Back in 1992 when George Bush Sr. was in Houston for the Republican convention, there was an incident at gate 4. Basically the police beat up gay protesters. Some people got trampled on by horses and some people like my wife got beat up. My wife was the strongest case as she wrote down everything that happened. She even had some training on how to stand up for your rights so you can bring charges. Basically she had to let the office know he was hurting her. That didn't stop the cop from hitting her with his baton. She had bone bruises on her leg, elbow, and the side of her face.
There was an inquiry. There were videos. Heck there were Republicans women that over heard the police talking about it before doing it, but they didn't think any people they knew would be in attendance. In the end nothing happened because the cops were in riot gear and their reflective badge numbers on the gear need light to be visible. Nothing happened. I think only one city representative stood up and spoke out about it, city council member, at the time, Sheila Jackson Lee.
same thing can happen with a rent-o-cop. You are going to need more than your word and the word of others. You are going to need lots of evidence and even then it is a luck shot.
"I no more chose to be straight than a gay person chose to be gay"
Prove it.
wow...so you sat down at a very young age and thought both Jack and Jill are hot, but which do I want to date? Do I want a boyfriend or a girlfriend? You kissed both Jack and Jill and said wow I like this one better? You really thought about it? You experimented? (because if you didn't experiment, then you made an decision based on ignorance)
You could have been different, straight or gay?
Or maybe both....and Jack & Jill get more than a bucket of water.
They are *not* allowed to, for example search your backpack, destroy film from your camera, or indeed prevent you from taking pictures. (they can however indirectly prevent the latter by asking you to leave the premises)
the question is: is it worth it to fight in court such acctions? Do you really want to have the extra stress of legal action just because of a couple of pictures? Remember you'll be footing the bill for the case until, you win....that is unless you find a lawyer who thinks you have such an outstanding case that he'll do it for free. The ACLU or EFF doesn't take every case (do they have the similar orgs down under?) Even then you'll be going up against a corp full of lawyers with much more money than your lawyer.
good luck. My parents were lawyers. It can get very ugly.
If you want to limit data theft, limit access to huge amount of data in the first place. That eliminates the risk to any new technology to get the data offsite.
Agreed. Blank CDs and DVDs create as much risk as USB Keys.
The best way to prevent data lose is to restrict the data in the first place.
Also I think it would be a good policy to have everyone return unused company USB drives to a central person whose job would be to wipe them clean for redeployment.
Because of this causal attitude towards USB keys, it'll become near impossible to track all the data. Employee X copies Spread Sheet A onto a key, takes it home to work on it, brings it back, and tosses the key back in the pile. You now have an unaccounted for instance of that data. Each time an employee does that, you have more and more instances of data that are unaccounted for.
Here at Chevron we wipe every hard drive we get rid of. I can remember a huge stack of hard drives back in 1999 and there was one person whose job it was to wipe all of them before getting rid of them.
Just do that with the USB keys. Make a process where the USB keys are returned to the supply clerk and have that supply clerk wipe them before giving them out again.
I think blank CDs are worse than USB keys for data loss. Burned CDs are not expected to be returned to a supply clerk. It is usually up to every individual to make sure they do not compromise critical and sensitive data. Not a very effective process relying on every employee to follow the process for data retention.
There is a documentry that is responsible for getting a man off of death row in Texas called a Thin Blue Line.
Look at all the states questioning the death penalty because of prisoners being release after getting DNA tested. Inocents get convicted.
My father was convicted of sexual assault of child with no physical evidence on the word of a 3yr old when her brother is a convicted sexual predator which could not be brought out in court because he was too young. My dad is going to die in prison (got 30 yrs)and I believe him to be innocent.
The justice system works for those that have money. The longer you can keep your case going the more chances there will be errors to get you off. It takes money for long cases, lots of it, and with prosecutor's getting convictions across the US at a rate of 90%+, if you get accused of a crime, fight it as hard and as dirty as you can because most likely you will lose if you do not.
I wish I could mod you up. I hadn't even thought about tossing in the link to the free rule book.
Funny that you should mention historians playing Ars Magica. I had a friend historian at University of Houston a long time ago working on his master's that I introduced to Ars Magica. He was so taken with Ars Magica he went off and found even more games to play in than ours. I ran into him online several years ago and he thanked me for introducing him to the game.
It does have the best Magic System bar none....and you are correct about the resources determining high or low magic...but in a spring game, resources should be low.
So personally, I'm hoping MLB wins this one, just so I don't have to read about Paris Hilton every other day.
You'd still get to read about Paris Hilton. The major difference would be famous people wouldn't be hounded. They could have all the glory of popularity with fewer drawbacks.
You'd still hear about people like Paris Hilton because those mega-media companies will want their entertainment show to air juicy facts about their starlet to wet the public's appetite.
So what is the point of arguing ID vs. evolution? ID is based on religion, which came about to put humans, who have the ability to reason, at peace during their lives because they can't deal with the fact that nothing happens after death. You just die
Lister points out that there is no such thing as Silicone Heaven. "But where do all the calculators go?" asks Kryten. "Surly you believe that god is in all things, aren't you a pantheist." "Yeah," says Lister, "but I just don't think it applies to kitchen utensils, I'm not a frying pantheist!" he adds that calculators and other machines don't have an afterlife. "But of course they do!" Objects Kryten, ".... It's common sense sir, if there wasn't an afterlife to look forward to, why on earth would machines spend the whole of their lives servicing humankind? Now that would be really dumb!" Lister decides to agree. He doesn't want to spoil Kryten's picture of going to heaven on his last day. He asks Kryten, just out of interest, if Silicone Heaven is the same place as human heaven. Kryten laughs, "there is no such thing as human heaven." He says, "Someone just made that up to prevent you from all going nuts!"
punish users with something they would fear: a loss of stats and/or items.
(sarcasm) they could always push with something worse than that...how about lose of your weapon hand. Then they'd have to go around biting people's knee caps off.
while "Divisive and uncooperative employees cost in $" is less than "number of contractors that sue because they were treated as an employees" times the average out of court settlement.
If I ran Microsoft, I would make a lot of changes but first I would not make badges with an opposing colour scheme. Everyone should have the same badge, eliminating the psychological effect of being an 'outsider' or 'not really part of the same team.' One less thing to worry about and one less possibility for employees to become divisive and uncooperative.
I think the equation Microsoft is using is
"Divisive and uncooperative employees cost in $" "number of contractors that sue because they were treated as an employees" times the average out of court settlement.
As long as the divisiveness doesn't cost much that culture will continue.
I don't think google is indexing metadata and wouldn't it be just sneaky to have a plain Hello Jane type email have a secret message in the metadata. Everything last to be kept and indexed.
Are they only going to scan active processes running? My virus scans take forever.
I can imagine trying to connect to my bank and waiting for the virus scan. I will getting bored and wander off. Then the bank would kick me off due to inactivity because it finished the scan while I wasn't looking.
I find it unbelievable that US citizens believe it is cheaper not having national health insurance. The industry is so unregulated and regulated (which is the real problem) that big companies are shielded from the small companies. The product's costs are inflated and it is the little man that is screwed.
The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure really applies. If people didn't put off getting treatment for simple things because of the rising costs of healthcare, then they wouldn't have to pay more to 'cure' it later.
National Health Insurance is the ultimate regulation of the industry, but it would be far cheaper for the nation and the average citizen.
Gosh that sounds like organized crime....RIAA shaking down 14,800 people for money...extortion is what it sounds like to me...sounds like the RIAA should be concerned about The RICO ACT
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how about a MaGyver MMORPG?
sounds like a Zork game
True...but here is a story from my wife.
Back in 1992 when George Bush Sr. was in Houston for the Republican convention, there was an incident at gate 4. Basically the police beat up gay protesters. Some people got trampled on by horses and some people like my wife got beat up. My wife was the strongest case as she wrote down everything that happened. She even had some training on how to stand up for your rights so you can bring charges. Basically she had to let the office know he was hurting her. That didn't stop the cop from hitting her with his baton. She had bone bruises on her leg, elbow, and the side of her face.
There was an inquiry. There were videos. Heck there were Republicans women that over heard the police talking about it before doing it, but they didn't think any people they knew would be in attendance. In the end nothing happened because the cops were in riot gear and their reflective badge numbers on the gear need light to be visible. Nothing happened. I think only one city representative stood up and spoke out about it, city council member, at the time, Sheila Jackson Lee.
same thing can happen with a rent-o-cop. You are going to need more than your word and the word of others. You are going to need lots of evidence and even then it is a luck shot.
"I no more chose to be straight than a gay person chose to be gay"
Prove it.
wow...so you sat down at a very young age and thought both Jack and Jill are hot, but which do I want to date? Do I want a boyfriend or a girlfriend? You kissed both Jack and Jill and said wow I like this one better?
You really thought about it? You experimented? (because if you didn't experiment, then you made an decision based on ignorance)
You could have been different, straight or gay?
Or maybe both....and Jack & Jill get more than a bucket of water.
They are *not* allowed to, for example search your backpack, destroy film from your camera, or indeed prevent you from taking pictures. (they can however indirectly prevent the latter by asking you to leave the premises)
the question is:
is it worth it to fight in court such acctions? Do you really want to have the extra stress of legal action just because of a couple of pictures? Remember you'll be footing the bill for the case until, you win....that is unless you find a lawyer who thinks you have such an outstanding case that he'll do it for free. The ACLU or EFF doesn't take every case (do they have the similar orgs down under?) Even then you'll be going up against a corp full of lawyers with much more money than your lawyer.
good luck. My parents were lawyers. It can get very ugly.
rather than a lot of other companies and executives (Darth McBride, Larry Ellison) who just have all that money and do no good with it.
The only thing a rich person can do wrong with money is hoard it, where it does no one any good.
I think it was Aristotle in Politics that said hoarding of wealth is does society no good.
but then again..every capitialist knows you have to spend money to make it.
If you want to limit data theft, limit access to huge amount of data in the first place. That eliminates the risk to any new technology to get the data offsite.
Agreed. Blank CDs and DVDs create as much risk as USB Keys.
The best way to prevent data lose is to restrict the data in the first place.
Also I think it would be a good policy to have everyone return unused company USB drives to a central person whose job would be to wipe them clean for redeployment.
Because of this causal attitude towards USB keys, it'll become near impossible to track all the data. Employee X copies Spread Sheet A onto a key, takes it home to work on it, brings it back, and tosses the key back in the pile. You now have an unaccounted for instance of that data. Each time an employee does that, you have more and more instances of data that are unaccounted for.
Here at Chevron we wipe every hard drive we get rid of. I can remember a huge stack of hard drives back in 1999 and there was one person whose job it was to wipe all of them before getting rid of them.
Just do that with the USB keys. Make a process where the USB keys are returned to the supply clerk and have that supply clerk wipe them before giving them out again.
I think blank CDs are worse than USB keys for data loss. Burned CDs are not expected to be returned to a supply clerk. It is usually up to every individual to make sure they do not compromise critical and sensitive data. Not a very effective process relying on every employee to follow the process for data retention.
#2 is frequently false, especially in Texas.
There is a documentry that is responsible for getting a man off of death row in Texas called a Thin Blue Line.
Look at all the states questioning the death penalty because of prisoners being release after getting DNA tested. Inocents get convicted.
My father was convicted of sexual assault of child with no physical evidence on the word of a 3yr old when her brother is a convicted sexual predator which could not be brought out in court because he was too young. My dad is going to die in prison (got 30 yrs)and I believe him to be innocent.
The justice system works for those that have money. The longer you can keep your case going the more chances there will be errors to get you off. It takes money for long cases, lots of it, and with prosecutor's getting convictions across the US at a rate of 90%+, if you get accused of a crime, fight it as hard and as dirty as you can because most likely you will lose if you do not.
I wish I could mod you up. I hadn't even thought about tossing in the link to the free rule book.
Funny that you should mention historians playing Ars Magica. I had a friend historian at University of Houston a long time ago working on his master's that I introduced to Ars Magica. He was so taken with Ars Magica he went off and found even more games to play in than ours. I ran into him online several years ago and he thanked me for introducing him to the game.
It does have the best Magic System bar none....and you are correct about the resources determining high or low magic...but in a spring game, resources should be low.
I do not know how many times I have to tell an attorney that they can not edit the text of a scanned picture by just typing over it.
They do not understand that if they want to edit the document they need to OCR the document.
Then there are the Attorney's that want me to call up Microsoft and get them to fix everything before they sue them.
Or how about the people that try to open documents or programs from inside other applications.
So personally, I'm hoping MLB wins this one, just so I don't have to read about Paris Hilton every other day.
You'd still get to read about Paris Hilton. The major difference would be famous people wouldn't be hounded. They could have all the glory of popularity with fewer drawbacks.
You'd still hear about people like Paris Hilton because those mega-media companies will want their entertainment show to air juicy facts about their starlet to wet the public's appetite.
People keep reinventing the wheel. It is neat that this is a D20 system, but low magic systems are plentiful.
My favorite low-magic system is slightly biased towards mages, namely Ars Magica. It is on its 5th version (2nd was my favorite.)
It has a magic system where you can create spells on the fly, healing is difficult, and god is real (and so is the Devil)
Ironically, the "Let's get the cliches out of the way" post has become a cliche.
And in time, so will pointing it out.
Dang it! It is like Pi. It will never end. For the love of god, let it end. Think of the children!
but what about the calculators?
Re:Red Dwarf
Yep, they will pricing has been set to 25c per unit. Utterly crippling in the low margin, high volume USB storage market (especially at the low end)
But as it caps at $250,000 the really high volume guys will be able to spread it out more... $250,000/10,000,000 = 2.5c
That sounds great (not)! Cut out the riff-raff. Only the big boys need play. Much easier to deal with a few players when tweaking the market.
Maybe the kids were working on an ad for the monthly geek boardgame day and were going to play the new Zombie game called School's Out Forever....
though if I were the police, I'd be worried about underage drinking. I know for a fact that beer makes the Zombie game better.
but then again what doesn't beer make better?
punish users with something they would fear: a loss of stats and/or items.
;)
(sarcasm) they could always push with something worse than that...how about lose of your weapon hand. Then they'd have to go around biting people's knee caps off.
or is choping hands off to Judochristian?
grrr... sorry
change that to
while "Divisive and uncooperative employees cost in $" is less than "number of contractors that sue because they were treated as an employees" times the average out of court settlement.
If I ran Microsoft, I would make a lot of changes but first I would not make badges with an opposing colour scheme. Everyone should have the same badge, eliminating the psychological effect of being an 'outsider' or 'not really part of the same team.' One less thing to worry about and one less possibility for employees to become divisive and uncooperative.
I think the equation Microsoft is using is
"Divisive and uncooperative employees cost in $" "number of contractors that sue because they were treated as an employees" times the average out of court settlement.
As long as the divisiveness doesn't cost much that culture will continue.
It has been said previously, but metadata
I don't think google is indexing metadata and wouldn't it be just sneaky to have a plain Hello Jane type email have a secret message in the metadata. Everything last to be kept and indexed.
Dang it...I could have mod'ed ya, but come here.....
closer....
smack!
Do not tarnish the holy Lode Runner (of 1983.)
You can still get Dr. Pepper with real sugar
http://www.dublindrpepper.com/
Are they only going to scan active processes running? My virus scans take forever.
I can imagine trying to connect to my bank and waiting for the virus scan. I will getting bored and wander off. Then the bank would kick me off due to inactivity because it finished the scan while I wasn't looking.
Not the telecom industry discussion...but
I find it unbelievable that US citizens believe it is cheaper not having national health insurance. The industry is so unregulated and regulated (which is the real problem) that big companies are shielded from the small companies. The product's costs are inflated and it is the little man that is screwed.
The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure really applies. If people didn't put off getting treatment for simple things because of the rising costs of healthcare, then they wouldn't have to pay more to 'cure' it later.
National Health Insurance is the ultimate regulation of the industry, but it would be far cheaper for the nation and the average citizen.
anyway...just my 2cents
1 out of 14,800 lawsuits.
Gosh that sounds like organized crime....RIAA shaking down 14,800 people for money...extortion is what it sounds like to me...sounds like the RIAA should be concerned about The RICO ACT