This might be true if Apple were standard compliant in regard to ePub, which they are not (example here, make sure you read Liz' blog all the way through, she rules!). So, they'd have to fix a few other things before we talk about the new iBooks 1.2 fixed layout specs or them throwing "out unfinished tools and specs" as you say. IOW, there's enough to whine about already (again, check Liz' blog for details!).
OTOH, lots of small publishers are eager to satisfy their clients, but cannot, since Apple chose to keep the new specs under an NDA. Thanks a bunch for that... . And you keep defending that, citing "Apple's support burden" *shakes head* Who are you, an Apple helpdesk guy?
That's why we - all over the world - cancel our accounts there. In Europe, you need to write a letter or send a fax, since you cannot delete your profile/account online / by email, but I guess and hope that really hurts them.
Yea I know the "But I do all my shopping there!" arguments... get a clue, there's lots of other online retailers, and if you keep looking (or even leave the house / basement once in a while), you'll probably save a few bucks,too.
hm I use Opera - I right-click on visa.com, mastercard.com, paypal.com and amazon.com and select "Reload every 2 sec." - Why, I really do need to know if their sites are up, of course! The Auto-Reload feature Opera offers helps quite a bit here... .
> I'm not suggesting that poor security is unacceptable
You are suggesting that poor security is acceptable.
> time for individuals to take some responsibility
Yes, but corporations need to take responsibilities, too - and be liable. Additionally, think of Joe Sixpack instead of/. geeks: online banking (and the tools used) need not be fool-proof - since someone only needs to build a better fool - but Joe would expect reasonable dilligence (if he cared, which he doesn't unless things go wrong).
I'm amazed time and time again what you can get away with today, that's all. My bad. Not sure what SOX has to do with that, tho'.
On topic: I have different machines for different tasks - if I can't keep up with what happens on them, so be it. As long as you can decide on what is really important, you'll be fine, even if you "miss" stuff.
"Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top
level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult" or "unsafe" material
or the like. This document explains why this is an ill considered
idea from the legal, philosophical, and particularly, the technical
points of view."
Unfortunately, there is a decent chance that we'll get a real-world opportunity to see what will happen. June tropical storms tend to form in the Gulf of Mexico, and we've been averaging one June storm every two years since 1995. This year, the odds of a June Gulf of Mexico storm are probably a little lower than usual, shear from our lingering El Niño may bring wind shear levels a bit above average. I expect there is a 20% chance that we'll see a June tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico that would interact with the oil spill.
Also, we now have TD1 which might make it to the GOMEX and has tropical storm / hurricane potential; and it's only June.
"There is no reliable, scientifically sound evidence that [shows that executions] can exert a deterrent effect.... These flaws and omissions in a body of scientific evidence render it unreliable as a basis for law or policy that generate life-and-death decisions. To accept it uncritically invites errors that have the most severe human costs." (Discussion of recent deterrence studies).
The truly appalling part to me was that the shooters volunteered. They were not appointed to shoot, they wanted to. It's one thing to have laws saying that killing your own people is ok given the "right" crime and discuss how humane or civilized the killing method is. It's quite another thing to have cops volunteer to kill another human being.
And for those saying "RLG wasn't a human being": civilized parts of this planet have agreed that people - no matter if they are good or bad or white or criminal - are people in the first place. And you don't kill people. As a rule. Because life is valuable. Yes, every life. Deal with it.
and using it to track deforestation is neat and all, but a better, more comprehensive source of information is the State of the World's Forests 2009 report. And yes, it has neat and colorful maps, too.
But they are the forest industry, so they must be evil.
Not per se, but the key is sustainability, and despite improvements - as others pointed out, many players in the timber industry don't want to destroy their resources completely - the industry is not acting responsibly:
"But the timber industry's Sustainable Forestry Initiative does not protect forests or deliver credible assurances. The SFI condones environmentally harmful practices including large-scale clearcutting and chemical use, logging of old growth and endangered forests, and replacement of forests by ecologically degraded tree plantations. And there's no guarantee that many products marketed as SFI have any connection to SFI certified forests. Most other forest certification systems also permit destructive logging practices. [...]
If you haven't already, please consider adopting an environmentally sound wood and paper policy - and don't buy into the SFI's claims." (emphasis mine) Forest certification can help... depending on which certification system you choose!
I know this is slashdot, but the vast majority of posts so far are elaborate arguments about trees in the US, which is completely missing the point. Forest [...]swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year. Most posts therefore are mere red herrings. IOW, the world / the climate does not care much about Oregon.
Well, if it weren't so sad, it would actually be kind of funny, I guess. The profiteers are certainly laughing their asses off, like "Gazprom Schröder" (former German Chancellor, details here, older article), the most prominent example of corruption, bribery and corporatism.
That's only half the story: shortly after his time as minister of the interior, he joined the board of directors of SAFE ID Solutions AG, a company specializing in - you guessed it - "integrated security solutions to the global ID market with systems optimized for new generation electronic documents".
I wondered how this will be addressed and the numerous "it will be fixed, don't worry" posts were not really helpful. TFA was and linked to "a TLS extension to cryptographically tie renegotiations to the TLS connections they are being performed over, thus preventing this attack" draft.
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Volksempfaenger, anyone?
Relax! Didn't you notice, this time they actually did think of the children!
Granted, not all of them, only the abducted ones, but it's a start, so it must be a good thing.
> That's fairly benign compared to the amounts of energy accumulating
...or in the Pacific Northwest? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cascade_Range_related_plate_tectonics-en.svg
> at a subduction zone (like in Japan)
Here I sit, replying to myself.
Mail from Apple contact says: specs are not ready yet, but will be "available in early January".
Still, why the 'closed beta'?
This might be true if Apple were standard compliant in regard to ePub, which they are not (example here, make sure you read Liz' blog all the way through, she rules!). So, they'd have to fix a few other things before we talk about the new iBooks 1.2 fixed layout specs or them throwing "out unfinished tools and specs" as you say. IOW, there's enough to whine about already (again, check Liz' blog for details!).
OTOH, lots of small publishers are eager to satisfy their clients, but cannot, since Apple chose to keep the new specs under an NDA. Thanks a bunch for that... . And you keep defending that, citing "Apple's support burden" *shakes head* Who are you, an Apple helpdesk guy?
Or you're trying to access wikileaks.ch ...
"We look forward to continuing to serve our AWS customers and are excited about several new things we have coming your way in the next few months."
Well, I'm looking forward to you confirming the deletion of my account I requested a week ago. And that 2nd part sounds like a threat.
Yea I know the "But I do all my shopping there!" arguments... get a clue, there's lots of other online retailers, and if you keep looking (or even leave the house / basement once in a while), you'll probably save a few bucks,too.
hm I use Opera - I right-click on visa.com, mastercard.com, paypal.com and amazon.com and select "Reload every 2 sec." - Why, I really do need to know if their sites are up, of course! The Auto-Reload feature Opera offers helps quite a bit here... .
Statelogs helps you browse, comment, rate, now at 1000 of 251.287 cables.
Read them, browse them, don't rely on 2nd hand info or main stream media... .
Facetious!
> I'm not suggesting that poor security is unacceptable
/. geeks: online banking (and the tools used) need not be fool-proof - since someone only needs to build a better fool - but Joe would expect reasonable dilligence (if he cared, which he doesn't unless things go wrong).
You are suggesting that poor security is acceptable.
> time for individuals to take some responsibility
Yes, but corporations need to take responsibilities, too - and be liable. Additionally, think of Joe Sixpack instead of
I'm amazed time and time again what you can get away with today, that's all. My bad. Not sure what SOX has to do with that, tho'.
All?!
I mean, seriously, what else can you get away with today?
Ha! How very insightful! (No mod points ATM).
On topic: I have different machines for different tasks - if I can't keep up with what happens on them, so be it. As long as you can decide on what is really important, you'll be fine, even if you "miss" stuff.
1. A decision must be made on what constitutes an Analytical Engine
"Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult" or "unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why this is an ill considered idea from the legal, philosophical, and particularly, the technical points of view."
Check out Dr. Jeff Masters Blog at wunderground.com, especially the "Resources for the BP oil disaster" section at the end of each new blog entry. His My post on what oil might do to a hurricane" entry concludes:
Unfortunately, there is a decent chance that we'll get a real-world opportunity to see what will happen. June tropical storms tend to form in the Gulf of Mexico, and we've been averaging one June storm every two years since 1995. This year, the odds of a June Gulf of Mexico storm are probably a little lower than usual, shear from our lingering El Niño may bring wind shear levels a bit above average. I expect there is a 20% chance that we'll see a June tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico that would interact with the oil spill.
Also, we now have TD1 which might make it to the GOMEX and has tropical storm / hurricane potential; and it's only June.
"There is no reliable, scientifically sound evidence that [shows that executions] can exert a deterrent effect.... These flaws and omissions in a body of scientific evidence render it unreliable as a basis for law or policy that generate life-and-death decisions. To accept it uncritically invites errors that have the most severe human costs." (Discussion of recent deterrence studies).
The truly appalling part to me was that the shooters volunteered. They were not appointed to shoot, they wanted to. It's one thing to have laws saying that killing your own people is ok given the "right" crime and discuss how humane or civilized the killing method is. It's quite another thing to have cops volunteer to kill another human being.
And for those saying "RLG wasn't a human being": civilized parts of this planet have agreed that people - no matter if they are good or bad or white or criminal - are people in the first place. And you don't kill people. As a rule. Because life is valuable. Yes, every life. Deal with it.
and using it to track deforestation is neat and all, but a better, more comprehensive source of information is the State of the World's Forests 2009 report. And yes, it has neat and colorful maps, too.
But they are the forest industry, so they must be evil.
Not per se, but the key is sustainability, and despite improvements - as others pointed out, many players in the timber industry don't want to destroy their resources completely - the industry is not acting responsibly:
"But the timber industry's Sustainable Forestry Initiative does not protect forests or deliver credible assurances. The SFI condones environmentally harmful practices including large-scale clearcutting and chemical use, logging of old growth and endangered forests, and replacement of forests by ecologically degraded tree plantations. And there's no guarantee that many products marketed as SFI have any connection to SFI certified forests. Most other forest certification systems also permit destructive logging practices. [...] If you haven't already, please consider adopting an environmentally sound wood and paper policy - and don't buy into the SFI's claims." (emphasis mine) ... depending on which certification system you choose!
Forest certification can help
I know this is slashdot, but the vast majority of posts so far are elaborate arguments about trees in the US, which is completely missing the point. Forest [...]swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year. Most posts therefore are mere red herrings. IOW, the world / the climate does not care much about Oregon.
There's a lot more to deforestation than that: Fast Facts about Deforestation and Quick Actions to Prevent Deforestation
Well, if it weren't so sad, it would actually be kind of funny, I guess. The profiteers are certainly laughing their asses off, like "Gazprom Schröder" (former German Chancellor, details here, older article), the most prominent example of corruption, bribery and corporatism.
That's only half the story: shortly after his time as minister of the interior, he joined the board of directors of SAFE ID Solutions AG, a company specializing in - you guessed it - "integrated security solutions to the global ID market with systems optimized for new generation electronic documents".
I wondered how this will be addressed and the numerous "it will be fixed, don't worry" posts were not really helpful. TFA was and linked to "a TLS extension to cryptographically tie renegotiations to the TLS connections they are being performed over, thus preventing this attack" draft.