It's called biased reporting, and by knowing the political alignment of the reporting organization you can make a better determination of what the truth is.
In this case, YouTube isn't censoring anyone. YouTube USERS flagged the video as inappropriate and YouTube administrators CLEARED that flag. So YouTube is fighting AGAINST censorship. But it draws a much larger crowd with sensational headlines like "YouTube Censors".
The time line seems hard to figure out though. She drops off kids at his house, then isn't seen of again.
So either he killed he in front of the kids or He left the kids to kill her. And then some how disposed of the body while working and having the kids?
I don't know, I mean, I was a fairly self entertaining child, I had a brother who was a year and a half older than me. But at that age, we didn't go for very long with out either being checked up on, or checking up on our parents. So this guy would need enough time to dispose of the body, the seat, the car, clothing, weapon, etc... get cleaned up, and return to a somewhat normal emotional state, all while his kids are right there with him.
He definitely seems a likely candidate, but it could be circumstantial. I drove my car around for a few weeks with only 1 seat. A small amount of my wife's blood is likely in my car. And my wife's blood is definitely in our house. In my case though, the one seat was when I was fabing up brackets for a new racing seat. The blood in the car is from a sneezing nose bleed. And the blood in the house is from any number of remodeling/cooking/cleaning accidents.
In Windows the behavior of a large desktop is easier for most users on 2 smaller monitors. When we moved into our new building all of the IT department got two monitors, something that has been a huge boon to us developers. Well, just recently the network guys got cleared to put dual monitors on the accounting department's machines, and select employees through out the corporate office. People who are running multiple systems side by side. For instance, we have collectors that have a leasing system open, a reporting system open, and a customer on the phone. For them, the saving of 10 seconds wait while talking with the customer is a huge improvement in quality of service.
It's all a matter of phrasing. IANAL, but I have been threatened with libel lawsuits before. Specifically dealing with an incident of me posting my opinion of a teach on a intranet forum. A good bit of research and a few calls put me at ease though. I expressed my views explicitly as "my opinion", not fact. I limited my statements to the targeted person's professionalism and proficiency at her job. And I made sure that the statements I made were factual, witnessed, and provable.
What I learned was:
"This person is a fraud" is libel
"I think this person is a fraud" is not libel
"This person conducts fraudulent business activities" is libel only if the person does not conduct fraudulent business activities.
Except for the fact that MS can revoke that certificate at any time. If any malicious code hits the web with your cert, they pull the cert and the malicious code is rendered worthless. Of course, so is any non-malicious code under that cert. I wonder what kind of protections go into that cert to prevent spoofing.
So if time is a measurement of the movement of energy, and space is the (quantum) state of sub atomic particles, and no two particles can share the same state at the same time, then would it be a plausible explaination to say that the particles have moved in time in some way we are unable to measure?
Huh? When was the last time you got a on the spot game suggestion/review from a Best Buy rep on the floor. Hell, I can't even flag one of those guys down for directions to the rest rooms let alone find one with any amount of knowledge on video games.
Having worked in a couple of CompUSA's I can say that at the big box stores you are more likely to get an honest answer out of the software sales guys because they don't get commissions on sales, and no one is going to buy a service plan on a video game. If some kid at a BB or CompUSA tells you they enjoyed game 'X', it is with all probability that they did in fact enjoy game 'X'. There just isn't enough profit on games to warrant a 'push' from management to sell any specific game.
Now your little ma-and-pop game store that is depending on game sales for revenue to stay in business, I would expect them to push the higher profit items.
Failure of a game? The ability to keep me entertained until I get my money's worth out of it. I wasn't trying to imply (as most people have apparently read) that the GAME was a failure, but that there is an ELEMENT of the game that will fail (in my eyes). That element being the social aspect.
Okay, I know that statement (see parent) wasn't overflowing with band-wagonism, but Off Topic?!? WTF, the article is about why the author thinks Spore is special, and my statement is about why I think it is not as special as it could be.
Because my post was not on the "I want to feltch Spore's crack while giving it a reach around with a happy ending" level of fanboyism it gets tagged as off topic? If you're going to mod, mod well. Overrated, Flamebait, something...
-Rick
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Spore has all the appearance of an amazing single player game. Single being the opertune word. Single player games are great, but they are by definition limited. The only possible competition is between the player, and the PC. The reward level is greatly reduced.
Think about it, how many (geeks) people talk about the great fight they had in Morrowind? Compare that to the number of people who boast about frags and kill:death ratios, complete with dramatic reinactment.
Spore will do well, I'm planning on buying it, and playing it (for a while). But in the long term, with out some form of multi-player competition, cooperation, and communication, it'll be nothing more than a nice single player game.
"From what I have seen, the XBox 360 and PS3 are currently working against this by focusing all of their effort on attracting the most dedicated 10% of gamers with features that don't matter to most of the population;"
Microsoft and Sony have market researchers, predictive analysis, and lots of money that goes into determining what features will turn a net profit.
Is the library of the future going to be open? Or will it be controlled by a couple of big corporate players?
I think the person who said this has missed the boat. The library is already controlled by corporate players, they are called publishers. Hence the reason it costs $250 for a text book on network security, but only $40 for a book on network security.
The question now is WHICH corporate players will control the library? Will print publishers continue to hold sway, or will the digital revolution move the power to Google and other online and on-demand print services?
There were a few notables I saw while I was active duty in the Marine Corps as a 4067 (Computer Programmer). My first experience with the MITNOC was in Okinawa, Japan. One of the network/pc techs had put up a geocities page that had references to UNC paths inside the network. It worked great for him because he could go to any PC on any of the bases and get to all of the tools/software/installs he needed for most of his work. The links were only worth a damn if you could get into the network though. Unfortunately someone else (I believe it may have been 'Hackers for Girls') also discovered the links. The same weekend in 1998 that CNN was disrupted, the MITNOT (Located in Quantico, VA) noticed a huge flood of attacks on the Oki network. With in a few hours, the MITNOC had the website taken down, a mirror image of the PC tech's hard drive, his browsing history for the last 3 months (printed and digital), and 3 Marines on a plan to Japan.
Another notable environment I saw was one of the Office buildings in Quantico, VA. Each new building for the most part had it's own network design team that would configure the building prior to people moving in, and they would design and configure everything. Once the regular staff showed up, the design team would hand off control of the network to the local IT department. The guys at the Marsh Center had this down to a science. When I left Quantico, the only thing those networks would get out of their chairs for was to clear a printer jam or replace failed hardware. Everything else was locked down, automated, network pushed, and other whys control remotely. A truly beautiful environment for both the IT support team, and us developers.
Unfortunatly, I'm not finding anything good on Google when searching for Lick to Byte. I could probably increase the responses by turning off safe search though...
I used to work both as a consultant, and an LTE for a department of a state government. I did software development, all of our Network resources were managed by the Department of Administration (DOA, appropriately enough). DOA may have started out as a good idea, one centralized agency that maintained licensing, contracts, support, purchasing, etc... But cutbacks led to them continuously cutting pay and positions. By the time I left, the only representatives from the DOA that I knew of were two LTE college students, and one former manager who took a demotion to a tech position to stay employed (which just happened to bump one of the last skilled technicians out of the department).
Anyways, under their watch we had numerous security breaches. One of our servers was hosting a child porn collection and IRC channel. Another server had been crippled by viruses, and we had seen other signs of intrusion time after time. The child porn server was confiscated by the FBI when they tracked it down. They returned the server to the DOA when they had finished so that the DOA could learn from the breach and correct the security issue, but there was no one employed with the DOA who could identify the failure or what to do about it.
Anyways, my rough guess is that given what I've seen of state networks, I would think they are heavily botnetted. The other side of the public sector though, atleast the Marine Corps network, is a pretty impressive setup. I've seen those guys in action and I would be extremely suprised if there is a lick of traffic that escapes their pipes with out their express knowledge.
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-Rick
So what's wrong with buying a $5.00 battery once a year?
-Rick
Wait a few weeks and get one from batch 2 with none of the hassle.
-Rick
It's called biased reporting, and by knowing the political alignment of the reporting organization you can make a better determination of what the truth is.
In this case, YouTube isn't censoring anyone. YouTube USERS flagged the video as inappropriate and YouTube administrators CLEARED that flag. So YouTube is fighting AGAINST censorship. But it draws a much larger crowd with sensational headlines like "YouTube Censors".
-Rick
The time line seems hard to figure out though. She drops off kids at his house, then isn't seen of again.
So either he killed he in front of the kids or He left the kids to kill her. And then some how disposed of the body while working and having the kids?
I don't know, I mean, I was a fairly self entertaining child, I had a brother who was a year and a half older than me. But at that age, we didn't go for very long with out either being checked up on, or checking up on our parents. So this guy would need enough time to dispose of the body, the seat, the car, clothing, weapon, etc... get cleaned up, and return to a somewhat normal emotional state, all while his kids are right there with him.
He definitely seems a likely candidate, but it could be circumstantial. I drove my car around for a few weeks with only 1 seat. A small amount of my wife's blood is likely in my car. And my wife's blood is definitely in our house. In my case though, the one seat was when I was fabing up brackets for a new racing seat. The blood in the car is from a sneezing nose bleed. And the blood in the house is from any number of remodeling/cooking/cleaning accidents.
-Rick
In Windows the behavior of a large desktop is easier for most users on 2 smaller monitors. When we moved into our new building all of the IT department got two monitors, something that has been a huge boon to us developers. Well, just recently the network guys got cleared to put dual monitors on the accounting department's machines, and select employees through out the corporate office. People who are running multiple systems side by side. For instance, we have collectors that have a leasing system open, a reporting system open, and a customer on the phone. For them, the saving of 10 seconds wait while talking with the customer is a huge improvement in quality of service.
-Rick
An excellent post putting an overrated corporate exec in his place.
-Rick
It's all a matter of phrasing. IANAL, but I have been threatened with libel lawsuits before. Specifically dealing with an incident of me posting my opinion of a teach on a intranet forum. A good bit of research and a few calls put me at ease though. I expressed my views explicitly as "my opinion", not fact. I limited my statements to the targeted person's professionalism and proficiency at her job. And I made sure that the statements I made were factual, witnessed, and provable.
What I learned was:
"This person is a fraud" is libel
"I think this person is a fraud" is not libel
"This person conducts fraudulent business activities" is libel only if the person does not conduct fraudulent business activities.
-Rick
Except for the fact that MS can revoke that certificate at any time. If any malicious code hits the web with your cert, they pull the cert and the malicious code is rendered worthless. Of course, so is any non-malicious code under that cert. I wonder what kind of protections go into that cert to prevent spoofing.
-Rick
Is collective intelligence possible?
Yes, and it's called Wiki.
-Rick
So if time is a measurement of the movement of energy, and space is the (quantum) state of sub atomic particles, and no two particles can share the same state at the same time, then would it be a plausible explaination to say that the particles have moved in time in some way we are unable to measure?
-Rick
Huh? When was the last time you got a on the spot game suggestion/review from a Best Buy rep on the floor. Hell, I can't even flag one of those guys down for directions to the rest rooms let alone find one with any amount of knowledge on video games.
Having worked in a couple of CompUSA's I can say that at the big box stores you are more likely to get an honest answer out of the software sales guys because they don't get commissions on sales, and no one is going to buy a service plan on a video game. If some kid at a BB or CompUSA tells you they enjoyed game 'X', it is with all probability that they did in fact enjoy game 'X'. There just isn't enough profit on games to warrant a 'push' from management to sell any specific game.
Now your little ma-and-pop game store that is depending on game sales for revenue to stay in business, I would expect them to push the higher profit items.
-Rick
How fast can Google get the IP off of their newly aquired servers?
-Rick
Failure of a game? The ability to keep me entertained until I get my money's worth out of it. I wasn't trying to imply (as most people have apparently read) that the GAME was a failure, but that there is an ELEMENT of the game that will fail (in my eyes). That element being the social aspect.
-Rick
I did. And there are a couple million other players in the world that they could likely tap as well.
-Rick
Okay, I know that statement (see parent) wasn't overflowing with band-wagonism, but Off Topic?!? WTF, the article is about why the author thinks Spore is special, and my statement is about why I think it is not as special as it could be.
Because my post was not on the "I want to feltch Spore's crack while giving it a reach around with a happy ending" level of fanboyism it gets tagged as off topic? If you're going to mod, mod well. Overrated, Flamebait, something...
-Rick
Spore has all the appearance of an amazing single player game. Single being the opertune word. Single player games are great, but they are by definition limited. The only possible competition is between the player, and the PC. The reward level is greatly reduced.
Think about it, how many (geeks) people talk about the great fight they had in Morrowind? Compare that to the number of people who boast about frags and kill:death ratios, complete with dramatic reinactment.
Spore will do well, I'm planning on buying it, and playing it (for a while). But in the long term, with out some form of multi-player competition, cooperation, and communication, it'll be nothing more than a nice single player game.
-Rick
Your second amendment rights :P
-Rick
"From what I have seen, the XBox 360 and PS3 are currently working against this by focusing all of their effort on attracting the most dedicated 10% of gamers with features that don't matter to most of the population;"
Microsoft and Sony have market researchers, predictive analysis, and lots of money that goes into determining what features will turn a net profit.
What do you have?
-Rick
A funny first post that doesn't claim first post pwnage?!? Someone mod this guy up!
-Rick
"Worldwide, the company is ranked fourth, although that excludes Japan."
So it's not really world wide then. That's like me saying "I'm the supreme ruler of the world, excluding all of the land mass not covered by my feet."
side note though, I'm rooting for Wii and Ubi.
-Rick
Is the library of the future going to be open? Or will it be controlled by a couple of big corporate players?
I think the person who said this has missed the boat. The library is already controlled by corporate players, they are called publishers. Hence the reason it costs $250 for a text book on network security, but only $40 for a book on network security.
The question now is WHICH corporate players will control the library? Will print publishers continue to hold sway, or will the digital revolution move the power to Google and other online and on-demand print services?
-Rick
There were a few notables I saw while I was active duty in the Marine Corps as a 4067 (Computer Programmer). My first experience with the MITNOC was in Okinawa, Japan. One of the network/pc techs had put up a geocities page that had references to UNC paths inside the network. It worked great for him because he could go to any PC on any of the bases and get to all of the tools/software/installs he needed for most of his work. The links were only worth a damn if you could get into the network though. Unfortunately someone else (I believe it may have been 'Hackers for Girls') also discovered the links. The same weekend in 1998 that CNN was disrupted, the MITNOT (Located in Quantico, VA) noticed a huge flood of attacks on the Oki network. With in a few hours, the MITNOC had the website taken down, a mirror image of the PC tech's hard drive, his browsing history for the last 3 months (printed and digital), and 3 Marines on a plan to Japan.
Another notable environment I saw was one of the Office buildings in Quantico, VA. Each new building for the most part had it's own network design team that would configure the building prior to people moving in, and they would design and configure everything. Once the regular staff showed up, the design team would hand off control of the network to the local IT department. The guys at the Marsh Center had this down to a science. When I left Quantico, the only thing those networks would get out of their chairs for was to clear a printer jam or replace failed hardware. Everything else was locked down, automated, network pushed, and other whys control remotely. A truly beautiful environment for both the IT support team, and us developers.
-Rick
Unfortunatly, I'm not finding anything good on Google when searching for Lick to Byte. I could probably increase the responses by turning off safe search though...
-Rick
I used to work both as a consultant, and an LTE for a department of a state government. I did software development, all of our Network resources were managed by the Department of Administration (DOA, appropriately enough). DOA may have started out as a good idea, one centralized agency that maintained licensing, contracts, support, purchasing, etc... But cutbacks led to them continuously cutting pay and positions. By the time I left, the only representatives from the DOA that I knew of were two LTE college students, and one former manager who took a demotion to a tech position to stay employed (which just happened to bump one of the last skilled technicians out of the department).
Anyways, under their watch we had numerous security breaches. One of our servers was hosting a child porn collection and IRC channel. Another server had been crippled by viruses, and we had seen other signs of intrusion time after time. The child porn server was confiscated by the FBI when they tracked it down. They returned the server to the DOA when they had finished so that the DOA could learn from the breach and correct the security issue, but there was no one employed with the DOA who could identify the failure or what to do about it.
Anyways, my rough guess is that given what I've seen of state networks, I would think they are heavily botnetted. The other side of the public sector though, atleast the Marine Corps network, is a pretty impressive setup. I've seen those guys in action and I would be extremely suprised if there is a lick of traffic that escapes their pipes with out their express knowledge.
-Rick