With open software, you can look at the source code and see exactly what it does and test it for all the vulnerabilities you want and get them removed, by yourself if you find yourself so talented. Only the monkeys in Redmond know what is really going on in Windows, and anyone using their products is dependent upon MS and MS only for a solution. That may come in days, weeks, but most likely months after a vulnerability is found. Meanwhile, someone ends up releasing details of the vulnerability, then codes up a nasty bug to take adavantage. The fact that MS software is so full of holes and has no real peer-review process among the general population of all possible coders interested in fixing bugs is its weakness in comparison.
and they can't face the truth that proprietary software has met its match. So, instead of accepting this truth, they act like a screaming 2-y/o at bedtime, as if it might solve their problems. Instead of adapting to the new marketplace, they'll try to preserve the status quo.
Sorry, kid, but you just got knocked off the top of the hill. Go run home to Mommy now and cry your little eyes out.
The schaedenfreud from a move like this would be most deserved on the Monopoly, but of course, noting the date, one can't help but laugh and wish it were true. Good story.
I'm working at home in Detroit doing medical transcription, so I guess I'm an inverse integrator. I've integrated work into my home life, but I'm not really giving up one for the other. I'm home all the time now, and don't need to go out but to run errands or visit friends/family. I get my work done for the day quickly and have time for my wife and other hobbies, like computer gaming, fishing, and traveling. I even traveled during summer last year with the laptop and got work done while at a campground, in hotel rooms, and at my ex's home in Tennessee. I'll have a difficult time giving it up if I go back to my computer technician career working in anything but a telecommute position.
What boggles my mind is that this is considered news. It's just some person exploiting the US Courts YET AGAIN to sponge some ca$h from deep pockets. Nothing to see here, move along.
Really, man. If you've ever had problems with carpal tunnel syndrome and have been in to be properly diagnosed, you've had some neurologist stick needles into your arms and hands to measure the electrical potential traveling along the nerves of the arm from shoulder to hand.
I call bullshit, and I want whatever this group of Danish scientists are smoking. I'm betting trips to Amsterdam are de rigeur with these folks.
Problem is, Pretenderle's name hasn't been in the press lately, mainly because he's been exposed as a huge MS shill, and he tends to write articles that are very biased toward the hand that feeds him. If Rob could step back for a minute and actually write something that is fair and balanced and not constantly bashing FOSS, it would be a start toward his become a more widely-regarded and widely-read author. His biggest problem is that he cannot find a way to make money off FOSS because he came up sucking the MS tit and knows no better.
Sounds like you want to look for a position in field support. I worked in field support for several years, and found it to be a lot of fun. I never knew where I would end up from day to day. I got to travel around the Metro Detroit area mostly, but some days might find me out as far as Saginaw or the Toledo, OH regions doing service calls.
As one poster wrote above, certifications are nice, they prove you can take a test. I got laid off due to budget cuts a couple years back, and while on unemployment for six months, I got back to school in a Unix/Linux Systems associates program at a local business college, and should have my degree by this time next year. In the meantime, I fell back on a trade I had worked in for several years before landing my tech support position, medical transcription, so I could stay at home, work part-time, save up some cash, and concentrate on my studies.
I think the other poster is right, though. Don't rely solely on certs. Solid work in a college-level program is really going to prove how serious you are. I got really lucky back in the late 90s when I hired on as a field service technician, and then while out training with the service department manager at a large trucking facility located near Detroit Metro Airport, I showed him how to handle TCP/IP properly on Win95 and Win98 boxes hosted on an NT network. However, I'm going to call it a fluke, since trying to get a job with my notable lack of certs (I hold no Microsoft certs and will not pursue them, though I do have my LPI-1 & 2) or a college degree is holding me up.
Note, too, I'm in my mid-40s. It's never too late to stop where you are, reassess where you are at, and take measures to fix things.
Personally, I don't think it's all that relevant at all. Yeah, great, justice was upheld, whoopie. What I really see is a beautiful but insecure woman who thought it would be a great idea to let someone hack her face up and she got screwed. I don't disagree that she has a right to publish her story, but really, this is just another bad decision heaped on top of other bad decisions. In the end, there's a bunch of really happy lawyers out there who got paid to straighten this mess out, and that's the really sad thing.
The bottom line is, in times like these and in a major city like Boston, you have to take everything seriously.
Times like these? What, where a warmongering criminal is president of the country and killing off young men and women serving in the Armed Forces by the dozens daily? Where an entire big city police force jumps like a kid surprised by a shadow in a closet over some silly little plastic flashy things? Since 911, the administration of every governmental institution have become a bunch of paranoid anal retentives badly in need of an enema.
Please, spare me that crappy excuse. The worst that happened today in the form of a terrorist attack was some guy got hit by a pigeon on a guano dive-bomb raid in a Boston park.
Free market forces closing off a method of free publication made simple, easy enough that fools can and do use it. It's something they have not found a way to make a reliable buck from, as the site would lose it's popularity if it went to pay-per-use. They want to commercialize the site and prohibit people from freely posting whatever they wish free of charge. It's also their right, though, as it's their site. How long did you expect them to continue to add storage to archive all that video and keep it always ready to access and use?
No cancer victims will be allowed on the saucers come Xday, so they're just doing the pre-flight inspections. We'll assume that for some reason, those who have been probed are somehow included in with the paying members. Maybe by paying my $30 to "Bob", I have certified that I don't have rectal cancer. Or that I'll eat my own rectal cancer on a plate if served fresh and steaming hot. Or kill me, Fnord, Ramen.
I like your idea much better. It makes so much sense that the legs would be spread, and basing what kinds of movements were possible only based on fossil skeletons and a very unrepresentative subset of the reptilian species that remain alive today doesn't seem like great science. I'm thinking that if these creatures managed to get arboreal, they would have needed a great deal more agility than what the authors of this study suggest therefore would have a much less limited range of motion of the hip joints and the ability to spread legs more laterally.
Besides, my kid at age 5 could do better than that artist's rendition. What moron thinks that the tail or leg feathers are going to form nice right angles and straight edges like that unless you're selling an idea to morons? Oh, wait...
My understanding is that you should be able to see it in the eastern sky preceding sunrise. Spaceweather.com has some pretty good photographs of how it has appeared in the sky over Norway and other locations, and ephermides to help in locating it in the sky in your location.
Unfortunately, no one's perfected that device where I can wipe the clouds out of the sky so I might be able to see this event from where I call home, in the Detroit area. It's been cloudy here for the last four or five days running, so much so that it precludes viewing the comet at all. Once it does clear, the light pollution pretty much drowns out any possibility of seeing anything other than the moon in the sky. Yuk, I hate living in a heavily-populated northern clime.
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: 1056 AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) QUOTATION: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.--The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, vol. 6, p. 242 (1963).
This quotation, slightly altered, is inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." SUBJECTS: Liberty BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia WORKS: Benjamin Franklin Collection
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Yeah? What's next, a chip in my skull so that everywhere I go I can be tracked? Thanks, I'll pass on that idea completely.
Ditto.
Use the SOURCE, Luke.
With open software, you can look at the source code and see exactly what it does and test it for all the vulnerabilities you want and get them removed, by yourself if you find yourself so talented. Only the monkeys in Redmond know what is really going on in Windows, and anyone using their products is dependent upon MS and MS only for a solution. That may come in days, weeks, but most likely months after a vulnerability is found. Meanwhile, someone ends up releasing details of the vulnerability, then codes up a nasty bug to take adavantage. The fact that MS software is so full of holes and has no real peer-review process among the general population of all possible coders interested in fixing bugs is its weakness in comparison.
and they can't face the truth that proprietary software has met its match. So, instead of accepting this truth, they act like a screaming 2-y/o at bedtime, as if it might solve their problems. Instead of adapting to the new marketplace, they'll try to preserve the status quo.
Sorry, kid, but you just got knocked off the top of the hill. Go run home to Mommy now and cry your little eyes out.
The schaedenfreud from a move like this would be most deserved on the Monopoly, but of course, noting the date, one can't help but laugh and wish it were true. Good story.
That 48% is composed mostly of people who have a firm Christian background, I'm certain.
I only have three more things to say:
All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Praise "Bob"!
Hail Eris!
I'm working at home in Detroit doing medical transcription, so I guess I'm an inverse integrator. I've integrated work into my home life, but I'm not really giving up one for the other. I'm home all the time now, and don't need to go out but to run errands or visit friends/family. I get my work done for the day quickly and have time for my wife and other hobbies, like computer gaming, fishing, and traveling. I even traveled during summer last year with the laptop and got work done while at a campground, in hotel rooms, and at my ex's home in Tennessee. I'll have a difficult time giving it up if I go back to my computer technician career working in anything but a telecommute position.
What boggles my mind is that this is considered news. It's just some person exploiting the US Courts YET AGAIN to sponge some ca$h from deep pockets. Nothing to see here, move along.
Really, man. If you've ever had problems with carpal tunnel syndrome and have been in to be properly diagnosed, you've had some neurologist stick needles into your arms and hands to measure the electrical potential traveling along the nerves of the arm from shoulder to hand.
I call bullshit, and I want whatever this group of Danish scientists are smoking. I'm betting trips to Amsterdam are de rigeur with these folks.
Problem is, Pretenderle's name hasn't been in the press lately, mainly because he's been exposed as a huge MS shill, and he tends to write articles that are very biased toward the hand that feeds him. If Rob could step back for a minute and actually write something that is fair and balanced and not constantly bashing FOSS, it would be a start toward his become a more widely-regarded and widely-read author. His biggest problem is that he cannot find a way to make money off FOSS because he came up sucking the MS tit and knows no better.
Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"?
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Sounds like you want to look for a position in field support. I worked in field support for several years, and found it to be a lot of fun. I never knew where I would end up from day to day. I got to travel around the Metro Detroit area mostly, but some days might find me out as far as Saginaw or the Toledo, OH regions doing service calls.
As one poster wrote above, certifications are nice, they prove you can take a test. I got laid off due to budget cuts a couple years back, and while on unemployment for six months, I got back to school in a Unix/Linux Systems associates program at a local business college, and should have my degree by this time next year. In the meantime, I fell back on a trade I had worked in for several years before landing my tech support position, medical transcription, so I could stay at home, work part-time, save up some cash, and concentrate on my studies.
I think the other poster is right, though. Don't rely solely on certs. Solid work in a college-level program is really going to prove how serious you are. I got really lucky back in the late 90s when I hired on as a field service technician, and then while out training with the service department manager at a large trucking facility located near Detroit Metro Airport, I showed him how to handle TCP/IP properly on Win95 and Win98 boxes hosted on an NT network. However, I'm going to call it a fluke, since trying to get a job with my notable lack of certs (I hold no Microsoft certs and will not pursue them, though I do have my LPI-1 & 2) or a college degree is holding me up.
Note, too, I'm in my mid-40s. It's never too late to stop where you are, reassess where you are at, and take measures to fix things.
Personally, I don't think it's all that relevant at all. Yeah, great, justice was upheld, whoopie. What I really see is a beautiful but insecure woman who thought it would be a great idea to let someone hack her face up and she got screwed. I don't disagree that she has a right to publish her story, but really, this is just another bad decision heaped on top of other bad decisions. In the end, there's a bunch of really happy lawyers out there who got paid to straighten this mess out, and that's the really sad thing.
Just another dumbass who made a snap decision and had a bad outcome. Move along.
Please, spare me that crappy excuse. The worst that happened today in the form of a terrorist attack was some guy got hit by a pigeon on a guano dive-bomb raid in a Boston park.
Where does his comment say anything about Digital Rights Management?
Read it again: User Rights Management, which I'm hoping means what portions of the file system does Gramma have access to?
I'll agree, though; the DRM features of this OS will keep me from every buying it.
Free market forces closing off a method of free publication made simple, easy enough that fools can and do use it. It's something they have not found a way to make a reliable buck from, as the site would lose it's popularity if it went to pay-per-use. They want to commercialize the site and prohibit people from freely posting whatever they wish free of charge. It's also their right, though, as it's their site. How long did you expect them to continue to add storage to archive all that video and keep it always ready to access and use?
You're kidding, right? FSM would subcontract that shit out.
No cancer victims will be allowed on the saucers come Xday, so they're just doing the pre-flight inspections. We'll assume that for some reason, those who have been probed are somehow included in with the paying members. Maybe by paying my $30 to "Bob", I have certified that I don't have rectal cancer. Or that I'll eat my own rectal cancer on a plate if served fresh and steaming hot. Or kill me, Fnord, Ramen.
I like your idea much better. It makes so much sense that the legs would be spread, and basing what kinds of movements were possible only based on fossil skeletons and a very unrepresentative subset of the reptilian species that remain alive today doesn't seem like great science. I'm thinking that if these creatures managed to get arboreal, they would have needed a great deal more agility than what the authors of this study suggest therefore would have a much less limited range of motion of the hip joints and the ability to spread legs more laterally.
Besides, my kid at age 5 could do better than that artist's rendition. What moron thinks that the tail or leg feathers are going to form nice right angles and straight edges like that unless you're selling an idea to morons? Oh, wait...
News to me. Got links or references to share on that? If it hadn't been for this story, I'd have not known about that, thanks.
My understanding is that you should be able to see it in the eastern sky preceding sunrise. Spaceweather.com has some pretty good photographs of how it has appeared in the sky over Norway and other locations, and ephermides to help in locating it in the sky in your location.
Unfortunately, no one's perfected that device where I can wipe the clouds out of the sky so I might be able to see this event from where I call home, in the Detroit area. It's been cloudy here for the last four or five days running, so much so that it precludes viewing the comet at all. Once it does clear, the light pollution pretty much drowns out any possibility of seeing anything other than the moon in the sky. Yuk, I hate living in a heavily-populated northern clime.
I'll quote a more respected source than Wikipedia:
http://www.bartleby.com/73/1056.html
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: 1056
AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
QUOTATION: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.--The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, vol. 6, p. 242 (1963).
This quotation, slightly altered, is inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
SUBJECTS: Liberty
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia
WORKS: Benjamin Franklin Collection
To sum up my objections best, I'll quote Ben Franklin:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Sorry, I'll take plain old freedom over supervised freedom any day.