"The Mona Lisa is just a painting of some chick, I just don't see the big deal."
Au contraire. Look closely at the background. Doesn't it look kind of other-worldly and SciFiesque? Makes me wonder what Leonardo was thinking...or smoking.
I intended to point out that the summary was either inaccurate or constructed with poor syntax. i.e. Was Darwin "first to use the expression" or first to use the expression "to describe the diversity of organisms on Earth and their evolutionary history."
It also seems a bit overdone for the purpose. Cops investigating an "incident" need very basic information (who, what, when, where, how). When I was in the U.S. Army, we had "pointee-talkee" cards with common questions/answers printed in English and in whatever local language. The questioner pointed to a phrase in English on the card, and the respondent read it in his own language printed immediately beneath. Respondent then pointed to the appropriate response in his language, and the questioner then read it in English.
Very low tech and surprisingly effective, although the shortcomings are obvious.
Still, an electronic translator can introduce problems of its own, as previous posters have pointed out. I remamber back in the 1970s some agency trying to develop a computer translator. They fed it the phrase: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." The translator computer rendered: "The wine is acceptable but the meat is underdone."
FTFA: At the conclusion of the screening, there were a few suggestions for tightening here and clarification there. Finally, an NBC/GE executive responsible for "standards" shook his head and wondered about the tone in the reporter's voice. "Doesn't it seem like she has a point of view here?" he asked.
There was silence in the screening room. It made me want to twitch, until I spoke up. I was on to something but uncertain I wasn't about to be handed my own head. "Point of view? What exactly do you mean by point of view?" I asked. "That war is bad? Is that the point of view that you are detecting here?"
Seems to me that the story author is suffering sour grapes syndrome because an editor labeled his fluff/opinion piece for what it was and rejected it. Good call on that editor's part. Gives me some hope that all news execs and managers are not crusading crybabies and some actually understand the difference between news, opinion, and feel-good (or -bad) fluff.
"...there is no evolution, Big Bang, ancient geology, heliocentric cosmology, or any other annoying fact that interfere with a clear understanding of the Lord's Word (at least according to the Christian interpretation of his works)."
Technically, Big Bang is consistent with bilical/theological thinking: there was nothing; then all at once, there was everything.
The divisiveness pivots on the forces involved. It is hard as hell for a finite human mind to conceive nothingness/non-existence of everything, let alone how/why everything is that is. It is also difficult to come to grips with one's own mortality. It has been suggested that the notion of god is itself an evolutionary adaptation to deal with knowledge of individual mortality. A fellow named Matthew Alper wrote a book about it called "The God Part of the Brain." http://godpart.com/
Uh, okay, so maybe there is some hidden reason, like the parent poster is Cowboy Neal's brother-in-law, but I cannot understand for the life of me why the parent is modded "Offtopic."
I have used Firefox for, lo, these many years. It (Mozilla) has yet to address the memory leak and resourcece (cpu time) issues related to Firefox. Why?
I love the verasitility of Firefox and its functionailty. But I hate that it fucks up/freezs my machine when left open.
If Firefox wants to be taken seriously, fix these goddamned problems.
"Of course there's probably a link between purchasing spam ad campaigns, "financing" their bot networks, and ultimately supporting their phishing activities."
Quite correct. DDOS attacks are another element. Bot herders "rent" their botnets to literally anyone, including entities and individuals who wish to DDOS a competitor's or enemy's website, or for extortion schemes. ("Send money and the DDOS attack will stop.") Spammers et al also DDOS Spamhaus, Castle Cops, SpamCops, and other anti-spam/phishing organizations.
Whoever said "crime doesn't pay" didn't know anything about crime--or botnets.
Regardless of who spam is "from," it invariably is *sent* via spambots. And years of experience is that the majority of spam comes from compormised machines "overseas." The owner of the spamvertized website (which invariably are hosed in China, Russia, India, Mexico, et al) might in fact be American, but for my purposes that, too, is irrelevant.
According to the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database: "Many of these spam operations pretend to operate 'offshore' using servers in Asia and South America."
Remember, too, that this conversation is about "*Russian* Phishers."
It is not "good business practice" but a punitive measure to humiliate the employee and thus discourage other employees from following suit.
Were I about to resign and had any sort of nefarious intent such as taking with me customer lists, trade secrets, or whatever, I would have secured all of that LONG before submitting notice. Further, had I any desire to try to pursuade other employess to follow me, I would have secured their contact information long ago and would contact them privately outside the business environment to recruit them.
No, perp walks are not "security" or "good business practice." Just punishment for the "disloyal."
Okay, I admit ignorance. I have never understood how Mozilla, a purveyor of free-as-in-beer software, makes money, even if only operating capital (as opposed to profit).
What sources other than Google fund Mozilla? And why?
I know I will get modded into oblivion, but I do not care. This is precisely why I firewall the entire world (other than North America) from my server. None of the users nor myself have any legitimate contacts or interests overseas, so blocking all traffic sourcing anywhere except North America reduces the spam load by 98% and virtually eliminates intrusion attempts.
Offensive to you? Why? What legitimate need do you have to access my server? My company has absolutely nothing to interest you. Therefore, what reason could you possibly have to access my server?
I am in the print magazine business, and I do not know of anyone in the business that does not use Macs, Quark, and Photoshop for production.
So what if Apple could come up with a better graphics application? The existing talent base is so entrenched in Photoshop that the learning curve would make it a huge PITA to switch.
Those things alone are why an Adobe/Apple pairing makes perfect sense.
"How many man hours are wasted by the USPO to sort/deliver that shit?" (Referencing snail mail flyers and other junk mail.)
An invalid argument because the senders PAYS to have that junk mail sent. In the case of spam, the recipient and all nodes between it and up to/including the compromised botnet machine that sends the spam are bearing the cost of sending the spam message. The spammer pays nothing, and is stealing resources from others.
That is theft. Theft is a prison-punishable crime.
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Since spiders have only eight legs, wouldn't "Spider Web" be more appropos?
Further, the appearance suggests the fracturing of a hard surface. Is the surface glassine in nature?
"The Mona Lisa is just a painting of some chick, I just don't see the big deal."
Au contraire. Look closely at the background. Doesn't it look kind of other-worldly and SciFiesque? Makes me wonder what Leonardo was thinking...or smoking.
Parent stole my post.
I intended to point out that the summary was either inaccurate or constructed with poor syntax. i.e. Was Darwin "first to use the expression" or first to use the expression "to describe the diversity of organisms on Earth and their evolutionary history."
It also seems a bit overdone for the purpose. Cops investigating an "incident" need very basic information (who, what, when, where, how). When I was in the U.S. Army, we had "pointee-talkee" cards with common questions/answers printed in English and in whatever local language. The questioner pointed to a phrase in English on the card, and the respondent read it in his own language printed immediately beneath. Respondent then pointed to the appropriate response in his language, and the questioner then read it in English.
Very low tech and surprisingly effective, although the shortcomings are obvious.
Still, an electronic translator can introduce problems of its own, as previous posters have pointed out. I remamber back in the 1970s some agency trying to develop a computer translator. They fed it the phrase: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." The translator computer rendered: "The wine is acceptable but the meat is underdone."
Since there are no "Asshole," "Dimwit," or "Short-sighted" mod options, someone please mod the parent "Troll."
FTFA: At the conclusion of the screening, there were a few suggestions for tightening here and clarification there. Finally, an NBC/GE executive responsible for "standards" shook his head and wondered about the tone in the reporter's voice. "Doesn't it seem like she has a point of view here?" he asked.
There was silence in the screening room. It made me want to twitch, until I spoke up. I was on to something but uncertain I wasn't about to be handed my own head. "Point of view? What exactly do you mean by point of view?" I asked. "That war is bad? Is that the point of view that you are detecting here?"
Seems to me that the story author is suffering sour grapes syndrome because an editor labeled his fluff/opinion piece for what it was and rejected it. Good call on that editor's part. Gives me some hope that all news execs and managers are not crusading crybabies and some actually understand the difference between news, opinion, and feel-good (or -bad) fluff.
I hate the fucking U.S. Congress, er, Chinese, er... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/05/2041209
I hate the fucking Chinese, er, U.S. COngress. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/05/2041209
"...there is no evolution, Big Bang, ancient geology, heliocentric cosmology, or any other annoying fact that interfere with a clear understanding of the Lord's Word (at least according to the Christian interpretation of his works)."
Technically, Big Bang is consistent with bilical/theological thinking: there was nothing; then all at once, there was everything.
The divisiveness pivots on the forces involved. It is hard as hell for a finite human mind to conceive nothingness/non-existence of everything, let alone how/why everything is that is. It is also difficult to come to grips with one's own mortality. It has been suggested that the notion of god is itself an evolutionary adaptation to deal with knowledge of individual mortality. A fellow named Matthew Alper wrote a book about it called "The God Part of the Brain." http://godpart.com/
Chili? CmdrTaco makes chili?
Where? I love chili.
Uh, troll? Why? Parent seems quite reasonable.
Uh, okay, so maybe there is some hidden reason, like the parent poster is Cowboy Neal's brother-in-law, but I cannot understand for the life of me why the parent is modded "Offtopic."
Someone enlighten me.
I have used Firefox for, lo, these many years. It (Mozilla) has yet to address the memory leak and resourcece (cpu time) issues related to Firefox. Why?
I love the verasitility of Firefox and its functionailty. But I hate that it fucks up/freezs my machine when left open.
If Firefox wants to be taken seriously, fix these goddamned problems.
"Of course there's probably a link between purchasing spam ad campaigns, "financing" their bot networks, and ultimately supporting their phishing activities."
Quite correct. DDOS attacks are another element. Bot herders "rent" their botnets to literally anyone, including entities and individuals who wish to DDOS a competitor's or enemy's website, or for extortion schemes. ("Send money and the DDOS attack will stop.") Spammers et al also DDOS Spamhaus, Castle Cops, SpamCops, and other anti-spam/phishing organizations.
Whoever said "crime doesn't pay" didn't know anything about crime--or botnets.
Regardless of who spam is "from," it invariably is *sent* via spambots. And years of experience is that the majority of spam comes from compormised machines "overseas." The owner of the spamvertized website (which invariably are hosed in China, Russia, India, Mexico, et al) might in fact be American, but for my purposes that, too, is irrelevant.
According to the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database: "Many of these spam operations pretend to operate 'offshore' using servers in Asia and South America."
Remember, too, that this conversation is about "*Russian* Phishers."
Believe what you will. I know it works for me. Opinions/beliefs to the contrary are irrelevant.
It is not "good business practice" but a punitive measure to humiliate the employee and thus discourage other employees from following suit.
Were I about to resign and had any sort of nefarious intent such as taking with me customer lists, trade secrets, or whatever, I would have secured all of that LONG before submitting notice. Further, had I any desire to try to pursuade other employess to follow me, I would have secured their contact information long ago and would contact them privately outside the business environment to recruit them.
No, perp walks are not "security" or "good business practice." Just punishment for the "disloyal."
Okay, I admit ignorance. I have never understood how Mozilla, a purveyor of free-as-in-beer software, makes money, even if only operating capital (as opposed to profit).
What sources other than Google fund Mozilla? And why?
Our readers/customers care, hence firewalling the rest of the world.
Different firewall, dude. The website doesn't count.
I know I will get modded into oblivion, but I do not care. This is precisely why I firewall the entire world (other than North America) from my server. None of the users nor myself have any legitimate contacts or interests overseas, so blocking all traffic sourcing anywhere except North America reduces the spam load by 98% and virtually eliminates intrusion attempts.
Offensive to you? Why? What legitimate need do you have to access my server? My company has absolutely nothing to interest you. Therefore, what reason could you possibly have to access my server?
Let the bloodletting begin.
I am in the print magazine business, and I do not know of anyone in the business that does not use Macs, Quark, and Photoshop for production.
So what if Apple could come up with a better graphics application? The existing talent base is so entrenched in Photoshop that the learning curve would make it a huge PITA to switch.
Those things alone are why an Adobe/Apple pairing makes perfect sense.
You should be sentenced to life in front of a firing squad for abusing a sentence like that.
Please send my bonus points in a plane brown wrapper via airmail (i.e., on an airplain).
"How many man hours are wasted by the USPO to sort/deliver that shit?" (Referencing snail mail flyers and other junk mail.)
An invalid argument because the senders PAYS to have that junk mail sent. In the case of spam, the recipient and all nodes between it and up to/including the compromised botnet machine that sends the spam are bearing the cost of sending the spam message. The spammer pays nothing, and is stealing resources from others.
That is theft. Theft is a prison-punishable crime.
And how, exactly, does this help when the spam is coming from a botnet? Not being sarcastic, I really want to know.