I believe it is because there are temporary and lifetime bans handed out to dangerously unruly football fans in Europe. The passport information is to help enforce these bans.
A portal as a connection between to two points that are not contiguous in normal space is a concept exclusive to science fiction.
Actually, the concept of a portal as a connection between non-contiguous spaces existed in Ancient Near East mythology, and more recently, the term has existed in Christian practice in at least two ways. One is the grave as the portal to the next life. The other is the idea of a portal between earth and heaven that opens during prayer and/or worship.
But above all else, I NEVER NEVER NEVER thought I would see a man who was a torture victim and POW stand up and support that very torture by HIS OWN COUNTRY.
I'm with you on liking the 2000 version of McCain better than this one, but I thought that one thing that made him stand out from the other Republicans (other than Ron Paul) during the debates was his opposition to torture and, as Mitt Romney liked to call them, "enhanced interrogation techniques." When did he change his tune on that?
The purchase of Skype never made much sense to me, as it hasn't to anyone else here, either. One theory is that since the stock price had already plummeted and then stagnated, they may have been looking to infuse the company with new and innovative talent to shake them from the doldrums. Sometimes the way to get that is to buy another company.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I have a conspiracy theory, so maybe I am a latent conspiracy theorist. In the never-ending global war on terror, much has been made of the inability to track many forms of online communication. Skype was owned by Sweden and the US government would have less leverage with them than an American-owned company. My theory is that the government cut a deal with E-bay to buy Skype in exchange for favors of some sort so that communications between you, me, and every other potential terrorist could be more easily monitored.
Robert X. Cringely had an interesting 3 part series on education that wrapped up last week. His last part was about how video games are the inevitable educational tool of the future. I actually thought it was the weakest of his three parts, but maybe I'm too old to see it.
The numbers aren't pulled out of thin air, but the methodology to arrive at their numbers is ridiculous. To include all broadcast media, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, and even manufacturers of WIRE in this list shows how far they will reach to come up with this fantastic number. It's Fair Use fanboi-ism to an extreme.
An interesting column in Newsweek International by Fahreed Zakaria http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17080934/site/newsweek /?from=rss/ says that since the problem of warming won't be solved anyway (and he gives his reasons why), we should begin making plans now for an earth that is warmer. This will be much cheaper and easier to accomplish than will attempting to reduce greenhouse gases, which when you look at projections from China and India alone, seems to be a hopeless task.
They are targeting more than twenty people. They are targeting twenty people and all the people who are going to pester them because SOME of the targeted advertising will be seen by their superiors. The fact that a company has one of the twenty targets should be enough to generate a buzz that requires attention to be paid to the ads.
It's a clever way of forcing you to pay attention to the sales pitch. I've had salesmen decide the best way to get through to me was to go over my head to my boss. It's too heavy handed and has never worked. This may be a better way of going over someone's head.
Maybe you'd like to tell us what your organization is, so we can judge the veracity of your statments for ourselves?
I'm not an AC, but that would be a little TMI.
If it stops mail from ever getting to your server, and so no one ever sees it, how do you expect people to know a false positive has occurred, and to complain about it?
It is anecdotal evidence. When we had a RBL, I got complaints about false positives, especially for email from Asia. Since switching to a different type of spam filter, the complaints about missing mail have nearly vanished, and we have been able to verify that those complaints that do come in have nothing to do with the spam service.
We were bitten by Spamhaus not for our actions, but for the action of an individual with an open relay occupying an adjacent IP address range. Spamhaus blocked the entire thing. I emailed them our domain whois and the snobby little bastards at Spamhaus brazenly told me that we were indeed the spammer and that we need to "clean up [our] act" before they would do anything. They went on to talk about "spam payloads"... WTF?!
I don't know about the yacht in international waters, but I agree that Spamhaus wreaks havoc on organizations that have done nothing wrong. Our organization has been black listed before too, and it was in error. It finally got cleared up, but it is still damaging.
We stopped using RBL's a long time ago, and have swtiched to something called Securence http://www.securence.com/. It has been much more reliable than RBL's, and keeps the junk from ever getting to our server in the first place. I haven't had a complaint about a false positive since we switched, and it blocks over 100,000 spam/viruses/phishing attempts a day.
My impression is that it is a "light touch" as opposed to what many had feared, which was that blogging content would be regulated more strictly than print media.
Here's a tool that we use that has saved us a lot of time for inventory. It is called
EZ Audit.
For a company your size, it is around $200-300. You put an entry in the login script and it makes a hardware and software inventory of every machine on your network. I looked at this a few years ago, but I was not impressed. However, they have improved the product and its reporting tools are very useful. We are much more productive now than we were, because no matter how good our intentions were, we still struggled with documenting changes and software. Now it happens automatically, without the hassles that we had when we tried to use things like Systems Management Server.
I never thought I would see my hometown mentioned on Slashdot! The Carthage, MO plant did have an awful odor that made people sick. A Kansas City alternative newspaper wrote an interesting article on that smell. Later, the plant was actually made to shut down until they dealt with the smell. I haven't been back yet, but I have been told that the smell is pretty much gone, now.
Befor this, Carthage never had an issue with a bad smell. The parent post is a little off - it's not a livestock town. It is a big poultry town, and if you got a Butterball turkey, it may have gone through Carthage. However, odor was never a big problem from the poultry plants until they took the turkey remains and tried to turn them into petrolium.
I think Fox News (and most everyone else in the broadcast media, but especially Fox) is well described by the quote for today by Kurt Vonnegut. He said,
"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Fortunately, under Betamax, you will be able to timeshift your conversations using a PCR (Personal Conversation Recorder) and skip the ads. That is unless your conversations are flagged to protect their copyright integrity.
I'm too young to remember the Betamax/VHS controversy very well. Did Betamax have the feature of skipping commercials using something other than a normal fast forward?
Up to this point, I would agree that AutoDesk is too MS-centric. However, I have heard that they have tapped out the Windows CAD market as much as they can, and if they want more growth with their existing product lines, they are best off going into the Linux market. Supposedly, they are working on porting to other platforms so they can be used in markets that are anti-MS, like China.
Of course, I heard this from a friend who heard it from an AutoDesk rep. If you quote me, you will have to say that you saw someone say this on Slashdot who heard it from a friend who heard it from someone else.
We set up a departmental Gmail account. Then, if someone comes across something useful, they can send it to the Gmail account. We obviously don't keep sensitive information on there, but it is good for almost everything else. The nice thing about the Gmail account is that it is easily searched, people at any location can get to it, and the only effort required is actually adding the information to it. If someone is anal-retentive enough to want to organize it, he is free to use labels, but so far, the searching has been adequate for everyone.
I'm against the Patriot Act and other U.S. govt. intrusions into our lives, but saying "the United States censors more than China does" is a bit over the top. Actual censorship is relatively rare. The attempt by one library to censor Jon Stewart's book America made news because it was an exception, not the rule. You can find examples of some censorship, like it being illegal to make threats to kill the President, or joking about carrying a bomb in an airport, but these are also issues that involve what could be considered the public good.
The media is free to report views unfavorable to the government, but they may lose some of their priviledged access. I did not like the embedded reporters program - I believed they sold their journalistic souls for access. However, it was optional, and if you wanted to post things against the war like www.juancole.com does, you are free to do so without fear of reprisal.
I have used the password vault in Firefox, but if someone thinks that is a bad one to use, I would appreciate hearing about it. I use a strong password to protect that vault.
My technical skills have definitely deteriorated since being promoted, but it has not all been negative. I have a much better understanding of the "big picture" and of what is important for the company. It also gives me a better idea as to what "geeky" skills will be useful if I want to spend the time getting training (which I am now starting to do.)
During the rant, you said, "I should have bought that Compaq instead. It was the same price, and still runs to this day."
If you didn't buy the Compaq, how do you know it still runs? My anecdotal evidence is no better than anyone else's on Slashdot, but I have had a lot of experience with Dell, Toshiba, IBM, and Compaq laptops. The IBM's and Toshibas have been the best, and the Compaqs have been the worst, and the Dells are somewhere in the middle.
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Stupid sinkhole attacked the wrong museum in Kentucky.
I believe it is because there are temporary and lifetime bans handed out to dangerously unruly football fans in Europe. The passport information is to help enforce these bans.
That's the worst song on that album!
A portal as a connection between to two points that are not contiguous in normal space is a concept exclusive to science fiction.
Actually, the concept of a portal as a connection between non-contiguous spaces existed in Ancient Near East mythology, and more recently, the term has existed in Christian practice in at least two ways. One is the grave as the portal to the next life. The other is the idea of a portal between earth and heaven that opens during prayer and/or worship.
I'm with you on liking the 2000 version of McCain better than this one, but I thought that one thing that made him stand out from the other Republicans (other than Ron Paul) during the debates was his opposition to torture and, as Mitt Romney liked to call them, "enhanced interrogation techniques." When did he change his tune on that?The purchase of Skype never made much sense to me, as it hasn't to anyone else here, either. One theory is that since the stock price had already plummeted and then stagnated, they may have been looking to infuse the company with new and innovative talent to shake them from the doldrums. Sometimes the way to get that is to buy another company.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I have a conspiracy theory, so maybe I am a latent conspiracy theorist. In the never-ending global war on terror, much has been made of the inability to track many forms of online communication. Skype was owned by Sweden and the US government would have less leverage with them than an American-owned company. My theory is that the government cut a deal with E-bay to buy Skype in exchange for favors of some sort so that communications between you, me, and every other potential terrorist could be more easily monitored.
Robert X. Cringely had an interesting 3 part series on education that wrapped up last week. His last part was about how video games are the inevitable educational tool of the future. I actually thought it was the weakest of his three parts, but maybe I'm too old to see it.
The numbers aren't pulled out of thin air, but the methodology to arrive at their numbers is ridiculous. To include all broadcast media, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, and even manufacturers of WIRE in this list shows how far they will reach to come up with this fantastic number. It's Fair Use fanboi-ism to an extreme.
Nick Carr's blog, outlines how ridiculous their numbers are.
An interesting column in Newsweek International by Fahreed Zakaria http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17080934/site/newsweek /?from=rss/ says that since the problem of warming won't be solved anyway (and he gives his reasons why), we should begin making plans now for an earth that is warmer. This will be much cheaper and easier to accomplish than will attempting to reduce greenhouse gases, which when you look at projections from China and India alone, seems to be a hopeless task.
They are targeting more than twenty people. They are targeting twenty people and all the people who are going to pester them because SOME of the targeted advertising will be seen by their superiors. The fact that a company has one of the twenty targets should be enough to generate a buzz that requires attention to be paid to the ads.
It's a clever way of forcing you to pay attention to the sales pitch. I've had salesmen decide the best way to get through to me was to go over my head to my boss. It's too heavy handed and has never worked. This may be a better way of going over someone's head.
What am I selling?
I'm not an AC, but that would be a little TMI.
If it stops mail from ever getting to your server, and so no one ever sees it, how do you expect people to know a false positive has occurred, and to complain about it?
It is anecdotal evidence. When we had a RBL, I got complaints about false positives, especially for email from Asia. Since switching to a different type of spam filter, the complaints about missing mail have nearly vanished, and we have been able to verify that those complaints that do come in have nothing to do with the spam service.
I don't know about the yacht in international waters, but I agree that Spamhaus wreaks havoc on organizations that have done nothing wrong. Our organization has been black listed before too, and it was in error. It finally got cleared up, but it is still damaging.
We stopped using RBL's a long time ago, and have swtiched to something called Securence http://www.securence.com/. It has been much more reliable than RBL's, and keeps the junk from ever getting to our server in the first place. I haven't had a complaint about a false positive since we switched, and it blocks over 100,000 spam/viruses/phishing attempts a day.
My impression is that it is a "light touch" as opposed to what many had feared, which was that blogging content would be regulated more strictly than print media.
Here's a tool that we use that has saved us a lot of time for inventory. It is called EZ Audit. For a company your size, it is around $200-300. You put an entry in the login script and it makes a hardware and software inventory of every machine on your network. I looked at this a few years ago, but I was not impressed. However, they have improved the product and its reporting tools are very useful. We are much more productive now than we were, because no matter how good our intentions were, we still struggled with documenting changes and software. Now it happens automatically, without the hassles that we had when we tried to use things like Systems Management Server.
Befor this, Carthage never had an issue with a bad smell. The parent post is a little off - it's not a livestock town. It is a big poultry town, and if you got a Butterball turkey, it may have gone through Carthage. However, odor was never a big problem from the poultry plants until they took the turkey remains and tried to turn them into petrolium.
I'm too young to remember the Betamax/VHS controversy very well. Did Betamax have the feature of skipping commercials using something other than a normal fast forward?
Of course, I heard this from a friend who heard it from an AutoDesk rep. If you quote me, you will have to say that you saw someone say this on Slashdot who heard it from a friend who heard it from someone else.
We set up a departmental Gmail account. Then, if someone comes across something useful, they can send it to the Gmail account. We obviously don't keep sensitive information on there, but it is good for almost everything else. The nice thing about the Gmail account is that it is easily searched, people at any location can get to it, and the only effort required is actually adding the information to it. If someone is anal-retentive enough to want to organize it, he is free to use labels, but so far, the searching has been adequate for everyone.
The media is free to report views unfavorable to the government, but they may lose some of their priviledged access. I did not like the embedded reporters program - I believed they sold their journalistic souls for access. However, it was optional, and if you wanted to post things against the war like www.juancole.com does, you are free to do so without fear of reprisal.
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I have used the password vault in Firefox, but if someone thinks that is a bad one to use, I would appreciate hearing about it. I use a strong password to protect that vault.
My technical skills have definitely deteriorated since being promoted, but it has not all been negative. I have a much better understanding of the "big picture" and of what is important for the company. It also gives me a better idea as to what "geeky" skills will be useful if I want to spend the time getting training (which I am now starting to do.)
During the rant, you said, "I should have bought that Compaq instead. It was the same price, and still runs to this day."
If you didn't buy the Compaq, how do you know it still runs? My anecdotal evidence is no better than anyone else's on Slashdot, but I have had a lot of experience with Dell, Toshiba, IBM, and Compaq laptops. The IBM's and Toshibas have been the best, and the Compaqs have been the worst, and the Dells are somewhere in the middle.