Unions had their place waaaay back when when people were being regularly killed on the job, kept in servitude by being forced to shop at the company store, etc. Today, unions are virtually useless. Teacher's union? Real effective. Get two degrees, take exams, and land a job that pays $20K/year? Ever heard of the teacher shortage? Nurses? They don't have it much better. There's a MASSIVE nursing shortage across the country because nobody wants to be a nurse, either. Other "successful" unions in the US: Auto. Oh yeah. Very effective. Very effective in driving up costs, and driving quality down so that Japan becomes the world's largest auto maker. Steel. Last I checked, not that much steel is being produced in the US. Textiles: Again, textile jobs are leaving this country faster than Taliban members. Unions have been incredibly detrimental to every major industry in which they've particpated in in the past 50 years. Not a good idea.
Re:You have a very American point of view
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Morals and Layoffs
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The US did not become the financial powerhouse of the planet by putting harsh restrictions on corporations. Instead, the US got powerful from NOT having the kind of restrictions you describe. You can't see the forest for the trees. Sure, it might be nice for YOU to have YOUR job almost guaranteed, but it's probably bad for the company, and bad for your country's economy.
Be a contractor. Contractors have great resumes (lots of idfferent experience), get paid more than enough to just buy health insurance outright, and still sock away plenty, and don't have to sweat layoffs. There hasn't been any sense of 'moral' obligation to employees in many years, and smart employees have no moral obligations to their employers. I wonder where Jon Katz has been all this time.
What I want to know is why people worked for free so long in the first place? I know when my paycheck comes, and if I don't get paid, I don't work. It's as simple as that. I work because I get paid. Why did these people continue to work? That seems like a pretty damn stupid idea. I'd rather sit at home in my PJ's, watching TV and sending out my resume then go into work for free. (And in fact, I was forced to do this once).
And even if you CAN recover your money (and recovering 100% of it is not likely), you generally end up oweing the lawyer 33%, which is fairly standard for a case like this. So the absolute BEST case scenario is you walk away with 66% of what they owe you in back pay.
I was about to respond to this article, but Slashdot broke and wouldn't accept any postings and wouldn't let me log in for several minutes. Then, it continually timed out. Apache? Ha!
Well, my point is that anonymity is relatively impossible. ESPECIALLY as soon as you connect your computer to the Net. Credit cards should be the LEAST of your worries. If you're that paranoid, you should first probably stop using any telephone, and probably not drive a car, or buy utilities, or pay taxes, etc. When/where you buy Slim Jims isn't nearly as invasive as say, who you talk to onthe phone about what, or what car you drive, and where you live, and where you get your income from.
Well, what you're descirbing will stop the exact same attacks from happenign again, but what about the millions of other possibilities? All you're advocating is fixing a worst-case scenarion that's already happened, and is unlikely to happen again. What about attacks on full subways? What about bio-attacks? What about random attacks on schools? What about large sporting events? There are millions of other terrorist opportunities, and a few things that would prevent the past tragedy from happening have no impact on what could still happen.
they think it's somehow inevitable for software to be as buggy and insecure as Micro$oft's and that M$ is not to blame for it
Obviously, you've never written a program in your life. And if you have, it obviously wasn't something larger than 'Hello World'. Software is complicated. Very complicated. Bugs are inevitable in ANY software. I personally do nto know of ANY 100% bug-free software (and you'd be lying if you said you did know of something that was as big as an OS that was bug-free). Yes, IIS had some bugs, but MS patched them. Now, quit trolling.
That about sums it up. Of course companies are going to do this! You'd have to be a stupid company NOT to do this! There's no company with deep pockets to fight this, and it's very easy to bundle GPL'ed software into your closed source without telling anybody. This is probably happening all over the place, but there's no way of knowing for sure. As this happens more and more, there are going to be fewer and fewer people developing OSS applications.
This guy says that Access can be easily replaced with PHP/MYSQL. What in the hell is he talking about? Virtually any secretary-type person can make a quickie Access report. It would require a LOT of training to what would amount to essentially teaching these same people programming to do the same thing with PHP & MySQL. He's waaay off base on this one.
Wow. I wish I had some mod points to mod you as a troll. If you're read the article (or any of the thousands of others on the Net about this right now), you'd know that this HAS been fixed for a LONG time now. It was part of Service Pack 2.
Anyone remember Spacewarp? You could build rollercoasters with plastic tubing and ball bearings? Anyone know if you can still buy Spacewarp? I'd love to buy one!
I find this really ironic as most people are now emphasizing that we have a representative government, how can we have no choice but to accept it.
We do have a reprsentative republic. Unfortunately, most people that it represents are morons, thus, the government will do what they ask. Right now, the moronic populace wants backdoors in all crypto. The "we" in the previous post refers to the "we" as in "we who know what in the hell we're talking about, and prefer to think instead of watching Jerry Springer".
I don't know about anybody else, but I frequently use Yahoo Mail's WAP interface to check my email on my cellphone. It's very useful. I suppose that it's useful to day-traders out there to get up-to-the second stock prices, but those people are boneheads, anyway.
You guys may want to wake up. Real-world business applications go far, far beyond 100,000 records. I certainly wouldn't call 100,000 'scalable'. Hell, MS Access can handle 100,000 records just fine. Try 100,000,000. Then we can start talking about scalable.
Use your skills to help
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More WTC News
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I urge all hax0rs to do what you can to help. Do you have IRC logs of any suspicious discussions? Do you have backdoors to any servers that these people used? Obviously the NSA is not up to their job. This may be a good chance to use whatever security skills you may have to help.
Dangerous, how? They're not controlling what information you're receiving and how you can receive it. Once one company controls the media, they also control everything that you know. That's real danger.
It's these guys. Increasingly, this AOL/Time Warner/CNN/Netscape/AT&T company will control what information you get, and how you get it. That's scary. I can always get different software. Usually, I can't get more than one cable provider, though. And if they control the content on that cable, then I only know what they let me know.
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Unions had their place waaaay back when when people were being regularly killed on the job, kept in servitude by being forced to shop at the company store, etc. Today, unions are virtually useless. Teacher's union? Real effective. Get two degrees, take exams, and land a job that pays $20K/year? Ever heard of the teacher shortage? Nurses? They don't have it much better. There's a MASSIVE nursing shortage across the country because nobody wants to be a nurse, either. Other "successful" unions in the US: Auto. Oh yeah. Very effective. Very effective in driving up costs, and driving quality down so that Japan becomes the world's largest auto maker. Steel. Last I checked, not that much steel is being produced in the US. Textiles: Again, textile jobs are leaving this country faster than Taliban members. Unions have been incredibly detrimental to every major industry in which they've particpated in in the past 50 years. Not a good idea.
The US did not become the financial powerhouse of the planet by putting harsh restrictions on corporations. Instead, the US got powerful from NOT having the kind of restrictions you describe. You can't see the forest for the trees. Sure, it might be nice for YOU to have YOUR job almost guaranteed, but it's probably bad for the company, and bad for your country's economy.
Be a contractor. Contractors have great resumes (lots of idfferent experience), get paid more than enough to just buy health insurance outright, and still sock away plenty, and don't have to sweat layoffs. There hasn't been any sense of 'moral' obligation to employees in many years, and smart employees have no moral obligations to their employers. I wonder where Jon Katz has been all this time.
What I want to know is why people worked for free so long in the first place? I know when my paycheck comes, and if I don't get paid, I don't work. It's as simple as that. I work because I get paid. Why did these people continue to work? That seems like a pretty damn stupid idea. I'd rather sit at home in my PJ's, watching TV and sending out my resume then go into work for free. (And in fact, I was forced to do this once).
And even if you CAN recover your money (and recovering 100% of it is not likely), you generally end up oweing the lawyer 33%, which is fairly standard for a case like this. So the absolute BEST case scenario is you walk away with 66% of what they owe you in back pay.
I was about to respond to this article, but Slashdot broke and wouldn't accept any postings and wouldn't let me log in for several minutes. Then, it continually timed out. Apache? Ha!
Well, my point is that anonymity is relatively impossible. ESPECIALLY as soon as you connect your computer to the Net. Credit cards should be the LEAST of your worries. If you're that paranoid, you should first probably stop using any telephone, and probably not drive a car, or buy utilities, or pay taxes, etc. When/where you buy Slim Jims isn't nearly as invasive as say, who you talk to onthe phone about what, or what car you drive, and where you live, and where you get your income from.
The atomic bomb isn't an evil tool, right?
Yes, you're very anoymous now.
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Wow. You are paranoid beyond belief. See a doctor. Right now. You need help.
You sir, are an idiot for so many reasons, I can't even begin to list them all.
Well, what you're descirbing will stop the exact same attacks from happenign again, but what about the millions of other possibilities? All you're advocating is fixing a worst-case scenarion that's already happened, and is unlikely to happen again. What about attacks on full subways? What about bio-attacks? What about random attacks on schools? What about large sporting events? There are millions of other terrorist opportunities, and a few things that would prevent the past tragedy from happening have no impact on what could still happen.
they think it's somehow inevitable for software to be as buggy and insecure as Micro$oft's and that M$ is not to blame for it
Obviously, you've never written a program in your life. And if you have, it obviously wasn't something larger than 'Hello World'. Software is complicated. Very complicated. Bugs are inevitable in ANY software. I personally do nto know of ANY 100% bug-free software (and you'd be lying if you said you did know of something that was as big as an OS that was bug-free). Yes, IIS had some bugs, but MS patched them. Now, quit trolling.
That about sums it up. Of course companies are going to do this! You'd have to be a stupid company NOT to do this! There's no company with deep pockets to fight this, and it's very easy to bundle GPL'ed software into your closed source without telling anybody. This is probably happening all over the place, but there's no way of knowing for sure. As this happens more and more, there are going to be fewer and fewer people developing OSS applications.
This guy says that Access can be easily replaced with PHP/MYSQL. What in the hell is he talking about? Virtually any secretary-type person can make a quickie Access report. It would require a LOT of training to what would amount to essentially teaching these same people programming to do the same thing with PHP & MySQL. He's waaay off base on this one.
Wow. I wish I had some mod points to mod you as a troll. If you're read the article (or any of the thousands of others on the Net about this right now), you'd know that this HAS been fixed for a LONG time now. It was part of Service Pack 2.
Anyone remember Spacewarp? You could build rollercoasters with plastic tubing and ball bearings? Anyone know if you can still buy Spacewarp? I'd love to buy one!
I find this really ironic as most people are now emphasizing that we have a representative government, how can we have no choice but to accept it.
We do have a reprsentative republic. Unfortunately, most people that it represents are morons, thus, the government will do what they ask. Right now, the moronic populace wants backdoors in all crypto. The "we" in the previous post refers to the "we" as in "we who know what in the hell we're talking about, and prefer to think instead of watching Jerry Springer".
A. Ben Franklin didn't have to deal with an group of people who are willing to kill themselves in order to kill others.
B. Nietzche preached pragmatism as necessary when governing. Beign pragmatic as this point in history may mean giving up some privacy.
I don't know about anybody else, but I frequently use Yahoo Mail's WAP interface to check my email on my cellphone. It's very useful. I suppose that it's useful to day-traders out there to get up-to-the second stock prices, but those people are boneheads, anyway.
What in the hell is he thinking? He's copywriting this little blurb? What a damn hypocrite!
You guys may want to wake up. Real-world business applications go far, far beyond 100,000 records. I certainly wouldn't call 100,000 'scalable'. Hell, MS Access can handle 100,000 records just fine. Try 100,000,000. Then we can start talking about scalable.
I urge all hax0rs to do what you can to help. Do you have IRC logs of any suspicious discussions? Do you have backdoors to any servers that these people used? Obviously the NSA is not up to their job. This may be a good chance to use whatever security skills you may have to help.
Dangerous, how? They're not controlling what information you're receiving and how you can receive it. Once one company controls the media, they also control everything that you know. That's real danger.
It's these guys. Increasingly, this AOL/Time Warner/CNN/Netscape/AT&T company will control what information you get, and how you get it. That's scary. I can always get different software. Usually, I can't get more than one cable provider, though. And if they control the content on that cable, then I only know what they let me know.