So do I and I rarely have any problem visiting any site. That must mean that most of the cookies out there has no real meaning.
Also the law text has some loop holes such as (my translation): ....this must not prevent any storage for technical reasons that is necessary to carry out or help a communication or something that is absolutely necessary to deliver a service that the user has explicitly requested.
All this means is that you can never set a cookie for tracking purposes or to generate banner ads for example unless the user has given his consent. also the text says that: ...lesser violators will not be held responsible.
We're putting linux on our networks for free, and SCO wants a part of it.
Im not doing it for free, i get paid on a monthly basis to put linux on my network. If SCO want a part of doing this free of charge then they can call me, I have work for them.
Well my concern is, like you say, how this data is being used. I do not oppose to having to carry a passport when going abroad, not at all! But IF they were to add such a thing like fingerprints or DNA data to my passport and then store that in a database... Then i am a little bit concerned. I mean:
[x] I agree that identity may have to be confirmed at times when travelling.
[ ] I agree that having a complete database of DNA samples of all citizens is a good thing.
[ ] I agree that this database should be used for other purposes.
[ ] I agree that medical insurance companies have this information.
[ ]......
As long as there is a system someone will be abusing it or selling information or whatever. I did not vote for their sysadmin or the police...
You have no clue where they would pump that water. Im telling you, it is happening all over. They abduct you, stuff you in a chicken and then pump water in to drown you. Then they ship you around the globe for fun, selling you to asian programmers. Oh no, time to take the red pill again....
True enough, the people of china for instance might be better off today than they were some 20 years ago because of production being moved there from foreign companies. Who knows, when they think keeping production there isnt generating enough profit, they might even outsorce it to some african country...
But just because there are upsides does not mean that there are no downsides! Cheaply produced chicken for instance, pumped with water to increase weight, moved half way across the globe packed with conservatives is one downside for instance. Just because it is cheaper does not always mean that it is better. Competing in screwing each other over is one competition id rather pass.
Thats true. Alot of "programmers" that had no real experience also got fired in the early stages of the dot-boom and left many companies with only a few skilled programmers left. But many companies didnt just fire people, they went off the market, bankrupt, leaving both good and bad programmers out of a job.
Ofcourse being an unemployed skilled programmer is better than being an unemployed bad programmer, but both are still out of a job...
I think you are right. Globalization is a rush to the bottom where production is moved to wherever it is cheapest at the moment. Nike for instance that once made sports equipment is now only a marketing company, they tend to see it as "selling an image" while the producion is long gone, not even kept within the company.
The thing is, this has happened before and will happen again. At first, asian companies didnt have the sophisticated state of the art machinery to produce large quantities of cheap shoes. But then they aquired it and we moved production there since it was cheaper. After that, they didnt have the equipment needed to produce computer components but then they aquired it and now it is "made in china" all over the computers. The Q is, what are we going to come up with next? Biotech?
Of all the trolls on slashdot you are the only one i put an extra modifier on since your trolling is one of the best ive seen so far. Please dont keep up the good work.
He was paid $20 million up front for the stake in his non-music revenues.
Record companies are not the nicest people, but the spin on this submission is that they are somehow robbing the artists.
I remember Robbie screaming "I am filthy rich" at a press conference I saw on TV after signing this deal. Althouh I seem to remember Maria Carey that got paid to NOT make music. I wonder wich concert I have to visit to sponor that deal?
I was just waiting for someone to post this exact comment about Robbie getting his share so I could mod him up. Oh no! I posted instead and now I cant mod! Bummer:\
First time I visited this site, I loved it... All the way down to the proposed use of K&R style braces. It ruins everything.
Anyone forcing me to give up the Allman style simply must be wrong. =) This is religion we are talking about, sites proposing K&R should be subjects to the inquisition!
Wow... Almost all the top-level posts on this article can be replied to with RTFA...
I didn't realize just how bad the problem was..
Well... Did you just RTFA for the first time and found out? I have seen you around and read your previous postings Mr Anonymous Coward, and you dont seem to RTFA yourself very often.
Wasnt this what the Czar of rome said when his former ally Brutus stabbed him in the back?
The open source movement is hardly an ally of MS Exchange or am I missing out?
Anyway, what I was thinking was that Yes, you are right. Competing with Exchange IS a tough fight mainly because of Outlook being the most popular browser combined with the most widespread and, in my view, one of the most powerful collaboration systems around.
I support, implement and manage (mostly) *nix based systems..... And then we have Exchange. Impossible to get rid of because of two things:
A) Users like outlook
B) No other collaboration tool for the same cost or less impresses management
Now, point A) is easy. Most users tend to love Evolution too since it works in the exact same way but without shared calendars and the like, no change of software. period. Points B kicks in.
Any attempt to solve point B, ANY attempt, is most welcome. I DO hope this will work since one of the major downsides of Exchange is the crappy protocol MAPI and its successors.
OK, say I buy the statement that their customers have actually requested the browser to be deeply integrated in the OS.
What I have always wondered is who are these customers they refer to for both PC an Mac?
Who is demanding that the browser is further integrated into the OS an why?
If the "key customers" using Mac wants this, the "key customers" on PC wants this, then this statement would apply to *nix as well i'd suppose. But I have never heard any voices screaming for that on any *nix platform I can think of. In fact, if Firebird was the One and Only browser shipped and integrated on redhat for example, id probably run Opera.
The final question remains, WHO are Microsofts key customers???
The ESA website states that "Beagle 2 will land in an equatorial region that was probably flooded in the past, and where traces of life may have been preserved."
What I wonder is how likely these areas actually were flooded.
I know they say there is a fair amount of forzen water on mars but other than that and the fact it "looks" like surface shaped by water, do they have any other proof of this? I am not trying to say that there were no oceans, im just wondering how they came up with "probably". I thought the scientists used the term "possibly" when talking about water on mars?
Its not up to the store, but the law. You must show the PST and GST on every sale in Canada. There was some debate a couple years ago about changing it to hidden costs, but that seems to have been quelled with recent wars and weed laws.
Well, an interesting idea would be to have the price including taxes on the product and then have the receipt show the two values separated....
What does internal rechargable mean? You don't have to take it out to recharge it? Where do you plug in the power cord at night?::shudder as goatse image jumpes into head::
I know your post was to be funny but the article says that "The induction-based power-recharging method is similar to that used to recharge implantable pacemakers. This recharging technique functions without requiring any physical connection between the power source and the implant." Just in case you actually DID wonder. This means that you dont have to get pysical with your mechanical goat just yet, and if you decide to be anyway, please dont let me know....
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So do I and I rarely have any problem visiting any site. That must mean that most of the cookies out there has no real meaning.
....this must not prevent any storage for technical reasons that is necessary to carry out or help a communication or something that is absolutely necessary to deliver a service that the user has explicitly requested.
...lesser violators will not be held responsible.
Also the law text has some loop holes such as (my translation):
All this means is that you can never set a cookie for tracking purposes or to generate banner ads for example unless the user has given his consent. also the text says that:
We're putting linux on our networks for free, and SCO wants a part of it.
Im not doing it for free, i get paid on a monthly basis to put linux on my network. If SCO want a part of doing this free of charge then they can call me, I have work for them.
Well my concern is, like you say, how this data is being used. I do not oppose to having to carry a passport when going abroad, not at all! But IF they were to add such a thing like fingerprints or DNA data to my passport and then store that in a database... Then i am a little bit concerned. I mean: ......
[x] I agree that identity may have to be confirmed at times when travelling.
[ ] I agree that having a complete database of DNA samples of all citizens is a good thing.
[ ] I agree that this database should be used for other purposes.
[ ] I agree that medical insurance companies have this information.
[ ]
As long as there is a system someone will be abusing it or selling information or whatever. I did not vote for their sysadmin or the police...
You know, I wont argue that the system hasnt worked as it was intended. Sometimes I just dont like how the system is intended to work.
Hmm. I should have paid attention in school when they were teachnig Freud.
You have no clue where they would pump that water.
Im telling you, it is happening all over. They abduct you, stuff you in a chicken and then pump water in to drown you. Then they ship you around the globe for fun, selling you to asian programmers.
Oh no, time to take the red pill again....
True enough, the people of china for instance might be better off today than they were some 20 years ago because of production being moved there from foreign companies.
Who knows, when they think keeping production there isnt generating enough profit, they might even outsorce it to some african country...
But just because there are upsides does not mean that there are no downsides!
Cheaply produced chicken for instance, pumped with water to increase weight, moved half way across the globe packed with conservatives is one downside for instance. Just because it is cheaper does not always mean that it is better. Competing in screwing each other over is one competition id rather pass.
Thats true. Alot of "programmers" that had no real experience also got fired in the early stages of the dot-boom and left many companies with only a few skilled programmers left. But many companies didnt just fire people, they went off the market, bankrupt, leaving both good and bad programmers out of a job.
Ofcourse being an unemployed skilled programmer is better than being an unemployed bad programmer, but both are still out of a job...
I think you are right. Globalization is a rush to the bottom where production is moved to wherever it is cheapest at the moment. Nike for instance that once made sports equipment is now only a marketing company, they tend to see it as "selling an image" while the producion is long gone, not even kept within the company.
The thing is, this has happened before and will happen again. At first, asian companies didnt have the sophisticated state of the art machinery to produce large quantities of cheap shoes. But then they aquired it and we moved production there since it was cheaper. After that, they didnt have the equipment needed to produce computer components but then they aquired it and now it is "made in china" all over the computers.
The Q is, what are we going to come up with next? Biotech?
Of all the trolls on slashdot you are the only one i put an extra modifier on since your trolling is one of the best ive seen so far. Please dont keep up the good work.
Well, most people in the world live on $2 per day. So thats 5 000 days or enought to survive more than 13 years.
Nice perspective... However, these people are not likely the ones to run to their keyboards, code something and then collect either.
their lives will depend on exquisitely accurate weather forecasts
"Above the clouds, we predict a sunny day and a cool night. Same as yesterday. And tomorrow for that matter."
He was paid $20 million up front for the stake in his non-music revenues.
:\
Record companies are not the nicest people, but the spin on this submission is that they are somehow robbing the artists.
I remember Robbie screaming "I am filthy rich" at a press conference I saw on TV after signing this deal. Althouh I seem to remember Maria Carey that got paid to NOT make music. I wonder wich concert I have to visit to sponor that deal?
I was just waiting for someone to post this exact comment about Robbie getting his share so I could mod him up.
Oh no! I posted instead and now I cant mod! Bummer
First time I visited this site, I loved it... All the way down to the proposed use of K&R style braces. It ruins everything.
Anyone forcing me to give up the Allman style simply must be wrong. =)
This is religion we are talking about, sites proposing K&R should be subjects to the inquisition!
wasn't that pretty obvious from day 1???
Wait! something has changed in the Matrix! Although im not sure we had this EXACT same discussion before or one just like it...
He was stabbed in the crotch, not the back.
;)
Stabbing an ally in the crotch is definitely to stab someone in the back.
Wow... Almost all the top-level posts on this article can be replied to with RTFA...
I didn't realize just how bad the problem was..
Well... Did you just RTFA for the first time and found out?
I have seen you around and read your previous postings Mr Anonymous Coward, and you dont seem to RTFA yourself very often.
"Et tu Brutus?"
Wasnt this what the Czar of rome said when his former ally Brutus stabbed him in the back?
The open source movement is hardly an ally of MS Exchange or am I missing out?
Anyway, what I was thinking was that Yes, you are right. Competing with Exchange IS a tough fight mainly because of Outlook being the most popular browser combined with the most widespread and, in my view, one of the most powerful collaboration systems around.
I support, implement and manage (mostly) *nix based systems..... And then we have Exchange. Impossible to get rid of because of two things:
A) Users like outlook
B) No other collaboration tool for the same cost or less impresses management
Now, point A) is easy. Most users tend to love Evolution too since it works in the exact same way but without shared calendars and the like, no change of software. period. Points B kicks in.
Any attempt to solve point B, ANY attempt, is most welcome.
I DO hope this will work since one of the major downsides of Exchange is the crappy protocol MAPI and its successors.
OK, say I buy the statement that their customers have actually requested the browser to be deeply integrated in the OS.
What I have always wondered is who are these customers they refer to for both PC an Mac?
Who is demanding that the browser is further integrated into the OS an why?
If the "key customers" using Mac wants this, the "key customers" on PC wants this, then this statement would apply to *nix as well i'd suppose. But I have never heard any voices screaming for that on any *nix platform I can think of. In fact, if Firebird was the One and Only browser shipped and integrated on redhat for example, id probably run Opera.
The final question remains, WHO are Microsofts key customers???
The ESA website states that "Beagle 2 will land in an equatorial region that was probably flooded in the past, and where traces of life may have been preserved."
What I wonder is how likely these areas actually were flooded.
I know they say there is a fair amount of forzen water on mars but other than that and the fact it "looks" like surface shaped by water, do they have any other proof of this? I am not trying to say that there were no oceans, im just wondering how they came up with "probably". I thought the scientists used the term "possibly" when talking about water on mars?
...And I found a document at SearchKing itself where they have commented it.
Here.
Its not up to the store, but the law. You must show the PST and GST on every sale in Canada. There was some debate a couple years ago about changing it to hidden costs, but that seems to have been quelled with recent wars and weed laws.
Well, an interesting idea would be to have the price including taxes on the product and then have the receipt show the two values separated....
Im SURE this must violate the Fizzer EULA somehow, in fact FizzerCorp has set their legal department to work on this right now!
What does internal rechargable mean? You don't have to take it out to recharge it? Where do you plug in the power cord at night? ::shudder as goatse image jumpes into head::
I know your post was to be funny but the article says that "The induction-based power-recharging method is similar to that used to recharge implantable pacemakers. This recharging technique functions without requiring any physical connection between the power source and the implant."
Just in case you actually DID wonder. This means that you dont have to get pysical with your mechanical goat just yet, and if you decide to be anyway, please dont let me know....
imagine a beowulf cluster...
That would be a suburb with one master key going to all the locks and random neigbours crashing in your house all the time...
Sounds like a blast!