Correction: The red, plastic, toy handcuffs day somewhen in Feb 2001, not May/June. And, no, they were not tie-tie restraints. They were they type of toy stuff sold in kids' section of drug stores.
I recently read that some SF Muni buses will have cameras installed on them to video assist in the ticketing of vehicles that are in the bus/commuter street lanes impeding the buses from keeping schedule. ===
I wonder if she arrived to the airport with an outer jacket (say, on public transit or in a taxi), or if she drover herself in. Still, if she wore NO outer jacket, then how and why did it take HER OWN walking AWAY from the ticket agent before she was approached and surrounded?
It's lame if NOBODY in the airport (isn't Logan busy, with THOUSANDS eyeballs?) said anything despite seeing her, until the employee with direct contact of her "art" did the right thing and reported the encounter.
I know first-hand how X-Ray machine operators will lie to you to detain you without arousing your suspicion while airport/local police will approach and surround you, ready to fire at your first wrong move.
In about Dec 1984 (I was barely 19), on return from leave, I decided I was going to take back to my ship (for security alerts) a semi-metallic, mostly concrete-like.45 caliber-pistol-looking thing I'd been playing with since childhood. I stupidly didn't pack it in my check-in, and stuck it in the top of my duffel bag. I'd forgotten (stupidly) that X-RAY machines would pick it up and unnecessarily make a scene. (Hey, don't beat me up TOO badly, here. Experienced law enforcement officers before 9/11 would forget to declare weapons, handcuffs.... etc...)
The machine operator saw the silhouette, held up the conveyor, and after about 30 seconds when I asked if I were going to make my flight (I was arriving too close to departure time) she apologized and said, "There's something wrong with the machine." About 20 seconds after that, I happened to look around and lo and behold more than 13 or 15 HPD (Houston Police Department) or Houston Intercontinental (IIRC, I don't think I was flying out of Hobby that day) were poised, at the ready, (in head-shot firing position) WAITING for me to make a wrong move.
This shit's deadly serious, and that dumb-assed MIT girl is lucky she didn't wear more realistic stuff or get shot from behind if seen any earlier. That she kept her wits and DIDN'T get shot, and that she premeditated this, is an indication she was just as aware as I was that her plan and my forgetfulness/laziness/procrastination at getting to the airport is NOT something to screw around with.
I suppose recounting this fact means that I'll be further scrutinized the next time I book a flight. Of course, my incident was before mass databasing of things. Maybe my active duty military ID & duffel and uniforms and such, non-prior-contacts, etc, and my mom's presence saved my ass that day.
Interestingly tho, in Summer 2001 (read: MAY/JUNE) I was not allowed to take in my hand-carried luggage a pair of red, plastic, toy handcuffs I was taking (along with massage oil, candies, and a teddy bear) to a girl on the East Coast. The gate agents wouldn't even arrange to lock the toy cuffs away DURING flight, despite the fact they were so flimsy as to be symbolic for play in privacy, not securing or taking control of anyone on a plane.
BTW, anyone been thru those re-entry puffer-sniffer scanner machines? I recently was in one. I wonder what kind of (if any) isotopes they're throwing at us.
But, a chart CAN be built. Not a spreadsheet chart, per se, but a view that is maybe hexagonal or octagonal in shape with colors (or for the color-perception-impaired, dotted/dashed/hatched lines) showing the increasing and decreasing danger zones are relative to the permissiveness intended by the license drafter, or show compatible licenses for those wanting boilerplate.
Heck, it could even be build in software, say in some CRM type of tool, where the user picks the language as it suits them, then the software uses an algorithm to display dubiousness, hostility, friendliness, and overlapping/"underlapping" or "conformal" lines of compatibility.
A scoring system could be built where the permissiveness ranks higher in bar and in some pleasing color and hostility ranks lower in bar and in some mean, rage or nausea-inducing color (red?).
Sample licenses and unctuous or uncouth or hostile licenses would be copied, verbatim, and snippets or whole paragraphs presented on screen to help TEACH software developers and license writers HOW TO THINK about not just their own coding or legalese-brandishing prowess, but to THINK about their target audience and community-building abilities.
If people can build "How to patent it yourself" and "Will Kits" in software, then some enterprising GEEK had better get on the ball and keep my idea from being patented by some profiteer who is unlikely to donate profits back to the community.
GOOGLE, are you listening? You wanna write one yourself, or donate money to a team that will do it? Your search engine alone could shortcut a lot of the work just by your inputting known, issued licenses and "agreements", matched with legal case history, pending cases, and settled cases, as well as whatever became cross-licensing deals when big companies clashed with each other, as well as whatever became of little guys run over by roughshod, steamrolling big companies.
Companies such as microsoft automatically can be initially regarded as hostile until their licenses are TRULY permissive. Not permissive in microsoft-speak, but in preponderance of licenses issued by OSI and the reception/perception of such licenses BY the end-users who actually read them and live happily with them, not live with them as a cost of doing businesses and a fear of avoiding courts or jail time.
Touch and Poke, just to name TWO commands, might need renaming? Male/Female hardware connectors, for parts? Now, string along some of the more (to some) humorous commands and other therminology, umm, terminology in the computer world and it definitely will seem QUITE sexist, derogatory, and downright offensive to some.
When I was learning UNIX commands, oh, back around 1997, the instructor lectured, using "John pokes Mary". "Michael touches Mary"... (It got really funny when "John poked Steve" and "Steve touched John2"...
But, I suspect that increasingly there may have to be universal self-policing if there is to be no major industry backlash over renaming some commands. Of course, distributors that are sexism-sensitive may offer alias as the first thing on their errata so users will know the real commands and why the were aliased toward a new "norm"....
I'm not sure, but I don't think L/S/S even has Jave embedded. It's an installable option, IIRC, but I shy from using Java TOO much. I hate crashing (not saying JAVA is itself bad, but some bad programming can be painful to users...), and am tired of having multiple Java versions/libraries having to be installed in *dows.
It wouldn't hurt IBM to:
1. Provide internal or 2-4 trusted collaborating Open Source developer teams a locked-down (no binaries accessible as code to programmers, say, locked on tamper-evident laptops or desktops mailed or delivered to them) SmartSuite and give them 3 weeks to "play with it" as USERS, in a VACUUM. Throw all sorts of projects and docs and database requirement typical of office and home users. A week or two to compare to OO.o and to ms office.
2. Analyze the reports and suggestions about transitioning the S/S code to the year 2007/2007
3. Pick the best TWO teams of however many contacted
4. Sequester them for 3-7 months, salaries in a trust account, with Direct Deposit, as if they are deployed away from home on a mission
5. Analyze the code produced by month 5 or 6, then reorganize the two teams into one if money is an issue, or if egos flare and threaten the project
6. Re-release the code to pre-selected and some other users
7. By month 9 or 12, issue an Alfa release to the wild, and maybe along the way don't let too much Open Source input derail the project.
8. Regression test the stuff and issue a Beta or not-for-production releases...
yada yada yada
Why the HELL couldn't this have been done over the past 3, 5, or 10 years. I dare say some people INSIDE IBM derailed it. I could be wrong. I HOPE I am wrong, but SmartSuite is the gauntlet IBM had but kept stored away. Now, it's coming out (it seems) looking like OO.o, rather than looking like it's OWN identity. Sigh....
Symphony IS nice. I think I still have a copy in storage somewhere. But, most people cannot visualize using it correctly. As I see/understand, Approach and 1-2-3 together do MOST of what Symphony does. If I am correct, then this is a shame that SmartSuite is being deprived of massive industry and market buzz and renewed attention.
That "base" has not a dint of the usability or award-gaining capacity that Lotus Approach did. Approach won SEVERAL awards in its prime. Base is STILL way off base in usability, apparent flexibility. I think the OO.o base devs are fiercely resistant to LOOKING at Lotus Approach. There is absolutely NO excuse for base to be so... OFF. It sucks, at least as of 2.0. Approach, if slipped into OO.o, would wipe the FLOOR with "Base". Of course, Base has a FEW things Approach hasn't got. But, Approach has more than Base has for "getting work DONE".
I was hoping for SmartSuite to be refreshed and released as open source, in tandem with code-sharing with OO. I STILL use SmartSuite, in Win4Lin. I refuse to use xp, 2k, much less vista, at home. I am using Win4Lin 4.x in PCLinuxOS 2006, and it is very stable. I WISH IBM would release SmartSuite code to OO.o. Share it, bring back good stuff to SmartSuite.
OO.o Writer is vastly inferior to WordPro. Base is vastly inferior to Approach. Calc is like 5% too jumbo-ish in appearance as compared to 1-2-3. Merging these would be better since OO.o DOES have some newer, niftier features that S/S has not got. WordPro cannot properly import or open certain ms word documents and 1-2-3 cannot properly open some hexed cell sheets with even just cell BORDER formatting.
IBM, you're being sabotaged internally by those who secretly HATE SmartSuite.
So sad. All these years gone by with SmartSuite getting NOTHING but maintenance packs or the like. SmartSuite has a thoroughly professional interface, and several apps (Approach in particular) had won awards more than once by various computer magazines publishers. What has OO.o got by way of awards. Near-perfect Clone of ms orifice?
Is this case different because Yahoo! is making the software available for USE rather than SELLING it for use? (I use "selling" loosely, since advertising dollars, ads and other stuff on their site attracting users could be used to offset the cost of making the O/S software available....)
Do I understand that as long as Yahoo! does not sell their Open Source based widgets (especially not selling and not attributing) in the software, they are OK? Well, my former employer was actually SELLING the software which was (according the IT manager and some of the coders) BASED on and USING Open Source code. And as far as I know, the were NOT attributing the true source. That is where the legal guy and I got into disagreement, disagreeing over WHOSE software it was.... to whatever degree the company "borrowed" other code.
So, does this mean Yahoo! devs and other employees are under some sort of NDA? One that says' "It's your DUTY as an employee to help up keep this under wraps!"?
Sound like a now-defunct company I once worked for that insisted it's use of Open Source code rewrapped to proprietary was proprietary. I went a few rounds with the company attorney and TOLD him that the Open Source work created by others, by teachers and developers who put THEIR sweat and souls into making and releasing their own material to various free licenses did NOT go toward making OUR company's work proprietary if it was based on Open Source and reselling it without disclosing it.
For bad karma, I suppose, the company was bought and it's IT staff laid off.
Will HE have to get permission from the Chinese government before he can re-spawn or reincarnate?
Even if he's not going to be a Tibetan monk, he could return to China as another non-rural, unauthorized baby to be fed. (Assuming he isn't reincarnated in India, Africa, someplace in the US, or some other hunger-ridden place in this world, etc.... They won't mind if he reincarnates on some OTHER world, as long as there is no nexus/slipstream/wormhole for him to visit and rob food...))
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Correction: The red, plastic, toy handcuffs day somewhen in Feb 2001, not May/June. And, no, they were not tie-tie restraints. They were they type of toy stuff sold in kids' section of drug stores.
(Captcha: intimacy)
Somewhat off-topic
.45 caliber-pistol-looking thing I'd been playing with since childhood. I stupidly didn't pack it in my check-in, and stuck it in the top of my duffel bag. I'd forgotten (stupidly) that X-RAY machines would pick it up and unnecessarily make a scene. (Hey, don't beat me up TOO badly, here. Experienced law enforcement officers before 9/11 would forget to declare weapons, handcuffs.... etc...)
Couldn't find the video link using Google, but I did stumble upon this:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/headmounted_pol.html
I recently read that some SF Muni buses will have cameras installed on them to video assist in the ticketing of vehicles that are in the bus/commuter street lanes impeding the buses from keeping schedule.
===
I wonder if she arrived to the airport with an outer jacket (say, on public transit or in a taxi), or if she drover herself in. Still, if she wore NO outer jacket, then how and why did it take HER OWN walking AWAY from the ticket agent before she was approached and surrounded?
It's lame if NOBODY in the airport (isn't Logan busy, with THOUSANDS eyeballs?) said anything despite seeing her, until the employee with direct contact of her "art" did the right thing and reported the encounter.
I know first-hand how X-Ray machine operators will lie to you to detain you without arousing your suspicion while airport/local police will approach and surround you, ready to fire at your first wrong move.
In about Dec 1984 (I was barely 19), on return from leave, I decided I was going to take back to my ship (for security alerts) a semi-metallic, mostly concrete-like
The machine operator saw the silhouette, held up the conveyor, and after about 30 seconds when I asked if I were going to make my flight (I was arriving too close to departure time) she apologized and said, "There's something wrong with the machine." About 20 seconds after that, I happened to look around and lo and behold more than 13 or 15 HPD (Houston Police Department) or Houston Intercontinental (IIRC, I don't think I was flying out of Hobby that day) were poised, at the ready, (in head-shot firing position) WAITING for me to make a wrong move.
This shit's deadly serious, and that dumb-assed MIT girl is lucky she didn't wear more realistic stuff or get shot from behind if seen any earlier. That she kept her wits and DIDN'T get shot, and that she premeditated this, is an indication she was just as aware as I was that her plan and my forgetfulness/laziness/procrastination at getting to the airport is NOT something to screw around with.
I suppose recounting this fact means that I'll be further scrutinized the next time I book a flight. Of course, my incident was before mass databasing of things. Maybe my active duty military ID & duffel and uniforms and such, non-prior-contacts, etc, and my mom's presence saved my ass that day.
Interestingly tho, in Summer 2001 (read: MAY/JUNE) I was not allowed to take in my hand-carried luggage a pair of red, plastic, toy handcuffs I was taking (along with massage oil, candies, and a teddy bear) to a girl on the East Coast. The gate agents wouldn't even arrange to lock the toy cuffs away DURING flight, despite the fact they were so flimsy as to be symbolic for play in privacy, not securing or taking control of anyone on a plane.
BTW, anyone been thru those re-entry puffer-sniffer scanner machines? I recently was in one. I wonder what kind of (if any) isotopes they're throwing at us.
Yeh. I stand corrected. Yep, finger, that's the command. My memory failed me. touch and finger were the once, not poke, spoken in that lecture...
But, a chart CAN be built. Not a spreadsheet chart, per se, but a view that is maybe hexagonal or octagonal in shape with colors (or for the color-perception-impaired, dotted/dashed/hatched lines) showing the increasing and decreasing danger zones are relative to the permissiveness intended by the license drafter, or show compatible licenses for those wanting boilerplate.
Heck, it could even be build in software, say in some CRM type of tool, where the user picks the language as it suits them, then the software uses an algorithm to display dubiousness, hostility, friendliness, and overlapping/"underlapping" or "conformal" lines of compatibility.
A scoring system could be built where the permissiveness ranks higher in bar and in some pleasing color and hostility ranks lower in bar and in some mean, rage or nausea-inducing color (red?).
Sample licenses and unctuous or uncouth or hostile licenses would be copied, verbatim, and snippets or whole paragraphs presented on screen to help TEACH software developers and license writers HOW TO THINK about not just their own coding or legalese-brandishing prowess, but to THINK about their target audience and community-building abilities.
If people can build "How to patent it yourself" and "Will Kits" in software, then some enterprising GEEK had better get on the ball and keep my idea from being patented by some profiteer who is unlikely to donate profits back to the community.
GOOGLE, are you listening? You wanna write one yourself, or donate money to a team that will do it? Your search engine alone could shortcut a lot of the work just by your inputting known, issued licenses and "agreements", matched with legal case history, pending cases, and settled cases, as well as whatever became cross-licensing deals when big companies clashed with each other, as well as whatever became of little guys run over by roughshod, steamrolling big companies.
Companies such as microsoft automatically can be initially regarded as hostile until their licenses are TRULY permissive. Not permissive in microsoft-speak, but in preponderance of licenses issued by OSI and the reception/perception of such licenses BY the end-users who actually read them and live happily with them, not live with them as a cost of doing businesses and a fear of avoiding courts or jail time.
Touch and Poke, just to name TWO commands, might need renaming? Male/Female hardware connectors, for parts? Now, string along some of the more (to some) humorous commands and other therminology, umm, terminology in the computer world and it definitely will seem QUITE sexist, derogatory, and downright offensive to some.
When I was learning UNIX commands, oh, back around 1997, the instructor lectured, using "John pokes Mary". "Michael touches Mary"... (It got really funny when "John poked Steve" and "Steve touched John2"...
But, I suspect that increasingly there may have to be universal self-policing if there is to be no major industry backlash over renaming some commands. Of course, distributors that are sexism-sensitive may offer alias as the first thing on their errata so users will know the real commands and why the were aliased toward a new "norm"....
Ass-immo-lated...
For a sec, I thought I saw "Ru Paul"....
Watch the let us and the to-yu-fu.. You don't wanna get open sores...
ass-emo-lated...
(captcha: airbag)
piss-poor detector...
(captcha: enrage)
I'm not sure, but I don't think L/S/S even has Jave embedded. It's an installable option, IIRC, but I shy from using Java TOO much. I hate crashing (not saying JAVA is itself bad, but some bad programming can be painful to users...), and am tired of having multiple Java versions/libraries having to be installed in *dows.
It wouldn't hurt IBM to:
1. Provide internal or 2-4 trusted collaborating Open Source developer teams a locked-down (no binaries accessible as code to programmers, say, locked on tamper-evident laptops or desktops mailed or delivered to them) SmartSuite and give them 3 weeks to "play with it" as USERS, in a VACUUM. Throw all sorts of projects and docs and database requirement typical of office and home users. A week or two to compare to OO.o and to ms office.
2. Analyze the reports and suggestions about transitioning the S/S code to the year 2007/2007
3. Pick the best TWO teams of however many contacted
4. Sequester them for 3-7 months, salaries in a trust account, with Direct Deposit, as if they are deployed away from home on a mission
5. Analyze the code produced by month 5 or 6, then reorganize the two teams into one if money is an issue, or if egos flare and threaten the project
6. Re-release the code to pre-selected and some other users
7. By month 9 or 12, issue an Alfa release to the wild, and maybe along the way don't let too much Open Source input derail the project.
8. Regression test the stuff and issue a Beta or not-for-production releases...
yada yada yada
Why the HELL couldn't this have been done over the past 3, 5, or 10 years. I dare say some people INSIDE IBM derailed it. I could be wrong. I HOPE I am wrong, but SmartSuite is the gauntlet IBM had but kept stored away. Now, it's coming out (it seems) looking like OO.o, rather than looking like it's OWN identity. Sigh....
Symphony IS nice. I think I still have a copy in storage somewhere. But, most people cannot visualize using it correctly. As I see/understand, Approach and 1-2-3 together do MOST of what Symphony does. If I am correct, then this is a shame that SmartSuite is being deprived of massive industry and market buzz and renewed attention.
IBM is SQUANDERING good code, it appears.
That "base" has not a dint of the usability or award-gaining capacity that Lotus Approach did. Approach won SEVERAL awards in its prime. Base is STILL way off base in usability, apparent flexibility. I think the OO.o base devs are fiercely resistant to LOOKING at Lotus Approach. There is absolutely NO excuse for base to be so... OFF. It sucks, at least as of 2.0. Approach, if slipped into OO.o, would wipe the FLOOR with "Base". Of course, Base has a FEW things Approach hasn't got. But, Approach has more than Base has for "getting work DONE".
This is why IBM should find a way to resurrect and rejuvenate Lotus SmartSuite, particularly Lotus WordPro, Lotus Approach, and Lotus 1-2-3.
This is just pitiful.
I was hoping for SmartSuite to be refreshed and released as open source, in tandem with code-sharing with OO. I STILL use SmartSuite, in Win4Lin. I refuse to use xp, 2k, much less vista, at home. I am using Win4Lin 4.x in PCLinuxOS 2006, and it is very stable. I WISH IBM would release SmartSuite code to OO.o. Share it, bring back good stuff to SmartSuite.
OO.o Writer is vastly inferior to WordPro. Base is vastly inferior to Approach. Calc is like 5% too jumbo-ish in appearance as compared to 1-2-3. Merging these would be better since OO.o DOES have some newer, niftier features that S/S has not got. WordPro cannot properly import or open certain ms word documents and 1-2-3 cannot properly open some hexed cell sheets with even just cell BORDER formatting.
IBM, you're being sabotaged internally by those who secretly HATE SmartSuite.
So sad. All these years gone by with SmartSuite getting NOTHING but maintenance packs or the like. SmartSuite has a thoroughly professional interface, and several apps (Approach in particular) had won awards more than once by various computer magazines publishers. What has OO.o got by way of awards. Near-perfect Clone of ms orifice?
AND....
They forgot to hire Chuck Norris as their multi-role driver/defender/bodyguard/etc....
Is this case different because Yahoo! is making the software available for USE rather than SELLING it for use? (I use "selling" loosely, since advertising dollars, ads and other stuff on their site attracting users could be used to offset the cost of making the O/S software available....)
Do I understand that as long as Yahoo! does not sell their Open Source based widgets (especially not selling and not attributing) in the software, they are OK? Well, my former employer was actually SELLING the software which was (according the IT manager and some of the coders) BASED on and USING Open Source code. And as far as I know, the were NOT attributing the true source. That is where the legal guy and I got into disagreement, disagreeing over WHOSE software it was.... to whatever degree the company "borrowed" other code.
So, does this mean Yahoo! devs and other employees are under some sort of NDA? One that says' "It's your DUTY as an employee to help up keep this under wraps!"?
Sound like a now-defunct company I once worked for that insisted it's use of Open Source code rewrapped to proprietary was proprietary. I went a few rounds with the company attorney and TOLD him that the Open Source work created by others, by teachers and developers who put THEIR sweat and souls into making and releasing their own material to various free licenses did NOT go toward making OUR company's work proprietary if it was based on Open Source and reselling it without disclosing it.
For bad karma, I suppose, the company was bought and it's IT staff laid off.
Will HE have to get permission from the Chinese government before he can re-spawn or reincarnate?
Even if he's not going to be a Tibetan monk, he could return to China as another non-rural, unauthorized baby to be fed. (Assuming he isn't reincarnated in India, Africa, someplace in the US, or some other hunger-ridden place in this world, etc.... They won't mind if he reincarnates on some OTHER world, as long as there is no nexus/slipstream/wormhole for him to visit and rob food...))
I know. That's why I inserted the "wax" part... PCC waxing GCC all over the floor insinuation. Ruined my own joke/pun...
(hehe, Captcha: "rephrase")
Egg-ze-lent... In-teresting...
I suggest this edit to:
"It is creepy to a lot of people, but he leads a normal life as a high-end carpenter, husband, and father."
to read:
"It is creepy to a lot of people, but he leads a normal life as a husband, and father, high-end carpenter."
Or, is he a high-end father, high-end husband, AND a high-end carpenter...
(Sorry, I'm just poking fun at rules of English...series, etc..."
Captcha: "particle"
Ass-imi-lated...
Re-sistance... was fyu-tyle....
Johnson family of products. We will WAX GCC...
(Sorry, Johnson & Johnson popped into my mind as soon as I read that...hehehe). Too much Saturday AM TV in the 70's and 80's for me, I guess....
This is not QUITE unpossible. The burglar IS bankrupt. Morally bankrupt, that is...