By your standard voting by mail should be ruled out as well then, right?
Absolutely!
Imagine how vote-by-mail would work in a society where the majority of men did not believe that women should vote. Would you trust that the votes cast by their wives were accurate? Do you not believe that lots of mail in ballots are already forged?
We've sacrificed the security of voting for the cost savings in running elections.
In my experience Citrix has some serious out-of-band issues with modifier keys on Linux and Mac OS X. Shift key events don't send correctly.
C'mon, that is a problem that could be solved in an afternoon! It could be solved at the citrix client level or at the linux host level.
If project independence takes off and businesses don't need a windows license on each workstation to make it work then look out. This obstacle will stand like a sandcastle in a rising tide.
The cost of maintaining code is almost never fully considered during the design phase. Clean code is MUCH cheaper in the long run. Reworking code should not be spend on optimization, but on simplification.
It's like the famous Mark Twain line 'I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.'
When you have some "hamster code" that HAS to be optimized, it should be isolated and heavily documented.
I have another mental picture for you. I read the heading " New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole" and thought hemorrhoids. Painful, painful hemorrhoids!
The IT staff at my former employer saved copies of all email that went through the server... indefinitely. No, they didn't tell employees they were doing it. And yes, they had a search engine so they could do across the board searches of whatever terms seemed interesting at the time.
I find it interesting that different companies are going to different extremes. Some are limiting their exposure by trying to delete all mail and others are saving all mail in order to be able to comply with court orders (or perhaps just get a bit big brother-ish.
For a REALLY strange twist, the company I'm speaking of forced employees to maintain mailboxes under 100MB... while the server admins never deleted a single email that hit the server.
Those companies that impose draconian email limits are just going to force employees to copy the messages to files, save them in an unauthorized client, or print them out. Doing that still leaves those messages open to discovery or public disclosure requests. But it makes searching them MORE time consuming.
Archiving everything (after the spam filter is done) is the only reasonable option. It's just a problem of setting a policy for retention and then enforcing that policy in a way that lets employees do their work.
I gave the parent the benefit of the doubt, and assumed he meant that the article's author couldn't find any upstart documentation to cut and paste in. You know, sarcasm about the originality of the article.
This whole topic gave me the nudge to go back and read up on upstart. It really does have the potential to be either a colossal mess or a magical cure. I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
Katrina happened in days, global warming is going to be happening over centuries. Ignore the mental images from Gore's movie. Water will not be rushing up the streets of Manhatten.
I hate to rain on your Chicken Little routine, but where were the numerous and powerful hurricanes last season?
I read the article (really) and it never says what servers are being used behind the curtain. They were embarrassed when they could not put Hotmail on Exchange when it was originally acquired. This would be a grand showcase for the scalability of Exchange. Why isn't it being shouted from the rooftops? Are they waiting to see if it _does_ scale?
I have an old Thinkpad that I use for email and photography while on trips. It maxes out at 192MB of RAM. I tried to install Xubuntu, but it refused to run the install program. (It's one of the Acer Thinkpads!) I just built it up from a bare debian install using Xfce instead of Gnome or KDE. It's now a peppy little workhorse.
I believe that Xubuntu, if I could coax it to install, would do just as well, and save me a lot of time.
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All I can add is "Ramen!"
By your standard voting by mail should be ruled out as well then, right?
Absolutely!
Imagine how vote-by-mail would work in a society where the majority of men did not believe that women should vote. Would you trust that the votes cast by their wives were accurate? Do you not believe that lots of mail in ballots are already forged?
We've sacrificed the security of voting for the cost savings in running elections.
In my experience Citrix has some serious out-of-band issues with modifier keys on Linux and Mac OS X. Shift key events don't send correctly.
C'mon, that is a problem that could be solved in an afternoon! It could be solved at the citrix client level or at the linux host level.
If project independence takes off and businesses don't need a windows license on each workstation to make it work then look out. This obstacle will stand like a sandcastle in a rising tide.
Excellent! We can use their demise as yet another cautionary tale.
"many thousands of bloggers' entire output has evaporated"
I'm still trying to figure out what of value was lost, and if a backup was ever actually needed.
I wish I had mod points...
The cost of maintaining code is almost never fully considered during the design phase. Clean code is MUCH cheaper in the long run. Reworking code should not be spend on optimization, but on simplification.
It's like the famous Mark Twain line 'I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.'
When you have some "hamster code" that HAS to be optimized, it should be isolated and heavily documented.
I have another mental picture for you. I read the heading " New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole" and thought hemorrhoids. Painful, painful hemorrhoids!
I bet this suggestion gets ignored completely! This IS Slashdot after all!
UM, I think you neglected to mention that Evolution is also just a theory at this point.
Yeah, you might want to mention that part when you advocate suppressing alternative beliefs in the classroom...
Like the "theory of gravity"?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512
No, there would be no gravity. The gravity from the earth's mass would be equal in all directions, canceling out to zero.
The IT staff at my former employer saved copies of all email that went through the server... indefinitely. No, they didn't tell employees they were doing it. And yes, they had a search engine so they could do across the board searches of whatever terms seemed interesting at the time.
I find it interesting that different companies are going to different extremes. Some are limiting their exposure by trying to delete all mail and others are saving all mail in order to be able to comply with court orders (or perhaps just get a bit big brother-ish.
For a REALLY strange twist, the company I'm speaking of forced employees to maintain mailboxes under 100MB... while the server admins never deleted a single email that hit the server.
Those companies that impose draconian email limits are just going to force employees to copy the messages to files, save them in an unauthorized client, or print them out. Doing that still leaves those messages open to discovery or public disclosure requests. But it makes searching them MORE time consuming.
Archiving everything (after the spam filter is done) is the only reasonable option. It's just a problem of setting a policy for retention and then enforcing that policy in a way that lets employees do their work.
At 53, I still have memories of A Wrinkle in Time. I think I read it in 5th grade.
When I read "SpikeSource" I thought "Oh good, we're no longer communists! Microsoft thinks we are vampires now!"
It wasn't mentioned unless BSOD stands for Big Sky Of Darkness!
Good lord, how did this get modded up to "Insightful"? It must be some kind of sugerplum hangover.
I gave the parent the benefit of the doubt, and assumed he meant that the article's author couldn't find any upstart documentation to cut and paste in. You know, sarcasm about the originality of the article.
This whole topic gave me the nudge to go back and read up on upstart. It really does have the potential to be either a colossal mess or a magical cure. I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
How can you have an article about init without even mentioning upstart? Ubuntu has been using it since 6.10.
I can't believe it took 15 minutes for this pun to show up. I can't believe it wasn't part of the story headline.
This story was posted 21 minutes after the story about the formation of the copyright alliance, of which Sony Pictures is part of.
If that's not instant karma, I don't know what is!
We would love to destroy your arguments against Creationism, but we are too busy debunking the Global Warming hoax!
Flame on, dude!
Katrina happened in days, global warming is going to be happening over centuries. Ignore the mental images from Gore's movie. Water will not be rushing up the streets of Manhatten.
I hate to rain on your Chicken Little routine, but where were the numerous and powerful hurricanes last season?
Everyone knows the old Hotmail ran on BSD. I was wondering about the new Hotmail.
I read the article (really) and it never says what servers are being used behind the curtain. They were embarrassed when they could not put Hotmail on Exchange when it was originally acquired. This would be a grand showcase for the scalability of Exchange. Why isn't it being shouted from the rooftops? Are they waiting to see if it _does_ scale?
Global Warming has only negative side effects. You will go to hell for making statements to the contrary.
That game really drove users to buy sound cards and CD drives. It really raised the expectations of how good a game should look.
Sometimes adding memory is not an option.
I have an old Thinkpad that I use for email and photography while on trips. It maxes out at 192MB of RAM. I tried to install Xubuntu, but it refused to run the install program. (It's one of the Acer Thinkpads!) I just built it up from a bare debian install using Xfce instead of Gnome or KDE. It's now a peppy little workhorse.
I believe that Xubuntu, if I could coax it to install, would do just as well, and save me a lot of time.