From the more old news dept, but an attempt to avoid a future dupe:
For those in the U.S.A. you can also enter a UPS, FEDEX, US Postal Service tracking # and get tracking results too.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Office of Technology Policy
Chris Israel joined the Commerce Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, on November 1, 2001, joining Assistant Secretary Bruce Mehlman at the Office of Technology Policy.
From January 2001 until moving to Commerce, Israel was Deputy Director of International Public Policy for AOL Time Warner, and previously worked as a Senior Public Policy Analyst for Time Warner Inc. beginning in 1997. His experience includes working on high profile policy issues such as the protection of personal data collected on-line, safety of children online and international e-commerce.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Israel served as a legislative aide to U.S. Representative Jan Meyers (R-KS) and later with U.S. Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-KS). Chris Israel received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and his M.B.A. from The George Washington University.
Why not? What do you lose? A couple minutes maybe? Oh no!Its not the 'few minutes'. Its the lose of freedom. Remember the whole if we change our way of life, they terrorists win?
1) I lose my right against unreasonable search and seizure. You might not think its a problem, but I do.
2) Its a slippery slope.
3) What if there is something that shouldn't be in there but is unrelated to terrorism--will it be admissible?
4) What if my bag contains a stack of books about Islamic Jihad because I'm writing a report/educating myself-how do I know I wont be added to a watch list?
5) This is controversal, but its obvious the terrorists are from the Middle East yet in the name of 'randomness' they are stopping old grannies with their shopping sacks.
6) Other than getting lucky the inconvienence is all for political show - its not going to be effective.
7) Why does something have to give? Why dont we address the root causes of the problems and accept that more people are killed by the Flu each year in the U.S. than all the terrorists attacks across the globe.
A balance needs to be found.
Knee jerk reaction and I dont agree with your opinion.
The thing that upsets me the most is not that the gov't tries for this power grab. Instead, it is that the people allow it. There will be a news montage of interviewed commoners says 'I've got to give up my freedoms/rights to fight terrorists'. With that misguided green-light, law enforcement is more than willing to grab powers that were previously unattainable.
I'm not happy that New Yorkers are willing to subject themselves to 'random' searches. I'm pretty sure the London terrorist attacks will be the catylst for widespread CCTV in the U.S.
If it's already hard enough for "grown-ups" to deal with sex, I can't even start to imagine how hard is it going to be for kids growing up in a world full of boobies, people having hardcore sex on the TV and games where the main character asks for a BJ and... gets it.
Here is where I think the ideology vs realism is the problem. I think its hard enough for 'grown-ups' to deal with sex because their parents/community/church/school didn't educate on it to begin with. Instead of discussing it, exploring, forming a value system, the main message is 'dont do it, dont ask about it, its dirty, feel guilty if you think about it, don't touch yourself', etc.
If we can avoid something becoming mainstream, why shouldn't we? Why should we let children get confused about sex, because some people want to see boobies at the TV?
This is find so interesting. What about other countries/cultures where boobies are shown without the stigma? The very fact that we Americans treat boobies as such sexual objects creates the notion that they are only sexual objects. All this sexual repression is a self fulfilling prophecy! In addition, your concern is like 40 years too late. You have to raise your kids in the environment they are surrounded by. If you choose to cocoon them they are not going to have the coping skills when they are confronted by it later.
You're forgetting the fact that it is pretty easy to draw limits on violence. It's not like the U.S. soldiers at Iraq are going to pick-up a gun and sell drugs on the street just because they were engaged in violence actions during war.
This might not be popular to say about our military, but just wait until they return. You will see a lot of violence, drug use, psychological problems etc.
I guess we will just have to disagree on the violence in the maintstream being perceived as something wrong. Our whole movie culture glorifies violence and created hero characters who use violence as their main tool.
I disagree with your main premise and I think it highlights some of the issues.
First, Sex != Love. There is a lot more to a loving relationship that you don't get just from sex.
Parents, particulary conservative ones, seems to want to live in a world of ideology versus the real world--ignorance it bliss. Out of sight, out of mind, etc. These are all issue that need to be addressed, discussed, and countered. If it is mainstream then they need to be able to cope with it. Its an opportunity to teach that because its mainstream doesn't make it right and individuality is important in developing their values.
As far as your comment that 'Kids know that violence is just wrong and should always be avoided' is wrong on so many levels. First, our culture celebrates violence. To use your words-'its mainstream'. Second, our schools where many children learn their social skills do not have a zero tolerence policy on 'fighting' - its written off as 'boys will be boys'. Third, if you believe we lead by example, we have been at war killing people for the past few years, its mainstream. Kids see that on the news and its 'normal' and 'accepted'.
I completely agree with you. The hoopla is so rediculous. Its almost someone giving you a formula for isolating the printed words in the latest Harry Potter book to form a short porn story. Take the 6th word, followed by 12th word, followed by 24th word, etc.
The content was not accessible without a mod. Furthermore, having seen the content, its not all that indecent especially for a 17 year old.
I'm trying to undertand where all this save the children rhetoric is coming from and my conclusion is that it makes for an easy target. One tangential concern I've encountered is that rated M (17+) games are widely sold to minors. The statistics I say came from one Parents Television Council so they are probably misleading and distorted if their reporting on other the facts in the case are a barometer. They claim more than 70 percent of teenagers, 'according to a Gallop Poll', have played a Grand Theft Auto game. I can't find the poll results but there is a lot of ways to mislead with that statistic.
Another 'statistic' from the groups behind the media frenzy:
'According to research by the National Institute on Media and the Family, games rated M, which means they are appropriate only for people aged 17 or older, are relatively easy for teenagers and even children as young as age 7 to obtain. In the National Institute's recent study, 50 percent of boys between the ages of 7 and 14 successfully purchased M-rated video games, and an astonishing 87 percent of boys play M-rated games. Furthermore, nearly a quarter of retailers in the study don't even understand the ratings they are supposed to enforce, and only half of the stores train employees in the use of the ratings.'
Its not offensive, it just seems that you have developed a psychological profile of me from one sentence.
I simply said that 'my experience' (as in life) is that regulation/oversight is typically created because of a few bad apples abusing the system/our freedoms.
Furthermore, regulation/oversight is not synonymous, as you imply, with authoritarian approaches. A regulation can be the result of a consensus agreement. Also, regulation and oversight are not necessarily the same thing either.
I have a different take on this. My experience has shown that whenever a new area of freedom opens up, some group abuses it, requiring regulation/oversight.
The slashdot abstract is incorrectly summarized. This study is reported in the Journal of American Medicical Association and relates to 'clinical studies'. The summary infers a wider group of studies.
There is no way for the system to 'detect a change'. There is not magic signal that the motherboard produces if a PCI card is inserted. In fact, for consumer level motherboards, inserting a PCI device while the system is powered will fry your system since they are not HOT swappable/insertable.
Your point makes sense though about making some sort of assumed last known configuration the default. This would require the user to hit a button if they change their config so a full reboot with full PCI scan could ocurr - probably not too user friendly.
Because the assumption is that PCI devices are not hot swappable. Therefore, when you restore from hibernate you do not remap/reinitialize all the PCI devices- it is assumed no cards were added/removed. The OS bypasses the full PCI scan/initialization process which would detect and initialize all those new devices. If you were to remove/add PCI devices while hibernated a restored system might be unstable. Its also important that the device driver were written to support hibernation so they can resume properly/quickly when you restore.
If you turn on the 'boot logging' feature of Windows and examine the logs you can see where a lot of the time is spent on your system by the OS.
The reason boots take so long is because the BIOS and/or the O/S needs to initialize devices on the PCI bus. Each device needs to be read and identified, then allocated into the memory map. One mapped all the devices registers need to be configured per the hardware datasheet. To be safe, long delays are given for initialization to timeout. Some devices present themselves to the CPU via I/O versus memory space which has a speed difference too. Also, for an OS/BIOS that needs to support older devices that might not easily identify themselves, sometimes a 'probe' method is used. All that poking and peeking takes time.
The PCI cards identify themselves with a vendor/device code that is part of the card. Some vendors are lazy and do not create a new revision for a new card. In these cases you have to perform extra gymnastics with the card to determine which variant it is and which initialization code to use. Keep in mind too that even if you have no addin PCI cards, many of the devices on the motherboard are still on the PCI bus. You need to initialize those bridgechips, those firewire/USB chips, serial chips, parallel port, built-in network i/f chips, etc. It adds up after a while and boot time is not something that most hardware vendors/device driver developers pay much attention to.
SGI was also responsible for the evolution of Gigabit Ethernet. There were pushing it (and providing cards for SGI hardware) while other vendors were still pushing ATM.
I don't see the relevance here. The terrorists, whoever they are, attacked mass transit. Most people are not using their 'net' connection during their commute. Most people on the street are going to attempt to use a cell phone or payphone to call, not VOIP.
I predict within 6 months there will be a request from Google for googlebar to stop using googlebar as the name of the extension.
Its was in Feb 2005 that someone at google requested that the name be changed and that the logo be changed. Only the logo was changed. I wish I could dig up the legal letter, but I recall the agreement basically said we can change our minds at anytime. (ie; there really was no legal agreement).
Is this an official google toolbar? I use the open source googlebar http://googlebar.mozdev.org/index.html. I wonder how long before google flexes legal muscle to shut down googlebar. I recall previously that the google legal team forced googlebar to change their logo so as to not dilute the google brand. I recall reading the legal agreement and there was wording about google being able to change their minds in the future if they release their own product.
Here's an employee who's signed an agreement not to disclose trade secrets, and he's threatened to disclose the source code.
Where did his letter say that? I just read the entire thing and do not recall any threat to disclose source code. He simply said that he looked at the source code, which as a Senior Programmer, he was authorized and verified that some of the claims he made in his internal letter were valid (ie; code doesn't use robots.txt, code culls current list of open relays from online databases, etc).
He said he could not work on an project he felt was violating the law.
As far as the company perspective, I have not seen it so I cannot comment. Personally, his internal memo was much too details for most executives to understand. He should have layed out his concerns at a high level. Actually, he should have first contacted the press and law enforcement.
Its not that expensive - no where near $2000. The thing to keep in mind is that by purchasing a capture card that does encoding in hardware, the CPU does not need to be powerful. With a PVR-250 card you could even use a Pentium II if you wanted. If you want a cheaper capture card that requires the CPU to perform the encoding then you need a more expensive/moden CPU
However, I am willing to pay a premium for an open source solution. I do not want to pay a monthly subscription or have Tivo corporation monitoring and selling my viewing data. I dont want Tivo corporation to change their 'terms and conditions' whenever they wish and remove features such as commerical skip or insert advertisements, etc.
My Mythtv box has 3 250GB disks in a sw raid configuration for more storage. It also has 2 PVR-250 cards so I can record more than one show at the same time.
I don't see why anyone needs a virus scanner for Linux/Unix anyhow. Can there be more than 7 definitions in the file anyway and I dont the number of linux viruses in the wild have changed dramatically in past 2 years.
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From the more old news dept, but an attempt to avoid a future dupe: For those in the U.S.A. you can also enter a UPS, FEDEX, US Postal Service tracking # and get tracking results too.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy
Office of Technology Policy
Chris Israel joined the Commerce Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, on November 1, 2001, joining Assistant Secretary Bruce Mehlman at the Office of Technology Policy.
From January 2001 until moving to Commerce, Israel was Deputy Director of International Public Policy for AOL Time Warner, and previously worked as a Senior Public Policy Analyst for Time Warner Inc. beginning in 1997. His experience includes working on high profile policy issues such as the protection of personal data collected on-line, safety of children online and international e-commerce.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Israel served as a legislative aide to U.S. Representative Jan Meyers (R-KS) and later with U.S. Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-KS). Chris Israel received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and his M.B.A. from The George Washington University.
Why not? What do you lose? A couple minutes maybe? Oh no!Its not the 'few minutes'. Its the lose of freedom. Remember the whole if we change our way of life, they terrorists win?
1) I lose my right against unreasonable search and seizure. You might not think its a problem, but I do.
2) Its a slippery slope.
3) What if there is something that shouldn't be in there but is unrelated to terrorism--will it be admissible?
4) What if my bag contains a stack of books about Islamic Jihad because I'm writing a report/educating myself-how do I know I wont be added to a watch list?
5) This is controversal, but its obvious the terrorists are from the Middle East yet in the name of 'randomness' they are stopping old grannies with their shopping sacks.
6) Other than getting lucky the inconvienence is all for political show - its not going to be effective.
7) Why does something have to give? Why dont we address the root causes of the problems and accept that more people are killed by the Flu each year in the U.S. than all the terrorists attacks across the globe.
A balance needs to be found.
Knee jerk reaction and I dont agree with your opinion.
I'm not happy that New Yorkers are willing to subject themselves to 'random' searches. I'm pretty sure the London terrorist attacks will be the catylst for widespread CCTV in the U.S.
Burns: What!? Blast his hide to Hades! [thunder roars outside]
And I was going to buy that ivory back-scratcher...
Here is where I think the ideology vs realism is the problem. I think its hard enough for 'grown-ups' to deal with sex because their parents/community/church/school didn't educate on it to begin with. Instead of discussing it, exploring, forming a value system, the main message is 'dont do it, dont ask about it, its dirty, feel guilty if you think about it, don't touch yourself', etc.
If we can avoid something becoming mainstream, why shouldn't we? Why should we let children get confused about sex, because some people want to see boobies at the TV?
This is find so interesting. What about other countries/cultures where boobies are shown without the stigma? The very fact that we Americans treat boobies as such sexual objects creates the notion that they are only sexual objects. All this sexual repression is a self fulfilling prophecy! In addition, your concern is like 40 years too late. You have to raise your kids in the environment they are surrounded by. If you choose to cocoon them they are not going to have the coping skills when they are confronted by it later.
You're forgetting the fact that it is pretty easy to draw limits on violence. It's not like the U.S. soldiers at Iraq are going to pick-up a gun and sell drugs on the street just because they were engaged in violence actions during war.
This might not be popular to say about our military, but just wait until they return. You will see a lot of violence, drug use, psychological problems etc.
I guess we will just have to disagree on the violence in the maintstream being perceived as something wrong. Our whole movie culture glorifies violence and created hero characters who use violence as their main tool.
First, Sex != Love. There is a lot more to a loving relationship that you don't get just from sex.
Parents, particulary conservative ones, seems to want to live in a world of ideology versus the real world--ignorance it bliss. Out of sight, out of mind, etc. These are all issue that need to be addressed, discussed, and countered. If it is mainstream then they need to be able to cope with it. Its an opportunity to teach that because its mainstream doesn't make it right and individuality is important in developing their values.
As far as your comment that 'Kids know that violence is just wrong and should always be avoided' is wrong on so many levels. First, our culture celebrates violence. To use your words-'its mainstream'. Second, our schools where many children learn their social skills do not have a zero tolerence policy on 'fighting' - its written off as 'boys will be boys'. Third, if you believe we lead by example, we have been at war killing people for the past few years, its mainstream. Kids see that on the news and its 'normal' and 'accepted'.
The content was not accessible without a mod. Furthermore, having seen the content, its not all that indecent especially for a 17 year old.
I'm trying to undertand where all this save the children rhetoric is coming from and my conclusion is that it makes for an easy target. One tangential concern I've encountered is that rated M (17+) games are widely sold to minors. The statistics I say came from one Parents Television Council so they are probably misleading and distorted if their reporting on other the facts in the case are a barometer. They claim more than 70 percent of teenagers, 'according to a Gallop Poll', have played a Grand Theft Auto game. I can't find the poll results but there is a lot of ways to mislead with that statistic.
Another 'statistic' from the groups behind the media frenzy:
'According to research by the National Institute on Media and the Family, games rated M, which means they are appropriate only for people aged 17 or older, are relatively easy for teenagers and even children as young as age 7 to obtain. In the National Institute's recent study, 50 percent of boys between the ages of 7 and 14 successfully purchased M-rated video games, and an astonishing 87 percent of boys play M-rated games. Furthermore, nearly a quarter of retailers in the study don't even understand the ratings they are supposed to enforce, and only half of the stores train employees in the use of the ratings.'
I've noticed that I've never seen an auto-update for Thunderbird - does Thunderbird not support this?
I simply said that 'my experience' (as in life) is that regulation/oversight is typically created because of a few bad apples abusing the system/our freedoms.
Furthermore, regulation/oversight is not synonymous, as you imply, with authoritarian approaches. A regulation can be the result of a consensus agreement. Also, regulation and oversight are not necessarily the same thing either.
I have a different take on this. My experience has shown that whenever a new area of freedom opens up, some group abuses it, requiring regulation/oversight.
The slashdot abstract is incorrectly summarized. This study is reported in the Journal of American Medicical Association and relates to 'clinical studies'. The summary infers a wider group of studies.
Your point makes sense though about making some sort of assumed last known configuration the default. This would require the user to hit a button if they change their config so a full reboot with full PCI scan could ocurr - probably not too user friendly.
If you turn on the 'boot logging' feature of Windows and examine the logs you can see where a lot of the time is spent on your system by the OS.
The PCI cards identify themselves with a vendor/device code that is part of the card. Some vendors are lazy and do not create a new revision for a new card. In these cases you have to perform extra gymnastics with the card to determine which variant it is and which initialization code to use. Keep in mind too that even if you have no addin PCI cards, many of the devices on the motherboard are still on the PCI bus. You need to initialize those bridgechips, those firewire/USB chips, serial chips, parallel port, built-in network i/f chips, etc. It adds up after a while and boot time is not something that most hardware vendors /device driver developers pay much attention to.
SGI was also responsible for the evolution of Gigabit Ethernet. There were pushing it (and providing cards for SGI hardware) while other vendors were still pushing ATM.
For some laughter is the best medicine. For others humor is a coping mechanism. There was even humor after 9/11.
I don't see the relevance here. The terrorists, whoever they are, attacked mass transit. Most people are not using their 'net' connection during their commute. Most people on the street are going to attempt to use a cell phone or payphone to call, not VOIP.
No, his brother Jimi.
What happened to the Freescale MPC8641D Dual Core Processor http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_shee t/MPC8641DFACT.pdf? It was announced last November but is not shipping. Is the chip the same design? Is the IBM chip any different?
Its was in Feb 2005 that someone at google requested that the name be changed and that the logo be changed. Only the logo was changed. I wish I could dig up the legal letter, but I recall the agreement basically said we can change our minds at anytime. (ie; there really was no legal agreement).
Is this an official google toolbar? I use the open source googlebar http://googlebar.mozdev.org/index.html. I wonder how long before google flexes legal muscle to shut down googlebar. I recall previously that the google legal team forced googlebar to change their logo so as to not dilute the google brand. I recall reading the legal agreement and there was wording about google being able to change their minds in the future if they release their own product.
Where did his letter say that? I just read the entire thing and do not recall any threat to disclose source code. He simply said that he looked at the source code, which as a Senior Programmer, he was authorized and verified that some of the claims he made in his internal letter were valid (ie; code doesn't use robots.txt, code culls current list of open relays from online databases, etc).
He said he could not work on an project he felt was violating the law.
As far as the company perspective, I have not seen it so I cannot comment. Personally, his internal memo was much too details for most executives to understand. He should have layed out his concerns at a high level. Actually, he should have first contacted the press and law enforcement.
However, I am willing to pay a premium for an open source solution. I do not want to pay a monthly subscription or have Tivo corporation monitoring and selling my viewing data. I dont want Tivo corporation to change their 'terms and conditions' whenever they wish and remove features such as commerical skip or insert advertisements, etc.
My Mythtv box has 3 250GB disks in a sw raid configuration for more storage. It also has 2 PVR-250 cards so I can record more than one show at the same time.
I don't see why anyone needs a virus scanner for Linux/Unix anyhow. Can there be more than 7 definitions in the file anyway and I dont the number of linux viruses in the wild have changed dramatically in past 2 years.