All this business functions in the absence of what we consider the bedrock rules of a modern economy. No reliable legal system enforces contracts. Theft of intellectual property is routine.
And, oddly enough, this lack of IP law does have consequences (in this case, leaky capacitors screwing up most motherboards coming from Taiwan in the last 6 months) in a global economy:
As much as a lot of Slashdot readers might not want to hear this, when information is totally free, things suck. Things also suck when rules put in place to protect information are enforced too rigidly or unevenly. The secret is to find a moderating system that finds the proper balance - something that Lessig has been saying all along...
I've seen debtholders refuse to sell or accept a lower price, only to see what they had become utterly worthless because the sum of the assets was worth less than the whole.
It's because the tax writeoff you get from losing the money often has a better risk-adjusted NPV than the offer.
... that your genome is like the climate. And, luckily, there are few climates where humans (perhaps with proper adaptive equipment) cannot live long, happy, and productive lives. What you actually do with that "climate" gives you your own personal weather system that may obviate everything that the climate allows you.
In short, it's both nature and nurture. Try to be good to yourself...
Oh yeah, eat your goddam veggies, too, ya little bastards.
... especially if it is a very complex application that exists to do a single logically coherent - but complex - task. Instead of trying to fit into a WIMP/Menu/Command line paradigm, think of yourself building a control panel for the action. Look at information on industrial designs. But for God's sakes don't look at GUI guidelines for the platform you're building it for. The main argument for this is that you then have to train the user in your GUI. But, if the task is complex enough to need a complex interface, it's complex enough to require training to use. Finally, link the panel to conceptual actions, events, or information in the conceptual task space.
Not quite. The Cappucino uP has a Celeron and can only go up to 1300 MHz. This one can use up to a P4 2400 MHz. Also, the Cappucino's ports are scattered about three sides of the box. This has all of the ports in the back - a major win. Finally, the Cappie doesn't have any PCMCIA slots.
The downside? The Jadetec seems to be a couple inches longer, wider, and thicker (the article doesn't actually have stats - a surprising oversight). The Cappie's also lighter and a lot less expensive (I found someone to configure me one with a 1200 MHz Celeron, a 40 Gb HD, 512 Mb of RAM, and a DVD for only $950 bucks (shipping included).
Has anyone noticed that all of these stocks trade below $5 a share? In the past, a lack of financial wherewithal has caused many companies to engage in *ahem* less than ethical manners */ahem*. Given that what these guys are selling is trust and given that currently thay have much less to lose by being untrustworthy than they had a few short months ago, why should I trust them any more than Joe Bob's Muffler and Certs Shop?
From a SysAdmin standpoint, I want every desktop to have the precise same hardware, software, settings, and packages regardless of location or job function.
And this is why, from a user standpoint, we want SysAdmins to die, die, die. The fact is that different job functions need different tools. SysAdmins too often are like industrial engineers who recommend adjustable wrenches on assembly line to "lower the costs of training and replacement" while not noticing that productivity has gone down by 20% because line workers are spending all of their time fiddling with the tools.
The bottom line is that one needs to take a multi-dimensional look at any policy before deciding to implement it and failure to do so can come around and bite you in the butt.
... where the Bill Gates' money gene is. Unfortunately, the subsequence that accounts for it probably expresses the lack of business ethics characteristic, as well.
... but none of them are really valid. The fact is that the technospace you're talking about is different enough that simple physical analogies don't apply. The most common use of warchalk-directed access is transient and insufficient enough that most theft analogies don't apply (Yes, it's theft for me to pick a penny up off your sidewalk. Would society work if we tried to prosecute and prevent each instance of this?). The lack of security is so blatent that most lock/unlock analogies for physical space don't apply (Does having unsecured access for long enough establish an electronic easement?).
In short, the only thing that all of this analogy blather does is muddy the waters when what is needed is a debate on what is the proper morality of access to a new object of this type. What are the societal costs of prosecuting versus non-prosecution? Is there a responsibility for society to protect stupid admins who won't protect their own systems? And so on. But stupid analogies of locks and houses won't get you there...
Its hard to believe that its been one year and I'm still getting scans on my apache server. Are there really that many braindead admins??
Actually, almost all of mine are coming from individual subscribers coming through big DSL-/Cable-based ISP's like RoadRunner, SW Bell, etc. For each incident, I fire off E-Mail to their security departments, giving times, IP's, etc. (I have set of log scanning scripts that generate them automatically. How's that for geekiness? No, you can't have them. They suck. That's high in geek factor, too:-). I've seen NO action taken by them. What a bunch of lamers. Do they really think their customers want to be infected and spew out into the net? The issue is that, really, as long as that $50/mo. comes in, they don't give a rat's ass.
The smaller DSL ISP's are usually on the job, though. They give me a small amount of hope.
... the Space Hippies! With Hutch (of Starsky &... fame) playin' his groovy electric space banjo, jammin' with Spock. I bet they could share some heavy space herb, too. That's what I want to see! Yeah! Roddenberry rules!
Oh yeah, we will have a choice. Watch TV or don't watch TV. Some choice.
I'd recommend the later. What the heck out there that's scrambled (I make an exception for news programming, but I'd still apply the statement to 90% of that, as well) is SOOOOOO critical that you have to watch it anyhow?
Read a book. Go out and run a couple miles. Enjoy a good meal.
Did this post have a point aside from bashing the President?
Does it need one? Are the Republicans the only ones who get to make careers out of bashing Presidents, or does eight years and $30M+ of government sponsored investigatory bashing with only a lie about a blowjob to show for it give the GOP a morally superior position and immuity from criticism about its own leader's (or should that be puppet's) superiority?
Geez. Get off your high horse. DO you really believe the paranoiac crap that the Fox News Network spews about the "mainstream press"?: And who the hell ever said that Slashdot was "mainstream" or "press" anyway?
You, my fuzzy-headed, conservative friend, have a lot to learn about opinions and their dissemination.
And, BTW, it does have a lot to do with things other than bashing the President. At least with Clinton's loading of the panels, there were still some actual scientists. With Bush II's panel, the industry whores seem to be taking over completely. For one, I'd rather have a President who gets blowjobs than who gives them...
We all know that Bush is not always an eloquent man, but the habit by Bush haters of criticizing even jokes and witicisms is moronic.
Well, you think critcizing the President is moronic, I think the President IS moronic. Who's right? What will be Bush's legacy? Historians will sort it out in the end. I tend to think that Bush II is closer to Hoover than to Roosevelt (either of them) and all of them are a far cry from a Lincoln, but then, we're all just a bit too close to the action to make a reasonable historic judgement. In any case, understand that your comments are as much a product of your politics as those of us who take the other view...
Oh yeah. There you go again, bringing logic into the argument. This is manifestly unfair, since the politics of Bush and the Republicans is the politics of non-sequitor and paranoia. How dare you try to analyze it logically? We live in Bizarro world with Bizarro president. Why don't you just get with the program? Or are you some kind of terrorist?
... that there seems to be a great deal of trouble with the AGP 8X interface as documented here and acknowledged here? This does not appear to be an isolated case, as many people with many different mainboards are reporting this. If one looks only at performance without the chance of actually getting the thing working, the review is incomplete, if not downright misleading.
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And, oddly enough, this lack of IP law does have consequences (in this case, leaky capacitors screwing up most motherboards coming from Taiwan in the last 6 months) in a global economy:
Read here and here.
As much as a lot of Slashdot readers might not want to hear this, when information is totally free, things suck. Things also suck when rules put in place to protect information are enforced too rigidly or unevenly. The secret is to find a moderating system that finds the proper balance - something that Lessig has been saying all along...
It's because the tax writeoff you get from losing the money often has a better risk-adjusted NPV than the offer.
Oh my God! This means that Slashdot might have been without this for a few minutes. How would it ever survive!?!?!?!?!
And I suppose you have some alternative theory that explains it as well? Who the hell do you think you are? Democritus?
Then he told me he hadn't had a bite in a week.
So I bit him!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week...
In short, it's both nature and nurture. Try to be good to yourself...
Oh yeah, eat your goddam veggies, too, ya little bastards.
Survivor. Don't forget Survivor, too.
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... especially if it is a very complex application that exists to do a single logically coherent - but complex - task. Instead of trying to fit into a WIMP/Menu/Command line paradigm, think of yourself building a control panel for the action. Look at information on industrial designs. But for God's sakes don't look at GUI guidelines for the platform you're building it for. The main argument for this is that you then have to train the user in your GUI. But, if the task is complex enough to need a complex interface, it's complex enough to require training to use. Finally, link the panel to conceptual actions, events, or information in the conceptual task space.
The downside? The Jadetec seems to be a couple inches longer, wider, and thicker (the article doesn't actually have stats - a surprising oversight). The Cappie's also lighter and a lot less expensive (I found someone to configure me one with a 1200 MHz Celeron, a 40 Gb HD, 512 Mb of RAM, and a DVD for only $950 bucks (shipping included).
Thanks... I'll still keep my Cappie.
... AMD announces the acquisition of Intergraph for $400M. :-)
Or would that be Microsoft Planet XP (TM)?
Has anyone noticed that all of these stocks trade below $5 a share? In the past, a lack of financial wherewithal has caused many companies to engage in *ahem* less than ethical manners */ahem*. Given that what these guys are selling is trust and given that currently thay have much less to lose by being untrustworthy than they had a few short months ago, why should I trust them any more than Joe Bob's Muffler and Certs Shop?
I always thought that two were enough for anyone, though I'm the first to admit I could be wrong.
And this is why, from a user standpoint, we want SysAdmins to die, die, die. The fact is that different job functions need different tools. SysAdmins too often are like industrial engineers who recommend adjustable wrenches on assembly line to "lower the costs of training and replacement" while not noticing that productivity has gone down by 20% because line workers are spending all of their time fiddling with the tools.
The bottom line is that one needs to take a multi-dimensional look at any policy before deciding to implement it and failure to do so can come around and bite you in the butt.
... where the Bill Gates' money gene is. Unfortunately, the subsequence that accounts for it probably expresses the lack of business ethics characteristic, as well.
In short, the only thing that all of this analogy blather does is muddy the waters when what is needed is a debate on what is the proper morality of access to a new object of this type. What are the societal costs of prosecuting versus non-prosecution? Is there a responsibility for society to protect stupid admins who won't protect their own systems? And so on. But stupid analogies of locks and houses won't get you there...
Well, at least eight and one Rehnquist operated puppet...
Cowboy Neal
Actually, almost all of mine are coming from individual subscribers coming through big DSL-/Cable-based ISP's like RoadRunner, SW Bell, etc. For each incident, I fire off E-Mail to their security departments, giving times, IP's, etc. (I have set of log scanning scripts that generate them automatically. How's that for geekiness? No, you can't have them. They suck. That's high in geek factor, too :-). I've seen NO action taken by them. What a bunch of lamers. Do they really think their customers want to be infected and spew out into the net? The issue is that, really, as long as that $50/mo. comes in, they don't give a rat's ass.
The smaller DSL ISP's are usually on the job, though. They give me a small amount of hope.
... the Space Hippies! With Hutch (of Starsky &... fame) playin' his groovy electric space banjo, jammin' with Spock. I bet they could share some heavy space herb, too. That's what I want to see! Yeah! Roddenberry rules!
I'd recommend the later. What the heck out there that's scrambled (I make an exception for news programming, but I'd still apply the statement to 90% of that, as well) is SOOOOOO critical that you have to watch it anyhow?
Read a book. Go out and run a couple miles. Enjoy a good meal.
Fuck TV and the cable it rode in on...
Does it need one? Are the Republicans the only ones who get to make careers out of bashing Presidents, or does eight years and $30M+ of government sponsored investigatory bashing with only a lie about a blowjob to show for it give the GOP a morally superior position and immuity from criticism about its own leader's (or should that be puppet's) superiority?
Geez. Get off your high horse. DO you really believe the paranoiac crap that the Fox News Network spews about the "mainstream press"?: And who the hell ever said that Slashdot was "mainstream" or "press" anyway?
You, my fuzzy-headed, conservative friend, have a lot to learn about opinions and their dissemination.
And, BTW, it does have a lot to do with things other than bashing the President. At least with Clinton's loading of the panels, there were still some actual scientists. With Bush II's panel, the industry whores seem to be taking over completely. For one, I'd rather have a President who gets blowjobs than who gives them...
Well, you think critcizing the President is moronic, I think the President IS moronic. Who's right? What will be Bush's legacy? Historians will sort it out in the end. I tend to think that Bush II is closer to Hoover than to Roosevelt (either of them) and all of them are a far cry from a Lincoln, but then, we're all just a bit too close to the action to make a reasonable historic judgement. In any case, understand that your comments are as much a product of your politics as those of us who take the other view...
Oh yeah. There you go again, bringing logic into the argument. This is manifestly unfair, since the politics of Bush and the Republicans is the politics of non-sequitor and paranoia. How dare you try to analyze it logically? We live in Bizarro world with Bizarro president. Why don't you just get with the program? Or are you some kind of terrorist?
... that there seems to be a great deal of trouble with the AGP 8X interface as documented here and acknowledged here? This does not appear to be an isolated case, as many people with many different mainboards are reporting this. If one looks only at performance without the chance of actually getting the thing working, the review is incomplete, if not downright misleading.