What is someone going to find if they install this on a library computer? livejournal.com pages? Orlando Bloom pictures? Lyrics to an Eminem CD? chat sessions with pinkkitty5555?
This would be an excellent product to add some APIs to. People are complaining about PDF, Trillian, GAIM, Firefox, etc. If an API allowed users to add their own extensions to search for other formats, we wouldn't have to wait for google.
They may have to keep all the money from the prince of Nigeria, who died 10 years ago in a terrible plane crash, to pay attorney fees. At least they have that.
Why don't they just skin Windows? They have the toolbar, mail checker client thing, searcher bar that can sit in the task bar. I mean, just have google be a part of every single app on the desktop.
Why would we do that? We never stopped Columbia from producing cocaine, and we're not stopping Afghanistan from producing heroin. In this country, we attack the end result, not the source.
There's more money to be made by allowing spam to occur via spam fighting tools, bigger Internet pipes, advertising through spam, you name it.
It's all about money. They'll end up paying customers pennies on the dollar compared to what they spent on the drives. They don't need a general recall. Safety isn't involved here, like it is in the automobile market.
Is this an authority actually questioning the validity of the Internet and it's use in research? Or is the authority simply using this as a ruse to say, "read our publication, as the Internet is making it outdated?" I tend to vote for the latter. I've read too much good research on the Internet - valid research - overlooked by the mainstream medical and science community just because it didn't mean more money for someone or didn't fit the status quo.
Do NOT go to CWRU. I did, I got a good education, can't recommend it. I'm sure others will have better reasons than I. Some of them:
- One of the computer professors was diagnosed as insane. - The accredidation for the grad program was placed on probation about 5 years ago for a 3 year period. - Rumors have it the place is falling apart, and no one likes the new President. This from my mother-in-law, who used to work in the University publicity/communication office. - The campus is in the middle of urban Cleveland, i.e., the hood.
You'll make friends, and have an OK time, and make the most of it. You get a great name to put on your degree. But I definitely can't recommend the computer department there. If you're serious about your education, don't pick CWRU unless you have your expectations set that you'll have to teach yourself a lot and learn from your peers instead of professors.
One point to make about most of these institutions: If you're smart, you'll get a good education, regardless of how good or bad the professors are. I say this because you will gravitate towards the other smart folks in class, and you'll end up teaching each other as much, if not more, than you'll learn from a professor. This may not be true at teaching institutions, but it was my experience at CWRU...er...Case.
I have experience with this at our company. It's probably an isolated experience. It more applies to hiring PhDs that have lots of experience teaching that go into the real world.
Our company hired a professor from UNC. This is a professor that took over one of Fred Brooks' classes.
At first we left him to be a zealot for software engineering. We have a great process in place, so he was more the zealot for the entire company. Then the politics came down and forced him to work on a deliverable.
The product took about twice as long as expected. All that software engineering theory just didn't apply in the real world. Build environments, makefiles, message files, and all that stuff you use in the real world were foreign concepts. Unit testing was another issue - most builds that came down the pipe had a simple bug that prevented testers from using the build. It could be argued that much of his code was not readable as well. Lots of one letter variable names, and wrapper around functions that didn't need them. I mean, he did the equivalent of wrapping strlen with a function named StringLength. This was to improve readability.
He's already stated he wanted to join the bandwagon for teaching and instructing in the company, proclaiming the merits of process and all that stuff. He wants to tell people how to avoid the mistakes he's made. Bottom line: he's instructed for so long, he thinks this little experience further qualifies him.
In short, I can't say I recommend hiring a lifetime professor at a major college as a programmer. There's too much unlearning that needs to take place, and too little awareness of how software engineering process works in the real world.
I can't agree more. I personally have received 5 messages from our company's IT department commanding employees to install the patch on all computers. That doesn't include all the constant news concerning this vulnerability.
Anyone else received a bazillion notes from the IT department to patch systems?
How will it ever be possible to trace any kind of voting mischief or voter manipulation or cheating or anything like that? It's all zeros and ones, and no one can see when data is manipulated like you can with a piece of paper.
Computers and electronics are good for some things. I don't think this is one of them.
I see a lot of complaints directed towards CmdrTaco concerning duplicate posts. But do readers read the site? Shouldn't we be complaining about readers submitting duplicate posts as well?
Has anyone posting about the death of satellite radio actually listened to it? As a subscriber of XM, and a very happy one at that, I thought I'd chime in.
Advantages of satellite radio over DirecTV (and/or Dish Network) radio stations.
- Satellite radio can afford more bandwidth just to the music than DirecTV, resulting in a better reception. - Satellite radio doesn't use a directional dish. I'm in an office building and pick up XM at work just fine. - XM has DJs. You can call in and request stuff. It's personalized, and they actually know music. It's not a playlist of 200 songs on random. - Audio stations on satellite TV are provided by a third party. They're generic, just a rotating plyalist.
I'm not convinced those that knock satellite radio have ever heard the depth of the musical library that is available to the listeners. No way is satellite TV going to put in the time or effort to develop that kind of library or personalize it for those that are listening.
DirecTV in the car isn't going to kill satellite radio. Anyone who has listened to stations on XM and the music stations on DirecTV or Dish Network will tell you that.
For a good example of the musical depth on XM, go to fred.xmradio.com and checkout the 2002 Fred Essentials. Listeners voted on the 2002 top classic alternative songs of all-time. They're "playlist" is over 5000 thanks too all of the listener input.
Supposedly, TurboTax now contains C-DILLA, which is spyware. If you search around the net, such as the aforemention fatwallet forum or amazon reviews, there are reports that CD burners don't work as well as they used to. You can't just delete the C-DILLA directory - it gets recreated or will hose your system. Installing TurboTax doesn't warn you it will be installed And uninstalling TurboTax doesn't remove it.
Yeah, the activation is annoying, and I would live with that. But I'm not getting TurboTax for this reason.
From the article:
Customers are also complaining about Safecast, the Macrovision security software Intuit uses to verify activation numbers. Reports have surfaced in discussion groups and some news sites classifying Safecast--also known as C-Dilla for the company that provided the technology to Macrovision--as "spyware," programs surreptitiously installed on a PC that track and report how the PC is used. Spyware programs such as Gator and Brilliant Digital have prompted growing concern among PC users.
When in college, I thought that. I took a job at a large company that makes pacemakers and other electronic medical equipment. I thought that by doing so, I could make something that would make a difference in people's lives.
What I found depressed me more than any other job I've ever had. I had an internship with a certain big blue company, and this experience in the pacemaker industry was even more beauraucratic. The people were there for a paycheck and nothing more. When the annual came around that celebrated what they do, where they bring in people whose lives have been saved by pacemakers and defribulators, people skipped.
Just to rebut the inevitable, they FDA did not make the mess I saw. They were way beyond what the government requires in paperwork and mismanagement. I was working on a Master's in computer science at a fairly reputable university, and I was doing ASP development and PowerBuilder in a crap job.
Saving people's lives was meaningless. Giving the time of day to an intern was meaningless.
I could not be happy in an environment like that. I found the hard way that you have to find a job that you can be happy doing, which pretty much means having fun. Think twice before you go and join some organization where your computer work will help others. It may drive you crazy. It may not, but be very careful before you do so. My experience teaches me my contribution to this planet can't be done in a job setting. I have to have a fun job, and return what I've been given in other ways.
Just personal experience. It's a shame that most people in a position to help others are in it for the money. Granted I can't speak for a non-profit environment. You'll go nuts in a corporate one, though.
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What is someone going to find if they install this on a library computer? livejournal.com pages? Orlando Bloom pictures? Lyrics to an Eminem CD? chat sessions with pinkkitty5555?
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Greg Palast was one of the first to look into voter fraud in Florida, and reported it on the BBC.
The New York Times is echoing the sentiment in an op ed by Paul Krugman.
This would be an excellent product to add some APIs to. People are complaining about PDF, Trillian, GAIM, Firefox, etc. If an API allowed users to add their own extensions to search for other formats, we wouldn't have to wait for google.
I request APIs for extensions.
Let me know when stuff like an XML Parser and MD5 are native in Java.
"Let's roll."
They may have to keep all the money from the prince of Nigeria, who died 10 years ago in a terrible plane crash, to pay attorney fees. At least they have that.
Why don't they just skin Windows? They have the toolbar, mail checker client thing, searcher bar that can sit in the task bar. I mean, just have google be a part of every single app on the desktop.
Maybe the worm will get my credit card #, order Viagra, and ship it for me.
"No, honey, I don't know how this got here (boy I'm glad I didn't update my computer last week heh heh)."
All I know is you don't need a bunch of expensive equipment to pick up sounds from my IBM Model M keyboard.
Who would have thought that shuffle would be popular? You know, like the radio?
Why would we do that? We never stopped Columbia from producing cocaine, and we're not stopping Afghanistan from producing heroin. In this country, we attack the end result, not the source.
There's more money to be made by allowing spam to occur via spam fighting tools, bigger Internet pipes, advertising through spam, you name it.
It's all about money. They'll end up paying customers pennies on the dollar compared to what they spent on the drives. They don't need a general recall. Safety isn't involved here, like it is in the automobile market.
They knew it was worth it all along.
Is this an authority actually questioning the validity of the Internet and it's use in research? Or is the authority simply using this as a ruse to say, "read our publication, as the Internet is making it outdated?" I tend to vote for the latter. I've read too much good research on the Internet - valid research - overlooked by the mainstream medical and science community just because it didn't mean more money for someone or didn't fit the status quo.
Sounds like our President.
Here it comes: -1, Flamebait
yep
Do NOT go to CWRU. I did, I got a good education, can't recommend it. I'm sure others will have better reasons than I. Some of them:
- One of the computer professors was diagnosed as insane.
- The accredidation for the grad program was placed on probation about 5 years ago for a 3 year period.
- Rumors have it the place is falling apart, and no one likes the new President. This from my mother-in-law, who used to work in the University publicity/communication office.
- The campus is in the middle of urban Cleveland, i.e., the hood.
You'll make friends, and have an OK time, and make the most of it. You get a great name to put on your degree. But I definitely can't recommend the computer department there. If you're serious about your education, don't pick CWRU unless you have your expectations set that you'll have to teach yourself a lot and learn from your peers instead of professors.
One point to make about most of these institutions: If you're smart, you'll get a good education, regardless of how good or bad the professors are. I say this because you will gravitate towards the other smart folks in class, and you'll end up teaching each other as much, if not more, than you'll learn from a professor. This may not be true at teaching institutions, but it was my experience at CWRU...er...Case.
About a year ago. He had a falling out at the university.
I have experience with this at our company. It's probably an isolated experience. It more applies to hiring PhDs that have lots of experience teaching that go into the real world.
Our company hired a professor from UNC. This is a professor that took over one of Fred Brooks' classes.
At first we left him to be a zealot for software engineering. We have a great process in place, so he was more the zealot for the entire company. Then the politics came down and forced him to work on a deliverable.
The product took about twice as long as expected. All that software engineering theory just didn't apply in the real world. Build environments, makefiles, message files, and all that stuff you use in the real world were foreign concepts. Unit testing was another issue - most builds that came down the pipe had a simple bug that prevented testers from using the build. It could be argued that much of his code was not readable as well. Lots of one letter variable names, and wrapper around functions that didn't need them. I mean, he did the equivalent of wrapping strlen with a function named StringLength. This was to improve readability.
He's already stated he wanted to join the bandwagon for teaching and instructing in the company, proclaiming the merits of process and all that stuff. He wants to tell people how to avoid the mistakes he's made. Bottom line: he's instructed for so long, he thinks this little experience further qualifies him.
In short, I can't say I recommend hiring a lifetime professor at a major college as a programmer. There's too much unlearning that needs to take place, and too little awareness of how software engineering process works in the real world.
I can't agree more. I personally have received 5 messages from our company's IT department commanding employees to install the patch on all computers. That doesn't include all the constant news concerning this vulnerability.
Anyone else received a bazillion notes from the IT department to patch systems?
How will it ever be possible to trace any kind of voting mischief or voter manipulation or cheating or anything like that? It's all zeros and ones, and no one can see when data is manipulated like you can with a piece of paper.
Computers and electronics are good for some things. I don't think this is one of them.
I see a lot of complaints directed towards CmdrTaco concerning duplicate posts. But do readers read the site? Shouldn't we be complaining about readers submitting duplicate posts as well?
Just a thought.
Has anyone posting about the death of satellite radio actually listened to it? As a subscriber of XM, and a very happy one at that, I thought I'd chime in.
Advantages of satellite radio over DirecTV (and/or Dish Network) radio stations.
- Satellite radio can afford more bandwidth just to the music than DirecTV, resulting in a better reception.
- Satellite radio doesn't use a directional dish. I'm in an office building and pick up XM at work just fine.
- XM has DJs. You can call in and request stuff. It's personalized, and they actually know music. It's not a playlist of 200 songs on random.
- Audio stations on satellite TV are provided by a third party. They're generic, just a rotating plyalist.
I'm not convinced those that knock satellite radio have ever heard the depth of the musical library that is available to the listeners. No way is satellite TV going to put in the time or effort to develop that kind of library or personalize it for those that are listening.
DirecTV in the car isn't going to kill satellite radio. Anyone who has listened to stations on XM and the music stations on DirecTV or Dish Network will tell you that.
For a good example of the musical depth on XM, go to fred.xmradio.com and checkout the 2002 Fred Essentials. Listeners voted on the 2002 top classic alternative songs of all-time. They're "playlist" is over 5000 thanks too all of the listener input.
I've had XM since November of 2001.
Supposedly, TurboTax now contains C-DILLA, which is spyware. If you search around the net, such as the aforemention fatwallet forum or amazon reviews, there are reports that CD burners don't work as well as they used to. You can't just delete the C-DILLA directory - it gets recreated or will hose your system. Installing TurboTax doesn't warn you it will be installed And uninstalling TurboTax doesn't remove it.
Yeah, the activation is annoying, and I would live with that. But I'm not getting TurboTax for this reason.
From the article:
Customers are also complaining about Safecast, the Macrovision security software Intuit uses to verify activation numbers. Reports have surfaced in discussion groups and some news sites classifying Safecast--also known as C-Dilla for the company that provided the technology to Macrovision--as "spyware," programs surreptitiously installed on a PC that track and report how the PC is used. Spyware programs such as Gator and Brilliant Digital have prompted growing concern among PC users.
When in college, I thought that. I took a job at a large company that makes pacemakers and other electronic medical equipment. I thought that by doing so, I could make something that would make a difference in people's lives.
What I found depressed me more than any other job I've ever had. I had an internship with a certain big blue company, and this experience in the pacemaker industry was even more beauraucratic. The people were there for a paycheck and nothing more. When the annual came around that celebrated what they do, where they bring in people whose lives have been saved by pacemakers and defribulators, people skipped.
Just to rebut the inevitable, they FDA did not make the mess I saw. They were way beyond what the government requires in paperwork and mismanagement. I was working on a Master's in computer science at a fairly reputable university, and I was doing ASP development and PowerBuilder in a crap job.
Saving people's lives was meaningless. Giving the time of day to an intern was meaningless.
I could not be happy in an environment like that. I found the hard way that you have to find a job that you can be happy doing, which pretty much means having fun. Think twice before you go and join some organization where your computer work will help others. It may drive you crazy. It may not, but be very careful before you do so. My experience teaches me my contribution to this planet can't be done in a job setting. I have to have a fun job, and return what I've been given in other ways.
Just personal experience. It's a shame that most people in a position to help others are in it for the money. Granted I can't speak for a non-profit environment. You'll go nuts in a corporate one, though.
Er, nevermind. Now that I've actually read the website instead of one posting or two.