If you read the ruling, you will see that the fraternization clause is in this section:
REGULATIONS, Paragraph 4: While on duty you must NOT . . . fraternize on duty or off duty, date or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees.
This says nothing about being in uniform. The restrictions about being in uniform are from GENERAL ORDERS, Paragraph 18, and talk about solicitation and distribution of literature.
In the section explaining the ruling, they say:
the Respondent's rule is designed "to provide safeguards so that security will not be compromised by interpersonal relationships either between Respondent's fellow security guards or between Respon-dent's security guards and clients' employees."
Web pages are much easier to cache than video streams. Any scheme created to decentrally distribute streams would also probably take tracking very seriously.
Porting games to the Mac means porting to different API's as well as a different CPU. Plus there are very few Mac's compared to PC's in the market. Would you do 30% more effort to support 5% more audience?
Modern games are mostly written in a higher level language anyway (C or C++) and probably would require very little tweaking to work on Itanium. The problem is market share. It is not work creating and testing a port if no one will buy it.
as far as 68k-based fun goes the NeXT blew everything else out of the water.
The NeXT had it's share of problems. Objective C has never caught on. The original version's magneto-optical drive was a total disaster (completely unreliable and dog slow), as was the lack of floppy disk (which was important way back in 1990 when it was released, at least in the University segment, where I encountered NeXTs).
Perhaps the biggest problem was the price. At $9,999 it was just too expensive for the consumer. Give the cost, it really isn't comparible to the Mac or the Amiga.
Due to bad handling of borderline html, some web servers will see extra requests that front end servers (cache, proxies) don't see. This is due http keepalive (so that more than one request can be processed in a stream) and malicious http headers. This seems to be implemented mostly by sending duplicate or invalid content length headers.
I'm sure that all of these problems will be quickly patched. All of these issues would be fixed by tighter HTTP parsing specifications. However, buggy software will always exist, and always be exploited.
We don't have to simulate the brain function in real time for it to be a valid simulation. And, if you read the article, they are modeling this on many, many slices of mouse brain. As it says, they hope by doing this that they will shed light on perception, memory, and perhaps even consiousness. It doesn't say they will achieve this, just that they hope to.
"This is the next big challenge for the RIAA," said Schultz. "If they thought file sharing over P2P networks was a threat to their business model, then this is a whole different challenge that they have to adapt to, because there's no way they can police this."
The RIAA can lobby electronics makers and car companies against the production of cheap hardware that does this, and therefore effectively kill it. They have managed to greatly reduce the number of internet radio stations. It is no fun to broadcast if no one is listening. And it is no fun to listen if no one is broadcasting.
Require state issued picture ID's to use Library computers.
Randomly audit the users of the system, verifying picture ID's. Anyone that is caught using someone else's access gets both their own and the person who "loaned" them access revoked.
I have owned a Honda Civic Hybrid for almost three years. I'm very happy with it. I get between 40 and 44 miles per gallon, measured at the pump. I do mostly city driving.
I don't find the EPA estimates for my car that misleading (48 city / 47 highway), thought the highway may be a bit low for my car, and the city a bit high for my car. But I live in a hilly city.
I think the reality is that people used to never care about gas milage, and now they are paying attention. There are big variations depending on terrain, speed, driving style, and even between different cars.
If I want "free" wireless broadband, I can get it from my local coffee shop. I see no reason whatsoever why the old lady next door to me who doesn't even own a computer should be forced to pay for me to have free wireless in my house.
Except when her house catches on fire, and she wants the firemen to be able to communicate. Or she wants her water meter read without having to have someone visit every house in the county. Or she wants automated signs on the highway telling her where the next accident is.
Municipal wireless will enable all these things, even for people that don't have computers. This basic infrastructure will ultimately save the city money and make a host of services possible.
And it has the side benefit of giving people with computers access.
As an aside, superconductivity is now very well understood.
Not according to the April 2005 issue of Scientific American. In an article entitled Low-Temperature Superconductivity Is Warming Up, it says that magnesium diboride defies traditional theories about superconductivity. From reading the article, it seems that superconductivity isn't really well understood at all.
Complain about Slashdot all you want, but the articles and the original press release are all missing the details you want. This is a case where the only details that have been reported have been gleaned from a press release, only published two days ago. It will take a while before a journalist asks the kind of questions you want asked.
Slashdot is not a news site. There aren't a group of reporters doing fact checking. It is new aggregation and community site.
Well, in some jurisdictions the law says that they can ask for ID with or without cause.... Now, some forms of (illegal) profiling aside, how often does this happen?
That is a major point of this article and the theme of the conference (the Panopticon). It doesn't have to happen often. Just enough to make people fear it might.
In the early 90'ies, I worked for a computing department for a university that ran a help desk. They noticed that employees were getting sick all the time. They changed policies, and made everyone who worked the help desk bring their own phone handset, and the illnesses decreased.
The moral of the story is that germs can infect anything we touch, and so don't share things many people need to use. Or buy appropriate hardware / cleaning systems to handle it.
They are not donating anything to charity. They are getting people like you to donate, through publicity.
In fact, if they were to all get jobs instead of sit on a sidewalk for a month and a half, they could probably raise more money for charity. But that wouldn't be any fun, would it?
Microsoft writes the operating system, and the most popular applications. And they are a monopoly. Of course they should be treated differently than the rest of the industry.
I think that only someone intimately familiar with the internals of the operating system could write their optimizer. Remember, this requires detailed knowledge of the loader, virtual memory, etc.
To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows.
This is always the standard Microsoft defense. Our products are written with the same API's as are available to everyone else. Everything's fair.
Except that Microsoft developers get access to the people who wrote the specifications. They can influence the specifications to change. In fact, according to a friend of mine who works at Microsoft, they have a tool which highly optimizes their code after compilation, by, among other things, moving the infrequently used code like error handling routines to the back of their DLL's, etc.
The fact that this tool hasn't been released to other developers is proof that they unfairly compete.
...why should you bleed it all away with huge flash files
Because the market demands it. People like flashy web sites. And advertisers like flashy advertising. If the market demanded 56k web sites, they would be produced.
Slashdot Mirror
Heinlein thought of that 65 years ago.
I didn't think a major company like google would let themselves be slashdotted, but they did.
I just got this message from gmail...
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
Microsoft did attempt to license the doubious "IP" of the FAT file system.
According to them, if you want to use long file names on flash media, you have to licence their IP. For $.25 a unit, up to $250,000 per licencee.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the patent seems to be invalid.
Although this first attempt at patent extortion seems to have failed, I expect we will see Microsoft try again soon.
If you read the ruling, you will see that the fraternization clause is in this section:
REGULATIONS, Paragraph 4: While on duty you must NOT . . . fraternize on duty or off duty, date or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees.
This says nothing about being in uniform. The restrictions about being in uniform are from GENERAL ORDERS, Paragraph 18, and talk about solicitation and distribution of literature.
In the section explaining the ruling, they say: the Respondent's rule is designed "to provide safeguards so that security will not be compromised by interpersonal relationships either between Respondent's fellow security guards or between Respon-dent's security guards and clients' employees."
Again, there is nothing about being in uniform.
According to this article , it is WindowsVista, not Windows Vista. I'm sure this is for copyright reasons.
About as accurate as web page rankings.
Web pages are much easier to cache than video streams. Any scheme created to decentrally distribute streams would also probably take tracking very seriously.
Porting games to the Mac means porting to different API's as well as a different CPU. Plus there are very few Mac's compared to PC's in the market. Would you do 30% more effort to support 5% more audience?
Modern games are mostly written in a higher level language anyway (C or C++) and probably would require very little tweaking to work on Itanium. The problem is market share. It is not work creating and testing a port if no one will buy it.
as far as 68k-based fun goes the NeXT blew everything else out of the water.
The NeXT had it's share of problems. Objective C has never caught on. The original version's magneto-optical drive was a total disaster (completely unreliable and dog slow), as was the lack of floppy disk (which was important way back in 1990 when it was released, at least in the University segment, where I encountered NeXTs).
Perhaps the biggest problem was the price. At $9,999 it was just too expensive for the consumer. Give the cost, it really isn't comparible to the Mac or the Amiga.
Those education and liberal arts students are zombies.
Due to bad handling of borderline html, some web servers will see extra requests that front end servers (cache, proxies) don't see. This is due http keepalive (so that more than one request can be processed in a stream) and malicious http headers. This seems to be implemented mostly by sending duplicate or invalid content length headers.
I'm sure that all of these problems will be quickly patched. All of these issues would be fixed by tighter HTTP parsing specifications. However, buggy software will always exist, and always be exploited.
We don't have to simulate the brain function in real time for it to be a valid simulation. And, if you read the article, they are modeling this on many, many slices of mouse brain. As it says, they hope by doing this that they will shed light on perception, memory, and perhaps even consiousness. It doesn't say they will achieve this, just that they hope to.
No sensationalism here. Move along.
"This is the next big challenge for the RIAA," said Schultz. "If they thought file sharing over P2P networks was a threat to their business model, then this is a whole different challenge that they have to adapt to, because there's no way they can police this."
The RIAA can lobby electronics makers and car companies against the production of cheap hardware that does this, and therefore effectively kill it. They have managed to greatly reduce the number of internet radio stations. It is no fun to broadcast if no one is listening. And it is no fun to listen if no one is broadcasting.
All films, music etc derive 99% of their income from sales to individuals
What about film sales to movie networks such as HBO? Airlines? What about sales to TV networks?
I'm sure these add up to more than 1% of many films income.
Require state issued picture ID's to use Library computers.
Randomly audit the users of the system, verifying picture ID's. Anyone that is caught using someone else's access gets both their own and the person who "loaned" them access revoked.
Problem solved.
I have owned a Honda Civic Hybrid for almost three years. I'm very happy with it. I get between 40 and 44 miles per gallon, measured at the pump. I do mostly city driving.
I don't find the EPA estimates for my car that misleading (48 city / 47 highway), thought the highway may be a bit low for my car, and the city a bit high for my car. But I live in a hilly city.
I think the reality is that people used to never care about gas milage, and now they are paying attention. There are big variations depending on terrain, speed, driving style, and even between different cars.
If I want "free" wireless broadband, I can get it from my local coffee shop. I see no reason whatsoever why the old lady next door to me who doesn't even own a computer should be forced to pay for me to have free wireless in my house.
Except when her house catches on fire, and she wants the firemen to be able to communicate. Or she wants her water meter read without having to have someone visit every house in the county. Or she wants automated signs on the highway telling her where the next accident is.
Municipal wireless will enable all these things, even for people that don't have computers. This basic infrastructure will ultimately save the city money and make a host of services possible.
And it has the side benefit of giving people with computers access.
As an aside, superconductivity is now very well understood.
Not according to the April 2005 issue of Scientific American. In an article entitled Low-Temperature Superconductivity Is Warming Up, it says that magnesium diboride defies traditional theories about superconductivity. From reading the article, it seems that superconductivity isn't really well understood at all.
Complain about Slashdot all you want, but the articles and the original press release are all missing the details you want. This is a case where the only details that have been reported have been gleaned from a press release, only published two days ago. It will take a while before a journalist asks the kind of questions you want asked.
Slashdot is not a news site. There aren't a group of reporters doing fact checking. It is new aggregation and community site.
Well, in some jurisdictions the law says that they can ask for ID with or without cause.... Now, some forms of (illegal) profiling aside, how often does this happen?
That is a major point of this article and the theme of the conference (the Panopticon). It doesn't have to happen often. Just enough to make people fear it might.
This is in no way limited to keyboards.
In the early 90'ies, I worked for a computing department for a university that ran a help desk. They noticed that employees were getting sick all the time. They changed policies, and made everyone who worked the help desk bring their own phone handset, and the illnesses decreased.
The moral of the story is that germs can infect anything we touch, and so don't share things many people need to use. Or buy appropriate hardware / cleaning systems to handle it.
It's for a charity, jackass.
They are not donating anything to charity. They are getting people like you to donate, through publicity.
In fact, if they were to all get jobs instead of sit on a sidewalk for a month and a half, they could probably raise more money for charity. But that wouldn't be any fun, would it?
Now they are backpeddling and saying that this theater has all these wonderful Star Wars connections.
But according to Sarah Sprague, a spokesmen for the group:
"Even if it's not here, we'll just go see it somewhere else. We're not doing this just for the movie."
So they don't really care that much about Star Wars. They are media whores. And this coverage is giving them exactly what they want.
Microsoft writes the operating system, and the most popular applications. And they are a monopoly. Of course they should be treated differently than the rest of the industry.
I think that only someone intimately familiar with the internals of the operating system could write their optimizer. Remember, this requires detailed knowledge of the loader, virtual memory, etc.
To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows.
This is always the standard Microsoft defense. Our products are written with the same API's as are available to everyone else. Everything's fair.
Except that Microsoft developers get access to the people who wrote the specifications. They can influence the specifications to change. In fact, according to a friend of mine who works at Microsoft, they have a tool which highly optimizes their code after compilation, by, among other things, moving the infrequently used code like error handling routines to the back of their DLL's, etc.
The fact that this tool hasn't been released to other developers is proof that they unfairly compete.
...why should you bleed it all away with huge flash files
Because the market demands it. People like flashy web sites. And advertisers like flashy advertising. If the market demanded 56k web sites, they would be produced.
This is 2005, not 1995.