this is a security company telling you information that drives their sales. its like an ice cream manufacturer saying "i see a need for more ice cream in the future."
im surprised slashdot hasnt become more abrasive toward this type of annoying product placement and corporate fear mongering.
you're being told to buy something new and expensive, and you're being told lies about it. this hasnt changed for the majority of the technological frontiers expansion.
the gigabyte was 1024 megs, you were told a nice even 1000.
computer monitors often had higher resolution than 1080P, you were told 1080p trumped all other image quality standards.
retina displays in iphones delivered a sharper display, you were told the display allowed "the highest resolution phone ever"
carriers routinely drop and mangle calls, offer shit dataservice, and overcharge. you were told they never dropped calls, offered the fastest internet, and offered affordable plans for the whole family.
it was archaic and priestly and weeeee liked it that way!
now if you'll excuse me i cant wait to download the latest fedora, install the minimal package set, and curl the rest of the
comments in this article for later fist-shaking critique.
fuel efficiency and sustainable transportation technology is teaching the average lard-bellied coffee swilling cell phone barking commuter the difference between
responsible safe driving and break neck dale earnhart rally racing. for example:
not every green light means floor the accelerator
if its 80 degrees outside, you likely do not need the AC blasting
the posted highway speed limit of 65 is not to be interpreted as 85.
dont "race" up to the red light as fast as you can, only to pound the brakes 60 feet from the intersection
married with kids is not a justification for the latest SUV, domestic or foreign
consider foregoing the automobile if your destination is within one mile.
are pointless. its like reading a phonebook, and the subject matter fails to entice anyone...
now, had Carl Sagan so much as uttered the first sentence of a comment he heard related to the summary? My jaw would drop, my eyes would glass over,
and I would spend the next three hours digging through the mess in the garage trying to find my old telescope and praying for some miraculous cavalcade of
ineffably grandiose funding for NASA.
how all these articles focus mostly on China. If this were 45 years ago, you could replace china with soviet union, and cyber warfare with nuclear holocaust. In my opinion this just goes to show how generally targeted and short sighted most american foreign policy really is. There is always something new to fear, new to hate.
i have yet to see any corporation with a major internet presence or market segment come close to following or guaranteeing their privacy policies with complete certitude. Companies from AT&T to Facebook to Chase never see a punishment for these leaks, or rather if Google does it would be an exception to the longstanding rule of american internet commerce.
outrage does nothing. Users should take this revelation as an opportunity to improve their general knowledge of internet security.
should not go up for a vote by "most americans." I've worked helpdesk and computer systems engineering my entire career, and can assure you the very same person who uses his cdrom as a cupholder and assumes clickjacking to be some sort of fetish, cant possibly imagine what a cyber attack is outside of what the last die hard movie and 4 iterations of the terminator movie franchise have taught him. In addition, many americans dont understand the internet was designed during the cold war...by its very definition and design, killing it with a single point of activation should not be possible. Lastly, America has been handling cyber-attacks the same way it has since the inception of the internet, with skilled engineers and administrators operating re actively and proactively to situations as they arise and can be anticipated.
I cant in good conscience subscribe to the hullabaloo that is the "cyber attack" and i dont encourage slashdotters to either. Its present definition is as laughable as the options for defense and solution to its ire. I may be speaking controversially, however i also feel this is just one more scientific field in which americans are poorly equipped to think critically of and seem to be told to just appreciate that fact. In relation, if a majority of americans refute or deny such scientific concepts such as climate change and evolution, what makes them the least bit qualified to comment on more modern technology?
revelation. Billions of dollars in TARP spending and two wars heavily funded without so much as an eyebrows raise...but one of the foremost scientific research and exploration communities in the united states, dare i even say the world, which recently help design the rescue and recovery vehicle for trapped mine workers, now has to hold the equivalent of a technology "bake sale" for funding. when does this stop?
on a straight model M from unicomp. I havent found the design to be painful, then again i never learned "the correct way" to type with fingers gingerly wadded against the home row keys.
while i can see maintaining a gui that for all intents mimics the ease of use of mac, the state of the linux GUI is nothing short of hellishly bloated. GNOME makes its best effort to keep the bloat to a minimum, but in the end fluxbox, blackbox, and a host of others make it look downright obese. Kudos to the guys at Ubuntu. if you can bring something better to the table, bring it!
Microsoft is a corporation, a technology corporation but a corporation nevertheless. The mentality behind this move is very clear: whatever it takes for the dog to bite. If they scoffed and tried to force the entire suite of products at full price on a cash-strapped city on the heels of an election they would get no business whatsoever, and some PHB who finally listened to the greyhair running the servers would find out exactly how good microsofts competition is. business operating is a recession is still business, it just becomes slightly less encumbered.
incentivized to go out and innovate??? Someone forgot this Bing technology which microsoft has innovated so greatly is mostly just yahoo under the hood. based on the core technology alone, one could surmise they dont have many intelligent folks working long hours on this. I suspect the real reason was a nice, greasy palm full of cash from microsoft.
as for the social web i could take it or leave it, mark. People forget the original "social web" was IRC and usenet. All you've offered arguably is a clever sand box for market research and a communications system that doesn't challenge anyone to engage in a real conversation.
the 13 acres of hell this country went through, kicking and screaming, just to get to digital television.
Just because every CEO present for this sales pitch owns an iPhone 4, does not mean the grinding poverty of Appalachia, the intellectual bankruptcy of the deep south, or the budgetless west coast are even remotely capable of turning this page. As long as we all have grandmothers and relatives printing out taxes and mailing them with saliva greased postage stamps, the trillion dollars is about as real as the 21st century flying car i was promised.
the url shortener will work as well as their app engine site works, that is to say after a while people will realize its just another vector for spam and malware and begin adding it web filters and email filters at carrier gateways. Working for a rather large email service provider, i can assure you after a month chances are very good ill have the entire subnet theyre peddling this from on my various scanning clusters collective shitlists.
is more realistic approaches to nuclear nonproliferation. face up to the fact that all countries will inevitably achieve nuclear weapons capability in the near future, and act accordingly with the international community through political and economic incentives to assure all countries are well appraised that, while attractive in the face of gridlock warfare or political strife, the ending outcome of nuclear war is negative for all parties involved. Arms will always proliferate, the question is, how do we proliferate peace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron
although he started as a physicist, he never completed it. I dont fault the sentiment though (i certainly root for the guy in his quest,) but there are some fundamentally insurmountable challenges he has yet to address or even expound upon for that matter. Alas, dreamers dream is my point i think.
i have to say, yeah, this is a spectacular piece of news for cameron and a great promo for his next film. "i want to shoot for the stars" is a great thrill, but the fact of the matter is, a submarine capable of withstanding 8TPI of seawater pressure is not the same as say, commissioning a rolls royce with a custom paint job. That is, just because you say it needs to happen, and you might throw "lots" of money at it, does not mean it will even get off the drawing board. The Soviet military once built a submarine called Komsomolets capable of a 1000 meter dive, but thats still roughly 8000 meters short of the target depth our television director wants.
Chattanooga elicited mixed responses at the announcement today of gigabit internet. Some residents questioned how it related to Obamacare and the socialist marxist conspiracies of which they have been so well appraised through the "talkybox glenn beck lives in." Others furrowed their brows in consternation, as rumors circulated that this newer, faster internet would affect the price of skoal chewing tobacco, beer, or both. Church sermons are planned to be held in the town center tonight as many religious leaders suspect this is a secret conspiracy by Islamic radicals to institute gay marriage.
arguably are not relevant in space...or at least i fail to see the relevance from any standpoint other than purely tactical. The only thing spacecraft require
is an understanding of eachothers location, and an understanding of the location of objects around them. a significantly well developed computer program
would certainly be capable of tracking this information
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this is a security company telling you information that drives their sales. its like an ice cream manufacturer saying "i see a need for more ice cream in the future."
im surprised slashdot hasnt become more abrasive toward this type of annoying product placement and corporate fear mongering.
you're being told to buy something new and expensive, and you're being told lies about it. this hasnt changed for the majority of the technological frontiers expansion. the gigabyte was 1024 megs, you were told a nice even 1000.
computer monitors often had higher resolution than 1080P, you were told 1080p trumped all other image quality standards.
retina displays in iphones delivered a sharper display, you were told the display allowed "the highest resolution phone ever"
carriers routinely drop and mangle calls, offer shit dataservice, and overcharge. you were told they never dropped calls, offered the fastest internet, and offered affordable plans for the whole family.
it was archaic and priestly and weeeee liked it that way!
now if you'll excuse me i cant wait to download the latest fedora, install the minimal package set, and curl the rest of the
comments in this article for later fist-shaking critique.
fuel efficiency and sustainable transportation technology is teaching the average lard-bellied coffee swilling cell phone barking commuter the difference between responsible safe driving and break neck dale earnhart rally racing. for example:
not every green light means floor the accelerator
if its 80 degrees outside, you likely do not need the AC blasting
the posted highway speed limit of 65 is not to be interpreted as 85.
dont "race" up to the red light as fast as you can, only to pound the brakes 60 feet from the intersection
married with kids is not a justification for the latest SUV, domestic or foreign
consider foregoing the automobile if your destination is within one mile.
are pointless. its like reading a phonebook, and the subject matter fails to entice anyone...
now, had Carl Sagan so much as uttered the first sentence of a comment he heard related to the summary? My jaw would drop, my eyes would glass over, and I would spend the next three hours digging through the mess in the garage trying to find my old telescope and praying for some miraculous cavalcade of ineffably grandiose funding for NASA.
how all these articles focus mostly on China. If this were 45 years ago, you could replace china with soviet union, and cyber warfare with nuclear holocaust. In my opinion this just goes to show how generally targeted and short sighted most american foreign policy really is. There is always something new to fear, new to hate.
i have yet to see any corporation with a major internet presence or market segment come close to following or guaranteeing their privacy policies with complete certitude. Companies from AT&T to Facebook to Chase never see a punishment for these leaks, or rather if Google does it would be an exception to the longstanding rule of american internet commerce.
outrage does nothing. Users should take this revelation as an opportunity to improve their general knowledge of internet security.
should not go up for a vote by "most americans." I've worked helpdesk and computer systems engineering my entire career, and can assure you the very same person who uses his cdrom as a cupholder and assumes clickjacking to be some sort of fetish, cant possibly imagine what a cyber attack is outside of what the last die hard movie and 4 iterations of the terminator movie franchise have taught him. In addition, many americans dont understand the internet was designed during the cold war...by its very definition and design, killing it with a single point of activation should not be possible. Lastly, America has been handling cyber-attacks the same way it has since the inception of the internet, with skilled engineers and administrators operating re actively and proactively to situations as they arise and can be anticipated.
I cant in good conscience subscribe to the hullabaloo that is the "cyber attack" and i dont encourage slashdotters to either. Its present definition is as laughable as the options for defense and solution to its ire. I may be speaking controversially, however i also feel this is just one more scientific field in which americans are poorly equipped to think critically of and seem to be told to just appreciate that fact. In relation, if a majority of americans refute or deny such scientific concepts such as climate change and evolution, what makes them the least bit qualified to comment on more modern technology?
revelation. Billions of dollars in TARP spending and two wars heavily funded without so much as an eyebrows raise...but one of the foremost scientific research and exploration communities in the united states, dare i even say the world, which recently help design the rescue and recovery vehicle for trapped mine workers, now has to hold the equivalent of a technology "bake sale" for funding. when does this stop?
on a straight model M from unicomp. I havent found the design to be painful, then again i never learned "the correct way" to type with fingers gingerly wadded against the home row keys.
while i can see maintaining a gui that for all intents mimics the ease of use of mac, the state of the linux GUI is nothing short of hellishly bloated. GNOME makes its best effort to keep the bloat to a minimum, but in the end fluxbox, blackbox, and a host of others make it look downright obese. Kudos to the guys at Ubuntu. if you can bring something better to the table, bring it!
you forgot to say, "in America."
Microsoft is a corporation, a technology corporation but a corporation nevertheless. The mentality behind this move is very clear: whatever it takes for the dog to bite. If they scoffed and tried to force the entire suite of products at full price on a cash-strapped city on the heels of an election they would get no business whatsoever, and some PHB who finally listened to the greyhair running the servers would find out exactly how good microsofts competition is. business operating is a recession is still business, it just becomes slightly less encumbered.
incentivized to go out and innovate??? Someone forgot this Bing technology which microsoft has innovated so greatly is mostly just yahoo under the hood. based on the core technology alone, one could surmise they dont have many intelligent folks working long hours on this. I suspect the real reason was a nice, greasy palm full of cash from microsoft.
as for the social web i could take it or leave it, mark. People forget the original "social web" was IRC and usenet. All you've offered arguably is a clever sand box for market research and a communications system that doesn't challenge anyone to engage in a real conversation.
begin the 'no carrier' FBI jokes in 3...2...#########$$NO CARRIER
I believe we steamrolled it on our way to the underside of your car a few days ago. thats on audiobook right? i mean, we're pretty busy these days...
there are a few hundred people in Guantanamo bay that would argue its much more painful than just "OUCH" if the FBI finds you intriguing.
the 13 acres of hell this country went through, kicking and screaming, just to get to digital television.
Just because every CEO present for this sales pitch owns an iPhone 4, does not mean the grinding poverty of Appalachia, the intellectual bankruptcy of the deep south, or the budgetless west coast are even remotely capable of turning this page. As long as we all have grandmothers and relatives printing out taxes and mailing them with saliva greased postage stamps, the trillion dollars is about as real as the 21st century flying car i was promised.
the url shortener will work as well as their app engine site works, that is to say after a while people will realize its just another vector for spam and malware and begin adding it web filters and email filters at carrier gateways. Working for a rather large email service provider, i can assure you after a month chances are very good ill have the entire subnet theyre peddling this from on my various scanning clusters collective shitlists.
We see what you did there, oracle...
is more realistic approaches to nuclear nonproliferation. face up to the fact that all countries will inevitably achieve nuclear weapons capability in the near future, and act accordingly with the international community through political and economic incentives to assure all countries are well appraised that, while attractive in the face of gridlock warfare or political strife, the ending outcome of nuclear war is negative for all parties involved. Arms will always proliferate, the question is, how do we proliferate peace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron although he started as a physicist, he never completed it. I dont fault the sentiment though (i certainly root for the guy in his quest,) but there are some fundamentally insurmountable challenges he has yet to address or even expound upon for that matter. Alas, dreamers dream is my point i think.
i have to say, yeah, this is a spectacular piece of news for cameron and a great promo for his next film. "i want to shoot for the stars" is a great thrill, but the fact of the matter is, a submarine capable of withstanding 8TPI of seawater pressure is not the same as say, commissioning a rolls royce with a custom paint job. That is, just because you say it needs to happen, and you might throw "lots" of money at it, does not mean it will even get off the drawing board. The Soviet military once built a submarine called Komsomolets capable of a 1000 meter dive, but thats still roughly 8000 meters short of the target depth our television director wants.
Chattanooga elicited mixed responses at the announcement today of gigabit internet. Some residents questioned how it related to Obamacare and the socialist marxist conspiracies of which they have been so well appraised through the "talkybox glenn beck lives in." Others furrowed their brows in consternation, as rumors circulated that this newer, faster internet would affect the price of skoal chewing tobacco, beer, or both. Church sermons are planned to be held in the town center tonight as many religious leaders suspect this is a secret conspiracy by Islamic radicals to institute gay marriage.
arguably are not relevant in space...or at least i fail to see the relevance from any standpoint other than purely tactical. The only thing spacecraft require
is an understanding of eachothers location, and an understanding of the location of objects around them. a significantly well developed computer program
would certainly be capable of tracking this information
it just shouldnt be capable of singing daisy.