This presumes you want Google in your life at all. They belong in your hosts file under 127.0.0.1 as their terms of service are largely indentured servitude. No Google Apps? Have a better day.
The model of give-up-your privacy for free and seductive half-apps has to go.
It's easier for a lot of coders to just bypass the step of input parsing and validation. That ease, which IMHO amounts to sloppy coding, is a major crux of things like injection problems, downstream coding errors (and far beyond things like simple type mismatch), and eventual corruption.
For every programmer shrugging it off, there's another wondering if someone did the work, and probing everything from packets to simple scriptycrap to break it open for giggles, grins, and profit. They write long tomes of garbage to assault in various automated ways, big rocks to crash through the straw built from sleazy code. To those that believe in quality, carry on.
VMware is late to the party, and is getting their clock cleaned by the competition. This why they came to the table: to eat lunch, like the rest of them. VMware's roots are open source, although they charge dearly for their proprietary stuff. Nonetheless, the industry points towards stack-related tool kits that spin up hardware of near-legendary value. You don't think they don't want a piece of that pie? Loads of it's FOSS and loads of it's Ruby, Ajax, and stuff that almost predates them going back to thoughts of Xen and LVMs.
So, no, don't worry. This is about being left behind, not total annihilation an destruction.
For not much money, a pre-processor could check the status of the ROM-based bootstrap, then sniff the MBR and where it points to for integrity, then say, yo: CPU, go ahead. If the first X:Y bytes don't read correctly, throw a code and refuse to start. How much are small GPUs and slow ARMs? Gotta be faster than watching Dells and HPs boot these days (go get coffee, we'll be right back at ya)....
Tribes accept memes, but when they're incredible (root word: cred), the tribe doesn't accept them. There are as many conspiracy theories as opinions, meaning a myriad of them. Some people are pathological liars and try to pass of their theories as fact, or sew enough seemingly truthful things together so as to build a case.
As correlation != causation, facts have to emerge to disprove the meme.
That said, you'd knock me over with a feather if you told me that Lance Armstrong would lose all seven wins, or that Apple could convince a jury of its patents' worthiness and application to the litigation with Samsung. If you then implied that Lance Armstrong was an alien, and was in cahoots with Bob Dole over ED meds, I'd start to wonder, as its when there are two people doing something, it becomes a conspiracy rather than a tuple of data regarding an individual to decide the merits of.
People looked at the moon for thousands of years. Eventually we got there. They look at the stars the same way. The speed of light is currently, in certainty, the limitation to go the stars without generations of generations in a temporary world, seeking them out.
Is FTL possible? People thought that a moon trip was impossible. We still dream.
Making observations based on superficial evidence is usually pretty dicey, but the opinions he ostensibly represents would lead one to believe that there are paranoid delusions being spouted, rather than random disinformation usually attributed to political parties.
In your case, being obviously preposterous is much different than being delusional. While professionals are the ultimate observers, we civilians can make reasonably educated guesses ourselves.
Citation(s), please. Allergies to vaccinations like DPT, measles, and others, are exceedingly rare, and the crux of much disinformation. Even with measles shots, I got all three versions. Didn't affect me much. Ok, I chose IT as a profession, but don't hold it against me.
This is a CYA case, done for liability-- not for love of privacy. If they envisioned respect for privacy, they wouldn't have their draconian Terms of Service, which gives them the right to read your mail, watch where you go, and otherwise digest and analyze all facets of your interaction with them.
Make no mistake about apparent altruism. This is their legal department saying: seal up the holes, then twisted by PR to make them look like good guys. Right track? Any organization should have systems security and adherence to privacy regulations at the forefront of their best practices implementation. Why they haven't had such an initiative to this point is mind boggling.
The ostensible forks Cinammon and Mate and other re-works of gnome weren't done for fun and giggles. It's because lots of gnome 2.x users frankly thought that gnome 3 had a touch of hubris and the sort of ugliness that only "visionaries" can bring.
Linus has great points, but before he laid in on the problem, lots of us complained to deaf ears. And we moved on.
Sometimes it is a cartoon. But I don't think that a cartoon format would give the "picture is worth a thousand words" content transfer that correctly formed textual matter would give.
Her premise, "'Illustrated journalism draws you in, Polgreen explains. 'It's accessible in a way 5,000 words of text isn't" is a seeming statement of fact, but certainly doesn't work for all cases. Yes, things like comic books are fun, but a treatise on why nosql dbs have scaling problems isn't going to turned into a cartoon anytime soon. Even infographics are difficult because of the nature of data and language and visuals.
The time saving devices free you up for other pursuits, and make your more productive (ostensibly).
I think what they actually do is make you available for further slavery. A few 8hr+ days is ok. Beyond that sucks your life away. For an entrepreneur that voluntarily gives up freedom for 12-16hr days, fine-- sweat equity. The other works in this equation don't get that equity, and some don't even get overtime pay.
There are indeed creative endeavors that sometime require long stretches, and I acknowledge those-- work while the iron's hot. Life, however, is finite. Corporations and other employers will gladly let you contribute to their wealth. Make sure you're adequately compensated.
Webcams can be cheap, but some people just don't want them for whatever reasons, including completely illogical ones. I've had people send an MMS of a screen shot, when I can't connect using logmein or VNC or RDP or whatever. The screencap idea isn't a bad one, just not easy for ad hoc support. You can't guarantee that one's nearby, but a lot of people with computers have smartphones and can get the screenshot of the error message pretty well. Beats having to spell a long error message screen string, one character at a time, with the dog barking in the background.
Citing the HuffPo and CBS are both rather silly. Yet I concur that Assange would get handed over in a heartbeat. You can't embarrass that much testosterone without backlash. One way or the other, someone's going to try to get Assange into the US. The pressure to do so in a quasi-legal way is enormous, I'm betting. Give the US Assange on a platter, and you get a huge box of get-out-of-trouble-free cards, or the like.
Democracies or no, Assange has embarrassed people in very high places, and knew the heat would be on him. He's my favorite outlaw.
If you were a 1%er, you'd know your facts are wrong as regards bulk sales. But maybe not. Each state does it differently, and the liabilities can be easily stanched... "there's nothing to pay with" holds true whether it's a small org or even more. Still better if there are taxes due by the seller.
They believe, these new editor folks, in buzzwords. They even know that Gartner is bought and paid for. Yet they'll run this drivel, as Gartner has the fat corporate market by the short-hairs. The juiciest of juice, all dripping, following every sparrow fart Gartner utters. It's somewhat revolting. Ok, really revolting.
In actuality, nothing happens because Gartner believes it will, only by coincidence will a prediction come true. Otherwise, we'd be using OS/2, and using our screen-pop phones from Lucent, headed by Carly Fiorina! It's a sad state of affairs, folks.
We know nothing of the terms of the sale until we see the terms of the sale. Bulk sales are like bankruptcies. The laws vary. IANAL, but I've seen bulk assets shed contract liabilities to an empty corporate shell, where a suit against that shell is meaningless.
Duty? We're talking corporations here. That's how liabilities are shed. I don't like the idea either. I'm a 99%er, but I understand the 1% very thoroughly.
Not true at all. You can buy a company's assets and none of their liabilities. It's called a "bulk sale of assets". How this is done varies by state, but it's done all the time. Is it fair? That's another story and a problem for liability holders. It's also one of the problems with corporate law and how it's unevenly applied across jurisdictions.
No, it will. Most slashdotters are male, I'm guessing. Their mothers, sisters, maybe GFs, etc., now face expensive custom gene cures for BC.
And guys that are hoping for prostate cancer breakthroughs will also have come up with more dosh to keep living.
Cancer isn't the only problem. Think of the Monsanto problem. Genes that grow money in the form of drought resistant food stuffs. Genetic material is a program, and the variables are the sequences, and the sequences are numbers, and numbers aren't patentable, they're data in the program of life. Life shouldn't be patentable; it exists in nature. Altering the numbers produces different results. What.A.Surprise.
Journalists have done little to dispel the notion. Bloggers, OTOH, have done much to try to make themselves look like journalists. Often both sides succumb to their own bias, repeat memes as fact, and believe that they're somehow at war with a real or imagined foe. The corporate pressure to ally themselves with other corporate clients also instills a discipline onto the output of journalists, especially freelancers, by purchase of articles that when added together, ally a bias towards the publisher's customers. Truly free and unbiased journalism and research is wickedly difficult to come by these days.
Think for a moment, maybe they're lying about this big time, and the reality is that it's cracked like an egg. It would serve their purposes well to mislead everyone on a "fact" like this.
There is Internet journalism, it is rare today, and some of it can be found on blogs. But the intersection of sets of journalism and blogs produces a small number at best.
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This presumes you want Google in your life at all. They belong in your hosts file under 127.0.0.1 as their terms of service are largely indentured servitude. No Google Apps? Have a better day.
The model of give-up-your privacy for free and seductive half-apps has to go.
It's easier for a lot of coders to just bypass the step of input parsing and validation. That ease, which IMHO amounts to sloppy coding, is a major crux of things like injection problems, downstream coding errors (and far beyond things like simple type mismatch), and eventual corruption.
For every programmer shrugging it off, there's another wondering if someone did the work, and probing everything from packets to simple scriptycrap to break it open for giggles, grins, and profit. They write long tomes of garbage to assault in various automated ways, big rocks to crash through the straw built from sleazy code. To those that believe in quality, carry on.
I think you're paranoid on a good day.
VMware is late to the party, and is getting their clock cleaned by the competition. This why they came to the table: to eat lunch, like the rest of them. VMware's roots are open source, although they charge dearly for their proprietary stuff. Nonetheless, the industry points towards stack-related tool kits that spin up hardware of near-legendary value. You don't think they don't want a piece of that pie? Loads of it's FOSS and loads of it's Ruby, Ajax, and stuff that almost predates them going back to thoughts of Xen and LVMs.
So, no, don't worry. This is about being left behind, not total annihilation an destruction.
For not much money, a pre-processor could check the status of the ROM-based bootstrap, then sniff the MBR and where it points to for integrity, then say, yo: CPU, go ahead. If the first X:Y bytes don't read correctly, throw a code and refuse to start. How much are small GPUs and slow ARMs? Gotta be faster than watching Dells and HPs boot these days (go get coffee, we'll be right back at ya)....
Tribes accept memes, but when they're incredible (root word: cred), the tribe doesn't accept them. There are as many conspiracy theories as opinions, meaning a myriad of them. Some people are pathological liars and try to pass of their theories as fact, or sew enough seemingly truthful things together so as to build a case.
As correlation != causation, facts have to emerge to disprove the meme.
That said, you'd knock me over with a feather if you told me that Lance Armstrong would lose all seven wins, or that Apple could convince a jury of its patents' worthiness and application to the litigation with Samsung. If you then implied that Lance Armstrong was an alien, and was in cahoots with Bob Dole over ED meds, I'd start to wonder, as its when there are two people doing something, it becomes a conspiracy rather than a tuple of data regarding an individual to decide the merits of.
People looked at the moon for thousands of years. Eventually we got there. They look at the stars the same way. The speed of light is currently, in certainty, the limitation to go the stars without generations of generations in a temporary world, seeking them out.
Is FTL possible? People thought that a moon trip was impossible. We still dream.
Making observations based on superficial evidence is usually pretty dicey, but the opinions he ostensibly represents would lead one to believe that there are paranoid delusions being spouted, rather than random disinformation usually attributed to political parties.
In your case, being obviously preposterous is much different than being delusional. While professionals are the ultimate observers, we civilians can make reasonably educated guesses ourselves.
Citation(s), please. Allergies to vaccinations like DPT, measles, and others, are exceedingly rare, and the crux of much disinformation. Even with measles shots, I got all three versions. Didn't affect me much. Ok, I chose IT as a profession, but don't hold it against me.
I'm using Cinammon, too, but my teeth are grinding. KDE is starting to look attractive again, although she's put some weight on.
This is a CYA case, done for liability-- not for love of privacy. If they envisioned respect for privacy, they wouldn't have their draconian Terms of Service, which gives them the right to read your mail, watch where you go, and otherwise digest and analyze all facets of your interaction with them.
Make no mistake about apparent altruism. This is their legal department saying: seal up the holes, then twisted by PR to make them look like good guys. Right track? Any organization should have systems security and adherence to privacy regulations at the forefront of their best practices implementation. Why they haven't had such an initiative to this point is mind boggling.
The ostensible forks Cinammon and Mate and other re-works of gnome weren't done for fun and giggles. It's because lots of gnome 2.x users frankly thought that gnome 3 had a touch of hubris and the sort of ugliness that only "visionaries" can bring.
Linus has great points, but before he laid in on the problem, lots of us complained to deaf ears. And we moved on.
Despite that, AT&T still behaves like the monopoly it once was, despite being Southwestern Bell with Ameritech for lipstick and PacBell for mascara.
There is no warmth in a monopoly. Not much of a pulse, either, because: there is no heart.
Steve Jobs gave them success on a platter.... but they still don't get it.
Sometimes it is a cartoon. But I don't think that a cartoon format would give the "picture is worth a thousand words" content transfer that correctly formed textual matter would give.
Her premise, "'Illustrated journalism draws you in, Polgreen explains. 'It's accessible in a way 5,000 words of text isn't" is a seeming statement of fact, but certainly doesn't work for all cases. Yes, things like comic books are fun, but a treatise on why nosql dbs have scaling problems isn't going to turned into a cartoon anytime soon. Even infographics are difficult because of the nature of data and language and visuals.
The time saving devices free you up for other pursuits, and make your more productive (ostensibly).
I think what they actually do is make you available for further slavery. A few 8hr+ days is ok. Beyond that sucks your life away. For an entrepreneur that voluntarily gives up freedom for 12-16hr days, fine-- sweat equity. The other works in this equation don't get that equity, and some don't even get overtime pay.
There are indeed creative endeavors that sometime require long stretches, and I acknowledge those-- work while the iron's hot. Life, however, is finite. Corporations and other employers will gladly let you contribute to their wealth. Make sure you're adequately compensated.
Webcams can be cheap, but some people just don't want them for whatever reasons, including completely illogical ones. I've had people send an MMS of a screen shot, when I can't connect using logmein or VNC or RDP or whatever. The screencap idea isn't a bad one, just not easy for ad hoc support. You can't guarantee that one's nearby, but a lot of people with computers have smartphones and can get the screenshot of the error message pretty well. Beats having to spell a long error message screen string, one character at a time, with the dog barking in the background.
Citing the HuffPo and CBS are both rather silly. Yet I concur that Assange would get handed over in a heartbeat. You can't embarrass that much testosterone without backlash. One way or the other, someone's going to try to get Assange into the US. The pressure to do so in a quasi-legal way is enormous, I'm betting. Give the US Assange on a platter, and you get a huge box of get-out-of-trouble-free cards, or the like.
Democracies or no, Assange has embarrassed people in very high places, and knew the heat would be on him. He's my favorite outlaw.
If you were a 1%er, you'd know your facts are wrong as regards bulk sales. But maybe not. Each state does it differently, and the liabilities can be easily stanched... "there's nothing to pay with" holds true whether it's a small org or even more. Still better if there are taxes due by the seller.
They believe, these new editor folks, in buzzwords. They even know that Gartner is bought and paid for. Yet they'll run this drivel, as Gartner has the fat corporate market by the short-hairs. The juiciest of juice, all dripping, following every sparrow fart Gartner utters. It's somewhat revolting. Ok, really revolting.
In actuality, nothing happens because Gartner believes it will, only by coincidence will a prediction come true. Otherwise, we'd be using OS/2, and using our screen-pop phones from Lucent, headed by Carly Fiorina! It's a sad state of affairs, folks.
We know nothing of the terms of the sale until we see the terms of the sale. Bulk sales are like bankruptcies. The laws vary. IANAL, but I've seen bulk assets shed contract liabilities to an empty corporate shell, where a suit against that shell is meaningless.
Duty? We're talking corporations here. That's how liabilities are shed. I don't like the idea either. I'm a 99%er, but I understand the 1% very thoroughly.
Not true at all. You can buy a company's assets and none of their liabilities. It's called a "bulk sale of assets". How this is done varies by state, but it's done all the time. Is it fair? That's another story and a problem for liability holders. It's also one of the problems with corporate law and how it's unevenly applied across jurisdictions.
I'm well aware of that, but thank you for bringing it up. The post I replied to drifted the basis for the "emotional patents". I responded to it.
No, it will. Most slashdotters are male, I'm guessing. Their mothers, sisters, maybe GFs, etc., now face expensive custom gene cures for BC.
And guys that are hoping for prostate cancer breakthroughs will also have come up with more dosh to keep living.
Cancer isn't the only problem. Think of the Monsanto problem. Genes that grow money in the form of drought resistant food stuffs. Genetic material is a program, and the variables are the sequences, and the sequences are numbers, and numbers aren't patentable, they're data in the program of life. Life shouldn't be patentable; it exists in nature. Altering the numbers produces different results. What.A.Surprise.
Journalists have done little to dispel the notion. Bloggers, OTOH, have done much to try to make themselves look like journalists. Often both sides succumb to their own bias, repeat memes as fact, and believe that they're somehow at war with a real or imagined foe. The corporate pressure to ally themselves with other corporate clients also instills a discipline onto the output of journalists, especially freelancers, by purchase of articles that when added together, ally a bias towards the publisher's customers. Truly free and unbiased journalism and research is wickedly difficult to come by these days.
Think for a moment, maybe they're lying about this big time, and the reality is that it's cracked like an egg. It would serve their purposes well to mislead everyone on a "fact" like this.
Blogs != journalism.
There is Internet journalism, it is rare today, and some of it can be found on blogs. But the intersection of sets of journalism and blogs produces a small number at best.