Slashdot Mirror
BT's Predictions for the Future
Saluton_Mondo writes "BT describes the future as looking "ever more exciting each year"... you won't be surprised if you read their white paper on a timeline of technological development in various aspects of human culture, running up to about 2100. It's a bit out of date, but still pretty funny. Some are reasonable predictions, like the introduction of ID cards in the UK by 2010, or the rise of an American dictator in 2000. Others are just funny, like an orgasm via e-mail in 2010, or a security Barbie which searches for lost offspring. I'll not even mention the emergence of the Borg in 2040... see what you think."
or predicts a slashdotting.
I'll be selling my SCO shares today if they break 17 - thats going to net me a $5 a share.
Say what you will about Darl McBride, but as long as he keeps bringing value to the stockholder, he is A-OK in my book.
Yeah, like you actually THINK in school :P
All you do is regurgitate what the teacher shoves into your head.
go 'canes!
Weren't BT suing people for using websites or something? What ever happened to that? Why is BT still so expensive? Why can't I get broadband in my area?
BT are hopeless at everything they touch.
Unfortunatly BT couldn't predict what time they'd turn up to connect my phone line this morning. Oringinally they said 8AM, then 8AM-10AM, then at 11 noone had come. I Don't hold much hope
AT&T Wireless Blocks Employees' Access to News Stories About Offshoring
By D. David Beckman
WashTech News
AT&T Wireless is now tracking all Internet browsing by its employees, at one point last week even blocking access to online media stories that were perceived by company officials as critical of its offshoring activities.
Employees reported last Thursday that when they attempted to read online news reports about AT&T Wireless offshoring activities on The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Web sites, a blocking alert appeared on their Web browsers warning them that access to those stories was blocked.
"Warning Notice," the alert reads. "You have attempted to access a site that has been deemed inappropriate by our business and blocked from ALL internal access. A record of this request has been logged and will be provided to Business Security upon request."
Below the message, in capital letters, a line reads, "PLEASE REFRAIN FROM ANY FURTHUR ATTEMPTS!"
Company employees who spoke to WashTech News on the condition that they would not be identified said that currently navigating from their work computer to any Internet site that carries news reports critical of AT&T Wireless produces a similar alert, but the sites are now accessible.
"It really makes you feel like Big Brother is watching," said one employee. "It's intimidating."
Last Wednesday (Nov. 19) WashTech News and the Wall Street Journal published stories detailing how AT&T Wireless is reducing its domestic IT workforce, and forcing many current employees to train their foreign replacements. Internal company documents obtained by WashTech News show that the replacements are employees of Indian offshore outsourcing firms such as Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro, Ltd.
The following day (Nov. 20), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times newspapers published similar stories.
Redmond-based AT&T Wireless is the third-largest mobile phone company in the United States, and employs about 30,000 workers, approximately 3,900 of whom work in IT. Most of the IT employees are based in Redmond and Bothell, Wash., and in Allen, Texas.
Internal documents obtained by WashTech News show that as many as 70 percent of the company's IT workers will lose their jobs, many of which are being sent to India. Several AT&T Wireless IT workers claim that many who are slated to be laid off are being forced to train their Indian replacements.
"It's not like the company is not doing well financially," said an employee. "It is doing quite well. This [offshoring] is motivated by pure greed."
Why has this been modded down to -1? It's the guy's opinion and it's perfectly reasonable.
That was a troll if I ever saw it.
a ng _en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=choicepoint+florida+rigged +harris&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=l
Your kids can do christian prayers in school just as soon as everyone also gets to do hindu ceremonies, moslem prayers (toward mecca, of course), jewish prayers, native american religious ceremonies, etc.
What's that? Only silent prayer? Funny how that only works for certain christian sects. Unless everyone has the same rights to practice what they consider essential to their religious observance, you can't let one group (christians who believe in silent prayer) have their "rights" but deny these same rights to others.
It's completely impractical to let every religious denomination practice its essential religious ceremonies in school, so we don't let anyone do it. Instead, we encourage all faiths to practice their religious observances in venues outside of schools - temples, churches, navajo hogans, synagogues, etc.
Moreover, this ignores the practical reality, which is that, in most schools, the majority would simply foist what it considers essential (silent prayer anyone? the Lord's Prayer?) on everyone, and completely ignore the fact that non-christians were either being forced to perform a religious observance they do not believe in, or being ostracized for not participating. If you thing this latter is insignificant, you have very little understanding of peer pressure, and impressionability among school aged children. Non-christian parents rightly do not want their children pressured by peers and state funded institutions into christian prayer. Leave prayer in the churches where it belongs.
Uh, does that url really have "42270" in it, or is my browser lying to me? That's my Slashdot user ID.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
BT are a nightmare to deal with. Their lines go down and they won't admit to it. They get your details wrong and send engineers to the wrong place.
My current tale of BT misery is trying to get SNMP installed on our VPN routers which are part of their Business Managed Service. They have told us that they do not SNMP to manage our routers (which I find tough to believe). When we asked for it so we could monitor our own lines, they agreed to install it for a 1000 pounds per router, roughly a 100,000 pounds, (or 100 pounds per Cisco IOS Command).
So before they start to predict when we will fly to work in jetcars, could they first check and see when we will get a reasonable service from them?
2003: CmdrTaco turns /. into the city of trolls by allowing a post with "the rise of an American dictator in 2000"
/. is now \. - clearly leaning far to the left
2004:
2006: \. is now known as the People's Republic of Trolls
2007: CmdrTaco chosen to lead the new nation of the People's Republic of Trolls
Aww, what peaceful little protesters they are too. (That's liquid feces, BTW)
This guy gets a troll mod on a post, an unmodded post, and an insightful post by replying to himself? wow.
And hopefully in ten years or so, after the war in Iraq is over, Saddam is dead ect ect. They will get to see what the Americans did for them. Atleast, that's my hope.
So what have we been doing? It takes time. It was March( I think) that we attacked Iraq, it's not even a year later. Look how long Osma has eben around after 9/11.
THis is treating the symptons and not fixing the problem. Iraq will have these things, when it is rebuilt and their system is put into operation for awhile.
This really depends on who you ask. A CNN gallup poll, a while back, said that 62% of Iraqies(sp?) thought that what they have endured in the war, will be worth it 5 years down the line. I had it bookmarked but CNN has taken down the link. Funny how that works, something that doesn't seem to hint at trouble and/or conspiracy stuff, doesn't get as much attention.
I don't believe that this caused them to crash into buildings. I think that is what you call brainwashing, and being poor. And besides.. Terrorism is NOT limited to the US, to Europeans to first world countries, they seem to attack every damned where.