We have been looking at this all the wrong way. Microsoft is branded an Evil Empire while Google is exhaled, hence the hoopla about Google expansion (whoopie-doo, OSX can run Goog13). Perhaps it is time to consider the alternative?
Consider that Bill Gates puts his money where his mouth is in terms of giving the largest private donations to fight AIDS and poverty, not buying up party planes and grabass photoshoots like certain individuals in charge of a certain search enGine.
Secondly, Microsoft seems to be on the right track regarding user privacy (having been bitten in the ass by their prior lapses), while Google told us they will retain our personal search and email data indefinitely, and do with it whatever they like (and are proud of that).
Thirdly, Microsoft is waking up to the impact their busness practices have on people: they considered withdrawing from China if the current police-state policies persist there. Google, on the other hand, is happily doing business with a dictatorship that jails people for voicing unpopular opinions and executes tens of thousands of Chinese to harvest their body organs. Google has no problem going out of its way to filter the search results to please the Big Brother. MSN tries not to do that.
Wake up people. Google-the-Rebel is long gone; a new Evil Empire has emerged.
Is knowing who's going and leaving the country a good idea? yes. Is preventing the known terrorists from travelling a good idea? yes. Is securely collecting all the data you can a good idea, so that when shit happens, you can figure out who caused it to happen, a good idea? you bet you.
You are either helping us, or you aren't. You are either with us, or you are against us.
He's still better than his opponent who opposes protecting our children from gunfire.
Apropos, that Democrat has not said he is against pornography featuring deviant child rape by the terrorists burning the gay marriage flag that will cut and run the mushroom clound by raising your taxes while calling our troops DUMB. Nancy Pelosi as a speaker, ooooooooooooo!
just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use.
If you have intruders in your house, the least of your concerns is them reading your email.
Call me a troll, but isn't this why WinXP/MacOS cost $100/copy, so that those without technical acumen (i.e. most users) are still able to use computers productively, but without shooting themselves in the foot and/or spending days rtfming *NIX man files for xdm, ipfw, sshd, or whatever.
Agreed. I was merely addressing GPs point about Penn State being a public school.
Regarding the compensation levels, Penn State receives less than the other 'state-affiliated' private universities in PA (though my info is somewhat dated).
And I agree with your statement about the software patents, though I think.edu's generally allow the public their free not-for-profit use. Think about FreeBSD's origin at the University of California at Berkeley.
Penn State is a private school (privately chartered by the Commonwealth) despite what the name implies. It also receives less than 5% of it's funding from the state.
Today Penn State is one of four 'state-related' universities (along with the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, and Lincoln University), institutions that are not state-owned and -operated but that have the character of public universities and receive substantial state appropriations.
Interestingly, Penn State offers all residents in-state tuition at a loss, without being adequately compenstated by PA.
A better analogy would be rubbing some magical object and waking whoever is inside it: not trivial to get that genie back into the bottle once he's out.
Any genetic defences we got are probably only good against the historical variants of the virus (and might not work against the one the French scientists hacked together by some clever guesswork). Some evidence suggests si/ miRNAs are part of defences that kept the virus dormant, in which case if Heidmann made a single wrong guess about the original sequence, it could give the ancient virus a complete immunity from whatever defs we got. And it would not matter than this HERV strain has low infectivity: HIV isn't terribly efficient either, yet it's becoming a real PITA.
And one more thing, the virus was inside us for millions of years, rather than thousands.
how something harmful can exist in our genome without harming us
Most of these viruses intend to sit quiet and hide inside the genome until their time comes. You can think of them as sleeper agents, if you like.
Of course, most happen to wait so long that they get damaged to the point where 're-awakening' is possible (misplaced promoter, erased START, premature STOP, garbled frame encoding, whatever). Others get converted to serve a useful purpose (becoming proto-oncogenes). Yet others wake up, and cause genetic defects, mutations, and cancer.
Think of these as Bin Laden's boys inside the US: some will OD on cocaine, some will get in jail for DUI, some will like our Freedom and give up terrorism and get a real job, and yet others will be ready to do us harm when their time comes.
Yeah, because we all go around raping women, killing others' babies, abandoning the sick and the injured, and invading foreign countries to kill off their genes. Right?
Poverty and education have very little to do with inhereted intelligence. Until very recently (last century or so), the majority of people could not read or write, and not because they were too dumb, but because they weren't given a chance.
Moreover, intelligence is unpredictable and can show up in a child from a very unfortunate background. I know a "trailor-trash" kid who did not know the alphabet until he was 15 (not a typo!), yet he got his PhD+MD by 29.
This is precisely why every trailor-trash/ghetto welfare baby deserves a chance!
1) Well, the alternatives have to be at least in the same ballpark for the price to matter. I.e. not: "I could kick your ass for free, yet you chose expensive beer".
2) How many MacBook owners you know that paid for retail XP to use instead of their preinstalled OS X?
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We have been looking at this all the wrong way. Microsoft is branded an Evil Empire while Google is exhaled, hence the hoopla about Google expansion (whoopie-doo, OSX can run Goog13). Perhaps it is time to consider the alternative?
Consider that Bill Gates puts his money where his mouth is in terms of giving the largest private donations to fight AIDS and poverty, not buying up party planes and grabass photoshoots like certain individuals in charge of a certain search enGine.
Secondly, Microsoft seems to be on the right track regarding user privacy (having been bitten in the ass by their prior lapses), while Google told us they will retain our personal search and email data indefinitely, and do with it whatever they like (and are proud of that).
Thirdly, Microsoft is waking up to the impact their busness practices have on people: they considered withdrawing from China if the current police-state policies persist there. Google, on the other hand, is happily doing business with a dictatorship that jails people for voicing unpopular opinions and executes tens of thousands of Chinese to harvest their body organs. Google has no problem going out of its way to filter the search results to please the Big Brother. MSN tries not to do that.
Wake up people. Google-the-Rebel is long gone; a new Evil Empire has emerged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
Come on, kid, just try it, you'll like it. The first one's free, or are you too scared?
I think they covered both stories rather well.
The one where liberals hate America or the one where questioning W helps terrorists.
Why do you hate America so much?
That's not a correct approach to the issue.
Is knowing who's going and leaving the country a good idea? yes.
Is preventing the known terrorists from travelling a good idea? yes.
Is securely collecting all the data you can a good idea, so that when shit happens, you can figure out who caused it to happen, a good idea? you bet you.
You are either helping us, or you aren't. You are either with us, or you are against us.
I, for one, want to help America!
well, your G4 did not have a fan (and had 12 hours battery runtime compared to MBP's 3-4)
Diamonds... she pretty much has to...
He's still better than his opponent who opposes protecting our children from gunfire.
Apropos, that Democrat has not said he is against pornography featuring deviant child rape by the terrorists burning the gay marriage flag that will cut and run the mushroom clound by raising your taxes while calling our troops DUMB. Nancy Pelosi as a speaker, ooooooooooooo!
your you a female? or are you gay?
If neither, please preceed your fashion experience comments with IANAF
... getting off that high horse of yours.
just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use.
If you have intruders in your house, the least of your concerns is them reading your email.
Call me a troll, but isn't this why WinXP/MacOS cost $100/copy, so that those without technical acumen (i.e. most users) are still able to use computers productively, but without shooting themselves in the foot and/or spending days rtfming *NIX man files for xdm, ipfw, sshd, or whatever.
Agreed. I was merely addressing GPs point about Penn State being a public school.
.edu's generally allow the public their free not-for-profit use. Think about FreeBSD's origin at the University of California at Berkeley.
Regarding the compensation levels, Penn State receives less than the other 'state-affiliated' private universities in PA (though my info is somewhat dated).
And I agree with your statement about the software patents, though I think
And EULAs suck, but linux has one!
from http://www.psu.edu/ur/about/character.html
Interestingly, Penn State offers all residents in-state tuition at a loss, without being adequately compenstated by PA.
What, this joke has only been posted like 2-3 times a day for the past several years.
You, Sir, should be given a French Horn, so you can properly lead a column of clueless newbies going to fuck themselves.
Try $120... in your local newegg.com or walmart. that's what normal people are generally paying for an OEM copy of Win XP Home.
Do you expect the programmers to come up with perfect software even before it's being tested on a ship?
yes. and you better expect the software to be perfect before it's tried on a live nuclear missile, warhead, or alife support system.
That's actually a bad thing. The U.S. military does not want foreigners to have this knowledge, and for good reason.
Not really. Consider the following highly unlikely scenario:
1) Give an enemy certain WMD blueprints
2) Claim the enemy is hiding WMDs
3) ???
4) Profit
How is requiring a "state issued picture ID" helpful, exactly?
May the best hacker win!
A better analogy would be rubbing some magical object and waking whoever is inside it: not trivial to get that genie back into the bottle once he's out.
Any genetic defences we got are probably only good against the historical variants of the virus (and might not work against the one the French scientists hacked together by some clever guesswork). Some evidence suggests si/ miRNAs are part of defences that kept the virus dormant, in which case if Heidmann made a single wrong guess about the original sequence, it could give the ancient virus a complete immunity from whatever defs we got. And it would not matter than this HERV strain has low infectivity: HIV isn't terribly efficient either, yet it's becoming a real PITA.
And one more thing, the virus was inside us for millions of years, rather than thousands.
how something harmful can exist in our genome without harming us
Most of these viruses intend to sit quiet and hide inside the genome until their time comes. You can think of them as sleeper agents, if you like.
Of course, most happen to wait so long that they get damaged to the point where 're-awakening' is possible (misplaced promoter, erased START, premature STOP, garbled frame encoding, whatever). Others get converted to serve a useful purpose (becoming proto-oncogenes). Yet others wake up, and cause genetic defects, mutations, and cancer.
Think of these as Bin Laden's boys inside the US: some will OD on cocaine, some will get in jail for DUI, some will like our Freedom and give up terrorism and get a real job, and yet others will be ready to do us harm when their time comes.
According to my calculations... the drain cleaner under your kitchen sink is... edible?
Creating black holes for kicks? That's what they are about to do in 2008 using the Large Hadron Collider.
As a side note, tonight I am sleeping on the couch: got busted typoing a Google image search for 'Large Hadron Collider.'
Yeah, because we all go around raping women, killing others' babies, abandoning the sick and the injured, and invading foreign countries to kill off their genes. Right?
Poverty and education have very little to do with inhereted intelligence. Until very recently (last century or so), the majority of people could not read or write, and not because they were too dumb, but because they weren't given a chance.
Moreover, intelligence is unpredictable and can show up in a child from a very unfortunate background. I know a "trailor-trash" kid who did not know the alphabet until he was 15 (not a typo!), yet he got his PhD+MD by 29.
This is precisely why every trailor-trash/ghetto welfare baby deserves a chance!
Sure.
Now imagine MSN or AOL or Yahoo starting to charge you for websearches. Would they out-compete the free Google search?
1) Well, the alternatives have to be at least in the same ballpark for the price to matter. I.e. not: "I could kick your ass for free, yet you chose expensive beer".
2) How many MacBook owners you know that paid for retail XP to use instead of their preinstalled OS X?
3) Your reading comprehension is lacking, non?