I doubt that even Vincent was stupid enough to think that AOL phone monkey is a career, rather than a shit job that is bound to end abruptly. Hell, they did him a favor by firing him. Even flipping burgers would be more rewarding. When you work for assholes, you're probably going to get fucked.
This is AOL you're talking about. The "consumer" is always wrong. How else can they get people to keep paying more for shitty dialup than most companies charge for DSL.
There are many talented public school graduates, and many good public schools. The problem is that we have a politically correct philosophy that everyone who attends for 12 years gets a diploma. No matter how little someone really tries, they can get a high school diploma just by showing up (and sometimes not even that). Therefore, a high school diploma is not useful for much other than getting into college. I shudder to think what will happen when a college education is considered to be a right that every young person is entitled to.
Its kind of hard to get a corporation to invest a lot of money in a country where the government is not all that stable, revolution is a strong possibility, warlords rule the countryside, and people kill each other because they believe the person put a spell on them. This describes a large chunk of Africa. There may be cheap labor and eager workers, but until the basic issues are taken care of, a prosperous economy will still be years away.
Yes, but hippies don't like anything that favors corporate America in any way, so they would not support sending jobs to India, even if it helps people over there.
In every case I've seen or heard of, the slowest cable modem service is faster than the fastest DSL service. I've never seen or heard of any exceptions to this.
This is a perfect example of "Microsoft Innovation" like Steve Ballmer was yammering on and on about during the anti-trust trial. Let someone else do the work and when something is successful, copy it and extinguish the original. But in this case, I don't see Microsoft's usual "innovation" plan succeeding.
Millions of people use Microsoft operating systems with internet access every day. Most of them are not attacked if they take just a few basic precautions, which you must take with Linux anyhow. I know blind Microsoft hatred is fun, but the situation is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. Put an unpatched Linux box straight on the internet with no firewall and see what happens to it.
Brilliant piece. You should polish up your resume and send it out, since you're more than qualified to be a CEO, knowing exactly how the business cycle works. Now just work on your golf game, and you'll be making millions before you know it.
Anyone who buys this first Blu-Ray player will confirm the theory that a sucker is born every minute. Assuming Blu-Ray is even around a year from now, players will cost maybe $300-$400. Remember how fast DVD players came down in price? This is probably just to make money from the 10 or so people who are stupid enough to pay a grand just to have bragging rights, and then the price promptly drops by a couple hundred $$.
The BBB can't and won't do anything. What happened here was criminal. If the U.S. mail was used in this process, it's mail fraud and you should inform the Postmaster General. Otherwise, file a complaint with your state Attorney General. Scams like this are common, and so are prosecutions. At the very least, you won't have to pay anything once you've reported the fraud. You might even be able to sue for damages.
What the hell are you complaining about? That a government employee will be seeing your SSN? Oh my god, the shock and horror! Guess what else they can see: your checking account and routing number. That's almost as big of a concern as your SSN since that's all it takes to drain your account. There will ALWAYS be confidential information on tax returns, that's why they're confidential. And employees hired to handle this information are properly screened. No, I'm not saying that the government never fails to keep things safe, but asking you to put an SSN on a check, which is already a piece of confidential information, is hardly an outrage. In fact, its a non-issue. It's YOUR fault that the processing got held up, not the government.
This is only possible due to a lack of informed voters. When less than 30% of the people bother to vote, who really runs the government? In other words, we could change this situation if we wanted but we are collectively too lazy and content.
$100k, without including the cost of benefits? Where? I live in the Chicago area and would love to know which town pays this much. I have a really hard time believing it, even for the rich North Shore schools. I do however completely agree that public employee pensions are completely out of control and need to be knocked down a notch. The costs for future taxpayers will be enormous.
Yes, but try getting an administrative assistant to do this. They won't; you can guarantee they will just do the easy thing and write it down. This is not always a bad thing, though, provided they don't stick it on their monitor or something.
The real reason for requiring ID to fly is for security... of the airlines' financial bottom line. You see, when ID is required, tickets cannot be exchanged or resold. Thus, all tickets are now non-refundable, unless you want to pay $1000 for them. So if you can't fly on the ticketed date and want to send someone else instead, too bad.
Win 98 was only stable when you had perfectly behaving applications, since its task manager was powerless to shut down a misbehaving app. That required a reboot.
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No link is necessary. Microsoft and Bush bashing in the same post is automatically a +5 Insightful. Now if the author had also worked in a slam on the RIAA, they would have a Slashdot Trifecta. Maybe there should be a special rating for that, like +100 Genius or something.
A protection racket would be the anti-virus companies writing and releasing viruses, then charging you for protection from them. That's not what is happening here. Anti-virus products are certainly sold using scare tactics, but then again so is insurance. If someone discovers that Symantec is behind the latest virus that they're selling protection from, I guarantee criminal charges will follow.
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Ah Yes, its been a little while since I've seen Team America.
I doubt that even Vincent was stupid enough to think that AOL phone monkey is a career, rather than a shit job that is bound to end abruptly. Hell, they did him a favor by firing him. Even flipping burgers would be more rewarding. When you work for assholes, you're probably going to get fucked.
This is AOL you're talking about. The "consumer" is always wrong. How else can they get people to keep paying more for shitty dialup than most companies charge for DSL.
There are many talented public school graduates, and many good public schools. The problem is that we have a politically correct philosophy that everyone who attends for 12 years gets a diploma. No matter how little someone really tries, they can get a high school diploma just by showing up (and sometimes not even that). Therefore, a high school diploma is not useful for much other than getting into college. I shudder to think what will happen when a college education is considered to be a right that every young person is entitled to.
Its kind of hard to get a corporation to invest a lot of money in a country where the government is not all that stable, revolution is a strong possibility, warlords rule the countryside, and people kill each other because they believe the person put a spell on them. This describes a large chunk of Africa. There may be cheap labor and eager workers, but until the basic issues are taken care of, a prosperous economy will still be years away.
Yes, but hippies don't like anything that favors corporate America in any way, so they would not support sending jobs to India, even if it helps people over there.
In every case I've seen or heard of, the slowest cable modem service is faster than the fastest DSL service. I've never seen or heard of any exceptions to this.
This is a perfect example of "Microsoft Innovation" like Steve Ballmer was yammering on and on about during the anti-trust trial. Let someone else do the work and when something is successful, copy it and extinguish the original. But in this case, I don't see Microsoft's usual "innovation" plan succeeding.
I guess this begs the question: who is more short sighted, CEOs or the investors that buy their company's stock?
Millions of people use Microsoft operating systems with internet access every day. Most of them are not attacked if they take just a few basic precautions, which you must take with Linux anyhow. I know blind Microsoft hatred is fun, but the situation is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. Put an unpatched Linux box straight on the internet with no firewall and see what happens to it.
Brilliant piece. You should polish up your resume and send it out, since you're more than qualified to be a CEO, knowing exactly how the business cycle works. Now just work on your golf game, and you'll be making millions before you know it.
Anyone who buys this first Blu-Ray player will confirm the theory that a sucker is born every minute. Assuming Blu-Ray is even around a year from now, players will cost maybe $300-$400. Remember how fast DVD players came down in price? This is probably just to make money from the 10 or so people who are stupid enough to pay a grand just to have bragging rights, and then the price promptly drops by a couple hundred $$.
The BBB can't and won't do anything. What happened here was criminal. If the U.S. mail was used in this process, it's mail fraud and you should inform the Postmaster General. Otherwise, file a complaint with your state Attorney General. Scams like this are common, and so are prosecutions. At the very least, you won't have to pay anything once you've reported the fraud. You might even be able to sue for damages.
Sure you can. One faces misdemeanor assault charges, the other grand larceny. Hence, the cops will not be called.
What the hell are you complaining about? That a government employee will be seeing your SSN? Oh my god, the shock and horror! Guess what else they can see: your checking account and routing number. That's almost as big of a concern as your SSN since that's all it takes to drain your account. There will ALWAYS be confidential information on tax returns, that's why they're confidential. And employees hired to handle this information are properly screened. No, I'm not saying that the government never fails to keep things safe, but asking you to put an SSN on a check, which is already a piece of confidential information, is hardly an outrage. In fact, its a non-issue. It's YOUR fault that the processing got held up, not the government.
I think Wierd Al's "music" is screwing him more than the record labels.
This is only possible due to a lack of informed voters. When less than 30% of the people bother to vote, who really runs the government? In other words, we could change this situation if we wanted but we are collectively too lazy and content.
$100k, without including the cost of benefits? Where? I live in the Chicago area and would love to know which town pays this much. I have a really hard time believing it, even for the rich North Shore schools. I do however completely agree that public employee pensions are completely out of control and need to be knocked down a notch. The costs for future taxpayers will be enormous.
Yes, but try getting an administrative assistant to do this. They won't; you can guarantee they will just do the easy thing and write it down. This is not always a bad thing, though, provided they don't stick it on their monitor or something.
I missed the part about RMS being a French citizen.
United Airlines was employee-owned, before their bankruptcy. The problem was, the employees were as greedy as management.
The real reason for requiring ID to fly is for security... of the airlines' financial bottom line. You see, when ID is required, tickets cannot be exchanged or resold. Thus, all tickets are now non-refundable, unless you want to pay $1000 for them. So if you can't fly on the ticketed date and want to send someone else instead, too bad.
Win 98 was only stable when you had perfectly behaving applications, since its task manager was powerless to shut down a misbehaving app. That required a reboot.
No link is necessary. Microsoft and Bush bashing in the same post is automatically a +5 Insightful. Now if the author had also worked in a slam on the RIAA, they would have a Slashdot Trifecta. Maybe there should be a special rating for that, like +100 Genius or something.
A protection racket would be the anti-virus companies writing and releasing viruses, then charging you for protection from them. That's not what is happening here. Anti-virus products are certainly sold using scare tactics, but then again so is insurance. If someone discovers that Symantec is behind the latest virus that they're selling protection from, I guarantee criminal charges will follow.