I don't know if anyone else noticed, but this is the military, not some publicaly owned company or such. GPL is fine and all, but if the military feels that it may endanger national security by having this system opensourced, then I honestly don't think there is much anyone can do about it.
I don't think it would be hard to make a case either way. Security through obscurity is bad, but leaving a system open that could possibly be exploited to hurt servicemen (by changing people's alergic reaction charts, etc) would be bad in case of an actual war (which would probably involve a cyberfont this time too).
What gets me about these arguments is that all of them are based off of Christian beleifs. Christian beleifs are based off of other beleifs, as they didn't just materialize by themselves...
There are other "tales" of creation that Christians do not know of in Judiasm. They have never been told of them, but the information is out there. Gnosticism has it's own viewpoint as well, and should be taken in account as well.
Why does everyone assume that when you talk about God and religion you automatically think Christianity? Modern Christianity has very little mysticsm associated with it, which is where you will find many explanations that get closer to a more scientific point of view than the standard Bible.
It's not the only religion out there, and it's very rigid in much of it's thinking because it doesn't have alot of the other doctrines that explain these things avalible to it.
Well, I think that the internet is already being used for those purposes. You can't stop such things by passing laws, but by educating people so they don't want to join those groups in the first place. Anyway, I think you miss the real problem behind distance learning.
IMHO, the real problem is the ability to cheat. With no one there to watch you, it would be a simple thing. I know that many people, given the opportunity, would take advantage of it. This could potentially have more of an impact on society in general than hate groups by turning out "educated" people that have less grasp of their supposed learning.
See, you didn't need a union, because you could just quit. Eventually, that company will go out of business because their employee policy sucks. If they had a union there, they would just implement their crueltly in other ways, and you wouldn't leave because the union would always "be working on it" for you. If you don't like the job, just quit.
The beautifull thing about this is that all of the sites made by this are usually not ADA compliant, and if any governmental agency uses it they are violating federal law.
Wow. You really are an idiot, aren't you? You sound like your spouting off stuff that other people have told you is cool, but you don't really know what they mean. They don't know, because they are doing the same thing. It's all one chain.
The picture is one of the most ignorant thing I've ever seen. What confusion? What impurities? Can you back up ANYTHING you say? Of course not, that's why you post anonymously.
Working in tech support, that would be my dream. Right now we don't support win2k, so anytime someone calls in with a win2k problem I just say "I'm sorry, I have to send that to teir 2" and hang up on them. It would be the same, resulting in a much lower time-per-call for me and better stats, and therefor a better pay raise.
Actually, it's not a major Jewish holiday, in relation to the other holidays. It's considered a minor holiday, but has been enhanced due to the psychological problems that Jewish children have felt in recent year because of a lack of presents...which in turn reflects on the over-commertialization of the Christian Christmas
Of course, without Chanuka there would be no Christmas, because the Jews would have been assimilated by the Syrian Empire.
That's called business ethics. The phone co-op was completly within their legal rights to erect the tower, even if it wasn't the most ethical choice reguarding the community.
You would be suprised how far a tower with the proper amplification can go. You can get 30-40 miles if you put the antenna on top of a 300 foot tower. Trust me, I just submitted a propsal on such a project and I know what can be done.
I'm currently in the process of implementing a wireless broadband system in the central United States. We are using standard 802.11b networking equipment that has been enviromentally modified.
So far, it works rather well. And it sells, because Bell is insanly slow to actually implement a DSL connection (2-3 months from the order). We will be able to implement it at an end-users house in 1-2 weeks, at approximatly the same price.
Until Bell (and @home, who isn't quite as bad) gets on the ball, our network is a sure success. We are implementing this in places that won't have broadband for another 2-3 years.
I do Teir I tech support at a large company (30,000+ users), and we don't have problems like that. We have a clear chain of responsiblity we use to hand off unresolvable issues.
I have worked Teir II as well, and Teir I is not any easier, just less mobile. I've had to troubleshoot programs I've never ever heard of, but at least I can ask other people around me via ICQ (Groupware beta that sucks, but that's another story), and I resolve 70%-100% of my supported software calls.
What it may take for a situation like that is a coalition of employees that go directly to the manager of the division (not their supervisior!) with a list of complaints and a list of how to fix them (from a front-line perspective). If they don't get addressed...hey, YOU'VE GOT EVERY SINGLE USERS EMAIL ADDRESS! Use it as a parting shot, maybe you can cause a major disruption in income, and possibly a lawsuit against them if the ISP has actually violated any terms of service.
If your evil, you can suggest to the user that they carefully look over their contract and, if it's violated, take it to a lawyer.
NASA is, unfortunatly, competing with movies when it comes to gaining an audience. They have had to come up with marketing ideas, press releases, merchandise, and such to compete for public attention.
It's sad, because gone are the days when all their money could be poured directly into pure research. Now they have to justify all their advances to a public that wants the glitz of Star Trek but don't realize where our science actually is at technology wise.
It's sad, and it shouldn't be, but they have to have press releases to maintain their "market share", because the politicians force pure-research departments to compete with hollywood.
This would explain the reason why one of the companies I work for, The Williams Companies, force us now to use this really crappy version of ICQ Groupware that I don't even think is being developed anymore.
This is a multi-billion dollar company that is forcing it's tech support (we support 30,000+ users and three different call centers) to use this communications method that show's us "away" half the time.
This article, along with a few others, was shown to our managment saying "ack look what they can do to our system intergrity!" when the people pointing out the problem didn't even really know what they are talking about in the first place...
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I looked this over, and nowhere does it say that these woman are being kidnapped by Jews. Their fake passports say that they are Jewish Isrealies, but how do you know that these crimes are being commited by jews?
Your assumtion leaves out the fact that there are other races in Isreal, ones that actually would like to make it look like it the Jews are doing this. The Jews beleive in fundamental human rights of other races. In fact, it is AGAINST Torah law to allow prostitutions to live in Isreal, so I can bet this isn't a "relgious" problem like you are trying to make it. If I where you, I would look more towards fundamental Islam as the actual source of this problem, since they treat their women more in this way.
BTW, prostitution is legal in some areas of the United States too. By your logic, we should not donate to any US charities. Just because a country has bad laws doesn't make everyone in the country, or the entire race which is spread out over the whole world, bad.
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You have proof if this? This is internationally illegal, and if it was true it could be brought up to the UN Human Rights Committee rather easily.
This is really a lovely peice of anti-semitic work, thinly disguised. I read the article, but couldn't find it on the Jerusalem Post at all. The link you gave was actually off another site. I can't actually find this original article on the Jewish Post, but after reading it I have a feeling that the poster took a small bit of information from it and put in alot of unverifiable information of his own.
Where he posted is an unmoderated free-formum posting area, and I think you and he both have no idea about what Jews do, what they donate to, or anything about them. This type of attitude is what lead to the Holocust, because of ignorate people spreading dissinformation about the jews.
Why not complain about Islamic charities, and point out the massive human rights abuses by them? Or any other group that does such? Why not say we shouldn't buy any German goods because they started two world wars?
It is obvious you lived up to your name, Anonymous Coward by not even putting your name on your neonazi comments.
I've worked with a company that has implemented a 802.11 system that has a range of 6-10 miles. It's not that difficult. We are reselling it as an alternative to DSL because bell is so slow. If you really want the equipment, ydi.com carries everything you need to hook up your own wireless POP, for about $2000 (not counting tower costs).
"Those who desire to give up freedom in exchange for security will
have neither, nor do they deserve, either one."
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Just remeber these words everytime you agree it's OK to give up your rights.
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This reminds me of a conversation I had awhile back with a fellow geek. He thought that new quantum computers would make an entirely new class of 'haves' and 'have nots', based on the ability to encrypt your information
In a nutshell, once these computers are actually in production, the government will be the first to have them. No current X86 (or such) system will be able to make an unbreakable cypher anymore. No countries, no indivduals, or such. The only people able to make such will be those with these quantum computers, which will most likely be regulated.
The entire idea behind 'privacy through encyrption' will be a thing of the past. True, most crackers won't have access to this equipment. But the NSA, CIA, etc will, and they will be albe to crack any encryption you can throw at it.
So? I work for a company that runs 802.11b 6-8 MILES and uses a Redhat box as a router/repeater. Of course, it costs a total of $7000 for all the equipment, but it's all off-the-shelf components. It's no wizardy...
Do you have any actual proof of Verizon doing this? If so, I'd like to know of it so I can present it to some freinds of mine that might use Verizon as a DSL ISP.
At my current job, I get $500 a month. I often work at home as well. I usually work all day too. My boss would like me to work with another guy who works days, so therefor I would have to work at night too. Basically, it adds up to around 13 hours a day that I should be (according to managment) working. All this because we where promised lots of money soon...
I figure we (there are two of us) around $1.92 an hour. And they wonder why I'm looking for another job...
It all depends on your contract you originaly signed, but the chances are it belongs to the company. Even if it wasn't in your contract (and I can almost guarentee it is if you have one) then most likely it belongs to the company. Did you get paid for making it? Then it's theirs.
The only way to make sure is to sign a contract. Depending on the scope, some of my projects have been for-hire, and some have been for-license. The for-hire costs them more, but the code is theirs. The for-license costs less, but the code is mine.
I think you situation is pretty impossible as no one in their right mind would hire you to do a programming job without a contract...
I've been using SWBELL for several months now. IMHO, they have quite a few problems. We have been down for days at a time.
The main problem is the DHCP service. They take all the lease times down to two hours, so their DHCP systems get hammered. They extend the lease time, everything is fine. Drop it down again, the connection dies. I stopped calling the Net Help, as you sit on hold for hours. Yes, hours. I sat on hold (with a speakerphone) for three hours once, then it started working again...If I could cand my service I would.
I looked around on f*ckedcompany, and then looked at idealab. I see absolutly no similarities. Their page does not look like idealabs.
Perhaps it does, in some esoteric way, resemble one of their affiliate companies. As far as I can tell, idealab doesn't own fastcompany. At least fastcompany isn't on their "idealab companies" list, and idealab isn't on fastcompanies list. And by comparing the two sites, they aren't even that similar. Yes, they both use close to the same color in their logo. But other than that, their color scheme and layout are different.
Perhaps idealab is talking about another company? If so, which one? They are very vauge, and it would take a bit of research on f*ckedcompanies part to figure out just which site they where infringing on...which isn't their job. As in a search warrant, idealab has to be more precise in their cease-and-desist if it is to stand up in court. Not this "you doing some stuff that's like some of our stuff" crap.
I'm not justifing anything. I know that I get many good product ideas come into my In box every day. There are thousands of products out there you haven't the slightest clue exist, unless all you do is read the net and magazines 24 hours straight. Without advertising, you wouldn't even know it exists.
Apparently you missed my point, because my point was advertising of the future will tell you about things you don't know anything about yet. All this "data gathering" is just the larval stage of it. Give it a few years to mature.
Just because a product is good doesn't mean anything. Promotion is 1/4 of the marketing equation, and without inventive ways of promotion it will probably slip by unnoticed.
I do marketing for a living, plus I am a geek too. I know both sides of the equation, and I know the happy middle. Without advertising there would be no economy because no one would know anything about anything. True, it does often go overboard. When it does, the public reacts by not buying it.
The main idea I was trying to say is that it doesn't matter really. The information IS going to be gathered on the majority of the public. The important part is to make sure through laws, boycotts, picketing, or what have you that it isn't misused by any one entity. The information WILL be gathered, IS being gathered, and there is NOTHING you can do about it. It's too late for that, that battle was over six months after the invention of browser cookies. The battle that should be fought is the use of that data. Focus your attention on that, or your going to loose that one too.
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I don't know if anyone else noticed, but this is the military, not some publicaly owned company or such. GPL is fine and all, but if the military feels that it may endanger national security by having this system opensourced, then I honestly don't think there is much anyone can do about it.
I don't think it would be hard to make a case either way. Security through obscurity is bad, but leaving a system open that could possibly be exploited to hurt servicemen (by changing people's alergic reaction charts, etc) would be bad in case of an actual war (which would probably involve a cyberfont this time too).
What gets me about these arguments is that all of them are based off of Christian beleifs. Christian beleifs are based off of other beleifs, as they didn't just materialize by themselves...
There are other "tales" of creation that Christians do not know of in Judiasm. They have never been told of them, but the information is out there. Gnosticism has it's own viewpoint as well, and should be taken in account as well.
Why does everyone assume that when you talk about God and religion you automatically think Christianity? Modern Christianity has very little mysticsm associated with it, which is where you will find many explanations that get closer to a more scientific point of view than the standard Bible.
It's not the only religion out there, and it's very rigid in much of it's thinking because it doesn't have alot of the other doctrines that explain these things avalible to it.
Well, I think that the internet is already being used for those purposes. You can't stop such things by passing laws, but by educating people so they don't want to join those groups in the first place. Anyway, I think you miss the real problem behind distance learning.
IMHO, the real problem is the ability to cheat. With no one there to watch you, it would be a simple thing. I know that many people, given the opportunity, would take advantage of it. This could potentially have more of an impact on society in general than hate groups by turning out "educated" people that have less grasp of their supposed learning.
See, you didn't need a union, because you could just quit. Eventually, that company will go out of business because their employee policy sucks. If they had a union there, they would just implement their crueltly in other ways, and you wouldn't leave because the union would always "be working on it" for you. If you don't like the job, just quit.
The beautifull thing about this is that all of the sites made by this are usually not ADA compliant, and if any governmental agency uses it they are violating federal law.
Wow. You really are an idiot, aren't you? You sound like your spouting off stuff that other people have told you is cool, but you don't really know what they mean. They don't know, because they are doing the same thing. It's all one chain.
The picture is one of the most ignorant thing I've ever seen. What confusion? What impurities? Can you back up ANYTHING you say? Of course not, that's why you post anonymously.
You truly are a coward.
Working in tech support, that would be my dream. Right now we don't support win2k, so anytime someone calls in with a win2k problem I just say "I'm sorry, I have to send that to teir 2" and hang up on them. It would be the same, resulting in a much lower time-per-call for me and better stats, and therefor a better pay raise.
Actually, it's not a major Jewish holiday, in relation to the other holidays. It's considered a minor holiday, but has been enhanced due to the psychological problems that Jewish children have felt in recent year because of a lack of presents...which in turn reflects on the over-commertialization of the Christian Christmas
Of course, without Chanuka there would be no Christmas, because the Jews would have been assimilated by the Syrian Empire.
That's called business ethics. The phone co-op was completly within their legal rights to erect the tower, even if it wasn't the most ethical choice reguarding the community.
You would be suprised how far a tower with the proper amplification can go. You can get 30-40 miles if you put the antenna on top of a 300 foot tower. Trust me, I just submitted a propsal on such a project and I know what can be done.
I'm currently in the process of implementing a wireless broadband system in the central United States. We are using standard 802.11b networking equipment that has been enviromentally modified.
So far, it works rather well. And it sells, because Bell is insanly slow to actually implement a DSL connection (2-3 months from the order). We will be able to implement it at an end-users house in 1-2 weeks, at approximatly the same price.
Until Bell (and @home, who isn't quite as bad) gets on the ball, our network is a sure success. We are implementing this in places that won't have broadband for another 2-3 years.
I do Teir I tech support at a large company (30,000+ users), and we don't have problems like that. We have a clear chain of responsiblity we use to hand off unresolvable issues.
I have worked Teir II as well, and Teir I is not any easier, just less mobile. I've had to troubleshoot programs I've never ever heard of, but at least I can ask other people around me via ICQ (Groupware beta that sucks, but that's another story), and I resolve 70%-100% of my supported software calls.
What it may take for a situation like that is a coalition of employees that go directly to the manager of the division (not their supervisior!) with a list of complaints and a list of how to fix them (from a front-line perspective). If they don't get addressed...hey, YOU'VE GOT EVERY SINGLE USERS EMAIL ADDRESS! Use it as a parting shot, maybe you can cause a major disruption in income, and possibly a lawsuit against them if the ISP has actually violated any terms of service.
If your evil, you can suggest to the user that they carefully look over their contract and, if it's violated, take it to a lawyer.
NASA is, unfortunatly, competing with movies when it comes to gaining an audience. They have had to come up with marketing ideas, press releases, merchandise, and such to compete for public attention.
It's sad, because gone are the days when all their money could be poured directly into pure research. Now they have to justify all their advances to a public that wants the glitz of Star Trek but don't realize where our science actually is at technology wise.
It's sad, and it shouldn't be, but they have to have press releases to maintain their "market share", because the politicians force pure-research departments to compete with hollywood.
This would explain the reason why one of the companies I work for, The Williams Companies, force us now to use this really crappy version of ICQ Groupware that I don't even think is being developed anymore.
This is a multi-billion dollar company that is forcing it's tech support (we support 30,000+ users and three different call centers) to use this communications method that show's us "away" half the time.
This article, along with a few others, was shown to our managment saying "ack look what they can do to our system intergrity!" when the people pointing out the problem didn't even really know what they are talking about in the first place...
I looked this over, and nowhere does it say that these woman are being kidnapped by Jews. Their fake passports say that they are Jewish Isrealies, but how do you know that these crimes are being commited by jews?
Your assumtion leaves out the fact that there are other races in Isreal, ones that actually would like to make it look like it the Jews are doing this. The Jews beleive in fundamental human rights of other races. In fact, it is AGAINST Torah law to allow prostitutions to live in Isreal, so I can bet this isn't a "relgious" problem like you are trying to make it. If I where you, I would look more towards fundamental Islam as the actual source of this problem, since they treat their women more in this way.
BTW, prostitution is legal in some areas of the United States too. By your logic, we should not donate to any US charities. Just because a country has bad laws doesn't make everyone in the country, or the entire race which is spread out over the whole world, bad.
You have proof if this? This is internationally illegal, and if it was true it could be brought up to the UN Human Rights Committee rather easily.
This is really a lovely peice of anti-semitic work, thinly disguised. I read the article, but couldn't find it on the Jerusalem Post at all. The link you gave was actually off another site. I can't actually find this original article on the Jewish Post, but after reading it I have a feeling that the poster took a small bit of information from it and put in alot of unverifiable information of his own.
Where he posted is an unmoderated free-formum posting area, and I think you and he both have no idea about what Jews do, what they donate to, or anything about them. This type of attitude is what lead to the Holocust, because of ignorate people spreading dissinformation about the jews.
Why not complain about Islamic charities, and point out the massive human rights abuses by them? Or any other group that does such? Why not say we shouldn't buy any German goods because they started two world wars?
It is obvious you lived up to your name, Anonymous Coward by not even putting your name on your neonazi comments.
I've worked with a company that has implemented a 802.11 system that has a range of 6-10 miles. It's not that difficult. We are reselling it as an alternative to DSL because bell is so slow. If you really want the equipment, ydi.com carries everything you need to hook up your own wireless POP, for about $2000 (not counting tower costs).
"Those who desire to give up freedom in exchange for security will have neither, nor do they deserve, either one."
Thomas Jefferson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
Just remeber these words everytime you agree it's OK to give up your rights.This reminds me of a conversation I had awhile back with a fellow geek. He thought that new quantum computers would make an entirely new class of 'haves' and 'have nots', based on the ability to encrypt your information
In a nutshell, once these computers are actually in production, the government will be the first to have them. No current X86 (or such) system will be able to make an unbreakable cypher anymore. No countries, no indivduals, or such. The only people able to make such will be those with these quantum computers, which will most likely be regulated.
The entire idea behind 'privacy through encyrption' will be a thing of the past. True, most crackers won't have access to this equipment. But the NSA, CIA, etc will, and they will be albe to crack any encryption you can throw at it.
So? I work for a company that runs 802.11b 6-8 MILES and uses a Redhat box as a router/repeater. Of course, it costs a total of $7000 for all the equipment, but it's all off-the-shelf components. It's no wizardy...
Do you have any actual proof of Verizon doing this? If so, I'd like to know of it so I can present it to some freinds of mine that might use Verizon as a DSL ISP.
At my current job, I get $500 a month. I often work at home as well. I usually work all day too. My boss would like me to work with another guy who works days, so therefor I would have to work at night too. Basically, it adds up to around 13 hours a day that I should be (according to managment) working. All this because we where promised lots of money soon...
I figure we (there are two of us) around $1.92 an hour. And they wonder why I'm looking for another job...
It all depends on your contract you originaly signed, but the chances are it belongs to the company. Even if it wasn't in your contract (and I can almost guarentee it is if you have one) then most likely it belongs to the company. Did you get paid for making it? Then it's theirs.
The only way to make sure is to sign a contract. Depending on the scope, some of my projects have been for-hire, and some have been for-license. The for-hire costs them more, but the code is theirs. The for-license costs less, but the code is mine.
I think you situation is pretty impossible as no one in their right mind would hire you to do a programming job without a contract...
I've been using SWBELL for several months now. IMHO, they have quite a few problems. We have been down for days at a time.
The main problem is the DHCP service. They take all the lease times down to two hours, so their DHCP systems get hammered. They extend the lease time, everything is fine. Drop it down again, the connection dies. I stopped calling the Net Help, as you sit on hold for hours. Yes, hours. I sat on hold (with a speakerphone) for three hours once, then it started working again...If I could cand my service I would.
I looked around on f*ckedcompany, and then looked at idealab. I see absolutly no similarities. Their page does not look like idealabs.
Perhaps it does, in some esoteric way, resemble one of their affiliate companies. As far as I can tell, idealab doesn't own fastcompany. At least fastcompany isn't on their "idealab companies" list, and idealab isn't on fastcompanies list. And by comparing the two sites, they aren't even that similar. Yes, they both use close to the same color in their logo. But other than that, their color scheme and layout are different.
Perhaps idealab is talking about another company? If so, which one? They are very vauge, and it would take a bit of research on f*ckedcompanies part to figure out just which site they where infringing on...which isn't their job. As in a search warrant, idealab has to be more precise in their cease-and-desist if it is to stand up in court. Not this "you doing some stuff that's like some of our stuff" crap.
I'm not justifing anything. I know that I get many good product ideas come into my In box every day. There are thousands of products out there you haven't the slightest clue exist, unless all you do is read the net and magazines 24 hours straight. Without advertising, you wouldn't even know it exists.
Apparently you missed my point, because my point was advertising of the future will tell you about things you don't know anything about yet. All this "data gathering" is just the larval stage of it. Give it a few years to mature.
Just because a product is good doesn't mean anything. Promotion is 1/4 of the marketing equation, and without inventive ways of promotion it will probably slip by unnoticed.
I do marketing for a living, plus I am a geek too. I know both sides of the equation, and I know the happy middle. Without advertising there would be no economy because no one would know anything about anything. True, it does often go overboard. When it does, the public reacts by not buying it.
The main idea I was trying to say is that it doesn't matter really. The information IS going to be gathered on the majority of the public. The important part is to make sure through laws, boycotts, picketing, or what have you that it isn't misused by any one entity. The information WILL be gathered, IS being gathered, and there is NOTHING you can do about it. It's too late for that, that battle was over six months after the invention of browser cookies. The battle that should be fought is the use of that data. Focus your attention on that, or your going to loose that one too.