I remember reading about an excavation somewhere in (pre-war) Iraq -- they dug up 3000-year-old cuneiform tablets, unfired, but perfectly legible. Prior to shipping them out, they left them next to the dig site for a night. A freak rainstorm came up and turned all the data to mud. "Security is a process, not a solution".
[weird, how can the first mod of parent be 'underrated' ? ]
Glad you asked -- I'm a happy user of AntiVir, I agree, it's not resource-hungry, updates are frequent, I've never had an issue with them; it's successfully detected stuff. I've been using it for almost two years now. I think AVG just had a bigger promotional campaign and they caught most of the people that were looking for free AV.
No, bro, money just shouts. It can shout for both sides. Microsoft is free to act as a thug for the Chinese government by censoring content hosted on servers in the USA. I am free to let my money shout when I refuse to buy any MS products.
Is China using its money to shout for oppression? Then use your money to SHOUT LOUDER.
Part of the problem is that pollen from the genetically altered foods you want, pollutes the fields growing the foods that most people want.
Free market solution provided for: pollution is trespass, trespass violates your property rights.
You make for interesting reading! But how is merely saying that your property rights are violated a 'solution'? What happens next?
How do you respond to 'tragedy-of-the-commons' type issues, or do you deny the existence of any kind of 'commons' at all?
And who are the marketing people who have taken over these projects who think that version numbers are a marketing tool, and not a way to convey useful information about the extent of the changes?
Probably the children or grandchildren of the people who called the first release of dBase "dBase II" back in 1981 to make it sound like it was a mature second release and not a risky 1.0 product.
Hey genius, Senator McCarthy had nothing to do with the House Unamerican Activities Committee (before which Robeson famously testified). Brain surgeons such as yourself frequently talk about the the stupid shit HUAC did and label it McCarthyism, when in fact Senator McCarthy's targets were by and large credible threats.
Whoops, you got me. I must be the only poor soul who uses the term "McCarthyism" to refer to the attitude of anticommunist phobia and paranoia prevalent in the House, Senate, and (god forbid) among mere commoners of the general public.
Since you're so well-informed, perhaps you could remind me -- when he said he would happily turn over evidence of subversion by government employees, what did he come up with when Sen. Lehman asked him? What was the final number of "known Communists" working in the state department, or did he just make up the number as he went along? And the biggie -- how many indictments and convictions resulted from his investigation of 'credible threats'?
The overlap between McCarthy's names and the Venona names is embarassingly small for someone who is supposed to be well-informed (and not just making stuff up). Perhaps that's what you get when a grandstanding drunk is given a position of power and a microphone -- ruin a few lives, call for strikers to be shot, etc.
Perhaps you should remember that the right of American citizens peaceably to assemble is guaranteed by the first amdendment (you know, the one right above the second, which I'm sure you're familiar with). That right is not abridged, even if the name of the assembly is "Communist Party of the USA". Treason is a crime; membership in the Communist Party is a civil right. Oh, and just for the sake of making steam come out of your ears, you should know that even advocating the violent overthrow of the US government is not a crime, and is in fact protected speech -- only speech designed to provoke 'imminent lawless action' can be restricted.
The fact that Drunken Joe was right with a few of his accusations was almost incidental -- he was a publicity whore out solely for himself. His style of persecution and character assassination show US government at its worst. It is arguable that his tactics played a role in driving people who might have been wavering to act against US interests. If your point was merely '"he wasn't 100% bad", I might agree - but his percentage was definitely above 80%.
I'd like to see you string together a credible scenario based on solid observable facts in which a decision by the Bush administration to not invade Iraq would have resulted in people losing the ability to post anonymously on slashdot.
Oh, hey, I like this game! I don't see where GP said anything about Iraq, but for the sake of playing 'consequences':
1. Observable fact #1: The Bush administration is willing to accuse Iraq of a lot of crimes for which they have found no evidence, even after occupying the country for several years (nuclear arms, al Qaeda cooperation, etc.)
2. Observable fact #2: The Bush administration is willing to turn the US into an economically segregated National Security State in order to meet its goals. (tax cuts for rich, benefits cuts for poor, patriot act, detention of American citizens without charge for years, etc).
Now, given those two observable facts, and your hypothesis that Bush decided not to invade Iraq (good thing you didn't ask me to come up with a credible explanation for that, that would have been tough) we can conclude:
Any event that results in harm to the US (Hurricane Katrina, Wilma, Red Sox victories, etc) could easily be blamed on Iraq, even without evidence. The search for 'fellow travelers' in the USA heats up, as the Bush administration tries desperately to locate the Secret Al-Qaeda Hurricane-causing Technology -- Before It Strikes Again! Clearly, the solution is to reduce civil liberties, So We Can Stop The Terrorists. Anonymous activity of all kinds, including posting to Slashdot, is outlawed, so people who foment discord by posting ridiculous hypotheticals can more easily be caught and convicted, and perhaps even charged and tried in court as well.
The whole 'give-away-the-razor, profit-on-the-blades' goes way back. When we're talking about razors, in that metaphor, we're not talking about injection-molded plastic handles for a Sensor or Mach-3, we're going back to the days of double-sided, steel-only blades. Note that the euphemism speaks of 'blades', not 'cartridges', tipping you off to this.
In those days, a razor was a solidly made metal consumer product, like a small hand tool. It made good marketing sense to give away -- or sell very cheaply -- something that had high perceived value, especially when it would only function with the manufacturer's specially socketed blades. And when there were only 2 or 3 different models (equivalent to the manufacturer's name), it was a lot easier to keep track of which brand you were committed to -- as opposed to today's menagerie of 40 different product lines.
Thanks for the tip... since you seem to know the app, can I ask you another question? Is it possible to have separate 'ecosystems' for your seeds? Like, I listen to the Ramones, klezmer, and Anonymous 4, but I'm pretty sure I have no interest in anything that sorta sounds like a hodgepodge of the three of them, or even of any two of the three. Can I keep them from cross-pollinating, or do I need separate accounts?
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Yep, it looks like the Apple Product Cycle is operating 100% according to spec on this one.
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"Threads pop up around feature wish lists, favorite colors, and likely retail price points..."
You'd better RTFA before you give Hwang any prizes -- this whole mess is only coming to light because a month ago, Gerald Schatten publicly announced he could no longer collaborate with Hwang's team because of possible ethical lapses. Hwang then tried to cover up the misdeeds of his staff... and now finally resigned.
Left unsaid in any coverage I've read is whether Hwang knew of any improper actions before Schatten's public announcement, but my guess is that Schatten first said something privately, then decided to go public when the response was inadequate. If there's a hero here, acting with a high level of integrity, it's Schatten, not Hwang.
Don't know about the submitter's mental capacity, but I believe he switched 'gas' and 'electric'. As for demand-based pricing, it is uncommon in the US. I know it's common in Europe for utilities, but I've never heard of it being used here. We're just starting to experiment with demand-based pricing of highway tolls.
A rate requires a numerator and a denominator. You've given the numerator: (number of) car stereo thefts. What's the denominator? Population? Number of cars? Number of car stereos?
A rate is a rate, it doesn't require anything, silly. The original poster's point is that a rate of 1%/yr could be 100,000 out of 10 million, or 10 out of 1000. In other words, North Korea and Monaco probably both have lower car-stereo theft rates than the USA and Iran. That's why he called it a thought experiment, not a math problem. As dippy as the idea of TFA sounded, there is a germ of truth in the idea that the lowest rate isn't necessarily the most desirable state (unless you know all the context).
Look, we're all discussing Science Fiction, or whatever you want to call it. While it's true that lots of geeks love SF, I would argue that not all great SF novels are "geek novels". (Otherwise let's just make it a list of great SF novels and forget the 'geek' qualifier).
Ferinstance: Heinlein's characters weren't geeks, and he wasn't a geek himself. Stephenson, on the other hand, fits the bill, and whoever mentioned DFW's Infinite Jest is getting at what I'm getting at. Forget about whether it's great SF, where are the great Geek Characters?
Now that I've broadened the definition, I give you my nominee:
Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim.
Face it, a few decades later, and Jim would have been a programmer.
Absolutely -- good idea on Wikipedia; I checked out that article before I saw your link to it.
Also (VERY IMPORTANT) you do not mention if you are in a publicly-held company. (Don't laugh, gang; even relatively small companies of a few hundred people can be thinly-traded but publicly held).
If your company is public or planning to go public in the next few years, talk to your internal auditor, CFO, Controller, whoever -- IT Development Standards are part of the typical Sarbanes-Oxley audit.
Explain to whoever named you to this position that if any of your development touches on financial app support (yes, this includes Excel macros) you should be formalizing your procedures, and it takes a few years to get this stuff right.
Get them to spring for a few good books on project management (and make sure they include documentation templates and business process forms).
Get them to spring for a Project Management Institute membership for you ( http://www.pmi.org/ ). Coding standards should be the least of your worries!
To make sure the thrusters couldn't break up the asteroid--or hinder the net towing force by pushing the asteroid away--Lu and Love angled the thrusters slightly away from the body of the spacecraft.
It sounds like their model has the weight 'leading' the asteroid in its path. If your astronautics are sophisticated enough to maintain the spacecraft in a stationary position with respect to an asteroid, why would you want it towing from ahead? Why not position it alongside the asteroid, so all the (tiny) gravitational force you're providing is perpendicular to the path of the asteroid? This configuration is also much more likely to be forgiving of slight positioning errors...
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I remember reading about an excavation somewhere in (pre-war) Iraq -- they dug up 3000-year-old cuneiform tablets, unfired, but perfectly legible. Prior to shipping them out, they left them next to the dig site for a night. A freak rainstorm came up and turned all the data to mud. "Security is a process, not a solution".
.... or, rewrite the editor review pages so they can't see who wrote the submission, or what the link is. That way, it's quality first.
[weird, how can the first mod of parent be 'underrated' ? ]
Glad you asked -- I'm a happy user of AntiVir, I agree, it's not resource-hungry, updates are frequent, I've never had an issue with them; it's successfully detected stuff. I've been using it for almost two years now. I think AVG just had a bigger promotional campaign and they caught most of the people that were looking for free AV.
Is China using its money to shout for oppression? Then use your money to SHOUT LOUDER.
Yep, it must be Microsoft's fault!
How do you respond to 'tragedy-of-the-commons' type issues, or do you deny the existence of any kind of 'commons' at all?
Why, I've never been so insulted in my life! I'll SUE! How *dare* you defame me with that libelous material!
-- The very dead Abbie Hoffman
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...
Since you're so well-informed, perhaps you could remind me -- when he said he would happily turn over evidence of subversion by government employees, what did he come up with when Sen. Lehman asked him? What was the final number of "known Communists" working in the state department, or did he just make up the number as he went along? And the biggie -- how many indictments and convictions resulted from his investigation of 'credible threats'?
The overlap between McCarthy's names and the Venona names is embarassingly small for someone who is supposed to be well-informed (and not just making stuff up). Perhaps that's what you get when a grandstanding drunk is given a position of power and a microphone -- ruin a few lives, call for strikers to be shot, etc.
Perhaps you should remember that the right of American citizens peaceably to assemble is guaranteed by the first amdendment (you know, the one right above the second, which I'm sure you're familiar with). That right is not abridged, even if the name of the assembly is "Communist Party of the USA". Treason is a crime; membership in the Communist Party is a civil right. Oh, and just for the sake of making steam come out of your ears, you should know that even advocating the violent overthrow of the US government is not a crime, and is in fact protected speech -- only speech designed to provoke 'imminent lawless action' can be restricted.
The fact that Drunken Joe was right with a few of his accusations was almost incidental -- he was a publicity whore out solely for himself. His style of persecution and character assassination show US government at its worst. It is arguable that his tactics played a role in driving people who might have been wavering to act against US interests. If your point was merely '"he wasn't 100% bad", I might agree - but his percentage was definitely above 80%.
1. Observable fact #1: The Bush administration is willing to accuse Iraq of a lot of crimes for which they have found no evidence, even after occupying the country for several years (nuclear arms, al Qaeda cooperation, etc.)
2. Observable fact #2: The Bush administration is willing to turn the US into an economically segregated National Security State in order to meet its goals. (tax cuts for rich, benefits cuts for poor, patriot act, detention of American citizens without charge for years, etc).
Now, given those two observable facts, and your hypothesis that Bush decided not to invade Iraq (good thing you didn't ask me to come up with a credible explanation for that, that would have been tough) we can conclude:
Any event that results in harm to the US (Hurricane Katrina, Wilma, Red Sox victories, etc) could easily be blamed on Iraq, even without evidence. The search for 'fellow travelers' in the USA heats up, as the Bush administration tries desperately to locate the Secret Al-Qaeda Hurricane-causing Technology -- Before It Strikes Again! Clearly, the solution is to reduce civil liberties, So We Can Stop The Terrorists. Anonymous activity of all kinds, including posting to Slashdot, is outlawed, so people who foment discord by posting ridiculous hypotheticals can more easily be caught and convicted, and perhaps even charged and tried in court as well.
Parent is both offtopic and racist. Metamods, who would mod parent 'funny' ??
The whole 'give-away-the-razor, profit-on-the-blades' goes way back. When we're talking about razors, in that metaphor, we're not talking about injection-molded plastic handles for a Sensor or Mach-3, we're going back to the days of double-sided, steel-only blades. Note that the euphemism speaks of 'blades', not 'cartridges', tipping you off to this.
In those days, a razor was a solidly made metal consumer product, like a small hand tool. It made good marketing sense to give away -- or sell very cheaply -- something that had high perceived value, especially when it would only function with the manufacturer's specially socketed blades. And when there were only 2 or 3 different models (equivalent to the manufacturer's name), it was a lot easier to keep track of which brand you were committed to -- as opposed to today's menagerie of 40 different product lines.
Thanks for the tip ... since you seem to know the app, can I ask you another question? Is it possible to have separate 'ecosystems' for your seeds? Like, I listen to the Ramones, klezmer, and Anonymous 4, but I'm pretty sure I have no interest in anything that sorta sounds like a hodgepodge of the three of them, or even of any two of the three. Can I keep them from cross-pollinating, or do I need separate accounts?
Yep, it looks like the Apple Product Cycle is operating 100% according to spec on this one.
--
"Threads pop up around feature wish lists, favorite colors, and likely retail price points..."
You'd better RTFA before you give Hwang any prizes -- this whole mess is only coming to light because a month ago, Gerald Schatten publicly announced he could no longer collaborate with Hwang's team because of possible ethical lapses. Hwang then tried to cover up the misdeeds of his staff... and now finally resigned.
Left unsaid in any coverage I've read is whether Hwang knew of any improper actions before Schatten's public announcement, but my guess is that Schatten first said something privately, then decided to go public when the response was inadequate. If there's a hero here, acting with a high level of integrity, it's Schatten, not Hwang.
Don't know about the submitter's mental capacity, but I believe he switched 'gas' and 'electric'. As for demand-based pricing, it is uncommon in the US. I know it's common in Europe for utilities, but I've never heard of it being used here. We're just starting to experiment with demand-based pricing of highway tolls.
"Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study"
I thought immediately of all those surreal advice columns with similar headlines in The Onion.
Look, we're all discussing Science Fiction, or whatever you want to call it. While it's true that lots of geeks love SF, I would argue that not all great SF novels are "geek novels". (Otherwise let's just make it a list of great SF novels and forget the 'geek' qualifier).
Ferinstance: Heinlein's characters weren't geeks, and he wasn't a geek himself. Stephenson, on the other hand, fits the bill, and whoever mentioned DFW's Infinite Jest is getting at what I'm getting at. Forget about whether it's great SF, where are the great Geek Characters?
Now that I've broadened the definition, I give you my nominee:
Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim.
Face it, a few decades later, and Jim would have been a programmer.
Absolutely -- good idea on Wikipedia; I checked out that article before I saw your link to it.
Also (VERY IMPORTANT) you do not mention if you are in a publicly-held company. (Don't laugh, gang; even relatively small companies of a few hundred people can be thinly-traded but publicly held).
If your company is public or planning to go public in the next few years, talk to your internal auditor, CFO, Controller, whoever -- IT Development Standards are part of the typical Sarbanes-Oxley audit.
Explain to whoever named you to this position that if any of your development touches on financial app support (yes, this includes Excel macros) you should be formalizing your procedures, and it takes a few years to get this stuff right.
Get them to spring for a few good books on project management (and make sure they include documentation templates and business process forms).
Get them to spring for a Project Management Institute membership for you ( http://www.pmi.org/ ). Coding standards should be the least of your worries!