The problem with trying to boot to an image or live CD is that where I used to work all computers were set to boot to the hard drive first and had a long and non simple BIOS password so that users couldn't change any settings. I'd agree with you that he should get his own machine.
Even if you had started receiving spam it wouldn't have proved MS had sold your address. Spammers also send to random names at a domain and may have just chanced on yours. Obviously the chances of that would be less if your email is fdhdf73gdfj932as@hotmail.com (apologies if that is your address and you start getting spam)
Ah but since I didn't start receiving Spam it pretty well probes that MS doesn't sell addresses, which I never really believed any way.
I've been running a test of the Hotmail system for about the last ten years. Not of their Spam detection, when it started even Spam Assassin was a baby, but of an assertion I saw on an online forum that MS sold email addresses to spammers. I am happy to say that I have never gotten any junk mail at all in that inbox. I have used the account to send test messages to a malfunctioning mail server and to register MS products but that's really all. The only mail I get there now is from MS itself, which could be considered Spam but that would be stretching things a bit.
As a sometime composer and arranger I was faced with an overly broad IP policy at a previous employer. The way it was written they could have claimed just about anything that I did including recordings. I asked for a clarification of that clause in my contract and they admitted that it wasn't even legal in my state. It might be worth checking with a lawyer.
The most important thing in getting a degree is getting that ticket punched. There are jobs that just won't even talk to a person that doesn't have a degree. My degree is in music but in interviews I've never been asked what my degree was in. I've often been asked if I have a degree.
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
That's part of what an audiologist does is find where you are deficient and set up an aid for you in those frequencies.
When I was growing up, during visits to my grandmothers we would visit the Ouachita river to fish. Yes it's a word. It's from some Amerind culture. There were lots of structures that were built on 55 gallon barrels and tied to trees with big ropes for the annual floods. They even had a union in the gas pipe so that the gas could be turned off and the house allowed to float up off the foundation. When the flood was over the neighbors would get together and help put everyone's house back where they belonged. Floating houses another recycled idea. Hopefully someone hasn't tried to patent it. There is plenty of prior art.
Back in the day of dial up internet we had a few Lucent Max 4000 and several, I think 6, servers. We rarely turned the heat on till January and even then only had to turn it on for a couple of months. Of course a subtropical climate helped but we did heat the office with the servers.
I can't help but think that this is ripe for a little civil disobedience. Lets all choose a song. Maybe the same song, say "Barbra Ann" by the Beach Boys and post lip syncs of it. That would thoroughly clog the federal courts.
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A nice song from Consumers Union about drug side effects to enrich your day.
http://youtu.be/mYodDH4qZQo
Look at Gutenberg.org for Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote the Tarzan novels and also John Carter of Mars. Dated but fun to read.
The problem with trying to boot to an image or live CD is that where I used to work all computers were set to boot to the hard drive first and had a long and non simple BIOS password so that users couldn't change any settings.
I'd agree with you that he should get his own machine.
Well, at least now he'll be able to move out of his parents' basement.
Don't you mean into his parent's basement?
Even if you had started receiving spam it wouldn't have proved MS had sold your address. Spammers also send to random names at a domain and may have just chanced on yours. Obviously the chances of that would be less if your email is fdhdf73gdfj932as@hotmail.com (apologies if that is your address and you start getting spam)
Ah but since I didn't start receiving Spam it pretty well probes that MS doesn't sell addresses, which I never really believed any way.
I've been running a test of the Hotmail system for about the last ten years. Not of their Spam detection, when it started even Spam Assassin was a baby, but of an assertion I saw on an online forum that MS sold email addresses to spammers.
I am happy to say that I have never gotten any junk mail at all in that inbox.
I have used the account to send test messages to a malfunctioning mail server and to register MS products but that's really all. The only mail I get there now is from MS itself, which could be considered Spam but that would be stretching things a bit.
As a sometime composer and arranger I was faced with an overly broad IP policy at a previous employer.
The way it was written they could have claimed just about anything that I did including recordings. I asked for a clarification of that clause in my contract and they admitted that it wasn't even legal in my state. It might be worth checking with a lawyer.
Why is this even legal?
It isn't in some states.
I hope that the senate will get a clue and cancel it's deliberations also. We just need to keep the pressure up.
The most important thing in getting a degree is getting that ticket punched. There are jobs that just won't even talk to a person that doesn't have a degree.
My degree is in music but in interviews I've never been asked what my degree was in. I've often been asked if I have a degree.
Thanks man. Astronomy is not my thing so I don't know much about it. I'll try to remember to look for it on our anniversary every election year.
Not as far as I recall.
The 4th is our 37th wedding anniversary and the sky is celebrating.
If such a thing as Carrier IQ were on a phone under review by DOD it would have to be removed.
I didn't think it was possible for PETA to lower my opinion of them but now they have.
What a bunch of nuts.
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
That's part of what an audiologist does is find where you are deficient and set up an aid for you in those frequencies.
When I was growing up, during visits to my grandmothers we would visit the Ouachita river to fish. Yes it's a word. It's from some Amerind culture.
There were lots of structures that were built on 55 gallon barrels and tied to trees with big ropes for the annual floods. They even had a union in the gas pipe so that the gas could be turned off and the house allowed to float up off the foundation.
When the flood was over the neighbors would get together and help put everyone's house back where they belonged.
Floating houses another recycled idea. Hopefully someone hasn't tried to patent it. There is plenty of prior art.
Back in the day of dial up internet we had a few Lucent Max 4000 and several, I think 6, servers. We rarely turned the heat on till January and even then only had to turn it on for a couple of months.
Of course a subtropical climate helped but we did heat the office with the servers.
Hot glue them in too.
There is one answer that will always stop this kind of stupidity. Block up the ports with hot glue.
I can't help but think that this is ripe for a little civil disobedience. Lets all choose a song. Maybe the same song, say "Barbra Ann" by the Beach Boys and post lip syncs of it. That would thoroughly clog the federal courts.
I guess we should go back to looking for moss on the backs of trees.
They could give two million, I could do a study for them and actual security would be just as good as before.
If anything happens that is bad enough to destroy both my work and home computers, 5 miles apart, I figure data loss will be the least of my problems.
Not yet. :-)