Hey East Coast -- you havent answered a single question, and continue to justify the united states' mass genocide in Iraq, tell me. Since you have yet to admit the US shouldnt be committing the genocide, perhaps you can enlighten us -- are you a Nazi?
Users can protest all they want, big business and the Establishment will NOT budge. In a week or so, this story will be old news and these kiddies will need to get acquainted to the facts of life.
A perfect example were the war protests of 2002/2003. Bush noted that he doesnt even read the news. DO you think they made a difference? Decisions have already been made. Articles showing otherwise are simply faux, temprory blips in power.
Similar to their lawsuits, Sony needs to be sued 10,000 USD for every instance of this violation. Lets define instance as every CD with the unlicensed [stolen] code!
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OK, lets be honest with ourselves -- slashdot readers probably have some of the higest IQ on the internet. Much like the question of why so many college professors are liberal peacenicks (duh, because they are really smart!) -- I think our high IQs have realized that conservative military-industrial-church complexes are self-defeating in the long run
Sadly, these guys will just probably just re-incorporate and continue this nasty business. Reincorporation is simple and can be done quickly. They may even do it internationally to make legal efforts against them costly and time consuming. By the time they are shut down again, they will have run with the money. Sad but quite likely.
While installing Firefox with various plugins may be a simple decision for you as a personal user or small business, it is often a much large decision for a Fortune 500 company.
Previous applications, particularly internally built and deployed applications, may rely on IE for functionality. YES -- you'll say that was a stupid decision, but given time/cost constraints and corporate sprawl, can you *really* prevent that from happening in a large organization? OK, with that out of the way, switching browsers is not simple. Many of these applications will break. Business users will be upset and raise hell for IT.
IT's best bet will be stick with IE. No one ever gets fired for deploying IE -- because every problem will be in the papers and will be "known issues." Deploy Firefox and, while you may be adding value, you risk your job because you're vouching personally for a product unknown by business folks.
Instead of pharming bank and brokerage website passwords, botnets can just use their resources to do these factorizations! Much safer than financial fraud;-)
How about we focus *just* on the last three years. Well, in that case, Halliburton, Bechtel, Exxon and NeoConservatives have caused the following destruction:
- Over brave American 2000 soldiers dead
- Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's dead
- Millions of people with badwill towards our formerly respected nation
- $300 Billion which could have gone towards education, cancer research, etc
But hey...atleast Exxon stock is doing well. All must be great.
I know Microsoft (and accordingly Bill Gates) hasnt been the fairest of competitors, but lets give the guy credit -- he appears to have genuine goodwill. Business is business and Microsoft is far from the most evil.
For those on a MSFT warpath, perhaps your anger would be better turned towards Halliburton, Bechtel, Exxon or the NeoConservatives -- they create far more death, destruction, and misery in the world than Microsoft can or will ever do.
I'm sure w/ the current Supreme Court, Evolution will soon be voted unconstitutional. So you wont have to worry about explaining a 90yr old irishman -- the Supreme Being created him.
Nothing has changed, many of the benefits (though not as extensive) are still available to union workers and definitely government workers.
The only thing that has changed is the employee. Snot-nosed tech nerds who once couldnt make it further than a burger joint are now the highly skilled workers. Unfortunately, just like, back in school when these nerds were beat up by the frat types -- they are again beat up by frat types (those frat guys who are now CEOs are clueless "middle managers.")
Keep in mind they didnt have AIM and email back then. News took days to travel. The government likely didnt even have many details about what happened and BAM a second bomb had been dropped. The 2nd bombing was nothing short of blood thirst and plain old racism.
The development and use of the atomic bomb on a large civilian population, twice, was among the worst acts of terrorism in human history.
The fact that few have mentioned that here, and that poeple looking positively upon the entire incident, shows the extent to which we are morally corrupted.
If virtual theft should be prosecutable, as some on this board suggest, what about other crimes? What if you shoot someone on Quake -- can they sue you for wrongful death? What if you bump someone's car in GTA -- can they sue you for virtual whiplash? Where will it stop?
This solves several national problems. First of all, the millions of false positives generated each day would require hundreds of thousands of federal employees. We could possibly create a whole new administration! This would solve the problem of unemployment in this country, atleast at the skilled level./sarcasm
I started in Biology but switched majors. I received my BS in Computer Science. I loved the subject and thought I'd be programming and architecting for the rest of my years.
I ended up doing consulting, starting with development and ending in finance-ish work. Four years later, I find myself in finance completely distant from software. I love finance (plus, the future of pure development doesnt seem great.)
Lesson learned? If you can communicate well, think logically and be good at what you do, opportunities will present themselves in any field of your choice (I had offeres from several different industries.) The best way to be good at what you do is to love what you do.
The market changes very fast these days. Trying to figure out what variation of a degree will have the most jobs available, however enticing it is to math-oriented people like us, is futile. Its too chaotic to predict.
That said, I think there are a number of majors which provide great analytical skills which can be used across the board -- EE, CS, CE, OR/IE, Math, Physics, etc.
Double majoring is an option, but its challenging because it will take away time from other activities. You only live once, so perhaps a better option would be to take liberal arts courses which will help build your people skills. If anything, the free time will be fun AND build your people skills.
just my 2 cents.
Everyone,
I'm as outraged with the ChoicePoint fiasco as everyone else. I know that discussion needs to take place so we all understand the problem. But I think we are all past that point. What are we going to do about this issue?
I dont think that we can expect the government to prevent ChoicePoint from doing what it does. ChoicePoint has too much clout with Bush and company. I think three reasonable requests, however, are:
1. Allow consumers to review ALL records which may be sold
2. Allow consumers to update mistaken records with clear response times.
3. Mandate these companies to inform customers whose information has been stolen within, say, 2 weeks.
Unfortunately, these will require an act of Congress. How can we do this? Do you think that we can get this done or is this just wishful thinking?
I suggest we create an auto-mail website where people can put in their name/city and a custom email is sent to congress people asking for such a law. Is there something like this out there? I know CapWiz does this, but some org would need to sponsor it and promote it. Any ideas? Anything we can do at the personal level?
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Hey East Coast -- you havent answered a single question, and continue to justify the united states' mass genocide in Iraq, tell me. Since you have yet to admit the US shouldnt be committing the genocide, perhaps you can enlighten us -- are you a Nazi?
Users can protest all they want, big business and the Establishment will NOT budge. In a week or so, this story will be old news and these kiddies will need to get acquainted to the facts of life. A perfect example were the war protests of 2002/2003. Bush noted that he doesnt even read the news. DO you think they made a difference? Decisions have already been made. Articles showing otherwise are simply faux, temprory blips in power.
Clearly this warrants a pre-emptive strike on the Klingons.
Wouldnt this violate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Similar to their lawsuits, Sony needs to be sued 10,000 USD for every instance of this violation. Lets define instance as every CD with the unlicensed [stolen] code!
OK, lets be honest with ourselves -- slashdot readers probably have some of the higest IQ on the internet. Much like the question of why so many college professors are liberal peacenicks (duh, because they are really smart!) -- I think our high IQs have realized that conservative military-industrial-church complexes are self-defeating in the long run
And then you will all cower at the feet of **AA: All of Middle Earth Will be Mine!
Sadly, these guys will just probably just re-incorporate and continue this nasty business. Reincorporation is simple and can be done quickly. They may even do it internationally to make legal efforts against them costly and time consuming. By the time they are shut down again, they will have run with the money. Sad but quite likely.
While installing Firefox with various plugins may be a simple decision for you as a personal user or small business, it is often a much large decision for a Fortune 500 company. Previous applications, particularly internally built and deployed applications, may rely on IE for functionality. YES -- you'll say that was a stupid decision, but given time/cost constraints and corporate sprawl, can you *really* prevent that from happening in a large organization? OK, with that out of the way, switching browsers is not simple. Many of these applications will break. Business users will be upset and raise hell for IT. IT's best bet will be stick with IE. No one ever gets fired for deploying IE -- because every problem will be in the papers and will be "known issues." Deploy Firefox and, while you may be adding value, you risk your job because you're vouching personally for a product unknown by business folks.
Instead of pharming bank and brokerage website passwords, botnets can just use their resources to do these factorizations! Much safer than financial fraud ;-)
How about we focus *just* on the last three years. Well, in that case, Halliburton, Bechtel, Exxon and NeoConservatives have caused the following destruction: - Over brave American 2000 soldiers dead - Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's dead - Millions of people with badwill towards our formerly respected nation - $300 Billion which could have gone towards education, cancer research, etc But hey...atleast Exxon stock is doing well. All must be great.
I know Microsoft (and accordingly Bill Gates) hasnt been the fairest of competitors, but lets give the guy credit -- he appears to have genuine goodwill. Business is business and Microsoft is far from the most evil. For those on a MSFT warpath, perhaps your anger would be better turned towards Halliburton, Bechtel, Exxon or the NeoConservatives -- they create far more death, destruction, and misery in the world than Microsoft can or will ever do.
I'm sure w/ the current Supreme Court, Evolution will soon be voted unconstitutional. So you wont have to worry about explaining a 90yr old irishman -- the Supreme Being created him.
Anyone who does not believe with our Executive Office's views on Intelligent Design is UNPATRIOTIC and deserves to be sent to Gitmo!
It is called *Capitalism* If you don't like it, go to Russia.
Nothing has changed, many of the benefits (though not as extensive) are still available to union workers and definitely government workers. The only thing that has changed is the employee. Snot-nosed tech nerds who once couldnt make it further than a burger joint are now the highly skilled workers. Unfortunately, just like, back in school when these nerds were beat up by the frat types -- they are again beat up by frat types (those frat guys who are now CEOs are clueless "middle managers.")
Keep in mind they didnt have AIM and email back then. News took days to travel. The government likely didnt even have many details about what happened and BAM a second bomb had been dropped. The 2nd bombing was nothing short of blood thirst and plain old racism.
"Someone else would do it anyway" can be a dangerous way to think. By that reasoning, why not sell drugs as well -- someone would do it anyway!
The development and use of the atomic bomb on a large civilian population, twice, was among the worst acts of terrorism in human history.
The fact that few have mentioned that here, and that poeple looking positively upon the entire incident, shows the extent to which we are morally corrupted.
If virtual theft should be prosecutable, as some on this board suggest, what about other crimes? What if you shoot someone on Quake -- can they sue you for wrongful death? What if you bump someone's car in GTA -- can they sue you for virtual whiplash? Where will it stop?
God help us all if there is a bug in the software. Imagine going to jail because of some faulty program which things you stole something.
This solves several national problems. First of all, the millions of false positives generated each day would require hundreds of thousands of federal employees. We could possibly create a whole new administration! This would solve the problem of unemployment in this country, atleast at the skilled level. /sarcasm
I started in Biology but switched majors. I received my BS in Computer Science. I loved the subject and thought I'd be programming and architecting for the rest of my years. I ended up doing consulting, starting with development and ending in finance-ish work. Four years later, I find myself in finance completely distant from software. I love finance (plus, the future of pure development doesnt seem great.) Lesson learned? If you can communicate well, think logically and be good at what you do, opportunities will present themselves in any field of your choice (I had offeres from several different industries.) The best way to be good at what you do is to love what you do. The market changes very fast these days. Trying to figure out what variation of a degree will have the most jobs available, however enticing it is to math-oriented people like us, is futile. Its too chaotic to predict. That said, I think there are a number of majors which provide great analytical skills which can be used across the board -- EE, CS, CE, OR/IE, Math, Physics, etc. Double majoring is an option, but its challenging because it will take away time from other activities. You only live once, so perhaps a better option would be to take liberal arts courses which will help build your people skills. If anything, the free time will be fun AND build your people skills. just my 2 cents.
Everyone, I'm as outraged with the ChoicePoint fiasco as everyone else. I know that discussion needs to take place so we all understand the problem. But I think we are all past that point. What are we going to do about this issue? I dont think that we can expect the government to prevent ChoicePoint from doing what it does. ChoicePoint has too much clout with Bush and company. I think three reasonable requests, however, are: 1. Allow consumers to review ALL records which may be sold 2. Allow consumers to update mistaken records with clear response times. 3. Mandate these companies to inform customers whose information has been stolen within, say, 2 weeks. Unfortunately, these will require an act of Congress. How can we do this? Do you think that we can get this done or is this just wishful thinking? I suggest we create an auto-mail website where people can put in their name/city and a custom email is sent to congress people asking for such a law. Is there something like this out there? I know CapWiz does this, but some org would need to sponsor it and promote it. Any ideas? Anything we can do at the personal level?