Well, I'm not sure which parts of the parent post are supposed to be sarcasm and which are heartfelt, but I'll add my bit:)
People believe the lie that marriage is self-perpetuating. In reality, it's just as much work as any job -- if you think differently, then your spouse is probably the one doing all the work. People do "just get tired of each other" in that one day, they wake up, and realize "hey, there's no love here! Why am I married to this person I don't love?"
The trick is that just like any software, a marriage needs maintenance as well as the original source code. You need to have a bug tracking system in place, be open to feature requests, and be willing not to give up. Love is just as much a discipline as it is a feeling you get from being around someone. If you work on it, it can get stronger. This is why arranged marriages, despite Western ideologies, actually work for some people. The couple goes into the marriage knowing it's not going to be an easy ride, and they'll have to work to improve their relationship.
Being unhappy isn't something someone else does to you; you have to set boundaries, live with them, and if someone oversteps them, choose to a) move/redefine your boundaries, b) forgive them and make sure they understand where your boundaries are, or c) let them face the consequences of overstepping those boundaries. This way, if a spouse leaves you, it's not because you weren't working at your relationship, not putting it above your job, your stuff, your children, etc., but because your spouse was unwilling to work at your relationship.
One thing about IT marriages: I bet you'll find it's generally the spouse of the IT worker who leaves, because the IT worker is too busy to notice that their marriage has stopped growing. By the time they do, their spouse has lost respect for them, and it's MUCH harder to redeem the relationship.
Also, I think you'll find that this holds true for MBA jobs and travelling salespeople just as much as IT workers. GIGO, and all that (either yours, or theirs, or both).
IMO, the Principal is walking a fine line here... if the account was created during school hours, it is not the parent's responsibility to monitor their child, but the SCHOOL's. This opens up schools in this jurisdiction to being sued for anything their students due during school hours.
And you can bet that the kids, if they know this, will swear that they did this during school hours.
That's a bit revisionist.
ClarisWorks was great for its day -- when it was rebranded AppleWorks, they added all the junk that ruined documents and caused the thing to crash. I've been using it since ClarisWorks 1.0, and the first update that Apple did was what began the downhill slide.
Pages is a page layout program, not an office package. It doesn't do vector graphics, bitmap graphics, spreadsheets, database, or word processing.
IIRC, MS Word was first released on Apple hardware (or at least that's where it became popular first). People were using Word on Macs back when the majority of the PC world was still using WordPerfect. The MBU was formed at a later date when MS started to get too big.
I agree. Here's one valid reason for removing this kind of DRM:
Let's say it's 15 years in the future. Someone needs to do something that requires software that only runs under that old OS Vista, now no longer supported by the company that used to be Microsoft.
The problem is, people gave up on that whole DRM thing 10 years ago when they started to realize it didn't work as advertized. When the OS goes to query the central certificate authority to verify the driver certs are valid, guess what? They aren't -- because the cert authority no longer exists. The OS refuses to run ANYTHING that requires drivers.
This scenario, of course, assumes that the certificates have to be verified by a central authority. But if they don't, then what are they good for? Someone just has to modify the part of the OS that acts as the local authority, or worse, reverse engineer the local authority code, and you no longer have ANY security from this scheme.
So either hardware/software for Vista will only be usable for the life of the authority (Win98 is less than 10 years old), or the system will only protect against "good" code writers in the first place. I don't want to be involved with EITHER scenario.
Well, that's not exactly true. Think of it more like this:
Public Domain is forever, but people are free to copy it and make the copy (plus all improvements) their own.
GPL is forever, but the only people free to distribute it are those who provide all the original source IP plus their modifications under the GPL.
Then, of course, there's also BSDL, where the only restriction is that, unlike the public domain, you are required to credit the original authors of any work you use.
There are plenty of uncopyrighted clips of people doing stupid things, or particular sports of interest (biking, bogging, snowmobiling, etc).
The only uncopyrighted works are works that have been placed in the public domain. Just because someone does something stupid doesn't mean that the person who made the video clip doesn't own the copy rights.
What I would like to see is a popularization of placing works in the public domain. Some book publishing houses are actually starting to do this; place the first book in a series in PD after it has made a decent profit, use it to get people into the series. The same could be done in Video, and this would be an excellent way to use YouTube or Google Video.
And this is both a feature and a liability -- all you need is a trojan app that binds itself to some uid, and waits for that uid to be elevated to drop its payload, and you're sunk on the security front. Conversely, that 15 minutes of grace means you have 15 minutes to do all your administrative work, which is more than enough for most things. It sure beats having to spend 30 minutes doing the same tasks because you have to type your 24 digit secure password every time you turn around.
Actually I think you've made a common mistake. Muslim and Judaism actually have more in common with one another than Christianity in a lot of ways.
Actually, I agree with your post 100% -- I'm arguing that the people popular culture sees as the "religious right" actually believe something different than they say they believe; their actions speak of a belief in upholding Mosaic Law (orthoprax), while their mouths talk of following Jesus (orthodox). The bit about them holding to some orthodoxy was meant to show that I realized they are not completely orthopraxic, just that they may have more in common with the Mosaic (and Muslim) beliefs -- hence, the "with the addition" clause.
Thanks for making it more clear for the lurkers:) I seem to be thinking orthangonally today.
Heh... seems my original comment was a bit too obtuse. I was actually drawing a distinction between those Americans appear to be calling the "religious right" and what I consider to be conservative Christianity. In the US, it appears that there are many vocal people who call themselves Christians who adhere neither to conservative or liberal Christan theology. They instead adhere to conservative or liberal political ideology (VERY different meanings of conservative and liberal), and have a religious faith more analogous to some sects of Judaism than to Christianity -- with the addition that they say in word that Jesus Christ was God, and that only people who believe he died and came back to life to save people from their sins will have eternal salvation. These are the same people that argue that you say the prayer and you're saved for eternity; don't say the prayer and you're damned for eternity. Considering the very bibles they pull this from have Jesus saying that only those who REPENT from their sinful ways and FOLLOW him (even to being tortured and killed for adhering to a life of selfless love and telling others about the completion of the Mosaic laws) will be saved.
There will always be those who live by their faith, and those who are religious nutjobs, and they'll both exist in all parts of the political spectrum. Many of the true "Religious Right" are actually Democrats in the US, from what I've seen.
I have to observe that when I hear Americans refer to the "religious right" in this way, I have this sneaking suspicion that its antonym is the "religious wrong" instead of the "religious left". Just an observation.
Until you have a better solution, sit down and shut up.
Even better: sit down and come up with a solution you can implement personally, and come up with at least one larger-scale idea you can share with others.
I'm tired of these folks spouting numbers to try and make me feel guilty for being born here in the US. Get over it... Try harder.
Did you ever stop and think that maybe they're not trying to make you feel guilty, but are actually trying to educate you? Only YOU can make you feel guilty, and from the sounds of it, you don't. Personally, I have said "no" to many situations that would have made me more prosperous, because they would have, to some degree, had a negative impact on others (declining gross prosperity). I still consider myself grossly wealthy, even though I don't own a car, a boat, a house, or a lot of "stuff". I live in a city because it's more efficient (concentrated resources, etc.).
I think that those that don't like the US consuming so much, etc.. are either jealous OR have some type of guilty concious about their own situation.
You're entitled to your thoughts, but the feedback I get from many people from other countries (especially German and Japanese tourists) is that they've already gone down the route of no return that the US is headed down, and they'd like there to be somewhere like the US is today still available to visit in 50-100 years for their children and grandchildren. Many parts of the world have already experienced being a "superpower" in the past, have abused their resources, and are now having to deal with the consequences. They'd prefer that a large, relatively pristine country like the US learn from their mistakes instead of repeating them.
So, you're right -- on some level, they're probably feeling guilty. However, the result of their guilt is that they're trying to improve things at home and abroad, instead of just ignoring the situation.
It seems obvious to me... this game is not designed to get people EATING BK food -- you as the player are GIVING it to others, not eating it. This game is obviously designed to try and attract employees;)
I'll add a third:
Both of the offered packages come with telephone support supplied by the manufacturer. With a repackaged OOo and AVG, they'd most likely have to handle everything in-house, which would mean not only adding those products to their helpdesk, but also adding employees familiar with the products who can liase with the development teams to fix user reported bugs and add user requested features on a tight schedule. This would add overhead they probably want to avoid.
Along with this thought... how long until someone steals your identity, and contacts them to collect the money (saying that YOU are the one trying to steal their identity)? Similarly, the virus angle looks more like they're offering a bounty on new viruses... much cheaper than them having to do the work themselves (but could also generate gobs of new viruses designed to cash in on the insurance).
Sorry; in my parent post, mV should be MV - mega, not milli. That shows what not hitting the preview button can do. Oh well. It should be obvious from context.
Is there any way to energize an unshielded card from more than, say, 5 feet away, or is the danger primarily from people with readers brushing up against you for a reading?
The issues seem to be the following:
1) RFID chips are activated by the EM energy delivered from the reader.
2) When closed, the passports in question are contained in a complete farraday cage, blocking any EM radiation from passing between the inside and outside of the passport.
3) When open, the regular rules of electromagnetic radiation hold true (inverse square law?). You need exponentially more radiation to power the passport each time you double the distance away you are.
4) Devices with a 3V, 1A power supply are designed to read the cards at a distance of 3" (numbers pulled from my head; might not be 100% accurate). Using napkin mathematics, assuming a similar sized antenna, at 6", you would need 9V, and at 1' you would need 81V. At 2' you would need roughly 6.5kV. At 4' you would need roughly 43mV. This is to activate the chip, not to read it.
5) Reading an already activated chip with a passively receiving device would be much simpler; it could easily be done from 10' away with a 3V power supply and a larger antenna.
So, according to my flawed calculations: nobody is going to be reading a closed passport, only people with a pretty large generator are going to be activating and reading a passport from anywhere further away than a few inches, and anyone in line of sight (and some not in line of sight) could be reading your passport as it is simultaneously being read by official readers.
The reason I switched from Yahoo mail to GMail was the fact that within minutes of creating a Y!Mail account, I had all sorts of spam coming in. Eventually the noise to signal ratio was so bad that I gave up. Have they fixed that with the latest version? If not, I'll pass.
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I have no idea why I haven't added you to my friends list before this! :)
People believe the lie that marriage is self-perpetuating. In reality, it's just as much work as any job -- if you think differently, then your spouse is probably the one doing all the work. People do "just get tired of each other" in that one day, they wake up, and realize "hey, there's no love here! Why am I married to this person I don't love?"
The trick is that just like any software, a marriage needs maintenance as well as the original source code. You need to have a bug tracking system in place, be open to feature requests, and be willing not to give up. Love is just as much a discipline as it is a feeling you get from being around someone. If you work on it, it can get stronger. This is why arranged marriages, despite Western ideologies, actually work for some people. The couple goes into the marriage knowing it's not going to be an easy ride, and they'll have to work to improve their relationship.
Being unhappy isn't something someone else does to you; you have to set boundaries, live with them, and if someone oversteps them, choose to a) move/redefine your boundaries, b) forgive them and make sure they understand where your boundaries are, or c) let them face the consequences of overstepping those boundaries. This way, if a spouse leaves you, it's not because you weren't working at your relationship, not putting it above your job, your stuff, your children, etc., but because your spouse was unwilling to work at your relationship.
One thing about IT marriages: I bet you'll find it's generally the spouse of the IT worker who leaves, because the IT worker is too busy to notice that their marriage has stopped growing. By the time they do, their spouse has lost respect for them, and it's MUCH harder to redeem the relationship.
Also, I think you'll find that this holds true for MBA jobs and travelling salespeople just as much as IT workers. GIGO, and all that (either yours, or theirs, or both).
And you can bet that the kids, if they know this, will swear that they did this during school hours.
ClarisWorks was great for its day -- when it was rebranded AppleWorks, they added all the junk that ruined documents and caused the thing to crash. I've been using it since ClarisWorks 1.0, and the first update that Apple did was what began the downhill slide.
Pages is a page layout program, not an office package. It doesn't do vector graphics, bitmap graphics, spreadsheets, database, or word processing.
IIRC, MS Word was first released on Apple hardware (or at least that's where it became popular first). People were using Word on Macs back when the majority of the PC world was still using WordPerfect. The MBU was formed at a later date when MS started to get too big.
Let's say it's 15 years in the future. Someone needs to do something that requires software that only runs under that old OS Vista, now no longer supported by the company that used to be Microsoft.
The problem is, people gave up on that whole DRM thing 10 years ago when they started to realize it didn't work as advertized. When the OS goes to query the central certificate authority to verify the driver certs are valid, guess what? They aren't -- because the cert authority no longer exists. The OS refuses to run ANYTHING that requires drivers.
This scenario, of course, assumes that the certificates have to be verified by a central authority. But if they don't, then what are they good for? Someone just has to modify the part of the OS that acts as the local authority, or worse, reverse engineer the local authority code, and you no longer have ANY security from this scheme.
So either hardware/software for Vista will only be usable for the life of the authority (Win98 is less than 10 years old), or the system will only protect against "good" code writers in the first place. I don't want to be involved with EITHER scenario.
Yes, but you also prefer LISP to C++, don't you? :D
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My other cdr is last
(that's the package that got Mac users hooked on MS Office)
Public Domain is forever, but people are free to copy it and make the copy (plus all improvements) their own.
GPL is forever, but the only people free to distribute it are those who provide all the original source IP plus their modifications under the GPL.
Then, of course, there's also BSDL, where the only restriction is that, unlike the public domain, you are required to credit the original authors of any work you use.
What I would like to see is a popularization of placing works in the public domain. Some book publishing houses are actually starting to do this; place the first book in a series in PD after it has made a decent profit, use it to get people into the series. The same could be done in Video, and this would be an excellent way to use YouTube or Google Video.
And this is both a feature and a liability -- all you need is a trojan app that binds itself to some uid, and waits for that uid to be elevated to drop its payload, and you're sunk on the security front. Conversely, that 15 minutes of grace means you have 15 minutes to do all your administrative work, which is more than enough for most things. It sure beats having to spend 30 minutes doing the same tasks because you have to type your 24 digit secure password every time you turn around.
Thanks for making it more clear for the lurkers :) I seem to be thinking orthangonally today.
There will always be those who live by their faith, and those who are religious nutjobs, and they'll both exist in all parts of the political spectrum. Many of the true "Religious Right" are actually Democrats in the US, from what I've seen.
I have to observe that when I hear Americans refer to the "religious right" in this way, I have this sneaking suspicion that its antonym is the "religious wrong" instead of the "religious left". Just an observation.
You obviously have never taken the P*** ;)
So, you're right -- on some level, they're probably feeling guilty. However, the result of their guilt is that they're trying to improve things at home and abroad, instead of just ignoring the situation.
It seems obvious to me... this game is not designed to get people EATING BK food -- you as the player are GIVING it to others, not eating it. This game is obviously designed to try and attract employees ;)
Both of the offered packages come with telephone support supplied by the manufacturer. With a repackaged OOo and AVG, they'd most likely have to handle everything in-house, which would mean not only adding those products to their helpdesk, but also adding employees familiar with the products who can liase with the development teams to fix user reported bugs and add user requested features on a tight schedule. This would add overhead they probably want to avoid.
Scary? I don't think it would really matter....
Along with this thought... how long until someone steals your identity, and contacts them to collect the money (saying that YOU are the one trying to steal their identity)? Similarly, the virus angle looks more like they're offering a bounty on new viruses... much cheaper than them having to do the work themselves (but could also generate gobs of new viruses designed to cash in on the insurance).
Hmm... here's a freebie name for someone to use if it's not the one you were thinking of:
MagneCarte
Sorry; in my parent post, mV should be MV - mega, not milli. That shows what not hitting the preview button can do. Oh well. It should be obvious from context.
The issues seem to be the following:
1) RFID chips are activated by the EM energy delivered from the reader.
2) When closed, the passports in question are contained in a complete farraday cage, blocking any EM radiation from passing between the inside and outside of the passport.
3) When open, the regular rules of electromagnetic radiation hold true (inverse square law?). You need exponentially more radiation to power the passport each time you double the distance away you are.
4) Devices with a 3V, 1A power supply are designed to read the cards at a distance of 3" (numbers pulled from my head; might not be 100% accurate). Using napkin mathematics, assuming a similar sized antenna, at 6", you would need 9V, and at 1' you would need 81V. At 2' you would need roughly 6.5kV. At 4' you would need roughly 43mV. This is to activate the chip, not to read it.
5) Reading an already activated chip with a passively receiving device would be much simpler; it could easily be done from 10' away with a 3V power supply and a larger antenna.
So, according to my flawed calculations: nobody is going to be reading a closed passport, only people with a pretty large generator are going to be activating and reading a passport from anywhere further away than a few inches, and anyone in line of sight (and some not in line of sight) could be reading your passport as it is simultaneously being read by official readers.
I disagree. They're both designed to protect $. You just have to work out whose money is being protected.
The reason I switched from Yahoo mail to GMail was the fact that within minutes of creating a Y!Mail account, I had all sorts of spam coming in. Eventually the noise to signal ratio was so bad that I gave up. Have they fixed that with the latest version? If not, I'll pass.