I agree with you; but this is about preventing people from coming in in the first place. My personal thoughts are that everyone here now, should be able to safely apply and get citizenship. We should welcome the world with open arms, but in an orderly fashion. I think immigration reform will get there, it's a hot button topic now far more than it used to be, and more and more progress is made each year. Slowly, but progress nonetheless.
Our privacy was freely given up by our grandparents, and the New Deal. The minute it became the government's job to keep track of people our privacy started slipping away. We expect, and ask the government to keep track of people. We ask the government to PREVENT crime. We ask the government to do things for us beyond "defending our shores." In doing so we sacrificed, and continue to sacrifice, our time/money and our privacy. Time and Money seem to pay for convenience. Privacy seems to pay for security. I agree with what you're saying, but I think our privacy WAS freely given up, by both the past, and the majority. I think the only thing we can do about it now, is to apply a little Judo, and try and direct where it's going, NOT that it's happening at all. We ARE going to give up all of our privacy in the future, lets make sure that the governments and the corporations have to as well. Let's all go down together.
I think this is what we need to be angry about. We need to be fighting for the government to be as open as they want us to be. In the end when it's all said and done, everything should have lost their anonymity. The Government, the corporations, and the people. We're not talking police state here, we're talk'n equal playing field.
What's wrong with this? I know it's all George Orwell and stuff, but really. We've moved so far past having any real privacy anymore, who cares? I like the idea of people not being able to pretend to be me, not that anyone would really want to.
Generally when you market your wares like this on slashdot, you'd want your servers to be able to handle the load. Come on people, it's not that hard anymore to make a site that can handle the load. As for the game, this is a nice bit of marketing, in that they now have people who are going to go out and look for the pirated version, and then possibly like it enough to get the real version.
Something in this part makes me twitch... "patent expert Florian Mueller ". I don't know much about Florian except that he gets the word 'shill' used next to his name on occasion, I can't even remember why. Therefor I do apologize if I am mistaken if my mistrust is misplaced.
Xbl is dead because it's got a steep learning curve and is painfully abstract. Having written a fair amount of it, it took quite a while to get used to. I used while doing a bunch of xforms work with the Orbeon engine; but even they have dropped support for it as their component model. It was pretty cool, you could nest a number of XBL components together and have them render based on the data type of your XML element. An example would be an XBL phone number editor. Every time your schema used that type in your form you always got that editor for it; but debugging was impossible. It all happened in the dark on a cloudy night through three layers of fog snow rain and ice.
I never could make up my mind on the whole "boxen" thing. Some days it was irritating enough to kill over. Other days it would just slip out, like "pop" instead of "coke" from the lips of a southerner forced to live in chicago for too long. At a minimum it does seem to show ones age though...
move out before it's too late. I also suffer from ADHD, and do to all of the distractions in the dorm was ready to fail until I moved out and into a place without all of those distractions. I might also suggest you go to the library, although I was never able to get there. And then of course as a final resort... Just get yourself some decent noise canceling earphones of some sort and turn your music up until you can't hear anyone. If you find music to difficult to work to, find some very repetitive trance piece that doesn't bother you and listen to it over and over until you forget about it. This also works well for cubical farms after college. Still, your best bet is to move out.
wow, that's just awesome. I'm particularly impressed by the knot tying. The idea that these systems can adjust to dynamic an unpredictable situations is flat out amazing.
My college basically did the same thing. We went from trimesters w/ no summer sessions to semesters. The vast majority of the student population was against the change. The administration claimed it would help faculty, not student, retention. As it would allow them do match up their summer vacation times, and sabbaticals with other schools. I never felt that it lowered the bar, but I did feel that it reduced the education I received. I very much enjoyed having a few classes per week, but for multiple hours each day, then 5 different classes each week for just an hour. The intensity of the class was much greater when you didn't have to divide your time up between so many subject.
Amazingly I had this conversation just last week with a number of politicians and their staffers. There is currently a trend in the govt sector to believe that they will be able to live with little or no IT staff, and just maintain everything themselves. This includes discussions of a magic future world where there is drag and drop workflow tools, and and the courts use CRM software and the cloud for everything. They really need to stop reading the BS sent from Oracle and IBM et. al. You're always going to need the person who can un-jam the printer NOW, and restart the router NOW, and find the unplugged network cable NOW, modify this db table NOW. You're also always going to need the person who actually knows your field, and and can help implement efficiencies and process management for YOU, to solve YOUR data needs. I think the government forgets about personalization to their various needs. They tend to assume that everything they do, when calling for RFPs will, be exactly like the folks in the next govt body over.. aka state or county or whatever. They forget that analysts/programmers and IT are there to make everything work for their specific situation, and to be able to do it with the least amount of downtime and the greatest amount of efficiency for that agency and it's constituents.
It's a dangerous path they're on... again.... but they will learn... again... Every eight to twelve years it's like this as people retire, and new ones get elected...
NOt that this makes it any better, but this was the only quote that sorta made the whole thing make sense..... and I use that term very very lightly....
"The detainee was arrested with a specific model Casio watch that is given to graduates of Al Farouq."
I use RHEL on the desktop as well. I'm a developer of Sysadmin software, and an admin of a large number of RHEL servers. No I don't run a desktop on the servers, but I do on my development machine which matches the servers, and need to test things against various browsers. Yes I have testers to do a lot of things, but I like being able to hit Chrome and Firefox right out of the box before I waste my Q/A folks time. Another example is trying to develop custom SELinux policies w/o enough GUI to run the tool set. The inter dependencies are nuts in this day an age to deal with if you're not able to drill into them with a GUI based tool. Point being as a developer and as a sysadmin there's generally some reason to have RHEL on the desktop and with multiple browsers.
a little off topic, but the chart on that page sourced this site... A government agency I'd never heard of. But if you like charts about energy released every day, it seems to be the place to go.
I believe it's because facts can only support a limited number of commentators and threads. We reached that number about the time slashdot started requiring accounts to avoid seeing advertisements. Whereas speculation can support an unlimited number of people and comments. Obviously the more people you have the more advertising you can have, and the bigger you can get. Point being if/. got rid of the advertising like they used to, then there would only be a few thousand of us and very little noise. I wonder if this can be worked into a theory that facts are cheap and free, and lies are a valuable currency. W/O lies and speculation no one would have anything to say.
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I agree with you; but this is about preventing people from coming in in the first place. My personal thoughts are that everyone here now, should be able to safely apply and get citizenship. We should welcome the world with open arms, but in an orderly fashion. I think immigration reform will get there, it's a hot button topic now far more than it used to be, and more and more progress is made each year. Slowly, but progress nonetheless.
Our privacy was freely given up by our grandparents, and the New Deal. The minute it became the government's job to keep track of people our privacy started slipping away. We expect, and ask the government to keep track of people. We ask the government to PREVENT crime. We ask the government to do things for us beyond "defending our shores." In doing so we sacrificed, and continue to sacrifice, our time/money and our privacy. Time and Money seem to pay for convenience. Privacy seems to pay for security. I agree with what you're saying, but I think our privacy WAS freely given up, by both the past, and the majority. I think the only thing we can do about it now, is to apply a little Judo, and try and direct where it's going, NOT that it's happening at all. We ARE going to give up all of our privacy in the future, lets make sure that the governments and the corporations have to as well. Let's all go down together.
I think a namespaced, attribute value table would handle this and any new technologies we haven't thought of.
I think this is what we need to be angry about. We need to be fighting for the government to be as open as they want us to be. In the end when it's all said and done, everything should have lost their anonymity. The Government, the corporations, and the people. We're not talking police state here, we're talk'n equal playing field.
As long as I don't have to look at the footage myself.
I truly appreciate the sublime logic and reasoning of your argument. Do you have a magazine to which I might subscribe?
What's wrong with this? I know it's all George Orwell and stuff, but really. We've moved so far past having any real privacy anymore, who cares? I like the idea of people not being able to pretend to be me, not that anyone would really want to.
-- I'm quite frankly surprised there hasn't yet been a massive class action suit against the manufacturer.
We're still in the boycotting phase.
Generally when you market your wares like this on slashdot, you'd want your servers to be able to handle the load. Come on people, it's not that hard anymore to make a site that can handle the load. As for the game, this is a nice bit of marketing, in that they now have people who are going to go out and look for the pirated version, and then possibly like it enough to get the real version.
That's right.... I knew there was something about him that's makes whatever he says questionable. thanks
Something in this part makes me twitch... "patent expert Florian Mueller ". I don't know much about Florian except that he gets the word 'shill' used next to his name on occasion, I can't even remember why. Therefor I do apologize if I am mistaken if my mistrust is misplaced.
Remember to remove the knife first....
Xbl is dead because it's got a steep learning curve and is painfully abstract. Having written a fair amount of it, it took quite a while to get used to. I used while doing a bunch of xforms work with the Orbeon engine; but even they have dropped support for it as their component model. It was pretty cool, you could nest a number of XBL components together and have them render based on the data type of your XML element. An example would be an XBL phone number editor. Every time your schema used that type in your form you always got that editor for it; but debugging was impossible. It all happened in the dark on a cloudy night through three layers of fog snow rain and ice.
You're obviously not Paris Hilton....
I never could make up my mind on the whole "boxen" thing. Some days it was irritating enough to kill over. Other days it would just slip out, like "pop" instead of "coke" from the lips of a southerner forced to live in chicago for too long. At a minimum it does seem to show ones age though...
move out before it's too late. I also suffer from ADHD, and do to all of the distractions in the dorm was ready to fail until I moved out and into a place without all of those distractions. I might also suggest you go to the library, although I was never able to get there. And then of course as a final resort... Just get yourself some decent noise canceling earphones of some sort and turn your music up until you can't hear anyone. If you find music to difficult to work to, find some very repetitive trance piece that doesn't bother you and listen to it over and over until you forget about it. This also works well for cubical farms after college. Still, your best bet is to move out.
wow, that's just awesome. I'm particularly impressed by the knot tying. The idea that these systems can adjust to dynamic an unpredictable situations is flat out amazing.
My college basically did the same thing. We went from trimesters w/ no summer sessions to semesters. The vast majority of the student population was against the change. The administration claimed it would help faculty, not student, retention. As it would allow them do match up their summer vacation times, and sabbaticals with other schools. I never felt that it lowered the bar, but I did feel that it reduced the education I received. I very much enjoyed having a few classes per week, but for multiple hours each day, then 5 different classes each week for just an hour. The intensity of the class was much greater when you didn't have to divide your time up between so many subject.
Amazingly I had this conversation just last week with a number of politicians and their staffers. There is currently a trend in the govt sector to believe that they will be able to live with little or no IT staff, and just maintain everything themselves. This includes discussions of a magic future world where there is drag and drop workflow tools, and and the courts use CRM software and the cloud for everything. They really need to stop reading the BS sent from Oracle and IBM et. al. You're always going to need the person who can un-jam the printer NOW, and restart the router NOW, and find the unplugged network cable NOW, modify this db table NOW. You're also always going to need the person who actually knows your field, and and can help implement efficiencies and process management for YOU, to solve YOUR data needs. I think the government forgets about personalization to their various needs. They tend to assume that everything they do, when calling for RFPs will, be exactly like the folks in the next govt body over.. aka state or county or whatever. They forget that analysts/programmers and IT are there to make everything work for their specific situation, and to be able to do it with the least amount of downtime and the greatest amount of efficiency for that agency and it's constituents.
It's a dangerous path they're on... again.... but they will learn... again... Every eight to twelve years it's like this as people retire, and new ones get elected...
It's got rounded corners!! Sony is so screwed....
NOt that this makes it any better, but this was the only quote that sorta made the whole thing make sense..... and I use that term very very lightly....
"The detainee was arrested with a specific model Casio watch that is given to graduates of Al Farouq."
I use RHEL on the desktop as well. I'm a developer of Sysadmin software, and an admin of a large number of RHEL servers. No I don't run a desktop on the servers, but I do on my development machine which matches the servers, and need to test things against various browsers. Yes I have testers to do a lot of things, but I like being able to hit Chrome and Firefox right out of the box before I waste my Q/A folks time. Another example is trying to develop custom SELinux policies w/o enough GUI to run the tool set. The inter dependencies are nuts in this day an age to deal with if you're not able to drill into them with a GUI based tool. Point being as a developer and as a sysadmin there's generally some reason to have RHEL on the desktop and with multiple browsers.
a little off topic, but the chart on that page sourced this site... A government agency I'd never heard of. But if you like charts about energy released every day, it seems to be the place to go.
WOW!... what?
I believe it's because facts can only support a limited number of commentators and threads. We reached that number about the time slashdot started requiring accounts to avoid seeing advertisements. Whereas speculation can support an unlimited number of people and comments. Obviously the more people you have the more advertising you can have, and the bigger you can get. Point being if /. got rid of the advertising like they used to, then there would only be a few thousand of us and very little noise. I wonder if this can be worked into a theory that facts are cheap and free, and lies are a valuable currency. W/O lies and speculation no one would have anything to say.
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