Basically we're talking about making changes to the corporate network that make no sense. We already went backwards in the sense that we have all these PCs on desktops and our organizations' processing power tends to be distributed throughout our organization where it sits idle most of the time.
Translation: you used to like being the dude wearing the white coat in the computer lab and having a half-door that regular employees could make requests for printed reports at. It all started going downhill when they let them have those Lear-Siegler ADM3A dumb terminals! And it's only gotten worse!
And I am supposed to care that Facebook is selling this information to investors? Said investors, AND Facebook, can go out of business as far as I am concerned. I don't see any reason why they should continue to exist.
And the opponents of 'Do-Not-Track' are pissing all over themselves because they know this is another 'Causes Cancer in California' thing. Once California institutes it, it will become the regulatory norm that every other political entity follows.
Facebook already has an opt-out privacy mechanism called no using it.
Not really. Once you opt-in you have what becomes essentially a permanent presence in their database. There is a 'delete my account' link but it is instantly reactivated if you happen to wander into Facebook space or any of their associates' sites without completely deleting all your cookies and misc. Most people aren't very good at doing that. So even if they go to the link and 'completely delete' their account, all it takes is one logged presence on the Facebook servers for the timer to be updated yet again. There has to be NO logged presence that Facebook detects for 30 days or more before the account is actually deleted.
I would advocate that people should produce as many crap made-up Facebook accounts as they can. We should develop scripting sites to make that easier for people to do. Fucking them over is as simple as 10% of the Facebook using public creating ten fake accounts to totally fuck up their data set. But that won't happen.
If the really wealthy really paid their fair share, I think society would be more at ease because things like health care, education, clean energy, and science would have the funding
If government would stop sucking the air/fuel out of the economy, then things like health care, education, clean energy, and science would get more funding.
The problem of marketing/advertising is also a big one. Perhaps if government didn't guarantee such a high return for 'building a brand through mere advertising' because of the way trademark law is established, companies would get back to their roots of producing products people want and establishing their 'name' in that fashion.
The electronic part number link farms do need to die. They've taken the need for datasheets and the ability of vendors to supply them and turned it into a swamp.
We are the product they sell to their customers, who are the advertisers.
The WWW as it is presently composed consists of a lot of end users, a scattering of small operators, and a handful of very wealthy owners of the Central Servers. It's so 'classic 19th century capitalist' that it screams at us, but so few people seem to understand that the entities that own the big servers are not our friends.
Maybe they just did it so that someone like you could ask 'why.' Because I can't think of anything more satisfying than a good hack that confuses your type of person. Yeah, it ain't something you are going to use every day. As long as it befuddles the non-geeks (that's what someone who asks the question the way you phrased it is) it's cool.
Viva for 'wasting time, resources and bandwidth' even if it's someone like you, with your sort of comment, doing the wasting. I guess.
It's often ___immeasureably__ useful to get some (any) kind of console output when porting Linux to an existing device running e.g. windows mobile 5 or 6.
Agreed. But hacking it to output VGA is cool, but I wouldn't call it getting console output.
Also, almost inevitably when people start work on 'porting' Linux to something, NetBSD is already running on it. Usually from the main source tree. Then someone cobbles together some sort of clunky non-standard userland onto it and calls it 'Linux.'
So a version for Windows that looks like a candy apple, one for the Mac that has a brushed chrome frame around it that uses 2/3 of the screen area, and 35 different versions for Linux, then?
Money is just the lubricant that keeps the gears of the economy running smoothly.
Sure, you can pour an abrasive into the crankcase, in place of the (oil) money, as your forefathers Lenin and Stalin attempted. It keeps the gears free and moving for awhile. But it grinds up the bits doing the actual work.
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Well, you just have to think you're smarter than all of them.
You're sitting pretty, dude.
By 'proper' you mean 'billable hours for me and my buddies,' correct?
What kind of oil were they after? Was it snake oil?
Actually, what Abu Ghraib showed was that members of the US Military are delivered with swift punishment for abuse of prisoners.
I've heard hearsay that they pulled him out, played a game of checkers with him, and only shot him after he lost the game of checkers.
I guess that just goes to show how valid hearsay is.
Terrorists often improvise, since they aren't part of a conventional military with a quartermaster to request bombs from.
On 9/11 several large commercial airliners, specifically hijacked when they were fully fueled, were converted into bombs by terrorists.
sneezing snot into a nice soft kleenex and you're retarded!
Don't be a moron. Everybody knows that Puffs rule. Kleenix is, like, brillo, man.
Basically we're talking about making changes to the corporate network that make no sense. We already went backwards in the sense that we have all these PCs on desktops and our organizations' processing power tends to be distributed throughout our organization where it sits idle most of the time.
Translation: you used to like being the dude wearing the white coat in the computer lab and having a half-door that regular employees could make requests for printed reports at. It all started going downhill when they let them have those Lear-Siegler ADM3A dumb terminals! And it's only gotten worse!
Also, would you please change the toner on the fucking LJ4 in accounting?
I just have a home wireless network, and even dumb old I know enough to set up a MAC address whitelist on the router.
And I am supposed to care that Facebook is selling this information to investors? Said investors, AND Facebook, can go out of business as far as I am concerned. I don't see any reason why they should continue to exist.
And the opponents of 'Do-Not-Track' are pissing all over themselves because they know this is another 'Causes Cancer in California' thing. Once California institutes it, it will become the regulatory norm that every other political entity follows.
I'd like to seen an opt-in whitelist instead.
Suck on that, server-owners.
Facebook already has an opt-out privacy mechanism called no using it.
Not really. Once you opt-in you have what becomes essentially a permanent presence in their database. There is a 'delete my account' link but it is instantly reactivated if you happen to wander into Facebook space or any of their associates' sites without completely deleting all your cookies and misc. Most people aren't very good at doing that. So even if they go to the link and 'completely delete' their account, all it takes is one logged presence on the Facebook servers for the timer to be updated yet again. There has to be NO logged presence that Facebook detects for 30 days or more before the account is actually deleted.
I would advocate that people should produce as many crap made-up Facebook accounts as they can. We should develop scripting sites to make that easier for people to do. Fucking them over is as simple as 10% of the Facebook using public creating ten fake accounts to totally fuck up their data set. But that won't happen.
Fuck you Zuckface.
If the really wealthy really paid their fair share, I think society would be more at ease because things like health care, education, clean energy, and science would have the funding
If government would stop sucking the air/fuel out of the economy, then things like health care, education, clean energy, and science would get more funding.
The problem of marketing/advertising is also a big one. Perhaps if government didn't guarantee such a high return for 'building a brand through mere advertising' because of the way trademark law is established, companies would get back to their roots of producing products people want and establishing their 'name' in that fashion.
The electronic part number link farms do need to die. They've taken the need for datasheets and the ability of vendors to supply them and turned it into a swamp.
The end user is not Google's customer.
We are the product they sell to their customers, who are the advertisers.
The WWW as it is presently composed consists of a lot of end users, a scattering of small operators, and a handful of very wealthy owners of the Central Servers. It's so 'classic 19th century capitalist' that it screams at us, but so few people seem to understand that the entities that own the big servers are not our friends.
Maybe they just did it so that someone like you could ask 'why.' Because I can't think of anything more satisfying than a good hack that confuses your type of person. Yeah, it ain't something you are going to use every day. As long as it befuddles the non-geeks (that's what someone who asks the question the way you phrased it is) it's cool.
Viva for 'wasting time, resources and bandwidth' even if it's someone like you, with your sort of comment, doing the wasting. I guess.
It's often ___immeasureably__ useful to get some (any) kind of console output when porting Linux to an existing device running e.g. windows mobile 5 or 6.
Agreed. But hacking it to output VGA is cool, but I wouldn't call it getting console output.
Also, almost inevitably when people start work on 'porting' Linux to something, NetBSD is already running on it. Usually from the main source tree. Then someone cobbles together some sort of clunky non-standard userland onto it and calls it 'Linux.'
As for programmers with screwdrivers....
OMG. Follow your own advice: Speak for yourself
Also, programmers are a small subset of geeks. Most geeks know how to program, but lots of programmers are just IT drones.
That's almost like saying 'if your picture doesn't appear on some of the 'Community Chest' cards in the Monopoly game you're not in the wealthy class.
That is to say: cut out the dumb stereotyping. Rich scum are all over.
You've outed yourself as a nut.
The problem is, you just described 97% of the demographic. I don't think they will be the ones who have to resort to fucking themselves.
So a version for Windows that looks like a candy apple, one for the Mac that has a brushed chrome frame around it that uses 2/3 of the screen area, and 35 different versions for Linux, then?
rather than the current money-based system
Money is just the lubricant that keeps the gears of the economy running smoothly.
Sure, you can pour an abrasive into the crankcase, in place of the (oil) money, as your forefathers Lenin and Stalin attempted. It keeps the gears free and moving for awhile. But it grinds up the bits doing the actual work.