"You'd be amazed, though, how myopic quarter to quarter thinking makes a corporation."
Yes, the Y2K problem is another example of this. Even in 1998, many major software companies still completely ignored the implications of only using two digits for notation of years.
We have a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4M+ in our office. If it runs out of paper, it signals 'Paper Jam'. After you refill the paper, you have to open and close the ink cartridge hatch to get it to resume operation.
It still runs fine though, so we won't replace it until it really craps out.
"the BBC, but that's because they're required to be neutral in such things"
Indeed. They've even been referring to the latest liquid explosives scare as the "alleged plot." This is because it hasn't yet been proven, and we've seen a lot of crying wolf recently.
The Economist magazine is in favour of legalising all drugs.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm? Story_ID=709603 "A legal market is the best guarantee that drug-taking will be no more dangerous than drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco. And, just as countries rightly tolerate those two vices, so they should tolerate those who sell and take drugs."
intnsred: Re: "scholarsfor911truth.org" I'd very much like to discuss that website and the associated theories. Slashdot has rejected my attempts to introduce these as an article for discussion. Any posts to other threads are quickly scored 'offtopic', probably rightly so.
Any suggestions for getting this subject onto slashdot for a good old chin wag?:)
Ah yes, that's an unforgettable quote from the Enron documentary.
Here's a quote from a CBS article from Jan 2004:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningn ews/main620626.shtml " "He just f---s California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million." "Will you rephrase that?" asks a second employee. "OK, he, um, he arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day," replies the first. The tapes, from Enron's West Coast trading desk, also confirm what CBS reported years ago: that in secret deals with power producers, traders deliberately drove up prices by ordering power plants shut down. "
I found this an interesting examination of the subject: "'Planning for an open-source entrant in the PKI interoperability trials' - the result of a feasibility study undertaken in May 2001. Details components that could be used to build an open-source entrant for the trials being conducted by CESG for the Office of the E-Envoy. The focus is on PKI functions to support signed and/or encrypted e-mail."
"ABSTRACT In this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by impact damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned cutter-charges. I consider the official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports that fires plus impact damage alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings. And I present evidence for the controlled-demolition hypothesis, which is suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable, and yet has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the US government."
"He could appeal to the General Accounting Office"
Perhaps many of them have, and it's been quashed? An FBI agent testified that he'd warned his superiors about Massaui SEVENTY TIMES. He said airplanes would be flown into buildings and even picked the WTC as a target, though afterwards he said that was a lucky guess.
Seemingly, the Massaui/FISA warrant request was altered by HQ so that it wouldn't be effective. Perhaps appeals to the GAO are being similarly obfuscated?
Microsoft can't even stick to their own rules. Some windows you can to paste, some you can't, some will accept as well as or instead of . To search you go , or , or sometimes you have to right-click to get the context sensitive menu which includes the search option.
The command to create a new folder actually MOVES around the Explorer menu! And this is a GUI! Graphical User Interfaces are intuitive because you can remember the location of things. But not if the bastards move them about, like when the supermarkets rearrange their shelves. Microsoft took the best aspect of their software, and managed to use it to confuse their users and cripple their work.
Working with WinXP is like fighting a boxing match. Some days I set up a few PCs in a row, and you're constantly batting away message balloons. It's unnecessary and exhausting.
Stop changing things! I don't want a new OS, I want the current one to work properly.
If the computers that run the phone system are built and run by fallible humans, they can be cracked. Even if only by social engineering or bribing a Telecom employee. Remember Jurassic Park? They had all the latest technology, but the coder was bribed by another company.
Security is a process. There are always other ways than cracking to subvert it.
The outfit I worked for got a tranche of Dell Servers and Dell desktop PCs. Suffice to say we're not going to use Dell again. Their support was abysmal.
YMMV but whatever stories get posted here, we got burnt and don't want to associate with that company again. If I were interviewing for a job and they used Dells, I might ask how they find the support service, but I couldn't accept the job if offered. Nightmare!:(
Just as with Hawking, he's not really looking for the clever idea that'll get this done easily. He wants as many people as possible to think and talk about this, then _do_ something about it.
Slashdot Mirror
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
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Groucho Marx.
P.S.
Read 'Harpo Speaks'
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=h
It's a wonderful biography
"You'd be amazed, though, how myopic quarter to quarter thinking makes a corporation."
Yes, the Y2K problem is another example of this. Even in 1998, many major software companies still completely ignored the implications of only using two digits for notation of years.
We have a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4M+ in our office. If it runs out of paper, it signals 'Paper Jam'. After you refill the paper, you have to open and close the ink cartridge hatch to get it to resume operation.
It still runs fine though, so we won't replace it until it really craps out.
In a few billion years, the USA may even have changed from Imperial to Metric units! :)
"the BBC, but that's because they're required to be neutral in such things"
Indeed. They've even been referring to the latest liquid explosives scare as the "alleged plot." This is because it hasn't yet been proven, and we've seen a lot of crying wolf recently.
"I am not willing to trade my constitutional rights and other civil liberties in exchange for security."
How do you feel about the fact that others are making that decision for you?
"I don't back up things that I consider to be important."
Oh yeah? Stop whining about it and start backing up your email. Hard drives can fail, whether they run Linux, MacOS, or Windows.
The Economist magazine is in favour of legalising all drugs.
? Story_ID=709603
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm
"A legal market is the best guarantee that drug-taking will be no more dangerous than drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco. And, just as countries rightly tolerate those two vices, so they should tolerate those who sell and take drugs."
Jack Nicholson - "My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular"
LA Times - "Which is?"
Jack Nicholson - "That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system."
LA Times - "Let's talk about acting for a minute."
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/aint/303a.htm
intnsred:
:)
Re: "scholarsfor911truth.org"
I'd very much like to discuss that website and the associated theories. Slashdot has rejected my attempts to introduce these as an article for discussion. Any posts to other threads are quickly scored 'offtopic', probably rightly so.
Any suggestions for getting this subject onto slashdot for a good old chin wag?
Ah yes, that's an unforgettable quote from the Enron documentary.
n ews/main620626.shtml
Here's a quote from a CBS article from Jan 2004:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/evening
" "He just f---s California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million."
"Will you rephrase that?" asks a second employee.
"OK, he, um, he arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day," replies the first.
The tapes, from Enron's West Coast trading desk, also confirm what CBS reported years ago: that in secret deals with power producers, traders deliberately drove up prices by ordering power plants shut down. "
If you don't think that video is moral and ethical, try these instead.
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Spike Jonze did an "Unseen Al Gore Campaign video"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-29385328
Part Two (couldn't find it on video Google)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO-SxPnzspQ&mode=r
From this page: http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/afindlay.html
i /paper-for-workshop-15-06-2001.htmli /paper-for-workshop-15-06-2001.pdf
I found this an interesting examination of the subject:
"'Planning for an open-source entrant in the PKI interoperability trials' - the result of a feasibility study undertaken in May 2001. Details components that could be used to build an open-source entrant for the trials being conducted by CESG for the Office of the E-Envoy. The focus is on PKI functions to support signed and/or encrypted e-mail."
The paper is available in HTML and PDF:
http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/planning-os-pk
http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/planning-os-pk
Is this the same BYU where Prof Steven Jones has written a white paper about 911?
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http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.h
"ABSTRACT
In this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by impact damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned cutter-charges. I consider the official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports that fires plus impact damage alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings. And I present evidence for the controlled-demolition hypothesis, which is suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable, and yet has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the US government."
Mod Parent Up!!!
You're discussing the Daily Mail as if it were a serious newspaper. Get a grip!!
"Computers require both infrastructure and previous basic education to make them worth anything."
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In general I agree with your statement. However, you'll be interested to read about this experiment:
http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet20/inamdar.ht
where children with no computer experience at all managed to learn a lot about using a PC and the Internet, just by trial and error.
"Dick Jones:
I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!"
My point is, can these countries afford the electricity, spare parts, etc?
Also, an enormous monoculture energy crop would destroy the fertility of the soil. Not to mention being at risk of being wiped out by disease.
How did the Islamist terrorists destroy WTC building 7, without crashing a plane into it?
Not even the NIST report attempts to explain that.
"He could appeal to the General Accounting Office"
Perhaps many of them have, and it's been quashed? An FBI agent testified that he'd warned his superiors about Massaui SEVENTY TIMES. He said airplanes would be flown into buildings and even picked the WTC as a target, though afterwards he said that was a lucky guess.
Seemingly, the Massaui/FISA warrant request was altered by HQ so that it wouldn't be effective. Perhaps appeals to the GAO are being similarly obfuscated?
Microsoft can't even stick to their own rules. Some windows you can to paste, some you can't, some will accept as well as or instead of . To search you go , or , or sometimes you have to right-click to get the context sensitive menu which includes the search option.
The command to create a new folder actually MOVES around the Explorer menu! And this is a GUI! Graphical User Interfaces are intuitive because you can remember the location of things. But not if the bastards move them about, like when the supermarkets rearrange their shelves. Microsoft took the best aspect of their software, and managed to use it to confuse their users and cripple their work.
Working with WinXP is like fighting a boxing match. Some days I set up a few PCs in a row, and you're constantly batting away message balloons. It's unnecessary and exhausting.
Stop changing things! I don't want a new OS, I want the current one to work properly.
If the computers that run the phone system are built and run by fallible humans, they can be cracked. Even if only by social engineering or bribing a Telecom employee. Remember Jurassic Park? They had all the latest technology, but the coder was bribed by another company.
Security is a process. There are always other ways than cracking to subvert it.
The outfit I worked for got a tranche of Dell Servers and Dell desktop PCs. Suffice to say we're not going to use Dell again. Their support was abysmal.
:(
YMMV but whatever stories get posted here, we got burnt and don't want to associate with that company again. If I were interviewing for a job and they used Dells, I might ask how they find the support service, but I couldn't accept the job if offered. Nightmare!
In a similar fashion, Bono asks:7 QwYNzDesJpTstbqUvDpy6IX?qid=20060706201547AAy10c8
What can we do to make poverty history?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApC1
Just as with Hawking, he's not really looking for the clever idea that'll get this done easily. He wants as many people as possible to think and talk about this, then _do_ something about it.
Can Ebay make you rich?
Well they won't supply items for you to sell, they take a percentage of each sale, and you have to do all the actual work yourself.
So, "No".
Unless you own Paypal.