I'm sure someone has mentioned it, but I got here late and I don't feel like reading hundreds of comments.
I don't care how it gets arranged, but there needs to be a 5 cent per email charge. The 10 or so emails I send outside my intranet each day would cost me a whopping 50 cents, and I'd pay up to a dollar a day avg for my email priv.
I thought the whole idea of all the personal info sharing on the net was to allow advertisers to target their ads. But since spamming is essentially free, why bother? Well, a per email charge would perhaps get them to do real advertising like other mediums already do (TV, radio).
The bill states, in the exceptions section, that they are not allowed immunity if their action (B) causes economic loss to any person other than the affected file traders.
Logically it seems impossible to me that they can do anything over the internet that cannot be said to cause economic loss to someone else. In other words, any traffic they put on the internet could be said to cause economic loss to someone, because ultimately someone is paying for that bandwidth.
This bill doesn't seem like a very solid piece of legislation, even for what they want it to allow them to do.
You people bitching about bad journalism need to differentiate between the posting of this article and the content of the article itself.
The actual article does not say that privacy is being used against the "good" people. It just complains that his path was blocked in his attempt to uncover details about spending on HIS card.
It also states that the FBI doesn't seem interested in this.
And for you jackasses who keep saying, "he should have canceled the card after the first ($3100) attempt", well do you think he even knew about that attempt until the second charge came through, a month later?
I like some of the interesting links on/., but it sucks that 2/3 of the responses to articles articles are negative.
I personally found it very interesting to read this article, and I learned something (that may have been obvious to plenty of other people), but that is that "fraud" isn't treated as a serious crime, it's just an economic process.
The constant barrage of misspelled words and incorrect words is tiring.
Do people know that there are two words, "then", and "than"? (See WineX headline for this common mistake.) Have people heard the expression "i before e, except after c"? Certainly our programmers of tomorrow don't know it.
It's just embarassing that so many people even make it out of high school with abysmal written communication skills.
Neither Google nor Yahoo know anything about PanIP, whois.net doesn't know anything about them, and netsol's whois is broke.
And if it's not bogus, then you have a few options. I'm sure for less than 30k you could pay for a few black limousines to greet the PanIP board members. Broken limbs or lost appendages might send a powerful message.
"Oh yeah Jim, um, what's-his-name wanted me to tell you, uh, hangon a sec." *flip, beep, poke poke poke, scroll, read, fumble, flip* "Ok Jim, yeah it was so and so, and if I remember correctly he said blah blah blah."
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but how might you take notes, lookup information, or otherwise use the PDA part of your "phone" while you talk on it?
Once upon a time, a very busy programmer with several projects and many active email conversations decided to make full use of this program called Outlook 2000.
This programmer set up folders for each project, and sometimes for each contact. Then he started using the Tasks feature to keep track of activities.
It was all very good... he could send message with attachments, he could receive messages with attachments. He also discovered how convenient it was to create Tasks with URL attachments (drag-and-drop that URL from the address bar of IE into the task.)
The power of information was at his fingertips.
Then one day he happened along the Microsoft Product Updates website. Hmm, he thought, here's an "important" security patch for Office. After reading the release notes for the patch, he realized that this security patch was a good thing.
So programmer downloaded and installed the security patch. All appeared well. The patch installed without a hitch, and everything seemed fine.
Programmer continued his work briefly, until he needed to refer to a task and the information associated with it. Programmer opened the relavent task and looked around for the attached URL link.
Then programmer noticed something interesting written at the top of his window... "Outlook blocked access..."
I'm tired of storytelling. Suffice to say that virtually every fucking attachment, including the most benign of attachments, the URL link file, was completely and fully blocked from any kind of view by Outlook. This special "security" feature wasn't listed in the release notes. Essentially all the information storage that I had done to make my work more efficient was lost. Links to old facts were lost (hidden.) Files I had sent and received were effectively lost.
All because Microsoft needed a "fix" for all their ILOVEYOU and such viruses. If you want to be amazed, look at the list of file types that are blocked... Q262631
Now, if you think that is one cute little example of pain and suffering related to MS products, reply to this message and I'll provide you another good story. And another. And even another. I bet I can give you more stories than you want to read.
So where does this leave us? Even though MS admittedly has the best browser, no contest, I'm writing this in Mozilla. And in my job search I have lately been telling recruiters I'd like to avoid MS technologies (at a cost of job opportunities and perhaps even $5/hour in pay.)
If the software MS sold was actually good all around, perhaps the fact that their business practices were so evil wouldn't matter to me. But the only thing MS is good at is making money for their shareholders. They're not good at making software, don't confuse the two.
Game Programmers don't begin to earn what normal IT programmers do, and many of the game programmers are technically more adept and more committed to their work. For example, the same person would make between $55,000 and $85,000 as a game programmer, and $80,000 to $110,000 as an IT programmer (in modern languages like C++, Java, etc.) So don't think game programmers are rich.
As for retaining employees, absurd tactics like hiding them away, keeping them from visiting conventions, etc., are bad short-term solutions. The best way to retain employees is to have a good company culture. In America that means the people with any motivation leave the bad companies and go contract for other bad companies (or if they're really lucky, a good company.)
Most companies suck though. One reason is the stock market. As soon as a company becomes "public", they're beholden to the almighty quarterly earnings per share increase. Virtually all long-term positive goals (that ultimately would result in greater profits over a longer period) go right out of the picture because the pointy haired upper managers focus on doing anything possible to make this quarter's numbers good enough to keep their jobs.
X10 can bite me! long ago I had planned on experimenting with X10 controls in my future house (which doesn't exist yet), but I'm so sick of their flipping popup ads that I'm not buying anything from them ever.
I wonder if the their ad department has considered how many potential customers they may be running off with their damned annoying (and obviously sexually suggestive) ads for their stupid little camera.
Effectively one datapipe to the net? That doesn't scale very well, and it sure isn't very fault-tolerant.
They'd be much better off if they picked several sites across the world and ran a Raid-Earth system:) Sure costs go way up, but so does fault tolerance and scalability.
#47, "arranged triangles" is quite clearly one of the Florida vote ballots that, had it been accurately interpreted, would have given Gore his rightful place behind Clinton.
It also happens to be punchcard #4 of the DeCSS code. The MPAA better follow up on that one, there is quite clearly a threat of loss of proportion as never before imagined.
for the past 10 years environmentalist groups in california have done everything they could to keep new power plants from being built in that state.
now they don't have enough power to support all the people and business in that state, and they can't get new powerplants built fast enough to meet the demand.
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I don't care how it gets arranged, but there needs to be a 5 cent per email charge. The 10 or so emails I send outside my intranet each day would cost me a whopping 50 cents, and I'd pay up to a dollar a day avg for my email priv.
I thought the whole idea of all the personal info sharing on the net was to allow advertisers to target their ads. But since spamming is essentially free, why bother? Well, a per email charge would perhaps get them to do real advertising like other mediums already do (TV, radio).
Logically it seems impossible to me that they can do anything over the internet that cannot be said to cause economic loss to someone else. In other words, any traffic they put on the internet could be said to cause economic loss to someone, because ultimately someone is paying for that bandwidth.
This bill doesn't seem like a very solid piece of legislation, even for what they want it to allow them to do.
The actual article does not say that privacy is being used against the "good" people. It just complains that his path was blocked in his attempt to uncover details about spending on HIS card.
It also states that the FBI doesn't seem interested in this.
And for you jackasses who keep saying, "he should have canceled the card after the first ($3100) attempt", well do you think he even knew about that attempt until the second charge came through, a month later?
I like some of the interesting links on
I personally found it very interesting to read this article, and I learned something (that may have been obvious to plenty of other people), but that is that "fraud" isn't treated as a serious crime, it's just an economic process.
Do people know that there are two words, "then", and "than"? (See WineX headline for this common mistake.) Have people heard the expression "i before e, except after c"? Certainly our programmers of tomorrow don't know it.
It's just embarassing that so many people even make it out of high school with abysmal written communication skills.
# rant +
This looks bogus.
Neither Google nor Yahoo know anything about PanIP, whois.net doesn't know anything about them, and netsol's whois is broke.
And if it's not bogus, then you have a few options. I'm sure for less than 30k you could pay for a few black limousines to greet the PanIP board members. Broken limbs or lost appendages might send a powerful message.
Here's a site to compliment the Xenu site: Rick Ross's Site
...you can't USE the pda while you use the phone.
"Oh yeah Jim, um, what's-his-name wanted me to tell you, uh, hangon a sec." *flip, beep, poke poke poke, scroll, read, fumble, flip* "Ok Jim, yeah it was so and so, and if I remember correctly he said blah blah blah."
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but how might you take notes, lookup information, or otherwise use the PDA part of your "phone" while you talk on it?
You obviously haven't spent much time using them.
Let me tell you a little story.
Once upon a time, a very busy programmer with several projects and many active email conversations decided to make full use of this program called Outlook 2000.
This programmer set up folders for each project, and sometimes for each contact. Then he started using the Tasks feature to keep track of activities.
It was all very good... he could send message with attachments, he could receive messages with attachments. He also discovered how convenient it was to create Tasks with URL attachments (drag-and-drop that URL from the address bar of IE into the task.)
The power of information was at his fingertips.
Then one day he happened along the Microsoft Product Updates website. Hmm, he thought, here's an "important" security patch for Office. After reading the release notes for the patch, he realized that this security patch was a good thing.
So programmer downloaded and installed the security patch. All appeared well. The patch installed without a hitch, and everything seemed fine.
Programmer continued his work briefly, until he needed to refer to a task and the information associated with it. Programmer opened the relavent task and looked around for the attached URL link.
Then programmer noticed something interesting written at the top of his window... "Outlook blocked access..."
I'm tired of storytelling. Suffice to say that virtually every fucking attachment, including the most benign of attachments, the URL link file, was completely and fully blocked from any kind of view by Outlook. This special "security" feature wasn't listed in the release notes. Essentially all the information storage that I had done to make my work more efficient was lost. Links to old facts were lost (hidden.) Files I had sent and received were effectively lost.
All because Microsoft needed a "fix" for all their ILOVEYOU and such viruses. If you want to be amazed, look at the list of file types that are blocked... Q262631
Now, if you think that is one cute little example of pain and suffering related to MS products, reply to this message and I'll provide you another good story. And another. And even another. I bet I can give you more stories than you want to read.
So where does this leave us? Even though MS admittedly has the best browser, no contest, I'm writing this in Mozilla. And in my job search I have lately been telling recruiters I'd like to avoid MS technologies (at a cost of job opportunities and perhaps even $5/hour in pay.)
If the software MS sold was actually good all around, perhaps the fact that their business practices were so evil wouldn't matter to me. But the only thing MS is good at is making money for their shareholders. They're not good at making software, don't confuse the two.
spoken like a true college student :)
print out this post, then look over it in 8 years and see what you think...
anybody dork. I'll have to write that one down :)
Game Programmers don't begin to earn what normal IT programmers do, and many of the game programmers are technically more adept and more committed to their work. For example, the same person would make between $55,000 and $85,000 as a game programmer, and $80,000 to $110,000 as an IT programmer (in modern languages like C++, Java, etc.) So don't think game programmers are rich.
As for retaining employees, absurd tactics like hiding them away, keeping them from visiting conventions, etc., are bad short-term solutions. The best way to retain employees is to have a good company culture. In America that means the people with any motivation leave the bad companies and go contract for other bad companies (or if they're really lucky, a good company.)
Most companies suck though. One reason is the stock market. As soon as a company becomes "public", they're beholden to the almighty quarterly earnings per share increase. Virtually all long-term positive goals (that ultimately would result in greater profits over a longer period) go right out of the picture because the pointy haired upper managers focus on doing anything possible to make this quarter's numbers good enough to keep their jobs.
Bah now I'm all pissed off again.
all I have to say is,
X10 can bite me! long ago I had planned on experimenting with X10 controls in my future house (which doesn't exist yet), but I'm so sick of their flipping popup ads that I'm not buying anything from them ever.
I wonder if the their ad department has considered how many potential customers they may be running off with their damned annoying (and obviously sexually suggestive) ads for their stupid little camera.
Is it just me, or does the manufacturer website provide no explanation of how it provides depth of field? I especially like their "technology" page.
:)
To their credit, they do make good use of empty space on their website
Effectively one datapipe to the net? That doesn't scale very well, and it sure isn't very fault-tolerant.
:) Sure costs go way up, but so does fault tolerance and scalability.
They'd be much better off if they picked several sites across the world and ran a Raid-Earth system
#47, "arranged triangles" is quite clearly one of the Florida vote ballots that, had it been accurately interpreted, would have given Gore his rightful place behind Clinton.
It also happens to be punchcard #4 of the DeCSS code. The MPAA better follow up on that one, there is quite clearly a threat of loss of proportion as never before imagined.
fuck :(
for the past 10 years environmentalist groups in california have done everything they could to keep new power plants from being built in that state. now they don't have enough power to support all the people and business in that state, and they can't get new powerplants built fast enough to meet the demand.