Delta and Continental have been using linux based systems for years. I know this because they ended up rebooting a lot and you get to see a nice penguin when it does.
how Microsoft refuses to play well with others. That is my biggest beef with them on a corporate level. We are currently trying to integrate a few windows machines into our all mac/linux network, and it is painful. There are all sorts of "security policies" that need to be fiddled with because they aren't the same, XP gets upset if you have more than one domain controller on different domains it seems, and it doesn't even support NFS....NFS a protocol that will be celebrating its 20th birthday next year, isn't supported by Windows XP. Can you name me one other major PC operating system that doesn't support NFS out of the box? Any Mac box can be an NFS server or client, ditto for Linux, BSD, Solaris etc. But since it wasn't invented at Microsoft Microsoft doesn't consider it to be important, esp. since they could use their lack of NFS support to get you to buy a Microsoft server product that does the same thing but isn't nearly as secure.
SSH, LDAP, etc. the list of technologies that almost every other OS on the planet supports but XP doesn't(I don't know about Vista, but it's not like XP is that old). Microsoft's client OSs seem to have features that try to force you into buying Microsoft server OSs. Samba is great, and I certainly don't want to denigrate the brilliant people who write the stuff, but it shouldn't be necessary. Maybe back in 1996, when most business networks outside the megacorps consisted of a dumb hub with very little centralized management Windows wasn't all that bad, but the problem for Redmond is that the rest of the world moved on and they didn't. They still seem to think its a Microsoft only world, but the rest of the world thinks differently.
some kind of new exciting alternative energy product? If we could merely tap the termoil produced by 10 American CEOs we would have enough energy in a year to power all the neon signs of Tokyo and Shanghai for decades to come!
In researching the myriad claims raised in this letter -- which we believe to be true -- we also discovered a number of other unsettling things about Motorola's corporate past in the last five years, such as certain gross corporate excesses demanded by Zander and his inner circle (like a small fleet of extravagant private jets, where most companies that size might only have one, if any), or the fact that Motorola's current CEO, Greg Brown, is so technologically out of touch he refuses to use a computer for communications, and has all his email correspondences printed by his secretary and replied to by dictation.
The sad thing is that this is way too common in American corporations today. Someone much smarter than I(I think it was in the Economist) remarked that the modern day American CEO doesn't get to the top because they have vision for great products, they get to the top because they are connected and are great at playing financial games. This makes for great short term gains at the expense of any sort of longevity(but by that point the CEO has his golden parachute and is long gone). Carl Icahn also lamented at how woefully out of touch the modern American CEO is, and how much their exorbitant salaries and total lack of accountability and vision make American companies so topheavy they are quickly becoming uncompetitive.
Motorola thought that it could farm everything out and somehow just sit back and reap the benefits of others labor. It was wrong, and yet others are lining up to jump off the same cliff that they leapt from....
who publishes stories on IT web sites and only puts a tiny amount of information on each page but has tons of pages in a desperate attempt to increase ad revenue? I think that should be #1 on the list.
Another really nice thing about cats is that you don't have to plan your life around them nearly as much as you do for dogs.
Running late at work? Fluffy has a self feeder and a litter box, so she doesn't care. But the dog meanwhile you have to worry about it being in a cage all day or possibly pooping all over the house or tearing stuff up or getting into stuff it shouldn't be into.
Need to leave town for a few days? Again, leave some fresh water(a faucet drip works well), food, and a litter box and the cat is happy. Maybe get the neighbor to stick their head in once a day. However, with a dog you have to worry about boarding, which means worrying about shots, worrying if they could get sick, how they will act around all those other strange animals etc. A lot more stress and a lot more preparation required.
I'll address this post first; How many ISP do you think will hire more staff to "take the calls"? Or do you think the dude in the video shop looking at the X rated movies will be embarrassed?
The dude in the X-rated video store doesn't have to give his name to get the x-rated video, he doesn't have to have it recorded, and furthermore, the clerk working at the X-rated video store is hardly in a position to get judgmental. People don't like even the idea of being judged, and by forcing them to come out and have the feeling of being judged or get the feeling that they are doing something wrong, even if that isn't really the case. You are forcing people into a potentially awkward situation, and furthermore one that could set them up for blackmail. What if one member in a relationship wants to get the filter lifted, even for non-pornographic reasons, and the other partner finds out? The insinuation is that they are using it for nefarious purposes or else why else would they need to bypass the filter? Maybe the information should be shared in the relationship, but that isn't mine, yours, or especially the governments call and the government shouldn't force ISPs and whatnot to keep, and potentially share, that kind of information.
On the other hand, if someone WANTS filtering they can always do it on the client side, and if they insist, they can contact the ISP to filter their account. Yeah, you are still keeping information, but on a lot less people and I would doubt that anyone would assume someone implemented filtering for "unwholesome" reasons.
I'm not against filtering, I'm against government MANDATED filtering. If you want to filter on your end, go right ahead. If you want an ISP to filter content for you, as long as you don't expect everyone else to do so and you don't expect everyone else to pay for your filtered ISP. However, making filtering the default gives the government a lot of leverage and can only lead to them wanting more and more information on you and will end up in them blocking information that they do not find flattering(see Pakistan)
If you have a reasonable expectation that you'll receive a call, say, during your drive home, then the safest thing you can do is leave the thing on, even if it makes you look like an extra from a bad sci fi movie.
makes it even worse. It should be opt-in. How many people will be too embarrassed, or too shy to call up and opt-out or not want their name recorded as a potential Pr0n lover..... If parents want the service, they should be able to call and opt-in, but don't make the default mode censorship.
to many different classes of graduating scientists in commencement speeches he has given over the past couple decades. Amazing that someone else is finally catching on.
The safer(imo) is to make the product do almost nothing until the default password is changed. However, most vendors like to advertise "works out of the box!" so the odds of this happening are about 0....
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Wasn't this supposed to be part of what the WTO was supposed to do?
Delta and Continental have been using linux based systems for years. I know this because they ended up rebooting a lot and you get to see a nice penguin when it does.
how Microsoft refuses to play well with others. That is my biggest beef with them on a corporate level. We are currently trying to integrate a few windows machines into our all mac/linux network, and it is painful. There are all sorts of "security policies" that need to be fiddled with because they aren't the same, XP gets upset if you have more than one domain controller on different domains it seems, and it doesn't even support NFS....NFS a protocol that will be celebrating its 20th birthday next year, isn't supported by Windows XP. Can you name me one other major PC operating system that doesn't support NFS out of the box? Any Mac box can be an NFS server or client, ditto for Linux, BSD, Solaris etc. But since it wasn't invented at Microsoft Microsoft doesn't consider it to be important, esp. since they could use their lack of NFS support to get you to buy a Microsoft server product that does the same thing but isn't nearly as secure.
SSH, LDAP, etc. the list of technologies that almost every other OS on the planet supports but XP doesn't(I don't know about Vista, but it's not like XP is that old). Microsoft's client OSs seem to have features that try to force you into buying Microsoft server OSs. Samba is great, and I certainly don't want to denigrate the brilliant people who write the stuff, but it shouldn't be necessary. Maybe back in 1996, when most business networks outside the megacorps consisted of a dumb hub with very little centralized management Windows wasn't all that bad, but the problem for Redmond is that the rest of the world moved on and they didn't. They still seem to think its a Microsoft only world, but the rest of the world thinks differently.
to build Crow T. Robot.
some kind of new exciting alternative energy product? If we could merely tap the termoil produced by 10 American CEOs we would have enough energy in a year to power all the neon signs of Tokyo and Shanghai for decades to come!
In researching the myriad claims raised in this letter -- which we believe to be true -- we also discovered a number of other unsettling things about Motorola's corporate past in the last five years, such as certain gross corporate excesses demanded by Zander and his inner circle (like a small fleet of extravagant private jets, where most companies that size might only have one, if any), or the fact that Motorola's current CEO, Greg Brown, is so technologically out of touch he refuses to use a computer for communications, and has all his email correspondences printed by his secretary and replied to by dictation.
The sad thing is that this is way too common in American corporations today. Someone much smarter than I(I think it was in the Economist) remarked that the modern day American CEO doesn't get to the top because they have vision for great products, they get to the top because they are connected and are great at playing financial games. This makes for great short term gains at the expense of any sort of longevity(but by that point the CEO has his golden parachute and is long gone). Carl Icahn also lamented at how woefully out of touch the modern American CEO is, and how much their exorbitant salaries and total lack of accountability and vision make American companies so topheavy they are quickly becoming uncompetitive.
Motorola thought that it could farm everything out and somehow just sit back and reap the benefits of others labor. It was wrong, and yet others are lining up to jump off the same cliff that they leapt from....
This slashdot. verb no good here!
screw Leela, some hot Amy on Kiff action FTW!
that got dropped out of the summary, "may". Its still rumor at this point, maybe you shouldn't be trying to pass it off as fact.
let the wookie win!
The Energizer Nuclear battery, it just keeps glowing, and glowing, and glowing....
I apologize profusely.
who publishes stories on IT web sites and only puts a tiny amount of information on each page but has tons of pages in a desperate attempt to increase ad revenue? I think that should be #1 on the list.
Another really nice thing about cats is that you don't have to plan your life around them nearly as much as you do for dogs.
Running late at work? Fluffy has a self feeder and a litter box, so she doesn't care. But the dog meanwhile you have to worry about it being in a cage all day or possibly pooping all over the house or tearing stuff up or getting into stuff it shouldn't be into.
Need to leave town for a few days? Again, leave some fresh water(a faucet drip works well), food, and a litter box and the cat is happy. Maybe get the neighbor to stick their head in once a day. However, with a dog you have to worry about boarding, which means worrying about shots, worrying if they could get sick, how they will act around all those other strange animals etc. A lot more stress and a lot more preparation required.
just what kind of porn "self policing communities" will produce?
you can count the individual herpes sores on Britney Spears' genitals from across the globe.
the plot of Doom 3?
But I don't think they should go after an armed robber and rapist who has already killed with a flashlight and mace.
Hooray for ambiguous sentences
If shits can power cars better/cheaper than gasoline
Finally, a chance for Cheney to contribute something USEFUL to national energy policy.....
I'll address this post first; How many ISP do you think will hire more staff to "take the calls"? Or do you think the dude in the video shop looking at the X rated movies will be embarrassed?
The dude in the X-rated video store doesn't have to give his name to get the x-rated video, he doesn't have to have it recorded, and furthermore, the clerk working at the X-rated video store is hardly in a position to get judgmental. People don't like even the idea of being judged, and by forcing them to come out and have the feeling of being judged or get the feeling that they are doing something wrong, even if that isn't really the case. You are forcing people into a potentially awkward situation, and furthermore one that could set them up for blackmail. What if one member in a relationship wants to get the filter lifted, even for non-pornographic reasons, and the other partner finds out? The insinuation is that they are using it for nefarious purposes or else why else would they need to bypass the filter? Maybe the information should be shared in the relationship, but that isn't mine, yours, or especially the governments call and the government shouldn't force ISPs and whatnot to keep, and potentially share, that kind of information.
On the other hand, if someone WANTS filtering they can always do it on the client side, and if they insist, they can contact the ISP to filter their account. Yeah, you are still keeping information, but on a lot less people and I would doubt that anyone would assume someone implemented filtering for "unwholesome" reasons.
I'm not against filtering, I'm against government MANDATED filtering. If you want to filter on your end, go right ahead. If you want an ISP to filter content for you, as long as you don't expect everyone else to do so and you don't expect everyone else to pay for your filtered ISP. However, making filtering the default gives the government a lot of leverage and can only lead to them wanting more and more information on you and will end up in them blocking information that they do not find flattering(see Pakistan)
If you have a reasonable expectation that you'll receive a call, say, during your drive home, then the safest thing you can do is leave the thing on, even if it makes you look like an extra from a bad sci fi movie.
No, the safest thing is to let it go to voicemail
makes it even worse. It should be opt-in. How many people will be too embarrassed, or too shy to call up and opt-out or not want their name recorded as a potential Pr0n lover..... If parents want the service, they should be able to call and opt-in, but don't make the default mode censorship.
Hairibo Gummy Fungus? Seemed to work for Amy Wong....
to many different classes of graduating scientists in commencement speeches he has given over the past couple decades. Amazing that someone else is finally catching on.
The safer(imo) is to make the product do almost nothing until the default password is changed. However, most vendors like to advertise "works out of the box!" so the odds of this happening are about 0....
stop the presses!