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If I was going to sneak in my own root cert, I would give it a name and date very similar to an existing one.
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It seems the research focuses solely on untimely unseating of directors, while completely discounting the everyday role of shareholders: determining the value of the company and the election of directors at the annual general meeting. Both are pretty important functions.

The fact that directors usually aren't fired mid-term is a symbol of the system working, not the opposite. At a certain size, being public is almost always the best way to capture the feedback of the market in the long run.

It's like democracy: we get to have a small, orderly revolution every few years. In return we don't randomly go around killing our rulers. The result is almost never exactly what anybody wanted, but in the long run, it's consistently better than the alternative.
I watched the video multiple times. At 3:38 of the 17:47 video, you can clearly see an AK-47 in one of the mens hands. At 3:48 you can see another AK-47. Also at 3:48, it looks like a third man has either a handgun or a small submachine gun. At 4:12, it definitely looks like there's an RPG. Even more so at 4:19. The helicopter was called in by ground troops who were taking small arms fire from a small group of men in this area. I don't think it would be possible to be called in to look for a group of armed men setting up an ambush with small arms in this area, and not come to the conclusion that these are the guys. They are armed.
i.e., IBM is a hypocritical organization and is entirely driven by sales.
I agree 100% the parent is off-topic and inflammatory, but, please, typedefs are not the solution.

With C++ most of the time, one is either consuming a huge/important library (even an OS SDK) or writing one. If you're consuming the librarie(s), you just can't go around typedefing important APIs, or you will end up maintaining a nightmare of a fork. And if you're writing one, the sensible thing to do is to stick with a tangible subset of C++, like most good libraries do.

Seriously, if your C++ code starts to look ugly, you're probably using the language to its full potential. Don't do that. Scale back to a manageable C-like subset; And no, you can't grow your C++ code-base to a blissful Greenspun-esque nirvana; more C++ begets, well, MORE C++. Those multi-page Doxygen class listings and woolly dependency diagrams never gel and mesh into something organic. The code-base just grows diagonally, and orthogonal to your intended direction..
This actually doesn't seem to address the rumors floating around about Yelp, which were that they would use (misleading) negative reviews as part of high-pressure sales tactics for small businesses. The "favorite review" feature is what Yelp themselves said they were selling. It wasn't the nexus of the accusations against them.
If by 'hypocritical organization' you mean business, and by 'sales' you mean revenue, then yes.

This isn't really limited to business either. I have a couple of OSS projects I maintain. I also have some proprietary bits and pieces. If I thought someone was ripping off my proprietary bits, I'd try and fight back too, regardless of their license.
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And wasn't there some discussion in the last week or two about how easily you could impersonate anybodies valid ssl cert if you could get hold of a real root cert? (something about browsers not notifying users that a previously seen cert is now authenticating via a different root?)
>All I was saying was that when you don't practice what you preach, your credibility suffers.

That's not what you said. You said Americans don't have the right to discuss human rights.

>...what gives America the moral right to talk about human rights...
Nope, we're likely running the same version. The particular info you mentioned comes from /proc/stat (you're right that it's a different file), but again it's the same sources as top:

# lsb_release -d
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)

# rpm -qf $(which sar)
sysstat-7.0.2-3.el5

# strace /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1 &> results

# grep open results
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib64/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib64/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 3
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib64/sa/sa1", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/sys/devices/system/cpu", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
open("/proc/tty/driver/serial", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/interrupts", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/net/dev", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/diskstats", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/var/log/sa/sa06", O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 3
open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/loadavg", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/vmstat", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/sys/fs/dentry-state", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/sys/fs/file-nr", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/sys/fs/inode-state", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/sys/fs/super-max", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/proc/sys/fs/dquot-max", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-max", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/proc/net/sockstat", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/net/rpc/nfs", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/proc/net/rpc/nfsd", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/proc/diskstats", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/tty/driver/serial", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/interrupts", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/proc/net/dev", O_RDONLY) = 4

# strace top -n -b 1 &> results
# grep open results
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib64/libproc-3.2.7.so", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib64/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/stat", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/etc/toprc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/root/.toprc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
A lawyer's initial purpose is almost always intimidation.
I don't think you understood why the gunner was watching the injured guy. At 8:29 of the 17:47 video he says "Come on, buddy. All you gotta do is pick up a weapon." From his tone and inflection it seems pretty clear to me he wants to engage the guy because he's severely hurt, certainly going to die, and probably suffering. He can't engage him because he's unarmed, so he wants him to go for some kind of a weapon because he wants to put the guy out of his misery.
I suspect that the nastygram came from IBM's mainframe business unit, not one of the units which typically deals with Open Source.

TurboHercules should GPL their product & see what IBM does then...
Maybe not on-topic considering all the other comments, but by the time I was finished with the first paragraph I could only think how far that is from my "ultimate dream job".

Actually, and considering value, I guess my ultimate dream job was building stuff that provided no value whatsoever but fun for me (and others as an added bonus).

I'm starting to find too frequently that stuff that provide value actually provide no value at all. Especially on the business software side of things, the idea is usually to ease the lives of the users but in reality, users hate whatever is thrown at them, and with good reason, it usually solves them an existing problem by creating two new ones.
I'd just lie with my head on my desk and be satisified with life. But I'm not sure if I'd actually BE happy. I may feel it but it would be rather shallow.
Correct- lists of facts without styling aren't something you can copyright. The specific form that they are printed in are copyrightable, but there is no IP created by a list of facts. Phone numbers, game scores, colors of rocks, etc... not copyrightable.
Exactly, which is why it would be nice to see companies that try to not just copy the iPhone (and now the iPad), like most cell phone companies have tried to do the past couple of years. Likewise, it took the OLPC project and then Asus EEE to ignite the netbook market, and the Wii to show that gaming consoles could be fun for everyone. Most companies however avoid risks and only copy and incrementally improve on the status quo.
The troops that were 100m down the road.
But wouldn't Facebook have to show damages here as well?
It's clear that the author felt "let down" by the video. But I don't think he can make a case that wikileaks misrepresented the video. Rather, I think he had unrealistic expectations.

He got his expectations up because a) Reuters had been unsuccessfully trying to obtain this video via FOIA b) wikileaks employees had been detained by various gov'ts and c) the video had been heavily encrypted. All of these things are facts, and not a misrepresentation on the part of wikileaks.

However, these facts seemed to indicate that the gov't cared about this video not getting out quite a bit, and raised his expectations. Maybe he didn't know what a helicopter video looks like; maybe he expected it to look like Generation Kill, with dudes being like "muahahha let's kill babies and rape women!"

However, I didn't think the video would really be anything but boring. What's news is that the U.S. tried to bury this video, not that it makes for great TV.
> Nobody's suggesting that i and j be used for anything other than loop counters: integers

You're right, I missed the 'indices' part of your original comment. Unfortunately I've worked at a couple of places where they're used in every for loop.
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I didn't say it can't be figured out at all - please don't put works into my mouth.

Code is read much more than it's written and should be created for maximum comprehension. A simple one-line method call should be understandable without having to read any surrounding line.
I read another piece on the iPad yesterday on a prominent German newspaper. I'm in line with you. My opinion yesterday was that the paper could be a little biased or in hope to get their market share back. A masses-loved closed device might be ideal for that.
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He wasn't saying exactly that, he said "Come on, buddy. All you gotta do is pick up a weapon." Listen to his tone and inflection, the guy is clearly very injured and going to die, the gunner wants to put him out of his misery but can't engage.
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It's a bit of a strawman he sets up.

(...) the work of another developer, a Microsoft MVP. The code (...) stunk in a strange way. (...) The MVP program does not recognize technical ability. It’s possible to be awarded an MVP in a development related area and not really be able to write code. (...) Mind you, there’s nothing wrong with doing any of those things and a lot of reasons why we should encourage the behavior. (...) there isn’t really a problem with the MVP program. (...) There’s really no reason for Microsoft to change things on their end.

In the end, it's a warning that holders of a recognition that doesn't have anything to do with programming, might not be good programmers.
A post a while back about the MVP program elicited some interesting comments from a former MVP lead - specifically discussing the pressures on leads to drop people who don't follow the company line:
http://codebetter.com/blogs/karlseguin/archive/2009/02/03/wh...
Haha, I use data all the time. Usually when I'm doing data analysis.
He thinks he is talking about sex, but there are some important point he overlooks. Most people would usually want their button pressed by members of the other sex. Most people naturally close to you (parents, siblings, cousins) would be out of the question as pushers of your button.

Also, over millions and millions of years, certain aspects of hominine reproduction (large heads, long gestation times, preposterously long childhood, staggering maternal mortality) and simple statistics would have conspired to make women very, very picky about when and by whom they want to press their buttons. At the same time they would have conspired to make men want their buttons pressed as often as possible, and by pretty much any girl with a neck pulse.

The availability of people of the desired sex willing to press your button would be your default main source of serenity and self-respect. It would take experience and hard work for you to create other sources of fulfillment for yourself. It would be natural for immature, stupid, or bitter people to spend enormous amounts of energy trying to control access to other people's buttons.

If you could press your neighbor's button without risk of adverse side effects (killing months of their productivity, having them lose one of their four of five shots at producing healthy offspring, making them die in childbirth) offering someone to pleasure of a press of their button would be as harmless as offering them the pleasure of a smile, or of a glass of drink. There would be certain rules of etiquette, but there wouldn't usually be much debilitating drama.
Yes. In 20 or 30 years when a robot can actually fold a towel as quickly as a human, those towel-folding economies are going to be in trouble. ;)
A really bad variable name should confuse the reader as much as possible. If I remember my compiler design classes correctly Pascal (?) allows you to name variables the same as language constructs. That means you can write something like

FOR FOR = WHILE WHILE WHILE = FOR

Now THAT'S bad variable names. :)

Isn't there an example like this in the Dragon Book?
Wow, that will help C beginners greatly!
We need help to get official Django support for non-relational / NoSQL DBs. Currently, we only have an App Engine backend and a half-finished MongoDB backend. We have to demonstrate to the Django team that our approach works with a wider variety of DBs. If we achieve that goal Django would have a way to write portable code for a lot of DB types. We'd also have the foundation for much more powerful features like automatic denormalization. Please help us find backend contributors.
There's probably not anything like that because it's a fairly rare situation. A particular company is only going to have one page like that, it'd be easier just to make the custom css for that page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
Excellent article & advice, especially for those who procrastinate all the time but don't even know it.

On the other hand: knowing that giving up in mid-flight has it own set of consequences will often lead to not starting at all

aka 'Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go' ;-)
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How does that 'malice' square with this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#36182090
I'm sure he is a great person -- in no way should my characterization of his interview style be construed as a knock against his entire person. But his interview style stinks.

(It is important to weed through people that just know buzzwords and get to the meat, but this kind of interview style is not really acceptable IMO. You should be able to know if somebody actually goes deeper than buzzwords in a 5-10 minute, casual conversation in the cafeteria over a cup of coffee.)

He talks about 5 interviews a week like that's some crazy number, try 5 a day for a while.

Someday, he's going to be interviewed by one of the people he turned away (at least he should approach it like that).
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iPad will do to personal computers what iPhone did to smartphones. Let's not worry about iPad or iSlate but think of it as a new mode of computing. I can see schools, hospitals, first responders (police, ambulance, fire department) adopting (or moving to) this kind of device. Question is what will they need on these devices to do their jobs better?
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I bet reverse engineering is against the license agreement.
I don't really disagree with any of that, although the degree of success remains to be seen (and I'd really rather not speculate). But I don't think it's "magic" even in the most figurative sense.

But again, I don't think it's marketed towards people like me and maybe this is a part of that.
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Actually, status is probably the one thing worse than data.

Runners up include value, bytes, and number.
Eugh, a paywall.
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One thing they will need is an open device for their custom software. I think the iPad's play is individuals and other similar open device might capture the speciality business use cases.
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...but, but, now I need to learn a whole new set of error messages!
"It is closer to logarithmic..."

Why would this be?
> Moreover, since F# is a compiled language, the final code can be compiled as a standalone application.

Matlab allows that too: http://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler/
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Apparently the buttons have Digital Rights Management so that a desk cannot press the button, only digits can.
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Stating that Wikileaks has not uncovered any meaningful information is quite a stretch. It's true that WaPo and NYT have already covered most of the factual details of the incident - the WaPo reporter was supposedly embedded with the troups arriving on the scene shortly afterwards.

You're mixing up your timeline. Reuters staff were able to view the material released by US Central Command (military investigation write-up and selected photographs) and also the video itself once, before they were told to file an FOIA request for it, but their FOIA request for the video was rejected multiple times. The relevant question remained whether the shootings were justified under Rules Of Engagement and also whether what the military stated was true.

I think it is similar to reading about how torture is going on and seeing actual photos of it. To accurately assess what exactly went on, a military investigation write-up is quite different from the actual gunship video.

I agree that one may have quarrels with Wikileaks' methods. But please differentiate between their methods and the material they release.

From NYT 07/13/07: “There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,” said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a spokesman for the multinational forces in Baghdad."
- To state that about the incident is misleading at best, and a cover-up at worst, don't you think?
Probably unrelated but...

I was fortunate enough to attend an event recently that a very well know MS superstar was presenting at, I arrived slightly late and the only seating room was in the front row with about 8 others. So I quietly sat and enjoyed the excellent presentation.

At the first break the MS hero took his microphone off and 6 of the other people in the row stood up instantly and quite literally skipped towards the podium forming an MVP wall of knowledge around the hero. On their way back I could see several of them proudly sporting MVP shirts and one of the others I recognised as another MVP that I had some knowledge of.

At the time I cringed a little, these guys were all blatantly trying to befriend this poor MS superstar as well as try to outsmart him on several topics that were unrelated to the presentation. The introductions that went along the lines of "Hi, I’m John Smith, MVP of XXX" accompanied by the longing look of "Please please know who I am" made me smile inside.

Next break arrived, MS man popped his microphone down again and... yup, the same six jumped up again along with another couple of folk.

The Most Valued Phanboy program is an excellent way of rewarding the good in the MS community, but after witnessing this I have to say that I was a little bit disgusted at the behaviour of these MVP’s. Rather than make it look like a fantastic gang of helpful product experts they succeeded in making it look like a really unwelcoming clique.

Obviously this is my view of one event and undoubtedly not representative of the community as a whole.
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Honestly I'd accept their actions more if they split the media side of things from the whistleblower side.

So Wikileaks stays as simply a conduit of information - and Sunshine Press (or whatever) can editorialize how they wish....
I completely agree. I don't understand why foo and bar are so prevalent. Not only are you trying to describe something abstract (computer code), you are now adding another layer of human language abstraction on top of it. In many cases why not use a simple scenario people can relate to rather than foo and bar.
"Could have been called", "I would do so and so", "it was unclear whether they were armed", "has used similar tactics"...

If you were an USAA general, would you promote to commander someone who would gave permission to kill based on faint suspicions and their definition of "very quickly"? Because that doesn't sound like an official. That sounds like a God.
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Your argument seems to basically be "we can't know what the other helicopter saw, so we have to assume they saw weapons."

Leaving aside your argument, don't you find the voice track coming from the gunner shocking? The man actually had glee in his voice as he was gunning down people that obviously had no possible chance to defend themselves or harm him. An AK-47 vs. an Apache helicopter is no threat.

As others have stated, at the range from the gunner's PoV, an RPG, even if he had one, cannot hit the helicopter.

The fact that there are cold-blooded killers in the cockpit of a helicopter, that take joy in killing innocent civilians should shock each and every one of us.

Aren't you sick of being an apologist for an unjustified killing in an unjustified war?
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