At the recent MacWorld Expo in New York City, Microsoft's presentation featured a bit of unscheduled excitement:
Many in the audience had picked up "bug suckers" from the Linuxcare, Inc. booth -- transparent lollipops with real dead crickets inside. Unfortunately, one attendee hadn't looked too closely, and was working on it absent-mindedly during the demo, when she suddenly "hit bug". She let out a bloodcurdling yell, and _literally_ brought the Microsoft presentation to a screaming halt.
Just like they left Martin Luther King, Jr. alone?
For those that don't wish to be doomed to repeat the past, the FBI wiretapped MLK because they "thought he was a communist". I don't know where it says you CAN'T be a communist in a free country, but whatever...
What they found was that MLK was having an affair. And what they did with this information was to "anonymously" send him a letter threatening to reveal his affairs if he didn't commit suicide.
Nowadays you have nothing to fear from the US government... unless you once lived in Communist China in which case your loyalty is immediately called into question.
I think another piece of the puzzle is that it is now much easier to take on mammoth projects that would have been so complex w/out a computer that they wouldn't have been be dreamed of before. And while I am sure that many are succesful, many are NOT.
So while a company may have one project that turns into a huge money maker, they may have another that sucks those profits away.
Agreed. In the old days, white-out was NOT acceptable company correspondence. You had to type the ENTIRE thing perfectly, or start all over. Computers have made this type of perfection obsolete, and with it I am sure typing speeds have fallen. How many people in your office even know how to touch type?
I would also blame the web for more lost productivity than crashes. I seriously doubt people are spending more time rebooting/recovering than they spend doing things like, well, just what I'm doing right now.
On the other hand, I don't call in sick as much as I did in the pre-web days...
You really SHOULD read the article. Here's the Cliff Notes anyways: Productivity = Input/Output.
Excluding IT fields, this hasn't changed much. Despite all the HUGE advances in technology, it has failed to increase profits.
So, yes, CAD may have revolutionized several fields. But has this new way of doing things translated into higher profitability at an aggregate level? Apparently not.
what is the name of that option I pass to the listbox widget to get it to stop it from setting the X selection
man listbox
Seriously. I am a Tcl expert and have used many of the extensions, um, extensively. The man pages are all well written and concise. I use tkman to read them and tkman also lets me highlight important sections for future reference.
You can also contact your local service organizations like the Rotary, 4H, etc. These organizations already have the infrastructure set up, they already have credibility, and they already know what to do. Focus on what YOU can do best (installing the computers) and let THEM focus on what they can do best (soliciting donations, contacting groups that need the help, and all the legal/tax mumbo jumbo).
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First, digital money would be signed and encrypted, so it's not just a matter of catching the beam. That also means that a stolen pilot won't sync money with someone else's cradle. They would have to beam it to another palm and, I would expect, you'd want to put a password around that function.
Next, I believe you actually need to "load money" into these things. When you sync, you would tell it to load say $50 for "walking around" money. If you palm is stolen, this is the most you can lose. If someone beams money to you, you take your pilot home and transfer it back into your bank. There is no wireless connection to your bank or any way to get money to/from your bank except at the hot sync.
This is NOT like a "debit card" where the money is instantly transfered from your bank to theirs. It's more like a travellers check, where you withdraw the money and carry it around and then someone else deposits it later. They plan to make money off the float (between the time you withdraw the money and someone else deposits it, they will earn interest off of it).
This is exactly why manufacturers of sound and video cards should release the source to their drivers. It only makes sense that more people will buy their cards if they can actually USE them on the machine of their choice.
The *only* one that seems to benefit from WinModems, for example, is M$...
Well, the law was not the SSA but rather the Privacy Act of 1974. What it says is that IF they ask you for it, they must provide you with a "Privacy Act Disclosure Notice".
This notice must state the authority that gives them the to ask, and whether or not it is voluntary.
If they want to grant new agencies the authority to ask, they are still free to do so. They do NOT need to amend the Privacy Act, they simply have to tell you what law is violating your privacy.
>...officially, not supposed to be used for much beyond tax...
People keep saying this like it came down from God or something. There's nothing in the Bill of Rights to forbid use of SSNs. It was Congress that made up that rule and, when expedient, Congress will revoke it.
He hates ALL immigrants, even the legal ones. They keep taking all the good jobs.
This type of xenophobic fascism is not typically associated with people who believe in civil liberties, so aware or not, he won't let the moniker of Big Brother stop him from ridding his country of people who are different from him.
The 1996 law has not yet been implemented. It was GOING to be implemented last year, but privacy advocates managed to get it delayed. Not revoked, just delayed. Go back to sleep, Congress said. We won't rape you while you sleep.
> from what I understand, it should be illegal to use the SSN
And who made it illegal? Congress. So if Congress decides that they can now be your national citizen ID, who's to say they can't. If they wanted, they could also require you to give your SSN to bathroom attendants.
Yes, but how tough will the state politicians be when their citizens aren't allowed on airplanes. The citizens will DEMAND that their privacy by violated.
Actually, we just need DC to secede. Wait 'til Congress is in session, or maybe at the State of the Union when they actually show up for "work" (cause the TV is there for that), and then turn the Beltway into a moat and don't let anyone out.
Note that he is also opposed to LEGAL immigration...
Note also that this is ALREADY a law. Privacy advocates are trying to REPEAL the damn thing, which is infinitely more difficult than blocking it in the first case...
Question: which party will support repealing this law? The top dog Democrat was the guy that signed this bill in the first case. Billy has yet to champion any civil liberties issues, so don't count on the democrats.
That leaves the Republicans. With a slim 6-person majority, there are dozens of 6-man coalitions that can BLOCK anything. Any 6 can block the repeal on a floor vote! Assuming it evens gets to the floor. The head of the committee is against it. Now just ask yourself: What are the chances that there are 5 other Republicans who don't like them damn foreigners?
Ron Paul and a few others had pushed for a scaling back of FinCen thinking that the Anti-Know Your Customer momentum would carry it through. But a little Law and Order briefing from Reno and wham, that was dead.
So yes, privacy advocates, go medieval. Defeating Know Your Customer was just a minor skirmish. The fascists have come back with avengeance.
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Just saw this on rec.humor.funny:
From: rick@hugin.imat.com (Rick Moen)
Subject: Debugging...
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:30:01 PDT
At the recent MacWorld Expo in New York City, Microsoft's presentation featured a bit of unscheduled excitement:
Many in the audience had picked up "bug suckers" from the Linuxcare, Inc. booth -- transparent lollipops with real dead crickets inside. Unfortunately, one attendee hadn't looked too closely, and was working on it absent-mindedly during the demo, when she suddenly "hit bug". She
let out a bloodcurdling yell, and _literally_ brought the Microsoft presentation to a screaming halt.
> No internet access at home, eh?
Access? Yes. T1? No.
http://www.ee.upenn.edu/~jan/eniacproj.html
> if you're clean, Uncle Sam leaves you alone
Just like they left Martin Luther King, Jr. alone?
For those that don't wish to be doomed to repeat the past, the FBI wiretapped MLK because they "thought he was a communist". I don't know where it says you CAN'T be a communist in a free country, but whatever...
What they found was that MLK was having an affair. And what they did with this information was to "anonymously" send him a letter threatening to reveal his affairs if he didn't commit suicide.
Nowadays you have nothing to fear from the US government... unless you once lived in Communist China in which case your loyalty is immediately called into question.
I think another piece of the puzzle is that it is now much easier to take on mammoth projects that would have been so complex w/out a computer that they wouldn't have been be dreamed of before. And while I am sure that many are succesful, many are NOT.
So while a company may have one project that turns into a huge money maker, they may have another that sucks those profits away.
Agreed. In the old days, white-out was NOT acceptable company correspondence. You had to type the ENTIRE thing perfectly, or start all over. Computers have made this type of perfection obsolete, and with it I am sure typing speeds have fallen. How many people in your office even know how to touch type?
I would also blame the web for more lost productivity than crashes. I seriously doubt people are spending more time rebooting/recovering than they spend doing things like, well, just what I'm doing right now.
On the other hand, I don't call in sick as much as I did in the pre-web days...
You really SHOULD read the article. Here's the Cliff Notes anyways: Productivity = Input/Output.
Excluding IT fields, this hasn't changed much. Despite all the HUGE advances in technology, it has failed to increase profits.
So, yes, CAD may have revolutionized several fields. But has this new way of doing things translated into higher profitability at an aggregate level? Apparently not.
There ARE other apps, namely "audiojacker" and "total recorder", that do capture the audio output.
<hint> All this I learned by reading the links in the article. </hint>
man listbox
Seriously. I am a Tcl expert and have used many of the extensions, um, extensively. The man pages are all well written and concise. I use tkman to read them and tkman also lets me highlight important sections for future reference.
You can also contact your local service organizations like the Rotary, 4H, etc. These organizations already have the infrastructure set up, they already have credibility, and they already know what to do. Focus on what YOU can do best (installing the computers) and let THEM focus on what they can do best (soliciting donations, contacting groups that need the help, and all the legal/tax mumbo jumbo).
And I always thought Virginia was a whole state.
Try ESR's Retrocomputing Museum.
First, digital money would be signed and encrypted, so it's not just a matter of catching the beam. That also means that a stolen pilot won't sync money with someone else's cradle. They would have to beam it to another palm and, I would expect, you'd want to put a password around that function.
Next, I believe you actually need to "load money" into these things. When you sync, you would tell it to load say $50 for "walking around" money. If you palm is stolen, this is the most you can lose. If someone beams money to you, you take your pilot home and transfer it back into your bank. There is no wireless connection to your bank or any way to get money to/from your bank except at the hot sync.
This is NOT like a "debit card" where the money is instantly transfered from your bank to theirs. It's more like a travellers check, where you withdraw the money and carry it around and then someone else deposits it later. They plan to make money off the float (between the time you withdraw the money and someone else deposits it, they will earn interest off of it).
> overall it seems that the open source doesn't really contribute anything back to the world
Apache? Perl? Tcl/Tk? Bind? Sendmail?
Debian includes over 2250 packages. All free (speech), or else they wouldn't be in Debian. What do you get with Windows? Solitaire.
This is exactly why manufacturers of sound and video cards should release the source to their drivers. It only makes sense that more people will buy their cards if they can actually USE them on the machine of their choice.
The *only* one that seems to benefit from WinModems, for example, is M$...
This notice must state the authority that gives them the to ask, and whether or not it is voluntary.
If they want to grant new agencies the authority to ask, they are still free to do so. They do NOT need to amend the Privacy Act, they simply have to tell you what law is violating your privacy.
See http://www.cpsr.or g/cpsr/privacy/ssn/SSN-History.html#PrivacyAct
Like he's just gonna come out and admit that he's opposed to the Bill of Rights...
"It's not a National ID Card... it just has all the features of one..."
> ...officially, not supposed to be used for much beyond tax...
People keep saying this like it came down from God or something. There's nothing in the Bill of Rights to forbid use of SSNs. It was Congress that made up that rule and, when expedient, Congress will revoke it.
He hates ALL immigrants, even the legal ones. They keep taking all the good jobs.
This type of xenophobic fascism is not typically associated with people who believe in civil liberties, so aware or not, he won't let the moniker of Big Brother stop him from ridding his country of people who are different from him.
The 1996 law has not yet been implemented. It was GOING to be implemented last year, but privacy advocates managed to get it delayed. Not revoked, just delayed. Go back to sleep, Congress said. We won't rape you while you sleep.
> from what I understand, it should be illegal to use the SSN
And who made it illegal? Congress. So if Congress decides that they can now be your national citizen ID, who's to say they can't. If they wanted, they could also require you to give your SSN to bathroom attendants.
Yes, but how tough will the state politicians be when their citizens aren't allowed on airplanes. The citizens will DEMAND that their privacy by violated.
Actually, we just need DC to secede. Wait 'til Congress is in session, or maybe at the State of the Union when they actually show up for "work" (cause the TV is there for that), and then turn the Beltway into a moat and don't let anyone out.
Yes, the SSA did limit who could use the SSN. But since that was created by Congress, there's nothing to stop Congress from changing it...
Unaware of privacy, or unconcerned?
Note that he is also opposed to LEGAL immigration...
Note also that this is ALREADY a law. Privacy advocates are trying to REPEAL the damn thing, which is infinitely more difficult than blocking it in the first case...
Question: which party will support repealing this law? The top dog Democrat was the guy that signed this bill in the first case. Billy has yet to champion any civil liberties issues, so don't count on the democrats.
That leaves the Republicans. With a slim 6-person majority, there are dozens of 6-man coalitions that can BLOCK anything. Any 6 can block the repeal on a floor vote! Assuming it evens gets to the floor. The head of the committee is against it. Now just ask yourself: What are the chances that there are 5 other Republicans who don't like them damn foreigners?
Ron Paul and a few others had pushed for a scaling back of FinCen thinking that the Anti-Know Your Customer momentum would carry it through. But a little Law and Order briefing from Reno and wham, that was dead.
So yes, privacy advocates, go medieval. Defeating Know Your Customer was just a minor skirmish. The fascists have come back with avengeance.