One more nut job that's allowed to live. I'm not sure others would have been so forgiving if they had the chance with that guy. Al-Queda, nutjob or otherwise.
And WTF, I'd have at least expected air marshalls would be on the flight, especially as one would expect them to be on the holidays.
I'm in Vancouver and the Poutine just isn't the same as in Quebec. I'm going to have to go there this summer (pour de la bonne Poutine!). Any ideas what restaurants serve the Italian poutine? I haven't seen or heard of it before. Is it a Montreal or maybe Toronto only thing (w/ the strong Italian communities?)?
Distributing FOIA documents in electronic forma bears the consequence of leaving employee and Word/Acrobat metadata. They should should just dump the file into a plain text and then run it through a.txt to PDF converter.
Instead of drawing over words or phrases with black marker as is common, it should be acceptable to redact words, sentences or paragraphs with ", ". If its need to know, you won't get the information anyways so it isn't relevant to know how much information is redacted, I can't see how this would contribute to openness. It also avoids the games people have played in the past with being able to guess what the redacted word(s) or a sentence by judging the spacing of characters and type of font used missing from the text.
Where can I buy a Delorean they are hard to find nowadays? I'm working on the flux gapacitor. I'm adding Nitro to the car so I can go 88 mph in no time and the source of the 1.21 gigawatts is easy for me to get. Its just that darn Delorean. I don't think my Honda Civic will work. Screw it, I'm going to steal a Ferrari.
I sort of a dummy with backups (or lazy) and haven't really organized anything properly which is making it a major PITA right now. Thankfully I don't have anything I really need backed up on my PC.
I've used Rsync and some TAR programs (I've considered CVS for just.TXT or.DOC files) but I find that the info gets spread out over different directories and partitions and drives which creates a huge mess.
Anyone have recommendations on naming/folder conventions for the super-disorganized. I know there been several/. threads on this. I'm just hoping a similarly disorganized person can offer some help to a lazy person such as me.
The NSA has not put a backdoor in Windows. When the intelligence agencies comment on these matters, the answer is always "We will neither confirm or deny...." which always implies that they had some role in the matter. Now that both MS and the NSA have publicly stated that no backdoor was installed in Windows, and is such a departure from the usual PR stance that it is impossible to conclude otherwise that such a backdoor was not and would never have been installed.
Barring my sarcasm, I would think that there is more at stake in securing Windows than putting a backdoor in it. Chances are, if there is a backdoor, than others will find it which makes it a futile effort. I think of it this way. It would be one thing to backdoor Windows, if you wanted to spy on Joe citizen or a terrorist. But, Windows is used throughout businesses within the US: Banks, Utilities, major industry, government, law enforcement, etc. Such a Trojan whether on desktop PCs or on Servers could cause major economic and security repercussions. As others have pointed out, the NSA has released other products to help in security like SE Linux and various encryption algorithms which AFAIK have stood up to independent audits by experts.
They were probably tasked with only looking at certain portions of the Windows code anyways much like they had likely done with previous versions of Windows and maybe other major OSes. There's been plenty of bugs found since in Windows that no matter how much auditing of code in any OS, being found out of planting a Trojan has many more consequences that exploiting holes that are already there anyways.
I'm wondering what their data retention policy is. I'm not sure about most companies or industries but AFAIK most businesses, financial companies and law firms are obligated to keep records for 7 to 10 years. Some might keep longer. Now I can understand if these guys want to keep the info for 2 year, in case there's an unsatisfied customer who wants their money back (for example, had test done elsewhere and theirs is different). If the retention policy of this industry permits indefinite, then there should be laws to protect customers including not only retention but sharing of information and proper deletion of records.
I was looking at the source in the latest CVS builds. The devs have commented (caveat this is not the exact quote):// This lib is for Holographic Projectors display.// E17 is running pretty well on LCDs but when// version 1.0 hits, we'll have to be ready// for the current tech.
I remember several years ago, Rasterman had posted on his personal website that he was working on E17 to work with mobile phones and had a picture of his own phone running some version or semblance of E17. All I know is if this phone works out pretty well in the next 2 years, my next phone is going to be running E17. The interface I'm sure is going to be fun to use.
A friend worked overseas in ordnance disposal. It is, by most accounts, one of the most dangerous job out there. He left, but I'll be quite content if I know more soldiers and peacekeepers in the future will be kept safer.
Even if this thing had a 100% success rate, I'd still be cautious about clearing the minefield. But this can at least help where you know with some certainty there are mines in the area, and you will have some certainty there is a mine in that location or within the vicinity.
This does not make the job safe. Maybe safer. If this works, it might be able to save a few lives and/or most certainly limbs. It doesn't remove the danger of removing the mines from the ground. AFAIK, the mines also have some countermeasures when being removed that they still detonate.
This might also be handy in places like Palestine where there remains a lot of cluster munitions that have not exploded. Heck, I would think some parts of Europe from WWI and WWII still have buried mines.
Love the first paragraph in TFA that points out the obvious: "For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore."
Holy shit. I always thought "For years, elephants have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore."
I just learned something today. Guess I thought I knew more about elephants than people. I am sadly mistaken.
With Carly as governor I predict she will manage the outsourcing of California state government to India.
'Government 411 operator': Thank you for calling HP, i mean the State of California. May I have your serial number? Caller: Hello, I'm calling from Malibu. We need to call a State of Emergency. The water main broke and there's major flooding. Operator: There is flooding in Mumbai? Caller: No Malibu. 2 hours later. Caller: No Malibu. M-a-l-i-b-u. Operator: Sorry. I cannot help you without a serial number. Caller:.... I'm drowning...... Operator: I can't hear you. Please call with the serial number. Or stop by office in Mumbai. Have nice day!
What a waste! It seems that from what I've understood, once banned that XBox can never be reconnected to XBox Live ever again. I know that when I was 16, I probably would have modded an XBox. But when you get a bit older, or after being caught, it stands that you might have learned your lesson. I'd hope MS has some sort of reversal process. Perhaps send the XBox back to their factory for servicing to get it reactivated. Otherwise, it kills the idea of reselling to an innocent party that wants to connect to Live and makes sure that the banned XBox 360 will end up in the landfill a lot sooner that it would.
I think a better solution would be for the patent to be described using pseudocode or some variation thereof. Since this is afterall a software patent, the application should be written in a form that is legible to others in the field. It would also lead to easier settlement of a dispute since previous art could more easily be compared with pseudocode.
I've been reading some of the posts on other websites as well as Slashdot on the subject of the Hackintoshes and the new Atom Processor restriction.
There are several themes that come up in opposition to Apple's practices. Some of these arguments are they can't enforce the EULA after sale even when you can't read EULA at time of sale. This they say is a restriction of sale. And the second is that hardware is Apple's main source of profit and it is within Apple's interest to stay profitable (duh!).
Printers seem to have(had) the same type of restriction. Buy the printer at a loss for the manufacturer only to buy their expensive refills to help them stay profitable. Now some of the printer manufacturers were preventing consumers from buying recycled or refilled cartridges (through HW and SW). If I recall major printer manufacturers lost a lawsuit over this restriction. Apple is also using this type of EULA and HW/SW restriction.
Another theme is that if you Hackintosh, you're robbing Apple's coffers. Take too much away and they won't be able to afford or justify developing OSX. So if you like Apple you should pay full price for OSX and a Mac and fill their piggy banks. Now if you're a good Apple consumer you've already bought a Mac (so Apple makes a profit from you) and in buying Snow Leopard you're keeping them in the green because you already bought their HW.
I think a good counterargument to this is game consoles. Console makers generally sell their hardware at a loss to later recoup in software sales and merchandise. So, if you really like your console you should at least buy enough games for the manufacturer to turn a profit. Except that in Nintendo's case many are just buying Wii one or two games and that's it. Nintendo is losing money. Ditto Sony if some people are only buying the PS3 as a (cheap) Blu-Ray player.
So I'd ask to clarify, How is the hackintosh different, legally, that the restrictions the printer manufacturers tried to impose on consumers? You don't agree to buy, in the future, that manufacturers' toner at the time of purchase.
And if the argument by Apple is to protect their profit margins, then how is this any different then the game console argument? Consumers only want access to what they want they (probably) don't care if the company stays profitable. Seems like a fair rule of the markets and Capitalism.
All I can conclude from your post is that you're a pretty maid working in one of these high-class hotels. You brought up China since you likely work for another country and you want to attention away from yourself. You believe your IQ surpasses 10 to possibly 100's of engineers.
And since you only mention 5% "of us" as being targets, you hope that almost everyone reading this is going to fall in the 95% category who don't need to do anything to make your job easier.
If I were a recording artist, I'd be recording a track of what sounds like someone typing on a keyboard. Therefore anyone typing on a keyboard, would be violating the copyright. So there..... I know that most people on Slashdot type on a keyboard. You'd all be fucked. Who needs karaoke wannabes to make serious dough?
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One more nut job that's allowed to live. I'm not sure others would have been so forgiving if they had the chance with that guy. Al-Queda, nutjob or otherwise.
And WTF, I'd have at least expected air marshalls would be on the flight, especially as one would expect them to be on the holidays.
I all want for Christmas is a .........
./ News for Poutine Lovers.
I'm in Vancouver and the Poutine just isn't the same as in Quebec. I'm going to have to go there this summer (pour de la bonne Poutine!). Any ideas what restaurants serve the Italian poutine? I haven't seen or heard of it before. Is it a Montreal or maybe Toronto only thing (w/ the strong Italian communities?)?
So are if you're an old man, you'll have to lift weights with your dick and take Viagra impress the ladies.
Distributing FOIA documents in electronic forma bears the consequence of leaving employee and Word/Acrobat metadata. They should should just dump the file into a plain text and then run it through a .txt to PDF converter.
Instead of drawing over words or phrases with black marker as is common, it should be acceptable to redact words, sentences or paragraphs with ", ". If its need to know, you won't get the information anyways so it isn't relevant to know how much information is redacted, I can't see how this would contribute to openness. It also avoids the games people have played in the past with being able to guess what the redacted word(s) or a sentence by judging the spacing of characters and type of font used missing from the text.
We all assuming its pots of real gold at the end of the rainbow. Leprechauns lied once, they'll lie twice. I saw its pots of fools gold.
I think the US Gold Reserve isn't in Fort Knox. Its at the other side of the rainbow too. ;)
Shop at Winners. Sears and the Bay are expensive.
Where can I buy a Delorean they are hard to find nowadays? I'm working on the flux gapacitor. I'm adding Nitro to the car so I can go 88 mph in no time and the source of the 1.21 gigawatts is easy for me to get. Its just that darn Delorean. I don't think my Honda Civic will work. Screw it, I'm going to steal a Ferrari.
I sort of a dummy with backups (or lazy) and haven't really organized anything properly which is making it a major PITA right now. Thankfully I don't have anything I really need backed up on my PC.
I've used Rsync and some TAR programs (I've considered CVS for just .TXT or .DOC files) but I find that the info gets spread out over different directories and partitions and drives which creates a huge mess.
Anyone have recommendations on naming/folder conventions for the super-disorganized. I know there been several /. threads on this. I'm just hoping a similarly disorganized person can offer some help to a lazy person such as me.
The NSA has not put a backdoor in Windows. When the intelligence agencies comment on these matters, the answer is always "We will neither confirm or deny...." which always implies that they had some role in the matter. Now that both MS and the NSA have publicly stated that no backdoor was installed in Windows, and is such a departure from the usual PR stance that it is impossible to conclude otherwise that such a backdoor was not and would never have been installed.
Barring my sarcasm, I would think that there is more at stake in securing Windows than putting a backdoor in it. Chances are, if there is a backdoor, than others will find it which makes it a futile effort. I think of it this way. It would be one thing to backdoor Windows, if you wanted to spy on Joe citizen or a terrorist. But, Windows is used throughout businesses within the US: Banks, Utilities, major industry, government, law enforcement, etc. Such a Trojan whether on desktop PCs or on Servers could cause major economic and security repercussions. As others have pointed out, the NSA has released other products to help in security like SE Linux and various encryption algorithms which AFAIK have stood up to independent audits by experts.
They were probably tasked with only looking at certain portions of the Windows code anyways much like they had likely done with previous versions of Windows and maybe other major OSes. There's been plenty of bugs found since in Windows that no matter how much auditing of code in any OS, being found out of planting a Trojan has many more consequences that exploiting holes that are already there anyways.
I'm wondering what their data retention policy is. I'm not sure about most companies or industries but AFAIK most businesses, financial companies and law firms are obligated to keep records for 7 to 10 years. Some might keep longer. Now I can understand if these guys want to keep the info for 2 year, in case there's an unsatisfied customer who wants their money back (for example, had test done elsewhere and theirs is different). If the retention policy of this industry permits indefinite, then there should be laws to protect customers including not only retention but sharing of information and proper deletion of records.
I was looking at the source in the latest CVS builds. The devs have commented (caveat this is not the exact quote): // This lib is for Holographic Projectors display. // E17 is running pretty well on LCDs but when // version 1.0 hits, we'll have to be ready // for the current tech.
I remember several years ago, Rasterman had posted on his personal website that he was working on E17 to work with mobile phones and had a picture of his own phone running some version or semblance of E17. All I know is if this phone works out pretty well in the next 2 years, my next phone is going to be running E17. The interface I'm sure is going to be fun to use.
A friend worked overseas in ordnance disposal. It is, by most accounts, one of the most dangerous job out there. He left, but I'll be quite content if I know more soldiers and peacekeepers in the future will be kept safer.
Even if this thing had a 100% success rate, I'd still be cautious about clearing the minefield. But this can at least help where you know with some certainty there are mines in the area, and you will have some certainty there is a mine in that location or within the vicinity.
This does not make the job safe. Maybe safer. If this works, it might be able to save a few lives and/or most certainly limbs. It doesn't remove the danger of removing the mines from the ground. AFAIK, the mines also have some countermeasures when being removed that they still detonate.
This might also be handy in places like Palestine where there remains a lot of cluster munitions that have not exploded. Heck, I would think some parts of Europe from WWI and WWII still have buried mines.
Love the first paragraph in TFA that points out the obvious: "For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore."
Holy shit. I always thought "For years, elephants have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore."
I just learned something today. Guess I thought I knew more about elephants than people. I am sadly mistaken.
With Carly as governor I predict she will manage the outsourcing of California state government to India.
'Government 411 operator': Thank you for calling HP, i mean the State of California. May I have your serial number? .... I'm drowning ......
Caller: Hello, I'm calling from Malibu. We need to call a State of Emergency. The water main broke and there's major flooding.
Operator: There is flooding in Mumbai?
Caller: No Malibu.
2 hours later.
Caller: No Malibu. M-a-l-i-b-u.
Operator: Sorry. I cannot help you without a serial number.
Caller:
Operator: I can't hear you. Please call with the serial number. Or stop by office in Mumbai. Have nice day!
What a waste! It seems that from what I've understood, once banned that XBox can never be reconnected to XBox Live ever again. I know that when I was 16, I probably would have modded an XBox. But when you get a bit older, or after being caught, it stands that you might have learned your lesson. I'd hope MS has some sort of reversal process. Perhaps send the XBox back to their factory for servicing to get it reactivated. Otherwise, it kills the idea of reselling to an innocent party that wants to connect to Live and makes sure that the banned XBox 360 will end up in the landfill a lot sooner that it would.
I think a better solution would be for the patent to be described using pseudocode or some variation thereof. Since this is afterall a software patent, the application should be written in a form that is legible to others in the field. It would also lead to easier settlement of a dispute since previous art could more easily be compared with pseudocode.
Couple of days from now there will be a HOT COFEE mod for Windows. So much more comprehensive than whatever was in GTA.
Wow. That's really sad. By the sound of it, he's really lucky to be alive.
I've been reading some of the posts on other websites as well as Slashdot on the subject of the Hackintoshes and the new Atom Processor restriction.
There are several themes that come up in opposition to Apple's practices. Some of these arguments are they can't enforce the EULA after sale even when you can't read EULA at time of sale. This they say is a restriction of sale. And the second is that hardware is Apple's main source of profit and it is within Apple's interest to stay profitable (duh!).
Printers seem to have(had) the same type of restriction. Buy the printer at a loss for the manufacturer only to buy their expensive refills to help them stay profitable. Now some of the printer manufacturers were preventing consumers from buying recycled or refilled cartridges (through HW and SW). If I recall major printer manufacturers lost a lawsuit over this restriction. Apple is also using this type of EULA and HW/SW restriction.
Another theme is that if you Hackintosh, you're robbing Apple's coffers. Take too much away and they won't be able to afford or justify developing OSX. So if you like Apple you should pay full price for OSX and a Mac and fill their piggy banks. Now if you're a good Apple consumer you've already bought a Mac (so Apple makes a profit from you) and in buying Snow Leopard you're keeping them in the green because you already bought their HW.
I think a good counterargument to this is game consoles. Console makers generally sell their hardware at a loss to later recoup in software sales and merchandise. So, if you really like your console you should at least buy enough games for the manufacturer to turn a profit. Except that in Nintendo's case many are just buying Wii one or two games and that's it. Nintendo is losing money. Ditto Sony if some people are only buying the PS3 as a (cheap) Blu-Ray player.
So I'd ask to clarify,
How is the hackintosh different, legally, that the restrictions the printer manufacturers tried to impose on consumers? You don't agree to buy, in the future, that manufacturers' toner at the time of purchase.
And if the argument by Apple is to protect their profit margins, then how is this any different then the game console argument? Consumers only want access to what they want they (probably) don't care if the company stays profitable. Seems like a fair rule of the markets and Capitalism.
Perhaps not. But I think there is a link to this and the DARPA red-balloon hunt - http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/0056236/Find-DARPAs-Balloons-Win-40K
Pystar just has to change the System Configuration at time of sale ship the systems with absolutely no RAM.
Or at least 640k. It won't be enough for OS X but it will be enough for everybody to be happy.
All I can conclude from your post is that you're a pretty maid working in one of these high-class hotels. You brought up China since you likely work for another country and you want to attention away from yourself. You believe your IQ surpasses 10 to possibly 100's of engineers.
And since you only mention 5% "of us" as being targets, you hope that almost everyone reading this is going to fall in the 95% category who don't need to do anything to make your job easier.
If I were a recording artist, I'd be recording a track of what sounds like someone typing on a keyboard. Therefore anyone typing on a keyboard, would be violating the copyright. So there ..... I know that most people on Slashdot type on a keyboard. You'd all be fucked. Who needs karaoke wannabes to make serious dough?