Yes we do. Vote against all incumbants, they are all owned by the lobbyist with the fattest checkbook. Party is not important to anyone who has served more than 2 terms, just money.
Flamebait? If you think that you are probably one of those that thinks the Govt. is a jobs program. Therefore part of the problem. It will not change until change is forced on the giant morass.
Congress can change it but they might have to limit their staffs to less than 20 and actually have to do some work themselves. Fat Chance. If you make less than $135,000/year you have NO representation in Washington. They only represent their own tax bracket and those they aspire to. Vote against all incumbants to solve the problem. Party affiliation does not matter, they are all for sale to the major contributors.
Since when has anything in the US Govt. been managed in an efficient or intelligent way? I doubt if anyone in Washington can spell efficient. Bureaucrats are affraid to make real decisions, they might be held accountable. This is true of every Govt. job from mid level on down, and to some degree in the upper levels. They just try to generate enough paper to justify their existance, none of it has to make any sense or actually accomplish anything.
efficiency + Government = a bigger oxymoron than Military Intelligence.
The only way it would work is with class action status. Combine everyone who has suffered loses from their bad code in one group. Unfortunately the only winners in any civil case are the lawyers. It would be easy to find good ones for thirty pecent of 20 billion though.
They don't need to bribe politicians. They work through the unions like NEA. Most schoolboard members don't know enough about what is actually taught in schools to make a change.
Thanks to the NEA all teachers have to have an education degree instead of a degree in the subject they teach with an education minor. Look what thats done to the quality of US schools in the last 30 years.
A liability waiver (which is really what M$ EULA is) has never stood up in court, ever. Every lawyer tells you to have one because it intimidates 90%+ of the people from sueing you. Those that do sue will win because the courts seem to understand an attempt to dodge responsibility. In M$ case that is something that should have been fixed by the anti-trust case.
Windows has always been very secure in it's original intended environment. Attached to nothing but a power source and a printer. It is when it is allowed to communicate with other computers that security is completely lost.
"The playstation basically saved the Sony hardware division"
Except for the fact that all first gen PS2's had laser trouble. My son-in-laws(both) have had to return theirs four times each.
Sony R&D is fantastic, but the companies excecution is shoddy. If they just liscensed their ideas to someone who built quality hardware, they might make a larger bundle.
In High Point, NC there are two companies that illustrate this issue.
Henreddon Furniture: Needed to improve their DB. Brought in Oracle and spent 18 months with an Oracle team fitting it to their business. Kept adding bells and whistles and went bankrupt without ever putting the Oracle solution in production. Bad planning by bad management? Absolutely. They never knew when to stop adding features and just do what they started. Wasted close to $5 million.
Culp: Still using programs written by in house development team. Some of these were originaly run on an S36 IBM and now run on an AS400. All software has been written, maintained and upgraded/updated in house. This is one of the very few textile companies based in NC to still show a profit consistantly in a very depressed industry (due to foriegn competition).
Why anyone should believe this: I had two instructors at the local Community College, one was on the Oracle team at Henreddon and went back to school for his PHD after the collapse, instead of moving halfway across country for the next job. The other is the head programmer at Culp and teaches at night. They know what they are talking about. One common theme: Spend the most time in planning, set the boundries, parameters, etc, then write code. Once codeing starts no changes should be allowed (by management) until the test stage.
I work in a white box store. When I take the $50 - $150 that we charge to clean a system up, I explain that all pop-ups are evil. No exceptions, no excuses, if you click on a pop up you have spyware. Then I show them how to update and run Ad-Aware and Spybot and tell them to do it weekly. Every box that leaves our store has these installed, repaired or brand new. I just treat it as part of the Win installation process on a new or reformatted machine. I also run Win update on everything, had a dial up connected machine last week that didn't even have SP1 on it yet. We have DSL so it only makes sense.
I'm still trying to get the owner to print on receipts that if you don't update and run an Anti-Virus program regulary, there is no warranty! It's not perfect but it is another education tool. The more we educate the masses the fewer problems we will have.
Trust me, the NEA has done more to dumb down the Nation over the last forty years than anyone else. When I was in public school (60's-70's) all high school teachers had a degree in what they taught and a minor in Education. Today they have a degree in Education and maybe a minor in something close to what they teach. That is what the NEA sold to the dummies in DC and every state Capital in the country. My Mom taught for 20 years and my Dad was a Proffessor for 30.
I have no problem with a 12th grade dictionary for that purpose. The problem is still the conflict of intrest between lawyers and Congress. A person should not have to hire a lawyer to interpret a law. It should be readable and understandable to the average citizen. Legaleze is a bastardized language to make lawyers seem special.
The actual point of the law reference was that it's a conflict of interest for lawyers to write laws, that they and their peers have to interpret. Congress should be given an eigth grade dictionary and not allowed to use any word not in it.
Buzz words = pure crappola. Kind of like the convoluted crap out of Washington, try to read any bill enacted by Congress( of course writing it like that guarantees every lawyer perpetual employment translating it to English). Thats where this started, then the marketing morons got their hands on it and it got a hundered times worse in ten years. It really is a contest to see who can use the most words to say the least.
You might want to look at the fact that farmers always save a percentage of the harvest for next years seed. This has only been done for thousands of years. There were no seed companies or plant breeders, if you didn't keep some you had nothing to plant next year.
Having grown up in the house of an Ag Professor at a Land Grant University (NMSU) I know both sides of this issue. Hell, some of the guys who got their PHD's under my Dad used to work in Monsanto's R&D, some might still be there.
The funny thing is, if you go back and read Genisis, no where does it say how God created things, it just says why he did it. If you start with Creation and then add Evolution to the mix you will probably be closer to the truth than any extremist.
Nothing from the minds of humans is 100% correct, because the only people who don't make mistakes are the ones that aren't doing anything.
Remember, in the soon to opened hunting season on lawyers, the people at Game and Fish have come up with the following rules: 1. No standing on a corner yelling "free Scotch". 2. No hunting within 200 feet of an ambulance. 3. No hunting within 500 feet of an accident, (baited field).
Don't forget the big one: this will be hacked! On guns or anything else, if code is involved, it will be hacked. I think events of the last ten years prove the point.
Let's be fair. Target Kennedy and Hatch, one form each side. They are both jokes to the average person who knows that anyone who serves two terms in DC is bought and paid for. There is ample reason to dislike both and Hatch would get a larger vote against here on/. Think about his "bosses" at the **AA's.
I agree, At the shop I work in, a customer brought in an old one from his machine shop last week. This thing was so old it needed an AT power supply. It had inches of oily black dust in it. That is probably what killed the PS. New PS and a lot of compressed air and it ran fine, in the shop and online in 4 hours, my boss took an hour and a half to go get the new PS as we were out.
That is one of the most cynical comments I've seen in a long time. Unfortunatly I'd bet it's true. Which meeans that this sad system needs fixing, desperately. Gee I think thats an ongoing theme here. Maybe the geeks are right. Now how do you get the Congresscritters to pay attention?
It changed, no doubt. The effects of that change were not felt by the economy for several months. There is always a lag time for the effects to show up after any event, good or bad. The events of 9/11 were so big that the effect came sooner than normal. I think it's because our national confidence was hit hard. That is a very difficult thing to repair. Truly, as a Nation, we are just now getting it back.
Any President is stuck with the previous administrations economy for 2 - 3 years. If he made changes during his first year, that is when they will take hold. No President can change things fast, Congress is swimming in honey for there speed, and the economy of a nation takes guidance from politicians with the ease of pushing a rope.
This just proves that there is not one person in Redmond that can even spell security, much less actually do something about it.
If M$ would ever start with a clean hard drive and write their next OS from scratch, they might fix most of this. Instead they just add to the exising buggy crap they've had for fourteen years.
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Yes we do. Vote against all incumbants, they are all owned by the lobbyist with the fattest checkbook. Party is not important to anyone who has served more than 2 terms, just money.
Flamebait? If you think that you are probably one of those that thinks the Govt. is a jobs program. Therefore part of the problem. It will not change until change is forced on the giant morass.
Congress can change it but they might have to limit their staffs to less than 20 and actually have to do some work themselves. Fat Chance. If you make less than $135,000/year you have NO representation in Washington. They only represent their own tax bracket and those they aspire to. Vote against all incumbants to solve the problem. Party affiliation does not matter, they are all for sale to the major contributors.
Since when has anything in the US Govt. been managed in an efficient or intelligent way? I doubt if anyone in Washington can spell efficient. Bureaucrats are affraid to make real decisions, they might be held accountable. This is true of every Govt. job from mid level on down, and to some degree in the upper levels. They just try to generate enough paper to justify their existance, none of it has to make any sense or actually accomplish anything.
efficiency + Government = a bigger oxymoron than Military Intelligence.
The only way it would work is with class action status. Combine everyone who has suffered loses from their bad code in one group. Unfortunately the only winners in any civil case are the lawyers. It would be easy to find good ones for thirty pecent of 20 billion though.
So no, sadly it will never happen.
They don't need to bribe politicians. They work through the unions like NEA. Most schoolboard members don't know enough about what is actually taught in schools to make a change.
Thanks to the NEA all teachers have to have an education degree instead of a degree in the subject they teach with an education minor. Look what thats done to the quality of US schools in the last 30 years.
That would be nice, but I won't hold my breath.
A liability waiver (which is really what M$ EULA is) has never stood up in court, ever. Every lawyer tells you to have one because it intimidates 90%+ of the people from sueing you. Those that do sue will win because the courts seem to understand an attempt to dodge responsibility. In M$ case that is something that should have been fixed by the anti-trust case.
Windows has always been very secure in it's original intended environment. Attached to nothing but a power source and a printer. It is when it is allowed to communicate with other computers that security is completely lost.
"The playstation basically saved the Sony hardware division"
Except for the fact that all first gen PS2's had laser trouble. My son-in-laws(both) have had to return theirs four times each.
Sony R&D is fantastic, but the companies excecution is shoddy. If they just liscensed their ideas to someone who built quality hardware, they might make a larger bundle.
In High Point, NC there are two companies that illustrate this issue.
Henreddon Furniture: Needed to improve their DB. Brought in Oracle and spent 18 months with an Oracle team fitting it to their business. Kept adding bells and whistles and went bankrupt without ever putting the Oracle solution in production. Bad planning by bad management? Absolutely. They never knew when to stop adding features and just do what they started. Wasted close to $5 million.
Culp: Still using programs written by in house development team. Some of these were originaly run on an S36 IBM and now run on an AS400. All software has been written, maintained and upgraded/updated in house. This is one of the very few textile companies based in NC to still show a profit consistantly in a very depressed industry (due to foriegn competition).
Why anyone should believe this: I had two instructors at the local Community College, one was on the Oracle team at Henreddon and went back to school for his PHD after the collapse, instead of moving halfway across country for the next job. The other is the head programmer at Culp and teaches at night. They know what they are talking about. One common theme: Spend the most time in planning, set the boundries, parameters, etc, then write code. Once codeing starts no changes should be allowed (by management) until the test stage.
I work in a white box store. When I take the $50 - $150 that we charge to clean a system up, I explain that all pop-ups are evil. No exceptions, no excuses, if you click on a pop up you have spyware. Then I show them how to update and run Ad-Aware and Spybot and tell them to do it weekly. Every box that leaves our store has these installed, repaired or brand new. I just treat it as part of the Win installation process on a new or reformatted machine. I also run Win update on everything, had a dial up connected machine last week that didn't even have SP1 on it yet. We have DSL so it only makes sense.
I'm still trying to get the owner to print on receipts that if you don't update and run an Anti-Virus program regulary, there is no warranty! It's not perfect but it is another education tool. The more we educate the masses the fewer problems we will have.
Trust me, the NEA has done more to dumb down the Nation over the last forty years than anyone else. When I was in public school (60's-70's) all high school teachers had a degree in what they taught and a minor in Education. Today they have a degree in Education and maybe a minor in something close to what they teach. That is what the NEA sold to the dummies in DC and every state Capital in the country. My Mom taught for 20 years and my Dad was a Proffessor for 30.
I have no problem with a 12th grade dictionary for that purpose. The problem is still the conflict of intrest between lawyers and Congress. A person should not have to hire a lawyer to interpret a law. It should be readable and understandable to the average citizen. Legaleze is a bastardized language to make lawyers seem special.
The actual point of the law reference was that it's a conflict of interest for lawyers to write laws, that they and their peers have to interpret. Congress should be given an eigth grade dictionary and not allowed to use any word not in it.
Buzz words = pure crappola. Kind of like the convoluted crap out of Washington, try to read any bill enacted by Congress( of course writing it like that guarantees every lawyer perpetual employment translating it to English). Thats where this started, then the marketing morons got their hands on it and it got a hundered times worse in ten years. It really is a contest to see who can use the most words to say the least.
You might want to look at the fact that farmers always save a percentage of the harvest for next years seed. This has only been done for thousands of years. There were no seed companies or plant breeders, if you didn't keep some you had nothing to plant next year.
Having grown up in the house of an Ag Professor at a Land Grant University (NMSU) I know both sides of this issue. Hell, some of the guys who got their PHD's under my Dad used to work in Monsanto's R&D, some might still be there.
The funny thing is, if you go back and read Genisis, no where does it say how God created things, it just says why he did it. If you start with Creation and then add Evolution to the mix you will probably be closer to the truth than any extremist.
Nothing from the minds of humans is 100% correct, because the only people who don't make mistakes are the ones that aren't doing anything.
Remember, in the soon to opened hunting season on lawyers, the people at Game and Fish have come up with the following rules:
1. No standing on a corner yelling "free Scotch".
2. No hunting within 200 feet of an ambulance.
3. No hunting within 500 feet of an accident, (baited field).
Why don't sharks bite lawyers?
A. Proffesional courtesy.
Don't forget the big one: this will be hacked! On guns or anything else, if code is involved, it will be hacked. I think events of the last ten years prove the point.
Let's be fair. Target Kennedy and Hatch, one form each side. They are both jokes to the average person who knows that anyone who serves two terms in DC is bought and paid for. There is ample reason to dislike both and Hatch would get a larger vote against here on /. Think about his "bosses" at the **AA's.
I agree, At the shop I work in, a customer brought in an old one from his machine shop last week. This thing was so old it needed an AT power supply. It had inches of oily black dust in it. That is probably what killed the PS. New PS and a lot of compressed air and it ran fine, in the shop and online in 4 hours, my boss took an hour and a half to go get the new PS as we were out.
That is one of the most cynical comments I've seen in a long time. Unfortunatly I'd bet it's true. Which meeans that this sad system needs fixing, desperately. Gee I think thats an ongoing theme here. Maybe the geeks are right. Now how do you get the Congresscritters to pay attention?
It changed, no doubt. The effects of that change were not felt by the economy for several months. There is always a lag time for the effects to show up after any event, good or bad. The events of 9/11 were so big that the effect came sooner than normal. I think it's because our national confidence was hit hard. That is a very difficult thing to repair. Truly, as a Nation, we are just now getting it back.
Any President is stuck with the previous administrations economy for 2 - 3 years. If he made changes during his first year, that is when they will take hold. No President can change things fast, Congress is swimming in honey for there speed, and the economy of a nation takes guidance from politicians with the ease of pushing a rope.
This just proves that there is not one person in Redmond that can even spell security, much less actually do something about it.
If M$ would ever start with a clean hard drive and write their next OS from scratch, they might fix most of this. Instead they just add to the exising buggy crap they've had for fourteen years.
of shit pack 2 was what? I guess to just add more ineffective bloat ware to everyones computer.
On one customers laptop (auto update allowed) SP2 changed the language to Boznian. Format re-install, dis-able auto screw up.
SP2 and Norton Internet Security 2003, or 2004 will almost always cause enough conflicts to require a R&R.
Are you sure that isn't indouche act? It will supposedly "clean things up".
SCO's going to self destruct before we get to see IBM pound them into dust.
It's been obvious that things were headed this way for awhile, but I still wanted the judges ruling.