Hey, it's a commercial - and sometimes funny, sometimes a choke.
Now the "Head On" headache remedy commercials -- those are genuinely annoying AND disgusting.
I have no problem with XM and Sirius doing what they do in terms of programming. But just as it is a subscriber's right to accept XM and/or Sirius service, it is other people's rights to not have their listening choices interfered with. The point of the article, and this discussion, is not about filth, trash, or the ears of the beholder, it is about deliberately interfering with signal already granted to surfaced-based broadcast media.
It may very well be that the future is completely with satellite services, but until then the satellite servce companies DO NOT have a right to interfere with someone else's signal. So let's not redirect off the subject.
The American Social Security card is not a mandatory "paper", because the law that established the Social Security system did not permit it's use as a means of national identity, only as a means of verifying the number (that particular difference is worthy of a thread all its own). The Social Security NUMBER on the other hand has become very much a part of our national identity -- that's the identity theft problem. A nationally mandated form of identity is a bad thing. And yes, if you can't get taxpayer subsidized services without producing such a card, it is mandatory.
Let there be 50 different forms of identification. If local officials can't deal with that, that's their problem and not grounds for presumptive guilt.
However, the professor in question wants people to switch from laptops to paper, basically making them less efficient at note-taking, giving them even less time to pay attention to what she's saying. I don't think she understands that side-effect.
Having been through both B.S. and M.S. classes, I can attest that the best notes I took were minimal, concise, and to the point. The rest of the time in class was spent listening and participating. Learning is a wonderful thing when you are a part of it. Granted, there are some monster lecture forums that don't allow for much interaction, but being engaged is much more important than taking copious notes.
Besides, there's nothing more annoying than trying to listen to a class session with the sound of key and mouse clicks all around.
I appreciate your analysis of these three apps, and pretty much agree with your assessments. The one thing I do disagree with is your demand that mail never leave a mail server.
I strongly disagree, it is my mail and is therefore my responsibility and my business -- only. Leaving it on the server is like leaving your letters at the Post Office after reading them.
And one more point, using an "f-bomb" provides no more evidence that your point is stronger, or even correct.
Privacy is not a luxury, it is inherent in the individuality of a person. Yes, privacy is distinct from freedom, but only in the sense that each comes from a different source. Both are related to the individual. Freedom is the result of groups of individuals agreeing to allow each other to express, act, and behave in a way that has only those controls needed, or intended, to protect from harm.
To the extent that either privacy or freedom is willingly sacrificed in reaction to an enemy whose intent is to deny freedom or privacy, then that enemy has won.
I tried the following:
IBM TP365XD (P120/72MB/3.2GB)
Mandrake 9.2 using IceWM, also tried XFCE with good success.
Booted slowly. But was reasonably responsive once booted. It had all the other toys including Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and other KDE and Gnome related apps.
Moving from 40MB RAM to 72MB made a huge, but not surprising, difference.
A P233 and up will provide a good Linux solution with a decent amount of RAM.
While I have no problem with Sony protecting artists and performers (of course for Sony, it's actually their $ that they are protecting), it's their extremely agressive approach plus presumptive guilt on anyone who buys a CD that galls me. For this reason, we don't buy any Sony music CDs and no more Sony products at all. End of story.
Also, the "opt-in" must be limited to the vehicle's owner, not some third party. It would be so easy for law enforcement, or other "interested" parties, to leap on this as a me-too kind of thing. That must not happen.
If law enforcement has a legitimate need to stop drivers from doing 85 MPH on a residential street, then let them catch such drivers on-site, not by remote control. While catching such speeders serves a legitimate public need, taking the next step invariably leads to the eventual erosion of the right to be secure in your own home and property.
Law enforcement, particularly under the current set of national government attitudes in the U.S., always comes back with "Yes, we have the power, but we will never misuse it. Trust us". Quite frankly, if the power is there, it will at some time be abused, and purposefully so.
If the certificate is from a recognized certifying body (i.e., LPI, not Joe Schmuck's instant cert farm), and the certificate has something to do with the job at hand, then it has meaning. In fact, it has a point.
On the other hand, if someone has a raft of certs and none of them apply to anything, then that indicates a very definite problem with focus, attention to detail, and goal-setting.
Certificates are just like computers and software, you target that which will get the required job done.
"I thought the purpose of college was as much to teach you how to learn effectively as to teach you specific skills. "
That, in some sense, is true and to the point. College IS supposed to teach how to learn, and IS supposed to teach you specific facts. Not necessarily, though, specific skills.
One thing that is being taught less, or perhaps is offfered under a different focus, is the fact that there are fundamental differences in architecture as well as fundamental differences among OSes (alright, that is actually the same thing, but it serves to emphasize!), such that the computing world is not composed entirely of client computers and servers. Nor is the complete universe of OSes derived solely either from Redmond or Berkeley.
IBM is not the only mainframe maker of significance in the world, either. Unisys has a significant presence in government, banking, and the airline industries and they have their own OS also.
It is necessary to understand the difference between "technical lead" and "manager". Both are critical to the success of whatever enterprise is being done, but they are definitely separate roles.
A technical lead is in charge of ensuring that specific technical operations are performed correctly, efficiently, and effectively. As such, the technical lead MUST be very knowledgeable of the specific technology, whether that technology is an assembly line, or a networking line, or any other process.
A manager is in charge of identifying and ensuring that assets are in place that provide the means for performing a business process. Those assets include people, equipment, supplies, and money. The manager MUST understand what is required under each of those categories, but is not required to have a full functional understanding of every detail. Sometimes that understanding happens over time, but it is not required.
Knowing DoD, they have a VERY complete set of specs. If you are doing security work, for them, they have given you everything.
As others have said, this is not a/. problem and even if there are DoD security experts who participate in/. fora, they can't/won't tell you anything in an unsecure environment.
This approach to library "research" encourages poor research practices, discourages good student discipline, and creates an environment where the individual student may no longer be responsible for his/her own work.
There is something distinctly human about a physical book. There is a connection between the reader and the writer that is missing when the words in a book become nothing more than digitized representations of something abstract. eBooks are convenient form factor, and in fact are a good supplemental form of reading material, but they are not books.
Don't take my words incorrectly; group efforts have always been, are, and will continue to be important in study. What's wrong is that when books are no longer accessible - they become distant and less significant. When a book becomes nothing more than data, then it is no longer information, or wisdom, or a source for the interchange of human ideas in substantive form.
Yes, a re-think is needed, but I believe the re-think must be in terms of the use of technology, rather than what technology is used.
The essentials of learning, reading (#1), writing (#2), math skills (#3) are still the essentials. Technology is dependent on those skills, not vice versa. Technology can supplement libraries, but must NEVER replace the hard bound word. In my opinion, writing skills are de-emphasized at the altar of tech and speed, with the resultant loss of clear and concise communication and the increase of frustration at communicating thought. Math is an absolute necessity at any level of learning, and most especially at ALL levels of living. Technology, oddly enough, is subverting math skills. How many times have you seen a store clerk struggle with counting change? How many times have you seen a person of average, or even better, intelligence struggle with a simple addition problem when presented with a few numbers and no access to a calculator.
All other modern human activities depend on these three, simple skills. Yet we insist that technology replace, not help to learn, these skills. In elementary school, there should be very little technology presense, other than administrative. In the middle and high school levels (speaking from an American viewpoint), technology should be taught as a tool for research and for recording. It should be until college/university level that technology should become an assistant to the learning process.
Yes, the old "Dick and Jane" readers should be dusted off and used, writing skills with pencil and paper must be exercised, and memory exercises with math tables should be re-emphasised.
The human brain is a marvelous tool, it demands use!
If your thoughts are turned inward, if your actions are focused on nothing more than the disagreement you have with your liberal/conservative neighbor, then your horizon is nearby. When it's nearby, it is easily obtainable and it is nothing with regards to a challenge.
There's nothing wrong with our resources, it's our lack of hope and our lost ability to dream big that has us in its grip. Until we can shake that, we will be stuck here staring at the stars just like our ancestors have for millenia.
It's that "delicacy", usually served at breakfast, although appropriate at anytime, consisting of a finely chipped beef or other (perhaps mysterious) meat product in a savory cream sauce. All served over a lightly toasted, or burned beyond recognition, slice of bread.
Resetting the time on an electronic device is trivial.
What matters is the rationale for doing so. Having Time Zones make sense, since we are still creatures of light/dark cycle rhythms. Adjusting that schedule did make sense when agriculture was a major player and may still be needful. But changing the period of DST on the supposed rationale of saving money is pretty much like the supposed "savings" generated by changing a payday from the last day of the month to the first day of the next month -- it works exactly once.
"Since when are riots considered peaceable assembly?"
First, one must define "riot", and then (more powerfully) must define who gets to decide what a riot is. Witness the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in which the powers-that-were either panicked or were not understanding the purpose of protest.
Yes, in an emotionally charged situation it's easy for anyone to lose control of that situation and to thereby allow, or even cause, an escalation. However, comma, this is a very powerful system and hardly qualifies as a "non-lethal" weapon. Any protests of "we would never use it in anger" notwithstanding, all it takes is a few extra seconds of panicked press on the controller to weld glasses to skulls and permanently burn a copy of the latest state quarter into skin, or much worse.
... is the basis of all other learning. Start with "Dick and Jane" and make libraries in elementary schools the focal point of the entire education process.
However, there is one other even more important factor and that is parental involvement. From the first day of Kindegarten through the last day of High School (or whatever system you use where you are), parent(s) must be involved -- intimately, constantly, unceasingly. Know who your kid's teachers are, get to know the school principal, involve yourself in running whatever school support system you have.
If your kids are in a school system that uses a long Summer break, fine, send your kids to the closest library. Buy books -- used books, new books, paperback books, hardback books -- and let your kids swap books with their friends. I remember that my friends and I would spend hours reading. Yeah, the pickup baseball and basketball games were important, too, but we would just chill and read after a hard day's play -- and that was just in my elementary school days. It set the tone for the rest of my learning career.
If someone exercises due diligence and does what he can to protect his house/car/computer from illegal entry or damage, that still won't stop the criminal from trying, and perhaps succeding in, illegally entering or damaging the property. But by exercising due diligence there is a good chance that there will be no question about the owner being able to repair/reclaim the property (i.e., insurance).
The criminal, on the other hand, is still a criminal in this scenario because he violated the owner's house/car/computer, and no plea of "trying to protect by demonstration of vulnerability" is possible. In other words, breaking and entering is never a "favor" rendered.
When you buy a product, you expect the same due diligence in quality, truth in advertising, and utility of the product. If the producer deliberately produces an inferior product, lies about it, or if it does not live up to its utility, that producer may be subject to at the least, ridicule, and at the most, financial or criminal liability. On the other hand, someone who deliberately breaks a product has a reduced, and probably no, claim against that producer.
A hacker who draws attention to a weakness in a product may actually be a hero; however, one who deliberately breaks things or breaks into places without permission is nothing more than a criminal.
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Hey, it's a commercial - and sometimes funny, sometimes a choke. Now the "Head On" headache remedy commercials -- those are genuinely annoying AND disgusting.
I have no problem with XM and Sirius doing what they do in terms of programming. But just as it is a subscriber's right to accept XM and/or Sirius service, it is other people's rights to not have their listening choices interfered with. The point of the article, and this discussion, is not about filth, trash, or the ears of the beholder, it is about deliberately interfering with signal already granted to surfaced-based broadcast media. It may very well be that the future is completely with satellite services, but until then the satellite servce companies DO NOT have a right to interfere with someone else's signal. So let's not redirect off the subject.
The American Social Security card is not a mandatory "paper", because the law that established the Social Security system did not permit it's use as a means of national identity, only as a means of verifying the number (that particular difference is worthy of a thread all its own). The Social Security NUMBER on the other hand has become very much a part of our national identity -- that's the identity theft problem. A nationally mandated form of identity is a bad thing. And yes, if you can't get taxpayer subsidized services without producing such a card, it is mandatory. Let there be 50 different forms of identification. If local officials can't deal with that, that's their problem and not grounds for presumptive guilt.
... balderdash.
I appreciate your analysis of these three apps, and pretty much agree with your assessments. The one thing I do disagree with is your demand that mail never leave a mail server. I strongly disagree, it is my mail and is therefore my responsibility and my business -- only. Leaving it on the server is like leaving your letters at the Post Office after reading them. And one more point, using an "f-bomb" provides no more evidence that your point is stronger, or even correct.
Privacy is not a luxury, it is inherent in the individuality of a person. Yes, privacy is distinct from freedom, but only in the sense that each comes from a different source. Both are related to the individual. Freedom is the result of groups of individuals agreeing to allow each other to express, act, and behave in a way that has only those controls needed, or intended, to protect from harm. To the extent that either privacy or freedom is willingly sacrificed in reaction to an enemy whose intent is to deny freedom or privacy, then that enemy has won.
I tried the following: IBM TP365XD (P120/72MB/3.2GB) Mandrake 9.2 using IceWM, also tried XFCE with good success. Booted slowly. But was reasonably responsive once booted. It had all the other toys including Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and other KDE and Gnome related apps. Moving from 40MB RAM to 72MB made a huge, but not surprising, difference. A P233 and up will provide a good Linux solution with a decent amount of RAM.
While I have no problem with Sony protecting artists and performers (of course for Sony, it's actually their $ that they are protecting), it's their extremely agressive approach plus presumptive guilt on anyone who buys a CD that galls me. For this reason, we don't buy any Sony music CDs and no more Sony products at all. End of story.
Also, the "opt-in" must be limited to the vehicle's owner, not some third party. It would be so easy for law enforcement, or other "interested" parties, to leap on this as a me-too kind of thing. That must not happen.
If law enforcement has a legitimate need to stop drivers from doing 85 MPH on a residential street, then let them catch such drivers on-site, not by remote control. While catching such speeders serves a legitimate public need, taking the next step invariably leads to the eventual erosion of the right to be secure in your own home and property.
Law enforcement, particularly under the current set of national government attitudes in the U.S., always comes back with "Yes, we have the power, but we will never misuse it. Trust us". Quite frankly, if the power is there, it will at some time be abused, and purposefully so.
On the other hand, if someone has a raft of certs and none of them apply to anything, then that indicates a very definite problem with focus, attention to detail, and goal-setting.
Certificates are just like computers and software, you target that which will get the required job done.
That, in some sense, is true and to the point. College IS supposed to teach how to learn, and IS supposed to teach you specific facts. Not necessarily, though, specific skills.
One thing that is being taught less, or perhaps is offfered under a different focus, is the fact that there are fundamental differences in architecture as well as fundamental differences among OSes (alright, that is actually the same thing, but it serves to emphasize!), such that the computing world is not composed entirely of client computers and servers. Nor is the complete universe of OSes derived solely either from Redmond or Berkeley.
IBM is not the only mainframe maker of significance in the world, either. Unisys has a significant presence in government, banking, and the airline industries and they have their own OS also.
It's a known fact that Man chases Woman until she catches him.
A technical lead is in charge of ensuring that specific technical operations are performed correctly, efficiently, and effectively. As such, the technical lead MUST be very knowledgeable of the specific technology, whether that technology is an assembly line, or a networking line, or any other process.
A manager is in charge of identifying and ensuring that assets are in place that provide the means for performing a business process. Those assets include people, equipment, supplies, and money. The manager MUST understand what is required under each of those categories, but is not required to have a full functional understanding of every detail. Sometimes that understanding happens over time, but it is not required.
As others have said, this is not a /. problem and even if there are DoD security experts who participate in /. fora, they can't/won't tell you anything in an unsecure environment.
Go back to your supervisor.
This approach to library "research" encourages poor research practices, discourages good student discipline, and creates an environment where the individual student may no longer be responsible for his/her own work.
There is something distinctly human about a physical book. There is a connection between the reader and the writer that is missing when the words in a book become nothing more than digitized representations of something abstract. eBooks are convenient form factor, and in fact are a good supplemental form of reading material, but they are not books.
Don't take my words incorrectly; group efforts have always been, are, and will continue to be important in study. What's wrong is that when books are no longer accessible - they become distant and less significant. When a book becomes nothing more than data, then it is no longer information, or wisdom, or a source for the interchange of human ideas in substantive form.
The essentials of learning, reading (#1), writing (#2), math skills (#3) are still the essentials. Technology is dependent on those skills, not vice versa. Technology can supplement libraries, but must NEVER replace the hard bound word. In my opinion, writing skills are de-emphasized at the altar of tech and speed, with the resultant loss of clear and concise communication and the increase of frustration at communicating thought. Math is an absolute necessity at any level of learning, and most especially at ALL levels of living. Technology, oddly enough, is subverting math skills. How many times have you seen a store clerk struggle with counting change? How many times have you seen a person of average, or even better, intelligence struggle with a simple addition problem when presented with a few numbers and no access to a calculator.
All other modern human activities depend on these three, simple skills. Yet we insist that technology replace, not help to learn, these skills. In elementary school, there should be very little technology presense, other than administrative. In the middle and high school levels (speaking from an American viewpoint), technology should be taught as a tool for research and for recording. It should be until college/university level that technology should become an assistant to the learning process.
Yes, the old "Dick and Jane" readers should be dusted off and used, writing skills with pencil and paper must be exercised, and memory exercises with math tables should be re-emphasised.
The human brain is a marvelous tool, it demands use!
If your thoughts are turned inward, if your actions are focused on nothing more than the disagreement you have with your liberal/conservative neighbor, then your horizon is nearby. When it's nearby, it is easily obtainable and it is nothing with regards to a challenge.
There's nothing wrong with our resources, it's our lack of hope and our lost ability to dream big that has us in its grip. Until we can shake that, we will be stuck here staring at the stars just like our ancestors have for millenia.
It's that "delicacy", usually served at breakfast, although appropriate at anytime, consisting of a finely chipped beef or other (perhaps mysterious) meat product in a savory cream sauce. All served over a lightly toasted, or burned beyond recognition, slice of bread.
Also known as "shit on a shingle".
This brings new meaning to the term S.O.S.
Resetting the time on an electronic device is trivial.
What matters is the rationale for doing so. Having Time Zones make sense, since we are still creatures of light/dark cycle rhythms. Adjusting that schedule did make sense when agriculture was a major player and may still be needful. But changing the period of DST on the supposed rationale of saving money is pretty much like the supposed "savings" generated by changing a payday from the last day of the month to the first day of the next month -- it works exactly once.
Same with this really bad idea.
... as in who's will we be "required" to follow. Oh yeah, that was discussed in "1984".
However, there is one other even more important factor and that is parental involvement. From the first day of Kindegarten through the last day of High School (or whatever system you use where you are), parent(s) must be involved -- intimately, constantly, unceasingly. Know who your kid's teachers are, get to know the school principal, involve yourself in running whatever school support system you have.
If your kids are in a school system that uses a long Summer break, fine, send your kids to the closest library. Buy books -- used books, new books, paperback books, hardback books -- and let your kids swap books with their friends. I remember that my friends and I would spend hours reading. Yeah, the pickup baseball and basketball games were important, too, but we would just chill and read after a hard day's play -- and that was just in my elementary school days. It set the tone for the rest of my learning career.
The criminal, on the other hand, is still a criminal in this scenario because he violated the owner's house/car/computer, and no plea of "trying to protect by demonstration of vulnerability" is possible. In other words, breaking and entering is never a "favor" rendered.
When you buy a product, you expect the same due diligence in quality, truth in advertising, and utility of the product. If the producer deliberately produces an inferior product, lies about it, or if it does not live up to its utility, that producer may be subject to at the least, ridicule, and at the most, financial or criminal liability. On the other hand, someone who deliberately breaks a product has a reduced, and probably no, claim against that producer.
A hacker who draws attention to a weakness in a product may actually be a hero; however, one who deliberately breaks things or breaks into places without permission is nothing more than a criminal.