Bullshit. Educate yourself before you start spouting nonsense. If that were true, why would stations like SomaFM.com that play independent and non-corporate music still be forced to pay the RIAA? They have permission from every artist that they play. Why should they have to pay the RIAA after they pay the artists? The RIAA doesn't even represent the music they play. They are just supposed to hand over the money and expect the RIAA to give ALL of it to the people that deserve it.
How about Bassdrive.com? They play noting but drum & bass. Not one single true electronic artist is signed to a major label that is represented by a major body, including the RIAA. Every one of their artists happy to get air time on a popular network, and those who get played and ask for money get it. Why should they have to pay the RIAA?
Everyone has to pay the RIAA because their lobbyists got a law passed that assumes ALL music is represented by the RIAA and that they have final say over who gets compensated, not the artist. What happens to the money when the RIAA can't find the rightful artist (most likely an independent)? Who gets it then?
A proxy server can easily be set up by the *AA's to harvest all sorts of info.
SSL is nice, but they have demonstrated that they don't actually need to prove the packets contained copyrighted material. In a civil court, the burden of proof is much lower.
UDP also adds some more security, but at the cost of reliability. And while it's harder to block, it's not impossible. Packet shapers can also be used on UDP also.
The ES5 security key just means that the *AA's will have to run a copy of the program on their scanners. That's it.
Hiding IP's in the UI is just a way to give ignorant users a false sense of security. Any agent of the *AA isn't going to be running a P2P app and writing down the IPs on a legal pad.
Dynamic ports don't really do anything either. There are many ways to profile packet traffic besides what port they are coming from or going to.
I don't get eh multiple points of entry. Are you saying that a network can form over an ASCII Usenet posting? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it shouldn't matter HOW it connects to the network since there is only ONE network ES5 connects to.
ES5 will have, and dos have, the same troubles with firewalls that most other programs have. It's up to the user to open ports that their app uses if they want the best results.
Encryption don't mean jack unless some evil empire snatches your HD out of your computer. Even then, they can find a way to break the encryption since all the data is stored locally. Besides, any data you send over the internet will be decrypted anyway.
Why in the world would someone be so anal retentive? Thank you for taking time out of your obviously busy schedule to show me the error of my ways! I shall now triple proof read and spell check all of my posts so Nazi's like yourself can get back to jerking off.
Several weeks ago, the writers of an obscure program known as Earth Station 5 (ES5) declared "war" on the RIAA. Most computer users saw it as a media attention grabbing announcement because their "press release" was mostly a glorified sales pitch. In the release, they claimed to have over 20 million users online, when in fact, the figure is closer to 20 thousand.
ES5's network uses two technologies that have been around for a while. The first is known as Secure Socket Layer 3.0 (SSL) which is the standard for online financial transactions. The other is known as a proxy server. A proxy is commonly used by internet and network providers to cache data for faster access and/or allow people to access parts of a network that a firewall would otherwise block. Since the RIAA as been using people's IP addresses to subpoena ISP's, a proxy is used in this case to hide the user's IP.
The RIAA's sting operation began a few days after the announcement by ES5 developers. They purchased a set of IP addresses outside of their public known ranges in order to fool people, who ordinarily block them, into a false sense of security. Then they set up two "secure and anonymous" proxy servers for use by ES5 and began to quietly announce them in to popular P2P websites.
They let the servers run for at least a month. During this time they collected information about everything that people were transmitting and receiving. Besides what was being transferred, they also collected bandwidth usage statistics as well as IP addresses. Of the 20 thousand actual users, 5 thousand users in the U.S. have used one of the two proxies, and has been issued subpoenas.
Why in the world are critical systems like nuclear saftey systems and railway saftey systems running Microsoft software? That's like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets in the revolver. I can't wait until the next MS worm makes airplanes start dropping out of the sky.
Anyone see Terminator 3? I bet that worm spread using an MS exploit. That was really Microsoft's central offce they blew up in T2.
That still leaves the adware on your computer. Most people like myself don't care if it can reach the internet or not, any good firewall will ask anyway. We don't want it on our system out of principal. Privacy and system resources are secondary concerns.
You need to have a compiler that can make DLL's. Just create a program that exits as soon at it starts. Run adaware and compile it to a DLL. Copy and rename it to the ones adaware just removed. I can only get it to work with the decoder only. It won't work if you want to encode video.
If I were a CFO, why would I spend $3k per machine for 10, 30, 60, or 100 employees who don't need them. It's speed CAPABILITY doesn't mean jack when most of these people run MS Office 95% of the time.
I know one can unoficially upgrade Mac hardware. If you would have read the thread, you would see how I indicated that your choices were very limited compared to PCs. You may have 1 or 2 choices for a faster processor before you need an unoffical mobo and memory upgrade. A busisness isn't going to unofficially bootleg a stop-gap solution across numerous computers like your solution for your computer.
Recurring costs like people will always happen. Sitting a Mac in front of a dumb user does not make him or her smarter. You still need someone to clean up the mess because no computer is totally idiot proof. OSX and Win2K/XP can be locked down incredibly tightly, but all of that is a software issue. Any IT person who relies on defaults is asking for it anyway. Besides, in the context of the aricle, if a company is big enough to need multiple IT people, they have more use than simply toying with desktops. Mac's aren't a one time cost. If you throw in that 200 or 400MHz faster processor, and need more later, your stuck with buying a whole new system. The P4's and celeron's socket 478 offers many more choices than the G4's does.
Please try to understand besides read.
No, I did crunch the numbers, but from experience it is easier to handle tech support in-house than pay apple for new or replacement hardware. Working in the ITS at college shows that even an educational discount on new macs showed me that.
Companies stick with what they know. Change may come, but it's almost always for economic reasons, and definitely not instant. Switching to macs will require that all employees must have additional training. IT people aren't the cheapest to train either, and they are the most important. It's called lock-in; any apple user should be familiar with that. Windows has it too.
Any person mixing and matching different generations of PC hardware get what they ask for. Either you know what you are doing, or you don't. Either way you get what you ask for, but at least you get to choose. Besides, that's just an example of why x86 has Apple blocked in a corner. Think of it as the primordial hardware version of open source. Anyone who wanted to make hardware to interface could do so freely. Both an advantage or possible disadvantage. Apple avoided the conflict issues (like the dreaded VL bus) because they strictly held their copyrights and patents. You give most choices for product assurance.
The G5 is most definitely overkill for many professional and most business applications. Why would a secretary, paralegal, attorney, accountant, executive, etc. need a G5 for in the year 2003? Granted it's a fine box, but for now it's more or less a niche machine. The same is true for any top end PC. These people wouldn't need a 3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1GB dual channel DDR400 box.
Yes, the thing is only $3g's but like I said before, it's a niche machine and only people who need 64 bits and are willing to drop that much will buy it. It might be able to break Apple out of it's fluctuating 5% of the market, but not in the next 2 years. Then it will have to contend with AMD on the x86 front. By then if businesses need 64 bits, they can keep on using crappy windows and their proprietary windows software. Two words, migration path.
The G4, which the most any business today would consider, uses a 100MHz front side bus. Adding DDR333 will do little because the bandwidth just isn't there. I'm not sure about Macs, but in PCs such an extreme imbalance can even reduce performance because of latency and timing issues. The cheapest iMac and PowerMacs start at $1300, and the cheapest eMac starts at $800. A manager would look at that, and compare it with a business PC. They would probably go with the 2.2G celeron, with 128MB of ram, 40GB hard drive, and 17" monitor for $500. That's not even with a bulk discount.
I realize that most apple fanatics get offended easily, and very defensive, so I can forgive you. Just realize that an apple is just like any computer. There are advantages and disadvantages. Some cost a lost and some don't cost so much. Mac and x86 people both have monopolistic corporations trying to lock us in and reduce choices. The only difference is Macs are locked into their hardware like Microsoft tries (and does a good job) to lock people into software.
Almost forgot, CISC and RISC. Most of the bad blood between the two camps stems from the old, heated debates over the two architectures.
I wasn't a user back then, but I'm sure that I was selling eitehr 5v DIMMs or buffered DIMMs for Macs about 5 or 6 years ago.
The only reason I have any experience now is because my little cousins got sick of their G3 imac. Luckily my uncle maxed out the ram while they had it. OSX plays well with my linux box. I had to put an end to that one button thing immediately. Damn puck mose.
That's assuming all your systems se the latest hardware. To bad it took Apple so long to stop using proprietary memory along with the rest of their hardware, it cost their customers a great deal.
So now you spend over $100 for VirtualPC, and another $200 for a full version of Windows on top of the high priced hardware? I thought the article was about reducing the cost.
While I admit that the switch to a unix type OS did resolve many of the old problems, there are still many to be resolved.
The cost of the hardware is one. Since Apple runs a monopoly on its own hardware, you pay what Apple wants. Any money saved on support will be spent to hardware.
Not all programs run on them, or have an Apple equivalent. Your only 2 options are to either but a windows license and run virtual pc, or buy a pc. Many companies have custom made software packages. Why port them to new hardware and software when you can just buy a new PC or upgrade an old one?
You now need someone to support Apple hardware and software. An IT manager won't be satisfied with sitting on the phone with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of boxes needing to get fixed or upgraded. Either you need to train your people or hire more. There is another increase in cost.
Stupid people by Apples just like stupid people buy PCs. I used to work a bookstore that sold PCs and Apples. I can't tell you how many people bought an Apple simply because it came in that pretty case.
Upgrading an Apple is BS. You can add memory, but at a higher price when compared to PC. You can add a new processor, but unlike PCs you only have 1 or 2 options before Apple moves on. Apple is like Dell or Gateway. They make no money if their boxes can be upgraded for a long time. They'd rather you replace it.
The G5 is overkill by most standards, not to mention it's still damn expensive. G4's have a highly limited architecture when compared with PCs in a cost/benefit analysis. A PC will cost more to support but less to buy and upgrade. The addition of DDR memory was made by a marketing team. The 100MHz (or is it 133) front side bus can't use the extra memory bandwidth.
On short, there is no savings when a company switches to Apple. They save money in one area at the expense of money from a different area.
You mustn't take life so seriously. It would be a joyless world that punishes someone for day dreaming illegal activities. Who hasn't thought of smacking some deserving fool around? What matters is whether or not people act on them. I bet you're one of those bosses everyone has those day dreams about.
A thief's arguably better than a sadistic fuck like you.
There is a difference between a 'thief and a sadistic fuck like me'. One involves a deserving victim, and the other involves an innocent victim. If someone were mugged in an alley, who would you not feel bad for: Ken Lay or some old lady?
And here we have a shining example of the modernized version of the pump and dump. It's too bad that business laws are changed only after at least one company takes advantage of others.
It will still go through court because I can't see IBM settling with SCO, something it wouldn't even do for the government. If SCO somehow manages to pull one over on IBM, the infringing code will be replaced by the kernel community quickly. Then those worried executives can just upgrade to the next kernel, or patch the old one, to get back to GNU code. If IBM wins, these people will get their money back, at the very least. Then SCO can get smacked in civil court by at least one class action. Either way, they are going to be out of a source of income until they can raise some more accusations.
I am Lord Duh, master of the obvious. I shall now regale you with other tales. Things fall down, the sky is blue, water is wet, and you need to pay SCO if you want to run Linux. I hope this clears a few things up.
This may be a bit presumptuous, but IBM hardly seems like the evil empire it once was. This doesn't seem to be the same giant that tried to throw its weight around with the MCA bus. If anything, recent history shows that it will at least be considered the lesser of the two evils.
The larger, and more populated, parts of my campus are lit using mostly high pressure sodium lights. While this aids people's fears about walking around at night, it adds a truly ugly orange hue over most of the area. Winter time and the addition of snow make the glow almost alien because it spreads for miles around. The lights at the stadium are on until midnight or later, and the entire campus is drenched in an unnatural light that can over power a full moon.
With the exception of the campus and the small town it's in, the entire area is undeveloped. When you get about 20 miles away, you can see thousands and thousands of more stars in the night sky. The old observatory is kept up by the school because it is one of the oldest modern era ones in the region. It is completely useless, practically speaking, because of the insane amount of light pollution put off by such a small area.
I think American businesses have lost their way. SCO has turned the legal system into a high school shit talking festival. As such, we should have McBride settle this prison style. I'd like to take my old studded leather belt and wrap it around his neck inside out. The real fun comes when you throttle him like broken down Geo.
You must be careful though. You should NOT kill him. That would be illegal, immoral, and setting a bad example. Plus, it's no fun. If you just take him to the brink of death, and let him recover, you can do it all over again. Keep doing this until he licenses his life from you for a low low fee of $699 per cerebral hemisphere.
It's so funny to see the media try and give drugs a scary name. Date rape drug has been used to describe many like GHB, DXM (stuff in cough syrup/drops) and ruhyphnol. Personally, I'm a fan of the original date rape drug, alcohol. You don't try and stop a bunch of teenage boys from having sex by telling them that this is how easy it is. If you want to scare them away, use an uninviting term like leaking anus pills.
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Bullshit. Educate yourself before you start spouting nonsense. If that were true, why would stations like SomaFM.com that play independent and non-corporate music still be forced to pay the RIAA? They have permission from every artist that they play. Why should they have to pay the RIAA after they pay the artists? The RIAA doesn't even represent the music they play. They are just supposed to hand over the money and expect the RIAA to give ALL of it to the people that deserve it.
How about Bassdrive.com? They play noting but drum & bass. Not one single true electronic artist is signed to a major label that is represented by a major body, including the RIAA. Every one of their artists happy to get air time on a popular network, and those who get played and ask for money get it. Why should they have to pay the RIAA?
Everyone has to pay the RIAA because their lobbyists got a law passed that assumes ALL music is represented by the RIAA and that they have final say over who gets compensated, not the artist. What happens to the money when the RIAA can't find the rightful artist (most likely an independent)? Who gets it then?
Yeah, screw those impoverished people and their damn capital gains tax cuts....
BAM!!! Someone cries DMCA!
I know, most everyone here has to see that as a realistic possibility.
Wait till you see the GUI. Looks like a 5 year old's crayon drawing of a computer pad on Star Trek.
I don't really see any truly safe methods here.
A proxy server can easily be set up by the *AA's to harvest all sorts of info.
SSL is nice, but they have demonstrated that they don't actually need to prove the packets contained copyrighted material. In a civil court, the burden of proof is much lower.
UDP also adds some more security, but at the cost of reliability. And while it's harder to block, it's not impossible. Packet shapers can also be used on UDP also.
The ES5 security key just means that the *AA's will have to run a copy of the program on their scanners. That's it.
Hiding IP's in the UI is just a way to give ignorant users a false sense of security. Any agent of the *AA isn't going to be running a P2P app and writing down the IPs on a legal pad.
Dynamic ports don't really do anything either. There are many ways to profile packet traffic besides what port they are coming from or going to.
I don't get eh multiple points of entry. Are you saying that a network can form over an ASCII Usenet posting? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it shouldn't matter HOW it connects to the network since there is only ONE network ES5 connects to.
ES5 will have, and dos have, the same troubles with firewalls that most other programs have. It's up to the user to open ports that their app uses if they want the best results.
Encryption don't mean jack unless some evil empire snatches your HD out of your computer. Even then, they can find a way to break the encryption since all the data is stored locally. Besides, any data you send over the internet will be decrypted anyway.
Why in the world would someone be so anal retentive? Thank you for taking time out of your obviously busy schedule to show me the error of my ways! I shall now triple proof read and spell check all of my posts so Nazi's like yourself can get back to jerking off.
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RIAA strikes back.
Several weeks ago, the writers of an obscure program known as Earth Station 5 (ES5) declared "war" on the RIAA. Most computer users saw it as a media attention grabbing announcement because their "press release" was mostly a glorified sales pitch. In the release, they claimed to have over 20 million users online, when in fact, the figure is closer to 20 thousand.
ES5's network uses two technologies that have been around for a while. The first is known as Secure Socket Layer 3.0 (SSL) which is the standard for online financial transactions. The other is known as a proxy server. A proxy is commonly used by internet and network providers to cache data for faster access and/or allow people to access parts of a network that a firewall would otherwise block. Since the RIAA as been using people's IP addresses to subpoena ISP's, a proxy is used in this case to hide the user's IP.
The RIAA's sting operation began a few days after the announcement by ES5 developers. They purchased a set of IP addresses outside of their public known ranges in order to fool people, who ordinarily block them, into a false sense of security. Then they set up two "secure and anonymous" proxy servers for use by ES5 and began to quietly announce them in to popular P2P websites.
They let the servers run for at least a month. During this time they collected information about everything that people were transmitting and receiving. Besides what was being transferred, they also collected bandwidth usage statistics as well as IP addresses. Of the 20 thousand actual users, 5 thousand users in the U.S. have used one of the two proxies, and has been issued subpoenas.
Why in the world are critical systems like nuclear saftey systems and railway saftey systems running Microsoft software? That's like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets in the revolver. I can't wait until the next MS worm makes airplanes start dropping out of the sky.
Anyone see Terminator 3? I bet that worm spread using an MS exploit. That was really Microsoft's central offce they blew up in T2.
That still leaves the adware on your computer. Most people like myself don't care if it can reach the internet or not, any good firewall will ask anyway. We don't want it on our system out of principal. Privacy and system resources are secondary concerns.
That's probably why it won't encode. Decoding probably only calls a function or sub without need anything returned.
You need to have a compiler that can make DLL's. Just create a program that exits as soon at it starts. Run adaware and compile it to a DLL. Copy and rename it to the ones adaware just removed. I can only get it to work with the decoder only. It won't work if you want to encode video.
If I were a CFO, why would I spend $3k per machine for 10, 30, 60, or 100 employees who don't need them. It's speed CAPABILITY doesn't mean jack when most of these people run MS Office 95% of the time.
I know one can unoficially upgrade Mac hardware. If you would have read the thread, you would see how I indicated that your choices were very limited compared to PCs. You may have 1 or 2 choices for a faster processor before you need an unoffical mobo and memory upgrade. A busisness isn't going to unofficially bootleg a stop-gap solution across numerous computers like your solution for your computer.
Recurring costs like people will always happen. Sitting a Mac in front of a dumb user does not make him or her smarter. You still need someone to clean up the mess because no computer is totally idiot proof. OSX and Win2K/XP can be locked down incredibly tightly, but all of that is a software issue. Any IT person who relies on defaults is asking for it anyway. Besides, in the context of the aricle, if a company is big enough to need multiple IT people, they have more use than simply toying with desktops. Mac's aren't a one time cost. If you throw in that 200 or 400MHz faster processor, and need more later, your stuck with buying a whole new system. The P4's and celeron's socket 478 offers many more choices than the G4's does.
Please try to understand besides read.
No, I did crunch the numbers, but from experience it is easier to handle tech support in-house than pay apple for new or replacement hardware. Working in the ITS at college shows that even an educational discount on new macs showed me that.
Companies stick with what they know. Change may come, but it's almost always for economic reasons, and definitely not instant. Switching to macs will require that all employees must have additional training. IT people aren't the cheapest to train either, and they are the most important. It's called lock-in; any apple user should be familiar with that. Windows has it too.
Any person mixing and matching different generations of PC hardware get what they ask for. Either you know what you are doing, or you don't. Either way you get what you ask for, but at least you get to choose. Besides, that's just an example of why x86 has Apple blocked in a corner. Think of it as the primordial hardware version of open source. Anyone who wanted to make hardware to interface could do so freely. Both an advantage or possible disadvantage. Apple avoided the conflict issues (like the dreaded VL bus) because they strictly held their copyrights and patents. You give most choices for product assurance.
The G5 is most definitely overkill for many professional and most business applications. Why would a secretary, paralegal, attorney, accountant, executive, etc. need a G5 for in the year 2003? Granted it's a fine box, but for now it's more or less a niche machine. The same is true for any top end PC. These people wouldn't need a 3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1GB dual channel DDR400 box.
Yes, the thing is only $3g's but like I said before, it's a niche machine and only people who need 64 bits and are willing to drop that much will buy it. It might be able to break Apple out of it's fluctuating 5% of the market, but not in the next 2 years. Then it will have to contend with AMD on the x86 front. By then if businesses need 64 bits, they can keep on using crappy windows and their proprietary windows software. Two words, migration path.
The G4, which the most any business today would consider, uses a 100MHz front side bus. Adding DDR333 will do little because the bandwidth just isn't there. I'm not sure about Macs, but in PCs such an extreme imbalance can even reduce performance because of latency and timing issues. The cheapest iMac and PowerMacs start at $1300, and the cheapest eMac starts at $800. A manager would look at that, and compare it with a business PC. They would probably go with the 2.2G celeron, with 128MB of ram, 40GB hard drive, and 17" monitor for $500. That's not even with a bulk discount.
I realize that most apple fanatics get offended easily, and very defensive, so I can forgive you. Just realize that an apple is just like any computer. There are advantages and disadvantages. Some cost a lost and some don't cost so much. Mac and x86 people both have monopolistic corporations trying to lock us in and reduce choices. The only difference is Macs are locked into their hardware like Microsoft tries (and does a good job) to lock people into software.
Almost forgot, CISC and RISC. Most of the bad blood between the two camps stems from the old, heated debates over the two architectures.
I wasn't a user back then, but I'm sure that I was selling eitehr 5v DIMMs or buffered DIMMs for Macs about 5 or 6 years ago.
The only reason I have any experience now is because my little cousins got sick of their G3 imac. Luckily my uncle maxed out the ram while they had it. OSX plays well with my linux box. I had to put an end to that one button thing immediately. Damn puck mose.
That's assuming all your systems se the latest hardware. To bad it took Apple so long to stop using proprietary memory along with the rest of their hardware, it cost their customers a great deal.
So now you spend over $100 for VirtualPC, and another $200 for a full version of Windows on top of the high priced hardware? I thought the article was about reducing the cost.
While I admit that the switch to a unix type OS did resolve many of the old problems, there are still many to be resolved.
The cost of the hardware is one. Since Apple runs a monopoly on its own hardware, you pay what Apple wants. Any money saved on support will be spent to hardware.
Not all programs run on them, or have an Apple equivalent. Your only 2 options are to either but a windows license and run virtual pc, or buy a pc. Many companies have custom made software packages. Why port them to new hardware and software when you can just buy a new PC or upgrade an old one?
You now need someone to support Apple hardware and software. An IT manager won't be satisfied with sitting on the phone with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of boxes needing to get fixed or upgraded. Either you need to train your people or hire more. There is another increase in cost.
Stupid people by Apples just like stupid people buy PCs. I used to work a bookstore that sold PCs and Apples. I can't tell you how many people bought an Apple simply because it came in that pretty case.
Upgrading an Apple is BS. You can add memory, but at a higher price when compared to PC. You can add a new processor, but unlike PCs you only have 1 or 2 options before Apple moves on. Apple is like Dell or Gateway. They make no money if their boxes can be upgraded for a long time. They'd rather you replace it.
The G5 is overkill by most standards, not to mention it's still damn expensive. G4's have a highly limited architecture when compared with PCs in a cost/benefit analysis. A PC will cost more to support but less to buy and upgrade. The addition of DDR memory was made by a marketing team. The 100MHz (or is it 133) front side bus can't use the extra memory bandwidth.
On short, there is no savings when a company switches to Apple. They save money in one area at the expense of money from a different area.
You mustn't take life so seriously. It would be a joyless world that punishes someone for day dreaming illegal activities. Who hasn't thought of smacking some deserving fool around? What matters is whether or not people act on them. I bet you're one of those bosses everyone has those day dreams about.
A thief's arguably better than a sadistic fuck like you.
There is a difference between a 'thief and a sadistic fuck like me'. One involves a deserving victim, and the other involves an innocent victim. If someone were mugged in an alley, who would you not feel bad for: Ken Lay or some old lady?
And here we have a shining example of the modernized version of the pump and dump. It's too bad that business laws are changed only after at least one company takes advantage of others.
It will still go through court because I can't see IBM settling with SCO, something it wouldn't even do for the government. If SCO somehow manages to pull one over on IBM, the infringing code will be replaced by the kernel community quickly. Then those worried executives can just upgrade to the next kernel, or patch the old one, to get back to GNU code. If IBM wins, these people will get their money back, at the very least. Then SCO can get smacked in civil court by at least one class action. Either way, they are going to be out of a source of income until they can raise some more accusations.
I am Lord Duh, master of the obvious. I shall now regale you with other tales. Things fall down, the sky is blue, water is wet, and you need to pay SCO if you want to run Linux. I hope this clears a few things up.
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This may be a bit presumptuous, but IBM hardly seems like the evil empire it once was. This doesn't seem to be the same giant that tried to throw its weight around with the MCA bus. If anything, recent history shows that it will at least be considered the lesser of the two evils.
The larger, and more populated, parts of my campus are lit using mostly high pressure sodium lights. While this aids people's fears about walking around at night, it adds a truly ugly orange hue over most of the area. Winter time and the addition of snow make the glow almost alien because it spreads for miles around. The lights at the stadium are on until midnight or later, and the entire campus is drenched in an unnatural light that can over power a full moon.
With the exception of the campus and the small town it's in, the entire area is undeveloped. When you get about 20 miles away, you can see thousands and thousands of more stars in the night sky. The old observatory is kept up by the school because it is one of the oldest modern era ones in the region. It is completely useless, practically speaking, because of the insane amount of light pollution put off by such a small area.
I think American businesses have lost their way. SCO has turned the legal system into a high school shit talking festival. As such, we should have McBride settle this prison style. I'd like to take my old studded leather belt and wrap it around his neck inside out. The real fun comes when you throttle him like broken down Geo.
You must be careful though. You should NOT kill him. That would be illegal, immoral, and setting a bad example. Plus, it's no fun. If you just take him to the brink of death, and let him recover, you can do it all over again. Keep doing this until he licenses his life from you for a low low fee of $699 per cerebral hemisphere.
It's so funny to see the media try and give drugs a scary name. Date rape drug has been used to describe many like GHB, DXM (stuff in cough syrup/drops) and ruhyphnol. Personally, I'm a fan of the original date rape drug, alcohol. You don't try and stop a bunch of teenage boys from having sex by telling them that this is how easy it is. If you want to scare them away, use an uninviting term like leaking anus pills.