Now we can stop having to worry about worms! Now that they have eliminated terrorism and the bang-up job they did with the drug war, I figured worms would be the next biggest thing on the list.
Heisenberg is driving along, and a cop pulls him over. The cop asks "Do you know how fast you were going?" And Heisenberg says "No... But I know where I am!"
Badum-ching!
Aww... come on. Cannot be condoned? If some company wants to spend 5 million dollars to make advertising not look and feel like advertising.... COOL! I hope it works. The things that I hate about ads are how much of an idiot they take me to be, it would be nice to be fooled by one for a change. It's harmless, or at least less harmless and offending than those "Want self-expression?!?! Buy Cingular!" -Tom
And why exactly do they need two instant message protocals? Let one go (ICQ!!) to the OSS community.
That's easy. So they can say they have all of those accounts as users. When everyone really knows that it's probably half of the total users, since anyone with an ICQ account probably also has an AIM account. Also why they don't delete AIM or ICQ accounts. Giving away the ability to say you have twice as many users than you really do doesn't make much business sense, and I think they would burn it and dance on the ashes before they gave it to the OSS community. These are bloodless, cold, calculated buisnessmen, not geeks.
From archived memory, I believe the sherman anti-trust act states that a business cannot refuse to sell something because they disagree with what the buyer will do with it after it is sold. I think Microsoft used this against IBM in the 80's. Anyone remember that? If so, does that apply here? (I imagine anything applies if you have good enough lawyers.)
Linux is also an excellent choice for office environment.
If you don't mind retraining users. When the admin assistant has worked 5 years on outlook and is damn near expert, but can't copy a file to save her, she's going to be a handful to train. These are creatures of habit. And when the new CEO toy comes out and there aren't drivers for linux, he'll get whatever system he wants... I'm sure you know the drill from there.
Can you imagine exactly how many hours has been wasted on handling virus outbreaks?
I would hope it's less than the amount that would be lost retraining. Besides, when linux gains a desktop marketshare, what makes you think that viruses won't happen there too. The reason that virus outbreaks haven't really made the radar on linux is that the spread is dependant on non-technical users. Geeks are a bad virus delivery device. Exploits in the platform aren't usually the problem.
When I want to setup a machine for my secretary for word processing, I can make sure she can only use that and nothing else
I can do that as well, a lot of admins just don't, and a lot of users are used to having more. It's hard to take away peoples' functionality once they have it.
I'm not even going to start the problems with allowing users to install their own stuffs in office computers, but you get the idea.
The same inexperienced admins that won't secure a NT system enough to stop user installs and virus outbreaks will have the same incomptence on linux systems if they took hold.
The modern desktop computing concept promoted by Microsoft is not as productive as the terminal-based idea promoted by IBM in 70-80s, in my opinion.
I agree. I run Neoware boxes on terminal servers via RDP, and with a properly set group policy and enough memory, it works remarkably well. With Citrix it's even better.
Linux, in my opinion, would have a lot of the same problems as Windows if it had the same user base. Any current system can be modded to perfection if the admin is good enough.
Just my 5 cents, adjusted for inflation. =)
heh... Well technically, interplanetary laws supercede interlunar laws, just like federal supercedes state. IANAIOOL (Intrastellar Or Otherwise Lawyer) But, we wouldn't want some alien getting through on a loophole just because it's out of jurisdiction.;)
The obvious conclusion being that we must dump radioactive materials into the ocean. =)
Seriously though, why not dump the junk near a subduction zone, and let it sink down to the chewy-nougat-filled molten center of the earth? It would take a few years, but it's gone faster than yucca will be.
Knowing the way my assosication operated, and all the stories I have heard about various ones around the country, these are the last people I would want controlling my internet. In my experience in condo living, the oldest retirees' are the ones controling it all, since they have nothing else to do. Within houses and new communities, there is one out here in south orange county, CA, that doesn't even allow people to park in their own driveway overnight. Anyone that parks on the street needs a pass from a homeowner. Anyone in violation get a ticket with an actual cash fine, although I think it's only for the homeowners, not for everyone else.
So what are these associations going to do with my internet access? It will be too expensive, manditory, slow, controlled, serverless to the extreme, with an EULA that will be so restrictive you can't get it out of the envelope it came in.
How is it remotely possible that the original energy drink isn't on the list? Folks, Coffee INVENTED energy. I can prove that with a white board, a marker, and 20 minutes.
I guess until pepsi sponsors a coffee drink, or buys starbucks, I am not going to see this fact hyped in the media.
That is funny. Not to split hairs, but when you ask someone to read something with the assumption that you have read it and understand it, you should really try to quote even somewhat correctly. I think this is the part you were talking about:
Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Try as I might, I couldn't find the word association anywhere in the bill of rights.
But in an effort to still see your point, I don't believe this inhibits free association in the real world. The implication of being in some database as a known associate of some person is not nearly as damning as a cop associating you in the same way. It's an effort by law enforcement to predict those that are going to break the law.
This is just a way to speed up what they already have to do, not much of a change of policy. And, potentially add many more into this category. So this is really just going to make them more efficient. Like I said, rather than the big book of polaroids, now they can search in a database.
I'm not a criminal, so I have very little to worry about. I know... take this in another context and it's big brother, sci-fi movie, paranoid, and scary. But really, if you want to be scared by a anything in the law, read the patriot act. This will help law enforcement do their jobs. And as funny as all the DCMA references and M$ jokes and such are, it's much more likely to be used on the guy that carjacks you than the guy on a P2P for Mp3's.
Crash units here in LA have been taking photos of teens, mostly under 18, that have "Gang affiliations". Anything from baggy jeans to tattoos or just being around known members. They take the poloroids and keep them for mugshots and other future use. So if the crash system works, what is the harm in making it digital? And if there are other signs that are known as "Crime affiliations" what's the harm in profiling those also? In the worst case scenario, if they started profiling people with white shoes for instance, everyone who disagreed with the profile would go out of their way to wear white shoes, thus negating the profile.
Sure this has dangerous implications, but what law these days doesn't?
Note to brits: Brush your teeth, stop listening to the cure, and drink a nice tall glass of shut the hell up. What the hell is the use of being british if you are so obviously bereft of humor? Bonnets and boots are things that little girls wear, not things on cars. "Now go away or I shall taunt you a secoond time-a!" =)
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As long as it doesn't have a ZIF socket. ;)
Now we can stop having to worry about worms! Now that they have eliminated terrorism and the bang-up job they did with the drug war, I figured worms would be the next biggest thing on the list.
Heisenberg is driving along, and a cop pulls him over. The cop asks "Do you know how fast you were going?" And Heisenberg says "No... But I know where I am!" Badum-ching!
Thanks. I had been wondering what Hank's position on that was. What a great way to put it too. Now I just gotta see if anyone recorded that show.
At least use it for something productive...d .com
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Old bosses addresses. Ex girlfriends. Be creative.
Isn't that a group project?
Aww... come on. Cannot be condoned? If some company wants to spend 5 million dollars to make advertising not look and feel like advertising.... COOL! I hope it works. The things that I hate about ads are how much of an idiot they take me to be, it would be nice to be fooled by one for a change. It's harmless, or at least less harmless and offending than those "Want self-expression?!?! Buy Cingular!"
-Tom
That's easy. So they can say they have all of those accounts as users. When everyone really knows that it's probably half of the total users, since anyone with an ICQ account probably also has an AIM account. Also why they don't delete AIM or ICQ accounts. Giving away the ability to say you have twice as many users than you really do doesn't make much business sense, and I think they would burn it and dance on the ashes before they gave it to the OSS community. These are bloodless, cold, calculated buisnessmen, not geeks.
From archived memory, I believe the sherman anti-trust act states that a business cannot refuse to sell something because they disagree with what the buyer will do with it after it is sold. I think Microsoft used this against IBM in the 80's. Anyone remember that? If so, does that apply here? (I imagine anything applies if you have good enough lawyers.)
Linux is also an excellent choice for office environment.
If you don't mind retraining users. When the admin assistant has worked 5 years on outlook and is damn near expert, but can't copy a file to save her, she's going to be a handful to train. These are creatures of habit. And when the new CEO toy comes out and there aren't drivers for linux, he'll get whatever system he wants... I'm sure you know the drill from there.
Can you imagine exactly how many hours has been wasted on handling virus outbreaks?
I would hope it's less than the amount that would be lost retraining. Besides, when linux gains a desktop marketshare, what makes you think that viruses won't happen there too. The reason that virus outbreaks haven't really made the radar on linux is that the spread is dependant on non-technical users. Geeks are a bad virus delivery device. Exploits in the platform aren't usually the problem.
When I want to setup a machine for my secretary for word processing, I can make sure she can only use that and nothing else
I can do that as well, a lot of admins just don't, and a lot of users are used to having more. It's hard to take away peoples' functionality once they have it.
I'm not even going to start the problems with allowing users to install their own stuffs in office computers, but you get the idea.
The same inexperienced admins that won't secure a NT system enough to stop user installs and virus outbreaks will have the same incomptence on linux systems if they took hold.
The modern desktop computing concept promoted by Microsoft is not as productive as the terminal-based idea promoted by IBM in 70-80s, in my opinion.
I agree. I run Neoware boxes on terminal servers via RDP, and with a properly set group policy and enough memory, it works remarkably well. With Citrix it's even better.
Linux, in my opinion, would have a lot of the same problems as Windows if it had the same user base. Any current system can be modded to perfection if the admin is good enough. Just my 5 cents, adjusted for inflation. =)
-Tom
Isn't the robot a circumvention device under the DCMA then?
M.C. Esher does smileys?
-Tom
heh... Well technically, interplanetary laws supercede interlunar laws, just like federal supercedes state. IANAIOOL (Intrastellar Or Otherwise Lawyer) But, we wouldn't want some alien getting through on a loophole just because it's out of jurisdiction. ;)
I didn't even know they were Catholic! *ba-dum 'ching*
Wouldn't that be interplanetary? =)
The obvious conclusion being that we must dump radioactive materials into the ocean. =)
Seriously though, why not dump the junk near a subduction zone, and let it sink down to the chewy-nougat-filled molten center of the earth? It would take a few years, but it's gone faster than yucca will be.
If memory serves, Three mile island released an estimated 3 curies of radiation, and there was no fallout. Compared to chernobyl, it was nothing.
Heh... Worked for our airlines, right? (Okay, well the airlines LOOK more secure, I'll give them that.)
terror
Intense, overpowering fear. See Synonyms at fear.
One that instills intense fear: a rabid dog that became the terror of the neighborhood.
The ability to instill intense fear: the terror of jackboots pounding down the street.
Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
Informal. An annoying or intolerable pest: that little terror of a child.
While you are technically correct, nothing instills 'intense fear' like death. It's not like people associate that with a tax audit.
Knowing the way my assosication operated, and all the stories I have heard about various ones around the country, these are the last people I would want controlling my internet. In my experience in condo living, the oldest retirees' are the ones controling it all, since they have nothing else to do. Within houses and new communities, there is one out here in south orange county, CA, that doesn't even allow people to park in their own driveway overnight. Anyone that parks on the street needs a pass from a homeowner. Anyone in violation get a ticket with an actual cash fine, although I think it's only for the homeowners, not for everyone else.
So what are these associations going to do with my internet access? It will be too expensive, manditory, slow, controlled, serverless to the extreme, with an EULA that will be so restrictive you can't get it out of the envelope it came in.
Oh well, I hope I am being pedantic and paranoid.
-Tom
How is it remotely possible that the original energy drink isn't on the list? Folks, Coffee INVENTED energy. I can prove that with a white board, a marker, and 20 minutes.
I guess until pepsi sponsors a coffee drink, or buys starbucks, I am not going to see this fact hyped in the media.
Am I really that old?!?! =)
-Tom
That is funny. Not to split hairs, but when you ask someone to read something with the assumption that you have read it and understand it, you should really try to quote even somewhat correctly. I think this is the part you were talking about:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Try as I might, I couldn't find the word association anywhere in the bill of rights.
But in an effort to still see your point, I don't believe this inhibits free association in the real world. The implication of being in some database as a known associate of some person is not nearly as damning as a cop associating you in the same way. It's an effort by law enforcement to predict those that are going to break the law.
This is just a way to speed up what they already have to do, not much of a change of policy. And, potentially add many more into this category. So this is really just going to make them more efficient. Like I said, rather than the big book of polaroids, now they can search in a database.
I'm not a criminal, so I have very little to worry about. I know... take this in another context and it's big brother, sci-fi movie, paranoid, and scary. But really, if you want to be scared by a anything in the law, read the patriot act. This will help law enforcement do their jobs. And as funny as all the DCMA references and M$ jokes and such are, it's much more likely to be used on the guy that carjacks you than the guy on a P2P for Mp3's.
-Tom
Crash units here in LA have been taking photos of teens, mostly under 18, that have "Gang affiliations". Anything from baggy jeans to tattoos or just being around known members. They take the poloroids and keep them for mugshots and other future use. So if the crash system works, what is the harm in making it digital? And if there are other signs that are known as "Crime affiliations" what's the harm in profiling those also? In the worst case scenario, if they started profiling people with white shoes for instance, everyone who disagreed with the profile would go out of their way to wear white shoes, thus negating the profile.
Sure this has dangerous implications, but what law these days doesn't?
-Tom
Marriage may be a union, but it doesn't mean you have to make up laws like a union. =)
-Tom
If the water is in metal piping, the METAL will conduct electricity much better than the water.
Note to brits: Brush your teeth, stop listening to the cure, and drink a nice tall glass of shut the hell up. What the hell is the use of being british if you are so obviously bereft of humor?
Bonnets and boots are things that little girls wear, not things on cars. "Now go away or I shall taunt you a secoond time-a!" =)