Man I thought for a minute there that the government was actually going to pass a law that could be applied....then I read on and realized that they intend to actively seek people who falsify their whois information but tact this charge on to anyone that they bust who was doing something illegal with the information....
I believe that if I get busted for let's say warez that illegal whois information is going to be the least of my worries.
Another crappy law that won't actually do anything about the situation.
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no one has put the blame where it belongs....on the system admin. We can have a shit throwing contest all day about whether or not this is MS's fault. But the fact remains that the problem was addressed and fixed in SP 4 for Win 2000.
If the system had been updated the problem would not have occurred. How is this a microsoft problem? They cannot force system maintenance.
You shouldn't leak out information like that. I am sure the patrons who frequent that hospital would be unhappy to know there are no doctors there at night.....
Everyone was quick to rip this....but while thinking this through, I don't see a problem with it. This happens to be how quite a few industries work today. Construction, tech support, any kind of job that requires a contracted company to do it. Matter of fact each and everyone of us is probably sitting in a building right now (whether it be home or office) that was built by the lowest offer.
I especially don't see how this is a problem as it appears to be a "who wants to work overtime for the lowest amount of money" contest. How bad do you want the extra money? Maybe applicant number 1 needs a new car and will do it for 30 bucks an hour but applicant number 2 has 4 kids at home and his wife just got laid off so he will do it for 25.
Next thing you know companies will just ask, "Ok, before we hire you we need your salary requirements and the salary requirements of 4 of your peers."...Just like Progressive car insurance.
"is that you can only really get poor quality files and the more popular songs, in most cases"
Welcome to the 21 century. Put down the blank cassette tape. You only get poor quality if you settle for poor quality...uh I mean someone told me you can find perfect copies out there that have no quality loss.
Anyone who actually believes that the likes of Kazaa and Napster are hurting the music industry...I have some ocean front property in Arizona...give me a call...I can work out a sweet deal for ya.
Little do you know AC. Our failure rate is up 25% since the switch. Our Dells had three year parts warranty (we do the labor ourselves) while the IBMs bring a lackluster 1 year part only warranty.
In addition, they can't committ part available for more then 1 year out. We have had to change our model numbers three times in the past year.
IBM is a great company for servers and they do great job of promoting and working with open source...but speaking from the aspect of a person who does support for a Fortune 50 company, I have to say that the worst mistake we ever made was switching our laptop and desktop deployments from Dell to IBM.
I used to think that the Thinkpads were best laptops out there. Now we call them Stinkpads and their Deskstar hard drive lines (with I believe Hitachi now owns) have become the Deathstar hard drives.
That makes a difference how? I never said we don't depend on diesel. I stated that driving a diesel vehicle is probably the highest thing from enviro-friendly that I know of. Might has well set oil field on fire.
But you fail to realize what you are making up in gas mileage is being killed by pollution. You are using less fuel and causing more emissions while us gasoline drivers use more fuel and pollute less. 6 of one, half a dozen of another.
North America is basically the only place with big forests left
Where exactly do you get this notion? You must not include either of the rainforests as "big forests". I would also say that most of the "big forests" are more likely in the northern portion of N. America mostly in Canada.
I by no means say we are innocent. I also think Bush is an idiot, but we cannot accept the brunt of blame for a spam filled mailbox. I also never said anything concerning how we as a country have less or more broadband than the rest of the world. I said a fast internet connection was readily available.
The fact remains that the system as a whole is broken. Saying it's America's fault isn't justified. Even if we did enforce spam laws and run all 200 spammers out of business, they would only move to a country with laws that aren't as strict. But I suppose it would still be our fault we didn't burn them and kill their relatives to keep them from reproducing.
My point before, which you obviously missed while hugging a tree or eating a granola bar, is that if this country sank into the middle of hell tomorrow Spam would still exist. The Earth would continue to get hotter, and we would all still need SPF 500 in 50 years. Blaming the evil isolationists won't get anyone anywhere except the spammers more steps ahead of the law.
Taxpayer money goes to judges, clerks, baliff, hell the cost to keep the lights on. Court costs to not pay to keep all of this going. Not to mention someone who keeps the paperwork.
You may think that just because someone sues someone else that there is no penalty to the common man involved in the outcome, but it takes more money then the average cost of court to put on a three ring circus for that.
I assume you are also going to say that the fact that McDonald's is in other countries is because of us fat, lazy Americans eating Big Macs.
Spam is not a country problem. It is a global problem. Just like viruses or worms, of which I would say that 50% of their creators are OUTSIDE of the US, but you don't hear anyone harping on how the only way to cure those problems are to make tougher laws in the EU.
The most probable reason for most of the Spam coming out of the US is that 1)PCs are dirt cheap here. 2)Network connections are readily available all over the place. 3)This is the land of opportunity and get rich quick schemes.
Blend these together and you get people who want to make fast money, who own lots of computers or space on computers, and who have tons of access to fast internet connections = Spamming opportunities.
Spam is not only an American problem just like the Ozone, deforestation, Global warming, and the AIDS epidemic aren't just our problems........but somehow everyone is first in line to expect us to fix it.
I think that the Attorney Generals of each state should ban together and sue SCO for wasting tax payer dollars by coming up with all these horseshit lawsuits.
I would say this is accurate. Mainly because I believe that MS feels that linux isn't ready for the desktop and that the biggest threat they feel right now is in the Enterprise markets.
Main Entry: dexterous
Variant(s): also dextrous/'dek-st(&-)r&s/
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin dextr-, dexter on the right side, skillful
1 : mentally adroit and skillful : CLEVER
2 : done with dexterity : ARTFUL
3 : skillful and competent with the hands
So I think Hands definitely are more dextrous. I don't think feet could be competent with the hands. LOL!
Actually they were home users, who happen to show up for work. So basically you are taking the people who don't know how to use a computer and giving them a computer in a corporate environment.
Now if they survey 1,000 IT depts and asked them how many failures they had just in their department, I bet it would be lower. I have never had an XP machine fail so bad that I had to reboot. Well, except when I removed SP2 and it failed AFTER rebooting.
But that's what I get for uninstalling instead of reformatting.
Of course I also know how to go into task manager and kill individual processes too. That may be too complicated, not sure....
No matter how much you hate the green giant, you have to LOVE this. MS basically said, "We are going to give you 900 million to leave us alone about all this stuff that doesn't matter to us, but we want to be able to sue you for all the stuff that does."
Also, mod points to the author for 900,000,000 and not just saying 900 million.
You may be able to get that label off with some care and some time without tearing it. But try sticking it back down. It looks like crap. Even with glue, most of the paper they use to print the labels with are made of similar paper like you get on a bottle of soda and that really shows damage.
Dude I think your friend is full of bull. The paper the labels are printed on is almost IMPOSSIBLE to get off without tearing it and if you did, that crap rolls up like crazy. Now I can believe that maybe he was taking the face off the hard drive and putting it on the smaller capacity one, but even that would be hard with the screw locations. Just a thought...
The reason they don't do it is the mark up on accessories. Why include something and make 2% on it when they are turning 33% profit on the accessory sales. They know you are going to buy spare batteries, another memory card, and a bag, tripod, etc, etc, etc. Everything they include is one more thing they can't bend you over on.
There are a few inventions in this world that were perfect. The wheel, the broom, the light bulb, the pizza cutter. All of these items in my opinion are perfect inventions. You can make these products better by using let's same better filaments in the bulbs or hard steel in the pizza cutter but dramatically changing them does not work.
The pen and paper is one of these items. It will be here long after my children are gone. The paper may not be made of wood or the pen use ink like today, but humans will always have a need to write down quick thoughts and notes until we are embedded with microprocessors at birth. IMHO anyway...
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I believe that if I get busted for let's say warez that illegal whois information is going to be the least of my worries.
Another crappy law that won't actually do anything about the situation.
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We need another music company startup like we need to invade another country.
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If the system had been updated the problem would not have occurred. How is this a microsoft problem? They cannot force system maintenance.
You shouldn't leak out information like that. I am sure the patrons who frequent that hospital would be unhappy to know there are no doctors there at night.....
I especially don't see how this is a problem as it appears to be a "who wants to work overtime for the lowest amount of money" contest. How bad do you want the extra money? Maybe applicant number 1 needs a new car and will do it for 30 bucks an hour but applicant number 2 has 4 kids at home and his wife just got laid off so he will do it for 25.
Next thing you know companies will just ask, "Ok, before we hire you we need your salary requirements and the salary requirements of 4 of your peers."...Just like Progressive car insurance.
Welcome to the 21 century. Put down the blank cassette tape. You only get poor quality if you settle for poor quality...uh I mean someone told me you can find perfect copies out there that have no quality loss.
In addition, they can't committ part available for more then 1 year out. We have had to change our model numbers three times in the past year.
I used to think that the Thinkpads were best laptops out there. Now we call them Stinkpads and their Deskstar hard drive lines (with I believe Hitachi now owns) have become the Deathstar hard drives.
That makes a difference how? I never said we don't depend on diesel. I stated that driving a diesel vehicle is probably the highest thing from enviro-friendly that I know of. Might has well set oil field on fire.
Where exactly do you get this notion? You must not include either of the rainforests as "big forests". I would also say that most of the "big forests" are more likely in the northern portion of N. America mostly in Canada.
I by no means say we are innocent. I also think Bush is an idiot, but we cannot accept the brunt of blame for a spam filled mailbox. I also never said anything concerning how we as a country have less or more broadband than the rest of the world. I said a fast internet connection was readily available.
The fact remains that the system as a whole is broken. Saying it's America's fault isn't justified. Even if we did enforce spam laws and run all 200 spammers out of business, they would only move to a country with laws that aren't as strict. But I suppose it would still be our fault we didn't burn them and kill their relatives to keep them from reproducing.
My point before, which you obviously missed while hugging a tree or eating a granola bar, is that if this country sank into the middle of hell tomorrow Spam would still exist. The Earth would continue to get hotter, and we would all still need SPF 500 in 50 years. Blaming the evil isolationists won't get anyone anywhere except the spammers more steps ahead of the law.
That's his response? I think "Your mama" might be better than that.....weak weak weak
You may think that just because someone sues someone else that there is no penalty to the common man involved in the outcome, but it takes more money then the average cost of court to put on a three ring circus for that.
Spam is not a country problem. It is a global problem. Just like viruses or worms, of which I would say that 50% of their creators are OUTSIDE of the US, but you don't hear anyone harping on how the only way to cure those problems are to make tougher laws in the EU.
The most probable reason for most of the Spam coming out of the US is that 1)PCs are dirt cheap here. 2)Network connections are readily available all over the place. 3)This is the land of opportunity and get rich quick schemes.
Blend these together and you get people who want to make fast money, who own lots of computers or space on computers, and who have tons of access to fast internet connections = Spamming opportunities.
Spam is not only an American problem just like the Ozone, deforestation, Global warming, and the AIDS epidemic aren't just our problems........but somehow everyone is first in line to expect us to fix it.
I didn't RTFA though so troll me if you wish.
Main Entry: dexterous /'dek-st(&-)r&s/
Variant(s): also dextrous
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin dextr-, dexter on the right
side, skillful 1 : mentally adroit and skillful : CLEVER
2 : done with dexterity : ARTFUL
3 : skillful and competent with the hands
So I think Hands definitely are more dextrous. I don't think feet could be competent with the hands. LOL!
Now if they survey 1,000 IT depts and asked them how many failures they had just in their department, I bet it would be lower. I have never had an XP machine fail so bad that I had to reboot. Well, except when I removed SP2 and it failed AFTER rebooting.
But that's what I get for uninstalling instead of reformatting.
Of course I also know how to go into task manager and kill individual processes too. That may be too complicated, not sure....
Also, mod points to the author for 900,000,000 and not just saying 900 million.
You may be able to get that label off with some care and some time without tearing it. But try sticking it back down. It looks like crap. Even with glue, most of the paper they use to print the labels with are made of similar paper like you get on a bottle of soda and that really shows damage.
Dude I think your friend is full of bull. The paper the labels are printed on is almost IMPOSSIBLE to get off without tearing it and if you did, that crap rolls up like crazy. Now I can believe that maybe he was taking the face off the hard drive and putting it on the smaller capacity one, but even that would be hard with the screw locations. Just a thought...
The pen and paper is one of these items. It will be here long after my children are gone. The paper may not be made of wood or the pen use ink like today, but humans will always have a need to write down quick thoughts and notes until we are embedded with microprocessors at birth. IMHO anyway...