Uh, Buffy isn't scifi. At best it's fantasy. Xena? Same thing, although I suppose you could call Xena something like "historical dramatic fiction", if you really want to stretch the definition. Lara Croft? Fantasy. See, the problem with too many writers, networks, producers, et al, is that they don't understand the if you want to call something scifi, it needs have some SCIENCE in it. Even 2001 went from scifi to fantasy about halfway through.
Sure, I'm being pedantic and purist. But it does keep Harlan Ellison from trying to kill me...
Private companies that do services for a public SOX compliant company have to get SAS70 certification in many cases. SAS70 is SOX for the private sector, for the most part. Since Sun has convinces it's customers to outsource to them, Sun would still have to get SAS70 certification.
You can write off 100% of a lease in the year you sign for it, capital assets you buy need to be depreciated over 3+ years. It really depends on your companys cash and tax situation, and you're better off telling Accounting to figure out what needs to be done. If you're a small business, get a CPA, you can write off the cost of their opinion, and you'll come out way better on cash flow, profits, etc. First year I used a CPA, they got me $10k, and cost less than $1K.
ericr I'm not a CPA, but I sleep with one. YMMV. IANAL. WTF? EIEIO
Well, sure, I won. I'm still paying the bills five years later, but I won. It kind of destroyed my business, and in some ways my life, but I freaking won. It's a classic Pyrrhic victory...
OTOH, I hear many of the lawyers on Hasbro's side got sacked for being egotistical slime sucking morons, which is some consolation. Too bad they didn't take any of our settlement offers, they were too greedy and convinced they'd crush me. Here's hoping that they all get some horrible wasting disease that leaves them in agony until someone pulls out their feeding tubes 30 years from now. It's less than they deserve.
Sadly, eScrabble hasn't got a chance. They're using someone elses trademark, in exactly the same way the trademark owners are (the same class), and their business is letting people play the same game Hasbro makes. For once, Hasbro is in the right.
is about all I use windows for. Staroffice deals with the MS-office problem, Mulberry or Evolution for mail, opera for a browser, winamp, trillian for IM/ICQ. Mostly I use FreeBSD, but I don't trust wine to deal with financials, and games. As soon as Intuit adds linux or BSD support and I can get more games for linux, Windows will only be of use as a platform for virus research.
"We have a first class phone company in Qwest that offers a top-notch DSL service with MSN as the provider." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA A
God, that cracks me up... He *almost* sounded serious. Qwest/MSN are the kind of people who give pedophiles, traitors, and racists a bad name.
Yes, that's right. Choclate. Get Hershey's miniatures, Kisses, or Chunks. Wait until your target is intent on the monitor, and heave one full bore at the monitor, not his or her head. You can often induce heart failure, and your little gift is either eaten, or returned, the next time you're intently looking for a bug in some chunk of code...
While the original poster felt the computers could
do targeting since planes can be networked to deal
with the IFF (identify friend or foe) issues, lets not forget that a LOT of air missions are for close air support, where the enemy may be very close to our ground troops. The infantry gets shot up enough without a targeting computer deciding that anyone on the ground in some area must be a bad guy... Even with decent IFF systems,
there were too many friendly fire casualties in the Gulf war.
without even straining the box. $15k for all the h/w and installation, setup, etc. Performance is pretty good, too. FWIW, we tried this using red hat first, but it wouldn't deal with the i/o very well. Still, the important thing is that the project stayed in the open source community.
Under FreeBSD or Linux, *vbs trojans aren't much of an issue...
Silly Microsoft users, they almost deserve what they get. Why is no one suing the pants off of MS, since they practically sponsor/condone all these virii by intentionally using insecure technology?
They can monitor your phone, and do anything they like with your email, keystrokes, etc. It's been proven often in court, and your recourse is to quit, and take a job somewhere that doesn't do this.
OK, I know it's not s/w, but what will Pinkertons and the school do if a few of the geeks get together and simply nark out the whole [football | baseball | basketball ] team, or everyone on the homecoming committee? Or the whole school? How will they deal with hundreds of kids being narked out each week? There's not enough pshrinks/ritalin/jails to deal with all the kids who are going to be persecuted under this abomination.
Is this system set up do deal with kids narking on teachers and other school employes who may be dangerous due to drugs, divorce, pedophilia, or exposure to Monica Lewinsky? If not, why not? Sooner or later some techer is gonna snap...
Tell Pinkertons for me that if they ever pull this shit at my kids school, I'll be rewarding my kid for the number of people they nark out each week, too. Only my kid gets rewarded no matter if the victim is mental or not. I'll give my kid $5 for each and every kid who gets reported. And everytime my kid gets narked on, I'll be suing Pinkertons, the school system, and anyone else involved.
Why not donate the birds and ground equip to the UN as part of the bankruptcy? Hell, give it to NASA, or the NSF, or the US gov't, since they're the biggest user. With all the pollution the launching produced, do SOMEFUCKINGTHING useful with it, don't destroy it. Too bad they don't have any email addresses on thier web site. There seems to be no way to get the idea to them...
while posting here is nice, Symantec has numerous places on thier web site ( http://www.symantec.com ) that you can flame them from. Why load up/. servers, when you can stress test symantec, and vent at the same time?
Sadly, I have to agree. I registered two domains there a while back, and had way too many problems with Namesecure. I've been trying to xfer some other domains to namesecure, and have had too many problems with this as well. I'm still looking for a registrar in the US who can deal with something simple, and has good customer service.
I used to work for a gov't contractor who made us forge our timecards (if we wanted to keep our jobs) so that we (they) only reported 40-45 hours per week on the contract. Reality was we worked as many as 100 hours per week. No overtime, no perks for it. Since I quit working on gov't stuff, it's down to 60+ per week, although a while back I worked over 60 hours in 3 days, doing server upgrades. I don't know any sys admin who works less than 50 per week.
So, eToys stock closed today at a little less than 26. While flame them certainly helps, as does boycotting, why don't we all go out and buy a share or two of the butt-head company of the week? At the lowest possible price... This lets us truthfully claim to be shareholders, and threaten the board of directors with removal. If enough of us bought a share or ten, we might even force a shareholders meetings, and get a chance to vote on the boneheaded actions of packs of mgmt morons... If nothing else, it means that we can flood the annual meetings with angry shareholders, attracting press attention, etc. (pardon me while I drag out my own horror story) In my dealings against Hasbro, I've told all the 401k managers I can find to dump Hasbro, and urged a lot of people to buy Hasbro and flame them as a shareholder, because they have to pay some attention to shareholders. I can't claim to have affected Hasbro's stock price, but you will notice that it's been tanking for over two years now...
ericr
Eric Robison Clue Computing, Inc. ericr@clue.com/www.clue.com
Carl Oppedahl and Marina Larson, of Oppedahl & Larson. Both incredibly nice people, and I have to agree with the comments below about Carl's geek abilities. He's a better geek than some I know, and the only attorney I know of with a good signal anaylzer...
These silly people are already filing an appeal, and I don't know how much longer I can keep fighting. Please, O Beloved Slashdot, email the crap outta Hasbro and let them know if you don't support thier perversion of the 'Net. Thanks! Eric Robison Clue Computing
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Not necessarily. They could be Ostro-Goths. Or even Austro-Goths.
ericr
yes, I am the Devil's cabana boy.
Uh, Buffy isn't scifi. At best it's fantasy. Xena? Same thing, although I suppose you could call Xena something like "historical dramatic fiction", if you really want to stretch the definition. Lara Croft? Fantasy. See, the problem with too many writers, networks, producers, et al, is that they don't understand the if you want to call something scifi, it needs have some SCIENCE in it. Even 2001 went from scifi to fantasy about halfway through.
Sure, I'm being pedantic and purist. But it does keep Harlan Ellison from trying to kill me...
Not enough statues large enough to perch on and crap all over.
Private companies that do services for a public SOX compliant company have to get SAS70 certification in many cases. SAS70 is SOX for the private sector, for the most part. Since Sun has convinces it's customers to outsource to them, Sun would still have to get SAS70 certification.
You can write off 100% of a lease in the year you sign for it, capital assets you buy need to be depreciated over 3+ years. It really depends on your companys cash and tax situation, and you're better off telling Accounting to figure out what needs to be done. If you're a small business, get a CPA, you can write off the cost of their opinion, and you'll come out way better on cash flow, profits, etc. First year I used a CPA, they got me $10k, and cost less than $1K.
ericr
I'm not a CPA, but I sleep with one. YMMV. IANAL. WTF? EIEIO
Well, sure, I won. I'm still paying the bills five years later, but I won. It kind of destroyed my business, and in some ways my life, but I freaking won. It's a classic Pyrrhic victory...
OTOH, I hear many of the lawyers on Hasbro's side got sacked for being egotistical slime sucking morons, which is some consolation. Too bad they didn't take any of our settlement offers, they were too greedy and convinced they'd crush me. Here's hoping that they all get some horrible wasting disease that leaves them in agony until someone pulls out their feeding tubes 30 years from now. It's less than they deserve.
Sadly, eScrabble hasn't got a chance. They're using someone elses trademark, in exactly the same way the trademark owners are (the same class), and their business is letting people play the same game Hasbro makes. For once, Hasbro is in the right.
ericr
the guy who won Hasbro v. Clue
is about all I use windows for. Staroffice deals with the MS-office problem, Mulberry or Evolution for mail, opera for a browser, winamp, trillian for IM/ICQ. Mostly I use FreeBSD, but I don't trust wine to deal with financials, and games. As soon as Intuit adds linux or BSD support and I can get more games for linux, Windows will only be of use as a platform for virus research.
"We have a first class phone company in Qwest that offers a top-notch DSL service with MSN as the provider." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA A
God, that cracks me up... He *almost* sounded serious. Qwest/MSN are the kind of people who give pedophiles, traitors, and racists a bad name.
Print it out. Wipe your ass with it. Mail back to Gates.
Yes, that's right. Choclate. Get Hershey's miniatures, Kisses, or Chunks. Wait until your target is intent on the monitor, and heave one full bore at the monitor, not his or her head. You can often induce heart failure, and your little gift is either eaten, or returned, the next time you're intently looking for a bug in some chunk of code...
While the original poster felt the computers could
do targeting since planes can be networked to deal
with the IFF (identify friend or foe) issues, lets not forget that a LOT of air missions are for close air support, where the enemy may be very close to our ground troops. The infantry gets shot up enough without a targeting computer deciding that anyone on the ground in some area must be a bad guy... Even with decent IFF systems,
there were too many friendly fire casualties in the Gulf war.
www.everybuddy.org, if you need the client.
without even straining the box. $15k for all the h/w and installation, setup, etc. Performance is pretty good, too. FWIW, we tried this using red hat first, but it wouldn't deal with the i/o very well. Still, the important thing is that the project stayed in the open source community.
We won't have to sit through the Academy Awards to hear Travolta's speech.
It doesn't have that annoying little girl from the Pepsi commericials in it. (although she would have made a good Psychlo)
It sets Scientology back 400 years.
No nude Psychlos.
No actual special effects were harmed in filming the movie.
Seeing Denver in ruins may finally get peoples minds off of Columbine.
Under FreeBSD or Linux, *vbs trojans aren't much of an issue...
Silly Microsoft users, they almost deserve what they get. Why is no one suing the pants off of MS, since they practically sponsor/condone all these virii by intentionally using insecure technology?
They can monitor your phone, and do anything they like with your email, keystrokes, etc. It's been proven often in court, and your recourse is to quit, and take a job somewhere that doesn't do this.
OK, I know it's not s/w, but what will Pinkertons and the school do if a few of the geeks get together and simply nark out the whole [football | baseball | basketball ] team, or everyone on the homecoming committee? Or the whole school? How will they deal with hundreds of kids being narked out each week? There's not enough pshrinks/ritalin/jails to deal with all the kids who are going to be persecuted under this abomination.
Is this system set up do deal with kids narking on teachers and other school employes who may be dangerous due to drugs, divorce, pedophilia, or exposure to Monica Lewinsky? If not, why not? Sooner or later some techer is gonna snap...
Tell Pinkertons for me that if they ever pull this shit at my kids school, I'll be rewarding my kid for the number of people they nark out each week, too. Only my kid gets rewarded no matter if the victim is mental or not. I'll give my kid $5 for each and every kid who gets reported. And everytime my kid gets narked on, I'll be suing Pinkertons, the school system, and anyone else involved.
And tell them they can kiss my hairy geek ass.
Court decision available at www.clue.com/legal
ericr
Eric Robison
Clue Computing, Inc.
Why not donate the birds and ground equip to the UN as part of the bankruptcy? Hell, give it to NASA, or the NSF, or the US gov't, since they're the biggest user. With all the pollution the launching produced, do SOMEFUCKINGTHING useful with it, don't destroy it. Too bad they don't have any email addresses on thier web site. There seems to be no way to get the idea to them...
while posting here is nice, Symantec has numerous places on thier web site ( http://www.symantec.com ) that you can flame them from. Why load up /. servers, when you can stress test symantec, and vent at the same time?
Sadly, I have to agree. I registered two domains there a while back, and had way too many problems with Namesecure. I've been trying to xfer some other domains to namesecure, and have had too many problems with this as well. I'm still looking for a registrar in the US who can deal with something simple, and has good customer service.
I used to work for a gov't contractor who made us forge our timecards (if we wanted to keep our jobs) so that we (they) only reported 40-45 hours per week on the contract. Reality was we worked as many as 100 hours per week. No overtime, no perks for it. Since I quit working on gov't stuff, it's down to 60+ per week, although a while back I worked over 60 hours in 3 days, doing server upgrades. I don't know any sys admin who works less than 50 per week.
So, eToys stock closed today at a little less than 26. While flame them certainly helps, as does boycotting, why don't we all go out and buy a share or two of the butt-head company of the week? At the lowest possible price... This lets us truthfully claim to be shareholders, and threaten the board of directors with removal. If enough of us bought a share or ten, we might even force a shareholders meetings, and get a chance to vote on the boneheaded actions of packs of mgmt morons... If nothing else, it means that we can flood the annual meetings with angry shareholders, attracting press attention, etc. (pardon me while I drag out my own horror story) In my dealings against Hasbro, I've told all the 401k managers I can find to dump Hasbro, and urged a lot of people to buy Hasbro and flame them as a shareholder, because they have to pay some attention to shareholders. I can't claim to have affected Hasbro's stock price, but you will notice that it's been tanking for over two years now...
ericr
Eric Robison
Clue Computing, Inc.
ericr@clue.com/www.clue.com
Carl Oppedahl and Marina Larson, of Oppedahl & Larson. Both incredibly nice people, and I have to agree with the comments below about Carl's geek abilities. He's a better geek than some I know, and the only attorney I know of with a good signal anaylzer...
Thier website is http://www.patents.com
These silly people are already filing an appeal, and I don't know how much longer I can keep fighting. Please, O Beloved Slashdot, email the crap outta Hasbro and let them know if you don't support thier perversion of the 'Net. Thanks! Eric Robison Clue Computing