This has to be the dumbest reply I've ever recieved... Did you read ANY of the other comments on this article??? Have you lived in a cave for the last 30 years??? That's funny that you mention things from my personal website when you post anonymously. Pretty easy to talk shit behind that curtain, but I guess that's why you have to post with "coward" in your name. It just tells me you have no faith in what you're stating, which you shouldn't, because it's complete horseshit. Allow me to explain what a "free market" entails:
Company A, by a mixture of better practices, investments, and dumb luck gets a faily large ammount of capital. Then they move out to some small town serviced by several local privately owned buisnesses, lets say, companies B,C, and D. Company A opens a store that has everything that companies B,C,and D have, and sets the prices lower than B,C, and D could possibly set them. Company A knows it's not making a profit, but they don't care because they have plenty of money in the bank; they can handle a few losses. They know that once they drive companies B,C,and D out of buisness, they can set whatever prices they want because the only choice that anyone in this small town has anymore is company A. B, C, and D didn't have the money A had, so they could not set their prices below a profit-earning level. Now that B,C, and D are out of buisness, A can set whatever prices they want. The people in the small town no longer have any choice. A can repeat this practive until there are walmarts... er... I mean company A's all over the country!
This is why we have laws against monopolies. Walmart creates localized monopolies. There aren't as many laws against that, so they're free to fuck over our private buisnesses. I guess that the real reason they're able to do this, tho, is that clueless assholes like you shop there. I hope you learned something today.
What a load. Walmart has destroyed more private buisnesses than microsoft could ever hope to. It might be easy for a tech type to see microsoft as a bigger bully than walmart, but if you look beyond the tech market you'll see that walmart embracing opensource is like enron embracing campaign finance reform.
Why don't you ask the gaim people what the chances of them making it closed source are. They'll tell you all about how AOL keeps breaking their closed, proprietary oscar protocol in order to screw over gaim, and how they completely abandoned their open protocol, TOC. Yeah, AOL has a great history of supporting free software and open standards...
and 5 seconds later, linuxhardware.com gets slashdotted. Does anyone know of another place I can find a simmilar conparison? I'm interested to know how it plays out.
So does this mean that they are reserving their best searches for paying customers? Basically, they'd be going to a lot of trouble to make their free service worse. Sounds like a really bad idea, I don't think anyone would ever pay extra for searches that are standard at best and often sub-par.
Don't worry! You can still find copies of kazaa on this wonderful P2P network I heard about called kazaa. I havn't tried it out yet but I intend to download a copy of kazaa off of kazaa tonight and give it a try.
Good point. There's another reason why CmdrTaco's comment represents flawed thinking: I've been in several group projects in school in which we had to collaberate, and it certainly did not consist of copying answers off one another. I don't think that cheating can ever be construed as "consulting with a co-worker." In most of my CS classes at ohio-state, my professors encourage us to work together toward understanding the problems, but to actually turn in our own solutions.
Worhtless? Many people I know consider the simpsons to be a work of art to be heralded far in the future as one of the greatest classics of our time! This show has merit!
I wouldn't go as far to say games == crack, but I would say that I suffer from a slight addiction. It actually works a lot like a drug. If I'm really stressed out, I can play unreal for a little while and feel a lot more relaxed. I "get my fix". I think that I then start to rely on games to make me feel at ease. I play games even when I'm not having fun or would/should do something else that I like. You could call it compulsive. It's not to hard to control, tho. Not like alcoholism or anything. But like most addictions, you have to realize you're addicted before you'll ever do anything about it.
It's a documentary about star trtek fans. Anyone who has seen it will remember and recognize a particular trekkie who was creating his own star trek movie called "Nemisis". This was quite a while ago, and the movie, I believe, was supposed to be about a star station, but what impressed me was the detail he and his crew put into designing their movie. Now, I would have written this incident off as coincidence if not for the information I just recently aquired, which is that this particular trekkie was seen on an episode of drew carrey. Now, this isn't exactly a "big holywood break", but I can't help but wonder if they're using any of his ideas in this new movie. Does anyone have any information about this?
It's definately not suprising that this book is selling like hotcakes. In fact, this stupid "war" has been turning all sorts of profits here at home. American flags, t-shirts with with dumb slogans in red-white-blue, all sorts of singers vyeing for "anthem of the tragedy/conflict", and whatever else there is to give people some false sense of security through mindless nationalism. And as always, "2% of the profits will be donated to NYC because we're charitable people who care and all that bullshit." Of course, as this book shows, the money isn't only in t-shirts of osama bin laden with crosshairs over his head; theres also plenty of money to be made in getting information on terrorism, any information, to a paranoid public who will eat it up like candy. I've seen so many info-mags and other shitty looking paperbacks made up as legitimate "investigations into terror" and tossed up on the shelves as quickly as some crackpot ex-weekley world news writer can come up with them.
However, from what I gathered from the review, I'd say that this book sounds, to a greater or lesser degree, different. Obviously a lot of time and work went into it. It's not just some hyped up piece of trash meant to satiate some helpless, paranoid desire for more information since it was being written well before the attacks. The history of smallpox is interesting and revealing as it, among other things, demystifies a lot of naive beliefs about the colonization of america by europeans. Having not read the book, and not being familliar with the author, I can only hope that it's honest and realistic. I would definately assume, however, that a piece of non-fiction or a documentary from a more reliable source would be a much better place to look if you want real information. In other words, maybe people should check out some of the suggestions in earlier comments before buying this book!
if microsoft would/could do such a thing, I think that the government of MA wouldn't u-turn but rather violently attack. M$ dosn't have quite that much power... I hope...
If a company wants to implement a lockdown like this, it might be a good idea to just run everything through X. You could have software you want certain people using available at user-level access, and then just set up a bunch of terminals to access it from. This works pretty well for the student servers at my school. UNIX is probably to scary sounding for most IT people who have been fed m$ propaganda for too long tho...
True, True. In addition to that "Cannot be played on a computer" small-text warning, they should add a larger-text "Should not be played on... anything" warning, diagonal over the front cover.
no... the vast majority of the computers that an infected box will attempt to hit will not be webservers and further will also most likely not have this script. So really its doing a lot more good than harm.
I agree with you that this seems to imply "purpose", but I think that people were most specifically upset with a bias against string cryptography, which I'm not sure is evident from what he said. It was definately not good journalism to edit this the way they did, but the editors intent may have been to either make the story more interesting, or possibly they just made the mistake while trying to make the story sound consistent. Of course this isn't good journalism, and perhaps somewhat dishonest, but I don't think that there is a definate implication of dishonesty or bias.
Of course, given the politics of the situation, I'd be playing down the post's mistake too, if I were Zimmerman.
Silly, its not zimmerman's competence in question, but rather the quality of the questions from the excited, angered, and likely irrational slashdot readers.
Maybe we should stop thinking we are the perfect corporate model and look at the rest of the world How many
companies are over 50 years old?
Who is we? What american companies decide to do is just that. Unless you're on the board at Time Warner/AOL, you can't really do anything about it. So the only thing we really need to discuss, is what we, the people, actually can do. This comes in the form of goverment intervention, public awareness, and maybe even boycotts. The problem with the american buisness model is not that "we" decided that its cool to have companies be so short lived and to have workers laid off all the time, its that companies have made tons of money in such practices. Whether or not this is "ideal" is irrelevant. Companies will always do what makes them the most money the fastest. Thus, they will always pander to "moronic wall street investors". If other countries are doing things differently, its meerely a difference in customs, and the US corporate is to stubborn to adapt to another countries successful practices. US companies don't care about the long term, cause once you become a multi-millionare on an IPO, the long term is irrelevant. The only issue left is how to escape with all your money. Anyway, to get back to what I was saying in my origional post, is that we can do something about our economy and about the well-being of individuals who face shaky employment situations. That's the only issue here. Everything else is fun to bitch about, but ultimately this bitching accomplishes nothing.
Excellent! It's nice to know that some people arn't taking the news at face value, as I hypocriticaly do from time to time. I guess my bias against the FBI led me to judge too fast. Thanks for the correction!
Perhaps corporate responsibility is more than a moral obligation. Many of Katz's suggestions seem more than reasonable, and perhaps some of these accomidations should be required. After all, you can't send someone to the soup line and expect the economy not to suffer, so it's not only in the interest of the individual, but the nation as a whole. Informing an employee with as much warning as an employee is expected to warn a company of a change in employment dosn't overly burden a company, so therefore its better for the economy if these types of responsibilities were moved out of the moral obligation arena and into contracts and/or laws. With buisnesses consolidating, going under, rising up, etc.. as fast as they are, labor unions, especially for high-tech jobs, cannot provide the needed support which they can offer long-term blue-collar employees of car factories and what not. That means we need intervention from elsewhere. Perhaps a government agency which helps employees form contracts with thier employers. Does anything like this exist? Could it? Or am I just dreaming?
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This has to be the dumbest reply I've ever recieved... Did you read ANY of the other comments on this article??? Have you lived in a cave for the last 30 years??? That's funny that you mention things from my personal website when you post anonymously. Pretty easy to talk shit behind that curtain, but I guess that's why you have to post with "coward" in your name. It just tells me you have no faith in what you're stating, which you shouldn't, because it's complete horseshit. Allow me to explain what a "free market" entails:
Company A, by a mixture of better practices, investments, and dumb luck gets a faily large ammount of capital. Then they move out to some small town serviced by several local privately owned buisnesses, lets say, companies B,C, and D. Company A opens a store that has everything that companies B,C,and D have, and sets the prices lower than B,C, and D could possibly set them. Company A knows it's not making a profit, but they don't care because they have plenty of money in the bank; they can handle a few losses. They know that once they drive companies B,C,and D out of buisness, they can set whatever prices they want because the only choice that anyone in this small town has anymore is company A. B, C, and D didn't have the money A had, so they could not set their prices below a profit-earning level. Now that B,C, and D are out of buisness, A can set whatever prices they want. The people in the small town no longer have any choice. A can repeat this practive until there are walmarts... er... I mean company A's all over the country!
This is why we have laws against monopolies. Walmart creates localized monopolies. There aren't as many laws against that, so they're free to fuck over our private buisnesses. I guess that the real reason they're able to do this, tho, is that clueless assholes like you shop there. I hope you learned something today.
What a load. Walmart has destroyed more private buisnesses than microsoft could ever hope to. It might be easy for a tech type to see microsoft as a bigger bully than walmart, but if you look beyond the tech market you'll see that walmart embracing opensource is like enron embracing campaign finance reform.
Why don't you ask the gaim people what the chances of them making it closed source are. They'll tell you all about how AOL keeps breaking their closed, proprietary oscar protocol in order to screw over gaim, and how they completely abandoned their open protocol, TOC. Yeah, AOL has a great history of supporting free software and open standards...
and 5 seconds later, linuxhardware.com gets slashdotted. Does anyone know of another place I can find a simmilar conparison? I'm interested to know how it plays out.
So does this mean that they are reserving their best searches for paying customers? Basically, they'd be going to a lot of trouble to make their free service worse. Sounds like a really bad idea, I don't think anyone would ever pay extra for searches that are standard at best and often sub-par.
Don't worry! You can still find copies of kazaa on this wonderful P2P network I heard about called kazaa. I havn't tried it out yet but I intend to download a copy of kazaa off of kazaa tonight and give it a try.
Good point. There's another reason why CmdrTaco's comment represents flawed thinking: I've been in several group projects in school in which we had to collaberate, and it certainly did not consist of copying answers off one another. I don't think that cheating can ever be construed as "consulting with a co-worker." In most of my CS classes at ohio-state, my professors encourage us to work together toward understanding the problems, but to actually turn in our own solutions.
Sweet! Who needs spell-check when we've got pretentious slashdot trolls?
Worhtless? Many people I know consider the simpsons to be a work of art to be heralded far in the future as one of the greatest classics of our time! This show has merit!
I wouldn't go as far to say games == crack, but I would say that I suffer from a slight addiction. It actually works a lot like a drug. If I'm really stressed out, I can play unreal for a little while and feel a lot more relaxed. I "get my fix". I think that I then start to rely on games to make me feel at ease. I play games even when I'm not having fun or would/should do something else that I like. You could call it compulsive. It's not to hard to control, tho. Not like alcoholism or anything. But like most addictions, you have to realize you're addicted before you'll ever do anything about it.
It's a documentary about star trtek fans. Anyone who has seen it will remember and recognize a particular trekkie who was creating his own star trek movie called "Nemisis". This was quite a while ago, and the movie, I believe, was supposed to be about a star station, but what impressed me was the detail he and his crew put into designing their movie. Now, I would have written this incident off as coincidence if not for the information I just recently aquired, which is that this particular trekkie was seen on an episode of drew carrey. Now, this isn't exactly a "big holywood break", but I can't help but wonder if they're using any of his ideas in this new movie. Does anyone have any information about this?
It's definately not suprising that this book is selling like hotcakes. In fact, this stupid "war" has been turning all sorts of profits here at home. American flags, t-shirts with with dumb slogans in red-white-blue, all sorts of singers vyeing for "anthem of the tragedy/conflict", and whatever else there is to give people some false sense of security through mindless nationalism. And as always, "2% of the profits will be donated to NYC because we're charitable people who care and all that bullshit." Of course, as this book shows, the money isn't only in t-shirts of osama bin laden with crosshairs over his head; theres also plenty of money to be made in getting information on terrorism, any information, to a paranoid public who will eat it up like candy. I've seen so many info-mags and other shitty looking paperbacks made up as legitimate "investigations into terror" and tossed up on the shelves as quickly as some crackpot ex-weekley world news writer can come up with them.
However, from what I gathered from the review, I'd say that this book sounds, to a greater or lesser degree, different. Obviously a lot of time and work went into it. It's not just some hyped up piece of trash meant to satiate some helpless, paranoid desire for more information since it was being written well before the attacks. The history of smallpox is interesting and revealing as it, among other things, demystifies a lot of naive beliefs about the colonization of america by europeans. Having not read the book, and not being familliar with the author, I can only hope that it's honest and realistic. I would definately assume, however, that a piece of non-fiction or a documentary from a more reliable source would be a much better place to look if you want real information. In other words, maybe people should check out some of the suggestions in earlier comments before buying this book!
if microsoft would/could do such a thing, I think that the government of MA wouldn't u-turn but rather violently attack. M$ dosn't have quite that much power... I hope...
haha... I mean... I'm not cryin! ;)
If a company wants to implement a lockdown like this, it might be a good idea to just run everything through X. You could have software you want certain people using available at user-level access, and then just set up a bunch of terminals to access it from. This works pretty well for the student servers at my school. UNIX is probably to scary sounding for most IT people who have been fed m$ propaganda for too long tho...
So when I say I have a gas powered furnace, I'm actually not speaking correctly? Go take a linguistics class.
True, True. In addition to that "Cannot be played on a computer" small-text warning, they should add a larger-text "Should not be played on... anything" warning, diagonal over the front cover.
hey, I'm A+ certified and my card dosn't seem to be impressing any women, or at least not attractive ones. So yeah, useless.
no... the vast majority of the computers that an infected box will attempt to hit will not be webservers and further will also most likely not have this script. So really its doing a lot more good than harm.
I agree with you that this seems to imply "purpose", but I think that people were most specifically upset with a bias against string cryptography, which I'm not sure is evident from what he said. It was definately not good journalism to edit this the way they did, but the editors intent may have been to either make the story more interesting, or possibly they just made the mistake while trying to make the story sound consistent. Of course this isn't good journalism, and perhaps somewhat dishonest, but I don't think that there is a definate implication of dishonesty or bias.
Of course, given the politics of the situation, I'd be playing down the post's mistake too, if I were Zimmerman.
Silly, its not zimmerman's competence in question, but rather the quality of the questions from the excited, angered, and likely irrational slashdot readers.
Maybe we should stop thinking we are the perfect corporate model and look at the rest of the world How many companies are over 50 years old?
Who is we? What american companies decide to do is just that. Unless you're on the board at Time Warner/AOL, you can't really do anything about it. So the only thing we really need to discuss, is what we, the people, actually can do. This comes in the form of goverment intervention, public awareness, and maybe even boycotts. The problem with the american buisness model is not that "we" decided that its cool to have companies be so short lived and to have workers laid off all the time, its that companies have made tons of money in such practices. Whether or not this is "ideal" is irrelevant. Companies will always do what makes them the most money the fastest. Thus, they will always pander to "moronic wall street investors". If other countries are doing things differently, its meerely a difference in customs, and the US corporate is to stubborn to adapt to another countries successful practices. US companies don't care about the long term, cause once you become a multi-millionare on an IPO, the long term is irrelevant. The only issue left is how to escape with all your money. Anyway, to get back to what I was saying in my origional post, is that we can do something about our economy and about the well-being of individuals who face shaky employment situations. That's the only issue here. Everything else is fun to bitch about, but ultimately this bitching accomplishes nothing.
Excellent! It's nice to know that some people arn't taking the news at face value, as I hypocriticaly do from time to time. I guess my bias against the FBI led me to judge too fast. Thanks for the correction!
Perhaps corporate responsibility is more than a moral obligation. Many of Katz's suggestions seem more than reasonable, and perhaps some of these accomidations should be required. After all, you can't send someone to the soup line and expect the economy not to suffer, so it's not only in the interest of the individual, but the nation as a whole. Informing an employee with as much warning as an employee is expected to warn a company of a change in employment dosn't overly burden a company, so therefore its better for the economy if these types of responsibilities were moved out of the moral obligation arena and into contracts and/or laws. With buisnesses consolidating, going under, rising up, etc.. as fast as they are, labor unions, especially for high-tech jobs, cannot provide the needed support which they can offer long-term blue-collar employees of car factories and what not. That means we need intervention from elsewhere. Perhaps a government agency which helps employees form contracts with thier employers. Does anything like this exist? Could it? Or am I just dreaming?