I recently finished a couple of years of working remotely from home instead of going into an office. I think it was some of the most productive work I've done. I collaborated with other engineers using Jabber, phone, and NetMeeting when needed but otherwise was able to work without interruption (kids are grown and moved out). Not commuting means I also worked longer hours. Yet my new job requires me to commute and be an Office Space drone. Why?
This movie would be awesome. Vin would be up for another Razzie. Don't forget the big box of confiscated knives, guns, explosives and questionable liquids.
"We're aware that a company in Kenya has accused us of using some of their publicly available customer data without permission. We are investigating the matter and will have more information as soon as possible."
Note that they are already trying to duck the fraud and focus on the less serious "use of publicly available information" part.
I haven't RTFA, but I have read Boingboing's article about the same thing. As far as I can tell, IP address != company. You know, it's pretty easy to make requests from fake IP addresses if you're the ISP of your target.
Brillant. A new business plan:
1. Set up fake IP for your competition 2. Call your own customers and persuade them to switch to the competition 3. ? 4. Profit!!
Not sure about the credit card. In any case, I've used the mp3's on 4 different devices with no problems, including Windows and Linux, so I am pretty sure there is nothing evil in them.
I'm frankly surprised that you can still type in thepiratebay.org in the U.S. and still get anything other than "Sorry, this site has been blocked by your ISP due to legal requirements."
This is absurd. There's no way that they are going to say they are sorry.
Who is this "we"? Are you offering to fund journalists? How much do you send to NPR every year?
What's wrong with the idea that NYT, etc. pays journalists and then should get money from the people that read their stuff? They only have two choices: 1) Provide it free and sell advertising on the page 2) Make their website subscription only
The problem they have with 1) is other sites ripping off the content and selling ad space on their "aggregate" website which usually copies a lot more than an excerpt. Frequently its the whole lede.
Also, they now only have 1 or 2 projectionists for 10-screen theaters, no ushers, just the ticket sellers, food vendors and a few janitors. They seem full on any weekend and evening, so why are these places not making Titanic amounts of money?
And ditch 3D. Yes, 50% of the audience likes it. But they're going to come anyway, 3D or 2D. Nobody ever refused to go to the cinema because a movie was 2D. The people you need to be concerned about are the 50% who no longer go to the cinema because they hate it.
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I recently finished a couple of years of working remotely from home instead of going into an office. I think it was some of the most productive work I've done. I collaborated with other engineers using Jabber, phone, and NetMeeting when needed but otherwise was able to work without interruption (kids are grown and moved out). Not commuting means I also worked longer hours. Yet my new job requires me to commute and be an Office Space drone. Why?
Google, the most privacy-intruding private organisation on the planet..
**cough ** Facebook.
I think it reflects the activity in the language and the number of new, untrained programmers starting out on it.
Let's compare it to the number of unanswered questions on stackoverflow.com for various language tags:
c# 31971
java 28099
javascript 26978
php 26755
objective-c 11749
python 9078
c++ 8024
ruby 5080
C, Perl, Basic, Lisp, etc - none
Word. Your post excels at making a power(ful) point. Good names do convince people that the product is good.
This movie would be awesome. Vin would be up for another Razzie. Don't forget the big box of confiscated knives, guns, explosives and questionable liquids.
Yes. The Register asked them and they said:
"We're aware that a company in Kenya has accused us of using some of their publicly available customer data without permission. We are investigating the matter and will have more information as soon as possible."
Note that they are already trying to duck the fraud and focus on the less serious "use of publicly available information" part.
I haven't RTFA, but I have read Boingboing's article about the same thing. As far as I can tell, IP address != company. You know, it's pretty easy to make requests from fake IP addresses if you're the ISP of your target.
Brillant. A new business plan:
1. Set up fake IP for your competition
2. Call your own customers and persuade them to switch to the competition
3. ?
4. Profit!!
Is there any proof that this is actually google and not someone impersonating a google employee?
Yes.
I turned up the Brightness on my TV, but it didn't do what I hoped.
Are there really that many enterprises using Firefox? In recent times Firefox has become ALMOST as bad of a security risk of Internet Explorer.
Firefox seems more focused on adding features (and new versions) rather than fixing bugs.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140582/Firefox_flaws_account_for_44_of_all_browser_bugs.
3) Google doesn't have a slimy history of creating contracts with PC makers excluding the bundling of products that aren't made by Google. .
To catch up, google "skyhook lawsuit".
Whereas Samsung, whoops, I mean the South Korean Government, is just looking into this to provide a fair market for telecom products.
We should offer a bounty to Sweden the pot. Iraq my brains to think of puns, but Israel hard.
Not sure about the credit card. In any case, I've used the mp3's on 4 different devices with no problems, including Windows and Linux, so I am pretty sure there is nothing evil in them.
... that the matter is Finnished...
Nor way is this over.
I'm frankly surprised that you can still type in thepiratebay.org in the U.S. and still get anything other than "Sorry, this site has been blocked by your ISP due to legal requirements."
This is absurd. There's no way that they are going to say they are sorry.
I bought the same mp3 twice from Amazon on two different accounts and compared them - bit for bit the same, so I guess this doesn't apply to all.
I also got brain teaser questions for a programming position back in the 90s, answered them all correctly and still got no offer.
Tells you something right there.
Who is this "we"? Are you offering to fund journalists? How much do you send to NPR every year?
What's wrong with the idea that NYT, etc. pays journalists and then should get money from the people that read their stuff? They only have two choices:
1) Provide it free and sell advertising on the page
2) Make their website subscription only
The problem they have with 1) is other sites ripping off the content and selling ad space on their "aggregate" website which usually copies a lot more than an excerpt. Frequently its the whole lede.
Every web designer celebrates for 10 minutes. Then back to work on the CSS for that pesky div.
Also, they now only have 1 or 2 projectionists for 10-screen theaters, no ushers, just the ticket sellers, food vendors and a few janitors. They seem full on any weekend and evening, so why are these places not making Titanic amounts of money?
Seems like it should be trivial to have a pair of glasses with the same polarization in both lenses for the people that hate 3D.
And ditch 3D. Yes, 50% of the audience likes it. But they're going to come anyway, 3D or 2D. Nobody ever refused to go to the cinema because a movie was 2D. The people you need to be concerned about are the 50% who no longer go to the cinema because they hate it.
Also ditch the audio. Talkies are a fad.
... and yet there are very few decapitation survivors.