I've been getting BSA ads. In fact, I get e-mails from my Monster.com job search agent (heh heh heh, anyone wanna offer a geek a telecommuting job?;) with banner ads, and as often as not, they advertise the BSA. Makes me that much more excited about all of the signs that are pointing to near-critical-mass adoption of open-source software by corporations and governments.
I just looked at RAV's website......You're right. They do offer a lot of the things SYMC offers. Neat!
I'm not really anti-Microsoft, and I find it interesting the way they continue to integrate (read: acquire and include) more and more technologies into Windows.
Looks like SYMC and NET may well be obsolete... heh. Yikes.
The one thing I'd hope beyond all hope is that they keep RAV a somewhat separate entity and leave their corporate culture and structure intact instead of completely absorbing them into its own corporate structure.
Yeah, those are some of the worst jobs in science. I'm sure there are just as many bad jobs in other fields, too.
I have a friend that breeds and shows dogs. She can't neuter them, because that would kill their future value. So when she takes a male dog to a dog show where it's exposed to unspayed female dogs in heat, she has to do the same duty as the barnyard masturbator to make sure the dog doesn't go hump anything. I was somewhat amused when she told me about this, but I'm glad I don't have to do it. (Docuporn title comes to mind: "Uncensored - Backstage at the Dog Show!")
I can imagine some years ago one of the worst jobs in tech (although people didn't necessarily know it) was running cabling through old asbestos-laden buildings. Not healthy at all.
Actually, I didn't miss that fact. Symantec has a lot more security products than just antivirus, including various firewall, content-filtering, and intrusion detection products. Granted, there's MS ISA, but from what I've seen of it, it doesn't quite stack up to what Symantec's got. That's not to mention non-security-related products like Ghost, which are maybe even more commonly used than SMS and Zenworks (I haven't seen the latest Netcraft surveys;).
I have the same philosophy with taxes. I would prefer the government getting out of a lot of businesses and greatly reducing our taxes, but if I can't have that, I'd at least like to replace the income tax with something like the FairTax.
Still, ideas like the GPL circumvent the government (in a way) and their enforcement of the application of copyright law to "close" art. Why can't a similar idea be applied to music and art?
Also, just because the government is "in the business" doesn't mean they should be.:)
I'd personally extend this to any politically-motivated "work of art." This is also why I'm highly opposed to publicly-funded elections. The parties that get federal funds are generally the two ruling parties.
Hate to say it, but is it really the government's role to promote the arts?
I'd rather see the government relax its regulation of various forms of communication. Deregulate LPFM, for example, and let small hobbyists operate LPFM stations that give play to local artists. This would help to break the monopoly of "Big Media," which IMO has a stranglehold on what we listen to mostly because of the scarcity of legal broadcast media.
At the same time, this would allow "open-source" music to thrive. You could just donate the money directly to artists in appreciation of their music. It (kinda) works for NPR. Under the current tax scheme (scam? hehe) artists could even unite under not-for-profit umbrella organizations that would pay them to produce music and accept tax-deductible donations to help pay the artists.
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I've been getting BSA ads. In fact, I get e-mails from my Monster.com job search agent (heh heh heh, anyone wanna offer a geek a telecommuting job? ;) with banner ads, and as often as not, they advertise the BSA. Makes me that much more excited about all of the signs that are pointing to near-critical-mass adoption of open-source software by corporations and governments.
I just looked at RAV's website... ...You're right. They do offer a lot of the things SYMC offers. Neat!
I'm not really anti-Microsoft, and I find it interesting the way they continue to integrate (read: acquire and include) more and more technologies into Windows.
Looks like SYMC and NET may well be obsolete... heh. Yikes.
The one thing I'd hope beyond all hope is that they keep RAV a somewhat separate entity and leave their corporate culture and structure intact instead of completely absorbing them into its own corporate structure.
[Stan's Dad] Beatin off the dog is not appropriate when we have company... I mean, ever. Beating off the dog is not appropriate, ever. [/Stan's Dad]
Yeah, those are some of the worst jobs in science. I'm sure there are just as many bad jobs in other fields, too.
I have a friend that breeds and shows dogs. She can't neuter them, because that would kill their future value. So when she takes a male dog to a dog show where it's exposed to unspayed female dogs in heat, she has to do the same duty as the barnyard masturbator to make sure the dog doesn't go hump anything. I was somewhat amused when she told me about this, but I'm glad I don't have to do it. (Docuporn title comes to mind: "Uncensored - Backstage at the Dog Show!")
I can imagine some years ago one of the worst jobs in tech (although people didn't necessarily know it) was running cabling through old asbestos-laden buildings. Not healthy at all.
Actually, I didn't miss that fact. Symantec has a lot more security products than just antivirus, including various firewall, content-filtering, and intrusion detection products. Granted, there's MS ISA, but from what I've seen of it, it doesn't quite stack up to what Symantec's got. That's not to mention non-security-related products like Ghost, which are maybe even more commonly used than SMS and Zenworks (I haven't seen the latest Netcraft surveys ;).
If Microsoft buys Symantec, they can create a "real options" type scenario.
Microsoft creates insecure software. Microsoft-owned Symantec secures networks which runs insecure Microsoft software. End result: PROFIT!
Too bad the anti-trust laws would probably break the whole deal up.
Absolutely, agreed with ya there.
I have the same philosophy with taxes. I would prefer the government getting out of a lot of businesses and greatly reducing our taxes, but if I can't have that, I'd at least like to replace the income tax with something like the FairTax.
Still, ideas like the GPL circumvent the government (in a way) and their enforcement of the application of copyright law to "close" art. Why can't a similar idea be applied to music and art?
:)
Also, just because the government is "in the business" doesn't mean they should be.
I'd personally extend this to any politically-motivated "work of art." This is also why I'm highly opposed to publicly-funded elections. The parties that get federal funds are generally the two ruling parties.
Hate to say it, but is it really the government's role to promote the arts?
I'd rather see the government relax its regulation of various forms of communication. Deregulate LPFM, for example, and let small hobbyists operate LPFM stations that give play to local artists. This would help to break the monopoly of "Big Media," which IMO has a stranglehold on what we listen to mostly because of the scarcity of legal broadcast media.
At the same time, this would allow "open-source" music to thrive. You could just donate the money directly to artists in appreciation of their music. It (kinda) works for NPR. Under the current tax scheme (scam? hehe) artists could even unite under not-for-profit umbrella organizations that would pay them to produce music and accept tax-deductible donations to help pay the artists.
- Novell patents neuron, sells patent to SCO on the cheap; SCO sues Cyberkinetics for using SCO intellectual property in product.
- Cyberkinetics awards Oracle contract to keep track of individual "Social Security - Media Access Control" addresses of devices in anticipation of federal mandate to implant device in all newborns