I have that along with my P&C and my Series 7 & 63. A life agent license will make you moderately rich. Add P&C to that and you're drowning in dough, and every financial employer wants you. Add a Series 6 or 7 to that and palm branches will be laid at your feet as you walk down the street (though you need a sponsor for the 7 and probably for the 6).
If you haven't done it yet, do it now before the out of work biotech and IT people see this and bum rush the industry (and drive competition for clients through the roof).
Again, in the law, you need to define excessive use in concrete terms. In every instance this is true. Cable companies will inevitably be reminded of this.
Only a flaming maniac would say that it's acceptable for anyone to have contracts that do not explicitly spell out what 'excessive use' means. That doesn't even exist any more. Contracts with non explicit "excessive usage" policies are like the dodo bird, they're extinct - except with cable companies.
Despite anything you can hope to say about "economics of a shared network", cable companies are not a special entity deserving of special rights above and beyond the rest of the world. They need to spell out their terms in concrete words just like everyone else has to.
Even if those concrete words are "ZZZ Mbits above the standard deviation which is AAA and can be found [here] on our website" or something like that.
And yes, I'm blaming the Republicans, as they are well known for allowing miscreant behavior by big businesses. They own the patent on this one, and the Democrats are now starting to infringe.
The thing is, "$x for Y Megs per second" does not in any way imply "$x for Y Megs per second for Z consecutive seconds."
In a court of law, when you don't specify how long you can go full speed ahead, there is no limit to how long you can go full speed ahead.
It absolutely, positively has to be spelled out, in black and white.
Cable modem providers, in this corporate statist Republican administration, are getting away with being anomalous in this regard. This party will come to an end for them when the liberals finish their takeover and the consistency of law finishes catching up.
Yeah, complete with calls for racial profiling, and the harassment of innocent Muslims and the imprisonment of Canadian Muslims in foreign areas, despite lack of evidence that they've done anything wrong.
Correction: Some Muslims are actually engaged in evil acts. All Muslims are paying the price, however.
What you're proposing is on one hand, we punish all Muslims for the acts of a few, or the alternative, which is a police state, in which the freedoms the evil people have come to destroy, are eventually taken away by the Government anyway. Try reading 1984 some time, will ya?
Where would Linux be? The Linux kernel is just that, a kernel. That's Linux, and nothing else. The core functionality around the kernel is mainly GNU software. Do you know why GNU came along? Because AT&T and other unix makers were making proprietary, for-pay unix. GNU made the same functionality free, and it is that which surrounds Linux and makes Linux functional. Otherwise you'd have a free kernel and tons of for-pay OS functionality; like a brain that's free spirited and a body slapped in irons. Freeing your mind doesn't necessarily mean your ass will follow, in the operating system universe.
So yeah, wherever there is Linux, there is GNU. Certainly, one could have a free Linux kernel and for-pay functionality, but that doesn't exist in the wild. So, Linux is always GNU/Linux, in reality. When it ceases to be, you will sorely regret being "right".
And Stallman is a visionary. Without him we wouldn't have a free Linux.
Even so, a) GPL v3.0 is controversial enough to warrant reverting to 2.0 and calling it a day, IMHO; b) Stallman is a visionary but he is not God, so he does make mistakes; c) GNU/Linux is the more honest term, but no one should get virtual concrete shoes for saying "Linux"; d) GNU/Linux does have a communal mentality that is turning almost right winged as far as the capriciousness and closed mindedness of the developer leadership;
but most importantly e) I apologize for all the GNU/Linux zealots who've made life hell for dissenters. In Soviet Russia, the rebellion against the tyrannical Tsars became a tyranny in and of itself. America had its own similar moment with the Whiskey Rebellion, but to an infinitely lesser magnitude. We're in a period of time now where dissent among the rebels is leading to acts of microfascism (my term for online suppression of free speech that hasn't led to gunfire conflict or bloodshed). Zealots calling Laura DiDio "Dildo" is especially pathetic and highly damaging to our cause, but not as horrible as the morons calling her.
1) A college degree 2) Certs 3) Knowledge of East Indian languages/dialects 4) A passport
Companies are sending network jobs overseas. Once you're done building the network locally, you'll be out of a job unless (see: Just in time employment) you can move to India.
Censorship is always censorship, regardless of principles issues. It doesn't depend on standards of Politically correct or not PC. Let's just get that out of the way ahead of time.
But when you're the only distributor in town, the effects of your principled refusal to carry certain legal items, means your will is invariably imposed on the entire affected region.
Now imagine that this region is all of the United States.
This is not in any way saying that you cannot engage in censorship. But it is in every way saying that monopolies are very very bad for American culture and cultural diversity, which is why I support having more players in the market, which was my original point.
I'd rather deal with the very worst of EB/Gamestop's staff and policies, than let them sink in favor of centralizing distribution around Best Buy, much less around Wal Mart. Wal Mart actually censors games by refusing to carry certain titles; imagine if they're the only game store in town, then you'd really be screwed.
And to the screeching Wal Mart apologists: if online sales trumped Wal Mart's "decency" controls, why is Wal Mart still such a dominating factor in game sales? Hmm?
A) He was in Australia, where what he did wasn't a crime at the time. How can you be tried for an act that isn't a crime in the country you reside?
B) Unless you suppose that US law should apply to the whole world. Exactly when did the US conquer all of Earth, pray tell?
Your argument is utterly off topic because it presumes to judge this situation based on US law when US law has no legitimate standing here at all. There was no reason to extradite this guy - he committed no crime. For what he did to be a crime it would have to be a violation of the law of the land he lived in. Is any of this, like, getting through to you???
That article can kiss my rear end. I've read it several times and the author would be right if they were talking about any other workplace, but like I told you once already, it's business suicide in a financial or even medical data center.
Yes, I am that boogeyman the article talks about. And I'm utterly unapologetic about it. A financial data center like the one I manage has to be 150,000% locked down.
And yes, I am a manager who walks the floor and looks over people's shoulders, and yes, I can and have stopped "Shadow IT". No, you're wrong, don't bother repeating yourself. I dare you to try and bring on that "Shadow IT" in a financial data center where
a) You can't even enter the building proper except in a uniform, and you can't sneak anything in; b) Your computer is diskless and boots up remotely over the read-only network with an IP address assigned by MAC address; c) You have no shell access and only the ability to fire up customer relations management apps and things like a calculator and gnome notepad; d) Internet access is totally blocked, and you have limited intranet access, limited to in-house IM and storage of.txt files which are in fact monitored (and will be monitored even more like a hawk in the future by the IT interns we're going to be bringing in this summer).
Shadow IT that. Hacka, please.
For my customers' sake, you most certainly cannot create a "Shadow IT" in this network. And there is absolutely, positively no reason whatsoever for a financial data center to be any less locked down than this.
In the future, after a few more major breaches, you can pretty much expect this to become a standard for financial services.
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30% of all married women earn more than their husbands.
Maybe you should try bringing a sense of humor, some class or
aw hell, the deed to a villa or two in Tuscany, Italy, couldn't possibly hurt...
You just passed with flying colors.
I have that along with my P&C and my Series 7 & 63. A life agent license will make you moderately rich. Add P&C to that and you're drowning in dough, and every financial employer wants you. Add a Series 6 or 7 to that and palm branches will be laid at your feet as you walk down the street (though you need a sponsor for the 7 and probably for the 6).
If you haven't done it yet, do it now before the out of work biotech and IT people see this and bum rush the industry (and drive competition for clients through the roof).
Why does Rude Trump's post not get modded up even though it presents a clear and obvious solution to this problem?
Small businesses are far more market-agile and thoroughly trump the Dells of the world where this is concerned.
Again, in the law, you need to define excessive use in concrete terms. In every instance this is true. Cable companies will inevitably be reminded of this.
Only a flaming maniac would say that it's acceptable for anyone to have contracts that do not explicitly spell out what 'excessive use' means. That doesn't even exist any more. Contracts with non explicit "excessive usage" policies are like the dodo bird, they're extinct - except with cable companies.
Despite anything you can hope to say about "economics of a shared network", cable companies are not a special entity deserving of special rights above and beyond the rest of the world. They need to spell out their terms in concrete words just like everyone else has to.
Even if those concrete words are "ZZZ Mbits above the standard deviation which is AAA and can be found [here] on our website" or something like that.
And yes, I'm blaming the Republicans, as they are well known for allowing miscreant behavior by big businesses. They own the patent on this one, and the Democrats are now starting to infringe.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/03/152232
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http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Nov/gee2002
The thing is, "$x for Y Megs per second" does not in any way imply "$x for Y Megs per second for Z consecutive seconds."
In a court of law, when you don't specify how long you can go full speed ahead, there is no limit to how long you can go full speed ahead.
It absolutely, positively has to be spelled out, in black and white.
Cable modem providers, in this corporate statist Republican administration, are getting away with being anomalous in this regard. This party will come to an end for them when the liberals finish their takeover and the consistency of law finishes catching up.
The FBI prosecutes people who uncap their modems. Really. They strongly overreact to this particular behavior.
"you pay $/month for X megs/second" do you not understand?
apparently we need to be more like this in order to get the jobs sent to us.
Go figure.
+2 hard hitting, +2 smackdown, +2 pwnage...
I'm shocked and awed that this so-called guru didn't mention noscript.
That's far more important than anything - except adblock, that is.
Noscript + adblock = respect my securitaaaaah!
Yeah, complete with calls for racial profiling, and the harassment of innocent Muslims and the imprisonment of Canadian Muslims in foreign areas, despite lack of evidence that they've done anything wrong.
Keep holding your head in the sand. It'll feel better that way.
Correction: Some Muslims are actually engaged in evil acts. All Muslims are paying the price, however.
What you're proposing is on one hand, we punish all Muslims for the acts of a few, or the alternative, which is a police state, in which the freedoms the evil people have come to destroy, are eventually taken away by the Government anyway. Try reading 1984 some time, will ya?
are the new Jews. Give history a little time to repeat itself.
Where would Linux be? The Linux kernel is just that, a kernel. That's Linux, and nothing else. The core functionality around the kernel is mainly GNU software. Do you know why GNU came along? Because AT&T and other unix makers were making proprietary, for-pay unix. GNU made the same functionality free, and it is that which surrounds Linux and makes Linux functional. Otherwise you'd have a free kernel and tons of for-pay OS functionality; like a brain that's free spirited and a body slapped in irons. Freeing your mind doesn't necessarily mean your ass will follow, in the operating system universe.
So yeah, wherever there is Linux, there is GNU. Certainly, one could have a free Linux kernel and for-pay functionality, but that doesn't exist in the wild. So, Linux is always GNU/Linux, in reality. When it ceases to be, you will sorely regret being "right".
And Stallman is a visionary. Without him we wouldn't have a free Linux.
Even so,
a) GPL v3.0 is controversial enough to warrant reverting to 2.0 and calling it a day, IMHO;
b) Stallman is a visionary but he is not God, so he does make mistakes;
c) GNU/Linux is the more honest term, but no one should get virtual concrete shoes for saying "Linux";
d) GNU/Linux does have a communal mentality that is turning almost right winged as far as the capriciousness and closed mindedness of the developer leadership;
but most importantly
e) I apologize for all the GNU/Linux zealots who've made life hell for dissenters. In Soviet Russia, the rebellion against the tyrannical Tsars became a tyranny in and of itself. America had its own similar moment with the Whiskey Rebellion, but to an infinitely lesser magnitude. We're in a period of time now where dissent among the rebels is leading to acts of microfascism (my term for online suppression of free speech that hasn't led to gunfire conflict or bloodshed). Zealots calling Laura DiDio "Dildo" is especially pathetic and highly damaging to our cause, but not as horrible as the morons calling her.
No operating system has a right to keep phoning home for permission to continue operating.
Why not infict changes in the OS that will bypass this routine?
All code can be bypassed. All code. The problem is finding where the activation checks are.
You made this threat while Bush & the Republican dominated Congress was in power, didn't you?
:)
:)
With them in power no court in the land would punish MicroSoft for that. Plus you'd be hauled away as a terrorist. After all, you said 'threatened'.
Just kidding!!! No, really, congrats. Now do the right thing and upgrade to Ubuntu or Fedora.
"Can you hear me now? Goo-*Crash*"
Sorry, airline accident victims...
1) A college degree
2) Certs
3) Knowledge of East Indian languages/dialects
4) A passport
Companies are sending network jobs overseas. Once you're done building the network locally, you'll be out of a job unless (see: Just in time employment) you can move to India.
Censorship is always censorship, regardless of principles issues. It doesn't depend on standards of Politically correct or not PC. Let's just get that out of the way ahead of time.
But when you're the only distributor in town, the effects of your principled refusal to carry certain legal items, means your will is invariably imposed on the entire affected region.
Now imagine that this region is all of the United States.
This is not in any way saying that you cannot engage in censorship. But it is in every way saying that monopolies are very very bad for American culture and cultural diversity, which is why I support having more players in the market, which was my original point.
I'd rather deal with the very worst of EB/Gamestop's staff and policies, than let them sink in favor of centralizing distribution around Best Buy, much less around Wal Mart. Wal Mart actually censors games by refusing to carry certain titles; imagine if they're the only game store in town, then you'd really be screwed.
And to the screeching Wal Mart apologists: if online sales trumped Wal Mart's "decency" controls, why is Wal Mart still such a dominating factor in game sales? Hmm?
A) He was in Australia, where what he did wasn't a crime at the time. How can you be tried for an act that isn't a crime in the country you reside?
B) Unless you suppose that US law should apply to the whole world. Exactly when did the US conquer all of Earth, pray tell?
Your argument is utterly off topic because it presumes to judge this situation based on US law when US law has no legitimate standing here at all. There was no reason to extradite this guy - he committed no crime. For what he did to be a crime it would have to be a violation of the law of the land he lived in. Is any of this, like, getting through to you???
Yeah, wait'll the RIAA picks up on that idea.
His/her tune will change before you can say 'mp3'.
That article can kiss my rear end. I've read it several times and the author would be right if they were talking about any other workplace, but like I told you once already, it's business suicide in a financial or even medical data center.
.txt files which are in fact monitored (and will be monitored even more like a hawk in the future by the IT interns we're going to be bringing in this summer).
Yes, I am that boogeyman the article talks about. And I'm utterly unapologetic about it. A financial data center like the one I manage has to be 150,000% locked down.
And yes, I am a manager who walks the floor and looks over people's shoulders, and yes, I can and have stopped "Shadow IT". No, you're wrong, don't bother repeating yourself. I dare you to try and bring on that "Shadow IT" in a financial data center where
a) You can't even enter the building proper except in a uniform, and you can't sneak anything in;
b) Your computer is diskless and boots up remotely over the read-only network with an IP address assigned by MAC address;
c) You have no shell access and only the ability to fire up customer relations management apps and things like a calculator and gnome notepad;
d) Internet access is totally blocked, and you have limited intranet access, limited to in-house IM and storage of
Shadow IT that. Hacka, please.
For my customers' sake, you most certainly cannot create a "Shadow IT" in this network. And there is absolutely, positively no reason whatsoever for a financial data center to be any less locked down than this.
In the future, after a few more major breaches, you can pretty much expect this to become a standard for financial services.