Sure, you can try and make the argument that DNA will list all of genetic faults while a fingerprint won't, but i think Gattaca is still a long way off and protections can be built into law which will prevent such genetic profiling.
In Gattaca, genetic profiling was technically against the law, but was the de-facto standard way of life regardless of the law.
... that is, if you are a big powerful rich corp, then the courts will happily uphold your EULA but if you are a small-time nobody, then your EULA doesn't mean jack squat and the courts will trod all over it. Nothing has changed.
And no, I'm not intentionally being cynical... I'm just simply being observant of the way things really work.
In every email message mention cocaine, opium, attack the instillation, anthrax, bombs, nuclear, atomic & etc. wouldn't this slow down the efforts?
Back in the olden days perhaps, but you can bet the modern snoopboxes are programmed to look for too many occurrences of keywords too close together and perform linguistical analysis of their contextual usages in order to filter out and ignore the spookbait.
...without a new Constitutional Amendment which would then permit them to do so. Currently the US Constitution specifically prohibits any national sales tax. It took an Amendment (16th) to create the national income tax, and it'll take another one to make a national sales tax legal, or else we would've had one a long time ago.
Not sure where you are going with the anti-virus, since Microsoft has never released one. But when they do, I'm pretty confident it'll steal the market share too.
Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management.
That statement says it all.
Being unable to sell needed changes to senior management usually has little or nothing to do with competance or ability of the IT staff, but rather the entrenchement of the senior management and their minds being as open to allowing IT to flourish only as much as that senior management sees fit.
That's where I'm at with my employer right now. Information Technology is not a fully supported organizational department but rather it's an arm of the accounting department, and is micromanaged to the Nth degree. To our senior management, having a main server dead for a complete day is perfectly acceptable downtime, as in their minds, keeping expensive spare parts on hand in inventory for a piece of technology that has a forced premature end of life by its hardware vendor of 3, maybe 4 years... is a complete waste of money. So is a 24x7x365 onsite 4 hour response service contract for any piece of technology unless they think someone's life depends on it. It's a drag that the 3-4 year lifespan server will be actually expected to be run for really 5-7 years once those initial 3 to 4 years are up and suddenly no money comes available for replacement because that money is more desperately needed to fund the "golden parachutes" for senior management instead.
That's what we really need in the USA -- a software lemon law. For too many years, software customers have been getting cheated with faulty "products" and no legal remedy available to them. Yes it would make software more expensive, but so be it. In the long run, the quality of software and information technology in general would improve greatly. Right now the industry is analogous to that of the state where the pharmaceutical "industry" was back before the Food and Drug acts of 1906 and 1938 were passed and "patent medicines" that were sold everywhere and full of opiate poisons... or the state where the medical profession was before doctors had to have such intense training and be licensed before they could practice medicine.... or the state where the aviation industry was before the first Civil Aeronautics Act was passed which began to enforce law and order upon that industry.
Right now the software industry, as a whole, has in effect, a free "license to steal".
In my town, the max limit for a private residential antenna tower is 75' and above that you have to apply for a special permit and buy and maintain at minumum half a million dollars liability insurance for the tower and name the city as a beneficiary of the policy.
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Looks like we'd better start preparing for the inevitable. and get some robot insurance.
First of all, "AppleBerry" sounds dumb, I would have gone with "MacBerry."
Just don't ever put one in your back pocket and sit down, or you'll end up with a CrunchBerry.
They are trying to fill 4 jobs with 1 person who would work for $10/hour!
Obviously they are wanting to hire a foreigner.
Sure, you can try and make the argument that DNA will list all of genetic faults while a fingerprint won't, but i think Gattaca is still a long way off and protections can be built into law which will prevent such genetic profiling.
In Gattaca, genetic profiling was technically against the law, but was the de-facto standard way of life regardless of the law.
Where does this leave things like EULAs?
... that is, if you are a big powerful rich corp, then the courts will happily uphold your EULA but if you are a small-time nobody, then your EULA doesn't mean jack squat and the courts will trod all over it. Nothing has changed.
And no, I'm not intentionally being cynical... I'm just simply being observant of the way things really work.
Personally I prefer a Hilti .22 cartidge powered Nail Gun...
That sounds like a pretty wimpy way to dispatch an old hard drive.
A 12 gauge shotgun with slug cartridges would be much more satisfying.
Squaresville, man. Needs to be a bit more hip if ya catch my drift.
PS: 1967 did just call and asked for its lingo back.
Three guesses on how the controller will operate... and Nintendo sure picked the right sounding name for it.
...that brings back. Quarterdeck's QEMM was quite the lifesaver back in those olden days.
In every email message mention cocaine, opium, attack the instillation, anthrax, bombs, nuclear, atomic & etc. wouldn't this slow down the efforts?
Back in the olden days perhaps, but you can bet the modern snoopboxes are programmed to look for too many occurrences of keywords too close together and perform linguistical analysis of their contextual usages in order to filter out and ignore the spookbait.
...the subject line wasn't something like:
"Cohesive adamant sanction"
and the body of the article wasn't a viagra/cialis spam.
...definitely welcome our mandatory microchip implant banning overlords!!!!
With all the massive credit card debt here, and everybody I know never has any money, I guess you could say we've got a cashless society here too!
...because Apple might just have their own implementation of a Windows API ready to go before Vista actually ever ships.
...without a new Constitutional Amendment which would then permit them to do so. Currently the US Constitution specifically prohibits any national sales tax. It took an Amendment (16th) to create the national income tax, and it'll take another one to make a national sales tax legal, or else we would've had one a long time ago.
...while I go and dig my eyeballs out with a fork.
I think I won't be back to Slashdot until at least Sunday evening.
Not sure where you are going with the anti-virus, since Microsoft has never released one. But when they do, I'm pretty confident it'll steal the market share too.
MS put out an antivirus way back in the early 1990's with MSDOS ver 6.0 based upon the Central Point Anti-Virus product which was later incorporated into Symantec/Norton Antivirus.
My oh my, how quickly we forget history.
Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management.
That statement says it all.
Being unable to sell needed changes to senior management usually has little or nothing to do with competance or ability of the IT staff, but rather the entrenchement of the senior management and their minds being as open to allowing IT to flourish only as much as that senior management sees fit.
That's where I'm at with my employer right now. Information Technology is not a fully supported organizational department but rather it's an arm of the accounting department, and is micromanaged to the Nth degree. To our senior management, having a main server dead for a complete day is perfectly acceptable downtime, as in their minds, keeping expensive spare parts on hand in inventory for a piece of technology that has a forced premature end of life by its hardware vendor of 3, maybe 4 years... is a complete waste of money. So is a 24x7x365 onsite 4 hour response service contract for any piece of technology unless they think someone's life depends on it. It's a drag that the 3-4 year lifespan server will be actually expected to be run for really 5-7 years once those initial 3 to 4 years are up and suddenly no money comes available for replacement because that money is more desperately needed to fund the "golden parachutes" for senior management instead.
That's what we really need in the USA -- a software lemon law. For too many years, software customers have been getting cheated with faulty "products" and no legal remedy available to them. Yes it would make software more expensive, but so be it. In the long run, the quality of software and information technology in general would improve greatly. Right now the industry is analogous to that of the state where the pharmaceutical "industry" was back before the Food and Drug acts of 1906 and 1938 were passed and "patent medicines" that were sold everywhere and full of opiate poisons... or the state where the medical profession was before doctors had to have such intense training and be licensed before they could practice medicine.... or the state where the aviation industry was before the first Civil Aeronautics Act was passed which began to enforce law and order upon that industry.
Right now the software industry, as a whole, has in effect, a free "license to steal".
If they become any kind of threat to Cisco, all Cisco needs to do is to buy the company, and render the issue moot.
(cough, cough) Linksys (cough)
In my town, the max limit for a private residential antenna tower is 75' and above that you have to apply for a special permit and buy and maintain at minumum half a million dollars liability insurance for the tower and name the city as a beneficiary of the policy.
Ive read that these parasited are more common in the UK or perhaps we only know of more cases there becuase people are looking harder.
It couldn't simply be because Britain is more full of crazy old cat women than anywhere else, could it?
Mmmmm, Shiner Bock. Great beer. Every time I buy a new Bock, I always put it back into free environmental circulation after I'm done with it! ;-)
I know that [the Large Multinational Company I work for] uses AIX to the exclusion of Linux with the official justification of
* Ostensibly, actually, the SCO lawsuit. They don't want to mess with anything that might even possibly get futzed with.
You don't know just how hillarious that statement is.
In case you've been asleep... SCO thinks they've revoked IBM's right to sell AIX.
Quick, somebody patent the business method of using open source software in government patent tracking systems!!!!!