The "correct" thing would be for the American and Spanish astronomers to cut the same sort of deal - the Americans admit that they fell asleep at the wheel, but the Spanish admit that they couldn't have done it without the American work, so jointly crediting both teams for each other's contribution.
The problem is that the Americans didn't fall asleep at the wheel. They publicized the fact that they discovered a planet to their colleagues well before the spanish guy made his announcement to the World. In fact, that's how the spanish guy found out about the planet in the first place. RTFA please.
"Can't we work together? If we would work together, we (well, they) would have found that planet twice as fast. "
Adding more man-power to a particular project doesn't necessarily speed it up, in fact it could slow it down down even more. For an explanation of this point, go buy a copy of the book The Mythical Man Month by Brooks.
"If one woman can have a baby in nine months, nine women could have a baby in one month."
-- Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month
In other news, the Yugo just sent out a press release claiming that it takes twice the amount of raw materials to produce one Yugo than it takes to produce one BMW.
How about having the offending sites removed from the Wayback Machine?
If you ask nicely, the way back machine and google will remove anything personal of yours that is on their server.
For something like that especially, since it involves the government and their national security, I'll bet that it wouldn't require more than an email from a government official to have both of those organizations take down those materials.
No, we don't. Osama Bin Laden was working on our behalf when he was killing school children in Afghanistan (to root out the russians). Saddam Hussein was working on our behalf when he gassed his own people (with our own mustard gas). The world was outraged at the time and the US protected Iraq from receiving repercussions for its actions and actually loaned it an additional one billion dollars just after the massacre.
As to the non-combatants deaths in Iraq, the Patriots you speak of don't know and don't want to know about the non-combatants deaths in Iraq (unless they were committed by the terrorists). The news shows you watch and the newspapers you read don't try to ask those questions and don't try to show you those victims (again, unless those victims were killed/maimed by terrorists).
In Falujah also, we didn't know who were the terrorists and we didn't know who we had to kill, but we destroyed the city anyway just to show the other cities what could happen to them if we lost control.
In many ways, the US may not like to use terrorism, afterall it doesn't like the bad press. But it will use indiscriminate terrorism and extreme fear if it can not reach its objective another way. It has done this in the past and it's currently doing this right now.
Oh yeah... You'll be famous the day someone can't account for that tape after it has been shipped.
Only if you have customers from California. If you don't have customers from California, you can lose their data and you don't need to tell anyone about it.
Because I'd just read this past week that Kodak is going to abandon B&W film.
No, they're discontinuing their B&W paper (which was shit anyway) and they're keeping their B&W film (which is very good). I think they're just playing to their competitive strength. If anything, there are now more options for B&W paper and film, not less.
I noticed that in Oakland (some parts at least) they have little bins on top of trashcans to put your bottles and cans in so homeless people can collect them. Now that's an efficient operation.
Yeah, I had to do the same thing at home. If I don't separate out my recycling, the homeless will dive in my dumpster at 5 am in the morning, often waking me up and leaving a mess after themselves.
It's funny how the right incentive can motivate people.
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This could be like the Date-rape drug. A friend of mine was slipped that drug in his drink in Barcelona. He ended up handing over his laptop, his cell phone, and his wallet to a perfect stranger. Now, that effect could be construed as trust, or it could be construed as turning off all reasoning abilities. But I guess, from the perspective of a pharmacological company, they might prefer call it "trust" instead.
In any case, that drug really fucked him up, it messed with his digestive system for those next three months, and it could possibly have had some more serious permanent damaging effects on him.
This is what happens when you teach ideologies and new math instead of traditional math in high school. You get a bunch of college kids who can't count and can't think.
Most folks can't differentiate between legitimate commercial email and spam and the other half is too busy to respond to stupid surveys from the BBC.
The survey wasn't even from the BBC, it was from some unknown Market Research company. The numbers are believable, but they could be bogus for all we know.
Mod parent up If it's on a public website and not secured, it's not hacking.
That's not the point. If Harvard wants to reject you based on the color of socks you're wearing, that is their right (that is unless it's interfering with Federal discrimination laws). It doesn't matter what justification they use. As long, as they don't publish your name and label you a hacker publicly, they can do whatever the hell they want.
"If I were one of those students, I'd be screaming entrapment at the top of my lungs to anyone who would listen. Maybe it's just me."
Entrapment is legal assuming you're not a law enforcement agency. Your girlfriend can entrap you. Your parents can entrap you. Your boss can entrap you. Etc.
If you're one of the students who got accepted to Harvard (but who didn't take a peek), you could refuse to go to Harvard based on what happened here. That is your right. Afterall, if you think Harvard is mistreating those students in that case, then it's likely they will mistreat other students who are accepted as well.
You have a right to refuse Harvard for any flimsy reason whatsoever and they have the right to refuse you for any flimsy reason whatsoever (unless those reasons are covered by our Federal discrimination laws).
My favorite train station could be "taken over" by a hacker. My favorite restaurant could have a crack whore waiter who's reselling my credit card information. I don't worry about it much either way. Most of it is outside of my control.
I only focus on what I can control, and that's checking my own records.
Yes, what about you? Don't you even read your fucking credit card bills before you pay them? Or if you prefer using your check card, aren't you going to reconcile your fucking checking account? Inquiring minds want to know.
I'd rather he charge non-monopolistic prices for Microsoft products
By non-monopolistic prices, are you asking that he increase or decrease his prices?
By keeping his prices too low, he's driving competitors out of business. By keeping prices to high, he's driving consumers out of business. Which one are you? A peeved competitor or a peeved consumer?
It happens much more often than you think. IBM gives a lot to Apache, for example, without any such obligation.
That's not what I was implying. I was asking about *his* company. Most big companies I know don't give back code unless it's their CEO or their PR department's doing.
IBM, Xerox PARC, google, those are the exceptions -- not the rule.
I would have been more than happy to give back my improvements on the compression routines to the public.
Yeah, but without a license obligating you to give you back that code, do you think your company would have allowed you to give it back? Or do you think you would have taken the risk to give back the code without telling your company about it?
Except FireFox hasn't been written to be remote-controlware, but IE has.
For many companies, the temptation to remote control their customer's computers has been too great, and once a company can remotely control their customer's computer -- hackers will eventually figure out how to do the same.
And as to the marketshare argument, don't forget that Apache has a far bigger marketshare than IIS, and Apache is far easier to use than IIS, and yet Apache is a lot more secure than IIS.
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The problem is that the Americans didn't fall asleep at the wheel. They publicized the fact that they discovered a planet to their colleagues well before the spanish guy made his announcement to the World. In fact, that's how the spanish guy found out about the planet in the first place. RTFA please.
Adding more man-power to a particular project doesn't necessarily speed it up, in fact it could slow it down down even more. For an explanation of this point, go buy a copy of the book The Mythical Man Month by Brooks.
"If one woman can have a baby in nine months, nine women could have a baby in one month."
-- Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month
In other news, the Yugo just sent out a press release claiming that it takes twice the amount of raw materials to produce one Yugo than it takes to produce one BMW.
If you ask nicely, the way back machine and google will remove anything personal of yours that is on their server.
For something like that especially, since it involves the government and their national security, I'll bet that it wouldn't require more than an email from a government official to have both of those organizations take down those materials.
No, we don't. Osama Bin Laden was working on our behalf when he was killing school children in Afghanistan (to root out the russians). Saddam Hussein was working on our behalf when he gassed his own people (with our own mustard gas). The world was outraged at the time and the US protected Iraq from receiving repercussions for its actions and actually loaned it an additional one billion dollars just after the massacre.
As to the non-combatants deaths in Iraq, the Patriots you speak of don't know and don't want to know about the non-combatants deaths in Iraq (unless they were committed by the terrorists). The news shows you watch and the newspapers you read don't try to ask those questions and don't try to show you those victims (again, unless those victims were killed/maimed by terrorists).
In Falujah also, we didn't know who were the terrorists and we didn't know who we had to kill, but we destroyed the city anyway just to show the other cities what could happen to them if we lost control.
In many ways, the US may not like to use terrorism, afterall it doesn't like the bad press. But it will use indiscriminate terrorism and extreme fear if it can not reach its objective another way. It has done this in the past and it's currently doing this right now.
Yeah, but France was never known for its civil rights or for protecting the right to free speech.
Only if you have customers from California. If you don't have customers from California, you can lose their data and you don't need to tell anyone about it.
No, they're discontinuing their B&W paper (which was shit anyway) and they're keeping their B&W film (which is very good). I think they're just playing to their competitive strength. If anything, there are now more options for B&W paper and film, not less.
Yeah, I had to do the same thing at home. If I don't separate out my recycling, the homeless will dive in my dumpster at 5 am in the morning, often waking me up and leaving a mess after themselves.
It's funny how the right incentive can motivate people.
In any case, that drug really fucked him up, it messed with his digestive system for those next three months, and it could possibly have had some more serious permanent damaging effects on him.
Drag your mouse over it to see what I mean.
This is what happens when you teach ideologies and new math instead of traditional math in high school. You get a bunch of college kids who can't count and can't think.
Stupid April 1st joke
The survey wasn't even from the BBC, it was from some unknown Market Research company. The numbers are believable, but they could be bogus for all we know.
That's not the point. If Harvard wants to reject you based on the color of socks you're wearing, that is their right (that is unless it's interfering with Federal discrimination laws). It doesn't matter what justification they use. As long, as they don't publish your name and label you a hacker publicly, they can do whatever the hell they want.
Entrapment is legal assuming you're not a law enforcement agency. Your girlfriend can entrap you. Your parents can entrap you. Your boss can entrap you. Etc.
If you're one of the students who got accepted to Harvard (but who didn't take a peek), you could refuse to go to Harvard based on what happened here. That is your right. Afterall, if you think Harvard is mistreating those students in that case, then it's likely they will mistreat other students who are accepted as well.
You have a right to refuse Harvard for any flimsy reason whatsoever and they have the right to refuse you for any flimsy reason whatsoever (unless those reasons are covered by our Federal discrimination laws).
Hopefully, someone will mod the parent up.
My favorite train station could be "taken over" by a hacker. My favorite restaurant could have a crack whore waiter who's reselling my credit card information. I don't worry about it much either way. Most of it is outside of my control. I only focus on what I can control, and that's checking my own records.
Yes, what about you? Don't you even read your fucking credit card bills before you pay them? Or if you prefer using your check card, aren't you going to reconcile your fucking checking account? Inquiring minds want to know.
By non-monopolistic prices, are you asking that he increase or decrease his prices?
By keeping his prices too low, he's driving competitors out of business. By keeping prices to high, he's driving consumers out of business. Which one are you? A peeved competitor or a peeved consumer?
That's not what I was implying. I was asking about *his* company. Most big companies I know don't give back code unless it's their CEO or their PR department's doing.
IBM, Xerox PARC, google, those are the exceptions -- not the rule.
Yeah, but without a license obligating you to give you back that code, do you think your company would have allowed you to give it back? Or do you think you would have taken the risk to give back the code without telling your company about it?
For many companies, the temptation to remote control their customer's computers has been too great, and once a company can remotely control their customer's computer -- hackers will eventually figure out how to do the same.
And as to the marketshare argument, don't forget that Apache has a far bigger marketshare than IIS, and Apache is far easier to use than IIS, and yet Apache is a lot more secure than IIS.
If you liked Flex, you will love Laszlo. Laszlo actually predates Flex. Here is an online Laszlo interpreter for you to try.
This distinction is important because we will learn to telecopy objects and telecopy live organisms before we learn to teleport them.