The government, when faced with the failure of the Clipper chip and seeing the coming tide of encryption, saw the value of patenting. They, specifically NSA, needed a way to always be able to crack encryption so they patented DES. No need for a backdoor!
If that unlikely event were to come to pass,
Spoken like a true typical Repuglican who is that 39% who thinks that W the monkey boy is doing a good job. You guys run everything into the ground since you've have control of all branches of government the last six years and you're probably going to say that it was Clinton who did it because emotionally you can't move on. Can't take responsibility for sh*t and you wonder why you aren't respected.
The argument of "the Democrats are worse" is pretty much run out. It can't GET worse than now. Frankly I thank W for being man responsible for giving Congress back to the Democarst come fall. I firmly thaink that most Americans would not only welcome Clinton but would allow him to shove his cigar anywhere he wishes.
When Clinton lied, no one died. It's gets more true every day.
I dig Google, man do I ever but I think I have reached my limit as to how tightly I integrate myself with Google, inc. Google IS a publicly traded company and it's only a matter of time before "Do no evil"(tm) becomes "We do less evil than everyone else" (tm). Why? Because Google is publicly traded and their only real obligation is to their stockholders. No matter of hipster-doofus-coolness culture trumps that. Just look at Apple...
They have transitioned themselved from being cool to being fairly evil (sweatshops for iPod manufacture, closing off the Darwin source)
Besides do you think for one second that eBay will make integrating auctions easy with Google? Of course not....
Paypal does suck but all of these services do and odds are Google's will too.
What with all those hockey players losing teeth. It was either there or Kentucky where people also don't have teeth. Interestingly that's where the toothbrush was invented. Otherwise it would have been called the teethbrush.
Google, as a publicly traded company only has one real obligation: ROI to stockholders
I totally dig Google but I wonder ultimately where they are headed. Bowing to China and return on investment being what it is to a publicly traded company, one has to wonder when the day will com when Google's mantra becomes "We do less evil than everyone else".
You know it's coming..... I normally am the first to jump on the new Google stuff but I think the time is coming soon to stop feeding this one beast and spread it around just to diversify.
You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first... insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but... I'm afraid, uh...
My vote for the best year is whatever year MAME came out. Seriously!
When I was 14 my Dad kicked my ass because I wasted about $20.00 playing Crazy Climber at the arcade. Flash forward years later to MAME. I definitely got my money back......
Most people DON'T realize that punk (no I don't mean Green Day.. think SST records, anything through Blacklist Mailorder from MRR...etc) a lot of music was/is only available on 7 inch vinyl. Because the young uns today don't know what a reecord is.. (it's what we all listened to before CDs).
Digitizing this stuff in not only a way to preserve it but to also turn the kids on what started a lot today's great bands because today's kids always need edumacatin' about music. (Well every generation does in it's time)
Seriously! No question that Yahoo does search better than Google. There is a prevailing, ridiculous reasoning among companies that once you buy a smaller company you somehow become that company and that's great for competitors.
It's been great for Southwest airlines. They do air way better than everyone else, their market cap and growth prove it. I used to work for American and everytime Southwest came into a market AA closed up shop and left (Nashville hub anyone?)
American planted themselves a hub in San Jose California (primarily to get Tokyo routes) and it used to be that AA and United controlled traffic intra-California. Sure there was AirCal and PSA but the solution was to just buy them up. Then came the day that Southwest came into California and within two years became the largest intra-California carrier. American's solution? Sucker Reno Air (then based in Reno) to take over their gates. Southwest got a GREAT run for their money and actually had a formidable opponent.
So what did AA do? They bought Reno Air and brought to it the AA culture and Southwest said THANKS!!!! They just bought out Southwest's competitor and AA was an easy target to pick off because of their inefficiency that's pervasive among legacy carriers.
Know why Warren Buffett makes so much money? He insists as part of an acquisiton that current management stays and then gives them a fat pay raise. If it ain't broke, don't fix it and in M&A, the "M" tends to do a lot of "fixing".
If MS buys Yahoo! and brings the MS culture, then the union will not represent a significant threat to Google. Yahoo! does search better than MS and bring the MS culture and mindset only dumbs it down.
When you chain two people and throw one off the bridge the other tends to go.
cowboy love has been ok. Darl loves you baby. He's the rootinest tootinest. EVERYBODY SINGALONG!!!!
Darl can't get along little dogey, he can't even get one that's small, He can't get a long little dogey, he can't get a dogey at all....
I have known people who were suicidal after having Lasik because they had it done at a "399.00 per eye" where the point is to get people in and out as fast as possible.
The problem with Lasik is that the burn area is only so big and some people's pupils dilate past that point resulting in all kinds of weird effects on the vision. Grinding would seem to allow much more control over the treatment area.
If you're going to get conventional Lasik here are some things to remember....
1. It IS surgery contrary to how "routine" Lasik places try to pass it off
2. Research your doctor doing the procedure
3. If you're lucky your doc possesses a cornea fellowship from Emory University
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means sweatshops for iPods and doing things like heading down the dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means sweatshops for iPods and doing things like heading down the dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
That is sad but true, publicly traded companies are there to make money for stockholders. That may come as a surprise to the Cult of Apple but it's true.
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business
IBM was the Microsoft of it's time and now it's a darling of geeks everywhere. All companies eventually have to learn to transition from being an entity that makes standards to merely contributing to them. Microsoft will learn this lesson albeit the hard way but they will learn.
Then in the future we can adjust our ire towards future threats like Apple for closing Darwin off to development and Google who is probably amassing more power than any one company should.
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hijack someone else Ellison! Can this guy be any more of a dick?
Karma has proven it's infallibility.
The government, when faced with the failure of the Clipper chip and seeing the coming tide of encryption, saw the value of patenting. They, specifically NSA, needed a way to always be able to crack encryption so they patented DES. No need for a backdoor!
where the hell's my tinfoil hat?
<SIGH>Aluminum foil, not tin foil!!!</SIGH>
AL foil and SN foil are completely different elements.
If that unlikely event were to come to pass,
Spoken like a true typical Repuglican who is that 39% who thinks that W the monkey boy is doing a good job. You guys run everything into the ground since you've have control of all branches of government the last six years and you're probably going to say that it was Clinton who did it because emotionally you can't move on. Can't take responsibility for sh*t and you wonder why you aren't respected.
The argument of "the Democrats are worse" is pretty much run out. It can't GET worse than now. Frankly I thank W for being man responsible for giving Congress back to the Democarst come fall. I firmly thaink that most Americans would not only welcome Clinton but would allow him to shove his cigar anywhere he wishes.
When Clinton lied, no one died. It's gets more true every day.
I dig Google, man do I ever but I think I have reached my limit as to how tightly I integrate myself with Google, inc. Google IS a publicly traded company and it's only a matter of time before "Do no evil"(tm) becomes "We do less evil than everyone else" (tm). Why? Because Google is publicly traded and their only real obligation is to their stockholders. No matter of hipster-doofus-coolness culture trumps that. Just look at Apple...
They have transitioned themselved from being cool to being fairly evil (sweatshops for iPod manufacture, closing off the Darwin source)
Besides do you think for one second that eBay will make integrating auctions easy with Google? Of course not....
Paypal does suck but all of these services do and odds are Google's will too.
What with all those hockey players losing teeth. It was either there or Kentucky where people also don't have teeth. Interestingly that's where the toothbrush was invented. Otherwise it would have been called the teethbrush.
Thanks, I'll be here all week, enjoy the veal.
(Disclaimer: I am a Kentuckian)
I vote Linux! If not that then any posix system is ok......thanks!
the infallibility of karma. It is not so forgiving...
Commodore 64s in my beowulf. Maybe a few more 128's or an Amiga.
Google, as a publicly traded company only has one real obligation: ROI to stockholders
I totally dig Google but I wonder ultimately where they are headed. Bowing to China and return on investment being what it is to a publicly traded company, one has to wonder when the day will com when Google's mantra becomes "We do less evil than everyone else".
You know it's coming..... I normally am the first to jump on the new Google stuff but I think the time is coming soon to stop feeding this one beast and spread it around just to diversify.
You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first... insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but... I'm afraid, uh...
My vote for the best year is whatever year MAME came out. Seriously!
When I was 14 my Dad kicked my ass because I wasted about $20.00 playing Crazy Climber at the arcade. Flash forward years later to MAME. I definitely got my money back......
Most people DON'T realize that punk (no I don't mean Green Day.. think SST records, anything through Blacklist Mailorder from MRR...etc) a lot of music was/is only available on 7 inch vinyl. Because the young uns today don't know what a reecord is.. (it's what we all listened to before CDs).
Digitizing this stuff in not only a way to preserve it but to also turn the kids on what started a lot today's great bands because today's kids always need edumacatin' about music. (Well every generation does in it's time)
Seriously! No question that Yahoo does search better than Google. There is a prevailing, ridiculous reasoning among companies that once you buy a smaller company you somehow become that company and that's great for competitors.
It's been great for Southwest airlines. They do air way better than everyone else, their market cap and growth prove it. I used to work for American and everytime Southwest came into a market AA closed up shop and left (Nashville hub anyone?)
American planted themselves a hub in San Jose California (primarily to get Tokyo routes) and it used to be that AA and United controlled traffic intra-California. Sure there was AirCal and PSA but the solution was to just buy them up. Then came the day that Southwest came into California and within two years became the largest intra-California carrier. American's solution? Sucker Reno Air (then based in Reno) to take over their gates. Southwest got a GREAT run for their money and actually had a formidable opponent.
So what did AA do? They bought Reno Air and brought to it the AA culture and Southwest said THANKS!!!! They just bought out Southwest's competitor and AA was an easy target to pick off because of their inefficiency that's pervasive among legacy carriers.
Know why Warren Buffett makes so much money? He insists as part of an acquisiton that current management stays and then gives them a fat pay raise. If it ain't broke, don't fix it and in M&A, the "M" tends to do a lot of "fixing".
If MS buys Yahoo! and brings the MS culture, then the union will not represent a significant threat to Google. Yahoo! does search better than MS and bring the MS culture and mindset only dumbs it down.
When you chain two people and throw one off the bridge the other tends to go.
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killall -HUP NovellCEO
cowboy love has been ok. Darl loves you baby. He's the rootinest tootinest. EVERYBODY SINGALONG!!!! Darl can't get along little dogey, he can't even get one that's small, He can't get a long little dogey, he can't get a dogey at all....
(Apologies to Yosemite Sam)
I have known people who were suicidal after having Lasik because they had it done at a "399.00 per eye" where the point is to get people in and out as fast as possible.
The problem with Lasik is that the burn area is only so big and some people's pupils dilate past that point resulting in all kinds of weird effects on the vision. Grinding would seem to allow much more control over the treatment area.
If you're going to get conventional Lasik here are some things to remember....
1. It IS surgery contrary to how "routine" Lasik places try to pass it off
2. Research your doctor doing the procedure
3. If you're lucky your doc possesses a cornea fellowship from Emory University
Bring one or two of them here and maybe we can perfect a way to cheat Las Vegas.
It isn't like we have Peter, Frank, Sammy, Dean to ask anymore. You could ask Joey though.
Could you PLEASE.. please, please, please, please, please.. PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP make it legal to use cell phone jammers in movie theatres?
:-(
It's possible right now but it violates a few U.S. federal communication acts.
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means sweatshops for iPods and doing things like heading down the dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means sweatshops for iPods and doing things like heading down the dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
That is sad but true, publicly traded companies are there to make money for stockholders. That may come as a surprise to the Cult of Apple but it's true.
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business
IBM was the Microsoft of it's time and now it's a darling of geeks everywhere. All companies eventually have to learn to transition from being an entity that makes standards to merely contributing to them. Microsoft will learn this lesson albeit the hard way but they will learn.
Then in the future we can adjust our ire towards future threats like Apple for closing Darwin off to development and Google who is probably amassing more power than any one company should.
in his gra....... err ...... cancel that...
Seriously and ironically, Marc Andreessen IS an investor in Digg