eBay is financially rigged to favor the auctioneer instead of the customer. As a fee based system, they derive the bulk of their income from these same auctioneers. By joining eBay, the bidders relinquish any right to sue, and the cap on any arbitrated settlement is $200. PayPal might be convenient, but they have next to zero for security and auditing. A close friend had their checking account cleaned out by someone either at PayPal or one of the auctioneers. I stopped doing ANY business with eBay after getting ripped off a few times in rapid succession.
Going on eBay is like walking in the barrio streets of Rio De Janero with you wallet hanging half-way out of your pocket. The old adage "Buyer Beware" doesn't even come close to the risks. Anyone that would consider buying an automobile, let alone a house, on eBay must be daft.
Microsoft, emboldened by their legal success in Benelux over the use of the trade name "Lindows", is now suing "Anderson" and "Pella". States MS boffin-in-chief Steve Ballmer "We want these companies to acknowledge their improper use of the term windows. They will fall into compliance with the use of the term "transparent adjustable closure"."
Even if you are a microbiologist with a PhD, there is a good chance that your job will be outsourced overseas one day: to China or India, or God-knows-whichever country has the current lowest wages. Plumbing is not only "honest" (getting your\ hands dirty) work, but it is a job that cannot, by it's nature, be outsourced. Go for it!
In this modern age of US Patriot Act (I & II),
on-going DARPA TIA projects, FBI "Carnivore",
and (God only knows what) various NSA projects,
PCII is NOT something that I would encourage
participating in. With public disclosure of
government encroachment of privacy at an all-
time low, I wouldn't revealing my company's
vulnerabilities to anyone, let alone some
faceless government "black-hats".
Damn, now where did I put that tin-foil hat?
If our rocket scientists are better than yours, and our pockets are deeper than yours, then you are fsck'd. The whole problem with that argument is that the USA is shipping our jobs and technical expertise overseas, and into whose hands? Every time this country "dabbles" in international intrigue, we get our asses handed to us. With the quality of intel the USA has gotten to date, we would be likely to shoot ourselves instead of the enemy. What is next? Perhaps a lunar colony to replace Camp X-Ray? WTF
Since Microsoft fully integrated IE into the OS is when. When Borg Bill told the judge that it was not possible to remove (totally?) IE from WinDoze. That's when !!
Whenever Dell stops shipping their computers/ laptops with "viral" WinDoze, and I am not forced to pay the "Microsucks tax" is when I would consider buying another Dell product.
IMHO, the Palladium/TCI/Phenoex non-BIOS will come first. Switch to OpenBoot and a Mac, instead...
However, they did market a "portable" system back in 1993-1994. (Indy Presenter) The system included an Indy WS, standard keyboard & mouse, and an LCD panel. The "portability" factor was a nice indigo blue padded knapsack. Total weight was about 34 pounds for a 32-bit OS.
Very nice, and quite expensive presentation system that predated all the portable digital LCD projectors.
This new Voodoo Laptop is easily ten times faster, and at one tenth the cost. Laptops do not strictly follow Moore's Law.
I use VPC to run Win2K Pro, Solaris 5.8, and GNU/Linux on my Mac G4. When Microsoft bought Connectix, I first felt shell-shocked. After getting my first VPC upgrade from the MS-owned Connectix, I have learned to embrace the devil. Whatever Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates have in store for me on the Mac platform is A-OKAY, 'cause they do know what's best for me. If they don't want me to use anything on my Mac except OSX and WinXP (with VPC 2004), I am sure that they are right. How can anyone NOT TRUST our very best (and richest) Microsoft to do the right thing?
OTOH, the term "not supported" (by MS) is not in itself any big deal. I would not expect Microsoft to exert any effort in supporting a non-Microsoft OS on their (now) Connectix. Any more than I would expect Sun to support my problems with MS Update. IMHO, Connectix VPC is the very best thing to happen to MS in a very long time. MS acquisition of this company, and it's plan to incorporate this VM in their server product is a tacit acknow- ledgement that their OS product is neither secure nor stable. VPC can put MS OSes in a "sandbox", just like Java apps can, where they belong...
Have these journalists NOT been paying attention? Even (and particularly) Microsoft says that anyone using a MS OS newer than Win3.1 AND Internet Explorer ARE ISPs (albeit inadvertently).
Therefore, under the US PAtriot Act, any person or organizational unit that uses MS Operating Systems AND Internet Explorer AND make occasional or fulltime connections to the internet may come under the perview of HSA.
All of us patriots need to get off of our collective duffs and switch from IE (thanks Eolas) AND that insecure MS XP over to *bsd or linux or *nix, right?
Just wait until the shareholders of American industries moving abroad finally realize that the corporate officers can be replaced far more cheaply with Chinese or Indian executives.
Hey, Andy Grove. It's time to train your replacement.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) once said "The American people deserve the government that they have. The US Congress is the very best legislature that money can buy."
Perhaps we should change the law, and out- source our Congress to India, at 10% of what they cost the US taxpayer right now...
Microsoft already has the ability to kill (literally) it's users. If you would check the specifications for the BMW 745 automobile, you would find that it has a network of over 40 microprocessors run by Microsoft WinCE. And I don't believe this vehicle will pull off to the side of the road when it catches a virus.
Does anyone know if NAI or Symantec makes AV software for the Beemer?
If HP were still worth a diddly damn, they would have been able to offer to repair your failing calculator. They have turned everything into disposible commodities, IMHO. My HP40CX has lasted way longer than my Omnibook 800CT, which is a redheaded stepchild in HP's eyes. (I just can't find the program strips for the CX anymore:^(... But my 12C still works great:^) !!)
Most all calculators today just throw more memory at the problem, and use algebraic notation instead of the elegantly compact RPN.
Ahh, yes! Natural selection. Which has been overruled and superceded by our fearless leaders. The only "natural selection" they know or care about has something to do with the election cycle.
George W. has assured me, with the most "fair and balanced" report from his EPA, that cow farts in Montana have more of an effect on greenhouse gases and global warming that any human endeavour. And with that solid scientific evidence, I am going out to Safeway to buy more aluminum foil for my "slow death ray" hat...
Could it be that Apple pulled the 10.2.8 update to take care of the newly discovered vulnerabilities in OpenSSH 3.7.1.p1 ?
The new OpenSSH 3.7.1.p2 was released earlier today. When Apple pulled the plug on 10.2.8, I got a broken 1/3 of the update (sorry snail slow dialup connection).
The current and impending software patent issue in the EU will (IMHO) will favor the multi- national mega-corporations, because they can spend the BIG money to woo the votes. (SAP and Microsoft will win, and Linux and OSS will lose.) For a time...
If the USA had implimented term limits for their Congressional representatives, I don't believe that the US patent law would be in such a mess as it is today.
It will probably take something of a revolution to turn these draconian laws (DCMA, RIAA, soft- ware patent, extended copyright, US Patriot, et.al.) into the dustbin of history. Don't think that public protests (e.g. burning in effigy) will work: emails & phone calls & letters & VOTES will! Time to throw all these double-dealing bums out of office.
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eBay is financially rigged to favor the
auctioneer instead of the customer. As a
fee based system, they derive the bulk of
their income from these same auctioneers.
By joining eBay, the bidders relinquish
any right to sue, and the cap on any
arbitrated settlement is $200. PayPal
might be convenient, but they have next
to zero for security and auditing. A
close friend had their checking account
cleaned out by someone either at PayPal
or one of the auctioneers. I stopped
doing ANY business with eBay after getting
ripped off a few times in rapid succession.
Going on eBay is like walking in the barrio
streets of Rio De Janero with you wallet
hanging half-way out of your pocket. The
old adage "Buyer Beware" doesn't even
come close to the risks. Anyone that
would consider buying an automobile, let
alone a house, on eBay must be daft.
Microsoft, emboldened by their legal
success in Benelux over the use of
the trade name "Lindows", is now
suing "Anderson" and "Pella". States
MS boffin-in-chief Steve Ballmer "We
want these companies to acknowledge
their improper use of the term windows.
They will fall into compliance with the
use of the term "transparent adjustable
closure"."
Even if you are a microbiologist with a PhD,
there is a good chance that your job will be
outsourced overseas one day: to China or India,
or God-knows-whichever country has the current
lowest wages.
Plumbing is not only "honest" (getting your\
hands dirty) work, but it is a job that cannot,
by it's nature, be outsourced. Go for it!
In this modern age of US Patriot Act (I & II), on-going DARPA TIA projects, FBI "Carnivore", and (God only knows what) various NSA projects, PCII is NOT something that I would encourage participating in. With public disclosure of government encroachment of privacy at an all- time low, I wouldn't revealing my company's vulnerabilities to anyone, let alone some faceless government "black-hats". Damn, now where did I put that tin-foil hat?
If our rocket scientists are better than yours,
and our pockets are deeper than yours, then
you are fsck'd. The whole problem with that
argument is that the USA is shipping our jobs
and technical expertise overseas, and into whose
hands? Every time this country "dabbles" in
international intrigue, we get our asses handed
to us. With the quality of intel the USA has
gotten to date, we would be likely to shoot
ourselves instead of the enemy. What is next?
Perhaps a lunar colony to replace Camp X-Ray?
WTF
Since Microsoft fully integrated IE into the
...
OS is when. When Borg Bill told the judge that
it was not possible to remove (totally?) IE from
WinDoze. That's when !!
Whenever Dell stops shipping their computers/
laptops with "viral" WinDoze, and I am not forced
to pay the "Microsucks tax" is when I would
consider buying another Dell product.
IMHO, the Palladium/TCI/Phenoex non-BIOS will
come first. Switch to OpenBoot and a Mac,
instead
AFAIK, SGI has never had a laptop computer.
However, they did market a "portable" system
back in 1993-1994. (Indy Presenter) The system included an Indy WS, standard keyboard & mouse, and an LCD panel. The "portability" factor was
a nice indigo blue padded knapsack. Total
weight was about 34 pounds for a 32-bit OS.
Very nice, and quite expensive presentation
system that predated all the portable digital
LCD projectors.
This new Voodoo Laptop is easily ten times
faster, and at one tenth the cost. Laptops do
not strictly follow Moore's Law.
I use VPC to run Win2K Pro, Solaris 5.8,
...
and GNU/Linux on my Mac G4. When Microsoft
bought Connectix, I first felt shell-shocked.
After getting my first VPC upgrade from the
MS-owned Connectix, I have learned to embrace
the devil. Whatever Steve Ballmer and Bill
Gates have in store for me on the Mac platform
is A-OKAY, 'cause they do know what's best for
me. If they don't want me to use anything
on my Mac except OSX and WinXP (with VPC 2004),
I am sure that they are right. How can anyone
NOT TRUST our very best (and richest) Microsoft
to do the right thing?
OTOH, the term "not supported" (by MS) is not
in itself any big deal. I would not expect
Microsoft to exert any effort in supporting
a non-Microsoft OS on their (now) Connectix.
Any more than I would expect Sun to support
my problems with MS Update. IMHO, Connectix
VPC is the very best thing to happen to MS
in a very long time. MS acquisition of this
company, and it's plan to incorporate this
VM in their server product is a tacit acknow-
ledgement that their OS product is neither
secure nor stable. VPC can put MS OSes in
a "sandbox", just like Java apps can, where
they belong
Have these journalists NOT been paying
attention? Even (and particularly)
Microsoft says that anyone using a MS OS
newer than Win3.1 AND Internet Explorer
ARE ISPs (albeit inadvertently).
Therefore, under the US PAtriot Act, any
person or organizational unit that uses
MS Operating Systems AND Internet Explorer
AND make occasional or fulltime connections
to the internet may come under the perview
of HSA.
All of us patriots need to get off of our
collective duffs and switch from IE (thanks
Eolas) AND that insecure MS XP over to *bsd
or linux or *nix, right?
signed
IANAT (I Am Not A Terrorist)
Just wait until the shareholders of American
...
industries moving abroad finally realize that
the corporate officers can be replaced far more
cheaply with Chinese or Indian executives.
Hey, Andy Grove. It's time to train your
replacement.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) once said "The
American people deserve the government that
they have. The US Congress is the very best
legislature that money can buy."
Perhaps we should change the law, and out-
source our Congress to India, at 10% of what
they cost the US taxpayer right now
AS IF!
What we really need is a revolution like the
recall vote in California -- throw the bums
out.
>>>
>
Microsoft already has the ability to kill
(literally) it's users. If you would
check the specifications for the BMW 745
automobile, you would find that it has a
network of over 40 microprocessors run by
Microsoft WinCE. And I don't believe this
vehicle will pull off to the side of the
road when it catches a virus.
Does anyone know if NAI or Symantec makes
AV software for the Beemer?
If HP were still worth a diddly damn, :^( ... But my 12C :^) !!)
...
they would have been able to offer to
repair your failing calculator. They
have turned everything into disposible
commodities, IMHO. My HP40CX has lasted
way longer than my Omnibook 800CT, which
is a redheaded stepchild in HP's eyes.
(I just can't find the program strips
for the CX anymore
still works great
Most all calculators today just throw
more memory at the problem, and use
algebraic notation instead of the elegantly
compact RPN.
Hope you like the 48GX
But just try and get Dell to knock off
...
the $200 Microsoft tax. As if!
Dontholdyourbreathwaiting
Pre-installing Lindows on a Seagate harddrive?
Fantastic! Think Dell will knock off $200
and ship me their laptop with Lindows, instead?
660 guest workers from Cuba were granted
USA permanent residency status & green cards.
New IT head at Dept. of Homeland Security
inks deal with Microsoft for HSA server OS,
desktop OS, and applications software.
John Poindexter's TIA Project certifies
Microsoft XP as the preferred national OS
of choice.
Steve Ballmer cinches $10 Billion sale of
Microsoft OS and Office Products to the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Quoted "78,000 suspected terrorists" was
ammended to "78,002 suspected terrorists"
660 guest workers from Cuba were granted
USA permanent residency status & green cards.
New IT head at Dept. of Homeland Security
inks deal with Microsoft for HSA server OS,
desktop OS, and applications software.
John Poindexter's TIA Project certifies
Microsoft XP as the preferred national OS
of choice.
Steve Ballmer cinches $10 Billion sale of
Microsoft OS and Office Products to the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ahh, yes! Natural selection. Which has been
overruled and superceded by our fearless leaders.
The only "natural selection" they know or care
about has something to do with the election
cycle.
It's really so nice to see that you believe
in an invisible supreme being, but not a
dangerous increase in an invisible gas.
If the increase in greenhouse gas (CO2) was
actually (CO), you would see the dramatic
effects all around us (and a lot of vultures).
About the time my home mortgage is paid off,
I expect it will be beachfront property (BTW:
elevation at 200').
The impending ice age that you reference
(from 30 years ago) was "nuclear winter".
The same "chicken little" "sky is falling"
BS that these same scientists were spouting
30 years ago has been repackaged for the
Kyoto Accords.
Everyone knows the real culprit is the
"slow death ray" problem. Just put on
your aluminum foil hat, and fgetabaudit!
George W. has assured me, with the most "fair ...
and balanced" report from his EPA, that cow
farts in Montana have more of an effect on
greenhouse gases and global warming that any
human endeavour.
And with that solid scientific evidence, I am
going out to Safeway to buy more aluminum foil
for my "slow death ray" hat
Could it be that Apple pulled the 10.2.8
update to take care of the newly discovered
vulnerabilities in OpenSSH 3.7.1.p1 ?
The new OpenSSH 3.7.1.p2 was released earlier
today. When Apple pulled the plug on 10.2.8,
I got a broken 1/3 of the update (sorry snail
slow dialup connection).
and the next new SUN Micro innovation will
be a wireless mind-machine brain implant?
compliance with the US Patriot Act
and "Pentagon John" Poindexter's
TIA (Total Information Awareness).
WTF, who would even need a "wiretap"
when a loop antenna and a LNA will do?
The current and impending software patent issue ...
in the EU will (IMHO) will favor the multi-
national mega-corporations, because they can
spend the BIG money to woo the votes. (SAP
and Microsoft will win, and Linux and OSS will
lose.) For a time
If the USA had implimented term limits for their
Congressional representatives, I don't believe
that the US patent law would be in such a mess
as it is today.
It will probably take something of a revolution
to turn these draconian laws (DCMA, RIAA, soft-
ware patent, extended copyright, US Patriot,
et.al.) into the dustbin of history. Don't
think that public protests (e.g. burning in
effigy) will work: emails & phone calls &
letters & VOTES will! Time to throw all these
double-dealing bums out of office.