Along those lines, "Do you think the uniformity of opinion* encouraged by the modding system on Slashdot is a good thing or a bad thing? It seems to reward ideas that most readers agree with. Is that what you want?"
* Try, for example, asserting that Steve Ballmer might perhaps not be the antichrist or that the latest iproduct might be overrated, or that Google isn't the better than puppies and get modded to -1 troll in 30 seconds.
That's the part that makes no business sense. " Uh huh, which is why Google is stupid. They "give away the milk." They go out of their way to get customers who want something for free instead of targeting those willing to pay. Then again, that company is run by kids, so what do you expect?
The man says that Bott's debunking 4 points of Gutmann's paper doesn't invalidate the paper.
Then says Bott is wrong on this 1 point so it debunks his whole paper.
This has got to be some kind of meta-commentary on debunking. Either that or the commenter doesn't read what he writes. A third possibility, likely since this is Slashdot, is that when one needs to bash Microsoft, 2 + 2 = 5 if it needs to.
Is there a way to filter out content that refers to "chairs" or "defective by design?" I find people who think that is insightful tend to be misinformed, sputtering with incoherent rage, or both.
Exactly how does legislation stop stupidity again?
I just got a list of SSNs from a client, cleartext, over email. They had no idea the numbers were there. The IT guys swore up and down that the system didn't contain SSNs, but there they were. No malice, just stupidity.
It strikes me as vastly more useful to have an identity system that is more resistant to attack than putting a lot of faith in the good sense and good intentions of IT admins, DBAs, clerks and interns. The whole "one secret, many points of failure, punish those who reveal the secret" approach is doomed to failure, but not before it will waste a ton of resources in its pointless task.
... your customers data on big boxes at the office... let people remote desktop in and work. No longer will you have a backup problem for laptops - nor a security problem.
Better yet, unplug the servers, stop up all the ports with glue, encase the server in lead and seal it up in an abandoned salt mine...
You need to strike a balance between security and usability. If the laptop users need customer data offline, then they have to get it. Encryption solves the security problem. The backup problem could be solved by any of the dozens of online backup solutions.
Keep your drives encrypted, keys organized, your online backup scripts fresh, and you should be all set.
>a significant financial motivation for the invasion
Lay off the bong hits and stop watching X-Files reruns. Wouldn't an obscure piece of tax legislation be a lot easier than concocting a war? The fifteen years of public and private debate over whether to crush Saddam was just a front? Where was the secret meeting where this was all decided? Were there donuts?
And you do get stockpiles when people lie to weapon inspectors: "We built x shells" "We used y shells"
Ergo, there are now x-y in the stockpile. Change x and y a bunch of times, run equipment out the back door of army bases when inspectors visit, stall, delay, lie, and prevaricate, and the simplest explanation becomes "They have (x-y) plus or (minus some uncertainty factor) weapons in their stockpile and the reason they keep lying to us is they don't want us to catch them."
It turns out the truth was:
"They don't have crap (but some think they do) and the boss wants everyone to believe they are armed to the teeth."
My vision is Saddam was an evil, nearly omnipotent within his own sphere (wood chippers...wood chippers), and unfathomably stupid and misinformed.
Actually, weapons inspector reports were the main source of the "Saddam had WMDs" data since the Iraqis systematically lied to them so many times they lost track of the actual truth.
But people like simple stories with comic book villains and if seeing GW Bush as evil, omnipotent, and omniscient makes your universe make sense, whatever. Enjoy your Chomsky and bong hits kid.
Unless I'm wrong, this is the first comment to actually mention whether or not homework, you know...works.
As I understand it, there is no consensus that homework does anything at all to long term retention. Short term, yes, but once the tests are done, does spending 6/12/whatever hours a week on it actually help anyone learn anything?
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If you think the prequels are better than the 'crap' you normally watch, your standards must be incredibly low....
DING!! DING!! DING!!
More important would be to control for hours worked. Annual salary is meaningless without reference to the number of hours it took to get there.
Along those lines, "Do you think the uniformity of opinion* encouraged by the modding system on Slashdot is a good thing or a bad thing? It seems to reward ideas that most readers agree with. Is that what you want?"
* Try, for example, asserting that Steve Ballmer might perhaps not be the antichrist or that the latest iproduct might be overrated, or that Google isn't the better than puppies and get modded to -1 troll in 30 seconds.
WGA crap / DRM / rootkits M$ would like you to have).
What, did you use a slashdot post generator or something here?
"Make sure you mention DRM and rootkits, and call Microsoft M$. Then finish cleaning your room."
That's the part that makes no business sense.
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Uh huh, which is why Google is stupid. They "give away the milk." They go out of their way to get customers who want something for free instead of targeting those willing to pay. Then again, that company is run by kids, so what do you expect?
Because they are playing a different game than online apps.
This is all about mating everything we like about desktop apps (rich ui, etc.) to collaboration tools found in online apps.
Basically, Sharepoint for the masses.
Whether or not this works is open to debate, but to say this is me-too is just slashbots wearing their ignorance with pride.
Isn't the linux user's first question: why isn't this free?
Who would want customers like that?
Bugs get fixed instantly in FOSS? Awesome! That means my Firefox isn't hanging after being used more than an hour.
I'm going to go with "funny."
This has got to be some kind of meta-commentary on debunking. Either that or the commenter doesn't read what he writes. A third possibility, likely since this is Slashdot, is that when one needs to bash Microsoft, 2 + 2 = 5 if it needs to.
Is there a way to filter out content that refers to "chairs" or "defective by design?" I find people who think that is insightful tend to be misinformed, sputtering with incoherent rage, or both.
Exactly how does legislation stop stupidity again?
I just got a list of SSNs from a client, cleartext, over email. They had no idea the numbers were there. The IT guys swore up and down that the system didn't contain SSNs, but there they were. No malice, just stupidity.
It strikes me as vastly more useful to have an identity system that is more resistant to attack than putting a lot of faith in the good sense and good intentions of IT admins, DBAs, clerks and interns. The whole "one secret, many points of failure, punish those who reveal the secret" approach is doomed to failure, but not before it will waste a ton of resources in its pointless task.
Or better yet, don't buy K-Mart web hosting.
I have a client who spent $25K on his web app (cool if I say so myself), then wanted to host it with a 19.99/month provider.
The UK Prime Minister has absolutely nothing better to do than worry about cross platform support for streamed BBC TV shows?
Hey, its your food these guys ship...
The point being that this isn't just an issue for a couple of hicks in cabins.
It isn't just Rural economies that are affected by this.
We have a couple of clients in the exurbs who do logistics: mainly deliveries into cities. The warehouses are in the exurbs where land is cheap.
But they can't get broadband at the warehouses. Remote assistance means "bring the laptop to Panera so I can remote in."
This is the platform company that spent the 1990s evangelizing a language that makes it easy to write platform independent code.
Java may be nice, but it was a butt-stupid move for a company that made its money in OSes and hardware.
Wait, the fact that it was greenlit on Fark indicates that it is true?
Yeah, but it is ok for fueling the Slashbot "2 Minutes Microsoft Hate"
1993? Dos only?
I guess the fanboys are totally ignorant of the Windows world both past and present!
... your customers data on big boxes at the office... let people remote desktop in and work. No longer will you have a backup problem for laptops - nor a security problem.
Better yet, unplug the servers, stop up all the ports with glue, encase the server in lead and seal it up in an abandoned salt mine...
You need to strike a balance between security and usability. If the laptop users need customer data offline, then they have to get it. Encryption solves the security problem. The backup problem could be solved by any of the dozens of online backup solutions.
Keep your drives encrypted, keys organized, your online backup scripts fresh, and you should be all set.
>a significant financial motivation for the invasion
Lay off the bong hits and stop watching X-Files reruns. Wouldn't an obscure piece of tax legislation be a lot easier than concocting a war? The fifteen years of public and private debate over whether to crush Saddam was just a front? Where was the secret meeting where this was all decided? Were there donuts?
And you do get stockpiles when people lie to weapon inspectors:
"We built x shells"
"We used y shells"
Ergo, there are now x-y in the stockpile. Change x and y a bunch of times, run equipment out the back door of army bases when inspectors visit, stall, delay, lie, and prevaricate, and the simplest explanation becomes "They have (x-y) plus or (minus some uncertainty factor) weapons in their stockpile and the reason they keep lying to us is they don't want us to catch them."
It turns out the truth was:
"They don't have crap (but some think they do) and the boss wants everyone to believe they are armed to the teeth."
My vision is Saddam was an evil, nearly omnipotent within his own sphere (wood chippers...wood chippers), and unfathomably stupid and misinformed.
Absence of evidence....
Actually, weapons inspector reports were the main source of the "Saddam had WMDs" data since the Iraqis systematically lied to them so many times they lost track of the actual truth.
But people like simple stories with comic book villains and if seeing GW Bush as evil, omnipotent, and omniscient makes your universe make sense, whatever. Enjoy your Chomsky and bong hits kid.
An online petition! That should have them quaking in their boots in no time!
Voters let Christian Right move against evolution because they didn't know what they stood for. The same voters threw the creationists out in the next election.
Unless I'm wrong, this is the first comment to actually mention whether or not homework, you know...works.
As I understand it, there is no consensus that homework does anything at all to long term retention. Short term, yes, but once the tests are done, does spending 6/12/whatever hours a week on it actually help anyone learn anything?