28 countries are exempt from this testing including a lot of western european countries where the Sept 11th terrorists moved around with impunity. This fingerprinting scheme aint going to fix anything.
Yes, and capitalism takes care of bad call centers automatically (in a well-run company). If a company is losing customers because of call-centers, it will either fix the problem (like Dell seems to be doing), or perish.
Jobs move where there is cheap labour. Even within the US, Call centers are found in cheaper places in Tennessee, Oklahoma, etc. This is the system the US has been forcing on the world for decades. When it bites them back, they whine and whine and whine.
You want a sys admin to download grep from the internet and save it on your harddrive so that you can use it? You want a sys-admin to download the emacs executable and install it for every developer who would like to use emacs? And I thought our IT department was a bunch of fascists
How about a really old one
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This isn't technically a plan, but pretty entertaining and fascinating considering when it was written
A movie theater is a private place. They can throw out anyone they want. Why don't they use their own security personnel to throw out people with cameras? Why should tax payers foot the bill for what the movie theater can prevent without new laws?
1. Do not permit the uncontrolled importation of software onto company computers.
Do not permit employees to download freeware, shareware, or Open Source software onto company computers without first clearing the license terms with the legal department. At the same time, bar the use of proprietary software except to the extent that the company can account for the permitted licenses. In other words, know what you are putting on your machines--to do otherwise exposes your company to risk.
At least for me, this would severly hamper my ability to do work. For example, I sometimes use perl to parse through MAP files. So, if I wanted to download a FREE version of perl and run it, I have to go to some lawyer to explain why I want to use it? I can think of a hundred other reasons this would be a bloody pain, and result in a lot of bureaucratic hassle for engineers.
Why not start the same way that the Dell, Apple, Gateway, and other founders took by forming your own store, getting in touch with Asian suppliers who "are more than willing" to give you discounts, just so that they can get their foot in the lucrative N. American and European markets
Dell's business model is successful because they don't have a store. The computers are made only after they are ordered. Opening up a store defeats the purpose of the Dell inventory model
You mean Airbus A-320/330/340? They were the first fly-by-wire passenger aircraft and there were various problems with pilots not getting control initially. In one case, a computer malfunction made the plane pitch up continuously to the point of a stall and the pilot couldn't use the controls to lower the nose
Anytime you take away control from the pilot, it is a disaster waiting to happen. What happens if a pilot wants to make a hard left turn to avoid a collision and this system takes over and prevents it? What if terrorists hack into the system and take control of a plane from the ground? Too many questions need to be answered before this is viable
ps: does anyone else hate the word automagic as much as me?
Here's the tactic used by the lawyers to confuse the jury:
Keep pointing out all temperatures in Farenheit, but when you want to make a hyperbolic statement such as "It was X degrees less than what they boil pigs at", use Celsius instead. Saying "10 degrees away from boiling pigs" is way more effective and dumbass juries who mostly wouldn't even have a high school education do not know the difference between celsius and farenheit.. and even if they did, they would lack the maths skills to interpret that information.
Almost every lawsuit is a variation thereof and winning requires nothing more than exploiting the unbelievable dumbness of the jury
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When juries are dumb enough to hand out money in the case of frivolous lawsuits such as suing McDonalds for hot coffee, etc, I dread to think of what is going to happen when frivolous lawsuits such as SCO's become commonplace. You'll have Mr. Redneck with his pickup trucks and guns deciding if the definitions in a header file were copied from another version of Unix, etc.
Here the GNU license.
Here's a quote from the FAQ there:
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.
I was a victim of identity theft once and made a police complaint, an FTC complaint, etc.. They all said that it was unlikely anyone would ever be caught. Haven't heard anything for 2 years now. They need to start castrating identity thieves... it's getting out of hand.
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It looks like a mini-pyramid scheme. Aren't those illegal?
I'd rather use one of those mini-CDs that hold less data than a crappy, proprietiery mini-disc format.
28 countries are exempt from this testing including a lot of western european countries where the Sept 11th terrorists moved around with impunity. This fingerprinting scheme aint going to fix anything.
Yes, and capitalism takes care of bad call centers automatically (in a well-run company). If a company is losing customers because of call-centers, it will either fix the problem (like Dell seems to be doing), or perish.
Jobs move where there is cheap labour. Even within the US, Call centers are found in cheaper places in Tennessee, Oklahoma, etc. This is the system the US has been forcing on the world for decades. When it bites them back, they whine and whine and whine.
Finally this troll can be considered on-topic. What it says should be added to the list of what you can't say.
You want a sys admin to download grep from the internet and save it on your harddrive so that you can use it? You want a sys-admin to download the emacs executable and install it for every developer who would like to use emacs? And I thought our IT department was a bunch of fascists
This isn't technically a plan, but pretty entertaining and fascinating considering when it was written
A movie theater is a private place. They can throw out anyone they want. Why don't they use their own security personnel to throw out people with cameras? Why should tax payers foot the bill for what the movie theater can prevent without new laws?
At least for me, this would severly hamper my ability to do work. For example, I sometimes use perl to parse through MAP files. So, if I wanted to download a FREE version of perl and run it, I have to go to some lawyer to explain why I want to use it? I can think of a hundred other reasons this would be a bloody pain, and result in a lot of bureaucratic hassle for engineers.
There is no DOS based boot menu. There is a boot menu but it has nothing to do with DOS. Why would a boot menu be DOS based?
All the Dell desktops are black boxes as far as I know
Why are the Images Black & White? Is there any technical limitation preventing them from launching a colour image?
Interesting article on pilots, fly-by-wire, etc.
You mean Airbus A-320/330/340? They were the first fly-by-wire passenger aircraft and there were various problems with pilots not getting control initially. In one case, a computer malfunction made the plane pitch up continuously to the point of a stall and the pilot couldn't use the controls to lower the nose
Anytime you take away control from the pilot, it is a disaster waiting to happen. What happens if a pilot wants to make a hard left turn to avoid a collision and this system takes over and prevents it? What if terrorists hack into the system and take control of a plane from the ground? Too many questions need to be answered before this is viable
ps: does anyone else hate the word automagic as much as me?
I'll take some everclear and get wasted long before you
Here's the tactic used by the lawyers to confuse the jury:
Keep pointing out all temperatures in Farenheit, but when you want to make a hyperbolic statement such as "It was X degrees less than what they boil pigs at", use Celsius instead. Saying "10 degrees away from boiling pigs" is way more effective and dumbass juries who mostly wouldn't even have a high school education do not know the difference between celsius and farenheit.. and even if they did, they would lack the maths skills to interpret that information.
Almost every lawsuit is a variation thereof and winning requires nothing more than exploiting the unbelievable dumbness of the jury
When juries are dumb enough to hand out money in the case of frivolous lawsuits such as suing McDonalds for hot coffee, etc, I dread to think of what is going to happen when frivolous lawsuits such as SCO's become commonplace. You'll have Mr. Redneck with his pickup trucks and guns deciding if the definitions in a header file were copied from another version of Unix, etc.
Here's a quote from the FAQ there:
Of course it is, which is why it's a violation of GPL to use that code and release only binaries
If anyone is wondering where the link with the actual accusation is, it is on the main page of Mplayer's website.
I was a victim of identity theft once and made a police complaint, an FTC complaint, etc.. They all said that it was unlikely anyone would ever be caught. Haven't heard anything for 2 years now. They need to start castrating identity thieves... it's getting out of hand.
and there are people who just decide to stop smoking one fine day and stop. Maybe you just don't have the required discipline.