Every potential for abuse by a government will be realized eventually. So the potential must not be allowed to exist. Governments around the world have repeatedly misled their own populations regarding the motivation for new powers, wars, censorships, etc.
Exactly. Our freedom is currently bent over, with it's asshole lubricated and spread wide. It hasn't been sodomized yet, but there's a Texan right behind it and the other guys are holding down it's arms.
We've got to protect our ass, folks. That means don't walk around with your pants down in the midst of these people. It also means that we have to stand together against them, because one person can't fight it alone.
Yeah. Still, I don't think the power infrastructure is going away ever. Moving hydrogen around is pretty dangerous and if it's not, it's heavy in some sort of containment, chemical or physical.
Frankly, there are some sectors of the earth that don't have the energy they need, be it from wind, hydro or anything and don't have the money to built a nuke plant. Running a few cables is significantly less expensive.
Your other point about it being expensive is what I meant by "capitalism will keep this from happening quickly." Frankly, people are making too much money raping the easy way and pulling the oil out of the ground to make a difference. Only a massive shortage will change that.
But with developing 2nd world nations coming online with their consumer economies (china, india, russia), the energy requirements of the world economy are going to continue to grow at an almost exponential pace. It even seems like there's plenty of oil now, but what if demand triples or quadruples.
Then, everyone will be forced to look at the enevitable running out of oil scenario and probably not have a huge window of time to do something about it (20 years, or perhaps 10).
You know, nuclear weapons letting out big bursts of EMP because they're touched off in the ionosphere.
Not ENTIRELY null, because you mean what I know.
And regardless, what's stopping a localized EMP attack on a major city? Or many localized attacks? And what if you could send it in a beam (like scalar weapons)?
I'd say the Air Force has thousands of plans for all kinds of different contingencies. This is just another needle in the haystack. War in the modern age is based on information more than pure might, and the side with the control of the information will win.
That said, I think that releasing this information to the public may cause tension polically between us and other countries. Everyone already knew it, but you just don't talk about some things. I'm sure there's plans to nuke children in Africa, for instance, but you don't talk about that because it's better for everyone if we don't have to think about such possibilities...
An interesting thing also, is that our society is quite vulnerable to attacks such as these. Imagine the damage high-altitude air burst EMP weapons could do to our digital economy. Everything from money to the title of your home is based on the old ones and zeros now which tend to be a little more fragile than paper and ink..
There are downsides to technology and it's really imperative that everyone tries to get along in this day and age or we risk going back to the turn of the century in a few hours.
What with the new laws in place now, even a few whackos in the upper echelons of the government could give orders and literally turn off the world in a few minutes and all military electronics are typically protected from EMP, whereas your average consumer stuff ISN'T.
And of course there are already contingencies in place if such a thing happens.
Interesting side note, I was reading on one of those crazy whacko conspiracy sites about something called "TACMARS", which are basically tactical markings on signs and stuff that you wouldn't normally notice but could be used by people to organize movements in the absence of sophisiticated computerized mapping and logistics systems. They mentioned something about those bright reflective tags you sometimes see on the backs of road signs, and how you'd use a quadrant system (left corner, right corner, etc.) to make a code which gives someone directions covertly. Interesting ideas, even if it's nutty. Do a search sometime.
Anyway, the point is, we live in a very fragile age, and the people we (Americans) pay to worry about such things do.
Whether they are bad or good of course depends on how you vote next month;)
With a proper "grid", you can take advantage of the fact that it's always windy somewhere, and just move the power to the places that aren't windy at the moment.
It's already done with hydro power, no reason you couldn't use wind as well, or geothermal or other power. Someplace like Yellowstone probably has enough energy to run the US forever.
I don't think we're doomed as far as energy use is concerned, but there will need to be massive public works projects to rebuild the electric infrastructure to 2020 or 2050 requirements or beyond, rather than the current system mainly built in the 70's and barely supports us now.
Of course, capitalism will keep this from happening quickly and it will take a "major crisis" to push things any faster..
Makes great bathroom reading material. Where this stuff really begins to shine is melding of a bunch of data into a 3-d model, as you've said. Take a aerial photo of a street, add other ground photos with accurate location metadata and a standard map for wireframing.
Then take a live video feed from a known point (or multiple points) and you can accurately transpose any movement onto a 3-d model for accurate viewing at any angle. Sort of like that fake first down line they have on football.
Multiply it by every camera at every hotel, etc, instantly accessable by unique URL and you have an "Enemy of the State" scenario actually becoming possible. That's the road this stuff is all headed. I think it will be wonderful for security and marketing but I don't really see any useful characteristics for the common man, besides navigation. I could be wrong however.
Yeah, I can understand these arguements. But what if you applied "fuzzy" techniques.
"ALL X are Y" will only get you so far. Then you could add additional (numeric) fuzzy logic based on samples of other data. For instance, in the "People who live in France speak French" solliquism, the computer could attempt to validate it by pulling a language census of France. After pulling this data, it would know that approximately 95% of people living there speak French. Thus a "fuzzy" "all" could be made. Like "MOST people in France speak French" and even give it a decent probability.
What this does is make relevance easier to find and actually creates new knowledge and facts out of thin air. Yes, some of them will not be true, but it's entirely possible that the computer could attempt to establish a probability that it is true.
Then you could have a "root" server of "truths" that everyone knows and then based on the data in the system more truths are formed as well as close matches.
I think this is a facinating idea. Although the current work is merely creating the structure and standards things like what I've just described are possible. Imagine going to your google toolbar and asking a question and having it be answered.
Now, yeah yeah, ASK.com etc. had something going for a while. The problem is, as TBL mentioned, there's no descriptive information about the individual ELEMENTS in a regular HTML page. What if your search pulls up a 120MB html page with 2000 pictures and only one particular photo is of interest or whatever. And the page is dynamically generated so it's difficult to create a good list of keywords and stuff to search it with.
I mean, can you imagine, you're a graphic designer. You want a great picture of a sailboat on the front of a brochure. You could just insert a picture box, type a short description of the image you're thinking of, and then boom, one fills the box. Then you can just use your arrow key or something to move thru the pictures until you find the one you want, right within your page setup app, not in web browser, not in a book, etc.
Just one possible example. I have to end this post otherwise I might think of something else.
No such thing as a LIBERAL politician in office. Conservative or Wishy Washy is your choices for representation. No one else can get elected. Jessie "the Mind" Ventura
Actually, there's this little thing called a write-in vote which could get him popular votes. Of course, you're right in that because the electoral college picks where the state's Electoral votes go, they would never send them as Nader even if he won.
There are a few states that are doing "split" electoral voting this year (Oregon I think), wherin the electoral votes are split based on the proportion of popular vote candidates recieve statewide.
I'm becoming very disillusioned with the voting system in this country now, however. It seems as though a few powerful families control the direction of the country. Sure, it's always been that way, but finally there are a lot of people our age who care (much like the sixties).
If there's a draft in the next year (as rumors have stated), they already have draconian laws in place to prevent/stop protests of the scale of the 60's.
I think what we really need is some leadership. The problem is that all the great leaders of the 60's are dead, and the echo boomers just want to get a BMW and a chick with fake tits.
I call hippies hippocrites now because they don't do anything. They say "We already did enough back then, let me relax with my money."
Exactly, it's like SPY 101 to delete your shit before you bug out. A child would know to do that. But hey, I'm sure the dude has a book deal and he has to feed his family also. Integrity comes second to money, remember?
If you read some of the great books on the subject of Cybernetics, you may begin to think differently.
As machines of communication and control become more of a part of humans, we increasingly become machines ourselves. These tools extend humans beyond what they are normally capable of. We ceased to be humans the moment we used the first machines as Early Humans to amplify our ability to do work.
We now have evolved to the point where we react to the machine's signals and feedback, thus it controls us to a certain extent while we control it. Such evolution is bound to continue, and we will eventually be able to communicate completely and utterly without distortion with every other thing on the planet.
Thus, we become a singular consciousness which is perhaps the destiny of humankind. Yes, we will have to give up certain "freedoms" as we evolve as a species (as we already have). But I wouldn't worry about it too much because it doesn't matter what stance you take now, you will eventually be replaced with new generations of humans which will increasingly tend towards the acceptance of this enevitability.
It can start with you or your children. It is of course within your rights as a human to go against the flow, and I applaud that as you will make the final product a more perfect union. But rest assured that eventually the slippery slope we all find ourselves upon will become too steep and there will be too few resistors to keep us afloat.
It's already too late. You aren't a soverign man, you aren't distinct, you aren't unique. You are far less important than business and government or their conveinient. You ARE their inventory.
Exactly. To really know the truth, well, you can't. There's just too much going on, too many facets of the world to really be truely INFORMED. You have to depend on others sooner or later.
I see several messages in the film. What follows is a series of non-sequiturs which may or may not form a coherent argument. What's the matter with me? Well, I just saw the film last night, and I haven't finished processing what I think of it. For the longest time, I've wanted someone else, a great communicator, someone people listen to, to show everyone what I've known is happening all along. But judging from some of the responses I've read here, it's all being distorted by election year petty liberal vs. conservative bickering. As IF IT MATTERS wether you want progression or stability!! WE ARE THE LITTLE PEOPLE, we work at their pace. There's 592 people in Congress who are supposed to be representing us and THEY ARE ALL BUDDIES and they are all making a lot of money. They are competing, just like us, on a playing field where each man/woman is trying to get money/stuff/luxury, whatever. They don't care about you any more than you care about the next guy, the guy who's going to get the job you wanted, the guy who's stealing your girlfriend away because he's better looking and drives a BMW. At the end of the film, Moore sums it up with the quote from 1984. I have a better one:
Moore's films ask the all important question--can you depend on the mainstream media? Can you depend on CNN and NBC, our daily sources of information, to report on something this obvious, to care about their customers (the uninformed public) enough to AT LEAST give both sides of the story? And of course, you can ask the same thing about his film--can you depend on him to tell the truth? Certainly if this IS the truth, it took some serious SERIOUS balls to come out and say something this inflamatory. But maybe he's showing that these people aren't that big after all, that one man is willing to stand up to a few of these big corporations/politicians and flip them off to their face and get away scott free.
"Ignorance is Strength
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
The aims of these groups are entirely irreconcilable.. --George Orwell, 1984"
He also frequently focuses on the lower class, the base that the whole system stands upon, the bottom row of bricks in the pyramid you see on every dollar.
Why them? Because everything is messed up in the favor of the rich and always has been! Why is it that all of us are just as smart, just as good, just as much PEOPLE as the people who run the show, but we're starving, working hard just to make up for the theft they perform on society on a daily basis? America was supposed to be something different from the beginning. America was meant to let the little people have the opportunity to compete with one another to form infinite class stratification. The idea is that living isn't worth living if you're not competing, and therefore it keeps us all busy.
The real disturbing part of the movie is when the FBI came and investigated some guy who was basically just talking bad about Bush in his local gym. It's a model for how we ALL felt right after the plane crashes. No one could say anything execpt the media, and all they could do was infuse fear and distrust into the American people. Moore goes on to show how the media was USED to distract the public while laws were introduced that couldn't b
It's called "The Microsoft Network", a plan hatched at Redmond in the late 90's. I'm not talking about MSN, I'm talking about a massively parallel distributed computer, made up of every desktop on the planet (almost). We've all heard of DCOM, remote RPC, etc; these provide a powerful means to run code arbitrarily on a computer you don't own. It's not a bug, it's the way it's designed.
It's a way to coopt the power of individual desktops in a distributed fashion--a good idea on the surface. I'm guessing that future versions will make the operations more and more transparent and less instrusive. They'll perhaps add a protected area that will run arbitrary code on idle processor cycles, thus not affecting system performance. In fact, if you could just rewrite "System Idle Process" so that it can host/run dll's a lot like SVCHOST.exe or RUNDLL32.exe
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Sorry, it's not safe there either. As earlier discussed, the "State" already has plans for that contingency......
Sorry, it's not safe there either. See this.......
Exactly. Our freedom is currently bent over, with it's asshole lubricated and spread wide. It hasn't been sodomized yet, but there's a Texan right behind it and the other guys are holding down it's arms.
We've got to protect our ass, folks. That means don't walk around with your pants down in the midst of these people. It also means that we have to stand together against them, because one person can't fight it alone.
Some might say that they have been singly responsible for reeling in Inflation thru the 90's.........
See this or this more more information.
;) Went up over 75% today, over 20% in afterhours, and they are saying this is just the beginning........
Also, buy the stock (ADSX)
Also, buy MEDICAL SOFTWARE COMPANIES that embrace the technology............
See this about some clubs in Europe who are already using it to control VIP access and patrons payments for drinks.....
Then of course there's the whole "Walmart Effect" on RFID.
1. Anticipate the Apocalypse
2. ???
3. Profit!
PS. Once you make all that money, buy GOLD.
see this.
Also, note that even though this is a PrisonPlanet.com article, CNN quoted it today.
Also, note that I bought the stock (ADSX) and it went up 75% today !
This morning I withdrew my $4.81 so I could get a pack of smokes and a cup-o-noodle.
Guess they were depending on me to pay their internet bill!
No kidding. And 800 terabytes--that's like 33.33TB PER DRIVE LETTER!! (excluding A: and B:, of course)
Yeah. Still, I don't think the power infrastructure is going away ever. Moving hydrogen around is pretty dangerous and if it's not, it's heavy in some sort of containment, chemical or physical.
Frankly, there are some sectors of the earth that don't have the energy they need, be it from wind, hydro or anything and don't have the money to built a nuke plant. Running a few cables is significantly less expensive.
Your other point about it being expensive is what I meant by "capitalism will keep this from happening quickly." Frankly, people are making too much money raping the easy way and pulling the oil out of the ground to make a difference. Only a massive shortage will change that.
But with developing 2nd world nations coming online with their consumer economies (china, india, russia), the energy requirements of the world economy are going to continue to grow at an almost exponential pace. It even seems like there's plenty of oil now, but what if demand triples or quadruples.
Then, everyone will be forced to look at the enevitable running out of oil scenario and probably not have a huge window of time to do something about it (20 years, or perhaps 10).
The shit is going to hit the fan.
You know, nuclear weapons letting out big bursts of EMP because they're touched off in the ionosphere.
Not ENTIRELY null, because you mean what I know.
And regardless, what's stopping a localized EMP attack on a major city? Or many localized attacks? And what if you could send it in a beam (like scalar weapons)?
I'd say the Air Force has thousands of plans for all kinds of different contingencies. This is just another needle in the haystack. War in the modern age is based on information more than pure might, and the side with the control of the information will win.
;)
That said, I think that releasing this information to the public may cause tension polically between us and other countries. Everyone already knew it, but you just don't talk about some things. I'm sure there's plans to nuke children in Africa, for instance, but you don't talk about that because it's better for everyone if we don't have to think about such possibilities...
An interesting thing also, is that our society is quite vulnerable to attacks such as these. Imagine the damage high-altitude air burst EMP weapons could do to our digital economy. Everything from money to the title of your home is based on the old ones and zeros now which tend to be a little more fragile than paper and ink..
There are downsides to technology and it's really imperative that everyone tries to get along in this day and age or we risk going back to the turn of the century in a few hours.
What with the new laws in place now, even a few whackos in the upper echelons of the government could give orders and literally turn off the world in a few minutes and all military electronics are typically protected from EMP, whereas your average consumer stuff ISN'T.
And of course there are already contingencies in place if such a thing happens.
Interesting side note, I was reading on one of those crazy whacko conspiracy sites about something called "TACMARS", which are basically tactical markings on signs and stuff that you wouldn't normally notice but could be used by people to organize movements in the absence of sophisiticated computerized mapping and logistics systems. They mentioned something about those bright reflective tags you sometimes see on the backs of road signs, and how you'd use a quadrant system (left corner, right corner, etc.) to make a code which gives someone directions covertly. Interesting ideas, even if it's nutty. Do a search sometime.
Anyway, the point is, we live in a very fragile age, and the people we (Americans) pay to worry about such things do.
Whether they are bad or good of course depends on how you vote next month
The government is using secret weather changing technology to affect the outcome of the Florida elections. /mount tinfoilhat
With a proper "grid", you can take advantage of the fact that it's always windy somewhere, and just move the power to the places that aren't windy at the moment.
It's already done with hydro power, no reason you couldn't use wind as well, or geothermal or other power. Someplace like Yellowstone probably has enough energy to run the US forever.
I don't think we're doomed as far as energy use is concerned, but there will need to be massive public works projects to rebuild the electric infrastructure to 2020 or 2050 requirements or beyond, rather than the current system mainly built in the 70's and barely supports us now.
Of course, capitalism will keep this from happening quickly and it will take a "major crisis" to push things any faster..
GIS is amazing stuff. There are a number of great trade publications that can be had for free.
Here you can subscribe to a few for free.
Makes great bathroom reading material. Where this stuff really begins to shine is melding of a bunch of data into a 3-d model, as you've said. Take a aerial photo of a street, add other ground photos with accurate location metadata and a standard map for wireframing.
Then take a live video feed from a known point (or multiple points) and you can accurately transpose any movement onto a 3-d model for accurate viewing at any angle. Sort of like that fake first down line they have on football.
Multiply it by every camera at every hotel, etc, instantly accessable by unique URL and you have an "Enemy of the State" scenario actually becoming possible. That's the road this stuff is all headed. I think it will be wonderful for security and marketing but I don't really see any useful characteristics for the common man, besides navigation. I could be wrong however.
Yeah, I can understand these arguements. But what if you applied "fuzzy" techniques.
"ALL X are Y" will only get you so far. Then you could add additional (numeric) fuzzy logic based on samples of other data. For instance, in the "People who live in France speak French" solliquism, the computer could attempt to validate it by pulling a language census of France. After pulling this data, it would know that approximately 95% of people living there speak French. Thus a "fuzzy" "all" could be made. Like "MOST people in France speak French" and even give it a decent probability.
What this does is make relevance easier to find and actually creates new knowledge and facts out of thin air. Yes, some of them will not be true, but it's entirely possible that the computer could attempt to establish a probability that it is true.
Then you could have a "root" server of "truths" that everyone knows and then based on the data in the system more truths are formed as well as close matches.
I think this is a facinating idea. Although the current work is merely creating the structure and standards things like what I've just described are possible. Imagine going to your google toolbar and asking a question and having it be answered.
Now, yeah yeah, ASK.com etc. had something going for a while. The problem is, as TBL mentioned, there's no descriptive information about the individual ELEMENTS in a regular HTML page. What if your search pulls up a 120MB html page with 2000 pictures and only one particular photo is of interest or whatever. And the page is dynamically generated so it's difficult to create a good list of keywords and stuff to search it with.
I mean, can you imagine, you're a graphic designer. You want a great picture of a sailboat on the front of a brochure. You could just insert a picture box, type a short description of the image you're thinking of, and then boom, one fills the box. Then you can just use your arrow key or something to move thru the pictures until you find the one you want, right within your page setup app, not in web browser, not in a book, etc.
Just one possible example. I have to end this post otherwise I might think of something else.
No such thing as a LIBERAL politician in office. Conservative or Wishy Washy is your choices for representation. No one else can get elected. Jessie "the Mind" Ventura
Actually, there's this little thing called a write-in vote which could get him popular votes. Of course, you're right in that because the electoral college picks where the state's Electoral votes go, they would never send them as Nader even if he won.
There are a few states that are doing "split" electoral voting this year (Oregon I think), wherin the electoral votes are split based on the proportion of popular vote candidates recieve statewide.
I'm becoming very disillusioned with the voting system in this country now, however. It seems as though a few powerful families control the direction of the country. Sure, it's always been that way, but finally there are a lot of people our age who care (much like the sixties).
If there's a draft in the next year (as rumors have stated), they already have draconian laws in place to prevent/stop protests of the scale of the 60's.
I think what we really need is some leadership. The problem is that all the great leaders of the 60's are dead, and the echo boomers just want to get a BMW and a chick with fake tits.
I call hippies hippocrites now because they don't do anything. They say "We already did enough back then, let me relax with my money."
Put your money where your mouth WAS.
Exactly, it's like SPY 101 to delete your shit before you bug out. A child would know to do that. But hey, I'm sure the dude has a book deal and he has to feed his family also. Integrity comes second to money, remember?
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If you read some of the great books on the subject of Cybernetics, you may begin to think differently.
As machines of communication and control become more of a part of humans, we increasingly become machines ourselves. These tools extend humans beyond what they are normally capable of. We ceased to be humans the moment we used the first machines as Early Humans to amplify our ability to do work.
We now have evolved to the point where we react to the machine's signals and feedback, thus it controls us to a certain extent while we control it. Such evolution is bound to continue, and we will eventually be able to communicate completely and utterly without distortion with every other thing on the planet.
Thus, we become a singular consciousness which is perhaps the destiny of humankind. Yes, we will have to give up certain "freedoms" as we evolve as a species (as we already have). But I wouldn't worry about it too much because it doesn't matter what stance you take now, you will eventually be replaced with new generations of humans which will increasingly tend towards the acceptance of this enevitability.
It can start with you or your children. It is of course within your rights as a human to go against the flow, and I applaud that as you will make the final product a more perfect union. But rest assured that eventually the slippery slope we all find ourselves upon will become too steep and there will be too few resistors to keep us afloat.
It's already too late. You aren't a soverign man, you aren't distinct, you aren't unique. You are far less important than business and government or their conveinient. You ARE their inventory.
See you at the bar.
Exactly. To really know the truth, well, you can't. There's just too much going on, too many facets of the world to really be truely INFORMED. You have to depend on others sooner or later.
I see several messages in the film. What follows is a series of non-sequiturs which may or may not form a coherent argument. What's the matter with me? Well, I just saw the film last night, and I haven't finished processing what I think of it. For the longest time, I've wanted someone else, a great communicator, someone people listen to, to show everyone what I've known is happening all along. But judging from some of the responses I've read here, it's all being distorted by election year petty liberal vs. conservative bickering. As IF IT MATTERS wether you want progression or stability!! WE ARE THE LITTLE PEOPLE, we work at their pace. There's 592 people in Congress who are supposed to be representing us and THEY ARE ALL BUDDIES and they are all making a lot of money. They are competing, just like us, on a playing field where each man/woman is trying to get money/stuff/luxury, whatever. They don't care about you any more than you care about the next guy, the guy who's going to get the job you wanted, the guy who's stealing your girlfriend away because he's better looking and drives a BMW. At the end of the film, Moore sums it up with the quote from 1984. I have a better one:
Moore's films ask the all important question--can you depend on the mainstream media? Can you depend on CNN and NBC, our daily sources of information, to report on something this obvious, to care about their customers (the uninformed public) enough to AT LEAST give both sides of the story? And of course, you can ask the same thing about his film--can you depend on him to tell the truth? Certainly if this IS the truth, it took some serious SERIOUS balls to come out and say something this inflamatory. But maybe he's showing that these people aren't that big after all, that one man is willing to stand up to a few of these big corporations/politicians and flip them off to their face and get away scott free.
"Ignorance is Strength
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
The aims of these groups are entirely irreconcilable.. --George Orwell, 1984"
He also frequently focuses on the lower class, the base that the whole system stands upon, the bottom row of bricks in the pyramid you see on every dollar.
Why them? Because everything is messed up in the favor of the rich and always has been! Why is it that all of us are just as smart, just as good, just as much PEOPLE as the people who run the show, but we're starving, working hard just to make up for the theft they perform on society on a daily basis? America was supposed to be something different from the beginning. America was meant to let the little people have the opportunity to compete with one another to form infinite class stratification. The idea is that living isn't worth living if you're not competing, and therefore it keeps us all busy.
The real disturbing part of the movie is when the FBI came and investigated some guy who was basically just talking bad about Bush in his local gym. It's a model for how we ALL felt right after the plane crashes. No one could say anything execpt the media, and all they could do was infuse fear and distrust into the American people. Moore goes on to show how the media was USED to distract the public while laws were introduced that couldn't b
It's called "The Microsoft Network", a plan hatched at Redmond in the late 90's. I'm not talking about MSN, I'm talking about a massively parallel distributed computer, made up of every desktop on the planet (almost). We've all heard of DCOM, remote RPC, etc; these provide a powerful means to run code arbitrarily on a computer you don't own. It's not a bug, it's the way it's designed.
It's a way to coopt the power of individual desktops in a distributed fashion--a good idea on the surface. I'm guessing that future versions will make the operations more and more transparent and less instrusive. They'll perhaps add a protected area that will run arbitrary code on idle processor cycles, thus not affecting system performance. In fact, if you could just rewrite "System Idle Process" so that it can host/run dll's a lot like SVCHOST.exe or RUNDLL32.exe
Hm
This has a rather chilling photo tour of the region...
Yeah, and then there's the discrepacy between the "hourly" and "weekly" pay:
$455 * 52wk = $23660
($27.63 * 40 hrs) * 52wk = $57540.40
Why wouldn't an employer put the employee on Salary, if they can save the money on OT?
It's just stupid. Everything should be hourly or salary. I guess it's your own fault if you get stuck in a job where you're getting screwed, however.