maybe us Geeks and Nerds can work that way, but my wife cannot. She needs a teacher in the classroom to ask questions to, and an iPod recorded lecture cannot do that. Plus the strain on her eyes from watching too many videos will cause them to hurt. My wife is a Nurse by profession and is trying the Internet courses which don't seem to benefit her as much as a real classroom.
#1 There was a warrant for the wiretapping. #2 The guy really did something wrong and against the law. #3 He was stupid enough to click on whatever installed the trojan. #4 He was stupid enough to cut Internet cables and demand blackmail and ransom from the ISPS.
We'll just call it an Own Goal for this guy whomever he is.
As long as the majority of the population who don't do these things aren't domestically spied on, it should be alright.
If the FBI wants to see what my Traveller RPG group is doing, we could use another Game Master and a few more players as our Game Master is working a job that requires him to travel and cannot GM any more and a few players had quit. No need to plant a trojan on our computers and read our email.
There are commercial versions like Crossover Office, StarOffice, Cedega, Lotus Notes, etc.
Sometimes they even modify the free and open source software on some BitTorrent sites. It may be safer to use apt-get, yum, or some other open source software repository for Linux or BSD Unix instead of BitTorrent sites.
that a lot of "pirated" Bit Torrent software contains malware. Not just the Windows versions, but the Mac and Linux and BSD Unix versions as well.
When you download pirated software you take a risk that it contains a trojan.
I've even seen PDF files that had HTML exploits in it that got detected by antivirus. Read the comments on most Bit Torrent web sites the users will complain that it contains a virus. You don't have to download it to test it, the people who already downloaded it will give feedback that it contains a trojan or malware.
When you download pirated software you are taking a big chance, it isn't worth it when a majority of things are infected. That is why I look towards Free and Open Source Software as alternatives to commercial products.
your wishful thinking comes true and you get what you wished for because you were focused on it.
For example say that I want to run a small business and earn a profit. My wishful thinking gives me a positive attitude that my customers connect on and they like me for it. Since they like me I get repeat business. Verses the negative thinking that I cannot succeed in which it gives me a negative attitude and the customers catch up on it and avoid me and go to my competitors instead.
Still it does not explain why big banks fail, large insurance companies like AIG fail, and the government has to bail them out via a stimulus bill. I would think that one needs a working business plan in addition to the wishful thinking. Most of the banks, AIG, and automakers have failing business plans and all of the wishful thinking in the world won't help them until they get a working business plan, nor all of the bailout monye either.
My doctors discover that I have cancer and I will die, unless they put me into suspended animation and freeze me and the cancer so it does not spread until they can find a cure. But I have to sign an agreement that in order to pay for the cure and suspended animation I have to agree to work a job for the company that sponsors the cure and freezing.
So I sign, and wake up in 9999 AD and they cure my cancer.
I go to human resources for the company that paid for my freezing and cure and the HR director says:
"So, Orion Blastar, I see you are a computer programmer and I also see that you know COBOL. We have a Y10K problem and need to make all of our programs work with five digit years. You'll be spending the rest of your life debugging COBOL programs to solve the Y10K problem."
COBOL is not a dead language, it is an undead language like a Zombie or Vampire it is very hard to kill, as well as hard to work with.
Try reformatting your system and reinstalling the VS Express software back onto the new reformatted hard drive using the same user key. I did and I had to apply for a new key, it wouldn't take my old key.
In contrast to this the real Visual Studio takes the CD key after every reformat of the OS and reinstall of Visual Studio.
better let us give up more of our rights and freedoms for domestic wiretappings of the Internet near the IPs of the power grid. Just so we can be safe from our enemies shutting it down.
The USA is so dependent on technology now that all it will take to bring us down are a few angry hacker/crackers from a foreign nation to disrupt our Internet or Electric grid. Then we all panic as it is a cyber 9/11 attack.
How will we know every time the power goes out that hackers/crackers didn't do it instead of a tree falling on a power line or something?
Most Pirates just want to try an expensive piece of software before they buy it. Most of them are students or unemployed people who cannot afford the software so they pirate it. Once they get a good paying job they will naturally buy a legit version of each software title they pirated and liked. But not the ones they didn't like.
I recall Windows 3.1 became popular on the BBSes when they were downloading the install disk images and passing them from BBS to BBS. That is one way that Windows 3.1 beat OS/2 2.0 as the OS/2 users didn't want to pirate their software. But once Windows 95 became popular every BBS was downloading that as well. After that the Internet file sharing took over because it was the late 1990's when faster modems and DSL and cable modems started being used for higher bandwidth.
I wonder what would have happened had the BBS pirates decided not to share Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95? Would we be using OS/2, SCO Unixware, Linux, BSD Unix, or DR-DOS with GEM?
Actually they are temporary licenses. This is really no different from the free software for students that Microsoft gives out or the Express version of Visual BASIC 2008, Visual C# 2008, etc.
It is software for the unemployed to learn to use, and when they get a job with it, their employer will have to pay the tens of thousands of dollars to have the former unemployed person become their employee and buy a retail version of the software.
because those movie critics usually get to see a sneak preview of a movie before it is released to the movie theaters. Sometimes they release the almost finished movie in DVD format to the movie critics and then one of them rips the DVD and then releases it as a pirated version in DIVX format or whatever. Then they try to hunt down which movie critic leaked the movie to the Internet because each copy has hidden codes in the frames to tell which DVD the movie was ripped from.
This guy must not have been on their list for a sneak preview and decided to view the pirated version, which was stupid. He should have written a column about the movie piracy and that his company is against piracy so he could not download the movie and review it.
as was HP and Sun, until Linux and OpenBSD Unix took away a lot of their marketshare by allowing cheaper Unix boxes based on Intel X86 PC systems to exist.
Who needs an expensive SGI Irix box when you can build a Linux box a lot cheaper?
The same thing happened to Amiga, Inc. and Be, Inc. when Windows 95 and Linux showed that they could compete with AmigaOS and BeOS on cheaper Intel X86 PC clones.
No but I think if they sue you, they have to issue a subpoena to appear in court.
The whole point of this is to abuse the system to shut down web sites that say negative things about a person, organization, company, government, or official.
Here is how it works:
HiThere posts on his blog that "Orion Blastar is a foopdoodle!" whatever that means, but I take it as a negative and file a civil suit against you in the UK. My lawyers send a subpoena down to you in Peru in your native language to appear in the UK at city/town at time/date to defend yourself and hire your own attorneys. That I will be willing to drop the whole case if you remove the offending comment on your blog or website that says I am a foopdoodle.
Now you know you cannot get a Visa to the UK on time, to explain what a foopdoodle is and show evidence that I am one. So you agree with my lawyers to erase that comment from your blog or web site and write "Apologies for the remark I made towards Orion Blastar, I was wrong to do so, and therefore withdraw all comments."
I used foopdoodle because it is a nonsense word that I don't know the meaning of, but it sounds negative enough to issue a libel case. It was something I got out of my C Language class from one of the Waite books 'C Primer' that showed an example of how a comment in C works, and that Professor Whomever would never know that his student thinks he is a Foopdoodle because he only gets the EXE file and not the source code to test out the program. But if the professor wanted to see the source code, the student could delete that comment and the source code would still work.
It is not that you made false and/or misleading claims, the way the law is written you can face libel even if your claims are true as a way for the person, organization, or company you are making the claims against files a case against you in the UK and you cannot afford to defend yourself or you cannot prove the claims are true because the person who told you them refuses to fly to the UK to defend you because it costs too much to do so.
It is not innocent until proven guilty, you are considered guilty and have to prove yourself innocent. It can be abused to take away free speech by claiming said speech on the Internet is libel in the UK.
Everywhere else in the world it can be considered the truth, but in the UK it is libel unless you can prove it is true.
Thus this sets a global trap to take down from the Internet anything one does not want to be posted about themselves or their organization or company. Just sue in the UK, and tell the owner of the blog or web page to either delete the offending speech or they will continue the case against you in the UK.
This is really bad for fiction writers, which happen to have characters with fictitious names that resemble real people. If someone thinks the fictitious character is based on them or resembles them, they can sue in the UK under libel laws. If the book is published in the UK, it might no longer be sold and cut into the writer's and publisher's income. That would mostly effect the small business fiction book writers that could not afford to defend themselves in a lawsuit.
So true, modern programming languages have automatic garbage collection and have eliminated pointers because modern programmers don't learn how to use them anymore.
Heck I remember a study once said that flowcharts aren't that much of a use in large programs, so some colleges stopped teaching flowcharting and logical methods. Just skipped it and went right into writing code, not quality code, but sloppy code. Quick and dirty, even if it does crash the machine 12 times a day, modern computers are meant to be rebooted after a kernel panic or blue screen of death as they are quite common now.
Sorry it looks like some of those web sites are down, or angry employers sued to take them down. One or two might still work through like Jobvent.com I think.
Some companies hire young people because they know: #1 They aren't married yet and are willing to work extra hours for no extra pay. have no spouse or children that need them at home after 5pm. #2 They are willing to work for less because they have less experience than a 35 year old and up, so the company hires them at a below average salary. #3 Management knows that younger people can handle stress more than older people, so they work the younger people harder. #4 A younger person is less likely to need more benefits skips the 401K and insurance benefits, that help save the company money.
In reality these companies are run by scumbags and dirtbags and you are better off not working for them. They will cause you to get sicker until you eventually become like me and get too sick to work and end up on disability. If they do hire you, it will be at a below average salary with minimum benefits and a lot of overtime for no extra pay or bonuses.
What you need to do is research a company before applying for them, search the Internet for feedback to see if they are run by dirtbags or scumbags. There used to be a web site named f*ckedcompany.com but now I think people just resort to writing blogs or forums about their employers. But others exist Boss B*tchersOffice WhisperJobvent and My Boss is a Jerk to see if any of the companies you want to apply for have people complaining about them.
For older people you can always get a contract right to hire opportunity where they start you out on a six month or one year contract and if you work good enough they hire you on as an employee. You might like working as a contractor instead of an employee and you might earn more pay and fund your own health insurance and donate to an IRA.
Another option is to start up your own small business. Go to a community college to learn how to run a small business by their continuing education department and learn Quickbooks and Turbo Tax for filing the accounting and tax papers.
I used the PC-Transformer software that came with a 360K 5.25" floppy drive that worked as a 440K Amiga drive.
It was not until the Amiga 2000 came out that they had Zorro slots inside the system. The Amiga 1000 had the Sidecar expansion bus.
The problem with the Bridgecards is that they did not keep up with the PC Clones, by the time we had a 386 Bridgecard the PCs had 486 chips going on the Pentium chips.
SVGA and the Soundblaster series of audio sound cards negated the Amiga video and sound systems, and the 68K series could not compete with the Pentium and up series chips. Eventually Amiga went the PowerPC route but it made the Amiga systems more expensive than the PC. Which is a real deal killer when you can buy a $300 Windows Vista Home BASIC PC and the PowerPC based Amiga costs three times that.
How do you know that the law in the USA is not already a complete joke?
13 year old girl gets strip searched for allegedly possessing prescription strength ibuprofen. Not pot or crack or cocaine, but pain killers. For all we know she could have had a prescription for them and didn't give them to the school nurse yet because she was busy with classwork.
Most schools usually call in the Police to do searches esp strip searches so they aren't found liable. But it is usually for illegal contraband not prescription pain killers.
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For most people software written a decade or more ago was "Good Enough" and they don't need modern technology.
It is called Retocomputing when you use old computers and old software. You can buy them cheap at Auctions and Garage Sales and eBay.
maybe us Geeks and Nerds can work that way, but my wife cannot. She needs a teacher in the classroom to ask questions to, and an iPod recorded lecture cannot do that. Plus the strain on her eyes from watching too many videos will cause them to hurt. My wife is a Nurse by profession and is trying the Internet courses which don't seem to benefit her as much as a real classroom.
#1 There was a warrant for the wiretapping.
#2 The guy really did something wrong and against the law.
#3 He was stupid enough to click on whatever installed the trojan.
#4 He was stupid enough to cut Internet cables and demand blackmail and ransom from the ISPS.
We'll just call it an Own Goal for this guy whomever he is.
As long as the majority of the population who don't do these things aren't domestically spied on, it should be alright.
If the FBI wants to see what my Traveller RPG group is doing, we could use another Game Master and a few more players as our Game Master is working a job that requires him to travel and cannot GM any more and a few players had quit. No need to plant a trojan on our computers and read our email.
Star Trek: The Next Generation had Geordi La Forge wearing a visor that gave him sight. Now all he needs are some stem cells. :)
I am the Computer version of Indiana Jones. Computer Archeologist. :)
COBOL belongs in a museum!
There are commercial versions like Crossover Office, StarOffice, Cedega, Lotus Notes, etc.
Sometimes they even modify the free and open source software on some BitTorrent sites. It may be safer to use apt-get, yum, or some other open source software repository for Linux or BSD Unix instead of BitTorrent sites.
that a lot of "pirated" Bit Torrent software contains malware. Not just the Windows versions, but the Mac and Linux and BSD Unix versions as well.
When you download pirated software you take a risk that it contains a trojan.
I've even seen PDF files that had HTML exploits in it that got detected by antivirus. Read the comments on most Bit Torrent web sites the users will complain that it contains a virus. You don't have to download it to test it, the people who already downloaded it will give feedback that it contains a trojan or malware.
When you download pirated software you are taking a big chance, it isn't worth it when a majority of things are infected. That is why I look towards Free and Open Source Software as alternatives to commercial products.
your wishful thinking comes true and you get what you wished for because you were focused on it.
For example say that I want to run a small business and earn a profit. My wishful thinking gives me a positive attitude that my customers connect on and they like me for it. Since they like me I get repeat business. Verses the negative thinking that I cannot succeed in which it gives me a negative attitude and the customers catch up on it and avoid me and go to my competitors instead.
Still it does not explain why big banks fail, large insurance companies like AIG fail, and the government has to bail them out via a stimulus bill. I would think that one needs a working business plan in addition to the wishful thinking. Most of the banks, AIG, and automakers have failing business plans and all of the wishful thinking in the world won't help them until they get a working business plan, nor all of the bailout monye either.
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My doctors discover that I have cancer and I will die, unless they put me into suspended animation and freeze me and the cancer so it does not spread until they can find a cure. But I have to sign an agreement that in order to pay for the cure and suspended animation I have to agree to work a job for the company that sponsors the cure and freezing.
So I sign, and wake up in 9999 AD and they cure my cancer.
I go to human resources for the company that paid for my freezing and cure and the HR director says:
"So, Orion Blastar, I see you are a computer programmer and I also see that you know COBOL. We have a Y10K problem and need to make all of our programs work with five digit years. You'll be spending the rest of your life debugging COBOL programs to solve the Y10K problem."
COBOL is not a dead language, it is an undead language like a Zombie or Vampire it is very hard to kill, as well as hard to work with.
Try reformatting your system and reinstalling the VS Express software back onto the new reformatted hard drive using the same user key. I did and I had to apply for a new key, it wouldn't take my old key.
In contrast to this the real Visual Studio takes the CD key after every reformat of the OS and reinstall of Visual Studio.
better let us give up more of our rights and freedoms for domestic wiretappings of the Internet near the IPs of the power grid. Just so we can be safe from our enemies shutting it down.
The USA is so dependent on technology now that all it will take to bring us down are a few angry hacker/crackers from a foreign nation to disrupt our Internet or Electric grid. Then we all panic as it is a cyber 9/11 attack.
How will we know every time the power goes out that hackers/crackers didn't do it instead of a tree falling on a power line or something?
Most Pirates just want to try an expensive piece of software before they buy it. Most of them are students or unemployed people who cannot afford the software so they pirate it. Once they get a good paying job they will naturally buy a legit version of each software title they pirated and liked. But not the ones they didn't like.
I recall Windows 3.1 became popular on the BBSes when they were downloading the install disk images and passing them from BBS to BBS. That is one way that Windows 3.1 beat OS/2 2.0 as the OS/2 users didn't want to pirate their software. But once Windows 95 became popular every BBS was downloading that as well. After that the Internet file sharing took over because it was the late 1990's when faster modems and DSL and cable modems started being used for higher bandwidth.
I wonder what would have happened had the BBS pirates decided not to share Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95? Would we be using OS/2, SCO Unixware, Linux, BSD Unix, or DR-DOS with GEM?
Actually they are temporary licenses. This is really no different from the free software for students that Microsoft gives out or the Express version of Visual BASIC 2008, Visual C# 2008, etc.
It is software for the unemployed to learn to use, and when they get a job with it, their employer will have to pay the tens of thousands of dollars to have the former unemployed person become their employee and buy a retail version of the software.
because those movie critics usually get to see a sneak preview of a movie before it is released to the movie theaters. Sometimes they release the almost finished movie in DVD format to the movie critics and then one of them rips the DVD and then releases it as a pirated version in DIVX format or whatever. Then they try to hunt down which movie critic leaked the movie to the Internet because each copy has hidden codes in the frames to tell which DVD the movie was ripped from.
This guy must not have been on their list for a sneak preview and decided to view the pirated version, which was stupid. He should have written a column about the movie piracy and that his company is against piracy so he could not download the movie and review it.
as was HP and Sun, until Linux and OpenBSD Unix took away a lot of their marketshare by allowing cheaper Unix boxes based on Intel X86 PC systems to exist.
Who needs an expensive SGI Irix box when you can build a Linux box a lot cheaper?
The same thing happened to Amiga, Inc. and Be, Inc. when Windows 95 and Linux showed that they could compete with AmigaOS and BeOS on cheaper Intel X86 PC clones.
No but I think if they sue you, they have to issue a subpoena to appear in court.
The whole point of this is to abuse the system to shut down web sites that say negative things about a person, organization, company, government, or official.
Here is how it works:
HiThere posts on his blog that "Orion Blastar is a foopdoodle!" whatever that means, but I take it as a negative and file a civil suit against you in the UK. My lawyers send a subpoena down to you in Peru in your native language to appear in the UK at city/town at time/date to defend yourself and hire your own attorneys. That I will be willing to drop the whole case if you remove the offending comment on your blog or website that says I am a foopdoodle.
Now you know you cannot get a Visa to the UK on time, to explain what a foopdoodle is and show evidence that I am one. So you agree with my lawyers to erase that comment from your blog or web site and write "Apologies for the remark I made towards Orion Blastar, I was wrong to do so, and therefore withdraw all comments."
I used foopdoodle because it is a nonsense word that I don't know the meaning of, but it sounds negative enough to issue a libel case. It was something I got out of my C Language class from one of the Waite books 'C Primer' that showed an example of how a comment in C works, and that Professor Whomever would never know that his student thinks he is a Foopdoodle because he only gets the EXE file and not the source code to test out the program. But if the professor wanted to see the source code, the student could delete that comment and the source code would still work.
They can sue you in US court to collect the UK debt. It would be a second civil case filed against you, but in your home country.
It is not that you made false and/or misleading claims, the way the law is written you can face libel even if your claims are true as a way for the person, organization, or company you are making the claims against files a case against you in the UK and you cannot afford to defend yourself or you cannot prove the claims are true because the person who told you them refuses to fly to the UK to defend you because it costs too much to do so.
It is not innocent until proven guilty, you are considered guilty and have to prove yourself innocent. It can be abused to take away free speech by claiming said speech on the Internet is libel in the UK.
Everywhere else in the world it can be considered the truth, but in the UK it is libel unless you can prove it is true.
Thus this sets a global trap to take down from the Internet anything one does not want to be posted about themselves or their organization or company. Just sue in the UK, and tell the owner of the blog or web page to either delete the offending speech or they will continue the case against you in the UK.
This is really bad for fiction writers, which happen to have characters with fictitious names that resemble real people. If someone thinks the fictitious character is based on them or resembles them, they can sue in the UK under libel laws. If the book is published in the UK, it might no longer be sold and cut into the writer's and publisher's income. That would mostly effect the small business fiction book writers that could not afford to defend themselves in a lawsuit.
So true, modern programming languages have automatic garbage collection and have eliminated pointers because modern programmers don't learn how to use them anymore.
Heck I remember a study once said that flowcharts aren't that much of a use in large programs, so some colleges stopped teaching flowcharting and logical methods. Just skipped it and went right into writing code, not quality code, but sloppy code. Quick and dirty, even if it does crash the machine 12 times a day, modern computers are meant to be rebooted after a kernel panic or blue screen of death as they are quite common now.
Sorry it looks like some of those web sites are down, or angry employers sued to take them down. One or two might still work through like Jobvent.com I think.
that is doing the hiring.
Some companies hire young people because they know:
#1 They aren't married yet and are willing to work extra hours for no extra pay. have no spouse or children that need them at home after 5pm.
#2 They are willing to work for less because they have less experience than a 35 year old and up, so the company hires them at a below average salary.
#3 Management knows that younger people can handle stress more than older people, so they work the younger people harder.
#4 A younger person is less likely to need more benefits skips the 401K and insurance benefits, that help save the company money.
In reality these companies are run by scumbags and dirtbags and you are better off not working for them. They will cause you to get sicker until you eventually become like me and get too sick to work and end up on disability. If they do hire you, it will be at a below average salary with minimum benefits and a lot of overtime for no extra pay or bonuses.
What you need to do is research a company before applying for them, search the Internet for feedback to see if they are run by dirtbags or scumbags. There used to be a web site named f*ckedcompany.com but now I think people just resort to writing blogs or forums about their employers. But others exist Boss B*tchers Office Whisper Jobvent and My Boss is a Jerk to see if any of the companies you want to apply for have people complaining about them.
For older people you can always get a contract right to hire opportunity where they start you out on a six month or one year contract and if you work good enough they hire you on as an employee. You might like working as a contractor instead of an employee and you might earn more pay and fund your own health insurance and donate to an IRA.
Another option is to start up your own small business. Go to a community college to learn how to run a small business by their continuing education department and learn Quickbooks and Turbo Tax for filing the accounting and tax papers.
I used the PC-Transformer software that came with a 360K 5.25" floppy drive that worked as a 440K Amiga drive.
It was not until the Amiga 2000 came out that they had Zorro slots inside the system. The Amiga 1000 had the Sidecar expansion bus.
The problem with the Bridgecards is that they did not keep up with the PC Clones, by the time we had a 386 Bridgecard the PCs had 486 chips going on the Pentium chips.
SVGA and the Soundblaster series of audio sound cards negated the Amiga video and sound systems, and the 68K series could not compete with the Pentium and up series chips. Eventually Amiga went the PowerPC route but it made the Amiga systems more expensive than the PC. Which is a real deal killer when you can buy a $300 Windows Vista Home BASIC PC and the PowerPC based Amiga costs three times that.
How do you know that the law in the USA is not already a complete joke?
13 year old girl gets strip searched for allegedly possessing prescription strength ibuprofen. Not pot or crack or cocaine, but pain killers. For all we know she could have had a prescription for them and didn't give them to the school nurse yet because she was busy with classwork.
Most schools usually call in the Police to do searches esp strip searches so they aren't found liable. But it is usually for illegal contraband not prescription pain killers.