I've actually been thinking that automotive electronics diagnostics & repair could be a good field to get into - it can't be outsourced and the demand is there.
And, demand for auto repair tends to go up during a recession, as people put off buying new(er) cars and hang on to their old cars longer.
...it's interesting to note that planned US spending on electrical infrastructure to 2005 is 71 cents per American per year...If I was a US citizen, I would be furious about this failure to invest my tax dollars in my own country's infrastructure.
Ummm...it is not the proper place of the US government to build power infrastructure. Power companies build power infrastructure. If that figure is accurate, then the US governement is spending 71 cents too much.
I went to the hardware store the other day and saw this great new device which I'm sure you'll be interested in. It's a combination saw, laser level, hammer, screwdriver, drill, and has built-in GPS.
Parent is joking here, but I went to Lowes the other day and saw a salesperson demoing a Shopsmith: combination table saw, lathe, drill press, disc sander, and horizontal boring machine.
My router WAN activity light and modem activity light and are continuously flickering, even when no computers on my LAN are turned on.
A couple months ago mine went from flickering to solid on. My firewall keeps stats on blocked packets, seems to be about 95% ping attempts (Nachi probes probably) and 5% attempts to access Windows Netbios ports.
Please explain how you're gonna get 2.5 feet of snow off your roads if you don't give money to your local government, then please.
My local government does a terrible job of plowing snow off the roads, particularly in the residential neighborhoods. It would be better for my neighborhood to pool some funds and hire a service to clear the roads (maybe even hire a neighborhood resident with a snowplow on his pickup truck).
Now, if we can clear our roads more efficiently without involving government, why should we be paying taxes for that purpose?
Third, what prevents me from grabbing the removal database and using as a verified sucker database?
It established practice of companies that provide snail-mail mailing lists to seed them with a few addresses that belong to the list provider. That way they can verify that the lists are being used according to the terms of the contract between the list provider and the user, based on what arrives at those seeded addresses.
It's too bad this post got modded up to 5, it is so wrong.
That meant that any user with windoze 95 could only use the dial-up software with an ISP running a copy of NT behind each modem.
Windows 95 supported PAP and CHAP as well as MS-CHAP. Microsoft bought most of the PPP code for Win95 from a third party (Shiva?), I imagine it would have been more work to remove the features.
It was possible to use Windows 95 PPP with any ISP that supported PAP the day it was released.
What happened to Win2k file protection?
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I thought Windows 2000 file protection was supposed to protect against exactly this sort of thing. This was supposedly a trojan that overwrote Notepad.exe, and Notepad.exe is one of the files that supposedly can't be replaced unless the replacement is signed by MS's private key.
Is this the first time that the telephone system has felt the Slashdot effect?
Before the 1996 Superbowl CompuServe ran an ad slamming AOL with the phone number to sign up 1-800-NO-BUSYS. Lots of people complained that they got busys when they called the number.
I've also heard of all kinds of wacky fuels like vegetable oil. The guy did this to his volkswagen and got the oil from local fast food places that usually have to pay to get rid of it. His car exhaust smelled like french fries. No sure why this caught on, probably because it was an obscure idea that isn't practical on the large scale.
Well, he was probably using biodiesel. It is currently more expensive than regular diesel, but if diesel prices were to double (like the gasoline prices), it might start to make sense.
Defensive patents have been necessary for a very long time. The 19th century Shakers learned that the hard way when commercial companies started patenting medicines the Shakers had invented.
You can be reasonably sure on building a designing well built software, as much as you can be making cars.
Yes, but it would require software companies to spend a comparable amount of money in developing a piece of software vs what automakers put into developing a new car.
Consider that it takes dozens of engineers working for a year to produce a car design for the new model year that is identical to the old model except the seats are redesigned and the instruments are layed out differently.
In a typical commercial software company, how much time & money would be devoted to ensuring that small changes like that don't introduce new bugs?
Here's my favorite incongruous non-commercial thing to live on in the commercial world:
Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetary in London. The cemetary charges an entrance fee, and sells postcard pictures of his grave monument (to support maintanace and restoration of the cemetary).
(Aside: You can't really say "crack into," can you? I hate to misuse "hack," but...)
Sure you can say: "crack into your bank's computer." If someone can crack into a bank's safe to steal money, why not crack into a bank's computer to steal money?
Remember, MS exists to create wealth for its shareholders. Bill Gates owns, what, 15% of MS. If MS is split up, he would still own 15% of each of the new companies. Great incentive for these companies to cooperate. Add to that the fact that all of these companies would probably have the same mailing address (One Microsoft Plaza)...
As I see it, the only advantage of splitting up MS is that it might become easier to apply anti-trust laws, as then there would explicitly be separate companies. These new companies would still have exactly the same incentive to illegally shut out competition.
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<Conspiracy>Funny, that's exactly the business that SPF's author (pobox.com) is in.</Consipiracy>
And, demand for auto repair tends to go up during a recession, as people put off buying new(er) cars and hang on to their old cars longer.
Ummm...it is not the proper place of the US government to build power infrastructure. Power companies build power infrastructure. If that figure is accurate, then the US governement is spending 71 cents too much.
Parent is joking here, but I went to Lowes the other day and saw a salesperson demoing a Shopsmith: combination table saw, lathe, drill press, disc sander, and horizontal boring machine.
A couple months ago mine went from flickering to solid on. My firewall keeps stats on blocked packets, seems to be about 95% ping attempts (Nachi probes probably) and 5% attempts to access Windows Netbios ports.
Of course, you do realize that NT is actually the two letters that follow MS?
My local government does a terrible job of plowing snow off the roads, particularly in the residential neighborhoods. It would be better for my neighborhood to pool some funds and hire a service to clear the roads (maybe even hire a neighborhood resident with a snowplow on his pickup truck).
Now, if we can clear our roads more efficiently without involving government, why should we be paying taxes for that purpose?
Third, what prevents me from grabbing the removal database and using as a verified sucker database?
It established practice of companies that provide snail-mail mailing lists to seed them with a few addresses that belong to the list provider. That way they can verify that the lists are being used according to the terms of the contract between the list provider and the user, based on what arrives at those seeded addresses.
Same would work for e-mail.
It's too bad this post got modded up to 5, it is so wrong.
That meant that any user with windoze 95 could only use the dial-up software with an ISP running a copy of NT behind each modem.
Windows 95 supported PAP and CHAP as well as MS-CHAP. Microsoft bought most of the PPP code for Win95 from a third party (Shiva?), I imagine it would have been more work to remove the features.
It was possible to use Windows 95 PPP with any ISP that supported PAP the day it was released.
I thought Windows 2000 file protection was supposed to protect against exactly this sort of thing. This was supposedly a trojan that overwrote Notepad.exe, and Notepad.exe is one of the files that supposedly can't be replaced unless the replacement is signed by MS's private key.
Before the 1996 Superbowl CompuServe ran an ad slamming AOL with the phone number to sign up 1-800-NO-BUSYS. Lots of people complained that they got busys when they called the number.
Defensive patents have been necessary for a very long time. The 19th century Shakers learned that the hard way when commercial companies started patenting medicines the Shakers had invented.
Yes, but it would require software companies to spend a comparable amount of money in developing a piece of software vs what automakers put into developing a new car.
Consider that it takes dozens of engineers working for a year to produce a car design for the new model year that is identical to the old model except the seats are redesigned and the instruments are layed out differently.
In a typical commercial software company, how much time & money would be devoted to ensuring that small changes like that don't introduce new bugs?
Well, dell.com is most likely one of those fifty, and they use MSSQL7.
Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetary in London. The cemetary charges an entrance fee, and sells postcard pictures of his grave monument (to support maintanace and restoration of the cemetary).
Sure you can say: "crack into your bank's computer." If someone can crack into a bank's safe to steal money, why not crack into a bank's computer to steal money?
As I see it, the only advantage of splitting up MS is that it might become easier to apply anti-trust laws, as then there would explicitly be separate companies. These new companies would still have exactly the same incentive to illegally shut out competition.