I'll need the EuroDotters among us to confirm if it's more common over there to ask for a full name. Most quasi-savvy Americans are used to Bogusizing such things and only registering for real if it's a kickin' program.
Like we see with the patent trolls, these kinds of operators also have access to lawyers to provide nuisance suits along the theme that they "provided additional packaging services". So if they stuck their own splash screen on it, it *is* work performed, and so makes the case too murky to simply throw out.
I can pay a $100 fine from my my stash of laundry quarters. 30 days in jail would ruin large portions of my life because A, I'll obviously lose any job I already have at that point, and B, I'd get busted on "have you ever served time in jail" questions during interviews.
We're in "Gattaca Territory here". It's tough, but it's not QUITE a total lock. It will just take the ADD subject 7 times as long to train the capability. But "any progress is greater than zero", and all kinds of activities in this class help.
That crowd mastered Old School marketing of junk. "Contains 10% RDA vitamin C!" (And nothing else.) Hooray for 4 cents. Now you can charge an extra dollar and market it as Enriched.
We might be seriously seeing the Ultimate Slashdot Car Analogy. My library informs me that the auto industry struggled with exactly this 30 years ago. Spurred by the Japanese that time, someone noticed that while the cost profile shifts, it really wasn't all that bad making quiet quality improvements across the line.
Yes, we have some fun little beta tech fragments in the works, but the big engines of Office and Browsers are pretty solid, and the OS market is going to hit the comparable maturity in another 5ish years.
With nothing earth shattering available, someone is gonna get 100 OldTimers into a big building for a month and decide to razor down the cruft of existing apps to sell the next iteration on speed improvements.
1. "Use them, and throw them away when the next one comes along."
2. "They will require upgrades to their wardrobe and patches to their jewlry."
3. "SCO is the Rob Schneider "Hot-Chick" of the *nix world. you know, the other definition of hot - he keeps accusing you of stealing 'hot' IP from him."
"My engineering school's entrance tests punished social skills by giving them no expression on the SAT that could offset a mistake elsewhere. Thus, Darwin has his day, yet again."
It's not that HR depts directly see the humanities courses; those are shoved into the major on the weird off chance that someone might need to branch into a tangent field. I once heard the phrase "It's not that Dickens is the greatest literary figure alive; it's that by *learning how to study a text* is a skill that works differently from number crunching."
The surpise is, very suddenly Dickens is proving to be a topic for me to revisit because he had his finger on the pulse of Riches-to-Rags stories which will be cropping up next year. That is a very ethereal brand of education that could give you small tips to avoid social blunders, and by starting "neutral" rather from a disaster, will save you scary scores of cash.
Aspergers is the psychiatry honeypot of the next decade. It's a measure of the confusion when you get an economy that screams "specialize" with a guy too busy specializing to talk to babes and catch bass off the coral reef.
But since all four of the major economic industries just melted, specialization will be the way to survive, in weird little eddy current niches.
I'm thinking that like Sherlock Holmes, if you can get them to bother, Slashdot probably has a fairly strong LightGreyHat population. Isn't this leveraging the power of the net in its grandest form? If Submitter thinks he's got something airtight, let us have at it. You might even fool us into believing it's not advertising!
All. Everyone will have everyone's information. There's no way it can be removed from everywhere. We learned that if you try to nuke the top ten sites, it just floats around the 100 second tier sites you'll never find.
All we can do is resign ourselves to it and be boring enough not to really be worth the time.
Yep, another Security By Noise proponent, also posting as AC.
But at least quit daring the Power of the Collective (Net). I'm as talentless as a cactus and I'll still find something interesting in your terabyte of junk within a weekend. My betters here could crack it in an hour.
You're advocating "security through noise". Doesn't work. That means John Smith will have a tough time *denying* anything ugly that one of the other John Smiths did.
"Oh, that's not me... I only have a Google mail and a Kentucky Friends profile... uh... I think I need to watch that James Duane video again."
Basically we're hosed, and the next 10 years will see us grinding out the implications. Problem is, society moves like molasses, though I think the collective pace has accelerated with the advent of the web.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll need the EuroDotters among us to confirm if it's more common over there to ask for a full name. Most quasi-savvy Americans are used to Bogusizing such things and only registering for real if it's a kickin' program.
Like we see with the patent trolls, these kinds of operators also have access to lawyers to provide nuisance suits along the theme that they "provided additional packaging services". So if they stuck their own splash screen on it, it *is* work performed, and so makes the case too murky to simply throw out.
"In other news, 3/4 of the staff of the FISA has been laid off. A secretary still answers the phone to schedule tours for third graders though."
Sorry, but we'll never see a constitutional convention again. We might see one of those ammendments sent to the people though.
Should we develop the GeekFriendly Code for Politicians?
You seem to think it matters. Bush has decided it doesn't.
Better watch out in South Carolina.
Tron?
The Prisoner?
Or that SF story (Star Trek episode? Some novel?) where the guys didn't know how to do advertising?
"I don't understand how to clock on something". :)
Someone needs to seriously fix those penalities.
I can pay a $100 fine from my my stash of laundry quarters. 30 days in jail would ruin large portions of my life because A, I'll obviously lose any job I already have at that point, and B, I'd get busted on "have you ever served time in jail" questions during interviews.
Wrong.
We're in "Gattaca Territory here". It's tough, but it's not QUITE a total lock. It will just take the ADD subject 7 times as long to train the capability. But "any progress is greater than zero", and all kinds of activities in this class help.
Food.
That crowd mastered Old School marketing of junk. "Contains 10% RDA vitamin C!" (And nothing else.) Hooray for 4 cents. Now you can charge an extra dollar and market it as Enriched.
We might be seriously seeing the Ultimate Slashdot Car Analogy. My library informs me that the auto industry struggled with exactly this 30 years ago. Spurred by the Japanese that time, someone noticed that while the cost profile shifts, it really wasn't all that bad making quiet quality improvements across the line.
Yes, we have some fun little beta tech fragments in the works, but the big engines of Office and Browsers are pretty solid, and the OS market is going to hit the comparable maturity in another 5ish years.
With nothing earth shattering available, someone is gonna get 100 OldTimers into a big building for a month and decide to razor down the cruft of existing apps to sell the next iteration on speed improvements.
1. "Use them, and throw them away when the next one comes along."
2. "They will require upgrades to their wardrobe and patches to their jewlry."
3. "SCO is the Rob Schneider "Hot-Chick" of the *nix world. you know, the other definition of hot - he keeps accusing you of stealing 'hot' IP from him."
Sure you can. Mad Magazine Worked For Me!
Right idea, but it's stronger when inverted.
"My engineering school's entrance tests punished social skills by giving them no expression on the SAT that could offset a mistake elsewhere. Thus, Darwin has his day, yet again."
Bingo.
It's not that HR depts directly see the humanities courses; those are shoved into the major on the weird off chance that someone might need to branch into a tangent field. I once heard the phrase "It's not that Dickens is the greatest literary figure alive; it's that by *learning how to study a text* is a skill that works differently from number crunching."
The surpise is, very suddenly Dickens is proving to be a topic for me to revisit because he had his finger on the pulse of Riches-to-Rags stories which will be cropping up next year. That is a very ethereal brand of education that could give you small tips to avoid social blunders, and by starting "neutral" rather from a disaster, will save you scary scores of cash.
"That contest has no way to win. So, I changed the game."
Everyone *else* will try to answer those geek questions. I know the "model" is Mrs. Doubtfire's daughter, and not what she seems.
Aspergers is the psychiatry honeypot of the next decade. It's a measure of the confusion when you get an economy that screams "specialize" with a guy too busy specializing to talk to babes and catch bass off the coral reef.
But since all four of the major economic industries just melted, specialization will be the way to survive, in weird little eddy current niches.
"Oh, Bill Nye, he showed us how to put frozen carbon dioxide into non-alcoholic drinks. I always appreciated the Dry humor."
"Consulting Search Fee Saved, $5000. Giving people the chance to earn Informative Karma, Priceless!"
I'm thinking that like Sherlock Holmes, if you can get them to bother, Slashdot probably has a fairly strong LightGreyHat population. Isn't this leveraging the power of the net in its grandest form? If Submitter thinks he's got something airtight, let us have at it. You might even fool us into believing it's not advertising!
All. Everyone will have everyone's information. There's no way it can be removed from everywhere. We learned that if you try to nuke the top ten sites, it just floats around the 100 second tier sites you'll never find.
All we can do is resign ourselves to it and be boring enough not to really be worth the time.
Yep, another Security By Noise proponent, also posting as AC.
But at least quit daring the Power of the Collective (Net). I'm as talentless as a cactus and I'll still find something interesting in your terabyte of junk within a weekend. My betters here could crack it in an hour.
You mean John Tiberius Smith or such.
You're advocating "security through noise". Doesn't work. That means John Smith will have a tough time *denying* anything ugly that one of the other John Smiths did.
"Oh, that's not me ... I only have a Google mail and a Kentucky Friends profile... uh... I think I need to watch that James Duane video again."
Basically we're hosed, and the next 10 years will see us grinding out the implications. Problem is, society moves like molasses, though I think the collective pace has accelerated with the advent of the web.
"Posted AC because I've never bothered to create a Slashdot account."
No yahoo or google results found.
How did you do that - find the only 11 word sentence that isn't yet on the web?