politicians writing laws on technology are about as helpful as looking for a gas leak with a candle.
What exactly is this law supposed to do. You can't legislate away ignorance or apathy, already we have "warning: contents may be hot after heating" or a cup of steaming coffee with "Warning: Hot beverage may be hot" and the hair dryer with the warning "Do not use in shower". May I suggest the following on the next election ballot... "Warning: Political canidates may be morons if elected"
I'm telling you the days of the fireproof match are comming fast.
OK, yeah. It is kinda creepy. But most of your average joe's won't get it and most folks that are looking to buy something won't/don't look that hard. Especialy for stuff less that 20-30 bucks. Impulse purchase range. Having the stuff they are looking for right on the front page is good for your business and easy/useful/valueable for the average Joe as well. What he was looking for came right up.
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I am building a website on website traffic tips n tricks and stumbled upon this... Retargeting
I am 90% sure that this is what they are doing or some variation thereof. Inexpensive service that should work well.
try Notepad++. syntax highliting for html php js and conversion for windows/unix line ending, macros, hex editor, html tidy-ier-upper, and more. Lots o nifty stuff and i's OSS.
Even more is an animated short (CC) here on trusted computing DRM. Or do a search on ED2K/LegalTorrents/Youtube others for "Trusted Computing" by Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel
[tinfoil hat]
I'll take a stab here and say that it will contain a subliminal message...
to buy other "Guniune Microsoft" products
piracy is theft
open source is communist
windows save you time
windows saves you money
windows is faster/better/cheaper than linux
Macintosh will never catch on
After a while they will begin leasing out the SubLim ad slot to Microsoft Prefered Partners via the windows update function every tuesday.
[/tinfoil hat]
The article is very misleading. This is for the Orion CEV vehicle. This is NOT a lander. This is not for the moon. This is not for Mars. This is a orbital taxi. 4-6 crew members to orbit. ISS transfer.
I am thankful that it looks like NASA is serious, and is reciving funding that it needs and has an aggressive schedule to meet the EOL deadline for the shullte program.
Good network admin ins only a small part on the problem. From what I have seen (mind you this is the LA area) the whole system is broken.
1. When you have damn near everything blocked by the firewall/router like Wikipedia the usefulness goes way down. I swear I think they are running a whitelist not a blacklist.
2. I donated a few old machines to a school here and installed them. Dropped a note to the admin to add their MAC's to the list and after a few weeks my friend (teacher there) started calling and memoing as well. After the school year ended and the next semester started and ended and still nothing. Not so much as a phone call from to admin at the district, much less Network access.
3. The teachers have no clue how to use them effectively. They seem to use them as a reward for doing something. "Get a passing grade on your next test and you can play with the computer" type of thinking
4. My old Jr. High spent money on removing all the lockers in the place to replace them with trophy cases. One might ask where do students put their books?.... Surprise? They got rid of books years ago. Yet they blew tons of money on a fancy new computer lab that sits mostly empty and unused and/or underused, blew money on removing lockers, blew money on installing a trophy case, and have not spent a dime on books in 5 years.
5. The students are aware of this B*llsh1t, are forced to go and have no respect (plenty of contempt) for the school (understandable) and treat the equipment like everything else
What can we expect from the people running our schools? Certainly not reason. And what is it we expect laptops to do at the schools under these conditions?
Yep, had an Abit mobo that started going flakey, I finally got around to replacing the board and upon examination found ALL the onboard caps were swolen, bloated and had vented a good amount of electrolite all over. Even "brand name" products are not above using shady parts.
Frankly, with the type of people that I see at my local Radio Shack (LA Area) I am surprised that they could figure out how to check their email. These folks are on par with Fry's employees.
I was just about to post the same damn thing. The responsivness is ehhh so-so but it works. Anyone know if the OOo folks are interested in doing a, ummm, HTTP:// version of OOo. OpenWebOffice or something of the like. That could be something nice and usable, standards compliant, open, familiar online and off.
Damn it. I mis-read the title as "Neuroscientists Reasearch Halts Extremeists" I was thinking they found the fundimentalist nut-job gene sequence and could correct it and remove it from the gene pool.
Ah well. Mabey next week. Where is Craig Venter and Celera Genomics when ya need em.
ummm you forgot the hypothsis, testing, and peer review parts.:)
As for the reactor I think I am missing something... I thought we were worried about Uranium enrichment, why the fuss about he reactor. Pluonium? Does having boh uranium and Plutonium make them more dangerous? (honest question not flambait). Or is it more along the lines of a reactor being able to make pluonium faster than the (what I have heard) is the slow process of Uranuim enrichment. Any one knowledgable in he subject?
I am rather thankful about all the dropped "features" as they tend not to be so good until v3.0 and tend to be less than standard implementations (Internet Explorer) of technology that simply displaces 3rd party functional products.
As for being late I am hoping that they are taking he time to debug them more than previous products that were shipped to schedule with major problems. Anyhow the longer they take the longer my win2000 will remain viable.
Probably around the time the lead Mozilla developer is standing over Steve Ballmer holding a copy of Ubuntu screaming, "The power of the penguin compels you! The power of the penguin compels you!..."
As for "Is this the start of better collaboration, or just a sign the Microsoft has learned its lesson from the antitrust battles?" -> Why can't it be both? Because Microsoft's reason for existance is the same for all corporations. To generate income for the owners (shareholders). Not to be nice, or cooperate with marketplace compeditors, it's to push compeditors out of marketspace, and if your think they are going to "ship Mozilla *anything*" with Vista I got two words for ya.
Shareholder Lawsuit
Microsoft is doing this to avoid federal govt problems and put on a good show. Nothing more. Mozilla will still have to fight it out and gain marketshare the same way it has been. By being a better product.:)
No, you are not over reacting. This is the feedback system for corps. If they misbehave, we the customers, have the option -the obligation- to vote with our wallets. Lawsuits, and petitions, and letters to the board are nowhere as simple and effective as not spending money with them.
Good for you, and I will join you. Bad Corp, No Dollar.
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You mean to say you missed this bullet. They have more. A machine gun in fact, possibly weapons of mass stupidity.
Place a curse on them for this BS
politicians writing laws on technology are about as helpful as looking for a gas leak with a candle.
What exactly is this law supposed to do. You can't legislate away ignorance or apathy, already we have "warning: contents may be hot after heating" or a cup of steaming coffee with "Warning: Hot beverage may be hot" and the hair dryer with the warning "Do not use in shower". May I suggest the following on the next election ballot... "Warning: Political canidates may be morons if elected"
I'm telling you the days of the fireproof match are comming fast.
Place a curse on RIAA/MPAA/SCO/Microsoft
OK, yeah. It is kinda creepy. But most of your average joe's won't get it and most folks that are looking to buy something won't/don't look that hard. Especialy for stuff less that 20-30 bucks. Impulse purchase range. Having the stuff they are looking for right on the front page is good for your business and easy/useful/valueable for the average Joe as well. What he was looking for came right up.
Bless Steve Irwin and Family
This is a loss.
ry filezilla or Novells netdrive. Makes an FTP server look like a driveletter in windows, any app can use FTP for read and write.
I am building a website on website traffic tips n tricks and stumbled upon this...
Retargeting
I am 90% sure that this is what they are doing or some variation thereof. Inexpensive service that should work well.
Place a curse in the RIAA/MPAA.
Damn, I forgot the Link
try Notepad++. syntax highliting for html php js and conversion for windows/unix line ending, macros, hex editor, html tidy-ier-upper, and more. Lots o nifty stuff and i's OSS.
Place a curse on Microsoft
I have been following this for some time... Here are a few links for ya.l Study
http://www.isr.us/Downloads/niac_pdf/contents.htm
LiftPort Group. Company wants to beat NASA.
Reference Site
Place a curse on the RIAA/MPAA
What? Did I miss something? The link works for me...
*scratching head* Sorry if I did something to offend...
Even more is an animated short (CC) here on trusted computing DRM. Or do a search on ED2K/LegalTorrents/Youtube others for "Trusted Computing" by Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel
Place a curse on those SOB's at the MPAA and RIAA and there damn DRM
I'll take a stab here and say that it will contain a subliminal message...
After a while they will begin leasing out the SubLim ad slot to Microsoft Prefered Partners via the windows update function every tuesday.
[/tinfoil hat]
Place a curse on Microsoft
The article is very misleading. This is for the Orion CEV vehicle. This is NOT a lander. This is not for the moon. This is not for Mars. This is a orbital taxi. 4-6 crew members to orbit. ISS transfer.
I am thankful that it looks like NASA is serious, and is reciving funding that it needs and has an aggressive schedule to meet the EOL deadline for the shullte program.
Place a curse on the RIAA and MPAA
Good network admin ins only a small part on the problem. From what I have seen (mind you this is the LA area) the whole system is broken.
1. When you have damn near everything blocked by the firewall/router like Wikipedia the usefulness goes way down. I swear I think they are running a whitelist not a blacklist.
2. I donated a few old machines to a school here and installed them. Dropped a note to the admin to add their MAC's to the list and after a few weeks my friend (teacher there) started calling and memoing as well. After the school year ended and the next semester started and ended and still nothing. Not so much as a phone call from to admin at the district, much less Network access.
3. The teachers have no clue how to use them effectively. They seem to use them as a reward for doing something. "Get a passing grade on your next test and you can play with the computer" type of thinking
4. My old Jr. High spent money on removing all the lockers in the place to replace them with trophy cases. One might ask where do students put their books?.... Surprise? They got rid of books years ago. Yet they blew tons of money on a fancy new computer lab that sits mostly empty and unused and/or underused, blew money on removing lockers, blew money on installing a trophy case, and have not spent a dime on books in 5 years.
5. The students are aware of this B*llsh1t, are forced to go and have no respect (plenty of contempt) for the school (understandable) and treat the equipment like everything else
What can we expect from the people running our schools? Certainly not reason. And what is it we expect laptops to do at the schools under these conditions?
Curse them all
Yep, had an Abit mobo that started going flakey, I finally got around to replacing the board and upon examination found ALL the onboard caps were swolen, bloated and had vented a good amount of electrolite all over. Even "brand name" products are not above using shady parts.
Curse the bastards
Frankly, with the type of people that I see at my local Radio Shack (LA Area) I am surprised that they could figure out how to check their email. These folks are on par with Fry's employees.
Place a curse on 'em
I was just about to post the same damn thing. The responsivness is ehhh so-so but it works. Anyone know if the OOo folks are interested in doing a, ummm, HTTP:// version of OOo. OpenWebOffice or something of the like. That could be something nice and usable, standards compliant, open, familiar online and off.
Just a thought...
Place a curse on the RIAA MPAA and Microsoft
Oops, forgot to note the license. BSD - OSI approved.
/. and I forgot the license. Sorry all.
This is
Bless TiddlyWiki
How about this... TiddlyWiki a personal wiki for notes. views in a web browser, pure javascript love, as handy as a PDA, and only 300kb of HTML.
Place a curse on Spammers
Damn it. I mis-read the title as "Neuroscientists Reasearch Halts Extremeists" I was thinking they found the fundimentalist nut-job gene sequence and could correct it and remove it from the gene pool.
Ah well. Mabey next week. Where is Craig Venter and Celera Genomics when ya need em.
Place a curse on the RIAA/MPAA today
ummm you forgot the hypothsis, testing, and peer review parts. :)
As for the reactor I think I am missing something... I thought we were worried about Uranium enrichment, why the fuss about he reactor. Pluonium? Does having boh uranium and Plutonium make them more dangerous? (honest question not flambait). Or is it more along the lines of a reactor being able to make pluonium faster than the (what I have heard) is the slow process of Uranuim enrichment. Any one knowledgable in he subject?
Place a curse on their reactor
I am rather thankful about all the dropped "features" as they tend not to be so good until v3.0 and tend to be less than standard implementations (Internet Explorer) of technology that simply displaces 3rd party functional products.
As for being late I am hoping that they are taking he time to debug them more than previous products that were shipped to schedule with major problems. Anyhow the longer they take the longer my win2000 will remain viable.
Drop a curse on Microsoft.
Probably around the time the lead Mozilla developer is standing over Steve Ballmer holding a copy of Ubuntu screaming, "The power of the penguin compels you! The power of the penguin compels you! ..."
:)
Good god that was funny. Bless You
As for "Is this the start of better collaboration, or just a sign the Microsoft has learned its lesson from the antitrust battles?" -> Why can't it be both? Because Microsoft's reason for existance is the same for all corporations. To generate income for the owners (shareholders). Not to be nice, or cooperate with marketplace compeditors, it's to push compeditors out of marketspace, and if your think they are going to "ship Mozilla *anything*" with Vista I got two words for ya.
Shareholder Lawsuit
Microsoft is doing this to avoid federal govt problems and put on a good show. Nothing more. Mozilla will still have to fight it out and gain marketshare the same way it has been. By being a better product.
Aw hell... Bless Mozilla too.
Maybe I'm overreacting, but hey. Fuck them.
No, you are not over reacting. This is the feedback system for corps. If they misbehave, we the customers, have the option -the obligation- to vote with our wallets. Lawsuits, and petitions, and letters to the board are nowhere as simple and effective as not spending money with them.
Good for you, and I will join you. Bad Corp, No Dollar.
Bless Apple Computers
I think someone has watched too many episodes of the Simpsons and thought the Springfield Online Police Report was a good idea.
Bless The Simpsons