our boy."
I was thinking AGPL would be sufficient here, but I think what they want is revenue from resellers, when AGPL would only guarantee them changes, which maybe they don't care about.
I guess if it requires payment by threat of force (copyright), it can't be free software.
Incidentally, I recently gave an anarchist group a bit of guff for licensing their posters under CC. Some people don't even get what copyright is.
Cigarettes will never be banned as they bring in too much tax revenue.
Right.
Of course, that all changes with Government Healthcare becomes mandatory in order to reduce costs
No, they die much sooner than non-smokers, and despite their lung cancers, COPD, and emphysema they cost overall less money in their welfare healthcare years than those oldsters who bitterly cling to their mortal coil at the expense of taxpayers. One might expect the government to back off on the anti-smoking message as the costs escalate.
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I'm surprised this opportunity hasn't given Microsoft the impetus it needs to do the "whole widget" thing, like it seems to envy in Apple. Really, with Microsoft owning Dell, many of the corporate players who buy IBM, HP, et. al. would quickly jump ship to avoid the finger-pointing the 3rd parties are capable of getting away with. Since the DoJ consent decree is expired, it would seem like the right time, but perhaps this becomes easier after the private sale is complete.
I agree, it would be an improvement for most of the reasons you listed. But also consider that the current form of government reflects the technological state of society (communications, travel, etc.) at the time it was formed. The subsequent advancements in technology ought to be reflecting an advancement of what the form of governance itself looks like.
Wall Street thinks Jersey City is a better place to build data centers than Manhattan.
As far as I know, JC didn't suffer massive infrastructure damage when Sandy came through either.
Look at the Star Trek cosplay, not the firearms we're stocking up on!
(not that it's much compared to the DHS)
A full bucket is full of drops.
I cringe at the mere thought of encrypting my whole main drive, OS and all. Bleaaggghhh! But if you don't, you have to clear your logs once in a while.
Yeah, if you're not encrypting your swapfile or temp space, you should make sure your laptop is never stolen or seized. :)
Even at that, with automatic bad block reallocation, fixing it after the fact isn't good enough for the highest level security.
It's no different - you back up the files to the encrypted volume at the file level. If you're stuck on Windows there are some special files/locations (I think, still?) but Windows backup utilities know how to deal with this. I was using Ghost from a DOS image to do file-level backups of NTFS volumes in the 90's. Re-validating the restore on the new hardware under the Windows Genuine regime is the harder problem (but there are tools for that too).
With a linux machine, none of these problems are relevant - installing grub to the hard drive is the only part that takes some non-obvious knowledge.
aside: "OFTE" seems to stand for "On The Fly Encryption" - an initialism I hadn't heard used by IT folks before ... but anyway....
Why aren't you backing up your files from one encrypted volume to another, at the file level? It sounds like you're doing block level backups of your container files. Do you not trust your backup computer to have those volumes open and decrypted at backup time? Dealing with block-level diffs isn't an easy way to approach the problem, but you could look at mirroring a copy-on-write filesystem, or a dedicated backup application that does its own block diffs and maps for incrementals.
I use LUKS on linux for my backups, and then the backup drives go offsite. But the backup computer is allowed to access the files while the backup is running - which isn't a problem for the risks I'm trying to defend against. If you can't trust your backup computer, another approach is to run Windows as a VM and handle your backups with linux, which has a lower intrusion rate.
If you make someone uncomfortable, it's harassment - intent doesn't matter - and managers are personably liable. The corporate world has gone over the edge about this stuff.
Absent other artificial advantages, this sort of attitude ought to be self-limiting - it would drive away the thinking, creative folks, giving more sensible competitors quite an advantage.
So is talking about sexual body parts inherently sexist or something?
No. But it is against puritanical sensibilities, and the modern puritans have no trouble running to things like 'sexism' to try to enforce their values, however intellectually dishonest that might be.
Because the head is good and the body is evil. Perhaps you've missed the memo.
So well put. Who wants to go to a conference with a PC chill in the air and everybody is uptight and not having a good time?
And, really, dongles? Shouldn't python devs at least be making pickle jokes?
no mod points, but, wow, perfect post.
I'm actually really happy with the GIMP for any graphics work I do, but I can't even find a linux video editor that's as good as iMovie from a decade ago. Heck, I can't seem to get one to run for 10 minutes without crashing!
This makes me sad, and also curious as to why the GIMP is succeeding but the video projects aren't.
Oh, c'mon, now, who doesn't want to see Apple embroiled in a greener than thou battle with the absolutists?
Note to manufacturers: if you do anything responsible, we will publicly castigate you for not doing more (probably until you just give up on doing anything at all).
Sounds like it's simply a coordination problem. I know a bunch of people who would buy a copy of CS (from Amazon, say) and then mail it to a reseller if they could make $100 for their time. Then the reseller could mark it up another $100 and mail it to a customer in Australia.
Of course there is - it's in Beijing. We just don't have access to it, nor do we have access to the original anymore.
Actually it's the reverse.
He was talking about the diameter of the fuelling nozzle (and corresponding opening in the fuel filler neck). If you have a gasoline car, you just cannot get a diesel fuel pump to fit into it.
Or just pay the hookers.
So, change up the graphics to make the game look and play just like an iDevice factory. Call it iFactory. Make Apple reject a game that honestly mirrors their own business practices.
Last I heard it was about 6700 tax codes, after figuring in all the state, county, and local taxes and various classes of specially-tariffed items.
But the heaviest burden would be on merchants in States that have no sales taxes. They'd be suddenly required to collect sales taxes for other States, which they're not equipped to do, all because those other States don't feel like enforcing their own tax codes.
That's not how a Republic of Republics works.
Anybody have a source for a good high power laser without the 'glam price' of Wicked Lasers? eBay looks to be limited to 5mW units.
Let them try. Bezos has the resources to sue them to the Supreme Court.
Baloney. Steve Jobs would lie to make his products look better. Remember when the iPhone launched and we heard about how nobody wants native applications, that JavaScript and HTML are the future? That was just because the SDK wasn't ready. There are numerous examples of this and also how he thrashed competitors' products when his copy was behind schedule.
This new guy may or may not have believed what he was saying (how could he, really?) but he was good at toeing the party line for his employer. In Guthrie's parlance, "You're our boy."
I was thinking AGPL would be sufficient here, but I think what they want is revenue from resellers, when AGPL would only guarantee them changes, which maybe they don't care about.
I guess if it requires payment by threat of force (copyright), it can't be free software.
Incidentally, I recently gave an anarchist group a bit of guff for licensing their posters under CC. Some people don't even get what copyright is.
Cigarettes will never be banned as they bring in too much tax revenue.
Right.
Of course, that all changes with Government Healthcare becomes mandatory in order to reduce costs
No, they die much sooner than non-smokers, and despite their lung cancers, COPD, and emphysema they cost overall less money in their welfare healthcare years than those oldsters who bitterly cling to their mortal coil at the expense of taxpayers. One might expect the government to back off on the anti-smoking message as the costs escalate.