...accepting the government's proposal unseen, rather than reviewing it for mistakes
With the complexity of the tax code, you might not even know if the government had made a 'mistake' and forgot
some deduction you were entitled to or used the wrong number in some place.
When you have a laptop keyboard with an embedded number pad.
Otherwise you get "he336" instead of "hello"
I use my lenovo y510 with an IBM type M keyboard when I am at home (numlock on)
but when I go elsewhere I use the laptop's keypad (numlock off). Unfortunatly it does
not switch automatically so I have to remember to turn it on and off.
Do you mean the food or the complaining people?
I choose the food - so they switch to a chex mix like snack with crackers..
Then the gluten intolerant speak up.
Before long no airline will serve food on any flight.
Some say this has already happened.
Last place I worked we told everyone "Please call the help desk at extension xxxx, I can't help you without a trouble ticket" We justified it to the bosses with the "prioritization" argument.
Oh you can claim any arbitrary ammount of money as a salary - It's called "wage negotiation" and if you claim too high a number you won't get hired. If you work for yourself your product might be too expensive so you sell none. Claim all you want - see if the market bears it. (Grammer Nazi please help with the non animal proper type of bear...)
But doesn't that mean that the three laws robot has to be intelligent enough to recognize the difference
between a Emperor Norton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton and an Emperor Palpatine
So Coward, you believe that Joe should be able to use the system without having to enter any password?
My post was in reply to "lets let the users decide how much security they want" my point was that the users would probably opt for "none". A properly designed security policy will protect the assets and let Joe do his job.
Perhaps because the asset at risk is company data, and some of the users could not care less about company data. Some of those users might even be middle management. Upper management usually knows the value of the data but they have other follies.
Joe User: Passwords do vex me - lets kill them now!
IS Dept: But that will mean anyone could copy our data.
Joe User: So? I could get my job done.
IS Dept: Even our most hated competitors would know everything/
If the evil maid actually works for the hotel, she may have access to many laptops on many days. The information in any one may be somewhat uninteresting, but if the work required is just booting it with a magic thumb drive, why not do every laptop she comes across. Perhaps twice then the take could be much greater.
And in a proprietary project if customers want something fixed they can threaten to not pay which in even the most incompetent company will tend to make your boss tell you to fix it. In open source that mechanism does not exist.
Wouldn't the equivalent mechanism in open source be "a group of 'customers' fork the code and clean it up themselves"?
How about being Senator, Representative or even President for a 6 months.
People to hold these positions are randomly selected. The service is voluntary,
you can opt out for the next instance or opt out completely for hardship reasons.
Each month a sixth of each office are replaced.
The lottery for each office is held on TV to ensure randomness.
Slashdot Mirror
resistance is futile
you will be assimilated
How much does Virgin Galactic charge just for a sub orbital flight?
Do cameras go a long so we can all watch and join in?
How much "Science" gets done?
...accepting the government's proposal unseen, rather than reviewing it for mistakes
With the complexity of the tax code, you might not even know if the government had made a 'mistake' and forgot some deduction you were entitled to or used the wrong number in some place.
This could be done with any language (well not the outline level feature) by using a pre-processor that just rtf --> plain text
You could include pictures in your code ( which are automatically comments)
The font and size of the code is changeable - you can have parts in a monospaced font and parts in a proportional font.
Outline levels are used to block statement
"find the people saying things we don't like and replace them with people who say what we want."
Isn't it more like "find the people saying things we don't like and pay government employees to say things we do like"
Or are some bloggers going to "vanish"?
Why do you ever need to turn off Num Lock?
When you have a laptop keyboard with an embedded number pad.
Otherwise you get "he336" instead of "hello"
I use my lenovo y510 with an IBM type M keyboard when I am at home (numlock on) but when I go elsewhere I use the laptop's keypad (numlock off). Unfortunatly it does not switch automatically so I have to remember to turn it on and off.
Do you mean the food or the complaining people? I choose the food - so they switch to a chex mix like snack with crackers.. Then the gluten intolerant speak up. Before long no airline will serve food on any flight. Some say this has already happened.
You may also drive a fast car slowly.
Last place I worked we told everyone "Please call the help desk at extension xxxx, I can't help you without a trouble ticket" We justified it to the bosses with the "prioritization" argument.
The box SARS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndromecame in?
But they crossed the beams and the world did not end.
Oh you can claim any arbitrary ammount of money as a salary - It's called "wage negotiation" and if you claim too high a number you won't get hired. If you work for yourself your product might be too expensive so you sell none. Claim all you want - see if the market bears it. (Grammer Nazi please help with the non animal proper type of bear...)
Sure advertising works, nobody would ever install Add-Block or use the pop-up blockers that are popular in many web browsers.
this is a bad thing?
Do you have kids? Because I'm not a fan of my $5K/year property taxes with 70% of that going to our local school district, when I don't have kids.
[Devil's Advocate mode]
Would you be more of a fan of his unemployable kids going on welfare?
[return to normal property tax hating mode]
I would quite happily place my work in the public domain voluntarily after a period of 25 years.
But what if I place YOUR work in the public domain in 5 years?
But doesn't that mean that the three laws robot has to be intelligent enough to recognize the difference between a Emperor Norton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton and an Emperor Palpatine
My post was in reply to "lets let the users decide how much security they want" my point was that the users would probably opt for "none". A properly designed security policy will protect the assets and let Joe do his job.
Joe User: Passwords do vex me - lets kill them now!
IS Dept: But that will mean anyone could copy our data.
Joe User: So? I could get my job done.
IS Dept: Even our most hated competitors would know everything/
Joe User: So? I could get my job done.
IS Dept: ???
That may have the same sort of effect as "Reefer Madness" = Audience ignores message due to "over the top"ness of the presentation.
If I own the machine, and I am the user of that machine - I want the master TPM key and the ability to sign stuff for myself.
If the evil maid actually works for the hotel, she may have access to many laptops on many days. The information in any one may be somewhat uninteresting, but if the work required is just booting it with a magic thumb drive, why not do every laptop she comes across. Perhaps twice then the take could be much greater.
And in a proprietary project if customers want something fixed they can threaten to not pay which in even the most incompetent company will tend to make your boss tell you to fix it. In open source that mechanism does not exist.
Wouldn't the equivalent mechanism in open source be "a group of 'customers' fork the code and clean it up themselves"?
People to hold these positions are randomly selected. The service is voluntary, you can opt out for the next instance or opt out completely for hardship reasons.
Each month a sixth of each office are replaced.
The lottery for each office is held on TV to ensure randomness.