" you can already, under previous laws, tell a telemarketer to add you to their DNC list and they must."
The problem here is that for a lot of telemarketting companies its standard procedure to honour your request to be taken off BUT to THEN give your number to the 5 OTHER telemarketting companies that the mother corporation owns....and its all legal...so one after another you have to keep telling these people not to call you.
This list tells ALL companies not to call you. I don't see how it kills their business...and personally, if the telemarketting business dies because too many people signed up for the DNC list, then it NEEDED to die in the first place.
Well with OpenLoo you have to share with the world the results of your work, but if you use the iLoo, the details of what your doing get transmitted back to Microsoft for "debugging" purposes
Agreed, another major problem is that for many mainframe sysadmin type situation, that stuff just isn't taught in school anymore.
Our program mainly focused on C, C++ and assembler, with a smattering of COBOL and RPG. I spent the first few months learning this stuff when I got hired. Where I am now, we've just spent months interviewing people for junior positions and none of them even had THOSE basics.
Actually, it's not at all appropriate when they're talking to *me*.
Far be it for me to defend rudeness, I gotta reply to this. Having worked the tech support lines a while before moving on to bigger and better things I can say the following:
You may be right in that YOU know what you're doing (I don't know you, so I can't say)...but what YOU don't seem to realize is that ALL the clueless idiots we deal with think THEY know what they're doing TOO! My favorite call from hell was from this chemical engineer who had PRECISELY the same attitude you just showed...well guess what? This moron couldn't figure out that his PC wasn't working because of a city-wide powerfailure...he swore up and down that it was our software that was causing his PC to fail to turn on (forget UPS or generators, we had none of that). Its wasn't until he commented that it was dark in his office and I asked him why...he said "Oh well we have a power failure"...it took 15 more minutes for me to make him connect the dots..after which he proceeded to blame our new software (or try to anyway). All the while insisting "I know computers...I know what I'm doing"
Sorry, you may SAY you know what you're doing, but unless I know you, I have no way to know because you're saying what 90% of the other callers are saying
But I will make an ass of myself and say that the ability for anyone with the will and meager means to post their ideas is indeed a good thing.
The downside to this is that its depressing to see what happens when people interact in what they view as a completely anonymous and consequence free medium...says a lot about basic human nature and none of it good.
A Palladium-enabled computer prevents untrusted code from trying to destroy it.
God some people just don't get this...Palladium will NOT stop most of the viruses and worms out there for the simple reason that a virus like code red or melissa or "I love you" does NOT run untrusted code...its a macro run by an application like OUTLOOK...in other words a TRUSTED application.
Palladium is NOT intended to make OUR computers safer from attack, as they are trying to tell you...Palladium exists to give THEM control over OUR hardware...period.
I don't know about where you are but here, unless you make less than $11K a year you are not entitled to an attorney paid by legal-aid. You are determined to be able to afford one (and its my opinion that those bureaucrats were on crack...I make a LOT more than 11K a year and I couldn't afford an attorney at 200$/hour to defend me from a criminal charge...)
The problem with that solution is that the cheaters aren't going to compete in the cheating area...they are going to keep going to the "straight" area because then they can win easily and make fun of you...never realizing the kind of losers they actually are.
I used to wonder if people were basically good or basically evil, until I saw what most people do when they think they're anonymous on the net and there are no consequences to their actions.
but can't anyone see the benefit of knowing that next time Eunice the Twit in accounting opens a "hilarious" e-mail, she won't bring every machine in the network to a halt?
The problem is that this solution WILL NOT STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING...a macro virus runs from a "trusted" executable...in other words, if you have Palladium, Outlook is a trusted app...you get a macro virus that makes Outlook do a lot of shitty stuff...Palladium won't stop it.
"Windows sux? Sure, and linsux desktop users can walk through the rain without getting wet, too."
Hummm doofus...We usually can, its called an umbrella...as for the rest of your claims, lets see some impartial (ie: non-ms funded) studies to back those statements up
Opponents of the proposed rules fear that, taken together, they ultimately could lead to a few powerful conglomerates controlling the flow of electronic information, from programming of television and radio news and entertainment to owning the pipes that connect people to the Internet.
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Yes, you must have "executive style" hair.
Please, blockbuster and latest hit ranks right up there with "Best Movie of the year" when its January 5th or something.
All this stuff is market speak, ie: lying. I wonder why it isn't illegal.
Now with TINT control!
" you can already, under previous laws, tell a telemarketer to add you to their DNC list and they must."
The problem here is that for a lot of telemarketting companies its standard procedure to honour your request to be taken off BUT to THEN give your number to the 5 OTHER telemarketting companies that the mother corporation owns....and its all legal...so one after another you have to keep telling these people not to call you.
This list tells ALL companies not to call you. I don't see how it kills their business...and personally, if the telemarketting business dies because too many people signed up for the DNC list, then it NEEDED to die in the first place.
That would assume that you can get .11g support for linux...which I don't think has happened yet.
So it IS supposed to be a Microsoft killer then...
better yet, just say "Yes, I'm VERY interested...can you hold one sec?" and hit the hold button.
One telemarketter stayed on hold for 15 mins. Called back twice and stayed on hold again 15 mins each time.
Quick somebody send them a copy of their threatening letter!
Well with OpenLoo you have to share with the world the results of your work, but if you use the iLoo, the details of what your doing get transmitted back to Microsoft for "debugging" purposes
Agreed, another major problem is that for many mainframe sysadmin type situation, that stuff just isn't taught in school anymore.
Our program mainly focused on C, C++ and assembler, with a smattering of COBOL and RPG. I spent the first few months learning this stuff when I got hired. Where I am now, we've just spent months interviewing people for junior positions and none of them even had THOSE basics.
Yes, and which of us still defecates in his own nest?
You obviously haven't used a public restroom in a while...
Far be it for me to defend rudeness, I gotta reply to this. Having worked the tech support lines a while before moving on to bigger and better things I can say the following:
You may be right in that YOU know what you're doing (I don't know you, so I can't say)...but what YOU don't seem to realize is that ALL the clueless idiots we deal with think THEY know what they're doing TOO! My favorite call from hell was from this chemical engineer who had PRECISELY the same attitude you just showed...well guess what? This moron couldn't figure out that his PC wasn't working because of a city-wide powerfailure...he swore up and down that it was our software that was causing his PC to fail to turn on (forget UPS or generators, we had none of that). Its wasn't until he commented that it was dark in his office and I asked him why...he said "Oh well we have a power failure"...it took 15 more minutes for me to make him connect the dots..after which he proceeded to blame our new software (or try to anyway). All the while insisting "I know computers...I know what I'm doing"
Sorry, you may SAY you know what you're doing, but unless I know you, I have no way to know because you're saying what 90% of the other callers are saying
Don't they also keep saying its not a bug its a feature???
The downside to this is that its depressing to see what happens when people interact in what they view as a completely anonymous and consequence free medium...says a lot about basic human nature and none of it good.
A Palladium-enabled computer prevents untrusted code from trying to destroy it.
God some people just don't get this...Palladium will NOT stop most of the viruses and worms out there for the simple reason that a virus like code red or melissa or "I love you" does NOT run untrusted code...its a macro run by an application like OUTLOOK...in other words a TRUSTED application.
Palladium is NOT intended to make OUR computers safer from attack, as they are trying to tell you...Palladium exists to give THEM control over OUR hardware...period.
I don't know about where you are but here, unless you make less than $11K a year you are not entitled to an attorney paid by legal-aid. You are determined to be able to afford one (and its my opinion that those bureaucrats were on crack...I make a LOT more than 11K a year and I couldn't afford an attorney at 200$/hour to defend me from a criminal charge...)
Considering the article wouldn't it be the opposite?
In America spam reads YOU!
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In Soviet Russia YOU read Spam!
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The problem with that solution is that the cheaters aren't going to compete in the cheating area...they are going to keep going to the "straight" area because then they can win easily and make fun of you...never realizing the kind of losers they actually are.
I used to wonder if people were basically good or basically evil, until I saw what most people do when they think they're anonymous on the net and there are no consequences to their actions.
Its linux...how about just getting your updates elsewhere like plf or sourceforge or the author of whatever software you want to update?
Since when are you locked into your vendor?
...its got about as much chance as moderation :)
In theory its a good idea...but its too easy to abuse.
player 1 is good, kicks the ass of a bunch of pre-teen morons with "mad skillz"
Pre-teens morons go to the site...put up a bad report....
player 1 comes back with friends, puts up more bad reports...
Would this be the same interviewer who specified he wanted someone with 10 years of java programming experience back in 1998?
The problem is that this solution WILL NOT STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING...a macro virus runs from a "trusted" executable...in other words, if you have Palladium, Outlook is a trusted app...you get a macro virus that makes Outlook do a lot of shitty stuff...Palladium won't stop it.
Hummm doofus...We usually can, its called an umbrella ...as for the rest of your claims, lets see some impartial (ie: non-ms funded) studies to back those statements up
And how this is different from today?