Terribly sorry to reply to my own post, but this must be said:
Define the poverty level to be anyone who makes less than 200k a year. Anyone who makes less than that will not be taxed at all, and anyone who makes more than that will pay for the government. That's fine with me. Where do I sign up?
And I mean no disrespect to you or this cause, but I still do not see how this will help. If you define a "poverty" level in which no one will be taxed for paying for services or aquiring goods, what will become of those who live just above that level?
I would call those people the lower middle class, and the middle class, and even the upper middle class (depending on the breaks, to make a Kubrick ref)
If you intend to do this, you still must make either "brackets" (bad answer) or use an equasion which reflects wealth distribution based on contribution. (And contribution does not count "capital"...)
Otherwise... (drumroll please) you destroy the middle class.
But who defines this subsistence level? Unless you start bracketing above that, won't you effectively destroy the middle class?
Of course, thanks to current US tax policy, we are coming closer to acheiving this with the existing system in place. So none of this may be needed at all.
This company should be held accountable for something, though I can't think of what exactly.
For everyone saying "this devcie is not a router" I would say for false advertising. But then, it is a router, just not once every 8 hours. And this could be seen as a "bug", if it weren't for the fact that it was engineered to be in there.
This device contains a trojan they have written. Maybe someone should report them to Microsoft, pass go and collect 250K.
"There's an inserter, a spring-loaded thing, that taps it into the brain with just the right amount of force," said Surgenor in a telephone interview. The wire array will be positioned over one of the areas of the brain known to control motor activity
How long before it is placed over other areas of the brain which generate "mental intentions" (terminology from the article) of, say criminal behavior?
Years ago I used to work for a company where we were writing agents which scoured the net and found products for sale/auction which our software identified and categorized. The system would then attempt to dynamically bid on items it found in order to achieve the lowest price for the users, based on their requirements.
Some sites however did not have an automated bidding system where you simply gave a credit card number and allowed you to buy/bid via an html form. They preferred to be contacted by email. To deal with this we automated the process of sending out email form letters using our agents. After initial testing it was very amusing to see that _all_ of the responses were also autogenerated and wanted us to fill in their template for their agents and reply. (Though at that time my guess is their agents were actual people farmed out in a receiving center in the boonies somewhere, who probably wouldn't have understood say an XML interface, which is what should have been happening in the first place.)
But if one is writing software which reads bytes and writes them to a display, how can anything at a lower level prevent one from writing to, say a file, rather than a display? I still don't really understand.
Actually, the installation folks who come to your house and chat are usually pretty cool about it. My comcast guy said he was a FreeBSD user. And then explained how to register the cable modem's mac once I got it swapped with the Windows XP box I had dual booted and runnin (worried he would see linux and "report me to ze authorities")
It's unfortunately just the corp policy and the sales people you talk to on the phone who get on your case. It's just scary moving into a new area and changing companies and wondering "will they really proactively do something to prevent me from running linux?"
ISP's should be required by law to change to something like "L3SP"s Or Layer 3 Service Providers. I would argue that allowing internet service only on certain OSes could easily be used to create and maintain monopoloies or other unfair business practices.
Specifically because it lacks certian glaring security holes makes it ideal for the desktop.
Users who don't know how to disable active X in their IE browsers or secure their Outlook clients won't have to worry so much about what third party software firewall of the month they are going to choose.
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Terribly sorry to reply to my own post, but this must be said:
Define the poverty level to be anyone who makes less than 200k a year. Anyone who makes less than that will not be taxed at all, and anyone who makes more than that will pay for the government. That's fine with me. Where do I sign up?
Trust me I want tax reform more than anyone.
And I mean no disrespect to you or this cause, but I still do not see how this will help. If you define a "poverty" level in which no one will be taxed for paying for services or aquiring goods, what will become of those who live just above that level?
I would call those people the lower middle class, and the middle class, and even the upper middle class (depending on the breaks, to make a Kubrick ref)
If you intend to do this, you still must make either "brackets" (bad answer) or use an equasion which reflects wealth distribution based on contribution. (And contribution does not count "capital"...)
Otherwise... (drumroll please) you destroy the middle class.
I like snoop as well, (when I'm on Solaris.) But isn't it's functionality basically a subset of tcpdump?
But who defines this subsistence level? Unless you start bracketing above that, won't you effectively destroy the middle class?
Of course, thanks to current US tax policy, we are coming closer to acheiving this with the existing system in place. So none of this may be needed at all.
So the real question is, who is the writer sleeping with?
I guess the alwayson-network isn't always on...
Once every 8 hours...
Here's more info on N1's heterogenous OS support.
Sun doesn't discourage linux In fact, their new N1 initiative embraces all OSes.
We were gonna be at the party earlier, but Lisa belkined us into stopping at Dave's to pick up her sweater and that turned into small talk...
This company should be held accountable for something, though I can't think of what exactly.
For everyone saying "this devcie is not a router" I would say for false advertising. But then, it is a router, just not once every 8 hours. And this could be seen as a "bug", if it weren't for the fact that it was engineered to be in there.
This device contains a trojan they have written. Maybe someone should report them to Microsoft, pass go and collect 250K.
Just look at their Additional applications include the monitoring and treatment of psychiatric diseases
"There's an inserter, a spring-loaded thing, that taps it into the brain with just the right amount of force," said Surgenor in a telephone interview. The wire array will be positioned over one of the areas of the brain known to control motor activity
How long before it is placed over other areas of the brain which generate "mental intentions" (terminology from the article) of, say criminal behavior?
The speed at which memory transfers over a bus to a CPU does not grow at this rate. We need to change some fundamental architecture pretty soon.
This isn't the article I'm thinking of but it's
close.
There was one with a graph of the two growth rates. I'll keep looking.
Years ago I used to work for a company where we were writing agents which scoured the net and found products for sale/auction which our software identified and categorized. The system would then attempt to dynamically bid on items it found in order to achieve the lowest price for the users, based on their requirements.
Some sites however did not have an automated bidding system where you simply gave a credit card number and allowed you to buy/bid via an html form. They preferred to be contacted by email. To deal with this we automated the process of sending out email form letters using our agents. After initial testing it was very amusing to see that _all_ of the responses were also autogenerated and wanted us to fill in their template for their agents and reply. (Though at that time my guess is their agents were actual people farmed out in a receiving center in the boonies somewhere, who probably wouldn't have understood say an XML interface, which is what should have been happening in the first place.)
But if one is writing software which reads bytes and writes them to a display, how can anything at a lower level prevent one from writing to, say a file, rather than a display? I still don't really understand.
--Confused.
So is the idea that the hardware below the driver can prevent this content from being "saved" to my file system?
I'm confused as to how driver source code, if one had access to it, couldn't simply be altered to ignore this "flag".
Is it not possible that someone might be considering purchasing a new computer and evaluating software which one can use on that computer?
Actually, the installation folks who come to your house and chat are usually pretty cool about it. My comcast guy said he was a FreeBSD user. And then explained how to register the cable modem's mac once I got it swapped with the Windows XP box I had dual booted and runnin (worried he would see linux and "report me to ze authorities")
It's unfortunately just the corp policy and the sales people you talk to on the phone who get on your case. It's just scary moving into a new area and changing companies and wondering "will they really proactively do something to prevent me from running linux?"
ISP's should be required by law to change to something like "L3SP"s Or Layer 3 Service Providers. I would argue that allowing internet service only on certain OSes could easily be used to create and maintain monopoloies or other unfair business practices.
Seriously though, what are his political motivations? Can anyone speculate as to why he is in bed with who?
Specifically because it lacks certian glaring security holes makes it ideal for the desktop.
Users who don't know how to disable active X in their IE browsers or secure their Outlook clients won't have to worry so much about what third party software firewall of the month they are going to choose.
This is a good question. I am very curious as to why he _specifically_ recommended Microsoft.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why he would single them out?
A lot of ISP's claim they "do not support" linux and you have to pretend you aren't running it. (Along with your NAT router, etc.)
but they recently dumped Looksmart, after deciding that its results don't stack up well
But they decided that Ask Jeeves results stacked up well? I find that hard to believe.
Would they then claim that ASk Jeeves is an integral part of their OS?