Yes, that is a fairly normal practice most places. Its probably one of the biggest reasons system admins still get treated with some measure of respect and paid a reasonable wage. We have all the keys to the files and your mailbox store. We *need* because you *ask us* to look into them from time to time to help solve your problems and our discretion and ability to keep the company secrets is valued.
but e-mail is more like a post card, its wide open for all to see. Its just a plain text stream after all. One could argue an encrypted mail is more like a letter.
I completely agree with this. I did exactly what you suggested when I was in school. If you went to the computer lab there was a scanner with a document feeder available. This was a number of years ago now; these days you can probably expect to find them in every academic building on campus. In my case I was in Information Science and Minoring in Comp Sci so I was always near the computer lab anyway.
For those class where I could not just keep a terminal window open to my shell account and type my notes and or for classes like math or Computer architecture where I really needed to sketch things this was they way to fly. I just scanned it to tiff after class and copied it to my home directory.
It was great because I could review my notes anywhere on campus and just fetch them to my home system via ftp with a shell script each night; never had to carry around much of anything.
I am not apposed to making attempts protect the planet and conserve resources for future generations. I am not in favor of people just being lazy and wasteful because they can. I am however becoming more than a little tired of the constant proposals that we all leave a joyless existence without cars, pets, food we like eating, etc. Lowering our quality of life is not a solution, its a lazy cop-out. By the way its not lost on the rest of us that you elites imposing all the regulation on the rest of us and providing all these great suggestions are the ones flying everywhere in private jets, are being followed around in constantly by security agents driving 10s of giant SUVs and towing the really big parties.
It all rings a little hollow. So I have a proposal rather than I give up my cat why don't you just kill yourselves? You consume orders of magnitude more resources than I do; inclusive of my cat. If you hang yourselves tonight think of all the good you'd be doing. All that carbon you won't release, we surely do more to more to keep the seas rising; as the changes the rest of us are likely to make combined. You'll die knowing you really made a difference, who could ask for more than that? I'll even volunteer to undertake a vigil in your honor on the anniversaries of your deaths.
The NY State Unions are Outraged that their employer wants to keep its workforce healthy
I am usually as anti-union as they come but this is case where I see them actually doing some good. We don't generally have the abusive employer-employee relationships we had in the past, but your employer insisting you inject something into your body certainly counts!
Its one of the most perverse violations of rights in recent times! We are supposed to be secure in the right of our person.
Now that this has been declared a federal emergency by the big O, I fully expect other groups of people to be "required" to be vaccinated. Well I say they can vaccinate my dead body because that's the only way I let them do it! You can be darn sure I will try and take as many of whatever agents attempt to force such on me down with me too. Anyone who tries to forcefully inject a bunch of heavy metal Mg in you deserves to be injected with some Pb at high velocity in my book!
That may be true but if the majority of the rules don't at least maintain a somewhat convincing pretense of being for the good of everyone than everyone starts to loose respect for all the rules not just the stupid and or unjust ones. You end up with the collapse of society into a state of practical lawlessness.
Then if your lucky you get a fairly popular revolution that leads to a fairly stable new society for a period of time. If you are less lucky you get an endless parade of strongmen slugging it out for power. These folks in turn produce equally abhorrent laws that the majority appear to respect out of fear but passive aggressively work to undermine the system until its weak enough that the next strongman takes his turn.
You can see the pattern across just about every culture and time period in history.
If there is any successful attempt to hold viewers accountable for infringement by watching the videos than it seems to me that entire Internet is useless for anyone withing reach of German law. How can an end user ever begin to ensure that any of the content on any site they might be visiting has been licenses appropriately or is not otherwise infringing?
Honestly their commercials are not that bad. Five breaks with a single 30 second spot in a 40min program is not nearly as bad as those same five breaks with 20min worth of crap inserted. The problem is the selection. I quit paying for cable because the selection for on demand was awful; Hulu has way more; and its not enough.
I would pay for Hulu before I would ever pay for cable again. The trick is not charging to much for Hulu. I probably only want to watch five or six hours a week at the most. Three TV shows and movie maybe a second movie some weekends if the weather is nasty and my friends don't want to do anything. Of the shows I am likely watching at any given time two of the three are probably network and available free already. Hulu might command ten or fifteen dollars a month if they make the right content available and keep the commercials to the current level or less. There is not way I'd pay more, like cable I would do without.
I'm not fan of Cogent, but hell HE, if you care about your customers spend the money and get proper peeing agreements setup instead of blaming the other guy for not wanting to service your customers for free.
I am sorry and normally the last person to call other slashdoters out on a typo but this one was just to funny....
I'm not fan of Cogent, but hell HE, if you care about your customers spend the money and get proper peeing agreements setup instead of blaming the other guy for not wanting to service your customers for free.
Are you being sarcastic? A voting system takes a very finite set of possible inputs, it needs to only give some very specific outputs. I really think there are few excuses for not being able to develop a secure system, secure enough to be totally open despite the value of being able to crack it. Its not like our society can't afford to make the required investment in such a system given the other things our government is spending money doing.
If it can't be done then electronic voting should not be used at all because it can't be trust worthy without sunlight; and if the argument is it would be broken if exposed to sunlight than I want to know how you know its not cracked/broken already?
The are not being intimidated. If having your name put on website that lists your participation in a public action counts as intimidation then virtually anything does. I also find the argument people not understanding the difference between a circulating petition and a balloted election a bit of stretch.
Secret ballot elections make sense, because we want people to be able to vote their conscience free from social pressure. I don't think though anonymity should be an expectation when you are participating in a public debate, and a petition is a form of participation.
No you can't remove the battery in many(most?) cars. Try it, you will see it will die. Without the battery in lots of designs you have an open circuit. The battery can be completely dead, and beyond being able to take a charge but it needs to be there.
Roughly speaking, more CO2 in the atmosphere causes the temperature to rise faster, and yearly CO2 emissions are adding to what is already there. So the CO2 emissions graph is something like the second derivative of the temperature graph.
Well the first derivative would be the rate of acceleration so, based on your sentence that is the one I would expect to correspond with CO2 levels, not the second which would be the rate temperature change is accelerat(ing), those are very different.
Also I have never seen such a graph and still can't after some googleing. I suspect you can't produce one with, unless you use data from one of the MANY discredited reports where data points that were never measured were added as padding or where the recording devices have been found to be to near man made radiators to produce meaningful data.
In dead it is what made America a success. People were free to invest in what they knew would pay dividends. I know I can get drunk and laugh at YOU, and I will have a great time doing it. Its worth the money!
I don't know that going along with your pseudo science ( and that all it is, given 80% of the temperature monitoring stations have been found to be to close to man made radiators to produce ANY useful information ) and cutting carbon emissions will do anything other than pose unnessaray costs and burdens upon me. I chose not to make that investment thank your very much, I'd rather spend the resources on something with a better chance at real pay back, and yes that includes laughing at, and campaigning/voting against people like YOU.
I am about as against strong central governing bodies existing that even have the capability to enforce regulations that look anything like the California code, much less those that would create such law, as you will find. Still i have to point out that statements like:
The only people making money consistently and routinely in CA are the public union bosses, the lawyers and the politicians.
Don't add much to our small government argument. Its plain to anyone they are ridiculous, CA is like the tenth largest economy in the world. A better argument to make would be how it could be bigger and better than that if run with fewer restrictions.
Umm, no this one is pretty simple. Its not like an automobile engine or something where sudden shutdown could pose a hazard. When it comes to irradiating someone its always safe to shut the beam off. The response from the machine to no computer input should be turn off immediately. So it should be ok to have the computer fail.
What I have always found most ideal in complex programmable systems where there are consequences from mistakes is for the machine to express what it has been programed to do in some other nomenclature than it was programmed by the user to the user. Maybe you enter instructions in some sort of BASIC like script. The machine should answer back in some COBOL like syntax and let the user confirm this expression matches their intent.
This provides a good sanity check all around. It indicates the machine has parsed the instructions, if the user likes the response or that the machine does not properly understand the instructions and or the user made a mistake planning those instructions and does not agree with them when read back in different verbiage. This provides an opportunity to correct things.
If you are not aware of how the machine works you don't know which decisions are dangerous. If you understood what the "safeties" actually *did* rather than just knowing they are *there* and can be *reset* when a problem happens you could make an informed decision about taking that action.
The physics folks might have worked out some interesting details here but that's all it is interesting. The engineers have already moved on. Its not about getting smaller and going faster has largely past the point of diminishing returns already. There are few applications the digital logic we have today can't perform within time constraints. Even our jet fighters are practically flying themselves. In fact our computing machines are so fast we starting to struggle justifying their applications on anyone task not because they are to expensive this time but because they are so fast that their just idle most of the time anyway. Virtualization is more or less going back to time sharing without the pain. Its about doing more at the same time now, hence all the milti-core chips.
I guess I could say I have been doing code sense I was three years old as well, does sitting in your dad's lap while he writes something in BASIC really count though?
A long time ago map makers used to intentionally introduce errors so they could catch people just duplicating their maps rather than going out and measuring things for themselves and publishing the results.
I would image if you posted that headline and some other agencies picked it up you could embarrass them quite a bit about it, and do allot of marketing around how you are the real souce of news and those other guys just copy.
Well maybe there are at least some interesting debugging symbols? You know they don't strip stuff, how else could an OS that comes with hardly any software applications save for a media player and word process that does not even spell check need to ship on a dvd.
no one actually believes any of the tripe recited by politicians about the American worker being "productive" or the US economy being "strong" or that the vast majority of workers couldn't be replaced with simple machines or tiny perl scripts at the drop of a hat.
I am not so sure of that. Some people believe or at least choose to accept the lie. Otherwise how do you explain all those sovereign wealth funds the world over continuing to buy T-bills, even when rates and discounts are relatively low to what you and I might view as the risk?
Sure lots of it has to do with necessity; we are into them so deep they don't see any way to let us get out without getting in deeper. Ultimately though they system is predicated on fraud and force as you say. Trouble with fraud is even the best scheme always comes apart in the end, sooner or later a call that can't be covered will get made, or something to damning to be ignored will leak. Last I checked we have only had moderate success with that force thing as of late, at least where foreign powers are concerned. I don't think anyone will move against us directly but as soon as a few decided they can afford the losses; our voice in world policy and interests will be virtually ignored, because we can't do anything about it.
The economy is grand joke and the recovery only exists if you don't know what the word.
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Yes, that is a fairly normal practice most places. Its probably one of the biggest reasons system admins still get treated with some measure of respect and paid a reasonable wage. We have all the keys to the files and your mailbox store. We *need* because you *ask us* to look into them from time to time to help solve your problems and our discretion and ability to keep the company secrets is valued.
but e-mail is more like a post card, its wide open for all to see. Its just a plain text stream after all. One could argue an encrypted mail is more like a letter.
I completely agree with this. I did exactly what you suggested when I was in school. If you went to the computer lab there was a scanner with a document feeder available. This was a number of years ago now; these days you can probably expect to find them in every academic building on campus. In my case I was in Information Science and Minoring in Comp Sci so I was always near the computer lab anyway.
For those class where I could not just keep a terminal window open to my shell account and type my notes and or for classes like math or Computer architecture where I really needed to sketch things this was they way to fly. I just scanned it to tiff after class and copied it to my home directory.
It was great because I could review my notes anywhere on campus and just fetch them to my home system via ftp with a shell script each night; never had to carry around much of anything.
And see I thought we'd officially enter the nouveau-neoclassical-post-post-modern era.
Dear Tree Hugging Dickhead,
I am not apposed to making attempts protect the planet and conserve resources for future generations. I am not in favor of people just being lazy and wasteful because they can. I am however becoming more than a little tired of the constant proposals that we all leave a joyless existence without cars, pets, food we like eating, etc. Lowering our quality of life is not a solution, its a lazy cop-out. By the way its not lost on the rest of us that you elites imposing all the regulation on the rest of us and providing all these great suggestions are the ones flying everywhere in private jets, are being followed around in constantly by security agents driving 10s of giant SUVs and towing the really big parties.
It all rings a little hollow. So I have a proposal rather than I give up my cat why don't you just kill yourselves? You consume orders of magnitude more resources than I do; inclusive of my cat. If you hang yourselves tonight think of all the good you'd be doing. All that carbon you won't release, we surely do more to more to keep the seas rising; as the changes the rest of us are likely to make combined. You'll die knowing you really made a difference, who could ask for more than that? I'll even volunteer to undertake a vigil in your honor on the anniversaries of your deaths.
The NY State Unions are Outraged that their employer wants to keep its workforce healthy
I am usually as anti-union as they come but this is case where I see them actually doing some good. We don't generally have the abusive employer-employee relationships we had in the past, but your employer insisting you inject something into your body certainly counts!
Its one of the most perverse violations of rights in recent times! We are supposed to be secure in the right of our person.
Now that this has been declared a federal emergency by the big O, I fully expect other groups of people to be "required" to be vaccinated. Well I say they can vaccinate my dead body because that's the only way I let them do it! You can be darn sure I will try and take as many of whatever agents attempt to force such on me down with me too. Anyone who tries to forcefully inject a bunch of heavy metal Mg in you deserves to be injected with some Pb at high velocity in my book!
That may be true but if the majority of the rules don't at least maintain a somewhat convincing pretense of being for the good of everyone than everyone starts to loose respect for all the rules not just the stupid and or unjust ones. You end up with the collapse of society into a state of practical lawlessness.
Then if your lucky you get a fairly popular revolution that leads to a fairly stable new society for a period of time. If you are less lucky you get an endless parade of strongmen slugging it out for power. These folks in turn produce equally abhorrent laws that the majority appear to respect out of fear but passive aggressively work to undermine the system until its weak enough that the next strongman takes his turn.
You can see the pattern across just about every culture and time period in history.
If there is any successful attempt to hold viewers accountable for infringement by watching the videos than it seems to me that entire Internet is useless for anyone withing reach of German law. How can an end user ever begin to ensure that any of the content on any site they might be visiting has been licenses appropriately or is not otherwise infringing?
Honestly their commercials are not that bad. Five breaks with a single 30 second spot in a 40min program is not nearly as bad as those same five breaks with 20min worth of crap inserted. The problem is the selection. I quit paying for cable because the selection for on demand was awful; Hulu has way more; and its not enough.
I would pay for Hulu before I would ever pay for cable again. The trick is not charging to much for Hulu. I probably only want to watch five or six hours a week at the most. Three TV shows and movie maybe a second movie some weekends if the weather is nasty and my friends don't want to do anything. Of the shows I am likely watching at any given time two of the three are probably network and available free already. Hulu might command ten or fifteen dollars a month if they make the right content available and keep the commercials to the current level or less. There is not way I'd pay more, like cable I would do without.
I'm not fan of Cogent, but hell HE, if you care about your customers spend the money and get proper peeing agreements setup instead of blaming the other guy for not wanting to service your customers for free.
I am sorry and normally the last person to call other slashdoters out on a typo but this one was just to funny....
I'm not fan of Cogent, but hell HE, if you care about your customers spend the money and get proper peeing agreements setup instead of blaming the other guy for not wanting to service your customers for free.
Are you being sarcastic? A voting system takes a very finite set of possible inputs, it needs to only give some very specific outputs. I really think there are few excuses for not being able to develop a secure system, secure enough to be totally open despite the value of being able to crack it. Its not like our society can't afford to make the required investment in such a system given the other things our government is spending money doing.
If it can't be done then electronic voting should not be used at all because it can't be trust worthy without sunlight; and if the argument is it would be broken if exposed to sunlight than I want to know how you know its not cracked/broken already?
The are not being intimidated. If having your name put on website that lists your participation in a public action counts as intimidation then virtually anything does. I also find the argument people not understanding the difference between a circulating petition and a balloted election a bit of stretch.
Secret ballot elections make sense, because we want people to be able to vote their conscience free from social pressure. I don't think though anonymity should be an expectation when you are participating in a public debate, and a petition is a form of participation.
No you can't remove the battery in many(most?) cars. Try it, you will see it will die. Without the battery in lots of designs you have an open circuit. The battery can be completely dead, and beyond being able to take a charge but it needs to be there.
Roughly speaking, more CO2 in the atmosphere causes the temperature to rise faster, and yearly CO2 emissions are adding to what is already there. So the CO2 emissions graph is something like the second derivative of the temperature graph.
Well the first derivative would be the rate of acceleration so, based on your sentence that is the one I would expect to correspond with CO2 levels, not the second which would be the rate temperature change is accelerat(ing), those are very different.
Also I have never seen such a graph and still can't after some googleing. I suspect you can't produce one with, unless you use data from one of the MANY discredited reports where data points that were never measured were added as padding or where the recording devices have been found to be to near man made radiators to produce meaningful data.
In dead it is what made America a success. People were free to invest in what they knew would pay dividends. I know I can get drunk and laugh at YOU, and I will have a great time doing it. Its worth the money!
I don't know that going along with your pseudo science ( and that all it is, given 80% of the temperature monitoring stations have been found to be to close to man made radiators to produce ANY useful information ) and cutting carbon emissions will do anything other than pose unnessaray costs and burdens upon me. I chose not to make that investment thank your very much, I'd rather spend the resources on something with a better chance at real pay back, and yes that includes laughing at, and campaigning/voting against people like YOU.
I am about as against strong central governing bodies existing that even have the capability to enforce regulations that look anything like the California code, much less those that would create such law, as you will find.
Still i have to point out that statements like:
The only people making money consistently and routinely in CA are the public union bosses, the lawyers and the politicians.
Don't add much to our small government argument. Its plain to anyone they are ridiculous, CA is like the tenth largest economy in the world. A better argument to make would be how it could be bigger and better than that if run with fewer restrictions.
Umm, no this one is pretty simple. Its not like an automobile engine or something where sudden shutdown could pose a hazard. When it comes to irradiating someone its always safe to shut the beam off. The response from the machine to no computer input should be turn off immediately. So it should be ok to have the computer fail.
What I have always found most ideal in complex programmable systems where there are consequences from mistakes is for the machine to express what it has been programed to do in some other nomenclature than it was programmed by the user to the user. Maybe you enter instructions in some sort of BASIC like script. The machine should answer back in some COBOL like syntax and let the user confirm this expression matches their intent.
This provides a good sanity check all around. It indicates the machine has parsed the instructions, if the user likes the response or that the machine does not properly understand the instructions and or the user made a mistake planning those instructions and does not agree with them when read back in different verbiage. This provides an opportunity to correct things.
If you are not aware of how the machine works you don't know which decisions are dangerous. If you understood what the "safeties" actually *did* rather than just knowing they are *there* and can be *reset* when a problem happens you could make an informed decision about taking that action.
The physics folks might have worked out some interesting details here but that's all it is interesting. The engineers have already moved on. Its not about getting smaller and going faster has largely past the point of diminishing returns already. There are few applications the digital logic we have today can't perform within time constraints. Even our jet fighters are practically flying themselves. In fact our computing machines are so fast we starting to struggle justifying their applications on anyone task not because they are to expensive this time but because they are so fast that their just idle most of the time anyway. Virtualization is more or less going back to time sharing without the pain. Its about doing more at the same time now, hence all the milti-core chips.
I guess I could say I have been doing code sense I was three years old as well, does sitting in your dad's lap while he writes something in BASIC really count though?
A long time ago map makers used to intentionally introduce errors so they could catch people just duplicating their maps rather than going out and measuring things for themselves and publishing the results.
I would image if you posted that headline and some other agencies picked it up you could embarrass them quite a bit about it, and do allot of marketing around how you are the real souce of news and those other guys just copy.
Well maybe there are at least some interesting debugging symbols? You know they don't strip stuff, how else could an OS that comes with hardly any software applications save for a media player and word process that does not even spell check need to ship on a dvd.
Yes, but if you copy a few files from 32 bit windows, you can get 16-bit apps working. Google for a few moments.
no one actually believes any of the tripe recited by politicians about the American worker being "productive" or the US economy being "strong" or that the vast majority of workers couldn't be replaced with simple machines or tiny perl scripts at the drop of a hat.
I am not so sure of that. Some people believe or at least choose to accept the lie. Otherwise how do you explain all those sovereign wealth funds the world over continuing to buy T-bills, even when rates and discounts are relatively low to what you and I might view as the risk?
Sure lots of it has to do with necessity; we are into them so deep they don't see any way to let us get out without getting in deeper. Ultimately though they system is predicated on fraud and force as you say. Trouble with fraud is even the best scheme always comes apart in the end, sooner or later a call that can't be covered will get made, or something to damning to be ignored will leak. Last I checked we have only had moderate success with that force thing as of late, at least where foreign powers are concerned. I don't think anyone will move against us directly but as soon as a few decided they can afford the losses; our voice in world policy and interests will be virtually ignored, because we can't do anything about it.
The economy is grand joke and the recovery only exists if you don't know what the word.