The private e-mail thing was the least of his worries. It's like saying you got busted for drunk driving with a beer in your hand after having robbed a bank at gunpoint and kidnapped one of the tellers. But a tail light was out (gasp! shock! horror!).
Most companies that buy that many systems have their own image they just blast onto the laptop. Since it's usually a base install of the OS plus required drivers and software, there's no Superfish installed.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. This 'bug' has apparently been around for months (October/November) and it's just now that people are noticing? And the fix is patching the kernel rather than regressing whatever change was in Chrome that added this?
The problem is that zombies either bite and infect or bite and kill/eat. From watching the various movies and TV shows, the bite and infect starts for the first few generations of the disease but turns to bite and kill once there's a sufficient number of infected. Thus the number of people that are infected are lower and the number of people that are infected and mobile (still have legs/arms) is probably lower still. The WWZ movie makes the infection almost instantaneous which allows you to boost the number of bite and infect, but almost nobody else (even the book) shows the disease infecting that quickly.
Fortunately I have a Beowulf of RPis to cut that time down.
Seriously though, I've been using h.264 MKV files for a number of years even before I owned a RPi and I've never had a problem playing videos aside from slight delays on high bitrate BluRay files.
That's the fault of the processor and not the GPU. People care more about the actual playback performance more than the UI (which could be done via a tablet or laptop anyway). Anyway, the faster performance of the RPi 2 makes this a bit of a moot point.
The first generation Raspberry Pi did SD pretty well and could do HD with a few caveats. The RPi 2 has even more CPU and memory and does quite well with the HD movies I've thrown at it. And it's 1/10 the price of the Intel offering.
Like I said, this might work if the work were short term. Then again we already have consulting companies for that kind of work and the people that run said companies usually take the place of agents.
Writers, performers, singers, boxers all have agents. I'm not sure if the model works for all those groups of people, but that's what's there. On the other hand, that's mostly because they don't have a regular job - they need someone to find and negotiate the pay for them as they're either otherwise busy working or don't have the skills or contacts to get the work. Maybe if the job were per-project and rockstar developers could come in and guarantee some level of performance for some level of pay negotiated by the agent that could work.
IBM no longer sells desktop and they're getting out of the server market as well, so I think they'll be Lenovo's best customer for the foreseeable future.
As for Oracle, my guess is that these are Big Beefy Machines(tm) used as replacements for the IBM mainframes (which IBM still owns). They probably do use some in their back-end gear, but don't forget that Oracle also owns Oracle Linux and they have their own line of x86 hardware. That's more likely what they have most of.
This release was anything but accidental. Jeb did it intentionally and never bothered to have the e-mails scanned for PII. Just because you tell the government something doesn't automatically make it public record. My tax returns are protected, my passport information is protected. You can't just march up to a government official and demand they hand over every record of communication. That's why there are FOIA offices - to make the determination of what can be released to meet the need of the request.
...if a privacy interest is found to exist, the public interest in disclosure, if any, must be weighed against the privacy interest in nondisclosure. If no public interest exists, the information should be protected; as the D.C. Circuit has observed, "something, even a modest privacy interest, outweighs nothing every time." If there is a public interest in disclosure that outweighs the privacy interest, the information should be disclosed; if the opposite is found to be the case, the information should be withheld.
First off, jeb@jeb.org isn't a government domain. Second, an SSN is usually considered PII and should not be released to anyone. Third, I wonder if any of those e-mails had the standard legalish boilerplate signature saying the e-mail is intended for the recipient only.
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Then there's what really happened:
http://mediamatters.org/resear...
The private e-mail thing was the least of his worries. It's like saying you got busted for drunk driving with a beer in your hand after having robbed a bank at gunpoint and kidnapped one of the tellers. But a tail light was out (gasp! shock! horror!).
No, it's "Bush did bad things too, and suffered no consequences over it. So why are you up in arms over it now?"
Nixon suffered consequences over what he did.
Most companies that buy that many systems have their own image they just blast onto the laptop. Since it's usually a base install of the OS plus required drivers and software, there's no Superfish installed.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. This 'bug' has apparently been around for months (October/November) and it's just now that people are noticing? And the fix is patching the kernel rather than regressing whatever change was in Chrome that added this?
How does that relate to listens on Spotify/Pandora, concert attendance, or other album sales? You know, how the band actually makes money.
The problem is that zombies either bite and infect or bite and kill/eat. From watching the various movies and TV shows, the bite and infect starts for the first few generations of the disease but turns to bite and kill once there's a sufficient number of infected. Thus the number of people that are infected are lower and the number of people that are infected and mobile (still have legs/arms) is probably lower still. The WWZ movie makes the infection almost instantaneous which allows you to boost the number of bite and infect, but almost nobody else (even the book) shows the disease infecting that quickly.
Can't you restore an old iTunes backup or is that no longer available? Maybe this was back in the days when my wife had an iPhone.
You're also seeing people get annoyed with the latest iOS release and hold off on upgrading or revert back.
Fortunately I have a Beowulf of RPis to cut that time down.
Seriously though, I've been using h.264 MKV files for a number of years even before I owned a RPi and I've never had a problem playing videos aside from slight delays on high bitrate BluRay files.
That's the fault of the processor and not the GPU. People care more about the actual playback performance more than the UI (which could be done via a tablet or laptop anyway). Anyway, the faster performance of the RPi 2 makes this a bit of a moot point.
The first generation Raspberry Pi did SD pretty well and could do HD with a few caveats. The RPi 2 has even more CPU and memory and does quite well with the HD movies I've thrown at it. And it's 1/10 the price of the Intel offering.
I walked right into that one. Well played.
In related news, iPod Touch sales are apparently nonexistent.
Outside of kids, that's probably true.
Get your own blogging platform.
Pfft. Who reads the articles?
Like I said, this might work if the work were short term. Then again we already have consulting companies for that kind of work and the people that run said companies usually take the place of agents.
Writers, performers, singers, boxers all have agents. I'm not sure if the model works for all those groups of people, but that's what's there. On the other hand, that's mostly because they don't have a regular job - they need someone to find and negotiate the pay for them as they're either otherwise busy working or don't have the skills or contacts to get the work. Maybe if the job were per-project and rockstar developers could come in and guarantee some level of performance for some level of pay negotiated by the agent that could work.
A Class 4 full size SD card. Sounds exactly the same.
Don't get me wrong: the SR-64HXA is overpriced, but don't think that you can get a similar card for $16.
Of course, the company that won the lawsuit wasn't the one who made the invention, or the one who patented it.
Doesn't matter. Patent ownership can be bought and sold and could be considered an investment.
Yeah, I corrected myself later on and didn't go back and change the original statement.
IBM no longer sells desktop and they're getting out of the server market as well, so I think they'll be Lenovo's best customer for the foreseeable future.
As for Oracle, my guess is that these are Big Beefy Machines(tm) used as replacements for the IBM mainframes (which IBM still owns). They probably do use some in their back-end gear, but don't forget that Oracle also owns Oracle Linux and they have their own line of x86 hardware. That's more likely what they have most of.
Doesn't matter if he is using it in an official capacity.
If he's using it in an official capacity, then the records may not be his to release. It would have to be up to the state of Florida to release them.
Again, what?
This release was anything but accidental. Jeb did it intentionally and never bothered to have the e-mails scanned for PII. Just because you tell the government something doesn't automatically make it public record. My tax returns are protected, my passport information is protected. You can't just march up to a government official and demand they hand over every record of communication. That's why there are FOIA offices - to make the determination of what can be released to meet the need of the request.
Public records laws do not automatically exempt PII; they would be rather useless if they did.
What?
http://www.justice.gov/sites/d...
...if a privacy interest is found to exist, the public interest in disclosure, if any, must be weighed against the privacy interest in nondisclosure. If no public interest exists, the information should be protected; as the D.C. Circuit has observed, "something, even a modest privacy interest, outweighs nothing every time." If there is a public interest in disclosure that outweighs the privacy interest, the information should be disclosed; if the opposite is found to be the case, the information should be withheld.
First off, jeb@jeb.org isn't a government domain. Second, an SSN is usually considered PII and should not be released to anyone. Third, I wonder if any of those e-mails had the standard legalish boilerplate signature saying the e-mail is intended for the recipient only.