The CIA can already sniff your keyboard and mouse movements, wireless or not. It's called Tempest. It was mentioned briefly in Rainbow 6; Jack Ryan has a computer which he refers to as "Tempested" which I took to mean resistant to Tempest sniffing. The CIA did a short demonstration with a computer bigwig (I forget who) where they showed this technology off a year or so -- they were able to sniff a login/pw from a family computer from about a block away.
My friend actually has around 20/8 vision, and it really messes with your depth perception. He had to spend 2 years of his life before kindergarten with specialists doing things like playing catch with foam balls and driving power wheels (yeah, he loved it) without crashing to practice using his depth perception.
Dude, there are young girls playing tribes?? I guess I better start watching my language...and theBarbies...those game playin girlz will grow up someday.;-) L
Non competes exist solely to spite leaving exmployees, and really shouldn't be enforced anywhere. I mean, let's take a look at the possible scenarios that cause noncompete clauses to come into play.
1. An employee becomes fed up with some aspect of his job, and it is not resolved. He quits. Now, because his prior employer didn't care enough to make sure he was happily employed, he can't work for anyone else, either.
2. An employee is "downsized." On the merit that the company couldn't afford to keep him employed, no other company should be able to employ him either. Huh?
3. An employee is fired for poor work. Does the firing company really care if he competes with them, if he was that bad? Let him work for your competitors and drain their payroll!
I would venture that most times an employee leaves a job, it is for one of those reasons, #1 probably being a huge factor. The only time a noncompete clause could really work is if company A tries to lure away company B's best employees by offering to pay them more. BUt hey -- you get what you pay for! Give your employees raises, pay them competitively and you won't have to worry about them leaving for another job. Noncompete clauses really aren't a viable deterrent and really only hurt the employees that leave with a valid reason. A
Next we're going to have parking meters that raise their prices when you're in a hurry...corporate extortion at its best. I guess if they can fool enough people into paying for it, more power to them, but it still seems vaguely wrong somehow.
I have to agree with your thoughtful comment, yet disagree with your general advice. I would not buy an Athlon simply because it is made by a competitor of Intel. I'd buy it because right now it's still smoking coppermine. I think the real irony is all the FUD that Intel lined up against AMD's Irongate motherboard. Where can I buy me a camino chipset again....?
Hehehe. Have to agree with the dogmashit. But these religious views aren't really Christian-specific, I think (referring to the ones in the/. article). I think it's a categorization of all religion. And really, religion is pretty constricting when you look at it. I mean, according the Islams, you Christians are all screwed. According to the Christians, the Islams are all screwed. The pagans figure you're screwed because of all those gods you *didn't* worship. As far as I can tell, if I listen to all the "religious authorities" (read: those who can't get power any other way) we're all going to hell, so let's enjoy the ride!
Hehehe. Have to agree with the dogmashit. But these religious views aren't really Christian-specific, I think (referring to the ones in the/. article). I think it's a categorization of all religion. And really, religion is pretty constricting when you look at it. I mean, according the Islams, you Christians are all screwed. According to the Christians, the Islams are all screwed. The pagans figure you're screwed because of all those gods you *didn't* worship. As far as I can tell, if I listen to all the "religious authorities" (read: those who can't get power any other way) we're all going to hell, so let's enjoy the ride! A
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Obviously you've never used an ATI card. Not that you'd ever want to, but ATI support in linux is awful, at least with my All in Wonder Pro. (Rage Pro chipset). X crashed about every 3 hours and quake2 crashed every 10 minutes due to driver problems. Yuck!!
Just as long as no one emails you any Javascript code or ActiveX modules, since Outlook 2k executes these immediately when you open a message!! Who'se dumb idea was that? At least in 98 you could turn off the "view as web page" option, I couldn't stand to play with the darn thing long enough to find the option, which I'm sure exists (I hope), but it's on by default which is bad. It's also not where it was on 98. Yay standards!
I agree with you to a point, but you're doing the same thing yourself that you ask John not to do, and that's think "inside the box." Your suggestions are good ones but they're really something that could EASILY be attained with a mod, could be done already for quake/quake2. I agree that games that are less violent are needed, but at the same time you have to question why people play games. I play them for the rush and excitement of dodging bullets without having to strap on kevlar / pay $25 for lazer tag. I sure as hell don't play to dodge glue. =) I think it's pretty hard to come up with an idea for a nonviolent game that will still appeal to the masses...but if anyone can do it, Carmack can. A
Microsoft really should be broken up. I agree with the previous poster in that they make some nice apps (InterDev comes to mind) but some of the others are worthless. Beyond that, I think a more important point is one from a business outlook and not just a consumer's -- Microsoft has already proven itself to be steadily profitable (perhaps through book balancing, but still) and the market benefit of having 3 microsofts competing would be excellent. Not only would we get better apps but they would be cheaper through competition and perhaps even *gasp* cross-platform. Well, more than they are already, though I'm not holding my breath on this one.
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The CIA can already sniff your keyboard and mouse movements, wireless or not. It's called Tempest. It was mentioned briefly in Rainbow 6; Jack Ryan has a computer which he refers to as "Tempested" which I took to mean resistant to Tempest sniffing. The CIA did a short demonstration with a computer bigwig (I forget who) where they showed this technology off a year or so -- they were able to sniff a login/pw from a family computer from about a block away.
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My friend actually has around 20/8 vision, and it really messes with your depth perception. He had to spend 2 years of his life before kindergarten with specialists doing things like playing catch with foam balls and driving power wheels (yeah, he loved it) without crashing to practice using his depth perception.
Dude, there are young girls playing tribes?? I guess I better start watching my language...and theBarbies...those game playin girlz will grow up someday. ;-) L
Non competes exist solely to spite leaving exmployees, and really shouldn't be enforced anywhere. I mean, let's take a look at the possible scenarios that cause noncompete clauses to come into play.
1. An employee becomes fed up with some aspect of his job, and it is not resolved. He quits. Now, because his prior employer didn't care enough to make sure he was happily employed, he can't work for anyone else, either.
2. An employee is "downsized." On the merit that the company couldn't afford to keep him employed, no other company should be able to employ him either. Huh?
3. An employee is fired for poor work. Does the firing company really care if he competes with them, if he was that bad? Let him work for your competitors and drain their payroll!
I would venture that most times an employee leaves a job, it is for one of those reasons, #1 probably being a huge factor. The only time a noncompete clause could really work is if company A tries to lure away company B's best employees by offering to pay them more. BUt hey -- you get what you pay for! Give your employees raises, pay them competitively and you won't have to worry about them leaving for another job. Noncompete clauses really aren't a viable deterrent and really only hurt the employees that leave with a valid reason. A
Next we're going to have parking meters that raise their prices when you're in a hurry...corporate extortion at its best. I guess if they can fool enough people into paying for it, more power to them, but it still seems vaguely wrong somehow.
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I have to agree with your thoughtful comment, yet disagree with your general advice. I would not buy an Athlon simply because it is made by a competitor of Intel. I'd buy it because right now it's still smoking coppermine. I think the real irony is all the FUD that Intel lined up against AMD's Irongate motherboard. Where can I buy me a camino chipset again....?
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Hehehe. Have to agree with the dogmashit. But these religious views aren't really Christian-specific, I think (referring to the ones in the /. article). I think it's a categorization of all religion. And really, religion is pretty constricting when you look at it. I mean, according the Islams, you Christians are all screwed. According to the Christians, the Islams are all screwed. The pagans figure you're screwed because of all those gods you *didn't* worship. As far as I can tell, if I listen to all the "religious authorities" (read: those who can't get power any other way) we're all going to hell, so let's enjoy the ride!
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Hehehe. Have to agree with the dogmashit. But these religious views aren't really Christian-specific, I think (referring to the ones in the /. article). I think it's a categorization of all religion. And really, religion is pretty constricting when you look at it. I mean, according the Islams, you Christians are all screwed. According to the Christians, the Islams are all screwed. The pagans figure you're screwed because of all those gods you *didn't* worship. As far as I can tell, if I listen to all the "religious authorities" (read: those who can't get power any other way) we're all going to hell, so let's enjoy the ride! A
Obviously you've never used an ATI card. Not that you'd ever want to, but ATI support in linux is awful, at least with my All in Wonder Pro. (Rage Pro chipset). X crashed about every 3 hours and quake2 crashed every 10 minutes due to driver problems. Yuck!!
Just as long as no one emails you any Javascript code or ActiveX modules, since Outlook 2k executes these immediately when you open a message!! Who'se dumb idea was that? At least in 98 you could turn off the "view as web page" option, I couldn't stand to play with the darn thing long enough to find the option, which I'm sure exists (I hope), but it's on by default which is bad. It's also not where it was on 98. Yay standards!
I agree with you to a point, but you're doing the same thing yourself that you ask John not to do, and that's think "inside the box." Your suggestions are good ones but they're really something that could EASILY be attained with a mod, could be done already for quake/quake2. I agree that games that are less violent are needed, but at the same time you have to question why people play games. I play them for the rush and excitement of dodging bullets without having to strap on kevlar / pay $25 for lazer tag. I sure as hell don't play to dodge glue. =) I think it's pretty hard to come up with an idea for a nonviolent game that will still appeal to the masses...but if anyone can do it, Carmack can. A
Microsoft really should be broken up. I agree with the previous poster in that they make some nice apps (InterDev comes to mind) but some of the others are worthless. Beyond that, I think a more important point is one from a business outlook and not just a consumer's -- Microsoft has already proven itself to be steadily profitable (perhaps through book balancing, but still) and the market benefit of having 3 microsofts competing would be excellent. Not only would we get better apps but they would be cheaper through competition and perhaps even *gasp* cross-platform. Well, more than they are already, though I'm not holding my breath on this one.