After all the dot-bombs, there are plenty of professional racks available dirt cheap at the auction sites or through liquidators. In fact, one of the places that I used to work at has 15 7-foot racks available for basically nothing (read: less than $100), right now they are only taking up space.
Unfortunately, as a user/listener of a radio station (air or net) we really don't have any rights. We never directly paid a radio station to listen to have access to their shows, so they don't have to guarantee broadcast.
That said, I really wish the union cheifs would pull their heads out of their asses, the talent (DJ's) that they represent will wind up losing popularity with their fans, since most people will assume that it is the DJ's that are being greedy instead of the collection of union execs.
Another concern is people that buy (or are given) a computer only to use for word processing, spreadsheets, and games. For example, my mother-inlaw has a computer at home, but does not have an internet connection. For one, she can't afford to and for two doesn't need/want to be connected at home. How will subscriptions be validated/authorized. It sounds like a subscription (dis)service would be tcp/ip based rather than dedicated dial-up.
Won't most commercial software have legal back doors in them due to the UCITA and DMCA?
Who is going to know how to control the backdoors besides the vendor? One hint, disgruntled ex employees of the vendors who wrote the backdoor code and then the rest of the world one they post the exploit or entry code/script to USENET.
Exactly, I've been hired for many jobs, and in turn I have interviewed and hired others for positions I had open, I've never asked for the mythical 'Permenant Record'.
Hell, one of my jobs required an entire background screening by an aproved FBI screening organization and I don't think they even looked at that mythical record. At that job, I then hired a person from the UK, they definitely didn't have the 'Permenant Record' that kids in the US are daily threatened with.
I usually don't feed the AC's (trolls) but here I go:
I worked at a company that wasn't a software development company, but a manufacturer of physical product. I had one project that was a promotion for a marketing department. I went through all of the steps of determing what they wanted out of the project, short-term and long-term goals, deliverables, timeline, etc. My group had the project done in about 4 weeks, during that time the Marketing sponsors of the project had been kept in the loop with beta builds, but at 'final' review by marketing, they came up with all sorts of new ideas for look and feel along with functionality, along with functions that we had never anticipated they would ever want. They refused to sign-off on the project and wanted all of their changes made, although most of them did not conform with the original specs.
This same scenario happened to a lesser degree, three more times before the project was finally sign-off (grudgingly) by the marketing sponsor.
I learned what to look for in the personality of the sponsor (both individual and group) and will never do a project for that type again. All the best planing wouldn't have saved us from that nightmare. The only saving grace would have been if my senior manager would have put his foot down after the first delivery and said the project meets the specs.
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I've been in the situations where a boss can't say no to a client too, but that boss also would try to get every project he could. Many times the price he would quote would get rejected by the client, so he would lower the cost by 50 - 75% in order to get the job. Unfortunately, the man hour cost of the job was about 65% of the ORGINAL quote and we'd lose money, it would also tarnish all future quotes for that company. He'd try to manage costs by shortening the production schedule, so we wound up with one fast-paced death march after another which produced hurried, buggy code, that we would be forced to fix later, at our company's own expense anyway.
Ask any band out there about who pays for the recording costs. The record company fronts the bands the money, but the record company get's every cent back from the band's cut of the sales before the band receives any profits.
It doesn't matter who you pay! You are going to pay for it sooner or later. You can pay a pimp/prostitute/wife/girlfriend whatever. Just ask any married man!
How about corporate fraud? For example; the millions of dollars the companies claimed to have lossed when Mitnick copied some files from their systems. Will the insurance companies evaluate the real loss and put those companies figures back in line? Of course the DoS attacks ammounted to real losses, but file copying, give me a break.
There is a very huge me-too approach in the industry. When one company launches a product that does very well, other companies tend to launch competing products, even if the efficacy does not match the original. The bottom line is the most important thing to most (not all, there are some good exceptions) of these companies. I have sat through more meetings and corporate town halls where the only thing talked about is scripts written, price points and market penetration.
Even worse, it is what the biotech companys do with it. I just left a major pharmaceutical company (soon to be the largest after a merger this summer) and their concentration is on 'blockbuster' drugs (read: huge seller). I can forsee many new drugs comming out to handle social diseases for example impotency and baldness because these affect many more people than a disease such as MS or Alzheimers. These companies are going to go where the money is and help us all look better and screw better instead of treating some of the more serious afflictions.
BXXP will never make it out of the gates. I think the RIAA is already preparing a lawsuit to stop BXXP in the chance that it may promote illegal trading of mp3's!
Are there any oil rigs near the many underwater communications cables strung across the oceans? That would instantly solve any satellite problems. There are also many abandoned cables that could be lit up.
First we gain police control on the net, then we add mandatory telescreens to every wall! But if France doesn't allow hate speech, then how will we have our mandatory 2 minute hate everyday. I gotta stop reading 1984.
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After all the dot-bombs, there are plenty of professional racks available dirt cheap at the auction sites or through liquidators. In fact, one of the places that I used to work at has 15 7-foot racks available for basically nothing (read: less than $100), right now they are only taking up space.
That said, I really wish the union cheifs would pull their heads out of their asses, the talent (DJ's) that they represent will wind up losing popularity with their fans, since most people will assume that it is the DJ's that are being greedy instead of the collection of union execs.
example:
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Then you have the cgi return a single pixel gif.
Another concern is people that buy (or are given) a computer only to use for word processing, spreadsheets, and games. For example, my mother-inlaw has a computer at home, but does not have an internet connection. For one, she can't afford to and for two doesn't need/want to be connected at home. How will subscriptions be validated/authorized. It sounds like a subscription (dis)service would be tcp/ip based rather than dedicated dial-up.
PING www.gayteenresources.org (209.15.8.89): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.15.8.89: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=51.983 ms
209.15.8.89
Who is going to know how to control the backdoors besides the vendor? One hint, disgruntled ex employees of the vendors who wrote the backdoor code and then the rest of the world one they post the exploit or entry code/script to USENET.
What about people that read aloud to themselves when they read?
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Hell, one of my jobs required an entire background screening by an aproved FBI screening organization and I don't think they even looked at that mythical record. At that job, I then hired a person from the UK, they definitely didn't have the 'Permenant Record' that kids in the US are daily threatened with.
I worked at a company that wasn't a software development company, but a manufacturer of physical product. I had one project that was a promotion for a marketing department. I went through all of the steps of determing what they wanted out of the project, short-term and long-term goals, deliverables, timeline, etc. My group had the project done in about 4 weeks, during that time the Marketing sponsors of the project had been kept in the loop with beta builds, but at 'final' review by marketing, they came up with all sorts of new ideas for look and feel along with functionality, along with functions that we had never anticipated they would ever want. They refused to sign-off on the project and wanted all of their changes made, although most of them did not conform with the original specs.
This same scenario happened to a lesser degree, three more times before the project was finally sign-off (grudgingly) by the marketing sponsor.
I learned what to look for in the personality of the sponsor (both individual and group) and will never do a project for that type again. All the best planing wouldn't have saved us from that nightmare. The only saving grace would have been if my senior manager would have put his foot down after the first delivery and said the project meets the specs.
I've been in the situations where a boss can't say no to a client too, but that boss also would try to get every project he could. Many times the price he would quote would get rejected by the client, so he would lower the cost by 50 - 75% in order to get the job. Unfortunately, the man hour cost of the job was about 65% of the ORGINAL quote and we'd lose money, it would also tarnish all future quotes for that company. He'd try to manage costs by shortening the production schedule, so we wound up with one fast-paced death march after another which produced hurried, buggy code, that we would be forced to fix later, at our company's own expense anyway.
Ask any band out there about who pays for the recording costs. The record company fronts the bands the money, but the record company get's every cent back from the band's cut of the sales before the band receives any profits.
Then you can teach the kids all about First Posts!
It doesn't matter who you pay! You are going to pay for it sooner or later. You can pay a pimp/prostitute/wife/girlfriend whatever. Just ask any married man!
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Not my personal thoughts, just other names registered by 2600.
Exactly, and many features of Netscape were so much friendlier to developers, but my sites have over 90% IE usage.
How about corporate fraud? For example; the millions of dollars the companies claimed to have lossed when Mitnick copied some files from their systems. Will the insurance companies evaluate the real loss and put those companies figures back in line? Of course the DoS attacks ammounted to real losses, but file copying, give me a break.
There is a very huge me-too approach in the industry. When one company launches a product that does very well, other companies tend to launch competing products, even if the efficacy does not match the original. The bottom line is the most important thing to most (not all, there are some good exceptions) of these companies. I have sat through more meetings and corporate town halls where the only thing talked about is scripts written, price points and market penetration.
Even worse, it is what the biotech companys do with it. I just left a major pharmaceutical company (soon to be the largest after a merger this summer) and their concentration is on 'blockbuster' drugs (read: huge seller). I can forsee many new drugs comming out to handle social diseases for example impotency and baldness because these affect many more people than a disease such as MS or Alzheimers. These companies are going to go where the money is and help us all look better and screw better instead of treating some of the more serious afflictions.
BXXP will never make it out of the gates. I think the RIAA is already preparing a lawsuit to stop BXXP in the chance that it may promote illegal trading of mp3's!
Are there any oil rigs near the many underwater communications cables strung across the oceans? That would instantly solve any satellite problems. There are also many abandoned cables that could be lit up.
First we gain police control on the net, then we add mandatory telescreens to every wall! But if France doesn't allow hate speech, then how will we have our mandatory 2 minute hate everyday. I gotta stop reading 1984.