There's plenty of people here (in the U.S.) who can't afford to pay for necessities like rent, utilities, food, and medicine. Let's fix that before we take on the plight of people who are forced to download pr0n at 56K.
Yeah and in parts of India children are slaves and people starve all the damn time - however they have leveled the playing field and are taking America's political control away.
Once Rome was the leader of the world until they took their eye off the ball and the little guy knocked them down a peg. Then much later Victorian England was the leader and did great until German and American chemistry took the world by storm. England ignored this, America and Germany rose up, and the English blamed their countrymen like Oscar Wilde for the decline in the way people lived. We've been seeing pop culture under attack for years (as in Wilde's time) and the zealots come out and say "this" is the reason that America is in a decline.
It isn't. We've had our eye off the ball since the 1980's (some have argued since 1970's). So what if we had a big bubble of technology here in the last 10 years? China, India and S.Korea are picking up the ball and running with it.
I can't afford food or medicine myself (the computer and DSL isn't technically mine) and I suffer from a Mental Illness and have Basal Cell Carcinoma that I can't have treated. However I support stepping up our broadband efforts. If we started to give the best stuff to the people that can afford it, the innovation and demand can create jobs and get us as a country back into the running.
I'm a liberal and I'm starting to sound like a conservative here. I don't believe in "trickle-down" economics, but sometimes you have start somewhere. The fact that countries that were starving to death 20 years ago are now beating us at something we invented makes me sick inside.
You've got a good point there, but it doesn't change the fact that as a computer repair technician you aren't working as a government agent so your "search" isn't going to be protected/restricted under the 4th Amendment.
Imagine if I broke into your home and found pot plants growing. While I was even in the commission of a crime, not being a police officer that search is legal and admissible in court.
Sorry.
I've told many people to not take their PC's in for repair because of porn (which in any form can be partially illegal in my county/city/state) and copies of software that no one paid for. Just as if you cut off your O2 sensor and catalytic converter and took your car in to get fixed you can expect the mechanic to report you.
Now, approaching someone might be a better option, but people sometimes would rather go to the police.
To be fair buddy, you know the government is going to overspend in their compensation to the "industry" for such a drug.
Either way, it would be the govt/our/public's right to confiscate such property as of the Constitution (5th Amendment). A drug developed to fight AIDS would not only save lives buy also taxpayer money, making it too easy of a choice to make.
Hell, I'd even argue that any corporation that develops a 'cure' should have their government given corporate charter revoked if they even thought about not complying.
Believe it or not, the corporation was developed to do things that are in the public interest (which is how they get a charter). Given that XYZ Inc. drug company is public (shareholder owned) and is a legal person (14th Amendment), their property can and might just be seized.
Because if they think it is possible then it could mean a real power grab for the government. The military created GPS, and now we've got a 'Wireless Revolution' combined with nifty toys like RFID. Something makes me wonder if this isn't the reason GPS exists in the first place. Now we know where you are even if you don't respond to a GPS signal - we've put a chip in your cell phone and wi-fi card that tells us where you are.
They could easily track everyone in the United States at all times given that everyone was attached somehow. Owning a PC now means the government owns you and that they *could* know what you do before you do.
The problem is that once it is possible, how can we prevent it?
Well, they could offer their own browser, add-ons, web-apps, information services, or even desktop applications and make their name ubiquitous. Hell, then step in and give everyone free (as in public utility) internet service. Once they know your name and see the big colorful sign saying that 'internets' are free and customers would die for that company...
Actually I started playing on non-official servers and you see a lot of "warp" requests on their forums. Often the buggy server gets someone stuck between two trees and they need the DM to get them out.
I respond to both you and your parent by saying that no one should be fired, but the person who decided to check web history and do "walk-throughs". Doing this has exposed the library to being responsible for the things its patrons do on the computers.
Either police the system or not, hopefully not. Once the library starts firing people and taking responsibility (by firing those who failed to stop malicious activity) they are going to be put into a situation where they must police the computers at all times. From what I read about this in the St Petersburg Times this morning (where I was just 14 hours ago) the real problem is that the man was showing pornography to young boys. In those cases, do you really need to look at the history to know that something is going on. An older man hunched over a screen with two young boys giggling, turning red and looking around every second and someone should look into it.
You know, at my downtown library (Cincinnati) two people committed suicide in a year and most people in the city never even heard about it. Yes, even the library can be a place where weird people visit - just keep an eye out for them. Otherwise - wake me up when someone actually gets hurt...
"Print to PDF" seems to be the function that would solve all of these problems, but so would any others. Think you *could* print to a TIFF, PDF, virtually any image type with a *nix Word compatible program - then you can scan the image and OCR it to plain text. Antiword (mentioned by another/.er: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/) can convert DOC to plain text... there are thousands of options.
However, if someone is getting the idea for another open source project to solve this dilema then I'd suggest something that can render DOC to HTML on the server side. That would allow those who just know how to "setup" a webserver to sit back and let the software deal with people's problem with not using standard types. Parse the Word, Wordperfect, OpenOffice, RTF, whatever and render it in HTML. This would allow anyone in a company dump the document on the server/share and let it be viewed by anyone else.
Others have pointed out here that this has been in the can for sometime at Microsoft and that both designs are copies of http://my.yahoo.com/. For those comments look around, but I've got to say it kinda rocks. The drop down menus work well on Firefox and basically is the same feel as Gmail. The page is a lot more open than Google's but Google is still changing it (they finally moved the logo - at what I assume is my outcry in their Official Google Group TM).
I don't care, as long as someone is pushing the envelope. In fact, Microsoft should be developing these types of sites because that is why they were so afraid of Netscape. With Javascript (developed at Netscape) and Java on the horizon they saw a day where they would lose their dominance because applications could *almost* work anywhere. Distributed web applications make the platform irrelevant.
A subscription service for Office is what they should be doing. Do all of the CPU work (Autosaving, Access and Excel math, sorting indexing) at Microsoft, but give me a light web interface to the applications. When they bought Hotmail I thought that is where they were going, but I've not seen it yet.
If Microsoft doesn't start offering full applications inside the browser someone else will. Yahoo has shown with their PC Game rental service that it is possible to even stream huge games over broadband - where are the web applications?
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There's plenty of people here (in the U.S.) who can't afford to pay for necessities like rent, utilities, food, and medicine. Let's fix that before we take on the plight of people who are forced to download pr0n at 56K.
Yeah and in parts of India children are slaves and people starve all the damn time - however they have leveled the playing field and are taking America's political control away.
Once Rome was the leader of the world until they took their eye off the ball and the little guy knocked them down a peg. Then much later Victorian England was the leader and did great until German and American chemistry took the world by storm. England ignored this, America and Germany rose up, and the English blamed their countrymen like Oscar Wilde for the decline in the way people lived. We've been seeing pop culture under attack for years (as in Wilde's time) and the zealots come out and say "this" is the reason that America is in a decline.
It isn't. We've had our eye off the ball since the 1980's (some have argued since 1970's). So what if we had a big bubble of technology here in the last 10 years? China, India and S.Korea are picking up the ball and running with it.
I can't afford food or medicine myself (the computer and DSL isn't technically mine) and I suffer from a Mental Illness and have Basal Cell Carcinoma that I can't have treated. However I support stepping up our broadband efforts. If we started to give the best stuff to the people that can afford it, the innovation and demand can create jobs and get us as a country back into the running.
I'm a liberal and I'm starting to sound like a conservative here. I don't believe in "trickle-down" economics, but sometimes you have start somewhere. The fact that countries that were starving to death 20 years ago are now beating us at something we invented makes me sick inside.
well, both are required on cars made after a certain date...
I'd report the bastards for throwing emmissions into the 'commons'
You've got a good point there, but it doesn't change the fact that as a computer repair technician you aren't working as a government agent so your "search" isn't going to be protected/restricted under the 4th Amendment.
Imagine if I broke into your home and found pot plants growing. While I was even in the commission of a crime, not being a police officer that search is legal and admissible in court.
Sorry.
I've told many people to not take their PC's in for repair because of porn (which in any form can be partially illegal in my county/city/state) and copies of software that no one paid for. Just as if you cut off your O2 sensor and catalytic converter and took your car in to get fixed you can expect the mechanic to report you.
Now, approaching someone might be a better option, but people sometimes would rather go to the police.
To be fair buddy, you know the government is going to overspend in their compensation to the "industry" for such a drug.
Either way, it would be the govt/our/public's right to confiscate such property as of the Constitution (5th Amendment). A drug developed to fight AIDS would not only save lives buy also taxpayer money, making it too easy of a choice to make.
Hell, I'd even argue that any corporation that develops a 'cure' should have their government given corporate charter revoked if they even thought about not complying.
Believe it or not, the corporation was developed to do things that are in the public interest (which is how they get a charter). Given that XYZ Inc. drug company is public (shareholder owned) and is a legal person (14th Amendment), their property can and might just be seized.
HIV dead, Netcraft confirms it
Ah, someone who knows his Soylent!
Too bad the Soylent corporation started out making Green from (phyto/zoo)plankton, then moved to Menhaden (macrozooplankton) and ended with PEOPLE!
Damn dirty corporations!
With a UID that low I'm suprised at your response. I wasn't trying to troll, just joke around.
they didn't want to say that it's as dead as *BSD... /rimshot
TFA means REAL ULTIMATE POWER status right?
Not a lot of money when you are talking about total awareness. Even at three times the price it is only a drop in the bucket of government spending.
For one, this is their way of telling us that Time Warner and Disney's profits aren't going to be up to par with what Wall Street thinks...
Like giving an excuse: "Sorry, we lost millions on some silly virus."
Not a bad idea, blame Microsoft, since both Disney and Time Warner would like to see them slow down or die.
Why, I'm still using my Dreamcast a lot...
Because if they think it is possible then it could mean a real power grab for the government. The military created GPS, and now we've got a 'Wireless Revolution' combined with nifty toys like RFID. Something makes me wonder if this isn't the reason GPS exists in the first place. Now we know where you are even if you don't respond to a GPS signal - we've put a chip in your cell phone and wi-fi card that tells us where you are.
They could easily track everyone in the United States at all times given that everyone was attached somehow. Owning a PC now means the government owns you and that they *could* know what you do before you do.
The problem is that once it is possible, how can we prevent it?
Well, they could offer their own browser, add-ons, web-apps, information services, or even desktop applications and make their name ubiquitous. Hell, then step in and give everyone free (as in public utility) internet service. Once they know your name and see the big colorful sign saying that 'internets' are free and customers would die for that company...
Actually I started playing on non-official servers and you see a lot of "warp" requests on their forums. Often the buggy server gets someone stuck between two trees and they need the DM to get them out.
That's where the comment comes from really.
just a joke...
Funny because "bumbling idiot" gives me this result first:
http://www.hypocrites.com/article9025.html
I'm stuck in Arathi Mountains (in the wilderness outside of Hammerfall)... can you warp me to Stromgarde Keep?
What's wrong with you? The ruling is so simple to understand even a caveman gets it.
I watched this one just fine.
New software mascot I'd say.
I respond to both you and your parent by saying that no one should be fired, but the person who decided to check web history and do "walk-throughs". Doing this has exposed the library to being responsible for the things its patrons do on the computers.
Either police the system or not, hopefully not. Once the library starts firing people and taking responsibility (by firing those who failed to stop malicious activity) they are going to be put into a situation where they must police the computers at all times. From what I read about this in the St Petersburg Times this morning (where I was just 14 hours ago) the real problem is that the man was showing pornography to young boys. In those cases, do you really need to look at the history to know that something is going on. An older man hunched over a screen with two young boys giggling, turning red and looking around every second and someone should look into it.
You know, at my downtown library (Cincinnati) two people committed suicide in a year and most people in the city never even heard about it. Yes, even the library can be a place where weird people visit - just keep an eye out for them. Otherwise - wake me up when someone actually gets hurt...
"Print to PDF" seems to be the function that would solve all of these problems, but so would any others. Think you *could* print to a TIFF, PDF, virtually any image type with a *nix Word compatible program - then you can scan the image and OCR it to plain text. Antiword (mentioned by another /.er: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/) can convert DOC to plain text... there are thousands of options.
However, if someone is getting the idea for another open source project to solve this dilema then I'd suggest something that can render DOC to HTML on the server side. That would allow those who just know how to "setup" a webserver to sit back and let the software deal with people's problem with not using standard types. Parse the Word, Wordperfect, OpenOffice, RTF, whatever and render it in HTML. This would allow anyone in a company dump the document on the server/share and let it be viewed by anyone else.
But there are limitless options like this http://www.doc-api.com/ found on google...
No shit it's a Linksys router, my point is that it lacks storage, expansion possibilities, etc...
Others have pointed out here that this has been in the can for sometime at Microsoft and that both designs are copies of http://my.yahoo.com/. For those comments look around, but I've got to say it kinda rocks. The drop down menus work well on Firefox and basically is the same feel as Gmail. The page is a lot more open than Google's but Google is still changing it (they finally moved the logo - at what I assume is my outcry in their Official Google Group TM).
I don't care, as long as someone is pushing the envelope. In fact, Microsoft should be developing these types of sites because that is why they were so afraid of Netscape. With Javascript (developed at Netscape) and Java on the horizon they saw a day where they would lose their dominance because applications could *almost* work anywhere. Distributed web applications make the platform irrelevant.
A subscription service for Office is what they should be doing. Do all of the CPU work (Autosaving, Access and Excel math, sorting indexing) at Microsoft, but give me a light web interface to the applications. When they bought Hotmail I thought that is where they were going, but I've not seen it yet.
If Microsoft doesn't start offering full applications inside the browser someone else will. Yahoo has shown with their PC Game rental service that it is possible to even stream huge games over broadband - where are the web applications?
OpenOffice?
Funniest. troll. EVAR.