If your employees refuse to do the work, I'm sure in this economy you can find more than enough people willing to. Yes, transitioning between any systems is going to have a learning curve for employees, but that can't be the only reason not to do it.
If you're going for code perfection every time. In the real world you have deadlines and have to maintain your code. Writing in assembly is going to make your code harder to port across platforms, should that happen say from PowerPC to x86.
Not saying that its never justified to use assembly. Within reason, of course.
I've done assembly in school for the Freescale HC11/12 and Microchip PIC18... both are very easy to work with. That said, I'm glad I will never have to do assembly in school again. C for ever.
I had mod points... but, I've been drinking. Has anyone had the audacity to, uh... ask? If its just for research, I'd think the Russians would be more than willing to confirm.
The Diaspora guys' only real talent seems to be marketing that allowed them to raise a boatload of cash on vaporware hype and a catchy name.
I think it's a little early to make that judgement. How fast are you expecting this to be developed?
Both names don't make a lot of sense to me. If I hadn't heard of either, I would have no clue what it is or what it does. Facebook is pretty damn clear. mySpace is pretty clear. Friendster is clear. Hopefully, for Diaspora, a few good hubs will emerge with better names.
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Lapidus didn't know they were going back to the island before the Agira Air flight took off. Once they were in the air he made an announcement and Jack went to the cockpit to say hello... then he sees the Oceanic 6 and Ben.
The report says Robbins turned in his laptop with a broken screen and was issued a loaner on Oct. 20, but school officials quickly moved to retrieve it due to outstanding insurance fees. So the tracking program was activated from Oct. 20 to Nov. 4 and captured 210 webcam photographs and 218 screen shots, the report said.
So they knew who had the laptop (not missing). They gave it to him (not stolen). They didn't attempt to recover the laptop by using reasonable measures (asking him for it back, calling the parents). But some how, spying on him for 15 days, off campus, is reasonable for not paying a $50 fee?
They have already done that with the 58,000 pictures they have recovered (there supposedly are more they haven't recovered). The report from the defendants claims that there was no nudity, only a picture with partial nudity. Take that as you will.
This is one of three possibilities. The other two being, they started using the code from open sourced modules and thus are still bound by that license or they contracted the work out and the copyright was reassigned to the whitehouse, in which case they can license it.
Drupal considers modules derivative works, so modules must be licensed under the GPL. Drupal Licensing FAQ.
Not sure if it'd hold up in court, but thats what the Drupal community understands as their obligations.
Disabling the root password means now they only need to hijack a normal local user account, not root. You're effectively running as root, with all the security implications.
A local user in sudoers. This has been argued to death in many forums, and I don't think either side is going to back down anytime soon. No matter what, at least we're more secure than Windows, right?
One would think that issues like keeping government IT systems up to date would transcend party politics.
I think you have far too much faith in politicians (however little faith you already have). There is not a single issue that politicians wouldn't use to score cheap political points.
Hopefully with computer forensic experts, the EFF, the ACLU, and FBI all with their eyes on the school's actions, they wont be able to get away with destruction of evidence.
Students DID notice the little green lights turning on. Many, many times. When they reported this to the district, the district said it was a "glitch."
What I'd be interested in is the frequency that the software was taking pictures. From the linked blog in TFS it sounds like this "glitch" was more common than some 40 students laptops that was reported. I wonder if it happens to all of the laptops at some interval (while outside the schools network, as the blog says), and then their server retains the images and that feature was only accessed the 40 some times. If this is how it works... I could see the school being royally boned.
Similarly, getting even connected to a network wasn't straightforward or as easy as XP. Linux would have died.
I don't know about you, but the first *nix (FreeBSD 4 or 5) system I used, network setup was much easier than Windows. Hell, I still have to download drivers for the nic on every clean Windows install. Now getting XFree86 working right back then on my shitty hardware, thats another story (and now, using Ubuntu, I've never had graphics not work out of the box--although that can't be said of everyone in every situation).
If Microsoft was forced to release the source code to XP in 2001/2002, things would not be better, the only thing that would have happened is we would have little to no technological advancement past 2002.
I don't think forcing them to open their code would have been a good solution, but surely Microsoft wouldn't have just folded? It's not like they haven't done any development on Windows since.
Excellent! If it's competitive, what does it matter if we were to add one more taxpayer funded competitor? Think of it like having the BBC available on TV. You sound a little worried ?
Because there are already enough good choices. Theres any number of ways that money could be used in a more productive way.
If Wolfram Alpha really can do the entire project. . . the teacher should be assigning more difficult things. Kids could use a basic calculator for ages to do their multiplication homework, somehow civilization still survives.
Those are irrelevant options. In the age of the internet, a public search engine should be paid for through taxes, in the same way that we already pay for the courts, we pay for the police, we pay for the military, etc. If it's a service that's for everyone and that everyone needs to use, it shouldn't be private. Think NASA or the military, but for information technology.
Ok, usually I'm pretty liberal and think that the government can (and should) provide some services where it makes sense that only one entity (can) provide the services. I say this only because, unlike many of the libertarians around here, I do not believe the free market is the best system for every problem.
But...
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
The search market is competitive, if you really don't trust Google's search algorithm there's plenty of other ones to choose from. It's a fast moving field where each provider has to constantly update and tweak their algorithms to provide the most relevant results. Google has been constantly adding features which (to me, at least) displays more relevant information about each result. Keeping up with this pace is not something that the government is good at.
Now if you meant that to be sarcastic.... then WOOSH .
And what's in it for the newspapers that provide ALL the content on news.google.com ? Many people never move off that page. Where's their ads? Where's their revenue?
I don't use Google News often (I use a RSS reader), so maybe I have this entirely wrong, but: News only displays a few sentences of the article and the headline. Each story is linked to the original source newspaper. That seems like a fair amount of content to quote in order to drive traffic to the individual newspaper sites.
Some links go to Google. As far as I know, these are articles that Google has licensed from a wire service.
If these sites don't want the traffic from Google use robots.txt. I'm sure Google would be fine with giving the traffic to their competitors. Even if they didn't want to go that route, I'd bet the news papers could put the whole of the article behind a paywall and only let people at the small bit that goes to Google (and Google would probably still list them, but give priority to services not doing this).
I'm getting tired of hearing bitching and moaning from the newspapers that Google is killing their business. If this is their biggest problem, they have business being in business.
If this wasn't purely about politics, where were their fucking lawsuits when the Clinton-Gore administration lost emails?
At least according to their Wikipedia page, they were founded in 2003.
I certainly hope they don't just fold because another party is in charge now. It seems like they've done good work so far, hopefully they'll watch the Obama administration as they did the Bush administration.
Many of the modules don't seem to be written in any kind of secure way so need endless updates. The core has more than its share of security issues too
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If your employees refuse to do the work, I'm sure in this economy you can find more than enough people willing to. Yes, transitioning between any systems is going to have a learning curve for employees, but that can't be the only reason not to do it.
If you're going for code perfection every time. In the real world you have deadlines and have to maintain your code. Writing in assembly is going to make your code harder to port across platforms, should that happen say from PowerPC to x86.
Not saying that its never justified to use assembly. Within reason, of course.
I've done assembly in school for the Freescale HC11/12 and Microchip PIC18... both are very easy to work with. That said, I'm glad I will never have to do assembly in school again. C for ever.
I had mod points... but, I've been drinking. Has anyone had the audacity to, uh... ask? If its just for research, I'd think the Russians would be more than willing to confirm.
I think it's a little early to make that judgement. How fast are you expecting this to be developed?
Both names don't make a lot of sense to me. If I hadn't heard of either, I would have no clue what it is or what it does. Facebook is pretty damn clear. mySpace is pretty clear. Friendster is clear. Hopefully, for Diaspora, a few good hubs will emerge with better names.
Lapidus didn't know they were going back to the island before the Agira Air flight took off. Once they were in the air he made an announcement and Jack went to the cockpit to say hello... then he sees the Oceanic 6 and Ben.
So they knew who had the laptop (not missing). They gave it to him (not stolen). They didn't attempt to recover the laptop by using reasonable measures (asking him for it back, calling the parents). But some how, spying on him for 15 days, off campus, is reasonable for not paying a $50 fee?
They have already done that with the 58,000 pictures they have recovered (there supposedly are more they haven't recovered). The report from the defendants claims that there was no nudity, only a picture with partial nudity. Take that as you will.
Drupal considers modules derivative works, so modules must be licensed under the GPL. Drupal Licensing FAQ. Not sure if it'd hold up in court, but thats what the Drupal community understands as their obligations.
A local user in sudoers. This has been argued to death in many forums, and I don't think either side is going to back down anytime soon. No matter what, at least we're more secure than Windows, right?
The Curve is no different. SYM key brings up a character map, then Y or P for those symbols, respectively.
I have a cure as well: start drinking again.
I think you have far too much faith in politicians (however little faith you already have). There is not a single issue that politicians wouldn't use to score cheap political points.
Hopefully with computer forensic experts, the EFF, the ACLU, and FBI all with their eyes on the school's actions, they wont be able to get away with destruction of evidence.
IANAL, but I believe destroying evidence in a lawsuit is pretty damning evidence against you which can be used in the suit.
What I'd be interested in is the frequency that the software was taking pictures. From the linked blog in TFS it sounds like this "glitch" was more common than some 40 students laptops that was reported. I wonder if it happens to all of the laptops at some interval (while outside the schools network, as the blog says), and then their server retains the images and that feature was only accessed the 40 some times. If this is how it works... I could see the school being royally boned.
I don't know about you, but the first *nix (FreeBSD 4 or 5) system I used, network setup was much easier than Windows. Hell, I still have to download drivers for the nic on every clean Windows install. Now getting XFree86 working right back then on my shitty hardware, thats another story (and now, using Ubuntu, I've never had graphics not work out of the box--although that can't be said of everyone in every situation).
I don't think forcing them to open their code would have been a good solution, but surely Microsoft wouldn't have just folded? It's not like they haven't done any development on Windows since.
Because there are already enough good choices. Theres any number of ways that money could be used in a more productive way.
If Wolfram Alpha really can do the entire project. . . the teacher should be assigning more difficult things. Kids could use a basic calculator for ages to do their multiplication homework, somehow civilization still survives.
Ok, usually I'm pretty liberal and think that the government can (and should) provide some services where it makes sense that only one entity (can) provide the services. I say this only because, unlike many of the libertarians around here, I do not believe the free market is the best system for every problem.
But...
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
The search market is competitive, if you really don't trust Google's search algorithm there's plenty of other ones to choose from. It's a fast moving field where each provider has to constantly update and tweak their algorithms to provide the most relevant results. Google has been constantly adding features which (to me, at least) displays more relevant information about each result. Keeping up with this pace is not something that the government is good at.
Now if you meant that to be sarcastic.... then WOOSH .
I don't use Google News often (I use a RSS reader), so maybe I have this entirely wrong, but: News only displays a few sentences of the article and the headline. Each story is linked to the original source newspaper. That seems like a fair amount of content to quote in order to drive traffic to the individual newspaper sites.
Some links go to Google. As far as I know, these are articles that Google has licensed from a wire service.
If these sites don't want the traffic from Google use robots.txt. I'm sure Google would be fine with giving the traffic to their competitors. Even if they didn't want to go that route, I'd bet the news papers could put the whole of the article behind a paywall and only let people at the small bit that goes to Google (and Google would probably still list them, but give priority to services not doing this).
I'm getting tired of hearing bitching and moaning from the newspapers that Google is killing their business. If this is their biggest problem, they have business being in business.
At least according to their Wikipedia page, they were founded in 2003.
I certainly hope they don't just fold because another party is in charge now. It seems like they've done good work so far, hopefully they'll watch the Obama administration as they did the Bush administration.
I'm saying there is going to be a learning curve no matter which CMS you choose.
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You can maintain your own patch, and apply it for each Drupal release. . . but you risk breaking other things in core, as well as contrib.
I'd like to know what you're hacking in core, and why you can't implement it as a module.