In fact, why don't we just forget this whole 9/11 thing, since it only affected about 3000 people and their families, and drop security alltogether?
Sounds good to me. Sure, 9/11 was a tragedy, but this security bullshit isn't going to help anything - by tunring a plane into a bomb, Osama and friends changed the rules of engagement. If you tried that today, the passengers would kill you before you touched down. 9/11 was a one-shot deal - the next attack will be something that we aren't protecting, like the power grid.
How many independent films go to DVD at all? Without an Academy nomination, how many fewer will go to DVD?
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This review makes it sound like "Tin Foil Hats for Dummies". Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist. Yes, HR has to reply to me via email, perticularly how they can justify working salaried employees past 40 hours a week while paying them less than $27/hour in direct violation of the FSLA. Yes I move all of my personal/HR emails offsite. Yes, I encrypt when necessary... but TEMPEST?
Don't you get it? this is SubGenius prose, so of course it's going to be a bit purple. It's just fun and games.
Lose what fight? The fight for your "right" to share things that were never yours to share in the first place? Despite what you may want to believe, not all information "wants" to be free. There is a lot of data out there that needs to be kept confidential, and to the creators of that data having a lot more security on it is a good thing.
Yes, Phillip Morris would have loved this technology, as would anybody wishing to conceal corporate misdeeds.
My own rights of possession supercede any contracts that I might sign, any EULA, or the letter of any law. If I have to be an outlaw to fully use something that I own, c'est la vie.
This is usually referred to as 'right of first sale'. I know that a couple of court cases have used it as a basis for invalidating post sale eulas - the basic line of reasoning is that when a person exchanges money for goods, if there is not termination date specified and no recurring fee for continued use, then that transaction is a sale, not a lease.
But really, the worst part is that the product wasn't replaced with anything. There's nothing out there (that I know of) that does what Lightscape did as well as it did it. And it's lost in time because of a kooky, useless activation scheme. (Well, again... virtually "lost" because I'm holding the CD in my hand right now.)
This sounds like an opportunity for an enterprising programmer - $100 = installable crack. $250 for a hard crack. Pool with 4 buddies and it's only $50. Geez, I sound like a streetwalker.
The CAPABILITY to be churning out tons of Sarin and Biological agents in a couple of months...
Oh, you mean that stuff. Well Sarin isn't a WMD. Hell, Bush said so until he decided to invade Iraq. If you want to kill people, you're better off blowing up a building or cutting off the water supply - Sarin is really hard to use effectively, and exists mostly as a form of ground denial.
Speaking solely for myself, I don't see the appeal of neon computer cases, but I do like the shiny black cases from Antec. It also helps that they're engineered to be silent.
Have you seen anything this plain come out of a customer review?
I believe that the basic idea is that a gaudy style has to change frequently or appear dated, whereas a plainer style need not. Alternately, the OS and its associated objects (like websites) shouldn't grab your attention, they should fade into the background and allow you to do your work.
Then, someone comes along and asks to use the excess capacity. So, instead of your fridge being at or near empty, it is always full. Also assume that replacing a fridge is something you do not want to have to do until you need more fridge capacity, in order to store better and bigger amounts of food.
Your analogy breaks down here. A full fridge is cheaper to run than an empty fridge, as there is less heat loss when you open the fridge.
My 17-inch CRT monitor used 74 watts... about $10 per month...
I have a 17" LCD. It uses about 40W when on and about 5 when suspended and costs around $400 new. Based on 2 years of savings (figure 40 hours/week at 40W and the rest off), that $400 starts looking more like $150.
if he's responsible for purchasing trucks then they should know enough about them to understand and evaluate the advice they are receiving from their experts
Part of being the CEO is trusting those under you to make the correct technical decisions, even if you don't understand the reasoning yourself. Of course, a good track record helps this a lot.
Well, driving on public roads is a privelege. If I'm a rich idiot and lose my license, I can still race, provided that the sanctioning body allows it. Barring that, I could drive around on my 2 mile driveway and send my butler out to fill the tank.
Well here on planet Earth, and in the US specificly, that's called a Paper Trail. McBride told IBM and SGI that their license is dead. OK, fine. IBM and SGI stand up and say "ummm... nope." So now McBride can say "Well I mentioned it to them, and gave them the proper notice about it it all, but they (points finger) didn't see it that way and went against what I said. So now, your honor, why would you listen to a couple people that fought me tooth and nail on technicalities when I gave them plenty of notice of my intentions?"
Except that Darl never gave due notice - he has yet to specify what the infringements are or how they may be remedied, so he hasn't given any notice. Beyond that, the license is not revokable. Apparently, SCO can only 'enjoin infringement'. Also, consider that this is the same SCO that claims rights to everything associated with SysV code, such as the XFS code that SGI wrote themselves.
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In fact, why don't we just forget this whole 9/11 thing, since it only affected about 3000 people and their families, and drop security alltogether?
Sounds good to me. Sure, 9/11 was a tragedy, but this security bullshit isn't going to help anything - by tunring a plane into a bomb, Osama and friends changed the rules of engagement. If you tried that today, the passengers would kill you before you touched down. 9/11 was a one-shot deal - the next attack will be something that we aren't protecting, like the power grid.
But what happens when the movie goes to DVD?
How many independent films go to DVD at all? Without an Academy nomination, how many fewer will go to DVD?
This review makes it sound like "Tin Foil Hats for Dummies". Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist. Yes, HR has to reply to me via email, perticularly how they can justify working salaried employees past 40 hours a week while paying them less than $27/hour in direct violation of the FSLA. Yes I move all of my personal/HR emails offsite. Yes, I encrypt when necessary... but TEMPEST?
Don't you get it? this is SubGenius prose, so of course it's going to be a bit purple. It's just fun and games.
why would i do that when i could just 'lose' 100,000 votes from the heavily county?
Because then you have to steal a couple tons of ballots.
paper ballots are just as easily altered as electronic
Yeah right, try forging 100,000 ballots by hand in one day.
Lose what fight? The fight for your "right" to share things that were never yours to share in the first place? Despite what you may want to believe, not all information "wants" to be free. There is a lot of data out there that needs to be kept confidential, and to the creators of that data having a lot more security on it is a good thing.
Yes, Phillip Morris would have loved this technology, as would anybody wishing to conceal corporate misdeeds.
My own rights of possession supercede any contracts that I might sign, any EULA, or the letter of any law. If I have to be an outlaw to fully use something that I own, c'est la vie.
This is usually referred to as 'right of first sale'. I know that a couple of court cases have used it as a basis for invalidating post sale eulas - the basic line of reasoning is that when a person exchanges money for goods, if there is not termination date specified and no recurring fee for continued use, then that transaction is a sale, not a lease.
But really, the worst part is that the product wasn't replaced with anything. There's nothing out there (that I know of) that does what Lightscape did as well as it did it. And it's lost in time because of a kooky, useless activation scheme. (Well, again... virtually "lost" because I'm holding the CD in my hand right now.)
This sounds like an opportunity for an enterprising programmer - $100 = installable crack. $250 for a hard crack. Pool with 4 buddies and it's only $50. Geez, I sound like a streetwalker.
If they come and hunt you down and say "hey you stole this" and you have your 3 freaking owned disks, what are they going to do?
In today's climate, prosecute you under the DMCA.
That probably happened in the last election for US President.
Way to miss the joke.
Iraq had a massive WMD PROGRAM up and running
Iraq had no nuclear capability.
The CAPABILITY to be churning out tons of Sarin and Biological agents in a couple of months ...
Oh, you mean that stuff. Well Sarin isn't a WMD. Hell, Bush said so until he decided to invade Iraq. If you want to kill people, you're better off blowing up a building or cutting off the water supply - Sarin is really hard to use effectively, and exists mostly as a form of ground denial.
How else can we explain the simple fact that the word "nationalism" immediately holds negative connotations?
Because when you say 'nationalist', a lot of people hear 'national socialist'?
Speaking solely for myself, I don't see the appeal of neon computer cases, but I do like the shiny black cases from Antec. It also helps that they're engineered to be silent.
Have you seen anything this plain come out of a customer review?
I believe that the basic idea is that a gaudy style has to change frequently or appear dated, whereas a plainer style need not. Alternately, the OS and its associated objects (like websites) shouldn't grab your attention, they should fade into the background and allow you to do your work.
I spent much time working on 'style'...results: still no girlfriend
This may be a long shot, but have you tried talking to women? That seems to be the best way to get a grillfiend.
That's just not how Trusted Computing works. You can copy all you want, it's decrypting that is made harder.
And, if you can't decrypt the data (say, after a system crash), what difference does it make to have it at all?
Wrong again. That's just not how it works
This is Microsoft we're talking about. Of course it will work this way.
Then, someone comes along and asks to use the excess capacity. So, instead of your fridge being at or near empty, it is always full. Also assume that replacing a fridge is something you do not want to have to do until you need more fridge capacity, in order to store better and bigger amounts of food.
Your analogy breaks down here. A full fridge is cheaper to run than an empty fridge, as there is less heat loss when you open the fridge.
You figured wrong. A hard drive typically uses ~5 watts when spinning,
And the best way to kill your disk is to constantly spin it up and down.
My 17-inch CRT monitor used 74 watts... about $10 per month...
I have a 17" LCD. It uses about 40W when on and about 5 when suspended and costs around $400 new. Based on 2 years of savings (figure 40 hours/week at 40W and the rest off), that $400 starts looking more like $150.
if he's responsible for purchasing trucks then they should know enough about them to understand and evaluate the advice they are receiving from their experts
Part of being the CEO is trusting those under you to make the correct technical decisions, even if you don't understand the reasoning yourself. Of course, a good track record helps this a lot.
Tech is a fundamental part of large business - if it breaks, your business can go under
So is delivery - should your CEO learn how to drive a truck?
Is that one of those old XT portables?
Driving is a privilege, not a right.
Well, driving on public roads is a privelege. If I'm a rich idiot and lose my license, I can still race, provided that the sanctioning body allows it. Barring that, I could drive around on my 2 mile driveway and send my butler out to fill the tank.
Well here on planet Earth, and in the US specificly, that's called a Paper Trail. McBride told IBM and SGI that their license is dead. OK, fine. IBM and SGI stand up and say "ummm... nope." So now McBride can say "Well I mentioned it to them, and gave them the proper notice about it it all, but they (points finger) didn't see it that way and went against what I said. So now, your honor, why would you listen to a couple people that fought me tooth and nail on technicalities when I gave them plenty of notice of my intentions?"
Except that Darl never gave due notice - he has yet to specify what the infringements are or how they may be remedied, so he hasn't given any notice. Beyond that, the license is not revokable. Apparently, SCO can only 'enjoin infringement'. Also, consider that this is the same SCO that claims rights to everything associated with SysV code, such as the XFS code that SGI wrote themselves.
the 1280 pixel wide LCDs are pushing 1500 bucks. WTF?
Where are you looking? The samsung 17" and 19" LCDs are running in the $500 range.