Wait until IPv6 gets penetration and the routing becomes easily centrally controllable because of the natural hierarchical nature of IPv6 addressing. You'll need some kind of network passport to connect to other countries, and won't be able to connect to some countries at all.
e) C&Ding anyone using gumball style buttons or transparency in a theme f) Crippling thier DVD software to only work with their proprietary drives, and issuing a DMCA threat against a vendor that provided a patch to fix it g) Charging $129 for point releases--Windows Update is free!
Whether the sins of the father taint the current corporation or not is a fair question. But IBM didn't just sell Hollerith cards to the Germans. They, like Cisco and Yahoo did and are doing to help the PRC violate human rights with the Great Firewall, didn't just sell a technology knowing it would be used to oppress people--they provided technical help and consulting to assist in making it happen. Holding IBM accountable for that is hardly unfair. And since corporations live forever, the fact that the actual people who did it are probably mostly dead isn't all that relevant.
Interesting that you would mention Judas Iscariot. One thing to consider is whether he should be held accountable, inasmuch as he had been prophesied and predestined to do what he did. Hardly seems fair.
If it were in a database, they could have looked at the performace over any time period.
Maybe that's why it wasn't. Information is power, and having information in some centralized repository that executives more senior than onself can easily query isn't always a good thing.
I didn't say whether or not I was boycotting anything--I just don't see how the Cold War being over makes what Toshiba did any less relevant for patriotic Americans, any more than Germany having fallen after World War II makes IBM any less culpable for having assisted Germany with using Hollerith card technology to help round up the Jews.
So by that logic, if there's a buck to be made selling nuclear technology to North Korea, that's OK. I'm glad we understand each other. Yes, Toshiba's a Japanese company--but that doesn't mean a patriotic American should support them in their having traded with our enemies.
Apple must be taking cues from Intuit. You want to use your software as a platform to sell me shit? Then it'd better be free. I bought my last Quicken upgrade when that product started spamming me; looks like I'll be passing on Tiger.
Because it pays pretty well and people in that position don't have many deliverables. I'm not saying all security people are that way, but there's lots of IT obstructionism and work avoidance done in the name of security.
More like a threat to the fiefdom of the "security person." The disingenuous in IT have been using security as an empire building tool since there have been computers.
Quicken used to be an excellent product around 1997 or so. But then they started adding in-program spam and call home features. And that's when I stopped upgrading.
The whole point of the article is that Flash is being used to circumvent users' deleting of cookies, automatically or otherwise. Just another reason to not install Flash, as if intrusive ads and stupid splash pages weren't sufficient.
If their Digital Restrictions Management server becomes a standard and recognized platform for legally circumventing discovery of incriminating electronic documents, sales of the Office platform among the future Worldcoms and Enrons of this world will explode.
What exactly is the difference between a "discouIn reality, what you'll probably see is the telco providing discounts for getting both DSL and voice service from them. There is no real difference beween offering a "discount" for a bundle and levying a "surcharge" for not taking the bundle. The practice should be disallowed for existing POTS monopolies. But we wouldn't expect fairness from an FCC that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the old line telecommunications lobby.
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I want to see Russell Crowe and Steve Jobs suited up and locked in a gladiatorial fight to the death in the Coliseum.
Wait until IPv6 gets penetration and the routing becomes easily centrally controllable because of the natural hierarchical nature of IPv6 addressing. You'll need some kind of network passport to connect to other countries, and won't be able to connect to some countries at all.
e) C&Ding anyone using gumball style buttons or transparency in a theme
f) Crippling thier DVD software to only work with their proprietary drives, and issuing a DMCA threat against a vendor that provided a patch to fix it
g) Charging $129 for point releases--Windows Update is free!
Publicity. Stunt.
If Red China had invented the Internet, there'd be something for them to complain about if it were primarily an English medium. But they didn't.
Interesting that you would mention Judas Iscariot. One thing to consider is whether he should be held accountable, inasmuch as he had been prophesied and predestined to do what he did. Hardly seems fair.
Thank you--if you hadn't have done it, I would have had to :).
Maybe that's why it wasn't. Information is power, and having information in some centralized repository that executives more senior than onself can easily query isn't always a good thing.
No need to be a dick, even if you were a Communist sympathizer during the Cold War. But I guess it comes naturally to you.
I didn't say whether or not I was boycotting anything--I just don't see how the Cold War being over makes what Toshiba did any less relevant for patriotic Americans, any more than Germany having fallen after World War II makes IBM any less culpable for having assisted Germany with using Hollerith card technology to help round up the Jews.
So by that logic, if there's a buck to be made selling nuclear technology to North Korea, that's OK. I'm glad we understand each other. Yes, Toshiba's a Japanese company--but that doesn't mean a patriotic American should support them in their having traded with our enemies.
How does that make trading with our enemy of the time any less heinous?
Two words: Vendor lock-in.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Adobe, go fuck yourself.
Apple must be taking cues from Intuit. You want to use your software as a platform to sell me shit? Then it'd better be free. I bought my last Quicken upgrade when that product started spamming me; looks like I'll be passing on Tiger.
A site gets to push me to an interstital exactly once before I nullroute the domain and never come back.
I assume it would support ELF binaries?
If there were any justice, the responsible executives would be brought to The Hague in chains, tried for crimes against humanity, and hanged.
Because it pays pretty well and people in that position don't have many deliverables. I'm not saying all security people are that way, but there's lots of IT obstructionism and work avoidance done in the name of security.
More like a threat to the fiefdom of the "security person." The disingenuous in IT have been using security as an empire building tool since there have been computers.
Quicken used to be an excellent product around 1997 or so. But then they started adding in-program spam and call home features. And that's when I stopped upgrading.
But no one has fellat.io!
The whole point of the article is that Flash is being used to circumvent users' deleting of cookies, automatically or otherwise. Just another reason to not install Flash, as if intrusive ads and stupid splash pages weren't sufficient.
If their Digital Restrictions Management server becomes a standard and recognized platform for legally circumventing discovery of incriminating electronic documents, sales of the Office platform among the future Worldcoms and Enrons of this world will explode.
What exactly is the difference between a "discouIn reality, what you'll probably see is the telco providing discounts for getting both DSL and voice service from them. There is no real difference beween offering a "discount" for a bundle and levying a "surcharge" for not taking the bundle. The practice should be disallowed for existing POTS monopolies. But we wouldn't expect fairness from an FCC that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the old line telecommunications lobby.