This is so stupid. Instead of giving kids money that can get lost, stolen, or spent on other things (condoms, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, etc.), what happened to the good ol' days when parents paid a fixed amount at the beginning of the school year and received lunch tickets, which the children would turn in to buy their lunch?
The government is doing this to get parents monitoring their children, children monitoring their parents, children monitoring other children, parents monitoring other parents, and in the end, everyone will monitor everyone, and if you do something that isn't 100% accepted, like walk with a limp because you sprained your ankle, you will be arrested for commiting thoughtcrime and you will be put to death.
IIS web server will integrate ASP.NET and turn many core features into optional modules in order to provide a smaller security footprint for hackers to attack
Oh, so they'll integrate MSIE 7, Windows Media Player, and Clippy the talking paperclip into the core of IIS web server. That sounds like an excellent security policy to me!
It is of critical importance that all software shall be free software, open source, with lots of documentation, also available for free, and that all computer systems in the world utilize this software instead of proprietary garbage, because just because something is proprietary does mean that is does not work properly.
Because this is what I hate the most: Some company is looking into spending a lot of IT dollars on something that will hopefully help their business in some way. A representative from Microsoft and a representative from a Linux company both show up to a meeting to present their ideas. The Linux representative goes first and basically describes how the system is mature, is efficient, works well, and is widely known, inside and out. All of this means, of course, that the company's business applications can literally be made to do anything, because any part of the system can be controlled to provide exactly what the business desires. If a particular company does not provide good enough service, the business can always choose another, because, once again, the system and its internals are widely known.
Then, the Microsoft representative gets up and says, "By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions. By maximizing world-class action-items, ubiquitous e-commerce infomediaries e-enable front-end methodologies to harness synergies, redefining cross-media schemas."
Of course, the business buys from Microsoft. And that pisses me off.
It is of critical importance to the entire world that video games be completely consistent, have no plot holes, contain no bugs, and are basically exactly the way it would be in real life, plus the added value of a gaming world where things don't necessarily need to be like in real life.
Hmmm... something about guns and promising not to shoot them? Let me tell you something: I think the free software community needs to build special bomb shelters located in obscure parts of the United States, Australia, and Asia. There, the community would store, in a very secure environment, all the source code to open source projects, plus printouts thereof, just in case some disaster happens in the world that renders digital information unreadable. There would be armed guards, with guns, lots and lots and lots and lots of guns. And all kinds of other weapons. They would defend the existance of this code. Each day, all the open source codes in the world would be sent electronically to these code shelters, where they would be printed, filed, and defended. Nobody shall ever destroy the existance of free software.
Obviously RMS is appointed by God almighty to be our savior.
Hey, nobody said you can't write a program to create the instructions for Pov-ray out of a ridiculously complicated geometry that's made interactively...
Pov-ray is cool, man. It'd be cool to generate a film with it. On today's computers, with a small cluster to split up the work, it shouldn't be any trouble at all.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Bias in the popular news channels is a significant factor in misinformation spread about Israel, its history, and the history of the so-called Palestians. (Sometimes, things aren't what they seem.) Please refer to:
And you disagree that nazis are terrorists for some reason? I do not understand your logic, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
Terrorists gain control through fear and do so by killing innocent people. Sometimes, lots of them. The nazis gained control through fear and did so by killing innocent people. Lots and lots and lots of them.
In fact, the nazis managed to murder ten million people. Try to imagine that many people. How large of a space would you need to fit that many people, if you put them shoulder to shoulder, standing in rows and columns, with barely room to breathe? Would the two World Trade Center towers be large enough? Those damned nazis were/are the ultimate terrorists.
And someone mentioned Communists, if I recall correctly. While those damned nazis managed to murder ten million innocent people, the Communists managed to murder fifty million during their reign of terror. If the above two groups are not terrorists, then I suppose a terrorist must be a movie director who likes to make horror movies.
The first three Indiana Jones movies were classic and beautiful. The movie felt realistic and compelling, in much the same way as the original three Star Wars movies.
I sincerely hope that Lucas won't royally fsck up Indiana Jones part 4 like he did with the Star Wars prequel(s). (I only watched the first one in the theater. It sucked so much that I skipped the second one entirely. My friends say the third is ok, so I'll wait until it gets to the cheap theater and then check it out.)
The biggest problem with the prequel(s) is this: The first three movies (meaning, episodes 4 through 6) used special effects in moderation. Costumes were consistent from one scene to the next and between movies. Everything appeared as it should. Yes, there were special effects, as we obviously don't have starships to fly around and film. But most of the movie's genius was in the simplicity and creativity of its photography and setting selection. Scenes were filmed in the desert, or in a forest, and these appeared quite realistic. Unfortunately, the prequel(s) were much more about special effects than good film technique. Even the acting sucked. And need I mention that the costumes and technology are not consistent, neither with the original three movies, nor from one scene to the next in the prequel(s). This damaged the movie, rather than provide added value.
I really have a feeling that Indy 4 will be all about special effects and corny acting than a compelling movie like the first three in that series, and that guess is based on past experience with Lucas. (Speilberg, I don't know, he still has some sense, I suppose, so hopefully he'll balance it out.)
Forget about HP,.Net, or any of this other IT 1337 5p33k. Ask yourself this: If the U.S. or Europe create systems to track people across different states and whatnot, is that really going to accomplish anything? Maybe it will help find petty criminals, but that's like killing a fly with a sledgehammer.
Or, what if many countries of the world get together and implement a compatible system that allows them to track people's identities across all those countries. Is that going to help fight terrorism? Or are the terrorists simply going to figure out a way to live without an ID card? I mean seriously, if you're the kind of crazy motherfscker who wants to blow up innocent people, do you really care if you drive without a license, or do you really care if you can't buy booze without an ID? Or are you simply going to live without a picture identification and work all your evil schemes in a cave somewhere? These people, you have to remember, live like some kind of cavemen in the middle of the desert. Cavemen with AK-47s. So no stupid national ID system is going to help fight that.
Windows is nearly ready for the desktop, and that includes security as well as LCD driver technology that actually works. This will all happen in the next major revision of Windows, Longtooth.
Sources whom I consider accurate have told me that despite Microsoft's claims that Longtooth will be released by 2006 or 2007, the planned release date is actually late in 2019. Microsoft's secret goals for this version are:
To reduce the user's perception of the complexity of Windows.
To gain increased security from emerging threats, such as viruses, worms, spam, spyware, adware, malware, hackers, and phreakers, among others.
Microsoft will accomplish these goals through a variety of changes. First, Longtooth will no longer be based on the Windows NT design philosophy, as were Windows 2000 and XP. Instead, Microsoft will release MS-DOS 9.0 2003, a 64-bit multithreaded DOS written in VisualBASIC.Net, and Windows Longtooth will run on top of that. Also, Longtooth will contain more code changes than any previous version of Windows, both in the number of changed source lines of code (SLOCs) and in the percentage of the total Windows codebase changed. Tremendous numbers of new features are being implemented in completely new code.
More importantly, Microsoft employees are combing through the codebase, in a relentless search for code that is mature, stabilized, and proven. This search has proved difficult, but when found, such code will be marked for reimplementation. I'm told that most of this code will be reimplemented in VisualBASIC.NET, even if the prior version was written in another language, such as C or C++. Programmers making the new VisualBasic.NET code are not allowed to look at the code that already exists, so that fixes to known issues will not be known until well after the software is deployed to millions of users.
The reason for these changes is simple: Study after study conducted by Microsoft has proven that security through obscurity is the only way to go, especially in an operating system deployed to millions of users, with many instances running mission critical applications in finance, industry, government, and other sectors. Microsoft has identified that viruses, worms, spam, spyware, adware, malware, hackers, and phreakers are able to compromise Windows security because vulnerabilities in the code are known. By changing much of the codebase, especially the stablest and most proven parts, Microsoft will thwart the efforts of malicious programmers, as it will take time for them to find the new vulnerabilities in the unknown code.
To meet Microsoft's first goal of reducing the user's perception of the complexity of Windows, Microsoft will integrate a new technology, dubbed Microsoft Windows User Simplicity And Security Manager 2003, into Longtooth. This technology will hide all configuration settings from the user. All settings will be completely automatic, and the user will have no need to know or care what is under the hood. In reality, Longtooth will be the most complex version of Windows yet, with thousands of configuration settings controlling nearly every function of the operating system. The settings will be produced by discovery algorithms designed to automatically set a "sane" configuration. Since there will be no interface to modify any setting, the user will have no choice in his configuration, thus simplifying the user's perception of the system's complexity.
To meet the second goal of increased security, these settings will be scattered throughout the OS, its components, and in other areas of the file system. For example, Microsoft knows that viruses, worms, spam, spyware, adware, malware, hackers, and phreakers are interested in moving the icons on user desktops without the user's permission, so settings controlling the number and size of icons appearing on the desktop will be scattered throughout parts of the registry, batch files,.ini files, web bookmarks, in the Windows kernel, in the file allocation table, in th
In my opinion, Microsoft could create something called Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Tab Security Center. This technology would protect the user by providing a "delete=all" tag, which would run a background task in the OS kernel that would delete random files in random locations in the filesystem. This is the One Microsoft Way to make the user really really secure.
I would not view this decision as a threat against PGP in particular or encryption software and/or algorithms in general. The court is merely trying to determine the intent of the defendant.
The encryption software here is treated in the same manner as an item such as a large bag would be treated in a shoplifting case. That is, if you go into a store, see something you like, grab it, and run, the court would likely view that as something that you did at the spur of the moment, without putting much forethought into it. The crime, while still very much a crime, would likely be treated as a stupid action you took because you didn't stop to think if it was right or wrong, and the sentence would likely be applied with some leniency. In such a case, assuming the item costs less than $400.00, the crime would be treated as a misdemeanor. On the other hand, if you had entered the store with an unnecessarily large bag that is mostly empty, this might, in the eyes of the court, show that you had planned to shoplift from the outset, and you would receive a much stiffer punishment. In this case, the crime would likely be treated as a felony, regardless of the item's value.
In much the same way, the court handling this pornography case is probably trying to determine under which of the statutes the aforementioned materials fall, and the presence of software used with the intent to traffic in such material, regardless of the software's generally accepted purpose, can allow the prosecution to go for a crime with stiffer penalties.
In other words, if you use PGP, don't worry, because it's not going to be outlawed. But if you're the guy in that pornography case, be afraid... be very afraid. Here in Soviet Russia, pornography encrypts YOU!
As an aside, one should not look at pornography, because it can have an adverse effect on future relationships that you might have.
This is what it means: There are a lot of people who want to run Linux applications, and also applications from some system called Doors or Walls, or maybe it's Windows... Anyway, I've never heard of it, but they say lots of people run it and applications made for it, and supposedly that system is for x86. Anyway, it's too slow to run this kind of code on the PowerPC chip through emulation, so Steve [Jobs] said he's going to be building dual-processor computers where one of the processors is a G5 and the other one is an Intel chip. The OS, its libraries, and all system calls will continue to execute in the PowerPC processor. However, applications compiled for Intel processors (say, for Linux) will run natively on the Intel processor, providing high speed and the ability to run these applications. An additional licensing scheme, currently in the works with some company called Microsoft, which is apparently connected to the whole Doors/Walls thing, will bring that system's APIs to OS X, so that these applications will run totally natively within the UNIX context, without running the risk of having OS X crash through a bug in a Doors application, or vice versa.
Microsoft today announced an unbreakable method for IT security. The system, dubbed Password Protector Server 2003, stores all usernames and passwords in a plaintext file, world-readable and served to the Internet. Additionally, the system is connected to electronic billboards located around the world in high traffic areas, where system IP addresses, usernames, and passwords are displayed for the world to see.
"Since everybody will know the password, it will become unnecessary to guess the password," said a Microsoft spokeswoman. "This will be the cause of unbreakable security."
This study is very interesting, but it doesn't explain why I have six girls and no boys. I'm a mechanic and CNC programmer in an aerospace manufacturing facility. That's a manly enough job, and yet, no boys... Figures.
I hope most of the people fired are from France. There is a big shortage of available technology workers here, and 10,000 job cuts from IBM will help my business tremendously in acquiring skilled people.
...and confusing. Does it really make sense to watch television on a cellular phone? I mean, I can see a time here and there when I might need to watch something on television when I'm away from home, but honestly, is this worth an increase in the prices of cell phones and service?
Even if this is an option, cell phone providers have a way of raising everyone's fees by, say, $5 a month, instead of charging individual users who want the service $20 a month extra, and giving everyone access to this new service. Then, they can push advertising and other junk to your phone.
It's annoying when you're having dinner and some idiot calls you, and it's a telemarketer or the wrong number or something. Worse is when you're making some dangerous traffic maneuver while driving and the same happens. This can cause accidents, injuries, deaths, or worse...
I think they need to make the cell phone do what a phone is supposed to do.
You keep hearing about FBI, Secret Service or other law enforcement authorities involved in pursuing international cybercrime gangs, but who are those people and how does the cyberlaw enforcement work?
I always thought that somewhere in the FBI worked some geek that couldn't really accomplish anything, but for some reason, they couldn't just fire him. So when they realized that he's a computer geek, they gave him a computer and said, "Here, go after cyberhackers." What they didn't realize was that he'd actually take it seriously. So now there's a geek in some dark room at the FBI going after 1337 h4x0rz. And the FBI talks about it as if they have a department of 6,000 professional MSCE's tracking evil hackers out there.
What Apple should do, in my opinion, is make a complete re-write of the Finder. The Finder is, in my opinion, the worst piece of Mac OS.
I read somewhere that Apple wrote the Finder in Carbon, just to prove to other companies that they could easily port their software to OS X, so that developers would quickly embrace the new OS. Fortunately, this is no longer necessary, because nobody makes software for 9.x anymore. So the Finder should be rewritten from scratch to take advantage of advances in the OS since 10.0, and to get rid of all the weirdness that happens in the Finder all the time.
The way this article is written, it seems as if AOL bought Time Warner, and now Time Warner is spinning off its parent company. This is confusing. It, in fact, took a few minutes of online research to find that the AOL and Time Warner thing was, in fact, a merger.
Still quite confusing, though. The two companies were never meant to become one. Their business models are too different.
Besides tracking locations, the system also intends to reduce violence within the jail and to avoid escapes.
Let me tell you something. Escaping from prison is hard. People who figure out a way to escape from prison, and succeed, are very inventive and creative people. In other words, they would probably figure out that they should take that bracelet off before they make their escape.
Maybe what Microsoft truly needs to do is hire a bunch of hackers, crackers, phreakers, h4x0rz, skript k1dd13z, and whatever other scum they can find, and pay them minimum wage to sit there and hack/crack Windows, finding vulnerabilities. "What?" you say, "only minimum wage?!" Well, that's not the whole story. Each time someone finds a way to screw up Windows, they will get paid $50. Therefore, most novice skript k1dd13z in junior high should be able to earn a $250,000 salary a year when working 10 hours a week from home.
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Just kidding, I don't drink and drive. Well, maybe soda or coffee, but you know what I mean.
DAMM: Drunkards Against MADD Mothers.
The government is doing this to get parents monitoring their children, children monitoring their parents, children monitoring other children, parents monitoring other parents, and in the end, everyone will monitor everyone, and if you do something that isn't 100% accepted, like walk with a limp because you sprained your ankle, you will be arrested for commiting thoughtcrime and you will be put to death.
Oh, so they'll integrate MSIE 7, Windows Media Player, and Clippy the talking paperclip into the core of IIS web server. That sounds like an excellent security policy to me!
Because this is what I hate the most: Some company is looking into spending a lot of IT dollars on something that will hopefully help their business in some way. A representative from Microsoft and a representative from a Linux company both show up to a meeting to present their ideas. The Linux representative goes first and basically describes how the system is mature, is efficient, works well, and is widely known, inside and out. All of this means, of course, that the company's business applications can literally be made to do anything, because any part of the system can be controlled to provide exactly what the business desires. If a particular company does not provide good enough service, the business can always choose another, because, once again, the system and its internals are widely known.
Then, the Microsoft representative gets up and says, "By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions. By maximizing world-class action-items, ubiquitous e-commerce infomediaries e-enable front-end methodologies to harness synergies, redefining cross-media schemas."
Of course, the business buys from Microsoft. And that pisses me off.
It is of critical importance to the entire world that video games be completely consistent, have no plot holes, contain no bugs, and are basically exactly the way it would be in real life, plus the added value of a gaming world where things don't necessarily need to be like in real life.
Obviously RMS is appointed by God almighty to be our savior.
Pov-ray is cool, man. It'd be cool to generate a film with it. On today's computers, with a small cluster to split up the work, it shouldn't be any trouble at all.
- http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html
- http://www.ict.org.il
- http://www.idf.il (Hebrew site, click for English version.)
That ought to straighten things up a bit.Terrorists gain control through fear and do so by killing innocent people. Sometimes, lots of them. The nazis gained control through fear and did so by killing innocent people. Lots and lots and lots of them.
In fact, the nazis managed to murder ten million people. Try to imagine that many people. How large of a space would you need to fit that many people, if you put them shoulder to shoulder, standing in rows and columns, with barely room to breathe? Would the two World Trade Center towers be large enough? Those damned nazis were/are the ultimate terrorists.
And someone mentioned Communists, if I recall correctly. While those damned nazis managed to murder ten million innocent people, the Communists managed to murder fifty million during their reign of terror. If the above two groups are not terrorists, then I suppose a terrorist must be a movie director who likes to make horror movies.
I sincerely hope that Lucas won't royally fsck up Indiana Jones part 4 like he did with the Star Wars prequel(s). (I only watched the first one in the theater. It sucked so much that I skipped the second one entirely. My friends say the third is ok, so I'll wait until it gets to the cheap theater and then check it out.)
The biggest problem with the prequel(s) is this: The first three movies (meaning, episodes 4 through 6) used special effects in moderation. Costumes were consistent from one scene to the next and between movies. Everything appeared as it should. Yes, there were special effects, as we obviously don't have starships to fly around and film. But most of the movie's genius was in the simplicity and creativity of its photography and setting selection. Scenes were filmed in the desert, or in a forest, and these appeared quite realistic. Unfortunately, the prequel(s) were much more about special effects than good film technique. Even the acting sucked. And need I mention that the costumes and technology are not consistent, neither with the original three movies, nor from one scene to the next in the prequel(s). This damaged the movie, rather than provide added value.
I really have a feeling that Indy 4 will be all about special effects and corny acting than a compelling movie like the first three in that series, and that guess is based on past experience with Lucas. (Speilberg, I don't know, he still has some sense, I suppose, so hopefully he'll balance it out.)
Or, what if many countries of the world get together and implement a compatible system that allows them to track people's identities across all those countries. Is that going to help fight terrorism? Or are the terrorists simply going to figure out a way to live without an ID card? I mean seriously, if you're the kind of crazy motherfscker who wants to blow up innocent people, do you really care if you drive without a license, or do you really care if you can't buy booze without an ID? Or are you simply going to live without a picture identification and work all your evil schemes in a cave somewhere? These people, you have to remember, live like some kind of cavemen in the middle of the desert. Cavemen with AK-47s. So no stupid national ID system is going to help fight that.
In other words, this is a big thing of bullsh1t.
Sources whom I consider accurate have told me that despite Microsoft's claims that Longtooth will be released by 2006 or 2007, the planned release date is actually late in 2019. Microsoft's secret goals for this version are:
Microsoft will accomplish these goals through a variety of changes. First, Longtooth will no longer be based on the Windows NT design philosophy, as were Windows 2000 and XP. Instead, Microsoft will release MS-DOS 9.0 2003, a 64-bit multithreaded DOS written in VisualBASIC.Net, and Windows Longtooth will run on top of that. Also, Longtooth will contain more code changes than any previous version of Windows, both in the number of changed source lines of code (SLOCs) and in the percentage of the total Windows codebase changed. Tremendous numbers of new features are being implemented in completely new code.
More importantly, Microsoft employees are combing through the codebase, in a relentless search for code that is mature, stabilized, and proven. This search has proved difficult, but when found, such code will be marked for reimplementation. I'm told that most of this code will be reimplemented in VisualBASIC.NET, even if the prior version was written in another language, such as C or C++. Programmers making the new VisualBasic.NET code are not allowed to look at the code that already exists, so that fixes to known issues will not be known until well after the software is deployed to millions of users.
The reason for these changes is simple: Study after study conducted by Microsoft has proven that security through obscurity is the only way to go, especially in an operating system deployed to millions of users, with many instances running mission critical applications in finance, industry, government, and other sectors. Microsoft has identified that viruses, worms, spam, spyware, adware, malware, hackers, and phreakers are able to compromise Windows security because vulnerabilities in the code are known. By changing much of the codebase, especially the stablest and most proven parts, Microsoft will thwart the efforts of malicious programmers, as it will take time for them to find the new vulnerabilities in the unknown code.
To meet Microsoft's first goal of reducing the user's perception of the complexity of Windows, Microsoft will integrate a new technology, dubbed Microsoft Windows User Simplicity And Security Manager 2003, into Longtooth. This technology will hide all configuration settings from the user. All settings will be completely automatic, and the user will have no need to know or care what is under the hood. In reality, Longtooth will be the most complex version of Windows yet, with thousands of configuration settings controlling nearly every function of the operating system. The settings will be produced by discovery algorithms designed to automatically set a "sane" configuration. Since there will be no interface to modify any setting, the user will have no choice in his configuration, thus simplifying the user's perception of the system's complexity.
To meet the second goal of increased security, these settings will be scattered throughout the OS, its components, and in other areas of the file system. For example, Microsoft knows that viruses, worms, spam, spyware, adware, malware, hackers, and phreakers are interested in moving the icons on user desktops without the user's permission, so settings controlling the number and size of icons appearing on the desktop will be scattered throughout parts of the registry, batch files, .ini files, web bookmarks, in the Windows kernel, in the file allocation table, in th
In my opinion, Microsoft could create something called Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Tab Security Center. This technology would protect the user by providing a "delete=all" tag, which would run a background task in the OS kernel that would delete random files in random locations in the filesystem. This is the One Microsoft Way to make the user really really secure.
The encryption software here is treated in the same manner as an item such as a large bag would be treated in a shoplifting case. That is, if you go into a store, see something you like, grab it, and run, the court would likely view that as something that you did at the spur of the moment, without putting much forethought into it. The crime, while still very much a crime, would likely be treated as a stupid action you took because you didn't stop to think if it was right or wrong, and the sentence would likely be applied with some leniency. In such a case, assuming the item costs less than $400.00, the crime would be treated as a misdemeanor. On the other hand, if you had entered the store with an unnecessarily large bag that is mostly empty, this might, in the eyes of the court, show that you had planned to shoplift from the outset, and you would receive a much stiffer punishment. In this case, the crime would likely be treated as a felony, regardless of the item's value.
In much the same way, the court handling this pornography case is probably trying to determine under which of the statutes the aforementioned materials fall, and the presence of software used with the intent to traffic in such material, regardless of the software's generally accepted purpose, can allow the prosecution to go for a crime with stiffer penalties.
In other words, if you use PGP, don't worry, because it's not going to be outlawed. But if you're the guy in that pornography case, be afraid... be very afraid. Here in Soviet Russia, pornography encrypts YOU!
As an aside, one should not look at pornography, because it can have an adverse effect on future relationships that you might have.
This is what it means: There are a lot of people who want to run Linux applications, and also applications from some system called Doors or Walls, or maybe it's Windows... Anyway, I've never heard of it, but they say lots of people run it and applications made for it, and supposedly that system is for x86. Anyway, it's too slow to run this kind of code on the PowerPC chip through emulation, so Steve [Jobs] said he's going to be building dual-processor computers where one of the processors is a G5 and the other one is an Intel chip. The OS, its libraries, and all system calls will continue to execute in the PowerPC processor. However, applications compiled for Intel processors (say, for Linux) will run natively on the Intel processor, providing high speed and the ability to run these applications. An additional licensing scheme, currently in the works with some company called Microsoft, which is apparently connected to the whole Doors/Walls thing, will bring that system's APIs to OS X, so that these applications will run totally natively within the UNIX context, without running the risk of having OS X crash through a bug in a Doors application, or vice versa.
"Since everybody will know the password, it will become unnecessary to guess the password," said a Microsoft spokeswoman. "This will be the cause of unbreakable security."
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Oh well, you get the point.
This study is very interesting, but it doesn't explain why I have six girls and no boys. I'm a mechanic and CNC programmer in an aerospace manufacturing facility. That's a manly enough job, and yet, no boys... Figures.
I hope most of the people fired are from France. There is a big shortage of available technology workers here, and 10,000 job cuts from IBM will help my business tremendously in acquiring skilled people.
DVD is nice and all, but I'm still waiting for the video game to come out. :-)
Even if this is an option, cell phone providers have a way of raising everyone's fees by, say, $5 a month, instead of charging individual users who want the service $20 a month extra, and giving everyone access to this new service. Then, they can push advertising and other junk to your phone.
It's annoying when you're having dinner and some idiot calls you, and it's a telemarketer or the wrong number or something. Worse is when you're making some dangerous traffic maneuver while driving and the same happens. This can cause accidents, injuries, deaths, or worse...
I think they need to make the cell phone do what a phone is supposed to do.
I always thought that somewhere in the FBI worked some geek that couldn't really accomplish anything, but for some reason, they couldn't just fire him. So when they realized that he's a computer geek, they gave him a computer and said, "Here, go after cyberhackers." What they didn't realize was that he'd actually take it seriously. So now there's a geek in some dark room at the FBI going after 1337 h4x0rz. And the FBI talks about it as if they have a department of 6,000 professional MSCE's tracking evil hackers out there.
I read somewhere that Apple wrote the Finder in Carbon, just to prove to other companies that they could easily port their software to OS X, so that developers would quickly embrace the new OS. Fortunately, this is no longer necessary, because nobody makes software for 9.x anymore. So the Finder should be rewritten from scratch to take advantage of advances in the OS since 10.0, and to get rid of all the weirdness that happens in the Finder all the time.
Still quite confusing, though. The two companies were never meant to become one. Their business models are too different.
Let me tell you something. Escaping from prison is hard. People who figure out a way to escape from prison, and succeed, are very inventive and creative people. In other words, they would probably figure out that they should take that bracelet off before they make their escape.
Maybe what Microsoft truly needs to do is hire a bunch of hackers, crackers, phreakers, h4x0rz, skript k1dd13z, and whatever other scum they can find, and pay them minimum wage to sit there and hack/crack Windows, finding vulnerabilities. "What?" you say, "only minimum wage?!" Well, that's not the whole story. Each time someone finds a way to screw up Windows, they will get paid $50. Therefore, most novice skript k1dd13z in junior high should be able to earn a $250,000 salary a year when working 10 hours a week from home.