I wasn't trying to justify anything, merely observing what common usage has become. People say "Hey, xerox that for me, will you?" regardless of trademark issues, or ask for a kleenex without caring what actual brand it is. That doesn't mean it's "right" to do so, but people do it just the same. Tangentially, the Hormel company handled "spam" coming to be synonymous with unsolicited email rather well, I thought, by drawing the distinction between SPAM and spam. I still dislike both of them, though.
If penis size were related to the ability to manipulate the country, George would be walking like a tripod. Given his demonstrated ability to dick us around, the relationship clearly doesn't exist.
The term "internet" has changed and lost its capitalization as it became mainstreamed into the language, much as "Xerox" refers to a company while "xerox" refers to a photocopy. Or "Kleenex" is a brand name of Kimberly-Clark (I think) and "kleenex" is a facial tissue. Etc, etc, etc.
Expect an increase of the number of Mac virii out there in a now to 3 month timeframe.
Yes, because this information was a closely held secret before this meddlesome blogger came along. I bet Steve Jobs is really pissed and is taking out a contract on his life.
If that were the case I'd think they'd find it easy enough to simply extend plans expiring in late 2006 to encompass Vista whenever released, while apologizing for "unanticipated delays" - such a move would generate a bit more customer goodwill than the risk of shipping prematurely and possibly having disastrous bugs.
If any of these "captured" documents turn out to have anything "interesting" in them that the "skimming" prior to release missed, my immediate conclusion will be that the original documents are fraudulent, and that this whole translation exercise is simply a pathetic attempt by the administration to distance themselves from the "discovery" of the material that they themselves created.
I wonder too if their real outrage is more at the interracial aspects - there were at least a couple of brief shots of a white girl making out with a black guy. Of course they can't openly complain about that, so they whine in a more general sense.
Just a theory.
Actually the definition the grandparent intended for "nimrod" is the one I'm most familiar with: a stupid person.
Perhaps it's a regional thing. I'm surprised that the google link you provided doesn't list it; I've heard the word commonly used in this way for at least 20 years here (New England).
I'd have kept my hand down for the drug legalization question, possibly violating the law* in the noble cause of preventing a political litmus test for juror selection, while practicing the beliefs questioned in the other question you cited.
*are potential jurors under oath for these sorts of questions?
Disgrace and shame is better than folks like this deserve
It's certainly not as good as the taxpayers deserve, however. Deutsch committed a fraud and should be required to repay his salary to the US Treasury, with interest and penalties. Never happen, of course.
I'd favor a few months in prison too, but he's already cost us enough. Maybe a few hundred hours of community service... say, picking up litter in the NASA parking lots. I imagine that there's a proportion of scientists there - just as there are a proportion of any profession - who would be more than happy to help keep him busy.
"There's a nice bit of trash over there, sonny..."
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and the like acceptable. While asserting html4/strict.dtd - best laugh I've had this week. If they can't master basic HTML (straddling a/H3 with a SPAN?!?!) it they probably shouldn't be allowed to run a webserver, let alone attempt to advise people on security matters.
Jesus Christ on a pogo-stick... you don't "recycle" some things.
Put a cardboard box in each work area that deals with sensitive information for printouts like this, then collect it and effectively shred it. How hard is this?
I agree that - even if it reduced the chance of conviction - it's the right of the victim to deal with the trauma as they see fit. Their first responsibility is to themselves.
While I agree that it doesn't suppress memories so much as alter the impact of them (and possibly the internal encoding in the brain) I do see the potential for it to be used to the advantage of the perpetrator.
Short personal anectdote: I suffered from comparatively mild acute PTSD following a serious traffic accident, where I hit a dark blue vehicle stopped across the road at night with neither lights nor reflectors visible to me. For weeks afterwards, simply seeing a similar shade of blue caused me moderate anxiety and I had intrusive memories/flashbacks (hallucinations, maybe - fleeting images of shattered glass stained with blood overlying my visual field).
In my case, there wasn't a question of identifying the guilty party, but if there had been - and this drug had been given to me, my recollection of the color might be called into question - even by the police, if they felt the drug made my recollection unreliable.
Yeah, this doesn't analogize well... and by no means am I equating my mild trauma (cuts, bruises, cracked ribs and a totaled vehicle) with that experienced by a rape victim. But I do have a small first-hand experience in at least some aspects of PTSD - fortunately self-limited in my case; it resolved spontaneously over a month or two.
I'd hope that - before routine use in such cases - it would become established fact (and settled law) that the administration of this drug to rape victims doesn't "taint" their eyewitness testimony in the way that hypnosis is seen to by the courts. I think that was the concern expressed by the other poster.
Depending on the timeframe in which the drug needs to be given to be effective, perhaps doing much of the investigative interviewing beforehand would reduce/eliminate the defense argument that the victim testimony is unreliable because of the drug. Especially police sketches of the perpetrator based on victim memories and descriptions of distinctive features, clothing, etc.
Improper grammar and spelling irritate me, but I tend not to complain about it. Some people, though, will complain - either simply for the sake of doing so - as Taco noted - or to attack the parent commenter for that rather than taking the time to compose a well-considered response.
A related issue is that a fairly large number of folks here learned English as a second language - some of them might appreciate polite corrections; English has a reputation for being one of the more difficult Western languages to learn. Or perhaps it'd be more appropriate for those who complain to cut them more slack... but how is one to know? Having an icon meaning "ESL User" probably isn't a good idea, because that'll invite bigotry.
I do agree, though, that more care should be taken with the articles themselves. Taco said they tried that and it didn't make any difference; people found other things to complain about. This misses the point - the purpose of taking greater care about such things should not be to eliminate a source of complaints, it should be to make the site better. Easier to read. Not annoying for people who have a spelling/grammar fetish. More professional in appearance.
On an unrelated note, I find the story summaries that pose a question at the end - either by the submitter or the editor - to be particularly attention-grabbing. This is a feature of write-ups that I think should be encouraged.
Take away the sonybmg.com domain name. Seems a reasonable punishment for domains used in such a way...
Yes, I know the problem of infested machines that remain vulnerable thanks to Sony would still exist.
After posting, I had doubts that I'd remembered correctly. My above post is correct; you can enable and disable ACLs in Tiger (requires HFS+ format) without reformatting:
You do get a GUI to do this in the Server version, and I'm not sure that Apple mentions (prominently, at least) that the client version of the OS includes ACLs. A general discussion of ACLs in Tiger is here.
Still, I'm afraid to tell you that Windows's theoretical security model is much more robust than the base Unix system (ACLs versus the muchs simpler owner/group/all permissions)
OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) implements ACLs - enabled by default in the server version, easily enabled in the client version.
I'm surprised they and others* hadn't done this sooner; I've had such a power connector on a deep fryer for years. But it never occurred to me that laptops would be a great application for the idea.
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I wasn't trying to justify anything, merely observing what common usage has become. People say "Hey, xerox that for me, will you?" regardless of trademark issues, or ask for a kleenex without caring what actual brand it is. That doesn't mean it's "right" to do so, but people do it just the same. Tangentially, the Hormel company handled "spam" coming to be synonymous with unsolicited email rather well, I thought, by drawing the distinction between SPAM and spam. I still dislike both of them, though.
If penis size were related to the ability to manipulate the country, George would be walking like a tripod. Given his demonstrated ability to dick us around, the relationship clearly doesn't exist.
The term "internet" has changed and lost its capitalization as it became mainstreamed into the language, much as "Xerox" refers to a company while "xerox" refers to a photocopy. Or "Kleenex" is a brand name of Kimberly-Clark (I think) and "kleenex" is a facial tissue. Etc, etc, etc.
I think he'll beat him to death with a chair and then say that it must have been some other "Steve"
If that were the case I'd think they'd find it easy enough to simply extend plans expiring in late 2006 to encompass Vista whenever released, while apologizing for "unanticipated delays" - such a move would generate a bit more customer goodwill than the risk of shipping prematurely and possibly having disastrous bugs.
Me? cynical?
I wonder too if their real outrage is more at the interracial aspects - there were at least a couple of brief shots of a white girl making out with a black guy. Of course they can't openly complain about that, so they whine in a more general sense. Just a theory.
Might I suggest Russian Roulette?
Perhaps it's a regional thing. I'm surprised that the google link you provided doesn't list it; I've heard the word commonly used in this way for at least 20 years here (New England).
I'd have kept my hand down for the drug legalization question, possibly violating the law* in the noble cause of preventing a political litmus test for juror selection, while practicing the beliefs questioned in the other question you cited. *are potential jurors under oath for these sorts of questions?
I'd favor a few months in prison too, but he's already cost us enough. Maybe a few hundred hours of community service... say, picking up litter in the NASA parking lots. I imagine that there's a proportion of scientists there - just as there are a proportion of any profession - who would be more than happy to help keep him busy.
"There's a nice bit of trash over there, sonny..."
How much damage they'll end up doing?
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and the like acceptable. While asserting html4/strict.dtd - best laugh I've had this week. If they can't master basic HTML (straddling a /H3 with a SPAN?!?!) it they probably shouldn't be allowed to run a webserver, let alone attempt to advise people on security matters.
Jesus Christ on a pogo-stick... you don't "recycle" some things. Put a cardboard box in each work area that deals with sensitive information for printouts like this, then collect it and effectively shred it. How hard is this?
While I agree that it doesn't suppress memories so much as alter the impact of them (and possibly the internal encoding in the brain) I do see the potential for it to be used to the advantage of the perpetrator.
Short personal anectdote:
I suffered from comparatively mild acute PTSD following a serious traffic accident, where I hit a dark blue vehicle stopped across the road at night with neither lights nor reflectors visible to me. For weeks afterwards, simply seeing a similar shade of blue caused me moderate anxiety and I had intrusive memories/flashbacks (hallucinations, maybe - fleeting images of shattered glass stained with blood overlying my visual field).
In my case, there wasn't a question of identifying the guilty party, but if there had been - and this drug had been given to me, my recollection of the color might be called into question - even by the police, if they felt the drug made my recollection unreliable.
Yeah, this doesn't analogize well... and by no means am I equating my mild trauma (cuts, bruises, cracked ribs and a totaled vehicle) with that experienced by a rape victim. But I do have a small first-hand experience in at least some aspects of PTSD - fortunately self-limited in my case; it resolved spontaneously over a month or two.
Depending on the timeframe in which the drug needs to be given to be effective, perhaps doing much of the investigative interviewing beforehand would reduce/eliminate the defense argument that the victim testimony is unreliable because of the drug. Especially police sketches of the perpetrator based on victim memories and descriptions of distinctive features, clothing, etc.
A related issue is that a fairly large number of folks here learned English as a second language - some of them might appreciate polite corrections; English has a reputation for being one of the more difficult Western languages to learn. Or perhaps it'd be more appropriate for those who complain to cut them more slack... but how is one to know? Having an icon meaning "ESL User" probably isn't a good idea, because that'll invite bigotry.
I do agree, though, that more care should be taken with the articles themselves. Taco said they tried that and it didn't make any difference; people found other things to complain about. This misses the point - the purpose of taking greater care about such things should not be to eliminate a source of complaints, it should be to make the site better. Easier to read. Not annoying for people who have a spelling/grammar fetish. More professional in appearance.
On an unrelated note, I find the story summaries that pose a question at the end - either by the submitter or the editor - to be particularly attention-grabbing. This is a feature of write-ups that I think should be encouraged.
Take away the sonybmg.com domain name. Seems a reasonable punishment for domains used in such a way... Yes, I know the problem of infested machines that remain vulnerable thanks to Sony would still exist.
ENABLE: sudo fsaclctl -p / -e
DISABLE: sudo fsaclctl -p / -d
You do get a GUI to do this in the Server version, and I'm not sure that Apple mentions (prominently, at least) that the client version of the OS includes ACLs. A general discussion of ACLs in Tiger is here.
*or perhaps others have and I'm not aware of it