Yea but by the time you hire a lawyer to explain your case to the judge, and he/she will ask you to explain what you mean and cite case law, what are you really gaining in small claims court unless you have the time to spend doing the research yourself and nothing better to do? If you make half as much as a garden variety lawyer, you will lose double what a lawyer would cost if you put the hours you spend figuring it out into monetary terms based on your own salary.
So unless you get enjoyment out of getting a few dollars out of sony, there's not much to gain, especially if you are a divorced parent on the wrong side of a custody agreement and have to sacrifice time with your kid on weekends to do it. Then you either need to take paid time off (burn a vacation day) or take unpaid leave to go to court.
Sony still wins if you put it into terms of total personal cost for going to court to make them pay you money.
Actually sony loses money on console hardware for the first 2 years as it is, if you consider the console as it's own product. Taken together with the software licensing they profit. The software is where they make all their money.
Losing an additional $10 per console isn't cutting into their profit margin, it's increasing their loss on the hardware. Sony loses more than microsoft or nintendo on their console hardware as it is.
This is why games cost so much. They're licensing Sony's development tools and that's expensive because it subsidizes the hardware.
They don't lose money on hardware for PC games so theoretically the PC ports should be cheaper than console games, however PC ports require a LOT more QA.
Initially Sony was selling the 20GB consoles for $499 and they cost $806 to build package and ship, before the cost of the controller or controller wire.
In 2010 they're still only recouping $.96 of every dollar they spend to build console hardware. http://gizmodo.com/5464610/sony-still-loses-money-on-every-ps3-they-sell
Once I learned this from the last generation of consoles I shy away from buying new games. I figure I'm paying for their hardware with my PC games too, so I'm already doing my part.
Yea but you get to read the contract before you take the job. You can't read the PS3 EULA til you buy the PS3, and open it, which renders it un-returnable unless there's a manufacturing defect.
Used car salesmen don't make you sign a contract that says you can't sue them if your car turns out to be a lemon. So used car salesmen actually deserve a higher level of respect than Sony.
So if you violate the ToS with a ban-able offense, and get banned, you haven't violated the law until you make a new ID and access their systems again? Since if you have been banned your authorization to use their systems has been yanked.
So a troll that just keeps making new id's on a forum to harass forum members, after being banned permanently, would be breaking the law, however a troll that hasn't been banned yet, who is violating the ToS isn't yet breaking the law?
IANAL and it'd be good to understand the subtleties of these types of laws if you participate in online communities. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and I've witnessed behavior by people in the past that may be illegal now.
bullshit. a properly implemented white list solution, with good tools takes one click to allow a new item from the admin after they preview it. The web request generates an email, admin clicks it, opens preview and clicks allow or deny. Deny adds it to a blacklist so the admins never get bothered again from that domain. There's a management page to search, add or delete stuff manually to whitelist and blacklist
A well engineered solution will also allow every domain referenced in the request except the blacklisted ones (like doubleclick.net) you can even design your solution to have discrete whitelists assigned to users to limit damage if their supervisor does something stupid.
I know, I wrote one.
It's easier to manage this than to enumerate badness, reinstall comprimised os installs, remove spyware, deal with viruses, patching, blah blah blah, and replace employees that get fired because they got caught p2ping and prosecuted.
Laziness isn't an excuse and you can delegate the approval emails to the user's managers. No extra it guys needed. Automation and delegation for the win.
I'm really tired of hearing the "too much work" excuse. It's a cop-out.
" If the first, you're hosed. You can't prevent every possible way of infringing, no matter how hard you try. "
Actually, using a whitelist proxy and firewall rules (deny all, allow email server, proxy server) you can prevent every possible way of infringing. Simply deny all, allow work related domains through proxy. Let them do the rest of their surfing on their smartphones, give them a slight raise and make them pay for their own phones (so if they steal with their phones, it's their own account). Strip all email attachments except pdf and office docs. Limit message body size. Limit attachment size Rate limit incoming email messages and alarm on unusual activity (more than 10 messages from one address, 250k email limit with a file upload script on your web server for larger files, which sends them to quarantine)
Done... This will immediately shutdown all p2p in your network, break pirate bay, warez sites, warez news servers, child porn, and lots of other badness.
Provide three examples of high dollar infringement settlements to your CEO/CIO, offer your solution. Let THEM decide if a week of your time adding domains to a list and setting up a security model that works is cheaper than getting sued. You'd be killing a lot of birds with one stone.
Simply tell them you can prevent everything with a white list solution,or you can do it some other way and the company will always be one step behind it's employees' p2p efforts.
This will have the added benefit of greatly reducing your attack surface due to web surfing as well. Default deny is the only truly secure way to run your network.
If you have already implemented default deny and defense in depth, you don't need to do anything to comply with this law except clean out the stuff you don't know from the white lists.
This completely eliminates the need to monitor your employees and track their activity. You don't need to monitor known goodness.
... how people that cause automobile accidents aren't usually criminally charged, even though the accidents are all preventable and damages are usually in the felony range if it were vandalism or theft. It sure feels like computer people are being singled out. People don't even die when data breaches occur like they do in autos when people screw up and 99.99% of the time, someone screwed up in an auto accident.
the entire deterrent idea fails because criminals either don't think about the consequences before they commit the act, are or stupid enough to think they can get away with it and won't be punished.
That being said, the death penalty or penal colony isn't intended as a deterrent, it's purpose is to remove dangerous people from society permanently so they don't harm anyone else.
Both are supremely effective at this purpose. Putting their heads on a spike or rotting bodies in a cage in public is the deterrent part of execution. This hasn't been done for a very long time in most countries because, like you said, deterrents don't work.
I disagree that destroying them or locking them up permanently doesn't make the world a better place. After all, there's one less criminal out in the world.
the only problem with the outsourcing approach is they'll simply steal your idea, present it as their own after they code it and screw you over. Go ahead and try to enforce an NDA signed with a foreign company.
After all who is going to believe that it was your idea after they've coded it and added it to the app store as their own?
You can't outsource boxed software coding unless you are already established and have a product for sale. Outsource V2, but V1 needs to come from your own blood sweat and tears.
overall unemployment in the US is 9.1%. However that number only includes people that are collecting unemployment. If your unemployment has run out and you are living on the street, you aren't counted.
Unemployment is much much worse than 5%. Maybe not in IT... but it's pretty bad.
If people knew the _actual_ percentage of people with no job, there'd be a wall street panic and we'd go straight to depression.
That's why the government cooks unemployment figures.
Yep. My job was being moved to another state, and then the team got laid off. I started looking as soon as I heard the ceo mention "consolidation" non-specifically in a presentation.
That is corporate speak for "you might be fucked in 6 months". I started looking. The day they had the meeting where they told us we were getting moved or laid off, an interview panned out and I had a start date for my next job. My boss wanted me to transition my stuff over to other people over the next 2 months. I said "Well I'd love to have the luxury of giving you 2 months, but you have 2 weeks, and the last 3 days of that I will probably be fucking off, so pick out what you want me to teach someone and lets get on it.". Your employer has no qualms about fucking you over. Now is not the time for morality and doing the right thing. Get a new job ASAP.
You (the parent) need to start looking NOW. You get to pick your employer if you do. Otherwise you will take whatever salary or position you can get after you are laid off and starving. Not a good position to be in. I've been there too. At the first sign you might have a shot of losing your job eventually you need to begin sending out the resume, then take the first job that meets your requirements.
maybe you should specify "MCSE required" in your ad. I'm an engineer that doesn't know squat about windows 7, has barely a grasp on nt domains etc. FSMO? What is that? Is that some kind of fancy z-rated tire?
My area of expertise is linux software development. I know how to talk to LDAP (the underlying technology of windows domains) but as far as which buttons to push in the oujia board known as windows to make something happen? Pfft, you'd be better off asking a desktop support wienie. You need me to make a content filtering whitelist proxy by forking TinyProxy and build a php gui to control it? I'm your man. I can even build administrative roles into it using your NT groups. Setting up those groups in the domain is someone else's job.
Maybe your problem is you don't know enough about IT in general to know what to ask for in your candidates. I sincerely doubt it's the candidates. It's likely as much the candidates fault as it is when a auto mechanic uses the wrong tool and damages a car.
yea but the average FreeBSD distribution is lot more optimized than the average bloated linux distro such as Ubuntu. Ubuntu is made for the masses and I'd be surprised if the number of drivers NOT in the ubuntu kernel is more than the count of fingers on my left hand.
FreeBSD is made by engineers for engineers in most cases. Ubuntu is built so some uneducated guy in Bangladesh can load it on his crap whitebox laptop with random hardware and it JustWorks(tm) and has him up and surfing the internets within 20 minutes. Ditto for windows. That takes a lot of kernel bloat to accomplish.
Ubuntu's mission is admirable and they do a bang up job. However you don't want to use Ubuntu for any task where the best performance possible is required. Squeezing every last ounce of performance out of your hardware and software takes a little more work than "pop the disk in and wait". Install Gentoo, strip the bloat out the kernel and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Linux hasn't lost it's way. It's kernel is still configurable. You can turn off the stuff you don't want in there and recompile it.
Try using Gentoo, which makes this very easy, compared to redhat, Ubuntu etc. which have dependencies on the bloat in their packages. Ever tried to recompile a red hat kernel? It's not pretty.
Ubuntu is the problem, not linux.
The article (as is often the case) has a misleading title. It should be "Linux 3D Games Run Faster On PC-BSD than they do on the Ubuntu distribution of linux"
I'm sure that it would be a different story on a kernel without the bloat. People need to realize that often linux distros are far less than optimal. They are trying to be like windows and have everything and the kitchen sink in the kernel. Ubuntu is NOT linux. They are a company that simply packages linux in a distro and make it "easy" though for any specialized application, using Ubuntu is anything but easy. It's meant to be a general purpose desktop os that anyone can install.
You'd see much higher gaming performance in Gentoo, which like FreeBSD, is compiled from source for your processor with your options. FBSD uses ports, which is very similar to portage used in Gentoo. It downloads source, looks at your kernel and compiles the code with the right options for your system.
I strongly suggest that if you want to get the most performance out of linux, use a compiled-from-source distro like gentoo. It makes a HUGE difference. It takes a lot longer to set up your system (since you compile the entire thing from source) but the end result is worth it if performance is your #1 goal.
What makes you think that online banking isn't prone to human error and/or interference? As well when you pay a bill online, unless it's an ACH, the bank generates a check and mails it to your payee via usps.
yea but murder requires a human. Glaciers which used to cover as far south as new york and paris 5km thick started melting before gasoline. Read about the "last glacial maximum".
Global warming is a huge factor responsible for humans being smart enough to debate the cause of it. As far as humans _being_ the cause of it? It would certainly be a paradox. If humans didn't cause it there must be natural factors that are mostly responsible.
Getting congress (or any legislative body, federal or state) to change it would be just about as likely as getting congress to impose term limits.
Ain't gonna happen because they are screwing themselves if they do it. Never mind what's "right" for the country and it's legal system... they are all far too greedy to do what's right. Law is big business and so is elected office. Our entire government is designed in such a way that it makes as much money as possible for those in the legal and elected government business, and that's what it is exactly, a business.
The country and states are run by lawyers so they run them and design laws in a way that serve their own best interests. I'm actually surprised that this is news to anyone. "Right", "Fair" and "Just" are concepts they don't care to implement in the law because they don't make any money by doing things the simplest and fair way.
It's quite possible for someone that's done nothing wrong and hurt no one to be bankrupted by the courts and lawyers. That's pretty fucked up and it happens every day.
you don't need to be anti-agw to believe that agw isn't the only factor in global warming. sheesh, you act like it's an all or nothing thing, like a religion or something.
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Yea but by the time you hire a lawyer to explain your case to the judge, and he/she will ask you to explain what you mean and cite case law, what are you really gaining in small claims court unless you have the time to spend doing the research yourself and nothing better to do? If you make half as much as a garden variety lawyer, you will lose double what a lawyer would cost if you put the hours you spend figuring it out into monetary terms based on your own salary.
So unless you get enjoyment out of getting a few dollars out of sony, there's not much to gain, especially if you are a divorced parent on the wrong side of a custody agreement and have to sacrifice time with your kid on weekends to do it. Then you either need to take paid time off (burn a vacation day) or take unpaid leave to go to court.
Sony still wins if you put it into terms of total personal cost for going to court to make them pay you money.
Actually sony loses money on console hardware for the first 2 years as it is, if you consider the console as it's own product. Taken together with the software licensing they profit. The software is where they make all their money.
Losing an additional $10 per console isn't cutting into their profit margin, it's increasing their loss on the hardware. Sony loses more than microsoft or nintendo on their console hardware as it is.
This is why games cost so much. They're licensing Sony's development tools and that's expensive because it subsidizes the hardware.
They don't lose money on hardware for PC games so theoretically the PC ports should be cheaper than console games, however PC ports require a LOT more QA.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/127906/sony_losing_big_money_on_ps3_hardware.html
Initially Sony was selling the 20GB consoles for $499 and they cost $806 to build package and ship, before the cost of the controller or controller wire.
In 2010 they're still only recouping $.96 of every dollar they spend to build console hardware.
http://gizmodo.com/5464610/sony-still-loses-money-on-every-ps3-they-sell
Once I learned this from the last generation of consoles I shy away from buying new games. I figure I'm paying for their hardware with my PC games too, so I'm already doing my part.
Yea but you get to read the contract before you take the job. You can't read the PS3 EULA til you buy the PS3, and open it, which renders it un-returnable unless there's a manufacturing defect.
Used car salesmen don't make you sign a contract that says you can't sue them if your car turns out to be a lemon. So used car salesmen actually deserve a higher level of respect than Sony.
So if you violate the ToS with a ban-able offense, and get banned, you haven't violated the law until you make a new ID and access their systems again? Since if you have been banned your authorization to use their systems has been yanked.
So a troll that just keeps making new id's on a forum to harass forum members, after being banned permanently, would be breaking the law, however a troll that hasn't been banned yet, who is violating the ToS isn't yet breaking the law?
IANAL and it'd be good to understand the subtleties of these types of laws if you participate in online communities. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and I've witnessed behavior by people in the past that may be illegal now.
Tell that to the 90 year olds with depenz and all the bottled waters, nail clippers and mousse they've saved us from.
mod up. morcego is 100% correct without reservation.
bullshit. a properly implemented white list solution, with good tools takes one click to allow a new item from the admin after they preview it. The web request generates an email, admin clicks it, opens preview and clicks allow or deny. Deny adds it to a blacklist so the admins never get bothered again from that domain. There's a management page to search, add or delete stuff manually to whitelist and blacklist
A well engineered solution will also allow every domain referenced in the request except the blacklisted ones (like doubleclick.net) you can even design your solution to have discrete whitelists assigned to users to limit damage if their supervisor does something stupid.
I know, I wrote one.
It's easier to manage this than to enumerate badness, reinstall comprimised os installs, remove spyware, deal with viruses, patching, blah blah blah, and replace employees that get fired because they got caught p2ping and prosecuted.
Laziness isn't an excuse and you can delegate the approval emails to the user's managers. No extra it guys needed. Automation and delegation for the win.
I'm really tired of hearing the "too much work" excuse. It's a cop-out.
" If the first, you're hosed. You can't prevent every possible way of infringing, no matter how hard you try. "
Actually, using a whitelist proxy and firewall rules (deny all, allow email server, proxy server) you can prevent every possible way of infringing. Simply deny all, allow work related domains through proxy. Let them do the rest of their surfing on their smartphones, give them a slight raise and make them pay for their own phones (so if they steal with their phones, it's their own account). Strip all email attachments except pdf and office docs. Limit message body size. Limit attachment size Rate limit incoming email messages and alarm on unusual activity (more than 10 messages from one address, 250k email limit with a file upload script on your web server for larger files, which sends them to quarantine)
Done... This will immediately shutdown all p2p in your network, break pirate bay, warez sites, warez news servers, child porn, and lots of other badness.
Provide three examples of high dollar infringement settlements to your CEO/CIO, offer your solution. Let THEM decide if a week of your time adding domains to a list and setting up a security model that works is cheaper than getting sued. You'd be killing a lot of birds with one stone.
Simply tell them you can prevent everything with a white list solution,or you can do it some other way and the company will always be one step behind it's employees' p2p efforts.
This will have the added benefit of greatly reducing your attack surface due to web surfing as well. Default deny is the only truly secure way to run your network.
If you have already implemented default deny and defense in depth, you don't need to do anything to comply with this law except clean out the stuff you don't know from the white lists.
This completely eliminates the need to monitor your employees and track their activity. You don't need to monitor known goodness.
I have this issue. Some Tube TVs drive me absolutely insane. To me the whine of those oscillators is as painful as a dental drill in some cases.
I couldn't stand to be in the same room as some TVs. I can hear them all to some degree but some were extremely loud.
... how people that cause automobile accidents aren't usually criminally charged, even though the accidents are all preventable and damages are usually in the felony range if it were vandalism or theft. It sure feels like computer people are being singled out. People don't even die when data breaches occur like they do in autos when people screw up and 99.99% of the time, someone screwed up in an auto accident.
the entire deterrent idea fails because criminals either don't think about the consequences before they commit the act, are or stupid enough to think they can get away with it and won't be punished.
That being said, the death penalty or penal colony isn't intended as a deterrent, it's purpose is to remove dangerous people from society permanently so they don't harm anyone else.
Both are supremely effective at this purpose. Putting their heads on a spike or rotting bodies in a cage in public is the deterrent part of execution. This hasn't been done for a very long time in most countries because, like you said, deterrents don't work.
I disagree that destroying them or locking them up permanently doesn't make the world a better place. After all, there's one less criminal out in the world.
the only problem with the outsourcing approach is they'll simply steal your idea, present it as their own after they code it and screw you over. Go ahead and try to enforce an NDA signed with a foreign company.
After all who is going to believe that it was your idea after they've coded it and added it to the app store as their own?
You can't outsource boxed software coding unless you are already established and have a product for sale. Outsource V2, but V1 needs to come from your own blood sweat and tears.
overall unemployment in the US is 9.1%. However that number only includes people that are collecting unemployment. If your unemployment has run out and you are living on the street, you aren't counted.
Unemployment is much much worse than 5%. Maybe not in IT... but it's pretty bad.
If people knew the _actual_ percentage of people with no job, there'd be a wall street panic and we'd go straight to depression.
That's why the government cooks unemployment figures.
Yep. My job was being moved to another state, and then the team got laid off. I started looking as soon as I heard the ceo mention "consolidation" non-specifically in a presentation.
That is corporate speak for "you might be fucked in 6 months". I started looking. The day they had the meeting where they told us we were getting moved or laid off, an interview panned out and I had a start date for my next job. My boss wanted me to transition my stuff over to other people over the next 2 months. I said "Well I'd love to have the luxury of giving you 2 months, but you have 2 weeks, and the last 3 days of that I will probably be fucking off, so pick out what you want me to teach someone and lets get on it.". Your employer has no qualms about fucking you over. Now is not the time for morality and doing the right thing. Get a new job ASAP.
You (the parent) need to start looking NOW. You get to pick your employer if you do. Otherwise you will take whatever salary or position you can get after you are laid off and starving. Not a good position to be in. I've been there too. At the first sign you might have a shot of losing your job eventually you need to begin sending out the resume, then take the first job that meets your requirements.
maybe you should specify "MCSE required" in your ad. I'm an engineer that doesn't know squat about windows 7, has barely a grasp on nt domains etc. FSMO? What is that? Is that some kind of fancy z-rated tire?
My area of expertise is linux software development. I know how to talk to LDAP (the underlying technology of windows domains) but as far as which buttons to push in the oujia board known as windows to make something happen? Pfft, you'd be better off asking a desktop support wienie. You need me to make a content filtering whitelist proxy by forking TinyProxy and build a php gui to control it? I'm your man. I can even build administrative roles into it using your NT groups. Setting up those groups in the domain is someone else's job.
Maybe your problem is you don't know enough about IT in general to know what to ask for in your candidates. I sincerely doubt it's the candidates. It's likely as much the candidates fault as it is when a auto mechanic uses the wrong tool and damages a car.
yea but the average FreeBSD distribution is lot more optimized than the average bloated linux distro such as Ubuntu. Ubuntu is made for the masses and I'd be surprised if the number of drivers NOT in the ubuntu kernel is more than the count of fingers on my left hand.
FreeBSD is made by engineers for engineers in most cases. Ubuntu is built so some uneducated guy in Bangladesh can load it on his crap whitebox laptop with random hardware and it JustWorks(tm) and has him up and surfing the internets within 20 minutes. Ditto for windows. That takes a lot of kernel bloat to accomplish.
Ubuntu's mission is admirable and they do a bang up job. However you don't want to use Ubuntu for any task where the best performance possible is required. Squeezing every last ounce of performance out of your hardware and software takes a little more work than "pop the disk in and wait". Install Gentoo, strip the bloat out the kernel and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Linux hasn't lost it's way. It's kernel is still configurable. You can turn off the stuff you don't want in there and recompile it.
Try using Gentoo, which makes this very easy, compared to redhat, Ubuntu etc. which have dependencies on the bloat in their packages. Ever tried to recompile a red hat kernel? It's not pretty.
Ubuntu is the problem, not linux.
The article (as is often the case) has a misleading title. It should be "Linux 3D Games Run Faster On PC-BSD than they do on the Ubuntu distribution of linux"
I'm sure that it would be a different story on a kernel without the bloat. People need to realize that often linux distros are far less than optimal. They are trying to be like windows and have everything and the kitchen sink in the kernel. Ubuntu is NOT linux. They are a company that simply packages linux in a distro and make it "easy" though for any specialized application, using Ubuntu is anything but easy. It's meant to be a general purpose desktop os that anyone can install.
You'd see much higher gaming performance in Gentoo, which like FreeBSD, is compiled from source for your processor with your options. FBSD uses ports, which is very similar to portage used in Gentoo. It downloads source, looks at your kernel and compiles the code with the right options for your system.
I strongly suggest that if you want to get the most performance out of linux, use a compiled-from-source distro like gentoo. It makes a HUGE difference. It takes a lot longer to set up your system (since you compile the entire thing from source) but the end result is worth it if performance is your #1 goal.
Obamacare. You don't remember?
What makes you think that online banking isn't prone to human error and/or interference?
As well when you pay a bill online, unless it's an ACH, the bank generates a check and mails it to your payee via usps.
yea but murder requires a human. Glaciers which used to cover as far south as new york and paris 5km thick started melting before gasoline. Read about the "last glacial maximum".
Global warming is a huge factor responsible for humans being smart enough to debate the cause of it. As far as humans _being_ the cause of it? It would certainly be a paradox. If humans didn't cause it there must be natural factors that are mostly responsible.
Well the "system" is designed _by lawyers_.
Getting congress (or any legislative body, federal or state) to change it would be just about as likely as getting congress to impose term limits.
Ain't gonna happen because they are screwing themselves if they do it. Never mind what's "right" for the country and it's legal system... they are all far too greedy to do what's right. Law is big business and so is elected office. Our entire government is designed in such a way that it makes as much money as possible for those in the legal and elected government business, and that's what it is exactly, a business.
The country and states are run by lawyers so they run them and design laws in a way that serve their own best interests. I'm actually surprised that this is news to anyone. "Right", "Fair" and "Just" are concepts they don't care to implement in the law because they don't make any money by doing things the simplest and fair way.
It's quite possible for someone that's done nothing wrong and hurt no one to be bankrupted by the courts and lawyers. That's pretty fucked up and it happens every day.
Heretic! Blasphemer! Nevermind the facts! Algore has spoken!
you don't need to be anti-agw to believe that agw isn't the only factor in global warming. sheesh, you act like it's an all or nothing thing, like a religion or something.
get them to click "Run macros" or whatever the dialog says