One of the big reasons that people liked the Palms over the old Windows CE machines was that on a palm you don't have to do any resource management other than storage space. I really hope that this company did not fail to learn from MS mistakes. The only think worse than putting out a bad PDA is putting out a bad PDA first. Then you go and ruin the market for everyone.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
The biggest problem with the echelon system is that it is designed, monitiored and managed by people and that is probably the scariest part about the whole thing. If I thought for one second that the government could manage to dig up 100 or so people (that's my humble estimate as to how many people they need minimum) that had absolutely no pre-bias towards any group or person. I might think that this was a halfway decent approach to stopping terrorism. The problem is that the keyword list, AI logic or whatever is automatically skewed, because there are already so many ingrained ideas. People are just that only people, I can't honestly believe that if I used some keyword in my e-mail that also happened to contain bank information that certain individuals working on this system might not pocket the information. Or if I expressed certain views that may not agree with one of the administrators, a simple edit and save and I've been mysteriously identified as the man on the grassy knoll by e-mailing my confession to a friend/psycologist/religious advisor. I don't think that the system is flawed I think that the people who run the system are flawed.
remove the.spam to e-mail me
tj6581@cnsvax.spam.albany.spam.edu "Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
How many moderation points is CmdrTaco giving him self? Will you be moderated out of the lecture for showing up first? "Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
the report said accounts often remained open even after employees or contractors wound up their employment access was not promptly cut off nor curtailed to reflect changes in responsibilities. And managers were routinely giving ``overly broad access privileges to very large groups of users
Sounds like it's less that the system isn't secure and more like they really need to give their employees a good lesson in security.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
The article reads Stock Options not "stop options", I don't even know what the hell a "Stop Option" is. But I think that Stock Options is a Much better topic for discussion. This seems almost like it could lead to blackmail.
Give us stock/food/caffine or we release all of your games for free... "Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
If domestic companies keep up with this eventually the problem will not just be the not enough US Trained people but what will happen is that the US people will start to leave. Americans in general tend to think that we are immune to the sort of "Brain Drain" that other countries go through, because we're America and who wouldn't want to live/work here. With that attitude in mind companies pay their workers less with not as good benefits all while convincing their employees that they are better off for it. "Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
They are like my own radio station
That was exactly the problem, a radio station has to ask to play songs, they don't just go out and by a CD and play it on the air. The original ruling against them stated that they were in effect a pirate radio station. That was the source of the copyright infringement not the the people downloading the songs.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
What if you happened to write a test program in C++ that is supposed to only print "Hello World!" But because of an as yet unsolved bug in the program, it also accidentally decrypts DVDs? "Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
In the article they pointed out how difficult it is to develop for multiple PC configs. This gives game manufacturers a narrower range of designs when testing the product thereby resulting in cheaper legacy free games. (Think Doom 4 with an X-Box "default setting" and the ability to increase decrease detail)
One of these days you people will have to give up you serial mice and AT keyboard connectors!! "Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
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One of the big reasons that people liked the Palms over the old Windows CE machines was that on a palm you don't have to do any resource management other than storage space. I really hope that this company did not fail to learn from MS mistakes. The only think worse than putting out a bad PDA is putting out a bad PDA first. Then you go and ruin the market for everyone.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
The biggest problem with the echelon system is that it is designed, monitiored and managed by people and that is probably the scariest part about the whole thing. If I thought for one second that the government could manage to dig up 100 or so people (that's my humble estimate as to how many people they need minimum) that had absolutely no pre-bias towards any group or person. I might think that this was a halfway decent approach to stopping terrorism. The problem is that the keyword list, AI logic or whatever is automatically skewed, because there are already so many ingrained ideas. People are just that only people, I can't honestly believe that if I used some keyword in my e-mail that also happened to contain bank information that certain individuals working on this system might not pocket the information. Or if I expressed certain views that may not agree with one of the administrators, a simple edit and save and I've been mysteriously identified as the man on the grassy knoll by e-mailing my confession to a friend/psycologist/religious advisor. I don't think that the system is flawed I think that the people who run the system are flawed. remove the .spam to e-mail me
tj6581@cnsvax.spam.albany.spam.edu
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
How many moderation points is CmdrTaco giving him self? Will you be moderated out of the lecture for showing up first?
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
the report said accounts often remained open even after employees or contractors wound up their employment
access was not promptly cut off nor curtailed to reflect changes in responsibilities. And managers were routinely giving ``overly broad access privileges to very large groups of users
Sounds like it's less that the system isn't secure and more like they really need to give their employees a good lesson in security.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
The article reads Stock Options not "stop options", I don't even know what the hell a "Stop Option" is. But I think that Stock Options is a Much better topic for discussion. This seems almost like it could lead to blackmail.
Give us stock/food/caffine or we release all of your games for free...
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
If domestic companies keep up with this eventually the problem will not just be the not enough US Trained people but what will happen is that the US people will start to leave. Americans in general tend to think that we are immune to the sort of "Brain Drain" that other countries go through, because we're America and who wouldn't want to live/work here. With that attitude in mind companies pay their workers less with not as good benefits all while convincing their employees that they are better off for it.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
They are like my own radio station
That was exactly the problem, a radio station has to ask to play songs, they don't just go out and by a CD and play it on the air. The original ruling against them stated that they were in effect a pirate radio station. That was the source of the copyright infringement not the the people downloading the songs.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
What if you happened to write a test program in C++ that is supposed to only print "Hello World!" But because of an as yet unsolved bug in the program, it also accidentally decrypts DVDs?
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
In the article they pointed out how difficult it is to develop for multiple PC configs. This gives game manufacturers a narrower range of designs when testing the product thereby resulting in cheaper legacy free games. (Think Doom 4 with an X-Box "default setting" and the ability to increase decrease detail) One of these days you people will have to give up you serial mice and AT keyboard connectors!!
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"