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but most of us have never thouched it, right?

This thing got pretty good reviews, so let's hear from someone who actually use it here

While major telecom companies like Global Crossing, Network+, WorldxChange, even WorldCom and Qwest are all in financial trouble, the company I work for, NOBEL, has been growing by an order of magnitude every month since its founding in 1998.

Many of our competitors, especially larger ones, made the mistake of overspending on technology infrastructure and on marketing-- blowing through billions of dollars in debt and equity financing. NOBEL is both extremely cost efficient (i.e. we make sure every expenditure is justified by generating additional profit), and we are self funded.

The attitude in our team is that we are going to take over telecom in the USA over the next 5-10 years. We are ALWAYS looking for people with strong telecom experience, both on the business end of things and in technology.

While major telecom companies like Global Crossing, Network+, WorldxChange, even WorldCom and Qwest are all in financial trouble, the company I work for, NOBEL, has been growing by an order of magnitude every month since its founding in 1998.

Many of our competitors, especially larger ones, made the mistake of overspending on technology infrastructure and on marketing-- blowing through billions of dollars in debt and equity financing. NOBEL is both extremely cost efficient (i.e. we make sure every expenditure is justified by generating additional profit), and we are self funded.

The attitude in our team is that we are going to take over telecom in the USA over the next 5-10 years. We are ALWAYS looking for people with strong telecom experience, both on the business end of things and in technology.

While major telecom companies like Global Crossing, Network+, WorldxChange, even WorldCom and Qwest are all in financial trouble, the company I work for, NOBEL, has been growing by an order of magnitude every month since its founding in 1998.

Many of our competitors, especially larger ones, made the mistake of overspending on technology infrastructure and on marketing-- blowing through billions of dollars in debt and equity financing. NOBEL is both extremely cost efficient (i.e. we make sure every expenditure is justified by generating additional profit), and we are self funded.

The attitude in our team is that we are going to take over telecom in the USA over the next 5-10 years. We are ALWAYS looking for people with strong telecom experience, both on the business end of things and in technology.

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And I know for sure that the source of this was msnbc!
I know they have to display ads to make the wheel spin, but I'd prefer ads on the main page, instead of in popups.
A popup requires intervention(you click the X, or whatever, to not make it clutter up your screen),
as do SPAM(you press <delete&gt, to not make it clutter up your mailbox).
Anyone see the similarities here?

No doubt rental stores won't like this, but I'm picturing more of a convenience store, impule buy kind of thing. There was a great article on MSNBC the other day about a growing feud between studios (MGM in particular) trying to drive down DVD prices to make them an impule buy, vs. Blockbuster & rental stores who want more of a video-style pricing (high initial price to encourage rentals). It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, and disposable discs could be a big part of that.

As to your "shrimp to land" argument, I give you this . There are many others, but my time is short.

I know many others may also give you this, but here it is again.

No offense, but I tend to believe in an observable reasoning to our evolution rather than "faith" in an all powerful "being" that "created" us. I would think simple logic would prove evolution as the simpler explanation, and a far less stretch of the two, by far.

Welcome Occam's Razor.

There is far more evidence for evolution than a magical being with time on his hands when concerned with our "creation", so that's where I'll stay. How could God chastise me for following the path of proof?

Meanwhile, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is giving extraordinary sums of money to real nuts and bolts making the world a better place kinds of causes. Gates could literally turn out to be the most significant philanthropist in the history of the world. They're giving so much money that you can almost see a chunk of what you spend on MS going to a good cause.

Assuming (which may be wrong,) that Gates put up all that money himself, that still leaves him with 43.5 billion dollars. You'd have to work for almost half a million years to earn that much (probably a million years after taxes.)

In other words, he's not going to miss that money. It's not going to require any change to his lifestyle such like any of us "normal" people would have to face to donate 35% of our money to charity.

Unfortunately they're only available in Windows Media format, but MSNBC has a good list of this year's highlights, as well as a bunch of classic ads from the past Super Bowls.

Unfortunately they're only available in Windows Media format, but MSNBC has a good list of this year's highlights, as well as a bunch of classic ads from the past Super Bowls.

That link redirects to http://msid.msn.com/mps_id_sharing/redirect.asp?ww w.msnbc.com/news/create_p1.asp?URL=www.msnbc.com/n ews/695943.asp which doesn't work because my HTTP filter blocks accesses to msid.msn.com for privacy reasons.

http://www.pc-help.org/privacy/ms_guid.htm has more info about msid shenanigans.

I saw a show on TV where the reporter brought a hidden camera to a restaurant in China. You would select your cat from a cage, and the cat would be knocked on the head with a stick and thrown into a vat of boiling water. The cat would be pulled out and stripped of fur. Oh, by the way, the cat would be gasping for air at this point, because it wasn't boiled dead, it was boiled alive.

Is this racist drivel, too?

What happens to dogs...

Dosen't Israel have prior art on that? Both in the Eichmann case and when they sent their agents abroad in the 70's to kill Palestinians (including a poor Moroccan fellow snuffed by mistake) involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic affair?? I am no NeoNazi Jewhater nor am I trying to start a flamewar. It just struck me that enforcing your law on other peoples sovreign territory without their prior consent or knowledge is not a new idea nor was the practice invented by the US Govt. I am shure one can find older examples than these if one digs a bit.

Now... Lets go and watch some Karma evaproate.

hmmmmm a big, rich, nerd - Kinda like this?

link about AOL/TW lawsuit on a site owned by AOL/TW? Subtle.

Chris Beckenbach

check this.

According to MSNBC AOL/TW wasn't interested in Redhat.

I didn't actually read it. Something tells me it's chock-full of unbiased journalism and ethical reporting. Yes, this long link is indeed intentional.

At least for cars anyway. Check out this MSNBC news article

...it was totally artifical - there was no "porting" its lessons to real life

Chess is often taught because it is supposed have lessons for life outside chess. Typical of these lessons are:

• If you don't think ahead, you lose.
• It's okay to use your brain
• Actions have consequences
• The first thing is not always the best thing

The idea is that a game must be educational to be worthwhile. One can see that attitude in your statement that "Chess is fun, insofar as it teaches good pattern recognition and a disciplined mind." The implication is that if it doesn't, it is a waste of time.

The real fun of chess comes when you have mastered some patterns and discipline. It would be pointless to abandon the game just when you were getting good at it.

Fun usually occurs as a result of and as a reward for education and training. People often think education and training must have some practical end. In fact, its objective may be to have fun.

I still CANT believ eit !!!!!!!!!

Whats up with u REd hat!!!!

"To counter Microsoft's desktop hegemony, New York-based AOL Time Warner could use the deal to couple its America Online software, the market leader with more than 33 million Internet subscribers, with Red Hat's operating-system technology, sources said.
The AOL online software, which consumers can install for free from the Web or a compact disk, is now designed to run on Microsoft's Windows operating system. But the AOL software could be configured to override Windows and launch a version of Red Hat's Linux operating system, sources said.
With such a move, AOL Time Warner could potentially make significant inroads into Microsoft's bread-and-butter business. An even graver challenge to Microsoft would be for AOL Time Warner to develop a rival operating system that works exclusively with the media giant's own Internet service provider, its Web browser or proprietary content."

Taken from an article on MSNBC

The AOL online software, which consumers can install for free from the Web or a compact disk, is now designed to run on Microsoft's Windows operating system. But the AOL software could be configured to override Windows and launch a version of Red Hat's Linux operating system, sources said.

I hope this wouldn't be done by default. There had better be a lot of warnings indicating that the disk was about to be reformatted and that data could (and probably would) be lost.

Now, I have no problem with Windows being overwritten. I just hope end users are made fully aware of the potential risks to their data.

Here she is at MSNBC.

IE6 has the ability to navigate msnbc.com in the way it was meant to be navigated. I don't know why: The menus at foxnews.com work just fine, but msnbc.com displays nothing where menus should be. windowsupdate.microsoft.com? Forget it.

Visit www.voa.gov in Mozilla and wonder why the page looks different in IE6. Simple, the comments on the page are screwy, and vim highlighting will show that. I'm thankful that voanews.com is just fine.

staroffice.com specifically does not support Netscape 6+ and will give you a message to that effect. That said, I haven't noticed any breakage. Expect more such hostility in the future from people who are happy with the one-browser market.

I can't get the RealAudio plugin to work with Mozilla. Maybe I need to install Netscape, deal with the cheesy commercial crap and special offers long enough to install the plugin, copy it to my Mozilla folder, then uninstall Netscape. A minor problem to be sure, but I'm sick of staring at that "you need a plug-in" icon for embedded objects, and I wish the Netscape plug-in finder would recognize my frustration.

I love Mozilla, but it lags behind IE6 on quite a few sites that I visit. These are just some of the sites that I visit, and I stay away from most overdone sites, especially Flash sites. I can't imagine what it's like for people who surf the web for all of its tacky glory. Mozilla has a great foundation. It just isn't there yet for the sites I visit, even less ready than the 0.9.7 moniker would suggest.

As the article points out, PVR's do not use removable media (hey, now there is a good idea for me to patent... if only I believed in our patent and copyright system and it was how it should be). Therefor, it makes it nearly impossible for me to distribute/lend my copy to someone else (network TiVos are something else). This was the video industry's major gripe against VCRs when they were introduced. All though I would be quite enraged if they prevented me from recording broadcasts on a removable digital media, I would be far more enraged if I could not make digital recordings on a PVR.

Ultimately, IMHO, something like SCMS will be introduced to prevent multiple perfect digital copies originating from one source. However, SCMS was a joke for MiniDisc/DAT-- many units simply ignored the copybits or gave the option to turn them off. If worse came to worse, you can whip up a bit stripper and copy until your heart is content. Hopefully, if we end up getting a SCMS-like system on digital broadcasts, it will be taken as seriously as it was on MD/DAT and/or be very simple to beat...

...Then, of course, we would violate the DMCA and go to jail for months before our arraignment...

On the topic of this program, a more current story running on msnbc.com right now is telling how it is becoming a severe security risk for users of the program. Here is the article.

MSNBC now has an article up, for those of you looking for more news about this story (should be immune to the /. effect too).

Yeah, Techno fetishists everywhere are already creaming their pants over the demonstration of the new "doctrine" of remote warfare displayed by the US in the Afghan War.

It's certainly good for initial deployment and aerial interdiction and control, but remains untested for endgame positional tactics using soft assets.

But this development is nothing that Our Prophet Philip Dick did not foresee in such stories as Second Variety .

It reminds me of how Twain saw the devastating and immobilizing affect on warfare of machine guns and trench technology in the closing chapters of his 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court .

Or HG Wells foreseeing aerial warfare and the bombardment of cities and civilian populations in The War in the Air .

But because war is politics by any means necessary, when one approach is blocked the street will find a way to express itself through another. If politicized groups and countries cannot hope to use conventional warfare, then they will move on to more promising avenues and asymmetrical opportunities. Things more horribly inventive than destroying buildings with sharp knives and opportunity.

And as so many here have pointed out, most of this is self-serving propgaanda. 30% of munitions dropped still fail to explode. And this article points out, the Rout of the Taliban was largely a social victory. Factions on the ground saw which way the wind was blowing, shaved their beards, and changed sides.

But most of the same local bosses are still running things... why else do you think so many high-profile "Taliban" are being let go. Why is it proving so difficult to arrest Omar, a practically dead, half-blind guy doing a Steve McQueen on a motorbike?



Meanwhile, Blair ran a victory lap in Kabul. Right.

Remember, the Russians also "took" Afghanistan with virtually no resistance within a few months. But their mistake was to stay longer, and eventually the factions started uniting against them. That KC-130 that crashed, they are flying bricks. One hasn't crashed in error since the start of the 1970s. Odds are it was brought down by a shoulder-launched SAM at extremely close range.

And now the Marines are exiting and being replaced by the 101st, who'll be digging fortifying those bases that annoy the Russians so much. They are there for the long haul? I hope they have better luck than Reagan's Marines in Lebanon.

And why are Katz's articles so goddamn difficult to read? Does he go through a rewrite phase where he trys to find longer latinate words whenever possible, replacing anything short and punchy with polysyllabic monstrosities? A dose of Strunk and Whyte would go a long way there.

The MSNBC article is lacking in details. RealNetworks press releases are here and here. Anyways, I would assume TiVo would get some of the $ from the RealOne subscription service. Apple could learn a thing or two from RealNetworks and M$ about marketing Quicktime.

Other than the Discovery channel crap I studied no Q. Physics. That book was an easy read for anyone who's taken algebra, and I finished it in less than a month. [not bad, I read it when I took a shit... you know]

This may be be a little off topic, but I believe that this is worth a mention here:

This story give you an idea as to how patents are not only inconvenient to us but actually kill people every day in America. This story explains how patents keep a quick HIV tests out of the American market, thus needlessly exposing many to a deadly desease.

Far be it from me to imply that ownership affects the editorial slant of the media, but consider the first paragraph of MSNBC's coverage of the AOL exploit:

A security hole in AOL Time Warner's Instant Messenger program used by millions of people worldwide can let a hacker take full control of a victim's computer, according to security researchers and the company. An AOL spokesman said the problem will be fixed soon, and users won't have to download anything.

with the lead paragraph of their coverage (read: spin) on the recent XP fiasco:

Microsoft's new Windows XP has a host of new features designed to make a world of disparate digital devices communicate with each other. Unfortunately, some of those features make it easier for hackers to communicate with them too, the company admitted Thursday. A free fix for the flaws has been issued, and the company is urging customers to download the patch.

Of course, with the tough economic times and all, it's good to see the marketing department pitching in and writing the story leads.

NOTE: I've read the book about 15 times over the years, so I'm not exactly a casual LOTR fan, but nor am I a rabid "Gandalf is God" fan.

One of the very few negative reviews I've found expresses exactly my feelings about the movie.

Basically I thought the film was OK as big superproductions go, but I was disappointed that it doesn't add anything to the book. On the contrary, it seems to replace most of what's good with tired old Hollywood shticks: meaningful glances, silly special effects, poor character development, ugly sets (the Elves' residences are especially disappointing), and so on.

There's a very few things I liked: the Hobbiton sets, Bilbo and Gandalf smoking a pipe, the grief-stricken fellowship outside Moria, maybe a few other things. The rest seems like a big waste to me.

I disagree. Advertisers understand that the media is credible only so long as it reports objectively news that damages their reputation alongside news that enhances it. Media outlets that subjectively filter their content to please their advertisers run the risk of alienating their subscribers, which ultimately results in a smaller subscriber base, lower advertising rates, and defection of key accounts to media with higher circulation. What the media will do is present the response of the vendor alongside the main story, which is not contrary to standard media practice. By way of example, note these stories about the XP hole on MSNBC. Interestingly, I don't see any coverage of the Oracle exploit in the mainstream media, but then most people don't run 9i on their eMachines, so maybe it's not as relevant to them.

I disagree. Advertisers understand that the media is credible only so long as it reports objectively news that damages their reputation alongside news that enhances it. Media outlets that subjectively filter their content to please their advertisers run the risk of alienating their subscribers, which ultimately results in a smaller subscriber base, lower advertising rates, and defection of key accounts to media with higher circulation. What the media will do is present the response of the vendor alongside the main story, which is not contrary to standard media practice. By way of example, note these stories about the XP hole on MSNBC. Interestingly, I don't see any coverage of the Oracle exploit in the mainstream media, but then most people don't run 9i on their eMachines, so maybe it's not as relevant to them.

How Slashdot has a big story on how one of MS's chief competitors lost a lawsuit, while places like MSNBC are running the story that XP lets pirates take over your entire computer?

Oh wait a minute.

Maybe they changed their website to a more slashdotting compatabile design. They are also dealing with alot of different browsers hitting their site. Hey its simple, fast, and IMHO suited very well for its purpose. Hell I bet its valid html code. If you want bloat, fancy graphics, and bandwidth hogging webpages please go here.

Yes, that too.

FREE MUMIA!

After that B1-B crashed in the Indian Ocean last Tuesday, due to "multiple malfunctions," it makes me wonder why we're even using B1-B's in the Afghanistan conflict, after having achieved extreme air superiority. As this article points out, the annual budget to maintain all 94 of our B-52's is about $250 million, while the cost of a new B1-B is $280 million. B1-Bs are faster, can fly lower, avoid radar better, and have better electronic counter-measures, but the biggest cause of loss to our bombers crashing isn't speed, altitude, radar detection, or anti-aircraft missiles, it's that they break! It's hard to say what the cost would be to build new B-52s, since the last active B-52 was built in 1962, but it would sure be cheaper than the $280 million each for B1-Bs.

• The war in Afghanistan has nothing to do with US law. [context: the USA projecting laws globally]

Everything that the US government does has to do with US law. The 1973 War Act attempts to limit the President's ability to declare war, while also giving the option to pass a euphemistic "use of force" resolution rather than old fashioned (and honest) declaration of war. Bush followed the procedures of this Act under protest, as Presidents like to think that as Commander-in-Chief, they're not answerable to Congress. But he did follow them.

My point is actually that the Law is defined by Congress (50% of whom are members of the American Bar Association, so much for separation of powers), and they can pass any law they damn well like to allow the USA to project power - military or economic - across the world if it's convenient to them. If there was a political will, we could very easily re-define spammers as [h|c]rackers and have them punished anywhere in the world. Remember DeCCS?

For all the FBI, CIA and the so-called "intelligence community" that have the blood of thousands of Americans on their hands. From this article.

But one of the things that would be interesting to know, is how on earth did this guitar strumming, white boy suburbanite, Cat Stevens-wannabe manage to infiltrate the Taliban, a task that is supposedly so formidable that not even the best of the Central Intelligence Agency has been able to achieve it over the past six years?

MSNBC and Wired. Seems that no one was arrested (in the US, at least - 5 people were in England). One customs agent said each computer has an average of 1-2 terabytes of software (Wired article). Wow.

The vast majority oppose the settlement's terms -- although many say they would welcome some sort of plan to settle the case by giving schools badly needed technology resources.
"I believe Microsoft's intent was positive and they truly believed that they had a solution that would be acceptable and useful to schools," says Bill Fiske, the instructional technology coordinator for the Rhode Island Department of Education...blah...blah...blah"

I've never had any problem with PayPal, but my use has been minimal. I think it is worth noting, though, that PayPal has got one of the more vigorous anti-fraud groups around. I think their fraud rate is around 1/2 of 1 percent, which is (IIRC) lower than many credit cards.

Some of this information is from an MSNBC Article that showed up on SANS NewsBytes. But I've also heard personal anecdotes from security professionals who'd rather have the Mafia after them than PayPal.

Now, if you asked people if it is ok for CIA agents to attach electrodes to an elderly suspect's testicles in order to extract information, and then to dump the suspect in a street without apologies or medical care if it turned out to be an innocent bystander, my guess is most Americans would say that such actions are criminal and not to be tolerated. Is it "going too far"? Only in the sense that Charles Manson "went too far".

Of course, the real question is will Larry Ellison still be alive for Nuremburg II, and, if so, what will be his excuse? And should he hang for his crimes?

IBM set up the Nazi database system and apparently got off claiming they didn't know the Nazis would do bad things with it. Given that the various political leaders and even the CIA have gone on record approving of torture and assassinations to root out "terrorists", and given the broad use of the term "terrorist", can Larry Ellison successfully claim ignorance? Is ignorance a valid defense?

If NASA starts concentrating on Pluto now, I can't imagine where the Mars Society crackpots will setup their formica space station to train for the planet's environment.

Princess Masako will soon give birth to the Japanese prince soon.

On Monday, a real inventor will debut his newest creation. It's been said that it will be quite the paradigm-shift.

Ruby's a rehash of OO Lisp and Perl. Nice, but hardly news.

And still we have hands-free device laws in exactly zero states.

Not true.

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01f5'

Illegal assignment: 'sSourceName'

/news/627086.asp, line 2

Heheheh!!!!MSNBC sucks!

Just a clarification... It sounds like maybe you're under the impression that they're hoping to detect light reflected from the planet. That may be the case, but it seems more likely that they're hoping to analyze light shining through the planet's atmosphere as it occludes the star. This technique has been used recently, apparently with good success. Umm... actually, it looks like this MSNBC article is talking about this case (planet HD 209458). So check that article out.