You just unroot it if you need to take it in for a warranty replacement. I did just that. It's quite painless nowadays with all the howtos and utilities folks have developed to make it easy.
Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries -- particularly the United States and his native Germany -- between creationism and evolution was an "absurdity," saying that evolution can coexist with faith.
Another interesting point about Florida's lottery is that you are 4 times more likely to be struck by lightning in Florida than to win the Lotto jackpot.;)
I based that on the per year numbers ages ago so obviously not very accurate, but not completely made up.:) hrm, ok, I'll find numbers.
Oh, wow, the Lotto has changed a lot in the last 20 years: bi-weekly drawings, additional numbers. It looks like the odds are about even now!:
As of September 8, 2009 a total of 963 tickets had matched 6-of-6 in Florida Lotto to win or share a jackpot. Of these, 27 expired, never being claimed by ticketholders." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_lotto (963-27)/( 2009-1988 )=44.57/year
I wonder how many of those 27 unclaimed tickets belonged to people struck by lightning.;)
I'm surprised a large chunk of the obfuscation attempts didn't involve replacing letters with numbers. termin8, passw0rd, etc.
I used a password cracker once as a sysadmin many years ago and I recall that that was one of the higher priority alternates the password cracker tried after dictionary words. I also remember there were plenty of adjunct dictionaries for password crackers with things such as anime/book/movie/tv names and character names and places which might cover a lot of that "other" category.
Additionally, you can't create a profile for a non-person entity such as a pet or business.
At least they have some integrity. That statement right there is sacrificing a lot of money for a better system. I get so pissed off when some business expects me to do this or that on their Facebook page*. The interesting thing is that you don't have to be a user to view Google+ pages, so they could have stolen a lot of those business users away from Facebook but they chose not to.
Ford Motor Company certainly seems like a business to me. I'm sure they'll refer to Ford's google+ page as something other than a "profile" to lawyer their way out of that one.:)
One interesting thing I noticed is that even though I don't have any problems viewing Google+ pages with Safari/Firefox, a little box tells me there is a problem. It doesn't appear on Chrome. That's a little underhanded. I even checked to make sure everything worked just like it worked in Chrome.
It's quite obnoxious of google to claim that the version of firefox which was released with debian stable a year ago and is well-supplied with security updates is not a "modern browser". A googler I know says this alert is just because they haven't done any testing on these versions, but the red inline, scrolling pop-up is still quite obnoxious. I recommend they make it an ugly rectangular image file that says "Best viewed in Chrome at 800x600 resolution!" a la the mid 1990s.:)
Speaking of that annoying red pop-up, if they are going to confusingly subsume the use of red(well almost-red) for the currently active google feature in the top menu and the active Circles and the like, they really shouldn't also use red for the more conventional meaning of an alert/warning message like this. User interfaces should be consistent.
Are they in bed with the companies bidding on the contract and getting lots of hookers and blow?
Does this answer your question?
The city official who was the project's point person, Joel Bondy, resigned in December and had close ties to the suspected mastermind of the scheme.
Gerard Denault, a former executive with Science Applications International Corporation, the company overseeing CityTime, was charged with receiving over $5 million in kickbacks for his work as the project's senior manager.
I see lots of comments exasperated about the cost overruns and folks pointing out that these types of systems are more complicated than it seems. But I couldn't find any comments to moderate up that point out the criminal aspects of this project - so here you go.:)
That's the idea behind Diaspora. Distributed, privately run nodes communicating with each other. You can run your own, or your university can run one, or your favorite website can run one, or your ISP can run it like NNTP or SMTP servers.
Diaspora reminds me slightly of Openmoko, though, which was just getting out of infancy when it was crushed by Android.:(
I must admit that "circles" is a much nicer term than "aspects" which diaspora uses. "Huddle", however - as a term for a group chat - is a bit silly. Perhaps it will appeal to football fans, though.;)
This must be painfully easy to use, no special invites and 10 day waiting lists. If this thing gets rolled out using small groups, it will die.
They aren't likely to change their invite-only tactic. It has been quite successful in the past due to the false demand it creates without having to spend much money on traditional advertising. But the larger factor is likely that they want to be able to very accurately compare the adoption rates (and the rate of changes in the adoptions rates) to their other advertising platforms when they were new.
uh-oh, we've got a delta eyeballs resembling answers.google here!
The most annoying thing to me are web forms or applications with bizarre tab orders. (Even the "helpful" ones that move your focus after you fill the field are annoying since you might type your area code, hit tab for the next field, but end up at the field for last 4 digits.)
I won't even delve into the horror that is non-standard gui/keyboard implementations in flash interfaces.
I used to think I was clever for being aware of how often an argument can be seen as instinctive urges of people to position themselves higher in the primate dominance hierarchy. e.g. I am better than you; the software I use is better than what you use; ad hominem attacks; speaking louder and longer. Then I noticed that by pointing out these dominance hierarchy games that I was really just playing the same instinctual game to show that I am more clever than those people "just" following their instincts. This paper seems to back up my theory that I'm just as much a slave to those instincts as the "me > *" flamebait types.:)
I don't know why people think that "leet-ifying" a word makes it a better password. leetspeak modifications of dictionary words is one of the first variations that password cracking software tries after straight dictionary words.
The Google Apps dashboard is already broken when trying to access it with firefox-3.5.16 from debian stable. You get the menus but the main content area with user management options and the like is just blank. I couldn't even figure out how they broke it looking at the source thanks to the obfuscation. I had to use chromium just to use a very simplistic html form - which is ridiculous. It seems we are quickly leaving the Extend stage and diving right into the Extinguish stage.
City of Boulder zoning and land use regulations determine the number of people that can legally occupy a unit. Over-occupancy of a unit may result in criminal prosecution of the landlord, the tenant, or both. Multi-family zones allow a maximum of four unrelated people. Single family zones allow a maximum of three unrelated people or a family and two unrelated persons per dwelling unit
One of my small pleasures in school was foiling cheaters. If I noticed someone cheating by looking at my answers on a multiple choice exam, I would shift all of my answers by one and when I finished I would shift them all back to the correct answer.:)
The best thing to happen will be to get them away from the racially pure meme they are nursing. That kind of belief has lead to bad things very reliably over the last several hundred years.
Luckily this is already happening thanks to DNA. There used to be a fairly strong belief that was promulgated by the PRC that the chinese evolved separately from the rest of the world based on the discoveries in china of some homo erectus fossils - a.k.a. peking man. But:
A 1999 study undertaken by Chinese geneticist Jin Li showed that the genetic diversity of modern Chinese people is well within that of the whole world population, which suggests there was no inter-breeding between modern human immigrants to East Asia and Homo erectus, such as Peking Man, and that the Chinese are descended from Africa, like all other modern humans
That's precisely why some people against the offsets use the word "indulgence" - to draw the parallel to the selling of catholic indulgences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset#Indulgence_controversy I think it is a disingenuous tactic to use the wrong name for something to try to sway people to your way of thinking. e.g. "death tax", but I suppose we are stuck with it the way we are stuck with prices rarely being rounded properly - because people are hard-wired enough for it to work.
The "criticism" section of the wikipedia article divulges some likely income streams they had. e.g. last year when they bundled the ask.com toolbar and
Prior to April 2004, the free version of LimeWire was distributed with a bundled program called LimeShop (a variant of TopMoxie), which was spyware. Among other things, LimeShop monitored online purchases in order to redirect sales commissions to Lime Wire LLC. Uninstallation of LimeWire would not remove LimeShop.
Amazon and many other big retailers already collect tax for new york. It was fun moving from florida which has no income or internet tax (practically) to NYC with state and city and "commuter region" income tax plus higher state/county/city sales tax *plus* internet sales tax.
samba not only fills the role of file server, but quite ably fills the other necessary roles such as a front-end to cups for printing and to open ldap for the domain controller and single sign on authentication.
zimbra - which is a pretty wrapper around postfix/amavis/clamav/spamassassin - provides outlook and activesync features which make push mail and contacts and calendar integration with outlook and various mobile phones a breeze.
It's really not that hard to manage a decent sized office with a few hundred windows desktops without having to use a single windows server.
In fairness I must admit we had to use one windows server for blackberry enterprise server thanks to the proprietary encryption - but those are phasing out with more employees using android now. (and zimbra has a connector for the BES sync, too)
I believe you mean Diaspora. It is still in the development stages but I think it is coming along pretty well. They did a presentation about the project at NYLUG a couple months ago which was quite interesting.
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Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail is another fascinating example of that.
You just unroot it if you need to take it in for a warranty replacement. I did just that. It's quite painless nowadays with all the howtos and utilities folks have developed to make it easy.
-- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19956961/ns/world_news-europe/t/pope-creation-vs-evolution-clash-absurdity/ (article from 4 years ago)
I based that on the per year numbers ages ago so obviously not very accurate, but not completely made up.
Oh, wow, the Lotto has changed a lot in the last 20 years: bi-weekly drawings, additional numbers. It looks like the odds are about even now!:
2000/(2003-1959)=45.45/year
(963-27)/( 2009-1988 )=44.57/year
I wonder how many of those 27 unclaimed tickets belonged to people struck by lightning. ;)
I'm surprised a large chunk of the obfuscation attempts didn't involve replacing letters with numbers. termin8, passw0rd, etc.
I used a password cracker once as a sysadmin many years ago and I recall that that was one of the higher priority alternates the password cracker tried after dictionary words. I also remember there were plenty of adjunct dictionaries for password crackers with things such as anime/book/movie/tv names and character names and places which might cover a lot of that "other" category.
Additionally, you can't create a profile for a non-person entity such as a pet or business.
At least they have some integrity. That statement right there is sacrificing a lot of money for a better system. I get so pissed off when some business expects me to do this or that on their Facebook page*. The interesting thing is that you don't have to be a user to view Google+ pages, so they could have stolen a lot of those business users away from Facebook but they chose not to.
Ford Motor Company certainly seems like a business to me. I'm sure they'll refer to Ford's google+ page as something other than a "profile" to lawyer their way out of that one. :)
One interesting thing I noticed is that even though I don't have any problems viewing Google+ pages with Safari/Firefox, a little box tells me there is a problem. It doesn't appear on Chrome. That's a little underhanded. I even checked to make sure everything worked just like it worked in Chrome.
It's quite obnoxious of google to claim that the version of firefox which was released with debian stable a year ago and is well-supplied with security updates is not a "modern browser". A googler I know says this alert is just because they haven't done any testing on these versions, but the red inline, scrolling pop-up is still quite obnoxious. I recommend they make it an ugly rectangular image file that says "Best viewed in Chrome at 800x600 resolution!" a la the mid 1990s. :)
Speaking of that annoying red pop-up, if they are going to confusingly subsume the use of red(well almost-red) for the currently active google feature in the top menu and the active Circles and the like, they really shouldn't also use red for the more conventional meaning of an alert/warning message like this. User interfaces should be consistent.
Are they in bed with the companies bidding on the contract and getting lots of hookers and blow?
Does this answer your question?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/nyregion/criticism-for-citytime-project-grows-as-a-manager-is-arrested.html?_r=1
:)
I see lots of comments exasperated about the cost overruns and folks pointing out that these types of systems are more complicated than it seems. But I couldn't find any comments to moderate up that point out the criminal aspects of this project - so here you go.
That's the idea behind Diaspora. Distributed, privately run nodes communicating with each other. You can run your own, or your university can run one, or your favorite website can run one, or your ISP can run it like NNTP or SMTP servers.
:(
Diaspora reminds me slightly of Openmoko, though, which was just getting out of infancy when it was crushed by Android.
Ha! If you click the "classic" link on that page it takes you to the new dark gray bar version.
I must admit that "circles" is a much nicer term than "aspects" which diaspora uses. ;)
"Huddle", however - as a term for a group chat - is a bit silly. Perhaps it will appeal to football fans, though.
This must be painfully easy to use, no special invites and 10 day waiting lists. If this thing gets rolled out using small groups, it will die.
They aren't likely to change their invite-only tactic. It has been quite successful in the past due to the false demand it creates without having to spend much money on traditional advertising. But the larger factor is likely that they want to be able to very accurately compare the adoption rates (and the rate of changes in the adoptions rates) to their other advertising platforms when they were new.
uh-oh, we've got a delta eyeballs resembling answers.google here!
The most annoying thing to me are web forms or applications with bizarre tab orders. (Even the "helpful" ones that move your focus after you fill the field are annoying since you might type your area code, hit tab for the next field, but end up at the field for last 4 digits.)
I won't even delve into the horror that is non-standard gui/keyboard implementations in flash interfaces.
I used to think I was clever for being aware of how often an argument can be seen as instinctive urges of people to position themselves higher in the primate dominance hierarchy. e.g. I am better than you; the software I use is better than what you use; ad hominem attacks; speaking louder and longer. :)
Then I noticed that by pointing out these dominance hierarchy games that I was really just playing the same instinctual game to show that I am more clever than those people "just" following their instincts. This paper seems to back up my theory that I'm just as much a slave to those instincts as the "me > *" flamebait types.
That is very similar to what they did in an episode of The Wire.
I don't know why people think that "leet-ifying" a word makes it a better password. leetspeak modifications of dictionary words is one of the first variations that password cracking software tries after straight dictionary words.
The Google Apps dashboard is already broken when trying to access it with firefox-3.5.16 from debian stable. You get the menus but the main content area with user management options and the like is just blank. I couldn't even figure out how they broke it looking at the source thanks to the obfuscation. I had to use chromium just to use a very simplistic html form - which is ridiculous. It seems we are quickly leaving the Extend stage and diving right into the Extinguish stage.
"Some municipalities do indeed have zoning laws prohibiting more than a specified number of non-family members (male or female) from living together"
From bouldercolorado.gov
City of Boulder zoning and land use regulations determine the number of people that can legally occupy a unit. Over-occupancy of a unit may result in criminal prosecution of the landlord, the tenant, or both. Multi-family zones allow a maximum of four unrelated people. Single family zones allow a maximum of three unrelated people or a family and two unrelated persons per dwelling unit
One of my small pleasures in school was foiling cheaters. If I noticed someone cheating by looking at my answers on a multiple choice exam, I would shift all of my answers by one and when I finished I would shift them all back to the correct answer. :)
The best thing to happen will be to get them away from the racially pure meme they are nursing. That kind of belief has lead to bad things very reliably over the last several hundred years.
Luckily this is already happening thanks to DNA. There used to be a fairly strong belief that was promulgated by the PRC that the chinese evolved separately from the rest of the world based on the discoveries in china of some homo erectus fossils - a.k.a. peking man. But:
A 1999 study undertaken by Chinese geneticist Jin Li showed that the genetic diversity of modern Chinese people is well within that of the whole world population, which suggests there was no inter-breeding between modern human immigrants to East Asia and Homo erectus, such as Peking Man, and that the Chinese are descended from Africa, like all other modern humans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_man#Relation_to_modern_Chinese_people
That's precisely why some people against the offsets use the word "indulgence" - to draw the parallel to the selling of catholic indulgences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset#Indulgence_controversy
I think it is a disingenuous tactic to use the wrong name for something to try to sway people to your way of thinking. e.g. "death tax", but I suppose we are stuck with it the way we are stuck with prices rarely being rounded properly - because people are hard-wired enough for it to work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limewire#Criticism
So that's where the employees waste their 20% time. ;)
Amazon and many other big retailers already collect tax for new york. It was fun moving from florida which has no income or internet tax (practically) to NYC with state and city and "commuter region" income tax plus higher state/county/city sales tax *plus* internet sales tax.
samba not only fills the role of file server, but quite ably fills the other necessary roles such as a front-end to cups for printing and to open ldap for the domain controller and single sign on authentication.
zimbra - which is a pretty wrapper around postfix/amavis/clamav/spamassassin - provides outlook and activesync features which make push mail and contacts and calendar integration with outlook and various mobile phones a breeze.
It's really not that hard to manage a decent sized office with a few hundred windows desktops without having to use a single windows server.
In fairness I must admit we had to use one windows server for blackberry enterprise server thanks to the proprietary encryption - but those are phasing out with more employees using android now. (and zimbra has a connector for the BES sync, too)
I believe you mean Diaspora.
It is still in the development stages but I think it is coming along pretty well. They did a presentation about the project at NYLUG a couple months ago which was quite interesting.