Placebo is the term for the sugar pill given to patients undergoing clinical trial. It is a specific form of fake drug. What these criminals are peddling is not just plain fake drug, not something guaranteed to cause no harm. So this should not be called a placebo.
We should not help people whose data is held at ransom. Finally they will see the folly in using cheapest software, in the cheapest platform with no regard for security. Companies will start taking insurance against data loss. And the insurance premium will be more for insecure closed proprietary crapware like Windows.
As long as security is valued at zero dollars when the IT bean counters are evaluating platforms and vendors crapware will proliferate.
I have no doubt most good programmers can pick up a new language pretty fast and even become quite productive. But it is the hiring manager you have to get through. Most HR bean counters go by
grep $keyword resume.txt .
So many programmers feel it is better to stick with what they are asking for in the ads.
A modded up comment says it helps the web site owners to protect one user from another (malicious) user. But it is part of the browser. How does a browser help the server?
Dad company? I thought it was just a hurriedly written, apathetically edited slashdot crud. Turns out the gem was in the original presumably well written article. So the question is who did that "dad" sleep with to spawn Ubuntu?
IANAL. The real reason might be that if someone forges a signature, the companies think they will be able to prove premeditation, criminal intent etc.
I still think they are not really off the hook. Faxed signatures and POS scans won't stand up in court to prove anything. Just procedure infested companies taking too long to understand the impact of new technology. So many companies pay for proprietary software to lock out the print screen key and try to prevent screenshots of confidential documents from being leaked. But I have taken readable screenshots using my cell phone camera.
What do they do? They pretend such camera's don't exist, and plan to feign surprise when shown a screen shot taken by a cell phone camera. Can't figure their logic out there either.
Really? I don't know Ansys enough. They are acquiring Ansoft, and I know Ansoft products very well. One of the amazing thing about Ansoft is the super duper undo/redo. Not just in geometry ops. You could take a fully solved post processed project and edit the geometry. That will invalidate the solutions and all post processed plots and reports become grayed out. You undo the geometry edits, the solutions will come back and the plots will refresh themselves! You can export the current stack of operations as a script file and then edit the script file by hand to automate the analysis! The redo ability is the core of their parametric and optimization product.
May be they will integrate this Ansoft UI technology into Workbench II.
Ivory tower libertines like you infuriate me. Do you know how many terrorist strikes happen in India every year? They laid siege to the parliament, blasted commuter trains, temples... They have to maintain law and order in a society where more than half the population is functionally illiterate. They are susceptible to rumors...
And finally Indian constitution is not the same as US constitution.
... for OOXML to be accepted as an ISO standard. Their spearman ooops, spokesman said, "though MSOffice does not support our language yet, I am sure they will soon because they gave us a picture of King Ballmer, and 24 glass beads".
Since when taking money from chumps is called an attack? Google and Paypal set up the system and they paid out carelessly, why call this ingenious programmer an attacker?
A NASA status report noted that last week, while using the toilet system in the Russian-built service module, âoethe crew heard a loud noise and the fan stopped working.â The solid waste collector is functioning properly, but the system for collecting liquid waste was not.
As far as I remember MSFT never promised to min-win in Windows 7, so technically it is not removal of promised features.
Let us face the stark reality. Windows is not going to die tomorrow or even suffer a sudden death anytime. The main strategy of MSFT has been to always keep things in flux so that nothing else interoperates with them and the competition will
be forever churning its wheels trying to catch up.
Finally things have reached a state where the upgrade speed has slowed down, competition has caught up in many areas and people are slowly realizing the difference between true interoperability and MSFT compatibility. But still the insalled base of Windows is huge, and people who see no reason to or unable to move from XP to Vista are unlikely to move to Linux in a hurry. The market share of Windows will slowly erode and as it erodes the old tactics won't work and that will speed up the erosion. But despite all that MSFT is likely to retain a very large market share for quite a long time. Not really music to most slashdotters, but that is the way things are.
We should stop conflating energy consumed at fixed locations from the energy consumed by the transportation sector. We have enough energy in the form of coal, nuclear power, tar sands, wind, solar, cow dung and what not. Sure, there are problems and pollution and different costs and benefits for each of these sources. But the one big advantage they have is that, they don't make us dependent on fickle foreign powers in unstable regions. We are 100% self sufficient in the fixed-point-energy consumption sector.
But it is a completely different story when it comes to the energy consumed in transportation. There is no viable alternative to gasoline for cars, diesel for trucks and kerosene for the airplanes in the near future. Nothing. And all the crude oil we import goes to transportation.
The politicians are clueless dumb idiots who go through the motions of doing something, on the crazy logic, "we must do something, it is something so we are doing it".
You I wrote the module that is critical to out company's product. Total sales of the product over the last 14 years is over 500 million dollars. Apart from the measly 1.4 mill they gave as salary over the 14 yeas for being a software engineer, I didn't get anything else. I want to blame the Software Engineers union for not negotiating better compensation for me.
Wait, whatever trade group I could join as a software engineer does not have the same clout as UAW or USW. And if it did it would have run to ground the software industry as surely as UAW did the auto industry.
Why does this dumb actor, who just recited the lines given to him is more important than the people who scripted those lines, people who provided the content and context that provided entertainment to the user,feel entitled to a share of the profits? In movies, sports and other such places where the name recognition of the celebrity sells the product, there is a legitimate claim to a share of the profits. If the sales of GTA did not improve just because it was this joker who spoke the lines, he is just another hacker and he deserves a salary not royalty. People who buy my company's product don't buy it because 140Mandak262Jamuna wrote the code. If I have that kind of name recognition, I can demand royalty. Till then I should be satisfied with whatever salary/stock options I can negotiate for me by myself on the strength of my work. And my work is definitely lot more creative and has lot more intellectual property than his voice. But our users buy the product on its merits, not on the name of the author.
For a product to improve there should be feedback to the market forces that removes bad software. When the feedback is bad because the users are apathetic or because the users are uninformed the product will not improve. Just browse through the old advertisements at the turn of the century American newspapers. Thousands and thousands of ads for things like, "Uncle Ben's Oil of Balsam, complete cure for Arthritis". When the users are not able judge the product objectively, there is no way for the free market to improve the product through competition.
The computer magazines whose job it is to educate the consumers and judge software are compromised by the conflict of interest. They depend on the ads from the very same software companies to survive.
The link does not tell us how to attack and render all computers in [insert your favorite evil company
here AAPL,MSFT,GOOG]. Just some research guy jaw boning what could be done. So technically there is nothing worthwhile for the slashdot crowd.
Your logic falls flat buddy. Only images that venerate and make a God out of Mohammad would lead to a personality cult. Images that denigrate him and make a mockery of him has no danger of creating a personality cult, deification or apotheosis of Mohammad. So it should be perfectly permissible to make mocking images of Mohammad and only images that portray him as God should be prohibited.
Further you seem to think only way to make a personality cult is by creating images of him portraying him as God. It is perfectly possible to create a personality cult about Mohammad without any pictures. In fact the entire religion of Islam seems to be a personality cult about Mohammad.
The daily prayer being shouted five times a day from every mosque says, "ya ilahi il allah, muhammad ul al-sur illah" "There is no God, except Allah, and Mohammad is His messenger". And now you want to argue Muslims don't want a personality cult around Mohammad? They just want a small distinction that Mohammad should not be called God, but he should be treated as one.
I am not arguing who is a real muslim and who is a real Hindu who is the true authentic patriotic Indian (TM) etc. All I see is, if someone posts a picture insulting Mohammad, buses get torched and film makers get murdered. If someone posts a picture insulting Shivaji, some policemen pick some random innocent guy and beat him up. Both are bad. But to greatly varying degrees.
I am not even saying all Indian patriots revere Shivaji. But friend and foes alike agree that he was a warrior and not a saint.
Muslims are not supposed to allow images of Mohammad to be made in the first place,
Very convenient of you to use the passive voice.
Good. Muslims should not allow WHO to make images of Mohammad? Other muslims? Or everyone else, muslim or not? How can Mohammad's preaching
be binding on non muslims? And how do you parse allow? How should it be prohibited? By
law in islamic countries? Or by street protests
in muslim countries on rumors that someone somewhere insulted Mohammad by making a picture?
You know what is infuriating? The alleged Muslim moderates who lecture us and explain why the hard core muslims are getting mad and how we should alter our behavior so that the extremist muslims are not provoked. Why don't these guys spend at least a tenth of that effort to educate the muslim extremists about how the West?
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Placebo is the term for the sugar pill given to patients undergoing clinical trial. It is a specific form of fake drug. What these criminals are peddling is not just plain fake drug, not something guaranteed to cause no harm. So this should not be called a placebo.
As long as security is valued at zero dollars when the IT bean counters are evaluating platforms and vendors crapware will proliferate.
So many programmers feel it is better to stick with what they are asking for in the ads.
A modded up comment says it helps the web site owners to protect one user from another (malicious) user. But it is part of the browser. How does a browser help the server?
When the conference call is initiated by a woman, the robot will put on a hijab or burqa.
Dad company? I thought it was just a hurriedly written, apathetically edited slashdot crud. Turns out the gem was in the original presumably well written article. So the question is who did that "dad" sleep with to spawn Ubuntu?
Risk to the vendor is defined as the amount of power their customers are going to have over them.
I still think they are not really off the hook. Faxed signatures and POS scans won't stand up in court to prove anything. Just procedure infested companies taking too long to understand the impact of new technology. So many companies pay for proprietary software to lock out the print screen key and try to prevent screenshots of confidential documents from being leaked. But I have taken readable screenshots using my cell phone camera. What do they do? They pretend such camera's don't exist, and plan to feign surprise when shown a screen shot taken by a cell phone camera. Can't figure their logic out there either.
May be they will integrate this Ansoft UI technology into Workbench II.
What do you mean ANSYS has no undo button? Have you submitted a bug about it? Will check. I think Workbench has unlimited undo/redo.
And finally Indian constitution is not the same as US constitution.
... for OOXML to be accepted as an ISO standard. Their spearman ooops, spokesman said, "though MSOffice does not support our language yet, I am sure they will soon because they gave us a picture of King Ballmer, and 24 glass beads".
Andrew San, You have a /. id 5K. It is beneath you to take the bait from AC trolls. Still, thank you for taking time to explain your stand.
Since when taking money from chumps is called an attack? Google and Paypal set up the system and they paid out carelessly, why call this ingenious programmer an attacker?
A NASA status report noted that last week, while using the toilet system in the Russian-built service module, âoethe crew heard a loud noise and the fan stopped working.â The solid waste collector is functioning properly, but the system for collecting liquid waste was not.
Let us face the stark reality. Windows is not going to die tomorrow or even suffer a sudden death anytime. The main strategy of MSFT has been to always keep things in flux so that nothing else interoperates with them and the competition will be forever churning its wheels trying to catch up.
Finally things have reached a state where the upgrade speed has slowed down, competition has caught up in many areas and people are slowly realizing the difference between true interoperability and MSFT compatibility. But still the insalled base of Windows is huge, and people who see no reason to or unable to move from XP to Vista are unlikely to move to Linux in a hurry. The market share of Windows will slowly erode and as it erodes the old tactics won't work and that will speed up the erosion. But despite all that MSFT is likely to retain a very large market share for quite a long time. Not really music to most slashdotters, but that is the way things are.
But it is a completely different story when it comes to the energy consumed in transportation. There is no viable alternative to gasoline for cars, diesel for trucks and kerosene for the airplanes in the near future. Nothing. And all the crude oil we import goes to transportation.
The politicians are clueless dumb idiots who go through the motions of doing something, on the crazy logic, "we must do something, it is something so we are doing it".
Wait, whatever trade group I could join as a software engineer does not have the same clout as UAW or USW. And if it did it would have run to ground the software industry as surely as UAW did the auto industry.
Why does this dumb actor, who just recited the lines given to him is more important than the people who scripted those lines, people who provided the content and context that provided entertainment to the user ,feel entitled to a share of the profits? In movies, sports and other such places where the name recognition of the celebrity sells the product, there is a legitimate claim to a share of the profits. If the sales of GTA did not improve just because it was this joker who spoke the lines, he is just another hacker and he deserves a salary not royalty. People who buy my company's product don't buy it because 140Mandak262Jamuna wrote the code. If I have that kind of name recognition, I can demand royalty. Till then I should be satisfied with whatever salary/stock options I can negotiate for me by myself on the strength of my work. And my work is definitely lot more creative and has lot more intellectual property than his voice. But our users buy the product on its merits, not on the name of the author.
Just wait till you hear about the plan they have to go after the Nigerian 409 scammers.
The computer magazines whose job it is to educate the consumers and judge software are compromised by the conflict of interest. They depend on the ads from the very same software companies to survive.
The link does not tell us how to attack and render all computers in [insert your favorite evil company here AAPL,MSFT,GOOG]. Just some research guy jaw boning what could be done. So technically there is nothing worthwhile for the slashdot crowd.
on the patent for using neutrinos for communications, OK? All other patent trolls, stay off, this baby is mine!
Further you seem to think only way to make a personality cult is by creating images of him portraying him as God. It is perfectly possible to create a personality cult about Mohammad without any pictures. In fact the entire religion of Islam seems to be a personality cult about Mohammad.
The daily prayer being shouted five times a day from every mosque says, "ya ilahi il allah, muhammad ul al-sur illah" "There is no God, except Allah, and Mohammad is His messenger". And now you want to argue Muslims don't want a personality cult around Mohammad? They just want a small distinction that Mohammad should not be called God, but he should be treated as one.
You agree he was a warrior and not a saint, right?
I am not even saying all Indian patriots revere Shivaji. But friend and foes alike agree that he was a warrior and not a saint.
Muslims are not supposed to allow images of Mohammad to be made in the first place,
Very convenient of you to use the passive voice. Good. Muslims should not allow WHO to make images of Mohammad? Other muslims? Or everyone else, muslim or not? How can Mohammad's preaching be binding on non muslims? And how do you parse allow? How should it be prohibited? By law in islamic countries? Or by street protests in muslim countries on rumors that someone somewhere insulted Mohammad by making a picture?
You know what is infuriating? The alleged Muslim moderates who lecture us and explain why the hard core muslims are getting mad and how we should alter our behavior so that the extremist muslims are not provoked. Why don't these guys spend at least a tenth of that effort to educate the muslim extremists about how the West?