Were it not for the fact that Congress exempted itself from the Freedom of Information Act, these records would be suject to public review and inspection. Those memos [cfif.org] discovered by Miranda which have been publicly released show:
Ah, you mean like the Vice President's Energy Policy summit on government property that he released all the minutes for? Oops. That was executive privilege, wasn't it? That makes all the difference . . .
Ah, the aptly named Mr. Doofus seems not to have noticed that I was replying to this sentence:
I don't know if those commas of mine belong inside or outside those quotes though.
To respond to the other comments: I was indeed demonstrating the difference between US comma placement in a quote where the comma is not part of the quote and UK comma placement. No, you don't want a semi-colon here, because a semi-colon doesn't indicate the cause-effect relationship (where what is before the colon is the effect, and what is after it is the cause) in the way the colon does; and the reason for the exclamation point is because "It's official" is often exclaimed. Thank you all for your contributions, though.
Stylistically, the proper punctuation would probably be "It's official:", or "It's official!" for emphasis. Many of us like the em dash, though: "It's official - ".
So if you leave your door unlocked, and I walk in and grab your box, and the cops arrest me, will the National Review defend me because I was just "taking a free computer from a publicly-accessible location?"
The whole reason zero day exploits are the most dangerous is precisely because anti-virus software exists. If it didn't, day 300 or day 3000 exploits would be as dangerous as 0 day expoits.
There were viruses a long time before Outlook. There will be viruses a long time after Outlook. As far as "allowing someone to send email as you" - that's not Outlook's fault, that's SMTP's fault: the From: header is never authenticated. Yes, Outlook's security model sucks, but security issues are a lot more subtle than you're allowing.
For instance: what antivirus software is really designed to do is not to stop 0 day infections, but to put a limit on how long a virus can be effective. When was the last time you heard about someone who had the Michelangelo virus? Can't remember? That's because antivirus software is doing its job: preventing viruses from sticking. How about RedAlert or MSBlast (gee, Outlook had nothing to do with those, did it? Yes, we can all blame MS's sloppy approach to security, with full justice, but we have to remember that MS is a product of its niche - if IBM had ended up in the monopoly role of the monoculture, it is entirely possible that their products would have introduced "user friendly" features that undercut security, too.)
Your approach frankly isn't going to work with the majority of users. You're never gonig to be able to prevent things like "Here is the report you asked for / report.doc.vbs" showing up in a user's mailbox when that user really was expecting a report from the putative sender (I've seen this happen - precisely what the virus writer is shooting for - and in that situation, a manager waiting for an important time-sensitive report from a subordinate, it's all too easy for the recipient to fail to notice that the icon is wrong, that there's an extra extension, etc.). Some users email exes for legitimate reasons. Some users are too busy to run an MD5 check on every attachment they get (and have you ever tried to explain how MD5 works to a secretary?). If viruses can be blamed 99% of the time on anything, they can be blamed on social engineering: the same impulses that make people give out their credit card numbers to total strangers who "call from the bank" will make viruses continue to spread.
I've used Knoppix quite a bit, and have only twice had problems with hardware incompatibilities (both on old machines). On the other hand, every "live CD" distro I've tried for ppc (on a pretty new machine, a G3 white iBook) has had some problem, usually with video. This is rather strange, as x86 hardware is far more heterogenous than Apple hardware is.
Sure, you can configure Gentoo to work on an iBook, but the whole purpose of a live cd is to have something quick and autoconfigurable. The last time I remember this subject coming up, about a year ago, this posting was modded informative for responding to the call for a realistic LiveCD distribution for PPC with "Debian isn't really as hard as the poster says . . . I got my iBook online with debian, everything working, in the space of one weekend." A weekend does not a Live CD make. Have the Live CDs for PPC improved to the point that they'll boot from autoconfigure on recent (1-4 year old) Apple hardware?
Well, I remember reading references to the fact that Star Wars was to be a trilogy of trilogies in I believe 1979. I'd have to dig up the reference, but it was in a large format book about science fiction books, movies, and art that I'm sure was published no later than 1981, and I think before ESB was released. Come to think of it, it's possible that *The Art of Star Wars* had a reference (in the title page of the draft script, maybe?) to the movie being part 4 of "The Journal of the Whills" (or "Journey of the Whills"). Anyway, the 9 movies thing LONG predates 1997. It long predates 1987.
Which two Asimov prequels are you talking about? Certainly not the Foundation prequels, which, while released before Episode I, were released long after Lucas had talked about doing Episode I.
For anime, the closest match is obviously Cowboy Beebop, but the feel of the two shows and the setup are quite different. As for the Andromeda fans, try doing a compare of Firefly to Star Trek:
Mal - Kirk Zoe - Spock Wash - Scotty Kaylee - Chapel Shepherd - McCoy Jayne - Chekov Inara - Rand (yeah, I know, Rand and Chekov were never on at the same time)
This is because episodic television (indeed, all episodic fiction) is by its nature formulaic: you look for ways to balance your ensemble, and the chief balances seem to be around the hero. First you create your hero, then you look to his friends (in Trek, the emotionally balanced Kirk has McCoy, the sympathetic one, and Spock, the logical one; in Firefly, you have Zoe, the professional, and Shepherd, the sympathetic), then his love interest (Rand, Inara), then the inept male comic relief (Chekov, Jayne), then the socially inept female comic relief who has a crush on someone (Chapel, Kaylee), and don't forget Mr. Fixit. Of course, since supposedly Andromeda was based on an idea by Roddenberry, structural similarities between Andromeda and Star Trek would make sense (look at the structural similarities between ST: TMP and *Encounter at Farpoint* some time - Decker:Riker::Deltan Ilia:Betazoid Deanna), but I think you could probably look at any other team-based episodic television series and find many common elements.
It's not a tablet, it's a web pad. Different niche. Think of the distinction between a desktop and a workstation. Both have pretty much the same form factor, but one is inexpensive and lower powered.
Ah, but he didn't come out and say that he was involved in the product. If someone sends something to Taco or Hemos saying "hey, we've got this great LINUX product I think/.ers would be interested in," I expect Taco or Hemos would post it. I would want them to post it. But I don't want any pretense.
Ah, that's not a scenario I've had to worry about (differential permissions for USB devices). So the way to deal with that would be to use encryption and the OS feature.
Ok, my employer expects us to take vacation time for a weather emergency. No, it's not fair, but they make up for it in other ways. So saying they'd "dock your pay," while a far too agressive way to put it, is probably standard practice. However, the second issue, refusing to pay you for the holiday if you don't work on Friday because of an emergency, is punitive. IANAL.
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Were it not for the fact that Congress exempted itself from the Freedom of Information Act, these records would be suject to public review and inspection. Those memos [cfif.org] discovered by Miranda which have been publicly released show:
Ah, you mean like the Vice President's Energy Policy summit on government property that he released all the minutes for? Oops. That was executive privilege, wasn't it? That makes all the difference . . .
Ah, the aptly named Mr. Doofus seems not to have noticed that I was replying to this sentence:
I don't know if those commas of mine belong inside or outside those quotes though.
To respond to the other comments: I was indeed demonstrating the difference between US comma placement in a quote where the comma is not part of the quote and UK comma placement. No, you don't want a semi-colon here, because a semi-colon doesn't indicate the cause-effect relationship (where what is before the colon is the effect, and what is after it is the cause) in the way the colon does; and the reason for the exclamation point is because "It's official" is often exclaimed. Thank you all for your contributions, though.
US usage: "It's official,"
UK usage: 'It's official',
Stylistically, the proper punctuation would probably be "It's official:", or "It's official!" for emphasis. Many of us like the em dash, though: "It's official - ".
And when the virus writer finds an exploit to your trust testing code?
1. I've lived in New England for 37 years, and I've never heard of an outlet called "the Boston News".
2. The links I see on these stories are to an AP report. AP is not a Boston-based institution.
So if you leave your door unlocked, and I walk in and grab your box, and the cops arrest me, will the National Review defend me because I was just "taking a free computer from a publicly-accessible location?"
The whole reason zero day exploits are the most dangerous is precisely because anti-virus software exists. If it didn't, day 300 or day 3000 exploits would be as dangerous as 0 day expoits.
There were viruses a long time before Outlook. There will be viruses a long time after Outlook. As far as "allowing someone to send email as you" - that's not Outlook's fault, that's SMTP's fault: the From: header is never authenticated. Yes, Outlook's security model sucks, but security issues are a lot more subtle than you're allowing.
For instance: what antivirus software is really designed to do is not to stop 0 day infections, but to put a limit on how long a virus can be effective. When was the last time you heard about someone who had the Michelangelo virus? Can't remember? That's because antivirus software is doing its job: preventing viruses from sticking. How about RedAlert or MSBlast (gee, Outlook had nothing to do with those, did it? Yes, we can all blame MS's sloppy approach to security, with full justice, but we have to remember that MS is a product of its niche - if IBM had ended up in the monopoly role of the monoculture, it is entirely possible that their products would have introduced "user friendly" features that undercut security, too.)
Your approach frankly isn't going to work with the majority of users. You're never gonig to be able to prevent things like "Here is the report you asked for / report.doc.vbs" showing up in a user's mailbox when that user really was expecting a report from the putative sender (I've seen this happen - precisely what the virus writer is shooting for - and in that situation, a manager waiting for an important time-sensitive report from a subordinate, it's all too easy for the recipient to fail to notice that the icon is wrong, that there's an extra extension, etc.). Some users email exes for legitimate reasons. Some users are too busy to run an MD5 check on every attachment they get (and have you ever tried to explain how MD5 works to a secretary?). If viruses can be blamed 99% of the time on anything, they can be blamed on social engineering: the same impulses that make people give out their credit card numbers to total strangers who "call from the bank" will make viruses continue to spread.
I've used Knoppix quite a bit, and have only twice had problems with hardware incompatibilities (both on old machines). On the other hand, every "live CD" distro I've tried for ppc (on a pretty new machine, a G3 white iBook) has had some problem, usually with video. This is rather strange, as x86 hardware is far more heterogenous than Apple hardware is.
Sure, you can configure Gentoo to work on an iBook, but the whole purpose of a live cd is to have something quick and autoconfigurable. The last time I remember this subject coming up, about a year ago, this posting was modded informative for responding to the call for a realistic LiveCD distribution for PPC with "Debian isn't really as hard as the poster says . . . I got my iBook online with debian, everything working, in the space of one weekend." A weekend does not a Live CD make. Have the Live CDs for PPC improved to the point that they'll boot from autoconfigure on recent (1-4 year old) Apple hardware?
Well, I remember reading references to the fact that Star Wars was to be a trilogy of trilogies in I believe 1979. I'd have to dig up the reference, but it was in a large format book about science fiction books, movies, and art that I'm sure was published no later than 1981, and I think before ESB was released. Come to think of it, it's possible that *The Art of Star Wars* had a reference (in the title page of the draft script, maybe?) to the movie being part 4 of "The Journal of the Whills" (or "Journey of the Whills"). Anyway, the 9 movies thing LONG predates 1997. It long predates 1987.
IE is already blocking tabs on my office system. And you know what? I still think Firefox has enough killer features to make IE an also-ran.
Having watched "Enterprise", I have to say we're now up to "Enterprise F&*%" . . . . . . . . . .
Which two Asimov prequels are you talking about? Certainly not the Foundation prequels, which, while released before Episode I, were released long after Lucas had talked about doing Episode I.
For anime, the closest match is obviously Cowboy Beebop, but the feel of the two shows and the setup are quite different. As for the Andromeda fans, try doing a compare of Firefly to Star Trek:
Mal - Kirk
Zoe - Spock
Wash - Scotty
Kaylee - Chapel
Shepherd - McCoy
Jayne - Chekov
Inara - Rand (yeah, I know, Rand and Chekov were never on at the same time)
This is because episodic television (indeed, all episodic fiction) is by its nature formulaic: you look for ways to balance your ensemble, and the chief balances seem to be around the hero. First you create your hero, then you look to his friends (in Trek, the emotionally balanced Kirk has McCoy, the sympathetic one, and Spock, the logical one; in Firefly, you have Zoe, the professional, and Shepherd, the sympathetic), then his love interest (Rand, Inara), then the inept male comic relief (Chekov, Jayne), then the socially inept female comic relief who has a crush on someone (Chapel, Kaylee), and don't forget Mr. Fixit. Of course, since supposedly Andromeda was based on an idea by Roddenberry, structural similarities between Andromeda and Star Trek would make sense (look at the structural similarities between ST: TMP and *Encounter at Farpoint* some time - Decker:Riker::Deltan Ilia:Betazoid Deanna), but I think you could probably look at any other team-based episodic television series and find many common elements.
It's not a tablet, it's a web pad. Different niche. Think of the distinction between a desktop and a workstation. Both have pretty much the same form factor, but one is inexpensive and lower powered.
Ah, but he didn't come out and say that he was involved in the product. If someone sends something to Taco or Hemos saying "hey, we've got this great LINUX product I think /.ers would be interested in," I expect Taco or Hemos would post it. I would want them to post it. But I don't want any pretense.
Ah, that's not a scenario I've had to worry about (differential permissions for USB devices). So the way to deal with that would be to use encryption and the OS feature.
Ok, my employer expects us to take vacation time for a weather emergency. No, it's not fair, but they make up for it in other ways. So saying they'd "dock your pay," while a far too agressive way to put it, is probably standard practice. However, the second issue, refusing to pay you for the holiday if you don't work on Friday because of an emergency, is punitive. IANAL.
Drudge knows typography experts? Then why the hell is his site - oh, nevermind.
Yes, read access. I use it plenty. But the disabling features should be in the BIOS, not the OS.
They're Republican electors - they only get to vote if Bush does win the popular vote in WV.
No, it's men's club. Think about it: man's club, men's club. " Mens' " is not English. And thus it is girls' room, not girls room or girl's room.
But how do you define "wartime?" IIRC, we haven't declared a war since 1941.
Gravity ALWAYS wins.
Well, since the Globe carried this story, maybe you should just give it some time.