Since MS can't seem to get Longhorn out the door in a reasonable timeframe, they need to do whatever they can to stop corporations from adopting Linux on the desktop.
Everyone keeps asking how SCO thinks they can win. I don't think they ever planned on winning. As long as they can create enough FUD until Longhorn gets out the door, Microsoft's investment paid off. Not to mention Darl's pockets are probably getting pretty full. I don't care if they don't make $1 in SCO Source licenses....SCO can keep paying Darl's salary until the company is bankrupt.
The point isn't really whether corporations are trustworthy.
And here I'm going to take the position of the corporation, since I do own a business...
If my employees take confidential information with them when they leave the company, and even one misuses it, the task of tracking down the employee becomes quite a pain. And even if the guilty employee is found, prosecuting them becomes more difficult if protocols are not in place explicitly prohibiting them from keeping confidential info. Without such a policy, it's easy for the employee to claim "I didn't know I couldn't keep them".
Besides, if the information is misused, it is the company who ultimately gets sued. Attornes go after the money, not always the guilty party. So it really becomes an issue of liability for the corporation. Whether they are honest or not, to NOT have this policy in place is to invite disaster.
I am not suggesting you aren't trustworthy with the information.
But let's also look at in respect to the interest of the consumer, or yourself.
Put yourself in my field for a minute, with clients e-mailing confidential information, account numbers, social security numbers, etc, it is a huge liability for the clients from individual employees. Imagine if ex-employees had archives of all that personal information.
I'm not an advocate for corporate policy. I've just come to realize that honest individuals are not the norm anymore. The average employee is not looking out for their company....they are looking for their paycheck, and will use anything in their power to get a bigger one.
I work in the mortgage industry, and in this industry, no-compete clauses are very common
Among the restrictions of the clause, there is one that specifically mentions theft of company information and not directly soliciting any of the company's clients for a period of time.
If you are in a sales position, taking the archives could represent theft of company data, which would violate privacy laws.
If you are in a customer service position, taking the archives could also represent theft of confidential information and trade secrets.
It's good that you back up your data, but if your company ever found out that you are removing it from the company, you could be subject to criminal prosecution.
An example of this would be the AOL employees that sold aol e-mail accounts to spammers. Granted, they acted on the information, but in today's litigation-happy society, they may not wait for you to act.
Not to mention, by taking the privelaged information, you are opening yourself up to a legal nightmare if the next company you work for does business with the same people/organizations as your previous company. If you don't have a list of previous clients/customers, it is much easier to deny intentionally soliciting/marketing the clients of your previous employer.
Back when ICQ was owned by Mirabilis, it was a quality program with little bloat. As soon as AOL bought it, it came standard with a ton of "features" that the average user never uses, nor would ever want to use.
I realize there is an ICQ lite now, and I haven't tried it recently, but when I did try it, it was too lite. Almost to the point of Windows XP "Starter Edition".
Is the story line covering the invasion of the Yuuzan Vong. Though I doubt they could summarize the entire saga into 3 movies. They have trouble fitting one book into one movie....let alone 10+ books into one movie.
Of course...this would only be good if they can capture the ideology behind the Vong and their unique 'religion'. I suspect if this storyline were taken, it would be more episode 1 and 2 crap of too much special effects and not enough plot/story.
These games are fun, but they are addicting time wasters. To enjoy these games, you literally have to devote huge blocks of time to completing quests, leveling up, and running around a digital world.
While I love the Lord of the Rings saga, I don't see much need for yet another MMORPG. Are there not enough time wasters already?
It fails to run a lot of popular software right out of the box. Last I checked, it wouldn't install IE6. Now now....before I am crusified, I have no love for IE. But it is a simple fact that many programs are built on top of it; many industry specific programs such as banking and financial programs.
There's also the famed Photoshop incompatibility, that crossover has managed to overcome. When will the code be incorporated back into Wine?
I realize Mac users have no need for a Windows version of photoshop, but I wonder if Darwin is going to be able to overcome the obstacles that Wine has not been able to.
Support for.Net would also be a godsend since more of the newer windows software is starting to rely on it.
You could have done all of your research papers and had time left over to watch the porn you were able to download by not wasting your bandwidth downloading papers.
When I was in college...
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· Score: 3, Interesting
several of the teachers subscribed to a lot of the websites where you can buy term papers and reports.
While this doesn't stop the people who pay to have one written for them, or the ones who do a fair amount of tailoring their "store-bought" essays, it at least helps eliminate the stupid cheaters.
I actually enjoy reading, so in my opinion, it's a waste of time and money to buy your reports when you learn so much more by doing it yourself. Not to mention the fact that you know you earned your grade honestly.
I actually feel sorry for the people who short themselves by not doing the work themselves.
What would be truly innovative is for Microsoft to make their office software truly compatible with multiple platforms and competing programs.
Of course there is a downside...microsoft might lose some of their 90+% market share, but then people might start seeing them as an innovative company who actually plays well with others.
It always irritates me when they try to incorporate new "features" into their products that do little more than lock the competition out of the game.
I don't see why a thermostat NEEDS to be network enabled.
Not only is it not too terrible of an inconvenience to get up and walk to the thermostat, but now we have to protect our thermostat with a firewall??
As it was mentioned earlier, I don't think it will be long before the kiddies start creating a windows exploit that attacks the thermostat. Imagine having your heat go out in -10 degree weather. This is a situation where a cracker could actually put someone's life at stake in the right circumstances.
No...the biggest myth is:
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Your opinion matters to the one who authorizes purchases.
IT: I suggest we go with this option because of $x, $y, and $z.
Boss: How much does it cost?
IT: Well, the cost is $X but we we won't have to upgrade for several years, and it will handle all of our needs.
Boss: What can we get for $Y?
IT: We can get a remanufactured system that barely surpasses our current system.
By rereleasing the software with spyware included, they have modified the software. Certain linux distributions contain proprietary software, but linux = the kernel. linux does not equal the distribution.
gnucleus, gtk-gnutella, etc are covered by the GPL. So modifying the program itself means they MUST release the source code at no additional charge.
They aren't actually doing anything wrong by charging a price for this software either. Technically, they could justify it for their "enhancements" to the software such as spyware and adware.
"So in other words, "The more you tighten your grip...the more game controllers will slip through your fingers"?"
Yep. But with this Gamecube is now the ultimate power in the universe!
LOL....ok...you can go ahead and mod me down for bad star wars jokes.
Game players need to learn to relax their hold on the controller. The tighter you hold the controller, the sweatier your palms and fingers get. I've played games for hours on end (yes, on many different systems) and have never had a problem hitting the right buttons.
Of course....when you're playing Socom and silenced bullets start popping in the water next to you...it's easy to hit the wrong button out of panic. But that really has nothing to do with grip.
Maybe people should just wear rubber gloves when playing games LOL
Temp workers are a breed all their own. Not anything against YOU either, but most of them aren't very skilled in ANY area.
The position I hire for is mortgage loan processors. When you're dealing with $100,000 and a person's home, being able to type correctly, quickly, and efficiently should be a given.
Unfortunately we're in the AOL generation where U is supposed to be an acceptable subsitute for "you" and R is supposed to be an acceptable subsitute for "are".
I may be an elitist snob...but I think people should take pride in whatever it is they do....even if it's flipping burgers at McDonalds. They should be making that burger the best it can possibly be.
The article is not about paying more for name brands, it's about name brands releasing a consumer version and an industrial version at different prices, with very similar features.
"One of the other factors that makes the service so appealing to me is I trust Google, unlike Microsoft or Yahoo, to not sell my email address. When the company who gave you the email address is handing it out to the spammers (or spamming the box themselves), something is wrong."
What purpose would Yahoo have for selling e-mail addresses? They just route it into their bulk mail folder to be easily deleted anyway. Surely this isn't a long term advertising option. That's like paying for direct mailings, only to have the distributing company put them directly into the customers' trash cans on trash day.
I have seen them in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Unfortunately the only drivers that see them are the irritated driver behind the driver who is drag racing with a semi at 55 mph in a 65 zone.
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Since MS can't seem to get Longhorn out the door in a reasonable timeframe, they need to do whatever they can to stop corporations from adopting Linux on the desktop.
Everyone keeps asking how SCO thinks they can win. I don't think they ever planned on winning. As long as they can create enough FUD until Longhorn gets out the door, Microsoft's investment paid off. Not to mention Darl's pockets are probably getting pretty full. I don't care if they don't make $1 in SCO Source licenses....SCO can keep paying Darl's salary until the company is bankrupt.
Let's just re-route all of the traffic on the internet through a P2P cache site. Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose by overloading the service?
The point isn't really whether corporations are trustworthy.
And here I'm going to take the position of the corporation, since I do own a business...
If my employees take confidential information with them when they leave the company, and even one misuses it, the task of tracking down the employee becomes quite a pain. And even if the guilty employee is found, prosecuting them becomes more difficult if protocols are not in place explicitly prohibiting them from keeping confidential info. Without such a policy, it's easy for the employee to claim "I didn't know I couldn't keep them".
Besides, if the information is misused, it is the company who ultimately gets sued. Attornes go after the money, not always the guilty party. So it really becomes an issue of liability for the corporation. Whether they are honest or not, to NOT have this policy in place is to invite disaster.
I am not suggesting you aren't trustworthy with the information.
But let's also look at in respect to the interest of the consumer, or yourself.
Put yourself in my field for a minute, with clients e-mailing confidential information, account numbers, social security numbers, etc, it is a huge liability for the clients from individual employees. Imagine if ex-employees had archives of all that personal information.
I'm not an advocate for corporate policy. I've just come to realize that honest individuals are not the norm anymore. The average employee is not looking out for their company....they are looking for their paycheck, and will use anything in their power to get a bigger one.
I work in the mortgage industry, and in this industry, no-compete clauses are very common
Among the restrictions of the clause, there is one that specifically mentions theft of company information and not directly soliciting any of the company's clients for a period of time.
If you are in a sales position, taking the archives could represent theft of company data, which would violate privacy laws.
If you are in a customer service position, taking the archives could also represent theft of confidential information and trade secrets.
It's good that you back up your data, but if your company ever found out that you are removing it from the company, you could be subject to criminal prosecution.
An example of this would be the AOL employees that sold aol e-mail accounts to spammers. Granted, they acted on the information, but in today's litigation-happy society, they may not wait for you to act.
Not to mention, by taking the privelaged information, you are opening yourself up to a legal nightmare if the next company you work for does business with the same people/organizations as your previous company. If you don't have a list of previous clients/customers, it is much easier to deny intentionally soliciting/marketing the clients of your previous employer.
Back when ICQ was owned by Mirabilis, it was a quality program with little bloat. As soon as AOL bought it, it came standard with a ton of "features" that the average user never uses, nor would ever want to use.
I realize there is an ICQ lite now, and I haven't tried it recently, but when I did try it, it was too lite. Almost to the point of Windows XP "Starter Edition".
Is the story line covering the invasion of the Yuuzan Vong. Though I doubt they could summarize the entire saga into 3 movies. They have trouble fitting one book into one movie....let alone 10+ books into one movie.
Of course...this would only be good if they can capture the ideology behind the Vong and their unique 'religion'. I suspect if this storyline were taken, it would be more episode 1 and 2 crap of too much special effects and not enough plot/story.
These games are fun, but they are addicting time wasters. To enjoy these games, you literally have to devote huge blocks of time to completing quests, leveling up, and running around a digital world. While I love the Lord of the Rings saga, I don't see much need for yet another MMORPG. Are there not enough time wasters already?
It fails to run a lot of popular software right out of the box. Last I checked, it wouldn't install IE6. Now now....before I am crusified, I have no love for IE. But it is a simple fact that many programs are built on top of it; many industry specific programs such as banking and financial programs.
.Net would also be a godsend since more of the newer windows software is starting to rely on it.
There's also the famed Photoshop incompatibility, that crossover has managed to overcome. When will the code be incorporated back into Wine?
I realize Mac users have no need for a Windows version of photoshop, but I wonder if Darwin is going to be able to overcome the obstacles that Wine has not been able to.
Support for
You could have done all of your research papers and had time left over to watch the porn you were able to download by not wasting your bandwidth downloading papers.
several of the teachers subscribed to a lot of the websites where you can buy term papers and reports.
While this doesn't stop the people who pay to have one written for them, or the ones who do a fair amount of tailoring their "store-bought" essays, it at least helps eliminate the stupid cheaters.
I actually enjoy reading, so in my opinion, it's a waste of time and money to buy your reports when you learn so much more by doing it yourself. Not to mention the fact that you know you earned your grade honestly.
I actually feel sorry for the people who short themselves by not doing the work themselves.
What would be truly innovative is for Microsoft to make their office software truly compatible with multiple platforms and competing programs.
Of course there is a downside...microsoft might lose some of their 90+% market share, but then people might start seeing them as an innovative company who actually plays well with others.
It always irritates me when they try to incorporate new "features" into their products that do little more than lock the competition out of the game.
I don't see why a thermostat NEEDS to be network enabled.
Not only is it not too terrible of an inconvenience to get up and walk to the thermostat, but now we have to protect our thermostat with a firewall??
As it was mentioned earlier, I don't think it will be long before the kiddies start creating a windows exploit that attacks the thermostat. Imagine having your heat go out in -10 degree weather. This is a situation where a cracker could actually put someone's life at stake in the right circumstances.
Your opinion matters to the one who authorizes purchases.
IT: I suggest we go with this option because of $x, $y, and $z.
Boss: How much does it cost?
IT: Well, the cost is $X but we we won't have to upgrade for several years, and it will handle all of our needs.
Boss: What can we get for $Y?
IT: We can get a remanufactured system that barely surpasses our current system.
Boss: But it IS better than what we have...right?
IT: Well....technically....
Boss: Great, let's do that!
By rereleasing the software with spyware included, they have modified the software. Certain linux distributions contain proprietary software, but linux = the kernel. linux does not equal the distribution.
gnucleus, gtk-gnutella, etc are covered by the GPL. So modifying the program itself means they MUST release the source code at no additional charge.
They aren't actually doing anything wrong by charging a price for this software either. Technically, they could justify it for their "enhancements" to the software such as spyware and adware.
"So in other words, "The more you tighten your grip...the more game controllers will slip through your fingers"?" Yep. But with this Gamecube is now the ultimate power in the universe! LOL....ok...you can go ahead and mod me down for bad star wars jokes.
Game players need to learn to relax their hold on the controller. The tighter you hold the controller, the sweatier your palms and fingers get. I've played games for hours on end (yes, on many different systems) and have never had a problem hitting the right buttons.
Of course....when you're playing Socom and silenced bullets start popping in the water next to you...it's easy to hit the wrong button out of panic. But that really has nothing to do with grip.
Maybe people should just wear rubber gloves when playing games LOL
Could something like this eventually be as common as the bicycle? I, for one, think it would be pretty cool to fly to work everyday.
Reminds me of watching the Jetsons as a kid LOL
IANAL
But I remember reading that statements published in court documents aren't subject to libel/slander.
Temp workers are a breed all their own. Not anything against YOU either, but most of them aren't very skilled in ANY area.
The position I hire for is mortgage loan processors. When you're dealing with $100,000 and a person's home, being able to type correctly, quickly, and efficiently should be a given.
Unfortunately we're in the AOL generation where U is supposed to be an acceptable subsitute for "you" and R is supposed to be an acceptable subsitute for "are".
I may be an elitist snob...but I think people should take pride in whatever it is they do....even if it's flipping burgers at McDonalds. They should be making that burger the best it can possibly be.
LOL I am bad about that.....especially when I'm in a hurry typing a reply on Slashdot at work :oD
I hire people who claim they can type $x words/minute only to find out they hunt and peck for keys, and type in all caps with no punctuation.
I'm sick of it. If everything is going to be computerized, people need to have enough respect for their positions to learn to do things properly.
I took a typing class in high school (when they were still using typewriters, and it is useful every single day!
The article is not about paying more for name brands, it's about name brands releasing a consumer version and an industrial version at different prices, with very similar features.
"One of the other factors that makes the service so appealing to me is I trust Google, unlike Microsoft or Yahoo, to not sell my email address. When the company who gave you the email address is handing it out to the spammers (or spamming the box themselves), something is wrong." What purpose would Yahoo have for selling e-mail addresses? They just route it into their bulk mail folder to be easily deleted anyway. Surely this isn't a long term advertising option. That's like paying for direct mailings, only to have the distributing company put them directly into the customers' trash cans on trash day.
I have seen them in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Unfortunately the only drivers that see them are the irritated driver behind the driver who is drag racing with a semi at 55 mph in a 65 zone.