I already did that because I'm a L33T HAX0RS yo!!! In fact, I just download your post into my SUPA L33T computer's harddrive, in a L33T folder called cache, using a super secret L33T NinJas technique.
Some of those spy/adwares download themselves by minicking Windows message boxes, which I believe comes pretty darn close to fruad.
I actually seen one case where an IE window set to hide everything with the background color of blue opens up to make it look like you are experiencing BSOD. It also brings up another pop up window with a message in tune of "something is wrong with your computer and click on "Ok" to download a software to fix it". It looked like a real deal execpt for the fact that the popup window had the IE banner on it.
I disagree with your risk assesment, as if the owner refuses to invest money (or other capital), there will be no business to begain with, unless you can live off of thin air and find workers that'll work for free.
As for handing money over to a mutual fund manager, why would someone do that for starting a business?
If that's the case, strike really wasn't needed. All the disgrunted employees could have filed complaint to the IRS. And majority of works and the UPS hubs are still part timers (package handlers). In most cases (unless a large group of workers decided quit all at once), it may take years before you can get a full time slot. May of my former co-workers were Mexicans working part time. Many of them were hard workers but that wasn't enough because of the union's o-so-wonderful senority policy. If unions are so wonderful, can anyone here tell me why package handers for FedEx gets greater pay than the UPS ones for similar working envirnment and benefits?
Owners can and does "fuck the customers for my gain".
It wouldn't make sence for Wal-Mart to unionize because Wal-Mart is a retailer with cut-rate prices, which will be hard to maintaine if they unionize. For-profit businesses don't exist to provide jobs, they exist for profit. The job creation is a side affect of that. Starting a business involves a lot of money, time, and risk (9 out of 10 new businesses fail during the first year, 9 out of 10 remaining fail within 5 years). There are many people out their who are unwilling to create a company, yet they somehow feel that they know how to run one.
I never said that not having a union means job security so don't put words in my mouth. I was countering the notion that union = job security. If the business goes bankrupt, the bankruptcy judges have the power to void the union contract.
As someone who was in the union while working at UPS, I found that FedEx has same working conditions with same benefits at much greater pay ($8 vs. $11-12 for package handlers) while not having to give up part of your meager paycheck to the union.
Why should UPS agree to the union's terms if it feels that it's not right? Believe it or not, for-profit companies exist to for profit. The owners/shareholders demand certain level of profit. Otherwise, why risk investing in the stock market?
I agree on the fact that unions did a lot of good in this country. However, I feel that unions of today are something else, more like NRA than grassroots organization of the past.
Taking about the ruling-class... Unions are pro-Democrat. And some of the richest politicians are Democrats (majority of the 10 richest senators are Democrats, top 3 being all Democrats. Another good example would be Sen. Kerry's wife). So I guess unions are pro-ruling-class after all.
The unions no longer fight for justice or equity. Remember the west coast strike? They weren't fighting for job security (the management guaranteed their job security) and they weren't fighting for pay (they are the highest paid blue-collar workers). They were fighting against automation of clerk duties. They helped the U.S. economy go down the toilet and also soured the public's image of unions.
Unions also mean "I'm going to fuck the customers for my gain". Remember the UPS strike? All the customers who shipped items during the strike got screwed big time (I was lucky, but I knew many people who got affected by it. It hit the small businesses the worst). But I guess screwing your customers is OK as long as the union gets it's way. Too bad for them, since the strike cause many customers to start using FedEx.
How about the strike by the CA grocery workers? It's good thing that Super Wal-Mart and Costco stepped in. Not only the union end up not getting what it wanted, but the strike enabled Super Wal-Mart and Costco to lure in new customers.
If you still think that unions mean job security, talk to the airline workers.
Interestingly enough, I recently worked on a laptop injected with Sasser. The user thought that maybe the problems that he was experiencing was cause by Sasser,but he didn't bother to do anything about it.
McAfee has a free tool named Stinger that can remove Sasser and various other worms, yet people don't bother to download (only 770kb) it can scan their computers.
I'm pretty sure that you can get a good out of work *nix admin for the price of an MCSE.
You wouldn't expect a receptionist to manage a windows box, so why would you expect her to learn how to manage a *nix box? Just set her up with GNOME or KDE with shortcuts to all the applications that she'll need for her work.
Wouldn't getting a "per user" license solve the problem of having to get additional licenses for each user? As far as I know, there isn't a special "OWA" license for Exchange servers.
I think that making money by shorting SCO stock is hell of a lot more intelligent then "Dude I bought this phat gaming machine that'll be only worth half it's price next year, and I bought it on credit card" posts.
"You will be all of ~$1800 richer, if the stock goes to zero, which it won't anytime soon. And then pay your taxes on that as well."
Wow, I'd better ask by boss to not to give me raises in the future because I'd have to pay more taxes based on the raise.
How about donating time as well as donating the equipment? Since many slashdotters are in favor of raising someone else's taxes to help the poor so they shouldn't object to donating their own time to help the poor.
People have complained that MS' closed source hinders non-MS programmers from writing Windows Apps. Now they released some of their codes, people are complaining that it's just a PR move. I love to bash MS as much as the next guy but if you don't like MS, you have freedom not to use their tools, just as you have freedom not to use codes released under GPL.
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I already did that because I'm a L33T HAX0RS yo!!! In fact, I just download your post into my SUPA L33T computer's harddrive, in a L33T folder called cache, using a super secret L33T NinJas technique.
Some of those spy/adwares download themselves by minicking Windows message boxes, which I believe comes pretty darn close to fruad.
I actually seen one case where an IE window set to hide everything with the background color of blue opens up to make it look like you are experiencing BSOD. It also brings up another pop up window with a message in tune of "something is wrong with your computer and click on "Ok" to download a software to fix it". It looked like a real deal execpt for the fact that the popup window had the IE banner on it.
I disagree with your risk assesment, as if the owner refuses to invest money (or other capital), there will be no business to begain with, unless you can live off of thin air and find workers that'll work for free. As for handing money over to a mutual fund manager, why would someone do that for starting a business?
If that's the case, strike really wasn't needed. All the disgrunted employees could have filed complaint to the IRS. And majority of works and the UPS hubs are still part timers (package handlers). In most cases (unless a large group of workers decided quit all at once), it may take years before you can get a full time slot. May of my former co-workers were Mexicans working part time. Many of them were hard workers but that wasn't enough because of the union's o-so-wonderful senority policy. If unions are so wonderful, can anyone here tell me why package handers for FedEx gets greater pay than the UPS ones for similar working envirnment and benefits?
Owners can and does "fuck the customers for my gain".
It wouldn't make sence for Wal-Mart to unionize because Wal-Mart is a retailer with cut-rate prices, which will be hard to maintaine if they unionize. For-profit businesses don't exist to provide jobs, they exist for profit. The job creation is a side affect of that. Starting a business involves a lot of money, time, and risk (9 out of 10 new businesses fail during the first year, 9 out of 10 remaining fail within 5 years). There are many people out their who are unwilling to create a company, yet they somehow feel that they know how to run one.
I never said that not having a union means job security so don't put words in my mouth. I was countering the notion that union = job security. If the business goes bankrupt, the bankruptcy judges have the power to void the union contract.
As someone who was in the union while working at UPS, I found that FedEx has same working conditions with same benefits at much greater pay ($8 vs. $11-12 for package handlers) while not having to give up part of your meager paycheck to the union.
Why should UPS agree to the union's terms if it feels that it's not right? Believe it or not, for-profit companies exist to for profit. The owners/shareholders demand certain level of profit. Otherwise, why risk investing in the stock market?
I agree on the fact that unions did a lot of good in this country. However, I feel that unions of today are something else, more like NRA than grassroots organization of the past.
Taking about the ruling-class... Unions are pro-Democrat. And some of the richest politicians are Democrats (majority of the 10 richest senators are Democrats, top 3 being all Democrats. Another good example would be Sen. Kerry's wife). So I guess unions are pro-ruling-class after all.
The unions no longer fight for justice or equity. Remember the west coast strike? They weren't fighting for job security (the management guaranteed their job security) and they weren't fighting for pay (they are the highest paid blue-collar workers). They were fighting against automation of clerk duties. They helped the U.S. economy go down the toilet and also soured the public's image of unions.
Unions also mean "I'm going to fuck the customers for my gain". Remember the UPS strike? All the customers who shipped items during the strike got screwed big time (I was lucky, but I knew many people who got affected by it. It hit the small businesses the worst). But I guess screwing your customers is OK as long as the union gets it's way. Too bad for them, since the strike cause many customers to start using FedEx.
How about the strike by the CA grocery workers? It's good thing that Super Wal-Mart and Costco stepped in. Not only the union end up not getting what it wanted, but the strike enabled Super Wal-Mart and Costco to lure in new customers.
If you still think that unions mean job security, talk to the airline workers.
Don't under estimate the lava sharks. Those lava sharks always got me when I was playing Life Force on NES.
I'm willing to bet on your theory since Apply did kill off the Apple clone business.
Maybe they aren't fettered by all this patent bullshit because software piracy is rampent there.
Rats, PETA members, or both?
Interestingly enough, I recently worked on a laptop injected with Sasser. The user thought that maybe the problems that he was experiencing was cause by Sasser,but he didn't bother to do anything about it.
But where does Bill Gates fit into all this?
McAfee has a free tool named Stinger that can remove Sasser and various other worms, yet people don't bother to download (only 770kb) it can scan their computers.
But not as cool as the self chilling keg.
If that's the case, according to MS, you are no longer MCSE, so you shouldn't have to take heat for it on Slashdot.
I'm pretty sure that you can get a good out of work *nix admin for the price of an MCSE.
You wouldn't expect a receptionist to manage a windows box, so why would you expect her to learn how to manage a *nix box? Just set her up with GNOME or KDE with shortcuts to all the applications that she'll need for her work.
Wouldn't getting a "per user" license solve the problem of having to get additional licenses for each user? As far as I know, there isn't a special "OWA" license for Exchange servers.
Give him a break. He did admit to being an MCSE after all...
I think that making money by shorting SCO stock is hell of a lot more intelligent then "Dude I bought this phat gaming machine that'll be only worth half it's price next year, and I bought it on credit card" posts.
"You will be all of ~$1800 richer, if the stock goes to zero, which it won't anytime soon. And then pay your taxes on that as well."
Wow, I'd better ask by boss to not to give me raises in the future because I'd have to pay more taxes based on the raise.
That explains why I never can beat a computer at chess. Whenever I get better, the computer gets even more better!
How about donating time as well as donating the equipment? Since many slashdotters are in favor of raising someone else's taxes to help the poor so they shouldn't object to donating their own time to help the poor.
It could be true if IRS taxes itself... It'll be like a infinite tax loop!
People have complained that MS' closed source hinders non-MS programmers from writing Windows Apps. Now they released some of their codes, people are complaining that it's just a PR move. I love to bash MS as much as the next guy but if you don't like MS, you have freedom not to use their tools, just as you have freedom not to use codes released under GPL.