The Director of the Incredibles was on the Radio last night and mentioned that the reason why animated films are often so good is because you can't muck about with the script after you've started because every frame is so expensive.
I believe the UK ones are even simpler than that. Every so often, the police phone you at home and you have to hold a doo-hickey chained to your ankle up to the phone.
No it's not. History teaches us that when you give a law enforcement agency powers, they use those powers. The FBI have used the PATRIOT act against people who are clearly not terrorists.
This is the founding priciple of the US: to give the state as little power as possible. Do you want to end up like us poor sods in the UK, where the constitution gets changed on the whim of Tony Blair?
Me, I think it is fine to attach tracking devices to convicted felons, although I'd rather prefer putting them in prison. But be under no illusions that this will just be used on wife-beaters. They'll put these things on file-sharers, Linux users and other communists given half a chance.
I bought a new jar of mustard this week, I was looking forward to roast beef sandwiches, now I've got to go check it for heavy metals and radioactivity....
Once GPS tracking of individual cars was possible, it became inevitable that some government somewhere would want to introduce it.
Taxing reasons, congestion charging, speeding violations, all reasons to want to implement it.
What Orwell didn't realise about 1984 (because he wasn't a sci-fi author but just brilliant author who used metaphor a lot) was that it won't be done by people watching everywhere, but by computers, and computers don't make mistakes except the ones their progammers made.
MS had no intention of releasinf IE7 for XP. So why have they done it? Because of Firefox. If (and its a slim chance) IE7 is magnificent, they just might get people like me to switch back. but don;t hold your breath...
As I read somewhere recently (wish I remebered the source to cite, doubtless some slashdot reader will do it for me), how did Linux replace Unix? By replacing bit by bit with FOSS software until people said "Hey! Everything I depend on is FOSS, why not use a FOSS kernel too?"
Sweet Baby Jesus and the Orphans, if you don't want to use anything except a Mac, then go on a PowerPC assembler course!
Dear Auntie Slashdot,
I'm going on a course to learn how to stab people. But I don't like knives, nasty sharp things, I much prefer my sock full of spagetti. Can you suggest a way I can stab people with a sock full of pasta?
Also, I don't want to ride a bicycle, any way I can learn how to ride one while on a train?
There are T-shirts, bronze Daemons and even boxers with him on them.
Heck, there's even a competion to replace him... oh.
Actually, if you know someone who's into this sort of art and crafts, you can probably commission them (with 50 free support incidents, perhaps) to make something nice for you. Tux or an apple logo, for example.
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"Osama, we need some radioactive material to spread around." "Well, where are we going to get that?" Pause while everyone thinks. "Hey, what about dismantling the atomic bombs Saddam hid in the cave next door?" "Ah, but we'd need a bag to keep it in." "There are sick bags in those airliners we hijacked" "Oh, and we'd need some subway tokens" "There are bound to be some down the back of the break-room sofa in that DeathStar you built." "I love it when a plan comes together!"
A bit off topic (this is their Linux expert being interviewed), but something I'd be very interested in hearing about.
In my company, we recently modified our version of this statement from "we don't eat our own dogfood, but we do feed our dogs with it" to include the addition "although, if you are poor enough, dogfood can be the basis for a nourishing stew!"
... of a maxim my team has tried to explain to our senior management many times, without sucess:
"Yes, we will always pull a miracle out of the hat for you when everything goes wrong. But, you should not write your plans with this as an assumption."
You fool! I was hoping that there was some Terrorist out there stupid enough to encrypt his communications using an idea published on slashdot by a half-drunk biglig!
Now TSA will have to keep rectally examining old ladies to catch them, and it's all your fault!
This would make a good poll question if it was a lot stupider...
Anyhow, I switched back to IE for something today, basically I was downloading and installing new firmware for my mobile phone, it wanted pop-up windows, and while I could have probably gotten it with Firefox, I like to do things by the book when the alternative might be an expensive paperweight!
But besides this, in the last quarter, for example, I think I've used IE only once, when a terminal server was down and I had to fall back to an ActiveX version of the software I was using. (Gosh, could that be why MS keep activeX around?)
It seems to me these are very specialist circumstances. Hell, I use a TN5250 emulator more than I do IE, and I'm a Windows-only SA with no Linux in my organization (Calm down dear, I'm working on it, I'll have a production FreeBSD box in every office in 2 months). So for me it is a one browser world.
I don't expect my doctor to know everything about the human body, but I'd expect him to have a certain degree of basic competence. If he asks me to remind him which is the leg and which is the arm, I'm out of there.
Connecting a wifi network in a public place to the machine you do your credit card authentication to is incredibly stupid, even without leaving default passwords in place.
BTW, do we know that it is the IT department that put this in, and not someone plugging an unoffical wifi point under their desk? I've seen people do that before.
But what you don't do is write everyone's name down on one piece of paper. Because then you have a single piece of paper that someone can steal/photocopy/see when they weren't supposed to.
Also, while I'm not an expert on espionage, I suspect that most agencies try to avoid writing the names of all their spies on one piece of paper. That would seem to me to be a basic.
Yeah, buy a mouse if it bugs you that much. I've always persuaded my employer to buy me nice mice, on the grounds that clicking things is most of what I do all day, but if they didn't I'd buy my own, and challenge them to find it in my next expense claim....
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The Director of the Incredibles was on the Radio last night and mentioned that the reason why animated films are often so good is because you can't muck about with the script after you've started because every frame is so expensive.
I believe the UK ones are even simpler than that. Every so often, the police phone you at home and you have to hold a doo-hickey chained to your ankle up to the phone.
No it's not. History teaches us that when you give a law enforcement agency powers, they use those powers. The FBI have used the PATRIOT act against people who are clearly not terrorists.
This is the founding priciple of the US: to give the state as little power as possible. Do you want to end up like us poor sods in the UK, where the constitution gets changed on the whim of Tony Blair?
Me, I think it is fine to attach tracking devices to convicted felons, although I'd rather prefer putting them in prison. But be under no illusions that this will just be used on wife-beaters. They'll put these things on file-sharers, Linux users and other communists given half a chance.
I bought a new jar of mustard this week, I was looking forward to roast beef sandwiches, now I've got to go check it for heavy metals and radioactivity....
Once GPS tracking of individual cars was possible, it became inevitable that some government somewhere would want to introduce it.
Taxing reasons, congestion charging, speeding violations, all reasons to want to implement it.
What Orwell didn't realise about 1984 (because he wasn't a sci-fi author but just brilliant author who used metaphor a lot) was that it won't be done by people watching everywhere, but by computers, and computers don't make mistakes except the ones their progammers made.
MS had no intention of releasinf IE7 for XP. So why have they done it? Because of Firefox. If (and its a slim chance) IE7 is magnificent, they just might get people like me to switch back. but don;t hold your breath...
As I read somewhere recently (wish I remebered the source to cite, doubtless some slashdot reader will do it for me), how did Linux replace Unix? By replacing bit by bit with FOSS software until people said "Hey! Everything I depend on is FOSS, why not use a FOSS kernel too?"
Pah, this story only seconds old yet ya beat me to this reference!
They've stopped patching NT now, BTW.
Sweet Baby Jesus and the Orphans, if you don't want to use anything except a Mac, then go on a PowerPC assembler course!
Dear Auntie Slashdot,
I'm going on a course to learn how to stab people. But I don't like knives, nasty sharp things, I much prefer my sock full of spagetti. Can you suggest a way I can stab people with a sock full of pasta?
Also, I don't want to ride a bicycle, any way I can learn how to ride one while on a train?
etc. etc.
Heck, there's even a competion to replace him... oh.
Actually, if you know someone who's into this sort of art and crafts, you can probably commission them (with 50 free support incidents, perhaps) to make something nice for you. Tux or an apple logo, for example.
"Broken" sounds like a good name for that...
You're new here, aren't you?
I can see it now...
"Osama, we need some radioactive material to spread around."
"Well, where are we going to get that?"
Pause while everyone thinks.
"Hey, what about dismantling the atomic bombs Saddam hid in the cave next door?"
"Ah, but we'd need a bag to keep it in."
"There are sick bags in those airliners we hijacked"
"Oh, and we'd need some subway tokens"
"There are bound to be some down the back of the break-room sofa in that DeathStar you built."
"I love it when a plan comes together!"
A bit off topic (this is their Linux expert being interviewed), but something I'd be very interested in hearing about.
In my company, we recently modified our version of this statement from "we don't eat our own dogfood, but we do feed our dogs with it" to include the addition "although, if you are poor enough, dogfood can be the basis for a nourishing stew!"
... of a maxim my team has tried to explain to our senior management many times, without sucess:
"Yes, we will always pull a miracle out of the hat for you when everything goes wrong. But, you should not write your plans with this as an assumption."
You fool! I was hoping that there was some Terrorist out there stupid enough to encrypt his communications using an idea published on slashdot by a half-drunk biglig!
Now TSA will have to keep rectally examining old ladies to catch them, and it's all your fault!
I mean, "Doukutsu Monogatari" is just two words. Buy a dictionary, people!
I mean, paying for a new series of Enterprise? How about a movie time-line series with the Excelsior under Captain Sulu? I'd pay for that!
Yeah, man, we don't want to hear about insane and pointless misuse of hardware unless Linux is involved!
Heh, OK, let's get round that by thinking of a use for this... in fact I know a good one.
RAID 5 your very sensitive data onto say 5 shuffles. Then unplug them and all five people take one each.
You then can't access the data on those sticks unless you are quorate - 4 or more people needed to mount the volume.
Hmmm, I was trying to think of an example of what to put on this and all I could think of was terrorist plans. Does this make it a bad idea?
This would make a good poll question if it was a lot stupider...
Anyhow, I switched back to IE for something today, basically I was downloading and installing new firmware for my mobile phone, it wanted pop-up windows, and while I could have probably gotten it with Firefox, I like to do things by the book when the alternative might be an expensive paperweight!
But besides this, in the last quarter, for example, I think I've used IE only once, when a terminal server was down and I had to fall back to an ActiveX version of the software I was using.
(Gosh, could that be why MS keep activeX around?)
It seems to me these are very specialist circumstances. Hell, I use a TN5250 emulator more than I do IE, and I'm a Windows-only SA with no Linux in my organization (Calm down dear, I'm working on it, I'll have a production FreeBSD box in every office in 2 months). So for me it is a one browser world.
Sorry, but this is incredible piffle.
I don't expect my doctor to know everything about the human body, but I'd expect him to have a certain degree of basic competence. If he asks me to remind him which is the leg and which is the arm, I'm out of there.
Connecting a wifi network in a public place to the machine you do your credit card authentication to is incredibly stupid, even without leaving default passwords in place.
BTW, do we know that it is the IT department that put this in, and not someone plugging an unoffical wifi point under their desk? I've seen people do that before.
Yes, of course, you have to have accounting etc.
But what you don't do is write everyone's name down on one piece of paper. Because then you have a single piece of paper that someone can steal/photocopy/see when they weren't supposed to.
Also, while I'm not an expert on espionage, I suspect that most agencies try to avoid writing the names of all their spies on one piece of paper. That would seem to me to be a basic.
Packaging kernels? Why do you insensitive clods have to mention Linux every time? Some of us have PHBs who make us use windows, you know!
Yeah, buy a mouse if it bugs you that much. I've always persuaded my employer to buy me nice mice, on the grounds that clicking things is most of what I do all day, but if they didn't I'd buy my own, and challenge them to find it in my next expense claim....