At that rate, the theoretical public good would be better served by putting [Britney's songs] into the public domain and letting people remix them freely.
Actually, I think the public is served very well by restricting the use of Britney's songs...
OT: In Denmark, there are more than 50% female med students (as told to me by a female med students; ISTR her citing numbers from somewhere). So much more, in fact, that we take affirmative action to get more men in.
Depending on how recently this happened and the average age of doctors and such, one shouldn't be surprised if there are more working male doctors right now, though...
I swear if people across this country put half the thought into their business that they do into how to cheat their way into more money
But it's easy to do Hollywood accounting, and if you can buy the politicians who should have dispatched the bloodhounds (whether they come from IRS, SEC or $TLA), you can easily make a lot of money as a C*O.
And of course, you don't get to be CEO by thinking about what's good for humanity or your nation or the economy; you get there by being ruthless. So it's not like you're going to use your position to improve society; shareholder value comes first...
So... to be in compliance, you can only run Windows desktops, is that correct? Wow! Way to feed the MS machine.
See also:
Is NIST endorsing or mandating the use of the Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems or requiring each setting be applied as stated?
No. NIST does not endorse the use of any particular product or system. NIST is not mandating the use of the Windows XP or Vista operating systems, nor is NIST establishing conditions or prerequisites for Federal agency procurement or deployment of any system. NIST is not precluding any Federal agency from procuring or deploying other computer hardware or software for which NIST has not developed a publication, security configuration checklist, or virtual testing environment. Although the FDCC currently applies to Windows XP and Vista, security guidance is available for other platforms. The OMB and GSA updated the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) on February 28, 2008, Part 39 now reads as follows:
It seems as if they're quite open to non-MS products. Now, I have read the "now reads as follows" bit, so I might be mistaken. But on the face of it...
* Great IDE, large ecosystem of code, developers and tools.
- javascript has emacs and vi, a huge ecosystem of code (view->source), many developers...
* Easy streaming of HD video to the browser.
If only playback at a reasonable frame rate was possible. I run a greasemonkey script to replace flash with mplayer on youtube, because with flash performance goes down the drain [or tubes;)]
* Small file size for the plugin, support for Window, OS X and Linux.
- vs javascript plus open source, open standard which has $SPECULATION file size, and support for every OS, not only the top three.
* Large install base with very fast uptake on new versions.
I actively avoid using flash whenever feasible.
* Great communication server, video chat is an example level project.
Uhm, okay... wait, flash can look at my webcam without asking me? Cool! Awesome! I Want That!
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At that rate, the theoretical public good would be better served by putting [Britney's songs] into the public domain and letting people remix them freely.
Actually, I think the public is served very well by restricting the use of Britney's songs...
Or women doctors, perhaps?
OT: In Denmark, there are more than 50% female med students (as told to me by a female med students; ISTR her citing numbers from somewhere). So much more, in fact, that we take affirmative action to get more men in.
Depending on how recently this happened and the average age of doctors and such, one shouldn't be surprised if there are more working male doctors right now, though...
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the job performance of police officers is evaluated entirely in terms of how many arrests they make
Hey, that sounds almost as sensible as evaluating programmers by counting lines of code.
In fact, there are many, so-called, one-way (correct terminology?) algorithms.
Background: I'm doing my phd in crypto. I use terms like one-way function (and one-way {,trapdoor} permutation.
CDs aren't encrypted
Sure they are! Ever heard of ROT-26?
Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows, so I put a Windows X in your X Windows so you can Window while you X.
There is competition on every level on Linux, from the kernel down.
On the kernel level, you can have Linux, Solaris, BSD, Darwin, even HURD.
I don't think it's quite fair to call the systems Linux unless they actually, you know, consist of Linux (plus more)...
How is it different to an all you can eat restaurant who states that
It's stated, that's how.
There's no clear feedback to let a user know *why* he's not being allowed into the system, it's just that the machine doesn't like the look of him.
So it's like dating? ;)
I sidestep this issue by not being the judge in this case.
Fine, but who's gotta do it? That solution might work for you, but what if everyone did that?
It was my start in writing HTML code and now I'm a full-time web developer.
It was my start in writing HTML too, and now I'm a scarred-for-life systems developer!
Has anyone explained why opting out is a bad idea yet?
You're advocating an
(X) opt-out ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
solution to spam. Here's why I think it will not work:
(X) Spammers are dishonest
( ) et cetera...
I swear if people across this country put half the thought into their business that they do into how to cheat their way into more money
But it's easy to do Hollywood accounting, and if you can buy the politicians who should have dispatched the bloodhounds (whether they come from IRS, SEC or $TLA), you can easily make a lot of money as a C*O.
And of course, you don't get to be CEO by thinking about what's good for humanity or your nation or the economy; you get there by being ruthless. So it's not like you're going to use your position to improve society; shareholder value comes first...
*sigh*
As long as they don't bother setting up a VB GUI to frigging traceroute...
So ... to be in compliance, you can only run Windows desktops, is that correct? Wow! Way to feed the MS machine.
See also:
Is NIST endorsing or mandating the use of the Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems or requiring each setting be applied as stated?
No. NIST does not endorse the use of any particular product or system. NIST is not mandating the use of the Windows XP or Vista operating systems, nor is NIST establishing conditions or prerequisites for Federal agency procurement or deployment of any system. NIST is not precluding any Federal agency from procuring or deploying other computer hardware or software for which NIST has not developed a publication, security configuration checklist, or virtual testing environment. Although the FDCC currently applies to Windows XP and Vista, security guidance is available for other platforms. The OMB and GSA updated the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) on February 28, 2008, Part 39 now reads as follows:
It seems as if they're quite open to non-MS products. Now, I have read the "now reads as follows" bit, so I might be mistaken. But on the face of it...
So did the prosecution! :p
allegedly, of course.
They allegedly come out at night. Allegedly.
How is a judge even allowed to belong to such an organization? [...] Judges aren't supposed to have their own agendas.
We all have things we want. We all have opinions on matters, or are able to form them quite easily. How do you find a completely neutral judge?
Of course, being a member of an organization whose stated goal implies "we think this side should win" is beyond just having an opinion...
But consider this: if you were the judge, would you be unbiased?
I would be charged something like 45 to 90 e
Let's see, 45 * 2.718281828459045 = 122.3226822..., but what currency?
Rock Band, Guitar Hero, etc are all modeled off of stereotypical rocker behavior - sex, drugs, and rock & roll - in both game design and music choice.
Aha. So why does GH3 have "Sunshine of your Love" rather than "Cocaine"? Why is "ucking" missing from several places in "Belly of a Shark"?
I'm adult. I can handle drugs and swearing. Stop protecting me from things I can handle.
Oh noes! Now that Falco song is playing in my head!
You better call Vienna, or you'll have Vienna Calling!
* Great IDE, large ecosystem of code, developers and tools.
- javascript has emacs and vi, a huge ecosystem of code (view->source), many developers...
* Easy streaming of HD video to the browser.
If only playback at a reasonable frame rate was possible. I run a greasemonkey script to replace flash with mplayer on youtube, because with flash performance goes down the drain [or tubes ;)]
* Small file size for the plugin, support for Window, OS X and Linux.
- vs javascript plus open source, open standard which has $SPECULATION file size, and support for every OS, not only the top three.
* Large install base with very fast uptake on new versions.
I actively avoid using flash whenever feasible.
* Great communication server, video chat is an example level project.
Uhm, okay... wait, flash can look at my webcam without asking me? Cool! Awesome! I Want That!
Actually hackers have much more experience with Win 32 systems than Linux.
So, you're saying that to deploy this attack on a Linux system, there'd be a large retraining cost?
Point is -- "good enough" is real and valid, but still a moving target.
Writing everything in Python (or god forbid, a language whose interpreter is written in Python) is not helping us lower our minimum requirements.
To fanboys: I'm a python-lover like yourself. Love writing it. It's just that everyone else should write in C so their code is fast to run :D
So by that definition, George W. "They hate us for our freedoms" Bush is the worst terrorist of them all?
That's irony so delicious you can slice it and put it in a cake ;-)