I read an article below correctly modded up to an Interesting 5. The drama done by media is EXACTLY what these people want, the attention and the spreading of their message(s). Which opens a door to the topic brought forward. In a Democracy, how do you control the masses? Through input of their information. The sheep in the herd are going to be blindly guided should excessive media talk come about of "Star Wars" and other Sci-Fi fantasies of laser toting ships shooting it out above the atmosphere.
Yes, the hatred passed on generation to generation and person to person on Earth will likely make it to space. Inevitably as will all progress there will be military implications with new advances. But building this type of hype up will only serve to advance the agenda of the first to take advantage of it. We could tear offtopic on a tangent here about media hyping something good for a change such as closer global unity as we stretch out as a species not several labels...but lets resist!
Lets also not give the White House another reason to trump up something to start bombing the shit outta people.
"A Frontend control program to allow interface with a computing device to avoid use of PunchCards and pure Binary entries in a multi-user environment while allowing use of mulitple devices attached to the computer to be used in a productive environment performing muliple tasks."
Then patent a shell to interface with the OS...
"Interactive Wrap to and OS to allow easier direct interfacing with OS interfacing with the computer."
DEATH TO SUPERFLUOUS TECHNOLOGY PATENTS!
Pronunciation: su-'p&r-flu-&s Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin superfluus, literally, running over, from superfluere to overflow, from super- + fluere to flow -- more at FLUID Date: 15th century 1 a : exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : EXTRA b : not needed : UNNECESSARY 2 obsolete : marked by wastefulness : EXTRAVAGANT - superfluously adverb - superfluousness noun
And one of the posts below is absolutely correct, the Christian connotations were added in the 50's for Cold War propaganda as we were not "Godless Communists." IMHO, that change turned the Pledge into a prayer not something Patriotic. Our Founding Fathers would probably be sick to their stomachs if they knew of the influence of religion in our government...they would remember all to easily the unchecked power it threw around in England before people left to come to America.
This basic principle of freedom of religion is non-existent if you force Muslim children, Hindu children, Buddhist children, and all the rest to have to listen to a Christian prayer much less recite it. This is why Church and State are supposed to be separated! Government has no business forcing or influencing personal belief upon any of it's citizens. Make it Patriotic again and it might lose a majority of the backing to force it upon people.
Then again, why force people to recite it not like we have a huge wall around our country to force people to stay here and we need to build false security making people speak words that could be hollow to them...
Maybe this giant chopstick circling the planet will remind NASA they are not special, and they need to get off their high horses and start actually DOING something aside from murdering astronauts. (Gee LeeRoy, that tanker full of gas leaving the processing plant just hit somethin and sprung a leak...reckon we shouldin do somethin? Naw, then weez might look stupid lets let it just blow up and burn away so in nobody notices.)
Props to China, I hope many more great successes come their way so the twits at NASA are cleaned up and fresh smart blood can be brought in to actually do something. Who knows, someday in our lifetimes we may all end up as just earthlings and not capitalists or socialists nor muslim or christian or other brainwashed labels. Just PIGS IN SPACE!
Regardless, it all points to still lining the pockets of a Juggernaut threatening to bully everbody from the working class to the privledged Senator's child with their parent already bought and paid for. Still a nice work around if legally sound, but how long do you truly think it will last when the RIAA notices a few small specks and crumbs are not fueling their nuclear reaction of lawsuits and intimidation? This has grown to include international threats as the most recent target in Spain has just found out.
If you want to extinguish a fire, remove it's fuel sorce. I think the best bet still will be for everybody as a global community for at least 1 year boycott all purchases related to the music industry. We as a species lived on nothing for a long time, then phonographs, records, and for a long time just radio. Go retro and stick to that radio for a year and see how much love the RIAA feels when they have a global boycott sending a firm and sound FUCK YOU to the artists and their strongarm cluster of green eyed lawyers. All the merchandise sitting in wharehouses just might go for great prices...maybe even reasonable after a year of strangling them where it counts which is all they care about. (I have not and will not buy any music product myself while this rages unchecked)
How dare you hack a file to cheat at Global Thermal Nuclear Warfare!
I don't take the matter too seriously, if I dont like what is happening on one server I will find another to play on. They are a dime a dozen, and any real broadband connection with decent bandwidth wont have any worries finding one. Sometimes people just have to be fucked up, so go where they aren't and do yourself a favor. I personally play games to have fun, not point fingers and get wrapped up in politics and all that garbage. If I wanted my fun to be ruined I would unlock my gameroom door and announce to the old lady that I am going to be playing video games for at least 5 hours.
Yes, UNIX can be difficult to learn especially coming from a pure GUI environment such as Windows. But each OS has their own pros and their own cons. The history of UNIX is that it was written by programmers for programmers for a true mulitask environment to let resources be shared. At the time of it's conception hardware and software were both very expensive luxuries. Since then it has had a few different owners and several tools created for it some embedded in all distros and some inclusive to that particular distro. Anybody that tells you they know every single tool available in UNIX/Linux should be a politician because they are a complete liar. Learning as many as you can and finding other ones that do the job easier is all part of the learning curve with UNIX and the source of the frustation that can create such a book.
Windows however was created as a quick mass distribution OS that was GUI dependent. It was designed for easy use to mass market PCs to the general masses. Thus, it's uses are different from the typical UNIX uses. If you buy new BMW sports car to use as a work car when you should have bought a full size GM truck because you are in the construction business, any wonder your getting pissed off? So purpose can have influence on the perspective of things.
*submits blood sample to post *submits semen sample to post *submits hair folicles to post *submits retnal scan to post *submits facial scan to post *submits fingerprints to post *adjusts listening device in dental filling *salutes Das Fuhrer Ashcroft
Dutifully recites new Pledge of Allegiance: "In order to protect your safety and liberty we must make you unsafe from your own government and remove as much of your freedom as we see fit. But this does not mean the terrorists and evil-doers have won. SIG HEIL!"
Mod it down, but you need to ask yourself: Do you or have you ever been affiliated with the Communist party?
I heard once a deposed leader Al-Knotbeard got so angry he put himself in the backyard of a kid with a BB gun. Though speculations fly he has never been heard from again. Some say Cowboy Neal has joined him in the limbo of the missing.
There are already violations known and stacked up by this person, who is already in clear violation of copyright laws. So why not use those copyright laws to enact some sort of justice you wish to see? If you don't want to sue him then why even make any sort of a stink over this, much less try to bolster support for a wretched piece of legislation bought and paid for by greedy groups such as our friends the MPA and RIAA and anybody who lined Congress's pockets. The DMCA as any/. reader knows is an already well abused law for things such as even generic printer cartridges. What I cannot understand is why someone would want to become reliant on this flawed piece of damning legislation.
Don't take the easy way out. Maybe the laws he is already in violation of need to be bolstered to provide that angle that you would need if you gave half a shit and wanted to sue this person. Perhaps you just need to get a lawyer involved anyway that could serve ebay with the papers to yank this account and all others doing similar things. Regardless, invoking the DMCA just to get your way and get it easier makes you no better then the juggernauts who do it. Think also, is this sort of possible trend you want to start for the world and have the whole globe declaring DMCA on anything they even remotely think can qualify?
For all the recent flames on the MPAA and all the other assorted horrors who is really willing to levy the boycott and make a statement that will be heard, and who is ready to just burn the pir8 as soon as it hits the file sharing methods not even known to the appointed greedy enemy? There is more drooling over this than at the mention of Leornard Nimoy's name at a Star Trek convention.
And to boot a/. moderator mods this parent post DOWN because it rings a bit of truth and echoes hypocrisy in the ears of the modder. Somebody please mod the parent back up!!!
*Burnin the midnight Karma for a good point* -1 Overrated -1 Flamebait -1 Troll -1 Not a sheep -1 Not brainwashed -1 Independant thinker +1 Smells good
Good question was put forth, why is a law needed to consider all possibilities? Let the best software win for the requirments needed, and bad choices should be rewarded the same as they are other jobs...ye ol unemployment.
M$ fighting this seems also like they need another monopoly spanking. If the lawmakers want to waste their time and taxpayers money, its their choice just as it is to show where their loyalties lie...the bank account or voting booth.
First, I think he would encourage more albums being filled with songs that just as or nearly as good as the few that really catch a person's ear. As stated on/. before, why even be tempted to pay a bloated price for only two songs and the rest being audio vomit.
Next, Elvis would eat some deep fried steak with a side of fried chicken and some deep fried twinkies.
Second, I think Elvis would advise a better attempt at karma revival and PR for the recording industry. They have given themsevles a hell of a black eye going from their group benefit songs and perfomances to having their greedy lapdogs try to nail college students for several million.
Lastly, after a snack of pork rinds and deep fried pork chops covered with gravy and dressed with twice fried fries the King would offer one last line of advice: Return to the music and leave the show crap to strip bars, and the circus freak show...people listen to music that endears and sing it long past when they wedge you in a triple wide coffin and mention you in tabloids at least once an issue, where a big flash is soon forgotten when it can't be seen anymore and the light trickles away to nothing.
If they cannot save me money on the spot I will purchase another brand. Period.
I am not a bank and I do not get paid interest for them to float the cash on a discount of their price, therefor if they cannot save me the money on the spot I will ignore the product all together.
"I can tell our brainwashed politicians believe every word of the constant whining of the music industry speakers which means, those restrictions will probably go through as well."
Money Talks...and buys laws and regulations, lets take a look at this from a mathematical perspective...
Let P stand for Politicians Let B stand for Bribes aka "lobbying" Let L stand for Laws and Regulation Finally, let b stand for Bullshit Now: (P + B) = L^2 * b Simplify: (P + B) = L^2 * b _________________
(P + B) Resulting: L^2 * b Now we take the square root to reduce L to its basics and leave less loopholes: squareroot(L^2 * b); Leaving: b
I think it is unfair to: impose(s) special taxes on virtually any device that can potentially be used for copyright circumvention (among these devices are printers, CD burners, scanners and cell phones). What the hell kind of rationalization is this? Punish the masses for the acts of a few just on the sheer whim that it is *possible* these things can be used to avert putting money into already deep and greedy pockets. And where praytell do these additional taxes end up? This reeks like an excuse to gouge the citizens of a bought and paid for RIAA/MPA Government.
Pass the silly law, as stated before in a previous comment people will do what they want to do(And not just Americans)...but why stick it to everybody and jack up prices even more which is the almost UNIVERSAL reason why things are pirated. Fucking dolts.
Let's mark the occasion with some BBQ, and cookies with mountain dew and fries and chips to snack on! Then Unreal 2003 fest for 9 hours straight before shell scriptin the early morning away!
If you are even slightly serious about your business invest in some cost management and tracking software and tax software such as QuickBooks and TurboTax.
The first thing that is disturbing is that an advertising company, the DMA is involved in this and second of course AOSMell. I hate SPAM as much as the next geek, and am actually torn at the government getting involved. How would they handle international douche bags hiding behind servers in China or Russia? As for the AG filing a lawsuit on behalf, who gets the money and how they intend to try to collect I would like to know in advance. If the government must be involved I would only like it to pass legislation that truly punishes these bastards, such as mandatory imprisonment and banning all access to possible internet devices for a very long time much like how they caged up Mitnick.
Also there needs to be a technical solution to this scourge such as verifable origins and servers. Maybe the additional traffic from a new TCP style based protocol would add additional traffic but surely would be a significantly smaller drain than the current wastes caused by spam which accounts for what...%40 of internet traffic? The Internet Community needs to come together as a whole and address this issue as a Global Community and make global changes lest we really want to see governments starting to get involved and have a foot in the door for additional legislation and control. Develop a new mail protocol, work with major developers of email clients and servers to develop easy to install patches, and start migrating with an absolute end date with no backwards compatibility.
Might be a pipe dream, but better than just whining about it.
I have contracted for a major company, one which is #1 still at what they do. Their corporate headquarters used several different contractors in several different areas of their business as well. Each contracting company had their own color badge, and each department had their own colored temp badges until your more permanent badge was setup. One reason for the different colored badges for was LP reasons, so the numerous security gaurds there could who is an IT contractor etc and have a good idea where they should and shouldn't be. True to the story, yes I did want to permanent corporate badge but I did not allow that wanting to influence professional work quality and performance in a negative manner. If you can't handle that then maybe you should be doing something far less stressful like cleaning bathrooms. I found that my wanting of the company badge and fulltime employment a driving factor to excel and acheive 110% to try to _EARN_ that badge and not just expect it should be given to me. When you become a contractor you should understand that you have several pros and cons weigh in including the lack of benefits as well as down time inbetween jobs in a shitty economy. You also understand that if you want to get hired on fulltime you try to _EARN_ that badge and show what you can accomplish not how much you can pout. Also, you ask your manager about full time positions and talk to the full time employees on your team to see how they were hired on.
These days companies seem to use contracting company as a way of filtering out the non-desirables without creating additional paperwork for their HR department. If you make the cut, great and if not you get to have a brief chat with security as they escort you to your car and off company property. I have never encountered the blatant mistreatment claimed in the article, as that would oh maybe be creating a hostile work environment which makes leeches...er...lawyers start to drool and salivate. Granted, working for M$ might be alright as you really dont have to worry about quality or stability...but don't cry sour grapes when they wont hire you on and play up a big crock of fresh steamy bullshit. I've been turned down by major companies I contracted at and have seen my fair share of them, but now I am quite happy with the job I have and the company I am full time at. Maybe we should stop assuming that everything should just be handed to us with no hard work and sweat anymore.
I remember my first experience with Linux, bored with windows and wanting to learn more I drove myself down to the local computer shop and purchased a book about linux with a Slackware distro included on CD. I took it home and started to RTFM which took a few reads at spots to absorb and get ready for the big step. The actual installation was pretty much painless. Some my hardest obstacles were that I was using a Packard Bell 486x66 with a pine upgrade chip to run at 100MHz with virtually no documentation of the information I needed to configure X, and the dreaded PPP setup. Mind you this was 1996ish with the 2.0.36 kernel being current at that time, and none of these fancy package tools you youngins got now.
In short and less sleep inducing of then the article: Get at least _ONE_ Linux book to use as a reference preferably one of the huge Walnut Creek jobs with several HOW-TOs and Mini-HOW-TOs to provide plenty of FM for you. Tinker, play, and keep trying as it becomes more familiar it becomes more comfortable. Join a local Linux group, get some support and give some support while making some geek friends. Have a POS computer to use as your lab rat, if it breaks oh well! If you get it up and working good then start on networking it and setting up a DHCP server or mail server or ftp server or Apache server or or...
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I read an article below correctly modded up to an Interesting 5. The drama done by media is EXACTLY what these people want, the attention and the spreading of their message(s). Which opens a door to the topic brought forward. In a Democracy, how do you control the masses? Through input of their information. The sheep in the herd are going to be blindly guided should excessive media talk come about of "Star Wars" and other Sci-Fi fantasies of laser toting ships shooting it out above the atmosphere.
Yes, the hatred passed on generation to generation and person to person on Earth will likely make it to space. Inevitably as will all progress there will be military implications with new advances. But building this type of hype up will only serve to advance the agenda of the first to take advantage of it. We could tear offtopic on a tangent here about media hyping something good for a change such as closer global unity as we stretch out as a species not several labels...but lets resist!
Lets also not give the White House another reason to trump up something to start bombing the shit outta people.
"A Frontend control program to allow interface with a computing device to avoid use of PunchCards and pure Binary entries in a multi-user environment while allowing use of mulitple devices attached to the computer to be used in a productive environment performing muliple tasks."
Then patent a shell to interface with the OS...
"Interactive Wrap to and OS to allow easier direct interfacing with OS interfacing with the computer."
DEATH TO SUPERFLUOUS TECHNOLOGY PATENTS!
Pronunciation: su-'p&r-flu-&s
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin superfluus, literally, running over, from superfluere to overflow, from super- + fluere to flow -- more at FLUID
Date: 15th century
1 a : exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : EXTRA b : not needed : UNNECESSARY
2 obsolete : marked by wastefulness : EXTRAVAGANT
- superfluously adverb
- superfluousness noun
Clearly written in the Constitution.
And one of the posts below is absolutely correct, the Christian connotations were added in the 50's for Cold War propaganda as we were not "Godless Communists." IMHO, that change turned the Pledge into a prayer not something Patriotic. Our Founding Fathers would probably be sick to their stomachs if they knew of the influence of religion in our government...they would remember all to easily the unchecked power it threw around in England before people left to come to America.
This basic principle of freedom of religion is non-existent if you force Muslim children, Hindu children, Buddhist children, and all the rest to have to listen to a Christian prayer much less recite it. This is why Church and State are supposed to be separated! Government has no business forcing or influencing personal belief upon any of it's citizens. Make it Patriotic again and it might lose a majority of the backing to force it upon people.
Then again, why force people to recite it not like we have a huge wall around our country to force people to stay here and we need to build false security making people speak words that could be hollow to them...
Maybe this giant chopstick circling the planet will remind NASA they are not special, and they need to get off their high horses and start actually DOING something aside from murdering astronauts. (Gee LeeRoy, that tanker full of gas leaving the processing plant just hit somethin and sprung a leak...reckon we shouldin do somethin? Naw, then weez might look stupid lets let it just blow up and burn away so in nobody notices.)
Props to China, I hope many more great successes come their way so the twits at NASA are cleaned up and fresh smart blood can be brought in to actually do something. Who knows, someday in our lifetimes we may all end up as just earthlings and not capitalists or socialists nor muslim or christian or other brainwashed labels. Just PIGS IN SPACE!
Now THIS...is comedy.
Moderators?
Regardless, it all points to still lining the pockets of a Juggernaut threatening to bully everbody from the working class to the privledged Senator's child with their parent already bought and paid for. Still a nice work around if legally sound, but how long do you truly think it will last when the RIAA notices a few small specks and crumbs are not fueling their nuclear reaction of lawsuits and intimidation? This has grown to include international threats as the most recent target in Spain has just found out.
If you want to extinguish a fire, remove it's fuel sorce. I think the best bet still will be for everybody as a global community for at least 1 year boycott all purchases related to the music industry. We as a species lived on nothing for a long time, then phonographs, records, and for a long time just radio. Go retro and stick to that radio for a year and see how much love the RIAA feels when they have a global boycott sending a firm and sound FUCK YOU to the artists and their strongarm cluster of green eyed lawyers. All the merchandise sitting in wharehouses just might go for great prices...maybe even reasonable after a year of strangling them where it counts which is all they care about. (I have not and will not buy any music product myself while this rages unchecked)
How dare you hack a file to cheat at Global Thermal Nuclear Warfare!
I don't take the matter too seriously, if I dont like what is happening on one server I will find another to play on. They are a dime a dozen, and any real broadband connection with decent bandwidth wont have any worries finding one. Sometimes people just have to be fucked up, so go where they aren't and do yourself a favor. I personally play games to have fun, not point fingers and get wrapped up in politics and all that garbage. If I wanted my fun to be ruined I would unlock my gameroom door and announce to the old lady that I am going to be playing video games for at least 5 hours.
Yes, UNIX can be difficult to learn especially coming from a pure GUI environment such as Windows. But each OS has their own pros and their own cons. The history of UNIX is that it was written by programmers for programmers for a true mulitask environment to let resources be shared. At the time of it's conception hardware and software were both very expensive luxuries. Since then it has had a few different owners and several tools created for it some embedded in all distros and some inclusive to that particular distro. Anybody that tells you they know every single tool available in UNIX/Linux should be a politician because they are a complete liar. Learning as many as you can and finding other ones that do the job easier is all part of the learning curve with UNIX and the source of the frustation that can create such a book.
Windows however was created as a quick mass distribution OS that was GUI dependent. It was designed for easy use to mass market PCs to the general masses. Thus, it's uses are different from the typical UNIX uses. If you buy new BMW sports car to use as a work car when you should have bought a full size GM truck because you are in the construction business, any wonder your getting pissed off? So purpose can have influence on the perspective of things.
It starts off "We the People..."
*submits blood sample to post
*submits semen sample to post
*submits hair folicles to post
*submits retnal scan to post
*submits facial scan to post
*submits fingerprints to post
*adjusts listening device in dental filling
*salutes Das Fuhrer Ashcroft
Dutifully recites new Pledge of Allegiance:
"In order to protect your safety and liberty we must make you unsafe from your own government and remove as much of your freedom as we see fit. But this does not mean the terrorists and evil-doers have won. SIG HEIL!"
Mod it down, but you need to ask yourself: Do you or have you ever been affiliated with the Communist party?
A splinter faction...very nasty bunch.
I heard once a deposed leader Al-Knotbeard got so angry he put himself in the backyard of a kid with a BB gun. Though speculations fly he has never been heard from again. Some say Cowboy Neal has joined him in the limbo of the missing.
Sick-0s
There are already violations known and stacked up by this person, who is already in clear violation of copyright laws. So why not use those copyright laws to enact some sort of justice you wish to see? If you don't want to sue him then why even make any sort of a stink over this, much less try to bolster support for a wretched piece of legislation bought and paid for by greedy groups such as our friends the MPA and RIAA and anybody who lined Congress's pockets. The DMCA as any /. reader knows is an already well abused law for things such as even generic printer cartridges. What I cannot understand is why someone would want to become reliant on this flawed piece of damning legislation.
Don't take the easy way out. Maybe the laws he is already in violation of need to be bolstered to provide that angle that you would need if you gave half a shit and wanted to sue this person. Perhaps you just need to get a lawyer involved anyway that could serve ebay with the papers to yank this account and all others doing similar things. Regardless, invoking the DMCA just to get your way and get it easier makes you no better then the juggernauts who do it. Think also, is this sort of possible trend you want to start for the world and have the whole globe declaring DMCA on anything they even remotely think can qualify?
I gotta put this on the floor...
/. editors combing through stories post a story with a freaking link to register to read a story?!?!?!!!
Why the HELL do
SCROO THAT!
Now...mod this into the background
For all the recent flames on the MPAA and all the other assorted horrors who is really willing to levy the boycott and make a statement that will be heard, and who is ready to just burn the pir8 as soon as it hits the file sharing methods not even known to the appointed greedy enemy? There is more drooling over this than at the mention of Leornard Nimoy's name at a Star Trek convention.
/. moderator mods this parent post DOWN because it rings a bit of truth and echoes hypocrisy in the ears of the modder. Somebody please mod the parent back up!!!
And to boot a
*Burnin the midnight Karma for a good point*
-1 Overrated
-1 Flamebait
-1 Troll
-1 Not a sheep
-1 Not brainwashed
-1 Independant thinker
+1 Smells good
Good question was put forth, why is a law needed to consider all possibilities? Let the best software win for the requirments needed, and bad choices should be rewarded the same as they are other jobs...ye ol unemployment.
M$ fighting this seems also like they need another monopoly spanking. If the lawmakers want to waste their time and taxpayers money, its their choice just as it is to show where their loyalties lie...the bank account or voting booth.
What Would Elvis Do?
/. before, why even be tempted to pay a bloated price for only two songs and the rest being audio vomit.
First, I think he would encourage more albums being filled with songs that just as or nearly as good as the few that really catch a person's ear. As stated on
Next, Elvis would eat some deep fried steak with a side of fried chicken and some deep fried twinkies.
Second, I think Elvis would advise a better attempt at karma revival and PR for the recording industry. They have given themsevles a hell of a black eye going from their group benefit songs and perfomances to having their greedy lapdogs try to nail college students for several million.
Lastly, after a snack of pork rinds and deep fried pork chops covered with gravy and dressed with twice fried fries the King would offer one last line of advice: Return to the music and leave the show crap to strip bars, and the circus freak show...people listen to music that endears and sing it long past when they wedge you in a triple wide coffin and mention you in tabloids at least once an issue, where a big flash is soon forgotten when it can't be seen anymore and the light trickles away to nothing.
If they cannot save me money on the spot I will purchase another brand. Period.
I am not a bank and I do not get paid interest for them to float the cash on a discount of their price, therefor if they cannot save me the money on the spot I will ignore the product all together.
"I can tell our brainwashed politicians believe every word of the constant whining of the music industry speakers which means, those restrictions will probably go through as well."
Money Talks...and buys laws and regulations, lets take a look at this from a mathematical perspective...
Let P stand for Politicians
Let B stand for Bribes aka "lobbying"
Let L stand for Laws and Regulation
Finally, let b stand for Bullshit
Now:
(P + B) = L^2 * b
Simplify:
(P + B) = L^2 * b
_________________
(P + B)
Resulting:
L^2 * b
Now we take the square root to reduce L to its basics and leave less loopholes:
squareroot(L^2 * b);
Leaving:
b
EH GADS! They've given us BULLSHIT!
I think it is unfair to: impose(s) special taxes on virtually any device that can potentially be used for copyright circumvention (among these devices are printers, CD burners, scanners and cell phones). What the hell kind of rationalization is this? Punish the masses for the acts of a few just on the sheer whim that it is *possible* these things can be used to avert putting money into already deep and greedy pockets. And where praytell do these additional taxes end up? This reeks like an excuse to gouge the citizens of a bought and paid for RIAA/MPA Government.
Pass the silly law, as stated before in a previous comment people will do what they want to do(And not just Americans)...but why stick it to everybody and jack up prices even more which is the almost UNIVERSAL reason why things are pirated. Fucking dolts.
Let's mark the occasion with some BBQ, and cookies with mountain dew and fries and chips to snack on! Then Unreal 2003 fest for 9 hours straight before shell scriptin the early morning away!
If you are even slightly serious about your business invest in some cost management and tracking software and tax software such as QuickBooks and TurboTax.
Or you could try filing online with TurboTax.
The first thing that is disturbing is that an advertising company, the DMA is involved in this and second of course AOSMell. I hate SPAM as much as the next geek, and am actually torn at the government getting involved. How would they handle international douche bags hiding behind servers in China or Russia? As for the AG filing a lawsuit on behalf, who gets the money and how they intend to try to collect I would like to know in advance. If the government must be involved I would only like it to pass legislation that truly punishes these bastards, such as mandatory imprisonment and banning all access to possible internet devices for a very long time much like how they caged up Mitnick.
Also there needs to be a technical solution to this scourge such as verifable origins and servers. Maybe the additional traffic from a new TCP style based protocol would add additional traffic but surely would be a significantly smaller drain than the current wastes caused by spam which accounts for what...%40 of internet traffic? The Internet Community needs to come together as a whole and address this issue as a Global Community and make global changes lest we really want to see governments starting to get involved and have a foot in the door for additional legislation and control. Develop a new mail protocol, work with major developers of email clients and servers to develop easy to install patches, and start migrating with an absolute end date with no backwards compatibility.
Might be a pipe dream, but better than just whining about it.
I have contracted for a major company, one which is #1 still at what they do. Their corporate headquarters used several different contractors in several different areas of their business as well. Each contracting company had their own color badge, and each department had their own colored temp badges until your more permanent badge was setup. One reason for the different colored badges for was LP reasons, so the numerous security gaurds there could who is an IT contractor etc and have a good idea where they should and shouldn't be. True to the story, yes I did want to permanent corporate badge but I did not allow that wanting to influence professional work quality and performance in a negative manner. If you can't handle that then maybe you should be doing something far less stressful like cleaning bathrooms. I found that my wanting of the company badge and fulltime employment a driving factor to excel and acheive 110% to try to _EARN_ that badge and not just expect it should be given to me. When you become a contractor you should understand that you have several pros and cons weigh in including the lack of benefits as well as down time inbetween jobs in a shitty economy. You also understand that if you want to get hired on fulltime you try to _EARN_ that badge and show what you can accomplish not how much you can pout. Also, you ask your manager about full time positions and talk to the full time employees on your team to see how they were hired on.
These days companies seem to use contracting company as a way of filtering out the non-desirables without creating additional paperwork for their HR department. If you make the cut, great and if not you get to have a brief chat with security as they escort you to your car and off company property. I have never encountered the blatant mistreatment claimed in the article, as that would oh maybe be creating a hostile work environment which makes leeches...er...lawyers start to drool and salivate. Granted, working for M$ might be alright as you really dont have to worry about quality or stability...but don't cry sour grapes when they wont hire you on and play up a big crock of fresh steamy bullshit. I've been turned down by major companies I contracted at and have seen my fair share of them, but now I am quite happy with the job I have and the company I am full time at. Maybe we should stop assuming that everything should just be handed to us with no hard work and sweat anymore.
Overate this
*exposeses bright red ass cheeks*
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I remember my first experience with Linux, bored with windows and wanting to learn more I drove myself down to the local computer shop and purchased a book about linux with a Slackware distro included on CD. I took it home and started to RTFM which took a few reads at spots to absorb and get ready for the big step. The actual installation was pretty much painless. Some my hardest obstacles were that I was using a Packard Bell 486x66 with a pine upgrade chip to run at 100MHz with virtually no documentation of the information I needed to configure X, and the dreaded PPP setup. Mind you this was 1996ish with the 2.0.36 kernel being current at that time, and none of these fancy package tools you youngins got now.
In short and less sleep inducing of then the article: Get at least _ONE_ Linux book to use as a reference preferably one of the huge Walnut Creek jobs with several HOW-TOs and Mini-HOW-TOs to provide plenty of FM for you. Tinker, play, and keep trying as it becomes more familiar it becomes more comfortable. Join a local Linux group, get some support and give some support while making some geek friends. Have a POS computer to use as your lab rat, if it breaks oh well! If you get it up and working good then start on networking it and setting up a DHCP server or mail server or ftp server or Apache server or or...
Good call!
Bet the headers might show not even a Manpower employee or mail server...