Well, though they did provide nice fodder for press and authors looking for the thousands of ways America's youth are being raped by corporate America, ZapMe recently found itself fucked. Now it appears that they're "committed to creating advanced vertical networks for small to medium-sized businesses worldwide," whatever that is.
Ummm... last time I checked, virtually all publis schools are operated by local authorities, including the Las Vegas / Clark County School District. IANAL but the federal FOIA may not apply in this case - you may need to submit a request complying with Nevada law.
Not quite. You don't need a union (with all of the relevant bureaucracy) to improve conditions with your employer. Direct bargaining works fine, as proven by his experience.
Unions cause poor quality and regimented, unhappy workforces by promoting conflicts between managers and employees, and by pushing for stupid work rules that cause overstaffing. As a consumer, I want nothing to do with unions but am forced to deal with them (airlines, telcos, public sector). As an employee, I don't want any part of such activity. If my company treats me badly, I'll quit and go somewhere else - I'm confident in my skills.
...a casual dismissal of America's biggest company.
Umm, last time I checked, Fortune One was General Motors, not Microsoft. It looks like Wal-Mart may overtake GM in 2001... but Microsoft is down at number 84.
Not to take away from your comment - I do think the headline was flamebait and an obvious troll (just look at the comment id - it worked!) but MS isn't that huge.
Man, this would rock if they had it in the UAL Red Carpet Clubs. And on the planes. And on those annoying moving sidewalks you have to take to the terminal. And in the taxis to the airport. And...
Seriously, this is a great development and one that will make travel much easier - much in the way that national roaming on cellphones freed us from all those damn payphones and 25-digit dialing. Bring it on!
This slang term does not affect the strength of our trademark SPAM. In a Federal District Court case involving the famous trademark STAR WARS owned by LucasFilms,[sic] the Court ruled that the slang term used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative did not weaken the trademark and the Court refused to stop its use as a slang term. Other examples of famous trademarks having a different slang meaning include MICKEY MOUSE, to describe something as unsophisticated; TEFLON, used to describe President Reagan; and CADILLAC, used to denote something as being high quality.
So you can spam all your friends saying that the Teflon President's Mickey Mouse "Star Wars" program wasn't exactly the Cadillac of defense initiatives, and that's okay as long as you don't SPAM your friends with this info.
you sent paper shreddings, sheet metal, and glitter to the Mail Preference Service? After all, they're owned by the DMA, so they're sort of bad guys too, right?
Junk mailers have automatic envelope-opening machines. Post office doesn't. This machine opens the envelopes and gets sparkled. Unless you fill the envelope too tightly it probably won't jam the mail sorters, which are designed to handle envelopes full of tax forms and the like.
This is the best (fucking) idea I've seen in weeks. Crossover cables are one of those vestiges of a day when you needed a Ph.D. to set up a LAN - and they just make no sense in the day of auto-sensing ethernet cards. Get rid of 'em! That helps us move to the day when more stuff connects via ethernet, which makes impeccable sense.
The only thing online about them is that you order them online. If this applied to phone orders, they'd say that Domino's pizza drivers had the "worst telecommunications jobs" in the industry!
Forbes is just looking for ink and page views. Maybe the decline in dumb money will lead to fewer dumb articles like this... well, maybe not.
On the other hand, given the saturation of unscrupulous lawyers, there could be no studies showing any causation whatsoever, and yet there will be many more lawsuits and more anti-cell phone laws.
I remember well when there was a real, unplanned blackout in San Francisco for about 6 hours. It happened back in 1998 - it was quite a surreal experience.
I was working from home that day and discovered that my ISDN line didn't work (used that at the time for telecommuting); but this happened frequently on my block (unreliable power) so I figured I'd just go to the office. I went out to the car, and when I discovered that the electric buses didn't work, and the streetlights were out, it became obvious that nobody was going anywhere. My neighborhood coffee shop ran out of hot coffee very quickly, as EVERYONE needed some, and so I distinctly remember carrying home pre-ground french roast to make with my stovetop espresso maker.
The problem, utility officials said, originated with a PG&E construction crew error during the installation of a new transformer at the San Mateo substation. The crew violated procedures and neglected to remove a safety ground wire before re-energizing that portion of the substation.
When the switch was thrown, electricity bypassed four 115,000-volt lines that supply power to the Peninsula and San Francisco and instead plowed into the ground.
Fortunately the circuit breakers did their thing and prevented all sorts of chaos (other than power loss) on the power grid. But PG&E certainly did not make a good impression that day!
These guys are sharks and the scum of the earth. Remember CA's Proposition 211 a few years ago? That was Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach. They pay their very hefty salaries by shaking down tech companies.
If an ethical law firm were involved, that would be a different story.
You can get those at my corner store! Chocolate covered mint chip or chocolate chip ice cream, in a cookie sandwich. Good for you and tasty too (kind of).
I asked the question "Can you defeat it?" and got the following answer: "an encrypted filesystem would certainly do the trick." Since Andre notes that DeCSS-like tools would need to be constantly updated to reflect expiration / revocation of h4x0red keys, wouldn't it make more sense just to, as Andre notes, encrypt the filesystem before it hits the drive, so the drive can't tell whether you have a DivX copy of The Matrix or just random noise?
I'm no Linux guru but I bet someone here could develop just such a tool - and it probably wouldn't even qualify as "circumvention" under DMCA because there are lots of good reasons to encrypt your HD data. Of course there is the processing overhead, but that's getting cheaper every day (except for Mac users).
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Or there was in 1998.
Well, though they did provide nice fodder for press and authors looking for the thousands of ways America's youth are being raped by corporate America, ZapMe recently found itself fucked. Now it appears that they're "committed to creating advanced vertical networks for small to medium-sized businesses worldwide," whatever that is.
Ummm... last time I checked, virtually all publis schools are operated by local authorities, including the Las Vegas / Clark County School District. IANAL but the federal FOIA may not apply in this case - you may need to submit a request complying with Nevada law.
Not quite. You don't need a union (with all of the relevant bureaucracy) to improve conditions with your employer. Direct bargaining works fine, as proven by his experience.
Unions cause poor quality and regimented, unhappy workforces by promoting conflicts between managers and employees, and by pushing for stupid work rules that cause overstaffing. As a consumer, I want nothing to do with unions but am forced to deal with them (airlines, telcos, public sector). As an employee, I don't want any part of such activity. If my company treats me badly, I'll quit and go somewhere else - I'm confident in my skills.
they go bankrupt first?
Umm, last time I checked, Fortune One was General Motors, not Microsoft. It looks like Wal-Mart may overtake GM in 2001... but Microsoft is down at number 84.
Not to take away from your comment - I do think the headline was flamebait and an obvious troll (just look at the comment id - it worked!) but MS isn't that huge.
Seriously, this is a great development and one that will make travel much easier - much in the way that national roaming on cellphones freed us from all those damn payphones and 25-digit dialing. Bring it on!
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very amusing: I got the lameness filter with my original title, "Spam / first post". From the filter: "Reason: What do you want? A medal?"
This slang term does not affect the strength of our trademark SPAM. In a Federal District Court case involving the famous trademark STAR WARS owned by LucasFilms,[sic] the Court ruled that the slang term used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative did not weaken the trademark and the Court refused to stop its use as a slang term. Other examples of famous trademarks having a different slang meaning include MICKEY MOUSE, to describe something as unsophisticated; TEFLON, used to describe President Reagan; and CADILLAC, used to denote something as being high quality.
So you can spam all your friends saying that the Teflon President's Mickey Mouse "Star Wars" program wasn't exactly the Cadillac of defense initiatives, and that's okay as long as you don't SPAM your friends with this info.
you sent paper shreddings, sheet metal, and glitter to the Mail Preference Service? After all, they're owned by the DMA, so they're sort of bad guys too, right?
I've sent 5.5" square envelopes with no problem on a normal first class rate. Maybe larger ones are extra, but not that size.
Junk mailers have automatic envelope-opening machines. Post office doesn't. This machine opens the envelopes and gets sparkled. Unless you fill the envelope too tightly it probably won't jam the mail sorters, which are designed to handle envelopes full of tax forms and the like.
Do keep in mind that your meter maid may too be a fan of anal sex! You just might meet a new friend that way.
Just wait until I get another of those junk mailers with a penny taped inside ... I'll send 'em lots more! Great idea.
Dude, labor shortage... there are lots of jobs out there that don't involve harassing people at work.
This is the best (fucking) idea I've seen in weeks. Crossover cables are one of those vestiges of a day when you needed a Ph.D. to set up a LAN - and they just make no sense in the day of auto-sensing ethernet cards. Get rid of 'em! That helps us move to the day when more stuff connects via ethernet, which makes impeccable sense.
Did the DOJ sing its opinion that Jackson's not biased? If not, why the choice of category?
Forbes is just looking for ink and page views. Maybe the decline in dumb money will lead to fewer dumb articles like this ... well, maybe not.
(Did I say "could"? I mean "are"!)
I was working from home that day and discovered that my ISDN line didn't work (used that at the time for telecommuting); but this happened frequently on my block (unreliable power) so I figured I'd just go to the office. I went out to the car, and when I discovered that the electric buses didn't work, and the streetlights were out, it became obvious that nobody was going anywhere. My neighborhood coffee shop ran out of hot coffee very quickly, as EVERYONE needed some, and so I distinctly remember carrying home pre-ground french roast to make with my stovetop espresso maker.
It turned out that PG&E (that poor, suffering company in the news these days) had massively fucked up a maintenance job:
The problem, utility officials said, originated with a PG&E construction crew error during the installation of a new transformer at the San Mateo substation. The crew violated procedures and neglected to remove a safety ground wire before re-energizing that portion of the substation.
When the switch was thrown, electricity bypassed four 115,000-volt lines that supply power to the Peninsula and San Francisco and instead plowed into the ground.
Fortunately the circuit breakers did their thing and prevented all sorts of chaos (other than power loss) on the power grid. But PG&E certainly did not make a good impression that day!
If an ethical law firm were involved, that would be a different story.
You can get those at my corner store! Chocolate covered mint chip or chocolate chip ice cream, in a cookie sandwich. Good for you and tasty too (kind of).
I'm no Linux guru but I bet someone here could develop just such a tool - and it probably wouldn't even qualify as "circumvention" under DMCA because there are lots of good reasons to encrypt your HD data. Of course there is the processing overhead, but that's getting cheaper every day (except for Mac users).
MS will just charge for each ProductID...