Yeah right, "demandind indemnification against loss"...Appears to remind me of such effectiveness if one were to try and implmenent this.
About as effective as accepting an EULA which is inconvienently placed inside its shrinkwrap box. (Thank goodness, that is now illegal, or should be in most states).
When Nicolas Tesla claimed that electricity can be had by poking a rod into the ground "anywhere" in the world, he was right. Thomas Edison pooh-poohed the idea as unworkable. Nevertheless, Westinghouse wasted their corporate dollars on Nicolas's invention rights to no avail.
But never did Nicolas (nor Thomas) realized that massive Tesla generators would caused repoduction disruption amongst biological entities as well as actual constipation (and who knows what other side effects, because it was never put into mass production, thank God!)
It goes to show that BPL is just another one of mankind's technological follies in which I predict will only go to further reinforce Stockholm's electromagnetic radiation field just as potentially biologically harmful as the infamouse Telsa Coils.
At 6 years of age, I received a toaster (with a cord cut off) and I rabidly rip it apart down to the heating elements of which I made slinky toys out of them. Many more appliances were "gifted" to me for adventurous disassembly efforts with glee.
At 8, I received my very first ATM card, I learned to deposit an empty envelope of $1000 and managed to withdraw $100 max. on the same hour! Bank later called and said "we made an error, pay it back."
At 10, Captain Crunch cereal featured a toy whistle. I learned that free phone calls can be made at payphones.
At 11, blue box was made using those Japanese 250-in-1 electronic kit box. Radio Shack becomes my best friend.
At 12, TRS-80 Model I was purchased. I started work as a BASIC programmer for designing a paypoint station in accepting Visa/Mastercard at gas pumps using 8' drive TRS-80 Model II with a sporting 640KB memory... Hooha! Mastered 300 baud communication using 250-in-1 electronic kit.
At 13, Exposed to PET computer, Commadore and a 6502 microprocessor. Mastered assembly language. Actually memorized the entire instruction matrix.
At 14, designed a payroll, general ledger, account receivable program on HP-1000 with those huge disk pack array.
At 16, tweaked and enhanced several BBS software. Ran a BBS station.
At 18, left for college with my various computers. Wired dorm room for wireless alarm (using Tandy car alarm transmitter and a pager, tied to serial port of computers).
At 19, left to work for an undisclosed company who requires mastery of 236 network protocols and other unintended usages. Been there ever since.
Despite the brahuhahas from MS marketing about "Trusted Security" initiatives, the viruses are proliferating out of control and in many cases slipping beyond the reach of many anti-virus detectors found today.
I find it incredulous that insufficient efforts were made to for the Microsoft Dutch Boy's skinny fingers flailing in vain to stopping this rising tide against the proverbial leaking dike of viruses.
The open-source wheel is well-oiled, comes complete with all construction materials needed to reconstruct the wheels. May be missing a spoke, but its included with the wheel just in case. All one has to do is add labor to use the wheel.
The squeeky MS wheel apparently has plenty of grease slathered laviously by its sales munions. But the MS wheel has an occasional spokes missing of which would collapse when excessive tare weight is applied to its axle. It does not come with a comnplete set of spare spokes, not even nary a tire-patch.
Bureaucrats must be really porked up to the rind to choose this business model over the other.
Or, for a careless end-user, is that the devil sold his/her soul and make a killing?
Any which way you dice or slice it, it boils down to the "trial" run to overcome the buyer's skepticisms. Be that it may, a trial balloon, trial-by-fire, trial-by-jury,... whatever.
In the case of Internet-based products, it takes a true network engineer to understand the fine subtleties between UDP throughput and TCP throughput (as well as any other application/presentation/session layered throughput combinations) and to procure an actual Internet traffic composition when placing the DUT (device under test) into operational mode (and under duress, no puns intended).
For an average I&T guy, the best way to evaluate an Internet product is to ask for a 30-day trial period and dedicate a portion of your corporate network. I'd say, sic it to the development group (hey, I'm one of them too!) as they should be focusing on their coding/design effort, not reading Slashdot:-P
When such a DUT chokes under nominal traffic scenario despite publicized (and ominously rosy) one-sided benchmark, it usually a strong indicator that the DUT is a poor design and "SCREAMS" stay away.
30-day trial is your best friend. But the enemy of your enemy (the Devil's advocate) is also your friend.
By the mere statement of "Sun's main strength is that many commercial users", they have effected a monopolistic lock-in, much like Microsoft does, open-source or not.
Again, it boils down to the sheer number of quality contributor toward the Open-Source Solaris, of which I read into their license, as being more encompassing than GPL or Mozilla; in fact, it reeks of proprietary lock-in.
For the defense lawyer's mediocre effort of the spammer's defense, I proposed that all lawyers spend a fraction of their clients time whenever they lose.
Really cut down on those lawsuits, uh? Makes it harder to find a lawyer when you need one. (ambulance chaseeeee, anyone?)
But on the other hand, the crime rates would go up or would that means it would become a police state? (like in being judge-jury-enforcer-and-advocate?)
You decide.
Me? I think that defense lawyer, (cough cough), did a rotten job with a remark like "Greed cuts both ways."
This Brazos county is one of the rare reversal of which the college community is predominately Republican and the nearby residential areas are Democratic.
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We have about 240,000 doctors and 11,000 reported accidential deaths per years.
But 4.2 million guns and only 1,200 accidential deaths per year.
What is more dangerous? Doctor killed 100 times more often than guns do.
Mmmm...
O/S vulnerabilties are dime-a-dozen (more like dime-a-million). At the risk of flame-fest and my excellent karma, this means SE-Linux and BSD too!
All FBI has to do is contract out a couple of spywares, adwares and L0pht-like Heavy Industries.
No further need for Carnivore.
Seed: Your honor, I've been created by a corporate entity. Surely I have rights to grow on my own accord?
Honorable Judge: No you don't. Now die.
(Judge, Jury and Executioner?)
or worse, who's to say that an agent of Monsanto has been "inadvertly" planting seeds on innocent farmers' plot?
The court should have applied "caveat emptor" on this ruling but only AFTER applying the "Innocent until proven guilty."
IANAL.
Try this morse code translator.
Yeah right, "demandind indemnification against loss"...Appears to remind me of such effectiveness if one were to try and implmenent this.
About as effective as accepting an EULA which is inconvienently placed inside its shrinkwrap box. (Thank goodness, that is now illegal, or should be in most states).
When Nicolas Tesla claimed that electricity can be had by poking a rod into the ground "anywhere" in the world, he was right. Thomas Edison pooh-poohed the idea as unworkable. Nevertheless, Westinghouse wasted their corporate dollars on Nicolas's invention rights to no avail.
But never did Nicolas (nor Thomas) realized that massive Tesla generators would caused repoduction disruption amongst biological entities as well as actual constipation (and who knows what other side effects, because it was never put into mass production, thank God!)
It goes to show that BPL is just another one of mankind's technological follies in which I predict will only go to further reinforce Stockholm's electromagnetic radiation field just as potentially biologically harmful as the infamouse Telsa Coils.
It started with a toaster.
At 6 years of age, I received a toaster (with a cord cut off) and I rabidly rip it apart down to the heating elements of which I made slinky toys out of them. Many more appliances were "gifted" to me for adventurous disassembly efforts with glee.
At 8, I received my very first ATM card, I learned to deposit an empty envelope of $1000 and managed to withdraw $100 max. on the same hour! Bank later called and said "we made an error, pay it back."
At 10, Captain Crunch cereal featured a toy whistle. I learned that free phone calls can be made at payphones.
At 11, blue box was made using those Japanese 250-in-1 electronic kit box. Radio Shack becomes my best friend.
At 12, TRS-80 Model I was purchased. I started work as a BASIC programmer for designing a paypoint station in accepting Visa/Mastercard at gas pumps using 8' drive TRS-80 Model II with a sporting 640KB memory... Hooha! Mastered 300 baud communication using 250-in-1 electronic kit.
At 13, Exposed to PET computer, Commadore and a 6502 microprocessor. Mastered assembly language. Actually memorized the entire instruction matrix.
At 14, designed a payroll, general ledger, account receivable program on HP-1000 with those huge disk pack array.
At 16, tweaked and enhanced several BBS software. Ran a BBS station.
At 18, left for college with my various computers. Wired dorm room for wireless alarm (using Tandy car alarm transmitter and a pager, tied to serial port of computers).
At 19, left to work for an undisclosed company who requires mastery of 236 network protocols and other unintended usages. Been there ever since.
Despite the brahuhahas from MS marketing about "Trusted Security" initiatives, the viruses are proliferating out of control and in many cases slipping beyond the reach of many anti-virus detectors found today.
I find it incredulous that insufficient efforts were made to for the Microsoft Dutch Boy's skinny fingers flailing in vain to stopping this rising tide against the proverbial leaking dike of viruses.
Hello? Microsoft? WHat do you say to that?
Can someone get this for the entire airline industry, please?
I guess Micro$oft hasn't heard the expression... "Don't bite the hands that feeds you."
Users have no chance, really.
Thanks for admitting that *YOU* were the problem. You've demonstrated that you're not qualified to use a computer.
Yeah, and along with some 90,000,000+ other users. Microsoft, just fix the damn thing once and for all.
Time to declare an all-out Internet WAR!
Now, if someone can translate the "Arts of War" into for Internet uses, we'd win.
The open-source wheel is well-oiled, comes complete with all construction materials needed to reconstruct the wheels. May be missing a spoke, but its included with the wheel just in case. All one has to do is add labor to use the wheel.
The squeeky MS wheel apparently has plenty of grease slathered laviously by its sales munions. But the MS wheel has an occasional spokes missing of which would collapse when excessive tare weight is applied to its axle. It does not come with a comnplete set of spare spokes, not even nary a tire-patch.
Bureaucrats must be really porked up to the rind to choose this business model over the other.
Neither state will the victim be buried in.
They are ALIVE!
Or, for a careless end-user, is that the devil sold his/her soul and make a killing?
... whatever.
:-P
Any which way you dice or slice it, it boils down to the "trial" run to overcome the buyer's skepticisms. Be that it may, a trial balloon, trial-by-fire, trial-by-jury,
In the case of Internet-based products, it takes a true network engineer to understand the fine subtleties between UDP throughput and TCP throughput (as well as any other application/presentation/session layered throughput combinations) and to procure an actual Internet traffic composition when placing the DUT (device under test) into operational mode (and under duress, no puns intended).
For an average I&T guy, the best way to evaluate an Internet product is to ask for a 30-day trial period and dedicate a portion of your corporate network. I'd say, sic it to the development group (hey, I'm one of them too!) as they should be focusing on their coding/design effort, not reading Slashdot
When such a DUT chokes under nominal traffic scenario despite publicized (and ominously rosy) one-sided benchmark, it usually a strong indicator that the DUT is a poor design and "SCREAMS" stay away.
30-day trial is your best friend. But the enemy of your enemy (the Devil's advocate) is also your friend.
Unless the Fed allows a user-definable and user-personalizable identification number to go along with the PIV, it ain't going to fly.
Remember the one most important thing.... Biometric is NOT revokeable. Once stolen, forever stolen.
When you install the driver, significant information is sent back to the printer vendor's website.
What kind of information do you think is sent back to them?
Unless you can print this using Linux CUPS driver at 4800x4800 (which I've yet to see one).
By the mere statement of "Sun's main strength is that many commercial users", they have effected a monopolistic lock-in, much like Microsoft does, open-source or not.
Again, it boils down to the sheer number of quality contributor toward the Open-Source Solaris, of which I read into their license, as being more encompassing than GPL or Mozilla; in fact, it reeks of proprietary lock-in.
Never underestimate the power of the "word of mouth."
For the defense lawyer's mediocre effort of the spammer's defense, I proposed that all lawyers spend a fraction of their clients time whenever they lose.
Really cut down on those lawsuits, uh? Makes it harder to find a lawyer when you need one. (ambulance chaseeeee, anyone?)
But on the other hand, the crime rates would go up or would that means it would become a police state? (like in being judge-jury-enforcer-and-advocate?)
You decide.
Me? I think that defense lawyer, (cough cough), did a rotten job with a remark like "Greed cuts both ways."
If EVERY states split their electoral votes, it would be Bush by a landslide. (reference: See dozens of maps broken down by county/boroughs).
Be thankful of the electoral college for protecting the Democratic minority.
The DNC truly have their work cut out for 2008 if more states joined Nebraska and Maine in their electoral splitting effort.
This Brazos county is one of the rare reversal of which the college community is predominately Republican and the nearby residential areas are Democratic.
Enjoy!
Reminds me of the classic Salami Attack that some savvy programmer did to siphon a penny from every bank account into their account.
Tippingpoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) blocks all P2P regardless of port selection.