The committee will not release the names of the candidates until 50 years after the year of nomination. But they do release the number of nominees.
Anyone who is nominated (or those who nominated them) are free to reveal that information. That is, in fact, how all the stories about Al Gore being in the running have been circulating in the media for some time.
The two examples that I cited are also known because someone revealed their nomination to the media.
Your are so right. If only I had seen Al Gore's film I'd clearly see that Gore was more deserving than the other 180 nominees for the prize.
One hundred and eighty one nominees, including a woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust and a man who helped heal Bosnia after the genocide there.
Too bad neither of them had a movie, cause I'm sure that if YOU had seen THIER MOVIE, you'd understand way Al Gore is such a poor choice for the PEACE prize.
Oh, and BTW, saw Gore's movie. I guess its relevance to world peace escaped me. I thought it was all about man's place at the center of the universe.
Oh Gowd! I just threw up in my mouth. The PEACE prize? What a waste. It should have gone to someone working towards PEACE. Peace in Darfur, peace in the middle east, peace in the Phillipines, Burma, Myanmar, Pakistan, India, wherever.
There are PLENTY of places on this planet where peace is needed more than more Prius', more wind powe, and more solar energy production.
Companies always shed people to become more profitable. Some try to avoid it by doing other things first, others look at headcount as an easy fix.
In this world of executives where they are rewarded for what The Street thinks, and the The Street only cares about this quarter's results, this is a BAU process.
Verizon is cutting staff again, I think this is iteration #2354 for them. Of course the work doesn't go down, it just shifts to the people left.
I'm in the same situation. Last week I was asked to review an IT proposal for a project. They wanted $30K to implement it. I read the spec, wrote the code, tests, documentation, UML diagrams and demo site in about 6 hours. It's modular, and flexible enough to be used generically in a variety of situations.
Every time I do this, I call it a "prototype" so that the IT people can save face. We are doing the final customer testing now and it will be in production in about a week.
Last time this happened, the customer asked me how long it would take to write. It was just about Noon, so I told them that if they would go down to the cafeteria and get me a sandwich, I would write it over lunch on my own time.
IT provides a valuable service to most companies. But in every company I've worked for, IT has always been a dinosaur. They backload their costs into every project to hide their inefficiencies.
My best advice is to learn how to play the game and work with them to make them look good while keeping their burden low. In my case, they can handle having a "prototype" in "extended production testing" since it does not add to their workload and it really isn't in production (it's just been running as a customer acceptance test using real data for the last 3 years).
Jeez,
We just bought a house with a great view of the red spot.
You're telling me we will soon have to live next to humans?
That's the final straw. First Venutians, now earthlings. I'm selling before "green flight" to the outer planets ruins my property value.
-Xabloz The Transmuter
I'm sure you are a very nice person, but knowing that you are "growing into the job" of designing and managing a system with classified data on it is a very bad thing.
Since your company seems amazingly oblivious, you can show that you deserve to be a sysAdmin by TELLING THEM IMMEDIATELY THAT YOU ARE NOT THE PERSON TO DO THIS.
Better to tell them now, and a show you are a competent professional, than to get FIRED later for FAKING IT now.
Security is a process. Buying and setting up a system is just one part of that process.
Get Bruce Schneier's book, "Secrets and Lies". Read it. Then get some experienced help to build your secure system.
These things are going to be just like Bread Makers in the 1980's and Fondue Sets in the 1970's.
In the year 2025 will every garage sale in the universe have a used Meat Machine that the owners received as a Wedding Gift...
My four year old has a laptop. It's perfect for him since it can be set up anywhere we happen to be. We can keep an eye on him and he still gets to play his learning games.
We also use it on long trips in the car as a DVD player.
Of course he's been asking for a printer now for about three months...
NASA News
Release 05-666
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announced today that it will enter the online bookselling market.
Bob Wadkins, former manager of the Space Shuttle Program's evacuation station (toilet) reading materials management team, will lead the endevour.
"We are very excited to explore the online marketing space", said Watkins. "NASA has extensive experience in large dollars projects that take years to reap any tangible results. We think we are perfectly suited for online retail".
Outside observers are not so sure. An anonymous Congressional OMB auditor was quoted as saying "This may not work out as NASA thinks it will. NASA has never been very adept at maintaining costs. I seriously doubt that anyone will be willing to pay $1.5 million dollars for a copy of the next Harry Potter book".
For more information about the online bookstore, contact NASA in Washington, D.C. using the links provided below.
WOW. What is it about being an astronaut that makes these guys so goofy? Gordon Cooper thought we had been visited by aliens.
Now this guy thinks that a "single planet species" cannot survive.
I hate to bring up that unpleasant "science thing", but can he cite any empirical evidence of a lifeform that has survived by colonizing multiple planets?
Or is he just talking out of his, er, evacuation tube?
No, it's the Republican vast right-wing conspiracy that did it. They are trying to distract the American people from the 9/11 Commission report, the war in Iraq, the Democratic National Convention and the economy.
Or maybe it's Sandy Berger, Bill and Hillary Clinton, the nation media and the vast left-wing conspiracy trying to distract the American people from the 9/11 Commision report, the freeing of Iraq, the "not Hillary" Democratic National Convention, and the improving economy.
I not sure which it is, but it must be working cause I don't give a rat's butt about any of those things...
I've been a conservative republican for most of my life adult life. (OK, maybe I'm a closet libertarian...)
But the PATRIOT Act has turned me into a single issue voter against Bush.
BTW, the PATRIOT Act is not without precident. Abraham Lincoln, who most people would associate only with the emancipation of the slaves, declared Martial Law during the Civil War.
He routinely jailed newspapermen and shut down news papers critical of his administration. Like today's victims of PATRIOT, they had no recourse and were held in military prisons indefinately.
It was a bad idea then, and the PATRIOT Act is it's equally immoral PC equivalent today.
So come November, I will be voting for the first time in 20 years for a third party candidate.
I can't vote for Kerry, and my throw-away vote may help him win, but I can't vote for Bush either.
I'm sure some will think that my position is a canard planted by those sneeky Democrats. It's not.
But the vast majority of Republicans are more fearful than principled. As a result, PATRIOT is not an issue that the party worries about.
Security is a process. Find a hole in the process and the pieces you have bypassed are meaningless.
At airports the assumption is that your ticket was matched to your ID at the metal detectors before entering the "Secure Zone" where the gates are located.
Even the name "Secure Zone" implies that by virtue of being there, everyone near the gates is authorized and not a threat.
So all a terrrorist would have to do is buy/steal a ticket (or boarding pass for that matter) for a name that passes CAPPSII and then get into the secure zone.
Every pen test we read about shows how easy avoiding the checkpoints are. Once at the gate, you show your boarding pass and walk onto the plane. O'Hare and many other airports no longer check the ID again at the gate.
Alternately, you just avoid the gate completely and have your team access the plane directly from the tarmac or via the ramp by penetrating one of the lower, non-public levels of the terminal.
So 9/11 isn't behind us. Another one is possible just a soon as the assets are in place and the timing is right (like just before the next presidential election)
Security is a process. Find a hole in the process and the pieces you have bypassed are meaningless.
At airports the assumption is that your ticket was matched to your ID at the metal detectors before entering the "Secure Zone" where the gates are located.
Even the name "Secure Zone" implies that by virtue of being there, everyone near the gates is authorized and not a threat.
So all a terrrorist would have to do is buy/steal a ticket (or boarding pass for that matter) for a name that passes CAPPSII and then get into the secure zone.
Every pen test we read about shows how easy avoiding the checkpoints are. Once at the gate, you show your boarding pass and walk onto the plane. O'Hare and many other airports no longer check the ID again at the gate.
Alternately, you just avoid the gate completely and have your team access the plane directly from the tarmac or via the ramp by penetrating one of the lower, non-public levels of the terminal.
So 9/11 isn't behind us. Another one is possible just a soon as the assets are in place and the timing is right (like just before the next presidential election)
> While MS has a history of out executing Apple in the business arena, I really don't think they can touch them when it comes to something more "artistic" like music.
This isn't the music business. It's a generic product supply chain business.
MS won't handle the marketing that makes Andrea3000 the coolest thing since 50cent. All that MS will do is make it easy and cheap to get the files.
Music, fuzzy bunny slippers, Ginsu knives. It's all the same. People want it, people buy it. Whoever makes it easiest to change the least amount of money into [insert product name here] wins.
Evolutionary history is probably full of examples of species that were doing quite nicely until some unexpected event wiped them out. In the past most were _natural_ events such as meteors, massive tidal waves, droughts, etc.
Now many are manmade. Foriegn species introduction, habitat distruction, environmental poisoning, hunting to extinction because some body part makes your manhood stand up, etc.
Nevertheless, I'm not sure that being wiped out by Mother Nature is any more conforting to the impacted species.
And Evolution has a built in compensator. Regardless of the reason the species disappears, there will always be some species able to leverage the change to advance itself.
If there is any doubt of that, look at how cockroachs and motivational speakers have proliferated...
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The committee will not release the names of the candidates until 50 years after the year of nomination. But they do release the number of nominees.
Anyone who is nominated (or those who nominated them) are free to reveal that information. That is, in fact, how all the stories about Al Gore being in the running have been circulating in the media for some time.
The two examples that I cited are also known because someone revealed their nomination to the media.
Your are so right. If only I had seen Al Gore's film I'd clearly see that Gore was more deserving than the other 180 nominees for the prize.
One hundred and eighty one nominees, including a woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust and a man who helped heal Bosnia after the genocide there.
Too bad neither of them had a movie, cause I'm sure that if YOU had seen THIER MOVIE, you'd understand way Al Gore is such a poor choice for the PEACE prize.
Oh, and BTW, saw Gore's movie. I guess its relevance to world peace escaped me. I thought it was all about man's place at the center of the universe.
Oh Gowd! I just threw up in my mouth. The PEACE prize? What a waste. It should have gone to someone working towards PEACE. Peace in Darfur, peace in the middle east, peace in the Phillipines, Burma, Myanmar, Pakistan, India, wherever.
There are PLENTY of places on this planet where peace is needed more than more Prius', more wind powe, and more solar energy production.
Again, what a waste.
Alcoa must make a fortune off of Mr. Thompson since he must keep a giant roll of tin foil in his briefcase to constuct new headgear.
Your Christian co-worker already thinks odd things about you. That's what they do.
In this world of executives where they are rewarded for what The Street thinks, and the The Street only cares about this quarter's results, this is a BAU process.
Verizon is cutting staff again, I think this is iteration #2354 for them. Of course the work doesn't go down, it just shifts to the people left.
And my 60gig IPOD really only has music on it. Honest.
I'm in the same situation. Last week I was asked to review an IT proposal for a project. They wanted $30K to implement it. I read the spec, wrote the code, tests, documentation, UML diagrams and demo site in about 6 hours. It's modular, and flexible enough to be used generically in a variety of situations.
Every time I do this, I call it a "prototype" so that the IT people can save face. We are doing the final customer testing now and it will be in production in about a week.
Last time this happened, the customer asked me how long it would take to write. It was just about Noon, so I told them that if they would go down to the cafeteria and get me a sandwich, I would write it over lunch on my own time.
IT provides a valuable service to most companies. But in every company I've worked for, IT has always been a dinosaur. They backload their costs into every project to hide their inefficiencies. My best advice is to learn how to play the game and work with them to make them look good while keeping their burden low. In my case, they can handle having a "prototype" in "extended production testing" since it does not add to their workload and it really isn't in production (it's just been running as a customer acceptance test using real data for the last 3 years).You're telling me we will soon have to live next to humans?
That's the final straw. First Venutians, now earthlings. I'm selling before "green flight" to the outer planets ruins my property value. -Xabloz The Transmuter
Since your company seems amazingly oblivious, you can show that you deserve to be a sysAdmin by TELLING THEM IMMEDIATELY THAT YOU ARE NOT THE PERSON TO DO THIS.
Better to tell them now, and a show you are a competent professional, than to get FIRED later for FAKING IT now.
Security is a process. Buying and setting up a system is just one part of that process.
Get Bruce Schneier's book, "Secrets and Lies". Read it. Then get some experienced help to build your secure system.
These things are going to be just like Bread Makers in the 1980's and Fondue Sets in the 1970's. In the year 2025 will every garage sale in the universe have a used Meat Machine that the owners received as a Wedding Gift...
My four year old has a laptop. It's perfect for him since it can be set up anywhere we happen to be. We can keep an eye on him and he still gets to play his learning games. We also use it on long trips in the car as a DVD player. Of course he's been asking for a printer now for about three months...
I thought that sound was coming from Uranus... (Hey, YOU were thinking it too)
NASA News Release 05-666 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announced today that it will enter the online bookselling market. Bob Wadkins, former manager of the Space Shuttle Program's evacuation station (toilet) reading materials management team, will lead the endevour. "We are very excited to explore the online marketing space", said Watkins. "NASA has extensive experience in large dollars projects that take years to reap any tangible results. We think we are perfectly suited for online retail". Outside observers are not so sure. An anonymous Congressional OMB auditor was quoted as saying "This may not work out as NASA thinks it will. NASA has never been very adept at maintaining costs. I seriously doubt that anyone will be willing to pay $1.5 million dollars for a copy of the next Harry Potter book". For more information about the online bookstore, contact NASA in Washington, D.C. using the links provided below.
Now this guy thinks that a "single planet species" cannot survive.
I hate to bring up that unpleasant "science thing", but can he cite any empirical evidence of a lifeform that has survived by colonizing multiple planets?
Or is he just talking out of his, er, evacuation tube?
Or maybe it's Sandy Berger, Bill and Hillary Clinton, the nation media and the vast left-wing conspiracy trying to distract the American people from the 9/11 Commision report, the freeing of Iraq, the "not Hillary" Democratic National Convention, and the improving economy.
I not sure which it is, but it must be working cause I don't give a rat's butt about any of those things...
All he needs is the micro-salsa and micro-guacamole!
Ole!
Oh wait, that's already happened. Nevermind.
BTW, the PATRIOT Act is not without precident. Abraham Lincoln, who most people would associate only with the emancipation of the slaves, declared Martial Law during the Civil War.
He routinely jailed newspapermen and shut down news papers critical of his administration. Like today's victims of PATRIOT, they had no recourse and were held in military prisons indefinately.
It was a bad idea then, and the PATRIOT Act is it's equally immoral PC equivalent today.
So come November, I will be voting for the first time in 20 years for a third party candidate.
I can't vote for Kerry, and my throw-away vote may help him win, but I can't vote for Bush either.
I'm sure some will think that my position is a canard planted by those sneeky Democrats. It's not.
But the vast majority of Republicans are more fearful than principled. As a result, PATRIOT is not an issue that the party worries about.
Security is a process. Find a hole in the process and the pieces you have bypassed are meaningless. At airports the assumption is that your ticket was matched to your ID at the metal detectors before entering the "Secure Zone" where the gates are located.
Even the name "Secure Zone" implies that by virtue of being there, everyone near the gates is authorized and not a threat.
So all a terrrorist would have to do is buy/steal a ticket (or boarding pass for that matter) for a name that passes CAPPSII and then get into the secure zone.
Every pen test we read about shows how easy avoiding the checkpoints are. Once at the gate, you show your boarding pass and walk onto the plane. O'Hare and many other airports no longer check the ID again at the gate.
Alternately, you just avoid the gate completely and have your team access the plane directly from the tarmac or via the ramp by penetrating one of the lower, non-public levels of the terminal.
So 9/11 isn't behind us. Another one is possible just a soon as the assets are in place and the timing is right (like just before the next presidential election)
At airports the assumption is that your ticket was matched to your ID at the metal detectors before entering the "Secure Zone" where the gates are located.
Even the name "Secure Zone" implies that by virtue of being there, everyone near the gates is authorized and not a threat.
So all a terrrorist would have to do is buy/steal a ticket (or boarding pass for that matter) for a name that passes CAPPSII and then get into the secure zone.
Every pen test we read about shows how easy avoiding the checkpoints are. Once at the gate, you show your boarding pass and walk onto the plane. O'Hare and many other airports no longer check the ID again at the gate.
Alternately, you just avoid the gate completely and have your team access the plane directly from the tarmac or via the ramp by penetrating one of the lower, non-public levels of the terminal.
So 9/11 isn't behind us. Another one is possible just a soon as the assets are in place and the timing is right (like just before the next presidential election)
> While MS has a history of out executing Apple in the business arena, I really don't think they can touch them when it comes to something more "artistic" like music.
This isn't the music business. It's a generic product supply chain business.
MS won't handle the marketing that makes Andrea3000 the coolest thing since 50cent. All that MS will do is make it easy and cheap to get the files.
Music, fuzzy bunny slippers, Ginsu knives. It's all the same. People want it, people buy it. Whoever makes it easiest to change the least amount of money into [insert product name here] wins.
Just ask WalMart...
That way you can listen to your favorite Death Metal while out at the shooting range.
Totally American. Rock on, Moses Heston!
Is is just me, or does the photo in the article look like he's holding a certain 'device' from Austin Power #1?
Evolutionary history is probably full of examples of species that were doing quite nicely until some unexpected event wiped them out. In the past most were _natural_ events such as meteors, massive tidal waves, droughts, etc. Now many are manmade. Foriegn species introduction, habitat distruction, environmental poisoning, hunting to extinction because some body part makes your manhood stand up, etc. Nevertheless, I'm not sure that being wiped out by Mother Nature is any more conforting to the impacted species. And Evolution has a built in compensator. Regardless of the reason the species disappears, there will always be some species able to leverage the change to advance itself. If there is any doubt of that, look at how cockroachs and motivational speakers have proliferated...