Re:Do we need this? Preaching to the choir?
on
Software Exorcism
·
· Score: 1
No, I'm not new here, but I must have missed the memo that said Tues/Thurs is Feed The Trolls day ( TIFTD ?)
Hey, its been slow lately. After Apples I-Tunes hit Windows, their hasn't been much. We have't even been getting our daily SCO quota either. Has it been just me or has there been alot more gaming related articles lately too? I just seems percentage of game related news has gone up in the past 2 weeks.
I have a piece of crap old vechile with over 160K miles on it. It is "paid off" though. I'm still working on the payments on my wife's car. Maybe one day I'll be able to get a "new" car. I can always dream. Sigh.
Now that he is "standarizing" the framerate, what features do you think will be turned by defualt on and stress the graphics engine the most? You know he will think of something.
Business will pay for a $150 dollar Clac. Even though the best desktops apps cost more than that other than Open Source, I don't know of PDA software that costst that much. Do you think business would be willing to pay $150 so that a few people can run the software on their PDA/Cellphone?
Honestly, you are right. It would be better to have the software so that you can run it on a pda/cellphone/web browser/desktop app. There is also the case for a one time purchase of 2-5 calcs that will last a few years and be upgradable.
Gosh. Profit wise HP may be able to make more with "Software Calc" than a standalone software. I don't know, but I bet HP has a study or too on it already.
Time for me to spout out my over simplistic solutions to these political problems.
Abortion lets make it illegal. To make all the women that would like abortions happy though well will have a federal school somewhere where each of these aborted kids will be sent to and raised by the federal government to conform to the federal governments views. Hey the individual mother didn't want the kid. She should have no legal rights what so ever over the child or children. If it was over econmic reasons, the state could raise the kids until the time the mother could support a child, if ever. I'd want a condition in there that any female not raped that has a child aborted should be sterlized. If the mother chooses not to be sterlized, then she should be force to pay the bill to the state for raising her kids. There should be some additional rules in there for rape victims as well. Morally individuals don't have the right to terminate life. Only at a government level can lives be legally terminated. (Think soldiers killing enemy solders, police killing criminals, or anti-terrorist units killing terrorists.) The only time I might have the right to kill another human is in self defense. Even then there would be a jury trial. Socal Security that is fun. I'd tie the "retirement age" to the life expectancy age of the individual at the time of the individual's birth. Actually, I read somewhere where the whole concept of retirement age was to only cover those that should be statisticly dead from old age but where not. Think current retirement age should be somewhere around 80 or 85. I know that would truely suck. I don't want to retire at 80. I'd much rather retire at 55, but honestly alot of folks can be productive citizens into their 60's and 70's. We as a people haven't gotten there yet.
You'd love my ideas to encourage businesses to work individuals less and for individuals to work more. I'd have have double, triple and quad over time. It would not matter if you worked at muliple places of business the hours would add up.:) Grins Evilly. Hours up to 20 are regular work hours. Between 20 and 35 would be double pay hours. Between 35 and 50 would be triple time pay. Everything over 50 hours a week would be quad time pay. This would have the effect of making businesses want to hire more individuals to work less. It would cut employee work hours, but the more hours worked the higher the pay. There will be alot of places that couldn't just hire extra individuals. I know that would never be passed. Those that controll business would kill it. I can dream though.
You should have gone to the police and to as many of the "business" customers that you could contact if any. What your company was doing was information theft. If their customers found out, each could successfully sue for millions. Information is property. Your company did not have resell rights to it plain and simple. Your company only had the rights to run reports on the data. None of the data ever belonged to your company.
You should sue for "wrongful" dismissal under whistle blower laws although you really wouldn't want to work there.
Come on Rare was just bought by MS. That means that all new and sequel games from Rare will be beta verisons for the third game. Gosh, what did you expect?
The best thing about a corporation is that it protects individuals, encouraging risk-taking competitive capitalism. The worst thing about a corporation is that ir protects individuals, encouraging irresponsible and borderline-criminal behaviour.
If I could change things, this is one thing I would. I think most CEOs are honest wealthy business persons. There will always be those that bend the rules morally past breaking. CEOs should atleast have to take care of their employees. I don't think the share holders or the creditors have the worst place. I believe that employees will always lose out to the few at the top.
O.k. Here is an idea. Why can't they take all the neato keen ideas they've already demonstrated, and find out how the MPG could be improved solely by driving patterns. I have no idea how my driving patterns effect my MPG except in general terms. If there were some lights on the dashboard that allowed me know know how to "best" drive my vechile, I would like it.
Yes, but is that a Personal Perspective Globe? If it is than I'm sorry, but my home town takes up most of mine, then what little is left is for 2 1/2 hour drive to where I went to college, and another for a 5 hour drive to my father-in-law. Oops I almost forgot the 5 & 7 hours drives to 2 different Aunts.
But other than that much of the rest of the Globle exists only in an abstract sense. I know it exists any things happen out there that effect me, but usually i hardly ever leave my town any so my Personal Sphere would be that. I could care less what is happening on the other side of the state, much less the other side of the globle.
Gosh, that sounds so "American." Our secert mind controlling media masters must be thrilled with me. I have the idealized American view point.
Go down to your local police station and file a police report saying that your electronic busniess name and address that you were paying X amount per Y time were stolen from you. Do a look up on the current "owner." Present all your information to your local police and you should at least be able to get a misd. theft on the individual.
I don't know if it would work, but it is worth a shot. I know my local police would atleast look into it.
I'm pretty sure Wired did an article on that very topic. I believe I read it in the mag though so I'm not sure if it ever got posted on their website news section. Usually everything from the mag ends up on their front page sooner or later.
Oh come on, what we need to really get for OO to take of is stripper office assistants. We could have several you could choose from, but they'd slowly be dancing down their in the corner while you were typing up all your memos. If that doesn't get OO onto desktops, I'm sorry nothing will. That's just my humble opinion though.
Just put out a memo that all homework must be saved in wordpad or it will be and automatic Fail regaurdless of class. O.k. it would be a "big bluff" by the IT department to scare students. It might work. Getting your professorts to change would most likely be alot more difficult than the students. Students you can force requirements on. I can say that you will always have professors that will object to campus policy and go their own way.
I always loved getting out for a college class for a "holiday" that my college didn't observe, I didn't care about, but my professor didn't want to teach class. You know "class Friday is a holiday it Friday Fishing Day." I won't be here, but it isn't a recongized school holiday so you have to attend all your other classes.
Hey, All it really has to do is set the prefrence for all e-mail sent to be self-destoried after the first read or preview pane viewing.
What is really, really bad is that most of my users would not notice. I'd notice, a few managers might, but everyone else usually just hits delete on most of the e-mail sent out.
Do you feel like anyone is listening to you when your warning e-mails have receipts of deleted without being read?
Thanks, I always thought that they exploded. Learned something new today. Could it work having several mile long pipe constantly releasing tiny bubbles?
I want a *Secured* P2P client. What I mean by secure is that it searchs only the 5 or 6 computers that I tell it to. Think friends and family only plus six degrees of freedom outlook. I want to only let my direct family or friends search or download by box. This would be a very very short list for me under 20 boxs computers. But I wouldn't have to worry about copyright and who was searching because every single person searching or downloading my machine, I know. The same would apply the other way as well. I might have only 20 contacts, but my brothers would have about 100 each. My mom most likly only 5 or so. Anyone that searchs the box that hasn't been expressly granted permission is hacking and is a terrorist that needs to be jailed and fined for every attempt to gain access to my or a family members box! Ok. I could see that working against me as well. The big threat to P2P is that you don't know who is searching your machine and downloading files. Actually, I'd be happy to burn family members CD's rather than P2P. At home, I'm on a 56K line. (Only option which really sucks.) It would be nice of having very very limited extended family or extended friends search. I would not want anyone downloading though from my machine with out my express permission. Maybe a system that I search one hop away through friends and family, but any downloads have to be downloaded by the family memeber or friend that they *trust.* O.k. maybe it would be a download request on my part that my friends and family could look at. If they want to download or introduce me to the person that has the information that I want ok.
What would it take to adapt this as a weapon? Heck all you really need are lots of pressurized tanks with a few senors to determine if a ship was expected to pass over. It said it sinks the ship by reducing the density of the water. Wouldn't having tanks of pressurized air which was released as bubbles or may be a plant whose sole purpose was to make lots of little bubbles to sink ships. Would it work? What kind of environmental effects would happen?
Didn't you get the memo? It is part of the plan man.
1. Reduce on board storage down 1 or 2 files. 2. Charge per Mb on bandwith 3. Force all images to be transmitted to be remotely stored "on-line" at your personalized webpage that we provide and are charging you per MB. 4. Profit.
I need to patent this idea quick before "every" stand alone camera has a built in cellphone for transmitting photos.
Notice: This was an attempt at sarcasm. I hope it will be modded as funny.
From the department of "we are here to help you":
Of course, the auto manufacturers, handgun makers, and gardening stores should be legally liable for the crimes of their customers! We absolutely demand that the auto manufacturers build in GPS recorders with cabin microphones to spy on the driver and other occupants. The government should randomly scanning all the conversations in cars, the cars should automatic fine the drivers for going any speed over the speed limit. There should be built in drug scanners in "every" vechile. How else can the government protect me?
Handgun Makers should be legally liable for making a product that could be fired at a living human and deprive a citizen of his or her life. All handguns should be replaced now with built in eletronics to allow shooting at only targets and non protected animals. All guns should be able to detect that they are aimed at a human and prevent the gun from firing. All guns are liable to be aimed at me and fired if not, or used for illegal poaching of protected animals. I want to prevent a public saftey meneace.
Gardening Stores should perform a background check on everyone that buys any fertilizer! All garden stores should be required to perform a terrorist check on everyone and get results back before approving the sale. The government needs to track every milligram of fertilizer sold from now on! In fact the government needs to track the current owners of every pontential bomb making chemical. Those that are on terrorist watch list need to be prevented from buying these items and removed from society as quietly as possible. How else can the government protect me?
Notice: This was an attempt at sarcasm. I hope it will be modded as funny.
Your idea is good, but it has a few negatives 1 It follows the KISS Principle so it has a chance of working. 2 Any public citizen or well funded group could "check" the election results. 3 It isn't helpful to rigging elections.
I have to inform you that your idea though "good." Will not be implemented by the powers that be. They want us sheep doing what they tell us to do. They don't want the sheep auditing the wolves.
Of course even if elections were honest and dependable, they still have lobbists. If you aren't a member of a large group, you as an individual have very little voice in government, which may be a good thing.
Ever heard of this term called boycott? It means a large group of consumers *not buying* a product that they would otherwise buy because they find parts of it defect or morally offensive.
I don't ever plan on buying a HDTV mainly because of reasons like this.
Slashdot Mirror
No, I'm not new here, but I must have missed the memo that said Tues/Thurs is Feed The Trolls day ( TIFTD ?)
Hey, its been slow lately. After Apples I-Tunes hit Windows, their hasn't been much. We have't even been getting our daily SCO quota either. Has it been just me or has there been alot more gaming related articles lately too? I just seems percentage of game related news has gone up in the past 2 weeks.
I have a piece of crap old vechile with over 160K miles on it. It is "paid off" though. I'm still working on the payments on my wife's car. Maybe one day I'll be able to get a "new" car. I can always dream. Sigh.
Now that he is "standarizing" the framerate, what features do you think will be turned by defualt on and stress the graphics engine the most? You know he will think of something.
Business will pay for a $150 dollar Clac. Even though the best desktops apps cost more than that other than Open Source, I don't know of PDA software that costst that much. Do you think business would be willing to pay $150 so that a few people can run the software on their PDA/Cellphone?
Honestly, you are right. It would be better to have the software so that you can run it on a pda/cellphone/web browser/desktop app. There is also the case for a one time purchase of 2-5 calcs that will last a few years and be upgradable.
Gosh. Profit wise HP may be able to make more with "Software Calc" than a standalone software. I don't know, but I bet HP has a study or too on it already.
Time for me to spout out my over simplistic solutions to these political problems.
:) Grins Evilly. Hours up to 20 are regular work hours. Between 20 and 35 would be double pay hours. Between 35 and 50 would be triple time pay. Everything over 50 hours a week would be quad time pay. This would have the effect of making businesses want to hire more individuals to work less. It would cut employee work hours, but the more hours worked the higher the pay. There will be alot of places that couldn't just hire extra individuals. I know that would never be passed. Those that controll business would kill it. I can dream though.
Abortion lets make it illegal. To make all the women that would like abortions happy though well will have a federal school somewhere where each of these aborted kids will be sent to and raised by the federal government to conform to the federal governments views. Hey the individual mother didn't want the kid. She should have no legal rights what so ever over the child or children.
If it was over econmic reasons, the state could raise the kids until the time the mother could support a child, if ever. I'd want a condition in there that any female not raped that has a child aborted should be sterlized. If the mother chooses not to be sterlized, then she should be force to pay the bill to the state for raising her kids. There should be some additional rules in there for rape victims as well.
Morally individuals don't have the right to terminate life. Only at a government level can lives be legally terminated. (Think soldiers killing enemy solders, police killing criminals, or anti-terrorist units killing terrorists.) The only time I might have the right to kill another human is in self defense. Even then there would be a jury trial.
Socal Security that is fun. I'd tie the "retirement age" to the life expectancy age of the individual at the time of the individual's birth.
Actually, I read somewhere where the whole concept of retirement age was to only cover those that should be statisticly dead from old age but where not. Think current retirement age should be somewhere around 80 or 85. I know that would truely suck. I don't want to retire at 80. I'd much rather retire at 55, but honestly alot of folks can be productive citizens into their 60's and 70's. We as a people haven't gotten there yet.
You'd love my ideas to encourage businesses to work individuals less and for individuals to work more. I'd have have double, triple and quad over time. It would not matter if you worked at muliple places of business the hours would add up.
You should have gone to the police and to as many of the "business" customers that you could contact if any. What your company was doing was information theft. If their customers found out, each could successfully sue for millions. Information is property. Your company did not have resell rights to it plain and simple. Your company only had the rights to run reports on the data. None of the data ever belonged to your company.
You should sue for "wrongful" dismissal under whistle blower laws although you really wouldn't want to work there.
Come on Rare was just bought by MS. That means that all new and sequel games from Rare will be beta verisons for the third game.
Gosh, what did you expect?
The best thing about a corporation is that it protects individuals, encouraging risk-taking competitive capitalism. The worst thing about a corporation is that ir protects individuals, encouraging irresponsible and borderline-criminal behaviour.
If I could change things, this is one thing I would. I think most CEOs are honest wealthy business persons. There will always be those that bend the rules morally past breaking. CEOs should atleast have to take care of their employees. I don't think the share holders or the creditors have the worst place. I believe that employees will always lose out to the few at the top.
O.k. Here is an idea. Why can't they take all the neato keen ideas they've already demonstrated, and find out how the MPG could be improved solely by driving patterns. I have no idea how my driving patterns effect my MPG except in general terms. If there were some lights on the dashboard that allowed me know know how to "best" drive my vechile, I would like it.
Yes, but is that a Personal Perspective Globe? If it is than I'm sorry, but my home town takes up most of mine, then what little is left is for 2 1/2 hour drive to where I went to college, and another for a 5 hour drive to my father-in-law. Oops I almost forgot the 5 & 7 hours drives to 2 different Aunts.
But other than that much of the rest of the Globle exists only in an abstract sense. I know it exists any things happen out there that effect me, but usually i hardly ever leave my town any so my Personal Sphere would be that. I could care less what is happening on the other side of the state, much less the other side of the globle.
Gosh, that sounds so "American." Our secert mind controlling media masters must be thrilled with me. I have the idealized American view point.
Go down to your local police station and file a police report saying that your electronic busniess name and address that you were paying X amount per Y time were stolen from you. Do a look up on the current "owner." Present all your information to your local police and you should at least be able to get a misd. theft on the individual.
I don't know if it would work, but it is worth a shot. I know my local police would atleast look into it.
I'm pretty sure Wired did an article on that very topic. I believe I read it in the mag though so I'm not sure if it ever got posted on their website news section. Usually everything from the mag ends up on their front page sooner or later.
Oh come on, what we need to really get for OO to take of is stripper office assistants. We could have several you could choose from, but they'd slowly be dancing down their in the corner while you were typing up all your memos. If that doesn't get OO onto desktops, I'm sorry nothing will. That's just my humble opinion though.
Just put out a memo that all homework must be saved in wordpad or it will be and automatic Fail regaurdless of class. O.k. it would be a "big bluff" by the IT department to scare students. It might work. Getting your professorts to change would most likely be alot more difficult than the students. Students you can force requirements on. I can say that you will always have professors that will object to campus policy and go their own way.
I always loved getting out for a college class for a "holiday" that my college didn't observe, I didn't care about, but my professor didn't want to teach class. You know "class Friday is a holiday it Friday Fishing Day." I won't be here, but it isn't a recongized school holiday so you have to attend all your other classes.
Hey, All it really has to do is set the prefrence for all e-mail sent to be self-destoried after the first read or preview pane viewing.
What is really, really bad is that most of my users would not notice. I'd notice, a few managers might, but everyone else usually just hits delete on most of the e-mail sent out.
Do you feel like anyone is listening to you when your warning e-mails have receipts of deleted without being read?
Well that cuts down the kite flying options.
Public Service Notice: Kites and Power Lines don't mix!
Thanks, I always thought that they exploded. Learned something new today. Could it work having several mile long pipe constantly releasing tiny bubbles?
How wide of an area is required?
I want a *Secured* P2P client. What I mean by secure is that it searchs only the 5 or 6 computers that I tell it to. Think friends and family only plus six degrees of freedom outlook. I want to only let my direct family or friends search or download by box. This would be a very very short list for me under 20 boxs computers. But I wouldn't have to worry about copyright and who was searching because every single person searching or downloading my machine, I know. The same would apply the other way as well. I might have only 20 contacts, but my brothers would have about 100 each. My mom most likly only 5 or so. Anyone that searchs the box that hasn't been expressly granted permission is hacking and is a terrorist that needs to be jailed and fined for every attempt to gain access to my or a family members box! Ok. I could see that working against me as well. The big threat to P2P is that you don't know who is searching your machine and downloading files. Actually, I'd be happy to burn family members CD's rather than P2P. At home, I'm on a 56K line. (Only option which really sucks.) It would be nice of having very very limited extended family or extended friends search. I would not want anyone downloading though from my machine with out my express permission. Maybe a system that I search one hop away through friends and family, but any downloads have to be downloaded by the family memeber or friend that they *trust.* O.k. maybe it would be a download request on my part that my friends and family could look at. If they want to download or introduce me to the person that has the information that I want ok.
Is there a system already like this?
So far I've not seen even one windows worm that uses ".NET Remoting" to spread.. Is it being used at all??
Just wait, they are behind schedule. Give 'em about another month or two. They most likely hoping for a Christmas release.
What would it take to adapt this as a weapon? Heck all you really need are lots of pressurized tanks with a few senors to determine if a ship was expected to pass over. It said it sinks the ship by reducing the density of the water. Wouldn't having tanks of pressurized air which was released as bubbles or may be a plant whose sole purpose was to make lots of little bubbles to sink ships. Would it work? What kind of environmental effects would happen?
Didn't you get the memo? It is part of the plan man.
1. Reduce on board storage down 1 or 2 files.
2. Charge per Mb on bandwith
3. Force all images to be transmitted to be remotely stored "on-line" at your personalized webpage that we provide and are charging you per MB.
4. Profit.
I need to patent this idea quick before "every" stand alone camera has a built in cellphone for transmitting photos.
Notice: This was an attempt at sarcasm. I hope it will be modded as funny.
From the department of "we are here to help you":
Of course, the auto manufacturers, handgun makers, and gardening stores should be legally liable for the crimes of their customers! We absolutely demand that the auto manufacturers build in GPS recorders with cabin microphones to spy on the driver and other occupants. The government should randomly scanning all the conversations in cars, the cars should automatic fine the drivers for going any speed over the speed limit. There should be built in drug scanners in "every" vechile. How else can the government protect me?
Handgun Makers should be legally liable for making a product that could be fired at a living human and deprive a citizen of his or her life. All handguns should be replaced now with built in eletronics to allow shooting at only targets and non protected animals. All guns should be able to detect that they are aimed at a human and prevent the gun from firing. All guns are liable to be aimed at me and fired if not, or used for illegal poaching of protected animals. I want to prevent a public saftey meneace.
Gardening Stores should perform a background check on everyone that buys any fertilizer! All garden stores should be required to perform a terrorist check on everyone and get results back before approving the sale. The government needs to track every milligram of fertilizer sold from now on! In fact the government needs to track the current owners of every pontential bomb making chemical. Those that are on terrorist watch list need to be prevented from buying these items and removed from society as quietly as possible. How else can the government protect me?
Notice: This was an attempt at sarcasm. I hope it will be modded as funny.
Your idea is good, but it has a few negatives
1 It follows the KISS Principle so it has a chance of working.
2 Any public citizen or well funded group could "check" the election results.
3 It isn't helpful to rigging elections.
I have to inform you that your idea though "good." Will not be implemented by the powers that be. They want us sheep doing what they tell us to do. They don't want the sheep auditing the wolves.
Of course even if elections were honest and dependable, they still have lobbists. If you aren't a member of a large group, you as an individual have very little voice in government, which may be a good thing.
$85,000 for that in a kit? Those folks must be crazy. If I had $85K to blow on a car, I would atleast want it fully assembled!
Ever heard of this term called boycott?
It means a large group of consumers *not buying* a product that they would otherwise buy because they find parts of it defect or morally offensive.
I don't ever plan on buying a HDTV mainly because of reasons like this.