Good idea! Lets all live in fear of subpoenas because they CAN be abused!
Better idea... deal with them on a case by case basis and froth when the really bad ones come out... not when there is the potential for a really bad one to be issued.
Head on over to http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2006/01/20 /515606.aspx to see some info from the horse on what kind of information was requested and given, at least as far as Microsoft search is concrned... it's not as bad as many have claimed.
You are idiotic if you honestly think that when you know little about how student loans work.
Private loans cannot be consolidated with locked in interest rates and the bulk of my loans are private, one at $20,334.44 at 7.53% interest and another at $12,381.53 at 8.00%. Only $18,927.60 of my total $51,643.57 debt is locked in at 2.875%... and that last pile I am not in a bit hurry to pay off, it's the first two are the problem, especially when #1 has only $6 dollars going to principal now due to the interest rate on it going up by over 3% in the last 18 months alone!
Screw all of this talk about moving to Canada or Europe... sounds like China is now the place to live... except for that whole... oppression of unfavorable speech and blocking of websites.
Hardly, I have more than I'll ever need. Right now all I need is people visiting the page in my sig and helping me pay off my student loans a little quicker.
They have slightly different views on the world... Microsoft wants you to run their software with seamless integration and make you pay for most pieces.
Google on the other hand gives most of their software and products away as nothing more than mechanisms to display ads.
Both companies motivations are clear... make money, they just go about it differently.
I know they are! I had one prof (twice) in college who had to say "if you will" at least 30 times per class session otherwise his head would explode due to the alien earth environment that he was not yet used to.
Convicted monopolist? Hahaha! Seriously dude, learn the facts... like what they were really convicted of.
Seriously though... let me get this straight... you would rather have OSS gain through legal maneuvers and laws rather than open and outright competition?
Quite a shame really as such subsidizing of OSS tends to show that it is too weak to stand on it's own against Microsoft and the other big players and instead needs to be subsidized by governments in order to give it a chance.
The retailers who make this claim to those who may not know better.
A local Mac shop practically advertises that a Mac is totally secure and immune to viruses and spyware.
Every time I see one of their commercials I shake my head at the persons obvious lack of understanding of the issues at hand. It's one thing for a Mac fan to say there are secure due to their delusion... it's quite another for them to use their delusion as the basis for a sale.
It's just a shame that for them to be proven wrong, a lot of people and their PC's have to get hurt.
So what? Each and every version of MS Office has codefied escalation to admin privledges at some points - even when running with a restricted user account.
Except for that it still takes a bit of processing power in order to determine who the source is and act accordingly. Given enough people hitting f5 you can still overload a server using such a method.
Doesn't this revelation kinda fly in the face of one of the arguments of OSS that it is more secure because more eyes are seeing it?
Here we've got at least two sets of eyes that missed it, not just the folk(s) who wrote the Wine code, but also the one(s) who wrote the original implementation for Windows... and the only time the flaw was discovered in Wine was AFTER the Windows one was... presumably because someone looked to see if Wine was vulnerable as well.
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There can often be a trickle down effect of that as well... resulting in nearly the entire company having too much access.
The company I work for for instance... EVERYONE has administrator rights to their desktop. Everyone from us lowly engineers in the back who bend our machines to their limits... up to the sales people who just use our proprietary apps (which do not require admin access) and Outlook.
Long ago, IT tried to restrict most users... unfortunately enough complained about not being able to do what they wanted (not always what they needed to do), and the policy was reversed.
This has of course enabled HR persons to install spyware that was suggested by a secretary.
I am still waiting for the day we have someone run a piece of malware who didn't know any better that brings the entire network, and most of it's users to their knees.
Years ago I went to the Dr about some pain in my hands and wrists and he determined it was carpel tunnel.
Funny thing though... I don't have issues with typing... in fact, I'd had it for longer than I'd had a computer... and it really only exhibited itself when clutching something, like a pen, mouse or other controller.
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Oh please, it's rare that Google ever move from a beta version to a gold version.
Granted, officially it's a public beta, sadly very few treat it that way and rely on it for their primary email contact.
Good idea! Lets all live in fear of subpoenas because they CAN be abused!
Better idea... deal with them on a case by case basis and froth when the really bad ones come out... not when there is the potential for a really bad one to be issued.
Head on over to http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2006/01/20 /515606.aspx to see some info from the horse on what kind of information was requested and given, at least as far as Microsoft search is concrned... it's not as bad as many have claimed.
You are idiotic if you honestly think that when you know little about how student loans work.
Private loans cannot be consolidated with locked in interest rates and the bulk of my loans are private, one at $20,334.44 at 7.53% interest and another at $12,381.53 at 8.00%. Only $18,927.60 of my total $51,643.57 debt is locked in at 2.875%... and that last pile I am not in a bit hurry to pay off, it's the first two are the problem, especially when #1 has only $6 dollars going to principal now due to the interest rate on it going up by over 3% in the last 18 months alone!
Screw all of this talk about moving to Canada or Europe... sounds like China is now the place to live... except for that whole... oppression of unfavorable speech and blocking of websites.
Hardly, I have more than I'll ever need. Right now all I need is people visiting the page in my sig and helping me pay off my student loans a little quicker.
They have slightly different views on the world... Microsoft wants you to run their software with seamless integration and make you pay for most pieces.
Google on the other hand gives most of their software and products away as nothing more than mechanisms to display ads.
Both companies motivations are clear... make money, they just go about it differently.
Interesting... one company with a runaway stock price with one who has historically had a hard time doing anything with their stock price.
World domination? Wouldn't that be... evil?
Bah, there are better things to donate ones money to... like my campaign to pay off my student loan debt! Stop by the URL in my sig for more info.
I know they are! I had one prof (twice) in college who had to say "if you will" at least 30 times per class session otherwise his head would explode due to the alien earth environment that he was not yet used to.
Only 10th grade? It took me 3 attempts to pass calculus 1 in college!
Convicted monopolist? Hahaha! Seriously dude, learn the facts... like what they were really convicted of.
Seriously though... let me get this straight... you would rather have OSS gain through legal maneuvers and laws rather than open and outright competition?
Quite a shame really as such subsidizing of OSS tends to show that it is too weak to stand on it's own against Microsoft and the other big players and instead needs to be subsidized by governments in order to give it a chance.
The retailers who make this claim to those who may not know better.
A local Mac shop practically advertises that a Mac is totally secure and immune to viruses and spyware.
Every time I see one of their commercials I shake my head at the persons obvious lack of understanding of the issues at hand. It's one thing for a Mac fan to say there are secure due to their delusion... it's quite another for them to use their delusion as the basis for a sale.
It's just a shame that for them to be proven wrong, a lot of people and their PC's have to get hurt.
I never said that it disproves the theory, just that it is an interesting piece of evidence against it.
So what? Each and every version of MS Office has codefied escalation to admin privledges at some points - even when running with a restricted user account.
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Except for that it still takes a bit of processing power in order to determine who the source is and act accordingly. Given enough people hitting f5 you can still overload a server using such a method.
Doesn't this revelation kinda fly in the face of one of the arguments of OSS that it is more secure because more eyes are seeing it?
Here we've got at least two sets of eyes that missed it, not just the folk(s) who wrote the Wine code, but also the one(s) who wrote the original implementation for Windows... and the only time the flaw was discovered in Wine was AFTER the Windows one was... presumably because someone looked to see if Wine was vulnerable as well.
There can often be a trickle down effect of that as well... resulting in nearly the entire company having too much access.
The company I work for for instance... EVERYONE has administrator rights to their desktop. Everyone from us lowly engineers in the back who bend our machines to their limits... up to the sales people who just use our proprietary apps (which do not require admin access) and Outlook.
Long ago, IT tried to restrict most users... unfortunately enough complained about not being able to do what they wanted (not always what they needed to do), and the policy was reversed.
This has of course enabled HR persons to install spyware that was suggested by a secretary.
I am still waiting for the day we have someone run a piece of malware who didn't know any better that brings the entire network, and most of it's users to their knees.
Not a bad invention... however don't you guys end up paying a tax/license for all TV's and radios that you own in order to get to use them legally?
Not only that... it's not much of a year end list... being published in March of 05 after all.
/. around the same time 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense
Heck, this was even on
Yes, props for knowing it (or did you have to look it up?)
One of the few great, cool and quotable things ever to happen at the UN I fear.
Many here incorrectly think that non-compete agreements are invalid everywhere... which simply is not the case.
... or at least not to me.
Years ago I went to the Dr about some pain in my hands and wrists and he determined it was carpel tunnel.
Funny thing though... I don't have issues with typing... in fact, I'd had it for longer than I'd had a computer... and it really only exhibited itself when clutching something, like a pen, mouse or other controller.
Shame... I had it before it became all the rage.
I agree with the other poster. Your idea is quite naive as it ignores all of the criminals who may have committed non-violent crime.
So if I break into my local Best Buy at 3am, steal all of their iPods and plasma tv's and sell them on eBay and if convicted I get... house arrest?