I'm not too worried about their ethics changing, but I'll agree that a bad apple in the wrong position is a possibility. Of course, the bad apple will have to know how to make the software harvest the info, so we're probably safe from the average market droid.
You seem to be assuming that if they can collect this information, they will. Do you have the slightest evidence they are? Go back and check TFR; it's quite plain that they aren't, and that they have no plans to do so.
I'll bet that employee was arrested real quickly when AAA found out about it. When I worked for an ISP, one of our sales droids was caught using customer's credit cards to sign them up for services they'd never ordered. He was escourted to the exit by Security, right into the hands of the local police. Our data protection policy got tightened up quite a bit after that; once is enough!
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4.2.2.1 for preferred and 4.2.2.2 for alternate. These are DNS servers open to public use, run by Verizon, I believe.
No, as a matter of fact, they're owned by Level 3. I find it hard to believe, though, that such a big company doesn't know enough not to put multiple DNS servers on the same Class 3; one router goes down and they're all toast. It's happened to NanoLimp at least once. Of course, they're only for public use, not for their own customers, so they probably don't care very much.
The issue is with the go-betweens. I say - take 'em to court and smoke 'em.
For what? For having the ability to capture information going through their system? If that's enough to take them to court, then your ISP had better be in the dock right next to them because they have that ability too. There's nothing in the article that you obviously didn't read to say that anybody's actually doing this. FUD and nothing else and you, like most slashdotters, fell for it hook, line and sinker.
It's plain stupid to find the thing that has most greatly benefited you recently and then remove its source.
True, as far as it goes. However, we already have that and we haven't developed its full potential yet. Finding new ways to use all our battlefield connectivity will help in the short run, more obviously than long-term research will. For people who don't understand that there's nothing more practical than basic research it looks like the way to go. They can see the potential, and think they're getting more bang for their bucks so that's the way they go.
Isn't it true that (at least in theory) having better, more accurate weapons means that we kill *fewer* people?
Not only that, but isn't it a good idea to find ways to make sure that less and less of the people killed are ours? Developing better armor for our solders and their vehicles costs money and saves their lives. Better intel helps us hit the enemy concentrations before they can hit us and better targetting systems help us do more damage with less munitions. All of this saves American lives. Isn't that something worth doing?
Modding a post up again is easier than looking for a post that hasn't been modded yet. "Me too" mods don't take thought, and that's why they're so popular. Finding the unspotted nuggets of gold hidden in the dross is much more rewarding, but it does take work and that's why most moderators never even try. If they did, we'd have less posts modded to +5, and a lot more at +2 and +3.
Thank you for an excellent exposition of Basic Economics 101. I've noticed that most of the people trying to get rid of copyrights and patents have no understanding of the real world, and have probably never had to make a living on their own. I hope that a few of the people who've read your comment have learned something for it. As a metamoderator, I've marked your moderation of Insightful as Fair, but would have marked either the Overrated or Flamebait as unfair. Keep up the good work.
That's because Patrick Stewart is a decent actor and can actually play characters other than Captian Picard.
If you've ever seen his performance as Captain Ahab in a made for TV version of Moby Dick, you'd know that Paramount pissed away his talent for years on that crap show StarTrek That'sNoGood.
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Just make the html markup codes trigger words for your filters.
As a real programmer almost right out of high school, I can say that I went from being the boy genius to being "staff" once I graduated college. It's a pisser, but oh well.
It sounds like you've adjusted very well to the change in status. My congratulations; too many "boy genius" types never manage that. I hope that since you've become staff, you haven't infected anybody.
If you need to rant against your cow-orkers, there's The Scary Devil Monastary, where such behaviour is accepted (and usually appreciated).
Stop that! You know better! THWAP! The next thing you know, you'll be telling all the lusers here how to propitiate the daemon that guards the dreaded gates so that they can make themselves known. Monk, LART thyself!
And people who don't like Bush have no corner on the abuse market.
Agreed. However, I have known several Bush supporters that don't say much about it simply to avoid abuse. I've not yet met anybody who doesn't speak out against him because of how they'd be treated if they did.
Drain the grease, put in new stuff. You're good to go.:)
Not if the plastic from the computer is stuck all over the inside of the fryer and the heating elements. The fryer is probably so badly contaminated that it's cheaper to replace it instead of trying to get it cleaned.
Back in the old S-100 bus days, chips were in sockets, not soldered in. In time, they'd gradually work loose in their sockets until one of them wasn't making enough contact. Instead of checking them one-by-one to find the right one, you'd pick up the box about four inches and drop it several times to reseat them all.
Some of the earlier hard drives, like the Winchester, would occasionally suffer from stiction. That is, the head would get close enough to the platter that suction would hold it in place, but it hadn't crashed. The standard way to correct this was hitting the side of the drive. If it were right by the side of the box, you didn't even have to open the case to do it.
The server at work: I start with a huge sigh as I restore data followed by snarls at users bugging me asking every ten minutes when the server will be back up.
Tell them the server will be up and ready a lot sooner if somebody will get you some V1@gra for it. You never know, somebody might actually get you some.
I don't really know that that many people really hate Bush. I think that those that do are highly vocal, and they're very abusive to anybody that openly disagrees with them, so most people just don't express their opinion. The Bush-bashers think everybody agrees with them because it's easier not to argue, but they may not have anywhere near as much support as they think.
As long as they continue to lose like in the last election, it's not too bad.
And, as long as they fail to learn anything from the last two elections, that's what they'll do. From what I can see, they're not even asking themselves why they lost, or trying to learn from experience. The first thing they've got to do is ask themselves why so many people register Democrat but vote Republican, but as far as I can tell, their "leadership" doesn't even think it's a question that needs to be asked.
Tuition at a state university has nothing to do with state income tax or the lack thereof. Texas, like all states, subsidises their university as an investment in their own future. As an out-of-state student, you're not expected to stick around after you graduate, earning money and paying taxes; the state gets no return on their investment. Thus, Texas like (probably) all states charges you more to attend, even if it's not as much as a private institution would.
I agree there should be more things that people shouldn't weasle out of. But defaulting on student loans was a huge problem for a long while. It was an exagerated joke that hardly anyone paid them off a decade or two ago.
Sometimes, you get the loan, get the education or training, then can't get a job paying enough to clear it. I know, as it happened to me. However, the loan people were understanding about it and kept in touch about four times a year. Finally, I got a good job and started paying it off. It was a happy day when I received the notice that it was cleared, as I'd considered it a debt that needed paying, and I'd finally done it.
And it just occurred to me that "small size" is not really a big selling point.
If you're trying to get Linux and X running on a minimalist platform, small size suddenly becomes very important. Small size also implies fast, and if you're working on real-time graphics, that's a big plus. I don't think it's something I'm going to want, but freedom of choice is an important part of Linux. I wish them the best of luck.
Hm, what takes money: the idea or the creation of a product? Your competition has to deal with the same costs.
Developing the product to the point where you can take it to market. Once you've done that, competition can ride on your coattails, copying your final product without wasting time on various blind alleys as you did. That's what patents protect: your investment. If you think we'd be where we are today if we had to depend on people innovating for the love of it without any chance for profit, you're not living in the same world the rest of us are.
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I'm not too worried about their ethics changing, but I'll agree that a bad apple in the wrong position is a possibility. Of course, the bad apple will have to know how to make the software harvest the info, so we're probably safe from the average market droid.
You seem to be assuming that if they can collect this information, they will. Do you have the slightest evidence they are? Go back and check TFR; it's quite plain that they aren't, and that they have no plans to do so.
Everybody gets a monthly check? Where does the money come from for those checks? Higher taxes? If so, what good are the checks? If not, where?
I'll bet that employee was arrested real quickly when AAA found out about it. When I worked for an ISP, one of our sales droids was caught using customer's credit cards to sign them up for services they'd never ordered. He was escourted to the exit by Security, right into the hands of the local police. Our data protection policy got tightened up quite a bit after that; once is enough!
No, as a matter of fact, they're owned by Level 3. I find it hard to believe, though, that such a big company doesn't know enough not to put multiple DNS servers on the same Class 3; one router goes down and they're all toast. It's happened to NanoLimp at least once. Of course, they're only for public use, not for their own customers, so they probably don't care very much.
For what? For having the ability to capture information going through their system? If that's enough to take them to court, then your ISP had better be in the dock right next to them because they have that ability too. There's nothing in the article that you obviously didn't read to say that anybody's actually doing this. FUD and nothing else and you, like most slashdotters, fell for it hook, line and sinker.
1)Ahead of schedule.
2)Under budget.
3)Feature complete.
Why limit yourself to two when you can have all three?
True, as far as it goes. However, we already have that and we haven't developed its full potential yet. Finding new ways to use all our battlefield connectivity will help in the short run, more obviously than long-term research will. For people who don't understand that there's nothing more practical than basic research it looks like the way to go. They can see the potential, and think they're getting more bang for their bucks so that's the way they go.
Not only that, but isn't it a good idea to find ways to make sure that less and less of the people killed are ours? Developing better armor for our solders and their vehicles costs money and saves their lives. Better intel helps us hit the enemy concentrations before they can hit us and better targetting systems help us do more damage with less munitions. All of this saves American lives. Isn't that something worth doing?
Modding a post up again is easier than looking for a post that hasn't been modded yet. "Me too" mods don't take thought, and that's why they're so popular. Finding the unspotted nuggets of gold hidden in the dross is much more rewarding, but it does take work and that's why most moderators never even try. If they did, we'd have less posts modded to +5, and a lot more at +2 and +3.
Thank you for an excellent exposition of Basic Economics 101. I've noticed that most of the people trying to get rid of copyrights and patents have no understanding of the real world, and have probably never had to make a living on their own. I hope that a few of the people who've read your comment have learned something for it. As a metamoderator, I've marked your moderation of Insightful as Fair, but would have marked either the Overrated or Flamebait as unfair. Keep up the good work.
If you've ever seen his performance as Captain Ahab in a made for TV version of Moby Dick, you'd know that Paramount pissed away his talent for years on that crap show StarTrek That'sNoGood.
Just make the html markup codes trigger words for your filters.
It sounds like you've adjusted very well to the change in status. My congratulations; too many "boy genius" types never manage that. I hope that since you've become staff, you haven't infected anybody.
Stop that! You know better! THWAP! The next thing you know, you'll be telling all the lusers here how to propitiate the daemon that guards the dreaded gates so that they can make themselves known. Monk, LART thyself!
Agreed. However, I have known several Bush supporters that don't say much about it simply to avoid abuse. I've not yet met anybody who doesn't speak out against him because of how they'd be treated if they did.
Not if the plastic from the computer is stuck all over the inside of the fryer and the heating elements. The fryer is probably so badly contaminated that it's cheaper to replace it instead of trying to get it cleaned.
Some of the earlier hard drives, like the Winchester, would occasionally suffer from stiction. That is, the head would get close enough to the platter that suction would hold it in place, but it hadn't crashed. The standard way to correct this was hitting the side of the drive. If it were right by the side of the box, you didn't even have to open the case to do it.
Tell them the server will be up and ready a lot sooner if somebody will get you some V1@gra for it. You never know, somebody might actually get you some.
I don't really know that that many people really hate Bush. I think that those that do are highly vocal, and they're very abusive to anybody that openly disagrees with them, so most people just don't express their opinion. The Bush-bashers think everybody agrees with them because it's easier not to argue, but they may not have anywhere near as much support as they think.
And, as long as they fail to learn anything from the last two elections, that's what they'll do. From what I can see, they're not even asking themselves why they lost, or trying to learn from experience. The first thing they've got to do is ask themselves why so many people register Democrat but vote Republican, but as far as I can tell, their "leadership" doesn't even think it's a question that needs to be asked.
Tuition at a state university has nothing to do with state income tax or the lack thereof. Texas, like all states, subsidises their university as an investment in their own future. As an out-of-state student, you're not expected to stick around after you graduate, earning money and paying taxes; the state gets no return on their investment. Thus, Texas like (probably) all states charges you more to attend, even if it's not as much as a private institution would.
Sometimes, you get the loan, get the education or training, then can't get a job paying enough to clear it. I know, as it happened to me. However, the loan people were understanding about it and kept in touch about four times a year. Finally, I got a good job and started paying it off. It was a happy day when I received the notice that it was cleared, as I'd considered it a debt that needed paying, and I'd finally done it.
If you're trying to get Linux and X running on a minimalist platform, small size suddenly becomes very important. Small size also implies fast, and if you're working on real-time graphics, that's a big plus. I don't think it's something I'm going to want, but freedom of choice is an important part of Linux. I wish them the best of luck.
Developing the product to the point where you can take it to market. Once you've done that, competition can ride on your coattails, copying your final product without wasting time on various blind alleys as you did. That's what patents protect: your investment. If you think we'd be where we are today if we had to depend on people innovating for the love of it without any chance for profit, you're not living in the same world the rest of us are.