So it's possible a human being never handled the taped-up application and never had the chance to spot the obvious sign of trouble.
Let me make sure I understand this. The form was recieved, removed from an envelope, scanned and filed or destroyed all without having ever been handled by a person? Am I the only one who finds this a bit far fetched?
It's interesting to me how the Federal Government always has to have some big cause to use as an excuse to violate citizen's civil liberties. In the 40's it was nationality with Japanese internments and such. In the 50's it was communism. In the 70's, 80's and 90's it was the 'war on drugs'. Now it's terrorism.
Too bad that the American public can never seem to tie all of these 'issues' together...
Is this the same for porn? Could a 10 year old legally walk into our local adult book store and walk out with pictures of naked ladies (pending store policy approval of course)?
Exactly. I have a Sirius subscription and the thing I like about it is the larger selection of music. I have many songs in a digital format that I have acquired over the years, but I always like to find new stuff. If I like something enough to add it to the collection I like to get a whole album or at least a few more songs than the current hit. Satellite radio bitrate isn't all that great and I have no playlist so I would just have to record hours to find the song I want. Seems silly to copy songs from the satellite feed.
I don't actually use iTunes, so I'm not 100% sure on this, but I thought some items can be added for free. I know podcasts can be added to iTunes and the vast majority of them are free downloads. If your true motive is to get the music out there giving (some) tracks away would be an option. I can't imagine reducing the price would get someone to purchase music from an artist they have never heard. OTOH, if someone is a fan of your music, $0.99 isn't a bad price.
Thing is, I trust Ellison. I trust him to be the ruthless scheming greedy SOB he is. Gates is trying to make him love you every other minute. He tries to trick you into thinking his product is good. He makes excuses for his shortcomings. How often do you hear anything like this from Ellison. His product dominates the high end database market and from what most people say is excellent. He doesn't waffle around issues or change his mind 40 times a day.
He may be pure evil, but he's honest passionate evil. Not slimy, nerdy, snake oil salesman evil and I can respect that.
You are sadly mistaken. Labor is not suppressed. Right now the NFL players union is in serious contract negotiations with the ownership. The whole future of the sport is in jeopardy. If that's not power of labor, what is????
Ever seen a telco rack? Everything runs on -48VDC. Everything.
Yes, I have. I've also seen plenty of servers that run on DC. I'm wondering why this is news, seems like some datacenters have been using DC power for many years.
My bad, I haven't actually read a copy of the National Enquirer since I was a kid in the 80's. It used to have more stories about UFOs and bigfoot than it did celebrity news. People may also be accurate, but often they have cover stories about rumoured breakups or the latest Hollywood gossip. While these stories are purposely speculatitive, they are also not complete accuracy and the gossip is used to sell advertising.
One of the major problems in software companies is that programmers get promoted to positions of management because they excelled at what they did, but they lack management skills.
This happens in most technical industries, it doesn't matter if the individuals are programmers or engineers. It's a very real problem. Moving into management is the only way to move up the pay scale in many companies, so top technical people are moved into management positions regardless of their people/management skills.
OTOH, this is one area where F/OSS has found a unique solution. Take, for example, the Linux kernel. It doesn't seem, from what I've read and seen, that Linus has tremendous people skills, but he has a kernel development team that has produced an amazing product. How did he do this? I think a major reason for his success is he doesn't have to deal with all of the day-to-day managment issues that a manager in a corporate setting would. He doesn't have to worry about sick time, tardiness, body odor, etc... Most of his time, work and management is focused around the project. If corporate software companies could find a way to create their development teams in the same way and just pay them based on their contributions to the project it could be a significant improvement for software development.
Imagine the lawsuit that results when there's a heart attack at a theater and 911 doesn't get there in time because they tried calling 911 and it didn't work
Not sure how your phone works, but there are plenty of places where mine doesn't. If I go into the local Walmart I don't get any signal at all (which is annoying when you can't remember why you were sent there). Most of us wouldn't think it odd at all if our phones didn't work in any given building. Running outside to make a call is very instinctive to most of us with cell phones and probably not basis for a lawsuit.
Has this guy ever heard of tabloid journalism? Paparazzi? How about the National Enquirer? Maybe People Magazine? Their are plenty of rags in this country and around the world that regularly print content that is at BEST unsubstantiated gossip, sometimes outright made up stories. Why do they print this? To make money and sell advertisments for x-ray glasses and boob creme.
Even TV has it's 'news magazines' that contain questionable content. Ever watch "A Current Affair"? Making up bogus content to sell advertising is hardly new and hardly unique to the Internet. Based on the content of this article I would say the title could be changed to "Wall Street Journal Breeds Worthless 'Original Content'"?
I'm not saying you are wrong, but last time I checked the Republicans aren't the only party with seats in congress. I believe many, if not most democrats supported the initial invasion into Iraq, the Patriot act and any number of activities taht could be interpreted as 'Facist'. Their complacency and inaction is, if anything, more inexcusable than what the Republicans have practiced. If you are so far gone that you still support the Democrats this CD shouldn't bother you at all.
I'm guessing they would spin the results to show what they wanted and not publish the rest if that happened. Politicians are usually good at the whole spin thing.
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buy a $10 crosscut shredder. If you don't want your identity stolen, is $10 really that much
Or just burn all your mail. That would be cheaper.
So it's possible a human being never handled the taped-up application and never had the chance to spot the obvious sign of trouble.
Let me make sure I understand this. The form was recieved, removed from an envelope, scanned and filed or destroyed all without having ever been handled by a person? Am I the only one who finds this a bit far fetched?
8 hours a day for reading personal email and blogging should be enough for most people.
For you maybe...
Fortunately a Carnegie Mellon research scientist has written a handy guide named How to Survive a Robot Uprising. Might be a good reference.
It's interesting to me how the Federal Government always has to have some big cause to use as an excuse to violate citizen's civil liberties. In the 40's it was nationality with Japanese internments and such. In the 50's it was communism. In the 70's, 80's and 90's it was the 'war on drugs'. Now it's terrorism.
Too bad that the American public can never seem to tie all of these 'issues' together...
Exactly. Rockstar LOVES the controversy for their game. Why do you think they keep producing these titles - the notoriety makes them sell.
its time for Apple to appoint a security Czar to get out ahead of the FUD
That's too funny. Czars are generally a propaganda position anyway. Fight FUD with FUD - that's what I always say!
Is this the same for porn? Could a 10 year old legally walk into our local adult book store and walk out with pictures of naked ladies (pending store policy approval of course)?
Exactly. I have a Sirius subscription and the thing I like about it is the larger selection of music. I have many songs in a digital format that I have acquired over the years, but I always like to find new stuff. If I like something enough to add it to the collection I like to get a whole album or at least a few more songs than the current hit. Satellite radio bitrate isn't all that great and I have no playlist so I would just have to record hours to find the song I want. Seems silly to copy songs from the satellite feed.
I don't actually use iTunes, so I'm not 100% sure on this, but I thought some items can be added for free. I know podcasts can be added to iTunes and the vast majority of them are free downloads. If your true motive is to get the music out there giving (some) tracks away would be an option. I can't imagine reducing the price would get someone to purchase music from an artist they have never heard. OTOH, if someone is a fan of your music, $0.99 isn't a bad price.
Sorry, should have included sarcasm tags.
Thing is, I trust Ellison. I trust him to be the ruthless scheming greedy SOB he is. Gates is trying to make him love you every other minute. He tries to trick you into thinking his product is good. He makes excuses for his shortcomings. How often do you hear anything like this from Ellison. His product dominates the high end database market and from what most people say is excellent. He doesn't waffle around issues or change his mind 40 times a day.
He may be pure evil, but he's honest passionate evil. Not slimy, nerdy, snake oil salesman evil and I can respect that.
Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
You are sadly mistaken. Labor is not suppressed. Right now the NFL players union is in serious contract negotiations with the ownership. The whole future of the sport is in jeopardy. If that's not power of labor, what is????
Ever seen a telco rack? Everything runs on -48VDC. Everything.
Yes, I have. I've also seen plenty of servers that run on DC. I'm wondering why this is news, seems like some datacenters have been using DC power for many years.
They should move the US records to China to prvent the US government from accessing them...
My bad, I haven't actually read a copy of the National Enquirer since I was a kid in the 80's. It used to have more stories about UFOs and bigfoot than it did celebrity news. People may also be accurate, but often they have cover stories about rumoured breakups or the latest Hollywood gossip. While these stories are purposely speculatitive, they are also not complete accuracy and the gossip is used to sell advertising.
One of the major problems in software companies is that programmers get promoted to positions of management because they excelled at what they did, but they lack management skills.
This happens in most technical industries, it doesn't matter if the individuals are programmers or engineers. It's a very real problem. Moving into management is the only way to move up the pay scale in many companies, so top technical people are moved into management positions regardless of their people/management skills.
OTOH, this is one area where F/OSS has found a unique solution. Take, for example, the Linux kernel. It doesn't seem, from what I've read and seen, that Linus has tremendous people skills, but he has a kernel development team that has produced an amazing product. How did he do this? I think a major reason for his success is he doesn't have to deal with all of the day-to-day managment issues that a manager in a corporate setting would. He doesn't have to worry about sick time, tardiness, body odor, etc... Most of his time, work and management is focused around the project. If corporate software companies could find a way to create their development teams in the same way and just pay them based on their contributions to the project it could be a significant improvement for software development.
I hope that's true. I've been sitting here wondering what kind of IT department would get worked up about a few portscans.
Imagine the lawsuit that results when there's a heart attack at a theater and 911 doesn't get there in time because they tried calling 911 and it didn't work
Not sure how your phone works, but there are plenty of places where mine doesn't. If I go into the local Walmart I don't get any signal at all (which is annoying when you can't remember why you were sent there). Most of us wouldn't think it odd at all if our phones didn't work in any given building. Running outside to make a call is very instinctive to most of us with cell phones and probably not basis for a lawsuit.
Has this guy ever heard of tabloid journalism? Paparazzi? How about the National Enquirer? Maybe People Magazine? Their are plenty of rags in this country and around the world that regularly print content that is at BEST unsubstantiated gossip, sometimes outright made up stories. Why do they print this? To make money and sell advertisments for x-ray glasses and boob creme.
Even TV has it's 'news magazines' that contain questionable content. Ever watch "A Current Affair"? Making up bogus content to sell advertising is hardly new and hardly unique to the Internet. Based on the content of this article I would say the title could be changed to "Wall Street Journal Breeds Worthless 'Original Content'"?
Cause we all know that to suggest otherwise aides and abets the terrorists.
Great. Now they are going to tap both of our phones. Nice going. Knew I should have posted AC.
I'm not saying you are wrong, but last time I checked the Republicans aren't the only party with seats in congress. I believe many, if not most democrats supported the initial invasion into Iraq, the Patriot act and any number of activities taht could be interpreted as 'Facist'. Their complacency and inaction is, if anything, more inexcusable than what the Republicans have practiced. If you are so far gone that you still support the Democrats this CD shouldn't bother you at all.
Yeah. President Bush had this to say about the NSA spying fiasco
"These are not phone calls within the United States," Bush said. "This is a phone call of an al Qaeda, known al Qaeda suspect, making a phone call into the United States.
He was OBVIOUSLY not spying on INNOCENT Americans.
I'm guessing they would spin the results to show what they wanted and not publish the rest if that happened. Politicians are usually good at the whole spin thing.
Umm... didn't you hear? The government only spys on guilty Americans.