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You may be a trusting sheep, but others may not. When you get your calendar set up please be sure to share it with the rest of the slashdot crowd in your profile. Paranoid recluse I am not which is why I still have no desire to store any of my personal information on someone etheral company server that I have no control over. Sure they have EULA's but EULA's can change. There are few laws protecting personal information when it is supposed to be protected such as banking and credit card information. Just becasue Google has resisted the DOJ, doesn't mean that I will not cave in sometimes in the future. And the Internet Is Just The Place To Be Discussing These Issues. If not, why are you wasting time on slashdot?
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Someone has to bring this up. Do you really want the Justice Department getting court orders from Google to hand over everyones calendars so they can go on another fishing trip?
Or, just think of the data mining potential for Advertisers. They are probably really wetting their chops on this one.
Use a DavMod calendar on a descrete server. Other wise you are just asking for trouble.
The only reason the layoff's are drying up is that the current H1B visa quota is tapped dry.
Attached to the Immigration reform legislation are increased H1B quotas that are set to grow every year.
Don't forget to contact your Congressman.
I expect that it will increase innovation as people like myself, will seek solutions to bandwith issues.
I can think of a couple of ways right now to by-pass their restrictions such as having your services run on nontraditional ports, creative routing around the backbone, or creating a private internet that tunnels through the traditional one.
SUV slams are the darling of the Global Warming excuses. The reality is that SUV referrs to all Truck type vehicles with less strick emissions, which includes the family van and those monster trucks that seat 2.5 adults.
My 4 wheel drive, outfitted with studded snow tires gets better gas milage than most vans and town cars, plus has the added benifit of being able to get me and my family around for the half of the year that we have snow and ice conditions. Remember that States and Towns are spending LESS on winter maintenance of roads than 20 years ago.
And before you southern folk get to uppity, my heating cost are less than your air conditioning cost to boot.
Blame the auto manufacturers, Ford and C*ysler for not offering me the vehicle that I want, all wheel drive with good gas milage. Blame Washington for promoting highway travel rather than mass transit. Blame corporate greed for me having to commute three hours a day in an SUV made in Japan that has 200K miles. Blame me for living.
You know we put adult content proxy filters in place to protect the children from stumbling on Porn and the government thinks that this is not enough, yet email boxes get filled with Porn.
If M$ was really interested in supporting government programs to prevent childern from being exposed to Porn, possibly they cold clean up MY BULK MAIL FOLDER!
I guess my real point was that there is a break point where a novelty crosses over and can become a nesessity. By this I mean that music and video downloads will remain a novelty for most of us until a more practical(i.e. cheaper) pricing model comes about. I draw a parallel to cell phones. Origionally the domain of the rich or those with extream business needs wheer every call was metered and expensive. Now everyones kid has one with nights and weekends free. And the cell phone companies are not suffering dollar wise.
His point was that the cost of programming @ $2/episode is too expensive. Possibly in the future when there are many digital download outlets, competition will drive the cost per episode down to where it will make sense for "Joe average" to download his favorite show. And Please, no drivel about how the content creators can't make make enough money to continue to provide us with quality programming like we are getting in "reality shows" if they can't get us to download it for at least $2/episode. Until the price drops below a certain threshold, I will not download.
A major problem with LEGO robotics is that they are so much like Microsoft. They really make it difficult to add to the product. The only way I could make the origional kit interesting for kids was to script a Tk interface using Perl's RCX and NQC (not quite c) system calls via their IR tower. This off loaded the application program from the brick to a PC. I have BIG dobts that this particuar kit will simplify the programming with it's newest proprietary programming language (Photoshop like , so they say). If they give the brick an 802.11g wireless interface, the Open Source community will do the rest.
Please spare me having to mod through an article where IBM toots it's own horn.
IBM Miroelectronics post these "internal articles" at least once a week. One major reason was to pump up it's work force into thinking that management was really looking out for it's business and it's employees intrest. They are the "Walmart" of the semonconductor world!
The loss of Apple as a customer was admittedly more of a symbolic loss than a financial loss. You really want to drop some big customer names in the chip market try Kodak, Alcatel and Qualcomm. IBM has a habbit of side-lining customer projects, but usually becuase it it imersed in it annual reorganization shuffel (a real full time project).
While a full time technical employee at IBM (Essex J*, ** - shhhhh!) in the nineties, we envied the contractors. At least they were treated like human beings. They were paid more. They had more free time. They had the option to convert over to regular where we would have to leave the site for a year before we could accept a job with a contractor. Job security, I got laid off after 15 years and offered a line job with a pay cut.
"Brain the size of a planet and all they wanted me to do was open doors" - Marvin
You've lost me in that "I'm part of the problem".
I'm not sitting, but taking action, by voicing my opinions about the facts as I uncover them. I act with my vote, my wallet and my taxes (again with my vote).
Yes, here on Slashdot I hide behind a "moniker" but in my community I am openly public about my views.
How does bailing and running contribute to the fix?
[I'm neither karma Nazi or Jewish;) Have a nice day! ]
Hell no!
I will not leave this country. It is my country.
Every time I read a suggestion that "We" find a new place to live, because "Our country is going down the tube, I cringe. I will not run away but will stay the course to restore citizens rights.
If "They" don't like it they can leave but "I'm" staying put.
Great!
I can't wait until that sleepy hollow of a community is swallowed up by a great earth quake, hell and damnation.
Just think, a damnation theme park only hours away!!!!
I'm afraid that dark days are a head where even searching for ways to break copyrights will be labled as techno-terrorism, just as the exploits of PETA and Green Peace are now being labled as eco-terrorism and thus have come under the umbrella of DHS rather than local law jurisdiction.
The is not a (mod) funny post. Please visit the web site of the ALA: http://www.ala.org/ Our parody image of the typical little old woman with powered bun saying "shooooosh" is wrong. They are closer to being real time action heros, that are doing more to defend our freedoms than our elected leaders. Do check out their web site and see they work they are doing with the ACLU to protect your privacy.
Whip me, beat me, and prove me wrong, but the use of trivial passwords for most user accounts can save a lot of headaches in many (special, small, non-DOD type) organizations. My observation and in practice has proved me right over the long term. My reasons, 1st most folk cannot remember their own passwords, even when they type them in every day, and with password managers they are not forced to. They also, usually write them and post them on their monitors. If they can remember a trivial password, it saves me having to reset it once a week. Further, if they can remember a password, then they can figure out to change it to a non-trivial one. If they are working on anything sensitive, they KNOW the importance of secure passwords and will use them. If the information is not sensitive, it is to boring to waste time on anyway. If some smart, evil type is in your organization, you will recognize them quickly anyway and will stand out like a super model at PTO meeting. And of course, never share root.
Though we in the USA like to think that we control space and call all of the "shots", the reality is that China is well on it's way to puting us in second place in the next 10 years.
Let's see, Russia and the European Space Agency routinely put rockets into space as does China. Japan, India, and even North Korea have rockets.
Point is that if you want to hitch a ride into space, NASA is not the only show in town. NASA does not decide all who fly.
Thanks to you and the parent for bringing me back to earth.
I also dream, and do things that my acquired degree (ASEE) plus LOTS of extra college, still do not "qualify" me to do....
Having said that (and the very best of luck to the BSCE),..."How much is it going to cost him to acquire the energy to perform these task"? This type of equipment does not run off of a +-12VDC lab power supply.
If a Civil Engineer can have an "unlicensed proton pack in his back yard", then why not let a Gray Hound bus driver fly 737's.
Who needs a Nuclear Engineering degree anyway?
Street car conductor or brain surgeon? Is this guy related to Jethro Bodein of the Clampet clan?
Oh my dear God, it is?
One of the cavets was that packages were non-negotiable, that you were locked in regionally by different franchised packagers. Direct TV did, or the franchised package sellers, as I stated before, move both SciFI and Food from the basic package to a premium package. My only alternative was to upgrade my package to get it back,...or...find another carrier.
I switched over to Dish TV to get a better deal.
Before you say, "horray to the FCC for keeping things competetitive" remember that Direct TV was trying to get the FCC to allow them to buy Dish TV, because there would still be competitition with cable. The deal almost when down, under Chairman Powell. Unless you live in the boonies like me, cable is an alternative.
Direct TV still call us once a month to try to lure us back, with the promise of a replacement(premium) package with my favored channels. Both the dish and reciever are in the shed.
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You may be a trusting sheep, but others may not. When you get your calendar set up please be sure to share it with the rest of the slashdot crowd in your profile. Paranoid recluse I am not which is why I still have no desire to store any of my personal information on someone etheral company server that I have no control over. Sure they have EULA's but EULA's can change. There are few laws protecting personal information when it is supposed to be protected such as banking and credit card information. Just becasue Google has resisted the DOJ, doesn't mean that I will not cave in sometimes in the future. And the Internet Is Just The Place To Be Discussing These Issues. If not, why are you wasting time on slashdot?
Someone has to bring this up. Do you really want the Justice Department getting court orders from Google to hand over everyones calendars so they can go on another fishing trip? Or, just think of the data mining potential for Advertisers. They are probably really wetting their chops on this one. Use a DavMod calendar on a descrete server. Other wise you are just asking for trouble.
The only reason the layoff's are drying up is that the current H1B visa quota is tapped dry. Attached to the Immigration reform legislation are increased H1B quotas that are set to grow every year. Don't forget to contact your Congressman.
I expect that it will increase innovation as people like myself, will seek solutions to bandwith issues. I can think of a couple of ways right now to by-pass their restrictions such as having your services run on nontraditional ports, creative routing around the backbone, or creating a private internet that tunnels through the traditional one.
At least that's one thing we won't have to worry about with this President.
SUV slams are the darling of the Global Warming excuses. The reality is that SUV referrs to all Truck type vehicles with less strick emissions, which includes the family van and those monster trucks that seat 2.5 adults. My 4 wheel drive, outfitted with studded snow tires gets better gas milage than most vans and town cars, plus has the added benifit of being able to get me and my family around for the half of the year that we have snow and ice conditions. Remember that States and Towns are spending LESS on winter maintenance of roads than 20 years ago. And before you southern folk get to uppity, my heating cost are less than your air conditioning cost to boot. Blame the auto manufacturers, Ford and C*ysler for not offering me the vehicle that I want, all wheel drive with good gas milage. Blame Washington for promoting highway travel rather than mass transit. Blame corporate greed for me having to commute three hours a day in an SUV made in Japan that has 200K miles. Blame me for living.
You know we put adult content proxy filters in place to protect the children from stumbling on Porn and the government thinks that this is not enough, yet email boxes get filled with Porn. If M$ was really interested in supporting government programs to prevent childern from being exposed to Porn, possibly they cold clean up MY BULK MAIL FOLDER!
I guess my real point was that there is a break point where a novelty crosses over and can become a nesessity. By this I mean that music and video downloads will remain a novelty for most of us until a more practical(i.e. cheaper) pricing model comes about. I draw a parallel to cell phones. Origionally the domain of the rich or those with extream business needs wheer every call was metered and expensive. Now everyones kid has one with nights and weekends free. And the cell phone companies are not suffering dollar wise.
His point was that the cost of programming @ $2/episode is too expensive. Possibly in the future when there are many digital download outlets, competition will drive the cost per episode down to where it will make sense for "Joe average" to download his favorite show. And Please, no drivel about how the content creators can't make make enough money to continue to provide us with quality programming like we are getting in "reality shows" if they can't get us to download it for at least $2/episode. Until the price drops below a certain threshold, I will not download.
Wow man. Cool! Dude, really does work!
Mod me a ZERO. Oops, I am!
A major problem with LEGO robotics is that they are so much like Microsoft. They really make it difficult to add to the product. The only way I could make the origional kit interesting for kids was to script a Tk interface using Perl's RCX and NQC (not quite c) system calls via their IR tower. This off loaded the application program from the brick to a PC. I have BIG dobts that this particuar kit will simplify the programming with it's newest proprietary programming language (Photoshop like , so they say). If they give the brick an 802.11g wireless interface, the Open Source community will do the rest.
Please spare me having to mod through an article where IBM toots it's own horn. IBM Miroelectronics post these "internal articles" at least once a week. One major reason was to pump up it's work force into thinking that management was really looking out for it's business and it's employees intrest. They are the "Walmart" of the semonconductor world! The loss of Apple as a customer was admittedly more of a symbolic loss than a financial loss. You really want to drop some big customer names in the chip market try Kodak, Alcatel and Qualcomm. IBM has a habbit of side-lining customer projects, but usually becuase it it imersed in it annual reorganization shuffel (a real full time project).
While a full time technical employee at IBM (Essex J*, ** - shhhhh!) in the nineties, we envied the contractors. At least they were treated like human beings. They were paid more. They had more free time. They had the option to convert over to regular where we would have to leave the site for a year before we could accept a job with a contractor. Job security, I got laid off after 15 years and offered a line job with a pay cut. "Brain the size of a planet and all they wanted me to do was open doors" - Marvin
You've lost me in that "I'm part of the problem". I'm not sitting, but taking action, by voicing my opinions about the facts as I uncover them. I act with my vote, my wallet and my taxes (again with my vote). Yes, here on Slashdot I hide behind a "moniker" but in my community I am openly public about my views. How does bailing and running contribute to the fix? [I'm neither karma Nazi or Jewish ;) Have a nice day! ]
Hell no! I will not leave this country. It is my country. Every time I read a suggestion that "We" find a new place to live, because "Our country is going down the tube, I cringe. I will not run away but will stay the course to restore citizens rights. If "They" don't like it they can leave but "I'm" staying put.
Great! I can't wait until that sleepy hollow of a community is swallowed up by a great earth quake, hell and damnation. Just think, a damnation theme park only hours away!!!!
I'm afraid that dark days are a head where even searching for ways to break copyrights will be labled as techno-terrorism, just as the exploits of PETA and Green Peace are now being labled as eco-terrorism and thus have come under the umbrella of DHS rather than local law jurisdiction.
The is not a (mod) funny post. Please visit the web site of the ALA: http://www.ala.org/ Our parody image of the typical little old woman with powered bun saying "shooooosh" is wrong. They are closer to being real time action heros, that are doing more to defend our freedoms than our elected leaders. Do check out their web site and see they work they are doing with the ACLU to protect your privacy.
Don't forget GVim. At least that is the editor of choice for me. What does Emacs offer that GVim doesn't?
Whip me, beat me, and prove me wrong, but the use of trivial passwords for most user accounts can save a lot of headaches in many (special, small, non-DOD type) organizations. My observation and in practice has proved me right over the long term. My reasons, 1st most folk cannot remember their own passwords, even when they type them in every day, and with password managers they are not forced to. They also, usually write them and post them on their monitors. If they can remember a trivial password, it saves me having to reset it once a week. Further, if they can remember a password, then they can figure out to change it to a non-trivial one. If they are working on anything sensitive, they KNOW the importance of secure passwords and will use them. If the information is not sensitive, it is to boring to waste time on anyway. If some smart, evil type is in your organization, you will recognize them quickly anyway and will stand out like a super model at PTO meeting. And of course, never share root.
Though we in the USA like to think that we control space and call all of the "shots", the reality is that China is well on it's way to puting us in second place in the next 10 years. Let's see, Russia and the European Space Agency routinely put rockets into space as does China. Japan, India, and even North Korea have rockets. Point is that if you want to hitch a ride into space, NASA is not the only show in town. NASA does not decide all who fly.
Thanks to you and the parent for bringing me back to earth. I also dream, and do things that my acquired degree (ASEE) plus LOTS of extra college, still do not "qualify" me to do.... Having said that (and the very best of luck to the BSCE),..."How much is it going to cost him to acquire the energy to perform these task"? This type of equipment does not run off of a +-12VDC lab power supply.
If a Civil Engineer can have an "unlicensed proton pack in his back yard", then why not let a Gray Hound bus driver fly 737's. Who needs a Nuclear Engineering degree anyway? Street car conductor or brain surgeon? Is this guy related to Jethro Bodein of the Clampet clan?
Oh my dear God, it is? One of the cavets was that packages were non-negotiable, that you were locked in regionally by different franchised packagers. Direct TV did, or the franchised package sellers, as I stated before, move both SciFI and Food from the basic package to a premium package. My only alternative was to upgrade my package to get it back,...or...find another carrier. I switched over to Dish TV to get a better deal. Before you say, "horray to the FCC for keeping things competetitive" remember that Direct TV was trying to get the FCC to allow them to buy Dish TV, because there would still be competitition with cable. The deal almost when down, under Chairman Powell. Unless you live in the boonies like me, cable is an alternative. Direct TV still call us once a month to try to lure us back, with the promise of a replacement(premium) package with my favored channels. Both the dish and reciever are in the shed.