when you do get incorrect information on your record like this. The reason is, because it's so hard to fix these errors, since the information usually gets spread through tons and tons of databases.
Kind of like telemarketers, they get your info and it's hard to tell them to remove it, because chances are they've already sold it to every other telemarketer.
Yeah, this is one of those things that I wouldn't put too much stock in, that cell phones cause brain cancer.
It seems it's one of those things where people are trying to find something to blame.... and they'd do anything to believe in it. It's just like when people say that "living close to power lines" give you cancer.
I mean, think how many people have cell phones, almost everyone. Now, those people who have brain cancer, and use a cell phone, would like to blame the cell phone.
Actually, I read something about cell phones being banned in hospitals. It was a while ago.. I can't remeber the source. Regardless, the reasoning behind this is because some patients have wireless transmitters which send their vital signals, and it's feared that cell phones can possibly interfere with these.
When your in situations such as in hospitals or airplanes, where minor problems can mean the difference between life and death... it's better to be safe than sorry.
No, remember, they've got far superior methods of veryfing user's place of residence. Before they got shut down, they required you to enter in a zip code to verify your location. We can only imagine what they will come up w/ for their relaunch. Area codes?
Bill will be sure to tell you that they are confident that they are not going to win the appeal, since they did nothing wrong.
Time to open your eyes everyone.
The truth is that Bill and M$ will not take any resposibility because that would make their whole image look bad.
If you've been watching TV lately, you'd notice that Bill is in the commercials. If you look at any adverstisement with bill in it, you'll notice that Bill looks friendly in some way. The fact of the matter is, is that Bill doesn't want to look like the 'richest person in the world', he wants to look like your next door neighbor, somebody who you wouldn't dare of commiting such business atrocities.
Remember, when your the richest man in the world, you can afford the best media spindoctors in the world.
Regardless if you like M$'s products or not, you can't deny the antitrust allegations. I've heard many people argue before, "Well, I like Windows, so I don't really care about the Antitrust case." This denies other companies competition, which in the end, screws us over. This is because, the less companys that sell a product, the higher the price is. Yet, if apple was much larger, and there were other major competitors, this wouldn't be a problem.
Yet, Bill still denies any wrongdoing. If you do something bad, and you admit to it, most people won't get angry, they'll just say "that's bad", no please don't do it again. But, when, like microsoft, you deny any allegation, it makes you seem untrustworthy. If Microsoft wasn't so stubborn, and didn't treat its image as the most sacrosanct and inpenitrable ideals, they probably could have avoided much of this.
I remember when I read about Iridium, a couple of years ago in a WIRED. The funny thing was, it seemed like a good concept, but it didn't seem as if it was going to work. It seemed like one of those farfetched things that wasn't going to happen.
What they did, is they set a huge goal for themselves, and took all the right steps to form this company. I remember reading how they had a whole democratic heirarchy throughout the world, for their business. Yet, the only problem is, you need a working product to make money.
You have to let huge technological acheivements evolve on their own. That isn't to say, just everyone sit back and expect things to invent themselves, I'm just saying, things come about when your not looking for them.
"Success comes to those who are too busy to look for it."
The funny thing is, you act is if napster has done something good. Well, I mean good as in righteous.
Who else should they go after? Gnutella?
You have to set a precident. You have to prosecute one person, to show that everyone who pirates MP3s are doing something illegal. You have to take a stand, against what you belive is wrong. You can't just appeal to society as a whole and say "Pirating MP3's is bad". As much as I don't agree with some of Metallica's slipery slope of beliefs, I am compasionate of the fact that they actually stood up against the pirating of MP3s.
scapegoat 2 a : one that bears the blame for others b : one that is the object of irrational hostility
The hostility and blame towards them is not at all uncalled for.
First off, I'd like to say that I really like DV.A while ago, about a half-year ago, I bought a JVC DV Camcorder. After everything, expenses totaled to be about $1800. The video quality is unbelieveable, and the pictures.
The one problem, well, not really a problem, just something that I'm disatisfied with is the lack of being able to upgrade features. I mean, all the features it has are integrated very well, it just doesn't have much expandibility, for a world which develops so quickly technologically.
I also have TiVo, which is a very nice device. The part of TiVo that's really appealing is the fact that every time they decide to integrate a new feature, they can do so by updating the software. This is made possible since it's running linux. It is also open-sourced, so hypothetically, you could add you own features to it! This, is the type of expandibility I'm speaking of.
I wonder if cameras will choose to integrate anything like this. I mean, not being able to check for software updates every time they check their schedules, but something parallel to this level of versatility. Having a java webserver is one step in the right direction.
Perhaps companies would offer free cell phones with monthly and calls included for smart-GPS advertising. Hey, it may be more annoying than... anything else out there... but it's free.
The thing is, advertisers know they're not going to get everyone's business, but they will get some people's attention, and will make some profit. The question is, at what cost...
I can remember someone trying to send me a file on mirc... called links.vbs, about 6 months ago. I never accepted it, but anybody know what i'm talking about?
Hopefully we will see an end to these e-mail "worm" virus. An article at Network World Fusion describes how Microsoft has released a security update for Outlook, which among other things, blocks 38 different file types, like exe, vbs, bat, and others. The funny thing is, scripting is STILL ACTIVATED, unless turned off. Personally, I think scripting is useful, but, for the average user, I feel it should be left off unelss the user turns it on. It does, although, prevent scripts from accessing the address book.
Its funny, "It's a feature, not a bug", yet they issued a patch for it...
Ok, sure, this scanner may seem pretty secure.. but this reminded me of an episode of that show, McGyver.(wow, I haven't thought about that show for a while...) There was this fingerprint scanner that is used to secure a door. McGyver needed to get in, so he used scotch tape, and put it and the glass which had someone's fingerprint on it. He then took the tape, put it on the scanner, and he was in. Now sure, this wouldn't work on this device. But it brings up a good point, how secure is it really. I mean, in terms of fingerprints.
The problem with computer based help board systems instead of getting supporton the phone, is some people can't handle the computer systems, and have questions about how to use that.
Well, FYI, the ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union. It's website is ACLU.org. Click on the Join Our Alert List link on the main page to get on it.
Well, I probably would have too actually, it's just somehow I got on the ACLU's mailing list so I'm used to the House of Representatives (HR) bill number thing.
Hmmm, isn't possible that the number of disconnected sites is much greater, do to the fact that you can't find all the non-linked sites... since there is no where to find them from? Anybody have any info from the study?
Slashdot Mirror
when you do get incorrect information on your record like this. The reason is, because it's so hard to fix these errors, since the information usually gets spread through tons and tons of databases.
Kind of like telemarketers, they get your info and it's hard to tell them to remove it, because chances are they've already sold it to every other telemarketer.
Yeah, this is one of those things that I wouldn't put too much stock in, that cell phones cause brain cancer.
It seems it's one of those things where people are trying to find something to blame.... and they'd do anything to believe in it. It's just like when people say that "living close to power lines" give you cancer.
I mean, think how many people have cell phones, almost everyone. Now, those people who have brain cancer, and use a cell phone, would like to blame the cell phone.
Hey, lets go..
SUE MOTOROLA...
Actually, I read something about cell phones being banned in hospitals. It was a while ago.. I can't remeber the source. Regardless, the reasoning behind this is because some patients have wireless transmitters which send their vital signals, and it's feared that cell phones can possibly interfere with these.
When your in situations such as in hospitals or airplanes, where minor problems can mean the difference between life and death... it's better to be safe than sorry.
No, remember, they've got far superior methods of veryfing user's place of residence. Before they got shut down, they required you to enter in a zip code to verify your location. We can only imagine what they will come up w/ for their relaunch. Area codes?
Bill will be sure to tell you that they are confident that they are not going to win the appeal, since they did nothing wrong.
Time to open your eyes everyone.
The truth is that Bill and M$ will not take any resposibility because that would make their whole image look bad.
If you've been watching TV lately, you'd notice that Bill is in the commercials. If you look at any adverstisement with bill in it, you'll notice that Bill looks friendly in some way. The fact of the matter is, is that Bill doesn't want to look like the 'richest person in the world', he wants to look like your next door neighbor, somebody who you wouldn't dare of commiting such business atrocities.
Remember, when your the richest man in the world, you can afford the best media spindoctors in the world.
Regardless if you like M$'s products or not, you can't deny the antitrust allegations. I've heard many people argue before, "Well, I like Windows, so I don't really care about the Antitrust case." This denies other companies competition, which in the end, screws us over. This is because, the less companys that sell a product, the higher the price is. Yet, if apple was much larger, and there were other major competitors, this wouldn't be a problem.
Yet, Bill still denies any wrongdoing. If you do something bad, and you admit to it, most people won't get angry, they'll just say "that's bad", no please don't do it again. But, when, like microsoft, you deny any allegation, it makes you seem untrustworthy. If Microsoft wasn't so stubborn, and didn't treat its image as the most sacrosanct and inpenitrable ideals, they probably could have avoided much of this.
I remember when I read about Iridium, a couple of years ago in a WIRED. The funny thing was, it seemed like a good concept, but it didn't seem as if it was going to work. It seemed like one of those farfetched things that wasn't going to happen.
What they did, is they set a huge goal for themselves, and took all the right steps to form this company. I remember reading how they had a whole democratic heirarchy throughout the world, for their business. Yet, the only problem is, you need a working product to make money.
You have to let huge technological acheivements evolve on their own. That isn't to say, just everyone sit back and expect things to invent themselves, I'm just saying, things come about when your not looking for them.
"Success comes to those who are too busy to look for it."
NetPD will claim to own the patent. Then we'll have a whole new patent war.
Its the nature of man to discriminate..
But then again, that saying goes hand and hand with:
People suck.
The funny thing is, you act is if napster has done something good. Well, I mean good as in righteous.
Who else should they go after? Gnutella?
You have to set a precident. You have to prosecute one person, to show that everyone who pirates MP3s are doing something illegal. You have to take a stand, against what you belive is wrong. You can't just appeal to society as a whole and say "Pirating MP3's is bad". As much as I don't agree with some of Metallica's slipery slope of beliefs, I am compasionate of the fact that they actually stood up against the pirating of MP3s.
scapegoat
2 a : one that bears the blame for others b : one that is the object of irrational hostility
The hostility and blame towards them is not at all uncalled for.
First off, I'd like to say that I really like DV.A while ago, about a half-year ago, I bought a JVC DV Camcorder. After everything, expenses totaled to be about $1800. The video quality is unbelieveable, and the pictures.
The one problem, well, not really a problem, just something that I'm disatisfied with is the lack of being able to upgrade features. I mean, all the features it has are integrated very well, it just doesn't have much expandibility, for a world which develops so quickly technologically.
I also have TiVo, which is a very nice device. The part of TiVo that's really appealing is the fact that every time they decide to integrate a new feature, they can do so by updating the software. This is made possible since it's running linux. It is also open-sourced, so hypothetically, you could add you own features to it! This, is the type of expandibility I'm speaking of.
I wonder if cameras will choose to integrate anything like this. I mean, not being able to check for software updates every time they check their schedules, but something parallel to this level of versatility. Having a java webserver is one step in the right direction.
Anybody have any idea what I'm saying?
Perhaps companies would offer free cell phones with monthly and calls included for smart-GPS advertising. Hey, it may be more annoying than... anything else out there... but it's free.
The thing is, advertisers know they're not going to get everyone's business, but they will get some people's attention, and will make some profit. The question is, at what cost...
I can remember someone trying to send me a file on mirc... called links.vbs, about 6 months ago. I never accepted it, but anybody know what i'm talking about?
Hopefully we will see an end to these e-mail "worm" virus. An article at Network World Fusion describes how Microsoft has released a security update for Outlook, which among other things, blocks 38 different file types, like exe, vbs, bat, and others. The funny thing is, scripting is STILL ACTIVATED, unless turned off. Personally, I think scripting is useful, but, for the average user, I feel it should be left off unelss the user turns it on. It does, although, prevent scripts from accessing the address book.
Its funny, "It's a feature, not a bug", yet they issued a patch for it...
This reminds me of when the ADL asked Yahoo! to take down KKK websites.
the Redmond response
Ok, sure, this scanner may seem pretty secure.. but this reminded me of an episode of that show, McGyver.(wow, I haven't thought about that show for a while...) There was this fingerprint scanner that is used to secure a door. McGyver needed to get in, so he used scotch tape, and put it and the glass which had someone's fingerprint on it. He then took the tape, put it on the scanner, and he was in. Now sure, this wouldn't work on this device. But it brings up a good point, how secure is it really. I mean, in terms of fingerprints.
does this come with a free telescreen?
It's good to see Redhat donate money to a cause that they believe in. So, when's microsoft going to donate money to common crooks?
Here's the EFF's files on the DVD cases.
The problem with computer based help board systems instead of getting supporton the phone, is some people can't handle the computer systems, and have questions about how to use that.
Well, FYI, the ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union. It's website is ACLU.org. Click on the Join Our Alert List link on the main page to get on it.
Uhm, try putting on your glasses next time...
Well, I probably would have too actually, it's just somehow I got on the ACLU's mailing list so I'm used to the House of Representatives (HR) bill number thing.
A bunch of Shimomuras looking for spammers. Now that's what you call worthwhile.
Hopefully they won't bring in the National Guard to handle the protestors, they didn't handle that too well last time...
Hmmm, isn't possible that the number of disconnected sites is much greater, do to the fact that you can't find all the non-linked sites... since there is no where to find them from? Anybody have any info from the study?