Apparently, this topic is important to me. While what you say makes sense logically, it is stated with ignorance of other facts. I'm not talking about facts about human activity, but facts of the universe and solar system that we are truly not yet understanding. The rise in global temperature is coincident with a rise in CO2, and the causal link is unproven. While it is a logically good idea to not contribute, your assertion that human activity has caused the 'whole system to stand on its head' is fallacious, because it asserts that humans are the cause without evidence that nothing else is NOT the cause. We do NOT know at what level of CO2 the Earth begins heating up, only that CO2 will help to heat the Earth. To prove a causal link between human activity and global warming, you must first also prove that global warming is NOT caused by other factors. That is to say that very few people will argue that human activity is not contributing, there just is no proof that it is the cause. While all the information is still under investigation it's probably wise to just assume that it is caused by a group of contributing factors, then begin studying all that we can to "actually figure out how global climate" works. When we know that, the answers get a bit easier to figure out.
As a ferinstinse: What happens if you magically manage to reduce the global atmospheric CO2 content by 98%? or even 48%? What happens? Does the world get a new ice age? If your model of how CO2 is causing global warming is correct, what happens if that much CO2 is removed? How much do we need to remove? Got any information on that?
Please don't misunderstand me, reducing usage of fossil fuels (if they are still classified as fossil fuels) is absolutely a good thing, but it will NOT fix global warming and should not be thought of as THE cure. It hurts us all to pay higher taxation to fix something tomorrow that is not really broken when we can slowly fix it over 10-15 years at a much reduced cost and more sustainable pace. One recent headline statement I saw was "Why are we supposed to believe that 31 mpg is awesome?" There are many things we can do to reduce dependency on non-renewable resources, I just don't think we have to complete the changes before the 2010 games.
There is also a problem with say, North America makes changes, but growing nations like China and India do not. They will replace our former gas guzzling ways and the sum total is a zero balance. The changes have to be slow and sure enough to be sustainable by all cultures, not just 1st world. If the first world spends trillions with a kneejerk plan to reduce to near zero the use of fossil fuels in the next 5 years, it will break us and the end will be a zero sum for carbon output reduction by the global community. That is the gist of what I mean.
I've heard one theory (no citation, sorry) that as the solar system moves in alignment with the acretian? disk of the Milky Way this affects solar sunspot activity. That would affect global climate. The thought was changes in space radiation hitting the sun affects it's activity, much as radiation is believed to cause lighting in storms. It's a theory, and sounds plausible. There just is no evidence as yet as to whether this is true and how much it would affect global climate.. The Sun has been quiet lately? There is clearly a LOT of things that we are not taking into account yet.
I think that this is just an indication that we TRULY do not understand how the global climate actually works. There have been billions of years of fluctuations and change to get the Earth to where it is now. We have no idea how most of that worked and only a vague idea of what is happening now. In the search to figure out why temperatures are rising globally, several things have been named as contributory causative factors. There is NO definitive proof that x, y, or z has caused global warming, only that it is probable that all three have contributed. BTW, we also don't fully and empirically understand what caused past global cooling periods either. We have some good ideas, and some evidence that supports those ideas, but no true and complete understanding.
There is in fact little understanding of how the position of the Earth/solar system in the plane of the Milky Way affects solar radiation et al and thus how it affects planet temperatures. Desert sand is not the cure, it is a possible cure. There are others, like cutting down on human CO2 emissions etc.
Call me paranoid if you like, but implementing all the efforts we can to stop global warming may indeed have detrimental effects on the climate as a whole. Until we know *MUCH* more about global climate control knee jerk reactions should be kept to a minimum.
Yes, cutting carbon emissions is good, but lets not throw the baby out with the bath water or look for silver bullet cures. Mother nature works slowly so I'm reasonably certain that slow but sure methods will help where drastic measures (such as volcanic eruptions) are just another way to toss global climate on it's ear. The knee jerk reactions are probably what will suddenly dump HUGE amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
The real question now is: Deterrents to what, exactly? It's stupidly obvious that there are far easier targets for terrorists to exploit now. Further security at airports will do *NOTHING* except further inconvenience valid travelers and citizens.
Terrorism does not take 4000 deaths to be effective. 20 would work, hell, even 2 would work. I've outlined before how to quickly bring chaos to any metropolitan area. The sticking point is that not enough people want to do that. Let that sink in. There are not enough people that can validly get into the USA that *WANT* to poison 5 million people or any of the other easy to do terrorist acts. That means that law enforcement was doing a pretty good job *before* 9/11. There will always be holes in security (as you point out) and there will always be an opportunity for terrorists to exploit those holes. Increasing security is a lose-lose for all law abiding people. It's purpose then must be of some other nature?
Remember, one failed shoe bomb and some box cutters... THAT is what we are afraid of getting on the planes? oh, and cigarette lighters. To me it looks like Bin Laden wins.
Once you are trained to buy new 'stuff' to put your other 'stuff' inside for traveling, you will have been trained for the next measures. None of what the TSA does is about real security. It's all about getting citizens to do as they are told and with no more reason than that it is required for security according to some obtuse DHS ruling.
At the rate that this is going, the next plane based terrorism will probably be a bomb planted by TSA in a traveler's luggage while being screened routinely. This will allow for further restrictions and meticulous searches.
Yesterday we hear of a company whose business model is based on TSA bs security and they lost a laptop... then found it again in the same room? I bet the NSA borrowed it but forgot where to put it back? Now this little trick to sell you more American Tourister luggage. You know the model? The one with a DHS approved RFID tag built right into the handle of it. It starts with laptops, but will move on to any carry on luggage only being permitted in the 'new' DHS approved TSA sponsored RFID luggage/bag.
Soon, you won't even have to go to the airport to be blamed for causing bomb scares. Oh, sorry, just an RFID mixup. Still, we need you to come down to the station with us.
The trouble with trusting the government is that it has never worked out well at all. There is already some movement afoot to use encryption, vpn's, tor, and others etc. What needs to happen is for users to very quickly start shutting down open communications now. Let the guvmint types try to figure out how to then do an i9/11 event.
The level of conspiracy talk that is running around the world right now is IMO enough to start impeachment proceedings. There is no smoke without fire as they say, and you can't put out the fire without getting in the middle of the smoke. The point of the pyramid has to be in the middle of the structure, so we might as well start there. Mixing metaphors, once we're pissing on the fire, you can catch the rats as the jump ship.
Sort of a pre-emptive strike in the war on corruption. Now that's a war I can get behind.
Not only that, but WTF is it with laptops with totally confidential material doing disappearing from LOCKED offices at a business that is arguably supposed to be one of the safest places in the USA? All of our security efforts aimed at making air travel secure and people can walk in and steal valuable computer assets from locked spaces? Yeah right!
I'm starting to have doubts about this story, big time.
Well, not only that, but shouldn't that laptop have a tracing program on it? One of those services that helps you find the stolen laptop?
A new security industry created by the government's drive to snoop in all our lives has proven exactly why no one is to be trusted with your ID info. period. Makes you wonder who the real terrorists are? Bin Laden must be laughing his last lung out.
The weakest link in your security is always a human and since humans work for the NSA, DHS et al, there is NO reason to trust them with anyone's data never mind your own.
Before 9/11 this would not have happened because this business would not have existed. There is no justification for it's existence that makes any logical sense at all.
I bet there are plenty more good quotes to fall back to in the coming months. *IF* MS wanted to be open source friendly, things like OOXML would just vanish, and they would begin to release their own OSS code, but I guess that won't happen. What was that old story about the frog and the scorpion?
Short answer? Yes. The recording industry as distribution giants are no longer needed. That is not to say that there is no place left for their business, just none left for them to run it the way that they have been. Bands still need help with getting concert venues and promotion. I'll wager that before the large RIAA members figure it out there will be others jumping inline to provide such as is needed by bands who distribute electronically. The old methods of finding out about new music are slowly failing. Commercial radio is floundering, magazines are not covering all the music available, so the market (roughly speaking) is wide open for competition to large record labels. I listen extensively to Internet radio. I live in a large metropolitan area and there is NOTHING on regular radio that I can suffer through for 6 songs an hour. I say this because if I have gotten to this point, you can bet I'm not alone and as a result the RIAA members are losing out until they start supporting the "New Way" of doing business. It is now completely legitimate and plausible to do without their services IMO.
The real problem for RIAA members is that they don't seem to realize how long ago this boat left the pier while they were partying at the boathouse. Now they have to play catch-up to the likes of iTunes, Napster etc. They have given their business away by being afraid to innovate and change with the times and technology.
Bands mostly sustain themselves on concert generated revenue, not record sales. The smaller the band, the more this is true. The internet sales model is giving some small bands more money than they could have thought possible without a record deal. Direct sales == money. Radiohead, NIN, and others are showing that it's not just a big money pit to throw away your profits in. It DOES work. Some reports say that revenues for a band from CD sales is negligible, so in these terms the Radiohead deal is a big deal. They got all the revenue from music sales. Despite mistakes or blunders, Radiohead and NIN are showing others how to do business in The New Way.
As technology takes it further, the avalanche of music available to users will overwhelm them, and they will look for the New MTV to help them limit their choices and search for the next pop idol. That is where Internet websites will slowly begin taking share from RIAA members. The new nexus of distribution is being the person who knows what is available and can help you find music you like.
That is the problem right there: "a lot of free time" is not what most people have. Scanning the intarwebtubes for reports of vulnerabilities for various applications running on specific OS platforms may bring some results, but to my knowledge there is no unified security test suite benchmark. No matter what you choose, you *WILL* have vulnerabilities. The best you can do is limit those to vulnerabilities you can live with or do not yet know about.
Better yet is providing a SOP for implementing change/updates to all the 'verified' applications for zero-day exploit patches.
IBM does some extensive style work on vulnerability as do several others. I think I'd spend my time working on how to patch/update every 'in house certified' application rather than trying to ensure they have no vulnerabilities. The former keeps things good going forward, the latter only ensures past sins are fixed.
"I will pay anyone 100 dollars to rape either of those girls" is quite a bit different than "If they were raped, it would not bother me at all" as far as intent goes.
I might have missed it, but didn't see where there was overwhelming indication that the intent was to incite violence. Granted, hate speech is a somewhat subjective issue, but at the rating this situation gives speech, most of/b/ is in big trouble, not to mention countless others.
I don't believe that trolls express themselves well, but the first amendment is not limited only to the eloquent. "They should be raped" and "just die now please" are not far apart, and context has a lot to do with the meaning... semantically speaking. What body is going to decide what exactly is hate speech on the Internet? How will they determine exactly when to break privacy practices based on that?
There is no citation needed. I can personally attest to the fact that unless you pay tens of thousands for the equipment it's metering capabilities are ONLY an indicator, more or less like your gas gauge, and not some sensitive sensing system. period. ever.
Most of the work done on electronics in the world is done without exacting measuring equipment. Yes, there will be those that argue, but *MOST* work is done with less than optimal equipment. Think that mechanic working on your car is using micrometers to do everything, or $2500 torque wrenches? For most of the world, good enough is... well, good enough. Battery monitoring systems can only count down from full charge based on use and time. At best it is a simple calculation that cannot do much to account for aging of the battery or temperature compensation.
No citation needed. That is simply how life is, and why this is a huge 'duh' article, even if joe bloggs doesn't realize it. It's the reason that your vehicle gauges are not calibrated. This applies to just about everything we use.
Marketing that I refer to is just this kind of thing: appear to be F/OSS so that the unwashed masses who are really beginning to understand F/OSS better will mistake your product for one of those "new-fangled cool programs" that is free.
Like puffing up a bag of chips with air to make it seem like more product, or making the bag opaque so you can't see how little is inside.
No, you didn't miss it, it's Cathedral but others *will* miss it. It's as good as the 'no payments for a year' scam. I truly believe we are going to see a LOT more of this. MS is starting a few of these scams but people are more leery of MS's bag of tricks. OpenSolaris is a nice trick, sounds good but any kind of support seems pretty much a pain in the ass if you are not using the pay-for enterprise version (or has been). I'm waiting to see what they do with their latest acquisitions.
It stands a chance of creating a bad name for F/OSS if not handled correctly with marketing ploys by F/OSS groups. Something they are not quite accustomed to doing.
That's the thought anyway... and the brilliant part of it all is that appearing to be F/OSS is now the 'in thing' to be seen to do. Mainstream software makers are actually validating F/OSS every time they use one of these scams. There doesn't even seem to be much of any kind of effort to actually assert that their product is better any more? game over, or so it seems. Switching to the support model that was quite well done by RedHat seems de facto business model now. The worm has turned and not many people noticed the change.
I don't quite understand the redundant mod? oh well.
As the money changers at the door to the cathedral begin to realize that you need buyers looking at your wares and not mulling around in the bazaar figuring out how stuff really works, their attempts to lure shoppers from the FREE stuff will take on all the twisted plot turns that an ad agency could ever dream of selling. Countdown to seeing real professional crippleware make a come-back in 3.. 2... 1...
I'm glad to say that short of some very twisted legislative efforts I can't see this going anywhere except closer to where RMS wanted software to go. The issue of security will shortly raise it's ugly head again, and when F/OSS starts being perceived as out-performing it's competition in this area, the dam will have burst. No little brute from Redmond will be able to put a chair in the hole either.
Step 7 underscores this when it shows how a CSO should never underestimate to things : the ability of the bad guys to make you look bad, and the ability of users to do something really stupid.
Emphasis is mine. Speaking of things that make you look stupid? Irony?
But I can't believe you are asking this motley group for advice on warding off demons!!! ROFLMFAO
There is NOTHING you can do, simply wait, flame them with the very best humor that you can muster and carry on like one of the 300. Read what Trespass says, there is a clue how to flame with style:)
With some humility (not a lot) I've been flamed quite well in the past, expect it in the future. Its ALWAYS good to see a really good flame, even if directed at yourself. Grin and bear it... learn to flame.
It's done that way on purpose. If you don't know how to get where you are going, you probably shouldn't be going there in the first place. I believe that MARTA made sense *BEFORE* the Olympics, then much of the city changed. I watched some of the pre-games construction. 10lbs of shit and only a 4lb bag. I think the MARTA looks much like it was designed for a city that the city planners had a map of rather than the actual city. Nobody knows which city they had a map of. Perhaps it was Atlanta: from 1936?
This is not so. The first question I asked about electronics was "How in the hell does a tv make a moving picture?" It took awhile to find out, but it was the first step.
If your child has curiosity, and likes to solve puzzles, I can think of no better way to explain computers other than big complex puzzles, whose solution involves 100s of rules more complex than video games and yet more satisfying to play by at the end of the day.
It is problem solving and puzzle solving that you want to teach your kid. It matters not what problems they decide they like to solve. H5N1 or AIDS are some of today's top puzzles. Along with 2nm IC circuit design and GigE bandwidth to the home on existing infrastructure or 100Mbyte wireless. How about desktop UIs that are more like SL than Windows. If you find some kind of puzzle the kid would like to solve, it's much easier to show him the way to do that. Hello world is not exciting unless you are trying not to pee yourself waiting for those first commands to complete successfully for your first time ever. Doing something cool on MySpace template? How about robot competitions? There is lots of coding and puzzle solving there.
One of the great things that FF team did was to allow huge volumes of customization. It can be both a blessing and a curse, but allowing the add-ons and creating an environment where they could be created made FF much more than a web browser. For that, other browsers will constantly have to keep up. FF took bleeding edge and made it cool and functional. It takes a big stick to beat that. Being able to bolt on functions like ABP, foxmarks, FireFTP mean that much of my work is browser based now, and I'd not switch from FF without a great deal of effort by other broswers. I can switch back and forth from Linux to Windows and not really notice any difference in how I'm working.
Better than that, FF makes is so that joe public can experience the same functionality, and with little effort, realize that Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora et al can be just as useful, if not more so, than MS products and OS. Most of the computer user's experience is a web browser these days. If that part works right, most people don't give a damn what OS is working underneath it. I've converted quite a few people, FF first, then OS, like falling dominos.
From my vantage point, FF has done far more than they are taking credit for. FAR MORE.
Wow, there are probably a few posts going to be about some program that a user loves, but this one is perfect. I've worked the last 8 years in an environment with two coders and 5 managers. What worked for us is exactly what this guy suggested and we did that in spite of what the managers wanted. We developed a perl/cgi template that all the code worked under and it worked so that either of us could look at any of the code and work with it, sharing routines and snippets. Now I'm in charge of maintaining all of it, and it's more or less like I wrote it originally. No matter what programs or coding styles are sold to you, the ONLY thing that will work is what works for the two of you and that will probably not fit into some white paper. Just find what works for you by talking and analyzing what each of you are good at. When you find it, write a paper and go on the talk circuit.
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EXACTLY! That is all the reason I need to continue building my own machines. meh
Apparently, this topic is important to me. While what you say makes sense logically, it is stated with ignorance of other facts. I'm not talking about facts about human activity, but facts of the universe and solar system that we are truly not yet understanding. The rise in global temperature is coincident with a rise in CO2, and the causal link is unproven. While it is a logically good idea to not contribute, your assertion that human activity has caused the 'whole system to stand on its head' is fallacious, because it asserts that humans are the cause without evidence that nothing else is NOT the cause. We do NOT know at what level of CO2 the Earth begins heating up, only that CO2 will help to heat the Earth. To prove a causal link between human activity and global warming, you must first also prove that global warming is NOT caused by other factors. That is to say that very few people will argue that human activity is not contributing, there just is no proof that it is the cause. While all the information is still under investigation it's probably wise to just assume that it is caused by a group of contributing factors, then begin studying all that we can to "actually figure out how global climate" works. When we know that, the answers get a bit easier to figure out.
As a ferinstinse: What happens if you magically manage to reduce the global atmospheric CO2 content by 98%? or even 48%? What happens? Does the world get a new ice age? If your model of how CO2 is causing global warming is correct, what happens if that much CO2 is removed? How much do we need to remove? Got any information on that?
Please don't misunderstand me, reducing usage of fossil fuels (if they are still classified as fossil fuels) is absolutely a good thing, but it will NOT fix global warming and should not be thought of as THE cure. It hurts us all to pay higher taxation to fix something tomorrow that is not really broken when we can slowly fix it over 10-15 years at a much reduced cost and more sustainable pace. One recent headline statement I saw was "Why are we supposed to believe that 31 mpg is awesome?" There are many things we can do to reduce dependency on non-renewable resources, I just don't think we have to complete the changes before the 2010 games.
There is also a problem with say, North America makes changes, but growing nations like China and India do not. They will replace our former gas guzzling ways and the sum total is a zero balance. The changes have to be slow and sure enough to be sustainable by all cultures, not just 1st world. If the first world spends trillions with a kneejerk plan to reduce to near zero the use of fossil fuels in the next 5 years, it will break us and the end will be a zero sum for carbon output reduction by the global community. That is the gist of what I mean.
I've heard one theory (no citation, sorry) that as the solar system moves in alignment with the acretian? disk of the Milky Way this affects solar sunspot activity. That would affect global climate. The thought was changes in space radiation hitting the sun affects it's activity, much as radiation is believed to cause lighting in storms. It's a theory, and sounds plausible. There just is no evidence as yet as to whether this is true and how much it would affect global climate.. The Sun has been quiet lately? There is clearly a LOT of things that we are not taking into account yet.
I think that this is just an indication that we TRULY do not understand how the global climate actually works. There have been billions of years of fluctuations and change to get the Earth to where it is now. We have no idea how most of that worked and only a vague idea of what is happening now. In the search to figure out why temperatures are rising globally, several things have been named as contributory causative factors. There is NO definitive proof that x, y, or z has caused global warming, only that it is probable that all three have contributed. BTW, we also don't fully and empirically understand what caused past global cooling periods either. We have some good ideas, and some evidence that supports those ideas, but no true and complete understanding.
There is in fact little understanding of how the position of the Earth/solar system in the plane of the Milky Way affects solar radiation et al and thus how it affects planet temperatures. Desert sand is not the cure, it is a possible cure. There are others, like cutting down on human CO2 emissions etc.
Call me paranoid if you like, but implementing all the efforts we can to stop global warming may indeed have detrimental effects on the climate as a whole. Until we know *MUCH* more about global climate control knee jerk reactions should be kept to a minimum.
Yes, cutting carbon emissions is good, but lets not throw the baby out with the bath water or look for silver bullet cures. Mother nature works slowly so I'm reasonably certain that slow but sure methods will help where drastic measures (such as volcanic eruptions) are just another way to toss global climate on it's ear. The knee jerk reactions are probably what will suddenly dump HUGE amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
The real question now is: Deterrents to what, exactly? It's stupidly obvious that there are far easier targets for terrorists to exploit now. Further security at airports will do *NOTHING* except further inconvenience valid travelers and citizens.
Terrorism does not take 4000 deaths to be effective. 20 would work, hell, even 2 would work. I've outlined before how to quickly bring chaos to any metropolitan area. The sticking point is that not enough people want to do that. Let that sink in. There are not enough people that can validly get into the USA that *WANT* to poison 5 million people or any of the other easy to do terrorist acts. That means that law enforcement was doing a pretty good job *before* 9/11. There will always be holes in security (as you point out) and there will always be an opportunity for terrorists to exploit those holes. Increasing security is a lose-lose for all law abiding people. It's purpose then must be of some other nature?
Remember, one failed shoe bomb and some box cutters... THAT is what we are afraid of getting on the planes? oh, and cigarette lighters. To me it looks like Bin Laden wins.
yes... and NO.
Once you are trained to buy new 'stuff' to put your other 'stuff' inside for traveling, you will have been trained for the next measures. None of what the TSA does is about real security. It's all about getting citizens to do as they are told and with no more reason than that it is required for security according to some obtuse DHS ruling.
At the rate that this is going, the next plane based terrorism will probably be a bomb planted by TSA in a traveler's luggage while being screened routinely. This will allow for further restrictions and meticulous searches.
Yesterday we hear of a company whose business model is based on TSA bs security and they lost a laptop... then found it again in the same room? I bet the NSA borrowed it but forgot where to put it back? Now this little trick to sell you more American Tourister luggage. You know the model? The one with a DHS approved RFID tag built right into the handle of it. It starts with laptops, but will move on to any carry on luggage only being permitted in the 'new' DHS approved TSA sponsored RFID luggage/bag.
Soon, you won't even have to go to the airport to be blamed for causing bomb scares. Oh, sorry, just an RFID mixup. Still, we need you to come down to the station with us.
Land of the Free.... to be searched.
All bets should *already* be off AFAIK
The trouble with trusting the government is that it has never worked out well at all. There is already some movement afoot to use encryption, vpn's, tor, and others etc. What needs to happen is for users to very quickly start shutting down open communications now. Let the guvmint types try to figure out how to then do an i9/11 event.
The level of conspiracy talk that is running around the world right now is IMO enough to start impeachment proceedings. There is no smoke without fire as they say, and you can't put out the fire without getting in the middle of the smoke. The point of the pyramid has to be in the middle of the structure, so we might as well start there. Mixing metaphors, once we're pissing on the fire, you can catch the rats as the jump ship.
Sort of a pre-emptive strike in the war on corruption. Now that's a war I can get behind.
Not only that, but WTF is it with laptops with totally confidential material doing disappearing from LOCKED offices at a business that is arguably supposed to be one of the safest places in the USA? All of our security efforts aimed at making air travel secure and people can walk in and steal valuable computer assets from locked spaces? Yeah right!
I'm starting to have doubts about this story, big time.
Well, not only that, but shouldn't that laptop have a tracing program on it? One of those services that helps you find the stolen laptop?
A new security industry created by the government's drive to snoop in all our lives has proven exactly why no one is to be trusted with your ID info. period. Makes you wonder who the real terrorists are? Bin Laden must be laughing his last lung out.
The weakest link in your security is always a human and since humans work for the NSA, DHS et al, there is NO reason to trust them with anyone's data never mind your own.
Before 9/11 this would not have happened because this business would not have existed. There is no justification for it's existence that makes any logical sense at all.
I bet there are plenty more good quotes to fall back to in the coming months. *IF* MS wanted to be open source friendly, things like OOXML would just vanish, and they would begin to release their own OSS code, but I guess that won't happen. What was that old story about the frog and the scorpion?
This smells like scorpion shit to me.
Short answer? Yes. The recording industry as distribution giants are no longer needed. That is not to say that there is no place left for their business, just none left for them to run it the way that they have been. Bands still need help with getting concert venues and promotion. I'll wager that before the large RIAA members figure it out there will be others jumping inline to provide such as is needed by bands who distribute electronically.
The old methods of finding out about new music are slowly failing. Commercial radio is floundering, magazines are not covering all the music available, so the market (roughly speaking) is wide open for competition to large record labels. I listen extensively to Internet radio. I live in a large metropolitan area and there is NOTHING on regular radio that I can suffer through for 6 songs an hour. I say this because if I have gotten to this point, you can bet I'm not alone and as a result the RIAA members are losing out until they start supporting the "New Way" of doing business. It is now completely legitimate and plausible to do without their services IMO.
The real problem for RIAA members is that they don't seem to realize how long ago this boat left the pier while they were partying at the boathouse. Now they have to play catch-up to the likes of iTunes, Napster etc. They have given their business away by being afraid to innovate and change with the times and technology.
Bands mostly sustain themselves on concert generated revenue, not record sales. The smaller the band, the more this is true. The internet sales model is giving some small bands more money than they could have thought possible without a record deal. Direct sales == money. Radiohead, NIN, and others are showing that it's not just a big money pit to throw away your profits in. It DOES work. Some reports say that revenues for a band from CD sales is negligible, so in these terms the Radiohead deal is a big deal. They got all the revenue from music sales. Despite mistakes or blunders, Radiohead and NIN are showing others how to do business in The New Way.
As technology takes it further, the avalanche of music available to users will overwhelm them, and they will look for the New MTV to help them limit their choices and search for the next pop idol. That is where Internet websites will slowly begin taking share from RIAA members. The new nexus of distribution is being the person who knows what is available and can help you find music you like.
So, in both short and long answer... yes!
That is the problem right there: "a lot of free time" is not what most people have. Scanning the intarwebtubes for reports of vulnerabilities for various applications running on specific OS platforms may bring some results, but to my knowledge there is no unified security test suite benchmark. No matter what you choose, you *WILL* have vulnerabilities. The best you can do is limit those to vulnerabilities you can live with or do not yet know about.
Better yet is providing a SOP for implementing change/updates to all the 'verified' applications for zero-day exploit patches.
IBM does some extensive style work on vulnerability as do several others. I think I'd spend my time working on how to patch/update every 'in house certified' application rather than trying to ensure they have no vulnerabilities. The former keeps things good going forward, the latter only ensures past sins are fixed.
Spend your time where you will, but makes no sense to do extensive in-house testing unless you are writing your own in-house software. Rely on outside testing groups, work with them even. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=googleabout&btnG=Search+our+site&q=software%20vulnerability%20testing%20results results in about 242k hits and 142k for the same with +ibm added http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=software+vulnerability+testing+results+%2Bibm&btnG=Search
"I will pay anyone 100 dollars to rape either of those girls" is quite a bit different than "If they were raped, it would not bother me at all" as far as intent goes.
I might have missed it, but didn't see where there was overwhelming indication that the intent was to incite violence. Granted, hate speech is a somewhat subjective issue, but at the rating this situation gives speech, most of /b/ is in big trouble, not to mention countless others.
I don't believe that trolls express themselves well, but the first amendment is not limited only to the eloquent. "They should be raped" and "just die now please" are not far apart, and context has a lot to do with the meaning... semantically speaking. What body is going to decide what exactly is hate speech on the Internet? How will they determine exactly when to break privacy practices based on that?
There is no citation needed. I can personally attest to the fact that unless you pay tens of thousands for the equipment it's metering capabilities are ONLY an indicator, more or less like your gas gauge, and not some sensitive sensing system. period. ever.
Most of the work done on electronics in the world is done without exacting measuring equipment. Yes, there will be those that argue, but *MOST* work is done with less than optimal equipment. Think that mechanic working on your car is using micrometers to do everything, or $2500 torque wrenches? For most of the world, good enough is ... well, good enough. Battery monitoring systems can only count down from full charge based on use and time. At best it is a simple calculation that cannot do much to account for aging of the battery or temperature compensation.
No citation needed. That is simply how life is, and why this is a huge 'duh' article, even if joe bloggs doesn't realize it. It's the reason that your vehicle gauges are not calibrated. This applies to just about everything we use.
Marketing that I refer to is just this kind of thing: appear to be F/OSS so that the unwashed masses who are really beginning to understand F/OSS better will mistake your product for one of those "new-fangled cool programs" that is free.
Like puffing up a bag of chips with air to make it seem like more product, or making the bag opaque so you can't see how little is inside.
No, you didn't miss it, it's Cathedral but others *will* miss it. It's as good as the 'no payments for a year' scam. I truly believe we are going to see a LOT more of this. MS is starting a few of these scams but people are more leery of MS's bag of tricks. OpenSolaris is a nice trick, sounds good but any kind of support seems pretty much a pain in the ass if you are not using the pay-for enterprise version (or has been). I'm waiting to see what they do with their latest acquisitions.
It stands a chance of creating a bad name for F/OSS if not handled correctly with marketing ploys by F/OSS groups. Something they are not quite accustomed to doing.
That's the thought anyway... and the brilliant part of it all is that appearing to be F/OSS is now the 'in thing' to be seen to do. Mainstream software makers are actually validating F/OSS every time they use one of these scams. There doesn't even seem to be much of any kind of effort to actually assert that their product is better any more? game over, or so it seems. Switching to the support model that was quite well done by RedHat seems de facto business model now. The worm has turned and not many people noticed the change.
I don't quite understand the redundant mod? oh well.
As the money changers at the door to the cathedral begin to realize that you need buyers looking at your wares and not mulling around in the bazaar figuring out how stuff really works, their attempts to lure shoppers from the FREE stuff will take on all the twisted plot turns that an ad agency could ever dream of selling. Countdown to seeing real professional crippleware make a come-back in 3.. 2... 1...
I'm glad to say that short of some very twisted legislative efforts I can't see this going anywhere except closer to where RMS wanted software to go. The issue of security will shortly raise it's ugly head again, and when F/OSS starts being perceived as out-performing it's competition in this area, the dam will have burst. No little brute from Redmond will be able to put a chair in the hole either.
Sorry, no car analogy!
FTFS:
Step 7 underscores this when it shows how a CSO should never underestimate to things : the ability of the bad guys to make you look bad, and the ability of users to do something really stupid.
Emphasis is mine. Speaking of things that make you look stupid? Irony?
Seriously, this advice works for anything.
But I can't believe you are asking this motley group for advice on warding off demons!!! ROFLMFAO
There is NOTHING you can do, simply wait, flame them with the very best humor that you can muster and carry on like one of the 300. Read what Trespass says, there is a clue how to flame with style :)
With some humility (not a lot) I've been flamed quite well in the past, expect it in the future. Its ALWAYS good to see a really good flame, even if directed at yourself. Grin and bear it... learn to flame.
Damn dude, I was going to offer you a Hercules card for free... sorry about the house!
It's done that way on purpose. If you don't know how to get where you are going, you probably shouldn't be going there in the first place. I believe that MARTA made sense *BEFORE* the Olympics, then much of the city changed. I watched some of the pre-games construction. 10lbs of shit and only a 4lb bag. I think the MARTA looks much like it was designed for a city that the city planners had a map of rather than the actual city. Nobody knows which city they had a map of. Perhaps it was Atlanta: from 1936?
This is not so. The first question I asked about electronics was "How in the hell does a tv make a moving picture?" It took awhile to find out, but it was the first step.
If your child has curiosity, and likes to solve puzzles, I can think of no better way to explain computers other than big complex puzzles, whose solution involves 100s of rules more complex than video games and yet more satisfying to play by at the end of the day.
It is problem solving and puzzle solving that you want to teach your kid. It matters not what problems they decide they like to solve. H5N1 or AIDS are some of today's top puzzles. Along with 2nm IC circuit design and GigE bandwidth to the home on existing infrastructure or 100Mbyte wireless. How about desktop UIs that are more like SL than Windows. If you find some kind of puzzle the kid would like to solve, it's much easier to show him the way to do that. Hello world is not exciting unless you are trying not to pee yourself waiting for those first commands to complete successfully for your first time ever. Doing something cool on MySpace template? How about robot competitions? There is lots of coding and puzzle solving there.
Good luck
One of the great things that FF team did was to allow huge volumes of customization. It can be both a blessing and a curse, but allowing the add-ons and creating an environment where they could be created made FF much more than a web browser. For that, other browsers will constantly have to keep up. FF took bleeding edge and made it cool and functional. It takes a big stick to beat that. Being able to bolt on functions like ABP, foxmarks, FireFTP mean that much of my work is browser based now, and I'd not switch from FF without a great deal of effort by other broswers. I can switch back and forth from Linux to Windows and not really notice any difference in how I'm working.
Better than that, FF makes is so that joe public can experience the same functionality, and with little effort, realize that Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora et al can be just as useful, if not more so, than MS products and OS. Most of the computer user's experience is a web browser these days. If that part works right, most people don't give a damn what OS is working underneath it. I've converted quite a few people, FF first, then OS, like falling dominos.
From my vantage point, FF has done far more than they are taking credit for. FAR MORE.
Wow, there are probably a few posts going to be about some program that a user loves, but this one is perfect. I've worked the last 8 years in an environment with two coders and 5 managers. What worked for us is exactly what this guy suggested and we did that in spite of what the managers wanted. We developed a perl/cgi template that all the code worked under and it worked so that either of us could look at any of the code and work with it, sharing routines and snippets. Now I'm in charge of maintaining all of it, and it's more or less like I wrote it originally. No matter what programs or coding styles are sold to you, the ONLY thing that will work is what works for the two of you and that will probably not fit into some white paper. Just find what works for you by talking and analyzing what each of you are good at. When you find it, write a paper and go on the talk circuit.
This is slashdot, you _CAN'T_ post an article that can't be read! timothy, what are you thinking?