they really do weed out people like most slashdotters. I've known several people in high school/college that took the exam for "law enforcement placement" and been disqualified from "police" for getting too high marks. They then got calls from other "alphabet" agencies to see if they make the cut.
it's the same as if he sent it to the newspaper "letter to the editor". Sure, it's freedom of speech... right up until he has reason to act like that insinuation.. then it becomes much more.
actually, they should be sent home if they are having a bad day... who wants somebody with a gun and badge and a chip on their shoulder.. that's good for "truth and justice" right?
As a high school teacher what would happen if you JOKED about sex with a teenage student on your myspace? You think somebody would look into that?
except he claims to be a cop, joking about a movie where cops don't follow the rules. It'd be like being a slashdotter joking about how you were going to crash your companies computer if they fired you.
THAT is why we allow immigration in droves, and most of the immigrants come from places where 6-8 kids is the norm. Most of the immigrants from India, Pakistan, and the Middle East are well educated and willing to live "like a Chinese peasant" while competing with native workers for 6 figure tech jobs. If the US was only "white people" we'd be having slightly negative population growth already. Allowing immigrants lets us "have our cake and eat it too" the children of immigrants won't tolerate the conditions of their homeland (or the conditions they grew up in) and a good portion will marry Americans (or others from their country living here) and fall back to 2-3 kids.. with the good education and job.
In the US most vendors make you go to a bank to finance the 3 years. They don't foot the bill themselves. That's how the "insure" it't not the reseller's problem!
of course it helps to use and OS that will respect the admins right to uninstall games. The whole problem with Windows "lockdown" is that the OS doesn't really remove what you tell it, preferring to "hide" things. You can delete Solitare outright and the OS will REINSTALL the exe at the next boot. If M$ takes that kind of pains to spit in the face of admins, why is anybody still using it.
Like other people said, under Linux you can "just not install" games... they won't be there, anywhere. Then you have a nice work computer.. your IT job is done, time wasting is not YOUR problem.
My wife and I do this all the time. We hide stuff from the kids in a "safe place"... only a week later we can't remember where the safe place was.
I think that's what happened here. Every body properly changed their passwords and cleaned out file drawers... and nobody did the diligence to make sure all the pieces were accounted for... because that would be "insecure" for there to be a checklist. The instructions are probably buried, like you said, and the only people interested in looking thru the archives don't have clearance... I'd venture even the archivists don't have clearance to open files not requested...
I agree with the other guy too. The DoD has been pushing to restart Nuclear Manufacturing of NEW devices since the last prez came to office. If only for the shock value of making new weapons to put some fear out there. I can't believe the current prez would fall for the ruse and burn that kind of international goodwill he's trying to muster.
The problem with software patents is that something like this is a great idea, but not patentable without much greater detail. Patenting "turn off non-sanctioned apps during web meetings" is hardly enough to go on. Such a patent would have to be much more specific... down to OS level hooks like how you're going to block screens from showing and restrict access to focus changes. The result would be a patent so specific to how Windows works that it wouldn't apply to Gnome or OSX.. and to "stretch" the patent wouldn't be right either because those systems do things differently.
I think the feature is cool. I've been in web meetings where somebody's email notification keeps popping on the screen... this could cause important "company private" information to be leaked, or worse somebody pop into their email while meeting then every body sees their mailbox. Blocking an app from showing during an web meeting is a useful and clever idea, without actually closing the app so the meeting users don't lose their workflow.
They're a regulated monopoly.. why do they need other "revenue streams"? They're not a "normal" company in that they can ask for rate increases to cover any operational losses... they have no need for income streams from other purposes... they shouldn't be handing out customer data.. because you have no real way to opt out of their monopoly.
I've often wondered why everybody will hit the "feeder bar" to update to Silverlight or Flash V.27 but getting somebody to switch from IE6 to FF3 takes an act of $deity when the FF3 download is smaller by a power of 10.
OK, my school didn't have a "gun" class, but it was no big deal for farm kids going hunting to have a gun rack in their pickup on school property, or loaded up with hunting bows and arrows (obviously not in the building). Pocket knives were legal (same as the non-school rules) and cheerleaders bringing in cutlery was big issue. It wasn't until my senior year (90-91) that the school "all of a sudden" started worrying about such dangerous weapons and a few more year until everybody started the crazy "fisher-price" rules.
not really. The 9/11 hijackers didn't really use much technology to actually perform their heinous act. Sure, they use email, internet, and electronic banking to move funds more quickly, but all those thing were used by those groups 20 years ago to ensure funds transfer.. they were just really expensive for regular folk. If they started demanding regular mail be "checked for criminal intent" and copied to a database then we'd have uprisings from the voters like crazy, but somehow we've accepted surveillance right up to "slightly less" than opening and scanning your written emails.
Re:Not very "Family Friendly" either
on
Watchmen Watched
·
· Score: 1
Most movies throw a few gratuitous boobs in there to ramp a PG13 movie to be "adult" when really all they're doing is smashing stuff and swearing a lot. Very few movies are truly "adult" in a sense more than sex humor. I always think of the Kubrick movies of the 70s that would probably be NC-17 today because making people think critically about sexual, violent encounters is even worse that "pantsless" or a sea full of boobies.
projectionists haven't changed reels for a long time. They build all the reels on a really big wheel that is set so it can continuously pull from the inside or outside so there's no rewinding involved. Also many theaters are going digital so they don't need dots at all.
Unless they're the stupid anti-piracy dots to catch screeners.
Re:I think you jumped the gun a little.
on
Watchmen Watched
·
· Score: 1
The creators would have nothing interesting without the middle men. There would be no cool Woz toys without Jobs business need to find directions to push him. Makers tend to be generally happy people.. the adage that the wise man adapts himself and the fool forces changes, applies. Makers tend to be pretty happy with small inventions, foolish people wanting money tend to bring out the interesting things.
Re:I think you jumped the gun a little.
on
Watchmen Watched
·
· Score: 1
even better, posting on slashdot is CmdrTaco's work!!!
Like any other industry the "favorites" doing something far-out is guaranteed to make fans love you... even if it isn't great to outsiders. It goes on everybody's list of "must read" like they make you read "Ethan Frome" in high school.
if you've had sight your brain is already programmed, it just needs the smallest bit of information, like looking at an elephant thru a pinhole. If you already know you're supposed to be seeing an elephant. Trying this on somebody who's never had sight would be a different issue.
the rest is figuring out the practicalities. After all an 8 megapixel Cmos sensor is only 2/3" square, more than small enough to fit INSIDE an eye. It's what to connect it to and what signals it needs to send that's the hard part.
you'd have to try the treatment on somebody that has been able to see so they know what they're supposed to be looking at. It takes the brain a good while just to learn what images are... but you get to learn it while your a baby...keeps you out of trouble.
Slashdot Mirror
they really do weed out people like most slashdotters. I've known several people in high school/college that took the exam for "law enforcement placement" and been disqualified from "police" for getting too high marks. They then got calls from other "alphabet" agencies to see if they make the cut.
it's the same as if he sent it to the newspaper "letter to the editor". Sure, it's freedom of speech... right up until he has reason to act like that insinuation.. then it becomes much more.
actually, they should be sent home if they are having a bad day... who wants somebody with a gun and badge and a chip on their shoulder.. that's good for "truth and justice" right?
As a high school teacher what would happen if you JOKED about sex with a teenage student on your myspace? You think somebody would look into that?
except he claims to be a cop, joking about a movie where cops don't follow the rules. It'd be like being a slashdotter joking about how you were going to crash your companies computer if they fired you.
THAT is why we allow immigration in droves, and most of the immigrants come from places where 6-8 kids is the norm. Most of the immigrants from India, Pakistan, and the Middle East are well educated and willing to live "like a Chinese peasant" while competing with native workers for 6 figure tech jobs. If the US was only "white people" we'd be having slightly negative population growth already. Allowing immigrants lets us "have our cake and eat it too" the children of immigrants won't tolerate the conditions of their homeland (or the conditions they grew up in) and a good portion will marry Americans (or others from their country living here) and fall back to 2-3 kids.. with the good education and job.
In the US most vendors make you go to a bank to finance the 3 years. They don't foot the bill themselves. That's how the "insure" it't not the reseller's problem!
of course it helps to use and OS that will respect the admins right to uninstall games. The whole problem with Windows "lockdown" is that the OS doesn't really remove what you tell it, preferring to "hide" things. You can delete Solitare outright and the OS will REINSTALL the exe at the next boot. If M$ takes that kind of pains to spit in the face of admins, why is anybody still using it.
Like other people said, under Linux you can "just not install" games... they won't be there, anywhere. Then you have a nice work computer.. your IT job is done, time wasting is not YOUR problem.
That won't stop Mrs. Roberts though.
My wife and I do this all the time. We hide stuff from the kids in a "safe place"... only a week later we can't remember where the safe place was.
I think that's what happened here. Every body properly changed their passwords and cleaned out file drawers... and nobody did the diligence to make sure all the pieces were accounted for... because that would be "insecure" for there to be a checklist. The instructions are probably buried, like you said, and the only people interested in looking thru the archives don't have clearance... I'd venture even the archivists don't have clearance to open files not requested...
I agree with the other guy too. The DoD has been pushing to restart Nuclear Manufacturing of NEW devices since the last prez came to office. If only for the shock value of making new weapons to put some fear out there. I can't believe the current prez would fall for the ruse and burn that kind of international goodwill he's trying to muster.
The problem with software patents is that something like this is a great idea, but not patentable without much greater detail. Patenting "turn off non-sanctioned apps during web meetings" is hardly enough to go on. Such a patent would have to be much more specific... down to OS level hooks like how you're going to block screens from showing and restrict access to focus changes. The result would be a patent so specific to how Windows works that it wouldn't apply to Gnome or OSX.. and to "stretch" the patent wouldn't be right either because those systems do things differently.
I think the feature is cool. I've been in web meetings where somebody's email notification keeps popping on the screen... this could cause important "company private" information to be leaked, or worse somebody pop into their email while meeting then every body sees their mailbox. Blocking an app from showing during an web meeting is a useful and clever idea, without actually closing the app so the meeting users don't lose their workflow.
OK but what about all those people stuck in 10 hour a day office jobs.. is life on the cube farm now a "hazardous" work environment?
They're a regulated monopoly.. why do they need other "revenue streams"? They're not a "normal" company in that they can ask for rate increases to cover any operational losses... they have no need for income streams from other purposes... they shouldn't be handing out customer data.. because you have no real way to opt out of their monopoly.
I've often wondered why everybody will hit the "feeder bar" to update to Silverlight or Flash V.27 but getting somebody to switch from IE6 to FF3 takes an act of $deity when the FF3 download is smaller by a power of 10.
good luck with that.. the internet routes around such problems.
OK, my school didn't have a "gun" class, but it was no big deal for farm kids going hunting to have a gun rack in their pickup on school property, or loaded up with hunting bows and arrows (obviously not in the building). Pocket knives were legal (same as the non-school rules) and cheerleaders bringing in cutlery was big issue. It wasn't until my senior year (90-91) that the school "all of a sudden" started worrying about such dangerous weapons and a few more year until everybody started the crazy "fisher-price" rules.
not really. The 9/11 hijackers didn't really use much technology to actually perform their heinous act. Sure, they use email, internet, and electronic banking to move funds more quickly, but all those thing were used by those groups 20 years ago to ensure funds transfer.. they were just really expensive for regular folk. If they started demanding regular mail be "checked for criminal intent" and copied to a database then we'd have uprisings from the voters like crazy, but somehow we've accepted surveillance right up to "slightly less" than opening and scanning your written emails.
Most movies throw a few gratuitous boobs in there to ramp a PG13 movie to be "adult" when really all they're doing is smashing stuff and swearing a lot. Very few movies are truly "adult" in a sense more than sex humor. I always think of the Kubrick movies of the 70s that would probably be NC-17 today because making people think critically about sexual, violent encounters is even worse that "pantsless" or a sea full of boobies.
projectionists haven't changed reels for a long time. They build all the reels on a really big wheel that is set so it can continuously pull from the inside or outside so there's no rewinding involved. Also many theaters are going digital so they don't need dots at all.
Unless they're the stupid anti-piracy dots to catch screeners.
The creators would have nothing interesting without the middle men. There would be no cool Woz toys without Jobs business need to find directions to push him. Makers tend to be generally happy people.. the adage that the wise man adapts himself and the fool forces changes, applies. Makers tend to be pretty happy with small inventions, foolish people wanting money tend to bring out the interesting things.
even better, posting on slashdot is CmdrTaco's work!!!
Like any other industry the "favorites" doing something far-out is guaranteed to make fans love you... even if it isn't great to outsiders. It goes on everybody's list of "must read" like they make you read "Ethan Frome" in high school.
considering the target audience HATES happy hollywood movies, the critics really hating it is generally a good thing.
if you've had sight your brain is already programmed, it just needs the smallest bit of information, like looking at an elephant thru a pinhole. If you already know you're supposed to be seeing an elephant. Trying this on somebody who's never had sight would be a different issue.
the rest is figuring out the practicalities. After all an 8 megapixel Cmos sensor is only 2/3" square, more than small enough to fit INSIDE an eye. It's what to connect it to and what signals it needs to send that's the hard part.
you'd have to try the treatment on somebody that has been able to see so they know what they're supposed to be looking at. It takes the brain a good while just to learn what images are... but you get to learn it while your a baby...keeps you out of trouble.