I really think the Democrats dropped the ball on both the data privacy and off shoring issues,
I agree with you, but do you really think the Wal-Mart shopping red masses are really going to resonate with data privacy? Half of them couldn't spell it let alone relate to it. Maybe if you sponsored a data privacy NASCAR and got Toby Keith to sing a country song about someone's grandmother losing their farm because a foreigner stole her identity, then one or two might catch a clue. Otherwise it's pearls before swine.
The Register said it would retail for $50.00. That's a good entry price point, very competitive. Especially considering it comes bundled with OpenOffice and Evolution with the Exchange connector.
Unless I'm overlooking something that's a very attractive package. Anxious to see how it sells. If this takes off it's going to hit MSFT's pricing model fairly hard.
People would have a shit fit if the government was assembling a detailed dossier on every American citizen. But when the government buys the data from private companies doing the same thing and aggregates it, no one has a problem with that.
The real concern isn't this little system or that little system, it's the accumulated weight of information contained in all of them. Zero regulation about who collects it, how long and what it's used for.
"Well now, Mr. Anderson, I see here you returned a pair of size 38 pants this week. Two years ago you returned a pair of size 32 pants. We have a certain image to maintain at this organization and expect our employees to reflect that image, Porky- I mean Mr. Anderson."
That may sound hokey, but I bet it's closer to the mark than most people would feel comfortable admitting. It's not the routine uses that scare me, it's the routine abuses. And those are getting worse.
. The report calls for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments.
The Army doesn't have enough flak vests or armor for the troops in Iraq but the Air Force has 7.5 million to sink into psychic teleportation research. Sure, I can see that. Just imagine being somewhere else when the roadside bomb goes off.
So, this is what it's like being the minority party. You know, it's not all bad. You get to sit back and throw rocks non-stop without accepting any of the responsibility. You can criticize every little mistake with a clear conscience. I like it! If you want unity, go fuck yourself. Ha! I'm going to enjoy this four years.
A little harsh...but overall I'd say that sums up my feelings pretty well.
Was listening to the news from Iraq today and just clicked it off. I don't really give a crap what happens over there anymore. Win, lose, elections, no elections. Don't care. Bankrupt the country? Well, it's the children who are going to have to pay it back, so who cares? Get to work you little rug rats.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is seeing the near brewings of a second revolution here.
Or possibly combined with a modern secessionist movement. I mean, let's face it, we aren't 'one nation' anymore. We have the left-leaning and centrist people on one side and the right wing religious crusaders on the other. And since most of us in middle/left of middle don't want to live in the United Evangelical Churches of America, let's just face up to it and figure out a peaceful, amicable dissolution. Come up with a ten year plan for splitting up.
I think we've finally found the wretched extreme in retarded patents. It will be something like this before Congress will finally wake up and realize how stupid software patents really are.
Of course, in this country that might mean Congress extends them another 150 years, makes violating a patent a felony, tasks Homeland Security with enforcing patent rights, and invades Japan for threatening to duplicate one-click online shopping.
My number one fear right now is that the democrats, greens, libertarians, etc just surrender now...
But I'm guessing me might disagree on what to do now. My idea was to buy time on a little light bulb AM station somewhere and air the voice of the independent radio show. Spend the next four years hacking everything the Republicans do, spouting conspiracy theories, stating absolute garbage as established fact and screening calls to make it sound like everyone agrees with me. Pretend to be an overall Bush supporter, then mention every piece of dirt that has plausible deniability.
I'd spend the next four years hacking back at them in the media like they did for eight years of Clinton's term.
Politics is a dirty game and it's time to start fighting dirty.
I'm guessing that may not be what you have in mind, but we've got nothing to lose going negative at this point. Light the flame throwers! You want division, we'll give you division and angry, unrelenting defensiveness until you're stuffed with it. We'll take our cues from Karl Rove's playbook and make winning a living hell.
Definitely some cool technology, but lets think about who would be most threatened by it? I don't think Crapassistan has any satellites to threaten, but the Russians and the Chinese would.
For the moment the Russians have a far more capable space program than we do and the Chinese have a bigger industrial base. We can eventually beat the Russians with technology, but not in the short term. But with all our collective money funding the war in Iraq, we would not be able to out-produce or out-spend the Chinese.
I think all it will end up doing is spurring Russia and China into matching the threat. Hopefully we don't find out the hard way that their space capabilities have improved beyond our ability to catch up.
I think one of the many reasons will be the strange policy of invitation-only campaign events. It makes good visuals on TV, but what good does it do to preach to the converted? You don't win converts to your cause by walling off events. It's sort of like Ashcroft defending the Patriot Act to hand-select groups of law enforcement officials. That was a monumental waste of time and taxpayer travel money.
If you want to be inclusive and widen your base of support, I'm not sure making the Secret Service your personal sidewalk clearing thugs is a winning strategy. To me you'd want to at least make an effort to listen to those who disagreed with you, not push them blocks away so the news cameras can't see them.
I guess we'll find out tomorrow if it's a winning strategy or if American has finally had enough of the Karl Rove Show.
If you believe the official news coming out of China, then you probably also believe Fox News really is fair and balanced and that the new Iraqi Information Minister, Dick Cheney, is telling the truth about what's going on in Iraq.
We don't know why they shut them down. More likely because some of the users were finding their way around the government approved web sites.
Th ere was general consensus that US authorities could, at least under some circumstances, use powers enacted by the USA Patriot Act to make orders for access to personal information located in Canada that is involved in outsourcing of public body functions to a US linked contractor.
They are right to be concerned. We have no problem trampling on the rights of their own citizens, why on earth would you think we would respect the rights of other countries? We've let fear justify anything we think is necessary.
We don't deserve to lead the world, we don't deserve respect and you're certainly right not to trust us.
And, speaking of trust, we trust foreign nations with mountains of data about US citizens. Medical records, financial histories, you name it. Properly aggregated it's everything they'd need to build a very complete dossier on just about anyone. This would seem like an obvious security hole, but we're experts at straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel.
Yet another reason to come to the Great White North!
In one case, we saved $20,000 for a customer in license fees alone...
Was that OS and productivity software, or just the OS? I've had customers save considerably more just on the productivity software.
But I think we'll get the whole package when it comes upgrade time. When staff are already using OSS productivity and browser software replacing the OS isn't all that hard.
This may sound strange but one customer was all hot over Linux when he found out his employees couldn't install Weather Bug. I suppose a good consultant would have told him he could lock the Windows users down the same way, but it was such an insightful moment I didn't have the heart.
Whoa, a flash of corporate intelligence. That's so unusual anymore.
It was a loser but at least give them credit for recognizing it and trying to make amends. Short term it's ugly either way, but this will limit the long term damage. There's no story now.
Good job, Nintendo. Bite the bullet, apologize, move on.
Are you insane? Do you know how many containers come into the country every day?
Does it matter? If they inspected five a day that's five more than we were looking at last week. We have FEDERAL F'ING AGENTS going around to toy stores instead of working terrorist issues and it doesn't sink in that maybe there's something wrong with this picture?
And you spell harbour like a foreigner. Around here it's a harbor.
Say what? You don't think a draft dodging college cheerleader from Conneticut is going to be tougher on terrorism than a guy who went out and got shot fighting on the front lines of an unpopular war?
Dude, that is so messed up. Next you're going to be telling me that the terrorists got a hold of 760,000 pounds of the world's finest plastic explosives because this same college cheerleader blew off data from the UN.
Lefty, pagan crack addict. The country club membership is going to be taking a SERIOUS look at your application, buddy.
95% of shipping containers coming into this country aren't being inspected, yet we have law enforcement agents to spare to make sure Pufferbelly Toys pulls those subversive Magic Cubes off their store shelf? Has our government gone completely f'ing insane?
It's a matter of priorities and if this our current administration's idea of a law enforcement priority, then we need change really, really bad.
Homeland Security raiding toy stores because they've run out of terrorist threats, or the fact that they can't tell the difference between a patent and a copyright. And we're surprised other countries think we're idiots.
You have a chance to do something about it next Tuesday. Go vote.
We're going to have to change our name to the country formerly known as the land of the free.
Amazing how you can organize otherwise intelligent people into a corporation and their collective IQ nosedives.
If Nintendo was trying to stir up loyalty and direct web traffic to Suicide Girls, then this plan was f'ing brilliant. If it was for any other reason, they're on crack.
There isn't a win for Nintendo anywhere in here I can see. It's possible the law firm is under contract to provide the service and did this without Nintendo's direct knowledge. But if Nintendo bought off on this...crack.
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I agree with you, but do you really think the Wal-Mart shopping red masses are really going to resonate with data privacy? Half of them couldn't spell it let alone relate to it. Maybe if you sponsored a data privacy NASCAR and got Toby Keith to sing a country song about someone's grandmother losing their farm because a foreigner stole her identity, then one or two might catch a clue. Otherwise it's pearls before swine.
Another vote for meeeee! Wo-ho! :)
Unless I'm overlooking something that's a very attractive package. Anxious to see how it sells. If this takes off it's going to hit MSFT's pricing model fairly hard.
The real concern isn't this little system or that little system, it's the accumulated weight of information contained in all of them. Zero regulation about who collects it, how long and what it's used for.
"Well now, Mr. Anderson, I see here you returned a pair of size 38 pants this week. Two years ago you returned a pair of size 32 pants. We have a certain image to maintain at this organization and expect our employees to reflect that image, Porky- I mean Mr. Anderson."
That may sound hokey, but I bet it's closer to the mark than most people would feel comfortable admitting. It's not the routine uses that scare me, it's the routine abuses. And those are getting worse.
I think by now the answer to that question is glaringly obvious.
You can bet Al Gore's going to have something to say about that!
The Army doesn't have enough flak vests or armor for the troops in Iraq but the Air Force has 7.5 million to sink into psychic teleportation research. Sure, I can see that. Just imagine being somewhere else when the roadside bomb goes off.
So, this is what it's like being the minority party. You know, it's not all bad. You get to sit back and throw rocks non-stop without accepting any of the responsibility. You can criticize every little mistake with a clear conscience. I like it! If you want unity, go fuck yourself. Ha! I'm going to enjoy this four years.
Was listening to the news from Iraq today and just clicked it off. I don't really give a crap what happens over there anymore. Win, lose, elections, no elections. Don't care. Bankrupt the country? Well, it's the children who are going to have to pay it back, so who cares? Get to work you little rug rats.
Those of you who want unity...go fuck yourself.
Or possibly combined with a modern secessionist movement. I mean, let's face it, we aren't 'one nation' anymore. We have the left-leaning and centrist people on one side and the right wing religious crusaders on the other. And since most of us in middle/left of middle don't want to live in the United Evangelical Churches of America, let's just face up to it and figure out a peaceful, amicable dissolution. Come up with a ten year plan for splitting up.
Of course, in this country that might mean Congress extends them another 150 years, makes violating a patent a felony, tasks Homeland Security with enforcing patent rights, and invades Japan for threatening to duplicate one-click online shopping.
Certainly we have: When in doubt, empty the magazine. An eye for an eye?
I despise half measures. Napalm the whole village.
I think we've established that we're never going to win with the touchy feely crap. It's time to fight fire with fire.
But I'm guessing me might disagree on what to do now. My idea was to buy time on a little light bulb AM station somewhere and air the voice of the independent radio show. Spend the next four years hacking everything the Republicans do, spouting conspiracy theories, stating absolute garbage as established fact and screening calls to make it sound like everyone agrees with me. Pretend to be an overall Bush supporter, then mention every piece of dirt that has plausible deniability.
I'd spend the next four years hacking back at them in the media like they did for eight years of Clinton's term.
Politics is a dirty game and it's time to start fighting dirty.
I'm guessing that may not be what you have in mind, but we've got nothing to lose going negative at this point. Light the flame throwers! You want division, we'll give you division and angry, unrelenting defensiveness until you're stuffed with it. We'll take our cues from Karl Rove's playbook and make winning a living hell.
For the moment the Russians have a far more capable space program than we do and the Chinese have a bigger industrial base. We can eventually beat the Russians with technology, but not in the short term. But with all our collective money funding the war in Iraq, we would not be able to out-produce or out-spend the Chinese.
I think all it will end up doing is spurring Russia and China into matching the threat. Hopefully we don't find out the hard way that their space capabilities have improved beyond our ability to catch up.
If you want to be inclusive and widen your base of support, I'm not sure making the Secret Service your personal sidewalk clearing thugs is a winning strategy. To me you'd want to at least make an effort to listen to those who disagreed with you, not push them blocks away so the news cameras can't see them.
I guess we'll find out tomorrow if it's a winning strategy or if American has finally had enough of the Karl Rove Show.
We don't know why they shut them down. More likely because some of the users were finding their way around the government approved web sites.
They are right to be concerned. We have no problem trampling on the rights of their own citizens, why on earth would you think we would respect the rights of other countries? We've let fear justify anything we think is necessary.
We don't deserve to lead the world, we don't deserve respect and you're certainly right not to trust us.
And, speaking of trust, we trust foreign nations with mountains of data about US citizens. Medical records, financial histories, you name it. Properly aggregated it's everything they'd need to build a very complete dossier on just about anyone. This would seem like an obvious security hole, but we're experts at straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel.
Yet another reason to come to the Great White North!
Ouch.
Was that OS and productivity software, or just the OS? I've had customers save considerably more just on the productivity software.
But I think we'll get the whole package when it comes upgrade time. When staff are already using OSS productivity and browser software replacing the OS isn't all that hard.
This may sound strange but one customer was all hot over Linux when he found out his employees couldn't install Weather Bug. I suppose a good consultant would have told him he could lock the Windows users down the same way, but it was such an insightful moment I didn't have the heart.
It was a loser but at least give them credit for recognizing it and trying to make amends. Short term it's ugly either way, but this will limit the long term damage. There's no story now.
Good job, Nintendo. Bite the bullet, apologize, move on.
Does it matter? If they inspected five a day that's five more than we were looking at last week. We have FEDERAL F'ING AGENTS going around to toy stores instead of working terrorist issues and it doesn't sink in that maybe there's something wrong with this picture?
And you spell harbour like a foreigner. Around here it's a harbor.
Dude, that is so messed up. Next you're going to be telling me that the terrorists got a hold of 760,000 pounds of the world's finest plastic explosives because this same college cheerleader blew off data from the UN.
Lefty, pagan crack addict. The country club membership is going to be taking a SERIOUS look at your application, buddy.
It's a matter of priorities and if this our current administration's idea of a law enforcement priority, then we need change really, really bad.
You have a chance to do something about it next Tuesday. Go vote.
We're going to have to change our name to the country formerly known as the land of the free.
Getting Linux TCO news from Ballmer is about as reliable as getting news about Iraq from Dick Cheney.
If Nintendo was trying to stir up loyalty and direct web traffic to Suicide Girls, then this plan was f'ing brilliant. If it was for any other reason, they're on crack.
There isn't a win for Nintendo anywhere in here I can see. It's possible the law firm is under contract to provide the service and did this without Nintendo's direct knowledge. But if Nintendo bought off on this...crack.
You say that like it's a bad thing.