This is the dumbest crime ever. If he really did it, I just wish he would say, "Yeah I did it, I'm an idiot - just look at my goofy hair." Then they could cite him with a $200 fine for disorderly conduct and we could all move on with our lives. But the fact that he's pleading not guilty is going to give this whole thing legs both in the court and in the media.
Did you even read a summary of the bill, or are you just handing on opinions?
I'm against the bailout bill, so I must be some kind of Anti-Bush partisan hack. Fooled you! I'm a registered Republican and made the mistake of voting for Bush once.
Oh, in that case I must be some kind of member of the unwashed masses voter and just don't understand fancy economic matters. Oops - fooled you again! I'm a Vice President at a fairly large publicly traded bank and deal with investment strategies all day every day.
As for reading the bill - I actually read the entire 3 pages of the original bill. I read about half of the pork-laden 442 page version that ultimately passed. I couldn't read much more or I might be even more infuriated than I am now.
Having said all this, I doubt you read even the title of the bill if you are seriously for it.
Carping right now, when the boat is sinking, is just plain stupid
You know it's an amazing coincidence. You're saying the exact same thing that Henry Paulson and his cronies say. I'm sure that it is just that - a coincidence - and that you independently came up with the identical position completely on your own.
I also suppose that if Henry Paulson said you needed to come to his house and blow him or the economy would go under you'd think, "No time to think!" and head right over to do it. If that's not the case, then why did you fall for his, "Sure, I'll give you a life preserver - throw me your wallet first!" scheme? There is time to think. Henry Paulson has said he has no plans to spend any of the $700B for FOUR WEEKS. Why the rush to pass it into within days?
Henry Paulson, the CEO of Goldman Sachs until 2006 and current U.S. Treasury Secretary succeeded in scaring the public and Congress into giving him a $700B blank check to bail out his friends. If you think that money will "trickle down" to you or small business owners, or anyone other than the people it's directly going to, you are mistaken.
The DOW plummeted to 10,365 on Monday September 29th when the bailout bill failed to pass. Every proponent of the bailout screamed, "I told you so!" Then on Tuesday September 30th, even without the bailout bill the DOW rocketed up to 10,850. Then on Friday October 3rd when the bailout bill passed and was signed into law, the DOW dropped yet again to 10,325 (even lower than Monday when the bailout bill failed).
This bill will not help the credit markets, the debt markets, the equity markets or anyone reading this comment. It will help Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the rest of the former investment banks de-leverage from 60:1 leverage down to traditional 12:1 leverage on your dime while the economy goes down the tubes.
They recently unveiled a unique new program called the "Korset" to stop malware on Linux...and once it reaches its full potential it could put anti-virus software companies out of business.
Doesn't our economy have enough problems? Do we really need to put Linux anti-virus vendors out of business?
Next we'll probably drive the ice vendors in Alaska to bankruptcy!
Barack Obama really wants a useful 'Google for government,'
Well, so far the government has bought parts of Bear Stearns and AIG. Maybe it's time they diversify into some technology companies like Google? Hell, let's buy them too!
No need to open source anything or make any other changes... Just slap a sticker with one of those disclaimers on each of the current voting machines that reads "This is not a scientific poll and is completely inaccurate."
That's it Larry! Don't let the fact that you graduated with a computer science degree and have no practical experience with radio transmission research stop you from commenting on such things.
Personally, as a computer programmer, I like to stand over doctors as they are performing delicate surgery and tell them what I believe they are doing wrong. So, you go, Larry!
I spent all my money over the last 6 months on alcohol and parties, secure in the knowledge that the world would come to an end this October when the LHC came up to full power.
This is unacceptable. I demand they destroy the world now.
I was just about to finish up my patent application for a device that could accurately detect a human pretending to be a monkey 80% of the time when a human test subject is asked in advance to pretend to be a monkey.
How many "every day people" dive with sharks or have been to outer space?
I would wager a lot of every day people have dived with sharks, but that's kind of beside the point. I actually said "real people" which has a significantly different meaning to me.
You don't use people lounging around in their underwear eating a block of cheese on their couch as someone to look up to. But there are plenty of real people that do incredibly interesting things. And a lot of them use PCs.
2 days ago, I was posting how I thought Vista sucks (see here. Then I was accused of having a religious stance against Microsoft - which I thought was ironic considering I don't own a Mac, haven't owned a Linux system for about 12 years (Slackware 3.1 was the last distribution I used if I remember correctly) and work all day every day on Microsoft products.
So now I say I like Microsoft's commercial and now I'm astro-turfing for Microsoft.
Never read the username, as it is kinda pointless.
I remember my last debate with you, which was about 2 years ago. After disagreeing with me in Slashdot comments, you got 5 mod points later in the day. Then you went to my user screen and selected my last 5 comments (some of which were a week or more old) and modded them each down a point. This isn't conjecture - you even admitted it and apologized for it, which is why to this day you have me listed as a "friend" on Slashdot.
I don't know why I remember that because I usually have such a hard time remembering such things.
I'm sorry, I don't think we've met. Yes, I don't like Vista. But it's not a religious stance against Microsoft. In fact, I hold 4 Microsoft certifications (MCSE, MCSD VB6, MCSD C#.Net, MCDBA) and work on Microsoft products all day every day. In fact, I did a 6 month contract programming job for Microsoft themselves as a side job.
I bought a new computer 3 months ago. Middle-of-the-road Dell system, dual core 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB disk space. It came pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux, but I installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit on it. (Did I forget to mention I'm also an MSDN Subscriber which lets me install any software I want for testing purposes?). I installed Vista because I was sick of hearing how bad it was. Long story short, after the fresh install and setting up all my drivers so I had the latest of all devices in the Device Manager, I was having applications crash about every 5 minutes. So I figured it was a 64 bit problem. I installed Vista Ultima 32-bit and got all the drivers updated. Same problem. I updated the firmware. Same problem. I installed Windows XP SP3. 3 months later and if it's had a single application crash in that time, I'd be surprised.
So, I'm just one person but I have no religious stance against Microsoft, was looking forward to installing Vista, had issues with it that 12 hours of trying to fix it did not resolve. And I have 20 years experience in professional IT using almost exclusively Microsoft products going back to MS-DOS 3.3.
If that's a religious stance to you, that's beyond silly.
OK, I thought it was strange that there was an "Apple is Evil" story about sneakers earlier today. But now there's a "Google may be evil" story! What's next? A story about how "SCO was right about Linux all along"?
I have so many non-programmer friends that have goofy ideas for projects that they run by me on a weekly basis, so let me save you some trouble. Nobody is interested in your "unique" spin on:
1. A dating site
2. A social networking site
3. A clone of Digg
4. A recipe tracker
5. Or anything else
If only an idea was all it took. Instead, we have to suffer through contributions of time, money, determination and skill.
So long as you're not doing anything illegal - you know, the laws on the books or the ones arbitrarily made up to fit a specific situation, you have nothing to fear.
Further, China has a long history of tolerating dissent on the Internet. After a few years of solitary confinement and re-programming, all parties usually look back on the incident and laugh.
Learn about virtualization. Take your pick of free offerings: ESXi and Virtual Server from VMWare, Xen, Virtual Server from Microsoft, etc.
Using virtual servers that are hosted on your new physical server will allow you to set up any kind of operating system you want and any applications on that operating system again and again and again with no fear of messing anything important up. Also, you can run (depending on memory) multiple operating systems side by side.
From there, you can start diving into learning all the operating system, application server, database server, etc minutia you like!
Oh, and don't forget learning about P2V. That will allow you to do all kinds of "what if" scenarios without affecting real servers.
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This is the dumbest crime ever. If he really did it, I just wish he would say, "Yeah I did it, I'm an idiot - just look at my goofy hair." Then they could cite him with a $200 fine for disorderly conduct and we could all move on with our lives. But the fact that he's pleading not guilty is going to give this whole thing legs both in the court and in the media.
Certainly a very busy man.
I work on programming and enhancing strategic investment platforms for both fixed income securities and equities.
So yes, you can be both a Vice President and a member of IT. I've even been a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in the past.
Did you even read a summary of the bill, or are you just handing on opinions?
I'm against the bailout bill, so I must be some kind of Anti-Bush partisan hack. Fooled you! I'm a registered Republican and made the mistake of voting for Bush once.
Oh, in that case I must be some kind of member of the unwashed masses voter and just don't understand fancy economic matters. Oops - fooled you again! I'm a Vice President at a fairly large publicly traded bank and deal with investment strategies all day every day.
As for reading the bill - I actually read the entire 3 pages of the original bill. I read about half of the pork-laden 442 page version that ultimately passed. I couldn't read much more or I might be even more infuriated than I am now.
Having said all this, I doubt you read even the title of the bill if you are seriously for it.
Carping right now, when the boat is sinking, is just plain stupid
You know it's an amazing coincidence. You're saying the exact same thing that Henry Paulson and his cronies say. I'm sure that it is just that - a coincidence - and that you independently came up with the identical position completely on your own.
I also suppose that if Henry Paulson said you needed to come to his house and blow him or the economy would go under you'd think, "No time to think!" and head right over to do it. If that's not the case, then why did you fall for his, "Sure, I'll give you a life preserver - throw me your wallet first!" scheme? There is time to think. Henry Paulson has said he has no plans to spend any of the $700B for FOUR WEEKS. Why the rush to pass it into within days?
Henry Paulson, the CEO of Goldman Sachs until 2006 and current U.S. Treasury Secretary succeeded in scaring the public and Congress into giving him a $700B blank check to bail out his friends. If you think that money will "trickle down" to you or small business owners, or anyone other than the people it's directly going to, you are mistaken.
...and our Congresspeople fell for it.
The DOW plummeted to 10,365 on Monday September 29th when the bailout bill failed to pass. Every proponent of the bailout screamed, "I told you so!" Then on Tuesday September 30th, even without the bailout bill the DOW rocketed up to 10,850. Then on Friday October 3rd when the bailout bill passed and was signed into law, the DOW dropped yet again to 10,325 (even lower than Monday when the bailout bill failed).
This bill will not help the credit markets, the debt markets, the equity markets or anyone reading this comment. It will help Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the rest of the former investment banks de-leverage from 60:1 leverage down to traditional 12:1 leverage on your dime while the economy goes down the tubes.
They pulled out all the steps - even threatening martial law:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8
They recently unveiled a unique new program called the "Korset" to stop malware on Linux...and once it reaches its full potential it could put anti-virus software companies out of business.
Doesn't our economy have enough problems? Do we really need to put Linux anti-virus vendors out of business? Next we'll probably drive the ice vendors in Alaska to bankruptcy!
Barack Obama really wants a useful 'Google for government,'
Well, so far the government has bought parts of Bear Stearns and AIG. Maybe it's time they diversify into some technology companies like Google? Hell, let's buy them too!
No need to open source anything or make any other changes... Just slap a sticker with one of those disclaimers on each of the current voting machines that reads "This is not a scientific poll and is completely inaccurate."
Problem solved.
That's it Larry! Don't let the fact that you graduated with a computer science degree and have no practical experience with radio transmission research stop you from commenting on such things.
Personally, as a computer programmer, I like to stand over doctors as they are performing delicate surgery and tell them what I believe they are doing wrong. So, you go, Larry!
I spent all my money over the last 6 months on alcohol and parties, secure in the knowledge that the world would come to an end this October when the LHC came up to full power.
This is unacceptable. I demand they destroy the world now.
I was thinking to myself "God! My EMail account must be in problem
I think I've seen some of your recent work in my inbox. "Is your manhood in problem? Click here!"
I was just about to finish up my patent application for a device that could accurately detect a human pretending to be a monkey 80% of the time when a human test subject is asked in advance to pretend to be a monkey.
Why do I even bother?
How many "every day people" dive with sharks or have been to outer space?
I would wager a lot of every day people have dived with sharks, but that's kind of beside the point. I actually said "real people" which has a significantly different meaning to me.
You don't use people lounging around in their underwear eating a block of cheese on their couch as someone to look up to. But there are plenty of real people that do incredibly interesting things. And a lot of them use PCs.
It's a Freudian Astroturf!
2 days ago, I was posting how I thought Vista sucks (see here. Then I was accused of having a religious stance against Microsoft - which I thought was ironic considering I don't own a Mac, haven't owned a Linux system for about 12 years (Slackware 3.1 was the last distribution I used if I remember correctly) and work all day every day on Microsoft products.
So now I say I like Microsoft's commercial and now I'm astro-turfing for Microsoft.
Gotta love the Slashdot crowd.
I saw the ad yesterday - they played the ad in my area during My Name is Earl on NBC.
Seems to say that while Apple is hyping their coolness, we're still getting a lot of things done for a lot of real people.
Never read the username, as it is kinda pointless.
I remember my last debate with you, which was about 2 years ago. After disagreeing with me in Slashdot comments, you got 5 mod points later in the day. Then you went to my user screen and selected my last 5 comments (some of which were a week or more old) and modded them each down a point. This isn't conjecture - you even admitted it and apologized for it, which is why to this day you have me listed as a "friend" on Slashdot.
I don't know why I remember that because I usually have such a hard time remembering such things.
If I a new company, would my first goal be to satisfy a "smaller" portion of the market, or go for the largest piece of the pie
I wholeheartedly agree. Isn't the Windows XP install base significantly larger than the Windows Vista install base?
no matter what you religious stance is
I'm sorry, I don't think we've met. Yes, I don't like Vista. But it's not a religious stance against Microsoft. In fact, I hold 4 Microsoft certifications (MCSE, MCSD VB6, MCSD C#.Net, MCDBA) and work on Microsoft products all day every day. In fact, I did a 6 month contract programming job for Microsoft themselves as a side job.
I bought a new computer 3 months ago. Middle-of-the-road Dell system, dual core 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB disk space. It came pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux, but I installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit on it. (Did I forget to mention I'm also an MSDN Subscriber which lets me install any software I want for testing purposes?). I installed Vista because I was sick of hearing how bad it was. Long story short, after the fresh install and setting up all my drivers so I had the latest of all devices in the Device Manager, I was having applications crash about every 5 minutes. So I figured it was a 64 bit problem. I installed Vista Ultima 32-bit and got all the drivers updated. Same problem. I updated the firmware. Same problem. I installed Windows XP SP3. 3 months later and if it's had a single application crash in that time, I'd be surprised.
So, I'm just one person but I have no religious stance against Microsoft, was looking forward to installing Vista, had issues with it that 12 hours of trying to fix it did not resolve. And I have 20 years experience in professional IT using almost exclusively Microsoft products going back to MS-DOS 3.3.
If that's a religious stance to you, that's beyond silly.
Q: What software and hardware is needed?
Windows Vista 32-bit (64-bit support coming soon)
Couldn't this have been at the top of the article?
In your face, Steve Jobs!! You and your lame iTunes store are screwed now!
Expect all kinds of innovation from this combined entity... Like 98.9 cent downloads. Store name that ends in "ster". More.
Shhhh! don't make them hunt the 256 of you down!
Oh crap! I'm screwed then because I own my entire Class-C netblock! Stupid sexy last octet....
OK, I thought it was strange that there was an "Apple is Evil" story about sneakers earlier today. But now there's a "Google may be evil" story! What's next? A story about how "SCO was right about Linux all along"?
I have so many non-programmer friends that have goofy ideas for projects that they run by me on a weekly basis, so let me save you some trouble. Nobody is interested in your "unique" spin on:
1. A dating site
2. A social networking site
3. A clone of Digg
4. A recipe tracker
5. Or anything else
If only an idea was all it took. Instead, we have to suffer through contributions of time, money, determination and skill.
So long as you're not doing anything illegal - you know, the laws on the books or the ones arbitrarily made up to fit a specific situation, you have nothing to fear.
Further, China has a long history of tolerating dissent on the Internet. After a few years of solitary confinement and re-programming, all parties usually look back on the incident and laugh.
Learn about virtualization. Take your pick of free offerings: ESXi and Virtual Server from VMWare, Xen, Virtual Server from Microsoft, etc.
Using virtual servers that are hosted on your new physical server will allow you to set up any kind of operating system you want and any applications on that operating system again and again and again with no fear of messing anything important up. Also, you can run (depending on memory) multiple operating systems side by side.
From there, you can start diving into learning all the operating system, application server, database server, etc minutia you like!
Oh, and don't forget learning about P2V. That will allow you to do all kinds of "what if" scenarios without affecting real servers.