It's like the "Moving to Canada" cliche. By leaving, you're removing one more person who thinks the way you do and can help make a difference.
Dude should stick around and have the machines tested again after the election. Then when he gets fired, it brings this whole thing into the spotlight again.
I agree on one point, though: voter apathy is the cause of this, and you can't make somebody care. Until people care enough to show up (get up early, take the day off, or vote early) and make their voices heard, this will not change.
You're paying more money to get more bandwidth, and content is irrelevant. This issue is paying more for particular content - slowing down competitors unless you pay the extra fee. If you have SBC at home, and you can hear other SBC customers just fine, but PacBell (are they still around?) callers are all staticky and laggy unless you pay SBC an extra $5 a month.
Companies ARE greedy assholes. A corporation is a legal construct with the rights of a person and none of the morality, a construct whose sole purpose is to make money.
The shame is how often they get away with screwing over real people by having deep pockets to buy legislators and outlast plaintiffs in court. I haven't read the bill, but I'm glad somebody with some power is looking at this critically.
"A lot of times, businesses have to scale back on corporate responsibility," said Rafael Gutierrez
It seems to me that "corporate responsibility" has a lot to do with "corporate ethics", in that they're both contradictions in terms. A corporation is a legal construction with the rights of a person but none of the morals. A corporation exists solely to make money for its stakeholders, be it publicly- or privately-held. It does not, and one might argue that it can not, hold any values other than "MONEY GOOD FIRE BAD". For a corporation to do anything other than try to make money is a disservice to investors.
In this age of Enron and Tyco, corporate book-cooking and insider trading, embezzlement and pension fund looting, as well as the things that DON'T get a ton of press coverage, I find it amazing that the phrase "corporate responsibility" is treated as anything other than a punchline.
Clarification: I've never seen or interacted with a non-Windows machine in my work in the gov't. I'm sure some exist, but I've been told on more than one occasion that *nix is not an option for me. So there.
I'm going to write my representatives in Congress and encourage them to issue a new law to codify this OMB guideline - that way, if they DO try it again, the consequences will be much more severe.
As a federal webmaster (not NSA or CIA), let me be the first to say "Thanks a pantload." Now, if I miss a configuration setting in IIS, I could go to federal prison!
Sometimes somebody screws up. Sometimes they screw up and nobody notices. Technical oversight of my work is thin on a good day, and my boss' boss sure as HELL doesn't know if I'm serving persistent cookies. For the record, I'm not, because I follow OMB memos to the best of my ability and I double-checked this one.
It's not always a conspiracy. Sometimes it's just some server jock who was mentally elsewhere and didn't uncheck a box in Windows. Bugs in web apps I write are not intended to catch you surfing pr0n. I'm just not as good a programmer as you are. Worst case scenario at your work, you screw up, get fired, and get another job. I don't have "company policy", I have "federal statute". My coworkers and I do our best, and we do a pretty good job, but nobody's perfect. If I forget to put an "alt" tag on an image on a page linked seven deep that gets three hits a year, not only am I not doing my job correctly, but I'm in violation of 29 U.S.C. 794d. Don't think that that's the only law telling me how to do the job, either.
I'm not complaining. I signed up for the job knowing full well how it works, and I'm proud of what I do. Your vigilance is commendable, but I'm not sure that putting big nasty penalties on cookies is the right way to go about solving this one. If you and a majority of Members of Congress agree that placing persistent cookies is worth going to prison over, so be it. God knows there aren't any killers who couldn't use that cell more than me.
Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems coming together to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience...so they can buy the rights to it, lock it down, and make it proprietary to their platform.
It's the American Idol of developers. "We'll let you show off, decide who's best, sign them to a nasty license, and own your soul."
I was a netadmin/sysadmin and had all the keys to the kingdom: key-locks, cipher-locks, mag-locks, passwords, you name it. Backed up what I needed, dropped my letter off, left on good terms, doing real work till the last day. They could have locked me out, but they needed me to be able to finish what I was working on, and the boss was hypercool, so it worked out. Disabled my own account on the last day.
A month after I start my new job, I find one of my old swipe cards at home. I'm still on good terms with the other netadmin there, so I had lunch with him that week and gave him the card. I had no use for it, and I know they have cameras, so even if I were to "play around" with it, I know I'd be photographed. Sure as hell, the card still has 24/7 access to every suite, the server room, everything. If GM ever knew...
There are a few channels on XM that are kind of all over the place. If you're into university-style radio (I assume that's what you're talking about - work filter seems to have WFMU as a streaming media site), there's a channel called XMU that mimicks that style. I'm sure there are more, but it's not my bag, so I don't go looking.
Most of it, as you say, is "hyper-formatted", but not all of it. If you want a surprise, there certainly are a few stations that go all over. Mostly, though, I've found that I'm surprised often enough by stations that play genres that I'm reasonably familiar with.
You can buy a repeater for XM that re-transmits the signal within the house so you can pick it up in the basement. It's not cheap ($120 would be a good deal), but it is available.
Because what you get on XM (I've never had/heard Sirius, but this should apply equally) is NOT the same thing as you hear on broadcast.
Sample choices on FM: Alternative, rock, country, or Top 40. Commercials for five minutes every half hour.
Sample choices on XM: All traffic, 80's hits, bluegrass, comedy, each baseball game being played, hard rock, progressive rock, folk rock, classic rock. Twelve different talk stations, from far-right to far-left, sports and news. Commercials on the comedy and talk stations, but that's it.
When you have 200 stations, you have to keep them different, which means... and this is the kicker... you have to DIG DEEPER INTO THE FEATURED GENRE. Example: I like Rush. (I'm a nerd, I'm on Slashdot, whatever. My taste in music is an example, not the argument.) On FM, I hear three or four different songs by Rush, maybe one a day. I'm done with Spirit of Radio for a while, thanks. On XM, on their ProgRock station, I hear obscure stuff from unpopular albums that I like. You won't hear Analog Kid on ClearChannel stations. I also hear other groups who don't get the press who play a similar style of music. This depth of genre (obscure songs from well-known bands and obscure bands) simply isn't available on FM. Hell, I heard Side One of Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull on XM the other day. The whole thing. It's on the order of 30 minutes long. Nobody on FM will play that - it's not "radio friendly". So I don't get to hear it if I only listen to FM.
That's why I shell out $13/mo for XM. IT'S NOT THE SAME AS FM, and it's a service I'm willing to pay for. When I have the choice and depth that I get from this service available to me for free, that's when Hogan's argument becomes relevant.
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The myth was that it was done with a wooden arrow so that's what they were trying to prove. They went to a local archery club and found archers who'd done this with carbon fiber arrows (and had the arrows to prove it), though not a perfect nock-to-tip split. Most were telescoped or had sheared off a part of the "target" arrow.
They tried what I assume was field point - a pencil-tip-like point, met with no success, and moved to broadhead. Still no success. A combination of the wobbly-arrow-in-flight phenomenon (which I'm sure has a name) and the inability to get perfectly straight wood grain on their "target" arrow was what busted it.
i think the american military might is having enough trouble just holding down a chunk of sand covered oil at this time, and couldn't even respond to a lil' natural disaster on it's home turf
The primary mission of the US military is to: a) occupy foreign countries for extended periods of time b) provide aid and support in the event of a disaster c) kill the living hell out of another country's military
If you answered a or b, you're kidding yourself. Regrettably, the US is stuck with the "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation. We do not have a force specifically tailored to occupying middle-eastern countries (though, at this rate, we might need one), nor do we have a sufficiently-funded and -equipped group for dealing with disasters at home. Thus, the armed forces (mostly the Army) get the nod on these jobs too. It's not what they've been trained for, it's not what they were hired for, but sometimes you gotta do jobs you're not good at. If your goalie gets ejected from a game, and you bring a winger or defenseman back in goal to do his job, you don't expect him to do well. It's not his job.
And, while I'm in full-on rant mode, we'll get to the question of why must every american first response be "my guns bigger'n yurs?"
When the word "force" is used, as in "The UN and EU want to FORCE the US to relinquish control of the Internet", the obvious question is how that force will be manifested. Could be political, but there are enough isolationists here that it probably wouldn't go far. Could be economical, but that's not likely either. Military force usually comes to mind first anyways, so the reply of "How do you intend to push around the largest military in the world?" is justified.
For the record, I think the 'net is just fine the way it is and we should pull the hell out of the middle east, but this is mostly in response to the "aaaaah americans are bullies and can't occupy a country and respond to a hurricane at the same time".
Something you have (physical key) Something you know (password) Something you are (biometrics)
One is good, two is better. Give your users an RFID card, smartcard, RSA SecurID (or similar) or fingerprint reader. Tie in your gift(s) to your authentication scheme.
You can't lose your finger NEARLY as easily as you can lose your physical token or forget your password.
Well, my mod points expired, so I'll have to just agree with you.
US Army's been developing computers for infantry for the last few years (I forget the code name, but it was typical Pentagon two parts macho two parts silly one part corny) and the stuff I read/saw said that the limiting factor was battery life. Rechargables are HEAVY. Tack that onto a 90kg pack that he's carrying anyway, and range gets shorter as your soldiers carry more If a grunt can power his laptop, field radio, GPS, and other electronics on the battlefield by walking and carrying the stuff he has to take anyway, and have that power generation help HIM to walk more efficiently, he can effectively power his gadgets for free AND get extended range by using less energy to walk/run. I can't see any way Defense ISN'T gonna be all over this like white on rice.
I've been somewhat involved in Geocaching, and one of the biggest complaints of cachers is running out of batteries for their GPS. One of the most popular trade items is spare AA batteries. If they can make this affordable to the consumer, and you can carry your water, trades, poncho, and whatever else you need for a day in the woods and power your Garmin or Magellan on the strength of that, that's huge.
Then there's the college kids with their newfangled eye-pods, high schoolers with cells, grade schoolers with game boys. They all carry a bunch of books everywhere they go. My high school backpack was 30-40lbs. That's a cell or PDA no prob. Retrofit a briefcase for Joe Yuppie to carry his paperwork and recharge his blackberry or laptop at the same time. Less time tied to an outlet, more time being on the road and productive (or so he'd have you believe). Get a small rig, put your mp3 player in it, strap it to your waist and go jogging. Kiss your low-battery warning goodbye. Make a tiny version and build it into a digital wristwatch, never change your battery again.
How are these people NOT going to be writing their own check?
As a non-resident, I'd like to offer the following hypothesis: They're smarter than the rest of us?
Seriously. I live in Michigan (big budget deficit), I work for the fed gov't (nuff said) and Mass is the first state I hear doing this? This kills me. Oh, for the ear of the state/federal CIO.
There was no chain of trust. The chain of trust was Tapwave itself. They signed all the apps that required the graphics accelerator or analog stick, and I have no doubt that it was other-than-free-as-in-beer. They could kill pretty much any game by refusing to sign it. I'm told they refused to sign Firestorm, the GBA emu from Crimson Fire, and I can't imagine that helped them any. Whether Firestorm would have worked even with a signature, I won't venture a guess.
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It's like the "Moving to Canada" cliche. By leaving, you're removing one more person who thinks the way you do and can help make a difference.
Dude should stick around and have the machines tested again after the election. Then when he gets fired, it brings this whole thing into the spotlight again.
I agree on one point, though: voter apathy is the cause of this, and you can't make somebody care. Until people care enough to show up (get up early, take the day off, or vote early) and make their voices heard, this will not change.
You're paying more money to get more bandwidth, and content is irrelevant. This issue is paying more for particular content - slowing down competitors unless you pay the extra fee. If you have SBC at home, and you can hear other SBC customers just fine, but PacBell (are they still around?) callers are all staticky and laggy unless you pay SBC an extra $5 a month.
Companies ARE greedy assholes. A corporation is a legal construct with the rights of a person and none of the morality, a construct whose sole purpose is to make money.
The shame is how often they get away with screwing over real people by having deep pockets to buy legislators and outlast plaintiffs in court. I haven't read the bill, but I'm glad somebody with some power is looking at this critically.
Funny you should mention a razor with five blades in a thread about Fusion.
"A lot of times, businesses have to scale back on corporate responsibility," said Rafael Gutierrez
It seems to me that "corporate responsibility" has a lot to do with "corporate ethics", in that they're both contradictions in terms. A corporation is a legal construction with the rights of a person but none of the morals. A corporation exists solely to make money for its stakeholders, be it publicly- or privately-held. It does not, and one might argue that it can not, hold any values other than "MONEY GOOD FIRE BAD". For a corporation to do anything other than try to make money is a disservice to investors.
In this age of Enron and Tyco, corporate book-cooking and insider trading, embezzlement and pension fund looting, as well as the things that DON'T get a ton of press coverage, I find it amazing that the phrase "corporate responsibility" is treated as anything other than a punchline.
Change the law to affect the party that stands to profit from whatever action the email suggests AND the party that sent the mail.
$5.5B from SpammerDude, $5.5B from D1sc0unt V1agr4 Inc.
Fraught with problems, but I'm just some moron on slashdot - what do I know about legislation?
The big secret is that the contractors do ALL the work while the full-time employees go to endless meetings and lunch.
Get off Slashdot and get back to work!
I got a two-hour lunch, then meeting, then going home early...
Clarification: I've never seen or interacted with a non-Windows machine in my work in the gov't. I'm sure some exist, but I've been told on more than one occasion that *nix is not an option for me. So there.
Regrettably, it's not up to me. The entire government runs on Microsoft. I'd actually prefer a *nix solution.
I'm going to write my representatives in Congress and encourage them to issue a new law to codify this OMB guideline - that way, if they DO try it again, the consequences will be much more severe.
As a federal webmaster (not NSA or CIA), let me be the first to say "Thanks a pantload." Now, if I miss a configuration setting in IIS, I could go to federal prison!
Sometimes somebody screws up. Sometimes they screw up and nobody notices. Technical oversight of my work is thin on a good day, and my boss' boss sure as HELL doesn't know if I'm serving persistent cookies. For the record, I'm not, because I follow OMB memos to the best of my ability and I double-checked this one.
It's not always a conspiracy. Sometimes it's just some server jock who was mentally elsewhere and didn't uncheck a box in Windows. Bugs in web apps I write are not intended to catch you surfing pr0n. I'm just not as good a programmer as you are. Worst case scenario at your work, you screw up, get fired, and get another job. I don't have "company policy", I have "federal statute". My coworkers and I do our best, and we do a pretty good job, but nobody's perfect. If I forget to put an "alt" tag on an image on a page linked seven deep that gets three hits a year, not only am I not doing my job correctly, but I'm in violation of 29 U.S.C. 794d. Don't think that that's the only law telling me how to do the job, either.
I'm not complaining. I signed up for the job knowing full well how it works, and I'm proud of what I do. Your vigilance is commendable, but I'm not sure that putting big nasty penalties on cookies is the right way to go about solving this one. If you and a majority of Members of Congress agree that placing persistent cookies is worth going to prison over, so be it. God knows there aren't any killers who couldn't use that cell more than me.
Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems coming together to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience ...so they can buy the rights to it, lock it down, and make it proprietary to their platform.
It's the American Idol of developers. "We'll let you show off, decide who's best, sign them to a nasty license, and own your soul."
(Kidding, but only half.)
however none of this ever happened.
Time to throw a me-too on the fire.
I was a netadmin/sysadmin and had all the keys to the kingdom: key-locks, cipher-locks, mag-locks, passwords, you name it. Backed up what I needed, dropped my letter off, left on good terms, doing real work till the last day. They could have locked me out, but they needed me to be able to finish what I was working on, and the boss was hypercool, so it worked out. Disabled my own account on the last day.
A month after I start my new job, I find one of my old swipe cards at home. I'm still on good terms with the other netadmin there, so I had lunch with him that week and gave him the card. I had no use for it, and I know they have cameras, so even if I were to "play around" with it, I know I'd be photographed. Sure as hell, the card still has 24/7 access to every suite, the server room, everything. If GM ever knew...
There are a few channels on XM that are kind of all over the place. If you're into university-style radio (I assume that's what you're talking about - work filter seems to have WFMU as a streaming media site), there's a channel called XMU that mimicks that style. I'm sure there are more, but it's not my bag, so I don't go looking.
Most of it, as you say, is "hyper-formatted", but not all of it. If you want a surprise, there certainly are a few stations that go all over. Mostly, though, I've found that I'm surprised often enough by stations that play genres that I'm reasonably familiar with.
You can buy a repeater for XM that re-transmits the signal within the house so you can pick it up in the basement. It's not cheap ($120 would be a good deal), but it is available.
Because what you get on XM (I've never had/heard Sirius, but this should apply equally) is NOT the same thing as you hear on broadcast.
Sample choices on FM: Alternative, rock, country, or Top 40. Commercials for five minutes every half hour.
Sample choices on XM: All traffic, 80's hits, bluegrass, comedy, each baseball game being played, hard rock, progressive rock, folk rock, classic rock. Twelve different talk stations, from far-right to far-left, sports and news. Commercials on the comedy and talk stations, but that's it.
When you have 200 stations, you have to keep them different, which means... and this is the kicker... you have to DIG DEEPER INTO THE FEATURED GENRE. Example: I like Rush. (I'm a nerd, I'm on Slashdot, whatever. My taste in music is an example, not the argument.) On FM, I hear three or four different songs by Rush, maybe one a day. I'm done with Spirit of Radio for a while, thanks. On XM, on their ProgRock station, I hear obscure stuff from unpopular albums that I like. You won't hear Analog Kid on ClearChannel stations. I also hear other groups who don't get the press who play a similar style of music. This depth of genre (obscure songs from well-known bands and obscure bands) simply isn't available on FM. Hell, I heard Side One of Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull on XM the other day. The whole thing. It's on the order of 30 minutes long. Nobody on FM will play that - it's not "radio friendly". So I don't get to hear it if I only listen to FM.
That's why I shell out $13/mo for XM. IT'S NOT THE SAME AS FM, and it's a service I'm willing to pay for. When I have the choice and depth that I get from this service available to me for free, that's when Hogan's argument becomes relevant.
Only if we're very, very lucky.
What a wonderful world this would be...
The myth was that it was done with a wooden arrow so that's what they were trying to prove. They went to a local archery club and found archers who'd done this with carbon fiber arrows (and had the arrows to prove it), though not a perfect nock-to-tip split. Most were telescoped or had sheared off a part of the "target" arrow.
They tried what I assume was field point - a pencil-tip-like point, met with no success, and moved to broadhead. Still no success. A combination of the wobbly-arrow-in-flight phenomenon (which I'm sure has a name) and the inability to get perfectly straight wood grain on their "target" arrow was what busted it.
some sort of cookie instead of a donut
For the record, it's a kahk.
He's a kahk-gobbler.
Omar al-Shamshoon loves the kahk.
Pardon me, everyone, for feeding the trolls.
i think the american military might is having enough trouble just holding down a chunk of sand covered oil at this time, and couldn't even respond to a lil' natural disaster on it's home turf
Okay, condescending multiple choice question time:
The primary mission of the US military is to:
a) occupy foreign countries for extended periods of time
b) provide aid and support in the event of a disaster
c) kill the living hell out of another country's military
If you answered a or b, you're kidding yourself. Regrettably, the US is stuck with the "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation. We do not have a force specifically tailored to occupying middle-eastern countries (though, at this rate, we might need one), nor do we have a sufficiently-funded and -equipped group for dealing with disasters at home. Thus, the armed forces (mostly the Army) get the nod on these jobs too. It's not what they've been trained for, it's not what they were hired for, but sometimes you gotta do jobs you're not good at. If your goalie gets ejected from a game, and you bring a winger or defenseman back in goal to do his job, you don't expect him to do well. It's not his job.
And, while I'm in full-on rant mode, we'll get to the question of why must every american first response be "my guns bigger'n yurs?"
When the word "force" is used, as in "The UN and EU want to FORCE the US to relinquish control of the Internet", the obvious question is how that force will be manifested. Could be political, but there are enough isolationists here that it probably wouldn't go far. Could be economical, but that's not likely either. Military force usually comes to mind first anyways, so the reply of "How do you intend to push around the largest military in the world?" is justified.
For the record, I think the 'net is just fine the way it is and we should pull the hell out of the middle east, but this is mostly in response to the "aaaaah americans are bullies and can't occupy a country and respond to a hurricane at the same time".
Something you have (physical key)
Something you know (password)
Something you are (biometrics)
One is good, two is better. Give your users an RFID card, smartcard, RSA SecurID (or similar) or fingerprint reader. Tie in your gift(s) to your authentication scheme.
You can't lose your finger NEARLY as easily as you can lose your physical token or forget your password.
Well, my mod points expired, so I'll have to just agree with you.
US Army's been developing computers for infantry for the last few years (I forget the code name, but it was typical Pentagon two parts macho two parts silly one part corny) and the stuff I read/saw said that the limiting factor was battery life. Rechargables are HEAVY. Tack that onto a 90kg pack that he's carrying anyway, and range gets shorter as your soldiers carry more If a grunt can power his laptop, field radio, GPS, and other electronics on the battlefield by walking and carrying the stuff he has to take anyway, and have that power generation help HIM to walk more efficiently, he can effectively power his gadgets for free AND get extended range by using less energy to walk/run. I can't see any way Defense ISN'T gonna be all over this like white on rice.
I've been somewhat involved in Geocaching, and one of the biggest complaints of cachers is running out of batteries for their GPS. One of the most popular trade items is spare AA batteries. If they can make this affordable to the consumer, and you can carry your water, trades, poncho, and whatever else you need for a day in the woods and power your Garmin or Magellan on the strength of that, that's huge.
Then there's the college kids with their newfangled eye-pods, high schoolers with cells, grade schoolers with game boys. They all carry a bunch of books everywhere they go. My high school backpack was 30-40lbs. That's a cell or PDA no prob. Retrofit a briefcase for Joe Yuppie to carry his paperwork and recharge his blackberry or laptop at the same time. Less time tied to an outlet, more time being on the road and productive (or so he'd have you believe). Get a small rig, put your mp3 player in it, strap it to your waist and go jogging. Kiss your low-battery warning goodbye. Make a tiny version and build it into a digital wristwatch, never change your battery again.
How are these people NOT going to be writing their own check?
As a non-resident, I'd like to offer the following hypothesis: They're smarter than the rest of us?
Seriously. I live in Michigan (big budget deficit), I work for the fed gov't (nuff said) and Mass is the first state I hear doing this? This kills me. Oh, for the ear of the state/federal CIO.
Breaking the law, lying, acting on impulse, starting fights, putting oneself in danger, slacking off and not caring.
Does this remind anybody else of high school, or is it just me?
Hell with his nickname, I want to know his ancestry! Indian/chinese/nativeamerican/sandwich?
In a word, no.
"traceable all the way back to Tapwave"
There was no chain of trust. The chain of trust was Tapwave itself. They signed all the apps that required the graphics accelerator or analog stick, and I have no doubt that it was other-than-free-as-in-beer. They could kill pretty much any game by refusing to sign it. I'm told they refused to sign Firestorm, the GBA emu from Crimson Fire, and I can't imagine that helped them any. Whether Firestorm would have worked even with a signature, I won't venture a guess.