Too right. On good days mail from Yahoo Groups isn't actually being sent from blacklisted servers... so actually makes it as far as the recipient's spam filter before being discarded.
The first major city lost to global warming is in the USA, but the USA government still doesn't believe in global warming. Sounds to me like the people who don't believe in it are still winning. Which city is next I wonder?
The bane of poiticians' lives is people who ignore stuff as it's going through the process, ignore all attempts to consult them personally (ok so there haven't been any on this bill, but I'm making a general point), then whine after the decision has been made that they "haven't been consulted".
This Abolition of Parliament Bill has been discussed in all reasonable places you'd expect to find politics discussed (newspapers, BBC, etc) for months now. If you can't be arsed to keep up then you're one of the "silent majority" who will have been "deemed" to "agree" with the policy because they didn't complain.
(Personally I don't have to do anything more about this, having helped ensure last year that our local yes-woman Labour MP was replaced by someone who actually cares about democracy and civil liberties and that stuff, so that changes the voting figures in the right direction by two.)
If you're working somewhere where you have to be positively identified and sign on each occasion when you access particular sensitive documents then the techonology described is a significant improvement in usability.
You no longer have to travel to the document repository, and you are no longer restricted to the hours that the librarian keeps.
A couple of days after he left it was observed that the front door was continually unlocking itself... a quick log on to the access control system showed that the RFID tag doing the unlocking was the one belonging to the departed employee...
... and in due course the tag was discovered in an envelope in HR's pigeon-hole; the guy, on discovering that nobody had asked him for his tag, had simply mailed it back, and as this was a proper hands free system with a range over a metre its position in the pigeon-hole was enough to unlock the door...
... because of course as well as nobody remembering to ask him for the tag back nobody had remembered to disable it on the system either.
Land of the Free, innit? You can do whatever you like to make money, it's your constitutional right, nobody can stop you, and if they do you're free to buy a gun and do something about it.
Only in nasty commie left-wing socialist places like Red Europe is this sort of thing seriously illegal.
... data files, really. They've always been, in effect, "code" that is executed by an interpreter. That so it's hardly astonishing that there might be a callback mechanism to handle things the interpreter can't cope with.
Remember too that the WMF stuff was designed in the days when getting a virus from one machine to another involved walking across the room with a floppy and deliberately rebooting the target machine with the infected floppy in the drive!
It's still a cock-up though. Whoever originally designed WMFs as code-based rather than data-based really wasn't trying hard enough.
... most criminals are stupid (or, perhaps, they would choose some other walk of life).
Like the burglars who left $20 bills scattered round my bedroom floor, as they didn't realise that these funny little green pieces of foreign paper could be exchanged in any bank for real money.
In the UK police regularly set themselves up at the roadside with a camera linked to the databases, and regularly catch large quantities of bad guys for relatively little cost and effort (the obvious motoring offences, such as driving without insurance, but also villains wanted for plenty of other things, the cops just didn't know where they were).
Now, the bad guys fall for this regularly, despite the facts that:
(1) they could have avoided being caught by changing their number plates
(2) the police set up these traps in the same places each time, and the places are hardly a secret, so they could have avoided these routes.
Why does it seem like everyone else is innovating while we aren't? How can we leverage Open Source? How can we implement an Open Source business strategy?"
Yeah, I've got a jargon generator that can write that stuff too.
"Leverage" is a dead giveaway on its own, but put "innovating" and "strategy" next to it and there's no way this piece of text passes the Turing Test!!
Re:google must have changed their policy.
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we announced to our community that we were going to rely on ad revenue to pay for the bandwidth; and to do us a favor by turning off any ad-blocking mechanisms they had, for our site
Well, that really does sound to me like inviting your users to click on the ads, which is against the terms of the contract, so no surprise really.
Clue : If you're reading a tech news site with a leaning to Linux, it'll probably help to have some idea of the latest major developments in technology, as they relate to Linux.
Oh, well, if the site is only intended to preach to the converted then that's fair enough of course. I was somehow under the mistaken impression that, as someone who is paid to work on Windows more often than I am paid to work on Linux, the site could be useful for me to keep up to date with "the latest major developments in technology", rather than a pre-existing knowledge of "the latest major developments in technology" being essential before attempting to understand the site.
I know this site is for technically literate people, but really!!
"improved management capabilities" I can cope with, but "stateless Linux and Xen virtualization functionality" and "open source server virtualization software" are worthy of the worst type of social science academic paper or local government policy document!
Cause lets face it there is alot of learning going on in a marriage just not about each other but about the way marriage really works. It would be nice not go through that whole thing again.
Seeing as you appear to have got it wrong last time, has it not occurred to you that perhaps you have got some learning to do??
Google Sets will need a little more work before it knows what people are thinking. It's OK for things like "Beatles songs" or "Cambridge colleges", obvious stuff like that, but when I entered the names of half the girlfriends I've had it didn't come out with the other half of the list.
I'm not usually one to support the knee-jerk slashweenie response, that all intellectual property is theft, but I do object to commercial enterprises refusing to sell me something and insisting that I can't copy it.
It might be their intellectual property but it's my culture, dammit. If they won't keep it in print and sell me a copy, which I'm willing to pay for, then they should keep their mouths shut when I go and find one for myself.
Anybody got a DVD of Dance of the Vampires they can let me copy then?
Last I heard most US citizens didn't have passports at all. Are passports really now going to be compulsory? Have the relevant back office systems really been scaled up to cope with this?
(Hint: another name for a compulsory passport is an "identity card". These are things you get in places called "police states", of which a notable example is a place called "France".)
It's a human-nature thing. This problem has been around forever. It's the basic tension between:
(1) the company needs a particular job doing (2) the worker only wants to do it for a while, then he wants to do something else (better, more senior, more interesting, whatever).
Slashdot Mirror
"No results found" searching for ISIRTA.
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('Spose I could try Angus Prune as well
Too right. On good days mail from Yahoo Groups isn't actually being sent from blacklisted servers ... so actually makes it as far as the recipient's spam filter before being discarded.
The first major city lost to global warming is in the USA, but the USA government still doesn't believe in global warming. Sounds to me like the people who don't believe in it are still winning. Which city is next I wonder?
... has the worst puns and is the best online newspaper ...
Not all the people still happily using Office 97, which still does everything that many people need.
The bane of poiticians' lives is people who ignore stuff as it's going through the process, ignore all attempts to consult them personally (ok so there haven't been any on this bill, but I'm making a general point), then whine after the decision has been made that they "haven't been consulted".
This Abolition of Parliament Bill has been discussed in all reasonable places you'd expect to find politics discussed (newspapers, BBC, etc) for months now. If you can't be arsed to keep up then you're one of the "silent majority" who will have been "deemed" to "agree" with the policy because they didn't complain.
(Personally I don't have to do anything more about this, having helped ensure last year that our local yes-woman Labour MP was replaced by someone who actually cares about democracy and civil liberties and that stuff, so that changes the voting figures in the right direction by two.)
Fair cop, I wasn't really being very serious, of course seriously paranoid organisations are not going to find stuff like this makes any difference.
If you're working somewhere where you have to be positively identified and sign on each occasion when you access particular sensitive documents then the techonology described is a significant improvement in usability.
You no longer have to travel to the document repository, and you are no longer restricted to the hours that the librarian keeps.
... I have chosen not to download and install and run this one, so I won't have a problem.
Duh???
A couple of days after he left it was observed that the front door was continually unlocking itself
Good thing he wasn't malicious, perhaps.
Land of the Free, innit? You can do whatever you like to make money, it's your constitutional right, nobody can stop you, and if they do you're free to buy a gun and do something about it.
Only in nasty commie left-wing socialist places like Red Europe is this sort of thing seriously illegal.
... data files, really. They've always been, in effect, "code" that is executed by an interpreter. That so it's hardly astonishing that there might be a callback mechanism to handle things the interpreter can't cope with.
Remember too that the WMF stuff was designed in the days when getting a virus from one machine to another involved walking across the room with a floppy and deliberately rebooting the target machine with the infected floppy in the drive!
It's still a cock-up though. Whoever originally designed WMFs as code-based rather than data-based really wasn't trying hard enough.
... most criminals are stupid (or, perhaps, they would choose some other walk of life).
Like the burglars who left $20 bills scattered round my bedroom floor, as they didn't realise that these funny little green pieces of foreign paper could be exchanged in any bank for real money.
In the UK police regularly set themselves up at the roadside with a camera linked to the databases, and regularly catch large quantities of bad guys for relatively little cost and effort (the obvious motoring offences, such as driving without insurance, but also villains wanted for plenty of other things, the cops just didn't know where they were).
Now, the bad guys fall for this regularly, despite the facts that:
(1) they could have avoided being caught by changing their number plates
(2) the police set up these traps in the same places each time, and the places are hardly a secret, so they could have avoided these routes.
They're just not very bright.
Why does it seem like everyone else is innovating while we aren't? How can we leverage Open Source? How can we implement an Open Source business strategy?"
Yeah, I've got a jargon generator that can write that stuff too.
"Leverage" is a dead giveaway on its own, but put "innovating" and "strategy" next to it and there's no way this piece of text passes the Turing Test!!
Clue : If you're reading a tech news site with a leaning to Linux, it'll probably help to have some idea of the latest major developments in technology, as they relate to Linux.
Oh, well, if the site is only intended to preach to the converted then that's fair enough of course. I was somehow under the mistaken impression that, as someone who is paid to work on Windows more often than I am paid to work on Linux, the site could be useful for me to keep up to date with "the latest major developments in technology", rather than a pre-existing knowledge of "the latest major developments in technology" being essential before attempting to understand the site.
Never mind, we can all make mistakes.
I know this site is for technically literate people, but really!!
"improved management capabilities" I can cope with, but "stateless Linux and Xen virtualization functionality" and "open source server virtualization software" are worthy of the worst type of social science academic paper or local government policy document!
Cause lets face it there is alot of learning going on in a marriage just not about each other but about the way marriage really works. It would be nice not go through that whole thing again.
Seeing as you appear to have got it wrong last time, has it not occurred to you that perhaps you have got some learning to do??
Google Sets will need a little more work before it knows what people are thinking. It's OK for things like "Beatles songs" or "Cambridge colleges", obvious stuff like that, but when I entered the names of half the girlfriends I've had it didn't come out with the other half of the list.
Hey! So they have! Even available in region two and PAL rather than never-twice-the-same-colo[u]r!
Obviously I haven't checked for a while - thanks!
I'm not usually one to support the knee-jerk slashweenie response, that all intellectual property is theft, but I do object to commercial enterprises refusing to sell me something and insisting that I can't copy it.
It might be their intellectual property but it's my culture, dammit. If they won't keep it in print and sell me a copy, which I'm willing to pay for, then they should keep their mouths shut when I go and find one for myself.
Anybody got a DVD of Dance of the Vampires they can let me copy then?
Disguise not necessary. I got arrested as a white European for failing to show my identity card to a supermarket checkout girl.
Eh??
Last I heard most US citizens didn't have passports at all. Are passports really now going to be compulsory? Have the relevant back office systems really been scaled up to cope with this?
(Hint: another name for a compulsory passport is an "identity card". These are things you get in places called "police states", of which a notable example is a place called "France".)
It's a human-nature thing. This problem has been around forever. It's the basic tension between:
(1) the company needs a particular job doing
(2) the worker only wants to do it for a while, then he wants to do something else (better, more senior, more interesting, whatever).
Er, you seem to have forgotten the link to the satellite photo of Guantanamo?