Energy sources (besides just the sun) are a requirement for almost any realistic form of modern first-world living, but gas is a requirement for fuck-all - it's something people choose to be dependent on.
By your reasoning toilet paper is "a requirement for fuck-all". You use your measure of "requirement" and I'll stick to mine. Thank you very much.
Hardware will stop this. I don't know anyone that has ever bypassed a hardware based system with a soldering iron and a modchip or a JTAG and flashing new firmware. Nor would anyone find a way around hardware decoding of content scrambling systems. Put their system on a chip and noone will ever figure out how to bypass it.
Microsoft contracts out a lot of it's web page development to http://www.ascentium.com/ and possibly other companies.
It is no surprise that their developers choose to use Flash.
When I worked Bresnan Communications they did just that to a woman I worked with and came up with a new policy that all bathroom usage must be done on breaks and we would be monitored to be sure we were not taking time outside of them for breaks.
That's probably illegal as hell.
A lot of things they did were illegal. I helped some staff with understanding FMLA. They were also regularly violating FLSA by not paying for things like waiting for Windows updates and their software to run as well as checking email in the morning.
I did talk to a copyright lawyer. They weren't selling the code only using it internally with their labeling. The money I'd have had after lawyers' fees wasn't worth the headache and stress. I spoke several times to one of the supervisors who wasn't a complete jerk and after several months they told me they had at least stopped using it and I confirmed it with current employees. Headquarters in NY, which is nowhere near their service area in the Rocky Mountains, spent millions on some proprietary system that Comcast uses. It doesn't have some of the features what I had written in to mine that were specific to the modems we used. Different things with standby on the SB5100 and switching ring waveforms in Arris MTAs. Some of the employees I worked with that are still there have asked me to take the software commercial in hopes that they would then purchase the software.
When I worked Bresnan Communications they did just that to a woman I worked with and came up with a new policy that all bathroom usage must be done on breaks and we would be monitored to be sure we were not taking time outside of them for breaks. I refused to sign the policy. They kept bringing it to me. They told me I'd be fired if I didn't sign it. I asked why they needed me to sign it as I would be held to it as a condition of my employment. They simply told me have it signed by the end of the day and then came back and had a supervisor stand over me while I signed it. I signed it and put "signed under duress" below my signature.
I worked to try and organize with the Communications Workers of America. That idea fell through when someone was told that I didn't trust at all. I finally ended up giving the company the finger and moved a good portion of the way across the country. After leaving they found a copy of the source code of some SNMP network management software I had written. I wrote it on my own time to assist the staff as they wouldn't pay Motorola and Arris for the tools we needed to do our job. They changed the graphics to their logos and renamed it Bresnan something or other.
After hitting the coast I ended up finding a job working as a systems analyst for a labor union [other than CWA] and am part of a staff union that is represented by CWA. Being union represented isn't perfect. But it really beats having to deal with things like the BS that went on at Bresnan Communications.
I'd like to know what they are counting in those numbers. We probably have that many attacks per year on our dozen or so systems with all of the script kiddies running their dictionary attacks against the FTP server we use for getting business cards and flyers to the print shop.
I can pull a large number out of my backside and claim the sky is falling as well as the next guy.
He lost it all when he did Legend. I suspect he borrowed his self respect for Top Gun.
-- "Faith! What a dirty anglo-saxon monosyllable!" - Heinlein, Stranger In A Strange Land
I left college partly because the only recruiters left hiring after the bubble burst were Raytheon and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. A handful of geeks I know work or worked for the Navy near Seattle at NUWC. The guy I know that was an Army Ranger before going back to school to finish his CS degree actually has left NUWC to work for Ascentium designing much of Microsoft's website.
It isn't unheard of to make career choices based upon principal. I'd certainly be much happier if the non-profit I work for that is involved in "social change" activities paid their geeks a bit better. My bosses entire experience outside of the organization though was supporting a college computer lab and he 2 finger types. The other senior people only have slightly more experience than that and are over paid for their qualifications.
Novick is quirky yes, bat-shit loco he's not. He is a highly intelligent, humorous, and all around nice guy with a lot of great ideas. He is a hard working guy that is very approachable. Like his campaign ad says, he really is a guy you'd like to have a beer with.
Jones may have been insane, but other than the blue skin he wasn't that different than some of the other nuts like Conrad Burns, Dennis Rehberg and Judy Martz. Jones was always entertaining at debates. I think he sometimes forgot where he was. Rehberg is intelligent but just a completely evil jerk. Burns is simply a total dumb redneck much like W.
I moved to Oregon from Montana 2 years ago. I now work for an organization that has endorsed Novick.
I am glad to say that Vista really is the new Edsel. I think what you mean to say is Vista is the new Windows ME or Bob. Both were poorly marketed and poorly engineered.
I don't know why anyone seems surprised that Vista is such a disaster and acts like this is something new from Microsoft.
The Edsel was primarily a marketing mistake with poor placement in the model lineup of the time. Vista has had marketing killed by the confusion of multiple version. The main problems with Vista though are in the engineering in that it is bloated, poorly rehashes old ideas, and the new things it offers were poorly thought out and even more poorly implemented.
That they've been funded is why they are the most famous artworks. There always has been and always will be great art that is free even if you've never heard of it. Find it and take advantage of it.
I'm a huge fan of graffiti art and electronic music. Take a look at graffiti.org and grab some MP3s from hybridized.org or MP3s from any of the great artists that produce great stuff completely on a computer.
I actually filed a complaint with an offer to provide a note from a psychologist because the cable company I worked at in Montana had Fox News running 24/7 on the TVs in our cube farm. We switched to G4 for awhile and all of the geeks were happy. Then they hired a new Mormon manager who was offended and we were stuck watching Bloomberg news. Shortly after that I put in my 2 weeks and threw everything in a U-Haul and moved to the "left coast" after that.
the entire Interneton your phone If I had the entire Internet on my phone I don't think I'd get around to looking up the Kelly Blue Book on an Audi A4. I'd be
busy holding my phone over my head yelling about how I wield the power of the entire innurnets.
I think I spent too much time playing games as a kid. The largest factor in my moving to Oregon was having played Oregon trail. I'm quite disappointed to find out that if you eat Amanita Muscaria you only THINK you have the ability to throw fireballs..
*-I lied.. I've never eaten the red mushrooms.. I hear the ones that stain blue are good though
I know of a fairly major cable provider whose tech support always has customers go to purple.com to test connectivity. I'm sworn to secrecy though. They are the 13th largest MSO though for those with google skills that may care [and apparently no lives].
She really did develop chimerism.
So according to religious dogma does she now have 2 souls? Did the donor give up half a soul? Why won't anyone answer my questions about chimeras and specific gravity of holy water? When are these brilliant scientists going to investigate that is what I want to know!
I don't think I said anything about it being pagan or magical. Just that that is what they gave me a look at. So really what you would be arguing is that no one believes it is magical. An argument which you seem to be to a given in your argument. Next time I'll make sure and say "sprinkled magic fairy dust" or something. Although to be fair, Wikipedia (for what it is worth given the reputation it has here at/.) talks about chicken blood and sacrifice in their article on Santeria and notes that animal sacrifice is not unique to Santeria.
THE MORE YOU LOOK $h!T UP!
In fact, chickens, a staple food of many African-descended and Creole cultures, are the most common sacrifice; the chicken's blood is offered to the orisha, while the meat is consumed by all. The practice of animal sacrifice was historically common in many religions, most notably Judaism and Islam.
Compromise and start them in OS X [she'll fall for this] and then once she's away pull up the terminal. OS X is really slick. I knew nothing about it before starting my current job but have been messing with Linux since the early Slackware days. When stuff breaks in OS X for our communications department I just open a terminal and its almost completely familiar to me. Of course to them when I type "chmod blah blah" it is about the equivalent of my chopping the head off a chicken and shouting incantations at the screen. The black magic works though and for simple tasks you've got the same ease as Linux without having to poke around or try and figure out what the magic keyboard shortcut is. And if you really have to, Apples dual boot nicely or just run Windows in Parallels or similar VM. And if any of this actually works on a woman.......*mind explodes*
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Hardware will stop this. I don't know anyone that has ever bypassed a hardware based system with a soldering iron and a modchip or a JTAG and flashing new firmware. Nor would anyone find a way around hardware decoding of content scrambling systems. Put their system on a chip and noone will ever figure out how to bypass it.
Microsoft contracts out a lot of it's web page development to http://www.ascentium.com/ and possibly other companies. It is no surprise that their developers choose to use Flash.
I did talk to a copyright lawyer. They weren't selling the code only using it internally with their labeling. The money I'd have had after lawyers' fees wasn't worth the headache and stress. I spoke several times to one of the supervisors who wasn't a complete jerk and after several months they told me they had at least stopped using it and I confirmed it with current employees. Headquarters in NY, which is nowhere near their service area in the Rocky Mountains, spent millions on some proprietary system that Comcast uses. It doesn't have some of the features what I had written in to mine that were specific to the modems we used. Different things with standby on the SB5100 and switching ring waveforms in Arris MTAs. Some of the employees I worked with that are still there have asked me to take the software commercial in hopes that they would then purchase the software.
When I worked Bresnan Communications they did just that to a woman I worked with and came up with a new policy that all bathroom usage must be done on breaks and we would be monitored to be sure we were not taking time outside of them for breaks. I refused to sign the policy. They kept bringing it to me. They told me I'd be fired if I didn't sign it. I asked why they needed me to sign it as I would be held to it as a condition of my employment. They simply told me have it signed by the end of the day and then came back and had a supervisor stand over me while I signed it. I signed it and put "signed under duress" below my signature.
I worked to try and organize with the Communications Workers of America. That idea fell through when someone was told that I didn't trust at all. I finally ended up giving the company the finger and moved a good portion of the way across the country. After leaving they found a copy of the source code of some SNMP network management software I had written. I wrote it on my own time to assist the staff as they wouldn't pay Motorola and Arris for the tools we needed to do our job. They changed the graphics to their logos and renamed it Bresnan something or other. After hitting the coast I ended up finding a job working as a systems analyst for a labor union [other than CWA] and am part of a staff union that is represented by CWA. Being union represented isn't perfect. But it really beats having to deal with things like the BS that went on at Bresnan Communications.
Some people must not know how to use Google or Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_(musician)/
I'm not much of a BT fan but I'm a huge Hybrid fan, and fan of the whole DISTINCTIVE breaks record label.
http://www.distinctiverecords.com/
They have several free mixes for download at Hybridized. There is also a ton of other great music from other artists.
http://www.hybridized.org/
Long live.. NORTH DAKOTA!
I'd like to know what they are counting in those numbers. We probably have that many attacks per year on our dozen or so systems with all of the script kiddies running their dictionary attacks against the FTP server we use for getting business cards and flyers to the print shop. I can pull a large number out of my backside and claim the sky is falling as well as the next guy.
He lost it all when he did Legend. I suspect he borrowed his self respect for Top Gun.
--
"Faith! What a dirty anglo-saxon monosyllable!" - Heinlein, Stranger In A Strange Land
I left college partly because the only recruiters left hiring after the bubble burst were Raytheon and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. A handful of geeks I know work or worked for the Navy near Seattle at NUWC. The guy I know that was an Army Ranger before going back to school to finish his CS degree actually has left NUWC to work for Ascentium designing much of Microsoft's website. It isn't unheard of to make career choices based upon principal. I'd certainly be much happier if the non-profit I work for that is involved in "social change" activities paid their geeks a bit better. My bosses entire experience outside of the organization though was supporting a college computer lab and he 2 finger types. The other senior people only have slightly more experience than that and are over paid for their qualifications.
Novick is quirky yes, bat-shit loco he's not. He is a highly intelligent, humorous, and all around nice guy with a lot of great ideas. He is a hard working guy that is very approachable. Like his campaign ad says, he really is a guy you'd like to have a beer with. Jones may have been insane, but other than the blue skin he wasn't that different than some of the other nuts like Conrad Burns, Dennis Rehberg and Judy Martz. Jones was always entertaining at debates. I think he sometimes forgot where he was. Rehberg is intelligent but just a completely evil jerk. Burns is simply a total dumb redneck much like W. I moved to Oregon from Montana 2 years ago. I now work for an organization that has endorsed Novick.
That they've been funded is why they are the most famous artworks. There always has been and always will be great art that is free even if you've never heard of it. Find it and take advantage of it. I'm a huge fan of graffiti art and electronic music. Take a look at graffiti.org and grab some MP3s from hybridized.org or MP3s from any of the great artists that produce great stuff completely on a computer.
WTF? The Onion.. someone at /. woke up with their shoulders between their thighs today!
I actually filed a complaint with an offer to provide a note from a psychologist because the cable company I worked at in Montana had Fox News running 24/7 on the TVs in our cube farm. We switched to G4 for awhile and all of the geeks were happy. Then they hired a new Mormon manager who was offended and we were stuck watching Bloomberg news. Shortly after that I put in my 2 weeks and threw everything in a U-Haul and moved to the "left coast" after that.
Cars commercial you can have
the entire Internet on your phone If I had the entire Internet on my phone I don't think I'd get around to looking up the Kelly Blue Book on an Audi A4. I'd be busy holding my phone over my head yelling about how I wield the power of the entire innurnets.I think I spent too much time playing games as a kid. The largest factor in my moving to Oregon was having played Oregon trail. I'm quite disappointed to find out that if you eat Amanita Muscaria you only THINK you have the ability to throw fireballs.. *-I lied.. I've never eaten the red mushrooms.. I hear the ones that stain blue are good though
I know of a fairly major cable provider whose tech support always has customers go to purple.com to test connectivity. I'm sworn to secrecy though. They are the 13th largest MSO though for those with google skills that may care [and apparently no lives].
She really did develop chimerism. So according to religious dogma does she now have 2 souls? Did the donor give up half a soul? Why won't anyone answer my questions about chimeras and specific gravity of holy water? When are these brilliant scientists going to investigate that is what I want to know!
I don't think I said anything about it being pagan or magical. Just that that is what they gave me a look at. So really what you would be arguing is that no one believes it is magical. An argument which you seem to be to a given in your argument. Next time I'll make sure and say "sprinkled magic fairy dust" or something. Although to be fair, Wikipedia (for what it is worth given the reputation it has here at /.) talks about chicken blood and sacrifice in their article on Santeria and notes that animal sacrifice is not unique to Santeria.
THE MORE YOU LOOK $h!T UP!
In fact, chickens, a staple food of many African-descended and Creole cultures, are the most common sacrifice; the chicken's blood is offered to the orisha, while the meat is consumed by all. The practice of animal sacrifice was historically common in many religions, most notably Judaism and Islam.
Compromise and start them in OS X [she'll fall for this] and then once she's away pull up the terminal. OS X is really slick. I knew nothing about it before starting my current job but have been messing with Linux since the early Slackware days. When stuff breaks in OS X for our communications department I just open a terminal and its almost completely familiar to me. Of course to them when I type "chmod blah blah" it is about the equivalent of my chopping the head off a chicken and shouting incantations at the screen. The black magic works though and for simple tasks you've got the same ease as Linux without having to poke around or try and figure out what the magic keyboard shortcut is. And if you really have to, Apples dual boot nicely or just run Windows in Parallels or similar VM. And if any of this actually works on a woman.......*mind explodes*
AFAIK the largest union growth is in health care. Government employees have the largest percentage of union representation.
I thought they'd be bringing back LSD25! Pheromones.. Meh.