my wife loves the math editor in OOo. i don't know if MSOffice has anything like it. i wonder why that particular feature never that publicized much. i guess corporate drones don't sum/integrate things much;)
oftentimes people in the US are uber aware of the propaganda and secrecy in communist countries. yet they fail to see the manure we are fed for the propaganda it really is. sure, we won the space race. if people couldn't see it in the night sky, i'm sure sputnik would be just a propaganda of the communists.
"what is history but an agreed upon fable." - Nepolian.
i cheaper way to create the same device, at least for the males, would be to create a simpler device that just records the following phrases and picks one out randomly and plays them; rinse and repeat.
the phrases: "sex", "nice booty", "man, i'd like to squeeze those", "who's your daddy", "i'd really like to spank that" etc..
The group discounted the recent wave of worms, viruses and other attacks that have affected Windows systems worldwide. It confined the study to overt digital attacks by hackers.
<sarcasm level="slight">
in other words, the group discounted cookie cutter, script kiddie level, run of the mill, "it's so easy it's like stealing candy from a baby" type attacks. because if they included these common and numerous datapoints, everything else would just round off to zero in comparison. what are they going to write the report on then? 50000000 computers running windows cracked using combinations of simple flaws by unattended, automated bots vs. 2 debian servers, 3 SUSE servers cracked by committed souls who actually had to work on exploiting and possibly even discovering flaws? the pie charts would look a little lopsided don't you think? they had to get rid of the data of the windows viruses and script-kiddie exploits. that's just what is. what's there to talk about? now crack a linux box or a xBSD box -- that's worth talking about.
</sarcasm>
air: $0 water: $0 sun: $0 ("the big, warm spot in the sky" sun,
not the "dot in dot com" sun) life: $0 (unless one is born to a whore. then it
would cost the father a pretty penny.) love: $0 (unless you are the said father.) GNU: $0
all of the above things are things that i can undoubtedly say are the most valuable things that i have. and i didn't pay for any of it. maybe we should all Darl-afy ourselves and monitize everything listed above. otherwise it totally goes against the "you get what you pay for" philosophy.
i didn't read the article. is the devX author talking about the NSA backdoor in windows? he's totally right. we cannot trust a vendor. the vendor could have inserted backdoors, hyper-eastereggs. who would know? the guy is right on. vendors cannot be trusted. i mean, every 'update' and a 'security fix' could in fact be a wider backdoor for the NSA to tap into. how would you test it? i mean, come on. how do you know that your personal information isn't being submitted under the guise of "in order to improve the quality of the software that just crashed, would you like to send some info to the vendor?" and instead sends your credit card info that it collected during one of your many online shopping binges. and it's not like the source code they give you (after you having to sign your life away) can be compiled and tested against the binaries they gave you... how do you know that the NSA easter egg isn't conveniently replaced (covered up) by a lesser evil easter egg in the source code (that they gave you) that your techs are pouring over? after you've verified/audited the source, can you say with absolute certainty that the binaries that you got came from the same source that you verified? how?
give the guy some credit. his observations are totally dead on. governments should absolutely be super quesy with this shared source thingy. i mean, who's "gaurding the gaurds"?
well, this is kinda cool, the "conversation" that's happenning..
To be specific, do you disagree with one country's workers protecting their jobs, preventing their country's corporations from buying labor from another country, when the two countries' economies are separate enough that the resulting growth favors only the foreign country?
before i say anything, i'd like to clarify that i'm not pro-outsourcing. in fact, i'm not pro-big-biz at all. for example, i haven't bought a CD in the last 6 years as a personal 'up yours'. and no i don't download from various napster-isms either.
that aside, when the steel industry outsourced did we *really* lose jobs? sure we lost jobs in the steel industry but that gave way to countless other jobs because people were freed up from the iron industry.
i look at it like this..
industrial revolution came, steel workers were needed, as the steel/iron industry was commoditized, the original 'innovators' no longer needed to be involved. the jobs went overseas but the people (in the sense of the population. not the individual people) who lost steel/iron jobs then started 'innovating' something else. in this case you could say it was telecom. then telecom was more or less commoditized. that went overseas. then came 'infomation tech.' that too is starting to be commoditized. that too will go overseas. and the people currently in info-tech will move on to 'innovate' something else..
no denying that there are period of droughts in the in-between phases but as i see it there have been at least three major outsourcing in the US history. if people indeed lost jobs because of it, the US should have about at least 50% unemployment rate by now.
i'm not exactly thrilled that my bargaining power in the market is waay less than what it used to be. and i'm sure i'll be headed back to college for a degree in something else. but that's how the US has been at the forefront of innovation. delegating the old tech to others.:(
nothing wrong with people defending their way of life tho. none at all. but like i just said, i don't think the outsourcing only works for the people at the other end. we're just readying a move to working on the next big thing..
that was my point exactly. use of the word "xenophobia" was meant to illustrate the fact that we tend to draw arbitrary lines to define the "us" and the "them". it might be "race" if the "them" we target is indeed comprised of a different race than the "us". if race doesn't divide but political boundries does then enter the word "xenophobia". if you look deeper, it's not the country per say. it's the "us vs. them". we just look for words that concisely define where the "us" ends and where the "them" begins. my main point being that if todays "them" were to disappear a new definition of "them" would come up to split the what used to be "us" into a new "us" and "them". if a new and more imminent "them" were to enter into the picture, the current "us" and "them" would combine to form a new "us" because there is now a whole new "them". eg. US, the soviets, and germany in WWII.
but there'll always be a "them" down to your brother..
anyhow.. i'm not good at writing what i'm thinking..
actually, use whatever term you want to use but eventually it breaks down to "us" vs. "them". typically, survival in the biological sense is based on this. economics has become engrained into human survival (over the long run). therefore, what you call ecomonics is actually our basic biological instincts kicking up. it's an issue of "us" vs. "them". when there's enough of "them" the rest are "us". when that "them" goes away (no longer competitive), then the "us" breaks down into another "us" and "them" using a new defining boundry of what is "us" vs "them" . if another group comes into the picture that barrier breaks down and the "us" and the "them" combine to now make up the new "us" since now, there a whole new "them" to worry about.
do you know how many US companies have part of their operation in germany? no. because it's "us". therefore it doesn't matter. india/H1 is "them" because if it were "us" then there wouldn't be a "them". if india/H1 issue were to go away, i'm sure you'd find plenty of "them"s to wage your "corporate greed" campaign against. you don't see them right now because you have a more distinctive "them" to worry about.
unless you're the last person on earth, you'll always have a "them". even your brother would be a "them" if compitition/survival were between you and your brother.
even if you were the last person on earth, you'll still have the "them" martians to worry about.
the "them" are out to get you. whoever the "them" are today.
well, let's forget about china for a while then. i'm pretty sure we have plenty of countries that don't have a 'bajillion troops' and nuclear weapons whoose people could use a little rescueing from their facist murderous dictators... where's the US in all this?
i know of several countries where thousends and thousends of people are being 'deprived of their heads' by vicious leaders. when can i expect US to intervene? and btw, the countries in question don't have oil.
well since they couldn't see viruses at that time, they probably used that term to mean "shit that we can't see with our nakked eyes that don't have jack to do with the 4 humours".
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i use XML for a lot of things and it's been quite decent. but on the other hand, we're using dual pentium IIIs for trivial stuff that was running fine on a PII with c/c++ app without XML.
the fact is that XML is just marshelling and unmarshelling of all computational data to and from strings thereby negating fast numerical performance that a CPU inherently has. you want to add two numbers? create a string representation, pass it around thru a bunch of parsers/transformers as strings then finally convert it back to the number it really is then add then convert it back to string for passing it around all over again... what a waste.
you got the country and thereby my ethnicity wrong. just goes to show your arrogance and the all assuming piety despite the fact that you lack information about me and some basic geographic knowledge. yeah, we're all from 'over there'.. it's the same freaking thing ain't it? 'Pakis' ? sure. if you say so.
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a 100% sales tax on $0 = $0. sheesh.
my wife loves the math editor in OOo. i don't know if MSOffice has anything like it. i wonder why that particular feature never that publicized much. i guess corporate drones don't sum/integrate things much ;)
those are the people that really deserve the money.
legislation without representation??
but if you become ambitious and make a trip around taco-bell, Uranus will get lit.
oftentimes people in the US are uber aware of the propaganda and secrecy in communist countries. yet they fail to see the manure we are fed for the propaganda it really is. sure, we won the space race. if people couldn't see it in the night sky, i'm sure sputnik would be just a propaganda of the communists.
"what is history but an agreed upon fable." - Nepolian.
i cheaper way to create the same device, at least for the males, would be to create a simpler device that just records the following phrases and picks one out randomly and plays them; rinse and repeat.
the phrases:
"sex",
"nice booty",
"man, i'd like to squeeze those",
"who's your daddy",
"i'd really like to spank that"
etc..
i'm sure ladies have a similar option.
"condo" in nepali means ass. and not the four legged kind. so you got one for your condo? just checking. :)
but the TV would be stuck on the p0rn channel. if you've got a wife, LOOK OUT!!
coz i keep my speakers disconnected?
<sarcasm level="slight"> in other words, the group discounted cookie cutter, script kiddie level, run of the mill, "it's so easy it's like stealing candy from a baby" type attacks. because if they included these common and numerous datapoints, everything else would just round off to zero in comparison. what are they going to write the report on then? 50000000 computers running windows cracked using combinations of simple flaws by unattended, automated bots vs. 2 debian servers, 3 SUSE servers cracked by committed souls who actually had to work on exploiting and possibly even discovering flaws? the pie charts would look a little lopsided don't you think? they had to get rid of the data of the windows viruses and script-kiddie exploits. that's just what is. what's there to talk about? now crack a linux box or a xBSD box -- that's worth talking about. </sarcasm>
they should have left out windows entirely tho.
you are holding it against your skull when you shave your beard. unless you've named *that* "beard". in that case, god save your children.
i wouldn't recommend buying diamonds for things to buy that keep their value over time.
really? you really get what you pay for?
hmm..
air: $0
water: $0
sun: $0 ("the big, warm spot in the sky" sun,
not the "dot in dot com" sun)
life: $0 (unless one is born to a whore. then it
would cost the father a pretty penny.)
love: $0 (unless you are the said father.)
GNU: $0
all of the above things are things that i can undoubtedly say are the most valuable things that i have. and i didn't pay for any of it. maybe we should all Darl-afy ourselves and monitize everything listed above. otherwise it totally goes against the "you get what you pay for" philosophy.
give the guy some credit. his observations are totally dead on. governments should absolutely be super quesy with this shared source thingy. i mean, who's "gaurding the gaurds"?
To be specific, do you disagree with one country's workers protecting their jobs, preventing their country's corporations from buying labor from another country, when the two countries' economies are separate enough that the resulting growth favors only the foreign country?
before i say anything, i'd like to clarify that i'm not pro-outsourcing. in fact, i'm not pro-big-biz at all. for example, i haven't bought a CD in the last 6 years as a personal 'up yours'. and no i don't download from various napster-isms either.
that aside, when the steel industry outsourced did we *really* lose jobs? sure we lost jobs in the steel industry but that gave way to countless other jobs because people were freed up from the iron industry.
i look at it like this..
industrial revolution came, steel workers were needed, as the steel/iron industry was commoditized, the original 'innovators' no longer needed to be involved. the jobs went overseas but the people (in the sense of the population. not the individual people) who lost steel/iron jobs then started 'innovating' something else. in this case you could say it was telecom. then telecom was more or less commoditized. that went overseas. then came 'infomation tech.' that too is starting to be commoditized. that too will go overseas. and the people currently in info-tech will move on to 'innovate' something else..
no denying that there are period of droughts in the in-between phases but as i see it there have been at least three major outsourcing in the US history. if people indeed lost jobs because of it, the US should have about at least 50% unemployment rate by now.
i'm not exactly thrilled that my bargaining power in the market is waay less than what it used to be. and i'm sure i'll be headed back to college for a degree in something else. but that's how the US has been at the forefront of innovation. delegating the old tech to others. :(
nothing wrong with people defending their way of life tho. none at all. but like i just said, i don't think the outsourcing only works for the people at the other end. we're just readying a move to working on the next big thing..
that was my point exactly. use of the word "xenophobia" was meant to illustrate the fact that we tend to draw arbitrary lines to define the "us" and the "them". it might be "race" if the "them" we target is indeed comprised of a different race than the "us". if race doesn't divide but political boundries does then enter the word "xenophobia". if you look deeper, it's not the country per say. it's the "us vs. them". we just look for words that concisely define where the "us" ends and where the "them" begins. my main point being that if todays "them" were to disappear a new definition of "them" would come up to split the what used to be "us" into a new "us" and "them". if a new and more imminent "them" were to enter into the picture, the current "us" and "them" would combine to form a new "us" because there is now a whole new "them". eg. US, the soviets, and germany in WWII.
but there'll always be a "them" down to your brother..
anyhow.. i'm not good at writing what i'm thinking..
actually, use whatever term you want to use but eventually it breaks down to "us" vs. "them". typically, survival in the biological sense is based on this. economics has become engrained into human survival (over the long run). therefore, what you call ecomonics is actually our basic biological instincts kicking up. it's an issue of "us" vs. "them". when there's enough of "them" the rest are "us". when that "them" goes away (no longer competitive), then the "us" breaks down into another "us" and "them" using a new defining boundry of what is "us" vs "them" . if another group comes into the picture that barrier breaks down and the "us" and the "them" combine to now make up the new "us" since now, there a whole new "them" to worry about.
do you know how many US companies have part of their operation in germany? no. because it's "us". therefore it doesn't matter. india/H1 is "them" because if it were "us" then there wouldn't be a "them". if india/H1 issue were to go away, i'm sure you'd find plenty of "them"s to wage your "corporate greed" campaign against. you don't see them right now because you have a more distinctive "them" to worry about.
unless you're the last person on earth, you'll always have a "them". even your brother would be a "them" if compitition/survival were between you and your brother.
even if you were the last person on earth, you'll still have the "them" martians to worry about.
the "them" are out to get you. whoever the "them" are today.
cheers.
well, let's forget about china for a while then. i'm pretty sure we have plenty of countries that don't have a 'bajillion troops' and nuclear weapons whoose people could use a little rescueing from their facist murderous dictators... where's the US in all this?
oh i forgot. they don't have oil. my bad.
i know of several countries where thousends and thousends of people are being 'deprived of their heads' by vicious leaders. when can i expect US to intervene? and btw, the countries in question don't have oil.
and i read it as:
Amazing what bombing those who disagree with you does.
ignoring the minor details, you are right on! my sentiments exactly. it seems to be working for everyone. pretty amazing.
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well since they couldn't see viruses at that time, they probably used that term to mean "shit that we can't see with our nakked eyes that don't have jack to do with the 4 humours".
i use XML for a lot of things and it's been quite decent. but on the other hand, we're using dual pentium IIIs for trivial stuff that was running fine on a PII with c/c++ app without XML.
the fact is that XML is just marshelling and unmarshelling of all computational data to and from strings thereby negating fast numerical performance that a CPU inherently has. you want to add two numbers? create a string representation, pass it around thru a bunch of parsers/transformers as strings then finally convert it back to the number it really is then add then convert it back to string for passing it around all over again... what a waste.
you got the country and thereby my ethnicity wrong. just goes to show your arrogance and the all assuming piety despite the fact that you lack information about me and some basic geographic knowledge. yeah, we're all from 'over there'.. it's the same freaking thing ain't it? 'Pakis' ? sure. if you say so.