I've read many unbelievable scientific and technical things here that need to be done to accomplish humans living on Mars. However, I feel this is instead a moral issue. Is the plan to trash Earth to the point where human existence is no longer possible and then just pick up and move to Mars? Should we go on pumping pollution into the air and water at overwhelming rates without even trying to fix that? If as a species we can't solve problems such as using solar energy instead of oil as a primary energy resource, then NONE of the things necessary to live on Mars are possible. I think this is another ruse from "paid" scientists to deflect the interests of the populate from cleaning up where we are vs. moving on to other planets.
Minus our intrusions, the Earth is a paradise; we should treat it that way.
1. Obtain an assumed identity (black market) 2. Get a PO Box under the new name 3. Get an unlisted phone under the new name 4. Rent an apartment under new name 5. Apply for every new credit card you can under you old name and run them all up to the max 6. Stop paying your mortgage, credit cards, and insurance 7. Accept foreclosure on your house and move to the apartment, do not leave a forwarding address
In short, the best way to thwart identity theft is to ruin your credit and start a new identity.
And you really think the Bush DOJ is going to stand up to any corporation with significant wealth? Not a chance in hell. Hell, they even turned away from proper punishment for Microsoft, they are surely not going to stand up for alleged "illegal" song downloaders.
If you think sunspot 486 was powerful, wait for the next release, the Pentium!
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Those waveforms are from copyrighted music and are NOT the intellectual property of Mr. Rowan. He posted them right there on his web page and therefore he is potentially liable for a DMCA based lawsuit. Here's comes the RIAA...
The MMM (Microsoft Marketing Machine) does not waste time, money, and resources on something they don't need to market any more. For example, MS Office, they have done any real marketing for it in years because THEY DON'T HAVE TO. It is now monopolized to the point that it markets itself.
The same applies to.NET. They no longer need to market it because it is now the default development platform for a WINDOWS environment. They accomplished their goal of getting everyone to believe that it is Microsofts internal development platform for all their products (whether it is or not is now irrelevant). That's enough for 90% of the bozo^H^H^H^Hmanagers out there to say "We should use.NET. MS uses it internally. No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft." What a pity.
... is to just wait 10-20 years. By then the air will be so brown with the burning coal residue from the the electric plants, nobody will be able to see the windmills anyway.
Or build them now and avoid the impending, unavoidable air pollution problem.
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... in the hiring managers statements is this:
- The salary demands of a younger employee is going to be proportionally less than the salary demands of a more experienced programmer. Therefore younger = lower cost
- The younger programmer will not at first bristle at demands to work unusually long hours to get a job done. The more experienced person will question the need for working longer hours.
For a quality product there is no substitute for experience. Companies now are not looking to produce a quality product, simply a cheaper one.
2. Work 8 hours a day and then leave. If people line up at your door 15 minutes before you're schedule to leave, find something to do away from your office 30 minutes before you leave and go from there.
3. When you get an oncall opportunity, deflect it to the next day. Most situations can wait, regardless of what any body tells you. If they say they are losing productivity because of a down system, they are going from 150% productivity to 140% because of all of the OT everyone is putting in.
There are many comments that say the 10.2.2.2 is not reachable from the open net. Okay, what we need is for someone to buy a Class C IP range, never assign any of those IP addresses to any machine, and then announce to film makers that they can safely use any of those addresses in their movies. That should settle the need for IP's in movies without using private addresses or invalid ones.
They said the exact same thing in their last quarterly filing, only the media did not pick up the story then. For Microsoft, even government filings are a marketing channel.
Space tourism is but one aspect of how this could be privatized. Where is all the money these days? In entertainment. How many movies have been based in space? Many. Does anyone else think the movie industry would pay big bucks to be able to shoot on the space station? I do. For instance, if Armageddon had been shot on the ISS, it might have approached believability. Then again, maybe not:)
If this hospital is like any of the medical instituions I've worked for, then it's not unreasonable to expect that the IT group has been begging for more money to upgrade the infrastructure because they knew this kind of thing could happen. This usually falls on deaf ears at the doctor and senior administration level of the hospital because they see computers and networks as "magic" and don't take any time to understand the kind of reliance that is now placed on those systems. Also, it is very common for doctors to reject any spending on IT because it will bring their 8 figure salaries down to 7 figures and that is totally unacceptable!!! The story did say they are looking at 3$million for future upgrades, but that ONLY happened after this disaster.
That is a great idea. Now all we need to do is to eliminate pointy-haired managers who are breathing down the necks of the people doing the real work to get an incomplete product to QA to meet his unreasonable deadline. Oh, you might want to remove the profit motive too, because that is almost always the reason for the insane deadlines to begin with. Wait, come to think of it, isn't that what open source is all about?
Could open source really affect Microsoft pricing? Here's an excerpt from their 10-Q filing:
Challenges to the Company's Business Model. Since its inception, the Company's business model has been based upon customers agreeing to pay a fee to license software developed and distributed by Microsoft. Under this commercial software development ("CSD") model, software developers bear the costs of converting original ideas into software products through investments in research and development, offsetting these costs with the revenues received from the distribution of their products. The Company believes that the CSD model has had substantial benefits for users of software, allowing them to rely on the expertise of the Company and other software developers that have powerful incentives to develop innovative software that is useful, reliable and compatible with other software and hardware. In recent years, there has been a growing challenge to the CSD model, often referred to as the Open Source movement. Under the Open Source model, software is produced by global "communities" of programmers, and the resulting software and the intellectual property contained therein is licensed to end users at little or no cost. Nonetheless, the popularization of the Open Source movement continues to pose a significant challenge to the Company's business model, including recent efforts by proponents of the Open Source model to convince governments worldwide to mandate the use of Open Source software in their purchase and deployment of software products. To the extent the Open Source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the Company's products may decline, the Company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline.
I disagree about VMS being less secure. In the hands of a novice, ANY system is insecure. VMS is/was one of the most secure operating systems around. That is partially due to the fact that it didn't have a native TCP/IP stack (at least it didn't when I worked with it). How many DECnet hackers are out there, raise your hands. And face it, most security issues now stem from network attacks, not from a file system or process scheduler standpoint. And another thing, compare the authentication mechanism and the options you have with the VMS UAF facility vs. the passwd/shadow files on Unix. VMS wins.
And, no, you can't just fire up CMD and get that "old VMS feeling". Case in point, type help on Windows and compare that to help on VMS. Light years apart buddy!
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I've read many unbelievable scientific and technical things here that need to be done to accomplish humans living on Mars. However, I feel this is instead a moral issue. Is the plan to trash Earth to the point where human existence is no longer possible and then just pick up and move to Mars? Should we go on pumping pollution into the air and water at overwhelming rates without even trying to fix that? If as a species we can't solve problems such as using solar energy instead of oil as a primary energy resource, then NONE of the things necessary to live on Mars are possible. I think this is another ruse from "paid" scientists to deflect the interests of the populate from cleaning up where we are vs. moving on to other planets.
Minus our intrusions, the Earth is a paradise; we should treat it that way.
Steps to thwart identity theft:
1. Obtain an assumed identity (black market)
2. Get a PO Box under the new name
3. Get an unlisted phone under the new name
4. Rent an apartment under new name
5. Apply for every new credit card you can under you old name and run them all up to the max
6. Stop paying your mortgage, credit cards, and insurance
7. Accept foreclosure on your house and move to the apartment, do not leave a forwarding address
In short, the best way to thwart identity theft is to ruin your credit and start a new identity.
One anagram for Google AOL is "Ogle a logo", which is what we'll all be doing on google now that they will be showing AOL's graphical ads.
And you really think the Bush DOJ is going to stand up to any corporation with significant wealth? Not a chance in hell. Hell, they even turned away from proper punishment for Microsoft, they are surely not going to stand up for alleged "illegal" song downloaders.
If you think sunspot 486 was powerful, wait for the next release, the Pentium!
Those waveforms are from copyrighted music and are NOT the intellectual property of Mr. Rowan. He posted them right there on his web page and therefore he is potentially liable for a DMCA based lawsuit. Here's comes the RIAA...
The MMM (Microsoft Marketing Machine) does not waste time, money, and resources on something they don't need to market any more. For example, MS Office, they have done any real marketing for it in years because THEY DON'T HAVE TO. It is now monopolized to the point that it markets itself.
.NET. They no longer need to market it because it is now the default development platform for a WINDOWS environment. They accomplished their goal of getting everyone to believe that it is Microsofts internal development platform for all their products (whether it is or not is now irrelevant). That's enough for 90% of the bozo^H^H^H^Hmanagers out there to say "We should use .NET. MS uses it internally. No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft." What a pity.
The same applies to
... is to just wait 10-20 years. By then the air will be so brown with the burning coal residue from the the electric plants, nobody will be able to see the windmills anyway.
Or build them now and avoid the impending, unavoidable air pollution problem.
... in the hiring managers statements is this:
- The salary demands of a younger employee is going to be proportionally less than the salary demands of a more experienced programmer. Therefore younger = lower cost
- The younger programmer will not at first bristle at demands to work unusually long hours to get a job done. The more experienced person will question the need for working longer hours.
For a quality product there is no substitute for experience. Companies now are not looking to produce a quality product, simply a cheaper one.
Get everyone in your group to do these things:
1. Look for another job before leaving.
2. Work 8 hours a day and then leave. If people line up at your door 15 minutes before you're schedule to leave, find something to do away from your office 30 minutes before you leave and go from there.
3. When you get an oncall opportunity, deflect it to the next day. Most situations can wait, regardless of what any body tells you. If they say they are losing productivity because of a down system, they are going from 150% productivity to 140% because of all of the OT everyone is putting in.
Why is it so silly? The phone company did it with the 555 prefix.
There are many comments that say the 10.2.2.2 is not reachable from the open net. Okay, what we need is for someone to buy a Class C IP range, never assign any of those IP addresses to any machine, and then announce to film makers that they can safely use any of those addresses in their movies. That should settle the need for IP's in movies without using private addresses or invalid ones.
I complete agree and here's the proof
They said the exact same thing in their last quarterly filing, only the media did not pick up the story then. For Microsoft, even government filings are a marketing channel.
If you do #2 constantly, then it must be a pretty shitty place to work.
(Couldn't resist)
Space tourism is but one aspect of how this could be privatized. Where is all the money these days? In entertainment. How many movies have been based in space? Many. Does anyone else think the movie industry would pay big bucks to be able to shoot on the space station? I do. For instance, if Armageddon had been shot on the ISS, it might have approached believability. Then again, maybe not :)
If this hospital is like any of the medical instituions I've worked for, then it's not unreasonable to expect that the IT group has been begging for more money to upgrade the infrastructure because they knew this kind of thing could happen. This usually falls on deaf ears at the doctor and senior administration level of the hospital because they see computers and networks as "magic" and don't take any time to understand the kind of reliance that is now placed on those systems. Also, it is very common for doctors to reject any spending on IT because it will bring their 8 figure salaries down to 7 figures and that is totally unacceptable!!! The story did say they are looking at 3$million for future upgrades, but that ONLY happened after this disaster.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe there are more than 4 spoken languages by the human race. It could be one not listed, perhaps Dutch?
Has Microsoft actually found a way to end all Denial of Service attacks? Cool.
Yeah, it's called a CD player. Listen to a CD and there will be no invasion of privacy.
Mega-rich-corporation : 1,875,258
Some-guy-at-home : 0
That is a great idea. Now all we need to do is to eliminate pointy-haired managers who are breathing down the necks of the people doing the real work to get an incomplete product to QA to meet his unreasonable deadline. Oh, you might want to remove the profit motive too, because that is almost always the reason for the insane deadlines to begin with. Wait, come to think of it, isn't that what open source is all about?
Could open source really affect Microsoft pricing? Here's an excerpt from their 10-Q filing:
Challenges to the Company's Business Model. Since its inception, the Company's business model has been based upon customers agreeing to pay a fee to license software developed and distributed by Microsoft. Under this commercial software development ("CSD") model, software developers bear the costs of converting original ideas into software products through investments in research and development, offsetting these costs with the revenues received from the distribution of their products. The Company believes that the CSD model has had substantial benefits for users of software, allowing them to rely on the expertise of the Company and other software developers that have powerful incentives to develop innovative software that is useful, reliable and compatible with other software and hardware. In recent years, there has been a growing challenge to the CSD model, often referred to as the Open Source movement. Under the Open Source model, software is produced by global "communities" of programmers, and the resulting software and the intellectual property contained therein is licensed to end users at little or no cost. Nonetheless, the popularization of the Open Source movement continues to pose a significant challenge to the Company's business model, including recent efforts by proponents of the Open Source model to convince governments worldwide to mandate the use of Open Source software in their purchase and deployment of software products. To the extent the Open Source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the Company's products may decline, the Company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline.
The link given, says everything we need to know about how irrelevent operating systems are: No web site is configured at this address.
I disagree about VMS being less secure. In the hands of a novice, ANY system is insecure. VMS is/was one of the most secure operating systems around. That is partially due to the fact that it didn't have a native TCP/IP stack (at least it didn't when I worked with it). How many DECnet hackers are out there, raise your hands. And face it, most security issues now stem from network attacks, not from a file system or process scheduler standpoint. And another thing, compare the authentication mechanism and the options you have with the VMS UAF facility vs. the passwd/shadow files on Unix. VMS wins.
And, no, you can't just fire up CMD and get that "old VMS feeling". Case in point, type help on Windows and compare that to help on VMS. Light years apart buddy!
Those damn users! If it weren't for them, the OS would be infinitely fast. Of course there would be no-one to verify it.