Yes, talent is dangerous. Often to itself, but that is a different question. But all talent is challenging to everyone who works with it. Most challenging to management who have the responsibility and duty of managing it, and most specifically for covering and backfilling gaps.
You see, the matter is _NOT_ to complain of what the talent is missing, but to be grateful for what it provides and to identify and try to backfill the missing areas.
Glass half empty? Or half-full?
Most unfortunately many managers are there because the want to be. That is, they enjoy the power and do not see the responsibility. Often they simply cannot understand people who are not like them. A singular disqualification for anyone who pretends to manage others.
Of course there are problems with recourse, false accusations and DOS exploits. This is _desired_ by the *AA !
They basically want to frighten people into compliance with their business model. From their PoV, nothing wrong with excessive fright and injustice. Not their problem.
This is a fundamental problem when strong/concentrated interests influence/manipulate a representative democracy to improve their own welfare. The general populace, diffuse interests lose out because of inertia.
Please excuse the sensationalism, but the UK-style parlementary systems look very much like elected dictatorships. There are no checks & balances against the government power where the executive is not even separate from the legislative.
As a concrete exampke, I offer the spectacles of Tony Blair putting down three separate back-bencher revolts against him. Labour traditionally had no business supporting the US, particularly over Iraq. Most of the Labour voters were against Iraq. But for some reason Tony thought differently. And was able to impose his will. How would be interesting to know.
Please note, I am not claiming US-style presidential systems are better. They are certainly less democratic in the sense that the people's will is often thwarted.
On this privacy issue, UK citizens may need to fall back to the EU courts and constitution. Rather ironic, the birthplace of freedom (Magna Carta) have to rely on the continent with fewer and a horrible history of citizens serving the state.
This looks like a great way to execute a Denial-of-Service attack -- just make false allegations. Preferably on nice lawyer letterhead and legalistic language.
Sniff the wire and get your hogging neighbors bounced. Or that grll with no taste.
SATA may well be designed to be hot pluggable. But what does that really mean? Hot pluggability can be assured by connector design -- data contacts are "deeper" inside than the power/ground which connect first and disconnect last. Even if they added isolating gates, where do those gates get power?
If this is just a power switch, when what assurance is there it won't fry some drive? The most elementary rule in digital electronics is to supply power before data, and remove it after data.
Switching circuits should not try to draw power from data lines! And if power is not supplied, they will. Perhaps some systems are robuse (3.3V isn't much), but I would not count on all circuits not having some overheat path.
I do not understand why people are upset. Paranoia? Here's a nickel, go get some tinfoil:)
Unpublished news is like unpublished scientific discoveries or product developments. Trade secrets are property of the employer and the employee giving them to anyone else is simple theft and the receiver is at least a receiver of stolen goods, or may be complicit in the theft.
How can a republisher have any advantage? They have to change the words, most likely reducing accuracy. If they can prepare a prettier presentation, then they've added value.
The problem with use = acceptance is contracts are only struck once. They can be modified, but that requires further agreement. An anti-EULA approach would be the contract is the contract of sale, and only includes those terms. Any click-thru afterwards is just reaching -- the user already has paid for a copy and can use it as provided under USC. The attempt at click-thru would fail for lack of consideration.
Further, the remedy of return is nothing but an attempt to conceal odious terms. The contract is already struck and monies paid. Why should a refuser be required to do certain things? They didn't agree to do anything. The return may be inconvenient, and might not be accepted by the store. Many have "no open software" return policies.
It is not as if obtaining proper EULA agreement is difficult or impractical -- just put a tear-off on the product. But publishers are afraid those will reduce sales. Well, they would know. So they sneak around. This should not be rewarded with any kind of legal recognition. IANAL
Their conclusion is only one possibility. Far more likely, the mice learned memory-improving behaviours during their enriching experience, and taught those behaviours (perhaps mostly by example) to their offspring.
Many behaviours are learned, and they can create functional differences.
Thank you for the additional precision. Yes, both Canada and the UK have been incorporating US-style rights. I think mostly because the accused heard about them in movies and demand them (telephone calls). The authorities cannot think of a good reason to withhold and need a minimally cooperative population. Application tends to be discretionary rather than a matter of enforceable right.
However, there remains a _huge_ fundamental difference: the US was founded on mistrust of ALL government while the Crown is still presumed to have a right to govern.
The author does quite a tapdance to claim identifiers are equivalent to content. They are not. Addresses are locators. Content is information.
There is nothing incriminating or even directly informative about an IP address, any more than there is about a street address. But knowing that IP has porn or that street number has drugs is the content.
There are no exact Miranda Rights in Canada, nor "fruit of the poisoned vine" doctrine nor 9th Amendment "expectation of privacy". There is a Candian constitution, and it says different things, mostly with "reasonable" exemptions.
Canadian Courts and police operate differently from the US. The individuals are generally more professional and competant, and less ambitious for higher office.
A Canadian court might will find (and even presume) police are acting reasonably, so evidence is admissible.
Exactly how is a Reverse IP lookup is different from using a Criss-Cross telephone directory?
Well, you feel what you feel. But glass half-empty or half-full?
Go back 100 years, pre-high-mobility and you weren't being watched by police & cameras, you were carefully scrutinized by townsfolk. They had nothing else to do, and rumor and prejudice ran wild. Even the cities had less anonymity.
Between nosy neighbors and police, I'll take police every time.
Forgive me if this is unpopular, but exactly _how_ are civil liberties eroded by cameras in public places? One ought to behave there, and blinding cameras would seem to only profit the rowdy and uncivil.
Sure, the tapes should have a very short retention period (month, year max) to avoid muckraking and other character assasination. Accessing by individual rather than event,place&time is clearly stalking and ought to be punished as such. Unfortunately, oversight of police is generally deficient. But correct this problem, not deprive them of tools.
I'm not a big fan of govt programs. They don't work and become mired in bureaucracy. More often still they become pork-barrel rewards to those contributors who are prepared to navigate they byzantine contracting maze to their monetary reward. The honest do not have patience nor overhead to support the navigation.
That said, I initially supported Paulson's 7 page bailout. He knows much more than is obtainable in the public domain, and if he's afraid enough to go on bended knee to Nancy, I'm afraid too. I was alarmed but not suprised when the House rejected it -- there's no way Paulson could tell them everything. It would cause panic. But then I saw the larding the Senate delivered. Paulson could tell those dudes and obviously didn't have a very compelling case. No-one would dare lard 9/11 or Pearl Harbor bills. So I conclude Paulson was mostly trying to spead the blame.
Cutting the most useful function is a frequent response of bureaucracies (political and corporate) when being ordered to cut. They think it will stop the calls to cut. And it doesn't have strong individual interests/defenders like pork. Just general diffuse interests. So it gets cut.
Unfortunately, broadband is in this category. Nevermind that it would help spread advantages that America does have, and increase participation. The next Einstein is out there, but it won't help if s/he stays buried in the anonymous masses.
It does depend on the local prosecutor, but many are looking for higher political office and would seize the opportunity and publicity. Show that they are looking out for the little guy by going after the rich white dude. Bonfire of the Vanities.
As for court, criminal procedure is very different from civil procedure. The opportunities for Gates lawyers to tie up the prosecution is far more limited.
This willful act could be considered assault by one of the attendees and BillG arrested. Even if not stung. Worse for him, this conceivably could come under US federal terrorism laws.
Some people are allergic to mosquito bites even if the mosquitoes are disease-free. Harm is not necessary in most states to convice for assault (that's battery). Just the threat of harm.
Seriously... not tinfoil hats but around your wallet. These RFIDs seem to have greater range than advertised and that is a huge security risk for sniffing.
Some sort of Faraday Cage will block RFID, or at least their power supply. I do not know whether ferromatnetics like iron and steel are more effective than non-magnetics like aluminum.
... and not just because he is boss (structural power).
Linux is hardly a new thing, and this is hardly a new question. There _are_ seriously differing requirements, even in the desktop arena. Also, distros come and go. Linux is eternal:) [I wonder why].
Sure, one distro makes VAR and other support easier. But open is not impossible. 'make' is pretty easy and unlike MS systems, compilers are standard.
Given that law enforcement personnel are usually more concerned about their efficiency in enforcing laws they choose than in enforcing laws the public (including their prey) chooses, it is hardly surprising they want more power. Including shutting anyone else down and or shutting them up. I ddeply regret I have never seen LE enforce rights. The most they do is standby for violence.
A huge technical issue is disruption beyond the approved boundaries. Interference does not just stop at some building edge or property line. It will continue on into the sidewalk and street. And probably across it especially for people with low signal strength. Communications are all about S/Nm ratio. Jamming artificially increases Noise. So there are unintended casualties.
I agree that large / noticable Google outages are rare. But smaller ones (as the db is reloaded?) are quite common. I've seen searches return radically different results on the same keywords. Uusually winin a couple of hours, the results are back to "normal".
AFAIK, Google's db is RAM resident -- which is why it can return results _so_ fast. So I presume sometimes part of the dictionary is off-line when a machine crashs / locks-up or is overloaded and slow to respond. No big deal.
The oddest thing about this outage is that anyone cares. Why should it matter? Outages happen. The Internet was designed to be "nuke-proof" which conservely means outages must be expected. Route around them. Do something else. Single points-of-failure are bad.
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You see, the matter is _NOT_ to complain of what the talent is missing, but to be grateful for what it provides and to identify and try to backfill the missing areas.
Glass half empty? Or half-full?
Most unfortunately many managers are there because the want to be. That is, they enjoy the power and do not see the responsibility. Often they simply cannot understand people who are not like them. A singular disqualification for anyone who pretends to manage others.
While SSDs can have decent latency, their typical bandwidth is _horrible_ (~5-10x slower) than spinning disks.
Is Sun going to try $$$ome expen$ive proprietary (parallel flash) to overcome this?
They basically want to frighten people into compliance with their business model. From their PoV, nothing wrong with excessive fright and injustice. Not their problem.
This is a fundamental problem when strong/concentrated interests influence/manipulate a representative democracy to improve their own welfare. The general populace, diffuse interests lose out because of inertia.
In general, contracts are considered to be full-fledged agreements between parties and courts will bind them.
However, there are three doctrines under which gag clauses could be severed:
incapacity -- you were on the gurney when you signed and did not properly review the contract
fundamental breech -- a party who does a terrible job of fulfilling their promises can no longer hold the other party to theirs; and
public policy -- courts can invalidate any clause they deem contrary to public policy.
US courts are very reluctant to use any of these. But a given sets of facts may drive a court. Bad facts make bad law. IANAL.
As a concrete exampke, I offer the spectacles of Tony Blair putting down three separate back-bencher revolts against him. Labour traditionally had no business supporting the US, particularly over Iraq. Most of the Labour voters were against Iraq. But for some reason Tony thought differently. And was able to impose his will. How would be interesting to know.
Please note, I am not claiming US-style presidential systems are better. They are certainly less democratic in the sense that the people's will is often thwarted.
On this privacy issue, UK citizens may need to fall back to the EU courts and constitution. Rather ironic, the birthplace of freedom (Magna Carta) have to rely on the continent with fewer and a horrible history of citizens serving the state.
Sniff the wire and get your hogging neighbors bounced. Or that grll with no taste.
SATA may well be designed to be hot pluggable. But what does that really mean? Hot pluggability can be assured by connector design -- data contacts are "deeper" inside than the power/ground which connect first and disconnect last. Even if they added isolating gates, where do those gates get power?
Switching circuits should not try to draw power from data lines! And if power is not supplied, they will. Perhaps some systems are robuse (3.3V isn't much), but I would not count on all circuits not having some overheat path.
Unpublished news is like unpublished scientific discoveries or product developments. Trade secrets are property of the employer and the employee giving them to anyone else is simple theft and the receiver is at least a receiver of stolen goods, or may be complicit in the theft.
How can a republisher have any advantage? They have to change the words, most likely reducing accuracy. If they can prepare a prettier presentation, then they've added value.
Further, the remedy of return is nothing but an attempt to conceal odious terms. The contract is already struck and monies paid. Why should a refuser be required to do certain things? They didn't agree to do anything. The return may be inconvenient, and might not be accepted by the store. Many have "no open software" return policies.
It is not as if obtaining proper EULA agreement is difficult or impractical -- just put a tear-off on the product. But publishers are afraid those will reduce sales. Well, they would know. So they sneak around. This should not be rewarded with any kind of legal recognition. IANAL
Their conclusion is only one possibility. Far more likely, the mice learned memory-improving behaviours during their enriching experience, and taught those behaviours (perhaps mostly by example) to their offspring.
Many behaviours are learned, and they can create functional differences.
However, there remains a _huge_ fundamental difference: the US was founded on mistrust of ALL government while the Crown is still presumed to have a right to govern.
There is nothing incriminating or even directly informative about an IP address, any more than there is about a street address. But knowing that IP has porn or that street number has drugs is the content.
Canadian Courts and police operate differently from the US. The individuals are generally more professional and competant, and less ambitious for higher office.
A Canadian court might will find (and even presume) police are acting reasonably, so evidence is admissible.
Exactly how is a Reverse IP lookup is different from using a Criss-Cross telephone directory?
Chill!
Go back 100 years, pre-high-mobility and you weren't being watched by police & cameras, you were carefully scrutinized by townsfolk. They had nothing else to do, and rumor and prejudice ran wild. Even the cities had less anonymity.
Between nosy neighbors and police, I'll take police every time.
Sure, the tapes should have a very short retention period (month, year max) to avoid muckraking and other character assasination. Accessing by individual rather than event,place&time is clearly stalking and ought to be punished as such. Unfortunately, oversight of police is generally deficient. But correct this problem, not deprive them of tools.
"effective" is a judgement highly dependant on your values. Others can have different values. My statement was more disclosure of mine.
You may proffer examples of "effective govt pgms". Someone with different values could consider these same examples highly defective.
I'm not a big fan of govt programs. They don't work and become mired in bureaucracy. More often still they become pork-barrel rewards to those contributors who are prepared to navigate they byzantine contracting maze to their monetary reward. The honest do not have patience nor overhead to support the navigation.
That said, I initially supported Paulson's 7 page bailout. He knows much more than is obtainable in the public domain, and if he's afraid enough to go on bended knee to Nancy, I'm afraid too. I was alarmed but not suprised when the House rejected it -- there's no way Paulson could tell them everything. It would cause panic. But then I saw the larding the Senate delivered. Paulson could tell those dudes and obviously didn't have a very compelling case. No-one would dare lard 9/11 or Pearl Harbor bills. So I conclude Paulson was mostly trying to spead the blame.
Cutting the most useful function is a frequent response of bureaucracies (political and corporate) when being ordered to cut. They think it will stop the calls to cut. And it doesn't have strong individual interests/defenders like pork. Just general diffuse interests. So it gets cut.
Unfortunately, broadband is in this category. Nevermind that it would help spread advantages that America does have, and increase participation. The next Einstein is out there, but it won't help if s/he stays buried in the anonymous masses.
As for court, criminal procedure is very different from civil procedure. The opportunities for Gates lawyers to tie up the prosecution is far more limited.
Even if they don't bite, he threatened and deliberately generated fear. That is the essence of assault. People get convicted using toy guns.
Some people are allergic to mosquito bites even if the mosquitoes are disease-free. Harm is not necessary in most states to convice for assault (that's battery). Just the threat of harm.
Some sort of Faraday Cage will block RFID, or at least their power supply. I do not know whether ferromatnetics like iron and steel are more effective than non-magnetics like aluminum.
... and not just because he is boss (structural power).
Linux is hardly a new thing, and this is hardly a new question. There _are_ seriously differing requirements, even in the desktop arena. Also, distros come and go. Linux is eternal :) [I wonder why].
Sure, one distro makes VAR and other support easier. But open is not impossible. 'make' is pretty easy and unlike MS systems, compilers are standard.
If you want one distro, just go FreeBSD.
Given that law enforcement personnel are usually more concerned about their efficiency in enforcing laws they choose than in enforcing laws the public (including their prey) chooses, it is hardly surprising they want more power. Including shutting anyone else down and or shutting them up. I ddeply regret I have never seen LE enforce rights. The most they do is standby for violence.
A huge technical issue is disruption beyond the approved boundaries. Interference does not just stop at some building edge or property line. It will continue on into the sidewalk and street. And probably across it especially for people with low signal strength. Communications are all about S/Nm ratio. Jamming artificially increases Noise. So there are unintended casualties.
I agree that large / noticable Google outages are rare. But smaller ones (as the db is reloaded?) are quite common. I've seen searches return radically different results on the same keywords. Uusually winin a couple of hours, the results are back to "normal".
AFAIK, Google's db is RAM resident -- which is why it can return results _so_ fast. So I presume sometimes part of the dictionary is off-line when a machine crashs / locks-up or is overloaded and slow to respond. No big deal.
The oddest thing about this outage is that anyone cares. Why should it matter? Outages happen. The Internet was designed to be "nuke-proof" which conservely means outages must be expected. Route around them. Do something else. Single points-of-failure are bad.