I have a sense of humor. I enjoy the occasional April Fool's joke thats good. But at this point, what is the point anymore? Just let a dead horse lie. Hell, people aren't even bothering to comment. Was there any real news today? Anyone got anything good to share?
With all the people they're hoping to get that are supposed to be converting windows users because of the IPod, I'm sure a lot of people are confused by going from two buttons to one. I know it sounds crazy, but I tend to get frustrated when I use my friend' s Mac, because one mouse button should be simple, however I am used to two buttons, plus a scrollwheel, and a few extra buttons on a mouse, you rely on what you're comfortable with.
I'm sure this will help a lot of people convert over to Macs.
I believe the rules are the same as AOL members. After a certain period of time of inactivity (about 3-6 months), the screen name will go unassigned, and may be able to be taken by others afterwards.
The government isn't forcing the department of motor vehicles to do anything that it shouldn't have already. It isn't really an 'electronic ID', it makes no mention of RFID. Hell, its just like my Florida driver's license I carry now. It has a digital photo, holograms on a plastic card, and a machine-readable magnetic strip. See?
And, before everyone goes about getting their tinfoil hats on and running for the concrete bunkers, the government is not forcing the state to link to the database. If the state DMV wants federal funds then they have to link up. If your state is so opposed to the idea, pony up extra state tax money to pay for it. Enough said.
I mean, we accuse the media of fearmongering? It seems like posts on slashdot are as bad as Fox News sometimes.
RTFA
Last year they made the decision about letting EA establish a 'digital arts academy' or whatever they like to call it. They're moving into the old expo centre here Orlando. There was one article in our campus tabloid mentioned some of the misdeeds, nobody said anything about it afterwards. Here's a link to the article where they blow their load over it CFF - EA Comes to UCF. It's an interesting read on
how its supposed to help rejuvinate the area. I mean, EA are nazis as far as their work habits go, and I know a lot of my friends are wary about signing up. It didn't stop them from filling up the program already though...
I'm not sure that is necessarily a bad thing. Without much technological experience backing him, if he's any good at his job, he's going to be more willing to listen to those who work for him until there is a new CEO, such as the people who actually work with the technology and create it.
In addition, did you see how long he's been around? Since 1969! I'd like to think that maybe he's seen whats gone wrong over the years and may start to turn it around before a real replacement for the CEO can be found. Not a permanent solution, but probably starting to move on the right track.
Honestly, the problem is that so few schools out there have quality Technology Coordinators (admins). Where I went to high school I served as an assistant to the admin in my senior year, and he took security very seriously. He used restrictions and altiris management software to prevent unauthorized programs from being accessed.
In addition, students were never allowed on a teacher's computer.
That, however, never stopped the office monkey's down in attendance from taping their passwords and logins underneath their keyboards where I found them while doing a replacement one day. I peeled the paper off the desk, balled it up, and tossed it. I wasn't suprised when they called a few hours later saying "they forgot their password."
Idiots.
Not exactly, at least for right now. If you search for a show, and click the link, there is currently a line that says "Video is currently not available". Does this mean that google eventually plans to link up the transcripts with the videos as well?
Something like that would be really useful.
..that the nursing home never gets any retired slashdotters there. I'm sure the tin foil would be missing from the tops of the dinner trays and quickly turned into hats...
As for those who feel that there are no lies, and want facts to back them up, I only hope I am posting this soon enough for people to read. First off, the movie asserts that Bush invaded Afghanistan for oil and natural gas pipelines, however, I point the the Unocol, the US company of the group that had planned to build a pipeline: Withdrawl Notice
Unocal notes that they do not want to have anything to do with afghanistan, and determined that it is not in their best interest to develop a pipeline. While Afghanistan has different ideas Unocal still is staying away.
Michael Moore also asserts that the White House was responsible for the Saudi and Bin Laden families getting out of the United States. Richard Clarke, however, who has been critical of the White House and had been endorsed by Moore had this to say: "I take responsibility for it. I don't think it was a mistake, and I'd do it again." FBI and Clarke Respond
And as for Moore's filmmaking style, I felt particularly horrified at the blacked out screen and sounds of the attack on 9/11 the first time, when I viewed a film called 11'09''01 - September 11 by Alejandro Inarritu. As Picasso said, good artists copy, great artists steal.
And as for lounging around at the school afterwards being an 'idiot' and not acting presidential, I leave you with a letter, offered by a guidance councilor from the school about that day: Emma E. Booker - Lee Martello
I agree, people have rights to make movies, however how did such simple things get past Moore's fact checking? That he even avoided implicating his buddy Richard Clarke in his movie in favor of lying and slandering the President? I don't agree with the President on a lot of things, but I do hate Michael Moore. I would hate him if he was Conservative too. I don't believe in propaganda, I believe strongly in the written truth. I do believe that Saddam Hussein killed people, and i highly doubt he had a Kennel of kittens and puppies that he played with on a daily basis (not seen in the movie, but not proven false, either). The fact that he hung people from meat hooks, used chemical weapons on his own people, and funded suicide bombers and harbored the murderer from the Achille Lauro terrorist incident should not be forgotten.
I offer this as a voice against those who have watched this movie and have taken it at face value. Do your research, look around the news, "use some critical thinking" as my Professors often say. Dig deeper into this movie than just being fanboys. You'll find that, just like in Bownling for Columbine, he has lied about things, many things, and while it is his perogative to, that he does have the right to, just because you have the right, doesn't mean its right.
for old data conversion? I remember reading last year about a company which was loaning out older computers so that people who had old data could still read it and convert it to another format. Someone had one of those wonderful 5" floppy disks with a bunch of scientific data they had gathered back in the day and couldn't find any older computers that would still read it, until they went to a place with a bunch of old computers to read and convert the data. Another possibility is if you can get a place to store it, discuss with local schools and colleges if they'd be interested in doing low cost field trips.
Actually, that is incorrect. I work at Disney, and the movie was never actually signed to be distributed by mirimax, just produced by it. As Michael Eisner has said before, we are a company that is founded on ideals of the American family backbone, and the company makes great strides to alienate no nation, nor to alienate anyone for their political party. If it was a major right wing 'mockumentary', they'd drop it like a hot potatoe just as fast...
This is the biggest problem that I have with everyone who fears "Google is going to know that I am on the Celine Deon Fan Club mailing list and they're going to blackmail me with the information" is that it's highly doubtful it will ever happen.
Nothing Google has done so far or shown is nefarious in their intentions. If anything, they have gone out of the way to show that information about your e-mails will stay with your account and that they wouldn't want to alienate their user base with invasions of privacy!
They feel that they can apply their model of business to e-mail, and that includes directed advertisement.
As in the beginning of the article, the writers made it clear that the thought that this is an invasion of privacy is ludacris. So what if some program on their servers scans an e-mail for keywords and attatches a little "recommended links" to it? If there was a human being going through it, I would be worried, but frankly I don't see any type of major privacy issue...at least, any more than you would find with any web based e-mail service like Yahoo and Hotmail.
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I have a sense of humor. I enjoy the occasional April Fool's joke thats good. But at this point, what is the point anymore? Just let a dead horse lie. Hell, people aren't even bothering to comment. Was there any real news today? Anyone got anything good to share?
With all the people they're hoping to get that are supposed to be converting windows users because of the IPod, I'm sure a lot of people are confused by going from two buttons to one. I know it sounds crazy, but I tend to get frustrated when I use my friend' s Mac, because one mouse button should be simple, however I am used to two buttons, plus a scrollwheel, and a few extra buttons on a mouse, you rely on what you're comfortable with.
I'm sure this will help a lot of people convert over to Macs.
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I believe the rules are the same as AOL members. After a certain period of time of inactivity (about 3-6 months), the screen name will go unassigned, and may be able to be taken by others afterwards.
Shoot the Gift Horse in the Mouth and win the Free IPOD!!!
I have some mod points right now, is there any way I could actually mark the editor's post -1 Redundant?
The government isn't forcing the department of motor vehicles to do anything that it shouldn't have already. It isn't really an 'electronic ID', it makes no mention of RFID. Hell, its just like my Florida driver's license I carry now. It has a digital photo, holograms on a plastic card, and a machine-readable magnetic strip. See?
And, before everyone goes about getting their tinfoil hats on and running for the concrete bunkers, the government is not forcing the state to link to the database. If the state DMV wants federal funds then they have to link up. If your state is so opposed to the idea, pony up extra state tax money to pay for it. Enough said.
I mean, we accuse the media of fearmongering? It seems like posts on slashdot are as bad as Fox News sometimes. RTFA
Last year they made the decision about letting EA establish a 'digital arts academy' or whatever they like to call it. They're moving into the old expo centre here Orlando. There was one article in our campus tabloid mentioned some of the misdeeds, nobody said anything about it afterwards. Here's a link to the article where they blow their load over it CFF - EA Comes to UCF. It's an interesting read on how its supposed to help rejuvinate the area. I mean, EA are nazis as far as their work habits go, and I know a lot of my friends are wary about signing up. It didn't stop them from filling up the program already though...
I'm not sure that is necessarily a bad thing. Without much technological experience backing him, if he's any good at his job, he's going to be more willing to listen to those who work for him until there is a new CEO, such as the people who actually work with the technology and create it.
In addition, did you see how long he's been around? Since 1969! I'd like to think that maybe he's seen whats gone wrong over the years and may start to turn it around before a real replacement for the CEO can be found. Not a permanent solution, but probably starting to move on the right track.
Honestly, the problem is that so few schools out there have quality Technology Coordinators (admins). Where I went to high school I served as an assistant to the admin in my senior year, and he took security very seriously. He used restrictions and altiris management software to prevent unauthorized programs from being accessed.
In addition, students were never allowed on a teacher's computer.
That, however, never stopped the office monkey's down in attendance from taping their passwords and logins underneath their keyboards where I found them while doing a replacement one day. I peeled the paper off the desk, balled it up, and tossed it. I wasn't suprised when they called a few hours later saying "they forgot their password." Idiots.
Not exactly, at least for right now. If you search for a show, and click the link, there is currently a line that says "Video is currently not available". Does this mean that google eventually plans to link up the transcripts with the videos as well? Something like that would be really useful.
..that the nursing home never gets any retired slashdotters there. I'm sure the tin foil would be missing from the tops of the dinner trays and quickly turned into hats...
As for those who feel that there are no lies, and want facts to back them up, I only hope I am posting this soon enough for people to read. First off, the movie asserts that Bush invaded Afghanistan for oil and natural gas pipelines, however, I point the the Unocol, the US company of the group that had planned to build a pipeline: Withdrawl Notice
Unocal notes that they do not want to have anything to do with afghanistan, and determined that it is not in their best interest to develop a pipeline. While Afghanistan has different ideas Unocal still is staying away.
Michael Moore also asserts that the White House was responsible for the Saudi and Bin Laden families getting out of the United States. Richard Clarke, however, who has been critical of the White House and had been endorsed by Moore had this to say: "I take responsibility for it. I don't think it was a mistake, and I'd do it again." FBI and Clarke Respond
And as for Moore's filmmaking style, I felt particularly horrified at the blacked out screen and sounds of the attack on 9/11 the first time, when I viewed a film called 11'09''01 - September 11 by Alejandro Inarritu. As Picasso said, good artists copy, great artists steal.
And as for lounging around at the school afterwards being an 'idiot' and not acting presidential, I leave you with a letter, offered by a guidance councilor from the school about that day: Emma E. Booker - Lee Martello
I agree, people have rights to make movies, however how did such simple things get past Moore's fact checking? That he even avoided implicating his buddy Richard Clarke in his movie in favor of lying and slandering the President? I don't agree with the President on a lot of things, but I do hate Michael Moore. I would hate him if he was Conservative too. I don't believe in propaganda, I believe strongly in the written truth. I do believe that Saddam Hussein killed people, and i highly doubt he had a Kennel of kittens and puppies that he played with on a daily basis (not seen in the movie, but not proven false, either). The fact that he hung people from meat hooks, used chemical weapons on his own people, and funded suicide bombers and harbored the murderer from the Achille Lauro terrorist incident should not be forgotten.
I offer this as a voice against those who have watched this movie and have taken it at face value. Do your research, look around the news, "use some critical thinking" as my Professors often say. Dig deeper into this movie than just being fanboys. You'll find that, just like in Bownling for Columbine, he has lied about things, many things, and while it is his perogative to, that he does have the right to, just because you have the right, doesn't mean its right.
Just to let you know, the old lady in the shoe called, she said she wants her car back...
for old data conversion? I remember reading last year about a company which was loaning out older computers so that people who had old data could still read it and convert it to another format. Someone had one of those wonderful 5" floppy disks with a bunch of scientific data they had gathered back in the day and couldn't find any older computers that would still read it, until they went to a place with a bunch of old computers to read and convert the data. Another possibility is if you can get a place to store it, discuss with local schools and colleges if they'd be interested in doing low cost field trips.
Actually, that is incorrect. I work at Disney, and the movie was never actually signed to be distributed by mirimax, just produced by it. As Michael Eisner has said before, we are a company that is founded on ideals of the American family backbone, and the company makes great strides to alienate no nation, nor to alienate anyone for their political party. If it was a major right wing 'mockumentary', they'd drop it like a hot potatoe just as fast...
This is the biggest problem that I have with everyone who fears "Google is going to know that I am on the Celine Deon Fan Club mailing list and they're going to blackmail me with the information" is that it's highly doubtful it will ever happen.
Nothing Google has done so far or shown is nefarious in their intentions. If anything, they have gone out of the way to show that information about your e-mails will stay with your account and that they wouldn't want to alienate their user base with invasions of privacy! They feel that they can apply their model of business to e-mail, and that includes directed advertisement.
As in the beginning of the article, the writers made it clear that the thought that this is an invasion of privacy is ludacris. So what if some program on their servers scans an e-mail for keywords and attatches a little "recommended links" to it? If there was a human being going through it, I would be worried, but frankly I don't see any type of major privacy issue...at least, any more than you would find with any web based e-mail service like Yahoo and Hotmail.