It's rather silly to talk about improved safeguards for our communications when the makers of the devices which provide those communications are known to be subject to laws requiring them to let the FBI/CIA/NSA/whoever-Bush-wants listen to every conversation. Any "safeguard" they could claim to have is just marketing nonsense to feed to the stupid who don't bother to follow the news. Our privacy is gone, in the interests of "national security". This posturing by the media as if it isn't just reflects their uselessness as sources of information.
Gee, you mean legislation pushed by media monopolies to enhance their profit margins by surpressing innovation and Fair Use rights has suppressed innovation? What a surprise. Not.
Admiral Antifraud. He could have young adults watch Repo Man and listen to the intro music, then listen to the "soundtrack" cd and witness that the intro music does not in fact appear on it. Then he could ask "What is that?" and they could all yell "FRAUD". The moralizing of the media corps about how bad copyright violation is reeks of hypocrisy given their own propensity to commit crimes -- which they being corporations are never punished for (anyone else remember that lame "settlement" where they got to dump garbage cds on the public and call it restitution for price fixing of non-garbage cds?). Especially when they want to abuse the innocence and trust of children with their one-sided and self-serving indoctrination to ip law issues. Grr.
The more important and disgusting thing we are teaching our children is accepting a police state in the name of security. We fought the cold war to ensure we had the freedoms Bushco is stealing from us. The fact that it improvishes the average citizen's ability to engage in chemistry as a hobby is just a side-effect.
Religious arguments aside, all modern programming languages are about the same. My advice would be to learn VB and do the best job you can. Fighting with the boss over which language to use will be at least unproductive and could get you fired.
The sound you hear is the continuing dirge for Fair Use rights. Keep in mind that rulings against corporations create legal precedent that applies to you too. This case and that against XM Radio could make Tivos and any other "unauthorized" media recording illegal.
Running as non-admin is not an option unless you want to experience "random failures" and be unable to run numerous applications. I tried to do things the Right Way in XP (never login as admin, run everything from non-admin accounts) when I first upgraded from Windows 98 (which didn't have even pretensions of security). The first sign that this was not a realistic goal was when I discovered Palm Desktop would not install _or run_ except with admin rights. When contacted, Palm said this was indeed the case. The suggestion that you are going to get your money back if software requires admin rights is unrealistic -- software is unreturnable except for exchange of defective media. Expecting vendors to care about the tiny fraction of users who know enough to have a problem with the requirement of admin rights is also unrealistic. So unless you like taking Quixotic stands, grant your accounts admin rights and get used to it. I think recommending typical users to do otherwise is a disservice.
To be clear: I say the above not as someone who enjoys the situation, but as someone who has accepted the reality. XP's security is a joke, since admin is required for realistic use. Get used to it. If you want security, run *nix. That's how it's always been. That's how it'll remain.
Someone let me know if this film is ever available an a useful format. mplayer and media player classic only don't count. Wtf is the XVID codoc version?
The Microsoft of Linux is obviously Red Hat. Also obviously, Novell would pretend not to know this. Of course, Red Hat's supremacy is dependent on Oracle (and the other major applications) continuing to make it the only supported Linux distribution -- as Mr. Ellison knew when he threatened Red Hat with making his own.
I've been waiting for affordable display glasses since I saw the concept in Flash Gordon. Fwiw, the company mentioned is hardly the first to develop this kind of device -- MicroOptical Corp and Icuiti to name two, and Icuiti's is shipping (i.e. non-vaporware) -- as Slashdot well knows, having posted numerous entries on the subject before. So the implication of the article that this is some kind of new development is odd and inaccurate.
Predicting the imminent death of Microsoft has replaced predicting the imminent death of the Internet. Both predictions are stupid and Not Going to Happen. Microsoft owns 95% of the market and has tens of billions in cash reserves. That means they are untouchable due to network effect, no matter how shoddy or overpriced their products are.
When I was in grade six, the Commodore PET came out, and I jumped at the opportunity to learn how to program it!
Grade seven for me. Be thankful we went through school during the golden age of primary school computer classes. We learned how to create programs, vs. how to use the programs of others.
Now, evidently, most high school computer classes are about Word (tm) and Excel (tm).
Modern computer classes are training sessions for Microsoft software. Which makes sense pragmatically since true computer literacy (aka programming ability) is no longer an educational goal, and given Microsoft's monopolist position in the office software market.
Is this a bad thing? Should we care? Is this the harbinger of the end of the world?
Shrug. Do you mean morally or practically? Morally, it's bad. Teaching students how to program and understand how the computer works empowers them. Teaching them how to operate Word or Excel is a poor substitute, even if the version they are taught actually happens to resemble the one they use when they graduate (which it probably won't). On the other hand, since the need for programmers continues to decline (and their working conditions increasingly suck) there is little practical value to so empowering them. So arguably it's for the best. But it's still sad.
If you use RFID, your data is as good as public domain. Another tech designed with no (serious) thought to security. The only thing that's going to be more pathetic/amusing (depending on your alignment) are the new pin-less "proximity" credit/debit cards. Won't be very long before a clever criminal makes a fortune by walking around the mall with a small black box emptying the accounts of every luser with one. Unless you want to be one of them, just say no to this moronic idea. Still can't believe it made it off the drawing board.
"Quinn, who faced plenty of scrutiny over his support of the OpenDocument standards-based office document format, said proponents of open source in government faced formidable opposition from vested interests if they went public."
I spent 10 years trying to save the tax payers money by promoting open source solutions within a government agency. For my trouble I was underpaid and denied promotion, and eventually wrongfully terminated under trumped up offenses. "[F]ormidable opposition" is putting it mildly. Promoting open source within government agencies is a good way to get screwed -- even without the pony tail and sandals.
Eric Giguere writes "CNet is reporting that according to former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn 'the lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments.' In particular, Quinn blames the 'sandal and ponytail set' for sluggish adoption of Linux by businesses and governments." From the article:
My response to this is f 'em -- if they're so shallow that they ignore technically superior solutions because those who create and promote it don't dress the way they like, they can keep getting ripped off by traditional commercial software. If you're willing to sell out your wardrobe for political expediency, you would be well served to stop promoting open source too and focus on mastering corporate politics so you can get a managerial job with high pay and little work.
Um, it's not a myth. The pending offshoring of the vast majority of IT jobs has been documented repeated, on this website in fact. Combined with the fact that most IT jobs now provide little autonomy and lots of tedium, stress, and responsibility, you can see why so many college students can think of better things to dedicate their lives to. IT execs have only themselves to blame for IT's lack of appeal since they are the ones causing it.
Assuming for the sake of argument that D.C. and Marvel did invent the term "superhero", it has obviously lost its exclusivity to these companies in common usage. Much like Zipper and Asprin, which began life as trademarks but became "ordinary" words through usage and were properly ruled to be such. If the legal system still worked, I would suggest other comic publishers ignore D.C./Marvel's attempt to abuse trademark law to surpress competition. But since these days the court could (ignoring the relevent precident) rule in favor of D.C./Marvel . . .
Anyone know where one can download a higher resolution version? The website mentioned in the article has a flickr link, but only to a low resolution source.
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It's rather silly to talk about improved safeguards for our communications when the makers of the devices which provide those communications are known to be subject to laws requiring them to let the FBI/CIA/NSA/whoever-Bush-wants listen to every conversation. Any "safeguard" they could claim to have is just marketing nonsense to feed to the stupid who don't bother to follow the news. Our privacy is gone, in the interests of "national security". This posturing by the media as if it isn't just reflects their uselessness as sources of information.
self signed.
Gee, you mean legislation pushed by media monopolies to enhance their profit margins by surpressing innovation and Fair Use rights has suppressed innovation? What a surprise. Not.
Admiral Antifraud. He could have young adults watch Repo Man and listen to the intro music, then listen to the "soundtrack" cd and witness that the intro music does not in fact appear on it. Then he could ask "What is that?" and they could all yell "FRAUD". The moralizing of the media corps about how bad copyright violation is reeks of hypocrisy given their own propensity to commit crimes -- which they being corporations are never punished for (anyone else remember that lame "settlement" where they got to dump garbage cds on the public and call it restitution for price fixing of non-garbage cds?). Especially when they want to abuse the innocence and trust of children with their one-sided and self-serving indoctrination to ip law issues. Grr.
The more important and disgusting thing we are teaching our children is accepting a police state in the name of security. We fought the cold war to ensure we had the freedoms Bushco is stealing from us. The fact that it improvishes the average citizen's ability to engage in chemistry as a hobby is just a side-effect.
Religious arguments aside, all modern programming languages are about the same. My advice would be to learn VB and do the best job you can. Fighting with the boss over which language to use will be at least unproductive and could get you fired.
This is a good thing for government workers, since it will help them avoid buying into the fantasy that they'll be protected if they put ethics first.
The sound you hear is the continuing dirge for Fair Use rights. Keep in mind that rulings against corporations create legal precedent that applies to you too. This case and that against XM Radio could make Tivos and any other "unauthorized" media recording illegal.
Running as non-admin is not an option unless you want to experience "random failures" and be unable to run numerous applications. I tried to do things the Right Way in XP (never login as admin, run everything from non-admin accounts) when I first upgraded from Windows 98 (which didn't have even pretensions of security). The first sign that this was not a realistic goal was when I discovered Palm Desktop would not install _or run_ except with admin rights. When contacted, Palm said this was indeed the case. The suggestion that you are going to get your money back if software requires admin rights is unrealistic -- software is unreturnable except for exchange of defective media. Expecting vendors to care about the tiny fraction of users who know enough to have a problem with the requirement of admin rights is also unrealistic. So unless you like taking Quixotic stands, grant your accounts admin rights and get used to it. I think recommending typical users to do otherwise is a disservice.
To be clear: I say the above not as someone who enjoys the situation, but as someone who has accepted the reality. XP's security is a joke, since admin is required for realistic use. Get used to it. If you want security, run *nix. That's how it's always been. That's how it'll remain.
Someone let me know if this film is ever available an a useful format. mplayer and media player classic only don't count. Wtf is the XVID codoc version?
Or a digital audio device with line-in recording and then play it back into the same computer.
Since obtaining DNA samples does not require blood. Just cleaning his jail cell would provide hundreds of samples from skn flakes, loose hair, et.
Since the "probation" is a meaningless joke, it matters not at all if they continue it or not.
The Microsoft of Linux is obviously Red Hat. Also obviously, Novell would pretend not to know this. Of course, Red Hat's supremacy is dependent on Oracle (and the other major applications) continuing to make it the only supported Linux distribution -- as Mr. Ellison knew when he threatened Red Hat with making his own.
I've been waiting for affordable display glasses since I saw the concept in Flash Gordon. Fwiw, the company mentioned is hardly the first to develop this kind of device -- MicroOptical Corp and Icuiti to name two, and Icuiti's is shipping (i.e. non-vaporware) -- as Slashdot well knows, having posted numerous entries on the subject before. So the implication of the article that this is some kind of new development is odd and inaccurate.
Predicting the imminent death of Microsoft has replaced predicting the imminent death of the Internet. Both predictions are stupid and Not Going to Happen. Microsoft owns 95% of the market and has tens of billions in cash reserves. That means they are untouchable due to network effect, no matter how shoddy or overpriced their products are.
When I was in grade six, the Commodore PET came out, and I jumped at the opportunity to learn how to program it!
Grade seven for me. Be thankful we went through school during the golden age of primary school computer classes. We learned how to create programs, vs. how to use the programs of others.
Now, evidently, most high school computer classes are about Word (tm) and Excel (tm).
Modern computer classes are training sessions for Microsoft software. Which makes sense pragmatically since true computer literacy (aka programming ability) is no longer an educational goal, and given Microsoft's monopolist position in the office software market.
Is this a bad thing? Should we care? Is this the harbinger of the end of the world?
Shrug. Do you mean morally or practically? Morally, it's bad. Teaching students how to program and understand how the computer works empowers them. Teaching them how to operate Word or Excel is a poor substitute, even if the version they are taught actually happens to resemble the one they use when they graduate (which it probably won't). On the other hand, since the need for programmers continues to decline (and their working conditions increasingly suck) there is little practical value to so empowering them. So arguably it's for the best. But it's still sad.
If you use RFID, your data is as good as public domain. Another tech designed with no (serious) thought to security. The only thing that's going to be more pathetic/amusing (depending on your alignment) are the new pin-less "proximity" credit/debit cards. Won't be very long before a clever criminal makes a fortune by walking around the mall with a small black box emptying the accounts of every luser with one. Unless you want to be one of them, just say no to this moronic idea. Still can't believe it made it off the drawing board.
"Quinn, who faced plenty of scrutiny over his support of the OpenDocument standards-based office document format, said proponents of open source in government faced formidable opposition from vested interests if they went public."
I spent 10 years trying to save the tax payers money by promoting open source solutions within a government agency. For my trouble I was underpaid and denied promotion, and eventually wrongfully terminated under trumped up offenses. "[F]ormidable opposition" is putting it mildly. Promoting open source within government agencies is a good way to get screwed -- even without the pony tail and sandals.
Eric Giguere writes "CNet is reporting that according to former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn 'the lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments.' In particular, Quinn blames the 'sandal and ponytail set' for sluggish adoption of Linux by businesses and governments." From the article:
My response to this is f 'em -- if they're so shallow that they ignore technically superior solutions because those who create and promote it don't dress the way they like, they can keep getting ripped off by traditional commercial software. If you're willing to sell out your wardrobe for political expediency, you would be well served to stop promoting open source too and focus on mastering corporate politics so you can get a managerial job with high pay and little work.
Yes. They claimed that in court in the DOJ case too. Just proves they were lying, as everyone with a clue knew at the time anyway.
Um, it's not a myth. The pending offshoring of the vast majority of IT jobs has been documented repeated, on this website in fact. Combined with the fact that most IT jobs now provide little autonomy and lots of tedium, stress, and responsibility, you can see why so many college students can think of better things to dedicate their lives to. IT execs have only themselves to blame for IT's lack of appeal since they are the ones causing it.
Assuming for the sake of argument that D.C. and Marvel did invent the term "superhero", it has obviously lost its exclusivity to these companies in common usage. Much like Zipper and Asprin, which began life as trademarks but became "ordinary" words through usage and were properly ruled to be such. If the legal system still worked, I would suggest other comic publishers ignore D.C./Marvel's attempt to abuse trademark law to surpress competition. But since these days the court could (ignoring the relevent precident) rule in favor of D.C./Marvel . . .
You mean Microsoft is going to destroy a software market using its monopoly? Oh, the surprise. Quick, alert the DOJ. Oh, wait. Anyway...
To answer my own question, here is the link.
Anyone know where one can download a higher resolution version? The website mentioned in the article has a flickr link, but only to a low resolution source.