Maybe it's time to have two browsers on your PC, one with Flash uninstalled for cases like this.
Microsoft Word 6.0 Mac
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VIM 6.0 is Out
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· Score: 1, Troll
Come on, everyone knows Microsoft Word 6.0 for the Macintosh is far and away the best text editor out there. I am shocked and amazed that anyone would still use these unix tools that don't have a Tip of the Day and pretty cut and paste buttons! Plus the macro language is extremely useful in Word 6.0 and later versions - if you can't automate your most important features, the program just isn't worth using.
A lot of the most interesting stuff is out on vinyl first or only (what all those uberhip DJs carry around in their milk crates). This is a trend we want to encourage.
Huh? Joe Public buys a lot of iMacs with the "Rip, Mix, Burn" ads. I am quite sure he and his mom will care when the new Eminem (or whatever) can't be ripped.
My company actually mandated everyone get encryption (in our case, Entrust) on our laptops before we went on a project in Asia last year. Turns
out, the clients we were doing the work for would attempt to hack into our computers while we we're using their network. They dove into some folks'
laptops and read/copied email, files, etc. and then used the information when negotiating with us!
Interesting. In a world where backdoors are required, I suppose that the h4x0rs (like your clients, or the PRC govt, say) would find them pretty easily.
Why go to all that trouble (and incur all that expense!) to go to college if you just want to use the net all day? I may be an old fogey on this one but I just don't understand the concept of IMing through lectures instead of, for example, paying attention.
Not if they use some crappy-ass proprietary copy=protected.NAP format. Forget it! MP3 is the standard, and if they can't use it, they should do the honorable thing, sell their t-shirts and go home.
It's about actually treating your
company the same way you want to be treated.... there is a really big friggin difference between being a "yes" man and just not being a
prick to your company.
I agree completely. There's no reason to be a prick to your company, because the people who get that treatment are ultimately your colleagues who have come to depend on you. Good karma (lower case k) is worth having, the economy notwithstanding.
Okay, so maybe Adelman and Hellman could have agreed to classify their codes back in the seventies. Um, 25 years later, just precisely how does anyone think that this knowledge will be suddenly erased from the world? When no reasonable user or developer would ever give it up? All of this talk about unintended consequences is interesting and all, but any discussion of stopping it now is sheer folly.
Yeah, Katz, you're saying that now, but weren't you talking not long ago about the New Economy and how it would change everything?
Re:It's reaping and sowing time
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Morals and Layoffs
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· Score: 3, Insightful
No, the employers caused this when they did the mass layoffs for "downsizing" in the early nineties. Anyone who even watched that from afar should have learned that loyalty ain't worth shit, and you should always (a) keep your skills up; and (b) keep your eyes open for better opportunities. Since job-hopping is more accepted in the tech business, this naturally led to people switching more oten during the boom. Now that we're almost certainly in a recession, it's more difficult - but that doesn't mean that we should all turn into starched-collared Organization Men again.
Not without making criminals of tens of millions of law-abiding users. I for one think that alone makes it unrealistic.
Maybe Slashdot should do a poll: Would you knowingly violate a law that bans strong encryption without backdoors? I bet "Yes" would be >90%, and "CowboyNeal" would be well in excess of "No."
What can you do when, like him, you're misquoted in by a journalist?
Assuming you really were misquoted (and this is a pretty egregious case), you should do the following:
1. Talk to the journalist directly. Find out what happened, and tell the journalist that you won't be a source again unless it's corrected. Responsible papers run corrections routinely.
2. If it's not corrected that way, write a letter to the editor explaining how you were misquoted and setting the record straight.
If, however, you did make the comment and it was taken out of context, or you gave him/her the response he/she was looking for ("Are you angry that Microsoft is shipping XP?" "Yes" can lead to unfavorable press, for example) you don't have much recourse as this really is the prerogative of the journalist. In this case you just need to be more careful, and if possible pick a fairer reporter to give your story to next time.
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Maybe it's time to have two browsers on your PC, one with Flash uninstalled for cases like this.
Come on, everyone knows Microsoft Word 6.0 for the Macintosh is far and away the best text editor out there. I am shocked and amazed that anyone would still use these unix tools that don't have a Tip of the Day and pretty cut and paste buttons! Plus the macro language is extremely useful in Word 6.0 and later versions - if you can't automate your most important features, the program just isn't worth using.
... And there will be a big boom in used CDs if/when Universal's copy-protected shite hits the stores. Good!
this has only been passed in Maryland (I think)
where's the poll dammit? You can add a poll to a story, do it here.
Easy - when Slashdot gets it wrong, it's part of an evil conspiracy too.
Amazon.com and CDNOW reviews have already included this in the comments (on the crappy disc they tried it out on, I forget the title)
A lot of the most interesting stuff is out on vinyl first or only (what all those uberhip DJs carry around in their milk crates). This is a trend we want to encourage.
Huh? Joe Public buys a lot of iMacs with the "Rip, Mix, Burn" ads. I am quite sure he and his mom will care when the new Eminem (or whatever) can't be ripped.
they're already copyprotected, and they're incompatible with CD players, so they are even more useless.
BTW, SJ Mercury has a good story on this too.
Interesting. In a world where backdoors are required, I suppose that the h4x0rs (like your clients, or the PRC govt, say) would find them pretty easily.
Why go to all that trouble (and incur all that expense!) to go to college if you just want to use the net all day? I may be an old fogey on this one but I just don't understand the concept of IMing through lectures instead of, for example, paying attention.
Not if they use some crappy-ass proprietary copy=protected .NAP format. Forget it! MP3 is the standard, and if they can't use it, they should do the honorable thing, sell their t-shirts and go home.
I agree completely. There's no reason to be a prick to your company, because the people who get that treatment are ultimately your colleagues who have come to depend on you. Good karma (lower case k) is worth having, the economy notwithstanding.
Okay, so maybe Adelman and Hellman could have agreed to classify their codes back in the seventies. Um, 25 years later, just precisely how does anyone think that this knowledge will be suddenly erased from the world? When no reasonable user or developer would ever give it up? All of this talk about unintended consequences is interesting and all, but any discussion of stopping it now is sheer folly.
Yeah, Katz, you're saying that now, but weren't you talking not long ago about the New Economy and how it would change everything?
No, the employers caused this when they did the mass layoffs for "downsizing" in the early nineties. Anyone who even watched that from afar should have learned that loyalty ain't worth shit, and you should always (a) keep your skills up; and (b) keep your eyes open for better opportunities. Since job-hopping is more accepted in the tech business, this naturally led to people switching more oten during the boom. Now that we're almost certainly in a recession, it's more difficult - but that doesn't mean that we should all turn into starched-collared Organization Men again.
I kmew this Ashcroft guy was trouble.
Wow, a 2002 prediction without a $2B market size attached to it? I didn't think Gartner could do that!
Huh? Free version of PGP and GPG are both free as in beer, and you can buy old PCs on eBay for $100.
Of course in the UK there's no bill of rights. So this wouldn't apply there.
And how would they do that? The sheer level of surveillance required would be the most brazen violation of the fourth amendment we have ever seen.
Not without making criminals of tens of millions of law-abiding users. I for one think that alone makes it unrealistic.
Maybe Slashdot should do a poll: Would you knowingly violate a law that bans strong encryption without backdoors? I bet "Yes" would be >90%, and "CowboyNeal" would be well in excess of "No."
Assuming you really were misquoted (and this is a pretty egregious case), you should do the following:
1. Talk to the journalist directly. Find out what happened, and tell the journalist that you won't be a source again unless it's corrected. Responsible papers run corrections routinely.
2. If it's not corrected that way, write a letter to the editor explaining how you were misquoted and setting the record straight.
If, however, you did make the comment and it was taken out of context, or you gave him/her the response he/she was looking for ("Are you angry that Microsoft is shipping XP?" "Yes" can lead to unfavorable press, for example) you don't have much recourse as this really is the prerogative of the journalist. In this case you just need to be more careful, and if possible pick a fairer reporter to give your story to next time.