Yes... and as a company, they... and not a bunch of pixels on the internet, get to determine what they do with their property. As long as they do not violate any laws when (hopefully, its the Jack Benny show for god's sake) they destroy them, ain't nothing wrong with what they are doing.
True enough... as an employee of one of those ISP-types you mention, I will absolutely say our Cisco-certifed engineers are worth their weight in gold. Why? 'cause when something breaks, or when some copyright holder comes to us and says some dumbass kid broke copyright by downloading a movie, those guys can tell me who, what, when, where, and how... right before they make sure it never happens again.
And that, to me, is worth every bloody cent they get paid. Every. Bloody. Cent.
Though I happen to agree with you regarding arenas of free speech... it is important to note that there is no expectation of anonymity on the internet.
Sure, there are tools to help increase one's anonymity such as TOR, etc... but no internet traffic is truly anonymous, thus no speech of the internet is truly anonymous.
The expectations of free speech should always be guaranteed through legislation at the host provider's physical location. Thus, as an example, if the traffic is sourced in China, but the company providing the boards said speech is located London, UK, the local laws governing whether or not that information may be removed/traced/etc MUST be local to London, UK.
To do less, is to undermine the strength of the local preservation of free speech... for, though the internet is important, crucial, and a vital part of our lives, it is no where nearly as important as the the right to utilize the voicebox in your throat.
We had the server in our development side of the house, just sitting there idle on a dedicated piece of hardware.
It was literally a switch in cabling, and folks adding Lightning to Thunderbird, and bam, scheduling became *much* easier.
Since the new integrated solution (email, calendar, knowledge management, service management, and project management) is at most 3 months away, and will require folks to use a different client to interface the system anyway, this was an acceptable temporary solution.
But hey, AC, keep on trollin', instead of discussin'.
I mean, ask someone who has just built a perfect scale replica of a trebuchet why he did it. He'll feed you some bullshit about history and what not, but I think ultimately he doesn't really know why he did it.
We build them to throw pumpkins.
The history part... that is just to convince others *not* to build trebuchets, to lessen the competition.
Please hand in your geek card now.
Honestly, the compatibility, scalability, and overall functionality is why I pushed my open source shop to implement an Outlook server.
Before I get flamed, the reason was project/meeting scheduling. Until the new, in-house OSS solution is live, work *still* has to get done, and having to check 5 different calendars to schedule a fucking field install is completely unacceptable to me.
1. "Owner" of server... meaning, he thinks he owns it.
2. He doesn't own the hardware said software sits on.
3. The company met their SLA, and this guy is not being accomodating. Prob 'cause he doesn't want said ISP knowing what is on his box... ergo, materials and/or services that break said ISP's SLA.
4. Or, everybody's favorite option: he is a lying twit making up the whole story.
Considering not that long ago I found a former client's "server" (read: a tower PC that used to sit in a rack chassis) that was pulled from production for running an open SMTP relay (and the owner wouldn't provide root access nor fix his illegal broken shit) on top of the dumpster... I vote number 4.
Regular, normal, black coffee every day... usually all day. Sometimes, all night. But then again, the Army taught me to appreciate spoon-melting black coffee.
I realize this contradicts what the repubs in congress think, but those jackoffs are either morons or on the payroll of big oil and big coal. I choose to believe the latter
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I'm stuck with an abacus, you insensitive clod!
If a company cannot innovate internally, then they have to acquire from outside.
Grow or die... but, it has allowed MS to improve their product offerings over time. Should be interesting to see what the future holds.
canon.
cannon
Fixed that for you. Though, I do find the idea of firing the TSA agent from a large canon to be intriguing... the loss to the forest isn't worth it.
Programmers.... always telling us what to do.
This may be the most brilliantly cynical thing I have ever read. And, from an AC no less. The end IS truly nigh.
Yes... and as a company, they... and not a bunch of pixels on the internet, get to determine what they do with their property. As long as they do not violate any laws when (hopefully, its the Jack Benny show for god's sake) they destroy them, ain't nothing wrong with what they are doing.
Thank you Eskarel for that post. Seriously.
But I don't wanna... :)
True enough... as an employee of one of those ISP-types you mention, I will absolutely say our Cisco-certifed engineers are worth their weight in gold. Why? 'cause when something breaks, or when some copyright holder comes to us and says some dumbass kid broke copyright by downloading a movie, those guys can tell me who, what, when, where, and how ... right before they make sure it never happens again.
And that, to me, is worth every bloody cent they get paid. Every. Bloody. Cent.
Of course, a 250GB limit is rather useless Comcast cannot even provide the uptime they are contracted for...
6 months until another meaningless, vaporware standard.
Seriously, doesn't anyone quite grasp the concept that wireless = radiated signal?
Not saying anything negative, just asking why we give a shit when it will be *years* until this tech is actually in a wide-spread, usuable format?
I vote Ouija board.
And now microsoft is going to try to buy Hoover Dam. Gotta keep up with the Joneses.
There, fixed that for you. The
Hoover Damn
I believe was the site of the Transformers movie. You know, the "under the Hoover 'damnnnnnn' " part. /sigh... crawling back into hole.
Though I happen to agree with you regarding arenas of free speech... it is important to note that there is no expectation of anonymity on the internet.
Sure, there are tools to help increase one's anonymity such as TOR, etc... but no internet traffic is truly anonymous, thus no speech of the internet is truly anonymous.
The expectations of free speech should always be guaranteed through legislation at the host provider's physical location. Thus, as an example, if the traffic is sourced in China, but the company providing the boards said speech is located London, UK, the local laws governing whether or not that information may be removed/traced/etc MUST be local to London, UK.
To do less, is to undermine the strength of the local preservation of free speech... for, though the internet is important, crucial, and a vital part of our lives, it is no where nearly as important as the the right to utilize the voicebox in your throat.
BOOM!! Headshot!
/sigh... It's not like it was our fault the sling wouldn't release forward... ooops, stupid NDA.
We had the server in our development side of the house, just sitting there idle on a dedicated piece of hardware.
It was literally a switch in cabling, and folks adding Lightning to Thunderbird, and bam, scheduling became *much* easier.
Since the new integrated solution (email, calendar, knowledge management, service management, and project management) is at most 3 months away, and will require folks to use a different client to interface the system anyway, this was an acceptable temporary solution.
But hey, AC, keep on trollin', instead of discussin'.
I mean, ask someone who has just built a perfect scale replica of a trebuchet why he did it. He'll feed you some bullshit about history and what not, but I think ultimately he doesn't really know why he did it.
We build them to throw pumpkins.
The history part... that is just to convince others *not* to build trebuchets, to lessen the competition.
Please hand in your geek card now.
Honestly, the compatibility, scalability, and overall functionality is why I pushed my open source shop to implement an Outlook server.
Before I get flamed, the reason was project/meeting scheduling. Until the new, in-house OSS solution is live, work *still* has to get done, and having to check 5 different calendars to schedule a fucking field install is completely unacceptable to me.
Sounds to me like we have the following folks:
1. "Owner" of server... meaning, he thinks he owns it.
2. He doesn't own the hardware said software sits on.
3. The company met their SLA, and this guy is not being accomodating. Prob 'cause he doesn't want said ISP knowing what is on his box... ergo, materials and/or services that break said ISP's SLA.
4. Or, everybody's favorite option: he is a lying twit making up the whole story.
Considering not that long ago I found a former client's "server" (read: a tower PC that used to sit in a rack chassis) that was pulled from production for running an open SMTP relay (and the owner wouldn't provide root access nor fix his illegal broken shit) on top of the dumpster... I vote number 4.
Prove me wrong, OP. Prove me wrong.
long-winded explanation... deleted. This is from personal experience, as my wife and I are both gamers.
... then dating [gamer-type > all]
... then dating [all > gamer-type]
if life[gaming > most]
if life[most > gaming]
Most of the time at least.
Well, this is /. .... so, um, yeah.
How the hell is this modified Insightful?
Regular, normal, black coffee every day... usually all day. Sometimes, all night. But then again, the Army taught me to appreciate spoon-melting black coffee.
Works best if you have to integrate internal and external communication with clients.
/. police, Microsoft Project does all this, and more... and correctly.
dotProject is the better option if you, based on the question, are wanting to be more project management based.
Or, at the risk of alerting the
I realize this contradicts what the repubs in congress think, but those jackoffs are either morons or on the payroll of big oil and big coal. I choose to believe the latter
I choose to believe both.