Apparently the hacker, in his own words, didn't actually find anything interesting. Nor did they download the emails before handing off the password to the account to/b/tards. Amateur hour on the internet.
Palin was a trap that the Democrats walked into. There are many substantive policy issues upon which one could attack Palin, instead she was attacked personally and her family was made the center of attention. Within a week, Obama's poll numbers took a nosedive and McCain led in both national polls and electoral vote count. The Guardiancommentary summarized it nicely:
[I]nstead of protecting their precious advantage, they succumbed to a spasm of hatred and threw the vase, the crockery, the cutlery and the kitchen sink at an obscure politician from Alaska.
Two weeks ago an Obama volunteer who knew from class came up to me and gave me that well-tread talking point about Palin's lack of experience, and the hilarious "heartbeat away from the presidency" cliche.
The bottom line is that both Obama and Palin have been at their presidency-qualifying jobs (Senator & Governor) for less than four years. Obama having two years on Palin is insignificant compared to the experience that McCain and Biden have: 25 years and 35 years in Congress, respectively.
It's also insignificant compared to the experience that our three youngest presidents--TR, Jack Kennedy and William Jefferson Clinton--had before assuming the presidency. TR had already been Asst. Sec. of the Navy, Governor of New York, and Vice President. Jack Kennedy was in the House and Senate for a combined 13 years. And William Jefferson Clinton was Governor of Arkansas for 14 years.
The major difference between Obama and Palin, in terms of experience and bracketing their policy differences, is that the former is running for the presidency, whereas the latter will only assume the presidency if McCain keels over. The big threat the democrats keep speculating about is how inexperienced Palin will be if she is called up to the presidency, schizophrenically trying to ignore that by voting for Obama they're guaranteeing someone with an inexcusable dearth of experience will be the president. Doublethink. On experience alone, neither Obama or Palin should be in the race, both are bad choices (again leaving aside their policy positions and "vision").
What's so unbelievably hypocritical on the Democratic side of things was their opposition to Hillary's "experience experience experience" propaganda that she used against Obama. Now they're turning around and reproducing the same failed strategy by doing exactly what Hillary did, giving lie to their protestations that experience wasn't the most important thing when defending Obama against Hillary's OMGTHREEINTHEMORNINGPHONECALL attacks.
There are significant substantive problems with Palin. Instead Democrats emphasized their own weaknesses in attacking Palin. Dumb.
With the advent of Firefox 3's AwesomeBar, a lot of people have been complaining about its functionality of returning items in one's history that you would rather other people (Average Jane) from seeing (i.e. porn).
An extension similar to AdBlock Plus, using regular expressions and block lists, could solve this problem passively and efficiently. The extension would use a block list of known porn sites and "adult" strings, and would prevent results matching anything in the block list from appearing in the results returned by the AwesomeBar. Does anyone know if Google exposes an API for SafeSearch filtering?
An additional option could be included that prevents "private info" (browsing history, search and form history, cache, cookies, downloads, etc) from being saved to the user's profile if it matched anything on the block list. This would be a passive solution to preemptively clearing one's tracks. Such a solution would be superior to non-passive methods, such as 1) turning on and turning off a "private browsing mode" like Safari features, or 2) using Firefox's "clear private data..." menu option which destructively nukes both adult and normal browsing history.
A whitelist could also be employed to allow certain sites that trigger the block list but that do not have adult content on them.
You need to learn the bible for insight into much of western thought
This much is 100% true. Especially if you want to understand the English language, must absolutely must read the King James version of the Bible along with the collected works of Shakespeare. This is the only way to understand where our language, idiom, metaphor, and thought came from. (Those of you who want to be thorough will probably want to include Chaucer's Canterbury Tales).
I agree with Thurrott's points. This is a 'me too' release, and it does feature the annoying parent-company tie-ins that are such a turn-off in Microsoft products. We can expect that because it's beta (it's obviously going to be beta for a while, since this is Google we're talking about), that the current feature-set is not going to be the browser's end-all-be-all. For a 1.0 (or beta as the case may be) release, this is not a bad feature set.
What will be interesting is what will happen to the browser as the Google employees 'dog food' it. As a platform for new features, Chrome doesn't look so bad. And I'm sure that Google can deliver new features at just the same pace that Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, and Opera can. That's not a bad thing. It just doesn't deliver anything new yet.
NOBODY expects the Google Inquisition! Amongst its weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to not being evil, and nice colorful logos - Oh damn!
Nooooobody expects the Google Inquisition. Its chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Its two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Its *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to not being evil.... Its *four*...no... *Amongst* its weapons.... Amongst its weaponry...are such diverse elements as fear, surprise.... I'll comment again.
Based on Page 4, Google is designing the browser as if it were an operating system. This is something that I commented on previously in the discussion of Microsoft's approach to IE8. Going from shared memory to protected memory was a big step for multitasking on the desktop, and since web applications are more and more complex, the same move needs to be made with browser design.
If IE8 and "Google Chrome" are moving in this direction, what will we see from Safari and Firefox? Safari 4 betas give no indication of a fundamental re-architecting. Firefox 4 is still at least a year away, and so far no one in that community has been publicly talking about this kind of redesign. And Opera... who knows?
If not, it means Google will be paying for two competitors to Internet Explorer. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft complains about unfair competition.
Yes, but Google isn't ostensibly paying Mozilla just to fund Firefox as a competitor to IE. They are paying for the Google search box, driving lots of hits from Firefox users to Google. Sure, we all know that Firefox would have the Google search box regardless of whether Google paid them or not, since it's what most users want, and we know that Google in reality is giving money to Mozilla in order to keep it a strong and viable competitor to IE, but they do have the cover of a legitimate business transaction of services rendered. Microsoft will complain regardless.
I think this is one of the most exciting features, on a purely geeky level. I can't profess to know how Microsoft engineered this, but it reminds me of the move that operating systems made to protected memory. We used to have to deal with situations in which one application's crash would take down the entire operating system and all other applications with it (Mac OS 9, I'm looking at you).
Now that the web browser metaphor has changed from "windows reading static documents" to "tabbed window with multiple web applications," the similarity to an operating system has become much clearer. A crash in one tab (application) can take down the entire browser (operating system). IE8 seems to be moving toward a protected memory model, which is a major step forward in rethinking how the browser's handling of web pages (i.e. web applications) is engineered.
I'm a Mac user and Firefox user, but I have to give credit where credit is due and say that, on the technical side of things, Microsoft is the one pushing the envelope on this score and getting the geeky things right.
Until climatologists can come up with a model that'll accurately predict weather for a given region during a given month, at least six months out...
This is fallacious thinking. Determining causal or explanatory relationships for micro level phenomena is not necessary for explaining macro level phenomena. Knowing the microfoundations may be useful, but system effects derived from aggregate structures do not need microfoundations. In fact, searching for a linear relationship between microfoundations and macro structures may do more to mislead than to elucidate. For more information, pick up a copy of Robert Jervis's System Effects or just about any book on 'chaos theory.'
Nota bene: please don't confuse this post with a defense of anthropogenic global warming, my issue is your methodological assumptions.
I think the idea might be to get a first mover advantage on IE. If the IE installed base gets this plugin and gets used to the behavior, Microsoft will find it harder to do their usual trick of implementation-but-not-quite. People who have this plugin will be upset if Microsoft releases a new version of IE that breaks the Canvas behavior that they've become used to. A wide deployment of the plugin (perhaps through Adobe as the article speculates) might create just enough perceived path-dependence that Microsoft won't go out of its way to break the Canvas standard with a proprietary implementation.
China did have a republic on the Mainland for a very short period of time. The Revolution of 1911 overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China in 1912. It was based on the political theory promulgated by Sun Yat-sen and its first elected president was Yuan Shikai. Unfortunately, it only really existed for a handful of years until 1915 when Yuan declared himself emperor. After that the ROC descended into a period of warlordism.
It was only in the late 1930's that Chiang Kai-shek came close to reconquering the entirety of China from the warlords (and almost consolidating power while wiping out Mao's communists). Unfortunately, Japan began its invasion of China proper (they had already occupied and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo some years earlier) in 1937. The war against the Japanese prevented Chiang from consolidating China into a republic and eventually gave Mao's communists the opportunity they needed to engage in their own state-building campaign.
Mao was more successful at state-building than Chiang who was perceived as corrupt, and Chiang was eventually driven off the Mainland to Taiwan. And that is where the Republic of China ended up. It only really became democratic in the 90's under Lee Teng-hui and the transition to the first opposition party president Chen Shui-bian in 2000.
In the interests of historical accuracy: the funding, training, and arming of mujahedeen was begun under Carter (not Reagan), six months before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. >>source
In my experience (which was the reverse, trying to get an internship in the UK as an American citizen), unless you have an indefinite work visa for the country you are applying for, then forget it. Companies take on interns in order to scout out potential future employees. They are investing in you. Unless you are guaranteed to be able to work for them in the future, there's no reason to choose to invest in you rather than in one of the other dozens of applicants that can work for them in the future without visa hassles.
South Ossetia is not a sovereign nation, de facto or otherwise. It's recognized by no one, not even Russia. It's a province of Georgia with a separatist militia operating. Georgia has every right to put down an internal insurgency, Russia has no right to invade another nation.
This would be like if the United States invaded Russia in 1999 after Putin ordered the army in to put down Maskhadov's separatist forces. Chechnya was de facto sovereign by your standards, having signed a peace treaty with Yeltsin after the first Chechen War.
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It wasn't the password, it was one of several questions on Yahoo's password recovery questionnaire.
Apparently the hacker, in his own words, didn't actually find anything interesting. Nor did they download the emails before handing off the password to the account to /b/tards. Amateur hour on the internet.
Palin was a trap that the Democrats walked into. There are many substantive policy issues upon which one could attack Palin, instead she was attacked personally and her family was made the center of attention. Within a week, Obama's poll numbers took a nosedive and McCain led in both national polls and electoral vote count. The Guardian commentary summarized it nicely:
Two weeks ago an Obama volunteer who knew from class came up to me and gave me that well-tread talking point about Palin's lack of experience, and the hilarious "heartbeat away from the presidency" cliche.
The bottom line is that both Obama and Palin have been at their presidency-qualifying jobs (Senator & Governor) for less than four years. Obama having two years on Palin is insignificant compared to the experience that McCain and Biden have: 25 years and 35 years in Congress, respectively.
It's also insignificant compared to the experience that our three youngest presidents--TR, Jack Kennedy and William Jefferson Clinton--had before assuming the presidency. TR had already been Asst. Sec. of the Navy, Governor of New York, and Vice President. Jack Kennedy was in the House and Senate for a combined 13 years. And William Jefferson Clinton was Governor of Arkansas for 14 years.
The major difference between Obama and Palin, in terms of experience and bracketing their policy differences, is that the former is running for the presidency, whereas the latter will only assume the presidency if McCain keels over. The big threat the democrats keep speculating about is how inexperienced Palin will be if she is called up to the presidency, schizophrenically trying to ignore that by voting for Obama they're guaranteeing someone with an inexcusable dearth of experience will be the president. Doublethink. On experience alone, neither Obama or Palin should be in the race, both are bad choices (again leaving aside their policy positions and "vision").
What's so unbelievably hypocritical on the Democratic side of things was their opposition to Hillary's "experience experience experience" propaganda that she used against Obama. Now they're turning around and reproducing the same failed strategy by doing exactly what Hillary did, giving lie to their protestations that experience wasn't the most important thing when defending Obama against Hillary's OMGTHREEINTHEMORNINGPHONECALL attacks.
There are significant substantive problems with Palin. Instead Democrats emphasized their own weaknesses in attacking Palin. Dumb.
With the advent of Firefox 3's AwesomeBar, a lot of people have been complaining about its functionality of returning items in one's history that you would rather other people (Average Jane) from seeing (i.e. porn).
An extension similar to AdBlock Plus, using regular expressions and block lists, could solve this problem passively and efficiently. The extension would use a block list of known porn sites and "adult" strings, and would prevent results matching anything in the block list from appearing in the results returned by the AwesomeBar. Does anyone know if Google exposes an API for SafeSearch filtering?
An additional option could be included that prevents "private info" (browsing history, search and form history, cache, cookies, downloads, etc) from being saved to the user's profile if it matched anything on the block list. This would be a passive solution to preemptively clearing one's tracks. Such a solution would be superior to non-passive methods, such as 1) turning on and turning off a "private browsing mode" like Safari features, or 2) using Firefox's "clear private data..." menu option which destructively nukes both adult and normal browsing history.
A whitelist could also be employed to allow certain sites that trigger the block list but that do not have adult content on them.
This much is 100% true. Especially if you want to understand the English language, must absolutely must read the King James version of the Bible along with the collected works of Shakespeare. This is the only way to understand where our language, idiom, metaphor, and thought came from. (Those of you who want to be thorough will probably want to include Chaucer's Canterbury Tales).
Da red wunz go fasta!
We are so screwed.
I agree with Thurrott's points. This is a 'me too' release, and it does feature the annoying parent-company tie-ins that are such a turn-off in Microsoft products. We can expect that because it's beta (it's obviously going to be beta for a while, since this is Google we're talking about), that the current feature-set is not going to be the browser's end-all-be-all. For a 1.0 (or beta as the case may be) release, this is not a bad feature set.
What will be interesting is what will happen to the browser as the Google employees 'dog food' it. As a platform for new features, Chrome doesn't look so bad. And I'm sure that Google can deliver new features at just the same pace that Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, and Opera can. That's not a bad thing. It just doesn't deliver anything new yet.
NOBODY expects the Google Inquisition! Amongst its weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to not being evil, and nice colorful logos - Oh damn!
I can't say it - you'll have to say it.
Nooooobody expects the Google Inquisition. Its chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Its two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Its *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to not being evil.... Its *four*...no... *Amongst* its weapons.... Amongst its weaponry...are such diverse elements as fear, surprise.... I'll comment again.
Slashdot makes an appearance on Page 22 of the comic. I guess they know which side of the bread they're buttered on over at Google.
Ah! Look who shows up in the comic on Page 18--it's our old friend Ben Goodger from Netscape and Mozilla, former lead developer on Firefox.
Based on Page 4, Google is designing the browser as if it were an operating system. This is something that I commented on previously in the discussion of Microsoft's approach to IE8. Going from shared memory to protected memory was a big step for multitasking on the desktop, and since web applications are more and more complex, the same move needs to be made with browser design.
If IE8 and "Google Chrome" are moving in this direction, what will we see from Safari and Firefox? Safari 4 betas give no indication of a fundamental re-architecting. Firefox 4 is still at least a year away, and so far no one in that community has been publicly talking about this kind of redesign. And Opera... who knows?
Yes, but Google isn't ostensibly paying Mozilla just to fund Firefox as a competitor to IE. They are paying for the Google search box, driving lots of hits from Firefox users to Google. Sure, we all know that Firefox would have the Google search box regardless of whether Google paid them or not, since it's what most users want, and we know that Google in reality is giving money to Mozilla in order to keep it a strong and viable competitor to IE, but they do have the cover of a legitimate business transaction of services rendered. Microsoft will complain regardless.
It won't in the medium-term, because Google just extended its investment in Mozilla through 2011.
I think this is one of the most exciting features, on a purely geeky level. I can't profess to know how Microsoft engineered this, but it reminds me of the move that operating systems made to protected memory. We used to have to deal with situations in which one application's crash would take down the entire operating system and all other applications with it (Mac OS 9, I'm looking at you).
Now that the web browser metaphor has changed from "windows reading static documents" to "tabbed window with multiple web applications," the similarity to an operating system has become much clearer. A crash in one tab (application) can take down the entire browser (operating system). IE8 seems to be moving toward a protected memory model, which is a major step forward in rethinking how the browser's handling of web pages (i.e. web applications) is engineered.
I'm a Mac user and Firefox user, but I have to give credit where credit is due and say that, on the technical side of things, Microsoft is the one pushing the envelope on this score and getting the geeky things right.
IE (and Firefox for that matter) would never have happened without earlier versions of Netscape.
(We can do this reductio ad absurdum all afternoon, if you like.)
This is fallacious thinking. Determining causal or explanatory relationships for micro level phenomena is not necessary for explaining macro level phenomena. Knowing the microfoundations may be useful, but system effects derived from aggregate structures do not need microfoundations. In fact, searching for a linear relationship between microfoundations and macro structures may do more to mislead than to elucidate. For more information, pick up a copy of Robert Jervis's System Effects or just about any book on 'chaos theory.'
Nota bene: please don't confuse this post with a defense of anthropogenic global warming, my issue is your methodological assumptions.
I think the idea might be to get a first mover advantage on IE. If the IE installed base gets this plugin and gets used to the behavior, Microsoft will find it harder to do their usual trick of implementation-but-not-quite. People who have this plugin will be upset if Microsoft releases a new version of IE that breaks the Canvas behavior that they've become used to. A wide deployment of the plugin (perhaps through Adobe as the article speculates) might create just enough perceived path-dependence that Microsoft won't go out of its way to break the Canvas standard with a proprietary implementation.
China did have a republic on the Mainland for a very short period of time. The Revolution of 1911 overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China in 1912. It was based on the political theory promulgated by Sun Yat-sen and its first elected president was Yuan Shikai. Unfortunately, it only really existed for a handful of years until 1915 when Yuan declared himself emperor. After that the ROC descended into a period of warlordism.
It was only in the late 1930's that Chiang Kai-shek came close to reconquering the entirety of China from the warlords (and almost consolidating power while wiping out Mao's communists). Unfortunately, Japan began its invasion of China proper (they had already occupied and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo some years earlier) in 1937. The war against the Japanese prevented Chiang from consolidating China into a republic and eventually gave Mao's communists the opportunity they needed to engage in their own state-building campaign.
Mao was more successful at state-building than Chiang who was perceived as corrupt, and Chiang was eventually driven off the Mainland to Taiwan. And that is where the Republic of China ended up. It only really became democratic in the 90's under Lee Teng-hui and the transition to the first opposition party president Chen Shui-bian in 2000.
In the interests of historical accuracy: the funding, training, and arming of mujahedeen was begun under Carter (not Reagan), six months before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. >>source
In my experience (which was the reverse, trying to get an internship in the UK as an American citizen), unless you have an indefinite work visa for the country you are applying for, then forget it. Companies take on interns in order to scout out potential future employees. They are investing in you. Unless you are guaranteed to be able to work for them in the future, there's no reason to choose to invest in you rather than in one of the other dozens of applicants that can work for them in the future without visa hassles.
"Genocide" is a completely over-the-top description of what's going on. Attacking the Ossetian separatist militia does not constitute genocide.
I saw the same label being used by Russia Today cable news. Parroting Russian propaganda on /. is a new low.
South Ossetia is not a sovereign nation, de facto or otherwise. It's recognized by no one, not even Russia. It's a province of Georgia with a separatist militia operating. Georgia has every right to put down an internal insurgency, Russia has no right to invade another nation.
This would be like if the United States invaded Russia in 1999 after Putin ordered the army in to put down Maskhadov's separatist forces. Chechnya was de facto sovereign by your standards, having signed a peace treaty with Yeltsin after the first Chechen War.
The name you're looking for is Joseph Schumpeter, and the work is Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy .