Personally I would like to use WebGL in projects at work (mostly internal web applications visualizing datasets) but I can't until IE supports it since a large portion of my user base only runs IE.
I've actually seen this before with Cox. A few months back throughout the day as I was browsing different websites a popup would come up alerting me to an ongoing Cox email outage (which I don't actually use). They appeared to inject the popup directly into the HTML of different websites. It wasn't on every website, but I think it was time limited (popping up once every few hours).
I've worked for the federal government for over seven years. For me it took two months between the job offer and my start date due to the HR office being slow sending me paperwork and then slowly processing the paperwork. I also had to wait on a security clearance.
Now that I've been around for a while I am more involved in the hiring process. Last year we tried to fill two positions. One of those the employee started within a month because she already had a clearance and was moving from a contract position within the same building. The other position has been in the works for OVER A YEAR NOW. Mind you we picked a candidate and completed salary negotiation and everything in the summer of 2010! I'm surprised that person is still going along with the process!
The latest issue is we are trying to hire a couple "Computer Scientist" (GS-1550) developmental positions (GS 7/9/11). We are trying to get the advertisements up as soon as possible so we can start processing their clearances so they can start as soon as they graduate in the spring. We had job descriptions written up and the HR people gave the go ahead, but just before they posted the advertisements on usajobs.gov they came back and said we are not authorized to hire in the Computer Scientist job series, they must be the IT Specialist (GS-2210) job series. This goes into the differing requirements the Office of Personnel Management places on different job series, but to keep it simple the difference is a Computer Scientist has an education requirement (basically must have a BS in Computer Science) whereas anybody who knows what a computer looks like can be an IT Specialist (most of my coworkers are IT Specialists and at best they just make Powerpoint slides and non-technical whitepapers).
Frankly I'm tired of just picking up people with security clearances who aren't geeks (don't have a passion for this area) and only want the job because it pays well (and is stable because, yes, it is hard to fire people). I'd much rather hire a college student who at least has some *interest* in this area (proactively chose computer science to study). After HR applies their scoring criteria all the candidates that are left are former Intel Specialists that took an "Intro to HTML" at some point in their lives. Just the perfect type of people I need to help build applications, design database schemas, and manage servers!
It doesn't help that, at least in the DoD, there is this mindset that people are just "bodies" that can be trained. (Is it like that elsewhere? Seriously I've been cooped up in this Defense Wonderland for so long I don't know what the real world is like anymore.)
Actually to be more fair, I don't care if the individual has a degree or not. I just want someone who is passionate about computers/IT/programming/whatever. Someone who, if they don't know, has a desire to learn. In the 7+ years I've worked in the DoD I can count the number of people on one hand I've met like that.
Let me get off this soapbox before I start complaining about how all these people in the government are crying about cyber-threat-this and cyber-weapon-that, while at the same time don't understand anything about technology and have watched one too many cyber-movies.
I work for the government and have been deemed to be in an "emergency essential" position, therefore I will not be raptured. I have to stay behind and continue to provide government services to our damned citizens.
Funny thing is that's how we always refer to our customers...
Actually, that has happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
"The Act also gave the Postmaster General authority to refuse to mail or to impound publications that he determined to be in violation of its prohibitions"
The government doesn't need to be wasting money on stuff like this right now... Not only do the wifi base stations cost money, there are also the reoccurring Internet connection costs and general maintenance costs. Or is this supposed to be some sort of telecom bailout?
Besides who wants to use an Internet connection directly controlled by the feds?
I think it was the FCC who actually visited my house when I was in 4th grade. I had a NES and the RF adapter was messed up, so I mucked around with it with some aluminum foil and got it working again. One day a couple of guys in suits visited our house and said that there was a signal interfering with airplane radios and we had to disconnect the device... My parents were amazed at the time how the government was able to track down our one house in the huge neighborhood.
So I'm proud to say I had a run in with feds in elementary school!
This argument is a perfect example that just blindly following a single party is not good for democracy.
Unfortunately most people are lazy and will just go with one of the two parties and assume/pretend that that party either is completely aligned with them, or even worse, will adopt the same position on a given issue as their party since the "other guys" have taken the opposite position (i.e. "I don't care about about X but since my party is for it and the other guys are against it I will be for it.")
We have to look at each politician as an individual - not as a Rep/Dem/Indp - with their own stands on the various issues we care about. Unfortunately there is usually just one or two issues (abortion/Iraq/death penalty/etc.) which decide our entire opinion on that one politician.
But yeah, I had to browse through the comments to figure out where that picture came from. It's very annoying when things like this aren't properly attributed.
I have a Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATA drive that recently died. Its death was similar to the many IBM Deskstars I have had. Fortunately, for Hitachi, it is outside of its one year warranty. Well, fortunately for me too, because now I won't have to worry about random loss of data as much due to using a replacement drive... After many dead IBM Deskstars, and this Hitachi, I will never touch an IBM/Hitachi drive again. At the moment, I am going with Seagate. 5 year warranties. I don't have enough personal experience with them yet to know how reliable they really are though.
You know, I just don't think the US will invade Iran, and certainly not Syria. I think the idea with Iraq is for it to become a stable democracy (lots of hard work, this will take a while), and then be an example of some sort to the other countries. Europe has a dialog with Iran, and the US has been trying to make some diplomatic overtures to Iran (the Librarian of Congress recently visited for a cultural exchange). Bush has said he isn't taking anything off the table in regards to action against Iran, but I just don't think he will attack them. I think he is just talking tough, which is generally his style; something along the lines of speak harshly and carry a big stick.
What I believe will be next for the Bush administration is to help out Tony Blair, in that he wants us to work more with Israel and the Palestinians. With Arafat not doing very well, I bet this will quickly become important to the US government again (the Bush administration just didn't like Arafat).
Another hot spot is North Korea, but they have been that way for decades. We can't have a war there because then South Korea would cease to exist... That's why our government has been so careful going the diplomatic route.
But does the section "and the Laws of the United States" mean that laws passed by Congress and signed into law can not be declared unconstitutional? Or is this speaking of something else? Is there a specific case you could point to showing that treaties trump, or are at least equivalent to, the Constitution?
All I can find regarding this is that treaties are on an equal footing with laws passed by Congress, and therefore may not contradict the Constitution. See this.
Wow, my school has recieved the honor of being mentioned in a Slashdot story. The Cyrillic Projector is next to the Fretwell building, across from the Friday building (home the capitalistic College of Buisness). It looks kind of boring during the day when it is not lit up, so most might not notice it.
I got a 15" PowerBook G4 a couple of months ago, with 10.2.3, and it had battery problems from the beginning. It would not charge above 96%, and the battery meter would report that it was calculating the time until it would be fully charged. I usually have the computer plugged in, so it went for weeks like that.
I started trying different things: draining the battery to near 0, resetting the PMU, booting into OS9, and charging with the machine powered off. I also upgraded to 10.2.4 around this time. It's maximum charge started to drop. First in the 60s range, then 30s, and 20s. When I finally drained the battery completely, it would not go above 0%.
I called Apple and had a replacement battery sent, which seemed to work fine at first. After a few days, the charge was at 97% and had been plugged in all that time. Before I called up Apple again (this time fearing the computer itself was defective), I decided to look it up in their online help database, and came across this, which says that in OS X, the battery is kept charged between 95 and 100%, and charges back up to 100% after going below 95%. This is for various PowerBook and iBook models running Mac OS X 10.0 and later.
I don't trust this very much, since I have never noticed this type of behavior on other laptops. It seems to work fine now though. If I power off, it charges back up to 100%, otherwise it seems to stay around 97%.
So, did this actually happen to you? If you have said these things, have any "Americans" actually questioned you in this way? Many people seem to be claiming this sort of response (which I think is quite an exaggeration). It simply comes down to freedom of speech. You have the right (indeed, the duty) to question the president's actions. I have the right to disagree.
I had the same problem a few months ago. I had a HP Jornada 560. There is a linux module for connecting to some usb PocketPC devices (I am not sure if it's in the actual kernel, but it's in the few I have tried under Gentoo). It's under USB -> USB Serial Devices -> USB Compaq iPAQ / HP Jornada / Casio EM500 Driver when using menuconfig (CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_IPAQ). Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt has some more information about it. It allows you to make a serial connection with the usb device. I don't know if it would work with your's or not. I never got that part working. You might have better luck with a serial cradle. I had to use VMware to sync with Outlook. This is why I sold my PDA and bought a Zaurus, which has it's on synching problems under Linux. I know, this is definately not the ideal solution. Other than that, there is SyncCE which has some tools for the connection.
The deal was with Dell Japan, and I would imagine this is only going to happen with Dell's Japanese computers. Here is a relevant link at Dell's page, and another story in English.
Except Sony doesn't own Square. Square is still just a third party developer and distributes their games on their own (at least in North America through Square EA). They develop games for Sony's competitors too, such as for Bandai's Wonderswan (some old Final Fantasy games) and soon again for Nintendo (Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronoicle). They will sell games for whatever platform that will make them the most money.
I am a subscriber of WineX. Even with the binary version, I have some problems dealing with copy protection in Warcraft III. It will usually sit for a long time when I use an unpatched executable, it just seems to have problems with reading my WC3 disk. If I use a no-cd patch with the game, it works fine, except battle.net of course doesn't work. I have 5 days left on my subscription and am debating whether or not to renew. The only games I care to run at the moment are Jedi Knight 2, Warcraft 3, and Counter-Strike. JK2 works perfectly, but Counter-Strike has, once again, copy protection problems when playing online. I thought they would fix this with the last release earlier this month. Since Transgaming doesn't give release dates, I might just be wasting my money signing up for another month without a release.
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Let them.
The backlash to ghost Republican voicemail spam will be so severe Reagan, Nixon, and Lincoln will all posthumously switch to the Democratic Party.
Personally I would like to use WebGL in projects at work (mostly internal web applications visualizing datasets) but I can't until IE supports it since a large portion of my user base only runs IE.
I've actually seen this before with Cox. A few months back throughout the day as I was browsing different websites a popup would come up alerting me to an ongoing Cox email outage (which I don't actually use). They appeared to inject the popup directly into the HTML of different websites. It wasn't on every website, but I think it was time limited (popping up once every few hours).
And I just noticed this was reported on Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/15/2230230/cox-comm-injects-code-into-web-traffic-to-announce-email-outage
Twinkies!? Too soon...
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~ November 21, 2012 Never Forget ~
I've worked for the federal government for over seven years. For me it took two months between the job offer and my start date due to the HR office being slow sending me paperwork and then slowly processing the paperwork. I also had to wait on a security clearance.
Now that I've been around for a while I am more involved in the hiring process. Last year we tried to fill two positions. One of those the employee started within a month because she already had a clearance and was moving from a contract position within the same building. The other position has been in the works for OVER A YEAR NOW. Mind you we picked a candidate and completed salary negotiation and everything in the summer of 2010! I'm surprised that person is still going along with the process!
The latest issue is we are trying to hire a couple "Computer Scientist" (GS-1550) developmental positions (GS 7/9/11). We are trying to get the advertisements up as soon as possible so we can start processing their clearances so they can start as soon as they graduate in the spring. We had job descriptions written up and the HR people gave the go ahead, but just before they posted the advertisements on usajobs.gov they came back and said we are not authorized to hire in the Computer Scientist job series, they must be the IT Specialist (GS-2210) job series. This goes into the differing requirements the Office of Personnel Management places on different job series, but to keep it simple the difference is a Computer Scientist has an education requirement (basically must have a BS in Computer Science) whereas anybody who knows what a computer looks like can be an IT Specialist (most of my coworkers are IT Specialists and at best they just make Powerpoint slides and non-technical whitepapers).
Frankly I'm tired of just picking up people with security clearances who aren't geeks (don't have a passion for this area) and only want the job because it pays well (and is stable because, yes, it is hard to fire people). I'd much rather hire a college student who at least has some *interest* in this area (proactively chose computer science to study). After HR applies their scoring criteria all the candidates that are left are former Intel Specialists that took an "Intro to HTML" at some point in their lives. Just the perfect type of people I need to help build applications, design database schemas, and manage servers!
It doesn't help that, at least in the DoD, there is this mindset that people are just "bodies" that can be trained. (Is it like that elsewhere? Seriously I've been cooped up in this Defense Wonderland for so long I don't know what the real world is like anymore.)
Actually to be more fair, I don't care if the individual has a degree or not. I just want someone who is passionate about computers/IT/programming/whatever. Someone who, if they don't know, has a desire to learn. In the 7+ years I've worked in the DoD I can count the number of people on one hand I've met like that.
Let me get off this soapbox before I start complaining about how all these people in the government are crying about cyber-threat-this and cyber-weapon-that, while at the same time don't understand anything about technology and have watched one too many cyber-movies.
People who have nothing better to do than criticize some company's proposed building needs to get a life.
"LA Times architecture critic"
Yes... architecture critic should stop criticizing architecture...
Plenty of alternatives to Apple products to give away: Android-based devices, Blackberry Playbook, etc. etc.
I work for the government and have been deemed to be in an "emergency essential" position, therefore I will not be raptured. I have to stay behind and continue to provide government services to our damned citizens. Funny thing is that's how we always refer to our customers...
Actually, that has happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917 "The Act also gave the Postmaster General authority to refuse to mail or to impound publications that he determined to be in violation of its prohibitions"
The government doesn't need to be wasting money on stuff like this right now... Not only do the wifi base stations cost money, there are also the reoccurring Internet connection costs and general maintenance costs. Or is this supposed to be some sort of telecom bailout? Besides who wants to use an Internet connection directly controlled by the feds?
I think it was the FCC who actually visited my house when I was in 4th grade. I had a NES and the RF adapter was messed up, so I mucked around with it with some aluminum foil and got it working again. One day a couple of guys in suits visited our house and said that there was a signal interfering with airplane radios and we had to disconnect the device... My parents were amazed at the time how the government was able to track down our one house in the huge neighborhood. So I'm proud to say I had a run in with feds in elementary school!
This argument is a perfect example that just blindly following a single party is not good for democracy.
Unfortunately most people are lazy and will just go with one of the two parties and assume/pretend that that party either is completely aligned with them, or even worse, will adopt the same position on a given issue as their party since the "other guys" have taken the opposite position (i.e. "I don't care about about X but since my party is for it and the other guys are against it I will be for it.")
We have to look at each politician as an individual - not as a Rep/Dem/Indp - with their own stands on the various issues we care about. Unfortunately there is usually just one or two issues (abortion/Iraq/death penalty/etc.) which decide our entire opinion on that one politician.
"Ethics" and "professional conduct"? On Slashdot?
You must be new here... :-)
But yeah, I had to browse through the comments to figure out where that picture came from. It's very annoying when things like this aren't properly attributed.
Well you are right in that there isn't a "wi" in Japanese (well, not anymore), but if you put "u" and "i" together ("ui") it does sound like "wee".
I have a Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATA drive that recently died. Its death was similar to the many IBM Deskstars I have had. Fortunately, for Hitachi, it is outside of its one year warranty. Well, fortunately for me too, because now I won't have to worry about random loss of data as much due to using a replacement drive... After many dead IBM Deskstars, and this Hitachi, I will never touch an IBM/Hitachi drive again.
At the moment, I am going with Seagate. 5 year warranties. I don't have enough personal experience with them yet to know how reliable they really are though.
You know, I just don't think the US will invade Iran, and certainly not Syria. I think the idea with Iraq is for it to become a stable democracy (lots of hard work, this will take a while), and then be an example of some sort to the other countries. Europe has a dialog with Iran, and the US has been trying to make some diplomatic overtures to Iran (the Librarian of Congress recently visited for a cultural exchange). Bush has said he isn't taking anything off the table in regards to action against Iran, but I just don't think he will attack them. I think he is just talking tough, which is generally his style; something along the lines of speak harshly and carry a big stick.
What I believe will be next for the Bush administration is to help out Tony Blair, in that he wants us to work more with Israel and the Palestinians. With Arafat not doing very well, I bet this will quickly become important to the US government again (the Bush administration just didn't like Arafat).
Another hot spot is North Korea, but they have been that way for decades. We can't have a war there because then South Korea would cease to exist... That's why our government has been so careful going the diplomatic route.
Ahh well, at least that's my two cents.
But does the section "and the Laws of the United States" mean that laws passed by Congress and signed into law can not be declared unconstitutional? Or is this speaking of something else? Is there a specific case you could point to showing that treaties trump, or are at least equivalent to, the Constitution?
All I can find regarding this is that treaties are on an equal footing with laws passed by Congress, and therefore may not contradict the Constitution. See this.
Wow, my school has recieved the honor of being mentioned in a Slashdot story. The Cyrillic Projector is next to the Fretwell building, across from the Friday building (home the capitalistic College of Buisness). It looks kind of boring during the day when it is not lit up, so most might not notice it.
I got a 15" PowerBook G4 a couple of months ago, with 10.2.3, and it had battery problems from the beginning. It would not charge above 96%, and the battery meter would report that it was calculating the time until it would be fully charged. I usually have the computer plugged in, so it went for weeks like that.
I started trying different things: draining the battery to near 0, resetting the PMU, booting into OS9, and charging with the machine powered off. I also upgraded to 10.2.4 around this time. It's maximum charge started to drop. First in the 60s range, then 30s, and 20s. When I finally drained the battery completely, it would not go above 0%.
I called Apple and had a replacement battery sent, which seemed to work fine at first. After a few days, the charge was at 97% and had been plugged in all that time. Before I called up Apple again (this time fearing the computer itself was defective), I decided to look it up in their online help database, and came across this, which says that in OS X, the battery is kept charged between 95 and 100%, and charges back up to 100% after going below 95%. This is for various PowerBook and iBook models running Mac OS X 10.0 and later.
I don't trust this very much, since I have never noticed this type of behavior on other laptops. It seems to work fine now though. If I power off, it charges back up to 100%, otherwise it seems to stay around 97%.
So, did this actually happen to you? If you have said these things, have any "Americans" actually questioned you in this way?
Many people seem to be claiming this sort of response (which I think is quite an exaggeration). It simply comes down to freedom of speech. You have the right (indeed, the duty) to question the president's actions. I have the right to disagree.
I had the same problem a few months ago. I had a HP Jornada 560. There is a linux module for connecting to some usb PocketPC devices (I am not sure if it's in the actual kernel, but it's in the few I have tried under Gentoo). It's under USB -> USB Serial Devices -> USB Compaq iPAQ / HP Jornada / Casio EM500 Driver when using menuconfig (CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_IPAQ). Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt has some more information about it. It allows you to make a serial connection with the usb device. I don't know if it would work with your's or not.
I never got that part working. You might have better luck with a serial cradle. I had to use VMware to sync with Outlook. This is why I sold my PDA and bought a Zaurus, which has it's on synching problems under Linux. I know, this is definately not the ideal solution.
Other than that, there is SyncCE which has some tools for the connection.
The deal was with Dell Japan, and I would imagine this is only going to happen with Dell's Japanese computers. Here is a relevant link at Dell's page, and another story in English.
Except Sony doesn't own Square. Square is still just a third party developer and distributes their games on their own (at least in North America through Square EA). They develop games for Sony's competitors too, such as for Bandai's Wonderswan (some old Final Fantasy games) and soon again for Nintendo (Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronoicle). They will sell games for whatever platform that will make them the most money.
I am a subscriber of WineX. Even with the binary version, I have some problems dealing with copy protection in Warcraft III. It will usually sit for a long time when I use an unpatched executable, it just seems to have problems with reading my WC3 disk. If I use a no-cd patch with the game, it works fine, except battle.net of course doesn't work.
I have 5 days left on my subscription and am debating whether or not to renew. The only games I care to run at the moment are Jedi Knight 2, Warcraft 3, and Counter-Strike. JK2 works perfectly, but Counter-Strike has, once again, copy protection problems when playing online. I thought they would fix this with the last release earlier this month. Since Transgaming doesn't give release dates, I might just be wasting my money signing up for another month without a release.
Yes, except I don't really consider sites like Slashdot as "hard news" sites, which MSNBC is (generally) supposed to be.