Yes, its obvious, but I just find the idea of transporting files around on my face funny.. And yes, before the masses ask about face mounting a Linux distro, I have no doubt it can be done with this...
The majority of the people just don't care much about this issue. They know downloading songs and movies is illegal but will keep doing it as long as they feel they can get away with it. When they no longer can they'll stop or find another way of getting the content.
Right or wrong, this issue just isn't that big a deal outside of the libertarian/. crowd. Ask a few people outside of your normal crowd. Most of them will probably yawn.
Second, the people who are taking it in the shorts are a bunch of suits who don't care one little iota about me. You can't claim this is going to hurt my fellow programmers; the suits already outsourced us. You can't claim it's going to hurt secretaries or clerks, because they'll find plenty of work elsewhere. The ONLY people getting hurt here are the suits -- the managers in charge who can't make their companies profitable under the phone companies' terms. So who cares if they stay rich? Who cares if their profits drop? Who cares if they live or die?
All this means to me is, a bunch of rich, arrogant SOBs who never did anything for me are going to take it right in the shorts while I watch and revel in the action. And, I get a new, fancy cell phone in a couple of years that does everything but get naked for me.
Sounds like a winner! Hoist a pint, boys!
With an attitude like that, it's no wonder your job was outsourced. I love all of these 'It's management sticking it up our asses!' idiots. Try actually running a company once. Try keeping the company afloat while turning a profit so you can keep your non-performing employees employed. Get over yourself -- business is about profit. Learn to deal with it or stand in an unemployment line.
Let's extend your logic beyond computers and contemplate the idea of using lockless doors. Damn, it's just too much trouble to find those keys when I just want to get into my own house! Why not eliminate the locks once and for all so it would be much easier to get in after a night of partying. Sure, my house will be easier to burglarize, but blame that on the burglers!
A better comparison would be with a home security system that has multiple zones and time settings. Most home owners, once they have the system installed stop using it because they can't remember how to or they constantly trip the thing.
Until computers become as easy to use as a door key software makers will do what they can to ease the customer experience by dumbing things down. If they don't, people stop using, and therefore buying their product. Of course, they could go too far and end up having their product perceived as a toy, watch their potential market vaporize and spend the next 20 years trying to dissuade that market of the false perception (ala Apple).
I'd feel much more comfortable with the data collection if abusers faced criminal charges rather than (or on top of) civil/monetary charges.
When a corporation's executive management faces jail time for violating an individual's rights as opposed to their insurance company paying out a settlement I think the potential for abuse would decline. Of course, there would also need to be serious oversight similar to that of the SEC (yeah yeah, I know: where were they with Enron?).
You get what you pay for.... HP ProLiant is by far my favorite server line, and it's not really that much more expensive than Dell.
Amen! While I have no beef with the reliability of their desktops -- although I don't like the proprietary power supplies one bit -- and I think their laptops are some of the best out there I will never again purchase a Dell server or npiece of networking equipment. In less than six months we had problems with almost every single Dell server and switch we own. All of them due to bad hardware and piss-poor quality control. Add to that and regardless of what Dell was saying, the support we were getting from "Jeff" in Bangalore was terrible. Sorry Dell, you blew it.
In 15 years I've used pretty much everything that has an Intel processor in it. The old HP Netservers still rank the best in reliability, followed by the Compaq Proliants. I have one of each (floor model, pentium pro) still chugging as DHCP servers. They're both looking at the better side of 10 years old and show no signs of retiring any time soon. They just run. Period. Dell can't even dream of giving me an ROI like that. Not even close.
I personally hope that gas prices in the US hit $10 this summer. Maybe then a few things will happen:
The losers driving the 8mpg SUVs only because they have a little dick will start feeling the pain of their vanity.
People here will maybe start thinking that the $100 billion we're spending to fight a war predicated on lies, without UN endorsement, for the citizens of a country who neither want nor, in my opinion, deserve freedom to have a single U.S. soldier's life expended for them when it's only to line the current administration's personal pockets.... maybe then they'll start thinking that money would be better spent on fossil fuel alternative R&D.
Maybe the high prices of fuel will drive the costs of other imported and non-local products high enough to spark a resurgence of the 'Mom and Pop' size markets and stores as they would be more adept in finding local sources for their wares and could thus compete against the larger conglomerates.
Maybe. But probably not -- Us Americans are too f'ing lazy in general and would rather pay up than do 'The Right Thing'.
And it seems that few/.-tters will ever understand Darwinian evolution in the first place. I challenge you, sir, to explain MS' actions in Darwinian terms. Survival of the fittest doesn't necessarily equate to survival of the biggest.
Correct, it doesn't necessarily equate to survival of the biggest. It doesn't rule it out either. Survival means doing being successful at surviving. Period. If that means you can get the rules changed/bent/eliminated/applied only to your comepetors then that's what it means. The simple fact is that they have survived in the face of better, more agile opponents. Man, as a species has done the same thing. In the face of far more accomplished predators -- we changed the game and invented weapons. In the face of more accomplished herbavores -- we domesticated the best herbavores and now eat them. The simple truth is that if we hadn't changed the rules of the game, we wouldn't have lasted very long. There is no public company out their right now that, once they achived market domination, wouldn't apply the same tactics that MS has. Not one. The objective of Captialism is to be the one with all of the toys in the end.
Remember, Microsoft once was David to IBM's Goliath. Their time will come.
I hope I'm not the only one who checks to see that the traffic has truly stopped before going through a green. It's saved me from getting broadsided a few times. I can't see this being a Good Thing(TM).
"This version will have the ability to shop at on-line stores like the one MS plans to launch later this year. It's their move to 'outflank Apple'."... "I can't understand how this doesn't enrage anyone who believes in capitalism."
Microsoft believes wholeheartedly in Capitalism -- pure, unrestricted Darwinistic Captialism. And they're very good at it. That is something that few/.ers will ever understand.
I'm not disagreeing with you, only pointing out the contradiction in your statement.
... and guess what's going to happen when they decide to channel all these kickback funds to the Democrats out of spite...
One can only hope!
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I am getting truly disgusted by all of this ridiculous pushing of proprietary standards. SCREW THIS. What will happen in 20 years when someone needs to open a.wma file, but.wma has been extinct for a dozen years, and the only program that will open it...
What audio/video formats that were around in 1984 that can not be opened in any of the major media players on the market today? Not that there were many around back then, but I would say that, overall, the industry has done a pretty good job of supporting the older formats.
This isn't a crusade against porn. This is that scumbag Bush and his scumbag friends bitchslapping a $10 billion industry for not contributing to the kickback fund.
It's obvious that the current administration is in it for as much money as they can get away with stealing. The porn industry would probably do better coughing up a few mil in 'contributions' than it would legal fees incurred fighting the good fight.
It is a crime to eat chewinggum in Singapore. Does that mean Singapore can extradite and incarcerate every American who eats chewinggum in US soil?
No. But if an American was selling (or otherwise distributing) chewing gum to citizens of Singapore then the government of Singapore would have grounds to try for extradition. Not that they would win, but they'd have a case and every right to try to win it. There is a process for this and I believe it starts with INTERPOL.
Now, if only my webhost would have a way to prevent people from forging email to appears as if it originated from my domain......great fun for someone who makes his money selling art and shirts through his website, nobody on AOL will be able to visit my site because some spammer forger email.
RTFA: They're not blocking the From: address on the spam, they're blocking the website address that the spam is telling you to go to. AOL, for once, has taken the smart approach and has recognized how easy it is to forge headers.
To quote the article: "Many spammers advertise products -- including body-enhancement pills, pirated software and get-rich-quick schemes -- by including links in their e-mail to Internet sites that display the wares and process orders."
So, unless a spammer has forged and email that contains a link to your web site (as in spammed for you) you've got no worries.
You guys need to stop focusing in on the title, and realize what the movie was -- an excellent parody of WWII propaganda films that happens to share the same name and bare-bones plotline of the book. They are two different creatures, each good in its own arena --- the movie as satire and action film, the book as an idealogical platform and true sci-fi.
You are dead on sir. SST is absolutely my favorite movie ever. The wit of the writers shows in almost every scene. The special effects were also primo in my opinion.
SST is a movie every male/. geek should love: Smart parody of propaganda, spaceships, shit blowing up, T&A, aliens and uninhibited, over-the-top graphic violence. What else would a guy want from a scifi/action movie, hobbits?
I doubt that this remake of WoTW will come close to the caliber of SST.
As much as the U.S. likes to get on the high horse about WMD's its still a fact that the U.S. has more of them than anyone and has used them in the past to kill large numbers of innocent civilians by nuking two cities in Japan full of civilians in particular.
Ah, you sound European. I find it amazingly ironic how most Europeans and Asians today harp upon the US for it use of atomic weapons 50 years ago. The very fact that Europeans and Asians in general can discuss the topic openly and freely is directly atttributable to the US saving their collective asses (twice, in the case of Europe). Germany and Japan we rebuilt by the US after WWII. Add to that the huge amount of aid money the US sends overseas every year. Keep that in mind when slamming the US.
That said, most of us here in the US would agree with almost everything else that you put forth.
To not have generators attached to sickness warfare laboratories. In India we have generators in apartment buildings. Somehow, America does not have generators in sickness warfare facilities in a city of millions and millions.
Very strange people.
OR... Microsoft could REALLY screw the EU by recognizing the lost license revenue and simply release EU versions of Windows for free (still closed source) and sell support only. Think of what THAT would do to Linux and every other competetor. The EU's only response would be to actually outlaw Windows.
With all due respect to the original poster, I am not sure this is clearly an exceptional case. The servers, presumably, e-mail their notifications to a personal cell phone number @ some cellular company. Correct?
Well, whereas if he requests a cell phone or pager or something else he can receive messages on from his boss, if he is ever run over by a bus or fired they can just pass the pager / phone / whatever onto another employee to take his place.
Or you could do it the way I have my staff setup -- alerts go out to a internal distribution group that contains contacts for the various cell phones. Even if there is only one member of the list, it's still independent of the cell phone/pager/whatever.
That's all great and everything, but the skills of an "old school technician" you mention just aren't that relevant in working with modern PCs. How much soldering and wire-wrap are going to be done at someone's home, fixing their PC?
You missed the point. It's not that the soldering skills are seldom used nowadays. It's the troubleshooting skills that VERY VERY FEW of the so-called geeks out there have today. Why is this relevant? Because the old-school-tech can probably resolve the problem in a fraction of the time the uber-geek can. THAT is what matters to the customoer paying by the hour.
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You don't buy many $10,000 printers with service contracts, do you?
Let them win. Maybe it'll keep the other idiots from using the same scam.
Yes, its obvious, but I just find the idea of transporting files around on my face funny.. And yes, before the masses ask about face mounting a Linux distro, I have no doubt it can be done with this...
Yeah, but imagine a beowulf cluster of them....
The majority of the people just don't care much about this issue. They know downloading songs and movies is illegal but will keep doing it as long as they feel they can get away with it. When they no longer can they'll stop or find another way of getting the content. Right or wrong, this issue just isn't that big a deal outside of the libertarian /. crowd. Ask a few people outside of your normal crowd. Most of them will probably yawn.
Second, the people who are taking it in the shorts are a bunch of suits who don't care one little iota about me. You can't claim this is going to hurt my fellow programmers; the suits already outsourced us. You can't claim it's going to hurt secretaries or clerks, because they'll find plenty of work elsewhere. The ONLY people getting hurt here are the suits -- the managers in charge who can't make their companies profitable under the phone companies' terms. So who cares if they stay rich? Who cares if their profits drop? Who cares if they live or die? All this means to me is, a bunch of rich, arrogant SOBs who never did anything for me are going to take it right in the shorts while I watch and revel in the action. And, I get a new, fancy cell phone in a couple of years that does everything but get naked for me. Sounds like a winner! Hoist a pint, boys!
With an attitude like that, it's no wonder your job was outsourced. I love all of these 'It's management sticking it up our asses!' idiots. Try actually running a company once. Try keeping the company afloat while turning a profit so you can keep your non-performing employees employed. Get over yourself -- business is about profit. Learn to deal with it or stand in an unemployment line.
Let's extend your logic beyond computers and contemplate the idea of using lockless doors. Damn, it's just too much trouble to find those keys when I just want to get into my own house! Why not eliminate the locks once and for all so it would be much easier to get in after a night of partying. Sure, my house will be easier to burglarize, but blame that on the burglers!
A better comparison would be with a home security system that has multiple zones and time settings. Most home owners, once they have the system installed stop using it because they can't remember how to or they constantly trip the thing.
Until computers become as easy to use as a door key software makers will do what they can to ease the customer experience by dumbing things down. If they don't, people stop using, and therefore buying their product. Of course, they could go too far and end up having their product perceived as a toy, watch their potential market vaporize and spend the next 20 years trying to dissuade that market of the false perception (ala Apple).
Pioneer 10 is not really dead, it is just so far away we can no longer hear it.
And so... old probes don't die. They just fade away.
I'd feel much more comfortable with the data collection if abusers faced criminal charges rather than (or on top of) civil/monetary charges.
When a corporation's executive management faces jail time for violating an individual's rights as opposed to their insurance company paying out a settlement I think the potential for abuse would decline. Of course, there would also need to be serious oversight similar to that of the SEC (yeah yeah, I know: where were they with Enron?).
You get what you pay for.... HP ProLiant is by far my favorite server line, and it's not really that much more expensive than Dell.
Amen! While I have no beef with the reliability of their desktops -- although I don't like the proprietary power supplies one bit -- and I think their laptops are some of the best out there I will never again purchase a Dell server or npiece of networking equipment. In less than six months we had problems with almost every single Dell server and switch we own. All of them due to bad hardware and piss-poor quality control. Add to that and regardless of what Dell was saying, the support we were getting from "Jeff" in Bangalore was terrible. Sorry Dell, you blew it.
In 15 years I've used pretty much everything that has an Intel processor in it. The old HP Netservers still rank the best in reliability, followed by the Compaq Proliants. I have one of each (floor model, pentium pro) still chugging as DHCP servers. They're both looking at the better side of 10 years old and show no signs of retiring any time soon. They just run. Period. Dell can't even dream of giving me an ROI like that. Not even close.
Maybe. But probably not -- Us Americans are too f'ing lazy in general and would rather pay up than do 'The Right Thing'.
And it seems that few /.-tters will ever understand Darwinian evolution in the first place. I challenge you, sir, to explain MS' actions in Darwinian terms. Survival of the fittest doesn't necessarily equate to survival of the biggest.
Correct, it doesn't necessarily equate to survival of the biggest. It doesn't rule it out either. Survival means doing being successful at surviving. Period. If that means you can get the rules changed/bent/eliminated/applied only to your comepetors then that's what it means. The simple fact is that they have survived in the face of better, more agile opponents. Man, as a species has done the same thing. In the face of far more accomplished predators -- we changed the game and invented weapons. In the face of more accomplished herbavores -- we domesticated the best herbavores and now eat them. The simple truth is that if we hadn't changed the rules of the game, we wouldn't have lasted very long. There is no public company out their right now that, once they achived market domination, wouldn't apply the same tactics that MS has. Not one. The objective of Captialism is to be the one with all of the toys in the end.
Remember, Microsoft once was David to IBM's Goliath. Their time will come.
I hope I'm not the only one who checks to see that the traffic has truly stopped before going through a green. It's saved me from getting broadsided a few times. I can't see this being a Good Thing(TM).
"This version will have the ability to shop at on-line stores like the one MS plans to launch later this year. It's their move to 'outflank Apple'." ... "I can't understand how this doesn't enrage anyone who believes in capitalism."
/.ers will ever understand.
Microsoft believes wholeheartedly in Capitalism -- pure, unrestricted Darwinistic Captialism. And they're very good at it. That is something that few
I'm not disagreeing with you, only pointing out the contradiction in your statement.
One can only hope!
I am getting truly disgusted by all of this ridiculous pushing of proprietary standards. SCREW THIS. What will happen in 20 years when someone needs to open a .wma file, but .wma has been extinct for a dozen years, and the only program that will open it...
What audio/video formats that were around in 1984 that can not be opened in any of the major media players on the market today? Not that there were many around back then, but I would say that, overall, the industry has done a pretty good job of supporting the older formats.
Not that I'm in disagreement with your post.
This isn't a crusade against porn. This is that scumbag Bush and his scumbag friends bitchslapping a $10 billion industry for not contributing to the kickback fund.
It's obvious that the current administration is in it for as much money as they can get away with stealing. The porn industry would probably do better coughing up a few mil in 'contributions' than it would legal fees incurred fighting the good fight.
It is a crime to eat chewinggum in Singapore. Does that mean Singapore can extradite and incarcerate every American who eats chewinggum in US soil?
No. But if an American was selling (or otherwise distributing) chewing gum to citizens of Singapore then the government of Singapore would have grounds to try for extradition. Not that they would win, but they'd have a case and every right to try to win it. There is a process for this and I believe it starts with INTERPOL.
Now, if only my webhost would have a way to prevent people from forging email to appears as if it originated from my domain... ...great fun for someone who makes his money selling art and shirts through his website, nobody on AOL will be able to visit my site because some spammer forger email.
RTFA: They're not blocking the From: address on the spam, they're blocking the website address that the spam is telling you to go to. AOL, for once, has taken the smart approach and has recognized how easy it is to forge headers.
To quote the article: "Many spammers advertise products -- including body-enhancement pills, pirated software and get-rich-quick schemes -- by including links in their e-mail to Internet sites that display the wares and process orders."
So, unless a spammer has forged and email that contains a link to your web site (as in spammed for you) you've got no worries.
You guys need to stop focusing in on the title, and realize what the movie was -- an excellent parody of WWII propaganda films that happens to share the same name and bare-bones plotline of the book. They are two different creatures, each good in its own arena --- the movie as satire and action film, the book as an idealogical platform and true sci-fi.
/. geek should love: Smart parody of propaganda, spaceships, shit blowing up, T&A, aliens and uninhibited, over-the-top graphic violence. What else would a guy want from a scifi/action movie, hobbits?
You are dead on sir. SST is absolutely my favorite movie ever. The wit of the writers shows in almost every scene. The special effects were also primo in my opinion.
SST is a movie every male
I doubt that this remake of WoTW will come close to the caliber of SST.
As much as the U.S. likes to get on the high horse about WMD's its still a fact that the U.S. has more of them than anyone and has used them in the past to kill large numbers of innocent civilians by nuking two cities in Japan full of civilians in particular.
Ah, you sound European. I find it amazingly ironic how most Europeans and Asians today harp upon the US for it use of atomic weapons 50 years ago. The very fact that Europeans and Asians in general can discuss the topic openly and freely is directly atttributable to the US saving their collective asses (twice, in the case of Europe). Germany and Japan we rebuilt by the US after WWII. Add to that the huge amount of aid money the US sends overseas every year. Keep that in mind when slamming the US.
That said, most of us here in the US would agree with almost everything else that you put forth.
To not have generators attached to sickness warfare laboratories. In India we have generators in apartment buildings. Somehow, America does not have generators in sickness warfare facilities in a city of millions and millions. Very strange people.
Yeah, we eat cows too.
OR... Microsoft could REALLY screw the EU by recognizing the lost license revenue and simply release EU versions of Windows for free (still closed source) and sell support only. Think of what THAT would do to Linux and every other competetor. The EU's only response would be to actually outlaw Windows.
With all due respect to the original poster, I am not sure this is clearly an exceptional case. The servers, presumably, e-mail their notifications to a personal cell phone number @ some cellular company. Correct? Well, whereas if he requests a cell phone or pager or something else he can receive messages on from his boss, if he is ever run over by a bus or fired they can just pass the pager / phone / whatever onto another employee to take his place.
Or you could do it the way I have my staff setup -- alerts go out to a internal distribution group that contains contacts for the various cell phones. Even if there is only one member of the list, it's still independent of the cell phone/pager/whatever.
...That we now have mice with no balls. Printers are tempermental enough, damn it! ;)
That's all great and everything, but the skills of an "old school technician" you mention just aren't that relevant in working with modern PCs. How much soldering and wire-wrap are going to be done at someone's home, fixing their PC?
You missed the point. It's not that the soldering skills are seldom used nowadays. It's the troubleshooting skills that VERY VERY FEW of the so-called geeks out there have today. Why is this relevant? Because the old-school-tech can probably resolve the problem in a fraction of the time the uber-geek can. THAT is what matters to the customoer paying by the hour.