LinkedIn has a reputation model that works in a limited sense. It tells you the people on the chain between yourself and an individual, up to a certain length.
Since you know (by definition) the first person on the chain you can ask them to make enquiries along the chain about the person you want to know about. It lists up to 3rd degree associations, ie your friend knows them or your friend knows a friend of theirs. Surprisingly effective for finding out about someone you want to hire, in a general sense at least.
I'm still waiting for a P2P system that works the same way - you create encrypted connections to your friends, and can pass requests for content that are spidered out across the network automatically.
Because you only ever talk to your friends, and because no ultimate destination information is passed on, it should be very good at preserving anonymity - in exactly the same way as Freenet is, in fact.
The difference would be that because you manually tell it which nodes to locally connect to there is no danger of encountering a poisoned node... as long as none of your friends are spies for the MAFIAA.
I already have a notebook, but I still want one of these. It's actually the first Palm product I have ever coveted.
My main machine is a 15" Core 2 Duo Macbook pro... and it's just not portable enough. 2 hour battery life, yipee. I keep (and carry when I travel, along with the MBP) a G4 powerbook and spare battery for when I just want to bash out some text or leech wifi. My N95 is ok, but it just doesn't have enough screen space or a keyboard I can type on, unlike this thing.
If I could replace my Powerbook with one of these, so I only have to carry a MBP, Foleo and N95 when I fly, I can cut 2.5lbs out of my rucksack. That device will do everything I want when I go to a coffee shop to work. Good for my back, if not for my wallet.
When He extended a Noodly Appendage to Bless Microsoft with his Divine Wisdom an unbeliever cut it off and shaped it into the form of Clippy, the Anti Christ.
One day He will Overcome the Satanic Forces at work by dripping his Holy Meatball Sauce onto Clippy, softening what was once hard and Unyileding. And Lo, Microsoft shall become as like IBM and One True Followers of the Way.
I browse the internet on my Linux box, running OS X with MacOnLinux. On OS X I run VMWare player hosting FreeBSD, where I have all the options turned to OFF. That runs Firefox, which connects to a web-2.0 version of Lynx. I use this to connect to another site which manually lets me enter netcat commands and read the result.
My only complaint is that the pirates at Macrodobe STILL won't support my platform of choice! When will there be a flash player for people like me!
maybe it is not about being bored but more about not wanting to do that crappy assignment your boss wants you to do? <br><br> Well, in order to stop me giving in and getting a TV I wrote a book. Now that's finished my next project is a risk management toolset. In my case it's not so much boredom, it's the fear of distracting myself in non-productive ways when I could be doing something interesting.
Now when they steal my iPod not only will they get a few thousand pounds worth of music, they will also get the fingerprint data I was forced to use as the password for my bank account.*
You don't have enough fingers to generate unique passwords for everything!
*Yes, I am aware they could be stored as a hash. Some electronics companies will probably do so - but all of them? And how many will use a good hash that has decent properties for the application? I'm guessing at one, and that will only be due to an accident.
That's one of the things you have to accept when putting Linux on a machine, Mac or no: Not everything will be properly supported right out of the gate.
I am complaining to Apple about the problems with Ubuntu Feisty (which are numerous, including bugs that were introduced after the Alphas were fine).
I am instead complaining about *hardware* problems with the Mac. The fact that the hardware inside what should be identical revisions is different is a serious problem. It means that you cannot be certain that, for example, your uniform Windows disk images will apply properly.
*You* might not think that's a major issue but when one of the selling points that Apple uses is the ability to run Windows, and corporate Windows means images, that's a big freaking problem right there.
As a side note I completely don't understand Apple not providing Linux compatible drivers for their machines. They are meant to be a hardware company that makes money from hardware sales. Sure they want to protect their user experience... but if that was the case they wouldn't provide boot camp! 2-5% Linux users may not sound like a lot but a) Linux and OS X users overlap heavily and b) 2-5% if they all switched to Apple hardware due to being certain everything would work would push up Apple hardware sales by around 50%. That's a big chunk of change to ignore. Sure Linux users don't pay for software... but they do tend to be the kind of people who pay for quality hardware.
A key element of me picking up a new macbook pro as my main development machine was all the hardware working. The wireless card can't see any networks on channel 13! do they really think that people who buy expensive hardware never visit Europe? The wireless performance is worse than my old powerbook.
To add to the fun if you look at the Ubuntu Linux forums you will see that people with the exact same model are having very different problems installing. Ranging from processor timing issues to hangs to non-responsive keyboards. It's not enough that it's a piece of shit, it's a NON STANDARD piece of shit which is totally unacceptable for a corporate environment.
Up to this point I have had really good experiences with Apple gear (running Linux) and I don't intend to give up because of one bad machine which could be an exception, but right now I am not feeling like my money was well spent.
That is highly unrealistic. The biggest reason is that as soon as Microsoft pushes Starlight as a 'critical update' (as they did for IE 7) its market share will take a massive jump to over 60%. The best Linux/OSS could manage in an initial stage would be 10% and that is a WILDLY OPTIMISTIC estimate.
If I were a media manager, considering the current penetration of Flash, I might think about targeting a platform with a 60% share in addition to Flash, 10% would be extremely unlikely. So, a new OSS rich media format wouldn't work not because of the player but because of the content producers.
(Which is understandable given that they need to maximise profit and removing features that are almost unused in their target market is a good way to do it. Real engineers don't overspec!)
You no longer have an obsolete, underpowered, crippled little-brother games console. You have a discontinued, obsolete, underpowered, crippled little-brother games console.
I have never worked at a place that didn't have an AUP that wen't roughly along the lines of:
Do anything that would get us sued and you will be fired. Don't do your job and you will be fired.
Since the former covers porn (respect at work acts) and the latter covers goofing off all day, unless you happen to be so good at your job that you can still manage to get everything done *and* goof off, then all eventualities are covered.
They already have that- Zune software and Media Center can stream/send video to a 360.
Phew, I thought for a minute that the EU was actually going to have to pay for it's daily biscuit budget out of taxes for a moment. Much easier when they can just tax Microsoft for the cash following another blatant monopoly abuse:)
Windows Live Messenger: Why the fsck didn't they do this from the start? It just makes too much sense.
Maybe they were afraid that the EU would fine them another $1m per day?
I have no idea how they are getting away with the Xbox since it now consists of
A way to crush OpenGL (direct X development for their console and their os when no one else can influence what happens on their console)
A way to crush xfire et al (MS only game matchmaking service when no one else can influence alternatives for the xbox)
New feature! A way to lock up the IM market (MS only IM service where no one else can offer alternatives for the xbox)
Look out for, comming soon, the totally free market principle preserving Microsoft Video Service (share between your Zune, Xbox and Windows running laptop)! It's like the Office/Windows lock in... for the home!
There is currently a 4 year+ queue for people over 21 with a US citizen parent to obtain a green card. If they get married during the wait they go to the back of an EIGHT year queue.
Oh, and their spouse dosen't get a visa when they do, there is another 5 year wait on top of that. If they chose to apply as the spouse as an LPR (instead of waiting for citizenship) then during the 5 year wait their spouse can't even enter the US.
This is true even for citizens of affluent countries with technical degrees and well paying jobs who would, but for ITAR and the difficulty of the H1B process, be happy to move them to the US.
Because of this I have been unable to get married despite being engaged for over a year, and once we do manage to get married we won't be able to live together for at least five years.
I'd be interested to see your cite that the US have lost more than a very small number of aircraft to radar guided SAMs since Vietnam - and MANPADS aren't a big problem for high flying interceptors.
We will happily sell y'all Eurofighters. Half the price, twice the bombs... and who the hell do you need stealth to fight anyway? Expecting the France to try and invasion any day now or something?
I would be 7 kinds of mad if anyone was using gmail and IM in my office.
We work with NATO restricted data. *Everything* requires appropriate handling. E-mail is carefully fenced and the IM service is encrypted.
But even if you aren't a company with such a strong need for data protection... well actually there is no such thing. At the very least you have financial data and client information on your systems. Losing some of that stuff is considerably more harmful than restricting people to company provided communication tools.
Anyone placing data that hasn't been cleared for release (even by the very informal process of being sent out on purpose) onto services run by people with whom you have no contract and no reasonable expectation of integrity is, frankly, no better than the idiots who don't back up their data and are then surprised to find out that MTBF is not a guarantee. After all if your employees are using gmail et al you don't even know what data you *have* let alone what steps you need to take to protect it.
On PPC MacOnLinux *already* runs OS X as a guest OS with no problems at all, and as far as I know Apple has never hassled them about it - probably because other than Apple sources of PPC machines are few and far between and it didn't represent a significant source of loss.
If you have an old PPC powerbook around I highly recommend it.
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LinkedIn has a reputation model that works in a limited sense. It tells you the people on the chain between yourself and an individual, up to a certain length.
Since you know (by definition) the first person on the chain you can ask them to make enquiries along the chain about the person you want to know about. It lists up to 3rd degree associations, ie your friend knows them or your friend knows a friend of theirs. Surprisingly effective for finding out about someone you want to hire, in a general sense at least.
I'm still waiting for a P2P system that works the same way - you create encrypted connections to your friends, and can pass requests for content that are spidered out across the network automatically.
Because you only ever talk to your friends, and because no ultimate destination information is passed on, it should be very good at preserving anonymity - in exactly the same way as Freenet is, in fact.
The difference would be that because you manually tell it which nodes to locally connect to there is no danger of encountering a poisoned node... as long as none of your friends are spies for the MAFIAA.
Women have less need to leave the toilet seat down as they on average keep the toilet cleaner and so less noxious fumes are there to escape.
I already have a notebook, but I still want one of these. It's actually the first Palm product I have ever coveted.
My main machine is a 15" Core 2 Duo Macbook pro... and it's just not portable enough. 2 hour battery life, yipee. I keep (and carry when I travel, along with the MBP) a G4 powerbook and spare battery for when I just want to bash out some text or leech wifi. My N95 is ok, but it just doesn't have enough screen space or a keyboard I can type on, unlike this thing.
If I could replace my Powerbook with one of these, so I only have to carry a MBP, Foleo and N95 when I fly, I can cut 2.5lbs out of my rucksack. That device will do everything I want when I go to a coffee shop to work. Good for my back, if not for my wallet.
Will they assign not.a.bank as a redirect to paypal.com?
When He extended a Noodly Appendage to Bless Microsoft with his Divine Wisdom an unbeliever cut it off and shaped it into the form of Clippy, the Anti Christ.
One day He will Overcome the Satanic Forces at work by dripping his Holy Meatball Sauce onto Clippy, softening what was once hard and Unyileding. And Lo, Microsoft shall become as like IBM and One True Followers of the Way.
Thus it is written.
I browse the internet on my Linux box, running OS X with MacOnLinux. On OS X I run VMWare player hosting FreeBSD, where I have all the options turned to OFF. That runs Firefox, which connects to a web-2.0 version of Lynx. I use this to connect to another site which manually lets me enter netcat commands and read the result.
My only complaint is that the pirates at Macrodobe STILL won't support my platform of choice! When will there be a flash player for people like me!
maybe it is not about being bored but more about not wanting to do that crappy assignment your boss wants you to do?
<br><br>
Well, in order to stop me giving in and getting a TV I wrote a book. Now that's finished my next project is a risk management toolset. In my case it's not so much boredom, it's the fear of distracting myself in non-productive ways when I could be doing something interesting.
Now when they steal my iPod not only will they get a few thousand pounds worth of music, they will also get the fingerprint data I was forced to use as the password for my bank account.*
You don't have enough fingers to generate unique passwords for everything!
*Yes, I am aware they could be stored as a hash. Some electronics companies will probably do so - but all of them? And how many will use a good hash that has decent properties for the application? I'm guessing at one, and that will only be due to an accident.
That's one of the things you have to accept when putting Linux on a machine, Mac or no: Not everything will be properly supported right out of the gate.
I am complaining to Apple about the problems with Ubuntu Feisty (which are numerous, including bugs that were introduced after the Alphas were fine).
I am instead complaining about *hardware* problems with the Mac. The fact that the hardware inside what should be identical revisions is different is a serious problem. It means that you cannot be certain that, for example, your uniform Windows disk images will apply properly.
*You* might not think that's a major issue but when one of the selling points that Apple uses is the ability to run Windows, and corporate Windows means images, that's a big freaking problem right there.
As a side note I completely don't understand Apple not providing Linux compatible drivers for their machines. They are meant to be a hardware company that makes money from hardware sales. Sure they want to protect their user experience... but if that was the case they wouldn't provide boot camp! 2-5% Linux users may not sound like a lot but a) Linux and OS X users overlap heavily and b) 2-5% if they all switched to Apple hardware due to being certain everything would work would push up Apple hardware sales by around 50%. That's a big chunk of change to ignore. Sure Linux users don't pay for software... but they do tend to be the kind of people who pay for quality hardware.
A key element of me picking up a new macbook pro as my main development machine was all the hardware working. The wireless card can't see any networks on channel 13! do they really think that people who buy expensive hardware never visit Europe? The wireless performance is worse than my old powerbook.
To add to the fun if you look at the Ubuntu Linux forums you will see that people with the exact same model are having very different problems installing. Ranging from processor timing issues to hangs to non-responsive keyboards. It's not enough that it's a piece of shit, it's a NON STANDARD piece of shit which is totally unacceptable for a corporate environment.
Up to this point I have had really good experiences with Apple gear (running Linux) and I don't intend to give up because of one bad machine which could be an exception, but right now I am not feeling like my money was well spent.
That is highly unrealistic. The biggest reason is that as soon as Microsoft pushes Starlight as a 'critical update' (as they did for IE 7) its market share will take a massive jump to over 60%. The best Linux/OSS could manage in an initial stage would be 10% and that is a WILDLY OPTIMISTIC estimate.
If I were a media manager, considering the current penetration of Flash, I might think about targeting a platform with a 60% share in addition to Flash, 10% would be extremely unlikely. So, a new OSS rich media format wouldn't work not because of the player but because of the content producers.
swfdec finally makes a free flash codec that can handle YouTube and the next day they announce all the good content is going away!
1. Make home movie
2. ???
3. Every teenager wants it! Profit!
Thank you Australia for missing in the lost step in our business model!
To save a nickel a unit of course.
(Which is understandable given that they need to maximise profit and removing features that are almost unused in their target market is a good way to do it. Real engineers don't overspec!)
You no longer have an obsolete, underpowered, crippled little-brother games console. You have a discontinued, obsolete, underpowered, crippled little-brother games console.
Which was still rather more expensive than a Wii.
I have never worked at a place that didn't have an AUP that wen't roughly along the lines of:
Do anything that would get us sued and you will be fired. Don't do your job and you will be fired.
Since the former covers porn (respect at work acts) and the latter covers goofing off all day, unless you happen to be so good at your job that you can still manage to get everything done *and* goof off, then all eventualities are covered.
They already have that- Zune software and Media Center can stream/send video to a 360.
:)
Phew, I thought for a minute that the EU was actually going to have to pay for it's daily biscuit budget out of taxes for a moment. Much easier when they can just tax Microsoft for the cash following another blatant monopoly abuse
Video: Penguins on a treadmill - the latest (and most bizarre) way to save the planet.
Now we see Linus' master plan. Apparently he didn't get enough karma for Linux.
Maybe they were afraid that the EU would fine them another $1m per day?
I have no idea how they are getting away with the Xbox since it now consists of
Look out for, comming soon, the totally free market principle preserving Microsoft Video Service (share between your Zune, Xbox and Windows running laptop)! It's like the Office/Windows lock in... for the home!
The US certainly needs to do something.
There is currently a 4 year+ queue for people over 21 with a US citizen parent to obtain a green card. If they get married during the wait they go to the back of an EIGHT year queue.
Oh, and their spouse dosen't get a visa when they do, there is another 5 year wait on top of that. If they chose to apply as the spouse as an LPR (instead of waiting for citizenship) then during the 5 year wait their spouse can't even enter the US.
This is true even for citizens of affluent countries with technical degrees and well paying jobs who would, but for ITAR and the difficulty of the H1B process, be happy to move them to the US.
Because of this I have been unable to get married despite being engaged for over a year, and once we do manage to get married we won't be able to live together for at least five years.
The US system is at present seriously broken.
At work they keep saying CMS and I can only assume it stands for Crap Management System.
I'd be interested to see your cite that the US have lost more than a very small number of aircraft to radar guided SAMs since Vietnam - and MANPADS aren't a big problem for high flying interceptors.
We will happily sell y'all Eurofighters. Half the price, twice the bombs... and who the hell do you need stealth to fight anyway? Expecting the France to try and invasion any day now or something?
I would be 7 kinds of mad if anyone was using gmail and IM in my office.
We work with NATO restricted data. *Everything* requires appropriate handling. E-mail is carefully fenced and the IM service is encrypted.
But even if you aren't a company with such a strong need for data protection... well actually there is no such thing. At the very least you have financial data and client information on your systems. Losing some of that stuff is considerably more harmful than restricting people to company provided communication tools.
Anyone placing data that hasn't been cleared for release (even by the very informal process of being sent out on purpose) onto services run by people with whom you have no contract and no reasonable expectation of integrity is, frankly, no better than the idiots who don't back up their data and are then surprised to find out that MTBF is not a guarantee. After all if your employees are using gmail et al you don't even know what data you *have* let alone what steps you need to take to protect it.
On PPC MacOnLinux *already* runs OS X as a guest OS with no problems at all, and as far as I know Apple has never hassled them about it - probably because other than Apple sources of PPC machines are few and far between and it didn't represent a significant source of loss.
If you have an old PPC powerbook around I highly recommend it.