In George Bush's America I imagine that the number #1 Christmas gift for most of us will be almost adequate food to eat and Good Christian Cheer. The wealthy, "MY Base - haw haw" will as always, get slaves.
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Museum of the Future
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Because unless the Baby Jayzus said so, we're not gonna larn us that.
Sorry 'leets but the museum of the future will be a museum to the technologies we already have but were outlawed in The Great Quickening of '06.
Why do you automatically assume that any selfbranded group that tosses in every anarchist protest you've ever heard of is righteous?
No body is saying that the govt shouldn't divulge why they did this, but it's childish to rabidly believe that a group that wants to see itself on the ramparts shoulder to should with the PLO and Hezbollah is innocent of everything.
This is why the so called antiglobalist movement will fail - it's followers are utterly indiscriminate in which allies and friends it makes.
Did you know for example that many left leaning progressive student groups in the 1960's are outright funded by the CIA? You really can't assume that just because the cute chick you want to bang has white girl dreads and a nosering that everyone's motives and actions reflect the same kind of harmless selfrighteous armchair marxism you want to spout.
Why would the Gubmint really care all that much about Indymedia unless it was a big deal.
For all the chomskyist-libertarians here screaming about the repression of YOUR rights, there is an equal number of people deluded into believing that Indymedia or their Blog is something so momentous that the government felt the need to randomly quash it.
That's kind of the same worldview that alien abductees have, that they themselves are so significant that beings from the Horehead Nebula would hump it all the way over here to examine them.
Sorry but no, more than likely something Indymedia did, or some funding source attached to them did something to raise some red flags. Indymedia PRIDES itself on being subversive and doing tangential things with groups that are on the fringes to begin with. Why would this be any different? It probably is not different.
Seriously what's the strike price and when can you take it? Usually they are least a year out, so in one year if Google is XXXXXX.....? what's the deal?
Grants are GIFTS of stock outright. Options are the odds that the stock will sell at a lower price than the strike price when you exercise them.
EVERY single person I know is underwater on their options. Every Single One.
Options are essentially worthless in this market for the forseeable future. They were a useful tool to attract people by offering them a great deal of other peoples's money in the future.
And start to do what is practically useful to support your lifestyle. If you are a code crunching monkey or a sysadmin you are either out of work or will soon be out of work or severely overworked. That is an inescable fact just as if this was 1903 and you were the world's best wagon wheel maker. Don't forget that the word
Saboteur
comes from the weaving EXPERT craftsmen who threw their shoes (Sabot) into the Jaquard powerlooms to break them because automation put them out of work. These were the best in their field.
And just like them it really doesn't matter how impressive your skills are if they are impractical or inefficient or not in any meaningful economic demand.
What the un/underemployed need to do is figure out what new set of tasks they can do or learn to do that will allow them to live more or less the way they are accustomed. Imagine if instead of an IT jock you were a farmer or a UAW line worker. Would you wander around looking for the tiny handful of farming jobs or auto assembly line jobs that were still around?
Today in IT there are a few categories that are hiring. This includes security, privacy, IT audit, business controls and corporate compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA. These are the jobs that still need sharp people in an advisory role frequently in an interpersonal setting. And any job that requires a physical presence will never be outsourced.
I remember I bought a PC for my kid. It had loads of rebates attached but when I got all the paperwork home I found they neglected to give me one rebate form. Went back to store and got told a line of shit how the monintor with the rebate was sold out and they replaced it with another that had no rebate. They didn't mention this at the time of the sale or ask anything. Look me dead in the eye like I'm going to stand there and take.
So I told them here is how you fix this. You get a manager out here with check writing authority and write me a check for the rebate amount. No store credit no gift card, a check. If you can't do that find someone who can and if that's not possible then give me a phone book, I need to call the State Attorney General's Office, and the State Bureau of Investigation, Fraud Division, thanks.
They write a check, send me on my way and if they give me the bird massively hard on my way out, I couldn't fucking care less.
Ok so they hate me. Big fucking deal what are they going to do - refuse to sell me something? Act rude? Be hard to track down a sales rep? Not take my money? Do I care how they feel about me, the person?
The America's Pimp Prize was announced today. To win the spaceship
Must be made out of a 84 Cutlass or equally shitty car Must have new paint; extra points for 70's themed Rims - less than 20s need not apply Flat screen TVs in the sun visors Must be able to slow ride past the ISS Must have a fountain, espresso machine, drum machine, kareoke machine or other equally useless crap installed to maximize blingness Must be underpowered but fart pipes should more than make up for it
The article blames a 'quality problem' acknowledged by music company executives....
You fucking worthless pieces of shit I hope your children roast in hell and you get bone fucking cancer.
You made the 'quality' you bitches. You created the no talent pole dancer 3 note diva Beonce bitch. You created 500 boy bands. You created the same recycled crap that is you got from having the Devil skull fuck you and then shit in the brain hole. You created yet another blongbling sideways hat muthsfuckah and his peeps rollin up. You created this radioactive wasteland of shit and glory.
We want you to fucking choke to death on your 'quality'. That's why your sales are down. Because you, and everyone like you sucks.
But like any other crackhead no account worthless cocksucking Ho you blame anyone but you. You blame the internet, China, your own customers, the government, the courts---- anyone but you you.
But you suck. And your friends and loved ones know you suck. You are shit and everyone hopes you die slowly.
Fair enough but we have smart enough tools and Avast is but one example where it compiles a database of correct objects in case something has to be restored to a prior state. This way the tool should be able to find the infection, delete it or quarantine it, restore or fix the infected object from the prior state database and continue. If for whatever reason the object can't be repaired or restored then it should be deleted all the same. If that means an app doesn't work then that is the price you have to pay. Either that or the entire notion that virus infections are the greatest horror in the history of the world is overblown and we should simply get used to being infected to some degree.
Here's what I mean. I have a bunch of machines at home that my kids use. They are automated up the wazoo to the extent that is possible. Real time scanners for viruses, spyware, popup blocking, firewalls, cookie scrubbers, the works. And they all work more or less to the extent they're supposed to but they require the person in the chair to take action when they shouldn't.
Why for example is it a GOOD idea for AVAST's real time scanner to tell me it found a virus and then not doing anything about it? It knows it's there, kill the damn thing. Don't give me a message popup from the system tray telling me you found it. My kids ignore it and I for one don't really want to know. And don't bother writing a log either - just email it to me once a month or something.
So the problem is that while we have these neato tools, for some odd reason the authors feel required to cripple their own tools so that we KNOW what they are doing? How stupid is that?
Re:Here is a good rule of thumb: ignore them 100%
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Nonsense. Before there were computers there were credit card companies and banks. If they called you up asking you to verify information they're supposed to have you'd be an idiot to give them that info.
There is little new under the sun. Just because we give it an incredibly lame 1337 name; "PHishing" doesn't mean it's not a hundred year old con game.
Here is a good rule of thumb: ignore them 100%
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Honestly how stupid are you people to fall for any of this. Absolutely do not respond to any request from anyone to provide any information for any reason whatsoever. Not even from someone who purports to be from the government. If anyone needs to get in touch with me that badly they can send a letter registered mail or have their attorney contact me.
I hope they blow it on hookers and dope
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Cuz that's the only way these nerds will ever have fun.
You DO understand that if a company's largest customer can't influence them then no one can, don't you? This is a real issue not some pseudotheoretical Libertarian wetdream.
I really don't understand that if the government spends billions of dollars a year on IT products and billions more in house fixing the holes why they don't simply create a master RFP for Microsoft clearly articulating what the security requirements are and that if they are not met they lose pieces of the bid until it is. I mean if the DoD doesn't have the clout to bash these lazy slackers in Redmond upside the head then we're all wasting our time worrying about security.
MS annnounced yesterday that they are seriously considering ending FREE security patches in order,
now listen real carefully -
NOT to provide better or worse security, but to wield an effective blunt object against counterfeiters.
Microsoft views YOUR security as nothing more than a convenient tool to blackmail the entire known world into paying for MS's product. It doesn't matter that you or I never actually stole any of their product - we WILL be threatened with cyber terrorism for the criminalities of other people until WE ALL cough up more money to pay.
And at the end of the day MS makes zero warranty that patches that cost real money will be any better than the FREE updates we already get.
Seriously, in other countries and in other industries this why industries get nationalized by an irate fed up underserviced populace.
Luckily the State cops TOLD you something vauable about the power output of said plant so just in case they were right about you you could have used that intel to wreak havoc in the US.
And that boys and girls is in a nutshel what the fuck is wrong with the PATRIOT act. It's an excuse for penis size challenged law enforcement shitheads to brag to you about how 'in the fucking loop they are' and how important they appear to themselves.
The thing about a police state is not so much the laws, it's the fact that everyone considers themselves YOUR cop. And cops while they do an important and needed service to the community is something we don't need too much of. Think of the people you went to high school with who became cops. Do you want them micromanaging your life?
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Squeeze em till they bleed.....
In George Bush's America I imagine that the number #1 Christmas gift for most of us will be almost adequate food to eat and Good Christian Cheer. The wealthy, "MY Base - haw haw" will as always, get slaves.
Because unless the Baby Jayzus said so, we're not gonna larn us that.
Sorry 'leets but the museum of the future will be a museum to the technologies we already have but were outlawed in The Great Quickening of '06.
Could it be Firefox is more secure than IE because millions of people haven't tried to pwned it yet?
So I guess, yeah, it's not really a threat to IE in terms of risk vs. market share.
Why do you automatically assume that any selfbranded group that tosses in every anarchist protest you've ever heard of is righteous?
No body is saying that the govt shouldn't divulge why they did this, but it's childish to rabidly believe that a group that wants to see itself on the ramparts shoulder to should with the PLO and Hezbollah is innocent of everything.
This is why the so called antiglobalist movement will fail - it's followers are utterly indiscriminate in which allies and friends it makes.
Did you know for example that many left leaning progressive student groups in the 1960's are outright funded by the CIA? You really can't assume that just because the cute chick you want to bang has white girl dreads and a nosering that everyone's motives and actions reflect the same kind of harmless selfrighteous armchair marxism you want to spout.
Why would the Gubmint really care all that much about Indymedia unless it was a big deal.
For all the chomskyist-libertarians here screaming about the repression of YOUR rights, there is an equal number of people deluded into believing that Indymedia or their Blog is something so momentous that the government felt the need to randomly quash it.
That's kind of the same worldview that alien abductees have, that they themselves are so significant that beings from the Horehead Nebula would hump it all the way over here to examine them.
Sorry but no, more than likely something Indymedia did, or some funding source attached to them did something to raise some red flags. Indymedia PRIDES itself on being subversive and doing tangential things with groups that are on the fringes to begin with. Why would this be any different? It probably is not different.
Seriously what's the strike price and when can you take it? Usually they are least a year out, so in one year if Google is XXXXXX.....? what's the deal?
Options ARE NOT, ARE NOT grants.
Grants are GIFTS of stock outright. Options are the odds that the stock will sell at a lower price than the strike price when you exercise them.
EVERY single person I know is underwater on their options. Every Single One.
Options are essentially worthless in this market for the forseeable future. They were a useful tool to attract people by offering them a great deal of other peoples's money in the future.
And start to do what is practically useful to support your lifestyle. If you are a code crunching monkey or a sysadmin you are either out of work or will soon be out of work or severely overworked. That is an inescable fact just as if this was 1903 and you were the world's best wagon wheel maker. Don't forget that the word
Saboteur
comes from the weaving EXPERT craftsmen who threw their shoes (Sabot) into the Jaquard powerlooms to break them because automation put them out of work. These were the best in their field.
And just like them it really doesn't matter how impressive your skills are if they are impractical or inefficient or not in any meaningful economic demand.
What the un/underemployed need to do is figure out what new set of tasks they can do or learn to do that will allow them to live more or less the way they are accustomed. Imagine if instead of an IT jock you were a farmer or a UAW line worker. Would you wander around looking for the tiny handful of farming jobs or auto assembly line jobs that were still around?
Today in IT there are a few categories that are hiring. This includes security, privacy, IT audit, business controls and corporate compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA. These are the jobs that still need sharp people in an advisory role frequently in an interpersonal setting. And any job that requires a physical presence will never be outsourced.
That will be their new name.
I remember I bought a PC for my kid. It had loads of rebates attached but when I got all the paperwork home I found they neglected to give me one rebate form. Went back to store and got told a line of shit how the monintor with the rebate was sold out and they replaced it with another that had no rebate. They didn't mention this at the time of the sale or ask anything. Look me dead in the eye like I'm going to stand there and take.
So I told them here is how you fix this. You get a manager out here with check writing authority and write me a check for the rebate amount. No store credit no gift card, a check. If you can't do that find someone who can and if that's not possible then give me a phone book, I need to call the State Attorney General's Office, and the State Bureau of Investigation, Fraud Division, thanks.
They write a check, send me on my way and if they give me the bird massively hard on my way out, I couldn't fucking care less.
Ok so they hate me. Big fucking deal what are they going to do - refuse to sell me something? Act rude? Be hard to track down a sales rep? Not take my money? Do I care how they feel about me, the person?
The America's Pimp Prize was announced today. To win the spaceship
Must be made out of a 84 Cutlass or equally shitty car
Must have new paint; extra points for 70's themed
Rims - less than 20s need not apply
Flat screen TVs in the sun visors
Must be able to slow ride past the ISS
Must have a fountain, espresso machine, drum machine, kareoke machine or other equally useless crap installed to maximize blingness
Must be underpowered but fart pipes should more than make up for it
The article blames a 'quality problem' acknowledged by music company executives....
You fucking worthless pieces of shit I hope your children roast in hell and you get bone fucking cancer.
You made the 'quality' you bitches. You created the no talent pole dancer 3 note diva Beonce bitch. You created 500 boy bands. You created the same recycled crap that is you got from having the Devil skull fuck you and then shit in the brain hole. You created yet another blongbling sideways hat muthsfuckah and his peeps rollin up. You created this radioactive wasteland of shit and glory.
We want you to fucking choke to death on your 'quality'. That's why your sales are down. Because you, and everyone like you sucks.
But like any other crackhead no account worthless cocksucking Ho you blame anyone but you. You blame the internet, China, your own customers, the government, the courts---- anyone but you you.
But you suck. And your friends and loved ones know you suck. You are shit and everyone hopes you die slowly.
Fair enough but we have smart enough tools and Avast is but one example where it compiles a database of correct objects in case something has to be restored to a prior state. This way the tool should be able to find the infection, delete it or quarantine it, restore or fix the infected object from the prior state database and continue. If for whatever reason the object can't be repaired or restored then it should be deleted all the same. If that means an app doesn't work then that is the price you have to pay. Either that or the entire notion that virus infections are the greatest horror in the history of the world is overblown and we should simply get used to being infected to some degree.
Here's what I mean. I have a bunch of machines at home that my kids use. They are automated up the wazoo to the extent that is possible. Real time scanners for viruses, spyware, popup blocking, firewalls, cookie scrubbers, the works. And they all work more or less to the extent they're supposed to but they require the person in the chair to take action when they shouldn't.
Why for example is it a GOOD idea for AVAST's real time scanner to tell me it found a virus and then not doing anything about it? It knows it's there, kill the damn thing. Don't give me a message popup from the system tray telling me you found it. My kids ignore it and I for one don't really want to know. And don't bother writing a log either - just email it to me once a month or something.
So the problem is that while we have these neato tools, for some odd reason the authors feel required to cripple their own tools so that we KNOW what they are doing? How stupid is that?
Nonsense. Before there were computers there were credit card companies and banks. If they called you up asking you to verify information they're supposed to have you'd be an idiot to give them that info.
There is little new under the sun. Just because we give it an incredibly lame 1337 name; "PHishing" doesn't mean it's not a hundred year old con game.
Honestly how stupid are you people to fall for any of this. Absolutely do not respond to any request from anyone to provide any information for any reason whatsoever. Not even from someone who purports to be from the government. If anyone needs to get in touch with me that badly they can send a letter registered mail or have their attorney contact me.
Cuz that's the only way these nerds will ever have fun.
Or did he just unzip his human mask and swallow a rat whole?
Dan - you deserve flaming radioactive bleeding out of every orifice death.
You DO understand that if a company's largest customer can't influence them then no one can, don't you? This is a real issue not some pseudotheoretical Libertarian wetdream.
I really don't understand that if the government spends billions of dollars a year on IT products and billions more in house fixing the holes why they don't simply create a master RFP for Microsoft clearly articulating what the security requirements are and that if they are not met they lose pieces of the bid until it is. I mean if the DoD doesn't have the clout to bash these lazy slackers in Redmond upside the head then we're all wasting our time worrying about security.
MS annnounced yesterday that they are seriously considering ending FREE security patches in order,
now listen real carefully -
NOT to provide better or worse security, but to wield an effective blunt object against counterfeiters.
Microsoft views YOUR security as nothing more than a convenient tool to blackmail the entire known world into paying for MS's product. It doesn't matter that you or I never actually stole any of their product - we WILL be threatened with cyber terrorism for the criminalities of other people until WE ALL cough up more money to pay.
And at the end of the day MS makes zero warranty that patches that cost real money will be any better than the FREE updates we already get.
Seriously, in other countries and in other industries this why industries get nationalized by an irate fed up underserviced populace.
IBM has over 400 people on the payroll who do nothing but look at other companies to sue for possible intellectual property infringement.
IBM fought the United States government for more than 20 fucking years to a stalemate in their antitrust case.
Taking on IBM is a little more crazy than taking on entire Chinese Army.
Luckily the State cops TOLD you something vauable about the power output of said plant so just in case they were right about you you could have used that intel to wreak havoc in the US.
And that boys and girls is in a nutshel what the fuck is wrong with the PATRIOT act. It's an excuse for penis size challenged law enforcement shitheads to brag to you about how 'in the fucking loop they are' and how important they appear to themselves.
The thing about a police state is not so much the laws, it's the fact that everyone considers themselves YOUR cop. And cops while they do an important and needed service to the community is something we don't need too much of. Think of the people you went to high school with who became cops. Do you want them micromanaging your life?
go ahead, spit on me, I just said it first.
Didn't read the article, don't care, think it's stupid.
Now why don't you ricers just stick to putting fart pipes on the family Escort.