The "lack of evidence" does not exonerate the government.
My guess is that much of the abuse is either ignored or passed over as "well, that isn't really abuse of the Patriot Act", as if they were some Obi Wan Kenobi.
Abuse is abuse is abuse. When the citizens are not allowed to watchdog their government, such abuses will occur and will not be reported.
It is like asking polluters to watchdog themselves. How's that been working out so far?
I am a paying Apple Developer (associate class) and the non-disclosure agreement is pretty tight. I can't reveal even if I possess some of Apple's Technology, much less what it does, how good it is, etc.
So when asked I tell people I know nothing about upcoming Tiger and whether is runs real spiffy.
I know zip about how I wish the dashboard WASN'T something that made the display transparent.
I pretty much am disclosing nothing about anything.
I take contracts serious because I once was sued (it never got to court and my lawyer pretty much shut down the alleged "suers" before they managed to get anything out the door).
My point is that these are not to be entered into lightly. Read them. If you don't like the terms, attempt to modify them or don't sign it.
No, I only WROTE one of the first SCSI driver for the Apple II. Sorry, that was SASI at the time (1982ish...). The Apple II mainframe... yeah, like that...
Some of us have been working with it before YOU guys discovered it.
Yah, worked with PC's since DOS 1.0. That's when they had tape recorder ports... yeah, I didn't use it either.
My giving money to an individual or organization of my choice is an expression of support, and as such, protected by Amendment I.
Bullshit. This is an argument supported by air.
Money doesn't buy love and it isn't speech. This is like me saying "My House is Speech" if I give my house to a campaign to convert to cash. It is property.
This is why so-called "campaign finance reform" laws are deeply unconstitutional, and one of the many reasons why Senator John McCain deserves to be sent back to the Hanoi Hilton.
No, this is why so many of you are idiots. You are blinded by the "money is speech" advocates that you don't bother using the other portion of your brain to realize what you say is patently stupid.
FIRST, you need to see what the definition of money is (which most of you retards haven't a clue) - it is a item that denotes DEBT. If all debt in the world were paid off, there would be no money.
SECOND, once you recognize that debt is not speech you will realize that it ALSO can not be freely converted into speech (and back again). All OTHER forms of capital can.
FINALLY, the Founders had money and yet this was NOT written into the Bill of Rights. Why? Because it is a fundamentally flawed (and stupid) argument.
But you can't see that. You want the wealthy to rule the land. Sorry, bub, but that was NOT why this country was formed...
There is a difference between fads and trends. Fads tend to be forced top-down and trends tend to be bottom up (no, I didn't come up with this, I just can't remember the name of the guy who wrote the book - probably something to do with fads and trends).
C# is a fad as is dot-whatever. They will only remain as constant as MS deems fit. Then the next fad will hit MS and everything will be different.
C, Unix, Linux, C++, open-source, those are all trends. They started at the grass roots. It has taken a LOT of time, but the world is moving that direction.
The problem is that Gates is still living in 1970 and thinks the the OS is the thing - when in fact few people give a rats ass about the OS, most care about the application they are using.
Gates wants to stay in the past (OS-centric view) rather than move to the future. Unfortunately, he wants to keep the rest of us chained there as well...
Campaign finance laws violate free speech and always have, maybe now the bloggers and other Internet dwellers will realizes this.
First off, money is not speech, it is property (according to Justice Stevens). You don't have "more speech" the more money you have. It is ludicrous to argue that.
Second off, campaign finance laws do not limit speech. They limit how much you can spend to have access to the public airwaves (which are controlled by private corporations - irony?) and other medium.
Finally, the FEC is trying to scare people who communicate with each other. Washington is ticked off that Americans communicate with each other. Hell, if business didn't depend on it, they'd probably kill the internet for "National Security" reasons!
This is a blatant attack on the concept of free speech.
Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay
No. And here is the reason why:
I quit a job that I was (at the time) making good money. The reason? I had been lied to three times -- not little white lies, but "oh, after this we will have you work on xyz project". This was after I helped take a project from abortion to actually a sellable product.
I finally quit because, as I put it in my resignation letter, this job isn't doing me or my career any good.
I have strong feeling about C# (and they are not good ones). I have never felt that it was ever a good idea to base a company around a sole sourced language. There are a lot of Visual Basic shops that died a quick (and in my opinion deserved) death for this very reason.
Just for the record I am working for a place that is TRYING to go to C#. Trouble is, it isn't providing the performance -- almost as if we were lied to (!!!). There is a lot of grumbling about "open source alternatives" going on. I expect the project to die a prolonged and painful death.
Gates is only in the education field (if you can say he is into anything but cash) because of Apple. He only sees it as a way to hook kids on his products. Its called business.
Bill and Melinda Gates (remember, it just ain't Bill) are doling out the cash for health and proverty. Oh, and BTW, they ARE taking it off of their taxes as well. Frankly, I think it's Melinda's who in charge of that area. Don't rightly recall ol' Bill doing squat prior to their marriage.
There are true pioneers in the computing industry and then there are hacks like Gates. You can tell who is a pioneer - they usually are the folks that when they die people go "who are they?". Seldom do they self-aggrandize.
Gates did little for this industry but teach it how to out-source. Thanks, Gates, you effing jerk.
You know, THEM! Those folks. The ones that keep stealing your soda, paper clips and hiding your scissors. The ones that take your postit notes and hide them under your keyboard. THEM!!! The ones that email you about prescription drugs and penis enlargers. THEM!!!! The ones that dress your cat up in fancy lingerie when your off on business trips, drink your beer and hide the remote! THEM!!!!
Never going to happen, because Firewire drives are simply ATA drives with a firewire adapter attached. Firewire is not a suitable protocol to drive a disk alone. Since it is always more expesive to ADD something, that will never happen.
No. You are a moron.
The reason it hasn't happened is based on numbers. There are far MORE IDE interfaces out there on PC's than Firewire. Much like SCSI (remember that? We kept trying to convince you PC folks it was faster, but noooooo!).
A Firewire drive isn't going to happen until PC's move to it. It is purely a numbers game. Has zip to do with Firewire's protocol.
And crucially, the effect only works when the wavelength of the light being scattered is roughly the same size as the object. So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects...
Which are frikkin' microscopic and therefore don't need to be hidden?
Or is it just me that can't see microscopic objects?
I did this over six years ago... A lot of the info was on the net then and it is incredibly dull how little info is really stored.
Worse, Japanese credit cards have a hidden stripe on the FRONT of the card (just in case you wanted to know). You can get a mag-stripe reader for these pretty easily.
Personally, I still think RFID is more interesting...
No offense. But it sounds like people are searching for things to dismiss this study. Um, yes, a Linux guy changed his mind after seeing the conclusions of the study. That means it's not a valid study?
No, it is not a valid study. It is an anecdote.
Look, lets say that they were studying a pain medication. Two people took that medication and one had a good reaction and the other had a heart attack. Would you consider that a good study? Absolutely not.
Or lets say I go to a bar to determine the average net worth of everyone in the room. Bill Gates walks in. Does that mean the average net worth of each person is billions of dollars? Of course not!
This is not a study. A study would randomly pick Linux servers and Windows servers and then test to see which were more secure. But these guys want to queer the results.
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Believe it or not, Apple had a laptop in 1984, aka year 0 of the Macintosh.
It was called the Apple IIc and everyone that mentions the history of laptops seems to forget it.
The Apple IIc can be seen in the movie "2010: Odyssey Two" which, by coincidence, also appeared in 1984.
IIRC actor Roy Scheider is seen using it on a beach.
Go to the source... weather.gov
I own a ranch and use it every day. It has some of the fastest servers for 56K modems.
Now if OTHER web-sites would figure out that flash is not content, maybe the web would be a whole lot faster (and easier) to navigate.
That they didn't find any abuses.
The "lack of evidence" does not exonerate the government.
My guess is that much of the abuse is either ignored or passed over as "well, that isn't really abuse of the Patriot Act", as if they were some Obi Wan Kenobi.
Abuse is abuse is abuse. When the citizens are not allowed to watchdog their government, such abuses will occur and will not be reported.
It is like asking polluters to watchdog themselves. How's that been working out so far?
He is absolutely right.
I am a paying Apple Developer (associate class) and the non-disclosure agreement is pretty tight. I can't reveal even if I possess some of Apple's Technology, much less what it does, how good it is, etc.
So when asked I tell people I know nothing about upcoming Tiger and whether is runs real spiffy.
I know zip about how I wish the dashboard WASN'T something that made the display transparent.
I pretty much am disclosing nothing about anything.
I take contracts serious because I once was sued (it never got to court and my lawyer pretty much shut down the alleged "suers" before they managed to get anything out the door).
My point is that these are not to be entered into lightly. Read them. If you don't like the terms, attempt to modify them or don't sign it.
No, I only WROTE one of the first SCSI driver for the Apple II. Sorry, that was SASI at the time (1982ish...). The Apple II mainframe... yeah, like that... Some of us have been working with it before YOU guys discovered it. Yah, worked with PC's since DOS 1.0. That's when they had tape recorder ports... yeah, I didn't use it either.
My giving money to an individual or organization of my choice is an expression of support, and as such, protected by Amendment I.
Bullshit. This is an argument supported by air.
Money doesn't buy love and it isn't speech. This is like me saying "My House is Speech" if I give my house to a campaign to convert to cash. It is property.
This is why so-called "campaign finance reform" laws are deeply unconstitutional, and one of the many reasons why Senator John McCain deserves to be sent back to the Hanoi Hilton.
No, this is why so many of you are idiots. You are blinded by the "money is speech" advocates that you don't bother using the other portion of your brain to realize what you say is patently stupid.
FIRST, you need to see what the definition of money is (which most of you retards haven't a clue) - it is a item that denotes DEBT. If all debt in the world were paid off, there would be no money.
SECOND, once you recognize that debt is not speech you will realize that it ALSO can not be freely converted into speech (and back again). All OTHER forms of capital can.
FINALLY, the Founders had money and yet this was NOT written into the Bill of Rights. Why? Because it is a fundamentally flawed (and stupid) argument.
But you can't see that. You want the wealthy to rule the land. Sorry, bub, but that was NOT why this country was formed...
and it wasn't funny.
Sorry, Mom...
Money is speech, and campaign finance regulations do restrict speech, as SCOTUS ruled in Buckley v. Vallejo.
Sorry. All replies must be written out as a check for $1000.00.
That is if you TRULY believe that money is speech.
Heh, heh.... He said "bodies"....
Have we turned 12 yet?
In wristwatches. Granted, it won't fit onto your wrist, but man, it looks just like a Mac Mini!
How cool is THAT?!?!
(Remote is optional and also contains a wristwatch).
There is a difference between fads and trends. Fads tend to be forced top-down and trends tend to be bottom up (no, I didn't come up with this, I just can't remember the name of the guy who wrote the book - probably something to do with fads and trends).
C# is a fad as is dot-whatever. They will only remain as constant as MS deems fit. Then the next fad will hit MS and everything will be different.
C, Unix, Linux, C++, open-source, those are all trends. They started at the grass roots. It has taken a LOT of time, but the world is moving that direction.
The problem is that Gates is still living in 1970 and thinks the the OS is the thing - when in fact few people give a rats ass about the OS, most care about the application they are using.
Gates wants to stay in the past (OS-centric view) rather than move to the future. Unfortunately, he wants to keep the rest of us chained there as well...
Campaign finance laws violate free speech and always have, maybe now the bloggers and other Internet dwellers will realizes this.
First off, money is not speech, it is property (according to Justice Stevens). You don't have "more speech" the more money you have. It is ludicrous to argue that.
Second off, campaign finance laws do not limit speech. They limit how much you can spend to have access to the public airwaves (which are controlled by private corporations - irony?) and other medium.
Finally, the FEC is trying to scare people who communicate with each other. Washington is ticked off that Americans communicate with each other. Hell, if business didn't depend on it, they'd probably kill the internet for "National Security" reasons!
This is a blatant attack on the concept of free speech.
Yup, if what you said was only true...
Do you KNOW how tax deductions work?
Yes, I do, thanks for asking. I give to charities every year and don't advertise it.
Gates, on the other hand, does it and advertises it (this is par for most companies).
Why?
To get folks like yourself to go "but hey, he does this and therefore he can't be bad!"
This is an old tactic used by PR firms to change public perception of a company.
Or did you know that?
wont somebody please think of the economy!?!
Thought about it. Wasn't all that interesting.
Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay
No. And here is the reason why:
I quit a job that I was (at the time) making good money. The reason? I had been lied to three times -- not little white lies, but "oh, after this we will have you work on xyz project". This was after I helped take a project from abortion to actually a sellable product.
I finally quit because, as I put it in my resignation letter, this job isn't doing me or my career any good.
I have strong feeling about C# (and they are not good ones). I have never felt that it was ever a good idea to base a company around a sole sourced language. There are a lot of Visual Basic shops that died a quick (and in my opinion deserved) death for this very reason.
Just for the record I am working for a place that is TRYING to go to C#. Trouble is, it isn't providing the performance -- almost as if we were lied to (!!!). There is a lot of grumbling about "open source alternatives" going on. I expect the project to die a prolonged and painful death.
Thank god I declined to sign on to that project!
Gates is only in the education field (if you can say he is into anything but cash) because of Apple. He only sees it as a way to hook kids on his products. Its called business.
Bill and Melinda Gates (remember, it just ain't Bill) are doling out the cash for health and proverty. Oh, and BTW, they ARE taking it off of their taxes as well. Frankly, I think it's Melinda's who in charge of that area. Don't rightly recall ol' Bill doing squat prior to their marriage.
There are true pioneers in the computing industry and then there are hacks like Gates. You can tell who is a pioneer - they usually are the folks that when they die people go "who are they?". Seldom do they self-aggrandize.
Gates did little for this industry but teach it how to out-source. Thanks, Gates, you effing jerk.
So companies can sue other companies with frivilous lawsuits (actually they send the C & D first... ugh).
This country (and I suspect others as well) waste more man-power over C & D's. God knows I've spent more engineering time on them than I should...
You know, THEM! Those folks. The ones that keep stealing your soda, paper clips and hiding your scissors. The ones that take your postit notes and hide them under your keyboard. THEM!!! The ones that email you about prescription drugs and penis enlargers. THEM!!!! The ones that dress your cat up in fancy lingerie when your off on business trips, drink your beer and hide the remote! THEM!!!!
Time for my medication already?
Never going to happen, because Firewire drives are simply ATA drives with a firewire adapter attached. Firewire is not a suitable protocol to drive a disk alone. Since it is always more expesive to ADD something, that will never happen.
No. You are a moron.
The reason it hasn't happened is based on numbers. There are far MORE IDE interfaces out there on PC's than Firewire. Much like SCSI (remember that? We kept trying to convince you PC folks it was faster, but noooooo!).
A Firewire drive isn't going to happen until PC's move to it. It is purely a numbers game. Has zip to do with Firewire's protocol.
And crucially, the effect only works when the wavelength of the light being scattered is roughly the same size as the object. So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects...
Which are frikkin' microscopic and therefore don't need to be hidden?
Or is it just me that can't see microscopic objects?
I did this over six years ago... A lot of the info was on the net then and it is incredibly dull how little info is really stored. Worse, Japanese credit cards have a hidden stripe on the FRONT of the card (just in case you wanted to know). You can get a mag-stripe reader for these pretty easily. Personally, I still think RFID is more interesting...
Didn't Bush just get through telling the Vladimir that we live in a "transparent" country?
Right... and if we did that there would be no Linux and no Mac OS X.
Nope, the standard would be Windows...
No offense. But it sounds like people are searching for things to dismiss this study. Um, yes, a Linux guy changed his mind after seeing the conclusions of the study. That means it's not a valid study?
No, it is not a valid study. It is an anecdote.
Look, lets say that they were studying a pain medication. Two people took that medication and one had a good reaction and the other had a heart attack. Would you consider that a good study? Absolutely not.
Or lets say I go to a bar to determine the average net worth of everyone in the room. Bill Gates walks in. Does that mean the average net worth of each person is billions of dollars? Of course not!
This is not a study. A study would randomly pick Linux servers and Windows servers and then test to see which were more secure. But these guys want to queer the results.
What a bunch of rubbish.