I don't know if I'd characterize it as "mind-bogglingly complex". It's a series of registry edits.
I would. The average slob (who could very well be someone who doesn't update their old files for long periods of time) using windows does not know what the registry is, let alone how to modify it.
Also consider this: What is more dangerous and likely to cause serious damage, an old file format or a average user trying to fix their registry to read old files?
A pyramid is a geometrical figure, but they are copywriting 'The Pyramids, one of the wonders of the ancient world where pharos were buried', and not the geometrical figure. This is about the same as saying you can't copywrite the Death Star, because it is basically a sphere. There is a lot more to both than just their physical shape.
It is entirely possible that they don't give a mummified rat's ass about preserving rightst for the pyramids outside Egypt. This might be just another way to make sure anyone cashing in on the pyramids to sell tinkets and junk to tourists gives a cut to the government.
Or, perhaps this is going to be used like a submarine patent: They let people using the images just slide by until they want to cash in or cause someone grief. I somehow imagine that the money that Egypt makes off ouf tourisim is probably a lot greater than the money that say, the Luxor makes off of being shaped like a pyramid.
Wikipedia is not about creating an archive of all of human knowledge.
You are damn right it isn't! Which is why I am starting a new web site, called 'wikiallhumanknowledgica' to cover this oversight.We expect to put Wikipedia out of business inside of a month.
(I was going to make a joke about calling it the 'wikinet', but I realized that if your data store is the whole Intarwebz, you would have to call it the 'wikipornopedia'.)
In a related story:
"TiggertheMad, snarky nobody, and noted gadfly h8er is publishing on his blog that Comcast and other ISPs should block all Dallas Mavericks owner traffic, because as he says, "As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are Dallas Mavericks owner freeloaders."
ZING!
And while you're all at it, better get used to it. There's trillions of dollars in debt that has to be paid back, with interest. Taxes have only one way to go - up! And everyone has to contribute.
Eat me. let the people who voted for president fucktard Jr and his nutty little war pay the huge debt. Last time I checked, Clinton had things managed quite nicely when he left office...
...Anyone notice that the website that this article is on prevents you from navigating away via the browswer back button? I was always suspicious about sites that employed Javascript to prevent people from navigating away. An article about shifty behavior on a site that triest to manage your attemts to leave. Classy!
Cuz we can only really see black holes by seeing the stuff that's emitted from matter around it that's being sucked in.
An interesting thought, but black holes dialate space time around them. This causes what is called gravational lensing. The super massive gravity of the black hole actuall bends light of stars behind it in space. There have been black holes that have been discovered because astronomers have noticed the effects of gravational lensing.
Also, if matter is being sucked in from an accretion disk, it is highly unlikely that it will all fall into the hole. Pretty much any black hole is going to rotate, and most will rotate VERY fast, since when a star collapses conservation of momentum will cause it to accelerate its rotation as it shrinks. Any particles near the black hole will be pulled around it as it rotates, and some mass will end up in orbit around the hole. Quasars give off tremendous ammounts of energy as this mass is superheated from friction. Any black hole that has an accretion disk (a.k.a. a quasar)is going to be pretty 'bright', and I would guess that it will stay 'bright' for a very long time after it runs out of mass to actually draw in.
Not to say that your idea doesn't hold water, but there are ways of detecting black holes that aren't absorbing large ammounts of additional mass. Nothing rules out what you suggest though. Just remember, black holes don't really 'suck things in', as science fiction suggests. If our sun became a black hole this very second, everything would keep orbiting exactly as it does now. The only things that would be sucked in would be a few comets that were on a collision course with the sun's gravational pull anyway.
That phrase is very interesting, since it would raise some questions about the effects about being near someonw wearing a 'tinfoil suit'. Would the raidiation be actually reflected? Would it be reflected back at the device user? Would wearing metal cause arcing like a microwave oven?
I don't doubt that this divice will eventually find its way into the hands of the cops, and to the torture chambers of immoral governments. I also expect that it will just as quickly end up in the hands of private individuals, who will be the biggest menace.
If it is really microwave frequency radiation, that would imply that it was invisible, and probably silent. You could hide in a bush and torment cops/neighbors/annoying dogs/children/elderly people/black people/hate groups/rich people/poor people/etc. without much risk of getting caught. The social reprecussions of having a portable silent ranged torture device seem...severe.
I was always under the impression that the point of libratarian phillosophy was about liberty. (Hence the name.) If it doesn't hurt anyone else, it is fair game. The anti-government streak comes from the fact that centralized government seems to have a tendency to try to regulate everything it can sink its tentacles into.
Any true libratarian will look at this, as was suggested above, and say, 'Oh. They own the rights, ergo, they can do whatever they want with it, since changing the toys that I have memories associated with isn't really HURTING me."
The article is somewhere between idiotic right wing spew and idiotic fanboy spew, with no real substance from either angle.
This pretty much says it all; your manager wants you to do HIS job. Shouldn't he develop his own metrics? He can ask you for ideas but he should do the work himself.
You are right, but you are also skating on thin ice here. Asking someone who has no clue what is happening to set metrics is just asking for trouble....
Always be helpful and make co-operative proposals. Suggest that users who lose passwords should be docked pay according to the time to fix, thus ensuring that user incompetence is not perceived as an IT cost (I know this isn't *nix admin, but it's part of the general pattern).
Now that is effin hilarious. I think you are onto something:
Pass this suggestion on to your boss, run IT admin as a cost center. Figure out roughly how much time\money it costs to perform all your tasks, and suggest that it be billed out to other departments. Then, you can simply measure productivity based on how much you bill for (billed hours/paid hours = productivity %). Using the cost center/profit center model, you give your overlords lots of fun numbers to play with (and justify their overpaid asses), while causing all the other managers in the company to secretly loath your boss(es) for saddling them with all sorts of new costs. Plus it is really simple for you to keep track of and impliment.
I used to be involved in civic government as an elected official. Within days of being elected I was forbidden to speak to the press as the official voice of City Council was the Mayor.
Of course, in my instance, I told them to shut the fuck up and if they even remotely...
My god, I think I have to go chage my underwear. Where do I have to move to vote for your second term?
..however, who cares? Suppose you have a partition on your flashdrivwe that is for a swap file, and you thrash on it like crazy. After a couple of months, several drive sectors fail, and you run a chkdsk and repair it, just like any other hard drive.
Any media is going to eventually fail. Your brand spankin new hard drive from seagate or maxtor ships from the factory with defects that existed as a result of the manafacturing process that have been scan and tagged as bad.
I'm just hoping that this means that we can finally freakin get an 'instant on' laptop...
In a civil case you cannot be convicted of anything.
More to the point, pretend this was a criminal case, who you going to arrest? The collective RIAA? Even if you could point your finger at one schmoe who made the call to play dirty and lock him up for fifty years, that will hardly put a dent in the RIAA. The RIAA is a collection of coporations, and they are intangible sociopathic entities. One of the reasons that coporations can behave in such abberant ways is because of their legal status, which makes it difficult to hold them accountable. The RIAA's behavior is simple a symptom of larger problem.
What this means is that when China wants to pull the rug on us, they will be in control. And that is going to happen in about another 15 years (or less).
I doubt it. If there is one good thing that king jr has done in his utterly fucked up administration, is convice the world at large that we are armed and irrational. While china COULD try to screw over the reigning military superpower, is it really wise to poke a stick at the mad dog with all the nukes and carriers? 15 years from now, we might be poorer, but will will still have lots of bombs and missiles. No, they will continue to grow themselves in an ecenomic fashion. They are really a capitalist autocracy, as opposed to anything communist these days.
The idea behind a patent is simple: an inventor invents something, and shares it with everybody in return for a short term monoply. The inventor makes (lots) of cash, and society gets a new technology that is owned by all in the long term.
I say sure, lets have some software patents. You produce the source code that will be shared with the world, and I'll grant you a patent. The code gets dumped on the net, and in a couple years, anyone can use it for whatever they want.
A better chance of keeping Russian and Chinese spies out of our security forces may very well outweigh turning away candidates incorrectly classified as deceitful.
The problem is that any professional spies are going to be good at lying. Perhaps if you know that the FBI uses this device as a standard employment screen, you might study and practice the simple techniques needed to decieve the device operator.
Of course, and honest and patriotic minded indivdual wouldn't think to trying to 'beat' the machine, since they dont have any reason to decieve the operator. Thus it is foolish to employ it for even the purpose of sniffing out spies.
I believe this very thing happned a few years back. A mole worked his way up in the CIA(?), and did quite a bit of damage, despite being sceened many times on a polygraph. Using this peice of crap psudo-science gadget as anything but a doorstop is a detriment to the country's security. Period.
I like how the article is worded to blame Microsoft, as if they had some control over the issue. MS isn't releasing anything that is orders of magnitude less efficient that say and open source solution to the IP4/IP6 problem, so why are they being painted as villians here? If LINXU was on 90% of all home systems and started migrating to IP6, would this rate the same sort of hatchet job? Yes, there may be increased loads generated for DNS servers by all the PEOPLE switching over, but this is hardly Microsoft's doing. Lets not waste time demonizing them for something that isn't their fault, when we can be blasting them for trying to take over the Internet by destroying Netscape with predatory monopolistic bisiness practices...
The point is to give everyone a digitally-signed copy of their OWN PHOTO. If a thief gets his hand on that, it won't help him unless he looks just like me. That's the point.
Ah, but what if the 'Thief' doesn't want to so much steal your identity, as pick an American tourist out of a crowd of hundreds of other tourists? This isn't giving you a secure digital picture. It's painting a huge bulls-eye on your forehead...
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I don't know if I'd characterize it as "mind-bogglingly complex". It's a series of registry edits.
I would. The average slob (who could very well be someone who doesn't update their old files for long periods of time) using windows does not know what the registry is, let alone how to modify it. Also consider this: What is more dangerous and likely to cause serious damage, an old file format or a average user trying to fix their registry to read old files?
A pyramid is a geometrical figure, but they are copywriting 'The Pyramids, one of the wonders of the ancient world where pharos were buried', and not the geometrical figure. This is about the same as saying you can't copywrite the Death Star, because it is basically a sphere. There is a lot more to both than just their physical shape.
It is entirely possible that they don't give a mummified rat's ass about preserving rightst for the pyramids outside Egypt. This might be just another way to make sure anyone cashing in on the pyramids to sell tinkets and junk to tourists gives a cut to the government.
Or, perhaps this is going to be used like a submarine patent: They let people using the images just slide by until they want to cash in or cause someone grief. I somehow imagine that the money that Egypt makes off ouf tourisim is probably a lot greater than the money that say, the Luxor makes off of being shaped like a pyramid.
Im guessing that this is a strategic move.
I heard that it indicated that there were stupid teenagers living in the area who liked to get rid of old shoes by chucking them over powerlines...
Wikipedia is not about creating an archive of all of human knowledge.
You are damn right it isn't! Which is why I am starting a new web site, called 'wikiallhumanknowledgica' to cover this oversight.We expect to put Wikipedia out of business inside of a month.
(I was going to make a joke about calling it the 'wikinet', but I realized that if your data store is the whole Intarwebz, you would have to call it the 'wikipornopedia'.)
At least they didn't actually kill the contestants.
wait, kill the contesants would have been a bad thing?
In a related story: "TiggertheMad, snarky nobody, and noted gadfly h8er is publishing on his blog that Comcast and other ISPs should block all Dallas Mavericks owner traffic, because as he says, "As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are Dallas Mavericks owner freeloaders." ZING!
And while you're all at it, better get used to it. There's trillions of dollars in debt that has to be paid back, with interest. Taxes have only one way to go - up! And everyone has to contribute.
Eat me. let the people who voted for president fucktard Jr and his nutty little war pay the huge debt. Last time I checked, Clinton had things managed quite nicely when he left office...
...Anyone notice that the website that this article is on prevents you from navigating away via the browswer back button? I was always suspicious about sites that employed Javascript to prevent people from navigating away. An article about shifty behavior on a site that triest to manage your attemts to leave. Classy!
Cuz we can only really see black holes by seeing the stuff that's emitted from matter around it that's being sucked in.
An interesting thought, but black holes dialate space time around them. This causes what is called gravational lensing. The super massive gravity of the black hole actuall bends light of stars behind it in space. There have been black holes that have been discovered because astronomers have noticed the effects of gravational lensing.
Also, if matter is being sucked in from an accretion disk, it is highly unlikely that it will all fall into the hole. Pretty much any black hole is going to rotate, and most will rotate VERY fast, since when a star collapses conservation of momentum will cause it to accelerate its rotation as it shrinks. Any particles near the black hole will be pulled around it as it rotates, and some mass will end up in orbit around the hole. Quasars give off tremendous ammounts of energy as this mass is superheated from friction. Any black hole that has an accretion disk (a.k.a. a quasar)is going to be pretty 'bright', and I would guess that it will stay 'bright' for a very long time after it runs out of mass to actually draw in.
Not to say that your idea doesn't hold water, but there are ways of detecting black holes that aren't absorbing large ammounts of additional mass. Nothing rules out what you suggest though. Just remember, black holes don't really 'suck things in', as science fiction suggests. If our sun became a black hole this very second, everything would keep orbiting exactly as it does now. The only things that would be sucked in would be a few comets that were on a collision course with the sun's gravational pull anyway.
metallic micro-wave reflecting clothes
That phrase is very interesting, since it would raise some questions about the effects about being near someonw wearing a 'tinfoil suit'. Would the raidiation be actually reflected? Would it be reflected back at the device user? Would wearing metal cause arcing like a microwave oven?
I don't doubt that this divice will eventually find its way into the hands of the cops, and to the torture chambers of immoral governments. I also expect that it will just as quickly end up in the hands of private individuals, who will be the biggest menace.
If it is really microwave frequency radiation, that would imply that it was invisible, and probably silent. You could hide in a bush and torment cops/neighbors/annoying dogs/children/elderly people/black people/hate groups/rich people/poor people/etc. without much risk of getting caught. The social reprecussions of having a portable silent ranged torture device seem...severe.
And it's spelled "libertarian".
;-)
Don't impose your ideas about spelling on my spelling, libertarian hypocrite.
I was always under the impression that the point of libratarian phillosophy was about liberty. (Hence the name.) If it doesn't hurt anyone else, it is fair game. The anti-government streak comes from the fact that centralized government seems to have a tendency to try to regulate everything it can sink its tentacles into.
Any true libratarian will look at this, as was suggested above, and say, 'Oh. They own the rights, ergo, they can do whatever they want with it, since changing the toys that I have memories associated with isn't really HURTING me."
The article is somewhere between idiotic right wing spew and idiotic fanboy spew, with no real substance from either angle.
This pretty much says it all; your manager wants you to do HIS job. Shouldn't he develop his own metrics? He can ask you for ideas but he should do the work himself.
You are right, but you are also skating on thin ice here. Asking someone who has no clue what is happening to set metrics is just asking for trouble....
Always be helpful and make co-operative proposals. Suggest that users who lose passwords should be docked pay according to the time to fix, thus ensuring that user incompetence is not perceived as an IT cost (I know this isn't *nix admin, but it's part of the general pattern).
Now that is effin hilarious. I think you are onto something:
Pass this suggestion on to your boss, run IT admin as a cost center. Figure out roughly how much time\money it costs to perform all your tasks, and suggest that it be billed out to other departments. Then, you can simply measure productivity based on how much you bill for (billed hours/paid hours = productivity %). Using the cost center/profit center model, you give your overlords lots of fun numbers to play with (and justify their overpaid asses), while causing all the other managers in the company to secretly loath your boss(es) for saddling them with all sorts of new costs. Plus it is really simple for you to keep track of and impliment.
I used to be involved in civic government as an elected official. Within days of being elected I was forbidden to speak to the press as the official voice of City Council was the Mayor.
Of course, in my instance, I told them to shut the fuck up and if they even remotely... My god, I think I have to go chage my underwear. Where do I have to move to vote for your second term?
..however, who cares? Suppose you have a partition on your flashdrivwe that is for a swap file, and you thrash on it like crazy. After a couple of months, several drive sectors fail, and you run a chkdsk and repair it, just like any other hard drive.
Any media is going to eventually fail. Your brand spankin new hard drive from seagate or maxtor ships from the factory with defects that existed as a result of the manafacturing process that have been scan and tagged as bad.
I'm just hoping that this means that we can finally freakin get an 'instant on' laptop...
You think you had it hard with marbles for dice and real dragons trying to eat you? PFFFt, you were pampered.
Why, When I played D&D, there were no dragons yet, and they hadn't even invented magic. To us the game was sci-fi!
NOW GIT OFF MAH LAWN!
In a civil case you cannot be convicted of anything. More to the point, pretend this was a criminal case, who you going to arrest? The collective RIAA? Even if you could point your finger at one schmoe who made the call to play dirty and lock him up for fifty years, that will hardly put a dent in the RIAA. The RIAA is a collection of coporations, and they are intangible sociopathic entities. One of the reasons that coporations can behave in such abberant ways is because of their legal status, which makes it difficult to hold them accountable. The RIAA's behavior is simple a symptom of larger problem.
What this means is that when China wants to pull the rug on us, they will be in control. And that is going to happen in about another 15 years (or less).
I doubt it. If there is one good thing that king jr has done in his utterly fucked up administration, is convice the world at large that we are armed and irrational. While china COULD try to screw over the reigning military superpower, is it really wise to poke a stick at the mad dog with all the nukes and carriers? 15 years from now, we might be poorer, but will will still have lots of bombs and missiles. No, they will continue to grow themselves in an ecenomic fashion. They are really a capitalist autocracy, as opposed to anything communist these days.
The idea behind a patent is simple: an inventor invents something, and shares it with everybody in return for a short term monoply. The inventor makes (lots) of cash, and society gets a new technology that is owned by all in the long term.
I say sure, lets have some software patents. You produce the source code that will be shared with the world, and I'll grant you a patent. The code gets dumped on the net, and in a couple years, anyone can use it for whatever they want.
A better chance of keeping Russian and Chinese spies out of our security forces may very well outweigh turning away candidates incorrectly classified as deceitful.
The problem is that any professional spies are going to be good at lying. Perhaps if you know that the FBI uses this device as a standard employment screen, you might study and practice the simple techniques needed to decieve the device operator.
Of course, and honest and patriotic minded indivdual wouldn't think to trying to 'beat' the machine, since they dont have any reason to decieve the operator. Thus it is foolish to employ it for even the purpose of sniffing out spies.
I believe this very thing happned a few years back. A mole worked his way up in the CIA(?), and did quite a bit of damage, despite being sceened many times on a polygraph. Using this peice of crap psudo-science gadget as anything but a doorstop is a detriment to the country's security. Period.
You need a gun for a gunfight.
Tell that to the Ewoks, my friend. Tell that to the Ewoks....
I like how the article is worded to blame Microsoft, as if they had some control over the issue. MS isn't releasing anything that is orders of magnitude less efficient that say and open source solution to the IP4/IP6 problem, so why are they being painted as villians here? If LINXU was on 90% of all home systems and started migrating to IP6, would this rate the same sort of hatchet job? Yes, there may be increased loads generated for DNS servers by all the PEOPLE switching over, but this is hardly Microsoft's doing. Lets not waste time demonizing them for something that isn't their fault, when we can be blasting them for trying to take over the Internet by destroying Netscape with predatory monopolistic bisiness practices...
The point is to give everyone a digitally-signed copy of their OWN PHOTO. If a thief gets his hand on that, it won't help him unless he looks just like me. That's the point.
Ah, but what if the 'Thief' doesn't want to so much steal your identity, as pick an American tourist out of a crowd of hundreds of other tourists? This isn't giving you a secure digital picture. It's painting a huge bulls-eye on your forehead...