that their trace of me would show that I'm in San Diego, CA, and not my actually location 400 miles away.
They really couldn't be very accurate, but that probably doesn't matter as long as their advertisers and marketers who purchase their data beleive it.
I wonder if this data is worth as much as they think it is. A couple of years ago, everyone thought that having people browsing/search/ad click habits would be a goldmine. I've yet to see anyone making real revenue off that data.
Unless I'm being really stupid, how can you figure out geography by "scanning every address on the internet"? What could that possible reveal about a computer's location?
...or at least it was a year ago, during the peak of the "dotcom" boom.
It was so easy to find a job (and conversely, so hard to hire), that my staff knew as long as they were somewhat productive, their jobs were safe!
I had a hell of a time getting people to show up to work before 1 or 2 in the afternoon and staying for more than 4-5 hours a day! Threats of termination didn't help, because they knew it would be next to implossible to replace them.
Now that the dotcom bubble has burst, good old-fashioned management techniques will probably work again, but I'm out of the people-managing business for now.
I'm sure that, just as CD players are everywhere now--there must be at least a dozen in my home--DVD players will be too.
Every computer, laptop, and perhaps even car drive (to play movie audio and DVD-Audio) will be DVD compatible when the chipsets and pickup assembly becomes commonplace
I don't know how many folk will use a PS2 for their primary DVD player. You want a simple little box that sits with the rest of your stereo equipment and has simple controls.
It may make it as the primary DVD player for the kids, though.
Scenario: You've setup your own machine and only you know root. You get fired. How will they get to your data?
This straw man is easy to defeat! I always keep a sealed envelope in my drawer clearly marked "passwords" with all my passwords in it, just in case I get run over by a bus.
Because it's sealed, I can tell if someone needed to get at them. For material that belongs to the company, this is an acceptable level of security.
> Opinions of the IT managers they interview
> range from 'Reformat the hard drive and fire >the person who installed that renegade
> operating system
I've worked at companies that made software, and at Research and Development departments where there was an IS/IT department that assumed our computers were not to be tocuhed.
Sometimes it got silly--like we were trying to ship a product that ran on WinNT 4.0, but IS would prohibit us from running WinNT 4.0! And if we'd complain to management (in this case it was John Warnock and Chuck Geschke) they wouldn't have a clue why were were trying to make life
hard on the poor IS department!
We had to _sneak_ in operating systems that we were required to support for our product!
Currently, I work for a Research and Development group and I've learned to just humor the IS department. I let them set up my PC with Windows 98 and Norton Antivirus, etc, and as soon as they're gone I wipe it clean and install what I need to get my job done.
IS departments should support the engineers, not the other way around!
I've solved this problem long ago with some procmail scripts and disposable email addresses.
I have a domain (for arguments sake, lets call it domain.web), and any email address that's sent to it winds up in the same place.
So, for example, if I were to order from amazon, I'd give my email address as amazon@domain.web. I then set a configuration file to "enable" the account. Email to addresses that haven't been "enabled" get discarded (I never reply to unsolicited email, because you're giving away vaulable info that that email is good). Email to addresses that have been enabled get saved. Every few weeks, I scan, via a web interface, the emails.
This way, I can also tell who sells my email address, or where spam comes from! Everyone gets their own email address
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I can't wait for big LCD screens to get cheap
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Right now, I run two Samsung SyncMaster 770s (1280x1024) side-by-side on my Windows NT system--it's OK, but I'd rather be able to just by one contiguous screen.
It's maddening to see how slowly flat (LCD) screens are improving in price/performance. Five years ago I would have predicted that in 2000 most new screen sales would be flat. Now I think that we're still 3-5 years away from that.
Just think of the energy savings alone! (Not to mention a savings in office furniture costs--you don't need desks that are as deep with flat screens).
I probably read that Heinlein book before you were born!
If you had read my post, when I called H. a "hack sci-fi writer" you would have know that.
Why don't you go back to coding HTML on your gay Macintosh?
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If these mac people weren't mentally ill...
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...I'd be able to laugh at them!
The current Mac so-called "OS" simply loads programs into a shared memory space. Applications can stop on anyone else's memory (which is why the Mac slowly seems to rot after a while) and applications have to be aware of the so-called "Mac-OS" memory management by locking and unlocking handles to memory blocks. It's very similar to Window 3.1!
I have no biases here...I own two Macs and I'm excited about OS-X. I'd love there to be a commercial Unix with real OS support. It's just the Mac people are NUTS-O. (They also like to bash Intel, for no good reason. What did Intel ever to do them?)
Probably about 10x that number have downloaded Apple ][ emulators. That doesn't mean the Apple ][ is coming back, it just means that people are sentemental about obsolete technology!
Well,.orgs are kinda lame, in general. (Maybe I should get "orgsarelame.org" (if it's not taken) and list lame.org sites.
I have a.to domain. It's great--easy to register and pay for, I can log in and change any info I want and whois info is kept secret. HOWEVER, I can't explain to folks that.to is a valid domain name! For example, my High School reunion committee sent a questionaire out which asked our email addresses, for a directory. I gave mine, which is (for arguments sake) xxxx@xxxx.to and those bastards listed it as xxxx@xxxx.to.com! I was so furious I wanted to go over there and STRANGLE those people who put together that directory.
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They really couldn't be very accurate, but that probably doesn't matter as long as their advertisers and marketers who purchase their data beleive it.
I wonder if this data is worth as much as they think it is. A couple of years ago, everyone thought that having people browsing/search/ad click habits would be a goldmine. I've yet to see anyone making real revenue off that data.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Unless I'm being really stupid, how can you figure out geography by "scanning every address on the internet"? What could that possible reveal about a computer's location?
--- Speaking only for myself,
It was so easy to find a job (and conversely, so hard to hire), that my staff knew as long as they were somewhat productive, their jobs were safe!
I had a hell of a time getting people to show up to work before 1 or 2 in the afternoon and staying for more than 4-5 hours a day! Threats of termination didn't help, because they knew it would be next to implossible to replace them.
Now that the dotcom bubble has burst, good old-fashioned management techniques will probably work again, but I'm out of the people-managing business for now.
--- Speaking only for myself,
I'm sure that, just as CD players are everywhere now--there must be at least a dozen in my home--DVD players will be too.
Every computer, laptop, and perhaps even car drive (to play movie audio and DVD-Audio) will be DVD compatible when the chipsets and pickup assembly becomes commonplace
I don't know how many folk will use a PS2 for their primary DVD player. You want a simple little box that sits with the rest of your stereo equipment and has simple controls.
It may make it as the primary DVD player for the kids, though.
--- Speaking only for myself,
And, I'd be more than happy to suck your dick!
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It's the season for Pumpkin Pi! I think I'll go have a slice now, with whipped topping.
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Whenever I hear a story like this, I always get the straight poop from snopes!
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Please show me in the Koran where Jerusalem is mentioned even once.
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This straw man is easy to defeat! I always keep a sealed envelope in my drawer clearly marked "passwords" with all my passwords in it, just in case I get run over by a bus.
Because it's sealed, I can tell if someone needed to get at them. For material that belongs to the company, this is an acceptable level of security.
--- Speaking only for myself,
Actually, I was a VP with the same rank as the chief IS guy. And I still couldn't do anything (other than leave, which I did!)
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> range from 'Reformat the hard drive and fire
>the person who installed that renegade
> operating system
I've worked at companies that made software, and at Research and Development departments where there was an IS/IT department that assumed our computers were not to be tocuhed.
Sometimes it got silly--like we were trying to ship a product that ran on WinNT 4.0, but IS would prohibit us from running WinNT 4.0! And if we'd complain to management (in this case it was John Warnock and Chuck Geschke) they wouldn't have a clue why were were trying to make life hard on the poor IS department!
We had to _sneak_ in operating systems that we were required to support for our product!
Currently, I work for a Research and Development group and I've learned to just humor the IS department. I let them set up my PC with Windows 98 and Norton Antivirus, etc, and as soon as they're gone I wipe it clean and install what I need to get my job done.
IS departments should support the engineers, not the other way around!
--- Speaking only for myself,
I think if we were to thaw him out, Disney could get a lot of people into the parks to see him!
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I have a domain (for arguments sake, lets call it domain.web), and any email address that's sent to it winds up in the same place.
So, for example, if I were to order from amazon, I'd give my email address as amazon@domain.web. I then set a configuration file to "enable" the account. Email to addresses that haven't been "enabled" get discarded (I never reply to unsolicited email, because you're giving away vaulable info that that email is good). Email to addresses that have been enabled get saved. Every few weeks, I scan, via a web interface, the emails.
This way, I can also tell who sells my email address, or where spam comes from! Everyone gets their own email address
--- Speaking only for myself,
It's maddening to see how slowly flat (LCD) screens are improving in price/performance. Five years ago I would have predicted that in 2000 most new screen sales would be flat. Now I think that we're still 3-5 years away from that.
Just think of the energy savings alone! (Not to mention a savings in office furniture costs--you don't need desks that are as deep with flat screens).
--- Speaking only for myself,
I should have known better than to start a flame-war with a SCIENTOLOGIST! Next think you'll know, they will subpoena Slashdot's Logfiles!
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You're right! In fact, I no longer take slash-dot seriously. It's been overrun by dotcom dropouts, Mac Heads, and Script Kiddies.
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And, I read _Stranger in a Strange Land_ in 1961, when I was 18 years old.
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Half of the Parc-ers already work there, anyway.
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And don't forget, he's the father of DIANETICS!
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I probably read that Heinlein book before you were born!
If you had read my post, when I called H. a "hack sci-fi writer" you would have know that.
Why don't you go back to coding HTML on your gay Macintosh?
--- Speaking only for myself,
The current Mac so-called "OS" simply loads programs into a shared memory space. Applications can stop on anyone else's memory (which is why the Mac slowly seems to rot after a while) and applications have to be aware of the so-called "Mac-OS" memory management by locking and unlocking handles to memory blocks. It's very similar to Window 3.1!
I have no biases here...I own two Macs and I'm excited about OS-X. I'd love there to be a commercial Unix with real OS support. It's just the Mac people are NUTS-O. (They also like to bash Intel, for no good reason. What did Intel ever to do them?)
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When they hire convicted, admitted perverts to write crime-catching applications like this!
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Gee, that's all we need! Another pedo phi le programming language for PERVERTS only good for writing applications like this!
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Probably about 10x that number have downloaded Apple ][ emulators. That doesn't mean the Apple ][ is coming back, it just means that people are sentemental about obsolete technology!
--- Speaking only for myself,
I have a .to domain. It's great--easy to register and pay for, I can log in and change any info I want and whois info is kept secret. HOWEVER, I can't explain to folks that .to is a valid domain name! For example, my High School reunion committee sent a questionaire out which asked our email addresses, for a directory. I gave mine, which is (for arguments sake) xxxx@xxxx.to and those bastards listed it as xxxx@xxxx.to.com! I was so furious I wanted to go over there and STRANGLE those people who put together that directory.
--- Speaking only for myself,