My concern about pursuing this would be with the variation of hardware donated and the compatibility of legacy hardware.
Time is as valuble as money for poor school staff. Messing around with troubleshooting kernel issues with USB mice takes time away from the whole point of using computers in the first pace - student instruction. I hope they succeed and come back with better benchmarks and reliability.
Wow, can you imagine giant cultivating ships for spinich for conversion into solar cell arrays? Would the first ship be called the USS Popeye? The companion ship the "Olive Oil"?
quicken and money can now log on to the bank *for you* and download the transactions,
This feature has scary implications, and I know these programs have been able to do this for years.
Are there any famous hacks/exploits/trojans directly targeting Money and Quicken?
I think commercials are the underlying reason people are tuning out and finding other ways to get entertainment or news. Networks have simply gone off the deep end, and for a 1 hour scheduled show, nearly 22 minutes of it is commercials.
What really gets my goat is that if you **PAY** for cable or satellite, which has to be 90% of us, you're **PAYING** to watch commercials, which under the model I understood to be "commercial television", commercials are supposed to be **PAYING** for the programming.
Seems like you're paying twice, once for access, and again for your time to endure the commercial. There are predictable stations that seem more like demo DVD/VHS sales stations rather than full fledged broadcast stations. Discovery Channel(s), History Channel and Sci-Fi seem more like.5-1 hr. ads for VHS/DVDs of their productions.
There have to be twice as many commercials on those "networks" than with say TNT, USA, AMC. Plus they have commercials plugging other shows. How many times in a 30 min scheduled viewing period must you be reminded that in the next half hour, Show X or Y will be 'Coming up next!" Once, twice? Try 4-5 times.
I can't really complain though since TV commercials have driven me to spend more time here:)
This is a huge opportunity for Mozilla if they really mobilize and take advantage of it before I.E.'s team and Dave Massy get going on their "renewed effort on Internet Explorer."
Wasn't the original concern....
"Can a home user install and update Windows without being attacked by a virus or worm?"
I agree with the issues you brought up about the routers, but aren't those vulnerabilities to an active hacking attack, vs. viruses like Sasser being propagated by infected machines?
I've never had a problem as long as I did my updates from behind NAT. I also use SUS, and that helps avoid having to worry about going outside my lan with a fresh, unpatched install. I just update from my local SUS server.
Here's a pic and some bio info for the allegedly nefarious anti-hispster Sac County election official. I think Stewart's Nielson data would bear out that it isn't that implausible that someone from this woman's demographic would not know of the show's existence or be familiar with the format. Perhaps if Stewart's show was on HGTV or Lifetime network, she might know if it.
The "reporter" asked her:
"Now, can you take that long-ass answer and put it in a nutshell like I asked you?"
It seemed to me that they were baiting her to get angry and respond in a way that would call into question the sincerity and integrity of the Office of Elections for Sacramento County, and more importantly all local Election offices/departments.
I got the impression that they wanted to communicate to the audience that all local election officials are inept and clones of Florida election officials, and that by setting up an interview that might trip up a less than suspecting election official, they might get LeVine to reveal that "truth" to the viewers.
I used to enjoy the Daily Show, but when you start calling real officials with the intent of discrediting them, or using thier comments to discredit or confuse another official for the sake of Humor and selling Mitsubishi and Beer ads on Comedy Central, I feel the whole thing is a fraud, as much of a fraud as they accuse the government of perpetrating.
The attitude that some how society is failing to engage young adults to get involved because the media is biased or incompetent doesn't excuse the fact that these folks are uninformed and bored by discussions and participation in public policy.
It smacked me in the face years ago while taking a Micro Economics GE class at a Junior College. A then recommended (now manditory) prerequisite for the class was "Intermediate Algebra". Because so many students, many soccer moms actually, had failied to observe this prereq, once in the class, they floundered and demanded that the professor explain the frequent use of equations to express economic theories discussed during lecturers.
It got so bad that the women began to make outbursts during lecturers and even went to the Dean to demand the course be audited by another Economics professor.
Once, I remember two of these women arguing about the revelevence of Economics to daily life and understanding of current events with the professor. They cited they'd never heard these theories discussed in economic new broadcasts, nor had they heard of them discussed by the government. Once women went as far as to suggest that Economics should not be taught as a GE requirement, and that she saw "Limted Uses" for all this "Fancy Math and Computation about Widgets".
After 2 weeks of being audited, the professor was vindicated, and the students who complained were offered the opportunity to drop the course, without a "withdrawl" denoted in their transcript. All those who complained accepted the opportunity to drop without a notation in their record.
21 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 said they regularly turn to "The Daily Show" and "Saturday Night Live" for presidential campaign news.
Even worse, they asked a local sociology professor from UC Davis about the trend, and she said:
"They feel like it doesn't speak to their desires or interests, and part of that is just being young, but part of it is feeling like, 'What's the point of being informed because you can't change anything anyway,"
Velex, being a recovering MS Cert addict,(an MS drone who will probably get flamed for this post), and a dirt poor geek, I can tell you that nearly all official Microsoft "self paced training kits" for each exam come with a 180 day evaluation version of the OS you're testing for, be it 2000, XP, server 2003. So, each exam textbook come with a unique evaluation version of the OS, so you may do labs at home.
You can also download, or order a CD (for the price of mailing and the CD) a Windows Server 2003 Evaluation Kit with 180 trial of Server 2003, Enterprise Edition. Sql Server 2000 also has 180 day eval (trial) version available, as do most of the MS Server products.
The cheap route is to either:
Run a dual boot setup for lab work - Create/format a new Primary partition on your existing drive, install the eval version, and get crackin, when you're ready to start studying for another exam, buy the book, install the next eval on that partition, or....
Get a second used hard drive off ebay or your local tech swapmeet, and run a dual boot, using the new (used) drive as your windoz lab drive..
or, if you get real tricky, get a 45 day trial version of MS Virtual PC, run it on your XP machine, and install your eval of MS Server. You'll only have the 45 days of the Virtual PC trial, but in 45 days, you can lab it up......
You can stay loyal to Linux and get the 30 day trial version of VMWare's "VMware Workstation 4.5 for Linux", and run a virtual MS Server eval installation from Linux. You could also spring for the license and buy the program, and then install multiple MS Server eval versions as you move through your certifications, or coursework, self training, whatever you want to call it
If you opt to partition your way into a lab setup, you can keep re-installing the the evaluation OS on the same partition. The downer is, of course, if you set up these servers, when the eval expires, you have to start from scratch for that partition, but you could create a lab you can learn from, and run your next eval lab installation on another computer, then migrate your existing AD/IIS/FRS,etc. data to the new eval installation on the other machine.
Oh the memories of explaining SL, SX, DX, DX2, DX4
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486 Turns 15 Years Old
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I remember working at a Pace Membership Warehouse (eventually bought out by Walmart/Sam's Club) as a forklift driver and having to constantly go over to the Electronics Dept. to help with computer sales customer service because it was said "You know about computers and stuff, answer their questions".
I tried several times to explain the processor differences to people buying computers; 486....SL, SX, DX, DX2, DX4 , we had computers based on each cpu displayed, and I would inevitably be led into "tech debates" with uninformed customers.
I once had a guy argue with me that a DX2 meant that there were two processors. I tried, courteously, to explan that was not the case, and eventually decided to walk away and let the sales worker handle the man.
The sales guy assured the customer that he was correct, that the DX2 did designate a dual processor mobo.
Ironic twist: The man returned with the computer a couple of months later and claimed the sales guy lied to him, that the computer in fact, did only have ONE cpu. I didn't gloat, but I thought what a moron. I mentioned to the returns staff the context of the sale and the customer's request to return the computer was rejected.
I was thinking that besides the news archive being useful to historians and curious readers, couldn't a news archive be useful to medical researchers documenting the history of diseases? Mortality rates? Causes of death? Reports of disease and death in poor areas? Seems like this information culled from obituaries might be an alternative/corroborating source to death certificates and medical records, as many folks didn't have access to medical services and who's cause of death wasn't accounted for when they died.
Some conditions might not have been recorded officially, but reported on in the news, as Victorian England was well known for sanitizing the public record. Not a huge source, but another piece of the puzzle?
Government policy vs Spatial info markets
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Open Maps?
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Interesting article related to this discussion from GIS@development
State and Regional GIS Data Collaboratives
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· Score: 2, Informative
Many people here have listed city, county, state and federal data sources, but I didn't read mention of GIS Data or "Geodata" Collaboratives.
Throughout the country, regional councils of government (known by names such as Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Association of Governments (AGs) and Council of Governments (COGs)) are forming, or have formed GIS Councils that administrate "GIS Collaboratives" in concert with, or at the direction of State GIS Councils/Commissions and the Federal Geographic Data Committee
These collaboratives contain GIS data from their member city, county and special district governments.
dieoff.org - This site offers a lot of useful references, and a thought provoking synopsis about oil production and how transition to declining energy availability signals a transition in civilization as we know it. The associated mailing list is also informative.
Why didn't they chose a Klingon "Bird of Prey".
At least the darn thing has better flight characteristics, and it just has more attitude, especially in that scene from Star Trek Greenpeace where the frighten the stool out of those Russian whalers.
Tuplah!
This is thought to be the second case in the UK where a "Trojan defence" has been used to clear someone of such an accusation. In April, a man from Reading was found not guilty of the crime after experts testified that a Trojan could have been responsible for the presence of 14 child porn images on his PC.
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It must be a result of the "New Math" they're teaching the kids now.
My concern about pursuing this would be with the variation of hardware donated and the compatibility of legacy hardware.
Time is as valuble as money for poor school staff. Messing around with troubleshooting kernel issues with USB mice takes time away from the whole point of using computers in the first pace - student instruction. I hope they succeed and come back with better benchmarks and reliability.
Wow, can you imagine giant cultivating ships for spinich for conversion into solar cell arrays? Would the first ship be called the USS Popeye? The companion ship the "Olive Oil"?
I think commercials are the underlying reason people are tuning out and finding other ways to get entertainment or news. Networks have simply gone off the deep end, and for a 1 hour scheduled show, nearly 22 minutes of it is commercials.
.5-1 hr. ads for VHS/DVDs of their productions.
:)
What really gets my goat is that if you **PAY** for cable or satellite, which has to be 90% of us, you're **PAYING** to watch commercials, which under the model I understood to be "commercial television", commercials are supposed to be **PAYING** for the programming.
Seems like you're paying twice, once for access, and again for your time to endure the commercial. There are predictable stations that seem more like demo DVD/VHS sales stations rather than full fledged broadcast stations. Discovery Channel(s), History Channel and Sci-Fi seem more like
There have to be twice as many commercials on those "networks" than with say TNT, USA, AMC. Plus they have commercials plugging other shows. How many times in a 30 min scheduled viewing period must you be reminded that in the next half hour, Show X or Y will be 'Coming up next!" Once, twice? Try 4-5 times.
I can't really complain though since TV commercials have driven me to spend more time here
What about requiring the registrant of a domain name to provide a digital ID or PGP key, and require the same for inquiries?
I followed your suggestion and am recruiting the family. All I had to do is explain the new BHO trojan and they were eager to have an alternative.
Share your group policies with a few other minds on the mailing list at http://www.activedir.org
This is a huge opportunity for Mozilla if they really mobilize and take advantage of it before I.E.'s team and Dave Massy get going on their "renewed effort on Internet Explorer."
Wasn't the original concern.... "Can a home user install and update Windows without being attacked by a virus or worm?" I agree with the issues you brought up about the routers, but aren't those vulnerabilities to an active hacking attack, vs. viruses like Sasser being propagated by infected machines? I've never had a problem as long as I did my updates from behind NAT. I also use SUS, and that helps avoid having to worry about going outside my lan with a fresh, unpatched install. I just update from my local SUS server.
Here's a pic and some bio info for the allegedly nefarious anti-hispster Sac County election official. I think Stewart's Nielson data would bear out that it isn't that implausible that someone from this woman's demographic would not know of the show's existence or be familiar with the format. Perhaps if Stewart's show was on HGTV or Lifetime network, she might know if it.
The "reporter" asked her: "Now, can you take that long-ass answer and put it in a nutshell like I asked you?" It seemed to me that they were baiting her to get angry and respond in a way that would call into question the sincerity and integrity of the Office of Elections for Sacramento County, and more importantly all local Election offices/departments. I got the impression that they wanted to communicate to the audience that all local election officials are inept and clones of Florida election officials, and that by setting up an interview that might trip up a less than suspecting election official, they might get LeVine to reveal that "truth" to the viewers.
I used to enjoy the Daily Show, but when you start calling real officials with the intent of discrediting them, or using thier comments to discredit or confuse another official for the sake of Humor and selling Mitsubishi and Beer ads on Comedy Central, I feel the whole thing is a fraud, as much of a fraud as they accuse the government of perpetrating.
The attitude that some how society is failing to engage young adults to get involved because the media is biased or incompetent doesn't excuse the fact that these folks are uninformed and bored by discussions and participation in public policy.
It smacked me in the face years ago while taking a Micro Economics GE class at a Junior College. A then recommended (now manditory) prerequisite for the class was "Intermediate Algebra". Because so many students, many soccer moms actually, had failied to observe this prereq, once in the class, they floundered and demanded that the professor explain the frequent use of equations to express economic theories discussed during lecturers.
It got so bad that the women began to make outbursts during lecturers and even went to the Dean to demand the course be audited by another Economics professor.
Once, I remember two of these women arguing about the revelevence of Economics to daily life and understanding of current events with the professor. They cited they'd never heard these theories discussed in economic new broadcasts, nor had they heard of them discussed by the government. Once women went as far as to suggest that Economics should not be taught as a GE requirement, and that she saw "Limted Uses" for all this "Fancy Math and Computation about Widgets".
After 2 weeks of being audited, the professor was vindicated, and the students who complained were offered the opportunity to drop the course, without a "withdrawl" denoted in their transcript. All those who complained accepted the opportunity to drop without a notation in their record.
These pranks reminded me of who probably inspired them, the Canadian show "This Hour has 22 minutes" in their feature "Talking to Americans".
In 2000, Rick Mercer posed as a reporter and asked Bush for comments on Canadian Prime Minister "Jean Poutine's" endorsement of his candidacy for President. Canadians start a trend again.
I had gotten the impression she did from her statements in the article:
What's disturbing is that, in the story, a Pew survey was cited stating that: Even worse, they asked a local sociology professor from UC Davis about the trend, and she said:
- Run a dual boot setup for lab work - Create/format a new Primary partition on your existing drive, install the eval version, and get crackin, when you're ready to start studying for another exam, buy the book, install the next eval on that partition, or....
- Get a second used hard drive off ebay or your local tech swapmeet, and run a dual boot, using the new (used) drive as your windoz lab drive..
- or, if you get real tricky, get a 45 day trial version of MS Virtual PC, run it on your XP machine, and install your eval of MS Server. You'll only have the 45 days of the Virtual PC trial, but in 45 days, you can lab it up......
- You can stay loyal to Linux and get the 30 day trial version of VMWare's "VMware Workstation 4.5 for Linux", and run a virtual MS Server eval installation from Linux. You could also spring for the license and buy the program, and then install multiple MS Server eval versions as you move through your certifications, or coursework, self training, whatever you want to call it
If you opt to partition your way into a lab setup, you can keep re-installing the the evaluation OS on the same partition. The downer is, of course, if you set up these servers, when the eval expires, you have to start from scratch for that partition, but you could create a lab you can learn from, and run your next eval lab installation on another computer, then migrate your existing AD/IIS/FRS,etc. data to the new eval installation on the other machine.I remember working at a Pace Membership Warehouse (eventually bought out by Walmart/Sam's Club) as a forklift driver and having to constantly go over to the Electronics Dept. to help with computer sales customer service because it was said "You know about computers and stuff, answer their questions".
....SL, SX, DX, DX2, DX4 , we had computers based on each cpu displayed, and I would inevitably be led into "tech debates" with uninformed customers.
I tried several times to explain the processor differences to people buying computers; 486
I once had a guy argue with me that a DX2 meant that there were two processors. I tried, courteously, to explan that was not the case, and eventually decided to walk away and let the sales worker handle the man.
The sales guy assured the customer that he was correct, that the DX2 did designate a dual processor mobo.
Ironic twist: The man returned with the computer a couple of months later and claimed the sales guy lied to him, that the computer in fact, did only have ONE cpu. I didn't gloat, but I thought what a moron. I mentioned to the returns staff the context of the sale and the customer's request to return the computer was rejected.
I was thinking that besides the news archive being useful to historians and curious readers, couldn't a news archive be useful to medical researchers documenting the history of diseases? Mortality rates? Causes of death? Reports of disease and death in poor areas? Seems like this information culled from obituaries might be an alternative/corroborating source to death certificates and medical records, as many folks didn't have access to medical services and who's cause of death wasn't accounted for when they died.
Some conditions might not have been recorded officially, but reported on in the news, as Victorian England was well known for sanitizing the public record. Not a huge source, but another piece of the puzzle?
March 2004 - Government policy vs Spatial info markets
Many people here have listed city, county, state and federal data sources, but I didn't read mention of GIS Data or "Geodata" Collaboratives.
Throughout the country, regional councils of government (known by names such as Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Association of Governments (AGs) and Council of Governments (COGs)) are forming, or have formed GIS Councils that administrate "GIS Collaboratives" in concert with, or at the direction of State GIS Councils/Commissions and the Federal Geographic Data Committee
These collaboratives contain GIS data from their member city, county and special district governments.
The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL COUNCILS maintains a directory of these regional councils of government. Here are a few examples from my neck of the woods:
I don't think I'd like to see a serial killer pull a Col. Kurtz with Chef's head in front of a site cam.
dieoff.org - This site offers a lot of useful references, and a thought provoking synopsis about oil production and how transition to declining energy availability signals a transition in civilization as we know it. The associated mailing list is also informative.
Why didn't they chose a Klingon "Bird of Prey". At least the darn thing has better flight characteristics, and it just has more attitude, especially in that scene from Star Trek Greenpeace where the frighten the stool out of those Russian whalers. Tuplah!
Trojan horse found responsible for child porn
Munir Kotadia | ZDNet UK | August 01, 2003
Excerpt: