Are the governments becoming threatened by the Internet's open architechture? More to the point, how far are they going to go to destroy it before we decide enough is enough?
They will try to regulate it, like they regulate other things: they will tax it.
And, no, I don't like the idea either, but I have this ugly feeling that this is the next step that governments will be taking.
Specifically, layoffs are being used as a way of culling the bottom 10 or 20% of performers in order to improve the overall performance of the company.
Vista's performance sucks. So I guess this means that it is going to be laid off, as a low performer. This would definitely improve the overall performance of the company.
However, I'm very unmotivated both because of the work that I do, which is boring, and because the organization I work for is highly political, disorganized, and lacks accountability. I've done what I could to try to change things at work and have pretty much given up on that.
Well, that pretty much sums it up for the rest of us.
That means that the valid range for seconds is 0..60 and it is possible to have 61 seconds in a minute. You need to know this if you are using a programming language with range checks.
Oh, shit.
Well, at least I'll know what I'll be doing on my first day of work next year.
Cutting taxes would mean, that the government would have to admit, that it has no idea what to do with all that money, that it is fleecing off the taxpayers, in order to fix the economy's problems.
Ain't gonna happen.
And giving *all* taxpayers *some* chump-change back as a check, didn't work either.
So I propose, that instead of giving a bit back to everyone, the government should give *a lot* back to a few. With a national PowerBall lottery. You don't need to buy any tickets, having a Social Security number will be enough. Every week, the government will pick one Social Security number, and that person gets one million dollars to stimulate the economy, in whatever way he or she chooses. No strings attached. Piss it up a wall, or build a school.
Repeat as necessary, until the economy is fixed, or until the government is broke (I mean, like Chapter 11).
The excitement of the weekly drawing show will keep people's minds off the sorry state of the economy. Jennifer Aniston will host.
Maybe, in the future, someone is planning to send criminal violators of Internet Censorship Laws to an Outland-like mining colony on the Moon. There, for something to do, they can break Moon rocks with sledgehammers, and extract the iron ore from them. The iron ore will be sent down to Earth on the nanotube elevator.
But I'm thinking, with the lower gravity, the Moon sledgehammers would have to be bigger to have the same force as those on Earth. Extra Credit Freshman Physics Exam question: How much bigger?
The new restrictions ban bloggers from discussing certain subjects that the government deems sensitive or inappropriate. Not only are the topics limited, but bloggers are being directed to only write about issues that directly impact their personal lives.
If I was a Vietnamese blogger, the new restrictions would directly impact my personal life.
I read the article, but couldn't decipher the picture with the Thai text.
But I think I recognized "Pad Thai" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad_thai) in there somewhere.
So this message could be just "spam, Pad Thai and spam." There is not much spam in that. Of course, you could ask the waiter to replace the Pad Thai with spam, and the you would have "spam, spam and spam."
Hmmm . . . Pad Thai . . . is it ok to eat that for breakfast?
If this gets too much press coverage, politicians in other countries might get the idea to start doing this!
Thailand *is* in a crisis situation right now, and the PM could fudge his way out of this.
But the US auto industry is also in a crisis. Would you like to receive some spam everyday from US Senator Carl Levin, asking you to support the bailout? (For the non-US folks, Carl Levin happens to be the Senator from Michigan, where most of the US auto industry is based).
If the government in the country where I live gets the ability to spam everyone, as they please, first I will chuck my cell phone, and then I will move.
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The person sitting next to you on the plane constantly waves the damn thing around, until your drink is spilled.
It'll be like the flood of 'battle robots' shows from the late 90s.
This is actually not such a bad idea.
With an "emacs" robot vs. a "vi" robot, we might be able to finally resolve that issue once and for all.
Up next, "make" vs. "scons", then "git" vs. "subversion".
Are the governments becoming threatened by the Internet's open architechture? More to the point, how far are they going to go to destroy it before we decide enough is enough?
They will try to regulate it, like they regulate other things: they will tax it.
And, no, I don't like the idea either, but I have this ugly feeling that this is the next step that governments will be taking.
My backyard is already full of dead bodies. If I bury a nuke back there, the radiation will turn them all into zombies.
And I bet they would be *real* hungry after they clawed their way above ground.
Specifically, layoffs are being used as a way of culling the bottom 10 or 20% of performers in order to improve the overall performance of the company.
Vista's performance sucks. So I guess this means that it is going to be laid off, as a low performer. This would definitely improve the overall performance of the company.
Being that he had pancreatic cancer, he's probably on a special diet. A fatty diet causes a pancreas much grief.
Brilliant!
What a lame excuse for looking at Internet porn and wanking . . . our girlfriends and wives will never swallow that one!
Um, oh, sorry, no pun intended.
Maybe this solution just needs more publicity. Back in the 90's they had a "Million Man March" in Washington, DC.
Maybe we need a "Million Man Wank" in Washington, DC this year to raise (huh, huh) awareness.
The Founding Fathers would definitely be amused.
Let's be real honest with each other here.
Huh, what, why?
I mean everybody.
Including me?
1) A white family of nine people get on a plane.
Well, I tossed an exception right there. White family of nine . . . that's actually really funny!
2) A brown family of nine people get on a plane.
No, they get booted from the plane.
3) A Chinese family of nine people get on the plane.
If the Chinese are leaving the country in such numbers, that means that the economy is going to hell in a hand-basket.
You have been warned.
CS is no more about computers than astronomy is about Telescopes.
You forgot a couple:
CS is the hole in the doughnut.
CS is the whole doughnut.
CS is Dijkstra yelling "surf's up!" to submariners.
However, I'm very unmotivated both because of the work that I do, which is boring, and because the organization I work for is highly political, disorganized, and lacks accountability. I've done what I could to try to change things at work and have pretty much given up on that.
Well, that pretty much sums it up for the rest of us.
Anything new here?
by 2020 "no one should be killed or injured in a Volvo car."
If it wasn't for those meddling taxpayer kids, GM and Chrysler could have achieved that no one would be killed in a GM or Chrysler car, as well.
Well, at least until the last ones get off the road.
Note: Volvo belongs to Ford ... coincidence, I think not!
. . . armed with CyberKnives.
Against the Sharks with Lasers.
Coming soon to a theater near you.
Sony's payback comes when Playstation3 programmers learn to fully utilize the Cell architecture.
Yeah, that EIEIO instruction is a real bitch: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.aixassem/doc/alangref/eieio.htm
Or maybe it is a joke. I dunno.
I have seen these things a lot in restaurants in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
I can't recall ever seeing one in Germany. They usually just take your card, and return it with the receipt.
Now, if that is any securer?
The article said that you could eavesdrop on baby-phones.
Now, this is *really* a case on Slashdot, where we should "Think of the Children!"
That means that the valid range for seconds is 0..60 and it is possible to have 61 seconds in a minute. You need to know this if you are using a programming language with range checks.
Oh, shit.
Well, at least I'll know what I'll be doing on my first day of work next year.
Cutting taxes would mean, that the government would have to admit, that it has no idea what to do with all that money, that it is fleecing off the taxpayers, in order to fix the economy's problems.
Ain't gonna happen.
And giving *all* taxpayers *some* chump-change back as a check, didn't work either.
So I propose, that instead of giving a bit back to everyone, the government should give *a lot* back to a few. With a national PowerBall lottery. You don't need to buy any tickets, having a Social Security number will be enough. Every week, the government will pick one Social Security number, and that person gets one million dollars to stimulate the economy, in whatever way he or she chooses. No strings attached. Piss it up a wall, or build a school.
Repeat as necessary, until the economy is fixed, or until the government is broke (I mean, like Chapter 11).
The excitement of the weekly drawing show will keep people's minds off the sorry state of the economy. Jennifer Aniston will host.
Have you ever seen a reflection of Dracula in a mirror?
No, because he has no soul.
Have you, or will you ever see televised pictures of RIAA folks.
No, because they have no souls.
Read the fine print in your camcorder manual: "This device is not able to capture images of folks with no souls."
. . . but the year of Internet Censorship!
To all you former UK citizens, I would like to say a hearty, "Welcome to Vietnam!"
Try the Pho.
Anybody ever see "Outland": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_(film)?
Maybe, in the future, someone is planning to send criminal violators of Internet Censorship Laws to an Outland-like mining colony on the Moon. There, for something to do, they can break Moon rocks with sledgehammers, and extract the iron ore from them. The iron ore will be sent down to Earth on the nanotube elevator.
But I'm thinking, with the lower gravity, the Moon sledgehammers would have to be bigger to have the same force as those on Earth. Extra Credit Freshman Physics Exam question: How much bigger?
The new restrictions ban bloggers from discussing certain subjects that the government deems sensitive or inappropriate. Not only are the topics limited, but bloggers are being directed to only write about issues that directly impact their personal lives.
If I was a Vietnamese blogger, the new restrictions would directly impact my personal life.
What happens with people who work on secret stuff when they are let go, fired or quit?
Are they banned from working in another country?
Umm... more to the point, its a water gun. Am I the only one who doesn't want a water gun by my computer?
. . . PC Companies!
A squirt-gun-damaged, shorted-out PC probably isn't covered by the warranty.
Time to buy a new one.
I read the article, but couldn't decipher the picture with the Thai text.
But I think I recognized "Pad Thai" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad_thai) in there somewhere.
So this message could be just "spam, Pad Thai and spam." There is not much spam in that. Of course, you could ask the waiter to replace the Pad Thai with spam, and the you would have "spam, spam and spam."
Hmmm . . . Pad Thai . . . is it ok to eat that for breakfast?
If this gets too much press coverage, politicians in other countries might get the idea to start doing this!
Thailand *is* in a crisis situation right now, and the PM could fudge his way out of this.
But the US auto industry is also in a crisis. Would you like to receive some spam everyday from US Senator Carl Levin, asking you to support the bailout? (For the non-US folks, Carl Levin happens to be the Senator from Michigan, where most of the US auto industry is based).
If the government in the country where I live gets the ability to spam everyone, as they please, first I will chuck my cell phone, and then I will move.