OK - maybe some people do keep their prOn etc. encrypted. However, some people (like myself) use it for work purposes - yeah, I'm self-employed, and have some business stuff that I don't want to send out in simple plaintext (because of IP, etc.) so I use crypto for it.
Maybe I'm paranoid, I don't know - but I'd rather at least TRY for some security on my business ideas, so that competition etc. have to work to know what I'm thinking of doing...
As always - if you simply log in to the NYT using username : slashdot2000 and password : slashdot2000 - voila you have the story, and you don't have to bother registering yourself.
Hey man - not everyone who reads this knows everything. If you look above, she does apologise. Fair play - dumb mistake, but everyone has to start somewhere...
Here in the UK an utterly vile drink was released last year called Rivella, which was based upon milk. Didn't look like it, taste like it, and the advertising was all "But it doesn't look like Milk" and "I can't believe it's milk".
Frankly, neither could anyone else, and AFAIK it folded and dived into the hole in ground for failed UK drinks (Jolt, Mountain Dew, Tab Clear, so forth, so fifth).
Personally, I've used Napster not to "steal" albums but instead to see what some of it sounds like before buying the album. Maybe I'm a freak for doing so, but to my mind that's what Napster is about - it's the same as going to your mate's house to listen to music, hearing something new that you like, and going out to buy the album because of it.
Yes, I've also used it to find some stuff that I simply can't get hold of anywhere within the world of retail etc., but that's the reasons I use Napster.
And finally, yes, I would be prepared to pay a subscription to Napster to keep the service going. So would most of the people I talk to.
IAAC (I am a contractor:-) ) and I always cross out the IP Part of any contract I'm given. So far, no-one's complained - mind you, I also cross out the parts about Non-competitive business after I leave the company (amazingly, some idiots - sorry, companies - still put this one into their contract for contractors, and some still fall for it!).
Sometimes it seems ridiculous that these things can happen. Like the strap says, it's too late now, but it gives you something to remember next time you change jobs/sign a contract.
Yes, but surely the astrologers would have known all about this new planet already - and been out to buy all the new materials so that everything would transition smoothly? *Grin*
"The astrology column can't be printed today because the astologer is ill"
There's one thing that really covers everything on this. "I reminded them that some of the smartest, most interesting and ultimately successful kids often experienced extreme and systematic harassment and brutality for being different, alienated or otherwise non-normal. That if educators, politicians or private corporations like Pinkerton really cared about school safety, they would do something to protect these outcasts. " - unfortunately (in my experience at least) the educators, politicians etc. were normally the ones who would have been doing the informing had this policy been in place when they were at school.
It's always the intelligent, the depressed, the "different" who are castigated, excoriated and harassed - the WAVE program is just another way to do it. Only this time it's anonymous, and there's the potential for this black mark to be held against the person *way* into the future. Look at some of the precursors -
Einstein- failed at school, and was regarded as a "misfit" Nobel - ditto
These are just the first two that readily spring to mind - but there are many many others, and they all received enough crap from "the system" without it being added to by corporatism junkies like Pinkertons.
Sometimes I just despair of sanity ever returning to this planet...
There are at least three other books out there that cover similar concepts. Cobweb by Stephen Bury (aka Neal Stephenson) talks about anthrax biowar, Cobra Event by Richard Preston (yes, same guy as wrote Hot Zone (aka Outbreak)) deals with a home-made biowar agent, and Third Pandemic by Pierre Ouelette describes the situation of a naturally occurring mutation/blending of psittacosis, syphilis and salmonella.
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OK - maybe some people do keep their prOn etc. encrypted.
However, some people (like myself) use it for work purposes - yeah, I'm self-employed, and have some business stuff that I don't want to send out in simple plaintext (because of IP, etc.) so I use crypto for it.
Maybe I'm paranoid, I don't know - but I'd rather at least TRY for some security on my business ideas, so that competition etc. have to work to know what I'm thinking of doing...
Just my 2p worth.
As always - if you simply log in to the NYT using username : slashdot2000 and password : slashdot2000 - voila you have the story, and you don't have to bother registering yourself.
*Sigh*
Next you'll be telling me it's a-peeling.
I use easyspace - they seem to have a pretty good set of pricing options, and suit my website needs just fine.
Just my 2pworth
Hey man - not everyone who reads this knows everything. If you look above, she does apologise. Fair play - dumb mistake, but everyone has to start somewhere...
Oh if only I had mod points today to nuke this twat..... *Boo-hoo*
Here in the UK an utterly vile drink was released last year called Rivella, which was based upon milk. Didn't look like it, taste like it, and the advertising was all "But it doesn't look like Milk" and "I can't believe it's milk".
Frankly, neither could anyone else, and AFAIK it folded and dived into the hole in ground for failed UK drinks (Jolt, Mountain Dew, Tab Clear, so forth, so fifth).
$4??? I'll buy a thousand of them for that price!
:)
Personally, I've used Napster not to "steal" albums but instead to see what some of it sounds like before buying the album. Maybe I'm a freak for doing so, but to my mind that's what Napster is about - it's the same as going to your mate's house to listen to music, hearing something new that you like, and going out to buy the album because of it.
Yes, I've also used it to find some stuff that I simply can't get hold of anywhere within the world of retail etc., but that's the reasons I use Napster.
And finally, yes, I would be prepared to pay a subscription to Napster to keep the service going. So would most of the people I talk to.
<infantile>So ner ne ner ner.</infantile>
IAAC (I am a contractor :-) ) and I always cross out the IP Part of any contract I'm given. So far, no-one's complained - mind you, I also cross out the parts about Non-competitive business after I leave the company (amazingly, some idiots - sorry, companies - still put this one into their contract for contractors, and some still fall for it!).
Sometimes it seems ridiculous that these things can happen. Like the strap says, it's too late now, but it gives you something to remember next time you change jobs/sign a contract.
Just my two cents....
IANAS (I am not a skydiver ;) ) but hell, it sounds like fun to me.
Respect to the guy, and his lunatic plans!
Yes, but surely the astrologers would have known all about this new planet already - and been out to buy all the new materials so that everything would transition smoothly? *Grin*
"The astrology column can't be printed today because the astologer is ill"
If this graphics format is so great, why aren't they using it on their own site? Everything I saw was in .gif or .jpg.
DOH!
There's one thing that really covers everything on this. "I reminded them that some of the smartest, most interesting and ultimately successful kids often experienced extreme and systematic harassment and brutality for being different, alienated or otherwise non-normal. That if educators, politicians or private corporations like Pinkerton really cared about school safety, they would do something to protect these outcasts. " - unfortunately (in my experience at least) the educators, politicians etc. were normally the ones who would have been doing the informing had this policy been in place when they were at school.
It's always the intelligent, the depressed, the "different" who are castigated, excoriated and harassed - the WAVE program is just another way to do it. Only this time it's anonymous, and there's the potential for this black mark to be held against the person *way* into the future. Look at some of the precursors -
Einstein- failed at school, and was regarded as a "misfit"
Nobel - ditto
These are just the first two that readily spring to mind - but there are many many others, and they all received enough crap from "the system" without it being added to by corporatism junkies like Pinkertons.
Sometimes I just despair of sanity ever returning to this planet...
Ooops - sorry. You're right, it is botulism. Got the wrong infectious agent *Blush*.
There are at least three other books out there that cover similar concepts. Cobweb by Stephen Bury (aka Neal Stephenson) talks about anthrax biowar, Cobra Event by Richard Preston (yes, same guy as wrote Hot Zone (aka Outbreak)) deals with a home-made biowar agent, and Third Pandemic by Pierre Ouelette describes the situation of a naturally occurring mutation/blending of psittacosis, syphilis and salmonella.