I WILL NOT trust public schools for the education of my daughter. From teaching to the least common denominator, stupid security requirements, "zero tolerance", teachers unions...
It is worth the 10-20K per year to send my girl to a school that is much more accountable to my needs. Oh, and I won't have to worry about them cancelling 3 weeks of school because they can't count the money coming in and going out (technically the state legislatures problem, not the local school district, but the effects are the same)
Tons of people not covered by a proper medicare system (U.S).
Ok, care to back this up ?
Now don't go citing people who don't pay into the "insurance" business, or the ponzi scheme that the US government pushes onto the elderly... I want actual case studies of people needing genuine medical treatment and are turned away from doctors and hospitals without treatment for their life critical needs. How many cases of this are there a year amongst a base population of 1/4 billion ?
Now lets talk facts. People don't like insurance companies, or having to pay insurance companies (including the least efficient US Government plans). There are many "uninsured" folks that in reality are self insured, they prefer to take the risks themselves rather than pay someone a profit to take the risks for them. That said it is a sick environment where large monopolies (read insurance companies and the government) force health care providers to sell them services at a massive discount, then these providers turn around and charge the general populace higher rates so they can negotiate %off rates with the insurance companies.
Why not force the government/insurance companies to pay the same rates as providers charge to people that prefer to pay cash to their providers rather to a for profit entity to pay to the provider.
For sharing tasks, I always prefered shared consoles... How many people have written the "sh meet" application where you can create a shell with a named pipe that anyone can connect too. From there I/O can come from any of the computers. A security nightmare, but hopefully everyone in the company is trusted, and you have a good firewall. Of course I'd have no idea how you can do something like this on Windows (I guess some funky VNC hack would do it, but sharing a UI sucks). I have also heard about some interesting Usability work at AT&T where you could bring the UI along with you to ask that question (using VNC and some location devices)
I have yet to see a decent Cable provider TOS. I tend to call these web service providers, I mean, look at it, no IRC, SMTP, DNS, pointing a DNS address to one of their IP addresses (how do they even know that YOU are the one that did it)
My advise, do what you should do, get a real IP service, DSL, or something similar that provides a decent TOS. Will it cost more, of course - after all you get what you pay for
Worked for a company that was radically attached to IRC (you weren't at work unless you were logged onto IRC)
Personal opinion, IRC (and typing in general) is way to low bandwidth to hold technical conversations on... What might be solved with a 10 minute phone call takes hours to discuss over IRC (especialy with the cross chat). Upside is the whole thing was logged and you could go on a company server and look through ALL of the IRC logs, the Con to that is absolutely nobody did that
The best use I would make of IRC would be
(nick) You there Pete ...
(pete) Hey... did you ring nick ?
(nick) Yeah, can I call you now ?
(pete) Sure ...
(phone heard ringing in the background)
Frankly I will never work on another distributed team if I can help it. I want to sit close enough to my immediate co-workers that I know if I can bother them (based on the music they are playing usually) and take it from there... having people across three timezones suck
Well time to start with an Internet Draft
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If you want a new protocol, write an internet draft and submit it to internet-drafts@ietf.org.
From there it can be evaluated, a Working Group created to push it through engineering review to Last Call, to proposed standard.
Sounds easy, well you can expect to spend aproximately 20 hrs/wk on it for 3 years, and that is if it is a non-controversial idea. For something controversial like changing the SMTP protocol, expect it to effectively never happen, why you might ask... Well lets say the first problem is to define SPAM, we will move on from there (Do I have to mention the ANTI-SPAM BOF held in San Fransisco that was a complete waste of time)
If you are in Sales, you are not in IT, you are on the other side of the fence (-1 Troll)
That said, if you really want to find out how to save money, find out how your company does accounting for descisions, what variables are taken into account, what numbers they pull out of their ass.
That said, challenge none of those numbers, that is a fruitless battle that will get you no where. What you want to do is create a scenario where the likely benefit of implementing your descision outwieghs the preceived benefit of doing it their way...
And no, that does not mean once in a blue moon, if the starts line up, and we buy a lottery ticket that wins - makes more money than doing it your way.
While this is very true, you are forgeting a major downside for the consumer. And that is the fact that the repair cost will be 100 dollars for Apple in their formula, but when it ultimately breaks - they will charge you 200 dollars to fix it (so they can get their profit on the repair center)
This subtly changes the numbers, basically you are paying the profit margin up front or during the repair (if you need it)
And how do you get the checksum/MD5 hash for the EPROM. Remember, your access to the machine is to push buttons and vote... How do you verify in a meaningful way what software is being run on the inside ?
Problem is... you can have the code inspected, but how do you confirm that the code that was inspected was compiled with a trusted tool chain, then placed correctly onto the EPROM that ships with the device
Inspect the code all you want, but until you can show me how you can vet the tool-chain and the final product - it is relatively pointless.
I wonder if this technology is going to also be used to locate subs?
Can't work. Basically you are measuring the denisty/mass differences in large areas (lets even say you can do it down to the centimeter though). So an area that has high mountains, highly dense subsurface is going to have a higher pull from gravity.
A submarine with neutral boyancy (not going up or down, just level) would displace an equivalent volume of water, therefor not change the gravity field around it.
That said, there is no reason why we can't us other things like detecting the change in magnetic flows because a large nuclear reactor just went underneath, and things like that
What is complex. Smoking is bad for you, it has been known for over 40 years that smoking is bad for you... If you care about your health (Ok, I guess there are suicidal people in the world) you shouldn't smoke.
How is saying any of that being narrow minded. Is it narrow minded to tell our children not to play in traffic because they could be hit by cars (no matter how fun it really is)... People that accept other peoples stupidity, and then try to rationalize it scare me to no end.
Although I guess picking up the really bad ones could be funny.
Exactly. I also tend to set modifiers for flamebait and troll to +3... Nothing like a good troll
I will agree that there are a lot of sites to see, but I think the bay area is now one of the butt ugliest areas of the United states. Between the suburban sprawl that has claimed the entire peninsula, to the brown air that makes me think I should take up smoking to improve my health.
Ok, some of the wine country isn't bad, but then you can get that pretty much anywhere generically along the west coast without having to deal with the air quality issues
Big difference. I mean, if you are planning on going on a walkabout with your two feet as your sole version of transportation, that is one thing.
If your plan is to come here, hop on a bus to somewhere else for a while, then hit another bus...
Go to San Fransisco, there is a tech museum in San Jose that you should see. Hunt down Intel, Cisco, Sun, HP, and many others. Don't forget Fry's in San Jose, might want to hit that at the end of your trip though when you know what your budget is (tm)
Bus to LA, see Disneyland, Hollywood, etc.
Bus to Washington D.C. and see the Smithsonean museum (plan to spend a week, and not even see all of it then)... I like seeing revolutionary/civil war battle sights, so there is Williamsburg, heading up to Massecusetts there is a bunch of historical stuff around the Boston metro area.
If you want to just hike, there is the grand canyon, appalatian trail. Canoing I would suggest Boundry waters canoe area (N Minnesota so go early)
Might as well find Area 51 and see the UFOs, Los Almos, University of Chicago, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkley (if you can stand the hippies)
If someone opens a node and it extends over the park, the only thing they can do is do an intensive search of everyone coming into the park to make sure they aren't carrying anything that could access the node. I don't think that would go over very well.
Actually it is easier than that. Find out what channel the node is on, then turn an encrypted node that doesn't connect to anything on that channel (it wouldn't hurt to bump the power up as well). This way your consumers are connected to your WAP that will do them no good.
It'd be nice if we could vote to have articles recalled for review.
I've often thought we should be allowed to moderate the actual articles. -1 for repost, -3 bad spelling, etc.
Then I could get my front page to contain all articles above 5 and below -4 (Article moderations should be wider than normal post moderations). Of course then we can see which slashdot editors have the best success at posting highly moderated articles
I might agree with you if not for the addictiveness of tobacco products.
And who held the gun to this persons head and said start sucking away. Tobacco addiction has a long well known history. If our society was intelligent no one under 60 would be smoking today. Of course I had a high school teacher that said you can never under estimate the intelligence of the average american Kumquat. I think he is right, I get more amazed by the hour
Anybody else read this and think that the story submitter picked a bad time to make a joke
Well I looked at it and assumed that the guy got tounge cancer the normal way... abuse of tobacco products. Sorry I have a hard time feeling sorry for self inflicted wounds.
I am not a lawyer
I do not live in your country
I would have a hard time pointing to your country on a map
I do know however everything there is to know about those dirtbags at SCO
I do know everything about how Intellectual Property should work in the real world
You have nothing to worry about of course because SCO will fail in court, all though I have not signed the NDA so have no idea what evidence SCO can present, or if I have signed an NDA, couldn't tell you about it anyway
I know the head of the MIT network. He is a VERY good tech guy with bonafide IETF credentials in security, and the legal aspects of security.
I used to love listening to him at lunch at conferences talking about the various legal troubles that MIT students would get into including the infamous bonsai kitten website rap. He talked about how a couple of armed Humane Society officers showed up in his office one day to demand he reviel what he knew about the students that put up the website.
His response was, "I can't tell you that, you have passed student privacy laws that prevent me from reveiling the students name". Officers left in a huff, but Jeff was right.
That would definitely be from the Free Software Foundation and not the Free Seminar Foundation...
Think free speech, not free beer... Wait a sec, that doesn't work here
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It is worth the 10-20K per year to send my girl to a school that is much more accountable to my needs. Oh, and I won't have to worry about them cancelling 3 weeks of school because they can't count the money coming in and going out (technically the state legislatures problem, not the local school district, but the effects are the same)
News at 11
Ok, care to back this up ?
Now don't go citing people who don't pay into the "insurance" business, or the ponzi scheme that the US government pushes onto the elderly... I want actual case studies of people needing genuine medical treatment and are turned away from doctors and hospitals without treatment for their life critical needs. How many cases of this are there a year amongst a base population of 1/4 billion ?
Now lets talk facts. People don't like insurance companies, or having to pay insurance companies (including the least efficient US Government plans). There are many "uninsured" folks that in reality are self insured, they prefer to take the risks themselves rather than pay someone a profit to take the risks for them. That said it is a sick environment where large monopolies (read insurance companies and the government) force health care providers to sell them services at a massive discount, then these providers turn around and charge the general populace higher rates so they can negotiate %off rates with the insurance companies.
Why not force the government/insurance companies to pay the same rates as providers charge to people that prefer to pay cash to their providers rather to a for profit entity to pay to the provider.
For sharing tasks, I always prefered shared consoles... How many people have written the "sh meet" application where you can create a shell with a named pipe that anyone can connect too. From there I/O can come from any of the computers.
A security nightmare, but hopefully everyone in the company is trusted, and you have a good firewall. Of course I'd have no idea how you can do something like this on Windows (I guess some funky VNC hack would do it, but sharing a UI sucks). I have also heard about some interesting Usability work at AT&T where you could bring the UI along with you to ask that question (using VNC and some location devices)
My advise, do what you should do, get a real IP service, DSL, or something similar that provides a decent TOS. Will it cost more, of course - after all you get what you pay for
Thank you Theo, you are great
Worked for a company that was radically attached to IRC (you weren't at work unless you were logged onto IRC)
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Personal opinion, IRC (and typing in general) is way to low bandwidth to hold technical conversations on... What might be solved with a 10 minute phone call takes hours to discuss over IRC (especialy with the cross chat). Upside is the whole thing was logged and you could go on a company server and look through ALL of the IRC logs, the Con to that is absolutely nobody did that
The best use I would make of IRC would be
(nick) You there Pete
(pete) Hey... did you ring nick ?
(nick) Yeah, can I call you now ?
(pete) Sure
(phone heard ringing in the background)
Frankly I will never work on another distributed team if I can help it. I want to sit close enough to my immediate co-workers that I know if I can bother them (based on the music they are playing usually) and take it from there... having people across three timezones suck
From there it can be evaluated, a Working Group created to push it through engineering review to Last Call, to proposed standard.
Sounds easy, well you can expect to spend aproximately 20 hrs/wk on it for 3 years, and that is if it is a non-controversial idea. For something controversial like changing the SMTP protocol, expect it to effectively never happen, why you might ask... Well lets say the first problem is to define SPAM, we will move on from there (Do I have to mention the ANTI-SPAM BOF held in San Fransisco that was a complete waste of time)
That said, if you really want to find out how to save money, find out how your company does accounting for descisions, what variables are taken into account, what numbers they pull out of their ass.
That said, challenge none of those numbers, that is a fruitless battle that will get you no where. What you want to do is create a scenario where the likely benefit of implementing your descision outwieghs the preceived benefit of doing it their way...
And no, that does not mean once in a blue moon, if the starts line up, and we buy a lottery ticket that wins - makes more money than doing it your way.
While this is very true, you are forgeting a major downside for the consumer. And that is the fact that the repair cost will be 100 dollars for Apple in their formula, but when it ultimately breaks - they will charge you 200 dollars to fix it (so they can get their profit on the repair center)
This subtly changes the numbers, basically you are paying the profit margin up front or during the repair (if you need it)
And how do you get the checksum/MD5 hash for the EPROM. Remember, your access to the machine is to push buttons and vote... How do you verify in a meaningful way what software is being run on the inside ?
Problem is... you can have the code inspected, but how do you confirm that the code that was inspected was compiled with a trusted tool chain, then placed correctly onto the EPROM that ships with the device
Inspect the code all you want, but until you can show me how you can vet the tool-chain and the final product - it is relatively pointless.
Can't work. Basically you are measuring the denisty/mass differences in large areas (lets even say you can do it down to the centimeter though). So an area that has high mountains, highly dense subsurface is going to have a higher pull from gravity.
A submarine with neutral boyancy (not going up or down, just level) would displace an equivalent volume of water, therefor not change the gravity field around it.
That said, there is no reason why we can't us other things like detecting the change in magnetic flows because a large nuclear reactor just went underneath, and things like that
How is saying any of that being narrow minded. Is it narrow minded to tell our children not to play in traffic because they could be hit by cars (no matter how fun it really is)... People that accept other peoples stupidity, and then try to rationalize it scare me to no end.
Although I guess picking up the really bad ones could be funny.
Exactly. I also tend to set modifiers for flamebait and troll to +3... Nothing like a good troll
Ok, some of the wine country isn't bad, but then you can get that pretty much anywhere generically along the west coast without having to deal with the air quality issues
Unfortunately I have been banned from visiting by my CFO who accused me of spending over 300 dollars on my last visit
If your plan is to come here, hop on a bus to somewhere else for a while, then hit another bus...
Go to San Fransisco, there is a tech museum in San Jose that you should see. Hunt down Intel, Cisco, Sun, HP, and many others. Don't forget Fry's in San Jose, might want to hit that at the end of your trip though when you know what your budget is (tm)
Bus to LA, see Disneyland, Hollywood, etc.
Bus to Washington D.C. and see the Smithsonean museum (plan to spend a week, and not even see all of it then)... I like seeing revolutionary/civil war battle sights, so there is Williamsburg, heading up to Massecusetts there is a bunch of historical stuff around the Boston metro area.
If you want to just hike, there is the grand canyon, appalatian trail. Canoing I would suggest Boundry waters canoe area (N Minnesota so go early)
Might as well find Area 51 and see the UFOs, Los Almos, University of Chicago, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkley (if you can stand the hippies)
good luck
Then I could get my front page to contain all articles above 5 and below -4 (Article moderations should be wider than normal post moderations). Of course then we can see which slashdot editors have the best success at posting highly moderated articles
I might agree with you if not for the addictiveness of tobacco products.
And who held the gun to this persons head and said start sucking away. Tobacco addiction has a long well known history. If our society was intelligent no one under 60 would be smoking today. Of course I had a high school teacher that said you can never under estimate the intelligence of the average american Kumquat. I think he is right, I get more amazed by the hour
Anybody else read this and think that the story submitter picked a bad time to make a joke
Well I looked at it and assumed that the guy got tounge cancer the normal way... abuse of tobacco products. Sorry I have a hard time feeling sorry for self inflicted wounds.
I am not a lawyer
I do not live in your country
I would have a hard time pointing to your country on a map
I do know however everything there is to know about those dirtbags at SCO
I do know everything about how Intellectual Property should work in the real world
You have nothing to worry about of course because SCO will fail in court, all though I have not signed the NDA so have no idea what evidence SCO can present, or if I have signed an NDA, couldn't tell you about it anyway
Does that just about cover it ?
I know the head of the MIT network. He is a VERY good tech guy with bonafide IETF credentials in security, and the legal aspects of security.
I used to love listening to him at lunch at conferences talking about the various legal troubles that MIT students would get into including the infamous bonsai kitten website rap. He talked about how a couple of armed Humane Society officers showed up in his office one day to demand he reviel what he knew about the students that put up the website.
His response was, "I can't tell you that, you have passed student privacy laws that prevent me from reveiling the students name". Officers left in a huff, but Jeff was right.
That would definitely be from the Free Software Foundation and not the Free Seminar Foundation...
Think free speech, not free beer... Wait a sec, that doesn't work here