I might as well just build my computer case from a 1997 Honda Civic hatchback with an 8-inch exhaust, 2-foot wing spoiler, blue turn signals and green neons under the car.
I also get some spam on the email address I give to registrars . On the other hand I have never had a single piece of snail mail sent to the physical address; nor have I received any phone calls which gave me any hint that they got my number from the whois database.
On the other hand the fact that it has not happened is no guarantee for the future. Maybe I should get a PO Box.
My wife is a professional translator and has absolutely no respect for machine translatations.
If she is expecting a professional translation she is right. On the other hand there are many reasons why people do use such programs.
I know several local residents who do not speak much Spanish and routinely scan, OCR and translate into English all "Official looking" mail. This will usually identify messages threatening to cut off the power supply, tax demands, this week's special offer from the bank and the Mayor pandering to the masses.
Sure, it would be nice to have a perfect text every time. In the mean time they are very happy to be able to get the gist of the message and not spend so much wasted time with lawyers, agents and translators.
..... BUT, your country probably has a law that protects your workers from foreign competition also. Unlike our government that is so tightly in bed with big companies that they encourage foreigners to steal jobs from Americans.
And Myrll says:
These companies don't deserve any benefits from being a "U.S." company if they're creating most of their jobs outside of the country. Our government should treat them as foreign entities and favor U.S. firms.
Is this another case of one rule for the rich and one for the poor?
Oh come on its not at all about money, but control.
Also it is about the managers' self-justification. If there is nobody on site to supervise, it is much harder to justify their positions to the next managers up the line.
It is in all their interests to have their empires around them looking busy.
if robots take over 50% of the jobs, the robot industry will need millions of workers......
Probably not, most of the manufacturing will be done by other robots, maybe even a lot of the design. What will happen will just be an extension of what has been happening for years.
The lower level jobs have been disappearing for a long time. It is ages since I went into my bank, had an attendant put petrol in my car or seen someone sweeping with a broom in a store. Nobody digs holes any more, buses and trucks have a single driver, no more ticket collectors or driver's mate. I could go on.
To a certain extent new jobs are created such as in call centres and fast food restaurants but nowhere near enough.
The world is dividing into the high powered high paid corporate class with all the money but little leisure time and the underclass with few prospects. It makes me think of Romanov Russia.
Being a pessimist I reckon that the danger is a re-emergence of communism and revolution.
I saw a refrigerator in Fryes that had an embedded win9x box...
This is madness! Windows is not stable enough for mission critical operations. This could lead to warm beer or even worse.
Where will it all end?
Allow laywers to sue for reasonable fees,
plus 5% of the punitive damage award that is paid to the the general fund. I'm sure congress would get behind that.
I am sure Congress would, they are mostly lawyers! But they would keep 100% of the cash award and Joe Public will get a $2 off voucher to be used with his next online Viagra purchase.
....I think he's a guy originally from Maine who doesn't speak Hungarian so he can't order of off the Hungarian website.
Quite possibly that is part of his problem. As a native english speaker living in Spain (and I do speak Spanish) I can buy online locally with no trouble as long as I want the manuals, support, operating system, keyboard etc in Spanish. This is not convenient for my laptop.
In the end I bought a Compaq laptop via their UK web page but they would not deliver to Spain and only accepted a credit card with a UK registered address.
My guess is that apart from the various reasons discussed in this thread a major factor is local distribution contracts and corporate structures. The local guys are not going to be very happy if head office are selling into their patch possibly with a later product or different price/sales tax structure.
The guys who do irritate me are selling on Ebay and similar sites. Even when they can delay delivery until they have the cash in their pockets they just recite the mantra "we do not ship overseas"
Finally someone mentioned drugs.
This thread has been largely about cycling which is one of the most drug polluted sports on earth. Many other sports have been ruined and so many track and field records are so dubious that it is difficult to take any of them that seriously.
Would you like a trainer to approach you with the news that your daughter has real talent at gymnastics and that if she takes drugs to postpone puberty there is a good chance of international success by age 15?
It is about time that some of these trainers and crooked doctors were locked up for a few years!
I leave my car door unlocked just in case the bad guys want to throw in some money for the poor people. I wonder... if I stop encrypting my wifi will they electronically transfer some money to me... Ok... maybe not.
The difference between the stock market and your monitor, is that there aren't hundreds of thousands of people who would like nothing better than to crack into your monitor.
I was thinking of trying it. Are there 99,999 likeminded slashdotters out there?
Is that a Belgian defending his country's record in the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo)? Belgium is to be congratulated for any help given to that desperate country; on the other hand they should keep in mind that it will take a long time and a lot of aid to wipe out their shame.
I have not got much karma but will give it all for this OT and minority interest. btw what was the original topic?
This case was little to do with consumer rights and a lot to do with lawyers filling their pockets. They seem to have scooped the cash and Joe Public gets a discount on his next overpriced purchase.
POPFile needs to be given full permissions on your act as a server for your local machine...snip.... Important note: this gives all Perl programs permission to act as servers!
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I might as well just build my computer case from a 1997 Honda Civic hatchback with an 8-inch exhaust, 2-foot wing spoiler, blue turn signals and green neons under the car.
Keep your hands off my car, thank you very much!!
I also get some spam on the email address I give to registrars . On the other hand I have never had a single piece of snail mail sent to the physical address; nor have I received any phone calls which gave me any hint that they got my number from the whois database.
On the other hand the fact that it has not happened is no guarantee for the future. Maybe I should get a PO Box.
My wife is a professional translator and has absolutely no respect for machine translatations.
If she is expecting a professional translation she is right. On the other hand there are many reasons why people do use such programs.
I know several local residents who do not speak much Spanish and routinely scan, OCR and translate into English all "Official looking" mail. This will usually identify messages threatening to cut off the power supply, tax demands, this week's special offer from the bank and the Mayor pandering to the masses.
Sure, it would be nice to have a perfect text every time. In the mean time they are very happy to be able to get the gist of the message and not spend so much wasted time with lawyers, agents and translators.
Spacepunk says:
..... BUT, your country probably has a law that protects your workers from foreign competition also. Unlike our government that is so tightly in bed with big companies that they encourage foreigners to steal jobs from Americans.
And Myrll says:
These companies don't deserve any benefits from being a "U.S." company if they're creating most of their jobs outside of the country. Our government should treat them as foreign entities and favor U.S. firms.
Is this another case of one rule for the rich and one for the poor?
Oh come on its not at all about money, but control.
Also it is about the managers' self-justification. If there is nobody on site to supervise, it is much harder to justify their positions to the next managers up the line. It is in all their interests to have their empires around them looking busy.
if robots take over 50% of the jobs, the robot industry will need millions of workers ......
Probably not, most of the manufacturing will be done by other robots, maybe even a lot of the design. What will happen will just be an extension of what has been happening for years.
The lower level jobs have been disappearing for a long time. It is ages since I went into my bank, had an attendant put petrol in my car or seen someone sweeping with a broom in a store. Nobody digs holes any more, buses and trucks have a single driver, no more ticket collectors or driver's mate. I could go on.
To a certain extent new jobs are created such as in call centres and fast food restaurants but nowhere near enough.
The world is dividing into the high powered high paid corporate class with all the money but little leisure time and the underclass with few prospects. It makes me think of Romanov Russia.
Being a pessimist I reckon that the danger is a re-emergence of communism and revolution.
Seeing as how I read the end of the summary as "...crimes such as fraud and Philadelphia..."
Is brotherly love still illegal?
I saw a refrigerator in Fryes that had an embedded win9x box... This is madness! Windows is not stable enough for mission critical operations. This could lead to warm beer or even worse. Where will it all end?
Allow laywers to sue for reasonable fees, plus 5% of the punitive damage award that is paid to the the general fund. I'm sure congress would get behind that.
I am sure Congress would, they are mostly lawyers! But they would keep 100% of the cash award and Joe Public will get a $2 off voucher to be used with his next online Viagra purchase.
Apart from software piracy?
....I think he's a guy originally from Maine who doesn't speak Hungarian so he can't order of off the Hungarian website.
Quite possibly that is part of his problem. As a native english speaker living in Spain (and I do speak Spanish) I can buy online locally with no trouble as long as I want the manuals, support, operating system, keyboard etc in Spanish. This is not convenient for my laptop.
In the end I bought a Compaq laptop via their UK web page but they would not deliver to Spain and only accepted a credit card with a UK registered address.
My guess is that apart from the various reasons discussed in this thread a major factor is local distribution contracts and corporate structures. The local guys are not going to be very happy if head office are selling into their patch possibly with a later product or different price/sales tax structure.
The guys who do irritate me are selling on Ebay and similar sites. Even when they can delay delivery until they have the cash in their pockets they just recite the mantra "we do not ship overseas"
Finally someone mentioned drugs. This thread has been largely about cycling which is one of the most drug polluted sports on earth. Many other sports have been ruined and so many track and field records are so dubious that it is difficult to take any of them that seriously. Would you like a trainer to approach you with the news that your daughter has real talent at gymnastics and that if she takes drugs to postpone puberty there is a good chance of international success by age 15? It is about time that some of these trainers and crooked doctors were locked up for a few years!
I leave my car door unlocked just in case the bad guys want to throw in some money for the poor people. I wonder ... if I stop encrypting my wifi will they electronically transfer some money to me... Ok ... maybe not.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) said
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Matrix reloaded. When Trinity typed:
ssh 10.0.0.2
I realised that IPv6 is doomed.
The difference between the stock market and your monitor, is that there aren't hundreds of thousands of people who would like nothing better than to crack into your monitor.
I was thinking of trying it. Are there 99,999 likeminded slashdotters out there?
Never claim anything is hack-proof if you don't want to get hacked.
Tempting fate has been unfashionable since the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic. If the hackers do not get you Murphy's law will.
Yes, let's put this article on Slashdot, so a few million would be hackers can go ahead and deface a couple of hundred websites apiece.
Shurely shome mishtake here. No Slashdotter would ever wear a black hat! Wash your mouth out with soap!
I have been herding Linux boxes as a way of making a living since '96.
But not Hurding Linux boxes.
(Score: -2, Doesn't understand sarcasm)
/. debate on irony?
Did I jump to the
Is that a Belgian defending his country's record in the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo)?
Belgium is to be congratulated for any help given to that desperate country; on the other hand they should keep in mind that it will take a long time and a lot of aid to wipe out their shame.
I have not got much karma but will give it all for this OT and minority interest. btw what was the original topic?
"Stop reading US media about US actions of US politics around the world"
Surely you do not mean Fox. Shame on you!
This case was little to do with consumer rights and a lot to do with lawyers filling their pockets. They seem to have scooped the cash and Joe Public gets a discount on his next overpriced purchase.
But since 99.9% of /. readers never follow the links
/.ed
Thus speaks someone who has never been
The firewall section of their web page says:
...snip.... Important note: this gives all Perl programs permission to act as servers!
POPFile needs to be given full permissions on your act as a server for your local machine
That sounds pretty scary to me