After OBL was killed there were plenty of news reports about "Who is Osama?" topping the search queries and tweets. I recall one of the teens interviewed about not known who OBL was prior to this news said, "I don't google or search for anything anymore. If I want to know something, I tweet and someone who knows will tell me". Looks the tweeterati considers only stuff about their core group as "news" and everything else something secondary to their self absorbed life. No wonder tweets do not direct people to news stories.
Find the kids with huge number of followers. And start calling them "Sir" or "Madam", they are your next Senator or Rep or a Prez.
Scared ya, right? OBL was nothing folks. This is scary.
To the most exalted Emir of the al-Umma: Hope this report finds Your Caliphate in excellent health and kind disposition. Our Third Sher-e-Umma division has breached through the shores of Dover, England and we hope to annex it and bring the UK from dar-ul-haarb to dar-ul-islam in a few days, inshah allah. On the other side of the Atlantic the Zulficar-e-Islami army has conquered Alabama, Texas and Kentucky. We will soon be besieging the capital of the Great Satan next month. inshah allah.
To reward the commanders of these armies, we humbly request your highness to authorize a sum of 250,000 USDollars from the Treasury of the new Ummah. Signed your most faithful and obedient servant al- Zawahiri.
Glossary:
al-Umma = the (islamic) world
Sher-e-umma = Tiger of the islamic world
dar-ul-haarb = World at war (where the usual Quaranic rules of kindness and charity does not apply. Usually the countries not ruled by muslims)
OJ killed his wife! What rot! He is hot on the trail of the real murderer. He never passes a chance to walk through the rough between the 7th and 8th holes just to see if the real killer is lurking there. Why! He always has a pair of binoculars stashed in his golf bag and fishing tackle so that he could look out for the real killer. This being slashdot I will probably be modded down by some moderator with a preconceived notion that OJ killed his wife.
. Easy habits to get into and I am never searching through piles like I see others doing. My desk stays neat and organized and I always have what I need for any day right in front of me.
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Your question might come across as dumb to other slashdotters, but I find it incredibly relevant.
One thing we learn very early is that one must keep the desk nice and clean and neat. Otherwise mom will throw you out of the basement.
So saving the documents for 7 years is evidence of admission that you are committing a felony? BTW do the felons also set the malicious bit on while transmitting packets to the ethernet?
If you outlaw patents for math only outlaws will have patents for math. Oh, wait... it did not not come out right. OMG! The outlaws are already having patents for math!
Let us say they were able to map bulk of the API that does the actual work on the app. Let us even assume they kluge a virtual environment to let the app talk to "apple app store" and transfer it to MS app store and then hack some authentication too. After all one should be able to simulate enough of it in vm to get it going. Then what?
Back in the days of Visual Studio 4 our company was doing mainly unix development. We hacked enough scripts to take the unix Imakefile and make it call the Visual Studio compilers and linkers to get the nightly build done on PCs. Main development was in unix. In version 4 or 5 they took away the command line. It was brought back later in v6 or so by the big players. But the damage was already done in our company. We had moved all the Imakefiles out, and wrote out vcproj files, and went to that nightmare called Mainsoft and the build env could never go back to Imakefile and linux when eventually much cheaper alternative to solaris, hpux, irix and Del Alpha emerged. One code base. Overnight builds. We did not need bounds checker or purify. Any memory error forgiven in one platform will crash in another.
I just wish MS would sink a couple of billion dollars to make this kluge work and then Apple make enough tiny changes to the API to make it such pain they get the taste of what they were dishing out to others. I want Apple and Microsoft enter into such a slugfest most developers give up in disgust and move to some platform neutral development environment. I want the dev tool makers to have no incentive to push one platform over another. Would that day ever come?
Yup, you could fire everyone in FBI and hire accountants who would mail 200$ vouchers to every citizen of America to hire the Pinkerton Detective Agency to guard their home, life and liberty, but still it would be called FBI.
Oh, wait. It is the Ryan plan for security after 'taking care' of medicare. oops, sorry let the cat out of the bag.
Engineering and medical education takes more equipment and resources. Lab costs, technicians to run the machines, have to compete with the industry to get qualified teachers etc. So it makes sense to charge more for these disciplines. But these tend to pay more salaries to the graduates and they have an easier time getting a job. So they should be able to pay more. But it would be a better idea to charge the same tuition fees to all grads and ask for a percentage of salary earned in the first two years as additional fees. It would be a radical idea to reduce the tuition fees to bare minimum for all grads and ask for a salary sharing arrangment.
Just another example of innovate or die. They had a HUGE place in business servers years ago, and then they just sat down on their laurels, and never stood back up.
No, their prices were being undercut by Microsoft, which had independent revenue stream in the form of MsOffice and Windows. It is impossible for any company to fight this in their own turf. Microsoft will simply wait for you to run out of cash and then sweep in and peck on the carcass.
I am very surprised by the lack of controls in some companies. I get magazine subscription form written just like an invoice. I was wondering why, when a friend told me that some companies would routinely mail payments to anything that looks like an official invoice. Also so many company provided cell phone accounts are victims of slamming (adding unauthorized service to a phone bill, mostly things like cheat code alerts for games or apps) and the companies don't even realize it. Some companies with direct billing by hotels routinely pad up the invoices and bills for services never rendered and they get paid. Recently in Pittsburgh the CEO of a tiny bank stole 1 million dollars through unauthorized ATM transactions and brought the bank down.
But of course some companies are on the other end of the spectrum and make mid level managers to sign off on each cup of coffee bought in airports.
I am not able to understand this. They already own USA. Then why are they stealing from something they already own? Well, chalk it up to yet another thing of deep eastern mysticism unfathomable by the shallow western philosophical materialists.
Come on Apple thought about it. Everyone knows Moses' tablets were rectangular with a curvy arc for the top side. OK OK not everyone. Only those who saw "The Ten Commandments" by Cecil B DeMille but the principle is the same. The bottom corners were not rounded. That is why Apple patented the "rectangle with rounded corner" tablet.
The data not owned by the cloud provider is sitting in some hard disks owned by the provider. The liquidator gets the disks. Now you may be legally right in saying the data does not belong to the liquidator. But how is this going to be enforced? If these disks change hands enough times to make the trail cold it will eventually sanitize it and they will own the data.
As others have pointed out, there are other companies still making and selling manual typewriters. But Godrej is probably the last major English manual typewriter maker. I have used this typewriter, and it is almost ubiquitous in India. Almost every village or a hamlet in India would have a "typewriting" institute. Tiny private trade schools. It was almost a rite of passage in South India to join one of these institutes and pass the "lower" (60 wpm) or the "higher" (90wpm) certificate examns. If you could get a higher certificate in typewriting or shorthand (90 wpm and 120 wpm respectively in shorthand) you are sure to find a job. One of the most surefire tickets out of poverty for the rural folks. I remember seeing a magazine story about a steno-typist who built a temple for Pitman, the originator of English shorthand long time ago.
Now a days all these "typewriting institutes" are teaching Java/Oracle/Dcom/PeopleSoft/Ansys and all kinds of assorted often unrelated software packages.
Cloud providers win business by doing a shiny PowerPoint with animated graphics showing all those...The problems come behind the PowerPoint..
But between the powerpoint and the emergence of the problems, there are bonuses for the top management. The gang has shown the powerpoint to the board and have already awarded themselves fat bonuses and have already left camp looking for their next chump. The board also does not care too much, they get paid, what 100K for six meetings in a year? and the free use of corporate guest houses, jet, club memberships and special boxes in the stadia...
The stock traders don't care either. They buy before the conference call, wait for the "guidance" from the CEO and sell a day after the call.
So who pays? The ultimate chump is the small investor and the taxpayers. The big investors would be bailed by the government.
What happens when the furniture store goes out of business, ok ok it does every Presidents day, so let me pick another example. What happens when the office supply store or the new italian restaurant opened by the very optimistic young couple goes out of business? Some liquidator gets all the "assets" and sells them off. So your data will be owned by liquidator and sold off to the highest bidder.
There could be legal agreements between you and the provider that prevents the provider from selling it. But the liquidator could be acting as an agent to some creditor, who might not have all the incentives to be nice to you. So you put it on the cloud. Make sure it is not something that will embarrass you if it becomes public, something that will not cause you damage if it ends up in Nigeria.
Let the private industry pay the full cost of the energy. Like all wars to secure the oil supplies should be funded by a tax on oil. All costs of pollution in the production and in the use of these fossil fuels should be paid by a tax on the fuel. When we tax payers are bearing the burnt of pollution and wars to secure oil, we have these people who are drinking the industry supplied cool-aid mouthing off platitudes.
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Find the kids with huge number of followers. And start calling them "Sir" or "Madam", they are your next Senator or Rep or a Prez.
Scared ya, right? OBL was nothing folks. This is scary.
Well, I wonder why Douglas Adams did not scratch Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England off and give the award to James Abbot.
To reward the commanders of these armies, we humbly request your highness to authorize a sum of 250,000 USDollars from the Treasury of the new Ummah. Signed your most faithful and obedient servant al- Zawahiri.
Glossary:
al-Umma = the (islamic) world
Sher-e-umma = Tiger of the islamic world
dar-ul-haarb = World at war (where the usual Quaranic rules of kindness and charity does not apply. Usually the countries not ruled by muslims)
dar-ul-islam = World at peace (!dar-ul-haarb)
inshah allah = God willing
Zulficar-i-islami = Sword of peace
OJ killed his wife! What rot! He is hot on the trail of the real murderer. He never passes a chance to walk through the rough between the 7th and 8th holes just to see if the real killer is lurking there. Why! He always has a pair of binoculars stashed in his golf bag and fishing tackle so that he could look out for the real killer. This being slashdot I will probably be modded down by some moderator with a preconceived notion that OJ killed his wife.
rm -f /bin/laden
What the hell? They forgot to add a -r option as in
\rm -rf /bin/laden
Now we have to manually delete al Zawahiri and then the next one in line and then the next ....
Atleast they seem to have unset noclobber
. Easy habits to get into and I am never searching through piles like I see others doing. My desk stays neat and organized and I always have what I need for any day right in front of me.
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Your question might come across as dumb to other slashdotters, but I find it incredibly relevant.
One thing we learn very early is that one must keep the desk nice and clean and neat. Otherwise mom will throw you out of the basement.
So saving the documents for 7 years is evidence of admission that you are committing a felony? BTW do the felons also set the malicious bit on while transmitting packets to the ethernet?
If you outlaw patents for math only outlaws will have patents for math. Oh, wait... it did not not come out right. OMG! The outlaws are already having patents for math!
Back in the days of Visual Studio 4 our company was doing mainly unix development. We hacked enough scripts to take the unix Imakefile and make it call the Visual Studio compilers and linkers to get the nightly build done on PCs. Main development was in unix. In version 4 or 5 they took away the command line. It was brought back later in v6 or so by the big players. But the damage was already done in our company. We had moved all the Imakefiles out, and wrote out vcproj files, and went to that nightmare called Mainsoft and the build env could never go back to Imakefile and linux when eventually much cheaper alternative to solaris, hpux, irix and Del Alpha emerged. One code base. Overnight builds. We did not need bounds checker or purify. Any memory error forgiven in one platform will crash in another.
I just wish MS would sink a couple of billion dollars to make this kluge work and then Apple make enough tiny changes to the API to make it such pain they get the taste of what they were dishing out to others. I want Apple and Microsoft enter into such a slugfest most developers give up in disgust and move to some platform neutral development environment. I want the dev tool makers to have no incentive to push one platform over another. Would that day ever come?
Oh, no! They forgot to pay the 20$ extra fee to install memory card in the flight data recorder? Bummer!
Oh, wait. It is the Ryan plan for security after 'taking care' of medicare. oops, sorry let the cat out of the bag.
Engineering and medical education takes more equipment and resources. Lab costs, technicians to run the machines, have to compete with the industry to get qualified teachers etc. So it makes sense to charge more for these disciplines. But these tend to pay more salaries to the graduates and they have an easier time getting a job. So they should be able to pay more. But it would be a better idea to charge the same tuition fees to all grads and ask for a percentage of salary earned in the first two years as additional fees. It would be a radical idea to reduce the tuition fees to bare minimum for all grads and ask for a salary sharing arrangment.
Just another example of innovate or die. They had a HUGE place in business servers years ago, and then they just sat down on their laurels, and never stood back up.
No, their prices were being undercut by Microsoft, which had independent revenue stream in the form of MsOffice and Windows. It is impossible for any company to fight this in their own turf. Microsoft will simply wait for you to run out of cash and then sweep in and peck on the carcass.
Signed
Dr Watson.
But of course some companies are on the other end of the spectrum and make mid level managers to sign off on each cup of coffee bought in airports.
I am not able to understand this. They already own USA. Then why are they stealing from something they already own? Well, chalk it up to yet another thing of deep eastern mysticism unfathomable by the shallow western philosophical materialists.
Come on Apple thought about it. Everyone knows Moses' tablets were rectangular with a curvy arc for the top side. OK OK not everyone. Only those who saw "The Ten Commandments" by Cecil B DeMille but the principle is the same. The bottom corners were not rounded. That is why Apple patented the "rectangle with rounded corner" tablet.
The data not owned by the cloud provider is sitting in some hard disks owned by the provider. The liquidator gets the disks. Now you may be legally right in saying the data does not belong to the liquidator. But how is this going to be enforced? If these disks change hands enough times to make the trail cold it will eventually sanitize it and they will own the data.
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/south-asia/the-land-where-isaac-pitman-shorthand-inventor-is-a-god
Now a days all these "typewriting institutes" are teaching Java/Oracle/Dcom/PeopleSoft/Ansys and all kinds of assorted often unrelated software packages.
Cloud providers win business by doing a shiny PowerPoint with animated graphics showing all those ...The problems come behind the PowerPoint ..
But between the powerpoint and the emergence of the problems, there are bonuses for the top management. The gang has shown the powerpoint to the board and have already awarded themselves fat bonuses and have already left camp looking for their next chump. The board also does not care too much, they get paid, what 100K for six meetings in a year? and the free use of corporate guest houses, jet, club memberships and special boxes in the stadia...
The stock traders don't care either. They buy before the conference call, wait for the "guidance" from the CEO and sell a day after the call.
So who pays? The ultimate chump is the small investor and the taxpayers. The big investors would be bailed by the government.
There could be legal agreements between you and the provider that prevents the provider from selling it. But the liquidator could be acting as an agent to some creditor, who might not have all the incentives to be nice to you. So you put it on the cloud. Make sure it is not something that will embarrass you if it becomes public, something that will not cause you damage if it ends up in Nigeria.
I'm guessing it will be more of a hoppy bitter than a bilious bitter ;-)
Nah, The European scientists console themselves saying, "at anytime I can emigrate to USA at double or triple the salary."
Let the private industry pay the full cost of the energy. Like all wars to secure the oil supplies should be funded by a tax on oil. All costs of pollution in the production and in the use of these fossil fuels should be paid by a tax on the fuel. When we tax payers are bearing the burnt of pollution and wars to secure oil, we have these people who are drinking the industry supplied cool-aid mouthing off platitudes.
Googling turned this up. It is more of a corroboration than a research reference. The book appears to be a general life-philosophy kind of book. http://books.google.com/books?id=Skno0ivxx0IC&pg=PT105&lpg=PT105&dq=marked+zebra+gets+killed&source=bl&ots=zcBFrlxfiP&sig=DMKe7qifVt9RGh37DQp9r7hOXXg&hl=en&ei=02q0TfzxDJGEtgfUppjqDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false Will continue looking for the citation. But may not be as relentlessly as lion hunts a zebra ;-)