We have space issues too, and storing unimportant email seems stupid. Do I really need to know about the organization-wide ice cream social two months ago? There's been some comparison to paper mail, and a lot of that gets dumped in the recycle bin too.
It seems like just specifying software products takes a lot of work. Part of my job as a developer is helping the stakeholders decide exactly what it is they want and pointing out risks. For example, they'll say, "I want it to work like this," and I'll respond, "Well, we can do this, but the consequence would be..., and some alternatives are...." How would this kind of thing fit into a factory model?
Thanks, but I meant something to discourage them from artificially running the stock up and then dumping it before it started to fall. I'm not sure if the prospect of paying capital gains taxes would be enough.
Actually, it seems quite possible that open source might help the job market. Back during "The Bubble," it was amazing how much money companies were willing to spend for marginal results. Now budgets are lower and expectations are higher. Open source can help programmers do more with less, which they may need to do to survive.
Practices like Enron's do get rewarded for a while. The problem is the house of cards tends to collapse, especially during economic downturns. I'd like to see the executive stock options have some kind of clause that forces the buyers to hold onto the stock for a long time (as in 5-10 years). That might discourage executives from finding ways to artificially drive the price up and then leaving the company and dumping the stock before it goes down.
Well, I really do try to RTFA before posting, just to avoid doing the "keyboard covered with spit" thing. The problem here was that there really was some appearance initially that the people harassing Katie Jones represented Katie Tarbox. The additional information makes it look more like the lawyer that threatened Katie Jones was just an assclown.
Since the thread was about Amazon censorship, I was talking about what I'd seen of a book, which did not happen to be "Katie.com." In fact, the book I was referring to currently has 150 reviews. Sorry if my post overtaxed your reading comprehension.
Now I'm starting to feel a little bad. It was confusing because Katie Tarbox herself probably wasn't harassing Katie Jones, but people who appeared to be representing Tarbox were.
Just to follow up with details, in case anyone's interested. There's a book called "Pledged" by Alexandra Robbins that purports to be an inside view of sorority life. It follows the lives of four sorority women in unnamed sororities at unnamed schools. Although there is a need to protect the subjects, this arrangement also gives Robbins a lot of opportunity for fabrication. There were some things in the book that seemed really dubious. For example, Robbins referred to interviewing "Laney," an Alpha Sig in Nevada. A reviewer on Amazon pointed out that there weren't any Alpha Sig chapters anywhere in Nevada. Amazon apparently removed the review.
Robbins also included a claim by a former Chi Omega that her sisters had drugged her and arranged for her to be raped, since they were apparently tired of hearing her talk about being a virgin and wanted to "convert her to their ways." Problem was... there were a lot of improbable things in the woman's story, and a grand jury didn't buy it either. (The woman's site http://www.chiomegasecrets.com was taken down, but you can see a copy of it courtesy of The Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/. Note the numerous "conspiracy" accusations.) When reviews pointed out that her account might not be true, Amazon deleted their comments too.
Amazon does censor reviews - I've seen mine and others removed. In this case, the reviewers involved seemed to have read the book. It was about a "nonfiction" book and the reviews in question pointed out that one of the accounts mentioned in the book may not have been factually accurate. Amazon censored at least one and removed the others
That's really interesting. There were a number of reviews that suggested that something in a book might not be factually accurate, and Amazon made all those reviews disappear. It was sort of Orwellian and made me have less confidence in Amazon.
On a side note, there was an interesting story about online freedom of speech and message boards. A women published a bunch of sensitive information (and wild accusations about women drugging her and causing her to be raped) about her former sorority, and made a point of publicizing it on other message boards. She didn't stop there, though. She unsuccessfully sued the sorority, which may have countersued. The upshot is that the website in question was taken down, and she may have been forced to apologize in court. The woman and her mother have apparently been aggressive about getting stuff removed from websites that disagrees with their story. Although their site is no longer up, you can see it via the Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/. Just type in "http://www.chiomegasecrets.com"
I wonder whether there are other Bluetooth devices that could be attacked this way. For example, it seems theoretically possible to also listen in on data transfers - say between PDAs or cameras and laptops.
During the current budget crunch, the UIUC librares had to drop subscriptions to some journals that they'd carried for years because the prices were getting so high.
I was in the eighth grade, and for the first time I was really obsessed with my appearance, my status, with fitting in. This is understandable, if you consider that I was growing up in America, and in New Canaan, Connecticut. New Canaan is the richest town in the richest state in the country. The moms all drive Suburbans and the dads all take the train to the city. And by the time they are ten years old, the kids in New Canaan know that the highest-grade BMW is not as nice as the best Mercedes. They know that you should never be seen cutting your own lawn, and that embossed stationery is far superior to lithographed.
I wonder if there's any possibility that some information was "leaked" just to manipulate the stock price. It'd be awfully convenient to acquire it for a lower price and then be able to sell it for a profit after the information reached the press.
Instead, they suggest that the domain name should be given to them as a "donation." I generally donate money to causes that are essentially "poor." I don't see any poor people on Kate T.'s side of the fence.
Did anyone here read the book? One thing that jumped out at me was the way she talked about living in a very wealthy area (New Canaan, CT). For example, her swim team didn't have to do fundraisers because they were just given the money for travel, etc. Now there's a domain name she happens to want, and she seems to expect that it should also just be given to her. It does seem like Katie T. has a strong sense of entitlement.
Some of my friends had hiptops and I seriously considered getting one. They seemed really cool, and the ability to ssh and irc from almost anywhere would be nice. Amazon seemed to have some good deals, though you were required to sign up for a T-Mobile service plan. And this was the kicker. The plans apparently start at $30/month and go up if you want voice calls too. Since there are a number of free wireless hotspots in our community, I decided to get a Zaurus with a wireless card. It comes with a Linux shell, and there's some good free software for it, including an SSH client. The downside is that I have to be near an wireless access point to use it, but those aren't too hard to find. However, it's nice to not have monthly T-Mobile bills.
Did you see Fahrenheit 9/11? There was one scene where Michael Moore was interviewing a congressman about how the Patriot Act had passed. The congressman pointed out that most lawmakers don't actually read bills before passing them. Do you think the voters read them either?
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We have space issues too, and storing unimportant email seems stupid. Do I really need to know about the organization-wide ice cream social two months ago? There's been some comparison to paper mail, and a lot of that gets dumped in the recycle bin too.
Potentially stupid question, but what's the BSA? I keep thinking "Boy Scouts of America."
ACLU came up with an good privacy presentation. Imagine trying to order pizza at a place where they already know everything about you.... http://www.aclu.org/pizza/index.html?orgid=EA07190 4&MX=1414&H=0
It seems like just specifying software products takes a lot of work. Part of my job as a developer is helping the stakeholders decide exactly what it is they want and pointing out risks. For example, they'll say, "I want it to work like this," and I'll respond, "Well, we can do this, but the consequence would be ..., and some alternatives are...." How would this kind of thing fit into a factory model?
Thanks, but I meant something to discourage them from artificially running the stock up and then dumping it before it started to fall. I'm not sure if the prospect of paying capital gains taxes would be enough.
Actually, it seems quite possible that open source might help the job market. Back during "The Bubble," it was amazing how much money companies were willing to spend for marginal results. Now budgets are lower and expectations are higher. Open source can help programmers do more with less, which they may need to do to survive.
Practices like Enron's do get rewarded for a while. The problem is the house of cards tends to collapse, especially during economic downturns. I'd like to see the executive stock options have some kind of clause that forces the buyers to hold onto the stock for a long time (as in 5-10 years). That might discourage executives from finding ways to artificially drive the price up and then leaving the company and dumping the stock before it goes down.
By an amazing coincidence, hackers and experts also seem to be more concerned than the public about things like securing wireless access points.
I'd like to see this anti-Wifi wallpaper featured on "Queer Eye."
OK, I was about to ask whether the paper would come in Martha Stewart prints, so I'll respond to your post. :-)
Well, I really do try to RTFA before posting, just to avoid doing the "keyboard covered with spit" thing. The problem here was that there really was some appearance initially that the people harassing Katie Jones represented Katie Tarbox. The additional information makes it look more like the lawyer that threatened Katie Jones was just an assclown.
Since the thread was about Amazon censorship, I was talking about what I'd seen of a book, which did not happen to be "Katie.com." In fact, the book I was referring to currently has 150 reviews. Sorry if my post overtaxed your reading comprehension.
Now I'm starting to feel a little bad. It was confusing because Katie Tarbox herself probably wasn't harassing Katie Jones, but people who appeared to be representing Tarbox were.
Just to follow up with details, in case anyone's interested. There's a book called "Pledged" by Alexandra Robbins that purports to be an inside view of sorority life. It follows the lives of four sorority women in unnamed sororities at unnamed schools. Although there is a need to protect the subjects, this arrangement also gives Robbins a lot of opportunity for fabrication. There were some things in the book that seemed really dubious. For example, Robbins referred to interviewing "Laney," an Alpha Sig in Nevada. A reviewer on Amazon pointed out that there weren't any Alpha Sig chapters anywhere in Nevada. Amazon apparently removed the review.
... there were a lot of improbable things in the woman's story, and a grand jury didn't buy it either. (The woman's site http://www.chiomegasecrets.com was taken down, but you can see a copy of it courtesy of The Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/. Note the numerous "conspiracy" accusations.) When reviews pointed out that her account might not be true, Amazon deleted their comments too.
Robbins also included a claim by a former Chi Omega that her sisters had drugged her and arranged for her to be raped, since they were apparently tired of hearing her talk about being a virgin and wanted to "convert her to their ways." Problem was
Amazon does censor reviews - I've seen mine and others removed. In this case, the reviewers involved seemed to have read the book. It was about a "nonfiction" book and the reviews in question pointed out that one of the accounts mentioned in the book may not have been factually accurate. Amazon censored at least one and removed the others
That's really interesting. There were a number of reviews that suggested that something in a book might not be factually accurate, and Amazon made all those reviews disappear. It was sort of Orwellian and made me have less confidence in Amazon.
On a side note, there was an interesting story about online freedom of speech and message boards. A women published a bunch of sensitive information (and wild accusations about women drugging her and causing her to be raped) about her former sorority, and made a point of publicizing it on other message boards. She didn't stop there, though. She unsuccessfully sued the sorority, which may have countersued. The upshot is that the website in question was taken down, and she may have been forced to apologize in court. The woman and her mother have apparently been aggressive about getting stuff removed from websites that disagrees with their story. Although their site is no longer up, you can see it via the Wayback Machine http://web.archive.org/. Just type in "http://www.chiomegasecrets.com"
I wonder whether there are other Bluetooth devices that could be attacked this way. For example, it seems theoretically possible to also listen in on data transfers - say between PDAs or cameras and laptops.
During the current budget crunch, the UIUC librares had to drop subscriptions to some journals that they'd carried for years because the prices were getting so high.
This is an excerpt from her book. http://www.katiet.com/exerpts.htm. Here's a description of her town:
I was in the eighth grade, and for the first time I was really obsessed with my appearance, my status, with fitting in. This is understandable, if you consider that I was growing up in America, and in New Canaan, Connecticut. New Canaan is the richest town in the richest state in the country. The moms all drive Suburbans and the dads all take the train to the city. And by the time they are ten years old, the kids in New Canaan know that the highest-grade BMW is not as nice as the best Mercedes. They know that you should never be seen cutting your own lawn, and that embossed stationery is far superior to lithographed.
I wonder if there's any possibility that some information was "leaked" just to manipulate the stock price. It'd be awfully convenient to acquire it for a lower price and then be able to sell it for a profit after the information reached the press.
This sounds like a version of Monopoly. Instead of "Boardwalk," people could try to buy Mars, and the currency would be Monopoly money.
Instead, they suggest that the domain name should be given to them as a "donation." I generally donate money to causes that are essentially "poor." I don't see any poor people on Kate T.'s side of the fence.
Did anyone here read the book? One thing that jumped out at me was the way she talked about living in a very wealthy area (New Canaan, CT). For example, her swim team didn't have to do fundraisers because they were just given the money for travel, etc. Now there's a domain name she happens to want, and she seems to expect that it should also just be given to her. It does seem like Katie T. has a strong sense of entitlement.
Some of my friends had hiptops and I seriously considered getting one. They seemed really cool, and the ability to ssh and irc from almost anywhere would be nice. Amazon seemed to have some good deals, though you were required to sign up for a T-Mobile service plan. And this was the kicker. The plans apparently start at $30/month and go up if you want voice calls too. Since there are a number of free wireless hotspots in our community, I decided to get a Zaurus with a wireless card. It comes with a Linux shell, and there's some good free software for it, including an SSH client. The downside is that I have to be near an wireless access point to use it, but those aren't too hard to find. However, it's nice to not have monthly T-Mobile bills.
Did you see Fahrenheit 9/11? There was one scene where Michael Moore was interviewing a congressman about how the Patriot Act had passed. The congressman pointed out that most lawmakers don't actually read bills before passing them. Do you think the voters read them either?