Do Google's search algorithms make sense for an intranet in which you probably don't have quite the diversity of link counts?
You sort-of have a point, and one that would probably be particularly thorny for the military. To get PageRank working on the mass of documents like training manuals, you'd also have to have every trivial communication spidered. All email and orders, regardless of classification.
Are the guys at Google smart enough to build a system that can work with classified and non-classifed? Perhaps. I'm sure some of them would love to work on the problem, but would they get the clearance?
What you are missing is the big picture: The RIAA is trying very hard to make using any P2P system either illegal, or at least viewed as completely illegitimate. It is fighting a distribution SYSTEM, not copyright issues.
That's the one. It is no different from their battle against tape, and their evil twin's, the MPAA, with video.
What's worrying is how "bought" the politicians are. If the facts are as laid out in the article then this could make for entertaining tabloid news - if the tabloids weren't part of the media circus.
If only the intelligent and tech-saavy people were running these industries nowadays and not the old fossils who developed the industry into what it is...
Were the industry being run by intelligent and tech-savvy people, they likely wouldn't have the capital until they gave the proverbial pound of flesh to those you refer to as "old fossils".
Whenever anything innovative and with growth potential comes along then monied interests move in and you get last decade's basic assumptions applied to new technology. Video and DVD are classic examples of this with the inclusion of advertising. You watch it on a TV, right? So the media companies can advertise too. Heck, with a little fiddling with the hardware they can force you to watch the adverts and "don't pirate our stuff" messages.
I remember the early computer games industry. It was sucked into the same nonsense. Games came with copy protection and enterprising hardware hackers developed plug-in boards that dumped out the memory and register state. The same will happen with whatever ideas we get foisted on us by the crackpots these folks employ. There will be a demand to make copies and someone, somewhere, will find a way and post it on the Internet.
so it actually prints at 330 feet per minute... which works out at about 1440 pages per minute. which is a bit better.
I'm too lazy go do the math on the PPM rate, but I expected industrial printers to be higher than 330 by now anyway.
The Xerox factbook doesn't list anything higher than 180 PPM, and if the machines doing this are anything like the ones I worked with years ago they'll be the length of a large room. At that time getting the data off magnetic tape and formatted into a page was the main speed limiting factor.:-)
Essentially, if you want to learn the theory of how databases work and know how to write a database you're taking the right sort of classes. If you're wanting to become a DBA, you should really go to a vocational school.
Which one is going to have a good chance of getting outsourced versus getting you employment locally? My guess goes for the more theoretical work.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is dumb...
I keep my Windows system pretty well secured, but somehow that doesn't prevent Windows' Security Center from informing me that 'Your computer might be at risk' every morning when I turn on my computer. That message gets old fast. To banish it for good, go to Start, Control Panel, Security Center. Then click Change the way Security Center alerts me in the resources box and uncheck all of the boxes on the resulting screen.
This is state-sponsored industrial espionage. Why spend five years developing the flight software for a helicopter when you can just steal it?
The article talks of one guy who got a bit too grey for the FBI's liking, and that of his employers. Basically he was having too much fun chasing his bad guys and bugging routers in Guandong, China.
Stupid really. This should have gone to the NSA to become a disinformation campaign. Let them think they got the software, but with subtle deliberate bugs.
It was working so well, it was about time they fucked it up.
It's all about control. What the article goes into more depth about is that RIAA stooges don't like iPods making money for Apple. They want the player market broken up and moved away from iPod dominance. That really doesn't suit them.
Of course, they'll be absolutely convinced the price is too low. How many morons downloaded the Crazy Frog ringtone at a significantly higher price than 99 cents? They want to go back to gouging the customers and giving kickbacks to corrupt legislators to take your house off you for petty copyright infringement.
Honestly, someone give me a google map for the RIAA headquarters. I've got my Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator somewhere around here and a strong urge to use it.
Ah well, I'm probably not a good parent. I listen to advice from Frank Zappa about parenting.
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people
into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric -- there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.
That's about music, but applies as well to TV and video games. If you have raised a child that is suitably grounded in reality they'll know that a video game is escapist fantasy and not emulate it.
I propose we ban prayer in School as it corrupts the minds of impressionable children. When we've got that nasty practice stamped out then we might think about looking at video games.
No, it's completely different...the individuls participating willingly would be more accountable for their actions than the ones whose machines are infected.
Ya know, unless they've been modded to oblivion, I've never seen a negative comment about Artists Against 419. I've always considered that site an invitation to participate in a DDoS.
I have no problem if people take the choice to visit a spammers website and surf around with no intention of buying or subscribing. As an individual taking a choice to manually navigate the site you can't be touched. But downloading some toolz to request data from a site and throw it away, repeatedly and continually, is participating in an attack, and I wouldn't expect a judge to view it any other way.
Which are absolutely bloody useless against terrorists.
Anyway, who is to blame nasty places like North Korea being desperate to get nukes? As far as they are concerned they need your proposed sign on the border to keep the US out.
Anyway, I only posted so someone can comment on my.sig.
but the initial 1999 look trumps the more thorough 200*BANG*
I would like to draw to the judge's attention this disturbing accident that has been published on the Internets. Here is a clear demonstration that the tripe flowing from the mouth of Mr McBride is hazardous to human health. This poor geek had his head explode. I move that Mr McBride's mouth be surgically sealed to prevent the escape of further hazardous gibberish.
Seriously, the first investigation was a, "hey! this looks like our stuff, they musta stole it". That's what you get when you ask a bunch of people with acute angled hair. Darl fits in that category perfectly, he believes the guys from the golf course instead of the guy from the computer lab.
For once, I'm glad the US prisons are stereotyped as nasty, brutal places. I hope he is getting scared.
It is if you factor in 30-45 minutes travelling time. An eight-hour day isn't unreasonable, but it isn't what is currently the norm. Nor, as I meant to imply, is it what was advertised as what we could expect - the four hours or so you consider "labour limited".
There's an interesting statistic, 7:84, which became the name of a UK theatre group. It refers to the fact that in 1966 7% of the UK's population owned 84% of the wealth. Check it now, more like 5:90, and the way this concentration of wealth has been achieved is by convincing people that working longer hours without any compensation is in their interest.
Seriously, I expected a Funny mod for my comment. It wasn't meant seriously, but the moderation shows that there are a lot of people spending time at work that they resent - and goofing off as a form of protest.
Sure, it's never been that mythical 1950's world where the white-collar workers left for work at 8:30am and got home before 6:00pm, but we were all brought up believing that. All these companies spent lots of money advertising that living in their future would be hassle free and labour limited... Is it any surprise people don't expect to have to work hard?
I remember as a child being promised in TV programs about the future a shorter working week, increased leisure time, and robots and computers doing more of the work.
Instead I'm expected to be available 12 hours out of 24 instead of 8. So, when the machine is doing the job for me, or I need to take a break from a problem and come back fresh, why the hell shouldn't I goof off on the Internet. My parents' generation did it with newspapers - even if they had to lock themselves in the toilet to do so.
"Meanwhile, QinetiQ, the privatised former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, and London Underground have rejected claims made in the Times newspaper that body scanners are to be used on the Tube."
If you go to the Home Office website, they seem to have transcripts of a lot of interviews and statements. Not the BBC one unfortunately. I tried to listen to it, but it's a politician. The waffle and construction of a "statement of nothing" just makes your eyes glaze over.
The "Marvin the Martin" quote in your sig is somewhat eerie given the context of this discussion...:-)
It goes with the nickname. I now have a problem saying Donald Rumsfeld and whenever I see the man on television I expect him to pull off the mask he's wearing to reveal that he's one of the aliens from Mars Attack.
Let this be a lesson for Londoners and the rest of the world that terrorism can strike anywhere, and appeasing them will only make them stronger.
Taking them seriously by instigating overt and invasive security measures is exactly the sort of appeasment and response they want.
This was well planned, and has - so far - had exactly the result the terrorists wanted, London has ground to a standstill with public transport closed for fear of further attacks. London's stock exchange has taken a bit of a tumble, and according to the BBC it has disrupted the G8 summit.
Not a bad return on the investment in explosives, and I'm sure you could've covered that by betting on the effect on the markets.
Last I worked on VMS, there was no "built in" TCP/IP stack. This had to be added on after the fact, usually in the form of a closed-source, proprietary implementation. (i.e. MultiNet).
With the release of version 8.2 of OpenVMS, the licencing has changed considerably. Both TCP/IP Services and DECnet are included in the base license set. Packages such as Multinet still live on though, and I expect them to continue to do so. They offer something better than the port of some BSD software, something more engineered like the rest of VMS.
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Updates you say? Can I have 1.5 first please?
Yes, the British English version isn't available yet. Is this a clever ploy to get everyone using American English?
Are the guys at Google smart enough to build a system that can work with classified and non-classifed? Perhaps. I'm sure some of them would love to work on the problem, but would they get the clearance?
What's worrying is how "bought" the politicians are. If the facts are as laid out in the article then this could make for entertaining tabloid news - if the tabloids weren't part of the media circus.
Whenever anything innovative and with growth potential comes along then monied interests move in and you get last decade's basic assumptions applied to new technology. Video and DVD are classic examples of this with the inclusion of advertising. You watch it on a TV, right? So the media companies can advertise too. Heck, with a little fiddling with the hardware they can force you to watch the adverts and "don't pirate our stuff" messages.
I remember the early computer games industry. It was sucked into the same nonsense. Games came with copy protection and enterprising hardware hackers developed plug-in boards that dumped out the memory and register state. The same will happen with whatever ideas we get foisted on us by the crackpots these folks employ. There will be a demand to make copies and someone, somewhere, will find a way and post it on the Internet.
I have absolutely no idea what the appropriate requirements for a grammar checking engine would be.
However, I doubt slashdot would be an appropriate place to seek advice on the subject.
English is a complex and "dirty" language, effective usage can involve breaking what are the accepted rules.
The Xerox factbook doesn't list anything higher than 180 PPM, and if the machines doing this are anything like the ones I worked with years ago they'll be the length of a large room. At that time getting the data off magnetic tape and formatted into a page was the main speed limiting factor.
Your average user should not be doing that.
This is state-sponsored industrial espionage. Why spend five years developing the flight software for a helicopter when you can just steal it?
The article talks of one guy who got a bit too grey for the FBI's liking, and that of his employers. Basically he was having too much fun chasing his bad guys and bugging routers in Guandong, China.
Stupid really. This should have gone to the NSA to become a disinformation campaign. Let them think they got the software, but with subtle deliberate bugs.
Chapter 5 of his book is online.
I like the title, Blinkenlights. Now I have to read it to find out if you really can read the lights.
Of course, they'll be absolutely convinced the price is too low. How many morons downloaded the Crazy Frog ringtone at a significantly higher price than 99 cents? They want to go back to gouging the customers and giving kickbacks to corrupt legislators to take your house off you for petty copyright infringement.
Honestly, someone give me a google map for the RIAA headquarters. I've got my Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator somewhere around here and a strong urge to use it.
That's about music, but applies as well to TV and video games. If you have raised a child that is suitably grounded in reality they'll know that a video game is escapist fantasy and not emulate it.
I propose we ban prayer in School as it corrupts the minds of impressionable children. When we've got that nasty practice stamped out then we might think about looking at video games.
I have no problem if people take the choice to visit a spammers website and surf around with no intention of buying or subscribing. As an individual taking a choice to manually navigate the site you can't be touched. But downloading some toolz to request data from a site and throw it away, repeatedly and continually, is participating in an attack, and I wouldn't expect a judge to view it any other way.
Anyway, who is to blame nasty places like North Korea being desperate to get nukes? As far as they are concerned they need your proposed sign on the border to keep the US out.
Anyway, I only posted so someone can comment on my
Next time you post a comment like that, put up an affiliate link for selling keyboards.
Seriously, the first investigation was a, "hey! this looks like our stuff, they musta stole it". That's what you get when you ask a bunch of people with acute angled hair. Darl fits in that category perfectly, he believes the guys from the golf course instead of the guy from the computer lab.
For once, I'm glad the US prisons are stereotyped as nasty, brutal places. I hope he is getting scared.
There's an interesting statistic, 7:84, which became the name of a UK theatre group. It refers to the fact that in 1966 7% of the UK's population owned 84% of the wealth. Check it now, more like 5:90, and the way this concentration of wealth has been achieved is by convincing people that working longer hours without any compensation is in their interest.
Seriously, I expected a Funny mod for my comment. It wasn't meant seriously, but the moderation shows that there are a lot of people spending time at work that they resent - and goofing off as a form of protest.
Sure, it's never been that mythical 1950's world where the white-collar workers left for work at 8:30am and got home before 6:00pm, but we were all brought up believing that. All these companies spent lots of money advertising that living in their future would be hassle free and labour limited... Is it any surprise people don't expect to have to work hard?
I remember as a child being promised in TV programs about the future a shorter working week, increased leisure time, and robots and computers doing more of the work.
Instead I'm expected to be available 12 hours out of 24 instead of 8. So, when the machine is doing the job for me, or I need to take a break from a problem and come back fresh, why the hell shouldn't I goof off on the Internet. My parents' generation did it with newspapers - even if they had to lock themselves in the toilet to do so.
Just who is the target audience for this? Whip-wielding managers who flay anyone not fast enough on Alt-Tab?
This was well planned, and has - so far - had exactly the result the terrorists wanted, London has ground to a standstill with public transport closed for fear of further attacks. London's stock exchange has taken a bit of a tumble, and according to the BBC it has disrupted the G8 summit.
Not a bad return on the investment in explosives, and I'm sure you could've covered that by betting on the effect on the markets.