...hey, nobody ever pointed out B&Massa's 3 Da Skips or Jiguma's Guantanamo Vacation, did they? And that was when something could be done to free David Hicks (for instance) before he pleaded guilty in the kangaroo court the land of the free trumped him in.
Fighting for freedom by denying people the rights of liberty is like, well... good luck getting the virginity back, Debbie of Dallas
...the project leader did a course on web design 5 years ago (probably one run by Macroslop) and was told Idiot Exploiter was the best and most efficient browser to target for and interpreted that to mean, ignore web standards to favour the proprietory format......oh, that comes under the "Stupid" category, too
Vinyl is not "better", it is not "warmer", it's only that it has a filtering artefacts from the necessary mastering requirements of the medium that adds phase distortions which the listener finds comforting. This distortions can be (and on some albums are) reproduced on digital with the same "better", "warmer" result.
Now, lets stop publishing stories about stupid luddites who prefer their music scratched, dusty and distorted on a tech forum.
I can see this affecting legal free downloads (sites like MacIDOL, etc) more than it will with torrenting and limewire. If the bastards at my ISP implement this, and wind up cutting me off for downloading a song that's made publicly available, I'll have their effing nuts in a legal vice if it effing bankrupts me.
I'll bet the chemicals being used to solidify the hydrogen are either toxic, or come from a toxic process, just like any energy storage method. They will have finite useful lives, too, no doubt - resulting in a requirement for disposal. Even recycling the hydride substrate material would probably result in toxic wastes.
The issue facing this planet is not sources of energy, it's energy overconsumption. We either need to stablise the population at the current level and use less than 10% of the energy we now use, or cut the population to one tenth of the current figure to continue as we are. Hydrogen won't make a skerrick of difference to that equation.
Pah, pollution free? The only way to live a pollution free life is to live like a chimpanzee.
The glaciation and polar bears and ice core by a faCO2 samples don't in themselves prove global warming.
However, the simple edict of common sense is, if 6 billion people keep burning carbon for energy at western consumption rates, while clearing rainforests and polluting the seas and demanding 50 pieces of tuppaware and a ne Mac or PC every year and wide screen TVs with 15.7 holographic sound that makes espresso just like you can buy at Barstucks, we're all fucked.
Either the planet warms up and we drown loads of agricultural land, or the oil (and eventually the coal, or uranium or whatever else) runs out and we wind up stuck in some pre-industrial agrarian existence. Probably a bit of both is the most likely scenario.
The only thing that will save civilisation as we know it is if HIV goes atmospheric and Ebola restrains itself a bit, then both spread like wildfire across the globe to cut the global population to something around 600 million.
The keys are "belief" and "hope" and the truly self-aware can have belief and hope in survival or freedom without religion. Religion is a useful tool for those unable to believe in themselves. The true survivors are the rare few with the guts to climb a mountain or swim a sea armed with little more than an unshakeable faith in the own ability and preparation.
Based on a study I once read that many survivors of disaster or atrocity who got through with religion turn away from religion once free of the horror. These "mutant" believers provide the true genetic advantage by offering a different path for evolution to follow in a case of severe crisis where only a niche may remain after the crisis.
And on the third day God invented the winchester rifle so that man could fight the dinosaurs and the homosexuals...;-)
Don't you mean "termite" for termites? We fish for fish, ergo we must termite for termites.
And wasn't there a guy a decade ago who said homo sapiens wasn't a separate genus on its own, rather just another species of chimp? (The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond - just found it on Amazon, go have a look.)
...and rapidly the way Australia is heading, too unfortunately:-/
There is only one way to stop this sort of managerial bullying horse poo: UNIONISE
The trade union saying, "United we bargain, divided we beg," is the only certainty in this world. There seems to be an aweful lot of begging going on in the IT industry because it came along when trade unionism was "going out of fashion."
Unionise, strike if necessary, stand together always, and being sued by your employer for taking a better opportunity with another firm (and other crapola) will be significantly reduced if not stamped out completely.
I love that "getting infected with a rootkit" has become "getting rooted" because "root" is Australian slang for sex and "get rooted" is australian slang for... well, figure it out. So isn't it funny that if you turn on speech recognition on a Macroslop box you could be royally rooted up the wazoo:D
Hmm, this thread now smells like nerds...
Coke V Pepsi, Holden (well, Chevy over the pond) V Ford. Who cares? Use what works for you and we Maccies will use what works;-)
But isn't the "Tubes" analogy like those old pneumatic communication pipes? (The ones where you'd roll a document into a cylinder and pop it into a pipe and air pressure would blow the cylinder upstairs to accounting, or another pipe would take the cyclinder to marketing.)
Seems to me, the cylinders are like data packets and the pipes are like T1s, T3s, DSLs, Trunks and Dial-ups.
So tubes or trucks, all analogies work to some degree but breakdown on close scrutiny.
If tubes helps non-geeks understand this mess we call the internet in a way that means they make fewer cockups, let them think of it as tubes. If they prefer trucks, let them think of it as trucks. They both wrong but neither is.
It seems that, in the referenced article, everybody was doing the right thing, but the net effect was the messenger got shot.
The student found a vulnerability, and rather than go public, told his professor. Very responsible, consulting upwards.
The Professor informed the owner of the vulnerable system through channels. Very responsible, staying within procedure.
Apparently the department which owned the vulnerable system took steps to fix it. Obviously very responsible.
When hacked, the department reported all recent activity to the investigators. Again, responsible, because the investigators are presumably the experts in data forensics and need to know what issues may or may not have led to the attack.
The investigator quite rightly wanted to speak to all potential suspects, and the professor as an honest broker, quite rightly, wanted to protect the academic integrity of his career and that of his student, but felt pressured to make potentially prejudicial statements about his student.
It seems to me, the tone of comments here on slashdot are along the lines of "dob, but don't take credit" or "don't dob, it's not worth the pain" - it's nowhere near that simple. The system, which at each individual stage worked well, in concert created an unsafe envirnment for people to do the right thing.
When the system potentially shoots the messenger, the message ultimately will not get through. That is no good for anybody. Even Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia had some whistleblowing procedures aimed at making things better, democracies should welcome whistleblowing with open arms when via proper channels.
Considering that all of my free download music is released under a "non-commercial with attribution" licence (because this is the only way an unsigned artist can get out to an audience on the net - encourage filesharing) I'm going to have to deny podcasters the right to use my music if this comes into effect. I simply refuse to allow any 3rd party DRM to be used on my free material - frankly, no third party has the right to lock an artist's free music without their permission, not Macroslop (Zune DRM), not podcasters, not even the US government. This is worse than the whole multi-tiered internet shit. They can stick this bill where it doesn't fit!
If the job selection criteria were clearly mapped out when the job was advertised, and the short list applicants addressed the selection criteria thoroughly, then it's the applicants' responsibility to figure out what they did wrong or right. That said, some constructive feedback without value judgement is probably nice, but, it still comes down to the best feedback you can give an applicant is a clear, accurate and concise selction criteria statement when you advertise (or when they approach for an application form.)
After reading most of the comments, and concerns that this is either "cool because Apple are doing it" or universally bad, the issue with a technology is not the technology, but the use it is put to. The reason this idea is percieved as cool because Apple are doing it is because Apple has always had a reputation of being user focused, while Microsoft are more "owner focused".
Apple expect the owner to be the user. All their talk earlier this decade about "digital hubs" in the loungeroom mean they see their product as being sold to the person who will make the "policy" decisions about acceptable use as well as doing the work on it. That means it will integrate well in Mac OS, stay out of the way and simply work. The cool stuff will come from the garage developers, just like with motion sensor stuff.
If Microsoft were to implement this (in Vista +10 years? OK, that was cheeky, sorry) it would be focused on corporate environments, and would be all about reminding people about company policy, advertising and keeping the user in line. I don't blame microsoft for this, they are serving their largest customer base, the corporate world - it's exactly what they should do, because that's their most important sector. It's probably perceived as "evil" because "the boss" is seen as a villain by most people.
Or better yet, an Apple gadget tells you you should be somewhere by a certain time if you're not already making your way there, but lowers the priority of the alert the closer you get to that location, knowing that you remembered yourself. The psychology of a gadget like that is better than both machine or self time management, because it it rewards good bahaviour with peace and quiet;-)
The Sony Singstar audio adapter is a class-compliant USB audio device, but better yet, each individual device has a unique embedded serial number for a name, so you can aggregate multiple units via a USB hub.
I've been using a rig of 3 Singstar adapters sourced off eBay for about $20 each, a Griffin iMic I had lying around, some old XLR connectors from junkbox terminated to 1/8th inch plugs to attach the mics and splits, aggregated via a cheap hub and AudioMidi Setup, then fed to Audacity on my iBook to record my band live for about a month now.
Eventually, when we've made a bit more money, I'll probably by a Presonus Firepod, but for now, this does the job almost as well for about a tenth of the cost. Level calibration's a bit of a pain, but the results have been pretty good so far.
In an air-conditioned office building u-bends can run dry in as few as a 4 or 5 days. Air-conditioned atmospheres can be very dry. (Like where I work)-:
Aids doesn't kill itself quickly. It can spread far and wide because it is slow to develop - untreated, typically 5 years from HIV infection to AIDS symptomatic.
"Weapon" diseases are more likely to be like ebola, virulent, exceedingly fast and therefore very localised. I'd be more likely to suspect ebola was manufactured, but viruses evolve so quickly, they all look new after a few years.
Moving in Mac circles as I do, most of the Mac owners I know probably don't care what the processor is (although most of them know it's an Intel in the new ones.)
I think the sub thousand dollar computer brought a whole range of people who buy a computer the way they buy their car - "Gee, it looks nice and seems fast." Just like most car buyers don't know the difference between normal aspiration, fuel injection and turbo or supercharging in terms of how it makes their car work for them. The same for computers - "Why do I need a 5GHz Cell processor? My Intel quad core is fast enough."
one of the key indicators of psychopathy is significant levels of lying in the face of responsibility (among a number of others, of course)
coupled with that study from a few years back that found mild psychopaths make very productive middle managers because they keep the "troops" in line with fear and have no conscience, you've got the potential for the boss to go postal.
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...hey, nobody ever pointed out B&Massa's 3 Da Skips or Jiguma's Guantanamo Vacation, did they? And that was when something could be done to free David Hicks (for instance) before he pleaded guilty in the kangaroo court the land of the free trumped him in. Fighting for freedom by denying people the rights of liberty is like, well... good luck getting the virginity back, Debbie of Dallas
...the project leader did a course on web design 5 years ago (probably one run by Macroslop) and was told Idiot Exploiter was the best and most efficient browser to target for and interpreted that to mean, ignore web standards to favour the proprietory format... ...oh, that comes under the "Stupid" category, too
Vinyl is not "better", it is not "warmer", it's only that it has a filtering artefacts from the necessary mastering requirements of the medium that adds phase distortions which the listener finds comforting. This distortions can be (and on some albums are) reproduced on digital with the same "better", "warmer" result.
Now, lets stop publishing stories about stupid luddites who prefer their music scratched, dusty and distorted on a tech forum.
I can see this affecting legal free downloads (sites like MacIDOL, etc) more than it will with torrenting and limewire. If the bastards at my ISP implement this, and wind up cutting me off for downloading a song that's made publicly available, I'll have their effing nuts in a legal vice if it effing bankrupts me.
...can anybody say CSI?
I'll bet the chemicals being used to solidify the hydrogen are either toxic, or come from a toxic process, just like any energy storage method. They will have finite useful lives, too, no doubt - resulting in a requirement for disposal. Even recycling the hydride substrate material would probably result in toxic wastes.
The issue facing this planet is not sources of energy, it's energy overconsumption. We either need to stablise the population at the current level and use less than 10% of the energy we now use, or cut the population to one tenth of the current figure to continue as we are. Hydrogen won't make a skerrick of difference to that equation.
Pah, pollution free? The only way to live a pollution free life is to live like a chimpanzee.
The glaciation and polar bears and ice core by a faCO2 samples don't in themselves prove global warming.
However, the simple edict of common sense is, if 6 billion people keep burning carbon for energy at western consumption rates, while clearing rainforests and polluting the seas and demanding 50 pieces of tuppaware and a ne Mac or PC every year and wide screen TVs with 15.7 holographic sound that makes espresso just like you can buy at Barstucks, we're all fucked.
Either the planet warms up and we drown loads of agricultural land, or the oil (and eventually the coal, or uranium or whatever else) runs out and we wind up stuck in some pre-industrial agrarian existence. Probably a bit of both is the most likely scenario.
The only thing that will save civilisation as we know it is if HIV goes atmospheric and Ebola restrains itself a bit, then both spread like wildfire across the globe to cut the global population to something around 600 million.
Good luck.
The keys are "belief" and "hope" and the truly self-aware can have belief and hope in survival or freedom without religion. Religion is a useful tool for those unable to believe in themselves. The true survivors are the rare few with the guts to climb a mountain or swim a sea armed with little more than an unshakeable faith in the own ability and preparation.
;-)
Based on a study I once read that many survivors of disaster or atrocity who got through with religion turn away from religion once free of the horror. These "mutant" believers provide the true genetic advantage by offering a different path for evolution to follow in a case of severe crisis where only a niche may remain after the crisis.
And on the third day God invented the winchester rifle so that man could fight the dinosaurs and the homosexuals...
> Some apes use sticks to fish for termites.
Don't you mean "termite" for termites? We fish for fish, ergo we must termite for termites.
And wasn't there a guy a decade ago who said homo sapiens wasn't a separate genus on its own, rather just another species of chimp? (The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond - just found it on Amazon, go have a look.)
...and rapidly the way Australia is heading, too unfortunately :-/
There is only one way to stop this sort of managerial bullying horse poo: UNIONISE
The trade union saying, "United we bargain, divided we beg," is the only certainty in this world. There seems to be an aweful lot of begging going on in the IT industry because it came along when trade unionism was "going out of fashion."
Unionise, strike if necessary, stand together always, and being sued by your employer for taking a better opportunity with another firm (and other crapola) will be significantly reduced if not stamped out completely.
Take no shit and you'll get no shit.
I love that "getting infected with a rootkit" has become "getting rooted" because "root" is Australian slang for sex and "get rooted" is australian slang for... well, figure it out. So isn't it funny that if you turn on speech recognition on a Macroslop box you could be royally rooted up the wazoo :D
If you really knew what you were talking about, you would call it "electronica" and not need to be punished.
;-/ )
(Sometimes I crack me up
Hmm, this thread now smells like nerds... Coke V Pepsi, Holden (well, Chevy over the pond) V Ford. Who cares? Use what works for you and we Maccies will use what works ;-)
But isn't the "Tubes" analogy like those old pneumatic communication pipes? (The ones where you'd roll a document into a cylinder and pop it into a pipe and air pressure would blow the cylinder upstairs to accounting, or another pipe would take the cyclinder to marketing.)
Seems to me, the cylinders are like data packets and the pipes are like T1s, T3s, DSLs, Trunks and Dial-ups.
So tubes or trucks, all analogies work to some degree but breakdown on close scrutiny.
If tubes helps non-geeks understand this mess we call the internet in a way that means they make fewer cockups, let them think of it as tubes. If they prefer trucks, let them think of it as trucks. They both wrong but neither is.
Until the Amen Break became the most sampled/mixed up/mashed up beat in music history, anyway ;)
;)
Can I get me an Amen, Brother!
It seems that, in the referenced article, everybody was doing the right thing, but the net effect was the messenger got shot.
The student found a vulnerability, and rather than go public, told his professor. Very responsible, consulting upwards.
The Professor informed the owner of the vulnerable system through channels. Very responsible, staying within procedure.
Apparently the department which owned the vulnerable system took steps to fix it. Obviously very responsible.
When hacked, the department reported all recent activity to the investigators. Again, responsible, because the investigators are presumably the experts in data forensics and need to know what issues may or may not have led to the attack.
The investigator quite rightly wanted to speak to all potential suspects, and the professor as an honest broker, quite rightly, wanted to protect the academic integrity of his career and that of his student, but felt pressured to make potentially prejudicial statements about his student.
It seems to me, the tone of comments here on slashdot are along the lines of "dob, but don't take credit" or "don't dob, it's not worth the pain" - it's nowhere near that simple. The system, which at each individual stage worked well, in concert created an unsafe envirnment for people to do the right thing.
When the system potentially shoots the messenger, the message ultimately will not get through. That is no good for anybody. Even Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia had some whistleblowing procedures aimed at making things better, democracies should welcome whistleblowing with open arms when via proper channels.
Considering that all of my free download music is released under a "non-commercial with attribution" licence (because this is the only way an unsigned artist can get out to an audience on the net - encourage filesharing) I'm going to have to deny podcasters the right to use my music if this comes into effect. I simply refuse to allow any 3rd party DRM to be used on my free material - frankly, no third party has the right to lock an artist's free music without their permission, not Macroslop (Zune DRM), not podcasters, not even the US government. This is worse than the whole multi-tiered internet shit. They can stick this bill where it doesn't fit!
If the job selection criteria were clearly mapped out when the job was advertised, and the short list applicants addressed the selection criteria thoroughly, then it's the applicants' responsibility to figure out what they did wrong or right. That said, some constructive feedback without value judgement is probably nice, but, it still comes down to the best feedback you can give an applicant is a clear, accurate and concise selction criteria statement when you advertise (or when they approach for an application form.)
After reading most of the comments, and concerns that this is either "cool because Apple are doing it" or universally bad, the issue with a technology is not the technology, but the use it is put to. The reason this idea is percieved as cool because Apple are doing it is because Apple has always had a reputation of being user focused, while Microsoft are more "owner focused".
Apple expect the owner to be the user. All their talk earlier this decade about "digital hubs" in the loungeroom mean they see their product as being sold to the person who will make the "policy" decisions about acceptable use as well as doing the work on it. That means it will integrate well in Mac OS, stay out of the way and simply work. The cool stuff will come from the garage developers, just like with motion sensor stuff.
If Microsoft were to implement this (in Vista +10 years? OK, that was cheeky, sorry) it would be focused on corporate environments, and would be all about reminding people about company policy, advertising and keeping the user in line. I don't blame microsoft for this, they are serving their largest customer base, the corporate world - it's exactly what they should do, because that's their most important sector. It's probably perceived as "evil" because "the boss" is seen as a villain by most people.
Or better yet, an Apple gadget tells you you should be somewhere by a certain time if you're not already making your way there, but lowers the priority of the alert the closer you get to that location, knowing that you remembered yourself. The psychology of a gadget like that is better than both machine or self time management, because it it rewards good bahaviour with peace and quiet ;-)
The Sony Singstar audio adapter is a class-compliant USB audio device, but better yet, each individual device has a unique embedded serial number for a name, so you can aggregate multiple units via a USB hub.
I've been using a rig of 3 Singstar adapters sourced off eBay for about $20 each, a Griffin iMic I had lying around, some old XLR connectors from junkbox terminated to 1/8th inch plugs to attach the mics and splits, aggregated via a cheap hub and AudioMidi Setup, then fed to Audacity on my iBook to record my band live for about a month now.
Eventually, when we've made a bit more money, I'll probably by a Presonus Firepod, but for now, this does the job almost as well for about a tenth of the cost. Level calibration's a bit of a pain, but the results have been pretty good so far.
In an air-conditioned office building u-bends can run dry in as few as a 4 or 5 days. Air-conditioned atmospheres can be very dry. (Like where I work)-:
Aids doesn't kill itself quickly. It can spread far and wide because it is slow to develop - untreated, typically 5 years from HIV infection to AIDS symptomatic.
"Weapon" diseases are more likely to be like ebola, virulent, exceedingly fast and therefore very localised. I'd be more likely to suspect ebola was manufactured, but viruses evolve so quickly, they all look new after a few years.
Moving in Mac circles as I do, most of the Mac owners I know probably don't care what the processor is (although most of them know it's an Intel in the new ones.) I think the sub thousand dollar computer brought a whole range of people who buy a computer the way they buy their car - "Gee, it looks nice and seems fast." Just like most car buyers don't know the difference between normal aspiration, fuel injection and turbo or supercharging in terms of how it makes their car work for them. The same for computers - "Why do I need a 5GHz Cell processor? My Intel quad core is fast enough."
one of the key indicators of psychopathy is significant levels of lying in the face of responsibility (among a number of others, of course)
coupled with that study from a few years back that found mild psychopaths make very productive middle managers because they keep the "troops" in line with fear and have no conscience, you've got the potential for the boss to go postal.
f*** the state of the job market I'm gone...