I'm not saying I agree with this lawsuit however I think their point is that the van entered their property and took photos which they published online.
The view that the Allegheny County website can be see here -
My first impression of this is the van turned around in their lot and some of those pictures ended up online.
I think this couple is looking for a payday. Google allows you to have images removed from their StreetView, I don't think this couple ever bothered to ask.
Not to ask the obvious question but where did pine ever go?
I've been using pine for as long as I've had email. Probably for the same reasons everyone else is. It does exactly what I need. I'm lazy. And it's worked for the past 10+ years.
So I'm not sure that pine ever went anywhere to begin with.:-P
Dell for sometime has provided pretty decide web support for Debian. The web pages I've come across have always been enough to get me started when needing to setup a new server.:-)
If you send to an address at one of my corporate domains that is incorrect you're not getting an NDR.
Your email will go into a catchall mailbox and it will be forwarded to the appropriate person. Yes this is tedious however 1 missed email could be a missed chances at *TONS* of business. Often times people won't email you again if they get an NDR back.
This comment is exactly my frustration with Slashdot. Most of of the comments I've seen are coming from kids who have never worked a real day in their life at an actual company.
Finish your computer science classes, stop working in the computer lab and get out there and work for a real company.
You'll quickly see that a truly good business invests in new technology in order to make it nimble.
And for the guy who posted about the home user... Most companies think of the home user as an after thought. Get use to it. The real margins are selling to businesses who buy service contracts on their equipment.;)
In time you too will dislodge your head from your ass.
I'm all for Microsoft working with Linux as long as they don't try to embrace and extend it... I think they see that there is a ton of money to be made in "Linux Space". I run an IT department. We use the best tool for the job. Be it Linux, Microsoft, MAC. Most networks are not homogeneous, they're a mixture of different systems, vendors and software. A good IT staff can make it all play nice together but if Microsoft can further simplify the process and save me time during deployments of new systems and networks at a reasonable price point I'm all for it.
One of the things to keep in mind is the size of most of these countries that we're talking about. It's a heck of a lot easier to roll out high speed internet when you're doing it in an urban area, you can blanket a ton of customers with a lot less cabling...
In any major city in the USA, if you drive 20 minutes you're in the middle of no where.
It's just not feasable to provide high speed broadband everywhere.
Now... There is a lot that can be done in the areas that already have broadband... I agree we can see better speeds and for the most part most of the cable and DSL networks already support it but the providers are still in debt with the gear that they have so they don't upgrade the network just yet...
He's probably lucky he never was able to locate the witness... What do you think would have happened to the witness if he did? Maybe I watch too much sopranos, but I would assume since this was all related to a drug dealers money laundrying... The witness would have been "whacked" and Rambam would have been facing conspiracy / murder charges as well...
The problem with Computer Science right now is it's not the "hot" field. Most kids going to college are going to college so they can get out and earn a better living then if they didn't go to school...
The job market for computer science folks is flat right now with respect to new grads... If you don't have 5 years or more experience you are likely to have a difficult time finding a jump off point in the business.
Honestly I can say I don't help much... It's hard for me to hire grads out of college. They tend to be relatively worthless. They have 0 business experience and can't function without constant supervision. It's easier for me to just go out and hire someone with more experience... Until the job market heats up again and IT people are in demand I think most companies will continue to snipe the best people rather then someone new.
The idea of common people making laws for the rest of the "common" folks is interesting and for the most part works. This however is one of those situations where it doesn't work. The common law maker has no idea the techical requirements / money / time / people it takes to store such vast amounts of information. What they are creating is an un-due burden on the service providers.
This is why we have the court system to hash this out. Should someone take this up and go to trail over it they can have experts / witnesses / employees / vendors to try to settle this out and show that it's a crazy request that really should have never passed.
I hope it doesn't get that far, but I still have faith in the "system" in order to right this. The reason I say that is, this is the government asking for something to be implimented, not private business asking for something to be implimented. If it were private businesses they would lobby and spend money to make it happen.
I hate to be the buzz kill but all stock filings are posted in a short hand notation where you always divide all dollar amounts by 1,000. So $10,000,000 becomes - $10,000. So your post should read something like this -
In November 2005, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Firaxis Games, Inc. ("Firaxis"), a developer of PC and strategy titles, including the Civilization franchise. The purchase price of approximately $15,442,000 consisted of $12,500,000 of unregistered common stock and $4,085,000 of development advances previously paid to Firaxis reduced by net cash acquired of $1,143,000.
In June 2005, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Gaia Capital Group and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ("Gaia"), the developers of certain of the Company's titles for console and handheld platforms. The purchase price consisted of $5,748,000 in cash, $4,055,000 of development advances previously paid to Gaia and deferred consideration of $1,597,000.
In January 2005, the Company acquired from SEGA all of the outstanding capital stock of Visual Concepts Entertainment and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kush Games, the developers of certain of the Company's sports titles, and certain intellectual property rights associated with these products. The purchase price consisted of $27,794,000 in cash, $1,866,000 of prepaid royalties previously advanced to SEGA and contingent consideration of $2,593,000 based on the release of certain titles.
Yea because getting Active Directory and a Mac is so easy to do...:(
This is my only complaint about macs in a PC dominated world. It's a struggle to get AD working properly. Once this is a simple point and click wizard I'll be thrilled!
But honestly in the day and age of cheap computing why even bother dual booting? I think I'm probably your average slashdotter, I have a laptop running windows XP, a desktop running windows XP, a linux desktop and a linux server.
Systems are cheap, watch for specials from the big guys and pick up a box for $399 or less.
I haven't had to dual boot a system in over 5 years and I'm certainly not independantly wealthy.
I'm sure there probably is room for them but the thing that I always struggle with is the cost associated with running distro's such as Redhat or something from Novell... If you look at what you can expect to pay Redhat per year to keep your server up to date with updates it definately starts to get expensive...
I'm all for linux on corporate equipment that's why I've been running Debian for years, I have boxes in production that were installed years ago with Debian and have happily churned away without any trouble, and really have only had to be rebooted a few times to update the kernel due to security trouble.
I know I know people want support and need to have that warm fuzzy feeling but if you higher good help you should be able to support these boxes internally on your own.
This was a quick and sort of interesting glimpse into how Bill Gates works but it felt like a pitch for Microsoft Share Point... I thought we were going to get a blow by blow account of Bill Gates from the time he gets out of bed until he goes to bed.
If I wanted a Share Point Ad, I'd return the calls from my M$ rep.:-P
How much is it going to cost? That's the answer that the rest of us who havet o justify this type of roll out. I love open source, I run it on most of our production servers but on the desktop we're a Microsoft shop. The OS is a tax that is just paid with the hardware from Dell, and I don't have the time to retrain 70 users on Open Office or whatever office suite they are going to ship with it.
If the cost is right *see not red hat prices* then I would be willing to do the extra work if I can save a nice chunk of change. Hell if the savings is high enough to off set hiring another person I would definately jump to it, but I doubt they'll price this at an attractive point that factors in retraining, more head aches with typical stupid office staff, etc...
The poster hits it right on the head! There's a whole slew of MP3 players out there, all of which do exactly the same thing... They play music. Some have some nifty features as well, others have longer battery life, smaller size, yada yada... But Apple has built in this "coolness" factor. If you have an iPod, you are part of the "in crowd", doorways open, and girls want to make sweet sweet love to you!
Don't kid yourself google isn't fighting for your human rights, they're doing what costs them the least amount of money and makes them less responsible.
The last thing they want to do is to have to filter results to "prevent" child porn from being distributed on the internet.
If it were more cost effective they'd have just turned over the results. They know that any fuel they give to the DOJ will lead to Google having to spend more money then fighting to not turn the results over.
I love google just as much as the next guy, but if you think for a minute they really care about anything more then increasing share holder value... Well then maybe it's time you left the university.;)
Have you used bluetooth for anything other then a wireless headset for your telephone, or some simple quick transfers between devices?
Doesn't sound like you have because bluetooth absolutely sucks otherwise. It's overly complicated to setup and don't even get me started about the goofy licensing...
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I'm not saying I agree with this lawsuit however I think their point is that the van entered their property and took photos which they published online.
The view that the Allegheny County website can be see here -
http://tinyurl.com/4fxjxq
Seems to be taken from the road.
These images, specifically the ones on the bottom appear to be taken on their property -
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0404081google7.html
My first impression of this is the van turned around in their lot and some of those pictures ended up online.
I think this couple is looking for a payday. Google allows you to have images removed from their StreetView, I don't think this couple ever bothered to ask.
Not to ask the obvious question but where did pine ever go?
:-P
I've been using pine for as long as I've had email. Probably for the same reasons everyone else is. It does exactly what I need. I'm lazy. And it's worked for the past 10+ years.
So I'm not sure that pine ever went anywhere to begin with.
Dell for sometime has provided pretty decide web support for Debian. The web pages I've come across have always been enough to get me started when needing to setup a new server. :-)
Nice Lebowski reference. :-)
:-)
Do yourself a favor and check out http://lebowskifest.com/default.asp? if you haven't done so already.
If you send to an address at one of my corporate domains that is incorrect you're not getting an NDR.
Your email will go into a catchall mailbox and it will be forwarded to the appropriate person. Yes this is tedious however 1 missed email could be a missed chances at *TONS* of business. Often times people won't email you again if they get an NDR back.
It's email in general. The whole system is flawed and we've tried repeatedly to duct tape over the problem.
The main problem is a you have a system based on blind trust.
Second trust based duct-tape systems are simply too cumbersome for the average user.
I don't have the answer but I do know that email in it's present state is broken.
This comment is exactly my frustration with Slashdot. Most of of the comments I've seen are coming from kids who have never worked a real day in their life at an actual company.
;)
Finish your computer science classes, stop working in the computer lab and get out there and work for a real company.
You'll quickly see that a truly good business invests in new technology in order to make it nimble.
And for the guy who posted about the home user... Most companies think of the home user as an after thought. Get use to it. The real margins are selling to businesses who buy service contracts on their equipment.
In time you too will dislodge your head from your ass.
Business computing needs will always drive bigger / better / faster computer hardware.
I'm pretty sure Moore's Law will remain intact.
I'm all for Microsoft working with Linux as long as they don't try to embrace and extend it... I think they see that there is a ton of money to be made in "Linux Space". I run an IT department. We use the best tool for the job. Be it Linux, Microsoft, MAC. Most networks are not homogeneous, they're a mixture of different systems, vendors and software. A good IT staff can make it all play nice together but if Microsoft can further simplify the process and save me time during deployments of new systems and networks at a reasonable price point I'm all for it.
One of the things to keep in mind is the size of most of these countries that we're talking about. It's a heck of a lot easier to roll out high speed internet when you're doing it in an urban area, you can blanket a ton of customers with a lot less cabling...
In any major city in the USA, if you drive 20 minutes you're in the middle of no where.
It's just not feasable to provide high speed broadband everywhere.
Now... There is a lot that can be done in the areas that already have broadband... I agree we can see better speeds and for the most part most of the cable and DSL networks already support it but the providers are still in debt with the gear that they have so they don't upgrade the network just yet...
He's probably lucky he never was able to locate the witness... What do you think would have happened to the witness if he did? Maybe I watch too much sopranos, but I would assume since this was all related to a drug dealers money laundrying... The witness would have been "whacked" and Rambam would have been facing conspiracy / murder charges as well...
The problem with Computer Science right now is it's not the "hot" field. Most kids going to college are going to college so they can get out and earn a better living then if they didn't go to school...
The job market for computer science folks is flat right now with respect to new grads... If you don't have 5 years or more experience you are likely to have a difficult time finding a jump off point in the business.
Honestly I can say I don't help much... It's hard for me to hire grads out of college. They tend to be relatively worthless. They have 0 business experience and can't function without constant supervision. It's easier for me to just go out and hire someone with more experience... Until the job market heats up again and IT people are in demand I think most companies will continue to snipe the best people rather then someone new.
The idea of common people making laws for the rest of the "common" folks is interesting and for the most part works. This however is one of those situations where it doesn't work. The common law maker has no idea the techical requirements / money / time / people it takes to store such vast amounts of information. What they are creating is an un-due burden on the service providers.
This is why we have the court system to hash this out. Should someone take this up and go to trail over it they can have experts / witnesses / employees / vendors to try to settle this out and show that it's a crazy request that really should have never passed.
I hope it doesn't get that far, but I still have faith in the "system" in order to right this. The reason I say that is, this is the government asking for something to be implimented, not private business asking for something to be implimented. If it were private businesses they would lobby and spend money to make it happen.
Yea because getting Active Directory and a Mac is so easy to do... :(
This is my only complaint about macs in a PC dominated world. It's a struggle to get AD working properly. Once this is a simple point and click wizard I'll be thrilled!
But honestly in the day and age of cheap computing why even bother dual booting? I think I'm probably your average slashdotter, I have a laptop running windows XP, a desktop running windows XP, a linux desktop and a linux server.
Systems are cheap, watch for specials from the big guys and pick up a box for $399 or less.
I haven't had to dual boot a system in over 5 years and I'm certainly not independantly wealthy.
I'm sure there probably is room for them but the thing that I always struggle with is the cost associated with running distro's such as Redhat or something from Novell... If you look at what you can expect to pay Redhat per year to keep your server up to date with updates it definately starts to get expensive...
I'm all for linux on corporate equipment that's why I've been running Debian for years, I have boxes in production that were installed years ago with Debian and have happily churned away without any trouble, and really have only had to be rebooted a few times to update the kernel due to security trouble.
I know I know people want support and need to have that warm fuzzy feeling but if you higher good help you should be able to support these boxes internally on your own.
This was a quick and sort of interesting glimpse into how Bill Gates works but it felt like a pitch for Microsoft Share Point... I thought we were going to get a blow by blow account of Bill Gates from the time he gets out of bed until he goes to bed.
:-P
If I wanted a Share Point Ad, I'd return the calls from my M$ rep.
How much is it going to cost? That's the answer that the rest of us who havet o justify this type of roll out. I love open source, I run it on most of our production servers but on the desktop we're a Microsoft shop. The OS is a tax that is just paid with the hardware from Dell, and I don't have the time to retrain 70 users on Open Office or whatever office suite they are going to ship with it.
If the cost is right *see not red hat prices* then I would be willing to do the extra work if I can save a nice chunk of change. Hell if the savings is high enough to off set hiring another person I would definately jump to it, but I doubt they'll price this at an attractive point that factors in retraining, more head aches with typical stupid office staff, etc...
I'm always hopeful though.
The poster hits it right on the head! There's a whole slew of MP3 players out there, all of which do exactly the same thing... They play music. Some have some nifty features as well, others have longer battery life, smaller size, yada yada... But Apple has built in this "coolness" factor. If you have an iPod, you are part of the "in crowd", doorways open, and girls want to make sweet sweet love to you!
Damn it's too bad we can't convince some of the slashdot crowd to follow suit! :-P
AGREED!
Don't kid yourself google isn't fighting for your human rights, they're doing what costs them the least amount of money and makes them less responsible.
;)
The last thing they want to do is to have to filter results to "prevent" child porn from being distributed on the internet.
If it were more cost effective they'd have just turned over the results. They know that any fuel they give to the DOJ will lead to Google having to spend more money then fighting to not turn the results over.
I love google just as much as the next guy, but if you think for a minute they really care about anything more then increasing share holder value... Well then maybe it's time you left the university.
Have you used bluetooth for anything other then a wireless headset for your telephone, or some simple quick transfers between devices?
Doesn't sound like you have because bluetooth absolutely sucks otherwise. It's overly complicated to setup and don't even get me started about the goofy licensing...
"And he says this isn't just about the impracticability of demanding that data centers patch everything on the second Tuesday of the month."
But yet that's what they demand... And we're stuck doing it every Tuesday night in a maintance window between mid-night and six am...
In retrospect we have to patch our FreeBSD boxen like 2 times a year.