In the past few years, it has been increasingly obvious that many of the big media sources are not very careful about hiring credible people. Look at Jayson Blaire at the NYT, for example. Why does it surprise anyone that media outlets like *BC just make stuff up? They complain about bloggers, but at least the average blogger not only has no national recognition, but has comments and trackbacks open so you can post a rebuttal that others can see and read. The NYT, ABC, etc. don't give any right of response when their stuff is pure bullshit. It'll appear as a small correction in a place that 99% of their viewers/readers won't notice so as to not call attention to a headline's inaccuracy.
I swear, they have the utmost respect for other religions and always live the higher standard everyday. Their media couldn't possibly be one of the most hateful in the world.
To turn the "law and order" types' favorite phrase back on them, the law is the law. If the government will not obey its own laws, then it has no moral authority to operate. Ironically, that's a Biblical concept, not a liberal idea. According to scripture, God's authority to stand in divine judgement handing down damnation or salvation comes from his perfection and consistency. God follows his own laws, thus he has total moral authority. But how many Bush supporters would freak out at such an argument?
In pure secular terms, the only result of giving discressionary power in 99% of all cases out there is to have the government not obey the law. The government must obey its own laws in order to ensure law and order, and having a law that says "the state shall do what it wilt, shall be the whole of the regulation of the government's conduct" is not a law. It's a license to anarchy in the pejorative sense of the word.
If our government is unwilling to even use its Article IV powers to shut down the borders in violation of NAFTA and all travel from rogue states and Saudi Arbia, then it doesn't need to even speak about new powers.
Most people never really get exposed to serious writing. I admit that I have little, very high-level experience in that area. Most of the work that I was assigned in college on writing, I could do the whole thing in one sitting, including successfully arguing my thesis. Really well-researched writing is hard to do, and something that most people don't get meaningful exposure to, so I think my analogy stands.
In all of my real writing classes in college, I got As without even trying. Once you learn how to express yourself consistently and build up a base of good spelling and a functional knowledge of proper grammar, it's not hard.
The root of the problem is that the average person can get by easily without having to go through the planning stages. Once you reach a level of proficiency, you can skip them, but most people never develop that. I developed enough of one with software design that I could do semester projects in a very organized way for classes without much prior planning. That comes from a few years of experience. The solution, as I see it, is to force people to really get their hands dirty with planning and structure. That might make people have at least a modicum of appreciation for software development.
People often treat code like a paper. You want something added, you type it in and flesh out the paper. I think that this is why software often ends up working so badly. If people would treat their programs more like engineered pieces of hardware than written works in progress, things would be better. It just seems to me that people all too often forget that software development requires real planning and that it's not as simple as "I want feature X" in many cases. Maybe the solution is extreme extensibility. Cars can be modded in pretty complex ways. Perhaps the solution for software development is building a consistent core that just works and then plugging new modules into it, sort of like Eclipse.
I was 12 in 1995 when the Internet started becoming semi-mainstream. My family has had real access since about that time. We knew back then that you don't go revealing information online unless you're in a position to defend yourself. Now that I'm a man, I can handle some of my information being availible online where others can see it. I just took it as a given that there were bad people out there looking for victims. These kids don't.
Maybe they can't learn the danger. I've had girls argue that they realistically should be able to dress like strippers, go anywhere and not even get cat calls. Sorry, but as much as I'd like to live in such a peaceful world, you cannot do that and be safe. You have to live with the realization that there are evil people out there who are quite willing to hurt you and yours. You have to live like you live in a world with both great good and beauty and great evil and ugliness.
I think that the idealized vision of childhood that many parents have has contributed to these kids not understanding what is going on. The girls in particular are almost totally incapable of understanding that that 25 year old who wants to have a "heart-to-heart" conversation with a 15 year old is probably just trying to get some. They're special, the other girls aren't. I for one will disabuse any daughter of mine of this princess complex.
Until parents raise their kids to become adults capable of living in a world where evil people exist and desire to screw over everyone else, no one will learn, and at this point I don't care. It's like the people who still get sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement. You knew the danger, you did it anyway. MySpace isn't the problem, the teens and their parents are the problems. Maybe if parents would stop thinking about the kids and **DO** something about the kids, they'd be safe and more mature. As always, it's easier to do nothing, complain and foist the problem onto others. It's your computer, your teen, your problem.
Truly implementing good error handling in web pages is something that would take a lot more effort for most people than with Swing or Windows Forms. You need to not just alert the user, but highlight their mistake which means good page layout and cooperation with your JavaScript. Highlight the field that is invalid and provide a well-designed error message explaining what went wrong.
One of the biggest problems out there is that web development is not taught in CS. Like most CS geeks, I picked up what I've learned through my own studies, few of which included how to integrate CS concepts into web page development. You either tend to see material and classes that teach web development from a page designer's perspective, or from the perspective of an enterprise architect. None of the formal classes I took in any of the different majors that touch on web development taught how to do something as simple as this for separating the JavaScript from the HTML.
If you look on Google, you can find information on Wahabi preaching in the US... almost all of it being funded by the Saudi royalty. CAIR is a group that has reportedly been connected to Hamas, and is a leading "Muslim civil rights group" modeled on the NAACP. These groups preach sedition and agitate for treason in our Muslim populations. Eliminating Wahabism from our countries is the only way we can even attempt to integrate our Muslims peacefully and safely.
With respect to terrorism definitions, for example, section 802 of the Act created the new crime category of "domestic terrorism." According to this provision, which is found in the U.S. criminal code at 18 U.S.C. 2331, domestic terrorism means activities that (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S. or of any state, that (B) appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping, and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
Terrorism of all kind is about influencing the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion. Rather than mass deport people from "problematic" countries like Saudi Arabia, they'd rather screw all citizens and resident aliens alike. Turks and Albanians aren't very prone to hardline Islam compared to Saudis. Most Albanians are so supposed to be quite chill about Islam. Why restrict them when it's the Wahabi Saudis who are causing the bloodshed and spread of terrorist ideas in foreign mosques?
That's another point that needs to be considered. The Saudi-funded mosques and schools are Wahabi in doctrine. They're so hardline that they want even the Shia and Sufis exterminated. Why do we let these wild-eyed zealots who preach sedition and actively agitate for treason among our Muslims to operate openly? The best option for the US and Australia alike is systematic legislative and enforcement elimination of Wahabism from our borders. As long as they can continue to operate on our soil, they're an enemy, and their schools are akin to saying, "ok KGB, you can recruit at the Ivy League career fairs."
Developers of OSS often forget that they have two choices in most cases:
1) Meet the needs of their users and especially those who want to use their products 2) Meet their own needs
OSS developers need to stop using the argument that "feature X is missing because we're hobbyists." If you want to compete with the big guys, you need to give your users the features they want. It's certainly your right to prioritize based on your wants, but don't kid yourselves. If you don't give the users what they want... they'll leave.
Create a tarball or zip of your home directory and overwrite the home directory with the same name on another Mac. Reset permissions if needed. Problem solved, no third party. *scratches head* Come to think of it, the only group that has problem with this is the Windows users with all of their hidden, protected yada yada directory crap.
One more area where Microsoft creates markets, sometimes for their competitors.
How about you start charging people who disturb the peace in a movie theatre or another place where silence from the public is the norm? If you get a cell phone call in the middle of a theatre, you have no good excuse to not answer it outside. Sorry, not even having a group of kids under your watch is a good excuse to have a full blown conversation.
My girlfriend can't take them seriously since she heard her recruiter on a local talk show admitting that she used to own and use a vibrator before she had her son. (I'm not trolling, she really did hear her recruiter admit to that in front of a whole Northern Virginia radio audience)
And we all remember the last time a company went out and bought up a bunch of companies trying to hack together a bigger brand and comprehensive product lineup, rather than take the time to properly acquire and integrate their product lines...
I wrote a simple streaming media system that used HTTP for a class. It wasn't exactly the hardest thing to do. If you can get good upstream, you should have no problem setting up your own streaming media system for your music collection.
Of course that only solves the problem of music, but to each their own.
So are they going to setup huge Carnivore boxes at every telecom hub in the world? How on Earth are they going to catch real-time communications with this without violating every criminal statute in the US that protects the 4th amendment?
So when the Nazis were rounding up the Jews, it was right for IBM to help them rather than stimy them? Since the US had almost no trade with the Warsaw Pact, we can't compare that, but you are dead wrong. There comes a point in which the company is no longer morally obligated to obey the law of the land.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
--Samuel Adams
Yahoo is better than IBM in 1939 in shades and degree, not principle. There is nothing so craven as a man or men who value profit and wealth greater than liberty.
Stallman is the Pat Robertson of the open source movement. Millions of reasonable people, shouted down in the public by a loud-mouthed, wild-eyed zealot who has gone off the deep end and provides fodders for their enemies. Like Robertson, he lives off his glory days accomplishments, while continuing to have an eery sway over many of the new generation who are in fact much better than him. Thank you for writing Emacs, GCC, etc., but the new generation has come along and really moved that work forward and then some, and let's not forget the fact that Apache, Mozilla and others exist independently of his work.
Thank you for your contributions, but you're not relevant anymore to the degree you aspire to be. IMO, the real voice of reason on this issue is Linus Torvalds with his "we are not crusaders" mentality that is more libertarian than left-liberal.
Get an experienced developer with experience in software architecture and website development, then get several interns who are young, but promising. Give them a lot of exposure to every buzzword you can in this area so that they can get their resumes well underway. Most of them will consider it a bargain and it's a good way to train up a new generation of domestic coders.
These games are played all the time by foreign intelligence services. The most important question here is, if this was not a Greek agency that was behind the wiretapping, why didn't Greek counterintelligence know about this for so long?
Make it so that a company without any R&D division cannot file or own patents. A company that doesn't have employees paid to create new things shouldn't be allowed to own patents since it has not created anything, and thus doesn't need any incentives to create.
If that be the case, then there should be nothing enforcable here because 802.11b is an open technology that Boeing has no control over. Now, if they'd come up with a way to make 802.11g or some other much faster wireless work since those can disrupt... that'd be a bit different.
If 802.11b doesn't screw with electronics, they've got no case in court.
The RF characteristics of this wireless network are specifically tailored to meet applicable standards for electromagnetic compatibility with aircraft systems and RF exposure levels for passengers and flight crews.
A decent federal judge would look at that and say that the patent only applies to aircraft networks, since the gist of it seems to be that this technique is only really applicable to aircraft systems. I can't imagine a single reason why you'd need something special for a train or bus considering you don't have to turn off mobile, networked devices on either of those modes of transportation.
Yes, it's stupid, but at least this doesn't seem to be a blatant as "we patent the idea of putting a server on something with wings, wheels or a rudder."
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It'd be a good idea for them to use local labor to build for local markets. That way you help foster a labor pool that is capable of buying your products. It's part of the reason that Japanese car companies are investing a lot of money into building manufacturing plants in the US, especially in the South.
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In the past few years, it has been increasingly obvious that many of the big media sources are not very careful about hiring credible people. Look at Jayson Blaire at the NYT, for example. Why does it surprise anyone that media outlets like *BC just make stuff up? They complain about bloggers, but at least the average blogger not only has no national recognition, but has comments and trackbacks open so you can post a rebuttal that others can see and read. The NYT, ABC, etc. don't give any right of response when their stuff is pure bullshit. It'll appear as a small correction in a place that 99% of their viewers/readers won't notice so as to not call attention to a headline's inaccuracy.
I swear, they have the utmost respect for other religions and always live the higher standard everyday. Their media couldn't possibly be one of the most hateful in the world.
To turn the "law and order" types' favorite phrase back on them, the law is the law. If the government will not obey its own laws, then it has no moral authority to operate. Ironically, that's a Biblical concept, not a liberal idea. According to scripture, God's authority to stand in divine judgement handing down damnation or salvation comes from his perfection and consistency. God follows his own laws, thus he has total moral authority. But how many Bush supporters would freak out at such an argument?
In pure secular terms, the only result of giving discressionary power in 99% of all cases out there is to have the government not obey the law. The government must obey its own laws in order to ensure law and order, and having a law that says "the state shall do what it wilt, shall be the whole of the regulation of the government's conduct" is not a law. It's a license to anarchy in the pejorative sense of the word.
If our government is unwilling to even use its Article IV powers to shut down the borders in violation of NAFTA and all travel from rogue states and Saudi Arbia, then it doesn't need to even speak about new powers.
Most people never really get exposed to serious writing. I admit that I have little, very high-level experience in that area. Most of the work that I was assigned in college on writing, I could do the whole thing in one sitting, including successfully arguing my thesis. Really well-researched writing is hard to do, and something that most people don't get meaningful exposure to, so I think my analogy stands.
In all of my real writing classes in college, I got As without even trying. Once you learn how to express yourself consistently and build up a base of good spelling and a functional knowledge of proper grammar, it's not hard.
The root of the problem is that the average person can get by easily without having to go through the planning stages. Once you reach a level of proficiency, you can skip them, but most people never develop that. I developed enough of one with software design that I could do semester projects in a very organized way for classes without much prior planning. That comes from a few years of experience. The solution, as I see it, is to force people to really get their hands dirty with planning and structure. That might make people have at least a modicum of appreciation for software development.
People often treat code like a paper. You want something added, you type it in and flesh out the paper. I think that this is why software often ends up working so badly. If people would treat their programs more like engineered pieces of hardware than written works in progress, things would be better. It just seems to me that people all too often forget that software development requires real planning and that it's not as simple as "I want feature X" in many cases. Maybe the solution is extreme extensibility. Cars can be modded in pretty complex ways. Perhaps the solution for software development is building a consistent core that just works and then plugging new modules into it, sort of like Eclipse.
I was 12 in 1995 when the Internet started becoming semi-mainstream. My family has had real access since about that time. We knew back then that you don't go revealing information online unless you're in a position to defend yourself. Now that I'm a man, I can handle some of my information being availible online where others can see it. I just took it as a given that there were bad people out there looking for victims. These kids don't.
Maybe they can't learn the danger. I've had girls argue that they realistically should be able to dress like strippers, go anywhere and not even get cat calls. Sorry, but as much as I'd like to live in such a peaceful world, you cannot do that and be safe. You have to live with the realization that there are evil people out there who are quite willing to hurt you and yours. You have to live like you live in a world with both great good and beauty and great evil and ugliness.
I think that the idealized vision of childhood that many parents have has contributed to these kids not understanding what is going on. The girls in particular are almost totally incapable of understanding that that 25 year old who wants to have a "heart-to-heart" conversation with a 15 year old is probably just trying to get some. They're special, the other girls aren't. I for one will disabuse any daughter of mine of this princess complex.
Until parents raise their kids to become adults capable of living in a world where evil people exist and desire to screw over everyone else, no one will learn, and at this point I don't care. It's like the people who still get sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement. You knew the danger, you did it anyway. MySpace isn't the problem, the teens and their parents are the problems. Maybe if parents would stop thinking about the kids and **DO** something about the kids, they'd be safe and more mature. As always, it's easier to do nothing, complain and foist the problem onto others. It's your computer, your teen, your problem.
Truly implementing good error handling in web pages is something that would take a lot more effort for most people than with Swing or Windows Forms. You need to not just alert the user, but highlight their mistake which means good page layout and cooperation with your JavaScript. Highlight the field that is invalid and provide a well-designed error message explaining what went wrong.
One of the biggest problems out there is that web development is not taught in CS. Like most CS geeks, I picked up what I've learned through my own studies, few of which included how to integrate CS concepts into web page development. You either tend to see material and classes that teach web development from a page designer's perspective, or from the perspective of an enterprise architect. None of the formal classes I took in any of the different majors that touch on web development taught how to do something as simple as this for separating the JavaScript from the HTML.
If you look on Google, you can find information on Wahabi preaching in the US... almost all of it being funded by the Saudi royalty. CAIR is a group that has reportedly been connected to Hamas, and is a leading "Muslim civil rights group" modeled on the NAACP. These groups preach sedition and agitate for treason in our Muslim populations. Eliminating Wahabism from our countries is the only way we can even attempt to integrate our Muslims peacefully and safely.
For Americans, at least, from Wikipedia:
Terrorism of all kind is about influencing the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion. Rather than mass deport people from "problematic" countries like Saudi Arabia, they'd rather screw all citizens and resident aliens alike. Turks and Albanians aren't very prone to hardline Islam compared to Saudis. Most Albanians are so supposed to be quite chill about Islam. Why restrict them when it's the Wahabi Saudis who are causing the bloodshed and spread of terrorist ideas in foreign mosques?
That's another point that needs to be considered. The Saudi-funded mosques and schools are Wahabi in doctrine. They're so hardline that they want even the Shia and Sufis exterminated. Why do we let these wild-eyed zealots who preach sedition and actively agitate for treason among our Muslims to operate openly? The best option for the US and Australia alike is systematic legislative and enforcement elimination of Wahabism from our borders. As long as they can continue to operate on our soil, they're an enemy, and their schools are akin to saying, "ok KGB, you can recruit at the Ivy League career fairs."
Developers of OSS often forget that they have two choices in most cases:
1) Meet the needs of their users and especially those who want to use their products
2) Meet their own needs
OSS developers need to stop using the argument that "feature X is missing because we're hobbyists." If you want to compete with the big guys, you need to give your users the features they want. It's certainly your right to prioritize based on your wants, but don't kid yourselves. If you don't give the users what they want... they'll leave.
Create a tarball or zip of your home directory and overwrite the home directory with the same name on another Mac. Reset permissions if needed. Problem solved, no third party. *scratches head* Come to think of it, the only group that has problem with this is the Windows users with all of their hidden, protected yada yada directory crap.
One more area where Microsoft creates markets, sometimes for their competitors.
How about you start charging people who disturb the peace in a movie theatre or another place where silence from the public is the norm? If you get a cell phone call in the middle of a theatre, you have no good excuse to not answer it outside. Sorry, not even having a group of kids under your watch is a good excuse to have a full blown conversation.
My girlfriend can't take them seriously since she heard her recruiter on a local talk show admitting that she used to own and use a vibrator before she had her son. (I'm not trolling, she really did hear her recruiter admit to that in front of a whole Northern Virginia radio audience)
And we all remember the last time a company went out and bought up a bunch of companies trying to hack together a bigger brand and comprehensive product lineup, rather than take the time to properly acquire and integrate their product lines...
I wrote a simple streaming media system that used HTTP for a class. It wasn't exactly the hardest thing to do. If you can get good upstream, you should have no problem setting up your own streaming media system for your music collection.
Of course that only solves the problem of music, but to each their own.
So are they going to setup huge Carnivore boxes at every telecom hub in the world? How on Earth are they going to catch real-time communications with this without violating every criminal statute in the US that protects the 4th amendment?
So when the Nazis were rounding up the Jews, it was right for IBM to help them rather than stimy them? Since the US had almost no trade with the Warsaw Pact, we can't compare that, but you are dead wrong. There comes a point in which the company is no longer morally obligated to obey the law of the land.
Yahoo is better than IBM in 1939 in shades and degree, not principle. There is nothing so craven as a man or men who value profit and wealth greater than liberty.
Who wants to take a bet that Reps. Lantos and Smith will have a field day with this? Btw, they are the real deal as they were in the minority that voted against renewing MFN for China the last time it came up, in 1999.
Stallman is the Pat Robertson of the open source movement. Millions of reasonable people, shouted down in the public by a loud-mouthed, wild-eyed zealot who has gone off the deep end and provides fodders for their enemies. Like Robertson, he lives off his glory days accomplishments, while continuing to have an eery sway over many of the new generation who are in fact much better than him. Thank you for writing Emacs, GCC, etc., but the new generation has come along and really moved that work forward and then some, and let's not forget the fact that Apache, Mozilla and others exist independently of his work.
Thank you for your contributions, but you're not relevant anymore to the degree you aspire to be. IMO, the real voice of reason on this issue is Linus Torvalds with his "we are not crusaders" mentality that is more libertarian than left-liberal.
Get an experienced developer with experience in software architecture and website development, then get several interns who are young, but promising. Give them a lot of exposure to every buzzword you can in this area so that they can get their resumes well underway. Most of them will consider it a bargain and it's a good way to train up a new generation of domestic coders.
These games are played all the time by foreign intelligence services. The most important question here is, if this was not a Greek agency that was behind the wiretapping, why didn't Greek counterintelligence know about this for so long?
Make it so that a company without any R&D division cannot file or own patents. A company that doesn't have employees paid to create new things shouldn't be allowed to own patents since it has not created anything, and thus doesn't need any incentives to create.
If that be the case, then there should be nothing enforcable here because 802.11b is an open technology that Boeing has no control over. Now, if they'd come up with a way to make 802.11g or some other much faster wireless work since those can disrupt... that'd be a bit different.
If 802.11b doesn't screw with electronics, they've got no case in court.
A decent federal judge would look at that and say that the patent only applies to aircraft networks, since the gist of it seems to be that this technique is only really applicable to aircraft systems. I can't imagine a single reason why you'd need something special for a train or bus considering you don't have to turn off mobile, networked devices on either of those modes of transportation.
Yes, it's stupid, but at least this doesn't seem to be a blatant as "we patent the idea of putting a server on something with wings, wheels or a rudder."
It'd be a good idea for them to use local labor to build for local markets. That way you help foster a labor pool that is capable of buying your products. It's part of the reason that Japanese car companies are investing a lot of money into building manufacturing plants in the US, especially in the South.