The purpose of testing is to collect data about the system itself and how it operates in end user environments; this is collecting information about the end users themselves rather than just the machine.
I don't know how you even begin to build a machine or a system that responds properly to its users without studying its users "in the wild."
Blaming corporate culture is bullshit because most women from birth are told to not go into tech.
but who is telling girls not to go into tech and why?
corporate culture has been influencing curricula, teaching methods, and career tracks down to the elementary grades for generations.
it's a cultural problem that discourages women from pursuing careers in tech from about the age of three when they're given their first barbie doll.
it's perhaps worth mentioning that the Barbie doll, unmistakably adult and independent, entered the American market at a time (1959) when almost all dolls were portrayed as infants.
There where plenty of electric vehicles prior to General Moters buying all the street-car companies and replacing the cars with diesel buses.
The truth is that the street car and interurban rail (suburban commuter lines) were dead on their feet before World War I.
The street car ticket cost five cents.
It was an expensive business, maintaining tracks, cars and overheads.
The Ford car cost about a penny a mile, portal-to-portal, for a family of four plus dog and cargo.
You could shop the big downtown department stores, the new self-service supermarkets, and not pay a dime extra for merchant home delivery.
This photograph suggests the big-city reality of 1920, fifteen years earlier, you would be dodging horses and wagons, bicycles, and push carts to reach the cars. It could be quite a challenge, particularly for a woman.
what I find annoying about this is the fact that they could install Linux for free, saving money (after whatever re-training costs are recovered) and allowing them to lower prices while increasing their profits.
The Linux evangelist needs to take a long hard look at all the expenses needed to build and maintain an efficient and productive clerical staff --- which is likely to include a mix of full and part time workers, office temps, senior volunteers, and so on.
The FBI mostly does counterfeiting and kidnapping (and they only do kidnapping because the Lindbergh Baby was a potential source of good publicity for J. Edgar Hoover).
The Lindbergh kidnapping is the kidnapping-for-ransom that everyone remembers from that era.
There were others.
The fear then and now was such kidnappings would become a commonplace - organized - crime, as it has become in other countries.
Must mean they've already caught all the murderers, rapists, serial killers, and other dangerous criminals, now they have to turn to this.
Law enforcement multi-tasks.
The Slashdot geek tends to believe that his elite technical skills have earned him a lifetime "Get Out Of Jail Free" card --- and will go miles out of his way to let you know it.
It is not that surprising, given that the executive branch has determined it has the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, for secret reasons, based on secret evidence.
one of the reasons why the geek remains politically impotent is that he can't remember the most basic distinctions between state and federal governments.
what he has is a set of memes that he shoehorns into every argument.
At least it's still news when we learn about Mac and Linux vulnerabilities.:-)
This is Bash, remember.
Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) considered a free shell that could run existing sh scripts so strategic to a completely free system built from BSD and GNU code that this was one of the few projects they funded themselves.
Congratulations, Slashdot... this is precisely what you should have expected when you opened your authentication to any asshole with a facebook account. I swear, we could make Slashdot twice as intelligent by getting rid of the 7 digit ids.
It interests me that you posted this response as an A/C.
The problem with Slashdot isn't the 7-digit ID.
The problem with Slashdot is that the geek's mind turns to mush when the talk turns to certain subjects, like intellectual property or gender issues in tech.
Except that Windows probably has just as many holes only you dont know about them because they aren't public or because Microsoft has decided not to invest the engineering resources to fix them.
I think it is fair to remind the geek that BASH is a product of the FSF and has been in use since 1989.
25 years ago.
Which makes a perfect farce of the notion that many eyes make all bugs shallow.
The solution is that I shouldn't have to send my credit card number to every retailer I want to do business with.
The online retailer knows what you are buying and it needs a shipping address, and e-mail address and/or or phone number as a point of contact. Simply shopping the brick and mortar stores exposes pretty much everything anyone would want to know about your health, income, employment, housing, marital status, lifestyle choices and so on.
Read the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
Milverton was shot dead by one of his victims who wouldn't pay up and suffered accordingly, with Holmes instinctively tidying things up for her afterward.
in Elementary, both blackmailer and accomplice are killed by a not-so-innocent victim who saw a chance to take their place.
In "Sherlock," it is Holmes himself who pulls the trigger.
The character of Charles Augustus Milverton was based on a real blackmailer, Charles Augustus Howell. He was an art dealer who preyed upon an unknown number of people, including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Doyle's literary inspiration often came from his natural interest in crime, and he had no tolerance for predators. Howell died in 1890 in circumstances as strange as any of Doyle's novels: His body was found near a Chelsea public house with his throat posthumously slit, with a ten-shilling coin in his mouth. The presence of the coin was known to be a criticism of those guilty of slander.
Holding all the cards makes you the one everyone want to kill --- or crack wide open. The geek who can keep his big mouth shut outside the narrow bounds of the darknet is a rare beast indeed. If I held secrets hot enough to burn, my first instinct would be to publish them straight-way and slip away quietly in the ensuing chaos.
It's cute to see how much money they blow on their designs, but really, is this news, or stuff that matters?
It matters to the geek who thinks that a kickstarter and 3D printer is a viable business plan in market where style, design, fit and finish in hardware matters.
Simplification (UI design): the act of removing or transforming discoverable, one-step, procedures in opaque, 3-step-after-reconfiguration procedures. See Gnome, Windows, OSX.
In other words, a tiny fraction shy of 100% of the desktop market.
The only sensible conclusion to be drawn from this is that almost no one strays more that a half step away from the system defaults.
It's not a commercial product so who cares if some PHB who thinks the name of an application is important doesn't like it?
If the geek wants encryption to become universal, he has to remove any and all barriers to adoption, both technical and psychological. That implies reaching out to the PHB, the home and SOHO user, and so on.
We can only hope... eventually the walled gardens will be an effective quarantine and we can have our Internet again.
Your Internet was defined by the dial-up modem and a multitude of clients that fromed the basis of an Internet suite and were barely one or two steps up in convenience and functionality from the BBS of 1980 and Telnet, circa 1969.
It almost seems like an accident, though. They need to move to HTML5 because Microsoft supports its technologies like high school students support their relationships.
12 years for Win XP.
What is the difference between mainstream support and extended support?
Mainstream support --- Microsoft will offer mainstream support for a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the successor product is released, whichever is longer. For example, if you buy a new version of Windows and five years later another version is released, you will still have two years of support left for the previous version.
Extended support --- Microsoft will offer extended support for either a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the second successor product (two versions later) is released, whichever is longer.
I'm not even sure why you'd want to use any web browser at all for this kind of thing.
The general purpose web browser is becoming an afterthought.
You can live very comfortably within the walled gardens of Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and the rest --- and while the geek won't want to hear this, this is where most people are spending their time now.
Slashdot Mirror
Or you can tell your kids to go outside and experience real reality with fresh air, sunshine, exercise and social interaction.
It is chill and dark here, with a cutting wind and rain.
The kids will be thoroughly soaked by the time they get home from school, and in no mood to socialize with anyone.
The purpose of testing is to collect data about the system itself and how it operates in end user environments; this is collecting information about the end users themselves rather than just the machine.
I don't know how you even begin to build a machine or a system that responds properly to its users without studying its users "in the wild."
This isn't "blaming" anyone. At no point was any "blame" made.
I would expect to see the same effect with alcohol. In the company of people that are drinking a lot, you are probably drinking more than your norm.
Blaming corporate culture is bullshit because most women from birth are told to not go into tech.
but who is telling girls not to go into tech and why?
corporate culture has been influencing curricula, teaching methods, and career tracks down to the elementary grades for generations.
it's a cultural problem that discourages women from pursuing careers in tech from about the age of three when they're given their first barbie doll.
it's perhaps worth mentioning that the Barbie doll, unmistakably adult and independent, entered the American market at a time (1959) when almost all dolls were portrayed as infants.
There where plenty of electric vehicles prior to General Moters buying all the street-car companies and replacing the cars with diesel buses.
The truth is that the street car and interurban rail (suburban commuter lines) were dead on their feet before World War I.
The street car ticket cost five cents.
It was an expensive business, maintaining tracks, cars and overheads.
The Ford car cost about a penny a mile, portal-to-portal, for a family of four plus dog and cargo.
You could shop the big downtown department stores, the new self-service supermarkets, and not pay a dime extra for merchant home delivery.
This photograph suggests the big-city reality of 1920, fifteen years earlier, you would be dodging horses and wagons, bicycles, and push carts to reach the cars. It could be quite a challenge, particularly for a woman.
what I find annoying about this is the fact that they could install Linux for free, saving money (after whatever re-training costs are recovered) and allowing them to lower prices while increasing their profits.
The Linux evangelist needs to take a long hard look at all the expenses needed to build and maintain an efficient and productive clerical staff --- which is likely to include a mix of full and part time workers, office temps, senior volunteers, and so on.
The FBI mostly does counterfeiting and kidnapping (and they only do kidnapping because the Lindbergh Baby was a potential source of good publicity for J. Edgar Hoover).
The Lindbergh kidnapping is the kidnapping-for-ransom that everyone remembers from that era.
There were others.
The fear then and now was such kidnappings would become a commonplace - organized - crime, as it has become in other countries.
Must mean they've already caught all the murderers, rapists, serial killers, and other dangerous criminals, now they have to turn to this.
Law enforcement multi-tasks.
The Slashdot geek tends to believe that his elite technical skills have earned him a lifetime "Get Out Of Jail Free" card --- and will go miles out of his way to let you know it.
It is not that surprising, given that the executive branch has determined it has the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, for secret reasons, based on secret evidence.
one of the reasons why the geek remains politically impotent is that he can't remember the most basic distinctions between state and federal governments.
what he has is a set of memes that he shoehorns into every argument.
At least it's still news when we learn about Mac and Linux vulnerabilities. :-)
This is Bash, remember.
Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) considered a free shell that could run existing sh scripts so strategic to a completely free system built from BSD and GNU code that this was one of the few projects they funded themselves.
Bash (Unix shell)
The beta was released in 1989. 25 years ago.
Which makes a perfect farce of the notion that many eyes make all bugs shallow.
Congratulations, Slashdot ... this is precisely what you should have expected when you opened your authentication to any asshole with a facebook account.
I swear, we could make Slashdot twice as intelligent by getting rid of the 7 digit ids.
It interests me that you posted this response as an A/C.
The problem with Slashdot isn't the 7-digit ID.
The problem with Slashdot is that the geek's mind turns to mush when the talk turns to certain subjects, like intellectual property or gender issues in tech.
Except that Windows probably has just as many holes only you dont know about them because they aren't public or because Microsoft has decided not to invest the engineering resources to fix them.
I think it is fair to remind the geek that BASH is a product of the FSF and has been in use since 1989.
25 years ago.
Which makes a perfect farce of the notion that many eyes make all bugs shallow.
The solution is that I shouldn't have to send my credit card number to every retailer I want to do business with.
The online retailer knows what you are buying and it needs a shipping address, and e-mail address and/or or phone number as a point of contact. Simply shopping the brick and mortar stores exposes pretty much everything anyone would want to know about your health, income, employment, housing, marital status, lifestyle choices and so on.
Reports validate a manager's existence in an organization and shiny charts make them feel warm and fuzzy inside.
It's a manager's job to manage. It's IT's job to present the information he needs to manage things well in a form with which he is comfortable.
That she didn't call their bluff...
Means that she probably did take some nudies at some point.
She is not obliged to call anyone's bluff.
Not everyone has a mind as adolescent as the geek who mods up craptastic sexist comments like yours as "Interesting."
Read the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
Milverton was shot dead by one of his victims who wouldn't pay up and suffered accordingly, with Holmes instinctively tidying things up for her afterward.
in Elementary, both blackmailer and accomplice are killed by a not-so-innocent victim who saw a chance to take their place.
In "Sherlock," it is Holmes himself who pulls the trigger.
The character of Charles Augustus Milverton was based on a real blackmailer, Charles Augustus Howell. He was an art dealer who preyed upon an unknown number of people, including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Doyle's literary inspiration often came from his natural interest in crime, and he had no tolerance for predators. Howell died in 1890 in circumstances as strange as any of Doyle's novels: His body was found near a Chelsea public house with his throat posthumously slit, with a ten-shilling coin in his mouth. The presence of the coin was known to be a criticism of those guilty of slander.
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Holding all the cards makes you the one everyone want to kill --- or crack wide open.
The geek who can keep his big mouth shut outside the narrow bounds of the darknet is a rare beast indeed. If I held secrets hot enough to burn, my first instinct would be to publish them straight-way and slip away quietly in the ensuing chaos.
It's cute to see how much money they blow on their designs, but really, is this news, or stuff that matters?
It matters to the geek who thinks that a kickstarter and 3D printer is a viable business plan in market where style, design, fit and finish in hardware matters.
Simplification (UI design): the act of removing or transforming discoverable, one-step, procedures in opaque, 3-step-after-reconfiguration procedures. See Gnome, Windows, OSX.
In other words, a tiny fraction shy of 100% of the desktop market.
The only sensible conclusion to be drawn from this is that almost no one strays more that a half step away from the system defaults.
It's not a commercial product so who cares if some PHB who thinks the name of an application is important doesn't like it?
If the geek wants encryption to become universal, he has to remove any and all barriers to adoption, both technical and psychological. That implies reaching out to the PHB, the home and SOHO user, and so on.
I think I am starting to see the effects of complacency.
Aren't you confusing complacency with fatigue? Passion with commitment? There is a price to be paid for the adrenalin high.
They're obviously using my HorribleNameGenerator library. I'm proud to have contributed to so many FOSS projects.
Nothing inspires more confidence in a complex cryptographic system than a name like "CipherShed.'
Is the geek born with this impulse to shoot himself in the foot?
We can only hope... eventually the walled gardens will be an effective quarantine and we can have our Internet again.
Your Internet was defined by the dial-up modem and a multitude of clients that fromed the basis of an Internet suite and were barely one or two steps up in convenience and functionality from the BBS of 1980 and Telnet, circa 1969.
It almost seems like an accident, though. They need to move to HTML5 because Microsoft supports its technologies like high school students support their relationships.
12 years for Win XP.
What is the difference between mainstream support and extended support?
Mainstream support --- Microsoft will offer mainstream support for a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the successor product is released, whichever is longer. For example, if you buy a new version of Windows and five years later another version is released, you will still have two years of support left for the previous version.
Extended support --- Microsoft will offer extended support for either a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the second successor product (two versions later) is released, whichever is longer.
Windows lifecycle fact sheet
I'm not even sure why you'd want to use any web browser at all for this kind of thing.
The general purpose web browser is becoming an afterthought.
You can live very comfortably within the walled gardens of Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and the rest --- and while the geek won't want to hear this, this is where most people are spending their time now.