There is a difference between the prison labour done by criminals that you hope to rehabilitate in order that they stop stealing and the type done by political prisoners in the Gulags. I'm not saying that they don't have regular criminals in China, Cuba or North Korea -- but we don't lock people up for supporting net neutrality or whatever other thing activists want to be active about. And who is to say which prisoners are made to make the stuff you buy? The Chinese government? Yes, because they're a reliable source when asked whether or not a man is doing 15-20 years for murdering someone or whether it was instead making favorable statements about the Dali Lama.
"De facto" means 'in practice', so I think you're looking for 'de jure' meaning 'in law'. Something is something de facto just because of its nature, whereas de jure means that they passed a law making the corporation a legal entity (which is necessary so that they can own property such as buildings, manufacturing equipment, etc). just sayin'.
but seriously, i'm sick of all this Chinese crap and I'm sick of people buying the cheapest thing even if its not nearly the best, or even "pretty good" just because its the cheapest. I had a conversation one time with Thad McCotter, a Republican member of Congress, and he told me that economic libertarians were responsible for propping up the Communists by allowing free trade with people who use prison labour to reduce their costs. Poisoned childrens' toys are the result of this.
If I remember correctly, all "approved" reading in F.451 was in electronic format because it could be changed whenever necessary without any "hard" evidence of the "real" version existing, but its been since 10th grade since I read that book.
My senior year, when my sister was in10th grade, she nearly got expelled because when she asked her English teacher if it were true that paper burns at 451F, the teacher said "why don't you try it and find out?" -- so, she stuck her $5 school-issued paperback in the oven when she got home, and sure enough when she took it out and air started moving, major combustion. She stuck it into a biohazard bag she had from the horse vet and brought it back the next morning to a teacher who was none too amused;-)
If I were hiring for some non-tech position then no, it wouldn't really matter. However, if I were looking to hire on a developer or admin then someone with their own domain, @cpan.org or some other project-related domain email address, etc, would signify someone who isn't just interested in a "career change" and thinks that "IT" is "easy" or "stable" 'cause they remember the bubble days of people getting money hand-over-fist with any sort of qualification at all.
But, as other said, its really the username that's important. I've had all kinds of ridiculous, throw-away email addresses in my day that had "cool" names. However, when I got my Gmail account back in the day (2003 or 2004 I think?), I picked my first two initials and my last name, as I was about half way through college at that point and figured that I needed a "respectable" email address along side my school email, which was first initial and last name @ my school.
My personal account on my own domain is middle name@14thanddock.com, and then I have other 'dumping' accounts, such as the one that my @cpan.org address gets forwarded to, and one that I use when I sign up for things that I know are going to keep sending me crap email that I don't want pushed to BlackBerry.
I know that its fashionable, especially in geek communities, to say that what other people think of you shouldn't matter and your work should speak for itself. Unfortunately that's not how most people work and in reality what other people think of you is approaches being the ONLY thing that matters. Having some suggestive pledge nickname on a domain with a bad reputation isn't doing you any favors and you know it.
Actually, this is like the most comfortable chair I've ever sat in that wasn't like an over-stuffed leather recliner or something of that sort. As to my decision to finally pick up the MacBook Pro, all I can say is that I don't even know how I lived using trackpads before multi-touch. That right there is pretty much a killer feature for me.
The UI of OS X itself is a little candy-coated, but its not bad, and I like the metal case as well, and it seems to be fairly sturdy. Over-all, I'm really happy with the decision though it's not likely to send me on a spending-spree of needing to buy a VM Bug to put the little Apple sticker on the back window or anything like that. I got it for practical reasons and its more than lived up to my expectations, though I don't think its necessarily the best choice for everyone and in all situations... unlike Perl.
Well, at least you knew I was joking... I've been taking a beating from the mods the last two days. Anyway... the point really is, I guess, that even with your counter-point, the fact remains that civil rights in both cases are exactly the same. Its just that one portion of the population chooses not to exercise the right. Having a right doesn't mean you need to use it.
To expand further, if "gay marriage" were legalized, then I don't look at it as giving a "special right" to gays, but rather that we could say the same thing in opposite -- "straight people have the same rights as gays, they can marry anyone of the same sex who will have them." Just because straight people won't take advantage of their new right doesn't mean that they don't have it. Rights distribution is the same, its just that most people won't take advantage of their new-found ability.
Legalizing interracial marriage made it equally OK for a white person to propose to a black person as it did for a black person to propose to a white person. However, there were more people on both sides who were willing to take advantage of the new right for interracial marriage (mind you, not just white/black, but adding in asians, latin americans, american indians, etc.
I just really love this chair... I've never had a job where they gave me such nice stuff before and I'm still in awe of it myself. Plus, I just feel like I'm living the dot-com dream with it. There wasn't really any other point in mentioning it.
I'm sitting in an Aeron chair in front of a brand spankin' new iMac, neck deep in Perl code to automate stuff on heavily-customized FreeBSD servers in my sweet new office at a job I just started last month. The rest of the employees (software engineers, i do tech support and system administration) are also on Mac hardware. I also recently obtained a MacBook Pro for myself and unloaded a bunch of PC hardware on my friends.
With virtualization I can run BSD (FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD in my case), Linux (usually CentOS), Windows Vista, or whatever else I want to run. I have a real UNIX host OS with nearly all the tools that I need/want (hey, apple, where's my 'vmstat' ? seriously... wtf?), and when I want to relax and work on hobby stuff I can run Photoshop and Lightroom (I've made a hobby of photography on and off since I was about 12 and recently made the switch from 35mm to digital SLR to encourage myself to go out and shoot more).
I used to make fun of Mac hard core before OS X came along, and took a really long time to get into it, but now that I work with it a lot, I'm pretty impressed. I studied literature and history in college and know a lot of art school people through my sister, so I always knew a lot of Mac users. I wouldn't say I'm particularly artistic (photography is every bit as much a science as it as an art, but I can't really draw for shit... I'm a half-decent writer though). That said, I'm actually kind of excited about the possibility of an "iSlate" myself.
I have a Wacom tablet and I can doodle fairly efficiently (about as well as I'm able to) on it in Illustrator, but if I didn't have the disconnect between where I was drawing and where the picture was appearing, it'd be nice. If the tablet had a little thing for a stylus like a Palm Pilot and used the Inkwell stuff natively so I didn't have to get my grubby fingers over the screen all the time, then I think it'd be something nice to just chill out with on the sofa and read or sketch. Whether or not it'd be good for "serious" art work or anything, I don't know, but I'm not a serious artist so my opinion doesn't really matter on it.
A lot of tablet devices in the past have seemed like they might be neat, but turn out to be sort of #fail. If this is done right, then I think that it would be really popular and depending on pricing I may be inclined to pick one up in the future (I doubt I'd be a first-gen adopter). Otherwise, this might just turn out to be an expensive gamble, but there will still be a lot of people who buy them and use them just 'cause its an Apple product and convince themselves its bad-ass to avoid buyer's remorse.
However, its not official yet so there isn't really anything to get worked up about with this specific product. Time will tell and if its real, then I'll be willing to at least check it out.
I'm not saying that he does have a small penis, but how can we know for sure? As slashdot readers we have a right to know, and I'm asking questions! What happened to my slaaaaaaaaaashdoooooottttt....?
I think it would also be fair to say that the shuttle is no substitute for rockets. They compliment each other rather than compete, I'd say. Having only one is really stupid.
Yes, but encrypting the handshake and the password exchange doesn't have anything to do with the fact that you can forge FROM headers. SPF records, domain keys, etc, can help but can also be more trouble than they're worth some times and don't really prove much of anything anyway, and even those could be forged if you REALLY wanted to by doing a DNS cache poisoning or something.
I got an IronKey from my parents for Christmas. I haven't used it on a Windows machine yet, just my MacBook Pro and Linux EeePC at home and my iMac at work. The article doesn't mention whether or not that platform is affected by a similar type of issue or not -- is anyone more familiar with this that can weigh in on that? I'd be kind of pissed if my brand new toy turns out to just be a toy after all, but IronKey is also FIPS 140-2 certified. Do the tree products noted just use the same original vender for the encryption?
Well, a dollar is a dollar, a pound is a pound and a euro is a euro... until you start measuring one against the other. 100 on the IQ scale for Boskops is 150 on the scale for us.
Are Windows XP and OS X really "gadgets" though? When I think of gadgets I think of physical things, usually. Maybe I'm just out of touch with the times.
I grew up just near the "historical triangle" (Jamestown/Yorktown/Williamsburg), in the Gloucester side of the York River, Gloucester having served as the capitol of the 'empire' during the whole Pocahontas thing, so that whole story is something I grew up with in great detail.
I would suggest seeing the movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402399/">The New World</a> which is a pretty decent representation of the facts (though, iirc, they in typical fashion start Pocahontas out a few years older than she actually was when Smith met her). I caught it on IFC or some similar channel over Christmas and it was pretty good. Of course, absolutely nothing like Avatar.
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There is a difference between the prison labour done by criminals that you hope to rehabilitate in order that they stop stealing and the type done by political prisoners in the Gulags. I'm not saying that they don't have regular criminals in China, Cuba or North Korea -- but we don't lock people up for supporting net neutrality or whatever other thing activists want to be active about. And who is to say which prisoners are made to make the stuff you buy? The Chinese government? Yes, because they're a reliable source when asked whether or not a man is doing 15-20 years for murdering someone or whether it was instead making favorable statements about the Dali Lama.
veeeeeeerrrrrrrry niiiiiiiccceeeee /borat
"De facto" means 'in practice', so I think you're looking for 'de jure' meaning 'in law'. Something is something de facto just because of its nature, whereas de jure means that they passed a law making the corporation a legal entity (which is necessary so that they can own property such as buildings, manufacturing equipment, etc). just sayin'.
but seriously, i'm sick of all this Chinese crap and I'm sick of people buying the cheapest thing even if its not nearly the best, or even "pretty good" just because its the cheapest. I had a conversation one time with Thad McCotter, a Republican member of Congress, and he told me that economic libertarians were responsible for propping up the Communists by allowing free trade with people who use prison labour to reduce their costs. Poisoned childrens' toys are the result of this.
If I remember correctly, all "approved" reading in F.451 was in electronic format because it could be changed whenever necessary without any "hard" evidence of the "real" version existing, but its been since 10th grade since I read that book.
;-)
My senior year, when my sister was in10th grade, she nearly got expelled because when she asked her English teacher if it were true that paper burns at 451F, the teacher said "why don't you try it and find out?" -- so, she stuck her $5 school-issued paperback in the oven when she got home, and sure enough when she took it out and air started moving, major combustion. She stuck it into a biohazard bag she had from the horse vet and brought it back the next morning to a teacher who was none too amused
If I were hiring for some non-tech position then no, it wouldn't really matter. However, if I were looking to hire on a developer or admin then someone with their own domain, @cpan.org or some other project-related domain email address, etc, would signify someone who isn't just interested in a "career change" and thinks that "IT" is "easy" or "stable" 'cause they remember the bubble days of people getting money hand-over-fist with any sort of qualification at all.
But, as other said, its really the username that's important. I've had all kinds of ridiculous, throw-away email addresses in my day that had "cool" names. However, when I got my Gmail account back in the day (2003 or 2004 I think?), I picked my first two initials and my last name, as I was about half way through college at that point and figured that I needed a "respectable" email address along side my school email, which was first initial and last name @ my school.
My personal account on my own domain is middle name@14thanddock.com, and then I have other 'dumping' accounts, such as the one that my @cpan.org address gets forwarded to, and one that I use when I sign up for things that I know are going to keep sending me crap email that I don't want pushed to BlackBerry.
I know that its fashionable, especially in geek communities, to say that what other people think of you shouldn't matter and your work should speak for itself. Unfortunately that's not how most people work and in reality what other people think of you is approaches being the ONLY thing that matters. Having some suggestive pledge nickname on a domain with a bad reputation isn't doing you any favors and you know it.
Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) would probably be more apt than Orwell though.
Give 'em a break... the phone's still in beta!
Actually, this is like the most comfortable chair I've ever sat in that wasn't like an over-stuffed leather recliner or something of that sort. As to my decision to finally pick up the MacBook Pro, all I can say is that I don't even know how I lived using trackpads before multi-touch. That right there is pretty much a killer feature for me.
The UI of OS X itself is a little candy-coated, but its not bad, and I like the metal case as well, and it seems to be fairly sturdy. Over-all, I'm really happy with the decision though it's not likely to send me on a spending-spree of needing to buy a VM Bug to put the little Apple sticker on the back window or anything like that. I got it for practical reasons and its more than lived up to my expectations, though I don't think its necessarily the best choice for everyone and in all situations... unlike Perl.
excellent... thank you.
Well, at least you knew I was joking... I've been taking a beating from the mods the last two days. Anyway... the point really is, I guess, that even with your counter-point, the fact remains that civil rights in both cases are exactly the same. Its just that one portion of the population chooses not to exercise the right. Having a right doesn't mean you need to use it.
To expand further, if "gay marriage" were legalized, then I don't look at it as giving a "special right" to gays, but rather that we could say the same thing in opposite -- "straight people have the same rights as gays, they can marry anyone of the same sex who will have them." Just because straight people won't take advantage of their new right doesn't mean that they don't have it. Rights distribution is the same, its just that most people won't take advantage of their new-found ability.
Legalizing interracial marriage made it equally OK for a white person to propose to a black person as it did for a black person to propose to a white person. However, there were more people on both sides who were willing to take advantage of the new right for interracial marriage (mind you, not just white/black, but adding in asians, latin americans, american indians, etc.
Hopefully what I'm getting at makes sense.
I just really love this chair... I've never had a job where they gave me such nice stuff before and I'm still in awe of it myself. Plus, I just feel like I'm living the dot-com dream with it. There wasn't really any other point in mentioning it.
I'm sitting in an Aeron chair in front of a brand spankin' new iMac, neck deep in Perl code to automate stuff on heavily-customized FreeBSD servers in my sweet new office at a job I just started last month. The rest of the employees (software engineers, i do tech support and system administration) are also on Mac hardware. I also recently obtained a MacBook Pro for myself and unloaded a bunch of PC hardware on my friends.
With virtualization I can run BSD (FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD in my case), Linux (usually CentOS), Windows Vista, or whatever else I want to run. I have a real UNIX host OS with nearly all the tools that I need/want (hey, apple, where's my 'vmstat' ? seriously... wtf?), and when I want to relax and work on hobby stuff I can run Photoshop and Lightroom (I've made a hobby of photography on and off since I was about 12 and recently made the switch from 35mm to digital SLR to encourage myself to go out and shoot more).
I used to make fun of Mac hard core before OS X came along, and took a really long time to get into it, but now that I work with it a lot, I'm pretty impressed. I studied literature and history in college and know a lot of art school people through my sister, so I always knew a lot of Mac users. I wouldn't say I'm particularly artistic (photography is every bit as much a science as it as an art, but I can't really draw for shit... I'm a half-decent writer though). That said, I'm actually kind of excited about the possibility of an "iSlate" myself.
I have a Wacom tablet and I can doodle fairly efficiently (about as well as I'm able to) on it in Illustrator, but if I didn't have the disconnect between where I was drawing and where the picture was appearing, it'd be nice. If the tablet had a little thing for a stylus like a Palm Pilot and used the Inkwell stuff natively so I didn't have to get my grubby fingers over the screen all the time, then I think it'd be something nice to just chill out with on the sofa and read or sketch. Whether or not it'd be good for "serious" art work or anything, I don't know, but I'm not a serious artist so my opinion doesn't really matter on it.
A lot of tablet devices in the past have seemed like they might be neat, but turn out to be sort of #fail. If this is done right, then I think that it would be really popular and depending on pricing I may be inclined to pick one up in the future (I doubt I'd be a first-gen adopter). Otherwise, this might just turn out to be an expensive gamble, but there will still be a lot of people who buy them and use them just 'cause its an Apple product and convince themselves its bad-ass to avoid buyer's remorse.
However, its not official yet so there isn't really anything to get worked up about with this specific product. Time will tell and if its real, then I'll be willing to at least check it out.
Gays have the same civil rights as straight people... they can marry anyone of the opposite sex that will agree to it ;-)
Apparently the mods today are actually Glen Beck fans without senses of humor...
I'm not saying that he does have a small penis, but how can we know for sure? As slashdot readers we have a right to know, and I'm asking questions! What happened to my slaaaaaaaaaashdoooooottttt....?
I think it would also be fair to say that the shuttle is no substitute for rockets. They compliment each other rather than compete, I'd say. Having only one is really stupid.
Yes, but encrypting the handshake and the password exchange doesn't have anything to do with the fact that you can forge FROM headers. SPF records, domain keys, etc, can help but can also be more trouble than they're worth some times and don't really prove much of anything anyway, and even those could be forged if you REALLY wanted to by doing a DNS cache poisoning or something.
So, no, SSL isn't going to solve the problem.
I got an IronKey from my parents for Christmas. I haven't used it on a Windows machine yet, just my MacBook Pro and Linux EeePC at home and my iMac at work. The article doesn't mention whether or not that platform is affected by a similar type of issue or not -- is anyone more familiar with this that can weigh in on that? I'd be kind of pissed if my brand new toy turns out to just be a toy after all, but IronKey is also FIPS 140-2 certified. Do the tree products noted just use the same original vender for the encryption?
But the question on everyone's mind is, can RadioHead expect the same deal?
I like how you say "diagnosed" with a 150 IQ, like some sort of ironic tip of the hat to the curse of intelligence ;-)
Well, a dollar is a dollar, a pound is a pound and a euro is a euro... until you start measuring one against the other. 100 on the IQ scale for Boskops is 150 on the scale for us.
Are Windows XP and OS X really "gadgets" though? When I think of gadgets I think of physical things, usually. Maybe I'm just out of touch with the times.
I grew up just near the "historical triangle" (Jamestown/Yorktown/Williamsburg), in the Gloucester side of the York River, Gloucester having served as the capitol of the 'empire' during the whole Pocahontas thing, so that whole story is something I grew up with in great detail.
I would suggest seeing the movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402399/">The New World</a> which is a pretty decent representation of the facts (though, iirc, they in typical fashion start Pocahontas out a few years older than she actually was when Smith met her). I caught it on IFC or some similar channel over Christmas and it was pretty good. Of course, absolutely nothing like Avatar.
No, Post-colonial as in the literary theory/criticism method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism
Well, clearly it wasn't the LTS release of the clone ;-)