> hate to be inflammatory, but lets suppose that all the folks at the NSA do all day is invade our >(U.S citizen's) privacy, despite the fact that they say they don't, and intelligence agencies
> Is someone actually reading our mail? With terrorists, hostile governments, nuclear weapons, chemical >weapons and biological weapons, does the government really care about anything you say?
Well, everything is all fine then. The good old US Govt isn't going to be really snooping on it's citizens. There's nothing to worry about.
Hang on... damn! I'm not a US citizen, and I'm not in the US, but in Belgium (a little country also in the EU), and the US Govt is spying on me - even though I haven't done anything wrong.
Yeah, ok it isn't a "Big Freakin' Deal" is it, I mean, it doesn't affect the good ol US of A.
And anyway, the US can wip my country's ass in any war, so I shouldn't complain then.
Hell, what's the email address of the NSA, I might just as well email them all of my encryption keys, passwords and pass on any company secrets to them now and same them some time.
Just because it isn't improtant to YOU, doesn't mean it isn't important to the rest of the slashdot community!
The Shinco is also reviewed in the DEC-99 edition of Home Cinema Choice (from the UK).
It seems that most of its insides are made by Sony. They give urls, though I haven't checked it out myself - http://www.shinco.com and http://209.207.158.106/site/map.htm
Wonderful thing all of these informed people making reports predicting all different things. Pity that there just as likely to be wrong as right. Sheesh.... I can't even count all of the Gartner group reports I've read that have ended up missing the target.
And off-topic, by why weren't all the reports that the Spice Girls hype would have ended and we wouldn't be hearing from them any more.... it's been over a year since their death has been predicted.
>I'm sticking to large online sites...don't have >the manpower to handle a holiday rush if anything >goes wrong
I've also decided to stick to the larger sites. I don't think the smaller sites are professional enough.
I tried ordering a book 3 times, once from the publisher's web site - nothing ever happened, they didn't even respond to my emails. The second time, I ordered from robotbooks.com, they billed me, but never sent the book, and I've yet to get my money back after months. The 3rd time, I ordered it from Amazon, and it arrived the folowing week (to Europe).
> companies like Red Hat and VA Linux are > substantially increasing the amount of software > that belongs to the whole world
Really, I don't think so. All of it existed way before they did. Sure Rad Hat is adding, but it hasn't add not even 1/100th to the number of lines of code that everyone else has.
Maybe in the future, they will, but that's yet to be seen. At the moment, and in the very near future, they haven't added any significant amount.
>7.Cringley seems to be very hostile to just about everything.
Could the answer of Cringley's hostility be in his own article? - Sensationalism. What better way to attract all of those eyeballs than by being sensationalist.
After all, being dull doesn't get you very much attention.
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> hate to be inflammatory, but lets suppose that all the folks at the NSA do all day is invade our
>(U.S citizen's) privacy, despite the fact that they say they don't, and intelligence agencies
> Is someone actually reading our mail? With terrorists, hostile governments, nuclear weapons, chemical
>weapons and biological weapons, does the government really care about anything you say?
Well, everything is all fine then. The good old US Govt isn't going to be really snooping on it's citizens. There's nothing to worry about.
Hang on... damn! I'm not a US citizen, and I'm not in the US, but in Belgium (a little country also in the EU), and the US Govt is spying on me - even though I haven't done anything wrong.
Yeah, ok it isn't a "Big Freakin' Deal" is it, I mean, it doesn't affect the good ol US of A.
And anyway, the US can wip my country's ass in any war, so I shouldn't complain then.
Hell, what's the email address of the NSA, I might just as well email them all of my encryption keys, passwords and pass on any company secrets to them now and same them some time.
Just because it isn't improtant to YOU, doesn't mean it isn't important to the rest of the slashdot community!
The Shinco is also reviewed in the DEC-99 edition
of Home Cinema Choice (from the UK).
It seems that most of its insides are made by
Sony. They give urls, though I haven't checked
it out myself - http://www.shinco.com and
http://209.207.158.106/site/map.htm
Wonderful thing all of these informed people making reports predicting all different things. Pity that there just as likely to be wrong as right. Sheesh.... I can't even count all of the Gartner group reports I've read that have ended up missing the target.
And off-topic, by why weren't all the reports that
the Spice Girls hype would have ended and we wouldn't be hearing from them any more.... it's been over a year since their death has been predicted.
Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one.
>I'm sticking to large online sites...don't have
>the manpower to handle a holiday rush if anything
>goes wrong
I've also decided to stick to the larger sites. I
don't think the smaller sites are professional
enough.
I tried ordering a book 3 times, once from the
publisher's web site - nothing ever happened, they
didn't even respond to my emails. The second time,
I ordered from robotbooks.com, they billed me,
but never sent the book, and I've yet to get my
money back after months. The 3rd time, I ordered
it from Amazon, and it arrived the folowing week
(to Europe).
Yes, and I was a bit amazed at the comment -
> companies like Red Hat and VA Linux are
> substantially increasing the amount of software
> that belongs to the whole world
Really, I don't think so. All of it existed way
before they did. Sure Rad Hat is adding, but it
hasn't add not even 1/100th to the number of lines
of code that everyone else has.
Maybe in the future, they will, but that's yet
to be seen. At the moment, and in the very near
future, they haven't added any significant amount.
>7.Cringley seems to be very hostile to just about everything.
Could the answer of Cringley's hostility be in his own article? - Sensationalism. What better way to attract all of those eyeballs than by being sensationalist.
After all, being dull doesn't get you very much attention.
>... to shut down vital parts of the computer >infrastructure of a country. As we have seen, a backhoe
>is enough. Or a faulty software upgrade
Wow. Economic terrorism the cheap and easy way.
10 people with backhoes at the right locations, down goes alot of the bandwidth and alot of the net based economic activity with it.