Should read: "Rumsfeld Requests Another 24-hour Propaganda Machine"
Because, really, when the administration can spin "We leaked the identity of an active CIA agent, which is tantamount to treason" into "It's the fault of the media for publishing the leak we gave them," along with, "Oh yeah, it's no problem that there are warrantless wiretaps going on; the real problem is that someone spilled the beans," and who can forget "Saddam has weapons of mass destruction" -- dammit, the whole government is already a 24-hour propaganda machine, and its target audience is the American citizen.
If they want to add another audience, they're going to need another machine.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat, and I am generally prepared to give the bemefit of the doubt. But I have to call shenanigans on this administration.
We all use slang, we all use abbreviations, jargon and impolite ways of speaking, especially with friends and family.
Speaking is not writing and vice versa. When you directly transcribe spoken language to written language, you get what we have today: a giant load of crap.
So the botnet guy is getting his money, and when someone has to call you to clean up, you get paid, too. Where's the real incentive for anyone with technical knowledge to make real advances in protection against these kinds of intrusions?
Admission: I am also the guy who gets paid to clean up adware, among other things. Adware cleaning is quite the profitable business, and there's little risk to it, since anything that goes wrong can be attributed to the malicious software, which the client is already embarrassed about having.
Wasn't the explosion in communication technology supposed to free us from our desks and allow us to roam across the blooming meadows, palmtops in hand?
Oh yeah, there's still a whole bunch of old dudes running companies, who have no idea how communications technology works. I guess we'll have to wait for them to die.
Seriously, though -- the only things standing in the way of people officing wherever they choose are the inflexibility of management and the inability of employees to make effective use of existing communications tools. Hm, maybe one begets the other. Perhaps the old dudes don't have to die so much as they need to insist that their companies embrace technology, even if they're too late to do so themselves. And back that up with consequences.
Someone should modify his Olympic medal so that it's got a flap on the front that "pops up" at random intervals and smacks him in the face, blocking his view.
If a government is asking for backdoor access to one operating system, why not ask for backdoor access to others? How would the open source community handle such a request when a government comes insisting on a backdoor to your favorite flavor of Linux, or OSX, or BSD, or something that hasn't yet been developed?
Has this request already been made, and if so, has it been complied with or not?
I had a very similar situation with a prospective employer in Chicago. Interviewed once, did well. Waited two weeks, got called back for #2. Interviewed again, did very well, was sure they were going to make an offer.
Then I waited a week and followed up. Nothing. Then I waited another week and followed up. Nothing. I ended up interviewing for and accepting another position.
After three months had gone by with the first job (which I was really interested in at the time), I get a call: "Our first choice for the position didn't work out, so we'd like to make you an offer."
Had the company I applied with kept me a little more informed - even to the point of telling me that they'd accepted another applicant - I may have jumped ship to work for them when they finally called me back. As it was, it was clear they couldn't get their crap together enough to hire someone, so what kind of hassle would it be to work there? I turned that job down.
Now that I remember it, I got a job installing DSL back in the day in a similar fashion. Interviewed, got turned down. Two weeks later, called back and hired. Best job I ever had.
If the marketing folks don't change everything every few years, they start to look idle.
Marketing: The ability to spout nonsense, have management steer the company based on the nonsense, and draw a healthy paycheck for all this.
So you're absolutely right. The marketing people were starting to look idle and unnecessary, so they stepped up the "We need to make a gigantic change for no reason" nonsense until management bit.
In related news, this marketing construct makes it out that if you only buy Itanium 2 servers and Centrino laptops, you only need one person in your IT staff, and that person is idle most of the time. Coincedence? I think not.
It's clear that the marketing people are gunning for the IT people, so I hereby call for a preemptive strike.
Let's say I have a car with a nice stereo in it. I leave the car unlocked all night, and in the morning discover that the stereo is missing, having been ripped out of the dash with what I can presume was a crowbar.
The crowbar company is not at fault. I am not at fault, even if I am stupid for having left the car unlocked. The thief is at fault, the end. My leaving my car unlocked does not give anyone the right to enter my car for any reason.
Just because computers are involved doesn't mean the rules change. If someone sent you a piece of postal mail touting P3N1S ENLARRGMNT, you would throw it away immediately, but for some reason, when it's sent via email, it carries more validity.
What ever happened to "first come; first served?" In this nation of justice, when a great number of people want or need something, we form a line. We wait in that line, albeit in a fidgety way, until it's our turn. No cuts. (Note that for some reason this rule goes right out the window in highway traffic, where some people just zoom around wherever they like.)
In this case, Netflix customers must queue up for new rentals, but it is Netflix who is in complete control of the order of the line. Netflix: no cuts, okay?
Why doesn't Netflix just say that there's a two or three day processing time from when they receive your returned video to when they ship the next one, and just do every one in the order it is received? Wouldn't that be more fair, more honest, and more likely to get me to sign up with Netflix again?
And what difference does it make if you break for solitaire once in a while, as long as you're getting done what you need to get done? I know that, overall, I am most productive when I bust ass for an hour or two, then take fifteen or twenty screwing off and doing whatever I want, then getting back to it for an hour or two. When I'm focused, I'm focused really hard, and I can't keep that up forever. And I can't figure out how to focus less hard, either.
This worked better when I was in more of an office setting. Now I'm doing field service, and even though I know I need a break, I can't let the client see me walk away from their BSODed server to go have a smoke and play Bejeweled -- even though I know that's just what I need to get a better perspective on the issue at hand. This has happened once already, recently, and I ended up chasing my tail for four hours, with a headache to boot. I should have just taken the fifteen minutes.
I listen to the radio in the car. The only internet access I have in the car is cell modem, which is A) expensive, B) slow, and C) unreliable. The radio in the dash, on the other hand, is free, delivers high quality audio, and is pretty reliable unless I'm out in the sticks. If I need to listen to the radio at work, I can get a $10 FM radio for my desk.
Furthermore, I hate it when people use internet radio at work, then complain about how slow the internet connection is. Tangentially, I also hate it how companies like RIM and GoToMyPC market to the end user, instructing users to do an end run around IT and install whatever they like.
One: How about a third group, where participants were paid money to generate the positive comments to be viewed by one of the other groups (payola)?
Two: I think this hypothesis applies to everything, not just music. There's a lot of crap on the radio, yes; there's a lot of non-musical crap out there, too.
One circle is truth, the other is opinion and fiction.
It would seem that this Venn diagram should instead include one circle as truth, one circle as fiction - not intersecting. A third circle would be opinion, part of it overlapping truth and part overlapping fiction, with no part of the opinion "circle" not overlapping one or the other. I could also imagine that part of the opinion "circle" would overlap both truth and fiction simultaneously, while truth and fiction continue to not overlap at all. That might require some additional spatial dimension to draw, though.
I'm almost 36, and I say "poop" several times a day. Well, actually, "poopy," and in reference to diapers. I am here to tell you that poop is not a giggling matter.
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My opinion is that use of the original (which I am plenty aware of) would not have been as funny in this context.
Name that classic SF story.
Flubber?
Should read: "Rumsfeld Requests Another 24-hour Propaganda Machine"
Because, really, when the administration can spin "We leaked the identity of an active CIA agent, which is tantamount to treason" into "It's the fault of the media for publishing the leak we gave them," along with, "Oh yeah, it's no problem that there are warrantless wiretaps going on; the real problem is that someone spilled the beans," and who can forget "Saddam has weapons of mass destruction" -- dammit, the whole government is already a 24-hour propaganda machine, and its target audience is the American citizen.
If they want to add another audience, they're going to need another machine.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat, and I am generally prepared to give the bemefit of the doubt. But I have to call shenanigans on this administration.
We all use slang, we all use abbreviations, jargon and impolite ways of speaking, especially with friends and family.
Speaking is not writing and vice versa. When you directly transcribe spoken language to written language, you get what we have today: a giant load of crap.
It'd better have some excellent mods available.
So the botnet guy is getting his money, and when someone has to call you to clean up, you get paid, too. Where's the real incentive for anyone with technical knowledge to make real advances in protection against these kinds of intrusions?
Admission: I am also the guy who gets paid to clean up adware, among other things. Adware cleaning is quite the profitable business, and there's little risk to it, since anything that goes wrong can be attributed to the malicious software, which the client is already embarrassed about having.
Wasn't the explosion in communication technology supposed to free us from our desks and allow us to roam across the blooming meadows, palmtops in hand?
Oh yeah, there's still a whole bunch of old dudes running companies, who have no idea how communications technology works. I guess we'll have to wait for them to die.
Seriously, though -- the only things standing in the way of people officing wherever they choose are the inflexibility of management and the inability of employees to make effective use of existing communications tools. Hm, maybe one begets the other. Perhaps the old dudes don't have to die so much as they need to insist that their companies embrace technology, even if they're too late to do so themselves. And back that up with consequences.
Someone should modify his Olympic medal so that it's got a flap on the front that "pops up" at random intervals and smacks him in the face, blocking his view.
I don't have to use his asinine keyboard layout.
As I recall, brain surgery only requires local anaesthesia, since there are no nerves in the brain that create pain signals.
If a government is asking for backdoor access to one operating system, why not ask for backdoor access to others? How would the open source community handle such a request when a government comes insisting on a backdoor to your favorite flavor of Linux, or OSX, or BSD, or something that hasn't yet been developed?
Has this request already been made, and if so, has it been complied with or not?
Internet censors you!
I had a very similar situation with a prospective employer in Chicago. Interviewed once, did well. Waited two weeks, got called back for #2. Interviewed again, did very well, was sure they were going to make an offer.
Then I waited a week and followed up. Nothing. Then I waited another week and followed up. Nothing. I ended up interviewing for and accepting another position.
After three months had gone by with the first job (which I was really interested in at the time), I get a call: "Our first choice for the position didn't work out, so we'd like to make you an offer."
Had the company I applied with kept me a little more informed - even to the point of telling me that they'd accepted another applicant - I may have jumped ship to work for them when they finally called me back. As it was, it was clear they couldn't get their crap together enough to hire someone, so what kind of hassle would it be to work there? I turned that job down.
Now that I remember it, I got a job installing DSL back in the day in a similar fashion. Interviewed, got turned down. Two weeks later, called back and hired. Best job I ever had.
If the marketing folks don't change everything every few years, they start to look idle.
Marketing: The ability to spout nonsense, have management steer the company based on the nonsense, and draw a healthy paycheck for all this.
So you're absolutely right. The marketing people were starting to look idle and unnecessary, so they stepped up the "We need to make a gigantic change for no reason" nonsense until management bit.
In related news, this marketing construct makes it out that if you only buy Itanium 2 servers and Centrino laptops, you only need one person in your IT staff, and that person is idle most of the time. Coincedence? I think not.
It's clear that the marketing people are gunning for the IT people, so I hereby call for a preemptive strike.
... that they're looking beyond the microchip in order to focus on marketing.
That would be in relation to the recovery of damages, as opposed to the criminal offense of theft.
Let's say I have a car with a nice stereo in it. I leave the car unlocked all night, and in the morning discover that the stereo is missing, having been ripped out of the dash with what I can presume was a crowbar.
The crowbar company is not at fault. I am not at fault, even if I am stupid for having left the car unlocked. The thief is at fault, the end. My leaving my car unlocked does not give anyone the right to enter my car for any reason.
Just because computers are involved doesn't mean the rules change. If someone sent you a piece of postal mail touting P3N1S ENLARRGMNT, you would throw it away immediately, but for some reason, when it's sent via email, it carries more validity.
What ever happened to "first come; first served?" In this nation of justice, when a great number of people want or need something, we form a line. We wait in that line, albeit in a fidgety way, until it's our turn. No cuts. (Note that for some reason this rule goes right out the window in highway traffic, where some people just zoom around wherever they like.)
In this case, Netflix customers must queue up for new rentals, but it is Netflix who is in complete control of the order of the line. Netflix: no cuts, okay?
Why doesn't Netflix just say that there's a two or three day processing time from when they receive your returned video to when they ship the next one, and just do every one in the order it is received? Wouldn't that be more fair, more honest, and more likely to get me to sign up with Netflix again?
And what difference does it make if you break for solitaire once in a while, as long as you're getting done what you need to get done? I know that, overall, I am most productive when I bust ass for an hour or two, then take fifteen or twenty screwing off and doing whatever I want, then getting back to it for an hour or two. When I'm focused, I'm focused really hard, and I can't keep that up forever. And I can't figure out how to focus less hard, either.
This worked better when I was in more of an office setting. Now I'm doing field service, and even though I know I need a break, I can't let the client see me walk away from their BSODed server to go have a smoke and play Bejeweled -- even though I know that's just what I need to get a better perspective on the issue at hand. This has happened once already, recently, and I ended up chasing my tail for four hours, with a headache to boot. I should have just taken the fifteen minutes.
I listen to the radio in the car. The only internet access I have in the car is cell modem, which is A) expensive, B) slow, and C) unreliable. The radio in the dash, on the other hand, is free, delivers high quality audio, and is pretty reliable unless I'm out in the sticks. If I need to listen to the radio at work, I can get a $10 FM radio for my desk.
Furthermore, I hate it when people use internet radio at work, then complain about how slow the internet connection is. Tangentially, I also hate it how companies like RIM and GoToMyPC market to the end user, instructing users to do an end run around IT and install whatever they like.
One: How about a third group, where participants were paid money to generate the positive comments to be viewed by one of the other groups (payola)?
Two: I think this hypothesis applies to everything, not just music. There's a lot of crap on the radio, yes; there's a lot of non-musical crap out there, too.
Look at the equation --
dt/dt always equals one, as does x/x and 3/3 and 998/998.
Shouldn't the carriers be shouting "No free ride for surveillance!" and charging the gov't a premium for this service?
One circle is truth, the other is opinion and fiction.
It would seem that this Venn diagram should instead include one circle as truth, one circle as fiction - not intersecting. A third circle would be opinion, part of it overlapping truth and part overlapping fiction, with no part of the opinion "circle" not overlapping one or the other. I could also imagine that part of the opinion "circle" would overlap both truth and fiction simultaneously, while truth and fiction continue to not overlap at all. That might require some additional spatial dimension to draw, though.
I'm almost 36, and I say "poop" several times a day. Well, actually, "poopy," and in reference to diapers. I am here to tell you that poop is not a giggling matter.