CHOOSING to shop at wal-mart, eat at McDonalds or believe in a mythical superbeing?
Sometimes there is no choice, the town has one WalMart and the rest of the small businesses go under leaving you no choice in where to buy -or- you must travel far away to go to a small independent shop.
Greed is the driving factor among everything these days, the competition is brutal and the labor is cheap....is this a lefty view? or just a rational one?
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
~ William Orville Douglas (1898-1980)
US Supreme Court associate justice, 1935-75, professor of law at Yale
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
British playwright & novelist
"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
~ John Perry Barlow (1947-)
Wyoming cattle rancher, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead
"I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it."
~ Mae West (1892-1980)
American comedienne
from "My Little Chickadee," 1940.
"Censorship is almost systematically the weapon of first resort for governments in uncertain political situations. So not only are the famous writers and bold journalists in danger; at every level of public and private life, the freedoms to think, read or write are denied. In the absence of a free press, other human rights abuses flourish unabated. Nothing is reported, criticized, questioned. The example of imprisonment, torture or execution imposes a further silence. A blindly obedient mob mentality is encouraged, driven by extremist religious or ethnic loyalties. The citizens do not know what is happening. Fear and ignorance permeate discussion."
~ Marian Botsford Fraser
"Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business."
~ Bennett Cerf
[quotes from zaadz.com]
Should firewalls/filtering at the access layer or upstream providers be mandatory for all networks? It is costly, but in comparison how much does result of the attack cost?
Somehow they need to determine how to detect a spoofed packet/phony TCPIP headers, maybe they need to hire some of these hackers to work for MS?
Also, reduce the amount of information stored for each in-progress connection? Or use something like RealSecure to reset queues when they are overloaded?
Why sell twice the machines at half the price ? That's double the amount of work for the same profit.
Why? Simply to gain market share and get the word out there to the average PC user that there IS a better alternative to Windows. I guess they can also rest on their Laurels, but the world would be a better place with more Apples.
Apple, now raking in profits from its iPod, should seriously consider lowering their prices on their high-end machines to gain market share. Currently APPL is trading at $36.35 +0.40 (1.11%) a share and the stock has gone up consistenty since 2003 when it was around $10 a share. Now is the time for them to make some moves. If Tiger indeed blows away XP, so they should try to advertise it more, get it out to as many people as possible in order to increase their popularity and inspire more people to use and develop Apple software. If everyone had a better alternative to Windows for say just a fraction more in price, people would start buying it. The iPod has already convinced people Apple is a good brand, all they need is a price incentive to switch to Apple PCs.
"Rather than deliver nothing, Microsoft is saying: 'Let's do what we can deliver.' [Microsoft] had to cut functionality to meet a launch date," said Novoa. He expects the technology to be ready by 2007 or 2008.
Tell everyone about how great the new product is, then find out it just isn't as easy to implement by the release date. They are going to put attestation, sealed storage, process isolation, and secure in/output in Longhorn? It sounds like a good idea but, is this possible to do by 2007?
Thanks for the link, it is cool, and I was just theorizing...
The article states:
"On Earth, wind needs to blow at about 10 meters, or 33 feet, per second to operate a wind turbine, Flynn said. On Mars, it has to blow at about 30 meters, or 98 feet, per second because the planet's atmosphere is extremely thin."
I am wondering if the upper atmosphere is in constant motion? Also how to repair it if it breaks or burns out, they would have to have some replacement parts or an easy way to fix it.
If NASA plans on setting up a Mars Colony, they could harness an endless supply of solar and wind power. Maybe it can teach us earthlings how we can better use our own free natural resources to power our grids instead of burning coal, oil and gas? Just a thought.
Now they have pictures and movies, all we need is an audio recording of a dust storm and ambient noise on Mars and the mission will be complete.
Now that fuel costs are through the roof, Europe will HAVE to subsidize the A380 in order to keep ticket costs down.
I heard the bathrooms on the A380 will be big enough to sit down in, and you will now get a 4 oz. bag of peanuts instead of the usual 0.5 oz bag.
Please take a moment to locate the emergency exits in case of a water landing, we have provided a map of the plane's interior in case you get lost.
"These markets represent nearly 36 million homes or 32.8 percent of all U.S. TV households."
"DIRECTV, Inc. is the nation's leading and fastest-growing digital multichannel television service provider with more than 13.9 million customers."
Okay that means that DirecTV has (3x36) / (13.9) = 7.77% of the market. I wonder how much that will increase with this new HD satellite? I don't know if the price for DirecTV will go down, but I will assume it will temporarily so they can increase their market share.
Now excuse me, I am going to climb up to my roof and manually adjust my dish so I can watch 'the Simple Life' in HD.
# telnet 127.0.0.1
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to bitchchecker
Escape character is '^]
"-bitchchecker- i have a program where i enter your ip and you're dead"
Ah yes, this program is called IPDeath, it is responsible for thousands of nerd disappearances worldwide. Somebody must stop this guy before systems start crashing worldwide!
"Kernel advances such as position independent executables, non-executable memory regions, stack smashing protection and execution capabilities are introduced. Implementations such as PAX and exec-shield are compared."
Now if they can just get those last few kernels to execute properly, we will have created flawless popcorn!
1.80 AUD Australia Dollars = 1.39636 USD US Dollars
A 40 cent difference just for living 'dahn undah'?
Now is anyone actually going to download Russell's songs without being totally inebriated first?
25 songs is okay, but what is the bit rate/quality? Can you easy transfer and copy the music? If you download a song and don't like it, can you return it? How big is the catalog they offer? Do the songs self-destruct after leaving the service? Does the interface automatically make itself the default player of all media?
All of these are factors in to if and how people will start paying for a subscription service.
Answering another user grievance, AOL will pair down the number of preference options in AIM, taking what it refers to as a "smarter approach." A spokesperson said that the current AIM client was heavy with preferences because, "We couldn't decide one way or another."
But they still tacked on tons of ads and annoying pop-up windows, the dumb approach. Hopefully the new version will be ad-free and user friendly. Is this possible?
Star Wars was/is a great idea, but the Empire Strikes Back was the best movie of the series in my opinion. It was directed by Irvin Kershner, screenplay written with Lawrence Kasdan and produced by Gary Kurtz, Lucas had a lot of creative help in making that film which turned out to be wonderful.
To reinvent oneself, you have to create yourself in the first place. Star Wars was a culmination of his story ideas with actors and movie techniques that have never been seen before. This is the key to its success.
Unfortunately, time and time again when directors/actors/musicians get older and have kids, their creativity is geared toward kid-friendly productions that their own kids can watch or sing along with them. This G-rated kid-friendly mindset sometimes kills creativity. He needs to get back to his 1970s mindset where he had to create something that has never been seen/done/heard of before - and not worry about what his audience thinks. (easier said than done) The upcoming 3D Star Wars is a start, but it is still cashing in on an old idea. Anyway, good luck George!
AOL has had a large swath of its IP addresses...Sorry I can't show you this listing.
Judging by the fact that a large amount of spam we get is from AOL, I can see why they are getting blocked.
AOL profits from these spammers and they know it. Very soon, AOL needs to take control of their spammers and start blocking them. Apparently, this is either too difficult & time consuming for AOL, or they just don't care and know that the profits will just keep rolling in.
There are so many other better alternatives to AOL, I don't even know why people use AOL in the first place. I guess it is all those damn install cds they dump all over the place like rabbit poop.
"For consumers, the choice of whether to send the data, and how much information to share, will be up to the individual."
Just like the WER error pop-up box that appears when Windows crashes asking you to send information to Microsoft? Who knows if they have the time to research all of these crashes.
That worked wonders for creating a more stable XP according to Bill Gates...."One thing that's been amazing at Microsoft is the impact that our monitoring data has had on how we prioritize our software work. I'm sure you've all seen in Windows XP that whenever an application or the system malfunctions, you get the ability to send a report back to Microsoft.
We get a lot of those reports, and we've created very good data-management systems to go in and look at those things, and therefore understand what drivers aren't reliable."
Bill Gates,
Los Angeles, California
October 27, 2003
Now that we have seen how lifeless and vapid blue screens can make a movie (see Star Wars Episode 1&2,) I just wondered about your opinion on using blue screens instead of 'live' props, and did you use blue screens extensively in the HHGG?
How did they come to the conclusion that many of these attacks are by kids? Just that the hacks spike when school is out?
The article really didn't go into much detail.
Nowadays, if you don't protect your website from being hacked, you might as well expect it to be hacked. Maybe they should try hacking Argus systems Pitbull LX and win(?) money.
Do open source programmers profit? Do they do it for the fun of it? or for the potential future in the for-profit world?
How many people actually USE Linux? Is it as difficult to configure and set up as people say it is? Is there a stable Linux version that is ready to download and use right now?
I am not sure if and when a Linux operating system will be fully realized. I guess what I am asking is, does the average PC-illerate user consider Linux as a viable alternative to Windows?
Here is an about one person's experience.
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CHOOSING to shop at wal-mart, eat at McDonalds or believe in a mythical superbeing?
Sometimes there is no choice, the town has one WalMart and the rest of the small businesses go under leaving you no choice in where to buy -or- you must travel far away to go to a small independent shop.
Greed is the driving factor among everything these days, the competition is brutal and the labor is cheap....is this a lefty view? or just a rational one?
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor." ~ William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) US Supreme Court associate justice, 1935-75, professor of law at Yale
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright & novelist
"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it." ~ John Perry Barlow (1947-) Wyoming cattle rancher, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead
"I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it." ~ Mae West (1892-1980) American comedienne from "My Little Chickadee," 1940.
"Censorship is almost systematically the weapon of first resort for governments in uncertain political situations. So not only are the famous writers and bold journalists in danger; at every level of public and private life, the freedoms to think, read or write are denied. In the absence of a free press, other human rights abuses flourish unabated. Nothing is reported, criticized, questioned. The example of imprisonment, torture or execution imposes a further silence. A blindly obedient mob mentality is encouraged, driven by extremist religious or ethnic loyalties. The citizens do not know what is happening. Fear and ignorance permeate discussion." ~ Marian Botsford Fraser
"Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business." ~ Bennett Cerf
[quotes from zaadz.com]
Should firewalls/filtering at the access layer or upstream providers be mandatory for all networks? It is costly, but in comparison how much does result of the attack cost?
Somehow they need to determine how to detect a spoofed packet/phony TCPIP headers, maybe they need to hire some of these hackers to work for MS?
Also, reduce the amount of information stored for each in-progress connection? Or use something like RealSecure to reset queues when they are overloaded?
My friend who is Chinese tells me you can get any DVD you want on the street in China, even some movies before they even come out in the US. So does this mean that we impose sanctions on China for pirating American movies? Or do we only prosecute those that can not retaliate by threatening to cut off an endless supply of cheap labor?
Movie theater profits go up every year so I don't see the justification of this legislation, maybe they will start taking away DVD copiers and any other means to capture an image (VHS) that is copyrighted in order to solve this problem?
This article says the net profit margins on DVD sales are 50-60%, while the lingering VHS business sees 20-30% net profit. To put this into plain English, your average $20 DVD apparent costs around $9 to produce, advertise, distribute, etc., leaving about $11 on top as pure profit. For an industry supposedly under dire threat from piracy, things look pretty rosy.
Why sell twice the machines at half the price ? That's double the amount of work for the same profit.
Why? Simply to gain market share and get the word out there to the average PC user that there IS a better alternative to Windows. I guess they can also rest on their Laurels, but the world would be a better place with more Apples.
Apple, now raking in profits from its iPod, should seriously consider lowering their prices on their high-end machines to gain market share. Currently APPL is trading at $36.35 +0.40 (1.11%) a share and the stock has gone up consistenty since 2003 when it was around $10 a share. Now is the time for them to make some moves.
If Tiger indeed blows away XP, so they should try to advertise it more, get it out to as many people as possible in order to increase their popularity and inspire more people to use and develop Apple software. If everyone had a better alternative to Windows for say just a fraction more in price, people would start buying it. The iPod has already convinced people Apple is a good brand, all they need is a price incentive to switch to Apple PCs.
"Rather than deliver nothing, Microsoft is saying: 'Let's do what we can deliver.' [Microsoft] had to cut functionality to meet a launch date," said Novoa. He expects the technology to be ready by 2007 or 2008.
Tell everyone about how great the new product is, then find out it just isn't as easy to implement by the release date. They are going to put attestation, sealed storage, process isolation, and secure in/output in Longhorn? It sounds like a good idea but, is this possible to do by 2007?
Thanks for the link, it is cool, and I was just theorizing...
The article states: "On Earth, wind needs to blow at about 10 meters, or 33 feet, per second to operate a wind turbine, Flynn said. On Mars, it has to blow at about 30 meters, or 98 feet, per second because the planet's atmosphere is extremely thin." I am wondering if the upper atmosphere is in constant motion? Also how to repair it if it breaks or burns out, they would have to have some replacement parts or an easy way to fix it.
If NASA plans on setting up a Mars Colony, they could harness an endless supply of solar and wind power. Maybe it can teach us earthlings how we can better use our own free natural resources to power our grids instead of burning coal, oil and gas? Just a thought.
Now they have pictures and movies, all we need is an audio recording of a dust storm and ambient noise on Mars and the mission will be complete.
Now that fuel costs are through the roof, Europe will HAVE to subsidize the A380 in order to keep ticket costs down.
I heard the bathrooms on the A380 will be big enough to sit down in, and you will now get a 4 oz. bag of peanuts instead of the usual 0.5 oz bag.
Please take a moment to locate the emergency exits in case of a water landing, we have provided a map of the plane's interior in case you get lost.
"These markets represent nearly 36 million homes or 32.8 percent of all U.S. TV households."
"DIRECTV, Inc. is the nation's leading and fastest-growing digital multichannel television service provider with more than 13.9 million customers."
Okay that means that DirecTV has (3x36) / (13.9) = 7.77% of the market. I wonder how much that will increase with this new HD satellite? I don't know if the price for DirecTV will go down, but I will assume it will temporarily so they can increase their market share.
Now excuse me, I am going to climb up to my roof and manually adjust my dish so I can watch 'the Simple Life' in HD.
# telnet 127.0.0.1
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to bitchchecker
Escape character is '^]
"-bitchchecker- i have a program where i enter your ip and you're dead"
Ah yes, this program is called IPDeath, it is responsible for thousands of nerd disappearances worldwide. Somebody must stop this guy before systems start crashing worldwide!
"Kernel advances such as position independent executables, non-executable memory regions, stack smashing protection and execution capabilities are introduced. Implementations such as PAX and exec-shield are compared." Now if they can just get those last few kernels to execute properly, we will have created flawless popcorn!
1.80 AUD Australia Dollars = 1.39636 USD US Dollars
A 40 cent difference just for living 'dahn undah'?
Now is anyone actually going to download Russell's songs without being totally inebriated first?
25 songs is okay, but what is the bit rate/quality? Can you easy transfer and copy the music? If you download a song and don't like it, can you return it? How big is the catalog they offer? Do the songs self-destruct after leaving the service? Does the interface automatically make itself the default player of all media? All of these are factors in to if and how people will start paying for a subscription service.
Answering another user grievance, AOL will pair down the number of preference options in AIM, taking what it refers to as a "smarter approach." A spokesperson said that the current AIM client was heavy with preferences because, "We couldn't decide one way or another."
But they still tacked on tons of ads and annoying pop-up windows, the dumb approach. Hopefully the new version will be ad-free and user friendly. Is this possible?
A huge pile of Jar-Jar Binks merchandise feeding the flames?
LOL
Star Wars was/is a great idea, but the Empire Strikes Back was the best movie of the series in my opinion. It was directed by Irvin Kershner, screenplay written with Lawrence Kasdan and produced by Gary Kurtz, Lucas had a lot of creative help in making that film which turned out to be wonderful.
To reinvent oneself, you have to create yourself in the first place. Star Wars was a culmination of his story ideas with actors and movie techniques that have never been seen before. This is the key to its success.
Unfortunately, time and time again when directors/actors/musicians get older and have kids, their creativity is geared toward kid-friendly productions that their own kids can watch or sing along with them. This G-rated kid-friendly mindset sometimes kills creativity. He needs to get back to his 1970s mindset where he had to create something that has never been seen/done/heard of before - and not worry about what his audience thinks. (easier said than done) The upcoming 3D Star Wars is a start, but it is still cashing in on an old idea. Anyway, good luck George!
AOL has had a large swath of its IP addresses...Sorry I can't show you this listing.
Judging by the fact that a large amount of spam we get is from AOL, I can see why they are getting blocked.
AOL profits from these spammers and they know it. Very soon, AOL needs to take control of their spammers and start blocking them. Apparently, this is either too difficult & time consuming for AOL, or they just don't care and know that the profits will just keep rolling in.
There are so many other better alternatives to AOL, I don't even know why people use AOL in the first place. I guess it is all those damn install cds they dump all over the place like rabbit poop.
"For consumers, the choice of whether to send the data, and how much information to share, will be up to the individual."
Just like the WER error pop-up box that appears when Windows crashes asking you to send information to Microsoft? Who knows if they have the time to research all of these crashes.
That worked wonders for creating a more stable XP according to Bill Gates...."One thing that's been amazing at Microsoft is the impact that our monitoring data has had on how we prioritize our software work. I'm sure you've all seen in Windows XP that whenever an application or the system malfunctions, you get the ability to send a report back to Microsoft. We get a lot of those reports, and we've created very good data-management systems to go in and look at those things, and therefore understand what drivers aren't reliable."
Bill Gates, Los Angeles, California October 27, 2003
Now that we have seen how lifeless and vapid blue screens can make a movie (see Star Wars Episode 1&2,) I just wondered about your opinion on using blue screens instead of 'live' props, and did you use blue screens extensively in the HHGG?
How did they come to the conclusion that many of these attacks are by kids? Just that the hacks spike when school is out? The article really didn't go into much detail.
Nowadays, if you don't protect your website from being hacked, you might as well expect it to be hacked. Maybe they should try hacking Argus systems Pitbull LX and win(?) money.
Didn't mean to sound like a troll here, honestly was trying to get a response from current Linux users about their experiences.
Sorry about that!
Do open source programmers profit? Do they do it for the fun of it? or for the potential future in the for-profit world?
How many people actually USE Linux? Is it as difficult to configure and set up as people say it is? Is there a stable Linux version that is ready to download and use right now?
I am not sure if and when a Linux operating system will be fully realized. I guess what I am asking is, does the average PC-illerate user consider Linux as a viable alternative to Windows? Here is an about one person's experience.