We can't say that we couldn't have seen it coming. The Products Feed spec existed for years as part of Google Merchant Centre, now it's one of the centerpieces making this possible - https://support.google.com/mer...
ahh, the good old war power excuses. rtfa, he has already gone way right, and if i were american, i would probably annul my vote (can you do this in the us?)
while i totally side with the argument that fdr is this big liberal scare, and the yankees have to be kept in check lest the government be allowed to treat us as pawns, as far as defying the constitution, i think the ffs are spinning in their graves over the abominations committed by clinton and the bushes way more than the possible harm that obama might do
he doesn't really have a choice, and we have always known that he would first go left to get popular, and then right to get the money.
http://counterpunch.org/kafoury05272008.html
Many if not most hosting companies offer webmail (SquirrelMail, etc.) access to their accounts. The biggest problem, I find is the storage space and spam filtering. The reasonable amount of space for almost any hosting account is around 2GB. Traditionally, this is enough for your website and all databases, but when it comes to hosting ~50 email accounts, things get tricky. Really, the default mailbox size in my cPanel managed accounts is only 10MB. I had to increase the mailboxen for some clients up to 150MB - many are often on the road, and need access to their sent mail folders, but then the whole hosting account is running out of quota. While Gmail allows one to send mail as originating from your domain, it does have this unprofessional feel to it. Nevertheless, Gmail was a great money and trouble saving solution.
oooh, yeah, i guess i trolled there a bit, but OO is really a bitch to compile, and even when you tell configure to not use java, it still looks for it. i use a pure 64 lfs, and i tried compiling oo with different versions of gcc, changed the includes around, but it shuts me down every time, while koffice and abiword compile beautifully.
OO is one of the most impossible, fat, ugly, aneurysm driving, horrible packages to compile. You only have to edit header files like 20 times only to realize that it won't link anyway on a 64 bit box. Y'all enjoy your precompiled binaries, and depend yourselves on proprietary Java code, but I tells you - OO is a big pile of stinking manure, and given the number of people that depend on it, their management should have the balls to ditch the Sun's empirialistic position, start complying with standards, and put forward a solid piece of software
The issue that I take with science education is mostly that besides spending years learning things that might be likely forgotten very shortly, and scarcely used in the "real world", people come out from universities without the knowledge of their history, literature, etc. Hell, many can hardly spell (or speak English). Consider a CS student from the 80's who had spent years learning COBOL, Simula, Fortran and Pascal, only to find themselves unemployable 10 years down the road unless they learn new languages. We, now, have hundreds of thousands of highly educated yet hardly employable people who never studied sociology, art or religion, have a very narrow world view, and as opposed to the unemployable humanities graduates, have the burden of having to catch up with the younger generation whom they can hardly teach anything. I recall being utterly frustrated when after a day of classes, I would realize that I did not have to say one word during the whole day!
Fortunately, as opposed to the US, you do not have to solely depend on large ISPs as Bell, Videotron or Rogers. Remember this story? There are dozens of independent ISPs, and while they often use Bell's networks, I have not seen any throttling on P2P as of yet. I routinely get speeds of close to 500KB/s.
While this vulnerability is quite alarming, NoScript is hardly the solution for your everyday "regular" users. Most people simply don't get it. Also, besides being a bandage solution, complicating my life by forcing an extra step for viewing almost every website, it does hardly quell my rancour that now that I had just compiled that version of ff for my pure64 system (and was, oh, so happy about it), I actually made myself more vulnerable.
Really, using NoScript is like having to test your gasoline every time before you fill up your car. None of my computers run Windows. Talk about being locked in to a monoculture! I am stuck, dependent, and at the mercy of the Mozilla foundation, since there be no better alternatives at the moment. My hat, certainly goes off to the developers, and kudos to them, but perhaps, WebKit will become a healthy competitor.
Uncanny and sad. With the country's resources and the government almost wholly controlled by Shell Oil (look it up), it would be interesting to see if there were a link.
One more eventuality when you might want to completely innocently serve up a different page to a search engine spider is when you have a splash page or an age verification page that is required in some countries if, for example, you sell booze.
True that, but think it, - what was the original purpose for chroot? How did this "feature" come to be?
Ever tried to update your glibc by hand? binutils? This is where one would get the most use of it. Given a chance won't you test something new before pitching? People love chroot, and some insist on chrooting MTAs, Apache and others, and I am loving it (do what I say, not what I do)! I like this trend. It is not really about security. This is the K&R OOP principle of encapsulation creeping on from programming to system administration.
I would have to agree with the parent here. Not sure how it works in the states, but in Canada such laws are already in place (not that they are working well), and many IT companies routinely pay overtime. In Quebec, for example, we have a government agency - La Commission des normes du travail, whose job is to educate employees about their rights, and catch companies that mistreat their workers. Indeed, the whole reason why the 40/hr weeks were set as a standard is to prevent the potential abuse coming from employers. Contract worker or not, when one has been employed by a company for more than 3 months (maybe 4, I forget), they become eligible for all of the standard employee benefits including sick days, overtime pay, etc. see here. When employers submit their financial reports to the Revenue Canada, they have to specify hours per week. Adjusting the financial data to fit no more than 40 hours per week, is, well, highly illegal.
Editorial opinions aside, why would the city make exceptions to its bylaws for a store? On a different note. Did you know that these new parking meters they have actually run on Linux? Made by this company called 8D, and there is already a class action law suit pending against the city in regard to these parking meters. See, these meters allow the city to sell the same period of time two or more times since once you take off, the next person won't know that the spot had already been paid for.
They don't chalk tires here.
Compassion is really a part of intelligence. Check out Kurzweil's 'Age of Spiritual Machines'. The more than human intelligence will inevitably entail compassion, love, and all the other emotions we have. Further, forget about the 'borg' idea. We will inevitably evolve into these machines.
Actually getting a lawyer, etc. is going to take too long, I believe, the appropriate course of action would be to file a complaint with the CRTC (Canadian FCC). They are obligated to investigate your complaint and get back to you within two weeks (or smth). That's the law. You can even post a complaint on the net. Here is the address: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/RapidsCCM/Register.asp?lang= E Overall, I think, being demanding and pushy can help. When you call the telco (Telus, Videotron, Sympatico, whatever) ask the person's full name and the name of their supervisor. Then ask if they are actually in the position to make decisions, if not, don't waste your time, tell them to transfer you to their superiour or someone who is allowed to make changes to your account. Finally, when you speak to some sort of a manager (always get their full name and the name of their superiour), tell them that the next call will be to the better business bureau, CRTC, or some consumer protection group. Tell the manager that you will drag their name through all of these organizations. Remind them that the CRTC must investigate all complaints. It might help if you tell them that you suspect that they are giving you a hard time because of your race/sexual orientation (they can't see you, right?). You can make a three way call to your answering machine, and record this conversation. Chances are that in the heat of the moment one of the employees will do something stupid (like curse at you or lie), and then you pretty much got more beef. More often than not they cave.
The thing is that it is painfully easy to make it work on both IE and Firefox. It is as simple as to check for the user agent and then use Active X for IE, and httpRequestObject for Firefox. Google does that with maps and gmail. It's like five lines of code. Now if this version of Hotmail will only run on IE (which I doubt), it would mean a blatant disrespect to millions of non-IE users, and quite an inconvenience.
But that is the thing though. The actual accounts of what took place are often different. It is your word against theirs. And most of the time there are no witnesses. So, you claim it is a fact, they claim it is slander. While such sites could be easily abused, some people will simply have no other recourse.
I would have to more or less agree. There is nothing to worry about as far as QT goes. I really like QT, and would hate for TT to suddenly cut the GPL version and 'lock in' the poor suckers who depend on it. However, this *will not* happen. The same day TT stops shipping a GPLed version, we'll just keep on developing QT in parallel under GPL (remember, we still got the source). And it will be better designed and tested because it will be open. Now their (and MySQL's) peripheral involvement with SCO is personally repulsive, but why would we care? The source is out there, and if the company's management goes on crack with Darl, they will simply phase out, and the development will go on without them.
Wouldn't be really surprising. With the US steadily and systematically portraying Iran as "the world's biggest supporter of terror", Bush saying that "all options are on the table", the media instilling this image of Iran as the new big enemy, it is not unforeseeable that the public opinion in this country will be tolerant of some sort of a "surgical" nuclear strike on Iran. Consider this: while Iran is *totally* complying with all of IAEA inspections (and even more), the UN will not declare Iran in violation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, John Bolton, walks out of UN (he is very well suited for this), the US declares UN obsolete, inefficient and greedy, and since the public doesn't want to send more troops, the US proceeds to blow up nuclear facilities in Iran from the air. These will not be full blown nuclear explosions, but considering the scope of environmental damage, they might as well be. However, if they do use the real nukes, I wouldn't be too surprised. Probably launch them from Israel to rub it in too. All this would be more or less within the PNAC plans drafted back in the eighties. And more to the topic. Does it sound off or what!? The guy in the article says smth like: "I am an Arab, I know how they think". This is the guy developing weapons. Are we now in business of developing anti-arab weapons? I am disgusted.
I recall in the early 1990s, people in Austria were very happy that they were finally allowed to throw away their batteries (in special bins) without having to pay the recycling costs. They still have to pay to throw away fridges, TVs, microwaves, etc. I might be mistaken though, 'twas a while ago.
It is Zacarias Moussaui, and as far as due process is concerned, didn't Michael Chertoff (Assistant Attorney General, note that his last name means "of the devil" in Russian), fly the witnesses against him outside of the US courts' jurisdiction so they can't be subpoenaed? They are in the US military's custody, but outside of US jurisdiction (Cuba?). What happened to facing your accuser? Does anyone recall when some court, a couple of years ago, ruled that DNA is the property of the state? IIRC, it was in a case when DNA was collected by the state without suspect's consent, and the court allowed it, thus securing a conviction?
IANAL, but it seems that when a suspect is forced to be fingerprinted and their DNA is taken before any conviction, it automatically means that the state owns that data. Right? What if I copyright my fingerprints and DNA, and then sue the state under the DMCA?
How about the physics of reflection? Correct me if I am wrong, and I admit I didn't read all the posts, but: When a photon hits the mirror, it knocks an electron or two off to a higher orbit. Then, unable to sustain such an orbit, they fall back releasing the energy which creates an identical photon, but with an opposite vector. Same polarization, same amplitude (in a "perfect mirror" only, of course), but different direction. I can't say one way or another, but when tons of photons are hitting a large "perfect mirror" surface at the same time, all the time, they do create a constant change in the mirror (hmm, how about a degrading mirror that records what it reflects?), that's why it reflects. Now, photons act as a wave. What if it were a perfect laser hitting a perfect mirror? The chances are that when (imagine two sine waves coinciding in a fiber-optic cable) the incoming photons hit the photons that are reflected, their amplitude increases (or decreases). Thus, before being dispersed, there is bound to be some amplification going on right next to the mirror. Does it serve anything? I dunno, I am not a physicist, it's just common knowledge, and that was but a rant.
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We can't say that we couldn't have seen it coming. The Products Feed spec existed for years as part of Google Merchant Centre, now it's one of the centerpieces making this possible - https://support.google.com/mer...
ahh, the good old war power excuses. rtfa, he has already gone way right, and if i were american, i would probably annul my vote (can you do this in the us?) while i totally side with the argument that fdr is this big liberal scare, and the yankees have to be kept in check lest the government be allowed to treat us as pawns, as far as defying the constitution, i think the ffs are spinning in their graves over the abominations committed by clinton and the bushes way more than the possible harm that obama might do
he doesn't really have a choice, and we have always known that he would first go left to get popular, and then right to get the money. http://counterpunch.org/kafoury05272008.html
Many if not most hosting companies offer webmail (SquirrelMail, etc.) access to their accounts. The biggest problem, I find is the storage space and spam filtering. The reasonable amount of space for almost any hosting account is around 2GB. Traditionally, this is enough for your website and all databases, but when it comes to hosting ~50 email accounts, things get tricky. Really, the default mailbox size in my cPanel managed accounts is only 10MB. I had to increase the mailboxen for some clients up to 150MB - many are often on the road, and need access to their sent mail folders, but then the whole hosting account is running out of quota. While Gmail allows one to send mail as originating from your domain, it does have this unprofessional feel to it. Nevertheless, Gmail was a great money and trouble saving solution.
oooh, yeah, i guess i trolled there a bit, but OO is really a bitch to compile, and even when you tell configure to not use java, it still looks for it. i use a pure 64 lfs, and i tried compiling oo with different versions of gcc, changed the includes around, but it shuts me down every time, while koffice and abiword compile beautifully.
OO is one of the most impossible, fat, ugly, aneurysm driving, horrible packages to compile. You only have to edit header files like 20 times only to realize that it won't link anyway on a 64 bit box. Y'all enjoy your precompiled binaries, and depend yourselves on proprietary Java code, but I tells you - OO is a big pile of stinking manure, and given the number of people that depend on it, their management should have the balls to ditch the Sun's empirialistic position, start complying with standards, and put forward a solid piece of software
Dude! I am so moving there. I love stupid hippies. They are pretty good with dill and garlic!
The issue that I take with science education is mostly that besides spending years learning things that might be likely forgotten very shortly, and scarcely used in the "real world", people come out from universities without the knowledge of their history, literature, etc. Hell, many can hardly spell (or speak English).
Consider a CS student from the 80's who had spent years learning COBOL, Simula, Fortran and Pascal, only to find themselves unemployable 10 years down the road unless they learn new languages. We, now, have hundreds of thousands of highly educated yet hardly employable people who never studied sociology, art or religion, have a very narrow world view, and as opposed to the unemployable humanities graduates, have the burden of having to catch up with the younger generation whom they can hardly teach anything.
I recall being utterly frustrated when after a day of classes, I would realize that I did not have to say one word during the whole day!
Fortunately, as opposed to the US, you do not have to solely depend on large ISPs as Bell, Videotron or Rogers. Remember this story? There are dozens of independent ISPs, and while they often use Bell's networks, I have not seen any throttling on P2P as of yet. I routinely get speeds of close to 500KB/s.
While this vulnerability is quite alarming, NoScript is hardly the solution for your everyday "regular" users. Most people simply don't get it. Also, besides being a bandage solution, complicating my life by forcing an extra step for viewing almost every website, it does hardly quell my rancour that now that I had just compiled that version of ff for my pure64 system (and was, oh, so happy about it), I actually made myself more vulnerable.
Really, using NoScript is like having to test your gasoline every time before you fill up your car. None of my computers run Windows. Talk about being locked in to a monoculture! I am stuck, dependent, and at the mercy of the Mozilla foundation, since there be no better alternatives at the moment. My hat, certainly goes off to the developers, and kudos to them, but perhaps, WebKit will become a healthy competitor.
Uncanny and sad. With the country's resources and the government almost wholly controlled by Shell Oil (look it up), it would be interesting to see if there were a link.
One more eventuality when you might want to completely innocently serve up a different page to a search engine spider is when you have a splash page or an age verification page that is required in some countries if, for example, you sell booze.
True that, but think it, - what was the original purpose for chroot? How did this "feature" come to be? Ever tried to update your glibc by hand? binutils? This is where one would get the most use of it. Given a chance won't you test something new before pitching?
People love chroot, and some insist on chrooting MTAs, Apache and others, and I am loving it (do what I say, not what I do)! I like this trend. It is not really about security. This is the K&R OOP principle of encapsulation creeping on from programming to system administration.
I would have to agree with the parent here. Not sure how it works in the states, but in Canada such laws are already in place (not that they are working well), and many IT companies routinely pay overtime. In Quebec, for example, we have a government agency - La Commission des normes du travail, whose job is to educate employees about their rights, and catch companies that mistreat their workers. Indeed, the whole reason why the 40/hr weeks were set as a standard is to prevent the potential abuse coming from employers.
Contract worker or not, when one has been employed by a company for more than 3 months (maybe 4, I forget), they become eligible for all of the standard employee benefits including sick days, overtime pay, etc. see here.
When employers submit their financial reports to the Revenue Canada, they have to specify hours per week. Adjusting the financial data to fit no more than 40 hours per week, is, well, highly illegal.
Editorial opinions aside, why would the city make exceptions to its bylaws for a store?
On a different note. Did you know that these new parking meters they have actually run on Linux? Made by this company called 8D, and there is already a class action law suit pending against the city in regard to these parking meters. See, these meters allow the city to sell the same period of time two or more times since once you take off, the next person won't know that the spot had already been paid for.
They don't chalk tires here.
Compassion is really a part of intelligence. Check out Kurzweil's 'Age of Spiritual Machines'. The more than human intelligence will inevitably entail compassion, love, and all the other emotions we have.
Further, forget about the 'borg' idea. We will inevitably evolve into these machines.
Actually getting a lawyer, etc. is going to take too long, I believe, the appropriate course of action would be to file a complaint with the CRTC (Canadian FCC). They are obligated to investigate your complaint and get back to you within two weeks (or smth). That's the law.= E
You can even post a complaint on the net. Here is the address: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/RapidsCCM/Register.asp?lang
Overall, I think, being demanding and pushy can help. When you call the telco (Telus, Videotron, Sympatico, whatever) ask the person's full name and the name of their supervisor. Then ask if they are actually in the position to make decisions, if not, don't waste your time, tell them to transfer you to their superiour or someone who is allowed to make changes to your account. Finally, when you speak to some sort of a manager (always get their full name and the name of their superiour), tell them that the next call will be to the better business bureau, CRTC, or some consumer protection group. Tell the manager that you will drag their name through all of these organizations. Remind them that the CRTC must investigate all complaints. It might help if you tell them that you suspect that they are giving you a hard time because of your race/sexual orientation (they can't see you, right?). You can make a three way call to your answering machine, and record this conversation. Chances are that in the heat of the moment one of the employees will do something stupid (like curse at you or lie), and then you pretty much got more beef. More often than not they cave.
The thing is that it is painfully easy to make it work on both IE and Firefox. It is as simple as to check for the user agent and then use Active X for IE, and httpRequestObject for Firefox. Google does that with maps and gmail. It's like five lines of code.
Now if this version of Hotmail will only run on IE (which I doubt), it would mean a blatant disrespect to millions of non-IE users, and quite an inconvenience.
But that is the thing though. The actual accounts of what took place are often different. It is your word against theirs. And most of the time there are no witnesses. So, you claim it is a fact, they claim it is slander.
While such sites could be easily abused, some people will simply have no other recourse.
I would have to more or less agree. There is nothing to worry about as far as QT goes. I really like QT, and would hate for TT to suddenly cut the GPL version and 'lock in' the poor suckers who depend on it. However, this *will not* happen. The same day TT stops shipping a GPLed version, we'll just keep on developing QT in parallel under GPL (remember, we still got the source). And it will be better designed and tested because it will be open.
Now their (and MySQL's) peripheral involvement with SCO is personally repulsive, but why would we care? The source is out there, and if the company's management goes on crack with Darl, they will simply phase out, and the development will go on without them.
Wouldn't be really surprising. With the US steadily and systematically portraying Iran as "the world's biggest supporter of terror", Bush saying that "all options are on the table", the media instilling this image of Iran as the new big enemy, it is not unforeseeable that the public opinion in this country will be tolerant of some sort of a "surgical" nuclear strike on Iran.
Consider this: while Iran is *totally* complying with all of IAEA inspections (and even more), the UN will not declare Iran in violation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, John Bolton, walks out of UN (he is very well suited for this), the US declares UN obsolete, inefficient and greedy, and since the public doesn't want to send more troops, the US proceeds to blow up nuclear facilities in Iran from the air. These will not be full blown nuclear explosions, but considering the scope of environmental damage, they might as well be. However, if they do use the real nukes, I wouldn't be too surprised. Probably launch them from Israel to rub it in too.
All this would be more or less within the PNAC plans drafted back in the eighties.
And more to the topic. Does it sound off or what!? The guy in the article says smth like: "I am an Arab, I know how they think". This is the guy developing weapons. Are we now in business of developing anti-arab weapons? I am disgusted.
I recall in the early 1990s, people in Austria were very happy that they were finally allowed to throw away their batteries (in special bins) without having to pay the recycling costs. They still have to pay to throw away fridges, TVs, microwaves, etc. I might be mistaken though, 'twas a while ago.
It is Zacarias Moussaui, and as far as due process is concerned, didn't Michael Chertoff (Assistant Attorney General, note that his last name means "of the devil" in Russian), fly the witnesses against him outside of the US courts' jurisdiction so they can't be subpoenaed? They are in the US military's custody, but outside of US jurisdiction (Cuba?). What happened to facing your accuser?
Does anyone recall when some court, a couple of years ago, ruled that DNA is the property of the state? IIRC, it was in a case when DNA was collected by the state without suspect's consent, and the court allowed it, thus securing a conviction?
IANAL, but it seems that when a suspect is forced to be fingerprinted and their DNA is taken before any conviction, it automatically means that the state owns that data. Right?
What if I copyright my fingerprints and DNA, and then sue the state under the DMCA?
How about the physics of reflection?
Correct me if I am wrong, and I admit I didn't read all the posts, but:
When a photon hits the mirror, it knocks an electron or two off to a higher orbit. Then, unable to sustain such an orbit, they fall back releasing the energy which creates an identical photon, but with an opposite vector. Same polarization, same amplitude (in a "perfect mirror" only, of course), but different direction.
I can't say one way or another, but when tons of photons are hitting a large "perfect mirror" surface at the same time, all the time, they do create a constant change in the mirror (hmm, how about a degrading mirror that records what it reflects?), that's why it reflects.
Now, photons act as a wave. What if it were a perfect laser hitting a perfect mirror? The chances are that when (imagine two sine waves coinciding in a fiber-optic cable) the incoming photons hit the photons that are reflected, their amplitude increases (or decreases). Thus, before being dispersed, there is bound to be some amplification going on right next to the mirror.
Does it serve anything? I dunno, I am not a physicist, it's just common knowledge, and that was but a rant.