Takes some balls to do this right after 6 people get arrested for leaking the movie.
At the trial, will/. try to claim ignorance of the IP issues involved? Or will they test the power of the awe[some|ful] (0-1) Napster defence? [Just a moment, someone's at the door...accessory after the fact? Posting in a patch & parrot district? IP police???]
Gotta go. Remember me when you start the Taco Defense Fund.
Ha! We all know that ninjas are better and smarter than pirates. The average ninja has an IQ 50 points higher than the average pirate, plus they can flip out and kill people! They cut off people's heads all the time without even thinking about it. Therefore, ninjas are way better than pirates. QED.
Yes, but Bill tells us that the pirates run Linux, so they must be wiser.
And why do ninjas dress like Apple engineers at WWDC? I asked one and he went all tiger stance on me.
Waterworld wasn't a bad movie. It simply wasn't as good as the hype predicted, or as good as something with, up to that piont, the largest budget ever *should* have been.
Ishtar - actors - dialogue - sand + water + tattoos = Waterworld. On the plus side of the equation, there was nobody in the film that one could claim was actually wasted on such a project.
The post may well be right, but the industry track record is such that I look at control items already wired in the user interface with a certain amount of skepticism.
A lot of these decisions aren't final until hours or minutes before announcement. I always wanted to peep in Phil Schiller's e-mail the last couple of days before a show. Sooner or later he's going to show up in a neck brace from demo-day whiplash.
"Before it was called America Online, Quantum Link provided a pre-Internet online service to Commodore user."
Okay, it was a dark time for Commodore. But momentum really picked up later with that critical second sale. (It was the CFO's wife, she was an early adopter. Boy was he hot when he found out.)
Please. If I own a store and I keep a running tally of what has been shoplifted in the past month does that mean I should just allow it to happen?
The Recording Industry makes its money selling recordings. So how exactly does known what recordings are popular help them when they're giving the recordings away?
You may have touched on something here. RIAA could be buying the data to shore up their legal position when they go after Bill Gates for publishing "unsafe" file copy software. The ability to make potentially illegal file copies cannot, of course, be tolerated. That court stay to prevent sales of Windows and the settlement, requiring all copy logic in Windows to determine the intellectual property circumstance for each bit prior to write authorization, is right around the corner.
Of course, what RIAA hasn't counted on is the estate of George Boole, with his bit patent, ready to swoop down and clean up after RIAA has done the heavy lifting.
In preparation, I am trying to get the 2.6 kernel to boot on my abacus. (If you would like to contribute an old device driver you aren't using....) Otherwise I'll have to wait for the world to recompile for trinary (but only after a very thorough patent search).
Personally I always hate panspermia. It seemed to fail Occams Razor pretty soundly. Yes, life on this planet came from an asteroid or comet from another planet. Well, if life can exist there to bring it here why can't it just develop here. Seemed like a big waste of time to me. I see no reason we cannot have a homegrown abiogensis on good old Earth. It's not like we hit some major hitch and need an alternate explanation that explains nothing.
Occam provides an excellent mechanism for analyzing and prioritizing hypotheses, not a doctrine for generating prima facie "truths".
The life-from-comets theory was inspired by the discovery of complex carbons in comets (the dirt in those dirty snowballs), molecules that, if found "in the wild" on Earth would be deemed "organic" and that can form basic proteins. It was raised in the face of evidence and models that showed Earth to be a very unlikely place for "life as we know it" to evolve (this could indeed be, and in fact was, considered a "hitch"), and was developed as a theory to broaden the "origin of life" models. We know much more now than we did then and the theory is still a competitive explanation. Theories as rule are typically dead before breakfast.
Life-from-comets is Exogenesis, but not necessarily (or even likely, apologies to the late Sir Fred Hoyle) Panspermia. There is no reason why comet-borne carbon molecules could not survive entry into Earth's atmosphere under some circumstances any more than all meteors are destroyed. Meteors could also theoretically carry endolithic bacteria intact to the surface, though this is difficult to prove with old meteorites on Earth due to the possibility for contamination.
The intriguing part of the life-from-comets theory (which is a specific theory of Exogenesis and doesn't rely on Panspermia) is that the conditions required for the development of life may somehow actually prove to have been a dirty snowball in an eccentric orbit.
Panspermia specifically predicts the interstellar distribution/seeding of life. We are a long way from being able to gather and study interstellar samples. We are a long way from studying the Oort Cloud directly, though we are fortunate to be able to visit the occasional dirty snowball.
And since we started theorizing alternatives to the purely terrestrial development of life (Geogenesis), we have discovered endolithic bacteria and other outrageous but often simple forms of life in places unthinkable even 50 years ago. Time may prove comets unnecessary to explain life on Earth, but exploring all of the ways life might develop and all of the forms it might take is essential to intelligently exploring the Solar System. We may find life or life-like processes in some form everywhere.
Indeed. The proper title would be: "IE puts Windows at risk".
Ditch IE, and all the spyware and other crap stops being an issue. I see so much people arguing over which spyware scanner is the best, like if it's a normal thing to have to scan your system for spyware everyday in the first place. Just like people arguing over the best tire repair kit, seemingly thinking it's normal to have a flat tire everyday.
Most MS products aren't quite as bad as most people tend to make it here on slashdot, but IE is definately the worst piece of shit I've EVER used from any company - ever. If you use it, you're guaranteed it'll trash your PC - have fun reformatting every week!
IE is neck and neck with Outlook, with the rest of Microsoft Office lagging only because of less direct internet exposure. Speaking strictly from the IT peanut gallery, about ten years ago, after their success with macro technologies in products like Excel, Microsoft decided that their competitive edge/killer feature would be to integrate Visual Basic with their entire product line. All of those "mobile actors" (travelling software, not Brad or Liz) lighting up the CS grads would be energizing those spreadsheets and documents across the cyber plain. There was also a big push to replace legacy apps with OLE, VB, and anything else a Microsoft Consultant or Microsoft Partner could turn into a billable in the enterprise IT arena. Not that turning a dollar while providing value is not a great thing, it certainly is.
The down side has been that for too long Microsoft has been too big and insulated to care about the resulting wiped or compromised data, denial of service incidents, etcetera, arising from the abuse of all of this largess.
"We can FUD it out."
"Everybody has these problems."
"You used the default configuration settings? What a dope. I didn't know anyone was that stupid!"
(Or my personal favorite: "Just reformat and reinstall. What? Back it up?!? are you stupid?!?")
Frankly, it's a commercial software vendor thing, not just a Microsoft thing. But when you take over the world (or even just the desktop) you inevitably become the poster child for what is wrong on the desktop.
Faced with a giant code base and executives making decisions based on PC Week feature list comparisons or that have to buy Microsoft the way they bought IBM a generation ago.
But faced with the argument "those OSes aren't targeted because there aren't enough people using them," more people may use them. My non-tech relatives have begun to seriously consider alternatives, in large part because of word of mouth tales of friends who got bit by spyware or that lucky 10,000th spam.
The "could it happen" stories surrounding the release of "The Core," however, made me want to drill a hole to the center of my head:(
When I and my family were confronted with the line from the preview for The Core: "The Earth's core has stopped spinning," we laughed uproariously right down to the six year old. The notion that it had been stopped by human action only made it worse. We were not alone in the crowded theater on this, but I like to think the silent majority were engaged in firmly ignoring the ads altogether.
Nearly every media outlet in the US has an astrology column. That alone should reveal that even trying to write about science is a wasted effort. No one would understand or believe it anyway. Americans believe in so much nonsense that a new dark age can't be far off.
You need to get out more, or at least broaden your browsing. Nearly every media outlet in the world has an astrology column, from the Times & the BBC to lefigaro.fr to the Taipei Times. So it's not just the NY Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times mired in nonsensical medievalism. (Or a traditional light diversion wedged next to the comics, more like.)
Definitely not a case of American exceptionalism here.
The problem is that so many of these new KBOs could be larger than Pluto once we find them, even though they might not fit other criteria we'd been using for planetary designation. It actually makes more sense to downgrade Pluto to a simple KBO, and create a more rigid definition of a major planet.
Here is the cosmic red-herring: the planetary designation. Since Carl Sagan passed, the Oprah/Leno/Letterman Couch Lottery for debating "planetary designation" is open. You may be a winner! And because any designation may be based on incomplete or inaccurate hypotheses given the current state of theory on planetary formation new lotteries and redesignations may be held every few years. Elementary schools will, of course, be required to buy new posters properly identifying this week that there are three or six planets in the Solar System and next week fifty or a thousand. (Class, can you name 100 of the planets circling the Sun?) The fact is, as noted in the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet), there is no commonly accepted scientific definition of planet.
And none of the chatter will change the actual nature of so designated or undesignated objects one planck length, or the actual facts of their formation and characteristics (which are waiting patiently to be discovered). Let's have a round or two of working out the data before we settle on a new, scientific definition of "planet" based on too few facts. Given the distances involved, we have generations of data gathering before this plays out. Having just identified these key data points, it is a great time to hypothesize but a lousy time to pronounce definitively on the topic.
WebObjects uses the Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) to do object-relational mapping. The Java EOF uses a JDBC adaptor to interact with the database. Apple's supported list of databases are the ones Apple will accept complaints about, many JDBC-capable databases will work. EOF allows for custom enhancements to augment the JDBC-level support for a given DBMS, but any DB with good JDBC support should work with EOF.
As a network app, WebObjects leaves it to the customer to determine the best platform for running application components (including WebObjects), and supports the most popular/lucrative options.
Isn't this the reason that there is supposed to be an air gap between classified networks are and unclassified networks?
There are defense networks operating at all levels of security and a wide variety of restrictions. And some of the more interesting information that can be widely attained may have some element of inaccuracy associated with it.
While there is a basic approach established for each classification level, the security measures used for any given net can vary widely.
Think Spy vs. Spy in cyberspace.
By the way, air gaps are only good when combined with physical security and human engineering counter-measures. The security folks I've spoken to find human engineering is still the most common problem.
So ironic to be provided such a convenient example. Imagine an editors feature implemented in the same fashion, with the same dull, humorless mod "call girls" putting words in your mouth. Clearly the next generation mod technology should factor in the moderations a user agrees/disagrees with to determine what will be graded up, in the current arrangement the over half of the best data is rated zero or below. Something closer to an Amazon personalization model. Friends and Foes is a start, though the feature has some obvious drawbacks (influence trading, retaliation). Moronic mod wars skewing the results. "R2! I can't hold them! Quick, flamebait Darth Maul!!!"
Whale Oil Beef Hooked? Wasted stateside, I suspect.
Thoroughly. But even as a purely idiomatic expression devoid of the necessary subtext, the rationalism quotient is higher than that of Bill's numerological patent.
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Takes some balls to do this right after 6 people get arrested for leaking the movie.
/. try to claim ignorance of the IP issues involved? Or will they test the power of the awe[some|ful] (0-1) Napster defence? [Just a moment, someone's at the door...accessory after the fact? Posting in a patch & parrot district? IP police???]
At the trial, will
Gotta go. Remember me when you start the Taco Defense Fund.
Ha! We all know that ninjas are better and smarter than pirates. The average ninja has an IQ 50 points higher than the average pirate, plus they can flip out and kill people! They cut off people's heads all the time without even thinking about it. Therefore, ninjas are way better than pirates. QED.
Yes, but Bill tells us that the pirates run Linux, so they must be wiser.
And why do ninjas dress like Apple engineers at WWDC? I asked one and he went all tiger stance on me.
Actually hamsters have more dark meat. Guinea pigs have more white meat.
I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch the name of your kabob place?
Actually, the breakdown is:
$379 999 999.00: production/marketing/advertising/other overhead
$1.00: script
They paid for that script?!?
Waterworld wasn't a bad movie. It simply wasn't as good as the hype predicted, or as good as something with, up to that piont, the largest budget ever *should* have been.
Ishtar - actors - dialogue - sand + water + tattoos = Waterworld. On the plus side of the equation, there was nobody in the film that one could claim was actually wasted on such a project.
The post may well be right, but the industry track record is such that I look at control items already wired in the user interface with a certain amount of skepticism.
A lot of these decisions aren't final until hours or minutes before announcement. I always wanted to peep in Phil Schiller's e-mail the last couple of days before a show. Sooner or later he's going to show up in a neck brace from demo-day whiplash.
"Before it was called America Online, Quantum Link provided a pre-Internet online service to Commodore user."
Okay, it was a dark time for Commodore. But momentum really picked up later with that critical second sale. (It was the CFO's wife, she was an early adopter. Boy was he hot when he found out.)
Please. If I own a store and I keep a running tally of what has been shoplifted in the past month does that mean I should just allow it to happen?
The Recording Industry makes its money selling recordings. So how exactly does known what recordings are popular help them when they're giving the recordings away?
You may have touched on something here. RIAA could be buying the data to shore up their legal position when they go after Bill Gates for publishing "unsafe" file copy software. The ability to make potentially illegal file copies cannot, of course, be tolerated. That court stay to prevent sales of Windows and the settlement, requiring all copy logic in Windows to determine the intellectual property circumstance for each bit prior to write authorization, is right around the corner.
Of course, what RIAA hasn't counted on is the estate of George Boole, with his bit patent, ready to swoop down and clean up after RIAA has done the heavy lifting.
In preparation, I am trying to get the 2.6 kernel to boot on my abacus. (If you would like to contribute an old device driver you aren't using....) Otherwise I'll have to wait for the world to recompile for trinary (but only after a very thorough patent search).
Personally I always hate panspermia. It seemed to fail Occams Razor pretty soundly. Yes, life on this planet came from an asteroid or comet from another planet. Well, if life can exist there to bring it here why can't it just develop here. Seemed like a big waste of time to me. I see no reason we cannot have a homegrown abiogensis on good old Earth. It's not like we hit some major hitch and need an alternate explanation that explains nothing.
Occam provides an excellent mechanism for analyzing and prioritizing hypotheses, not a doctrine for generating prima facie "truths".
The life-from-comets theory was inspired by the discovery of complex carbons in comets (the dirt in those dirty snowballs), molecules that, if found "in the wild" on Earth would be deemed "organic" and that can form basic proteins. It was raised in the face of evidence and models that showed Earth to be a very unlikely place for "life as we know it" to evolve (this could indeed be, and in fact was, considered a "hitch"), and was developed as a theory to broaden the "origin of life" models. We know much more now than we did then and the theory is still a competitive explanation. Theories as rule are typically dead before breakfast.
Life-from-comets is Exogenesis, but not necessarily (or even likely, apologies to the late Sir Fred Hoyle) Panspermia. There is no reason why comet-borne carbon molecules could not survive entry into Earth's atmosphere under some circumstances any more than all meteors are destroyed. Meteors could also theoretically carry endolithic bacteria intact to the surface, though this is difficult to prove with old meteorites on Earth due to the possibility for contamination.
The intriguing part of the life-from-comets theory (which is a specific theory of Exogenesis and doesn't rely on Panspermia) is that the conditions required for the development of life may somehow actually prove to have been a dirty snowball in an eccentric orbit.
Panspermia specifically predicts the interstellar distribution/seeding of life. We are a long way from being able to gather and study interstellar samples. We are a long way from studying the Oort Cloud directly, though we are fortunate to be able to visit the occasional dirty snowball.
And since we started theorizing alternatives to the purely terrestrial development of life (Geogenesis), we have discovered endolithic bacteria and other outrageous but often simple forms of life in places unthinkable even 50 years ago. Time may prove comets unnecessary to explain life on Earth, but exploring all of the ways life might develop and all of the forms it might take is essential to intelligently exploring the Solar System. We may find life or life-like processes in some form everywhere.
Indeed. The proper title would be: "IE puts Windows at risk".
Ditch IE, and all the spyware and other crap stops being an issue. I see so much people arguing over which spyware scanner is the best, like if it's a normal thing to have to scan your system for spyware everyday in the first place. Just like people arguing over the best tire repair kit, seemingly thinking it's normal to have a flat tire everyday.
Most MS products aren't quite as bad as most people tend to make it here on slashdot, but IE is definately the worst piece of shit I've EVER used from any company - ever. If you use it, you're guaranteed it'll trash your PC - have fun reformatting every week!
IE is neck and neck with Outlook, with the rest of Microsoft Office lagging only because of less direct internet exposure. Speaking strictly from the IT peanut gallery, about ten years ago, after their success with macro technologies in products like Excel, Microsoft decided that their competitive edge/killer feature would be to integrate Visual Basic with their entire product line. All of those "mobile actors" (travelling software, not Brad or Liz) lighting up the CS grads would be energizing those spreadsheets and documents across the cyber plain. There was also a big push to replace legacy apps with OLE, VB, and anything else a Microsoft Consultant or Microsoft Partner could turn into a billable in the enterprise IT arena. Not that turning a dollar while providing value is not a great thing, it certainly is.
The down side has been that for too long Microsoft has been too big and insulated to care about the resulting wiped or compromised data, denial of service incidents, etcetera, arising from the abuse of all of this largess.
"We can FUD it out."
"Everybody has these problems."
"You used the default configuration settings? What a dope. I didn't know anyone was that stupid!"
(Or my personal favorite: "Just reformat and reinstall. What? Back it up?!? are you stupid?!?")
Frankly, it's a commercial software vendor thing, not just a Microsoft thing. But when you take over the world (or even just the desktop) you inevitably become the poster child for what is wrong on the desktop.
Faced with a giant code base and executives making decisions based on PC Week feature list comparisons or that have to buy Microsoft the way they bought IBM a generation ago.
But faced with the argument "those OSes aren't targeted because there aren't enough people using them," more people may use them. My non-tech relatives have begun to seriously consider alternatives, in large part because of word of mouth tales of friends who got bit by spyware or that lucky 10,000th spam.
What he sed.
The "could it happen" stories surrounding the release of "The Core," however, made me want to drill a hole to the center of my head :(
When I and my family were confronted with the line from the preview for The Core: "The Earth's core has stopped spinning," we laughed uproariously right down to the six year old. The notion that it had been stopped by human action only made it worse. We were not alone in the crowded theater on this, but I like to think the silent majority were engaged in firmly ignoring the ads altogether.
Nearly every media outlet in the US has an astrology column. That alone should reveal that even trying to write about science is a wasted effort. No one would understand or believe it anyway. Americans believe in so much nonsense that a new dark age can't be far off.
You need to get out more, or at least broaden your browsing. Nearly every media outlet in the world has an astrology column, from the Times & the BBC to lefigaro.fr to the Taipei Times. So it's not just the NY Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times mired in nonsensical medievalism. (Or a traditional light diversion wedged next to the comics, more like.)
Definitely not a case of American exceptionalism here.
You should try the cage. I works for me.
Does the tiger let you out for walks?
The problem is that so many of these new KBOs could be larger than Pluto once we find them, even though they might not fit other criteria we'd been using for planetary designation. It actually makes more sense to downgrade Pluto to a simple KBO, and create a more rigid definition of a major planet.
Here is the cosmic red-herring: the planetary designation. Since Carl Sagan passed, the Oprah/Leno/Letterman Couch Lottery for debating "planetary designation" is open. You may be a winner! And because any designation may be based on incomplete or inaccurate hypotheses given the current state of theory on planetary formation new lotteries and redesignations may be held every few years. Elementary schools will, of course, be required to buy new posters properly identifying this week that there are three or six planets in the Solar System and next week fifty or a thousand. (Class, can you name 100 of the planets circling the Sun?) The fact is, as noted in the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet), there is no commonly accepted scientific definition of planet.
And none of the chatter will change the actual nature of so designated or undesignated objects one planck length, or the actual facts of their formation and characteristics (which are waiting patiently to be discovered). Let's have a round or two of working out the data before we settle on a new, scientific definition of "planet" based on too few facts. Given the distances involved, we have generations of data gathering before this plays out. Having just identified these key data points, it is a great time to hypothesize but a lousy time to pronounce definitively on the topic.
I believe it was the first time Hollywood greenlighted 2 sequels to be filmed simultaneously
The first two Christopher Reeve Superman films were greenlighted and filmed simultaneously in the late 70's.
WebObjects uses the Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) to do object-relational mapping. The Java EOF uses a JDBC adaptor to interact with the database. Apple's supported list of databases are the ones Apple will accept complaints about, many JDBC-capable databases will work. EOF allows for custom enhancements to augment the JDBC-level support for a given DBMS, but any DB with good JDBC support should work with EOF.
As a network app, WebObjects leaves it to the customer to determine the best platform for running application components (including WebObjects), and supports the most popular/lucrative options.
TROLL - MOD PARENT UP
Isn't this the reason that there is supposed to be an air gap between classified networks are and unclassified networks?
There are defense networks operating at all levels of security and a wide variety of restrictions. And some of the more interesting information that can be widely attained may have some element of inaccuracy associated with it.
While there is a basic approach established for each classification level, the security measures used for any given net can vary widely.
Think Spy vs. Spy in cyberspace.
By the way, air gaps are only good when combined with physical security and human engineering counter-measures. The security folks I've spoken to find human engineering is still the most common problem.
1. All of those who have sacrificed and served honorably certainly have earned the gratitude and respect of all decent people.
2. There is about as much chance of shaming Slashdot as there is of Donald Rumsfeld wearing a tutu to work.
So ironic to be provided such a convenient example. Imagine an editors feature implemented in the same fashion, with the same dull, humorless mod "call girls" putting words in your mouth. Clearly the next generation mod technology should factor in the moderations a user agrees/disagrees with to determine what will be graded up, in the current arrangement the over half of the best data is rated zero or below. Something closer to an Amazon personalization model. Friends and Foes is a start, though the feature has some obvious drawbacks (influence trading, retaliation). Moronic mod wars skewing the results. "R2! I can't hold them! Quick, flamebait Darth Maul!!!"
Watch what you wish for, they might pattern it after the hilarious "mod" feature.
Not much tidal potential in Phobos & Deimos. Fortunately the solar tides will help some.
Whale Oil Beef Hooked? Wasted stateside, I suspect.
Thoroughly. But even as a purely idiomatic expression devoid of the necessary subtext, the rationalism quotient is higher than that of Bill's numerological patent.
They always punish the kid who throws the second punch.