I am sure that there will be those that will say this is a waste of government resources but I would disagree. One of the things that government should do is build out public infrastructure to areas that the private sector won't serve or wouldn't be feasible without the government doing it. Here is hoping that the current providers there don't file lawsuits preventing the state from laying fiber like they do to proposed municipal ISPs.
Amen. I can only wonder what the other 49 states are doing, and if they have any interest in this "every last mile" concept.
Facebook chat is unreliable, Facebook posts are not instant and require a web browser, ICQ and IRC are too complex for I.T. neophytes to understand, and texting costs $. What exactly has "replaced" AIM whereby you can type in realtime for free using a reliable, dedicated client and can explain to even the most basic of users how to use?
Text messaging.
And the part of my post where I said "texting costs $" wasn't clear? My texting certainly isn't free. Good on you if yours is, but odds are if it is, you don't live in the U.S. where we are subject to massive anti-consumer collusion by our cellular providers to charge us for something that costs them almost nothing to provide.
Further, I don't want a cell phone in my hand 24/7. If I'm using the computer, I want a computer-based messaging service, not a phone-based one.
I disagree with the article but not in the way most others are (AIM was never popular, it was ICQ/IRC/Facebook/Usenet!)
What I disagree with is that AIM is dead today. I still use it (and Yahoo) to chat with many friends on a daily basis, and not 'cos I'm a n00b; I've been online since the 80's like many of you.
I use it because there is still not a good alternative to AIM. Facebook chat is unreliable, Facebook posts are not instant and require a web browser, ICQ and IRC are too complex for I.T. neophytes to understand, and texting costs $. What exactly has "replaced" AIM whereby you can type in realtime for free using a reliable, dedicated client and can explain to even the most basic of users how to use?
Everyone I know who is on Facebook is annoyed when I post news stories/links. They all seem to envision FB as being thoughtless fun. Sports posts are fine, what I had for breakfast is fine, people dying in Syria or Exxon buying the fracking rights under their land are verbotten. Seriously. FB is the new vast wasteland, so is it any wonder there are fewer news clicks coming from there?
2 special Black Hawks for insertion, two standard Chinooks lifted the Team, gear, and swag.
And that would explain why a neighbor a good distance away was (unwittingly) Tweeting about the operation. He probably didn't hear the stealthy insertion but the Chinooks used for extraction make a boatload of noise and annoyed the piss out of him and everyone else a decent radius around there.
Here's the problem: Even if you roll your own GPS/Nav, the Tom Tom data the government obtained will still be used against you. They won't just be pulling over Tom Tom users for speeding; this data "breach" (wasn't really) affects every single driver. So one company kind of ruined it for all of us.
Nah, that's corporate speak for "Interns? They don't need a laptop to make coffee! Just dig up something from storage and let 'em play with that."
To everyone who modded the parent "funny", I'd recommend "insightful" instead, as it's almost certainly exactly what happened. Whether they mean to or not, almost everyone regards interns as "disposable." Therefore they put them in closets instead of a real office, give them the worst PCs that can be dug up, no phone, the broken chairs, no lighting, and assign them worst tasks. I guess most humans have a built-in need to have someone to look down on and abuse. Sad, really.
If a Democrat had presented this bill the majority of Slashdotters here would be fauning over how this would stimulate the economy, create jobs and advance science. But since the political partisanship here is so pathetic, it's clearly some type of evil corporate money grab.
This site is about as useful for political commentary as a toilet is.
The bill is 100% politically-motivated, and yet you turn around and criticize/.'ers for posting politically-based replies? Are you going to go to church this Sunday and criticize everyone there for being religious too??
That's a great solution if you like NBC. I however recently realized I'd not watched a single NBC show in over two years, and the other networks all have their own methods of getting their content out on the 'net. So until there's a single aggregator of TV networks, I think it's rather tough to bypass cable/satellite and use the internet to watch network TV. Unless there's some non-Hulu method I'm missing.
Why can't I go by OS and platform? Is there some rule that says that isn't allowed?
Because it greatly dilutes your point if you blatantly cherrypick a dataset to debate. Basically nobody knows or cares who is winning by "OS and platform"....except perhaps fandroids who are desperate to devise any shred of evidence that yesterday's announcement isn't a huge win for Apple.
It also demonstrates how desktop-specific MS is by having the countdown be an app instead of a web-based widget. I, for one, support Windows boxes from my Mac. Kind of hard for me to use the countdown timer on OS X.
On the other hand, if they had made the timer web-based, they'd probably have designed it to only work in IE anyway.
All the CAD drawings done at my job will have to be in metric? How much will it cost to replace the millions of street signs and maps already in use?
It will cost nearly nothing if you add metric to the signs & maps as they wear out and are replaced. You don't do a wholesale conversion overnight; you allow a decade or two for it. That's what Carter did. He just didn't count on Reagan dickishly throwing the whole thing out. (And ripping the solar panels off the White House at the same time.)
PS:
"Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard"
The state only has to do so from citizens who foolishly believe the social services they use every day are magically free. A proper (read: informed) citizen offers up taxes willingly, safe in the knowledge the money comes back in spades, in the form of services the citizen could not possibly achieve alone.
Asking what port 8443 is for wasn't a stupid question - if it's not in/etc/services, it's not a standard port number. As for giving him an account, look up "chroot jail". Problem solved.
8443 is a bit of a standard, whether it's in/etc/services or not. That said, I agree: not everyone in I.T. is or has been a web admin. I suspect most of my staff wouldn't know of the top of their heads what 8443 is for either, but they could reconfigure your VM for you faster than you could shake your fist. I.T. is a very wide world; while there is a basic vernacular almost anyone in I.T. should know, I'd have to vote that knowing port 8443 is for SSL isn't a piece of data I'd include in that set.
"Botnets and the cyber criminals who deploy them jeopardize the economic security of the United States and the dependability of the nation's information infrastructure," Shawn Henry...said in a statement.
Obviously, the internet is now truly Serious Business. DHS, Ice-Raids, I hate to say it but as other/.ers have said in the past, we are entering the downward slope of the golden age of the internet, the gub'ment is now all up in our intertubes for good. Hide yo pron hide yo second life.
The internet has been serious business for a while, in case you've not been paying attention. The "gub'ment" is in the intertubes by necessity. Let's not blame this on the gov't.....it's those stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars who ruined it, not Washington.
Yes, but Google is also just a click or a shortcut away for the submitter/editor.
Disagree./. is one of the few refuges I have in my life where I can read articles that don't treat me as if I'm in 3rd grade. Seeing ALS not spelled out is refreshing and very welcome. Honestly, it is your fault if you have not heard of ALS. It is in the news quite a bit, and on human interest stories, health stories, on Jeopardy, in film, etc. It is not uncommon. Please don't defend the dumbing down of/. because you elect not to read the newspaper (or e-equivalent thereof.)
So... Tesla waited 2 years before doing this when it could have set the record straight the moment it happened?
They did set the record straight when it happened. They've also (according to the article) sent many letters to the BBC which have apparently been ignored. This suit is because all other avenues have failed. They should be credited for being patient that things would get resolved, not admonished.
The car had to be pushed into the warehouse because you are not allowed to drive cars into a building.
What complete pap. It happens all the time. People park their cars in garages (both personal and public) and cars at auto races drive into the garages if they think the fix can be a quick one that will allow them to get back on the track.
Further, even if cars can't be driven into buildings, it's due to exhaust fumes. Electric cars have no fumes.
I'm a long-time Top Gear viewer but Clarkson is a lying git.
Tesla is about to learn a very hard lesson about Top Gear. Just from a clout standpoint...they've got to *think* real hard about this move. Top Gear has more clout in the auto industry than anything short of gasoline.
I'm pretty sure that Tesla is well aware of that clout. That clout is exactly why they are proceeding with this motion; that clout has been used injuriously. If Top Gear were watched by only 100000 viewers, there would be no need for a suit.
Further, to the point you make in your subject line, the mere filing of this suit is also publicity for Tesla. Good publicity. They're getting their side of the story out. And as they are not asking for monetary damages, they have very little to lose.
your inner ear is not experiencing the movement that corresponds to what the eyes are seeing
It's possible for something pretty close to this to occur in real life. The two that come to mind from personal experience are bicycling on a very flat/smooth road and skiing in deep fresh powder. Both give your inner ear very little movement to detect and so you have lots of visual stimulation with very little corresponding motion feel. And that's what I equate my 3D movie watching experiences to--a "floating" feeling. I wonder if those who get sick have fewer real-life experiences to equate it to and their brains haven't been "trained" in the disconnected feelings? Just conjecture....
It's the equivalent of getting a fine for not having a strong enough door when your house is broken into.
Bad analogy. There was business taking place here--where are the financial transactions in your analogy? Further, there was knowledge of a break-in but no action taken.
A much better analogy would be if one of those self-storage outfits noticed that several of their clients lockers/units had been breached but did/said nothing while nightly looting of those units occurred. In fact, they continued to collect the monthly rent on those units.
I applaud the steps Massachusetts is taking to protect people's personal data, but at some point the fines and fees incurred by businesses here in Massachusetts will be enough to convince them to pack up and move to neighboring states where they can be more profitable. Our governor Deval will claim to have been "blindsided" by this Mass Exodus (pun intended).
It was only a matter of minutes until a pro-business shill like you came along to claim that this move was somehow wrong. There was NOTHING WHATSOEVER wrong with the government's move here. If anything the damages were too low, for this was a case of protracted and blatant data insecurity that greatly endangered the financial well being of all their customers. Punishing this type of behavior is way WAY more important than protecting your precious business base.
[police], save time and post the checkpoint yourself, and then give a closer inspection to all of the people that take the gravel road the GPS recommends to avoid the checkpoint that NO ONE ever drives on. Your % of DUI drivers should be higher in that group.
These things make it easier on the police, not harder, if they would adapt to it!
Please mod parent up. It makes a lot of sense. Of course, that's why the police won't take any of the suggestions....
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Make them 18!
Or wait one year until they turn 18, sometime in early 2012.
And if you say "no, they don't age" then they aren't human and porn laws don't apply to them. You can't have it both ways.
I am sure that there will be those that will say this is a waste of government resources but I would disagree. One of the things that government should do is build out public infrastructure to areas that the private sector won't serve or wouldn't be feasible without the government doing it. Here is hoping that the current providers there don't file lawsuits preventing the state from laying fiber like they do to proposed municipal ISPs.
Amen. I can only wonder what the other 49 states are doing, and if they have any interest in this "every last mile" concept.
Facebook chat is unreliable, Facebook posts are not instant and require a web browser, ICQ and IRC are too complex for I.T. neophytes to understand, and texting costs $. What exactly has "replaced" AIM whereby you can type in realtime for free using a reliable, dedicated client and can explain to even the most basic of users how to use?
Text messaging.
And the part of my post where I said "texting costs $" wasn't clear? My texting certainly isn't free. Good on you if yours is, but odds are if it is, you don't live in the U.S. where we are subject to massive anti-consumer collusion by our cellular providers to charge us for something that costs them almost nothing to provide.
Further, I don't want a cell phone in my hand 24/7. If I'm using the computer, I want a computer-based messaging service, not a phone-based one.
What I disagree with is that AIM is dead today. I still use it (and Yahoo) to chat with many friends on a daily basis, and not 'cos I'm a n00b; I've been online since the 80's like many of you.
I use it because there is still not a good alternative to AIM. Facebook chat is unreliable, Facebook posts are not instant and require a web browser, ICQ and IRC are too complex for I.T. neophytes to understand, and texting costs $. What exactly has "replaced" AIM whereby you can type in realtime for free using a reliable, dedicated client and can explain to even the most basic of users how to use?
Everyone I know who is on Facebook is annoyed when I post news stories/links. They all seem to envision FB as being thoughtless fun. Sports posts are fine, what I had for breakfast is fine, people dying in Syria or Exxon buying the fracking rights under their land are verbotten. Seriously. FB is the new vast wasteland, so is it any wonder there are fewer news clicks coming from there?
2 special Black Hawks for insertion, two standard Chinooks lifted the Team, gear, and swag.
And that would explain why a neighbor a good distance away was (unwittingly) Tweeting about the operation. He probably didn't hear the stealthy insertion but the Chinooks used for extraction make a boatload of noise and annoyed the piss out of him and everyone else a decent radius around there.
http://www.openmoko.com/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Anything else?
Here's the problem: Even if you roll your own GPS/Nav, the Tom Tom data the government obtained will still be used against you. They won't just be pulling over Tom Tom users for speeding; this data "breach" (wasn't really) affects every single driver. So one company kind of ruined it for all of us.
Nah, that's corporate speak for "Interns? They don't need a laptop to make coffee! Just dig up something from storage and let 'em play with that."
To everyone who modded the parent "funny", I'd recommend "insightful" instead, as it's almost certainly exactly what happened. Whether they mean to or not, almost everyone regards interns as "disposable." Therefore they put them in closets instead of a real office, give them the worst PCs that can be dug up, no phone, the broken chairs, no lighting, and assign them worst tasks. I guess most humans have a built-in need to have someone to look down on and abuse. Sad, really.
If a Democrat had presented this bill the majority of Slashdotters here would be fauning over how this would stimulate the economy, create jobs and advance science. But since the political partisanship here is so pathetic, it's clearly some type of evil corporate money grab.
This site is about as useful for political commentary as a toilet is.
The bill is 100% politically-motivated, and yet you turn around and criticize /.'ers for posting politically-based replies? Are you going to go to church this Sunday and criticize everyone there for being religious too??
Wait....we should be glad we have a single point of failure on the internet because why?!?
That's a great solution if you like NBC. I however recently realized I'd not watched a single NBC show in over two years, and the other networks all have their own methods of getting their content out on the 'net. So until there's a single aggregator of TV networks, I think it's rather tough to bypass cable/satellite and use the internet to watch network TV. Unless there's some non-Hulu method I'm missing.
Why can't I go by OS and platform? Is there some rule that says that isn't allowed?
Because it greatly dilutes your point if you blatantly cherrypick a dataset to debate. Basically nobody knows or cares who is winning by "OS and platform"....except perhaps fandroids who are desperate to devise any shred of evidence that yesterday's announcement isn't a huge win for Apple.
Microsoft Windows XP:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6:
Just a quick glance tells me that Windows XP has had the best value
....until you factor in the cost of support for 12 years.
On the other hand, if they had made the timer web-based, they'd probably have designed it to only work in IE anyway.
All the CAD drawings done at my job will have to be in metric? How much will it cost to replace the millions of street signs and maps already in use?
It will cost nearly nothing if you add metric to the signs & maps as they wear out and are replaced. You don't do a wholesale conversion overnight; you allow a decade or two for it. That's what Carter did. He just didn't count on Reagan dickishly throwing the whole thing out. (And ripping the solar panels off the White House at the same time.)
PS:
"Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard"
The state only has to do so from citizens who foolishly believe the social services they use every day are magically free. A proper (read: informed) citizen offers up taxes willingly, safe in the knowledge the money comes back in spades, in the form of services the citizen could not possibly achieve alone.
Asking what port 8443 is for wasn't a stupid question - if it's not in /etc/services, it's not a standard port number. As for giving him an account, look up "chroot jail". Problem solved.
8443 is a bit of a standard, whether it's in /etc/services or not. That said, I agree: not everyone in I.T. is or has been a web admin. I suspect most of my staff wouldn't know of the top of their heads what 8443 is for either, but they could reconfigure your VM for you faster than you could shake your fist. I.T. is a very wide world; while there is a basic vernacular almost anyone in I.T. should know, I'd have to vote that knowing port 8443 is for SSL isn't a piece of data I'd include in that set.
"Botnets and the cyber criminals who deploy them jeopardize the economic security of the United States and the dependability of the nation's information infrastructure," Shawn Henry...said in a statement.
Obviously, the internet is now truly Serious Business. DHS, Ice-Raids, I hate to say it but as other /.ers have said in the past, we are entering the downward slope of the golden age of the internet, the gub'ment is now all up in our intertubes for good. Hide yo pron hide yo second life.
The internet has been serious business for a while, in case you've not been paying attention. The "gub'ment" is in the intertubes by necessity. Let's not blame this on the gov't.....it's those stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars who ruined it, not Washington.
Yes, but Google is also just a click or a shortcut away for the submitter/editor.
Disagree. /. is one of the few refuges I have in my life where I can read articles that don't treat me as if I'm in 3rd grade. Seeing ALS not spelled out is refreshing and very welcome. Honestly, it is your fault if you have not heard of ALS. It is in the news quite a bit, and on human interest stories, health stories, on Jeopardy, in film, etc. It is not uncommon. Please don't defend the dumbing down of /. because you elect not to read the newspaper (or e-equivalent thereof.)
So... Tesla waited 2 years before doing this when it could have set the record straight the moment it happened?
They did set the record straight when it happened. They've also (according to the article) sent many letters to the BBC which have apparently been ignored. This suit is because all other avenues have failed. They should be credited for being patient that things would get resolved, not admonished.
The car had to be pushed into the warehouse because you are not allowed to drive cars into a building.
What complete pap. It happens all the time. People park their cars in garages (both personal and public) and cars at auto races drive into the garages if they think the fix can be a quick one that will allow them to get back on the track.
Further, even if cars can't be driven into buildings, it's due to exhaust fumes. Electric cars have no fumes.
I'm a long-time Top Gear viewer but Clarkson is a lying git.
-Kurt
Tesla is about to learn a very hard lesson about Top Gear. Just from a clout standpoint...they've got to *think* real hard about this move. Top Gear has more clout in the auto industry than anything short of gasoline.
I'm pretty sure that Tesla is well aware of that clout. That clout is exactly why they are proceeding with this motion; that clout has been used injuriously. If Top Gear were watched by only 100000 viewers, there would be no need for a suit.
Further, to the point you make in your subject line, the mere filing of this suit is also publicity for Tesla. Good publicity. They're getting their side of the story out. And as they are not asking for monetary damages, they have very little to lose.
your inner ear is not experiencing the movement that corresponds to what the eyes are seeing
It's possible for something pretty close to this to occur in real life. The two that come to mind from personal experience are bicycling on a very flat/smooth road and skiing in deep fresh powder. Both give your inner ear very little movement to detect and so you have lots of visual stimulation with very little corresponding motion feel. And that's what I equate my 3D movie watching experiences to--a "floating" feeling. I wonder if those who get sick have fewer real-life experiences to equate it to and their brains haven't been "trained" in the disconnected feelings? Just conjecture....
It's the equivalent of getting a fine for not having a strong enough door when your house is broken into.
Bad analogy. There was business taking place here--where are the financial transactions in your analogy? Further, there was knowledge of a break-in but no action taken.
A much better analogy would be if one of those self-storage outfits noticed that several of their clients lockers/units had been breached but did/said nothing while nightly looting of those units occurred. In fact, they continued to collect the monthly rent on those units.
I applaud the steps Massachusetts is taking to protect people's personal data, but at some point the fines and fees incurred by businesses here in Massachusetts will be enough to convince them to pack up and move to neighboring states where they can be more profitable. Our governor Deval will claim to have been "blindsided" by this Mass Exodus (pun intended).
It was only a matter of minutes until a pro-business shill like you came along to claim that this move was somehow wrong. There was NOTHING WHATSOEVER wrong with the government's move here. If anything the damages were too low, for this was a case of protracted and blatant data insecurity that greatly endangered the financial well being of all their customers. Punishing this type of behavior is way WAY more important than protecting your precious business base.
[police], save time and post the checkpoint yourself, and then give a closer inspection to all of the people that take the gravel road the GPS recommends to avoid the checkpoint that NO ONE ever drives on. Your % of DUI drivers should be higher in that group.
These things make it easier on the police, not harder, if they would adapt to it!
Please mod parent up. It makes a lot of sense. Of course, that's why the police won't take any of the suggestions....