READ THE EMAILS, you dolt! I've gotten 15 emails so far (one about every 4 hours when I try to check the ol' @home acct) that tell you to reboot (or release/renew) which gives you your NEW AT&T EMAIL ACCT INFO and info on your new DNS, etc.
Ok, when the 6 year old kid walks into school and blows away a classmate...who is to blame? The kid? Great. No problem. Blame the kid. Now what? DO you send the kid to the chair? Do you send them to prison? Psychiatric counseling? What?
If _YOU_ have a child at school and someone reads a letter over another student's shoulder and catches the word "shotgun" and DOESN'T report or investigate it, and YOUR kid is bleeding from a head wound in the middle of the playground because a psychotic student shot him randomly...what would you have to say?
I think it's really easy to scream oppression. I think it wouldn't be so easy to be the ex-parent of a dead child and then say and BELIEVE, "Oh, well. At least there weren't any false alarms and no teens had their FREEDOM tromped on by being paraded into the principal's office and talking to a psychiatrist for 1/2 hour."
Fucking DUH.
I'm sorry. You can scream oppression all day. I won't believe it. Grow up and help take responsibility for kids. It was a typo...a computer glitch...the air cleared up. It's overwith. Will it happen again? I HOPE so.
Hey. What the adminitrators saw, likable or not, was "shotgun". End of story. I completely support their decision to get the cops involved. Sorry, but I don't want my kids shot in a school. It was a mistake. Big deal. They have to investigate. It's their job, and I applaud them for it. So their was some ignorance on their part. Duh. Who, except a handfull in this world know what PERL is and how to use it? It was a strange deal, but given the opportunity, I'd investigate the kid again in a heartbeat. We HAVE to be careful to the point of annoyance if we're going to keep kids safe. Otherwise, who takes the blame when kids get killed????
Jesus, People. Be RESPONSIBLE for your actions. You can bet your ass that if I find out that my kid's babysitter had a dwi, 10 years ago or 50, I'd not let them drive with my kids. I'm sorry, but that person made a mistake, and I'd be more than willing to give them a chance, but...
Look at it like this...would you rather know information about who/what you are dealing with? Or leave it up to some arbitrary set of rules that guarantees privacy from revealing to interested parties? I have some bad credit trailing me around, and a FELONY ASSAULT from when I was 18. I can't vote, can't own a firearm, most likely can't teach or get any moderate security job, but it's MY OWN DAMNED FAULT. _I_ did it, and I've learned to live with it. People who made wiser choices with their youth and their credit DESERVE perks and better jobs and firearms, if they want them. I wouldn't agree that they're *better* than I am, but i would agree that they have shown a more responsible history than I.
Who among the people with clean credit histories and driving records and clean rap sheets is whining about this??
Technology allows us to know the truth about who we deal with and in whom we place our trust. If, sometimes, that truth isn't always accurate, and you REALLY care, fix it. It's possible. If not, than it's probably right on the money.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I also read it in depth and saw nothing about porno or entering your home or sharing your personal information (Ok, well, usage stats, but nothing "personally identifiable".)
AT&T@home has similar req's, but even do a better job of notifying you that if your perfectly acceptable use becomes some sort of a bandwidth hog to your neighbors, you will be limited immediately and without notice. Oh, and they just clamped down on all uploads...
But hey...it's cheap. Admit it.
--The statistical likelihood of your existence is so small as to render you impossible.
The government had some neat ideas in HIPAA guidelines, but I learned something interesting :
"Government access to medical records for the public good, such as for research, public health crises, and law enforcement." is a new requirement.
What is that? This means that in any case in which the government sees need, medical records can be used without permission, without compensation, and without guarantees of privacy? Give me a break.
The "big hole" is simply those companies and medical care providers that do NOT participate in HIPAA guidelines. It's not a requirement (yet) that all providers use HIPAA security guidelines.
Maybe you should all restrict your care to organizations that cliam HIPAA compliance?
You have to admit, he has some certainly good points.
He wasn't ripping on Unix except to comment on the inherent complexity of trying to get anything NON-unix done on it. That's like saying I am having a bitch of a time getting my toaster to do the dishes. It's the best damned toaster I could find, I read all the manuals forward and backwards, but I want to get my dishes done.
And you have to admit, for a 30+ year old interface, it's not only held ground, it's advanced considerably. Funny how english is like that.
What I can wholeheartedly agree with is his comments on software sucking. It does. Duh. How many pieces of software have you used that a) do exactly what you want b) never crash or even participate in the cascade crashes any OS is susceptible to and c) costs what you like it to cost AND d) is available when you want it. I've worked for several software companies and everyone knows what goes on behind the scenes.
But, he's not taking into account the fact that software designers are all working on limited resources and limited budgets and time crunches. Hardware is cool. (Generally) it either works or it doesn't. It's not, "Hmm, I wonder what happens if a user jacks this into 220? Ooooo. Smoke. Let's build a safety into this. I wonder what happens if they throw the toaster into the house that's on fire? Will their toast be ok?" There's so much common sense in hardware. If you plug it in in the bathtub, be prepared for a shock. Everyone knows that. What people don't understand are the intangibles that software designers take (and are sometimes FORCED to take) for granted. If you are running 17 instances of Oracle on a 16 meg machine, don't expect your data to have any integrity. If your OS goes tits up, don't expect your letter to your grandson to still be there when you get back.
I guess I'm rambling. I mean, in short, that there are too many intangibles and too much that is hard to control in the software industry. We're trying to sell something epheremal to people who don't understand the basic concepts. You can't explain what ipchains is to someone and have them be satisfied with it unless they understand ALL of these other things - about IP about networking about NAT about firewalls about ruls about... But with a car, it's simple. You grow up with it. It's there. It goes. It stops. It guzzles fuel. No fancy crap and you don't expect anything more of it because you know the limits. But with software... ok, now I'm getting a headache.
--The statistical likelihood of your existence is so small as to render you impossible.
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If that is so, than CG is what everyone means, right? Or, should I have read the article or something?
The majority are for QA purposes, and lots of them are so embedded it's hard (or useless) to rip them out before the code is released.
Also, don't forget - how much fun would it be to get a game like RTCW and push a button for God mode right out of the box? Booooorinnnng.
It's actually called Nimo's Codec Pack, and can be found here : [http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.htm l]
Speaking of morons...
READ THE EMAILS, you dolt! I've gotten 15 emails so far (one about every 4 hours when I try to check the ol' @home acct) that tell you to reboot (or release/renew) which gives you your NEW AT&T EMAIL ACCT INFO and info on your new DNS, etc.
Funny. I've got the same setup, 768M, and XP. When I drag a window, my CPU tops out and the windows slowly try to track the mouse.
Oh, and try using the Start button and watch the remnants...
I think it's a one-click-wonder - screen shot tells all.
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Here, here.
If _YOU_ have a child at school and someone reads a letter over another student's shoulder and catches the word "shotgun" and DOESN'T report or investigate it, and YOUR kid is bleeding from a head wound in the middle of the playground because a psychotic student shot him randomly...what would you have to say?
I think it's really easy to scream oppression. I think it wouldn't be so easy to be the ex-parent of a dead child and then say and BELIEVE, "Oh, well. At least there weren't any false alarms and no teens had their FREEDOM tromped on by being paraded into the principal's office and talking to a psychiatrist for 1/2 hour."
Fucking DUH.
I'm sorry. You can scream oppression all day. I won't believe it. Grow up and help take responsibility for kids. It was a typo...a computer glitch...the air cleared up. It's overwith. Will it happen again? I HOPE so.
Hey. What the adminitrators saw, likable or not, was "shotgun". End of story. I completely support their decision to get the cops involved. Sorry, but I don't want my kids shot in a school. It was a mistake. Big deal. They have to investigate. It's their job, and I applaud them for it. So their was some ignorance on their part. Duh. Who, except a handfull in this world know what PERL is and how to use it? It was a strange deal, but given the opportunity, I'd investigate the kid again in a heartbeat. We HAVE to be careful to the point of annoyance if we're going to keep kids safe. Otherwise, who takes the blame when kids get killed????
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Jesus, People. Be RESPONSIBLE for your actions. You can bet your ass that if I find out that my kid's babysitter had a dwi, 10 years ago or 50, I'd not let them drive with my kids. I'm sorry, but that person made a mistake, and I'd be more than willing to give them a chance, but...
Look at it like this...would you rather know information about who/what you are dealing with? Or leave it up to some arbitrary set of rules that guarantees privacy from revealing to interested parties? I have some bad credit trailing me around, and a FELONY ASSAULT from when I was 18. I can't vote, can't own a firearm, most likely can't teach or get any moderate security job, but it's MY OWN DAMNED FAULT. _I_ did it, and I've learned to live with it. People who made wiser choices with their youth and their credit DESERVE perks and better jobs and firearms, if they want them. I wouldn't agree that they're *better* than I am, but i would agree that they have shown a more responsible history than I.
Who among the people with clean credit histories and driving records and clean rap sheets is whining about this??
Technology allows us to know the truth about who we deal with and in whom we place our trust. If, sometimes, that truth isn't always accurate, and you REALLY care, fix it. It's possible. If not, than it's probably right on the money.
AT&T@home has similar req's, but even do a better job of notifying you that if your perfectly acceptable use becomes some sort of a bandwidth hog to your neighbors, you will be limited immediately and without notice. Oh, and they just clamped down on all uploads...
But hey...it's cheap. Admit it.
--The statistical likelihood of your existence is so small as to render you impossible.
"Government access to medical records for the public good, such as for research, public health crises, and law enforcement." is a new requirement.
What is that? This means that in any case in which the government sees need, medical records can be used without permission, without compensation, and without guarantees of privacy? Give me a break.
That's what's called a loophole, folks.
Maybe you should all restrict your care to organizations that cliam HIPAA compliance?
You have to admit, he has some certainly good points.
He wasn't ripping on Unix except to comment on the inherent complexity of trying to get anything NON-unix done on it. That's like saying I am having a bitch of a time getting my toaster to do the dishes. It's the best damned toaster I could find, I read all the manuals forward and backwards, but I want to get my dishes done.
And you have to admit, for a 30+ year old interface, it's not only held ground, it's advanced considerably. Funny how english is like that.
What I can wholeheartedly agree with is his comments on software sucking. It does. Duh. How many pieces of software have you used that a) do exactly what you want b) never crash or even participate in the cascade crashes any OS is susceptible to and c) costs what you like it to cost AND d) is available when you want it. I've worked for several software companies and everyone knows what goes on behind the scenes.
But, he's not taking into account the fact that software designers are all working on limited resources and limited budgets and time crunches. Hardware is cool. (Generally) it either works or it doesn't. It's not, "Hmm, I wonder what happens if a user jacks this into 220? Ooooo. Smoke. Let's build a safety into this. I wonder what happens if they throw the toaster into the house that's on fire? Will their toast be ok?" There's so much common sense in hardware. If you plug it in in the bathtub, be prepared for a shock. Everyone knows that. What people don't understand are the intangibles that software designers take (and are sometimes FORCED to take) for granted. If you are running 17 instances of Oracle on a 16 meg machine, don't expect your data to have any integrity. If your OS goes tits up, don't expect your letter to your grandson to still be there when you get back.
I guess I'm rambling. I mean, in short, that there are too many intangibles and too much that is hard to control in the software industry. We're trying to sell something epheremal to people who don't understand the basic concepts. You can't explain what ipchains is to someone and have them be satisfied with it unless they understand ALL of these other things - about IP about networking about NAT about firewalls about ruls about... But with a car, it's simple. You grow up with it. It's there. It goes. It stops. It guzzles fuel. No fancy crap and you don't expect anything more of it because you know the limits. But with software... ok, now I'm getting a headache.
--The statistical likelihood of your existence is so small as to render you impossible.