Sunday is a slow news day, but geez. This is news? So Intel (or Microsoft/Toshiba/Sony/Phillips/Haliburton) is making a media PC? Um, who cares? My CDs play well on my $29 stereo, and in my car. FM radio, where it isn't ClearChannel, sounds just fine. Perhaps the drones who are EMPOWERING Intel to make this move are going to suffer. Why must your PC converge with your TV?
Why must you have 55" plasma, Dolby 11.1 surround, with Foomatic DSP and Orgasmatron effects? Christ, step outside and go for a walk, see a local band, read a book, play with your dog, have sex with your wife. This is your life, man, and its ending 1 minute at a time.
ridiculous article, company LAN = filtered
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What's On Your Network?
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Um, duh, what company network doesn't have egress filtering (bye bye IM, Quake, SSH) and content filtering (bye bye porn, TheOnion, etc) ? Answer: the same dumbasses who have 'mysterious' network problemss. If you don't really control your network, well, then... you don't really control your network.
"static electricity discharges, also known as lightning" REALLY? Lightning is electricity? Amazing! All along we thought it was from the Gods being angry! Maybe someone should take a kite, and put a key on the string, and fly it in a thunderstorm...
Not if you explain why it is that you dont want any of that information - basically say "I dont need this, so you dont have to provide it" . I bet people will appreciate it.
Why would you ever give all that personal info to a random website? Even if you're a big Firefox advocate, what possible value does it add to the project to provide them with your home address? At best, you're going to get spammed. at worst, you get your identity stolen. duh.
This person will be either a Gartner-reading FUD-gobbler, or some clueless government hack. Either way, real security will not be important. Appearances will be.
is she doing these people a favor by mapping their villages out? Lets see, once they're mapped, they'll: * have access to great UN Health Care, so that all their babies won't die of plague. Of course, they won't be able to FEED them all, so they'll either die of starvation later, or go to war with the neighboring villages for food * be visited by the limosine liberals, the STD-carrying, raping UN peacekeepers, and their local thugs^H^H^H^H^Hgovernment, to pay taxes * be able to present claims of 'need' on the wealthier villages, countries and planets around them
Seriously, let them stay anonymous, uncharted and undisturbed by the foulness that sweeps the rest of Africa.
Yes, this is a troll. But one man's -1,Troll is another man's +1,Insightful. What philosophy do you want to believe in today?
Are you posting AC because you don't know what you're talking about? Google for BioDiesel and algae, and you'll find an astonishing amount of info on ways to mass produce BioD.
Replace your car with a diesel VW, and run BioDiesel. Producers of BioD get a tax credit for producing it, so it's competitively priced with regular dinosaur-diesel, and the slight decrease in BTUs of the fuel is mitigated by the more complete and more efficient combustion of said fuel, due to the higher cetane rating. Figure 45 mpg, and you get a real car, with a real stereo and trunk, no banks of potentially hazardous batteries to recycle in X years, and you're not sitting in the middle of a giant magnetic field while driving. BioDiesel solves the chicken and egg problem, and its a fuel with similar energy density to petroleum fuels, unlike ethanol, or god forbid, hydrogen. BioDiesel also comes close to closing the carbon cycle, since the carbon in the fuel came from the air to begin with. Because it doesn't come from the ground, there's no sulphur or metals in it.
Here's why: You state a requirement of "(we're talking about Microsoft folks with practically zero Linux experience)". These are the same Microsoft folks who, remember, DONT WANT TO MAINTAIN YOUR BOXES. At first sign of a problem, something like "how do I use vi?", the MS folks will complain to a Manager, who will make a Decision, that the Strategic Goal isn't being met, and you'll get nice, shiny, XP boxes.
I've seen this sort of first thing first-hand. Here's how it goes down:
Consultant: Hey, buddy o'mine in the White House Budget office, lets do lunch. WhiteHouse: OK Consultant: You know, if you dont use IPv6, you're obsolete. WhiteHouse: Really? Consultant: Yep. You wouldn't want the (Commies|Al-Qaeda|Chinese|French) to be ahead of us, would you? WhiteHouse: Hell no! Consultant: Nobody is going to deploy IPv6 w/o a reason. It's hard to do. WhiteHouse: Hmm, we need to do this, its a matter of Homeland Suck-your-ity. Can you help? Consultant: Why sure, but you should make sure that only me and a few others are approved for this gig, you wouldn't want any incompatibilities, would you? WhiteHouse: Damn straight, I think I'll have another Scotch. Consultant: Go ahead, its on me. *evil cackle*
The sum total of windows machines online already forms a distributed storage network, that is for those of us who can find unpatched, unfirewalled Windows box?
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Sunday is a slow news day, but geez. This is news? So Intel (or Microsoft/Toshiba/Sony/Phillips/Haliburton) is making a media PC? Um, who cares?
My CDs play well on my $29 stereo, and in my car. FM radio, where it isn't ClearChannel, sounds just fine. Perhaps the drones who are EMPOWERING Intel to make this move are going to suffer. Why must your PC converge with your TV?
Why must you have 55" plasma, Dolby 11.1 surround, with Foomatic DSP and Orgasmatron effects? Christ, step outside and go for a walk, see a local band, read a book, play with your dog, have sex with your wife. This is your life, man, and its ending 1 minute at a time.
Um, duh, what company network doesn't have egress filtering (bye bye IM, Quake, SSH) and content filtering (bye bye porn, TheOnion, etc) ?
Answer: the same dumbasses who have 'mysterious' network problemss. If you don't really control your network, well, then... you don't really control your network.
Mod the article: -1, Fucking Obvious
MoD PaReNt UP, +1 Individualist
"static electricity discharges, also known as lightning"
REALLY? Lightning is electricity? Amazing! All along we thought it was from the Gods being angry! Maybe someone should take a kite, and put a key on the string, and fly it in a thunderstorm...
Not if you explain why it is that you dont want any of that information - basically say "I dont need this, so you dont have to provide it" . I bet people will appreciate it.
Why would you ever give all that personal info to a random website? Even if you're a big Firefox advocate, what possible value does it add to the project to provide them with your home address? At best, you're going to get spammed. at worst, you get your identity stolen. duh.
This person will be either a Gartner-reading FUD-gobbler, or some clueless government hack. Either way, real security will not be important. Appearances will be.
is she doing these people a favor by mapping their villages out? Lets see, once they're mapped, they'll:
* have access to great UN Health Care, so that all their babies won't die of plague. Of course, they won't be able to FEED them all, so they'll either die of starvation later, or go to war with the neighboring villages for food
* be visited by the limosine liberals, the STD-carrying, raping UN peacekeepers, and their local thugs^H^H^H^H^Hgovernment, to pay taxes
* be able to present claims of 'need' on the wealthier villages, countries and planets around them
Seriously, let them stay anonymous, uncharted and undisturbed by the foulness that sweeps the rest of Africa.
Yes, this is a troll. But one man's -1,Troll is another man's +1,Insightful. What philosophy do you want to believe in today?
Since the longer carbon cycle you speak of is >>> the span of human life on the planet, its equivalent to infinite.
It doesn't do me any good to know that the carbon my car puts into the air was already there, 65 million years ago, if I can't breathe now.
Dude.
Are you posting AC because you don't know what you're talking about? Google for BioDiesel and algae, and you'll find an astonishing amount of info on ways to mass produce BioD.
Replace your car with a diesel VW, and run BioDiesel. Producers of BioD get a tax credit for producing it, so it's competitively priced with regular dinosaur-diesel, and the slight decrease in BTUs of the fuel is mitigated by the more complete and more efficient combustion of said fuel, due to the higher cetane rating. Figure 45 mpg, and you get a real car, with a real stereo and trunk, no banks of potentially hazardous batteries to recycle in X years, and you're not sitting in the middle of a giant magnetic field while driving.
BioDiesel solves the chicken and egg problem, and its a fuel with similar energy density to petroleum fuels, unlike ethanol, or god forbid, hydrogen.
BioDiesel also comes close to closing the carbon cycle, since the carbon in the fuel came from the air to begin with. Because it doesn't come from the ground, there's no sulphur or metals in it.
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Read this last night.
Here's why: You state a requirement of "(we're talking about Microsoft folks with practically zero Linux experience)". These are the same Microsoft folks who, remember, DONT WANT TO MAINTAIN YOUR BOXES. At first sign of a problem, something like "how do I use vi?", the MS folks will complain to a Manager, who will make a Decision, that the Strategic Goal isn't being met, and you'll get nice, shiny, XP boxes.
Why the (id prefer bsd license) troll?
I was used to high speed pr0n, and now I'm stuck waiting 5 whole minutes for a movie to download. I'm usually done by then!
who modded this up?
Why the Apple troll ?
So what is the point of your post, other than to waste DB space?
Great, I can find out what salaries were two years ago. That should help me a lot in my current job search.
Hello? How about a real-time DB that you could query by postal code?
I've seen this sort of first thing first-hand. Here's how it goes down:
Consultant: Hey, buddy o'mine in the White House Budget office, lets do lunch.
WhiteHouse: OK
Consultant: You know, if you dont use IPv6, you're obsolete.
WhiteHouse: Really?
Consultant: Yep. You wouldn't want the (Commies|Al-Qaeda|Chinese|French) to be ahead of us, would you?
WhiteHouse: Hell no!
Consultant: Nobody is going to deploy IPv6 w/o a reason. It's hard to do.
WhiteHouse: Hmm, we need to do this, its a matter of Homeland Suck-your-ity. Can you help?
Consultant: Why sure, but you should make sure that only me and a few others are approved for this gig, you wouldn't want any incompatibilities, would you?
WhiteHouse: Damn straight, I think I'll have another Scotch.
Consultant: Go ahead, its on me. *evil cackle*
So don't use Orkut, troll.
Why troll? This has nothing to do with an economic and social system - or are you saying that in Communist China, cookies delete you?
The sum total of windows machines online already forms a distributed storage network, that is for those of us who can find unpatched, unfirewalled Windows box?
does it run Linux?
*ducks*
What is this, Fark? I thought we put the funny editorializing in the "from the xxxx dept." tagline here.