It's a specimen number from the Eisenhower era. No need to give ur correct number to the cable or phone company. They don't need it. Period.
Of course it's possible that someone else has used this number already, especialy if you live near me in upstate NY.
Otherwise use the "Fletch" approach on things like your customer loyalty cards. I keep mine under Harry S Truman, Ted Nugent and John Cocktosen. I have started using Igor Stravinsky lately.
to a degree. I was involved in 14 IPOs during the last bubble and had a policy to sell out 90 days after buying no matter where the stock price was. I made out pretty good.
Regarding the stock market, historically, whenever a new technology/infatuation arrives on the scene, tons of money get thrown in, the market gets irrationally exuberant, stock prics go way up and then implosion. Stock prices get corrected and after the dust settles the new golden age begins from whoever is left standing. In this case that's eBay, Amazon, Yahoo.
No one "loses" money either. If you invested 10K in the market and your investment rises to 100K and then drops back down to 8K, you only lost 2K and only then if you decide to cash in and take the loss. For all those people who "lost" money, hedge funds made a ton so it's more of a redistrbution from the hands of the many to those of the few as opposed to a "loss"
What screws people is no exit strategy. The stock buying public is always right during the trend but never are they right at the top or bottom. Can't be satisfied with a 300% percent gain...
It's time to start using an encrypted VoIP that doesn't use DES (which NSA owns the patent on). Besides the problem is that all of this "security" is reactive and doesn't really stop anything.
Bipartisan backlash is to be expected. Democrats hate it for obvious reasons and Republicans hate it because many of them aren't getting relected this fall thanks to their disastrous policies that have run America into the dirt these last 6 years (Sorry folks "the truth" means nothing..only the facts).
It only costs a few buildings, over 3,000 lives but man oh man look at all the great stuff you can do now. You can run roughshod over civil rights and the population will let you do it!
Keep your population on edge with a color coded system so they won't question anything. Oh need to raise the level..Is your bathroom breeding terrorists?
the light. Eventually every company in M$'s position has to realize that ultimately that you have to transform from being a company that makes standards, to being a company that contributes to them.
IBM was the M$ of it's day and now look, open source darlings.:-)
This isn't news, they always surrender.
A german battalion rolls up to the border and what does the french soldier ask?
"Table for 10,000?"
(Disclaimer: My wife is French. They are a fine group of cheese eating surrender monkeys (c)Homer Simpson))
that money can buy in the United States. Seriously, look no further than the DMCA, a piece of legislation introduced by the long brain dead Orrin Hatch that is so vaguely written that anything is illegal if a corporation doesn't like it.
How does this happen? Why with money of course!
It's proof positive that EVERY law written in this country needs to have a sunset date of one or two years when it's reconsidered for renewal.
What I would suggest is for you to find ways to use these laws for your benefit. It's not just for corporations.
Here's an example, it's illegal for travel agents to get together and collude, it's against the Sherman Anti-Trust act. They should be able to band together and do whatever the hell they want. I started a travel agents mailing list that after a year had been infiltrated by members of the airline industry. The solution? Start a new one, this time started with a core group of trusted people and any new agents would have to be recommended by a current member and seconded by another. Next, protect the list under provisions of the DMCA, so if a travel vendor happened to get their hands on a transmission, they would be in violation because of the DMCA.
Here's the payoff: Delta gives 10% off their fares to a particular mega agency in Chicago and American gives 10% off their fares to another large regional agency in Atlanta (one of several ticketing deals that agencies have around the country). This wonderful set up allows the agency in Chicago and Atlanta to talk and they ticket each other's discounts helping each other to not only give cheaper deals but to meet their requirements for a nice big fat override check from the airline every year.
Is this fair? No, but then again paying travel agents no comission isn't either. You CAN make a difference folks, stop bitching and be creative. These laws are written for you, bit e back.
is the fact that we are actually seeing this info. I am not a big fan of this administration or the tactics it is using but I do have faith in the foundations of our federal government and the infallibility of karma.
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Sorry folks but I just HAD to post bullshit garbage to test the/. lameness filter. I just spent a reasonable amount of time composing a response only to get nailed by the slashdot lameness filter.
Suddenly I understand why Digg is getting just as popular.
the style. Money grubbing estates of dead artists are the worst thing ever.
Google should've stood their ground and kept it up. Miro probably would've been cool with it. Dali? Dali probably would've objected for some reason OTHER than copyright. He was an odd bird.
I travel and I travel a lot: 40 countries so far and the one thing that frustrates me to no end are American swho think that bringing technology to the world is a bad thing. They suffer from a mentality that the grass is greener...
Not doing what we can to empower folks in impoverished countries only serves to keep them down. Maybe, just maybe they can (no closed sourced pun intended) excel and achieve great things if they just had the tools. Before the technology boom the concept of outsourcing anything to India was unheard of for example. It's not empowering EVERYONE but India is definitely becoming a powerhouse. I know small businesses who outsource to Ukraine and Azerbaijan now.
Closed source by it's very expensive nature only serves to keep people down.
The government, or more specifically your tax dollars, have developed all kinds of stuff that gets comandeered by business. Good example: Celera. They took a whole shitload of taxpayer funded data in regards to cracking the human genome and built on top of it.
Celera needs to give some credit where credit is due as does Apple. As far as Apple being "innovative" I have been enjoying watching and recording video on my 80 Gig Archos PVR for well over a year now. Apple is only successful because they discovered that marketing actually accounts for something and they are becoming masters at it. That's not evil but it is necessary. You can only cruise on the groovy hipster elitist vibe for so long until you actually have to start showing a profit for your shareholders. (Disclaimer: new iBook G4 owner just this week).
I have tried using Linux on the desktop MANY MANY times and always found myself stymied by getting printers to work and so forth. I have always been adamanat about using it for servers where it's very much worth the time to figure out Linux to have the benefits of it as a server product (bulletproof security, etc).
As a desktop product though I wasn't about to spend all day dicking around with trying to get it to work. That's was then.... this is now...
I have been using Linux as a desktop for several months now and it has flawlessly detected all my perpherals, and I Have now been able to spend more time doing development which is what I get paid to do.
Linux is getting better in this area and Linux is going to start making inroads. Slowly but surely...
Simply for the fact that in order for China to change they must be brought into the world arena. The more you are in the world arena, the harder it is to get away with this kind of behavior.
Remember that it was not that many years ago that you would have heard ZERO about this kind of stuff. Will China change? Ultimately yes, and they will change when they realize that suppressing human rights will not ultimately serve them to make $$$
And besides gravitational physics, it's indeed money that makes the world go around. China is realizing that as their economy grows at near 10% every year.
computer aptitude. I am certainly willing to help anyone wanting to migrate but the first thing that M$ folks need to learn is that it DOESN'T work the same way.
I firmly believe that not everyone that can use Windows can use Linux. Some people don't possess programming aptitude and all they will be able to do is point and click. Sad, but it's true.
Now if someone wanted to switch my first suggestion would be to start with one of the many fine "Dummies" books moving progressively up to more advanced tomes of work.
Linux is going to require that you know how to research to find an answer to your problem.
They may as well get started that way. This aptitude issue is also what is forever going to keep linux behind M$. Better quality has a price.
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It's a specimen number from the Eisenhower era. No need to give ur correct number to the cable or phone company. They don't need it. Period. Of course it's possible that someone else has used this number already, especialy if you live near me in upstate NY.
Otherwise use the "Fletch" approach on things like your customer loyalty cards. I keep mine under Harry S Truman, Ted Nugent and John Cocktosen. I have started using Igor Stravinsky lately.
to a degree. I was involved in 14 IPOs during the last bubble and had a policy to sell out 90 days after buying no matter where the stock price was. I made out pretty good.
Regarding the stock market, historically, whenever a new technology/infatuation arrives on the scene, tons of money get thrown in, the market gets irrationally exuberant, stock prics go way up and then implosion. Stock prices get corrected and after the dust settles the new golden age begins from whoever is left standing. In this case that's eBay, Amazon, Yahoo.
No one "loses" money either. If you invested 10K in the market and your investment rises to 100K and then drops back down to 8K, you only lost 2K and only then if you decide to cash in and take the loss. For all those people who "lost" money, hedge funds made a ton so it's more of a redistrbution from the hands of the many to those of the few as opposed to a "loss"
What screws people is no exit strategy. The stock buying public is always right during the trend but never are they right at the top or bottom. Can't be satisfied with a 300% percent gain...
It's time to start using an encrypted VoIP that doesn't use DES (which NSA owns the patent on). Besides the problem is that all of this "security" is reactive and doesn't really stop anything.
Bipartisan backlash is to be expected. Democrats hate it for obvious reasons and Republicans hate it because many of them aren't getting relected this fall thanks to their disastrous policies that have run America into the dirt these last 6 years (Sorry folks "the truth" means nothing..only the facts).
It only costs a few buildings, over 3,000 lives but man oh man look at all the great stuff you can do now. You can run roughshod over civil rights and the population will let you do it!
Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorism, OMG TERRORISM!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep your population on edge with a color coded system so they won't question anything. Oh need to raise the level..Is your bathroom breeding terrorists?
Terrorism is the new Communism(tm)
and there's encryption. When you do find encryption make sure it isn't DES, NSA actually owns the patent on that one.
the light. Eventually every company in M$'s position has to realize that ultimately that you have to transform from being a company that makes standards, to being a company that contributes to them.
:-)
IBM was the M$ of it's day and now look, open source darlings.
Oops,..make that Groundkeeper Willie (source: Wikipedia)
This isn't news, they always surrender.
A german battalion rolls up to the border and what does the french soldier ask?
"Table for 10,000?"
(Disclaimer: My wife is French. They are a fine group of cheese eating surrender monkeys (c)Homer Simpson))
is it going to be music worth hearing?
that money can buy in the United States. Seriously, look no further than the DMCA, a piece of legislation introduced by the long brain dead Orrin Hatch that is so vaguely written that anything is illegal if a corporation doesn't like it.
How does this happen? Why with money of course!
It's proof positive that EVERY law written in this country needs to have a sunset date of one or two years when it's reconsidered for renewal.
What I would suggest is for you to find ways to use these laws for your benefit. It's not just for corporations.
Here's an example, it's illegal for travel agents to get together and collude, it's against the Sherman Anti-Trust act. They should be able to band together and do whatever the hell they want. I started a travel agents mailing list that after a year had been infiltrated by members of the airline industry. The solution? Start a new one, this time started with a core group of trusted people and any new agents would have to be recommended by a current member and seconded by another. Next, protect the list under provisions of the DMCA, so if a travel vendor happened to get their hands on a transmission, they would be in violation because of the DMCA.
Here's the payoff: Delta gives 10% off their fares to a particular mega agency in Chicago and American gives 10% off their fares to another large regional agency in Atlanta (one of several ticketing deals that agencies have around the country). This wonderful set up allows the agency in Chicago and Atlanta to talk and they ticket each other's discounts helping each other to not only give cheaper deals but to meet their requirements for a nice big fat override check from the airline every year.
Is this fair? No, but then again paying travel agents no comission isn't either. You CAN make a difference folks, stop bitching and be creative. These laws are written for you, bit e back.
Holy crap...all you Xbox employees better get your resumes ready!
Now it's a six figure one.
is the fact that we are actually seeing this info. I am not a big fan of this administration or the tactics it is using but I do have faith in the foundations of our federal government and the infallibility of karma.
Expecting the neo-con mod down in 3..2..1....
and you'll see that Feinstein's sixth biggest contributor was the TV/Movies/Music industry and Graham is also sucking on the entertainment tit where he received over $100,000
The United States: Best Government Money Can Buy (tm)
to be quite reasonable at $0.
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Sorry folks but I just HAD to post bullshit garbage to test the
Suddenly I understand why Digg is getting just as popular.
You shouldn't be online anyway. Sorry folks, but it's true. Take the time to learn the security, make everyone's life better. Make it a federal law.
the style. Money grubbing estates of dead artists are the worst thing ever. Google should've stood their ground and kept it up. Miro probably would've been cool with it. Dali? Dali probably would've objected for some reason OTHER than copyright. He was an odd bird.
I travel and I travel a lot: 40 countries so far and the one thing that frustrates me to no end are American swho think that bringing technology to the world is a bad thing. They suffer from a mentality that the grass is greener...
Not doing what we can to empower folks in impoverished countries only serves to keep them down. Maybe, just maybe they can (no closed sourced pun intended) excel and achieve great things if they just had the tools. Before the technology boom the concept of outsourcing anything to India was unheard of for example. It's not empowering EVERYONE but India is definitely becoming a powerhouse. I know small businesses who outsource to Ukraine and Azerbaijan now.
Closed source by it's very expensive nature only serves to keep people down.
The government, or more specifically your tax dollars, have developed all kinds of stuff that gets comandeered by business. Good example: Celera. They took a whole shitload of taxpayer funded data in regards to cracking the human genome and built on top of it.
Celera needs to give some credit where credit is due as does Apple. As far as Apple being "innovative" I have been enjoying watching and recording video on my 80 Gig Archos PVR for well over a year now. Apple is only successful because they discovered that marketing actually accounts for something and they are becoming masters at it. That's not evil but it is necessary. You can only cruise on the groovy hipster elitist vibe for so long until you actually have to start showing a profit for your shareholders. (Disclaimer: new iBook G4 owner just this week).
I have tried using Linux on the desktop MANY MANY times and always found myself stymied by getting printers to work and so forth. I have always been adamanat about using it for servers where it's very much worth the time to figure out Linux to have the benefits of it as a server product (bulletproof security, etc).
As a desktop product though I wasn't about to spend all day dicking around with trying to get it to work. That's was then.... this is now...
I have been using Linux as a desktop for several months now and it has flawlessly detected all my perpherals, and I Have now been able to spend more time doing development which is what I get paid to do.
Linux is getting better in this area and Linux is going to start making inroads. Slowly but surely...
and says ....
"I think I have lost an electron!"
Another atom asks..
"Are you sure?"
The atom says
"I'm positive!"
I'll be here all week, enjoy the veal.....
a REAL Civil Liberties Protection person or just a good actor at it? You know much like Gonzales is supposed be an Attorney General.
Expecting a conservative to mod me down in 3...2....1...
Simply for the fact that in order for China to change they must be brought into the world arena. The more you are in the world arena, the harder it is to get away with this kind of behavior.
Remember that it was not that many years ago that you would have heard ZERO about this kind of stuff. Will China change? Ultimately yes, and they will change when they realize that suppressing human rights will not ultimately serve them to make $$$
And besides gravitational physics, it's indeed money that makes the world go around. China is realizing that as their economy grows at near 10% every year.
computer aptitude. I am certainly willing to help anyone wanting to migrate but the first thing that M$ folks need to learn is that it DOESN'T work the same way. I firmly believe that not everyone that can use Windows can use Linux. Some people don't possess programming aptitude and all they will be able to do is point and click. Sad, but it's true. Now if someone wanted to switch my first suggestion would be to start with one of the many fine "Dummies" books moving progressively up to more advanced tomes of work. Linux is going to require that you know how to research to find an answer to your problem. They may as well get started that way. This aptitude issue is also what is forever going to keep linux behind M$. Better quality has a price.