Expect to see the whole gig get shut down quickly...
And I'm saying, expect it to look like it's being shut down, but it will remain. This is a useful tool and useful tools are always used by someone.
I'm sure an intelligent person with enough money could easily begin with someone totally random and work through the web, up to people with skeletons in the closet.
Someone could? More like someone has. If it's reached this level of media attention, not has someone done it, many someones have.
Once news of this hits the mainstream television media, I imagine the public outcry and following legislation will put the kaibosh on it.
No, it will stop happening for a while, but then start up again in a few months/weeks in another form, with another name. If it comes up again, the MSM will say "It's an old story, old news. We don't want to bore our readers/listeners.viewers." The only way a story gets repeated is if 1) someone powerful wants it to be repeated, or 2) it's way to big to be ignored. I expect this will fit neither condition.
In one of my first jobs as a programmer my first assignment was to go to a local ISP and help them restructure their customer database. So on my first day I ask the lead programmer to give me the DB structure. End of the day comes and he hands me a disk. I get back to the office and find that it contains the ENTIRE DATABSE: ~100,000 names, addresses, CC numbers, and SSN's. (After that we did an extensive security audit of their software...)
Evolution within a species occurs when a great crisis happens
No. Evolution happens all of the time. Strong environmental pressures can cause dramatic change, the results of which evolution operates on, but evolution operates all other times as well. Evolution is simply change, and everything is always changing. Everything. Always.
I'm really getting sick of the greenie environmentalists
And I'm getting sick of ignorant people thinking they know how nature works, and using that arrogant assumption to support political stances. That includes "greenie environmentalists" and YOU.
When you take G-d away from your culture, you take the only real reason to follow silly non-Darwinian rules like helping your neighbor if there donkey falls...
This does not follow. Cooperation is also Darwinian. A species survives if it is able to reproduce. If cooperation helps that happen, then cooperation will happen. Other animals form cooperative groups like mating pairs, families, and even small societies. Didn't you watch "March of the Penguins"?:)
I started out at M$ as a contractor. (End user support for MSAccess in Irving, TX back in '95) I was an employee within six months. (Then an ex amployee six months after that.) When I switched over, the difference was like night and day.
While I was a contractor there was a site wide carnival where they trucked in mini roller coasters and other fun stuff. Contractors were literally ushered out the door and weren't even told about it beforehand.
One day when I was a full time employee all of the contractors...ALL 700 on site...were fired because of low call volume.
The class action lawsuit brought in later years by former contractors didn't surprise me one bit after that.:)
Moreover, we have had people apply for the position who then asked what our company did. They could have spend 30 seconds looking at our website before dropping off or emailing their resume and found out. This type of laziness is horrible.
You had me until this comment. I always personally ask what a company does when I apply. That way I hopefully get the non-marketroid answer. The company's site is usually not under the control of the technical staff, so it's generally filled with the buzzword compliant description.
Methinks if you're being so snapishly judgemental about applicants, it's no wonder you haven't filled the positions...
First line: But the majority of programmers, who have been relatively quiet all this time, always knew that Java is a combination of strengths and weaknesses. These folks are not left with any feelings of surprise, but instead they welcome the silence, because it's easier to think and work.
That's exactly my attitude, too. Couldn't agree more.
You know what I liked most about the tech bubble bursting? All of the loudmouths, charlatans, and marketriods went elsewhere for a while. I got to do some real work for a change instead of building demos.:)
So the hypemeisters have a new favorite platform? Great! I can stop reading the slashdot posts from anit-hype nazis who only love to yell at marketriods. A pox on all of your houses, I say.
...the same criticism ID'ers make about evolution can be made of a ton of other scientific theories (in all sciences, not just biology), so why aren't those theories criticized as well?
In a word, technology.
Most other well known fields of science have technological manifestations. Physics: engineering. Biology: medicine. Evolution of complex forms is not used in much technology yet. But that will soonchange. Once it does the opponents to evolution will have about as much credibility as flat earthers have today.
I was involved with a project back in early 2002 that was trying to pitch "smart" power meters to the city of Garland, TX. These meters would take a reading every six seconds and report the measurements back to a central station for analysis. The network used to report the readings wasn't quite worked out, so the project never made it off the ground, but BPL was seen as the logical implementation eventually.
The advertised purpose of the meters was to create a power use profile for each household so a homeowner could better use offpeak power rates. The meter could interface with smart appliances to control their activation, run them when the power was cheap.
But that's not all the meters could do. Here's where the federal government comes in. One of our consultants had contacts in the law enforcement community. Through these contacts he pitched some uses of the meters to a few agencies. The data could be used to spot unusual power usage patterns. The DEA was interested in spotting the signature of plant incubator lights. The FBI was just generally interested. I even heard that NSA expressed interest, but that was only a rumor. Considering the current news and the fact the NSA was given more license to spy domestically around that time, maybe it was more than rumor.
That particular project never made it out of the planning stage, but I'm sure those agencies maintained their interest...
Don't think you are being loyal to Mozilla by supporting someone who is so obviously not suited to be a leader.
And don't make the mistake that a good leader must necessarily be a social maven. The only requirement is that they can make decisions that lead the organzation to success. Good social skills are a plus, but not necessary. That's what a PR department is for.:)
Along as Wikipedia is doing fine on it's own, there's no need. By itself, it's already accomplishing a part of the mission. Why expend resources on it until necessary?
Let's not forget how important our information infrastructures are and how dependent we have been on computers for quite sometime.
let's also not forget that Microsoft is a corporation, so it's motivated by only one thing: profit. If they'll put in a backdoor for the US government, why not do it for other governments? They work for the highest bidder.
Furthermore, these connections are analog (have a range of strengths), say 1 byte to address the strenghts.
You're kidding, right? There's this thing called the "synaptic gap" which is hugely complex in and of itsel. There's thousands of neurotransmitters, the production, release, reuptake, and destruction of which are all dependent on the cell's state and enviromnent. There's the receptors for those neurotransmitters, their state and number, also dependent on the cell's state and enviromnent. One byte is about 16 orders of magnitude too little information to describe the state of a synaptic gap.
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A european coal plant
filters
its exhaust.
And where
do you put
what's filtered out?
burn clean coal -> no radioactive waste.
burn clean coal -> more radioactive waste.
Or, were you just thinking all of that "filtered out" radioactive stuff was just carried off by the tooth fairy? Where does it go, again?
Expect to see the whole gig get shut down quickly...
And I'm saying, expect it to look like it's being shut down, but it will remain. This is a useful tool and useful tools are always used by someone.
I'm sure an intelligent person with enough money could easily begin with someone totally random and work through the web, up to people with skeletons in the closet.
Someone could? More like someone has. If it's reached this level of media attention, not has someone done it, many someones have.
Once news of this hits the mainstream television media, I imagine the public outcry and following legislation will put the kaibosh on it.
No, it will stop happening for a while, but then start up again in a few months/weeks in another form, with another name. If it comes up again, the MSM will say "It's an old story, old news. We don't want to bore our readers/listeners.viewers." The only way a story gets repeated is if 1) someone powerful wants it to be repeated, or 2) it's way to big to be ignored. I expect this will fit neither condition.
I honestly expected better from the CERT folks. I don't know why, but I really did.
Coming from the same government that denuded a slam dunk settled lawsuit against Microsoft? PuhLEASE!
In one of my first jobs as a programmer my first assignment was to go to a local ISP and help them restructure their customer database. So on my first day I ask the lead programmer to give me the DB structure. End of the day comes and he hands me a disk. I get back to the office and find that it contains the ENTIRE DATABSE: ~100,000 names, addresses, CC numbers, and SSN's. (After that we did an extensive security audit of their software...)
Evolution within a species occurs when a great crisis happens
No. Evolution happens all of the time. Strong environmental pressures can cause dramatic change, the results of which evolution operates on, but evolution operates all other times as well. Evolution is simply change, and everything is always changing. Everything. Always.
I'm really getting sick of the greenie environmentalists
And I'm getting sick of ignorant people thinking they know how nature works, and using that arrogant assumption to support political stances. That includes "greenie environmentalists" and YOU.
When you take G-d away from your culture, you take the only real reason to follow silly non-Darwinian rules like helping your neighbor if there donkey falls...
:)
This does not follow. Cooperation is also Darwinian. A species survives if it is able to reproduce. If cooperation helps that happen, then cooperation will happen. Other animals form cooperative groups like mating pairs, families, and even small societies. Didn't you watch "March of the Penguins"?
I started out at M$ as a contractor. (End user support for MSAccess in Irving, TX back in '95) I was an employee within six months. (Then an ex amployee six months after that.) When I switched over, the difference was like night and day.
:)
While I was a contractor there was a site wide carnival where they trucked in mini roller coasters and other fun stuff. Contractors were literally ushered out the door and weren't even told about it beforehand.
One day when I was a full time employee all of the contractors...ALL 700 on site...were fired because of low call volume.
The class action lawsuit brought in later years by former contractors didn't surprise me one bit after that.
The volume of material is staggering, and goes beyond what NARA (or almost anyone else, for that matter) has traditionally dealt with.
You're kidding, right?
I've never seen a more compelling argument for OpenDoc. (and/or a conversion requirement to OpenDoc.)
So Al Gore created the internet, and now George W Bush will destroy it?
If you shouted the former, do you believe the latter?
If not, explain...
Moreover, we have had people apply for the position who then asked what our company did. They could have spend 30 seconds looking at our website before dropping off or emailing their resume and found out. This type of laziness is horrible.
You had me until this comment. I always personally ask what a company does when I apply. That way I hopefully get the non-marketroid answer. The company's site is usually not under the control of the technical staff, so it's generally filled with the buzzword compliant description.
Methinks if you're being so snapishly judgemental about applicants, it's no wonder you haven't filled the positions...
First line: But the majority of programmers, who have been relatively quiet all this time, always knew that Java is a combination of strengths and weaknesses. These folks are not left with any feelings of surprise, but instead they welcome the silence, because it's easier to think and work.
:)
That's exactly my attitude, too. Couldn't agree more.
You know what I liked most about the tech bubble bursting? All of the loudmouths, charlatans, and marketriods went elsewhere for a while. I got to do some real work for a change instead of building demos.
So the hypemeisters have a new favorite platform? Great! I can stop reading the slashdot posts from anit-hype nazis who only love to yell at marketriods. A pox on all of your houses, I say.
...the same criticism ID'ers make about evolution can be made of a ton of other scientific theories (in all sciences, not just biology), so why aren't those theories criticized as well?
In a word, technology.
Most other well known fields of science have technological manifestations. Physics: engineering. Biology: medicine. Evolution of complex forms is not used in much technology yet. But that will soon change. Once it does the opponents to evolution will have about as much credibility as flat earthers have today.
The cops get a big stack of electrical bills, all the bills for a neighborhood.
Oh, yeah, and they'd never want to automate that process, would they? Leafing through a stack of bills is so efficient.
You're an idiot.
I was involved with a project back in early 2002 that was trying to pitch "smart" power meters to the city of Garland, TX. These meters would take a reading every six seconds and report the measurements back to a central station for analysis. The network used to report the readings wasn't quite worked out, so the project never made it off the ground, but BPL was seen as the logical implementation eventually.
The advertised purpose of the meters was to create a power use profile for each household so a homeowner could better use offpeak power rates. The meter could interface with smart appliances to control their activation, run them when the power was cheap.
But that's not all the meters could do. Here's where the federal government comes in. One of our consultants had contacts in the law enforcement community. Through these contacts he pitched some uses of the meters to a few agencies. The data could be used to spot unusual power usage patterns. The DEA was interested in spotting the signature of plant incubator lights. The FBI was just generally interested. I even heard that NSA expressed interest, but that was only a rumor. Considering the current news and the fact the NSA was given more license to spy domestically around that time, maybe it was more than rumor.
That particular project never made it out of the planning stage, but I'm sure those agencies maintained their interest...
Seriously, I would never hire you.
:)
And seriously, I'd never work for you.
Don't think you are being loyal to Mozilla by supporting someone who is so obviously not suited to be a leader.
:)
And don't make the mistake that a good leader must necessarily be a social maven. The only requirement is that they can make decisions that lead the organzation to success. Good social skills are a plus, but not necessary. That's what a PR department is for.
C'mon, buy Wikipedia already.
Along as Wikipedia is doing fine on it's own, there's no need. By itself, it's already accomplishing a part of the mission. Why expend resources on it until necessary?
Oh, you're just arguing just to argue now. To say that they'd do it for motive A but not for motive B is just silly. You ain't no mind reader.
With these ISV's in the SAP at IBM, what TLA's will they TON?
More witless conspiracy mongering.
Yeah. No US owned and operated software company would ever knowingly commit treason!
Because it's treason in the country where they live?
Does every Microsoft employee live and work in the US?
Nope.
Let's not forget how important our information infrastructures are and how dependent we have been on computers for quite sometime.
let's also not forget that Microsoft is a corporation, so it's motivated by only one thing: profit. If they'll put in a backdoor for the US government, why not do it for other governments? They work for the highest bidder.
Furthermore, these connections are analog (have a range of strengths), say 1 byte to address the strenghts.
You're kidding, right? There's this thing called the "synaptic gap" which is hugely complex in and of itsel. There's thousands of neurotransmitters, the production, release, reuptake, and destruction of which are all dependent on the cell's state and enviromnent. There's the receptors for those neurotransmitters, their state and number, also dependent on the cell's state and enviromnent. One byte is about 16 orders of magnitude too little information to describe the state of a synaptic gap.