Sheesh, I would have been surprised if the NSA wasn't doing this.
Maybe this is how the DOJ will settle with Microsoft. Put this little password into your server software and we'll forget we saw any anti-trust violations.
And, you were expecting what? Microsoft to have milk and cookies at LinuxExpo??
Get real, people. Anything on MSNBC about Microsoft reads like a press release.
Besides, these polls are absolutely worthless. It was routine on Mac sites and in Mac mailing lists that somebody would post about a Mac poll and encourage everybody to vote. Same think with Linux polls.
Polls are worthless (except Slashdot polls, they're completely accurate and unbiased)
Don't get me wrong, this is very cool tech, and I'm glad it leaked into our hands... this tech has it's place, but it is NOT a drop-in replacement for DVD discs...
The quality is just not there.
You're right, it isn't a replacement for DVD. It wasn't meant to be. Just like MP3 isn't meant to be a replacement for CDs. It's a great way to compress the file down to be easily transferrable across the internet.
Compressing an 8GB file to 700MB will be lossy, and there's not much you can do about it. However, I'm willing to trade some picture quality for portability. I can burn several CDs with movies and watch them on the road on my DVD-less PC.
Besides, I'm spending $40 a month for this cable modem. At least I'll never have to rent another video.
The NSA certainly doesn't have the manpower to go through every communication that Echelon picks up. That doesn't stop them from storing everything.
Building a massive database to store the info into wouldn't be that difficult. They don't even need to track individuals, they can just search for trends through the entire data.
The government can pretty much do anything it wishes, and if we don't know that they're doing it, who's gonna stop them. What if the FBI had been able to keep the lid on Carnivore? Do you think they would have volunteered the information? NO! The government will only make information public when they are caught. The thing that scares me is, what don't we know about?
Not that the IRS gets copies of peoples' Amex bills to begin with.
Who's to say that they don't? They already know how much we make, our social security numbers, the names and ages of our spouses and children, our home address, etc, etc, etc. Why wouldn't they get our credit card records?
Yep, that's the book that convinced me that being a sysadmin was for me.
Some of you all went to college for a few years before dropping out. I never even started. I went directly from high school to working for a friend's consulting firm.
Not having a degree has NEVER been a hinderance to me. Going through four years of school would have basically put me four years behind where I am now, and given me a piece of paper. Having a CS degree is the equivalent of having a BS in Business. Grads are a dime a dozen. I routinely win jobs over college grads, cause I spent that four years actually learning my field, not the complete waste of time classes that the university makes you take to be a well rounded individual.
The one thing in this industry that is prized more than a degree is knowledge. I've got my MCSE certification, and I'm working toward my Cisco CCIE. I've seen people with no degrees, but with a CCIE get offered six figures, even with no real CCIE job experience. Ever seen a grad from a four year school get offered that much right out of graduation? OK, it does happen, but it's RARE!
A degree is nothing more than a sign that you can read books and memorize stuff. A CCIE is the tech equivalent of defending your doctoral thesis. It's frigging tough! But, if you have the CCIE, that's your sign that you know what the hell you are doing!
College is not a guaranteed path to financial security. My dad has two bachelors degrees, and I make twice what he did when he retired. My wife has a Masters degree, and I make twice what she does. She hates her job and her field. I absolutely love my job (not necessarily where my job is, but I love what I do here). I play on computers at work, then I go home and play on them there.
A note to all teenagers. Quit school and move out on your own. Odds are, you really do know more than your teachers do.
I have ADD, not ADHD. I'm about as immobile as any computer user, but my mind is constantly going at 100mph.
Thank God I wasn't diagnosed until I was 26. If my parents knew I had ADD when I was, say, 12, then I'd be the spokesman for the Ritalin Council.
I'm currently taking Wellbutrin SR and it's working wonders.
I don't have a problem concentrating. My problem is that I can only concentrate on one thing at a time. As soon as I move to a new subject, everything I was doing before gets saved to disk, and the cache buffers get cleared.
And, for God sake, don't talk to me when I'm in the middle of something and expect me to remember it in 1 minute. Ain't gonna happen.
They already have a federally enforced monopoly on first class mail delivery.
What's to stop the government from forcing us to drop our other e-mail accounts and use their government-provided account. They certainly aren't doing this out of the kindness of their heart. No government does something without expecting something in return (unless it's welfare checks).
And when the FBI puts a Carnivore unit next to the mail server your account is on, who's gonna stop them?
During your travels for your tv shows, books and columnist writings, you've had the opportunity to meet quite a number of people that created the industry. Out of everybody that you have had the opportunity to meet, who had the biggest effect on you?
They have appologized for the incident, and changed their company policy to prevent this from happening again. If that's not taking responsibility, then what is? Please, I'm not being facetious here: what exactly would you have wanted them to do?
My concern is that they're only changing their policy not because it's the right thing to do, but because they got caught and don't want the bad PR. The whole interview was nVidia blaming the outside contractor, when they should have known what the contractor was telling web sites that review it's products. This isn't just any outside contractor, they were the company's PR department. This is the group of people that need to be on the same page with the company.
Until they show concrete proof that their policy has changed, and that they're trying to remedy previous mistakes, I'll still view any thing from that company with suspicion.
I may be a pessimist, but they didn't apologize until they were presented with hard evidence of the events in question. That shows a lack of willingness to fix possible wrongs.
The whole interview feels like Clinton's non-apology speech. I'm not admitting what I did, but I'm sorry that I got caught.
Blaming outside contractors is a cheesy excuse. When you hire contractors to represent your company, then you need to verify everything that they say is in line with your company. And you need to stand behind, or directly take responsibility, for the actions of that contractor.
They at least admit that it was wrong, but they didn't exactly take responsibility. One step forward, one step back, and we're still where we started.
That's 100% of the increase. What about all of the previous taxes?? Here in Ohio, the tobacco tax just about pays for everything BUT healthcare. If they tax it so much that tobacco use falls to almost nothing, so will their tax revenue. Do you honestly think that they'll stop collecting the tax? Hell no, they'll just find some other social evil to tax.
California, years ago, tried to impose a snack tax. However, the tax was so vaguelly worded, that nobody, not even the state, knew what was taxed and what wasn't. The tax was eventually dropped. And they raised taxes on cigarettes to cover the lost revenue.
If the government gets used to spending at a certain level, and that level drops, they don't lower their spending. They just find new things to tax to bring the level back up, or even higher. PA promised that when the PA Turnpike was paid for, that the turnpike tolls would be dropped and the turnpike would be free. Well, the turnpike was paid for years ago, and they just raised the turnpike rates a few years ago. Sure, I trust the government with my money! Everytime we hear about a tax cut going through Congress, a lot of congressmen can be expected to complain about how we're going to "pay" for the tax cut. Pay for the tax cut?? Why not stop spending so much damn money? Do we really need the National Endowment for the Arts?? And the Energy Department has really proven that they have earned their keep. The government shut down several years ago for a few weeks. Did anybody really notice?? Didn't think so.
There are other ways to discourage tobacco use. Make it harder to purchase cigarettes. Have state-owned stores be the only ones allowed to sell cigarettes (just like liquor stores in PA). Ban the damn things outright. This pussy-footing around is just convincing me that they don't give a damn about "the children!" They just make a few feeble gestures to convince people that they "care".
However, convince people of that, especially in this age of multi-gazillion dollar lawsuits against tobacco companies, gun manufacturers, and any other company that people feel wronged by.
Oh, I'm fat. I think I'll sue McDonalds and Taco Bell because it's their burgers and tacos that made me fat!
Oh, somebody drove a Cadillac through a schoolyard full of disabled children. That Cadillac should have known that it wasn't supposed to smear little Cindy across the asphalt. Let's sue GM!
Bad things happen, and people need a scapegoat, a company to blame, and to get billions of dollars from. There is no such thing as personnel responsibility anymore. We have been trained to let others think for us for decades. Now that we can't think for ourselves, others are obviously to blame. So, let's sue them!
If you want to sue an organization that profits the most from the evils of society, SUE THE GOVERNMENT! Over half of the cost of cigarettes is local, state, and federal taxes. The US Government makes more money off of a pack of cigarettes than the cigarette company does. Without any more effort than passing a law. And then the government has the absolute gaul to sue the companies for even more money!
All the things that are going to hell in this country and we are worrying about whether Lars Ulrich is getting his two bits for the crap albums he's been turning out the past few years! (let's face it, everything since Master has blown chunks!) The Chinese own the president and our nukes, the UN is trying to create a world court that will overrule all of our constitutional rights, and we're pissed about this crap??
Phillip Morris didn't kill your mom, your mom killed herself! Colt and Ruger didn't shoot up your neighborhood, some punks that have been raised with no sense of responsibility killed your kids! Napster isn't ripping off "starving" musicians, it's the users that choose to download those files!
Stop trying to blame big "sue-able cause they've got money" companies, and start looking at the real causes. This country is really starting to piss me off!
Now, don't start with the "well, why don't you just move, you commie!". I love America! This is still the greatest country on Earth. But we can be so much better! What we have now is now what the founding fathers envisioned!
Bruce Campbell would have been completely awesome in X-Files. And you know he'd be nailing Scully within 15 minutes of the first episode. Another half hour, he'd kick the crap out of the cigarette-smoking guy, done a cool Three Stooges bit with the Lone Gunmen, nailed the alien babe, and still have his hand on Scully's ass!
OK, it's a bit farfetched. But it would be better than the sexual tension between Mulder and Scully. Fox was a wuss!
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Maybe this is how the DOJ will settle with Microsoft. Put this little password into your server software and we'll forget we saw any anti-trust violations.
Don't call it paranoia, call it realism!
And where does Hank get his pants! That's what America wants to know!
And, you were expecting what? Microsoft to have milk and cookies at LinuxExpo??
Get real, people. Anything on MSNBC about Microsoft reads like a press release.
Besides, these polls are absolutely worthless. It was routine on Mac sites and in Mac mailing lists that somebody would post about a Mac poll and encourage everybody to vote. Same think with Linux polls.
Polls are worthless (except Slashdot polls, they're completely accurate and unbiased)
The quality is just not there.
You're right, it isn't a replacement for DVD. It wasn't meant to be. Just like MP3 isn't meant to be a replacement for CDs. It's a great way to compress the file down to be easily transferrable across the internet.
Compressing an 8GB file to 700MB will be lossy, and there's not much you can do about it. However, I'm willing to trade some picture quality for portability. I can burn several CDs with movies and watch them on the road on my DVD-less PC.
Besides, I'm spending $40 a month for this cable modem. At least I'll never have to rent another video.
I've been connecting my Dell laptop to my tv with excellent results.
;-) viewers available for the Mac.
And, yes, there are DivX
Technically the DivX;-) codec is merely the Microsoft Mpeg4 codec hacked to allow saving and viewing .avi files.
The video portion of the codec is Mpeg4, the audio is Mp3. I'm not sure if the original Microsoft codec used MP3, but it is used in DivX;-)
Patent issues, sure. It's a hacked MS product. But, like DeCSS, it's use is so widespread that it'll be impossible to stop.
Building a massive database to store the info into wouldn't be that difficult. They don't even need to track individuals, they can just search for trends through the entire data.
The government can pretty much do anything it wishes, and if we don't know that they're doing it, who's gonna stop them. What if the FBI had been able to keep the lid on Carnivore? Do you think they would have volunteered the information? NO! The government will only make information public when they are caught. The thing that scares me is, what don't we know about?
Who's to say that they don't? They already know how much we make, our social security numbers, the names and ages of our spouses and children, our home address, etc, etc, etc. Why wouldn't they get our credit card records?
Damn, I'm starting to scare myself!
Some of you all went to college for a few years before dropping out. I never even started. I went directly from high school to working for a friend's consulting firm.
Not having a degree has NEVER been a hinderance to me. Going through four years of school would have basically put me four years behind where I am now, and given me a piece of paper. Having a CS degree is the equivalent of having a BS in Business. Grads are a dime a dozen. I routinely win jobs over college grads, cause I spent that four years actually learning my field, not the complete waste of time classes that the university makes you take to be a well rounded individual.
The one thing in this industry that is prized more than a degree is knowledge. I've got my MCSE certification, and I'm working toward my Cisco CCIE. I've seen people with no degrees, but with a CCIE get offered six figures, even with no real CCIE job experience. Ever seen a grad from a four year school get offered that much right out of graduation? OK, it does happen, but it's RARE!
A degree is nothing more than a sign that you can read books and memorize stuff. A CCIE is the tech equivalent of defending your doctoral thesis. It's frigging tough! But, if you have the CCIE, that's your sign that you know what the hell you are doing!
College is not a guaranteed path to financial security. My dad has two bachelors degrees, and I make twice what he did when he retired. My wife has a Masters degree, and I make twice what she does. She hates her job and her field. I absolutely love my job (not necessarily where my job is, but I love what I do here). I play on computers at work, then I go home and play on them there.
A note to all teenagers. Quit school and move out on your own. Odds are, you really do know more than your teachers do.
I have ADD, not ADHD. I'm about as immobile as any computer user, but my mind is constantly going at 100mph.
Thank God I wasn't diagnosed until I was 26. If my parents knew I had ADD when I was, say, 12, then I'd be the spokesman for the Ritalin Council.
I'm currently taking Wellbutrin SR and it's working wonders.
I don't have a problem concentrating. My problem is that I can only concentrate on one thing at a time. As soon as I move to a new subject, everything I was doing before gets saved to disk, and the cache buffers get cleared.
And, for God sake, don't talk to me when I'm in the middle of something and expect me to remember it in 1 minute. Ain't gonna happen.
Thank God for Palm Pilots!!
What's to stop the government from forcing us to drop our other e-mail accounts and use their government-provided account. They certainly aren't doing this out of the kindness of their heart. No government does something without expecting something in return (unless it's welfare checks).
And when the FBI puts a Carnivore unit next to the mail server your account is on, who's gonna stop them?
And you know they'll do something stupid like make our home address our e-mail address.
"Yeah, send it to my private e-mail account at 1242main.cleveland.oh@usps.gov"
Wow, first post and on topic. This deserves a medal or something.
Bring Out Your Dead!
I'm not dead yet.
My concern is that they're only changing their policy not because it's the right thing to do, but because they got caught and don't want the bad PR. The whole interview was nVidia blaming the outside contractor, when they should have known what the contractor was telling web sites that review it's products. This isn't just any outside contractor, they were the company's PR department. This is the group of people that need to be on the same page with the company.
Until they show concrete proof that their policy has changed, and that they're trying to remedy previous mistakes, I'll still view any thing from that company with suspicion.
I may be a pessimist, but they didn't apologize until they were presented with hard evidence of the events in question. That shows a lack of willingness to fix possible wrongs.
Blaming outside contractors is a cheesy excuse. When you hire contractors to represent your company, then you need to verify everything that they say is in line with your company. And you need to stand behind, or directly take responsibility, for the actions of that contractor.
They at least admit that it was wrong, but they didn't exactly take responsibility. One step forward, one step back, and we're still where we started.
California, years ago, tried to impose a snack tax. However, the tax was so vaguelly worded, that nobody, not even the state, knew what was taxed and what wasn't. The tax was eventually dropped. And they raised taxes on cigarettes to cover the lost revenue.
If the government gets used to spending at a certain level, and that level drops, they don't lower their spending. They just find new things to tax to bring the level back up, or even higher. PA promised that when the PA Turnpike was paid for, that the turnpike tolls would be dropped and the turnpike would be free. Well, the turnpike was paid for years ago, and they just raised the turnpike rates a few years ago. Sure, I trust the government with my money! Everytime we hear about a tax cut going through Congress, a lot of congressmen can be expected to complain about how we're going to "pay" for the tax cut. Pay for the tax cut?? Why not stop spending so much damn money? Do we really need the National Endowment for the Arts?? And the Energy Department has really proven that they have earned their keep. The government shut down several years ago for a few weeks. Did anybody really notice?? Didn't think so.
There are other ways to discourage tobacco use. Make it harder to purchase cigarettes. Have state-owned stores be the only ones allowed to sell cigarettes (just like liquor stores in PA). Ban the damn things outright. This pussy-footing around is just convincing me that they don't give a damn about "the children!" They just make a few feeble gestures to convince people that they "care".
Yeah, I'm a pessimist!
Oh, I'm fat. I think I'll sue McDonalds and Taco Bell because it's their burgers and tacos that made me fat!
Oh, somebody drove a Cadillac through a schoolyard full of disabled children. That Cadillac should have known that it wasn't supposed to smear little Cindy across the asphalt. Let's sue GM!
Bad things happen, and people need a scapegoat, a company to blame, and to get billions of dollars from. There is no such thing as personnel responsibility anymore. We have been trained to let others think for us for decades. Now that we can't think for ourselves, others are obviously to blame. So, let's sue them!
If you want to sue an organization that profits the most from the evils of society, SUE THE GOVERNMENT! Over half of the cost of cigarettes is local, state, and federal taxes. The US Government makes more money off of a pack of cigarettes than the cigarette company does. Without any more effort than passing a law. And then the government has the absolute gaul to sue the companies for even more money!
All the things that are going to hell in this country and we are worrying about whether Lars Ulrich is getting his two bits for the crap albums he's been turning out the past few years! (let's face it, everything since Master has blown chunks!) The Chinese own the president and our nukes, the UN is trying to create a world court that will overrule all of our constitutional rights, and we're pissed about this crap??
Phillip Morris didn't kill your mom, your mom killed herself! Colt and Ruger didn't shoot up your neighborhood, some punks that have been raised with no sense of responsibility killed your kids! Napster isn't ripping off "starving" musicians, it's the users that choose to download those files!
Stop trying to blame big "sue-able cause they've got money" companies, and start looking at the real causes. This country is really starting to piss me off!
Now, don't start with the "well, why don't you just move, you commie!". I love America! This is still the greatest country on Earth. But we can be so much better! What we have now is now what the founding fathers envisioned!
I'll get off my soapbox now.
Igor, fetch me a Mt. Dew!
You're with Big Idea, home of Veggie Tales?? Man, my kids would kill for me to work there.
Man didn't have the right forms.
What man?
The man at the Chevy dealership.
The loony dealership, you mean!
Must..... resist...... urge...... to...... quote..... python!!
Now I don't feel so pathetic^H^H^H^H alone.
OK, it's a bit farfetched. But it would be better than the sexual tension between Mulder and Scully. Fox was a wuss!
Now I don't feel so bad. I thought I was the only one to remember that word for word.