It is far cheaper to maintain a bunch of get-your-bomb-making-recipes-here websites that provide some kind of misleading recipes. Things that are apt to blow up while being mixed, or things that will emit fumes that slowly kill/dull the bomb makers, things that will appear to blow up in testing but in reality provides a much lower yield, some old wives tales of bomb making etc. These terrorists are not the sharpest knives in the drawer and they are not likely to smell the phony bomb recipe.
In fact this seems to be a great idea. Add some really fake info like, "Every jihadi should pour a little sand
into the barrels of their rifles before firing. The sand will create scratches in the bullets that will make it
impossible for the Great Satan to trace our brave fighters' bullets".
Or "Brave Jihadi Soldiers fighting for Allah! Please take a moment to etch the name of Allah or his Prophet in your
bullets. That will guide these bullets unerringly into the targets".
The sand will cause more jams and render more of the rifles useless. These dumb terrorists etching something on the bullet are more likely to bend/damage the bullet and make it fly less true. Such sprinkling of misinformation is likely to have much better effect and make them suspect anything and everything found on the net.
Microsoft has made no commitment to follow any standard. Including the standards that they developed and supported only in their products. Despite all the effort it put into OOXML ratification, it really made no commitment to implement it fully or support it in the next version. They own 90% of the market and not allowing anyone else to interoperate with them is the clear unambiguous goal for them. So what if IBM posts some accessibility code and donates it? In the next version the accessibility API & GUI will completely change in Windows and so all this code and the effort by others to follow the standards will be thwarted. Sorry to be a cynic, but as long as customers confuse interoperability with Microsoft compatibility there is no way others can win. Customers flock to Microsoft. May be blindly. May be short-sightedly. May be against their own interest. But as long as they do, all we can do is to wring our hands in despair.
Supposing I make a TShirt that says, "By looking at this T-Shirt you agree not to sleep with me. However I am free to change the terms of the contract, and agree that you don't have to notified of any change I make to this policy." and then... you can imagine the rest.
Your Honor, I plead not guilty to the charges, as it was consensual. As per my consent notification system (defense exhibit A, the T-Shirt) and my consent management system, it is very clear that I have implied consent of the plaintiff.
Just a week or two back, in my alumni group a friend posted the following info about Jatropha:
I heard about Jatropha before. While I don't have anything specific to say about Jatropha, there are some general comments I have about bio-based approaches.
1. Plants can absorb light only in the range 400nm-700nm, capturing only 43% of the of the radiation.
2. It has to collect CO2, and hence can use only 25% of the available energy.
3. That brings down the theoretical efficiency of photosynthesis to 11%. Figure in the absorption of light, and the plant has to spend some energy on itself, what it can give you comes down to 6.5% at best.
I don't how Jatropha compares to algae, but you can can be sure that it is not going to exceed 6.5%. Put the fuel in an IC engine, you are probably talking 2% efficiency of photon-to-wheels at best.
They claim slashdot users pounce on hapless writer or reporter and trash them using pedantry and anonymity according to that site. Come on guys, let us show them what is real ripping to shreds is. Show no mercy! Attack!
Nah, you don't get it do you? How much money did you pay to Google when you use them to search for a keyword? The ad-word users pay to show their ads to you. How much are you willing to pay to get only the so called organic search results only and not any sponsored links? You paid nothing, no one is holding a gun to your head asking you to use Google. Go use Lycos or MSN-Live or yahoo or Lexus-Nexxis or whoever you are comfortable with.
The correct way would be to promote "choice" for customers by offering yet another standard and bribe countries like Azerbaijan, Loolooistan, and Iamsodumbistan to make it an ISO standard. It should offer features like "Page break as in Lotus Notes Style" or "autospace like in IBM370/155 JCL//job card punch format" that no body else can offer. Howzthat for product differentiation? Instead is joining OO.org. How sad, the business acumen is so lacking in the Internation BUSINESS Machines!
Mouse1: Hi Dormie, look! The life we created in this test tube is capable of making its own life!
Mouse2: No Way! Get out of here! Lemme look! Darn it, looks like they have done it. What did you call them?
Mouse1: Humans.
Mouse2: What do we do now?
Mouse1: First we need to redraw the plans for the highway, we can no longer run it through Earth. It would be unethical to destroy such an advanced form of life. I never thought they will survive this long though, truth be told.
Wipro is a conglomerate that makes and sells soaps and shampoo and other baby products. Are we sure it is the IT division that is opening the office in Atlanta, GA, and not one of the soap division opening an export office?
A simple email message: "This is a linux virus. It works on the honor principle. Please forward the attached bash script to everyone in your.mailrc and then execute it. Thanks."
I think connection speed is far more important than how fast your browser renders what is coming down the line. Is rendering speed that much of an issue? Also looks like the test is biased towards javascript execution speed.
The second set of jaws is quite interesting. One of the claims of the Creationists (yeah, it predates ID movement and it has been debunked so thoroughly even IDers don't mention it anymore) is the difference in articulation of the jaw between reptiles and mammals. The way the Creationists said it, the jaw first has to be disarticulated from the joint and then re-articulated around a different bone end and during the interim the animal would not be able to eat. So such an evolution is impossible.
Then specimens turned up with a doubly articulated reptilian jaw and series of fossil discoveries that show that the middle bones of the doubly articulated jaw moved into the ear canal and became the middle ear bones conducting sound! The missing link was really a linking bone! And God lost one more place to exist.
It is all very interesting to me, but still I don't think this story deserves to be on the front page.
Why are you describing to slashdotters, 700 watt-hours will light up a 100watt bulb for 7 hours? Is it that easily imaginable? Should use very precise engineering descriptions like, four football fields long or as big as a refrigerator or something. The most descriptive way to describe 700 watt-hours would be something like the energy spent by a senator tapping the restroom stall floor with foot over his entire three term career or the energy used by a/. mod marking 8324 posts as trolls, flamebaits and underrated.
Sounds nice in theory, but it does not work in practice. There are so many voters who have priorities other than office file formats. The appointed politicians know all they have to do is to satisfy their core constituency in whatever matters to them most, gay marriage/rights, (pro/anti)abortion, environment/property rights, national security, personal liberty... Then they are free to do whatever they want on issues that are of interest to a microscopic minority, like office file formats. So using Govt to ensure interoperability would work only when the interested parties do not meddle with the process. So SAE can specify the viscosity of engine oil or width of car tires. IEEE can specify cable connectors...
But when the atmosphere is vitiated like this, the people with direct financial stake in the outcome should step in, and make sure their interests are protected. Why aren't the GEs and Home Depots, and the Walmarts in the committee making sure they have the option to switch vendors easily?
You know who is missing in action very conspicuously here? The Corporations. They are, by far, the largest class of customers for MSFT. If there is a true level playing field and multiple vendors are competing for their business, it is the corporate world that will benefit most. But they are absent!! Why? If the Fortune 500 companies chip in 100K each per year, that will found a Institution with about 50 million dollars. Worldwide, 100m$ per year is not unreasonable budget. You can hire a very good committee and a very competent staff and lay down true interoperability standards that all vendors including MSFT should conform. Fortune 500 Institute for Interoperable Office Software Certification paid by the customers to look after customer's interest would take care of all the shenanigans by all players, not just MSFT. Vendor lock is what every vendor is shooting for. From engineering design automation companies like Ansys, Abacus, PTC, Mentor
Graphics, Synopsis, EESoft to IT vendors like SAP, Oracle to providers like blackberry, BlackBoard (university teaching software) etc all of them play this game. Heck, a ordinary home user like me is vendor locked into Quicken!
It is high time the customers band together and fund an institute that will be chartered to level the playing field and foster competition.
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Now you can autospace like in Word5 or do pagebreak Wordstar style! OOXML coming to Linux!!
So bomb fizzles, so what? You think every one is endowed with an unalienable right to accurate bomb making recipes on the internet?
In fact this seems to be a great idea. Add some really fake info like, "Every jihadi should pour a little sand into the barrels of their rifles before firing. The sand will create scratches in the bullets that will make it impossible for the Great Satan to trace our brave fighters' bullets".
Or "Brave Jihadi Soldiers fighting for Allah! Please take a moment to etch the name of Allah or his Prophet in your bullets. That will guide these bullets unerringly into the targets".
The sand will cause more jams and render more of the rifles useless. These dumb terrorists etching something on the bullet are more likely to bend/damage the bullet and make it fly less true. Such sprinkling of misinformation is likely to have much better effect and make them suspect anything and everything found on the net.
Microsoft has made no commitment to follow any standard. Including the standards that they developed and supported only in their products. Despite all the effort it put into OOXML ratification, it really made no commitment to implement it fully or support it in the next version. They own 90% of the market and not allowing anyone else to interoperate with them is the clear unambiguous goal for them. So what if IBM posts some accessibility code and donates it? In the next version the accessibility API & GUI will completely change in Windows and so all this code and the effort by others to follow the standards will be thwarted. Sorry to be a cynic, but as long as customers confuse interoperability with Microsoft compatibility there is no way others can win. Customers flock to Microsoft. May be blindly. May be short-sightedly. May be against their own interest. But as long as they do, all we can do is to wring our hands in despair.
Sush! Don't give ideas to Bush.
[*] That is Pashtun for, "Don't call me in my cell phone, the Satanists are on to it. just send emails using 2048 bit encryption."
Your Honor, I plead not guilty to the charges, as it was consensual. As per my consent notification system (defense exhibit A, the T-Shirt) and my consent management system, it is very clear that I have implied consent of the plaintiff.
Tell me it ain't so Miguel!
Just a week or two back, in my alumni group a friend posted the following info about Jatropha:
I heard about Jatropha before. While I don't have anything specific to
say about Jatropha, there are some general comments I have about
bio-based approaches.
1. Plants can absorb light only in the range 400nm-700nm, capturing
only 43% of the of the radiation.
2. It has to collect CO2, and hence can use only 25% of the available
energy.
3. That brings down the theoretical efficiency of photosynthesis to
11%. Figure in the absorption of light, and the plant has to spend
some energy on itself, what it can give you comes down to 6.5% at best.
I don't how Jatropha compares to algae, but you can can be sure that
it is not going to exceed 6.5%. Put the fuel in an IC engine, you are
probably talking 2% efficiency of photon-to-wheels at best.
Scotty load the missles.
Aye Sir, fully loaded with 25 Gigatons of sarcasm
Add pedantry
Yes sir, 45 Teratons of pedantry added
And some anonymity too
Aye Sir, anothe 12457 Teratons of anonymity added
Fire at the abominable site
Nah, you don't get it do you? How much money did you pay to Google when you use them to search for a keyword? The ad-word users pay to show their ads to you. How much are you willing to pay to get only the so called organic search results only and not any sponsored links? You paid nothing, no one is holding a gun to your head asking you to use Google. Go use Lycos or MSN-Live or yahoo or Lexus-Nexxis or whoever you are comfortable with.
I hope the jury awards them all the money they paid to Google as fees do the search.
And you can't even remove the batteries to make sure it stays off. Brilliant strategy Steve!
The correct way would be to promote "choice" for customers by offering yet another standard and bribe countries like Azerbaijan, Loolooistan, and Iamsodumbistan to make it an ISO standard. It should offer features like "Page break as in Lotus Notes Style" or "autospace like in IBM370/155 JCL //job card punch format" that no body else can offer. Howzthat for product differentiation? Instead is joining OO.org. How sad, the business acumen is so lacking in the Internation BUSINESS Machines!
Mouse2: No Way! Get out of here! Lemme look! Darn it, looks like they have done it. What did you call them?
Mouse1: Humans.
Mouse2: What do we do now?
Mouse1: First we need to redraw the plans for the highway, we can no longer run it through Earth. It would be unethical to destroy such an advanced form of life. I never thought they will survive this long though, truth be told.
Wipro is a conglomerate that makes and sells soaps and shampoo and other baby products. Are we sure it is the IT division that is opening the office in Atlanta, GA, and not one of the soap division opening an export office?
A simple email message: "This is a linux virus. It works on the honor principle. Please forward the attached bash script to everyone in your .mailrc and then execute it. Thanks."
I think connection speed is far more important than how fast your browser renders what is coming down the line. Is rendering speed that much of an issue? Also looks like the test is biased towards javascript execution speed.
Then specimens turned up with a doubly articulated reptilian jaw and series of fossil discoveries that show that the middle bones of the doubly articulated jaw moved into the ear canal and became the middle ear bones conducting sound! The missing link was really a linking bone! And God lost one more place to exist.
It is all very interesting to me, but still I don't think this story deserves to be on the front page.
Why are you describing to slashdotters, 700 watt-hours will light up a 100watt bulb for 7 hours? Is it that easily imaginable? Should use very precise engineering descriptions like, four football fields long or as big as a refrigerator or something. The most descriptive way to describe 700 watt-hours would be something like the energy spent by a senator tapping the restroom stall floor with foot over his entire three term career or the energy used by a /. mod marking 8324 posts as trolls, flamebaits and underrated.
Thanks buddy! Glad to have inspired someone. You made my day. You run with Open ISO man! It is your baby now.
But when the atmosphere is vitiated like this, the people with direct financial stake in the outcome should step in, and make sure their interests are protected. Why aren't the GEs and Home Depots, and the Walmarts in the committee making sure they have the option to switch vendors easily?
It is high time the customers band together and fund an institute that will be chartered to level the playing field and foster competition.
Just yesterday I announced a competing certifying body . Ain't fair, you taking my idea. I'm gonna sue.
Yup, that is true, even in slashdot. They gave you an insightful instead of funny.