That is good to know, my family lives in NC, so I spend much of the summer here (Jacksonville - home of the 24/7/365 sausage festival), and I was going to look for an internship in the area. University of South Alabama - CIS Department - A great school.
And if you think that IBM is a shiny, happy company, then I've got a story to tell you about when I worked there about 10 years ago and had to ask to go to the bathroom. Come on now, don't leave us hanging. Seriously, as an undergrad who will be hunting internships next summer and jobs the one after that, I want to hear this.
CWS being spyware is nothing new, and the article does seem to contain a lot of scaremongering, but Sunbelt did discover something new: they found the actual stolen/recorded information, including a lot of stuff that is considerably more invasive than surfing habits, real names, etc. And I thought they only made junk food... Sunbelt's blogentries are, in my opinion, better than the ars article.
How did you find out about my patent on non-interactive stacked and folded cellulose based wizard experiences presented through the use of a syntacticly ordered set of printed characters and combinations thereof?
I have to agree. I am a moron and even i find boxen moronic. I take 10 soviet russia jokes for every boxen. In soviet russia, the boxen finds you moronic!;)
I recently had to replace a stolen laptop on a twenty dollar budget (valuable lesson learned there about dorms and renter's insurance), and my experience with linux on old and decrepit hardware was pretty good. My neighbor sold me a PII 333Mhz system with 128 megs of ram, a half-broken CD-ROM, ethernet card, Riva 128 vid card, no-name sound card and an 8 gig HD. She was also nice enough to throw in a mouse, keyboard and monitor, all for $20 and a promise to fix her XP machine's sound problem. Fedora Core 3 installed on the first try and ran well enough to use for web browsing, IM, email, word processing, listening to music, etc.
I am a Junior at USA (erm... South Alabama. Go ahead, laugh, we actually have really good CS and IT programs to match our amazing beaches). We have free telephone and broadband in the dorms, so I don't know of a single person here without a landline. There are, however, a lot of people without computers. It gets on my nerves having to say "Hell no you can't come over and install Kazaa on my computer!" about twice a day.
Many more people died around the world of other causes on the same day. Perhaps the machine was responding to that.
I think it is more large numbers of people intently paying attention to one thing at one time that they are referring to, not "the force" from Star Wars.
The actual end cap does suck. I used to work in retail, and the customers had a lot of trouble finding the stuff on them. The end of the isle (but still on the same shelving as everything else) is a very high visibility spot though, because when you are walking by at the ends of the aisle, that is all you can see if you keep your head pointed straight ahead. That is why in grocery stores there is so much crap dangling all over the place in that area. Just my two cents.
Yeah. Here in the deep south people live on their mother's carports. For those of you who have those newfangled garage things, a carport is a large covered patio area with a garage door, a pickup truck, several broken lawnmowers, some cats, and the occasional pale mildewed dork.
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That is good to know, my family lives in NC, so I spend much of the summer here (Jacksonville - home of the 24/7/365 sausage festival), and I was going to look for an internship in the area.
University of South Alabama - CIS Department - A great school.
What about us non-CS majors?
And if you think that IBM is a shiny, happy company, then I've got a story to tell you about when I worked there about 10 years ago and had to ask to go to the bathroom.
Come on now, don't leave us hanging. Seriously, as an undergrad who will be hunting internships next summer and jobs the one after that, I want to hear this.
CWS being spyware is nothing new, and the article does seem to contain a lot of scaremongering, but Sunbelt did discover something new: they found the actual stolen/recorded information, including a lot of stuff that is considerably more invasive than surfing habits, real names, etc. And I thought they only made junk food...
Sunbelt's blog entries are, in my opinion, better than the ars article.
How did you find out about my patent on non-interactive stacked and folded cellulose based wizard experiences presented through the use of a syntacticly ordered set of printed characters and combinations thereof?
why would windows allow any password to be blank, especially the admin pass?
What is the opposite of "idiot proof"?
I have to agree. I am a moron and even i find boxen moronic. I take 10 soviet russia jokes for every boxen. ;)
In soviet russia, the boxen finds you moronic!
I recently had to replace a stolen laptop on a twenty dollar budget (valuable lesson learned there about dorms and renter's insurance), and my experience with linux on old and decrepit hardware was pretty good. My neighbor sold me a PII 333Mhz system with 128 megs of ram, a half-broken CD-ROM, ethernet card, Riva 128 vid card, no-name sound card and an 8 gig HD. She was also nice enough to throw in a mouse, keyboard and monitor, all for $20 and a promise to fix her XP machine's sound problem. Fedora Core 3 installed on the first try and ran well enough to use for web browsing, IM, email, word processing, listening to music, etc.
nothing, thats why they had to make this new one.
I am a Junior at USA (erm... South Alabama. Go ahead, laugh, we actually have really good CS and IT programs to match our amazing beaches). We have free telephone and broadband in the dorms, so I don't know of a single person here without a landline. There are, however, a lot of people without computers. It gets on my nerves having to say "Hell no you can't come over and install Kazaa on my computer!" about twice a day.
See parent for why. He makes interesting point about great-grandparent (his Parent's parent) that I was about to make.
Many more people died around the world of other causes on the same day. Perhaps the machine was responding to that.
I think it is more large numbers of people intently paying attention to one thing at one time that they are referring to, not "the force" from Star Wars.
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled."
That has to be the funniest thing I have seen all day
The actual end cap does suck. I used to work in retail, and the customers had a lot of trouble finding the stuff on them. The end of the isle (but still on the same shelving as everything else) is a very high visibility spot though, because when you are walking by at the ends of the aisle, that is all you can see if you keep your head pointed straight ahead. That is why in grocery stores there is so much crap dangling all over the place in that area. Just my two cents.
I ride the short bus, asshole.
Bingo!
I always read the last part of this guys submissions first. It scared me.
"designed to help blind people"
Am I the only one who read the summary and kinda shuddered and blanched?
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One of those special event logos like they have for holidays would be real cool too.
Well, I tried to go look, and it seems the uptime on K-Melon's internet penis is kinda short.
Yeah. Here in the deep south people live on their mother's carports. For those of you who have those newfangled garage things, a carport is a large covered patio area with a garage door, a pickup truck, several broken lawnmowers, some cats, and the occasional pale mildewed dork.
At least they have not gone backwards yet.