I'll gradually start e.g. signing emails with my real name; that avoids trouble and lets me get some credit for my actual self.
Surely it's always possible to claim credit for pseudononymous work -- if someone disbelieves you wrote it then just say you'll checkin a comment line of their choice to SVN?
I sure hope these things are less than $100... hell, less than $10 for that matter. I sure as hell don't think we need to waste that kind of money on stuff the enemy might take home as a souvenir.
From the army which are spending $25,000 per shot on their grenades? Dream on.
I'm always using my real name when commiting any patches to the Wine project. Negative side is that I can be found quite quickly in Google, but maybe I'll get famous at some point:P
You also get a bit more [longer-lasting] copyright protection if you use a real name?
The first shuttle mission was in 1981 - 27 years ago. You'd hope that in all that time, NASA would've cracked the major problems and the number of issues being raised now would be close to zero
Presumably they keep changing it to carry different types of stuff into different types of space?
I don't often ride to the rescue of MSFT but if people are going to ignore updates and continue to run unpatched IE5 on Windows 2000.. what would you have them do?
Write it correctly the first time?
Prioritise security over trying to out-politick a court?
Use simple published protocols in preference to ones designed to make it harder for competitors to reverse-engineer?
Or alternatively they could just patch their shit every tuesday and blame the users for not spending their entire monthly bandwidth on software upgrades, that works too...
It's the same where I live ( the UK ) Radio shack are no longer interested in supplying components, just crap white goods. I can understand why though; whats the profit margin on a resistor?
Probably quite a lot, seeing as Maplin are selling LEDs for £1.20 that are available online (in ones, not even buying bulk) for £0.15
Better campaigns get better press coverage. I know that sounds crazy, but generally people doing a good job get better reviews then people doing a bad job.
Exactly. They both got more coverage than McKinney's campaign (e.g. not even mentioned in this comparison for a start), almost as if number of news stories was proportional to money spent
With BSD I have source code. I have a kernel I control. I have a window system that supports network display of applications natively. All my tools work from the command line, instead of having to do things from often-limiting GUIs
One of my favorite emacsisms a long time ago was ange-ftp, and the modern descendant, tramp, is one of my current faves. It lets you edit remote files over lots of protocols, including: ssh, scp, ftp, rsync, ftp, and smb.
Seems to lose your context/edits if the SSH connection is dropped while you're editing though?
compare to editing with kate over a fish:// connection (again, insert juvenile jokes here), which lets you retry or save locally after a dropped SSH connection
problem with kate over fish being, that it deletes remote file before overwriting it, which can be inconvenient/dangerous
The oddest thing is, how come just knowing someone's account number is sufficient to withdraw money? that's like a username without a password (especially if account numbers are generated sequentially). does Knuth's bank not do any authentication of who they give money to?
polygraphs are used in criminal investigations and employment decisions (namely, government security services) and police and prosecutors often try to get the results admitted in court as evidence.
Couldn't this easily be mitigated with an encrypted keyboard link?
If your definition of "easy" involves persuading your PC supplier to ship with the most niche market of keyboards ever... (can you even buy DVORAK from dell, nevermind tempest-resistant?)
And if you don't mind the keyboard only working on a particular OS (at least until encrypted-USB-HID protocols become common enough to be standardised)
When signing up for a new mobile phone contract, you're pretty much asked for two forms of identifications, such as a driving license, passport, utility bills, etc. so this is nothing new.
That's because the mobile phone contract will be collecting money from you for the next 2 years and if you disappear they lose out so they want to know who you are.
By contrast, you can buy a SIM card with cash with nobody asking who you are (unless the shop is trying its chances at getting an address for their spam mail) because you pay in advance therefore you don't owe any further money to the shop, therefore they don't need to know who you are.
So...
(1) THIS *IS* NEW (contrary to your attempts to deny it by comparison with what private companies choose to do when they give you credit)
(2) Why in every civil-liberties story is there always someone to pop-up with a justification based on government's previous bad behaviour?
* "this isn't so much worse than what they have already" - one step at a time
* "they were already doing that but illegally, so this isn't new"
* "some other government is already doing this, so it isn't new"
* "the other political party agrees with them, so anyone who complains is a hypocrite"
* "the government did this before [during a war], so it isn't new"
Just because something resembles authoritarian behaviour of the past doesn't mean it should be accepted, quite the opposite.
Sorry to hijack your point, but I picked up Dead Space yesterday mainly due to the decent reviews it was getting and the fact that it shared a lot with SS2 (RPG elements, sci-fi setting, horror) and about 3-4 hours in I'm sorely disappointed.
And those reviews would have been.. slashvertisements, guerilla marketing, and astroturfing?
and here I was looking forward to this phone for the reason I would be able to add whatever apps I wanted.
Which is exactly what the OpenMoko crowd were telling everyone when android was first announced. It's not an open platform, it's not free software, and the people who thought it filled the OM niche will have wasted their time when they finally discover android's license agreements
In the UK. We're fine. Most of our data has already been stored in a government hard drive and left on a train seat somewhere, and it's not like we have any money in our bank accounts anyway.
You mean, you had 10000 in your bank account before the government decided to "insure" it at a cost to each tapayer of 10000?
well it should prove *very* easy for them to insure the remainder....
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I'll gradually start e.g. signing emails with my real name; that avoids trouble and lets me get some credit for my actual self.
Surely it's always possible to claim credit for pseudononymous work -- if someone disbelieves you wrote it then just say you'll checkin a comment line of their choice to SVN?
I see televised golf tournaments becoming much more interesting.
As if there were some other direction for them to go...
I sure hope these things are less than $100... hell, less than $10 for that matter. I sure as hell don't think we need to waste that kind of money on stuff the enemy might take home as a souvenir.
From the army which are spending $25,000 per shot on their grenades? Dream on.
I'm always using my real name when commiting any patches to the Wine project. :P
Negative side is that I can be found quite quickly in Google, but maybe I'll get famous at some point
You also get a bit more [longer-lasting] copyright protection if you use a real name?
The first shuttle mission was in 1981 - 27 years ago. You'd hope that in all that time, NASA would've cracked the major problems and the number of issues being raised now would be close to zero
Presumably they keep changing it to carry different types of stuff into different types of space?
Just print the symbol onto your song...
The Lego plastic is actually superior, and the quality of the molds must be better, too.
They were pretty famous for being obsessive about mold quality and tolerances
slashdot article about manufacture:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/21/1716239
I don't often ride to the rescue of MSFT but if people are going to ignore updates and continue to run unpatched IE5 on Windows 2000.. what would you have them do?
Write it correctly the first time?
Prioritise security over trying to out-politick a court?
Use simple published protocols in preference to ones designed to make it harder for competitors to reverse-engineer?
Or alternatively they could just patch their shit every tuesday and blame the users for not spending their entire monthly bandwidth on software upgrades, that works too...
It's the same where I live ( the UK )
Radio shack are no longer interested in supplying components, just crap white goods. I can understand why though; whats the profit margin on a resistor?
Probably quite a lot, seeing as Maplin are selling LEDs for £1.20 that are available online (in ones, not even buying bulk) for £0.15
The fact that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents ... is non-zero length seems worrying enough just on its own...
"oops!" said each of the people holding nuclear bombs...
why you escape the +?
Obama ran a better campaign?
Better campaigns get better press coverage. I know that sounds crazy, but generally people doing a good job get better reviews then people doing a bad job.
Exactly. They both got more coverage than McKinney's campaign (e.g. not even mentioned in this comparison for a start), almost as if number of news stories was proportional to money spent
so dark in the evening = watch TV instead of gardening = more energy use?
may be onto something there...
Tell that to someone who's used BSD.
With BSD I have source code. I have a kernel I control. I have a window system that supports network display of applications natively. All my tools work from the command line, instead of having to do things from often-limiting GUIs
BSD? Is that like gentoo?
One of my favorite emacsisms a long time ago was ange-ftp, and the modern descendant, tramp, is one of my current faves. It lets you edit remote files over lots of protocols, including: ssh, scp, ftp, rsync, ftp, and smb.
Seems to lose your context/edits if the SSH connection is dropped while you're editing though?
compare to editing with kate over a fish:// connection (again, insert juvenile jokes here), which lets you retry or save locally after a dropped SSH connection
problem with kate over fish being, that it deletes remote file before overwriting it, which can be inconvenient/dangerous
The oddest thing is, how come just knowing someone's account number is sufficient to withdraw money? that's like a username without a password (especially if account numbers are generated sequentially). does Knuth's bank not do any authentication of who they give money to?
polygraphs are used in criminal investigations and employment decisions (namely, government security services) and police and prosecutors often try to get the results admitted in court as evidence.
Doesn't make them any less of a fraud
I don't know what the problem is. Maybe bin Ladin won and has successfully destroyed the Western culture he hates so much.
Appropriate caption, we haz it...
It's a lot easier to just put your name on a Do Not Call list. Since I've done that I've had virtually zero telemarketer calls.
So you're on the DNC list and you still get telemarketer calls? Not really working then is it?
Couldn't this easily be mitigated with an encrypted keyboard link?
If your definition of "easy" involves persuading your PC supplier to ship with the most niche market of keyboards ever... (can you even buy DVORAK from dell, nevermind tempest-resistant?)
And if you don't mind the keyboard only working on a particular OS (at least until encrypted-USB-HID protocols become common enough to be standardised)
Does DVORAK keyboard send the same codes over its USB cable?
When signing up for a new mobile phone contract, you're pretty much asked for two forms of identifications, such as a driving license, passport, utility bills, etc. so this is nothing new.
That's because the mobile phone contract will be collecting money from you for the next 2 years and if you disappear they lose out so they want to know who you are.
By contrast, you can buy a SIM card with cash with nobody asking who you are (unless the shop is trying its chances at getting an address for their spam mail) because you pay in advance therefore you don't owe any further money to the shop, therefore they don't need to know who you are.
So...
(1) THIS *IS* NEW (contrary to your attempts to deny it by comparison with what private companies choose to do when they give you credit)
(2) Why in every civil-liberties story is there always someone to pop-up with a justification based on government's previous bad behaviour?
* "this isn't so much worse than what they have already" - one step at a time
* "they were already doing that but illegally, so this isn't new"
* "some other government is already doing this, so it isn't new"
* "the other political party agrees with them, so anyone who complains is a hypocrite"
* "the government did this before [during a war], so it isn't new"
Just because something resembles authoritarian behaviour of the past doesn't mean it should be accepted, quite the opposite.
Sorry to hijack your point, but I picked up Dead Space yesterday mainly due to the decent reviews it was getting and the fact that it shared a lot with SS2 (RPG elements, sci-fi setting, horror) and about 3-4 hours in I'm sorely disappointed.
And those reviews would have been.. slashvertisements, guerilla marketing, and astroturfing?
and here I was looking forward to this phone for the reason I would be able to add whatever apps I wanted.
Which is exactly what the OpenMoko crowd were telling everyone when android was first announced. It's not an open platform, it's not free software, and the people who thought it filled the OM niche will have wasted their time when they finally discover android's license agreements
In the UK. We're fine. Most of our data has already been stored in a government hard drive and left on a train seat somewhere, and it's not like we have any money in our bank accounts anyway.
You mean, you had 10000 in your bank account before the government decided to "insure" it at a cost to each tapayer of 10000?
well it should prove *very* easy for them to insure the remainder....