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If you're confident in googles abilities, and you believe that the telco's current attempts to extort money from the internet will fail, then you may see this as an excellent buying opportunity.

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I think the IT field is a field that has been very fair overall. As a result minorities have made alot of headway into the IT field. So maybe the recruiters comment was made because white IT people are becoming more and more scarce in IT and thus in demand. Hey it's just a speculation.

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The RIAA's argument is that a computer owner should know what their children or other users are doing with their computers and are thus responsible for any piracy that occurs using said computer. By this same logic the RIAA could sue the State of West Virginaia, but of course, the RIAA wouldn't do that. They only go after individuals.

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Investing in gold is definitely a good idea and a good way to do it is to buy an exchange traded fund. This is basically just like a mutual fund that holds mining companies in its portfolio. The advantage of an exchange traded fund (ETF) is that you can buy and sell it like you would a stock. That is you can go to your online broker and buy share of GLD or IAU and get a piece of the action.

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By nature, the any corporation's sole obligation is to increase profits for its stock holders. The exposure of corporate misdeeds is not enough to curtail unethical behavior. Only when you hit them where it hurts(in the wallet) will they show accountability for their actions.

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Your rfid key card is a good idea. And we have seen the stealing key info issue before. Kids with rf recievers were going to shopping malls and intercepting the RF signals from car alarm remote controls. They would then unlock your car when you were not around and steal all your stuff. I guess one solution that would be better is to create two way encryption that expires after each transaction. That way no one can reprocude your signal. So it doesn't matter if they steal it.

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Don't carry anything with RFID tags holding information that you would not want to get out. If there is nothing to worth reading in your wallet the question is moot.

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50 ms? This may be the case when you are just surfing around for entertainment, but I think that if you have a purpose and you are looking for some specific information, you will probably read at least a line or two. So, I guess it depends who your site is targeted to. If your site exists for the purpose of entertainment, then it better look good.

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Perhaps iPod owners are more likely to lack the minimal technical aptitude to run p2p software.

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Perhaps the next generation of Disc technology whether it be blu ray or HD DVD will be the new battleground for DRM. The threat is that there are many people out there with more money than sense. They will buy it up because they are to lazy to care about the implications of rewarding companies that force DRM down your throat. Its the obligation of those in the know. Namely /. readers to inform others so that they can make a better decision.

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So the apple bubble continues. I know they have good products, but the iPod is definitely the lynch pin. I wonder what would happen to apple's stock price if it were not for the iPod. Regardless, they will need to prove that they are more than just a one trick pony as riding the iPod wave can't last forever.

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In the Windows Meta File case MS patched my machine and rebooted it without my consent after just a few days. I guess it all depends on how serious the flaw is.

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I've seen messages which are supoposedly coming from women who want to "chat". These are most of the time spam. I ignore them, but i think this is a common tactic that is probably used by hacks.

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If the RIAA had not angered so many customers, they would have sold alot more songs. Unfortunately, I know alot of people who won't buy any music at all until the middleman is removed.

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Thats why when I want to know what a game is really like, I wait for it to release and browse the games message boards to get insight on the game. In the end I trust the community alot more than the press. Yes, alot of message borads are full of crap too, but its seems to be alot easier to select the valuable posts.

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The best thing Apple can do for their stock price in my opinion is to completely open up their architecture by switching completely to x86. This will only add their reputation of simple elegant designs.

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Hell for the money you can prolly buy a laptop. Then you can get a mouse and play some real games not the console crap. And if you're really hard up for an external drive, you can get that too.

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If the industry can't agree on the DRM that will be put in place what does it matter if panasonic has players and fuji has media?

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The best internet radio out there is Yahoo lunchcast. I can rate songs and also prohibit them from ever being played again if i choose. Having Yahoo launchcast on my phone or my car would be great. I could use the phones interface to rate the songs. Then it would learn what i like and cater to my preferences. Of course someone probably has that patented.

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The rule that patent examiners can't reject an invention as obvious unless they can point to specific references suggesting the elements could be combined seems a bit excessive, but if you don't require this then hindsight will make everything seem obvious. For example, the airplane that the Wright bros invented was just the combination on pre existing fabrics, bicycle parts and an engine. People had been using these things to make gliders and cars for year. See? Obvious. Well, not exactly. So how do you strike a balance? I think it's too subjective. Almost like trying to legislate obscenity. The "I know it when I see it" argument just doesn't wash.

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If this is the case, then your phone will have more functionality than your ipod. Your ipod doesn't let you download music back to your PC. If this is seen as a USB drive then you would be able to do it. Of course this is assuming that the industry doesn't strap some nasty DRM on it. You know what we do when we assume don't you?

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I had been using the ChenPress plugin for WYSIWIG editing and I found that it had some issues 2.0 solves them. I also like the fact that you can increase the size of the text editing window. In the past when I was writing a post, it seemed that the window was way too small.

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Im contracting for a financial services firm and I see the same childish behavior everywhere I go. They put contractors out in hallways with a desk, pc and chair. The employees used to laugh. Then, suddenly, an employee was sitting out in a hallway one day and the contractors were laughing. All the while, no one realizes that companies create an environment of uncertainty and stress by putting workers against each other. Contractors are not the only mechanism used this way. Forced ranking systems are another example. This atmosphere creates workers that are on edge all the time, overworked and worried.

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The initial points for a Digital Rights Management Protection Act proposed by Geist seem like a nice starting point. However, as it says in the article Sony is only required to abide by it until 2008. In the meantime the corporate influence that is taking hold of our legislative entities will fight harder to shift all possible advantages to the corporations. It's only with continued publicity and pestering of politicians that the consumer will ever make any headway. That and not ever buying anything from companies like sony. Whenever a friend of mine tells me that he bought a sony product, I tell her that she made a mistake. Then I proceed to explain why.

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While Dell may be gaining leverage with the increasing popularity of non-MS products, I think its a bit hasty to imply that Dell has an advantage. The way I see it, Dell and MS still need each other. As time progrsses and MS goes into the internet market and Dell continues to increase its use of non-MS products. The relationship may become strained. Also, with Dell reporting declining earnings per share this past quarter, dell's move to linux and FF might be expidited.

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When you are sitting at your job surfing blogs instead of working you need a certain amount of stealth. A video won't provide this. People walking by will just think that you are slacking off watching TV. But if you are reading something intently and making troubled facial expressions, you can make it seem like you are very busy.

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This presents a wonderful opportunity for what the conglomerates would call a renegade and consumers would call a visionary company to get its act together and put out an unregulated standard that would be adopted by all the technophiles out there. Once they take the lead, the masses would follow. Sure it would take a massive amount of brainpower and organization, but I'm sure the necessary human resources could be found right here on /.

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One user that is dependent on broadband is the online trader. Receiving real time market data covering a large range of technical indicators can take up quite a bit of bandwidth. The potential for corporate evil doings in this realm is huge. What if your order to buy or sell a stock doesn't get to the market on time? It could be disastrous.

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How responsible should ebay be for fraud. Well lets see. Their main responsibility is profits. If they didicate some of ther staff to persuing fraud, that will affect their bottom line negatively. If the staff they allocate to persue fraud does a good job eliminating faud, they will lose money again because of the loss of fradulent business. Thus illustrating that if eBay effectively tackles fraud, it will be a lose/lose proposition for them. Now, considering that eBay has no moral obligation to anyone, why should eBay be compelled to do anything about this?

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Wow, a ridiculous patent system backed by corporations now results in the very same corporations going after each other based on ideas that are almost intuitive. Pretty soon some company will patent the process of breathing. Think it's far fetched? We'll living things are patentable.

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Quote: "ruling that Sharman and associated parties had authorised users of Kazaa to breach copyright." This is rediculous. The statement makes absolutely no sense. It's like saying that if I buy an FTP program and use it to uload viruses, then the maker of the FTP program has authorised me to do so and can be found liable. It's also clear from the article that the judge invovled here is knows nothing about technology and doesn't seem to be very interested in learning. In my eyes this should disqualify him from the case due to incompetence.

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When socialism goes to an extreme it's called communism and when capiatlism goes to an extreme it can be called fascism. I think it's clear that in certain aspects, the government is shifting from a government for the people to a government that does nothing but serve corporate interests. The fear induced by the threat of terror is just a clever excuse/diversion. The grand irony I find in all of this is that if you want to get away from this you actually have to shift to the left. One of the only vocal members of the Senate who is standing up to this (Russ Feingold from Wisconsin) is a democrat.

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The unfortunate side effect is that shoppers will be less likely to go to mom and pop online retailers and will stick to the conglomerates. This makes is clear that it is in the best interest of honest online retailers and all those who sell services to them that they need to make a concerted effort to combat online fraud.

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There have been some comments posted here about the Indian culture not fitting in well with the MS philosophy. There have also been some comments about how lacking Indian software engineers are in certain aspects of the engineering process. This may all be true at the moement, however, I work with many in Mumbai and I see this changing. Yes, it is a slow process, but we are slowly teaching them how to be just as ruthless, calculating and competitive as the western business minds are. It's all unfortuante in my view. It will end up destroying their culture and moving us one step closer to global corporte hegemony.

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At least windows has provided a (somewhat)user friendly GUI that can be deployed as a desktop standard across organizations. Last time I checked Linux is still trying to accomplish this as mentioned rigth here on /.

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While the fact that the user will be able to "opt in" may make this seem mostly benign, one could argue that this is a precursor to the inevitable. As a company grows and becomes less efficient it needs to find new revenue sources.

I see this all the more reason to run a do it yourself DVR such as myth TV, Sage TV, or meadia portal.

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Tired of the cable companies forcing standardized channel lineups. Wait till the phone companies start coming in with Fiber to the premises. This is when the consumer might actually start to get some leverage here. When we have cable, telephone and satellite companies all competing for your dollars, then we might get a more customizable channel lineup.

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128 megabytes/second should be able to back up without disrupting user experience very much. However, for home PC use with the move to small form factors like the shuttle, I don't see to many people wanting to mess with this unless its cheap and external(i.e. portable). That way I can hide it somewhere and not have to look at it.

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If someone would have come on here a few weeks ago and posted a story about how some major corporation was planning to install a potentially malicious rootkit into your computer whenever you autorun one of their CD's, many here would have probably laughed at the idea.

Then, some technically inept executive got hold of it and here we are. Of course one could argue that we should be glad that Sony bundled a rootkit with their CD's because it has exposed the dangers of overzealous executives. However, in this case, where we have a proposal that deals with a matter as far reaching as internet infrastructiure, it needs to be exposed well before any possibility of implementation.

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Obviously software keyloggers are a huge threat. But there are also hardware keyloggers that hardly ever get mentioned. They get plugs in usually between your ps2 port and your keyboard. They are very small and can store MB's of data. Since people hardly ever look back there, they are very hard to detect. Of course physical presence is required to use this, but I'm sure some of my coworkers would love to play with one of these.



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Seems to me like this is another manifestation of the continuation of high school theory. It basically states that high school social dynamics never end. You see, these timid souls that spend the majority of their time in the books as opposed to developing social contacts never realize that appearances matter. Yes, there are some hybrids, but this large contingent of socially inept people who gravitiate towards IT will always give the IT worker who does understand social dynamics a bad name. So be it.


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