I stopped working full time in Dec 2000 and haven't looked back. Now I work approx 2-3 days/ week and charge $75/hour to do the same things I was doing for about one third that while I was working full time. The companies are happy because even though the service is pricey, it is less costly for them than having someone on full time. Hint: Look for the smaller shops...the ones that can't really justify having somebody there full time. They're your best prospects.
How about if I need food I walk in your house and raid your fridge? Or if I need to go somewhere I steal your car. Does that sound any different than "I want to hear a song, let me download it wihout paying?"
It's vastly different. A more accurate analogy would be if I had a replacator device and replicated the food in your fridge, rather than buying it at the grocery store. File sharing is NOT stealing...it's UNAUTHORISED COPYING.
People create entertainment and DO NOT deserve to be ripped off.
Agreed. They are also NOT entitled in a free market society to guaranteed profits. They are not gods, they are not our saviors, they are not offering a solution for world peace or feeding the hungry or curing disease, they are MERELY ENTERTAINERS and if we happen to like the performance, we might feel inclined to throw them a few coins for their troubles. They are definitely not entitled to cripple technological innovation in order to secure profits for themselves. If the creators of Britney-slut don't like that then they should find something else to do.
Like all Terminators, Kristanna Loken WILL arrive naked.
Howzat!
Re:Rules for intercepting NORDO/hijacked aircraft.
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Maybe I should've used the word "obfuscating" instead of "lying".
The fact is, contrary to established procedure, they didn't even attempt to intercept...that is go take a look and try to find out what the hell was going on.
Rules for intercepting NORDO/hijacked aircraft...
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...can be found here. Note that they don't say a goddamn thing about requiring presidential approval.
"Well, the--I suppose the toughest decision was this question of whether or not we would intercept incoming commercial aircraft...Yes. The president made the decision...that if the plane would not divert...as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them out. Now, people say, you know, that's a horrendous decision to make. Well, it is. You've got an airplane full of American citizens, civilians, captured by...terrorists, headed and are you going to, in fact, shoot it down, obviously, and kill all those Americans on board...It's a presidential-level decision, and the president made, I think, exactly the right call in this case, to say, "I wished we'd had combat air patrol up over New York."" - Dick Cheney
Descending together into the river Styx, Spock and Kirk fight off their hideous attackers and save their injured friend, with Kirk carrying McCoy on his shoulders as they flee."
...that I will not charge you ANY MORE for configuring/supporting a Linux server than I would a Windows server. It sounds to me like the problem isn't the choice of platform, but rather the lack of shopping around for technical support.
First of all I am NEVER going to use DHCP to assign a server an IP, Windows or Linux. Secondly, most of the new distros (as well as Windows) are able to configure a NIC to use DHCP (or it'll ask you what IP to use) during the install, providing that it's one that they have drivers for. In fact of the two, the Linux networking config seems the more reliable. I always do the networking config on a Windows server AFTER the install is completed as the installer usually manages to screw it up somehow and I wind up reconfiguring it anyway.
Maybe he means that their credibility breaks loose and starts rolling back and forth across the decks, eventually falling into the sea and sinking out of sight, never to be seen again!
I won't be sorry to see them go.
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Then I won't feel like I have to go to one just in case I miss something, and they've been going steadily downhill. '99 was cool, '00 was so-so (got to laugh at some fat Linux geek-wannabee pontificating about the reason that his now-dead distro was good was that Windows sucks), '01 and '02 were both lame and altogetner forgettable.
that being complicit in the trafficking of TONS of cocaine which was smuggled into the US and sold to American citizens in order to fund a dirty little covert war should've spelled permanent loss of freedom for Mr Poindexter and co. Instead he gets to play havoc with our freedoms. That's real justice for you.
So in Windows you can either get caught with naughty bits on your screen, or just appear as if you were thoroughly contemplating the desktop background...
No...you do a screen capture of some important looking shit and use the "set as wallpaper" function!
At least for Symantec. When you buy a retail copy of Norton AV, you get updates for a year. That's it. If you want to continue getting signature updates, you need to pay again.
Or you can blow out all of the Symantec registry keys and reinstall!
I would think that given that the moon landings happened during the height of the cold war, the Soviets would have been watching them very closely and would've been all over them like a bad stink if they could've even come close to demonstrating that the moon landings were faked. By the same token, if you were NASA, would you put your and your country's "face" on the line by staging such a stunt and risking discovery?
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That is pretty much my tale as well.
I stopped working full time in Dec 2000 and haven't looked back. Now I work approx 2-3 days/ week and charge $75/hour to do the same things I was doing for about one third that while I was working full time. The companies are happy because even though the service is pricey, it is less costly for them than having someone on full time. Hint: Look for the smaller shops...the ones that can't really justify having somebody there full time. They're your best prospects.
I have a sneaking suspicion but...
Whoa! That's one pissed off female!
...and hosting their site on it!
How about if I need food I walk in your house and raid your fridge? Or if I need to go somewhere I steal your car. Does that sound any different than "I want to hear a song, let me download it wihout paying?"
It's vastly different. A more accurate analogy would be if I had a replacator device and replicated the food in your fridge, rather than buying it at the grocery store. File sharing is NOT stealing...it's UNAUTHORISED COPYING.
People create entertainment and DO NOT deserve to be ripped off.
Agreed. They are also NOT entitled in a free market society to guaranteed profits. They are not gods, they are not our saviors, they are not offering a solution for world peace or feeding the hungry or curing disease, they are MERELY ENTERTAINERS and if we happen to like the performance, we might feel inclined to throw them a few coins for their troubles. They are definitely not entitled to cripple technological innovation in order to secure profits for themselves. If the creators of Britney-slut don't like that then they should find something else to do.
Howzat!
Maybe I should've used the word "obfuscating" instead of "lying".
The fact is, contrary to established procedure, they didn't even attempt to intercept...that is go take a look and try to find out what the hell was going on.
Spot the lying bastard.
Warning! Don't click on his sig!
Descending together into the river Styx, Spock and Kirk fight off their hideous attackers and save their injured friend, with Kirk carrying McCoy on his shoulders as they flee."
Wow! Sounds just like a Ranger Gord cartoon! (you have to watch Red Green to understand the reference)
Then you're shopping in the wrong place. What you need to do is buy at a shop that doesn't put it on in the first place!
These are just lazy fucking slobs who use "addiction" as a crutch...
He says with a link to a porn site in his sig! That's like the crack dealer saying it's the addicts fault.
Let's see Bill match this one!
Well fellow Slashdotters, we could very well be the Achilles heel in Poindexter's TIA program.
...that I will not charge you ANY MORE for configuring/supporting a Linux server than I would a Windows server. It sounds to me like the problem isn't the choice of platform, but rather the lack of shopping around for technical support.
First of all I am NEVER going to use DHCP to assign a server an IP, Windows or Linux. Secondly, most of the new distros (as well as Windows) are able to configure a NIC to use DHCP (or it'll ask you what IP to use) during the install, providing that it's one that they have drivers for. In fact of the two, the Linux networking config seems the more reliable. I always do the networking config on a Windows server AFTER the install is completed as the installer usually manages to screw it up somehow and I wind up reconfiguring it anyway.
How does one "loose" credibility?
Maybe he means that their credibility breaks loose and starts rolling back and forth across the decks, eventually falling into the sea and sinking out of sight, never to be seen again!
If the Americans can speak English
That's just it...they can't.
Then I won't feel like I have to go to one just in case I miss something, and they've been going steadily downhill. '99 was cool, '00 was so-so (got to laugh at some fat Linux geek-wannabee pontificating about the reason that his now-dead distro was good was that Windows sucks), '01 and '02 were both lame and altogetner forgettable.
you don't ever have to touch a keyboard again (except where it gives you pleasure).
That's right! He should get into making pr0n!
I thought @home already folded!
that being complicit in the trafficking of TONS of cocaine which was smuggled into the US and sold to American citizens in order to fund a dirty little covert war should've spelled permanent loss of freedom for Mr Poindexter and co. Instead he gets to play havoc with our freedoms. That's real justice for you.
So in Windows you can either get caught with naughty bits on your screen, or just appear as if you were thoroughly contemplating the desktop background...
No...you do a screen capture of some important looking shit and use the "set as wallpaper" function!
I just bought an SMC Barricade and I'm pretty happy with it... it has stateful packet inspection and a few other nice features.
At least for Symantec. When you buy a retail copy of Norton AV, you get updates for a year. That's it. If you want to continue getting signature updates, you need to pay again.
Or you can blow out all of the Symantec registry keys and reinstall!
I would think that given that the moon landings happened during the height of the cold war, the Soviets would have been watching them very closely and would've been all over them like a bad stink if they could've even come close to demonstrating that the moon landings were faked. By the same token, if you were NASA, would you put your and your country's "face" on the line by staging such a stunt and risking discovery?