Teens do not all have the ability to understand their actions.
The latest scientific and medical data leads us to postulate that the brain essentially "rewires itself" during puberty.
The reason your kid acts like a he doesn't know what he is doing is because he may not.
Having 12 and 14yr old boys I tend to believe this. Their behavior over the last few years has changed so radically that they are almost completely different kids.
If I use KaZaa to access indie artists who are sharing their songs - as is their right - AND I also rip my entire 1000+ CD/LP/8track collection to the same computer AND I intellegently store all the files in the same heirarchy.
Have any laws been broken?
KaZaa is configured to share everything in my heirarchy so that the indie songs can continue to be shared.
Have any laws been broken?
I go in for Jury Duty, meanwhile Another Kazaa user downloads the indie shared files.
Have any laws been broken?
Another Kazaa user downloads the rips from my personal collection because their 8track player is on the fritz.
Have any laws been broken?
Another Kazaa user downloads the rips from my personal collection because their LPs were destroyed in a flood.
Have any laws been broken?
Another Kazaa user downloads the rips from my collection because they want to see what the latest Madonna single sounds like before going out and buying the CD.
Have any laws been broken?
If any laws were broken here - who broke them?
Just because I leave the front door open does not mean that anyone can enter and take what they want from my house. Same as my computer. The action of downloading is at question not making the article available.
The Company President is leaving after a particularly grim period. On the eve of his departure, he speaks with his successor telling him that if he has any problems there are three envelopes in the desk that were presented to him when he took the reigns of the company and that he should open one of them if he really needs help.
A year goes by and the company is having serious problems that our hero cannot resolve. He opens the First envelope and reads: "Blame your predecessor."
He does this and is able to circle the wagons and work with existing management to resolve the problems.
2 more years pass and again the company is in dire straits. He opens the Second Envelope and reads: "Accept the blame for yourself."
He does this and is yet again able to circle up the wagons and working closely with management and employees is able to resolve the impending crises and bring the company back from the brink.
A few more years pass and we find our hero sitting at his desk gazing at a sealed envelope. The company is failing. people are leaving in droves. He has done all he can. With his last glimmer of hope he opens the third envelope and begins to read:
The moral: Those who can, do. Those who think they can, don't, but cannot accept that, so they work for those who do and continually tell them why they're doing it wrong.
The real moral:
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, go into management.
Those who can't manage become directors.
Those who can't direct become CEOs.
It all comes down to the peter principle. We work to the level of our incompetence when in fact we should work one level below.
Exactly my position. If NIKE and MarthaStewart can get lambasted for employing oversees sweatshops, Why can't the Tech companies be blasted for the same thing?
equal work for equal pay.
Sure, hire people in india. pay them proportionally the same as you would have paid their US counterparts. Give their US counterparts the opportunity to move to India and retain the job.
I could sell of viper-boys car, take the difference with me to india, buy up an old raja's palace AND get the same job I used to have back in the states.
Plus I get all the fresh marsala and curry I can eat!!!
If an Induhvidual needs to run MicroShaft2004 software then they should have the licenses and media. If they do not, and you install your keys etc. YOU will be held liable.
However, If you politely explain that you cannot install anything that they cannot provide adequate proof of license you will either a) have less work to do OR b) have a new customer who respects the law.
As long as you are upfront that you need proof of license and/or original media then go to it.
For the same reason that a gun is not sent to jail after a homocide, the tools (software and networks) cannot be held liable for the actions of the people that use them.
Now, let me have my new anonymous data transfer protocol already!!!
Ogg Vorbis Support
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· Score: 1, Interesting
If they can comeout with a timeline for ogg support and the price is competitive I will buy one.
from symentac 'Keylogs all keystrokes to an encrypted file %windir%\iservc.klg.'
It stores encrypted data on your PC. You cannot use any method to decrypt this data to determine what keystrokes were collected and potentially transmitted.
Expensive arrays from compaq and Sun have batteries that "expire" after two years. Wether or not they should. The batteries are cache batteries and once they hit the date they send alarms constantly. Do they really need changing? do you want to take a chance? As always, YMMV.
Headlines on Moonie newspapers will call the moon to arms as they fight the invaders from earth!! Or, worse, we will crack the moon into two halves and send parts crashing down onto us!!!
..."What microsoft is really doing is saying, 'Hey, just recognize you are truly at our mercy.' "
If you didn't already know that, you just haven't been paying attention.
How many more reasons do companies need to dump Microsoft and go with unix/linux?
I am manager of a unix admin team. Recent changes in the company have sent all of us looking for new employment. We are looking to form our own consultancy. We are distributed along a 100 mile stretch so will share the burden of on call etc.
Anyone else out there forming companies of their own? Any tips or book pointers for those of us starting out?
1) identify need for tool -- reliable hardware/os/software
2) create tool - utilize feedback from 'Net -- sun gear, solaris, sunONE, linux, sendmail...
3) distribute tool - the more users the better -- hardware costs quite a bit however, 20$ for distribution is OK by me. free sendmail download works for me. same for linux
4) provide OPTIONAL contracted services - support, customization, extension, integration -- businesses need a way to guarantee their problems will be fixed and their special needs met, all in a time frame that does not impact their business. Your TOOL is not their business. Much as making a mitre saw is not part of a master craftsman's business. Some shops want a company to "own" the product they use. They need to shift the liability so they can concentrate on their business. That is why sendmail.com, redhat.com, etc. work
5) profit -- business will pay premium for said services if they fulfil their need. Thus funding further R&D
Sun, sendmail.com, redhat... I know there are others out there that are giving away the "product" because their business is in the services - support, customization, extension, integration.
Look at the game console space. The money is in the software not the hardware. people are going to buy one console, and a handful of peripherals. They are then going to load up on the software.
It therefor makes more business sense for a company to give away the console (sell at cost) while building up a services group to provide the software, suport, and extensions to the original console.
First ID the need and fill it. The rest will follow.
Do not go the MS way and try to make all your cash up front OR make licensing the "tool" prohibitively expensive or illegal.
Encourage people to think of more ways to use your tool. The Internet was developed as a way to get noise data from atlantic to pacific. It was "released" to the public to help it grow faster.
Build it and if it fits a broad enough niche it will grow. As people invent new ways to use your "tool" the tool will begin to self evolve.
The more you give, the more the users will give back.
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Teens do not all have the ability to understand their actions.
The latest scientific and medical data leads us to postulate that the brain essentially "rewires itself" during puberty.
The reason your kid acts like a he doesn't know what he is doing is because he may not.
Having 12 and 14yr old boys I tend to believe this. Their behavior over the last few years has changed so radically that they are almost completely different kids.
However with KaZaa, the user is supposed to follow the rules and not download anything for which they do not have license to access.
Just because you CAN do it does not make it right.
That would mean that musicmatch should have won their case.
They let peopel "upload" CDs to their service and access them from anywhere. The physical posession of a CD was the proof of license.
If a CD was already uploaded the new user would not have to upload it, just insert it for initial verification.
Since there were controls inplace to prevent copyright infringement, there is therefore an explicit lack of intent.
However, I believe they were shut down just the same.
If I use KaZaa to access indie artists who are
sharing their songs - as is their right - AND I
also rip my entire 1000+ CD/LP/8track collection
to the same computer AND I intellegently store
all the files in the same heirarchy.
Have any laws been broken?
KaZaa is configured to share everything in my
heirarchy so that the indie songs can continue to
be shared.
Have any laws been broken?
I go in for Jury Duty, meanwhile Another Kazaa
user downloads the indie shared files.
Have any laws been broken?
Another Kazaa user downloads the rips from my
personal collection because their 8track player
is on the fritz.
Have any laws been broken?
Another Kazaa user downloads the rips from my
personal collection because their LPs were
destroyed in a flood.
Have any laws been broken?
Another Kazaa user downloads the rips from my
collection because they want to see what the
latest Madonna single sounds like before going
out and buying the CD.
Have any laws been broken?
If any laws were broken here - who broke them?
Just because I leave the front door open does not
mean that anyone can enter and take what they
want from my house. Same as my computer.
The action of downloading is at question not
making the article available.
YMMV. Consult a lawyer.
Actually the joke is Three letters.
The Company President is leaving after a particularly grim period. On the eve of his departure, he speaks with his successor telling him that if he has any problems there are three envelopes in the desk that were presented to him when he took the reigns of the company and that he should open one of them if he really needs help.
A year goes by and the company is having serious problems that our hero cannot resolve.
He opens the First envelope and reads:
"Blame your predecessor."
He does this and is able to circle the wagons and work with existing management to resolve the problems.
2 more years pass and again the company is in dire straits. He opens the Second Envelope and reads:
"Accept the blame for yourself."
He does this and is yet again able to circle up the wagons and working closely with management and employees is able to resolve the impending crises and bring the company back from the brink.
A few more years pass and we find our hero sitting at his desk gazing at a sealed envelope. The company is failing. people are leaving in droves. He has done all he can. With his last glimmer of hope he opens the third envelope and begins to read:
"First, prepare three envelopes..."
Have they taken foot casts to see if maybe they translate to the yeti casts seen previously?
maybe this is not so far fetched after all..
The real moral:
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, go into management.
Those who can't manage become directors.
Those who can't direct become CEOs.
It all comes down to the peter principle. We work to the level of our incompetence when in fact we should work one level below.
Exactly my position. If NIKE and MarthaStewart can get lambasted for employing oversees sweatshops, Why can't the Tech companies be blasted for the same thing?
equal work for equal pay.
Sure, hire people in india. pay them proportionally the same as you would have paid their US counterparts. Give their US counterparts the opportunity to move to India and retain the job.
I could sell of viper-boys car, take the difference with me to india, buy up an old raja's palace AND get the same job I used to have back in the states.
Plus I get all the fresh marsala and curry I can eat!!!
where do I sign up?
If the usual guy makes X and is unavailable, the replacement guy (you) should be making 1.5 times that.
Pick and choose your clients.
Be sure that you have a clear defined work order BEFORE TOUCHING ANYTHING
Stipulate in that order that if new problems crop up, they are out of scope, and you will require defined add-ons at an add-on rate.
If the people suck, add a PITA(PainInTheAss) charge.
Exactly!
It is amazing what the truth will do.
If an Induhvidual needs to run MicroShaft2004 software then they should have the licenses and media. If they do not, and you install your keys etc. YOU will be held liable.
However, If you politely explain that you cannot install anything that they cannot provide adequate proof of license you will either a) have less work to do OR b) have a new customer who respects the law.
As long as you are upfront that you need proof of license and/or original media then go to it.
For the same reason that a gun is not sent to jail after a homocide, the tools (software and networks) cannot be held liable for the actions of the people that use them.
Now, let me have my new anonymous data transfer protocol already!!!
If they can comeout with a timeline for ogg support and the price is competitive I will buy one.
from symentac 'Keylogs all keystrokes to an encrypted file %windir%\iservc.klg.'
It stores encrypted data on your PC. You cannot use any method to decrypt this data to determine what keystrokes were collected and potentially transmitted.
Gotta love stupid laws.
unless of course you have properly ordered your rules to block IPs before allowing ports.
well, if you are blocking egress to IPs that would do it.
maybe napster should go back to have their court case overturned?
Expensive arrays from compaq and Sun have batteries that "expire" after two years. Wether or not they should. The batteries are cache batteries and once they hit the date they send alarms constantly. Do they really need changing? do you want to take a chance?
As always, YMMV.
Headlines on Moonie newspapers will call the moon to arms as they fight the invaders from earth!! Or, worse, we will crack the moon into two halves and send parts crashing down onto us!!!
From the "we made them female so they would be less agressive" detparment comes the latest creation...
The Chick-inator
Grab some haggandazz and prepare for the beating of your life!!!
..."What microsoft is really doing is saying, 'Hey, just recognize you are truly at our mercy.' "
If you didn't already know that, you just haven't been paying attention.
How many more reasons do companies need to dump Microsoft and go with unix/linux?
I am manager of a unix admin team. Recent changes in the company have sent all of us looking for new employment. We are looking to form our own consultancy. We are distributed along a 100 mile stretch so will share the burden of on call etc.
Anyone else out there forming companies of their own? Any tips or book pointers for those of us starting out?
Here is the requisite link to the company making these: Estari.
I would have liked to see a lot more info on their site. Not much for documentation of other pictures.
I looked at building these in 99
problem was a small run cost too much and would only be a 486
Now that tech has cought up and folk can buy parts from all over the place I may go back to my old designs.
More power to these folks. Congrats.
in the Hingham store - for a number of years they had one window on display and it said clearly that it was from the hancock tower.
they have just recently been forced to move Rt18/Rt53 weymouth so I do not know if they still have it.
1) identify need for tool
-- reliable hardware/os/software
2) create tool - utilize feedback from 'Net
-- sun gear, solaris, sunONE, linux, sendmail...
3) distribute tool - the more users the better
-- hardware costs quite a bit however, 20$ for distribution is OK by me. free sendmail download works for me. same for linux
4) provide OPTIONAL contracted services - support, customization, extension, integration
-- businesses need a way to guarantee their problems will be fixed and their special needs met, all in a time frame that does not impact their business. Your TOOL is not their business. Much as making a mitre saw is not part of a master craftsman's business. Some shops want a company to "own" the product they use. They need to shift the liability so they can concentrate on their business. That is why sendmail.com, redhat.com, etc. work
5) profit
-- business will pay premium for said services if they fulfil their need. Thus funding further R&D
Sun, sendmail.com, redhat... I know there are others out there that are giving away the "product" because their business is in the services - support, customization, extension, integration.
Look at the game console space.
The money is in the software not the hardware.
people are going to buy one console, and a handful of peripherals. They are then going to load up on the software.
It therefor makes more business sense for a company to give away the console (sell at cost) while building up a services group to provide the software, suport, and extensions to the original console.
First ID the need and fill it. The rest will follow.
Do not go the MS way and try to make all your cash up front OR make licensing the "tool" prohibitively expensive or illegal.
Encourage people to think of more ways to use your tool. The Internet was developed as a way to get noise data from atlantic to pacific. It was "released" to the public to help it grow faster.
Build it and if it fits a broad enough niche it will grow. As people invent new ways to use your "tool" the tool will begin to self evolve.
The more you give, the more the users will give back.