Every Country Has the Governement It Deserves. Sorry.
Could be worse. In a recent election in Australia, the people voted and the voice was heard. And the resounding sound of the people said together "meh". And nothing was done for 3 years...
Nope, because you are given both the key and the lock. The lock being an algorithm that turns a magical code from Intel into a simple boolean value. (upgrade/not upgrade). Some clever clogs gets some chips and examines the ins and outs of the system. Manages to reverse engineer the lock. Then provides another website/executable etc... "Smear in your product ID here". "Your unlock code is......" It would be hacked as quickly as games with a key code. on the back of the manual.
If they want to make the system secure there has to be a phone home component with a rolling code. And we all love a CPU that needs to be connected to the Internet to perform well.
Would you allow me to use your iPad in my garage, so I can read how to change the oil on my motorcycle?
How about if you let me borrow it so I can read instructions on how to lay tiles outside?
These are two examples from the weekend. Printing is good. People who have lives have need for printed paper. Maybe people with iPads don't have lives...
A friend of mine picked up his laptop for work a couple of months back. Asked me to have a look at it to declare what cool stuff he could do at home with it. IE icon was hidden. Firefox icon was renamed Internet. Opened the Microsoft Office fly out to discover that someone had carefully installed Open Office, and then renamed the icons. Writer now read Word, Calc now read Excel etc. Somebody in IT had saved themselves $300 a laptop. The user did not know or care.
Enterprise worries about compatibility. SMBs don't care as long as it's cheap and works.
Java is dying just like C. It has been replaced by the technologically superior C++. Just like Perl, which has been replaced by the syntaxically superior python. Like Assembler which has been replaced by the easy to use.net framework.
The above should be read in a sarcastic drone. And I'm not sure whether "syntaxically" is a real word, but it should be.
By that logic you could freely distribute an infringing program as long as you don't run it.
No, you could freely distribute the source code of an infringing product so long as you don't compile it. The act of converting from "Speech" to a "device or process" happens in the compilation process, not in the execution of the process. (Software patents whilst legal, are still dumb to my thinking)
And yes I work on an MS infrastructure to pay the bills. I also am watching more and more Apache and GPL software appearing around me. Now to post this from firefox running on an xp virtual machine running on ESXi.
It's not about losing money as much as losing relevance. Lose relevance and money will follow eventually.
People work on Microsoft infrastructure because it pays the bills, not because they want to. The problem with this is that in 10 years time it will be cheaper to get a LAMP administrator than it will to get a IIS/MSSQL administrator. Bugger licensing costs, it's the price of risk management that is important to companies. And with Microsoft becoming less relevant LAMP and "Cool Hip technologies" will be the replacement in 10 years when those admins grow up and start doing IT for a living like the rest of us.
"As the White House recently noted in its strategic plan to combat intellectual property theft it is essential for service providers and intermediaries generally to work collaboratively with content owners to seek practical and efficient solutions to address infringement," Sherman wrote. "We need businesses to be more proactive in addressing infringement, not less."
Can someone please inform Mr Sherman, that removing 10,000 videos in 24 hours is pretty much as proactive as you are going to get?
So we have a regulation that states "if Company X earns more than %n of GDP, then it needs to be split up into two companies. Shareholders get to pick which divisions go into which company and get to split their shares up." I'm sure some economists can fill in the percentages for me. Don't let things stabilise, let things be pruned.
Closer to 100K per seat per viewing. Whether it was occupied or not.
I had fun a couple o days ago. Went to the cinema to watch a film with a friend. Looked around the cinema. We were the only two in there. I left my phone on to celebrate.
One can understand that this would so shock a Brit that he might drop his second or third pint of Guinness Stout that he'd swilled that day.
Whilst I may not agree with some of your points, most of what you say seems to be well reasoned. However. Guinness is brewed in Ireland. The country next door to England. (Kinda like saying that all Americans drink is Corona.)
What Tony should have said is "The passwords are in the secure password repository. Look it up yourself." The problem is that he couldn't say that because it was a lie to. He dug his own hole.
If the superintendent of a school district says - "Whats the password for root on the server?" You tell them.
No you don't. Ever. You say "Go to the safe and get them yourself. Don't forget to sign the register." When Superintendent bleats that it is needed NOW! your answer is to point them to the safe. Terry Childs did not put the passwords in the safe and deserves to go down for that.
Are you telling me that I if I operate a store that I must sell every competing brand in existence besides my store brand? I have yet to see a supermarket that sell every brand of milk available locally for example.
No, he is not telling you this. He is telling you that having purchased that milk, you may only drink it from the carton. You may not use it as part of a recipe. You may not use it to make cheese with. You may not decant it into a glass first. YOU MAY ONLY DRINK FROM THE CARTON! Not only that, the supermarket may not sell glasses, recipe books or cheese molds. Can you see the difference? If I use my iphone as a hammer, using the convenient "hammer app" written in flash and converted into C, then bully for me.
Ponder Google the company. They earn money from people clicking on ads and buying things. China has many people who can click on ads to be sure, but relatively few who can even afford to buy things. Perhaps Google assessed the cost of filtering results versus the profit to sell to the relatively few and worked out that it was not economically viable.
Then Google tries negotiations to expand their profit margins. If it costs less per click for Google with unfiltered results, then that is more profit for Google. Google can now afford to stay. So Google ask China to do this for them. China Says No.
Google then say "We have dirt on you and will air it unless you do" China : I Dare You. Google (to world): China have been hacking your systems China: And? We do these things for peace, harmony and the mud grass horse. Google: Well, since we can't do unfiltered search in China, we will do it next door. The worst thing you can do to us is block us. Total loss was only a sector of the market that wasn't really making profit. We wait for the Chimerican Revolution and roll into China as the saviour of the tubes.
No, but since I have to sit through hours of badly presented Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, nothing can be worse. If Google breaks powerpoint to the point where presenters have to present data using whiteboards, OHPs, movies, handouts, and good old fashioned oratory, then count me in.
I'd settle for Life imprisonment. Where all shares are taken from shareholders and the company has to pay dividends to the government treasury for 25 years. If the company reports a loss in that time they are bankrupted and dissolved.
The Millennial Tech experience will enhance educational opportunities, prepare students for the workplace and allow all individuals to feel comfortable and secure.
Let's face it. Bringing in an item that may be a bomb is not going to make individuals feel comfortable and secure
Why the hell would they recommend counseling for a non-violent and non-criminal act?
If a bunch of firefighters had just stormed my science fair, and garage, and I had been doing my best to answer their questions, I'd be just a tad distraught. I may even need counselling to get over the emotional trauma.
The other kind of counselling where the recipient is told not to do it again should be reserved for administrators who did not ask what the device is.
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Every Country Has the Governement It Deserves. Sorry.
Could be worse. In a recent election in Australia, the people voted and the voice was heard. And the resounding sound of the people said together "meh". And nothing was done for 3 years...
Nope, because you are given both the key and the lock. The lock being an algorithm that turns a magical code from Intel into a simple boolean value. (upgrade/not upgrade). Some clever clogs gets some chips and examines the ins and outs of the system. Manages to reverse engineer the lock. Then provides another website/executable etc... "Smear in your product ID here". "Your unlock code is ......" It would be hacked as quickly as games with a key code. on the back of the manual.
If they want to make the system secure there has to be a phone home component with a rolling code. And we all love a CPU that needs to be connected to the Internet to perform well.
Would you allow me to use your iPad in my garage, so I can read how to change the oil on my motorcycle?
How about if you let me borrow it so I can read instructions on how to lay tiles outside?
These are two examples from the weekend. Printing is good. People who have lives have need for printed paper. Maybe people with iPads don't have lives...
A friend of mine picked up his laptop for work a couple of months back. Asked me to have a look at it to declare what cool stuff he could do at home with it. IE icon was hidden. Firefox icon was renamed Internet. Opened the Microsoft Office fly out to discover that someone had carefully installed Open Office, and then renamed the icons. Writer now read Word, Calc now read Excel etc. Somebody in IT had saved themselves $300 a laptop. The user did not know or care.
Enterprise worries about compatibility. SMBs don't care as long as it's cheap and works.
Java is dying just like C. It has been replaced by the technologically superior C++. Just like Perl, which has been replaced by the syntaxically superior python. Like Assembler which has been replaced by the easy to use .net framework.
The above should be read in a sarcastic drone. And I'm not sure whether "syntaxically" is a real word, but it should be.
No, but it may be that they chose the wrong people to pick on... God Squad
I'm with you on this one, but bow ties need to go the way of the fez.
By that logic you could freely distribute an infringing program as long as you don't run it.
No, you could freely distribute the source code of an infringing product so long as you don't compile it. The act of converting from "Speech" to a "device or process" happens in the compilation process, not in the execution of the process. (Software patents whilst legal, are still dumb to my thinking)
Yes, yes it is.
And yes I work on an MS infrastructure to pay the bills. I also am watching more and more Apache and GPL software appearing around me. Now to post this from firefox running on an xp virtual machine running on ESXi.
It's not about losing money as much as losing relevance. Lose relevance and money will follow eventually.
People work on Microsoft infrastructure because it pays the bills, not because they want to. The problem with this is that in 10 years time it will be cheaper to get a LAMP administrator than it will to get a IIS/MSSQL administrator. Bugger licensing costs, it's the price of risk management that is important to companies. And with Microsoft becoming less relevant LAMP and "Cool Hip technologies" will be the replacement in 10 years when those admins grow up and start doing IT for a living like the rest of us.
"As the White House recently noted in its strategic plan to combat intellectual property theft it is essential for service providers and intermediaries generally to work collaboratively with content owners to seek practical and efficient solutions to address infringement," Sherman wrote. "We need businesses to be more proactive in addressing infringement, not less."
Can someone please inform Mr Sherman, that removing 10,000 videos in 24 hours is pretty much as proactive as you are going to get?
non-sensationalized takeaway: "remember swap is slow; try not to use it."
Not really. Closer to "Remember, swap is slow. Think about how you use it."
So we have a regulation that states "if Company X earns more than %n of GDP, then it needs to be split up into two companies. Shareholders get to pick which divisions go into which company and get to split their shares up." I'm sure some economists can fill in the percentages for me. Don't let things stabilise, let things be pruned.
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Closer to 100K per seat per viewing. Whether it was occupied or not.
I had fun a couple o days ago. Went to the cinema to watch a film with a friend. Looked around the cinema. We were the only two in there. I left my phone on to celebrate.
One can understand that this would so shock a Brit that he might drop his second or third pint of Guinness Stout that he'd swilled that day.
Whilst I may not agree with some of your points, most of what you say seems to be well reasoned. However. Guinness is brewed in Ireland. The country next door to England. (Kinda like saying that all Americans drink is Corona.)
What Tony should have said is "The passwords are in the secure password repository. Look it up yourself." The problem is that he couldn't say that because it was a lie to. He dug his own hole.
If the superintendent of a school district says - "Whats the password for root on the server?" You tell them.
No you don't. Ever. You say "Go to the safe and get them yourself. Don't forget to sign the register." When Superintendent bleats that it is needed NOW! your answer is to point them to the safe. Terry Childs did not put the passwords in the safe and deserves to go down for that.
Are you telling me that I if I operate a store that I must sell every competing brand in existence besides my store brand? I have yet to see a supermarket that sell every brand of milk available locally for example.
No, he is not telling you this. He is telling you that having purchased that milk, you may only drink it from the carton. You may not use it as part of a recipe. You may not use it to make cheese with. You may not decant it into a glass first. YOU MAY ONLY DRINK FROM THE CARTON! Not only that, the supermarket may not sell glasses, recipe books or cheese molds. Can you see the difference? If I use my iphone as a hammer, using the convenient "hammer app" written in flash and converted into C, then bully for me.
Ponder Google the company. They earn money from people clicking on ads and buying things. China has many people who can click on ads to be sure, but relatively few who can even afford to buy things. Perhaps Google assessed the cost of filtering results versus the profit to sell to the relatively few and worked out that it was not economically viable.
Then Google tries negotiations to expand their profit margins. If it costs less per click for Google with unfiltered results, then that is more profit for Google. Google can now afford to stay. So Google ask China to do this for them. China Says No.
Google then say "We have dirt on you and will air it unless you do"
China : I Dare You.
Google (to world): China have been hacking your systems
China: And? We do these things for peace, harmony and the mud grass horse.
Google: Well, since we can't do unfiltered search in China, we will do it next door. The worst thing you can do to us is block us. Total loss was only a sector of the market that wasn't really making profit. We wait for the Chimerican Revolution and roll into China as the saviour of the tubes.
God have you seen google's idea of powerpoint?
No, but since I have to sit through hours of badly presented Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, nothing can be worse. If Google breaks powerpoint to the point where presenters have to present data using whiteboards, OHPs, movies, handouts, and good old fashioned oratory, then count me in.
At the same time the use of condoms is the best way to prevent STD's.
I would favor abstinence as more effective. Just not as much fun.
I'd settle for Life imprisonment. Where all shares are taken from shareholders and the company has to pay dividends to the government treasury for 25 years. If the company reports a loss in that time they are bankrupted and dissolved.
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The Millennial Tech experience will enhance educational opportunities, prepare students for the workplace and allow all individuals to feel comfortable and secure.
Let's face it. Bringing in an item that may be a bomb is not going to make individuals feel comfortable and secure
Why the hell would they recommend counseling for a non-violent and non-criminal act?
If a bunch of firefighters had just stormed my science fair, and garage, and I had been doing my best to answer their questions, I'd be just a tad distraught. I may even need counselling to get over the emotional trauma.
The other kind of counselling where the recipient is told not to do it again should be reserved for administrators who did not ask what the device is.