This virus was written by someone in the "intellectual property" industry: SCO, RIAA, MPAA, MS, etc. - in an attempt to discredit p2p, linux, and other things that stand for freedom.
If you're interviewing somewhere, and you -know- they're interviewing a lot of other people, do something excentric or different that you know will draw attention to you.
I had a prof tell a story of a woman that was amongst a group of several hundred applicants who were interviewing. On her way into the inverview room in front of the interviewers, she skipped - like a school girl, not like a broken record.:) That made a note in the mind of the interviewers. She got the job.
So do something off-base. Wear a fun tie. Have a quirky laugh, and/or do something that will draw attention without disqualifying yourself, to let them know that you're interested in the job enough to think creatively about what might get you hired. A good employer will notice this and consider you more highly.
Now just don't let me see any of you sons-of-bitches in line with me, waiting for an interview.:)
I wonder how such a thing will interfere with existing 802.11 installations; I can't imagine all the traffic generated by Windows machines and their lovely network-abusing protocols (NetBIOS and the like). What happens when the signals from this network overlap with the 802.ll networks (which i'm sure would happen)? is.05Ghz enough signal variance to not cause problems?
A couple comments: You need to earn how to read, first; dictionaries are a wonderful resource in finding the meaning of words. This can aid you in not sounding like an illiterate bafoon.
For instance: Chivalry \Chiv"al*ry\, n. The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
Bill G is being knighted. So chivalry has every bit of importance in relation to the situation at hand.
Nobility has two predominant meanings: being of elevated rank, and of being noble character.
It's kind of hard to be honorable, worthy, dignified, or exalted with the business practices that he has undertaken: stealing technology, unjustly crushing competitors with marketing might, and the like. How can you possibly consider such characteristics as moral? Are you that degernate that moral relativity is so absolute in your worldview?
What, praytell, is 'immoral' to you? Having an independent mind? Not obeying the authorities? What?
Are you not familiar with the phrase, "Rich people aren't crazy, they're excentric"? Same applies for nearly everything when it comes to rich folks.
Michael Jackson, a child molester? No, not when he can buy everyone off.
OJ Simpson, a murderer? No way, he's a famous sports star - he'd never do that.
Oh, and by the way. I don't even want to be compared with someone of the (lack of) quality that is Bill Gates. He's a weasel. He's got no moral gumption about him, and has no principle of right and wrong - look at what he's done to a) the software industry, and b) the US economy in general: he's got them both in a stranglehold of monopoly. An honest, moral person would not say, "yes, windows xxxx is going to be the best version yet, blada blada" when he knows it's going to have just as many problems as the previous version - and might even be worse.
Nobility has nothing to do with wealth. Nobility is a sense of honor and pride that is founded on just actions and the repute to stand for those who can not stand up for themselves. Bill Gates has given a paltry amount of money to various charities - which has benefited him more than it's hurt him, through PR and tax write offs/deductions . It's a marketing investment, nothing more.
There are two kinds of skills which employers look for: knowledge and (inductive || deductive) logic.
Knowledge is nice, and that's what the certs prove that you have. However, knowledge is useless - as the failed dotcom industry proves. Certified folks without logic are just apes with a pedigree.
Logic is just like any other skill: it can be learned, contrary to popular belief. People can learn how to deduce and think. If such a thing were not leranable, then there would be no means to become logical, for anyone, since it is not something that is genetically inherrited.
College is supposed to be a vehicle through which reasoning/logic is instilled into the minds of students; however, this isn't often the case nowadays, since most colleges/universities are borderline worthless. From what I recall of Mensa, joining up there might be a good idea - IIRC, they're mainly just a group of people that are able to solve problems.
For those that don't know what logic is (and there are a lot of you, rest assured), it is essentially the ability to problem solve. Being mathematically inclined does not mean you are logical, as maths only use a subset of the logic required to solve problems. (This illustrates the value of things like 'word problems' in elementary/secondary school math books.) Problem solving involves looking at the boarder picture of things. Inductive reasoning is drawing a general conclusion from the facts available (aka, most term papers), while deductive reasoning is more pointed, and is done by drawing on general principles to reach a conclusion that is (not necessarily) true.
He'll be innocient, even if he's convicted. Showing a video to someone is, last I checked, not even a violation of the rediculous DMCA or Patriot Act. Last I checked, the most he could be guilty of is a private contract, in which there would be a civil suit.
From the sounds of it, not even such a contract is involved: the Academy just seems to be some sort of elite social class used to propigate the excessively unbalanced wealth of the few Americans that are in the film industry.
It seems rediculous to me that, with the billions and billions that are made annually in the film industry, that they would be so incredibly cutthroat over such a trivial matter; they're only making more people aware of the piracy.
Redhat's claims have nothing to do with who owns the property rights to UNIX, and IBM's case is nearly at a close, and doesn't really hinge on whether or not SCO owns UNIX - they've gotten this far, they're surely not going to suspend the case until the Novell/SCO case builds up for a matter of months, etc.
As soon as one case concludes against SCO, SCO is pretty much done for. It doesn't really matter which one, and IBM's is the one that is closest to closure at the moment. Why not let it finish, instead of shutting it down?
I have a professor (who is quite excellent) who usedto work for a large telecommunications company as an executive prior to his retirement. I've spent a large amount of time talking to him, and I think I'm fairly certain I know what he would recommend, or at least something similar to what he himself would have done in such a situation.:) He currently works as a business efficiency expert for contract.
If you're going to say anything at all, don't waste your breath being petty or mentioning minor instances of complaints. Cut right to the thick of the matter, and give him your assessment and the logic behind your assessment. Preferably, have a writeup/short report (one or two pages) to hand him for later peruseal with well-outlined points. Don't mention names, but point him in the right direction so that he doesn't feel like he's bringing the axe down on your recommendations, but on his 'own' decision - which he somehow reached after your carefully worded suggestion.
If there is a sizeable group of people, break the concerns up amongst you. Get together at a bar or somewhere a couple days prior to the dinner, get a list, and then distribute the list amongst willing contributors, so that no one person gets the heat. It would be incredibly stupid for anyone short of the president to try and pull down heat on a group of that size.
If you catch heat from middle management afterwards, guess what? That just means that they're pissed tha the president is making changes based on your apt suggestions. If he revokes priviledges/perks or fires you, write off a little letter to the president letting hiim know what happened. that middle management will likely be looking for a job soon, too. Then see if you can't get the president to be a job reference.:)
The ability to see and try to solve real (as opposed to created)problems is a valueable ability to have, and a very valueable asset for any company; if they ignore that asset, you're best off looking for a job, because truely, your position there isn't secure in the least - the company isn't likely terribly secure, if they punish real problem solving.
Yes, we're all going to love this advertising. Every last netizen. That's why so many of us watch a limitted amount of TV (if any)! That's why tivos are so popular! Because everyone loves watching commercials, and supplimenting the value/entertainment of their browsing/TV watching time with senseless commercial fluff!
There is a single chemical that is largely responsible for dreams. The more the chemical, the more likely you are to remember the dream, all the way up to and including (and past?) lucid dreaming.
Being as my dreams are usually bare murmurs in the morning, I'd love to be able to get ahold of some of this chemical in commericial form. Some people naturally have more realistic dreams than others - if they can do it for the penis, surely they can do something such as replicate single chemical that they're aware of.
Combine this chemical with some such dream-direction techniques and you'd have some pretty amazing dreams. I've had one or two dreams that were incredibly vivid, almost more so than reality, and it would be nice to be able to have such dreams again - but direct them.
While most universities do such things, it's not always the case.
I attend CTU (Colorado Technical University). It's a full-fledged college/university setting, not a trade school or anything like that. This having been my third college I've attended to, it's also a very good one, emphasizing critical thinking, deduction, and other such necessities for an educated mind.
The policy here is quite good. Professors have to get a signed waiver from the student if they want to use your material as an example at a later time. I s'pose that would be a benefit to the way the school is run - they don't need research material or to steal students' ideas, because they're structured to make money. Instead of getting money from alumnus bodies, or from the government, they make the money up front from tuition (which isn't even all that bad). Instead of hiring 'professional' teachers, they hire qualified people from the community that actually know what they're talking about, and that make a living by doing so: people with masters and doctorates in CS, criminology, business, etc. etc.
Less security problems in MS products now is ultimately worse for us. Here's why:
If MS products become good, more people will want to use them, and there will be less interest in linux as an alternative. MS's behavior is constantly reminiscent of an emire, trying to usurp the rights of others for their own good.
So how exactly is the profitability of someone/thing that wants to take my money, my propery, and most importantly, my rights, a good thing for anyone, let alone everyone?
It's not.
Software is now becoming a thing of utility instead of a commodity. Would you like the cell phone service you pay for to come with a stipulation that they can sell any/all of your information, or that they legally own anything you might say on their service, and have them be your only option - while paying 3x what you are currently? That's what it amounts to.
There's a huge, huge difference between a closed product that drops support, and an open product that 'drops support' but a) has source code available, b) has an open community supporting it, c) and still has people still working on the actual components.
Would people complain about MS dropping support for Win98 if they released the source code (and it wasn't so bug ridden that it made win98 completely unuseable) so that others could devel on it? I think not.
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here's a conspiracy theory for you guys:
This virus was written by someone in the "intellectual property" industry: SCO, RIAA, MPAA, MS, etc. - in an attempt to discredit p2p, linux, and other things that stand for freedom.
the only reason they gave him an xbox at all is because it cost them less to give it away than to sell it, after the tax write off.
If you're interviewing somewhere, and you -know- they're interviewing a lot of other people, do something excentric or different that you know will draw attention to you.
:) That made a note in the mind of the interviewers. She got the job.
:)
I had a prof tell a story of a woman that was amongst a group of several hundred applicants who were interviewing. On her way into the inverview room in front of the interviewers, she skipped - like a school girl, not like a broken record.
So do something off-base. Wear a fun tie. Have a quirky laugh, and/or do something that will draw attention without disqualifying yourself, to let them know that you're interested in the job enough to think creatively about what might get you hired. A good employer will notice this and consider you more highly.
Now just don't let me see any of you sons-of-bitches in line with me, waiting for an interview.
I wonder how such a thing will interfere with existing 802.11 installations; I can't imagine all the traffic generated by Windows machines and their lovely network-abusing protocols (NetBIOS and the like). What happens when the signals from this network overlap with the 802.ll networks (which i'm sure would happen)? is .05Ghz enough signal variance to not cause problems?
(I'm asking because I honestly don't know.)
haha fanboy, right. Yes, I'm a fanboy.
A couple comments: You need to earn how to read, first; dictionaries are a wonderful resource in finding the meaning of words. This can aid you in not sounding like an illiterate bafoon.
For instance:
Chivalry \Chiv"al*ry\, n.
The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
Bill G is being knighted. So chivalry has every bit of importance in relation to the situation at hand.
Nobility has two predominant meanings: being of elevated rank, and of being noble character.
Synonyms for 'noble' are: Honorable; worthy; dignified; elevated; exalted; superior; sublime; great; eminent; illustrious;
It's kind of hard to be honorable, worthy, dignified, or exalted with the business practices that he has undertaken: stealing technology, unjustly crushing competitors with marketing might, and the like. How can you possibly consider such characteristics as moral? Are you that degernate that moral relativity is so absolute in your worldview?
What, praytell, is 'immoral' to you? Having an independent mind? Not obeying the authorities? What?
Are you not familiar with the phrase, "Rich people aren't crazy, they're excentric"? Same applies for nearly everything when it comes to rich folks.
Michael Jackson, a child molester? No, not when he can buy everyone off.
OJ Simpson, a murderer? No way, he's a famous sports star - he'd never do that.
Oh, and by the way. I don't even want to be compared with someone of the (lack of) quality that is Bill Gates. He's a weasel. He's got no moral gumption about him, and has no principle of right and wrong - look at what he's done to a) the software industry, and b) the US economy in general: he's got them both in a stranglehold of monopoly. An honest, moral person would not say, "yes, windows xxxx is going to be the best version yet, blada blada" when he knows it's going to have just as many problems as the previous version - and might even be worse.
Nobility has nothing to do with wealth. Nobility is a sense of honor and pride that is founded on just actions and the repute to stand for those who can not stand up for themselves. Bill Gates has given a paltry amount of money to various charities - which has benefited him more than it's hurt him, through PR and tax write offs/deductions . It's a marketing investment, nothing more.
There are two kinds of skills which employers look for: knowledge and (inductive || deductive) logic.
Knowledge is nice, and that's what the certs prove that you have. However, knowledge is useless - as the failed dotcom industry proves. Certified folks without logic are just apes with a pedigree.
Logic is just like any other skill: it can be learned, contrary to popular belief. People can learn how to deduce and think. If such a thing were not leranable, then there would be no means to become logical, for anyone, since it is not something that is genetically inherrited.
College is supposed to be a vehicle through which reasoning/logic is instilled into the minds of students; however, this isn't often the case nowadays, since most colleges/universities are borderline worthless. From what I recall of Mensa, joining up there might be a good idea - IIRC, they're mainly just a group of people that are able to solve problems.
For those that don't know what logic is (and there are a lot of you, rest assured), it is essentially the ability to problem solve. Being mathematically inclined does not mean you are logical, as maths only use a subset of the logic required to solve problems. (This illustrates the value of things like 'word problems' in elementary/secondary school math books.) Problem solving involves looking at the boarder picture of things. Inductive reasoning is drawing a general conclusion from the facts available (aka, most term papers), while deductive reasoning is more pointed, and is done by drawing on general principles to reach a conclusion that is (not necessarily) true.
BFD. I've got a beowulf of Mexican Rolex pocket watches in my trunk. Want to see?
He'll be innocient, even if he's convicted. Showing a video to someone is, last I checked, not even a violation of the rediculous DMCA or Patriot Act. Last I checked, the most he could be guilty of is a private contract, in which there would be a civil suit.
From the sounds of it, not even such a contract is involved: the Academy just seems to be some sort of elite social class used to propigate the excessively unbalanced wealth of the few Americans that are in the film industry.
It seems rediculous to me that, with the billions and billions that are made annually in the film industry, that they would be so incredibly cutthroat over such a trivial matter; they're only making more people aware of the piracy.
"... servants in congress..."
Er, so, my congressman even has his own goddamn servant? So that's where the tax dollars are going!
Or were you refering to the antiquated ideal that congressmen are supposed to serve US?
All I can say is, when will one of you employed geeks with tallent make the rest of us a 'parody' film detailing the destruction of SCO, Matrix-style?
"The source..."
"It drives us,"
"It binds us,"
etc. etc. *boom* You get the point. Please?
*thinks for a second*
Yeah, I think it should take no more than 1 (but possibly less).
Their PR engine is about to die due to lack of fuel. That alone will kill them.
One has to wonder what exactly they were thinking to begin with.
Nonsense.
Redhat's claims have nothing to do with who owns the property rights to UNIX, and IBM's case is nearly at a close, and doesn't really hinge on whether or not SCO owns UNIX - they've gotten this far, they're surely not going to suspend the case until the Novell/SCO case builds up for a matter of months, etc.
As soon as one case concludes against SCO, SCO is pretty much done for. It doesn't really matter which one, and IBM's is the one that is closest to closure at the moment. Why not let it finish, instead of shutting it down?
get our bugs in now, if you have them folks!
I have a professor (who is quite excellent) who usedto work for a large telecommunications company as an executive prior to his retirement. I've spent a large amount of time talking to him, and I think I'm fairly certain I know what he would recommend, or at least something similar to what he himself would have done in such a situation. :) He currently works as a business efficiency expert for contract.
:)
If you're going to say anything at all, don't waste your breath being petty or mentioning minor instances of complaints. Cut right to the thick of the matter, and give him your assessment and the logic behind your assessment. Preferably, have a writeup/short report (one or two pages) to hand him for later peruseal with well-outlined points. Don't mention names, but point him in the right direction so that he doesn't feel like he's bringing the axe down on your recommendations, but on his 'own' decision - which he somehow reached after your carefully worded suggestion.
If there is a sizeable group of people, break the concerns up amongst you. Get together at a bar or somewhere a couple days prior to the dinner, get a list, and then distribute the list amongst willing contributors, so that no one person gets the heat. It would be incredibly stupid for anyone short of the president to try and pull down heat on a group of that size.
If you catch heat from middle management afterwards, guess what? That just means that they're pissed tha the president is making changes based on your apt suggestions. If he revokes priviledges/perks or fires you, write off a little letter to the president letting hiim know what happened. that middle management will likely be looking for a job soon, too. Then see if you can't get the president to be a job reference.
The ability to see and try to solve real (as opposed to created)problems is a valueable ability to have, and a very valueable asset for any company; if they ignore that asset, you're best off looking for a job, because truely, your position there isn't secure in the least - the company isn't likely terribly secure, if they punish real problem solving.
Yes, we're all going to love this advertising. Every last netizen. That's why so many of us watch a limitted amount of TV (if any)! That's why tivos are so popular! Because everyone loves watching commercials, and supplimenting the value/entertainment of their browsing/TV watching time with senseless commercial fluff!
Bring it on!
Or not. This'll fly like a fat balerina.
Wow, how stupid.
I can't believe these companies continue to try to squeeze water from rocks.
Next up: scientists discover how to make fine wine in 30 days!
Well, it appears as if the survey folks must've not included geeks in the survey, then.
I guess most geeks are too feminine to be men anyway, so... maybe that has something to do with it.
There is a single chemical that is largely responsible for dreams. The more the chemical, the more likely you are to remember the dream, all the way up to and including (and past?) lucid dreaming.
Being as my dreams are usually bare murmurs in the morning, I'd love to be able to get ahold of some of this chemical in commericial form. Some people naturally have more realistic dreams than others - if they can do it for the penis, surely they can do something such as replicate single chemical that they're aware of.
Combine this chemical with some such dream-direction techniques and you'd have some pretty amazing dreams. I've had one or two dreams that were incredibly vivid, almost more so than reality, and it would be nice to be able to have such dreams again - but direct them.
While most universities do such things, it's not always the case.
I attend CTU (Colorado Technical University). It's a full-fledged college/university setting, not a trade school or anything like that. This having been my third college I've attended to, it's also a very good one, emphasizing critical thinking, deduction, and other such necessities for an educated mind.
The policy here is quite good. Professors have to get a signed waiver from the student if they want to use your material as an example at a later time. I s'pose that would be a benefit to the way the school is run - they don't need research material or to steal students' ideas, because they're structured to make money. Instead of getting money from alumnus bodies, or from the government, they make the money up front from tuition (which isn't even all that bad). Instead of hiring 'professional' teachers, they hire qualified people from the community that actually know what they're talking about, and that make a living by doing so: people with masters and doctorates in CS, criminology, business, etc. etc.
I'm quite satisfied with this approach.
I wonder if their original plan was to extend Win98 support anway, for "positive PR".
Seems that MS is trying to undertake PR in a very SCO-like fashion lately.
That's nonsense.
Less security problems in MS products now is ultimately worse for us. Here's why:
If MS products become good, more people will want to use them, and there will be less interest in linux as an alternative. MS's behavior is constantly reminiscent of an emire, trying to usurp the rights of others for their own good.
So how exactly is the profitability of someone/thing that wants to take my money, my propery, and most importantly, my rights, a good thing for anyone, let alone everyone?
It's not.
Software is now becoming a thing of utility instead of a commodity. Would you like the cell phone service you pay for to come with a stipulation that they can sell any/all of your information, or that they legally own anything you might say on their service, and have them be your only option - while paying 3x what you are currently? That's what it amounts to.
Legalese, motherfucker, can you speak it?
Troll, I know, but...
There's a huge, huge difference between a closed product that drops support, and an open product that 'drops support' but a) has source code available, b) has an open community supporting it, c) and still has people still working on the actual components.
Would people complain about MS dropping support for Win98 if they released the source code (and it wasn't so bug ridden that it made win98 completely unuseable) so that others could devel on it? I think not.
Here's hope that this is yet another step towards the death of RPMs.
They were cool in 1998; time for something a little bit more modern (Debian or Gentoo's approaches would be fine.)