To build on it, let me say this: When I learned to code websites (be it DHTML, JS, HTML, PHP, ASP, etc.) then I was more inclined to read the docs that got my page working - if someone tagged on a 100 page report that I should read (and is amazingly less fun to read since it means nothing!) then I would have given up web design.
These people have no authority, they're justifying their own jobs by attempting to force worthless rules on websites.
Will MS ever come out with the answer 'linux is better'?
The answer is no. We all know that.
Quote: "It's an opportunity for learning for us," Taylor says. The goal is to understand "what can you do and how can you do it" using open-source software, he says.
Maybe this is true, but how about this:
Expect Taylor, a 10-year Microsoft veteran who's been in his new job for just three weeks, to play up the advantages of Microsoft's integrated product line. "The end-to-end scenarios is where things don't work quite as well with Linux," he says.
Let's see... 10 years of MS/Windows and 3 weeks of Linux; I wonder which one of these he has more ease of use with? Golly jesus, could it be Win32?
This story isn't even newsworthy. Nobody is going to come out of the blue and say "hey, look, linux is better" as long as they're on a MS payroll.
This is the same as having the Butcher/Meat industry inspect their own factories instead of PETA: Of course they won't find anything wrong.
Parent gets to the root of the idea (pun intended).
Don't put your documents online if you dont want people to read them or haXorize your system. It's that simple.
So does this mean that all those people claiming that the software they steal isn't a loss because they wouldn't buy it anyway will get to buy it for $0.01? I mean, that's accurately priced for them...
I can think of cooler stuff to do with microbes - like in restauraunts, have lots of microbes at the bottom of a special trash can to eat away grease (McDonalds would love that.)
Or even a microbe spray to degrease stuff; cool, huh? No more wiping down.
Also cool would be microbes in my toilet, to eat my shit (but not die.)
Of course, I do wonder what they'd do while they weren't eating shit or grease or whatever, but who cares about that, they're cool!
Hey this guy says that it'll work until everyone is doing it - but face it, they need millions of us. One in every restauraunt, 3 for an office, depending on the literacy of the region your in, maybe more maybe less.
I just bought a $500 laptop for my boss at a restauraunt - I'll probably get a tidy finding fee since she's generous (best boss ever!) and I'll tech support it for a few extra bucks whenever I'm working.
That, and when I worked in a McDonalds, I fixed our system so many times they started paying me whenever it crashed. Fun.
I think the article is full of shit, to put it bluntly. (But I'm not a troll, don't mod me down!)
See, his whole thing is humanoid robots - but where's the robot in McDonalds? He describes humans there. Either bad writing or bad claims, but something's bad.
This freaks me out, quite like the rest of slashdot I imagine.
But I see a few problems with it: 1) How will the cost of getting a passport get passed on (no pun intended) to the customer? 2) What if i swipe it with a magnete? I mean, how many Americans are literate enough to know not to place a magnetic field over a little circuit-thingy that probably gets jacked over by it?
As the new/. karma whore, I feel the need to post this article:
US names the day for biometric passports By John Leyden Posted: 22/07/2003 at 14:41 GMT
A senior US government official has laid out detailed plans for the timing and form of US government issued biometric passports.
Frank Moss, deputy assistant secretary for Passport Services, presented his organisation's plans to evolve to a new, more secure "intelligent document" from today's paper-based passports at the Smart Card Alliance's Government Conference and Expo conference last week.
"Our goal is to begin production by October 26, 2004," Moss announced.
Current plans call for the new passport books to include a contactless smart chip based on the 14443 standard, with a minimum of 32 Kbytes of EEPROM storage. The chip will contain a compressed full-face image for use as a biometric. European biometric passports, by contrast, are planned to feature both retinal and fingerprint recognition biometrics on their smart cards.
For US passports, the image and the passport information stored on the contactless chip will be digitally signed to ensure the integrity of both the data and the passport itself.
With this approach "you can read a chip and confirm its validity, but you cannot create one. That is the beauty of public key technology," said Moss.
The United States produces about seven million passports per year.
For the US Passport Services' program to move forward successfully other countries must also agree to common specifications, so US officials are working closely with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to drive the process forward. There's little doubt this is a US government initiative, fueled by post-9/11 terrorism fears, which is rapidly gaining momentum.
Under the US Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, countries whose citizens enjoy visa-free travel to the United States must issue passports with biometric identifiers no later than October 26, 2004.
Quite how effective biometric passports will be in frustrating terrorist activity is a completely different matter... ®
You're looking for a hardcore printer it sounds like. Pay the extra buck and get a color laser printer - it'll do everything you want (sounds like it) and it'll last a while - postscript won't go out of date for a long time! Besides, toner costs are pretty low given how long they last.
Nah, I don't expect the president of a nation of 290,000,000 people to read my email, or even his wenches to do so either. I mean, that would be really cool, but on the other side, it'd be a huge waste of taxpayer dollars: imagine this:
"Dear Mr. President,
I live in Bumfuck, Iowa, and when my cat got stuck in a tree, the firefighter made a nasty joke about how it's always my cat that gets stuck in the tree. Please do something.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Stupidhead"
This is probably because emailing is 1000x easier than:
a) Mailing b) Phoneing (being on hold for hours then talking to a nobody) c) It gives you a warm happy feeling.
So why shouldn't they filter out their most popular form of communication given that most of it is crap anyway?
That, and my second point:
You shouldn't be emailing your most important concerns to the president - do your congressman, your senator, and your local government, they can probably help you more specifically.
Slashdot Mirror
This reply is totally correct.
To build on it, let me say this:
When I learned to code websites (be it DHTML, JS, HTML, PHP, ASP, etc.) then I was more inclined to read the docs that got my page working - if someone tagged on a 100 page report that I should read (and is amazingly less fun to read since it means nothing!) then I would have given up web design.
These people have no authority, they're justifying their own jobs by attempting to force worthless rules on websites.
That depends on whether or not Snapster can make enough money quickly enough to hire better lawyers than the RIAA can.
Doubtful.
a thousand cyber life sentences.
A mock jury decided a mock decision.
How about we mock the geeks that are still crying over this?
OK folks, seriously, let me ask you a question:
Will MS ever come out with the answer 'linux is better'?
The answer is no. We all know that.
Quote: "It's an opportunity for learning for us," Taylor says. The goal is to understand "what can you do and how can you do it" using open-source software, he says.
Maybe this is true, but how about this:
Expect Taylor, a 10-year Microsoft veteran who's been in his new job for just three weeks, to play up the advantages of Microsoft's integrated product line. "The end-to-end scenarios is where things don't work quite as well with Linux," he says.
Let's see... 10 years of MS/Windows and 3 weeks of Linux; I wonder which one of these he has more ease of use with? Golly jesus, could it be Win32?
This story isn't even newsworthy. Nobody is going to come out of the blue and say "hey, look, linux is better" as long as they're on a MS payroll.
This is the same as having the Butcher/Meat industry inspect their own factories instead of PETA: Of course they won't find anything wrong.
Parent gets to the root of the idea (pun intended). Don't put your documents online if you dont want people to read them or haXorize your system. It's that simple.
So does this mean that all those people claiming that the software they steal isn't a loss because they wouldn't buy it anyway will get to buy it for $0.01? I mean, that's accurately priced for them...
Yes, apparently someone needed to archive a copy of the article, it's been slashdotted and my archaeology digs on google.com have been unhelpful.
Google Search (site:.mil ipv6)
Looks like there's not too much going on - only 614 results total. We need to make the move faster.
Check that link out
is shit a man-made problem? literally, yes, but theoretically, no, since we really can't help it.
I can think of cooler stuff to do with microbes - like in restauraunts, have lots of microbes at the bottom of a special trash can to eat away grease (McDonalds would love that.)
Or even a microbe spray to degrease stuff; cool, huh? No more wiping down.
Also cool would be microbes in my toilet, to eat my shit (but not die.)
Of course, I do wonder what they'd do while they weren't eating shit or grease or whatever, but who cares about that, they're cool!
We hate this option
what!? I'm the leech from hell! Who cares about disabling sharing?!
OK, the lady needed it to type up new recipes and whatnot. Just an allaround PC to work with. NOT TO SELL! Gosh I'm bad at writing good posts...
Hey this guy says that it'll work until everyone is doing it - but face it, they need millions of us. One in every restauraunt, 3 for an office, depending on the literacy of the region your in, maybe more maybe less.
I just bought a $500 laptop for my boss at a restauraunt - I'll probably get a tidy finding fee since she's generous (best boss ever!) and I'll tech support it for a few extra bucks whenever I'm working.
That, and when I worked in a McDonalds, I fixed our system so many times they started paying me whenever it crashed. Fun.
linux user *cough* *ahem* no need for me to care *cough* *ahem*
I think the article is full of shit, to put it bluntly. (But I'm not a troll, don't mod me down!)
See, his whole thing is humanoid robots - but where's the robot in McDonalds? He describes humans there. Either bad writing or bad claims, but something's bad.
I work at Quiznos, I wonder if they'll let me take a meditation break during the lunch rush...
Kinda like this?
I give up. I wanna be a troll now.
This freaks me out, quite like the rest of slashdot I imagine.
But I see a few problems with it:
1) How will the cost of getting a passport get passed on (no pun intended) to the customer?
2) What if i swipe it with a magnete? I mean, how many Americans are literate enough to know not to place a magnetic field over a little circuit-thingy that probably gets jacked over by it?
As the new /. karma whore, I feel the need to post this article:
US names the day for biometric passports
By John Leyden
Posted: 22/07/2003 at 14:41 GMT
A senior US government official has laid out detailed plans for the timing and form of US government issued biometric passports.
Frank Moss, deputy assistant secretary for Passport Services, presented his organisation's plans to evolve to a new, more secure "intelligent document" from today's paper-based passports at the Smart Card Alliance's Government Conference and Expo conference last week.
"Our goal is to begin production by October 26, 2004," Moss announced.
Current plans call for the new passport books to include a contactless smart chip based on the 14443 standard, with a minimum of 32 Kbytes of EEPROM storage. The chip will contain a compressed full-face image for use as a biometric. European biometric passports, by contrast, are planned to feature both retinal and fingerprint recognition biometrics on their smart cards.
For US passports, the image and the passport information stored on the contactless chip will be digitally signed to ensure the integrity of both the data and the passport itself.
With this approach "you can read a chip and confirm its validity, but you cannot create one. That is the beauty of public key technology," said Moss.
The United States produces about seven million passports per year.
For the US Passport Services' program to move forward successfully other countries must also agree to common specifications, so US officials are working closely with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to drive the process forward. There's little doubt this is a US government initiative, fueled by post-9/11 terrorism fears, which is rapidly gaining momentum.
Under the US Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, countries whose citizens enjoy visa-free travel to the United States must issue passports with biometric identifiers no later than October 26, 2004.
Quite how effective biometric passports will be in frustrating terrorist activity is a completely different matter... ®
You're looking for a hardcore printer it sounds like. Pay the extra buck and get a color laser printer - it'll do everything you want (sounds like it) and it'll last a while - postscript won't go out of date for a long time! Besides, toner costs are pretty low given how long they last.
Nah, I don't expect the president of a nation of 290,000,000 people to read my email, or even his wenches to do so either. I mean, that would be really cool, but on the other side, it'd be a huge waste of taxpayer dollars: imagine this:
"Dear Mr. President,
I live in Bumfuck, Iowa, and when my cat got stuck in a tree, the firefighter made a nasty joke about how it's always my cat that gets stuck in the tree. Please do something.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Stupidhead"
Total waste of taxpayer dollars.
This is probably because emailing is 1000x easier than:
a) Mailing
b) Phoneing (being on hold for hours then talking to a nobody)
c) It gives you a warm happy feeling.
So why shouldn't they filter out their most popular form of communication given that most of it is crap anyway?
That, and my second point:
You shouldn't be emailing your most important concerns to the president - do your congressman, your senator, and your local government, they can probably help you more specifically.
So what if tianamen square does happen, won't everyone that owns a phone there get /.'ed?