Whenever I hear a product called "Green-" I always translate that to mean "inferior".
Any product that is designed to be "green" rather than the best is probably GOING to be inferior because there was some compromise made in order to make it "green".
I make it a point to avoid PC parts from "green" product lines because to me, "green" means SLOW.
If we suffer a WMD terrorist attack, I want the BEST products to be used to deal with it, who cares if it's "green"?
Isn't a massive terrorist attack causing widespread destruction likely to cause FAR more pollution than anything we'd have to do to clean up AFTER IT?
If this passes, it's time to quit using commercially produced routers and firewalls and to start making our own with OS's such as Linux, which isn't actually hard to do.
I'd imagine that there will be regulations requiring "Obama backdoors" in commercial security products to "facilitate" government control of networks "in case of emergency". Which will make those products insecure by design.
I am a conservative who opposed (and still opposes) the PATRIOT act just for this reason. I am against giving the government ANY additional power or control over citizens. Especially ones with such huge possibility for misuse. I didn't want Bush to have the PATRIOT act because I knew that someday there'd be someone like Obama come along to also use it. What has this guy taken over so far? 2/3rds of the US auto industry, the entire banking industry, and now the healthcare system. Yeah, do we want to allow them to take over the private network infrastructure too?
They can't even get unemployment back under 9%.
History has proven that whenever you give government power that CAN be abused, it WILL be abused.
Federal government or government in general pretty much knows less about how to do ANYTHING (excepting the military) than anyone else. Look at how they dealt with Katrina, and the keystone kop operation going on in the gulf right now with the oil spill. If you depend on the government instead of yourself to save you from disaster or from starving or from cyber attack, guess what, they can't.
Also, having dealt with government IT people back when I still worked for a service provider, I can say from experience that those who work in private industry are FAR more capable than those who work for government...
They are going to reboot it and it will solve the problem. Heck, just like Windows. If all the users I had to support would reboot their machine before calling half of them wouldn't need to call.
IF employers start getting perp walked. I've seen first hand the fraud and abuse in the H1-B process, and there are two victims here: The H1-B worker, who is almost always abused and is usually never paid what the employer is claiming to the government that they are, and American IT workers, who have to compete with unfair competition in the form of what amounts to indentured servitude, a form of slave labor.
I use Adblock and Flashblock on Firefox. I don't get spyware on my PC. Adblock Plus is probably the single best malware prevention tool there is.
Until the advertising engines (Google included) starts taking responsibility for screening what is going into their ad networks to make sure there is no malware, the responsible system admin SHOULD be blocking their ad servers from their networks.
You honestly believe that Obama is actively working towards making the United States weaker? Put down the Tea Party(TM) brand leaves, and try to have a single rational thought.
Seriously.
Let's see... He's so far not met a dictator he won't bow to, he's not met an ally of ours that he won't diss, he'll have his picture taken with anyone except the Dali Lama or the PM of Israel, and is being called a wuss by... the President of France?!! He has caused damage to our relationships with allies like the UK and Israel that may NEVER be healed.
Oh, and he just agreed to a treaty that FORBIDS us to modernize our weapons technology, and has canceled the missile shield for Eastern Europe.
In short, Obama has thus far been a menace to our allies, and has given aid and comfort to states that could be considered our enemies.
Unless someone FORCED him to do all that, I'd call that weakening America on purpose, because it sure isn't making us any stronger.
Why is it that Obama can find hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on a health care boondogle, to buy General Motors, Chrysler, and bail out banks, but won't spend 20 billion on NASA? NASA, unlike any appendage of the government other than the military, actually gives a RETURN on investment.
Strong countries have space programs. As of later this year or early next year, the US will have less of one than some third world countries. Is that strength? Let that sink in.
This will diminish America's technological superiority and our lead in spaceflight. However, I believe that in the case of Obama, that he WANTS to diminish our leadership. He has shown nothing but contempt for our allies since getting into office and constantly bows (literally) to our enemies. I honestly believe that we have a President who does not like this country.
Given that almost everything in the technology industry came directly or indirectly as a result of NASA and the space program, it's value is obvious. Most of us who read Slashdot owe the effort that went into the Apollo program for our jobs. The microprocessor, for example, was invented by Intel FOR the space program.
A full blown effort to return to the moon, to stay there permanently, and to push on to Mars would greatly benefit not only the United States but the world, not necessarily for the achievement, but because of the gigantic leap in technological advancement that would be necessitated by the effort. Deciding not to do this, especially after years wasted on starting it, is one of the worst decisions the President could make.
Kind of ironic, given how this Presidency has been going, that by the end of his first (and hopefully only) term America will lack any operating means to put a man into space on it's own, just like the Carter years. But it will be even worse than it was in the late `70's, while Apollo was retired for good in 1976, at least the Shuttle was in the process of being built and implemented. With the cancellation of Constellation, we will be retiring the shuttle by next year, WITHOUT A REPLACEMENT EVEN ON THE DRAWING BOARD!
And to those who say "cancel the space program, we have hungry people here on Earth". Want to feed those people? Develop and advance our technology. Technological advancement will solve ALL problems, from hunger, to pollution, to poverty. But it needs a focus, technology that will aid in all those problems WILL be developed along the way as an ancillary to the space program. Technology that would allow food to be raised on the Moon or Mars, for example, could be applied to growing food in arid or desert regions, just to cite one example. Not to mention all the increased job opportunities that will come from the inventions that will arise. A job is the best anti-hunger program ever invented.
You think we can send a probe an average of 1/10th C, including acceleration and slowdown?
Theoretically possible using a nuclear power source and ion propulsion. Probably would be decades before we could practically do it, but the idea isn't outside the realm of possibility starting with existing technology...
It'd be a lot easier though to try this with Alpha Centauri though. It's only 4 light years away, not 10.
This is an interesting find though. Given the lack of planets or sign of the remnants of the formation of a star/planetary system I'd say this thing is definitely a rogue, that formed in another planetary system that was ejected by gravity. Brown dwarfs actually are able to do deuterium (lower mass ones) and even lithium fusion (higher mass ones) for a short period of time (100MY or so for the fuel to run out) but this one may be too small to have done either.
We certainly are going to discover a lot more of these as we get better and better instruments. They are likely very common, and we are likely to see the discovery of tons more brown dwarfs and very low mass red dwarfs in the coming decades. What is fascinating would be to know exactly where the line is between a very low mass red dwarf that can initiate and sustain core hydrogen fusion and a brown dwarf that either never starts core hydrogen fusion or cannot sustain it.
This was not 'lobbying the judicial branch.' I fact, there is no such thing. The judicial branch does not write the laws, you can not and should not lobby them to change anything. They can't. If you have something to say about an ongoing trial, file an amicus curiae brief. That is the only lawful channel for a third party to influence a trial.
Then why does the first amendment not specify that it doesn't apply to the judiciary?
If the people who wrote it meant that they would have said that.
No one in the Federal government is supposed to be above the Constitution. Not even our Imperial Judiciary. Frankly, things in this country (including the legal system) started to go to hell when people started looking to the courts to make law instead of legislators. This greatly increased the power of judges and politicized them. The unelected branch of government is only supposed to be a referee, not make executive decisions or legislate. Yet they have been doing more and more of this for the last 40 years.
Annoying a judge isn't a crime. No one has a right to not be annoyed.
Violating people's Constitutional Rights while being part of the Federal Government, even a judge, is and frankly they should start going to jail for it.
The Constitution specifically protects the right to petition your government. It does not specify any restrictions. It doesn't exempt the judiciary. Don't want to be petitioned? Easily taken care of, resign from government.
Doing this sort of thing might be rude, but it's not illegal. Being part of the government means that you don't have the same standing as a member of the general public with respect to shielding yourself from contact.
And a contempt citation/jail is certainly an abuse of power by this judge. But it is an indication of how members of the judiciary view themselves, as above reproach. They are unelected, they serve for life. This contempt citation should be overturned because the judge has no authority to cite anyone for behavior not done in his courtroom, or in violation of one of his orders.
Frankly, I think the whole concept of contempt of court, as being able to be absolutely applied by one person with absolute authority is something that should be outlawed. No one should be able to be sentenced to jail without due process of being charged, tried by jury, and convicted.
Publishers who think they have to DRM things to death or the PC market isn't "worth it" who also think that the console market is "piracy" free nirvana (it isn't) should simply leave the PC gaming industry.
Chances are, they are making crap games that are just half-assed console ports, or trying to shove radical schemes (Ubisoft's constant phone home system) down people's throats. Companies that do either should EXPECT TO FAIL, and "piracy" has nothing to do with it.
If these companies leave the market that just makes new room for the next Bioware or similar company to rise. I note that even EA, the 600 pound gorilla has been mostly abandoning DRM of late, first sign of intelligent thought from that company in over 10 years.
The PC gaming industry will never die. The platform is too large, and it is the only platform that is actually open to independent publishers, since you don't have to pay a "Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft tax" just to access the platform. That, coupled with faster and faster internet connections and the rise of digital distribution (I buy all my games this way now) there is more opportunity than ever for competition.
This, I suspect, is why certain publishers actually WISH the PC would die. On the PC anyone who wants to can compete with them. On the consoles, access is restricted in a RIAA/MPAA fashion. I would say that the console publishers are actually the ones clinging to a dying business model, not the PC...
I started with the Atari 2600, but did most of my childhood gaming on the Commodore VIC-20 and 64. Didn't hurt my learning any, and probably helped it, given my love for text adventures like Zork, et all.
by gandhi_2 (1108023) writes: Alter Relationship on Thursday March 04, @04:40PM (#31363152) Homepage
plant some weed in his desk and call the cops anon.
ROFL. That would certainly be one way to do it, BOFH style.
Still though, if some punk is allowed to get away with slowing productivity because they aren't willing to listen to reason because of who they are related to, sounds to me like this is a company you want to get the hell away from as soon as possible.
Hint: If nepotism is this bad, it will only get worse, when "mr know it all" (and not you) are eventually made the boss when the owner retires and immediately runs the place into the ground.
Disable file shares on workstations. Use a file server.
This. We use Windows servers, but for designers and other people who store important files on their local machine rather than the server, after several hard drive crashes that proved they were disobeying the directive to not do this, we now employ folder redirection. How this works is that in our domain policy, certain folders (such as My Documents) and files (Outlook PST's) are actually stored on the file server, even though it appears to be "local" to the user. We also use the offline files feature and file synchronization in the case of notebook users so that they may have access to the files when not on our LAN.
I'm sure there is some equivalent way to do this on a Mac.
No, what the video is saying is NEVER talk to the police, even with a lawyer present. It will NEVER help your defense and it will only hurt you. If you watch the whole thing you will understand why and how they can trick you and use your own words to incriminate you even though you feel you're just helping them. Things you say can and will be used AGAINST you, but never to aid your defense. Obviously the 5th Amendment doesn't apply outside the USA though.
Exactly. Talking to the police won't gain you anything and can ONLY harm you. They are out to hang someone, not to find out the facts. Even if they did want to do thorough investigations, they don't have the TIME to do so. And even if they did, there is no incentive, they are evaluated based on how many perps they hang, not how many innocent they clear.
This is a sterling example as to why. You never deal with them without an attorney, and you never give up anything like a DNA sample consensually.
For the life of me I never have understood why people have willingly accepted a system where it is a crime for a citizen to lie to the government, but the government lying to citizens is accepted as routine.
This sort of behavior not only discourages co-operation with the police, it pretty much MANDATES it. This is why police associations themselves should be against this sort of thing, in the end it's going to make their jobs even harder.
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Whenever I hear a product called "Green-" I always translate that to mean "inferior".
Any product that is designed to be "green" rather than the best is probably GOING to be inferior because there was some compromise made in order to make it "green".
I make it a point to avoid PC parts from "green" product lines because to me, "green" means SLOW.
If we suffer a WMD terrorist attack, I want the BEST products to be used to deal with it, who cares if it's "green"?
Isn't a massive terrorist attack causing widespread destruction likely to cause FAR more pollution than anything we'd have to do to clean up AFTER IT?
If this passes, it's time to quit using commercially produced routers and firewalls and to start making our own with OS's such as Linux, which isn't actually hard to do.
I'd imagine that there will be regulations requiring "Obama backdoors" in commercial security products to "facilitate" government control of networks "in case of emergency". Which will make those products insecure by design.
I am a conservative who opposed (and still opposes) the PATRIOT act just for this reason. I am against giving the government ANY additional power or control over citizens. Especially ones with such huge possibility for misuse. I didn't want Bush to have the PATRIOT act because I knew that someday there'd be someone like Obama come along to also use it. What has this guy taken over so far? 2/3rds of the US auto industry, the entire banking industry, and now the healthcare system. Yeah, do we want to allow them to take over the private network infrastructure too?
They can't even get unemployment back under 9%.
History has proven that whenever you give government power that CAN be abused, it WILL be abused.
Federal government or government in general pretty much knows less about how to do ANYTHING (excepting the military) than anyone else. Look at how they dealt with Katrina, and the keystone kop operation going on in the gulf right now with the oil spill. If you depend on the government instead of yourself to save you from disaster or from starving or from cyber attack, guess what, they can't.
Also, having dealt with government IT people back when I still worked for a service provider, I can say from experience that those who work in private industry are FAR more capable than those who work for government...
First off it's private property, and private property rights are covered in the Constitution.
Obama can have my root passwords only from my cold, dead, brain.
The biggest dealer in child porn is government. They retain it and use it in "sting" operations.
They are going to reboot it and it will solve the problem. Heck, just like Windows. If all the users I had to support would reboot their machine before calling half of them wouldn't need to call.
Of course, they refuse to learn that...
IF employers start getting perp walked. I've seen first hand the fraud and abuse in the H1-B process, and there are two victims here: The H1-B worker, who is almost always abused and is usually never paid what the employer is claiming to the government that they are, and American IT workers, who have to compete with unfair competition in the form of what amounts to indentured servitude, a form of slave labor.
Hamas runs several orphanages and public welfare organizations. They accept donations, as do many humanitarian agencies do.
If the KKK and the Nazi Party of Illinois were to open orphanages and soup kitchens, would that excuse their racist and violent past and present?
No. Hamas is a terrorist organization that murders people and deserve to be universally shunned by all good people just like the KKK and nazis.
I use Adblock and Flashblock on Firefox. I don't get spyware on my PC. Adblock Plus is probably the single best malware prevention tool there is.
Until the advertising engines (Google included) starts taking responsibility for screening what is going into their ad networks to make sure there is no malware, the responsible system admin SHOULD be blocking their ad servers from their networks.
It seems that all the worst things in the movies "Demolition Man" and "Minority Report" are coming true, aren't they?
Troll moderation. Funny. Slashdot is still full of "hope and change". Fortunately the winds no longer are.
Political disagreement is not a valid reason for negative moderation.
You honestly believe that Obama is actively working towards making the United States weaker? Put down the Tea Party(TM) brand leaves, and try to have a single rational thought.
Seriously.
Let's see... He's so far not met a dictator he won't bow to, he's not met an ally of ours that he won't diss, he'll have his picture taken with anyone except the Dali Lama or the PM of Israel, and is being called a wuss by... the President of France?!! He has caused damage to our relationships with allies like the UK and Israel that may NEVER be healed.
Oh, and he just agreed to a treaty that FORBIDS us to modernize our weapons technology, and has canceled the missile shield for Eastern Europe.
In short, Obama has thus far been a menace to our allies, and has given aid and comfort to states that could be considered our enemies.
Unless someone FORCED him to do all that, I'd call that weakening America on purpose, because it sure isn't making us any stronger.
Why is it that Obama can find hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on a health care boondogle, to buy General Motors, Chrysler, and bail out banks, but won't spend 20 billion on NASA? NASA, unlike any appendage of the government other than the military, actually gives a RETURN on investment.
Strong countries have space programs. As of later this year or early next year, the US will have less of one than some third world countries. Is that strength? Let that sink in.
This will diminish America's technological superiority and our lead in spaceflight. However, I believe that in the case of Obama, that he WANTS to diminish our leadership. He has shown nothing but contempt for our allies since getting into office and constantly bows (literally) to our enemies. I honestly believe that we have a President who does not like this country.
Given that almost everything in the technology industry came directly or indirectly as a result of NASA and the space program, it's value is obvious. Most of us who read Slashdot owe the effort that went into the Apollo program for our jobs. The microprocessor, for example, was invented by Intel FOR the space program.
A full blown effort to return to the moon, to stay there permanently, and to push on to Mars would greatly benefit not only the United States but the world, not necessarily for the achievement, but because of the gigantic leap in technological advancement that would be necessitated by the effort. Deciding not to do this, especially after years wasted on starting it, is one of the worst decisions the President could make.
Kind of ironic, given how this Presidency has been going, that by the end of his first (and hopefully only) term America will lack any operating means to put a man into space on it's own, just like the Carter years. But it will be even worse than it was in the late `70's, while Apollo was retired for good in 1976, at least the Shuttle was in the process of being built and implemented. With the cancellation of Constellation, we will be retiring the shuttle by next year, WITHOUT A REPLACEMENT EVEN ON THE DRAWING BOARD!
And to those who say "cancel the space program, we have hungry people here on Earth". Want to feed those people? Develop and advance our technology. Technological advancement will solve ALL problems, from hunger, to pollution, to poverty. But it needs a focus, technology that will aid in all those problems WILL be developed along the way as an ancillary to the space program. Technology that would allow food to be raised on the Moon or Mars, for example, could be applied to growing food in arid or desert regions, just to cite one example. Not to mention all the increased job opportunities that will come from the inventions that will arise. A job is the best anti-hunger program ever invented.
You think we can send a probe an average of 1/10th C, including acceleration and slowdown?
Theoretically possible using a nuclear power source and ion propulsion. Probably would be decades before we could practically do it, but the idea isn't outside the realm of possibility starting with existing technology...
It'd be a lot easier though to try this with Alpha Centauri though. It's only 4 light years away, not 10.
This is an interesting find though. Given the lack of planets or sign of the remnants of the formation of a star/planetary system I'd say this thing is definitely a rogue, that formed in another planetary system that was ejected by gravity. Brown dwarfs actually are able to do deuterium (lower mass ones) and even lithium fusion (higher mass ones) for a short period of time (100MY or so for the fuel to run out) but this one may be too small to have done either.
We certainly are going to discover a lot more of these as we get better and better instruments. They are likely very common, and we are likely to see the discovery of tons more brown dwarfs and very low mass red dwarfs in the coming decades. What is fascinating would be to know exactly where the line is between a very low mass red dwarf that can initiate and sustain core hydrogen fusion and a brown dwarf that either never starts core hydrogen fusion or cannot sustain it.
This was not 'lobbying the judicial branch.' I fact, there is no such thing. The judicial branch does not write the laws, you can not and should not lobby them to change anything. They can't. If you have something to say about an ongoing trial, file an amicus curiae brief. That is the only lawful channel for a third party to influence a trial.
Then why does the first amendment not specify that it doesn't apply to the judiciary?
If the people who wrote it meant that they would have said that.
No one in the Federal government is supposed to be above the Constitution. Not even our Imperial Judiciary. Frankly, things in this country (including the legal system) started to go to hell when people started looking to the courts to make law instead of legislators. This greatly increased the power of judges and politicized them. The unelected branch of government is only supposed to be a referee, not make executive decisions or legislate. Yet they have been doing more and more of this for the last 40 years.
Because people I've never met annoy the judge?
Annoying a judge isn't a crime. No one has a right to not be annoyed.
Violating people's Constitutional Rights while being part of the Federal Government, even a judge, is and frankly they should start going to jail for it.
The Constitution specifically protects the right to petition your government. It does not specify any restrictions. It doesn't exempt the judiciary. Don't want to be petitioned? Easily taken care of, resign from government.
Doing this sort of thing might be rude, but it's not illegal. Being part of the government means that you don't have the same standing as a member of the general public with respect to shielding yourself from contact.
And a contempt citation/jail is certainly an abuse of power by this judge. But it is an indication of how members of the judiciary view themselves, as above reproach. They are unelected, they serve for life. This contempt citation should be overturned because the judge has no authority to cite anyone for behavior not done in his courtroom, or in violation of one of his orders.
Frankly, I think the whole concept of contempt of court, as being able to be absolutely applied by one person with absolute authority is something that should be outlawed. No one should be able to be sentenced to jail without due process of being charged, tried by jury, and convicted.
Publishers who think they have to DRM things to death or the PC market isn't "worth it" who also think that the console market is "piracy" free nirvana (it isn't) should simply leave the PC gaming industry.
Chances are, they are making crap games that are just half-assed console ports, or trying to shove radical schemes (Ubisoft's constant phone home system) down people's throats. Companies that do either should EXPECT TO FAIL, and "piracy" has nothing to do with it.
If these companies leave the market that just makes new room for the next Bioware or similar company to rise. I note that even EA, the 600 pound gorilla has been mostly abandoning DRM of late, first sign of intelligent thought from that company in over 10 years.
The PC gaming industry will never die. The platform is too large, and it is the only platform that is actually open to independent publishers, since you don't have to pay a "Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft tax" just to access the platform. That, coupled with faster and faster internet connections and the rise of digital distribution (I buy all my games this way now) there is more opportunity than ever for competition.
This, I suspect, is why certain publishers actually WISH the PC would die. On the PC anyone who wants to can compete with them. On the consoles, access is restricted in a RIAA/MPAA fashion. I would say that the console publishers are actually the ones clinging to a dying business model, not the PC...
Then we should start blocking the ad networks from our networks.
If lots of people started doing that, I wonder how quick Google, Yahoo, et all would start screening advertisers for malware?
I started with the Atari 2600, but did most of my childhood gaming on the Commodore VIC-20 and 64. Didn't hurt my learning any, and probably helped it, given my love for text adventures like Zork, et all.
by gandhi_2 (1108023) writes: Alter Relationship on Thursday March 04, @04:40PM (#31363152) Homepage
plant some weed in his desk and call the cops anon.
ROFL. That would certainly be one way to do it, BOFH style.
Still though, if some punk is allowed to get away with slowing productivity because they aren't willing to listen to reason because of who they are related to, sounds to me like this is a company you want to get the hell away from as soon as possible.
Hint: If nepotism is this bad, it will only get worse, when "mr know it all" (and not you) are eventually made the boss when the owner retires and immediately runs the place into the ground.
Disable file shares on workstations. Use a file server.
This. We use Windows servers, but for designers and other people who store important files on their local machine rather than the server, after several hard drive crashes that proved they were disobeying the directive to not do this, we now employ folder redirection. How this works is that in our domain policy, certain folders (such as My Documents) and files (Outlook PST's) are actually stored on the file server, even though it appears to be "local" to the user. We also use the offline files feature and file synchronization in the case of notebook users so that they may have access to the files when not on our LAN.
I'm sure there is some equivalent way to do this on a Mac.
No, what the video is saying is NEVER talk to the police, even with a lawyer present. It will NEVER help your defense and it will only hurt you. If you watch the whole thing you will understand why and how they can trick you and use your own words to incriminate you even though you feel you're just helping them. Things you say can and will be used AGAINST you, but never to aid your defense. Obviously the 5th Amendment doesn't apply outside the USA though.
Exactly. Talking to the police won't gain you anything and can ONLY harm you. They are out to hang someone, not to find out the facts. Even if they did want to do thorough investigations, they don't have the TIME to do so. And even if they did, there is no incentive, they are evaluated based on how many perps they hang, not how many innocent they clear.
This is a sterling example as to why. You never deal with them without an attorney, and you never give up anything like a DNA sample consensually.
For the life of me I never have understood why people have willingly accepted a system where it is a crime for a citizen to lie to the government, but the government lying to citizens is accepted as routine.
This sort of behavior not only discourages co-operation with the police, it pretty much MANDATES it. This is why police associations themselves should be against this sort of thing, in the end it's going to make their jobs even harder.