Had a client about 15 years ago that needed a "firewall" for their cable modem, I told them to dig a computer out of the trash and we'd turn it into a Linux firewall. A couple of years later the hard drive died and it was barfing errors on the console. They were able to run it for another 6+ months by making sure it was never rebooted.
It doesn't matter how long ago it was. They where sentenced as Microsoft and they still are Microsoft. Microsoft has shown that they are willing to break to law. As an example is the case Microsoft against Sun for the Java runtime that shows that they are prepared to use any illegal tactic to destroy the competition, especially famous is their Embrace, extend and extinguish tactic. So given the history of they company it is no surprise that people have reservations about any "open source" project they have and if this Chakra project becomes successful I think we don't have to wait to long before the extend and extinguish part comes along.
They released the code under an MIT license. If you don't like the direction they're going with it fork it and maintain it yourself. This isn't the old days (the 90s) when they would make a bastardized version of something and attempt to dominate the market with it (look at their Kerberos implementation for one of the last examples of this).
I'm always wary of Microsoft and I don't really use their software, but the reality is when they release code under an open source license they're doing the right thing for the right reasons. It's a huge company which can do many things at the same time. Also, I believe the past "issues" were due to Gates and Ballmer, neither of whom is in the company now.
State employee? I are one. And my salary is available via public information request. In fact, a few years ago our IT department had to provide a dump of name, position, and salary to a local newspaper which promptly posted it on their website, searchable, sortable, etc.
My only "day job" was working for the state of Indiana, at Indiana University. Each year someone would publish a list of all employees with salaries. I have a really good memory, so my salary negotiation each year was "so and so is incompetent and they're making $x, plus that represents an increase of $y over the year before that. Also, so and so always comes to me for help and he's been here 15 years and makes $z". I felt bad for my boss, as there was simply no refutation.
She told me when I quit after four years that my salary increase during my four years there was the largest percentage increase in the department in that time period. I didn't run the numbers but I believe her.
You are wrong, it is tied to federal funding and this method is legal. States are free not to follow the law, but they risk federal dollars. Furthermore, the language of the Act specifically states it doesn't supersede the state or local laws regarding the right of children to travel to and from school.
LOL. You're so, so close, and yet, so far.
The federal government has no authority to "fund" local education, or any education for that matter.
I agree that Snowden was a traitor. (not for revealing the NSA collecting on citizens, that was whistleblowing. He crossed the traitor line when he dumped other documents such as the collection efforts on other nations. That was the treason.
That said Rubio is flat wrong, and is a dangerous candidate because he is for more invasion of privacy. We don't need more surveillance. We need more freedom.
Where Rubio is wrong is in this: the best way to stop another Snowden is to *listen to him* when he goes to his higher-ups and tries to blow the whistle.
Snowden did the right thing first, and, as usually happens in government, they circled the wagons. At that point he went rogue.
That's how we did it back in the olden days around here. This was a fun day when Microsoft let passport.com expire, luckily some slashdoter renewed it for them.
That is a good question. But it's irrelevant, in that we've already seen examples of email she kept on her server that DID have born-classified payloads at the time she received it. Never mind that she let her personally employed foundation subordinates sift through it later, or that she put copies of it on thumb drives for her not-cleared lawyer to also keep in his own offices. Truly, any other person would be out of a job and looking for an easy-going thing to confess to, months or years ago.
Technically, she is out of a job, but that doesn't matter when foreign governments and rich people give you millions of dollars.
Exactly. I've held a Secret clearance for 38 years, and the rules covering this sort of thing are very clear. The penalties include a huge fine and very serious federal prison time.
Yeah, for you. Too bad your last name isn't "Clinton", eh?
At the same time, your story really emphasizes what I believe is the central reality to programming: those who are good at it are mostly self-taught or can be self-taught. Put another way, the kids who didn't learn from the priest weren't going to learn anyway, and you learned it without someone like that helping you.
My wife is an RN. She said that when she was in university in the late 1980s she was considering either IT or nursing, both of which were tickets to America. She thankfully chose nursing or I wouldn't know her. She simply doesn't have a programmer brain - for lack of a better description - and wouldn't have made it through university in that track.
The older I get, the more I'm convinced that programming is something that you either get or you don't get. If you get it, you need little help to learn it. If you don't get it there's no class that's going to make you get it. There's a reason when programmers get together we're all so similar in so many ways. I don't see that when my wife's nurse friends all get together.
They have no students. They operate no schools. They piss away billions of dollars and damage education by imposing bullshit federal regulations on local schools.
-jcr
Not only that, it's a federal agency that clearly and unquestionably falls outside the Constitutional (read: legal) boundaries of the federal government. The DoE was established in the late 1970s, so it's not even been around that long. Shutting it down would do a lot of good and would be a good start toward returning the federal government to a more legal size.
Not just the USA. My partner is Australia is a Science teacher. She has a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma in education, but is criticised by idiots for not instead having a Bachelor of Education without any formal training in the subjects she's supposed to teach.
That is becoming the norm. Idiots who "know how to teach" but don't actually "know what they teach".
Around here, they also get a pay raise for getting advanced degrees. Every single one that I've seen go all the way to getting a doctorate get an EdD rather than a degree in whatever field they're teaching. My kids have had some good teachers but I simply haven't seen any correlation between quality of teaching and higher "education" degrees held by the teacher. Thanks to the unions, though, that's the only way to make more money other than getting older.
the feds want more of that portion. locals get less.
That'll put an end to it. The locals are the ones collecting the money, and many states have removed their own civil forfeiture laws leaving LEOs [sic] to go through the feds to get the money. When it quits paying they'll stop as it's not worth the effort.
...the administration had just launched its Healthcare.gov website, and after the infamous technical failures, nobody wanted the visual of website failing while the President is learning to code.
So, I'm really confused about this. My left-wing friends on facebook all assured us (repeatedly) that healthcare.gov was working just fine and it was just a right-wing conspiracy theory that there were any problems. Was there actually a technical failure? Surely not.
I don't know, I think it's ideological nuttery to be honest, the same sort you see exhibited in the very first post to this article (which may or may not be a spoof, but it's a common viewpoint.) "The free market can always do better" they argue, even when presented with systems that exist purely because the free market isn't even bothering to participate.
The free market *can't* participate because of the presence of very heavy regulation.
You're confused. Labels typically own the master recordings (because they pay for them - that's part of what a label does), but the copyright on the composition remains the property of the writer(s). They might use a publisher in order to publish the composition, but that doesn't negate or diminish their copyright.
Label deals are usually terrible and one-sided, but they also give the artist exposure that's difficult to come by (and impossible to come by pre-internet) otherwise. The artists are left to make their money with live shows which can be very lucrative. Weird Al Yankovich has an excellent write up from a few years ago on this topic, look it up.
Are you truly so ignorant as to not be able to make the connection between the Keystone pipeline and climate change? The keystone pipeline represents a massive investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, at a time when it has become blatantly obvious that the US needs to instead invest in alternate clean energy technology. If the US is to continue to be a leader in technological progress they - as Obama right decided - need to take a bold stand against the entrenched Oil and Coal lobby and reinvest in new energy sources. Does it cost more in the short term? Yes. No matter what, there is going to be a painful and expensive period where we transition away from fossil fuels, but that process has already begun to happen, albeit slowly.
No, it hasn't. Energy use is expanding and will for the foreseeable future, particularly abroad. Moving to electric cars simply means we burn coal instead of oil.
It doesn't have to be that way. If lunatic leftists would quit getting in the way of nuclear power we could have clean, dependable energy.
Not that I agree or disagree, but I've heard this argument advanced: by building a pipeline, you increase overall production cost efficiency; the supply and demand curve meet at a lower pricepoint, and oil is consumed at a higher rate.
The rate doesn't really matter. The looney left needs to come to grips with the fact that every drop of oil that humans can find is going to be dug up and either burned or turned into something else. Every lump of coal that humans can find is going to be dug up and burned. This is reality. Trying to delay it isn't going to do anything except harm economies in the short term.
But, then, the actual point is heavier regulation, so I guess it works out for them.
You think servants will be punished for obeying their masters, plus, in many cases, making their masters richer? If the wealthy and powerful started that, they'd have to fight the pitchfork-wielding townsfolk themselves. Never gonna happen.
Bullshit. Not only has it happened, it was such a stupid defense that we gave it a sarcastic name, the "Nuremberg Defense". 70 years ago we (our civilization) listened to people all day long whine "I was only following orders" and they'd be hanging the next morning.
Something rotten has happened since then in our culture, and we will pay heavily for it.
Slashdot Mirror
Had a client about 15 years ago that needed a "firewall" for their cable modem, I told them to dig a computer out of the trash and we'd turn it into a Linux firewall. A couple of years later the hard drive died and it was barfing errors on the console. They were able to run it for another 6+ months by making sure it was never rebooted.
It doesn't matter how long ago it was. They where sentenced as Microsoft and they still are Microsoft. Microsoft has shown that they are willing to break to law. As an example is the case Microsoft against Sun for the Java runtime that shows that they are prepared to use any illegal tactic to destroy the competition, especially famous is their Embrace, extend and extinguish tactic. So given the history of they company it is no surprise that people have reservations about any "open source" project they have and if this Chakra project becomes successful I think we don't have to wait to long before the extend and extinguish part comes along.
They released the code under an MIT license. If you don't like the direction they're going with it fork it and maintain it yourself. This isn't the old days (the 90s) when they would make a bastardized version of something and attempt to dominate the market with it (look at their Kerberos implementation for one of the last examples of this).
I'm always wary of Microsoft and I don't really use their software, but the reality is when they release code under an open source license they're doing the right thing for the right reasons. It's a huge company which can do many things at the same time. Also, I believe the past "issues" were due to Gates and Ballmer, neither of whom is in the company now.
Al Gore will be happy!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_...
State employee? I are one. And my salary is available via public information request. In fact, a few years ago our IT department had to provide a dump of name, position, and salary to a local newspaper which promptly posted it on their website, searchable, sortable, etc.
My only "day job" was working for the state of Indiana, at Indiana University. Each year someone would publish a list of all employees with salaries. I have a really good memory, so my salary negotiation each year was "so and so is incompetent and they're making $x, plus that represents an increase of $y over the year before that. Also, so and so always comes to me for help and he's been here 15 years and makes $z". I felt bad for my boss, as there was simply no refutation.
She told me when I quit after four years that my salary increase during my four years there was the largest percentage increase in the department in that time period. I didn't run the numbers but I believe her.
"New York Assemblyman Matthew Titone"
Let's see, no "R", "Republican", etc., so I guess we know which one it is.
You are wrong, it is tied to federal funding and this method is legal. States are free not to follow the law, but they risk federal dollars. Furthermore, the language of the Act specifically states it doesn't supersede the state or local laws regarding the right of children to travel to and from school.
LOL. You're so, so close, and yet, so far.
The federal government has no authority to "fund" local education, or any education for that matter.
So, sorry, still illegal.
The utter irony is that the federal government has no legal basis for making a law like this.
Everyone knows that Asians don't make good drivers.
My wife isn't a particularly bad driver, but she still prefers that I drive while she "helps" from the passenger seat.
I agree that Snowden was a traitor. (not for revealing the NSA collecting on citizens, that was whistleblowing. He crossed the traitor line when he dumped other documents such as the collection efforts on other nations. That was the treason.
That said Rubio is flat wrong, and is a dangerous candidate because he is for more invasion of privacy. We don't need more surveillance. We need more freedom.
Where Rubio is wrong is in this: the best way to stop another Snowden is to *listen to him* when he goes to his higher-ups and tries to blow the whistle.
Snowden did the right thing first, and, as usually happens in government, they circled the wagons. At that point he went rogue.
That's how we did it back in the olden days around here.
This was a fun day when Microsoft let passport.com expire, luckily some slashdoter renewed it for them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140921073357/http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/25/114201_F.shtml#40
Yeah, I'm standing by just in case.
That is a good question. But it's irrelevant, in that we've already seen examples of email she kept on her server that DID have born-classified payloads at the time she received it. Never mind that she let her personally employed foundation subordinates sift through it later, or that she put copies of it on thumb drives for her not-cleared lawyer to also keep in his own offices. Truly, any other person would be out of a job and looking for an easy-going thing to confess to, months or years ago.
Technically, she is out of a job, but that doesn't matter when foreign governments and rich people give you millions of dollars.
Exactly. I've held a Secret clearance for 38 years, and the rules covering this sort of thing are very clear. The penalties include a huge fine and very serious federal prison time.
Yeah, for you. Too bad your last name isn't "Clinton", eh?
At the same time, your story really emphasizes what I believe is the central reality to programming: those who are good at it are mostly self-taught or can be self-taught. Put another way, the kids who didn't learn from the priest weren't going to learn anyway, and you learned it without someone like that helping you.
My wife is an RN. She said that when she was in university in the late 1980s she was considering either IT or nursing, both of which were tickets to America. She thankfully chose nursing or I wouldn't know her. She simply doesn't have a programmer brain - for lack of a better description - and wouldn't have made it through university in that track.
The older I get, the more I'm convinced that programming is something that you either get or you don't get. If you get it, you need little help to learn it. If you don't get it there's no class that's going to make you get it. There's a reason when programmers get together we're all so similar in so many ways. I don't see that when my wife's nurse friends all get together.
They have no students. They operate no schools. They piss away billions of dollars and damage education by imposing bullshit federal regulations on local schools.
-jcr
Not only that, it's a federal agency that clearly and unquestionably falls outside the Constitutional (read: legal) boundaries of the federal government. The DoE was established in the late 1970s, so it's not even been around that long. Shutting it down would do a lot of good and would be a good start toward returning the federal government to a more legal size.
Not just the USA. My partner is Australia is a Science teacher. She has a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma in education, but is criticised by idiots for not instead having a Bachelor of Education without any formal training in the subjects she's supposed to teach.
That is becoming the norm. Idiots who "know how to teach" but don't actually "know what they teach".
Around here, they also get a pay raise for getting advanced degrees. Every single one that I've seen go all the way to getting a doctorate get an EdD rather than a degree in whatever field they're teaching. My kids have had some good teachers but I simply haven't seen any correlation between quality of teaching and higher "education" degrees held by the teacher. Thanks to the unions, though, that's the only way to make more money other than getting older.
the feds want more of that portion. locals get less.
That'll put an end to it. The locals are the ones collecting the money, and many states have removed their own civil forfeiture laws leaving LEOs [sic] to go through the feds to get the money. When it quits paying they'll stop as it's not worth the effort.
You mean the expanding ice sheets in Antarctica ?
https://www.nasa.gov/content/g...
DENIER!!!!!!
So, I'm really confused about this. My left-wing friends on facebook all assured us (repeatedly) that healthcare.gov was working just fine and it was just a right-wing conspiracy theory that there were any problems. Was there actually a technical failure? Surely not.
Because corporations are people too? ;-)
I don't know, I think it's ideological nuttery to be honest, the same sort you see exhibited in the very first post to this article (which may or may not be a spoof, but it's a common viewpoint.) "The free market can always do better" they argue, even when presented with systems that exist purely because the free market isn't even bothering to participate.
The free market *can't* participate because of the presence of very heavy regulation.
In Australia, the face mites try to kill you.
Wrong. In Australia they're docile and vegetarian - that's why they're known as vegemites.
You're confused. Labels typically own the master recordings (because they pay for them - that's part of what a label does), but the copyright on the composition remains the property of the writer(s). They might use a publisher in order to publish the composition, but that doesn't negate or diminish their copyright.
Label deals are usually terrible and one-sided, but they also give the artist exposure that's difficult to come by (and impossible to come by pre-internet) otherwise. The artists are left to make their money with live shows which can be very lucrative. Weird Al Yankovich has an excellent write up from a few years ago on this topic, look it up.
Whenever my WiFi goes down I feel sad and depressed.
Yeah, you need to save some porn to your hard drive to get you through those times.
Are you truly so ignorant as to not be able to make the connection between the Keystone pipeline and climate change? The keystone pipeline represents a massive investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, at a time when it has become blatantly obvious that the US needs to instead invest in alternate clean energy technology. If the US is to continue to be a leader in technological progress they - as Obama right decided - need to take a bold stand against the entrenched Oil and Coal lobby and reinvest in new energy sources. Does it cost more in the short term? Yes. No matter what, there is going to be a painful and expensive period where we transition away from fossil fuels, but that process has already begun to happen, albeit slowly.
No, it hasn't. Energy use is expanding and will for the foreseeable future, particularly abroad. Moving to electric cars simply means we burn coal instead of oil.
It doesn't have to be that way. If lunatic leftists would quit getting in the way of nuclear power we could have clean, dependable energy.
Not that I agree or disagree, but I've heard this argument advanced: by building a pipeline, you increase overall production cost efficiency; the supply and demand curve meet at a lower pricepoint, and oil is consumed at a higher rate.
The rate doesn't really matter. The looney left needs to come to grips with the fact that every drop of oil that humans can find is going to be dug up and either burned or turned into something else. Every lump of coal that humans can find is going to be dug up and burned. This is reality. Trying to delay it isn't going to do anything except harm economies in the short term.
But, then, the actual point is heavier regulation, so I guess it works out for them.
You think servants will be punished for obeying their masters, plus, in many cases, making their masters richer? If the wealthy and powerful started that, they'd have to fight the pitchfork-wielding townsfolk themselves. Never gonna happen.
Bullshit. Not only has it happened, it was such a stupid defense that we gave it a sarcastic name, the "Nuremberg Defense". 70 years ago we (our civilization) listened to people all day long whine "I was only following orders" and they'd be hanging the next morning.
Something rotten has happened since then in our culture, and we will pay heavily for it.