The only thing sarcastic I see about that statement is the final two words... the rest is spot-on.
If the wife and I want to go see a movie, get a single bag of popcorn, & a single drink, it's going to cost us over $50.00 CAD. The price of tickets here in Toronto is extremely out-of-alignment with the value of the entertainment. I can rent one new video-game or two new movies a week for more than a month on the same budget, or... hrm, spend it to watch a 90 minute flick in a small theater with sticky floors, people's cellphones going off, and a ton of commercials to-boot.
[sarcasm]It's a shock to anyone which entertainment venue I might prefer?[/sarcasm]
According to Google, whom we all know never lies --
USA Population (via cia.gov) - 295,734,134 Canada population (via stat-can) - 32,569,394 caveat - I don't have Flash6 so this number is actually the projection for July 1
What this means, as any/.er could tell you is that the population differential is actually 9.080123935, not 10. But of course these numbers are based on statistics, and are prone to error, so YMMV.
In the 2006 Canadian election of the Prime Minister, preliminary results indicated that 64.9% of registered voters cast their ballot.
Based upon 2000 census figures, 42.45% of the U.S. population voted in the 2004 election. Note that this is a percentage of the entire population, not of just eligible voters. Now of course, this opens an other can of worms, because while this number claims to be inclusive of the entire population there must be tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands, or more) of un-accounted-for illegal immigrants, but that's a minor issue -- I only raise it to reinforce the point that the 42.45% figure is not exactly accurate. All that as it is, it would seem to be the highest voter turn-out in decades, but you might just chalk that up to ballot-stuffing and not actual living people casting their personal single votes... Who's to say with the hodgepodge of various voting standards and closed-source electronic voting systems in use throughout the States.
Now, when it comes to how many poll workers there are in each system, I admit my ignorance. You seem to be claiming some expertise on the matter, so please, do enlighten us!
No matter how you cut it though, if you assume an equal per-capita number of poll workers to eligible voters, it would *seem* that perhaps the States does in fact have an edge over Canada, so why can't they produce accurate and uncontested voting results as rapidly as Canada? That, sir, is a question for someone else to answer, because frankly, I don't give a rat's-ass.
And for a final matter, you seem to be referring to me as a resident of the States, but I am, as far as I can tell, living in Canada, sir. Shall I conclude that "you people" jump to conclusions? (where-ever-the-hell-you-are-from?)
Not to post simply to be disagreeable, I think paper ballots (or at a minimum, a paper-trail from electronic voting devices) are certainly preferable over some of the other options that have been tried...
but you should keep in mind -- the entire population of Canada is less (nearly half, as a matter of fact) the population of only California...
I'm fairly certain that has some bearing on the ability to rapidly process the paper ballots:)
Actually, lots of people push back. Then they find their employment-at-will asses are out on the street looking for a new job -- but they may not find one any time soon, because there are lots *more* people willing to whore themselves to the corporation than to stand up for themselves and their co-workers.
Just one example of people standing up: I was working for a global ISP and got a lateral promotion from the NOC into SysAdmin. After a couple years in sysadmin I was pushing to get a market salary which I'd been denied upon the "promotion" due to lack of experience-on-paper. After much fighting I was denied a reasonable increase in my salary.
Well, I fought back, and in a way that got every one in my department a raise to bring the entire group up to market salary. Two weeks later I was also fired.
In my case it was a good thing, because I ten proceeded to double my salary by finding a job with a consulting firm, but not everyone gets so lucky.
Yes, but inevitably, person B thinks person A might be taking advantage, so person B skimps or otherwise doesn't live up to his end of the bargain. After this happens to person A enough times, he becomes jaded and stops scratching other peoples back, or (worse?) turns into a person B.
Sure, it won't help if the government wants your data -- they can force you to turn over your keys or send you to Guantanamo -- but I don't think Google will be preasuring you to hand over your keys. I haven't RTFA, and I don't use G.D. but can't you tell it to not scan certain partitions or folders? If not, why does *anybody* use it?!?
I've been using the VM2 since Christmas. I don't find the lack of shelf to be a problem, though if I'd known about the quill I may have opted for it instead, I suppose. Regardless, I rest my (admitedly largish) hand on my desk, I got rid of the mousepad all-together. All-in-all I'm quite happy with the mouse, and it has offered a modicum of relief from CTS. Here are some critical comments however:
1. It's obviously much taller than your regular mouse, so for the first couple weeks you'll find that you whack it sideways when you go to reach for it:)
2. Sometimes I hit more than just the button I'm trying to click because I'm working a little too hard to keep the mouse steady (I expect I'll get past this as I get more accustomed to it.)
Here at my home, we do use the oven fairly often, but rarely for dinner -- as with you it's usually a saucepan/frypan/ and/or pot when I'm making dinner. I only do roasts for special occasions, really. However Friday night here is pizza night, and I'll typically make my own from scratch (as opposed to Digiorno or $30- delivery) so, again, the $9.000- "oven" would be useless...
(Although, at that price-tag, shouldn't it relieve me of makeing the dough and pizza too?!?)
And how many "Joe Six-Pack" users have a Windows FS that's configured with proper security, per capita? And how many of same primarily use an account sans Administrator rights?
A couple of extended file-system permissions don't mean squat if they're not used or they're worked around.
Set-up a periodic listener on a known open port on a system (say, once a month, for 10 minutes) that upon receipt of the "I've been fired, and I want revenge" packet, starts a countdown timer on a neighboring system, then deletes itself.
Months later, when the original listener app. has been relegated to offsite backups, if it's on any backup at all, the activated program wakes up, and begins systematically opening backdoors, dropping in trojans, deleting white-collar files...
And finally, demands "One million dollars!" before un-installing itself as well.
Just one thing, if you actually go and do something like this, please leave my name out of it:)
Or when they want to hook up their brand-spanking new digital camera/mp3 player/PDA?
I'm running Ubuntu (Well, Edubuntu, for my son's edification) and I have no problems connecting and utilizing my digital cameras, mp3 players, and PDAs.... It's time to crawl out from under that rock there, dude.
You don't need a better code to prevent spyware, you need better users. Better system design/code will never beat out a user, unless the design is involves cutting the power to the computer.
Actually, much of the security of linux comes with the fact that a) filesystem permission structure is more robust than any Windows FS, and b) that you don't generally log in as root (administrator to you Windows folks) to do the day-to-day operating of the system... as a matter of fact, I've never logged in as root on this system... At most, I'll use sudo for things like installing or configuring firewalls, and then resume my regular privileges.
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I concur...
The thing I like about O'Reilly, is they (in my experience) always give you the technology from the perspective of best-practices as told by someone who uses the tech in the real world.... Many other publishers put out junk that covers the spectrum from best-practices, down to the "I taught myself this tech in my basement in 2 months, and now I'm writing a book about it" level....
fyi - foobarred doesn't really mean anything.... fubar is a military term for f-ed up beyond all recognition, so really, you could say, "After that, you are fubar."
Well, I was born in the States, and grew up there... the past 2 years I've been living in Toronto because my wife and son are Canadian.
So yes, I know well that of which you speak... I had a manic phase after losing a high-stress job, and can't tell you how much I spent other than saying it was my life-savings. It was an epiphany though... hearing that money can't buy you happiness just isn't as visceral as spending ~70,000 in two years on crap and winding up suicidal, manic, bi-polar and divorced...
If I had it to do all over again, I'd have done the divorce part *first* and skipped the suicidal, manic, bi-polar part alltogether.... then I could at least have put a nice down-payment on a house. C'est la vie.
I use Firefox with NoScript, FlashBlock, and pop-up blocking enabled, and I rarely see any ads on the web... those that do show up on my screen I have a knack for completely ignoring... I couldn't tell you the last time I actually noticed an ad, though they must be there from time to time (or any time I do a Google search and it shows sponsored ads, which I may see subliminally, but not conciously, so they don't really count.)
Am I missing out on targeted ads? Well, the last time an ad encouracged me to buy something (targeted ad or other) was.. uhm... never. The biggest industry (well, perhaps with the exception of military contracting) in the 1st world (advertising) does nothing to effect me except raise the prices on pretty much anything I have to spend money on... I'd rather have my taxes hiked by 50% and put all the people in the industry on welfare and live a life free of advertising...
Quote: Oh, and guess what? All that stuff you've been publishing on the internet under your real name? Every future, potential employer is going to see it as they all google recruits now. How many companies do you think actually want a known rabble-rouser in the midst?
Seriously? How cool is that!?!? Since my name is Curtis Brown, then I get credit for being an Astronaut, a football star, a hockey star, a talent agent, a baseball player, a politician...
Sheesh, why I could get into just about any line of work I could imagine!!!
It's utterly stupifying that with the wealth of best-practices knowledge that (as just one example in an overflowing sea of security issues) the majority of online banks use such lame authentication practices....
If the banks can't get this one simple issue ironed out satisfactorily, we really shouldn't be surpriesed at the general state of security being abysmal in the world of computing.
(Somehow this originally got attached to: Talking With Debian's Branden Robinson, wtf?)
TFA doesn't make any mention of control groups, or soda groups, or decaf groups....
Shall we assume that this study was paid for by the CIA (Coffee-Importers of America)?
Personally, I get headaches that can sometimes be described as migraines if I have caffiene one day, and not the next, so I guess it's a good thing I hardly ever drink the spirits....
TFA doesn't make any mention of control groups, or soda groups, or decaf groups....
Shall we assume that this study was paid for by the CIA (Coffee-Importers of America)?
Personally, I get headaches that can sometimes be described as migraines if I have caffiene one day, and not the next, so I guess it's a good thing I hardly ever drink the spirits....
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The only thing sarcastic I see about that statement is the final two words... the rest is spot-on.
If the wife and I want to go see a movie, get a single bag of popcorn, & a single drink, it's going to cost us over $50.00 CAD. The price of tickets here in Toronto is extremely out-of-alignment with the value of the entertainment. I can rent one new video-game or two new movies a week for more than a month on the same budget, or... hrm, spend it to watch a 90 minute flick in a small theater with sticky floors, people's cellphones going off, and a ton of commercials to-boot.
[sarcasm]It's a shock to anyone which entertainment venue I might prefer?[/sarcasm]
Reminds me of a stark future movie by Terry Gilliam....
:)
Oh! which one, you say? Brazil!
It's a twist on some of the 1984 concepts, as with a number of other films by Gilliam
According to Google, whom we all know never lies --
/.er could tell you is that the population differential is actually 9.080123935, not 10. But of course these numbers are based on statistics, and are prone to error, so YMMV.
USA Population (via cia.gov) - 295,734,134
Canada population (via stat-can) - 32,569,394
caveat - I don't have Flash6 so this number is actually the projection for July 1
What this means, as any
In the 2006 Canadian election of the Prime Minister, preliminary results indicated that 64.9% of registered voters cast their ballot.
Based upon 2000 census figures, 42.45% of the U.S. population voted in the 2004 election. Note that this is a percentage of the entire population, not of just eligible voters. Now of course, this opens an other can of worms, because while this number claims to be inclusive of the entire population there must be tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands, or more) of un-accounted-for illegal immigrants, but that's a minor issue -- I only raise it to reinforce the point that the 42.45% figure is not exactly accurate. All that as it is, it would seem to be the highest voter turn-out in decades, but you might just chalk that up to ballot-stuffing and not actual living people casting their personal single votes... Who's to say with the hodgepodge of various voting standards and closed-source electronic voting systems in use throughout the States.
Now, when it comes to how many poll workers there are in each system, I admit my ignorance. You seem to be claiming some expertise on the matter, so please, do enlighten us!
No matter how you cut it though, if you assume an equal per-capita number of poll workers to eligible voters, it would *seem* that perhaps the States does in fact have an edge over Canada, so why can't they produce accurate and uncontested voting results as rapidly as Canada? That, sir, is a question for someone else to answer, because frankly, I don't give a rat's-ass.
And for a final matter, you seem to be referring to me as a resident of the States, but I am, as far as I can tell, living in Canada, sir. Shall I conclude that "you people" jump to conclusions? (where-ever-the-hell-you-are-from?)
Not to post simply to be disagreeable, I think paper ballots (or at a minimum, a paper-trail from electronic voting devices) are certainly preferable over some of the other options that have been tried...
:)
but you should keep in mind -- the entire population of Canada is less (nearly half, as a matter of fact) the population of only California...
I'm fairly certain that has some bearing on the ability to rapidly process the paper ballots
Actually, lots of people push back. Then they find their employment-at-will asses are out on the street looking for a new job -- but they may not find one any time soon, because there are lots *more* people willing to whore themselves to the corporation than to stand up for themselves and their co-workers.
Just one example of people standing up: I was working for a global ISP and got a lateral promotion from the NOC into SysAdmin. After a couple years in sysadmin I was pushing to get a market salary which I'd been denied upon the "promotion" due to lack of experience-on-paper. After much fighting I was denied a reasonable increase in my salary.
Well, I fought back, and in a way that got every one in my department a raise to bring the entire group up to market salary. Two weeks later I was also fired.
In my case it was a good thing, because I ten proceeded to double my salary by finding a job with a consulting firm, but not everyone gets so lucky.
Yes, but inevitably, person B thinks person A might be taking advantage, so person B skimps or otherwise doesn't live up to his end of the bargain. After this happens to person A enough times, he becomes jaded and stops scratching other peoples back, or (worse?) turns into a person B.
Yeah, I just found out for the first time (well not really) that I'm:
o a football star
o a hockey star
o a talent agent
o an astronaut
o murdered
how the heck I can post this after having been murdered is a seriously interesting thing to ponder....
Sure, it won't help if the government wants your data -- they can force you to turn over your keys or send you to Guantanamo -- but I don't think Google will be preasuring you to hand over your keys. I haven't RTFA, and I don't use G.D. but can't you tell it to not scan certain partitions or folders? If not, why does *anybody* use it?!?
PGP, it's your friend!
I've been using the VM2 since Christmas. I don't find the lack of shelf to be a problem, though if I'd known about the quill I may have opted for it instead, I suppose. Regardless, I rest my (admitedly largish) hand on my desk, I got rid of the mousepad all-together. All-in-all I'm quite happy with the mouse, and it has offered a modicum of relief from CTS. Here are some critical comments however:
:)
1. It's obviously much taller than your regular mouse, so for the first couple weeks you'll find that you whack it sideways when you go to reach for it
2. Sometimes I hit more than just the button I'm trying to click because I'm working a little too hard to keep the mouse steady (I expect I'll get past this as I get more accustomed to it.)
3. I can't come up with a 3.
Here at my home, we do use the oven fairly often, but rarely for dinner -- as with you it's usually a saucepan/frypan/ and/or pot when I'm making dinner. I only do roasts for special occasions, really. However Friday night here is pizza night, and I'll typically make my own from scratch (as opposed to Digiorno or $30- delivery) so, again, the $9.000- "oven" would be useless...
(Although, at that price-tag, shouldn't it relieve me of makeing the dough and pizza too?!?)
And how many "Joe Six-Pack" users have a Windows FS that's configured with proper security, per capita? And how many of same primarily use an account sans Administrator rights?
A couple of extended file-system permissions don't mean squat if they're not used or they're worked around.
For the truly anti-social BOfH....
:)
Set-up a periodic listener on a known open port on a system (say, once a month, for 10 minutes) that upon receipt of the "I've been fired, and I want revenge" packet, starts a countdown timer on a neighboring system, then deletes itself.
Months later, when the original listener app. has been relegated to offsite backups, if it's on any backup at all, the activated program wakes up, and begins systematically opening backdoors, dropping in trojans, deleting white-collar files...
And finally, demands "One million dollars!" before un-installing itself as well.
Just one thing, if you actually go and do something like this, please leave my name out of it
Or when they want to hook up their brand-spanking new digital camera/mp3 player/PDA?
I'm running Ubuntu (Well, Edubuntu, for my son's edification) and I have no problems connecting and utilizing my digital cameras, mp3 players, and PDAs.... It's time to crawl out from under that rock there, dude.
You don't need a better code to prevent spyware, you need better users. Better system design/code will never beat out a user, unless the design is involves cutting the power to the computer.
Actually, much of the security of linux comes with the fact that a) filesystem permission structure is more robust than any Windows FS, and b) that you don't generally log in as root (administrator to you Windows folks) to do the day-to-day operating of the system... as a matter of fact, I've never logged in as root on this system... At most, I'll use sudo for things like installing or configuring firewalls, and then resume my regular privileges.
I concur...
The thing I like about O'Reilly, is they (in my experience) always give you the technology from the perspective of best-practices as told by someone who uses the tech in the real world.... Many other publishers put out junk that covers the spectrum from best-practices, down to the "I taught myself this tech in my basement in 2 months, and now I'm writing a book about it" level....
Of course, this is an other tool for WinBlows only.
fyi - foobarred doesn't really mean anything.... fubar is a military term for f-ed up beyond all recognition, so really, you could say, "After that, you are fubar."
If I had mod powers I'd up your post... You have made a great summary of the issue.
Well, I was born in the States, and grew up there... the past 2 years I've been living in Toronto because my wife and son are Canadian.
So yes, I know well that of which you speak... I had a manic phase after losing a high-stress job, and can't tell you how much I spent other than saying it was my life-savings. It was an epiphany though... hearing that money can't buy you happiness just isn't as visceral as spending ~70,000 in two years on crap and winding up suicidal, manic, bi-polar and divorced...
If I had it to do all over again, I'd have done the divorce part *first* and skipped the suicidal, manic, bi-polar part alltogether.... then I could at least have put a nice down-payment on a house. C'est la vie.
Ads?!? What Ads?!?
I use Firefox with NoScript, FlashBlock, and pop-up blocking enabled, and I rarely see any ads on the web... those that do show up on my screen I have a knack for completely ignoring... I couldn't tell you the last time I actually noticed an ad, though they must be there from time to time (or any time I do a Google search and it shows sponsored ads, which I may see subliminally, but not conciously, so they don't really count.)
Am I missing out on targeted ads? Well, the last time an ad encouracged me to buy something (targeted ad or other) was.. uhm... never. The biggest industry (well, perhaps with the exception of military contracting) in the 1st world (advertising) does nothing to effect me except raise the prices on pretty much anything I have to spend money on... I'd rather have my taxes hiked by 50% and put all the people in the industry on welfare and live a life free of advertising...
And yet my original article submission about MMORPG sweatshops in China get rejected.... go figure....
Quote:
Oh, and guess what? All that stuff you've been publishing on the internet under your real name? Every future, potential employer is going to see it as they all google recruits now. How many companies do you think actually want a known rabble-rouser in the midst?
Seriously? How cool is that!?!? Since my name is Curtis Brown, then I get credit for being an Astronaut, a football star, a hockey star, a talent agent, a baseball player, a politician...
Sheesh, why I could get into just about any line of work I could imagine!!!
It's utterly stupifying that with the wealth of best-practices knowledge that (as just one example in an overflowing sea of security issues) the majority of online banks use such lame authentication practices....
If the banks can't get this one simple issue ironed out satisfactorily, we really shouldn't be surpriesed at the general state of security being abysmal in the world of computing.
I for one welcome our... huh? Oh, nevermind!
(Somehow this originally got attached to: Talking With Debian's Branden Robinson, wtf?)
TFA doesn't make any mention of control groups, or soda groups, or decaf groups....
Shall we assume that this study was paid for by the CIA (Coffee-Importers of America)?
Personally, I get headaches that can sometimes be described as migraines if I have caffiene one day, and not the next, so I guess it's a good thing I hardly ever drink the spirits....
TFA doesn't make any mention of control groups, or soda groups, or decaf groups....
Shall we assume that this study was paid for by the CIA (Coffee-Importers of America)?
Personally, I get headaches that can sometimes be described as migraines if I have caffiene one day, and not the next, so I guess it's a good thing I hardly ever drink the spirits....