It's very tempting to dismiss this as not affecting you, but it's simply not true.
Phishing turns what was a one-target game into something where a scammer can con hundreds, thousands, or perhaps some day millions of people.
That causes insurance companies to pay out a lot of money, and that causes rates to rise. The companies that pay those rates pass 100% of that cost on to you.
Of course that doesn't mean we should automatically do anything that anyone proposes to fix the problem, but certainly attention needs to be focused on it before it becomes a major problem for all of us.
I think that his point is that the *firing* of this guy for a fairly minor infraction when others aren't being *fired* for much worse things isn't particularly fair or beneficial. He's not trying to justify abuse, just pointing out that the punishment is out of whack.
He doesn't have a point because he doesn't have any information. He doesn't know that this was that guy's only offense. He doesn't know if that guy was confronted and acted like a dick. He doesn't know if other people aren't being fired right and left. He doesn't even know if there are worse abuses going on there; he's just making the usual cynical (and probably correct) assumption that if it's a government, it must be crappy.
However, even if we assume that the government is simultaneously corrupt and incompetent at all levels, and that every employee is breaking every rule available, and that this guy was polite and defferential when confronted, the fact is that he broke rules that carried the potential of termination, and he got terminated. Too bad, so sad, don't be a dumbass at your next job.
Do they have a right to refuse to accept the court documents he was trying to deliver?
Since he was a party to the case attempting to serve court documents from a state that doesn't allow parties to the case to serve process, then yes, they surely have that right.
Your "preventing ice age" theory is something you just made up, with little or no scientific corroboration.
Actually, it's something the environmentalist community made up, with little or no scientific corroboration, and peddled for 20 years before they switched to the current inanity.
Given the seriousness of the disasters we're talking about if we're right, I think its important that we do whhat we can to eliminate it until we're sure global warming is not our doing.
But what if global warming is the only thing preventing another ice age? Given the seriousness of the disasters we're talking about if you're wrong, I think it's important that we do what we can to increase it until we're sure global warming isn't saving our butts.
Nobody buys Linux instead of Solaris because it's got cool apps.
We buy Linux instead of Solaris because we don't want to pay $8 bajillion for a system that doesn't need to be that robust; where the application can run in parallel on lots of cheap hardware and you don't care if one or two or fifty of them die, Sun makes no sense.
Reiser4 continues to be the Betamax of Linux filesystems; demonstrably technically superior in many categories than the most popular option, demonstrably nowhere near the best in the field in many, and relegated to "also-ran" status the instant the bits hit the FTP server.
Making Reiser better won't fix that, either. It's not about how good it is.
Then again, also like Betamax, those who have a use for it will continue to keep it alive.
Wikipedia is perhaps not the best reference for this, since it implies that RFC 920 specified.com for all commercial entities, but.gov and.mil for US government and military entities.
It in fact specified.gov and.mil with the same language as.com. They're intended by the RFC to be used for all government and military entities.
Yet it also specified country domains, so technically, only governments of entire planets would be allowed to use.gov. Mercenary units could probably use.mil, though.
Of course, if we're supposed to just assume it meant US government and military, then we have to assume it meant use commercial as well.
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Who says he didn't discuss or formulate an opinion on the DMCA?
The guy to whom I was replying.
They say it's better not to know how laws and sausages are made, but that's no excuse for shooting off your mouth in ignorance.
Indeed.
If only they'd genetically engineer fashion models to like nerds...
We've already got the genetic template; Claudia Schiffer.
Once the get the price down, they'll probably be able to develop better-tasting ones.
When he's president, he'll actually get into negotiations over revising laws.
In 20 years in the United States Senate, he never once participated in any discussion on this issue and formulated an opinion on it?
Before *VOTING* for the DMCA he never formulated an opinion on it?
Jebus H. Christ and his bastard brother Harry, do you people even LISTEN to yourselves?
Gmail has a HUGE usability error, and that's that some old beta versions of a program they didn't write don't work properly?
The problem is that laws in the US are bought and sold by big business and the DCMA is simple wrong.
So vote for a multi-billionaire who voted for the DMCA and never spoke out against it until he was running for President!
That's the problem with the internet; all the damn Vibertarians and Vocialists fighting.
We knew this two weeks ago, but were under NDA.
How did the press not know? Somebody somewhere would have violated the NDAs.
Gentoo: when you receive the car, you have to push the "compile" button and wait two days to drive it.
Every time you change the oil you must do this again.
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It's very tempting to dismiss this as not affecting you, but it's simply not true.
Phishing turns what was a one-target game into something where a scammer can con hundreds, thousands, or perhaps some day millions of people.
That causes insurance companies to pay out a lot of money, and that causes rates to rise. The companies that pay those rates pass 100% of that cost on to you.
Of course that doesn't mean we should automatically do anything that anyone proposes to fix the problem, but certainly attention needs to be focused on it before it becomes a major problem for all of us.
Just what the computing industry needed; more hippies.
I think that his point is that the *firing* of this guy for a fairly minor infraction when others aren't being *fired* for much worse things isn't particularly fair or beneficial. He's not trying to justify abuse, just pointing out that the punishment is out of whack.
He doesn't have a point because he doesn't have any information. He doesn't know that this was that guy's only offense. He doesn't know if that guy was confronted and acted like a dick. He doesn't know if other people aren't being fired right and left. He doesn't even know if there are worse abuses going on there; he's just making the usual cynical (and probably correct) assumption that if it's a government, it must be crappy.
However, even if we assume that the government is simultaneously corrupt and incompetent at all levels, and that every employee is breaking every rule available, and that this guy was polite and defferential when confronted, the fact is that he broke rules that carried the potential of termination, and he got terminated. Too bad, so sad, don't be a dumbass at your next job.
Do they have a right to refuse to accept the court documents he was trying to deliver?
Since he was a party to the case attempting to serve court documents from a state that doesn't allow parties to the case to serve process, then yes, they surely have that right.
"I can do this wrong thing because it's not the most wrong thing being done" isn't perspective, it's lack of civic responsibility.
Lineage II is going to be adding a gambling component. Players will be able to place bets on monster races or purchase lottery tickets.
Please, please, PLEASE let them not convince Cryptic to do this bullshit in City of Heroes too.
It's going to be bad enough that Captain_Reno will get this idea now; don't let it happen EVERYWHERE.
dude, there is far more fraud, waste, and abuse in government then this piddling little thing.
Yes, and much of comes from people having that attitude.
Your "preventing ice age" theory is something you just made up, with little or no scientific corroboration.
Actually, it's something the environmentalist community made up, with little or no scientific corroboration, and peddled for 20 years before they switched to the current inanity.
Given the seriousness of the disasters we're talking about if we're right, I think its important that we do whhat we can to eliminate it until we're sure global warming is not our doing.
But what if global warming is the only thing preventing another ice age? Given the seriousness of the disasters we're talking about if you're wrong, I think it's important that we do what we can to increase it until we're sure global warming isn't saving our butts.
Now there will be n00bs hanging out in Best Buy asking passers-by to power level their PCs.
Better yet, how many kids will lose their tokens?
It's worse than that; pedos will buy the tokens from them. It'll be the easiest way to circumvent this, and thus it'll be the most-commonly-used way.
The question was stupid anyway.
Nobody buys Linux instead of Solaris because it's got cool apps.
We buy Linux instead of Solaris because we don't want to pay $8 bajillion for a system that doesn't need to be that robust; where the application can run in parallel on lots of cheap hardware and you don't care if one or two or fifty of them die, Sun makes no sense.
Once again, Sun doesn't get it.
Uncle Syberghost's prediction:
Reiser4 continues to be the Betamax of Linux filesystems; demonstrably technically superior in many categories than the most popular option, demonstrably nowhere near the best in the field in many, and relegated to "also-ran" status the instant the bits hit the FTP server.
Making Reiser better won't fix that, either. It's not about how good it is.
Then again, also like Betamax, those who have a use for it will continue to keep it alive.
Wikipedia is perhaps not the best reference for this, since it implies that RFC 920 specified .com for all commercial entities, but .gov and .mil for US government and military entities.
.gov and .mil with the same language as .com. They're intended by the RFC to be used for all government and military entities.
.gov. Mercenary units could probably use .mil, though.
It in fact specified
Yet it also specified country domains, so technically, only governments of entire planets would be allowed to use
Of course, if we're supposed to just assume it meant US government and military, then we have to assume it meant use commercial as well.
Just give everybody access to Sandy Berger's pants.
I do NOT need a new OS install every three weeks.
Then go install one of the many distributions geared toward you, such as RedHat.
Fedora is geared toward the people who DO want or need a new OS install every four months.