User has reported that under high load the laptop gave him an unwanted castration. The wound was fully cauterised and the user now has an increased life expectancy.
We informed the user that the warning document is quite clear on page 98 paragraph 20, line 4 that a laptop should not be put on top of a lap but they chose to ignore this. I informed the user we would not be charging for the medical procedure our processor undertook, as a measure of our esteem for a valued customer. The user however is still demanding further action.
It costs a lot of money for the six people who view it live over a webcast to be supported. Its cheaper to record it, encode it, then host it as a file on the server.
Its unlikely that Poland would have done this as a pure solo effort, for fear of a backlash. There must have been others behind the scene agreeing with the position, with Poland making the defiant stance.
Does this mean that Poland acted as the front for a number of smaller countries. Or did a politician REALLY make a stand based on principle against all commers.
Or was the film so much of an issue that he just threw a SEP over himself. If you jump about and watch the clip, I'm sure there is something in the background.
I'll grant everything before the "and." We don't know what Sun's OSS model will look like. It certainly won't be the GPL, and I'll be amazingly surprised if it's even as liberal as the BSD licence. People aren't fond of giving away their code so that a corporation can make money off of it, so if Sun's model is anything like Microsoft's Shared Source initiative, it will stifle development by the community, not encourage it.
I'm not saying you are wrong... but you do know where the BSD people went to work ? What do you think SUN stands for ?
Do a google for Bill Joy, BSD Unix and Solaris.
MAC OSX is BSD, Solaris is the BSD boys...
"Unix 4: The Berkley Conspiracy" coming soon to a cinema near you.
A classic case of Billy boy announcing something everyone else has. I saw a demo by Sony about 2.5 years ago now which demonstrated smart card + biometrics as an authentication mechanism.
Something like 98% of the world's new smart cards run Java as their programming language, and there are defined standards for security around it. This stuff is already being used in the wild, for instance by the DoD. Oh and if you have one of those "Blue" or clear Amex credit cards... its running Java too.
Or of course you could wait for Longhorn.
In terms of open source, you can do this in Java (which is published and the source is accessible), today.
I love Microsoft, "yesterday's technology, tommorow".
And you know its bad when Slashdot and the Economist agree... The latest magazine has an article talking about the abject failure of the current patent system, in paticular its rampant extension into new domains.
When the most free-trade and pro-business magazine on the planet agrees with Slashdot there are only two options
1) Hell has frozen over
2) There is a REALLY dumb idea out there that makes no sense at all.
And sorry to pick on the US here, but it is the US that has led the way in extending patents to business and software, a precedent which is being used to apply the same stupid thinking to the rest of the planet.
At SCO ? I mean how likely is that ? These are people who think that attacking IBM is a good company move. This means either two things
1) The site was actually a good idea
2) SCO management have gone past insantiy and out the otherside, potentially a large number of times.
I doubt its 1, so it must be 2, which is fantastic as all we need to do is wire them up to a magnet and coil and that constant rotation from sanity to madness will enable us to create cheap, non-polluting energy. The only by product of this generation would be an increase in Slashdot posts around the madness peak, but hopefully we can pull that energy in as well.
Other potential energy sources included the quantum state of Iraqi WMDs, but unfortunately their state has now resolved itself.
The Engineers raised concerns but the system prevented them being voiced. Since then they have been very paranoid about any complaints and increased the level of checking.
So yes the organisation needs streamlining, but the reason for the concerns are two complete disasters where they were warned on BOTH occasions.
I disagree, just because people disagree doesn't mean that someone won't maybe read it and either go "Actually I will vote for that" or "Nope that sucks I'm for the other chap".
Console yourself with the thought that the election in January in Iraq will probably be more democratic than a system where 50% of people don't vote and 30% of the people who do have no real say (e.g. Texas Demoncrates and New England Republicans).
Old Abe only got one thing wrong... he meant to say "buy the people".
But lets face it, this is baloney. This would mean the Oz company had the same data as the UK which has the same as the US.
Now most companies I know have the data stored in central systems with the HQ and local only information at the leaves. If you hack the Oz network you get Oz data, but if you can "be" the Oz CEO you'd have access to the roll-up data and information that he can get, which would be cross border.... but then the security that supports that would be cross border to.
Nice article, brought to you by the letters "B" and "S" and the number "0".
Science Fiction is normally relegated to the specialist publications rather than having reviews in the main stream press. Seen as "fringe" and a bit sad its seldom reviewed with anything more than condecesion by the "quality" press.
Does it bother you that people like Jeffery Archer or Jackie Collins seem to get more respect for their writing than you ?
As an IEEE member and contributor I'd urge anyone who is actually serious about Computing to join as well. There are regularly articles in Computing and Software that act as great arguments against PHBs and also which challenge perceptions you may currently hold.
When there is an article in the IEEE about Wi-MAX or equivalent its by the chaps writing the standard and building the industry. Where there is an acticle on productivity its actually a proper study rather than a slashdot poll (not that slashdot is ever a biased source of course!).
Join the IEEE, join the computer society. Sure it means you have to not buy a new graphics card in this half of the year, but it could help your career.
I'm not on a commitee or anything, I'm just a member and its well worth the money IMO.
CD's, DVD's all were successful either because of the PC or the "next-generation device".
Of course one could argue that the iPod is the next generation device and just needs to be expanded to the stage where it does video.
Hang on, then hasn't Balmer just predicted that the biggest portable music player will get to define the format in the same way as VHS beat Betamax ? Maybe the only real issue is...
Will Apple learn and license ?
Its a long way around the story but I've just realised that this is Barmy Monkey begging Steve Jobs to license the iPod technology as Microsoft can't compete with the market leader.
And he couldn't just say that because it hurts to much.
Nokia do a camera that will MMS you the picture it is looking at on demand. Setting up a box with a motion detecting camera is very simple and your only real challenge when streaming it to a mobile is network speed and transcoding.
Best bet is to get dedicated hardware if you want to do this stuff as what you are after is taking a raw MPEG-2 stream in, performing real-time transcoding to less picture quality and then steaming that in real-time over a different protocol. You can do it on a decent server, but why bother when you can pick up decent video cards pretty cheaply these days (not GAMES cards, VIDEO cards, ones with hardware encoders). Or a shitty Web-cam quality is all you can hope for (and you'd probably still need to re-code).
Of course you then have the security challenge of making sure that anyone else can't see in as well (Mr Burglar looks "hey everyone is out"), which means having some form of VPN from your mobile, again these exist but you are getting more complex and expensive.
Beyond there you have the legislative problems of spying on your babysitter (you'd have to tell her or go to court and be rightly sued for invasion of privacy).
I'd just go for the Nokia camera, tell the baby sitter, only put it in the kids rooms (do you care if the babysitter is on the phone or if the kids are okay ?). The rest is very very sad overkill, and if you are going that far surely you'd want RF-ID tags on the kids with biometric sensors and a constant stream of data to go along with the video feed.
So option 1 means - Nokia Camera + MMS capable mobile phone and telling the baby sitter
Option 2 means - you are a sad geek liable to end up in court.
Option 3 means - you really really need help, like now.
Personally I wouldn't trust my kids with someone I felt I had to spy on.
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User has reported that under high load the laptop gave him an unwanted castration. The wound was fully cauterised and the user now has an increased life expectancy.
We informed the user that the warning document is quite clear on page 98 paragraph 20, line 4 that a laptop should not be put on top of a lap but they chose to ignore this. I informed the user we would not be charging for the medical procedure our processor undertook, as a measure of our esteem for a valued customer. The user however is still demanding further action.
Recommendation: Send him a mouse mat.
It costs a lot of money for the six people who view it live over a webcast to be supported. Its cheaper to record it, encode it, then host it as a file on the server.
Microsoft are wonderful. Trying to sell things they don't have in order to make it look as if they are ahead of the pack.
So if its announced in 2004/5 it will be "scheduled" for launch in 2007, but actually arrive in 2009.
Its unlikely that Poland would have done this as a pure solo effort, for fear of a backlash. There must have been others behind the scene agreeing with the position, with Poland making the defiant stance.
Does this mean that Poland acted as the front for a number of smaller countries. Or did a politician REALLY make a stand based on principle against all commers.
Or was the film so much of an issue that he just threw a SEP over himself. If you jump about and watch the clip, I'm sure there is something in the background.
Sounds like the DoD procurement department.
I'll grant everything before the "and." We don't know what Sun's OSS model will look like. It certainly won't be the GPL, and I'll be amazingly surprised if it's even as liberal as the BSD licence. People aren't fond of giving away their code so that a corporation can make money off of it, so if Sun's model is anything like Microsoft's Shared Source initiative, it will stifle development by the community, not encourage it.
I'm not saying you are wrong... but you do know where the BSD people went to work ? What do you think SUN stands for ?
Do a google for Bill Joy, BSD Unix and Solaris.
MAC OSX is BSD, Solaris is the BSD boys...
"Unix 4: The Berkley Conspiracy" coming soon to a cinema near you.
So by most "cash in hand" business they probably raked in about $300k
Maybe this is why the RIAA is publicly moaning about P2P... its raking it in, but doesn't want the IRS to investigate!
A classic case of Billy boy announcing something everyone else has. I saw a demo by Sony about 2.5 years ago now which demonstrated smart card + biometrics as an authentication mechanism.
Something like 98% of the world's new smart cards run Java as their programming language, and there are defined standards for security around it. This stuff is already being used in the wild, for instance by the DoD. Oh and if you have one of those "Blue" or clear Amex credit cards... its running Java too.
Or of course you could wait for Longhorn.
In terms of open source, you can do this in Java (which is published and the source is accessible), today.
I love Microsoft, "yesterday's technology, tommorow".
And you know its bad when Slashdot and the Economist agree... The latest magazine has an article talking about the abject failure of the current patent system, in paticular its rampant extension into new domains.
When the most free-trade and pro-business magazine on the planet agrees with Slashdot there are only two options
1) Hell has frozen over
2) There is a REALLY dumb idea out there that makes no sense at all.
And sorry to pick on the US here, but it is the US that has led the way in extending patents to business and software, a precedent which is being used to apply the same stupid thinking to the rest of the planet.
I used SCO in about 1993... it sucked as a product, total and utter rubbish. It was worse that the NT Beta we had.
It will take alot for me to believe that, apart from Tarentella, SCO were a decent software company.
At SCO ? I mean how likely is that ? These are people who think that attacking IBM is a good company move. This means either two things
1) The site was actually a good idea
2) SCO management have gone past insantiy and out the otherside, potentially a large number of times.
I doubt its 1, so it must be 2, which is fantastic as all we need to do is wire them up to a magnet and coil and that constant rotation from sanity to madness will enable us to create cheap, non-polluting energy. The only by product of this generation would be an increase in Slashdot posts around the madness peak, but hopefully we can pull that energy in as well.
Other potential energy sources included the quantum state of Iraqi WMDs, but unfortunately their state has now resolved itself.
The Engineers raised concerns but the system prevented them being voiced. Since then they have been very paranoid about any complaints and increased the level of checking.
So yes the organisation needs streamlining, but the reason for the concerns are two complete disasters where they were warned on BOTH occasions.
I disagree, just because people disagree doesn't mean that someone won't maybe read it and either go "Actually I will vote for that" or "Nope that sucks I'm for the other chap".
Console yourself with the thought that the election in January in Iraq will probably be more democratic than a system where 50% of people don't vote and 30% of the people who do have no real say (e.g. Texas Demoncrates and New England Republicans).
Old Abe only got one thing wrong... he meant to say "buy the people".
On this I go with the economist The incompetent or the incoherent? and I'd say plump for the incoherent as well.
Can the 2008 election please feature two people who you'd LIKE to vote for rather than two people than you'd rather not.
5m are of course a hacker army from North Korea, with 12m in the Chinese Hacker army and 4 from France.
Because MS products are the dominant force.
And if MS has a majority marketshare in the enterprise, you'd better be DAMNED good at security.
Or maybe the article is really saying "Oz more at risk due to MS security issues over Apache and Unix using EU/US"
Bloke down the pub called Bruce told me.
But lets face it, this is baloney. This would mean the Oz company had the same data as the UK which has the same as the US.
Now most companies I know have the data stored in central systems with the HQ and local only information at the leaves. If you hack the Oz network you get Oz data, but if you can "be" the Oz CEO you'd have access to the roll-up data and information that he can get, which would be cross border.... but then the security that supports that would be cross border to.
Nice article, brought to you by the letters "B" and "S" and the number "0".
Science Fiction is normally relegated to the specialist publications rather than having reviews in the main stream press. Seen as "fringe" and a bit sad its seldom reviewed with anything more than condecesion by the "quality" press.
Does it bother you that people like Jeffery Archer or Jackie Collins seem to get more respect for their writing than you ?
As an IEEE member and contributor I'd urge anyone who is actually serious about Computing to join as well. There are regularly articles in Computing and Software that act as great arguments against PHBs and also which challenge perceptions you may currently hold.
When there is an article in the IEEE about Wi-MAX or equivalent its by the chaps writing the standard and building the industry. Where there is an acticle on productivity its actually a proper study rather than a slashdot poll (not that slashdot is ever a biased source of course!).
Join the IEEE, join the computer society. Sure it means you have to not buy a new graphics card in this half of the year, but it could help your career.
I'm not on a commitee or anything, I'm just a member and its well worth the money IMO.
Sure I might not have told the truth, sure I might have suggested that the product did one thing, when in fact completely the opposite was true.
And he is adopting the classic Rummy tactic of continuing to push his line despite over-whelming evidence that he is talking bollocks.
If its good enough for the Defence Secretary, surely its only right that the average scam-erican should be able to claim the same.
Equal rights to all, and remember, the Truth is not a constitutional right.
Think about it....
CD's, DVD's all were successful either because of the PC or the "next-generation device".
Of course one could argue that the iPod is the next generation device and just needs to be expanded to the stage where it does video.
Hang on, then hasn't Balmer just predicted that the biggest portable music player will get to define the format in the same way as VHS beat Betamax ? Maybe the only real issue is...
Will Apple learn and license ?
Its a long way around the story but I've just realised that this is Barmy Monkey begging Steve Jobs to license the iPod technology as Microsoft can't compete with the market leader.
And he couldn't just say that because it hurts to much.
Nokia do a camera that will MMS you the picture it is looking at on demand. Setting up a box with a motion detecting camera is very simple and your only real challenge when streaming it to a mobile is network speed and transcoding.
Best bet is to get dedicated hardware if you want to do this stuff as what you are after is taking a raw MPEG-2 stream in, performing real-time transcoding to less picture quality and then steaming that in real-time over a different protocol. You can do it on a decent server, but why bother when you can pick up decent video cards pretty cheaply these days (not GAMES cards, VIDEO cards, ones with hardware encoders). Or a shitty Web-cam quality is all you can hope for (and you'd probably still need to re-code).
Of course you then have the security challenge of making sure that anyone else can't see in as well (Mr Burglar looks "hey everyone is out"), which means having some form of VPN from your mobile, again these exist but you are getting more complex and expensive.
Beyond there you have the legislative problems of spying on your babysitter (you'd have to tell her or go to court and be rightly sued for invasion of privacy).
I'd just go for the Nokia camera, tell the baby sitter, only put it in the kids rooms (do you care if the babysitter is on the phone or if the kids are okay ?). The rest is very very sad overkill, and if you are going that far surely you'd want RF-ID tags on the kids with biometric sensors and a constant stream of data to go along with the video feed.
So option 1 means - Nokia Camera + MMS capable mobile phone and telling the baby sitter
Option 2 means - you are a sad geek liable to end up in court.
Option 3 means - you really really need help, like now.
Personally I wouldn't trust my kids with someone I felt I had to spy on.
Don't worry about Tony, we know he lied as well which is why he is getting a pasting in the media.
Why isn't Bush getting the same pasting in the US ?
Errr the British Intelligence said that there was no evidence that Iraq had any WMDs....
The British GOVERMENT and the JIC say "There is clear evidence that Iraq has WMDs"
We got fucked over too.