A sporting goods chain, Forzani's, was hit by a $1.7 million fine. In there also it mentions a clothing chain, Suzy Shier, being fined $1 million. http://infofranpro.wikidot.com...
Sears has previously been fined over pricing on other products but I can't find a source. In fact, many retailers seem to have issues related to advertised and actual pricing, and the Competition Bureau, rightfully, takes them to task for it.
Retailers in Canada, Amazon among them, should know better. The history and fines have been set.
I was there. It was said in a very joking manner. From the moment he started he showed his sense of humour.
In fact, his whole presentation was funny, amusing and had some good information.
The idea that he showed a one line command to patch wasn't the biggest shock of the talk. (Sorry, I don't recall the command.) It was the fact that he patches the 3,500 servers ONCE A MONTH. Straight into production. This caused some questions and discussion.
FTFA, "One of the potential challenges of constantly updating servers is the risk that applications break when new server operating system software is loaded. Glantz, however, isn't worried and noted that RHEL offers the promise of Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatibility across updates." The rest of his reasoning, and another amusing moment, is described at the end of the article.
> MS has done nothing to prevent a PC from being sold without an OS.
Are you serious? Either you have forgotten the 90's and early 2000's or are too young to remember. From wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
"In the 1990s, Microsoft adopted exclusionary licensing under which PC manufacturers were required to pay for an MS-DOS license even when the system shipped with an alternative operating system. Critics attest that it also used predatory tactics to price its competitors out of the market and that Microsoft erected technical barriers to make it appear that competing products did not work on its operating system."
The MS-DOS carried on into Windows. Even if you wanted to run Linux, OS/2, or anything else, you still had to purchase the MS license, or colloquially, the M$ Tax.
> They certainly make it cheaper for Dell to pre-install Windows on a machine than for the end user to buy their own copy. They may have even said that they will raise the price if they don't make all their machines come with Windows.
They "may" have? Let's make it clear. They made it so *every* computer Dell sells has Windows on it. If even one went out without Windows, Dell or any other manufacturer was forced to pay a higher cost for Windows and other MS products. Even IBM, who made the competing OS/2.
Never get involved with reading others' emails, documents, etc., that you are not required to be privy to.
Never ever let the temptation allow you to see others' performance reviews, salaries, politics. I've seen how it leads to telling someone else and then they become the go to person for information. And if the information is bad and they didn't share it, even though they had no idea, well, they didnt' say that there was a problem, the @$$#013! Hell, I've seen someone with access to the HR database pull up salaries of EVERYONE and share it out. "Oh, can you tell me how much Jason Mcboogerhead is making? What?!? I'm making $1k less?! WTF, time to march off to the manager!!!" [A manager who was stunned at the level of knowledge! AFAIK, no info was given out about how the salary info was found. I found out later when it was offered to me.]
Ignore any overheard conversations, it'll only be a couple of people talking, who knows the truth and what really is going on? You must throw out any info you "accidentally" pick up too. The obvious is the missing context of the info. As a manager, I've had other directors and managers openly talk about staffing, budget, bonuses, performance or lack thereof, in front of me. In all cases I threw away what I heard, after all, all I'm hearing is a snippet of a longer discussion. It's not my business to try to save John's job if he's pissed someone off, so I'm better off not worrying about it.
Sometimes I received a list of users to be locked out of their accounts. The only reasons to receive such a list is that they are being laid-off/let-go or in a heap of trouble. I never shared such a list with anyone. It was given to me, as a manager, in confidence. Keep that confidence. Even after the firing, I still didn't tell anyone, there's no point or net positive to be gained.
In another instance I was at a company that changed their HR such that you logged into a page, and it told you your salary, OT rates, etc. You could print your confirmation of employment for loans and such there too. But there was a bug. This bug allowed me to view everyone's salary, their bank account info and some other stuff in a nice neat chart. I immediately picked up the phone and called head office IT Security and talked them through the bug. They fixed it, phoned me back to test with me on the phone, thanked me and sent off a thank you cc'd to my manager, director, etc., praising my immediate response and "help" in fixing it.
What I didn't do was say, "Hey everybody, look at this!" and print it off, etc. Nor did I read further than a few lines and then remove it from my screen. To this day, I run into some of the higher-ups from then from time to time, they still remember me, who I was, only because of that email and that to them I was trustworthy.
It's not up to you to solve office politics, who said what to whom, or anything else. You are there to do IT. So do it and maintain your dignity and professionalism and just don't even think of looking.
You, and hopefully everyone else, will hopefully see that you are in a position of trust. You are trusted by many to keep secrets. If you can do that, it only helps your reputation. If someone can actually say you are trustworthy in your IT job then you've accomplished a lot and it only helps down the road when you want to switch jobs.
I have a similar story about patio furniture. The store, a large national hardware chain, had the patio chairs for $24.99, tables were something like $150 with umbrella. I went to the store, asked for some help, the guy helped me load 6 chairs and 1 table onto a cart. I went to pay and the helper guy left to...I don't know, just left.
The cashier scans and says, "That will be $26.74." (ie. $24.99 + 7% tax, the cost of one chair) Needless to say I was shocked. I asked her to scan again, so she did. "26.74"
A lady who was near the cashier then says, "What's the issue?" "He just asked me to rescan." The nametag on this new lady said, "Asst. Mgr." So I say, "I have 6 chairs and one table set, can you scan once more?"
This Asst Mgr scans it and says, "Yeah, $26.74."
I put away my credit card, paid cash and got out of there...
Many kids today probably haven't had a chance to play a physical, mechanical pinball machine. It's a visceral, physical experience, different from the cute virtual pinball games available on most computers. Kind of like playing a real piano versus an electronic keyboard, only more so. There was the art of shaking the machine just enough not to get a tilt penalty. There was the knowledge of each machine's little quirks and peculiarities.
My girlfriend has an old pinball machine in her house. She also teach piano. One of her students parents was late to picking him up, and so she said he could play the pinball machine. He jumped the first time it made a noise. Scared him good:-) He complained that the ball wasn't moving (essentially) linear, and it wasn't predictable. Not like in a video game at all. It made noises as the ball rolls around, and each hit of the flipper wasn't the same. And it was loud with no volume control! He definitely loved it though and would have played all night if he could.
FTA, "Jails are a sort of lightweight virtualization technique available on the FreeBSD platform. They are like a chroot environment on steroids where not only the file system is isolated out but individual processes are confined to a virtual environment - like a virtual machine without the machine part."
Not knowing much about FreeBSD and it's complementary software, what is the difference between FreeBSD Jail and Solaris Zones? A Solaris Zone could also be described the same way.
I worked at a university some time back, in desktop support.
At the time we had "work orders" that had to be filled out with the problem, solution, etc.
One day I got a call about a dead monitor. I phoned her up and asked the basic, "Is it plugged in? The LED on?" Yes and yes. Hrmmm. Maybe you hit the dials turning the contrast/brightness down? Nope, turning them doesn't work. Are you sure? Turn them both ways, to the middle and so on. Doesn't work.
So I go on down to take a look. I get there and she goes off to do something. I turn the dials, and boom! It all comes back! So I sit a few minutes and she comes back.
I pretend to be doing stuff, and she says, "Oh! You got it to work! What did you do?" "Nothing," I reply innocently. "You must have done something? How does it work?" Well, this goes on for a few minutes, then I let her off the hook.
I pull out the work order and she sees that I have to fill in the "Solution:" section. She now pleads that I don't do this, as it's so stupid, and she doesn't want to be embarrassed.
This is what I learned. Blackmail can get you fed. I asked for homemade cookies in return for no "Solution:" Next morning, I come into work, and there's a box of cookies. She must have made them the previous night.
From that point on, if someone did something stupid that made me cross the campus (especially in a -35C winter), I pulled out the work order, and made mention that I liked cookies, cakes, anything else that you can bake. I got fed lots.
My father started in the computer biz in the mid 70's, over 30 years ago. He has done everything from operator, programmer, taught at a university, to today, heading into retirement in an "easy" job as a database admin.
I bought a set of webcam's, 2 cameras and software. I installed it at home, and sent him the second.
Even he found it amazing that he can watch his grandchild, and talk with her, and she can recognize him and his voice, and even teach her to count (using flashcards) via the webcam.
So even those you expect should know where technology is are amazed.
So the idea that they need a teacher is moot. Negroponte subscribes to that idea
as well, "Teachers teach the kids? Give me a break," he said. "Give any kid an electronic game and the first thing they do is throw away the manual and the second thing they do is use it."
Also Dell is selling a Intel Core Duo laptop (for University students only) for $570 or so.
I can buy, in Canada, a basic desktop computer for $299 from them.
This tells me his $100 price point will be met, as prices continue their downward trend.
"Even better, implement some sort of on-demand filtering so my cable box censors it if I choose. Conservative Christian? Turn it on. Everyone else? Turn it off, enjoy the language."
For TV, isn't this already built-in to the system?
SAP allows a variety of languages to be cast during the show, ie English and Spanish.
Why couldn't you use one of the SAP channels for unedited language? Select the "normal" channel for when you are with your kids, then later watch another show on the "unedited" channel?
Could this be extended to "edited" scenes? If you are on SAP1, during a particularly violent scene or sexual scene, blank it out? If you are on SAP2, which is unedited, it continues playing...
FTFA, ""If we continue without laptops, I'm out of here. I'm gone; I won't be able to keep up," said student Cory Winsett, who said his hand-written notes are incomplete and less organized."
Cory Winsett. Added to a list of lawyers NOT to get, if you need one.
His notes are incomplete. Either he can't keep up or he doesn't bother ("I'll remember that later, why write it down, it's obvious!"). His notes are disorganized. Either he can't keep up or he doesn't bother listening. His professor claims she is trying help them "connect-the-dots", and laptops don't help there.
If he can't keep up, then perhaps first year law isn't for him? If he can't bother writing or listening, then really, a laptop is better?
If he can't keep written notes complete and organized, at a first year univeristy level, he had better figure it out. I'm sure judges in a court room will love to hear his "clickety clickety" as they or his opposition speak.
For that matter, clients of his will also like to hear a keyboard when discussing items.
The professor has a very valid points about laptops in a classroom, and kudos to her for standing up against it.
"EFF appears to be ashamed of this "detail" [child pornography found] because they left it out of the report on their website."
The title is very much misleading. The EFF is *not* defending child porn. FTFA, quote, "Customers who drop off their computers for servicing reasonably expect that their private data won't be handed over to the police without a warrant."
The EFF is defending the right of the person to not have his hard disk go through an unauthorized search.
Weird Al Yankowic makes his living doing parodies. He only gets permission as a *courtesy*. He does not have to, as evidenced by "Amish Paraise" which was a parody of "Gansta Paradise". The author, Coolio, was opposed to Weird Al using it, and told him so.
Wires crossed, Weird Al misunderstood "No." (?!?) "Amish Paradise" was released (IMO, one of the more amusing videos I have seen) and Coolio was livid. Coolio couldn't sue, as all Weird Al does is parodies, which is fine by copyright law.
Where can I find a list of enhancements that are due in Longhorn?
How about the same for Linux kernel 2.6.12 or distros using it?
At first glance, and I haven't seen or heard much, it seems that Linux distros will be offering much more?? (ie. Xen, *maybe* Reiser4, interface and X.org enhancements (some of them toys:-))
You are wrong. He did give it to her, he even says so. It was a "Valentine's Day gift"
Once you give a gift, it belongs to the person you gave it to. They can do whatever they want with it, you no longer have any say. You cannot give something with strings attached and call it a gift. If you attach conditions, then it is not a gift.
Watch a loan argument in small claims if you're still not clear on this.
In this case, he freely admits giving it to her as a gift, thus it's her domain, he should give it to her, and find himself a new girlfriend.
Like the screams of joy as you walk through the door after work, making you forget all the stuff that happened at work that day? And the next day they ask if you can stay home from work...and you do. Who else would you do that for?
Or the sheer wonderment and joy on their faces as they experience something new to them, that you take for granted everyday. (Think elevators for a minute, or escalators until security shows up:-)
Or doing the inevitable childrens damage to themselves, and crying, yet a kiss from you wipes all the tears and pain away. And then in return offering you a kiss when you say "Ow!"
Or maybe last week, when Daddy was sick, how my 2.5 year old was concerned enough to get me my medicine (really just vitamin C tablets) and juice and water. Concerned enough to come up with "Daddy has to lie down, get better! No 'puter!!"
Or perhaps how they have a different view of things, in that they can teach you as much as you teach them.
I could go on and on...
"during the process of raising children you get worn out physically and mentally. I'm thinking all the late nights, interrupted sleep, emotional and physical drain of being in close contact with children."
Never looked at it that way. You are correct in a way....but it's all worth it.
Slashdot Mirror
A sporting goods chain, Forzani's, was hit by a $1.7 million fine. In there also it mentions a clothing chain, Suzy Shier, being fined $1 million.
http://infofranpro.wikidot.com...
Sears was recently fined over tires.
http://www.autoserviceworld.co...
Here's one more from Micheal's, an arts and crafts store, for $3.5 million!
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...
Sears has previously been fined over pricing on other products but I can't find a source. In fact, many retailers seem to have issues related to advertised and actual pricing, and the Competition Bureau, rightfully, takes them to task for it.
Retailers in Canada, Amazon among them, should know better. The history and fines have been set.
I was there. It was said in a very joking manner. From the moment he started he showed his sense of humour.
In fact, his whole presentation was funny, amusing and had some good information.
The idea that he showed a one line command to patch wasn't the biggest shock of the talk. (Sorry, I don't recall the command.) It was the fact that he patches the 3,500 servers ONCE A MONTH. Straight into production. This caused some questions and discussion.
FTFA, "One of the potential challenges of constantly updating servers is the risk that applications break when new server operating system software is loaded. Glantz, however, isn't worried and noted that RHEL offers the promise of Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatibility across updates." The rest of his reasoning, and another amusing moment, is described at the end of the article.
Vip
> MS has done nothing to prevent a PC from being sold without an OS.
Are you serious? Either you have forgotten the 90's and early 2000's or are too young to remember. From wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
"In the 1990s, Microsoft adopted exclusionary licensing under which PC manufacturers were required to pay for an MS-DOS license even when the system shipped with an alternative operating system. Critics attest that it also used predatory tactics to price its competitors out of the market and that Microsoft erected technical barriers to make it appear that competing products did not work on its operating system."
The MS-DOS carried on into Windows. Even if you wanted to run Linux, OS/2, or anything else, you still had to purchase the MS license, or colloquially, the M$ Tax.
> They certainly make it cheaper for Dell to pre-install Windows on a machine than for the end user to buy their own copy. They may have even said that they will raise the price if they don't make all their machines come with Windows.
They "may" have? Let's make it clear. They made it so *every* computer Dell sells has Windows on it. If even one went out without Windows, Dell or any other manufacturer was forced to pay a higher cost for Windows and other MS products. Even IBM, who made the competing OS/2.
Vip
Never get involved with reading others' emails, documents, etc., that you are not required to be privy to.
Never ever let the temptation allow you to see others' performance reviews, salaries, politics. I've seen how it leads to telling someone else and then they become the go to person for information. And if the information is bad and they didn't share it, even though they had no idea, well, they didnt' say that there was a problem, the @$$#013! Hell, I've seen someone with access to the HR database pull up salaries of EVERYONE and share it out. "Oh, can you tell me how much Jason Mcboogerhead is making? What?!? I'm making $1k less?! WTF, time to march off to the manager!!!" [A manager who was stunned at the level of knowledge! AFAIK, no info was given out about how the salary info was found. I found out later when it was offered to me.]
Ignore any overheard conversations, it'll only be a couple of people talking, who knows the truth and what really is going on? You must throw out any info you "accidentally" pick up too. The obvious is the missing context of the info. As a manager, I've had other directors and managers openly talk about staffing, budget, bonuses, performance or lack thereof, in front of me. In all cases I threw away what I heard, after all, all I'm hearing is a snippet of a longer discussion. It's not my business to try to save John's job if he's pissed someone off, so I'm better off not worrying about it.
Sometimes I received a list of users to be locked out of their accounts. The only reasons to receive such a list is that they are being laid-off/let-go or in a heap of trouble. I never shared such a list with anyone. It was given to me, as a manager, in confidence. Keep that confidence. Even after the firing, I still didn't tell anyone, there's no point or net positive to be gained.
In another instance I was at a company that changed their HR such that you logged into a page, and it told you your salary, OT rates, etc. You could print your confirmation of employment for loans and such there too. But there was a bug. This bug allowed me to view everyone's salary, their bank account info and some other stuff in a nice neat chart. I immediately picked up the phone and called head office IT Security and talked them through the bug. They fixed it, phoned me back to test with me on the phone, thanked me and sent off a thank you cc'd to my manager, director, etc., praising my immediate response and "help" in fixing it.
What I didn't do was say, "Hey everybody, look at this!" and print it off, etc. Nor did I read further than a few lines and then remove it from my screen. To this day, I run into some of the higher-ups from then from time to time, they still remember me, who I was, only because of that email and that to them I was trustworthy.
It's not up to you to solve office politics, who said what to whom, or anything else. You are there to do IT. So do it and maintain your dignity and professionalism and just don't even think of looking.
You, and hopefully everyone else, will hopefully see that you are in a position of trust. You are trusted by many to keep secrets. If you can do that, it only helps your reputation. If someone can actually say you are trustworthy in your IT job then you've accomplished a lot and it only helps down the road when you want to switch jobs.
Vip
Monty Python's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I have a similar story about patio furniture. The store, a large national hardware chain, had the patio chairs for $24.99, tables were something like $150 with umbrella.
I went to the store, asked for some help, the guy helped me load 6 chairs and 1 table onto a cart. I went to pay and the helper guy left to...I don't know, just left.
The cashier scans and says, "That will be $26.74." (ie. $24.99 + 7% tax, the cost of one chair) Needless to say I was shocked. I asked her to scan again, so she did. "26.74"
A lady who was near the cashier then says, "What's the issue?" "He just asked me to rescan." The nametag on this new lady said, "Asst. Mgr."
So I say, "I have 6 chairs and one table set, can you scan once more?"
This Asst Mgr scans it and says, "Yeah, $26.74."
I put away my credit card, paid cash and got out of there...
Vip
Many kids today probably haven't had a chance to play a physical, mechanical pinball machine. It's a visceral, physical experience, different from the cute virtual pinball games available on most computers. Kind of like playing a real piano versus an electronic keyboard, only more so. There was the art of shaking the machine just enough not to get a tilt penalty. There was the knowledge of each machine's little quirks and peculiarities.
My girlfriend has an old pinball machine in her house. She also teach piano. One of her students parents was late to picking him up, and so she said he could play the pinball machine. He jumped the first time it made a noise. Scared him good :-) He complained that the ball wasn't moving (essentially) linear, and it wasn't predictable. Not like in a video game at all. It made noises as the ball rolls around, and each hit of the flipper wasn't the same. And it was loud with no volume control! He definitely loved it though and would have played all night if he could.
If they do this, Bing will forever be charged for news. Not only from Murdoch's site, but everyone else will want in on the money.
What happens when it's time to renew the contract? Highest bidder? Stay with Bing? Move to Google?
MS needs to be very careful. Short-term gain (if any) for long-term pain it seems to me.
Vip
FTA, "Jails are a sort of lightweight virtualization technique available on the FreeBSD platform. They are like a chroot environment on steroids where not only the file system is isolated out but individual processes are confined to a virtual environment - like a virtual machine without the machine part."
Not knowing much about FreeBSD and it's complementary software, what is the difference between FreeBSD Jail and Solaris Zones?
A Solaris Zone could also be described the same way.
Vip
While not our Prime Minister, gay MP and cabinet members are already in Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svend_Robinson
Just to add to your fears, we also have had a variety of faiths and disabled Members of Parliament.
http://www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/20040723.html
Vip
Windows ain't done, 'til Lotus won't run!
Vip
"Although flaming hypocrisy does seem to be the norm in D.C...."
Apparently, hypocrisy isn't the only thing flaming in D.C.
Vip
If spamming is illegal in the UK, as Spamhaus suggests, then it would
be in their best interest to drag David Linhardt into a UK court.
Once Linhardt shows up in the UK, and admits to spamming, it's over?
Spamhaus would receive judgement through the UK courts.
Maybe the $11.7million judgement is the enticement?
Sounds stupid, but we're talking about a spammer here...
Vip
I worked at a university some time back, in desktop support.
At the time we had "work orders" that had to be filled out with the problem, solution, etc.
One day I got a call about a dead monitor. I phoned her up and asked the basic, "Is it plugged in? The LED on?"
Yes and yes. Hrmmm. Maybe you hit the dials turning the contrast/brightness down? Nope, turning them doesn't work.
Are you sure? Turn them both ways, to the middle and so on. Doesn't work.
So I go on down to take a look. I get there and she goes off to do something. I turn the dials, and boom! It
all comes back! So I sit a few minutes and she comes back.
I pretend to be doing stuff, and she says, "Oh! You got it to work! What did you do?" "Nothing," I reply innocently.
"You must have done something? How does it work?" Well, this goes on for a few minutes, then I let her off the hook.
I pull out the work order and she sees that I have to fill in the "Solution:" section. She now pleads that I don't
do this, as it's so stupid, and she doesn't want to be embarrassed.
This is what I learned. Blackmail can get you fed. I asked for homemade cookies in return for no "Solution:"
Next morning, I come into work, and there's a box of cookies. She must have made them the previous night.
From that point on, if someone did something stupid that made me cross the campus (especially in a -35C winter),
I pulled out the work order, and made mention that I liked cookies, cakes, anything else that you can bake.
I got fed lots.
Vip
The $300 fine is for businesses, like paper shredding companies. General public would have a $40 fine.
The City of Calgary is also going with catching drivers who stay at the meter too long.
There's also talk of using a similar parking meter system as described in TFA.
Vip
My father started in the computer biz in the mid 70's, over 30 years ago. He has done everything from operator, programmer, taught at a university, to today, heading into retirement in an "easy" job as a database admin.
I bought a set of webcam's, 2 cameras and software. I installed it at home, and sent him the second.
Even he found it amazing that he can watch his grandchild, and talk with her, and she can recognize him and his voice, and even teach her to count (using flashcards) via the webcam.
So even those you expect should know where technology is are amazed.
Vip
Computer kiosk in a slum. Also, here.
So the idea that they need a teacher is moot. Negroponte subscribes to that idea as well, "Teachers teach the kids? Give me a break," he said. "Give any kid an electronic game and the first thing they do is throw away the manual and the second thing they do is use it."
Also Dell is selling a Intel Core Duo laptop (for University students only) for $570 or so. I can buy, in Canada, a basic desktop computer for $299 from them. This tells me his $100 price point will be met, as prices continue their downward trend.
Vip
"Even better, implement some sort of on-demand filtering so my cable box censors it if I choose. Conservative Christian? Turn it on. Everyone else? Turn it off, enjoy the language."
For TV, isn't this already built-in to the system?
SAP allows a variety of languages to be cast during the show, ie English and Spanish.
Why couldn't you use one of the SAP channels for unedited language? Select the "normal"
channel for when you are with your kids, then later watch another show on the "unedited"
channel?
Could this be extended to "edited" scenes? If you are on SAP1, during a particularly
violent scene or sexual scene, blank it out? If you are on SAP2, which is unedited,
it continues playing...
Vip
FTFA, ""If we continue without laptops, I'm out of here. I'm gone; I won't be able to keep up," said student Cory Winsett, who said his hand-written notes are incomplete and less organized."
Cory Winsett. Added to a list of lawyers NOT to get, if you need one.
His notes are incomplete. Either he can't keep up or he doesn't bother ("I'll remember that later, why write it down, it's obvious!").
His notes are disorganized. Either he can't keep up or he doesn't bother listening. His professor claims she is trying help them "connect-the-dots", and laptops don't help there.
If he can't keep up, then perhaps first year law isn't for him?
If he can't bother writing or listening, then really, a laptop is better?
If he can't keep written notes complete and organized, at a first year univeristy level, he had better figure it out. I'm sure judges in a court room will love to hear his "clickety clickety" as they or his opposition speak.
For that matter, clients of his will also like to hear a keyboard when discussing items.
The professor has a very valid points about laptops in a classroom, and kudos to her for standing up against it.
Vip
"EFF appears to be ashamed of this "detail" [child pornography found] because they left it out of the report on their website."
The title is very much misleading. The EFF is *not* defending child porn. FTFA, quote,
"Customers who drop off their computers for servicing reasonably expect that their private data won't be handed over to the police without a warrant."
The EFF is defending the right of the person to not have his hard disk go through an unauthorized search.
No, you don't require permission.
Weird Al Yankowic makes his living doing parodies.
He only gets permission as a *courtesy*. He does not have to, as evidenced by "Amish Paraise" which was a parody of "Gansta Paradise". The author, Coolio, was opposed to Weird Al using it, and told him so.
Wires crossed, Weird Al misunderstood "No." (?!?)
"Amish Paradise" was released (IMO, one of the more amusing videos I have seen) and Coolio was livid. Coolio couldn't sue, as all Weird Al does is parodies, which is fine by copyright law.
Vip
Where can I find a list of enhancements that are due in Longhorn?
:-))
How about the same for Linux kernel 2.6.12 or distros using it?
At first glance, and I haven't seen or heard much, it seems that Linux distros will be offering much more?? (ie. Xen, *maybe* Reiser4, interface and X.org enhancements (some of them toys
Vip
Isn't it that if you gain knowledge and/or evidence through illegal means (or means deemed illegal) then they cannot use that info against you?
So, should a judge decide that her info was given illegally, the RIAA will not be able to sue her.
Vip
You are wrong. He did give it to her, he even says so. It was a "Valentine's Day gift"
Once you give a gift, it belongs to the person you gave it to. They can do whatever they want with it, you no longer have any say. You cannot give something with strings attached and call it a gift. If you attach conditions, then it is not a gift.
Watch a loan argument in small claims if you're still not clear on this.
In this case, he freely admits giving it to her as a gift, thus it's her domain, he should give it to her, and find himself a new girlfriend.
Vip
Like the screams of joy as you walk through the door after work, making you forget all the stuff that happened at work that day? And the next day they ask if you can stay home from work...and you do. Who else would you do that for?
:-)
Or the sheer wonderment and joy on their faces as they experience something new to them, that you take for granted everyday. (Think elevators for a minute, or escalators until security shows up
Or doing the inevitable childrens damage to themselves, and crying, yet a kiss from you wipes all the tears and pain away. And then in return offering you a kiss when you say "Ow!"
Or maybe last week, when Daddy was sick, how my 2.5 year old was concerned enough to get me my
medicine (really just vitamin C tablets) and juice and water. Concerned enough to come up with "Daddy has to lie down, get better! No 'puter!!"
Or perhaps how they have a different view of things, in that they can teach you as much as you teach them.
I could go on and on...
"during the process of raising children you get worn out physically and mentally. I'm thinking all the late nights, interrupted sleep, emotional and physical drain of being in close contact with children."
Never looked at it that way. You are correct in a way....but it's all worth it.
Vip