You handed you child your phone, unattended I'm assuming since it seems the child was killing and slaying long enough to learn the controls to the game. Imagine what you child could have been exposed to if they clicked on the evil internet icon...
I have an Epic 4g, and I don't see the NASCAR and other sprint crap-ware running on the phone. Sure it's part of the image, and I can't delete them, but in my daily phone usage, they are completely unnoticeable. Of course, I took a day to figure out how to rebuild the "home" pages and organize things, but since then I haven't been bothered by any of the default crap.
I think this issue is just more FUD from the iPhone fanbois, since their mighty Apple controls their every action and thought. Not to mention, if the pre-loaded crap really bugs you, Sprint offers a Nexus with pure Android...
This isn't as annoying as the carriers removing tethering or removing basic functions of the phone in order to upsell other services. In that case I would definitely be running the nexus (even thought I can't stand softkeys) or looking for a new rom for the Epic.
You should totally be looking to do FORTRAN on z/VM... It's the only way you will be able to handle the "millions" of accounts you will be creating to pump your own image.
Isn't Facebook's entire valuation based on violating user privacy? The ad piece of the business probably pales in comparison to being able to "accidentally" expose thoroughly mined and indexed personal information. It is probably the same thing for Zygna, the world's highest grossing "GAME" company, slowly recycling Pavlov's finest experiments.
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What is it with projects having to complete change the way they do things when they decide to "clean up" the code? I understand the need to make your mark on a project, but this is like the Amarok rewrite disaster. I wonder if it is even possible to rewrite something while retaining the "core values." Looking at the latest flop of Hollywood remakes, it seems a universal issue.
Maybe as a society we are becoming less capable, living up to the society that was portrayed in Idiocracy....
That is the fundamental reason why nuclear energy is unsafe. You need things that work well in theory to work well in practice.
They don't, of course.
Wow. Just nuclear energy is unsafe? What about windmills with poorly designed brakes? What about solar panel manufacturing? I'm sure that they are using wheat glutten and pony poo.
Nothing is safe. so do you propose we all dig holes in the ground and bury ourselves? We've tried analysis paralysis and have nothing to show for it. Time to put some nukes online, get rid of the Coal / Gas / Diesel burners and fix the immediate climate issues. And no, I'm not talking about warming cooling changing. I'm talking about my desire to breath.
I also think that the inherit nature of engineers to "troubleshoot" the problem instead of switching to "survival" mode will be called out. I wonder how long it took the onsite teams to argue with management to determine that things were beyond recovery and that they needed to take "heroic" / destructive measure to prevent a disaster.
It is the same thing in IT projects - debug / rebuild... Or aircraft operations during instrument failures - debug instruments / put plane in fail-safe...
Many examples. Same conclusions, stop wasting time on debugging failures and get back to a "stable" state.
The advisory was issued as a suggestion to people who may be looking to apply for jobs working with secret materials.
Whether it makes sense or not is immaterial. If you are walking along the street, and pick up a document marked secret and then share it with your friends, you have violated the "rules". It doesn't matter how you obtained the material, its how you handle it that matters.
If you feel a need to share these documents, then maybe working for the government is not the best career path for you. Yes it's a game, but its a voluntary game, and you know what you sign up for.
The funniest about all this is that most people with security clearance would have been able to access those cables anyway through the gov systems.
That is a bad assumption. Most materials are "Need to Know" regardless of the classification level. Someone working at the State Dept. does not have "free" access to DoD materials.
So the objection is not to the information itself, but to how it got onto that particular computer. This means (according to the above) that if a gov employee reads the nytimes or wikileaks or one of hundreds of other websites they must call their local security officer to have their computer wiped and the uninformation destroyed. Insanity.
The problem is that the US government has not declassified these documents yet [even though they are freely available]. This causes a "sticky" point in the process of applying for a new clearance / renewing an existing one, since technically viewing the leaked documents counts as a violation[viewing materials that you are not authorized for]. So it's not the US Government controlling peoples thoughts, it just a very draconian interpretation of a convoluted info sec policy.
They're both wrong, so we should abolish it. FDR used it in a case against 8 men (Ex parte Quirin). Bush used it against some 775 detainees at Guantanamo and unknown others. So, we can say that Bush is approximately 100-fold more in the wrong than FDR was.
What was the detainment of Japenese American done by FDR called? At least Bush didn't pull anything as racially motivated...
I think its because porch monkey usually refers to someone who doesn't have a job and has no real purpose in life, so they "hang" out on the porch all day.
And of course, we all know that black people don't want to work for a living, so the only thing porch monkey can refer to is a black person.
I wonder if referring to the curious george books would be considered racist? Carrying around a monkey on the back of a white person is obviously an allegory to white people paying for welfare....
Remember the good ole days, when there was a charismatic candidate that promised a new Washington, one that represents the people and not littered with lobbyists.
Considering most situations where a parent would use this (park / mall / large crowds), does it really need "satellite" tracking abilities? I would imagine just a standard beacon transmitter and receiver would be enough. Most of the scenarios I can imagine would be where the child was within 1 mile of the parent, if not less.
Also, I'd have to imagine that if someone is depraved enough to "kidnap" a kid, they know to cut off the watch and backpack / etc.
The point of the coolthreads servers aren't to go core to core with other CPUs. The strength of those systems is the number of cores you can get in a single system. A T5440 supports 4 T2 Plus prcoessors which gives you 32 cores.
And even with the "32 cores", the Niagara was beaten out by cheaper x86 servers.
Sun basically killed themselves by canceling the Sparc line. They never ramped the clocks on cores, and the multi-threaded model that they designed towards was a fringe case at best.
I guess RDM doesn't watch the show, because his explanations only make sense if you forget 80% of the "history." Millions of skinjobs are still on the colonies.
Even in the finale, the recon reported several basestars resupplying the colony. That is how they determined the best spot for a jump.
The finale was great due to the acting and the first hour. But as a wrapup for the shows overlying themes, I wanted more.
The finale was a decent episode. But I think that ever since the destruction of the HUB, the show was rudderless.
I think that this is one of the problems when the central premise of a show is a "mystery." It always ends up that the big reveal is a huge disappointment.
Also, what happened to all of the basestars that Cavil had under control? Not to mention, the "millions" of cylons on the colonies. Wouldn't they lay out to search for the final five to rebuild resurrection?
I think the finale needed a 20-30 year jump forward to show aging skinjobs scanning earth, and not detecting technology, continue searching for the final five. It would have given closure to the show's overall theme. Instead we just get a "spiritual" explanation. The reason I feel this way is back when they found the temple of jupiter, Cavil advocated nuking the planet and spending an infinite amount of time searching for earth. Even without resurrection, I think that the remaining cylons would have the same sentiment.
The other thing that had not been really discussed, and will hopefully come out in the next few entries, is what happened to the artificial intelligence that was the original cylon race? Maybe "the plan" will give us more insight to cylon society.
I have never met a single iPhone user who has had extensive use of a smart phone.
Actually, I found the inverse to be true. Most of the people I know with an iPhone had treo's, nokia's, HTC's, etc. The iPhone, if it wasn't crippled by being tied to apple(itunes) + AT&T, would be my first choice for a phone. Right now I am using a treo 755, which suffers from Palm's complete lack of direction and a horrible browser. For everyday use, the iPhone would meet my needs, and with a little development it would meet most business needs much better than a crackberry does.
The only problem I have seen with wireless is getting WPA and the assorted drivers lined up correctly. I think the problem is more of a maturity issue, and not really a Linux issue. I agree with the parent post, I have had multiple iterations of wireless cards and Linux, and usually can get them more stable than the windows equivalent. The only problem I find is if I switch out chipsets, sometimes the WPA + Kernel / madwifi / ndiswrapper stack needs "tweaking". I think that given time, both in the wireless space and in the driver writer space.
As for the article, I am not sure there was any new direction proposed.
Justice, hell, I want the parents to shut the school down, fire all of the faculty and blacklist anyone involved in making the decision to bubble this up as "potential terrorist actions." They should be forced to repay any monies lost investigating the situation and charged as terrorists themselves for promoting a culture of fear. Terrorism has become as vague as the FCC's definition of decency, and it seems that only the extreme reactionist position is correct.
It just seems that we are squeezing ourselves tighter and tighter in the name of security, that we are setting ourselves up for massive failure. And reactionism like this needs to be countered with more reactionism. We need to get back to a point of balance, not err on the side "caution."
Actually, its more of a problem with outsourcing in general. The people handling the infrastructure you outsourced have very little invested in the success / failure of your project. The group that you outsourced to probably has enough of a customer base that your data as an entity is not that important to the bottom line.
I caught a recent episode of 30 days (by the guy who did SuperSize me), where they sent an american to work in India. One of the topics of discussion (towards the end, and they really breezed over it) was that even if the call center shut down for a day, the customers wouldn't mind since losing one day occassionally was still less than not outsourcing. Until the perceived risk is greater than the cost savings, outsourcing will continue, and data integrity will continue to degrade.
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You handed you child your phone, unattended I'm assuming since it seems the child was killing and slaying long enough to learn the controls to the game. Imagine what you child could have been exposed to if they clicked on the evil internet icon...
I have an Epic 4g, and I don't see the NASCAR and other sprint crap-ware running on the phone. Sure it's part of the image, and I can't delete them, but in my daily phone usage, they are completely unnoticeable. Of course, I took a day to figure out how to rebuild the "home" pages and organize things, but since then I haven't been bothered by any of the default crap.
I think this issue is just more FUD from the iPhone fanbois, since their mighty Apple controls their every action and thought. Not to mention, if the pre-loaded crap really bugs you, Sprint offers a Nexus with pure Android...
This isn't as annoying as the carriers removing tethering or removing basic functions of the phone in order to upsell other services. In that case I would definitely be running the nexus (even thought I can't stand softkeys) or looking for a new rom for the Epic.
You should totally be looking to do FORTRAN on z/VM... It's the only way you will be able to handle the "millions" of accounts you will be creating to pump your own image.
Isn't Facebook's entire valuation based on violating user privacy? The ad piece of the business probably pales in comparison to being able to "accidentally" expose thoroughly mined and indexed personal information. It is probably the same thing for Zygna, the world's highest grossing "GAME" company, slowly recycling Pavlov's finest experiments.
Don't like 3D, wait for the blu-ray. Added advantages, thousands of dollars saved on concessions.
What is it with projects having to complete change the way they do things when they decide to "clean up" the code? I understand the need to make your mark on a project, but this is like the Amarok rewrite disaster. I wonder if it is even possible to rewrite something while retaining the "core values." Looking at the latest flop of Hollywood remakes, it seems a universal issue.
Maybe as a society we are becoming less capable, living up to the society that was portrayed in Idiocracy....
Wow. Just nuclear energy is unsafe? What about windmills with poorly designed brakes? What about solar panel manufacturing? I'm sure that they are using wheat glutten and pony poo.
Nothing is safe. so do you propose we all dig holes in the ground and bury ourselves? We've tried analysis paralysis and have nothing to show for it. Time to put some nukes online, get rid of the Coal / Gas / Diesel burners and fix the immediate climate issues. And no, I'm not talking about warming cooling changing. I'm talking about my desire to breath.
I also think that the inherit nature of engineers to "troubleshoot" the problem instead of switching to "survival" mode will be called out. I wonder how long it took the onsite teams to argue with management to determine that things were beyond recovery and that they needed to take "heroic" / destructive measure to prevent a disaster.
It is the same thing in IT projects - debug / rebuild... Or aircraft operations during instrument failures - debug instruments / put plane in fail-safe...
Many examples. Same conclusions, stop wasting time on debugging failures and get back to a "stable" state.
Now I need to go and re-read N-Space... Thanks.
I guess you forgot to RTFA...
The advisory was issued as a suggestion to people who may be looking to apply for jobs working with secret materials.
Whether it makes sense or not is immaterial. If you are walking along the street, and pick up a document marked secret and then share it with your friends, you have violated the "rules". It doesn't matter how you obtained the material, its how you handle it that matters.
If you feel a need to share these documents, then maybe working for the government is not the best career path for you. Yes it's a game, but its a voluntary game, and you know what you sign up for.
The funniest about all this is that most people with security clearance would have been able to access those cables anyway through the gov systems.
That is a bad assumption. Most materials are "Need to Know" regardless of the classification level. Someone working at the State Dept. does not have "free" access to DoD materials.
So the objection is not to the information itself, but to how it got onto that particular computer. This means (according to the above) that if a gov employee reads the nytimes or wikileaks or one of hundreds of other websites they must call their local security officer to have their computer wiped and the uninformation destroyed. Insanity.
The problem is that the US government has not declassified these documents yet [even though they are freely available]. This causes a "sticky" point in the process of applying for a new clearance / renewing an existing one, since technically viewing the leaked documents counts as a violation[viewing materials that you are not authorized for]. So it's not the US Government controlling peoples thoughts, it just a very draconian interpretation of a convoluted info sec policy.
They're both wrong, so we should abolish it. FDR used it in a case against 8 men (Ex parte Quirin). Bush used it against some 775 detainees at Guantanamo and unknown others. So, we can say that Bush is approximately 100-fold more in the wrong than FDR was.
What was the detainment of Japenese American done by FDR called? At least Bush didn't pull anything as racially motivated...
I think its because porch monkey usually refers to someone who doesn't have a job and has no real purpose in life, so they "hang" out on the porch all day.
And of course, we all know that black people don't want to work for a living, so the only thing porch monkey can refer to is a black person.
I wonder if referring to the curious george books would be considered racist? Carrying around a monkey on the back of a white person is obviously an allegory to white people paying for welfare....
Maybe pent up repression that W got all kind of satire, and O is untouchable?
Remember the good ole days, when there was a charismatic candidate that promised a new Washington, one that represents the people and not littered with lobbyists.
I guess GW really messed the country up...
Its not entirely the cops' fault. I think it is because traffic enforcement has moved away from "public safety" and more into a revenue stream.
Considering most situations where a parent would use this (park / mall / large crowds), does it really need "satellite" tracking abilities? I would imagine just a standard beacon transmitter and receiver would be enough. Most of the scenarios I can imagine would be where the child was within 1 mile of the parent, if not less.
Also, I'd have to imagine that if someone is depraved enough to "kidnap" a kid, they know to cut off the watch and backpack / etc.
The point of the coolthreads servers aren't to go core to core with other CPUs. The strength of those systems is the number of cores you can get in a single system. A T5440 supports 4 T2 Plus prcoessors which gives you 32 cores.
And even with the "32 cores", the Niagara was beaten out by cheaper x86 servers.
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/280124-0-0-0-121.html
Sun basically killed themselves by canceling the Sparc line. They never ramped the clocks on cores, and the multi-threaded model that they designed towards was a fringe case at best.
I guess RDM doesn't watch the show, because his explanations only make sense if you forget 80% of the "history." Millions of skinjobs are still on the colonies.
Even in the finale, the recon reported several basestars resupplying the colony. That is how they determined the best spot for a jump.
The finale was great due to the acting and the first hour. But as a wrapup for the shows overlying themes, I wanted more.
The finale was a decent episode. But I think that ever since the destruction of the HUB, the show was rudderless.
I think that this is one of the problems when the central premise of a show is a "mystery." It always ends up that the big reveal is a huge disappointment.
Also, what happened to all of the basestars that Cavil had under control? Not to mention, the "millions" of cylons on the colonies. Wouldn't they lay out to search for the final five to rebuild resurrection?
I think the finale needed a 20-30 year jump forward to show aging skinjobs scanning earth, and not detecting technology, continue searching for the final five. It would have given closure to the show's overall theme. Instead we just get a "spiritual" explanation. The reason I feel this way is back when they found the temple of jupiter, Cavil advocated nuking the planet and spending an infinite amount of time searching for earth. Even without resurrection, I think that the remaining cylons would have the same sentiment.
The other thing that had not been really discussed, and will hopefully come out in the next few entries, is what happened to the artificial intelligence that was the original cylon race? Maybe "the plan" will give us more insight to cylon society.
I have never met a single iPhone user who has had extensive use of a smart phone.
Actually, I found the inverse to be true. Most of the people I know with an iPhone had treo's, nokia's, HTC's, etc. The iPhone, if it wasn't crippled by being tied to apple(itunes) + AT&T, would be my first choice for a phone. Right now I am using a treo 755, which suffers from Palm's complete lack of direction and a horrible browser. For everyday use, the iPhone would meet my needs, and with a little development it would meet most business needs much better than a crackberry does.
The only problem I have seen with wireless is getting WPA and the assorted drivers lined up correctly. I think the problem is more of a maturity issue, and not really a Linux issue. I agree with the parent post, I have had multiple iterations of wireless cards and Linux, and usually can get them more stable than the windows equivalent. The only problem I find is if I switch out chipsets, sometimes the WPA + Kernel / madwifi / ndiswrapper stack needs "tweaking". I think that given time, both in the wireless space and in the driver writer space.
As for the article, I am not sure there was any new direction proposed.
Justice, hell, I want the parents to shut the school down, fire all of the faculty and blacklist anyone involved in making the decision to bubble this up as "potential terrorist actions." They should be forced to repay any monies lost investigating the situation and charged as terrorists themselves for promoting a culture of fear. Terrorism has become as vague as the FCC's definition of decency, and it seems that only the extreme reactionist position is correct.
It just seems that we are squeezing ourselves tighter and tighter in the name of security, that we are setting ourselves up for massive failure. And reactionism like this needs to be countered with more reactionism. We need to get back to a point of balance, not err on the side "caution."
Actually, its more of a problem with outsourcing in general. The people handling the infrastructure you outsourced have very little invested in the success / failure of your project. The group that you outsourced to probably has enough of a customer base that your data as an entity is not that important to the bottom line.
I caught a recent episode of 30 days (by the guy who did SuperSize me), where they sent an american to work in India. One of the topics of discussion (towards the end, and they really breezed over it) was that even if the call center shut down for a day, the customers wouldn't mind since losing one day occassionally was still less than not outsourcing. Until the perceived risk is greater than the cost savings, outsourcing will continue, and data integrity will continue to degrade.
Please... oh please... don't allow this obvious patent to be approved.