[First: There's no way to know: let's not get bent out of shape, regardless.]
It's been my experience that the designs animals move to made sense at one point, and change over time. If this finding is correct...and let's not kid anyone, it's a suggestion...there was probably an early time where it was good to be this way.
But let's not forget all the re-naming; there are no teryldactls- they've been re-thought. More information changes our view of that past.
The same is true of the Bible, which, despite the media and culture is NOT incongruent with this age- it simply sees it for what it is: not important enough to detail. Science and Christianity aren't foes, they're friends; the Bible is VERY scientifically provable.
Some examples:
- THOUSANDS of years before e=MC2, the Bible had "Let there be light".
- While the 16.9M animals weren't detailed, the categories of plant life listed in the Bible *matches*the*fossil*record*.
There are dozens of times the Bible was curiously written (for contemporary eyes) it was, in fact, scientifically correct.
I'm constantly getting junk mail from people who don't know me, I don't do business with them, and they have no reason to know my credit level- but they do. In periods of time where I can't pay, the flow trickles. When I can pay, the flow fills trashcans. They know.
Now, if my credit score is common knowledge, and the government CAN'T get to it, there's something wrong.
The more direct question about why they'd care about my credit score- I can't imagine what it would help them with...all the guns I run are in cash, the white slavery I do is in bearer bonds, and the drug money is in pesos.:)
Wait! Can you GET credit to buy cocaine?;>
[No, this is all absurdity to illuminate the point...]
"Global Warming" isn't a debate...the fact that sending money to Washington will stop it, is. But isn't Mars also showing a climactic change?
Exactly how many BTU will an airconditioner require to change this back?
See what happens when you think "Look outside your window in Chicago, and you can see the Himilayans" (EarthSource.org)....the planet is _huge_. We are _small_. In a single volcano blast (that we can't control) more CO2 can get in the air that over the last 100 years.
This is a long line of such Chicken Little ploys. 1970-ish: "The population explosion". We must stop having babies; relying on Washington to decide who lives and dies. [We've learned industrial nations throttle well, when contraceptives are available. However, it makes paying for Socialist Security hard to do.]
1975, "The coming Ice Age" We'll be ok if we send money to Washington, and stop going to work. [Never happened, and neither did "Acid rain that will keep our children from playing outside for the rest of their lives".]
1980-something: "The Ozone hole" We'll be ok, if we shut down all our factories and change from Freon to the "New Freon" (which sends money to Washington.) [The hole was learned to be a natural phenomenon, which was in the process of shrinking, anyway.]
Guys, enough of this. Turn off the TV; that's where the programming is coming from. Read a book...test a theory. Think for yourselves!
In the 40's, the best and brightest of the German minds created the Enigma machine. These were top-level scientists...and the British broke it. No encoding scheme will ever be break-proof; it's (another) waste of time and millions trying to do it (again).
Remember the cassette tapes? Copying them was a loss of quality...and then the pirates got really good tape decks, and made more. When it came to 8-tracks, trying to keep all the recorders off the market found that these machines, too, were found on the black market. Then CDs. Most of you are young enough to remember all the attempts to make DVDs only work one way, and only from the original.
This is paralleled by the floppy market where a certain sector is damaged (and, in theory un-copyable) to keep people from making illegal copies. Pirates made copies.
Now we're told that all this money is being invested in making motherboards that won't play video without a decoder in the screen...won't output unless there's a decoder in the speakers...and when we buy music, two months later it disappears in a puff of logic, so we'll buy more. I don't cotton to that new world, with a live, grabbing hand in my pocket all day. It's a primary reason I run Linux, after all.
What the music barons need to do is find someone to sell-out to. Just get out of the market- they're not needed anymore, and there's no chance they're going to make billions-per-year on the backs of artists who have to take day jobs.
And don't get me started on how they've destroyed the music; Disco lasted (arguably) four years...for some reason, that was too much. However, Rap starts it's 16th year soon, and that's just not quite enough! No chance of a blind artist (Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles), or ecclectic artists like we had before- the barons feel the need for money, and won't dare risking a single dollar on anything that might rock the boat.
No encryption is permanent. People have GOT to stop telling them different. It's time, like the carpetbaggers, the lamplighters, and the foremen in the buggywhip factory, it's time for them to get other jobs. What they're doing to the music industry is just plain wrong.
Instead, *people* should make the music; "producing" is pretty much some time with Audacity and burning a CD. Venues have opened up for these people in the places the music is played; bars, dances, that kinda thing. When a band has recognition....on it's on merits...it will grow. And they'll get a large share of the box-office when they play in person. That's already happening now, in larger towns.
The music business is one with a bright future behind it. But it's days of free-flowing profits is coming to a middle....and they should continue to the end, without losing their shirts. Cause nothing else is gonna change.
He's done the same thing to us for nearly 30 years; unified the computers (good) and allows us to be the unwitting host for millions of overseas bots (bad). Fixes holes (good) and then makes more (bad).
Well, there *is* only one party that frees child perverts and American enemies. It's the same party. The party that had protests "against the deaths in VietNam", but as soon as the draft was over, and the war was defunded, held no such protests for the 2,000,000 people of VietNam killed by Pohl Pot.
This is no advertising gimmick; this is no slogan. Almost every evil dictator [i.e. killing his own people, usually with starvation, but always with roving shock-troops] is loved by these people. Charles Lindberg meeting with Hitler, Jane Fonda sitting on an anti-aircraft gun that killed US fliers days before, the partying with Castro, Manuel Noriega, and the most recent, Hugo Chaves.
The "No nukes" movement was even funded by the KGB, and embraced millions of people that belong to the party. Brilliant, actually- what's the best way to disarm your opponent? Talk the uninformed, holier-than-thous to demand they lose their weaponry. Especially when they're on talk shows, movies and TV.
This party's demographic are easily brain-washed. They still think Rush Limbaugh is fat (he lost like 100+ pounds, a decade ago), but they won't listen to the show, because _of_what_they_were_told. The never listen to it.
Similarly, their eyes light with fire as the exclaim, "I hate Don Rumsfeld!" but they're at a loss to explain what it is, he did. (The answer is nothing.)
Like I said; easily programmed. But try to make them reconsider, and be called a "Troll" or "Bigot" or any other nasty, programmed word.
Yeah, Bristol-Myers/Squibb is a big employer in this town- they do the same kinds of thing.
Ascention of a company to larger, greener pastures is a good thing, kinda...but, as a guy who has worked for many larger corporate cultures, it comes with a price.
A staggeringly attractive, powerfully intelligent woman named Christine Foster worked at WalGreens. She was probably the most capable woman I've ever met, and that's saying something. But the men there completely ignored her. It was sad; she was out of my league, but everyone else was just looking through her. She was sending herself flowers on Friday just to get them to notice her. It wasn't right!
At Sears was a similar situation. I was just the latest "boot" brought in to work in the battery room. One day in the break room I mentioned that, "Rex Morgan, MD...Steve Canyon...who READS these things in the comics? It takes forever to get to the story, and they're not funny, either!" The room came to a standstill; you could hear a pin drop. Someone said, "We've never met anyone who _doesn't_ read them!"
Creepy.
I can't think of a fair way to limit them...but large corporations give me the willies.
Microsoft lives by it's own rules; forces company out of business by stealth and theft...they change globally-accepted standards to make the actual standards-compliant machines look bad. They leave holes wide open, so that you might receive advertisments you don't want, and let Russians use your machine without penalty. With Vista they intend to lock out multimedia for only people who pay for the media, several times.
But somehow they're not evil enough to kick'em off your desktop.
Wal-Mart does precisely what the business schools have always taught, putting companies out of business ONLY by doing a better entrepanurial job than the others (and incurring the wrath of unions, hungry for their money). Somehow WalMart's evil.
Kinda like comparing Bush to Hitler; Hitler was literally an evil genius- changing the government so he could take over, then killing the people that put him there (the "night of the long knives"). He talked Austria into "annexing" into Germany. He set up a rouse to make it look like Poland was trying to attack a German radio station. He very nearly took all of Europe, other than Russia. And somewhere along the line to killing 100m+ people he took the time to allow, perhaps even foster, the wholesale killing of something like 10 million "unwanteds", 6M of whose only crime was being of Jewish descent.
Bush gets slandered buy the media, who desperately wants you to think the economy sucks and the TINY number of annual deaths in Iraq is a huge gash, hemmoraging the youth of our country, all so the Democrats can retake political power, and put us back into a recession. (Economy: best ever. War: losses that rival staying home, 1200/year!)
How does anyone manage to make 49.99% of America think that *AMERICA* is the bad guy? We stopped Hitler...Tojo...Mousillini. We were the first to outlaw slavery, we're first to the scene of tradgedy with the big bucks. And the only country that warns people eith leaflets, then bombs them, then drops food and rebuilds cities for the survivors. How can this be evil?
What this country needs is to see TRUE evil, probably the nuking of a city, to learn what evil can really do. But the next time you watch the news...THINK. Cross-Check. Make your own decisions. Try not to hate Walmart until you have actual reasons of your own. And while you're at it, try Linux.
It won't show what documents Sandy Berger walked out of there with, in his underwear. He was so sloppy. I can't TELL you how many times I've walked out of my secured workplaces, with confidential documents in my shoes, socks, and in my sandwich. But NEVER my underwear!:)
He got community service and a $50,000 fine. Isn't that sweet. Think any of us would be *ALIVE* if we did that.
Maybe what's allowed out will explain some things we didn't know before. And not just paperwork: remember that guy who files a FOI and got the software that runs the VA hospital system? Now that was cool. (Unlike Sandy Berger.):)
...when you sell out your objectivity. Be honorable, or be elsewhere. Same thing with the "global warming" (or as they call it in the winter, "climate change".) Money is perverting science, all over.
Doing research, just because it will allow you to get grant money is the wrong thing to do. No amount of money going to Washington, DC will change what the environment is doing.
But more specifically, at Los Alamos, they've had quite a problem with security, spies, and missing hard drives. It might be time to flush the personnel.
(Speaking as a computer guy since 1978): This isn't any different from any other Windows release; the initial complaints about privacy, the obligitory 1+year delay, the initial reports of "corporations holding off from the new version" and complaints all around.
The only way you can get off the merry-go-round is to do it; Linux will be waiting for you, when you realize your personal information is known in Amsterdam, your music stops playing after two weeks, and your brand-new Pentium 5@12Ghz is unbearably slow because you're running programs for that guy with the $.06 bounty on CPUs he can take over.
When you get tired of being used, Homer Simpsons, Linux awaits you.
You're kidding; the largest marketting research firm using the computers we get by default, to target ads in our direction? Das'Crazy-Talk.
These are the kinda things you learn **early***on*** from supporting computers since before Microsoft sold their first offering on the IBM PC. Pay attention, folks.
Sure, the Amiga was a machine I fondly remember drooling over, when my kids were in diapers...it had some amazing features that made the PC/XT/AT seem pretty two-dimensional by contrast.
But why would someone invest the time writing an OS for hardware that can mostly be found by accident? Hey, I love the Amiga like pancakes, but this is kinda crazy, isn't it?
I used to have friends that played Napolionics; thousands of little lead minatures. And they could tell by scarfs and coats whether a figure was from the 23rd dragoons, or the 171st bandoliers or whatever. Line and column formation-fighting ended before the civil war!
It always struck me that this kind of research, and knowledge of the former art of war would never again be used, in any way but this game. It bothers me that so much antique-polishing is going on...there's a bigger, more important search to take, and it means so much more; that'd be the search for God.
This little beastie got into an offline nuclear reactor and blanked their control of it for four hours. The same bug shut down monitoring on a CSX rail line, causing just as much concern.
How many years ago was all this? Sounds like the paperwork just got filed.
I can think of a reason: submerged facilities. Location of weapons-storage, oil-storage, even toxic waste locations are things the general public doesn't need to know about, because the terrorists will.
There are myriad reasons to hate Microsoft that are merely objective, not subjective reasons.
Stacker. Double your hard drive, at least until the (completely unprotected) memory gets screwed do to CircusWare, and lose everything.
Clippy. 'Nuff said.
18 years of viruses that, though the software is closed and secreted like the Coca-Cola recipie, manages to support 1,000 brand-new viruses each month. How *do* so many companies make so much money from a flaw?
The way they released "new" versions of Office from 1995-2000 where the changes were only a handful of macros no one uses (and Clippy) but each upgrade cost $200+ and caused your business partner to upgrade his copy, too.
The way their tech support is useless ("Reinstall the operating system") unless you pay them tons of money.
The way they ignore the standards of TCP/IP for reasons that make no real difference to marketting:
Violating the DHCP standard so that a Windows box will keep talking on an IP address after it loses it's lease so that you'll be inclined to use a Windows Brand(TM) DHCP server.
Shortcutting the SYN/ACK protocol of the web when IIS (20% market share) is talking to and IE client, making it look slightly faster on reloads.
But let's not forget what we *really* hate about Microsoft: technology suppression. For the last 10-15 years people have learned (well, people other than Novell) that when you "partner" with Microsoft, it's the last strategic decision you'll make. Blue Mountain Greeting Cards. Sybase (you know it as MS-SQL). LookingGlass (you know it as Internet Explorer).
(See also how the dogs in your yard, when in heat, "Partner" with each other. See? Vulgarity not required.)
Right now they're working on translating something as pure and simple and standard as LDAP into a monstrosity by which they can hold your company by the balls, requiring you to pay them, and only them, for the service since it's the only standard they make, and you'll have.
How many thousands of cool projects have stayed on the launch pad, because the angel investors know better? Make too much money, and Microsoft will either "partner" with you, copy your project entirely and advertise with a billion dollar campaign, or find another way to run you out of business. When the investors can't make money, they don't _lend_ money.
Have I left anything out?
Oh: with Linux none of this matters. Life is sweet and people telling you it's hard haven't looked at it in years. (Or, they're morons.)
Although media reports vary, Christianity isn't a convert-or-kill kind of religion; in fact killing is only allow in the protection of the innocent. And this game sounds a lot like a virtual crusade.
If someone wanted to make a *Muslim* game like this, sure- the Koran actually suggests that if non-Muslims won't convert and become slaves, they're to be killed.
Something odd happened at Medina; after Medina Muhommad became very violent, but I'm not aware that anyone knows what happened. Anyway, that's how you snag one religion, and modify it into a killing machine.:(
"The coming ice age!" --1975 "Acid rain so bad children won't be able to play outside" --1980 "The hole in the ozone is ONLY getting worse!" --1990 "Bird Flu is the coming pandemic!" --2005 "The debate over Global Warming is over!" --2006
Don't worry about the planet, folks- it'll take care of itself until the nukes roll out, and anything it does, we can't change anyway. Just ask yourself which political party has been behind each of the claims above.
No, I'm pretty sure the entire journalism crowd's up a tree; the doctored photos of Reutter's photojournalist, sure, but what about NBC making up the story about 6 imams being set on fire the other day? To them, it's all about installing a Democratic administration.
And that's a good thing; the Democratic head of the oversight committee, Rais (spelling unsure) can't tell Shiite from Sunni. Shouldn't it be about ability, not "it's his turn?" It just seems like the blind leading the blind, when we need capable people the most.
Just because I can get a 10" LCD with no connector for $30, or put on the connectors for $200? Nah...
At this point, with not just Apple buying LCDs, but the millions that must be underway now, the prices should be much better than they are. I've heard the CRT market has really dried up...
Go look at the releases from each and every release of Windows since '95(a). 1. "Companies slow to embrace it" then 2."Problems abound, world ending" then 3. 101 tricks for the new OS"
Seriously, guys, is this the first Windows release you've seen? Why do we have time for this?
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[First: There's no way to know: let's not get bent out of shape, regardless.]
It's been my experience that the designs animals move to made sense at one point, and change over time. If this finding is correct...and let's not kid anyone, it's a suggestion...there was probably an early time where it was good to be this way.
But let's not forget all the re-naming; there are no teryldactls- they've been re-thought. More information changes our view of that past.
The same is true of the Bible, which, despite the media and culture is NOT incongruent with this age- it simply sees it for what it is: not important enough to detail. Science and Christianity aren't foes, they're friends; the Bible is VERY scientifically provable.
Some examples:
- THOUSANDS of years before e=MC2, the Bible had "Let there be light".
- While the 16.9M animals weren't detailed, the categories of plant life listed in the Bible *matches*the*fossil*record*.
There are dozens of times the Bible was curiously written (for contemporary eyes) it was, in fact, scientifically correct.
Want to know more? See http://doesgodexist.com/
The site has a bunch of short videos on this exact subject. And it's free!
I'm constantly getting junk mail from people who don't know me, I don't do business with them, and they have no reason to know my credit level- but they do. In periods of time where I can't pay, the flow trickles. When I can pay, the flow fills trashcans. They know.
:)
;>
Now, if my credit score is common knowledge, and the government CAN'T get to it, there's something wrong.
The more direct question about why they'd care about my credit score- I can't imagine what it would help them with...all the guns I run are in cash, the white slavery I do is in bearer bonds, and the drug money is in pesos.
Wait! Can you GET credit to buy cocaine?
[No, this is all absurdity to illuminate the point...]
Superglue? Hairpins? Teleporters? IT'S AN UNDERSEA CABLE. Sheesh...
:) (Sorry, couldn't help it)
And yes, BTW: No one exects the Spanish Inquisition!
"Global Warming" isn't a debate...the fact that sending money to Washington will stop it, is. But isn't Mars also showing a climactic change?
Exactly how many BTU will an airconditioner require to change this back?
See what happens when you think "Look outside your window in Chicago, and you can see the Himilayans" (EarthSource.org)....the planet is _huge_. We are _small_. In a single volcano blast (that we can't control) more CO2 can get in the air that over the last 100 years.
This is a long line of such Chicken Little ploys.
1970-ish: "The population explosion". We must stop having babies; relying on Washington to decide who lives and dies. [We've learned industrial nations throttle well, when contraceptives are available. However, it makes paying for Socialist Security hard to do.]
1975, "The coming Ice Age" We'll be ok if we send money to Washington, and stop going to work. [Never happened, and neither did "Acid rain that will keep our children from playing outside for the rest of their lives".]
1980-something: "The Ozone hole" We'll be ok, if we shut down all our factories and change from Freon to the "New Freon" (which sends money to Washington.) [The hole was learned to be a natural phenomenon, which was in the process of shrinking, anyway.]
Guys, enough of this. Turn off the TV; that's where the programming is coming from. Read a book...test a theory. Think for yourselves!
In the 40's, the best and brightest of the German minds created the Enigma machine. These were top-level scientists...and the British broke it. No encoding scheme will ever be break-proof; it's (another) waste of time and millions trying to do it (again).
Remember the cassette tapes? Copying them was a loss of quality...and then the pirates got really good tape decks, and made more. When it came to 8-tracks, trying to keep all the recorders off the market found that these machines, too, were found on the black market. Then CDs. Most of you are young enough to remember all the attempts to make DVDs only work one way, and only from the original.
This is paralleled by the floppy market where a certain sector is damaged (and, in theory un-copyable) to keep people from making illegal copies. Pirates made copies.
Now we're told that all this money is being invested in making motherboards that won't play video without a decoder in the screen...won't output unless there's a decoder in the speakers...and when we buy music, two months later it disappears in a puff of logic, so we'll buy more. I don't cotton to that new world, with a live, grabbing hand in my pocket all day. It's a primary reason I run Linux, after all.
What the music barons need to do is find someone to sell-out to. Just get out of the market- they're not needed anymore, and there's no chance they're going to make billions-per-year on the backs of artists who have to take day jobs.
And don't get me started on how they've destroyed the music; Disco lasted (arguably) four years...for some reason, that was too much. However, Rap starts it's 16th year soon, and that's just not quite enough! No chance of a blind artist (Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles), or ecclectic artists like we had before- the barons feel the need for money, and won't dare risking a single dollar on anything that might rock the boat.
No encryption is permanent. People have GOT to stop telling them different. It's time, like the carpetbaggers, the lamplighters, and the foremen in the buggywhip factory, it's time for them to get other jobs. What they're doing to the music industry is just plain wrong.
Instead, *people* should make the music; "producing" is pretty much some time with Audacity and burning a CD. Venues have opened up for these people in the places the music is played; bars, dances, that kinda thing. When a band has recognition....on it's on merits...it will grow. And they'll get a large share of the box-office when they play in person. That's already happening now, in larger towns.
The music business is one with a bright future behind it. But it's days of free-flowing profits is coming to a middle....and they should continue to the end, without losing their shirts. Cause nothing else is gonna change.
"Oh, no...not again." :)
He's done the same thing to us for nearly 30 years; unified the computers (good) and allows us to be the unwitting host for millions of overseas bots (bad). Fixes holes (good) and then makes more (bad).
Nothin' new here.
Well, there *is* only one party that frees child perverts and American enemies. It's the same party. The party that had protests "against the deaths in VietNam", but as soon as the draft was over, and the war was defunded, held no such protests for the 2,000,000 people of VietNam killed by Pohl Pot.
This is no advertising gimmick; this is no slogan. Almost every evil dictator [i.e. killing his own people, usually with starvation, but always with roving shock-troops] is loved by these people. Charles Lindberg meeting with Hitler, Jane Fonda sitting on an anti-aircraft gun that killed US fliers days before, the partying with Castro, Manuel Noriega, and the most recent, Hugo Chaves.
The "No nukes" movement was even funded by the KGB, and embraced millions of people that belong to the party. Brilliant, actually- what's the best way to disarm your opponent? Talk the uninformed, holier-than-thous to demand they lose their weaponry. Especially when they're on talk shows, movies and TV.
This party's demographic are easily brain-washed. They still think Rush Limbaugh is fat (he lost like 100+ pounds, a decade ago), but they won't listen to the show, because _of_what_they_were_told. The never listen to it.
Similarly, their eyes light with fire as the exclaim, "I hate Don Rumsfeld!" but they're at a loss to explain what it is, he did. (The answer is nothing.)
Like I said; easily programmed. But try to make them reconsider, and be called a "Troll" or "Bigot" or any other nasty, programmed word.
So what's to do?
Yeah, Bristol-Myers/Squibb is a big employer in this town- they do the same kinds of thing.
Ascention of a company to larger, greener pastures is a good thing, kinda...but, as a guy who has worked for many larger corporate cultures, it comes with a price.
A staggeringly attractive, powerfully intelligent woman named Christine Foster worked at WalGreens. She was probably the most capable woman I've ever met, and that's saying something. But the men there completely ignored her. It was sad; she was out of my league, but everyone else was just looking through her. She was sending herself flowers on Friday just to get them to notice her. It wasn't right!
At Sears was a similar situation. I was just the latest "boot" brought in to work in the battery room. One day in the break room I mentioned that, "Rex Morgan, MD...Steve Canyon...who READS these things in the comics? It takes forever to get to the story, and they're not funny, either!" The room came to a standstill; you could hear a pin drop. Someone said, "We've never met anyone who _doesn't_ read them!"
Creepy.
I can't think of a fair way to limit them...but large corporations give me the willies.
Microsoft lives by it's own rules; forces company out of business by stealth and theft...they change globally-accepted standards to make the actual standards-compliant machines look bad. They leave holes wide open, so that you might receive advertisments you don't want, and let Russians use your machine without penalty. With Vista they intend to lock out multimedia for only people who pay for the media, several times.
But somehow they're not evil enough to kick'em off your desktop.
Wal-Mart does precisely what the business schools have always taught, putting companies out of business ONLY by doing a better entrepanurial job than the others (and incurring the wrath of unions, hungry for their money). Somehow WalMart's evil.
Kinda like comparing Bush to Hitler; Hitler was literally an evil genius- changing the government so he could take over, then killing the people that put him there (the "night of the long knives"). He talked Austria into "annexing" into Germany. He set up a rouse to make it look like Poland was trying to attack a German radio station. He very nearly took all of Europe, other than Russia. And somewhere along the line to killing 100m+ people he took the time to allow, perhaps even foster, the wholesale killing of something like 10 million "unwanteds", 6M of whose only crime was being of Jewish descent.
Bush gets slandered buy the media, who desperately wants you to think the economy sucks and the TINY number of annual deaths in Iraq is a huge gash, hemmoraging the youth of our country, all so the Democrats can retake political power, and put us back into a recession. (Economy: best ever. War: losses that rival staying home, 1200/year!)
How does anyone manage to make 49.99% of America think that *AMERICA* is the bad guy? We stopped Hitler...Tojo...Mousillini. We were the first to outlaw slavery, we're first to the scene of tradgedy with the big bucks. And the only country that warns people eith leaflets, then bombs them, then drops food and rebuilds cities for the survivors. How can this be evil?
What this country needs is to see TRUE evil, probably the nuking of a city, to learn what evil can really do. But the next time you watch the news...THINK. Cross-Check. Make your own decisions. Try not to hate Walmart until you have actual reasons of your own. And while you're at it, try Linux.
It won't show what documents Sandy Berger walked out of there with, in his underwear. He was so sloppy. I can't TELL you how many times I've walked out of my secured workplaces, with confidential documents in my shoes, socks, and in my sandwich. But NEVER my underwear! :)
:)
He got community service and a $50,000 fine. Isn't that sweet. Think any of us would be *ALIVE* if we did that.
Maybe what's allowed out will explain some things we didn't know before. And not just paperwork: remember that guy who files a FOI and got the software that runs the VA hospital system? Now that was cool. (Unlike Sandy Berger.)
...when you sell out your objectivity. Be honorable, or be elsewhere. Same thing with the "global warming" (or as they call it in the winter, "climate change".) Money is perverting science, all over.
Doing research, just because it will allow you to get grant money is the wrong thing to do. No amount of money going to Washington, DC will change what the environment is doing.
But more specifically, at Los Alamos, they've had quite a problem with security, spies, and missing hard drives. It might be time to flush the personnel.
(Speaking as a computer guy since 1978):
This isn't any different from any other Windows release; the initial complaints about privacy, the obligitory 1+year delay, the initial reports of "corporations holding off from the new version" and complaints all around.
The only way you can get off the merry-go-round is to do it; Linux will be waiting for you, when you realize your personal information is known in Amsterdam, your music stops playing after two weeks, and your brand-new Pentium 5@12Ghz is unbearably slow because you're running programs for that guy with the $.06 bounty on CPUs he can take over.
When you get tired of being used, Homer Simpsons, Linux awaits you.
You're kidding; the largest marketting research firm using the computers we get by default, to target ads in our direction? Das'Crazy-Talk.
These are the kinda things you learn **early***on*** from supporting computers since before Microsoft sold their first offering on the IBM PC. Pay attention, folks.
Run Linux. Shiny!
Ya know...I don't remember seeing all those intrusion attempts in the logs last night...
Does anyone know? Are these people inept at installing firewalls, or is hacking their #3 export?
I remember someone declared that "There are as many DVD players as there are VCR's?"
Doesn't it stand to reason that by the time people had read that, DVDs had *surpassed* VCRs, when one person bought a DVD?
Really guys- not a news story. Is there anyone NOT in a coma that knows VCRs are dying off?
Sure, the Amiga was a machine I fondly remember drooling over, when my kids were in diapers...it had some amazing features that made the PC/XT/AT seem pretty two-dimensional by contrast.
But why would someone invest the time writing an OS for hardware that can mostly be found by accident? Hey, I love the Amiga like pancakes, but this is kinda crazy, isn't it?
I used to have friends that played Napolionics; thousands of little lead minatures. And they could tell by scarfs and coats whether a figure was from the 23rd dragoons, or the 171st bandoliers or whatever. Line and column formation-fighting ended before the civil war!
It always struck me that this kind of research, and knowledge of the former art of war would never again be used, in any way but this game. It bothers me that so much antique-polishing is going on...there's a bigger, more important search to take, and it means so much more; that'd be the search for God.
This little beastie got into an offline nuclear reactor and blanked their control of it for four hours. The same bug shut down monitoring on a CSX rail line, causing just as much concern.
How many years ago was all this? Sounds like the paperwork just got filed.
Good move.
I can think of a reason: submerged facilities. Location of weapons-storage, oil-storage, even toxic waste locations are things the general public doesn't need to know about, because the terrorists will.
And yeah, it's a good idea.
There are myriad reasons to hate Microsoft that are merely objective, not subjective reasons.
Stacker. Double your hard drive, at least until the (completely unprotected) memory gets screwed do to CircusWare, and lose everything.
Clippy. 'Nuff said.
18 years of viruses that, though the software is closed and secreted like the Coca-Cola recipie, manages to support 1,000 brand-new viruses each month. How *do* so many companies make so much money from a flaw?
The way they released "new" versions of Office from 1995-2000 where the changes were only a handful of macros no one uses (and Clippy) but each upgrade cost $200+ and caused your business partner to upgrade his copy, too.
The way their tech support is useless ("Reinstall the operating system") unless you pay them tons of money.
The way they ignore the standards of TCP/IP for reasons that make no real difference to marketting:
Violating the DHCP standard so that a Windows box will keep talking on an IP address after it loses it's lease so that you'll be inclined to use a Windows Brand(TM) DHCP server.
Shortcutting the SYN/ACK protocol of the web when IIS (20% market share) is talking to and IE client, making it look slightly faster on reloads.
But let's not forget what we *really* hate about Microsoft: technology suppression. For the last 10-15 years people have learned (well, people other than Novell) that when you "partner" with Microsoft, it's the last strategic decision you'll make. Blue Mountain Greeting Cards. Sybase (you know it as MS-SQL). LookingGlass (you know it as Internet Explorer).
(See also how the dogs in your yard, when in heat, "Partner" with each other. See? Vulgarity not required.)
Right now they're working on translating something as pure and simple and standard as LDAP into a monstrosity by which they can hold your company by the balls, requiring you to pay them, and only them, for the service since it's the only standard they make, and you'll have.
How many thousands of cool projects have stayed on the launch pad, because the angel investors know better? Make too much money, and Microsoft will either "partner" with you, copy your project entirely and advertise with a billion dollar campaign, or find another way to run you out of business. When the investors can't make money, they don't _lend_ money.
Have I left anything out?
Oh: with Linux none of this matters. Life is sweet and people telling you it's hard haven't looked at it in years. (Or, they're morons.)
Although media reports vary, Christianity isn't a convert-or-kill kind of religion; in fact killing is only allow in the protection of the innocent. And this game sounds a lot like a virtual crusade.
:(
If someone wanted to make a *Muslim* game like this, sure- the Koran actually suggests that if non-Muslims won't convert and become slaves, they're to be killed.
Something odd happened at Medina; after Medina Muhommad became very violent, but I'm not aware that anyone knows what happened. Anyway, that's how you snag one religion, and modify it into a killing machine.
"The coming ice age!" --1975
"Acid rain so bad children won't be able to play outside" --1980
"The hole in the ozone is ONLY getting worse!" --1990
"Bird Flu is the coming pandemic!" --2005
"The debate over Global Warming is over!" --2006
Don't worry about the planet, folks- it'll take care of itself until the nukes roll out, and anything it does, we can't change anyway. Just ask yourself which political party has been behind each of the claims above.
(Think before you vote)
No, I'm pretty sure the entire journalism crowd's up a tree; the doctored photos of Reutter's photojournalist, sure, but what about NBC making up the story about 6 imams being set on fire the other day? To them, it's all about installing a Democratic administration.
And that's a good thing; the Democratic head of the oversight committee, Rais (spelling unsure) can't tell Shiite from Sunni. Shouldn't it be about ability, not "it's his turn?" It just seems like the blind leading the blind, when we need capable people the most.
Well, at least the journalists will be happy.
Just because I can get a 10" LCD with no connector for $30, or put on the connectors for $200? Nah...
At this point, with not just Apple buying LCDs, but the millions that must be underway now, the prices should be much better than they are. I've heard the CRT market has really dried up...
Go look at the releases from each and every release of Windows since '95(a). 1. "Companies slow to embrace it" then 2."Problems abound, world ending" then 3. 101 tricks for the new OS"
Seriously, guys, is this the first Windows release you've seen? Why do we have time for this?