A solution to outsourcing of not only IT jobs but all jobs is to enact a minimum wage and set of working conditions for companies that want to sell in the U.S. Overseas work might still be cheaper, but there wouldn't be the giant gap that there is now. This would be difficult to implement, as it is not easy to look through the earnings of every single foreign worker, but if the punitive measures for being caught are high enough, many companies won't take the risk.
that people are still making text based adventure games. They sure do pass the time like nothing else. That and text games can be made by anyone with a little bit of programming knowledge and too much time on their hands, thus creating a great variety of games not seen in other genres.
Despite the fact that this may not be exactly what Ethiopia needs right now, it could help. If they could get computers and have some form internet access it would be a good way to spread modern farming pratices (if not equipment) to Ethiopia, which could improve hunger and poverty. That and outsourced tech jobs.
Why should the head of a large corporation, which is not in the computer industry, get up and change all their computer systems from an OS that seems adequate that has the backing of another major corporation to some OS that is unknown to its employees and unfamiliar to them? I think that most of the reason that Linux hasn't gained widespread acceptance is inertia. Until the "killer apps" leave microsoft and come to Linux, progress will continue to be slow.
It seems that Google has little to gain by not just capitulating to every concern raised about security, as this seems mostly to be a way to put a permanent end to yahoo.com.
It doesn't really matter though, as most people don't really want to change their e-mail so these account are probably going to just be used for data backup as has already been stated.
I don't think that linux afficionados would like to see what a distro that would be at the level of the infamous "Joe User" would look like. To do this, you would have to copy the Windows method of trying to prevent you from using anything besides Word and IE on your computer. This is not the best path for Linux.
Linux should remain the better OS for the computer literate. There are certainly things that it could do to improve "usability" by the non-elite, but it should not dumb itself down.
Furthermore, I don't agree that Windows is user-friendly. It seems like I have to do battle with it every time I want to do anything. It also hides a lot of things from you by default such as file extensions. Hiding file extensions certainly compromises security, especially for "Joe User".
There seems to be no undisputed linux anything.
This can be a good thing because it encourages competition and allows people
to go in different directions, but it also has the detrimental effect of not having any project be the best it could be because it doesn't have the entire community working on it.
I don't really understand this virus, or more precisely, the people who wrote it.
Although I can not speak from experience, I would have to imagine that spreading virii over P2P networks is like shooting fish in a barrel (hotpr0n.mpg.exe would probably take down half the computers on kazaa). So why are they trying to spread it through e-mail?
I would think that since there is no challenge involved in spreading it that they would be moralists (like the people who disguise a program that reports people's ip address as warez) but they are not doing it over the networks themselves so they would have a potential for "collateral damage".
Is the writer just a random skript kiddie or am I missing something?
The correlation between funding and safety is rather a weak one. Our government may not be able to work as efficiently as this group and the engineers at NASA may not be as dedicated to the project. The largest problem this group faces is securing any funding at all and being able to set up the facilities to get this project done. It is analagous to a big business and a small business working on the same thing.
I have my doubts that this project will end in 6 astronauts on Mars by 2011 for 3.5 billion, but it's good to see that there are people who are dedicated to continuing the manned exploration of space. I wish the best of luck to this group and hope that their project can generate some support for this goal.
I seem to remember a story on slashdot a while ago about open source programs (particualrly word processing programs) getting support for obscure third world languages because people who knew them could just add support for new languages themsleves. They were doing it more to help others in the region they came from so they didn't worry if there was a nice market or not. Microsoft may have caught on that the third world is going to develop into a bigger market and wanted to make sure that it wasn't already dominated by Linux.
The interview linked to in the story is not really the best I have read. There was one done in Wired a while back that had a lot more about his exploits. A particular favorite among the stories he told was one where he and some friends were exploring a Gypsum factory while high on methanphetamines. The police came and just when they were about to get arrested Lamo hears a cat and tells the officers he had come in to rescue it. Sure enough they find the cat and Lamo and his friends are not arrested.
I have used Knoppix STD and PHLAK and have found Knoppix STD to be the superior system. PHLAK, if my memory serves, is actually based on Knoppix STD and it seems that the only thing they did was to strip off some of the things in STD that weren't security related and tack on a bunch of cracking programs and many cracking related tutorials. It might be nice to put on another box and test the security of your network.
The cases look may look nice, but I don't think I would ever buy one. It seems to me that the wood might serve to trap heat inside the box, and unless there are a lot of fans this will obviously cause problems. I would imagine it would be easier and cheaper (though signifigantly less cool) to just get a cabinet for your box.
The story posted here is a direct quote from the response made by the Linux representatives to the report. I think that a greater effort should be made to get news from more impartial sources or to at least warn the reader that what he is reading is from an obviously biased source regardless of whether or not it is true.
This will have a definite effect on gas prices. Although their will be a drop in price on oil used for lubrication, more people will be driving to brothels, so we will have to wait and see what this actually does.
From the article:Wildfire's total budget is $5-illion, while the Rutan, its main competitor from California, has a $25-million wallet filled by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.
"It's the Canadian team with no money against the American team with unlimited resources," said Ms. Wildman. "But they just did some test flights and had a failed landing and our testing has gone perfectly. We feel like we have the edge.""
The thing funded by Bill Gates crashes. What else is new?
The Constitution states that you can not be taxed without your consent. You gave your consent by voting for your representitives or by waving your right to vote. This seems to be a loop-hole as there is no way to not consent to a tax, as even if your representitive votes for it you still have to pay it or leave the country. It seems that the only thing you can do is to vote and to organize others to vote for someone against wars and transit budgets.
The idea that the only reason that anyone wanted privacy was because they were a male who wanted to abuse their wives. I think that there is more of a reason for our privacy to be protected than to allow us to commit crimes without being punished.
Privacy is what protects freedom. If the government were to be able to look into whatever you do at any arbitrary moment, they would have total control over you. The fact is, the government is just a group of citizens. They have no need to know every detail of what I do with my money. My personal information does not need to be made public.
He would have to lower prices quite a bit to slow the flow if his prediction of cheap hardware comes true. With today's prices, if you've put together a box with the latest hardware, spending a little more for the OS doesn't seem like a big deal. If people are getting good hardware cheaply, the price of Windows is really going to stand out on the bill and they will look for a free alternative.
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A solution to outsourcing of not only IT jobs but all jobs is to enact a minimum wage and set of working conditions for companies that want to sell in the U.S. Overseas work might still be cheaper, but there wouldn't be the giant gap that there is now. This would be difficult to implement, as it is not easy to look through the earnings of every single foreign worker, but if the punitive measures for being caught are high enough, many companies won't take the risk.
that people are still making text based adventure games. They sure do pass the time like nothing else. That and text games can be made by anyone with a little bit of programming knowledge and too much time on their hands, thus creating a great variety of games not seen in other genres.
Despite the fact that this may not be exactly what Ethiopia needs right now, it could help. If they could get computers and have some form internet access it would be a good way to spread modern farming pratices (if not equipment) to Ethiopia, which could improve hunger and poverty. That and outsourced tech jobs.
Why should the head of a large corporation, which is not in the computer industry, get up and change all their computer systems from an OS that seems adequate that has the backing of another major corporation to some OS that is unknown to its employees and unfamiliar to them? I think that most of the reason that Linux hasn't gained widespread acceptance is inertia. Until the "killer apps" leave microsoft and come to Linux, progress will continue to be slow.
It seems that Google has little to gain by not just capitulating to every concern raised about security, as this seems mostly to be a way to put a permanent end to yahoo.com. It doesn't really matter though, as most people don't really want to change their e-mail so these account are probably going to just be used for data backup as has already been stated.
The one good thing about this is that now the US won't fall behind Europe in the software field.
I don't think that linux afficionados would like to see what a distro that would be at the level of the infamous "Joe User" would look like. To do this, you would have to copy the Windows method of trying to prevent you from using anything besides Word and IE on your computer. This is not the best path for Linux. Linux should remain the better OS for the computer literate. There are certainly things that it could do to improve "usability" by the non-elite, but it should not dumb itself down. Furthermore, I don't agree that Windows is user-friendly. It seems like I have to do battle with it every time I want to do anything. It also hides a lot of things from you by default such as file extensions. Hiding file extensions certainly compromises security, especially for "Joe User".
There seems to be no undisputed linux anything. This can be a good thing because it encourages competition and allows people to go in different directions, but it also has the detrimental effect of not having any project be the best it could be because it doesn't have the entire community working on it.
I don't really understand this virus, or more precisely, the people who wrote it. Although I can not speak from experience, I would have to imagine that spreading virii over P2P networks is like shooting fish in a barrel (hotpr0n.mpg.exe would probably take down half the computers on kazaa). So why are they trying to spread it through e-mail? I would think that since there is no challenge involved in spreading it that they would be moralists (like the people who disguise a program that reports people's ip address as warez) but they are not doing it over the networks themselves so they would have a potential for "collateral damage". Is the writer just a random skript kiddie or am I missing something?
The correlation between funding and safety is rather a weak one. Our government may not be able to work as efficiently as this group and the engineers at NASA may not be as dedicated to the project. The largest problem this group faces is securing any funding at all and being able to set up the facilities to get this project done. It is analagous to a big business and a small business working on the same thing.
I have my doubts that this project will end in 6 astronauts on Mars by 2011 for 3.5 billion, but it's good to see that there are people who are dedicated to continuing the manned exploration of space. I wish the best of luck to this group and hope that their project can generate some support for this goal.
This article reads like an article on chess that collided with an article on DesCartes' philosophy.
"Federal, state, county, and city/town levels
The key word is levels. They are all parts of the same government.
I seem to remember a story on slashdot a while ago about open source programs (particualrly word processing programs) getting support for obscure third world languages because people who knew them could just add support for new languages themsleves. They were doing it more to help others in the region they came from so they didn't worry if there was a nice market or not. Microsoft may have caught on that the third world is going to develop into a bigger market and wanted to make sure that it wasn't already dominated by Linux.
No government in the USA
How many governments do we have? Is there another one besides The Octopus?
The interview linked to in the story is not really the best I have read. There was one done in Wired a while back that had a lot more about his exploits. A particular favorite among the stories he told was one where he and some friends were exploring a Gypsum factory while high on methanphetamines. The police came and just when they were about to get arrested Lamo hears a cat and tells the officers he had come in to rescue it. Sure enough they find the cat and Lamo and his friends are not arrested.
I have used Knoppix STD and PHLAK and have found Knoppix STD to be the superior system. PHLAK, if my memory serves, is actually based on Knoppix STD and it seems that the only thing they did was to strip off some of the things in STD that weren't security related and tack on a bunch of cracking programs and many cracking related tutorials. It might be nice to put on another box and test the security of your network.
The cases look may look nice, but I don't think I would ever buy one. It seems to me that the wood might serve to trap heat inside the box, and unless there are a lot of fans this will obviously cause problems. I would imagine it would be easier and cheaper (though signifigantly less cool) to just get a cabinet for your box.
The story posted here is a direct quote from the response made by the Linux representatives to the report. I think that a greater effort should be made to get news from more impartial sources or to at least warn the reader that what he is reading is from an obviously biased source regardless of whether or not it is true.
If I had a girlfriend, do you think I would be posting stupid jokes on /.?
This will have a definite effect on gas prices. Although their will be a drop in price on oil used for lubrication, more people will be driving to brothels, so we will have to wait and see what this actually does.
From the article:Wildfire's total budget is $5-illion, while the Rutan, its main competitor from California, has a $25-million wallet filled by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. "It's the Canadian team with no money against the American team with unlimited resources," said Ms. Wildman. "But they just did some test flights and had a failed landing and our testing has gone perfectly. We feel like we have the edge."" The thing funded by Bill Gates crashes. What else is new?
The Constitution states that you can not be taxed without your consent. You gave your consent by voting for your representitives or by waving your right to vote. This seems to be a loop-hole as there is no way to not consent to a tax, as even if your representitive votes for it you still have to pay it or leave the country. It seems that the only thing you can do is to vote and to organize others to vote for someone against wars and transit budgets.
The idea that the only reason that anyone wanted privacy was because they were a male who wanted to abuse their wives. I think that there is more of a reason for our privacy to be protected than to allow us to commit crimes without being punished. Privacy is what protects freedom. If the government were to be able to look into whatever you do at any arbitrary moment, they would have total control over you. The fact is, the government is just a group of citizens. They have no need to know every detail of what I do with my money. My personal information does not need to be made public.
He would have to lower prices quite a bit to slow the flow if his prediction of cheap hardware comes true. With today's prices, if you've put together a box with the latest hardware, spending a little more for the OS doesn't seem like a big deal. If people are getting good hardware cheaply, the price of Windows is really going to stand out on the bill and they will look for a free alternative.