What the world needs is a spreadsheet for Mac OS developed by Apple.
I recently bought "Pages" and used it to update my CV and I was very impressed. I've been using Excel & Word nearly everyday for over 12 years and I really that Pages does a better job doing what I do at home that Word does and it easier to use. Given a few more revisions and I could really see moving more and more of the things I do to it.
The idea of a spreadsheet that acted like that... well lets just say everytime I write a VBA Excel macro I think there must be a better way!
Shitty Mac OS support keeps me away from Hamachi. I have enough of shitty Mac OS support with Skype. I am considering using it to share my iTunes collection with my brothers though.
And there is no way in Hell my accountants are going to install a program just to deal with me. They're already mad at me for my "no faxes *ever*, so don't even ask" and "No excel sheets that won't open OpenOffice" policies.
I use encryption with my circle of friends... but what about the rest of the people I need to communicate with?
I have two siblings who still *insist* on using malware laden Wintel boxes; I despair of installing anything on their computers. I'd have to setup & manage everything for my Mum's iMac (from a different contentment) And what about what my Investment Brokers send me... sometimes it seems they're barely capable of using e-mail (and still want to use fax)
So how in the hell do I get all these people to use encryption when not only are they unaware of the risks they don't understand how to configure & use encryption?
Over the past 40 years I have lived in the Czech Republic, Australia, America, and now Austria. I have seen repressive governments and efforts of citizens to defeat it. I have seen protectionist governments and the efforts of citizens to enhance it. I have seen clueless governments and the astounding apathy of citizen inhabitants. I remember when the US was commonly thought to be the best place in the world to live. And I remember all the efforts my parents made to get US citizenship for my family.
This recent decision of the Supreme Court of the US isn't going to instantly change the US into a regime more repressive than North Korea (despite what the left says the right is claiming). But it will make government whistle blowers think a fair bit more or more likely be a lot more cautious when they decide to go public. This is just one more little thing the government does to keep people in line and to keep secret things secret. I find it interesting that these days more & more unsavory things are kept secret.
But still as a few raving conservatives have pointed out America is not worse than North Korea or China. So I suppose the events ongoing within the American civil system can be compared to those events that went on during the "Second Red Scare" in the 1950's, only now it's terrorists, gays, free thinkers, and non-Christians. I didn't live in the US then but I assume that McCarthyism did not affect most Americans or should I say if 1950's Americans are anything like 2000's Americans I doubt most even recognized how what was going on was wrong until their children learned it in school. McCarthyism went on for about 5 years but I fear this new scare will last longer... maybe we should call it the "Long Nebulous Scare".
I wonder when the low point of this new scare will be, I'm getting sick of it already. I'm tired of clueless conservatives, reactionary liberals, rapacious capitalists, and the American theocrats. I'm tired of the vitriolic deception spewing from the mouths of the American political activists. "Not as Bad as North Korea" may be good enough for them... but it damn sure isn't good enough for me.
The IAEA to my knowledge are the only ones who do nuclear inspections and as far as I can tell they included the inspections of that facility in their public reports.
I didn't quote anything about Iran moving anything without anyone noticing. Did you feel the need to just make that up?
Anyway as I mentioned in my previous post I do not completely believe this data and do not encourage anyone else to (I have been unable to verify the quantities listed).
So I gather you have no other point... outside of just being an asshole.
"Russian experts completed the initial plans in 2003 and construction began in early 2004. In late 2005, Bulgarian transport planes delivered tens of thousands of centrifuges from Belarus and Ukraine; they were transported directly to Neyshabour. In January 2006, 23 Ukrainian engineers arrived to start installing the equipment, joined in February by 46 Belarusian nuclear experts who are working in shifts to prepare the 155,000 P-1 and P-2 centrifuges for operation. This compares with 60,000 in Nathanz - of which 40,000 are accessible for inspection while 20,000 are hidden in closed subterranean chambers. "
Now, I'm fully aware that this isn't necessary true or correct and I'm also aware that it doesn't automatically confer nuclear weapons capability onto Iran. However given the sorts of rhetoric coming from Iran is does make me uneasy...
Actually I'd prefer this: How about *both* of you shut the fuck up before you're read the fucking article. Then when the sanctimonious asshat above states his moral objections to using this to produce a drug which is intended to limit the recovery time of children suffering from diarrhea, and does not mention attempting to feed the suffering and unwashed masses of the world on a crop not intended to be a food stock... *Then* you all can call point out his failures as a human being.
This is nearly the same as my own experience... which makes me enjoy using, in my case, OpenBSD. I use C professionally but it's an order of magnitude (or two) less complex than the Linux kernel. It's just amazing to me it all comes together despite how many people are working on it.
Back to the point what can spending some time and having a bug fixing cycle hurt? I don't see a downside...
No worries... the feeling is mutual. If you're ok with ineffectual intrusive security measures have fun. Myself I have no respect for the American's implementation of airport security.
I am a US citizen and I don't live in the US. It seems every time I go back to the US the security becomes slower, more intrusive, & dumber. I don't really have any compunction telling security agent how stupid they are being and I've even showed them the bill of rights (which they don't know) and the airports security regulations (which they don't either). I routinely wear clothing anti-Bush slogans... this has the effect of rocketing me though EU security (and giving people a little smile) and slowing me down in the South East US (like Atlanta) where I really get hassled... but having lived in Atlanta for quite some time they can't really intimidate me any more.
But in the end harassing an underpaid blue collar worker, who has a job that he doesn't really like and also causes other people to actively start to dislike him, only serves to slow the process down and make it even more unpleasant.
About the only positive thing I can say about US airport security screening is that I'm glad there hasn't been an "underwear bomber".
I do remember once going to the US and the Germans were putting Americans through the full security kit and the rest of EU members through the standard security screening and then putting them on the same plane. Someone whined about it and was told that the Americans required it and the EU didn't... fortunately I had had a long enough layover to have enough beer to find the whole thing amusing as hell.
physical access to the computer is not always needed (it makes things much, much easier).
A account isn't always needed although it also makes things a lot easier.
Having a guest account isn't really needed either.
I've seen a security demonstration where he had most the passwords in the building in a surprisingly short time... To be fair this did not take into account the building security or the physical security of the network because we let him in and gave him a working port to begin with.
This is one of the reasons any sort of wireless is banned.
I guess my real point is that there are dozens of hacking methods and these guys don't use brute force in ways where it is so obviously defeated AND that getting the password hashes was surprisingly easy (even if they were stored in some high dollar database).
I walked away with overall idea that it is extremely dangerous to maintain a combative working relationship with employees with these sorts of skill sets.
In 2004 I flew from Atlanta to Salt Lake. Without an ID they flat would not let you on the plane. After checking my luggage I then proceeded to the security checkpoint and waited in line for nearly 30 minutes. At the security check point they scanned my carry-on twice, toyed with all my electronics, requested me to remove shoes and my belt which they examined, and examined the bottom of my feet. I am very glad there hasn't been an underwear bomber.
In Telluride CO during a micro-brew & music festival I was detained by the police for drinking a beer 3 meters outside of a poorly designated area. Rather than simply stating something like you must drink behind the yellow ribbon the police insisted I pour my drink out, demanded my ID and when I hesitated, offered me the alternative of a trip to the county jail to be identified.
BS indeed! There are all kinds of check points in the US these days.
I moved from Australia to the US in 1978, in that year in both countries it was extremely unlikely that a law enforcement officer would approach you for no particular reason and ask for identification. However this very much was not the case in Eastern Europe (where I was born) and presumably the redder portions of South East Asia as well. Also at the time you did not need written permission to live, work, or just be at any certain place. So the "paper's please" thing became a jibe from the armchair anticommunists as sort of a short form of our country is so much better than yours. Indeed my own father, a staunch Anti-Communist, took us for a car trip both around Australia and across the United States in a prolonged state of rapture caused by the fact that we could go all these places and see all these things and not only not present papers to anyone of authority but not go through inspections or checkpoints (even at state lines!).
Fast forward to 2006 and world is different place. Terrorism has replaced Communism and the many of those same armchair anticommunists are now demanding the very things that they derided during the cold war in communist countries. It's a bizarre thing that I cannot travel around the US without identification, Can I refuse to show a policeman identification anymore? (I don't think so, but it's been awhile since I've been back to the US). I can not walk down most US streets with a simple beer in my hand... But I can take train from where I live now to the place where I was born and I can pass the abandoned check point which I passed as a child in a box in the trunk of a car... drinking what ever I want and showing my passport once as I pass over the border into Czech Republic.
I don't need papers in the place my parents ran from... but I need them in the place they ran to.
So you're right "Papers Please" does have baggage... it should.
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Being that they are suing the pants off of people who upload I'm not seeing Indemnity happening.
Still it's a nice thought: rent a song once, Get the Indemnity, upload said song to The Pirate Bay, begin talking like a pirate...
probably not: I could not download the source for it.
If it is not Open it can not be audited
Because it can not be audited it can not be trusted.
I will not use anything I don't trust.
Of course they could just be being oblique about the source downloads...
What the world needs is a spreadsheet for Mac OS developed by Apple.
I recently bought "Pages" and used it to update my CV and I was very impressed. I've been using Excel & Word nearly everyday for over 12 years and I really that Pages does a better job doing what I do at home that Word does and it easier to use. Given a few more revisions and I could really see moving more and more of the things I do to it.
The idea of a spreadsheet that acted like that... well lets just say everytime I write a VBA Excel macro I think there must be a better way!
Shitty Mac OS support keeps me away from Hamachi. I have enough of shitty Mac OS support with Skype.
I am considering using it to share my iTunes collection with my brothers though.
And there is no way in Hell my accountants are going to install a program just to deal with me.
They're already mad at me for my "no faxes *ever*, so don't even ask" and "No excel sheets that won't open OpenOffice" policies.
easier said than done:
I use encryption with my circle of friends... but what about the rest of the people I need to communicate with?
I have two siblings who still *insist* on using malware laden Wintel boxes; I despair of installing anything on their computers.
I'd have to setup & manage everything for my Mum's iMac (from a different contentment)
And what about what my Investment Brokers send me... sometimes it seems they're barely capable of using e-mail (and still want to use fax)
So how in the hell do I get all these people to use encryption when not only are they unaware of the risks they don't understand how to configure & use encryption?
Believe me that same someone is positively orgasmic at the thought of people buying three high end graphics cards to install in one system.
Fuck... That's comforting
Over the past 40 years I have lived in the Czech Republic, Australia, America, and now Austria. I have seen repressive governments and efforts of citizens to defeat it. I have seen protectionist governments and the efforts of citizens to enhance it. I have seen clueless governments and the astounding apathy of citizen inhabitants. I remember when the US was commonly thought to be the best place in the world to live. And I remember all the efforts my parents made to get US citizenship for my family.
This recent decision of the Supreme Court of the US isn't going to instantly change the US into a regime more repressive than North Korea (despite what the left says the right is claiming). But it will make government whistle blowers think a fair bit more or more likely be a lot more cautious when they decide to go public. This is just one more little thing the government does to keep people in line and to keep secret things secret. I find it interesting that these days more & more unsavory things are kept secret.
But still as a few raving conservatives have pointed out America is not worse than North Korea or China. So I suppose the events ongoing within the American civil system can be compared to those events that went on during the "Second Red Scare" in the 1950's, only now it's terrorists, gays, free thinkers, and non-Christians. I didn't live in the US then but I assume that McCarthyism did not affect most Americans or should I say if 1950's Americans are anything like 2000's Americans I doubt most even recognized how what was going on was wrong until their children learned it in school. McCarthyism went on for about 5 years but I fear this new scare will last longer... maybe we should call it the "Long Nebulous Scare".
I wonder when the low point of this new scare will be, I'm getting sick of it already. I'm tired of clueless conservatives, reactionary liberals, rapacious capitalists, and the American theocrats. I'm tired of the vitriolic deception spewing from the mouths of the American political activists.
"Not as Bad as North Korea" may be good enough for them... but it damn sure isn't good enough for me.
The IAEA to my knowledge are the only ones who do nuclear inspections and as far as I can tell they included the inspections of that facility in their public reports.
I didn't quote anything about Iran moving anything without anyone noticing. Did you feel the need to just make that up?
Anyway as I mentioned in my previous post I do not completely believe this data and do not encourage anyone else to (I have been unable to verify the quantities listed).
So I gather you have no other point... outside of just being an asshole.
From Debka:
"Russian experts completed the initial plans in 2003 and construction began in early 2004. In late 2005, Bulgarian transport planes delivered tens of thousands of centrifuges from Belarus and Ukraine; they were transported directly to Neyshabour. In January 2006, 23 Ukrainian engineers arrived to start installing the equipment, joined in February by 46 Belarusian nuclear experts who are working in shifts to prepare the 155,000 P-1 and P-2 centrifuges for operation.
This compares with 60,000 in Nathanz - of which 40,000 are accessible for inspection while 20,000 are hidden in closed subterranean chambers. "
Now, I'm fully aware that this isn't necessary true or correct and I'm also aware that it doesn't automatically confer nuclear weapons capability onto Iran. However given the sorts of rhetoric coming from Iran is does make me uneasy...
Especially given the mood in the US these days.
You've hit on one of the two important points that make this product useless.
1: Never trust proprietary code which you can't audit.
2: The device must be common.
Sounds like a perfect fit for some B-flat handset and an open development environment.
Sort of like Nokia meets OpenBSD.
Someone wake me up when this happens; I'd be glad to contribute.
HDMI & HDCP are not meant to prevent piracy and as such contain *no* mechanism which can.
What they are is "A hook on which to hang lawsuits" (Ed Felten):
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1007
And that's *all* they are.
Actually I'd prefer this:
How about *both* of you shut the fuck up before you're read the fucking article. Then when the sanctimonious asshat above states his moral objections to using this to produce a drug which is intended to limit the recovery time of children suffering from diarrhea, and does not mention attempting to feed the suffering and unwashed masses of the world on a crop not intended to be a food stock...
*Then* you all can call point out his failures as a human being.
So I wonder how long it will take until they just kill a few thousand people every year and save everyone the trouble.
That's OK with everyone...Right?
"terrorism" is the root password to the Constitution.
Beautiful Man... truly Beautiful
Covering the entire surface of the United States with shit eating algae sounds like a step in the right direction... can we start in Washington?
This is nearly the same as my own experience... which makes me enjoy using, in my case, OpenBSD. I use C professionally but it's an order of magnitude (or two) less complex than the Linux kernel. It's just amazing to me it all comes together despite how many people are working on it.
Back to the point what can spending some time and having a bug fixing cycle hurt? I don't see a downside...
"the cat is the monkey" & I am the walrus goo goo g'joob
No worries... the feeling is mutual. If you're ok with ineffectual intrusive security measures have fun.
Myself I have no respect for the American's implementation of airport security.
I am a US citizen and I don't live in the US. It seems every time I go back to the US the security becomes slower, more intrusive, & dumber. I don't really have any compunction telling security agent how stupid they are being and I've even showed them the bill of rights (which they don't know) and the airports security regulations (which they don't either). I routinely wear clothing anti-Bush slogans... this has the effect of rocketing me though EU security (and giving people a little smile) and slowing me down in the South East US (like Atlanta) where I really get hassled... but having lived in Atlanta for quite some time they can't really intimidate me any more.
But in the end harassing an underpaid blue collar worker, who has a job that he doesn't really like and also causes other people to actively start to dislike him, only serves to slow the process down and make it even more unpleasant.
About the only positive thing I can say about US airport security screening is that I'm glad there hasn't been an "underwear bomber".
I do remember once going to the US and the Germans were putting Americans through the full security kit and the rest of EU members through the standard security screening and then putting them on the same plane. Someone whined about it and was told that the Americans required it and the EU didn't... fortunately I had had a long enough layover to have enough beer to find the whole thing amusing as hell.
physical access to the computer is not always needed (it makes things much, much easier).
A account isn't always needed although it also makes things a lot easier.
Having a guest account isn't really needed either.
I've seen a security demonstration where he had most the passwords in the building in a surprisingly short time... To be fair this did not take into account the building security or the physical security of the network because we let him in and gave him a working port to begin with.
This is one of the reasons any sort of wireless is banned.
I guess my real point is that there are dozens of hacking methods and these guys don't use brute force in ways where it is so obviously defeated AND that getting the password hashes was surprisingly easy (even if they were stored in some high dollar database).
I walked away with overall idea that it is extremely dangerous to maintain a combative working relationship with employees with these sorts of skill sets.
Make them Bonzai Kittens and I'm sold!
I remember that... I also remember that being said about a Farnsworth Fusor.
Surely folks looked into these things before building this thing!
In 2004 I flew from Atlanta to Salt Lake. Without an ID they flat would not let you on the plane. After checking my luggage I then proceeded to the security checkpoint and waited in line for nearly 30 minutes. At the security check point they scanned my carry-on twice, toyed with all my electronics, requested me to remove shoes and my belt which they examined, and examined the bottom of my feet. I am very glad there hasn't been an underwear bomber.
In Telluride CO during a micro-brew & music festival I was detained by the police for drinking a beer 3 meters outside of a poorly designated area. Rather than simply stating something like you must drink behind the yellow ribbon the police insisted I pour my drink out, demanded my ID and when I hesitated, offered me the alternative of a trip to the county jail to be identified.
BS indeed! There are all kinds of check points in the US these days.
I moved from Australia to the US in 1978, in that year in both countries it was extremely unlikely that a law enforcement officer would approach you for no particular reason and ask for identification.
However this very much was not the case in Eastern Europe (where I was born) and presumably the redder portions of South East Asia as well. Also at the time you did not need written permission to live, work, or just be at any certain place. So the "paper's please" thing became a jibe from the armchair anticommunists as sort of a short form of our country is so much better than yours. Indeed my own father, a staunch Anti-Communist, took us for a car trip both around Australia and across the United States in a prolonged state of rapture caused by the fact that we could go all these places and see all these things and not only not present papers to anyone of authority but not go through inspections or checkpoints (even at state lines!).
Fast forward to 2006 and world is different place. Terrorism has replaced Communism and the many of those same armchair anticommunists are now demanding the very things that they derided during the cold war in communist countries. It's a bizarre thing that I cannot travel around the US without identification, Can I refuse to show a policeman identification anymore? (I don't think so, but it's been awhile since I've been back to the US). I can not walk down most US streets with a simple beer in my hand... But I can take train from where I live now to the place where I was born and I can pass the abandoned check point which I passed as a child in a box in the trunk of a car... drinking what ever I want and showing my passport once as I pass over the border into Czech Republic.
I don't need papers in the place my parents ran from... but I need them in the place they ran to.
So you're right "Papers Please" does have baggage... it should.