Sorry Mr. Coward. "We should be enacting laws to stop it?" What a load of crap. Laws aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Whatever happened to taking care of one's own fellow human being just because it's the right thing to do? Whatever happened to doing the right thing even when it's unpopular? I had a situation earlier this year where a confidential document was released to a number of individuals in our organization. I saw the first couple of paragraphs, confirmed that it was the document I feared, and immediately notified my manager. Less than 30 minutes after it was released, they tried to recall it, but it was too late. People who KNEW that shouldn't be reading it went ahead and read it. After it was officially released later in the day, then I read it. I was commended for my ethics. Did anything happen to my fellow workers? No. Even though they all knew they shouldn't be reading it.
The person who released it admitted it straight up. Another stand-up kind of person. A person who did the right thing and admitted the screwup. He could have made excuses, but didn't.
Too many people have abdicated their responsibility to society and to their fellow human beings. Am I perfect? Hell no. Are there things that I thought were wrong and didn't do anything about? Yes, absolutely. But I continue to strive to improve those situations that are wrong and I teach my children to work toward correcting problems they see. I reflect on my behavior and try to learn from it, whether I handled it well or not.
And to the GP's post, if I see I'm getting into a situation with douchebags, I would hope I'm going to either avoid that situation or try to correct it. And that's what we ought to be doing in society, not writing more worthless laws.
Easily solution, albeit a bit security-by-obscurity . . .
Don't use BofA. Don't use Wells Fargo. Don't use US Bank. Use a local credit union - a small institution.
This works simply because then you know the message from BigBank has to be spam. If you don't have accounts at the big banks, you can safely ignore the messages.
I have yet to have someone forge an e-mail from newsletter@mypodunkareacu.org. I still take the usual precautions (looking for specific identifying information in the e-mail, evaluate embedded links or just go to my CU's regular Web page manually, etc.) because it's possible. It's just not likely.
So yes, it is security-by-obscurity. But it works for me. YMMV.
I don't know if this has any legal weight behind it (IANAL, obviously), but one could make an argument that the speech is still being made while the student is on-campus. MySpace is visible at any time, 24 hours a day. I think an argument could be made that, although entered at a time outside school hours, the speech is still being made and can be inflicted even during the time school is in session.
With other forms of speech, this is not the case.
What's wrong with this idea is that the customers are going to freak out and be all up in arms when Comcast gets sanctioned. Any monetary sanctions will be sent through to the local customers, and if the government threatens disconnection or interruption in service those same customers will be up in arms about losing their connectivity.
Sorry, but there's no teeth in this proposal either.
If you want to make changes, make changes. If you want to keep them to yourself, keep them to yourself. No one says you are required to distribute your changes, so long as you keep them to yourself. But you can't just take someone else's code, make some changes, post GeeWhizBang 1.1 on a Web site and claim it as your own.
That is not unreasonable. Why should you be allowed to take credit for something you didn't do when most of it was done by someone else or other people?
What I said was that the GPL imposes "you're free to do as we tell you" conditions while holding up PD in contrast. Which is precisely accurate. PD doesn't impose such conditions; hence PD is a feature offered as compared to any GPL'd alternative. Since it is a feature that directly improves usability and lightens the conditions under which the user can sell, modify and redistribute the source code, I find it well worth mentioning.
Bzzzzt, sorry, your explanation doesn't wash. If there was nothing else implied by your comment, then your commentary wasn't necessary at all. ". . . a completely free (PD) database engine . .." would have served nicely.
"you're free to do as we tell you" is your interpretation of how the license works. And I can concede that this statement is true, but why single out the GPL?
GPL-style "you're free to do as we tell you"
BSD-style "you're free to do as we tell you"
APL-style "you're free to do as we tell you"
MPL-style "you're free to do as we tell you"
Microsoft-style "you're free to do as we tell you"
(insert any license here)-style "you're free to do as we tell you"
Any license except for PD (which isn't a license; it's more of a state or a condition of the code) is "you're free to do as we tell you". Your singling out the GPL implies you have something against it, implying some kind of unreasonableness (hence my comment). Otherwise, your statement should have been "(PD, not any 'you're free to do as we tell you' license)".
No, actually, I'm not. If you keep the changes you make in house, for your own private use (to include an organization), you don't have to redistribute it. Once you start distributing it outside your personal realm or organization, then you need to make the source code available. The LGPL allows you to use a GPL-type program with non-GPL code.
Not joking at all. I've seen that "Recently Closed Tabs" entry in the History menu, but it's always greyed out and unusable. I just tested it by opening a new tab, selecting it to verify that it was a real tab, and closing it. The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu entry is still greyed out, although I just closed a tab. I've also had a number of other tabs open during the day, and closed them, and that "Recently Closed Tabs" thingy is always greyed out when I check it.
So how does one enable it?
(This is on a Mac Powerbook with OSX 10.4.11, if that matters. I've also seen that menu item with FF on my linux box and my wife's NT and Vista systems, and it was also greyed out there. So I'm baffled. What good is it if it can't be used?;-)
This claptrap about retraining is the biggest joke. The only people who can't learn are those who don't care to try. If your employees don't care to try to do what you tell them then they aren't very good employees and should be let go. It's not a question of intelligence, a parrot could use most office apps, but rather a question of motivation.
Amen!
When we switched from Office 2003 to 2007, I dreaded the idea of having to switch to The Ribbon. While I have now gotten somewhat used to it, it still feels like "a change for the sake of change" vs "a change to improve productivity." Several of my colleagues (network engineers) have not been thrilled with the change either.
MS screams about retraining costs if an organization changes to a different office suite, then hypocritically changes its interface (a major change at that, as opposed to just putting different items on different menus) and says "It's great! It's better! It's new and improved! You'll love it!" Bah!
Really? I can't find any clue that it's possible, much less how to do it. Is it documented somewhere, or is it an "Easter egg" that you just have to stumble across accidentally (or learn from someone else)?
Presuming you're not joking, look under History to Recently Closed Tabs.
Firefox 2.0.0.12. No special plug-ins, add-ons, etc. etc. etc.
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Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Whatever happened to taking care of one's own fellow human being just because it's the right thing to do? Whatever happened to doing the right thing even when it's unpopular? I had a situation earlier this year where a confidential document was released to a number of individuals in our organization. I saw the first couple of paragraphs, confirmed that it was the document I feared, and immediately notified my manager. Less than 30 minutes after it was released, they tried to recall it, but it was too late. People who KNEW that shouldn't be reading it went ahead and read it. After it was officially released later in the day, then I read it. I was commended for my ethics. Did anything happen to my fellow workers? No. Even though they all knew they shouldn't be reading it.
The person who released it admitted it straight up. Another stand-up kind of person. A person who did the right thing and admitted the screwup. He could have made excuses, but didn't.
Too many people have abdicated their responsibility to society and to their fellow human beings. Am I perfect? Hell no. Are there things that I thought were wrong and didn't do anything about? Yes, absolutely. But I continue to strive to improve those situations that are wrong and I teach my children to work toward correcting problems they see. I reflect on my behavior and try to learn from it, whether I handled it well or not.
And to the GP's post, if I see I'm getting into a situation with douchebags, I would hope I'm going to either avoid that situation or try to correct it. And that's what we ought to be doing in society, not writing more worthless laws.
Wait til I get going!
Now, where was I?
I think you swapped the tuition and textbooks . . .
Easily solution, albeit a bit security-by-obscurity . . .
Don't use BofA. Don't use Wells Fargo. Don't use US Bank. Use a local credit union - a small institution.
This works simply because then you know the message from BigBank has to be spam. If you don't have accounts at the big banks, you can safely ignore the messages.
I have yet to have someone forge an e-mail from newsletter@mypodunkareacu.org. I still take the usual precautions (looking for specific identifying information in the e-mail, evaluate embedded links or just go to my CU's regular Web page manually, etc.) because it's possible. It's just not likely.
So yes, it is security-by-obscurity. But it works for me. YMMV.
John McCain? Is that you?
-- Yogi Berra (?)
I don't know if this has any legal weight behind it (IANAL, obviously), but one could make an argument that the speech is still being made while the student is on-campus. MySpace is visible at any time, 24 hours a day. I think an argument could be made that, although entered at a time outside school hours, the speech is still being made and can be inflicted even during the time school is in session. With other forms of speech, this is not the case.
What's wrong with this idea is that the customers are going to freak out and be all up in arms when Comcast gets sanctioned. Any monetary sanctions will be sent through to the local customers, and if the government threatens disconnection or interruption in service those same customers will be up in arms about losing their connectivity. Sorry, but there's no teeth in this proposal either.
If you want to make changes, make changes. If you want to keep them to yourself, keep them to yourself. No one says you are required to distribute your changes, so long as you keep them to yourself. But you can't just take someone else's code, make some changes, post GeeWhizBang 1.1 on a Web site and claim it as your own. That is not unreasonable. Why should you be allowed to take credit for something you didn't do when most of it was done by someone else or other people?
Bzzzzt, sorry, your explanation doesn't wash. If there was nothing else implied by your comment, then your commentary wasn't necessary at all. ". . . a completely free (PD) database engine . . ." would have served nicely.
"you're free to do as we tell you" is your interpretation of how the license works. And I can concede that this statement is true, but why single out the GPL?
Any license except for PD (which isn't a license; it's more of a state or a condition of the code) is "you're free to do as we tell you". Your singling out the GPL implies you have something against it, implying some kind of unreasonableness (hence my comment). Otherwise, your statement should have been "(PD, not any 'you're free to do as we tell you' license)".
No, actually, I'm not. If you keep the changes you make in house, for your own private use (to include an organization), you don't have to redistribute it. Once you start distributing it outside your personal realm or organization, then you need to make the source code available. The LGPL allows you to use a GPL-type program with non-GPL code.
The GPL boils down to:
For most GPL projects, this is what it means. How is that unreasonable??
MS gets the Wow! factor going.
MS delays product.
MS finally releases product.
MS gets the Ow! factor going.
This is new . . . how??
So how does one enable it?
(This is on a Mac Powerbook with OSX 10.4.11, if that matters. I've also seen that menu item with FF on my linux box and my wife's NT and Vista systems, and it was also greyed out there. So I'm baffled. What good is it if it can't be used?
You don't have the Estonian language pack installed, do you??? :-) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/129749Ubuntu Bug 129749 discusses the issue (although I understand yours is on OSX . . .)
There are a few bug reports I found whilst Googling and also looking in Google Groups. Some IceWeasel Bug ID #400704 commentary points to not having a home page defined; one user said defining the home page to be "about:blank" fixed it. More promisingly (I think) is that under about:config, there is an entry called browser.sessionstore.enabled. Try checking it and turn it on if it's off. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.firefox/browse_thread/thread/4b9ba0eb24229c34/d4a1b0188a9e17ac?hl=en&lnk=st&q=firefox+%22recently+closed+tabs%22+(%22grayed%22+OR+%22greyed%22)#d4a1b0188a9e17ac
Just a guess . . . since I haven't experienced it myself.
This claptrap about retraining is the biggest joke. The only people who can't learn are those who don't care to try. If your employees don't care to try to do what you tell them then they aren't very good employees and should be let go. It's not a question of intelligence, a parrot could use most office apps, but rather a question of motivation.
Amen!
When we switched from Office 2003 to 2007, I dreaded the idea of having to switch to The Ribbon. While I have now gotten somewhat used to it, it still feels like "a change for the sake of change" vs "a change to improve productivity." Several of my colleagues (network engineers) have not been thrilled with the change either.
MS screams about retraining costs if an organization changes to a different office suite, then hypocritically changes its interface (a major change at that, as opposed to just putting different items on different menus) and says "It's great! It's better! It's new and improved! You'll love it!" Bah!
Presuming you're not joking, look under History to Recently Closed Tabs.
Firefox 2.0.0.12. No special plug-ins, add-ons, etc. etc. etc.
. . . regretted his deal with the Empire too . . .