--That, I think, is a good point. The solution, however, is not to make the counterattack legal, thus continuing to absolve people of responsibility, but to make the owners of the systems legally responsible for their failure to secure their systems. If your system is 0wn3d and used to launch a DDoS attack on AOL (or Slashdot, Kuro5hin, whoever), then AOL should have the right to sue you for damages. Your incompetence caused their loss.--
What about the software companies that make their software so easy to exploit? I doesn't seem fair that the user should have to keep up with this 24/7.
Totally agree with most everything you said except the part about PhD's being lazy. I'm no PhD, but doesn't that kinda prove that you weren't lazy? It seem's to me like you would have to work pretty hard to become one. This would be different than passing a couple of tests to become MCSE certified.
But otherwise I agree. We once had a guy that was used to Novell. He got that experience from the military. It was no problem for him to switch to NT, 2000 or whatever, but I think you've got to have something to get you in the door.
--Apple knows that DRM is futile, so they don't waste billions of dollars making some half-assed version of content management. Yet they still continue to profit.--
Not trolling but Apple in fact has been loosing money lately. Check out this link.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/oct/16earni ng s.html
--I worked with the Army. I went to an exercize for a month, and I can tell you that they are the bigist peace of shit on wheels. Everywere the Army goes they break down. Insted of driving them in a convoy, they had to put them on a train, why? Becouse the commanders said they won't last the 12 hour drive. Everyone I talked to said they were shit.--
Bullshit.
I happen to know someone that owns one of these, and there is nowhere hardly it can't go. They last a very long time. The only problem is size. Sometimes they are too wide to make it through wooded areas. The Army really need something like a jeep for this.
--My point? It might be better to avoid the old-fashioned union model, and start an AMA/ABA/IEEE-style professional association, and lobby for compulsory state standards, examinations and licensing for professional coders.--
I thought we already had that. MSCE! We'll maybe not |#(
Blender is more like a 3d animation program I thought. I forgot about the Codeweavers though. That would solve one problem. Linux still needs some more aplications to be ported/written.
I guess some CAD packages that work with Unix, Solaris, etc. could be made to work although they are higher end. I think there even was an AutoCAD for Unix at one time.
If Adobe decides to write their stuff for Linux, then that could be the end for MicroSoft. Everyone else would have to follow suit. I wonder how seriously they are taking Linux?
Not to speak of. It sounds like he works for M$. There are several applications lacking. It's only a matter of time before Linux will have these. Does anyone know of a good LinuxCAD program? I have to have that and Quickbooks to make the switch at work.
This is getting way off topic but... with a little karma still left, I have to slightly disagree.
The tool of religious competition was in Jeruselam way before the U.S. was even a country. Study your history.
1.) Wailing Wall #1 most important site for Judaism.
2.) Church of the Nativity #1 most important site for Christianity.
3.) The temple Mount #2 most improtant site for Islam. Also it is very important to Jews as well.
The US and UK did not start anything that was not there already, but I do agree with your statement that the Arab world united could be a leading power. It happened in the past. It could in the future. As a matter of fact, I wish we would find an alternative to oil. There is only so much oil left in the MidEast anyhow. I can't see how keeping them fighting one another would ensure the oil supply either, because things like pipelines, oil wells, etc. can be damaged in war.
--Maybe we're doing something wrong, and maybe we're not, but nobody in the government is bothering to ask.--
No, we have taken over as world policeman, a job that was once held by the British Commonwealth because we happen to be the strongest nation at this point in time or since 1945. Also, policing the dispute in the Modest when 3 of the major religions lay claim to Jerusalem is probably going to make someone mad at you for taking sides.
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I like the ole Sledgamatic(tm).
Mashes, bashes, can even sterilize.
--That, I think, is a good point. The solution, however, is not to make the counterattack legal, thus continuing to absolve people of responsibility, but to make the owners of the systems legally responsible for their failure to secure their systems. If your system is 0wn3d and used to launch a DDoS attack on AOL (or Slashdot, Kuro5hin, whoever), then AOL should have the right to sue you for damages. Your incompetence caused their loss.--
What about the software companies that make their software so easy to exploit? I doesn't seem fair that the user should have to keep up with this 24/7.
>>When I worked for DEC they had a rule, "A+ or your ass is gone."
That is probably why we don't have DEC anymore. Did DEC pay for the course for their people that didn't have it?
Right on!
Totally agree with most everything you said except the part about PhD's being lazy. I'm no PhD, but doesn't that kinda prove that you weren't lazy? It seem's to me like you would have to work pretty hard to become one. This would be different than passing a couple of tests to become MCSE certified.
But otherwise I agree. We once had a guy that was used to Novell. He got that experience from the military. It was no problem for him to switch to NT, 2000 or whatever, but I think you've got to have something to get you in the door.
--Apple knows that DRM is futile, so they don't waste billions of dollars making some half-assed version of content management. Yet they still continue to profit.--
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Not trolling but Apple in fact has been loosing money lately. Check out this link.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/oct/16earn
True.
Does anyone know if the free version still contains spyware?
I've seen a TV that occupies a small corner of the rearview mirror on MTV. Don't know if that's leagal?
--I worked with the Army. I went to an exercize for a month, and I can tell you that they are the bigist peace of shit on wheels. Everywere the Army goes they break down. Insted of driving them in a convoy, they had to put them on a train, why? Becouse the commanders said they won't last the 12 hour drive. Everyone I talked to said they were shit.--
Bullshit.
I happen to know someone that owns one of these, and there is nowhere hardly it can't go. They last a very long time. The only problem is size. Sometimes they are too wide to make it through wooded areas. The Army really need something like a jeep for this.
Not funny. Fair question.
If everything has a speed not exceeding light then what about the dark? What is it? Is it nothing or something?
--My point? It might be better to avoid the old-fashioned union model, and start an AMA/ABA/IEEE-style professional association, and lobby for compulsory state standards, examinations and licensing for professional coders.--
I thought we already had that. MSCE! We'll maybe not |#(
One big word.
Encryption.
--I mean, what's the longest lasting digital medium? CDs? 50 years?!?! Paper lasts thousands of years!--
Wrong!
Paper made from pulp nowdays will not last much over 100 years. 100% rag content will last though.
In the state of Virginia, you cannot get your drivers licsense renewed if you don't pay that overdue fine.
Blender is more like a 3d animation program I thought. I forgot about the Codeweavers though. That would solve one problem. Linux still needs some more aplications to be ported/written.
I guess some CAD packages that work with Unix, Solaris, etc. could be made to work although they are higher end. I think there even was an AutoCAD for Unix at one time.
If Adobe decides to write their stuff for Linux, then that could be the end for MicroSoft. Everyone else would have to follow suit. I wonder how seriously they are taking Linux?
I have heard of this with airships too. These would be pilotless but could stay up for many days. I assume a solar plane could do the same.
I have heard these things crash a lot more than a vehicle with a actual pilot. I don't want one crashing into me.
Not to speak of. It sounds like he works for M$. There are several applications lacking. It's only a matter of time before Linux will have these. Does anyone know of a good LinuxCAD program? I have to have that and Quickbooks to make the switch at work.
Don't give them that Idea. That would destroy linux if M$ launches Office for Linux 20003.
Why does opensource have to translate everything? I might not be able to spell but I can read. Nothing new really. M$ has been at this for a while.
This is getting way off topic but... with a little karma still left, I have to slightly disagree.
The tool of religious competition was in Jeruselam way before the U.S. was even a country. Study your history.
1.) Wailing Wall #1 most important site for Judaism.
2.) Church of the Nativity #1 most important site for Christianity.
3.) The temple Mount #2 most improtant site for Islam. Also it is very important to Jews as well.
The US and UK did not start anything that was not there already, but I do agree with your statement that the Arab world united could be a leading power. It happened in the past. It could in the future. As a matter of fact, I wish we would find an alternative to oil. There is only so much oil left in the MidEast anyhow. I can't see how keeping them fighting one another would ensure the oil supply either, because things like pipelines, oil wells, etc. can be damaged in war.
Sounds like some good stock picks.
The comedian Yakov Smearnov, I think. Maybe my svelling is a vittle off, I dunno.
I still don't get most of it either.
--Maybe we're doing something wrong, and maybe we're not, but nobody in the government is bothering to ask.--
No, we have taken over as world policeman, a job that was once held by the British Commonwealth because we happen to be the strongest nation at this point in time or since 1945. Also, policing the dispute in the Modest when 3 of the major religions lay claim to Jerusalem is probably going to make someone mad at you for taking sides.
The trouble there is not about oil, but religion.
She cannot take it anymore capm'n. The server, I think she's gonna blow.
--and no one Church has any kind of monopoly on the Bible.--
True enough,
but the various churches have very similar beliefs when it comes to the major stuff. There is politics involed in what they believe too.
The preacher/priest may say the Lord summond a meeting tonight, when in fact that is what the congregation wants too.
The internet just like the printing press undermines authority for sure. I just hope the ones in authority don't decide to purge it.