I see far more first amendment attacks from the American Left than I do the American Right.
Internet boards, like this one, are filled to bursting with posters who bash on Religion, especially the Big C, with the heat of a thousand stars.
The reverse is not true. Most of the Atheist bashing I see is confined to odd little corners of the Internet, such as forums dedicated to fundamentalist worship of one flavor or another, or the 42nd page of the newspaper.
In general web surfing I'd say the religion bashing posts outnumber the Atheist bashing posts by a ratio of about 10,000:1. No I'm not exaggerating for dramatic effect.
When the American Left starts embracing the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution as strongly as the 1st then I'll consider joining.
This isn't to say that I'm comfortable with the hysterics of the "Religious Right", it's just that I don't find the hypocrisy of the "Sectarian Left" any more pleasant or rational.
I tried to reply but I'd have to write a novel to cover everything I percieve as incorrect in your last post.
Let's just say that I seriously disagree with your contention that casual computing didn't exist prior to 8/10/1995 and I further disagree with the notion that most casual apps were anywhere close to mature, or even INVENTED, anytime during the era of Windows 95.
Here's a short list of things that I know didn't exist for the casual user in 1995.
1) P2P networking 2) Itunes 3) CD / DVD ripping and burning. 4) Broadband Internet connections
By 1993 Commodore had sold some around 50 million units. Apple had punched out the powerbook, quadra, centris and system 7. Let's not forget contributions by Atari and Amiga either.
My point is that casual / home computing DEFINITELY existed prior to the release of Windows 95. To equate one with the other is a tremendously incorrect rewriting of the history of the PC.
I can't believe that no one else called you out on this.
It seems to me that we need a system with entirely unpredictable text, that requires minimal admin time for creation and maintenance. Further it needs to direct the user to some action that a human could do perform but that a bot either couldn't understand or would be unable to do.
Here is my idea, someone tell me why this wouldn't work.
In place of the captcha you have instructions directing the user to go to a certain website and copy / paste a certain bit of information into the field. Before the system does this it goes to the page and captures that information.
So it would look something like this:
"Before you can use this system please provide the following information: Go to $designated_website and copy and paste the $requested_information into the following field."
You then randomize $designated_website and $requested_information. It could be any website, including sub page, and any information.
Now a bot could be designed to read your text and try and interpret the results so that it would know where to go and watch to fetch IF your request was simple but if the request was more complicated then it wouldn't know how to respond.
For instance:
Go to news.google.com and give the title of the second story under Top Stories.
I have no idea how you were modded insightful. Your first sentence makes no sense at all. Please define a "Citrix app".
I've been installing and supporting Citrix and Terminal Services since the winframe and NT 4.0 Terminal Services edition days. With a competent admin and well engineered environment Citrix / Terminal Services is a FANTASTIC solution for remote workers.
At this moment I have several Citrix solutions that are supporting remote transcription. If it can keep up with medical transcriptionists typing into Word documents via WAN links it will easily hold up to anything reasonable you're trying to do with it. Some of these gals type at 80+ WPM, a few of them are over 100!
If you're not seeing that kind of performance something is wrong. Either the Internet connection is saturated or the Citrix / TS server(s) are too small for the load.
The technology works, period. If it's not working for you then it's an administrative or design problem.
They expect it because that's all they've ever known!
I'll bet that the person who wrote this article cut their teeth on Windows. They don't remember the days of CPM, Atari Basic, heck even DOS itself, where each new release brought something genuinely useful to the table and frequently _added_ performance!
I understand, and sympathize, with a lot of the downsides of doing this but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.
I see a lot of 'abandoned' FF installs out there. Someone called in a tech for something, that tech installed FF and got the user to USE it. However it's not being updated since the user doesn't know how or what to do.
This plan makes it a lot more likely that FF is going to get updated to the latest release and taken alone that is a good thing.
The idiom probably predates the common person owning an elevated bed. I've always assumed that it sprung from the fact that a manservant WOULD put their masters pants on both legs at once while their master was sitting on an elevated bed.
A commoner, having a flat pallet for a bed, would slide one leg of their breeches on and then the other as holding both legs off the ground at once is quite a challenge for most people.
What any of this has to do with ooxml I really have no idea.
Sure, we're a lot smaller than you in both economic output and population.
We're also running gigantic budget surpluses while your economy is going down faster than a $2 whore at a political convention. You choose which party, it hardly matters.
You appear to be making an argument that based on your size failure is inevitable or at least excusable. I reject this out of hand. Your scale is not such that failure that is even a probability, let alone a logical outcome.
It's well established that your Governor is a RINO but that hardly matters. The main portion of your State Government IS Professionals and look where it's gotten you! Your state economy has had serious difficulty under several Governors now, from both major political parties. It would seem to follow that the guy at the top isn't your problem.
You also reference the % of our landmass that is owned and operated by the Federal Government. This is irrelevant. Much of what 'they' own and operate is either barren, non-productive, or both. The revenue centers of the state are predominantly state or locally owned.
Now back to the original point. California has a large and vibrant economy...that is being managed into the ground by inept, if not corrupt, professional legislators.
You can keep your professional legislators. Us hicks in the sticks are doing pretty well by comparison. Maybe if Arnie asks real nice we can float you a loan to get you through these difficult times.
See, you went through all of that and didn't even cover:
1) Pension contributions 2) State Taxes 3) Insurance Premiums 4) Salary calculations for retirement.
I'm less than an amateur coder but I do have a touch of familiarity with payroll and these people yelling about how easy it should be simply don't see the total problem domain. That's why they think it's easy.
Sure, because the "full time professionals" are doing a wonderful job. Not.
They're the ones who were on watch when California got into this mess. They're also the ones who can't seem to figure a way out of it without paralyzing their state government and causing the state employees considerable financial hardship.
The "Pro's" are also the ones up in D.C. managing the economy for the rest of the country.
I live in Wyoming where we, like Texas, have a part time "citizen legislature". No government shutdown or budget deficits here.
I'm having a difficult time reconciling your opinion with reality.
That's great! Now...how do I fit your water contraption into my yard?
Ooops, I can't. That means the 11 cubic meter balloon is doable for single family dwellings.
The water / hill idea is okay for a centralized power plant if your in the right location for it (Where would you find a hill in Kansas?) but it's not so good for de-centralized power generation.
A TON of companies are using either straight TS or TS with Citrix on top. It's a dynamite solution for remote workers, helping to secure data, keeping a standardized environment, and providing usable desktops to low power users.
In the SMB space I see clients with as few as 4 people in the office with some kind of TS server installed because of how well it allows you to work remotely.
"Back to the mainframe" has caught on in a HUGE way.
I was prepared to argue with you until I thought about it for a minute. What you're saying is really worrisome and it sounds plausible on the face of it. However if it was really that easy almost every machine on the Internet could be rooted with almost no effort.
Where can I learn more about what you are talking about?
That's what you think...until the day you reboot and say "Why is my machine loading an mIRC client at startup?"
I've got a Windows 2003 SBS machine on the bench right now, only even that question wasn't sufficient for the inhouse IT staff to realize they had a problem!
Personally installed blinders can be a powerful thing.
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I see far more first amendment attacks from the American Left than I do the American Right.
Internet boards, like this one, are filled to bursting with posters who bash on Religion, especially the Big C, with the heat of a thousand stars.
The reverse is not true. Most of the Atheist bashing I see is confined to odd little corners of the Internet, such as forums dedicated to fundamentalist worship of one flavor or another, or the 42nd page of the newspaper.
In general web surfing I'd say the religion bashing posts outnumber the Atheist bashing posts by a ratio of about 10,000:1. No I'm not exaggerating for dramatic effect.
When the American Left starts embracing the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution as strongly as the 1st then I'll consider joining.
This isn't to say that I'm comfortable with the hysterics of the "Religious Right", it's just that I don't find the hypocrisy of the "Sectarian Left" any more pleasant or rational.
I tried to reply but I'd have to write a novel to cover everything I percieve as incorrect in your last post.
Let's just say that I seriously disagree with your contention that casual computing didn't exist prior to 8/10/1995 and I further disagree with the notion that most casual apps were anywhere close to mature, or even INVENTED, anytime during the era of Windows 95.
Here's a short list of things that I know didn't exist for the casual user in 1995.
1) P2P networking
2) Itunes
3) CD / DVD ripping and burning.
4) Broadband Internet connections
Have a good day.
Uhhh, excuse me sir.
15 years ago it was 2008 - 15 = 1993.
By 1993 Commodore had sold some around 50 million units. Apple had punched out the powerbook, quadra, centris and system 7. Let's not forget contributions by Atari and Amiga either.
My point is that casual / home computing DEFINITELY existed prior to the release of Windows 95. To equate one with the other is a tremendously incorrect rewriting of the history of the PC.
I can't believe that no one else called you out on this.
It seems to me that we need a system with entirely unpredictable text, that requires minimal admin time for creation and maintenance. Further it needs to direct the user to some action that a human could do perform but that a bot either couldn't understand or would be unable to do.
Here is my idea, someone tell me why this wouldn't work.
In place of the captcha you have instructions directing the user to go to a certain website and copy / paste a certain bit of information into the field. Before the system does this it goes to the page and captures that information.
So it would look something like this:
"Before you can use this system please provide the following information: Go to $designated_website and copy and paste the $requested_information into the following field."
You then randomize $designated_website and $requested_information. It could be any website, including sub page, and any information.
Now a bot could be designed to read your text and try and interpret the results so that it would know where to go and watch to fetch IF your request was simple but if the request was more complicated then it wouldn't know how to respond.
For instance:
Go to news.google.com and give the title of the second story under Top Stories.
Go to http://www.linux.com/articles/feature/ and give me the name of the author of the third article on the left.
Dynamic non-admin generated data, a ruleset that's easy to write, and instructions that are hard to follow for a bot because they change.
What am I missing?
I have no idea how you were modded insightful. Your first sentence makes no sense at all. Please define a "Citrix app".
I've been installing and supporting Citrix and Terminal Services since the winframe and NT 4.0 Terminal Services edition days. With a competent admin and well engineered environment Citrix / Terminal Services is a FANTASTIC solution for remote workers.
At this moment I have several Citrix solutions that are supporting remote transcription. If it can keep up with medical transcriptionists typing into Word documents via WAN links it will easily hold up to anything reasonable you're trying to do with it. Some of these gals type at 80+ WPM, a few of them are over 100!
If you're not seeing that kind of performance something is wrong. Either the Internet connection is saturated or the Citrix / TS server(s) are too small for the load.
The technology works, period. If it's not working for you then it's an administrative or design problem.
You should review your "consoles" section for accuracy. It is incorrect.
The Wii SDK, with Development Box, is available for as little as 2K.
The Xbox360 SDK is available for free.
I don't know anything about the Sony line, I purposely refuse to.
I reject the notion that shotgunning automatically makes you a domain squatter.
I have an idea or two in my head for nationwide websites, organized by state, where registration by state would make sense.
You would call that shotgunning, I would call that logical organization.
The differentiation for me is the CONTENT. If the site has useful content that is relevant to its URL then it's not domain squatting.
They expect it because that's all they've ever known!
I'll bet that the person who wrote this article cut their teeth on Windows. They don't remember the days of CPM, Atari Basic, heck even DOS itself, where each new release brought something genuinely useful to the table and frequently _added_ performance!
It's a sad situation.
The Prius is a mid-size car? Really? I consider my Pontiac Grand Prix a mid-size car, same as a Grand Am. Both of which are larger than a Prius.
A Prius is a small car, at least as I see it.
It's a good idea but your local collection of NIMBYites with their BANANA attitude aren't going to let that happen.
I submit that when you set yourself up as the judge on how much money a company "deserves" to make that you've crossed a line.
I don't agree with what TELUS is doing here but I also cannot agree with judging how much money an entity deserves to make.
I understand, and sympathize, with a lot of the downsides of doing this but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.
I see a lot of 'abandoned' FF installs out there. Someone called in a tech for something, that tech installed FF and got the user to USE it. However it's not being updated since the user doesn't know how or what to do.
This plan makes it a lot more likely that FF is going to get updated to the latest release and taken alone that is a good thing.
So tell me, who decides that you're running in a dynamic ip space?
It isn't you and it isn't necessarily your ISP either.
It's a funny thing, and you should ask SORBS about it before getting to clenched up about email coming from a 'dynamic' IP.
The idiom probably predates the common person owning an elevated bed. I've always assumed that it sprung from the fact that a manservant WOULD put their masters pants on both legs at once while their master was sitting on an elevated bed.
A commoner, having a flat pallet for a bed, would slide one leg of their breeches on and then the other as holding both legs off the ground at once is quite a challenge for most people.
What any of this has to do with ooxml I really have no idea.
HOLY CRAP! The slope your describing isn't just slippery it's pointed straight down and slathered with grease!
What you just stated is so frightening that it makes me shiver. Your interpretation is a rocket sled into REAL tyranny.
Sure, we're a lot smaller than you in both economic output and population.
We're also running gigantic budget surpluses while your economy is going down faster than a $2 whore at a political convention. You choose which party, it hardly matters.
You appear to be making an argument that based on your size failure is inevitable or at least excusable. I reject this out of hand. Your scale is not such that failure that is even a probability, let alone a logical outcome.
It's well established that your Governor is a RINO but that hardly matters. The main portion of your State Government IS Professionals and look where it's gotten you! Your state economy has had serious difficulty under several Governors now, from both major political parties. It would seem to follow that the guy at the top isn't your problem.
You also reference the % of our landmass that is owned and operated by the Federal Government. This is irrelevant. Much of what 'they' own and operate is either barren, non-productive, or both. The revenue centers of the state are predominantly state or locally owned.
Now back to the original point. California has a large and vibrant economy...that is being managed into the ground by inept, if not corrupt, professional legislators.
You can keep your professional legislators. Us hicks in the sticks are doing pretty well by comparison. Maybe if Arnie asks real nice we can float you a loan to get you through these difficult times.
See, you went through all of that and didn't even cover:
1) Pension contributions
2) State Taxes
3) Insurance Premiums
4) Salary calculations for retirement.
I'm less than an amateur coder but I do have a touch of familiarity with payroll and these people yelling about how easy it should be simply don't see the total problem domain. That's why they think it's easy.
Sure, because the "full time professionals" are doing a wonderful job. Not.
They're the ones who were on watch when California got into this mess. They're also the ones who can't seem to figure a way out of it without paralyzing their state government and causing the state employees considerable financial hardship.
The "Pro's" are also the ones up in D.C. managing the economy for the rest of the country.
I live in Wyoming where we, like Texas, have a part time "citizen legislature". No government shutdown or budget deficits here.
I'm having a difficult time reconciling your opinion with reality.
That's great! Now...how do I fit your water contraption into my yard?
Ooops, I can't. That means the 11 cubic meter balloon is doable for single family dwellings.
The water / hill idea is okay for a centralized power plant if your in the right location for it (Where would you find a hill in Kansas?) but it's not so good for de-centralized power generation.
Never caught on? How can you say that?
A TON of companies are using either straight TS or TS with Citrix on top. It's a dynamite solution for remote workers, helping to secure data, keeping a standardized environment, and providing usable desktops to low power users.
In the SMB space I see clients with as few as 4 people in the office with some kind of TS server installed because of how well it allows you to work remotely.
"Back to the mainframe" has caught on in a HUGE way.
That much and far higher is paid here in the American west for water.
Me: Poorly funded individual backed by /.
Consider mentoring. The God complex management style rarely works out well in the end.
I was prepared to argue with you until I thought about it for a minute. What you're saying is really worrisome and it sounds plausible on the face of it. However if it was really that easy almost every machine on the Internet could be rooted with almost no effort.
Where can I learn more about what you are talking about?
That's what you think...until the day you reboot and say "Why is my machine loading an mIRC client at startup?"
I've got a Windows 2003 SBS machine on the bench right now, only even that question wasn't sufficient for the inhouse IT staff to realize they had a problem!
Personally installed blinders can be a powerful thing.