Just hang in there DH, Cubbies will have their day.
I find the sour grapes coming out of the east coast media quite humorous. East coast fans (most especially Yankees) will have nothing to do with anything that doesn't include the east coast.
What was just CLASSIC was the "news" story they "broke" last Friday about Jose Guillen (story from July). Sports writers can tear their scrots too!
No surprise ratings were low. Perhaps the east coast fans can help me figure out how long this affliction I have will last... my skin is actually glowing and my face is stuck in perma-grin.
If they haven't learned already, as they were educated 15 years ago, then we need to replace the FBI with a new bureau capable of conducting criminal investigations in a well-populated world.
Sure you can build a hardened kernel for Windows Servers. Only for desktop users getting to a reasonable expectation of security requires gimping the haberdasher way Windows handles services, DLLs and other resources. In a Unix system it's easy to detect changes to services by checking init.d, which is not so easy to control in Windows.
However the security question relevant to the writeup concerns Microsoft business apps, especially the Exchange server (and client) nightmare.
As a default standard, going for the greatest good of the many is usually a good course. If taken to the extreme, however, it turns into a 'tyranny of the majority' and can be very bad for disenfranchised groups.
Very good point. There has to be respect for individuals at some level in a reasonable system of jurisprudence.
When taken to the extreme, the mob starts to believe that:
Th'needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Big difference between a need and a th'need, and it sure seems like there's a whole lot of th'need built in to our system right now.
We need an independent body to monitor media content.
Who watches the Watchmen?
I think Mike points out this article because in the PTC, we have a group claiming to be a kind of moral police for the content on television. On closer inspection, it seems that wielding this powerful scepter of righteousness "for the people" leads to self-righteous behavior, like taking money for the "service" but providing no service.
Also I question the veritable usefulness of a group whose claim to fame is engaging Congress in full-scale inquisition of an absurd old boob.
(Waves hand)
These aren't the forums you're looking for....
Honestly, though its not really the place. Also a good number of us are "old paradigm people" who still pay for TV (in many ways) and buy media in many forms (often the same thing twice in different formats.... ..... ..). It will not broadcast live during the playoffs, but the MLB.tv service will let you replay the WS games. Capacity still needs work though... :P I got the service for the regular season because I'm not in my team's market.
It could be a compound budget/competence failure where they intended to firewall their private html servers from the Internet but couldn't afford it, and didn't know how to pull the plug.
That's why they ended up coding the "Get off my site and don't come back you ingrate!" message.
If the majority of Christians really were honest and intelligent, there wouldn't be any teleevangelist, popes, and so many factions dividing Christianity into a bunch of groups that don't quite agree with each other.
Does the same logic apply to the PTA with respect to parents? The Glenn Beck's of the world and Republicans? Nancy Pelosi and Democrats? What about extremist environmental activists and actual ecologists?
In my opinion, one of the major problems with politics in general is that sociopathy befits politicking and noisemaking, but not necessarily the mindset of ordinary people politicians and noisemakers are supposedly representing. Not to mention the fact that the mass-media gravitates to the sensationalized not the rationalized. You will never get a CNN report on normal people from multiple religions working together for their community, because it happens every day.
Near ad hom is a near miss, and tantamount to closed-mindedness. This is not to say we should forget the history of the greedy few with power and a lot of ordinary people under their rule. Evil deeds are done by people from myriad ideologies, no exclusions.
I appreciate the realities involved in maintaining any kind of service, but I think approaching a problem from the perspective of potential returns invites financially driven policy without regard to the service or "customers" involved. We see this in the management of fairly all public companies today. In my opinion, the "increasing returns or bust" investment outlook drives many of the anti-consumer moves we see by companies today.
Financial resolve does not equate to resolve to make a specific situation better. Those who invest in "charity" are not likely to stick around with their money when times get hard, and real Charity is needed the most.
Also, I find it hard to believe that investors would ever give great consideration to the preservation of the dignity of those needing charitable assistance.
For-profit charity... perhaps worth considering, but most likely an oxymoron.
Too bad Sony is all IP these days. When the same people started blocking the PS3 browser at Hulu, and elsewhere, Sony could have used its legal horses to start the billion dollar process of getting a massive anti-trust issue resolved.
Any idea why they haven't killed PlayOn yet? Is it because it still cannot auto-negotiate a display resolution different from the resolution set on the host computer? Or is this app part of the trust?
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Re: Re: Required Learning
Just hang in there DH, Cubbies will have their day.
I find the sour grapes coming out of the east coast media quite humorous. East coast fans (most especially Yankees) will have nothing to do with anything that doesn't include the east coast.
What was just CLASSIC was the "news" story they "broke" last Friday about Jose Guillen (story from July). Sports writers can tear their scrots too!
No surprise ratings were low. Perhaps the east coast fans can help me figure out how long this affliction I have will last... my skin is actually glowing and my face is stuck in perma-grin.
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Re: Required Learning
I- is for Irony.
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Required Learning
Now, off topic, but of more importance...
Does anyone know if the Giants victory parade will be (legitimately) streamed live anywhere?
Anyone?
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Re: back doors
Don't forget how easily exploited an open source backdoor might be. Doesn't matter though, a backdoor, closed or open source, will be exploited.
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Two Words for the FBI
If they haven't learned already, as they were educated 15 years ago, then we need to replace the FBI with a new bureau capable of conducting criminal investigations in a well-populated world.
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Re: Re: Re:
However the security question relevant to the writeup concerns Microsoft business apps, especially the Exchange server (and client) nightmare.
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Re: Re: Ethics & Morality
Very good point. There has to be respect for individuals at some level in a reasonable system of jurisprudence.
When taken to the extreme, the mob starts to believe that:
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Re: Re: Could go two ways...
Now I really want a graphic novel version of Chuck Norris vs. Oprah Winfrey
While each of their powers are formidable, I'm thinking Chuck could lay a real good debunking on her in a street fight...
Might not be Superman v. Green Lantern....
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Re: Self policing is a joke.
Who watches the Watchmen?
I think Mike points out this article because in the PTC, we have a group claiming to be a kind of moral police for the content on television. On closer inspection, it seems that wielding this powerful scepter of righteousness "for the people" leads to self-righteous behavior, like taking money for the "service" but providing no service.
Also I question the veritable usefulness of a group whose claim to fame is engaging Congress in full-scale inquisition of an absurd old boob.
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Looks Serious
Sounds sexual... this could get ugly...
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Re: Re: They already lost me...
(Waves hand)
These aren't the forums you're looking for....
Honestly, though its not really the place. Also a good number of us are "old paradigm people" who still pay for TV (in many ways) and buy media in many forms (often the same thing twice in different formats.... ..... ..). It will not broadcast live during the playoffs, but the MLB.tv service will let you replay the WS games. Capacity still needs work though... :P I got the service for the regular season because I'm not in my team's market.
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Re:
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It was the French!
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Re:
That's why they ended up coding the "Get off my site and don't come back you ingrate!" message.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Holy shit.
On this forum, I'm skeptical... not unless it broke down to assault (threat of violence) on individuals. This is not a negative.
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Re: Re: Re: Holy shit.
Does the same logic apply to the PTA with respect to parents? The Glenn Beck's of the world and Republicans? Nancy Pelosi and Democrats? What about extremist environmental activists and actual ecologists?
In my opinion, one of the major problems with politics in general is that sociopathy befits politicking and noisemaking, but not necessarily the mindset of ordinary people politicians and noisemakers are supposedly representing. Not to mention the fact that the mass-media gravitates to the sensationalized not the rationalized. You will never get a CNN report on normal people from multiple religions working together for their community, because it happens every day.
Near ad hom is a near miss, and tantamount to closed-mindedness. This is not to say we should forget the history of the greedy few with power and a lot of ordinary people under their rule. Evil deeds are done by people from myriad ideologies, no exclusions.
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Hmmm...
Financial resolve does not equate to resolve to make a specific situation better. Those who invest in "charity" are not likely to stick around with their money when times get hard, and real Charity is needed the most.
Also, I find it hard to believe that investors would ever give great consideration to the preservation of the dignity of those needing charitable assistance.
For-profit charity... perhaps worth considering, but most likely an oxymoron.
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Re: Re: If only Sony cared....
Backup your game and we'll brick your system.
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If only Sony cared....
Any idea why they haven't killed PlayOn yet? Is it because it still cannot auto-negotiate a display resolution different from the resolution set on the host computer? Or is this app part of the trust?
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Re: Re: Re: soul-deadening to the users
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