Your post confirms that the Bush Admin scores high in the propaganda dept., high enough to overcome history.
This "rescue" plan is all about pumping up the stock market: you take a sizeable chunk of the half-trillion dollars that goes into Social Security every year and put it into the stock market - presto! Instant bull market. After the profit-takers have their way, the SS pension plan accounts will probably not see much benefit.
History: The S&L crisis is the most recent precedent for this. Unfortunately, though, the S&L crisis happened over a much shorter timeframe. We probably won't feel the effects of the SS change for at least 5 years, maybe longer.
BTW, the only thing worse than a tax-and-spend liberal is a borrow-and-spend conservative. You know how debt works? You borrow $100 dollars at say 5% interst over 20 years, you end up paying out over $250 in interest and principal.
This applies to the borrowing required to cover SS, the tax "rebate", and the war in Iraq. Yeap, you guessed right, we taxpayers all get to pay back those hundreds of billions of dollars plus interest - into the trillions of dollars.
This administration is the worst disaster to the economy we've seen yet. We will be paying off its debts for a generation to come, making us all, essentially, fiscal slaves to the holders of that paper.
Huh. Still... I half expect to see a followup to this, 6 mos down the road... "Secret Negotiations Revealed! French Police Exchange Putain et Fromage for Office and XP"
1. It generates a compiler error, thanks to the missing ''?
2. Well, your choice of formatting without newlines leaves it a visual mess. However, as a veteran of a number of systems built around XML's bastard child programming language, XSLT, I haertily put forth that tersity is grossly undervalued in the XML world.
XSLT seems to come from a place lacking in full pragmatism: a) We gotta type all that code, b) Yeah, some editors make the task easier, but c) Something about programming languages built in XML makes me think of Eiffel Towers and Brooklyn Bridges built of toothpicks: brittle and difficult to assemble.
It seems a product of academia (dock me if I'm wrong on this.;)
"Loophole" really means somebody at MelbourneIT didn't perform end-to-end tests of their registration server; that, or was only looking for primary adherence to the spec, and didn't check if their implementation could be fucked with.
Grow natural soy beans. Mother Nature's patent expired a long time ago.
Monsanto expects a perfect world, where their seed stays where it's planted and doesn't ever move beyond the fields' boundaries. Unfortunately for them and everybody else, the seed will spread due to the forces of nature, which even the great Monsanto cannot control.
Expect to see domestic seed stocks infected with Monsanto's engineered variants within a decade. By then, their patent will have run out, but the damage will be done - what nature spent evolving for millions of years will be changed.
my pager goes off at 2AM because some dispatching workstation froze
I hear yah, man. Yeah, see, there's the stress caused by not liking your current employment, then there's the stress induced by being an incompetent programmer, bringing 911 down because your memory management code sucks and you're wrote your app for Windows!
But hey! The flip-side is you don't got no stress, because you like work! And work you will, debugging your code remotely, during a crisis, over the phone, through a non-technical user, people dying all the while - yup, that's just icing on the cake, because ya love to work!! (until they can your ass for fucking up dispatch!) I'm down with that, brotha - here's to ya!
Steve Jobs has resorted to trickery for most of us presentations
Ah, that's good, make up some bitter anti-Apple FUD when your own platform gets some bad publicity. So defensive! When Microsoft already dominates computing into the high nineties percentage, in ways both good (broad market for those who create software, peripherals), and bad (poor security, rampant virii/trojans, many exploits), why is it so hard to accept criticism?
When a figurehead from MS has a very public failure, everybody focuses on it - it's as though it was a symbol for MS's other failures (security etc.) It gives people an outlet, where they otherwise feel they have no control over those situations where they feel victimized by MS's failures.
So, relax! MS will continue to dominate, and criticism will continue to flow. Just ignore it, think of it as primal therapy for hackers.
I thought you'd like some advise from a audio professional... If your Windows 2000 system is crashing its not the fault of the OS. Trust me on this.
Oh, okay. Here's how to crash Win2K on demand, Mister Audio P0rfessional. Download a copy of Exact Audio Copy, here-
http://exactaudiocopy.org/
Unzip it to a folder (machine w/Win2K, Sp2 onward.) Run eac.exe. Paf! Instant BSoD!
Now, reasonable operating systems do not allow this sort of degenerate behavior, because reasonable operating systems place system integrity above all else, whereas Windows places system integrity below... below...
... what was it that Win2K places above system integrity? Was it fancy GUI? Noo.. Speedy filesystem? No. Coherent and/or object-oriented system API? No! A high level of system security? Don't be stupid! Sophisticated scripting and shell? Confound it all!
When somebody lets us all know what it is Windows is good at, please post back? Thank you.
No. It's a little-known fact that Los Tres Amigos also are pistoleros, and have been observed handing out a good (verbal) ass-kickin' themselves. Be you warned.:)
Was the original point completely missed?
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How Do You Use UML?
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I use UML to design and document apps I write, when it's helpful. Usually for apps it takes longer than an eight hour day to write, and will see change in the future. It provides a birds-eye view of what the app is doing, and how it represents data.
How many open source projects do you see that come bundled with documentation cleary explaining how its internal structures look and relate, and how the program was intended to behave? If you answered "Few to None", you'd be today's winner! Monty, tell 'em what they've won!
UML is a visual modeling *language* used to communicate program behavior and data structure concepts with others (mostly humans), typically in an object-oriented context. As a bonus, there are quite a few visual modeling tools that work with UML. Some emit corresponding code in Java, Python, C++ and a handful of other languages. Some are OSS/FS, while others are proprietary and pricey.
UML is also handy when weaving Design Patterns into your application framework. If you're into designing your applications before you code them, you probably know about Design Patterns and the GoF book. Design Patterns are another kind of *language* for communicating about structure and behavior.
I'm not saying the only way to design an app is with DP and UML, but together they are very effective at communicating data structures, how objects/structures are to be constructed, and program behavior. Which, not coincidentally, are the three main categories of code patterns described in the GoF book.
The main point of UML is clear communication; for DP it's creating solid designs. To create an application that works well (does what's intended, doesn't need refactoring/rewriting when new data formats or behaviors are expected in the future), and is easy for other programmers to pick up (program logic easily understood, relationships between classes and other structures easily identified and grokked), it is good to choose a common language to communicate those things, besides the one the app is written in.
For the folks who pedantically attack UML as being part or product of an authoritarian regime - well, it's just a tool that helps you get your job done, and communicate effectively with others. Sometimes it will get used by hardliners I suppose. The flip side to that is, are you communicating clearly and consistently?
Maybe that doesn't matter to you, but maybe also you would be better off for expanding your personal toolset, and making yourself better understood.
Swell then. If I take your car for a joyride and leave it parked on the other side of town, you'll have your explanation for why you shouldn't bother telling the cops about it: "no one took any property from anyone."
This is like a company parking "cars" around the city with vending machines conveniently located on the passenger side.
Roach coaches - food vending vans. Basically a take-out restaurant on wheels, with an order window and a pickup window.
They're creating a retail space that isn't their property.
It's interesting that hackers, typically anti-authoritarian at least, anarchist at times, would use law enforcement authority as justification for their actions. Particularly in a case where there apparently was no law broken. Otherwise I imagine the poster might've mentioned that the bikes were an outlaw menace to society to begin with, eh? Anybody else have a problem with them? No? Hmm, strange.
The justifications given were really just excuses for wanting to hack somebody else's property. A hack - okay. Doing it to many bikes to ride free on somebody else's wallet? Not okay - there's the menace to society.
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You obviously haven't read much Cringely - he's good deal more insightful than your AC post! And he's been doing it for like 15+ years?
Your post confirms that the Bush Admin scores high in the propaganda dept., high enough to overcome history.
This "rescue" plan is all about pumping up the stock market: you take a sizeable chunk of the half-trillion dollars that goes into Social Security every year and put it into the stock market - presto! Instant bull market. After the profit-takers have their way, the SS pension plan accounts will probably not see much benefit.
History: The S&L crisis is the most recent precedent for this. Unfortunately, though, the S&L crisis happened over a much shorter timeframe. We probably won't feel the effects of the SS change for at least 5 years, maybe longer.
BTW, the only thing worse than a tax-and-spend liberal is a borrow-and-spend conservative. You know how debt works? You borrow $100 dollars at say 5% interst over 20 years, you end up paying out over $250 in interest and principal.
This applies to the borrowing required to cover SS, the tax "rebate", and the war in Iraq. Yeap, you guessed right, we taxpayers all get to pay back those hundreds of billions of dollars plus interest - into the trillions of dollars.
This administration is the worst disaster to the economy we've seen yet. We will be paying off its debts for a generation to come, making us all, essentially, fiscal slaves to the holders of that paper.
Huh. Still... I half expect to see a followup to this, 6 mos down the road... "Secret Negotiations Revealed! French Police Exchange Putain et Fromage for Office and XP"
Whoops, that first line should've been-
1. It generates a compiler error, thanks to the missing '<' in front of the !--?
1. It generates a compiler error, thanks to the missing ''?
;)
2. Well, your choice of formatting without newlines leaves it a visual mess. However, as a veteran of a number of systems built around XML's bastard child programming language, XSLT, I haertily put forth that tersity is grossly undervalued in the XML world.
XSLT seems to come from a place lacking in full pragmatism: a) We gotta type all that code, b) Yeah, some editors make the task easier, but c) Something about programming languages built in XML makes me think of Eiffel Towers and Brooklyn Bridges built of toothpicks: brittle and difficult to assemble.
It seems a product of academia (dock me if I'm wrong on this.
"Loophole" really means somebody at MelbourneIT didn't perform end-to-end tests of their registration server; that, or was only looking for primary adherence to the spec, and didn't check if their implementation could be fucked with.
Slashdot's search engine turns up no articles for 'censorware.org' after the point in time that Michael Sims hijacked the domain, a grand total of 26 articles overall. That's if you search under 'Stories'. If you search 'Censorware.org' under 'Comments', it turns up exactly 18 comments. Interesting, considering that I've witnessed many, many threads about 'censorware.org' across dozens of articles Michael approved.
It seems as though Slashdot has anti-"Censorware.org" censorware built into their version of slashcode.
I fully expect this comment to disappear, at least from the search engine, if not the database.
Bullshit. "'Influence peddling" is when you pay a politician off or a friend/relative to get said politician to support your cause, by writing legislation in your favor or making policy or appointments that favor you.
That's not what the bloggers were up to.
Grow natural soy beans. Mother Nature's patent expired a long time ago.
Monsanto expects a perfect world, where their seed stays where it's planted and doesn't ever move beyond the fields' boundaries. Unfortunately for them and everybody else, the seed will spread due to the forces of nature, which even the great Monsanto cannot control.
Expect to see domestic seed stocks infected with Monsanto's engineered variants within a decade. By then, their patent will have run out, but the damage will be done - what nature spent evolving for millions of years will be changed.
my pager goes off at 2AM because some dispatching workstation froze
I hear yah, man. Yeah, see, there's the stress caused by not liking your current employment, then there's the stress induced by being an incompetent programmer, bringing 911 down because your memory management code sucks and you're wrote your app for Windows!
But hey! The flip-side is you don't got no stress, because you like work! And work you will, debugging your code remotely, during a crisis, over the phone, through a non-technical user, people dying all the while - yup, that's just icing on the cake, because ya love to work!! (until they can your ass for fucking up dispatch!) I'm down with that, brotha - here's to ya!
That's right! Microsoft products neeeeever have problems, yup! Just not possible!
Oh shit, why is my cable connection so slow lately? Maybe my Windows needs upgrading...
Steve Jobs has resorted to trickery for most of us presentations
Ah, that's good, make up some bitter anti-Apple FUD when your own platform gets some bad publicity. So defensive! When Microsoft already dominates computing into the high nineties percentage, in ways both good (broad market for those who create software, peripherals), and bad (poor security, rampant virii/trojans, many exploits), why is it so hard to accept criticism?
When a figurehead from MS has a very public failure, everybody focuses on it - it's as though it was a symbol for MS's other failures (security etc.) It gives people an outlet, where they otherwise feel they have no control over those situations where they feel victimized by MS's failures.
So, relax! MS will continue to dominate, and criticism will continue to flow. Just ignore it, think of it as primal therapy for hackers.
I thought you'd like some advise from a audio professional... If your Windows 2000 system is crashing its not the fault of the OS. Trust me on this.
... below ...
... what was it that Win2K places above system integrity? Was it fancy GUI? Noo.. Speedy filesystem? No. Coherent and/or object-oriented system API? No! A high level of system security? Don't be stupid! Sophisticated scripting and shell? Confound it all!
Oh, okay. Here's how to crash Win2K on demand, Mister Audio P0rfessional. Download a copy of Exact Audio Copy, here-
http://exactaudiocopy.org/
Unzip it to a folder (machine w/Win2K, Sp2 onward.) Run eac.exe. Paf! Instant BSoD!
Now, reasonable operating systems do not allow this sort of degenerate behavior, because reasonable operating systems place system integrity above all else, whereas Windows places system integrity below
When somebody lets us all know what it is Windows is good at, please post back? Thank you.
No. It's a little-known fact that Los Tres Amigos also are pistoleros, and have been observed handing out a good (verbal) ass-kickin' themselves. Be you warned. :)
+1 Insightful.
Just to offer clarification, "the three amigos" reference is to Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson.
I use UML to design and document apps I write, when it's helpful. Usually for apps it takes longer than an eight hour day to write, and will see change in the future. It provides a birds-eye view of what the app is doing, and how it represents data.
How many open source projects do you see that come bundled with documentation cleary explaining how its internal structures look and relate, and how the program was intended to behave? If you answered "Few to None", you'd be today's winner! Monty, tell 'em what they've won!
UML is a visual modeling *language* used to communicate program behavior and data structure concepts with others (mostly humans), typically in an object-oriented context. As a bonus, there are quite a few visual modeling tools that work with UML. Some emit corresponding code in Java, Python, C++ and a handful of other languages. Some are OSS/FS, while others are proprietary and pricey.
UML is also handy when weaving Design Patterns into your application framework. If you're into designing your applications before you code them, you probably know about Design Patterns and the GoF book. Design Patterns are another kind of *language* for communicating about structure and behavior.
I'm not saying the only way to design an app is with DP and UML, but together they are very effective at communicating data structures, how objects/structures are to be constructed, and program behavior. Which, not coincidentally, are the three main categories of code patterns described in the GoF book.
The main point of UML is clear communication; for DP it's creating solid designs. To create an application that works well (does what's intended, doesn't need refactoring/rewriting when new data formats or behaviors are expected in the future), and is easy for other programmers to pick up (program logic easily understood, relationships between classes and other structures easily identified and grokked), it is good to choose a common language to communicate those things, besides the one the app is written in.
For the folks who pedantically attack UML as being part or product of an authoritarian regime - well, it's just a tool that helps you get your job done, and communicate effectively with others. Sometimes it will get used by hardliners I suppose. The flip side to that is, are you communicating clearly and consistently?
Maybe that doesn't matter to you, but maybe also you would be better off for expanding your personal toolset, and making yourself better understood.
I see it's time to take somebody out behind the shed and learn them some manners. Squeal pig!
Swell then. If I take your car for a joyride and leave it parked on the other side of town, you'll have your explanation for why you shouldn't bother telling the cops about it: "no one took any property from anyone."
This is like a company parking "cars" around the city with vending machines conveniently located on the passenger side.
Roach coaches - food vending vans. Basically a take-out restaurant on wheels, with an order window and a pickup window.
They're creating a retail space that isn't their property.
It's interesting that hackers, typically anti-authoritarian at least, anarchist at times, would use law enforcement authority as justification for their actions. Particularly in a case where there apparently was no law broken.
Otherwise I imagine the poster might've mentioned that the bikes were an outlaw menace to society to begin with, eh? Anybody else have a problem with them? No? Hmm, strange.
The justifications given were really just excuses for wanting to hack somebody else's property. A hack - okay. Doing it to many bikes to ride free on somebody else's wallet? Not okay - there's the menace to society.
Ok.
The hackers have caused some harm to the bike owners, and you want an apology from me?
+1 Good clarification.
Yeah- no. You cleverly avoid calling it "stealing" by saying Woz was "calling for free." Free in both cases means stealing.
Hackery doesn't include fucking over people for the heck of it.
the main cost to the 'victim' is the cost of reflashing the hacked bikes.
How about I take 1/10th of your paycheck every week, no big deal right? You may call yourself "`victim'" in that case, eh? Idiot.
stealing 170 bikes is just "show-and-tell???" where do you come up with that? that's robbery.