with accusations of wasting your tax dollars, think of it this way: would you rather pose this challenge to geeks at large or to folks in the employ of DARPA? Doing it the way it's always been done has resulted in tons of wasted $$$.
Personally I have NEVER seen creativity anywhere like I have seen here on/.
If it can be done, someone on here has probably done it already.
Seriously,..remember the Muslim Charity that was nailed funneling money to al Qaeda? Well here's the news story.. (Google Cache)
In case you don't have time to read the story, MS admitted to giving Benevolence International, the Muslim charity that funnled money to al-qaeda, around $20,000. You can buy a lot of box cutters with that money.
MS had better not throw stones in their glass house. And if you're going to start giving money to charities, it's a good idea to research them and make sure they are legit. Say what you will but MS is SUPER guilty of not doing research on this "charity".
American uses Sabre internally (in fact used to own the WHOLE thing) and owns 25% of Worldspan (got it when they bought TWA): both customers of Farechase.
Ultimatly this is about controlling the distribution channel for tickets: first stop paying commission to travel agents (that's right! they make 0% commission now) and now try to put a clamp around screen scrapers.
Then there's the the fact that Orbitz is owned by the majors and is the very definition of collusion.
The owners of Worldspan (which powers Orbitz and is Delta, American and Northwest) plan on bypassing SABRE and putting inventory on Worldspan for sale through Orbitz. This has already been announced. Why? Because if you buy a ticket through a SABRE channel (like travelocity), SABRE charges AA (and every other airline) a $4 segment fee. Not so when you buy it through your own CRS/GDS system.
Again, it's about controlling the distribution channel.
I wouldn't know this except I used to be employed by American as a SABRE programmer.
American is nothing more than a bunch of slimy bastards (like all airlines with the exceptions of Southwest and JetBlue) and will deserve their bankruptcy filing when they do it.
And they WILL given the failed airline economic model that the "majors" subscribe to. In a very funny ironic turn of events two new 747s are valued at more than the whole of AMR (AA's parent).
Don't buy their stock anytime soon except to short it.
Microsoft will have to learn IBM's lesson about transforming from a company that makes standards, to one that contributes to them. They still don't get that their attempts to "embrace and extend" the whole damn internet isn't going to work.
The rest of the world WILL produce an XML standard document format without them, thank heavens.
Getting the legions of Tivo owners to give up the system they have become so rabidly fond of. It's not just a product, it's a culture.
Getting an industry behind you won't help that much either. You could probably get bunches of AOL people who are on the fence about a Tivo purchase but anyone who owns a Tivo probably wouldn't jump at the chance to start receiving commercials.
Hotmail has so many members that if you're a spammer, creating any combination of letters/numbers prefixed to "@hotmail.com" is sure to get you some one.
AOL is pretty much the same way.
I use it on a box to run apps that I developed that our M$ monkeys haven't matched(or can't) match. Mainly a lot of situations where one line of code does what would take several more in M$ (Scheduler vs. cron)
In our case it comes down to services. I work for the Commanding General and all he wants is "services not platforms".
I think maybe that has helped to bring in open source in our little corner of the military more than anything. IM talks about how they are M$ certified blah blah and I just bring out a new app coded in Perl that the green suiters can't live without.
Or better yet create one and let it run on one of my own outside servers and then demo it to them with a "Oh by the way, we need Linux to do this".
It's like heroin, get 'em hooked. They gotta have it. Superior services, not platforms.
As far as it being the more expensive version of RH that's certified, have you seen RH's stock price? You're still saving the military a lot more in the long run by getting the more expensive version.
Which specific stories perpetuated about you.....
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are full of shit?
Obviously when one has been deified as you have all kinds of stories start popping up..like "Wargames" was based on your exploits, etc.
So which ones specifically are false? (Don't get me wrong I am a HUGE fan of your work). And do you speak with Tsutomu Shimomura?
Senators take more payoffs than they actually "get it"
My generation was so lucky...
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We were in high school in the early-mid 80s. Just the perfect time for that expert blend of 1. Low self esteem 2. Teenage years 3. Dawn of the PC. to bring us to where we are now...still dateless and coding.
Geek used to be a 4 letter word, now it's a six figure one.
"at our discretion, with 30 days notice we can terminate this contract and take ownership of your site".
Thanks for doing business with Microsoft. Behavior like this is the best way to get people to convert to open source. It was in my case. I was contracted to do a database for an embassy and when I took it to the embassy, page fault errors. Called M$, got charged for what was essentially their defect.
I switched to open source, and haven't looked back and I have happier customers.
Your connection with John Carpenter's Halloween..
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There is one!
After looking through several masks to use for Michael Myers, John Carpenter settled on the William Shatner mask!
Any comments?
What doesn't help is the way that antibiotics have been indiscriminately and thoughtlessly prescribed these last several years for even the slightest ailments.
Then there's some research suggesting that feeding antibiotics to animals isn't such a great idea either since all the nasties associated with that can be ingested later by humans. Try googling for the info
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with accusations of wasting your tax dollars, think of it this way: would you rather pose this challenge to geeks at large or to folks in the employ of DARPA? Doing it the way it's always been done has resulted in tons of wasted $$$.
/.
Personally I have NEVER seen creativity anywhere like I have seen here on
If it can be done, someone on here has probably done it already.
Seriously,..remember the Muslim Charity that was nailed funneling money to al Qaeda? Well here's the news story.. (Google Cache)
In case you don't have time to read the story, MS admitted to giving Benevolence International, the Muslim charity that funnled money to al-qaeda, around $20,000. You can buy a lot of box cutters with that money.
MS had better not throw stones in their glass house. And if you're going to start giving money to charities, it's a good idea to research them and make sure they are legit. Say what you will but MS is SUPER guilty of not doing research on this "charity".
American uses Sabre internally (in fact used to own the WHOLE thing) and owns 25% of Worldspan (got it when they bought TWA): both customers of Farechase.
Ultimatly this is about controlling the distribution channel for tickets: first stop paying commission to travel agents (that's right! they make 0% commission now) and now try to put a clamp around screen scrapers.
Then there's the the fact that Orbitz is owned by the majors and is the very definition of collusion.
The owners of Worldspan (which powers Orbitz and is Delta, American and Northwest) plan on bypassing SABRE and putting inventory on Worldspan for sale through Orbitz. This has already been announced. Why? Because if you buy a ticket through a SABRE channel (like travelocity), SABRE charges AA (and every other airline) a $4 segment fee. Not so when you buy it through your own CRS/GDS system.
Again, it's about controlling the distribution channel.
I wouldn't know this except I used to be employed by American as a SABRE programmer.
American is nothing more than a bunch of slimy bastards (like all airlines with the exceptions of Southwest and JetBlue) and will deserve their bankruptcy filing when they do it.
And they WILL given the failed airline economic model that the "majors" subscribe to. In a very funny ironic turn of events two new 747s are valued at more than the whole of AMR (AA's parent).
Don't buy their stock anytime soon except to short it.
Microsoft will have to learn IBM's lesson about transforming from a company that makes standards, to one that contributes to them.
They still don't get that their attempts to "embrace and extend" the whole damn internet isn't going to work.
The rest of the world WILL produce an XML standard document format without them, thank heavens.
Getting the legions of Tivo owners to give up the system they have become so rabidly fond of. It's not just a product, it's a culture.
Getting an industry behind you won't help that much either. You could probably get bunches of AOL people who are on the fence about a Tivo purchase but anyone who owns a Tivo probably wouldn't jump at the chance to start receiving commercials.
Because all of these tunnels connect through Atlanta where there is a "change of plane".
the Total Information Awareness project. Gotta keep track of you somehow..
sadly...
Stem cell research.
Our puritanical (read: Conservative) stance not shared by other countries like India and the UK will definitely put us behind in this area.
Harry S Truman is a very happy man.
My drugstore one is listed under Ted Nugent.
at the end of the day when it IPOd.
Hotmail has so many members that if you're a spammer, creating any combination of letters/numbers prefixed to "@hotmail.com" is sure to get you some one. AOL is pretty much the same way.
I use it on a box to run apps that I developed that our M$ monkeys haven't matched(or can't) match. Mainly a lot of situations where one line of code does what would take several more in M$ (Scheduler vs. cron)
In our case it comes down to services. I work for the Commanding General and all he wants is "services not platforms".
I think maybe that has helped to bring in open source in our little corner of the military more than anything. IM talks about how they are M$ certified blah blah and I just bring out a new app coded in Perl that the green suiters can't live without.
Or better yet create one and let it run on one of my own outside servers and then demo it to them with a "Oh by the way, we need Linux to do this".
It's like heroin, get 'em hooked. They gotta have it. Superior services, not platforms.
As far as it being the more expensive version of RH that's certified, have you seen RH's stock price? You're still saving the military a lot more in the long run by getting the more expensive version.
are full of shit?
Obviously when one has been deified as you have all kinds of stories start popping up..like "Wargames" was based on your exploits, etc.
So which ones specifically are false?
(Don't get me wrong I am a HUGE fan of your work). And do you speak with Tsutomu Shimomura?
Plus WOXY streams in broadband..WOO HOO!!! It's the ONLY radio I listen to.
As seen in Rainman,.....
Small station has been rocking the boat for 25 years now playing nothing but the best alternative (real alternative).
Ironically I have to go here to hear bands from D.C. and I Live in D.C.
Plus they stream in broadband....
97X - BAM! The Future of Rock and Roll....
Nothing will happen to it since almost all the pics are payphones from other countries.
karma...
/. cheapened use of the word.
Ain't it a bitch?
And I don't mean
People who will uncap you
Develop a cozy relationship with the FBI.
AOL and Verizon.
Considering that Barbara Boxer has taken $40,500 in payoffs from AOL already this year is one indication of why she is pushing this.
George Allen is no better. $26,150 from Verizon and $22,000 buys his support.
Senators take more payoffs than they actually "get it"
We were in high school in the early-mid 80s.
Just the perfect time for that expert blend of
1. Low self esteem
2. Teenage years
3. Dawn of the PC.
to bring us to where we are now...still dateless and coding.
Geek used to be a 4 letter word, now it's a six figure one.
Publicize the specials there. By the time you file suit against the Costa Ricans Black Friday will be over.
"at our discretion, with 30 days notice we can terminate this contract and take ownership of your site".
Thanks for doing business with Microsoft. Behavior like this is the best way to get people to convert to open source. It was in my case. I was contracted to do a database for an embassy and when I took it to the embassy, page fault errors. Called M$, got charged for what was essentially their defect.
I switched to open source, and haven't looked back and I have happier customers.
There is one! After looking through several masks to use for Michael Myers, John Carpenter settled on the William Shatner mask! Any comments?
What doesn't help is the way that antibiotics have been indiscriminately and thoughtlessly prescribed these last several years for even the slightest ailments.
Then there's some research suggesting that feeding antibiotics to animals isn't such a great idea either since all the nasties associated with that can be ingested later by humans. Try googling for the info
Speaking as a native american, I would have to concur. :-)