Some people have serious difficulty understanding that a corporation could really honestly consist of one single person who is majority shareholder, the entire board of directors, the president of the corporation and the soul employee of the corporation.
Let's assume you purchase your color laser printer with cash.
Let's assume you take that home and hook it up to your Windows XP Home Edition printer.
Now, that printer is installed and it requests you "Register" the printer. You decline to do so.
During the normal course of use, a little dialog box pops up stating that there is an update to download from your color laser printer manufacturer's website and the printer application will be more then happy to do so.
How does your application know that it needs to be updated? Well, it checked with a central server.
If that application checks with a central server, would it be difficult to imagine that the central server would be able to obtain the following?
IP Address, Printer Serial number, timestamp of communication.
With just the timestamp and the IP Address your PC used to communicate with the central server, you can be easily traced. It's easier if you are on broadband, slightly more difficult if you are on a service like AOL or MSN.
I am not being a tinfoil hat wearer here. I am just pointing out that it is actually easier to track down a user of a particular printer then you believe it to be.
The only way to be more anonymous with such a cash paid color laser printer purchase would be to never connect it to a PC that has Internet Access.
You can keep copies of finished figures at multiple locations, but it's better to keep duplicates of all drawings/prints used to develop the figures, thus making it possible to recreate all the figures, as needed.
Hopefully, you poorly documented some of that application so that when/if they ever need to make changes to it, they will have no choice, but to hunt you down.
Then you can stick it to them by charging them 6 times your previous salary to "fix" the program or make the needed updates to it and while you are there, if that CEO is still there, you can send him an email advising him of the "savings" the cost-cutting of letting you go has done for the company he is running...
What they may end up doing is work up some kind of lab experiment, where the "Scientist" Eddie Brock was attempting to duplicate Spider-Man's powers/abilities, resulting in "nothing" but a pile of "useless" black goo...
Meh, I wish they had just gone with the Reptile and or Electro or Scorpion or Mysterio...
Actually, that wasn't a NASA mistake. I understand that was a private industry mistake between the makers of the rocket and the makers of the satelite that NASA paid them both for...
Then young, up and coming startups can reap the rewards of being able to spend the money where they need to spend it and companies that have no R&D can either pay well more then the R&D costs they would have spent to buy the technology from the little firm or find themselves sinking into obscurity as the newcomer overtakes their position as market leader.
If this happens enough times, perhaps R&D will become a priority once again and possibly spur on a new age of scientific needs in business, thus forcing science into the forefront of learning.
I believe the article was talking about releasing it as an open source or completely free release, hoping to make up money in consulting and support fees.
...cutting costs by eliminating Corporate Jet Expenses, a technology company shouldn't be cutting its R&D Department because some MBA Holding Investment Firm thinks it is overstaffed.
Granted, if the firm discovered that 80% of the R&D staff isn't actually doing anything outside of playing QuakeIII or something, then yeah, they should be cut, a little...
Pretty soon, this generation learning to drive won't be able to get behind the wheel of an older car (read pre-1990). If it does not have ABS...How do i stop?? Whats that? I can't tailgate and wham the brakes at the last second?!?!?!?!
ABS doesn't allow you to tailgate and slam on the breaks at the last second. Perhaps you should look into ABS technology before spouting off about it.
ABS stands for Anti-Lock Breaking System. It is used to keep a driver in control if a situation arises where the wheels locking up will create a terrible danger to the driver and others around the driver. Instead of locking all the wheels, which if the surface is right, put the car into an out of control skid condition, the wheels are grabbed and released by a computer system, allowing the driver to swerve around dangers.
...was named Conners. Doc Conners and he has a research student named Peter that was helping him with the research, since he is missing an Arm from an accident many, many years ago...
The person making that quote obviously hasn't spent anytime on Slashdot, TheForum.com (NSFW!) and many other sites that feature extreme brutality in the form of words all over the Internet.
It doesn't sound like he purchased finely machined parts constructed out of surgical steel and other surgery rated equipment.
With that in mind. I am unsure if I would want to be the first person this is used on and I definately wouldn't want to be the third, fourth fifth or last person this machine is used on...
I have been playing MMORPGs since The Legends of Kesmai, prior to Ultima Online and I haven't been even remotely interested in playing WoW, regardless of what all the Hype-Monsters spit out about that game.
It simply doesn't speak to me.
3.5 Million Subscribers is nothing anyway. There's way more people online at any given moment then 3.5 million and most of them aren't playing WoW. So, the generalization that everyone is playing WoW is just plain incorrect.
Those are some nice jobs, if I was willing to move, I would be all over those. However, I am not interested in moving, since I own two homes in the area, have friends and family in this area and enjoy what I have right now.
If things were different, I would be all over those in a second.
I would take a public sector job as a Linux/Unix admin. For one thing, I would be more or less guaranteed not to lose my job, government jobs are notorious for being extremely solid, especially in critical areas.
Granted, the pay might not be necesarily as high as it would be in the private sector, but the hours would be very steady, allowing for one with the inclination to pursue other avenues of income.
Anyway, if I heard that my local government was looking for a Linux/Unix Admin, I would seriously consider applying for the position.
"It would be just like that one Star Trek Episode where Wesley was doing this experiment with Nanobots that networked together and formed a rudimentary, then more evolved Artificial Intelligence. They like took over Lt. Cmdr. Data and then took over the ship and all they wanted was a chance to have a place of their own, that they could turn into grey ooze."...or...
"It could be just like that one Star Trek Episode where there was this terraforming project going on at this lifeless rock and the Enterprise was sent to investigate some terrible disasters that were happening there. It turns out that there were this mircoscopic silicone based lifeforms living in the sands on this planet and they were like, getting killed by the terraforming process. Anyway, the leader of the terraforming colony knew what was going on, he just didn't want to admit that he was killing little silicone sand creatures. The silicone sand creatures networked together and started being all bad-ass as they increased in capability and inteligent as they joined together, kinda like the Constructicons from The Transformers television series, that was cool, you know? So, anyway, these bacteria might be doing the same thing!"
Anyway, I have to blame Star Trek. While the series has been known to inspire tons of people to do great things, it's pseudo-science has done some harm as people assume that what happens in a Science Fantasy show can happen in real life.
No hatin' to the original poster, btw. I am just saying.
I saw bits and pieces of that movie and just wanted to get into Angelina Jolie's pants. The rest of the movie was just window dressing, bad window dressing at that, but that is all the movie was.
I thought the entire film was nothing more then a commercial to raise awareness of the promise of what lies within Angelina Jolie's pants...
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Oh, don't be so hard on him.
Some people have serious difficulty understanding that a corporation could really honestly consist of one single person who is majority shareholder, the entire board of directors, the president of the corporation and the soul employee of the corporation.
Let's assume you purchase your color laser printer with cash.
Let's assume you take that home and hook it up to your Windows XP Home Edition printer.
Now, that printer is installed and it requests you "Register" the printer. You decline to do so.
During the normal course of use, a little dialog box pops up stating that there is an update to download from your color laser printer manufacturer's website and the printer application will be more then happy to do so.
How does your application know that it needs to be updated? Well, it checked with a central server.
If that application checks with a central server, would it be difficult to imagine that the central server would be able to obtain the following?
IP Address, Printer Serial number, timestamp of communication.
With just the timestamp and the IP Address your PC used to communicate with the central server, you can be easily traced. It's easier if you are on broadband, slightly more difficult if you are on a service like AOL or MSN.
I am not being a tinfoil hat wearer here. I am just pointing out that it is actually easier to track down a user of a particular printer then you believe it to be.
The only way to be more anonymous with such a cash paid color laser printer purchase would be to never connect it to a PC that has Internet Access.
You can keep copies of finished figures at multiple locations, but it's better to keep duplicates of all drawings/prints used to develop the figures, thus making it possible to recreate all the figures, as needed.
That sucks.
Hopefully, you poorly documented some of that application so that when/if they ever need to make changes to it, they will have no choice, but to hunt you down.
Then you can stick it to them by charging them 6 times your previous salary to "fix" the program or make the needed updates to it and while you are there, if that CEO is still there, you can send him an email advising him of the "savings" the cost-cutting of letting you go has done for the company he is running...
Somehow I doubt that they will work it that way.
What they may end up doing is work up some kind of lab experiment, where the "Scientist" Eddie Brock was attempting to duplicate Spider-Man's powers/abilities, resulting in "nothing" but a pile of "useless" black goo...
Meh, I wish they had just gone with the Reptile and or Electro or Scorpion or Mysterio...
Hell, not only that, but in the first movie, there was an actor already cast as Eddie Brock, he was seen momentarily in the Daily Bugle's newsroom...
Actually, that wasn't a NASA mistake. I understand that was a private industry mistake between the makers of the rocket and the makers of the satelite that NASA paid them both for...
Perhaps it would be better if that didn't happen.
Then young, up and coming startups can reap the rewards of being able to spend the money where they need to spend it and companies that have no R&D can either pay well more then the R&D costs they would have spent to buy the technology from the little firm or find themselves sinking into obscurity as the newcomer overtakes their position as market leader.
If this happens enough times, perhaps R&D will become a priority once again and possibly spur on a new age of scientific needs in business, thus forcing science into the forefront of learning.
I believe the article was talking about releasing it as an open source or completely free release, hoping to make up money in consulting and support fees.
Yeah, a few months ago, in a Slashdot linked article, Novell was discussing releasing their Directory Services system on Linux in a very open way.
There was significant talk about how nifty the Novel Directory Services GUI is and other things like that.
I didn't dive deep into the article, but I am looking forward to giving that a go on my servers, once it is fully released for Linux.
Granted, if the firm discovered that 80% of the R&D staff isn't actually doing anything outside of playing QuakeIII or something, then yeah, they should be cut, a little...
Pretty soon, this generation learning to drive won't be able to get behind the wheel of an older car (read pre-1990). If it does not have ABS...How do i stop?? Whats that? I can't tailgate and wham the brakes at the last second?!?!?!?!
ABS doesn't allow you to tailgate and slam on the breaks at the last second. Perhaps you should look into ABS technology before spouting off about it.
ABS stands for Anti-Lock Breaking System. It is used to keep a driver in control if a situation arises where the wheels locking up will create a terrible danger to the driver and others around the driver. Instead of locking all the wheels, which if the surface is right, put the car into an out of control skid condition, the wheels are grabbed and released by a computer system, allowing the driver to swerve around dangers.
I just want to know how this would affect the "Hurricane Rains" those of us in the MidWest recieve from hurricanes that form in the Gulf.
Without those hurricanes, how will we get those rains?
Couldn't this effectively kill big money from being fed into OSS projects? I mean, doesn't IBM already own a shedload of software patents?
Why oh why do they want to cut off their own noses to spite their face?
The person making that quote obviously hasn't spent anytime on Slashdot, TheForum.com (NSFW!) and many other sites that feature extreme brutality in the form of words all over the Internet.
"I'll take Diabetes for 1000 (years) Alex."
To use a little Jeopardy.
It doesn't sound like he purchased finely machined parts constructed out of surgical steel and other surgery rated equipment.
With that in mind. I am unsure if I would want to be the first person this is used on and I definately wouldn't want to be the third, fourth fifth or last person this machine is used on...
Bullshizzle.
I have been playing MMORPGs since The Legends of Kesmai, prior to Ultima Online and I haven't been even remotely interested in playing WoW, regardless of what all the Hype-Monsters spit out about that game.
It simply doesn't speak to me.
3.5 Million Subscribers is nothing anyway. There's way more people online at any given moment then 3.5 million and most of them aren't playing WoW. So, the generalization that everyone is playing WoW is just plain incorrect.
Those are some nice jobs, if I was willing to move, I would be all over those. However, I am not interested in moving, since I own two homes in the area, have friends and family in this area and enjoy what I have right now.
If things were different, I would be all over those in a second.
I would take a public sector job as a Linux/Unix admin. For one thing, I would be more or less guaranteed not to lose my job, government jobs are notorious for being extremely solid, especially in critical areas.
Granted, the pay might not be necesarily as high as it would be in the private sector, but the hours would be very steady, allowing for one with the inclination to pursue other avenues of income.
Anyway, if I heard that my local government was looking for a Linux/Unix Admin, I would seriously consider applying for the position.
Ooops... That's what I done get for typing fast.
"It would be just like that one Star Trek Episode where Wesley was doing this experiment with Nanobots that networked together and formed a rudimentary, then more evolved Artificial Intelligence. They like took over Lt. Cmdr. Data and then took over the ship and all they wanted was a chance to have a place of their own, that they could turn into grey ooze."
"It could be just like that one Star Trek Episode where there was this terraforming project going on at this lifeless rock and the Enterprise was sent to investigate some terrible disasters that were happening there. It turns out that there were this mircoscopic silicone based lifeforms living in the sands on this planet and they were like, getting killed by the terraforming process. Anyway, the leader of the terraforming colony knew what was going on, he just didn't want to admit that he was killing little silicone sand creatures. The silicone sand creatures networked together and started being all bad-ass as they increased in capability and inteligent as they joined together, kinda like the Constructicons from The Transformers television series, that was cool, you know? So, anyway, these bacteria might be doing the same thing!"
Anyway, I have to blame Star Trek. While the series has been known to inspire tons of people to do great things, it's pseudo-science has done some harm as people assume that what happens in a Science Fantasy show can happen in real life.
No hatin' to the original poster, btw. I am just saying.
I saw bits and pieces of that movie and just wanted to get into Angelina Jolie's pants. The rest of the movie was just window dressing, bad window dressing at that, but that is all the movie was.
I thought the entire film was nothing more then a commercial to raise awareness of the promise of what lies within Angelina Jolie's pants...