... just grieve privately with support from family/friends and slowly pull herself together. Like everyone else in world does. Costs less than a therapist or computer game and unlike them it actually works.
... is hardly a 'small 3rd world country'. It has a population of over a billion and is the world's largest democratic nation. Admittedly we're only talking about one state here, but this is far more significant than say Greece (first world-ish but insignificant) switching to Linux.
Just to make it more amusing though is the fact that Microsoft retained a large number of Indian coders during the XP 'debugging' cycle; nice to see they're not afraid to bite the hand that occasionaly feeds.
You shoot a friendly, it's game over man, game over.
Tell that to the British, Canadians, members of the Red Cross, Chinese Embassy workers, and assorted Afghan wedding parties.
If only the USAF had trained with this simulator the bloodshed could have been avoided!
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... and cash paid in over the counter is in my account instantly. If I walk straight from the teller to the cash point and do a balance check, the money is already there. If my bank didn't do this I'd go and find one that did.
... bounce the bounced spam to laura@dataresourceconsulting.com via an open relay, and forge the From: header to be one of those free email forwarding services.
Naturally the forwarding service will redirect to laura@dataresourceconsulting.com, thus exponentially increasing amount the of spam she receives:)
You could build a network that is fast, secure, and allows mobility - it would simply cost a lot. For example you could have meaty processors in every WLAN card and access point performing 1024 bit encryption (with short lifespan keys) on the packets, but the cost would be huge compared to 802.11b gear.
My solution du jour is to treat any systems on the WLAN if they were on the internet, i.e. untrustworthy. The access point is firewalled off from the rest of the network and the only way in is via VPN/ssh. Whilst this does prevent you simply turning on your PDA and reading./ it does avoid any unwanted war(drivers|walkers|cyclers) using your connection to lauch a DDOS against whitehouse.gov.
Without wishing to sound rude you could attempt to write applications that don't fall over at the slightest push. If your in-house apps can't co-exist with low impact software like seti/folding@home then the problem lies with your coders, not the distributed processing applications.
We've had this problem with the GUI coders (VB and.NET monkeys) at our place. The stuff they produce will crash at the slightest provocation (such as being installed on the 'wrong' partition!). They then try to push the blame on to users for having 'non-standard' configurations (like more than one hard-drive). If someone can't write portable, maintainable, reliable, efficent code they should find a job that demands less technical skill - like flipping burgers.
By comparison the seti/folding@home clients are written to be portable (especially folding@home) and have been tested on many thousands of different computers, reliablity at the users end is more indicative of in-house issues.
That's less of a problem with the large drives that are now commonplace. I was actually under the impression that MS Word already does this (i.e. save deltas) when quicksaving which is one the reasons its files seem so large.
Of course what we really need is built-in version control at the filesystem level. That way it can save all the time (automagically) and the user can specific when to commit a revision (the equivalent of a CVS tag). You'd have all the benefits of not losing data during a crash, along with the ability to jump back to arbitary points and restore or branch from there.
It would also make system auditing much easier as you could tell who had been altering files and what they'd changed.
But I just want to digitise my legally owned CDs so I don't have to spend hours looking for the track that I want. Given that I've paid upwards of 12GBP (18USD) for them I'd like to be able to listen to them at my leisure.
To make matters worse, if what you say is true (and I have no reason to doubt it), I won't even be able to play the songs on my music system as the CD player clearly isn't 'standard' (though I fail to see what's more 'standard' than a mid-range Sony deck).
This leaves me with two options:
Buy a new (crappier) CD player that only has analogue out. Copy my lovely digital CDs via analogue to my portable MD/computer thus loosing all the crispness of the original music.
Skip buying the CD and just download the tracks via KazaaLite/Gnucleus. I get the same quality as 1) but save 12 quid each time!
What a brilliant business move! They'll be depriving me of high quality music, and themselves of any revenue! I wish I had an MBA and could think of such award winning ways of increasing shareholder value!
Newer soundcards have optical digital inputs. Just find a half-decent CD deck with a digital out, mine cost under $150, connect the two optical connections et volia! A perfect digital copy...
Any coding team that spent over a year debugging a piece of code, and still ended up with over 65K bugs is not smart.
Smart coders a) don't produce many bugs in the first place, b) are actually capable of finding and removing them.
The Microsoft coders are of average quality. Fine when produce small applications, but woefully lacking in abilty as far as producing large software engineering projects are concerned. The fact that a significant number of them work with Visual Basic is evidence enough.
... is that I can order it over the web at work and have it delivered there the next day! Now I have to spend my lunchtimes in the pub with my mates and not wandering around dodgy computer outlets looking for the model I want, the horror!
.. simply means 'large' Britain, i.e. Britain and Scotland. The only people who either don't know, or take exception to this are more-lefty-than-thou Guardian readers.
This is the reason we have a Great Britain team at the olympics, the Northern Irish are part of the Eire team.
I sometimes wonder if his presence is reverse-discrimination in action (he was blind from birth).
No, he's there because he did a good job at Education.
Errr... the only thing Blunkett 'achieved' as Education minister was to remove the assited places program, and so make independent schools even more (economically) elitist than they were before. Standards in state schools fell under his stewardship. He has always been a failure, is currently a failure, and will always be a failure. The original post was correct, he is only there to garner the disabled vote and because he is a commited Blairite. His guide dog Dennis could do a better job in the Home Office than the bearded POS that is the Hon. David Blunkett MP.
... doesn't not a legally binding contract make. Mainly because there is no way to prove whether you were the one who clicked it. This is why EULAs have never stood up in court (at least in the EU). The only way they could be made legally binding is for the software company to insist you return a signed form before allowing you to run setup.exe.
Some of us bought all three of the new consoles (and the Dreamcast, d'oh!) so we could play all the best games regardless of what machine it came on. Not all gamers are brand obsessed fan-boys you know (unless you're talking about 8 bit games in which case its Sinclair all the way)...
... most iris scanners are configured only to work on living eyes. Primarily because its harder to fake a living one (rather than just using a very good glass eye), and also because it removes the temptation to do what you suggested.
No, terrorists will stick with low-tech methods because they:
Work, and work well
Require no expensive equipment
Are much more difficult to intercept than high-tech communications
If I wanted to coordinate a terrorist attack I'd use plain old fashioned letters, and/or inconspicious go betweens (people sympathetic to the cause, but not on CIA/M15/Mossad's radar). By doing this Western intelligence agencies would have to physically track my every move (look how fast bin Laden disappeared once he stopped using satelitte phones) rather than just harvesting it with Echelon.
They're not avoiding high technology because they're stupid, but because they understand the draw backs of these technologies very well indeed.
Now, if you could do this without damaging any of the cable companies equipment then I would not consider this in any way wrong. It's no different from standing in a tower block that over looks a sports ground and watching the game. If, however, you have to damage the filter box (which from your description I assume to be the case) then it is obviously wrong - you are damaging someone elses equipment which is vandalism.
Going back to the use of corporate wireless LANs, the company is willingly providing network provision in a public place. Then could prevent, using the means mentioned previously, this but choose not to. As such I do not belive they have any grounds for complaints when people take advantage of this provision.
I must investigate this cable TV thing further though:)
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... just grieve privately with support from family/friends and slowly pull herself together. Like everyone else in world does. Costs less than a therapist or computer game and unlike them it actually works.
Just to make it more amusing though is the fact that Microsoft retained a large number of Indian coders during the XP 'debugging' cycle; nice to see they're not afraid to bite the hand that occasionaly feeds.
The XBox runs VMS? Bloody hell, but I suppose it beats Windows CE.
My XBox plays precisely three games: Hitman 2, Halo, and FIFA 2003. Which, to be fair, is two more than my GC: Super Mario Sunshine.
Tell that to the British, Canadians, members of the Red Cross, Chinese Embassy workers, and assorted Afghan wedding parties.
If only the USAF had trained with this simulator the bloodshed could have been avoided!
... and cash paid in over the counter is in my account instantly. If I walk straight from the teller to the cash point and do a balance check, the money is already there. If my bank didn't do this I'd go and find one that did.
The Germans succesfully launched a V2 in to space in 1942, AFAIK it was the first every man made object to reach space.
Naturally the forwarding service will redirect to laura@dataresourceconsulting.com, thus exponentially increasing amount the of spam she receives :)
What are they doing for the remaining 23'55" ?
My solution du jour is to treat any systems on the WLAN if they were on the internet, i.e. untrustworthy. The access point is firewalled off from the rest of the network and the only way in is via VPN/ssh. Whilst this does prevent you simply turning on your PDA and reading ./ it does avoid any unwanted war(drivers|walkers|cyclers) using your connection to lauch a DDOS against whitehouse.gov.
We've had this problem with the GUI coders (VB and .NET monkeys) at our place. The stuff they produce will crash at the slightest provocation (such as being installed on the 'wrong' partition!). They then try to push the blame on to users for having 'non-standard' configurations (like more than one hard-drive). If someone can't write portable, maintainable, reliable, efficent code they should find a job that demands less technical skill - like flipping burgers.
By comparison the seti/folding@home clients are written to be portable (especially folding@home) and have been tested on many thousands of different computers, reliablity at the users end is more indicative of in-house issues.
Of course what we really need is built-in version control at the filesystem level. That way it can save all the time (automagically) and the user can specific when to commit a revision (the equivalent of a CVS tag). You'd have all the benefits of not losing data during a crash, along with the ability to jump back to arbitary points and restore or branch from there.
It would also make system auditing much easier as you could tell who had been altering files and what they'd changed.
To make matters worse, if what you say is true (and I have no reason to doubt it), I won't even be able to play the songs on my music system as the CD player clearly isn't 'standard' (though I fail to see what's more 'standard' than a mid-range Sony deck).
This leaves me with two options:
- Buy a new (crappier) CD player that only has analogue out. Copy my lovely digital CDs via analogue to my portable MD/computer thus loosing all the crispness of the original music.
- Skip buying the CD and just download the tracks via KazaaLite/Gnucleus. I get the same quality as 1) but save 12 quid each time!
What a brilliant business move! They'll be depriving me of high quality music, and themselves of any revenue! I wish I had an MBA and could think of such award winning ways of increasing shareholder value!Newer soundcards have optical digital inputs. Just find a half-decent CD deck with a digital out, mine cost under $150, connect the two optical connections et volia! A perfect digital copy ...
"Apart from these 65,000 bugs Windows XP is the most stable operating system ever ... and no we're not going to patch them ..."
Smart coders a) don't produce many bugs in the first place, b) are actually capable of finding and removing them.
The Microsoft coders are of average quality. Fine when produce small applications, but woefully lacking in abilty as far as producing large software engineering projects are concerned. The fact that a significant number of them work with Visual Basic is evidence enough.
... is that I can order it over the web at work and have it delivered there the next day! Now I have to spend my lunchtimes in the pub with my mates and not wandering around dodgy computer outlets looking for the model I want, the horror!
I only ask because if PPCs are three times as powerful as a P3 my next Linux box is going to be PPC based.
This is the reason we have a Great Britain team at the olympics, the Northern Irish are part of the Eire team.
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... doesn't not a legally binding contract make. Mainly because there is no way to prove whether you were the one who clicked it. This is why EULAs have never stood up in court (at least in the EU). The only way they could be made legally binding is for the software company to insist you return a signed form before allowing you to run setup.exe.
Some of us bought all three of the new consoles (and the Dreamcast, d'oh!) so we could play all the best games regardless of what machine it came on. Not all gamers are brand obsessed fan-boys you know (unless you're talking about 8 bit games in which case its Sinclair all the way) ...
... most iris scanners are configured only to work on living eyes. Primarily because its harder to fake a living one (rather than just using a very good glass eye), and also because it removes the temptation to do what you suggested.
- Work, and work well
- Require no expensive equipment
- Are much more difficult to intercept than high-tech communications
If I wanted to coordinate a terrorist attack I'd use plain old fashioned letters, and/or inconspicious go betweens (people sympathetic to the cause, but not on CIA/M15/Mossad's radar). By doing this Western intelligence agencies would have to physically track my every move (look how fast bin Laden disappeared once he stopped using satelitte phones) rather than just harvesting it with Echelon.They're not avoiding high technology because they're stupid, but because they understand the draw backs of these technologies very well indeed.
Going back to the use of corporate wireless LANs, the company is willingly providing network provision in a public place. Then could prevent, using the means mentioned previously, this but choose not to. As such I do not belive they have any grounds for complaints when people take advantage of this provision.
I must investigate this cable TV thing further though :)