I'm wondering if you live up here in Washington State, near me, where DSH is in full force on the Olympic Peninsula - many miles from any boarder crossing - setting up road-blocks where citizen or not, you better show them your "papers" unless you want to be inconvenienced for a few hours... They say they are there to protect us from "terrorists" but in fact they spend most of their time harassing US citizens and rounding up undocumented (illegal) farm workers. It's the roadblocks and the demand to see my papers that tick me off...
OK, hereâ(TM)s the deal: In 1985, I was 15, *HOT* and had *RAGING* male hormones. Iâ(TM)d had enough of Bum Fuck Arkansas and decided it was time to empty my dadâ(TM)s secret hooker bank account and hop the first Greyhound to NYC. After a few weeks of hanging out on the street making a few bucks sucking the random cock, one day a stretch limo pulled up. I expected some crusty old rich fag to roll the window down and pick me up for a little cock sucking. These rich old fags just fucking LOVE to suck off hot young studs, which is what I was. But guess what? It wasnâ(TM)t some old queen. Well, actually it *WAS* some old queen, it was LEONA HELMSLEY ! The old bitch needed her dried-up snatch stretched out, and I was the lucky guy. I hopped in and the driver spent the next hour or so cruising Manhattan. What blew me away was that this cunt must have been older than dirt, but man she *KNEW THINGS*. So anyway, about an hour later, my Big Ten Inch was raw, and I was $1000 richer. I gave the bitch my pager (no cells in those days, ya know) and once a week would hop in LEONA *FUCKING* HELMSLEYâ(TM)S stretch limo, and pound her twat into shape. Then, about 6 months after it all started (and about 25 grand later), she stopped calling. I figure she found another 15 year old hottie to do the pussy stretchingâ¦
The problem with the Oxford English Dictionary is that it has become the "Guinness World Records" of dictionaries - adding all sorts of dumb-assed "words" for no other reason than to make the headlines and be "hip", with one single goal - get press to sell whatever it is they sell.
I'm guessing that they have some "on-line" product, as not too many people are buying huge multi-volume book series these days.
But rest assured, adding all this trendy "1337" crap and other new words that the young folks are spewing (get the fuck off my lawn) is being done *not* because these words have passed the test of time and are now semi-permanent in our lingual consciousness, but rather a desperate attempt of these "dictionaries" to stay relevant and thus stay profitable.
The single main reason that âoesocial networksâ push the real names issue is quality of their database for the use of marketers that buy services from the social networks. That, and the Three Letter Agencies make extensive use of social network data mining. But itâ(TM)s mostly the marketers, the more they know about *you* the more they can sell *you*. "Social networks" do this to improve the quality of their product (you).
Well, automated in what respect? Many organizations have features at their Web sites to allow members to send canned messages with thieir names, and many organizations have opt-in probrams where they send stuff to politicians in their member's names.
As long as the member explicitly approved the use of their name on the offending email, it should be permitted as a matter of free speech.
The "problem" is that hacking and disrupting services is governed by the same laws, without much distinction. And it is disrupting services if the sender knew about or had reason to know about the limitation of the recipient.
If I size my business related "inbox" to hold no more than 20 emails, should I then be able to have anyone who fills it up arrested and charged?
Of course not.
Public facing email "inboxes" should necessarily be very large. As well there are all sorts of filtering technologies for routing incoming email based on content, subject line, sender, just about anything.
There is no excuse for "email box full" for a business of any real size above mom-and-pop.
What this company really needed to do was learn to manage their email.
But it's clear they lodged legal charges as retaliation against the union.
Linux does not have a shot at the desktop and never will. That is some/. nerd fantasy.
Not necessarily. Android on the âoetablet topâ begins to crack that door open. Certainly Linux may never crack Windowâ(TM)s hold, but with greater interest in Linux based *consumer* front ends â" on tablets right now â" the possibility of expansion to low end and high end systems a la various Apple products is a greater possibility.
I do think, however, that Linux will never have the middle ground.
Its newer initiatives have often struggled to reach profitability.
I know lots of people here like to parrot the nonsense that profit profit profit now now now is legally and ethically the sole objective of publicly traded corporations, but that's simply hogwash.
And in Google's case, it isn't.
There is no particular reason any particular "product" needs to be financially profitable for Google now now now in the way that these parrots are thinking. It's really better to think of many (most?) of Google's "products" as research projects, and remember that in many cases those "failed products" end up as parts or foundations for future products.
It is exactly this profit profit profit now now now bullshit that is stifling innovation in the world today and in the US in particular.
Indeed you are correct, but this is Slashdot. Spare nothing, even invalid assumptions - as long as it allows us to skewer Microsoft?
From the "story":
Imagine for a moment that Microsoft hadn't forced us all to use.NET and instead VB 7 had been just an evolutionary upgrade. Presumably we would have settled on VB 7 for the "easy" applications and C++ for the more "demanding" applications.
.NET was never meant to replace VB. That would be C#.
I like the low end of the brands that actually care about quality. SVSound, Axiom, Ascend, etc - they all make great speakers in the 200-300 USD/pair range. Tack on a barebones 150-300 USD receiver and you can have a decent setup for under 400 dollars.
Yes, with your proposed system, you get shitty audio ("...tack on a barebones 150-300 USD receiver...") accurately assaulting your ears through reasonably priced decent speakers?
However, FORTRAN is a bit of a niche skill in this day and age.
I disagree. I think you miss the point: FORTRAN was and *IS* widely used for the tasks that it excels at. Other languages are *NOT* widely used for the tasks that FORTRAN excels at.
"In this day and age"?
This leads me to believe that you really don't know what type of things FORTRAN (and perhaps other "niche" languages) are used for, and why it makes sense to use them. As well, you seem to be under the impression that development on the language itself stopped years ago. In fact, work on new versions of FORTRAN has never stopped, continues to this day, and is not carried out by dirty hippies in their mom's basement someplace.
FORTRAN is not a Web scripting language, perhaps that's why you are having trouble wrapping your mind around it...
I'm working on commercializing NASA software and this couldn't be more true. When talking to the inventor they inevitably say "Oh yea the software is done, anyone can write code for this, should be easy to sell." even if it's coded in Fortran,, has no Gui or documentation of any sort. It definitely is functional but hardly has any of the features consumers demand.
You know, php / ruby / scripting-language-du-jur might solve many "Web 2.0" problems (Jquery, MooTools, and all the other JS libraries are seriously cool stuff), but there is a reason there is "still" a lot of scientific coding being done with Fortran (which continues to be developed like most modern programming languages), and other "niche" languages. This is not the forum to educate you on that little but notable fact...
But really, I can't quite decide if your post is a troll or not, with lines like "even if it's coded in Fortran" and "has no Gui" and "hardly has any of the features consumers demand"...
I mean, is NASA really writing software that might readily apeal to "consumer demand"?
I'm leaning in the direction that your AC post is a troll, so I'll give you a few points for being able to get me to respond, but I have to subtract points for the lameness and general poor lay-up.
You show potential for developing a good troll shtick / persona but you've got a long way to go. 2 out of 10. Work on it.
I've got a friend whose business is stuffing the iPad full of flight documentation and manuals and it's for defence. Sorry, don't make stuff up.
You, sir, may have a "friend", but he is *not* stuffing iPads with whatever for Air Force flight crews, at least not for official use. For the USAF, it is *not* an approved device. In fact, there are *no* Apple devices that are approved to be connected to to our network (at least NIPR or SIPRNET), so it would not be possible to update the device - flight pubs, nav databases, and Jeppesen products are updated quite often, almost monthly. Not to mention the aircraft TOs and FCIFs. Currently, the only portable computers we use for pubs are Panasonic ToughBooks.
You "friend" may have a job stuffing something, but it's *not* iPads for the Air Force.
apple probably doesn't want anything to do with the GSA or any government business
Why? What would it be about selling several dozen 1000 of these things and the support contract that would go with them to the DoD that Apple wouldn't like?
But, the iPad is a consumer product that answers consumer needs, not general computing needs. The DoD (and I suspect most "enterprise") will not be using their tablets primarily for social interaction and watching multimedia, viewing photo albums, playing games and such - consumer wants and needs, not "enterprise" wants and needs.
For us it has a lot to do with custom applications and the available development languages. The iPad is a very nice product, but as a platform is tightly controlled by Apple (as is their right, it's their product).
We in the Air Mobility Command â" think cargo jets â" have been looking at tablets for flight pubs and Jeppesen products. The iPad is without question out for various reasons. The two we have been looking at are the HP TouchPad, and the RIM product. The HP product has received better feedback, but because the RIM product already has the NIST approval (and the fact that the government is already in love with RIM), it is probably the direction we will go. Keep in mind that, of course, the air crew will still have to haul around the paper products, they just will not use them. Also, most of our guys already pack personal iPads, but they cannot be officially used for anything involving the actual operation of the aircraft.
I'm sure the DoD will buy them buy the many 1000's.
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I'm wondering if you live up here in Washington State, near me, where DSH is in full force on the Olympic Peninsula - many miles from any boarder crossing - setting up road-blocks where citizen or not, you better show them your "papers" unless you want to be inconvenienced for a few hours... They say they are there to protect us from "terrorists" but in fact they spend most of their time harassing US citizens and rounding up undocumented (illegal) farm workers. It's the roadblocks and the demand to see my papers that tick me off...
OK, hereâ(TM)s the deal: In 1985, I was 15, *HOT* and had *RAGING* male hormones. Iâ(TM)d had enough of Bum Fuck Arkansas and decided it was time to empty my dadâ(TM)s secret hooker bank account and hop the first Greyhound to NYC. After a few weeks of hanging out on the street making a few bucks sucking the random cock, one day a stretch limo pulled up. I expected some crusty old rich fag to roll the window down and pick me up for a little cock sucking. These rich old fags just fucking LOVE to suck off hot young studs, which is what I was. But guess what? It wasnâ(TM)t some old queen. Well, actually it *WAS* some old queen, it was LEONA HELMSLEY ! The old bitch needed her dried-up snatch stretched out, and I was the lucky guy. I hopped in and the driver spent the next hour or so cruising Manhattan. What blew me away was that this cunt must have been older than dirt, but man she *KNEW THINGS*. So anyway, about an hour later, my Big Ten Inch was raw, and I was $1000 richer. I gave the bitch my pager (no cells in those days, ya know) and once a week would hop in LEONA *FUCKING* HELMSLEYâ(TM)S stretch limo, and pound her twat into shape. Then, about 6 months after it all started (and about 25 grand later), she stopped calling. I figure she found another 15 year old hottie to do the pussy stretchingâ¦
The problem with the Oxford English Dictionary is that it has become the "Guinness World Records" of dictionaries - adding all sorts of dumb-assed "words" for no other reason than to make the headlines and be "hip", with one single goal - get press to sell whatever it is they sell.
I'm guessing that they have some "on-line" product, as not too many people are buying huge multi-volume book series these days.
But rest assured, adding all this trendy "1337" crap and other new words that the young folks are spewing (get the fuck off my lawn) is being done *not* because these words have passed the test of time and are now semi-permanent in our lingual consciousness, but rather a desperate attempt of these "dictionaries" to stay relevant and thus stay profitable.
Oh yes, that's what Blade Runner needs - a HUGE cg budget and an even thinner plot. Did I mention a HUGE cg budget?
Throwing a HUGE cg budget is Hollywood's answer to everything.
The image at FB matches the image in an on-line story. As well, they are both from the same city.
This idiot cop's name is Jeffrey Asher, and his Facebook page is here:
http://www.facebook.com/jeffyjewjagoff - NO KIDDING!
Such an appropriate "screen name"...
That would never have happened if he could only find me by searching for D4rkL0rd.
Don't you mean "D0rkL0rd"?
... as many of my friends use "Shotglass Susie" and stuff like that...
Screen Name is different than Real Name at FB. And, from the FB ToS:
Facebook requires users to provide their real first and last names [....] Fake names are not permitted.
So, FB may get around to "Shotglass Susie" eventually, and send her and her shotglass packing.
The single main reason that âoesocial networksâ push the real names issue is quality of their database for the use of marketers that buy services from the social networks. That, and the Three Letter Agencies make extensive use of social network data mining. But itâ(TM)s mostly the marketers, the more they know about *you* the more they can sell *you*. "Social networks" do this to improve the quality of their product (you).
somehow I think they were automated though...
Well, automated in what respect? Many organizations have features at their Web sites to allow members to send canned messages with thieir names, and many organizations have opt-in probrams where they send stuff to politicians in their member's names.
As long as the member explicitly approved the use of their name on the offending email, it should be permitted as a matter of free speech.
The "problem" is that hacking and disrupting services is governed by the same laws, without much distinction. And it is disrupting services if the sender knew about or had reason to know about the limitation of the recipient.
If I size my business related "inbox" to hold no more than 20 emails, should I then be able to have anyone who fills it up arrested and charged?
Of course not.
Public facing email "inboxes" should necessarily be very large. As well there are all sorts of filtering technologies for routing incoming email based on content, subject line, sender, just about anything.
There is no excuse for "email box full" for a business of any real size above mom-and-pop.
What this company really needed to do was learn to manage their email.
But it's clear they lodged legal charges as retaliation against the union.
Linux does not have a shot at the desktop and never will. That is some /. nerd fantasy.
Not necessarily. Android on the âoetablet topâ begins to crack that door open. Certainly Linux may never crack Windowâ(TM)s hold, but with greater interest in Linux based *consumer* front ends â" on tablets right now â" the possibility of expansion to low end and high end systems a la various Apple products is a greater possibility.
I do think, however, that Linux will never have the middle ground.
"Disaffected urban youth" in England are toting around Blackberries? Thatâ(TM)s not very hip and edgy.
Its newer initiatives have often struggled to reach profitability.
I know lots of people here like to parrot the nonsense that profit profit profit now now now is legally and ethically the sole objective of publicly traded corporations, but that's simply hogwash.
And in Google's case, it isn't.
There is no particular reason any particular "product" needs to be financially profitable for Google now now now in the way that these parrots are thinking. It's really better to think of many (most?) of Google's "products" as research projects, and remember that in many cases those "failed products" end up as parts or foundations for future products.
It is exactly this profit profit profit now now now bullshit that is stifling innovation in the world today and in the US in particular.
...from the same people who sell security products.
McAfee sells security products?
Indeed you are correct, but this is Slashdot. Spare nothing, even invalid assumptions - as long as it allows us to skewer Microsoft?
From the "story":
Imagine for a moment that Microsoft hadn't forced us all to use .NET and instead VB 7 had been just an evolutionary upgrade. Presumably we would have settled on VB 7 for the "easy" applications and C++ for the more "demanding" applications.
.NET was never meant to replace VB. That would be C#.
I like the low end of the brands that actually care about quality. SVSound, Axiom, Ascend, etc - they all make great speakers in the 200-300 USD/pair range. Tack on a barebones 150-300 USD receiver and you can have a decent setup for under 400 dollars.
Yes, with your proposed system, you get shitty audio ("...tack on a barebones 150-300 USD receiver...") accurately assaulting your ears through reasonably priced decent speakers?
Good grief, one wonders what exactly Slashdot "editors" are paid to do? Certainly it can not be "editing" the summaries...
However, FORTRAN is a bit of a niche skill in this day and age.
I disagree. I think you miss the point: FORTRAN was and *IS* widely used for the tasks that it excels at. Other languages are *NOT* widely used for the tasks that FORTRAN excels at.
"In this day and age"?
This leads me to believe that you really don't know what type of things FORTRAN (and perhaps other "niche" languages) are used for, and why it makes sense to use them. As well, you seem to be under the impression that development on the language itself stopped years ago. In fact, work on new versions of FORTRAN has never stopped, continues to this day, and is not carried out by dirty hippies in their mom's basement someplace.
FORTRAN is not a Web scripting language, perhaps that's why you are having trouble wrapping your mind around it...
I'm working on commercializing NASA software and this couldn't be more true. When talking to the inventor they inevitably say "Oh yea the software is done, anyone can write code for this, should be easy to sell." even if it's coded in Fortran,, has no Gui or documentation of any sort. It definitely is functional but hardly has any of the features consumers demand.
You know, php / ruby / scripting-language-du-jur might solve many "Web 2.0" problems (Jquery, MooTools, and all the other JS libraries are seriously cool stuff), but there is a reason there is "still" a lot of scientific coding being done with Fortran (which continues to be developed like most modern programming languages), and other "niche" languages. This is not the forum to educate you on that little but notable fact...
But really, I can't quite decide if your post is a troll or not, with lines like "even if it's coded in Fortran" and "has no Gui" and "hardly has any of the features consumers demand"...
I mean, is NASA really writing software that might readily apeal to "consumer demand"?
I'm leaning in the direction that your AC post is a troll, so I'll give you a few points for being able to get me to respond, but I have to subtract points for the lameness and general poor lay-up.
You show potential for developing a good troll shtick / persona but you've got a long way to go. 2 out of 10. Work on it.
I've got a friend whose business is stuffing the iPad full of flight documentation and manuals and it's for defence. Sorry, don't make stuff up.
You, sir, may have a "friend", but he is *not* stuffing iPads with whatever for Air Force flight crews, at least not for official use. For the USAF, it is *not* an approved device. In fact, there are *no* Apple devices that are approved to be connected to to our network (at least NIPR or SIPRNET), so it would not be possible to update the device - flight pubs, nav databases, and Jeppesen products are updated quite often, almost monthly. Not to mention the aircraft TOs and FCIFs. Currently, the only portable computers we use for pubs are Panasonic ToughBooks.
You "friend" may have a job stuffing something, but it's *not* iPads for the Air Force.
apple probably doesn't want anything to do with the GSA or any government business
Why? What would it be about selling several dozen 1000 of these things and the support contract that would go with them to the DoD that Apple wouldn't like?
But, the iPad is a consumer product that answers consumer needs, not general computing needs. The DoD (and I suspect most "enterprise") will not be using their tablets primarily for social interaction and watching multimedia, viewing photo albums, playing games and such - consumer wants and needs, not "enterprise" wants and needs.
For us it has a lot to do with custom applications and the available development languages. The iPad is a very nice product, but as a platform is tightly controlled by Apple (as is their right, it's their product).
We in the Air Mobility Command â" think cargo jets â" have been looking at tablets for flight pubs and Jeppesen products. The iPad is without question out for various reasons. The two we have been looking at are the HP TouchPad, and the RIM product. The HP product has received better feedback, but because the RIM product already has the NIST approval (and the fact that the government is already in love with RIM), it is probably the direction we will go. Keep in mind that, of course, the air crew will still have to haul around the paper products, they just will not use them. Also, most of our guys already pack personal iPads, but they cannot be officially used for anything involving the actual operation of the aircraft.
I'm sure the DoD will buy them buy the many 1000's.
BOYCOTT Cisco
You know, there are other reasons as well, and not just an overpriced product.
The one that comes to my mind first is the prevalence of Cisco hardware in many of the world's most oppressive regimes "great firewalls".
Of course there are many whores in the high-tech world, not just Cisco...