I would just like to point out that this has got to be the dumbest goddamned book to have come out in the last ten years. Do you want to know what's useful in the workforce? Communication skills.
Why are coupon circulars just part of the commercial landscape (our taxes literally subsidize the US post office, not that I'm complaining), but spamming my email box supposed to be worse, legally, than rape or murder?
If this line of thinking was applied to, say, food, we'd still think nothing of getting offered tasty free samples in the supermarket, but we would scream ourselves red and blue when someone did it on the street.
I'd also expect that if Microsoft would just build a Bayesian filter into its current version of Outlook, spamming would no longer be profitable and would disappear; isn't it a complete waste of our tax dollars to use the legal system to imprison a nonviolent scoundrel or two, because the company that sells the email client can't bring itself to design a filter against viruses and spam?
"I've been a Linux user since 1998, and I admin Mac OS X machines at work, but I have yet to find a distribution that comes out-of-the-box with modern directory services. Sure, there are guides to kerberize and set up OpenLDAP, but before I can start pushing Linux as an alternative at work I'll need a few things. Are there any distributions out there that can auto-mount SMB shares as home directories without heavy modification? How about a distro that's based on OpenLDAP and can easily be configured with LDAP-enabled SAMBA and Kerberos? Am I missing something, or is this not a priority with the community at-large?"
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - ChoicePoint Inc., a national provider of identification and credential verification services, says it will send an additional 110,000 statements to people informing them of possible identity theft after a group of well-organized criminals was able to obtain personal information on almost 140,000 consumers through the company.
According to a statement on the ChoicePoint (Research) Web site, the incident was not the result of its systems being hacked but rather caused by criminals posing as legitimate businesses seeking to gain access to personal information.
ChoicePoint said the criminals may have gained access to people's names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit reports.
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The company said Tuesday it sent warning letters to 30,000 to 35,000 consumers in California, the only state that requires companies to disclose security breaches.
Although the company knew about the fraud last fall, it said it did not reveal the information until now at the request of authorities, who said it would jeopardize the investigation.
ChoicePoint said 35,000 California residents have already been notified and another 110,000 people outside of California will receive notice soon.
Alpharetta, Ga.-based ChoicePoint maintains personal profiles of nearly every U.S. consumer, which it sells to employers, landlords, marketing companies and about 35 U.S. government agencies.
ChoicePoint's databases contain 19 billion public records, including driving records, sex-offender lists and FBI lists of wanted criminals and suspected terrorists.
The company says its records enable law enforcers to track down serial killers and have helped find 822 missing children.
Privacy concerns
ChoicePoint has drawn criticism from privacy activists who say it should face greater limits on how it handles the detailed profiles it has amassed on nearly every U.S. citizen.
Chris Hoofnagle, associate director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, noted another consumer-data company, Acxiom suffered a security breach as well. That occurred in 2003.
"This calls into question whether these data products actually make us more secure," he said. "This is a prime example of how they don't and why ChoicePoint should be subject to federal privacy regulations," he said.
In several recent filings with the Federal Trade Commission, Hoofnagle has argued ChoicePoint should be subject to a law that allows consumers to view their credit reports and see who else is accessing them.
People can lose their jobs because of erroneous ChoicePoint records, he said, while predators can too easily tap the database to track down victims.
ChoicePoint said in a December response it complied with existing laws and gave consumers more access to their own files than required.
"The topic of the responsible use of information is a vital one to our society... we support a national debate on this very topic," ChoicePoint President Doug Curling said.
Since when does sawdust destroy a computer? The delicate parts (HD) are filtered down to a micron. Just open it up once a week and blow it out with a hair dryer.
I seriously doubt that females will show up anywhere if they feel lumped in with the "Gay Man Crowd". What we need is a separate convention for them, where ATI and NVidia show off the latest chest hair rendering algorithms, and there are 16 entrances to the bathroom so they can be sent through in parallel.
Those are great babes. I also couldn't help noticing that the restaurant they're eating in front of is called the "Gaylord"...lol.
It's -1 Immature for me!
Why should this have anything to do with the instruction set? The principle is exactly the same as for existing multi-processor systems, but on the same chip.
Only if it's perfectly backwards compatible with old code. What's more likely here is you'll be switching certain compiler flags and refactoring your program loop in ways that just don't make sense for AMD processors or emulators that aren't as new-school. Kid.
Yeah, it's not like technology gets more and more complicated over time or anything
It does if you add layers and layers of cruft to the same old thing and keep selling it as II, III, IV, V, etc. However, ideally, fresh minds view the technology as a whole and start to refactor the design in ways that make sense. IBM's POWER architecture is a good counterexample to Intel's design -- it's becoming a nearly perfect parallel processor as it evolves (I believe Sony is basing PS3's Cell on it), and since it was really truly RISC inside and out from the beginning, they don't have the terrible heat and power issues that plague x8Sick chips.
Plus you get a speed-equivilent PowerPC for the same price as an Intel! How could they pull that off given the enormous disparity in production capacity between the two chips?
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Disturbing...
Maybe she'll be your hypothetical girlfriend!
It's pretty hard to eliminate control factors. For example, we are currently at war with two countries and Bin Laden is still free.
The first person to fly solo around the moon will by definition be greeted by no one, because the entire Earth flies around the moon every 28 days.
If this line of thinking was applied to, say, food, we'd still think nothing of getting offered tasty free samples in the supermarket, but we would scream ourselves red and blue when someone did it on the street.
I'd also expect that if Microsoft would just build a Bayesian filter into its current version of Outlook, spamming would no longer be profitable and would disappear; isn't it a complete waste of our tax dollars to use the legal system to imprison a nonviolent scoundrel or two, because the company that sells the email client can't bring itself to design a filter against viruses and spam?
Seriously, that company has been dying for 30 years...why should they stop now??
I don't like spim. Stop saying spim.
"I've been a Linux user since 1998, and I admin Mac OS X machines at work, but I have yet to find a distribution that comes out-of-the-box with modern directory services. Sure, there are guides to kerberize and set up OpenLDAP, but before I can start pushing Linux as an alternative at work I'll need a few things. Are there any distributions out there that can auto-mount SMB shares as home directories without heavy modification? How about a distro that's based on OpenLDAP and can easily be configured with LDAP-enabled SAMBA and Kerberos? Am I missing something, or is this not a priority with the community at-large?"
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - ChoicePoint Inc., a national provider of identification and credential verification services, says it will send an additional 110,000 statements to people informing them of possible identity theft after a group of well-organized criminals was able to obtain personal information on almost 140,000 consumers through the company. According to a statement on the ChoicePoint (Research) Web site, the incident was not the result of its systems being hacked but rather caused by criminals posing as legitimate businesses seeking to gain access to personal information. ChoicePoint said the criminals may have gained access to people's names, addresses, Social Security numbers and credit reports. [ads for competing services skipped] The company said Tuesday it sent warning letters to 30,000 to 35,000 consumers in California, the only state that requires companies to disclose security breaches. Although the company knew about the fraud last fall, it said it did not reveal the information until now at the request of authorities, who said it would jeopardize the investigation. ChoicePoint said 35,000 California residents have already been notified and another 110,000 people outside of California will receive notice soon. Alpharetta, Ga.-based ChoicePoint maintains personal profiles of nearly every U.S. consumer, which it sells to employers, landlords, marketing companies and about 35 U.S. government agencies. ChoicePoint's databases contain 19 billion public records, including driving records, sex-offender lists and FBI lists of wanted criminals and suspected terrorists. The company says its records enable law enforcers to track down serial killers and have helped find 822 missing children. Privacy concerns ChoicePoint has drawn criticism from privacy activists who say it should face greater limits on how it handles the detailed profiles it has amassed on nearly every U.S. citizen. Chris Hoofnagle, associate director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, noted another consumer-data company, Acxiom suffered a security breach as well. That occurred in 2003. "This calls into question whether these data products actually make us more secure," he said. "This is a prime example of how they don't and why ChoicePoint should be subject to federal privacy regulations," he said. In several recent filings with the Federal Trade Commission, Hoofnagle has argued ChoicePoint should be subject to a law that allows consumers to view their credit reports and see who else is accessing them. People can lose their jobs because of erroneous ChoicePoint records, he said, while predators can too easily tap the database to track down victims. ChoicePoint said in a December response it complied with existing laws and gave consumers more access to their own files than required. "The topic of the responsible use of information is a vital one to our society ... we support a national debate on this very topic," ChoicePoint President Doug Curling said.
This is going to be wonderful and I can't wait until I can finally fulfill an old dream of mine: to sit in sunlight and use my laptop.
And luckily I'm a Mac user, so I'll get it as soon as it's ready! *happily pokes the Trolls*
Let's PRAISE Microsoft instead.
I can imagine the bloodbath as they all realize they have to kill each other.
Here in Portland, Oregon there are 2^numerous "lingerie modelling clubs" where you go when you're tired of video porn and want the next step.
I imagine that this would give the girls something pretty profitable to do when they don't have customers.
Now we're trying to crash it? Isn't that, like, four steps forward for Windows?
Earthlings are stupid. That's why I'm moving to Mars.
Since when does sawdust destroy a computer? The delicate parts (HD) are filtered down to a micron. Just open it up once a week and blow it out with a hair dryer.
I seriously doubt that females will show up anywhere if they feel lumped in with the "Gay Man Crowd". What we need is a separate convention for them, where ATI and NVidia show off the latest chest hair rendering algorithms, and there are 16 entrances to the bathroom so they can be sent through in parallel.
Those are great babes. I also couldn't help noticing that the restaurant they're eating in front of is called the "Gaylord"...lol. It's -1 Immature for me!
Keep trying!
Pusher and Shover?
"shirinking-gap"?
It kind of sounds like you're saying that thirty years in the future, this stuff will still be thirty years in the future.
I hope they tie into emergency services too and show lazily rendered orange flames coming from the windows of any burning buildings.
Come to think about it, how about a Average Income Overlay while we're at it so I know where to look for cheap girls. Er, for cheap monitors.
Only if it's perfectly backwards compatible with old code. What's more likely here is you'll be switching certain compiler flags and refactoring your program loop in ways that just don't make sense for AMD processors or emulators that aren't as new-school. Kid.
It does if you add layers and layers of cruft to the same old thing and keep selling it as II, III, IV, V, etc. However, ideally, fresh minds view the technology as a whole and start to refactor the design in ways that make sense. IBM's POWER architecture is a good counterexample to Intel's design -- it's becoming a nearly perfect parallel processor as it evolves (I believe Sony is basing PS3's Cell on it), and since it was really truly RISC inside and out from the beginning, they don't have the terrible heat and power issues that plague x8Sick chips.
Plus you get a speed-equivilent PowerPC for the same price as an Intel! How could they pull that off given the enormous disparity in production capacity between the two chips?