"Who takes the brunt of every bad event in farming? The family man."
The average family man farmer typically has half a million dollars to a million dollars worth of equity. They don't even keep records and 9 out of ten are clueless. There is no room for many of the typical family farmers anymore. If you can't do something as simple as keep records (something required of EVERY business) and you end up going out of business thats just too bad. I have no sympothy for producers who run a poor business, its their own problem. Poor business practice == out of business.
"...oh, $25 a cow for RIFD..." Before you make ignorant comments about how much RFID costs perhaps you should look into it. Tracing alone costs this country millions of dollars, and RFID eliminates much of that. RFID also makes disease testing administration and related tasks much less expensive. RFID in fact pays for itself most of the time. There is many more intended uses for RFID in livestock than mad cow disease. There is bovine tuberculosis, scrapies, foot and mouth (god i hope that doesn't land here..) and many other foreign disease to trace and test for.
The system describe in this article has little to do with BSE itself. http://www.usaip.info/ and Http://www.nationalfair.com are both useful.
They are working on a national ID program as seen here http://www.usaip.info/ it is nothing new. Its been in the works for years and we've been using a similar system (of which the national system will basted from) in North East Michigan to control and eradicate bovine tuberculosis. The USDA gave a 1.3 million dollar grant to start the program in N.E. Michigan in 2001 and we've been in full force since 2002. You think slashdotters are paranoid about RFID? Try RFIDing cattle..
Q: If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls?
A: No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you've provided express agreement in writing to receive their calls.
"Kethinov:
Am I the only one who sees this as a waste of time? KDE already works. OO.org already works. OO.org already works in KDE. All this time spent on making it look better could be used in giving Linux some real features that it really needs."
Exactly the thinking that costs us linux users. Working isn't good enough, windows 'works'. We need shit that goes above and beyond if we want to grow.
You don't need many documents, physical proof, etc to make proof of common knowledge, something you obviously lack. One of the most nasty dictators in the world and a you support this apparently? Either that or you have 2 yr old slashdot syndrome...
Ya but you also lose integrity by allowing people who don't meet deadlines to slip by. It is a lose/lose situation really. I'm sure Miguel will still be very involved.
So you're saying their is something magic about the machine that prohibits installing a new mobo of the same form factor? And I'm also curious, what is prohibiting you from upgrading the hard drive, memory and gfx card? There surely must be atleast 1 open PCI slot if their isn't a AGP slot and I'm sure you can slap in a new hard drive. (Yes PCI gfx cards suck but if its faster than what was with it..)
In my experiance cheap computers like this you don't get an AGP slot and thats about the biggest gripe. If your wanting to upgrade a cpu... do the mobo too for christ sakes!
Except for OpenOffice/StarOffice offer nothing nearly as good as Microsoft Access. Many offices rely VERY heavily on Microsoft Access and are stuck with Office as a result of it. Of course they have no Outlook either but Ximian's Evolution is mucho good..
Couldn't agree more. If/when people start paying close to a grand or more for office and 50 bux a pop+ for games and when businesses start really paying for every piece of software...
In other words - If/When piracy is stopped people will look for alternative software very quickly. Sure people might be getting windows for 'free' (they dont' understand ms tax) but they wont' continue getting their thousands of dollars worth of software for free.
I can second that.. of all the people I know who have owned a ps2 (measly 20), more than half complain they dont' work properly or dont' work at all! Some say that it won't read DVD discs of any kind and they can only play psx games and others complain that its unreliable. I can't remember anyone complaining about xbox or gamecube for hardware issues.
Export the pdf to a text document and there it all is. In acrobat 6 all you do is select Save As Text from the File Menu... The people who blocked out the text are obviously just idiots, I hope this costs them their job.
Its been a month or longer since SUSE changed their name to all caps. Visit their site, visit distrowatch and maybe its else where. It will make a huge sales impact if you start calling it SuSE instead of SUSE... do you want to be the one responsible for screwing up their sales plan!
Why no SUSE (yes all caps now;x)? Last I checked you had to still do a FTP install and can't use a livecd for the base packages. Knoppix if you like it.. install it with a few simple steps in a very short ammount of time.
I would not agree that Linux is more secure. I would however say that linux is less vulnerable as a desktop. I saw some numbers on slashdot somewhere (I'm not gonna look) that said that more linux servers are hacked than windows servers EVEN if windows is less secure due to the fact that there are more linux SERVERS than windows servers out therre. Now the same is true for desktops... more windows desktops are hacked than linux desktops because of the numbers. Bigger target = more attacks.
In short... more people looking for holes = more holes. A hole is not a hole until it is discovered. If nobody looked for windows holes it would be the most secure OS in the world! But this is not the case it is the opposite of course.
Vulnerability != Security, there is much more to it. Comparing windows security to linux is similar to comparing Walmarts shoplifting security to a local stores. Many people will say stealing from walmart is easy but when it comes to the local store fewer people will know.
Strange, we have a few hundred computers running crapwise and i've never once had an installation break from a ms patch. Funny considering that piece of shit groupwise breaks by itself half the time..
Not paying commision for hits as a result of spam would be easy to do and be very effective. Look at the referrers in the weblogs... see hotmail? See Yahoo? See other popular free email services? See the commision code? don't pay that person a dime... And of course there is many ways to do that.
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"Who takes the brunt of every bad event in farming? The family man."
..."
The average family man farmer typically has half a million dollars to a million dollars worth of equity. They don't even keep records and 9 out of ten are clueless. There is no room for many of the typical family farmers anymore. If you can't do something as simple as keep records (something required of EVERY business) and you end up going out of business thats just too bad. I have no sympothy for producers who run a poor business, its their own problem. Poor business practice == out of business.
"...oh, $25 a cow for RIFD
Before you make ignorant comments about how much RFID costs perhaps you should look into it. Tracing alone costs this country millions of dollars, and RFID eliminates much of that. RFID also makes disease testing administration and related tasks much less expensive. RFID in fact pays for itself most of the time. There is many more intended uses for RFID in livestock than mad cow disease. There is bovine tuberculosis, scrapies, foot and mouth (god i hope that doesn't land here..) and many other foreign disease to trace and test for.
The system describe in this article has little to do with BSE itself. http://www.usaip.info/ and Http://www.nationalfair.com are both useful.
Pardon my typos, should have previewed =]
Real questions are welcome, email me and I can describe any part of the program.
They are working on a national ID program as seen here http://www.usaip.info/ it is nothing new. Its been in the works for years and we've been using a similar system (of which the national system will basted from) in North East Michigan to control and eradicate bovine tuberculosis. The USDA gave a 1.3 million dollar grant to start the program in N.E. Michigan in 2001 and we've been in full force since 2002. You think slashdotters are paranoid about RFID? Try RFIDing cattle..
A-fucking-men
How long to duracells last and how much do they cost. Hmmm yes they are VERY similar..
https://www.donotcall.gov
Will All Telemarketing Calls Stop If I Register?
Q: If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls?
A: No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you've provided express agreement in writing to receive their calls.
"Kethinov: Am I the only one who sees this as a waste of time? KDE already works. OO.org already works. OO.org already works in KDE. All this time spent on making it look better could be used in giving Linux some real features that it really needs."
Exactly the thinking that costs us linux users. Working isn't good enough, windows 'works'. We need shit that goes above and beyond if we want to grow.
You don't need many documents, physical proof, etc to make proof of common knowledge, something you obviously lack. One of the most nasty dictators in the world and a you support this apparently? Either that or you have 2 yr old slashdot syndrome...
I love huge ads and 900 cookies. Nice site.
Ya but you also lose integrity by allowing people who don't meet deadlines to slip by. It is a lose/lose situation really. I'm sure Miguel will still be very involved.
So you're saying their is something magic about the machine that prohibits installing a new mobo of the same form factor? And I'm also curious, what is prohibiting you from upgrading the hard drive, memory and gfx card? There surely must be atleast 1 open PCI slot if their isn't a AGP slot and I'm sure you can slap in a new hard drive. (Yes PCI gfx cards suck but if its faster than what was with it ..)
In my experiance cheap computers like this you don't get an AGP slot and thats about the biggest gripe. If your wanting to upgrade a cpu... do the mobo too for christ sakes!
Except for OpenOffice/StarOffice offer nothing nearly as good as Microsoft Access. Many offices rely VERY heavily on Microsoft Access and are stuck with Office as a result of it. Of course they have no Outlook either but Ximian's Evolution is mucho good..
Couldn't agree more. If/when people start paying close to a grand or more for office and 50 bux a pop+ for games and when businesses start really paying for every piece of software...
In other words - If/When piracy is stopped people will look for alternative software very quickly. Sure people might be getting windows for 'free' (they dont' understand ms tax) but they wont' continue getting their thousands of dollars worth of software for free.
I can second that.. of all the people I know who have owned a ps2 (measly 20), more than half complain they dont' work properly or dont' work at all! Some say that it won't read DVD discs of any kind and they can only play psx games and others complain that its unreliable. I can't remember anyone complaining about xbox or gamecube for hardware issues.
Government Contracts.
Export the pdf to a text document and there it all is. In acrobat 6 all you do is select Save As Text from the File Menu... The people who blocked out the text are obviously just idiots, I hope this costs them their job.
Its been a month or longer since SUSE changed their name to all caps. Visit their site, visit distrowatch and maybe its else where. It will make a huge sales impact if you start calling it SuSE instead of SUSE... do you want to be the one responsible for screwing up their sales plan!
Why no SUSE (yes all caps now ;x)? Last I checked you had to still do a FTP install and can't use a livecd for the base packages. Knoppix if you like it.. install it with a few simple steps in a very short ammount of time.
Translation: This device is going to get my caught not doing my job. I don't like it.
I would not agree that Linux is more secure. I would however say that linux is less vulnerable as a desktop. I saw some numbers on slashdot somewhere (I'm not gonna look) that said that more linux servers are hacked than windows servers EVEN if windows is less secure due to the fact that there are more linux SERVERS than windows servers out therre. Now the same is true for desktops... more windows desktops are hacked than linux desktops because of the numbers. Bigger target = more attacks.
In short... more people looking for holes = more holes. A hole is not a hole until it is discovered. If nobody looked for windows holes it would be the most secure OS in the world! But this is not the case it is the opposite of course.
Vulnerability != Security, there is much more to it. Comparing windows security to linux is similar to comparing Walmarts shoplifting security to a local stores. Many people will say stealing from walmart is easy but when it comes to the local store fewer people will know.
Strange, we have a few hundred computers running crapwise and i've never once had an installation break from a ms patch. Funny considering that piece of shit groupwise breaks by itself half the time..
As true as that probably is... I sure as hell would make an ISO and burn 10000 copies from that.
I thought Mr.Resetti was an addon to reset your nintendo system until the cartridge worked.
Unfortunately, I think legislation and lawsuits will end up taking the profit out of spamming
Someone explain to me again how legislation will stop email from other countries..
Not paying commision for hits as a result of spam would be easy to do and be very effective. Look at the referrers in the weblogs... see hotmail? See Yahoo? See other popular free email services? See the commision code? don't pay that person a dime... And of course there is many ways to do that.