I'll second Dreamhost. I've been using them since 1999. I have so much extra bandwidth that I started a free podcast hosting service called nanercast (http://www.nanercast.com) for people like yourself. If I like your podcast, it gets hosted for free and I help you get it on the iTMS. No strings.
I'm sure there are tons of other similar services out there, just my two cents.
Look closer at Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/). The entire market is low, not just SCOX. While I don't disagree with you, other factors are very likely at play here.
Eh, who cares? Build the stuff in secret. Violate thousands of patents, trademarks and copyrights. Once you take off, who's going to do anything about it? I mean sure, they can send lawyers after you, but once they leave the atmosphere, kill 'em. Who's going to stop you? The police? China? The UN? The RIAA?
From their site:
Development of intellectual property applied to the four frontiers, R&D programs, educational and demonstration programs for students and the public at large will frame the uniqueness of 4Frontiers.
How exactly is "intellectual property" going to be enforced once you leave the confines of our planet? Assuming they (or someone) can create a viable, long term colony on mars, the moon, a space station, wherever, no laws will apply to them. They could manufacture anything they want. Want a SpaceBose stereo? How about a copy of MicroSpace Windows? Who wants a MoonPorche?
I really hope the US doesn't assume the role of pushing our laws and practices into the 'final frontier.' But the question is, who gets to start the process? Do we leave it up to private companies? Whoever has the strongest military?
As a former BBY employee I can attest to that - but I can also tell you stories of rampant theft BBY the employees (at multimple stores, not localized). Best Buy does this because they know that, in general, people are not trustworthy. In my own store, our LP (Loss Prevention) SUPERVISOR was arrested for stealing video cameras. I was a technician (before that retched Geek Squad crap) and my coworkers would routinely take home CDs and DVDs of music and porn from customer computers. That shit is why companies are so nervous. While I think this is a pathetic state of affairs, it's life.
If I had mod points, they'd be yours. I know a lot of places who disallow things like that. If the key can hold music, it can hold "company secrets" and all sorts of nasty things you want to sneak past a company firewall.
Taking it to stay competitive is a far cry from being mandatory. Here's a stretch: Steroids enhance athletic ability and many athletes take them to stay competitive "Because taht guy did it and the only way to beat him is to take them too."
What I see happening is substances like this coming out and then people will abuse them. They will become addicted to them. Maybe not physically, but psychologically. "I can't be the best at my job if I don't take these so bottoms up!" As soon as abuse is spotted, public outcry will commence, support groups will spring up and tehy will become as popular as caffeine pills and speed. Not to say that caffeine pills aren't a problem, but they aren't mandatory by any employer and any company that doesn't want a lawsuit will not recommend or even offer them to their employees.
Your ideas have some merit to them and the "Look, why don't you just take one of these? You're letting us down." situation will probably occur, but it won't be at the company level. It will strictly be from employee to employee, peer to peer. Does your company have NoDoz (tm) in the break room? I doubt it.
Lastly, you "I crashed my car because they wouldn't sell me this at the garage and I fell asleep at the wheel." situation is not too likely in my mind. I can complain that my doctor didn't give me an adrenaline shot so I couldn't lift the car off of my wife when we got into a wreck. Ok, bad example, but anywho. I don't think you'll ever be able to register a justifiable complaint against someone because they didn't provide you with performance enhancing (because that's essentially what this is) drugs in any situation. You can complain on a medical basis (ie. my doctor wouldn't give me enough insulin and I went into a diabetic coma) but not on a supplemental basis.
Don't you think you're exaggerating just a tad? Do you really expect employers to hand out drugs that they require their employees to take? Having a coffee pot in the break room and maybe some sammiches is the closest I've EVER seen (or heard of) to an employer providing (not even requiring) a work enhancing substance to their employees. Even if this drug passes FDA approval, you think it'll be cheap, safe in large quantites, or non-prescription?
The only real "work-place" application I can see for this is extended military missions. People like pilots and snipers could/would use this to great advantage and the miliary is the only organization with enough clout to try to make this mandatory for certain people in their "work force."
As a former best buy tech, yes. That's not the point though. I've actually reported customers for child porn because they asked me to do a data backup. As I was queueing the files for DVD burn, I saw a lot of... interesting file names go acrosss. I showed my boss, he showed the manager, we called the cops.
I don't know the circumstances of this case the EFF is barking about, but if the technician runs across something by doing common tasks, then for God's sake, they should report them.
I've seen those too and thought I was going nutso - so I'm glad you saw them too. Either we're both insane or there's a concrete scientific explanation.
It's (loosely) based on the book Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. That book was cinematically done before, yes. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the story of Charlie (the kid from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory) after he inherited the factory from Willie. It's a continuation of the story line. It hasn't been done before. I wouldn't go around calling things 'tripe' if you haven't even bothered to see it or even read more than a review or two.
It doesn't matter... It's rated for players of 17 years of age and older. Plain an simple. She purchased it for her 14-year-old grandson. Plain. And. Simple. It's not the fault of Rockstar, Wal-Mart, the ESRB, Toys-R-Us, Hillary Clinton, the game modders, the mod-chip manufacturer, the kid down the street that installed the mod-chip or any other scapegoat she can think of. The only problem here is that Grandma is contributing to the deliquency of a minor, she or her grandson broke the DMCA by installing the mod chip, and the kid's parents still let him play at Grandma's house.
The Tampax car, #7 is taking a hard left followed closely by the Jack Daniels #16. The race is between these two cars folks. Tampax takes another left into the straight-away! J.D. is right on his tail pipes. They speed into the straight-away and OH! There's another wild left-turn! Oh the insanity! Another high-speed straight-away! Jack Daniels #16 makes a move but the #7 Tampax car cuts him off at the pass AS HE GOES INTO A LEFT TURN! Oh my GOLLY GOSH this is exciting! Looks like J.D. is taking the inside of the turn hoping to squeeeeze past Tampax -- boy I'll bet that's hard. Not much gets past Tampax these days! Woo! Looks like ol' Jack finally made it and Tampax floors it to regain first position! Oh What's this! Looks like the Tampax #7 is leaking fluid! Oh the horror! #7 is losing speed as it sprays fluid all over the track. The yellow flag comes out as the rest of the pack BLOWS right by #7.
The best part of that whole scenario is that they'll have to pull a 15 year old kid off the street to demo all of this because they can't figure out how to drive straight on their own. Yeah, I'd pay to see that happen.
*cough* Horseshit. Making generalized statements usually only shows how ignorant you are. Every business I've ever walked into, worked at, researched and/or started has had multple OSes installed on-site. Be it multiple families of Windows, OSX, Linux servers, etc. My company (800+ users in 4 countires) has the following, all on desktop machines.
-Mac OS 9
-Mac OS X
-Windows 95
-Windows 98
-Windows ME *shudder*
-Windows 2000
-Windows XP
-Red Hat 7.1
Give us real numbers to back up your claim and people might not think your head's up your ass.
They don't have my (real) birthday or geographic location (unless they get it from a geographical IP search). If they have an e-mail address, it's either not mine or one that I haven't used in years. Besides, they had all of the "friend score" info before they released this tool. Think about it. Do you really think AOL didn't run these stats a few times before this program was released? I'm sure they've been crunching these numbers for years and maybe even selling them. Now they're just letting us get a glimpse of the results. Stop being so paranoid and go add some more people to your AIM list.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll second Dreamhost. I've been using them since 1999. I have so much extra bandwidth that I started a free podcast hosting service called nanercast (http://www.nanercast.com) for people like yourself. If I like your podcast, it gets hosted for free and I help you get it on the iTMS. No strings. I'm sure there are tons of other similar services out there, just my two cents.
Look closer at Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/). The entire market is low, not just SCOX. While I don't disagree with you, other factors are very likely at play here.
Then I'll just have to microwave my hand then! Ha! That'll teach them!!
Oh, Wait...damn! My microwave doesn't work with the door open...
Eh, who cares? Build the stuff in secret. Violate thousands of patents, trademarks and copyrights. Once you take off, who's going to do anything about it? I mean sure, they can send lawyers after you, but once they leave the atmosphere, kill 'em. Who's going to stop you? The police? China? The UN? The RIAA?
From their site: Development of intellectual property applied to the four frontiers, R&D programs, educational and demonstration programs for students and the public at large will frame the uniqueness of 4Frontiers.
How exactly is "intellectual property" going to be enforced once you leave the confines of our planet? Assuming they (or someone) can create a viable, long term colony on mars, the moon, a space station, wherever, no laws will apply to them. They could manufacture anything they want. Want a SpaceBose stereo? How about a copy of MicroSpace Windows? Who wants a MoonPorche?
I really hope the US doesn't assume the role of pushing our laws and practices into the 'final frontier.' But the question is, who gets to start the process? Do we leave it up to private companies? Whoever has the strongest military?
At first glance I thought
you had written a clever
haiku. You fail it.
As a former BBY employee I can attest to that - but I can also tell you stories of rampant theft BBY the employees (at multimple stores, not localized). Best Buy does this because they know that, in general, people are not trustworthy. In my own store, our LP (Loss Prevention) SUPERVISOR was arrested for stealing video cameras. I was a technician (before that retched Geek Squad crap) and my coworkers would routinely take home CDs and DVDs of music and porn from customer computers. That shit is why companies are so nervous. While I think this is a pathetic state of affairs, it's life.
If I had mod points, they'd be yours. I know a lot of places who disallow things like that. If the key can hold music, it can hold "company secrets" and all sorts of nasty things you want to sneak past a company firewall.
Certainly, we all know that genious who is a high school or college dropout
Please... PLEASE tell me you misspelled "genius" on purpose...
Taking it to stay competitive is a far cry from being mandatory. Here's a stretch: Steroids enhance athletic ability and many athletes take them to stay competitive "Because taht guy did it and the only way to beat him is to take them too."
What I see happening is substances like this coming out and then people will abuse them. They will become addicted to them. Maybe not physically, but psychologically. "I can't be the best at my job if I don't take these so bottoms up!" As soon as abuse is spotted, public outcry will commence, support groups will spring up and tehy will become as popular as caffeine pills and speed. Not to say that caffeine pills aren't a problem, but they aren't mandatory by any employer and any company that doesn't want a lawsuit will not recommend or even offer them to their employees.
Your ideas have some merit to them and the "Look, why don't you just take one of these? You're letting us down." situation will probably occur, but it won't be at the company level. It will strictly be from employee to employee, peer to peer. Does your company have NoDoz (tm) in the break room? I doubt it.
Lastly, you "I crashed my car because they wouldn't sell me this at the garage and I fell asleep at the wheel." situation is not too likely in my mind. I can complain that my doctor didn't give me an adrenaline shot so I couldn't lift the car off of my wife when we got into a wreck. Ok, bad example, but anywho. I don't think you'll ever be able to register a justifiable complaint against someone because they didn't provide you with performance enhancing (because that's essentially what this is) drugs in any situation. You can complain on a medical basis (ie. my doctor wouldn't give me enough insulin and I went into a diabetic coma) but not on a supplemental basis.
Don't you think you're exaggerating just a tad? Do you really expect employers to hand out drugs that they require their employees to take? Having a coffee pot in the break room and maybe some sammiches is the closest I've EVER seen (or heard of) to an employer providing (not even requiring) a work enhancing substance to their employees. Even if this drug passes FDA approval, you think it'll be cheap, safe in large quantites, or non-prescription?
The only real "work-place" application I can see for this is extended military missions. People like pilots and snipers could/would use this to great advantage and the miliary is the only organization with enough clout to try to make this mandatory for certain people in their "work force."
As a former best buy tech, yes. That's not the point though. I've actually reported customers for child porn because they asked me to do a data backup. As I was queueing the files for DVD burn, I saw a lot of... interesting file names go acrosss. I showed my boss, he showed the manager, we called the cops.
I don't know the circumstances of this case the EFF is barking about, but if the technician runs across something by doing common tasks, then for God's sake, they should report them.
I've seen those too and thought I was going nutso - so I'm glad you saw them too. Either we're both insane or there's a concrete scientific explanation.
It's (loosely) based on the book Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. That book was cinematically done before, yes. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the story of Charlie (the kid from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory) after he inherited the factory from Willie. It's a continuation of the story line. It hasn't been done before. I wouldn't go around calling things 'tripe' if you haven't even bothered to see it or even read more than a review or two.
How else would they remind you if they didn't have your e-mail? Would you rather sacrifice your phone number? Mailing address? IM account?
Put away the aluminum hat and think about that one for a minute.
I hope they go to court - I want to read about the lawyers for Rockstar giggling while asking this woman questions.
"Ma'am, did you purchase this game for your grandson?"
"Ma'am, did the game packaging have an ESRB rating of M on it and did the back of the packaging say why it's rated M?"
"Ma'am, did you even look at the box when you purchased it for your 14-year-old grandson?"
It doesn't matter... It's rated for players of 17 years of age and older. Plain an simple. She purchased it for her 14-year-old grandson. Plain. And. Simple. It's not the fault of Rockstar, Wal-Mart, the ESRB, Toys-R-Us, Hillary Clinton, the game modders, the mod-chip manufacturer, the kid down the street that installed the mod-chip or any other scapegoat she can think of. The only problem here is that Grandma is contributing to the deliquency of a minor, she or her grandson broke the DMCA by installing the mod chip, and the kid's parents still let him play at Grandma's house.
Seriously...
Uh... they don't need to. They just need to scan in its general direction from an unspecified distance. Dead or not my friend, you're a number.
NASCAR radio?
The Tampax car, #7 is taking a hard left followed closely by the Jack Daniels #16. The race is between these two cars folks. Tampax takes another left into the straight-away! J.D. is right on his tail pipes. They speed into the straight-away and OH! There's another wild left-turn! Oh the insanity! Another high-speed straight-away! Jack Daniels #16 makes a move but the #7 Tampax car cuts him off at the pass AS HE GOES INTO A LEFT TURN! Oh my GOLLY GOSH this is exciting! Looks like J.D. is taking the inside of the turn hoping to squeeeeze past Tampax -- boy I'll bet that's hard. Not much gets past Tampax these days! Woo! Looks like ol' Jack finally made it and Tampax floors it to regain first position! Oh What's this! Looks like the Tampax #7 is leaking fluid! Oh the horror! #7 is losing speed as it sprays fluid all over the track. The yellow flag comes out as the rest of the pack BLOWS right by #7.
The best part of that whole scenario is that they'll have to pull a 15 year old kid off the street to demo all of this because they can't figure out how to drive straight on their own. Yeah, I'd pay to see that happen.
Someone just got done reading "Diamond Age" didn't they...
My father is a therapist - where do you think my anger problem came from? You try being psychoanalyzed 24-7 and see how you like it :-)
*cough* Horseshit. Making generalized statements usually only shows how ignorant you are. Every business I've ever walked into, worked at, researched and/or started has had multple OSes installed on-site. Be it multiple families of Windows, OSX, Linux servers, etc. My company (800+ users in 4 countires) has the following, all on desktop machines.
-Mac OS 9
-Mac OS X
-Windows 95
-Windows 98
-Windows ME *shudder*
-Windows 2000
-Windows XP
-Red Hat 7.1
Give us real numbers to back up your claim and people might not think your head's up your ass.
Yeah but seriously, who wouldn't *LOVE* to threaten their userbase with that one.
They don't have my (real) birthday or geographic location (unless they get it from a geographical IP search). If they have an e-mail address, it's either not mine or one that I haven't used in years. Besides, they had all of the "friend score" info before they released this tool. Think about it. Do you really think AOL didn't run these stats a few times before this program was released? I'm sure they've been crunching these numbers for years and maybe even selling them. Now they're just letting us get a glimpse of the results. Stop being so paranoid and go add some more people to your AIM list.