The contrast between Walker and another former Wisconsin governor couldn't be greater.
Having lived there for my first 50 years I was brought up learning all about the states progressive past. Walker is the states biggest embarassment since Joe McCarthy.
Better change the state motto from Forward to Backward.
some moron comes along with a point and shoot yourself in the head tool that turns a simple page into a morass of 50 gazillion separately downloaded code snippets.
And then they wonder why the page loads so slowly.
Face it, the type of people who go into marketing have very little to offer this world. Their whole reason for existence is to hopefully sell something to somebody who might not otherwise buy it. The only redeeming aspect of marketing is that it is a non-violent sinkhole in which to drop money, vs say a war in some God forsaken desert.
Have you ever met a marketing/advertising person who actually liked people?
Lets help Google out here and describe what a secure solution should look like.
Do you follow Apple's walled garden approach and only run officially signed code? Do you follow Msft's signed code approach where you warn but let them run anyway? Do you download to a quarentine area and force the user to accept it to run it?
Thank you for the true explanation of what is going on here. While I would personally welcome a new clean energy source, my guess is that if it truly existed, the alchmists would have discovered it long ago.
Yeah, it is real easy to get all snarky about COBOL. I have always hated it even though it was a popular language when I was in school (late 70's). My CS department had three separate non-overlapping courses you could take.
The thing is that just about any programmer, even if they don't know COBOL, could go in and change it. COBOL is readable. The record based functionality is simple to comprehend. Something written 30 years ago is still running because there is nothing wrong with it. It does what its supposed to do. It was the perfect solution to the most important business problems of its day, and that legacy is why it is still around while other languages of its era are not.
Should new programs be written in it? HELL NO!!!! The problem set to which COBOL applies is pretty well solved. The new problems require new solutions.
All I want for [holiday of your choice] is for you to not be evil.
In fishing (yes with an f) there is movement called catch and release. The idea is to go out and fish, take pictures of what you catch, and then release them back into the environment.
I would love for some of these software companies to start practicing catch and release with some of these obvious patents. Fine, get them issued so no one else can troll with them, but then release them to the general public.
Don't get me wrong, software patents are stupid, especially for generic trivial ideas, but if they are going to hang around we need to encourage good stewardship.
Our friends over at The Register are covering the HPC conference ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/hardware/hpc_blog/ ) going on in New Orleansl. The Nvida Fermi/Tesla GPU products seem to be taking a bigger and bigger chunk of the old high end market. Companies like IBM and Cray are using them in their own products since the cost per flop ratio is so favorable. Anyone can play around with parallel processing now thanks to the Nvidia CUDA api. If you have a GeForce chip then you pretty much have everyting you need.
This is just an attempt to codify something that may or may not already be possible. Laws like this are useless in the context of day to day life and would only come into play in some type of emergency situation. There is a subset of the population that have a hard time with freedom and need the boundaries that laws and rules give them. This caters to them. They feel more secure because the law/rule is in place despite the fact that it will (or could) never be used. Whenever they feel threatened by the Internet they can rest assured that their friends in Washington can shut it down with the big red switch.
Then again, it may turn out to be the RIAA/MPAA 's nuclear option.
Perl is for coders, not web designers. As the former, I can pull together and correlate data from all over the place. The only problem is my output is ugly as hell. Since I don't do commercial work viewed by the general public that isn't a problem but it would be nice. Whenever I right click and look at the source for a fairly complicated webpage I get depressed. Seems way, way too complex and you are not seeing everything being brought in via CSS and JS libs.
I keep looking for a way to bridge the gap between WYSIWYG page designers and plain text perl backends. Any and all suggestions are welcome.
That is until the pharm and insurance companies decide it would be beneficial for their businesses if the government collected this information, processed the full sequence and then shared it with them for free.
A few well placed political donations (thanks supreme court for dropping the caps!) and it is a done deal.
It's been almost 40 freakin years since someone has been on the moon! I remember it because I am an old guy but most of the planet wasn't born yet when it happened. There is so much we don't know yet and 40 years of questions to be answered yet. We have spent more time on the surface of Mars, thanks to Spirit and Opportunity than we have the moon. If only we could find a way to ensure it would be profitable! Then we could make the dim witted people without enough brains to get a real job that we elect to government take notice.
Good for you. I recently left a large enterprise after 20+ years that had gone from being a fantastic creative place to a loathsome hole governed by policy nazis. Where I work now is still large but truly empowered and I no longer hate going into work each day. I grieve for my former co-workers who are managed by MBA's who think that aligning with the business will move them upstairs. It hasn't happened to anyone yet but they still hold on to their deluded dream.
Well it was a nice run while it lasted. Current cortporate management thinking is that IT positions are now considered clerical, not professional like they used to be.
Don't think so? Then ask yourself this question, "Who do I report to?"
If the answer is a Director or an Officer, then congratulations you are still considered a professional, for now. If it is a Manager, then you might still be considered a professional, but watch your back. If it is a Project Manager or a Team Lead, sorry you are clerical.
By lowering your status management can lower your pay, benefits and advancement opportunities.
They also are shooting themselves in the foot since they are probably also sacrificing creativity for slavish adherence to standardized processes.
You will not get rich by working for someone else, but you may be able to live comfortably.
I started my kids on comics when they were little to get them interested in reading and it worked. They still read comics along with plenty of other "serious" reading. Hell, my oldest had read the complete works of Shakespeare ON HER OWN before she was out of high school. Now she takes books on molecular biology along for light reading when she goes to cons.
Setting, plot and character development, story arc, social interactions. Good vs Evil, right and wrong, justice and injustice, freedom, oppression and bigotry. Comic books pretty much covers it all.
As I recall, Microsoft used to have an api call called PrestocChangeo or some such that did this. Probably in Win16. Always thought that changing a chunk of data into executable code was a bad idea. I would have thought such nonsense was a thing of the past but who knows, maybe that same or similar api still exists. (I'm an old guy and I don't get down to the system level calls much anymore, someone younger will need to look.)
"can only be put in place after a decision by judicial authorities"
This statement is pretty generic. Its intent appears to be to acknowledge the issue without doing anything specific and to delegate final authority to the courts. That of course means that the ISP can pretty much do whatever they want. If your Terms of Service says that they can drop you for any reason they want, well you agreed to that. They probably (IANAL) just need to go to court once and have then validate that it all was agreed to in the TOS and then it applies to any of their customers.
My CS degree is almost 25 years old now and guess what, things have changed. The PC I'm typing this on has more computing power memory and disk than the mainframe that was here when I arrived.
In that time I set up the first pc's (ibm 3270 pc), lan (token ring using IBM mau's and novell 3), webserver (ncsa with cello browser), firewalls and Internet connection. A lot of stuff that has didn't exist, arrived on the scene, and has evolved.
So, quit looking around you and start looking ahead. Does working with voice command technology sound cool to you? Then go learn about it! Find some stuff to play with and get ahead of the curve! Is programming getting you down? Then bone up on encryption and networking, the essentials of computer security!
Quit fretting about "Oh sh*t, I have to get a job in the real world and my GPA isn't 4.0 like all the business majors," IMHO if it is a true CS degree it shouldn't be 4.0. The best minds out there are those that don't confom to the preconceived notions of how things should be. We don't get anything new or useful out of that type of thinking.
Get your degree and find yourself a cool job. It probably won't make you rich, but I can guarantee that you won't be bored.
I believe that in one of the posted extracts of the patent it said something about generating a key based on information on the CD. OK, wipe off the rabid foam and try to follow this scenario.
I've got this nice website that people come to. I've developed this browser plugin that reads info off a CD, generates a key, goes to my website, finds lyrics and downloads them back to the browser.
Now, to keep somebody else from duplicating what I've done and especially from sponging off my DB, I patent the process.
Now, they've protected their resources, but they really haven't stopped you from developing a system that does essentially the same thing, only differently. They did not patent browsers, plugins or DB's. It sounds like they only patented how their system works so you have to use their plugin to read their DB.
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The contrast between Walker and another former Wisconsin governor couldn't be greater.
Having lived there for my first 50 years I was brought up learning all about the states progressive past. Walker is the states biggest embarassment since Joe McCarthy.
Better change the state motto from Forward to Backward.
some moron comes along with a point and shoot yourself in the head tool that turns a simple page into a morass of 50 gazillion separately downloaded code snippets.
And then they wonder why the page loads so slowly.
I'm going back to HTML 1.0
-Xanthos
Face it, the type of people who go into marketing have very little to offer this world. Their whole reason for existence is to hopefully sell something to somebody who might not otherwise buy it. The only redeeming aspect of marketing is that it is a non-violent sinkhole in which to drop money, vs say a war in some God forsaken desert.
Have you ever met a marketing/advertising person who actually liked people?
Lets help Google out here and describe what a secure solution should look like.
Do you follow Apple's walled garden approach and only run officially signed code?
Do you follow Msft's signed code approach where you warn but let them run anyway?
Do you download to a quarentine area and force the user to accept it to run it?
others?
Thank you for the true explanation of what is going on here. While I would personally welcome a new clean energy source, my guess is that if it truly existed, the alchmists would have discovered it long ago.
I am sure that the original engineering was perfectly fine, it was just outsourced to someone who "improved" it.
Yeah, it is real easy to get all snarky about COBOL. I have always hated it even though it was a popular language when I was in school (late 70's). My CS department had three separate non-overlapping courses you could take.
The thing is that just about any programmer, even if they don't know COBOL, could go in and change it. COBOL is readable. The record based functionality is simple to comprehend. Something written 30 years ago is still running because there is nothing wrong with it. It does what its supposed to do. It was the perfect solution to the most important business problems of its day, and that legacy is why it is still around while other languages of its era are not.
Should new programs be written in it? HELL NO!!!! The problem set to which COBOL applies is pretty well solved. The new problems require new solutions.
-Xanthos
All I want for [holiday of your choice] is for you to not be evil.
In fishing (yes with an f) there is movement called catch and release. The idea is to go out and fish, take pictures of what you catch, and then release them back into the environment.
I would love for some of these software companies to start practicing catch and release with some of these obvious patents. Fine, get them issued so no one else can troll with them, but then release them to the general public.
Don't get me wrong, software patents are stupid, especially for generic trivial ideas, but if they are going to hang around we need to encourage good stewardship.
-Xanthos
Our friends over at The Register are covering the HPC conference ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/hardware/hpc_blog/ ) going on in New Orleansl. The Nvida Fermi/Tesla GPU products seem to be taking a bigger and bigger chunk of the old high end market. Companies like IBM and Cray are using them in their own products since the cost per flop ratio is so favorable. Anyone can play around with parallel processing now thanks to the Nvidia CUDA api. If you have a GeForce chip then you pretty much have everyting you need.
Now if I could just talk my wife into letting me buy one of these. http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/hpcc/cray-cx1iws-dell.aspx
This is just an attempt to codify something that may or may not already be possible. Laws like this are useless in the context of day to day life and would only come into play in some type of emergency situation. There is a subset of the population that have a hard time with freedom and need the boundaries that laws and rules give them. This caters to them. They feel more secure because the law/rule is in place despite the fact that it will (or could) never be used. Whenever they feel threatened by the Internet they can rest assured that their friends in Washington can shut it down with the big red switch.
Then again, it may turn out to be the RIAA/MPAA 's nuclear option.
Perl is for coders, not web designers. As the former, I can pull together and correlate data from all over the place. The only problem is my output is ugly as hell. Since I don't do commercial work viewed by the general public that isn't a problem but it would be nice. Whenever I right click and look at the source for a fairly complicated webpage I get depressed. Seems way, way too complex and you are not seeing everything being brought in via CSS and JS libs.
I keep looking for a way to bridge the gap between WYSIWYG page designers and plain text perl backends. Any and all suggestions are welcome.
-Xanthos
Finally a decent OS to run on the SuperDomes!
That is until the pharm and insurance companies decide it would be beneficial for their businesses if the government collected this information, processed the full sequence and then shared it with them for free.
A few well placed political donations (thanks supreme court for dropping the caps!) and it is a done deal.
It's been almost 40 freakin years since someone has been on the moon! I remember it because I am an old guy but most of the planet wasn't born yet when it happened. There is so much we don't know yet and 40 years of questions to be answered yet. We have spent more time on the surface of Mars, thanks to Spirit and Opportunity than we have the moon. If only we could find a way to ensure it would be profitable! Then we could make the dim witted people without enough brains to get a real job that we elect to government take notice.
(yes I feel better now, thank you.)
Good for you. I recently left a large enterprise after 20+ years that had gone from being a fantastic creative place to a loathsome hole governed by policy nazis. Where I work now is still large but truly empowered and I no longer hate going into work each day. I grieve for my former co-workers who are managed by MBA's who think that aligning with the business will move them upstairs. It hasn't happened to anyone yet but they still hold on to their deluded dream.
Well it was a nice run while it lasted. Current cortporate management thinking is that IT positions are now considered clerical, not professional like they used to be.
Don't think so? Then ask yourself this question, "Who do I report to?"
If the answer is a Director or an Officer, then congratulations you are still considered a professional, for now.
If it is a Manager, then you might still be considered a professional, but watch your back.
If it is a Project Manager or a Team Lead, sorry you are clerical.
By lowering your status management can lower your pay, benefits and advancement opportunities.
They also are shooting themselves in the foot since they are probably also sacrificing creativity for slavish adherence to standardized processes.
You will not get rich by working for someone else, but you may be able to live comfortably.
-Xanthos
I started my kids on comics when they were little to get them interested in reading and it worked. They still read comics along with plenty of other "serious" reading. Hell, my oldest had read the complete works of Shakespeare ON HER OWN before she was out of high school. Now she takes books on molecular biology along for light reading when she goes to cons.
Setting, plot and character development, story arc, social interactions. Good vs Evil, right and wrong, justice and injustice, freedom, oppression and bigotry. Comic books pretty much covers it all.
As I recall, Microsoft used to have an api call called PrestocChangeo or some such that did this. Probably in Win16. Always thought that changing a chunk of data into executable code was a bad idea. I would have thought such nonsense was a thing of the past but who knows, maybe that same or similar api still exists. (I'm an old guy and I don't get down to the system level calls much anymore, someone younger will need to look.)
"can only be put in place after a decision by judicial authorities"
This statement is pretty generic. Its intent appears to be to acknowledge the issue without doing anything specific and to delegate final authority to the courts. That of course means that the ISP can pretty much do whatever they want. If your Terms of Service says that they can drop you for any reason they want, well you agreed to that. They probably (IANAL) just need to go to court once and have then validate that it all was agreed to in the TOS and then it applies to any of their customers.
Xanthos
- let you review and refute the security claims
- moved you to some other position
What would really nail it for me would be if on top of this, your old company actually paid for the security review in the first place."The more you know the less you understand" - Tao Te Ching
Yup, If it wasn't for Perl we'd have to use the next best thing, Python. (sorry if my whitespace if off)
(oooh, flamebait of an offtopic post! doesn't get any better than this baby!)
-Xanthos
My CS degree is almost 25 years old now and guess what, things have changed. The PC I'm typing this on has more computing power memory and disk than the mainframe that was here when I arrived.
In that time I set up the first pc's (ibm 3270 pc), lan (token ring using IBM mau's and novell 3), webserver (ncsa with cello browser), firewalls and Internet connection. A lot of stuff that has didn't exist, arrived on the scene, and has evolved.
So, quit looking around you and start looking ahead. Does working with voice command technology sound cool to you? Then go learn about it! Find some stuff to play with and get ahead of the curve! Is programming getting you down? Then bone up on encryption and networking, the essentials of computer security!
Quit fretting about "Oh sh*t, I have to get a job in the real world and my GPA isn't 4.0 like all the business majors," IMHO if it is a true CS degree it shouldn't be 4.0. The best minds out there are those that don't confom to the preconceived notions of how things should be. We don't get anything new or useful out of that type of thinking.
Get your degree and find yourself a cool job. It probably won't make you rich, but I can guarantee that you won't be bored.
-Xanthos
Simply the flag in the cookie that indicates whether or not they have sucked your demographic information into their marketing database.
(BTW - I'm a 14 yro female into overclocking and free beer)
I believe that in one of the posted extracts of the patent it said something about generating a key based on information on the CD. OK, wipe off the rabid foam and try to follow this scenario.
I've got this nice website that people come to. I've developed this browser plugin that reads info off a CD, generates a key, goes to my website, finds lyrics and downloads them back to the browser.
Now, to keep somebody else from duplicating what I've done and especially from sponging off my DB, I patent the process.
Now, they've protected their resources, but they really haven't stopped you from developing a system that does essentially the same thing, only differently. They did not patent browsers, plugins or DB's. It sounds like they only patented how their system works so you have to use their plugin to read their DB.
Is it just me or does ZDNET usually manage to select the most expensive, slowest product?
I guess open source just doesn't buy enough advertising. We probably should be grateful that they even mentioned perl.