Simple, if someone is searching for porn, he or she must therefore be a child. Adults do not need pornography, they have their spouses, and God.
The argument to be presented before the courts will be "There are 102.3 billion trillion zillion* Google searches for porn every day. That is 102.3 billion trillion zillion* children who have access to the filthiest smut you can imagine, and you sir look like you can imagine many a terrible thing. We must act quickly to protect American minds from your filth."
* zillion is a very large number, equal to the number of bible thumping bush supporters multiplied by stars in the sky, or coincidentally, the number of people that must be killed in the name of God before the same people get enough sense to mind their own business and worry about keeping their own damn children from looking at porn, doing drugs or getting knocked up
If you work in a sufficiently large company and in some sort of middle management position, meetings are in fact where you do your work. All those soapbox speeches and phony hardline bullcrap that we occasionally listen to, are in fact managers doing their jobs (poorly). You need someone to establish the wrong problem, ten people to agree on the wrong solution to the wrong problem, publically, and then a manager to go give the bad news to the engineer, usually at around 6pm, usually with the indication that it is "urgent".
This gives middle management accountability, very important in large publicly traded companies. Everything needs an email trail or several eye witnesses. Everything must follow a process, even if it is ridiculous, even if it is unhelpful. If it goes wrong, you say "I followed the process, and it escaped us". It sounds crazy, but in some very top-down organziations it is required.
Now if you happen to be pulled in to that sort of circus when it's not your job, you will obviously hate meetings. You end up having to both solve the real problem (because you're a good guy at heart, and want the company to be successful, if only for the paycheck), and then the made up problem using the made up solution (because managers have to check your progress, and if you don't do as they ask, you're a bad employee!). In the end, the right thing gets done, but boy does it hurt getting there.
Exactly, where the hell can he seriously get off with "you're not paying us!". They're being paid, too much in my opinion, for bandwidth in every corner of their network. They get paid more than twice for every packet that goes from point A, to Point B, often if both point A and point B are not even their direct customers! Every cable customer in Bell South territory pays a little bit to Bell South, somewhere.
There are cases where that doesn't necessarily happen. Direct bell south residential customers ALWAYS pay for their bandwidth, almost always do they get a little chunk of indirect business.
Unfortunately we have no voice in government to slap this greedy bastard in the face.
1TB Raw, 750GB Raid-5, GigE, easy, cheapter than what Dell sells even without rebates. Works fine out of the box for "home purposes", but it's linux based and you can always go in through the back door and fine tune their samba config. They have the original image in flash if you screw up (I've never tried it personally). It's pretty 0 maintenance which is exactly what I want at home - get it working, set up a structure, and don't think about it.
You can always back it up via another terastation (yeah, right), or portions via a USB hard drive.
OS X on commodity PC hardware is what the world needs. Mac users will get cheap hardware, the world will get a decent OS, and there will be peace on earth and goodwill towards men.
Or we can run Windows on a Mac, and worship the Beast.
Dell won't even use AMD, which is both supported and functionally equivalent to Intel processors. While I suspect that will change, it should be obvious that they're not going to pre-install an unsupported, unknown OS that doesn't work with the software people already have. It's a bad deal, people would get confused and make lots of irate calls when they can't find the start button. There are things that enterprising individuals could do to sweeten this particular pot, but it relies on a demand for OS X that doesn't exist outside of geekdom.
Anyone can make a clone, provided no patents are violated, but they can't use Apple logo and can only use their name carefully. In the end, hardware companies aren't going to be interested installing this OS unless Apple supports it, which they almost surely won't.
Some could argue the DMCA would forbid hacking OS X to install it on a vanilla PC, but I doubt Apple would be so wasteful as to even try. In the end it'll be hard to form a business around it. Apple would just prefer people doing so actually paid for their OS, since they are willing to go to great pains to use it. I doubt that will happen as the average guy may want OS X, but not possess the skill or time required to crack it, hence he will warez it.
You know, Michael Dell really has never liked proprietary anything. Nothing built at Dell is proprietary, except for the irritating OS on consumer PCs (you can get linux on your servers).
It's not a shock that he hates Apple. I still don't understand why we all love Apple so much, they're the same evil, repackaged.
Doctors and lawyers tend to be well paid, mathematicians not so much. If you're in the right spot, you'll do OK, but $300/hr is unlikely (for most).
You're right though, one persons dirty work is another persons dream job. I'd hate travelling around the world talking to people...it involves my two least favorite things: a) people b) travel. But marketing & sales people love it up.
Getting bossed around is something we all share, and in publicly traded companies, it extends even to the CEO. I think we all mean "getting bossed around by people stupider than we are", but stupid people tend to have great charisma, hence they can run interference while we do important work.
Because we hate Microsoft, and we know Linux has problems on the desktop, we support Apple. We like to forget Apple used to be a much stronger force in the industry, and lost a lot of market share due to it's own corporate idiocy and poor treatment of users.
Will OS X for Intel Mac's run on a generic PC well enough that it's accessible to a fair number of people. That will cause developers to target OS X more, and make it viable. Otherwise people are going to have some pretty overpriced Windows Mac's.
Not that I totally disagree, but some of us have a reluctance to pay for certain services that seem kind of like extortion: - Protection money ( to Police/Fire/Ambulance or people who work like them) - Virus/Adware/Rootkit scanners - Spam removal companies
etc. Giving money to people to protect you from "other really bad people" only encourages the recipient to ensure the problem continues to exist and is increasingly dangerous enough to warrant periodic increases in price.
VoIP isn't "off the grid" all the way through. You can make a VoIP call to someone without VoIP, correct? You can be wiretapped there.
I don't know about German telemonopolies, but here in the US you have very few choices in who provides your broadband: cable & your telco monopoly (even if you're lucky enough to have a 3rd party provider, they use an access point at your telco monopoly). Both have wiretap requirements. IP packets or ATM cells (or one on the other, more likely), you can be wiretapped.
As for encryption, it's really hard to use effectively.
People already don't check their blindspots before changing lanes. Particularly in the leftmost lane, driving the speed limit or below, with old ladies in wheelchairs passing them on their right, while they're yakking away on their cell phones. It is not in ABS or traction control they trust, but God and his Almighty SUV which only SEEMS impervious to all other traffic.
It's more likely how long it takes to run that battery of test scripts on several hundred "typical" hardware configurations. It takes a while, we should not berate MS for testing, if indeed that is what is happening.
In all likihood they are diverting resources from patching to Vista so they can ship it sooner. This is bad.
The government still has a great deal of control over what comes in and out of this country, and who US companies are allowed to do business with. There is not significant enough displeasure with China amonst the average guy to make that happen for them. I'm not even sure if people are really aware how much business we do with them in context with how their government operates.
The USA's government does not give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks about how We Run Our Country (nor should we, it's OUR country)
The American People have not collectively surged forth in government to force restrictions on trade with China
The latter is really the only knob we have to twist on how China conducts its affairs. If we don't feel strongly enough to stop using their cheap labor, we are supporting their government.
I'd argue that in this day and age it is their responsibility to conceal from satellites anything they don't want to be seen, otherwise it's fair game.
If you're wasting brain cells over a referrer link that I can't imagine any but a vocal minority actually use anyhow, I think you're inviting a world of hurt. Anyone who is angry about them should be out there reading something other than CNN and MSNBC, looking for science & tech articles on their own that are worth posting to slashdot.
Some people are happy being fat but just hate their job. For them, there's the segway - all the laziness of a car, with all the added benefits of a paid PR stunt.
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Simple, if someone is searching for porn, he or she must therefore be a child. Adults do not need pornography, they have their spouses, and God.
The argument to be presented before the courts will be "There are 102.3 billion trillion zillion* Google searches for porn every day. That is 102.3 billion trillion zillion* children who have access to the filthiest smut you can imagine, and you sir look like you can imagine many a terrible thing. We must act quickly to protect American minds from your filth."
* zillion is a very large number, equal to the number of bible thumping bush supporters multiplied by stars in the sky, or coincidentally, the number of people that must be killed in the name of God before the same people get enough sense to mind their own business and worry about keeping their own damn children from looking at porn, doing drugs or getting knocked up
Urine SHOULDN'T have protein in it.
If you work in a sufficiently large company and in some sort of middle management position, meetings are in fact where you do your work. All those soapbox speeches and phony hardline bullcrap that we occasionally listen to, are in fact managers doing their jobs (poorly). You need someone to establish the wrong problem, ten people to agree on the wrong solution to the wrong problem, publically, and then a manager to go give the bad news to the engineer, usually at around 6pm, usually with the indication that it is "urgent".
This gives middle management accountability, very important in large publicly traded companies. Everything needs an email trail or several eye witnesses. Everything must follow a process, even if it is ridiculous, even if it is unhelpful. If it goes wrong, you say "I followed the process, and it escaped us". It sounds crazy, but in some very top-down organziations it is required.
Now if you happen to be pulled in to that sort of circus when it's not your job, you will obviously hate meetings. You end up having to both solve the real problem (because you're a good guy at heart, and want the company to be successful, if only for the paycheck), and then the made up problem using the made up solution (because managers have to check your progress, and if you don't do as they ask, you're a bad employee!). In the end, the right thing gets done, but boy does it hurt getting there.
...and now the branches swat me away and the roots will not support me, favoring the rich soil of the far east.
Exactly, where the hell can he seriously get off with "you're not paying us!". They're being paid, too much in my opinion, for bandwidth in every corner of their network. They get paid more than twice for every packet that goes from point A, to Point B, often if both point A and point B are not even their direct customers! Every cable customer in Bell South territory pays a little bit to Bell South, somewhere.
There are cases where that doesn't necessarily happen. Direct bell south residential customers ALWAYS pay for their bandwidth, almost always do they get a little chunk of indirect business.
Unfortunately we have no voice in government to slap this greedy bastard in the face.
1TB Raw, 750GB Raid-5, GigE, easy, cheapter than what Dell sells even without rebates. Works fine out of the box for "home purposes", but it's linux based and you can always go in through the back door and fine tune their samba config. They have the original image in flash if you screw up (I've never tried it personally). It's pretty 0 maintenance which is exactly what I want at home - get it working, set up a structure, and don't think about it.
You can always back it up via another terastation (yeah, right), or portions via a USB hard drive.
OS X on commodity PC hardware is what the world needs. Mac users will get cheap hardware, the world will get a decent OS, and there will be peace on earth and goodwill towards men.
Or we can run Windows on a Mac, and worship the Beast.
Tough call.
If only Apple new the free press they could receive from this website.
Dell won't even use AMD, which is both supported and functionally equivalent to Intel processors. While I suspect that will change, it should be obvious that they're not going to pre-install an unsupported, unknown OS that doesn't work with the software people already have. It's a bad deal, people would get confused and make lots of irate calls when they can't find the start button. There are things that enterprising individuals could do to sweeten this particular pot, but it relies on a demand for OS X that doesn't exist outside of geekdom. Anyone can make a clone, provided no patents are violated, but they can't use Apple logo and can only use their name carefully. In the end, hardware companies aren't going to be interested installing this OS unless Apple supports it, which they almost surely won't. Some could argue the DMCA would forbid hacking OS X to install it on a vanilla PC, but I doubt Apple would be so wasteful as to even try. In the end it'll be hard to form a business around it. Apple would just prefer people doing so actually paid for their OS, since they are willing to go to great pains to use it. I doubt that will happen as the average guy may want OS X, but not possess the skill or time required to crack it, hence he will warez it.
X-Pretender, Two skinny FBI agents undercover as porn stars. How could that go wrong?
And I'm sure many of us will buy it used when it's been hacked.
You know, Michael Dell really has never liked proprietary anything. Nothing built at Dell is proprietary, except for the irritating OS on consumer PCs (you can get linux on your servers).
It's not a shock that he hates Apple. I still don't understand why we all love Apple so much, they're the same evil, repackaged.
News for worms. Stuff that cavities.
Doctors and lawyers tend to be well paid, mathematicians not so much. If you're in the right spot, you'll do OK, but $300/hr is unlikely (for most).
You're right though, one persons dirty work is another persons dream job. I'd hate travelling around the world talking to people...it involves my two least favorite things: a) people b) travel. But marketing & sales people love it up.
Getting bossed around is something we all share, and in publicly traded companies, it extends even to the CEO. I think we all mean "getting bossed around by people stupider than we are", but stupid people tend to have great charisma, hence they can run interference while we do important work.
Because we hate Microsoft, and we know Linux has problems on the desktop, we support Apple. We like to forget Apple used to be a much stronger force in the industry, and lost a lot of market share due to it's own corporate idiocy and poor treatment of users.
Will OS X for Intel Mac's run on a generic PC well enough that it's accessible to a fair number of people. That will cause developers to target OS X more, and make it viable. Otherwise people are going to have some pretty overpriced Windows Mac's.
Not that I totally disagree, but some of us have a reluctance to pay for certain services that seem kind of like extortion:
- Protection money ( to Police/Fire/Ambulance or people who work like them)
- Virus/Adware/Rootkit scanners
- Spam removal companies
etc. Giving money to people to protect you from "other really bad people" only encourages the recipient to ensure the problem continues to exist and is increasingly dangerous enough to warrant periodic increases in price.
VoIP isn't "off the grid" all the way through. You can make a VoIP call to someone without VoIP, correct? You can be wiretapped there.
I don't know about German telemonopolies, but here in the US you have very few choices in who provides your broadband: cable & your telco monopoly (even if you're lucky enough to have a 3rd party provider, they use an access point at your telco monopoly). Both have wiretap requirements. IP packets or ATM cells (or one on the other, more likely), you can be wiretapped.
As for encryption, it's really hard to use effectively.
People already don't check their blindspots before changing lanes. Particularly in the leftmost lane, driving the speed limit or below, with old ladies in wheelchairs passing them on their right, while they're yakking away on their cell phones. It is not in ABS or traction control they trust, but God and his Almighty SUV which only SEEMS impervious to all other traffic.
It's more likely how long it takes to run that battery of test scripts on several hundred "typical" hardware configurations. It takes a while, we should not berate MS for testing, if indeed that is what is happening.
In all likihood they are diverting resources from patching to Vista so they can ship it sooner. This is bad.
The government still has a great deal of control over what comes in and out of this country, and who US companies are allowed to do business with. There is not significant enough displeasure with China amonst the average guy to make that happen for them. I'm not even sure if people are really aware how much business we do with them in context with how their government operates.
Put that in perspective:
The USA's government does not give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks about how We Run Our Country (nor should we, it's OUR country)
The American People have not collectively surged forth in government to force restrictions on trade with China
The latter is really the only knob we have to twist on how China conducts its affairs. If we don't feel strongly enough to stop using their cheap labor, we are supporting their government.
I'd argue that in this day and age it is their responsibility to conceal from satellites anything they don't want to be seen, otherwise it's fair game.
If you're wasting brain cells over a referrer link that I can't imagine any but a vocal minority actually use anyhow, I think you're inviting a world of hurt. Anyone who is angry about them should be out there reading something other than CNN and MSNBC, looking for science & tech articles on their own that are worth posting to slashdot.
Some people are happy being fat but just hate their job. For them, there's the segway - all the laziness of a car, with all the added benefits of a paid PR stunt.