If you have physical access to a machine and the disk isn't encrypted, you can get root. How dense do you have to be to find this surprising, or even mildly interesting?
but a democrat is likely to choose someone who is pro civil-liberties
Now that is truly funny. Bigger government and more regulation have somehow become "pro civil liberties". And I thought Canada was unique in the delusional politics department.
Ray Ozzie's "touch screen pointing device" was a light-pen. Those things were awkward, low-resolution, slow, expensive as hell and gave you tennis-elbow if you used one for any length of time (think of it in terms of using a flashlight instead of a mouse). That's why they were only used where there was no practical alternative.
Light-pens are why track balls and mice were so successful, and there is no connection whatsoever between light-pens and modern touch-screens.
It's pure silliness to say that technology has "caught on" or "finally gone mainstream".
At long last we can get a direct reading of how many IQ points you lose when you put on a baseball hat—and how many more you lose when you wear it backward or sideways.
Back in 1969 Xerox bought a fast-growing little computer company called Scientific Data Systems for just a little less than a billlion dollars. Most of the deal involved an exchange of shares.
As a result, SDS executives ended up being four of the five biggest shareholders in Xerox. The WSJ headline was "Who Bought Who?"
As an aside: Max Palevsky, the erstwhile president of SDS, took the money and ran. He ended up producing porn flicks and helping McGovern's run for the White House. I've always got a kick out of that combination.
Millions of dollars have been spent on studies looking to find some harm that coffee does. All to no avail. After oil, coffee is the second most traded commodity there is; we've been drinking it for so long and in such quantities that if there were anything harmful in it, the evidence would be literally pouring in. It isn't.
Also, anecdotes and old-wives' tales aside, caffeine dilates your blood vessels and stimulates fat-burning. Google "caffeine adenosine insulin"; it's all very interesting.
TechCrunch is speculating and clearly getting it wrong. Arrington's article comes out on the same day as an as an eWeek interview where Twitter's Britt Selvitelle talks about how they scaled up with Rails and offers some advice on the topic.
As to abandoning Rails:
Selvitelle told eWEEK that reports of Twitter abandoning Rails are "Not true in any sense. We use Ruby as our primary language. We have plenty of back-end architecture in other languages. Especially prototypes. We still use Rails and have no plans to discontinue this in the future."
Microsoft didn't just dream this up. Their customers, including a few of my clients, have been asking for this. A lot of non-trivial data centres run a mix of platforms—LAMP for Web, Windows Server for file services and AD, something else for databases,... They want to manage all this with a single management environment and toolkit.
Microsoft is doing what it does best. It's responding to a well-defined customer need.
There are three valid ways to deal with risk: mitigate it, insure it, or accept it (self-insure). If the people with the liability choose to accept a risk rather than mitigate it, that's a business decision that probably doesn't need consultation with the mail clerk to make.
If you think they are shooting themselves in the foot, get your foot out of the circle of confusion.
Public schools, even when woefully underfunded as they are now, have always outperformed private schools.
Right—that's why people who can afford it send their kids to private schools. They're just plain stupid, which explains how they got rich enough to send their kids to private schools. It's the people who are smart enough to stay poor that send their kids to the vastly superior public schools.
Comcast doesn't even approach being a monopoly and it operates in a highly competitive environment. Was anyone paying any attention to the bandwidth auction?
If it's trying to position itself in self-defence against government incursions in the market, one can only wish it well, watch carefully as events unfold, and try to learn something from it.
One of the minor comedies on slashdot is watching people twist themselves into knots on the subject of government interference. The primary principle seems to be "The government should leave me alone, but it's OK if it interferes in your life."
You have the association arrow backward. Hiding a message in radio or telephone background noise is one of many techniques collectively called steganography (literally "hidden writing"). Also, breaking this form is yesterday's war.
To get help on a feature, you have to know it exists. Help is never a substitute for a well-written user manual organized around use cases. (I know--use cases?--it is to laugh.)
OO Writer now handles duplex properly and has section-y features. For the first time, I can print my resumé duplex from OO with the pagination and page layout coming out right without manual intervention.
I'm not sure yet that it will properly handle a complex manual or report, but there's hope. It still hiccups on embedded Visio (edit causes an error and open opens it in Visio, but as a giant vector group; the Visio objects are disassembled). That's probably not going to get fixed as long as Visio remains in a class with only one instance.
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If you have physical access to a machine and the disk isn't encrypted, you can get root. How dense do you have to be to find this surprising, or even mildly interesting?
Sure no one has the patents to listen threw the whole serman and perhaps those words loose their power.
There has to be some kind of award for this one.
but a democrat is likely to choose someone who is pro civil-liberties
Now that is truly funny. Bigger government and more regulation have somehow become "pro civil liberties". And I thought Canada was unique in the delusional politics department.
Once again, we have a demonstration that a two-digit IQ is more than adequate to secure a job as a patent examiner.
Ray Ozzie's "touch screen pointing device" was a light-pen. Those things were awkward, low-resolution, slow, expensive as hell and gave you tennis-elbow if you used one for any length of time (think of it in terms of using a flashlight instead of a mouse). That's why they were only used where there was no practical alternative.
Light-pens are why track balls and mice were so successful, and there is no connection whatsoever between light-pens and modern touch-screens.
It's pure silliness to say that technology has "caught on" or "finally gone mainstream".
At long last we can get a direct reading of how many IQ points you lose when you put on a baseball hat—and how many more you lose when you wear it backward or sideways.
The Ferrari V-12 engine discourages competition. Quick! Someone call the European Commission!
Sometimes it's hard to tell...
Back in 1969 Xerox bought a fast-growing little computer company called Scientific Data Systems for just a little less than a billlion dollars. Most of the deal involved an exchange of shares.
As a result, SDS executives ended up being four of the five biggest shareholders in Xerox. The WSJ headline was "Who Bought Who?"
As an aside: Max Palevsky, the erstwhile president of SDS, took the money and ran. He ended up producing porn flicks and helping McGovern's run for the White House. I've always got a kick out of that combination.
You need better advice.
Millions of dollars have been spent on studies looking to find some harm that coffee does. All to no avail. After oil, coffee is the second most traded commodity there is; we've been drinking it for so long and in such quantities that if there were anything harmful in it, the evidence would be literally pouring in. It isn't.
Also, anecdotes and old-wives' tales aside, caffeine dilates your blood vessels and stimulates fat-burning. Google "caffeine adenosine insulin"; it's all very interesting.
You can't teach a kid science unless you also teach him or her a properly disrespectful attitude toward authority—a touch of skepticism.
I'd suggest starting with "Help! Mom! There are Liberals under my bed!" by Katherine DeBrecht.
TechCrunch is speculating and clearly getting it wrong. Arrington's article comes out on the same day as an as an eWeek interview where Twitter's Britt Selvitelle talks about how they scaled up with Rails and offers some advice on the topic.
As to abandoning Rails:
Selvitelle told eWEEK that reports of Twitter abandoning Rails are "Not true in any sense. We use Ruby as our primary language. We have plenty of back-end architecture in other languages. Especially prototypes. We still use Rails and have no plans to discontinue this in the future."
Is it too soon to make a verb of "Vista"? —As in, "the developers vista'd Pidgin in version 2.4."
Listen to the man—he knows whereof he speaks.
Microsoft didn't just dream this up. Their customers, including a few of my clients, have been asking for this. A lot of non-trivial data centres run a mix of platforms—LAMP for Web, Windows Server for file services and AD, something else for databases,... They want to manage all this with a single management environment and toolkit.
Microsoft is doing what it does best. It's responding to a well-defined customer need.
Come to think of it, I think it deserves a full-blown ROTFLOL!
Does anyone here have even a faint idea of what Operations Manager is? Judging from the posts so far, the answer is obviously "Not a clue".
It's not a remote shell.
"Infringing the GPL?!" LOL!
Everything has a half-life
The important question is, can we separate it out and use it to make bullets with a truly exceptional sectional density?
The first thing you have to do is lose the Dilbert crap. Do that, people will take you seriously, and the rest will fall into place.
And why bother about security ethics
What the hell are "security ethics"? In more years of IT security work than I care to count, I've never run into that bizarre phrase.
I look forward to being educated.
What whistle are you going to blow?
There are three valid ways to deal with risk: mitigate it, insure it, or accept it (self-insure). If the people with the liability choose to accept a risk rather than mitigate it, that's a business decision that probably doesn't need consultation with the mail clerk to make.
If you think they are shooting themselves in the foot, get your foot out of the circle of confusion.
Public schools, even when woefully underfunded as they are now, have always outperformed private schools.
Right—that's why people who can afford it send their kids to private schools. They're just plain stupid, which explains how they got rich enough to send their kids to private schools. It's the people who are smart enough to stay poor that send their kids to the vastly superior public schools.
Thanks for the comic relief.
Torodung--apt handle.
Comcast doesn't even approach being a monopoly and it operates in a highly competitive environment. Was anyone paying any attention to the bandwidth auction?
If it's trying to position itself in self-defence against government incursions in the market, one can only wish it well, watch carefully as events unfold, and try to learn something from it.
One of the minor comedies on slashdot is watching people twist themselves into knots on the subject of government interference. The primary principle seems to be "The government should leave me alone, but it's OK if it interferes in your life."
A Minor Correction:
You have the association arrow backward. Hiding a message in radio or telephone background noise is one of many techniques collectively called steganography (literally "hidden writing"). Also, breaking this form is yesterday's war.
To get help on a feature, you have to know it exists. Help is never a substitute for a well-written user manual organized around use cases. (I know--use cases?--it is to laugh.)
I'll have that crow medium rare.
OO Writer now handles duplex properly and has section-y features. For the first time, I can print my resumé duplex from OO with the pagination and page layout coming out right without manual intervention.
I'm not sure yet that it will properly handle a complex manual or report, but there's hope. It still hiccups on embedded Visio (edit causes an error and open opens it in Visio, but as a giant vector group; the Visio objects are disassembled). That's probably not going to get fixed as long as Visio remains in a class with only one instance.