With the misnamed Patriot Act, we're already there. The other country that wants ISP's to keep that much data on their customers is China.
And the best part is the Republicans own this issue, 100%. Republican Congress, Senate and White House. The people robbing you of your privacy and individual freedoms are Republicans. They can't blame Clinton anymore. The only Republican screaming for privacy is Rush Limbaugh, trying to keep his medical records out of the hands of Florida drug prosecutors.
That may sound odd coming from a Republican, but the new brand of right wing Republicans are tearing this country apart. They're bad for the country and they're polluting the party. We need to get back to what we've stood for traditionally: States rights, fiscal responsibility, respect for individual privacy, less government, lower taxes and respect for all religions, not just evangelical Christians.
Besides, this will only work for those not smart enough to know how to use a secure proxy. This is so stupid. Like we don't have enough basic terrorism issues to address, they have to range into the retarded extreme.
...of the space shuttle. AAAAAAAAGGHHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAGGHHHHHH!!!! Oh, wait, it's just SuitSat.
Be a great joke to play on the new guys. The first ghost story in space. And they say old Bob still orbits around these parts, forever relaying ham radio signals.
I can remember when visiting a Disney theme park was actually fun. Before the days they started treating visitors like a revenue stream, before the lines were 45 minutes, and even some of the smaller, sideline attractions (ie Enchanted Tiki Room) were really cute. The days when Disney was considered THE place for creative people to work, and was consistently on the list of top 100 places to work.
Those days are over.
Somewhere along the line Disney sold their corporate soul. The magic is gone. I think that happened right about the same time they started threatening to sue day care centers for having Disney characters painted on the walls.
Disney has had their day, now it's time to start the long, slow slide into obscurity. A pathetic characture of their former selves. Like the aged, drunken barfly who reeks of cheap booze and whose soul reflects the casual abrasions of the body, but still sees herself as young and attractive. "I'm Disney, everybody love me!" Not anymore, lady. Go home.
Is there a standard layout, ala ATX, for laptops? I think if you could buy the component pieces like a desktop and build your own, you'd see more innovation in the laptop space.
Too many times with laptops I start with the specs I need then go shopping for someone who makes it.
However, the fact that no western nation is actually DOING anything about this is indicidive of world politics today.
They should have sent her to GITMO, then they could've had the "trial" without all the cameras and publicity. Those weepy shots with the parents were definitely bad press.
What a bunch of amateurs. They don't even have the Patriot Act or their own string of talk radio shows to act as government mouthpieces. How are these rubes ever going to get good at denying people their civil rights with a primitive set up like they have?
It was amazing how many dates I got fixing computers for women. I'd be sitting there trying to recover some report they fragged and they'd be running beer for me, fixing snacks and their roommates would be chatting me up. That's when I knew geeks were quickly gaining Alpha Male status in the pack.
It's sort of like dating a model, once you're in the club you start getting passed around like a jar of cheese dip at a late night slumber party. Pretty soon one of her friends would call with a computer problem and you'd wake up three days later at her house with a fixed computer and a tequila hangover from hell.
And girls? Come on, step up and defend your Republican stance on this issue. You elected these people, let's hear you stand behind them now.
And while we're at it, everyone who voted for this administration should have at least one kid in the Army or Marines. And everyone of service age who voted for them should be on the way to their local Army recruiter. Just like Bush and Cheney's kids have done. Get down there and enlist.
Maybe they're too busy drawing up a secret lists of people to investigate.
Imagine if the FBI had these powers during the Red Scare days. People would just disappear. Of course, if not a terrorist you don't have anything to hi--
And on another note, why aren't more consumers, in this day of rampant identity theft, completely outraged by these events.
And what good would that do? Unless you're buying your Congresscritters 30 second spots or shuttling them around in your private jet with the very accommodating flight attendant, then you're barking at the breeze, buddy.
In this age of government by the highest bidder, the people losing your data are the highest bidders. Too bad. You can get as mad as you want but it doesn't change anything.
There are links to other articles showing the percentage anywhere from 8 to 26. In other words, a Wild Ass Guess.
What's more significant is that, even at the low end, it's a higher percentage than Mac has enjoyed historically. Good for them. They're turning out some good products and expanding their market share.
But I'll bet the real issue with most of the converts is security. With Windoze you pay for the OS, then pay for an antivirus subscription, pay for a spyware removal program...the active word in all those is "pay." So, yeah, Mac's may cost a little more on the front end but when you add on all those subscription extras for Windoze it evens out.
Windows is fine if you don't surf the internet with it. I surf with Linux and work on a Windows box on the segment not connected to the internet and it's fine. Otherwise get a Mac. My friends with the new minis just rave about them.
The same sellers will offer identical products at vastly different prices, you really have to shop around. Not all of them do that, but I've caught it a few times because I shop for very distinctive products, like underwater video cameras (no, not for shooting underwater p0rn) and ROV's.
There was once when the 'republican" party and the 'conservatives' meant smaller govt, less spending, and less intrusiveness.
That is so true. It points up the obvious that Bush people are neocons and an insult to true conservatives. Bush backers are more fascist than conservative but fascist is a tough label to sell in Oklahoma. So they call themselves conservative.
...the clueless fuckwits who think everyone in a 50 foot radius needs to hear their cell phone ring.
Consider yourself lucky. We have several of the clueless fuckwits who think it's okay to dial their phone with the speaker phone.
I don't think office courtesy is an educated skill, but by odd coincidence the people most likely to do that are not college grads. They're also the same ones who think it's okay to listen to their messages on speaker phone.
I've been using OO for a couple years and have never had problems sending documents to customers or opening theirs. Sometimes the formatting isn't exactly right, but as long as I can read it.
Most of the time I'm sending them PDF's by posting them on the web server, which is as easy as saving them to a network folder, which I do right from OO. And I really like being able to use the same application on Windows or Linux.
I've also known some small offices that have switched over, very few problems. All those FUD talking points MSFT uses are absolute crap. There is no massive learning curve or training costs and anyone who can open a PDF can read what you create.
A $100,000 to a school district is a lot of money. That could pay for an after school program for a whole year, equipment for a sports program, an extra teacher. Even if OO was a vastly inferior product, which it's not IMHO, it would seem like the things you could do with the money in a school far outweigh having the latest and greatest software.
I'm a frequent flyer and I'm already pissed with the current security measures.
Get yourself elected then you get to skip all the invasive security and go through VIP security check which is the white glove treatment. That's on those rare times when you're flying commercial instead of being whisked around in private jets by lobbyists and companies looking for favors.
I maintain one of the big reasons crap like this goes on is that Congress never sees it. They never have to mix with us little people so they're never subject to that long, long wait in the security line. So it's no surprise when TSA tells them that the wait is acceptable to most people. It's a lie, but how would they know?
For my home stuff I switched to Linux a long time ago. Still keep a token XP machine on the network, but not connected to the internet. XP is fine as long as you don't use it for surfing the net.
But I've been hearing a lot of frustration with MSFT from my business customers. There's always been a certain amount of grumbling about security and license terms, but the tone has become noticably sharper of late. More actual experiments with alternative products, pilot projects being extended and expanded. More and more the talk is starting to translate into the walk.
Whether it's Linux or Mac I think the real interesting aspect of this article is that it was a business customer deciding to switch. Business customers and gamers. I pay more attention to those stories than a home user who finally gets a clue.
I bought one for exactly the situation you described. I'm writing my spare time book with it. Any time I'm waiting in line, or waiting for my wife to finish eating (she pushes her food around and pouts at it instead of actually eating), or even in the bathroom.
It's got an integrated keyboard but still fits in my pocket easily. It's thin and light weight but powerful enough to handle the word processor the media player and the integrated wireless connection at the same time.
To me what makes it perfect is I can clamp on the headphones and it comes with enough memory that I can carry two hours worth of music while I work.
It's not cheap but to me it's some of the best tech money I've ever spent. And it comes with the software to sync with your desktop and backup your writing.
Then, you have those logs checked by another person, not at that location. Was there a legitimate reason for the access (withdrawl/deposit)? Was that access initiated by the customer?
PAY someone to do access security? ROFLTIPMP! Not until there are massive fines for data breaches is anything like that going to happen. And with this administration in office you can forget that.
I'm surprised Bush doesn't figure out some way to reward them for having your indentity stolen. As it is there's absolutely no down side for Chase, except some minor embarrassment. The credit monitoring is a largely symbolic effort aimed at trying to keep their customers from stomping off in disgust.
It just dawned on my that many of you weren't even alive when the first movie came out, including a lot of those standing in line. 2nd generation of line people. The only thing I remember clearly about the first movie is the first hyperdrive jump. A whole theater full of people went "wow" all at once. That was one of my personal all time classic movie moments.
Another one was Carrie Fisher in the slave costume in Return of the Jedi.
Hard to believe Mark Hamill is in his late 50's with kids of his own. He's done well as an actor.
Lucas came out pretty well, too, with a personal worth of around 3bn. I could live on that.:)
Good choice, shows a lot of insight. As cars become more complicated the electronics in them become more specialized and fewer people are able to do their own service. Not only that but as mining operations become more automated, that's more job security for you, the guy keeping the machines running.
I hardly know anyone in IT these days who doesn't have a fall back career or is at least thinking of one. Toyed with the idea of going to BMW's repair school, but they don't take old guys. Would've been interesting, though.
This is what happens when you outsource people. They abandon the field. So when Abdula's code starts getting sloppy because his company is taking on more outsource work than he can keep up with and starts getting a worse product to start with from the junior programmers, the customer here starts getting a crap product. Then they need someone here to fix it. But you've driven everyone out of the field and end up paying twice what you would have had you kept the work here in the first place.
And all those of us in the field can say is HA-HA!
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With the misnamed Patriot Act, we're already there. The other country that wants ISP's to keep that much data on their customers is China.
And the best part is the Republicans own this issue, 100%. Republican Congress, Senate and White House. The people robbing you of your privacy and individual freedoms are Republicans. They can't blame Clinton anymore. The only Republican screaming for privacy is Rush Limbaugh, trying to keep his medical records out of the hands of Florida drug prosecutors.
That may sound odd coming from a Republican, but the new brand of right wing Republicans are tearing this country apart. They're bad for the country and they're polluting the party. We need to get back to what we've stood for traditionally: States rights, fiscal responsibility, respect for individual privacy, less government, lower taxes and respect for all religions, not just evangelical Christians.
Besides, this will only work for those not smart enough to know how to use a secure proxy. This is so stupid. Like we don't have enough basic terrorism issues to address, they have to range into the retarded extreme.
The next shocker will be finding out Joe Scarborough, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh are all paid right wing shills for a corrupt administration.
Be a great joke to play on the new guys. The first ghost story in space. And they say old Bob still orbits around these parts, forever relaying ham radio signals.
Those days are over.
Somewhere along the line Disney sold their corporate soul. The magic is gone. I think that happened right about the same time they started threatening to sue day care centers for having Disney characters painted on the walls.
Disney has had their day, now it's time to start the long, slow slide into obscurity. A pathetic characture of their former selves. Like the aged, drunken barfly who reeks of cheap booze and whose soul reflects the casual abrasions of the body, but still sees herself as young and attractive. "I'm Disney, everybody love me!" Not anymore, lady. Go home.
Too many times with laptops I start with the specs I need then go shopping for someone who makes it.
They should have sent her to GITMO, then they could've had the "trial" without all the cameras and publicity. Those weepy shots with the parents were definitely bad press.
What a bunch of amateurs. They don't even have the Patriot Act or their own string of talk radio shows to act as government mouthpieces. How are these rubes ever going to get good at denying people their civil rights with a primitive set up like they have?
It's sort of like dating a model, once you're in the club you start getting passed around like a jar of cheese dip at a late night slumber party. Pretty soon one of her friends would call with a computer problem and you'd wake up three days later at her house with a fixed computer and a tequila hangover from hell.
And while we're at it, everyone who voted for this administration should have at least one kid in the Army or Marines. And everyone of service age who voted for them should be on the way to their local Army recruiter. Just like Bush and Cheney's kids have done. Get down there and enlist.
Maybe they're too busy drawing up a secret lists of people to investigate.
Imagine if the FBI had these powers during the Red Scare days. People would just disappear. Of course, if not a terrorist you don't have anything to hi--
And the military will pay him millions, then ignore his advice.
And what good would that do? Unless you're buying your Congresscritters 30 second spots or shuttling them around in your private jet with the very accommodating flight attendant, then you're barking at the breeze, buddy.
In this age of government by the highest bidder, the people losing your data are the highest bidders. Too bad. You can get as mad as you want but it doesn't change anything.
What's more significant is that, even at the low end, it's a higher percentage than Mac has enjoyed historically. Good for them. They're turning out some good products and expanding their market share.
But I'll bet the real issue with most of the converts is security. With Windoze you pay for the OS, then pay for an antivirus subscription, pay for a spyware removal program...the active word in all those is "pay." So, yeah, Mac's may cost a little more on the front end but when you add on all those subscription extras for Windoze it evens out.
Windows is fine if you don't surf the internet with it. I surf with Linux and work on a Windows box on the segment not connected to the internet and it's fine. Otherwise get a Mac. My friends with the new minis just rave about them.
Quick, Steve, to the bat jet! Time for another dose of the monkey dancing CEO for those rubes in DC!
That Rush Limbaugh is a very trusting fat, pasty white guy.
The same sellers will offer identical products at vastly different prices, you really have to shop around. Not all of them do that, but I've caught it a few times because I shop for very distinctive products, like underwater video cameras (no, not for shooting underwater p0rn) and ROV's.
They're dead, Jim.
Sometimes it's not what's counted but what's not counted.
That is so true. It points up the obvious that Bush people are neocons and an insult to true conservatives. Bush backers are more fascist than conservative but fascist is a tough label to sell in Oklahoma. So they call themselves conservative.
Consider yourself lucky. We have several of the clueless fuckwits who think it's okay to dial their phone with the speaker phone.
I don't think office courtesy is an educated skill, but by odd coincidence the people most likely to do that are not college grads. They're also the same ones who think it's okay to listen to their messages on speaker phone.
Most of the time I'm sending them PDF's by posting them on the web server, which is as easy as saving them to a network folder, which I do right from OO. And I really like being able to use the same application on Windows or Linux.
I've also known some small offices that have switched over, very few problems. All those FUD talking points MSFT uses are absolute crap. There is no massive learning curve or training costs and anyone who can open a PDF can read what you create.
A $100,000 to a school district is a lot of money. That could pay for an after school program for a whole year, equipment for a sports program, an extra teacher. Even if OO was a vastly inferior product, which it's not IMHO, it would seem like the things you could do with the money in a school far outweigh having the latest and greatest software.
Get yourself elected then you get to skip all the invasive security and go through VIP security check which is the white glove treatment. That's on those rare times when you're flying commercial instead of being whisked around in private jets by lobbyists and companies looking for favors.
I maintain one of the big reasons crap like this goes on is that Congress never sees it. They never have to mix with us little people so they're never subject to that long, long wait in the security line. So it's no surprise when TSA tells them that the wait is acceptable to most people. It's a lie, but how would they know?
But I've been hearing a lot of frustration with MSFT from my business customers. There's always been a certain amount of grumbling about security and license terms, but the tone has become noticably sharper of late. More actual experiments with alternative products, pilot projects being extended and expanded. More and more the talk is starting to translate into the walk.
Whether it's Linux or Mac I think the real interesting aspect of this article is that it was a business customer deciding to switch. Business customers and gamers. I pay more attention to those stories than a home user who finally gets a clue.
It's got an integrated keyboard but still fits in my pocket easily. It's thin and light weight but powerful enough to handle the word processor the media player and the integrated wireless connection at the same time.
To me what makes it perfect is I can clamp on the headphones and it comes with enough memory that I can carry two hours worth of music while I work.
It's not cheap but to me it's some of the best tech money I've ever spent. And it comes with the software to sync with your desktop and backup your writing.
PAY someone to do access security? ROFLTIPMP! Not until there are massive fines for data breaches is anything like that going to happen. And with this administration in office you can forget that.
I'm surprised Bush doesn't figure out some way to reward them for having your indentity stolen. As it is there's absolutely no down side for Chase, except some minor embarrassment. The credit monitoring is a largely symbolic effort aimed at trying to keep their customers from stomping off in disgust.
lol. Nice pipe dream, though.
Another one was Carrie Fisher in the slave costume in Return of the Jedi.
Hard to believe Mark Hamill is in his late 50's with kids of his own. He's done well as an actor.
Lucas came out pretty well, too, with a personal worth of around 3bn. I could live on that. :)
Good choice, shows a lot of insight. As cars become more complicated the electronics in them become more specialized and fewer people are able to do their own service. Not only that but as mining operations become more automated, that's more job security for you, the guy keeping the machines running.
I hardly know anyone in IT these days who doesn't have a fall back career or is at least thinking of one. Toyed with the idea of going to BMW's repair school, but they don't take old guys. Would've been interesting, though.
This is what happens when you outsource people. They abandon the field. So when Abdula's code starts getting sloppy because his company is taking on more outsource work than he can keep up with and starts getting a worse product to start with from the junior programmers, the customer here starts getting a crap product. Then they need someone here to fix it. But you've driven everyone out of the field and end up paying twice what you would have had you kept the work here in the first place.
And all those of us in the field can say is HA-HA!