Wanda Higgins, a 47-year-old Weymouth resident and a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, heard about the threat as she watched television news coverage while preparing to leave work at 4 p.m. "I saw the bomb squad guys carrying a paper bag with their bare hands," Higgins said. "I knew it couldn't be too serious."
I think you might be too harsh on the bomb squad here. While i don't have an attribution, one of the articles in the middle of that day on cnn had a quote from a random citizen who said something like "Well, earlier I saw on TV a bomb squad guy holding it in his bare hands and just walking along with [the device] so I knew it couldn't be TOO bad ".
What the actual bomb squad guys thought / knew and what the managers and politicians decided to do with the information, those are different things.
I worked with WebSphere 2.x and 3.x in the relatively early days of EJB ( 1999 - 2001 ) and it was a total mess.
2.x didn't even work with EJBs, though it was sold as a server having EJB support. We even had a couple of Global Services guys come in to "show us how it's done". Bottom line was that the thing would crash if there ever was more than 1 concurrent request to any entity bean. After a couple of weeks the guys left and told us to wait for 3.0. Lovely.
3.x worked ok once (if?) you got it installed (and until it corrupted itself). This was no mean feat since, instead of using configuration files it would install a whole instance of DB2 as a config repository. I'm not talking about the db your application would be using, oh no... it needed a schema for its own config. Oh, and how would you manage this thing ? You would use the admin server of course. This was a pre-configured instance of the server with an admin web-app that would basically muck with the data in the aforementioned configuration database. This all was a cute idea except for the fact that it took hundreds of megs of RAM at a time when development machines and even servers didn't have all that much. Then of course, if anything went wrong, which it often did, especially during divelopment, you were basically SOL. Not only was the logging bad, but also there was just nothing you could really do if things went wrong because of the damn configuration database which was a black box. So you could try to delete a server instance and create a new one and then redefine your app hoping that would fix things.
What if the config server didn't start or was acting wonky? oh, uninstall everything and try again. (If you were running on windows, usually this meant actually reinstalling windows because WS and DB2 would leave all sorts of stuff in the registry and sometimes in system32 that would confuse the installer or just make it seem to succeed while leaving you with a broken install.)
I briefly used 4.x and 5.x later and they seemed better but were still a big pain to install and deal with compared to other options.
I'm the first to admit that EJBs are of questionable choice given their overhead but if you're going to use them, I don't understand why ANYONE would use WS when you could get WebLogic instead. Of late, of course Jboss is a pretty good choice and, as mentioned, it's free. (Besides, if you're doing anything new now, EJB3 is the way to go anyway and i don't think anyone other than Jboss even has support for that. )
Enough reminiscing from me, but man am i glad i don't have to deal with WS anymore (at least for now).
"unbelievable thieving asshole" ? "i hope your former customers sue you into oblivion" ?! "biggest asshole ever" ?
come on people, get a grip. Some kid makes copies of some student art to put on his wall. don't you think you guys are overreacting a tad ? Who is actually being hurt ? how hurt are they ?
yes, it qualifies as theft, both of the company's supplies and the students' art, but i think it's in the same realm as eating your roomate's Oreos without asking or taking some pens home from work.
No, i'm not a p2p using, anti-copyright hippie; it just gets my goat when people blow stuff out of proportion because it makes it hard to keep things in proper perspective. if this guy is "the biggest asshole" what do you call the guy who steals your laptop or robs your house or defrauds your grandmother of her savings or kills someone?
on a 0-10 linear scale of "evil" i would put this at about 0.1
i propose that "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" become the new tag line year round.
I understand what the day is, and i can definitely do without the current color scheme, but the line has great potential.
An incongruous tagline is exactly what a nerd site needs. It would also make for a random inside joke of sorts and would confound the mainstream media whenever it refers to slashdot. Maybe it would also remind some not to take themselves quite so seriously.
Well, technically they're not, but since the NE is so small anyway...
HOWEVER, since when is Penn part of the tri state area ?! The tri state area (at least in NY City & central Jersey) is New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
So you're either some wannabe from Philly or some guy who never left Manhattan. But in the latter case you'd probably had said New York (implying that only Manhattan is "New York" and that the rest of the city and state don't even exist).... and you never would have moved out because you'd think the rest of the country is only good for skiing and producing corn (and Republicans).
(hint: i'm mostly joking, not trolling, but the point about the tri-state area is genuine)
Umm... i don't mean to be callous but what do you think medics and hospitals do on the battle field ? They patch people back together so that they can go back and fight some more.
The presence of medics (and an evacuation system and hospitals) also keeps morale up since soldiers know that, if they get shot, they still have a decent chance of survival.
In the short term they limit suffering and save lives that otherwise would be lost, but in
the long term they're supporting the war effort.
(note: i'm not commenting on war in general here just the role of
medical personel in wartime)
You're probably one of those people who thinks that downloading mp3s without paying for them is stealing. Don't you understand that by not paying for the music you actually help the musicians make money by fighting against the record companies?! Oh, also you buy more music as a result.
This is the same thing. With gmail, google is further tightening their grip on the disk market. Since google has been on the scene the price per gig has dropped by 80%! Manufacturers are suffering. Once google's stranglehold is broken, hard drive artisans will be able to sell reliable networked storage directly to the consumer at a reasonable price and still be able to earn a living wage.
good point. The smug/jaded comments about how it must be viral marketing are just assertions. The resilience of the site in question, though, is actually good evidence that it's an engineered solution rather than just a hack.
Unrelated news: 2370 Market Street is a real address in the Castro in SF.
(that's the address in whois db)
i wonder what's there?
off topic, certainly, but i've got to say
that that's a clever sig.
took me a few seconds to get it.
hint: if you're thinking
"what's wrong w/ Anarchists?
it's not my thing but some people might
think they pretty cool..."
then you're barking up the wrong tree:-)
well... Primary/Secondary isn't a very good choice because that's what's used to differentiate the two IDE controllers on one motherboard nowadays.
Of course, that's not the real problem. The problem is that these kinds of imagined slights and "issues" pollute the landscape and prevent more important issues from being dealt with. As others have mentioned, racial discrimination by the police... that's a real problem that should be addressed. This master/slave thing is just noise.
here is the main issue w/ your argument, as i see it.
The content producers can't steal anything from you since it is you who are initiating the transaction.
Now you CAN argue that the publisher of the DVD is engaging in false advertising or providing a broken product because it says it's a DVD and your drive says it's a DVD drive yet the disk won't play. But then again maybe it's a fault of the DVD drive manufacturer. You can get the two manufacturers to fight it out because one of the two isn't working to spec.
However, what i think you'll find out is that the DVD drive maker probably included a windows DVD playing program for windows with the drive and you just happen to be using the drive in an unsupported way. So really, your beef is with the DVD drive maker for not supporting Linux, or perhaps with Linux itself for not running "Windows " programs.
As you can see, this gets pretty strange, but philosophically, i don't really see a problem here.
They're citizens too, but according to the Constitution, the States are only proscribed a few reasons for depriving citizens of voting rights: gender, age (as long as above 18) and race. Oh and they can't have poll taxes. Other than that, it's up to the states to figure out who gets to vote and who doesn't.
Although an interesting line in the 14th amendment says that if people are denied voting rights for reasons other than their participating in a criminal act, then the State doesn't get to count those people for the purpose of getting Representatives.
As usual, they're not going to stop dedicated crackers from copying the software on these disks. However, it will be much harder than just sticking a disk in your cd rom , another one in your CD-RW and hitting the copy button.
so this will cut down on a high percentage of copying by normal users.
no comment on fair use issues or whatever, but from the point of view of cutting down on casual software piracy this seems like a good idea to me.
We have one at the office here and they're great for the teleconference itself regardless of the recording function.
It is most useful, imho, when brainstorming or otherwise desiging things during the conference call because it allows for the critical function of being able to go up to a board and scribbling on it an object model or a network diagram or something and then explaining it. If both sides have one of these and you use a projector to project the electronic composite whiteboard onto the physical whiteboards it's almost like being in the same room and arguing over the same physical whiteboard
The only thing neater would be if the board itself were a big LCD screen or something but that would likely cost tens of thousands of dollars.
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I think you might be too harsh on the bomb squad here. While i don't have an attribution, one of the articles in the middle of that day on cnn had a quote from a random citizen who said something like "Well, earlier I saw on TV a bomb squad guy holding it in his bare hands and just walking along with [the device] so I knew it couldn't be TOO bad ".
What the actual bomb squad guys thought / knew and what the managers and politicians decided to do with the information, those are different things.
heh, that's my sentiment too.
I worked with WebSphere 2.x and 3.x in the relatively early days of EJB ( 1999 - 2001 ) and it was a total mess.
2.x didn't even work with EJBs, though it was sold as a server having EJB support. We even had a couple of Global Services guys come in to "show us how it's done". Bottom line was that the thing would crash if there ever was more than 1 concurrent request to any entity bean. After a couple of weeks the guys left and told us to wait for 3.0. Lovely.
3.x worked ok once (if?) you got it installed (and until it corrupted itself). This was no mean feat since, instead of using configuration files it would install a whole instance of DB2 as a config repository. I'm not talking about the db your application would be using, oh no... it needed a schema for its own config. Oh, and how would you manage this thing ? You would use the admin server of course. This was a pre-configured instance of the server with an admin web-app that would basically muck with the data in the aforementioned configuration database. This all was a cute idea except for the fact that it took hundreds of megs of RAM at a time when development machines and even servers didn't have all that much. Then of course, if anything went wrong, which it often did, especially during divelopment, you were basically SOL. Not only was the logging bad, but also there was just nothing you could really do if things went wrong because of the damn configuration database which was a black box. So you could try to delete a server instance and create a new one and
then redefine your app hoping that would fix things.
What if the config server didn't start or was acting wonky? oh, uninstall everything and try again. (If you were running on windows, usually this meant actually reinstalling windows because WS and DB2 would leave all sorts of stuff in the registry and sometimes in system32 that would confuse the installer or just make it seem to succeed while leaving you with a broken install.)
I briefly used 4.x and 5.x later and they seemed better but were still a big pain to install and deal with compared to other options.
I'm the first to admit that EJBs are of questionable choice given their overhead but if you're going to use them, I don't understand why ANYONE would use WS when you could get WebLogic instead. Of late, of course Jboss is a pretty good choice and, as mentioned, it's free.
(Besides, if you're doing anything new now, EJB3 is the way to go anyway and i don't think anyone other than Jboss even has support for that. )
Enough reminiscing from me, but man am i glad i don't have to deal with WS anymore (at least for now).
"unbelievable thieving asshole" ?
"i hope your former customers sue you into oblivion" ?!
"biggest asshole ever" ?
come on people, get a grip. Some kid makes copies of some student art to put on his wall.
don't you think you guys are overreacting a tad ?
Who is actually being hurt ? how hurt are they ?
yes, it qualifies as theft, both of the company's supplies and the students' art, but i think it's in the same realm as eating your roomate's Oreos without asking or taking some pens home from work.
No, i'm not a p2p using, anti-copyright hippie; it just gets my goat when people blow stuff out of proportion because it makes it hard to keep things in proper perspective. if this guy is "the biggest asshole" what do you call the guy who steals your laptop or robs your house or defrauds your grandmother of her savings or kills someone?
on a 0-10 linear scale of "evil" i would put this at about 0.1
This is a pretty lengthy story from '02 about a Canadian guy who has had a similar procedure.
t ml?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
It's about the work of William Dobelle who is mentioned in
the FA as a pioneer in the field who recently passed away.
Really interesting stuff.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision.h
i propose that "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" become the new
tag line year round.
I understand what the day is, and i can definitely do without the current color scheme, but the line has great potential.
An incongruous tagline is exactly what a nerd site needs. It would also make for a random inside joke of sorts and would confound the mainstream media whenever it refers to slashdot. Maybe it would also remind some not to take themselves quite so seriously.
Well, technically they're not, but since the NE is so small anyway...
.... and you never would have moved out because you'd think the rest of the
HOWEVER, since when is Penn part of the tri state area ?!
The tri state area (at least in NY City & central Jersey) is
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
So you're either some wannabe from Philly or some guy who never left
Manhattan. But in the latter case you'd probably had said New York (implying that
only Manhattan is "New York" and that the rest of the city and state don't even
exist)
country is only good for skiing and producing corn (and Republicans).
(hint: i'm mostly joking, not trolling, but the point about the tri-state area is genuine)
Umm... i don't mean to be callous but what do you think medics and hospitals do on the battle field ? They patch people back together so that they can go back and fight some more. The presence of medics (and an evacuation system and hospitals) also keeps morale up since soldiers know that, if they get shot, they still have a decent chance of survival. In the short term they limit suffering and save lives that otherwise would be lost, but in the long term they're supporting the war effort. (note: i'm not commenting on war in general here just the role of medical personel in wartime)
You're probably one of those people who thinks that downloading mp3s without paying for them is stealing. Don't you understand that by not paying for the music you actually help the musicians make money by fighting against the record companies?! Oh, also you buy more music as a result.
This is the same thing. With gmail, google is further tightening their grip on the disk market. Since google has been on the scene the price per gig has dropped by 80%! Manufacturers are suffering. Once google's stranglehold is broken, hard drive artisans will be able to sell reliable networked storage directly to the consumer at a reasonable price and still be able to earn a living wage.
good point. The smug/jaded comments about how it must be viral marketing are just assertions. The resilience of the site in question, though, is actually good evidence that it's an engineered solution rather than just a hack. Unrelated news: 2370 Market Street is a real address in the Castro in SF. (that's the address in whois db) i wonder what's there?
off topic, certainly, but i've got to say that that's a clever sig. took me a few seconds to get it. hint: if you're thinking "what's wrong w/ Anarchists? it's not my thing but some people might think they pretty cool..." then you're barking up the wrong tree :-)
well... Primary/Secondary isn't a very good choice because that's what's used to differentiate the two IDE controllers on one motherboard nowadays.
Of course, that's not the real problem. The problem is that these kinds of imagined slights and "issues" pollute the landscape and prevent more important issues from being dealt with. As others have mentioned, racial discrimination by the police... that's a real problem that should be addressed. This master/slave thing is just noise.
It's all about "the boy who cried wolf...".
here is the main issue w/ your argument, as i see it. The content producers can't steal anything from you since it is you who are initiating the transaction. Now you CAN argue that the publisher of the DVD is engaging in false advertising or providing a broken product because it says it's a DVD and your drive says it's a DVD drive yet the disk won't play. But then again maybe it's a fault of the DVD drive manufacturer. You can get the two manufacturers to fight it out because one of the two isn't working to spec. However, what i think you'll find out is that the DVD drive maker probably included a windows DVD playing program for windows with the drive and you just happen to be using the drive in an unsupported way. So really, your beef is with the DVD drive maker for not supporting Linux, or perhaps with Linux itself for not running "Windows " programs. As you can see, this gets pretty strange, but philosophically, i don't really see a problem here.
They're citizens too, but according to the Constitution, the States are only proscribed a few reasons for depriving citizens of voting rights: gender, age (as long as above 18) and race. Oh and they can't have poll taxes. Other than that, it's up to the states to figure out who gets to vote and who doesn't.
Although an interesting line in the 14th amendment says that if people are denied voting rights for reasons other than their participating in a criminal act, then the State doesn't get to count those people for the purpose of getting Representatives.
see: 14th amendmentAs usual, they're not going to stop dedicated crackers from copying the software on these disks. However, it will be much harder than just sticking a disk in your cd rom , another one in your CD-RW and hitting the copy button.
so this will cut down on a high percentage of copying by normal users.
no comment on fair use issues or whatever, but from the point of view of cutting down on casual software piracy this seems like a good idea to me.
We have one at the office here and they're great for the teleconference itself regardless of the recording function.
It is most useful, imho, when brainstorming or otherwise desiging things during the conference call because it allows for the critical function of being able to go up to a board and scribbling on it an object model or a network diagram or something and then explaining it. If both sides have one of these and you use a projector to project the electronic composite whiteboard onto the physical whiteboards it's almost like being in the same room and arguing over the same physical whiteboard
The only thing neater would be if the board itself were a big LCD screen or something but that would likely cost tens of thousands of dollars.
super geeky but also very touching.
congratulations!