The simpler solution would have been to raise insurance rates for car drivers. Personally, I don't remember giving insurance companies the power to legislate.
AOL keywords have existed since the dawn of AOL - well before "Internet" and "web" became part of pop culture. [...] They certainly weren't created for TV.
I know I was there. I remember the time when I became excited everytime a company would put up content on AOL (AOL-users couldn't browse the internet at the time). I remember the time when I received my first AOL bill in upwards of $300. And I even remember the first time AOL introduced the idea of thumbnails.
In any case, I probably shouldn't have said "created for television". The tag line was a convenient way to cross-advertise on television. I am not 100% sure it was created for television.
I guess you're a geek with no TV. The tag line "AOL keyword blahblah" was created for the television market. It's just like Tampax tampons, most of us will never use them and yet most of us know about them.
However, bear in mind that not all news are kept that easily. Only if they are archived would they be kept indefinately. I know quite a lot of Asian sites that keep the news only until 30 days before they are deleted. And that's for members.
As memory gets cheaper and cheaper, and as spiders get better and more intrusive, that's also changing as well. For instance, I still have a seven-year old version of my resume still floating around on the Way Back Machine. Don't ask me why it's there, I don't know. It was recorded through my personal web page and at the time, it didn't even seem like people were reading my web page.
These days, some robots are even caching content purposefully labeled not to be spidered. Some others are recording content dynamically generated. And some others still are recording privately intented content (emails and password protected web pages).
So for all we know, the content you speak of could still be floating around somewhere.
The only reason to hire a hacker is a political one.
Hacking is like breaking into a building, you can break the door, pick the lock, break the window, convince someone to give you the key, etc. And programming/administrating is like designing/cleaning a building. The programmer (builder)/admin (janitor) will probably know about all the "flaws" of the structure, but they don't usually have the incentives to uncover any of them because those "flaws" can only mean thankless (and potentially limitless) additional work.
So that's why, I say the decision to hire a hacker is a political one. If the management really wants an honest comprehensive audit of all the risks they're facing, I think a former hacker would be much more forthcoming about that kind of information than a former programmer, or a former administrator.
"Yes this was a staff submission Sherlock. Just like 90% of all the news that makes it into the press. Duh? "
Thanks for the sarcastic compliment Mr. Frey.
Perhaps next time, you'll make your news submission/web site a little bit more modest and a little less obvious. If you're not convinced yet, please make a list of the top ten sites you visit the most, or the top ten sites you respect the most, and see how arrogant they are compared to your site.
Speaking of which. Count me in as someone who is too stupid to install FreeBSD. I bought the packaged distribution (which included a manual), bought an additional book on FreeBSD, and I looked for additional documentation online. I noticed and noted all the discrepancies in the installation docs, I partitioned and reinstalled FreeBSD everywhich way I could, and I still couldn't manage to get FreeBSD working on my home-assembled two-year old system.
"Predicting future climatic changes is a good thing, even if sometimes flawed. "
Trying to predict future climatic changes is "a good thing", no one is arguing this. The question is whether or not this (unverified) new science is reliable enough to bet our entire way of life on it.
Computers encourage more collaborative writing, and they encourage the collaboration to be far more intense. Before computers, the usual form of collaboration consisted of dividing up the work so that different authors wrote different chapters; then they reviewed one another's work. Writing with computers, though, collaborators can enter into one another's work so readily and revise it so easily that, in effect, co-authors can mutually co-write each sentence.
This kind of collaborative writing can be difficult to read. No two writers have quite the same sense about punctuation, tone, rhythm, headings, sentence variation, and the like. In collaborative works, I sometimes find grammatical conventions changing from the beginning to the end of the same sentence--because one author started the sentence and the other finished it.
In the worst cases, collaborative writing becomes a colloid of conflicting styles. In a document I recently edited, one section was written by a psychologist with a propensity for theoretical language, another by a computer programmer concerned mainly with the technical characteristics of machinery, another by a manager recording the history of the project. To complicate things, each author had inserted a few sentences (in his own style) in the midst of the other sections. Every time I reached a new major heading, the narrator changed voice--and the voices occasionally jumped around from sentence to sentence. It was schizophrenic prose, with faults that had been amplified by the easy editing made possible by the word processor."
Being a licensed engineer shows that you have had an education in not only your field, but also in safety, ethics, and responsibility.
You better qualify that statement with the name of your home country. In many countries, the ethical education and the legal reponsibility doesn't come with the Engineering license.
Isn't the word 'engineer' already taken by 'train engineers'? I say whomever was first -- gets to keep the word. May be the new 'engineers' should just make up a new word, put a trademark on it, and leave everyone else alone.
The original poster was right to some extent. I've lived and worked in France, the UK, and the US, and I still can't understand any of the figures given for "unemployement". For exampele here in the US, "unemployement" does not mean that you're out of work, it only means that you're eligible to receive unemployment benefits for a very limited time, that's it. In the UK and in France, "unemployment" means something entirely different, for instance in the UK -- I could perceive unemployment having never even worked in that country. There are lots of studies, yes, but the interpretation of the data is usually politically-driven, so I wouldn't put much stalk into those.
The only thing I can say, is based on my personal experience, as fallacious as it may be. As a French person with duel citizenship, I feel *much* more comfortable looking for a job here in the US. I think this is what it comes down to, just ask people who had the opportunity to look for work in multiple countries.
What happens when there is a technological revolution? Let's say a specific segment of your industry consolidates itself and for example; you can't be an high-paid Word Processor Consultant anymore (yes, there used to be such a position). Should the government continue to protect your job for five years? And if so, who will protect your country from competiting countries?
Protecting jobs wich have become obsolete is tantamount to burning perfectly good houses just to create jobs. It doesn't make a lot of sense and in the end it doesn't raise anyone's standard of living.
With the time delay and the *current* state of technology, it would seem an LCD screen would be more appropriate for this kind of system. But alas, goggles are cooler. Goggles can make it into the press. And the very idea of goggles can get more funding.
Is ISO the binary code? The source code? What is it? And what's fscking? It sounds like a unix command, but I couldn't find a man page for it. Are you just being rude?
...and because you can actually finish crystalizing a thought before hitting the enter key. I don't know if it's my personal arrogance or my k-12 school training, but I can be quick to take the floor even my thought is not completed yet.
I have Red Hat 7.1, a dsl connection connected to my Linux box, and probably six months left in my Red Hat subscription. Is there a way for me to upgrade my system to 8.x or 9.x without paying extra?
The reason I'm asking is because I saw a post on Slashdot a while ago about doing just that, but I haven't been able to find it again. I think it involved downloading and compiling the binaries of the latest version manually, changing the registration info, and then running the Red Hat update. Is that right?
In any case, should I even updgrade? Are there any additional hardware requirements for 9.0? (I have a low end AMD Duron 800, 128 Mb of RAM, and 20 gigs of storage) How do I transfer all my KDE mail and my porn collection? Will I be forced to make a backup? I hate doing backups. I also hate configuring and compiling Linux gunzip archives, although I am finally getting used to it.
They did this about a year ago here in the Netherlands. Phones listed as stolen were sent a barrage of SMS messages, basically every couple minutes, making the phone nearly unusable (incessant beeping of arriving messages, full inbox, etc)
They're already doing this to me here in the US, although my phone wasn't even stolen. By linking sequential phone numbers directly to email addresses, they made it _very_easy_ for spambots to spam the hell out of us.
Does anyone know of a US provider who doesn't use phone numbers as an email id?
I know they have had something like that for a while on land lines here in the U.S. When my sister broke up with an abusive boyfriend she was able to block all calls from his phone number.
They can make caller id illegal. Until just a few years ago, caller id was illegal in California (although it was legal in other states). For instance, your sister could have blocked the telephone of her abusive boyfriend, but the boyfriend could have switched to a different pay phone everytime. If there was ever a stupid law, this was one of them.
In any case, now caller id is legal in California. It's pretty cool. It can't display all the phone numbers in Europe yet, but it can display most phone numbers in Hungary (including pay phones). Soon, I assume my caller id display will be able to display numbers from most countries in the world (of course, anyone has the option to hide their number if they want, but the receiving telephone can refuse to ring if the person calling still refuses to display his number).
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The simpler solution would have been to raise insurance rates for car drivers. Personally, I don't remember giving insurance companies the power to legislate.
I am against television to, but for some reason you remind me a lot of this guy.
I know I was there. I remember the time when I became excited everytime a company would put up content on AOL (AOL-users couldn't browse the internet at the time). I remember the time when I received my first AOL bill in upwards of $300. And I even remember the first time AOL introduced the idea of thumbnails.
In any case, I probably shouldn't have said "created for television". The tag line was a convenient way to cross-advertise on television. I am not 100% sure it was created for television.
I guess you're a geek with no TV. The tag line "AOL keyword blahblah" was created for the television market. It's just like Tampax tampons, most of us will never use them and yet most of us know about them.
As memory gets cheaper and cheaper, and as spiders get better and more intrusive, that's also changing as well. For instance, I still have a seven-year old version of my resume still floating around on the Way Back Machine. Don't ask me why it's there, I don't know. It was recorded through my personal web page and at the time, it didn't even seem like people were reading my web page.
These days, some robots are even caching content purposefully labeled not to be spidered. Some others are recording content dynamically generated. And some others still are recording privately intented content (emails and password protected web pages).
So for all we know, the content you speak of could still be floating around somewhere.
Hopefully, this Sam character won't sue Gutenberg for using his voice.
Hacking is like breaking into a building, you can break the door, pick the lock, break the window, convince someone to give you the key, etc. And programming/administrating is like designing/cleaning a building. The programmer (builder)/admin (janitor) will probably know about all the "flaws" of the structure, but they don't usually have the incentives to uncover any of them because those "flaws" can only mean thankless (and potentially limitless) additional work.
So that's why, I say the decision to hire a hacker is a political one. If the management really wants an honest comprehensive audit of all the risks they're facing, I think a former hacker would be much more forthcoming about that kind of information than a former programmer, or a former administrator.
Thanks for the sarcastic compliment Mr. Frey.
Perhaps next time, you'll make your news submission/web site a little bit more modest and a little less obvious. If you're not convinced yet, please make a list of the top ten sites you visit the most, or the top ten sites you respect the most, and see how arrogant they are compared to your site.
Speaking of which. Count me in as someone who is too stupid to install FreeBSD. I bought the packaged distribution (which included a manual), bought an additional book on FreeBSD, and I looked for additional documentation online. I noticed and noted all the discrepancies in the installation docs, I partitioned and reinstalled FreeBSD everywhich way I could, and I still couldn't manage to get FreeBSD working on my home-assembled two-year old system.
Is Frey a common last name? Because the person who submitted this news item about Tom Frey is none other than Darby Frey (a.k.a Deb Hellman)
Someone mod this guy up and the other guy down.
According to the Supreme Court, telephone directories are *NOT* copyrightable.
Trying to predict future climatic changes is "a good thing", no one is arguing this. The question is whether or not this (unverified) new science is reliable enough to bet our entire way of life on it.
"Problems in Collaboration by Computer
Computers encourage more collaborative writing, and they encourage the collaboration to be far more intense. Before computers, the usual form of collaboration consisted of dividing up the work so that different authors wrote different chapters; then they reviewed one another's work. Writing with computers, though, collaborators can enter into one another's work so readily and revise it so easily that, in effect, co-authors can mutually co-write each sentence.
This kind of collaborative writing can be difficult to read. No two writers have quite the same sense about punctuation, tone, rhythm, headings, sentence variation, and the like. In collaborative works, I sometimes find grammatical conventions changing from the beginning to the end of the same sentence--because one author started the sentence and the other finished it.
In the worst cases, collaborative writing becomes a colloid of conflicting styles. In a document I recently edited, one section was written by a psychologist with a propensity for theoretical language, another by a computer programmer concerned mainly with the technical characteristics of machinery, another by a manager recording the history of the project. To complicate things, each author had inserted a few sentences (in his own style) in the midst of the other sections. Every time I reached a new major heading, the narrator changed voice--and the voices occasionally jumped around from sentence to sentence. It was schizophrenic prose, with faults that had been amplified by the easy editing made possible by the word processor."
You better qualify that statement with the name of your home country. In many countries, the ethical education and the legal reponsibility doesn't come with the Engineering license.
Isn't the word 'engineer' already taken by 'train engineers'? I say whomever was first -- gets to keep the word. May be the new 'engineers' should just make up a new word, put a trademark on it, and leave everyone else alone.
The only thing I can say, is based on my personal experience, as fallacious as it may be. As a French person with duel citizenship, I feel *much* more comfortable looking for a job here in the US. I think this is what it comes down to, just ask people who had the opportunity to look for work in multiple countries.
Protecting jobs wich have become obsolete is tantamount to burning perfectly good houses just to create jobs. It doesn't make a lot of sense and in the end it doesn't raise anyone's standard of living.
With the time delay and the *current* state of technology, it would seem an LCD screen would be more appropriate for this kind of system. But alas, goggles are cooler. Goggles can make it into the press. And the very idea of goggles can get more funding.
Try http://movielens.umn.edu, it's a University experiment which recommends you movies based on the ratings you gave other movies.
Is Mexican copyright honored here in the US?
Is ISO the binary code? The source code? What is it? And what's fscking? It sounds like a unix command, but I couldn't find a man page for it. Are you just being rude?
...and because you can actually finish crystalizing a thought before hitting the enter key. I don't know if it's my personal arrogance or my k-12 school training, but I can be quick to take the floor even my thought is not completed yet.
The reason I'm asking is because I saw a post on Slashdot a while ago about doing just that, but I haven't been able to find it again. I think it involved downloading and compiling the binaries of the latest version manually, changing the registration info, and then running the Red Hat update. Is that right?
In any case, should I even updgrade? Are there any additional hardware requirements for 9.0? (I have a low end AMD Duron 800, 128 Mb of RAM, and 20 gigs of storage) How do I transfer all my KDE mail and my porn collection? Will I be forced to make a backup? I hate doing backups. I also hate configuring and compiling Linux gunzip archives, although I am finally getting used to it.
They're already doing this to me here in the US, although my phone wasn't even stolen. By linking sequential phone numbers directly to email addresses, they made it _very_easy_ for spambots to spam the hell out of us.
Does anyone know of a US provider who doesn't use phone numbers as an email id?
They can make caller id illegal. Until just a few years ago, caller id was illegal in California (although it was legal in other states). For instance, your sister could have blocked the telephone of her abusive boyfriend, but the boyfriend could have switched to a different pay phone everytime. If there was ever a stupid law, this was one of them.
In any case, now caller id is legal in California. It's pretty cool. It can't display all the phone numbers in Europe yet, but it can display most phone numbers in Hungary (including pay phones). Soon, I assume my caller id display will be able to display numbers from most countries in the world (of course, anyone has the option to hide their number if they want, but the receiving telephone can refuse to ring if the person calling still refuses to display his number).