IANAL, but I play one on the Internet...;) This makes sense, playing devil's advocate. Can I start up a website, make up documents for wills, divorce, etc. and have no legal background? Without an in-state attorney to produce the documents, I have no standing to say that they will be legal in that state.
I would hope that LegalZoom has an in-state lawyer actually verifying these documents.
More and more, I just want a bill from the government at a flat amount, with a simple poverty cut off (no taxes on the extreme poor). End all subsidies, and start charging a per-service fee, add toll roads, etc. Pay for what you use. Use a bank? Pay a fee for FDIC/SEC oversight. They do it to phone usage, they can do it elsewhere.
This is even fair on the rich, would would pay per stock transaction because the federal government must regulate the industry. Pay for what you use. Not simple, but effective and simpler than what we have now where AT&T pays $0 taxes and gets subsidies.
The USPS could then raise rates by including the fees also to become competitive with FedEx who would be paying the tax, except one fee goes to the federal government and the other goes to state.
First, there is the question of if he is falsely claiming credit. Second, is whether or not his is the best.
While there are nearly infinite moves in chess, there are not infinite ways of winning at chess. Last I heard, most systems use a scoring system to evaluate moves. And based on a final score tally, they make a decision. This is the "evidence" they have. But I would submit this to a group of non-chess playing programmers (who are unbiased as to who plays chess better).
Submitting the Fruit engine as the test base, compare it to the same unseen code of all programs, and let the programmers decide if ANY are copies of Fruit. Then, remove the blindfold and see if the one they all picked unanimously was Rybka.
If it can't pass a blind test, then the results have real credibility. Otherwise, yes, this is a witch hunt. The "found guilty by a panel of 34 chess engine programmers" sounds dubious. It doesn't take a "chess engine programmer" to find plagiarized code, it takes a master programmer. Knowing anything about chess engines is really just extraneous. It's not like they exist in a vacuum.
Just don't give me any "base system" crap, test it with a real system running real background tasks. A windows machine running anti-virus real time protection may add significantly in terms of power. Multiplied over an entire office, that could add up. But I dunno what they used, cause I think the Phoronix website needs a little more power to withstand/.
...isn't with the user. The problem is with the Admin who allows USB devices in a government building and the security at the front door that doesn't confiscate them.
Back in my day, we only had the BBS. We had to fill out applications to join and had to lie about knowing who ACiD and AAA were because we didn't have "search". We kept 8bit porn as our digital trading currency, and uploaded them to gain enough download credits for free software. And we worshiped the Sysop as a god and kissed his ass or we were cut off from the entire network. And we rolled our dice to win more than 10 minutes a day "online" so that we could spend 30 minutes playing Legend of the Red Dragon and beat other players to death in their sleep. Farmville is for pussies. We killed beasts and men in text based games!
It's not just software. IT jobs in general can either be very good, very bad, or in between. The problem is whether or not managers understand the difficulty of the job, and whether they micromanage. Software and administration are capable of self-motivational work, software more so than administration. But in my line of work on the administration side, I know what will work, what won't work, and what might work, and which is the easiest to try or what may have the largest payoff.
The biggest problem I've run into is having a manager without an IT background. This type of person blames all problems on IT, thinks IT can wave a magic wand to fix the problem, and when it isn't fixed, it is because we're just refusing to do our jobs. This same type of person also tends to go for the lowest pay, meaning that if you take the job (or you get a new manager of this type), you will work only with people who are willing to take the lowest pay. Those are not the best (or happiest) people in the world to work with.
As "crushed" as IT feels at the moment in the job market, it's still the best job market out there. And with the right experience, we can name our own price. IT needs to be more assertive. Businesses need us, period. If they aren't willing to pay, someone else eventually will. That's the advice I'd have given the software guys on the L.A. Noire project... CV, CV, CV, get that CV out there!
If you lose a court case because you are out of compliance, the first reasonable action may be to pull the product until you can make the change, test the change, and put the site back up.
Or, they found another problem, namely, that they can't sell US apps because of existing contractual obligations to US app owners. So, in Taiwan, it may not be as simple as extending the return period to 7 days. In fact, they may need to create a totally walled off Taiwan store, which gives app owners the option of selling there, thereby submitting to a 7 day return.
Obviously, some games will not do this for one big reason... some games can be completed in under 7 days, and therefore it makes no sense to sell there.
True, but then you give everyone else in the company the method for determining everyone else's password. Because, as sure as there are bad password guessers, there are people that will copy your exact method, even if you tell them to create their own. These are usually the people in the most sensitive areas.
Most company data thefts are inside jobs. And given enough time of just socializing, you could get a good idea to salt a password cracking program for very high accuracy.
I also know that there are over 9000 combinations to any 4 digit passcode, and at least 100 start with 1 and 2. QED!
I was actually thinking that most easily remembered 4 digit numbers are years, usually birthdays. And for the past 1000 years, they've all started with 1 until very recently. I now suspect that the use of the number 2 as the first digit will rise for the next 1000 years.
And who's call was it to change version numbers? And who was the asshole who told Enterprise users (paraphrasing) "We don't give a shit about you."
Mozilla went out of its way to pick a fight. And that one statement right there is all it takes. It's not what Mozilla changed. It's the fact that they dumped a codebase on its ass after 3 months. That's not credibility building. That's saying "We have no clue how to plan or beta test our products properly."
Putting those two things together is, in no way, "the right [decision] for the Web itself." It's fanboy smoke blowing up CIO asses. If it's so right, why is it that Opera, Safari, and Chrome are not on the hot seat? Chrome undergoes changes at a super-rapid pace automatically, but I hear nobody really screaming about it. Two reasons, really. First, it just works, which can be said of FF, but it is not an aura they present especially when they have to drop support after only 3 months of a major release. Second, Google has never said, "F#$% you, CIOs!" Google has made it clear that they want to be the one stop shop for cloud for business.
The question is, what the hell does Mozilla want? I don't see a vision. They're worse than UI devs who argue over who's system is better, forgetting what their goals actually are.
At Mozilla, all I see is mismanagement. They can't control their code. They can't control their staff. And they are continually lagging behind all competition, which is especially sad given their rock star performance not too long ago, with social buzz propelling a large install base.
They don't do anything news worthy anymore, except piss people off. MS learned how to change that, and most CIOs are excited about IE8/9 as a real evolution. Chrome continues to innovate and add support. Opera is continually pushing the mobile envelope.
Not only were they assholes, but the question quickly flies back into Mozilla's face, "What have you done for me lately?" That mobile app? It's a joke. Slow, bulky, and not appealing. It is not even comparable to other mobile browsers like Opera or Dolphin.
Nobody really cares about Mozilla anymore. And those that do are finding it harder to justify using it. This isn't about what's "right for the web", this is about a tech that's outlived its prime, by a team that's outlived its usefulness.
Members and staff can now use popular video teleconferencing services within the House network to communicate with constituents.
Skype says that their engineers have worked with the Congressional network security team to ensure the security of the communication channel.
I would assume they have a very strict IT policy, with every single network app needing pre-approval. At least, that's what I'd require, and lock incoming and outgoing ports down to the bare minimum with the heaviest security and packet filtering and require only encrypted channels. I think the concern here was verifying encryption... and they had to wait for Weiner to resign since I'm sure they have a "no weiners on Skype" policy.
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It's not that they've gone legit. It's that there are easier ways to scam people out of their money for higher profit returns, such as spear-phishing.
IANAL, but I play one on the Internet... ;) This makes sense, playing devil's advocate. Can I start up a website, make up documents for wills, divorce, etc. and have no legal background? Without an in-state attorney to produce the documents, I have no standing to say that they will be legal in that state.
I would hope that LegalZoom has an in-state lawyer actually verifying these documents.
More and more, I just want a bill from the government at a flat amount, with a simple poverty cut off (no taxes on the extreme poor). End all subsidies, and start charging a per-service fee, add toll roads, etc. Pay for what you use. Use a bank? Pay a fee for FDIC/SEC oversight. They do it to phone usage, they can do it elsewhere.
This is even fair on the rich, would would pay per stock transaction because the federal government must regulate the industry. Pay for what you use. Not simple, but effective and simpler than what we have now where AT&T pays $0 taxes and gets subsidies.
The USPS could then raise rates by including the fees also to become competitive with FedEx who would be paying the tax, except one fee goes to the federal government and the other goes to state.
If he was really thinking, he'd have said he valued his homework.
And this is on topic how?
...and hoping Asa doesn't go spouting off about how Thunderbird is horrible for managed email systems.
First, there is the question of if he is falsely claiming credit. Second, is whether or not his is the best.
While there are nearly infinite moves in chess, there are not infinite ways of winning at chess. Last I heard, most systems use a scoring system to evaluate moves. And based on a final score tally, they make a decision. This is the "evidence" they have. But I would submit this to a group of non-chess playing programmers (who are unbiased as to who plays chess better).
Submitting the Fruit engine as the test base, compare it to the same unseen code of all programs, and let the programmers decide if ANY are copies of Fruit. Then, remove the blindfold and see if the one they all picked unanimously was Rybka.
If it can't pass a blind test, then the results have real credibility. Otherwise, yes, this is a witch hunt. The "found guilty by a panel of 34 chess engine programmers" sounds dubious. It doesn't take a "chess engine programmer" to find plagiarized code, it takes a master programmer. Knowing anything about chess engines is really just extraneous. It's not like they exist in a vacuum.
The deal is on!
Just don't give me any "base system" crap, test it with a real system running real background tasks. A windows machine running anti-virus real time protection may add significantly in terms of power. Multiplied over an entire office, that could add up. But I dunno what they used, cause I think the Phoronix website needs a little more power to withstand /.
I don't see how NORAD has time to track everything, but at least they're damn good at finding that fat man in a red suit every December 24th.
...isn't with the user. The problem is with the Admin who allows USB devices in a government building and the security at the front door that doesn't confiscate them.
If you can't beat 'em, charge 'em.
Back in my day, we only had the BBS. We had to fill out applications to join and had to lie about knowing who ACiD and AAA were because we didn't have "search". We kept 8bit porn as our digital trading currency, and uploaded them to gain enough download credits for free software. And we worshiped the Sysop as a god and kissed his ass or we were cut off from the entire network. And we rolled our dice to win more than 10 minutes a day "online" so that we could spend 30 minutes playing Legend of the Red Dragon and beat other players to death in their sleep. Farmville is for pussies. We killed beasts and men in text based games!
And we liked it that way! Get off my lawn!
I'm sorry but Catholicism already has a long standing patent on giving to charity and flaunting it in a social environment.
It's not just software. IT jobs in general can either be very good, very bad, or in between. The problem is whether or not managers understand the difficulty of the job, and whether they micromanage. Software and administration are capable of self-motivational work, software more so than administration. But in my line of work on the administration side, I know what will work, what won't work, and what might work, and which is the easiest to try or what may have the largest payoff.
The biggest problem I've run into is having a manager without an IT background. This type of person blames all problems on IT, thinks IT can wave a magic wand to fix the problem, and when it isn't fixed, it is because we're just refusing to do our jobs. This same type of person also tends to go for the lowest pay, meaning that if you take the job (or you get a new manager of this type), you will work only with people who are willing to take the lowest pay. Those are not the best (or happiest) people in the world to work with.
As "crushed" as IT feels at the moment in the job market, it's still the best job market out there. And with the right experience, we can name our own price. IT needs to be more assertive. Businesses need us, period. If they aren't willing to pay, someone else eventually will. That's the advice I'd have given the software guys on the L.A. Noire project... CV, CV, CV, get that CV out there!
I love that Google wants to help me find boobies near by. That's Epic Google!
I see you're trying to make a blockbuster movie. Would you like help?
Look. See? This is how you do it.
I, for one, welcome our new self replicating, desert dwelling overlords.
If you lose a court case because you are out of compliance, the first reasonable action may be to pull the product until you can make the change, test the change, and put the site back up.
Or, they found another problem, namely, that they can't sell US apps because of existing contractual obligations to US app owners. So, in Taiwan, it may not be as simple as extending the return period to 7 days. In fact, they may need to create a totally walled off Taiwan store, which gives app owners the option of selling there, thereby submitting to a 7 day return.
Obviously, some games will not do this for one big reason... some games can be completed in under 7 days, and therefore it makes no sense to sell there.
First Pet, Hobby. Vowels are umbers.
True, but then you give everyone else in the company the method for determining everyone else's password. Because, as sure as there are bad password guessers, there are people that will copy your exact method, even if you tell them to create their own. These are usually the people in the most sensitive areas.
Most company data thefts are inside jobs. And given enough time of just socializing, you could get a good idea to salt a password cracking program for very high accuracy.
I also know that there are over 9000 combinations to any 4 digit passcode, and at least 100 start with 1 and 2. QED!
I was actually thinking that most easily remembered 4 digit numbers are years, usually birthdays. And for the past 1000 years, they've all started with 1 until very recently. I now suspect that the use of the number 2 as the first digit will rise for the next 1000 years.
And who's call was it to change version numbers? And who was the asshole who told Enterprise users (paraphrasing) "We don't give a shit about you."
Mozilla went out of its way to pick a fight. And that one statement right there is all it takes. It's not what Mozilla changed. It's the fact that they dumped a codebase on its ass after 3 months. That's not credibility building. That's saying "We have no clue how to plan or beta test our products properly."
Putting those two things together is, in no way, "the right [decision] for the Web itself." It's fanboy smoke blowing up CIO asses. If it's so right, why is it that Opera, Safari, and Chrome are not on the hot seat? Chrome undergoes changes at a super-rapid pace automatically, but I hear nobody really screaming about it. Two reasons, really. First, it just works, which can be said of FF, but it is not an aura they present especially when they have to drop support after only 3 months of a major release. Second, Google has never said, "F#$% you, CIOs!" Google has made it clear that they want to be the one stop shop for cloud for business.
The question is, what the hell does Mozilla want? I don't see a vision. They're worse than UI devs who argue over who's system is better, forgetting what their goals actually are.
At Mozilla, all I see is mismanagement. They can't control their code. They can't control their staff. And they are continually lagging behind all competition, which is especially sad given their rock star performance not too long ago, with social buzz propelling a large install base.
They don't do anything news worthy anymore, except piss people off. MS learned how to change that, and most CIOs are excited about IE8/9 as a real evolution. Chrome continues to innovate and add support. Opera is continually pushing the mobile envelope.
Not only were they assholes, but the question quickly flies back into Mozilla's face, "What have you done for me lately?" That mobile app? It's a joke. Slow, bulky, and not appealing. It is not even comparable to other mobile browsers like Opera or Dolphin.
Nobody really cares about Mozilla anymore. And those that do are finding it harder to justify using it. This isn't about what's "right for the web", this is about a tech that's outlived its prime, by a team that's outlived its usefulness.
FTA:
Members and staff can now use popular video teleconferencing services within the House network to communicate with constituents.
Skype says that their engineers have worked with the Congressional network security team to ensure the security of the communication channel.
I would assume they have a very strict IT policy, with every single network app needing pre-approval. At least, that's what I'd require, and lock incoming and outgoing ports down to the bare minimum with the heaviest security and packet filtering and require only encrypted channels. I think the concern here was verifying encryption... and they had to wait for Weiner to resign since I'm sure they have a "no weiners on Skype" policy.
Didn't MS just file for a patent that would allow them to eavesdrop on Skype? Hmmm, this is not a good combo!!!