The idea is, you have something to publish which is so huge that you just couldnt trust anyone not to steal it, not the patent examiner, not the notary, not your lawyer, nobody. Best idea I've come up with is to put an add that appears to be a 'word search' puzzle in a major newspaper like the new york times, but its actually a simple encryption to some major text like the declaration of independence. Don't tell anyone what it really is.
Now, its published wide and far, but nobody knows about it!
I was a tech lead for many years and I don't put to much value in most of the upmodded comments I've read here. Its fairly clear to me that they were posted by people who are not managers, but instead are posting fantasy wish lists for their own manager. Reading books is not going to do you very much good. Management is about social interaction, and reading is not a social activity. Instead, you need to practice actual social interaction. However, I do agree that the "how to win friends and influence people" is an insightful read.
Here are my quick tips:
Realize that management is not about control, it is about influence. The harder you try to control people, the more stubborn they will become. Instead, your job is to influence their behaviors, not dictate them. You can only influence people when they know and respect you. They will only do this if they feel you care about them.
Talk to all of your reports everyday. Be interested in them and their assignments. You cannot manage by memo or telephone.
Regular meetings are important. On the surface they are about communicating details and process to the team, but really they are about socializing the team members. Over time meetings influence people to bond into a team of people who will identify with the group. Of course, keep meetings short. But also try to be sure that everyone gets a turn at speaking their mind; some people will have to be coaxed to talk (and some made to shut up). Remember, meetings are really social events, not technical events, and you are the MC who keeps things moving along.
Notice there is exactly one audio application listed, youtube. Go to that site and notice it doesn't work on the desktop. I'm not sure this can be considered the 'real' web they advertise since it uses rtsp instead of http/ajax.
And my question is, does the iPhone support any audio standards in its browser? Will anybody but youtube be able to make audio applications? It looks suspiciously like the answer may be 'no'
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The service prices were on Apples website yesterday, and I even saw them on CNN!
Here is an article about them.
I'm building a complicated multi-user ajax game that I plan to get working on iPhone. At first, testing it was fairly difficult because I didn't have a Mac. For a while I was trying a webkit hack that ran on windows, then I got the Mac emulator to run the actual Safari. I was so glad when a Windows Safari was released!
I have found that Safari is quite compatible, most stuff works great if it was designed to strict standards. I have had some issues with listbox controls, so I wrote my own which look nicer anyway.
I do have a concern about how mouse events are going to be handled on the iPhone. I watch the demos and wonder how weather the gesture recognizer will get out of the way and not do wacky things at the wrong time. Time will tell. I suspect there will be problems, but I also expect to be able to work around them.
Its very possible that neurons communicate using both electrical signals and sound solitons (and who knows what else?). If you play around with genetic algorithms or supercompilers you see that optimal solutions to problems often use unexpected mechanisms that defy logical analysys. We should expect to see this sort of efficiency in real evolved systems too.
Obviously any infinitely smart attacker with an infinite amount of time can break any encryption method.. are you sure? Just yesterday there was an article on slashdot about unsolved problems, and what do you know, The existence of one-way functions was one of them! Apparently its not so obvious after all.
Here is how they would interoperate: get rid of the Cisco iPhone handset but keep the base..now you have a wireless Skype[voip] phone in range. Here is why Apple won't do it: they [probably] signed an agreement with Cingular to ban voip from the phone, so Apple is obligated to not interoperate. This also explains why the system is "closed"--Apple can't allow any type of Voip on the phone.
See The story in the Mercury where Apple is quote as saying Cisco's lawsuit is 'silly' and their trademark is 'tenuous'. Apple is intentionally playing hardball here. I cant imagine why though?
I don't think the word you looked up is the one meant in the title. First off, the word you reference is a verb, and in the title it is used as a noun. I have found a reference to the word here that has a meaning that makes more sense: a hallows is a relic.
Lie detectors are not a device that detects lies of the interrogated, its a device that enables the interrogator to lie. He tells you that he can detect when you are lying, and maybe you believe him so say thing you might normally censure. However he can also interpret your responses to meet his own agenda. If he has no legal basis to fire you, not hire you, or discredit you, he can use a lie detector as a way to implicate that you are a liar. Since the results of a polygraph are tantamount to biorhythms, there is no way to effectively dispute the results. If you get your own polygraph expert to interpret results to say that you werent lying, then the results are declared 'inconclusive' which still holds the implication. Even refusing to take a polygraph implicates you.
President Bush has said recently that terror groups were trying to influence public opinion in the US, describing their efforts as the "war of ideas"
What, are we afraid of ideas? Is a war of guns and bombs better? If the people of the world are trying to influence our thinking, should we ignore them or should we listen? Who knows better about the problems of their part of the world than them? Do the Generals in the Pentagon know whats better for people across the world than their own leaders?
This is the only truly safe thing you can do: repartition and format your drive and reinstall with the internet disconnected. You can also install firewalls et al other people on this thread are suggesting. Install and configure your main applications. Then, make a image* of the drive. When you use your computer for important stuff, save your data to external drives. Then every few days, restore the image. Once you've learned how to do it it will take about 5 minutes which is actually quite a bit faster than a virus scan, and guaranteed to clean even invisible root kits.
*the key thing is to get an imager than can boot the computer from a CD. The old Norton ghost can do this. You don't want to use any program that is running inside the OS you are restoring since it wont be able to remove root kits. Another example is Acronis Trueimage. There are many others.
Whenever someone brags they have never gotten a virus, especially just after blithely disabling some security feature, it raises a big red flag. The question is: what is it that makes you think you've never had a virus/been compromised? You havent noticed anything? Perhaps McAffee or Norton didnt find anything so you assume you are clear? Sadly my friend, it is very possible your machine has been compromised by a virus or worm and you are simply unaware of it. The worst kinds of malware are not detected by virus scanners; in fact some are not even detectable in any way.
Why should you care if it doesnt appear to affect you? Well, it may actually effect you if its a keylogger tracking everything you type and collecting information about you for identity theft. Worse, for the rest of us anyway, your machine could have been co-opted by a bot-net that is used by criminals to extort money from web sites. What they do is secretly root thousands of unprotected computers operated by people who 'have never had a virus' and then use them to do a distributed denial of service attack against commercial websites, demanding money from them to stop.
In order to limit the power of these criminals, everyone must firewall and patch their machines. This may not even be enough though! What people really need to do is occasionally completely reformat after booting off a cd so any rootkit will be erased.
The primary method of fighting global warming suggested in this article is to increase taxes! Globally! It staggers my mind to think how many people might think this is a good idea. Giving politicians more money will save no one.
Another disturbing thing is you'll see in many of these articles that the police claim Reiser was the last one to see his wife. However, the facts of the state that she went shopping after she left his house; her car was found with the groceries she bought. Clearly then, he was not the last person his wife, as the checker at the supermarket obviously interacted with her. I dont see how the story works: she drops the kids at his house, she goes shopping, and then..how does he end up killing her? He has the kids with him..at home..she's on the road. When does he have the opportunity to kill her?
There are several stories that talk about secret evidence, like this one: DuBois said that at a hearing in Alameda County Superior Court last week, police officers said they had evidence against Hans Reiser but said they couldn't share their secret information with Reiser or the court
According to this Reiser lost custody of his children based on "secret information" the police have. How can you defend your rights when the evidence against you is kept secret?
I found a more insightful article that explains the advantage of this system over existing airport shuttle systems: The difference for passengers will be not so much the journey time - which will be about four minutes - but how long they have to wait.
Instead of huddling under a shelter for as long as 20 minutes as they currently do waiting for a bus, the pod will be at most a minute away.
Well, you see, some people do not get an easy time of it. Last time my girlfriend (of mixed race) was selected, they detained her for and hour and a half and she missed her flight. I suspect they occasionally pick non-profiled people so they give appearance of fairness.
I participated in a study done at..a major research lab..that studied the future of speech as a computer interface. The study was done in such a way as to ignore technology limitations and assume a perfectly working speech and AI system. The conclusion of this study was that speech was not a very good interface for most applications, and would remain a niche forever. The gist was that other modalities, most notably direct manipulation, had less cogntive load, lower latencies,caused less cognitive dissonance, and incited less social friction (eg there is a reason people text message on their phones) compared to speech. As you might expect, these results were never published, but instead replaced by another more..paycheck oriented..paper that extolled the bright future of speech interfaces. This article is very similar to the researcher-paycheck oriented paper. It appeals to anecdotal fantasies about technology that don't actually work well in reality. Think about the location context phone for example; their example sounds nice but is it really useful? How many people walking around San Francisco would actually be helped by a "dinner,taxi rapid transit" menu on their cell phone? Even if it was useful in theory, in practice that list would simply be more advertising spam intruding into your life.
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The idea is, you have something to publish which is so huge that you just couldnt trust anyone not to steal it, not the patent examiner, not the notary, not your lawyer, nobody.
Best idea I've come up with is to put an add that appears to be a 'word search' puzzle in a major newspaper like the new york times, but its actually a simple encryption to some major text like the declaration of independence. Don't tell anyone what it really is.
Now, its published wide and far, but nobody knows about it!
I was a tech lead for many years and I don't put to much value in most of the upmodded comments I've read here. Its fairly clear to me that they were posted by people who are not managers, but instead are posting fantasy wish lists for their own manager.
Reading books is not going to do you very much good. Management is about social interaction, and reading is not a social activity. Instead, you need to practice actual social interaction. However, I do agree that the "how to win friends and influence people" is an insightful read.
Here are my quick tips:
Realize that management is not about control, it is about influence. The harder you try to control people, the more stubborn they will become. Instead, your job is to influence their behaviors, not dictate them. You can only influence people when they know and respect you. They will only do this if they feel you care about them.
Talk to all of your reports everyday. Be interested in them and their assignments. You cannot manage by memo or telephone.
Regular meetings are important. On the surface they are about communicating details and process to the team, but really they are about socializing the team members. Over time meetings influence people to bond into a team of people who will identify with the group. Of course, keep meetings short. But also try to be sure that everyone gets a turn at speaking their mind; some people will have to be coaxed to talk (and some made to shut up). Remember, meetings are really social events, not technical events, and you are the MC who keeps things moving along.
The AT&T apple is using is a different company than the one that screwed you over.
Notice there is exactly one audio application listed, youtube. Go to that site and notice it doesn't work on the desktop. I'm not sure this can be considered the 'real' web they advertise since it uses rtsp instead of http/ajax.
And my question is, does the iPhone support any audio standards in its browser? Will anybody but youtube be able to make audio applications? It looks suspiciously like the answer may be 'no'
The service prices were on Apples website yesterday, and I even saw them on CNN! Here is an article about them.
I'm building a complicated multi-user ajax game that I plan to get working on iPhone. At first, testing it was fairly difficult because I didn't have a Mac. For a while I was trying a webkit hack that ran on windows, then I got the Mac emulator to run the actual Safari. I was so glad when a Windows Safari was released!
I have found that Safari is quite compatible, most stuff works great if it was designed to strict standards. I have had some issues with listbox controls, so I wrote my own which look nicer anyway.
I do have a concern about how mouse events are going to be handled on the iPhone. I watch the demos and wonder how weather the gesture recognizer will get out of the way and not do wacky things at the wrong time. Time will tell. I suspect there will be problems, but I also expect to be able to work around them.
Not only does this product not exist yet, its not even designed. Its still TBD
Its very possible that neurons communicate using both electrical signals and sound solitons (and who knows what else?). If you play around with genetic algorithms or supercompilers you see that optimal solutions to problems often use unexpected mechanisms that defy logical analysys. We should expect to see this sort of efficiency in real evolved systems too.
Obviously any infinitely smart attacker with an infinite amount of time can break any encryption method .. are you sure? Just yesterday there was an article on slashdot about unsolved problems, and what do you know, The existence of one-way functions was one of them! Apparently its not so obvious after all.
Here is how they would interoperate: get rid of the Cisco iPhone handset but keep the base..now you have a wireless Skype[voip] phone in range.
Here is why Apple won't do it: they [probably] signed an agreement with Cingular to ban voip from the phone, so Apple is obligated to not interoperate. This also explains why the system is "closed"--Apple can't allow any type of Voip on the phone.
See The story in the Mercury where Apple is quote as saying Cisco's lawsuit is 'silly' and their trademark is 'tenuous'. Apple is intentionally playing hardball here. I cant imagine why though?
Space has nearly infinite power resources
I don't think the word you looked up is the one meant in the title. First off, the word you reference is a verb, and in the title it is used as a noun. I have found a reference to the word here that has a meaning that makes more sense: a hallows is a relic.
Lie detectors are not a device that detects lies of the interrogated, its a device that enables the interrogator to lie. He tells you that he can detect when you are lying, and maybe you believe him so say thing you might normally censure. However he can also interpret your responses to meet his own agenda. If he has no legal basis to fire you, not hire you, or discredit you, he can use a lie detector as a way to implicate that you are a liar. Since the results of a polygraph are tantamount to biorhythms, there is no way to effectively dispute the results. If you get your own polygraph expert to interpret results to say that you werent lying, then the results are declared 'inconclusive' which still holds the implication. Even refusing to take a polygraph implicates you.
President Bush has said recently that terror groups were trying to influence public opinion in the US, describing their efforts as the "war of ideas"
What, are we afraid of ideas? Is a war of guns and bombs better? If the people of the world are trying to influence our thinking, should we ignore them or should we listen? Who knows better about the problems of their part of the world than them? Do the Generals in the Pentagon know whats better for people across the world than their own leaders?
This is the only truly safe thing you can do: repartition and format your drive and reinstall with the internet disconnected. You can also install firewalls et al other people on this thread are suggesting. Install and configure your main applications. Then, make a image* of the drive.
When you use your computer for important stuff, save your data to external drives.
Then every few days, restore the image. Once you've learned how to do it it will take about 5 minutes which is actually quite a bit faster than a virus scan, and guaranteed to clean even invisible root kits.
*the key thing is to get an imager than can boot the computer from a CD. The old Norton ghost can do this. You don't want to use any program that is running inside the OS you are restoring since it wont be able to remove root kits. Another example is Acronis Trueimage. There are many others.
Whenever someone brags they have never gotten a virus, especially just after blithely disabling some security feature, it raises a big red flag. The question is: what is it that makes you think you've never had a virus/been compromised? You havent noticed anything? Perhaps McAffee or Norton didnt find anything so you assume you are clear? Sadly my friend, it is very possible your machine has been compromised by a virus or worm and you are simply unaware of it. The worst kinds of malware are not detected by virus scanners; in fact some are not even detectable in any way.
Why should you care if it doesnt appear to affect you? Well, it may actually effect you if its a keylogger tracking everything you type and collecting information about you for identity theft. Worse, for the rest of us anyway, your machine could have been co-opted by a bot-net that is used by criminals to extort money from web sites. What they do is secretly root thousands of unprotected computers operated by people who 'have never had a virus' and then use them to do a distributed denial of service attack against commercial websites, demanding money from them to stop.
In order to limit the power of these criminals, everyone must firewall and patch their machines. This may not even be enough though! What people really need to do is occasionally completely reformat after booting off a cd so any rootkit will be erased.
The primary method of fighting global warming suggested in this article is to increase taxes! Globally! It staggers my mind to think how many people might think this is a good idea. Giving politicians more money will save no one.
Now, lets go put some there!
Another disturbing thing is you'll see in many of these articles that the police claim Reiser was the last one to see his wife. However, the facts of the state that she went shopping after she left his house; her car was found with the groceries she bought. Clearly then, he was not the last person his wife, as the checker at the supermarket obviously interacted with her.
I dont see how the story works: she drops the kids at his house, she goes shopping, and then..how does he end up killing her? He has the kids with him..at home..she's on the road. When does he have the opportunity to kill her?
There are several stories that talk about secret evidence, like this one:
DuBois said that at a hearing in Alameda County Superior Court last week, police officers said they had evidence against Hans Reiser but said they couldn't share their secret information with Reiser or the court
According to this Reiser lost custody of his children based on "secret information" the police have. How can you defend your rights when the evidence against you is kept secret?
I found a more insightful article that explains the advantage of this system over existing airport shuttle systems:
The difference for passengers will be not so much the journey time - which will be about four minutes - but how long they have to wait. Instead of huddling under a shelter for as long as 20 minutes as they currently do waiting for a bus, the pod will be at most a minute away.
Well, you see, some people do not get an easy time of it. Last time my girlfriend (of mixed race) was selected, they detained her for and hour and a half and she missed her flight. I suspect they occasionally pick non-profiled people so they give appearance of fairness.
I participated in a study done at..a major research lab..that studied the future of speech as a computer interface. The study was done in such a way as to ignore technology limitations and assume a perfectly working speech and AI system. The conclusion of this study was that speech was not a very good interface for most applications, and would remain a niche forever. The gist was that other modalities, most notably direct manipulation, had less cogntive load, lower latencies,caused less cognitive dissonance, and incited less social friction (eg there is a reason people text message on their phones) compared to speech.
As you might expect, these results were never published, but instead replaced by another more..paycheck oriented..paper that extolled the bright future of speech interfaces.
This article is very similar to the researcher-paycheck oriented paper. It appeals to anecdotal fantasies about technology that don't actually work well in reality. Think about the location context phone for example; their example sounds nice but is it really useful? How many people walking around San Francisco would actually be helped by a "dinner,taxi rapid transit" menu on their cell phone? Even if it was useful in theory, in practice that list would simply be more advertising spam intruding into your life.