This is not true. Linux isnt reall any faster then solaris on same platform, Ok, maybe minutely. You cant put a Sun next to a PC and say "This operating system is faster". The machine is faster. Not to mention pcs were designed to crunch math. Suns were designed to be long haul database servers. Linux is ok but I wont hold a candle to my suns stability.
My neighboor is a healthcare lawyer and informed me that if you keep your medical records on your machine and someone hacks it, its a minimum of 5 years in jail for violating privacy laws. So let them play there little hacks and then nail them for tampering with a system with medical records. The judge will support the privacy laws first. The doctors have bought more poloticians then hollywood/riaa.
It should be mentioned that off grid living is not something someone just jumps into casually. Getting your own solar plant up and running can be a bear, Theres daily managment of batterys and such. Alot of work goes into staying alive off grid.
At present its not a big money saver. On the contrary it costs oodles more to build. With the average 3 bedroom house in nowheres ville being about 80K earthships, one form of grid house are often 350-400K in the same area. Yes I know its not the bay area of california prices but people in the bay area dont live off grid.
As to computers there are 12 volt power supplys available. If you get rid of the inversion process (most motherboards are 12v already) you can save alot of power. Ive actually been looking at building systems and selling them that are all 12v. The other application is boats and RVs which are both fairly offgrid. I leave in about a week to spend a year in a RV so power has been a concern.
Click through rates are gone. No ones clicking anything anymore. No ones buying advertising because of it. The web is saturated. Theres too much advertising. I use squid to remove all ads from my browsing experiance.
The ad filter i use argues that ads are nessecary for the Internet to exist but Id like to point out, the Internet was a great place where you could get stuff done quickly, rapidly find information(intellegent info even) and communicate without someone trying to sell you crap long before the web existed. So i block all ads.
I suppose if i had the free time id send pictures of peoples websites to there owners and the advertising companies with there filtered pages just to show them that I dont see them.
Yes I enjoy slashdot. If there was no ad revenues and it folded tommmorow and I couldnt get here, Id go somewhere else. Theres always somewhere else. The Internet wasnt about profit initially. Its the morons that came here that ruined it.
For the record RTFM is polite answer to question. If you want to argue about that one get off the net. We were here first. I will continue to block all ads.
Ok, So this idiot lawyer hacked into someone elses system and stole there user list. That is criminal. Any unauthorized access to someone elses computer for any reason is prosecutable. If I find a law firm has scanned any of my machines I will be reporting them to both the fbi and filing a cival suit in small claims courts. Ive taken to using this method with my insurance company and it really works. It only costs a little bit of money to file a civil suit. You dont need a lawyer but unless they want to send there president they do. And they have to send them. I dont care if I win. Im just sueing to cost them the price of there lawyer and there lawyers traffic. My insurance company now pays my claims quickly and without a word. All it took was 3 suits which they settled out of court and I dont have a hiccup anymore even though they denied every claim. If this or any other jerkoff scans my network I will file harrassment lawsuits. Thats me harassing him by costing him legal fees, and I will send contact his ISP as well. See. While piracy is illegal hacking is just as illegal and much easier to have the have the fbi prosecute. So if you see this twit or any other legal twit scanning your network call the Feds and Call his ISP. He wants a war, we can give him more of a war then he is ready to deal with. Not that I advocate piracy. Im just sick of these greedy lawyers forcing there impartial laws down peoples throats and trying to inspire fear.
On the flip side, First lawyer who comes after me is gonna end up with a set of broken knee caps. I own a baseball bat and Im fed up enough to use it.
Well if you look at the dates, 92-94, security was very different. Back then security meant remembering to lock the server room door. Fleets of VMS systems were shipped out with a compiled in backdoor of User: Field Password : Engineer.
Straight into administrator mode. Theres no proof it wasnt some individual in the company who slipped it in without knowing. Obviscated code can cover this kinda thing up pretty easy. Will slide right by QA.
Now the real question. Who the hell uses Interbase?
Sorry, what the US patent office does is hamper progress. Medical companys are the worst. Take HIV. In order to develop a cure they must try a large number of drugs combinations. Which they do. If they find one that looks promising they patent it. Well, If there off by a little and cant make it work others are worried about trying similiar drugs becaues of the patent. Futhur they dont share information about the failures with the community either making it so other companys have to attempt the same combinations. Basicly profit before human life. Annoying as hell. Personally I dont think any concept at all should be patentable. Finished product yes but concepts no.
The eye patent? They didnt make the gene. They should be entitled to the patent. They didnt invent it. There are lots of theorys about where we came from but none of those gods have filed a patent and if they did im sure they wouldnt want to deal with the US patent office.
Basicly usenet has been protected because the carriers are common carriers. They cant be held responsible for the content. Now this changes that. That means ISP's can be sued for any content in any newsgroup wether or not it originated on there server. Guess the RIAA and that whiner lars from Metalica are gonna have to sue all the ISP's now.
Its a raven software release. The only other one ive played of theres which was solider of fortune was the best I've ever seen in the FPS arena. This is a second but not as advanced as SOF. I Put this one up against halflife and and all the others for a second. SOF is the one i'd buy however if i had to choose. Lots of neat things Elite force didnt have like ducking around corners, 18 different areas on the body you could hit with different responses like shooting the gun out of someones hand. Both had excellent storys in single player as well as were fun in mp. Now if i could just quit Everquest.
Actually Ive seen coke at some previous companies but it was rare. Weed on the other hand I have seen everywhere, tech industry and not. Never seen anyone shooting heroin and I've worked 14 years, all of it with tech startups. Alcohol too. If theres one drug techies abuse its caffine. Tends to be more to the programmers side of the house that weed consumption happens. I worked for one company where they took the whole development team to amsterdam for a week. You go to amsterdam for the weed and the window shopping, although you can buy just about anything on each street corner.
I personally think the article is offbase. If it said techies were smoking pot id believe it but I just dont see the heroin, X, and coke being a major player in the techie field.
On the other hand my current company, a startup which shall remain unnamed, has a policy which states. "The use of illicit drugs or manufacture of said drugs on company premisis will result in disciplinary messures." Thats because of the majority of my company like to toke up a joint on the weekend. To date i dont think anyones gotten nailed for manufacturing in the office:).
This is news? Geezus, this is old news. Hmm, lets point out the obvious. We have been mismanaged and bored for ages. Dont tell us were mismanaged, Explain to people how to fix it.
it is a violation of federal and state law to advertise, utilize, offer for sale, and/or engage in services utilizing the idealab! web site and logo designs without the express written permission of idealab!
Actually what that states is you cant go to there website without express written permission. I wasnt even planning on it but im sorry, If i accidently hit there website I may owe them billions in legal fees. I think not.
Next they will say its illegal to download there content:).
Actually, and this may be flame bait, I think its probably a good shift. I think more of us need to shift. For years we have had the knowledge and the illusion of control. We havent been. Now as more of us shift into managment we gain more control. As we move into upper managment we gain even more control. It also us to shift power away from the neophytes. The trick is to maintain your technical skills. Im tired of hearing "I gave up my tool belt 10 years ago". I consider myself enough of a manager because I can sit down with my techs and know what the hell there talking about. If I dont understand I ask, thats the key to good managment practice.
On a furthur note, its a good idea to refuse a few meetings here and there. Companys get sucked into the "Lets make a new mission statement" style of meetings. Ive seen the cycle break and work get done when a few of us have said "Nah, dont really think that meeting is important, I have work to do."
Remember you are Technical and Manager now, which means you can still get a job anytime you want. Make changes and dont do the things your previous bosses did you thought was really stupid. The experiance and the power is important but dont let it eat your skills away completely.
One last thing - wasnt that piece about California about the working population? Wasnt it that the percent of white men in the workforce dropped below 50%?
While i am your basic WASP, ok maybe not protestant, I dont think this survey would matter much. Id like to see the survey where they say percenatage of US citizens in the workforce. Not percentage of White folks, yeehaw. Makes us sound like a bunch of illiterate rednecks. For hundreds of years the african americans and chinese were brought in, first as slaves, then as menial labor. They have every right to a job we do. The American indians were here first, same applies to them. Its not about "Hey, whiteys got have more jobs". Its about the US citizens having jobs. Many, and I hate the word "Underprivileged" people who probably be significantly better off if it werent for the foriegn incursion of H1's.
I can understand a english accent and austrilian accent just fine. For years ive dealt with people from around the world and its just part of the doing it. Actually think english women sound better (read sexier) then American women. And while most Americans speak one language, maybe two at most from high school spanish, I will point out this. America is an english speaking language. I would no more expect to go live in the neatherlands and not know dutch. Sure everyone there speaks english but they prefer dutch and its a dutch speaking country. If I went there to live I would expect myself to have a working grasp of the language in 6 months or have to leave. Its just rude not to. The same applies for those that come to american and dont speak our language. Its rude. It might be apprioriate in certain jobs like a new york cab driver but in an office enviroment english communication is required.
This is not to say there arent nuances between the languages. The Brits and Aussies have alot of slang we dont and guess what, We've got more. I heard some kid saying something was tight which I took to mean good. Now an english or aussie who had not been here for a while would have probably had to stop and ask what that meant. Doesnt mean that they cant communicate, it means that cultural nuances and slang enter in the language.
If your a visitor in a foreign country its polite to say "My x language is not real strong, could you speak a little slower." When I was in the neatherlands for 2 weeks I was asked that a few times and took no offense. When they came here they asked the same thing and no one was offended. Communication means adjusting to the others needs as much as possible. Its about getting a point across and If you come to the US and only speak arabic or cantonese you are incapable of communicating beyond simple concepts such as pointing and drawing. Babblefish is a great tool for the net but until they give me a real babblefish face to face in different languages doesnt work.
The problem with the whole H1 Visa program is it brings more people to the USA. If other countrys were recriprocol with it equally then it would be great. For example I have no problem with England. There workers come here, we go there. But then you look at.nl and.au. Both contries make it almost impossible for an American to work there prefering to keep jobs for local citizens. I have to agree that local citizens should have the first pick of jobs, If someone wants to take a H1 visa and come over so be it but they should take the jobs no one else wants, Mcdonalds is always hiring.
As an employer I wont hire anyone whos not a US citizen. I dont want to mess with the H1 visa crap. I dont want to pay for it. I believe we have enough talented people in the US and that offices are already overcrowded without adding 20 more H1 visa foreigners. The tech pool may not be big enough but guess what.... That leaves the corperates with one choice, Pay better and make better working conditions or have empty reqs for people.
Having recently worked for a company where h1 visas abounded I watched the company fall apart. Salarys lowered, working conditons became restriced so the person had a 2 1/2 foot deep desk that was 4 feet wide. 17 inch monitors went from the back of the desk to the front. It was disgusting. Yet everytime i turned around they were hiring a new H1 visa. The company degerated to the point that when I left after 6 months I was considered a long timer with the average employee staying 3 months.
Now look at that from the standpoint of the employer, They could fill tech shoes all day with no cares so why change the working conditions because of the H1 visa program. When someone quit they just hired one or two more people to fill there shoes. If they were forced to hire american workers they would have to clean up the workspace, provide people reasonable workspaces and generally pay better. Being a technical manager means I normally get stock options, lots of them however said company was no longer giving them and told me there reason was because they hired so many H1 visas who were just happy to get the job. The problem is these H1's were using there 3 months there to go elsewhere cause the conditons were so bad.
If we throw out all the H1's I wouldnt care, Just means money for those of us who live here permanantly. The us is overcrowded already, we dont need anymore people moving in. We melted enough. Someone wants to come over for 6 weeks or even a year thats fine with me provided that we send someone to there country under the same stipulations at the same time. Balance it out, Dont influx our workforce, it just leads to worse conditions for us.
Presently I work for a company who doesnt hire H1's, Who had a defined policy of 1 person per 10X10 cube and provides all of our needs including food and beer. They want to keep the most talented and technical people, not bring in a few H1 visas for there year or six stint. Im happy to work in this enviroment knowing that tommorow im not going to have 20 indian oracle programers who dont speak english sitting in my cube with me.
the only place you have to acknoledge the eula is in the software correct? I do not agree, then use the hardware. Your not obligated if you didnt agree to the eula.
74% said big companies have too much political influence, more than 80% agreed that entertainment and popular culture are dominated by corporate money which seeks mass appeal over quality, and More than 95% of the survey's participants said they agreed with this statement:
This message indicates we have 26% dumb people, 20 percent who are stupid, and 5% who are mentally retarded.
Yeah, I guess this was bound to happen sooner or later. I was also thinking it would have been funny to distribute DeCSS in an ILOVEYOU sort of virus; then MPAA would have to sue everyone.
Guess that beats my office paper clip wizard virus for vi idea.
This is B.S., and very common B.S. at that. Here's how it works:
In order to play a commercial DVD, you must have a bunch of decryption keys. One of them is the "player key", which is built into the DVD player. Another key is on the disc itself. DVD hardware will not read that key from the disc for you. It will only apply it to the DVD, and return the partially decrypted data. It is impossible to get that key off of the disc without modifying the hardware. Therefore, it is not possible to make a sector-by-sector copy of a DVD on commercially available hardware.
Actually there is commercial hardware to do it, its not standard hardware you would by for your pc but if have truely blank disks, not with the 0'd encryption blocks or a press you can do it. Its all about sector by sector copy. If you copy everything on the disk and its identical it will play. Thats how the chinese dvd chop shops work. The only way to stop it would to make me enter a software key and connect to a centralized database to make sure I was the authorized user. (hack divx). This instantly kills are rentals however but the MPAA has tried to kill video rental stores for years and failed. They want to sell the disks and admitedly I buy a few here and there and will probably for a long time. Not saying that I dont want to go break the legs of the MPAA lawyers which I think would be a good lesson for them as well as splendid fun but thats another discussion.
The point is there are lots of ways to make copys on commercial hardware but very little on residential hardware. As for DEcss, Yeah, it does allow you to copy, its a side effect but holding the code responsible is like holding gun manafacturers responsble for shootings.
I was curious about what it actually took to copy a dvd using decss so I tried it with my own disk with no intent to distrubuted. Other then a boatload of disk space it took a huge sequence of programs and nearly 10 hours on a Dual 733. This was not a let it run for 10 hours activity so you could start it and go to bed. It required interaction, alot of it. Now you take into account that my company charges 240/hr for my time. Take that times 10 hours and you have 2400USD. The dvd's cost me 15-20 bucks. I think ill happily buy them. While it is possible to use the DECss code to copy a disk it is terribly impracticle. That should be the point that is emphasized in court. Show that to the judge, Use it as evidence. Grab a p200 and make the judge sit there for 48 hours while you copy one. Demand a full trial and make the jury sit there. Yes it allows it but if they see that its completely impractile they'll drop the whole thing as a nusance.
Isnt linking to the code against the law now? Slashdot criminals... All of them, Specially that CmdrTaco Fellow.
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Yes we do sit by most of the time, I vote, I write my congressmen and regularly get letters back saying he doesnt agree with my position. To date hes never agreed. Doesnt work in my book. The lawyers have always ruled and before that the clergy. Remember the spanish inquistion? Lets not forget about that. But at that point they were just another form of lawyer. But what stopped it? The people did. How? They sat by and watched and every day there anger built and sure they talked to each other quitely but the anger builds. It builds, and it builds, and it has no outlet until one day.... SNAP.... The inquisitors are burnt at the stake, there power completely overthrown by the angered masses. History repeats itself as the article points out. This happens every 100 years or so throughout anglo history and im sure in many other parts of the world. The people are forced to respond but only when there at there angriest which leads to violence. It topples goverments, no corperation can stand against it anger. Whatever the anger is directed at is destroyed and reshaped. The world ends up a better place eventually after the turmoil. Russian republics are slowly on the upturn after it happened there. It will happen here and for the benifit of the EU contingents it will eventually happen there too. It is a historical fact that the people only take so much, and then are forced to respond and the standard response is violence. Remember violence? Were all immune to it according to the mass media from watching it on tv and playing it video games. Uhoh. Thats bad right? Imagine our teaming masses commiting the violence with out any moral checkpoints on whats going to far? Oh wait, didnt I just rant about the inquistors being burned at the stake? Perhaps were no more or less immune to violence as they were.
So let the anger build, remember you guidence counsler? Dont internal your anger or you will snap. Internalize it. Let it build until you cant take it anymore. Then someday, in what i predict to be the not to distant future, snap with the rest of us and we can tie those lawyers to stakes and using recipes we downloaded from the Great Evil Internet burn them at the stake with illegal incendary devices we made using bathroom soap and yak's milk.
Sorry to rant but i'm angry too, I dont believe in freedom as some suggest here. Well, I believe in but I know we dont have it and that freedom has a cost but Im happy to stand and die next to others when we do finally snap. Im tired of pacifism. We have become on the lethargic and we need to do something about it but the politicians and the lawyers wont let us if we follow there system. The time for change is coming.....
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What we need to do is build a second Internet. Then make it against the usage agreements for poloticians or lawyers to use/monitor/legistlate.
Then just make sure we cut them off the second we find them and peg them for violating the usage agreement.
Thats alot of porn!
This is not true. Linux isnt reall any faster then solaris on same platform, Ok, maybe minutely. You cant put a Sun next to a PC and say "This operating system is faster". The machine is faster. Not to mention pcs were designed to crunch math. Suns were designed to be long haul database servers. Linux is ok but I wont hold a candle to my suns stability.
My neighboor is a healthcare lawyer and informed me that if you keep your medical records on your machine and someone hacks it, its a minimum of 5 years in jail for violating privacy laws. So let them play there little hacks and then nail them for tampering with a system with medical records. The judge will support the privacy laws first. The doctors have bought more poloticians then hollywood/riaa.
It should be mentioned that off grid living is not something someone just jumps into casually. Getting your own solar plant up and running can be a bear, Theres daily managment of batterys and such. Alot of work goes into staying alive off grid.
At present its not a big money saver. On the contrary it costs oodles more to build. With the average 3 bedroom house in nowheres ville being about 80K earthships, one form of grid house are often 350-400K in the same area. Yes I know its not the bay area of california prices but people in the bay area dont live off grid.
As to computers there are 12 volt power supplys available. If you get rid of the inversion process (most motherboards are 12v already) you can save alot of power. Ive actually been looking at building systems and selling them that are all 12v. The other application is boats and RVs which are both fairly offgrid. I leave in about a week to spend a year in a RV so power has been a concern.
Click through rates are gone. No ones clicking anything anymore. No ones buying advertising because of it. The web is saturated. Theres too much advertising. I use squid to remove all ads from my browsing experiance.
The ad filter i use argues that ads are nessecary for the Internet to exist but Id like to point out, the Internet was a great place where you could get stuff done quickly, rapidly find information(intellegent info even) and communicate without someone trying to sell you crap long before the web existed. So i block all ads.
I suppose if i had the free time id send pictures of peoples websites to there owners and the advertising companies with there filtered pages just to show them that I dont see them.
Yes I enjoy slashdot. If there was no ad revenues and it folded tommmorow and I couldnt get here, Id go somewhere else. Theres always somewhere else. The Internet wasnt about profit initially. Its the morons that came here that ruined it.
For the record RTFM is polite answer to question. If you want to argue about that one get off the net. We were here first. I will continue to block all ads.
Ok, So this idiot lawyer hacked into someone elses system and stole there user list. That is criminal. Any unauthorized access to someone elses computer for any reason is prosecutable. If I find a law firm has scanned any of my machines I will be reporting them to both the fbi and filing a cival suit in small claims courts. Ive taken to using this method with my insurance company and it really works. It only costs a little bit of money to file a civil suit. You dont need a lawyer but unless they want to send there president they do. And they have to send them. I dont care if I win. Im just sueing to cost them the price of there lawyer and there lawyers traffic. My insurance company now pays my claims quickly and without a word. All it took was 3 suits which they settled out of court and I dont have a hiccup anymore even though they denied every claim. If this or any other jerkoff scans my network I will file harrassment lawsuits. Thats me harassing him by costing him legal fees, and I will send contact his ISP as well. See. While piracy is illegal hacking is just as illegal and much easier to have the have the fbi prosecute. So if you see this twit or any other legal twit scanning your network call the Feds and Call his ISP. He wants a war, we can give him more of a war then he is ready to deal with. Not that I advocate piracy. Im just sick of these greedy lawyers forcing there impartial laws down peoples throats and trying to inspire fear. On the flip side, First lawyer who comes after me is gonna end up with a set of broken knee caps. I own a baseball bat and Im fed up enough to use it.
Now the real question. Who the hell uses Interbase?
The eye patent? They didnt make the gene. They should be entitled to the patent. They didnt invent it. There are lots of theorys about where we came from but none of those gods have filed a patent and if they did im sure they wouldnt want to deal with the US patent office.
Basicly usenet has been protected because the carriers are common carriers. They cant be held responsible for the content. Now this changes that. That means ISP's can be sued for any content in any newsgroup wether or not it originated on there server. Guess the RIAA and that whiner lars from Metalica are gonna have to sue all the ISP's now.
Its a raven software release. The only other one ive played of theres which was solider of fortune was the best I've ever seen in the FPS arena. This is a second but not as advanced as SOF. I Put this one up against halflife and and all the others for a second. SOF is the one i'd buy however if i had to choose. Lots of neat things Elite force didnt have like ducking around corners, 18 different areas on the body you could hit with different responses like shooting the gun out of someones hand. Both had excellent storys in single player as well as were fun in mp. Now if i could just quit Everquest.
I personally think the article is offbase. If it said techies were smoking pot id believe it but I just dont see the heroin, X, and coke being a major player in the techie field.
On the other hand my current company, a startup which shall remain unnamed, has a policy which states. "The use of illicit drugs or manufacture of said drugs on company premisis will result in disciplinary messures." Thats because of the majority of my company like to toke up a joint on the weekend. To date i dont think anyones gotten nailed for manufacturing in the office :).
Cut here, Insert tab A into slot B. This is not new, I remember them from when i was a kid 30 years ago.
This is news? Geezus, this is old news. Hmm, lets point out the obvious. We have been mismanaged and bored for ages. Dont tell us were mismanaged, Explain to people how to fix it.
Next they will say its illegal to download there content :).
On a furthur note, its a good idea to refuse a few meetings here and there. Companys get sucked into the "Lets make a new mission statement" style of meetings. Ive seen the cycle break and work get done when a few of us have said "Nah, dont really think that meeting is important, I have work to do."
Remember you are Technical and Manager now, which means you can still get a job anytime you want. Make changes and dont do the things your previous bosses did you thought was really stupid. The experiance and the power is important but dont let it eat your skills away completely.
One last thing - wasnt that piece about California about the working population? Wasnt it that the percent of white men in the workforce dropped below 50%? While i am your basic WASP, ok maybe not protestant, I dont think this survey would matter much. Id like to see the survey where they say percenatage of US citizens in the workforce. Not percentage of White folks, yeehaw. Makes us sound like a bunch of illiterate rednecks. For hundreds of years the african americans and chinese were brought in, first as slaves, then as menial labor. They have every right to a job we do. The American indians were here first, same applies to them. Its not about "Hey, whiteys got have more jobs". Its about the US citizens having jobs. Many, and I hate the word "Underprivileged" people who probably be significantly better off if it werent for the foriegn incursion of H1's.
This is not to say there arent nuances between the languages. The Brits and Aussies have alot of slang we dont and guess what, We've got more. I heard some kid saying something was tight which I took to mean good. Now an english or aussie who had not been here for a while would have probably had to stop and ask what that meant. Doesnt mean that they cant communicate, it means that cultural nuances and slang enter in the language.
If your a visitor in a foreign country its polite to say "My x language is not real strong, could you speak a little slower." When I was in the neatherlands for 2 weeks I was asked that a few times and took no offense. When they came here they asked the same thing and no one was offended. Communication means adjusting to the others needs as much as possible. Its about getting a point across and If you come to the US and only speak arabic or cantonese you are incapable of communicating beyond simple concepts such as pointing and drawing. Babblefish is a great tool for the net but until they give me a real babblefish face to face in different languages doesnt work.
As an employer I wont hire anyone whos not a US citizen. I dont want to mess with the H1 visa crap. I dont want to pay for it. I believe we have enough talented people in the US and that offices are already overcrowded without adding 20 more H1 visa foreigners. The tech pool may not be big enough but guess what.... That leaves the corperates with one choice, Pay better and make better working conditions or have empty reqs for people.
Having recently worked for a company where h1 visas abounded I watched the company fall apart. Salarys lowered, working conditons became restriced so the person had a 2 1/2 foot deep desk that was 4 feet wide. 17 inch monitors went from the back of the desk to the front. It was disgusting. Yet everytime i turned around they were hiring a new H1 visa. The company degerated to the point that when I left after 6 months I was considered a long timer with the average employee staying 3 months.
Now look at that from the standpoint of the employer, They could fill tech shoes all day with no cares so why change the working conditions because of the H1 visa program. When someone quit they just hired one or two more people to fill there shoes. If they were forced to hire american workers they would have to clean up the workspace, provide people reasonable workspaces and generally pay better. Being a technical manager means I normally get stock options, lots of them however said company was no longer giving them and told me there reason was because they hired so many H1 visas who were just happy to get the job. The problem is these H1's were using there 3 months there to go elsewhere cause the conditons were so bad.
If we throw out all the H1's I wouldnt care, Just means money for those of us who live here permanantly. The us is overcrowded already, we dont need anymore people moving in. We melted enough. Someone wants to come over for 6 weeks or even a year thats fine with me provided that we send someone to there country under the same stipulations at the same time. Balance it out, Dont influx our workforce, it just leads to worse conditions for us.
Presently I work for a company who doesnt hire H1's, Who had a defined policy of 1 person per 10X10 cube and provides all of our needs including food and beer. They want to keep the most talented and technical people, not bring in a few H1 visas for there year or six stint. Im happy to work in this enviroment knowing that tommorow im not going to have 20 indian oracle programers who dont speak english sitting in my cube with me.
the only place you have to acknoledge the eula is in the software correct? I do not agree, then use the hardware. Your not obligated if you didnt agree to the eula.
This message indicates we have 26% dumb people, 20 percent who are stupid, and 5% who are mentally retarded.
Guess that beats my office paper clip wizard virus for vi idea.
This is B.S., and very common B.S. at that. Here's how it works:
In order to play a commercial DVD, you must have a bunch of decryption keys. One of them is the "player key", which is built into the DVD player. Another key is on the disc itself. DVD hardware will not read that key from the disc for you. It will only apply it to the DVD, and return the partially decrypted data. It is impossible to get that key off of the disc without modifying the hardware. Therefore, it is not possible to make a sector-by-sector copy of a DVD on commercially available hardware. Actually there is commercial hardware to do it, its not standard hardware you would by for your pc but if have truely blank disks, not with the 0'd encryption blocks or a press you can do it. Its all about sector by sector copy. If you copy everything on the disk and its identical it will play. Thats how the chinese dvd chop shops work. The only way to stop it would to make me enter a software key and connect to a centralized database to make sure I was the authorized user. (hack divx). This instantly kills are rentals however but the MPAA has tried to kill video rental stores for years and failed. They want to sell the disks and admitedly I buy a few here and there and will probably for a long time. Not saying that I dont want to go break the legs of the MPAA lawyers which I think would be a good lesson for them as well as splendid fun but thats another discussion.
The point is there are lots of ways to make copys on commercial hardware but very little on residential hardware. As for DEcss, Yeah, it does allow you to copy, its a side effect but holding the code responsible is like holding gun manafacturers responsble for shootings.
I was curious about what it actually took to copy a dvd using decss so I tried it with my own disk with no intent to distrubuted. Other then a boatload of disk space it took a huge sequence of programs and nearly 10 hours on a Dual 733. This was not a let it run for 10 hours activity so you could start it and go to bed. It required interaction, alot of it. Now you take into account that my company charges 240/hr for my time. Take that times 10 hours and you have 2400USD. The dvd's cost me 15-20 bucks. I think ill happily buy them. While it is possible to use the DECss code to copy a disk it is terribly impracticle. That should be the point that is emphasized in court. Show that to the judge, Use it as evidence. Grab a p200 and make the judge sit there for 48 hours while you copy one. Demand a full trial and make the jury sit there. Yes it allows it but if they see that its completely impractile they'll drop the whole thing as a nusance.
Isnt linking to the code against the law now? Slashdot criminals... All of them, Specially that CmdrTaco Fellow.
So let the anger build, remember you guidence counsler? Dont internal your anger or you will snap. Internalize it. Let it build until you cant take it anymore. Then someday, in what i predict to be the not to distant future, snap with the rest of us and we can tie those lawyers to stakes and using recipes we downloaded from the Great Evil Internet burn them at the stake with illegal incendary devices we made using bathroom soap and yak's milk.
Sorry to rant but i'm angry too, I dont believe in freedom as some suggest here. Well, I believe in but I know we dont have it and that freedom has a cost but Im happy to stand and die next to others when we do finally snap. Im tired of pacifism. We have become on the lethargic and we need to do something about it but the politicians and the lawyers wont let us if we follow there system. The time for change is coming.....