Couldn't they put all sorts of compliance clauses into to insure that MS moves heaven and earth to deliver stable secure code? I like the idea of consolidating service contracts under a single RFQ that puts security and stability at the top of the list of compliance functions. I'm not saying they did this, only that it's a good idea.
This is a good example of the political reality that if you have a big enough lobbyist you can actually get a branch of government creates to benefit you and only you.
Usually in George Bush's America if you have an industry that needs some money you go invade a country and hire that country to administer the post hillarity era. But in the case of movies and music, we can't actually force people to listen or watch it at gunpoint, yet. So we have to create a special branch of the Federal government, like the FCC for example which is specifically dedicated to insuring that you use the approved products and only the approved products and services.
First off, it's NOT a distance thing. The US probably has an order of magnitude MORE fiber bandwidth potential than it can use right now. Since the 1980's carriers have been laying fiber to ensure that it's a once a century kind of investment. And fiber doesn't care about distance, not from any meaningful economic perspective.
One could easily send broadband to everyone in West Gopher-stan if one wanted to.
But carriers don't really want to do that because they can make too much money from crappy analog services. This is the same reason why WIRELESS 3G services are decades away from common use in the US. Carriers simply make too much money now with the crappy service they offer. This is why spectrun auctions were so expensive: carriers bought up all the available spectrum they could, not to use it, but to put it on a shelf so that no one could use it.
Next, it's a regulatory thing. At 20% the numbers don't easily add up for the government to bother regulating it. But when that number soon reaches whatever tipping point they have in mind not only will broadband be regulated it will be taxed. As soon as it becomes economically nonviable for customers to sqwap out is when utilities become taxed. The government expresses this in terms of a stable market which no longer needs to promote competition.
So in the long run service in the US will actually get worse not better. As more people use it, it will actually become more degraded and more expensive once you bundle in the end user taxation.
Sleep tight, Georpge Bush's America will make sure the invisible free hand of commerce will FIST you.
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It's funny really that/.rs have found it necessary to mod the above post at least 3 different times.
I think that the spyware industry is one of the most corrupt in the software biz right now.
Many of the tools in that review don't have uninstall procs and some that do like Aluria have 'problems' with the install.log that prohibit easy uninstallation.
Some spyware tools like Adware (not Adaware) are flat out spyware themselves.
And the remainder for the most part, are scanners that tell you something and then want you to spend $19.95 to remove them.
That's only slightly more ethical than Mafia protection scams.
Best case scenario any tool you use is missing about half of the spyware that may or maynot be on your machine. Your best bet is to use a few different tools like S+D and Adaware and to use real time blockers wherever possible.
Note: I have an XP Home machine at home where S+D teatimer has memory hole and it can't be run w/o consuming all the RAM.
This is George Bush's planet earth. We'll follow your pissant pansy treaties when it damn well suits us and if you don't like it you can just get missile up your traitor ass.
God said we can do pretty much what we want and you better get used to it, peon.
Here in the Research Triangle Park, Raleigh Durham Cary area it doesn't look grim but that's probably because we're pretty used to grim at this point. Since 1999-2000 employment fell to a 30 year low in the tech, chip, life sciences, electronics, pharma industries. Since then it's been flat and the supply of people to fill the occasional need is still being met by 'consultants' and the underemployed.
We see no upswings on the horizon and employment will continue to hold constant with periodic slight declines as specific business functions are sent to steamy jungles and third world nations where they eat dogs or are eaten by tigers.
The areas that are hot now are in the audit & compliance fields.
So here's the stat that just required the schoolbook publisher to make changes in their books so that now marriage is strictly a lifelong relationship between a man and a woman (BTW Texas has one of the highest divorce rates in the country) and another change to call evolution an unproven theory.
Now we have soccermoms micromanaging their own children's every movement with an eye in the sky.
Patrick you have an insidious infectious disease that defies clear diagnosis and is drug resistant. Clearly you or your proxy should be contacting the CDC and/or a major facility that has expertise with infectious diseases. The main problem you have is that no one has really done an adequate clinical diagnosis.
I suppose if someone has a 460TB data warehouse, that's something to crow about but even at that I've got to image there's some TLA (three letter agency) out there with a manageable data warehouse that holds 1 petabyte.
9 years for spam in VIRGINIA the birthplace of the Tax FREE Televangelical Money Church? The home of the 700 Club and Jerry Falwell? The prosecutor should rot in fucking hell forever.
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Couldn't they put all sorts of compliance clauses into to insure that MS moves heaven and earth to deliver stable secure code? I like the idea of consolidating service contracts under a single RFQ that puts security and stability at the top of the list of compliance functions. I'm not saying they did this, only that it's a good idea.
20 trillion Beyonce CD's doesn't really mean anything other than the what people buy is shit, more shit, deeper darker shit piled up to the stars.
Sue file sharing my ass, bitch. Modify this sucka to hurl an endless stream of billions of big frames at the RIAA.
did he figure that one out?
And verily it was some good shit.
ok laugh it up and mod me down. Pretty soon /. will be illegal.
This is a good example of the political reality that if you have a big enough lobbyist you can actually get a branch of government creates to benefit you and only you.
Usually in George Bush's America if you have an industry that needs some money you go invade a country and hire that country to administer the post hillarity era. But in the case of movies and music, we can't actually force people to listen or watch it at gunpoint, yet. So we have to create a special branch of the Federal government, like the FCC for example which is specifically dedicated to insuring that you use the approved products and only the approved products and services.
That there is a one in a million chance that the battery may burst into flames? I suppose that's a good use of everyone's attention span.....
I mean if people are going to jail for what's on their own PC then why the fuck can't we regulate the carriers?
Why the fuck not?
First off, it's NOT a distance thing. The US probably has an order of magnitude MORE fiber bandwidth potential than it can use right now. Since the 1980's carriers have been laying fiber to ensure that it's a once a century kind of investment. And fiber doesn't care about distance, not from any meaningful economic perspective.
One could easily send broadband to everyone in West Gopher-stan if one wanted to.
But carriers don't really want to do that because they can make too much money from crappy analog services. This is the same reason why WIRELESS 3G services are decades away from common use in the US. Carriers simply make too much money now with the crappy service they offer. This is why spectrun auctions were so expensive: carriers bought up all the available spectrum they could, not to use it, but to put it on a shelf so that no one could use it.
Next, it's a regulatory thing. At 20% the numbers don't easily add up for the government to bother regulating it. But when that number soon reaches whatever tipping point they have in mind not only will broadband be regulated it will be taxed. As soon as it becomes economically nonviable for customers to sqwap out is when utilities become taxed. The government expresses this in terms of a stable market which no longer needs to promote competition.
So in the long run service in the US will actually get worse not better. As more people use it, it will actually become more degraded and more expensive once you bundle in the end user taxation.
Sleep tight, Georpge Bush's America will make sure the invisible free hand of commerce will FIST you.
It's funny really that /.rs have found it necessary to mod the above post at least 3 different times.
I think that the spyware industry is one of the most corrupt in the software biz right now.
Many of the tools in that review don't have uninstall procs and some that do like Aluria have 'problems' with the install.log that prohibit easy uninstallation.
Some spyware tools like Adware (not Adaware) are flat out spyware themselves.
And the remainder for the most part, are scanners that tell you something and then want you to spend $19.95 to remove them.
That's only slightly more ethical than Mafia protection scams.
Best case scenario any tool you use is missing about half of the spyware that may or maynot be on your machine. Your best bet is to use a few different tools like S+D and Adaware and to use real time blockers wherever possible.
Note: I have an XP Home machine at home where S+D teatimer has memory hole and it can't be run w/o consuming all the RAM.
I mean this IS George Bush's Amurrica and Creationism is being taught now INSTEAD of science.....All I'm sayin.
The tool of the future will be some child chained to her desk churning out shitty code for 80 cents a day.
Get over yourselves, slackers.
I have an ex wife and boat payments. Now get cracking you code crunching monkeys or I'll find some Cambodians who will.
Heads down, write code, shut the fuck up. This is your last warning.
You sir are a tool. Enjoy your tooldom.
This is George Bush's planet earth. We'll follow your pissant pansy treaties when it damn well suits us and if you don't like it you can just get missile up your traitor ass.
God said we can do pretty much what we want and you better get used to it, peon.
Those suckaz flip over for no good reason.
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Here in the Research Triangle Park, Raleigh Durham Cary area it doesn't look grim but that's probably because we're pretty used to grim at this point. Since 1999-2000 employment fell to a 30 year low in the tech, chip, life sciences, electronics, pharma industries. Since then it's been flat and the supply of people to fill the occasional need is still being met by 'consultants' and the underemployed.
We see no upswings on the horizon and employment will continue to hold constant with periodic slight declines as specific business functions are sent to steamy jungles and third world nations where they eat dogs or are eaten by tigers.
The areas that are hot now are in the audit & compliance fields.
So here's the stat that just required the schoolbook publisher to make changes in their books so that now marriage is strictly a lifelong relationship between a man and a woman (BTW Texas has one of the highest divorce rates in the country) and another change to call evolution an unproven theory.
Now we have soccermoms micromanaging their own children's every movement with an eye in the sky.
Welcome to George Bush's America.
Patrick you have an insidious infectious disease that defies clear diagnosis and is drug resistant. Clearly you or your proxy should be contacting the CDC and/or a major facility that has expertise with infectious diseases. The main problem you have is that no one has really done an adequate clinical diagnosis.
I suppose if someone has a 460TB data warehouse, that's something to crow about but even at that I've got to image there's some TLA (three letter agency) out there with a manageable data warehouse that holds 1 petabyte.
9 years for spam in VIRGINIA the birthplace of the Tax FREE Televangelical Money Church? The home of the 700 Club and Jerry Falwell? The prosecutor should rot in fucking hell forever.
My company has 300,000 employees each of whom has about 40GB on their desktops. That's 12,000,000 GB which is 12,000 TB most of which is junk.