Knowledge is not a short term investment with direct payback. It is a long term investment that will most likely pay off in a completely unforseen way. We need to invest in Space and Space exploration to continue the diversity of knowledge that we have inherited and are currently reaping.
Many searches are run by HR depts with a very specific set of requirements. I was recently looking for sysadmin style positions. Many positions wanted specifically: veritas exp Specifically Solaris or HP/UX or AIX or... one group wanted me to have worked as an ISP running a network center since that was their business. I had exp on all their platforms and even had the telephony background. Not interested
I was starting from scratch in a new part of the country as I moved back to the US from Germany. If I was willing to work in NY or Silicon Valley then my contacts/former associates had jobs waiting for me.
I think that much of the problem is how to filter correctly. IT is too broad, and we need to come up with common definations for jobs. If we could do that it would be easier to find people and get jobs you want.
When I was in NY, I was hiring tech support staff for a programming product. My budget didn't allow me to hire very experienced people and I ended up hiring new grads. Since our product was networked, I was losing people 8-14 months after hire to sysadmin jobs.
It is a big mess and companies are all over the map. We need to standardized job descriptions a bit.
You can fastforward through commercials, or if the phone rings, you can back up to where you left off.
And just how happy do you think advertisers will be about this idea? True, you can turn off your normal TV during commercials, or tape it and fastforward through it -- but this box makes it so much easier!
Don't worry about this the cable companies return salvo to satellite is coming and it is the similiar to the Tivo stuff.
Your cable company will supply you with a digital set top box. You will be able to use this to order Video On Demand (and pay) directly from their servers. While it is playing you will be able to ff, rewind, all the various trick play.
In the near future you will be able to do this for your regular channels as well if you have the digital service.BUT, trick play will be disabled during commercials. Also depending upon the cable companies architecture you not have a normal coax cable connection. It might be Ethernet or some other option. In Toyko it might be ATM (OC-3c) to the home.
This will start to put a squeeze on TIVO and Satellite as cable customers won't have to buy a $699/$999 box for features. Sure TIVO is better but people will still have Video on Demand and trick play. All for a normal subscription rate.
So don't count out the advertisers. But TIVO is very cool and I will most likely get one myself. Full digital cable is years away though cable companies are implementing the infrastructure today and installing testbeds as we speak. I am doing an install in Montreal next week. /Duncan
This is truely sad. After reading the article it seems that TrustE has completely sold out. It seems to be created solely for the convience of the corporations that are it's clients.
Does anyone know of any other organizations such as TrustE? I checked at EPIC.ORG and didn't notice any comments or links to TrustE. I find that signifigant. TrustE seems to just be snake-oil.
I would recommend looking at EPIC and organizations that it links to for privacy guidlines: EPIC, EFF, www.cspr.org, etc...
The data is not skewed data. It is peacefires standard benchmark. It is specifically chosen since there is a high chance for error in the.edu domain. It also allows peacefire to miss 99.9% of commercial sex sites, since you need to be an accredited educational institution before you can register an edu domain.
Note: 1. Peacefire does not claim the whole block list is inaccurate at 76%. 2. They note upfront in the first paragraph that they only test the first 50 reachable.edu domains for their benchmark. 3. Peacefire doesn't have the manpower to check it all and they shouldn't have to. It is the responsibility of the vendor to QA their own product. Symantec assumed the mantle when they decided to offer a product to block sites for content.
Peacefire isn't a competitor claiming better performance than Symantec. They are claiming that this(symantec's product) cannot substutite for direct supervision. This is a simple proof by counterexample and one exception is all that is required./Duncan Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
This is a consequence of the way peacefire.org benchmarks these programs. They grab the first reachable 50 blocked edu pages and check their content. I believe the rationale is the edu sites are more likely to be mis-catagorized. If they hit the first 50.com sites they may well end up searching the the equivelent of persiankitty... to find mis-catagorized content.
It is simply a benchmark. Peacefire isn't checking the whole list. This is the way they test every blocking software they can.
After the CIA missed the fall of the Berlin wall, it is now an insult to say "XXX is an agency only to the CIA". Also considering the amount of surveillance the FBI conducts I believe the mistake is forgivable. -Duncan Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
This seems to be typical of your recent postings. Ignoring the clear meaning and desire of the original question - Find intel-based laptop to run linux or os/2 or be on without buying a windows license before the antitrust suit went to court.
Your reply- buy a Mac.
BTW: How long have you been in the computer industry? It seems that any history is lost on you. -Duncan Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
Come on. For WANs there is now reason not to have good names. We use a solar scheme for the machine names and for the Lotus Domain division a city based scheme: AKS -root lotus MUC/AKS -Munich NYC/AKS -New York CHI/AKS -Chicago But I and all admins know where all the major servers are by their names: Sol -Centeral Lotus Server Aries -Domain Hub at center of star replication Moon, Puck, Sojourn, Pathfinder, IO, proxima, rigel, etc. It is easy even on a WAN. Only so many boxes matter. For the non server class use some silly scheme, but how many important servers do you have to administer. If you are worried split them up by naming convention. Firewalls one way, Notes servers a second, NT a third. Each location could have its own scheme. Use some imagination. BS schemes like the one you outline have no soul. Soul is good, it also helps with PR in a user community. They feel like you care a bit more about a personal name such as Zelazny, Rigel, Clancy or whatever and it is easier to refer to.
my $0.02 -Duncan Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
regarding NP complete problems you are correct because there are no quantum computers yet (known). If a so-called quantum computer existed and it could solve an NP complete problem in polynomial time then by defination it could solve every one of them. The normal defination (with only 1 exception) of an NP complete problem is to formally prove that to solve the proposed NP complete problem is equivalent to solving an existing NP complete problem. Therefore any NP complete solution will solve the whole class of (formally proven) NP complete problems. Note that some problems are refered to being NP complete without any formal proof, i.e. the 'Natural Language' problem. -Duncan
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I think he means:
/Duncan
Knowledge is not a short term investment with direct payback. It is a long term investment that will most likely pay off in a completely unforseen way. We need to invest in Space and Space exploration to continue the diversity of knowledge that we have inherited and are currently reaping.
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
Eric has a point.
...
/Duncan
Many searches are run by HR depts with a very specific set of requirements. I was recently looking for sysadmin style positions. Many positions wanted specifically:
veritas exp
Specifically Solaris or HP/UX or AIX or
one group wanted me to have worked as an ISP running a network center since that was their business. I had exp on all their platforms and even had the telephony background. Not interested
I was starting from scratch in a new part of the country as I moved back to the US from Germany. If I was willing to work in NY or Silicon Valley then my contacts/former associates had jobs waiting for me.
I think that much of the problem is how to filter correctly. IT is too broad, and we need to come up with common definations for jobs. If we could do that it would be easier to find people and get jobs you want.
When I was in NY, I was hiring tech support staff for a programming product. My budget didn't allow me to hire very experienced people and I ended up hiring new grads. Since our product was networked, I was losing people 8-14 months after hire to sysadmin jobs.
It is a big mess and companies are all over the map. We need to standardized job descriptions a bit.
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
You can fastforward through commercials, or if the phone rings, you can back up to where you left off.
/Duncan
And just how happy do you think advertisers will be about this idea? True, you can turn off your normal TV during commercials, or tape it and fastforward through it -- but this box makes it so much easier!
Don't worry about this the cable companies return salvo to satellite is coming and it is the similiar to the Tivo stuff.
Your cable company will supply you with a digital set top box. You will be able to use this to order Video On Demand (and pay) directly from their servers. While it is playing you will be able to ff, rewind, all the various trick play.
In the near future you will be able to do this for your regular channels as well if you have the digital service.BUT, trick play will be disabled during commercials. Also depending upon the cable companies architecture you not have a normal coax cable connection. It might be Ethernet or some other option. In Toyko it might be ATM (OC-3c) to the home.
This will start to put a squeeze on TIVO and Satellite as cable customers won't have to buy a $699/$999 box for features. Sure TIVO is better but people will still have Video on Demand and trick play. All for a normal subscription rate.
So don't count out the advertisers. But TIVO is very cool and I will most likely get one myself. Full digital cable is years away though cable companies are implementing the infrastructure today and installing testbeds as we speak. I am doing an install in Montreal next week.
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
This is truely sad. After reading the article it seems that TrustE has completely sold out. It seems to be created solely for the convience of the corporations that are it's clients.
/Duncan
Does anyone know of any other organizations such as TrustE? I checked at EPIC.ORG and didn't notice any comments or links to TrustE. I find that signifigant. TrustE seems to just be snake-oil.
I would recommend looking at EPIC and organizations that it links to for privacy guidlines:
EPIC, EFF, www.cspr.org, etc...
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
The data is not skewed data. It is peacefires standard benchmark. It is specifically chosen since there is a high chance for error in the .edu domain. It also allows peacefire to miss 99.9% of commercial sex sites, since you need to be an accredited educational institution before you can register an edu domain.
.edu domains for their benchmark. 3. Peacefire doesn't have the manpower to check it all and they shouldn't have to. It is the responsibility of the vendor to QA their own product. Symantec assumed the mantle when they decided to offer a product to block sites for content.
/Duncan
Note: 1. Peacefire does not claim the whole block list is inaccurate at 76%. 2. They note upfront in the first paragraph that they only test the first 50 reachable
Peacefire isn't a competitor claiming better performance than Symantec. They are claiming that this(symantec's product) cannot substutite for direct supervision. This is a simple proof by counterexample and one exception is all that is required.
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
This is a consequence of the way peacefire.org benchmarks these programs. They grab the first reachable 50 blocked edu pages and check their content. I believe the rationale is the edu sites are more likely to be mis-catagorized. If they hit the first 50 .com sites they may well end up searching the the equivelent of persiankitty... to find mis-catagorized content.
It is simply a benchmark. Peacefire isn't checking the whole list. This is the way they test every blocking software they can.
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
After the CIA missed the fall of the Berlin wall, it is now an insult to say "XXX is an agency only to the CIA". Also considering the amount of surveillance the FBI conducts I believe the mistake is forgivable.
-Duncan
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
This seems to be typical of your recent postings. Ignoring the clear meaning and desire of the original question
- Find intel-based laptop to run linux or os/2 or be on without buying a windows license before the antitrust suit went to court.
Your reply- buy a Mac.
BTW: How long have you been in the computer industry? It seems that any history is lost on you.
-Duncan
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
Come on. For WANs there is now reason not to have good names.
We use a solar scheme for the machine names and for the Lotus Domain division a city based scheme:
AKS -root lotus
MUC/AKS -Munich
NYC/AKS -New York
CHI/AKS -Chicago
But I and all admins know where all the major servers are by their names:
Sol -Centeral Lotus Server
Aries -Domain Hub at center of star replication
Moon, Puck, Sojourn, Pathfinder, IO, proxima, rigel, etc. It is easy even on a WAN. Only so many boxes matter. For the non server class use some silly scheme, but how many important servers do you have to administer. If you are worried split them up by naming convention. Firewalls one way, Notes servers a second, NT a third. Each location could have its own scheme. Use some imagination.
BS schemes like the one you outline have no soul. Soul is good, it also helps with PR in a user community. They feel like you care a bit more about a personal name such as Zelazny, Rigel, Clancy or whatever and it is easier to refer to.
my $0.02
-Duncan
Duncan Watson -Rock climbing, Encryption, privacy
PGP Fingerprint -PGP Key on www.keyserver.net
regarding NP complete problems you are correct because there are no quantum computers yet (known). If a so-called quantum computer existed and it could solve an NP complete problem in polynomial time then by defination it could solve every one of them. The normal defination (with only 1 exception) of an NP complete problem is to formally prove that to solve the proposed NP complete problem is equivalent to solving an existing NP complete problem. Therefore any NP complete solution will solve the whole class of (formally proven) NP complete problems. Note that some problems are refered to being NP complete without any formal proof, i.e. the 'Natural Language' problem. -Duncan