That could be really scarry if Vista was loaded on our weed pulling robots. How long do you think it would take for someone to hack the botnet and DoS our food supply?
The problem with censored electronic media is that it eliminates the ability to reference.
Yes but that only works if you're able to completely control the information source. I'm say is that China can not hope to completely control the internet forever. People always find ways to work around barriers once they know the barrier is there. With people traveling to and from China in increasing numbers the numbers of curious people will grow exponentially. That is why China will over throw it's government someday.
I really wonder how long China will be able to keep up this cat and mouse game of censorship on a medium that is so hard to control.
They've opened Pandora's Box with the belief that they could wield the power it contained completely to their advantage but someday that power will expose their secrets and then be used organize their fall from power.
It would have been a sad day indeed if this wrong had not been righted. One could only imagine the corruption that would happen if this tool for keeping the police accountable for their actions had been taken away.
Kinda sad that our own allies are afraid of us spying on them.
That said the US's own citizens might need to take up counter intelligence mindset against it's Government.
As for France's counter intelligence measures it seems to me that the US could pick their communications out of the air with satellites and spy planes, no matter what wireless e-mail they use, just as easily as they could check RIM's servers.
I had an interesting experience yesterday. I went to the MS employee store to buy a copy of WinXP. To make a long story short they were out copies of XP but had plenty of Vista. If that isn't telling than I don't know what is.
I thought it funny that the only gun related game wasn't even violent. All you do is shoot at little round targets. Of course everyone and their vodka drinking dog had an AK-47 so I guess they just shot bottles, cans and capitalists for their shooting games.
Microsoft includes what is enough while Apple includes what is enough plus what is nice to have...
I think MS is trying to one up Apple by coming out with their iPhone like Coffe Table. The only problem is, that true to form, it's bigger, more expensive, and in my opinion less than needed, than anything that an average consumer would want to adopt. I also don't see it coming down in price lower than $3,000 anytime in the next 10 years.
So in summary MS's answer to the iPhone is to build something bigger, more expensive and less useful. I know, I know, that's what they alwasy do but it's still funny to me.
I just saw a guy in a Wookie costume. What's that you say? The convention is in LA? Wow guess that's what happens when it's sunny in Seattle, the hairy lumber jacks come to town.:-P
Well then Linux should be designed for windows compatibility. The only way Linux can take over is by providing a seamless transition to the point where it doesn't matter what application you need, your data will be accessible from both operating systems. Then, and only then Linux can excel. $$$ for windows, or $0 for linux. They both do the same thing give or take, they are compatible, the apps are cross platform, and it just comes down to money.
Duh,why do you think M$ works so hard to make them incompatible?
Even if global warming is just fear mongering there are still good things that can come from that. For the first time companies are getting enough pressure and consumer interest to build fuel efficient cars and explore new fuel sources. In the last few years there have been more advances in solar, wind energy then there have in a long time.
As an added bonus if we find a renewable energy we can finally stop relying on the East for oil. Something that has been fueling wars for the last 20 years. We could finally find more economic independence. Which would be great. If Global Warming is the catalyst for this change than I welcome it with open arms.
Silly, haven't you every watched MacGyver? All you have to do is salvage the alternator from your crashed plane or boat, find a near by stream or water fall and build a hydro electric dam! It's really quite simple when you think about it.;-)
Stay tuned for next weeks episode when I build a UHF radio from coconuts and the remaining plane parts.
They are IBM's contract outsourcing division. IBM was doing a bad job with this division before everyone started outsourcing to India. Now it's akin to the same problem that GM is having with Toyota.
It sounds like you worked at IBM or at least very closely with them.
*pulls out soapbox*
As a former employee I can say that you are 100% correct about their management. Most org charts are flat tree style but IBM is more like a matrix(no, not a bad movie pun). The literally have a one to one middle management to Technical worker ratio. That just kills the techs productivity because the managers all want their status reports and 4 pages of asset info every time you touch a PC. It takes you fifth of your week to fill out all of that paperwork. When the last contract I worked on was out sourced to another company I jumped ship to the new company. IBM had no problem with that because they were laying off tons of people off anyways. After the transition we handled the same amount of service calls with 4 people and still have extra time to do proactive maintenance, which is something I never every had time to do with IBM because of the BS paperwork. I could go on and on about the borderline illegal directions that we got from my second line manager but that's a story for another day. IBM has been laying off people by the thousands for years. I saw them layoff 150 and loose ten major contracts in my 5 years there. I would not be suprised if Global services is sold off in the next 10 years.
To wit: Can I publicly post your credit card number, expiration date, and CVN? They're just numbers... and how can ordinary numbers have implications for property and finances?
In fact, I have a list here of 10,000 valid bank-account and PIN numbers. My right to distribute them is a First Amendment Issue, damnit!
If they were all bank accounts of organized organized crime then by all means post away, I don't think the government will care.
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I think you are forgetting one important thing... The Golden Girls!
Surely you jest. Corporate responsibility died decades ago.
Is there a knowledge base article number for that work around? I'd like to see which systems are affected.
I don't know if homemade claymores are part of the course.
That could be really scarry if Vista was loaded on our weed pulling robots. How long do you think it would take for someone to hack the botnet and DoS our food supply?
You could make a study of cyberbulling on /. alone.
I really wonder how long China will be able to keep up this cat and mouse game of censorship on a medium that is so hard to control.
They've opened Pandora's Box with the belief that they could wield the power it contained completely to their advantage but someday that power will expose their secrets and then be used organize their fall from power.
It would have been a sad day indeed if this wrong had not been righted. One could only imagine the corruption that would happen if this tool for keeping the police accountable for their actions had been taken away.
Kinda sad that our own allies are afraid of us spying on them.
That said the US's own citizens might need to take up counter intelligence mindset against it's Government.
As for France's counter intelligence measures it seems to me that the US could pick their communications out of the air with satellites and spy planes, no matter what wireless e-mail they use, just as easily as they could check RIM's servers.
I had an interesting experience yesterday. I went to the MS employee store to buy a copy of WinXP. To make a long story short they were out copies of XP but had plenty of Vista. If that isn't telling than I don't know what is.
I thought it funny that the only gun related game wasn't even violent. All you do is shoot at little round targets. Of course everyone and their vodka drinking dog had an AK-47 so I guess they just shot bottles, cans and capitalists for their shooting games.
I think MS is trying to one up Apple by coming out with their iPhone like Coffe Table. The only problem is, that true to form, it's bigger, more expensive, and in my opinion less than needed, than anything that an average consumer would want to adopt. I also don't see it coming down in price lower than $3,000 anytime in the next 10 years.
So in summary MS's answer to the iPhone is to build something bigger, more expensive and less useful. I know, I know, that's what they alwasy do but it's still funny to me.
I just saw a guy in a Wookie costume. What's that you say? The convention is in LA? Wow guess that's what happens when it's sunny in Seattle, the hairy lumber jacks come to town. :-P
They must be too busy innovating and creating new patents. ;-)
Duh,why do you think M$ works so hard to make them incompatible?
Even if global warming is just fear mongering there are still good things that can come from that. For the first time companies are getting enough pressure and consumer interest to build fuel efficient cars and explore new fuel sources. In the last few years there have been more advances in solar, wind energy then there have in a long time. As an added bonus if we find a renewable energy we can finally stop relying on the East for oil. Something that has been fueling wars for the last 20 years. We could finally find more economic independence. Which would be great. If Global Warming is the catalyst for this change than I welcome it with open arms.
I believe that is the Microsoft interpretation.
I'm going to find an old Lite-brite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lite-Brite/ and give it to his kids.
That's like saying there are too many cracks in a large damn so you might as well give up on trying to patch them.
...If everyone bikes for trips under 5miles there won't be anyone left to appear on the weight loss reality TV shows!!!
Silly, haven't you every watched MacGyver? All you have to do is salvage the alternator from your crashed plane or boat, find a near by stream or water fall and build a hydro electric dam! It's really quite simple when you think about it. ;-)
Stay tuned for next weeks episode when I build a UHF radio from coconuts and the remaining plane parts.
They are IBM's contract outsourcing division. IBM was doing a bad job with this division before everyone started outsourcing to India. Now it's akin to the same problem that GM is having with Toyota.
It sounds like you worked at IBM or at least very closely with them.
*pulls out soapbox*
As a former employee I can say that you are 100% correct about their management. Most org charts are flat tree style but IBM is more like a matrix(no, not a bad movie pun). The literally have a one to one middle management to Technical worker ratio. That just kills the techs productivity because the managers all want their status reports and 4 pages of asset info every time you touch a PC. It takes you fifth of your week to fill out all of that paperwork. When the last contract I worked on was out sourced to another company I jumped ship to the new company. IBM had no problem with that because they were laying off tons of people off anyways. After the transition we handled the same amount of service calls with 4 people and still have extra time to do proactive maintenance, which is something I never every had time to do with IBM because of the BS paperwork. I could go on and on about the borderline illegal directions that we got from my second line manager but that's a story for another day. IBM has been laying off people by the thousands for years. I saw them layoff 150 and loose ten major contracts in my 5 years there. I would not be suprised if Global services is sold off in the next 10 years.
*gets off soapbox*