"In an age where domestic phone calls are monitored, a government employee was allowed to walk out of a government installation with the data on thousands of American citizens to store on an insecure personal computer? Doesn't that seem strange to you."
No contradiction here, both are consistent with each other. Either way, it is because you have no privacy in the eyes of the state.
You'd be browsing some porn site, and the chicks nipples would be down around her ankles. Next thing you know her face was melting. Then you'd be on Slashdot, and someone would be half-way through dissing M$ for something and they'd trail off "... so... a hell, I'm off for a lemonade, this too darn hot in here". Serious Tennessee Williams shit goin' on!
One of the articles: "... sitting with them, a dirty rag-towel wearing 'War Lords ' (tell me, isn't that an 7th century concept ?), eating road kill for din-din..."
Anyone see what Google had a problem with?
This is not censorship, anymore than Readers Digest declining to run your Stargate SG1 erotic fan fiction is censorship. The above is a rant in an ed-piece and Google are maintaining a news aggregation. They are free to include and exclude what they wish, and the quality of their selection is what their service is judged on.
If the state was taking down sites or imprisoning people for these opinions, that would be another matter.
"Who am I? I am the creator of a certain video game console. I don't want to toot my own horn, but let's just say that profits from this machine were four billion dollars higher than the Microsoft XBox.
My console consisted of a plastic milk crate with a kitten placed inside. The controller was a wooden rod that could be used to poke the kitten."
I have some more info.
Games included:
Poke The Kitten
Hurt The Kitten
Bye Bye Kitten
Consumers found the console unplayable after just one session of game number 3. This caused some major class action suits.
Another reason that the console made no money was it mysteriously failed among the cuddly kitten-loving demographic. Initially some bought them just to extract the kitten component (ala Rio CF drive), however they were scolded by their peers for giving money to that sick twisted fuck.
Azureus is not a 100% pure Java app. It uses SWT - IBMs embrace & extend for Java. SWT uses native peers, but it does not render well on other platforms (i.e. other than Windows).
If Azureus used Swing, it would render aswell, or as badly, on OSX as everything else.
Disclaimer: a) I am not a lawyer. b) I am of the opinion that those suing Brown did not have a valid case.
Does the Judge putting this stuff in the judgement show that he is a fan and could be used by the lawyers to indicate they did not get a fair trial?
Not that their case has merit though. Even though the earlier book is based on a total hoax, they said it was factual, and therefore they cannot claim to have come up with an original story. Besides, I thought you could copyright the text, but not the plot of a book?
He will be able to work closely with the Quality Emperor. Both ultimately report to the Development Shogun. His office is just down the hall from the Usability Kaiser.
Every week, they hold a cross group meeting with the Sultan of Marketing, the Sales Duchess, and the Distribution Führer. They all are answerable to the Grand Baron of Charging More for Stuff because it is Shiny (he prefers people call him Tim, for brevity).
Yes. Here is Europe sysadmins have no worries when it comes to viruses, because their business users etc. will crack open a hex-editor, reverse engineer any code included in it, and make sure there is nothing malicious in there.
Yeah really!
On the other hand, Americans are lazy, and it is not the fault of us, the IT industry, for creating badly architected/implemented software. Sure.
Think about who the BBC are interviewing - bloggers are an internet medium. It makes sense that the BBC would ask about censorship, as it is how the law affects what the media can report.
If they want to ask about politics/industry/the environment, they would ring the government, other political groups, corporations etc. They would not ring bloggers.
The media interviews the media usually to talk about bias, censorship or other influence on how they work, whether internal or external.
Drug manufacturer Merck & Co. today announced their latest product "GNUease" (TM), the Linux treatment. Clinical trials have shown it to be effective at treating the following symptoms:
- rabid advocacy
- a special form of dyslexia where the sufferer cannot distinguish '$' from "S" when spelling the name of a large company
- loss of sleep due to staying up late with driver problems
- mild schizophrenia from using a UNIX operating system that is not UNIX
- inability to write documentation
However some side effects were observed. Patients in the trial either developed a rare expensive disease that was even worse, or spend large amounts of money on hardware from a popular MP3 player company.
You have got to admire and respect the honesty, candour, and directness of a company who market products and services that cost their customers enormous amounts of money in licencing and services, with the name "SAP".
It begat SGML in the 80s, which begat XML in the late '90s. When people discuss who invented XML, I roll my eyes, because XML and SGML are standardisations by comittees - the invention occured with GML.
Standardised versions of HTML were SGML applications and now HTML is an XML application (XHTML), so the significance of GML is probably as great as any of the inventions listed.
Slashdot Mirror
"In an age where domestic phone calls are monitored, a government employee was allowed to walk out of a government installation with the data on thousands of American citizens to store on an insecure personal computer? Doesn't that seem strange to you."
No contradiction here, both are consistent with each other. Either way, it is because you have no privacy in the eyes of the state.
I don't think the mods noticed the slide into hype parody when they marked this one 'Informative' rather than 'Funny'.
Now this comment is 'Informative', not 'Funny', and should be modded up, by Slashdot convention, because it references moderation.
Last Olympics, it was very obvious.
... a hell, I'm off for a lemonade, this too darn hot in here". Serious Tennessee Williams shit goin' on!
You'd be browsing some porn site, and the chicks nipples would be down around her ankles. Next thing you know her face was melting. Then you'd be on Slashdot, and someone would be half-way through dissing M$ for something and they'd trail off "... so
Redhat? Are they still around?
"... It is a dog who has cash to spend."
Why are you posting anonymously, BadAnalogyGuy?
One of the articles:
"... sitting with them, a dirty rag-towel wearing 'War Lords ' (tell me, isn't that an 7th century concept ?), eating road kill for din-din..."
Anyone see what Google had a problem with?
This is not censorship, anymore than Readers Digest declining to run your Stargate SG1 erotic fan fiction is censorship. The above is a rant in an ed-piece and Google are maintaining a news aggregation. They are free to include and exclude what they wish, and the quality of their selection is what their service is judged on.
If the state was taking down sites or imprisoning people for these opinions, that would be another matter.
Surgeons, meet offshore outsourcing.
Offshore outsourcing, meet surgeons.
Question: What do you do when the network goes down?
I have some more info.
Games included:
Consumers found the console unplayable after just one session of game number 3. This caused some major class action suits.
Another reason that the console made no money was it mysteriously failed among the cuddly kitten-loving demographic. Initially some bought them just to extract the kitten component (ala Rio CF drive), however they were scolded by their peers for giving money to that sick twisted fuck.
Azureus is not a 100% pure Java app. It uses SWT - IBMs embrace & extend for Java. SWT uses native peers, but it does not render well on other platforms (i.e. other than Windows).
If Azureus used Swing, it would render aswell, or as badly, on OSX as everything else.
Disclaimer: a) I am not a lawyer. b) I am of the opinion that those suing Brown did not have a valid case.
Does the Judge putting this stuff in the judgement show that he is a fan and could be used by the lawyers to indicate they did not get a fair trial?
Not that their case has merit though. Even though the earlier book is based on a total hoax, they said it was factual, and therefore they cannot claim to have come up with an original story. Besides, I thought you could copyright the text, but not the plot of a book?
"...reproductive organs in its mouth"
Whose?
... fewer graduates means greater salaries for us! Pass it on.
"But while Fleury ... is something of a cult figure..."
Going certain JBoss Inc. actions (e.g. astroturfing ) this is really only one letter out.
I wonder what the current US administration has to say on this subject. Let's see:
...
Browse to http://www.whitehouse.com/
Oh dear.
the hack has not been released to the public (because it will be mainly used for piracy) :-)
It is sad to see so much cynicism in the world
... what moron pays for porn? :-)
He will be able to work closely with the Quality Emperor. Both ultimately report to the Development Shogun. His office is just down the hall from the Usability Kaiser.
Every week, they hold a cross group meeting with the Sultan of Marketing, the Sales Duchess, and the Distribution Führer. They all are answerable to the Grand Baron of Charging More for Stuff because it is Shiny (he prefers people call him Tim, for brevity).
"There are no crappy languages, but there are a lot of crappy programmers."
Really? What kind of languages do crappy programmer design?
If they cannot create crappy languages, then what happens when they come to design a language?
Do they smarten up just in time?
(Variation of a Dilbert rebuttal to the "there are no stupid questions" cliche).
Yes. Here is Europe sysadmins have no worries when it comes to viruses, because their business users etc. will crack open a hex-editor, reverse engineer any code included in it, and make sure there is nothing malicious in there.
Yeah really!
On the other hand, Americans are lazy, and it is not the fault of us, the IT industry, for creating badly architected/implemented software. Sure.
Think about who the BBC are interviewing - bloggers are an internet medium. It makes sense that the BBC would ask about censorship, as it is how the law affects what the media can report.
If they want to ask about politics/industry/the environment, they would ring the government, other political groups, corporations etc. They would not ring bloggers.
The media interviews the media usually to talk about bias, censorship or other influence on how they work, whether internal or external.
Drug manufacturer Merck & Co. today announced their latest product "GNUease" (TM), the Linux treatment. Clinical trials have shown it to be effective at treating the following symptoms:
- rabid advocacy
- a special form of dyslexia where the sufferer cannot distinguish '$' from "S" when spelling the name of a large company
- loss of sleep due to staying up late with driver problems
- mild schizophrenia from using a UNIX operating system that is not UNIX
- inability to write documentation
However some side effects were observed. Patients in the trial either developed a rare expensive disease that was even worse, or spend large amounts of money on hardware from a popular MP3 player company.
You have got to admire and respect the honesty, candour, and directness of a company who market products and services that cost their customers enormous amounts of money in licencing and services, with the name "SAP".
"Firefox Users :-)"
:-|
Firefox support is coming soon. Please be patient
Don't worry, we are patient. We have Google
GML was invented in IBM in 1969. Here is a history.
It begat SGML in the 80s, which begat XML in the late '90s. When people discuss who invented XML, I roll my eyes, because XML and SGML are standardisations by comittees - the invention occured with GML.
Standardised versions of HTML were SGML applications and now HTML is an XML application (XHTML), so the significance of GML is probably as great as any of the inventions listed.