Geez man, Sometimes it is the users fault. Here's my example:
I've got a user who doesn't seem to get the total concept of passwords. His password is static (IE. it doesn't change or expire). However he insists on changing it at seemingly random intervales, and everytime he does he forgets it the next day. When ever this happens he phones me up and accuses me of changing his password. Like with a 1000+ users I've nothing better to do.
So I reset his password and force him to change it on login. And he's fine until the next time he gets the idea to change his password. I often think he has a split personality or something.
I've probably got hundreds of examples like this. It's one of the hazards of working tech support for ten years. The moral is that it sometimes IS the user and good support often means resisting the urge to use the LART.
It is because a wiretap requires a high degree of probable cause and also restricts the enforcement ageny to not record communications not covered by the wiretap order. IE. the FBI could get a wiretap covering an alleged crime and record any conversations about that crime; however, if the target starts having phone sex with his mistress the FBI is not supposed to record the information.
I'm totally surprised that anyone didn't know this. Isn't like the second site everyone is told to go to? I use it a a classic example of how easy it is to accidently get to a porn site.
As a general rule you should never save to a lossy file format until your final output step. Therefor if you intend to edit the image in any way you should use non lossy formats when ever possible. Practically this means capture as TIFF when ever possible.
Besides which 1,600 X 1,200 is considered marginal professonally. The D1X at the link above can output 3,008 x 1,960 at 12 bits
It's a Union job security thing most likely. Similiar things happen here all the time. Best example I've personally been involved with:
A guy donates a few hectares of land to the city with an agreement that a non profit group will turn it into a park with soccer and fastpitch fields. Volunteers for the non profit will clear the land, plant grass, install sprinklers, put up washrooms and storage buildings, erect stands, etc., etc. over the course of a few years. All with donated materials.
Only problem is that the local city workers union goes balistic (on topic:) saying that the volunteers are taking union jobs away resulting in lost wages ~C$750,000, yada yada yada. Non profit responds with "that's stupid we just want to improve the local community at no cost to the tax payers."
Long story short: The Union was succesful in stopping the project. The land owner took back the land and it now sits as a vacant weed infested eyesore. And the nearest park is couple kilometres away. But hey that's OK because no union member lost any wages this way:( I'm not bitter, can you tell?
Interesting thinking. I must admit that I was surprised at how cheap coal is. It is practically as cheap as dirt; which should be surprising I guess because that is all it really is, burnable dirt.
But there is a very similiar program that is free. It's called Power Archiver. Handles way more archive formats (ZIP PK3 JAR OWK REP CAB LHA TAR RAR ACE ARJ GZIP plus more) and it's context menus are better.
That was kind of the point I think. In other words the hope diamond is limited and coal is unlimited (not really but there are orders of magnitude more coal around than diamonds.)
Such actions would be considered acceptable even in a purely libertarian society -- if you dislike them, you take your money elsewhere.
And elsewhere is where I would be. I got the impression that the majority of rentals were requiring this information. I'm glad to see it was just one; and that single example probably paranoid to boot. I find the concept of a gated community somewhat unsettling anyways.
The problem is when one has no effective choice because certian behaviours have become the defacto standard in an area. I moved around a lot in college(11 times in 4 years), and it seemed every city had something wierd and wacky that was verboten. One town it was almost inpossible to find a place that didn't require a one year lease; and in another city forget getting a place that wasn't next to a toxic waste dump if you had an even slightly exotic pet (a ferret for example). I'm glad to see pre identification hasn't reached this point; at least in your area and mine.
Whoa! What police state wanna be city do you live in? If someone wanted to see my drivers licence before they would even show me the place, I'd be looking else where. I've never even heard of such a thing before and housing is tight here (Calgary AB; the vacancy rate is down around 1.5%)
You realize of course that you can never ever trust the client/user right? I bet the vast majority of those hits are from robots and and people like me who like to get raw html instead of somthing that has been prettied by some bandwidth wasting, cycle consuming IE5 only "enhancement". So I often set my browser to report itself as netscape 1 or mosaic. It's been my experience that the vast majority of sites that refuse to serve me pages because of my reported browser are not worth visiting anyways. Ends up acting like a first defence proxy.
Of course the simple solution {and therefor probably wrong:)} would be to not try to stop activities that are both; from a practical point of view uncontrollable, and which the vast majority of your citizens which to partake.
Prohibition and the "War" on drugs are both good examples of what happens when you try.
DMCA doesn't only ban "crowbars" it also bans descriptions of "crowbars" and (recursive) instructions on where to get "crowbars" and instructions to make your own "crowbars". We allow people to tell others how to make explosives, fully automatic weapons, and poisons. Why should speech that allows one to merely infringe copyright have more controls than speech which allows people to more effectively maim and kill people?
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I've got a user who doesn't seem to get the total concept of passwords. His password is static (IE. it doesn't change or expire). However he insists on changing it at seemingly random intervales, and everytime he does he forgets it the next day. When ever this happens he phones me up and accuses me of changing his password. Like with a 1000+ users I've nothing better to do.
So I reset his password and force him to change it on login. And he's fine until the next time he gets the idea to change his password. I often think he has a split personality or something.
I've probably got hundreds of examples like this. It's one of the hazards of working tech support for ten years. The moral is that it sometimes IS the user and good support often means resisting the urge to use the LART.
It is because a wiretap requires a high degree of probable cause and also restricts the enforcement ageny to not record communications not covered by the wiretap order. IE. the FBI could get a wiretap covering an alleged crime and record any conversations about that crime; however, if the target starts having phone sex with his mistress the FBI is not supposed to record the information.
Or heaven forbid we could just use email for mail and ftp for file transfers
I'm totally surprised that anyone didn't know this. Isn't like the second site everyone is told to go to? I use it a a classic example of how easy it is to accidently get to a porn site.
K5 has 1/50 the user base; That's what is working. And it's degrading (of course); Todays ZEN Op-ed is a prime example of that.
Besides which 1,600 X 1,200 is considered marginal professonally. The D1X at the link above can output 3,008 x 1,960 at 12 bits
A guy donates a few hectares of land to the city with an agreement that a non profit group will turn it into a park with soccer and fastpitch fields. Volunteers for the non profit will clear the land, plant grass, install sprinklers, put up washrooms and storage buildings, erect stands, etc., etc. over the course of a few years. All with donated materials.
Only problem is that the local city workers union goes balistic (on topic :) saying that the volunteers are taking union jobs away resulting in lost wages ~C$750,000, yada yada yada. Non profit responds with "that's stupid we just want to improve the local community at no cost to the tax payers."
Long story short: The Union was succesful in stopping the project. The land owner took back the land and it now sits as a vacant weed infested eyesore. And the nearest park is couple kilometres away. But hey that's OK because no union member lost any wages this way :( I'm not bitter, can you tell?
I see you missed the point. Do you think any of those media organizations are perceived as liberal?
Ya, America just shoots them.
Just turn off images in your browser if you don't want to see the previews.
Interesting thinking. I must admit that I was surprised at how cheap coal is. It is practically as cheap as dirt; which should be surprising I guess because that is all it really is, burnable dirt.
It's self extractor is also freeware.
Of course the big difference between professors and students is that Professors are paid to come to class and students are the ones doing the paying.
That was kind of the point I think. In other words the hope diamond is limited and coal is unlimited (not really but there are orders of magnitude more coal around than diamonds.)
Or like I have often said: If you're not paranoid, you're not paying close enough attention.
And if you need an example of that take a look at tables in WP vs Word. tables in Word are brain dead and I cringe everytime I have to use them.
And elsewhere is where I would be. I got the impression that the majority of rentals were requiring this information. I'm glad to see it was just one; and that single example probably paranoid to boot. I find the concept of a gated community somewhat unsettling anyways.
The problem is when one has no effective choice because certian behaviours have become the defacto standard in an area. I moved around a lot in college(11 times in 4 years), and it seemed every city had something wierd and wacky that was verboten. One town it was almost inpossible to find a place that didn't require a one year lease; and in another city forget getting a place that wasn't next to a toxic waste dump if you had an even slightly exotic pet (a ferret for example). I'm glad to see pre identification hasn't reached this point; at least in your area and mine.
If you think this is downhill you should have been around since they handed out the first ID Number
Whoa! What police state wanna be city do you live in? If someone wanted to see my drivers licence before they would even show me the place, I'd be looking else where. I've never even heard of such a thing before and housing is tight here (Calgary AB; the vacancy rate is down around 1.5%)
You realize of course that you can never ever trust the client/user right? I bet the vast majority of those hits are from robots and and people like me who like to get raw html instead of somthing that has been prettied by some bandwidth wasting, cycle consuming IE5 only "enhancement". So I often set my browser to report itself as netscape 1 or mosaic. It's been my experience that the vast majority of sites that refuse to serve me pages because of my reported browser are not worth visiting anyways. Ends up acting like a first defence proxy.
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Prohibition and the "War" on drugs are both good examples of what happens when you try.
DMCA doesn't only ban "crowbars" it also bans descriptions of "crowbars" and (recursive) instructions on where to get "crowbars" and instructions to make your own "crowbars". We allow people to tell others how to make explosives, fully automatic weapons, and poisons. Why should speech that allows one to merely infringe copyright have more controls than speech which allows people to more effectively maim and kill people?
Sounds like the RICO laws down in the states.
Me spell chucker work grate. Need grandma chicken.