"You thought I said that I would swim?... [chuckles] No, no, I'm the CEO... you're swimmin'. I do still get the hot chocolate though...."
Note: for those who do not work in the corporate world, the CEO did actually say that he would swim, but such truths as remembering oaths and word meaning do not apply in the corporate cosmos....
Advertisers "bug" us with ads because they have been conditioned to do so. It's Pavlov people.... 1 out of a 100, 1 out of 1000, 1 out of 100,000 -- name it. As long as they know some idiot will click -- and then buy -- their product due to that damn popup they will continue to use them and push them on us. This new "trick" of telling us we are violating a social contract "laugh" won't stop the 99,999 of us who hate the damn things. What really needs to be done is find out those people guilty of clicking the ads and remove their computers -- maybe even fingers....
Wireless power -- first conceptualized (correct me if I'm wrong) in a short story, science fiction piece by Theodore Sturgeon in his 1941 publication"Microcosmic God." I read it in high school and it has been one of the most endearing scifi works I've read....
"Joyce John was upstairs at home after school one day when suddenly she heard gunshots and her parents screaming. Her mother, faced with two armed robbers, yelled for the 17-year-old to dial 911.... When she did, the teenager heard this message: "Stop. You must dial 911 from another telephone. 911 is not available from this telephone line. No emergency personnel will be dispatched."
Talk about a denial of service. This is something outta Dilbert. Wtf? Which city, state, or whatever, government allowed this to happen? 911 works on anything -- canceled cell phone service, canceled home phone service... ok, ok, I cancel lots of phone services and get robbed a lot....
Yet, Windows isn't geared toward business
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The more you work with their bread'n'butter OS, the more you realize that Microsoft gears their software towards the home user, not the business. Enterprises are challenged to make XP conform to sound security models. Little things such as the fact that Windows Media Player overrides a screensaver lock by default (and good luck getting the group policy to fix this in Active Directory), to the assumption of root access by default on the XP workstation much less in the NOS itself (try changing the default network access from anything but the default -- suddenly, you can't view other machines in network neighborhood and users can't change their own passwords). Bill Gates gives "business" tongue and cheek service whilst his developers write an OS for the home and for entertainment....
Sometimes common sense, like, works and stuff. After 9/11 the Israelies were telling the U.S. that it was nuts to body search 80 year old, white caucasian grandmas from Chicago and allow the 6-foot muslim to walk on by in airports. Which one, really, is more likely to be a terrorist?
Howard Hughes and the CIA only hired Mormons for the longest as they had proven to have the highest, personal, integrity.
And if you're concerned about someone trying to "see what they shouldn't see" then don't hire an AD&D player (D&D? -- that's what was out before AD&D when I was a kid) or a slashdotter.
My marriage fell apart in 2003. I was married for over 13 years and had a young daughter. I didn't want to live and yearned to die many times, but I had this little girl who blindly depended on me to be her daddy.
I stopped thinking of me....
Over the past two years I've become the best father I could ever hope to be. I've coached her basketball teams for two years, one soccer team and now her flag football team. We draw, color, make sculptures, play with paper dolls, play hide-and-seek, name it. She is a large part of my life.
I made her a promise when deep in the misery of marital dissolution: "as long as it's in my power, I will be here for you...." That promise helped me make it through.
I'm now a better brother, uncle, grandson, son, name it, and all because I stopped thinking about me and my problems.
When you put other people first and learn to live that way you simply forget about you. I think had I continued to pity myself I would not have made it.
I especially enjoy coaching. Working with young kids, watching them grow athletically and improve, it has become the best therapy ever -- and I spent tons of money on shrinks and books trying to overcome my pain.
The only thing that will work is to either reinvent the wheel from scratch, in your own country, under communism, and hope you'll succeed where no one else has. (China seems to be making progress).
Afterall, communism has worked so well in the past... especially in the realm of all things "free"....
What you're paying for when you buy a certificate is not so much the certificate itself, but for the processes surrounding the issuing of said certificate.
Which, apparently, was crappy as of 2001 where they issued a cert (a Microsoft cert no less) that turned out to be fraudulent. That is, they first gave the cert and then did this "process" you're speaking of wherein they found the person to have been a fraud -- should have been the other way around....
So much for process. Hopefully, they've 'fixed' that by now....
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The rise of Firefox is the best thing to happen in computing since the dawning of OSS.
This is the same guy who predicted the 2.5" floppy....
Walmart, now the leader in using the DMCA....
Small businesses cannot keep up and use the DMCA on a much teenier basis....
It's actually a "PU-36" space modulator, but commonly mistaken as "Q-36."
"You thought I said that I would swim?... [chuckles] No, no, I'm the CEO ... you're swimmin'. I do still get the hot chocolate though...."
Note: for those who do not work in the corporate world, the CEO did actually say that he would swim, but such truths as remembering oaths and word meaning do not apply in the corporate cosmos....
Boxers or briefs?
depends....
Advertisers "bug" us with ads because they have been conditioned to do so. It's Pavlov people.... 1 out of a 100, 1 out of 1000, 1 out of 100,000 -- name it. As long as they know some idiot will click -- and then buy -- their product due to that damn popup they will continue to use them and push them on us. This new "trick" of telling us we are violating a social contract "laugh" won't stop the 99,999 of us who hate the damn things. What really needs to be done is find out those people guilty of clicking the ads and remove their computers -- maybe even fingers....
"The cysts are very hardy and may remain viable for many years if kept dry...."
My wife had that once....
By "god" do you mean, ozzy osborne?....
we are talking about a parrot a bit bigger than a pidgeon
/. community missing the MP lines here....
Surely to goodness I'm not witnessing the entire
Also, cince those servers are on their own protected network any comments of "hax0r3d or own3d" are silly cince....
... I would at least upgrade from notepad....
"cince" twice
Laws to free speech are like grammar to language: it come after the fact in an attempt to control that which naturally occurred without it....
Pretty cool site. Love the SWK. Lots of versions I've not seen there.... They're marketing the kid too ... oh the irony....
[after having perused the site]
Dude, fix your links....
Ah yes Argentina -- same thing :P
I got an offtopic! Woohoo!...
Brazil, weren't they, like, the first ever government, democracy, something to go bankrupt a couple of years ago?...
You are correct. You are also anonymous and, therefore, a coward....
psst -- to all you blasting me -- do note I said, "correct me if I'm wrong." [sheesh]
Wireless power -- first conceptualized (correct me if I'm wrong) in a short story, science fiction piece by Theodore Sturgeon in his 1941 publication"Microcosmic God." I read it in high school and it has been one of the most endearing scifi works I've read....
Instead of Yahoo Ups Mail to Match Google's Gig
Try Yahoo Ups Mail to Match Google's Giggle
"Joyce John was upstairs at home after school one day when suddenly she heard gunshots and her parents screaming. Her mother, faced with two armed robbers, yelled for the 17-year-old to dial 911.... When she did, the teenager heard this message: "Stop. You must dial 911 from another telephone. 911 is not available from this telephone line. No emergency personnel will be dispatched."
... ok, ok, I cancel lots of phone services and get robbed a lot....
Talk about a denial of service. This is something outta Dilbert. Wtf? Which city, state, or whatever, government allowed this to happen? 911 works on anything -- canceled cell phone service, canceled home phone service
The more you work with their bread'n'butter OS, the more you realize that Microsoft gears their software towards the home user, not the business. Enterprises are challenged to make XP conform to sound security models. Little things such as the fact that Windows Media Player overrides a screensaver lock by default (and good luck getting the group policy to fix this in Active Directory), to the assumption of root access by default on the XP workstation much less in the NOS itself (try changing the default network access from anything but the default -- suddenly, you can't view other machines in network neighborhood and users can't change their own passwords). Bill Gates gives "business" tongue and cheek service whilst his developers write an OS for the home and for entertainment....
Erm, hated homework?...
Sometimes common sense, like, works and stuff. After 9/11 the Israelies were telling the U.S. that it was nuts to body search 80 year old, white caucasian grandmas from Chicago and allow the 6-foot muslim to walk on by in airports. Which one, really, is more likely to be a terrorist?
Howard Hughes and the CIA only hired Mormons for the longest as they had proven to have the highest, personal, integrity.
And if you're concerned about someone trying to "see what they shouldn't see" then don't hire an AD&D player (D&D? -- that's what was out before AD&D when I was a kid) or a slashdotter.
This stuff ain't rocket science folks....
My marriage fell apart in 2003. I was married for over 13 years and had a young daughter. I didn't want to live and yearned to die many times, but I had this little girl who blindly depended on me to be her daddy.
I stopped thinking of me....
Over the past two years I've become the best father I could ever hope to be. I've coached her basketball teams for two years, one soccer team and now her flag football team. We draw, color, make sculptures, play with paper dolls, play hide-and-seek, name it. She is a large part of my life.
I made her a promise when deep in the misery of marital dissolution: "as long as it's in my power, I will be here for you...." That promise helped me make it through.
I'm now a better brother, uncle, grandson, son, name it, and all because I stopped thinking about me and my problems.
When you put other people first and learn to live that way you simply forget about you. I think had I continued to pity myself I would not have made it.
I especially enjoy coaching. Working with young kids, watching them grow athletically and improve, it has become the best therapy ever -- and I spent tons of money on shrinks and books trying to overcome my pain.
You get what you put in....
The only thing that will work is to either reinvent the wheel from scratch, in your own country, under communism, and hope you'll succeed where no one else has. (China seems to be making progress).
... especially in the realm of all things "free"....
Afterall, communism has worked so well in the past
What you're paying for when you buy a certificate is not so much the certificate itself, but for the processes surrounding the issuing of said certificate.
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Which, apparently, was crappy as of 2001 where they issued a cert (a Microsoft cert no less) that turned out to be fraudulent. That is, they first gave the cert and then did this "process" you're speaking of wherein they found the person to have been a fraud -- should have been the other way around....
So much for process. Hopefully, they've 'fixed' that by now....
Link to the incident: http://www.pkiforum.com/resources/alert_verisignc