Ummm, no I get what your point is. However your point and my point are different. Yeah, users don't give a shit about what the future holds... I figured that was an obvious point. I guess you think it is non-obvious and needs to be discussed.
We're supposed to give 'em a pat on the back and use Google search over Yahoo search because Google is "brilliant" at playing the catch-up game, and just might some day offer the same suite of services that Yahoo does
Hardly. I could give two shits what service you use. My point was I find it amusing someone is comparing Yahoo Mail and their accompanying services to GMail. Do you often compare the intellect of your six year old with that of your one year old? Let's see how complete GMail's calendar and related offerings are in a few more years. Unless Yahoo Mail finds some other ways to bring them ahead of GMail, they are a sitting duck.
Where else can I find the likes of Y! Calender / Mail / Address book, all integrated, for free? Point me there and I might jump ship.
GMail is great for email, but it's address book is a POS, and there is no calendering whatsoever. Meanwhile, over at Y!....
Someone, please kill me if I ever refer to Google as "G."
Anyway, why don't you re-try this argument when GMail has been around as long as Yahoo mail. I'd say for "playing catch-up" to Yahoo mail, Google has done a fucking brilliant job. You can thank the competition at GMail for your GBs of free email storage.
Also thank Google for Yahoo's slimmed down search engine page. If I ever used Yahoo, I'd probably bookmark that as my starting page over their mind-numbingly dense portal homepage.
The constitution does say the federal government should provide a postal service, which was pretty much the only thing at the time on the same scale as public transportation or utility service. It's just natural for the role to expand. The only people who object are the conservatives who like to bitch about everything, using the justifications "the government shouldn't do things just because" and "a piece of paper that's over 200 years old doesn't go into detail on the necessities of modern society."
Sorry, thanks for playing. If anything, the things you describe are for the STATES to decide, not the FEDERAL government.
That way if your state really sucks at implementing services, you can move. What are you supposed to do when the federal government sucks at it?
And while you're bitching about conservatives that don't like the government spending all this money, where do you draw the line. You're ok with pork barrel spending and all the government waste? If not, then you must see the only way to stop it is to stop giving the feds our money. They have proven time and again they can't spend it wisely.
The government should stay out of people's lives socially because their purpose is to keep the trains running and the water flowing
Actually, it's not the FEDERAL government's job to do either, check the Constitution.
And the problem with giving the government money is that then they figure out new ways to spend it.
The liberal viewpoint is quite strange. They want the government to take in more money, yet get pissed off when they spend it in ways that make them angry. Yet this continues to happen, and liberals still want to give the government more money. This is the definition of insanity.
The easiest fix is for us to decrease the government's funding, but that will never fly, because today's American typically likes having Big Mother to watch over them.
it's cheaper and more efficient than collecting them individually from every employee, shareholder, and customer
More efficient for the government maybe, but not more efficient for the people paying them, since the taxes would be obscured and it is not clear where/what/how much you're paying.
It also would give lobbyists tons of ways to insert loopholes, so it's not a fair tax.
you also get to tax *foreign* shareholders, employees, and customers, if indirectly.
The FairTax allows us to tax foreigners directly.
Plus it has the incentive of ENCOURAGING all businesses everywhere to setup shop in the U.S., whereas more corporate taxes would encourage all businesses to offshore or stay out of the U.S... which kills our economy.
Until the United States (and the rest of the world for that matter) has a graduated corporate tax on revenues (not profits but revenues), things are going to get worse and worse for the worker as they will be stuck in a state of inertia slaving away in some cubicle at a super-massive corporation with no option of finding another job because no new jobs will be created due to small businesses getting the shaft by their own theoretically democratic government which constantly creates unnecessary laws which add relatively major costs of compliance to small businesses, while leaving large corporations relatively unscathed.
Uh huh. Or the government could eliminate business taxes altogether, since businesses don't pay taxes EVER, their employees, shareholders, and consumers do.
How are small businesses so supposed to compete against large corporations if all their capital is being drained by their government while large corporations can use their political influence to get tax breaks and sweet heart deals to add to their bottom line.
Ask Google, eBay, Yahoo, Skype, Vonage... need I go on? And believe it or not, Microsoft was a small company at one time. Are you claiming the business landscape has changed so much since then? Nope, people like you were bemoaning "Big Blue" back then, just as now.
Same shit, different date.
It's just capitalism. If you want to improve the situation, the answer is always the same: less government interference.
I disagree. And this is coming from someone who has railed against people in the past for confusing slashdot readers with a single organism rather than a diverse group of people.
However, like I said, I disagree with your take on this. I think the underlying question is interesting, many slashdot readers feel that information should be free, except their private information, which they want complete control over.
That being said, like others have pointed out, the "mantra" of "information wants to be free" is really just an observation. Like when a guy wins the lottery, and you say, "that guy is really lucky!" You are not saying that guy is currently lucky and good things will keep happening to him, you are just labelling him as being lucky based on what has happened to him in the past.
Ask a liberal why the government should stay out of my life socially, but not out of my life financially. Watch them twist in the wind as they try to rectify that one.
Both the right and the left are hypocrites, just in different ways.
Word is the thieves have just as much trouble logging in with these stolen passwords as those who originally created them, and Cisco predicts the thieves will give up on them shortly.
And honestly, even if the thieves could get access to the needed areas of Cisco's TOP SECRET website, what are the chances they could decipher the grid of which firmware goes with which device?
Last time I looked at Cisco's firmware listings (back when they had that exploit affecting all their routers), a co-worker had to pry the gun out of my hands.
What moron developed their firmware version scheme? Please kill this person immediately.
Notwithstanding the fact that this article is wrong (the NRLB did not say anything about the topic at hand, except that there exists precident for it)...
Your example is idiotic. If your company wants to control fraternization, and you don't want them to, then you QUIT AND FIND A NEW JOB.
While your comment ("I will be expecting a raise") was a nice attempt at humor, the reality is you will know about these rules when you seek employment, and can decide then if the pay you receive is worth the aggrivation of abiding by a no-frat clause. If not, take your shit elsewhere.
This falls under 'human rights'. Which you cannot sign away.
I swear to god, I am so sick of the extreme misunderstandings of rights and constituationality, even on sites like this that are supposed to be filled with smart people. (No, I'm not new here.)
If you agree to an employer's terms by continuing to work for them or signing a legal contract, then I am sorry to tell you -- you are not "signing your human rights away."
I expect you feel the government should now step in and create a new law that makes it illegal to sign a contract with an employer, without prior governmental approval?
So a simple two word text file has the following 33 XML tags pasted here with the greater and less than signs removed...
What is your point? Oh lord, this file is 1200 bytes long, for "just two words of text."
I created the same two-word document and saved it in several text-based formats that preserve the formatting. HTML (2700 bytes), RTF (3600 bytes), PDF (16,600 bytes), and of course, Word.doc format (20,000 bytes).
The XML version is smaller than all three, and I dare-say, easier to parse and manipulate with a 3rd party program.
Yeah, if you don't want any formatting information stored with your text, use plain text. But otherwise, XML seems to be as good a format as any of the other markup doc formats commonly used in Office.
While you can derride "cramming more ads onto the web," I bet you take advantage of the wealth of information, entertainment, and commerce the web offers the world.
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The profit is the free furniture made from another company's products intended for another use entirely, and stipulated in that agreement.
However, FedEx is retarded to pursue this with DMCA.
The software is running on VMware.
No it's not. It's an image from vmware that can be written to a hard drive and run from your hardware.
I've seen a lot of ravioli code lately. You know, the API exterior is nice and clean, but once you have to open it up, you've got a nice surprise.
Correct use and spelling of "solipsistic."
References to "Fareignheight 411."
HEAD ASPLODES!
You missed the point.
Ummm, no I get what your point is. However your point and my point are different. Yeah, users don't give a shit about what the future holds... I figured that was an obvious point. I guess you think it is non-obvious and needs to be discussed.
We're supposed to give 'em a pat on the back and use Google search over Yahoo search because Google is "brilliant" at playing the catch-up game, and just might some day offer the same suite of services that Yahoo does
Hardly. I could give two shits what service you use. My point was I find it amusing someone is comparing Yahoo Mail and their accompanying services to GMail. Do you often compare the intellect of your six year old with that of your one year old? Let's see how complete GMail's calendar and related offerings are in a few more years. Unless Yahoo Mail finds some other ways to bring them ahead of GMail, they are a sitting duck.
Where else can I find the likes of Y! Calender / Mail / Address book, all integrated, for free? Point me there and I might jump ship.
GMail is great for email, but it's address book is a POS, and there is no calendering whatsoever. Meanwhile, over at Y!....
Someone, please kill me if I ever refer to Google as "G."
Anyway, why don't you re-try this argument when GMail has been around as long as Yahoo mail. I'd say for "playing catch-up" to Yahoo mail, Google has done a fucking brilliant job. You can thank the competition at GMail for your GBs of free email storage.
Also thank Google for Yahoo's slimmed down search engine page. If I ever used Yahoo, I'd probably bookmark that as my starting page over their mind-numbingly dense portal homepage.
The constitution does say the federal government should provide a postal service, which was pretty much the only thing at the time on the same scale as public transportation or utility service. It's just natural for the role to expand. The only people who object are the conservatives who like to bitch about everything, using the justifications "the government shouldn't do things just because" and "a piece of paper that's over 200 years old doesn't go into detail on the necessities of modern society."
Sorry, thanks for playing. If anything, the things you describe are for the STATES to decide, not the FEDERAL government.
That way if your state really sucks at implementing services, you can move. What are you supposed to do when the federal government sucks at it?
And while you're bitching about conservatives that don't like the government spending all this money, where do you draw the line. You're ok with pork barrel spending and all the government waste? If not, then you must see the only way to stop it is to stop giving the feds our money. They have proven time and again they can't spend it wisely.
Ummm, and why were the sanctions in place? Just for shits and giggles?
The government should stay out of people's lives socially because their purpose is to keep the trains running and the water flowing
Actually, it's not the FEDERAL government's job to do either, check the Constitution.
And the problem with giving the government money is that then they figure out new ways to spend it.
The liberal viewpoint is quite strange. They want the government to take in more money, yet get pissed off when they spend it in ways that make them angry. Yet this continues to happen, and liberals still want to give the government more money. This is the definition of insanity.
The easiest fix is for us to decrease the government's funding, but that will never fly, because today's American typically likes having Big Mother to watch over them.
it's cheaper and more efficient than collecting them individually from every employee, shareholder, and customer
More efficient for the government maybe, but not more efficient for the people paying them, since the taxes would be obscured and it is not clear where/what/how much you're paying.
It also would give lobbyists tons of ways to insert loopholes, so it's not a fair tax.
you also get to tax *foreign* shareholders, employees, and customers, if indirectly.
The FairTax allows us to tax foreigners directly.
Plus it has the incentive of ENCOURAGING all businesses everywhere to setup shop in the U.S., whereas more corporate taxes would encourage all businesses to offshore or stay out of the U.S... which kills our economy.
Until the United States (and the rest of the world for that matter) has a graduated corporate tax on revenues (not profits but revenues), things are going to get worse and worse for the worker as they will be stuck in a state of inertia slaving away in some cubicle at a super-massive corporation with no option of finding another job because no new jobs will be created due to small businesses getting the shaft by their own theoretically democratic government which constantly creates unnecessary laws which add relatively major costs of compliance to small businesses, while leaving large corporations relatively unscathed.
Uh huh. Or the government could eliminate business taxes altogether, since businesses don't pay taxes EVER, their employees, shareholders, and consumers do.
How are small businesses so supposed to compete against large corporations if all their capital is being drained by their government while large corporations can use their political influence to get tax breaks and sweet heart deals to add to their bottom line.
Ask Google, eBay, Yahoo, Skype, Vonage... need I go on? And believe it or not, Microsoft was a small company at one time. Are you claiming the business landscape has changed so much since then? Nope, people like you were bemoaning "Big Blue" back then, just as now.
Same shit, different date.
It's just capitalism. If you want to improve the situation, the answer is always the same: less government interference.
The Sprint around the corners?
Monad is now a "Windows Vista Tool." And just 2.5 months ago, Slashdot indicated Monad wouldn't be in Windows Vista (then codenamed Longhorn).
So when Monad is considered a feature, it won't be in WV, but when it is a problem, it's magically back in there.
The truth is, no one knows for sure if Monad will be in, and this "virus" is just a fucking shell script.
Everyone, type rmdir c:\ and pass it along.
Where is the honor and dignity of journalism these days?
As soon as the market starts rewarding "honor and dignity in journalism" again, that's when you'll see it re-appear. And not a moment sooner.
Since we all keep reading slashdot, I'm guessing it's "good enough" for now.
These people need to have "I am stupid" tattooed on their forehead.
I disagree completely!!
These people need to have "diputs ma I" tattooed on their foreheads.
I mean, WE already know their stupid.
I disagree. And this is coming from someone who has railed against people in the past for confusing slashdot readers with a single organism rather than a diverse group of people.
However, like I said, I disagree with your take on this. I think the underlying question is interesting, many slashdot readers feel that information should be free, except their private information, which they want complete control over.
That being said, like others have pointed out, the "mantra" of "information wants to be free" is really just an observation. Like when a guy wins the lottery, and you say, "that guy is really lucky!" You are not saying that guy is currently lucky and good things will keep happening to him, you are just labelling him as being lucky based on what has happened to him in the past.
References to war are not comparable to the issues related to the death penalty.
Murder is much different from killing.
People who run a red light and kill someone go to prison, they don't get the death penalty.
Ask a liberal why the government should stay out of my life socially, but not out of my life financially. Watch them twist in the wind as they try to rectify that one.
Both the right and the left are hypocrites, just in different ways.
Word is the thieves have just as much trouble logging in with these stolen passwords as those who originally created them, and Cisco predicts the thieves will give up on them shortly.
And honestly, even if the thieves could get access to the needed areas of Cisco's TOP SECRET website, what are the chances they could decipher the grid of which firmware goes with which device?
Last time I looked at Cisco's firmware listings (back when they had that exploit affecting all their routers), a co-worker had to pry the gun out of my hands.
What moron developed their firmware version scheme? Please kill this person immediately.
Notwithstanding the fact that this article is wrong (the NRLB did not say anything about the topic at hand, except that there exists precident for it)...
Your example is idiotic. If your company wants to control fraternization, and you don't want them to, then you QUIT AND FIND A NEW JOB.
While your comment ("I will be expecting a raise") was a nice attempt at humor, the reality is you will know about these rules when you seek employment, and can decide then if the pay you receive is worth the aggrivation of abiding by a no-frat clause. If not, take your shit elsewhere.
This falls under 'human rights'. Which you cannot sign away.
I swear to god, I am so sick of the extreme misunderstandings of rights and constituationality, even on sites like this that are supposed to be filled with smart people. (No, I'm not new here.)
If you agree to an employer's terms by continuing to work for them or signing a legal contract, then I am sorry to tell you -- you are not "signing your human rights away."
I expect you feel the government should now step in and create a new law that makes it illegal to sign a contract with an employer, without prior governmental approval?
I don't see where XML files are bigger than RTF. I just performed a test, and the RTF file was 3 times as large as the XML file.
So a simple two word text file has the following 33 XML tags pasted here with the greater and less than signs removed...
.doc format (20,000 bytes).
What is your point? Oh lord, this file is 1200 bytes long, for "just two words of text."
I created the same two-word document and saved it in several text-based formats that preserve the formatting. HTML (2700 bytes), RTF (3600 bytes), PDF (16,600 bytes), and of course, Word
The XML version is smaller than all three, and I dare-say, easier to parse and manipulate with a 3rd party program.
Yeah, if you don't want any formatting information stored with your text, use plain text. But otherwise, XML seems to be as good a format as any of the other markup doc formats commonly used in Office.
Somehow that doesn't really seem to sit well with the "do no evil" bit...
But maybe that's just me. Then entire AdSense BS stinks of evil already.
So you are of the well-thought-out opinion that capitalism is evil?
While you can derride "cramming more ads onto the web," I bet you take advantage of the wealth of information, entertainment, and commerce the web offers the world.
Now guess how much of it is paid for...