Not only that, but I'm sure portions of nVidia's drivers also contain 3rd party IP as well. For them to open source that would be a breach of contract and would land them into legal trouble.
For that matter, why would anyone trust a social website with their personal data. When people vomit their personal lives online for everyone to see, how will this not haunt them later in life? I understand we all have skeletons in the closet in some form or fashion, but I'm seeing vast cemeteries online with no place to hide the bodies.
I'm waiting for the fallout from all this if and when these people run for public office . The mud slinging and political public exposure will be delicious. Suckers!!!
ISPs double and even triple NAT their networks. Routing tables and DNS is all jacked up too. It could be intentional, but I'd rather suspect incompetence if anything. I've seen this kind of behavior with a few residential connections and hotels in China over the years. Trust me when I say that it's a mess. Duct tape and bailing wire. That's what it seems to be held up with. Sheesh.
And businesses are leaving California. The mass exodus started some time ago, and the pace is ramping up. CNN Money just posted an article on this very subject yesterday. So it could be worse for Texas, but not that bad.
Assuming this Afghani wasn't yanking your chain for laughs, that's a serious issue. I'm speaking of the ignorance and hopelessness entrenched in this mans head. I don't blame him either. Conflict is part of their culture. It was there from the moment he was born, and perhaps long after he's dead. Hell, may last another thousand years. Maybe a million. No, what these people need are a bunch of terminals air-dropped into villages with SATCOM uplinks. Hell, it might even be cheaper that the money we've spend so far on this theater of war. Shower them with knowledge, and let God sort it out. It sure wont stop the immediate violence, but I'd bet the ROI would be better in helping them help themselves.
"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end..." (Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now)
If RIM was smart, they would use the Droid platform running on another CPU core. That way, users could have both a BB that corporate users and developers want, why tapping into the popular droid market for future expansion. Eventually, they could migrate 100% toward the Droid platform with some additional BlackBerry APIs glued on to it.
When you're not in the position to negotiate, sometimes you have to dance with the elephant.
I'm being serious here. I've always though that many of the worlds poor dug a shallow hole, squat to defecate, and proceeded to bury. Maybe they used a spade of some sort. All in all, it would not be that unusual. Human beings have probably done something similar for the last...well, however long you define when humanity started. A very long time.
In America at least, the entire tax system is broken. To continue to support it in its current incarnation is -- by al ethical and civic standards, an unsound position. Hey Jeff, let's start with the premise that the entire tax system needs a complete overhaul and move forward from there.
Absolutely. I used to have a Netgear SPH101 Skype Wi-Fi Phone. I remember having to use WEP for some reason because of it. But I do know that some routers will warn you with a floating tagged window stating that WEP is not very secure and ill advised over WPA2. I'm guessing the intent to CYA is pretty strong with companies these days.
Of course, it could have also been a very old WiFi router with out-dated firmware. It simply wasn't an issue back then. I guess we will never know as it's not the focus of the article.
If a Slashdotter did that, he would be a noob. But this couple sounds like you average non-techie citizen who most likely setup the WiFi router out-of-the-box. Instructions and all.
It would be interesting to know whether or not if the instructions recommended WPA2 or not. If not, and only defaulted to WEP, there might be grounds for a lawsuit against the manufacture. It's well documented that WEP is easy to crack into well before 2009.
FYI, I don't believe in a litigious society. My opinion on the matter only reflects a devils advocate.
IT technology and its pseudo-toys (a "want" over the "needs" such as the iPad) are still a moving target within the industry. As such, there will always be a layer of complexity and complications that will require a support staff. We can argue whether or not that staff is internal, or provided by an MSP (Managed Service Provider). But none the less, IT support will always be around and thus so too will there be job openings to fulfill that role.
I was about to correct you regarding Intel's support for TRIM using RAID. But when I went to double-check, Intel corrected their previous statement.
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 9.6 supports TRIM in AHCI and RAID modes for drives not part of a RAID volume. A correction was filed to update the information in the Help file, which stated TRIM was supported on RAID volumes.
Solution ID: CS-031491 Date Created: 24-Mar-2010 Last Modified: 05-May-2011
Unless it's purely artificial, any Child Porn that involves real children is abuse. If I ever saw someone performing sexual intercourse on a young adolescent, I swear to God, I will fucking kill the predator with my bare hands, and stand trial by jury knowing I did the right thing.
Last time I file my taxes, I used a 3rd party web service. My Chinese wife saw the 15+ pages of complexity and asked me how I learned to do all this. I said to her...
"I don't. That's why I had them auto-generate the proper figures for these publicly available IRS forms. This is normal, most Americans have to deal with this each year. At least we live in Texas where we don't file *additional* state tax"
Her jaw about came unhinged.
This is fucking bullshit. I'm putting my complete and full 100% faith into a 3rd party service. Legally, it's my ass on the line if they screw it up. This feels so dirty, so wrong, that we as Americans have to put up with this crap. Our nation is supposed to be better than that! I personally demand that for myself and everyone else.
Actually, the Fair Tax system (http://www.fairtax.org) is a much more mature alternative and the most likely system to replace our current tax code.
It would never actually happen though. Think of all the millions of accountants trained in tax law that would be without a job. That right there would kill any system from replacing the IRS let alone dramatically change it.
It's called social engineering through taxation. The so called "sin tax" and whatnot. It's precisely why this nation is undeniably fucked! It's also why we will never move to a fair-tax (sales tax) based system. It takes too much power away from politicians. They use our current tax code to create voters out of the very problems they create for them.
How would you like it if Republicans added 1,000% tax increase on all abortions while the Democrats add a 1,000% tax increase on all ammunition to neuter the 2nd amendment?
If you want to get rid of something, make the process transparent. Just make it outright illegal. Obfuscating the issue only cause that many more problems. But again, that's the whole point really.
Don't worry Doc, I'm sure the SWAT team will come and bust down your door any minute now. You should have stuck with the drugs man, much safer that way. This whole IP thing is getting too dangerous these days.
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Not only that, but I'm sure portions of nVidia's drivers also contain 3rd party IP as well. For them to open source that would be a breach of contract and would land them into legal trouble.
For that matter, why would anyone trust a social website with their personal data. When people vomit their personal lives online for everyone to see, how will this not haunt them later in life? I understand we all have skeletons in the closet in some form or fashion, but I'm seeing vast cemeteries online with no place to hide the bodies.
I'm waiting for the fallout from all this if and when these people run for public office . The mud slinging and political public exposure will be delicious. Suckers!!!
ISPs double and even triple NAT their networks. Routing tables and DNS is all jacked up too. It could be intentional, but I'd rather suspect incompetence if anything. I've seen this kind of behavior with a few residential connections and hotels in China over the years. Trust me when I say that it's a mess. Duct tape and bailing wire. That's what it seems to be held up with. Sheesh.
Or the local government spends less. Ya I know, such arcane concept for many.
And businesses are leaving California. The mass exodus started some time ago, and the pace is ramping up. CNN Money just posted an article on this very subject yesterday. So it could be worse for Texas, but not that bad.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/28/news/economy/California_companies/
As someone living in Texas, I don't want this bill to pass. Keeping jobs in this state is more important in order to feed the local economy.
Assuming this Afghani wasn't yanking your chain for laughs, that's a serious issue. I'm speaking of the ignorance and hopelessness entrenched in this mans head. I don't blame him either. Conflict is part of their culture. It was there from the moment he was born, and perhaps long after he's dead. Hell, may last another thousand years. Maybe a million. No, what these people need are a bunch of terminals air-dropped into villages with SATCOM uplinks. Hell, it might even be cheaper that the money we've spend so far on this theater of war. Shower them with knowledge, and let God sort it out. It sure wont stop the immediate violence, but I'd bet the ROI would be better in helping them help themselves.
In case any of you didn't get the joke.
"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
(Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now)
http://riot.typepad.com/the_lucretius_plan/2007/06/the_smell_of_vi.html
No, that's the smell of victory!
If RIM was smart, they would use the Droid platform running on another CPU core. That way, users could have both a BB that corporate users and developers want, why tapping into the popular droid market for future expansion. Eventually, they could migrate 100% toward the Droid platform with some additional BlackBerry APIs glued on to it.
When you're not in the position to negotiate, sometimes you have to dance with the elephant.
The resilient solar cells still function even when folded up into a paper airplane
Cool. So fold me an airplane and I'll attach an electric motor. It should have no problem flying. Right?
I'm being serious here. I've always though that many of the worlds poor dug a shallow hole, squat to defecate, and proceeded to bury. Maybe they used a spade of some sort. All in all, it would not be that unusual. Human beings have probably done something similar for the last...well, however long you define when humanity started. A very long time.
In America at least, the entire tax system is broken. To continue to support it in its current incarnation is -- by al ethical and civic standards, an unsound position. Hey Jeff, let's start with the premise that the entire tax system needs a complete overhaul and move forward from there.
I would prefer a rotten apple (with a single bite out of it) and green worm boring in and out.
Absolutely. I used to have a Netgear SPH101 Skype Wi-Fi Phone. I remember having to use WEP for some reason because of it. But I do know that some routers will warn you with a floating tagged window stating that WEP is not very secure and ill advised over WPA2. I'm guessing the intent to CYA is pretty strong with companies these days.
Of course, it could have also been a very old WiFi router with out-dated firmware. It simply wasn't an issue back then. I guess we will never know as it's not the focus of the article.
If a Slashdotter did that, he would be a noob. But this couple sounds like you average non-techie citizen who most likely setup the WiFi router out-of-the-box. Instructions and all.
It would be interesting to know whether or not if the instructions recommended WPA2 or not. If not, and only defaulted to WEP, there might be grounds for a lawsuit against the manufacture. It's well documented that WEP is easy to crack into well before 2009.
FYI, I don't believe in a litigious society. My opinion on the matter only reflects a devils advocate.
IT technology and its pseudo-toys (a "want" over the "needs" such as the iPad) are still a moving target within the industry. As such, there will always be a layer of complexity and complications that will require a support staff. We can argue whether or not that staff is internal, or provided by an MSP (Managed Service Provider). But none the less, IT support will always be around and thus so too will there be job openings to fulfill that role.
I was about to correct you regarding Intel's support for TRIM using RAID. But when I went to double-check, Intel corrected their previous statement.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-031491.htm
Unless it's purely artificial, any Child Porn that involves real children is abuse. If I ever saw someone performing sexual intercourse on a young adolescent, I swear to God, I will fucking kill the predator with my bare hands, and stand trial by jury knowing I did the right thing.
Last time I file my taxes, I used a 3rd party web service. My Chinese wife saw the 15+ pages of complexity and asked me how I learned to do all this. I said to her...
"I don't. That's why I had them auto-generate the proper figures for these publicly available IRS forms. This is normal, most Americans have to deal with this each year. At least we live in Texas where we don't file *additional* state tax"
Her jaw about came unhinged.
This is fucking bullshit. I'm putting my complete and full 100% faith into a 3rd party service. Legally, it's my ass on the line if they screw it up. This feels so dirty, so wrong, that we as Americans have to put up with this crap. Our nation is supposed to be better than that! I personally demand that for myself and everyone else.
Actually, the Fair Tax system (http://www.fairtax.org) is a much more mature alternative and the most likely system to replace our current tax code.
It would never actually happen though. Think of all the millions of accountants trained in tax law that would be without a job. That right there would kill any system from replacing the IRS let alone dramatically change it.
It's called social engineering through taxation. The so called "sin tax" and whatnot. It's precisely why this nation is undeniably fucked! It's also why we will never move to a fair-tax (sales tax) based system. It takes too much power away from politicians. They use our current tax code to create voters out of the very problems they create for them.
How would you like it if Republicans added 1,000% tax increase on all abortions while the Democrats add a 1,000% tax increase on all ammunition to neuter the 2nd amendment?
If you want to get rid of something, make the process transparent. Just make it outright illegal. Obfuscating the issue only cause that many more problems. But again, that's the whole point really.
Could be worse. The "New Castrati" is a plague upon this Earth. They're boot-lickers.
I'm going to start calling FF Final Fantasy. The new and improved Final Fantasy browser 8.
Don't worry Doc, I'm sure the SWAT team will come and bust down your door any minute now. You should have stuck with the drugs man, much safer that way. This whole IP thing is getting too dangerous these days.