Lobbyists don't need to fly to "do their jobs" - as long as they have cell phone service and can reach WH/congress critters personal email accounts, who needs to fly?
You assume either Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin fly commercial... I doubt that happens much, if at all.
Instead of going after folks who's opinions you don't like, why not go after the politicians who implemented this BS - there is a more direct connection between politicians and this stupidity than bloviators and this stupidity.
Neither Beck nor Palin can change policy, Senators & Congressmem can (they can defund actions they don't like) - would you rather have a giggle while watching The Daily Show when a TV commentator is delayed, or would you rather effect real change?
I propose that people nominate their elected officials for inclusion on the terrorist watch list. Once a few politicians have to deal with this list they will see their way clear to impose more reasonable standards for inclusion...
I can think of 535 members of congress I'd like to add to the list, but what might be even more meaningful would be if their chiefs of staff were put on the list (they might be under the TSA radar and actually get added to the list, whereas a Senator or Congressman's name might be identified and flagged before making the list).
I tend to not support such acts, but in this case I'll make an exception... The issue here is the near-impossibility of ever getting off the list once on it.
Your right, programmers should always work in confined, carefully-constructed environment where there is no possibility of a program getting too large or too confusing - that will certainly prepare them for their first programming job - maintaining legacy spaghetti code, likely written in a "dead" language running on "archaic" hardware...
It is truely amazing the perceived powers the Republican party posesses!
Not only are the democrats immune from an negative decision they made in their last four years running both the House and Senate, the current administration is incapable of taking responsibility for anything (lingering effects of the Bush Admin), and now the omnipotent Republicans are responsible for legislation BEFORE they take over the House...
The legal system is part of 'the government', and it is only the government that can declare something illegal and do something about it.
Banks choose to reject transactions all the time - money laundering, illegal payoffs, buying drugs, working with child molesters, etc.
As for this hard drive issue, I personally suspect that this will be another case of some BofA tech support person trying to make a name for him or herself by stealing company property (the HD) and then divulging it's contents in violation of corporate policies. If such a HD exists, and if they can determine who did it, that person should expect to be prosecuted vigorously, and they shouldn't expect Michael Moore & Bianca Jagger to rush to his/her defense...
The first step if one wishes to act 'holyier than thou' is to rid yourself of all the skeletons in your closet & then lead a life beyond reproach. Jillian Assenge is, sadly, more like the rest of us with issues in our past, leaving him vulnerable to not only undermining his message, but also distracting from what Wikileaks is trying to accomplish...
How can Netflix afford to ignore 1% of the market?!
If we assume each platform developed targeted for the Netflux client takes about the same effort to design, code, test, deploy, support and maintain and that adoption rates are consistent across platforms, then their first unit of work (Windows) gets them 95% of the possible market, their second unit of work opens up the next 4% of the market (Mac) at 24x the per-user cost of the windows platform, and to offer a Linux client and make their product available to 100% of the market, each potential subscriber would cost 95x as much as a Windows user, but only 4x as much per user than a Mac subscriber.
Based on those numbers it is a complete mystery why Netflix doesn't offer a Linux client. Unless you understand the realities of the software market...
68 percent of connections in the US advertised as 'broadband' can't really be considered as such because they fall below the agency's most recent minimum requirement: 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream.
Key phrase "most recent minimum requirement" - IMHO we've never really worried about upstream speed on US broadband offerings, and I suspect that is where many/most of the 68% of broadband customers fail to meet the "most recent minimum requirement"...
I would bet anything that President Obama and and most of the people behind the health care bill were certain that it would at some point be reviewed by SCOTUS.
I'd take that bet.
First, I don't assume anyone involved read/understood the law as it was signed - they expected the details to be ironed-out when the regulations are written...
Second, POTUS considers himself a Constitutional Expert (and if he doesn't, he's surrounded by enough people that claimed he was that it is a reasonable conclusion, IMHO), he brushed off constitutional questions/challenges during the debate last year.
I can't predict the outcome of the challenge, but all eyes are on the 20 state lawsuit now...
The constitutionality of this law hinges on what is referred to as the "Commerce Clause", which gives the federal government the ability/responsibility to regulate commerce between the states.
This law imposes a penalty/tax on individuals if they choose not to purchase health care insurance.
(Let's ignore for the moment that Health Care coverage can't be purchased across state lines)
What the judge today said, in essence, is that the Commerce Clause can't be applied to someone that chooses to not engage in commerce, much like a software EULA can't apply to someone that hasn't purchased the software the EULA is associated with.
It's a very elegant challenge to the law - if it will cause health care reform to be reset, I can't say, but it is a very compelling argument, IMHO.
You never mentioned a platform, so I'll assume you will use the same infrastructure as 95% of the world, Windows.
Windows offers many useful tools and functions (group policy, WDS, etc), and in it's small business server form gives you an extremely robust solution for a good price, up to about 50-75 (75 hard limit). It includes Exchange, Sharepoint, and internal media serving via Streaming Media Services should suffice. It also includes wizards for nearly all it functions.
The pain is the need to re-buy software if you grow above 75 users...
"While the computer broke a petaflop with both operating systems, it achieved a faster score with Linux, denying Microsoft its first official petaflop ranking."
If the machine broke a petaflop with both operating systems (Linux and Windows), how was it denied an official Petaflop ranking? It achieved it, why doesn't it count? Is each machine only allowed one ranking? Seems sort of odd, the ranking of the same machine with different OSs would be interesting, no?
The flip-side is the kid wouldn't have gone and hacked into a random citizen's email, and if he had, the findings wouldn't have been plastered all over the internet/mainstream media like this was two years ago.
Yes, it's all in who the victim is - a politician on the national level, likely being guearded by Secret Service agents at the time, and without knowing his motives, the breech of a vice presidential candidates private email, which could revel travel plans and compromise security, the Secret Service/Feds took it seriously.
This kid got what he deserved - with sentence reduction for good behavior, I suspect he won't serve much more than 6-9 months, but that federal conviction is gonna mess up his future employment chances, I do say...
This reminds me of the great exit poll kerfuffle when John Kerry was seen to be leading in exit polls to a greater extent than the actual poll results bore out.
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Lobbyists don't need to fly to "do their jobs" - as long as they have cell phone service and can reach WH/congress critters personal email accounts, who needs to fly?
Or Senator and Congressmen's Chiefs of Staff (or spouses, or even children), that will hit "home" very quickly.
As someone else noted, Sen. Kennedy and Rep. Lewis had a very hard time getting off the list...
You assume either Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin fly commercial... I doubt that happens much, if at all.
Instead of going after folks who's opinions you don't like, why not go after the politicians who implemented this BS - there is a more direct connection between politicians and this stupidity than bloviators and this stupidity.
Neither Beck nor Palin can change policy, Senators & Congressmem can (they can defund actions they don't like) - would you rather have a giggle while watching The Daily Show when a TV commentator is delayed, or would you rather effect real change?
I propose that people nominate their elected officials for inclusion on the terrorist watch list. Once a few politicians have to deal with this list they will see their way clear to impose more reasonable standards for inclusion...
I can think of 535 members of congress I'd like to add to the list, but what might be even more meaningful would be if their chiefs of staff were put on the list (they might be under the TSA radar and actually get added to the list, whereas a Senator or Congressman's name might be identified and flagged before making the list).
I tend to not support such acts, but in this case I'll make an exception... The issue here is the near-impossibility of ever getting off the list once on it.
Your right, programmers should always work in confined, carefully-constructed environment where there is no possibility of a program getting too large or too confusing - that will certainly prepare them for their first programming job - maintaining legacy spaghetti code, likely written in a "dead" language running on "archaic" hardware...
A new dictator - Linus was getting soft in his old-age, and RMS never really had the gravitas that Putin brings to the table...
Absolutely.
It is truely amazing the perceived powers the Republican party posesses!
Not only are the democrats immune from an negative decision they made in their last four years running both the House and Senate, the current administration is incapable of taking responsibility for anything (lingering effects of the Bush Admin), and now the omnipotent Republicans are responsible for legislation BEFORE they take over the House...
Simply amazing.
The legal system is part of 'the government', and it is only the government that can declare something illegal and do something about it.
Banks choose to reject transactions all the time - money laundering, illegal payoffs, buying drugs, working with child molesters, etc.
As for this hard drive issue, I personally suspect that this will be another case of some BofA tech support person trying to make a name for him or herself by stealing company property (the HD) and then divulging it's contents in violation of corporate policies. If such a HD exists, and if they can determine who did it, that person should expect to be prosecuted vigorously, and they shouldn't expect Michael Moore & Bianca Jagger to rush to his/her defense...
The first step if one wishes to act 'holyier than thou' is to rid yourself of all the skeletons in your closet & then lead a life beyond reproach. Jillian Assenge is, sadly, more like the rest of us with issues in our past, leaving him vulnerable to not only undermining his message, but also distracting from what Wikileaks is trying to accomplish...
How can Netflix afford to ignore 1% of the market?!
If we assume each platform developed targeted for the Netflux client takes about the same effort to design, code, test, deploy, support and maintain and that adoption rates are consistent across platforms, then their first unit of work (Windows) gets them 95% of the possible market, their second unit of work opens up the next 4% of the market (Mac) at 24x the per-user cost of the windows platform, and to offer a Linux client and make their product available to 100% of the market, each potential subscriber would cost 95x as much as a Windows user, but only 4x as much per user than a Mac subscriber.
Based on those numbers it is a complete mystery why Netflix doesn't offer a Linux client. Unless you understand the realities of the software market...
Seriously, this is like arguing that a road construction company doesn't have EXTRA/SPARE asphalt spreaders...
If an ISP is expected to have, say, 20% extra capacity, that ISP is wasting money on unneeded capacity, impacting their bottom-line.
I suspect this leaked doCument came from someone in that wants to sell Comcast more capacity...
Key phrase "most recent minimum requirement" - IMHO we've never really worried about upstream speed on US broadband offerings, and I suspect that is where many/most of the 68% of broadband customers fail to meet the "most recent minimum requirement"...
I'd take that bet.
First, I don't assume anyone involved read/understood the law as it was signed - they expected the details to be ironed-out when the regulations are written...
Second, POTUS considers himself a Constitutional Expert (and if he doesn't, he's surrounded by enough people that claimed he was that it is a reasonable conclusion, IMHO), he brushed off constitutional questions/challenges during the debate last year.
I can't predict the outcome of the challenge, but all eyes are on the 20 state lawsuit now...
The constitutionality of this law hinges on what is referred to as the "Commerce Clause", which gives the federal government the ability/responsibility to regulate commerce between the states.
This law imposes a penalty/tax on individuals if they choose not to purchase health care insurance.
(Let's ignore for the moment that Health Care coverage can't be purchased across state lines)
What the judge today said, in essence, is that the Commerce Clause can't be applied to someone that chooses to not engage in commerce, much like a software EULA can't apply to someone that hasn't purchased the software the EULA is associated with.
It's a very elegant challenge to the law - if it will cause health care reform to be reset, I can't say, but it is a very compelling argument, IMHO.
You never mentioned a platform, so I'll assume you will use the same infrastructure as 95% of the world, Windows.
Windows offers many useful tools and functions (group policy, WDS, etc), and in it's small business server form gives you an extremely robust solution for a good price, up to about 50-75 (75 hard limit). It includes Exchange, Sharepoint, and internal media serving via Streaming Media Services should suffice. It also includes wizards for nearly all it functions.
The pain is the need to re-buy software if you grow above 75 users...
...just wear a hat? Seems a bit less extreme, less expensive, and would ultimately prove much, much simpler...
From the article:
If the machine broke a petaflop with both operating systems (Linux and Windows), how was it denied an official Petaflop ranking? It achieved it, why doesn't it count? Is each machine only allowed one ranking? Seems sort of odd, the ranking of the same machine with different OSs would be interesting, no?
The flip-side is the kid wouldn't have gone and hacked into a random citizen's email, and if he had, the findings wouldn't have been plastered all over the internet/mainstream media like this was two years ago.
Yes, it's all in who the victim is - a politician on the national level, likely being guearded by Secret Service agents at the time, and without knowing his motives, the breech of a vice presidential candidates private email, which could revel travel plans and compromise security, the Secret Service/Feds took it seriously.
This kid got what he deserved - with sentence reduction for good behavior, I suspect he won't serve much more than 6-9 months, but that federal conviction is gonna mess up his future employment chances, I do say...
Hope his 15 minutes of fame were worth it!
Never mind - I failed to read TFA, my bad.
Who knew that @stevebmicrosoft is Mr. Ballmer?
...that Steve Ballmer has a twitter account, but no idea what it is?
Thanks, that almost tells me something useful...
Seriously, what was the point of this? That's like finding out that Bill Gates likes to build PCs and buys his parts from an on-line vendor.
You can't "starve the beast" if the beast can simply print more money (thus making your money worth less, in effect starving YOU)...
The DoJ wants better evidence-gathering tools?! THEY MUST BE STOPPED!
Seriously, why must every attempt to increase security be viewed as the the end of all democracy & privacy?
I'm not advocating for complaceny, but not every proposal is evil...
This reminds me of the great exit poll kerfuffle when John Kerry was seen to be leading in exit polls to a greater extent than the actual poll results bore out.
The "What if" angle makes sense - thanks.
How do they access AOL?