i think the trend in going after end users is obvious - they can't defend themselfs.
why take on a well funded mafia family or crime syndicate who can actually go to court and put up a fight, potentially costing you money when you can bully some poor slob who earns $40k pa and can bearly payt he rent, let alone fight a legal battle.
i can't ever see any car manufacturer doing this, because the first time one of these has an accident lawyers will jump all over it saying it was the auto piolts fault.
if it ever comes to the day where i legally require that piece of paper to claim i know how to program or fix a PC. THEN i shall do a degree or a cert. untill then, they can fuck off with their useless $2000 pieces of paper.
why woudl this be a dream? apple is a cunt of a company which sues people who post bad press about them. they are extremely litigous. everything they sell is in a chick, niche. they are also horribly over priced.
i can't stand this horseshit about "free" markets and ecnomies. i'll say this once more for people
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE MARKET!!!!
even if we abolished governments tommrow, you still have the problem of large multinational companies fixing prices because they are the biggest fish and no one can stand up to them. i can't see anything good coming out of a free market, there is no protection for consumers or employees. it's a fools dream that there can't be any regulating bodies beeing the game fair.
i think you are quite right in your train of thought, there is no point to being able to live an extra 30 years if the quality of life can't be extended. we have definately been acheiving this, eg. 30 is now labeled the new 20's
i was just about to say - it sounds more like intel in bed with media companies and comming up with a "feature" which happens to make p2p beyond the average user in forder to "protect" them from worms.
i won't be buying anything where i have to especially configure to just to make more then 10 connections from it.
i'd love to work with mainframes purely for the geek factor, however, what future is there in it? your time at university is very limited, and all they can really do is teach you computing fundamentals.
another problem, is access to mainframes. it's quite difficult to learn about something you have no access to, theory is all well and good but it's meaningless in the real world.
if employers don't want to teach you then too bad. they can't have it all.
yes, i've worked in 2 work places completely dominated by female managers, and by far i found them to be bigger dicks then men.
women have a trait men tend to lack - cattyness.
also for the poster - my advice is ot keep this baboon, he is gold. you can talk complete bullshit to him and he will eat it up, not knowing better. if you got someone who had a clue, then you won't be able to bullshit to him saying you have to reroute the encryption and hack the mainframe, and that it requires they buy you a new pc for home.
your an arrogant idiot. and your attitude is typical of what i experienced in the army (yes thats right).
not everyone who reads and posts here is 15 living in mums basment playing rpg's. I know you are trained to think civies are inferior scum, but try to think past that if you can.
any employer which is backward thinking enough to consider asking for advice from the wider community a bad thing, well i sure wouldn't care to work for them. next thing you will be suggesting posting to a mailing list should get you fired.
hah exactly. look at the people who push outsourcing and captialism - they are all rich, and intent on getting richer at anyones expense.
having said that, while capitalism isn't perfect it's the best system we have.
your logic is fundamentally flawed, becuase there is no such thing as a secret. all they are doing is forcing the rest of the world to reinvent their work. your not clever, your not orginal and other people are perfectly capable of discovering the same flaws the NSA does.
your example of the atomic bomb proves my point completely - how many countries have developed their own nukes?? 10 - 20? you can find plans for it on the bloody internet.
oh an nice try at flaming my country, but waving that little flag at me doesn't work.
it's not that cut and dry. do you think saddam was an angel? he murdered million of kurds using nerve gas.
you simply can NOT point the finger at anyone country, we are all guilty of something. the difference is we won't all blow up innocent people.
fyi though i think the camera's won't do jack shit. just one more thing slipped in under the "war on terror" bandwagon.
1.release a product for "free"
2.wait fro tons of people to use it
3.find some bullshit loophole to charge them money
4.profit!
so glad i don't use linux
when i played army as a young kid and would pretend shoot all my friends - OH WAIT ITS THE SAME THING! morons that thing video games change anything need to be the victim of some violent crime of their own.
thats because theo as a personality disorder. saying "oh no we can't include closed binaries they are evil" is stupid. people/companies have the right to release their software under any license they want to, and it's insane to think people will choose a lesser product because it has a closed license, they will choose it because it has teh features and price they want.
freebsd including those closed drivers doesn't make it any less free, it just means you don't have to go fishing for it when you purchase that device.
and YES i am aware of all the arguments under the sun "we must pressure hardware vendors with our spending $" blah blah. at the end of the day bsd is grateful just to have damn drivers for it.
yes good old - "we have big secrets and won't share because no one could be as clever as us" horse shit. while the usa sits on it's sandpile like a spoilt brat, the rest of the world ill pass them by
you obviously don't live in australia do you. because if you did you'd be aware of the constant double standards between telstra's retail and what they deal out to everyone else.
at one stage telstra were retailing ADSL for cheaper then they would sell the port to other isp's.
how is that good for anyone?
this was a move for the people, benifiting the community. fuck telstra and their profit grabs, they OWE the australian people this, we paid for all their inferstructure through all those years of tax dollars.
and suck shit to Sol Trujillo, it wiped 2billion off your company. he was opposed to it (of course) , because he has no intrest in serving the australian people.
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i think the trend in going after end users is obvious - they can't defend themselfs. why take on a well funded mafia family or crime syndicate who can actually go to court and put up a fight, potentially costing you money when you can bully some poor slob who earns $40k pa and can bearly payt he rent, let alone fight a legal battle.
i can't ever see any car manufacturer doing this, because the first time one of these has an accident lawyers will jump all over it saying it was the auto piolts fault.
it only works on pathforms macromedia allows it to work on, so it doesnt make the grade of cross browser. but yes, the dark side is very seductive.
the answer to these macromedia dickheads is simple - don't use them. i've never had any NEED for flash, ever. no one does.
if it ever comes to the day where i legally require that piece of paper to claim i know how to program or fix a PC. THEN i shall do a degree or a cert. untill then, they can fuck off with their useless $2000 pieces of paper.
is totally ignore MS and leave them out in the cold.
only the ice cap isn't floating, so you totally off.
why woudl this be a dream? apple is a cunt of a company which sues people who post bad press about them. they are extremely litigous. everything they sell is in a chick, niche. they are also horribly over priced.
i can't stand this horseshit about "free" markets and ecnomies. i'll say this once more for people THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE MARKET!!!! even if we abolished governments tommrow, you still have the problem of large multinational companies fixing prices because they are the biggest fish and no one can stand up to them. i can't see anything good coming out of a free market, there is no protection for consumers or employees. it's a fools dream that there can't be any regulating bodies beeing the game fair.
i think you are quite right in your train of thought, there is no point to being able to live an extra 30 years if the quality of life can't be extended. we have definately been acheiving this, eg. 30 is now labeled the new 20's
maybe L Ron Hubbard was right all along! of course you would have to buy the "special" vitamins which just happen to cost $1000 a hit.
i was just about to say - it sounds more like intel in bed with media companies and comming up with a "feature" which happens to make p2p beyond the average user in forder to "protect" them from worms. i won't be buying anything where i have to especially configure to just to make more then 10 connections from it.
i'd love to work with mainframes purely for the geek factor, however, what future is there in it? your time at university is very limited, and all they can really do is teach you computing fundamentals. another problem, is access to mainframes. it's quite difficult to learn about something you have no access to, theory is all well and good but it's meaningless in the real world. if employers don't want to teach you then too bad. they can't have it all.
yes, i've worked in 2 work places completely dominated by female managers, and by far i found them to be bigger dicks then men. women have a trait men tend to lack - cattyness. also for the poster - my advice is ot keep this baboon, he is gold. you can talk complete bullshit to him and he will eat it up, not knowing better. if you got someone who had a clue, then you won't be able to bullshit to him saying you have to reroute the encryption and hack the mainframe, and that it requires they buy you a new pc for home.
your an arrogant idiot. and your attitude is typical of what i experienced in the army (yes thats right). not everyone who reads and posts here is 15 living in mums basment playing rpg's. I know you are trained to think civies are inferior scum, but try to think past that if you can.
any employer which is backward thinking enough to consider asking for advice from the wider community a bad thing, well i sure wouldn't care to work for them. next thing you will be suggesting posting to a mailing list should get you fired.
hah exactly. look at the people who push outsourcing and captialism - they are all rich, and intent on getting richer at anyones expense. having said that, while capitalism isn't perfect it's the best system we have.
your logic is fundamentally flawed, becuase there is no such thing as a secret. all they are doing is forcing the rest of the world to reinvent their work. your not clever, your not orginal and other people are perfectly capable of discovering the same flaws the NSA does. your example of the atomic bomb proves my point completely - how many countries have developed their own nukes?? 10 - 20? you can find plans for it on the bloody internet. oh an nice try at flaming my country, but waving that little flag at me doesn't work.
it's not that cut and dry. do you think saddam was an angel? he murdered million of kurds using nerve gas. you simply can NOT point the finger at anyone country, we are all guilty of something. the difference is we won't all blow up innocent people. fyi though i think the camera's won't do jack shit. just one more thing slipped in under the "war on terror" bandwagon.
1.release a product for "free" 2.wait fro tons of people to use it 3.find some bullshit loophole to charge them money 4.profit! so glad i don't use linux
when i played army as a young kid and would pretend shoot all my friends - OH WAIT ITS THE SAME THING! morons that thing video games change anything need to be the victim of some violent crime of their own.
thats because theo as a personality disorder. saying "oh no we can't include closed binaries they are evil" is stupid. people/companies have the right to release their software under any license they want to, and it's insane to think people will choose a lesser product because it has a closed license, they will choose it because it has teh features and price they want. freebsd including those closed drivers doesn't make it any less free, it just means you don't have to go fishing for it when you purchase that device. and YES i am aware of all the arguments under the sun "we must pressure hardware vendors with our spending $" blah blah. at the end of the day bsd is grateful just to have damn drivers for it.
they are talkin about it being used in embedded wireless devices, not the desktop you fucking moron.
yes good old - "we have big secrets and won't share because no one could be as clever as us" horse shit. while the usa sits on it's sandpile like a spoilt brat, the rest of the world ill pass them by
you obviously don't live in australia do you. because if you did you'd be aware of the constant double standards between telstra's retail and what they deal out to everyone else. at one stage telstra were retailing ADSL for cheaper then they would sell the port to other isp's. how is that good for anyone? this was a move for the people, benifiting the community. fuck telstra and their profit grabs, they OWE the australian people this, we paid for all their inferstructure through all those years of tax dollars. and suck shit to Sol Trujillo, it wiped 2billion off your company. he was opposed to it (of course) , because he has no intrest in serving the australian people.