The struggle now is how to keep people from destroying things. FireFox is a disaster. Gnome is useless.
If enough people agree with that and agree why it's a disaster, then they'll fork it or back an existing fork. That's how "democracy" corrects wayward OSS projects. MariaDB appears to have done it successfully after too many got ticked off with Oracle's management of MySql.
But the problem with the browsers is that there is not yet enough consensus on what sucks about them. Maybe it's just hard to get browsers right and there is no way to make everyone happy.
(Personally I'd like to see an XML sub-language to control the browser's interface and menus, and I can copy that XML to any desktop or device to have the browser interface be MY WAY all the time. I don't want an org dictating my browser interface. An "interface builder" utility would probably have to be provided for non-coders. Rough draft of such an idea: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?Use... )
Longer sentences tend not to work on crazy people. If they had long-term thinking ability and discipline, they probably would not do stupid things to begin with.
Longer sentences look good on paper and politically, but often just cost tax payers more than the crime damage potential because locking people up is expensive. It might be a better deal to have more cops than more jails, for quicker response.
So we do need to collect more meta data? Or just live with "falsies" as a way of life? A compromise could be for the ISP to keep such info for say a week or two so that authorities can potentially dig through it if necessary, but otherwise authorities do not store it themselves.
irrelevant social justice spats? We have real problems, like the national debt going to be $20T...
But nobody can agree on how to fix the debt. Some believe it's best to let it gradually solve itself, and/or pay it down during future boom years. After all, our huge WW2 debt was fixed this way.
Others believe in so-called "austerity", but the record on austerity was poor during the Hoover years, UK, Europe in general, and Kentucky. Austerity seems to make economies stagnant, compounding the problem by keeping revenues low.
Plus, one can argue we are already in a period of austerity, as total gov't spending has been mostly flat relative to GDP (local, state, and fed).
I doubt the differing opinions are likely to come together if politicians simply think and talk about it long enough. Sometimes opinions just plain differ. The right is always going to believe that "smaller gov't" is the only fix and the left will believe a stimulus the best fix and centrists will always believe something in between is the best. After a good many political debates over the years, I've concluded that most are stuck in their viewpoints on such and are not changeable.
On a serious note, quakes do scare away population. Many of the people who come here for sunshine and acting roles suddenly freak out and move back to Peoria or whatnot after getting rattled around. If you've never been in a medium-sized quake, there's a fairly good chance you'll be traumatized by one.
First we throw high rents and traffic at you. If that doesn't work, we get Mother Earth to toss you around. If that doesn't work, we jail you for taking long showers. And if all else fails, we give you skin cancer for baking too long in the sun. Get a hint already. -CA
The investigation conducted earlier (by a Democrat-run panel) also failed to turn up a single such email, just like multiple FOIA queries by multiple parties.
I'm talking about claims of general "gaps", not the hacker event. You appeared to have mixed them up.
it was just a bizarre stroke of bad luck that her forwards/CCs of messages were mysteriously lost in State's systems?
Those servers are KNOWN to be bad, and not designed for long-term archiving. Bad luck? No. Skimpy product selection, probably. (Tea party wants them to be thrifty, after all.)
the issue is that in producing that dump, she appointed herself to the role - years after she was no longer employed by State - of deciding what is, and is not, correspondence that meets the standards of needing to be archived.
That's after-the-fact, not the day-to-day email situation. Her providing copies from her own server is essentially bonus info. I've never read her claiming her server was the qualifying archiving system for regular work-days. (Although, perhaps it might even qualify, the laws as written were vague.)
She characterized THAT delivery of her selected messages as her providing what the requests required.
What requests? The judge's request? Again, the investigation digging is a different matter than day to day work & archive practices.
since she will be unable to back that up with a single bit of evidence that she complied...
"Will"? I don't want future prediction/speculation, I want here and now facts.
Let's try this: YOU provide a single example of her - other than her much-delayed and behind-closed-doors-picked-over recent paper transfer - saying that she had been, all along, providing CCs or forwards of ANY email between her and outside-of-state entities.
A spokesperson for her suggest she did, but didn't give a lot of details. See the opening paragraph:
Anyhow, the burden is NOT on me to show that she is innocent, but rather on you to show that she is guilty. You claimed a crime, and the burden of evidence for a crime is "beyond a reasonable doubt". It's not guilty until proven innocent, but the other way around.
I have given you plenty of opportunity to present the DETAILS backing your "felonious" claim, and got none.
I challenge you once again to put together a court dialog representing known details.
No, CPM machines would've eaten them at that price. They may have tried, but reality would change them. Anyhow, I don't think IBM was equipped to be the PC monopoly. They were already settled in an "enterprise" mentality. Maybe Apple, Tandy, or Commodore if they had played their cards right.
I agree with you that it was a ripe time for a microcomputer monopoly to form. But saying that MS is not a problem because they happened to be the one plugging the monopoly hole is kind of an odd argument.
Ideally there would be no monopolization. But if we assume for the moment that there is no practical way to prevent the kind of monopolization that happened, then we have to consider an MS domination versus some other co's domination.
Under that scenario, I haven't seen any evidence that MS is a better monopolist than other potential monopolists.
During IBM's monopoly heyday a generation earlier, they invented the hard-drive, floppy drive, relational databases, and perfected multi-tasking OS's and modularization of hardware. I don't see a similar set of accomplishments from MS. Clippy? MS was a ho-hum plug into the monopoly hole.
You would also need to address the presence or absence of such email in her printed-out dump...
I do not believe it's been fully sifted yet.
And the assistant's guilt is not at issue. Maybe he/she will eventually take the stand, but that's speculation about the future.
She has not even suggested that she or her staff were in the habit of CCing/forwarding any correspondence with non-State-Dept people to some special place at State. She's only said that she figured the act of corresponding with people IN the State's mail system was a good enough way for those in-house messages to be legally kept.
CCing and forwarding are specifics of "corresponding". Just because she didn't go into specifics with the press doesn't mean she didn't "do specifics".
The, "Gee, I thought we were CCing all of that to State" defense doesn't work if there no examples, at all, of any habit of or even attempt to do so.
A big "if" there. You haven't presented any evidence that there are no such attempts. You seem to be doing yet more speculating. If you have solid evidence that she "Never did X", then present it.
she wasn't asked about how she thought that mechanism would protect her correspondence with people in other agencies or countries.
If she CC'd or (later in day) forwarded a copy to her staff, then it would be covered. If you have CLEAR evidence she FAILED to do that, then please present it.
her only discussion about this was a single press conference in which she hand-picked the reporters and pre-screened the questions...
That's not a crime. You are again wandering off topic seemingly to bash her on side issues, like the PrintGate you keep mentioning.
I don't think you want to debate your original crime claim, but rather want opportunities to sneak mention of alleged OTHER bad behavior to paint her badly. If that's not the case, then you have A.D.D.-like symptoms and perhaps should see a doctor.
All they have to do is turn up one example...
Please do.
...which investigators have said are missing any records at all from long blocks of time.
Again again, it's GOP senators & politicians claiming that, not dedicated investigators. I'm tired of rehashing the same points over and over again.
Perhaps in the sense they "standardized" the OS and software by bundling and monopolizing it. But this had the side-effect of stopping progress once they knocked out a market category.
I've seen the same bug set in MS-Access linger for about 15 years: MS didn't care because there was no practical alternative to MS-Access: they had pretty much killed Paradox and dBASE because Office bundling made Access the obvious choice in both price and familiarity. (And they bought out FoxPro).
And they were not innovators; they purchased or stole most of the key technologies they depend on.
If you believe competition is the key to innovation and choice, then what MS did cannot be viewed in a good light. Microsoft stifled the industry; we'd be better off without them.
New technology is just plain difficult to estimate. If you make the almost exact same probe or widget each time, then you can eventually make good estimates. Add a new kind of rock-zapping laser or new kind of lens polisher or new kind of parachute system, and unexpected bleep comes up.
You can hard-wire the costs into the vendor contract, but then you have no room to make changes, because any change can invalidate the original contract.
You can split the contract into sub-systems, but then the interface between the parts is either rigidly locked, or you have the original change-ripple-effect problem.
I don't know an easy way around this catch-22. Pioneers just have to take arrows in the back.
But the threat of ratcheting up the sanctions is largely what brought them to the table. Plus, we have to get other countries to go along with extra sanctions for them to be effective (since we don't export much); it's not something we have unilateral control over such that we can't just turn a knob further to the right on our whim.
While such an agreement is not perfect, I have not seen a decent alternative put forward. If their facilities are clobbered by air, they can build them deeper under ground and/or disperse the processing to multiple locations, and perhaps in populated areas, using them as human shields.
And you'd further inflame them by dropping things on them, getting nationalism galore.
The only way to stop it after that stage would probably require genocide. They may be jerks, but they have NOT done anything even close to deserving genocide.
(Compared to the rest of the region, one could argue that county is relatively tame, or at least average.)
Some argue that taking out Ireq's* nuke program from the air had proved fruitful. However, it appears that Mr. H. simply decided to focus more on chemicals instead. Thus, he traded in one W-M-D for another W-M-D.
While there may be gaps in our social services; I'd rather be 'poor' in the US than most other countries.
USA's fitting new slogan: "Our garbage tastes better."
Is there room to carve that into the Statue of Liberty's plaque?: "Give me your tired, your poor; your huddled masses yearning to eat high-calorie waste from the Plutocrat Cafe and live in Samsung-grade cardboard boxes."
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If enough people agree with that and agree why it's a disaster, then they'll fork it or back an existing fork. That's how "democracy" corrects wayward OSS projects. MariaDB appears to have done it successfully after too many got ticked off with Oracle's management of MySql.
But the problem with the browsers is that there is not yet enough consensus on what sucks about them. Maybe it's just hard to get browsers right and there is no way to make everyone happy.
(Personally I'd like to see an XML sub-language to control the browser's interface and menus, and I can copy that XML to any desktop or device to have the browser interface be MY WAY all the time. I don't want an org dictating my browser interface. An "interface builder" utility would probably have to be provided for non-coders. Rough draft of such an idea: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?Use... )
You are assuming that a good portion of the problems are from repeat offenders.
Longer sentences tend not to work on crazy people. If they had long-term thinking ability and discipline, they probably would not do stupid things to begin with.
Longer sentences look good on paper and politically, but often just cost tax payers more than the crime damage potential because locking people up is expensive. It might be a better deal to have more cops than more jails, for quicker response.
So we do need to collect more meta data? Or just live with "falsies" as a way of life? A compromise could be for the ISP to keep such info for say a week or two so that authorities can potentially dig through it if necessary, but otherwise authorities do not store it themselves.
But nobody can agree on how to fix the debt. Some believe it's best to let it gradually solve itself, and/or pay it down during future boom years. After all, our huge WW2 debt was fixed this way.
Others believe in so-called "austerity", but the record on austerity was poor during the Hoover years, UK, Europe in general, and Kentucky. Austerity seems to make economies stagnant, compounding the problem by keeping revenues low.
Plus, one can argue we are already in a period of austerity, as total gov't spending has been mostly flat relative to GDP (local, state, and fed).
I doubt the differing opinions are likely to come together if politicians simply think and talk about it long enough. Sometimes opinions just plain differ. The right is always going to believe that "smaller gov't" is the only fix and the left will believe a stimulus the best fix and centrists will always believe something in between is the best. After a good many political debates over the years, I've concluded that most are stuck in their viewpoints on such and are not changeable.
I see buffer overflows on the CA freeways everyday.
On a serious note, quakes do scare away population. Many of the people who come here for sunshine and acting roles suddenly freak out and move back to Peoria or whatnot after getting rattled around. If you've never been in a medium-sized quake, there's a fairly good chance you'll be traumatized by one.
First we throw high rents and traffic at you. If that doesn't work, we get Mother Earth to toss you around. If that doesn't work, we jail you for taking long showers. And if all else fails, we give you skin cancer for baking too long in the sun. Get a hint already. -CA
That would trigger a DMCA takedown notice, and you'll get belted by an orange and yellow clown.
I'm talking about claims of general "gaps", not the hacker event. You appeared to have mixed them up.
Those servers are KNOWN to be bad, and not designed for long-term archiving. Bad luck? No. Skimpy product selection, probably. (Tea party wants them to be thrifty, after all.)
That's after-the-fact, not the day-to-day email situation. Her providing copies from her own server is essentially bonus info. I've never read her claiming her server was the qualifying archiving system for regular work-days. (Although, perhaps it might even qualify, the laws as written were vague.)
What requests? The judge's request? Again, the investigation digging is a different matter than day to day work & archive practices.
"Will"? I don't want future prediction/speculation, I want here and now facts.
A spokesperson for her suggest she did, but didn't give a lot of details. See the opening paragraph:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...
Anyhow, the burden is NOT on me to show that she is innocent, but rather on you to show that she is guilty. You claimed a crime, and the burden of evidence for a crime is "beyond a reasonable doubt". It's not guilty until proven innocent, but the other way around.
I have given you plenty of opportunity to present the DETAILS backing your "felonious" claim, and got none.
I challenge you once again to put together a court dialog representing known details.
A compromise is for management to allow and vet something fun and harmless. It helps morale.
So that's who cut me off! Explains the odd-looking counter-gesture.
No, CPM machines would've eaten them at that price. They may have tried, but reality would change them. Anyhow, I don't think IBM was equipped to be the PC monopoly. They were already settled in an "enterprise" mentality. Maybe Apple, Tandy, or Commodore if they had played their cards right.
I agree with you that it was a ripe time for a microcomputer monopoly to form. But saying that MS is not a problem because they happened to be the one plugging the monopoly hole is kind of an odd argument.
Ideally there would be no monopolization. But if we assume for the moment that there is no practical way to prevent the kind of monopolization that happened, then we have to consider an MS domination versus some other co's domination.
Under that scenario, I haven't seen any evidence that MS is a better monopolist than other potential monopolists.
During IBM's monopoly heyday a generation earlier, they invented the hard-drive, floppy drive, relational databases, and perfected multi-tasking OS's and modularization of hardware. I don't see a similar set of accomplishments from MS. Clippy? MS was a ho-hum plug into the monopoly hole.
I do not believe it's been fully sifted yet.
And the assistant's guilt is not at issue. Maybe he/she will eventually take the stand, but that's speculation about the future.
CCing and forwarding are specifics of "corresponding". Just because she didn't go into specifics with the press doesn't mean she didn't "do specifics".
A big "if" there. You haven't presented any evidence that there are no such attempts. You seem to be doing yet more speculating. If you have solid evidence that she "Never did X", then present it.
If she CC'd or (later in day) forwarded a copy to her staff, then it would be covered. If you have CLEAR evidence she FAILED to do that, then please present it.
That's not a crime. You are again wandering off topic seemingly to bash her on side issues, like the PrintGate you keep mentioning.
I don't think you want to debate your original crime claim, but rather want opportunities to sneak mention of alleged OTHER bad behavior to paint her badly. If that's not the case, then you have A.D.D.-like symptoms and perhaps should see a doctor.
Please do.
Again again, it's GOP senators & politicians claiming that, not dedicated investigators. I'm tired of rehashing the same points over and over again.
I think Xerox might have something to say about both, and arguably Ivan Sutherland about Xerox.
Perhaps in the sense they "standardized" the OS and software by bundling and monopolizing it. But this had the side-effect of stopping progress once they knocked out a market category.
I've seen the same bug set in MS-Access linger for about 15 years: MS didn't care because there was no practical alternative to MS-Access: they had pretty much killed Paradox and dBASE because Office bundling made Access the obvious choice in both price and familiarity. (And they bought out FoxPro).
And they were not innovators; they purchased or stole most of the key technologies they depend on.
If you believe competition is the key to innovation and choice, then what MS did cannot be viewed in a good light. Microsoft stifled the industry; we'd be better off without them.
Gawker? And Blumenthal claims have not been verified.
I saw the Ponies look, but what was the CN look?
Give the user a style choice: flat, rounded matte, brushed metal, polished chrome shiny, and jewels.
New technology is just plain difficult to estimate. If you make the almost exact same probe or widget each time, then you can eventually make good estimates. Add a new kind of rock-zapping laser or new kind of lens polisher or new kind of parachute system, and unexpected bleep comes up.
You can hard-wire the costs into the vendor contract, but then you have no room to make changes, because any change can invalidate the original contract.
You can split the contract into sub-systems, but then the interface between the parts is either rigidly locked, or you have the original change-ripple-effect problem.
I don't know an easy way around this catch-22. Pioneers just have to take arrows in the back.
It's not a purchase, it's a license agreement.
They changed their unit to Dog Years.
But the threat of ratcheting up the sanctions is largely what brought them to the table. Plus, we have to get other countries to go along with extra sanctions for them to be effective (since we don't export much); it's not something we have unilateral control over such that we can't just turn a knob further to the right on our whim.
While such an agreement is not perfect, I have not seen a decent alternative put forward. If their facilities are clobbered by air, they can build them deeper under ground and/or disperse the processing to multiple locations, and perhaps in populated areas, using them as human shields.
And you'd further inflame them by dropping things on them, getting nationalism galore.
The only way to stop it after that stage would probably require genocide. They may be jerks, but they have NOT done anything even close to deserving genocide.
(Compared to the rest of the region, one could argue that county is relatively tame, or at least average.)
Some argue that taking out Ireq's* nuke program from the air had proved fruitful. However, it appears that Mr. H. simply decided to focus more on chemicals instead. Thus, he traded in one W-M-D for another W-M-D.
* Intentional misspelling
USA's fitting new slogan: "Our garbage tastes better."
Is there room to carve that into the Statue of Liberty's plaque?: "Give me your tired, your poor; your huddled masses yearning to eat high-calorie waste from the Plutocrat Cafe and live in Samsung-grade cardboard boxes."