Let me show you why that statement doesn't make sense:
"Ironically, a lot of 'gun owners' owners aren't necessarily "cowboy posers", but just people who think that if they ever do get in a 'hostile situation', they'd rather be 'carrying a gun' when it happens. So 'gunless people' are more dangerous because there are so many 'criminals with guns' because so many people are afraid of getting 'shot', thus perpetuating the problem"
How is that statement not true, it works perfectly for me. If you reduce the number of guns around (which is probably pretty hard once they are all out there) you reduce the number of current and future criminals with guns.
Don't believe me? Just compare gun ownership and gun related deaths.
So if you feel an SUV is more are dangerous in accidents don't buy an SUV, instead of making the problem worse buy buying one and risking you kill somebody with it. At least when it comes to pedestrian safety SUVs are pretty bad compared to other cars, making SUVs illegal in urban areas will do more to protect your kids then buying one.
Not to mention the fact that the provider wants you to subscribe to their services at $999 per year, and even if you opt for the 3 month (free) trial, you don't get access to the report unless you purchase a "bundle" for $199... These are troll! and the fact that Slashdot has referenced them in such a provocative article is unconscionable!
A report claiming Agile is just a scam to sell services will set you back $199,-. You just have to appreciate the irony there...
I agree, the urgency wasn't there. Clever choice or change of direction would have worked fine. Hasty thrashing around, and chosing the worst ever partner in the history of IT, was clearly doomed.
True, but owning a few million bucks worth of MS shares kind of changes your priorities doesn't it...
One interesting criminal issue is making way for emergency vehicles. Depending on the level of civilization of your local area, if an emergency vehicle is coming up behind you, you're legally supposed to get out of the way, and depending on the local ethnicity, maybe culturally you do, maybe you don't.
Ford is talking about cars which are capable of following the flow of traffic automatically. But there will still be a driver in there, there will still be a steering wheel and brake pedals and they will overrule those systems if the driver decides to use them. Just do whatever you feel is the right thing to do when flashing lights show up behind you...
Which also solves the issue of responsibility, it will still be the drivers responsibility to operate the car properly. It's just a few other automatic systems. With the introduction of cruise control driver stayed responsible for the speed of the car. These systems won't be any different.
Those kind of system will, for quite some time to come, always need a human driver to override the system and deal with non-standard situations. Just like you can override (adaptive) cruise control manually right now. But that's fine, most of the road conditions will be normal and those systems will help.
Ford really is capable of building this (thanks to Volvo tech b.t.w.). The current Focus has adaptive cruise control and what Ford calls Active City Stop, which actually stops the car when your driving at low speeds and don't respond to when there's something in front of you. The first system uses radar, the latter an camera. Right now those are separate systems, but combining they is just the logical next step. Lane assist systems are also available on the current Focus. Although I recall reading somewhere that the adaptive cruise control won't be sold in the US due to issues with insuring a car with systems like that.
I drive a new Focus with the adaptive cruise control and it works really well. I've actually done 180 km/h on cruise control and had the car slow down to 100 km/h because of traffic ahead without doing anything myself. It really is pretty impressive. I drive a manual, so the car can't really slow down to a full stop all by itself, but the adaptive cruise control on somewhat recent Volvo's will actually slow down to a full stop when the car in front of you stops (on models with an automatic gearbox).
Also, the current adaptive cruise control does switch back to manual mode when the radar can't get a reliable image or when the ESP kicks in because of road conditions. I've also noticed it doesn't accelerate to it's set speed if the road ahead clears while cornering, it will hold back until your traveling in a straight line again.
The believe system of RMS was created in an era largely before retail software. In those times it made all sorts of sense to demand to source code of the software for which you paid the full price. You also often needed the source code to make to software work on your systems (loadable drivers didn't exist), or to get it to do exactly what you need. Back then it all made sense, right now it's becoming an useless old dogma.
I make a living developing software and I can easily agree with that position, pay me a decent hourly rate and I'll happily hand you the source code for the software I wrote. But it doesn't work like that anymore, paying developers for custom software is often far to expensive, so the investment has to be shared with other users. So far this is generally solved when somebody makes the investment to build the software hoping he can sell it often enough to make a profit. Other models explicitly split the investment between parties (e.g. kickstarter) or they split the actual work between different parties (e.g. the linux kernel). In the latter two cases open source makes sense. In the first case not having the source is the price you pay for not having to invest or having to get involved. Judging by the success of retail software this is an acceptable trade off in a lot of cases
Anyone who feels that not having the source is unacceptable should either cough up and pay for the work involved or get his hands dirty and scratch his own itch. The same applies to hardware and documentation (and cars, ketchup, governments and most other things).
So you'll have to balance those things. There generally is no point in spending 100K to prevent a day of downtime every year, unless that down time costs you more. Actually, you might gain most by actually preparing for down time. When things become a big mess because your POS goes down it can become rather expensive. But if you make sure everybody knows how to deal with it the down-time might not be that expensive (e.g. two hours of work to type everything in when the system comes back). We're talking about 'a mid-size restaurant' here, people will walk in anyway. As such the POS system isn't mission critical.
That's an if there. AVM has a fritz!box which will failover to an attached UMTS dongle when DSL goes down for some reason. That might be a relativly cheap way to fix a flaky connection.
I've actually been at a company which physically removed all usb plugs (and other external connections) from computers, wired up a single network cable internally and after that actually welded the case shut. All those systems where on an isolated network and monitored constantly. If you'd cut the network cable somebody would come down to take a look at what you where up to. They also had armed guards and would lock down the entire site (physically) when anything slightly suspicious happened. They would also go through your bags, etc.
I had no problem working there, because it was all justified. I also would definitely quit a company if I found out they where running an SSL proxy without telling this upfront. I also might quit a company which is upfront about it but doesn't have a proper justification for measures like that.
Security also is a compromise. Most companies don't need that sort of security, they just need protection against stupid people doing stupid things. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish and what you're protecting an SSL proxy can be the right thing to do. But indeed, you shouldn't believe it will protect you against every possible data leak.
Additionally, in large parts of the Netherlands it's impossible to get an HBO subscription anyway. So for lot's of people here it's either download or wait for the DVD, nothing in between. That will probably change as HBO is rolling out across TV providers here. If it comes with proper on-demand and a reasonable pricetag I'll subscribe.
Frankly, I'd rather have the on-demand stuff over the internet without all sorts of strings attached. I'll happily pay to for on-demand HBO if I can watch it from within XBMC without having to install windows. Untill that happens Sabnzbd + XBMC is simply far more convenient then any legal option.
That definitely is cultural, although it's not specific to India. Saying no to your boss is unpopular (and often unwise) in a lot of countries. I'm Dutch (we argue about everything) and I worked with people from India at an U.S. company. The cultural issues can be rather tricky when people are unaware of them, although it's generally possible to deal with it once you make people aware of it.
Cultural issues exist when outsourcing closer to home as well though, I once freaked a French customer because I was arguing so technical issue with a college and they thought we hated each other:) The small cultural issues between states or even different companies can especially tricky you because you see them coming, so be aware of that when outsourcing closer to home.
Personally I really don't need the lights outside rush hour. I find it far easier, and less tiring, to get an overview of what's going on around me just seeing the taillights ahead of me. It's also makes it easier to spot an unexpected traffic jam ahead, you will see that later on an illuminated road. I am unsure how dimming the lights would work out, but I guess I'd rather have them totally off.
There are some requirements though, the road should be predictable and the shouldn't be any unilluminated or slow traffic and stuff like that. Things like corners in the road for which would require you to slow down etc should be lit though, but when the rest of the road is dark having lights at the 'special' situations actually provides early signal something special is ahead.
But the same is true for all the devices in the article, they all rely on GPU based decoding. Non GPU accelerated stuff won't play on those shiny boxes as well. The hardware in there isn't all that different.
There's a reason MS is as big as it is, people and companies use their stuff. They may not be the biggest player in every market, but they are by no means insignificant.
The transcript of the case is also available. Basically the judge said nothing but, 'there's no irreparable harm, so there won't be a preliminary injunction. Nothing was found legal or illegal, there will be a full case before anything can be said about that. Although the Judge hinted he expects ReDigi to loose the case, he explicitly stated the sole reason for denying the preliminary injunction was the absence of irreparable harm.
Worse yet, XS4ALL actually very much proved in this case they stand for freedom. The original case was made against Ziggo and Xs4all asked to be joined into the case as an party with an interest in the case, where others just stood by and watched. Besides, there will still be an appeal and Xs4all has a history of taking things to the supreme court when needed (see: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13054/final-victory-xs4all-and-karin-spaink-win-scientology-battle). This is far from over yet.
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Let me show you why that statement doesn't make sense:
"Ironically, a lot of 'gun owners' owners aren't necessarily "cowboy posers", but just people who think that if they ever do get in a 'hostile situation', they'd rather be 'carrying a gun' when it happens. So 'gunless people' are more dangerous because there are so many 'criminals with guns' because so many people are afraid of getting 'shot', thus perpetuating the problem"
How is that statement not true, it works perfectly for me. If you reduce the number of guns around (which is probably pretty hard once they are all out there) you reduce the number of current and future criminals with guns.
Don't believe me? Just compare gun ownership and gun related deaths.
So if you feel an SUV is more are dangerous in accidents don't buy an SUV, instead of making the problem worse buy buying one and risking you kill somebody with it. At least when it comes to pedestrian safety SUVs are pretty bad compared to other cars, making SUVs illegal in urban areas will do more to protect your kids then buying one.
Not to mention the fact that the provider wants you to subscribe to their services at $999 per year, and even if you opt for the 3 month (free) trial, you don't get access to the report unless you purchase a "bundle" for $199... These are troll! and the fact that Slashdot has referenced them in such a provocative article is unconscionable!
A report claiming Agile is just a scam to sell services will set you back $199,-. You just have to appreciate the irony there...
I agree, the urgency wasn't there. Clever choice or change of direction would have worked fine. Hasty thrashing around, and chosing the worst ever partner in the history of IT, was clearly doomed.
True, but owning a few million bucks worth of MS shares kind of changes your priorities doesn't it...
First you say you have it, then you say it won't be sold due to insurance?
Not everybody lives in the US and the new Focus is sold worldwide...
Guarantee I couldn't have done that in a "american" vehicle.
Fixed.
ABS used to be pretty shitty, but the world has moved on since. It's just that GM didn't notice...
It's legal to lane-split on a motorcycle in many places... California is one.
And basically all of Europe.
(But only in slow moving traffic)
One interesting criminal issue is making way for emergency vehicles. Depending on the level of civilization of your local area, if an emergency vehicle is coming up behind you, you're legally supposed to get out of the way, and depending on the local ethnicity, maybe culturally you do, maybe you don't.
Ford is talking about cars which are capable of following the flow of traffic automatically. But there will still be a driver in there, there will still be a steering wheel and brake pedals and they will overrule those systems if the driver decides to use them. Just do whatever you feel is the right thing to do when flashing lights show up behind you...
Which also solves the issue of responsibility, it will still be the drivers responsibility to operate the car properly. It's just a few other automatic systems. With the introduction of cruise control driver stayed responsible for the speed of the car. These systems won't be any different.
Those kind of system will, for quite some time to come, always need a human driver to override the system and deal with non-standard situations. Just like you can override (adaptive) cruise control manually right now. But that's fine, most of the road conditions will be normal and those systems will help. Ford really is capable of building this (thanks to Volvo tech b.t.w.). The current Focus has adaptive cruise control and what Ford calls Active City Stop, which actually stops the car when your driving at low speeds and don't respond to when there's something in front of you. The first system uses radar, the latter an camera. Right now those are separate systems, but combining they is just the logical next step. Lane assist systems are also available on the current Focus. Although I recall reading somewhere that the adaptive cruise control won't be sold in the US due to issues with insuring a car with systems like that.
I drive a new Focus with the adaptive cruise control and it works really well. I've actually done 180 km/h on cruise control and had the car slow down to 100 km/h because of traffic ahead without doing anything myself. It really is pretty impressive. I drive a manual, so the car can't really slow down to a full stop all by itself, but the adaptive cruise control on somewhat recent Volvo's will actually slow down to a full stop when the car in front of you stops (on models with an automatic gearbox).
Also, the current adaptive cruise control does switch back to manual mode when the radar can't get a reliable image or when the ESP kicks in because of road conditions. I've also noticed it doesn't accelerate to it's set speed if the road ahead clears while cornering, it will hold back until your traveling in a straight line again.
The believe system of RMS was created in an era largely before retail software. In those times it made all sorts of sense to demand to source code of the software for which you paid the full price. You also often needed the source code to make to software work on your systems (loadable drivers didn't exist), or to get it to do exactly what you need. Back then it all made sense, right now it's becoming an useless old dogma.
I make a living developing software and I can easily agree with that position, pay me a decent hourly rate and I'll happily hand you the source code for the software I wrote. But it doesn't work like that anymore, paying developers for custom software is often far to expensive, so the investment has to be shared with other users. So far this is generally solved when somebody makes the investment to build the software hoping he can sell it often enough to make a profit. Other models explicitly split the investment between parties (e.g. kickstarter) or they split the actual work between different parties (e.g. the linux kernel). In the latter two cases open source makes sense. In the first case not having the source is the price you pay for not having to invest or having to get involved. Judging by the success of retail software this is an acceptable trade off in a lot of cases
Anyone who feels that not having the source is unacceptable should either cough up and pay for the work involved or get his hands dirty and scratch his own itch. The same applies to hardware and documentation (and cars, ketchup, governments and most other things).
So you'll have to balance those things. There generally is no point in spending 100K to prevent a day of downtime every year, unless that down time costs you more. Actually, you might gain most by actually preparing for down time. When things become a big mess because your POS goes down it can become rather expensive. But if you make sure everybody knows how to deal with it the down-time might not be that expensive (e.g. two hours of work to type everything in when the system comes back). We're talking about 'a mid-size restaurant' here, people will walk in anyway. As such the POS system isn't mission critical.
That's an if there. AVM has a fritz!box which will failover to an attached UMTS dongle when DSL goes down for some reason. That might be a relativly cheap way to fix a flaky connection.
Not if 'We can't afford several thousand dollars' is on your requirements list. The price difference makes up for a lot of things...
I've actually been at a company which physically removed all usb plugs (and other external connections) from computers, wired up a single network cable internally and after that actually welded the case shut. All those systems where on an isolated network and monitored constantly. If you'd cut the network cable somebody would come down to take a look at what you where up to. They also had armed guards and would lock down the entire site (physically) when anything slightly suspicious happened. They would also go through your bags, etc.
I had no problem working there, because it was all justified. I also would definitely quit a company if I found out they where running an SSL proxy without telling this upfront. I also might quit a company which is upfront about it but doesn't have a proper justification for measures like that.
Security also is a compromise. Most companies don't need that sort of security, they just need protection against stupid people doing stupid things. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish and what you're protecting an SSL proxy can be the right thing to do. But indeed, you shouldn't believe it will protect you against every possible data leak.
Of course, being a /.er it is safe to assume you're a white male, so your privilege lets you be completely oblivious to these concepts 99% of the time.
I'm a white male nerd, yet I'm very offended by sexism and objectification, especially in commercials like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdrE1VMxzoE
Wow, I guess a police officer in most European countries would be fired (ab)using his uniform on a private job like that.
If you enjoy a fag regularly you could actually get a job there: http://www.schaeffler.nl/
That's a self-destructing prophecy.
Additionally, in large parts of the Netherlands it's impossible to get an HBO subscription anyway. So for lot's of people here it's either download or wait for the DVD, nothing in between. That will probably change as HBO is rolling out across TV providers here. If it comes with proper on-demand and a reasonable pricetag I'll subscribe.
Frankly, I'd rather have the on-demand stuff over the internet without all sorts of strings attached. I'll happily pay to for on-demand HBO if I can watch it from within XBMC without having to install windows. Untill that happens Sabnzbd + XBMC is simply far more convenient then any legal option.
That definitely is cultural, although it's not specific to India. Saying no to your boss is unpopular (and often unwise) in a lot of countries. I'm Dutch (we argue about everything) and I worked with people from India at an U.S. company. The cultural issues can be rather tricky when people are unaware of them, although it's generally possible to deal with it once you make people aware of it. :) The small cultural issues between states or even different companies can especially tricky you because you see them coming, so be aware of that when outsourcing closer to home.
Cultural issues exist when outsourcing closer to home as well though, I once freaked a French customer because I was arguing so technical issue with a college and they thought we hated each other
Personally I really don't need the lights outside rush hour. I find it far easier, and less tiring, to get an overview of what's going on around me just seeing the taillights ahead of me. It's also makes it easier to spot an unexpected traffic jam ahead, you will see that later on an illuminated road. I am unsure how dimming the lights would work out, but I guess I'd rather have them totally off. There are some requirements though, the road should be predictable and the shouldn't be any unilluminated or slow traffic and stuff like that. Things like corners in the road for which would require you to slow down etc should be lit though, but when the rest of the road is dark having lights at the 'special' situations actually provides early signal something special is ahead.
But the same is true for all the devices in the article, they all rely on GPU based decoding. Non GPU accelerated stuff won't play on those shiny boxes as well. The hardware in there isn't all that different.
That's probably what they hear @IIS when someone takes a dump.
You're dead wrong. Microsoft barely exists ouside the desktop and some AD/Exchange setups.
Sure, because Azure doesn't exist, nobody uses IIS for large website, nobody uses Dynamics and no big software vendor develops using Microsoft technology.
There's a reason MS is as big as it is, people and companies use their stuff. They may not be the biggest player in every market, but they are by no means insignificant.
The transcript of the case is also available. Basically the judge said nothing but, 'there's no irreparable harm, so there won't be a preliminary injunction. Nothing was found legal or illegal, there will be a full case before anything can be said about that. Although the Judge hinted he expects ReDigi to loose the case, he explicitly stated the sole reason for denying the preliminary injunction was the absence of irreparable harm.
Worse yet, XS4ALL actually very much proved in this case they stand for freedom. The original case was made against Ziggo and Xs4all asked to be joined into the case as an party with an interest in the case, where others just stood by and watched. Besides, there will still be an appeal and Xs4all has a history of taking things to the supreme court when needed (see: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13054/final-victory-xs4all-and-karin-spaink-win-scientology-battle). This is far from over yet.