I've largely e-mailed my Congress-critters, and found them to be as responsive as I would have expected from a letter. I may have done better than some, due to the fact that I am from the Northern Virginia suburbs, an especially "tech savvy" area. The Congress-critters know this, and try to be responsive.
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When will Mars, the maker of Skittles, attack this with a "cease and desist". They are VERY touchy about their image, and won't like the "unwholesome" elements of this.
>> Radiologists are already getting hosed. It used to be that going into radiology was a license to print money. Now they just send a TIFF of your guts to India and get diagnoses emailed back from ten different guys.
The Radiologists need to get together with their Lawyers. It's "Practicing Medicine w/o a License", which is illegal in most states!
Maybe we will. We could do what Pat Buchanan advocates, and pull out EVERYWHERE (Middle East, Europe, Korea, etc.). Then when you ask the USA to intervene someplace (as you did in Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, etc.) we'll tell you to "go to hell".
A big issue not well addressed in all this is the role of foreign E-Commerce sites and portals. Will they need to collect US sales taxes on sales to US addresses? If so, how can it be enforced? Could we expect the rise of foreign E-Commerce sites targeting US residents, as has happened with gambling sites, and pharmaceuticals?
1. Some of the legislation being discussed would exempt small E-Commerce sites. There may be a grey area though, about sites like ebay/half, yahoo shops, amazon z-shops. Would they be counted as large operations, or just as a portal for many small E-Commerce sites?
2. If small E-Commerce sites need to collect taxes, it would probably force many to work under large commerce portals (ebay, yahoo shops, amazon z-shops). This could also be offered as a web service by E-Commerce Software vendors and consultants.
In short, I think that small E-Commerce can adapt to this. It will be a bit of work initially.
If the malware is put in the USA, by American Programmers, you can get the FBI to put them in prison. Overseas, the programmer could have put that malware in at the orders of his government. You have no recourse.
The RIAA knows what its doing here. They hope the publicity will cause every parent in the country to yank file sharing off the family PC, so the kids can't download MP3s.
The French reprocess Nuclear waste for themselves and for Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. This greatly reduces the final waste, and recycles useful material (like remaining Uranium and Plutonium). The French company that does this is "COGEMA". Their website is http://www.cogema.com
Good idea. A policy of "US Software Only" would put an end to the Overseas Software Outsourcing. On the other hand, it might be used against Open Source Software, as it could not be certified "Made in the USA".
Microsoft did make the patch available well before the worm was unleashed. If people would regularly check "Windows Update" (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com), or enable Microsoft's Update download capability, this would NOT be an issue!
The swedes will tend to disagree with your assertion that socialism = communism. Certainly their brand of socialism is not known for the atrocious human rights of both Communism and Nazism. They might concede that Swedish Socialism can be literally "very taxing" and is something of a "Nanny State".
Is how the movie makers push immoral trash on us, such as "American Wedding"!! If Hollywood would put more effort into upholding standards of morality and decency, they might build an environment where people are less likely to engage in illegal filesharing in the first place.
True. But it is also a matter of what's available, or NOT available to the listening public. Radio, still the main medium most use for hearing new music is mostly "crap" (except for the 20-30 minutes of commercials per hour, which is WORSE!). This crap is also in very few formats, which leave many audiences unserved.
>> It's not about whether or not there's a lock to pick, nor how strong it is; it's about the fact that there's about 30 million locks which have to be picked at any one time.
Actually, its about, to quote a Chinese Proverb:
"Killing the Chicken to scare the Monkey!"
It will be about suing and ruining a few people, and the rest of the 30+ million being terrorized enought to get the message and off the P2P networks!
Considering this discussion, these books are worth reviewing.
In Yourdon's view, the response of American Programmers should be to develop better quality through better Software Engineering. As some of the Indian Software Houses are trying that approach, we need to respond.
McConnell would add the point that Software needs to become more of a real Engineering Discipline, complete with professional licensing.
In "Bad Software", Kaner advocates for better quality software and "software consumer rights". Some of these points can go into a "Software Building Code", something we also need to add in making IT more professiobal.
I agree. It sounds like the database may have a flawed relational key structure. In such a case, certain data entry errors for a parent record can cause related child records to become "lost". The child records are likely still there, but are not related to the intended parent.
More broadly, there are likely to be 2 implied issues with this software:
1. If the software is 10 YO, it is likely that it was written with less than full attention to modern relational principles, such as database normalization , application partitioning, etc.
2. It is certain that the database was changed, ported (*), etc. over its 10 year life. It is again certain that the changes were less than optimal. Some probably even introduced errors.
* - If the application is 10YO, it is certain that it was NOT written for NT/SQL Server, as SQL Server is not a 10YO application.
It probably will make sense for the database to be reviewed and rebuilt. In general, applications should be reviewed and re-engineered periodically.
1.A lot of the Midwest college towns/cities, s.a. Ann Arbor Michigan or Columbus Ohio, have been diverse for a long time. When I attended Ohio State, I ran into faculty, students, and businesspeople from virtually all parts of the world.
2. The area, even small cities and towns, have become diverse. When I recently visited Ashland Ohio, a small city, awhile back, I visited the Public Library there. The Lady at the Information desk was Asian. When I grew up there in the early 1960's, there were almost certainly no Asians, and even few Blacks. Things HAVE changed, definitely for the better!
3. Midwest companies have become very globalist in the last decade. They had to, in order to get out of the "rust belt" conditions of the early 1980's.
4. Midwest Farmers have probably become the most outward looking of all. It used to be that the "price of eggs in china" was a term applied to those things considered "irrelevant". Now, midwest farmers will take interest in "the price of eggs in china", especially if they wish to sell egg products or poultry to the chinese!
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The REAL problem is that the Left has found it profitable to make a LOT of hay by screaming "Nuclear"!
I've largely e-mailed my Congress-critters, and found them to be as responsive as I would have expected from a letter. I may have done better than some, due to the fact that I am from the Northern Virginia suburbs, an especially "tech savvy" area. The Congress-critters know this, and try to be responsive.
When will Mars, the maker of Skittles, attack this with a "cease and desist". They are VERY touchy about their image, and won't like the "unwholesome" elements of this.
>> Radiologists are already getting hosed. It used to be that going into radiology was a license to print money. Now they just send a TIFF of your guts to India and get diagnoses emailed back from ten different guys.
The Radiologists need to get together with their Lawyers. It's "Practicing Medicine w/o a License", which is illegal in most states!
Maybe we will. We could do what Pat Buchanan advocates, and pull out EVERYWHERE (Middle East, Europe, Korea, etc.). Then when you ask the USA to intervene someplace (as you did in Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, etc.) we'll tell you to "go to hell".
A big issue not well addressed in all this is the role of foreign E-Commerce sites and portals. Will they need to collect US sales taxes on sales to US addresses? If so, how can it be enforced? Could we expect the rise of foreign E-Commerce sites targeting US residents, as has happened with gambling sites, and pharmaceuticals?
1. Some of the legislation being discussed would exempt small E-Commerce sites. There may be a grey area though, about sites like ebay/half, yahoo shops, amazon z-shops. Would they be counted as large operations, or just as a portal for many small E-Commerce sites?
2. If small E-Commerce sites need to collect taxes, it would probably force many to work under large commerce portals (ebay, yahoo shops, amazon z-shops). This could also be offered as a web service by E-Commerce Software vendors and consultants.
In short, I think that small E-Commerce can adapt to this. It will be a bit of work initially.
If those countries and "innocents" stopped supporting people who send Airliners into OUR skyscrapers, maybe we would stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are 2 open-source IDEs for the .Net Environment of note:
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1. Web Matrix, an ASP.Net oriented IDE. Can be downloaded from:
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix
2. #develop, a more general IDE for C# and VB.Net. Can be downloaded from:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.
Both of these IDEs are only available for Microsoft OSs at this time.
3. A C# plug-in is available for Eclipse. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.improve-technologies.com/alpha/esharp/
It should run on Linux, using Mono.
If the malware is put in the USA, by American Programmers, you can get the FBI to put them in prison. Overseas, the programmer could have put that malware in at the orders of his government. You have no recourse.
You won't appreciate "Rose is Rose" until you get married and have children. Then you'll start to like it.
The RIAA knows what its doing here. They hope the publicity will cause every parent in the country to yank file sharing off the family PC, so the kids can't download MP3s.
The French reprocess Nuclear waste for themselves and for Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. This greatly reduces the final waste, and recycles useful material (like remaining Uranium and Plutonium). The French company that does this is "COGEMA". Their website is http://www.cogema.com
An IT Ph.D can be valuable if you wish to consulat, and / or teach IT.
Good idea. A policy of "US Software Only" would put an end to the Overseas Software Outsourcing. On the other hand, it might be used against Open Source Software, as it could not be certified "Made in the USA".
Microsoft did make the patch available well before the worm was unleashed. If people would regularly check "Windows Update" (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com), or enable Microsoft's Update download capability, this would NOT be an issue!
The swedes will tend to disagree with your assertion that socialism = communism. Certainly their brand of socialism is not known for the atrocious human rights of both Communism and Nazism. They might concede that Swedish Socialism can be literally "very taxing" and is something of a "Nanny State".
Is how the movie makers push immoral trash on us, such as "American Wedding"!! If Hollywood would put more effort into upholding standards of morality and decency, they might build an environment where people are less likely to engage in illegal filesharing in the first place.
True. But it is also a matter of what's available, or NOT available to the listening public. Radio, still the main medium most use for hearing new music is mostly "crap" (except for the 20-30 minutes of commercials per hour, which is WORSE!). This crap is also in very few formats, which leave many audiences unserved.
It is "Killing a Chicken to Scare the Monkey".
>> It's not about whether or not there's a lock to pick, nor how strong it is; it's about the fact that there's about 30 million locks which have to be picked at any one time.
Actually, its about, to quote a Chinese Proverb:
"Killing the Chicken to scare the Monkey!"
It will be about suing and ruining a few people, and the rest of the 30+ million being terrorized enought to get the message and off the P2P networks!
Not to mention, how do you provide security when the enemy is INSIDE the perimeter?
This issue has been around for awhile. I remember reading Yourdon's books on this topic:
Decline And Fall Of The American Programmer
and the sequel:
Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer
To this list, I would add Steve McConnell's:
After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering
and Cem Kaners:
Bad Software: What to Do When Software Fails
Considering this discussion, these books are worth reviewing.
In Yourdon's view, the response of American Programmers should be to develop better quality through better Software Engineering. As some of the Indian Software Houses are trying that approach, we need to respond.
McConnell would add the point that Software needs to become more of a real Engineering Discipline, complete with professional licensing.
In "Bad Software", Kaner advocates for better quality software and "software consumer rights". Some of these points can go into a "Software Building Code", something we also need to add in making IT more professiobal.
I agree. It sounds like the database may have a flawed relational key structure. In such a case, certain data entry errors for a parent record can cause related child records to become "lost". The child records are likely still there, but are not related to the intended parent.
More broadly, there are likely to be 2 implied issues with this software:
1. If the software is 10 YO, it is likely that it was written with less than full attention to modern relational principles, such as database normalization , application partitioning, etc.
2. It is certain that the database was changed, ported (*), etc. over its 10 year life. It is again certain that the changes were less than optimal. Some probably even introduced errors.
* - If the application is 10YO, it is certain that it was NOT written for NT/SQL Server, as SQL Server is not a 10YO application.
It probably will make sense for the database to be reviewed and rebuilt. In general, applications should be reviewed and re-engineered periodically.
I will differ for the following reasons:
1.A lot of the Midwest college towns/cities, s.a. Ann Arbor Michigan or Columbus Ohio, have been diverse for a long time. When I attended Ohio State, I ran into faculty, students, and businesspeople from virtually all parts of the world.
2. The area, even small cities and towns, have become diverse. When I recently visited Ashland Ohio, a small city, awhile back, I visited the Public Library there. The Lady at the Information desk was Asian. When I grew up there in the early 1960's, there were almost certainly no Asians, and even few Blacks. Things HAVE changed, definitely for the better!
3. Midwest companies have become very globalist in the last decade. They had to, in order to get out of the "rust belt" conditions of the early 1980's.
4. Midwest Farmers have probably become the most outward looking of all. It used to be that the "price of eggs in china" was a term applied to those things considered "irrelevant". Now, midwest farmers will take interest in "the price of eggs in china", especially if they wish to sell egg products or poultry to the chinese!