What she did was illegal. There have been instances where mothers have been arrested for so-called "pox parties"
Also, the adult version is called "Shingles" and it doesn't just affect adults. When I was about 10 I got shingles, it's rare but not that rare. It SUCKED.
uh... no... The most important point is that there's no longer a cord strung across your floor leading to your $450 phone for you to trip over causing afore mentioned $450 phone sailing into your brick fireplace.
it's not actually the case that doctors are malicious or generally ignorant.
I disagree. I think the majority of doctors, just like any profession, don't have a clue what they are doing. You have to search around to find anyone competent. I've lost count of the number of times I've had problems that bugged me for years... until I walked into the right doctors office and the doctor knew exactly what to do and cured me within weeks. The biggest problem with healthcare is the incompetence of our medical professionals. When you can have 2 hospitals in the same city, sitting less than a mile apart and one has a survival rate for heart surgery that's double or even triple the other hospitals, somethings Fing wrong. That sort of disparity happens in every town in this country and it's criminal that it's allowed to continue. They are literally killing tens of thousands of people with their incompetence.
ok, coffee can sized aluminum containers? Clearly you've not been reading High Times. Rather than trying to invent new ways to grow plants in confined spaces with limited resources and light, why not ask the people who've been doing it for decades?
I think this style of monitization will be on its way out fairly soon. Even my wife is on to the scam now and would rather pay $4 for a game that doesn't pull this kind of shit.
and easy to defeat. How long do you think it would be before a significant portion of the students would be walking around with their cards in shielded envelopes made of foil? You can even buy he damned things at gas stations now in designer colors.
I still use my oscilloscope, signal generator with trigger, variable power supply quite a bit. I guess it really depends on what you're building. If it's anything to do with audio there's no escaping the need for an oscilloscope.
I'm not kidding. If you're using flat documents as part of your business processes you're doing it wrong. I spend a LOT of my time getting companies we buy to abandon these horrible processes and move into a real database where their work is logged, archived, and is audit-able. We just turned an rather large company that we bought out of bankruptcy to profitability in 6 weeks by getting them into a real ticketing system. They went from an average SLA of a WEEK to under 30min. That's fucking progress. They were able to eliminate departments (sorry guys) wholes sole job was shuffling emails and word documents around. I've provided managers with real time reports that show them exactly how much work their employees have for the day, how much they've done, and what their projected workload is for the next 6 months. So far, everyone likes the new system (excluding the data entry people that got laid off) and I do this all day every day. I have a lot of titles but what my real job is, is removing the office suit from business processes.
Put it in series with your device and set it to amps. It also has 1000 other uses besides checking that the numbers on the side of your USB adapter are accurate. Also this, AND the above mentioned devices will only tell your the voltage your device is currently drawing. You could have a 2amp capable USB port but if your device only draws.5 at max load, that's all you're going to see.
I recommend USB adapters rated at least at 2 to 4amps (or in the 12 to 24+ watt range) My phone doesn't generally draw more than about 2. Less than 2 and you'll likely use more power than you'll charge with so if you've got it in your car listening to music it'll die even while it's plugged in. The common grab bag 1amp plugs you can get at the checkout are garbage.
That would cost the ISP more money. Now you have to open piles of mail... all the while you know the media industry would automate that mail process in no time.
You should check with other users on your ISP. In most cases the ISP has a policy saying you'll be cut off after so many complaints but in reality it's nearly impossible to enforce. In many places, if your ISP is the only company in the area they are very likely legally required to provide you service as long as you're paying your bill. We honestly treated it like the customers WiFi had been compromised and someone had done this from outside their home. Our letters even reflected this to the customer. If they got a LOT of complaints (like thousands) we'd even call them, concerned, because clearly their network had been hacked by some terrible software pirates. They'd play along, and the complaints would go away. Remember, your ISP is usually on your side in these cases. You clearly pay for the service so you can do this thing... and the copyright holders don't pay anything... and they're forcing you to pay staff to do something that actually drives customers away from your service. Many people, after getting a complaint, will call in and reduce the speed of their service. We had stats on this. You're getting thousands of complaints per day that if you send on to your customers have, lets say, a 20% chance of causing them to reduce their services or cancel service all together. Or in your case use a VPN and waste a lot of your bandwidth. It's ALL bad for the ISP. They hate the complaints even more than you do.
They use blanket filters. So think about it like this, if you download anything "star wars" for example, you're probably going to get a notice. Because they are constantly releasing star wars stuff. If you picked some obscure movie it'd be a lot less likely. Also, there are notices that come from shifty lawers claiming to represent copyright owners that are really just trying to extort a settlements out of people. They usually try going after embarrassing stuff like "Naughty Anal Nuns" or whatever. They'd usually come in all at once, from 1 lawyer, with complaints against hundreds of people for 3, totally unrelated, but really embarrassing titles. They'd be demanding our customers data and stuff, which of course they didn't get. Ironically a lot of these got flagged by our content filters so they wouldn't even arrive in our mailbox. I was asked if I wanted the mailbox exempt and I was like "Nah...." The ones that did get through we didn't send on to customers because... well... we don't want to put emails about nasty sex acts into a mailbox that their children might use and we had no reasonable belief that the person on the other end of that mail account had anything to do with that activity, if it was a legitimate complaint. i.e. Being the seed for your customers future divorce in generally not good business.
you're not understanding. The summary is wrong. Warner Brothers can send takedown notices at will. The only thing that's illegal is to claim you're a content owner when you're not. You could send all the takedown notices you wanted to warner brothers. But the fact of the matter is they do not host enough content for this to be a problem for them.
What they are trying to do with these weak laws and automated systems is make life very difficult for file hosting services. If they inundate them with takedowns it ends up being too expensive to actually check them. So they put up automated systems like this, which the media houses exploit to hurt these services. As far as WB is concerned, the only reason Hotbox exists is to pirate their content, so they feel justified in what they are doing.
A few years ago I work for a moderately large (fortune 500) ISP and actually handled infringement complaints against their customers. Basically the Recording and Movie industry hired companies to traul torrent sites and send takedown notices to everyone that connected to files that matched their filters. They actually didn't bother with older releases, they only really cared about things they had recently released. But still, the shear volume of complaints was impossible to deal with. Thousands per day. Many of which were duplicates. I ended up spending most of my time writing scripts to weed out the junk. We also had no idea if the complaint came from a copyright owner... no way to check... Castro could have sent them for all I know. Even if we could verify the person that sent the email, how would we know they owned the copyright? It was impossible. On this we just had to trust them per the law. Then, after I'd weed out all the garbage, I'd have to find out which customer had the DHCP lease on that IP at the time of the complaint. Sometimes it was clear... We'd get multiple complaints over a 1 to 5 day period for the same customer for the same file... they were likely hosting the movie/cd. But many times the IP hadn't been leased out... or wouldn't even be in our network! We had several organizations that sent us so much bogus info that we ended up blocking their domain.
I really dont have answers regarding how to make all of this better. Short of just doing away with copyright. The fact that the easy media transfer genie is out of the bottle really should just put the media industry on notice... their time is short, there is no way they can legislate this problem away and the whole "lets just flood them with takedown notices to annoy them" will only work for so long as well. Eventually ISP's just end up ignoring the complaints and those of us handling them move on to get paid a lot more doing things a lot more interesting;-)
The GPS trackers are peanuts. Every squad car has a camera and a computer that reads every license plate it passes. It stores all of this in a massive database. They track EVERY care on the road with this. If you pass a cop, your position just got logged. They literally know where just about everyone is or was at any time unless you head way out in the country.
We're probably about 10yrs away from the government knowing your position at all times via license plate scanning on cars, along roadways and monitoring stations that read cellphone wifi data. Not to mention the likelihood of GPS being required in cars to track "Millage" for "Tax purposes. The surveillance state is here, they are watching you. 1984 was a joke compared to what our children will face.
You're thinking way to hard about this. Whomever this anonymous source is, he's just flat out lying. There's no way on earth they haven't indited him. This is just a ploy to prevent more countries from giving him asylum and to give the British government an excuse to continue to spend millions stalking the guy at the embassy.
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So your solution to security is to put a key logger on every computer in our building? I don't see that going over well with my security team.
Timecube... duh
What she did was illegal. There have been instances where mothers have been arrested for so-called "pox parties"
Also, the adult version is called "Shingles" and it doesn't just affect adults. When I was about 10 I got shingles, it's rare but not that rare. It SUCKED.
Ever heard the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"? I think Mozilla understand it quite well.
uh... no... The most important point is that there's no longer a cord strung across your floor leading to your $450 phone for you to trip over causing afore mentioned $450 phone sailing into your brick fireplace.
Ha! In America we just shoot missiles at em or have the CIA/NSA/Seals snag them and then drop them off in Egypt for torture... I mean "questioning"
it's not actually the case that doctors are malicious or generally ignorant.
I disagree. I think the majority of doctors, just like any profession, don't have a clue what they are doing. You have to search around to find anyone competent. I've lost count of the number of times I've had problems that bugged me for years... until I walked into the right doctors office and the doctor knew exactly what to do and cured me within weeks. The biggest problem with healthcare is the incompetence of our medical professionals. When you can have 2 hospitals in the same city, sitting less than a mile apart and one has a survival rate for heart surgery that's double or even triple the other hospitals, somethings Fing wrong. That sort of disparity happens in every town in this country and it's criminal that it's allowed to continue. They are literally killing tens of thousands of people with their incompetence.
Pretty sure its a crime to infect anyone with anything intentionally.
ok, coffee can sized aluminum containers? Clearly you've not been reading High Times. Rather than trying to invent new ways to grow plants in confined spaces with limited resources and light, why not ask the people who've been doing it for decades?
I think this style of monitization will be on its way out fairly soon. Even my wife is on to the scam now and would rather pay $4 for a game that doesn't pull this kind of shit.
and easy to defeat. How long do you think it would be before a significant portion of the students would be walking around with their cards in shielded envelopes made of foil? You can even buy he damned things at gas stations now in designer colors.
I still use my oscilloscope, signal generator with trigger, variable power supply quite a bit. I guess it really depends on what you're building. If it's anything to do with audio there's no escaping the need for an oscilloscope.
I'm not kidding. If you're using flat documents as part of your business processes you're doing it wrong. I spend a LOT of my time getting companies we buy to abandon these horrible processes and move into a real database where their work is logged, archived, and is audit-able. We just turned an rather large company that we bought out of bankruptcy to profitability in 6 weeks by getting them into a real ticketing system. They went from an average SLA of a WEEK to under 30min. That's fucking progress. They were able to eliminate departments (sorry guys) wholes sole job was shuffling emails and word documents around. I've provided managers with real time reports that show them exactly how much work their employees have for the day, how much they've done, and what their projected workload is for the next 6 months. So far, everyone likes the new system (excluding the data entry people that got laid off) and I do this all day every day. I have a lot of titles but what my real job is, is removing the office suit from business processes.
Oh my God people, turn in your fucking geek card:
http://www.amazon.com/Etekcity%C2%AE-Digital-Multimeter-Voltmeter-Ohmmeter/dp/B00B7CS3UY/
Put it in series with your device and set it to amps. It also has 1000 other uses besides checking that the numbers on the side of your USB adapter are accurate. .5 at max load, that's all you're going to see.
Also this, AND the above mentioned devices will only tell your the voltage your device is currently drawing. You could have a 2amp capable USB port but if your device only draws
I recommend USB adapters rated at least at 2 to 4amps (or in the 12 to 24+ watt range) My phone doesn't generally draw more than about 2. Less than 2 and you'll likely use more power than you'll charge with so if you've got it in your car listening to music it'll die even while it's plugged in. The common grab bag 1amp plugs you can get at the checkout are garbage.
That would cost the ISP more money. Now you have to open piles of mail... all the while you know the media industry would automate that mail process in no time.
The DMCA makes it legally required to make a "reasonable" effort. It's very wishy washy and the ISPs have no idea what to do.
You should check with other users on your ISP. In most cases the ISP has a policy saying you'll be cut off after so many complaints but in reality it's nearly impossible to enforce. In many places, if your ISP is the only company in the area they are very likely legally required to provide you service as long as you're paying your bill. We honestly treated it like the customers WiFi had been compromised and someone had done this from outside their home. Our letters even reflected this to the customer. If they got a LOT of complaints (like thousands) we'd even call them, concerned, because clearly their network had been hacked by some terrible software pirates. They'd play along, and the complaints would go away. Remember, your ISP is usually on your side in these cases. You clearly pay for the service so you can do this thing... and the copyright holders don't pay anything... and they're forcing you to pay staff to do something that actually drives customers away from your service. Many people, after getting a complaint, will call in and reduce the speed of their service. We had stats on this. You're getting thousands of complaints per day that if you send on to your customers have, lets say, a 20% chance of causing them to reduce their services or cancel service all together. Or in your case use a VPN and waste a lot of your bandwidth. It's ALL bad for the ISP. They hate the complaints even more than you do.
They use blanket filters. So think about it like this, if you download anything "star wars" for example, you're probably going to get a notice. Because they are constantly releasing star wars stuff. If you picked some obscure movie it'd be a lot less likely. Also, there are notices that come from shifty lawers claiming to represent copyright owners that are really just trying to extort a settlements out of people. They usually try going after embarrassing stuff like "Naughty Anal Nuns" or whatever. They'd usually come in all at once, from 1 lawyer, with complaints against hundreds of people for 3, totally unrelated, but really embarrassing titles. They'd be demanding our customers data and stuff, which of course they didn't get. Ironically a lot of these got flagged by our content filters so they wouldn't even arrive in our mailbox. I was asked if I wanted the mailbox exempt and I was like "Nah...." The ones that did get through we didn't send on to customers because... well... we don't want to put emails about nasty sex acts into a mailbox that their children might use and we had no reasonable belief that the person on the other end of that mail account had anything to do with that activity, if it was a legitimate complaint. i.e. Being the seed for your customers future divorce in generally not good business.
You mean the study that's funded almost entirely with Federal grants? :-p
Those of us that work for a living have callouses that make it pretty much not hurt at all.
you're not understanding. The summary is wrong. Warner Brothers can send takedown notices at will. The only thing that's illegal is to claim you're a content owner when you're not. You could send all the takedown notices you wanted to warner brothers. But the fact of the matter is they do not host enough content for this to be a problem for them.
What they are trying to do with these weak laws and automated systems is make life very difficult for file hosting services. If they inundate them with takedowns it ends up being too expensive to actually check them. So they put up automated systems like this, which the media houses exploit to hurt these services. As far as WB is concerned, the only reason Hotbox exists is to pirate their content, so they feel justified in what they are doing.
A few years ago I work for a moderately large (fortune 500) ISP and actually handled infringement complaints against their customers. Basically the Recording and Movie industry hired companies to traul torrent sites and send takedown notices to everyone that connected to files that matched their filters. They actually didn't bother with older releases, they only really cared about things they had recently released. But still, the shear volume of complaints was impossible to deal with. Thousands per day. Many of which were duplicates. I ended up spending most of my time writing scripts to weed out the junk. We also had no idea if the complaint came from a copyright owner... no way to check... Castro could have sent them for all I know. Even if we could verify the person that sent the email, how would we know they owned the copyright? It was impossible. On this we just had to trust them per the law. Then, after I'd weed out all the garbage, I'd have to find out which customer had the DHCP lease on that IP at the time of the complaint. Sometimes it was clear... We'd get multiple complaints over a 1 to 5 day period for the same customer for the same file... they were likely hosting the movie/cd. But many times the IP hadn't been leased out... or wouldn't even be in our network! We had several organizations that sent us so much bogus info that we ended up blocking their domain.
I really dont have answers regarding how to make all of this better. Short of just doing away with copyright. The fact that the easy media transfer genie is out of the bottle really should just put the media industry on notice... their time is short, there is no way they can legislate this problem away and the whole "lets just flood them with takedown notices to annoy them" will only work for so long as well. Eventually ISP's just end up ignoring the complaints and those of us handling them move on to get paid a lot more doing things a lot more interesting ;-)
Lol, the fact that you're still using ANY office suit tells us how out of touch you are. Word and Excel documents are dead...
The GPS trackers are peanuts. Every squad car has a camera and a computer that reads every license plate it passes. It stores all of this in a massive database. They track EVERY care on the road with this. If you pass a cop, your position just got logged. They literally know where just about everyone is or was at any time unless you head way out in the country.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/virginia-state-police-used-license-plate-readers
We're probably about 10yrs away from the government knowing your position at all times via license plate scanning on cars, along roadways and monitoring stations that read cellphone wifi data. Not to mention the likelihood of GPS being required in cars to track "Millage" for "Tax purposes. The surveillance state is here, they are watching you. 1984 was a joke compared to what our children will face.
It doesn't have to be private. The state legislature could implement it.
You're thinking way to hard about this. Whomever this anonymous source is, he's just flat out lying. There's no way on earth they haven't indited him. This is just a ploy to prevent more countries from giving him asylum and to give the British government an excuse to continue to spend millions stalking the guy at the embassy.