The NSA, FBI, CIA, Pentagon, and Pres/VP are all in/near D.C.
It seems like just one or two nukes could make the U.S. nearly incapable of defending itself against a serious attack.
I wouldn't worry too much about that if I were you. Four out of those five offices are not really designed for defensive purposes.
As a French person, I resent what the author is implying. Defau(l)t is a french word. It means "inaction", "failure", or "inactive state". And if anybody invented "inaction", we certainly did. We have prior art. It's part of our cultural heritage. And you guys, you were just lucky that we even taught it to Great Britain in the twelve century, for without that specialized knowledge, that special concept of defaults would never even have arrived in America!!
(I try to use my kindle and kindle iphone app with open eyes, but I didn't know about this download limit until now.)
Now that you know, and now that it's clear, you can return both your kindle and your iPhone for a full refund (not to mention, all the ebooks and the music you've lost -- or are about to lose). Let us know how it goes.
From my personal experience, most of the really good programmers that I know don't contribute to open source for one main reason: They don't have the time to.
Open sourcing a closed source code base is not a question of time. It hardly takes any. It's a question of ideology, or it's a question of ownership, but it's not a question of time. If anything, I've done it both ways, and it's a hell of a lot faster to work on a public repository than to work on a secure repository that you won't let anyone else outside yourself (or your team) come near.
We set up a free candy store, and the Chinese (and everyone else who wanted a free kickstart into the 21st century) just came in and took whatever they wanted
We gave them Opium. We gave them Hollywood. We gave them cigarettes. But the candies, no, I'm pretty sure that's all Chinese nowadays (at least the Cadbury ones anyway).
Yep, you can certainly count me as one of those idiots then. I certainly had no idea that the doctrine of "Fair Use" had been abolished, and that the two minutes home video clip of a baby dancing to the low-quality rendering of a commercial song would constitute copyright infringement.
I think you meant to say. "Free trade is not worth it" FOR ME.
I'd say its time to pull the plug on free trade and let these people jump start their own local economies
No one is stopping you. Just stop buying stuff that's not made in the US. If you want to take it a step further, stop buying stuff that's made outside of your State (or outside of your neighborhood). If you really want to go back to the stone ages, then by all means go. I'm certainly not going to stop you (just don't expect me to stop along with you).
What's *more* disgusting is that by the looks of it,
It's disgusting. I agree, but not for the reasons you mention. Usually, it's just because the people at the top of a University have no clue about technical matters. To get to be a Regent for instance, you need good political skills, or you need to be rich, or you need to be part of a well-known, rich, and powerful family.
Sadly, many crucial technical decisions that involve a ton of money get made around a large conference table, or they get made on someone else's expense account, or they get made by an alpha male who was a great footballer during his College years -- so he thinks he's qualified to do anything.
Get your *existing* IT team,
When your most capable existing IT staff already works 50 hours a week, and is already exempt from receiving over time. Why would they want to participate in such a project and give up an additional 30 hours of time for basically zero money and a ton of heart-aches? What's the upside? No, man. A competent IT staff knows when to say "no".
And even if such an IT staffer was interested in doing such a project in the first place. He might just be better served in starting his own open source project. At least with an open source project, you would have more freedom and flexibility, and if you're any good, you can pick your own customers/users, and assuming you were careful -- you can take the project with you if you leave to another employer.
Same thing with Professors. Don't you think they have better things to do? like research, publishing, or teaching? Even Richard Feynman, he said the only reason he got anything done, was because he was adamant about refusing the drivel committee work that his schools were always trying to pawn off onto him.
hire a bunch of programmers directly (hey, you're a University... I wonder where you can get a crapload of cheap, intellectual labour nearby,
Yeah, if you think that throwing more bodies at a problem is a solution, or that changing bodies every six months following the school year is a good idea, then may be you should read "The Mythical-Man Month" by Frederick Brooks and "Peopleware" by DeMarco.
trained in the art of programming properly
Ah, I see. You must have gone to a school where they actually taught you programming. Good for you. I know those schools exist, I've just never been to one. So you'll have to forgive my ignorance. In my school, they taught me "how to think", and they taught me the "Science" of Computers. Believe me, I was as shocked by this news as anyone else. The programming, I had to learn it on my own, preferably before or at least during the first week of class. Now don't get me wrong, when I got out of there, my ego was huge and the knowledge I gained was tremendous, but I was still an idiot by then and I still have the nagging suspicion that I might still be an idiot now -- ten years later (I'm just less of an idiot hopefully).
Now, this is not to say that I approve the way projects are done in a major University system like this. It's just that I hope you begin to understand that Universities have some deep institutional problems that can not be solved by low level people. And that the people at the top, they don't really care, their pocketbooks and/or their egos are well fed by the existing system as it is, so they don't see any major need for a change.
What's next, asking for your login for your banking information, so they can see how you spend your personal money?
Don't get your panties in a twist, that information is already available for a couple of dollars online to anyone.
No, the next logical step is to ask for all your email account and password account information. It's pretty obvious they're asking for passwords because you've had the gall to make your facebook page private, and you've had the gall to communicate with your family and friends privately. And private communications between individuals, that sounds like some kind of communist idea! I certainly don't think the people of Montana are ready for this kind of responsibility. Think of the resulting anarchy that will almost certainly ensue. Think of the children for Christ's sake!
Also, the people who give you their password, at least you know they're going to be loyal to you. It's an ultimate act of surrender. It's just like the resignation letters Sarah Palin asked city employees to sign as a form of loyalty test. She only tried firing the people who wouldn't sign it, the people who did sign -- they had nothing to worry about.
Usually the code you create for class belongs to the university, not you -- this is especially important if you work you did was actually worth anything, because the university might want to patent it.
This is only the case if you're a Graduate Student, or if you're on staff, and the University is your employer.
If you're just an undergrad, the University can not legally claim your code.
Good catch. They were actually paid $100 for each PBX they found, and they found 25,000. So in theory they were paid $2,500,000 (that's roughly 21 cents per minute, plus the operators still had to incur local charges).
Hey, they're terrorists! Terrorists get to set their own prices. Also, may be there is some value in having a voice mail number traceable to a legitimate corporation in the United States. Also, the article confirmed something that I always knew deep down in my gut, telemarketers are terrorists. This makes a lot of sense actually.
What worries me is an attack that takes Wall Street down for three weeks. When it comes back up, the US will no longer be the financial center of the world. Singapore, Beijing, and Dubai will have taken up the load.
Hopefully, they will have built some redundancy by now. In the UK, they've had this kind of redundancy for their financial exchange for a while now, since the IRA taught them that lesson in their attacks of 1992. For most investment banks in London, one day a week, 10% of their London staff works underground from a nuclear bunker.
"It's very aggressive, and I think it's a gamble on the part of the prosecutors," Mr. Rose said.
What gamble? The WTO has already ruled that offshore online gambling was legal.
This is just shifting money around. By interfering with online casinos, the US is only bringing down on itself trade retaliations sanctioned by the WTO. This is basically what happened the last time Kentucky tried to pull the same stunt.
I don't like it either. Now that they're going after the Chinese internet censor, they're likely to be completely unstoppable after that. Who will be next then? Internet censors in Australia? The history revisionists in Japan? Fox News? It's a slippery slope I tell you. They're going after the easy targets first, and then they're slowly ramping their way up to include everyone. It will be complete anarchy.
"Talk about being anti-web. The wave google tool is something you can use on the web. The Microsoft tool is something you have to download and then install before you can even start using." Doesn't that make firefox anti-web?
Sure, if you include only a snippet of what I said, carefully excluding the rest, then I guess you could have a point. That being said, even if I accept your straw-man, at least if I download Firefox, and if my mom downloads IE, in most cases (barring a few exceptions), we'll be able to browse the same web pages.
Talk about being anti-web. The wave google tool is something you can use on the web. The Microsoft tool is something you have to download and then install before you can even start using. The wave google tool can be used with anyone with an email address. And the Microsoft tool can be used only with other people if those other people registered, downloaded, and installed their software. Yeah, I really wonder who's anti-web now.
If you buy a Mini-Cooper on credit, don't come crying to me when Mini-Cooper comes out with a cuter car the following year. That's what your AT&T two-year inflated contract is for -- it's a form of debt. If you can't accept the consequences of taking on debt, don't sign up for it. Believe me, if you're willing to pay the money upfront, you can get some excellent unlocked smart-phones that will work on T-Mobile without having to pay a surcharge for service. Do that next time. Hell, if you don't mind paying for a termination fee, rumor has it that your iPhone will work on T-Mobile just as well (just don't count on getting the Apple firmware updates that way).
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Clearly, everybody who disagreed with you thought you were a 'whack job'. That would have certainly explained the need for your right hand.
I wouldn't worry too much about that if I were you. Four out of those five offices are not really designed for defensive purposes.
Heaven's no, that nasty word comes from Old English. We had nothing to do with that one.
As a French person, I resent what the author is implying. Defau(l)t is a french word. It means "inaction", "failure", or "inactive state". And if anybody invented "inaction", we certainly did. We have prior art. It's part of our cultural heritage. And you guys, you were just lucky that we even taught it to Great Britain in the twelve century, for without that specialized knowledge, that special concept of defaults would never even have arrived in America!!
Wifi'ed and mesh networked. Camels or Marlboros, it doesn't really matter what brand we use as long as it gets picked-up.
Now that you know, and now that it's clear, you can return both your kindle and your iPhone for a full refund (not to mention, all the ebooks and the music you've lost -- or are about to lose). Let us know how it goes.
Open sourcing a closed source code base is not a question of time. It hardly takes any. It's a question of ideology, or it's a question of ownership, but it's not a question of time. If anything, I've done it both ways, and it's a hell of a lot faster to work on a public repository than to work on a secure repository that you won't let anyone else outside yourself (or your team) come near.
We gave them Opium. We gave them Hollywood. We gave them cigarettes. But the candies, no, I'm pretty sure that's all Chinese nowadays (at least the Cadbury ones anyway).
Yep, you can certainly count me as one of those idiots then. I certainly had no idea that the doctrine of "Fair Use" had been abolished, and that the two minutes home video clip of a baby dancing to the low-quality rendering of a commercial song would constitute copyright infringement.
I think you meant to say. "Free trade is not worth it" FOR ME.
No one is stopping you. Just stop buying stuff that's not made in the US. If you want to take it a step further, stop buying stuff that's made outside of your State (or outside of your neighborhood). If you really want to go back to the stone ages, then by all means go. I'm certainly not going to stop you (just don't expect me to stop along with you).
It's disgusting. I agree, but not for the reasons you mention. Usually, it's just because the people at the top of a University have no clue about technical matters. To get to be a Regent for instance, you need good political skills, or you need to be rich, or you need to be part of a well-known, rich, and powerful family. Sadly, many crucial technical decisions that involve a ton of money get made around a large conference table, or they get made on someone else's expense account, or they get made by an alpha male who was a great footballer during his College years -- so he thinks he's qualified to do anything.
When your most capable existing IT staff already works 50 hours a week, and is already exempt from receiving over time. Why would they want to participate in such a project and give up an additional 30 hours of time for basically zero money and a ton of heart-aches? What's the upside? No, man. A competent IT staff knows when to say "no".
And even if such an IT staffer was interested in doing such a project in the first place. He might just be better served in starting his own open source project. At least with an open source project, you would have more freedom and flexibility, and if you're any good, you can pick your own customers/users, and assuming you were careful -- you can take the project with you if you leave to another employer.
Same thing with Professors. Don't you think they have better things to do? like research, publishing, or teaching? Even Richard Feynman, he said the only reason he got anything done, was because he was adamant about refusing the drivel committee work that his schools were always trying to pawn off onto him.
Yeah, if you think that throwing more bodies at a problem is a solution, or that changing bodies every six months following the school year is a good idea, then may be you should read "The Mythical-Man Month" by Frederick Brooks and "Peopleware" by DeMarco.
Ah, I see. You must have gone to a school where they actually taught you programming. Good for you. I know those schools exist, I've just never been to one. So you'll have to forgive my ignorance. In my school, they taught me "how to think", and they taught me the "Science" of Computers. Believe me, I was as shocked by this news as anyone else. The programming, I had to learn it on my own, preferably before or at least during the first week of class. Now don't get me wrong, when I got out of there, my ego was huge and the knowledge I gained was tremendous, but I was still an idiot by then and I still have the nagging suspicion that I might still be an idiot now -- ten years later (I'm just less of an idiot hopefully).
Now, this is not to say that I approve the way projects are done in a major University system like this. It's just that I hope you begin to understand that Universities have some deep institutional problems that can not be solved by low level people. And that the people at the top, they don't really care, their pocketbooks and/or their egos are well fed by the existing system as it is, so they don't see any major need for a change.
DVDs have copy restrictions? Since when? You mean I won't be able to put a DVD into my drive and make a copy anymore. That would seriously suck.
Don't get your panties in a twist, that information is already available for a couple of dollars online to anyone.
No, the next logical step is to ask for all your email account and password account information. It's pretty obvious they're asking for passwords because you've had the gall to make your facebook page private, and you've had the gall to communicate with your family and friends privately. And private communications between individuals, that sounds like some kind of communist idea! I certainly don't think the people of Montana are ready for this kind of responsibility. Think of the resulting anarchy that will almost certainly ensue. Think of the children for Christ's sake!
Also, the people who give you their password, at least you know they're going to be loyal to you. It's an ultimate act of surrender. It's just like the resignation letters Sarah Palin asked city employees to sign as a form of loyalty test. She only tried firing the people who wouldn't sign it, the people who did sign -- they had nothing to worry about.
This is only the case if you're a Graduate Student, or if you're on staff, and the University is your employer. If you're just an undergrad, the University can not legally claim your code.
or better yet, in what country is this? It's not because a University claims something, that it's legally enforceable.
Good catch. They were actually paid $100 for each PBX they found, and they found 25,000. So in theory they were paid $2,500,000 (that's roughly 21 cents per minute, plus the operators still had to incur local charges).
Hey, they're terrorists! Terrorists get to set their own prices. Also, may be there is some value in having a voice mail number traceable to a legitimate corporation in the United States. Also, the article confirmed something that I always knew deep down in my gut, telemarketers are terrorists. This makes a lot of sense actually.
Hopefully, they will have built some redundancy by now. In the UK, they've had this kind of redundancy for their financial exchange for a while now, since the IRA taught them that lesson in their attacks of 1992. For most investment banks in London, one day a week, 10% of their London staff works underground from a nuclear bunker.
What gamble? The WTO has already ruled that offshore online gambling was legal.
This is just shifting money around. By interfering with online casinos, the US is only bringing down on itself trade retaliations sanctioned by the WTO. This is basically what happened the last time Kentucky tried to pull the same stunt.
If you're only counting two Wars, then you haven't really been paying attention.
I don't like it either. Now that they're going after the Chinese internet censor, they're likely to be completely unstoppable after that. Who will be next then? Internet censors in Australia? The history revisionists in Japan? Fox News? It's a slippery slope I tell you. They're going after the easy targets first, and then they're slowly ramping their way up to include everyone. It will be complete anarchy.
Sure, if you include only a snippet of what I said, carefully excluding the rest, then I guess you could have a point. That being said, even if I accept your straw-man, at least if I download Firefox, and if my mom downloads IE, in most cases (barring a few exceptions), we'll be able to browse the same web pages.
Talk about being anti-web. The wave google tool is something you can use on the web. The Microsoft tool is something you have to download and then install before you can even start using. The wave google tool can be used with anyone with an email address. And the Microsoft tool can be used only with other people if those other people registered, downloaded, and installed their software. Yeah, I really wonder who's anti-web now.
So you were the first to commercialize porn online? Sir, let me shake your hands.
If you buy a Mini-Cooper on credit, don't come crying to me when Mini-Cooper comes out with a cuter car the following year. That's what your AT&T two-year inflated contract is for -- it's a form of debt. If you can't accept the consequences of taking on debt, don't sign up for it. Believe me, if you're willing to pay the money upfront, you can get some excellent unlocked smart-phones that will work on T-Mobile without having to pay a surcharge for service. Do that next time. Hell, if you don't mind paying for a termination fee, rumor has it that your iPhone will work on T-Mobile just as well (just don't count on getting the Apple firmware updates that way).