"The person who's carrying out the act doesn't think about the consequences, and certainly doesn't think they're going to get caught," Mitnick said.
"I really can't see people researching what the penalties are before they do something."
That is why they are criminals. Rational people think before they violate the law.
I, in fact, disagree with this premise. Chucking some idiot in the klink for a couple of years for creating a virus or worm ought to settle those people that think "OO this should be fun".
Just like anyone wishing to go around and committing FRAUD, BURGLARY, and LARCENY should think twice before pulling a Kevin Mitnick.
Repeat : KEVIN MITNICK IS A CONVICTED CRIMINAL, BY EVERY MEASURE OF THE LAW.
I had to pay $2500 bond, $2500 fines, $1500 lawyer fees, and $150 to get my vehicle back. Next phase is my insurance went up over $2000/year.
I am not necessarily a big fan of "It's a safer state with.08", but I have seen the effects the DUI cause, and it isn't all high speed collisions and drivers swerving all over the road. It is about the fact that above a certain point, alchohol impairs one's ability to react to stimuli, which is especiallydangerous in a car.
Instead of complaining about your mistake, why not take responsibility for your actions? Checkpoints aside, a body often times must try to get pulled over and given a field sobriety test. The law is designed to make people think twice before endangering the public at large.
If documents are important to archive, especially for long periods of time, transferring the data to a less technical medium such as film is a much better alternative to the CD.
20 years ago, a great many people owned 8-Track tapes and players, along with record albums on vinyl. Very few of these items are readily available. I certainly know a few people with turn tables, but no one who owns an 8-Track player.
Whos is going to gurantee that the technology in use in 2103 can read a CD created in 2003? By storing data on film, even as a series of light/dark bits, requires very little technology for retrieval. Think about that, a lamp, a lense, and a wall to view an image. Data encoded as a string of bits could easily be read into a recording device.
Many types of film can be stored for much longe periods than CD's, and can be easily copied and in some cases restored.
Why does no one take a Tyrant like approach to this problem?
Also, no Linux email client supports automatic execution of executable code.
What about defining a MIME-type for specific type of data? If you had a predefined type for PostScript data that told your mail client to open up ghostscript or something simialar, could I not put malicious code into the postscript code?
I believe this would be automatic execution of code, no?
I have always thought that the hype and marketing were part of the problem, at least as far as drop off is concerned.
One reason that movies make more money in their opening weekedns now is that compared to 5 or 10 years ago, they open on a far greater number of screens in cinemas that seat more people for a higher price. Simply from the point of view that more people are able to attend a screening on the opening weekend, it is no wonder that ther is such a tremendous drop off.
Now, combine this idea with the marketting hype and it is no wonder that films drop so precipitously in the second and third weeks. The Hulk was in production for 2 years, The Matrix Reloaded as well, and all the while the studio's hype engines were working hard to produce buzz for the films. I can't even count the number of "Making of 'TheHulk'" documentaries that were on, or how many times "Access Hollywood" interviewed the cast of Matrix Reloaded.
When there is an admittedly contained fan base for some films, so much hype only increases the chances that it won't do well after week 1. How many people have planned to go see Matrix Revolutions the day or weekend it opens already? I would guess somewhere around 65% of the people that are going to see the film. I myself generally see films on the weekend that they open because I have been waiting to see it. The films that I don't see on open weekends are the good ones without the hype, films such as "A Beautiful Mind", "E Tu Mama Tambien", or "Pollock".
What I submit is that even though a lot of these movies suck, they are further injured by a glut of seats, resulting in poor staying power at the box office.
Actually, in some casinos, cards are constantly reshuffled, using a special machine, giving a constant feedback as tot he distribution of the cards.
It is certainly not illegal to count cards in your head. However, the casinos do reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, and they do to card counters. This is their right by law, just as Best Buy can boot you abusing their free games and such.
Another thing to think of is the card counter that screws you, and everyone else at the table by hitting when conventional wisdom says not to. If the dealer is showing a five and he has 16, one outght to stay, but if he is counting cards and gets 21, you are screwed if, by taking that card, he causes the dealer to beat you.
The last I read, one of the reasons Mars is in its present state is because it lacks sufficient mass to retain an atmosphere that will allow greenhouse warming.
Why then is the idea of terraforming Mars even considered? If we could generate a significant volume of CO2 into the atmosphere, won't alot of it either escape to space, or freeze? Mars is not a balmy place, given that it is about 1.5 times further from the sun than the earth. Given that is also almost half the radius of earth and an order of magnitude less in mass, is it really practical to attempt to terraform the place.
If a warming atmosphere were created, how warm would it get? There would certainly be far less sunlight than an arctic spring, with the suns energy significantly lessened from the increased distance. Would we not merely have a chilly, mostly lifeless planet? I doubt that a terraformed Mars could support much more than hardy steppe grasses, it would almost certainly be too cold for most animals and aquatic life.
Honeslty, I hade charlatans as much as the next guy, but this really speaks to weaknesses in the intelligence of investors.
I am sure that most reasonably intelligent people who were awake when their HIGH SCHOOL physics teachers waxed poetic on the 2nd Law were sceptical about Tilley's claims. It is the Free Lunch axiom. So why did Tilley's investors not require some concrete information regarding this "magic box".
If any of these investors spent 5 minutes researching his claims, they should have realized that there is no such thing as a free lunch. This is not a Star Trek universe where dS can be negative and quantum effects are randomly applicable.
I say Caveat Emptor if you are stupid enough to believe a scheister like this.
I believe that indentured servitude was made illegal more than a century ago, and now we have this wonderful thing in the US called "at-will employee". The vast majority of us salaried employees are just that.
For those of you who don't know, if you do not have a specific contract, your a probably at-will. This means that you are free to leave at any time you like, just as your employer, with some restriction, is permitted to terminate your employment. This is wonderful when faced with an environment that becomes unsuitable or hostile, an employee is free to leave as is his wont.
When face with such a situtationas described, you have two choices:
1. Work the requested time and try and gain some concession from your employer (additional vacation, bonus, free pot, 'ludes).
2. Tell them to stick it and walk out the front door.
If the economy is that bad, perhaps staying is your best option. Remember, if the deal is that important to the company, there is most assuredly some decent revenue riding on it. With out revenue, you can't have profit, and without profits, or at least solid or increasing revenue, your stock won't go up, your company woan't do well, and later on, you are out of a job any way.
I thought the reason I bought my iPod was so that I could carry my tunes with anywhere I went, work, train, plane, beach, rental car, bicycle, Segway, 4-wheeler, Ski-Do, hang glider, etc.
Why do I need to stream my music to work? Think about it, all the other defenses of Apple make sense, and assuming you are all satisfy these criteria :
1. You can listen to music at work.
2. You have a persistent connection at home.
3. Your connection allows you to run incoming services.
4. You own a Mac.
I think you can afford an iPod to carry your bleeding tunes to work. Honestly, If you can figure out how to update your DHCP and run things on high ports so your ISP can't filter, I think you ought to be able to get your self an iPod, or some kind of portable storage to bring along to work. Why make it hard?
It isn't really the service providers, but software providers. The tier-1 ISP's will not be able to run native IPv6 until their software providers for vital management tools (Concord, Micromuse,HP,InfoVista,Lucent) can provide the support. It would be impossible to manage a network in this time without quality management and reporting tools.
I cannot imagine that UUNET or a similar provider will move to IPv6 before they have the ability to manage it at the same level as they do now. Certainly the Tier-1's can make the decision to go, but not until their software can handle it.
BIND can support AAAA records, it is a matter of wider adoption, but there certainly is support. I once wrote a zone file editor that included plenty of support for v6.
It is the professional thing to keep the customer well informed and answers questions honestly.
A good consultant should not merely be a yes man. No matter what the customer decides, the consultant should explain clearly and honestly what the ramifications of the decision are. If the customer is seeking guidance from the consultant, and the customer doesn't guide, he is in a precarious position.
Providing knowledge is different from doing additional work. In my line of consulting, I frequently must inform the customer that what he wants or is doing is not the best course of action. I am aware of the service they requested and are paying for, but I cannot merely let things happen without ensuring that the customer is well informed.
If the customer notes any concerns and objections, proceed and finish the job, but by all means, do not play the yes person.
Why don't you all just sod off and NOT BUY ANY MORE CD'S!!!!!!!
Then, the RIAA constituent companies will lose money and be forced to deal with the issue.
Listen to the radio, got to concerts, gad, get out from in front of the computer(yes I see the irony), put down the porn and go out and do something. Read a book. A real book. Not some Piers Anthony sexual romp.
Go to the library, sit, where it is free, and read book, for free. Grahm Greene's "The Power and the Glory" is good. Maybe "Heart of Darknes" by Conrad. Edmund Morris's "Theodore Rex" and "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" are good choices.
This is not stealing music. If I were to steal music, I would walk into my local Circuit City, grab some CDs, and run out the door.
Um...downloading a copyrighted work without paying for it is stealing. Just because I downloaded some licensed software and "borrowed" the license key doesn't mean that I didn't steal it. I still comitted a crime.
The RIAA has every right to protect its interests. Is it a little draconian, perhaps a bit misplaced? Yes.
The simple truth remains, however, that if one offers a copyrighted work to others, free of charge, that is stealing. It does not matter that the theft happens electronically or physically.
By your logic, embezzling from a bank is not stealing because I did not actually go to the bank and take the paper money. Your arguement is so soft and juvenile that one might think you are justifying your guilt.
Also :
Not that this is a justification of my downloading mp3s, but I wouldn't have bought probably 3/4 of the mp3s I have because I simply want one song off of the CD.
Now if you take a normal one-hit wonder with one CD, and 20,000 people that want that one song, if half downloaded it from a file sharing service, and don't buy the album, is that not a significant loss to the producers and artist? I am just not going to buy that 1 Bloodhound Gang CD to hear "The Roof is On Fire"
I come, not praise Ceasar, but to bury him, but not with weak, nonsensical arguements.
This is absoloutely sick! Who are these people in government who claim that we are not "occupying" Iraq, that we just want to "liberate" its people? This idea seems far from it, it seems that a lot of rich, sinful, criminal, white men, mostly Republican, have decided that what Iraq really needs is for the US to come in, set up shop and create a puppet government to provide as much economic benefit to US companies as possible.
How would you feel if you lived under a brutal dictatorship only to find out that a so-called liberating force has already made all the decisions relating to your new form of geovernment, the makeup of that governement, services provided, and the providers of those services.
Sorry Iraq, but really, it is much better that Haliburton run your oil wells because it is much better for us, but remember, you are "liberated" now.
Of course probably 75% of Iraqis will still probably live in poverty while some small percentage gets rich off of the oil that will be pillaged by Bush and his cronies.
What ever happened to freedom of choice and government? Should not the Iraqis decide what is best?
I recently bought a Nike PSA 120, made by the folks that brought you the original Rio. It takes tiny little MM cards and can support at least 128MB.
This unit is designed for use with sports and works pretty well. There is a belt clip, but also an armband onto which the unit can be screwed, not clipped, screwed, so it won't fall off. The unit it self is palm sized and uses one battery. The controls are simple to use, but there is no fancy LCD. The included remote does have one, but I don't like it so much.
The windows software isn't so great, but it will convert MP3's to lower bit rates from higher ones. I especially like this for 15-20 mile bike rides, as can fit 50 or so songs into 128MB.
If you are interested in small, light, and no-skip play, this i pretty decent. The interface is minimalist, but it is perfect for jogging, riding, or other more physical endeavours.
Try this for Linux software: http://http://sourceforge.net/projects/ rioutil/
What's this thing about auto insurance? I have found the best auto insurance plan on the face of the earth: none!
I live in a city with a wonderful public transportation system, with thoughfully laid out streets and conviently placed services. There are very few times that I actually need a car. After having gotten rid of my car in October, I have only saved money, occaisionally renting a car when needed but getting around by train, bus, bicycle, and foot.
If more people in urban areas would adopt this, all of this nonsense about your auto's telemetry and who is watching would be moot.
The less money a company spends to keep track of what its employees are wasting, the more money they have to remain solvent.
Too many of you cry babies moan about how draconian and evil it is to make sure that resources are not being wasted. Get with it! When companies like Worldcomm go under, sure people get screwed, but how many employee's mailed it in every day, wasting time dowloading MP3's, installing inappropraite software and otherwise wasting company resources.
It is good business sense to make the most appropriate use of resources to maximize value. I have seen plenty of companies SAVE money by cutting off inappropriate use rather than upgrade a T because they new where their bandwidth was going.
Personally, I would prefer that my company spend as little cash on BS like free pizza and soda, stupid knick knacks at company gatherings, and schwag that no one wants. Wouldn't you like to see an earnings report detail where money is being spent? I'm concerned about the company's bottom line because I want MY bottom line to look good. Less money out means more money for important things.
So does this mean our kids will run around looking for old 486's so they can get the nickel deposit back?
Hopefully something like that would happen. Sometimes, apparently vain attempts at good things are a way to force public debate on serious issues. None of us in the various technology industries has put any strong emphasis on the environmental impact of our products. What happens to those CD-R's that don't burn right? What do I do with the 7-year old video card I just replaced? Or the memory?
These are serious questions that have had no public debate. The personal computer is almost as ubiquitous as the television, not to mention cellular phones, pagers, PDA's, CD players, DVD players, stereos, game consoles, and more.
If this bill serves to increase the responsible disposable these nonbiodegradeable, inorganic products, then it has been successfull. Why not encourage kids to poke around old hardware, they would be doing someone a favor.
You could open a window in the winter. Why not. A couple of layers of R-45 enclosing the room should insulate it from the rest of the house, setting up an airexchange system through a window ought be a snap. This is assuming the external tempurature will always be at an acceptable level.
No matter what, the R-45 will prevent heat from leaking in or cold from leaking out.
Why not read about Turing, especially from Andrew Hodges excellent biography. it provides wonderful insight to the entsheidungsproblem and other issues about computing. Basicly, it won't happen. It can't happen.
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I mean really, this say it all :
"The person who's carrying out the act doesn't think about the consequences, and certainly doesn't think they're going to get caught," Mitnick said.
"I really can't see people researching what the penalties are before they do something."
That is why they are criminals. Rational people think before they violate the law.
I, in fact, disagree with this premise. Chucking some idiot in the klink for a couple of years for creating a virus or worm ought to settle those people that think "OO this should be fun".
Just like anyone wishing to go around and committing FRAUD, BURGLARY, and LARCENY should think twice before pulling a Kevin Mitnick.
Repeat : KEVIN MITNICK IS A CONVICTED CRIMINAL, BY EVERY MEASURE OF THE LAW.
I had to pay $2500 bond, $2500 fines, $1500 lawyer fees, and $150 to get my vehicle back. Next phase is my insurance went up over $2000/year.
.08", but I have seen the effects the DUI cause, and it isn't all high speed collisions and drivers swerving all over the road. It is about the fact that above a certain point, alchohol impairs one's ability to react to stimuli, which is especiallydangerous in a car.
I am not necessarily a big fan of "It's a safer state with
Instead of complaining about your mistake, why not take responsibility for your actions? Checkpoints aside, a body often times must try to get pulled over and given a field sobriety test. The law is designed to make people think twice before endangering the public at large.
Why not archive on a high-quality film?
If documents are important to archive, especially for long periods of time, transferring the data to a less technical medium such as film is a much better alternative to the CD.
20 years ago, a great many people owned 8-Track tapes and players, along with record albums on vinyl. Very few of these items are readily available. I certainly know a few people with turn tables, but no one who owns an 8-Track player.
Whos is going to gurantee that the technology in use in 2103 can read a CD created in 2003? By storing data on film, even as a series of light/dark bits, requires very little technology for retrieval. Think about that, a lamp, a lense, and a wall to view an image. Data encoded as a string of bits could easily be read into a recording device.
Many types of film can be stored for much longe periods than CD's, and can be easily copied and in some cases restored.
Why does no one take a Tyrant like approach to this problem?
What about defining a MIME-type for specific type of data?
If you had a predefined type for PostScript data that told your mail client to open up ghostscript or something simialar, could I not put malicious code into the postscript code?
I believe this would be automatic execution of code, no?
I have always thought that the hype and marketing were part of the problem, at least as far as drop off is concerned.
One reason that movies make more money in their opening weekedns now is that compared to 5 or 10 years ago, they open on a far greater number of screens in cinemas that seat more people for a higher price. Simply from the point of view that more people are able to attend a screening on the opening weekend, it is no wonder that ther is such a tremendous drop off.
Now, combine this idea with the marketting hype and it is no wonder that films drop so precipitously in the second and third weeks. The Hulk was in production for 2 years, The Matrix Reloaded as well, and all the while the studio's hype engines were working hard to produce buzz for the films. I can't even count the number of "Making of 'TheHulk'" documentaries that were on, or how many times "Access Hollywood" interviewed the cast of Matrix Reloaded.
When there is an admittedly contained fan base for some films, so much hype only increases the chances that it won't do well after week 1. How many people have planned to go see Matrix Revolutions the day or weekend it opens already? I would guess somewhere around 65% of the people that are going to see the film. I myself generally see films on the weekend that they open because I have been waiting to see it. The films that I don't see on open weekends are the good ones without the hype, films such as "A Beautiful Mind", "E Tu Mama Tambien", or "Pollock".
What I submit is that even though a lot of these movies suck, they are further injured by a glut of seats, resulting in poor staying power at the box office.
Actually, in some casinos, cards are constantly reshuffled, using a special machine, giving a constant feedback as tot he distribution of the cards.
It is certainly not illegal to count cards in your head. However, the casinos do reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, and they do to card counters. This is their right by law, just as Best Buy can boot you abusing their free games and such.
Another thing to think of is the card counter that screws you, and everyone else at the table by hitting when conventional wisdom says not to. If the dealer is showing a five and he has 16, one outght to stay, but if he is counting cards and gets 21, you are screwed if, by taking that card, he causes the dealer to beat you.
Think about it.
Um....
Me to?
I am going to go with, "My iTunes purchased music still
works even though I am in the UK now."
And "I have actually purchased entire albums while in the UK"
The last I read, one of the reasons Mars is in its present state is because it lacks sufficient mass to retain an atmosphere that will allow greenhouse warming.
Why then is the idea of terraforming Mars even considered? If we could generate a significant volume of CO2 into the atmosphere, won't alot of it either escape to space, or freeze? Mars is not a balmy place, given that it is about 1.5 times further from the sun than the earth. Given that is also almost half the radius of earth and an order of magnitude less in mass, is it really practical to attempt to terraform the place.
If a warming atmosphere were created, how warm would it get? There would certainly be far less sunlight than an arctic spring, with the suns energy significantly lessened from the increased distance. Would we not merely have a chilly, mostly lifeless planet? I doubt that a terraformed Mars could support much more than hardy steppe grasses, it would almost certainly be too cold for most animals and aquatic life.
Someone please educate me.
Honeslty, I hade charlatans as much as the next guy, but this really speaks to weaknesses in the intelligence of investors.
I am sure that most reasonably intelligent people who were awake when their HIGH SCHOOL physics teachers waxed poetic on the 2nd Law were sceptical about Tilley's claims. It is the Free Lunch axiom. So why did Tilley's investors not require some concrete information regarding this "magic box".
If any of these investors spent 5 minutes researching his claims, they should have realized that there is no such thing as a free lunch. This is not a Star Trek universe where dS can be negative and quantum effects are randomly applicable.
I say Caveat Emptor if you are stupid enough to believe a scheister like this.
I believe that indentured servitude was made illegal more than a century ago, and now we have this wonderful thing in the US called "at-will employee". The vast majority of us salaried employees are just that.
:
For those of you who don't know, if you do not have a specific contract, your a probably at-will. This means that you are free to leave at any time you like, just as your employer, with some restriction, is permitted to terminate your employment. This is wonderful when faced with an environment that becomes unsuitable or hostile, an employee is free to leave as is his wont.
When face with such a situtationas described, you have two choices
1. Work the requested time and try and gain some concession from your employer (additional vacation, bonus, free pot, 'ludes).
2. Tell them to stick it and walk out the front door.
If the economy is that bad, perhaps staying is your best option. Remember, if the deal is that important to the company, there is most assuredly some decent revenue riding on it. With out revenue, you can't have profit, and without profits, or at least solid or increasing revenue, your stock won't go up, your company woan't do well, and later on, you are out of a job any way.
So stop whining and be a man and make a decision.
carry my tunes with anywhere I went, work, train,
plane, beach, rental car, bicycle, Segway, 4-wheeler,
Ski-Do, hang glider, etc.
Why do I need to stream my music to work? Think about it,
all the other defenses of Apple make sense, and
assuming you are all satisfy these criteria :
1. You can listen to music at work.
2. You have a persistent connection at home.
3. Your connection allows you to run incoming services.
4. You own a Mac.
I think you can afford an iPod to carry your bleeding tunes
to work. Honestly, If you can figure out how to update your
DHCP and run things on high ports so your ISP can't filter,
I think you ought to be able to get your self an iPod, or some kind of
portable storage to bring along to work. Why make it hard?
It isn't really the service providers, but software providers. The tier-1 ISP's will not be able to run native IPv6 until their software providers for vital management tools (Concord, Micromuse,HP,InfoVista,Lucent) can provide the support. It would be impossible to manage a network in this time without quality management and reporting tools.
I cannot imagine that UUNET or a similar provider will move to IPv6 before they have the ability to manage it at the same level as they do now. Certainly the Tier-1's can make the decision to go, but not until their software can handle it.
What about RFC 1886?
BIND can support AAAA records, it is a matter of wider adoption, but there certainly is support. I once wrote a zone file editor that included plenty of support for v6.
It is the professional thing to keep the customer
well informed and answers questions honestly.
A good consultant should not merely be a yes man. No matter what the customer decides, the consultant should explain clearly and honestly what the ramifications of the decision are. If the customer is seeking guidance from the consultant, and the customer doesn't guide, he is in a precarious position.
Providing knowledge is different from doing additional work. In my line of consulting, I frequently must inform the customer that what he wants or is doing is not the best course of action. I am aware of the service they requested and are paying for, but I cannot merely let things happen without ensuring that the customer is well informed.
If the customer notes any concerns and objections, proceed and finish the job, but by all means, do not play the yes person.
Here is an idea:
Why don't you all just sod off and NOT BUY ANY MORE CD'S!!!!!!!
Then, the RIAA constituent companies will lose money and be forced to deal with the issue.
Listen to the radio, got to concerts, gad, get out from in front of the computer(yes I see the irony), put down the porn and go out and do something. Read a book. A real book. Not some Piers Anthony sexual romp.
Go to the library, sit, where it is free, and read book, for free. Grahm Greene's "The Power and the Glory" is good. Maybe "Heart of Darknes" by Conrad. Edmund Morris's "Theodore Rex" and "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" are good choices.
Um...downloading a copyrighted work without paying for it is stealing. Just because I downloaded some licensed software and "borrowed" the license key doesn't mean that I didn't steal it. I still comitted a crime.
The RIAA has every right to protect its interests. Is it a little draconian, perhaps a bit misplaced? Yes.
The simple truth remains, however, that if one offers a copyrighted work to others, free of charge, that is stealing. It does not matter that the theft happens electronically or physically.
By your logic, embezzling from a bank is not stealing because I did not actually go to the bank and take the paper money. Your arguement is so soft and juvenile that one might think you are justifying your guilt.
Also : Not that this is a justification of my downloading mp3s, but I wouldn't have bought probably 3/4 of the mp3s I have because I simply want one song off of the CD.
Now if you take a normal one-hit wonder with one CD, and 20,000 people that want that one song, if half downloaded it from a file sharing service, and don't buy the album, is that not a significant loss to the producers and artist? I am just not going to buy that 1 Bloodhound Gang CD to hear "The Roof is On Fire"
I come, not praise Ceasar, but to bury him, but not with weak, nonsensical arguements.
This is absoloutely sick! Who are these people in government who claim that we are not "occupying" Iraq, that we just want to "liberate" its people? This idea seems far from it, it seems that a lot of rich, sinful, criminal, white men, mostly Republican, have decided that what Iraq really needs is for the US to come in, set up shop and create a puppet government to provide as much economic benefit to US companies as possible.
How would you feel if you lived under a brutal dictatorship only to find out that a so-called liberating force has already made all the decisions relating to your new form of geovernment, the makeup of that governement, services provided, and the providers of those services.
Sorry Iraq, but really, it is much better that Haliburton run your oil wells because it is much better for us, but remember, you are "liberated" now.
Of course probably 75% of Iraqis will still probably live in poverty while some small percentage gets rich off of the oil that will be pillaged by Bush and his cronies.
What ever happened to freedom of choice and government? Should not the Iraqis decide what is best?
What kind of crap is this?
Isn' this a specialization.
"Hi, I know little about other forms of communication, but I have a BS in an extremely focussed area".
I can't stand people who talk about their BS vendor certs, now I have to deal with some engineer-lite?
Please
I recently bought a Nike PSA 120, made by the folks that brought you the original Rio. It takes tiny little MM cards and can support at least 128MB.
/ rioutil/
This unit is designed for use with sports and works pretty well. There is a belt clip, but also an armband onto which the unit can be screwed, not clipped, screwed, so it won't fall off. The unit it self is palm sized and uses one battery. The controls are simple to use, but there is no fancy LCD. The included remote does have one, but I don't like it so much.
The windows software isn't so great, but it will convert MP3's to lower bit rates from higher ones. I especially like this for 15-20 mile bike rides, as can fit 50 or so songs into 128MB.
If you are interested in small, light, and no-skip play, this i pretty decent. The interface is minimalist, but it is perfect for jogging, riding, or other more physical endeavours.
Try this for Linux software:
http://http://sourceforge.net/projects
True all of that.
What's this thing about auto insurance?
I have found the best auto insurance plan on the face of the earth: none!
I live in a city with a wonderful public transportation system, with thoughfully laid out streets and conviently placed services. There are very few times that I actually need a car. After having gotten rid of my car in October, I have only saved money, occaisionally renting a car when needed but getting around by train, bus, bicycle, and foot.
If more people in urban areas would adopt this, all of this nonsense about your auto's telemetry and who is watching would be moot.
What's a brake light?
Here's the deal that you all need to realize:
The less money a company spends to keep track of what its employees are wasting, the more money they have to remain solvent.
Too many of you cry babies moan about how draconian and evil it is to make sure that resources are not being wasted. Get with it! When companies like Worldcomm go under, sure people get screwed, but how many employee's mailed it in every day, wasting time dowloading MP3's, installing inappropraite software and otherwise wasting company resources.
It is good business sense to make the most appropriate use of resources to maximize value. I have seen plenty of companies SAVE money by cutting off inappropriate use rather than upgrade a T because they new where their bandwidth was going.
Personally, I would prefer that my company spend as little cash on BS like free pizza and soda, stupid knick knacks at company gatherings, and schwag that no one wants. Wouldn't you like to see an earnings report detail where money is being spent? I'm concerned about the company's bottom line because I want MY bottom line to look good. Less money out means more money for important things.
Stick that on your Aeron and swivel.
So does this mean our kids will run around looking for old 486's so they can get the nickel deposit back?
Hopefully something like that would happen. Sometimes, apparently vain attempts at good things are a way to force public debate on serious issues. None of us in the various technology industries has put any strong emphasis on the environmental impact of our products. What happens to those CD-R's that don't burn right? What do I do with the 7-year old video card I just replaced? Or the memory?
These are serious questions that have had no public debate. The personal computer is almost as ubiquitous as the television, not to mention cellular phones, pagers, PDA's, CD players, DVD players, stereos, game consoles, and more.
If this bill serves to increase the responsible disposable these nonbiodegradeable, inorganic products, then it has been successfull. Why not encourage kids to poke around old hardware, they would be doing someone a favor.
This stinks of those dirty Tleilaxu!
You could open a window in the winter. Why not. A couple of layers of R-45 enclosing the room should insulate it from the rest of the house, setting up an airexchange system through a window ought be a snap. This is assuming the external tempurature will always be at an acceptable level.
No matter what, the R-45 will prevent heat from leaking in or cold from leaking out.
Why not read about Turing, especially from Andrew Hodges excellent biography. it provides wonderful insight to the entsheidungsproblem and other issues about computing. Basicly, it won't happen. It can't happen.