I look at it as a testament to human laziness. Since OOo can be given to the students to install at home for free, you shouldn't have a problem there. Pre-existing forms can be recreated. Not every MS document is supported by a later version. Things change. Sure, sometimes an OOo document looks like crap in MS Office, but sometimes and MS Office document looks like crap in OOo. Unlike businesses, schools are tax-funded and have a fiscal responsibility to choose cheaper alternatives if they will work - even if it takes some actual work in the beginning.
Grutter v. Bollinger, affirmative action programs- Justices cited an international treaty
Quick question, did the US sign that treaty? Or was is solely between other nations?
Also, as for "cited", that doesn't necessarily mean the same as "used as the basis for a decision". Lots of people outside of the US have meaningful and insightful views on subjects. I often "cite" or "quote" people when defending my own decisions because they have the same opinions that I have, but are far more eloquent.
Unless something dramatic happens, I don't see linux ever having anything close to universal wireless support, or support for the umpteen million other specialty hardwares in a laptop.
First, Windows doesn't support wireless. The wireless manufacturer supports Windows. If they treated MS users like they treat Linux users, Windows would have the exact same issues
95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.
Am I the only person reading this as "95% of IT groups don't deliver projects on time EVERY SINGLE time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive. (who is usually clueless about IT, doesn't want to hear about licenses, scalability, etc. and just wants it to do everything they can imagine at very low costs...oh, and never break down)?
Likewise, an anonymously registered and maintained TLD is useful for only a few things.
I use a company that masks my domain registration info. It puts their info instead for any WHOIS lookups. Then, when they receive e-mail that is meant for the listed e-mail address for my domain, they filter out all of the spam and forward an relevent mail to the e-mail address that I have on file with them. It ensures that I have a way to get e-mails regarding my domain without having to sift through all of the spam. I consider that a valid use for any personal domain.
The ones that I usually hear about are where they sit little kids down in front of a bunch of violent, fast-paced cartoons. Afterword, they give them a selection of toys - from baking sets to toy guns and see what they do. No F$&#ing surprise that the kids play with the "violent toys". They then do some very murky extrapolation and decide that the cartoons make the kids violent. Because we all know that using a toy for it's intended purpose (i.e. running around with a toy pistol yelling "bang") equates to a kid beating the $*@# out of his younger sibling. These studies tend to be fluff and full of holes. Now letting a 7 year-old play GTA might be a bad idea but if you're doing that, you're just a bad parent. Aside from abuse and gross negligence, the government should stay away from the "good parenting, bad parenting" issue. I'm sorry, but when I was 10 I knew what shooting someone did and how wrong it would be. It wasn't exactly a difficult concept. I also knew not to go around hitting people. Parents believe crap like this because it's easier to blame someone else for their kid's problems than it is to correct your own parenting mistakes. Legislators love them because it gives them good time in front of the cameras and they can put these "fell-good" bills on their next "vote for me" poster.
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Diss? WTH? I won't even go into the idiocy of the their argument, but "diss" (should be dis) from Hillary - or as she's known in her hometown Harlem - Da Big Hill C.
Next up, Strom Thurmond and Snoop rappin' on da' hill givin' mad love to tha late Notorious B.I.G. and Tu Pac. Yeah. The Real World D.C. will return after these messages from Take Two Interactive
: Buy Grand Thef...
Diss? WTH? I won't even go into the idiocy of the their argument, but "diss" (should be dis) from Hillary - or as she's known in her hometown Harlem - Da Big Hill C.
Next up, Strom Thurmond and Snoop rappin' on da' hill givin' mad love to tha late Notorious B.I.G. and Tu Pac. Yeah. The Real World D.C. will return after these messages from Take Two Interactive
: Buy Grand Thef...
I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?
How would opposition to the internet be considered an absense of government control? I would consider opposition to something to be the government taking an active role. If they were apathetic about it, then industry would take care of it.
That says it all.
I chose TIVO over a nice MythTV box because, through my satellite provider, I can get a dual-tuner TIVO with service for $5/month and $100 up front. If they start showing commercials during my fast-forwards, I'm going to have to cough up the money for a nice SFF MythTV box with 2 tuner cards. I don't really need the extra features, but I'm sure they'll grow on me. Especially checking my e-mail and the news from my couch without having to have a laptop.
Yes. I charge $75 for the first hour and $50 for each additonal hour (in 1/2 hour increments). If I call a plumber or HVAC guy, that's about what I pay. A licensed electrician is far more. A mechanic is more. I pretty much try to put my prices just below that of most other "come to my house and fix my stuff" kinds of jobs. If I know the person and they drop it off at my house for me to work on over the course of a couple of nights, I will of course drop the price because I'm working at my convenience while I watch TV, etc. (or work on 2-3 peoples' PCs at once). Sure there are people who will do it for less. But I'm good at what I do (not trying to be arrogant, I just get the job done) and I stand behind my work. I don't think $75/$50 is that much to ask.
P.S. I live in Oklahoma where the cost of living is pretty low compared to the rest of the US.
This is Joe Union. We have reported your illegal cabling activities to the authorities. Taking a note from our RIAA fellows, you can avoid significant prosecution by simply e-mailing us the following:
Name:
Address:
Phone #:
Birth Date:
Mother's Maiden Name:
First School You Attended:
National ID Number:
Please e-mail all of that information to Foro Forscamoor at trustworthy@nationalbankofnigeria.com
Thank you and God have murcy on you kind Sur.
Re:biometrics - isn't this still vulnerable to MIM
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On transactions where the person isn't present (such as grocery store transactions, etc), wouldn't this still be suceptible to Man in the Middle attacks? Let's say that, in the near future, home fingerprint scanners become popular. Think about it. I want to sign into my online banking, I have to swipe my finger. Some identity thief in Podunk, Idaho can't just log into my account. But if I'm transmitting my fingerprint, can't it be intercepted and used again later, the same as a password? You might be able to avoid dupe transactions by attaching some sort of special identifier, but you can't keep me from hacking my fingerprint-swiping machine to send Person X's fingerprint to the online banking site instead of mine. It's just a file.
I've had the same issue with signing my name on electronic signature pads (I do it, I just don't like it). Once I do that, it can't be hard to take my signature that is on file and simply move it to a different location in your database and attach it to a different transaction can it? Then you print out a copy of the receipt for that new transaction and BAM!! There's my signature. And since it's electronic, I MUST have signed for it. Why there's even a timestamp. Let's see who has electronic copies of my signature...oh, FedEx, UPS, Airborne Express, DHS, damn near every place I've ever used my debit card, and the list goes on.
Granted, a regular ink signature can be faked, but everyone accepts that. For some reason, when you tack on the word "electronic", everyone suddenly seems to drop their guard and simply accept its authenticity as the gospel even though it's usually even LESS secure. Don't even get me started on "electronic voting"
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I look at it as a testament to human laziness. Since OOo can be given to the students to install at home for free, you shouldn't have a problem there. Pre-existing forms can be recreated. Not every MS document is supported by a later version. Things change. Sure, sometimes an OOo document looks like crap in MS Office, but sometimes and MS Office document looks like crap in OOo. Unlike businesses, schools are tax-funded and have a fiscal responsibility to choose cheaper alternatives if they will work - even if it takes some actual work in the beginning.
Grutter v. Bollinger, affirmative action programs- Justices cited an international treaty
Quick question, did the US sign that treaty? Or was is solely between other nations?
Also, as for "cited", that doesn't necessarily mean the same as "used as the basis for a decision". Lots of people outside of the US have meaningful and insightful views on subjects. I often "cite" or "quote" people when defending my own decisions because they have the same opinions that I have, but are far more eloquent.
I realized that when I was typing, but it just didn't sound as good. I really needed the double-word score
Random whiny comments aren't useful either. Especially when they allude to allusions of Les Miserables.
Once Bastille for OSX becomes completely point and click it will take off like Jean Valjean after stealing a loaf of bread.
As I recall, he didn't get very far, did he...Javert (sp?) my old friend.
You would have bought windows again if not for a tiny processor speed bump on the macs?
Not to mention a FSB bump up and the possibility of dual-processors that are dual-core. Come on. Talk about geek braggin rights.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of...ah, nevermind.
Man, the whole "retarded" name-calling thing took me back to elementary school.
"Since I'm self-employed, nobody withholds from me, so I get to feel it when I write my two checks to Fed and State treasuries."
Ah, so you're just jealous. That explains a lot.
Dude,
What part of "future" don't you get?
Unless something dramatic happens, I don't see linux ever having anything close to universal wireless support, or support for the umpteen million other specialty hardwares in a laptop.
First, Windows doesn't support wireless. The wireless manufacturer supports Windows. If they treated MS users like they treat Linux users, Windows would have the exact same issues
I for one welcome our fruity new overlords. Hail Pea...Cherr...fruits.
"Free advice from a top security consultant at Foundstone. (you'd know my name)"
OK. I call bullshit. I spent 30 minutes looking through the Foundstone corporate directory and there is no "Anonymous Coward", "A. Coward", etc.
Because the Go-Bots were so original.
Did the Go-Bot's mobile base look a lot like an AT-AT from the Star Wars Trilogy to anyone else?
"Black, ominous Pringles cans"
Don't forget "silent"
95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.
Am I the only person reading this as "95% of IT groups don't deliver projects on time EVERY SINGLE time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive. (who is usually clueless about IT, doesn't want to hear about licenses, scalability, etc. and just wants it to do everything they can imagine at very low costs...oh, and never break down)?
Likewise, an anonymously registered and maintained TLD is useful for only a few things.
I use a company that masks my domain registration info. It puts their info instead for any WHOIS lookups. Then, when they receive e-mail that is meant for the listed e-mail address for my domain, they filter out all of the spam and forward an relevent mail to the e-mail address that I have on file with them. It ensures that I have a way to get e-mails regarding my domain without having to sift through all of the spam. I consider that a valid use for any personal domain.
The ones that I usually hear about are where they sit little kids down in front of a bunch of violent, fast-paced cartoons. Afterword, they give them a selection of toys - from baking sets to toy guns and see what they do. No F$&#ing surprise that the kids play with the "violent toys". They then do some very murky extrapolation and decide that the cartoons make the kids violent. Because we all know that using a toy for it's intended purpose (i.e. running around with a toy pistol yelling "bang") equates to a kid beating the $*@# out of his younger sibling. These studies tend to be fluff and full of holes. Now letting a 7 year-old play GTA might be a bad idea but if you're doing that, you're just a bad parent. Aside from abuse and gross negligence, the government should stay away from the "good parenting, bad parenting" issue. I'm sorry, but when I was 10 I knew what shooting someone did and how wrong it would be. It wasn't exactly a difficult concept. I also knew not to go around hitting people. Parents believe crap like this because it's easier to blame someone else for their kid's problems than it is to correct your own parenting mistakes. Legislators love them because it gives them good time in front of the cameras and they can put these "fell-good" bills on their next "vote for me" poster.
Whoops - meant to post plain text Diss? WTH? I won't even go into the idiocy of the their argument, but "diss" (should be dis) from Hillary - or as she's known in her hometown Harlem - Da Big Hill C. Next up, Strom Thurmond and Snoop rappin' on da' hill givin' mad love to tha late Notorious B.I.G. and Tu Pac. Yeah. The Real World D.C. will return after these messages from Take Two Interactive : Buy Grand Thef...
Diss? WTH? I won't even go into the idiocy of the their argument, but "diss" (should be dis) from Hillary - or as she's known in her hometown Harlem - Da Big Hill C. Next up, Strom Thurmond and Snoop rappin' on da' hill givin' mad love to tha late Notorious B.I.G. and Tu Pac. Yeah. The Real World D.C. will return after these messages from Take Two Interactive : Buy Grand Thef...
I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service? How would opposition to the internet be considered an absense of government control? I would consider opposition to something to be the government taking an active role. If they were apathetic about it, then industry would take care of it.
That says it all. I chose TIVO over a nice MythTV box because, through my satellite provider, I can get a dual-tuner TIVO with service for $5/month and $100 up front. If they start showing commercials during my fast-forwards, I'm going to have to cough up the money for a nice SFF MythTV box with 2 tuner cards. I don't really need the extra features, but I'm sure they'll grow on me. Especially checking my e-mail and the news from my couch without having to have a laptop.
Why is this modded as funny? I think it's a completely valid name.
Yes. I charge $75 for the first hour and $50 for each additonal hour (in 1/2 hour increments). If I call a plumber or HVAC guy, that's about what I pay. A licensed electrician is far more. A mechanic is more. I pretty much try to put my prices just below that of most other "come to my house and fix my stuff" kinds of jobs. If I know the person and they drop it off at my house for me to work on over the course of a couple of nights, I will of course drop the price because I'm working at my convenience while I watch TV, etc. (or work on 2-3 peoples' PCs at once). Sure there are people who will do it for less. But I'm good at what I do (not trying to be arrogant, I just get the job done) and I stand behind my work. I don't think $75/$50 is that much to ask.
P.S. I live in Oklahoma where the cost of living is pretty low compared to the rest of the US.
This is Joe Union. We have reported your illegal cabling activities to the authorities. Taking a note from our RIAA fellows, you can avoid significant prosecution by simply e-mailing us the following: Name: Address: Phone #: Birth Date: Mother's Maiden Name: First School You Attended: National ID Number: Please e-mail all of that information to Foro Forscamoor at trustworthy@nationalbankofnigeria.com Thank you and God have murcy on you kind Sur.
On transactions where the person isn't present (such as grocery store transactions, etc), wouldn't this still be suceptible to Man in the Middle attacks? Let's say that, in the near future, home fingerprint scanners become popular. Think about it. I want to sign into my online banking, I have to swipe my finger. Some identity thief in Podunk, Idaho can't just log into my account. But if I'm transmitting my fingerprint, can't it be intercepted and used again later, the same as a password? You might be able to avoid dupe transactions by attaching some sort of special identifier, but you can't keep me from hacking my fingerprint-swiping machine to send Person X's fingerprint to the online banking site instead of mine. It's just a file.
I've had the same issue with signing my name on electronic signature pads (I do it, I just don't like it). Once I do that, it can't be hard to take my signature that is on file and simply move it to a different location in your database and attach it to a different transaction can it? Then you print out a copy of the receipt for that new transaction and BAM!! There's my signature. And since it's electronic, I MUST have signed for it. Why there's even a timestamp. Let's see who has electronic copies of my signature...oh, FedEx, UPS, Airborne Express, DHS, damn near every place I've ever used my debit card, and the list goes on.
Granted, a regular ink signature can be faked, but everyone accepts that. For some reason, when you tack on the word "electronic", everyone suddenly seems to drop their guard and simply accept its authenticity as the gospel even though it's usually even LESS secure. Don't even get me started on "electronic voting"
SO what you're saying is that, in Soviet Russia...ah, forget it.