> Microsoft's JVM was actually one of the fastest in the day
That day being 7 years ago or so.
Java doesn't have a terrible reputation except from those people who used Java so many years ago and still think it is as cludgy.
Take your comment about Applets for example. As far as most Java developers are concerned Applets are rarely used. The money is on the server/applications side.
> As to up to date, that article has > comments as recent as April of this year, > so it is "up to date" in that sense.
Ahh ok sorry bout that. Most blog'ish type sites have the latest information at the top. Having "Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 08:35:04 -0400" at the top of the page makes it look just out of date and most wouldn't bother reading further if they are given more up to date information.
My only contention with it is I can't really pull the camera out of the computers socket if I don't want to *accidently* leave my web cam on or have someone hack it.
I mean the internet is full of "caught on webcam" stuff.
> Held without trials, already happens in the UK and Northern Ireland
Read your own link. Internment was dropped in 1975.
There are still laws in the UK/Ireland that can allow police to hold people for a set amount of time under terrorism laws. However there is still a time limit on how long you can be held before you have to be charged or let go. As I recall it is 28 days without being charged but your case is reviewed by a judge every 7 days.
Compare that to the US where they don't have to let you go until someone actually finds out you have been taken (and they don't even have to say they have taken someone). The USA also kidnaps people from other countries without the permission of said country. And I am not talking about Iraq, yous lifted someone from Italy recently which screwed up an Italian investigation into terrorism, and the hilarious part is the CIA ran up a huge hotel bill which you the taxpayer paid for.
Oh and saying things like look at the other country they are as bad as us doesn't make your situation any better.
There was a MMORPG that used to play that had nearly a whole clan hacked. Something like 60 or so accounts hacked, stripped bare and/or deleted.
There were more then 60 members, and they couldn't figure out the pattern for the attack. They checked thier servers, the login logs showed no brute forcing at all.
Finally they figured out what had happened. One disgruntled person who hated the clan had created an alt and joined the clan. He played with them for a few months and then asked a question on thier clan forum of "What is your mothers maiden name" in a series of a group of questions. The questions was like a joke email where you guess a number or something.
The point is a large number of people actually posted that information. After that he cross-referenced the email addresses on the forums (to hotmail) and just told them he had lost the password and here is my mothers maiden name.
Once in thier email he told the MMORPG he had forgotten the password, it emailed them. He grabbed that and deleted the email.
You might have the best health care in the world but actually letting people use it is a totally different story.
Some examples.
Ireland: I go to A&E unless its a serious emergency I can expect to be seen in 4-6 hours. Once I do get to a doctor it is generally for anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and I am not kept waiting between x-rays/scans. Price is about 50 euros up front (iirc) and you don't pay again if being seen for the same thing again.
England is not that far off Ireland (although its been a few years since I was in English A&E).
South Korea: I went into A&E. Not serious. Got seen to in 20 minutes. Completly done within the hour. That includes X-Rays. Cost was as I recall worked out to 30 euros including medicines. Paid on my way out.
USA (Boston): Fractured my arm (down the center), in incredible pain. Spent 20 minutes just to be seen to prove I had insurance. Once then I had to wait 2 hours to be seen by triage who gave me an icepack and pain killer. 3 hours later I get taken for x-rays, another 4 hours after that I finally get to see a doctor for all of 15 minutes who just gives me some tablets and a prescription. Then told I can go. 3 months later despite claiming I had insurance and them billing my insurance company they then went out and sent me a bill for over $300 for the hospital visit. Took some back and fro on the phone to point out it was already paid (and they me a reminder in that time).
> It doesn't matter! The entrepeneurial profits stay in America.
and thats the state you are in now. Companies American in name only while most of the work is outsourced to other countries. It is only a matter of time before they start cutting out the middle man. Or worse the US no longer becomes viable to work in and they just up and move to the EU or another country.
After all am I going to buy a US laptop for $4000 or Chinese one for 1/10th the cost. Of course the US might start introducing protectionism to stop its consumers from buying the cheaper stuff (bit like US Steel) but it will do nothing but raise the prices of everything at home and lock you off from possible better products at a comparable price.
>I don't say you should buy a crappy American product in >place of a high quality Chinese product. But there are >plenty of comparably or better built laptops in the >domestic market.
Name one machine that has all its parts constructed and assembled in the USA, or if you have problems with that name one machine that has no parts in it that originated from China.
> There is a difference between buying a laptop from a > company where the profits of the entire laptop sale > itself go to the company vs. the profits of the > entire laptop sale go to the Chinese government.
Err, what are you on about? Lenovo is not owned by the Chinese government, nor does its profits go to the Chinese government (least nothing over and beyond what IBM would of had to pay when they owned them).
Yea what is up with that? It is almost as bad as that guy who would post his own blog which linked off to the actual stories just so he could get ad revenue.
What about say a taxi driver who drives a 100 or so miles to drop a guy off in an area, is then picked up because he is a stranger in said area and handed over to the US troops saying he is a member of the taliban, the troops who give a $5000 reward for capturing him.
Meanwhile this guy spends a year or so in a camp in Afganistan, survive a train ride of hell (where many die), only to be shipped off to gitmo for 9 months to live in a cage and only then being released back to his country never once being charged of anything or going to trial.
Of course hes the lucky one. There was another reported incident of a person being held for two years. When returning home to find because no one knew where he was he had no job, no home and his family were poor.
And there have been over 200 such people let go from that camp and there are still many more in that camp under the same conditions not to mention children.
But as Bush says "They are there because they are bad people". We also won't have to worry when they finally get approval for the death chamber because any mistakes can be removed.
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Yea I am wondering if they should put it back into BETA. Google betas are much more stable.:) At the moment it has taken 3 minutes just to get the calendar screen.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who had to support an application for the the Israeli military. Over the phone they finally realised that he needed to be at the machine to fix it. Took months getting approval.
When he finally got approved he was allowed enter as far some guard post, at which point another guy came out and talked to him through a fence. He never once saw the machine.
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He wasn't talking about applets at all which was the whole point.
> Microsoft's JVM was actually one of the fastest in the day
That day being 7 years ago or so.
Java doesn't have a terrible reputation except from those people who used Java so many years ago and still think it is as cludgy.
Take your comment about Applets for example. As far as most Java developers are concerned Applets are rarely used. The money is on the server/applications side.
This is how I read the report.
1) Don't drink coffee.
2) Expect to be spammed to death around coffee times.
3) Co-workers will be more susceptible when I See them with thier coffee.
4) Marketing companies suggest putting coffee into foodstuffs/water supply (give them time).
> As to up to date, that article has
> comments as recent as April of this year,
> so it is "up to date" in that sense.
Ahh ok sorry bout that. Most blog'ish type sites have the latest information at the top. Having "Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 08:35:04 -0400" at the top of the page makes it look just out of date and most wouldn't bother reading further if they are given more up to date information.
Its not so much the errors. Its the results that are stupid.
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For example. After getting Live to work I asked it this question.
"Which is better windows or linux?"
The first result is
"Linux sucks..." - Written in 2001.
http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/873.html
I tried the same on google.
"Windows vs Linux comparison" - Last updated 2006.
http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Linux.vs.Windows.h
Swapping Windows + Linux gets different results however Google appeared to understand what I was searching for and more up to date and relevent.
Also live wouldn't let me center mouse click for tabs.
My only contention with it is I can't really pull the camera out of the computers socket if I don't want to *accidently* leave my web cam on or have someone hack it.
I mean the internet is full of "caught on webcam" stuff.
> Held without trials, already happens in the UK and Northern Ireland
Read your own link. Internment was dropped in 1975.
There are still laws in the UK/Ireland that can allow police to hold people for a set amount of time under terrorism laws. However there is still a time limit on how long you can be held before you have to be charged or let go. As I recall it is 28 days without being charged but your case is reviewed by a judge every 7 days.
Compare that to the US where they don't have to let you go until someone actually finds out you have been taken (and they don't even have to say they have taken someone). The USA also kidnaps people from other countries without the permission of said country. And I am not talking about Iraq, yous lifted someone from Italy recently which screwed up an Italian investigation into terrorism, and the hilarious part is the CIA ran up a huge hotel bill which you the taxpayer paid for.
Oh and saying things like look at the other country they are as bad as us doesn't make your situation any better.
> and not to be able to brag too much about what they have done.
:)
TBH I think thats how they caught him.
There was a MMORPG that used to play that had nearly a whole clan hacked. Something like 60 or so accounts hacked, stripped bare and/or deleted.
There were more then 60 members, and they couldn't figure out the pattern for the attack. They checked thier servers, the login logs showed no brute forcing at all.
Finally they figured out what had happened. One disgruntled person who hated the clan had created an alt and joined the clan. He played with them for a few months and then asked a question on thier clan forum of "What is your mothers maiden name" in a series of a group of questions. The questions was like a joke email where you guess a number or something.
The point is a large number of people actually posted that information. After that he cross-referenced the email addresses on the forums (to hotmail) and just told them he had lost the password and here is my mothers maiden name.
Once in thier email he told the MMORPG he had forgotten the password, it emailed them. He grabbed that and deleted the email.
Social hacking wins over passwords.
You might have the best health care in the world but actually letting people use it is a totally different story.
Some examples.
Ireland: I go to A&E unless its a serious emergency I can expect to be seen in 4-6 hours. Once I do get to a doctor it is generally for anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and I am not kept waiting between x-rays/scans. Price is about 50 euros up front (iirc) and you don't pay again if being seen for the same thing again.
England is not that far off Ireland (although its been a few years since I was in English A&E).
South Korea: I went into A&E. Not serious. Got seen to in 20 minutes. Completly done within the hour. That includes X-Rays. Cost was as I recall worked out to 30 euros including medicines. Paid on my way out.
USA (Boston): Fractured my arm (down the center), in incredible pain. Spent 20 minutes just to be seen to prove I had insurance. Once then I had to wait 2 hours to be seen by triage who gave me an icepack and pain killer. 3 hours later I get taken for x-rays, another 4 hours after that I finally get to see a doctor for all of 15 minutes who just gives me some tablets and a prescription. Then told I can go. 3 months later despite claiming I had insurance and them billing my insurance company they then went out and sent me a bill for over $300 for the hospital visit. Took some back and fro on the phone to point out it was already paid (and they me a reminder in that time).
So best health system in the world? I think not.
"public" does not mean the all government party. The current shares count is about 27% owned by the chinese government.
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http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2006/04/09/pc
> It doesn't matter! The entrepeneurial profits stay in America.
and thats the state you are in now. Companies American in name only while most of the work is outsourced to other countries. It is only a matter of time before they start cutting out the middle man. Or worse the US no longer becomes viable to work in and they just up and move to the EU or another country.
After all am I going to buy a US laptop for $4000 or Chinese one for 1/10th the cost. Of course the US might start introducing protectionism to stop its consumers from buying the cheaper stuff (bit like US Steel) but it will do nothing but raise the prices of everything at home and lock you off from possible better products at a comparable price.
> Reality check: Lenovo IS government owned.
No its not. They have 27% shares in it. Thats all.
> I won't buy their laptop's because they haven't proven themselves.
Who do you think were making all those IBM thinkpads for all those years? Nothings changed except the branding.
>I don't say you should buy a crappy American product in
>place of a high quality Chinese product. But there are
>plenty of comparably or better built laptops in the
>domestic market.
Name one machine that has all its parts constructed and assembled in the USA, or if you have problems with that name one machine that has no parts in it that originated from China.
> There is a difference between buying a laptop from a
> company where the profits of the entire laptop sale
> itself go to the company vs. the profits of the
> entire laptop sale go to the Chinese government.
Err, what are you on about? Lenovo is not owned by the Chinese government, nor does its profits go to the Chinese government (least nothing over and beyond what IBM would of had to pay when they owned them).
Your bosses seem a bit thick.
why not just block them at the router level? or am I missing something obvious?
>I, like you, missed the entire point of myspace for a few months.
r /play.jhtml?itemId=59182
I thought the point of it was to keep these sort of people who post there contained within one URL so we don't accidently end up on them.
Although the dailyshow best summed it up...
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_playe
yea right.. You have been paying attention the last 6 years? Or even a 5 second google?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2979076
http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/world/americas/303
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=5565
You know.. I really wish I could make this shit up.
Yea what is up with that? It is almost as bad as that guy who would post his own blog which linked off to the actual stories just so he could get ad revenue.
What about say a taxi driver who drives a 100 or so miles to drop a guy off in an area, is then picked up because he is a stranger in said area and handed over to the US troops saying he is a member of the taliban, the troops who give a $5000 reward for capturing him.
Meanwhile this guy spends a year or so in a camp in Afganistan, survive a train ride of hell (where many die), only to be shipped off to gitmo for 9 months to live in a cage and only then being released back to his country never once being charged of anything or going to trial.
Of course hes the lucky one. There was another reported incident of a person being held for two years. When returning home to find because no one knew where he was he had no job, no home and his family were poor.
And there have been over 200 such people let go from that camp and there are still many more in that camp under the same conditions not to mention children.
But as Bush says "They are there because they are bad people". We also won't have to worry when they finally get approval for the death chamber because any mistakes can be removed.
Yea I am wondering if they should put it back into BETA. Google betas are much more stable. :) At the moment it has taken 3 minutes just to get the calendar screen.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who had to support an application for the the Israeli military. Over the phone they finally realised that he needed to be at the machine to fix it. Took months getting approval.
When he finally got approved he was allowed enter as far some guard post, at which point another guy came out and talked to him through a fence. He never once saw the machine.
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
FRY: Oh. What's it called now?
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Urectum.
One thing that gets me is that if he had never made that video he would never of gotten to meet Lucas.