First thing first: SAP did break the law and they deserve to suffer.
That being said: When Intel and Microsoft got fined Billions in the EU, people where saying basically the same: 'If they aren't willing to stick to the European rules, they should stop doing business there.'
Yet a very vocal crowd here and elsewhere where calling the EU descisions 'Anti-American'. So, can I now start talking about how Anti-German/Anti-European the Americans are?
Well, with all the fancy gadgets, there's an easy solution:
Just set all your gadgets to the time the majority of them show. Now, I knew there was a reason why I had that many gadgets.
FYI, the only clocks I had to set this weekend was my old, non-networked alarm clock and the time of my (also non-networked) digital camera. Everythin else knew what to do and did it.
I hear people say that Opera/Firefox/Windows XP crashes all the time, and I wonder what they're doing with their systems. I use Windows XP and Firefox daily, and they hardly ever crash. Same for Opery (which I'm not using quite that much, but still regularly).
I believe stories about software that crashes "all the time" tells more about the people who tell them and the way they are using (abusing?) their systems than about the software.
Well, I do remember a few fines by the EU against the likes of Microsoft, Intel, Gaz de France (sp?) and E.On that where in the range of several hundred Millions.
I use Firefox at home, because I'm used to it. Opera on my notebook, because it's more lightweight and works faster on non-broadband connections. I have to use IE at work (and yes, that sucks). I like to have a look at what Chrome is doing every once in a while.
Just because you stick to one browser only doesn't mean that there are no reasons for other people to work differently.
That's why Darwin, Webkit, GCC and so on are closed source and proprietary, right?
You do know that all of these existed as open source before Jobs got his hands on them, right? Darwin = *BSD, WebKit = KHTML, and the G in GCC stands for GNU... So he basically had to keep Apples versions thereof open.
When you realize that, you will realize YOU made up god. Therefore, god doesn't exist.
Jumping to conclusions much?
That I made up my image/concept/... of god does NOT automatically lead to the conclusion that there is no god.
I've never been to Disneyland, but I have ideas on what it looks like. Now, does the fact that I made up an image of Disneyland for myself mean that there is no Disneyland? Hardly so.
There may be a Disneyland or there may not. And if it exists, it may look like I imagine it or it may not.
What's dishonest about it? It's more than half of the people, so it's the majority. Not an overwhelming majority, yet still.
And in places where voters can/have to choose between more than 2 candidates (that is: almost everywhere except the US), candidates who get an actual majority of 50+% instead of only a relative majority are considered popular.
peace: without a religion, many wars cease to exist, since there's no "promised land" to fight overy
Sounds nice, except that religion is most often only an excuse for war, most of the time the actual reasons are greed, the thirst for power, and such like.
I think it's ironic that in a country where you can be put in jail merely for questioning the number of people who were killed during the second world war (regardless of evidence one way or the other),
There is plenty of evidence that it happened, and that a lot of people where murdered. Denying that it happened goes against the facts, and is defamatory (sp?) to the victims and their families. People who deny the holocaust basically call everyone who suffered through it a liar, even though there's plenty of evidence.
Free speech has it's limits. Talk with the lawyers in your country aber hate speech, defamation and such like.
Exactly. That's why we Europeans are all unemployed and moving overseas... oh, wait...
Yes, having branches (or the HQ) in Europe brings demands that companies don't have to fulfil in, say, the US. But: It also has advantages. Being closer to a part of its customers may be one, not having to worry about stupid class action suits or law suits with astronomical damages may be another one.
The world isn't black and white, there are shades of gray and even, I hardly dare say, something called "colors".
Hey, don't forget it is Germany we are talking about here...
Yes, and that's why the purposed law explicitly states that cameras are allowd for security reasons et al. (Not sure if the link above contains that bit of information, I used other sources.)
After he was asked in a room full of people not authorised to know the passwords some time went by, and it wasn't until he withdrew a lot of money and was going to leave the state that he was arrested and imprisoned.
He had all the time in the world to give the passwords to his boss in private. He obviously didn't try to.
If anybody other than my Manager, or the CEO of the company requested I reveal my passwords, I'm going to tell them to get lost as well. I'm not blackmailing them because I feel like talking to the CEO...
Childs wasn't asked for his passwords, but for the administrator passwords for a network that he didn't own. His bosses had all the right to ask for these passwords.
Sure, they could have somebody send in to get into the system and set new passwords. But that would have lead to outages and additional costs.
If Childs would have followed procedure and saved the passwords in a password safe as he was supposed to, or if he set up the network in a way so that he wasn't the only one with passwords (failsafe? redundancy?) as was his job, he wouldn't have been in this situation.
It is not porper procedure to set up a network so that you are the only one who has management access to it. Not with a network of this size. The good old "whap happens when you're hit by a bus tomorrow?"
Second: Yes, giving the passwords on a conference call would have been stupid. But telling the boss that you give it to him afterwards in private would have been possible. But no, Mr. Childs didn't want to give away the passwords at all.
1. Never set up a network system in a way that you are the only person that can keep it running. Always prepare for the possibility that you may not be available at some point in the future
2. If you are assigned a different job within the organisation (not fired) and your boss demands the passwords, but you don't think hje is qualified, don't outright deny the request but ask you boss to give you in writing that he is taking the responsibility.
3. If your boss declines, write an email asking the same thing and cc that to the ceo, law department and one or two other persons in the organisation that may be interested.
4. Don't try to flee the country while the situation is not resolved.
When he was first asked for the passwords he was still an employee. He was just supposed to do a different job.
But I forgot: If you would refer to the facts, you would have to admit that Terry Childs is a stupid, paranoid egomaniac, and we can't have that, right?
You really shouldn't try to pin everything on anti-Americanism. If anything, people here in Europe like the US more since the end of the Bush era (even if many of us probably expected mor from Obama than he delivered).
If we shun the products of American companies, it's not because they're American, but because their products or their attitude sucks.
tl,dr: He followed the rules, and got screwed for it.
Oh, so the rules were that he where only to give the passwords to the mayor? And that he was to install backdoors into the system for his own use in the first place?
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First thing first: SAP did break the law and they deserve to suffer.
That being said:
When Intel and Microsoft got fined Billions in the EU, people where saying basically the same: 'If they aren't willing to stick to the European rules, they should stop doing business there.'
Yet a very vocal crowd here and elsewhere where calling the EU descisions 'Anti-American'.
So, can I now start talking about how Anti-German/Anti-European the Americans are?
Actually, it's called football (or the equivalent) by a few billion people.
Only some 300 million or so call it soccer.
The problem isn't that iOS is not open source, the problem is that Apple didn't fix the bug after it appeared a month ago in Australia.
Well, with all the fancy gadgets, there's an easy solution:
Just set all your gadgets to the time the majority of them show.
Now, I knew there was a reason why I had that many gadgets.
FYI, the only clocks I had to set this weekend was my old, non-networked alarm clock and the time of my (also non-networked) digital camera. Everythin else knew what to do and did it.
I love such vague statements...
I hear people say that Opera/Firefox/Windows XP crashes all the time, and I wonder what they're doing with their systems.
I use Windows XP and Firefox daily, and they hardly ever crash. Same for Opery (which I'm not using quite that much, but still regularly).
I believe stories about software that crashes "all the time" tells more about the people who tell them and the way they are using (abusing?) their systems than about the software.
Well, I do remember a few fines by the EU against the likes of Microsoft, Intel, Gaz de France (sp?) and E.On that where in the range of several hundred Millions.
I use Firefox at home, because I'm used to it.
Opera on my notebook, because it's more lightweight and works faster on non-broadband connections.
I have to use IE at work (and yes, that sucks).
I like to have a look at what Chrome is doing every once in a while.
Just because you stick to one browser only doesn't mean that there are no reasons for other people to work differently.
Phone messages left on *my* answering machine (or more likely voice mail) are *my* property. You're automatically consenting to recording,
But does this automatically imply my consent for this recording to be broadcast?
That's why Darwin, Webkit, GCC and so on are closed source and proprietary, right?
You do know that all of these existed as open source before Jobs got his hands on them, right?
Darwin = *BSD, WebKit = KHTML, and the G in GCC stands for GNU...
So he basically had to keep Apples versions thereof open.
There is a difference between "has no provable basis in fact" and "has no known provable basis in fact".
When you realize that, you will realize YOU made up god. Therefore, god doesn't exist.
Jumping to conclusions much?
That I made up my image/concept/... of god does NOT automatically lead to the conclusion that there is no god.
I've never been to Disneyland, but I have ideas on what it looks like.
Now, does the fact that I made up an image of Disneyland for myself mean that there is no Disneyland?
Hardly so.
There may be a Disneyland or there may not. And if it exists, it may look like I imagine it or it may not.
What's dishonest about it?
It's more than half of the people, so it's the majority. Not an overwhelming majority, yet still.
And in places where voters can/have to choose between more than 2 candidates (that is: almost everywhere except the US), candidates who get an actual majority of 50+% instead of only a relative majority are considered popular.
peace: without a religion, many wars cease to exist, since there's no "promised land" to fight overy
Sounds nice, except that religion is most often only an excuse for war, most of the time the actual reasons are greed, the thirst for power, and such like.
Actually, you're talking about the second NWN.
The first one was an MMORPG in the early 90s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(AOL_game)
I think it's ironic that in a country where you can be put in jail merely for questioning the number of people who were killed during the second world war (regardless of evidence one way or the other),
There is plenty of evidence that it happened, and that a lot of people where murdered.
Denying that it happened goes against the facts, and is defamatory (sp?) to the victims and their families.
People who deny the holocaust basically call everyone who suffered through it a liar, even though there's plenty of evidence.
Free speech has it's limits. Talk with the lawyers in your country aber hate speech, defamation and such like.
Exactly. That's why we Europeans are all unemployed and moving overseas... oh, wait...
Yes, having branches (or the HQ) in Europe brings demands that companies don't have to fulfil in, say, the US.
But: It also has advantages. Being closer to a part of its customers may be one, not having to worry about stupid class action suits or law suits with astronomical damages may be another one.
The world isn't black and white, there are shades of gray and even, I hardly dare say, something called "colors".
What about companies that have high rates of employee theft?
The proposed law explicitly allows cameras for security reasons or when there is probable cause to assume an employee is commting theft or such like.
The law is against general surveillance.
Hey, don't forget it is Germany we are talking about here...
Yes, and that's why the purposed law explicitly states that cameras are allowd for security reasons et al.
(Not sure if the link above contains that bit of information, I used other sources.)
Untrue.
After he was asked in a room full of people not authorised to know the passwords some time went by, and it wasn't until he withdrew a lot of money and was going to leave the state that he was arrested and imprisoned.
He had all the time in the world to give the passwords to his boss in private. He obviously didn't try to.
If anybody other than my Manager, or the CEO of the company requested I reveal my passwords, I'm going to tell them to get lost as well. I'm not blackmailing them because I feel like talking to the CEO...
Childs wasn't asked for his passwords, but for the administrator passwords for a network that he didn't own.
His bosses had all the right to ask for these passwords.
Sure, they could have somebody send in to get into the system and set new passwords. But that would have lead to outages and additional costs.
If Childs would have followed procedure and saved the passwords in a password safe as he was supposed to, or if he set up the network in a way so that he wasn't the only one with passwords (failsafe? redundancy?) as was his job, he wouldn't have been in this situation.
It is not porper procedure to set up a network so that you are the only one who has management access to it. Not with a network of this size. The good old "whap happens when you're hit by a bus tomorrow?"
Second: Yes, giving the passwords on a conference call would have been stupid. But telling the boss that you give it to him afterwards in private would have been possible. But no, Mr. Childs didn't want to give away the passwords at all.
How about:
1. Never set up a network system in a way that you are the only person that can keep it running. Always prepare for the possibility that you may not be available at some point in the future
2. If you are assigned a different job within the organisation (not fired) and your boss demands the passwords, but you don't think hje is qualified, don't outright deny the request but ask you boss to give you in writing that he is taking the responsibility.
3. If your boss declines, write an email asking the same thing and cc that to the ceo, law department and one or two other persons in the organisation that may be interested.
4. Don't try to flee the country while the situation is not resolved.
Check the facts.
When he was first asked for the passwords he was still an employee. He was just supposed to do a different job.
But I forgot: If you would refer to the facts, you would have to admit that Terry Childs is a stupid, paranoid egomaniac, and we can't have that, right?
You really shouldn't try to pin everything on anti-Americanism.
If anything, people here in Europe like the US more since the end of the Bush era (even if many of us probably expected mor from Obama than he delivered).
If we shun the products of American companies, it's not because they're American, but because their products or their attitude sucks.
tl,dr: He followed the rules, and got screwed for it.
Oh, so the rules were that he where only to give the passwords to the mayor?
And that he was to install backdoors into the system for his own use in the first place?