Yow, the (bad) memories this brings back! Back when VCRs were called VTRs, weighed 40 pounds and cost >$1000, I failed two polygraph tests regarding thefts of video equipment that were repeatedly occurring where I worked. I wasn't charged with anything, although I did have detectives banging on my door at 1:00am asking me if there was maybe something I wanted to get off my chest? Can we just look around a little bit?
I had not commited the thefts. However, it hadn't escaped my notice that those VTRs cost more than two months' living expenses, and my thoughts had lingered once or twice on how easy it would be to get the equipment out of the building. I was a bit of a punk, and looked it.
During the interrogation, I felt so guilty about having considered the very thefts that eventually occurred, and was so claustrophobic -- there's a bellows-thingy around your chest and a blood-pressue cuff and other restraints reminiscent of the electric chair -- and the guy stood between me and the door for good measure! -- and I was so nervous about emitting a damning response that when the questions moved on from "what is your name" to "did you steal", I could actually hear those blasted pens going scribble-scribble. Biofeedback of the worst kind! From then on I chanted "Om Mane Padme Hum" in my head with such intensity that I could barely hear the guy, and I guess that worked to flatten my responses -- the polygraph results were deemed "Inconclusive". Not good enough for my employer....
Innocent of what? Are you ready to defend each and every search you've made against the discomfort it may cause some future Administration?
This has many layers to it, including; suspicous timing -- coming as it does on the heels of a.) Jack Abramoff's decision to sing like a canary and b.) the NSA-citizen-spying leak; anti-competitive behavior (recently disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's career was launched as an associate of Preston, Gates and Ellis, founded by Billg's daddy, and call me paranoid, but doesn't Bill have a thing about Google?); but most egregious is the chilling effect it may have on free inquiry and communication of every kind, including but not limited to dissent. Pardon me for screaming in print, but I FEAR THIS ADMINSTRATION like I never feared Reagan, or Nixon, or even Kruschev, and they had nukes on the ready!
The voter cannot verify the paper printout accurately reflects the electronically-recorded vote. Neither does it prevent vote-buying: the the voter may still surreptitiously snap a digital photo of his touchscreen to later convince his handler to pay as agreed. Consequently the paper printout solves nothing while providing political cover for the vote-rigging party in power.
As for Milwauke's 'multiple vote problem' in 2004:
I live in Milwaukee and wore out a pair of shoes working to defeat the incumbent. Thus I have an interest in how Milwaukee is being used as an example.
The accusations of voter fraud were, to the best of my knowledge, never substantiated. The accusations seemed essentially sour grapes from the ruling party, which was pretty thoroughly trounced in our town. Rather than repeating scuttelbutt you might consider thanking Milwaukee for belonging to the clearsighted 49 percent versus the deluded 51!
I think the parent is right on, and would like to amplify: Where MSFT excels is the use of language. It seems Matusow is trying out a new meme which, if successful, could subtly but powerfully alter the playing field on which Open Source and MSFT compete. Everyone knows Open Source now, and in the brains of the general IT purchasing population, Open Source == Good. If this trial balloon succeeds even slightly in poisoning the (OS==G) meme, expect it to be amplified exponentially in publications that IT purchasers rely on for guidance.
for (i = 0; i <=100; i++) { printf("passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood");
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Yeah, you're right, in the context my post makes no sense whatsoever. What I should have said, but didn't:
This article, plus the car breakin I just endured, move me to investigate a CarPC-plus-camera sort of tech to take photos of the interior of my vehicle whenever the door is opened. If I'd had such a thing in place already, the perp would have taken a self-portrait. Could be useful as a deterrent (plastered around the neighborhood, if I wanted to be nasty) if not in gaining a conviction.
[Next time I hope I try to stick to what I mean instead of trying to sound clever....first time I ever got modded down, ouch!]
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Middle-of-the-night-strangely-related-weirdness: I just closed the door after talking to a cop (OK, OK, I told my wife first, then had a snack, and then insomaniacally logged in, so it's not *just* closed... it's not like I immediately must login to Slashdot every time I talk to the cops) who rang my doorbell to tell me 'some cat' had been sitting in my car parked on the street in front of my house. I'd forgotten to lock the doors, d'oh! She chased him off, nothing was taken, we've been having a rash of crimes in the area and could I please be more cognizant (her word) of keeping my doors locked, thankyouverymuch. And yes, she was hot, thanks for asking.
Would I love to have on disk a nice, clear, 3.3 megapixel self-portrait of this 'cat' sitting in my driver's seat? Yes, indeed I would. Having the door lightswitch trigger the shutter should be trivial. I'd like to have a portrait of my hero chasing him off, too, but designing an app to choose only the attractive plainclothes (Did I just say plainclothes? Ignore the honking two-way radio and clipboard and she'd have looked like she was on a date) policewomen instead of filling my HDD with pictures of traffic would exceed my skills. Bayesian filtering?
She is a neighbor, as well, which I guess is how she knew the guy, or 'cat' in pretty-cop-lady-lingo, didn't belong in the car he was in. Seeing as how we're neighbors and all, aren't I obligated to stop by and, um, thank her?
They sell the device to provides a plausible basis for extending the revenue opportunity with licensing fees: 10 client systems for the base price, additional licenses are $250! Just barely a cost savings versus Windows....
I agree that Mr. Cameron speaks some truth -- fairly self-evident for the most part, IMHO, although I thought the 'directionality' of identity was novel and useful. He's right, managing identity is a key issue in fully realizing the Internet's social and commercial utility.
However, this sooth demonstrates that MSFT continues to be very very good at correctly identifying new vantage points from which to extend their control. If I had to choose only one MSFT initiative to defeat, 0wning digitial identity would be it.
How much time do we have to pre-empt them, and design a publicly-accountable identity management infrastructure? Surely not a decade. Five years? Two?
Extending that argument a bit --
Give people in government anonymity and of course they are going to do bad things with it -- especially when you toss in righteousness and a paycheck. Did you notice the House (USA) just extended the Patriot Act, giving anonymous people a paycheck to watch my web traffic in case I do something bad. Shouldn't we thwart such abuse?against such abuse? Shouldn't the billions whose web traffic is so heavily filtered they don't even know we're having this discussion be invited to the table?
(Changing the subject slightly -- the irony! Running Tor, my post was blocked -- "Your IP address has been used to abuse the system...." heh.)
"Like it or not the GPL requires... they have to give back...."
No. The GPL requires nothing of users. It does place significant demands on re-distributors.
Please verify this for yourself here. I worry that this misperception is a common deterrent to more widespread acceptance. I'm sure this is behind some of the anti-OSS bias at my company
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That's trippy. What do you deduce from it, Holmes?
"I deduce that we're about to be entertained by an American ingenue from upstate New York." "How the deuce did you deduce that?" "By the taps on her shoes, Futman. They resound to the frequency produced by a unique alloy of aluminium ad magnauseam, manufactured in Chicago but shuffle off to Buffalo...."
The place could fit in a shoebox. Won't it be populated entirely by ideas versus things? As soon as an idea is realized, oops! Get it outside quick before we have to change our name!
It's like the barber who shaves all and only those who never shave themselves...
On the one hand, my first thought also was 'yikes, terrorists'. But then I noticed the source: The Washington Times, created by Sun Myung Moon expressly to advocate for his wildly right-wing point of view. A big Bush supporter. And who benefits most from new terror scares?
Has anybody verified this with, like, the FAA or Delta airlines?
Yowch! You got me. I didn't read the article. FWIW, I'm sorry.
Is there some way for me to mod down my own post? Seriously, I'm embarrassed that I shot my mouth off without thinking. D'oh!
I really really should know better than to respond to AC trolls but I've just gotta ask -- who do you work for? M$FT? or O'Reilly? or did you just descend from heaven to enlighten us, the unwashed?
If FOSS is too hard for you, then you deserve to not own your own data, the inevitable outcome of chaining it to a proprietary license.
I was really disappointed to discover that my favorite service at O'Reilly, the Safari Bookshelf, is run on M$FT products. How might that color their editorial policy regards FOSS vs. proprietary software?
1 knot == 1.15MPH approx.
120kt == max airframe speed == if you're going this fast already and then, say, dive with power, the plane BREAKS, probably fatally == 138MPH
45kt == stall speed == speed at which plane turns into a rock == 52MPH
Both of these characteristics make the sport-light plane more demanding than the no-license-required ultralight but still pretty docile. Limiting the max speed makes it easier to transition from a cruise flight configuration to maneuvering flight, such as when preparing to land. Lowering the stall speed gives the pilot more time to make glide path and runway alignment corrections while descending to the runway, plus it makes controlling the airplane easier once back down on sweet, sweet earth. I love flying, but I really love landing.
Regards the P-51 -- I don't think you should fly anything without proper training, license requirement or no. And the Curtis P-51 requires more training than most. So nothing changes on September 1st regards that daydream for either of us, *sigh*.
Regards self-transportation -- you're right, most light-sport pilots won't be flying to work every day, but not because of speed constraints. Meteorological conditions vs. pilot training level are mainly what impose limitations on utility. There are lots of days when you can't be sure the visibility will hold along your entire route -- and there is no light-sport 'instrument' rating -- so it's best to not have a rigid itinerary when yer flyin' for fun in case you have to divert to your secondary destination.
I, for one, welcome my fellow sport-plane-flying overlords...
Yess! I joined just now. After years of thinking I really *should* contribute. It was easy, and I feel like a geek god even though I can't code in C, heh.
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Yow, the (bad) memories this brings back! Back when VCRs were called VTRs, weighed 40 pounds and cost >$1000, I failed two polygraph tests regarding thefts of video equipment that were repeatedly occurring where I worked. I wasn't charged with anything, although I did have detectives banging on my door at 1:00am asking me if there was maybe something I wanted to get off my chest? Can we just look around a little bit?
I had not commited the thefts. However, it hadn't escaped my notice that those VTRs cost more than two months' living expenses, and my thoughts had lingered once or twice on how easy it would be to get the equipment out of the building. I was a bit of a punk, and looked it.
During the interrogation, I felt so guilty about having considered the very thefts that eventually occurred, and was so claustrophobic -- there's a bellows-thingy around your chest and a blood-pressue cuff and other restraints reminiscent of the electric chair -- and the guy stood between me and the door for good measure! -- and I was so nervous about emitting a damning response that when the questions moved on from "what is your name" to "did you steal", I could actually hear those blasted pens going scribble-scribble. Biofeedback of the worst kind! From then on I chanted "Om Mane Padme Hum" in my head with such intensity that I could barely hear the guy, and I guess that worked to flatten my responses -- the polygraph results were deemed "Inconclusive". Not good enough for my employer....
Innocent of what? Are you ready to defend each and every search you've made against the discomfort it may cause some future Administration?
This has many layers to it, including; suspicous timing -- coming as it does on the heels of a.) Jack Abramoff's decision to sing like a canary and b.) the NSA-citizen-spying leak; anti-competitive behavior (recently disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's career was launched as an associate of Preston, Gates and Ellis, founded by Billg's daddy, and call me paranoid, but doesn't Bill have a thing about Google?); but most egregious is the chilling effect it may have on free inquiry and communication of every kind, including but not limited to dissent. Pardon me for screaming in print, but I FEAR THIS ADMINSTRATION like I never feared Reagan, or Nixon, or even Kruschev, and they had nukes on the ready!The voter cannot verify the paper printout accurately reflects the electronically-recorded vote. Neither does it prevent vote-buying: the the voter may still surreptitiously snap a digital photo of his touchscreen to later convince his handler to pay as agreed. Consequently the paper printout solves nothing while providing political cover for the vote-rigging party in power.
As for Milwauke's 'multiple vote problem' in 2004: I live in Milwaukee and wore out a pair of shoes working to defeat the incumbent. Thus I have an interest in how Milwaukee is being used as an example.
The accusations of voter fraud were, to the best of my knowledge, never substantiated. The accusations seemed essentially sour grapes from the ruling party, which was pretty thoroughly trounced in our town. Rather than repeating scuttelbutt you might consider thanking Milwaukee for belonging to the clearsighted 49 percent versus the deluded 51!
I think the parent is right on, and would like to amplify: Where MSFT excels is the use of language. It seems Matusow is trying out a new meme which, if successful, could subtly but powerfully alter the playing field on which Open Source and MSFT compete. Everyone knows Open Source now, and in the brains of the general IT purchasing population, Open Source == Good. If this trial balloon succeeds even slightly in poisoning the (OS==G) meme, expect it to be amplified exponentially in publications that IT purchasers rely on for guidance.
Here's one at National Geographic
for (i = 0; i <=100; i++) {
printf("passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood");
Yeah, you're right, in the context my post makes no sense whatsoever. What I should have said, but didn't: This article, plus the car breakin I just endured, move me to investigate a CarPC-plus-camera sort of tech to take photos of the interior of my vehicle whenever the door is opened. If I'd had such a thing in place already, the perp would have taken a self-portrait. Could be useful as a deterrent (plastered around the neighborhood, if I wanted to be nasty) if not in gaining a conviction. [Next time I hope I try to stick to what I mean instead of trying to sound clever....first time I ever got modded down, ouch!]
Middle-of-the-night-strangely-related-weirdness: I just closed the door after talking to a cop (OK, OK, I told my wife first, then had a snack, and then insomaniacally logged in, so it's not *just* closed... it's not like I immediately must login to Slashdot every time I talk to the cops) who rang my doorbell to tell me 'some cat' had been sitting in my car parked on the street in front of my house. I'd forgotten to lock the doors, d'oh! She chased him off, nothing was taken, we've been having a rash of crimes in the area and could I please be more cognizant (her word) of keeping my doors locked, thankyouverymuch. And yes, she was hot, thanks for asking.
Would I love to have on disk a nice, clear, 3.3 megapixel self-portrait of this 'cat' sitting in my driver's seat? Yes, indeed I would. Having the door lightswitch trigger the shutter should be trivial. I'd like to have a portrait of my hero chasing him off, too, but designing an app to choose only the attractive plainclothes (Did I just say plainclothes? Ignore the honking two-way radio and clipboard and she'd have looked like she was on a date) policewomen instead of filling my HDD with pictures of traffic would exceed my skills. Bayesian filtering?
She is a neighbor, as well, which I guess is how she knew the guy, or 'cat' in pretty-cop-lady-lingo, didn't belong in the car he was in. Seeing as how we're neighbors and all, aren't I obligated to stop by and, um, thank her?
They sell the device to provides a plausible basis for extending the revenue opportunity with licensing fees: 10 client systems for the base price, additional licenses are $250! Just barely a cost savings versus Windows....
I agree that Mr. Cameron speaks some truth -- fairly self-evident for the most part, IMHO, although I thought the 'directionality' of identity was novel and useful. He's right, managing identity is a key issue in fully realizing the Internet's social and commercial utility.
However, this sooth demonstrates that MSFT continues to be very very good at correctly identifying new vantage points from which to extend their control. If I had to choose only one MSFT initiative to defeat, 0wning digitial identity would be it.
How much time do we have to pre-empt them, and design a publicly-accountable identity management infrastructure? Surely not a decade. Five years? Two?
Extending that argument a bit -- Give people in government anonymity and of course they are going to do bad things with it -- especially when you toss in righteousness and a paycheck. Did you notice the House (USA) just extended the Patriot Act, giving anonymous people a paycheck to watch my web traffic in case I do something bad. Shouldn't we thwart such abuse?against such abuse? Shouldn't the billions whose web traffic is so heavily filtered they don't even know we're having this discussion be invited to the table?
(Changing the subject slightly -- the irony! Running Tor, my post was blocked -- "Your IP address has been used to abuse the system...." heh.)
No. The GPL requires nothing of users. It does place significant demands on re-distributors.
Please verify this for yourself here. I worry that this misperception is a common deterrent to more widespread acceptance. I'm sure this is behind some of the anti-OSS bias at my company
That's trippy. What do you deduce from it, Holmes?
"I deduce that we're about to be entertained by an American ingenue from upstate New York."
"How the deuce did you deduce that?"
"By the taps on her shoes, Futman. They resound to the frequency produced by a unique alloy of aluminium ad magnauseam, manufactured in Chicago but shuffle off to Buffalo...."
It's like the barber who shaves all and only those who never shave themselves...
something HAS happened to Delta Goodrem -- they're Not Found!
On the one hand, my first thought also was 'yikes, terrorists'. But then I noticed the source: The Washington Times, created by Sun Myung Moon expressly to advocate for his wildly right-wing point of view. A big Bush supporter. And who benefits most from new terror scares?
Has anybody verified this with, like, the FAA or Delta airlines?
Yowch! You got me. I didn't read the article. FWIW, I'm sorry. Is there some way for me to mod down my own post? Seriously, I'm embarrassed that I shot my mouth off without thinking. D'oh!
I really really should know better than to respond to AC trolls but I've just gotta ask -- who do you work for? M$FT? or O'Reilly? or did you just descend from heaven to enlighten us, the unwashed?
If FOSS is too hard for you, then you deserve to not own your own data, the inevitable outcome of chaining it to a proprietary license.
I was really disappointed to discover that my favorite service at O'Reilly, the Safari Bookshelf, is run on M$FT products. How might that color their editorial policy regards FOSS vs. proprietary software?
1 knot == 1.15MPH approx.
120kt == max airframe speed == if you're going this fast already and then, say, dive with power, the plane BREAKS, probably fatally == 138MPH
45kt == stall speed == speed at which plane turns into a rock == 52MPH
Both of these characteristics make the sport-light plane more demanding than the no-license-required ultralight but still pretty docile. Limiting the max speed makes it easier to transition from a cruise flight configuration to maneuvering flight, such as when preparing to land. Lowering the stall speed gives the pilot more time to make glide path and runway alignment corrections while descending to the runway, plus it makes controlling the airplane easier once back down on sweet, sweet earth. I love flying, but I really love landing.
Regards the P-51 -- I don't think you should fly anything without proper training, license requirement or no. And the Curtis P-51 requires more training than most. So nothing changes on September 1st regards that daydream for either of us, *sigh*.
Regards self-transportation -- you're right, most light-sport pilots won't be flying to work every day, but not because of speed constraints. Meteorological conditions vs. pilot training level are mainly what impose limitations on utility. There are lots of days when you can't be sure the visibility will hold along your entire route -- and there is no light-sport 'instrument' rating -- so it's best to not have a rigid itinerary when yer flyin' for fun in case you have to divert to your secondary destination.
I, for one, welcome my fellow sport-plane-flying overlords...
Rethinking Schools Flying Sport Pilot National Geographic formerly: Economist MIT Technology Review Linux Journal
Yess! I joined just now. After years of thinking I really *should* contribute. It was easy, and I feel like a geek god even though I can't code in C, heh.
Apparently ./'ers always have a penis and four functioning limbs.
Wait a minute! Didn't I say that on the other side of the record?
I'd better check...
It's maybe a Zamboni?