The problem is not with Sharepoint the product, the problem is with the BIG LIE about how its marketed. Sharepoint is no better or worse than any other Intranet targeted CMS framework but that is all it is! They marketing people and tech rags however insist on selling it as an outbox solution.
The result is lots of deployments where it winds up being a big expensive and slow file server with some half harted version control features and tacky web interface. If you look at Sharepoint deployment as a project where its a framework and you are going to have a team of developers and DBAs build some applications on it, you will probably succeed. If you think its an off the shelf solution your operations people are going to install on a couple of VMs one afternoon then its going to be a disappointing steaming pile of crap most users are going hate.
The argument that we got ours so they should be allowed to get theirs is BS. When we started emitting and put in all this infrastructure it was not know that it was environmentally harmful in this way, actually its still not *known* just widely held with strong evidence.
This is a global problem and unless EVERYONE is going to work on solving it, I am not willing to sabotage our economy and give up the prosperity my friends and family enjoy. That goes double when doing so won't even do much to address let alone solve the problem. Good for Canada! if China and India or anyone else are getting exemptions trying to cut emissions is pointless, all it do is move manufacturing jobs out of the west and over to those places. It might not be fair but life is not fair, everyone needs to be on board or I say intercourse'em, the US and Canada probably have the least to loose (at least over the shortish term) from climate change anyway.
The only answer is to find a different solution. We need to find A cheap, safe, carbon neutral or negative energy source; or a way to counter the undesirable effects of a higher CO2 level in the atmosphere; or a way to remove CO2 cheaply and safely from the atmosphere; or any combination of those.
have enough expertise to prevent anything that is not specifically target at me
Much more reasonable assumption is that a) I didn't notice recent IP shuffle
See I don't buy it. If you had enough expertise to prevent *anything* that is not specifically targeted at you, an extraordinary claim! Then at the very least you would have logs and the ability to search them easily enough that you'd have checked and been aware of that ip shuffle before posting.
Yes it does! or at least it obeys the concentration gradient. It flows for concentrated repository to out to the ether around it unless energy is applied to keeping secrets. Just like keeping your house warmer inside than out in winter requires energy, even with great insulation your slowly lose heat to the outside world so it is with information.
Which is one should be careful about creating it in the first place. Before you pull all those meaningless facts into that big database, relate them and turn them into information STOP and consider that information *IS* at some point going to flow places you can't anticipate, and make a decision about how risky that may be.
Yea, where is Clippy when you need him? I just imagine:
Clippy: 'You appear to be trying to take out a unit of virtual Nazi soldiers with no backup, would you like me to recommend a weapon from your inventory?'
I will agree with you I don't know where all the ribbon hate comes from, at least from a UI perspective. Now the API interface, for it SUCKS, if I wanted to use XML to build my interface, I'd write a browser based app, thank you very much. I don't see the ribbon as being much different from the old toolbar from a user perspective though. If anything its how tool bars would have been if displays had been higher resolution in the past.
The modern Apple and MS Bob like one to one metaphors are wrong headed. The author is dead on there. It does not scale at all. It works ok for things that have a good one to one metaphor with near universal familiarity, but it falls down for more esoteric things.
I struggled for nearly a half an hour the other day with an OSX machine. I wanted to add a new certificate to the system wide trusted roots. I have a pretty solid understanding of the functional elements of public key cryptography the stumbling block was entirely UI. I knew what I wanted, but the UI was not easy. First finding the darn thing, then trying to make sense of the really forced key chain metaphor. I suppose the key chain makes sense of user certificates but falls down when it comes to roots and intermediates. Perhaps something like a notary stamp icon would make more sense, but how many users would recognize that? Computers are all about abstraction all the way down, both in terms of what we do with them and how they operate. One to one metaphors don't offer a flexible frame work for things that don't have a physical analog.
Its terribly inefficient from a developer perspective you have to create a new interface for every task, or its terribly confusing from a user perspective you force something on them that really does not make any sense. It also means that every application is different with its own rules, users can't take knowledge with them from task to task. Not only do they have to know what they want to do, but they have to know the unique mechanics for doing it. Instead of just going ok I want to store my changes, I am sure there is a save command on the file menu, now its um ok I drag the icon to my book shelf?
Disinterested in the outcome, absolutely disinterested in the process not so much. I know I am splitting hairs here but honestly they way some people are on their smart phones they might as well be asleep. I have been to meetings where someone was doing something on their phone and essentially tuned everything else out. I know this because in the following days they did things that proved they took exactly nothing away from the presentation I gave.
This to important to give someone the benefit of the doubt, they are capable of multitasking effectively enough to literally do justice to the job. All to many of them might just as well be asleep when they are tuned into their phones as far as their awareness of what is happening around them goes.
I don't think you understand the word duty its something you must do. Even if you were not compensated at all it would still be your duty. Occasional jury duty is just one of the many prices we must pay for living in a free society.
Look at this way unlike your taxes, which are all to often stolen by some corporate welfare fat cat, at some justice will be done when you serve on jury.
Like anything it can be abused. That is why there are 12 or more members of jury. It provides a pretty adequate check on the power of any one juror. So one crazy that thinks practically every law should never be enforced is not easily able to run away with nullification.
Nullification is rarely needed but very important to justice in those situations where the law as written fails to fairly describe a situation. Most likely because the legislators did not envision it or perhaps because a special interest *bought* it. I am glad I live in a nation where if I stood trial and 12 of my peers can agree that if they had been in my situation they'd have done the same and it would have been the right thing, I would go free.
Yes a prosecutor can decide not to bring charges, but \s?he is one person who faces all kinds of varying pressures, from different places. The jury on the other hand is 12 unknown people who's identities are hopefully not widely knowable at least until after the trial is concluded.
Does CICS count as graphics? If so yes certainly. There is also Fujitsu COBOL.NET out there so if there are any actual users I suppose people might be using just about any of that massive library from COBOL.
I am not a proponent of space research right now, I kind think we should focus or efforts on more terrestrial matters. That said if were to send someone to Mars or go back the moon for that matter there is some science in it, or at least some engineering advances in it.
If were to discover a place worth going, the two main problems are where do find enough energy to get your there fast enough. Figuring out exactly what you need to take with you and in what form has a major impact on our selections of solution to the two main problems. Know what we need, and knowing it works would be beneficial.
The ISS is nothing like the mostly self sustaining colony that would be necessary elsewhere.
Its one thing to bring it down its quite another to control it. I am a little surprised these things don't have an out pilot which is able to set headed to a per-designated set of coordinates in the even communication is lost for more than a few seconds and head in that direction, until the situation becomes normal again. A last know good GPS value, internal clock, and magnetic compass should make that possible. I would think a few photovoltaic cells to roughly locate the sun or moon could be used to validate the compass readings are not also being manipulated by the enemy.
I am not surprised its possible to jam the radio, satellite, GPS communications these things depend on at all. If you don't have the FCC around to make you cut it out, put enough envelop power out and you can mess up even point to point microwave with directional antenna with an omni-directional setup.
What would be surprising is if the likes of Iran could crack the cryptographic integrity checks these things must use on their messaging right? All and all I suspect most of these issues have fixes that should have been there since the start.
The real question though is why were these being used over Iran? Its not like Iran could not just shoot them down anyway. It strikes me as possibly a misapplication of the drone technology in general. It seems like a great way to keep an eye on the backwards Bedouin types in Afghanistan, and yemen, but maybe not a good fit for a technically capable enemy like Iran, perhaps the high altitude, high speed, stealth spy plane remains a better fit?
You ask whey encryption can't be negotiated and then answered your own question in your very next bullet point. DNS performance is EVERYTHING for a great many network applications. So having some handshake like IKE where the two sides negotiate adds at least three round trips before you can get to the actual query. That alone could add up to 500ms or more for many clients. So for an app that needs to do lots of DNS requests that means beaucoup wall time for end users.
We have enough reall problems without inventing them. This is wrong headed. Games are just a form of expression like books, movies, other art, etc. I don't think you can accept the premis here without also agreeing that sOmething should be done anytime a film is made or a story is written where someone violates the Geneva convention.
First of they were not indroduced by rePublicans, supported yes indroduced by Democrats. The buck stops with the president, he can veto the thing. He can even veto the thing if congress has the numbers to overcome the veto it would still be law though. IMHO anything a president signs his/her responsibility and culpability for are equal to that of the CONgress people who wrote it or voted for it. If Obama cares about freedom of speech and personal property rights he will veto it, if he cares more about his campaign donnars he will sign it. I can guess the outcome, but who knows he may surprise me.
Well powered flight has immediate and obvious useful applications, this thing less so, at least as far as I can see. Powered flight means I can get there faster, or cross rough terrain impossible in other vehicles, etc etc. Giant sphere of super heated liquid salt, not really sure how I can use that. Which is not say that is a reason not build the thing.
A better analogy would be Orville and Wilbur carving a wooden wing and running around the bike shop with it to feel that it does indeed produce lift when pushed through a fluid like air. Its a required precursor to powered flight, and would more represent this sort of basic research. At some point you have to try things.
The trouble is lack of enforcement. For some reasons all our police forces seem to want to do is park someplace point a radar gun at passing traffic to catch speeders. I don't have any evidence to back this up but I find it almost impossible to accept that pestering people doing 10mpg over the posted speed on highways and major thoroughfares offers as much in the way of safety gains as stricter observation and enforcement of other traffic laws would.
I see people do the following all the time, and the police doing nothing: 1. Failing to yield to pedestrians at a cross walk. 2. Failing to yield to their right at four way stop, where there is a backup or both arrived at the same time. 3. Failing to treat an out traffic signal as four way stop. 4. Backing up after entering an intersection to make a left and the light changed, if you entered legally under green you are to exit forward ALWAYS 5. Failing to yield to lefting drivers who entered on green after the light has changed 6. Evading traffic control devices, cutting the parking lots to avoid lights etc, 7. Doing rights on red, where it has been prohibited by a sign. 8. Making a right on red from the left lane 9. Failing to honk when passing stopped traffic, mail truck etc 10. Failing to stop for school buses -- These are unfortunately no longer illegal in most places but are bad form and IMHO should be: 11. Passing on the right when using a divided highway 12. Cursing in the left lane on a divided highway.
If law enforcement would grab people for doing these atrocious violations instead of fussing over speeders we would all be way better off.
No that his point exactly. You'd buy the machine and the manufacturer would give you a BASIC interpreter, machine language monitor and compiler, I/O drivers.
You were entirely free to develop any application you needed or source if from elsewhere, with no deliberately crafted impediments by the manufacturer. There were also no deliberate impediments to replacing the BASIC interpreter, monitor program, I/O drivers etc, but its equally unlikely they went out of their way to make easy to do so, by putting these things on writable memories or anything like that.
Still the situation was infinitely preferable to the attitude manufactures take today IMHO.
Actually what I have observed the typical behavior of most mail servers in the commercial business I have been associated with doing is to try and encrypt than fall back to clear text. When they go to relay out they will connect in the clear, issue a START TLS, if they get a 2XX response code TLS goes forward, if not they move forward plain text.
Encryption may not help you here. When we get to talking about graph analysis and learning, suddenly who you are talking to becomes as interesting as what you are talking about.
You might be identified as threat based sole on what would seem to be unusual information flows. For example, if someone in say HR is trading lots of mails with someone in accounting, an other person in inventory management, and finally a couple of warehouse shipping clerks, such a system might flag it as a possible theft conspiracy to steal inventory.
It would be unusual for such a ad-hoc group to be exchanging information at high frequency, and might warrant scrutiny. You can discover that and flag it independent of the the messages being encrypted or not. It could be completely innocent of course, they might just be on the company volleyball team together. Still its an interesting technology.
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The problem is not with Sharepoint the product, the problem is with the BIG LIE about how its marketed. Sharepoint is no better or worse than any other Intranet targeted CMS framework but that is all it is! They marketing people and tech rags however insist on selling it as an outbox solution.
The result is lots of deployments where it winds up being a big expensive and slow file server with some half harted version control features and tacky web interface. If you look at Sharepoint deployment as a project where its a framework and you are going to have a team of developers and DBAs build some applications on it, you will probably succeed. If you think its an off the shelf solution your operations people are going to install on a couple of VMs one afternoon then its going to be a disappointing steaming pile of crap most users are going hate.
The argument that we got ours so they should be allowed to get theirs is BS. When we started emitting and put in all this infrastructure it was not know that it was environmentally harmful in this way, actually its still not *known* just widely held with strong evidence.
This is a global problem and unless EVERYONE is going to work on solving it, I am not willing to sabotage our economy and give up the prosperity my friends and family enjoy. That goes double when doing so won't even do much to address let alone solve the problem. Good for Canada! if China and India or anyone else are getting exemptions trying to cut emissions is pointless, all it do is move manufacturing jobs out of the west and over to those places. It might not be fair but life is not fair, everyone needs to be on board or I say intercourse'em, the US and Canada probably have the least to loose (at least over the shortish term) from climate change anyway.
The only answer is to find a different solution. We need to find A cheap, safe, carbon neutral or negative energy source; or a way to counter the undesirable effects of a higher CO2 level in the atmosphere; or a way to remove CO2 cheaply and safely from the atmosphere; or any combination of those.
have enough expertise to prevent anything that is not specifically target at me
Much more reasonable assumption is that a) I didn't notice recent IP shuffle
See I don't buy it. If you had enough expertise to prevent *anything* that is not specifically targeted at you, an extraordinary claim! Then at the very least you would have logs and the ability to search them easily enough that you'd have checked and been aware of that ip shuffle before posting.
Yes it does! or at least it obeys the concentration gradient. It flows for concentrated repository to out to the ether around it unless energy is applied to keeping secrets. Just like keeping your house warmer inside than out in winter requires energy, even with great insulation your slowly lose heat to the outside world so it is with information.
Which is one should be careful about creating it in the first place. Before you pull all those meaningless facts into that big database, relate them and turn them into information STOP and consider that information *IS* at some point going to flow places you can't anticipate, and make a decision about how risky that may be.
Amazon.com would make an interesting FPS. First Person Shopper?
Yea, where is Clippy when you need him? I just imagine:
Clippy: 'You appear to be trying to take out a unit of virtual Nazi soldiers with no backup, would you like me to recommend a weapon from your inventory?'
User (while taking heavy damage): *clicks yes*
Ah Slashdot where there is never a middle ground, its vi + tex or Office 2010.
I will agree with you I don't know where all the ribbon hate comes from, at least from a UI perspective. Now the API interface, for it SUCKS, if I wanted to use XML to build my interface, I'd write a browser based app, thank you very much. I don't see the ribbon as being much different from the old toolbar from a user perspective though. If anything its how tool bars would have been if displays had been higher resolution in the past.
The modern Apple and MS Bob like one to one metaphors are wrong headed. The author is dead on there. It does not scale at all. It works ok for things that have a good one to one metaphor with near universal familiarity, but it falls down for more esoteric things.
I struggled for nearly a half an hour the other day with an OSX machine. I wanted to add a new certificate to the system wide trusted roots. I have a pretty solid understanding of the functional elements of public key cryptography the stumbling block was entirely UI. I knew what I wanted, but the UI was not easy. First finding the darn thing, then trying to make sense of the really forced key chain metaphor. I suppose the key chain makes sense of user certificates but falls down when it comes to roots and intermediates. Perhaps something like a notary stamp icon would make more sense, but how many users would recognize that? Computers are all about abstraction all the way down, both in terms of what we do with them and how they operate. One to one metaphors don't offer a flexible frame work for things that don't have a physical analog.
Its terribly inefficient from a developer perspective you have to create a new interface for every task, or its terribly confusing from a user perspective you force something on them that really does not make any sense. It also means that every application is different with its own rules, users can't take knowledge with them from task to task. Not only do they have to know what they want to do, but they have to know the unique mechanics for doing it. Instead of just going ok I want to store my changes, I am sure there is a save command on the file menu, now its um ok I drag the icon to my book shelf?
Disinterested in the outcome, absolutely disinterested in the process not so much. I know I am splitting hairs here but honestly they way some people are on their smart phones they might as well be asleep. I have been to meetings where someone was doing something on their phone and essentially tuned everything else out. I know this because in the following days they did things that proved they took exactly nothing away from the presentation I gave.
This to important to give someone the benefit of the doubt, they are capable of multitasking effectively enough to literally do justice to the job. All to many of them might just as well be asleep when they are tuned into their phones as far as their awareness of what is happening around them goes.
I don't think you understand the word duty its something you must do. Even if you were not compensated at all it would still be your duty. Occasional jury duty is just one of the many prices we must pay for living in a free society.
Look at this way unlike your taxes, which are all to often stolen by some corporate welfare fat cat, at some justice will be done when you serve on jury.
Like anything it can be abused. That is why there are 12 or more members of jury. It provides a pretty adequate check on the power of any one juror. So one crazy that thinks practically every law should never be enforced is not easily able to run away with nullification.
Nullification is rarely needed but very important to justice in those situations where the law as written fails to fairly describe a situation. Most likely because the legislators did not envision it or perhaps because a special interest *bought* it. I am glad I live in a nation where if I stood trial and 12 of my peers can agree that if they had been in my situation they'd have done the same and it would have been the right thing, I would go free.
Yes a prosecutor can decide not to bring charges, but \s?he is one person who faces all kinds of varying pressures, from different places. The jury on the other hand is 12 unknown people who's identities are hopefully not widely knowable at least until after the trial is concluded.
There are just as many JAVA apps that do essential no-ui at all and are just web backends. That might even be the majority of java code now.
Does CICS count as graphics? If so yes certainly. There is also Fujitsu COBOL.NET out there so if there are any actual users I suppose people might be using just about any of that massive library from COBOL.
I am not a proponent of space research right now, I kind think we should focus or efforts on more terrestrial matters. That said if were to send someone to Mars or go back the moon for that matter there is some science in it, or at least some engineering advances in it.
If were to discover a place worth going, the two main problems are where do find enough energy to get your there fast enough. Figuring out exactly what you need to take with you and in what form has a major impact on our selections of solution to the two main problems. Know what we need, and knowing it works would be beneficial.
The ISS is nothing like the mostly self sustaining colony that would be necessary elsewhere.
Its one thing to bring it down its quite another to control it. I am a little surprised these things don't have an out pilot which is able to set headed to a per-designated set of coordinates in the even communication is lost for more than a few seconds and head in that direction, until the situation becomes normal again. A last know good GPS value, internal clock, and magnetic compass should make that possible. I would think a few photovoltaic cells to roughly locate the sun or moon could be used to validate the compass readings are not also being manipulated by the enemy.
I am not surprised its possible to jam the radio, satellite, GPS communications these things depend on at all. If you don't have the FCC around to make you cut it out, put enough envelop power out and you can mess up even point to point microwave with directional antenna with an omni-directional setup.
What would be surprising is if the likes of Iran could crack the cryptographic integrity checks these things must use on their messaging right? All and all I suspect most of these issues have fixes that should have been there since the start.
The real question though is why were these being used over Iran? Its not like Iran could not just shoot them down anyway. It strikes me as possibly a misapplication of the drone technology in general. It seems like a great way to keep an eye on the backwards Bedouin types in Afghanistan, and yemen, but maybe not a good fit for a technically capable enemy like Iran, perhaps the high altitude, high speed, stealth spy plane remains a better fit?
Why couldn't the encryption just be negotiable?
You ask whey encryption can't be negotiated and then answered your own question in your very next bullet point. DNS performance is EVERYTHING for a great many network applications. So having some handshake like IKE where the two sides negotiate adds at least three round trips before you can get to the actual query. That alone could add up to 500ms or more for many clients. So for an app that needs to do lots of DNS requests that means beaucoup wall time for end users.
We have enough reall problems without inventing them. This is wrong headed. Games are just a form of expression like books, movies, other art, etc. I don't think you can accept the premis here without also agreeing that sOmething should be done anytime a film is made or a story is written where someone violates the Geneva convention.
First of they were not indroduced by rePublicans, supported yes indroduced by Democrats. The buck stops with the president, he can veto the thing. He can even veto the thing if congress has the numbers to overcome the veto it would still be law though. IMHO anything a president signs his/her responsibility and culpability for are equal to that of the CONgress people who wrote it or voted for it. If Obama cares about freedom of speech and personal property rights he will veto it, if he cares more about his campaign donnars he will sign it. I can guess the outcome, but who knows he may surprise me.
Well powered flight has immediate and obvious useful applications, this thing less so, at least as far as I can see. Powered flight means I can get there faster, or cross rough terrain impossible in other vehicles, etc etc. Giant sphere of super heated liquid salt, not really sure how I can use that. Which is not say that is a reason not build the thing.
A better analogy would be Orville and Wilbur carving a wooden wing and running around the bike shop with it to feel that it does indeed produce lift when pushed through a fluid like air. Its a required precursor to powered flight, and would more represent this sort of basic research. At some point you have to try things.
What is an Electric Engine? You mean motor?
The trouble is lack of enforcement. For some reasons all our police forces seem to want to do is park someplace point a radar gun at passing traffic to catch speeders. I don't have any evidence to back this up but I find it almost impossible to accept that pestering people doing 10mpg over the posted speed on highways and major thoroughfares offers as much in the way of safety gains as stricter observation and enforcement of other traffic laws would.
I see people do the following all the time, and the police doing nothing:
1. Failing to yield to pedestrians at a cross walk.
2. Failing to yield to their right at four way stop, where there is a backup or both arrived at the same time.
3. Failing to treat an out traffic signal as four way stop.
4. Backing up after entering an intersection to make a left and the light changed, if you entered legally under green you are to exit forward ALWAYS
5. Failing to yield to lefting drivers who entered on green after the light has changed
6. Evading traffic control devices, cutting the parking lots to avoid lights etc,
7. Doing rights on red, where it has been prohibited by a sign.
8. Making a right on red from the left lane
9. Failing to honk when passing stopped traffic, mail truck etc
10. Failing to stop for school buses
--
These are unfortunately no longer illegal in most places but are bad form and IMHO should be:
11. Passing on the right when using a divided highway
12. Cursing in the left lane on a divided highway.
If law enforcement would grab people for doing these atrocious violations instead of fussing over speeders we would all be way better off.
Actually the NES did have a crude DRM system, 10NES lockout, Nintendo might have invented the concept of DRM in consumer devices....
No that his point exactly. You'd buy the machine and the manufacturer would give you a BASIC interpreter, machine language monitor and compiler, I/O drivers.
You were entirely free to develop any application you needed or source if from elsewhere, with no deliberately crafted impediments by the manufacturer. There were also no deliberate impediments to replacing the BASIC interpreter, monitor program, I/O drivers etc, but its equally unlikely they went out of their way to make easy to do so, by putting these things on writable memories or anything like that.
Still the situation was infinitely preferable to the attitude manufactures take today IMHO.
Actually what I have observed the typical behavior of most mail servers in the commercial business I have been associated with doing is to try and encrypt than fall back to clear text. When they go to relay out they will connect in the clear, issue a START TLS, if they get a 2XX response code TLS goes forward, if not they move forward plain text.
Encryption may not help you here. When we get to talking about graph analysis and learning, suddenly who you are talking to becomes as interesting as what you are talking about.
You might be identified as threat based sole on what would seem to be unusual information flows. For example, if someone in say HR is trading lots of mails with someone in accounting, an other person in inventory management, and finally a couple of warehouse shipping clerks, such a system might flag it as a possible theft conspiracy to steal inventory.
It would be unusual for such a ad-hoc group to be exchanging information at high frequency, and might warrant scrutiny. You can discover that and flag it independent of the the messages being encrypted or not. It could be completely innocent of course, they might just be on the company volleyball team together. Still its an interesting technology.