This could be a good thing. After all, pushing the technology envelope is great. Adding wireless sounds wonderful and geeky and technically enjoyable.
What about the security aspects though? And who will be in charge of the usage of the acounts, monitoring of traffic, etc. to make sure the l33t kids down on 14th street aren't trying to knock over the DOD or the Pentagon? Not to mention, keeping up all the wireless devices on security updates, and latest antivirus patterns to make sure it doesn't turn into a network of zombies that ensure a cyber terrorist attack?
The article is geared more at management types than at trench tech weenies. And since when do managers want real information?? They'll just have marketing rework it for press releases anyhow. How is it with all the vaunted intelligence on here people don't notices things like that?
Of course the techs will nit pick and say that this item was underpowered, that one wasn't 'fully functional' and this one was.. such is the way of the egghead.
Manager types look, see a picture trend, and say "hmm.. how can i(or company) make money? how can i replicate these to map to product X.. etc." Which, in a way, all of the "1. x 2. x 3. Profit" posters noticed as well.. [other than some/.er might steal your idea.. why not post something real?] ie 1. build mini helicopter or dirigible (or steal^H^H^H^H^Hborrow from epson) 2. market as 'border patrol device' 3. profit [from (almost) limitless tax dollars and promote big brother all at the same time]!
of course, one has to imagine that this Kaspersky labs guy Gostev has to be behind the whole thing.. take a look at his mail logs and see how many russian hackers he mailed in the last month saying it would be impossible for them to bring the internet down on 8/26/2004... curiouser and curiouser...
ever notice that the world is FULL of idiots? Shouldn't you try to have as large a customer base as possible? This would be the difference between base options and advanced options - don't let the idiots get to the things they shouldn't but have them there for those who have a clue to use.
As for people thinking more like computers - you should be shoved off a short pier. Computers are tools, to be used by people. I don't think like a car (or have to) to drive one. Same thing for console games - any moron can put in a cartridge (cd, dvd, whatever) and press 'Power' and play a game. Maybe not well, but they can function in the environment.
results as of 10:34 spanish time (thats about 4am)
on
Election Wrapping Up
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· Score: 1
Candidates Votes Vote % States Won EV
Bush
46,949,888 49 % 29 246
Gore
46,932,666 48 % 19 249
Nader
2,534,896 3 % 0 0
Buchanan
428,901 0 % 0 0
no winner declared exit polls
results as of 4:34 a.m. EST
thats off cnn. nice results page
gore could win if he gets florida(25), but is out if he only carries OR(7) or WI(11) (other recounts/undecided)
hopefully gore pulls it off.
Oh.. hang on a sec - you mean.. OTHER than having the source code to everything your working on? hrmm.. as others pointed out: sharing resources, furthering the entire OS through dev work..
This is exactly what we have been needing for Linux, a program that will collect our userinfo, and without our knowledge, send over the Internet. No longer will people declare than Win98 is more user friendly. Linux users will be targeted by marketing analysts just as easy as Windows users. Truly, this is a great day for all mankind!
I think Hemos got it nailed. i went back and wrote my own danged mp3 jukebox with the windows media player when i got wind of the realnetworks 'borrowing' of information about folks off their pcs. of course, with *nix you can always shutdown the narsty lil ports that they send that over..:) Time to start all over again, i suppose.:P unless M$ ports the media player.. then ill just wank back the old code from windoze..
Doesnt 'Blocking Software' qualify as an oxymoron? or at least the people who run the companies that engage in such activity? Aren't their actions a direct violation of Free Speech? Not that we _really_ still retain our free speech rights, now it all hasta be 'p.c.' How is it that corporations and companies get away with saying whatever they want, and shutting down the poor sods that disagree with them? I thought the bill of rights was for citizens, not companies. This is just another example that the time is nigh to rear up our collective head, and grab these jokers in our maw and not let go until they lie twitching on the ground. Its no longer a joke, folks. It's time to get up, stand up, and fight for the right to
wake up and smell the napalm. and lob a few funky bombs where it hurts.
Interesting that, with all the back and forths about lightening up on borland, etc thats gon on, I didnt see anythign about this: Free COmpiler, eh? Bullshit. You have to barter away information in their informal lil survey. I am reminded of an old Iron Maiden song with a movie clip at the begining:[paraphrased mind you as i dont have the tape around] (" What do you want? We want.. Information! Who is number One? I am Number Two. You are the new number three. I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN! ")
So, go ahead, sell your soul for a few bits and bytes (heck, i did), but keep in mind - are you willing to trade away your freedom? are you willing to divulge all the information you have to them?
The crux of the problem is this: Free Trade is unregulated. Ok, you say, no big problem. Well, think about this - without regulation we would all work in low pay sweat shops, where each ounce of work is drained from our bodies before we are allowed to leave for the day. Heck, we might get lucky and end up with foreman with whips, instead of machine guns. The reason I bring up the regulation is this: the checks and balances are failing. The framers of the Constitution were wondrous politicians, they found a way to make everyone involved happy. Each point of power had a balance to it, and the whole formed a government they thought workable. In the times of the writing, it was a wondrous document. It STILL is. We have convoluted it to the point of retardation, stagnation, and meaningless drivel that it spouted by politicians like Clinton, Bradley, Gore, Quayle ( he is still a politician, right? who says you need a college degree ). And as they cover their lies over with a silk sheet, we are supposed to look the other way while they line their pockets from special interests. Special Interests you say? what are those? CORPORATIONS. So - who really holds the power in Government? Well - wait a minute - if we regulate - who is going to hold the power of regulation? I mean, all our current politicians, lawyers, etc are for the most part corrupt. I cant blanket and stereotype, but i would lay odds the majority of Washington (yeah, even them thar squeky clean ones are slicker'n shit) has a skeleton, or two or a hundred, in their respective closets. So, again, I ask - who is going to regulate Big Business, and more importantly (as it will make the laws that business WILL follow) the Government? Who? Let's refer back to the two documents that started our great nation: The Declaration of Independance, and the Constitution. In one of the two (no, I don't remember which - anyone who does, please enlighten me) it is written (my paraphrase here) 'if your government fails you, it is your OBLIGATION to rise up and change it to how it should work'. Wait a minute - thats EXACTLY what corporations are doing. But they PRESUME to speak for all their myriad employees - why? Because said employees are too busy to speak for themselves. or are they? There needs to be a simple, effective, IMMEDIATE method for formulating an opinion, or casting a vote would be better, for each SINGLE entity/resident/personage (as opposed to a large company paying off a politician or group to further the COMPANIES' interests) to further the INDIVIDUAL interests, rights, privileges we all feel we should have, and are deserved in getting. Thats the point of the republic/democracy that the US operates under - something sticks in your craw, chuck it out! Fix it up and have another steak (or vegan burrito, whatever you eat for a treat), and sit back contented to know that you have DONE something for the betterment of the nation. In the words of one of the greatest presidents of all time: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Folks - its time for all of us to stand up and show our Country what we CAN do for it. We, as a collective whole, are the greates force for change that this country will ever see - organize, unite, drive out the fools who would line their own pockets at our expense, and remake the laws of this country into a coherent, mutable system that we can all live with. And, no, you don't have to be a lawyer - throw em all in the ocean, we'll start from scratch at the constitution again, and rebuild the things that are contained within the large store of simple common sense within the population. I leave you with one question - where can we start a process of this scale and involvement? My answer: Right here (well, slashdot has other things going on, but the Internet could work). What's yours?
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then we get pigmy pot bellied woolly mammoths! Apartment sized!
This could be a good thing. After all, pushing the technology envelope is great. Adding wireless sounds wonderful and geeky and technically enjoyable.
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What about the security aspects though?
And who will be in charge of the usage of the acounts, monitoring of traffic, etc. to make sure the l33t kids down on 14th street aren't trying to knock over the DOD or the Pentagon? Not to mention, keeping up all the wireless devices on security updates, and latest antivirus patterns to make sure it doesn't turn into a network of zombies that ensure a cyber terrorist attack?
just my
The article is geared more at management types than at trench tech weenies. And since when do managers want real information?? They'll just have marketing rework it for press releases anyhow. How is it with all the vaunted intelligence on here people don't notices things like that?
/.er might steal your idea.. why not post something real?]
Of course the techs will nit pick and say that this item was underpowered, that one wasn't 'fully functional' and this one was.. such is the way of the egghead.
Manager types look, see a picture trend, and say "hmm.. how can i(or company) make money? how can i replicate these to map to product X.. etc."
Which, in a way, all of the "1. x 2. x 3. Profit" posters noticed as well.. [other than some
ie 1. build mini helicopter or dirigible (or steal^H^H^H^H^Hborrow from epson) 2. market as 'border patrol device' 3. profit [from (almost) limitless tax dollars and promote big brother all at the same time]!
does it actually playback holographs!?
so what if you can't see the forest for the trees!?
what about seeing the stars for the planets?!
and don't forget not seeing the comets for the meteors!
of course, one has to imagine that this Kaspersky labs guy Gostev has to be behind the whole thing.. take a look at his mail logs and see how many russian hackers he mailed in the last month saying it would be impossible for them to bring the internet down on 8/26/2004 ... curiouser and curiouser...
One year closer to obsolescence.
Just what I wanted to hear.
And the fax lines are down.
Sounds like it's going to be another gloomy day.
After duplicating a post 8 times, Slashdot found that the majority of readers flamed the story before setting fire to their servers in protest.
And now for a naked dwarf chasing a chihuahua...
ever notice that the world is FULL of idiots? Shouldn't you try to have as large a customer base as possible? This would be the difference between base options and advanced options - don't let the idiots get to the things they shouldn't but have them there for those who have a clue to use.
As for people thinking more like computers - you should be shoved off a short pier. Computers are tools, to be used by people. I don't think like a car (or have to) to drive one. Same thing for console games - any moron can put in a cartridge (cd, dvd, whatever) and press 'Power' and play a game. Maybe not well, but they can function in the environment.
Candidates Votes Vote % States Won EV
Bush 46,949,888 49 % 29 246
Gore 46,932,666 48 % 19 249
Nader 2,534,896 3 % 0 0
Buchanan 428,901 0 % 0 0
no winner declared exit polls
results as of 4:34 a.m. EST
thats off cnn.
nice results page
gore could win if he gets florida(25), but is out if he only carries OR(7) or WI(11) (other recounts/undecided) hopefully gore pulls it off.
Oh.. hang on a sec - you mean.. OTHER than having the source code to everything your working on? hrmm.. as others pointed out: sharing resources, furthering the entire OS through dev work..
This is exactly what we have been needing for Linux, a program that will collect our userinfo, and without our knowledge, send over the Internet.
:) :P unless M$ ports the media player.. then ill just wank back the old code from windoze ..
No longer will people declare than Win98 is more user friendly. Linux users will be targeted by marketing analysts just as easy as Windows users.
Truly, this is a great day for all mankind!
I think Hemos got it nailed. i went back and wrote my own danged mp3 jukebox with the windows media player when i got wind of the realnetworks 'borrowing' of information about folks off their pcs.
of course, with *nix you can always shutdown the narsty lil ports that they send that over..
Time to start all over again, i suppose.
Doesnt 'Blocking Software' qualify as an oxymoron? or at least the people who run the companies that engage in such activity?
Aren't their actions a direct violation of Free Speech? Not that we _really_ still retain our free speech rights, now it all hasta be 'p.c.'
How is it that corporations and companies get away with saying whatever they want, and shutting down the poor sods that disagree with them?
I thought the bill of rights was for citizens, not companies.
This is just another example that the time is nigh to rear up our collective head, and grab these jokers in our maw and not let go until they lie twitching on the ground.
Its no longer a joke, folks. It's time to get up, stand up, and fight for the right to
wake up and smell the napalm.
and lob a few funky bombs where it hurts.
Interesting that, with all the back and forths about lightening up on borland, etc thats gon on, I didnt see anythign about this:
Free COmpiler, eh?
Bullshit. You have to barter away information in their informal lil survey. I am reminded of an old Iron Maiden song with a movie clip at the begining:[paraphrased mind you as i dont have the tape around]
(" What do you want? We want.. Information! Who is number One? I am Number Two. You are the new number three. I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN! ")
So, go ahead, sell your soul for a few bits and bytes (heck, i did), but keep in mind - are you willing to trade away your freedom? are you willing to divulge all the information you have to them?
The crux of the problem is this: Free Trade is unregulated. Ok, you say, no big problem. Well, think about this - without regulation we would all work in low pay sweat shops, where each ounce of work is drained from our bodies before we are allowed to leave for the day. Heck, we might get lucky and end up with foreman with whips, instead of machine guns. The reason I bring up the regulation is this: the checks and balances are failing. The framers of the Constitution were wondrous politicians, they found a way to make everyone involved happy. Each point of power had a balance to it, and the whole formed a government they thought workable. In the times of the writing, it was a wondrous document. It STILL is. We have convoluted it to the point of retardation, stagnation, and meaningless drivel that it spouted by politicians like Clinton, Bradley, Gore, Quayle ( he is still a politician, right? who says you need a college degree ). And as they cover their lies over with a silk sheet, we are supposed to look the other way while they line their pockets from special interests. Special Interests you say? what are those? CORPORATIONS. So - who really holds the power in Government? Well - wait a minute - if we regulate - who is going to hold the power of regulation? I mean, all our current politicians, lawyers, etc are for the most part corrupt. I cant blanket and stereotype, but i would lay odds the majority of Washington (yeah, even them thar squeky clean ones are slicker'n shit) has a skeleton, or two or a hundred, in their respective closets. So, again, I ask - who is going to regulate Big Business, and more importantly (as it will make the laws that business WILL follow) the Government? Who? Let's refer back to the two documents that started our great nation: The Declaration of Independance, and the Constitution. In one of the two (no, I don't remember which - anyone who does, please enlighten me) it is written (my paraphrase here) 'if your government fails you, it is your OBLIGATION to rise up and change it to how it should work'. Wait a minute - thats EXACTLY what corporations are doing. But they PRESUME to speak for all their myriad employees - why? Because said employees are too busy to speak for themselves. or are they? There needs to be a simple, effective, IMMEDIATE method for formulating an opinion, or casting a vote would be better, for each SINGLE entity/resident/personage (as opposed to a large company paying off a politician or group to further the COMPANIES' interests) to further the INDIVIDUAL interests, rights, privileges we all feel we should have, and are deserved in getting. Thats the point of the republic/democracy that the US operates under - something sticks in your craw, chuck it out! Fix it up and have another steak (or vegan burrito, whatever you eat for a treat), and sit back contented to know that you have DONE something for the betterment of the nation. In the words of one of the greatest presidents of all time: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Folks - its time for all of us to stand up and show our Country what we CAN do for it. We, as a collective whole, are the greates force for change that this country will ever see - organize, unite, drive out the fools who would line their own pockets at our expense, and remake the laws of this country into a coherent, mutable system that we can all live with. And, no, you don't have to be a lawyer - throw em all in the ocean, we'll start from scratch at the constitution again, and rebuild the things that are contained within the large store of simple common sense within the population. I leave you with one question - where can we start a process of this scale and involvement? My answer: Right here (well, slashdot has other things going on, but the Internet could work). What's yours?