If an average commercial spam is about 5KB, he has wasted bandwidth of 280 TB over 12 months. Multiply this by number of spammers you could think of. What a waste!!!!
A clear indication that better laws should be able to prevent this abuse.
Piracy was used in those days by some companies (read: Micro$oft) to promote inferior products (like FoxPro) in developing countries. This was a typical marketing tactics to kill better products like Paradox from Borland. The goal was to create a pool of FoxPro developers.
Borland took extreme precaution to avoid piracy, and their superior products were never popular in countries like China, India and many other nations.
The interruption occurred after two service pipelines on the North Island were knocked out within hours of each other -- one by a power company post-hole digger, the other by industrious rodents. The rats attacked cable on a bridge north of Wellington protected by a steel duct.
Damn, it reminds me when I told about a certain webmaster how his page wasn't working good with other browsers than IE.
True. Guess, it is better to point them that 'their web site is non compliance with so and so standards of w3c(or anything else)'. That scares shit out of them.
Of coz, (s)he might add "Non compliant to w3c" tag somewhere...:)
If you're in a major city, you seriously don't need GPS or any positioning system.
Apart from getting directions, there are many more uses of GPS(or WPS, for TFA sake). Some projects I am aware where vehicle tracking using GPS is important for:
1. Tracing stolen vehicles. A big requirement from insurance companies.
2. Providing assistance, in case of emergency.(that could be accident, robbery etc...)
3. Milage tracking.
4. Logistic. (Cab service needed this, to serve customers faster.)
5. Allebi (spelling??) that particular vehicle was there at the time of accident or not.
have no idea what they are talking about, especially compared to one arrogant individual.
This is not first time M$ is trying to steal other's ideas, and create FUD about original product. They have tried it with Office, LAN servers, Internet Explorer, SQL server, Instant Messenger, Java, IP (4 and 6 both) and recently iPod and now BT.
I can understand Bram's fear, if he thinks M$ is after his ideas to steal them and kill him.
Real engineers fix problems, they don't get emotional.
I have been developing since more than 15 years and have worked for great organizations. You could get emotional if corporate process and stratagies do not permit you to develop quality code. Have you ever worked in a marketing driven company where dirty work is appreciated by clueless managers, because it is fast and they wanted everything yesterday? Have you ever worked for an organization that puts more priority to marketing gymmics?
M$ is not an exception, and many good practices of Software Engineering are bypassed there. The developers are expected to code and pray ( I am exagareting, but it is not far from reality).
Organization process is very important. It brings the best out of individual. Real engineers feel suffocated with lot of marketing shit around.
Yes, it is important that you carry IDs, backed by your government, while travelling abroad or alien areas.
But a requirement of ID to perform within your own country is definitely ridiculous. The implication is not only you feel alien in your own nation, but quite far reaching.
Remember, there is no guarantee that the private information about you will not fall in wrong hands. This joke is self explaining.
5. There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time... Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (Let's just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)
There should be separate sections for everybody like American's rights, Chinaman's rights, Catholics rights, Hindu's rights or Project Manager's rights etc. online.
Within few weeks, American's rights will be divided into thousands of different catagories like, Californian's rights, asian ameriacan's rights, american married to jamican's rights and so on.
Business and economics allows us to have better understanding and recognization of mutual interests. But this interaction does not remain limited to dollors alone. A lot of ideas are also exchanged that come from project management, quality control, psychology, creativity management and so on.
Some way or other, it will dawn to China that, freedom is the way to go!!!
Heck, I'll bid this next project at a mere $1 million and flail miserably causing the contract to be scuttled in the end just like this one.
Success! Because I'll be saving the FBI $99 million!
Thats funny. I decided to quote $100 million, instead of 1 billion, thinking same, but, nobody gives me credit for saving FBI $900 million.
You are wrong about neutrons. They are protons, that connect and interact to form intelligent thoughts.
Neutrons are responsible for indifferent behaviour towards females. Recent study shows that slashdotters have enough neutrons emitted from their brain, that, they could be used as substitude of Californium 252.
Electrons decide the level of excitement. Thats why you feel charged, after couple of beers:)
"H.R. 29 makes it 'unlawful for any person who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer to engage in deceptive acts or practices' && H.R. 744 (I-SPY Act) prohibits accessing a protected system via code copied on to the system to, among other things, disseminate personal information."
Does it prevent M$ from collecting info from your PC?
Slashdot Mirror
OOPS.... Yep.
A clear indication that better laws should be able to prevent this abuse.
Piracy was used in those days by some companies (read: Micro$oft) to promote inferior products (like FoxPro) in developing countries. This was a typical marketing tactics to kill better products like Paradox from Borland. The goal was to create a pool of FoxPro developers.
Borland took extreme precaution to avoid piracy, and their superior products were never popular in countries like China, India and many other nations.
Good planning, rats!!!
True. Guess, it is better to point them that 'their web site is non compliance with so and so standards of w3c(or anything else)'. That scares shit out of them.
Of coz, (s)he might add "Non compliant to w3c" tag somewhere...:)
Oh...they must be relatives/friends of officials:)
Citizens are claiming in other posts, that they never heard of this.
Apart from getting directions, there are many more uses of GPS(or WPS, for TFA sake). Some projects I am aware where vehicle tracking using GPS is important for:
1. Tracing stolen vehicles. A big requirement from insurance companies.
2. Providing assistance, in case of emergency.(that could be accident, robbery etc...)
3. Milage tracking.
4. Logistic. (Cab service needed this, to serve customers faster.)
5. Allebi (spelling??) that particular vehicle was there at the time of accident or not.
HTH
You forgot Outsourcing:P
This is not first time M$ is trying to steal other's ideas, and create FUD about original product. They have tried it with Office, LAN servers, Internet Explorer, SQL server, Instant Messenger, Java, IP (4 and 6 both) and recently iPod and now BT.
I can understand Bram's fear, if he thinks M$ is after his ideas to steal them and kill him.
I want you to write it down 100 times more.
Watching p0rn too. Cant wait to feel those boobs...
I have been developing since more than 15 years and have worked for great organizations. You could get emotional if corporate process and stratagies do not permit you to develop quality code. Have you ever worked in a marketing driven company where dirty work is appreciated by clueless managers, because it is fast and they wanted everything yesterday? Have you ever worked for an organization that puts more priority to marketing gymmics?
M$ is not an exception, and many good practices of Software Engineering are bypassed there. The developers are expected to code and pray ( I am exagareting, but it is not far from reality).
Organization process is very important. It brings the best out of individual. Real engineers feel suffocated with lot of marketing shit around.
Umm.. how many flops it has managed so far?
But a requirement of ID to perform within your own country is definitely ridiculous. The implication is not only you feel alien in your own nation, but quite far reaching.
Remember, there is no guarantee that the private information about you will not fall in wrong hands. This joke is self explaining.
Aliens will be deterred thinking that they are cops orbitting around earth!!!
OOPS .. wrong link.. Check here..ROFL.
5. There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time... Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (Let's just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)
See here
There should be separate sections for everybody like American's rights, Chinaman's rights, Catholics rights, Hindu's rights or Project Manager's rights etc. online.
Within few weeks, American's rights will be divided into thousands of different catagories like, Californian's rights, asian ameriacan's rights, american married to jamican's rights and so on.
Business and economics allows us to have better understanding and recognization of mutual interests. But this interaction does not remain limited to dollors alone. A lot of ideas are also exchanged that come from project management, quality control, psychology, creativity management and so on.
Some way or other, it will dawn to China that, freedom is the way to go!!!
Yeah...Only if the kids in the picture could understand.
Thats funny. I decided to quote $100 million, instead of 1 billion, thinking same, but, nobody gives me credit for saving FBI $900 million.
But.. just wondering.. will senators accept it?
Neutrons are responsible for indifferent behaviour towards females. Recent study shows that slashdotters have enough neutrons emitted from their brain, that, they could be used as substitude of Californium 252.
Electrons decide the level of excitement. Thats why you feel charged, after couple of beers:)
By any chance, Are you lawyer? :)
Does it prevent M$ from collecting info from your PC?