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Comment Whitelisting (Score 1) 462

by Phantom042 (#36706254) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access?
Start with whitelisting before you go through with canceling your service. Whitelist Wikipedia and whatever other resources you've got on your list. If this seems to work for you, then dump those resources and unplug your router from the cable / DSL modem for a month. Don't ask other people what resources you should have -- you know what you already use regularly and want to retain access to, or will after a month of whitelisting, and your coffee shop / office internet excursions will allow you to discover other resources which become important for home access in the future. Also, I doubt this life change will do you any good unless you cancel your cable / satellite TV service as well. Without the internet, the multitude of channels will allow you to browse and waste time the same way you did on the internet. Get Netflix or similar to mail you DVDs -- this will make you consider what you really want to see, and you can queue things up from the coffee shop.

8 Myths of Software-as-a-Service 169

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the everyone-wants-to-go-back-to-the-dot-com-era dept.
abb_road writes "BusinessWeek looks at the current state of software-as-a-service, arguing that the model is well established and is distinct from failed ASP/Hosting models of the dot-com era. Far from a passing fad, the model is starting to see large-scale adoption, and traditional vendors are having trouble revamping their applications and financials to get in on the action. From the article, 'As SaaS gains mainstream acceptance, it is becoming an important disruptive force in the software industry. And as long as the quality and reliability of SaaS solutions continues to improve, the appeal of SaaS isn't going to go away.'"

Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? 928

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the come-see-the-violence-inherent-in-the-system dept.
sycodon writes "Global Warming has become more than just a scientific issue and has been portrayed as nothing less than the End of the World by some. However, despite all the hoopla from Hollywood, Politicians and Science Bureaucrats, there is another side, but it's being suppressed according to Richard Lindzen, an Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT. From the article: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.'"

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