"Canada's rules for child pornography still require a court order before content is removed, yet if the Canadian Recording Industry Association and other well-funded interests get their way, the ISP will respond to a mere allegation of copyright infringement by "kicking the subscriber off the system."
Seems as though they're not that different from the US, both governments care more about who gives campaign donations then the people.
Personally, I can't WAIT until they install backdoors in all their routers. I've always wondered what canucks were up to - I imagine quite well I'll be spying on those very same government hosedogs who passed the crap using their own gear.
My understanding is that they employ foreign workers who 'play games' allllllll day long and collect items/gold.
Then they sell the items/gold. *shrugs*
"Dow Chemicals was at fault. I don't really care what your political bent is, in the time since the disaster Dows behavour and attitude towards the people affected has been ethically poor and they have failed to fulfil their moral obligation towards the people of Bhopal."
That would be a really intelligable thing to say if you had a slight CLUE about what happened.
Hey, let's start with the fact that DOW didn't buy Union Carbide until FREAKIN' 1999 OBVIOUSLY you have NO clue what happened in 1984, nor the events following.
It's not that there aren't enough people to fill the IT jobs in the US - or that companies are even actually TRYING to fill those jobs with US Employees...
What it IS, is that companies want to fill CURRENT US Jobs (Hear: YOUR job) with an H1 worker who will work for less pay...
Want a better job? Quit, denounce your citizenship in the US, move to India - file for H1B visa and wait for the 2006 roundup. HA!
Seriously, though - in a previous/. article it was noted that in 2003 (I beleive) there were less then 20,000 IT jobs created - yet 60,000 H1B workers were brought in? Now, lets see.... 60,000 - 20,000... 1+1/2 *6 = ahh $#@% IT!
The worst part was at one point it had swollen up so bad it killed a tooth, it popped and some yellowish-white paste came out of the side of my mouth.
It smelled worse then it tasted, which was.. well not nice.
This happened three or four times. I never went to see a doctor for it.
I also found, twice, what I thought of as being a calcium deposit in the back of my through. The skin around it was very red and irritated - and it made me cough. At times I would cough up what I could only equate to being really old cottage cheese - it was the right consistency and smelled like rotting milk.
This went on for quite a while, and got pretty bad at one point.
Eventually, largely because of the cottage cheese coming out of my lungs, I presumed it was being caused by my smoking habbit.
So, I switched to Newports because they 'felt good' when smoking them. Not I felt good, but the smoke felt good on my through and in my lungs. I spent the next month or so coughing out tons of crap, but I kept smoking them as I figured it must be clearing it out.
Obviously my problem was minor in comparison, though.
Having the popping sensation under armpits sounds like it's in his lymph nodes as well.
I certainly know this, if it comes back I'll treat it more seriously next time. I guess I never really thought about how long "I" had my problems - but it went on for atlesat a year before I even gave real notice to it. I equated the issue with a recent move and assumed it to be allergies, though, moreso I just really didn't care.
This may be unique to Wal-Mart's ISD department. I don't know about normal stores.. Actually I think everyone at the home office has the same badges, because back then ISD _was_ in the home office.
I also remember the badges were FAR from cheap. I lost mine once and it was either $25 or $50 to get a replacement. Not sure, I remember it was insane for a name badge.
Anyone in EDI or any other part of ISD had it, though. They were relatively think, too. It was obvious they were two pieces of plastic wafered together.
Though, I must admit -- I never did take one apart to inspect.
But, again - they weren't cheap laminated paper or thin plastic either.
I'm also positive they could tell what part of the building you were in - what time you went in there, etc... Actually, anyone who works in Wal-Mart ISD should be able to confirm this.
And on a note to other replys -- I wasn't Wal-Mart bashing because they store data - scan your metal content - or any of the other things they do. (Although the 911 thing is a little lame, IMO - SOP or not.)
These were just FYI's.. Actually I'd say all of them are common knowledge to any Wal-Mart employee who works at the home office, or has worked there in the past.
Actually, I thought getting scanned to go in the Jewelery warehouse was freakin' sweet! LoL
Wal-Mart employees who use their employee discount cards have every purchase tracked and monitored.
Activity of the cards is ACTUALLY monitored for discrepencies in buying habits to find abusive employees who buy things for their friends?
Did you also know Wal-Mart's employee name badges have RFID tags (and have had for many years) that allow Wal-Mart to track where an employee is at any given time?
Another interesting tidbit, did you know at Wal-Mart's Jewelery warehouses they actually WEIGH the amount of metal in your body when you enter a leave? (And I don't mean they ask you to put things in a dish and weigh the dish - they scan YOU)
Another interesting thing, Wal-Mart has a fallout facility in Oklahoma that has a near-real-time backup of each BIT of that 460 terabytes of data? Wal-Mart could survive a direct nuclear blast and still keep on a truckin'.
And, of course, if you're in a Wal-Mart home office - ISD building - distribution center - et al... and dial 911 - BOOM - you get Wal-Mart's private security? Niiice, hope it's not a real emergency, you first have to explain it to them - then if they deem it neccessary THEY will call the REAL 911!
Here you are, Manager of Best Buy in *. In the town of *, $vendor has released Half-Life 2. $vendor is competition to Best Buy, and people are going to $vendor in HOARDS to get Half-Life 2.
You quickly realize that you must do the same, in order to meet competition. So you do, you release the game in your Best Buy store in *.
And quickly it spreads throughout the nation.
Retailers have no choice, they have real cash invested in the physical merchandise.
You can bet your sweet ass Valve is burning hot pissed right now. Vivendi is making sure it sells all it's copies while at the same time able tho hold Valve's distribution channel hostage.
Technically, were I Valve I _would_ release the game NOW. Why? Because, technically - Vivendi HAS released the game already. The game is published and being sold IN STORES RIGHT NOW! No court on earth is going to beleive Vivendi's bullshit excuse that it's not really released yet - any moron who can make it to a retailer selling software right now can confirm this as fact.
On the other hand, I'm sure there is more to this whole story then what we all know.. (And yes, we all know about the lawsuits... )
I'm affraid my point was not made clear, which was obviously my fault...
However, let me expand a little...
Let's say I make $40,000 a year. Of that $40,000, $10,000 comes out directly for income taxes, SS, et al...
I now have $30,000 a year to spend. Of that $30,000, I spend $20,000 on general living expenses, purchasing things, utilities, etc. Now, my local tax is 8% so add $1,600 to the total tax foot. Now, additionaly I will spend $4,000 on gas, at an average of $1.70 a gallon. $0.33 of each gallon is federal tax. That's another $776 in taxes.
Addiontally, each year I will have to pay $1,200 in property tax on my home, and about $200 for my vehicle. That's another $1,400 in taxes.
Then if you count up all the little taxes the government manages to sneak in places you don't even see - I end up actually having about HALF of what I earn.
$40,000 a year is a pretty good wage for an American these days - especially someone in IT (Lucky to have a damn job period, it seems).
But after taxes are done with a normal guy who makes $40,000 a year - the guy really only MAKES around $25,000 a year. And even that's probably aiming a little high.
So, tell me - on $25,000 a year spendable cashflow - how on earth is a man expected to defend his rights?
He can't.
And there we have it, our America, our government, our freedom..... their mouse cage.
Mind you, this is also why illegal immigrants LOVE the United States. They may get paid about half of what a normal US worker would - but in reality it's about the damn same since they don't pay the taxes we do.
As per my reference to taxing our feces -- the city is responsible for the pipes, yes. (And in some cases the utility is privately owned) However, the government STILL taxes the sewage fee. Thus, they're taxing our shit - not charging a fee to process it - but taxing it ta'boot!
Yes, taxes are acceptable. But what happens if you screw up and miss a tax? Jail? Yeah, very likely. The collection methods are insane - you have no rights if the IRS comes for you - people are merely oblivious to it all until it happens to them, like the good cattle we are.
I digress...
Anyway, before WWI - people didn't pay 1/10th the taxes we pay today. The government has become bloated, and far to powerfull. Our rights dwindle day by day - and for good reason: No one man can fight for his own rights.
This article is case in point, it takes multiple large corporations to fight for our rights - because you're rights are something that cost money, lots and lots and lots of money. More money then the average man would have, that's for certain.
"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." - Thomas Jefferson
Yaup, I live right here in Bentonville, AR. Wal-Mart most certainly knows good and well what an H1-B visa is.
Don't be fooled, they don't NEED to outsource - they have opted to just bring people from India here to the US. Not that there really are that many people in their IT dept anyway. *shrugs*
Though, parts of it certainly will make you feel like you're in India. Especially when you start looking for a COBOL programmer.
I violate the DMCA; jail, Jail, JAIL! Then, FINE FINE FINE!
Diebold violates a persons civil rights, uses the DMCA to do it, gets caught... Bad Diebold, no no!
Something about that just doesn't quite sound right.... Okay, let's see...
I do something, like, ohhh -- say decrypt a satellite signal (which, mind you, is pouncing down on MY ROOF 24/7..) - I go to jail....then when I get out I have fines to pay that will take the majority of my paycheck for years to come.
Okay, now... Diebold threatens a person, causes great anguish in this persons life, forces said person to hire legal council.... basically, makes a significant impact on said persons life...
Diebold, bad, no no - don't do that again! Please? Please don't do that again?
Atleast in Linux you can FIX the problem - rather then reboot, reinstall, or commit suicide.
Windows certainly has it's benefits (I don't know of many, but I'm biast), but one benefit Windows CERTAINLY does not have is easy troubleshooting - hell - a good percentage of MS KB articles tell you it's a known issue - resolution is to completely reinstall Windows.
I think it really comes down to education, more troubleshooting required because those admins were not very familiar with Linux.
More support options is a geographically limited truth, some areas just don't have many (if any) linux consultants around.
The biggest problem I see for Linux, from a corporate perspective, definetally comes from the lack of interoperability of Linux document formats with Windows (See MS Office) document formats.
Namely, communications with other corporate offices suffer as a result of a migration.
Herein lies the need for standards, to provide a level platform for fair competition.
Right now, IMO (is this OT?) Microsoft's most powerfull tool is in fact their monopoly. Most companies don't care to switch software (for the most part) because all their customers, partners, vendors, et al.. use MS products - and that's where compatability issues come up, faulter communications, expand troubleshooting time, and basically just ends up costing money, and pissing off executives when their pie chart looks more like a bar graph.
From my perspective, the biggest problem with Windows (when compared to Linux) is that when there's something wrong with Windows - a good majority of the time you can't even identify what 'exactly' is the root cause of the problem - let alone actually 'fix' the root cause of the problem. That alone makes Linux a winner in my book - because with Linux I can 'control' and understand 'exactly' what is happening - whereas with Windows I don't feel I have any 'real' control over what's on my system, how it works, and what method I choose to resolve the issue. Typically, I find the restart button to be the 'fix all' for most Windows related issues.
MS has a site for this, there's obviously the terraserver homepage, and lots of other sites that bleed the data from the terraserver to display it as a service to their own users...
So, basically - this is just a neater interface to the data on the terraserver...
I remember being able to lookup a satellite image of my house back in 1998.
I can't see the interface, because it's slashdot'd. But, I do recall being able to do a search by address and it bring up exactly my house.
You could also click on a global map, and navigate your way to what you wanted to see. (Good luck finding your house that way, bub!)
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, red and blue look similar too - if you're fucking color-blind.
This is no different then stealing a physical object.
They exploited the courts to take away a domain name they know damn good and well was not rightfully theirs.
I'll be sure not to purchase Kraft products anymore, that's for sure. I don't buy from cowardly theives.
(That's one 25+ year customer ya just lost, Kraft, hope it's worth it because I sincerely doubt I'm the only one.)
Hey Mod, RTFA you fucking moron!
What's up with the people who think this crap up, don't they have real work to do?
"Canada's rules for child pornography still require a court order before content is removed, yet if the Canadian Recording Industry Association and other well-funded interests get their way, the ISP will respond to a mere allegation of copyright infringement by "kicking the subscriber off the system."
Seems as though they're not that different from the US, both governments care more about who gives campaign donations then the people.
Personally, I can't WAIT until they install backdoors in all their routers. I've always wondered what canucks were up to - I imagine quite well I'll be spying on those very same government hosedogs who passed the crap using their own gear.
Idiots.
"He was employee No. 5 at Sun Microsystems, which made Unix, the free software of the Web, the world standard."
WHA? O_o
Problems:
1) Sun invented Unix
2) Unix = Free Software of the Web
3) WTF!?
UK security alert service hacked, all your personal info are belong to us!
*signs up*
My understanding is that they employ foreign workers who 'play games' allllllll day long and collect items/gold. Then they sell the items/gold. *shrugs*
"Dow Chemicals was at fault. I don't really care what your political bent is, in the time since the disaster Dows behavour and attitude towards the people affected has been ethically poor and they have failed to fulfil their moral obligation towards the people of Bhopal."
That would be a really intelligable thing to say if you had a slight CLUE about what happened.
Hey, let's start with the fact that DOW didn't buy Union Carbide until FREAKIN' 1999
OBVIOUSLY you have NO clue what happened in 1984, nor the events following.
Sheesh...
It's not that there aren't enough people to fill the IT jobs in the US - or that companies are even actually TRYING to fill those jobs with US Employees...
/. article it was noted that in 2003 (I beleive) there were less then 20,000 IT jobs created - yet 60,000 H1B workers were brought in? Now, lets see.... 60,000 - 20,000... 1+1 /2 *6 = ahh $#@% IT!
What it IS, is that companies want to fill CURRENT US Jobs (Hear: YOUR job) with an H1 worker who will work for less pay...
Want a better job? Quit, denounce your citizenship in the US, move to India - file for H1B visa and wait for the 2006 roundup. HA!
Seriously, though - in a previous
It stayed in my jaw and lungs though.
The worst part was at one point it had swollen up so bad it killed a tooth, it popped and some yellowish-white paste came out of the side of my mouth.
It smelled worse then it tasted, which was.. well not nice.
This happened three or four times. I never went to see a doctor for it.
I also found, twice, what I thought of as being a calcium deposit in the back of my through. The skin around it was very red and irritated - and it made me cough. At times I would cough up what I could only equate to being really old cottage cheese - it was the right consistency and smelled like rotting milk.
This went on for quite a while, and got pretty bad at one point.
Eventually, largely because of the cottage cheese coming out of my lungs, I presumed it was being caused by my smoking habbit.
So, I switched to Newports because they 'felt good' when smoking them. Not I felt good, but the smoke felt good on my through and in my lungs. I spent the next month or so coughing out tons of crap, but I kept smoking them as I figured it must be clearing it out.
Obviously my problem was minor in comparison, though.
Having the popping sensation under armpits sounds like it's in his lymph nodes as well.
I certainly know this, if it comes back I'll treat it more seriously next time. I guess I never really thought about how long "I" had my problems - but it went on for atlesat a year before I even gave real notice to it. I equated the issue with a recent move and assumed it to be allergies, though, moreso I just really didn't care.
Having read this, next time I'll care a lot more.
*shrugs*
This may be unique to Wal-Mart's ISD department. I don't know about normal stores.. Actually I think everyone at the home office has the same badges, because back then ISD _was_ in the home office.
I also remember the badges were FAR from cheap. I lost mine once and it was either $25 or $50 to get a replacement. Not sure, I remember it was insane for a name badge.
Anyone in EDI or any other part of ISD had it, though. They were relatively think, too. It was obvious they were two pieces of plastic wafered together.
Though, I must admit -- I never did take one apart to inspect.
But, again - they weren't cheap laminated paper or thin plastic either.
I'm also positive they could tell what part of the building you were in - what time you went in there, etc... Actually, anyone who works in Wal-Mart ISD should be able to confirm this.
And on a note to other replys -- I wasn't Wal-Mart bashing because they store data - scan your metal content - or any of the other things they do. (Although the 911 thing is a little lame, IMO - SOP or not.)
These were just FYI's.. Actually I'd say all of them are common knowledge to any Wal-Mart employee who works at the home office, or has worked there in the past.
Actually, I thought getting scanned to go in the Jewelery warehouse was freakin' sweet! LoL
Wal-Mart employees who use their employee discount cards have every purchase tracked and monitored.
Activity of the cards is ACTUALLY monitored for discrepencies in buying habits to find abusive employees who buy things for their friends?
Did you also know Wal-Mart's employee name badges have RFID tags (and have had for many years) that allow Wal-Mart to track where an employee is at any given time?
Another interesting tidbit, did you know at Wal-Mart's Jewelery warehouses they actually WEIGH the amount of metal in your body when you enter a leave? (And I don't mean they ask you to put things in a dish and weigh the dish - they scan YOU)
Another interesting thing, Wal-Mart has a fallout facility in Oklahoma that has a near-real-time backup of each BIT of that 460 terabytes of data?
Wal-Mart could survive a direct nuclear blast and still keep on a truckin'.
And, of course, if you're in a Wal-Mart home office - ISD building - distribution center - et al... and dial 911 - BOOM - you get Wal-Mart's private security? Niiice, hope it's not a real emergency, you first have to explain it to them - then if they deem it neccessary THEY will call the REAL 911!
Place yourself in the position of Best Buy.
Here you are, Manager of Best Buy in *. In the town of *, $vendor has released Half-Life 2. $vendor is competition to Best Buy, and people are going to $vendor in HOARDS to get Half-Life 2.
You quickly realize that you must do the same, in order to meet competition. So you do, you release the game in your Best Buy store in *.
And quickly it spreads throughout the nation.
Retailers have no choice, they have real cash invested in the physical merchandise.
You can bet your sweet ass Valve is burning hot pissed right now. Vivendi is making sure it sells all it's copies while at the same time able tho hold Valve's distribution channel hostage.
Technically, were I Valve I _would_ release the game NOW. Why? Because, technically - Vivendi HAS released the game already. The game is published and being sold IN STORES RIGHT NOW! No court on earth is going to beleive Vivendi's bullshit excuse that it's not really released yet - any moron who can make it to a retailer selling software right now can confirm this as fact.
On the other hand, I'm sure there is more to this whole story then what we all know..
(And yes, we all know about the lawsuits... )
Ok, anyone got a mirror of this audio-clip?
I'm affraid my point was not made clear, which was obviously my fault...
However, let me expand a little...
Let's say I make $40,000 a year.
Of that $40,000, $10,000 comes out directly for income taxes, SS, et al...
I now have $30,000 a year to spend. Of that $30,000, I spend $20,000 on general living expenses, purchasing things, utilities, etc. Now, my local tax is 8% so add $1,600 to the total tax foot.
Now, additionaly I will spend $4,000 on gas, at an average of $1.70 a gallon. $0.33 of each gallon is federal tax. That's another $776 in taxes.
Addiontally, each year I will have to pay $1,200 in property tax on my home, and about $200 for my vehicle. That's another $1,400 in taxes.
Then if you count up all the little taxes the government manages to sneak in places you don't even see - I end up actually having about HALF of what I earn.
$40,000 a year is a pretty good wage for an American these days - especially someone in IT (Lucky to have a damn job period, it seems).
But after taxes are done with a normal guy who makes $40,000 a year - the guy really only MAKES around $25,000 a year. And even that's probably aiming a little high.
So, tell me - on $25,000 a year spendable cashflow - how on earth is a man expected to defend his rights?
He can't.
And there we have it, our America, our government, our freedom..... their mouse cage.
Mind you, this is also why illegal immigrants LOVE the United States. They may get paid about half of what a normal US worker would - but in reality it's about the damn same since they don't pay the taxes we do.
As per my reference to taxing our feces -- the city is responsible for the pipes, yes. (And in some cases the utility is privately owned) However, the government STILL taxes the sewage fee. Thus, they're taxing our shit - not charging a fee to process it - but taxing it ta'boot!
Yes, taxes are acceptable. But what happens if you screw up and miss a tax? Jail? Yeah, very likely. The collection methods are insane - you have no rights if the IRS comes for you - people are merely oblivious to it all until it happens to them, like the good cattle we are.
I digress...
Anyway, before WWI - people didn't pay 1/10th the taxes we pay today. The government has become bloated, and far to powerfull. Our rights dwindle day by day - and for good reason: No one man can fight for his own rights.
This article is case in point, it takes multiple large corporations to fight for our rights - because you're rights are something that cost money, lots and lots and lots of money. More money then the average man would have, that's for certain.
"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots."
- Thomas Jefferson
I could fight for my rights too...
God, I sure do love my freedom!
Now, if you'll excuse me - I have to go take out a mortage on my home and sell my children on eBay so I can pay my taxes.
You know what's funny, you really have to think about this... Each time you drop a log and flush it - the government taxes your shit. HA!
According to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft: "The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'.
/end rant
Uhh, yeah... And the most common format of music on a Windows PC iiiiiissss...........? Uhh huh, yeah.
So, if ANY company is accountable for music theft -- OBVIOUSLY it's Microsoft - they have the 'volumes,' right?
Bah!
Yaup, I live right here in Bentonville, AR. Wal-Mart most certainly knows good and well what an H1-B visa is.
Don't be fooled, they don't NEED to outsource - they have opted to just bring people from India here to the US. Not that there really are that many people in their IT dept anyway. *shrugs*
Though, parts of it certainly will make you feel like you're in India. Especially when you start looking for a COBOL programmer.
"It would be possible to state that pre-installing Windows encourages people to pirate application software."
O_O *whistles and walks away*
I violate the DMCA; jail, Jail, JAIL!
Then, FINE FINE FINE!
Diebold violates a persons civil rights, uses the DMCA to do it, gets caught... Bad Diebold, no no!
Something about that just doesn't quite sound right.... Okay, let's see...
I do something, like, ohhh -- say decrypt a satellite signal (which, mind you, is pouncing down on MY ROOF 24/7..) - I go to jail....then when I get out I have fines to pay that will take the majority of my paycheck for years to come.
Okay, now... Diebold threatens a person, causes great anguish in this persons life, forces said person to hire legal council.... basically, makes a significant impact on said persons life...
Diebold, bad, no no - don't do that again! Please? Please don't do that again?
Riiiiiiight... Okay, methinks this sucks!
Atleast in Linux you can FIX the problem - rather then reboot, reinstall, or commit suicide. Windows certainly has it's benefits (I don't know of many, but I'm biast), but one benefit Windows CERTAINLY does not have is easy troubleshooting - hell - a good percentage of MS KB articles tell you it's a known issue - resolution is to completely reinstall Windows. I think it really comes down to education, more troubleshooting required because those admins were not very familiar with Linux. More support options is a geographically limited truth, some areas just don't have many (if any) linux consultants around. The biggest problem I see for Linux, from a corporate perspective, definetally comes from the lack of interoperability of Linux document formats with Windows (See MS Office) document formats. Namely, communications with other corporate offices suffer as a result of a migration. Herein lies the need for standards, to provide a level platform for fair competition. Right now, IMO (is this OT?) Microsoft's most powerfull tool is in fact their monopoly. Most companies don't care to switch software (for the most part) because all their customers, partners, vendors, et al.. use MS products - and that's where compatability issues come up, faulter communications, expand troubleshooting time, and basically just ends up costing money, and pissing off executives when their pie chart looks more like a bar graph. From my perspective, the biggest problem with Windows (when compared to Linux) is that when there's something wrong with Windows - a good majority of the time you can't even identify what 'exactly' is the root cause of the problem - let alone actually 'fix' the root cause of the problem. That alone makes Linux a winner in my book - because with Linux I can 'control' and understand 'exactly' what is happening - whereas with Windows I don't feel I have any 'real' control over what's on my system, how it works, and what method I choose to resolve the issue. Typically, I find the restart button to be the 'fix all' for most Windows related issues.
Isn't this just the terraserver project?
MS has a site for this, there's obviously the terraserver homepage, and lots of other sites that bleed the data from the terraserver to display it as a service to their own users...
So, basically - this is just a neater interface to the data on the terraserver...
I remember being able to lookup a satellite image of my house back in 1998.
I can't see the interface, because it's slashdot'd. But, I do recall being able to do a search by address and it bring up exactly my house.
You could also click on a global map, and navigate your way to what you wanted to see. (Good luck finding your house that way, bub!)
Level 10 suddenly knowns it's now a level 5?
Hardware changes to fast, this isn't possible. It just wouldn't work.
WTF, just make one. And build a house to live in while you're at it. Sheesh.