ID made a minor infraction against users, and the content of what it sent back it its servers really was pretty minor. It was a good idea, but implemented with a major mistake. What was a really bad idea was not notifying its users properly and completely. This is where they failed.
When it comes to Internet privacy, there will be a constant onslaught in the future to take your privacy away. It does not happen all at once. It happens slow, and easy, and you never notice it going. Then ten years later ir is just gone one day when you wake up, looking across the room to that blinking monior that was watching you all night.
The way to tell these comercial software companies that we want our privacy untouched and completely intact as it was when the Internet was develloped is to be paranoid and completely defensive when any little thing is done against us. Otherwise it WILL go. Your privacy will go. The only freedom that was ever given away came from you.
ID does need to be punished by its users by noisemaking and a lot of bitching, otherwise they will just not hear.
I was looking around these posts and found a word or two that I was not familiar with. I might be a tech nerd that known the difference between my FDDI, XML, IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, RAID, SCSI, SCA, PCI, HTTP, URL, PERL, BASIC, USB, TTL, CMOS, FET, MOSFET, when I am SOL, and of course when to tell someone to KMA, but I was looking for a word regarding to wages that I did not know about. Whatis.com was just not going to be a help.
So, I went out and found this site that explains terms used regarding wages!
Think about cable descramblers. It is perfectly legal to make and sell cable descramblers. It is illegal for the consumer to use them.
When it comes to electronics the law was set so that you can develop and create just about anything that you want to, but you cannot use the electronics to do certain things that are illegal. They did not want to hinder innovation. This has proved to work over time. I see little differences between computer hardware and software other than the ease of distribution of the software.
Now, this might change and be different if the electronic industry started working like the gun and firearms industry -- they were asking to be slapped down. The legal system has started to attack the manufactures of firearms and not just the irresponsible users. I think of guns and knives as just another tool with appropriate and inappropriate usage. I doubt that these kinds of problems with software will be so severe. The primary reason why this is all addressed is fear that the technically uninclined have against the word "hacker." It is the unknown fear thing. Look at Satan. It is a great tool for sysadmins! Do not take it away just because a few people misuse it; if intelligent enough to use it at all.
You should have the right to give away information -- it is only pictures. You should have the right to do with your own body what you desire. And we are slowly getting there, but you have to realize that us here online that are good Internet citizens are pretty much the elite of society. You know that your rights are for you and that you have to be careful when dealing those ideals out upon others -- they are not always seen in the same light.
You should have the right to sell porn, and I have the right to not buy it. The problem is not that you sell it, but that people want it. A lot of people. Porn makes a lot of money -- they are voting for you! There are a lot of dumb people in this world that get pleasure from an image in their head, and not from actual human contact. A meaningful conversation is just not appreciated as much as I care for it. Heck, if I make eye contact with someone on the street they think I am weird or making a hostile move!
The problem is that most people really are pretty stupid and would kill themselves and there would be bodies laying all over the darn place and that would just be a big icky mess. The government and enlightened individuals the past really has done a lot of good, and some occasional harm which we usually note. Some people need to be protected from themselves because they really are too dumb to do it on their own. Should I and others have the right to go and get myself killed so long as what I do with my body is not the equivalent of littering? Sure! But some people usually want to take others with them against there will, which is a problem.
Parents cry out because their children get online and find this stuff. They think that the computer is a new type of TV/childsitter. They do not have the smarts to know how to give their young the attention that they desire and need. These adults hardly know how to take care of themselves.
We are at the top here and that is just the way that it is. We do not ask what our country can do for us, we say the heck with them and do it ourselves. We are the programers, the sysadmins, the smart people that makes information and innovation flow around. We just have to be a little patient and understanding to put up with the stupid people around us.
Please pardon my lack luster attempt at social or political correctness, but you get the drift likely.
Help me Help me Mr. Government! I am by far too stupid to protect myself online! I am worried about that Melissa and Good Times virus getting me! Prosecute those little kids who made it and throw them in jail, but I am not going to pay any more taxes for the American jails! I gave out my credit card number when someone asked me for it, is that bad? Please forward the chain letter attached to this document, it is really important! Gerber really is giving away $100 to people! This child really is missing! It is true! I am using lots of exclamation points!
Can we just have the government regulate the AOL portal? That would solve our problems by taking care of the vast majority of stupid onliners...
Wait a minute, I have an AOL account... just leave my cable ISP alone and I will be happy.
Well, do not take me as an antipopular-opinion-everything. My opinion is entirely just that -- opinion. I have no facts about what I say, but feeling I do.
And I do believe that the Big Band theory is correct; it is simply not whole. The process earth inside of the shell has defined the shell as being the universe -- completely without understanding and beyond the fact that the platform exists, sitting on someone's desk, inside of a corporate network on some strange world.
Gosh, I hope we are on something like LINUX or Open Source. I would be really embarrassed if we were being run on a Windows system. I am getting nervous about a universal abend here.
Am I the only one out here who does not buy into this Big Bang theory? Since when did the universe say "START!" and "END!"? We are not talking about processes here. Never has anything been so simple.
These scientists think too small. Where it is that one part within the universe is expanding, it is being compressed in another, just like any environment here on this plane of a world.
One thing you might consider is showing this message board off to your bosses. I can think of no better amusement you would get, and you have the chance to go elsewhere now if you like. Just be careful -- do not get cocky. Stay smart and real.
When I was sixteen I dropped out of school to go and live on my own. I did not have much of a choice. I worked framing construction in Southern California for a few years while I taught myself computer systems at home. Few ask for high school diploma. I was actually able to carefully keep the college which I attended from asking by careful manipulation. The U.S. school systems is horrid and holds no weight.
Today I am twenty-three and a SysAdmin with A+ and CNA in IntraNetWare. I am looking for MSCE before they do the Win2K updates.
You are right. Actually knowledge and having a clue keeps you the job and vaults you to new heights.
It is my personality that I would just not want to work for someone who was not working for ME. Who wants to go into your manager's office every year to have to fight and harass to get just what you are worth.
I have been in that sort of situation in a company that could just not pay what I was worth, but I let them get away with paying me dirt while I was going to school. When I was out of school, they still treated me like they could get away with it. I left them. About two weeks after I left, I got a call from the DB Admin there that they had to shut the manufacturing facilities down becasue the network failed and they had nobody who knew how to fix it. That is just not the sort of place that I would want to work for over a long term period.
I just love the places that we are picking up all of our information -- from politicians, priests, news agencies, and he with the many guns.
Every company is entity different. Some are smart, some are dumb, that is just the way that it is.
I know of one little Phoenix company that is going to have Y2K problems serious enough that I really think they will go under within one months time. The problem is that they were not willing to pay for qualified IT personnel. My manager and myself jumped ship when they could just not meet salary demands and we got tired of trying to fix all of the old equiptment and systems. Such is life.
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btw: HUGE DVD information link http://www.unik.no/~robert/hifi/dvd/world.html
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I was looking through these messages for answers to my question regarding bootability from a DVDROM disk. I had seen some answers, but they were clearly not thought out very well. Both the drive hardware, media hardware, and media format is different with DVD disks. Booting a regular CD in a DVD drive means nothing. There are three issues, the drive itself, the physical media, and the data format of the CD. What is the data format that DVD disks use? We know that an El-Torito CDROM disk will boot in a DVD drive, but the disk is still not a DVD. I believe that El-Torito bootable CDs also MUST be ISO9660 in their format, is this true? There are other formats such as ISO9660 Xtra, JOLIET -- which I know is NOT bootable -- and CDUDFRW. DVD disks probably do not use ISO9660. There will have to be systemboard BIOS issues. I believe that there are several types of physical media formats because of the different data capacities. We have a standard with CDs (Thank you Sony and Philips), but with DVDs, every company and their dead grandmothers poodle has been trying to make their own format the standard for monetary purposes, thus all of those different types of DVD disks, dare I mention those super audio disks? We may find information at http://www.cd-info.com/ I am going there next. Will post if answers found. What about SPARC? I do not know how their booting CDROMs are different other than the boot block size difference, which I belive is also true or Macintosh systems. I use Debian which has been ported to many different platforms -- SPARC, i386, Alpha, M68K -- and I question the use of DVD for these systems. There is no way that my SPARC 10 is going to boot on a DVD. Regular old CDs will still be around for some time, but using DVD disks is a good idea. The next version of Debian LINUX will take up three CDs just for the binaries. This will help. I very seriously doubt that any DVD disk at this time is bootable or could be made to do so, unless they conform to the El-Torito standard which I doubt that they do.
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When it comes to Internet privacy, there will be a constant onslaught in the future to take your privacy away. It does not happen all at once. It happens slow, and easy, and you never notice it going. Then ten years later ir is just gone one day when you wake up, looking across the room to that blinking monior that was watching you all night.
The way to tell these comercial software companies that we want our privacy untouched and completely intact as it was when the Internet was develloped is to be paranoid and completely defensive when any little thing is done against us. Otherwise it WILL go. Your privacy will go. The only freedom that was ever given away came from you.
ID does need to be punished by its users by noisemaking and a lot of bitching, otherwise they will just not hear.
So, I went out and found this site that explains terms used regarding wages!
http://www.moneywords.com. Neato. It was in Dice.coms links.
Save the whales! Save a tree! Save the acronym! Save your sanity by not reading this post.
When it comes to electronics the law was set so that you can develop and create just about anything that you want to, but you cannot use the electronics to do certain things that are illegal. They did not want to hinder innovation. This has proved to work over time. I see little differences between computer hardware and software other than the ease of distribution of the software.
Now, this might change and be different if the electronic industry started working like the gun and firearms industry -- they were asking to be slapped down. The legal system has started to attack the manufactures of firearms and not just the irresponsible users. I think of guns and knives as just another tool with appropriate and inappropriate usage. I doubt that these kinds of problems with software will be so severe. The primary reason why this is all addressed is fear that the technically uninclined have against the word "hacker." It is the unknown fear thing. Look at Satan. It is a great tool for sysadmins! Do not take it away just because a few people misuse it; if intelligent enough to use it at all.
You should have the right to give away information -- it is only pictures. You should have the right to do with your own body what you desire. And we are slowly getting there, but you have to realize that us here online that are good Internet citizens are pretty much the elite of society. You know that your rights are for you and that you have to be careful when dealing those ideals out upon others -- they are not always seen in the same light.
You should have the right to sell porn, and I have the right to not buy it. The problem is not that you sell it, but that people want it. A lot of people. Porn makes a lot of money -- they are voting for you! There are a lot of dumb people in this world that get pleasure from an image in their head, and not from actual human contact. A meaningful conversation is just not appreciated as much as I care for it. Heck, if I make eye contact with someone on the street they think I am weird or making a hostile move!
The problem is that most people really are pretty stupid and would kill themselves and there would be bodies laying all over the darn place and that would just be a big icky mess. The government and enlightened individuals the past really has done a lot of good, and some occasional harm which we usually note. Some people need to be protected from themselves because they really are too dumb to do it on their own. Should I and others have the right to go and get myself killed so long as what I do with my body is not the equivalent of littering? Sure! But some people usually want to take others with them against there will, which is a problem.
Parents cry out because their children get online and find this stuff. They think that the computer is a new type of TV/childsitter. They do not have the smarts to know how to give their young the attention that they desire and need. These adults hardly know how to take care of themselves.
We are at the top here and that is just the way that it is. We do not ask what our country can do for us, we say the heck with them and do it ourselves. We are the programers, the sysadmins, the smart people that makes information and innovation flow around. We just have to be a little patient and understanding to put up with the stupid people around us.
Please pardon my lack luster attempt at social or political correctness, but you get the drift likely.
Can we just have the government regulate the AOL portal? That would solve our problems by taking care of the vast majority of stupid onliners...
Wait a minute, I have an AOL account... just leave my cable ISP alone and I will be happy.
Jumpin Jack Flash.. its.. hhmm. hhmmmm hhmmm....
Yes Sir, it is on the AOL welcome window. And you wondered why he was getting so many hits. Poor bastard.
And I do believe that the Big Band theory is correct; it is simply not whole. The process earth inside of the shell has defined the shell as being the universe -- completely without understanding and beyond the fact that the platform exists, sitting on someone's desk, inside of a corporate network on some strange world.
Gosh, I hope we are on something like LINUX or Open Source. I would be really embarrassed if we were being run on a Windows system. I am getting nervous about a universal abend here.
Damn it Jesse, stop thinking!
These scientists think too small. Where it is that one part within the universe is expanding, it is being compressed in another, just like any environment here on this plane of a world.
One thing you might consider is showing this message board off to your bosses.
I can think of no better amusement you would get, and you have the chance to go elsewhere now if you like.
Just be careful -- do not get cocky. Stay smart and real.
When I was sixteen I dropped out of school to go and live on my own. I did not have much of a choice. I worked framing construction in Southern California for a few years while I taught myself computer systems at home. Few ask for high school diploma. I was actually able to carefully keep the college which I attended from asking by careful manipulation. The U.S. school systems is horrid and holds no weight.
Today I am twenty-three and a SysAdmin with A+ and CNA in IntraNetWare. I am looking for MSCE before they do the Win2K updates.
You are right. Actually knowledge and having a clue keeps you the job and vaults you to new heights.
I have been in that sort of situation in a company that could just not pay what I was worth, but I let them get away with paying me dirt while I was going to school. When I was out of school, they still treated me like they could get away with it. I left them. About two weeks after I left, I got a call from the DB Admin there that they had to shut the manufacturing facilities down becasue the network failed and they had nobody who knew how to fix it. That is just not the sort of place that I would want to work for over a long term period.
Every company is entity different. Some are smart, some are dumb, that is just the way that it is.
I know of one little Phoenix company that is going to have Y2K problems serious enough that I really think they will go under within one months time. The problem is that they were not willing to pay for qualified IT personnel. My manager and myself jumped ship when they could just not meet salary demands and we got tired of trying to fix all of the old equiptment and systems. Such is life.
btw: HUGE DVD information link http://www.unik.no/~robert/hifi/dvd/world.html
I was looking through these messages for answers to my question regarding bootability from a DVDROM disk. I had seen some answers, but they were clearly not thought out very well. Both the drive hardware, media hardware, and media format is different with DVD disks. Booting a regular CD in a DVD drive means nothing. There are three issues, the drive itself, the physical media, and the data format of the CD. What is the data format that DVD disks use? We know that an El-Torito CDROM disk will boot in a DVD drive, but the disk is still not a DVD. I believe that El-Torito bootable CDs also MUST be ISO9660 in their format, is this true? There are other formats such as ISO9660 Xtra, JOLIET -- which I know is NOT bootable -- and CDUDFRW. DVD disks probably do not use ISO9660. There will have to be systemboard BIOS issues. I believe that there are several types of physical media formats because of the different data capacities. We have a standard with CDs (Thank you Sony and Philips), but with DVDs, every company and their dead grandmothers poodle has been trying to make their own format the standard for monetary purposes, thus all of those different types of DVD disks, dare I mention those super audio disks? We may find information at http://www.cd-info.com/ I am going there next. Will post if answers found. What about SPARC? I do not know how their booting CDROMs are different other than the boot block size difference, which I belive is also true or Macintosh systems. I use Debian which has been ported to many different platforms -- SPARC, i386, Alpha, M68K -- and I question the use of DVD for these systems. There is no way that my SPARC 10 is going to boot on a DVD. Regular old CDs will still be around for some time, but using DVD disks is a good idea. The next version of Debian LINUX will take up three CDs just for the binaries. This will help. I very seriously doubt that any DVD disk at this time is bootable or could be made to do so, unless they conform to the El-Torito standard which I doubt that they do.