That's one reason why I never liked MSN Live and other MS search products. They're obviously very biased towards Microsoft products. Google, if anything, is biased towards open source & their other offerings like gmail, etc. but their search results aren't so blatantly biased that way. I purposely don't want to use a search engine run by a corporation with a wide range of products and services like MS because it's so easy for them to game the results to suit their needs. That's why I stick with Google for most of my searching and venture out to others like ask.com, yahoo.com, etc. when I want to try something different. Unless MS can demonstrate that their searches aren't biased towards their products & services then I'll continue to avoid using them.
I can't agree with this more. My TiVo regularly records shows like the Terminator series but I'm hardly ever around to watch it on Friday nights. If it wasn't for time shifting I'd never watch that show.
Yeah, but if you tell your browser to delete all cookies then it'll delete the Google cookie telling Google not to assign a tracking cookie to you so you'll be tracked by a Google cookie... unless you tell your browser to delete all your cookies... or tell Google not to track you... in which case they give you a non-tracking cookie... but if you delete cookies... then Google will track you... because it doesn't see the non-tracking cookie... which you delete so Google has to...
I call shenanigans. This comment has all the earmarks of an urban legend. An anonymous post claiming to have insider knowledge from another anonymous post.
Why would a third party "security" product require a secret law-enforcement backdoor? The FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. would simply have Microsoft provide a backdoor into ALL of Windows. They wouldn't waste time with a commercial product that only some Windows users install. Why go that route when going the MS route would ensure a backdoor into all systems and not just a very small subset of systems?
CIPAV is not something added willy-nilly into commercial applications. It's basically an extremely well designed rootkit that the FBI, etc. targets against specific users & computers by tricking users into installing it. (social engineering, etc.)
Wow. I remember it like it was yesterday since I was in high school in NH at the time. I was at a boarding school and was in my dorm room waiting for the cafeteria to open for lunch when a friend came in and told me he'd heard about it on the radio. We turned on my radio and listened for a while before heading down to lunch. I guess I looked really shocked because one of the women in the serving line asked me if I was ok. I said that the shuttle had just blown up and she just laughed and said something like "oh, very funny". I snapped back at her to turn on a radio if they had one in the kitchen then went out to find a place to eat. I came back about 15 minutes later for seconds and the same woman was extremely apologetic. My friend and I then went to the student center where there was a projection tv and it seemed like 90% of the students were standing around silently watching the news coverage.
I buy lots of electronics tools, parts, etc. from You-Do-It. I'm probably there at least once a month. However I'm not sure I'd buy a tv or other large consumer electronics item from them. Their prices seemed a bit high the one time I looked at them. Of course that was a few years ago so things might have changed.
My aunt lives in Rhode Island. She bought the tv from Flint's audio/video in Middletown, RI. That's part of New England. They'll deliver for free and provide service/support anywhere in Rhode Island.
An aunt of mine recently decided to splurge on an HDTV. She'd looked at what was available at Best Buy, Sears, etc. and found a nice 40" Sony at Best Buy that she really liked. But she wanted to buy the tv from a local store, not a big box store, for a number of reasons. She's the kind of person who believes in "mom & pop" types of outfits. She's also a photographer and wanted to use the HDTV to view photos from her computer. We went to the local store she was interested in and found the same Sony there. The sales rep bent over backwards to help us out and answer all our questions. I was impressed when my aunt started asking about viewing photos and pulled a photo CD out of her purse. The guy ran around the store, found a DVD player, hooked it up to the tv she was interested in, and let her view the photos. Then she started noticing some of the other HDTV's there and asked if she could view the photos on any of them. So the guy figured out where the feed to all the tvs in that section was and hooked the DVD player up to it, so my aunt was able to look at her photos on a dozen different HDTVs all at the same time.
We decided to do a little more shopping around and grab some lunch before making a decision. We stopped back at the Best Buy and saw that it was selling the HDTV for something like $200 less than the local store. We went back to the local place and asked if they'd match the price. The guy ran off for a few seconds and came back and said they could but then couldn't offer us the free local delivery they typically provide. Big deal - we were planning on taking the tv with us anyway. And the local shop offers full warranty & repair service AND will come pick up the tv for free if any work needs to be done on it.
You'll NEVER get those sorts of services from places like Best Buy. My aunt was treated amazingly well throughout the experience, and the local support she'll get is top notch. If she ever has any questions/problems she can call the store and they'll help her out.
My guess is that as the economy manages to sort itself out over the next year or so you'll see a comeback in smaller individual stores, local/regional chains, etc. that provide MUCH better service. I think consumers are becoming more and more savvy when it comes to realizing that they need to think about things like after-sale service & support, and the big box stores simply don't provide that with any sense of reliability or consistency.
How's this for one problem: Your iPod, laptop, etc. is lost or stolen. Whoever ends up with it starts sharing those songs with YOUR personal information in them. The RIAA finds songs with your e-mail address & other personal details being shared over the internet. They sue you. How do you prove to both the RIAA and the judge with reasonable certainty that you're not responsible for the file sharing? Even if you provide a police report detailing the theft they'd simply argue that you must have shared these songs BEFORE it was lost/stolen.
Another scenario: You have these songs on an iPod, PC, etc. at school/work and somebody copies songs off without your knowledge, or a friend does the same from your PC at home (or even a hacker gains access to your PC and copies some songs). How do you prove to the RIAA when they come knocking that you're not responsible for those files getting distributed?
Have you EVER used that debit card at the same store and provided your address or phone number? If you've ever done that then they have that information readily available.
That would probably just hurt Cisco/Linksys in the long run. The last two Linksys routers I bought, I bought mainly because I knew I could install modified firmware on (dd-wrt). If they no longer offer routers with this capability then I'll simply stop buying Linksys gear and start shopping their competitors products who still use GPL'd code and lets me install custom firmware. Granted, I'm only one individual but you can bet I'll also mention this fact to family/friends (and as a professional sysadmin I'm just the kind of person lots of family/friends ask about this sort of thing). And I seriously doubt I'm alone in this regard.
Well if the distro includes an RPM that was custom built by the Chinese government and is specified as a dependency for other RPM's then even switching to a different RPM repo wouldn't help. Or the Red Flag installer could come with an RPM that includes a rootkit or other backdoor utilities that the RPM leaves behind even when uninstalled. So even if you switch repos after the initial install it could leave the system compromised.
And they'll never get anything from me. Hell, if I wanted to (not that I do) I could simply go to the website of the college I graduated from and look up the contact information of other alumni who have registered there. Some universities, like Harvard, offer lifetime e-mail addresses, etc. for alumni. There's a whole post.harvard.edu domain just for alumni there. Even my high school keeps track of alumni and has mailing lists, etc. available. I've never gotten spammed by classmates.com and I wouldn't bother visiting if I did. I'll just go straight to my schools websites.
Even if there's an option to disable this, the fact that it seems to be enabled by default is enough for me. D-Link from this point on will never be on my list of vendors when looking for networking gear.
When I graduated from college many moons ago the industry wasn't hiring. I sent out resumes to over 150 companies all across the country over a period of six months, and from that got a grand total of 5 interviews and one job offer. Needless to say I took the offer. It was doing telephone tech support, but for a small company with corporate clients so I wasn't dealing with joe idiot off the street. Like you, it paid the bills but not much more. During whatever spare time I had I would create demos out of our software (it was basically a high level graphical programming language), and even started looking through the source code of the product to understand how it worked. After having done that for a while I was even able to locate the potential causes of bugs in the code that customers were calling us to complain about. By demonstrating to our software development team that I could read & write code, and do code-level troubleshooting, I eventually attracted the attention of one of the senior software engineers. He would occasionally explain to me some of the more complex parts of the code and point me in the direction to look for potential bugs that I was trying to identify. Eventually he was the one who recommended me for a new entry-level software development position that opened up which I jumped at. It took me about 18-24 months to get to that point but eventually I did and it really paid off.
... a construction worker hanging on to the right side of that tank? The resolutions a little too small to tell for sure, but it sure looks to me like some guy wearing one of those orange vests & a hard hat to me.
Hope he doesn't throw off the balance of that thing. It'd suck to cause it to roll off the truck. (Kidding!)
According to the screenlessphone website it's a fairly standard GSM phone. If you already have GSM service just pop your SIM into this phone and it should work. There's a lot more information in the FAQ on their website.
The argument that Willis makes about MS wanting to lure F/OSS developers back is quite accurate. I just wonder how much MS's past behaviors will hurt them in this endeavor. Many people, especially those closely aligned with projects like Apache, Open Office, etc. are well aware of MS's historic practice of "embrase, extend, extinguish" so they're likely to be very cautious about any olive branches that they offer. I wonder if this well documented behavior of MS's is likely to doom such tactics to failure in the long run. As the next generation of programmers gets their feet wet they'll likely read & hear about all the trouble MS has caused, and see growing number of F/OSS projects. My guess is that many of them will likely deduce for themselves that sticking with F/OSS as much as possible is the preferred track to go and that they shouldn't trust MS themselves like those before them. Perhaps some folks within MS have also realized this and that's why they're starting to "cozy up" to F/OSS. They likely realize they've got a LONG way to go to start winning the real hard-core F/OSS folks back to supporting Windows.
That would be false. The constitution specifically defines where and under what circumstances the state can impinge on the rights of citizens and residents
Um. Go read my post a bit more carefully. I clearly stated that the US Constitution doesn't restrict an individuals rights. I never said that it doesn't restrict governmental rights. In fact I stated that's exactly one of its purposes.
Everything else not defined by the constitution is a right reserved to the people, ergo driving is a right.
Don't make me laugh. As I said before, the US Constitution mentions NOTHING about drinking/smoking ages, bank robbery, forgery, murder, etc. By your twisted logic, the fact that these things aren't mentioned means they're rights afforded to every citizen in the US.
Give it up. It's obvious you have no idea what you're talking about. I won't be wasting any more time on you.
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That's one reason why I never liked MSN Live and other MS search products. They're obviously very biased towards Microsoft products. Google, if anything, is biased towards open source & their other offerings like gmail, etc. but their search results aren't so blatantly biased that way. I purposely don't want to use a search engine run by a corporation with a wide range of products and services like MS because it's so easy for them to game the results to suit their needs. That's why I stick with Google for most of my searching and venture out to others like ask.com, yahoo.com, etc. when I want to try something different. Unless MS can demonstrate that their searches aren't biased towards their products & services then I'll continue to avoid using them.
Too bad the world will end at 2012 ;)
Yeah, but not until December 21, so we may still have a chance to see Firefox & IE effectively neck and neck.
I can't agree with this more. My TiVo regularly records shows like the Terminator series but I'm hardly ever around to watch it on Friday nights. If it wasn't for time shifting I'd never watch that show.
...is thank god BSG is on Sci-Fi channel and not Fox. Otherwise we'd likely have had only one season of it.
Yeah, but if you tell your browser to delete all cookies then it'll delete the Google cookie telling Google not to assign a tracking cookie to you so you'll be tracked by a Google cookie... unless you tell your browser to delete all your cookies... or tell Google not to track you... in which case they give you a non-tracking cookie... but if you delete cookies... then Google will track you... because it doesn't see the non-tracking cookie... which you delete so Google has to...
error... error... does not compute...
I call shenanigans. This comment has all the earmarks of an urban legend. An anonymous post claiming to have insider knowledge from another anonymous post.
Why would a third party "security" product require a secret law-enforcement backdoor? The FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. would simply have Microsoft provide a backdoor into ALL of Windows. They wouldn't waste time with a commercial product that only some Windows users install. Why go that route when going the MS route would ensure a backdoor into all systems and not just a very small subset of systems?
CIPAV is not something added willy-nilly into commercial applications. It's basically an extremely well designed rootkit that the FBI, etc. targets against specific users & computers by tricking users into installing it. (social engineering, etc.)
I didn't realize Ann Daniels was a man. Shouldn't the title be "3-person team"?
Wow. I remember it like it was yesterday since I was in high school in NH at the time. I was at a boarding school and was in my dorm room waiting for the cafeteria to open for lunch when a friend came in and told me he'd heard about it on the radio. We turned on my radio and listened for a while before heading down to lunch. I guess I looked really shocked because one of the women in the serving line asked me if I was ok. I said that the shuttle had just blown up and she just laughed and said something like "oh, very funny". I snapped back at her to turn on a radio if they had one in the kitchen then went out to find a place to eat. I came back about 15 minutes later for seconds and the same woman was extremely apologetic. My friend and I then went to the student center where there was a projection tv and it seemed like 90% of the students were standing around silently watching the news coverage.
I buy lots of electronics tools, parts, etc. from You-Do-It. I'm probably there at least once a month. However I'm not sure I'd buy a tv or other large consumer electronics item from them. Their prices seemed a bit high the one time I looked at them. Of course that was a few years ago so things might have changed.
My aunt lives in Rhode Island. She bought the tv from Flint's audio/video in Middletown, RI. That's part of New England. They'll deliver for free and provide service/support anywhere in Rhode Island.
http://www.flintaudio.com/
An aunt of mine recently decided to splurge on an HDTV. She'd looked at what was available at Best Buy, Sears, etc. and found a nice 40" Sony at Best Buy that she really liked. But she wanted to buy the tv from a local store, not a big box store, for a number of reasons. She's the kind of person who believes in "mom & pop" types of outfits. She's also a photographer and wanted to use the HDTV to view photos from her computer. We went to the local store she was interested in and found the same Sony there. The sales rep bent over backwards to help us out and answer all our questions. I was impressed when my aunt started asking about viewing photos and pulled a photo CD out of her purse. The guy ran around the store, found a DVD player, hooked it up to the tv she was interested in, and let her view the photos. Then she started noticing some of the other HDTV's there and asked if she could view the photos on any of them. So the guy figured out where the feed to all the tvs in that section was and hooked the DVD player up to it, so my aunt was able to look at her photos on a dozen different HDTVs all at the same time.
We decided to do a little more shopping around and grab some lunch before making a decision. We stopped back at the Best Buy and saw that it was selling the HDTV for something like $200 less than the local store. We went back to the local place and asked if they'd match the price. The guy ran off for a few seconds and came back and said they could but then couldn't offer us the free local delivery they typically provide. Big deal - we were planning on taking the tv with us anyway. And the local shop offers full warranty & repair service AND will come pick up the tv for free if any work needs to be done on it.
You'll NEVER get those sorts of services from places like Best Buy. My aunt was treated amazingly well throughout the experience, and the local support she'll get is top notch. If she ever has any questions/problems she can call the store and they'll help her out.
My guess is that as the economy manages to sort itself out over the next year or so you'll see a comeback in smaller individual stores, local/regional chains, etc. that provide MUCH better service. I think consumers are becoming more and more savvy when it comes to realizing that they need to think about things like after-sale service & support, and the big box stores simply don't provide that with any sense of reliability or consistency.
Nope, don't see the problem.
How's this for one problem: Your iPod, laptop, etc. is lost or stolen. Whoever ends up with it starts sharing those songs with YOUR personal information in them. The RIAA finds songs with your e-mail address & other personal details being shared over the internet. They sue you. How do you prove to both the RIAA and the judge with reasonable certainty that you're not responsible for the file sharing? Even if you provide a police report detailing the theft they'd simply argue that you must have shared these songs BEFORE it was lost/stolen.
Another scenario: You have these songs on an iPod, PC, etc. at school/work and somebody copies songs off without your knowledge, or a friend does the same from your PC at home (or even a hacker gains access to your PC and copies some songs). How do you prove to the RIAA when they come knocking that you're not responsible for those files getting distributed?
Have you EVER used that debit card at the same store and provided your address or phone number? If you've ever done that then they have that information readily available.
That would probably just hurt Cisco/Linksys in the long run. The last two Linksys routers I bought, I bought mainly because I knew I could install modified firmware on (dd-wrt). If they no longer offer routers with this capability then I'll simply stop buying Linksys gear and start shopping their competitors products who still use GPL'd code and lets me install custom firmware. Granted, I'm only one individual but you can bet I'll also mention this fact to family/friends (and as a professional sysadmin I'm just the kind of person lots of family/friends ask about this sort of thing). And I seriously doubt I'm alone in this regard.
Well if the distro includes an RPM that was custom built by the Chinese government and is specified as a dependency for other RPM's then even switching to a different RPM repo wouldn't help. Or the Red Flag installer could come with an RPM that includes a rootkit or other backdoor utilities that the RPM leaves behind even when uninstalled. So even if you switch repos after the initial install it could leave the system compromised.
I guess you weren't as popular as you thought you were.
And they'll never get anything from me. Hell, if I wanted to (not that I do) I could simply go to the website of the college I graduated from and look up the contact information of other alumni who have registered there. Some universities, like Harvard, offer lifetime e-mail addresses, etc. for alumni. There's a whole post.harvard.edu domain just for alumni there. Even my high school keeps track of alumni and has mailing lists, etc. available. I've never gotten spammed by classmates.com and I wouldn't bother visiting if I did. I'll just go straight to my schools websites.
Even if there's an option to disable this, the fact that it seems to be enabled by default is enough for me. D-Link from this point on will never be on my list of vendors when looking for networking gear.
When I graduated from college many moons ago the industry wasn't hiring. I sent out resumes to over 150 companies all across the country over a period of six months, and from that got a grand total of 5 interviews and one job offer. Needless to say I took the offer. It was doing telephone tech support, but for a small company with corporate clients so I wasn't dealing with joe idiot off the street. Like you, it paid the bills but not much more. During whatever spare time I had I would create demos out of our software (it was basically a high level graphical programming language), and even started looking through the source code of the product to understand how it worked. After having done that for a while I was even able to locate the potential causes of bugs in the code that customers were calling us to complain about. By demonstrating to our software development team that I could read & write code, and do code-level troubleshooting, I eventually attracted the attention of one of the senior software engineers. He would occasionally explain to me some of the more complex parts of the code and point me in the direction to look for potential bugs that I was trying to identify. Eventually he was the one who recommended me for a new entry-level software development position that opened up which I jumped at. It took me about 18-24 months to get to that point but eventually I did and it really paid off.
... a construction worker hanging on to the right side of that tank? The resolutions a little too small to tell for sure, but it sure looks to me like some guy wearing one of those orange vests & a hard hat to me.
Hope he doesn't throw off the balance of that thing. It'd suck to cause it to roll off the truck. (Kidding!)
According to the screenlessphone website it's a fairly standard GSM phone. If you already have GSM service just pop your SIM into this phone and it should work. There's a lot more information in the FAQ on their website.
And here's an article from the American Foundation for the Blind. It's from 2004 but it mentions the above phone as well as two others: http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050406
http://www.screenlessphone.com/
The argument that Willis makes about MS wanting to lure F/OSS developers back is quite accurate. I just wonder how much MS's past behaviors will hurt them in this endeavor. Many people, especially those closely aligned with projects like Apache, Open Office, etc. are well aware of MS's historic practice of "embrase, extend, extinguish" so they're likely to be very cautious about any olive branches that they offer. I wonder if this well documented behavior of MS's is likely to doom such tactics to failure in the long run. As the next generation of programmers gets their feet wet they'll likely read & hear about all the trouble MS has caused, and see growing number of F/OSS projects. My guess is that many of them will likely deduce for themselves that sticking with F/OSS as much as possible is the preferred track to go and that they shouldn't trust MS themselves like those before them. Perhaps some folks within MS have also realized this and that's why they're starting to "cozy up" to F/OSS. They likely realize they've got a LONG way to go to start winning the real hard-core F/OSS folks back to supporting Windows.
That would be false. The constitution specifically defines where and under what circumstances the state can impinge on the rights of citizens and residents
Um. Go read my post a bit more carefully. I clearly stated that the US Constitution doesn't restrict an individuals rights. I never said that it doesn't restrict governmental rights. In fact I stated that's exactly one of its purposes.
Everything else not defined by the constitution is a right reserved to the people, ergo driving is a right.
Don't make me laugh. As I said before, the US Constitution mentions NOTHING about drinking/smoking ages, bank robbery, forgery, murder, etc. By your twisted logic, the fact that these things aren't mentioned means they're rights afforded to every citizen in the US.
Give it up. It's obvious you have no idea what you're talking about. I won't be wasting any more time on you.