I was thinking much the same thing... What we're actually seeing here isn't spying, but a form of undercover work.
Privacy is a function of sharing information with a limited set of people. You may want your wife to see you naked, but that doesn't mean you want everybody walking by your house to look in your bathroom window. You may want to share that embarrassing problem with your doctor, but that doesn't mean you want it in the newspaper. You may want your credit counselor to know about all your bad debt, but that doesn't mean you talk about it at the company picnic. You may want your friends to know where you're going to be this weekend, but that doesn't mean you want government workers to keep an eye on your movements.
What is spying if not one entity trying to obtain information that the counterparty does not want shared with it? What is undercover work if not planting spies to obtain such information?
telling a professional support team they need to make an appointment with a "genius" is not acceptable, on site support at minimum
Once upon a time I worked at a big Mac shop, and the way this was handled was to have 5 spares on the shelf (about 5000 users). Machine fails and it's either a hard-drive swap or a restore from backup. I don't get spending an FTE on Dell Gold.
But I have a FoF who does do Mac on-site work. He gets his tickets from Apple, roams the NYC area. When I had some OSX Servers under AppleCare (5-ish years back) we got Kodak techs dispatched (in New England) for mobo replacements and such. Seems like it exists if you know what to ask for (granted, Apple Enterprise is self-defeating and often impenetrable).
If you are indeed a professional and you were able to afford Final Cut and a mac in the first place, you should be aware that you can "write off" hardware and software upgrade costs as a "BUSINESS EXPENSE"
Forget tax treatment, if it's really that much more productive, it pays for itself pretty quickly.
J2EE is also awesome for building extremely bloaty applications that require 50% more servers than something running a non-bloated solution.
The power of Java/J2EE is that it produces acceptable results when used by the small sigmas of the developer population that makes up the largest bulk of the area under the standard distribution curve. Yeah, it's wordy, yeah, it's hungry, but the Fortune 500 can hire people to work on it and they can afford the hardware and connectivity. And when their app needs to scale, it can.
The top decile can continue to argue the virtues of Rails vs. Catalyst vs. D'jango, and that's fine, but it's also different. The LISP web hackers are making fun of them anyway.
That and a device like an iPod Touch isn't recognized as a calculator, so like many laptops and the TI-92, it is barred in many tests were the standard calculator form factor is permitted.
Oooh, somebody make an iPod case that looks like a cheap-plastic boxy graphing calculator case. Fake buttons FTW.
So, they're going to port this to Android. How long before somebody takes evidence of his local enemy not reflecting in the mirror to the tribal counsel? "Look, it's right here on my cell phone." Witch hunt.
Certainly the software is a good first result, though! They're already using inter-frame tracking - using inter-frame data to help with the image healing ought to really spiff things up.
They cost no more than similar offerings from Dell, HP, Sony, etc.
I think the point is you pick up a 4GB/15.6" Acer from NewEgg for $350, not that you blow a huge sum on a Sony. Likely neither will last as long as the Apple, but you can replace that Acer every year and still come out ahead. Plus not support attacks on journalism and stuff like that.
I like gardening a lot and put out a lot of ornamental flowers and vegetables to attract bees, but this year there have been very few.
You don't need colonial bees for your garden. Take a block of hardwood, drill a bunch of holes in it (about 3/8" but look it up) and tack it up to a post or tree near your garden. Solitary bees will build homes in it.
Encourage your local wasp population too. I'll assume you don't spray bug killer on your garden, seeing as how you understand the need for bugs*.
* speaking as a normal human, not an entomologist.
Exactly. My wife uses GOOG411 all the time while driving. She thinks phone books and address books are obsolete. She's quite verbal and likes small flip phones, so no keyboard or smartphone.
Given her tendency to use $1.29/call 411 services before GOOG411, I think Google ought to target people like me with $5/mo plans.
Also, there already is a Planet Five: it's called Ceres. It's really tiny, though (but still enormous compared to everything else in the Asteroid Belt).
Wow, I totally missed that one (only one/. story in '07?). Largely water ice? - Strange that we'd be thinking of going to Mars and not there. I see NASA launched "Dawn" in 2007 to wind up there eventually. An 8-year trip seems uncharacteristically slow - hrm, another site says its ion drive should be able to make the trip in 6 months.
I've wondered for a long time if the asteroid belt was formed by some sort of collision, and thought about writing a science fiction story about an interstellar war between Mars and the no longer existing fifth planet (story would end with Mars losing its atmosphere and Planet Five being blown to bits).
No, it's the rest of Mars, blown off in the War by the planet killer. The strangely-light, oddly-small, iron-rich Mars we see today is just the core of the original planet. Search the belt for artifacts, not on Mars.
rather than the one that has failed to last even 30.
The Magna Carta didn't survive because it was left out in somebody's barn for 800 years. Take care of your stuff over the generations and it'll last.
Computer generations are faster, but I think the bigger problem is that we've been able to keep more stuff than we could store until just about now. I'm putting together a little 5x1.5TB ZFS box for home, and I don't think I have the data to fill it. That's a first. But I guess it's like having 153 miles of shelving. Come to think of it, I've got Rubbermaid totes out in the shed with books I don't have shelfspace for...
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I was thinking much the same thing... What we're actually seeing here isn't spying, but a form of undercover work.
Privacy is a function of sharing information with a limited set of people. You may want your wife to see you naked, but that doesn't mean you want everybody walking by your house to look in your bathroom window. You may want to share that embarrassing problem with your doctor, but that doesn't mean you want it in the newspaper. You may want your credit counselor to know about all your bad debt, but that doesn't mean you talk about it at the company picnic. You may want your friends to know where you're going to be this weekend, but that doesn't mean you want government workers to keep an eye on your movements.
What is spying if not one entity trying to obtain information that the counterparty does not want shared with it? What is undercover work if not planting spies to obtain such information?
telling a professional support team they need to make an appointment with a "genius" is not acceptable, on site support at minimum
Once upon a time I worked at a big Mac shop, and the way this was handled was to have 5 spares on the shelf (about 5000 users). Machine fails and it's either a hard-drive swap or a restore from backup. I don't get spending an FTE on Dell Gold.
But I have a FoF who does do Mac on-site work. He gets his tickets from Apple, roams the NYC area. When I had some OSX Servers under AppleCare (5-ish years back) we got Kodak techs dispatched (in New England) for mobo replacements and such. Seems like it exists if you know what to ask for (granted, Apple Enterprise is self-defeating and often impenetrable).
I actually have a Slashdot comment in my bugzilla quips file:
Alchemists became chemists when they stopped keeping secrets. -Tom Felker
It ought to be in the Hall of Fame.
If you are indeed a professional and you were able to afford Final Cut and a mac in the first place, you should be aware that you can "write off" hardware and software upgrade costs as a "BUSINESS EXPENSE"
Forget tax treatment, if it's really that much more productive, it pays for itself pretty quickly.
OS X 10.8 Serval!M/i>
After the last few releases 'Civet' seems most appropriate.
J2EE is also awesome for building extremely bloaty applications that require 50% more servers than something running a non-bloated solution.
The power of Java/J2EE is that it produces acceptable results when used by the small sigmas of the developer population that makes up the largest bulk of the area under the standard distribution curve. Yeah, it's wordy, yeah, it's hungry, but the Fortune 500 can hire people to work on it and they can afford the hardware and connectivity. And when their app needs to scale, it can.
The top decile can continue to argue the virtues of Rails vs. Catalyst vs. D'jango, and that's fine, but it's also different. The LISP web hackers are making fun of them anyway.
That and a device like an iPod Touch isn't recognized as a calculator, so like many laptops and the TI-92, it is barred in many tests were the standard calculator form factor is permitted.
Oooh, somebody make an iPod case that looks like a cheap-plastic boxy graphing calculator case. Fake buttons FTW.
Batman was the closest thing to trying to sign up for superpowers, as he has none, just really cool toys.
Yeah, that's why Batman isn't a superhero, 'just' a hero. Which is why he's so popular.
Has any speaker at any Tea Party event even brought this up?
Very first hit on Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-73xSqoq5s
So, they're going to port this to Android. How long before somebody takes evidence of his local enemy not reflecting in the mirror to the tribal counsel? "Look, it's right here on my cell phone." Witch hunt.
Certainly the software is a good first result, though! They're already using inter-frame tracking - using inter-frame data to help with the image healing ought to really spiff things up.
Also, if there is video evidence presented in a courtroom, people should be aware that technology like this exists and it can and will be used.
And it seems likely an entropy analysis on the resultant images will show up bright problems with the re-created area.
They cost no more than similar offerings from Dell, HP, Sony, etc.
I think the point is you pick up a 4GB/15.6" Acer from NewEgg for $350, not that you blow a huge sum on a Sony. Likely neither will last as long as the Apple, but you can replace that Acer every year and still come out ahead. Plus not support attacks on journalism and stuff like that.
Are you afraid yet? Better not say something listening politicians don't like.
Are you kidding? Start renting office space across the street from DC steakhouses, and watch the cash start rolling in.
I like gardening a lot and put out a lot of ornamental flowers and vegetables to attract bees, but this year there have been very few.
You don't need colonial bees for your garden. Take a block of hardwood, drill a bunch of holes in it (about 3/8" but look it up) and tack it up to a post or tree near your garden. Solitary bees will build homes in it.
Encourage your local wasp population too. I'll assume you don't spray bug killer on your garden, seeing as how you understand the need for bugs*.
* speaking as a normal human, not an entomologist.
No, it's the cell phone towers - your strange new technology scares unfrozen caveman apiarist!
At least China's reach stops at their borders. Here I'm free to write about all I want.
Oh, hell, Slashcode ruined a great joke that needs Chinese characters. Some day this comment will render correctly. Check back then.
Exactly. My wife uses GOOG411 all the time while driving. She thinks phone books and address books are obsolete. She's quite verbal and likes small flip phones, so no keyboard or smartphone.
Given her tendency to use $1.29/call 411 services before GOOG411, I think Google ought to target people like me with $5/mo plans.
Also, there already is a Planet Five: it's called Ceres. It's really tiny, though (but still enormous compared to everything else in the Asteroid Belt).
Wow, I totally missed that one (only one /. story in '07?). Largely water ice? - Strange that we'd be thinking of going to Mars and not there. I see NASA launched "Dawn" in 2007 to wind up there eventually. An 8-year trip seems uncharacteristically slow - hrm, another site says its ion drive should be able to make the trip in 6 months.
Thanks for the tip!
Why allow them to grow that big and then break them up? That seems terribly inefficient.
Corporations can only exist at that size because of government corporate protections. Partnerships don't get that big.
If Microsoft buys Adobe, then Apple would go ahead and develop replacements for Photoshop and Illustrator.
You say that like they still care about the Macintosh. I heard they're not even going to port FCP to Cocoa.
Facebook used to have a feature to dump your entire profile and contacts list as a csv. They removed that in the fall of 04.
The Give Me My Data app has been working pretty well for me. If I remember to use it...
I've wondered for a long time if the asteroid belt was formed by some sort of collision, and thought about writing a science fiction story about an interstellar war between Mars and the no longer existing fifth planet (story would end with Mars losing its atmosphere and Planet Five being blown to bits).
No, it's the rest of Mars, blown off in the War by the planet killer. The strangely-light, oddly-small, iron-rich Mars we see today is just the core of the original planet. Search the belt for artifacts, not on Mars.
rather than the one that has failed to last even 30.
The Magna Carta didn't survive because it was left out in somebody's barn for 800 years. Take care of your stuff over the generations and it'll last.
Computer generations are faster, but I think the bigger problem is that we've been able to keep more stuff than we could store until just about now. I'm putting together a little 5x1.5TB ZFS box for home, and I don't think I have the data to fill it. That's a first. But I guess it's like having 153 miles of shelving. Come to think of it, I've got Rubbermaid totes out in the shed with books I don't have shelfspace for...
. So ... doesn't it seem a bit odd
Corporations aren't just immortals, they're schizophrenic immortals. With 'human' rights.
Try to keep this straight.
.I think UI design should have an option to put menus on the side now, to handle the wider formats.
You at least need the Tree Style Tabs (and BarTab) extensions for Firefox.