Let us create a separate domain for phish hosts! All phishing sites must clearly identify them as phishing sites to get a chance to be listed in that domain. Of course, compliance is voluntary. It makes as much sense as the safe domain for the banks.
People respond to phishes and Nigerian scams and give all their usernames and passwords voluntarily without ever touching their banks or the safe domains. How can banks protect against such users? Why should it be the bank's responsibility to tell the customers, "It is not a good idea to paint your user name and password on the side of your home in 26inch high letters".
I find that cleartype is easy on my eyes while browsing websites etc with lots of text meant to be read by humans. Code, OTOH, looks horrible in cleartype. When I have to tell, single quote from double, where braces are very important, where I have to tell zero from o, two from zee, ell from one, bah... ClearType makes a mess.
I think Novell has become an wholly owned subsidiary of MSFT and is being used for the express purpose of setting up precedents and creating more and more FUD. I have seen a version of anti-aliasing and sub-pixel addressing way back when in, of all places, grc.com.
There are hundreds and hundreds of advertisements that go out every day in every media where they specifically identify their competitor and bash them in their ads. Like in, "Acme Garage changes oil for 9.99$, Superior Garage charges 19.99$". There are store brands of products that mimic a copytighted product. For example, the store brand mouth wash Equate specifically says, "Same active ingredient as in Scope(R)TM". Why leave them all out and bring only the electronic ads into the purview of the law?
You are comparing America's behaviour to an ideal behaviour and you find it wanting. I was comparing its behaviour to other countries, specifically China. I find America's behaviour much better. There is really no contradiction here.
There is much truth to what you say, and we can not rest on our laurels and say "the others would have been much worse". We should question, challenge and continue to demand America to move towards ideals. But at the same time, forgetting to realize that what America is doing is better than what other countrues (would) have done is also a disservice to America.
America is not using full force. It is trying very hard not to hurt the civilians. I am not saying America does not hurt civilians. But they dont do it deliberately. Abu Gharib happened and some of the military personnel were roasted and punished. If China was running Abu Gharib, the torture would have been worse, no pictures would have come out, even if pictures came out no Chinese army officer would have been called into account.
War is about Can I hurt you more than you are willing to tolerate before you could hurt me more than I am willing tolerate? Till about WW-II all nations have similar high level of tolerance to death/destruction/loss. Russia lost 20 million people including civilians. Germany about 8 mill, and USA about 0.5 mill. Presently the level of tolerance for loss in America is very low. The threshold the Islamic militants have to reach to "hurt" America is as low as killing one single solitary soldier. The level of tolerance to loss by Al Quaida is very very high. It is impossible for America to hurt al-Quaida enough before it kills one soldier. On the other hand, the level of tolerance to loss is very high for China. Islamists will lose badly to China.
Nah, Already chinese imports are flooding the Arab countries. But all China exports are material goods. Islam has no problem with the goods. Infact the Arabs have been taxing goods flowing through the Silk Raod via Samarkand deep into China, into Turkey for a long long time.
The problem Islam has with the West is that we export our culture. We impact their way of life and embolden the youth to question their authorities. For every suicide bomber you hear about in Iraq, some 5000 of his brothers are standing in line to get a visa to USA. China, OTOH, loves authoritarianism and knows how to placate the rulers so that it can continue to make money. So I dont expect any serious confrontation between China and Islam. Only if Islamists decide to attack China and try to take it over there will be a problem. And China will react with violence which the Islamists understand very well. Fundamentally there is no difference between Arab rulers and Chinese rulers. Both are authoritarian. Both control their masses with a mixture of ideology and ruthlessness.
Well, let me quickly write a scenario for my boss. What will happen in 10 years if they dont immediately fund my division with an additional 3 million bucks and 22 new engineers. Can I say our customers will come to the corporate headquarters and sack and pillage it and carry away the fetching executive assistant the CFO has hired? Nah, wont work. Our management is not as dumb as the UK DoD.
Or it could be that the news that it failed on April 07 was sent back in time and appeared on April 02. They should not be messing with fundamental physics like this.
Cant you guys sue MSFT + DELL + HPQ under antitrust laws? If you can band together and sue get upto discovery process and find the true price MSFT is charging the big name vendors. Still please do hang in there, a class action law suite will come eventually and you may be able recoup the losses you suffered by paying full reatail price for WinOS. Right now MSFT looks invincible and no one is willing to take a at it. But someday the logjam will break and the pendulum will swing so far that we might even pity MSFT! Just 10 or 12 years back, the tobacco companies looked invincible. No one thought they could be taken in court. Such a fate is looming MSFT too. (warning: IANAL)
The benefits of avoiding vendor lock, true interoperability fostering competition among the software vendors etc will ulitmately benefit the consumers. No doubt about it. Among the consumers the biggest block is the corporate America and these big companies that spend billions of dollars. But they dont seem to care much for OpenDoc and are, persumably willingly, paying whatever MSFT is billing them. What is going on? Bigname PC vendors all compete on price and not single one of them is trying to differentiate themselves from rest of the pack by pre loading the windows boxes with OpenOffice or FireFox or Gimp. Corporate America is not demanding true interoperability and a level playing field for their vendors. Either there is some serious wrong doing by MSFT like bribing IT managers and giving kick backs to PC vendors. Or these people are really dumb. Still I think the time to celebrate is when corporate America decides not lock up their data in a format owned by someone else. Politicians are fickle. A few thousand in campaign contributions they will sing MSFT anthem and betray their voters.
I really dont care which format becomes the defacto standard. As long as the standard is open. Multiple vendors should be able make hardware and software based on that standard without having to pay a royalty or license fee to anyone. And all these vendors should compete on a level playing field. If AAC format is encumbered with bias that benefits iPod or Apple over the competitors, then it is no better than the situation where Microsoft controls the market share. The key is Open standards. Not open software/hardware. not Free software/hardware. They are all separate issues. Fundamental idea is true interoperability.
Shutting up and paying taxes isn't the way America should work.
You seem to rather preoccupied with the phrase "shut up and pay your taxes". You dont seem to realize it is a reply to a whiner who said, "if I have to pay tax, then I am nothing more than a renter". You repeat the standard kool-aid of the far right, from worshipping Bushmaster AR15 to treating the Federalist papers like the muslims treat Q`ran. "This is how I interpret the Fedaralist Papers and any deviation from it means you are apostate." But when the very same papers were interpreted they way you do women, native Americans, slaves, Jews and the minorities suffered enormously. Except for a few White men willing to appear to be God fearing Christians, all the rest had very very difficult time in the early America. You dont have any comprehension of these things. All you know is to repeat the hard right mantras
You say you've read Rand in your profile, I'd suggest you try the federalist papers next.
I have, in this very thread, eulogized the US Justice Department as the very envy of every devloping nation in the world. I am also aware, among many other things, that as recently as in 1918, US Supreme Court (Justice Sutherland) ruled that "Although Indians are Caucasians, they are not white and hence not eligble for naturalization". I admire the Courts despite such a past. And you seem to derive some kind of perverse pleasure in calling India a a third world shithole. You are still living the times of Justice Sutherland who made that ruling. I have shown far better analytical skills and depth of knowledge and very clearly I am not in need of suggested reading material from you
You used to suffer all through early 1990s, when your car kept saying "A door is ajar" "A door is ajar". Well, this car is the reason why the automakers thought it would be a great idea to make the cars talk. Buy it and vent all your pent up rage on it.
How does the government enhance my ability to earn a living? For some of us, it actually interferes with our ability to earn a living.
Really? You make a widget and some local thug comes in and takes it away from you. You run to the police! Wait there is no police. Ok grudgingly all the widget makers band together to fund a local police and chip in some money. That is how local govt started collecting taxes.
You go, "I am ok with local govt and its taxes, I am talking about the Federal govt here". Just think it through you will get it. What the much maligned federal govt is doing for you.
Widget market gets controlled by a widget sellers cartel who pay the widget makers rock bottom prices, not unlike what Walmart is doing to China. It is the Sherman antitrust laws that gives the common man a fair shake. The interstate commerce clause makes sure the widgets you make has a huge market. The fair credit laws, breach-of-contract laws, more importantly the machinery to enforce it creates wealth for your consumers who will pay more for your widgets. The ability to enforce contracts using civil court proceedings is such a huge wealth creator and multiplier like you cant imagine. That is why I asked you if you have lived in another country. Despite all the lawyer jokes, and law being an ass and courts being laughed at for their insane decisions, the civil dispute resolution mechanism of USA is the envy of every developing nation in the world.
To make your widget making facility you walk into your local bank and get open a line of credit. Self made man you are and all you want is govt off your back so that you can make widgets and a living through that. In India you cant do that. The banks are Govt owned and they will lend you money only if they think the widget you make is of national interest. Or you should know someone. Or you should bribe someone. OK what about private lenders? Soft people who would be willing to lend money at lower interest dont do it because there is no effective debt collection mechanism or contract enforcement mechanism. Those who are willing lend are those who have the ability to collect without going to courts. You are their mercy for loans and the loan rates depend on the weapons owned by your clan/caste/tribe and the willingness of your cousins to stand up to the money lenders. Is there any wonder why USA creates wealth and India is mired in poverty?
You want lower taxes? That is a reasonable. You want to claim that "if I have to pay a tax I am nothing more than a renter"? That is hyperbole. To think that the Federal, state and the local governments have done nothing to enhance your ability to earn a living is just plain ignorance, to be charitable.
It is beyond question that the earning potential of every American is enhanced by the goverment. Every one of them. Without any exception. The only question are could it do even more? Could it do it for less taxes? It is really a sad day that I, from India have to teach the fundamentals of economics to you. (a natural born American, I assume)
Why not? You support people who claim that the Government (Federal, State or local) have done nothing to deserve the tax they collect. There are places in the world where there is no government to speak of. They are not nice places to live.
Government protects wealth. Government enhances your ability to earn a living. It deserves to tax you. It is possible that it could protect it better, or enhance your ability more than what it currently does. It could probably do it with lot less tax than what it collects now. The quantum of tax collected is a legitimate point to argue about and act up in the elections. But making stupid statements like, "If I have to pay a tax then I dont own anything I am nothing but a renter" is either dumb or politically motivated lie.
"Shut up and pay your taxes" is the correct and valid response to whiners who say, "If I have to pay a tax own this property, I dont own anything, I am nothing more than a renter." .
You made 6 points in that post, violating your own rule 4. Did those people who were teaching you "how to effectively communicate using power point and extremely long course titles that specify all the course content inculding the final examn paper" have more than 4 points to make?
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Let us create a separate domain for phish hosts! All phishing sites must clearly identify them as phishing sites to get a chance to be listed in that domain. Of course, compliance is voluntary. It makes as much sense as the safe domain for the banks.
I find that cleartype is easy on my eyes while browsing websites etc with lots of text meant to be read by humans. Code, OTOH, looks horrible in cleartype. When I have to tell, single quote from double, where braces are very important, where I have to tell zero from o, two from zee, ell from one, bah... ClearType makes a mess.
I have not been to GRC.com for a long time, I quickly grabbed the URL and posted it here in another thread. Looks like that site cites a long list of prior art. Makes the OpenSUSE's decision even more suspect.
I think Novell has become an wholly owned subsidiary of MSFT and is being used for the express purpose of setting up precedents and creating more and more FUD. I have seen a version of anti-aliasing and sub-pixel addressing way back when in, of all places, grc.com.
There are hundreds and hundreds of advertisements that go out every day in every media where they specifically identify their competitor and bash them in their ads. Like in, "Acme Garage changes oil for 9.99$, Superior Garage charges 19.99$". There are store brands of products that mimic a copytighted product. For example, the store brand mouth wash Equate specifically says, "Same active ingredient as in Scope(R)TM". Why leave them all out and bring only the electronic ads into the purview of the law?
There is much truth to what you say, and we can not rest on our laurels and say "the others would have been much worse". We should question, challenge and continue to demand America to move towards ideals. But at the same time, forgetting to realize that what America is doing is better than what other countrues (would) have done is also a disservice to America.
War is about Can I hurt you more than you are willing to tolerate before you could hurt me more than I am willing tolerate? Till about WW-II all nations have similar high level of tolerance to death/destruction/loss. Russia lost 20 million people including civilians. Germany about 8 mill, and USA about 0.5 mill. Presently the level of tolerance for loss in America is very low. The threshold the Islamic militants have to reach to "hurt" America is as low as killing one single solitary soldier. The level of tolerance to loss by Al Quaida is very very high. It is impossible for America to hurt al-Quaida enough before it kills one soldier. On the other hand, the level of tolerance to loss is very high for China. Islamists will lose badly to China.
Is that the new term slashdotters are using for pr0n?
The problem Islam has with the West is that we export our culture. We impact their way of life and embolden the youth to question their authorities. For every suicide bomber you hear about in Iraq, some 5000 of his brothers are standing in line to get a visa to USA. China, OTOH, loves authoritarianism and knows how to placate the rulers so that it can continue to make money. So I dont expect any serious confrontation between China and Islam. Only if Islamists decide to attack China and try to take it over there will be a problem. And China will react with violence which the Islamists understand very well. Fundamentally there is no difference between Arab rulers and Chinese rulers. Both are authoritarian. Both control their masses with a mixture of ideology and ruthlessness.
Well, let me quickly write a scenario for my boss. What will happen in 10 years if they dont immediately fund my division with an additional 3 million bucks and 22 new engineers. Can I say our customers will come to the corporate headquarters and sack and pillage it and carry away the fetching executive assistant the CFO has hired? Nah, wont work. Our management is not as dumb as the UK DoD.
Or it could be that the news that it failed on April 07 was sent back in time and appeared on April 02. They should not be messing with fundamental physics like this.
Cant you guys sue MSFT + DELL + HPQ under antitrust laws? If you can band together and sue get upto discovery process and find the true price MSFT is charging the big name vendors. Still please do hang in there, a class action law suite will come eventually and you may be able recoup the losses you suffered by paying full reatail price for WinOS. Right now MSFT looks invincible and no one is willing to take a at it. But someday the logjam will break and the pendulum will swing so far that we might even pity MSFT! Just 10 or 12 years back, the tobacco companies looked invincible. No one thought they could be taken in court. Such a fate is looming MSFT too. (warning: IANAL)
The benefits of avoiding vendor lock, true interoperability fostering competition among the software vendors etc will ulitmately benefit the consumers. No doubt about it. Among the consumers the biggest block is the corporate America and these big companies that spend billions of dollars. But they dont seem to care much for OpenDoc and are, persumably willingly, paying whatever MSFT is billing them. What is going on? Bigname PC vendors all compete on price and not single one of them is trying to differentiate themselves from rest of the pack by pre loading the windows boxes with OpenOffice or FireFox or Gimp. Corporate America is not demanding true interoperability and a level playing field for their vendors. Either there is some serious wrong doing by MSFT like bribing IT managers and giving kick backs to PC vendors. Or these people are really dumb. Still I think the time to celebrate is when corporate America decides not lock up their data in a format owned by someone else. Politicians are fickle. A few thousand in campaign contributions they will sing MSFT anthem and betray their voters.
I really dont care which format becomes the defacto standard. As long as the standard is open. Multiple vendors should be able make hardware and software based on that standard without having to pay a royalty or license fee to anyone. And all these vendors should compete on a level playing field. If AAC format is encumbered with bias that benefits iPod or Apple over the competitors, then it is no better than the situation where Microsoft controls the market share. The key is Open standards. Not open software/hardware. not Free software/hardware. They are all separate issues. Fundamental idea is true interoperability.
You seem to rather preoccupied with the phrase "shut up and pay your taxes". You dont seem to realize it is a reply to a whiner who said, "if I have to pay tax, then I am nothing more than a renter". You repeat the standard kool-aid of the far right, from worshipping Bushmaster AR15 to treating the Federalist papers like the muslims treat Q`ran. "This is how I interpret the Fedaralist Papers and any deviation from it means you are apostate." But when the very same papers were interpreted they way you do women, native Americans, slaves, Jews and the minorities suffered enormously. Except for a few White men willing to appear to be God fearing Christians, all the rest had very very difficult time in the early America. You dont have any comprehension of these things. All you know is to repeat the hard right mantras
You say you've read Rand in your profile, I'd suggest you try the federalist papers next.
I have, in this very thread, eulogized the US Justice Department as the very envy of every devloping nation in the world. I am also aware, among many other things, that as recently as in 1918, US Supreme Court (Justice Sutherland) ruled that "Although Indians are Caucasians, they are not white and hence not eligble for naturalization". I admire the Courts despite such a past. And you seem to derive some kind of perverse pleasure in calling India a a third world shithole. You are still living the times of Justice Sutherland who made that ruling. I have shown far better analytical skills and depth of knowledge and very clearly I am not in need of suggested reading material from you
You may have the last word.
If and when a 3D xerox machine is avaialble, would it be considered a self-replicating Turing machine?
You used to suffer all through early 1990s, when your car kept saying "A door is ajar" "A door is ajar". Well, this car is the reason why the automakers thought it would be a great idea to make the cars talk. Buy it and vent all your pent up rage on it.
You are correct. No one would accuse Osama ibn Ladin as being modern.
Really? You make a widget and some local thug comes in and takes it away from you. You run to the police! Wait there is no police. Ok grudgingly all the widget makers band together to fund a local police and chip in some money. That is how local govt started collecting taxes.
You go, "I am ok with local govt and its taxes, I am talking about the Federal govt here". Just think it through you will get it. What the much maligned federal govt is doing for you.
Widget market gets controlled by a widget sellers cartel who pay the widget makers rock bottom prices, not unlike what Walmart is doing to China. It is the Sherman antitrust laws that gives the common man a fair shake. The interstate commerce clause makes sure the widgets you make has a huge market. The fair credit laws, breach-of-contract laws, more importantly the machinery to enforce it creates wealth for your consumers who will pay more for your widgets. The ability to enforce contracts using civil court proceedings is such a huge wealth creator and multiplier like you cant imagine. That is why I asked you if you have lived in another country. Despite all the lawyer jokes, and law being an ass and courts being laughed at for their insane decisions, the civil dispute resolution mechanism of USA is the envy of every developing nation in the world.
To make your widget making facility you walk into your local bank and get open a line of credit. Self made man you are and all you want is govt off your back so that you can make widgets and a living through that. In India you cant do that. The banks are Govt owned and they will lend you money only if they think the widget you make is of national interest. Or you should know someone. Or you should bribe someone. OK what about private lenders? Soft people who would be willing to lend money at lower interest dont do it because there is no effective debt collection mechanism or contract enforcement mechanism. Those who are willing lend are those who have the ability to collect without going to courts. You are their mercy for loans and the loan rates depend on the weapons owned by your clan/caste/tribe and the willingness of your cousins to stand up to the money lenders. Is there any wonder why USA creates wealth and India is mired in poverty?
You want lower taxes? That is a reasonable. You want to claim that "if I have to pay a tax I am nothing more than a renter"? That is hyperbole. To think that the Federal, state and the local governments have done nothing to enhance your ability to earn a living is just plain ignorance, to be charitable.
It is beyond question that the earning potential of every American is enhanced by the goverment. Every one of them. Without any exception. The only question are could it do even more? Could it do it for less taxes? It is really a sad day that I, from India have to teach the fundamentals of economics to you. (a natural born American, I assume)
That is your root cause of the problem. Stop using IE, all your problems will go away.
Why not? You support people who claim that the Government (Federal, State or local) have done nothing to deserve the tax they collect. There are places in the world where there is no government to speak of. They are not nice places to live.
Government protects wealth. Government enhances your ability to earn a living. It deserves to tax you. It is possible that it could protect it better, or enhance your ability more than what it currently does. It could probably do it with lot less tax than what it collects now. The quantum of tax collected is a legitimate point to argue about and act up in the elections. But making stupid statements like, "If I have to pay a tax then I dont own anything I am nothing but a renter" is either dumb or politically motivated lie.
"Shut up and pay your taxes" is the correct and valid response to whiners who say, "If I have to pay a tax own this property, I dont own anything, I am nothing more than a renter." .
Have you lived in another country?
You made 6 points in that post, violating your own rule 4. Did those people who were teaching you "how to effectively communicate using power point and extremely long course titles that specify all the course content inculding the final examn paper" have more than 4 points to make?