He's talking about Sections, not pagination. Different animals and more complex than even/odd breaks. Actually, the rendering differences between Word and OOo does throw documents out of whack when tables, figures and photos are included in the document. While positioned properly (viz so that each page is filled with text/tables/figures/photos/etc) in the other processor, the different rendering results in half blank pages.
I had the same frustration in my transition from MS Office to OOo. Eventually, I found that "Sections" in Office had the analogy of Page Styles (F11 or Format/Styles and Formatting) in OOo in which you need to define "new" Section01, Section02, etc. I still find that long documents (e.g., 50 pages +) that are broken into Chapters, Sections and sub-sections are difficult to compose in OOo. Also, your admin staff may (probably?) berate you with the "It's not like Office", or "I need training" whining. While this (to me) reflects a sad state of people not understanding basic concepts about how a word processor works and willingness to adapt to slightly different menu structures that perform the functions, you will (as owner of that SME) have to deal with it.
I think that analysis of the computer by a competent computer person would have resulted in no arrest or prosecution. What we have is more of an incompetent or arrogant computer "expert" acting for the prosecution. Having said that, can the defendant then go after whomever caused the malware to be placed on her computer for damages?
The question is not whether one can travel without ID, the question is: show me the law that says an ID check is required. The US government says that the law is not available for review by the public and, unfortunately the USSC agreed.
I have a small business (structural type of engineering) and run two Dell notebooks. My primary notebook is on FC (yes, I still have the windows disk) and I've been very happy with it. While the above companies can provide linux-ready notebooks, how many can repair on-site next business day? I use my notebooks for number crunching and in the field; so far, Dell has replaced four motherboards, a battery, a mouse and an LCD screen--each in less than 24 hours and the costs covered by my extended service plan. I do suggest to other owners of small businesses that cannot afford an in-house tech staff to buy middle of the line Dell's with extended on-site next day service because the cost of losing one man day exceeds the extra cost of the service plan. To not have such a service plan would result in at least two days of downtime because someone would have to come in to diagnose and fix whatever problem exists--to me that is not a prudent financial decision in running a small business. Could someone in the office fix whatever problem exists? Probably. Is it an efficient use of resources? Probably not.
Schumer today laid out the following scenario in which someone on the terrorist watch list can get through airline security undetected:
1. Joe Terror (whose name is on the terrorist watch list) buys a ticket online in the name of Joe Thompson using a stolen credit card. Joe Thompson is not listed on the terrorist watch list.
2. Joe Terror then prints his "Joe Thompson" boarding pass at home, and then electronically alters it (either by scanning or altering the original image, depending on the airline system and the technology he uses at home) to create a second almost identical boarding pass under the name Joe Terror, his name.
3. Joe Terror then goes to the airport and goes through security with his real ID and the FAKE boarding pass. The name and face match his real drivers license. The airport employee matches the name and face to the real ID.
4. The TSA guard at the magnetometer checks to make sure that the boarding pass looks legitimate as Joe Terror goes through. He/she does not scan it into the system, so there is still no hint that the name on the fake boarding pass is not the same as the name on the reservation.
5. Joe Terror then goes through the gate into his plane using the real Joe Thompson boarding pass for the gate's computer scanner. He is not asked for ID again to match the name on the scanner, so the fact that he does not have an ID with that name does not matter. [Since Joe Thompson doesn't actually exist it does not coincide with a name on the terrorist watch list] Joe Terror boards the plane, no questions asked.
Based on the above press release by a US Senator, shouldn't Schumer be charged with similar crimes?
The article does not, IMHO, diss FOSS so much as say that FOSS is a viable alternative to closed source software; however, some purported reasons for adopting FOSS may be difficult to implement. For example, checking source code for backdoors. Without lots of programmers working for a---relatively---low wage. A government will have a difficult time checking for backdoors without available programmers. China and India could perform the check easily (lots of low cost programmers), although Vietnam, Cambodia, Nambia, Sudan, etc. might have a more difficult time (low cost labor force, but no programmers).
The author also identifies the support for FOSS by IBM and HP, and identifies their contributions to FOSS.
Finally, TFA identifies the author as a consultant to MS, not an employee. Big, big difference.
The circuit's instructions to the district were to dismiss the charges for "insufficient evidence". See the decision of the court. Furthermore, the decision refers to the "government's confession of error."
McDanel's first ammendment rights were purportedly breached when "The trial court unconstitutionally punished McDanel for the content of his email and website. As the court applied 18 U.S.C. 1030 to McDanel, this verdict singles out the viewpoint McDanel expressed and the information he disclosed, that Tornado security is flawed, for criminal sanction. The First Amendment prohibits this conviction based on McDanel's speech." (from p31 of the brief filed by Granick.)
The argument is that finding McDanel guilty for putting up a website and sending email is a violation of his rights, not the "breaking into" a system.
You can find the brief and a copy of the circuit court's decision . The brief argues (on page 31) "The trial court unconstitutionally punished McDanel for the content of his email and website. As the court applied 18 U.S.C. 1030 to McDanel, this verdict singles out the viewpoint McDanel expressed and the information he disclosed, that Tornado security is flawed, for criminal sanction. The First Amendment prohibits this conviction based on McDanel's speech."
Interestingly, the circuit court remanded the case back to district court with the order that the case be dismissed with prejudice for lack of evidence.
I would say that Ms. Granick is quite qualified to make the submissions which seem to be well thought out.
There are many university graduate programmers in China that work for about $12 to $15 per day. When I used to work with Chinese graduate students, I was impressed with their ability and cleverness at working with low spec hardware and hacking software. Considering the value of the computer to a worker ($150 being between one and four months wages for shop clerks and factory workers), the problems encountered by the buyers of such computers would increase the need for GNU/Linux technical consultants. Combine this with the push by Microsoft and others for China to improve its IP protection, the Chinese government's mandate that all computers be shipped with an OS, the 90% software piracy rate in China and the $150 box becomes a reasonable--and legal--alternative to Wintel computing.
$150 is between one month and five months salary for the average Chinese worker, where I define "average Chinese worker" to mean the average worker in a community. Viz., Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen's shop store clerks and factory workers would be making about $150 per month, whereas the same jobs would command $30 per month in more rural areas.
I knew that PC's existed and was around them since their inception in 1981, but never really used one until 1997, when I was forced to use the Wintel platform at the university where I was hired. I remember my first hacks on Windows 95/98 and how I thought that it was a very slow and klunky version of a Mac.
I was in grad school in 1984 when the Macintosh first came out. I had a choice at that time of using VAX/VMS on a VAX 780 or a Mac, since IBM-compatibles were not capable of doing our calculations or theses as easily as the 780 (for computation) or the Mac (for word processing). Since its inception in 1984 Mac has had a task bar as an integral part of its GUI/OS, thus I fail to see where MS Windows was a leader in using a taskbar.
Continuing with more grad-school in the 1990's, I used a Vax 780 running Unix (ultrix), Sun Sparcstations on unix (later Solaris), and Macs on Ver 6 and 7. Unix, as you probably know, is a true multi-tasking os because it was designed that way by ATT/Bell Labs. DOS and early versions of Windows claimed to be multi-taksing, but were unable to either time-share or multi-task in the same sense as mainframes, VMS, Mac Sys 7, or unix. To me, multi-tasking on Windows is kludgey at best.
As an undergrad in the mid-1970's, I was using Compass on a CDC 6400, a computer with a true 60-bit (yes, sixty, not sixty-four) CPU designed by Seymour Cray. So again, I fail to see where MS has been very innovative regarding 64-bit systems, while the applications have changed, and the hardware gotten smaller and cheaper, the conceptual architecture and uses of a 60 (64) bit machine remains the same.
Many of the paradigms used by current hardware and software, including MS, were developed by IBM for the MVS os of its famed System 360, which I used to program for my Dad while I was in secondary school in the early 1970's. (My Dad taught me Fortran when I was in the ninth grade; the university's computer center people taught me JCL.)
I guess that the idea that I am leading to is that if one works and plays on technically advanced hardware, using
advanced non-MS software, I think that it is very possible to not use MS products for many years and not be
behind the curve; the above experiences provide counterpoints to any proposal that MS is a leader in technology. I would agree that MS has a wildly successful business model; but that does not necessarily mean that their vision
of computing has any substance.
I used Windows between 1997 and 2005, but have just switched back to *nix, as my day-to-day applications, including
Matlab, do not need Windows, and I missed the stability of *nix although my Windows-based friends say that Windows' stability is getting better.
I think that a more interesting concept for contemplation is: what integration will we see in the next 10 years across communications/electronics (the EE's), mechanical devices (the ME's) and computing platforms (the CS's).
Actually the population of San Francisco is about 775,000 (yes, thousand); the greater Bay Area has a few million people. The SFPD only has jurisdiction in San Francisco proper which is the northern tip of the San Francisco peninsula.
HSBC, at least in Hong Kong, is twisted. I called them to say that their business internet banking was not accessible through Fire Fox, but that their personal internet banking worked fine, and because their personal i-banking worked fine on Fire Fox, they obviously know how to program for Fire Fox. HSBC's response?
and having watched the creation of Cyberport, I can say that the complex is nothing more than a property development masquerading as a high tech office complex. A single property developer was sole sourced to develop Cyberport: the HK Govt would give land to the developer and in exchange, the developer would construct a state-of-the-art facility for housing geek companies and also a set of condominiums. The HK Govt promoted the idea as fast-tracking the development of a high-tech complex that would house the HK offices of Intel, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun, etc.
To the credit of the developer, luxury high-rise condominiums were built and units are being sold at the 1997 levels (on the order of US$1,500 per square foot for a 99 year lease).
To the discredit of the government, Cyberport remains less than half full; public transport to the place is virtually non-existant; and it is difficult for visitors and residents alike to visit (it's a bit out of the way).
BBC seems to be behind the curve on this one as the controversy over Cyberport has been in the press for the last six years in HK; with its problems being discussed almost daily (currently) because of another land development by the HK government that emulates the Cyberport model--the West Kowloon Cultural District.
I had the same thing happen with HSBC. I called their tech support and said that their Business Internet Banking (BIB) site didn't support Mozilla, yet their Personal Internet Banking (PIB) site worked fine. I asked HSBC to recode their BIB site. They said that nothing was wrong and that it was obviously the way that I had configured out boxes and network. I asked HSBC if they had tried to reproduce my error. HSBC said that they had NOT downloaded Mozilla and had NOT tried to reproduce the error.
After two days, HSBC called me to say that they COULD reproduce the error, but that they were not going to do anything about it.
I stopped using HSBC.
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He's talking about Sections, not pagination. Different animals and more complex than even/odd breaks. Actually, the rendering differences between Word and OOo does throw documents out of whack when tables, figures and photos are included in the document. While positioned properly (viz so that each page is filled with text/tables/figures/photos/etc) in the other processor, the different rendering results in half blank pages.
I had the same frustration in my transition from MS Office to OOo. Eventually, I found that "Sections" in Office had the analogy of Page Styles (F11 or Format/Styles and Formatting) in OOo in which you need to define "new" Section01, Section02, etc. I still find that long documents (e.g., 50 pages +) that are broken into Chapters, Sections and sub-sections are difficult to compose in OOo. Also, your admin staff may (probably?) berate you with the "It's not like Office", or "I need training" whining. While this (to me) reflects a sad state of people not understanding basic concepts about how a word processor works and willingness to adapt to slightly different menu structures that perform the functions, you will (as owner of that SME) have to deal with it.
Huh? Verizon is still listed as Number 1 in Spamhaus' ISP spammers. http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks.lasso That's irony.
I think that analysis of the computer by a competent computer person would have resulted in no arrest or prosecution. What we have is more of an incompetent or arrogant computer "expert" acting for the prosecution. Having said that, can the defendant then go after whomever caused the malware to be placed on her computer for damages?
The question is not whether one can travel without ID, the question is: show me the law that says an ID check is required. The US government says that the law is not available for review by the public and, unfortunately the USSC agreed.
I have a small business (structural type of engineering) and run two Dell notebooks. My primary notebook is on FC (yes, I still have the windows disk) and I've been very happy with it. While the above companies can provide linux-ready notebooks, how many can repair on-site next business day? I use my notebooks for number crunching and in the field; so far, Dell has replaced four motherboards, a battery, a mouse and an LCD screen--each in less than 24 hours and the costs covered by my extended service plan. I do suggest to other owners of small businesses that cannot afford an in-house tech staff to buy middle of the line Dell's with extended on-site next day service because the cost of losing one man day exceeds the extra cost of the service plan. To not have such a service plan would result in at least two days of downtime because someone would have to come in to diagnose and fix whatever problem exists--to me that is not a prudent financial decision in running a small business. Could someone in the office fix whatever problem exists? Probably. Is it an efficient use of resources? Probably not.
Peanut butter in their chocolate, you insensitive clod!
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Schumer today laid out the following scenario in which someone on the terrorist watch list can get through airline security undetected:
1. Joe Terror (whose name is on the terrorist watch list) buys a ticket online in the name of Joe Thompson using a stolen credit card. Joe Thompson is not listed on the terrorist watch list.
2. Joe Terror then prints his "Joe Thompson" boarding pass at home, and then electronically alters it (either by scanning or altering the original image, depending on the airline system and the technology he uses at home) to create a second almost identical boarding pass under the name Joe Terror, his name.
3. Joe Terror then goes to the airport and goes through security with his real ID and the FAKE boarding pass. The name and face match his real drivers license. The airport employee matches the name and face to the real ID.
4. The TSA guard at the magnetometer checks to make sure that the boarding pass looks legitimate as Joe Terror goes through. He/she does not scan it into the system, so there is still no hint that the name on the fake boarding pass is not the same as the name on the reservation.
5. Joe Terror then goes through the gate into his plane using the real Joe Thompson boarding pass for the gate's computer scanner. He is not asked for ID again to match the name on the scanner, so the fact that he does not have an ID with that name does not matter. [Since Joe Thompson doesn't actually exist it does not coincide with a name on the terrorist watch list] Joe Terror boards the plane, no questions asked.
Based on the above press release by a US Senator, shouldn't Schumer be charged with similar crimes?
Oh yeah, teraflops so that it can run Vista... But can it run linux?
The author also identifies the support for FOSS by IBM and HP, and identifies their contributions to FOSS.
Finally, TFA identifies the author as a consultant to MS, not an employee. Big, big difference.
The circuit's instructions to the district were to dismiss the charges for "insufficient evidence". See the decision of the court. Furthermore, the decision refers to the "government's confession of error."
The argument is that finding McDanel guilty for putting up a website and sending email is a violation of his rights, not the "breaking into" a system.
Interestingly, the circuit court remanded the case back to district court with the order that the case be dismissed with prejudice for lack of evidence.
I would say that Ms. Granick is quite qualified to make the submissions which seem to be well thought out.
There are many university graduate programmers in China that work for about $12 to $15 per day. When I used to work with Chinese graduate students, I was impressed with their ability and cleverness at working with low spec hardware and hacking software. Considering the value of the computer to a worker ($150 being between one and four months wages for shop clerks and factory workers), the problems encountered by the buyers of such computers would increase the need for GNU/Linux technical consultants. Combine this with the push by Microsoft and others for China to improve its IP protection, the Chinese government's mandate that all computers be shipped with an OS, the 90% software piracy rate in China and the $150 box becomes a reasonable--and legal--alternative to Wintel computing.
$150 is between one month and five months salary for the average Chinese worker, where I define "average Chinese worker" to mean the average worker in a community. Viz., Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen's shop store clerks and factory workers would be making about $150 per month, whereas the same jobs would command $30 per month in more rural areas.
I was in grad school in 1984 when the Macintosh first came out. I had a choice at that time of using VAX/VMS on a VAX 780 or a Mac, since IBM-compatibles were not capable of doing our calculations or theses as easily as the 780 (for computation) or the Mac (for word processing). Since its inception in 1984 Mac has had a task bar as an integral part of its GUI/OS, thus I fail to see where MS Windows was a leader in using a taskbar.
Continuing with more grad-school in the 1990's, I used a Vax 780 running Unix (ultrix), Sun Sparcstations on unix (later Solaris), and Macs on Ver 6 and 7. Unix, as you probably know, is a true multi-tasking os because it was designed that way by ATT/Bell Labs. DOS and early versions of Windows claimed to be multi-taksing, but were unable to either time-share or multi-task in the same sense as mainframes, VMS, Mac Sys 7, or unix. To me, multi-tasking on Windows is kludgey at best.
As an undergrad in the mid-1970's, I was using Compass on a CDC 6400, a computer with a true 60-bit (yes, sixty, not sixty-four) CPU designed by Seymour Cray. So again, I fail to see where MS has been very innovative regarding 64-bit systems, while the applications have changed, and the hardware gotten smaller and cheaper, the conceptual architecture and uses of a 60 (64) bit machine remains the same.
Many of the paradigms used by current hardware and software, including MS, were developed by IBM for the MVS os of its famed System 360, which I used to program for my Dad while I was in secondary school in the early 1970's. (My Dad taught me Fortran when I was in the ninth grade; the university's computer center people taught me JCL.)
I guess that the idea that I am leading to is that if one works and plays on technically advanced hardware, using advanced non-MS software, I think that it is very possible to not use MS products for many years and not be behind the curve; the above experiences provide counterpoints to any proposal that MS is a leader in technology. I would agree that MS has a wildly successful business model; but that does not necessarily mean that their vision of computing has any substance.
I used Windows between 1997 and 2005, but have just switched back to *nix, as my day-to-day applications, including Matlab, do not need Windows, and I missed the stability of *nix although my Windows-based friends say that Windows' stability is getting better.
I think that a more interesting concept for contemplation is: what integration will we see in the next 10 years across communications/electronics (the EE's), mechanical devices (the ME's) and computing platforms (the CS's).
Actually the population of San Francisco is about 775,000 (yes, thousand); the greater Bay Area has a few million people. The SFPD only has jurisdiction in San Francisco proper which is the northern tip of the San Francisco peninsula.
And I thought that it was because Windoze is worth less than zero dollars!
HSBC, at least in Hong Kong, is twisted. I called them to say that their business internet banking was not accessible through Fire Fox, but that their personal internet banking worked fine, and because their personal i-banking worked fine on Fire Fox, they obviously know how to program for Fire Fox. HSBC's response?
You can use any browser you want.
(Yean, as long as its IE5 or better.)
HSBC lost a business customer that day.
What's a "woman"?
and having watched the creation of Cyberport, I can say that the complex is nothing more than a property development masquerading as a high tech office complex. A single property developer was sole sourced to develop Cyberport: the HK Govt would give land to the developer and in exchange, the developer would construct a state-of-the-art facility for housing geek companies and also a set of condominiums. The HK Govt promoted the idea as fast-tracking the development of a high-tech complex that would house the HK offices of Intel, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun, etc. To the credit of the developer, luxury high-rise condominiums were built and units are being sold at the 1997 levels (on the order of US$1,500 per square foot for a 99 year lease). To the discredit of the government, Cyberport remains less than half full; public transport to the place is virtually non-existant; and it is difficult for visitors and residents alike to visit (it's a bit out of the way). BBC seems to be behind the curve on this one as the controversy over Cyberport has been in the press for the last six years in HK; with its problems being discussed almost daily (currently) because of another land development by the HK government that emulates the Cyberport model--the West Kowloon Cultural District.
I had the same thing happen with HSBC. I called their tech support and said that their Business Internet Banking (BIB) site didn't support Mozilla, yet their Personal Internet Banking (PIB) site worked fine. I asked HSBC to recode their BIB site. They said that nothing was wrong and that it was obviously the way that I had configured out boxes and network. I asked HSBC if they had tried to reproduce my error. HSBC said that they had NOT downloaded Mozilla and had NOT tried to reproduce the error. After two days, HSBC called me to say that they COULD reproduce the error, but that they were not going to do anything about it. I stopped using HSBC.