I think it is Hubris for humans to think that we can destroy the Earth. We certainly can make it uninhabitable for certain flora and fauna, including Humans, but we can't destroy it.
Maybe we just have a different idea of what "destroy" means...
Seriously, we've had the technology to detect global climate changes for what, a hundred years at most? Of that, we've had useful tools (such as satellites) for less than 50 years. I hate to say it, but the earth has gone through a variety of climate changes in its history, and it will continue to go through plenty of climate changes regardless of whether we eject terawatts of thermal energy into the atmosphere or not.
Interesting, you start out by saying that we don't have the technology and amount of data to theorize what will happen. Then you state what will happen.
IMO, once google went public then "Don't be evil" lost all value... ...As a public company, you can wind up in court (and your officers in jail) if you aren't acting to maximize shareholder value.
I see this line about shareholder value thrown around quite often. While it might be the law, we have a hard enough time trying to throw the officers in jail that are truly evil. So, I don't see this law really having any impact on people's actions...
I'm sure the implementation would be a little more secure than requiring the username/password "fbi/fbi" to grant full access on the box.
Unfortunatley the word "little" in your sentence, is most likely the key word. I mean, really, do you think they're are going to come up with something secure? Hell, companies that think their future depends on it can't come up with good security (e.g. CSS, etc).
I applaud your optimistic viewpoint, but it just comes off a little naive...
What I fear is that the left in this country is going to succeed in undermining our resolve to pursue and defeat our enemies, resulting in an ongoing conflict with no end in sight.
I hate to break it to you, but we already have an ongoing conflict with no end in sight, and it has NOTHING to do with the left.
...running past other players without paying any attention to them, except in the rare case that a fight breaks out...
Clearly you haven't played WoW on a PvP server. Fights break out ALL the time in game. There are seperate instance fights too (10v10 capture the flag and 40v40 battles).
I think the atraction to this has to do with the fact that other players are much better and complicated to fight then ANY game's AI. That alone is enough to keep quite a few of us going.
Once they address this then I will probably look into it again.
Then it is time to look into it again. Vonage is rolling out E911 which provides your address and callback number to the closest dispatch center, much like a regular phone.
If E911 is not available in your area yet, calling 911 on your Vonage phone will at least get forwarded to the closest 911 Operator to your home (or whatever you filled in on Vonage site).
So have a look, my experience with Vonage has been nothing but positive.
For countries who have been around many hundreds of years longer than the US, 10 years is a ridiculously short term. OSS has simply not demonstrated it's the smart play. I think FOSS is a good thing(tm), but you can't seriously think that it's proven itself as a superior infrastructure model without more data (another 2 decades at least).
Does that also apply to the Internet? Should we wait another 2 decades (at least) to decide whether we should use that?
You, sir, are either a moron or a troll.
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... include the mortgage loan ammount ! I pretty sure they had to get it from the bank.
Actually I think this information is available from other places, like your credit report, and public info relating to the sale of the home, etc. I mean, maybe they got it from the bank, but you'd be surprised about the other places this could have come from.
Firstly, I think this submission has no place in/. Partly because people generally get modded negatively if they criticise the Republican party.
I must have misinterpreted your statement, because it sounds like your saying that if any article is critical of Bush, that it doesn't belong on Slashdot.
So if I misnterpreted that, here is your chance to correct it...
I don't even know why you'd bother changing the calendar and earth rotation etc.
Pretty soon we'll be able to drive our Ford Time Machine (tm) back and forth through time, like we currently do in the first 3 dimensions. Traveling through time will be like going to the mall, and time itself will be as fluid as water.
Sounds like Ted was staging a publicity stunt to me.
Yeah, my guess is that he called in a favor, got himself put on the no-fly list. Then, when they were going to let him fly anyway, he probably, insisted that he was doing his civic duty to not let himself fly, since he knew he was on the list.
If the customer doesn't have access to original install media (and you're going to be a Good Little Tech and refuse to put pirated software on), you're going to have to do it the hard way.
If the person has a legal license for windows (assuming they had windows pre-installed, they would), is it still pirated if you use different media? That sounds like a BSA stance, not a legal one.
It's ironic that he titled his article "Shipping Great Software On Time", and he works for a company that doesn't make "Great" software, and is known for shipping it way late.
Ha Ha
If you applied last month's critical patches OR you have a working firewall - even the basic XP one - you won't get it.
That's an oversimplification. There are plenty of ways that it could slip behind a corporate firewall: laptops that go home and come back, VPNs, dial in users, etc. If you just have a firewall and nothing else, you have a false sense of security.
Just wondering, who do you presently use for e-mail service? What makes you think they're more trustworthy than Google?
I host my own email, on my own server, at my own house
But to be totally honest, I don't think I'm any more trustworthy than Google. In fact, I know I've read some of my own email. But I'm not scared, I have nothing to hide;-)
First the company called me a 'terrorist,' than sued me. I've just been indicted last week in Paris. It seems that it's a general trend in France, and maybe in Europe, these days."
They copied US. We invented FUD and SUE (FAS), and have the current record holder in FAS in SCO. So give credit where credit is due!
GO USA;-)
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In a year from now, after no new sales and legal fees, I think SCO will be financially unencumbered.
And hopefully Darl will be employment unencumbered too
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I think it is Hubris for humans to think that we can destroy the Earth. We certainly can make it uninhabitable for certain flora and fauna, including Humans, but we can't destroy it.
Maybe we just have a different idea of what "destroy" means...
Seriously, we've had the technology to detect global climate changes for what, a hundred years at most? Of that, we've had useful tools (such as satellites) for less than 50 years. I hate to say it, but the earth has gone through a variety of climate changes in its history, and it will continue to go through plenty of climate changes regardless of whether we eject terawatts of thermal energy into the atmosphere or not.
Interesting, you start out by saying that we don't have the technology and amount of data to theorize what will happen. Then you state what will happen.
So, in summary:
Your opinion > all technology and data available
Nice.
IMO, once google went public then "Don't be evil" lost all value...
...As a public company, you can wind up in court (and your officers in jail) if you aren't acting to maximize shareholder value.
I see this line about shareholder value thrown around quite often. While it might be the law, we have a hard enough time trying to throw the officers in jail that are truly evil . So, I don't see this law really having any impact on people's actions...
I'm sure the implementation would be a little more secure than requiring the username/password "fbi/fbi" to grant full access on the box.
Unfortunatley the word "little" in your sentence, is most likely the key word. I mean, really, do you think they're are going to come up with something secure? Hell, companies that think their future depends on it can't come up with good security (e.g. CSS, etc).
I applaud your optimistic viewpoint, but it just comes off a little naive...
What I fear is that the left in this country is going to succeed in undermining our resolve to pursue and defeat our enemies, resulting in an ongoing conflict with no end in sight.
I hate to break it to you, but we already have an ongoing conflict with no end in sight, and it has NOTHING to do with the left.
puff, puff, give dude
Clearly you haven't played WoW on a PvP server. Fights break out ALL the time in game. There are seperate instance fights too (10v10 capture the flag and 40v40 battles).
I think the atraction to this has to do with the fact that other players are much better and complicated to fight then ANY game's AI. That alone is enough to keep quite a few of us going.
Once they address this then I will probably look into it again.
Then it is time to look into it again. Vonage is rolling out E911 which provides your address and callback number to the closest dispatch center, much like a regular phone.
If E911 is not available in your area yet, calling 911 on your Vonage phone will at least get forwarded to the closest 911 Operator to your home (or whatever you filled in on Vonage site).
So have a look, my experience with Vonage has been nothing but positive.
For countries who have been around many hundreds of years longer than the US, 10 years is a ridiculously short term. OSS has simply not demonstrated it's the smart play. I think FOSS is a good thing(tm), but you can't seriously think that it's proven itself as a superior infrastructure model without more data (another 2 decades at least).
Does that also apply to the Internet? Should we wait another 2 decades (at least) to decide whether we should use that?
You, sir, are either a moron or a troll.
... include the mortgage loan ammount ! I pretty sure they had to get it from the bank.
Actually I think this information is available from other places, like your credit report, and public info relating to the sale of the home, etc. I mean, maybe they got it from the bank, but you'd be surprised about the other places this could have come from.
Yeah, where can I get the .rpm package for AutoPackage?
That's not true. Federal funding for harvesting embryonic stem cells was cut off. Huge difference.
That's not true, Federal funding for any research done on new stem cell lines is denied. It's not just the harvesting. Huge difference.Firstly, I think this submission has no place in /. Partly because people generally get modded negatively if they criticise the Republican party.
I must have misinterpreted your statement, because it sounds like your saying that if any article is critical of Bush, that it doesn't belong on Slashdot.
So if I misnterpreted that, here is your chance to correct it...
I don't even know why you'd bother changing the calendar and earth rotation etc.
Pretty soon we'll be able to drive our Ford Time Machine (tm) back and forth through time, like we currently do in the first 3 dimensions. Traveling through time will be like going to the mall, and time itself will be as fluid as water.
Of course, YMMV
Sounds like Ted was staging a publicity stunt to me.
Yeah, my guess is that he called in a favor, got himself put on the no-fly list. Then, when they were going to let him fly anyway, he probably, insisted that he was doing his civic duty to not let himself fly, since he knew he was on the list.
If the customer doesn't have access to original install media (and you're going to be a Good Little Tech and refuse to put pirated software on), you're going to have to do it the hard way.
If the person has a legal license for windows (assuming they had windows pre-installed, they would), is it still pirated if you use different media?
That sounds like a BSA stance, not a legal one.
It's ironic that he titled his article "Shipping Great Software On Time", and he works for a company that doesn't make "Great" software, and is known for shipping it way late.
Ha Ha
xmms plays mp3s. And my fedora 2 has xmms.
So you might want to check again.
I think you missed people full of hate, and people that make overly broad generalisations to support their hate.
If you applied last month's critical patches OR you have a working firewall - even the basic XP one - you won't get it.
That's an oversimplification. There are plenty of ways that it could slip behind a corporate firewall: laptops that go home and come back, VPNs, dial in users, etc. If you just have a firewall and nothing else, you have a false sense of security.
...there are stories ????
Just wondering, who do you presently use for e-mail service? What makes you think they're more trustworthy than Google?
I host my own email, on my own server, at my own house
But to be totally honest, I don't think I'm any more trustworthy than Google. In fact, I know I've read some of my own email. But I'm not scared, I have nothing to hide
First the company called me a 'terrorist,' than sued me. I've just been indicted last week in Paris. It seems that it's a general trend in France, and maybe in Europe, these days."
They copied US. We invented FUD and SUE (FAS), and have the current record holder in FAS in SCO. So give credit where credit is due!
GO USA ;-)
In a year from now, after no new sales and legal fees, I think SCO will be financially unencumbered.
And hopefully Darl will be employment unencumbered too
That is exactly one dump truck full.
a group of people decided to set themselves on fire
That would make me realize how GREAT my life was. I would be really impressed if you hated your job so much YOU set YOURSELF on fire.