Please tell me how using safari I can make a wifi scanning tool. I will wait.
Assumptions with what we should be allowed to do on our devices? I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO ANY FUCKING THING I WANT, IT IS MINE!
Please tell me how I can make my wifi scanning tool using scheme running in safari.
I think you didn't fully comprehend what I wrote. I made no assumptions about what you should be allowed to do on your device. You can use it to summon pink fairies if you want. What I did was question the concept of the device itself -- the device is a HTML5 browser, with some added plugins thrown in for accomplishing specific tasks (we call these Apps).
Just like I'm not going to tell you you can't use a screwdriver to hammer nails, I'm not going to tell you you can't run a wifi scanning tool on your iPad.
Of course, jailbreaking the iPad, you actually CAN modify it to run a decent wifi scanning tool. Works better than using a screwdriver to hammer nails. You could also install Android on it, or just buy a copycat tablet with Android already installed. The iPad (nor Apple) doesn't prevent you from doing any of this. Apple won't support it outside of its original configuration, but hey -- Skil isn't likely to give you support on that dinged up screwdriver either.
The problem here is that many people think they're getting a computer when they get an iPad, and that's not what it is. But what they get is still miles ahead of what was envisioned in the DynaBook -- just not via Apple's ObjectiveC SDK.
Tel my how I can write an app on the iPad, and then share it with whomever I want. How do I just send it to my friend across the table?
Step 1: Create a new text document in your text editor of choice on the iPad Step 2: write your HTML5-compliant* code (including JavaScript if needed -- plenty of sample code you can use for free to get a boost) Step 3: share it with your friend via WiFi, Bluetooth, or just host it with an HTML server App and let them browse your device Step 4: Your friend uses it.
* Use Apple's HTML5 extensions to make it even more app-like on iOS
Yes, I think the objection is not that you can't install a text editor on an iPad, but that the ecosystem is mainly aimed at one-way retrieval of content via Apple. As Kay notes, it's not just that you can't get your content into the App Store easily, but by default you can't even install something your friend made who's sitting right next to you— there's no way to install apps from your friend unless either you jailbreak your device, or your friend gets it into the App Store.
Everyone (including Kay) seems caught up in how Apple limits what can run directly on iOS. But with the original DynaBook, the entire Apple Store contents could be considered a configurable operating system -- under this view, it becomes exceedingly simple for someone to write software and share it with friends -- if the software is HTML5 compliant (or even using Apple's well-documented version). Looking at it this way, Safari is the platform, and you can write all sorts of things to run on it.
I think we've come so far since those early days and now take so much for granted that we make assumptions (both ways) in what we should and shouldn't be allowed to do on our devices. The original DynaBook was fully open, allowing anyone to share anything with friends, in a C64 push-poke kind of way. It never imagined that devices would not just be wirelessly connecting with each other and peripherals locally, but would be doing the same thing globally, with all the security repercussions that entails.
Amazingly, most of what people would want to write and share could be done via a web server and an HTML5-based Scheme interpreter. Kay likes Scheme, right?
Interestingly, while OMG Ponies! is on-topic for the Dothraki, there's the huge question of how a language used solely by hydrophobes could possibly work as a functional language on an ISLAND....
Come on... I submitted this ROT-13'd, and the editors went and converted it:P It was supposed to come out on the main page in plaintext, and only be ROT-13'd in the "decoded" version. Way to spoil a good joke, editors.
At least they had to ROT-13 it before reading and releasing:D
OK just cut of the power and wait for them to come out:-) or come back with a thermic lance or as its the police just lob teargas into the vents (the cops being allowed to use gas where military forces are not) .
of course the classic way of solving the this sort of problem was done at Eben-Emael forts in WW2 was to use shaped charges to blow a hole.
Or, just go to their physical upstream provider (the one who feeds them the cable) and tell them to cut the connection. Then wait for someone to show up to complain.
Added to that, if it was a hoax, it piggybacked the IXes mentioned having significant routing issues, all at the same time, around the time CloudFlare, a respected hosting service who claimed to be affected, started blogging about it. You might not have noticed, but anyone with a network presence in the UK, Netherlands or HK definitely did; traceroutes were all you needed to see the disruption for yourself.
So... documented reports from those who actually route the Internet plus much anecdotal evidence vs comments on Gizmodo from anonymous sources -- I think I know what I'll prefer to believe.
The cyberbunker part might be pure conjecture, but the DDoS was pretty obvious.
Actually, all that needs to happen is for the ISPs to correctly set their drop tables on their BGP policies. These tables should be set up by default when the ISP acquires a netblock, and updated each time a netblock is added/dropped. It's SOP, and not difficult.
For consumer-facing ISPs who don't have BGP to peer with other networks (but are just a subscriber themselves), they can just configure the drop tables on their border switches so that only source IPs within their netblock can be sent outbound. This provides them with MANY advantages (as it lowers potential bandwidth usage and lessens service abuse and resulting support tickets) and for most providers (except those who dynamically lease from multiple netblocks for the same pool -- something you shouldn't be doing without BGP) carries no risk. It's 2 hours during the maintenance window (to allow for testing before deploying) that will likely pay for itself within a day.
In short, the only reasons I can see not to do this are complicity, laziness and ignorance.
ingress filtering at the border also has the benefit (for the providers) that customer-hosted open relays will also be blocked. Things like Tor will still work, but no more auto-forwarding/reflecting of packets. This could REALLY clean up the bandwidth the current infrastructure has to deal with, while minimally impacting legitimate traffic.
(Now you're on the other side, and I'm the one insisting that you should work for free.)
Judges for journals already work like this; it's just the editor and the publishing house that actually get money. Everyone else is paid in prestige, which is the same thing you get when published in said journal. Therefore, the journals are worth as much as the reputations of those who judge and are published, plus the salary of an editor and the actual costs of publishing, indexing and archiving. Everything else is an add-on that could be provided by any lowest-bidding third party (for that matter, the actual publishing, indexing and archiving could be provided by someone like Google for a very reasonable price).
... if you think women aren't generally discriminated against and made to feel uncomfortable with sexual innuendo then you are not paying attention.
If you think that the kind of guys who normally attend PyCon aren't generally discriminated against and made to feel uncomfortable with sexual innuendo then you are not paying attention.
PyCon is attended by a lot of people who aren't very socially skilled. In general, it has been seen as a place where social blunders are overlooked as everyone's focused on technical advancements. The GP is saying that he's realised that this forum isn't as safe as he thought it was to ignore the social game, and so he's going to keep watch over his tongue around those who might become easily offended at an unguarded remark. What's pathetic about that? It's called chill, and it's legitimate. He never once stated that women aren't generally discriminated against.
You might have a point if he said "see? we shouldn't allow women into these sorts of events; this is what happens." But he didn't. He said he was going to watch what he said around women at such events from now on -- exactly what Adria would have wanted. It does, however, isolate the women at such events in other ways -- many will now discriminate against them by being unwilling to have a casual conversation with them and treat them as "one of the guys".
You can't have it both ways, and either way, there's two-way discrimination going on (and not all discrimination is a bad thing). A better solution would be for people to just not say things that upset others or make them feel less of a person (or like others think of them as such) -- but as humans, we're really good at spotting differences; that's not going to vanish any time soon.
Maybe we need to go back to what we were taught in kindergarten -- if someone does something that offends you / you don't like, talk to them about it. If the two of you still can't get along after talking, take it to someone with some authority over both of you, and let them sort it out. If that doesn't work, forgive and forget and don't put yourself in the same situation with the same person again.
Feminism is not sexism at its finest - it's the logical and expected reaction of rational people who despise sexism against anyone. You making massive sweeping statements about women speaks volumes about how you perceive women. You have some serious issues to deal with, and with them I wish you luck.
While your central point has merit, "feminism is the logical and expected reaction of rational people who despise sexism against anyone" is patently false. I'm a rational person. I despise sexism. I am male. I am not a feminist. Of course, to me, "sexism" might not mean the same thing it does to you. To me it means overlooking the attributes and characteristics of a person as a whole because of their gender, applying stereotypes associated with that gender even if there is no evidence that they apply to the individual in question. I'd even go so far as to say sexism can refer to the attitude of thinking of or treating someone (or everyone of a gender) as a lesser being due to their gender.
In my experience, there are, proportionately, at least as many sexist feminists as there are sexist rednecks.
I'd call myself humanist, except that term's already taken, and I tend to value non-human beings also -- celebrating the natural strengths of all, and supporting those who have areas of weakness where I have areas of strength.
Just remember that this is a graphics utility for graphics designers... and if they're graphics designers, they've already got Adobe CS with a bunch of plugins (many plugins possibly pirated).
Don't worry about piracy for the non-professionals; if they like/use your tool, that gives you mindshare. What you really want to be asking is "what will get graphics designers to lay down $5 to $10 for my product when they've already got CS?" When you've answered that question, piracy is no longer an issue (you want to saturate your target market; whether anyone else uses it or not is only useful as advertising, unless it opens up an unforeseen market).
So if your product is for a specific market, make your protection such that they get some sort of a productivity-hindering reminder if they haven't paid, but don't bother going much further than that.
Some people I know had the bright idea of doing "dongleware" -- where the core functionality of the product was free, but training, support and help (including everything but the most rudimentary built-in help) required registration. At $10, this is a no-brainer for anyone trying to get something done. The dongles could still be pirated, but why bother?
"I also hope the SFO hands this over to some other competent group"
You do know that the deserved old nickname for the SFO is the Serious Farce Office?
Yes indeed... I see how my addition of "other" could have implications that were unintended. That said, the fact that they've at least admitted this time that they wouldn't be able to do a reliable job gives me some modicum of respect for them. Dealing with Fraud is a thankless and tricky business, as one person's serious fraud is another person's frivolous fraud....
Well... the thing's name is Titan; I'd say it probably out-did Monster in the gold contacts department. That said, maybe it couldn't handle the high bit-quality and kept getting distracted by being able to hear the imperfections from the original recording equipment....
assuming you're doing professional web development. If you're not, why bother?
Perhaps one is doing amateur web development to build a portfolio to seek a professional web development position. Someone who has yet to move out of his parents' home for the first time or scraping by on unemployment insurance might not be able to afford $650 as an impulse buy.
Amateur web development can be done to amateur standards. Taking a few community college courses in design (at which point you get access to all of the equipment too) would be a definite benefit. Either way, the $650 isn't an impulse buy (I hope) but a business investment. If you're looking to be hired by a business, they look at more than your site portfolio, as they're going to want to train you in their own way of doing things. If you're starting your own business, you're going to need to actually start a business with some capital -- and often that stuff can be used as a tax writeoff.
For people who really don't have the ways and means -- start off with a few non-profit sites; they often have access to the tools, and are a great way to build up a portfolio (they show that you've got your heart in the right place too).
Otherwise, this comes down to the same sour grapes people have regarding paying for Adobe CS to break into DTP, paying for your gear to become a hairdresser, mechanic, etc. -- it's how life works, and IT stuff is CHEAP compared to most vocations of comparable pay.
Adobe was providing an excellent service on the cheap; there are alternative services out there that people can use as well, as they pointed out. And, as I pointed out, most people can make do with the equipment they already have, a few free to acquire add-ons, and the same kind of know-how they'd need to produce a modern web site of good quality in the first place.
Yes, what you really need is an MSDN subscription... which is a bit silly (and expensive) purely for web development.
Alternatively, you can go for "good enough" and run the various IEs via WINE, and ignore the OS altogether.
$650 for a computer testbed environment that'll run just about everything (and is a decent development platform to boot) seems pretty inexpensive though, assuming you're doing professional web development. If you're not, why bother?
Or... one needs a Mac-compatible VM host with VMs running OS X, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Ubuntu, MiNT, FreeBSD, ChromeOS, Solaris, Android, iOS emulator, and maybe a few other niche OSes. Each VM can be cloned to have exactly one browser on it. Then, you just fire up all the VMs and point the browser at a location. You can even script a VM like VirtualBox to do this automatically, given a master feed, and spit back images of the sites... so you enter a uri into the controller and at the end of the run, get back 30 or so annotated images with logfiles.
Then, if you see something odd, you can manually run the specific VM to get finer-grained insight as to the issue.
Anyone with a moderate knowledge of Javascript and the willingness to set this up can do it -- assuming you've got a Mac and licenses for the various Windows distributions you want to test.
I do this semi-regularly; the only legal way you can do it is with a Mac though, that's true.
UK Govt is now manned by a bunch of corporate whores (even more so than the last bunch) who just want to ensure that the software they're using to discover fraud can be "friendly" to those who are "on the inside".
Last thing a corrupt government wants is any real transparency. The best is some form of translucency, like a shower door or rose-tinted glasses - so what you think you see hides what is really happening.
ok, [/rant]
I didn't RTFA, but I at least read the headlines... which stated that they raised a conflict of interest flag precisely because of the potential for what you said. I just wish more government offices would be this transparent. I also hope the SFO hands this over to some other competent group rather than just dropping it because the company could fiddle with the results of their own investigation.
Personally, I'd still like to see Autonomy's analysis of their own books -- if they find themselves guilty, it'll be hard for the company in the short term, but extremely good advertising for them in the longer term (yes, we're good enough that we can even catch our own finance and marketing departments' shenanigans and not mess with the data!)
Agreed... wrong way to go on both sides. Religious groups saying "Scientists have proven the existence of God!" and anti-religion groups saying "Scientists have proven that "God" is nothing more than a fluctuation in the energy field of reality!"
Both could be true or false, but are completely outside the issue at hand. What would people have done if we'd called it the Nietzsche particle?
Yes it does; it's just disabled by default (?!?!?!)
When the default application isn't set for a document type, the first choice that's provided in the resulting pop-up is "Do you want to wander around on the web to find an application that can open this document?" rather than the option of selecting an application from the list of installed applications.
This, surprisingly, is configurable too. Once again, stupid default, but can be changed on an entire enterprise if you desire with a simple policy update.
In SQL Server Management Studio, when you have multiple sessions open, they are tabbed. Even when you only have two or three tabs, the tabs are scrunched horizontally such that you can't read the labels, which usually start with the server name, then the database name. So, if you have six sessions all connecting to different databases on 'foo' server, all six tabs are labelled 'foo...'. Sure, that's not the OS, but that is an example of Redmond not giving a shit to produce quality usability in ways that would be trivially simple.
I could point to similar things wrong with Oracle and the various half-baked front ends to Postgres, MySQL and NoSQL. That's not even getting into the mess that is Hadoop front ends....
I've used Macs for 29 years; I've used Debian for 15 years... and I've used Windows for 17 years. Windows 7 has its annoying bits, but the points you made are not among them.
I'm still a "Windows in the enterprise, Debian Linux on the servers, OS X at home" person, and probably will be for some time to come.
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Please tell me how using safari I can make a wifi scanning tool. I will wait.
Assumptions with what we should be allowed to do on our devices? I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO ANY FUCKING THING I WANT, IT IS MINE!
Please tell me how I can make my wifi scanning tool using scheme running in safari.
I think you didn't fully comprehend what I wrote. I made no assumptions about what you should be allowed to do on your device. You can use it to summon pink fairies if you want. What I did was question the concept of the device itself -- the device is a HTML5 browser, with some added plugins thrown in for accomplishing specific tasks (we call these Apps).
Just like I'm not going to tell you you can't use a screwdriver to hammer nails, I'm not going to tell you you can't run a wifi scanning tool on your iPad.
Of course, jailbreaking the iPad, you actually CAN modify it to run a decent wifi scanning tool. Works better than using a screwdriver to hammer nails. You could also install Android on it, or just buy a copycat tablet with Android already installed. The iPad (nor Apple) doesn't prevent you from doing any of this. Apple won't support it outside of its original configuration, but hey -- Skil isn't likely to give you support on that dinged up screwdriver either.
The problem here is that many people think they're getting a computer when they get an iPad, and that's not what it is. But what they get is still miles ahead of what was envisioned in the DynaBook -- just not via Apple's ObjectiveC SDK.
Tel my how I can write an app on the iPad, and then share it with whomever I want. How do I just send it to my friend across the table?
Step 1: Create a new text document in your text editor of choice on the iPad
Step 2: write your HTML5-compliant* code (including JavaScript if needed -- plenty of sample code you can use for free to get a boost)
Step 3: share it with your friend via WiFi, Bluetooth, or just host it with an HTML server App and let them browse your device
Step 4: Your friend uses it.
* Use Apple's HTML5 extensions to make it even more app-like on iOS
Yes, I think the objection is not that you can't install a text editor on an iPad, but that the ecosystem is mainly aimed at one-way retrieval of content via Apple. As Kay notes, it's not just that you can't get your content into the App Store easily, but by default you can't even install something your friend made who's sitting right next to you— there's no way to install apps from your friend unless either you jailbreak your device, or your friend gets it into the App Store.
Everyone (including Kay) seems caught up in how Apple limits what can run directly on iOS. But with the original DynaBook, the entire Apple Store contents could be considered a configurable operating system -- under this view, it becomes exceedingly simple for someone to write software and share it with friends -- if the software is HTML5 compliant (or even using Apple's well-documented version). Looking at it this way, Safari is the platform, and you can write all sorts of things to run on it.
I think we've come so far since those early days and now take so much for granted that we make assumptions (both ways) in what we should and shouldn't be allowed to do on our devices. The original DynaBook was fully open, allowing anyone to share anything with friends, in a C64 push-poke kind of way. It never imagined that devices would not just be wirelessly connecting with each other and peripherals locally, but would be doing the same thing globally, with all the security repercussions that entails.
Amazingly, most of what people would want to write and share could be done via a web server and an HTML5-based Scheme interpreter. Kay likes Scheme, right?
Interestingly, while OMG Ponies! is on-topic for the Dothraki, there's the huge question of how a language used solely by hydrophobes could possibly work as a functional language on an ISLAND....
Come on... I submitted this ROT-13'd, and the editors went and converted it :P It was supposed to come out on the main page in plaintext, and only be ROT-13'd in the "decoded" version. Way to spoil a good joke, editors.
At least they had to ROT-13 it before reading and releasing :D
April Fools, we drove away half of our readers! HA HA HA :(
This is obviously the half that doesn't have the Leet Key plugin installed :)
OK just cut of the power and wait for them to come out :-) or come back with a thermic lance or as its the police just lob teargas into the vents (the cops being allowed to use gas where military forces are not) .
of course the classic way of solving the this sort of problem was done at Eben-Emael forts in WW2 was to use shaped charges to blow a hole.
Or, just go to their physical upstream provider (the one who feeds them the cable) and tell them to cut the connection. Then wait for someone to show up to complain.
Added to that, if it was a hoax, it piggybacked the IXes mentioned having significant routing issues, all at the same time, around the time CloudFlare, a respected hosting service who claimed to be affected, started blogging about it. You might not have noticed, but anyone with a network presence in the UK, Netherlands or HK definitely did; traceroutes were all you needed to see the disruption for yourself.
So... documented reports from those who actually route the Internet plus much anecdotal evidence vs comments on Gizmodo from anonymous sources -- I think I know what I'll prefer to believe.
The cyberbunker part might be pure conjecture, but the DDoS was pretty obvious.
Right, the post I was talking about was saying that the traffic should be filtered at the edge of the network, my point is that wouldn't do anything.
I meant...
There's no point to filtering out spoofed IP addresses
w proper sentence structure lol.
AC didn't specific which network the ISP's or spamhaus. I agree the ISP can fix it though, getting them to do so carries its own set of challenges.
Here's a good read for anybody still confused: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/spamhaus-ddos-grows-to-internet-threatening-size/
Basically restates the above post + politics.
Actually, all that needs to happen is for the ISPs to correctly set their drop tables on their BGP policies. These tables should be set up by default when the ISP acquires a netblock, and updated each time a netblock is added/dropped. It's SOP, and not difficult.
For consumer-facing ISPs who don't have BGP to peer with other networks (but are just a subscriber themselves), they can just configure the drop tables on their border switches so that only source IPs within their netblock can be sent outbound. This provides them with MANY advantages (as it lowers potential bandwidth usage and lessens service abuse and resulting support tickets) and for most providers (except those who dynamically lease from multiple netblocks for the same pool -- something you shouldn't be doing without BGP) carries no risk. It's 2 hours during the maintenance window (to allow for testing before deploying) that will likely pay for itself within a day.
In short, the only reasons I can see not to do this are complicity, laziness and ignorance.
ingress filtering at the border also has the benefit (for the providers) that customer-hosted open relays will also be blocked. Things like Tor will still work, but no more auto-forwarding/reflecting of packets. This could REALLY clean up the bandwidth the current infrastructure has to deal with, while minimally impacting legitimate traffic.
Are you crazy? Ain't nobody got time for that.
(Now you're on the other side, and I'm the one insisting that you should work for free.)
Judges for journals already work like this; it's just the editor and the publishing house that actually get money. Everyone else is paid in prestige, which is the same thing you get when published in said journal. Therefore, the journals are worth as much as the reputations of those who judge and are published, plus the salary of an editor and the actual costs of publishing, indexing and archiving. Everything else is an add-on that could be provided by any lowest-bidding third party (for that matter, the actual publishing, indexing and archiving could be provided by someone like Google for a very reasonable price).
Dog had has that toy for a year and subjected it to a lot of demanding use, and it has yet to tear or puncture.
That must be very depressing (and mildly humiliating) for the dog....
... if you think women aren't generally discriminated against and made to feel uncomfortable with sexual innuendo then you are not paying attention.
If you think that the kind of guys who normally attend PyCon aren't generally discriminated against and made to feel uncomfortable with sexual innuendo then you are not paying attention.
PyCon is attended by a lot of people who aren't very socially skilled. In general, it has been seen as a place where social blunders are overlooked as everyone's focused on technical advancements. The GP is saying that he's realised that this forum isn't as safe as he thought it was to ignore the social game, and so he's going to keep watch over his tongue around those who might become easily offended at an unguarded remark. What's pathetic about that? It's called chill, and it's legitimate. He never once stated that women aren't generally discriminated against.
You might have a point if he said "see? we shouldn't allow women into these sorts of events; this is what happens." But he didn't. He said he was going to watch what he said around women at such events from now on -- exactly what Adria would have wanted. It does, however, isolate the women at such events in other ways -- many will now discriminate against them by being unwilling to have a casual conversation with them and treat them as "one of the guys".
You can't have it both ways, and either way, there's two-way discrimination going on (and not all discrimination is a bad thing). A better solution would be for people to just not say things that upset others or make them feel less of a person (or like others think of them as such) -- but as humans, we're really good at spotting differences; that's not going to vanish any time soon.
Maybe we need to go back to what we were taught in kindergarten -- if someone does something that offends you / you don't like, talk to them about it. If the two of you still can't get along after talking, take it to someone with some authority over both of you, and let them sort it out. If that doesn't work, forgive and forget and don't put yourself in the same situation with the same person again.
Feminism is not sexism at its finest - it's the logical and expected reaction of rational people who despise sexism against anyone. You making massive sweeping statements about women speaks volumes about how you perceive women. You have some serious issues to deal with, and with them I wish you luck.
While your central point has merit, "feminism is the logical and expected reaction of rational people who despise sexism against anyone" is patently false. I'm a rational person. I despise sexism. I am male. I am not a feminist. Of course, to me, "sexism" might not mean the same thing it does to you. To me it means overlooking the attributes and characteristics of a person as a whole because of their gender, applying stereotypes associated with that gender even if there is no evidence that they apply to the individual in question. I'd even go so far as to say sexism can refer to the attitude of thinking of or treating someone (or everyone of a gender) as a lesser being due to their gender.
In my experience, there are, proportionately, at least as many sexist feminists as there are sexist rednecks.
I'd call myself humanist, except that term's already taken, and I tend to value non-human beings also -- celebrating the natural strengths of all, and supporting those who have areas of weakness where I have areas of strength.
Just remember that this is a graphics utility for graphics designers... and if they're graphics designers, they've already got Adobe CS with a bunch of plugins (many plugins possibly pirated).
Don't worry about piracy for the non-professionals; if they like/use your tool, that gives you mindshare. What you really want to be asking is "what will get graphics designers to lay down $5 to $10 for my product when they've already got CS?" When you've answered that question, piracy is no longer an issue (you want to saturate your target market; whether anyone else uses it or not is only useful as advertising, unless it opens up an unforeseen market).
So if your product is for a specific market, make your protection such that they get some sort of a productivity-hindering reminder if they haven't paid, but don't bother going much further than that.
Some people I know had the bright idea of doing "dongleware" -- where the core functionality of the product was free, but training, support and help (including everything but the most rudimentary built-in help) required registration. At $10, this is a no-brainer for anyone trying to get something done. The dongles could still be pirated, but why bother?
While it might be a fitting way for Tom to go, I'd hate to be the one to do that blending, talk about gory. Sounds like the chipper scene in Fargo.
He'd most likely be cremated prior to blending. Blending is actually usually a part of the cremation process.
"I also hope the SFO hands this over to some other competent group"
You do know that the deserved old nickname for the SFO is the Serious Farce Office?
Yes indeed... I see how my addition of "other" could have implications that were unintended. That said, the fact that they've at least admitted this time that they wouldn't be able to do a reliable job gives me some modicum of respect for them. Dealing with Fraud is a thankless and tricky business, as one person's serious fraud is another person's frivolous fraud....
Not enough cats?!
Get rid of excess valuable metals and bring on the fuzzy balls of love!
http://www.catsforgold.com/
+++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start. Mr. Jelly! Mr. Jelly! Error at Address Number 6, Treacle Mine Road. Melon melon melon; +++
It was really the mice; I think the cat ate them, after they ate the cheese.
Well... the thing's name is Titan; I'd say it probably out-did Monster in the gold contacts department. That said, maybe it couldn't handle the high bit-quality and kept getting distracted by being able to hear the imperfections from the original recording equipment....
assuming you're doing professional web development. If you're not, why bother?
Perhaps one is doing amateur web development to build a portfolio to seek a professional web development position. Someone who has yet to move out of his parents' home for the first time or scraping by on unemployment insurance might not be able to afford $650 as an impulse buy.
Amateur web development can be done to amateur standards. Taking a few community college courses in design (at which point you get access to all of the equipment too) would be a definite benefit. Either way, the $650 isn't an impulse buy (I hope) but a business investment. If you're looking to be hired by a business, they look at more than your site portfolio, as they're going to want to train you in their own way of doing things. If you're starting your own business, you're going to need to actually start a business with some capital -- and often that stuff can be used as a tax writeoff.
For people who really don't have the ways and means -- start off with a few non-profit sites; they often have access to the tools, and are a great way to build up a portfolio (they show that you've got your heart in the right place too).
Otherwise, this comes down to the same sour grapes people have regarding paying for Adobe CS to break into DTP, paying for your gear to become a hairdresser, mechanic, etc. -- it's how life works, and IT stuff is CHEAP compared to most vocations of comparable pay.
Adobe was providing an excellent service on the cheap; there are alternative services out there that people can use as well, as they pointed out. And, as I pointed out, most people can make do with the equipment they already have, a few free to acquire add-ons, and the same kind of know-how they'd need to produce a modern web site of good quality in the first place.
Yes, what you really need is an MSDN subscription... which is a bit silly (and expensive) purely for web development.
Alternatively, you can go for "good enough" and run the various IEs via WINE, and ignore the OS altogether.
$650 for a computer testbed environment that'll run just about everything (and is a decent development platform to boot) seems pretty inexpensive though, assuming you're doing professional web development. If you're not, why bother?
Or... one needs a Mac-compatible VM host with VMs running OS X, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Ubuntu, MiNT, FreeBSD, ChromeOS, Solaris, Android, iOS emulator, and maybe a few other niche OSes. Each VM can be cloned to have exactly one browser on it. Then, you just fire up all the VMs and point the browser at a location. You can even script a VM like VirtualBox to do this automatically, given a master feed, and spit back images of the sites... so you enter a uri into the controller and at the end of the run, get back 30 or so annotated images with logfiles.
Then, if you see something odd, you can manually run the specific VM to get finer-grained insight as to the issue.
Anyone with a moderate knowledge of Javascript and the willingness to set this up can do it -- assuming you've got a Mac and licenses for the various Windows distributions you want to test.
I do this semi-regularly; the only legal way you can do it is with a Mac though, that's true.
UK Govt is now manned by a bunch of corporate whores (even more so than the last bunch) who just want to ensure that the software they're using to discover fraud can be "friendly" to those who are "on the inside".
Last thing a corrupt government wants is any real transparency. The best is some form of translucency, like a shower door or rose-tinted glasses - so what you think you see hides what is really happening.
ok, [/rant]
I didn't RTFA, but I at least read the headlines... which stated that they raised a conflict of interest flag precisely because of the potential for what you said. I just wish more government offices would be this transparent. I also hope the SFO hands this over to some other competent group rather than just dropping it because the company could fiddle with the results of their own investigation.
Personally, I'd still like to see Autonomy's analysis of their own books -- if they find themselves guilty, it'll be hard for the company in the short term, but extremely good advertising for them in the longer term (yes, we're good enough that we can even catch our own finance and marketing departments' shenanigans and not mess with the data!)
Agreed... wrong way to go on both sides. Religious groups saying "Scientists have proven the existence of God!" and anti-religion groups saying "Scientists have proven that "God" is nothing more than a fluctuation in the energy field of reality!"
Both could be true or false, but are completely outside the issue at hand. What would people have done if we'd called it the Nietzsche particle?
Command Console doesn't have simple highlight / copy / paste functionality.
Yes it does; it's just disabled by default (?!?!?!)
When the default application isn't set for a document type, the first choice that's provided in the resulting pop-up is "Do you want to wander around on the web to find an application that can open this document?" rather than the option of selecting an application from the list of installed applications.
This, surprisingly, is configurable too. Once again, stupid default, but can be changed on an entire enterprise if you desire with a simple policy update.
In SQL Server Management Studio, when you have multiple sessions open, they are tabbed. Even when you only have two or three tabs, the tabs are scrunched horizontally such that you can't read the labels, which usually start with the server name, then the database name. So, if you have six sessions all connecting to different databases on 'foo' server, all six tabs are labelled 'foo...'. Sure, that's not the OS, but that is an example of Redmond not giving a shit to produce quality usability in ways that would be trivially simple.
I could point to similar things wrong with Oracle and the various half-baked front ends to Postgres, MySQL and NoSQL. That's not even getting into the mess that is Hadoop front ends....
I've used Macs for 29 years; I've used Debian for 15 years... and I've used Windows for 17 years. Windows 7 has its annoying bits, but the points you made are not among them.
I'm still a "Windows in the enterprise, Debian Linux on the servers, OS X at home" person, and probably will be for some time to come.