Wow, I spent way too much time researching that...probably more time than the wikipeople have spent thinking about their little IP blocking scheme.\
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Sorry... I should have headed that off at the pass. My home has been M$ free since 2006. Unfortunately, my office isn't, though waiting for Windows apps to load does give me extra time to read/. and facebook (the other community obsession).
Why is /. obsessed with Microsoft?
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Like many days, today's/. feed is more than 50% stories related to Microsoft. OK, I get that the community here is predominately pro-Linux/anti-MS and I should expect the stories to skew to one side. But I'm not seeing the nerd value in a lot of these stories as they seem to only be posted to support and/or justify the collective belief that all things MS suck.
I'd like to see more news for nerds and stuff that matters make it to the feed.
What seems pretty obvious is that the guy's question is about how to get involved in an OSS initiative, not how to find one. Cultural barriers aside, the perception from the outside is that many existing communities are closed, elitist kingdoms that are unwelcoming and intimidating to newbies. So, while providing a helpful search query may be clever, it does not address the essence of the question and serves to perpetuate the stereotype.
Thanks for pointing that out. I suddenly feel dirty and have the urge to proceed to the next article, which is entitled "BP's Gulf Spill Report Shows String of Failures".
on second thought...perhaps I should just get back to work.
Well, my mom stood in line for an hour to buy the Atari 2600 version of Pacman when it came out...and it SUCKED, even by 1982 standards. Namco should consider allowing the Scratch project to continue if for no other reason but as retribution for ripping off thousands of kids for that crappy port.
and don't forget the cost of the labor force supporting and monitoring all these components...while they attend "training" and "share knowledge" on/.
"For the last time, close that browser and get the @#$%%#$ rack installed before leave today!"
Dangerous tools should never be made to resemble toys, regardless of who owns the trademarks on the toys.
That was my first thought when I saw the laser mentioned here a month ago. How many uniformed parents are going to buy the laser for their kid thinking it's a toy, only to learn (hopefully not the hard way) that it can/will cause instantaneous blindness -- even by reflection. Wicked's design decision was irresponsible at best, but probably more like reckless.
"I hope you like it. It's great that it will be free to readers of your newspaper. I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music."
The guy is a genius! Who would have ever imagined using a dying news media as a promotional venue for music? I'm assuming the free music was distributed on cassette tape, rubber-banded to the paper.
This is all about the taxing of employee benefits, not some Christian conspiracy. Most employer-sponsored health insurance in the US is paid for (in part or whole) by PRE-tax salary deductions. Meaning, the $500/month taken out of my paycheck for "family coverage" of my wife and kids is not counted towards my total taxable income at the end of the year. My colleague with a same-sex domestic partner can get the same coverage, but the government only allows the portion of the premiums paid for the employee and his/her children to be deducted...leaving about $100/month that is included as income and taxed at the end of the year. Obama and friends tried to get that corrected in the healthcare bill but it had to be removed to appease the nut jobs.
Corporations have been stepping up and doing the right thing for these families. The next problem they need to address is the existence of "mixed-sex domestic partners" so that any employee in a relationship can cover their lover.
One of my machines, a Mac, had a habit of dropping its wireless connection whenever the Wii called up to the Nintendo mothership...about every 9 minutes.
Professional photography -- particularly, photojournalism -- is a dying art. Yes, there are a few people taking some really good photos, ones that tell stories, represent facts, or are just nice to look at, but is also a tidal wave of "high quality" images that are nothing but amateur snapshots taken with high-end equipment. A few bucks flowing through Getty will make these people feel like they have a chance at the big time...and probably cause even more of them to set up websites promoting their wares, but the "art" aspect of photography doesn't come with a $3,000 camera and a little bokeh. It just moves the $5 stock photo market from the trained professionals to the part-timers and makes it all the more difficult to scratch out a living without shooting weddings.
I'm in the US, but today Google shows my location as a town in Norway. Last week it said I was in Malaysia. Every so often it puts me in my actual office location. I'm guessing my corporate proxy has something to do with the confusion, since I'm not using wifi on my laptop.
As my 8 and 12 year old daughters have explained it to me, it is more likely that Junior guessed the username/password for a few key accounts and leapfrogged up the food chain from there. The student accounts in the lower grades are generally based on the student's id and a formula driven password that any 2nd grader could figure out. More cracking that hacking.
This is just one more thing to add to my list of worries for my girls:
This case is really about keeping your mouth shut when you know your talking to a nark.
It was decided years ago that the phone numbers you dial are not "private" once you've dial them. This is essentially an application of the same concept, where you tell a 3rd party (the ISP or phone company) a "secret" (an SMTP message or phone number) and they blab it to someone else (since I guess they don't care about their own privacy).
In order for Fourth Amendment protections to apply, the person invoking the protection must have an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the place searched or item seized. Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83, 88, 119 S. Ct. 469, 473 (1998); Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 88 S. Ct. 507 (1967). The Supreme Court "consistently has held that a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties." Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 743-44, 99 S. Ct. 2577, 2582 (1979). "[T]he Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed." United States v. Miller, 425 U.S. 435, 443, 96 S. Ct. 1619, 1624 (1976).
More specifically, a person does not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the numerical information he conveys to a telephone company in the ordinary course of business. Smith, 442 U.S. at 743-44, 99 S. Ct. 2582 ("[E]ven if petitioner did harbor some subjective expectation that the phone numbers he dialed would remain private, this expectation is not one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable") (quotation marks omitted); accord United States v. Thompson, 936 F.2d 1249, 1250 (11th Cir. 1991) ("The Supreme Court has held that the installation of a pen register does not constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution and does not warrant invocation of the exclusionary rule.")....
A person also loses a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails, at least after the email is sent to and received by a third party....
Well, I RTFA and I completely understand why this is happening...the so called "sample photo" is covered with annoying little gray lines. No wonder the picture looks bad when you scale it. The dude needs a new camera.
The first part of the Blade Runner trailer contains the "spinner" whooshing sound without the theme music. Imagining a future with traffic jams of bees make me want to invest in noise canceling technology.
Just so the G1 doesn't feel left out, this is very possible and free on an Android phone. With Latitude enabled on the phone it is simply a matter of signing into iGoogle and checking your Latitude location.
Latitude works on Blackberry as well. I'm sure my wife uses it to track my location.
i can testify to that. Nextel/Sprint/RadioShack will gladly sell you a phone if you give them a SSN that belongs to someone else...you don't even need to know their name. Some dude walked into a store in NJ and picked up two phones using my SSN. I now have to go though life with a super-lock on my credit report which makes it hard for even me to buy anything that requires an SSN.
I think we can all agree that the SSN is perhaps the only "GUID" available in the US and that we really need such a thing for commerce. The problem is that this GUID we all love has been compromised and is no longer reliable without a private key (i.e. a super-lock on your credit history). The country needs a new GUID that is designed for commerce, privacy, and security from the start.
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So, my take is that this "Access Denied" fellow, who seems to have had his account for about 6 months, appears to be looking for street cred with his WikiHomees after a recent denial for RfA.
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Wow, I spent way too much time researching that...probably more time than the wikipeople have spent thinking about their little IP blocking scheme.\
Sorry... I should have headed that off at the pass. My home has been M$ free since 2006. Unfortunately, my office isn't, though waiting for Windows apps to load does give me extra time to read /. and facebook (the other community obsession).
Like many days, today's /. feed is more than 50% stories related to Microsoft. OK, I get that the community here is predominately pro-Linux/anti-MS and I should expect the stories to skew to one side. But I'm not seeing the nerd value in a lot of these stories as they seem to only be posted to support and/or justify the collective belief that all things MS suck.
I'd like to see more news for nerds and stuff that matters make it to the feed.
What seems pretty obvious is that the guy's question is about how to get involved in an OSS initiative, not how to find one. Cultural barriers aside, the perception from the outside is that many existing communities are closed, elitist kingdoms that are unwelcoming and intimidating to newbies. So, while providing a helpful search query may be clever, it does not address the essence of the question and serves to perpetuate the stereotype.
the single best time to shoot down a plane for a terrorist is when it's nearing it's terminus (either takeoff or landing)
-knock-knock-knock-
"Sir, you're under arrest for providing information terrorists might find useful. You have the right to..."
We're discussing a study about facebook on /.
Thanks for pointing that out. I suddenly feel dirty and have the urge to proceed to the next article, which is entitled "BP's Gulf Spill Report Shows String of Failures".
on second thought...perhaps I should just get back to work.
Well, my mom stood in line for an hour to buy the Atari 2600 version of Pacman when it came out...and it SUCKED, even by 1982 standards. Namco should consider allowing the Scratch project to continue if for no other reason but as retribution for ripping off thousands of kids for that crappy port.
and don't forget the cost of the labor force supporting and monitoring all these components...while they attend "training" and "share knowledge" on /.
"For the last time, close that browser and get the @#$%%#$ rack installed before leave today!"
touché. :-) Damn dyslexia
That was my first thought when I saw the laser mentioned here a month ago. How many uniformed parents are going to buy the laser for their kid thinking it's a toy, only to learn (hopefully not the hard way) that it can/will cause instantaneous blindness -- even by reflection. Wicked's design decision was irresponsible at best, but probably more like reckless.
The guy is a genius! Who would have ever imagined using a dying news media as a promotional venue for music? I'm assuming the free music was distributed on cassette tape, rubber-banded to the paper.
Corporations have been stepping up and doing the right thing for these families. The next problem they need to address is the existence of "mixed-sex domestic partners" so that any employee in a relationship can cover their lover.
One of my machines, a Mac, had a habit of dropping its wireless connection whenever the Wii called up to the Nintendo mothership...about every 9 minutes.
Professional photography -- particularly, photojournalism -- is a dying art. Yes, there are a few people taking some really good photos, ones that tell stories, represent facts, or are just nice to look at, but is also a tidal wave of "high quality" images that are nothing but amateur snapshots taken with high-end equipment. A few bucks flowing through Getty will make these people feel like they have a chance at the big time...and probably cause even more of them to set up websites promoting their wares, but the "art" aspect of photography doesn't come with a $3,000 camera and a little bokeh. It just moves the $5 stock photo market from the trained professionals to the part-timers and makes it all the more difficult to scratch out a living without shooting weddings.
...provide this information to BP?
I'm in the US, but today Google shows my location as a town in Norway. Last week it said I was in Malaysia. Every so often it puts me in my actual office location. I'm guessing my corporate proxy has something to do with the confusion, since I'm not using wifi on my laptop.
This is just one more thing to add to my list of worries for my girls:
Where are the extra 24 bytes going? Seems like some kind of fishy accounting scheme to me.
It was decided years ago that the phone numbers you dial are not "private" once you've dial them. This is essentially an application of the same concept, where you tell a 3rd party (the ISP or phone company) a "secret" (an SMTP message or phone number) and they blab it to someone else (since I guess they don't care about their own privacy).
From http://www.leagle.com/unsecure/page.htm?shortname=infco20100311081:
Yep, it really is about art.
Well, I RTFA and I completely understand why this is happening...the so called "sample photo" is covered with annoying little gray lines. No wonder the picture looks bad when you scale it. The dude needs a new camera.
The first part of the Blade Runner trailer contains the "spinner" whooshing sound without the theme music. Imagining a future with traffic jams of bees make me want to invest in noise canceling technology.
So I should install a firewall between my computer and the 29,000 other XP machines on my corporate network? Thanks MS!
Just so the G1 doesn't feel left out, this is very possible and free on an Android phone. With Latitude enabled on the phone it is simply a matter of signing into iGoogle and checking your Latitude location.
Latitude works on Blackberry as well. I'm sure my wife uses it to track my location.
i can testify to that. Nextel/Sprint/RadioShack will gladly sell you a phone if you give them a SSN that belongs to someone else...you don't even need to know their name. Some dude walked into a store in NJ and picked up two phones using my SSN. I now have to go though life with a super-lock on my credit report which makes it hard for even me to buy anything that requires an SSN.
I think we can all agree that the SSN is perhaps the only "GUID" available in the US and that we really need such a thing for commerce. The problem is that this GUID we all love has been compromised and is no longer reliable without a private key (i.e. a super-lock on your credit history). The country needs a new GUID that is designed for commerce, privacy, and security from the start.