I currently work for a VERY large, VERY well known, almost universally hated telecommunications company, which for obvious reason I cannot name.
The sooner H1B gets put under control the better, not only is it preventing upward movement within the company, increasing domestic unemployment, and brain drain from developing countries... It hurts development efforts within the company.
In a project ended several months ago, only 2 of the 30 plus people involved spoke english as a native language, the non english speakers, spoke 7 different languages, with only english in common.
The two who spoke english were the process manager, and an end user.
My estimation is that a project that should have taken 3 months instead took 3 years (and produced a product that should have been retiring at the time it was introduced).
The bottom line should not be in dollars, it should be in results.
Lets' see nope, no body of Osama.
The threat alert system isn't working (still orange)
Economic recovery didn't start (Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4).
Tech recovery didn't happen.
Bernie Ebbers is still a free man.
You must pass the rights you were given to anyone you give (with our without payment) the software to. not an exact quote
For me that says it all. Anything can be derived, anything can be sold, but, if you got it for free, and you got the gold (source code) for free, as in GPL, then what you pass on must be as free as it was when you got it.
US Copyright law gives a lot of hooey about percentages of change. GPL, says no mater what you do, you cannot steal.
This is yet another patch on a dike that will one day burst.
Unfortunately the burst will not be visable as it would be with a water dam.
The only fix today, is the one that should have been put in place at the time of the original disaster. Time will not be a friend in fixing this problem, it will only make the fix impossible if the wait is too long.
The entire site needs to be encased in high lead glass.
It's without a doubt poor engineering. Inefficient and error prone.
If a hydro-exictric,mechanical means were to be used to do TCP/IP, and you chose not to conduct the electrical signal through what would probably be non-pure, highly conductive water, I would be more inclined to use water pressure to do the job rather than drops of water.
But then that's me and I never understood the art of Yoko Ono.
The religious and alien science stuff aside, this has huge potential.
Basic questions of existance are going to be answered, and argued. Nature vs. Nurture comes to mind first.
Is it true or a publicity stunt? According to the press conference we should know in 9 days.
The assumption I'll have to make until then based on the technical process used in animals and the care that can be taken in a lab, the previous efforts that resulted in test tube babies is that is is likely, and all it really took was someone with the resources and the will to do it.
As the project leader said in the news conference I hopr the press, governments, and the rest of the world give the girl, and the family some kindness.
As unlikely as that is, I hope they do, or we may have to wait decades for the child to reach an age where she can come forword on her own.
There's a good chance that the world changed again today, this time with a birth, not with a bomb. Let's hope the child(ren) is/are healthy.
First Reschedule
This is important stuff. It neads to be covered on CNN, CSPAN, TECH TV, and PBS.
Folks this is Bill of Rights material we are talking about, not some local option sales tax, or exemption of Church Vehicles from registration fees.
The future of every person, every election, and every human rights effort in the United States and possibly the world rests in the balance.
The removal of Ma Bell from monopoly status was an admission by the government, that concentration of power for commerce or monitoring is a bad thing (from a bill of rights view).
The bogus initiative to 'secure' cyberspace has nothing to do with rights, freedom, or liberty and exceeds the constitutuional authority of the Federal Government.
There are no provisions, allowances, or safeguards to insure any of the requirements of due process.
In short, I'll repeat what I said before, Stalin would have loved this.
Check out Asimov's Foundation series of SciFi books.
The core of the story(s) comes down to the study of group behaviour over time, even including 'random' individuals affecting the total mass, by the character of Hari Seldon.
We may be at the computational edge of being able to this.
Lets us know where your working after your done with school, I want to be sure to stear my investments away from that company (Enron2).
Seriously, This isn't about who has the best tools, or even the best prices. It's about circumvention, bypassing, and subverting the law, and the rights of the citizens of the States.
There's no such thing as an ok, shady business deal.
At least there shouldn't be, but then again, the Administration that was going to restore integrity to the office of President of the United States, changed the rules so that the Government can continue to do business with individuals and corperations that have been caught breaking the law.
I'd recommend the adoption of the telecommunications standard of CLLI(tm) (COMMON LANGUAGE® Location Codes)
More information on CLLI(tm) can be found at Common Language Products.
I wouldn't advise actually paying to register the codes, but I would follow the guidelines, they've worked for a long long time in the organization of the worlds largest network.
It'll be a case of "too much information" that won't be easily collated - and hence , pretty useless.
Useless for it's stated purpose yes.
Proceless if you have an individuals or group that you specifically want to target through data mining.
Of course it's not going to find unkown persons... It's going to be used to monitor known persons, or to dig out details on 'special interest groups'.
to find out what the 'opposition' is up to this week.
For Jollys sake, the real use is certainly not the stated purpose.
I've skimmed the entire proposal document and read the first third completely (killing a small forest by printing out the pdf document).
I'm not going to cite details as I don't currently have the block of paper in front of me.
However, I do feel I have to comment. This document is based in fear, not hope. It is not a workable proposition in the United States of America, but would have been very well accepted in the former East Germany or in almost any coldwar eastern block nation.
Under the proposals all persons accessing information or making transactions electronically, or having transactions made for them, would be monitored, recorded and archived at all times for later retrieval under unstated conditions, by unstated persons, for vague purposes of security.
Stalin would have loved it.
The next step beyond this would be to outlaw any and all transactions that were deliberately masked to try and hide from the evesdroppers the origin, content, or time of the communication, because if you feel the need to hide, you must have something to hide, and you are assumed to be a criminal.
I can't speak for everyone, but I do know that I felt safer on September 12th 2001 than I will on September 12th 2005 if all this continues.
I don't know where you are but I saw them in England and Germany between 1977 and 1985 and I -know- what they were doing.
These days you would never recognise it, as it would look almost identical to any other van.
Nope, it wasn't a technology article in any sense.
However, if you want to knock the legs out of American technological progress all you have to do is allow the DMCA and other DRM grabage to run thier courses.
Violation of freedom of speech (yes current overlong standard copyright law, and absurd patents do this), will stifle all progress.
The quick coffin in casket will be taxation of everything. As European users know the Governments run trucks up and down the streets day and night monitoring to see how many televisions are in each house and assessing taxes for each. I can envision this happening in the U.S. with WIFI.
Online ordering needs to remain tax free, the seconf that changes, the internet will become the next "CB Radio" has been fad.
ISP's need to keep thier hands off charging bandwidth caps, and blocking and charging extra for ports.
Greenspan proved that you can kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
This page at NASA gives the up side.
I'll put a small quote from it here; The classical example, often cited, is the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895. Within a year of their discovery, x-rays were being put to practical use in medicine, and in time became of enormous value in medicine, industry, and scientific research. Roentgen's discovery resulted from experimenting with electron beams in evacuated tubes. Had he been directly seeking something of value for the medical profession, he would most likely have put away his electron beams and taken up some more "practical" line of investigation, and the discovery of x-rays would have been postponed.
If you demand a guarentee of payoff for scientific investigation, virtually all research would stop. There just isn't anything that's a sure thing.
Planetary modelling just might allow us to have some idea of how fast we are burning this biosphere out, or get a solid handle on weather patterns, floods, and droughts.
Or who knows it might lead to self tieing shoe laces.
Check out his book The Pinball Effect for history on how unrelated inventions created almost everything we associate with modern civilization.
Was anyone besides myself foolish enough to print this thing out before scrolling through it?
I just killed a small wooded lot.
Just a thought, next time George and the boys offer up something this important, they really should think about making it a PDF and or gzip it.
correction to the first part of the previous message...
They have Giga available to business (only business and Govt).
They had 128+k (one way requireing the use of a phone line with cable) services available to residential but dropped it after Bell brought in DSL.
My local municipal owned and operated cable company had Gigabit Ethernet available to business and local government.
They used to have a one way cable platform for residential at speeds the same and under, priced above Bell (and Earthlink) DSL.
Don't think that having more than one provider is going to break any barriers in competition.
Most area's that could have multiple high speed providers don't. The Bells and the Cable Co's are dividing the marginal area's up, and choosing which high return (read big city) areas are worth fighting for.
Gigabit, not 2.8 megabit, now there's something everyone should have.
/.
Thanks Bill.
Certainly there's no reason that you had to take any time out to answer questions from the 'nerd crowd'. I suspect Robin Guido your publicist suggested it would be a good idea, and it was.
Too many of your 'trek' fans seem to forget that your not Captain Kirk and the details of your personal life are just that, personal. Your an actor, like any sometimes the roles are good, and your not (good for the role) and other time the roles are bad, and you give them more than they deserve. Sometimes, rarely the two sync and everything comes off just right.
You gave me everything I could have wanted in the original Trek series, and I thank you for continuing. I suspect you might be inclined to do it even without a paycheck (not really).
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I currently work for a VERY large, VERY well known, almost universally hated telecommunications company, which for obvious reason I cannot name.
The sooner H1B gets put under control the better, not only is it preventing upward movement within the company, increasing domestic unemployment, and brain drain from developing countries... It hurts development efforts within the company.
In a project ended several months ago, only 2 of the 30 plus people involved spoke english as a native language, the non english speakers, spoke 7 different languages, with only english in common.
The two who spoke english were the process manager, and an end user.
My estimation is that a project that should have taken 3 months instead took 3 years (and produced a product that should have been retiring at the time it was introduced).
The bottom line should not be in dollars, it should be in results.
Lets' see nope, no body of Osama.
The threat alert system isn't working (still orange)
Economic recovery didn't start (Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4).
Tech recovery didn't happen.
Bernie Ebbers is still a free man.
And the IRS still exists as strong as ever.
So a PC game is late, I shouldn't wonder.
From the GPL
You must pass the rights you were given to anyone you give (with our without payment) the software to.
not an exact quote
For me that says it all. Anything can be derived, anything can be sold, but, if you got it for free, and you got the gold (source code) for free, as in GPL, then what you pass on must be as free as it was when you got it.
US Copyright law gives a lot of hooey about percentages of change. GPL, says no mater what you do, you cannot steal.
This is yet another patch on a dike that will one day burst.
Unfortunately the burst will not be visable as it would be with a water dam.
The only fix today, is the one that should have been put in place at the time of the original disaster. Time will not be a friend in fixing this problem, it will only make the fix impossible if the wait is too long.
The entire site needs to be encased in high lead glass.
Yes the lead provides a hazard, but one much lower than radioactive contamination of the water table, and bio-spread by insects and birds.
If someone says it's art, then I gauss it is.
It's without a doubt poor engineering. Inefficient and error prone.
If a hydro-exictric,mechanical means were to be used to do TCP/IP, and you chose not to conduct the electrical signal through what would probably be non-pure, highly conductive water, I would be more inclined to use water pressure to do the job rather than drops of water.
But then that's me and I never understood the art of Yoko Ono.
The religious and alien science stuff aside, this has huge potential.
Basic questions of existance are going to be answered, and argued. Nature vs. Nurture comes to mind first.
Is it true or a publicity stunt? According to the press conference we should know in 9 days.
The assumption I'll have to make until then based on the technical process used in animals and the care that can be taken in a lab, the previous efforts that resulted in test tube babies is that is is likely, and all it really took was someone with the resources and the will to do it.
As the project leader said in the news conference I hopr the press, governments, and the rest of the world give the girl, and the family some kindness.
As unlikely as that is, I hope they do, or we may have to wait decades for the child to reach an age where she can come forword on her own.
There's a good chance that the world changed again today, this time with a birth, not with a bomb.
Let's hope the child(ren) is/are healthy.
First Reschedule
This is important stuff. It neads to be covered on CNN, CSPAN, TECH TV, and PBS.
Folks this is Bill of Rights material we are talking about, not some local option sales tax, or exemption of Church Vehicles from registration fees.
The future of every person, every election, and every human rights effort in the United States and possibly the world rests in the balance.
The removal of Ma Bell from monopoly status was an admission by the government, that concentration of power for commerce or monitoring is a bad thing (from a bill of rights view).
The bogus initiative to 'secure' cyberspace has nothing to do with rights, freedom, or liberty and exceeds the constitutuional authority of the Federal Government.
There are no provisions, allowances, or safeguards to insure any of the requirements of due process.
In short, I'll repeat what I said before, Stalin would have loved this.
Check out Asimov's Foundation series of SciFi books.
The core of the story(s) comes down to the study of group behaviour over time, even including 'random' individuals affecting the total mass, by the character of Hari Seldon.
We may be at the computational edge of being able to this.
Wow!
Screw the law, I got mine!
Lets us know where your working after your done with school, I want to be sure to stear my investments away from that company (Enron2).
Seriously, This isn't about who has the best tools, or even the best prices. It's about circumvention, bypassing, and subverting the law, and the rights of the citizens of the States.
There's no such thing as an ok, shady business deal.
At least there shouldn't be, but then again, the Administration that was going to restore integrity to the office of President of the United States, changed the rules so that the Government can continue to do business with individuals and corperations that have been caught breaking the law.
I'd recommend the adoption of the telecommunications standard of CLLI(tm) (COMMON LANGUAGE® Location Codes)
More information on CLLI(tm) can be found at Common Language Products.
I wouldn't advise actually paying to register the codes, but I would follow the guidelines, they've worked for a long long time in the organization of the worlds largest network.
Here's the link for the pdf file for those who didn't read the whitehouse page far enough to read the reference to it.
Then the times didn't look very hard.
It's right here At the White House
I read it several days ago after actually reading the story that was reference by slash dot on Because Only Terrorists Use 802.11
Try and keep up, hold the hand of the person in front of you and keep a tight grip on the hand person behind you.
It'll be a case of "too much information" that won't be easily collated - and hence , pretty useless.
Useless for it's stated purpose yes.
Proceless if you have an individuals or group that you specifically want to target through data mining.
Of course it's not going to find unkown persons... It's going to be used to monitor known persons, or to dig out details on 'special interest groups'.
to find out what the 'opposition' is up to this week.
For Jollys sake, the real use is certainly not the stated purpose.
I've skimmed the entire proposal document and read the first third completely (killing a small forest by printing out the pdf document).
I'm not going to cite details as I don't currently have the block of paper in front of me.
However, I do feel I have to comment. This document is based in fear, not hope. It is not a workable proposition in the United States of America, but would have been very well accepted in the former East Germany or in almost any coldwar eastern block nation.
Under the proposals all persons accessing information or making transactions electronically, or having transactions made for them, would be monitored, recorded and archived at all times for later retrieval under unstated conditions, by unstated persons, for vague purposes of security.
Stalin would have loved it.
The next step beyond this would be to outlaw any and all transactions that were deliberately masked to try and hide from the evesdroppers the origin, content, or time of the communication, because if you feel the need to hide, you must have something to hide, and you are assumed to be a criminal.
I can't speak for everyone, but I do know that I felt safer on September 12th 2001 than I will on September 12th 2005 if all this continues.
I don't know where you are but I saw them in England and Germany between 1977 and 1985 and I -know- what they were doing.
These days you would never recognise it, as it would look almost identical to any other van.
Nope, it wasn't a technology article in any sense.
However, if you want to knock the legs out of American technological progress all you have to do is allow the DMCA and other DRM grabage to run thier courses.
Violation of freedom of speech (yes current overlong standard copyright law, and absurd patents do this), will stifle all progress.
The quick coffin in casket will be taxation of everything. As European users know the Governments run trucks up and down the streets day and night monitoring to see how many televisions are in each house and assessing taxes for each.
I can envision this happening in the U.S. with WIFI.
Online ordering needs to remain tax free, the seconf that changes, the internet will become the next "CB Radio" has been fad.
ISP's need to keep thier hands off charging bandwidth caps, and blocking and charging extra for ports.
Greenspan proved that you can kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
I feel Taken alright.
Taken away by the parts, quite good in acting, directing, effects, production.
Taken advantage of, the story basically stinks.
Taken finally, I'm missing over 10 hours of my life that I can't really say what happened, or ever hope to get back.
This page at NASA gives the up side.
I'll put a small quote from it here;
The classical example, often cited, is the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895. Within a year of their discovery, x-rays were being put to practical use in medicine, and in time became of enormous value in medicine, industry, and scientific research. Roentgen's discovery resulted from experimenting with electron beams in evacuated tubes. Had he been directly seeking something of value for the medical profession, he would most likely have put away his electron beams and taken up some more "practical" line of investigation, and the discovery of x-rays would have been postponed.
If you demand a guarentee of payoff for scientific investigation, virtually all research would stop. There just isn't anything that's a sure thing.
Planetary modelling just might allow us to have some idea of how fast we are burning this biosphere out, or get a solid handle on weather patterns, floods, and droughts.
Or who knows it might lead to self tieing shoe laces.
Check out his book The Pinball Effect for history on how unrelated inventions created almost everything we associate with modern civilization.
Your question made me wonder, so...
I pulled out a 386sx board and booted up an old Novell server I had on a 40MB IDE drive from 6 years ago.
No problem, and a scan of the drive indicated it was in good shape.
Of course your mileage may differ
Was anyone besides myself foolish enough to print this thing out before scrolling through it?
I just killed a small wooded lot.
Just a thought, next time George and the boys offer up something this important, they really should think about making it a PDF and or gzip it.
As someone said before, it's Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
But I'm more inclined to think that it should be redefined as Fakery, Untruth and Deception.
/.
This guy may have had the external vents in the wrong location.
On the other hand the extra heat vented to the outside edges could be a handy deterent to theft, just change from sleep mode to heat mode.
And I'm eager to Evaluate the new George Foreman laptop.
correction to the first part of the previous message...
They have Giga available to business (only business and Govt).
They had 128+k (one way requireing the use of a phone line with cable) services available to residential but dropped it after Bell brought in DSL.
/.
A minor improvement, great so what?
My local municipal owned and operated cable company had Gigabit Ethernet available to business and local government.
They used to have a one way cable platform for residential at speeds the same and under, priced above Bell (and Earthlink) DSL.
Don't think that having more than one provider is going to break any barriers in competition.
Most area's that could have multiple high speed providers don't. The Bells and the Cable Co's are dividing the marginal area's up, and choosing which high return (read big city) areas are worth fighting for.
Gigabit, not 2.8 megabit, now there's something everyone should have.
/.
Thanks Bill.
Certainly there's no reason that you had to take any time out to answer questions from the 'nerd crowd'.
I suspect Robin Guido your publicist suggested it would be a good idea, and it was.
Too many of your 'trek' fans seem to forget that your not Captain Kirk and the details of your personal life are just that, personal.
Your an actor, like any sometimes the roles are good, and your not (good for the role) and other time the roles are bad, and you give them more than they deserve.
Sometimes, rarely the two sync and everything comes off just right.
You gave me everything I could have wanted in the original Trek series, and I thank you for continuing.
I suspect you might be inclined to do it even without a paycheck (not really).