You want an effective way to negate this issue? Charge them. I was used and abused within my family and their network of friends as the "computer guy". Until I stepped up and charged my own mother...yes I said it. I let her and everyone else know that my time is not free and there would be a fee for me fixing everything under the sun. Everyone started perking up their ears and taking notes when I came around from then on. Now my family mostly runs XP and are not very savvy but they rarely have issues(that they call me on) any more. It made me think about my brother the mechanic or my cousin the electrician. They get the same expectations heaved on them. It's broken, it's family, it's free and the lesson I had to learn was that a free service was a service abused.
As much as that's a joke, it's so true. Take a trip to your local game retailer and watch how many ignorant parents will buy pretty much anything for kids that aren't even 10 years old.
person behind counter: "You know this game carries an 'M' rating for violence and adult themes"
I think the real question is why he would admit to A) Not using a bank
B) Almost falling for a phishing scam.
The director of the FBI and he doesn't know to check headers or ignore direct communication from such an institution? FAIL. He should direct himself to the back of the unemployment line and the FBI should hire someone with a clue. Wait, what are you doing here?? Get away from tha....
Shocked that nobody has suggested downloading the internet. I mean really... if I want to take files with me, I download them. So why can't he just download the internet and take it with him?
But there was no damage to the network. Everything ran like it should except where the "experts" tried to hack in. His network ran as it should, like I wish mine would...without ME
Do you even understand the issue here? The man is one of the few and proud CCIE's. He worked his ass off and was subsequently rewarded by being locked up for over a year without so much as a real charge being levied against him. And you think that the every-man they choose for the jury in his civil case won't side with him? Imagine that was you. Would you hand over the keys to your Ferrari so easily?
I personally agree with the other/.'ers in thinking that once his employment was terminated his loyalty to the "company" ended. If they didn't have the intelligence to document anything they needed before they pulled the trigger that's tough shit on them.
Seriously anyone with kids around 15 years old should remember the craptastic film Ferngully in which a construction worker is magically altered and joins the creatures fight over "Ferngully". Seems highly reminiscent.. I'm not a fan of movies that regurgitate old ideas and sell them as their own. Oh wait, that's all anyone does anymore. My bad
Am I the only one that see's a huge flaw in this? Perez Hilton and the gossip bloggers say stupid shit about celebrities on a daily basis and nobody sues them. This is a relatively unknown "model" and is suing some dipshit for blogging and calling her names? When did this cease to be the home of free press and free speech and become the whiney letigious asshole club. Oh yeah about the time the internet became popular... my bad
Ignorance is no excuse.. If someone came to town, handed me a strange object with no instructions and left me to myself then I in turn push a button that then wipes out a city. Yeah that's an oops, but my ignorance doesn't forgive me for killing thousands of people... It just makes me cool~
Finally a post I can agree with. The WiiMote was not meant to be thrown about and abused. I've had 4 since the inception of the wii and I have 4 children that abuse the hell out of the poor devices and not a one has ever come flying at my television. Had it, even if the strap was broken it would be the child at fault not Nintendo. These lame asses need to stop blaming Nintendo for their broken TV woes and look in their own houses for compensation or consolation. Holding the controller with or without the strap = fun. Letting the controller fly through the air damaging your new LCD/Plasma TV = NOT NINTENDO's FAULT
So SPAM is different from anonymous random cold-calling that we can easily defer from by adding our phone numbers on the DNC list. Oh that's right, email isn't REAL, so it doesn't count the same way. SPAM as a statistic is 90% of all email traffic and yet it's not a problem. Do these judges not have/use email? Are they all so old and their ways old-fashioned that they don't see our inboxes stuffed with crap to the point where we have to pay for hardware(enterprise) or software(home) solution to end the SPAM madness? Legally and any other way I believe SPAM is wrong. The fact that a judge/judges that clearly has no understanding of the subject matter could rule one way or the other is and should be a case of malpractice. We are granted the right to a jury of our peers(despite what we really get) so why can't the judge be held to the same? If I ever went to could a la Terry Childs, I'd hope to have at least a few IT people on the jury. I know if it was a jury of CEO's I'd fry for such an infraction. In summation Judges + Technology = bad decision.
I for one have tried the Evolution connector, Brutus, OWA(which was turned off), IMAP via thunderbird(IMAP was also turned off) and the only working solution Office 2003 via CrossOver Office. Of them all Brutus did the job but required a VM running Windoze to get the job done. Suffice it to say that Good ol' Microsoft has done a pretty good job of painting us into a corner when it comes to Open-Source alternatives to Outlook. So hopefully someone will open source a non-microsoft tool/connector/whatever soon to help us poor MS haters get by without ever having to dual boot or use wine to get EMAIL.
I really hate to say it because I worked for them, but HostMySite(http://www.hostmysite.com) has 2 packages that I know would work for this situation.. 1 being a blog plan(like $5/mo) which gives you a free domain and email(along with a useless blog that can be used as a website) and an "email only" plan that gives you a free domain and email with no webspace for like $10/yr . Either way they're both cheap and sounds like what you're looking for.
I'd be depressed too if my level 9 elf lost the holy mantle of protection in a battle against a level 15 ranger. I mean come on now....In real life I'd destroy him with my +20 sword.
This one will get panned as a privacy violation right off. People don't want the government in their homes, their cars, their heads, or relatively anywhere near them(I know I'm one of them) least of all when they may be culpable for a crime that otherwise would remain off the books(driving with no seatbelt). I agree with all the other slashdotters chiming in that private companies in law enforcement is like putting "Hef" on amphetamines and viagra... Everyone's getting F'd.. And for those that read the whole article and ask what's the big deal? You need a warrant to use the system, but what keeps the Private company from otherwise using the data, pictures etc? It's a private company selling a service to the Police... This thing would be more abused than little boys at Neverland Ranch
Sorry, but with all the shoddy merchandise coming out of China, I can't believe for one second that this is going to end well. Needless to say that the Chinese Govt cares little for the safety of its citizens, but still someone stop them before the space junk floating around this planet includes little Chinese people. On the up side, if they pull it off at least we can get good take-out in space.
I for one prefer to keep my memories in my head.. Call me conventional but I'd rather that someone NOT be able to forcibly remove/steal/borrow them as well. On the brighter side, I now have yet another use for my aluminium foil hat.
This is even further proof that NASA(as well as most every other major organization) needs to move away from the virus laden, insecure, corporate blunder we call Microsoft. Sure Exchange is a great mail system but its still just an iteration of a wheel that was created long before it. Were a giant like NASA or Boeing or Lockheed Martin or the US Govt itself to step away from the Microsoft Corporation, we'd start to see whatever the new adoptee was (preferably Linux) take some serious light and hopefully outshine the Gates machine.
This is the type of thing that is going to usher in a new era of dangerous computerized interaction. Voice/Gesture recognition + Emily = Lonely Computer Geeks wet dreams. A woman that will talk and interact with you. Later, for everyone, a computerized friend. Gee, it's not hard enough to get regular people to use verbal communication nowadays, let's add another layer of complexity to that by allowing them to program how their "realistic" friends interact with them. I for one say nay.. I'll stick with people. TYVM
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You want an effective way to negate this issue? Charge them. I was used and abused within my family and their network of friends as the "computer guy". Until I stepped up and charged my own mother...yes I said it. I let her and everyone else know that my time is not free and there would be a fee for me fixing everything under the sun. Everyone started perking up their ears and taking notes when I came around from then on. Now my family mostly runs XP and are not very savvy but they rarely have issues(that they call me on) any more. It made me think about my brother the mechanic or my cousin the electrician. They get the same expectations heaved on them. It's broken, it's family, it's free and the lesson I had to learn was that a free service was a service abused.
As much as that's a joke, it's so true. Take a trip to your local game retailer and watch how many ignorant parents will buy pretty much anything for kids that aren't even 10 years old.
person behind counter: "You know this game carries an 'M' rating for violence and adult themes"
Parent: "Yup"
person behind counter: "That'll be $59.99"
I think the real question is why he would admit to A) Not using a bank B) Almost falling for a phishing scam. The director of the FBI and he doesn't know to check headers or ignore direct communication from such an institution? FAIL. He should direct himself to the back of the unemployment line and the FBI should hire someone with a clue. Wait, what are you doing here?? Get away from tha....
Shocked that nobody has suggested downloading the internet. I mean really... if I want to take files with me, I download them. So why can't he just download the internet and take it with him?
But there was no damage to the network. Everything ran like it should except where the "experts" tried to hack in. His network ran as it should, like I wish mine would...without ME
Do you even understand the issue here? The man is one of the few and proud CCIE's. He worked his ass off and was subsequently rewarded by being locked up for over a year without so much as a real charge being levied against him. And you think that the every-man they choose for the jury in his civil case won't side with him? Imagine that was you. Would you hand over the keys to your Ferrari so easily? I personally agree with the other /.'ers in thinking that once his employment was terminated his loyalty to the "company" ended. If they didn't have the intelligence to document anything they needed before they pulled the trigger that's tough shit on them.
Seriously anyone with kids around 15 years old should remember the craptastic film Ferngully in which a construction worker is magically altered and joins the creatures fight over "Ferngully". Seems highly reminiscent.. I'm not a fan of movies that regurgitate old ideas and sell them as their own. Oh wait, that's all anyone does anymore. My bad
Am I the only one that see's a huge flaw in this? Perez Hilton and the gossip bloggers say stupid shit about celebrities on a daily basis and nobody sues them. This is a relatively unknown "model" and is suing some dipshit for blogging and calling her names? When did this cease to be the home of free press and free speech and become the whiney letigious asshole club. Oh yeah about the time the internet became popular... my bad
Ignorance is no excuse.. If someone came to town, handed me a strange object with no instructions and left me to myself then I in turn push a button that then wipes out a city. Yeah that's an oops, but my ignorance doesn't forgive me for killing thousands of people... It just makes me cool~
Finally a post I can agree with. The WiiMote was not meant to be thrown about and abused. I've had 4 since the inception of the wii and I have 4 children that abuse the hell out of the poor devices and not a one has ever come flying at my television. Had it, even if the strap was broken it would be the child at fault not Nintendo. These lame asses need to stop blaming Nintendo for their broken TV woes and look in their own houses for compensation or consolation. Holding the controller with or without the strap = fun. Letting the controller fly through the air damaging your new LCD/Plasma TV = NOT NINTENDO's FAULT
So SPAM is different from anonymous random cold-calling that we can easily defer from by adding our phone numbers on the DNC list. Oh that's right, email isn't REAL, so it doesn't count the same way. SPAM as a statistic is 90% of all email traffic and yet it's not a problem. Do these judges not have/use email? Are they all so old and their ways old-fashioned that they don't see our inboxes stuffed with crap to the point where we have to pay for hardware(enterprise) or software(home) solution to end the SPAM madness? Legally and any other way I believe SPAM is wrong. The fact that a judge/judges that clearly has no understanding of the subject matter could rule one way or the other is and should be a case of malpractice. We are granted the right to a jury of our peers(despite what we really get) so why can't the judge be held to the same? If I ever went to could a la Terry Childs, I'd hope to have at least a few IT people on the jury. I know if it was a jury of CEO's I'd fry for such an infraction. In summation Judges + Technology = bad decision.
I for one have tried the Evolution connector, Brutus, OWA(which was turned off), IMAP via thunderbird(IMAP was also turned off) and the only working solution Office 2003 via CrossOver Office. Of them all Brutus did the job but required a VM running Windoze to get the job done. Suffice it to say that Good ol' Microsoft has done a pretty good job of painting us into a corner when it comes to Open-Source alternatives to Outlook. So hopefully someone will open source a non-microsoft tool/connector/whatever soon to help us poor MS haters get by without ever having to dual boot or use wine to get EMAIL.
I really hate to say it because I worked for them, but HostMySite(http://www.hostmysite.com) has 2 packages that I know would work for this situation.. 1 being a blog plan(like $5/mo) which gives you a free domain and email(along with a useless blog that can be used as a website) and an "email only" plan that gives you a free domain and email with no webspace for like $10/yr . Either way they're both cheap and sounds like what you're looking for.
I'd be depressed too if my level 9 elf lost the holy mantle of protection in a battle against a level 15 ranger. I mean come on now....In real life I'd destroy him with my +20 sword.
This one will get panned as a privacy violation right off. People don't want the government in their homes, their cars, their heads, or relatively anywhere near them(I know I'm one of them) least of all when they may be culpable for a crime that otherwise would remain off the books(driving with no seatbelt). I agree with all the other slashdotters chiming in that private companies in law enforcement is like putting "Hef" on amphetamines and viagra... Everyone's getting F'd .. And for those that read the whole article and ask what's the big deal? You need a warrant to use the system, but what keeps the Private company from otherwise using the data, pictures etc? It's a private company selling a service to the Police... This thing would be more abused than little boys at Neverland Ranch
Sorry, but with all the shoddy merchandise coming out of China, I can't believe for one second that this is going to end well. Needless to say that the Chinese Govt cares little for the safety of its citizens, but still someone stop them before the space junk floating around this planet includes little Chinese people. On the up side, if they pull it off at least we can get good take-out in space.
I for one prefer to keep my memories in my head.. Call me conventional but I'd rather that someone NOT be able to forcibly remove/steal/borrow them as well. On the brighter side, I now have yet another use for my aluminium foil hat.
This is even further proof that NASA(as well as most every other major organization) needs to move away from the virus laden, insecure, corporate blunder we call Microsoft. Sure Exchange is a great mail system but its still just an iteration of a wheel that was created long before it. Were a giant like NASA or Boeing or Lockheed Martin or the US Govt itself to step away from the Microsoft Corporation, we'd start to see whatever the new adoptee was (preferably Linux) take some serious light and hopefully outshine the Gates machine.
This is the type of thing that is going to usher in a new era of dangerous computerized interaction. Voice/Gesture recognition + Emily = Lonely Computer Geeks wet dreams. A woman that will talk and interact with you. Later, for everyone, a computerized friend. Gee, it's not hard enough to get regular people to use verbal communication nowadays, let's add another layer of complexity to that by allowing them to program how their "realistic" friends interact with them. I for one say nay.. I'll stick with people. TYVM