Originally, "transparency" required a fair bit of work. Most government work was conducted on paper. Even just making photocopies of it required a fair bit of work, and indexing it so that people could find relevant things would be even more work. Disclosure couldn't be the default state.
Computers turn that on its head. Nearly everything is done on computers now, and making everything available by default is easy. It should take effort to make something classified.
Make FOIA essentially unnecessary: if something can be disclosed, disclose it without people asking for it. It's not like it requires work.
I'll have to ask for a citation here. Almost all of the [federal, atleast] government still considers all official records to be on paper. They still print out E-mails to file them in their proper place. It's a horrendously expensive process that almost everyone would love to see die.
He seemed to have a need to keep track of the people tracking him, and he certainly got sloppy with tor.
You know, if the police were after you, and you had a police band scanner, or some other way to see what the police were doing in their efforts to track you down, I think you wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to use it. A lot.
This actually helped him, too. When he got off a plane, he popped open his laptop to find a twitter message that "he's landing in Atlanta in 5 minutes!" If he didn't hear that, he never would have booked it out and found the special exit that most people didn't know about.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
Not to disagree with the general intent on your post, but the golden rule isn't well worded. I'd hate to be in a room with a masochist who followed it.
Actually, the wording he has above is quite eloquent. Using the word 'unto' instead of 'to' changes the whole meaning of the message. Basically comes down to 'do not do things to others that you would not want them to do to you'. This way, it focuses mostly on inaction than action.
So, in this case, the masochist(sadist, I think you meant) would just sit there in the room and not do anything.
So I ask the/. crowd are there any good alternatives to passwords that are feasible? Something secure. Something that can be implemented on websites. What do you think we should be working towards? Is there already something in place that you can give an example of?
The best possible password is a phrase. Something simple like 'whereartthouromeo' is long, difficult to crack, and yet, still easy to remember. Now add some numbers, case change, and sepcial characters... 'WHEr3@r7thourom#)' is virtually impossible to crack. The password is not inherently flawed. It's still valid, useful, and machines are still too underpowered to crack that stuff.
You think this guy writes his own resumes? Pfft... I'll bet you a year's salary that he hires a headhunter and doesn't do anything but lunch interviews.
It's also pretty shocking that you think it's mere "bitching" for women to point out and attempt to address the systematic disadvantages that they face in the workplace. Does this mean that women should only "bitch" and not try to work despite their disadvantages? Of course not. But we as a society would never get anywhere if oppressed/disadvantaged groups were expected to just deal with it without protesting the inequality. Would you have said the same thing, "Quit bitching and grow a backbone" to slaves? Where would our society be today if we all thought like you?
Did you seriously just equate women in the workplace to slaves? Really? And as for women being disadvantaged, please provide examples. If anything, I've seen incompetent women in IT last much longer than competent men. But, that's all anecdotal, I'm sure you can bring some back at me, too. What I and many other men on this forum are basically saying is that we don't normally see these differences.
This is all to say nothing of your implicit premise that both men and women catch equal amounts of flak for taking up programming, which is, I think, obviously false.
We all take flak for being geeks. I would love to see more women in IT. I'd like to see more viewpoints and maybe just to be around more women in this field(I know, you probably consider that sexist). Of all the women I've met in IT, only one was truly worth her salt.
I'm on the fence about this discussion, but I wish people would use a bit less hyperbole.
And for a single company, when they have ten main offices around the world that each oversee 20 distinctly different types of operations, that's quite a bit of coverage I would need to get involved with on top of the 40-50 hour work week, time with the family and sleep and so on.
That sounds kind of like a mutual company, where the shareholders are the employees. It's arguably one of the best setups we have out there.
if only they were redeemable in gold and silver as once US constitution stated...
Sure it is. Just not by the government. Go hit up your local jeweler or miner and get that shiny crap that's so valuable to you.
Gold was, is and will universally recognized as something valuable in majority of cultures. Even world of Fallout wouldn't change it because there would be continuity of humanity and there would be no reason for gold to suddenly lose its cultural meaning - gold value is deeply entrenched in people's minds. That's more that what we can say about paper currency.
Actually, you can say exactly the same thing. If people didn't value that green paper, we wouldn't be able to exchange it for goods and services. The only difference between gold and green paper is that gold has a use. And using it as currency would just make it more and more scarce for it's real-world usage(i.e. conductor).
Sorry, if the shit hits the fan, no currency except the essentials(food, clothing, etc) will be cared about. Oooh... shiny!
A lot of times, when you invest in a company, you have no idea of the harm it does until completely after it's happened. Do you seriously think people should lose their retirement, their homes, for actions they took no part in and no idea of or the illegality of until after the fact?
Eh... it could be a good thing. Imagine if investors actually took part in the company and took time to research and understand what their investment is being used for. It would cripple our current system of stock markets, but it can be argued that it would be beneficial to society.
Since you were the first to mention EvDO, I'll second that. We setup a specialty bus for a tour around the country. This included 20 laptops in the bus for demonstrations. So we got an EvDO modem and a couple antennas mounted on the roof. Hook that up to a plain old router and wifi AP, you've got mobile wifi. Tolerable speed and can be used wherever you get cell signal.
Just be very careful with data usage. Watching netflix will end up costing you thousands per month. Also, the equipment could cost you up to about $1k.
I'll bet U$ against J$ that this has to do with some kid who had a heart incident during gym class.
I think you all are paranoid. The heart monitors are probably used for one simple purpose: to teach kids about the relation of heart rate and exercise. If they have kids doing any kind of cardiovascular exercise, knowing your heart rate would be quite useful.
Imagine a world where people understood what exercise is and what it does for your body.
In the end, the graphical representation of data is nearly always skewed, whether intentionally or not and in the end, as long as the underlying data is available (and many time, especially in government it is not) you can do you own charts to determine what is correct.
I don't disagree with your post's general premise. However, why should visualizations necessarilly be skewed? I can understand if you would have said they were light on data, or inhernetly vague. Skewed is a word that screams intent, kind of like 'spin'. For instance, having a scale that shows only 43-44y when everything is around 43.5 just to make the differences seem larger sounds intentional. But a 2d pie chart based on percentages can't exactly be skewed as long as all(or relevant) data is involved.
Visualizations are basically graphical summaries, they should in no way be used to replace the data but do have a very important use.
I don't see any problem with using a piechart, so long as the chart is lying flat such that the areas are relative to one another. You do have to be careful to avoid using bright colors (white, green) cause the eyes are more sensitive to these, but otherwise I think a piechart is a fine way to represent different sizes of things.
That's why some are pushing for a set semantic vocabulary. In theory(if it could be done), it would solve problems such as these. I think I remember a non-profit working on a federal ontology and vocabularies but I can not seem to find it now.
The DMCA - the good part - at first sounds like it should be applicable and good, but it seems that it wasn't designed with trademarks in mind. Just copyright. Ah, the joys of modern IP law....
all of his authority with respect to this network come from his supervisor/manager. He only has the authority to "do what's best for the network" as long as it's still granted to him by his supervisor. As soon as his supervisor revokes that authority, he no longer has the privilege of deciding what is best for the network.
And as soon as his employment is terminated, his obligations to that supervisor end, including the divulging of passwords.
Sorry, that's pure BS. Even if he's not employed, he's obligated by law to turn over control of the company's property. Think of it this way. I just got fired and they wanted the keys to the company truck back. I told them to go to hell because "I don't have to listen to you anymore."
Now, what would your next move be as the employer? Probably the same as everyone; call the cops.
Are these pr0n movies(I'm assuming at the gigabyte level) transferred across the world trillions of times per day? I think you underestimate the sheer volume of spam E-mails sent all over the world every day.
Almost all of my code, with very few exceptions, is 2 indents or less.
Man, to me, it feels like you guys are stuck in the past. I'd like to think most of us have moved away from vi and are using a modern IDE, or at least a graphical text editor. Horizontal scroll is not the devil, guys.
I never saw people get so hot under the collar when you mentioned you got a little bombed the other night and had to be careful driving home....until I started talking to people from up north. Down here, not as much a stigma.
Bombed + Driving = Bad Form anywhere.
Not by perception. I can say in Montana it's not much of a Big Deal. Sounds quite similar to where the GP is from.
You sir evidently aren't in the boonies deep enough. Come to Mingo County WV where cell service is non-existent, satellite service is spotty on the clearest days and DSL is a big dream because of rotten copper lines. It is also one of the poorest most rural counties in the state. It has one (1) broadband provider and that is the cable company.
So again I ask, where is this supposed "competition" at least in Mingo County?
That's a failing in your area. Where I work, we are 27 miles outside of the nearest town. We have a T1 and two DSL lines. So being in the 'boonies' isn't exactly a guarantee you will have no options. Being in a place where nobody gave a shit and/or corruption and corporate raping is where the problem lies.
Interesting Idea, except that modern corn production out of the US requires huge amounts of petrochemicals. Not just Diesel, or Gasoline, but all of the fertilizer and pesticides as well.
You can make plastics from any kind of oil. Also: Go hemp!
So you're telling me that there aren't any other qualified people out there who offered to build the site for less than $18,000,000? I find that hard to believe since even if they did it for $4,000,000 they would have a massive profit on it. Surely someone would have offered a better deal.
I'd recommend looking at what that $18m contract actually has in it. The first $9m or so goes to the initial build-out.
They have to build a massive site in 6 weeks time, setup all hardware in redundant disparate locations. And if you just consider what that entails alone, I bet you can imagine all the little administrative costs and cost of labor alone. Not to mention some of contract requirements(WTF is an XML firewall?) put some weird strain on the price.
The rest of the contract is for two years of maintenance and support, just to keep it all running. The price isn't all that hard to believe.
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Originally, "transparency" required a fair bit of work. Most government work was conducted on paper. Even just making photocopies of it required a fair bit of work, and indexing it so that people could find relevant things would be even more work. Disclosure couldn't be the default state.
Computers turn that on its head. Nearly everything is done on computers now, and making everything available by default is easy. It should take effort to make something classified.
Make FOIA essentially unnecessary: if something can be disclosed, disclose it without people asking for it. It's not like it requires work.
I'll have to ask for a citation here. Almost all of the [federal, atleast] government still considers all official records to be on paper. They still print out E-mails to file them in their proper place. It's a horrendously expensive process that almost everyone would love to see die.
Yes, because things magically workout for the best when you just sit down and shut up. Maybe someone should have told Mrs. Parks that.
Actually, I'm pretty sure she did sit down and shut up.
Go on, reread what I said and show why you think it is in any way homophobic, keeping in mind that I know what cock tastes like.
Time to get the Windex and some paper towels to clean up my monitor...
He seemed to have a need to keep track of the people tracking him, and he certainly got sloppy with tor.
You know, if the police were after you, and you had a police band scanner, or some other way to see what the police were doing in their efforts to track you down, I think you wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to use it. A lot.
This actually helped him, too. When he got off a plane, he popped open his laptop to find a twitter message that "he's landing in Atlanta in 5 minutes!" If he didn't hear that, he never would have booked it out and found the special exit that most people didn't know about.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
Not to disagree with the general intent on your post, but the golden rule isn't well worded. I'd hate to be in a room with a masochist who followed it.
Actually, the wording he has above is quite eloquent. Using the word 'unto' instead of 'to' changes the whole meaning of the message. Basically comes down to 'do not do things to others that you would not want them to do to you'. This way, it focuses mostly on inaction than action.
So, in this case, the masochist(sadist, I think you meant) would just sit there in the room and not do anything.
So I ask the /. crowd are there any good alternatives to passwords that are feasible? Something secure. Something that can be implemented on websites. What do you think we should be working towards? Is there already something in place that you can give an example of?
The best possible password is a phrase. Something simple like 'whereartthouromeo' is long, difficult to crack, and yet, still easy to remember. Now add some numbers, case change, and sepcial characters... 'WHEr3@r7thourom#)' is virtually impossible to crack. The password is not inherently flawed. It's still valid, useful, and machines are still too underpowered to crack that stuff.
I'll bet it reads like Kim Jong Il wrote it.
You think this guy writes his own resumes? Pfft... I'll bet you a year's salary that he hires a headhunter and doesn't do anything but lunch interviews.
Putting the "c" back into "analcyst".
It's also pretty shocking that you think it's mere "bitching" for women to point out and attempt to address the systematic disadvantages that they face in the workplace. Does this mean that women should only "bitch" and not try to work despite their disadvantages? Of course not. But we as a society would never get anywhere if oppressed/disadvantaged groups were expected to just deal with it without protesting the inequality. Would you have said the same thing, "Quit bitching and grow a backbone" to slaves? Where would our society be today if we all thought like you?
Did you seriously just equate women in the workplace to slaves? Really? And as for women being disadvantaged, please provide examples. If anything, I've seen incompetent women in IT last much longer than competent men. But, that's all anecdotal, I'm sure you can bring some back at me, too. What I and many other men on this forum are basically saying is that we don't normally see these differences.
This is all to say nothing of your implicit premise that both men and women catch equal amounts of flak for taking up programming, which is, I think, obviously false.
We all take flak for being geeks. I would love to see more women in IT. I'd like to see more viewpoints and maybe just to be around more women in this field(I know, you probably consider that sexist). Of all the women I've met in IT, only one was truly worth her salt.
I'm on the fence about this discussion, but I wish people would use a bit less hyperbole.
And for a single company, when they have ten main offices around the world that each oversee 20 distinctly different types of operations, that's quite a bit of coverage I would need to get involved with on top of the 40-50 hour work week, time with the family and sleep and so on.
That sounds kind of like a mutual company, where the shareholders are the employees. It's arguably one of the best setups we have out there.
if only they were redeemable in gold and silver as once US constitution stated...
Sure it is. Just not by the government. Go hit up your local jeweler or miner and get that shiny crap that's so valuable to you.
Gold was, is and will universally recognized as something valuable in majority of cultures. Even world of Fallout wouldn't change it because there would be continuity of humanity and there would be no reason for gold to suddenly lose its cultural meaning - gold value is deeply entrenched in people's minds. That's more that what we can say about paper currency.
Actually, you can say exactly the same thing. If people didn't value that green paper, we wouldn't be able to exchange it for goods and services. The only difference between gold and green paper is that gold has a use. And using it as currency would just make it more and more scarce for it's real-world usage(i.e. conductor).
Sorry, if the shit hits the fan, no currency except the essentials(food, clothing, etc) will be cared about. Oooh... shiny!
A lot of times, when you invest in a company, you have no idea of the harm it does until completely after it's happened. Do you seriously think people should lose their retirement, their homes, for actions they took no part in and no idea of or the illegality of until after the fact?
Eh... it could be a good thing. Imagine if investors actually took part in the company and took time to research and understand what their investment is being used for. It would cripple our current system of stock markets, but it can be argued that it would be beneficial to society.
Since you were the first to mention EvDO, I'll second that. We setup a specialty bus for a tour around the country. This included 20 laptops in the bus for demonstrations. So we got an EvDO modem and a couple antennas mounted on the roof. Hook that up to a plain old router and wifi AP, you've got mobile wifi. Tolerable speed and can be used wherever you get cell signal.
Just be very careful with data usage. Watching netflix will end up costing you thousands per month. Also, the equipment could cost you up to about $1k.
I'll bet U$ against J$ that this has to do with some kid who had a heart incident during gym class.
I think you all are paranoid. The heart monitors are probably used for one simple purpose: to teach kids about the relation of heart rate and exercise. If they have kids doing any kind of cardiovascular exercise, knowing your heart rate would be quite useful.
Imagine a world where people understood what exercise is and what it does for your body.
In the end, the graphical representation of data is nearly always skewed, whether intentionally or not and in the end, as long as the underlying data is available (and many time, especially in government it is not) you can do you own charts to determine what is correct.
I don't disagree with your post's general premise. However, why should visualizations necessarilly be skewed? I can understand if you would have said they were light on data, or inhernetly vague. Skewed is a word that screams intent, kind of like 'spin'. For instance, having a scale that shows only 43-44y when everything is around 43.5 just to make the differences seem larger sounds intentional. But a 2d pie chart based on percentages can't exactly be skewed as long as all(or relevant) data is involved.
Visualizations are basically graphical summaries, they should in no way be used to replace the data but do have a very important use.
I don't see any problem with using a piechart, so long as the chart is lying flat such that the areas are relative to one another. You do have to be careful to avoid using bright colors (white, green) cause the eyes are more sensitive to these, but otherwise I think a piechart is a fine way to represent different sizes of things.
That's why some are pushing for a set semantic vocabulary. In theory(if it could be done), it would solve problems such as these. I think I remember a non-profit working on a federal ontology and vocabularies but I can not seem to find it now.
The DMCA - the good part - at first sounds like it should be applicable and good, but it seems that it wasn't designed with trademarks in mind. Just copyright. Ah, the joys of modern IP law....
What do you think the 'C' in DMCA stands for?
all of his authority with respect to this network come from his supervisor/manager. He only has the authority to "do what's best for the network" as long as it's still granted to him by his supervisor. As soon as his supervisor revokes that authority, he no longer has the privilege of deciding what is best for the network.
And as soon as his employment is terminated, his obligations to that supervisor end, including the divulging of passwords.
Sorry, that's pure BS. Even if he's not employed, he's obligated by law to turn over control of the company's property. Think of it this way. I just got fired and they wanted the keys to the company truck back. I told them to go to hell because "I don't have to listen to you anymore."
Now, what would your next move be as the employer? Probably the same as everyone; call the cops.
really?
an 5mail is 10kb maybe
Porn is many gigabytes.
Are these pr0n movies(I'm assuming at the gigabyte level) transferred across the world trillions of times per day? I think you underestimate the sheer volume of spam E-mails sent all over the world every day.
Almost all of my code, with very few exceptions, is 2 indents or less.
Man, to me, it feels like you guys are stuck in the past. I'd like to think most of us have moved away from vi and are using a modern IDE, or at least a graphical text editor. Horizontal scroll is not the devil, guys.
I never saw people get so hot under the collar when you mentioned you got a little bombed the other night and had to be careful driving home....until I started talking to people from up north. Down here, not as much a stigma.
Bombed + Driving = Bad Form anywhere.
Not by perception. I can say in Montana it's not much of a Big Deal. Sounds quite similar to where the GP is from.
You sir evidently aren't in the boonies deep enough. Come to Mingo County WV where cell service is non-existent, satellite service is spotty on the clearest days and DSL is a big dream because of rotten copper lines. It is also one of the poorest most rural counties in the state. It has one (1) broadband provider and that is the cable company.
So again I ask, where is this supposed "competition" at least in Mingo County?
That's a failing in your area. Where I work, we are 27 miles outside of the nearest town. We have a T1 and two DSL lines. So being in the 'boonies' isn't exactly a guarantee you will have no options. Being in a place where nobody gave a shit and/or corruption and corporate raping is where the problem lies.
Interesting Idea, except that modern corn production out of the US requires huge amounts of petrochemicals. Not just Diesel, or Gasoline, but all of the fertilizer and pesticides as well.
You can make plastics from any kind of oil. Also: Go hemp!
So you're telling me that there aren't any other qualified people out there who offered to build the site for less than $18,000,000? I find that hard to believe since even if they did it for $4,000,000 they would have a massive profit on it. Surely someone would have offered a better deal.
I'd recommend looking at what that $18m contract actually has in it. The first $9m or so goes to the initial build-out.
They have to build a massive site in 6 weeks time, setup all hardware in redundant disparate locations. And if you just consider what that entails alone, I bet you can imagine all the little administrative costs and cost of labor alone. Not to mention some of contract requirements(WTF is an XML firewall?) put some weird strain on the price.
The rest of the contract is for two years of maintenance and support, just to keep it all running. The price isn't all that hard to believe.
To bring out that old saying:
1) Cheap
2) Fast
3) Quality
You can have two of the three but no more.
Yeah let's see if we can think of any more ways to make our products cost more.
Yeah, let's bust our asses off for cheaper products that bring us as employees no benefit, whatsoever.