Sorry kid but this attempt to be funny is tasteless.
Your attitude towards writing and education and the modern nonchalant political correct mantra that "pens are unnecessary because we do have computers" strikes me as elitistic.
There are *millions* of people that would have given their left arm just for the ability to write with a pen so they can get a decent job. Please think about those children that never will earn the privilege it is to be able to take an education.
So before you throw away that cheap and "useless" Bic-pen think about what a kid in Africa could have achieved with that pen.
When I was a kid we had to write with old-school ink and we were grateful. So should you.
The pen is not a device but an opportunity to master the skill our society needs.
To be successful in the business world today, you absolutely have to incorporate some sort of technology. If you don't, your competitors will and they will have a lower cost of doing business because of it.
Technology is important but I don't think it's absolutly necessary to have an advantage in tech. over other companies to succeed.
There are plenty of companies like American Airlines, UAL, NWA, Delta, Continental, World, MCI Worldcom, Halliburton and Bectel that make money without succumbing to the exspensive and unnecessary technology race.
AFAIK, the average IQ is defined as 100.
if one do a IQ-test on a large population they set the average IQ-number index as 100.
Since this is the average in a large population 50% will be below average and 50% will have a IQ above the average.
(not a good explanation, but you get the picture)
Sad to see that the House is so easily influenced by popular media bias and don't make up their own mind on the issue instead. It's clear that the F.T.C. has been engaging in regulatory imperialism and ruled outside it's area. Why not then let the court decide the case?
Several analysts have ponted out that this coud mean milions of lost jobs in an important industry.
From NyTimes:
He also said the industry would like to work with the government to find a solution acceptable to telemarketers and consumers.
Common, why not call a spade a spade. Everyone knows that this could mean the end off telemarketing as an economical way of doing bussiness. A do-not-call registry will lead to those people that don't wnt to list themselfs in such a Big-brother registry will get more incoming calls, and since they can't buy as much as the whole population eventually they will have to lower themselves to a level where they must sign up to this list.
Several analysts have ponted out that this coud mean milions of lost jobs in an important industry.
While many of us don't like people selling us things we don't like but thats capiatalism you know.
The OSDL was founded in 2000. Its members currently include Alcatel, Cisco, Computer Associates, Dell, Ericsson, Force Computers, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Linuxcare, Miracle Linux Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric, MontaVista Software, NEC Corporation, Nokia, Red Hat, SuSE, Toshiba, and VA Software.
And now NTT.
But why are there not any American telecoms...?
The irony in this is of course that this could lead to a reduction in spam; something that the residents and government of California will loose money on.
Think about the market for huge mail-servers being bought from IBM and Sun to handle communication.. Both companies will loose money beacuse of this; and that will result in reduction of tax money collected.
Yet another example of how Governor Davis don't think about the consequences of his actions before he acts. I'm glad they are replacing him with someone that can bring the economy back on track and think about more than regualtions.
Why do you seek to portray Verisign as such a sleazy company?
AFAIK they have allways delivered a decent service at decent price to their customers. Compared to normal bussiness practise they are just very ethical in their behavior. As a long time customer I must say that they are nice to deal with compared to many of those unethical companies that you find on the internet that just want to scam you.
What is it with their offer to route misspelled domain names that you hate so much?
Give them some credit; they are only trying to make a buck and survive as a company.
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So if you are arguing that they are mentaly ill and therefore not able to change their behavior (this is questionable from a scientific perspective) then why are you arguing that they should be released back into society?
Basically what you are saying is that they are guilty per se, and should be monitored, even after they have done their time. This violates a lot of the traditional thinking in US about freedom and liberty.
I'll start worrying when the ACLU wants to start tracking conservatives that they don't like.
Very "trollish" stuff.
But does it strikes you that you are actually advocating tracking of a group that *you* don't like?
These photos are from the Virginia Tech Supercomputer Cluster composed of 1100 PowerMac G5's. These photos were originally hosted at this link but access was removed, presumably due to excessive bandwidth usage.
I can just feel that some admin will get a deja vu very soon.
Probably just a small glitch in some system.
Internet officials from a consortium consisting of ISP's, ICANN and IEEE put a $2500 price Thursday on Jenny Oldviruslady, hoping to generate tips and information that will lead them to the her spam-machine whose presence remains pervasive in northern USA.
Rewards of $10000 were also set for Jenny Oldviruslady leading figure in the unsecure world of Windows computers.
"We want her dead or alive", a coworker of the oresident said on condition of anonymity.
In Washington, a leading senator on intelligence issues said that Jenny Oldviruslady most likely is still alive.
Many observers think Jenny Oldviruslady may be hiding in Kansas with vast amounts of cookies, although it has been about three months since she was last reported seen.
The reward offers on Jenny Oldviruslady are part of the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program, with the high amounts authorized by the USA Patriot Act III of 2004.
There is nothing artificial about consequent security. It's tested approach that we know will lead to results. Maybe we don't het to be the most innovative country annymore, but that's arisk we are willing to take in order to ensure that we are safe from terrorists.
Do you seriously trust Ascroft less than Osama Bin Laden?
Do you seriously trust that madman more that a God loving patriot willing to to sacrifise some false sense of securuity in order to maintain our freedom and power to strike back against our enemies?
Whatever your opinion on Ascroft and Rumsfeld is; the fact is that they are person's you can trust simply because they are consistent in their policy over time, not jsut in a short glimpse of second.
The qualities we need for homeland security are the same that they can deploy in our research and development sector.
If these "scientists" that we don't allow to enter our country choose to work for Osama how can DHS be blamed for that? It's a free world and we still can't controll their behavior as much as we would like, but blaiming DHS becasue of others people misery is a bit naive and "conspiracyish".
The founding fathers newer intended that our intel should be perfect or our state leaders shoul be a genious, all they wanted was someone that tried to protect the constitution. And there is no doubt that DHS is a broad and gentle approach in securing or continued freedom from oppression.
The aim of the project is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models which frequently give rise to inconclusive predictions
Why would I want to donate may expensive cpu-cycles to this?
To me it sounds like they allready have come to the conclusion that there is a climate change.
Supporting scientist that allready are political biased is "dead in the water".
I would'nt be surprised if they are supported by some lobby group that wants the world to turn back time.
And what about the environmental impact of running tens of thousands of computers for this prohect?
Did they think about that?
In the end this is something that will hurt many businesses and destroy our fragile industry. In the end the industry have to reloacte to some third world country and pollute more there instead. So before you devot your computer to this project, please think about the through the consequences and someone please think about the children and the world we want them to live in.
When I was a kid we did not have the luxery to devote expensive cpu-cycles to climate change, all we could do was to recyle some paper and garbage. Why should anyone be politically forced to more than that?
I would'nt say that you could directly contribute the success of the moon landing to Kennedy.
A lot of the innovation and technology that made it possible to send people to the moon can be traced back before Kennedy. For example the breaktroughs in within rocket science came from scientists that we hired from Germany. They helped us develop the first stages of our rocket program.
So legislating advamcement in technolgy is hard because of the timespan. Luckily our great nation has lately acquired a lot of high tech rocket technology from Iraq. Rumors about their infamous program where true. Their advanced weapon programs contained powerful rockets capable of shuttling us to Mars and back.
And its kind of wrong to name this as "adware".
Adware has traditionally beeen used to describe intrusive and forced advertising that you did not ask for and did not want. Typically bundled with crappy P2P software, dialers, spyware and other malware.
The term "advertising" is better suited for describing this Mandrake distro commercials.
The reason they implemented the "warning feature" is because 1. It works and 2. At that time very few in any viruses at all used spoofing of eamail address.
Therefor they should add dymanic warnings instead based on what type off virus that is detected. Wheter a virus spoofs the eamil adrres and adds afake address should be information "embedded" inside the virus detection files.
As this:
if Detected.Virus=Sobig.F(spoofing email adrress) then DO NOT SENT WARNING.
else if Detected.Virus=Chernobyl(old-school virus without eamil spoofing)
send warning.
(Sucky coding, but you get the picture)
Symantec should send me dime when they implements this in their next version.
I do think there needs to be some sort of limitation to countries that do not have similar worker rights as the western world.
As someone that actually had to outsource a substantiall part of our operations to a low cost country in Asia i find this opinion to be naive.
If you had known how strict some of the countries are on worker rights i think you woyld have beeen surprised. There is a lot of industry certification and regualtions that monitors these factories. Getting all the paperwork done was very expensive and we repeatedly had to include governmental officials in our business in order to get the paperwork done.
And why should US companies _not_ move some parts of their operations to Asia if that can secure the work of others in the USA?
The truth is that many skilled asians really wants to work in these jobs while many lazy american workers don't wants to get their hands dirty.
Most of the asians workers work harder and are willing to work with a bonus scheme while american workers demand a fixed pay and many benefits like expensive health insurance and free lunch time.
On top of that our asian empoyees are more willing to work long hours in order on demand in order to produce more when we get a big contract. American workers on the other side demands a lot in extra pay in the way that i wonder if they really supports our business.
I have realizzed that most of them only think about themselfes and not about the good relationship between the business and our workers.
So why would we want workers to have "similar worker right as in the western world" when these benfits hurts american businesses and makes it impossible to compete with other countries?
Given the experience of the RPC exploit, this probably gives administrators a couple of weeks to patch all the systems in their organisations.
Shouldn't that have been:
Given the experience of former RPC exploit, this probably gives administrators who don't know what they are doing a couple of weeks to ignore this patch for all the systems in their organisations.
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9 words can say a lot about a person.
Your attitude towards writing and education and the modern nonchalant political correct mantra that "pens are unnecessary because we do have computers" strikes me as elitistic.
There are *millions* of people that would have given their left arm just for the ability to write with a pen so they can get a decent job. Please think about those children that never will earn the privilege it is to be able to take an education.
So before you throw away that cheap and "useless" Bic-pen think about what a kid in Africa could have achieved with that pen.
When I was a kid we had to write with old-school ink and we were grateful. So should you.
The pen is not a device but an opportunity to master the skill our society needs.
There are plenty of companies like American Airlines, UAL, NWA, Delta, Continental, World, MCI Worldcom, Halliburton and Bectel that make money without succumbing to the exspensive and unnecessary technology race.
if one do a IQ-test on a large population they set the average IQ-number index as 100.
Since this is the average in a large population 50% will be below average and 50% will have a IQ above the average.
(not a good explanation, but you get the picture)
Just because 50 million people have used P2P software that does not make it less unethical or illegal.
"Representative government" goes both ways.
Several analysts have ponted out that this coud mean milions of lost jobs in an important industry.
Common, why not call a spade a spade. Everyone knows that this could mean the end off telemarketing as an economical way of doing bussiness. A do-not-call registry will lead to those people that don't wnt to list themselfs in such a Big-brother registry will get more incoming calls, and since they can't buy as much as the whole population eventually they will have to lower themselves to a level where they must sign up to this list.From NyTimes:
Several analysts have ponted out that this coud mean milions of lost jobs in an important industry.
While many of us don't like people selling us things we don't like but thats capiatalism you know.
But why are there not any American telecoms...?
Think about the market for huge mail-servers being bought from IBM and Sun to handle communication.. Both companies will loose money beacuse of this; and that will result in reduction of tax money collected.
Yet another example of how Governor Davis don't think about the consequences of his actions before he acts. I'm glad they are replacing him with someone that can bring the economy back on track and think about more than regualtions.
AFAIK they have allways delivered a decent service at decent price to their customers. Compared to normal bussiness practise they are just very ethical in their behavior. As a long time customer I must say that they are nice to deal with compared to many of those unethical companies that you find on the internet that just want to scam you.
What is it with their offer to route misspelled domain names that you hate so much?
Give them some credit; they are only trying to make a buck and survive as a company.
Basically what you are saying is that they are guilty per se, and should be monitored, even after they have done their time. This violates a lot of the traditional thinking in US about freedom and liberty.
Very "trollish" stuff.
But does it strikes you that you are actually advocating tracking of a group that *you* don't like?
I can just feel that some admin will get a deja vu very soon.
Probably just a small glitch in some system.
Rewards of $10000 were also set for Jenny Oldviruslady leading figure in the unsecure world of Windows computers.
"We want her dead or alive", a coworker of the oresident said on condition of anonymity.
In Washington, a leading senator on intelligence issues said that Jenny Oldviruslady most likely is still alive.
Many observers think Jenny Oldviruslady may be hiding in Kansas with vast amounts of cookies, although it has been about three months since she was last reported seen.
The reward offers on Jenny Oldviruslady are part of the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program, with the high amounts authorized by the USA Patriot Act III of 2004.
Die speilnlg Tllor, die!!
There is nothing artificial about consequent security. It's tested approach that we know will lead to results. Maybe we don't het to be the most innovative country annymore, but that's arisk we are willing to take in order to ensure that we are safe from terrorists.
Do you seriously trust Ascroft less than Osama Bin Laden?
Do you seriously trust that madman more that a God loving patriot willing to to sacrifise some false sense of securuity in order to maintain our freedom and power to strike back against our enemies?
Whatever your opinion on Ascroft and Rumsfeld is; the fact is that they are person's you can trust simply because they are consistent in their policy over time, not jsut in a short glimpse of second.
The qualities we need for homeland security are the same that they can deploy in our research and development sector.
If these "scientists" that we don't allow to enter our country choose to work for Osama how can DHS be blamed for that? It's a free world and we still can't controll their behavior as much as we would like, but blaiming DHS becasue of others people misery is a bit naive and "conspiracyish".
The founding fathers newer intended that our intel should be perfect or our state leaders shoul be a genious, all they wanted was someone that tried to protect the constitution. And there is no doubt that DHS is a broad and gentle approach in securing or continued freedom from oppression.
To me it sounds like they allready have come to the conclusion that there is a climate change.
Supporting scientist that allready are political biased is "dead in the water".
I would'nt be surprised if they are supported by some lobby group that wants the world to turn back time.
And what about the environmental impact of running tens of thousands of computers for this prohect?
Did they think about that?
In the end this is something that will hurt many businesses and destroy our fragile industry. In the end the industry have to reloacte to some third world country and pollute more there instead. So before you devot your computer to this project, please think about the through the consequences and someone please think about the children and the world we want them to live in.
When I was a kid we did not have the luxery to devote expensive cpu-cycles to climate change, all we could do was to recyle some paper and garbage. Why should anyone be politically forced to more than that?
A lot of the innovation and technology that made it possible to send people to the moon can be traced back before Kennedy. For example the breaktroughs in within rocket science came from scientists that we hired from Germany. They helped us develop the first stages of our rocket program.
So legislating advamcement in technolgy is hard because of the timespan. Luckily our great nation has lately acquired a lot of high tech rocket technology from Iraq. Rumors about their infamous program where true. Their advanced weapon programs contained powerful rockets capable of shuttling us to Mars and back.
Adware has traditionally beeen used to describe intrusive and forced advertising that you did not ask for and did not want. Typically bundled with crappy P2P software, dialers, spyware and other malware.
The term "advertising" is better suited for describing this Mandrake distro commercials.
Everybody knows that WHOIS lists plenty of chicks.
Direct download link here.
Therefor they should add dymanic warnings instead based on what type off virus that is detected. Wheter a virus spoofs the eamil adrres and adds afake address should be information "embedded" inside the virus detection files.
As this:
if Detected.Virus=Sobig.F(spoofing email adrress) then DO NOT SENT WARNING.
else if Detected.Virus=Chernobyl(old-school virus without eamil spoofing) send warning.
(Sucky coding, but you get the picture)
Symantec should send me dime when they implements this in their next version.
If you had known how strict some of the countries are on worker rights i think you woyld have beeen surprised. There is a lot of industry certification and regualtions that monitors these factories. Getting all the paperwork done was very expensive and we repeatedly had to include governmental officials in our business in order to get the paperwork done.
And why should US companies _not_ move some parts of their operations to Asia if that can secure the work of others in the USA?
The truth is that many skilled asians really wants to work in these jobs while many lazy american workers don't wants to get their hands dirty.
Most of the asians workers work harder and are willing to work with a bonus scheme while american workers demand a fixed pay and many benefits like expensive health insurance and free lunch time.
On top of that our asian empoyees are more willing to work long hours in order on demand in order to produce more when we get a big contract. American workers on the other side demands a lot in extra pay in the way that i wonder if they really supports our business.
I have realizzed that most of them only think about themselfes and not about the good relationship between the business and our workers.
So why would we want workers to have "similar worker right as in the western world" when these benfits hurts american businesses and makes it impossible to compete with other countries?
Shouldn't that have been:
Given the experience of former RPC exploit, this probably gives administrators who don't know what they are doing a couple of weeks to ignore this patch for all the systems in their organisations.