I have a really interesting question that I havn't had the time or the resources to fully investigate. Do any of the *BSDs have support for compressed filesystems like e2compr for linux? I would like to be able to do something similar with linux on a *BSD or on Mac OS X but really wish this feature is present. Does it exist?
Ok you really, really, really got my attention with that one. I was looking to get my free CDs when they first came out but they never came. Is this release as in buy or download? They say at http://get.qnx.com that it is going to be released for download "later this summer" unfortunately that is the score. Are there any OSS apps and are there any good IDEs for it? What of it's random # generation facilities? Does it support virtual memory? Does it support multiple filesystems? Does it have a comm program? A good API for program creation?
I heard of SoftICE never actually tried it I guess because it's some DOS/windows program. Also isn't it possible to simply use various proprietary libraries and make it next to impossible. Isn't this why you really cannot easily decompile command.com and make it into your own open source program?
The cracking of public to private keys takes a great deal of computational almost comparable to something that is older than the known age of the universe ~15,000,000,000 years. Also I don't think that anyone from the NSA ever actually sued anyone who worked on pgp/gpg. The only legal challenge against the technology was from a private corporation.
Well then don't look at the saints at your local PD. Hell most local cops are about as crooked at they come. Personally I would choose the3 FBI and federal prision systems than the state ones. State prisions are dirty and not well kept anyway as statistics will show. I think they do a good job of investigating that is why they actually have field agents (you know those guys like Mulder who go out and try to solve crimes albiet without aliens/secret conspiracies with tobacco using villains).
1. It runs on Java/Javascript/cookies all are equally bad but together they are horrible 2. That's no guarantee that your connection isn't being sniffed or even rerouted en route to the hushmail server 3. What a perfect cover for the government to operate under or at least make sure that the company that is running hushmail is bribed sufficiently.
And extremely easy for them to crack/fix. (P.S On a related note there seems to be a web hosting/internet access company that I saw caled Echelon hmmm...) Basic statistics would indicate that if you have say 20 keywords in one single message and that they are all the same type of words that it would be a little suspicious wouldn't it? Also even if you wanted to clog the system what prevents the NSA from actually using beowulf techniques and analyzing data at a later date? Here is what I would do if I were the NSA: 1. Get a whole bunch of programmers who are paid well (and threatened sufficiently) that they code an adaptive system to look for keywords. 2. Get say 10,000 computers in several buildings and in fact place monitoring computers all over in various areas which you wouldn't syspect them to be like walls and various government contractor locations. 3. Get a nice OS like Plan 9 or Inferno and create a distrtibuted app around the one in 1. 4. Divide the network traffic to analyze from 3 and divide in amongst thousands more computers in a distributed fashion. If a computer dies it's work will be picked up by another computer. In this manner it would be trivial to get most of the major perpetrators who are too stupid to use encryption or are using weak encryption.
Then send this and rely this to all of your friends in big ISPs eventually you will get a knock on the door. Seriously if I use pgp/gpg aren't I immune from the actual evesdropping since my communications originated and end encrypted? Hasn't this already been done with packet sniffers and the like?
Well to make my point a little better check out what kind of betrayal the game industry has engaged in with regard to their offerings. The first 2 quake games were in fact meant to be played alone. Then comes along Quake III and you have basically no plot just a lot of (in my opnion) worthless, hard difficult play that requires access to the net to accomplish. Secondly upgrading my kernel is almost next to impossible without net access also ever tried to get a cvs tree without net access and nothing but user mode access to NT machines and win 95 machines? Try adding to the fact that you only have floppies to work with and that makes your position become even more tenuous. Buying things also leaps to mind. To order many things it's almost imperative to get them on the internet unless you wish to hunt down each and every merchant through a very expensive and time consuming process of long distance calling and then you most likely have to leave you house and travel for hundreds of miles to get what you need. Updates to software products are almost never more put out on any other media than the internet no adays. Weather information that is up the second cannot be obtained without internet connections. Try getting masses of radr data mailed to your house dosn't work. n fact the application that the NWS uses to get the data *requires* a T-1 to work at all without failing. For christ's sake you have a great number of people getting network access as something taken out of their taxes (remember the little story of the entire german town that has net access). I object strenuously to any attempt to basically help others without having the thing yourself. Am I bitter? Hell yeah. Am I resentful? Hell yeah!! Would I find some means to stiff worthless arrgant class system supporters like Juno I woulds do it in a second. I probably am charged in fact for the maintaince of some internet related thing or another through Federal/State income taxes and I don't even have access to those databases. What gets me is that there are some things that are basically necessary for a good life and the internet is one of them. Without the large scale access to the internet the computr world was shitty. Roll back the clock to the 1980's when everything was 30x more expensive and you paid by the minute to access some services and computers were a hell of a lot worse. Most people can't conceive that open source software really was around before something like 3-4 years ago because there was almost nothing that was being done. Why? Well because almost no one had a computer and even fewer people had an IP address to spare. I don't even want to think how miserable a time people had with computers then (I never got into the computer world until basically ~1994 or so). You what would be the easiest thing to do? Simply complete the connection from the local office of the telco to the homes so that they are all equiped with all digital connections that are always on and then simply hav ethem act like a DSL like and you can have voice/internet access. Hell I would go out and get the cable myself and string it myself and dig the street up myself with my own tools if I had to to get it to work. The problem is people see the average person as a threat to their established social order. What suddently happens when every person can run the slash code on their computer at home and compete with slashdot for their type of services? What happens when web hosting no longer is really that all important because you can run any damn thing you want on your computer? In short what happens when their is no longer a monopoly anymore on the technology? As much as I hate to see suffering in the world I care even less to see the suffering in my own life. Truth be told I hate living where I have to live and hate living with small minded fools who seem to thing that their entire world is what they see on any given day. I hate to spend thousands of dollars on books to supplement a worthless library and I hate the lack of information. I also fervently hate the association with every stinking aspect of human life associated with some stupid business. The government guarateees freedom, safety, and in fact a great many thing business operation and it's associated world are to be left to bean counters and other fools in business schools. Technology should be above stupid irrevelencies of business and the like. I trained to be a CS major not an accounting major. And I doubt that many other people actualy trained as business majors and write code. Business is a place where you work not a way of life by any means. Also I have no money to travel to far flung corners of the globe. Speak 10+ languages and have any opportunity to see almost anything beyone roughly a 100 mile radious of my home town. What is a tremendous farce is that you have work and you have the fruits of work. If you work all the time you consequently have little time to devote to your little toys that you working buys and then you are to tired at the end of the day to care. So what do I say to India? Well they can go f*ck off and get their own access, kill themselves off by picking fights with Packistan and try to find the spiritual enlightenment that has been so elusive for them for the last 8,000-10,000 years. The attitude at slashdot that the internet is not important is laughable to me because you all pony up far more money each month than I would ever dream of paying for connecting permanent connections to your houses and never have to wory about access evermore. Oh even if I did manage to get broadband and get it paid for and still wasn't dead tired from working 2 jobs to pay for it I still cannot connect linux to the damn thing. US west/Qwest dosn't support linux for their software and hardware, I don't see where I can run servers
Not to mention kind of stupid. I stopped watching these "movies" about the time I saw some stupid scheme the riddler had wherein he decided to get some machine to sap human neural energy and channel it into his cerebrial cortex.
Somehow that dosn't sound like the best stuff
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Hmmm well you actually can prevent IBM from giving *any* aid to india quite easily. Basically make sure that IBM cannot conduct international trade with India on order of the federal government. India can become a rouge nation and all problems are solved.
That would be sticking it out and vibrating
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That's what I associate that with.
Problems with the medium
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Uhhhhhhm I'm sorry: precisely *what* makes you believe that you, as a resident of the USA, in some manner have a 'right' to connectivity, such that a company devoting resources to connectivity outside the US is an
infringement on you?
Because a bunch of Indian peseants aren't the focus of society or industry for Americans to worry about when there are massive social problems right here at home. I say if the Indian people want access make them pay through the nose for it like we did in the early days of the internet. We shouldn't be bailing out another country and leave our own with slaves.
Go out and buy a freakin' phone line and a modem. If you have a decent job, get DSL or a leased line. Don't complain in a public forum because other countries in the world are getting basic 8-year-old comms
technology developed?
Check and double check. I have one land line and a 2400 baud modem. And I run linux. There should be not problem right? Wrong the rather stupid ISPs like Juno don't seem to get it through their head that they screwed me as a loyal customer when freewwweb closed. Linux was supported by them and worked extremely well. The the idiots take and "extent" the ppp protocol that is the mainstay for real communication and prevent anyone from using it. And they have the gall never to release a linux port despite need by a large number of people to have such a port done.
There is *NO* way anyone with a rational mind can argue that an american has any right to connectivity. You have what you pay for / invest time, energy and smarts in learning to use. That's life.
As long as the internet and it's inherent use are a prerequisite for doing *anything* and it becomes such a major issue and such you really do need it.
Take recent versions of windows. It's almost impossible to actually use some apps (like Word 2000) without registering first via an online connection first. Then windows "needs" to update itself via some form of online manner and also needs access. Not to mention to numbers of collegiate classes that are now going online for the interaction and using the web as a medium to turn solutions to problems (physics comes to mind). So yes I think that with all the emphasis on net connectivity and the fact that it's becomming a freebie option for almost all the net you *cannot* justify to me that it isn't a right. It's just simply baffling why people ignore linux with regard to the use of free ISPs. How damn hard is it to simply port your damn code to something that would give you more eyeballs. And don't give me the worn out excuse that linux makes it trivial to prevent seeing ads. You can program linux to prevent access without seeing ads. And you can bypass the ads on windows as well with a little bit of cleaver programming knowledge.
The main focus of the essay was on being disconnected and the previous poster was mentioning lack of network/computer connectivity for individuals in India. The post is based on these topics.
So what are your definitions
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What does the Namibian tribesman actually posess that would be of any value to a person engaged in something that is done in the modern world.
Personally Namabian tribesmen only have access to the information and knowledge of their peers. They spend their entire lives alone with their thoughts and live a substince life where basic animal urges rule the roost so to speak. As much as I want to have to constantly worry about where my next meal is comming from of what will happen to my life if the next season dosn't bring good rain I really don't.
The life of a farmer/herder/hunter&gatherer is a crappy one that not many people like. Farmers usually spend almost all their time working and worrying from sunup to sundown. I personally knew of a professor who was raised on a farm not to mention my own dad and basically you work from sun-up to sun-down until you are dead on your feet. It's not fun.
The inexact colloquial term you are looking for is "street smarts" which I do not equate with either information or knowledge.
Ok I am just wondering about this. I have tried some of the program that sample the data from the cue cat on mine. What I have noticed is that nothing seems to be properly scanning twice the same way. The scan code appears to be slightly different each time. Now this may be related to the fact that the security code is messing it up or that have it plugged into the the keyboard porn with a keyboard AT converter. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Corporate culture doesn't WANT you to have a rich social life. Corporate culture wants you to "hive-in" to the company "family." If the only people you regularly associate with are also your coworkers, it helps to blur
the lines between job/home until you suddenly don't mind working 10+ hours of overtime a week, because you're still just hanging out with your buddies.
Maybe it's a culture thing but none of my family ever worked in an office. The one difference is that when work ended my dad always returned home. He was never the type to hand around the job gossiping or being something that the company wanted him to be.
My grandfather was more like a person who enjoyed social aspects of his job. He spent long hours doing his job but it was more of love for his job and the ability to get work he enjoyed done. In this aspect he was more aloof.
Of course you want dedicated workers but I doubt in the real world anybody expects to be forcing you to do more and more work. Besides at least in the United States you get paid 150% of your normal salary if you in fact do work any over time. In this respect they *don't* want you to work any more time than normal.
My basic lack of connectivity
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One of the irritating things that I see is that the whole culture of software design seems to be putting emphasis on the fact that data can be communicated in the least without the *quality* of the data that is being transacted.
I had an internet connection at my home for a little while with freewwweb and thought it was rather nice. No more having to dick around with floppies just to get a program broken up into disk sized chunks. No more being forced to wait for a computer to borrow. In fact it was incredibly nice.
Then the bastards decided to sell out and screw their clients. I faithfully went to their portal every day and they still went down the sewer in the end.
What irritates me is that a company is funding the development of network infrastructure and connectivity when people who live in the USA are still without net access. It's kind of like dealing with African refuges when we have homeless, poor, and disadvantaged right here at home.
And I doubt that IBM was solely responsible for upgrading the technology of India. I think that the period that India was a British colony had something more to do with it becomming a better and more influential world power and going from 13th to 19th century technology.
Oh and computers as we know them were invented in roughly the last quarter of the *20th* century not the 19th, Babages difference engine dosn't count.
A little trick that I use to avoid easy detection is this basically. Use public internet access stations and computer labs. I use a computer lab at a local university to access and convey information that I don't want to be traced to me. There are over 40+ computers and no way to tell who was using them. Bamo no one to blame and no one to trace.
Slashdot dosn't allow for anyone to edit their previous comments and they didn't take away the material according to my knowledge. It worked fine for them.
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What kind of price are we talking about here?
I have a really interesting question that I havn't had the time or the resources to fully investigate. Do any of the *BSDs have support for compressed filesystems like e2compr for linux? I would like to be able to do something similar with linux on a *BSD or on Mac OS X but really wish this feature is present. Does it exist?
Ok you really, really, really got my attention with that one. I was looking to get my free CDs when they first came out but they never came. Is this release as in buy or download? They say at http://get.qnx.com that it is going to be released for download "later this summer" unfortunately that is the score. Are there any OSS apps and are there any good IDEs for it? What of it's random # generation facilities? Does it support virtual memory? Does it support multiple filesystems? Does it have a comm program? A good API for program creation?
I heard of SoftICE never actually tried it I guess because it's some DOS/windows program. Also isn't it possible to simply use various proprietary libraries and make it next to impossible. Isn't this why you really cannot easily decompile command.com and make it into your own open source program?
The cracking of public to private keys takes a great deal of computational almost comparable to something that is older than the known age of the universe ~15,000,000,000 years. Also I don't think that anyone from the NSA ever actually sued anyone who worked on pgp/gpg. The only legal challenge against the technology was from a private corporation.
Well then don't look at the saints at your local PD. Hell most local cops are about as crooked at they come. Personally I would choose the3 FBI and federal prision systems than the state ones. State prisions are dirty and not well kept anyway as statistics will show. I think they do a good job of investigating that is why they actually have field agents (you know those guys like Mulder who go out and try to solve crimes albiet without aliens/secret conspiracies with tobacco using villains).
1. It runs on Java/Javascript/cookies all are equally bad but together they are horrible 2. That's no guarantee that your connection isn't being sniffed or even rerouted en route to the hushmail server 3. What a perfect cover for the government to operate under or at least make sure that the company that is running hushmail is bribed sufficiently.
And extremely easy for them to crack/fix. (P.S On a related note there seems to be a web hosting/internet access company that I saw caled Echelon hmmm...) Basic statistics would indicate that if you have say 20 keywords in one single message and that they are all the same type of words that it would be a little suspicious wouldn't it? Also even if you wanted to clog the system what prevents the NSA from actually using beowulf techniques and analyzing data at a later date? Here is what I would do if I were the NSA: 1. Get a whole bunch of programmers who are paid well (and threatened sufficiently) that they code an adaptive system to look for keywords. 2. Get say 10,000 computers in several buildings and in fact place monitoring computers all over in various areas which you wouldn't syspect them to be like walls and various government contractor locations. 3. Get a nice OS like Plan 9 or Inferno and create a distrtibuted app around the one in 1. 4. Divide the network traffic to analyze from 3 and divide in amongst thousands more computers in a distributed fashion. If a computer dies it's work will be picked up by another computer. In this manner it would be trivial to get most of the major perpetrators who are too stupid to use encryption or are using weak encryption.
Then send this and rely this to all of your friends in big ISPs eventually you will get a knock on the door. Seriously if I use pgp/gpg aren't I immune from the actual evesdropping since my communications originated and end encrypted? Hasn't this already been done with packet sniffers and the like?
Well to make my point a little better check out what kind of betrayal the game industry has engaged in with regard to their offerings. The first 2 quake games were in fact meant to be played alone. Then comes along Quake III and you have basically no plot just a lot of (in my opnion) worthless, hard difficult play that requires access to the net to accomplish. Secondly upgrading my kernel is almost next to impossible without net access also ever tried to get a cvs tree without net access and nothing but user mode access to NT machines and win 95 machines? Try adding to the fact that you only have floppies to work with and that makes your position become even more tenuous. Buying things also leaps to mind. To order many things it's almost imperative to get them on the internet unless you wish to hunt down each and every merchant through a very expensive and time consuming process of long distance calling and then you most likely have to leave you house and travel for hundreds of miles to get what you need. Updates to software products are almost never more put out on any other media than the internet no adays. Weather information that is up the second cannot be obtained without internet connections. Try getting masses of radr data mailed to your house dosn't work. n fact the application that the NWS uses to get the data *requires* a T-1 to work at all without failing. For christ's sake you have a great number of people getting network access as something taken out of their taxes (remember the little story of the entire german town that has net access). I object strenuously to any attempt to basically help others without having the thing yourself. Am I bitter? Hell yeah. Am I resentful? Hell yeah!! Would I find some means to stiff worthless arrgant class system supporters like Juno I woulds do it in a second. I probably am charged in fact for the maintaince of some internet related thing or another through Federal/State income taxes and I don't even have access to those databases. What gets me is that there are some things that are basically necessary for a good life and the internet is one of them. Without the large scale access to the internet the computr world was shitty. Roll back the clock to the 1980's when everything was 30x more expensive and you paid by the minute to access some services and computers were a hell of a lot worse. Most people can't conceive that open source software really was around before something like 3-4 years ago because there was almost nothing that was being done. Why? Well because almost no one had a computer and even fewer people had an IP address to spare. I don't even want to think how miserable a time people had with computers then (I never got into the computer world until basically ~1994 or so). You what would be the easiest thing to do? Simply complete the connection from the local office of the telco to the homes so that they are all equiped with all digital connections that are always on and then simply hav ethem act like a DSL like and you can have voice/internet access. Hell I would go out and get the cable myself and string it myself and dig the street up myself with my own tools if I had to to get it to work. The problem is people see the average person as a threat to their established social order. What suddently happens when every person can run the slash code on their computer at home and compete with slashdot for their type of services? What happens when web hosting no longer is really that all important because you can run any damn thing you want on your computer? In short what happens when their is no longer a monopoly anymore on the technology? As much as I hate to see suffering in the world I care even less to see the suffering in my own life. Truth be told I hate living where I have to live and hate living with small minded fools who seem to thing that their entire world is what they see on any given day. I hate to spend thousands of dollars on books to supplement a worthless library and I hate the lack of information. I also fervently hate the association with every stinking aspect of human life associated with some stupid business. The government guarateees freedom, safety, and in fact a great many thing business operation and it's associated world are to be left to bean counters and other fools in business schools. Technology should be above stupid irrevelencies of business and the like. I trained to be a CS major not an accounting major. And I doubt that many other people actualy trained as business majors and write code. Business is a place where you work not a way of life by any means. Also I have no money to travel to far flung corners of the globe. Speak 10+ languages and have any opportunity to see almost anything beyone roughly a 100 mile radious of my home town. What is a tremendous farce is that you have work and you have the fruits of work. If you work all the time you consequently have little time to devote to your little toys that you working buys and then you are to tired at the end of the day to care. So what do I say to India? Well they can go f*ck off and get their own access, kill themselves off by picking fights with Packistan and try to find the spiritual enlightenment that has been so elusive for them for the last 8,000-10,000 years. The attitude at slashdot that the internet is not important is laughable to me because you all pony up far more money each month than I would ever dream of paying for connecting permanent connections to your houses and never have to wory about access evermore. Oh even if I did manage to get broadband and get it paid for and still wasn't dead tired from working 2 jobs to pay for it I still cannot connect linux to the damn thing. US west/Qwest dosn't support linux for their software and hardware, I don't see where I can run servers
Not to mention kind of stupid. I stopped watching these "movies" about the time I saw some stupid scheme the riddler had wherein he decided to get some machine to sap human neural energy and channel it into his cerebrial cortex.
Hmmm well you actually can prevent IBM from giving *any* aid to india quite easily. Basically make sure that IBM cannot conduct international trade with India on order of the federal government. India can become a rouge nation and all problems are solved.
That's what I associate that with.
Uhhhhhhm I'm sorry: precisely *what* makes you believe that you, as a resident of the USA, in some manner have a 'right' to connectivity, such that a company devoting resources to connectivity outside the US is an
infringement on you?
Because a bunch of Indian peseants aren't the focus of society or industry for Americans to worry about when there are massive social problems right here at home. I say if the Indian people want access make them pay through the nose for it like we did in the early days of the internet. We shouldn't be bailing out another country and leave our own with slaves.
Go out and buy a freakin' phone line and a modem. If you have a decent job, get DSL or a leased line. Don't complain in a public forum because other countries in the world are getting basic 8-year-old comms
technology developed?
Check and double check. I have one land line and a 2400 baud modem. And I run linux. There should be not problem right? Wrong the rather stupid ISPs like Juno don't seem to get it through their head that they screwed me as a loyal customer when freewwweb closed. Linux was supported by them and worked extremely well. The the idiots take and "extent" the ppp protocol that is the mainstay for real communication and prevent anyone from using it. And they have the gall never to release a linux port despite need by a large number of people to have such a port done.
There is *NO* way anyone with a rational mind can argue that an american has any right to connectivity. You have what you pay for / invest time, energy and smarts in learning to use. That's life.
As long as the internet and it's inherent use are a prerequisite for doing *anything* and it becomes such a major issue and such you really do need it.
Take recent versions of windows. It's almost impossible to actually use some apps (like Word 2000) without registering first via an online connection first. Then windows "needs" to update itself via some form of online manner and also needs access. Not to mention to numbers of collegiate classes that are now going online for the interaction and using the web as a medium to turn solutions to problems (physics comes to mind). So yes I think that with all the emphasis on net connectivity and the fact that it's becomming a freebie option for almost all the net you *cannot* justify to me that it isn't a right. It's just simply baffling why people ignore linux with regard to the use of free ISPs. How damn hard is it to simply port your damn code to something that would give you more eyeballs. And don't give me the worn out excuse that linux makes it trivial to prevent seeing ads. You can program linux to prevent access without seeing ads. And you can bypass the ads on windows as well with a little bit of cleaver programming knowledge.
The main focus of the essay was on being disconnected and the previous poster was mentioning lack of network/computer connectivity for individuals in India. The post is based on these topics.
What does the Namibian tribesman actually posess that would be of any value to a person engaged in something that is done in the modern world.
Personally Namabian tribesmen only have access to the information and knowledge of their peers. They spend their entire lives alone with their thoughts and live a substince life where basic animal urges rule the roost so to speak. As much as I want to have to constantly worry about where my next meal is comming from of what will happen to my life if the next season dosn't bring good rain I really don't.
The life of a farmer/herder/hunter&gatherer is a crappy one that not many people like. Farmers usually spend almost all their time working and worrying from sunup to sundown. I personally knew of a professor who was raised on a farm not to mention my own dad and basically you work from sun-up to sun-down until you are dead on your feet. It's not fun.
The inexact colloquial term you are looking for is "street smarts" which I do not equate with either information or knowledge.
Ok I am just wondering about this. I have tried some of the program that sample the data from the cue cat on mine. What I have noticed is that nothing seems to be properly scanning twice the same way. The scan code appears to be slightly different each time. Now this may be related to the fact that the security code is messing it up or that have it plugged into the the keyboard porn with a keyboard AT converter. Has anyone else noticed this?
Corporate culture doesn't WANT you to have a rich social life. Corporate culture wants you to "hive-in" to the company "family." If the only people you regularly associate with are also your coworkers, it helps to blur
the lines between job/home until you suddenly don't mind working 10+ hours of overtime a week, because you're still just hanging out with your buddies.
Maybe it's a culture thing but none of my family ever worked in an office. The one difference is that when work ended my dad always returned home. He was never the type to hand around the job gossiping or being something that the company wanted him to be.
My grandfather was more like a person who enjoyed social aspects of his job. He spent long hours doing his job but it was more of love for his job and the ability to get work he enjoyed done. In this aspect he was more aloof.
Of course you want dedicated workers but I doubt in the real world anybody expects to be forcing you to do more and more work. Besides at least in the United States you get paid 150% of your normal salary if you in fact do work any over time. In this respect they *don't* want you to work any more time than normal.
One of the irritating things that I see is that the whole culture of software design seems to be putting emphasis on the fact that data can be communicated in the least without the *quality* of the data that is being transacted.
I had an internet connection at my home for a little while with freewwweb and thought it was rather nice. No more having to dick around with floppies just to get a program broken up into disk sized chunks. No more being forced to wait for a computer to borrow. In fact it was incredibly nice.
Then the bastards decided to sell out and screw their clients. I faithfully went to their portal every day and they still went down the sewer in the end.
What irritates me is that a company is funding the development of network infrastructure and connectivity when people who live in the USA are still without net access. It's kind of like dealing with African refuges when we have homeless, poor, and disadvantaged right here at home.
And I doubt that IBM was solely responsible for upgrading the technology of India. I think that the period that India was a British colony had something more to do with it becomming a better and more influential world power and going from 13th to 19th century technology.
Oh and computers as we know them were invented in roughly the last quarter of the *20th* century not the 19th, Babages difference engine dosn't count.
That would be much cheaper and better for many of my machines around here.
Well I am all for DVD but I have many machines that aren't equiped to deal with DVD do they have CDs for these?
I guess that was meant as a joke.
A little trick that I use to avoid easy detection is this basically. Use public internet access stations and computer labs. I use a computer lab at a local university to access and convey information that I don't want to be traced to me. There are over 40+ computers and no way to tell who was using them. Bamo no one to blame and no one to trace.
I'm a little ignorant about the subject isn't that like money that is given to you to help your defense in case you do get sued?
Slashdot dosn't allow for anyone to edit their previous comments and they didn't take away the material according to my knowledge. It worked fine for them.