Does this change the way the transplant patient tastes certain foods? Will he like foods he didn't like before or dislike foods he used to like? Perhaps his favorite food will be whatever the person that had the tongue before liked? Just wondering.
If companies have to maintain profitiablity, and developers are cheaper in other countries, what choice do they have except to export those jobs? Sure, it makes life harder for the developers in the US, at least for the short term, but what if exporting that work enables IBM to spend money on R & D that provides even more work for state-side developers in the long run? I'm just thinking there are some benefits and some disadvantages with just about any solution IBM chooses.
meltoast writes "We send employees through a cubicle farm to see their reactions and then take that information and apply it to our knowledge of the human psyche. Well, what if those employees are completely out of their minds? Discover recently ran an article showing that employees kept in a cubicle environment may be crazy. 'In one sequence, an employee climbs the cloth-covered walls of his cubicle, hangs from the false ceiling by his hands while gnawing on the frame, then drops to the floor, only to repeat the process endlessly. On the other side of the room, a second employee makes copies, one per second, for up to 30 minutes at a time.'"
If you've ever been tricked by one of those ads telling you that your "connection is not optimized" or that you have "1 new message waiting," you could be part of the class.
Stop supporting RIAA artists by trading their songs. All you're doing by sharing mp3s of RIAA artists is giving the RIAA free marketing and proving that they're still relevant. Go to mp3.com or something and support independent artists who want you to share their music.
If you want to hurt the RIAA, stop supporting them through marketing.
As long as you share RIAA-distributed music, you're demonstrating that their marketing is beneficial to the artists and that their business model is not antiquated. Support independent artists instead, and prove the RIAA is unncessary. The culture of P2P networks needs to shun those who cause laws like this to be created so that independent artists will have a method of distributing their music to the masses.
They will only fear for their lives if the second ammendment right to bear arms isn't ignored. This ammendment wasn't created to make sure that those in the military could have weapons, or to make sure we could all hunt. The right to bear arms is an individual right -- not a state right. The second ammendment exists to protect the first.
Sharing RIAA music hurts independent artists. People are less inclined to look for good legitimate free music from independent artists who want you to share when they can get the RIAA peddled junk for free illegitimately.
I'm sure you'll get modded as flamebait, but the fact remains that these "nations" are now unable to make laws as they see fit because they gave up their sovereignty.
Educate the sysadmins who are presumably inadvertently allowing spammers to use their SMTP servers. Educate the users about spam filters. The last thing we need is the incompetent government getting their grubby hands on yet another piece of technology they don't understand.
The US is a republic which means the rule of law supercedes the rule of the people. A pure democracy is mob rule and pays no attention to rights of the minority -- those with an unpopular opinion. A pure democracy could decide that all geeks deserved the death penalty for create software that could be used by terrorists -- and there'd be nothing you could do about it. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's right, and just because it's unpopular doesn't mean it's wrong.
I'd get the cell for all the voice calls and just keep a very cheap, basic landline service with no long distance plan just for your internet access (assuming your ISP is a local call).
This blurb makes almost no sense. You picked the wrong sentence to copy for the story, ccparrish. Please drink more coffee before submitting a story.
Let me help:
A group of OpenBSD whitehat hackers are getting together in Calgary until May 20th with the goal of creating a free, state-of-the-art operating system that is entirely resilient to hacking, viruses and other cyberattacks.
Affirmative Action is saying that the group benefiting from the program would not be able to acheive their goals without help from the government. In the case of race and schools, it's saying that those races aren't smart enough to get into the college of their choice. In the case of business, it's saying those races are incapable of succeeding on their own. In the case of software, it's saying that the software will never be able to be up to par enough to compete against proprietary software on its own.
If you were a ten year old playing basketball against a 20 year old, would you be more proud of yourself for winning the game if that other person was in a wheelchair, or if they were in good physical condition? It may be a more "fair" game, but the reward and satisfaction is minimal. Is that how you want to win?
I sure hope OSS is given a chance to compete without being belittled by legislation that proposes to "level the playing field" by handicapping the competition. This legislation will only alienate the companies (IBM, Sun, Oracle) that have supported OSS with their commercial leverage, and make these OSS projects feel dependent on the government for their survival and success.
Why would a government want to strangle itself economically just so environmentalists/extortionists with bad science can be appeased? The scientists in support of the theory that blames humans for the climate changes are in the minority, after all.
(I'm sure I'll get modded down just because people are too lazy to answer a reasonable question.)
The main reason that there are so few Linux viruses out there is that there are so few desktop Linux installations relative to Windows, making it less fun to write Linux viruses, and less likely for them to spread.
That logic doesn't really hold up when you consider that Apache is on a lot more servers than IIS, yet IIS gets hit quite a bit more often with worms.
A Linux virus could do significant damage without root access, and there are a variety of ways that such a virus could trick the user into giving it root access.
That will be the case with any OS, though, so you haven't really made a point. At least with users running as users instead of as root, there is less of a chance of havoc being wreaked, even if it's only a minimal difference. You can't regulate stupidity or ignorance, so there will always be the people that run everything that gets sent to them, and possibly even enter a root password at every oppotunity. However, that doesn't mean software vendors should just throw their hands up in the air and blow off security in the name of convenience. That's how Microsoft got into the security hellhole they're in now.
If Dell, HP or some other vendor bought Sun, would Sun's funding for OpenOffice.org and GNOME dry up, considering these other vendors are primarily Microsoft shops and the funding could generate a conflict of interest?
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Does this change the way the transplant patient tastes certain foods? Will he like foods he didn't like before or dislike foods he used to like? Perhaps his favorite food will be whatever the person that had the tongue before liked? Just wondering.
Sharing RIAA and MPAA products illegally only gives them undeserved free advertising and hurts independent film makers and musicians.
We're at the point where sharing RIAA and MPAA products illegally is just counter-productive regardless of its moral issues.
Why spend money on expensive US developers?
I can't think of a good reason. Can you?
If companies have to maintain profitiablity, and developers are cheaper in other countries, what choice do they have except to export those jobs? Sure, it makes life harder for the developers in the US, at least for the short term, but what if exporting that work enables IBM to spend money on R & D that provides even more work for state-side developers in the long run? I'm just thinking there are some benefits and some disadvantages with just about any solution IBM chooses.
meltoast writes "We send employees through a cubicle farm to see their reactions and then take that information and apply it to our knowledge of the human psyche. Well, what if those employees are completely out of their minds? Discover recently ran an article showing that employees kept in a cubicle environment may be crazy. 'In one sequence, an employee climbs the cloth-covered walls of his cubicle, hangs from the false ceiling by his hands while gnawing on the frame, then drops to the floor, only to repeat the process endlessly. On the other side of the room, a second employee makes copies, one per second, for up to 30 minutes at a time.'"
If you've ever been tricked by one of those ads telling you that your "connection is not optimized" or that you have "1 new message waiting," you could be part of the class.
Yeah, the special education class.
Stop supporting RIAA artists by trading their songs. All you're doing by sharing mp3s of RIAA artists is giving the RIAA free marketing and proving that they're still relevant. Go to mp3.com or something and support independent artists who want you to share their music.
If you want to hurt the RIAA, stop supporting them through marketing.
As long as you share RIAA-distributed music, you're demonstrating that their marketing is beneficial to the artists and that their business model is not antiquated. Support independent artists instead, and prove the RIAA is unncessary. The culture of P2P networks needs to shun those who cause laws like this to be created so that independent artists will have a method of distributing their music to the masses.
They will only fear for their lives if the second ammendment right to bear arms isn't ignored. This ammendment wasn't created to make sure that those in the military could have weapons, or to make sure we could all hunt. The right to bear arms is an individual right -- not a state right. The second ammendment exists to protect the first.
Sharing RIAA music hurts independent artists. People are less inclined to look for good legitimate free music from independent artists who want you to share when they can get the RIAA peddled junk for free illegitimately.
We all know Republicans can't hack.
I prefer /[^microsoft]/.
I'm sure you'll get modded as flamebait, but the fact remains that these "nations" are now unable to make laws as they see fit because they gave up their sovereignty.
Educate the sysadmins who are presumably inadvertently allowing spammers to use their SMTP servers. Educate the users about spam filters. The last thing we need is the incompetent government getting their grubby hands on yet another piece of technology they don't understand.
The US is a republic which means the rule of law supercedes the rule of the people. A pure democracy is mob rule and pays no attention to rights of the minority -- those with an unpopular opinion. A pure democracy could decide that all geeks deserved the death penalty for create software that could be used by terrorists -- and there'd be nothing you could do about it. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's right, and just because it's unpopular doesn't mean it's wrong.
I'd get the cell for all the voice calls and just keep a very cheap, basic landline service with no long distance plan just for your internet access (assuming your ISP is a local call).
"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions." -- Terry Pratchett
Standards allow free men to pull in all kinds of directions without running into each other.
This blurb makes almost no sense. You picked the wrong sentence to copy for the story, ccparrish. Please drink more coffee before submitting a story.
Let me help:
A group of OpenBSD whitehat hackers are getting together in Calgary until May 20th with the goal of creating a free, state-of-the-art operating system that is entirely resilient to hacking, viruses and other cyberattacks.
OpenNIC is your friend.
Affirmative Action is saying that the group benefiting from the program would not be able to acheive their goals without help from the government. In the case of race and schools, it's saying that those races aren't smart enough to get into the college of their choice. In the case of business, it's saying those races are incapable of succeeding on their own. In the case of software, it's saying that the software will never be able to be up to par enough to compete against proprietary software on its own.
If you were a ten year old playing basketball against a 20 year old, would you be more proud of yourself for winning the game if that other person was in a wheelchair, or if they were in good physical condition? It may be a more "fair" game, but the reward and satisfaction is minimal.
Is that how you want to win?
I sure hope OSS is given a chance to compete without being belittled by legislation that proposes to "level the playing field" by handicapping the competition. This legislation will only alienate the companies (IBM, Sun, Oracle) that have supported OSS with their commercial leverage, and make these OSS projects feel dependent on the government for their survival and success.
At least it's not a swordfight game.
Why would a government want to strangle itself economically just so environmentalists/extortionists with bad science can be appeased? The scientists in support of the theory that blames humans for the climate changes are in the minority, after all.
(I'm sure I'll get modded down just because people are too lazy to answer a reasonable question.)
The main reason that there are so few Linux viruses out there is that there are so few desktop Linux installations relative to Windows, making it less fun to write Linux viruses, and less likely for them to spread.
That logic doesn't really hold up when you consider that Apache is on a lot more servers than IIS, yet IIS gets hit quite a bit more often with worms.
A Linux virus could do significant damage without root access, and there are a variety of ways that such a virus could trick the user into giving it root access.
That will be the case with any OS, though, so you haven't really made a point. At least with users running as users instead of as root, there is less of a chance of havoc being wreaked, even if it's only a minimal difference. You can't regulate stupidity or ignorance, so there will always be the people that run everything that gets sent to them, and possibly even enter a root password at every oppotunity. However, that doesn't mean software vendors should just throw their hands up in the air and blow off security in the name of convenience. That's how Microsoft got into the security hellhole they're in now.
If Dell, HP or some other vendor bought Sun, would Sun's funding for OpenOffice.org and GNOME dry up, considering these other vendors are primarily Microsoft shops and the funding could generate a conflict of interest?
Do you really want to hear the things that will be said in the stall next to you? As if hearing the gastrointestinal disturbances wasn't bad enough.