We just got notice that my wife's debit card is to be replaced due to being processed through a compromised system. You would think they would work harder on closing up the holes. I got a new debit card a few years back due to the OfficeMax breach. At this rate the economic stimulus might be to put credit card "stampers" to work.
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Facebook, in sharp contrast, got almost no information from me personally when I briefly signed up, yet practically had my whole life story within a couple of days because their entire MO is to get friends to volunteer information about each other. Moreover, the information that Facebook attempts to collect is often very personal and certainly not the sort of thing I would voluntarily share on-line.
I find this interesting and appalling at the same time. But I guess that's the nature of the social sites, bring as much dirt as you can.
But Windows should not lock me out of my settings folder because I changed something in the folder. That would be like getting locked out of your documents folder because you edited a document - that's crazy.
The insiders are given stock as compensation - the institutions sell shares they have been holding. What I meant was there appear to be only sales within the past six months for these groups. These groups have not purchased MS shares within the past six months.
I haven't looked closely enough to know whether anyone outside the board holds enough shares to win the vote to boot them, but no-one holding shares believes the shares are worth holding. There was not a single share purchased by insiders. At the same time there were over 32m insider shares sold, and nearly a billion institutional (mutual funds, investment banks, etc.) shares sold with no purchases. While investment banks are forced at times by their shareholders to sell holdings in order to pay out shareholder redemptions the question remains, is there no value that board members (insiders) see in Microsoft shares (at least within the last 6 months)?
I'd rather they did away with activation and all of that crap, sell a family pack like Apple does. The biggest reason I haven't upgraded is that my computers tend to be hand me downs and I really don't want to go through the "are you a criminal" process with MS. Hell, let me spend $100 or $200 on a cd/OS that I can keep moving up to my next better machine and I might be running something newer. Instead I have all sorts of different OSes, including Windows 2k, 98se, Debian and NetBSD.
Some 50,000 people die each day from starvation. Countless more live in a chronically malnourished state.
Why are they still reproducing if they can't feed themselves?
Because the biggest "helpers" of these people are church based and refuse to acknowledge that condom use would help prevent death due to HIV and malnutrition. Contraception is against god's law, after all. It's also contrary to GWB's plan. If a clinic offers reproductive counseling along with other health care then its funding is in jeopardy. With at least one of these changing, maybe we can take care of whole people instead of just a part of their health in third world countries.
I support a small office, three~six users depending upon how you count it, for office type software. When the office was getting off the ground we chose to standardize on OpenOffice.org. Over the years as new PCs have been added whatever the bundle of the day was purchased. The last one had XP and MS Office Basic. I was asked a couple of days ago what the activation code was for Office by our remote user. I told her that we use OpenOffice.org across all the machines and let it drop. As she is an employee and I still have a part ownership that's all there is to it.
Our local school district pays about $64,000 to pay for annual licenses for desktops (Mac and PCs, including MS Office) and servers (incl. SQL Server) to run about 1,200 desktops (one third Mac). If you cut all those licenses, the most you could save would be $64K/year, assuming you don't need to add a headcount to implement Linux solutions to replace the lost Windows infrastructure/tools.
$64k/year is a school nurse or maybe one and a half. Our district has been cutting school nurses so they actually serve more than one school. A nurse here could end up at as many as three schools a week. While that's fine for certain types of screenings it makes a big difference when your kid busts their head open on the playground - initial review of the wound by a trained professional or an automatic trip to the ER. Where do you want to get a phone call from about your kid? Sorry, we don't have a nurse. We sent that salary to Redmond.
I also question broad statements like " Windows is not really competitive and schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars.". Anecdotally maybe this is has happened. But it's not really clear that this is true in general. School systems are one of the most budget limited govt run orgs. They try everything to shave dollars, like fees for art supplies, to hot lunches paid for by PTO fund raisers. I find it hard to believe the schools would somehow be so blind as to over look an easy "tens of millions" if the case was clear cut.
The school district here is just like that. I tried to demo K12LTSP to the elementary school my kids go to. While they were willing enough to allow a demo, there was no way it would have gone even as far as actually setting up a couple of machines. The web server runs Mandriva and they reportedly use MySQL for some inventory purposes but don't try to put FOSS software on a local computer. I was chastised for installing software - specifically OpenOffice.org - on a workstation. As part of the hook, MS offers extremely cheap copies of Windows for users to take home.
Tech Services is Windows centric (I think there is one Apple "expert") It's what they know, it's what they stick with. And forget about trying to donate a computer to a school; if it doesn't run the latest MS OS they don't want it - forget about installing a K12LTSP lab since the machines are not powerful enough.
So you know enough about Exchange to know the Registry Key for configuring a max recipient count, but not enough to think that they were using DLs, which count as one recipient?
A DL would only be reply. The problem is with reply-all, meaning there was a list of addresses in the CC: or To: fields. Otherwise, we would not even be discussing this. If it were just a DL then reply and reply-all are essentially the same function, no?
So it sounds like they need to install decent mailing list software, not just an "everyone" address.
Religious discrimination isn't prohibited, per se. Try applying for a job at your local Catholic church if you're an atheist and see what I mean.
Churches can discriminate in who they offer their services to (who to marry for instance) but *only* if they do not offer public services. As soon as they provide services publicly, they lose the religious protections.
Without religion there would be no justification for raping, pillaging and attempting to exterminate indigenous peoples throughout the world. Without religion people wouldn't be jailed over the naming of a teddy bear, people would not strap explosives to themselves to kill non-believers, nor would there be honor killings, burkas, sex and sexual orientation based repression and oppression. AIDS would have been researched earlier and fewer AIDS-related deaths would have occurred world-wide. You would rather have that than someone who practices "calming breathes"?
Your actually willing to dump a product that you already tested and found worthy for your uses because the bosses of the company who makes it are brainwashed?
As long as they don't kill kittens or put kids in sweat shops or something like that, I don't think it would be worth changing products over this. It seems like your making too much of a ordeal out of it. Who cares if they want people with certain beliefs working with them.
It wouldn't be just the bosses. In this case all of the employees have to attend training sessions for CoS? Employees who don't bend to the will of the religious fanatics are fired? This sounds like religious discrimination to me.
Next they'll disclose there is some secret code in there so the Church can figure out who to recruit and the receiver is in Oprah's couch and can only be powered via a piston in the top cushion forcing some famous actor to jump up and down to power it.
Just cause I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
International air traffic control is (or used to be) English. It's not arrogant it's practical - most peoples know English besides their native language.
Considering that NYCL contributed the article, I would say he's speaking as plainly as he can without going over the potential libel line. See how I did that there?
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We just got notice that my wife's debit card is to be replaced due to being processed through a compromised system. You would think they would work harder on closing up the holes. I got a new debit card a few years back due to the OfficeMax breach. At this rate the economic stimulus might be to put credit card "stampers" to work.
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Facebook, in sharp contrast, got almost no information from me personally when I briefly signed up, yet practically had my whole life story within a couple of days because their entire MO is to get friends to volunteer information about each other. Moreover, the information that Facebook attempts to collect is often very personal and certainly not the sort of thing I would voluntarily share on-line.
I find this interesting and appalling at the same time. But I guess that's the nature of the social sites, bring as much dirt as you can.
But Windows should not lock me out of my settings folder because I changed something in the folder. That would be like getting locked out of your documents folder because you edited a document - that's crazy.
How about one's own CDs? Are they not property? And I mean the physical CD not the concept of of intellectual property.
Closed source has the same disclaimers.
The insiders are given stock as compensation - the institutions sell shares they have been holding. What I meant was there appear to be only sales within the past six months for these groups. These groups have not purchased MS shares within the past six months.
Or point out that Microsoft is investing in OSS as well as "open sourcing" some of its own software. If it's so insecure why would MS do this?
I haven't looked closely enough to know whether anyone outside the board holds enough shares to win the vote to boot them, but no-one holding shares believes the shares are worth holding. There was not a single share purchased by insiders. At the same time there were over 32m insider shares sold, and nearly a billion institutional (mutual funds, investment banks, etc.) shares sold with no purchases. While investment banks are forced at times by their shareholders to sell holdings in order to pay out shareholder redemptions the question remains, is there no value that board members (insiders) see in Microsoft shares (at least within the last 6 months)?
So porn is the sticky bits that hold the rest of this net thing together?
I can't read games pages on /. or mailing lists announcing the recent *BSD release due to Websense... it's dorky.
I'd rather they did away with activation and all of that crap, sell a family pack like Apple does. The biggest reason I haven't upgraded is that my computers tend to be hand me downs and I really don't want to go through the "are you a criminal" process with MS. Hell, let me spend $100 or $200 on a cd/OS that I can keep moving up to my next better machine and I might be running something newer. Instead I have all sorts of different OSes, including Windows 2k, 98se, Debian and NetBSD.
Some 50,000 people die each day from starvation. Countless more live in a chronically malnourished state.
Why are they still reproducing if they can't feed themselves?
Because the biggest "helpers" of these people are church based and refuse to acknowledge that condom use would help prevent death due to HIV and malnutrition. Contraception is against god's law, after all. It's also contrary to GWB's plan. If a clinic offers reproductive counseling along with other health care then its funding is in jeopardy. With at least one of these changing, maybe we can take care of whole people instead of just a part of their health in third world countries.
Rush, is that you?
I support a small office, three~six users depending upon how you count it, for office type software. When the office was getting off the ground we chose to standardize on OpenOffice.org. Over the years as new PCs have been added whatever the bundle of the day was purchased. The last one had XP and MS Office Basic. I was asked a couple of days ago what the activation code was for Office by our remote user. I told her that we use OpenOffice.org across all the machines and let it drop. As she is an employee and I still have a part ownership that's all there is to it.
Our local school district pays about $64,000 to pay for annual licenses for desktops (Mac and PCs, including MS Office) and servers (incl. SQL Server) to run about 1,200 desktops (one third Mac). If you cut all those licenses, the most you could save would be $64K/year, assuming you don't need to add a headcount to implement Linux solutions to replace the lost Windows infrastructure/tools.
$64k/year is a school nurse or maybe one and a half. Our district has been cutting school nurses so they actually serve more than one school. A nurse here could end up at as many as three schools a week. While that's fine for certain types of screenings it makes a big difference when your kid busts their head open on the playground - initial review of the wound by a trained professional or an automatic trip to the ER. Where do you want to get a phone call from about your kid? Sorry, we don't have a nurse. We sent that salary to Redmond.
I also question broad statements like " Windows is not really competitive and schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars.". Anecdotally maybe this is has happened. But it's not really clear that this is true in general. School systems are one of the most budget limited govt run orgs. They try everything to shave dollars, like fees for art supplies, to hot lunches paid for by PTO fund raisers. I find it hard to believe the schools would somehow be so blind as to over look an easy "tens of millions" if the case was clear cut.
The school district here is just like that. I tried to demo K12LTSP to the elementary school my kids go to. While they were willing enough to allow a demo, there was no way it would have gone even as far as actually setting up a couple of machines. The web server runs Mandriva and they reportedly use MySQL for some inventory purposes but don't try to put FOSS software on a local computer. I was chastised for installing software - specifically OpenOffice.org - on a workstation. As part of the hook, MS offers extremely cheap copies of Windows for users to take home.
Tech Services is Windows centric (I think there is one Apple "expert") It's what they know, it's what they stick with.
And forget about trying to donate a computer to a school; if it doesn't run the latest MS OS they don't want it - forget about installing a K12LTSP lab since the machines are not powerful enough.
The organization that I work for has an "everyone" address and it's (almost)always junk that 80% of the recipients just delete.
So you know enough about Exchange to know the Registry Key for configuring a max recipient count, but not enough to think that they were using DLs, which count as one recipient?
A DL would only be reply. The problem is with reply-all, meaning there was a list of addresses in the CC: or To: fields. Otherwise, we would not even be discussing this. If it were just a DL then reply and reply-all are essentially the same function, no?
So it sounds like they need to install decent mailing list software, not just an "everyone" address.
How about: The Zune cost $50. It dies and he pays $80 for a decent Sansa model. It costs, in total $130.00.
Religious discrimination isn't prohibited, per se. Try applying for a job at your local Catholic church if you're an atheist and see what I mean.
Churches can discriminate in who they offer their services to (who to marry for instance) but *only* if they do not offer public services. As soon as they provide services publicly, they lose the religious protections.
Without religion there would be no justification for raping, pillaging and attempting to exterminate indigenous peoples throughout the world. Without religion people wouldn't be jailed over the naming of a teddy bear, people would not strap explosives to themselves to kill non-believers, nor would there be honor killings, burkas, sex and sexual orientation based repression and oppression. AIDS would have been researched earlier and fewer AIDS-related deaths would have occurred world-wide.
You would rather have that than someone who practices "calming breathes"?
Your actually willing to dump a product that you already tested and found worthy for your uses because the bosses of the company who makes it are brainwashed?
As long as they don't kill kittens or put kids in sweat shops or something like that, I don't think it would be worth changing products over this. It seems like your making too much of a ordeal out of it. Who cares if they want people with certain beliefs working with them.
It wouldn't be just the bosses. In this case all of the employees have to attend training sessions for CoS? Employees who don't bend to the will of the religious fanatics are fired? This sounds like religious discrimination to me. Next they'll disclose there is some secret code in there so the Church can figure out who to recruit and the receiver is in Oprah's couch and can only be powered via a piston in the top cushion forcing some famous actor to jump up and down to power it. Just cause I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
International air traffic control is (or used to be) English. It's not arrogant it's practical - most peoples know English besides their native language.
Considering that NYCL contributed the article, I would say he's speaking as plainly as he can without going over the potential libel line.
See how I did that there?