I would strongly recommend working for an IT contracting and placement company called Tek Systems. They're the largest IT contracting company in the US and probably the world. They have relationships with some of the largest, best companies and once they approve you to work for them, it's like a quick backdoor or shortcut into a good company. A lot of their stuff is for hire too, it's not all set length project contracts. When it comes to programming, they actually have sort of a set aside group of really good programmers that they send in when the job is important. So if you really are the best programmer (like I am:-D) they'll send you on one of those. And trust me, if it's a bad place to work, they will drop that business as a customer real fast. It's like having over a dozen agents constantly searching companies for programming jobs and filtering them all out for you. Some of the time they trust Tek Systems enough that you get the contract without even going for an interview with the company since Tek Systems already interviewed you to work for them. When a smart, professional company wants someone to do a job, they just call up Tek Systems and say hey, send over a ____ and they take them and that's that. They skip the whole stupid searching and interviewing process because Tek Systems only sends really good, pre-approved workers. It's like shopping for people:-P I got a job with IBM and at a hospital through them so far and I'm only 20.
Go back to your cave, troll. Astronomers prove themselves wrong every day. They make up imaginary rules and theories with no basis and then bitch when they get proven wrong. Remember the recent "no planet can be X distance from a star if it's over a certain mass" rule that someone pulled out of their ass? There was absolutely no reason for anyone to think it was true other than the fact that they hadn't seen it yet so they assumed that was some astromonical law. And as seen in slashdot recently, they were proven wrong. That's like me saying dolphins don't exist because I've never seen one and then oh crap, there's a dolphin, I guess they do exist. Here's how theories like this get created. Some scientist makes up the most outrageous, far out, ridiculous theory to explain something they've witnessed in space and they're the one that gets the coverage and the book sales and the documentary contracts because that's the most entertaining. Logically they should just go with the simplest explanation. If you look at any part of this particular load of crap, you'll notice that there's holes all over it. What they witnessed was light's path being warped...that's it. So from that, the simplest explanation must be a giant cloud of an undiscovered form of gravity inducing matter in the middle of nowhere that's bigger than a galaxy? Give me a break! Light passing over a what 250 million lightyear cloud super far away will look identical to light being warped by a way, way closer object like a black hole or brown dwarf and that's way more likely. It's all basic trigonometry. And yes, it can be happening from multiple directions at once. Here's another thinker for you. How can they tell that X galaxy's light is being bent so it appears to be 5 degrees off from it's real location if they don't know it's real location because they can't see it? For all they know, the light isn't even being bent by gravity and it's warped or disrupted (or whatever they witnessed) another way.
That reminds me of the old saying. You can't sue gun makers for what their customers do. For all oil companies know, people are going to produce plastics with their oil, not burn it. That actually is a huge use for it I hear. Heck, I could be painting my house with oil for all they know. It's sort of the same with hookah and bong makers. Even though 99% of customers do something illegal with it, manufacturers can't be held liable because they claim they're only producing them for smoking legal herbs.
I'll shoot an even more obvious one at you. What if instead of a huuuuuuuge cloud of magical invisible matter bending the light on the way here, there's a single brown dwarf a billion times closer bending the light and we can't see it. And if you're going to say that wouldn't be enough mass, if two of them are just out of the line of sight and both bend it, it would have a similar effect as a huuuge cloud of matter further away.
I have the answer! You can't get into the board room because you're too busy fixing the CEO's computer that he broke again while he's in the meeting. I think we all know that's the real reason.
There's pages and pages of Re:Wow above this comment and wow is about right. All that talk about auctions and valuing and ownership and it's all just wasted space. Here's all you need to know:In the US at least, business inventory is exempt from property taxes. That's it, that's the end of it. No taxes on IP that businesses own. That's the answer to the article's question: "because it isn't taxable property." It's mostly land and buildings and that's it. The same goes for personal property. When was the last time you paid property tax on your computer that probably is worth a decent amount of money? Or even your car? Not all physical property is taxed so why would anyone assume that IP would or should ever be? That's the least likely to be taxed!!! The whole article is just stupid. If the government taxed all property, they'd destroy the economy so they don't.
Oh shoot, on the way to my computer the page collided with a high energy cosmic ray and created an antipage where there's a comic book series with infinite issues all about 12 Earths instead of the opposite. And then it reacted with a normal page in my cache and blew my computer up from the energy and Earth along with it (see, you knew where this was going hehehe). But seriously, when we invent antimatter, it gives off 4 magnitudes more energy per gram than a fusion nuke. We're gonna put a hole in some country when that happens.
spoiler alert! We're gonna suck ourselves into an artificial black hole by then. Either that or break an atomic particle in half or something and create a super bomb that cracks Earth in half. Or maybe we'll accidentally teleport the planet someone with a wormhole. Or maybe we'll accidentally create two Earths in a quantum experiment accident and it will collide with the moon and bounce it into us. I mean come on, think about how high the odds are that in a couple million years (more like a couple hundred) someone will do something crazy or stupid and destroy the entire planet. A thousand years ago we were lucky we could crack a rock in half with technology. Now we can level a city. I don't wanna know what we'll do in the future but I'm sure we won't make it to supernova time.
I knew when I first saw a road runner branded "typo ad page" that they were doing it. In fact I actually thought "I'm gonna read about this one on slashdot!" First of all the date is all wrong. They've been doing it for over a week in Wisconsin. Secondly, I'll do you one better. Any time a combined bittorrent upload of mine exceeds 30 KBPS, my modem mysteriously jams up. And also I've done over 100 GB of torrent traffic up and down. Mostly Knoppix and other legal stuff but not all. And about 2 months ago my download speed became capped at about 1500 kbps instead of the new 8000 or whatever they just upped it to. If I use a multi-source downloader like leechget, I can get the full 850 kBps from a good server. Also even at like 2 AM it's the exact same limit so it's not just traffic. So they seem to be throttling me on purpose. That's right, I'm breaking that story right here right now. In fact I've been meaning to call them about it...brb
I was gonna mention that too. It doesn't make sense. You fire guns and put notches in belts, right? I've never heard of a notch in a gun. Anyway, nothing's going to come out of this except maybe the FCC banning Comcast employees from using steroids.
Hey I ran Knoppix on my PC when it temporarily had 3 GB of ram and it still lagged on menu loads and stuff. I couldn't figure out how to get it to keep loading stuff into memory and leave it there longer. Then again I don't know linux very well. If you know of a way, please share.
Anyway, back to the article. This is an expecially good idea because these days you can put in 4 GB of PC5300 on up for around $100 from newegg and probably never use half of it. I ran oblivion while burning a DVD and a lot of background stuff running and only used about 1.5 GB of ram. But that was on XP and its memory management is retarded. If you've got 3 GB of open ram, it will still keep right on caching stuff to the hard drive. It's about time someone developed a way to use all the ram we've got!
This is actually pretty stupid. If I set up a stand outside my house with a sign that says "pirated movies: $5" and didn't sell any, I bet someone would still arrest/sue me. Just because I burned copies of it and set up shop doesn't mean I distributed any so nothing can happen to me under that ruling.
how often does more than one process that will max out a core run in your background? It's all just stuff that uses 1% every couple minutes tops. I mean really, how often would you be gaming while encoding a video (which you can do on a dual) while installing a windows update while running a virus scan while brute forcing a zip file password. And that's only 5 cores. It's just idiotic to have 6. Even if you did have that much running, your hard drive would be so taxed, everything would slow down anyway. Anything beyond a quad belongs in a server unless you actually have a multi-core useful program. And FFS people, stop posting that almost all programs use more than one thread. I don't give a shit if it uses 0.0001% of a second core to update the GUI while it maxes out another core encoding something. That doesn't make it multi-core friendly!!!!!! It has to actually max out other cores! And guess how many programs I have that do that. ZERO. Though windows movie maker comes close because it appears to encode audio in a seperate thread from video or something because it takes up about 75% of my total processor cycles and I have a dual core.
Okay so they traded off having to use use silverlight in order to use Vista kiosks? That seems like a bit of a lose-lose deal to me. They must have some pretty stupid negotiators. Plus, how could anyone be so stupid that they put something that important into a super proprietary format?!
Hey, can we really complain that much? They pushed XP right before Vista came out. That means because of that, more people are running XP instead of Vista. How many people do you think really upgraded? And if they did they probably went back to their valid copy of XP after that.
"Best Technology For Long-Distance Travel?" Hmm I'm gonna have to go with Federation Transporters. Oh wait, that's not what you meant. Okay um, laptops are out because all the little 9" tablets are just awful for various reasons. Anything laptop or tablet sized has to be kept in a bag then you look like you're carrying a purse and that's a huge target for theft. Plus none are really light enough. I'd suggest the largest, most powerful PDA you can find. I won't mention any models or brands cuz I never really researched it but I've seen PDAs with a high res screen that can basically run anything a PC can. I think some even run windows tablet edition instead of windows CE. You can even play starcraft on any 640x480 compatible ones! Not that you'd want to, I just mean one like that would be the most functional, compatible one ever! One that has USB and uses normal drivers and has built in speakers and a headphone jack and is the most like a PC would work fantastically. On the other side, the iPaq for example can only run specially made software and is very restrictive and all that so it's boring and can't do nearly as much. You can't just throw a standard windows executable on it and run it and that's just not acceptable to me at least.
I'll break it down for you. An activeX is basically a program you download that any website can run on your computer. Yeah that kinda sums it up. If the activeX isn't 100% secure, a website can hack you with it. I usually use an activeX once if completely necessary then delete it instead of leaving it sit around.
If governments or other people with millions of dollars can listen to your conversations right now, why shouldn't your next-door neighbor?
Assuming I'm the person they're talking about instead of to...because my neighbors don't have anything interesting to say. Trust me, they're really strange and really boring. Anyway, for those of you wondering what someone could possibly say over a cell phone that's so intercept-worthy, some fancy banks require a key-press or auditory password to access balances and even move funds. You know, like in the movies. Some actually do that. And if you're going to say that it matches voice pitch and stuff instead of just the word, duh, press record on your laptop when they say it and play it back through the phone.
You and everyone else keeps posting about how worried they are that either Google will get a copy of your data without your permission (which they can't) or someone will see your records, which is obviously possible as you mentioned. So scam the system back. If I'm not mistaken, you have to agree to release your medicals records every time. If someone sees my medical history right now, who cares. Nothing incriminating, nothing blackmail worthy or don't hire me worthy. So let's say I go to the Dr tomorrow for some stupid made up thing or just for a physical and agree to release my medical records to google and I assume it's retroactive. Even if it isn't, google would get a copy of my awesomely perfect medical history. And from then on I say no to release my records. I assume you can sort of itemize your permissions like that because you might want to release to your employer that you were injured for something but not release that you have an STD later. It's not like they keep sending your medical history to everyone you ever gave permission to forever. So in effect, no matter what happens to you in the future, if you just keep saying no, google's records will show you are and always have been in perfect health:D You could have some attempted suicides and illegal drug related treatments and a couple physical confrontations on there and it'd still look perfect to anyone who gains access to it through google.
even trusted Web sites such as those belonging to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and government organizations can serve forth malware
Pssst....they mean Yahoo:-P But really if you think about it, way too may big companies serve up software that spies on you or serves up ads or has a dual installer that also installs something bad. I don't think that's what they're talking about though. Pretty sure they mean just random banner ads for virus infested "free screensavers" and stuff.
well duh, britain's intent recognition technology and the american uranium detection X-ray-like scanner. You can engineer something to do anything and I think that's important. Just be happy they didn't put "Make perpetual motion device" on the list.
some physicist you are. If there's no gravity, you don't have to lift it...because there's no gravity. The energy you expend countering gravity is stored as potential energy. So yes, it's human powered.
because this one's powered by gravity, oooooh! And since that's incorrect, and you're incorrect, I feel the need to point out that it's powered by humans. The effect is just delayed. The weights don't power it and gravity doesn't power it. You're the one who uses energy to power it.
You know, the more that a group of people that's deemed "evil" by the public opinion pushes to hide something that's deemed "good," the more people jump onboard and push harder to defy them. It's like a political Streisand effect. If a court tries to remove a website from the internet, it doesn't just attract attention, it pisses more people off than it would have normally. And that of course makes more people fight to defend it. There are going to be so many mirrors for that sight it's not even funny. Heck, they can e-mail me their database and page structure and I'll put it on my site cuz this whole situation is the typical court ordered bullshit:-P
Slashdot Mirror
I would strongly recommend working for an IT contracting and placement company called Tek Systems. They're the largest IT contracting company in the US and probably the world. They have relationships with some of the largest, best companies and once they approve you to work for them, it's like a quick backdoor or shortcut into a good company. A lot of their stuff is for hire too, it's not all set length project contracts. When it comes to programming, they actually have sort of a set aside group of really good programmers that they send in when the job is important. So if you really are the best programmer (like I am :-D) they'll send you on one of those. And trust me, if it's a bad place to work, they will drop that business as a customer real fast. It's like having over a dozen agents constantly searching companies for programming jobs and filtering them all out for you. Some of the time they trust Tek Systems enough that you get the contract without even going for an interview with the company since Tek Systems already interviewed you to work for them. When a smart, professional company wants someone to do a job, they just call up Tek Systems and say hey, send over a ____ and they take them and that's that. They skip the whole stupid searching and interviewing process because Tek Systems only sends really good, pre-approved workers. It's like shopping for people :-P I got a job with IBM and at a hospital through them so far and I'm only 20.
Go back to your cave, troll. Astronomers prove themselves wrong every day. They make up imaginary rules and theories with no basis and then bitch when they get proven wrong. Remember the recent "no planet can be X distance from a star if it's over a certain mass" rule that someone pulled out of their ass? There was absolutely no reason for anyone to think it was true other than the fact that they hadn't seen it yet so they assumed that was some astromonical law. And as seen in slashdot recently, they were proven wrong. That's like me saying dolphins don't exist because I've never seen one and then oh crap, there's a dolphin, I guess they do exist.
Here's how theories like this get created. Some scientist makes up the most outrageous, far out, ridiculous theory to explain something they've witnessed in space and they're the one that gets the coverage and the book sales and the documentary contracts because that's the most entertaining. Logically they should just go with the simplest explanation. If you look at any part of this particular load of crap, you'll notice that there's holes all over it. What they witnessed was light's path being warped...that's it. So from that, the simplest explanation must be a giant cloud of an undiscovered form of gravity inducing matter in the middle of nowhere that's bigger than a galaxy? Give me a break! Light passing over a what 250 million lightyear cloud super far away will look identical to light being warped by a way, way closer object like a black hole or brown dwarf and that's way more likely. It's all basic trigonometry. And yes, it can be happening from multiple directions at once. Here's another thinker for you. How can they tell that X galaxy's light is being bent so it appears to be 5 degrees off from it's real location if they don't know it's real location because they can't see it? For all they know, the light isn't even being bent by gravity and it's warped or disrupted (or whatever they witnessed) another way.
That reminds me of the old saying. You can't sue gun makers for what their customers do. For all oil companies know, people are going to produce plastics with their oil, not burn it. That actually is a huge use for it I hear. Heck, I could be painting my house with oil for all they know. It's sort of the same with hookah and bong makers. Even though 99% of customers do something illegal with it, manufacturers can't be held liable because they claim they're only producing them for smoking legal herbs.
I'll shoot an even more obvious one at you. What if instead of a huuuuuuuge cloud of magical invisible matter bending the light on the way here, there's a single brown dwarf a billion times closer bending the light and we can't see it. And if you're going to say that wouldn't be enough mass, if two of them are just out of the line of sight and both bend it, it would have a similar effect as a huuuge cloud of matter further away.
I have the answer! You can't get into the board room because you're too busy fixing the CEO's computer that he broke again while he's in the meeting. I think we all know that's the real reason.
There's pages and pages of Re:Wow above this comment and wow is about right. All that talk about auctions and valuing and ownership and it's all just wasted space.
Here's all you need to know:In the US at least, business inventory is exempt from property taxes. That's it, that's the end of it. No taxes on IP that businesses own. That's the answer to the article's question: "because it isn't taxable property." It's mostly land and buildings and that's it. The same goes for personal property. When was the last time you paid property tax on your computer that probably is worth a decent amount of money? Or even your car? Not all physical property is taxed so why would anyone assume that IP would or should ever be? That's the least likely to be taxed!!! The whole article is just stupid. If the government taxed all property, they'd destroy the economy so they don't.
Oh shoot, on the way to my computer the page collided with a high energy cosmic ray and created an antipage where there's a comic book series with infinite issues all about 12 Earths instead of the opposite. And then it reacted with a normal page in my cache and blew my computer up from the energy and Earth along with it (see, you knew where this was going hehehe). But seriously, when we invent antimatter, it gives off 4 magnitudes more energy per gram than a fusion nuke. We're gonna put a hole in some country when that happens.
spoiler alert! We're gonna suck ourselves into an artificial black hole by then. Either that or break an atomic particle in half or something and create a super bomb that cracks Earth in half. Or maybe we'll accidentally teleport the planet someone with a wormhole. Or maybe we'll accidentally create two Earths in a quantum experiment accident and it will collide with the moon and bounce it into us. I mean come on, think about how high the odds are that in a couple million years (more like a couple hundred) someone will do something crazy or stupid and destroy the entire planet. A thousand years ago we were lucky we could crack a rock in half with technology. Now we can level a city. I don't wanna know what we'll do in the future but I'm sure we won't make it to supernova time.
I knew when I first saw a road runner branded "typo ad page" that they were doing it. In fact I actually thought "I'm gonna read about this one on slashdot!" First of all the date is all wrong. They've been doing it for over a week in Wisconsin. Secondly, I'll do you one better. Any time a combined bittorrent upload of mine exceeds 30 KBPS, my modem mysteriously jams up. And also I've done over 100 GB of torrent traffic up and down. Mostly Knoppix and other legal stuff but not all. And about 2 months ago my download speed became capped at about 1500 kbps instead of the new 8000 or whatever they just upped it to. If I use a multi-source downloader like leechget, I can get the full 850 kBps from a good server. Also even at like 2 AM it's the exact same limit so it's not just traffic. So they seem to be throttling me on purpose. That's right, I'm breaking that story right here right now. In fact I've been meaning to call them about it...brb
I was gonna mention that too. It doesn't make sense. You fire guns and put notches in belts, right? I've never heard of a notch in a gun. Anyway, nothing's going to come out of this except maybe the FCC banning Comcast employees from using steroids.
Hey I ran Knoppix on my PC when it temporarily had 3 GB of ram and it still lagged on menu loads and stuff. I couldn't figure out how to get it to keep loading stuff into memory and leave it there longer. Then again I don't know linux very well. If you know of a way, please share.
Anyway, back to the article. This is an expecially good idea because these days you can put in 4 GB of PC5300 on up for around $100 from newegg and probably never use half of it. I ran oblivion while burning a DVD and a lot of background stuff running and only used about 1.5 GB of ram. But that was on XP and its memory management is retarded. If you've got 3 GB of open ram, it will still keep right on caching stuff to the hard drive. It's about time someone developed a way to use all the ram we've got!
This is actually pretty stupid. If I set up a stand outside my house with a sign that says "pirated movies: $5" and didn't sell any, I bet someone would still arrest/sue me. Just because I burned copies of it and set up shop doesn't mean I distributed any so nothing can happen to me under that ruling.
how often does more than one process that will max out a core run in your background? It's all just stuff that uses 1% every couple minutes tops. I mean really, how often would you be gaming while encoding a video (which you can do on a dual) while installing a windows update while running a virus scan while brute forcing a zip file password. And that's only 5 cores. It's just idiotic to have 6. Even if you did have that much running, your hard drive would be so taxed, everything would slow down anyway. Anything beyond a quad belongs in a server unless you actually have a multi-core useful program. And FFS people, stop posting that almost all programs use more than one thread. I don't give a shit if it uses 0.0001% of a second core to update the GUI while it maxes out another core encoding something. That doesn't make it multi-core friendly!!!!!! It has to actually max out other cores! And guess how many programs I have that do that. ZERO. Though windows movie maker comes close because it appears to encode audio in a seperate thread from video or something because it takes up about 75% of my total processor cycles and I have a dual core.
Okay so they traded off having to use use silverlight in order to use Vista kiosks? That seems like a bit of a lose-lose deal to me. They must have some pretty stupid negotiators. Plus, how could anyone be so stupid that they put something that important into a super proprietary format?!
Hey, can we really complain that much? They pushed XP right before Vista came out. That means because of that, more people are running XP instead of Vista. How many people do you think really upgraded? And if they did they probably went back to their valid copy of XP after that.
"Best Technology For Long-Distance Travel?" Hmm I'm gonna have to go with Federation Transporters. Oh wait, that's not what you meant. Okay um, laptops are out because all the little 9" tablets are just awful for various reasons. Anything laptop or tablet sized has to be kept in a bag then you look like you're carrying a purse and that's a huge target for theft. Plus none are really light enough. I'd suggest the largest, most powerful PDA you can find. I won't mention any models or brands cuz I never really researched it but I've seen PDAs with a high res screen that can basically run anything a PC can. I think some even run windows tablet edition instead of windows CE. You can even play starcraft on any 640x480 compatible ones! Not that you'd want to, I just mean one like that would be the most functional, compatible one ever! One that has USB and uses normal drivers and has built in speakers and a headphone jack and is the most like a PC would work fantastically. On the other side, the iPaq for example can only run specially made software and is very restrictive and all that so it's boring and can't do nearly as much. You can't just throw a standard windows executable on it and run it and that's just not acceptable to me at least.
I'll break it down for you. An activeX is basically a program you download that any website can run on your computer. Yeah that kinda sums it up. If the activeX isn't 100% secure, a website can hack you with it. I usually use an activeX once if completely necessary then delete it instead of leaving it sit around.
You and everyone else keeps posting about how worried they are that either Google will get a copy of your data without your permission (which they can't) or someone will see your records, which is obviously possible as you mentioned. So scam the system back. If I'm not mistaken, you have to agree to release your medicals records every time. If someone sees my medical history right now, who cares. Nothing incriminating, nothing blackmail worthy or don't hire me worthy. So let's say I go to the Dr tomorrow for some stupid made up thing or just for a physical and agree to release my medical records to google and I assume it's retroactive. Even if it isn't, google would get a copy of my awesomely perfect medical history. And from then on I say no to release my records. I assume you can sort of itemize your permissions like that because you might want to release to your employer that you were injured for something but not release that you have an STD later. It's not like they keep sending your medical history to everyone you ever gave permission to forever. So in effect, no matter what happens to you in the future, if you just keep saying no, google's records will show you are and always have been in perfect health :D You could have some attempted suicides and illegal drug related treatments and a couple physical confrontations on there and it'd still look perfect to anyone who gains access to it through google.
well duh, britain's intent recognition technology and the american uranium detection X-ray-like scanner. You can engineer something to do anything and I think that's important. Just be happy they didn't put "Make perpetual motion device" on the list.
some physicist you are. If there's no gravity, you don't have to lift it...because there's no gravity. The energy you expend countering gravity is stored as potential energy. So yes, it's human powered.
because this one's powered by gravity, oooooh! And since that's incorrect, and you're incorrect, I feel the need to point out that it's powered by humans. The effect is just delayed. The weights don't power it and gravity doesn't power it. You're the one who uses energy to power it.
You know, the more that a group of people that's deemed "evil" by the public opinion pushes to hide something that's deemed "good," the more people jump onboard and push harder to defy them. It's like a political Streisand effect. If a court tries to remove a website from the internet, it doesn't just attract attention, it pisses more people off than it would have normally. And that of course makes more people fight to defend it. There are going to be so many mirrors for that sight it's not even funny. Heck, they can e-mail me their database and page structure and I'll put it on my site cuz this whole situation is the typical court ordered bullshit :-P