"reefer madness" - That fits in with the mellow voice and peacefull attitude.:)
Police: Some of my relatives, freinds and even friends kids are cops. They are normal people with abnormal jobs, cops are no different to the social rejection of a stripper, neither are anything to be ashamed of, and we all whore ourselves for money in one way or another. The only alternative to a society that has "cops" is one of anarchy, taking the DRC as just one of many examples, anarchy does not seem a desirable way live.
What I don't understand is how a parent can organize and pay for connectivity and still not know the thing is connected? Are there really any parents out there that are this monumentally stupid, has anyone here met one?
And furthermore, if such parents really do exist then it's little wonder that the "kids are smarter than their parents" because these hypothetical, technologically naive, parents are either suffering from senility or must trully be as dumb as dog shit.
I highly recommend Carl Sagan's book Demon haunted world. It should be compulsory as an intoductory text to high school science and the misunderstood skill of "skepticisim" (ie: critical thinking), putting a "just philosophy" sticker on the front of something that "just works" would be a small price to pay.
"Often when somebody prints out a document to distribute at a meeting they print the full path to the document in the footer of every page. This has always seemed like a bad idea to me."
Managing documents is not a task to be taken lightly, especially when the document is the product of more than one person, document management systems work in essentially the same way as source control systems. The reason the file is on the footer is to deliberately identify where the document came from (ie: is it "official" or just someones private backup copy). It is also (ironically) a simplistic security measure that makes hard copies somewhat trackable.
Removing the path is a "security through obscurity" solution that would impose an inconvienince on the people who create/edit/review documentation and would increase the risk of corrupt documentation (ie: lost update syndrome).
OTOH: I'm sure there are cases where "burning" is demanded because "shreading" is considered too risky, but I rather think they would be the exception rather than the rule.
I agree entirely, where I currently work we make heavy use of VM's for testing purposes. 10yrs ago managing test configurations and test machines was an expensive nightmare for any multi-platform product, nowadays it is done with a couple of servers and a bunch of VM's. It's still expensive in labour but not so much of a nightmare to reproduce various software environments.
MS will attempt to "absorb" the virtualization bussiness but I can't see software shops simply dumping their existing VM's for a "faulty by design" offering.
"From the article: "When quizzed on Microsoft's plans, Mr. Ballmer replied, "Our view is that virtualization is something that should be built into the operating system.""
Yeah we are like the states, in that we are also continually embarassed by our official representatives. They played the ad on the (after hours) news and talk shows the other night, I doubt it will stay banned for long. Besides, it doesn't really matter now since more or less all 20 million of us have paid some attention to it for free.
My hunch is all 80 of them belong to the bunch of neo-nazi's that call themselves the "Family first" party.
It's also interesting to note that this happened on the same weekend that Dick Chenney came to town. Security ground Sydney to a halt while Dick enjoyed a taxpayer funded $2M "beer with the PM", and (with not a little irony), pontificated about "violence and disruption".
"We want David Hicks back.": Our PM and AG will "do everything they can" except utter those five words since well they would...ummm....hand him over, as they have for every other nation after the US supreme court desicion was made a few years ago. This and several other issues has now made the PM's own seat in parliment very vunerable in the next election, (4% swing is required to unseat him). BTW: Please don't use the above information to infer the opposition are in any way more competent than the current crop.
I haven't read the book (it's on my "list"), I did see a couple of episodes of the documentry and his ideas certainly make sense. I missed the episode on N. America, I always assumed the north had found a "comfortable niche" like the nomadic Mongouls that still survive today.
Hezbollah - Part of a democratically elected government.
Hamas - Leaders a democratically elected government.
Neo-Cons - Leaders of a democratically elected government.
Zionists - Part of a democratically elected government.
Don't kid yourself that this about ideology, or nukes, or a cure for AIDS or even a clash of civilizations. It's about oil and how the five permenent members of the security council use proxies against each other to obtain/retain access to it.
Why is it so hard to belive these people had been trading in ideas and customs for mellenia, then one day someones idea took the traceable form of a clovis and spread rapidly through an existing network?
And they say education doesn't need fixing, it's about income tax, I repeat, income tax. You make a profit, you pay tax. The "tea party" was about tax collected in the colonies going to an offshore king, tax is nothing new to either the US or the colonies that preceded it. Ranting about forefarthers and slaes tax just demonstrates how clueless you are about the civilized world around you. If you really want to change the world then rant about how they spend it, because they're not going to stop collecting it
"Join the movement and bring down a shit storm upon their heads."
Just goes to show the 2nd ammendment also has a downside.
Disclaimer: I picked an AC as an example of the idiotic reactions to be found in this thread.
I think the time has come for to give up on encryption and move to plan B, and no they don't mean plan A + panic, they mean they will be forced to randomly post armed gaurds on customers DVD player's.
Sure it will be somewhat inconvienient and more expensive for customers, but that's the price they are choosing to pay when they turn a blind eye to piracy.
Any product that does not make it out the door is "finished", that equates to 60-80% of all software products depending on who you listen to. Personal experience says to me it's more like 10-20%, but I'm not regularly involved in pre-sales or spreadsheet scripting.
Another category of "finished" software products are those tagged with the euphemisim "functionally stable" or "legacy", wich roughly translated means "go away and RTFM".
I loved this idea when I first heard it (the service not the sales scam). Perhaps if there were some evidence of "the worlds largest solar panel factory" actually being built in 2007 I would buy into it.
OTOH: My skepticism is about this particular company's credentials, not so much the basic idea of leasing solar panels. I still think there are many large corpratations with deep enough pockets to make something like this actually work in the not to distant future.
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"reefer madness" - That fits in with the mellow voice and peacefull attitude. :)
Police: Some of my relatives, freinds and even friends kids are cops. They are normal people with abnormal jobs, cops are no different to the social rejection of a stripper, neither are anything to be ashamed of, and we all whore ourselves for money in one way or another. The only alternative to a society that has "cops" is one of anarchy, taking the DRC as just one of many examples, anarchy does not seem a desirable way live.
What I don't understand is how a parent can organize and pay for connectivity and still not know the thing is connected? Are there really any parents out there that are this monumentally stupid, has anyone here met one?
And furthermore, if such parents really do exist then it's little wonder that the "kids are smarter than their parents" because these hypothetical, technologically naive, parents are either suffering from senility or must trully be as dumb as dog shit.
I highly recommend Carl Sagan's book Demon haunted world. It should be compulsory as an intoductory text to high school science and the misunderstood skill of "skepticisim" (ie: critical thinking), putting a "just philosophy" sticker on the front of something that "just works" would be a small price to pay.
How the hell do you electroplate a non-conducting surface?
I guess the GP wasn't kidding when he said: "quite an advanced process really".
"Often when somebody prints out a document to distribute at a meeting they print the full path to the document in the footer of every page. This has always seemed like a bad idea to me."
Managing documents is not a task to be taken lightly, especially when the document is the product of more than one person, document management systems work in essentially the same way as source control systems. The reason the file is on the footer is to deliberately identify where the document came from (ie: is it "official" or just someones private backup copy). It is also (ironically) a simplistic security measure that makes hard copies somewhat trackable.
Removing the path is a "security through obscurity" solution that would impose an inconvienince on the people who create/edit/review documentation and would increase the risk of corrupt documentation (ie: lost update syndrome).
OTOH: I'm sure there are cases where "burning" is demanded because "shreading" is considered too risky, but I rather think they would be the exception rather than the rule.
I agree entirely, where I currently work we make heavy use of VM's for testing purposes. 10yrs ago managing test configurations and test machines was an expensive nightmare for any multi-platform product, nowadays it is done with a couple of servers and a bunch of VM's. It's still expensive in labour but not so much of a nightmare to reproduce various software environments.
MS will attempt to "absorb" the virtualization bussiness but I can't see software shops simply dumping their existing VM's for a "faulty by design" offering.
"From the article: "When quizzed on Microsoft's plans, Mr. Ballmer replied, "Our view is that virtualization is something that should be built into the operating system.""
VM == Virtually Microsoft's?
Sorry, random link syndrome. I agree "bugger" was the proverbial "storm in a tea cup" but I think you missed my point.
As an Aussie may I be the first to say "bugger!".
Yeah we are like the states, in that we are also continually embarassed by our official representatives. They played the ad on the (after hours) news and talk shows the other night, I doubt it will stay banned for long. Besides, it doesn't really matter now since more or less all 20 million of us have paid some attention to it for free.
My hunch is all 80 of them belong to the bunch of neo-nazi's that call themselves the "Family first" party.
It's also interesting to note that this happened on the same weekend that Dick Chenney came to town. Security ground Sydney to a halt while Dick enjoyed a taxpayer funded $2M "beer with the PM", and (with not a little irony), pontificated about "violence and disruption".
"We want David Hicks back.": Our PM and AG will "do everything they can" except utter those five words since well they would...ummm....hand him over, as they have for every other nation after the US supreme court desicion was made a few years ago. This and several other issues has now made the PM's own seat in parliment very vunerable in the next election, (4% swing is required to unseat him). BTW: Please don't use the above information to infer the opposition are in any way more competent than the current crop.
I could be wrong but can't you vote the current "king" out of office?
I haven't read the book (it's on my "list"), I did see a couple of episodes of the documentry and his ideas certainly make sense. I missed the episode on N. America, I always assumed the north had found a "comfortable niche" like the nomadic Mongouls that still survive today.
"Wipe Israel off the map" == "Regime change".
Hezbollah - Part of a democratically elected government.
Hamas - Leaders a democratically elected government.
Neo-Cons - Leaders of a democratically elected government.
Zionists - Part of a democratically elected government.
Don't kid yourself that this about ideology, or nukes, or a cure for AIDS or even a clash of civilizations. It's about oil and how the five permenent members of the security council use proxies against each other to obtain/retain access to it.
The thing I find odd is that most of the advanced civilizations were in Mexico and S. America, rather than from the North. Aside from the Incas and Myan's, there is also good evidence the Amazon was once crisscrossed with roads and towns. Civilizations pop up in the most bizzare places, Easter Island anyone?
Why is it so hard to belive these people had been trading in ideas and customs for mellenia, then one day someones idea took the traceable form of a clovis and spread rapidly through an existing network?
"If you follow the work of Michael Cremo you will learn that modern human skeletons have been found in strata deposited millions of years old..."
...researchers also found a car tyre, a double bed matresses, and staggering 73,891 plastic bags. More news at 11:00.
And they say education doesn't need fixing, it's about income tax, I repeat, income tax. You make a profit, you pay tax. The "tea party" was about tax collected in the colonies going to an offshore king, tax is nothing new to either the US or the colonies that preceded it. Ranting about forefarthers and slaes tax just demonstrates how clueless you are about the civilized world around you. If you really want to change the world then rant about how they spend it, because they're not going to stop collecting it
"Join the movement and bring down a shit storm upon their heads."
Just goes to show the 2nd ammendment also has a downside.
Disclaimer: I picked an AC as an example of the idiotic reactions to be found in this thread.
I was aiming at humour but somehow I hit insightfull?
"This morning, I made a request to Apple that they remove the link from their downloads page."
Excellent idea, I can't help making the analogy that this guy is like someone who plants land mines around their letterbox.
I think the time has come for to give up on encryption and move to plan B, and no they don't mean plan A + panic, they mean they will be forced to randomly post armed gaurds on customers DVD player's.
Sure it will be somewhat inconvienient and more expensive for customers, but that's the price they are choosing to pay when they turn a blind eye to piracy.
Any product that does not make it out the door is "finished", that equates to 60-80% of all software products depending on who you listen to. Personal experience says to me it's more like 10-20%, but I'm not regularly involved in pre-sales or spreadsheet scripting.
Another category of "finished" software products are those tagged with the euphemisim "functionally stable" or "legacy", wich roughly translated means "go away and RTFM".
Although MSDEV has been known blow up unexpectedly, I meant IED's not IDE's.
"[Bad guys] have shown that they have the ability to adapt to changed conditions."
IDE's disguised as mirror balls?
"im sitting here imagining a full on gas heater on a roof"
I live in an igloo you insensitive clod.
I loved this idea when I first heard it (the service not the sales scam). Perhaps if there were some evidence of "the worlds largest solar panel factory" actually being built in 2007 I would buy into it.
OTOH: My skepticism is about this particular company's credentials, not so much the basic idea of leasing solar panels. I still think there are many large corpratations with deep enough pockets to make something like this actually work in the not to distant future.
"Thing is, you have to earn their respect before you can do that..."
Bingo! Backstabbing head-nodders are a dime a dozen and have as much respect for others as they do for themselves.
"Fucked up legal system here (stateside)."
Ditto here on the other side of the Pacific.