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Maybe that's why there have been several recent Windows Media Player security exploits. All these added 'features'. Think about it: why should a damn video player even have the capability to allow a security exploit. More proof that when it comes to security, MS simply doesn't get it.
I understand that sites need to collect revenue in order to cover expenses (let alone make money), but there must be some way to do this other than super annoying advertising or forced subscriptions. If banner ads and/or sponsored links are helpful and relevant to the site material, I think they just might work. Nobody should be surprised that the ads for Citibank cards on a sports news website are ignored. People didn't come to the site to get a credit card, they came to get game scores. Eventually, companies will figure out that if you provide something that has value (or the illusion of value), people will pay for it.
Yes, since the UN is so good at everything else it does, lets allow international bureaucrats who are accountable to nobody to run the internet. Brilliant idea. Will it be such a great idea once Saudi Arabia and Syria insist on banning pictures of women without their heads covered? No more porn for you!
Don't forget the part about how nobody will play along even when some sort of 'resolution' is passed. It will be ignored by just about everybody just like every other UN resolution. The UN has become such a joke that it has evolved into a useless third world debating society. I'm not at all worried about their desire to take over the internet. It couldn't happen anytime this century.
According to the stats, if we execute someone who is 27 years old, due to a murder that they committed when they were a week shy of their 18th birthday, that counts as 'executing a child'. The only people who are against this are the ones who are opposed to capital punishment alltogether (which would include myself, oddly enough). Not that I care anything about the wellbeing of convicted violent felons, or the rights of a 17 year old 'child' murderer, but capital punishment is just not practical.
Your 'friend' deserves every minute of prison time he gets. The world would be a much better place without parasites like this. I have more respect for some murderers than I do for this guy. People like him are the exact reason the 3 strikes law was invented. He is clearly someone who has no self control and, given a chance to commit another crime, he will. Granted, there are worse people in the world but society would benefit greatly by having him locked up.
At this point, Novell is so insignificant in the IT industry that it doesn't really matter who buys them. It wouldn't give the acquiring company any significant increase in market share.
On the plus side (for them), it would greatly aid them in competing with Linux. By using their time honored strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish, they could basically come out with a Microsoft XP Linux, or something like that. The big downside would be that they would have to do some serious political lobbying to get approval for the merger.
I think the general public knows about prison rape but just does not care. Not too many people feel sorry for prisoners. I for one do not get upset to hear that some child molester is now taking it in the behind himself. I can't wait for the moral relativists (especially ACs) to reply to this post.
Sure, you can ban these things. Every state will ban them if they become popular. But anyone who gets something like this is not the type of person that is concerned about laws. Think about it, who would buy one of these things? Someone who routinely ignores speed limits, tailgates, runs lights whenever possible. The prospect of paying a fine just won't deter them.
Seriously, the intellectual depth of this article and the complete lack of any real facts makes some of the "BSD is dying" trolls that we see here seem intelligent. Too bad this publication can't rate it -1 Troll.
Has anyone else noticed that AT&T is becoming increasingly desperate in their marketing tactics? From relentless telemarketing for long distance to constant advertisements for AT&T cellphones. Nearly every day I get some sort of ad in the mail for an AT&T cellphone. It sounds to me like AT&T is dying. They no longer have the ability to rape people on long distance charges and most people who have their crappy wireless service drop it after the contract is up, so their business must really be falling off. It really does not surprise me at all that AT&T would violate telemarketing regulations, as dense as they are. Next large telecom bankruptcy: AT&T.
There are plenty of mail admins who would block IPs from an entire country if all they received from that country was spam. Once this happens enough and these countries start to feel cut off from the rest of the internet, they will change their minds about tolerating spam. That's the beauty of containing spammers to a few areas; they are much easier to block.
If there is one thing that the do not call list has proven, it is that significant public outrage trumps campaign contributions. There were lobbyists pushing congress to vote against the do not call registry, and there was only public outrage pushing them to vote for it. We saw which one won by a landslide. Similarly, spammers will have little public support and politicians will see this as a chance to score some points with the voters. Whether laws will actually reduce spam, however, remains to be seen.
There was never a 'budget surplus'. Using Enron style accounting, which was so popular during the late 90s, an illusion of a surplus was created. This was the fault of Clinton along with congressional Republicans and Democrats, all of which wanted people to believe there was a balanced budget. Excluding expenses such as social security and a few other major items, the budget appeared to be balanced. Projections of a surplus were optimistic even for the times, before the economic downturn and the resulting fall in tax revenues. Here's an example: If you are $50,000 in debt and someone gives you $20,000, you do not now have a 'surplus'. You merely have less debt than before, but you are still $30 grand in the hole. Until the debt is paid off and there is a pile of cash remaining, there is no 'surplus'. It was misleading, at best, for politicians *cough*Gore*cough* to start campaigning for new programs to be paid for by the budget 'surplus' which clearly never existed.
Upload user settings from an old computer to a server.
Download those settings to a new computer.
Kind of like Slashdot! Your user settings, or 'preferences' can be created on an 'old' computer and then downloaded, when you load the page, onto a 'new' computer. See how easy the prior art game is? If only the patent office and courts recognized obvious prior art, patented or not.
Actually, our taxes don't pay for it, which is part of the problem. Since the decision was made (late 80s or early 90s) to make the patent office self sufficient financially, patents have been granted to anyone and everyone because more patents = more fees. Since the patent examiner is not the one getting sued for infringement, they really have no incentive to reject a patent and lots of incentive to approve it.
It looks like he didn't even check his Windows machine, unless he's running Win 95 or something. Windows Update has been around since at least 2000. That's 3 years of prior art right there.
From what I have been told, the reason that bonuses are normally withheld at the highest tax level is to make accounting easier. Since it is an irregular accounting event, everyone is withheld at the highest level, so that they don't have to figure out everyone's withholding percentage. If you are not in the highest bracket, you will get a refund on the excess withholdings.
Keep this in mind: Once you start giving Christmas bonuses, you can never stop doing it without looking like a complete asshole. Remember Clark's boss in Christmas Vacation? I'm not saying don't give bonuses, but just remember what will happen if the company becomes not so profitable and you decide to not do it one year.
The PCs themselves came from university computer labs, which is why they had ZIP drives in them. Purdue has ZIP drives in all lab machines, and the article says these machines were used for 2-3 years in the labs. Apparently the Sun donation was for the server hardware, and not the actual cluster machines.
Most conservatives I know hate Hannity. Mainly because he is a right wing zealot and always tows the republican party line, unless he's complaining that they are not conservative enough. And his ways of arguing make a 12 year old look sophisticated. He will shout and cry and use personal attacks when someone is beating him in an argument, which is not hard to do. People like him and Rush are what gives conservatives a bad name.
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Maybe that's why there have been several recent Windows Media Player security exploits. All these added 'features'. Think about it: why should a damn video player even have the capability to allow a security exploit. More proof that when it comes to security, MS simply doesn't get it.
I understand that sites need to collect revenue in order to cover expenses (let alone make money), but there must be some way to do this other than super annoying advertising or forced subscriptions. If banner ads and/or sponsored links are helpful and relevant to the site material, I think they just might work. Nobody should be surprised that the ads for Citibank cards on a sports news website are ignored. People didn't come to the site to get a credit card, they came to get game scores. Eventually, companies will figure out that if you provide something that has value (or the illusion of value), people will pay for it.
Yes, since the UN is so good at everything else it does, lets allow international bureaucrats who are accountable to nobody to run the internet. Brilliant idea. Will it be such a great idea once Saudi Arabia and Syria insist on banning pictures of women without their heads covered? No more porn for you!
Don't forget the part about how nobody will play along even when some sort of 'resolution' is passed. It will be ignored by just about everybody just like every other UN resolution. The UN has become such a joke that it has evolved into a useless third world debating society. I'm not at all worried about their desire to take over the internet. It couldn't happen anytime this century.
This is not always the case.
According to the stats, if we execute someone who is 27 years old, due to a murder that they committed when they were a week shy of their 18th birthday, that counts as 'executing a child'. The only people who are against this are the ones who are opposed to capital punishment alltogether (which would include myself, oddly enough). Not that I care anything about the wellbeing of convicted violent felons, or the rights of a 17 year old 'child' murderer, but capital punishment is just not practical.
Your 'friend' deserves every minute of prison time he gets. The world would be a much better place without parasites like this. I have more respect for some murderers than I do for this guy. People like him are the exact reason the 3 strikes law was invented. He is clearly someone who has no self control and, given a chance to commit another crime, he will. Granted, there are worse people in the world but society would benefit greatly by having him locked up.
At this point, Novell is so insignificant in the IT industry that it doesn't really matter who buys them. It wouldn't give the acquiring company any significant increase in market share.
On the plus side (for them), it would greatly aid them in competing with Linux. By using their time honored strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish, they could basically come out with a Microsoft XP Linux, or something like that. The big downside would be that they would have to do some serious political lobbying to get approval for the merger.
I think the general public knows about prison rape but just does not care. Not too many people feel sorry for prisoners. I for one do not get upset to hear that some child molester is now taking it in the behind himself. I can't wait for the moral relativists (especially ACs) to reply to this post.
Sure, you can ban these things. Every state will ban them if they become popular. But anyone who gets something like this is not the type of person that is concerned about laws. Think about it, who would buy one of these things? Someone who routinely ignores speed limits, tailgates, runs lights whenever possible. The prospect of paying a fine just won't deter them.
Seriously, the intellectual depth of this article and the complete lack of any real facts makes some of the "BSD is dying" trolls that we see here seem intelligent. Too bad this publication can't rate it -1 Troll.
Has anyone else noticed that AT&T is becoming increasingly desperate in their marketing tactics? From relentless telemarketing for long distance to constant advertisements for AT&T cellphones. Nearly every day I get some sort of ad in the mail for an AT&T cellphone. It sounds to me like AT&T is dying. They no longer have the ability to rape people on long distance charges and most people who have their crappy wireless service drop it after the contract is up, so their business must really be falling off. It really does not surprise me at all that AT&T would violate telemarketing regulations, as dense as they are. Next large telecom bankruptcy: AT&T.
There are plenty of mail admins who would block IPs from an entire country if all they received from that country was spam. Once this happens enough and these countries start to feel cut off from the rest of the internet, they will change their minds about tolerating spam. That's the beauty of containing spammers to a few areas; they are much easier to block.
If there is one thing that the do not call list has proven, it is that significant public outrage trumps campaign contributions. There were lobbyists pushing congress to vote against the do not call registry, and there was only public outrage pushing them to vote for it. We saw which one won by a landslide. Similarly, spammers will have little public support and politicians will see this as a chance to score some points with the voters. Whether laws will actually reduce spam, however, remains to be seen.
Yet another good reason why people should quit buying Symantic's massively overpriced, underperforming and bloated products.
There was never a 'budget surplus'. Using Enron style accounting, which was so popular during the late 90s, an illusion of a surplus was created. This was the fault of Clinton along with congressional Republicans and Democrats, all of which wanted people to believe there was a balanced budget. Excluding expenses such as social security and a few other major items, the budget appeared to be balanced. Projections of a surplus were optimistic even for the times, before the economic downturn and the resulting fall in tax revenues. Here's an example: If you are $50,000 in debt and someone gives you $20,000, you do not now have a 'surplus'. You merely have less debt than before, but you are still $30 grand in the hole. Until the debt is paid off and there is a pile of cash remaining, there is no 'surplus'. It was misleading, at best, for politicians *cough*Gore*cough* to start campaigning for new programs to be paid for by the budget 'surplus' which clearly never existed.
Kind of like Slashdot! Your user settings, or 'preferences' can be created on an 'old' computer and then downloaded, when you load the page, onto a 'new' computer. See how easy the prior art game is? If only the patent office and courts recognized obvious prior art, patented or not.
Actually, our taxes don't pay for it, which is part of the problem. Since the decision was made (late 80s or early 90s) to make the patent office self sufficient financially, patents have been granted to anyone and everyone because more patents = more fees. Since the patent examiner is not the one getting sued for infringement, they really have no incentive to reject a patent and lots of incentive to approve it.
It looks like he didn't even check his Windows machine, unless he's running Win 95 or something. Windows Update has been around since at least 2000. That's 3 years of prior art right there.
From what I have been told, the reason that bonuses are normally withheld at the highest tax level is to make accounting easier. Since it is an irregular accounting event, everyone is withheld at the highest level, so that they don't have to figure out everyone's withholding percentage. If you are not in the highest bracket, you will get a refund on the excess withholdings.
Keep this in mind: Once you start giving Christmas bonuses, you can never stop doing it without looking like a complete asshole. Remember Clark's boss in Christmas Vacation? I'm not saying don't give bonuses, but just remember what will happen if the company becomes not so profitable and you decide to not do it one year.
I guess so, if your idea of peace is surrendering to Islamic Fundamentalism, which by the way, is very different from Islam.
The PCs themselves came from university computer labs, which is why they had ZIP drives in them. Purdue has ZIP drives in all lab machines, and the article says these machines were used for 2-3 years in the labs. Apparently the Sun donation was for the server hardware, and not the actual cluster machines.
Most conservatives I know hate Hannity. Mainly because he is a right wing zealot and always tows the republican party line, unless he's complaining that they are not conservative enough. And his ways of arguing make a 12 year old look sophisticated. He will shout and cry and use personal attacks when someone is beating him in an argument, which is not hard to do. People like him and Rush are what gives conservatives a bad name.