You should use them to host various flavours of your resume, because once everything is settled in to the cloud, your employment will be the next thing to expire.
Just kidding (more or less) but really, what difference does it make. If NSA (or any other powers that be) wants to "get you", does it matter if they have "real data" they sniffed from one of your digital systems or not? If they truly want to arrest/harass/make you disappear whether they have real data or fudged data is rather moot.
So why worry? Either you're below their radar, and they can collect or not your precious data, or you're a target, in which case no matter what you do/hide/avoid won't help you in the long run.
Privacy went out the door along with all those AOL CD's - what's amazing is that people are just starting to notice (or care).
How many studies do you need that show TV/Computers/Consoles are BAD (bad bad bad bad bad) for young kids?
Get your kids a book and encourage them to learn to read well, remember well, and imagine well.
Then get them a rubber ball and teach them to invent their own physical games out doors.
The world already has enough fat, apathetic, couch potato kids (and parents). Get off your ass and teach your kids to use their brains and their body instead of just twitching their nacho encrusted thumbs.
I've used both their Book and Movie apps for several years.
For the book collection (with just under 8000 in four sections: technical/non-fiction/fiction/collectable) I have a relatively cheap (i.e. $120) cordless bar code scanner.
I've just moved my Video collection (around 700 dvd's) from their PC Application to their Cloud app (which I have mixed feelings about. Nice to have it on the cloud and shareable, don't have to worry about updates or backing up, but lose a handful of useful features - like loaning and list printing).
All this Saint Jobs bs is crazy. Did I miss the announcement about the Jobs Foundation (ya know like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) being formed?
Maybe it was pushed below the fold by the HUGE USELESS FREAKING YACHT news.
When your competitor has OWNED the market for several years, you don't MATCH their price, you blow it away.
Who would be dumb enough to pay the same price as a 3rd generation device to guinea pig a 1st gen device from a company that is known to suck at first releases?
And then there's Google's tablet for a dainty $199/$249
Just to clarify, what you're describing is web development or application programming - neither is really IT.
IT's purpose is to integrate technology (hardware and software) into the organization so that it aligns with the business model and goals.
Mostly it's designing, installing, maintaining the infrastructure to allow Tech to work for the business.
Coding is a very small part of that - especially in todays market where it is mostly out sourced.
Freelancing in IT is hard (except for the bottom feeders that help the mom and pop business shops and home users). Freelancing in Web dev / coder work is a dime a dozen - just join one of the hundreds of websites that specialize in cheap code work.
Until the site owners stop pimping out their sites to any and all ad engines, I'll use Adblock, NoScript, Flashblock, and anything else I deem necessary to prevent my systems from being targeted by Malware.
If site owners would run their own tested and approved ad's, I'd have zero problem with that, but since they don't have a clue what crap is being passed out by their site, I have no moral problem blocking them all.
Just another long line of China BS disclosing just the bare minimum to garner some "face" for their "great" space accomplishments.
Of course nothing that goes wrong will be reported. They're barely a step above NK for their PR releases, but wait, they prop up the US economy so lets all give them a rousing pat on the back.
So golf clap for China, they've stolen enough IP to duplicate what US/USSR did back in the 80's.
Which means with enough middlemen, the standard good old boy networking, and the proper paperwork, the US Military will be paying somewhere between $7000-$9000USD each in large quantities.
A real live face to face conference, how 20th century.
Stay home, read the lecture notes and publications online.
Conferences are a huge time suck, rarely (make that pretty much never) a good use of your time, with little to no payback.
Anything worth learning will be in a peer review publication. Either the lecture will rehash the publication, or it will be pre-reviewed info, which means it's pretty much useless.
$50, catalog, search, lists, sort, entry by isbn or barcode scanner, loan management, publish to web, etc.
I've used it for my home library (1500+ technical/scientific books, 15,000+ fiction books) for several years, and it keeps getting better with each release.
Lets see, China will announce their pie-in-the-sky space dreams years in advance, but won't show a single minute of their current space program in realtime.
The only thing China has mastered is stealing (or buying when necessary) other peoples designs and IP and then making cheap knockoffs in a attempt to show their citizens that China is a "player" in modern technology.
Where's their Saturn probe, or Martian robots, or Mercury explorer or Pluto flyby? Where's their space station?
They put a few dinky probes to the moon, and a few 1980's tech low earth orbit test ships and want the world to be impressed.
Lets see what happens if they ever actually expand the human races knowledge of space exploration, then they can brag how great they are to the world.
Until then they can steal Star Trek's slogan and say "To boldly go where numerous men have gone before".
And site owners and advertisers wonder why users go to such extremes with Adblock plus and NoScript to block ad's.
If the sites (or ad distributors) can't guarantee the safety of their own sites, then users have to do whatever is necessary to protect their own systems. If that means no advertising income for those sites - tough luck.
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You should use them to host various flavours of your resume, because once everything is settled in to the cloud, your employment will be the next thing to expire.
6 million to a billionaire is like me losing a $50 Toy RC Helicopter. Only I don't whine about it as much, or milk it for all the PR I can get.
So what exactly do you have to hide?
Just kidding (more or less) but really, what difference does it make. If NSA (or any other powers that be) wants to "get you", does it matter if they have "real data" they sniffed from one of your digital systems or not? If they truly want to arrest/harass/make you disappear whether they have real data or fudged data is rather moot.
So why worry? Either you're below their radar, and they can collect or not your precious data, or you're a target, in which case no matter what you do/hide/avoid won't help you in the long run.
Privacy went out the door along with all those AOL CD's - what's amazing is that people are just starting to notice (or care).
A free turd is still a turd.
With OpenOffice (and LibreOffice) even the most minor of updates REQUIRES a full download.
Apparently writing a simple update API is beyond the scope of the project (or skill set of the programmers - take your pick).
So assuming that each download is a NEW user (and therefore counts as if they were buying a commercial office suite) is complete bullshit.
If it didn't arrive by certified mail requiring a signature, ignore it. Don't respond, don't ask for more details. D O N ' T.
Email has no authority, no authentication, no traceability, nothing.
Responding just adds more burden to you - so don't do it - just ignore that email, and any future emails.
Until you get an official snail mail letter, preferably from a legal firm, relax they're just trolling for a easy fix.
How many studies do you need that show TV/Computers/Consoles are BAD (bad bad bad bad bad) for young kids?
Get your kids a book and encourage them to learn to read well, remember well, and imagine well.
Then get them a rubber ball and teach them to invent their own physical games out doors.
The world already has enough fat, apathetic, couch potato kids (and parents). Get off your ass and teach your kids to use their brains and their body instead of just twitching their nacho encrusted thumbs.
http://www.collectorz.com/book/
I've used both their Book and Movie apps for several years.
For the book collection (with just under 8000 in four sections: technical/non-fiction/fiction/collectable) I have a relatively cheap (i.e. $120) cordless bar code scanner.
I've just moved my Video collection (around 700 dvd's) from their PC Application to their Cloud app (which I have mixed feelings about. Nice to have it on the cloud and shareable, don't have to worry about updates or backing up, but lose a handful of useful features - like loaning and list printing).
Hope the bird has a good lawyer, I'm sure Apple thinks it invented the stick, so watch out birdy, the black turtleneck of the law is on your tail.
Selfish Rich Fuck had too many letters???
All this Saint Jobs bs is crazy. Did I miss the announcement about the Jobs Foundation (ya know like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) being formed?
Maybe it was pushed below the fold by the HUGE USELESS FREAKING YACHT news.
When your competitor has OWNED the market for several years, you don't MATCH their price, you blow it away.
Who would be dumb enough to pay the same price as a 3rd generation device to guinea pig a 1st gen device from a company that is known to suck at first releases?
And then there's Google's tablet for a dainty $199/$249
Microsoft really does suck at new things.
Just to clarify, what you're describing is web development or application programming - neither is really IT.
IT's purpose is to integrate technology (hardware and software) into the organization so that it aligns with the business model and goals.
Mostly it's designing, installing, maintaining the infrastructure to allow Tech to work for the business.
Coding is a very small part of that - especially in todays market where it is mostly out sourced.
Freelancing in IT is hard (except for the bottom feeders that help the mom and pop business shops and home users). Freelancing in Web dev / coder work is a dime a dozen - just join one of the hundreds of websites that specialize in cheap code work.
Until the site owners stop pimping out their sites to any and all ad engines, I'll use Adblock, NoScript, Flashblock, and anything else I deem necessary to prevent my systems from being targeted by Malware.
If site owners would run their own tested and approved ad's, I'd have zero problem with that, but since they don't have a clue what crap is being passed out by their site, I have no moral problem blocking them all.
Meh.
Might have a women crew member.
Won't disclose how long the mission will last.
Just another long line of China BS disclosing just the bare minimum to garner some "face" for their "great" space accomplishments.
Of course nothing that goes wrong will be reported. They're barely a step above NK for their PR releases, but wait, they prop up the US economy so lets all give them a rousing pat on the back.
So golf clap for China, they've stolen enough IP to duplicate what US/USSR did back in the 80's.
Which means with enough middlemen, the standard good old boy networking, and the proper paperwork, the US Military will be paying somewhere between $7000-$9000USD each in large quantities.
Yeah for the 1%er's!
A real live face to face conference, how 20th century.
Stay home, read the lecture notes and publications online.
Conferences are a huge time suck, rarely (make that pretty much never) a good use of your time, with little to no payback.
Anything worth learning will be in a peer review publication. Either the lecture will rehash the publication, or it will be pre-reviewed info, which means it's pretty much useless.
I find that statement very reassuring, unless with future data, it's not.
Check out http://www.collectorz.com/book/
$50, catalog, search, lists, sort, entry by isbn or barcode scanner, loan management, publish to web, etc.
I've used it for my home library (1500+ technical/scientific books, 15,000+ fiction books) for several years, and it keeps getting better with each release.
Lets see, China will announce their pie-in-the-sky space dreams years in advance, but won't show a single minute of their current space program in realtime.
The only thing China has mastered is stealing (or buying when necessary) other peoples designs and IP and then making cheap knockoffs in a attempt to show their citizens that China is a "player" in modern technology.
Where's their Saturn probe, or Martian robots, or Mercury explorer or Pluto flyby? Where's their space station?
They put a few dinky probes to the moon, and a few 1980's tech low earth orbit test ships and want the world to be impressed.
Lets see what happens if they ever actually expand the human races knowledge of space exploration, then they can brag how great they are to the world.
Until then they can steal Star Trek's slogan and say "To boldly go where numerous men have gone before".
Let me know if MIT or some other big Tech Uni cuts CS, then I'll care.
Hearing about some cost cutting measure in a state college offshoot - not so much. //go bears//
Oh noes Toto, we're not in Kansas any more.
Sure use a Sharpie - it's like writing on glass.
18 months is waaaaaaaaaay to early to introduce stuff like that.
Let the toddler be a toddler. All that baby Einstein-esque crap has been proven to be nothing but trouble for your child's NORMAL development.
Here in the State's they do the same thing with Taco Bell toilets.
And site owners and advertisers wonder why users go to such extremes with Adblock plus and NoScript to block ad's.
If the sites (or ad distributors) can't guarantee the safety of their own sites, then users have to do whatever is necessary to protect their own systems. If that means no advertising income for those sites - tough luck.