A number of moderators consistently and repeatedly moderate as troll any criticism of MS.
the twitter of microsoft. I wonder who it is, probably a few. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a little 'slashdot' PR team inside of microsoft getting mod points and "managing" slashdotters opinions of M$.
The thing about MS is that we know that they buy up the best talent in the business and still deliver garbage...Their products always start bad and end up mediocre.
fair enough. Telling the kid that there might be a present up in that wardrobe somewhere and not to look for it. I was just making it up as I went along. But implementing that functionality inside the ifone would have taken a series of overview meetings, management decisions, implementation meetings and developer resources to achieve.
The bottom line is the functionality was there to be discovered as opposed to not there to be discovered. As such the discussion is about "securing the functionality" not about how to implement the functionality. It shouldn't be 'surprisingly easy' for an application to extract that data and transmit it.
Apple still didn't care about their users privacy, *they* were selective about who *they* decided *they* were going to share user with. From my limited understanding of the Android API it's a lot harder to extract that information from the google platform.
If Apple really did care about your privacy then the functionality just would not exist, and at best it would be a hack. As it stands it's just an undocumented feature.
It's great to rely on 'developer integrity' and all ya' know, but those developers are motivated by a need to generate a return. It's hard for anyone to expect a management team *not* to instruct a development team to extract said information and feed it into a marketing team. I've got two ideas for iPhone applications iWantYourMoney and iWantYourInformation supported by the iPwned you framework.
Seriously people it's like putting a 9 year old in front of a big red button with a sign under it saying 'Do not press this button' and saying to the kid 'Don't touch that button kid'. I'd expect the management teams to be saying 'what other user information can you extract'.
Uhh, who's gonna pay to hire a trillion dollars' worth of architects, developers, testers, trainers, managers, distributors, support personnel, human resource departments, etc etc etc?
The same people who pay for it with commercial software. All we are talking about here is software with a different licensing model. I can't see a single business out there that wouldn't like the costs of their software reduced and have the functionality available to do what every other business does the same way they do.
This is the Horizontal market that I think Linux excels in. The basics. If you tell business there is a way they can share their costs with every other business around the world of course they are interested.
As for the Vertical market software that is developed by specialised vendors I don't know how much they pay to be a developer for proprietary solution but just because their software is hosted on a Freed operating system doesn't mean they still can't charge for their solution.
I.T has always been an industry driven by change. I think the day is coming when OSS becomes more widespread because it reduces software licenseing fees. And who is going to say no to keeping more money in their pocket.
There's lots of other silliness going on though, especially as it's my tax dollars going to waste.
I wonder how many 10's of millions of dollars will be spent on licencing fees? The entire infrastructure could have been built upon Linux distributions and tailored to the education departments requirements. As it stands I wonder if they even looked at a Linux distribution.
Qualitatively, what you'd expect from climate change is more precipitation (because there's more evaporation)
What you are not taking into account is Global Dimming. This phenomenon (do,do, do.do.do) blocks photons from hitting bodies of water which is what is *required* for evaporation to occur. Records of rainfalls taken in Israel has shown a decline in the amounts of rainfall as the amount of particulate matter (from pollution) increases in the atmosphere and blocks light from reaching the earth.
This promotes drought. Less evaporated water in the atmosphere means less rainfall for landmasses and, critically, less snowfall for the polar regions. If the snow hasn't fallen on the polar regions, it still means ice mass is not regenerated at the same rate.
In the 60's the Saturn V launchers were a radical step. Now can anyone honestly say that solving the same engineering problems for Constellation that the Saturn launchers suffered is a radical step. It's little wonder that Joe Public isn't engaged by the space program because it's already been done.
Something radical is holding a competition to make long strand Carbon Nano Tubes to build a space elevator - why not CNT's are the last major technological hurdle to a permanent presence in space. Costs for Constellation are slated to be 97 Billion dollars, so has anyone ever seen one of these projects come in under budget?
Apollo/Saturn had full political focus for budget support to power the industrial machinery to produce it. Does Constellation? Does anyone think it will take 97 Billion to develop long strand CNT's. What is a wise investment infrastructure when 4 billion is the estimate to implement a S.E?
Unless a radical step is taken that inspires Joe Public I can't see Constellation having the political support required to complete it. Ares I and Orion will be the minimum done so you have a launcher that does exactly what the Shuttle does, but doesn't kill the crew every 68 launches. This will be your tax dollars at work.
It's not a new authority, according to Angelica De Cima, Office of Public Affairs Liaison 'They've always had the right to inspect your person, vehicle, baggage, anything on you. Nothing has changed from before,' De Cima said."
This is always how it is done. Pass laws that are extreme enough so that people say "no one will ever use them"...wait for a while... then use them when there is no chance to roll those laws back.
This is why Thomas Jefferson said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Check this video of a 2007 Australian dust storm. This one was smaller than the dust storm we had yesterday. Mostly made up from iron ore particles - apparently it's going to be really good for the ocean. I can still smell it, there is another dust storm due on Saturday.
It is about pacification of people's irrational fears so we can actually build nuclear power plants and stop spewing mercury and radioactive ash into the air.
There is nothing irrational about not wanting to ingest radioactive isotopes because they have been bio-concentrated by the environment into the food chain. Once radioactive isotopes are *inside* the body the mutagenic properties cause cancers. If this stops excess uranium entering the environment then that is a good thing. Unfortunately there are a plethora of other radioactive isotope externalities that the entire industrial Nuclear process releases.
As radioactive isotope emission is inevitable, and there is no known way to clean it up, I'd say those sorts of fears are actually rational fears, like not getting to close to a large crocodile, once you understand the dangers. So you are better informed I've listed some of the mutagenic radioactive isotopes that the Nuclear industry releases:
Mine tailing: radioactive mine tailings from open cut mining where ever it has occurred, radon 220, radium 226, thorium etc.
Enrichment: U-238 or DU. Used as weapon projectile, is pyrophoric and burns into a radioactive powder. Groundwater contamination from leaking Hexafluoride tanks
Reactor facility: tritium, iodine 131, xenon 141, 143, 144, cerium 141, 143, 144, and tritium. Noble gases which decay into more dangerous daughter products (Xenon 137, Krypton 90, rubidium 90, strontium 90, Xenon 135, xenon 133, krypton 85, Argon 39). Of course no epidemiological studies have been performed on the noble gas venting which are released hourly from *all* Nuclear reactors. (did I mention tritium?) 4000 gallons of primary coolant water PER DAY containing plutonium 238,239,241, technetium 99, iodine 129, carbon 14 and *ahem* tritium. That's just the authorised effluents and not the accidents.
Reactor decommissioning: cobalt 60, iron 55, nickel 63, C.R.U.D.
Radioactive Waste: Plutonium, Strontium 90, Iodine 131, Cesium 137 and on and on
If this "solution" can be used to convince people we have all of our all of our bases covered, then it is a very good thing.
So, quite clearly, all our bases are *not* covered. This is only being used to recover uranium which will be used for fuel. When the engineering is performed and the scientific evidence is produced to demonstrate out bases are covered *then* I will be convinced. Until then the reality is that the Nuclear process continues to release radioactive isotopes into the environment and that they continue to accumulate in the foodchain.
The real question is "has Linux even pervaded the public's consciousness sufficiently to where it *could* be a plus or minus?" And I'd have to argue no, at least not outside the tech crowd.
Hmmmm, maybe we should start telling people that Windows 7, like Mac, is based on Linux - since they wouldn't know the difference anyway.
do you have a scanned page/photo to see what this looks like?
Not on the intertubes, but I'll try to works something out and post a link. Actually never thought of putting them online, at least until the songs are actually published.
I took up calligraphy (all forms) and modified my own handwriting, moving from "cursive" to an italic.
I can write with my left or right hand which is kind of fun and great to show off, but also comes in handy when busy (as does left and right mouse switching to avoid overuse).
I suspect you've never seen beautiful handwriting, or its effect on the addressee.
It's when I combine my left and right handwriting and write with two pens peoples jaws drop, mostly though it's only musicians who see it as I am writing lyrics for their music. It looks like a form of calligraphy when I use nice pens but has the convenience of being extremely fast, actually faster than cursive, without becoming fatiguing. It's taken about 10 years of writing practice and you are right, when presented people appear confused, at first, and then as they absorb the writing (decoding it I guess) they treat the page like art.
The result is three remarkably different styles of writing. Something necessary is missing from the mind when people can't write properly, I think in a way it makes people more fleeting, somehow transient.
But, really, imagine the headlines of some 'new' technology that could let you do all of that with any degree of reliability:
All human communication has been affected by the technology of the day. When ink-wells and quills were the mode of communication, holes in the desk to hold them were 'state of the art'. When mass produced pens became s.o.t.a cursive script was a normal means of communications. Who knows when we will be saying 'Keyboard - how quaint'.
With foldable roll-able displays becoming available and touch screens and surface technology slowly coming to market I wouldn't rule out the place for writing just yet, after all who knows what interfaces will become available with a convergence of technology. I am a fast typist but I write *much* faster, the only possible interface that is faster is voice recognition and I can't see every function being performed that way, especially in an office.
Writing is only out of fashion because the technology is not suitably advanced to support that mode of human communication.
Slashdot Mirror
the twitter of microsoft. I wonder who it is, probably a few. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a little 'slashdot' PR team inside of microsoft getting mod points and "managing" slashdotters opinions of M$.
arrrrrgggghhhh..b.r.a.i.n..e.x.p.l.o.d.i.n.g...
C'mon - why is that a troll moderators? I was giving the guy a compliment. Does anyone actually disagree with the comment made? hmm?
Priceless.
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to shoddy engineering.
fair enough. Telling the kid that there might be a present up in that wardrobe somewhere and not to look for it. I was just making it up as I went along. But implementing that functionality inside the ifone would have taken a series of overview meetings, management decisions, implementation meetings and developer resources to achieve.
The bottom line is the functionality was there to be discovered as opposed to not there to be discovered. As such the discussion is about "securing the functionality" not about how to implement the functionality. It shouldn't be 'surprisingly easy' for an application to extract that data and transmit it.
Apple still didn't care about their users privacy, *they* were selective about who *they* decided *they* were going to share user with. From my limited understanding of the Android API it's a lot harder to extract that information from the google platform.
There is no *spoon*
If Apple really did care about your privacy then the functionality just would not exist, and at best it would be a hack. As it stands it's just an undocumented feature.
It's great to rely on 'developer integrity' and all ya' know, but those developers are motivated by a need to generate a return. It's hard for anyone to expect a management team *not* to instruct a development team to extract said information and feed it into a marketing team. I've got two ideas for iPhone applications iWantYourMoney and iWantYourInformation supported by the iPwned you framework.
Seriously people it's like putting a 9 year old in front of a big red button with a sign under it saying 'Do not press this button' and saying to the kid 'Don't touch that button kid'. I'd expect the management teams to be saying 'what other user information can you extract'.
what about the Irate Party?
I was wondering when there would be a Rule 34 for this ad. Brings new meaning to 'activities' and shooting videos.
I did three activities - help and how to brings it all together - hands on activity - go deeper into it - Uh..h.a..h.a..ha
The same people who pay for it with commercial software. All we are talking about here is software with a different licensing model. I can't see a single business out there that wouldn't like the costs of their software reduced and have the functionality available to do what every other business does the same way they do.
This is the Horizontal market that I think Linux excels in. The basics. If you tell business there is a way they can share their costs with every other business around the world of course they are interested.
As for the Vertical market software that is developed by specialised vendors I don't know how much they pay to be a developer for proprietary solution but just because their software is hosted on a Freed operating system doesn't mean they still can't charge for their solution.
I.T has always been an industry driven by change. I think the day is coming when OSS becomes more widespread because it reduces software licenseing fees. And who is going to say no to keeping more money in their pocket.
I wonder how many 10's of millions of dollars will be spent on licencing fees? The entire infrastructure could have been built upon Linux distributions and tailored to the education departments requirements. As it stands I wonder if they even looked at a Linux distribution.
What waste of money.
Looks like Microsoft can crash anything these days.
Yeah, well I wonder
FTFY.
What you are not taking into account is Global Dimming. This phenomenon (do,do, do.do.do) blocks photons from hitting bodies of water which is what is *required* for evaporation to occur. Records of rainfalls taken in Israel has shown a decline in the amounts of rainfall as the amount of particulate matter (from pollution) increases in the atmosphere and blocks light from reaching the earth.
This promotes drought. Less evaporated water in the atmosphere means less rainfall for landmasses and, critically, less snowfall for the polar regions. If the snow hasn't fallen on the polar regions, it still means ice mass is not regenerated at the same rate.
I'd like to welcome our water breathing overlords.
No, but I read "NASA's Space Planes take a hit" - It should have read "slashdot's comment system took a hit"
In the 60's the Saturn V launchers were a radical step. Now can anyone honestly say that solving the same engineering problems for Constellation that the Saturn launchers suffered is a radical step. It's little wonder that Joe Public isn't engaged by the space program because it's already been done.
Something radical is holding a competition to make long strand Carbon Nano Tubes to build a space elevator - why not CNT's are the last major technological hurdle to a permanent presence in space. Costs for Constellation are slated to be 97 Billion dollars, so has anyone ever seen one of these projects come in under budget?
Apollo/Saturn had full political focus for budget support to power the industrial machinery to produce it. Does Constellation? Does anyone think it will take 97 Billion to develop long strand CNT's. What is a wise investment infrastructure when 4 billion is the estimate to implement a S.E?
Unless a radical step is taken that inspires Joe Public I can't see Constellation having the political support required to complete it. Ares I and Orion will be the minimum done so you have a launcher that does exactly what the Shuttle does, but doesn't kill the crew every 68 launches. This will be your tax dollars at work.
This is always how it is done. Pass laws that are extreme enough so that people say "no one will ever use them"...wait for a while... then use them when there is no chance to roll those laws back.
This is why Thomas Jefferson said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Check this video of a 2007 Australian dust storm. This one was smaller than the dust storm we had yesterday. Mostly made up from iron ore particles - apparently it's going to be really good for the ocean. I can still smell it, there is another dust storm due on Saturday.
There is nothing irrational about not wanting to ingest radioactive isotopes because they have been bio-concentrated by the environment into the food chain. Once radioactive isotopes are *inside* the body the mutagenic properties cause cancers. If this stops excess uranium entering the environment then that is a good thing. Unfortunately there are a plethora of other radioactive isotope externalities that the entire industrial Nuclear process releases.
As radioactive isotope emission is inevitable, and there is no known way to clean it up, I'd say those sorts of fears are actually rational fears, like not getting to close to a large crocodile, once you understand the dangers. So you are better informed I've listed some of the mutagenic radioactive isotopes that the Nuclear industry releases:
Mine tailing: radioactive mine tailings from open cut mining where ever it has occurred, radon 220, radium 226, thorium etc.
Enrichment: U-238 or DU. Used as weapon projectile, is pyrophoric and burns into a radioactive powder. Groundwater contamination from leaking Hexafluoride tanks
Reactor facility: tritium, iodine 131, xenon 141, 143, 144, cerium 141, 143, 144, and tritium. Noble gases which decay into more dangerous daughter products (Xenon 137, Krypton 90, rubidium 90, strontium 90, Xenon 135, xenon 133, krypton 85, Argon 39). Of course no epidemiological studies have been performed on the noble gas venting which are released hourly from *all* Nuclear reactors. (did I mention tritium?) 4000 gallons of primary coolant water PER DAY containing plutonium 238,239,241, technetium 99, iodine 129, carbon 14 and *ahem* tritium. That's just the authorised effluents and not the accidents.
Reactor decommissioning: cobalt 60, iron 55, nickel 63, C.R.U.D.
Radioactive Waste: Plutonium, Strontium 90, Iodine 131, Cesium 137 and on and on
So, quite clearly, all our bases are *not* covered. This is only being used to recover uranium which will be used for fuel. When the engineering is performed and the scientific evidence is produced to demonstrate out bases are covered *then* I will be convinced. Until then the reality is that the Nuclear process continues to release radioactive isotopes into the environment and that they continue to accumulate in the foodchain.
Hmmmm, maybe we should start telling people that Windows 7, like Mac, is based on Linux - since they wouldn't know the difference anyway.
Not on the intertubes, but I'll try to works something out and post a link. Actually never thought of putting them online, at least until the songs are actually published.
I can write with my left or right hand which is kind of fun and great to show off, but also comes in handy when busy (as does left and right mouse switching to avoid overuse).
It's when I combine my left and right handwriting and write with two pens peoples jaws drop, mostly though it's only musicians who see it as I am writing lyrics for their music. It looks like a form of calligraphy when I use nice pens but has the convenience of being extremely fast, actually faster than cursive, without becoming fatiguing. It's taken about 10 years of writing practice and you are right, when presented people appear confused, at first, and then as they absorb the writing (decoding it I guess) they treat the page like art.
The result is three remarkably different styles of writing. Something necessary is missing from the mind when people can't write properly, I think in a way it makes people more fleeting, somehow transient.
All human communication has been affected by the technology of the day. When ink-wells and quills were the mode of communication, holes in the desk to hold them were 'state of the art'. When mass produced pens became s.o.t.a cursive script was a normal means of communications. Who knows when we will be saying 'Keyboard - how quaint'.
With foldable roll-able displays becoming available and touch screens and surface technology slowly coming to market I wouldn't rule out the place for writing just yet, after all who knows what interfaces will become available with a convergence of technology. I am a fast typist but I write *much* faster, the only possible interface that is faster is voice recognition and I can't see every function being performed that way, especially in an office.
Writing is only out of fashion because the technology is not suitably advanced to support that mode of human communication.