Does anyone else have a problem giving OptOutPrescreen.com their SSN? Why should I have to do that? What if I don't have a listed phone number? It's a required field. Is this a trustworthy site?
Blacksmiths will also enjoy tax-exempt status in an attempt to preserve the horseshoe manufacturing business. This is mean for the local smithy and not the large metal working conglomerates who already received a major cash bailout earlier this year.
The self-professed libertarians here who argue that she should be able to do whatever she wants are missing the fact that this is in class. The education of the class would be impossible if anyone could do whatever they wanted.
Whoa there. I'm not offended by the fact that she had to stop. I'm not even offended that she is banned from the school for refusing to cooperate (though a week sounds intense). I'm just trying to figure out how this is worthy of going to court.
The same would be true if she had been passing notes in class and caused a fuss about it.
I've never heard of anyone being suspended for a week over passing a paper note or for being arrested over refusing to give it up. If the same scenario happened with paper do you think they would have been arrested? Is this what we put 14 year old children (or anyone) in jail over?
Suspend her. Expel her but don't arrest her.
When did MS ever get anything right the first time? They have always put out crap and spoon fed it to their loyal zealots (usually running an IT department) and slowly made improvements to the point that it became passable and, subsequently, locked into the other things they sell that were already passable. Anyone remember running NT before service pack 2? Anyone try rolling a Vista image? How about early versions of IE? Frankly, I thought Windows 95 was just four years of beta testing Windows 98.
This has been the MS way. If they quit the Zune, that will be a major shift that says if it doesn't work right after the first couple of tries, we're not going to keep on. That line of reasoning would almost force and attitude of: We had better make it right (or pretty close to right) the first time.
While I and many others would welcome this new attitude, I'll believe it when I see it.
I love the thin client model. I've used NCD with Sun Servers, SunRays, Citrix and Windows TS. You can't beat the price, simplicity, energy savings or maintenance schedule. The only problem I ran into was streaming video. They don't (or until recently didn't) stream video well.
Now that Youtube is one of the dominant search engines you kind of have to expect your brand new school to want streaming video. If not now, then certainly long before it is time to replace your thin clients.
I know that's not a solution but it is something to consider.
I suppose it'd be pretty hard for man to technically wipe out all life with current technology. However, all of man and most large critters is close enough in my book. Hell, even knocking man back to the stone age is enough in my book.
Frankly losing power or access to Xbox Live for a couple of hours is more than I want to endure. You slashdot folk are thinking way too big for me.
Check my math but doesn't 100B for 212,000 jobs equate to $471,698 per job created? Is this why stimulus policies may actually make things worse, not better?
If they surrender their screen name and their password, can someone else log in and pretend to be them while saying doing whatever? It seems like an unethical person could log in as one of these people and get them into a lot of trouble.
As cars get more efficient in terms of gas use, the gov't wallet slims down.. but given the same car in terms of e.g. weight, footprint (literal - i.e. tires-on-road), it doesn't matter whether you're super-efficient or the worst gas guzzler in the world... you're still putting the same wear-and-tear on that road. Ergo, they have to..
Actually, no, they don't. More fuel efficient cars are, on average, lighter so they do not put more wear and tear on the road, they put less on it. As fuel efficiency becomes more important, you should see vehicle weights drop. We did in the 70's and we are seeing it now (SUV vs Prius or Land Rover vs CR-V if you want apples to apples). I'm inclined to believe that the solutions to reduced tax revenue due to higher fuel efficiency is to cut government spending but that's not going to happen. A Gas tax is simple, straight forward, hard to loophole (verb?) and reasonably fair. Is it perfectly fair? Probably not but what is? Creating new taxes will likely do more to create additional bureaucracy than increase revenue.
Personally, I'd favor higher gas tax to reduce income tax. Why punish people for working or success? If we are going to have to pay, make it for something that we would rather not be spending our money on in the first place. Higher gas prices would drive greater fuel efficiency and "fuel" the development of alternate energy sources. Being a unique state to tax miles driven will just make people want to drive elsewhere. It also fails to achieve the ultimate goal of taxation (queue Monty Python) Tax all foreigners living abroad. It becomes a tax for the locals to bear.
Finally, this is just a great example of how Americans can deal with a problem by becoming more efficient. When fuel costs go up, we get more efficient cars, carpool, telecommute. It is also a great example of the American government failing to deal with a problem or dealing with it by becoming less efficient.
Companies have realized that they do have a choice -- that they can simply say 'no.'
Until Microsoft say they aren't going to support the OS any longer. Then you have to "upgrade" or change entirely. If there is one thing I have learned, it takes a lot less effort to complain than it does to change. Going from XP to Vista is not considered a change by many.
Sadly, I think some linux distros and OO are more like XP and Office 2003 than Vista and Office 2007 but that requires education. Something else we seem to be short on these days.
Our school has labs. These labs use deep freeze. When the power goes out, students lose data. Sure they can be smart and save their work to the network drive but many don't or forget or were just getting started or couldn't remember their password, or autosave only saves to a network drive after the initial "save as".........
Please spare me your "they ought tos......"* It happens and when it does those who were using google apps, lose little or no data.
Then there is the online collaboration stuff between teachers and staff from different schools who need to work together and whose IT departments don't.
Then there is the storage space that is far greater than any IT department has quota'd(sp?) before so we can share those large image files.
It's not about what OOO does better, which is most everything. It's about what Google apps does that no one else does. The technical superiority of OOO and MS Office are things that can be picked up later as Google improves the product. I for one can't think of anything MSOffice has done to improve my Word or Excel functionality since Office 95 so the gap on useful features is closing fast.
*unless you can tell me how to get autosave to save to a network drive if you haven't saved your work initially in Vista
Wow, that's insightful on slashdot? When we see a study that gabs a small number of children and shows demonstrative effects, we point as the pool or sample size and cry foul but when one individual somehow analyzes his own actions against what he thinks they would have been if he hadn't taken a certain action, well that settles it.
Where to begin?
One does not make a valid sample.
How do you know what you would have been like if you hadn't been listening to said violent music?
What makes you think this is short term reaction thing only? In other words, might you me more violent all the time as a result of your listening habits?
How do we know you self diagnosis is accurate?
How do we know you are telling the truth?
As usual it isn't the quality of the argument on slashdot that gets the mod-ups, it's hearing what we want. I wonder if we vote that way too.
Oh, this isn't a criticism of the original poster. I think I have made these arguments to when I was younger but I have come to realize that the world is a much bigger place made up of people very different from me. I have also come to realize my actions are not viewed by others as I view them myself.
Who could possibly be confident your kindle and all those books would be working 20 years from now when DRM schemes are dropping like flies.
Be sure and let me know in twenty years if are still using the computer you used to post this comment or any of the software installed on it.
That's the way technology works. It is convenient and temporary. I seem to recall reading that all technology is rented because none of it will last forever. We do seem to apply a double standard to our tech expectations don't we?
Colour me surprised when I found out that at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI - nuclear reactor-based research), the percentage of Macs was around 40-50%!
Wait a minute. Are you implying that they are biased because they are about equal users of both platforms? That somehow having access to both reduces their ability to judge fairly? Obviously if they were nearly all Mac, they would be biased towards Macs. Wouldn't the same go for an all PC industry? Aren't the best people to speak about a subject those equally versed on both sides?
I've seen a few posts knocking Bush, Cheney, Rove and Republicans in general because we seem to think that government control and fascism is just that, Republican. I take this moment to remind everyone that laws are made by the Legislative branch, not the Executive branch or the Judicial branch. Right now, the Democrats control half that and there is an even split in the other half (unless you consider the two independents ex-Democrats).
I say this not to point fingers at one party or the other but in hope that we might not put too much faith in either party to fix our problems. Right now I am not aware of anyone having a great track record on that front. Sooner or later we are going to have to recognize the problems for what they are and determine a way to fix them that goes beyond voting for our party or griping on slashdot.
The researchers propose that, if the industry can't make privacy policies easier to read or skim, then federal intervention may be needed.
Why? Why should I need the federal government to get involved? At what point did I lose the power to choose to simply not use the service. If I don't have time to read the policy, then I can simply say no. It is only at the point that I no longer have a choice and that my rights are threatened that I need the federal government to step in and protect my rights.
How did we become a society of people who believe that the only ones who can solve our problems are the government, worse, the federal government? Have we no self reliance anymore?
While I am disappointed, I am not surprised. The more important issue will be whether or not the Supreme Court objects.
Think of it this way. Our congress is a collection of lawmakers. That's what we call them. Most of the good laws have already been thought up and enacted. After over 200 years, they still feel the need to make laws and since the good ones are taken, they start passing bad ones.
By this definition, it's only going to get worse.
Sadly, we complain when they take really long paid vacations but I say let them. The longer they are away, the less damage they can do. I'd happily elect and pay a lawmaker to congress who promised not to pass anything and would be ecstatic if one promised to start repealing a few.
If you can't afford $400 a year to not deal with scumbags, get out of whatever business you're in. Scambags always screw you over in the end.
So, what business are you in that doesn't require dealing with scum bags? I've held enough jobs (and just plain been around long enough) to know they are everywhere. I've even run across a few on slashdot but I still come back (though, admittedly, less and less).
Let's not get so much righteous indignation that we throw away someone else's $400 frivolously.
I've been a Palm user for many years (Palm II) and I can tell you they haven't done anything for a long time. My Treo600 was pretty nice for its day. The 650 became nice plus bluetooth. The new Centro became nice plus bluetooth minus weight at the expense of screen size at that has to be the meat of it.
How much has the palm device has changed over the past few years. I haven't seen much of anything new since the treo600. How many years has that been without any significant innovation. The Centro is a sad testament to Palm moving backwards. Sure, it's smaller and lighter but so is the screen. Look at the iphone. The screen is huge but it is smaller and lighter than the treos too.
What happened to Palm? Whoever was in charge of innovation died! If not physically, then surely spiritually.
Come to think of it, wasn't the treo from another company (Handspring)? Didn't Palm absorb them to create the coolest stuff they have had to offer over the last few years anyway?
When is the last time Palm did anything cool?
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..that they have been shooting the wrong people.
Does anyone else have a problem giving OptOutPrescreen.com their SSN? Why should I have to do that? What if I don't have a listed phone number? It's a required field. Is this a trustworthy site?
Blacksmiths will also enjoy tax-exempt status in an attempt to preserve the horseshoe manufacturing business. This is mean for the local smithy and not the large metal working conglomerates who already received a major cash bailout earlier this year.
My Mac cost $599 . So where are all of these Core2 Duo PCs for $99?
Where's the "Duh" tag on this one? Really, are we just figuring this out?
Yet another case of blaming others (like educators and CEOs for this one) for discrimination when the responsibility falls on the choices we make.
How about they require gun ownership from all of their citizens. I'll bet that would do more good.
Here's my evidence, where's his? http://www.rense.com/general9/gunlaw.htm
The self-professed libertarians here who argue that she should be able to do whatever she wants are missing the fact that this is in class. The education of the class would be impossible if anyone could do whatever they wanted.
Whoa there. I'm not offended by the fact that she had to stop. I'm not even offended that she is banned from the school for refusing to cooperate (though a week sounds intense). I'm just trying to figure out how this is worthy of going to court.
The same would be true if she had been passing notes in class and caused a fuss about it.
I've never heard of anyone being suspended for a week over passing a paper note or for being arrested over refusing to give it up. If the same scenario happened with paper do you think they would have been arrested? Is this what we put 14 year old children (or anyone) in jail over?
Suspend her. Expel her but don't arrest her.
When did MS ever get anything right the first time? They have always put out crap and spoon fed it to their loyal zealots (usually running an IT department) and slowly made improvements to the point that it became passable and, subsequently, locked into the other things they sell that were already passable. Anyone remember running NT before service pack 2? Anyone try rolling a Vista image? How about early versions of IE? Frankly, I thought Windows 95 was just four years of beta testing Windows 98.
This has been the MS way. If they quit the Zune, that will be a major shift that says if it doesn't work right after the first couple of tries, we're not going to keep on. That line of reasoning would almost force and attitude of: We had better make it right (or pretty close to right) the first time.
While I and many others would welcome this new attitude, I'll believe it when I see it.
I love the thin client model. I've used NCD with Sun Servers, SunRays, Citrix and Windows TS. You can't beat the price, simplicity, energy savings or maintenance schedule. The only problem I ran into was streaming video. They don't (or until recently didn't) stream video well.
Now that Youtube is one of the dominant search engines you kind of have to expect your brand new school to want streaming video. If not now, then certainly long before it is time to replace your thin clients.
I know that's not a solution but it is something to consider.
I suppose it'd be pretty hard for man to technically wipe out all life with current technology. However, all of man and most large critters is close enough in my book. Hell, even knocking man back to the stone age is enough in my book.
Frankly losing power or access to Xbox Live for a couple of hours is more than I want to endure. You slashdot folk are thinking way too big for me.
Check my math but doesn't 100B for 212,000 jobs equate to $471,698 per job created? Is this why stimulus policies may actually make things worse, not better?
If they surrender their screen name and their password, can someone else log in and pretend to be them while saying doing whatever? It seems like an unethical person could log in as one of these people and get them into a lot of trouble.
As cars get more efficient in terms of gas use, the gov't wallet slims down.. but given the same car in terms of e.g. weight, footprint (literal - i.e. tires-on-road), it doesn't matter whether you're super-efficient or the worst gas guzzler in the world... you're still putting the same wear-and-tear on that road. Ergo, they have to..
Actually, no, they don't. More fuel efficient cars are, on average, lighter so they do not put more wear and tear on the road, they put less on it. As fuel efficiency becomes more important, you should see vehicle weights drop. We did in the 70's and we are seeing it now (SUV vs Prius or Land Rover vs CR-V if you want apples to apples). I'm inclined to believe that the solutions to reduced tax revenue due to higher fuel efficiency is to cut government spending but that's not going to happen. A Gas tax is simple, straight forward, hard to loophole (verb?) and reasonably fair. Is it perfectly fair? Probably not but what is? Creating new taxes will likely do more to create additional bureaucracy than increase revenue.
Personally, I'd favor higher gas tax to reduce income tax. Why punish people for working or success? If we are going to have to pay, make it for something that we would rather not be spending our money on in the first place. Higher gas prices would drive greater fuel efficiency and "fuel" the development of alternate energy sources. Being a unique state to tax miles driven will just make people want to drive elsewhere. It also fails to achieve the ultimate goal of taxation (queue Monty Python) Tax all foreigners living abroad. It becomes a tax for the locals to bear.
Finally, this is just a great example of how Americans can deal with a problem by becoming more efficient. When fuel costs go up, we get more efficient cars, carpool, telecommute. It is also a great example of the American government failing to deal with a problem or dealing with it by becoming less efficient.
Companies have realized that they do have a choice -- that they can simply say 'no.'
Until Microsoft say they aren't going to support the OS any longer. Then you have to "upgrade" or change entirely. If there is one thing I have learned, it takes a lot less effort to complain than it does to change. Going from XP to Vista is not considered a change by many.
Sadly, I think some linux distros and OO are more like XP and Office 2003 than Vista and Office 2007 but that requires education. Something else we seem to be short on these days.
Our school has labs. These labs use deep freeze. When the power goes out, students lose data. Sure they can be smart and save their work to the network drive but many don't or forget or were just getting started or couldn't remember their password, or autosave only saves to a network drive after the initial "save as".........
Please spare me your "they ought tos......"* It happens and when it does those who were using google apps, lose little or no data.
Then there is the online collaboration stuff between teachers and staff from different schools who need to work together and whose IT departments don't.
Then there is the storage space that is far greater than any IT department has quota'd(sp?) before so we can share those large image files.
It's not about what OOO does better, which is most everything. It's about what Google apps does that no one else does. The technical superiority of OOO and MS Office are things that can be picked up later as Google improves the product. I for one can't think of anything MSOffice has done to improve my Word or Excel functionality since Office 95 so the gap on useful features is closing fast.
*unless you can tell me how to get autosave to save to a network drive if you haven't saved your work initially in Vista
Wow, that's insightful on slashdot? When we see a study that gabs a small number of children and shows demonstrative effects, we point as the pool or sample size and cry foul but when one individual somehow analyzes his own actions against what he thinks they would have been if he hadn't taken a certain action, well that settles it.
Where to begin?
One does not make a valid sample.
How do you know what you would have been like if you hadn't been listening to said violent music?
What makes you think this is short term reaction thing only? In other words, might you me more violent all the time as a result of your listening habits?
How do we know you self diagnosis is accurate?
How do we know you are telling the truth?
As usual it isn't the quality of the argument on slashdot that gets the mod-ups, it's hearing what we want. I wonder if we vote that way too.
Oh, this isn't a criticism of the original poster. I think I have made these arguments to when I was younger but I have come to realize that the world is a much bigger place made up of people very different from me. I have also come to realize my actions are not viewed by others as I view them myself.
Who could possibly be confident your kindle and all those books would be working 20 years from now when DRM schemes are dropping like flies.
Be sure and let me know in twenty years if are still using the computer you used to post this comment or any of the software installed on it.
That's the way technology works. It is convenient and temporary. I seem to recall reading that all technology is rented because none of it will last forever. We do seem to apply a double standard to our tech expectations don't we?
Colour me surprised when I found out that at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI - nuclear reactor-based research), the percentage of Macs was around 40-50%!
Wait a minute. Are you implying that they are biased because they are about equal users of both platforms? That somehow having access to both reduces their ability to judge fairly? Obviously if they were nearly all Mac, they would be biased towards Macs. Wouldn't the same go for an all PC industry? Aren't the best people to speak about a subject those equally versed on both sides?
I've seen a few posts knocking Bush, Cheney, Rove and Republicans in general because we seem to think that government control and fascism is just that, Republican. I take this moment to remind everyone that laws are made by the Legislative branch, not the Executive branch or the Judicial branch. Right now, the Democrats control half that and there is an even split in the other half (unless you consider the two independents ex-Democrats).
I say this not to point fingers at one party or the other but in hope that we might not put too much faith in either party to fix our problems. Right now I am not aware of anyone having a great track record on that front. Sooner or later we are going to have to recognize the problems for what they are and determine a way to fix them that goes beyond voting for our party or griping on slashdot.
The researchers propose that, if the industry can't make privacy policies easier to read or skim, then federal intervention may be needed.
Why? Why should I need the federal government to get involved? At what point did I lose the power to choose to simply not use the service. If I don't have time to read the policy, then I can simply say no. It is only at the point that I no longer have a choice and that my rights are threatened that I need the federal government to step in and protect my rights.
How did we become a society of people who believe that the only ones who can solve our problems are the government, worse, the federal government? Have we no self reliance anymore?
While I am disappointed, I am not surprised. The more important issue will be whether or not the Supreme Court objects.
Think of it this way. Our congress is a collection of lawmakers. That's what we call them. Most of the good laws have already been thought up and enacted. After over 200 years, they still feel the need to make laws and since the good ones are taken, they start passing bad ones.
By this definition, it's only going to get worse.
Sadly, we complain when they take really long paid vacations but I say let them. The longer they are away, the less damage they can do. I'd happily elect and pay a lawmaker to congress who promised not to pass anything and would be ecstatic if one promised to start repealing a few.
to send someone over to the competition to scope things out before returning to the fold.
I watched it happen at my former employer.
If you can't afford $400 a year to not deal with scumbags, get out of whatever business you're in. Scambags always screw you over in the end.
So, what business are you in that doesn't require dealing with scum bags? I've held enough jobs (and just plain been around long enough) to know they are everywhere. I've even run across a few on slashdot but I still come back (though, admittedly, less and less).
Let's not get so much righteous indignation that we throw away someone else's $400 frivolously.
I've been a Palm user for many years (Palm II) and I can tell you they haven't done anything for a long time. My Treo600 was pretty nice for its day. The 650 became nice plus bluetooth. The new Centro became nice plus bluetooth minus weight at the expense of screen size at that has to be the meat of it.
How much has the palm device has changed over the past few years. I haven't seen much of anything new since the treo600. How many years has that been without any significant innovation. The Centro is a sad testament to Palm moving backwards. Sure, it's smaller and lighter but so is the screen. Look at the iphone. The screen is huge but it is smaller and lighter than the treos too.
What happened to Palm? Whoever was in charge of innovation died! If not physically, then surely spiritually.
Come to think of it, wasn't the treo from another company (Handspring)? Didn't Palm absorb them to create the coolest stuff they have had to offer over the last few years anyway?
When is the last time Palm did anything cool?
It fit on something smaller than a dual layer dvd
I didn't have to reboot every time I updated quicktime
I could install an application I just downloaded without being asked if I was sure I wanted to
I didn't get a blue screen of uselessness while installing upgrades.
That would be really advanced.