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When HR comes around to fire Stu, he leaves his timebomb in place. The one that fires out the kill message to hundreds - nay - thousands of customers - and disables their leased laptops all at once.
Later that day, the company sues Stu for malicious destruction of property, lost business revenue, failure to fulfill a duty of care (remember, employees are actually expect to work for their employer, not against them).
Or Stu never gets caught, because he adequetely covered his tracks. Either way, Stu doesn't even have enough money to pay the company for damages.
The company will apologize profusely, give everyone a free week of service (maybe a month, depending on how the PR department sees this)
Yeah right. The customers would be lucky if the service provider gave you a number you could call to get a refund credited to your bill for the 2 days you were out of service. The phone waiting time will be 45 mins, the refund will be $3, and less than 10% of all customers will go through the hassle.
I like your idea of giving customers a free week, and it would probably be better for the company in the long run, but they would never actually do that.
Every popular communications medium since history began has been infiltrated by spam. From solicitors on public walkways, to signs on utility poles, to pirates broadcasting radio from boats, to junk mail, to telemarketers, to e-mail spam. As far as I know, nobody has ever come up with a communications medium which offers all of the following: 1* reliable 2* anybody can contact 3* no spam
Every solution so far is a compromise. By having a private e-mail address (or private social networking page) you can eliminate #3 at the cost of #2. With spam filters, you significantly improve #3, but also slightly cut #1.
Social networking sites might have some improvements over e-mail (such as no forging allowed) but the only reason they might have less spam is because they are not as popular.
You said what I was going to say better than I would have said it. It is surprising how many people don't understand male female courting.
And the expensive car = small penis thing is so obviously a myth, it is shocking that anybody actually believes it. A better way to tell how big a man's penis is by judging the size of his hands and feet.
These people are like 2 year olds who have just learned to poop in the toilet. Perhaps they don't deserve kudos for something so simple, but if you want them to continue their newly discovered behavior, kudos may be in order. Keep in mind that what comes naturally to you and me does not come naturally to them, and pooping in the toilet is a big deal for them.
Serial keys are an improvement over more draconian DRM, but it is still DRM. And it is just as effective as other forms of DRM. In other words, the pirates' copies will have been already cracked to not require a serial key, or will come with a serial key generator.
whilst it's always good to see genuinely open formats in use, isn't there already an ISO standard document format? If there is, is it better to use the ISO standard or an open standard?
There are 2 ISO standard document formats (not including ASCII et al). Only one of them is open, and that is the format that this bill recommends, ODF. A "non-open standard" is sort of useless as a standard, and is more trouble than it is worth. The non-open ISO document format standard, MOO-XML, should be avoided.
The bill is carefully worded such that only ODF could pass its test as "open."
That's favoring one vendor over another.
I totally agree with you there, and that is what I came here to say.
Microsoft Office, ODF, PDF and XHTML would be much better,
By suggesting MS Office, you miss the point of open formats. Suppose the government saves something, and doesn't open it again for 30 years. This happens a lot for archives. It will be tough to impossible to track down the specific version of MS Office so they can open it. They likely won't even know which version to track down. PDF or XHTML, on the other hand, are open formats, and are unlikely to die soon. XHTML has the additional advantage that it is text, and even if 50 years from now, nobody remembers how to render XHTML, they can get the content by reading the file in a text editor.
This is the kind of thing they did in the 60's and 70's when kids couldn't get along. And it worked. Not exactly like this, but it is unfortunate that school faculty can no longer put boxing gloves on students who fight. We would probably have less violence if the schools weren't such pussies.
No, I am not that old. My high school health teacher told us about it when I was a Freshman.
I think employers and the unemployment office will get wise when they see the front page say: "If you are unemployed and want to pretend to have a job, click here, but if you are an employer wanting references on one of our "employees" click here. And when they do a google search, they will see ads and reviews that say "fake out potential employers! Pretend to work at Z-G-I.com!"
Also, you got the Seinfeld episode wrong. George did not use Vandelay Industries as his employer or reference. He lied to his worker at the unemployment office and said that he was interviewing for jobs, and when asked where, he said Vandelay Industries.
And the best part is this gem from the front page: "we offer stuff like a salury (sic), stock auptions (sic), a 410k (sic), and more!"
I want simple, I don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer. I'll stick with Ubuntu.
You don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer, but you run Linux. This is the part where birds come flying out of my eyeballs like a cuckoo clock.
That's because you are stuck in the past, where Linux's primary advantages were that it was free, customizable, and stable, but was harder to set up and didn't have all of the features of Windows. Now, Linux has more features, is easier to use, better driver support, is faster and more stable. Windows only remaining advantages are that it comes on most pre-built computers, and has more apps for some niches such as games.
Someone above says that the POSIX standard is fine, but that ext4 violates it. Here is his quote: "When applications want to overwrite an existing file with new or changed data [...] they first create a temporary file for the new data and then rename it with the system call - rename("
It seems that ext4 renames the file first, and then writes the file up to 60 seconds later.
I don't think anagama was actually responding to you. I think he had a legitimate comment, and he just "replied" to your post because he wanted to get near the top.
Too many websites and online services don't specify what they are, and why you should care about them. That sort of information should be on the home page.
The BBC is funded by a licence fee that all TV set owners pay
Sounds like a tax.
it's raised independently of the government and is specifically not a tax
It still sounds like a tax.
Many people chose not to have a TV and thus don't need to pay the license
Seriously? You think that argument holds any water at all? I can choose not to have any income and won't have to pay income tax. I can choose not to drive and not pay gasoline tax. It seems you lack a fundamental understanding of what a tax is.
If I don't pay income tax, the gov puts me in jail. If a drug dealer doesn't pay a mob tax, he gets beaten to a pulp, his cash taken from him, and his family threatened. If you get caught avoiding the BBC tax, you are heavily fined.
I remember when I had two 40 MB hard drives (this was before CDs). My Dad told me stories about people with 200 MB hard drives, and I wondered what they could possibly do with all that extra space.
If you have 2 TB you need to back up, then optical media is not the right solution. You need another array of disks (or a single disk), and rsync (or something similar). Optical media might be a good solution for you to back up only your more important files. If they are all more important, then it just won't work well.
I remember when CDs were almost as big as my hard drive, but those days are over.
You're right. I wrote that before I knew what the reason was (computer OK, TV bad). I almost put the word "sane" instead, and then it would have still been accurate.
If Hulu wants to bankrupt themselves by forcing all of their customers away, that's OK with me. There are plenty of similar online services who DO get it, and we don't really need one that arbitrarily denies service based on user-agent, for no discernable reason whatsoever.
When I went to school, from 6th to 12th grade, most of our books were very old. However, there was one subject where they bought new books every year, or maybe every two. History.
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When HR comes around to fire Stu, he leaves his timebomb in place. The one that fires out the kill message to hundreds - nay - thousands of customers - and disables their leased laptops all at once.
Later that day, the company sues Stu for malicious destruction of property, lost business revenue, failure to fulfill a duty of care (remember, employees are actually expect to work for their employer, not against them).
Or Stu never gets caught, because he adequetely covered his tracks. Either way, Stu doesn't even have enough money to pay the company for damages.
The company will apologize profusely, give everyone a free week of service (maybe a month, depending on how the PR department sees this)
Yeah right. The customers would be lucky if the service provider gave you a number you could call to get a refund credited to your bill for the 2 days you were out of service. The phone waiting time will be 45 mins, the refund will be $3, and less than 10% of all customers will go through the hassle.
I like your idea of giving customers a free week, and it would probably be better for the company in the long run, but they would never actually do that.
Every popular communications medium since history began has been infiltrated by spam. From solicitors on public walkways, to signs on utility poles, to pirates broadcasting radio from boats, to junk mail, to telemarketers, to e-mail spam. As far as I know, nobody has ever come up with a communications medium which offers all of the following:
1* reliable
2* anybody can contact
3* no spam
Every solution so far is a compromise. By having a private e-mail address (or private social networking page) you can eliminate #3 at the cost of #2. With spam filters, you significantly improve #3, but also slightly cut #1.
Social networking sites might have some improvements over e-mail (such as no forging allowed) but the only reason they might have less spam is because they are not as popular.
You said what I was going to say better than I would have said it. It is surprising how many people don't understand male female courting.
And the expensive car = small penis thing is so obviously a myth, it is shocking that anybody actually believes it. A better way to tell how big a man's penis is by judging the size of his hands and feet.
These people are like 2 year olds who have just learned to poop in the toilet. Perhaps they don't deserve kudos for something so simple, but if you want them to continue their newly discovered behavior, kudos may be in order. Keep in mind that what comes naturally to you and me does not come naturally to them, and pooping in the toilet is a big deal for them.
I'm not sure they deserve kudos for this. Looks more like they simply don't want to axe a paying customer.
In these days, common business sense, choosing not to mess with your own customers, is so rare that kudos may be called for.
Serial keys are an improvement over more draconian DRM, but it is still DRM. And it is just as effective as other forms of DRM. In other words, the pirates' copies will have been already cracked to not require a serial key, or will come with a serial key generator.
Support. It's a lot easier to call a vendor and bitch than it is to post your bitch on Slashdot. No wait...
I would say it is much easier to post your bitch on Slashdot, but calling a vendor might be more productive.
I have a solution that works for Vietnamese stray dogs. They don't have any.
How do gerbils taste?
Please ignore the above poster. There was no joke, only a chemistry lesson. Move along. I want want tygerstripes is having.
Here is a working link to the hologram commercial: http://www.uniquedaily.com/hologram-commercial/
It isn't revoked like youtube, and the page actually loads, unlike froggertv.
Computers suck. Linux sucks less. Mediocre deserves praise when it is the best.
I use Debian. It is the first OS I have tried that allows me to do what I need to and is not a pain to use, and so I continue.
whilst it's always good to see genuinely open formats in use, isn't there already an ISO standard document format? If there is, is it better to use the ISO standard or an open standard?
There are 2 ISO standard document formats (not including ASCII et al). Only one of them is open, and that is the format that this bill recommends, ODF. A "non-open standard" is sort of useless as a standard, and is more trouble than it is worth. The non-open ISO document format standard, MOO-XML, should be avoided.
The bill is carefully worded such that only ODF could pass its test as "open."
That's favoring one vendor over another.
I totally agree with you there, and that is what I came here to say.
Microsoft Office, ODF, PDF and XHTML would be much better,
By suggesting MS Office, you miss the point of open formats. Suppose the government saves something, and doesn't open it again for 30 years. This happens a lot for archives. It will be tough to impossible to track down the specific version of MS Office so they can open it. They likely won't even know which version to track down. PDF or XHTML, on the other hand, are open formats, and are unlikely to die soon. XHTML has the additional advantage that it is text, and even if 50 years from now, nobody remembers how to render XHTML, they can get the content by reading the file in a text editor.
This is the kind of thing they did in the 60's and 70's when kids couldn't get along. And it worked. Not exactly like this, but it is unfortunate that school faculty can no longer put boxing gloves on students who fight. We would probably have less violence if the schools weren't such pussies.
No, I am not that old. My high school health teacher told us about it when I was a Freshman.
I think employers and the unemployment office will get wise when they see the front page say: "If you are unemployed and want to pretend to have a job, click here, but if you are an employer wanting references on one of our "employees" click here. And when they do a google search, they will see ads and reviews that say "fake out potential employers! Pretend to work at Z-G-I.com!"
Also, you got the Seinfeld episode wrong. George did not use Vandelay Industries as his employer or reference. He lied to his worker at the unemployment office and said that he was interviewing for jobs, and when asked where, he said Vandelay Industries.
And the best part is this gem from the front page: "we offer stuff like a salury (sic), stock auptions (sic), a 410k (sic), and more!"
I want simple, I don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer. I'll stick with Ubuntu.
You don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer, but you run Linux. This is the part where birds come flying out of my eyeballs like a cuckoo clock.
That's because you are stuck in the past, where Linux's primary advantages were that it was free, customizable, and stable, but was harder to set up and didn't have all of the features of Windows. Now, Linux has more features, is easier to use, better driver support, is faster and more stable. Windows only remaining advantages are that it comes on most pre-built computers, and has more apps for some niches such as games.
Someone above says that the POSIX standard is fine, but that ext4 violates it. Here is his quote:
"When applications want to overwrite an existing file with new or changed data [...] they first create a temporary file for the new data and then rename it with the system call - rename("
It seems that ext4 renames the file first, and then writes the file up to 60 seconds later.
Unfortunately, no. You are probably thinking of Jack Valenti, who died in 2007.
I don't think anagama was actually responding to you. I think he had a legitimate comment, and he just "replied" to your post because he wanted to get near the top.
Too many websites and online services don't specify what they are, and why you should care about them. That sort of information should be on the home page.
The BBC is funded by a licence fee that all TV set owners pay
Sounds like a tax.
it's raised independently of the government and is specifically not a tax
It still sounds like a tax.
Many people chose not to have a TV and thus don't need to pay the license
Seriously? You think that argument holds any water at all? I can choose not to have any income and won't have to pay income tax. I can choose not to drive and not pay gasoline tax. It seems you lack a fundamental understanding of what a tax is.
If I don't pay income tax, the gov puts me in jail. If a drug dealer doesn't pay a mob tax, he gets beaten to a pulp, his cash taken from him, and his family threatened. If you get caught avoiding the BBC tax, you are heavily fined.
I remember when I had two 40 MB hard drives (this was before CDs). My Dad told me stories about people with 200 MB hard drives, and I wondered what they could possibly do with all that extra space.
If you have 2 TB you need to back up, then optical media is not the right solution. You need another array of disks (or a single disk), and rsync (or something similar). Optical media might be a good solution for you to back up only your more important files. If they are all more important, then it just won't work well. I remember when CDs were almost as big as my hard drive, but those days are over.
You're right. I wrote that before I knew what the reason was (computer OK, TV bad). I almost put the word "sane" instead, and then it would have still been accurate.
If Hulu wants to bankrupt themselves by forcing all of their customers away, that's OK with me. There are plenty of similar online services who DO get it, and we don't really need one that arbitrarily denies service based on user-agent, for no discernable reason whatsoever.
When I went to school, from 6th to 12th grade, most of our books were very old. However, there was one subject where they bought new books every year, or maybe every two. History.
I wish I was kidding.