Isn't this why we have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? Granted, said act is with regards to privacy primarily primarily health insurance portability in mind... but how can such privacy be afforded Mr.Jobs if/when disclosed to investors?
It also makes me wonder to some degree about said investors, as it sounds like they're putting all their Apple eggs into a person rather than a company? Shouldn't said investors then also ask "what guarantees can Mr.Jobs give us that he won't get hit by a bus?"
This is great, my only hope is that they start with the older stuff first.
I've got some old 8x10's my father would bring home - he was an engineer at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center from the beginning of the space race through to the Jupiter probe.
Now I have these wonderful images I can share with my young daughter of what an old computer looks like and the slide-ruled people who ran them.
I know I'm gushing, but this is going to be great in so many ways, as along with some spectacular shots of space - we'll also see down-to-earth images of the culture at the time that cannot be expressed even in 1000 words.
And they're doing it in huge ways, just look at the dominance SalesForce has in the area of CRM applications, or the online offerings by 37 Signals."
Fact is, the cross-platform, concurrent collaboration qualities of these SaaS based office tools are also making huge gains in moving the corporate world away from the office space and into the web space.
Case in point, everyone who doesn't have a gmail account, please raise your hand? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Though understated almost to the point of a 'walk on' Hanks for the most part got the computer's role in the moon launches correct in the '95 movie Apollo 13.
Of course, what is amazing is how said 'role' was upstaged by the slide rule - and how both managed for the most part to get that roman candle to the moon and back more than once; vacuum tubes and pocket protectors and all.
You sound more than just a bit paranoid, and more than a little looney too.
And I think you're a bit over the top with your "looney" tunes remark.
I think a little paranoia healthy. For example, check out this SlashDot article entiteld "Slashdot | Rental Car + GPS = Speeding Ticket." Okay, it wasn't RF technology but this next one is...... a Buffalo charter school, students wear a plastic ID card with their name, photo and a Radio Frequency Identification tag. For now, they track school attendance, but the principal "plans to use RFID to track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office." So much for HIPPA regulations.
Or this one, The Postal Service is looking into tracking every piece of mail, not just by location of the letter a la FedEx, but by the identity of the sender. They're starting with bulk mailings, but want to expand it to all mail.
Yeah, that gives me warm fuzzies.
In other words, for you to attach the "black hole" label to the original reply is a WAY over the top when you consider the potential for Wal*Mart to sell access to their tracking technology.
Think about it, all this guy was saying is what protection does from queries like "how many size 4 coats in pink purchased within the past 6 months are buying big Macs" turning into "where is so-n-so's little girl now."
As a parent myself, such a little paranioa like that goes a long way.
Then again, some said I was nuts when I looked supspiciously at all those cookies those banner ads were tossing onto my computer back in 1998...
I'm not sure if this falls into the "holes" category, but when entering a query for "baptist church", you get some very non-baptist institutions at the top of the search.
One is a popular commercial site, which is also a scathing parody of hyper-fundie types. The other atop their list is the exact opposite, the type of hyper-fundy Landover pokes fun at.
Neither of which are useful for someone looking to find a church for sunday morning. Yes, I know, some of you will mod me down because I even dare discuss religion... but aside from theological differences, it is (at leat to me) an example of some of google's weaknesses.
From the screen shots, it would appear that some of the Cakewalk/Sonar look-n-feel were were applied.
Though it is possible that Carmine Bonanno at Voyetra would claim that its nothing but a Windowy-rehash of Sequencer+/Gold.
The point is, I would think you're going to have to set-up a Linux system and see if it performs to your standards. It could be that you're some wiz of a keyboardist and need to get that fast raw MIDI-fried performance so it doesn't require quantizing.
Or it may be that you're trying to modify sound for a kiosk at work. Considering the cost, it'd probably be worth experimenting.
Cool list! I also see you were mod'd down a point. Probably because you didn't lock-n-step with the/. crowd and said something positive about Microsoft -- even though their virtual machine is nothing to sneeze at.
I also like the similarity in the "shoot foot" anology between Java and C#. Clever.
I think a quote from the article shows that RedHat is in one respect, resolving the argument by letting KDE die a quiet death. Here's a quote from the interview supporting this point: "We know that Red Hat has never been a fan of KDE, nor has it ever supported KDE. As I recall, they financed the original work on Gnome and despite what a large company they are, there was only one KDE advocate at the company who quit last summer and has since made a forked version of Red Hat called Ark Linux if I recall.
Lets face it, the operating systems are going to drive the interface, and the big companies going to drive the O/S -- how else could a buggy system such as Win95 have been inflicted on us all?
I admire the work gone into KDE, but perhaps its time to make an alliance that will save everyone concerned on the Linux side?
The other night, I had rented the movie "We Were Soldiers" but the kids were sleeping so I figured why not just drop the DVD into my brand new Gateway, put the headphones on and watch it on my computer. No thoughts of copying anything or breaking any laws, but I could only watch the first 8 minutes due to the copy protection scheme.
A VCR I purchased a few years back when dead on me a month or so ago. When I opened it up to see what the problem was, I was confronted with cheap plastic gears -- apparently made to wear out over time. And so it goes.
So until there is more money in creating all-in-one computers that are home entertainment systems that are washing machines and toasters, we're going to continually get knickle-n-dimed to death -- or at least until I break down and buy a HD TV flat panel display.
Not being a legal beagle type, how is Creative Commons any different than the GNU license? I realize the former is for posts/articles and other blogish content, and the later for software, but aren't they essentially the same thing. Or am I missing something big (and legal) here?
Wasn't it just yesterday we read an article here on/. that pointed out human factors being the weak link in the chain? In the case of yesterday's news, human factors in programming and today's, human factors in physical security.
I mean look at an article on TechTV as far back as October 2001 that point out such human blunders as "Default installs of operating systems and applications" or "Accounts with no passwords or weak passwords"... human mistakes which make it as easy a pie for someone who socially engineers their way into the back office to penetrate your secure systems.
If SCO had pursued this avenue, oh lets say 5 or 6 years ago, they may have been able to win such a case. But I think now what they'll get is a long drawn out battle which will give the open source community time to build in replacement solutions that will make the case moot.
Guess its time to roll up our sleeves and get coding.
Well isn't this going to be fun? What happens 2 years from now when I have a new machine and an audit which requires me to try and install and print my old taxes?
You know, I'll never understand why companies feel they need to "break something that works..." TurboTax has dominated the Tax Software market. Now what they're doing is encouraging us to look elsewhere. I know I will!
that said, it does make me wonder how far away we are from having to hire plumbers to help install water-cooled towers... just like they did back in the day with the old Crays.
This is cool, but do I really want to be in a situation where my watch actually goes off? I mean, at that point, wouldn't I want to be wearing so much protective gear that a watch is a bit out of the question?
I dunno, the image of a paper death star just doesn't inspire the fear and awe worthy Darth Vadar.
I have images of him striding down the hall with a noisy crunch-crunch-crunch as he negotiates the flimsy corridors. Or worse, accidentally putting someone through the wall like a re-run from a 70's sitcom when jacking up a fail'd officer by the throat.
Though with a bit of lighter fluid, and a fire-cracker...
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And lets not forget the once or twice they allow the obsolete, almost-damaged-beyond replair units get shot down so they can find out where the enemy is hiding the missle launcher.
Or as in the case of "traffic control"... where those of us with pellet guns live !-)
On the other hand, just like weather balloons in the 50's and 60's, I wonder how many drones will mistaken for aliens from another planet.
I think that's http://www.blogs4god.com. That said. Yes, there are quiet a few journals out there that portend historical diaries and journals.
I also agree this would be a good teaching tool. I think it might also be a great extension to the Project Gutenberg.
Back in the day, and I mean way back like in the day of Mozart, music was taught by having students copy scores of the great masters. It might be a good practice to do the same by web logging historical figures of the past. The question is, will the DCMA stick its ugly head into the mix and put the kibosh this good teaching tool?
The author of the article got it wrong. It should read The popular discussion site for fans of open source software will disclose that it's perilously close to bankruptcy and will rewrite and abstract SlashCode into.NET components using Visual Basic which it will license and monitor through Microsoft Passort...
This is something that needs to happen on a larger scale here in the U.S. If Sun were smart, they'd provide obscenely cheap and even easier to install distributions for schools, churches, charities and students. Not that its not already out there - but I'm talking about some slick ad campaigns, seminars, tutorials and all sorts of stuff that would encourage the non/.'r to get out there and get it installed.
Yeah, Apple has been trying to do this for years with their education program. Then again, they're not offering obscenely cheap software that is easy to install on donated Pentium III's.
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So does anyone out there know how well this technology deals with accents and dialects? If so, perhaps we could finally see that 'Star Trek' like universal translator - or at least translate on a large scale media works from the past century into other languages.
Of course, noble thoughts aside, I keep thinking how useful it would have been to have such technology in college when I had to transpose long lectures from my chicken scratch.
Hmmm... does this spell the end to stenography as we know it?
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Isn't this why we have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? Granted, said act is with regards to privacy primarily primarily health insurance portability in mind ... but how can such privacy be afforded Mr.Jobs if/when disclosed to investors?
It also makes me wonder to some degree about said investors, as it sounds like they're putting all their Apple eggs into a person rather than a company? Shouldn't said investors then also ask "what guarantees can Mr.Jobs give us that he won't get hit by a bus?"
This is great, my only hope is that they start with the older stuff first.
I've got some old 8x10's my father would bring home - he was an engineer at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center from the beginning of the space race through to the Jupiter probe.
Now I have these wonderful images I can share with my young daughter of what an old computer looks like and the slide-ruled people who ran them.
I know I'm gushing, but this is going to be great in so many ways, as along with some spectacular shots of space - we'll also see down-to-earth images of the culture at the time that cannot be expressed even in 1000 words.
Absolutely I "honestly think a business is going to allow its private correspondence to be handled over the Internet ...?"
Only it's not "one of these programs" but a whole cornucopia of online office 'sweets' that are otherwise known Software as a Service or SaaS for short.
And they're doing it in huge ways, just look at the dominance SalesForce has in the area of CRM applications, or the online offerings by 37 Signals."
Fact is, the cross-platform, concurrent collaboration qualities of these SaaS based office tools are also making huge gains in moving the corporate world away from the office space and into the web space.
Case in point, everyone who doesn't have a gmail account, please raise your hand? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Heh, the solution gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'hammer time.'
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Makes me wonder if this 'brute force' approach will be applied to other government introduced RFID technologies?
"duh, how do I know it didn't work
Though understated almost to the point of a 'walk on' Hanks for the most part got the computer's role in the moon launches correct in the '95 movie Apollo 13.
Of course, what is amazing is how said 'role' was upstaged by the slide rule - and how both managed for the most part to get that roman candle to the moon and back more than once; vacuum tubes and pocket protectors and all.
You sound more than just a bit paranoid, and more than a little looney too.
... ... a Buffalo charter school, students wear a plastic ID card with their name, photo and a Radio Frequency Identification tag. For now, they track school attendance, but the principal "plans to use RFID to track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office." So much for HIPPA regulations.
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And I think you're a bit over the top with your "looney" tunes remark.
I think a little paranoia healthy. For example, check out this SlashDot article entiteld "Slashdot | Rental Car + GPS = Speeding Ticket." Okay, it wasn't RF technology but this next one is
Or this one, The Postal Service is looking into tracking every piece of mail, not just by location of the letter a la FedEx, but by the identity of the sender. They're starting with bulk mailings, but want to expand it to all mail.
Yeah, that gives me warm fuzzies.
In other words, for you to attach the "black hole" label to the original reply is a WAY over the top when you consider the potential for Wal*Mart to sell access to their tracking technology.
Think about it, all this guy was saying is what protection does from queries like "how many size 4 coats in pink purchased within the past 6 months are buying big Macs" turning into "where is so-n-so's little girl now."
As a parent myself, such a little paranioa like that goes a long way.
Then again, some said I was nuts when I looked supspiciously at all those cookies those banner ads were tossing onto my computer back in 1998
I'm not sure if this falls into the "holes" category, but when entering a query for "baptist church", you get some very non-baptist institutions at the top of the search.
... but aside from theological differences, it is (at leat to me) an example of some of google's weaknesses.
One is a popular commercial site, which is also a scathing parody of hyper-fundie types. The other atop their list is the exact opposite, the type of hyper-fundy Landover pokes fun at.
Neither of which are useful for someone looking to find a church for sunday morning. Yes, I know, some of you will mod me down because I even dare discuss religion
From the screen shots, it would appear that some of the Cakewalk/Sonar look-n-feel were were applied.
Though it is possible that Carmine Bonanno at Voyetra would claim that its nothing but a Windowy-rehash of Sequencer+/Gold.
The point is, I would think you're going to have to set-up a Linux system and see if it performs to your standards. It could be that you're some wiz of a keyboardist and need to get that fast raw MIDI-fried performance so it doesn't require quantizing.
Or it may be that you're trying to modify sound for a kiosk at work. Considering the cost, it'd probably be worth experimenting.
Cool list! I also see you were mod'd down a point. Probably because you didn't lock-n-step with the /. crowd and said something positive about Microsoft -- even though their virtual machine is nothing to sneeze at.
I also like the similarity in the "shoot foot" anology between Java and C#. Clever.
I think a quote from the article shows that RedHat is in one respect, resolving the argument by letting KDE die a quiet death. Here's a quote from the interview supporting this point:
"We know that Red Hat has never been a fan of KDE, nor has it ever supported KDE. As I recall, they financed the original work on Gnome and despite what a large company they are, there was only one KDE advocate at the company who quit last summer and has since made a forked version of Red Hat called Ark Linux if I recall.
Lets face it, the operating systems are going to drive the interface, and the big companies going to drive the O/S -- how else could a buggy system such as Win95 have been inflicted on us all?
I admire the work gone into KDE, but perhaps its time to make an alliance that will save everyone concerned on the Linux side?
The other night, I had rented the movie "We Were Soldiers" but the kids were sleeping so I figured why not just drop the DVD into my brand new Gateway, put the headphones on and watch it on my computer. No thoughts of copying anything or breaking any laws, but I could only watch the first 8 minutes due to the copy protection scheme.
A VCR I purchased a few years back when dead on me a month or so ago. When I opened it up to see what the problem was, I was confronted with cheap plastic gears -- apparently made to wear out over time. And so it goes.
So until there is more money in creating all-in-one computers that are home entertainment systems that are washing machines and toasters, we're going to continually get knickle-n-dimed to death -- or at least until I break down and buy a HD TV flat panel display.
Not being a legal beagle type, how is Creative Commons any different than the GNU license? I realize the former is for posts/articles and other blogish content, and the later for software, but aren't they essentially the same thing. Or am I missing something big (and legal) here?
I mean look at an article on TechTV as far back as October 2001 that point out such human blunders as "Default installs of operating systems and applications" or "Accounts with no passwords or weak passwords"
Perhaps this quote from a Oct '02 SANS/FBI article point out the worth of this book where they say:
Which is why I think books such as "The Art of Deception" are as needed as biometric identification systems to secure your computer facilities.
If SCO had pursued this avenue, oh lets say 5 or 6 years ago, they may have been able to win such a case. But I think now what they'll get is a long drawn out battle which will give the open source community time to build in replacement solutions that will make the case moot.
Guess its time to roll up our sleeves and get coding.
Well isn't this going to be fun? What happens 2 years from now when I have a new machine and an audit which requires me to try and install and print my old taxes?
You know, I'll never understand why companies feel they need to "break something that works..." TurboTax has dominated the Tax Software market. Now what they're doing is encouraging us to look elsewhere. I know I will!
it's sleek, it's sexy, I want one
... just like they did back in the day with the old Crays.
that said, it does make me wonder how far away we are from having to hire plumbers to help install water-cooled towers
This is cool, but do I really want to be in a situation where my watch actually goes off? I mean, at that point, wouldn't I want to be wearing so much protective gear that a watch is a bit out of the question?
I dunno, the image of a paper death star just doesn't inspire the fear and awe worthy Darth Vadar.
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I have images of him striding down the hall with a noisy crunch-crunch-crunch as he negotiates the flimsy corridors. Or worse, accidentally putting someone through the wall like a re-run from a 70's sitcom when jacking up a fail'd officer by the throat.
Though with a bit of lighter fluid, and a fire-cracker
And lets not forget the once or twice they allow the obsolete, almost-damaged-beyond replair units get shot down so they can find out where the enemy is hiding the missle launcher.
... where those of us with pellet guns live !-)
Or as in the case of "traffic control"
On the other hand, just like weather balloons in the 50's and 60's, I wonder how many drones will mistaken for aliens from another planet.
I think that's http://www.blogs4god.com. That said. Yes, there are quiet a few journals out there that portend historical diaries and journals.
I also agree this would be a good teaching tool. I think it might also be a great extension to the Project Gutenberg.
Back in the day, and I mean way back like in the day of Mozart, music was taught by having students copy scores of the great masters. It might be a good practice to do the same by web logging historical figures of the past. The question is, will the DCMA stick its ugly head into the mix and put the kibosh this good teaching tool?
The author of the article got it wrong. It should read The popular discussion site for fans of open source software will disclose that it's perilously close to bankruptcy and will rewrite and abstract SlashCode into .NET components using Visual Basic which it will license and monitor through Microsoft Passort ...
This is something that needs to happen on a larger scale here in the U.S. If Sun were smart, they'd provide obscenely cheap and even easier to install distributions for schools, churches, charities and students. Not that its not already out there - but I'm talking about some slick ad campaigns, seminars, tutorials and all sorts of stuff that would encourage the non /.'r to get out there and get it installed.
Yeah, Apple has been trying to do this for years with their education program. Then again, they're not offering obscenely cheap software that is easy to install on donated Pentium III's.
So does anyone out there know how well this technology deals with accents and dialects? If so, perhaps we could finally see that 'Star Trek' like universal translator - or at least translate on a large scale media works from the past century into other languages.
... does this spell the end to stenography as we know it?
Of course, noble thoughts aside, I keep thinking how useful it would have been to have such technology in college when I had to transpose long lectures from my chicken scratch.
Hmmm