Its simple folks - there is no such thing complete security. Its a negotiation. If you want a sterile network, then neuter it. Congress can be completely free of network attacks if they disconnect from the Internet, and reality....which defeats the purpose. Short of that I think its a fair assumption that information is a virus. We need to understand that on line is like a public restroom in a football stadium. Relative privacy is available, but don't write any important phone numbers on the wall.
We need to nail these turkeys for every penny that they steal. Surcharges, irregular billing cycles, constant repackaging of services, and perpetual equipment rental fees are all a bogus rip off. Even worse, they penalize you for being a regular customer, and offer better rates to the street. This ethic must no longer be dealt with impunity. We need to assure there is some REAL competition in the market place or we make it a free service to all citizens. Perhaps fiber optics should be a public utility. Its time that our country award its citizens above its shareholders. Investors are "fair weather" friends, and have no commitment to "ownership" except for profit. Which is why your 401k accounts all got plundered. NO MORE RIP OFFS OR CORPORATE OBFUSCATION OR WE'LL JUST SHUT DOWN THE SCUMBAGS. I actually prefer LAWYERS to corporate thieves. At least lawyers show up to court.
I will note that Google's Groups Usenet searching is at least partially broken. There are some search terms I've tried in a single group search context, where I got only one or two results, when I know for a fact that there are over 100 results for that query in the archive.
I agree that all of Google's searching is watered down now. I've noted many omissions of archive info I know is indexed. I just don't know why or how they filter the results....
In my experience, everything about cellular is a rip off. They need to be regulated by consumer advocacy and engineers - not payola politicians.
If we pass laws that make them PAY I bet they'll figure out how to handle all those FREE MINUTES before its streamed to the Fed's data mine.
Face it people, Cellular somehow accounts for every dollar that they steal from us on 2 year "contracts". If they have to pay, then they'll fix it, yesterday!
Lets fire up some torches angry villagers !!
Nader. He is the cure for all things unspecified......Sorry I musta dozed off because I was in a parallel universe where I am employed, I don't hate everything and a real women wants to have sex with me.....theoretically.
In the US Justice is blindfolded.
In the UK Justice sees the scales.
In Scotland, Justice is a burley dude wearing a plaid dress.
In matters spanning the pond, let us reflect...What would George and Tony do?
If Corbis won't bug off, then invade Bagdad.
Plopez wrote "We have been so brainwashed we think that 'music piracy' is 'stealing' and a 'crime'. It is not."
Thank you for putting the legal facts out there.
Its true that copyright violations such as downloading are not a crime in the U.S., its a civil issue, and the fines are nowhere near civil.
Eventually, if the oligarch gets their way, all content will be "leased" for limited term usage, we'll never get to "own it" or attempt any unauthorized usage. If we play the tunes a a high school dance or at the beach, then will pay the price of "immediate authorization" like pay-per-view.
I remember the early 80's when HBO first hosted prize fights on pay per view. They went after the Bar Owners that advertised the main event and had a cover charge....It put a few out of business.
When all else fails, eat the rich.
"......We work in a team environment, the way people interact with each other and our customers is crucial."
I agree. So whats the test for? Reality is not an abstract, its involved. These hiring policies will not improve the quality of their staff, its just a way of keeping HR staff costs down and enabling management to be arbitrary in their choices. Real hiring decisions are made the old fasioned way: nepotism, payola, casting couch, old boys network, tribal affilliation, etc.
One thing for certain, when you are given a multiple choice personality "test" you can answer any way that you want. How can they possibly be certain that anyone will ever tell the truth in answers that will assume that there is a preference. The jobless will say what they think will get them hired, not the "truth". HR can't learn anything important about anyone this way, so the applicant's results here are not an effective measure at all. HR should try checking a reference or two or meeting a candidate in person and stop pretending life is fair and equal and multiple-choiced.
Lets face it folks, racism is a convenient little slight of hand to distract us from the real issue: All forms of predudice and nepotism are excersized with fervent corporate superiority. "White" and "male" don't mean jack shit without the rest of the checklist. Yeah sexy, its "Rush Week" at the IT geek fraternity, and if you're a hint frumpy, stiff, unattractive, low class, foreign, inferior, boorish, unstylish, old, political, emotional, totally honest, run of the mill, poor, awkward, uncomedic, unmysterious, un-better than the rest of the lowlife "ordinary" humans that are (actual loser) good-for-nothing but the future solyent green supply.....If you are anything "different" than ideal perfection, in every respect, arbitrarily conceived..... then we'll just jerk you around until we come up with a preferable specimen. What the nazis were did with test tubes and chemicals, corporate america accomplishes with an HR dept and a job opening. Social engineering reinforces the master race's neccesity of exstreme prejudice at all times. This is what makes us #1. Thats why we're better than the rest. Whather or not this distiction is aimed at race is unimportant - its aimed at whatever threatens my security and dominance. Ultimately - Its aimed at whatver it can hit with spit. "We're an equal opportunity "descriminator" but lets start with any rationalization we can invent. The fact is that all forms of prejudice are implemented with an abiding commitment to the "corporate culture" that is being fostered by the "Chosen Ones". Its just another darwinian pyramid scheme we call jungle living. We'll just pretend that we've actually evolved and no longer aspire to our personal survival and exceess comforts in a world of scarcity. When it comes down to it there is'nt a skin color or law invented that will protect you from human nature.
Yeah. It seems more like an *insecurity* device: its used for waving a big "kick me" flag. Like F-Troup's calvalry, it lets the angry savages know that they can't get into the fort no matter how much the contents are worth protecting. Don't look in the henhouse, nothing here but us chickens.
They will do it the way that generates the most revenue. Our (the market's) behavior dictates the terms. Apparently this arrangement leads to the best bottom line. Why? General social conditions and perceptions would seem to indicate that a majority of consumers accept this notion as a reliable and predictable measure of the product's value. When one is confronted with the expense of an enterprise of elaborate dynamic scale, it is logical to break that system down in terms of units, like the bricks in a wall. People or "Users" are the most expensive units in a business, so its reasonable to equate other expense in terms of the personnel. In fact, this is an arbitrary correlation, and yet, it is one that can be understood by anyone, no matter what their experience. Furthermore, it establishes the concept that each and every individual is accountable to the price of the software - no one is exempt from the liability of existence. We all buy into the notion of indebtedness, and this fuels our willingness to be sucked dry at all times. Democracies lend themselves to this notion, even if they never actually vote, and even though some animals are more equal than others. This illusion appeals to our self projected individuality as fundamentalism, even if its inaccurate, subjective, or mythical.
In the event that the economy gets tough, eventually, there can be a higher possibility that the per "head or tail" (per coin) usage as defined by each and every individuals' CPU (heads) or seat (tails) will potentially violate that licensing agreement as the population grows; Its like taxation: all of the people involved can then be held accountable on some level. Duck, duck, goose....
This is just a little bit of Darwinian insurance in the event of real scarcity. Its a shotgun aimed at a flock of geese. Someone is going to feed the hungry hunter; it's just a matter of natural selection.
Its funny how we sit here in this great dilemma. Now, realizing that you can't take it with you. Our own mortality looms and our life's work can dangle from a thread no more reliable than decaying plastics and magnetic drives. Oh sure, all that stuff survived in New Orleans, right?
I spent the 90's recording everything I could on DAT and Cassette. Silly mortal, its all gonna die before I do...
Results speak for themselves: Clearly the most lasting approach is to carve the data into a massive pyramid in the desert. So far, that outlasts Maxell by about 5,000 years, for what its worth.
I mean, really, this is how nature keeps us from getting too uppity about being permanently imprinted everywhere. When we figure out how to make it last forever, then we'll just have accumulated way, way, too much to even care. The good stuff will be retained, somehow, in the culture, perhaps. Maybe the Navajo can memorize it in oral tradition.
In the meantime, be a good consumer if you think it will assure that your tomb will be adorned with your art.
As for me, I'm getting more DVD's just to keep them old DATs and Cassetes company. I might as well get busy before they bury me! Anyone got a viagra?
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Get real and take off that silly underwear. This is the devil's playground, its not an inheritance from God's Will.
Converse affirmative monkey business
Gee, I guess we can rule out any foul play from the bankers. We can trust their integrity.
Its simple folks - there is no such thing complete security. Its a negotiation. If you want a sterile network, then neuter it. Congress can be completely free of network attacks if they disconnect from the Internet, and reality....which defeats the purpose. Short of that I think its a fair assumption that information is a virus. We need to understand that on line is like a public restroom in a football stadium. Relative privacy is available, but don't write any important phone numbers on the wall.
9/80 is sloppy. 9 x 9 = 81 is Square like the geeks we become at work.
We need to nail these turkeys for every penny that they steal. Surcharges, irregular billing cycles, constant repackaging of services, and perpetual equipment rental fees are all a bogus rip off. Even worse, they penalize you for being a regular customer, and offer better rates to the street. This ethic must no longer be dealt with impunity. We need to assure there is some REAL competition in the market place or we make it a free service to all citizens. Perhaps fiber optics should be a public utility. Its time that our country award its citizens above its shareholders. Investors are "fair weather" friends, and have no commitment to "ownership" except for profit. Which is why your 401k accounts all got plundered. NO MORE RIP OFFS OR CORPORATE OBFUSCATION OR WE'LL JUST SHUT DOWN THE SCUMBAGS. I actually prefer LAWYERS to corporate thieves. At least lawyers show up to court.
I will note that Google's Groups Usenet searching is at least partially broken. There are some search terms I've tried in a single group search context, where I got only one or two results, when I know for a fact that there are over 100 results for that query in the archive.
I agree that all of Google's searching is watered down now. I've noted many omissions of archive info I know is indexed. I just don't know why or how they filter the results ....
In my experience, everything about cellular is a rip off. They need to be regulated by consumer advocacy and engineers - not payola politicians. If we pass laws that make them PAY I bet they'll figure out how to handle all those FREE MINUTES before its streamed to the Fed's data mine. Face it people, Cellular somehow accounts for every dollar that they steal from us on 2 year "contracts". If they have to pay, then they'll fix it, yesterday! Lets fire up some torches angry villagers !!
Nader. He is the cure for all things unspecified. .....Sorry I musta dozed off because I was in a parallel universe where I am employed, I don't hate everything and a real women wants to have sex with me.....theoretically.
Eventually we will all be Chinese.
Amen Brother. And said just right gusto. Screw em all, and eat the bossy ones.
Beam me up Scotty!
In the US Justice is blindfolded. In the UK Justice sees the scales. In Scotland, Justice is a burley dude wearing a plaid dress. In matters spanning the pond, let us reflect...What would George and Tony do? If Corbis won't bug off, then invade Bagdad.
Plopez wrote "We have been so brainwashed we think that 'music piracy' is 'stealing' and a 'crime'. It is not." Thank you for putting the legal facts out there. Its true that copyright violations such as downloading are not a crime in the U.S., its a civil issue, and the fines are nowhere near civil. Eventually, if the oligarch gets their way, all content will be "leased" for limited term usage, we'll never get to "own it" or attempt any unauthorized usage. If we play the tunes a a high school dance or at the beach, then will pay the price of "immediate authorization" like pay-per-view. I remember the early 80's when HBO first hosted prize fights on pay per view. They went after the Bar Owners that advertised the main event and had a cover charge....It put a few out of business. When all else fails, eat the rich.
"......We work in a team environment, the way people interact with each other and our customers is crucial." I agree. So whats the test for? Reality is not an abstract, its involved. These hiring policies will not improve the quality of their staff, its just a way of keeping HR staff costs down and enabling management to be arbitrary in their choices. Real hiring decisions are made the old fasioned way: nepotism, payola, casting couch, old boys network, tribal affilliation, etc. One thing for certain, when you are given a multiple choice personality "test" you can answer any way that you want. How can they possibly be certain that anyone will ever tell the truth in answers that will assume that there is a preference. The jobless will say what they think will get them hired, not the "truth". HR can't learn anything important about anyone this way, so the applicant's results here are not an effective measure at all. HR should try checking a reference or two or meeting a candidate in person and stop pretending life is fair and equal and multiple-choiced.
Lets face it folks, racism is a convenient little slight of hand to distract us from the real issue: All forms of predudice and nepotism are excersized with fervent corporate superiority. "White" and "male" don't mean jack shit without the rest of the checklist. Yeah sexy, its "Rush Week" at the IT geek fraternity, and if you're a hint frumpy, stiff, unattractive, low class, foreign, inferior, boorish, unstylish, old, political, emotional, totally honest, run of the mill, poor, awkward, uncomedic, unmysterious, un-better than the rest of the lowlife "ordinary" humans that are (actual loser) good-for-nothing but the future solyent green supply.....If you are anything "different" than ideal perfection, in every respect, arbitrarily conceived..... then we'll just jerk you around until we come up with a preferable specimen. What the nazis were did with test tubes and chemicals, corporate america accomplishes with an HR dept and a job opening. Social engineering reinforces the master race's neccesity of exstreme prejudice at all times. This is what makes us #1. Thats why we're better than the rest. Whather or not this distiction is aimed at race is unimportant - its aimed at whatever threatens my security and dominance. Ultimately - Its aimed at whatver it can hit with spit. "We're an equal opportunity "descriminator" but lets start with any rationalization we can invent. The fact is that all forms of prejudice are implemented with an abiding commitment to the "corporate culture" that is being fostered by the "Chosen Ones". Its just another darwinian pyramid scheme we call jungle living. We'll just pretend that we've actually evolved and no longer aspire to our personal survival and exceess comforts in a world of scarcity. When it comes down to it there is'nt a skin color or law invented that will protect you from human nature.
Yeah. It seems more like an *insecurity* device: its used for waving a big "kick me" flag. Like F-Troup's calvalry, it lets the angry savages know that they can't get into the fort no matter how much the contents are worth protecting. Don't look in the henhouse, nothing here but us chickens.
They will do it the way that generates the most revenue. Our (the market's) behavior dictates the terms. Apparently this arrangement leads to the best bottom line. Why? General social conditions and perceptions would seem to indicate that a majority of consumers accept this notion as a reliable and predictable measure of the product's value. When one is confronted with the expense of an enterprise of elaborate dynamic scale, it is logical to break that system down in terms of units, like the bricks in a wall. People or "Users" are the most expensive units in a business, so its reasonable to equate other expense in terms of the personnel. In fact, this is an arbitrary correlation, and yet, it is one that can be understood by anyone, no matter what their experience. Furthermore, it establishes the concept that each and every individual is accountable to the price of the software - no one is exempt from the liability of existence. We all buy into the notion of indebtedness, and this fuels our willingness to be sucked dry at all times. Democracies lend themselves to this notion, even if they never actually vote, and even though some animals are more equal than others. This illusion appeals to our self projected individuality as fundamentalism, even if its inaccurate, subjective, or mythical.
In the event that the economy gets tough, eventually, there can be a higher possibility that the per "head or tail" (per coin) usage as defined by each and every individuals' CPU (heads) or seat (tails) will potentially violate that licensing agreement as the population grows; Its like taxation: all of the people involved can then be held accountable on some level. Duck, duck, goose....
This is just a little bit of Darwinian insurance in the event of real scarcity. Its a shotgun aimed at a flock of geese. Someone is going to feed the hungry hunter; it's just a matter of natural selection.
Its funny how we sit here in this great dilemma. Now, realizing that you can't take it with you. Our own mortality looms and our life's work can dangle from a thread no more reliable than decaying plastics and magnetic drives. Oh sure, all that stuff survived in New Orleans, right?
I spent the 90's recording everything I could on DAT and Cassette. Silly mortal, its all gonna die before I do...
Results speak for themselves: Clearly the most lasting approach is to carve the data into a massive pyramid in the desert. So far, that outlasts Maxell by about 5,000 years, for what its worth.
I mean, really, this is how nature keeps us from getting too uppity about being permanently imprinted everywhere. When we figure out how to make it last forever, then we'll just have accumulated way, way, too much to even care. The good stuff will be retained, somehow, in the culture, perhaps. Maybe the Navajo can memorize it in oral tradition.
In the meantime, be a good consumer if you think it will assure that your tomb will be adorned with your art.
As for me, I'm getting more DVD's just to keep them old DATs and Cassetes company. I might as well get busy before they bury me! Anyone got a viagra?