say...for the consumables? or did their market research indicate people would balk at that? seems to me they could offer a couple options... printer free, with service plan; or printer for money, with pricier consumables. that would give the consumer the choice (and, not entirely coincidentally, allow hp to rip the consumer off if they chose the worse of the two options). it's simply a canard about making less money on the ink b/c they make as much profit margin on the ink as customers elect to pay.
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Great system. Can it deal with simultaneous attacks? It seems to me that it's a lot of money to spend which someone with a modicum of military knowledge can probably circumvent. If I am a terrorist, and I know that all the US airliners have anti-missile devices, I a) abandon my plans for mayhem? b) shoot down a non-US Airliner? c) exploit one of the weaknesses that any such system is bound to have or d) fire my spare missiles at a boat...or a building...or a train...or a stadium.
I'm thinking not a). But...reality aside, I'm sure we'll continue to try to spend our way out of terrorism.
Agreed. If giving up his "own time" entitled him to the code, then I should own much of the source code at any of the companies I've worked for. But I don't believe my volunteering an 80 hour week entitles me to the code I write in the extra 40, and I don't believe any employer I've worked for has lost sleep worrying about that either. He doesn't have a leg to stand on.
just because the sales-person doesn't know their product doesn't mean it isn't useful. the rearview mirror? you don't *have* to use those buttons, if they bother you. the mirror functions just fine without them, as a mirror. the second button? it turns off the auto-night-contrast feature. you know those old rearview mirrors? they have that lever on the back for night driving? that new mirror does that automatically, but, if you don't want the contrast dimmed, press the button, and, you're at full reflection. so, if you want to ignore the buttons, you get more functionality automatically, but control over those features if you care/when you need it. but then again, i get the impression the author probably didn't know his old-fashioned "simple" mirror had a lever on the back, and i doubt he knew what it was good for either....
Yes, this was my first thought on reading the summary. Those people who are arguing that converting it to sound somehow makes it easier to analyze should explain why it wouldn't be even MORE efficient to convert it to a trippy video with shifting colors which you could watch...after all, most folks' eyes are a good deal more sensitive to data than their ears. I mean, are they going to get well-trained professional musicians with perfect pitch to analyze the data for them or what? In the end, there is just no way that audio is some how a more inherently useful intermediate form for the data than any other wave-based representation of the data. But, hey, it's Wow, Etna speaks!:/
but the volume of posts I see on Slashdot and Digg about fixes for various MacBook problems both astound and amuse me. I could write it off as very poor quality control on Apple's part...and there may be something to that, but I wonder to what degree the Apple users are being more picky than the average bear.... I, for one, can't imagine buying, say, a Dell laptop and getting at all exercised about the clicky-ness of its buttons. But here we have evidence that not only has it bothered many MacBook owners, but one of them was so concerned that he gave it the thought to come up with a completely unusual solution to the problem. So...was the quality control really THAT bad? or are people just being very sensitive?
If you are unable to understand that banning the use of a website which has a host of primarily innocent uses is not the same as trying to ban more inherently undesireable behaviour, I can't help you. You seem foggy about this, but banning a medium != banning a behaviour.
And where did I say anything about college being about partying or acting out? You seem incapable of sticking to the points being discussed. In fact, I *specifically* said that if the university had banned the students from posting evidence of any undesireable behaviours or risk their scholarships that far fewer people would have problems with the policy.
Your throwing up strawmen doesn't make him naive. Your inability to address the actual issue only shows off your own naivete. Everything you mention, all the laws you point to, are aimed at BEHAVIOUR. Your arguments all fail because, as he mentioned, this policy is uniquely not addressed at behaviour. It doesn't do *anything* to prevent misconduct. It doesn't say "if you're caught posting X and Y illegal/undesireable activity on your facebook, you will lose your scholarship." THAT would be a rule aimed at behaviour, and that would be a policy that far fewer people would take issue with. But no, this says, "don't use this technology, we don't care towards what end, just don't...or else!" We (reasonable people) don't try to prevent speeding by banning driving. We don't try to prevent (any more) drunk driving by banning alcohol, or cars. We don't prevent murder by locking everyone in their homes. So please, when you have something better to offer than hyperbolic strawmen, enlighten us.
Or floors. When I'm in a meeting, or other similarly voice filled event, I tend to spend a lot of time listening and looking at the floor. What would a device like this make of that? Certainly there are some correlations between looking and listening and importance, but...I'm busy listening to NPR as I type this, as I've been browsing, and I haven't looked at the radio ONCE. Hardly means it's unimportant to me though....
when i was a sophomore in high school, we moved over christmas break from upstate new york to new mexico. i returned near the end of the year to pick up my yearbook and visit with friends. we had called ahead of time to make sure this would be okay, but when i showed up at school that day, the assistant principal i ended up running into felt that what i was doing was terrible and that i should leave school immediately. i was pretty upset that she was keeping me from visiting with my friends as my mom had arranged this ahead of time (with the head principal, however). knowing i had approval somewhere, as i walked out i said, "i'll be back." she asked, "what did you say? you just threatened me." she proceeded to call security and have me escorted by security off the campus. needless to say, after my mom made some calls, i *was* back, and no, i wasn't toting uzis or anything. the fact of the matter is that many high school administrators are Out Of Control. they view children as the enemy, and it makes for a toxic environment that only hurts the future of our children and our nation.
because they show you the headers and the headers had dates on them. and almost all the emails were to and from people at Enron and many of them were related to stuff taking place at enron.
I tried doing my part on the site, went through a dozen emails or so...but they were all from 2001/2002. I dunno about the spam filters everyone else has, but the sort of spam I used to get back then wouldn't stand a chance of showing up in my inbox today. Spammers are always trying to innovate and find loopholes around the latest and greatest filter technology, so I don't see how my analyzing 4 year old email from Enron is going to help improve filters for the future....
Amen. I got some nasty responses to a similar comment I made on a net-neutrality post on digg. We pay for bandwidth consumed. In fact, most of us, the VAST majority of internet users, pay for MORE bandwidth than we actually consume. Now, I'm sure that the prices reflect that to some extent, but, there is no escaping the fundamental fact that this whole debate is not about fairness, it is simply about greed. I have not heard anything remotely convincing that the network providers are *losing* money...if they were, they would be sure to charge the users more money. But they aren't, and this isn't about them needing to rescue their business model somehow.
It would be a terrible thing if *any* societal infrastructure were made non-neutral. There is no way that this would benefit consumers, it would ONLY benefit corporations.
Does the government have to *prove* that you *actually* sent the suspect an email? Or is it simply enough that the suspect has an email bearing your email address? After reading TFA, I really doubt this bill was well thought out enough to address those sorts of issues. Without that sort of protection, it seems it would be possible for an unethical law enforcement official to obtain a warrant for someone they'd like to be monitoring but have no legal grounds for doing so by emaililng some random existing suspect a spoofed email from their target. I would say that it amazes me that people would try to use a completely unreliable method of communication, like email, as the legal basis for a massive invasion of privacy...unfortunately, governments' proclivity for trying to spy on people and treat them prima facie as criminals has long since ceased to amaze me....
I went to one of those universities: Rice. And I am absolutely a believer in using Scheme as an introductory language. By design scheme and lisp are very mathematically oriented, they are type-free, and lend themselves to both simple code and more complex, mathematical reasoning about programs. You can start off learning scheme in an on-the-fly editor like Dr. Scheme, and even after you've learned other languages, return to it to talk about things like proving program correctness (a la Spidey). I highly recommend it.
i tend to store my most important code libraries on engraved stone tablets. however, i also find clay cuneiform tablets are useful in a pinch.
seriously, svn yada yada, what everyone else said earlier. can't go wrong with svn.
i've met the guy, i've sat through a class on Solaris that he was teaching, and i've been here as we've discussed getting him to take a look at our systems. i know that the last time we had him in, we had to schedule him some time in advance. i'm fairly certain that he's not hurting for work, based on my interactions...
thanks for that. i was rushing to say yes too, having read the blurb, and went back up for a closer read after reading your comment. i think i, in that situation, would probably leave anyway (single etc). i've always been pretty strident about working places because i'm interested in the work, not for the money. and it's generally held true, and i've generally been pretty fairly compensated for my efforts. i certainly think it's a path that can be taken. however, i know that in the future it's gonna be a little harder to say that with family on the way...but...single? young? why not? as long as you leave amicably, don't burn bridges, in the long run i think the experience gained could be parlayed into a more successful career than staying in the cush job.
we have one in our building in Houston and i'm a big fan. of course, there are times when i can't help wanting to tinker with the algorithm a little bit...but it DEFINITELY beats out the standard system. at an previous job we were on the top floor of a bank of elevators, and it truly was intolerable. it was *impossible* to ride the elevators either up or down from our floor without stopping several times. these pre-assignment systems are VASTLY superior. that said, i think that they shouldn't be used in "public" areas. i definitely can see where in a hotel or other area with lots of user-churn you would have lots of people getting on elevators and going to the wrong place. however, in an office building where the majority of the users know (or quickly learn) the system, i think (properly implemented) it simply can't be beat.
you can (try and fail to) argue that the EU is a wannabe government, but you'll come crashing down when all the EU governments of Europe which support the EU support the EU in fining Microsoft. The EU has had issues *politically* integrating Europe, but the European countries have been moving forward with economic integration since the days of the European Common Market...well before the EU. They would most certainly not look kindly at MS were it to try to thumb its nose at them and refuse to pay its fines. MS *does* have European assets that could be seized, and it would *very much* like to continue doing business on the continent.
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say...for the consumables? or did their market research indicate people would balk at that? seems to me they could offer a couple options... printer free, with service plan; or printer for money, with pricier consumables. that would give the consumer the choice (and, not entirely coincidentally, allow hp to rip the consumer off if they chose the worse of the two options). it's simply a canard about making less money on the ink b/c they make as much profit margin on the ink as customers elect to pay.
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Great system. Can it deal with simultaneous attacks? It seems to me that it's a lot of money to spend which someone with a modicum of military knowledge can probably circumvent. If I am a terrorist, and I know that all the US airliners have anti-missile devices, I a) abandon my plans for mayhem? b) shoot down a non-US Airliner? c) exploit one of the weaknesses that any such system is bound to have or d) fire my spare missiles at a boat...or a building...or a train...or a stadium. I'm thinking not a). But...reality aside, I'm sure we'll continue to try to spend our way out of terrorism.
Agreed. If giving up his "own time" entitled him to the code, then I should own much of the source code at any of the companies I've worked for. But I don't believe my volunteering an 80 hour week entitles me to the code I write in the extra 40, and I don't believe any employer I've worked for has lost sleep worrying about that either. He doesn't have a leg to stand on.
just because the sales-person doesn't know their product doesn't mean it isn't useful. the rearview mirror? you don't *have* to use those buttons, if they bother you. the mirror functions just fine without them, as a mirror. the second button? it turns off the auto-night-contrast feature. you know those old rearview mirrors? they have that lever on the back for night driving? that new mirror does that automatically, but, if you don't want the contrast dimmed, press the button, and, you're at full reflection. so, if you want to ignore the buttons, you get more functionality automatically, but control over those features if you care/when you need it. but then again, i get the impression the author probably didn't know his old-fashioned "simple" mirror had a lever on the back, and i doubt he knew what it was good for either....
Yes, this was my first thought on reading the summary. Those people who are arguing that converting it to sound somehow makes it easier to analyze should explain why it wouldn't be even MORE efficient to convert it to a trippy video with shifting colors which you could watch...after all, most folks' eyes are a good deal more sensitive to data than their ears. I mean, are they going to get well-trained professional musicians with perfect pitch to analyze the data for them or what? In the end, there is just no way that audio is some how a more inherently useful intermediate form for the data than any other wave-based representation of the data. But, hey, it's Wow, Etna speaks! :/
feh! origami boulder MUCH cooler!
but the volume of posts I see on Slashdot and Digg about fixes for various MacBook problems both astound and amuse me. I could write it off as very poor quality control on Apple's part...and there may be something to that, but I wonder to what degree the Apple users are being more picky than the average bear.... I, for one, can't imagine buying, say, a Dell laptop and getting at all exercised about the clicky-ness of its buttons. But here we have evidence that not only has it bothered many MacBook owners, but one of them was so concerned that he gave it the thought to come up with a completely unusual solution to the problem. So...was the quality control really THAT bad? or are people just being very sensitive?
If you are unable to understand that banning the use of a website which has a host of primarily innocent uses is not the same as trying to ban more inherently undesireable behaviour, I can't help you. You seem foggy about this, but banning a medium != banning a behaviour. And where did I say anything about college being about partying or acting out? You seem incapable of sticking to the points being discussed. In fact, I *specifically* said that if the university had banned the students from posting evidence of any undesireable behaviours or risk their scholarships that far fewer people would have problems with the policy.
Your throwing up strawmen doesn't make him naive. Your inability to address the actual issue only shows off your own naivete. Everything you mention, all the laws you point to, are aimed at BEHAVIOUR. Your arguments all fail because, as he mentioned, this policy is uniquely not addressed at behaviour. It doesn't do *anything* to prevent misconduct. It doesn't say "if you're caught posting X and Y illegal/undesireable activity on your facebook, you will lose your scholarship." THAT would be a rule aimed at behaviour, and that would be a policy that far fewer people would take issue with. But no, this says, "don't use this technology, we don't care towards what end, just don't...or else!" We (reasonable people) don't try to prevent speeding by banning driving. We don't try to prevent (any more) drunk driving by banning alcohol, or cars. We don't prevent murder by locking everyone in their homes. So please, when you have something better to offer than hyperbolic strawmen, enlighten us.
Or floors. When I'm in a meeting, or other similarly voice filled event, I tend to spend a lot of time listening and looking at the floor. What would a device like this make of that? Certainly there are some correlations between looking and listening and importance, but...I'm busy listening to NPR as I type this, as I've been browsing, and I haven't looked at the radio ONCE. Hardly means it's unimportant to me though....
when i was a sophomore in high school, we moved over christmas break from upstate new york to new mexico. i returned near the end of the year to pick up my yearbook and visit with friends. we had called ahead of time to make sure this would be okay, but when i showed up at school that day, the assistant principal i ended up running into felt that what i was doing was terrible and that i should leave school immediately. i was pretty upset that she was keeping me from visiting with my friends as my mom had arranged this ahead of time (with the head principal, however). knowing i had approval somewhere, as i walked out i said, "i'll be back." she asked, "what did you say? you just threatened me." she proceeded to call security and have me escorted by security off the campus. needless to say, after my mom made some calls, i *was* back, and no, i wasn't toting uzis or anything. the fact of the matter is that many high school administrators are Out Of Control. they view children as the enemy, and it makes for a toxic environment that only hurts the future of our children and our nation.
because they show you the headers and the headers had dates on them. and almost all the emails were to and from people at Enron and many of them were related to stuff taking place at enron.
I tried doing my part on the site, went through a dozen emails or so...but they were all from 2001/2002. I dunno about the spam filters everyone else has, but the sort of spam I used to get back then wouldn't stand a chance of showing up in my inbox today. Spammers are always trying to innovate and find loopholes around the latest and greatest filter technology, so I don't see how my analyzing 4 year old email from Enron is going to help improve filters for the future....
Amen. I got some nasty responses to a similar comment I made on a net-neutrality post on digg. We pay for bandwidth consumed. In fact, most of us, the VAST majority of internet users, pay for MORE bandwidth than we actually consume. Now, I'm sure that the prices reflect that to some extent, but, there is no escaping the fundamental fact that this whole debate is not about fairness, it is simply about greed. I have not heard anything remotely convincing that the network providers are *losing* money...if they were, they would be sure to charge the users more money. But they aren't, and this isn't about them needing to rescue their business model somehow. It would be a terrible thing if *any* societal infrastructure were made non-neutral. There is no way that this would benefit consumers, it would ONLY benefit corporations.
you must not have cleartype(TM) turned on....
Does the government have to *prove* that you *actually* sent the suspect an email? Or is it simply enough that the suspect has an email bearing your email address? After reading TFA, I really doubt this bill was well thought out enough to address those sorts of issues. Without that sort of protection, it seems it would be possible for an unethical law enforcement official to obtain a warrant for someone they'd like to be monitoring but have no legal grounds for doing so by emaililng some random existing suspect a spoofed email from their target. I would say that it amazes me that people would try to use a completely unreliable method of communication, like email, as the legal basis for a massive invasion of privacy...unfortunately, governments' proclivity for trying to spy on people and treat them prima facie as criminals has long since ceased to amaze me....
mr. taco is trying to facilitate just that....
I went to one of those universities: Rice. And I am absolutely a believer in using Scheme as an introductory language. By design scheme and lisp are very mathematically oriented, they are type-free, and lend themselves to both simple code and more complex, mathematical reasoning about programs. You can start off learning scheme in an on-the-fly editor like Dr. Scheme, and even after you've learned other languages, return to it to talk about things like proving program correctness (a la Spidey). I highly recommend it.
i tend to store my most important code libraries on engraved stone tablets. however, i also find clay cuneiform tablets are useful in a pinch. seriously, svn yada yada, what everyone else said earlier. can't go wrong with svn.
i've met the guy, i've sat through a class on Solaris that he was teaching, and i've been here as we've discussed getting him to take a look at our systems. i know that the last time we had him in, we had to schedule him some time in advance. i'm fairly certain that he's not hurting for work, based on my interactions...
thanks for that. i was rushing to say yes too, having read the blurb, and went back up for a closer read after reading your comment. i think i, in that situation, would probably leave anyway (single etc). i've always been pretty strident about working places because i'm interested in the work, not for the money. and it's generally held true, and i've generally been pretty fairly compensated for my efforts. i certainly think it's a path that can be taken. however, i know that in the future it's gonna be a little harder to say that with family on the way...but...single? young? why not? as long as you leave amicably, don't burn bridges, in the long run i think the experience gained could be parlayed into a more successful career than staying in the cush job.
we have one in our building in Houston and i'm a big fan. of course, there are times when i can't help wanting to tinker with the algorithm a little bit...but it DEFINITELY beats out the standard system. at an previous job we were on the top floor of a bank of elevators, and it truly was intolerable. it was *impossible* to ride the elevators either up or down from our floor without stopping several times. these pre-assignment systems are VASTLY superior. that said, i think that they shouldn't be used in "public" areas. i definitely can see where in a hotel or other area with lots of user-churn you would have lots of people getting on elevators and going to the wrong place. however, in an office building where the majority of the users know (or quickly learn) the system, i think (properly implemented) it simply can't be beat.
Maybe, but this sounds like the prosecutors are manufacturing a whole wave of criminals and trying to find crimes for them to be guilty of.
you can (try and fail to) argue that the EU is a wannabe government, but you'll come crashing down when all the EU governments of Europe which support the EU support the EU in fining Microsoft. The EU has had issues *politically* integrating Europe, but the European countries have been moving forward with economic integration since the days of the European Common Market...well before the EU. They would most certainly not look kindly at MS were it to try to thumb its nose at them and refuse to pay its fines. MS *does* have European assets that could be seized, and it would *very much* like to continue doing business on the continent.