At least the yankee's (northern americans) do not have a proud history of lynching or strong conservatism.
Tell a southerner he is a yankee and you will get decked. Its really a seperate country in the deep south and the culture shows it. They may be part of the union as forced after the civil war but many here in Florida at least have confederate flag emblows on their cars.
Also looking at the last election you can clearly see the Bush states vs the Kerry states. A slim majority elected Kerry but a very big swing exists in deep southern vs northern states on who voted for whom.
1.) Gator which is now Claria bought a mailbox in bulgaria so they are technically not a us company anymore even though they reside here. If they are not under US jursidiction the law then could not be applied to them if the software is distributed from an oversea's server.
2.) Gator will claim they are not really tracking your urls or keystrokes but are just checking to make sure you are not pirating their software. The clause in italics mentioned in this article can be used by the spammers and spywhere makers to pretend they are offering you a service and checking your membership.
Many spyware companies also use products like bandwith increaser which also include spyware. Since its a service the company who makes it is immune.
I personally believe no and until very recently an EULA for example is not considered legally binding for that reason.
A court case in california changed this but it was from someone who did a huge illegal activity. The case has been appealed.
But legal agreements would go out of hand without a notary present and I think its important for all EULA's to be invalidated unless a notary is present to stop this spyware.
If you owned a business and your employees could do things like hold your company and yourself liable for things like sexual harrasement, your mind may change.
Its the same as someone having an inappropriate conversation at work and just happen to be overhear it.
I do think though any reputable employer should mention to all the employees outright that "yes, we will monitor YOU. Be responsible on our time". I think many states require employers to do this.
Perfectly fair for both parties. Since an employer is not a monstor but just someone who wants to maximize shareholder value and prevent liability.
I think some states allow employers to secretly wiretap conversations without the employees notice and use it to make up a reason to fire someone for political reasons. A case like that happened a month ago in a Canadian bank where a few employees wanted to start a competitor. They were fired.
But if your employer is paying you money it is his watch and not yours. You do not own your time and yes no other job will expect you to do nothing all day.
After all employees have nothing to hide and blue collar workers at walmart already are monitored by gumshoe agencies for possible union activity so why should white collar workers be treated any different? I heard money companies require those making up to 100k to punch in to make sure they arrive in time.
BUt start your own business if you do not like it. From an owners perspective this makes sense.
I still like FreeBSD and I did not intend to start a flamewar.
I am talking about FreeBSD 5.x.
If you put it on your Dell server at work I guarantee you that a decrease in performance would be observed.
All the really good developers left Fbsd and 5.x is a disaster to many old time BSD hackers who either left the project or switched to another version.
Dragonfly looks interesting and many of the former FreeBSD and BSDunix hackers are working on it. I hope it stabilizes soon but that wont happen until more people use it and more software is ported to it.
What if you have several windows on your desktop or several instances of an application. IE suffers from this and firefox's tabs are a bandaid solution.
What is cool about macos is that each window does not have any menu's. Rather the bar on the top of the screen changes its menu depending on each app you click. This makes it easier.
Also what if your task bar gets filled?
My guess is a mix of OSX where each minimized icon gets zoomed up upon a curser moving over it. Or perhaps having a universal set of tabs for applications rather than just instances of firefox.
That is what I am refering too and its a problem today since many users multitask more.
Programers should not have to write code for a specific card like in the old days of DOS.
I admit some of the drivers are buggy but basic opengl and 2d animation should not be hard with 99% of most current video cards. If not than the video card itself or driver probably has some serious issues.
Keep in mind the taskbars and menu's were highly influenced from NextSTEP before MS added them into Windows. Same with using a graphical language like postscript and now pdf.
Also gnome is very macintosh like and one of the early macintosh developers wrote nautilus if I recall.
No one is stealing anything. Even the menu bars on the top of the screen came from Xerox before Apple used them.
What I like about kde and gnome to some extent is that they are highly customizable compared to either mac/windows. The problem is the later versions of kde look a little cluttered as a result but you can make your desktop look like anything.
Also you can have kde put a menu on the top of the screen just like gnome and macos. I think you can add a task bar to gnome as well.
I think perhaps some new innovative idea's are needed instead of just borrowing existing ones. Perhaps a way to handle many apps running at once without the desktop looking cluttered is next.
But I believe(could be wrong) that Windowmaker,kde,gnome all use ghostscript which is a postscript clone. The original macos and nextstep used it. Windows has an equilivant but I do not remember the name since its been a long time since I admined Windows boxes.
FreeBSD use to be many times faster and more stable than Linux. Yahoo and hotmail picked the OS over Linux for that reason.
Notice that all but one of the benchmarks showed FreeBSD 5.x performing worse than 4.10?
Only 1 benchmark did 5.x do better.
What an utter disapointment. and its a shame all the big developers left hte project.
I will say kudos to the netbsd 2.0 team!
It is turning into a fine freebsd replacement and if the admins rerun the test with the correct SMP settings it will perform quite well. There is a comment above mine in the replies outlining the issue.
Actually I heard UPS goes as far as eliminating coffee machines and preventing food/drinks to cubicles. They do this to increase productivity since studies show you can talk at the cooler and work up to 30% slower with a cup of coffee at your desk, etc.
But even a cubicle in a stuffy office is bliss if you ever work in the restuarant or retail blue colar industry. I use to work in IT before the.com crash boy do I miss it. There are some really shitty jobs at there and really a machine like environment in the office is not that bad.
Employers do have a right to satisfy their shareholders and maximize productivity. Also many corporations are servely understaffed and its almost the new thing. New employees cost money and keeping the machines and firing the ones who are less machine-like saves them money also.
But believe it or not many people have ADD. I have been reading statistics taht up to 15-20% of adults suffer from doing all the things mentioned in these posts.
Myself included.
Its not that we are bad or lazy but we have problems and distrations need to be taken care of.
Infact I am a college student currently after being in IT and my GPA went down several points last semester since I developed my first online relationship and discovered Livejournal.
Even when I am not on my computer I wonder what is going on with weather, slashdot, people, etc.
I am in the process of limiting myself and shuting down my computer. My life will get hurt because of it.
If I were at work I would be fired eventually for this sh*t.
But people are not machines. Unfortantely the ones who are the least machine-like always get laid off or fired first because productivity demands we become machine like.
So its a dual edged sword and I am actually starting to hate computers and question my whole online relationship/friends now.
But yes workplace distrations are a big big problem. Like the other posters have pointed out 20% of a work day is looking busy, thinking about things, or working too slow costing your employer.
Products are going up in price. Companies just pocket the difference.
Shareholders also dont care about business models or long term profits are corporate strategy. They only look at things quarterly and accounts not MBA's dictate how to run their companies. All the big shareholders are companies like Schwab and anaylists at these companies are themselves being outsouced to India now. They just look at graphs with arrows.
But you are right that support is not advertised. However it is because consumers take it for granted because it usually was always there.
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So would an invisible gas like hydrogen be a candidate?
The data is still free.
Its the projections of the sattelites that are secret and should be. Why should we all care?
A powerfull land based laser could take out a satelite and a trajectory is needed.
Weather and other services are still available.
Unfortanetly you can only install programs as admin so your screwed either way. EVen if you normally are not admin
I know its not london and since its a village I never heard of it.
However being an American, 300 miles is nothing and I considerate a moderate distance but not very far.
I drive 300-500 mile trips all the time and never think about it.
Ahhh
Near southeast asia. Of course....
At least the yankee's (northern americans) do not have a proud history of lynching or strong conservatism.
Tell a southerner he is a yankee and you will get decked. Its really a seperate country in the deep south and the culture shows it. They may be part of the union as forced after the civil war but many here in Florida at least have confederate flag emblows on their cars.
Also looking at the last election you can clearly see the Bush states vs the Kerry states. A slim majority elected Kerry but a very big swing exists in deep southern vs northern states on who voted for whom.
AOL's spyware weatherbug does not have an EULA dictating its spyware. Go read it.
No mention of spyware anywhere.
Many other programs do not even include an EULA because the servers that host the program are oversea's.
So yes its a problem and some even use Javascript exploits to install themselves without the users knowledge just like a real worm or virus.
1.) Gator which is now Claria bought a mailbox in bulgaria so they are technically not a us company anymore even though they reside here. If they are not under US jursidiction the law then could not be applied to them if the software is distributed from an oversea's server.
2.) Gator will claim they are not really tracking your urls or keystrokes but are just checking to make sure you are not pirating their software. The clause in italics mentioned in this article can be used by the spammers and spywhere makers to pretend they are offering you a service and checking your membership.
Many spyware companies also use products like bandwith increaser which also include spyware. Since its a service the company who makes it is immune.
Actually that is debatable.
I personally believe no and until very recently an EULA for example is not considered legally binding for that reason.
A court case in california changed this but it was from someone who did a huge illegal activity. The case has been appealed.
But legal agreements would go out of hand without a notary present and I think its important for all EULA's to be invalidated unless a notary is present to stop this spyware.
I agree with the employer on this.
If you owned a business and your employees could do things like hold your company and yourself liable for things like sexual harrasement, your mind may change.
Its the same as someone having an inappropriate conversation at work and just happen to be overhear it.
I do think though any reputable employer should mention to all the employees outright that "yes, we will monitor YOU. Be responsible on our time". I think many states require employers to do this.
Perfectly fair for both parties. Since an employer is not a monstor but just someone who wants to maximize shareholder value and prevent liability.
I think some states allow employers to secretly wiretap conversations without the employees notice and use it to make up a reason to fire someone for political reasons. A case like that happened a month ago in a Canadian bank where a few employees wanted to start a competitor. They were fired.
But if your employer is paying you money it is his watch and not yours. You do not own your time and yes no other job will expect you to do nothing all day.
After all employees have nothing to hide and blue collar workers at walmart already are monitored by gumshoe agencies for possible union activity so why should white collar workers be treated any different? I heard money companies require those making up to 100k to punch in to make sure they arrive in time.
BUt start your own business if you do not like it. From an owners perspective this makes sense.
Out of curiousity I installed aim which included weatherbug that installs spyware.
I read the EULA carefully and no mention of spyware or monitoring internet usage was present.
I seriously doubt spyware like freescreensavers or commit curses even include an EULA mentioning what they do.
They are not an American company but based in Bulgaria if I remember so they are above the law.
The fix then is simply.
We must try to deny such flaws exist until worms come around taking advantage of it.
That way the crackers will never no about the flaws if they are not discussed. After all look at Microsoft's track record with this?
No hacker has EVER found any holes that MS kept secret.
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There is an international treaty which forbids non sterile instruments in other worlds. The rovers were heavily cleaned with rubbing alchohol.
Acutally I agree with you 100% on FreeBSD4.
I still like FreeBSD and I did not intend to start a flamewar.
I am talking about FreeBSD 5.x.
If you put it on your Dell server at work I guarantee you that a decrease in performance would be observed.
All the really good developers left Fbsd and 5.x is a disaster to many old time BSD hackers who either left the project or switched to another version.
Dragonfly looks interesting and many of the former FreeBSD and BSDunix hackers are working on it. I hope it stabilizes soon but that wont happen until more people use it and more software is ported to it.
How do you manage 15+ applications that are open?
What if you have several windows on your desktop or several instances of an application. IE suffers from this and firefox's tabs are a bandaid solution.
What is cool about macos is that each window does not have any menu's. Rather the bar on the top of the screen changes its menu depending on each app you click. This makes it easier.
Also what if your task bar gets filled?
My guess is a mix of OSX where each minimized icon gets zoomed up upon a curser moving over it. Or perhaps having a universal set of tabs for applications rather than just instances of firefox.
That is what I am refering too and its a problem today since many users multitask more.
This is why api's exist.
Programers should not have to write code for a specific card like in the old days of DOS.
I admit some of the drivers are buggy but basic opengl and 2d animation should not be hard with 99% of most current video cards. If not than the video card itself or driver probably has some serious issues.
Keep in mind the taskbars and menu's were highly influenced from NextSTEP before MS added them into Windows. Same with using a graphical language like postscript and now pdf.
Also gnome is very macintosh like and one of the early macintosh developers wrote nautilus if I recall.
No one is stealing anything. Even the menu bars on the top of the screen came from Xerox before Apple used them.
What I like about kde and gnome to some extent is that they are highly customizable compared to either mac/windows. The problem is the later versions of kde look a little cluttered as a result but you can make your desktop look like anything.
Also you can have kde put a menu on the top of the screen just like gnome and macos. I think you can add a task bar to gnome as well.
I think perhaps some new innovative idea's are needed instead of just borrowing existing ones. Perhaps a way to handle many apps running at once without the desktop looking cluttered is next.
But I believe(could be wrong) that Windowmaker,kde,gnome all use ghostscript which is a postscript clone. The original macos and nextstep used it. Windows has an equilivant but I do not remember the name since its been a long time since I admined Windows boxes.
FreeBSD use to be many times faster and more stable than Linux. Yahoo and hotmail picked the OS over Linux for that reason.
Notice that all but one of the benchmarks showed FreeBSD 5.x performing worse than 4.10?
Only 1 benchmark did 5.x do better.
What an utter disapointment. and its a shame all the big developers left hte project.
I will say kudos to the netbsd 2.0 team!
It is turning into a fine freebsd replacement and if the admins rerun the test with the correct SMP settings it will perform quite well. There is a comment above mine in the replies outlining the issue.
Actually studies show internet/information addiction creates ADD like symptoms.
But the reason 10 years ago people were more productive was because there were less distractions.
TV networks have always been like what you said.
If something is available to ease their mind off of work, people will use it. Nothing big about that.
Actually I heard UPS goes as far as eliminating coffee machines and preventing food/drinks to cubicles. They do this to increase productivity since studies show you can talk at the cooler and work up to 30% slower with a cup of coffee at your desk, etc.
.com crash boy do I miss it. There are some really shitty jobs at there and really a machine like environment in the office is not that bad.
But even a cubicle in a stuffy office is bliss if you ever work in the restuarant or retail blue colar industry. I use to work in IT before the
Employers do have a right to satisfy their shareholders and maximize productivity. Also many corporations are servely understaffed and its almost the new thing. New employees cost money and keeping the machines and firing the ones who are less machine-like saves them money also.
But believe it or not many people have ADD. I have been reading statistics taht up to 15-20% of adults suffer from doing all the things mentioned in these posts.
Myself included.
Its not that we are bad or lazy but we have problems and distrations need to be taken care of.
Infact I am a college student currently after being in IT and my GPA went down several points last semester since I developed my first online relationship and discovered Livejournal.
Even when I am not on my computer I wonder what is going on with weather, slashdot, people, etc.
I am in the process of limiting myself and shuting down my computer. My life will get hurt because of it.
If I were at work I would be fired eventually for this sh*t.
But people are not machines. Unfortantely the ones who are the least machine-like always get laid off or fired first because productivity demands we become machine like.
So its a dual edged sword and I am actually starting to hate computers and question my whole online relationship/friends now.
But yes workplace distrations are a big big problem. Like the other posters have pointed out 20% of a work day is looking busy, thinking about things, or working too slow costing your employer.
I was just thinking about the 1st world possiblities myself.
My guess is walmart is going to see this and then will demand the makers of the $499 Linux laptop to meet hte price or get kicked out of the store.
Look around?
Products are going up in price. Companies just pocket the difference.
Shareholders also dont care about business models or long term profits are corporate strategy. They only look at things quarterly and accounts not MBA's dictate how to run their companies. All the big shareholders are companies like Schwab and anaylists at these companies are themselves being outsouced to India now. They just look at graphs with arrows.
But you are right that support is not advertised. However it is because consumers take it for granted because it usually was always there.
But everyone does it including things like banking support.
Banks have money.
Its not that we are cheap. Its that the CEO's want bonuses by making their shareholders cream in their pants.
Support does not make product so its cut the most in the eyes of meeting quarterly expectations.