WHATEVER I search for on google I end up with an FUCKING engadget page showing in the results, weblogs inc shoudl be sued for aggressively poisoning google
Had similar problems and then I used AltaVista (remember those guys?). I was so amazed/stunned that Google fell short of the mark that I wrote a Slashdot journal entry about it. Life is beautiful now.
I don't even know where to begin... it is precisely this hathotic attitude that justifies the US not getting invovled with the ICC. Instead of going after North Korea, Somalia, and Sudan, the ICC is going to go after the United States and then when it's done it will disband.
hatotic: Feelings of pleasure derived from hating someone or something. Also my new word of the day.
we were the leading cause of UN inaction on this front.
Not to detract from your main premise (don't agree or disagree... haven't yet made up my mind), but how is the US the leading cause of UN inaction in Sudan? France opposed UN sacntions on Sudan and the UN went out of its away to avoid using the "G" word (genocide). The US has been admirable in getting involved with Sudan (although it could probably be doing more) while the UN has not.
But even in war, there are implicit rules of warfare (and explicit onse, such as the Geneva Conventions). Ethics still stand in war (ideally - please nobody bitch about Abu Ghraib, Agent Orange, etc. - thanks)
But still, with PlayFair, the person who buys the song can create an unrestricted MP3 and ostensibly share it with the whole world - including a person like me who didn't buy the song.
Steve Jobs reportedly e-mailed record company executives a link to a blog detailing the hack. He apparently wants to paint Napster as an insecure service, no different from its original form all the while portraying iTunes as secure (PlayFair anyone?)
Ruthless business tactics IMHO, dare I say reminiscent of the Redmond giant. I wish he'd let consumers decide which service is better rather than try to sabatoge Napster with his industry connections and FUD.
(Disclaimer: Heard this as a rumor - I wasn't exactly CCed on Steve's e-mail - but I had no reason to disbelieve the source).
I'd hate to use any system like that, and luckily I haven't since Windows 98. Windows XP is rock solid, never crashes on me, and simple.
I have several installations of XP, and the only time I get problems is on the installation that uses flaky hardware. But even that installation is light years more stable than Windows 98 on the same box.
There was a mention of Celsius 41.11, a rebuttal piece put out by conservatives (also being political in nature), but conveniently relegated to the politics page only.
Two points: -If this site doesn't count, then what does? -If half the discrepancies are true, that is still significant. In my opinion, I feel assured that more than half of the claims are true.
Ahem, the issue at hand is not about Bush or about the Bush administration breaking the law! The link goes to a liberal blog. But Michael has twisted this article into a rant against conservatives.
Pardon my comments if you were really being sarcastic.
But Markos, and the articles he links to, never made it clear that financial payments were involved. I would have interpreted hsi "technical consulting" statement to mean he was volunteering. He claims that he was a supporter of Dean before being hired; so was Rowan Williams.
Financial compensation by a political organization gives the appearance of being a puppet. I have no doubt that Kos and Rowan Williams sincerely hold their opinions. But once any kind of compensation is involved, the objectivity of their opinions become suspect.
A paid political operative may be easier on his benefactor than an unpaid supporter. Unless the issue of compensation is fully laid out on the table, their agenda becomes suspect.
Thank you, Michael, for going out of your way, and out of the story's way to point out Republican "badness". (That was a sarcastic remark)
Why can't the same be done for liberal-biased articles from the NY Times that get posted on Slashdot? Or why can't Michael Moore writeups highlight his twisting of the truth?
Yes this is flamebait, but so is the article writeup.
It took many years and many public disasters for public outrage to be sufficient enough to create the FDA. The idea of a privacy czar, while a good one, will probably never happen until enough publicized privacy mistakes happen within a short period of time:-(
Primary reason I read those blogs is for the cool tidbits. A secondary reason I read their blogs is so that I can remain aware of all the FUD coming from them!
I was about to post a blurb on Agent Ransack before I came across this post. Agent Ransack is awesome and very quick. I haven't tried Yahoo's tool yet, but Agent Ransack has set my expectations high.
The national media, including United Press International, were excluded from the event at Tenet's request
So UPI/Washington Times didn't actually hear the speech, did they? They only got the quotes from secondhand sources which may or may not have had a bias against Tenet. The other quotes from the story imply that Tenet was more concerned about making the net more secure rather than preventing access.
Limiting net access still makes for an interesting discussion.
I have relatives in the Oil IT industry in Houston, and times are good for them. Of course, they weren't working for Enron, but a lot of relatively smaller oil companies appear to be hiring IT workers. This is anecdotal, but it seems to me that Houston IT workers in the oil industry fared _much_ better during the bust years thanks to higher oil prices.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of oil co's are Microsoft shops.
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WHATEVER I search for on google I end up with an FUCKING engadget page showing in the results, weblogs inc shoudl be sued for aggressively poisoning google
Had similar problems and then I used AltaVista (remember those guys?). I was so amazed/stunned that Google fell short of the mark that I wrote a Slashdot journal entry about it. Life is beautiful now.
I wonder who the OEM on this tv is? Anyone?
For LCD monitors, they use LiteOn. However, quick searches through the documentation for this tv did not reveal any information.
I don't even know where to begin... it is precisely this hathotic attitude that justifies the US not getting invovled with the ICC. Instead of going after North Korea, Somalia, and Sudan, the ICC is going to go after the United States and then when it's done it will disband.
hatotic: Feelings of pleasure derived from hating someone or something. Also my new word of the day.
we were the leading cause of UN inaction on this front.
Not to detract from your main premise (don't agree or disagree... haven't yet made up my mind), but how is the US the leading cause of UN inaction in Sudan? France opposed UN sacntions on Sudan and the UN went out of its away to avoid using the "G" word (genocide). The US has been admirable in getting involved with Sudan (although it could probably be doing more) while the UN has not.
Vague and unsubstantiated like your post?
, 1,4754180.story?coll=la-headlines-business
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/02/1603.cfm
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs16feb16
Well your friend is wrong - it's now been confirmed by the LA Times.
, 1,4754180.story?coll=la-headlines-business
What is this, some Apple cabal tha I've awakened?
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/02/1603.cfm
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs16feb16
But even in war, there are implicit rules of warfare (and explicit onse, such as the Geneva Conventions). Ethics still stand in war (ideally - please nobody bitch about Abu Ghraib, Agent Orange, etc. - thanks)
I don't think that what Steve did was ethical.
But still, with PlayFair, the person who buys the song can create an unrestricted MP3 and ostensibly share it with the whole world - including a person like me who didn't buy the song.
Yeah, I thought about that too before the post. But Steve's e-mail just doesn't seem ethical. Advertising does, partly because it's in the public eye.
Additionally, Steve was saying that Napster had problems that iTunes didn't have. But that same "exploit" can be done for iTunes as well!
But alas, all is not fair is love, war, and business.
Steve Jobs reportedly e-mailed record company executives a link to a blog detailing the hack. He apparently wants to paint Napster as an insecure service, no different from its original form all the while portraying iTunes as secure (PlayFair anyone?)
Ruthless business tactics IMHO, dare I say reminiscent of the Redmond giant. I wish he'd let consumers decide which service is better rather than try to sabatoge Napster with his industry connections and FUD.
(Disclaimer: Heard this as a rumor - I wasn't exactly CCed on Steve's e-mail - but I had no reason to disbelieve the source).
I'd hate to use any system like that, and luckily I haven't since Windows 98. Windows XP is rock solid, never crashes on me, and simple.
I have several installations of XP, and the only time I get problems is on the installation that uses flaky hardware. But even that installation is light years more stable than Windows 98 on the same box.
Exactly my sentiments.
In my comment, I was not talking about the mainstream press - I was talking about Slashdot.
/ 27/1315218&tid=97&tid=149&tid=9: But while it speaks much truth...2 6&tid=97: Main page promo, but this time no editorializing
Examples:
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/23/13282
Those are only a couple of examples.
There was a mention of Celsius 41.11, a rebuttal piece put out by conservatives (also being political in nature), but conveniently relegated to the politics page only.
http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html is a good start.
Two points:
-If this site doesn't count, then what does?
-If half the discrepancies are true, that is still significant. In my opinion, I feel assured that more than half of the claims are true.
Ahem, the issue at hand is not about Bush or about the Bush administration breaking the law! The link goes to a liberal blog. But Michael has twisted this article into a rant against conservatives.
Pardon my comments if you were really being sarcastic.
But Markos, and the articles he links to, never made it clear that financial payments were involved. I would have interpreted hsi "technical consulting" statement to mean he was volunteering. He claims that he was a supporter of Dean before being hired; so was Rowan Williams.
Financial compensation by a political organization gives the appearance of being a puppet. I have no doubt that Kos and Rowan Williams sincerely hold their opinions. But once any kind of compensation is involved, the objectivity of their opinions become suspect.
A paid political operative may be easier on his benefactor than an unpaid supporter. Unless the issue of compensation is fully laid out on the table, their agenda becomes suspect.
Thank you, Michael, for going out of your way, and out of the story's way to point out Republican "badness". (That was a sarcastic remark)
Why can't the same be done for liberal-biased articles from the NY Times that get posted on Slashdot? Or why can't Michael Moore writeups highlight his twisting of the truth?
Yes this is flamebait, but so is the article writeup.
It took many years and many public disasters for public outrage to be sufficient enough to create the FDA. The idea of a privacy czar, while a good one, will probably never happen until enough publicized privacy mistakes happen within a short period of time :-(
I recently picked up Tetris again. The first few days I had tetris dreams of falling blocks as my mind re-learned the game. What a great game.
The Bloggies (2005 voting ends soon) rank blogs on a yearly basis.
I read a bunch of Sun blogs, including Jonathan Schwartz' misinformation blog. Same with Microsoft's MSDN blogs.
Primary reason I read those blogs is for the cool tidbits. A secondary reason I read their blogs is so that I can remain aware of all the FUD coming from them!
Which would certainly be true if you lived in the Southern Hemisphere, or you were looking at a Northern Hemisphere map upside down :-p
I was about to post a blurb on Agent Ransack before I came across this post. Agent Ransack is awesome and very quick. I haven't tried Yahoo's tool yet, but Agent Ransack has set my expectations high.
The national media, including United Press International, were excluded from the event at Tenet's request
So UPI/Washington Times didn't actually hear the speech, did they? They only got the quotes from secondhand sources which may or may not have had a bias against Tenet. The other quotes from the story imply that Tenet was more concerned about making the net more secure rather than preventing access.
Limiting net access still makes for an interesting discussion.
And what if EA is truly sincere about changing? How much different from this "PR stunt" would their response be?
They're damned if they do, damned if they don't.
I have relatives in the Oil IT industry in Houston, and times are good for them. Of course, they weren't working for Enron, but a lot of relatively smaller oil companies appear to be hiring IT workers. This is anecdotal, but it seems to me that Houston IT workers in the oil industry fared _much_ better during the bust years thanks to higher oil prices.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of oil co's are Microsoft shops.