To heck with subsidizing the zero-emission vehicles, just stop subsidizing the oil companies. That will reduce the attraction of oil by enough that zero-emission vehicles will look more economical to all.
Right-winger, pro-big-business, not a fan of government subsidies including the oil subsidies, and seriously thinking about getting a new car, and this time it'll be a hybrid.
It depends on how smart the phisher is. If they take the password then redirect to the real MySpace account (to avoid arousing suspicions among even the gullable) where they can try again, there won't be many second-tries.
If I were of low enough moral character to phish, that'd be what I'd do, anyway.
Side note: "your" freedom of speech is one predicated on government involvement. Specifically, the lack therein. It does not, however, compel a newspaper to print your article or letter to the editor. It merely prevents the government (in theory) deciding for the newspaper that it won't. The newspaper is still free to deny your article for any reason, whether trivial (it spelled "its" wrong) or conspiratorial ("for the common good").
Similarly, ISPs are free to restrict who gets to use their service. (Of course, there are other repercussions here - if they take an overtly active role in this, for example, they lose common-carrier status, and thus become liable for everything, where "overtly" and "active" are loosely defined based on case law.) If GoDaddy doesn't want to provide service to pornographers or spammers, that's their business. If GoDaddy has a weak stomach for lawsuits, that, too, is their business. However, even if they do have a strong stomach for lawsuits, their TOS says that they reserve the right to make decisions to terminate service unilaterally based on their perception of the lawsuit. The "with or without merit" part is simply a cover-your-ass statement that says that you and they could even disagree about the winnability of a lawsuit, but they still get to make the call. That's there just because someone got sued at some point in the past for doing something like capitulating over what turned out to be nothing, I'm sure.
So, please. Do not bring up freedom of speech. Your constitutional amendment to that effect is irrelevant. At least to this situation.
(Disclaimer: nothing in here says you are wrong for disliking GoDaddy. Just as you're free to express your view, I am mine. I'm not preventing you from blaming free speech - just trying to explain it a bit more.)
So you manage your finances well. Awesome. Why don't you prove it? Instead of whining about the game, play it to your full advantage.
Since I got my first credit card in university, I've put everything I can on them. And nothing that I can't. (Well, except when we first moved into our new home - couldn't quite afford the move and the new appliances, but then I paid that all off with my line of credit with much better interest rates.) The only times I ever carry a balance is if I forget to pay.
Now, ten years later, if I feel the need to do something credit-based, I have basically no worries. Companies constantly are trying to offer me more credit. I just refuse them with a "sorry - I have all the credit I can afford right now." They generally don't push it. But, if I did want a new card or additional credit for some reason, I should have no problems getting it.
Turns out that it could help me find a job, I suppose. All because I played their game with their rules to my advantage.
Side note: Personally, I get that some people run into tough times and can't afford emergencies that come up, and that insurance companies couldn't possibly act any less ethically without actually causing "accidents" that they don't cover ("acts of God... and our paid shills"). I don't really see why companies should be using this as a tool in the hiring process. But for those with good credit, I also don't see any reason not to play the game to their own advantage. Get a low-credit credit card. Use it. Pay it off. Accumulate points for free stuff. And improve your credit score, all at no actual cost to you (no fees, no interest, free stuff).
You're not wrong about that. However, it's a delicate game to play. If you present a "documentary" that shows both sides in a debate where only one side is getting any airplay otherwise, you extend legitimacy to that side.
Instead, you must do what your grade-school teachers told you to do: present the other side point by point, and refute them. In this day and age, you must do so in rapid succession, since the attention span of your viewer is really short - you need to get the rebuttal in before they've forgotten the point you're rebutting, otherwise they'll just have internalised and accepted the point as valid which is exactly the opposite of what you're trying to do.
I'd propose that this is difficult - and perhaps a biased opinion towards what you want to get across is the only way to get it across.
Not that Japan is complaining about it, but one problem is when patented GM food cross-germinates, as nature is wont to do from time to time, with neighbour's non-GM food, and then the neighbour gets sued for not buying a license for said patent.
(Note - I'm staunchly right-wing and pro-business. I have my name attached to two patent applications. And this disgusts me.)
It's not that the radio waves escaped to public property where someone could read them. It's that he sent his own radio waves back in return, in a direct effort to use their property for his gain, without permission. Is there a direct law here? Probably not. But they probably could make do. Do I want them to? No - I think people should take responsibility for their own property and properly secure their network.
On the other hand, loitering may be a reasonable charge - knowing there's a creepy guy standing outside your favourite coffee shop's entrance may scare some customers away. Especially now that they know he's a convicted sex offender.
I wonder - if the key were two-part, would that help? One part being the 4096-bit key mandated by the XO of the airfield in question, and thus backed up at the air base (and changed daily using some real random data source), and the other part being some phrase chosen by someone in a completely different role - say the the maintenance personnel who last dealt with the aircraft? Might make the info on the disk a bit more difficult to retrieve should the RAM key be lost but the disk recovered. Compromising both keys at the same time for the same aircraft would be incredibly unlikely. Especially if the rules are that the maintenance person is not allowed to tell anyone the key - even his/her commanding officer - without the harddrive in his/her possession.
Of course, with my luck, some moron will choose the disk's serial number as their key...
You need to watch the whole thing. At the beginning, it shows 3,000. At the end, due to the new "perpendicular technology", it increased to 30,000. I'm actually pretty impressed, however, that they managed to download 27,000 files in that short span of time;-)
Nonono. You have a CD full of random bits. Then you write "Foo Fighters" or "Madonna" or something on it. Make it look like your average P2P-ripped CD. No one would know.
And some might argue that the sound quality might not be much different.;-)
To be honest, the reason why we got an HDPVR this Christmas (and we don't have an HD TV!) was largely based on being able to set a show to record, and then watching the show 15 minutes late and still finishing on time. I'm not sure where I'm even going to notice Google's ads - the remote control has a convenient "skip" button that instantly skips 30 seconds. A few hits to the skip button, and I'm watching my show again.
I can see where Google will make money on this. But I'm hoping not to see any of it.
I think this trend is why we're seeing more in-show advertising (seeing a character drink a Coke or Pepsi, with the brand made very obvious in the shot). Google is betting on things going the way they have been going for the last 20 years with the addition of their technology instead of betting on the way things are already going now into the future (ease of skipping commercials). Seems like a relatively boneheaded move to me, from a company not very well known for making boneheaded decisions...
I suppose I'm one of the (relatively) hardliners. I don't object to stem cell research, only the stem cell research that, as WheelDweller says, results in the death of children to produce.
According to Wikipedia (which is not exactly one of my favourite places to get information):
[T]here are a number of clinically proven adult stem cell successes.
and
To date there is no evidence that any medical treatments have been successfully derived from embryonic stem cell research.
As far as we know, there are no clinical uses for embryonic stem cells. All successes have come from adult stem cell research. I say, cut our losses (both financial and ethical) and focus on what works. Let's find all the uses possible from adult stem cells before we revisit any ethical dilemmas about killing children for their stem cells to deal with other problems.
As for the original story, I say great! Combine this with using one's own ("adult") stem cells, and we should have an easier time getting our successes to work consistantly.
Most readers probably only got as far as "You shouldn't blame CNN" before sighing with relief (that CNN isn't a bad guy) and moving on to the next post. You need to get your point across in succinct sound bites.
In public positions, such as the face (lead) of a research team, it's not just enough to be ethical. You must appear to be ethical, too. A cover-up can go either way. Receiving "donations" from those strictly under your command could be voluntary, or coerced. Appearances of being ethical are often more important than actually being ethical. Same goes for politicians, deans of universities, and teachers. Have you ever heard of a teacher spending a lot of time one-on-one with a student of the opposite sex to help them, find themselves wrongly accused of a heinous crime, then vindicated, but still unable to find a new job? Appearances matter.
I'm not saying it's fair. Just that it is what it is.
How do you reset the root password on a server when you don't know the current root password?
Sorry - no can do. I work from remote.
(Generally speaking, if one of my unix/linux boxes stops responding, I send a note to one of my teammates and they go give the machine a kick. Er, reboot.)
I hate to break it to ya, but Canada has a constitution, too. Instituted in 1982, if I remember my history correctly. (There was also the British North America Act of 1867 which basically created Canada, but that was subsumed in the Constitution Act of 1982 so that Canada would have control over its own constitution rather than Britain as it was prior to 1982.) Not sure about New Zealand.
Oh, and some provinces have these stupid cameras, too. Both in vans and in those traffic cameras. Only been dinged once by them, but hated them even before that. It's so obvious it's a cash grab by the way they hide the vans and where they hide the vans...
I had to move an old RH6.2 box to WinXP just a couple weeks ago. (/usr was missing - so after the last power outage, it wouldn't come back up, and the wife wanted a windows box in the house.) Oh, man, what a pain. I had less trouble getting Gentoo up and running on a fresh box! (Admittedly, the XP install took less time than Gentoo, but I watched a movie while waiting for Gentoo to finish compiling the core, and had a couple days to do other things while X/KDE compiled.)
First, the box couldn't boot off that CD. Had to install NT4 first, just to get Windows at all.
NT4 didn't recognise the network card, so I had no network. XP install wouldn't work without SP3. Back to the gentoo box, download SP3, burn to CD.
Apply SP3.
Insert XP CD again. Every once in a while, XP would stop to ask me more questions (why couldn't they ask these questions all at once?).
Eventually, got to a working system, installed more stuff, all was fine. Lost track of the number of reboots, though. Gentoo only had two: one to run from the LiveCD, and the second to run from the hard disk. (OS/2... now that had a pathetic number of reboots - but at least you didn't need to stick around for them after the first reboot - they asked some questions to start, then a bit later it'd reboot, and ask all the rest of the questions, and then reboot a half-dozen or so times, but no more questions.)
I'm not convinced XP is easy to install. I'm betting that if I sat my wife down on a brand new machine with a working CD (thus XP would boot off CD properly), and all the instructions at her fingertips, and I were away for the weekend (so she couldn't ask me questions;->), she'd actually have an easier time with Gentoo. And THAT is scary.
Mind you, if I did the same to my mother, she'd just freak out without trying anything. There's no such thing as "easy enough" for her.:-)
"If you have patents" doesn't seem to be the defining feature of the group. The defining feature seems to be "if you won't sue open source over use of any of your patents." If you have 0 patents, you're not likely to sue anyone, are you.
Think of the KDE foundation. Allowing them to use these patents is the whole purpose of the excersise. That they probably have no patents themselves is irrelevant. Yet, to be truly open, they are allowing other entities (such as commercial operations) to use these patents as well, allowing use of these patents in any way anyone wants to use them. The only restriction is that you must accept the GPL-like manifesto: you cannot restrict others from using these patents, or restrict any open source software from using pretty much any of the rest of your patents. GPL-like because it sounds viral to me. Even if you don't use an OIN patent with one of your patents, just inviting one of the OIN patents into your business makes all of your patents fair game to open source. That's even more viral than the GPL - and what is amazing is that this is being pushed by some companies that have the most to lose in this endeavour, including IBM who seems to take pride in producing the most patents per year of any company in the world. Obviously, they see some monetary value for their shareholders in doing so, otherwise they couldn't legally do it. And that monetary value must be in the value of IBM's linux services (DB2/Information Management, Websphere, Rational, Tivoli) and linux hardware (xSeries, pSeries, iSeries, zSeries).
Quick version of resume (skipping languages I don't know enough to use): C, C++, Java, shell, Perl (admittedly, no PHP nor Ruby). Quick version of what I use on a day-to-day basis: Perl. Monolingual? Yes. But that's because I'm 100x more productive in Perl than any other language I've learned thus far. Favourite language? C++. But I use perl to get my job done now rather than later.
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To heck with subsidizing the zero-emission vehicles, just stop subsidizing the oil companies. That will reduce the attraction of oil by enough that zero-emission vehicles will look more economical to all.
Right-winger, pro-big-business, not a fan of government subsidies including the oil subsidies, and seriously thinking about getting a new car, and this time it'll be a hybrid.
It depends on how smart the phisher is. If they take the password then redirect to the real MySpace account (to avoid arousing suspicions among even the gullable) where they can try again, there won't be many second-tries.
If I were of low enough moral character to phish, that'd be what I'd do, anyway.
Side note: "your" freedom of speech is one predicated on government involvement. Specifically, the lack therein. It does not, however, compel a newspaper to print your article or letter to the editor. It merely prevents the government (in theory) deciding for the newspaper that it won't. The newspaper is still free to deny your article for any reason, whether trivial (it spelled "its" wrong) or conspiratorial ("for the common good").
Similarly, ISPs are free to restrict who gets to use their service. (Of course, there are other repercussions here - if they take an overtly active role in this, for example, they lose common-carrier status, and thus become liable for everything, where "overtly" and "active" are loosely defined based on case law.) If GoDaddy doesn't want to provide service to pornographers or spammers, that's their business. If GoDaddy has a weak stomach for lawsuits, that, too, is their business. However, even if they do have a strong stomach for lawsuits, their TOS says that they reserve the right to make decisions to terminate service unilaterally based on their perception of the lawsuit. The "with or without merit" part is simply a cover-your-ass statement that says that you and they could even disagree about the winnability of a lawsuit, but they still get to make the call. That's there just because someone got sued at some point in the past for doing something like capitulating over what turned out to be nothing, I'm sure.
So, please. Do not bring up freedom of speech. Your constitutional amendment to that effect is irrelevant. At least to this situation.
(Disclaimer: nothing in here says you are wrong for disliking GoDaddy. Just as you're free to express your view, I am mine. I'm not preventing you from blaming free speech - just trying to explain it a bit more.)
So you manage your finances well. Awesome. Why don't you prove it? Instead of whining about the game, play it to your full advantage.
Since I got my first credit card in university, I've put everything I can on them. And nothing that I can't. (Well, except when we first moved into our new home - couldn't quite afford the move and the new appliances, but then I paid that all off with my line of credit with much better interest rates.) The only times I ever carry a balance is if I forget to pay.
Now, ten years later, if I feel the need to do something credit-based, I have basically no worries. Companies constantly are trying to offer me more credit. I just refuse them with a "sorry - I have all the credit I can afford right now." They generally don't push it. But, if I did want a new card or additional credit for some reason, I should have no problems getting it.
Turns out that it could help me find a job, I suppose. All because I played their game with their rules to my advantage.
Side note: Personally, I get that some people run into tough times and can't afford emergencies that come up, and that insurance companies couldn't possibly act any less ethically without actually causing "accidents" that they don't cover ("acts of God ... and our paid shills"). I don't really see why companies should be using this as a tool in the hiring process. But for those with good credit, I also don't see any reason not to play the game to their own advantage. Get a low-credit credit card. Use it. Pay it off. Accumulate points for free stuff. And improve your credit score, all at no actual cost to you (no fees, no interest, free stuff).
You're not wrong about that. However, it's a delicate game to play. If you present a "documentary" that shows both sides in a debate where only one side is getting any airplay otherwise, you extend legitimacy to that side.
Instead, you must do what your grade-school teachers told you to do: present the other side point by point, and refute them. In this day and age, you must do so in rapid succession, since the attention span of your viewer is really short - you need to get the rebuttal in before they've forgotten the point you're rebutting, otherwise they'll just have internalised and accepted the point as valid which is exactly the opposite of what you're trying to do.
I'd propose that this is difficult - and perhaps a biased opinion towards what you want to get across is the only way to get it across.
Seems to be standard here, too.
Not that Japan is complaining about it, but one problem is when patented GM food cross-germinates, as nature is wont to do from time to time, with neighbour's non-GM food, and then the neighbour gets sued for not buying a license for said patent. (Note - I'm staunchly right-wing and pro-business. I have my name attached to two patent applications. And this disgusts me.)
Oddly, Ubuntu was the first non-RPM-based distro that IBM's DB2 supported. Is Ubuntu already getting to that level of enterprise support?
It's not that the radio waves escaped to public property where someone could read them. It's that he sent his own radio waves back in return, in a direct effort to use their property for his gain, without permission. Is there a direct law here? Probably not. But they probably could make do. Do I want them to? No - I think people should take responsibility for their own property and properly secure their network.
On the other hand, loitering may be a reasonable charge - knowing there's a creepy guy standing outside your favourite coffee shop's entrance may scare some customers away. Especially now that they know he's a convicted sex offender.
I wonder - if the key were two-part, would that help? One part being the 4096-bit key mandated by the XO of the airfield in question, and thus backed up at the air base (and changed daily using some real random data source), and the other part being some phrase chosen by someone in a completely different role - say the the maintenance personnel who last dealt with the aircraft? Might make the info on the disk a bit more difficult to retrieve should the RAM key be lost but the disk recovered. Compromising both keys at the same time for the same aircraft would be incredibly unlikely. Especially if the rules are that the maintenance person is not allowed to tell anyone the key - even his/her commanding officer - without the harddrive in his/her possession.
Of course, with my luck, some moron will choose the disk's serial number as their key...
You need to watch the whole thing. At the beginning, it shows 3,000. At the end, due to the new "perpendicular technology", it increased to 30,000. I'm actually pretty impressed, however, that they managed to download 27,000 files in that short span of time ;-)
Nonono. You have a CD full of random bits. Then you write "Foo Fighters" or "Madonna" or something on it. Make it look like your average P2P-ripped CD. No one would know.
And some might argue that the sound quality might not be much different. ;-)
Really? I would have expected that on your way into the US from Canada, you'd be asked if you had any softwood lumber to declare... :-)
To be honest, the reason why we got an HDPVR this Christmas (and we don't have an HD TV!) was largely based on being able to set a show to record, and then watching the show 15 minutes late and still finishing on time. I'm not sure where I'm even going to notice Google's ads - the remote control has a convenient "skip" button that instantly skips 30 seconds. A few hits to the skip button, and I'm watching my show again.
I can see where Google will make money on this. But I'm hoping not to see any of it.
I think this trend is why we're seeing more in-show advertising (seeing a character drink a Coke or Pepsi, with the brand made very obvious in the shot). Google is betting on things going the way they have been going for the last 20 years with the addition of their technology instead of betting on the way things are already going now into the future (ease of skipping commercials). Seems like a relatively boneheaded move to me, from a company not very well known for making boneheaded decisions...
I suppose I'm one of the (relatively) hardliners. I don't object to stem cell research, only the stem cell research that, as WheelDweller says, results in the death of children to produce.
According to Wikipedia (which is not exactly one of my favourite places to get information):
and As far as we know, there are no clinical uses for embryonic stem cells. All successes have come from adult stem cell research. I say, cut our losses (both financial and ethical) and focus on what works. Let's find all the uses possible from adult stem cells before we revisit any ethical dilemmas about killing children for their stem cells to deal with other problems.As for the original story, I say great! Combine this with using one's own ("adult") stem cells, and we should have an easier time getting our successes to work consistantly.
Most readers probably only got as far as "You shouldn't blame CNN" before sighing with relief (that CNN isn't a bad guy) and moving on to the next post. You need to get your point across in succinct sound bites.
"CNN good. Society Bad."
I'm waiting for someone to hit the "undo" button.
In public positions, such as the face (lead) of a research team, it's not just enough to be ethical. You must appear to be ethical, too. A cover-up can go either way. Receiving "donations" from those strictly under your command could be voluntary, or coerced. Appearances of being ethical are often more important than actually being ethical. Same goes for politicians, deans of universities, and teachers. Have you ever heard of a teacher spending a lot of time one-on-one with a student of the opposite sex to help them, find themselves wrongly accused of a heinous crime, then vindicated, but still unable to find a new job? Appearances matter.
I'm not saying it's fair. Just that it is what it is.
Sorry - no can do. I work from remote.
(Generally speaking, if one of my unix/linux boxes stops responding, I send a note to one of my teammates and they go give the machine a kick. Er, reboot.)
I hate to break it to ya, but Canada has a constitution, too. Instituted in 1982, if I remember my history correctly. (There was also the British North America Act of 1867 which basically created Canada, but that was subsumed in the Constitution Act of 1982 so that Canada would have control over its own constitution rather than Britain as it was prior to 1982.) Not sure about New Zealand.
Oh, and some provinces have these stupid cameras, too. Both in vans and in those traffic cameras. Only been dinged once by them, but hated them even before that. It's so obvious it's a cash grab by the way they hide the vans and where they hide the vans...
I had to move an old RH6.2 box to WinXP just a couple weeks ago. (/usr was missing - so after the last power outage, it wouldn't come back up, and the wife wanted a windows box in the house.) Oh, man, what a pain. I had less trouble getting Gentoo up and running on a fresh box! (Admittedly, the XP install took less time than Gentoo, but I watched a movie while waiting for Gentoo to finish compiling the core, and had a couple days to do other things while X/KDE compiled.)
First, the box couldn't boot off that CD. Had to install NT4 first, just to get Windows at all.
NT4 didn't recognise the network card, so I had no network. XP install wouldn't work without SP3. Back to the gentoo box, download SP3, burn to CD.
Apply SP3.
Insert XP CD again. Every once in a while, XP would stop to ask me more questions (why couldn't they ask these questions all at once?).
Eventually, got to a working system, installed more stuff, all was fine. Lost track of the number of reboots, though. Gentoo only had two: one to run from the LiveCD, and the second to run from the hard disk. (OS/2 ... now that had a pathetic number of reboots - but at least you didn't need to stick around for them after the first reboot - they asked some questions to start, then a bit later it'd reboot, and ask all the rest of the questions, and then reboot a half-dozen or so times, but no more questions.)
I'm not convinced XP is easy to install. I'm betting that if I sat my wife down on a brand new machine with a working CD (thus XP would boot off CD properly), and all the instructions at her fingertips, and I were away for the weekend (so she couldn't ask me questions ;->), she'd actually have an easier time with Gentoo. And THAT is scary.
Mind you, if I did the same to my mother, she'd just freak out without trying anything. There's no such thing as "easy enough" for her. :-)
"If you have patents" doesn't seem to be the defining feature of the group. The defining feature seems to be "if you won't sue open source over use of any of your patents." If you have 0 patents, you're not likely to sue anyone, are you.
Think of the KDE foundation. Allowing them to use these patents is the whole purpose of the excersise. That they probably have no patents themselves is irrelevant. Yet, to be truly open, they are allowing other entities (such as commercial operations) to use these patents as well, allowing use of these patents in any way anyone wants to use them. The only restriction is that you must accept the GPL-like manifesto: you cannot restrict others from using these patents, or restrict any open source software from using pretty much any of the rest of your patents. GPL-like because it sounds viral to me. Even if you don't use an OIN patent with one of your patents, just inviting one of the OIN patents into your business makes all of your patents fair game to open source. That's even more viral than the GPL - and what is amazing is that this is being pushed by some companies that have the most to lose in this endeavour, including IBM who seems to take pride in producing the most patents per year of any company in the world. Obviously, they see some monetary value for their shareholders in doing so, otherwise they couldn't legally do it. And that monetary value must be in the value of IBM's linux services (DB2/Information Management, Websphere, Rational, Tivoli) and linux hardware (xSeries, pSeries, iSeries, zSeries).
It only does that if you have Javascript on. Turn it off, then it works fine. Not much to see, but works.
There is a <script> tag inside the title ... somebody's idea of a sick joke - you'd think they'd like the attention and hits...
Much, much too long, I suspect.
Monolingual? Only by choice ;-)
Quick version of resume (skipping languages I don't know enough to use): C, C++, Java, shell, Perl (admittedly, no PHP nor Ruby). Quick version of what I use on a day-to-day basis: Perl. Monolingual? Yes. But that's because I'm 100x more productive in Perl than any other language I've learned thus far. Favourite language? C++. But I use perl to get my job done now rather than later.