He has trespassed and therefore must pay: track down the real source of the attack, sick law enforcement on him, shut off his power and water, destroy his hard drive with a hard head crash, and show him that hacking your system doesn't pay.
..that as employee productivity skyrocketed, they kept laying them off.
It seems to me that the ability to work extra and produce more would be a valuable trait that companies could sieze upon: think about it for a moment. Companies want to grow bigger and enjoy bigger profits. Therefore it would make more sense to employ more people and accomplish more.
The only reason to lay people off is because they're tightening their belts, so that even though the bottom line is profit profit profit, they're expecting rough times ahead and a huge downturn in sales.
If the employee doesn't know it's going on, the person responsible is the one in charge handing him the software and saying "Install this, it's authorised, bought and paid for."
No employee should expect to shoulder the burden of verifying that every single thing they do conforms to every possible law and is in fact legal when their bosses give orders and make false or misleading claims. It's an impossible expectation.
Or is the new EU system so ridiculously complex and byzantine that nobody really knows who actually wields the power to do anything useful?
I keep hearing stories about the EU that suggest that just about anybody has the power to pretty much anything, even without the voting support of the member nations..
Where the hell can I find information on what, precisely, the life cycle of an EU directive is?
It's really that simple. I strengthen the bonds between myself and my neighbour by sharing cultural media like songs and movies. When certifiably psychopathic corporate entities try to "cure" me of this "dangerous and criminal" habit, they are doing damage to society.
I refuse to comply with the wishes of a certified psychopath, and the rest of the world should too.
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Except of course for the Fujistu 4726, which is still being mass-produced and is the logical successor to the IBM M/M2. It's also got a superior tactile response to the IBM's, IMNSHO.
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The Fujitsu is a superior keyboard, and probably the best keyboard that is currently on the market, and I'll describe why, in nice convenient bullet form.
. The backslash is big (double-wide!) and right near the top-right where it's supposed to be.
. There are almost no obnoxious extra keys that take up the space where other keys used to be.
. The Function, Printsc/etc, Esc, Insert->PgUp, Arrow Keys, and Numeric Keypad, are all in the classic layout and where we all learned they'd be. PgUp and PgDown aren't transposed.
. The numeric keypad isn't missing.
. The Shift and Backspace keys are triple-wide and easy to see.
. Control is at the bottom-left, right where you'd expect it to be. Even a former Commodore user like myself can find them without hunting.
. The tactile response of the keyboard is a buckling spring; therefore, you're not wondering whether you hit the key. If you felt it go past the buckling point, you hit the key.
. The audible click of the keyboard is a secondary feedback mechanism that also tells you very clearly when you've hit one of the keys. It's not so loud it's obnoxious though. The clicky sound is about on par with the old IBM M line of keyboards.
. It's still for sale. Fujitsu still makes them!
. They're heavy duty. Really heavy-duty. You could easily brain someone with one and plug it back in and keep working. I've often pounded hard enough to break any lesser keyboards. Mine seem indestructible.
. The keys are sturdy and can be easily removed and repositioned to match your current keyboard layout, without fear of hurting the keyboard. In the slightest.
What point is there in leaving the glyphs off the keys? You're never going to learn where F6 is by heart: you don't use it enough. Other keys are similar. I've been typing for something like 20 years and more, and I can type without looking at the keyboard, even without using a standard hand position: that doesn't mean I don't need to peek every once in a while.
Besides, when you're in the dark in front of your computer screen you can't see the keys anyway: but they're there as a convenience for you if you need them.
Telling people they'll type faster if they have to learn key position is pretty condescending. Wouldn't it be better to take a design like the Fujitsu and try to improve on it, instead, hard as that may be?
Here's a PDF describing the features and quality of the Fujitsu 4726:
Change the name, it's quite simple. Hormel has been ignoring people using the term "spam" for quite some time: and you had to go file a trademark?
Cripes. What a complete waste of money. It's not like you need the name-branding. Look at the Thunderbird/etc people. They changed their names how many times and they're still ridiculously popular!
If China doesn't want to buy our software, what the hell difference does it make? It's their sovereign country, and we're in no position to judge what they do on their own soil.
It's the same with Canadian lumber. If the Americans don't want to buy it at our prices--so what? It's their country. We can't and have NO RIGHT to *force* them to buy at a certain price. That's just Crapola with a Capital C.
Viewed in a certain light, "flaunt" might be used in that context since they were taking the republic's laws and waving them in the faces of all those doing the republic harm.
After all, they were being quite flashy with their light sabres, and their breaking into ships which are themselves breaking the law, and their melting blast doors and so on as though they were frontier-justice-dealing Sheriffs blazing a path of "law" with the broken necks of the criminals they "brought to justice."
While I suppose "flout" would probably be a better choice here given modern laws and standards of behaviour, there's no direct evidence that the Jedi were actually breaking any laws in the films, since there were never any punishments for their actions meted out.
The cutesy Ep1, the disappointing, grating whining in Ep2, will all be worth it if we get to see *EVERYBODY WE HAVE GROWN TO DISLIKE DIE OR BE MAIMED IN ONE GLORIOUS EVIL-TAKES-ALL BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!*
Who do we dislike? It's obvious isn't it?
The Jedi Council of course : Elitist to the last and annoyingly aloof, they flaunt the laws they supposedly protect. Down with the Jedi Council!
Who do we like who's going to survive?
Yoda. He's more of an observer advisor on the council than anything else, shaking his head and acting sad, because you know he knows what's coming. Plus he's a little dynamo with a lightsabre.
Obi-Wan lacks the cynicism of the older council, and is directly responsible for teaching Annakin er.. sorry, Vader, the ways of the force, Obi is thus partly responsible for the death of all those annoying, obnoxious Jedi. Even that one with the ugly blue tentacles coming out of his head.
If you step back a moment, you could even forgive Lucas for butchering the first two movies if you believe he was simply propping up all those characters just to LET THEM ALL SUFFER in Ep3!
Ha ha ha.. What more poetic justice than that? Oh the irony..
WE ASKED FOR IT, maybe we'll get it after all? Woo!!
It wasn't adopted because PAM is a steaming pile, and the people on the NetBSD mailing lists have been arguing ceaselessly about the only benefit that PAM has over other, technologically superior schemes: support for closed-source binary authentication modules.
Part of the reason for the push for PAM adoption has been the recent commercial slant of the decisions of NetBSD core. I wouldn't call it "selling out" per se, but I would say that it is no longer just about the code.
It's unfortunate. It's reluctance to incorporate things like PAM, or use Linux-like exploding version numbering, was the primary reason I was such a pro-NetBSD supporter. Now that those attractions are gone and the NetBSD foundation seems to want to play catch-up with Linux, I might as well just go with FreeBSD, or a version of Linux.
I believe the reason for the recent commercial slant is simple: I think the commercial customers of Wasabi Systems are pushing them to build an OS which is as close to Linux as possible but is not encumbered by the GPL. The commercial advantages of that are obvious, but disheartening.
NetBSD's old niche of extreme portability and purity is now overshadowed by these commercial interests. Too bad.
In every scenario I've seen so far, none of our customers know precisely what they need when they ask us whether our software is "Sarbanes-Oxley" compliant. When pressed for details, they all plead ignorance.
In terms of concrete specifics, I think there's a great deal of confusion out there as to whether a software company is even *capable* of being compliant.
So, you Americans have my sympathy! Perhaps someday your congresscritters will have some measurable grasp on something other than their own two buttcheeks.
I can spot the one-frame bits of brown blobs that are supposed to be used for tracing down where someone handi-cam'd a movie. What I don't understand is why no-one else can see them.
What an idiotic analogy. It's so tremendously idiotic, I'll waste only the time it takes to point that fact out before I move on to more worthwhile pursuits.
A: Yes. Once the code is stable and weve had independent code audits, well publish the source code. Were releasing a security product, and we believe along with legions of other security aware developers that transparency is key to trust building. We are working as hard and fast as we can to make this happen. Our commitment is to publish the source before the end of 2005, hopefully sooner than later.
In other words, they aren't going to release any source until "hopefully" the end of the year. That means nobody except the people they designate get to look under the hood to critique anything. In the meanwhile they're hoping that people will widely adopt their software.
All these companies claim that their device is somehow "Linux-based" or "Powered by Linux". The problem is that most of these companies are making it worthless to be run by Linux. I mean honestly--what the hell use is it to me that a device is Linux-powered if the crucial device logic, drivers, or userland applications are all closed-source?
NONE.
So unless their devices are 100% open source that I can hack and modify freely, these are just more companies jumping on the "Hey we run Linux too! *snicker*" bandwagon.
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... which, I'm guessing, most of us here already knew.
He has trespassed and therefore must pay: track down the real source of the attack, sick law enforcement on him, shut off his power and water, destroy his hard drive with a hard head crash, and show him that hacking your system doesn't pay.
..that as employee productivity skyrocketed, they kept laying them off.
It seems to me that the ability to work extra and produce more would be a valuable trait that companies could sieze upon: think about it for a moment. Companies want to grow bigger and enjoy bigger profits. Therefore it would make more sense to employ more people and accomplish more.
The only reason to lay people off is because they're tightening their belts, so that even though the bottom line is profit profit profit, they're expecting rough times ahead and a huge downturn in sales.
If the employee doesn't know it's going on, the person responsible is the one in charge handing him the software and saying "Install this, it's authorised, bought and paid for."
No employee should expect to shoulder the burden of verifying that every single thing they do conforms to every possible law and is in fact legal when their bosses give orders and make false or misleading claims. It's an impossible expectation.
Or is the new EU system so ridiculously complex and byzantine that nobody really knows who actually wields the power to do anything useful?
I keep hearing stories about the EU that suggest that just about anybody has the power to pretty much anything, even without the voting support of the member nations..
Where the hell can I find information on what, precisely, the life cycle of an EU directive is?
It's really that simple. I strengthen the bonds between myself and my neighbour by sharing cultural media like songs and movies. When certifiably psychopathic corporate entities try to "cure" me of this "dangerous and criminal" habit, they are doing damage to society.
I refuse to comply with the wishes of a certified psychopath, and the rest of the world should too.
Hey I have a calculator key too!
It's called Alt-K.
Except of course for the Fujistu 4726, which is still being mass-produced and is the logical successor to the IBM M/M2. It's also got a superior tactile response to the IBM's, IMNSHO.
The Fujitsu is a superior keyboard, and probably the best keyboard that is currently on the market, and I'll describe why, in nice convenient bullet form.
. The backslash is big (double-wide!) and right near the top-right where it's supposed to be.
. There are almost no obnoxious extra keys that take up the space where other keys used to be.
. The Function, Printsc/etc, Esc, Insert->PgUp, Arrow Keys, and Numeric Keypad, are all in the classic layout and where we all learned they'd be. PgUp and PgDown aren't transposed.
. The numeric keypad isn't missing.
. The Shift and Backspace keys are triple-wide and easy to see.
. Control is at the bottom-left, right where you'd expect it to be. Even a former Commodore user like myself can find them without hunting.
. The tactile response of the keyboard is a buckling spring; therefore, you're not wondering whether you hit the key. If you felt it go past the buckling point, you hit the key.
. The audible click of the keyboard is a secondary feedback mechanism that also tells you very clearly when you've hit one of the keys. It's not so loud it's obnoxious though. The clicky sound is about on par with the old IBM M line of keyboards.
. It's still for sale. Fujitsu still makes them!
. They're heavy duty. Really heavy-duty. You could easily brain someone with one and plug it back in and keep working. I've often pounded hard enough to break any lesser keyboards. Mine seem indestructible.
. The keys are sturdy and can be easily removed and repositioned to match your current keyboard layout, without fear of hurting the keyboard. In the slightest.
What point is there in leaving the glyphs off the keys? You're never going to learn where F6 is by heart: you don't use it enough. Other keys are similar. I've been typing for something like 20 years and more, and I can type without looking at the keyboard, even without using a standard hand position: that doesn't mean I don't need to peek every once in a while.
Besides, when you're in the dark in front of your computer screen you can't see the keys anyway: but they're there as a convenience for you if you need them.
Telling people they'll type faster if they have to learn key position is pretty condescending. Wouldn't it be better to take a design like the Fujitsu and try to improve on it, instead, hard as that may be?
Here's a PDF describing the features and quality of the Fujitsu 4726:
http://www.fcai.fujitsu.com/pdf/FKB4726.pdf
Be informed! Join the anti-crappy-keyboard revolution!
Change the name, it's quite simple. Hormel has been ignoring people using the term "spam" for quite some time: and you had to go file a trademark?
Cripes. What a complete waste of money. It's not like you need the name-branding. Look at the Thunderbird/etc people. They changed their names how many times and they're still ridiculously popular!
If China doesn't want to buy our software, what the hell difference does it make? It's their sovereign country, and we're in no position to judge what they do on their own soil.
It's the same with Canadian lumber. If the Americans don't want to buy it at our prices--so what? It's their country. We can't and have NO RIGHT to *force* them to buy at a certain price. That's just Crapola with a Capital C.
To display ostentatiously is to flaunt.
Viewed in a certain light, "flaunt" might be used in that context since they were taking the republic's laws and waving them in the faces of all those doing the republic harm.
After all, they were being quite flashy with their light sabres, and their breaking into ships which are themselves breaking the law, and their melting blast doors and so on as though they were frontier-justice-dealing Sheriffs blazing a path of "law" with the broken necks of the criminals they "brought to justice."
While I suppose "flout" would probably be a better choice here given modern laws and standards of behaviour, there's no direct evidence that the Jedi were actually breaking any laws in the films, since there were never any punishments for their actions meted out.
The cutesy Ep1, the disappointing, grating whining in Ep2, will all be worth it if we get to see *EVERYBODY WE HAVE GROWN TO DISLIKE DIE OR BE MAIMED IN ONE GLORIOUS EVIL-TAKES-ALL BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!*
Who do we dislike? It's obvious isn't it?
The Jedi Council of course : Elitist to the last and annoyingly aloof, they flaunt the laws they supposedly protect. Down with the Jedi Council!
Who do we like who's going to survive?
Yoda. He's more of an observer advisor on the council than anything else, shaking his head and acting sad, because you know he knows what's coming. Plus he's a little dynamo with a lightsabre.
Obi-Wan lacks the cynicism of the older council, and is directly responsible for teaching Annakin er.. sorry, Vader, the ways of the force, Obi is thus partly responsible for the death of all those annoying, obnoxious Jedi. Even that one with the ugly blue tentacles coming out of his head.
If you step back a moment, you could even forgive Lucas for butchering the first two movies if you believe he was simply propping up all those characters just to LET THEM ALL SUFFER in Ep3!
Ha ha ha.. What more poetic justice than that? Oh the irony..
WE ASKED FOR IT, maybe we'll get it after all? Woo!!
You have my sympathies, neighbours.
It wasn't adopted because PAM is a steaming pile, and the people on the NetBSD mailing lists have been arguing ceaselessly about the only benefit that PAM has over other, technologically superior schemes: support for closed-source binary authentication modules.
Part of the reason for the push for PAM adoption has been the recent commercial slant of the decisions of NetBSD core. I wouldn't call it "selling out" per se, but I would say that it is no longer just about the code.
It's unfortunate. It's reluctance to incorporate things like PAM, or use Linux-like exploding version numbering, was the primary reason I was such a pro-NetBSD supporter. Now that those attractions are gone and the NetBSD foundation seems to want to play catch-up with Linux, I might as well just go with FreeBSD, or a version of Linux.
I believe the reason for the recent commercial slant is simple: I think the commercial customers of Wasabi Systems are pushing them to build an OS which is as close to Linux as possible but is not encumbered by the GPL. The commercial advantages of that are obvious, but disheartening.
NetBSD's old niche of extreme portability and purity is now overshadowed by these commercial interests. Too bad.
In every scenario I've seen so far, none of our customers know precisely what they need when they ask us whether our software is "Sarbanes-Oxley" compliant. When pressed for details, they all plead ignorance.
In terms of concrete specifics, I think there's a great deal of confusion out there as to whether a software company is even *capable* of being compliant.
So, you Americans have my sympathy! Perhaps someday your congresscritters will have some measurable grasp on something other than their own two buttcheeks.
Tiff is a great presenter: he holds a bunch of world records for fastest laps in the McLaren F1, and he's an extremely capable stunt driver.
The more you watch him, the more you realise the guy's a driving god. The guys on Top Gear are chumps by comparison.
I can spot the one-frame bits of brown blobs that are supposed to be used for tracing down where someone handi-cam'd a movie. What I don't understand is why no-one else can see them.
Bah.
I for one will laugh and point when they lose the case they stupidly set themselves up for to begin with.
What an idiotic analogy. It's so tremendously idiotic, I'll waste only the time it takes to point that fact out before I move on to more worthwhile pursuits.
... give us Java, you fucking morons!
Does no-one else have a problem with this?
..until I can recompile it myself.
.. don't take advice from anyone on Slashdot. That way lies madness!
All these companies claim that their device is somehow "Linux-based" or "Powered by Linux". The problem is that most of these companies are making it worthless to be run by Linux. I mean honestly--what the hell use is it to me that a device is Linux-powered if the crucial device logic, drivers, or userland applications are all closed-source?
NONE.
So unless their devices are 100% open source that I can hack and modify freely, these are just more companies jumping on the "Hey we run Linux too! *snicker*" bandwagon.
Bull-crap.