The entire credit check history idea is wrong, not just when used for filtering job appplicants. It builds on the notion that those who pay their debts are more reliable, completely ignoring several key facts.
You use a filter to simplify the problem of selection.
Your Mr. X may or may not be as responsible as he believes. He could be just stuffing his cash undre the mattress of some fleabag hotel. But Mr. Y has built a record that others can see.
Who cares if your R&D department cant remember to pay their bills? If they are good enough it'll be cheaper to hire someone to handle all that tedious interfacing with the real world while they prove that P=NP and engrave the steps onto the back of an atom using a method they developed in the bath.
It's that interface with the real world that worries your boss. In the real world corporate secrets, R&D, are a marketable commodity.
What M$ product hasn't been hit hard in the first week of release? I still have serious doubts about the ability of anyone in Redmond to spell security, much less do anything about it!
When you learn how to spell "Microsoft" maybe someone off the Slashdot pages will listen.
Free as in "freedom" security software is safe. It's this gratis stuff that's dangerous
"Free as in freedom" doesn't mean you mean you can deliever anti-virus updates three times a day without someone like AOL paying the bill for development and distribution.
Successful fan projects like the Star Trek films begin by reaching an understanding with the copyright
owner. There are many advantages: access to talent, access to resources, assistance in distribution.
Why invest three years in a mod when you know the environment is hostile?
What would be really cool is if some company pulled a Red Hat, or Suse, etc., with MythTV whereby they offer their "version" of a MythTV distribution bundled with hardware and all. With minor standardization, it's a product that could spark consumer interest. This would offer an alternative to the always present MS MCE, and an interesting competition (potentially) with TiVo.
Remember Walmart's big push to mainstream OEM Linux in the states?
The systems and distros that came and went through the revolving door at Walmart.com? Sun JDS et al. Nothing remains of that but two mediocre Microtel boxes. Nothing to justify a separate Linux page,
No one but a Geek gives a damn about the embedded OS in an appliance like TivO. But the MSDOS and Windows platform has dominated the general purpose home pc market for twenty-five years.
I just built two computers and the parts all came with drivers for Windows 98 -- and one of them was a powerful gaming rig.
It's a few years back.
But Dell was clocked building pre-paid Dimension desktops every three minutes.
Geeks have this delightful innocence about the size and significance of the OEM market. Which, for all practical purposes, is !00% of the home market and 100% of the laptop market. Ubuntu? Never heard of it.
You might find the occassional gamer satisfied with Win 98 and DX7. But they getting mighty thin on the ground these days.
I doubt that the technologies that are actually be relevant to these kids' future -- Open Source, ODF, OS X, Solaris, BSD, basically anything not-MS -- will be represented in their computer labs...
This is an elite college prep school for inner city kids. The technology is pervasive, but the curriculum is the liberal arts. It may not even have a computer lab in the ordinary sense.
Look at the crap going on involving Grand Theft Auto: someone makes a game modification to show a tit, a tit that isn't even available without modifying the game, and tons of legislators go apeshit about how it's inappropriate for children.
Hot Coffee was not a tit. It was button-mashing sex play that could be unlocked in both the PC and console game There is no third-party content in this so-called mod, which was Rockstar's original and disastrous PR spin.
Rockstar came into this fight with a reputation for pushing the limits of public tolerance of the gangster gane genre. GTA was coining money, but Rockstar had few friends outside the gaming community. It could not escape the suspicion that it was once again testing the waters, covertly introducing AO content into an M rated game.
it is extremely easy and reliable to verify the age of store patrons. No analogy exists online -- it is impossible.
The scale and success of e-commerce suggests otherwise. Registration through a parent's credit card or a kid's own debit card is an obvious solution.
Parental controls in the OS or the browser are another. Registration might be bound to a particular computer and a particular account. It won't matter if a kid has fake ID if he is forbidden from entering any ID.
More importantly, it is not morally the website's job to police the people who visit it.
The tavern owner may not be morally obligated to keep kids away from the bar, but if he wants to keep his license he'd better find a way to do it, and make it convincing to a judge.
social networking sites will add more verification layers (that don't work) for greater plausible deniability, and those that think they can, will start requiring credit card info.
I think you'll find that an experienced trial attorney does not share your innocent faith in "plausible deniability" as a defense.
Seismic/Eruption, Seismic Waves and data retrieval. View earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in close to real time. Developed for the Geology Hall of the Smithsonian.
AmaSeis, a program to obtain seismographs from the AS-1 Amateur Seismometer. The AS-1 is based on a classic project from Scientific American's "The Amateur Scientist."
EqLocate. An interactive program to locate earthquakes.
What about the random noise that could be caused by rushhour traffic past someone's apartment/office building? Or even just your furnace/air conditioner turning off and on?
Random events are, well, random. You use statistical analysis to filter out the noise.
"but to Microsoft, this vulnerability is a big deal. It affects the company's relationship with major record labels."
what relationship? why is it important?
Fully half of Apple's revenues can be traced back to sales of the iPod and iTunes.
The media PC is big business in the home market and you have to have the support of the major content providers.
I think that this could produce textbooks that have content not directly influenced by governments, religions, and corporations. There is likely to be some level of resistance in certain places depending on the subject...
"Likely to be resistance?" There is certain to be resistance.
Since you are locked into a certain format, what do you do when technology changes and you can't convert your media into the new format or the company behind the DRM folds and there's no way to port the authentication system to a new system?
You do what everyone has done since the days of Edison's wax cylinders. You buy into whatever format is convenient and practical for the moment and let the archivists worry about preservation of the analog and digital masters.
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You use a filter to simplify the problem of selection.
Your Mr. X may or may not be as responsible as he believes. He could be just stuffing his cash undre the mattress of some fleabag hotel. But Mr. Y has built a record that others can see.
It's that interface with the real world that worries your boss. In the real world corporate secrets, R&D, are a marketable commodity.
When you learn how to spell "Microsoft" maybe someone off the Slashdot pages will listen.
How many free and open source projects are starved for staff and funding? I get security updates from my cable ISP about four times a day.
"Free as in freedom" doesn't mean you mean you can deliever anti-virus updates three times a day without someone like AOL paying the bill for development and distribution.
Why invest three years in a mod when you know the environment is hostile?
Remember Walmart's big push to mainstream OEM Linux in the states?
The systems and distros that came and went through the revolving door at Walmart.com? Sun JDS et al. Nothing remains of that but two mediocre Microtel boxes. Nothing to justify a separate Linux page,
No one but a Geek gives a damn about the embedded OS in an appliance like TivO. But the MSDOS and Windows platform has dominated the general purpose home pc market for twenty-five years.
what features are you looking forward to in vista? i'm not trying to flamebait or troll, i just want to know what you are looking forward to.
You waste your time posting your question here. The Slashdot Geek is not Microsoft's target audience.
It's a few years back.
But Dell was clocked building pre-paid Dimension desktops every three minutes.
Geeks have this delightful innocence about the size and significance of the OEM market. Which, for all practical purposes, is !00% of the home market and 100% of the laptop market. Ubuntu? Never heard of it.
You might find the occassional gamer satisfied with Win 98 and DX7. But they getting mighty thin on the ground these days.
This isn't a trade school. It's college prep.
What makes you think these kids are going to be spending any significant time with a compiler?
This is an elite college prep school for inner city kids. The technology is pervasive, but the curriculum is the liberal arts. It may not even have a computer lab in the ordinary sense.
Hot Coffee was not a tit. It was button-mashing sex play that could be unlocked in both the PC and console game There is no third-party content in this so-called mod, which was Rockstar's original and disastrous PR spin.
Rockstar came into this fight with a reputation for pushing the limits of public tolerance of the gangster gane genre. GTA was coining money, but Rockstar had few friends outside the gaming community. It could not escape the suspicion that it was once again testing the waters, covertly introducing AO content into an M rated game.
it is extremely easy and reliable to verify the age of store patrons. No analogy exists online -- it is impossible.
The scale and success of e-commerce suggests otherwise. Registration through a parent's credit card or a kid's own debit card is an obvious solution.
Parental controls in the OS or the browser are another. Registration might be bound to a particular computer and a particular account. It won't matter if a kid has fake ID if he is forbidden from entering any ID.
More importantly, it is not morally the website's job to police the people who visit it.
The tavern owner may not be morally obligated to keep kids away from the bar, but if he wants to keep his license he'd better find a way to do it, and make it convincing to a judge.
twitter, is that you?
because you are among the tens of millions of home users running Windows or OSX who don't give a damn about cross-platform compatibility?
I think you'll find that an experienced trial attorney does not share your innocent faith in "plausible deniability" as a defense.
Pre-teens have been using plastic for quite some time now. Girls Say Hello Kitty To Hello Debit Card (2004)
Free Seismology Programs for Windows:
Seismic/Eruption, Seismic Waves and data retrieval. View earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in close to real time. Developed for the Geology Hall of the Smithsonian.
AmaSeis, a program to obtain seismographs from the AS-1 Amateur Seismometer. The AS-1 is based on a classic project from Scientific American's "The Amateur Scientist."
EqLocate. An interactive program to locate earthquakes.
Random events are, well, random. You use statistical analysis to filter out the noise.
You do not get a free market where there are significant barriers to entry. But there are always barriers to entry.
what relationship? why is it important?
Fully half of Apple's revenues can be traced back to sales of the iPod and iTunes.
The media PC is big business in the home market and you have to have the support of the major content providers.
That, at least, I can believe.
and what state of mind drives a Geek to make Hawking's disability a frat house joke?
"Likely to be resistance?" There is certain to be resistance.
Examining the Japanese History Textbook Controversies, A textbook example of change in China, US court upholds Hindu organisation's contention on textbooks
You do what everyone has done since the days of Edison's wax cylinders. You buy into whatever format is convenient and practical for the moment and let the archivists worry about preservation of the analog and digital masters.
I think someone has been scarfing up way too much porn on the side.