No bailout at all. Let them fail. Let the investors lose everything, and then if negligence is found, The Board and all executives are Personally Liable for all losses and debts of the company. Corporate protection of personal finances is revoked in that instance, and all personal assets of the board members and executive staff are immediately seized and distributed to debtors starting with the lowest amounts first.
When that is all done, Executive staff serves jail time.
That pretty much will stop all the BS that causes this to happen in the first place. A CEO being rear reamed by a man named bubba that murdered people will get he message across to corporate executives overnight.
I also had a Zen, the zen did not operate like the ipod. It has some similarities...
Have you even touched any of the devices mentioned? Because you seem to not have ever touched and used any. I own them all, and have used them all. The lawsuits were bogus at best. Just as bogus as the current ones by apple and the others out there.
I'm always astonished how Apple haters feel the need to act as if they are experts when in reality they have never touched any of the devices and there fore know absolutely nothing at all about the subject they are talking about.
I dont think that the iPod was the "best" in any way. I actually loved some of the early devices, and currently think that android devices are better. But for the typical dumb user... an iPod is the easiest to use.
You are funny. I see higher failure rates on Sony products. (Integrator so I see thousands a year) and sorry, but BluRay is not a "very good media" HDDVD was, BluRay is more expensive and chock full of DRM, making it an inferior media.
but it was the first one that did not SUCK. I had a Diamond RIO and it's UI and operation utterly sucked. most everything after that continued to suck in durability and usability until the ipod came out.
in the Bootleg scene. Sony Minidisc units were the favorite as they would RECORD. you went into the bar with the binaurial mics in your lapel or headphones and your minidisc recorder. The bouncer searches you and only finds a minidisc player and lets you in. You then record the concert better than the guy at the mixing board.
they were a LOT cheaper to get than a pocket DAT and would get past security a lot easier.
You say this but have you actually watch this in real time? I have. I watched two of our sales people try and use the microsoft tablet to work on a spreadsheet and it took them 3X longer than if they just used the laptop. Both of these guys do nothing but fight with these things, plus the intranet apps DO NOT work on the Internet Explorer that is on the MS tablet. They do work with chrome on the ipad and the android tablets.
I keep hearing from people that the tablet is the "PERFECT" platform for office, but when I see people try it, I see the absolute opposite effect. Even writer friends that raved about tablets as a place to write have migrated back to a "ultrabook" or laptop.
Back them Gates was struggling as well. So it was a mutual thing. Today, only MSFT has anything to gain from office on the iOS platform. On an iOS device the ONLY useful app is really powerpoint, and Apple has Keynote that is vastly superior to powerpoint in every way. Why would someone want to downgrade to powerpoint on iOS?
No sane person would want to work on spreadsheets on a tablet. Same for everything else in the MS OFFICE lineup outside of PowerPoint.
MS office is losing. It is losing slowly but it is in fact losing. I see more and more businesses using alternatives such as Google Docs, Libre Office, and other options. The fact that MS is moving Office online as a subscription model shows me they know it's losing the battle.
My son-in-law goes over his data monthly and his cellphone bill from last month is.... $125.00US or... 79.52UKP Here in the USA we are raped without lube daily from the cellphone companies.
In the USA the government and laws are NOT for the people, but for the corporations. A lot of people from outside the USA, and the undereducated inside the USA dont understand this. You come from a country that curbs abuse of power in corporations, so this is why you dont understand how it works. In the USA, Corporations are encouraged to abuse their powers UNLESS it infringes on another Corporation's rights.
AT&T hates it's customers. Utterly hates them. This will not change until there is any real competition. Verizon is not a choice because they are actually worse than AT&T. Verizon is like being in an abusive relationship with someone that is a BDSM freak that does not understand safe words...
You are wrong. Builders that screw up and houses fail, they dont go out of business. they just reform under a new LLC. Hell one of the builders around here blatantly stole from people and he is STILL in business, under a new name. The only people that know the crooks are the ones that work with them. Homeowners are blind sheep that have no clue because they typically only build one home in their lifetime.
"'Why we should build software like we build houses' "
Oh good god, if we built software the way houses are built than nothing would work. Houses start with a plan, but then fall apart right after that. you hire the cheapest contractor possible, they cut corners by buying B grade lumber and fudge things here and there. The architect NEVER comes back to make sure that the house is being built right. The plans are rarely followed. Electrician and HVAC just makes it work by cutting corners where they can.
In the end more attention is paid to the paint, carpet and countertops than the structure and infrastructure of the home. So it looks pretty, but is in fact a ball of hidden mistakes and covered up changes to cut corners.
Yeah, Wired needs to stop trying to be the Rolling Stone.
No most Americans think they need the house a blistering 75 degrees in the winter, and then they whine it's too hot and set it for 68 in the summer. I see it all the time.
Hell I have friends in Texas that keep their house at 68 in the summer and then bitch about the heat.... DUH, you are acclimating you bodies for a north climate in the deep south.
Just ask people that live off grid. If you reduce your consumption it's not that hard to meet your energy needs. The hard part is that it's impossible for you to create an alternative energy source other than electricity. Electric heat is highly inefficient, so you either need to stop building houses ultra crappy, like most homes built in the USA, and start building them right with a lot of insulation, proper eaves, proper siting, etc... or you buy 6 acres to fill with windmills and solar panels so you can heat or cool your craptastic McMansion built by a barely capable contractor that cut as many corners as legally possible.
If the home is sane sized is built properly and is properly placed on the site, you could easily generate all the energy you need for your own home within the space of the home. but only if the people living there give up their 90" Tv's with 3500 watt surround systems, incandescent bulbs, and keeping the house at 75 in the winter and 68 in the summer.
Wipe the drive with the contents of/dev/random Now do your Truecrypt setup. The hidden volume is not detectable, maybe if you do a N00b mistake of putting one on a drive that has been wiped with all zeros, yes it will stick out like a sore thumb. Want more fun? dump/dev/random to other files around it.
Reality states that it is ZERO effort for the bad guys to get their hands on. I dont care what the idiots in Washington think. Bad guys dont follow laws, it does not hamper them in any way.
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A 3 year depression is far better than a 10 year recession.
Let them fail. Hell I say we push them off the ledge, government closure and liquidation at the first sign of failure.
No bailout at all. Let them fail. Let the investors lose everything, and then if negligence is found, The Board and all executives are Personally Liable for all losses and debts of the company. Corporate protection of personal finances is revoked in that instance, and all personal assets of the board members and executive staff are immediately seized and distributed to debtors starting with the lowest amounts first.
When that is all done, Executive staff serves jail time.
That pretty much will stop all the BS that causes this to happen in the first place. A CEO being rear reamed by a man named bubba that murdered people will get he message across to corporate executives overnight.
I also had a Zen, the zen did not operate like the ipod. It has some similarities...
Have you even touched any of the devices mentioned? Because you seem to not have ever touched and used any. I own them all, and have used them all. The lawsuits were bogus at best. Just as bogus as the current ones by apple and the others out there.
I'm always astonished how Apple haters feel the need to act as if they are experts when in reality they have never touched any of the devices and there fore know absolutely nothing at all about the subject they are talking about.
I dont think that the iPod was the "best" in any way. I actually loved some of the early devices, and currently think that android devices are better. But for the typical dumb user... an iPod is the easiest to use.
Look for "binaurial" recordings. they utterly capture the concert better than the sound guy can.
Yes there is. In order to get 10-12 hour battery life your tablet has to be a lot less powerful than your laptop.
You are funny. I see higher failure rates on Sony products. (Integrator so I see thousands a year) and sorry, but BluRay is not a "very good media" HDDVD was, BluRay is more expensive and chock full of DRM, making it an inferior media.
but it was the first one that did not SUCK. I had a Diamond RIO and it's UI and operation utterly sucked. most everything after that continued to suck in durability and usability until the ipod came out.
in the Bootleg scene. Sony Minidisc units were the favorite as they would RECORD. you went into the bar with the binaurial mics in your lapel or headphones and your minidisc recorder. The bouncer searches you and only finds a minidisc player and lets you in. You then record the concert better than the guy at the mixing board.
they were a LOT cheaper to get than a pocket DAT and would get past security a lot easier.
You say this but have you actually watch this in real time? I have. I watched two of our sales people try and use the microsoft tablet to work on a spreadsheet and it took them 3X longer than if they just used the laptop. Both of these guys do nothing but fight with these things, plus the intranet apps DO NOT work on the Internet Explorer that is on the MS tablet. They do work with chrome on the ipad and the android tablets.
I keep hearing from people that the tablet is the "PERFECT" platform for office, but when I see people try it, I see the absolute opposite effect. Even writer friends that raved about tablets as a place to write have migrated back to a "ultrabook" or laptop.
Actually yes. We teach our children to be victims.
Back them Gates was struggling as well. So it was a mutual thing. Today, only MSFT has anything to gain from office on the iOS platform. On an iOS device the ONLY useful app is really powerpoint, and Apple has Keynote that is vastly superior to powerpoint in every way. Why would someone want to downgrade to powerpoint on iOS?
No sane person would want to work on spreadsheets on a tablet. Same for everything else in the MS OFFICE lineup outside of PowerPoint.
MS office is losing. It is losing slowly but it is in fact losing. I see more and more businesses using alternatives such as Google Docs, Libre Office, and other options. The fact that MS is moving Office online as a subscription model shows me they know it's losing the battle.
My son-in-law goes over his data monthly and his cellphone bill from last month is.... $125.00US or... 79.52UKP Here in the USA we are raped without lube daily from the cellphone companies.
In the USA the government and laws are NOT for the people, but for the corporations. A lot of people from outside the USA, and the undereducated inside the USA dont understand this. You come from a country that curbs abuse of power in corporations, so this is why you dont understand how it works. In the USA, Corporations are encouraged to abuse their powers UNLESS it infringes on another Corporation's rights.
The people have zero say in anything here.
AT&T hates it's customers. Utterly hates them. This will not change until there is any real competition. Verizon is not a choice because they are actually worse than AT&T. Verizon is like being in an abusive relationship with someone that is a BDSM freak that does not understand safe words...
"FUCK THEM ALL. Not watching.. not even the fucking commercials."
Wait What? Fucking Commercials? has the FCC lifted the ban on copulation in commercials? I am SO watching the superbowl now!
"Imagine You Tube videos in 3D - stupid cat pictures without any editing in three dimensions! Yeah!"
Already there. Fuji had a point and shoot camera that did 3d video. there is a lot of stupid cat 3d youtube videos.
You are wrong. Builders that screw up and houses fail, they dont go out of business. they just reform under a new LLC. Hell one of the builders around here blatantly stole from people and he is STILL in business, under a new name. The only people that know the crooks are the ones that work with them. Homeowners are blind sheep that have no clue because they typically only build one home in their lifetime.
"'Why we should build software like we build houses' "
Oh good god, if we built software the way houses are built than nothing would work. Houses start with a plan, but then fall apart right after that. you hire the cheapest contractor possible, they cut corners by buying B grade lumber and fudge things here and there. The architect NEVER comes back to make sure that the house is being built right. The plans are rarely followed. Electrician and HVAC just makes it work by cutting corners where they can.
In the end more attention is paid to the paint, carpet and countertops than the structure and infrastructure of the home. So it looks pretty, but is in fact a ball of hidden mistakes and covered up changes to cut corners.
Yeah, Wired needs to stop trying to be the Rolling Stone.
No most Americans think they need the house a blistering 75 degrees in the winter, and then they whine it's too hot and set it for 68 in the summer. I see it all the time.
Hell I have friends in Texas that keep their house at 68 in the summer and then bitch about the heat.... DUH, you are acclimating you bodies for a north climate in the deep south.
Just ask people that live off grid. If you reduce your consumption it's not that hard to meet your energy needs. The hard part is that it's impossible for you to create an alternative energy source other than electricity. Electric heat is highly inefficient, so you either need to stop building houses ultra crappy, like most homes built in the USA, and start building them right with a lot of insulation, proper eaves, proper siting, etc... or you buy 6 acres to fill with windmills and solar panels so you can heat or cool your craptastic McMansion built by a barely capable contractor that cut as many corners as legally possible.
If the home is sane sized is built properly and is properly placed on the site, you could easily generate all the energy you need for your own home within the space of the home. but only if the people living there give up their 90" Tv's with 3500 watt surround systems, incandescent bulbs, and keeping the house at 75 in the winter and 68 in the summer.
And what losers call our planet Earth? It's DIRT get it right!
God, you people......
Not it cant, not when you do things properly.
Wipe the drive with the contents of /dev/random /dev/random to other files around it.
Now do your Truecrypt setup. The hidden volume is not detectable, maybe if you do a N00b mistake of putting one on a drive that has been wiped with all zeros, yes it will stick out like a sore thumb.
Want more fun? dump
You can, it is absolutely utterly trivial to secure your lan from the public Wifi you are offering.
1 decent router, put Public wifi AP on the DMZ port. All done. Not even the worlds best uber hacker can get into your network through it.
rename it to linksys and you will get thousands of people connecting to it.
Reality states that it is ZERO effort for the bad guys to get their hands on. I dont care what the idiots in Washington think. Bad guys dont follow laws, it does not hamper them in any way.