Where's all the posts saying how this guy's privacy rights were destroyed/taken/bushed by the sysadmin?
You are confusing something. It is police that destroys/takes/bushes peoples' privacy rights. Sysadmins only rightfully exercise their god-given powers.
You have some truely dangerous misconceptions about the world, young monkey
Not really. Not that I support the approach we are using in Guantanamo Bay precisely, but those people picked up arms against the United States and were captured fighting.
Not correct. One of the recently released British guys was taken out of a jail where the Taliban hat put him - they considered him to be a foreign spy when the yfound hinm traveling the area. Another one was abducted from his Pakistan home by a group of US and Pakistani soldiers.
Unlike POWs, they weren't foreign army conscripts who were just sucked into a nation-to-nation conflict, either
Says who ? Fact is, in Guantanamo and its lesser known brethren in Bagram and Diego Garcia people are held at some military guy's whim, and law is absent there. Whatever you think you know about these people comes from the US administration which has a number of strong reasons to keep these perople there, be they innocent or not.
What is wrong with paper ballots ? Maybe someone can enlighten me. I live in a 80M poeple nation where paper ballots seem to work without any problem. We have elections, some of them rather complicated, and usually you have to vote on something every 1-2 years. We always get speedy and dependable results - even with national elections that are way mor complicated than a US presidential elections we usually have a stable estimation before midnight on voting day, ad a provisorical result sometime next day. There never was any problem with vote fraud worth mentioning (though occasionally a politician gets in trouble with the finer points of anti-vote-fraud laws) and basically the perception is that this just works.
If you're really stupid you might even lose touch with reality and demand $300,000. Did he really expect them to pay? Unbelievable...
The German department of labor just sank a hefty 60 Millions EU (thats somewheer around US$70 Mio ) into their web site (including a glorifiued job portal). Unfortunatly the project overran its budget and now they expect to get close to 100 Mill. EU.
That's money.
Those 300k arte just peanuts. You get ~ 1 man-year consulting time for that; Now put yourself into the shoes of a project manager who has to realize a complex web site for that, Hardware, Software, Development, Specs, Acceptance Testing, Documentation etc all using EDS or IBM or somesuch consultants. In fact, it might not even be enough.
The cops didn't pay anything - they don't own anything.
Where's the provblem with that ? I still fail to understand why you even dislike that guy. Of course he got them at their balls, and of course they panicked when they found out - but that's just the factual situation. He built everything, he bought the computers, he paid the bandwidth bills.
It is his work. It is his bandwidht. The web site is probably his own code, built upon his own tools.
He can ask whatever price he wants. The only thing they might be able to demand is the domain - and I'm not even sure about that one.
This smacks so much like law enforcement guys with an oversized God complex. I've seen that kind of types myself - they run into your company and demand - legalities be damned - whatever they fucking please. If you don't conmply they threaten to seize your computers and thus bankrupt you.
This guy gives website designers a bad name. I'd say he definitely belongs in prison.
Troll. Troll. Troll. Troll. Troll.
No contract. No pay. The sherrifs department has no right whatsoever on the continuation of that service. None.
This sheriff is trying to steal, pure and simple. Steal, blackmail, extort.
After this action it's the sheriff who should be in jail. In my country there is a special crime for judicial personnel twisting the law for its own purposes. Is there something similar in the US of A ?
I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with it, just being giving you some friendly advice
That was "friendly advice" of the "yo nigger, if you don't want get beaten up in this town, you better stop staring at white women" kind.
I.e., a thinly veiled threat.
Looking from afar, things like that seem to happen more often over there recently. Why do many conservatives feel this urgent need to eradicate "liberal" (in the US sense off that word) points of view from the public perception ? Isn't that the opposite of public discourse ?
That's insane. Have you ever used Windows before? Judging by your rant, obviously not. I regularly use Windows machines for media playback (and authoring), and those problems are indicative of a bad user, not bad software. I never have media players "battling". I never have playback failing "for no apparent reason". And I regularly play DVD backups from anything, even my iPod, across the network.
People like you should go and shoot themselves. Or jump into some seldom-visited and guaranteed deadly river.
The reason is not you use windows. I do so, too. But every tech forum I know has its share of the "gee, it works for me so whatever doesn't work is your fault" crowd. And that frives me nuts. These people take the misery of others who are already unhappy about their nonworking stuff and turn it against them. Blame the victim.
So I will spell it clearly out for you:
The User ist the customer. The Customer is never wrong. Never ever ever. If the customer is unhappy, the software failed to meet his needs. A happy customer doesnt go to web boards to aks for help. he doesn't call up your tech help line. He doesn't write lengthy emails to support staff. He doesn't even post on Usenet or Slashdot about his misery.
So if some schmuck goes around claiming that some very unhappy user actually is happy and has no problems, he just proves himself beeing an idiot.
Stop blaming the victims. Software quality is lousy in general and abysmal in quite a few fields (one of which is Video), and if so called power users just go blame it on other users, nothing will ever improve.
I have myself had numerous problems with Windows media Player. Using WMP frequently and actively (20, 30, 40 clips, one after the other, on, off, etc, nearly certainly gets me a full system freeze. Especially bad is the wmp web plugin. I lost count of all the times I saw codec wierdnesses, files my wmp claimed not beeing able to play at all despite having all the rights stuff, shit crashing it, etc.
Windows media just barely works. (I never even bothered to try it on BSDs or Linux - I fully expect that to be even worse).
Call centers and tech support work different here.
First one you rarely see scripting. People get actually trained, usually in house.
As for the unions, its not even a union thing. Employee monitoring tech by law is subject to agreement by the cpmpany's employee council - and they rarely do. So you usually end up with compromises like team based statistics, anonymized user data and such.
Well we could fight another World War, that seemed to help the economy alot.
Fighting it is not enogh. You have to win it, too. And winning a world war is fucking complicated when your rulers spend day and night to ruin whatever friendship their country once had. Trust me, I can tell from national experience that winning a world war when your only allies are those whose governments have to be protected by a sizeable deployment of your own elite troops is next to impossible.
Nice article. And youre probably right in the summary view.
But theres one little problem. Wealth redistribution. Wealth is taken away mostly from middle class people by this. Now if that process generates new wealth, where does this end up ?
The sorry fact is that alle economoic theories don't guarantee a similar wealth distribution in the resulting scenario. For all we know, all the wealth might as well end up in the hands of very few people.
Look at central and south america. This is exactly what has happended there for more than half a century. Constant welath redistribution has eroded their middle classes and only left over very poor and very very rich people.
The result is unstable states, excessive corruption, a despicable human rights situation and very little overall progress. Even though you might be better off in the short run with free trade, if you don't keep that wealth redistribution thing under control, you might ruin yourself utterly in the long run. As we see in latin america, this may escalate to a point that societies are unable to acchieve any meaningful reform and stuck in this vicious trap forever.
Of course, as John Maynard Keynes once famously remarked, in the long run we ar all dead. So YMMV.
This is the start of an offensive to eliminate the American middle class, and replace it with a permanent base of slave labour in "developing countries".
Every Governement / ruling elite that did this before ended up heads on a block or in front of an execution commando.
The middle class is essentially what stabilizes a civil society. Without that you end up either with a fascist dictoatorship (the likes of middle america) or a revolution.
Now, is the FBI actually good enough to control a nation in open rebellion ?
you aren't Bilbo fighting that evil eye at the top of the tower (forgot his name, evil wizard guy).
You actually think us techies would listen to the advice of a suit who doesn't even remember the name of dark lord Sauron from reading Lord of the Rings ?
Strange...
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... but at least two of them should never have been born.
That suggestion of yours is called "eugenics". The last guy who was into eugenics large-style was some guy called Adolf Whatshisname from a pretty city called "Braunau". Go Figure!
hmmm... you just disqualify yourself with quoting that. Of course your former president had the moral right not to talk or even to lie to keep his sexual activities private - a few years ago people even would have considered this a gentleman's duty (a concept that is apparently foregin to you)
and quoting the utterly discredited special dependant counsel and his office of republican campaign supporting ivestigator just shows you have either failed to understand or deliberately ignored the inner workings of this sorry affair.
and, fwiw , it's just another sign of american barbary that people still rot in jail (and rotted there for years) mostly for the fact that they happened to be friends or associates of the Clintons.
One thing that puzzles me, though, is the intense emotional all-cosuming hate that US conservatives feel about Clinton, inducing them to accept and condone even the most bizarre and embarrassing attacks on him - like this impeachment thing - with a straight face. That guy was one of the best and most successful presidents your country ever had, so even though he was in the other party, one might expect some kind of grudging respect mixed with a few "ifs" and "buts". Instead of that the typical republican utterly freaks out and loose any semblence of an intelligent beeing and common sense, just because of hearing this name (as this thread amply demonstrates again).
there's some grand anti-Finno-Ugric conspiracy is going on.
Of course there is - every foreigner who has had to learn that language gets conspiracy memebership offered afterwards. I have it on a good source that 97% accept that offer.
In the US, people are assumed innocent until proven guilty
Huh ? What US are you talking of ?
The same US that just invaded a whole country and killed hundereds - if not thousands - of its inhabitants in the process on unproven and probably made-up charges ? The same US that created a special prision where it keeps people indefinitely without any (due or not due) process, without access to a lawyer and where it claims these people have absolutely no rights whatsoever, on a technicality ?
This guy says he's clear so I wouldn't be too worried about it.
Huh ? I've yet to see a single computer that is completely "clear". Not to mentionm nine of these, probably together with backups going back several years. Think about it: did you never ever copy some piece of software ? did you always pay that Microsft tax ? is all your pr0n lily white and safe in every conceivable community ? What about your email archive - what did you discuss ? You sure the feds will "understand" every joke you sent out ? Did you stay clear of all those forbidden topics ? Growing hemp, copying dvds, red or left wing direct action politics, guns or anti guns, computer securtity, encryption, viruses, islam, your hollidays in afghanistan or cuba, or whatever else gets people into jail over there these days ?
If they want, they can and will keep these machines forever.
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If the US of a would finally start to get serious with spamming companies, it would all come to an end. Just follow the money.
of course you refer to tftp. There is no sftp.
And, FWIW, I recently upgraded a switch remotely from 600 kilometers away over a WAN using tftp. No big deal - we do stuff like that all the time.
Oh, and of course the majority of cisco's routers and switches can upgrade their flash while in operation.
You have some truely dangerous misconceptions about the world, young monkey
My main gripe with css is that web sites using them have the property them to force their preferred font size on me.
I usually increasze font size. I cant read those microscopic fonts some artsy types seem to prefer.
My advice the the LDP folks would be - stay away from them.
Another one was abducted from his Pakistan home by a group of US and Pakistani soldiers.
Says who ?
Fact is, in Guantanamo and its lesser known brethren in Bagram and Diego Garcia people are held at some military guy's whim, and law is absent there. Whatever you think you know about these people comes from the US administration which has a number of strong reasons to keep these perople there, be they innocent or not.
What is wrong with paper ballots ? Maybe someone can enlighten me. I live in a 80M poeple nation where paper ballots seem to work without any problem. We have elections, some of them rather complicated, and usually you have to vote on something every 1-2 years. We always get speedy and dependable results - even with national elections that are way mor complicated than a US presidential elections we usually have a stable estimation before midnight on voting day, ad a provisorical result sometime next day. There never was any problem with vote fraud worth mentioning (though occasionally a politician gets in trouble with the finer points of anti-vote-fraud laws) and basically the perception is that this just works.
Why can't yopu make that work in the US ?
The German department of labor just sank a hefty 60 Millions EU (thats somewheer around US$70 Mio ) into their web site (including a glorifiued job portal). Unfortunatly the project overran its budget and now they expect to get close to 100 Mill. EU.
That's money.
Those 300k arte just peanuts. You get ~ 1 man-year consulting time for that; Now put yourself into the shoes of a project manager who has to realize a complex web site for that, Hardware, Software, Development, Specs, Acceptance Testing, Documentation etc all using EDS or IBM or somesuch consultants. In fact, it might not even be enough.
The cops didn't pay anything - they don't own anything.
Where's the provblem with that ? I still fail to understand why you even dislike that guy. Of course he got them at their balls, and of course they panicked when they found out - but that's just the factual situation. He built everything, he bought the computers, he paid the bandwidth bills.
The $ amount is utterly irrelevant.
It is his work. It is his bandwidht. The web site is probably his own code, built upon his own tools.
He can ask whatever price he wants. The only thing they might be able to demand is the
domain - and I'm not even sure about that one.
This smacks so much like law enforcement guys with an oversized God complex. I've seen that kind of types myself - they run into your company and demand - legalities be damned - whatever they fucking please. If you don't conmply they threaten to seize your computers and thus bankrupt you.
Troll. Troll. Troll. Troll. Troll.
No contract. No pay. The sherrifs department has no right whatsoever on the continuation of that service. None.
This sheriff is trying to steal, pure and simple. Steal, blackmail, extort.
After this action it's the sheriff who should be in jail. In my country there is a special crime for judicial personnel twisting the law for its own purposes. Is there something similar in the US of A ?
I.e., a thinly veiled threat.
Looking from afar, things like that seem to happen more often over there recently. Why do many conservatives feel this urgent need to eradicate "liberal" (in the US sense off that word) points of view from the public perception ? Isn't that the opposite of public discourse ?
Did they retire Weizenmbaum or what ? I always assumed they'd only have room for one of these certified kook types.
Have youy looked at that gentleman's publication list on his web site ?
- travels to Bhutan ???
- photo mosaics ??
- essays in "technology review" ??
Apparently the good professor never had scientific research published of which he is proud enough to mention it on his home page.
Oh well. MIT.
The reason is not you use windows. I do so, too. But every tech forum I know has its share of the "gee, it works for me so whatever doesn't work is your fault" crowd. And that frives me nuts. These people take the misery of others who are already unhappy about their nonworking stuff and turn it against them. Blame the victim.
So I will spell it clearly out for you:
The User ist the customer. The Customer is never wrong. Never ever ever. If the customer is unhappy, the software failed to meet his needs. A happy customer doesnt go to web boards to aks for help. he doesn't call up your tech help line. He doesn't write lengthy emails to support staff. He doesn't even post on Usenet or Slashdot about his misery.
So if some schmuck goes around claiming that some very unhappy user actually is happy and has no problems, he just proves himself beeing an idiot.
Stop blaming the victims. Software quality is lousy in general and abysmal in quite a few fields (one of which is Video), and if so called power users just go blame it on other users, nothing will ever improve.
I have myself had numerous problems with Windows media Player. Using WMP frequently and actively (20, 30, 40 clips, one after the other, on, off, etc, nearly certainly gets me a full system freeze. Especially bad is the wmp web plugin. I lost count of all the times I saw codec wierdnesses, files my wmp claimed not beeing able to play at all despite having all the rights stuff, shit crashing it, etc.
Windows media just barely works. (I never even bothered to try it on BSDs or Linux - I fully expect that to be even worse).
Of course not.
Call centers and tech support work different here.
First one you rarely see scripting. People get actually trained, usually in house.
As for the unions, its not even a union thing. Employee monitoring tech by law is subject to agreement by the cpmpany's employee council - and they rarely do. So you usually end up with compromises like team based statistics, anonymized user data and such.
Fighting it is not enogh. You have to win it, too. And winning a world war is fucking complicated when your rulers spend day and night to ruin whatever friendship their country once had. Trust me, I can tell from national experience that winning a world war when your only allies are those whose governments have to be protected by a sizeable deployment of your own elite troops is next to impossible.
But...
What, exactly, are those industries ? Do they employ that many people ? What kind of jobs do they offer ?
Nice article. And youre probably right in the summary view.
But theres one little problem. Wealth redistribution. Wealth is taken away mostly from middle class people by this. Now if that process generates new wealth, where does this end up ?
The sorry fact is that alle economoic theories don't guarantee a similar wealth distribution in the resulting scenario. For all we know, all the wealth might as well end up in the hands of very few people.
Look at central and south america. This is exactly what has happended there for more than half a century. Constant welath redistribution has eroded their middle classes and only left over very poor and very very rich people.
The result is unstable states, excessive corruption, a despicable human rights situation and very little overall progress. Even though you might be better off in the short run with free trade, if you don't keep that wealth redistribution thing under control, you might ruin yourself utterly in the long run. As we see in latin america, this may escalate to a point that societies are unable to acchieve any meaningful reform and stuck in this vicious trap forever.
Of course, as John Maynard Keynes once famously remarked, in the long run we ar all dead. So YMMV.
The middle class is essentially what stabilizes a civil society. Without that you end up either with a fascist dictoatorship (the likes of middle america) or a revolution.
Now, is the FBI actually good enough to control a nation in open rebellion ?
Strange...
(and yes, I just pullled a Godwin)
hmmm... you just disqualify yourself with quoting that. Of course your former president had the moral right not to talk or even to lie to keep his sexual activities private - a few years ago people even would have considered this a gentleman's duty (a concept that is apparently foregin to you)
and quoting the utterly discredited special dependant counsel and his office of republican campaign supporting ivestigator just shows you have either failed to understand or deliberately ignored the inner workings of this sorry affair.
and, fwiw , it's just another sign of american barbary that people still rot in jail (and rotted there for years) mostly for the fact that they happened to be friends or associates of the Clintons.
One thing that puzzles me, though, is the intense emotional all-cosuming hate that US conservatives feel about Clinton, inducing them to accept and condone even the most bizarre and embarrassing attacks on him - like this impeachment thing - with a straight face. That guy was one of the best and most successful presidents your country ever had, so even though he was in the other party, one might expect some kind of grudging respect mixed with a few "ifs" and "buts". Instead of that the typical republican utterly freaks out and loose any semblence of an intelligent beeing and common sense, just because of hearing this name (as this thread amply demonstrates again).
Huh ? What US are you talking of ?
The same US that just invaded a whole country and killed hundereds - if not thousands - of its inhabitants in the process on unproven and probably made-up charges ?
The same US that created a special prision where it keeps people indefinitely without any (due or not due) process, without access to a lawyer and where it claims these people have absolutely no rights whatsoever, on a technicality ?
You must be kidding....
Huh ? I've yet to see a single computer that is completely "clear". Not to mentionm nine of these, probably together with backups going back several years.
Think about it: did you never ever copy some piece of software ? did you always pay that Microsft tax ? is all your pr0n lily white and safe in every conceivable community ? What about your email archive - what did you discuss ? You sure the feds will "understand" every joke you sent out ? Did you stay clear of all those forbidden topics ? Growing hemp, copying dvds, red or left wing direct action politics, guns or anti guns, computer securtity, encryption, viruses, islam, your hollidays in afghanistan or cuba, or whatever else gets people into jail over there these days ?
If they want, they can and will keep these machines forever.