I work in a large aerospace corporation and with 15 years of IT experience under my belt and I can tell you that Deni Connor is COMPLETELY missing the signifigance of the central event in this piece. The backdoor introduction of "un-approved" tools and solutions is a SURE-FIRE sign that your IT organization has become overly bureaucratic, slow, indolent, expensive, close-minded and, worst of all, afraid of change.
When these events happen, you should be FALLING all over yourselves trying to understand how you have FAILED your internal IT CUSTOMER.
One last thing...If I were on the Kingsport school board I'd send Shapiro packing so fast, he wouldn't have time to say "Linux".
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
...and this database is a big as thay say it is, wouldn't these guys now bet the world's biggest collectors of smut and filth? Wouldn't THESE guys now possess the largest collection of child pornography? Why are these guys NOT in Jail? Why are they not on trial?
...Further more... wouldn't we all know about their crawlers?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
...Should be to harvest all the prior art needed to help invalidate Bill Warman's patent #RE.35,318.
I can't imagine a nicer christmas present for a guy like Warman.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Lamers will perish under their own lamitude(?)
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If a company you work for is so uptight and controlling that they will actually use lawyers to HUNT YOU DOWN you probably didn't really want to stay working there anyway.
And more to the point, this is a company that will fail in the market place, especially once/. pubs the story and NOMORE infotech peeps will interview with them.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
We here at the Hello Kitty Institute of Industrial Design find your assertion that our trend setting Vaio designs look "Dumb"... offensive, ill-informed, un-refined and niggling. We spent weeks coming up with the inspiration for this design which was finally provided to us through a fortunate tooth paste accident near one of our previous design attempts.
Please stick to the nerdy stuff and leave Industrial Design to artists like us.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
As the end times near, the lamb shall lay down with the lion, the eagle will nest with the penguin and all manner of unholyness shall spew forth upon the face of the Earth.
Let us Pray.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
It is fundamentally misleading and therefore immoral. Have you guys been awake at all during the last 4 years and especially during your anti-trust trial?
Don't you remember during the trial how you whined about Linux being such significant competition? Linux is free. FREE TO LOAD ON NAKED PCs!
Quit acting like obnoxious bullies and start behaving like decent Americans.
I've been a Microsoft Supporter and Customer for years but you're REALLY starting to piss me off.
Alan
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
So...If I write a review of a professor's lecture, how is that substantialy different from the notetaking outlawed here? Is all I would have to add at the end of the notes.."The lecture sucked."?
We are idiots if we are errecting a society in which concepts of good and evil are defined by such niggling and subjective distinctions.
Be Afraid.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
This is a disturbing development with implications far broader than would be apparent at first glance.
What this law represents is yet another attempt at squelching what I refer to as "Information Transport Crime". Before the Internet, these laws were not percieved to be needed because information flowed so slowly.
In direct disagreement with many of the cheerleaders in this post,...Sorry folks, there is no good aspect to this law, because it sets the stage for a tidal wave of new "Derivative Information Possesion and Transport" laws.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of this law is that it starts out by reciting that the universities and the faculty can and do hold copyright to instructional materials. No problem here. But somehow, this law allows that copyright to magically leap from the information presented in a non-affixed performance media (the lecture), to a secondary, derivative AND INTREPRETIVE affixed work penned by a second party!
If I was the RIAA and MPAA, I'd be all over my lobbiest screaming "WHY DON'T I HAVE AN EFFIN LAW LIKE THIS ONE!!!". Imagine the POWER. The power to CONTROL what other's say about your works and your deeds. You could muzzle your critics and squelch unfavorable comment about what you write, say and do.
Be afraid.
Very afraid.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Hilary...Darling...I've been there and can help...
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Hilary...
Your convoluted thinking and misdirected anger clearly indicates that you are having trouble dealing with the impending death of someone close to you. Someone you've loved for a long, long time. Namely, Mr. Intellectual Property.
That's right...Mr. Intellectual Property is dying. He is dying from something new. Something both dangerous and wonderful at the same time. He is dying from complications from an invention capable of both tremendous benefit and harm for mankind. Digital Technology.
Sadly, there is no known cure for "Digitization". Once Digitized, Mr. Intellectual Property loses the physical substrate that was supporting him, stabilizing him, constraining him and keeping him where you wanted him to be. Without this substrate, Mr. Intellectual Property becomes free. Free to roam about the planet at the speed of light (well, close to it anyway), free to visit my computer, free to visit my neighbor's computer, free to visit your computer, free to visit anyone's computer!
Once Digitized and allowed to roam free, Mr. Intellectual Property dies and is instantly reborn as Mr. Digital Content. Mr. Digital Content is wild and free and replicates endlessly. He is wiley, quick and stealthy. He is everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. In fact, you can't rope Mr. Digital Content in, nor fence, nor stall, nor bind, nor lock nor contain Mr. Digital Content in any way.
The point of my little story here Hilary,...love, is that to overcome your grief and anger you MUST surrender your denial and embrace this truth:
Say it with me now...
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
The truth will set you free.
Dont agree with me? Need help?
Email me at mcswain@alanmcswain.com
Kisses.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Don't Poo-Poo this Shit.. (pun intended!)
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This all dovetails nicely with the recent revelation that the Saddamster had some of his stateside minions scrambling for Sony PlayStation 2s.
Why? The PlayStation processor IS powerful and fast enough to use as the video analysis unit of a cruise missle.
Why should you give a shit about this?
Simple.
Using OFF the SHELF hardware and a little college level software development and aerodynamics experience, you could SINGLEHANDEDLY, within a two year time period produce a 250mph turbine powered cruise missle with a range of about 40 miles. Such a delivery platform could be catapult launched from a rented roofless tractor trailer moving through a city and would be capable of delivering a bio-toxin or agent to the airspace over a major sporting event or concert.
The Bio-Weapon could easily be smuggled into the country as a plastic ampule shoved inside a jar of mayonaise or some other foodstuff.
The only component that might prove only SLIGHTLY difficult to obtain would be the squibs needed to blow apart the plastic ampule over the target site. But, then again, with some college level chemistry, even these could be fabricated.
Such a development AND delivery effort could probably be effected for less than $80K and would be virtually impossible to prevent.
My advice to you? Stay the hell out of downtown areas and if you GOTTA see Brittany Spears, avoid arenas without roofs. Wait. I got that wrong. If you're going to see Brittany, you MUST only go to roofless venues.
Scared Shitless? You oughtta be.
P.S. Note to the FBI: I am a nerd, not a terrorist.
P.P.S. Note to Saddam: None of this is true in any way and, while I have your attention, you're a fucking jerk.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Slashdot Mirror
Kensington or not....
Have you seen any notebooks that took more than three minutes and a small screw driver to liberate the hdd?
Me thinks not.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
And if these stuuuuuuuuuuuuupid eurocrats don't start to get a clue PDQ, they're gonna all wake up one morning as Newts!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I work in a large aerospace corporation and with 15 years of IT experience under my belt and I can tell you that Deni Connor is COMPLETELY missing the signifigance of the central event in this piece. The backdoor introduction of "un-approved" tools and solutions is a SURE-FIRE sign that your IT organization has become overly bureaucratic, slow, indolent, expensive, close-minded and, worst of all, afraid of change.
When these events happen, you should be FALLING all over yourselves trying to understand how you have FAILED your internal IT CUSTOMER.
One last thing...If I were on the Kingsport school board I'd send Shapiro packing so fast, he wouldn't have time to say "Linux".
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I can't imagine a nicer christmas present for a guy like Warman.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
If a company you work for is so uptight and controlling that they will actually use lawyers to HUNT YOU DOWN you probably didn't really want to stay working there anyway.
And more to the point, this is a company that will fail in the market place, especially once /. pubs the story and NOMORE infotech peeps will interview with them.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I just had a horrible revelation.
What if...down the road...they merged BattleBots and the WWF?
High tech mayhem for Jerry Springer class morons?
Oh man, I'm moving to the moon.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Dear SlashDotters,
We here at the Hello Kitty Institute of Industrial Design find your assertion that our trend setting Vaio designs look "Dumb"... offensive, ill-informed, un-refined and niggling. We spent weeks coming up with the inspiration for this design which was finally provided to us through a fortunate tooth paste accident near one of our previous design attempts.
Please stick to the nerdy stuff and leave Industrial Design to artists like us.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
As the end times near, the lamb shall lay down with the lion, the eagle will nest with the penguin and all manner of unholyness shall spew forth upon the face of the Earth.
Let us Pray.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Will get you a web response page.... Try to be as nice as I was.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
https://oempub.microsoft.com/scripts/oemapps/tools /feedback/feedback.asp
and post your disgust. I did.
Please take down the following page:
http://www.microsoft.com/oem/nakedPC.htm
It is fundamentally misleading and therefore immoral. Have you guys been awake at all during the last 4 years and especially during your anti-trust trial?
Don't you remember during the trial how you whined about Linux being such significant competition? Linux is free. FREE TO LOAD ON NAKED PCs!
Quit acting like obnoxious bullies and start behaving like decent Americans.
I've been a Microsoft Supporter and Customer for years but you're REALLY starting to piss me off.
Alan
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
So...If I write a review of a professor's lecture, how is that substantialy different from the notetaking outlawed here? Is all I would have to add at the end of the notes.."The lecture sucked."?
We are idiots if we are errecting a society in which concepts of good and evil are defined by such niggling and subjective distinctions.
Be Afraid.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
What this law represents is yet another attempt at squelching what I refer to as "Information Transport Crime". Before the Internet, these laws were not percieved to be needed because information flowed so slowly.
In direct disagreement with many of the cheerleaders in this post,...Sorry folks, there is no good aspect to this law, because it sets the stage for a tidal wave of new "Derivative Information Possesion and Transport" laws.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of this law is that it starts out by reciting that the universities and the faculty can and do hold copyright to instructional materials. No problem here. But somehow, this law allows that copyright to magically leap from the information presented in a non-affixed performance media (the lecture), to a secondary, derivative AND INTREPRETIVE affixed work penned by a second party!
If I was the RIAA and MPAA, I'd be all over my lobbiest screaming "WHY DON'T I HAVE AN EFFIN LAW LIKE THIS ONE!!!". Imagine the POWER. The power to CONTROL what other's say about your works and your deeds. You could muzzle your critics and squelch unfavorable comment about what you write, say and do.
Be afraid.
Very afraid.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Your convoluted thinking and misdirected anger clearly indicates that you are having trouble dealing with the impending death of someone close to you. Someone you've loved for a long, long time. Namely, Mr. Intellectual Property.
That's right...Mr. Intellectual Property is dying. He is dying from something new. Something both dangerous and wonderful at the same time. He is dying from complications from an invention capable of both tremendous benefit and harm for mankind. Digital Technology.
Sadly, there is no known cure for "Digitization". Once Digitized, Mr. Intellectual Property loses the physical substrate that was supporting him, stabilizing him, constraining him and keeping him where you wanted him to be. Without this substrate, Mr. Intellectual Property becomes free. Free to roam about the planet at the speed of light (well, close to it anyway), free to visit my computer, free to visit my neighbor's computer, free to visit your computer, free to visit anyone's computer!
Once Digitized and allowed to roam free, Mr. Intellectual Property dies and is instantly reborn as Mr. Digital Content. Mr. Digital Content is wild and free and replicates endlessly. He is wiley, quick and stealthy. He is everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. In fact, you can't rope Mr. Digital Content in, nor fence, nor stall, nor bind, nor lock nor contain Mr. Digital Content in any way.
The point of my little story here Hilary,...love, is that to overcome your grief and anger you MUST surrender your denial and embrace this truth:
Say it with me now...
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
YOU CANNOT SECURE DIGITAL CONTENT.
The truth will set you free.
Dont agree with me? Need help?
Email me at mcswain@alanmcswain.com
Kisses.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
This all dovetails nicely with the recent revelation that the Saddamster had some of his stateside minions scrambling for Sony PlayStation 2s.
Why? The PlayStation processor IS powerful and fast enough to use as the video analysis unit of a cruise missle.
Why should you give a shit about this?
Simple.
Using OFF the SHELF hardware and a little college level software development and aerodynamics experience, you could SINGLEHANDEDLY, within a two year time period produce a 250mph turbine powered cruise missle with a range of about 40 miles. Such a delivery platform could be catapult launched from a rented roofless tractor trailer moving through a city and would be capable of delivering a bio-toxin or agent to the airspace over a major sporting event or concert.
The Bio-Weapon could easily be smuggled into the country as a plastic ampule shoved inside a jar of mayonaise or some other foodstuff.
The only component that might prove only SLIGHTLY difficult to obtain would be the squibs needed to blow apart the plastic ampule over the target site. But, then again, with some college level chemistry, even these could be fabricated.
Such a development AND delivery effort could probably be effected for less than $80K and would be virtually impossible to prevent.
My advice to you? Stay the hell out of downtown areas and if you GOTTA see Brittany Spears, avoid arenas without roofs. Wait. I got that wrong. If you're going to see Brittany, you MUST only go to roofless venues.
Scared Shitless? You oughtta be.
P.S. Note to the FBI: I am a nerd, not a terrorist.
P.P.S. Note to Saddam: None of this is true in any way and, while I have your attention, you're a fucking jerk.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --