Maybe you really do not get it. Let me put it into simple words for you. Javascript is SHIT. AJAX and all that crap is NOT "great browser-independent javascript".
And why do you keep posting everything twice? If you have trouble with HTML, then you should better stay away from Javascript. Got it?
You think people who get a "Your browser is not supported" message will agree with you that this is "great browser-independent javascript"?
Obviously you cannot say much about Java incompatibilities either, because all you know about "servers" is unix.
Linux.org lists 415 Linux distributions. Four hundred fifteen! Just take the most common ones, like Suse and Red Hat, and exchange executables or configuration files between them. At least you can do that with the listed BSD distributions.
great browser-independent javascript? What about web browsers without javascript or people who disable javascript and all that junk because they got so sick and tired of security problems? And don't give me that java "platform independent" nonsense.
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1/3 of Linux is just another BSD distribution. And there are so many Linux distributions by now, you can't even remember their names anymore.
Is there a list of all SONY CD's and DVD's online? I really do not want to buy SONY products anymore, but it is a bit difficult to find out which CD's and DVD's are made or distributed by SONY. Any URL?
They just want ot keep Ralph Nader and other troublemakers out of elections for present and congress. And you. They thing Dems and Reps do not agree on is how. Someone call the UN to protect our freedom on the Internet.
So what about slashdot's favorite operating system? Linux is just another clone of Unix - technology from the late '60? Do you expect the Linux community to make standards work? Your guru Linus said that standards are for the birds.
They ask for 300%, reduce their demands to 200%, they get 100%, and all politicians feel good. That is why bills from RIAA and MPAA controlled representatives are so ridiculous.
Nice that Massachusetts' officials are thinking about the future. But how about those things they can fix now? Why do they produce so many PDF files? PDF is as proprietary as any Microsoft Word format for print documents. Every time when Adobe comes out with a new PDF version we all have to install a new PDF reader. How about the people who chose not to use a PC? Ghostscript or XPDF? Read what the authors of these free tools have to say about PDF. And why should we constantly update software. I have better things to do. How about printers? Which ones support PDF? Why do I need extra software to print a file? Shouldn't a plain PRINT (or whatever it is on your favorite system) do the job? Plain PostScript Level I has been working since more than 15 years, except on Microsoft Windows which STILL cannot print a PostScript file on a PostScript printer with a simple mouse click. I do not care what editor people use. But the output has to work for me. Let's fix the obvious mistakes first.
Every day I see physicists who either do not know or do not care that their Linux PC is continuing with the execution of a program after a division by zero and other interesting operations as long as they get a plot.
I think you would have a point if you would simply point to this particular case, without implying that this is the rule in Australia. A single case is hardly evidence enough to describe the situation in an entire country.
These things happen unfortunately too often. Rosalind Franklin is just another case of an unfairly treated researcher (in the UK). The Nobel Price committee did not have the dignity to posthumously reward her for her work. They never will. Anyway, do not make any conclusions based on individual cases. Talk about those cases to help the affected researchers. They need your help, not your clumsy argumentation.
I have seen The History Channel, TLC, Discovery etc.. These low-standard Disney channels do much more harm to the reputation of science than a few bad cases at research labs. I wish PBS would do more to present current research to the public.
BTW the US, UK, and Russia, they all invited German scientists, whether they were Nazis, worked for the Nazis willingly, did their research under the Nazi regime or were lucky enough to flee the country before the Nazis took over in Germany before WWII.
Being a researcher myself, I have seen big lies and little lies. The big ones sometimes become public, like the present case. But I have seen so many little lies and they do have an impact on research, too. For example, people find a peak in a distribution and overestimate the statistical significance of the peak. All the sudden a few counts become a new discovery. Lots of money goes into further investigations until the case is settled. Or take the systematical uncertainty of a measurement. A scientific result is not just a single value. Normally we also have to specify an error of an experimental or theoretical result. Of course everybody likes to do a good job. But to get data published people sometimes attach unreasonable errors to their numbers just to ensure their results get published. Collaborations accept those numbers because nobody has the time to deal with those issues. Everbody has their own little project and it costs a lot of time to proof someone wrong, even if everybody knows the numbers are wrong. Eventually nobody asks to be taken off the author list of a publication. Other researchers then take the published results, fit models, make comparisons and find, of course, that their calculations are dominated by those results with the smallest errors. Again, it takes decades until the falsified results get filtered out. The situation is caused by funding agencies. They want to see positive results, fast. No publication, no money. It is that simple. Just because someone spends the time needed to evaluate carefully all aspects of an experiment or theory does not mean the researcher gets funded. On the contrary! The quick-and-dirty jobs are being awarded with precious resources such as research positions.
Jobs are the critical resource here. Funding agencies spend a lot of money into equipment, labs and other infrastructure. Life is good. But there are just not enough positions for researchers available. My older colleagues tell me that things have gone a lot worse over the past few decades. You can also see this when you look at the distribution of the researchers' age. Things are worse in the EU than in the US. The EU is putting a lot of money into projects, but far too little into jobs. The taxi driver with doctor title is no joke. The US has traditionally welcomed foreign researchers, but that has changed some 5 years ago dramatically (long before 9/11) and things get worse for everybody.
Science and research is not just end in itself. It is part of our culture and our future. Keep an eye on researchers. Make sure they do their job. But also make sure they can do their job.
My research is funded by DOE, thanks.
Last time when Lockheed Martin engineers were overwhelmed by the complexity of the metric system it did cost NASA a Mars probe. I hope next time when someone doctors with 3 "inches" robots it won't cost a life. Not that I expect the Washington Post to accomplish what 95% of the world has done, but I sure hope NASA does.
Having 5,000 people doing AIX support was much better for IBM than having 100 people busy with Linux support, because all 5,000 people were paid by the customers. If they could IBM would continue this way. But AIX is hardly an expanding market. So they change their business model and put themselves between the customers and the Open Source community. HP and Sun do the same.
Companies channel their "news". And who else could bring us better entertainment than ABC News, a Disney channel? The whole idea that IBM is pushing Linux is just too funny. IBM has no interest in Linux. IBM wants to sell their stuff. Nothing wrong with that, but why do we need IBM between the Open Source community and customers who already bought their equipment? It is the good old strategy of putting yourself between the brain and the money. All distributors of entertainment industry work that way. So, let's welcome IBM in their new role as entertainer, with Disney as partner.
With a maximum distance of about 25 km, there should be no problem to build a large network within a city or even smaller villages. The hubs should not be owned by a company, they should be owned by people like you and me. Why pay a company for something that we can do for the cost of a hub and network card? All we need are a few access points with internet connection. Maybe cities realize the potential behind this idea and provide those access points for free. The rest will grow like poison ivy. New services will follow, such as free phone lines, conference connections with video, free information access for poor people, more porn - of course - and many other good things. If companies like COX and Verizon do not like the idea, then it is about time for us to ask why not.
Bush's whole Mars project is just a publicity campaign. Decisions about the project are going to be made after the end of his presidency. In the meantime NASA has to cope delayed compensation of inflation, namely those numbers you quote, while my friends at NASA tell me about the projects which are being canceled now. `Crisis' is written on the wall. Read the articles in the section "Research Funding" at http://www.aps.org/public_affairs/index.cfm and see yourself.
Maybe NASA needs new science projects to be on better terms with the current administration. How about
the earth is flat,
the earth is the center of the universe,
we all were created based on intelligent design,
search for the creator,
radiation is good for the creation,
mercury can be converted into gold,
spontaneous combustion of people does happen,
ozone holes do not exist and affect only countries,
global warming cannot happen?
Sorry for the exaggeration, but what most people in the US still do not realize is that NASA is not the only research institution facing mass layoffs. There is a broad program running to shut down research labs nationwide. At the same time tens of billions of dollars are shifted to religious extremists. It makes me feel sick when I see what is happening.
Now, if the court eventually rules that spyware constitutes illegal trespassing, then does that also apply to the installation of other software which might manipulate your insecure Microsoft PC, like device drivers which limit the access to media (CD, DVD)? How about management software to limit your Digital Rights (DRM)? Or software which scans your computer and sends information to a third party? The installation of such software usually happens without the full consent of the PC owner. Spyware is just the tip of the iceberg.
Try to send them a copy of the information by registered mail, and set a deadline for the reply. If no reply follows and you still get the same junk, then contact your general state attorney.
I love the folks who sell their latest and greatest encoding schemes for mail messages, like HTML, MS-Word, quoted-printable, base64 etc.. Perfect breeding environment for phishing attacks. Sure, you can rightfully blame Microsoft. But then also blame the developers of Pine and MIME. Same junk, just with a bit of penguin dung. What was actually wrong with plain simple ASCII text mail messages?
Or take web sites and HTML. Why do we need JavaScript on the Citibank web pages? Or Macromedia Flash files for Citibank's "secure" virtual account numbers? This kind of software was developed for entertainment purposes, not bank transactions.
Maybe the people who develop and sell such stupid solutions are also the ones who benefit from fixing the problems, because it keeps them employed. Make the banks and their software developers responsible for their mistakes, and we get secure, simple solutions.
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You wouldn't be concerned about javascript exploits on an office LAN? Wow!
Maybe you really do not get it. Let me put it into simple words for you. Javascript is SHIT. AJAX and all that crap is NOT "great browser-independent javascript".
And why do you keep posting everything twice? If you have trouble with HTML, then you should better stay away from Javascript. Got it?
Yeah, and do you also know who is controlling AJAX?
You think people who get a "Your browser is not supported" message will agree with you that this is "great browser-independent javascript"?
Obviously you cannot say much about Java incompatibilities either, because all you know about "servers" is unix.
For every javascript there is a script-kiddie.
Microsoft is also going to write the EULA for the new federal privacy law.
Linux.org lists 415 Linux distributions. Four hundred fifteen! Just take the most common ones, like Suse and Red Hat, and exchange executables or configuration files between them. At least you can do that with the listed BSD distributions.
great browser-independent javascript? What about web browsers without javascript or people who disable javascript and all that junk because they got so sick and tired of security problems? And don't give me that java "platform independent" nonsense.
1/3 of Linux is just another BSD distribution. And there are so many Linux distributions by now, you can't even remember their names anymore.
Is there a list of all SONY CD's and DVD's online? I really do not want to buy SONY products anymore, but it is a bit difficult to find out which CD's and DVD's are made or distributed by SONY. Any URL?
They just want ot keep Ralph Nader and other troublemakers out of elections for present and congress. And you. They thing Dems and Reps do not agree on is how. Someone call the UN to protect our freedom on the Internet.
So what about slashdot's favorite operating system? Linux is just another clone of Unix - technology from the late '60? Do you expect the Linux community to make standards work? Your guru Linus said that standards are for the birds.
They ask for 300%, reduce their demands to 200%, they get 100%, and all politicians feel good. That is why bills from RIAA and MPAA controlled representatives are so ridiculous.
Nice that Massachusetts' officials are thinking about the future. But how about those things they can fix now? Why do they produce so many PDF files? PDF is as proprietary as any Microsoft Word format for print documents. Every time when Adobe comes out with a new PDF version we all have to install a new PDF reader. How about the people who chose not to use a PC? Ghostscript or XPDF? Read what the authors of these free tools have to say about PDF. And why should we constantly update software. I have better things to do. How about printers? Which ones support PDF? Why do I need extra software to print a file? Shouldn't a plain PRINT (or whatever it is on your favorite system) do the job? Plain PostScript Level I has been working since more than 15 years, except on Microsoft Windows which STILL cannot print a PostScript file on a PostScript printer with a simple mouse click. I do not care what editor people use. But the output has to work for me. Let's fix the obvious mistakes first.
Every day I see physicists who either do not know or do not care that their Linux PC is continuing with the execution of a program after a division by zero and other interesting operations as long as they get a plot.
I think you would have a point if you would simply point to this particular case, without implying that this is the rule in Australia. A single case is hardly evidence enough to describe the situation in an entire country. These things happen unfortunately too often. Rosalind Franklin is just another case of an unfairly treated researcher (in the UK). The Nobel Price committee did not have the dignity to posthumously reward her for her work. They never will. Anyway, do not make any conclusions based on individual cases. Talk about those cases to help the affected researchers. They need your help, not your clumsy argumentation. I have seen The History Channel, TLC, Discovery etc.. These low-standard Disney channels do much more harm to the reputation of science than a few bad cases at research labs. I wish PBS would do more to present current research to the public. BTW the US, UK, and Russia, they all invited German scientists, whether they were Nazis, worked for the Nazis willingly, did their research under the Nazi regime or were lucky enough to flee the country before the Nazis took over in Germany before WWII.
Being a researcher myself, I have seen big lies and little lies. The big ones sometimes become public, like the present case. But I have seen so many little lies and they do have an impact on research, too. For example, people find a peak in a distribution and overestimate the statistical significance of the peak. All the sudden a few counts become a new discovery. Lots of money goes into further investigations until the case is settled. Or take the systematical uncertainty of a measurement. A scientific result is not just a single value. Normally we also have to specify an error of an experimental or theoretical result. Of course everybody likes to do a good job. But to get data published people sometimes attach unreasonable errors to their numbers just to ensure their results get published. Collaborations accept those numbers because nobody has the time to deal with those issues. Everbody has their own little project and it costs a lot of time to proof someone wrong, even if everybody knows the numbers are wrong. Eventually nobody asks to be taken off the author list of a publication. Other researchers then take the published results, fit models, make comparisons and find, of course, that their calculations are dominated by those results with the smallest errors. Again, it takes decades until the falsified results get filtered out. The situation is caused by funding agencies. They want to see positive results, fast. No publication, no money. It is that simple. Just because someone spends the time needed to evaluate carefully all aspects of an experiment or theory does not mean the researcher gets funded. On the contrary! The quick-and-dirty jobs are being awarded with precious resources such as research positions. Jobs are the critical resource here. Funding agencies spend a lot of money into equipment, labs and other infrastructure. Life is good. But there are just not enough positions for researchers available. My older colleagues tell me that things have gone a lot worse over the past few decades. You can also see this when you look at the distribution of the researchers' age. Things are worse in the EU than in the US. The EU is putting a lot of money into projects, but far too little into jobs. The taxi driver with doctor title is no joke. The US has traditionally welcomed foreign researchers, but that has changed some 5 years ago dramatically (long before 9/11) and things get worse for everybody. Science and research is not just end in itself. It is part of our culture and our future. Keep an eye on researchers. Make sure they do their job. But also make sure they can do their job. My research is funded by DOE, thanks.
Last time when Lockheed Martin engineers were overwhelmed by the complexity of the metric system it did cost NASA a Mars probe. I hope next time when someone doctors with 3 "inches" robots it won't cost a life. Not that I expect the Washington Post to accomplish what 95% of the world has done, but I sure hope NASA does.
Having 5,000 people doing AIX support was much better for IBM than having 100 people busy with Linux support, because all 5,000 people were paid by the customers. If they could IBM would continue this way. But AIX is hardly an expanding market. So they change their business model and put themselves between the customers and the Open Source community. HP and Sun do the same.
Companies channel their "news". And who else could bring us better entertainment than ABC News, a Disney channel? The whole idea that IBM is pushing Linux is just too funny. IBM has no interest in Linux. IBM wants to sell their stuff. Nothing wrong with that, but why do we need IBM between the Open Source community and customers who already bought their equipment? It is the good old strategy of putting yourself between the brain and the money. All distributors of entertainment industry work that way. So, let's welcome IBM in their new role as entertainer, with Disney as partner.
With a maximum distance of about 25 km, there should be no problem to build a large network within a city or even smaller villages. The hubs should not be owned by a company, they should be owned by people like you and me. Why pay a company for something that we can do for the cost of a hub and network card? All we need are a few access points with internet connection. Maybe cities realize the potential behind this idea and provide those access points for free. The rest will grow like poison ivy. New services will follow, such as free phone lines, conference connections with video, free information access for poor people, more porn - of course - and many other good things. If companies like COX and Verizon do not like the idea, then it is about time for us to ask why not.
Bush's whole Mars project is just a publicity campaign. Decisions about the project are going to be made after the end of his presidency. In the meantime NASA has to cope delayed compensation of inflation, namely those numbers you quote, while my friends at NASA tell me about the projects which are being canceled now. `Crisis' is written on the wall. Read the articles in the section "Research Funding" at http://www.aps.org/public_affairs/index.cfm and see yourself.
- the earth is flat,
- the earth is the center of the universe,
- we all were created based on intelligent design,
- search for the creator,
- radiation is good for the creation,
- mercury can be converted into gold,
- spontaneous combustion of people does happen,
- ozone holes do not exist and affect only countries,
- global warming cannot happen?
Sorry for the exaggeration, but what most people in the US still do not realize is that NASA is not the only research institution facing mass layoffs. There is a broad program running to shut down research labs nationwide. At the same time tens of billions of dollars are shifted to religious extremists. It makes me feel sick when I see what is happening.Now, if the court eventually rules that spyware constitutes illegal trespassing, then does that also apply to the installation of other software which might manipulate your insecure Microsoft PC, like device drivers which limit the access to media (CD, DVD)? How about management software to limit your Digital Rights (DRM)? Or software which scans your computer and sends information to a third party? The installation of such software usually happens without the full consent of the PC owner. Spyware is just the tip of the iceberg.
Try to send them a copy of the information by registered mail, and set a deadline for the reply. If no reply follows and you still get the same junk, then contact your general state attorney.
I love the folks who sell their latest and greatest encoding schemes for mail messages, like HTML, MS-Word, quoted-printable, base64 etc.. Perfect breeding environment for phishing attacks. Sure, you can rightfully blame Microsoft. But then also blame the developers of Pine and MIME. Same junk, just with a bit of penguin dung. What was actually wrong with plain simple ASCII text mail messages? Or take web sites and HTML. Why do we need JavaScript on the Citibank web pages? Or Macromedia Flash files for Citibank's "secure" virtual account numbers? This kind of software was developed for entertainment purposes, not bank transactions. Maybe the people who develop and sell such stupid solutions are also the ones who benefit from fixing the problems, because it keeps them employed. Make the banks and their software developers responsible for their mistakes, and we get secure, simple solutions.