Fair use is a US doctrine and the closest EU equivalent, Directive 2001/29/EC Article 5(3) doesn't have an education exemption. Furthermore, Article 5(3) is optional and not necessarily accepted by each member state.
Once upon a time, I used to reach out to US-based hosting providers that spammers used. In the unlikely event I received a response back, it was to inform me they won't do anything about Canadian Pharmacy websites unless you can prove that they sent that spam email--being a mere beneficiary of spam is not enough. It took being one of the world's largest spamming operations for McColo to be shut down, and it was done by the upstream service providers. Feds don't have time for this. I propose we take a page from colonial-era maritime law and let private individuals petition the government for the right to seize equipment from bad actors. McColo wouldn't have lasted a week if you could round up about 20 guys to break in at 3 AM and start hauling off servers. Oh, you dealt with that spammer earlier? Take it up with the government when they have the award hearing. This changes the balance from removing spammers whenever someone finally compels you to, to accepting a considerable amount of liability for tolerating a spammer/leaving your infrastructure poorly secured.
I could not find the actual report, but the "third of online orders returned" comes from a 2013 Kurt Salmon study which was picked up by the WSJ and parroted by just about everyone else.
My department did that once as part of a team building exercise. A good half of the IT team members' individual contributions were stronger than the group they were put with. I've since learned the value of giving people token decision making ability (bike shed color) instead of letting important decisions be the product of everyone's input.
My company has a common pool for sick days and PTO as well, and instead of encouraging people to stay healthy, it encourages sick people to come in while contagious so they can still keep their days for summer vacation. Paying out fewer days looks good on the balance sheet though, so the policy remains in effect.
It's a nice gesture, but they need to drive through my old neighborhood sometime. In the southeast, it used to be that the liquor store to church ratio was the gauge of a town's squalor. These days, you can't go drive down a street without passing a handful of payday loan places. Internet advertising isn't to draw people in who otherwise wouldn't consider a payday loan, it's to make sure your slice of the pie is the biggest. Some cities pass ordinances limiting the number of payday loan places, but in many towns, one place can easily become five. As a result, keeping an adequate flow of new customers becomes increasingly important. Buying ads for "payday loan bessemer alabama" is just one way to do that, and is honestly preferable to the ongoing battle for "most obnoxious LED display" that many places are engaging in.
In my area, they're extremely aggressive: I live in a apartment complex, and they apparently buy names/addresses from the credit agencies. I used to receive about 3-4 "personal loan" offers from the local payday place a year until I got around to renewing my prescreen opt out.
Depends on the problem you intend to address. Malware clean up, vuln scanning, thumb drive police--IT. Sanitizing inputs, not storing sensitive data in plaintext--dev.
Without quotes, local-parts may consist of any combination of alphabetic characters, digits, or any of the special characters
! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` . { | } ~
period (".") may also appear, but may not be used to start or end the local part, nor may two or more consecutive periods appear.
The wording isn't grammatically correct. There's two interpretations:
local-parts may consist of any combination of alphabetic characters, digits, or any of the special characters [including period] may also appear, but may not be used to start or end the local part
--or--
Sentence 1: Without quotes, local-parts may consist of any combination of alphabetic characters, digits, or any of the special characters [special characters follow]. Sentence 2: Period (".") may also appear, but may not be used to start or end the local part, nor may two or more consecutive periods appear.
The first applies the ending character restriction to all special characters, while the second only to period.
Don't underestimate the power of incompetence. If I had to guess, port forwarding is hard if you don't know what you're doing, and if you set up a 1-to-1 NAT statement and permit everything to that IP, you'll expose more than just the port you were concerned with. Many people will fiddle with something until it works, and "wide open" works.
We just had a third-party tech take something like 10 failed attempts and a month and a half to set up port forwarding for a single port. I suspect the business model is to find non-technical customers, and hope they never catch on.
I work for an EMR vendor. FYI, the HITECH Act obligates companies to disclose breaches only in situations where PHI (patient data) is accessed. Our infrastructure could be co-opted into a Russian Bitcoin mining farm, but as long as patient data isn't touched, we don't have to let anyone know.
What a lot of people don't realize is that many clinics are small businesses. Small businesses tend to make small business decisions. Doctors won't replace those workstations running Windows XP or Vista if they plan to retire in a few years--that's wasted money. We've noticed that not maintaining support contracts for critical infrastructure is a popular cost-saving measure as well.
Penny pinchers are a problem, as is entrusting responsibility to Billy Bob at Local Computer Guy's and Cable TV Repair's. Yes Billy, we can tell you haven't made a successful backup in six months, and the UPS at the customer site has been failing for twelve. No Billy, it's not ok to leave those ports exposed on the Internet. People rag on the cloud being someone else's computer, but cutting Billy out of the loop is a net positive.
Jewish militias started killing Arabs, Arabs fled, Israel blocked their return, and redistributed their property/lands to Jewish immigrants. Israel's hands are just as bloody as anyone else's.
I don't fault Indians for scalping my ancestors whenever they had the opportunity, and I don't fault the Palestinian people for attacking their occupiers whenever they get the chance. Israel can certainly do quite a bit to right their wrongs--honoring the Palestinian right of return would be a start.
Last year, I bought some tires at Walmart using their ship-to-store program, and got them installed at their auto center. Here's how it went: Ship-to-store is the repurposed layaway counter, and isn't actively staffed. Instead, you ring the associate using a kiosk. No associate showed up. Had to ring at least twice. About 15-20 minutes in, an attendant working the floor asked what the deal was, and I guess he tracked someone down. I'm not sure if the notify attendant functionality was broken or the associate was at fault, but if that's the typical ship-to-store experience, I'll pass. Wheeled my Walmart.com-wrapped tires to the auto center, and they overcharged me $20 for installing "third-party" tires.
Ship-to-store could work if you implement it like Amazon once discussed using lockers--you come in at any time 24/7, obtain the contents of your locker, and leave. Retail employees only add negative value, and should be kept as far as possible from fulfillment.
Had a recruiter try to sell me on a network engineer position over the weekend: CCNA or working on it, can configure a switch, etc. "But the pay's great!" I know better, and you know why--you can either have 10 years of experience or 1 year of experience 10 times over. If you're reached the point you've learned all you can in your current position, you're doing yourself a disservice by staying.
Be careful with CCNP if you don't have experience to back it up. The assumption will be that you braindumped it.
If you want to use BGP or MPLS without having to work your way up to senior-level, go telecom. Do your time there and then hop over to a large corp. You'd be at a disadvantage at first because you wouldn't be well rounded, but that's the price you pay for skipping out on the drudgery everyone else puts up with. Or you could go to a MSP and play with all the cool toys, and get more work thrown at you than you can handle.
I used to use iGoogle heavily with feeds from Pipes, then Marissa Mayer spearheaded a redesign to to cater to the "real" users (gadget creators) as part of a monetization strategy. I figured that with her move to Yahoo, she'd quit strangling projects I rely on. I guess it was only a matter of time.
The rebuttal I've heard is that while it is certainly distressing to be able to light your tap on fire, you were probably able to do so before the fracking began.
Stings like this have another utility--counter-intelligence. Let's say you are approached by someone asking you to commit espionage. If you feel obligated to report it because there's a chance this is a sting/loyalty test, the government's job is made much easier. Is it worth destroying lives to accomplish this objective? Hard to say without weighing the assets being protected.
The problem is not necessarily place of origin, but whether you can be turned. You can be the most patriotic person on the planet, but you'll be denied if there's a non-negligible chance your close relatives overseas can be imprisoned/tortured unless you agree to spy for the host country. I wouldn't take it personally.
That's because so many people left Slashdot during Betageddon that it's mostly just raving lefties here now.
Nah, that's not it--it's a generational shift. Late 20s skew left, and they have the free time to post more. You'd think that group think would mold them to community norms, but here's the thing about AGW:
One one side, you have 97% of climate papers. On the other, you have the oil industry and politicians.
The evidence is compelling and the opposing parties so distasteful that if you disagree, you're white noise. There is no discussion--either you are reasonably informed, or you're a nutter. The/. old guard just happens to be on the wrong side of the consensus.
I had a similar experience when I was in school a few years ago.
Group project with two German foreign exchange students--copy/pasted their part from another website. I caught it early and after some "clarification" from the professor, they redid it.
Another group project--with a white guy, white girl, African immigrant, and a Chinese exchange student. White girl didn't contribute anything at all, Chinese didn't contribute anything (informed us "I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do" two days before the report was due), and the African immigrant contributed one slide (the project was a slide and a paper). White guy and I ended up writing the entire paper, and we were not pleased.
I was the group leader for both projects. The lesson I learned wasn't that foreign students are worthless, but rather that people needed to be treated differently. For any project, I map out the pieces and dependencies that need to be completed in a shared spreadsheet, and let team members choose what they work on. This works out very well for motivated students, and functional procrastinators since the dependencies are also worked out. Unfortunately, simply telling everyone what needs to be done is not a one-size-fits-all solution. If I had assigned tasks to specific individuals early on and followed up regularly, I would have obtained better results. If output was poor or non-existent, we could have adjusted expectations ("you need to turn this in earlier so we can correct for ESL") or escalate to the professor if necessary.
If you are an "A" student, working with other "A" students is the easiest way to keep that A. Learning how to get the most of B and C students is likely more valuable than a slight downtick in your GPA.
Crummy selection pretty much nails it. If there were an infinite number of movies, the algorithm would work well. Consider the following scenario: You are one of 3000 subscribers that likes 18th century historical dramas. A documentary on royal intrigues is highly regarded by the 30 or so subscribers in your group that have seen it. Unfortunately, it won't be recommended to you because other subscribers ran out of movies long ago and now watch whatever is on the main page. Many of those 3k subscribers watched Ip Man because it looked tolerable, not because it had an intersection with your interests, but it'll be recommended anyway. Hidden gems are drowned out because the algorithm can't tell the difference between a movie you want to see and a movie you saw because you wanted to see something, anything that night.
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Fair use is a US doctrine and the closest EU equivalent, Directive 2001/29/EC Article 5(3) doesn't have an education exemption. Furthermore, Article 5(3) is optional and not necessarily accepted by each member state.
Once upon a time, I used to reach out to US-based hosting providers that spammers used. In the unlikely event I received a response back, it was to inform me they won't do anything about Canadian Pharmacy websites unless you can prove that they sent that spam email--being a mere beneficiary of spam is not enough. It took being one of the world's largest spamming operations for McColo to be shut down, and it was done by the upstream service providers. Feds don't have time for this. I propose we take a page from colonial-era maritime law and let private individuals petition the government for the right to seize equipment from bad actors. McColo wouldn't have lasted a week if you could round up about 20 guys to break in at 3 AM and start hauling off servers. Oh, you dealt with that spammer earlier? Take it up with the government when they have the award hearing. This changes the balance from removing spammers whenever someone finally compels you to, to accepting a considerable amount of liability for tolerating a spammer/leaving your infrastructure poorly secured.
I could not find the actual report, but the "third of online orders returned" comes from a 2013 Kurt Salmon study which was picked up by the WSJ and parroted by just about everyone else.
80% of households, not 80% of households with dryers.
My department did that once as part of a team building exercise. A good half of the IT team members' individual contributions were stronger than the group they were put with. I've since learned the value of giving people token decision making ability (bike shed color) instead of letting important decisions be the product of everyone's input.
My company has a common pool for sick days and PTO as well, and instead of encouraging people to stay healthy, it encourages sick people to come in while contagious so they can still keep their days for summer vacation. Paying out fewer days looks good on the balance sheet though, so the policy remains in effect.
It's a nice gesture, but they need to drive through my old neighborhood sometime. In the southeast, it used to be that the liquor store to church ratio was the gauge of a town's squalor. These days, you can't go drive down a street without passing a handful of payday loan places. Internet advertising isn't to draw people in who otherwise wouldn't consider a payday loan, it's to make sure your slice of the pie is the biggest. Some cities pass ordinances limiting the number of payday loan places, but in many towns, one place can easily become five. As a result, keeping an adequate flow of new customers becomes increasingly important. Buying ads for "payday loan bessemer alabama" is just one way to do that, and is honestly preferable to the ongoing battle for "most obnoxious LED display" that many places are engaging in.
In my area, they're extremely aggressive: I live in a apartment complex, and they apparently buy names/addresses from the credit agencies. I used to receive about 3-4 "personal loan" offers from the local payday place a year until I got around to renewing my prescreen opt out.
Depends on the problem you intend to address.
Malware clean up, vuln scanning, thumb drive police--IT.
Sanitizing inputs, not storing sensitive data in plaintext--dev.
Hello fellow victim of RFC 3696:
Without quotes, local-parts may consist of any combination of alphabetic characters, digits, or any of the special characters
! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` . { | } ~
period (".") may also appear, but may not be used to start or end the local part, nor may two or more consecutive periods appear.
The wording isn't grammatically correct. There's two interpretations:
local-parts may consist of any combination of alphabetic characters, digits, or any of the special characters [including period] may also appear, but may not be used to start or end the local part
--or--
Sentence 1: Without quotes, local-parts may consist of any combination of alphabetic characters, digits, or any of the special characters [special characters follow].
Sentence 2: Period (".") may also appear, but may not be used to start or end the local part, nor may two or more consecutive periods appear.
The first applies the ending character restriction to all special characters, while the second only to period.
Don't underestimate the power of incompetence. If I had to guess, port forwarding is hard if you don't know what you're doing, and if you set up a 1-to-1 NAT statement and permit everything to that IP, you'll expose more than just the port you were concerned with. Many people will fiddle with something until it works, and "wide open" works.
We just had a third-party tech take something like 10 failed attempts and a month and a half to set up port forwarding for a single port. I suspect the business model is to find non-technical customers, and hope they never catch on.
I work for an EMR vendor. FYI, the HITECH Act obligates companies to disclose breaches only in situations where PHI (patient data) is accessed. Our infrastructure could be co-opted into a Russian Bitcoin mining farm, but as long as patient data isn't touched, we don't have to let anyone know.
What a lot of people don't realize is that many clinics are small businesses. Small businesses tend to make small business decisions. Doctors won't replace those workstations running Windows XP or Vista if they plan to retire in a few years--that's wasted money. We've noticed that not maintaining support contracts for critical infrastructure is a popular cost-saving measure as well.
Penny pinchers are a problem, as is entrusting responsibility to Billy Bob at Local Computer Guy's and Cable TV Repair's. Yes Billy, we can tell you haven't made a successful backup in six months, and the UPS at the customer site has been failing for twelve. No Billy, it's not ok to leave those ports exposed on the Internet. People rag on the cloud being someone else's computer, but cutting Billy out of the loop is a net positive.
They took that land after all of their friendly neighbors tried to wipe them off of the map.
Not exactly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
Jewish militias started killing Arabs, Arabs fled, Israel blocked their return, and redistributed their property/lands to Jewish immigrants. Israel's hands are just as bloody as anyone else's.
I don't fault Indians for scalping my ancestors whenever they had the opportunity, and I don't fault the Palestinian people for attacking their occupiers whenever they get the chance. Israel can certainly do quite a bit to right their wrongs--honoring the Palestinian right of return would be a start.
Last year, I bought some tires at Walmart using their ship-to-store program, and got them installed at their auto center. Here's how it went:
Ship-to-store is the repurposed layaway counter, and isn't actively staffed. Instead, you ring the associate using a kiosk.
No associate showed up. Had to ring at least twice. About 15-20 minutes in, an attendant working the floor asked what the deal was, and I guess he tracked someone down. I'm not sure if the notify attendant functionality was broken or the associate was at fault, but if that's the typical ship-to-store experience, I'll pass. Wheeled my Walmart.com-wrapped tires to the auto center, and they overcharged me $20 for installing "third-party" tires.
Ship-to-store could work if you implement it like Amazon once discussed using lockers--you come in at any time 24/7, obtain the contents of your locker, and leave. Retail employees only add negative value, and should be kept as far as possible from fulfillment.
Had a recruiter try to sell me on a network engineer position over the weekend: CCNA or working on it, can configure a switch, etc. "But the pay's great!" I know better, and you know why--you can either have 10 years of experience or 1 year of experience 10 times over. If you're reached the point you've learned all you can in your current position, you're doing yourself a disservice by staying.
Be careful with CCNP if you don't have experience to back it up. The assumption will be that you braindumped it.
If you want to use BGP or MPLS without having to work your way up to senior-level, go telecom. Do your time there and then hop over to a large corp. You'd be at a disadvantage at first because you wouldn't be well rounded, but that's the price you pay for skipping out on the drudgery everyone else puts up with. Or you could go to a MSP and play with all the cool toys, and get more work thrown at you than you can handle.
I used to use iGoogle heavily with feeds from Pipes, then Marissa Mayer spearheaded a redesign to to cater to the "real" users (gadget creators) as part of a monetization strategy. I figured that with her move to Yahoo, she'd quit strangling projects I rely on. I guess it was only a matter of time.
The rebuttal I've heard is that while it is certainly distressing to be able to light your tap on fire, you were probably able to do so before the fracking began.
Most blatant slashvertisment I've ever seen.
Well, let's look: ~MojoKid
Not a Slashvertisment, merely yet another attempt to drive traffic to a lousy site.
Stings like this have another utility--counter-intelligence. Let's say you are approached by someone asking you to commit espionage. If you feel obligated to report it because there's a chance this is a sting/loyalty test, the government's job is made much easier. Is it worth destroying lives to accomplish this objective? Hard to say without weighing the assets being protected.
The problem is not necessarily place of origin, but whether you can be turned. You can be the most patriotic person on the planet, but you'll be denied if there's a non-negligible chance your close relatives overseas can be imprisoned/tortured unless you agree to spy for the host country. I wouldn't take it personally.
That's because so many people left Slashdot during Betageddon that it's mostly just raving lefties here now.
Nah, that's not it--it's a generational shift. Late 20s skew left, and they have the free time to post more. You'd think that group think would mold them to community norms, but here's the thing about AGW:
One one side, you have 97% of climate papers.
On the other, you have the oil industry and politicians.
The evidence is compelling and the opposing parties so distasteful that if you disagree, you're white noise. There is no discussion--either you are reasonably informed, or you're a nutter. The /. old guard just happens to be on the wrong side of the consensus.
I had a similar experience when I was in school a few years ago.
Group project with two German foreign exchange students--copy/pasted their part from another website. I caught it early and after some "clarification" from the professor, they redid it.
Another group project--with a white guy, white girl, African immigrant, and a Chinese exchange student. White girl didn't contribute anything at all, Chinese didn't contribute anything (informed us "I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do" two days before the report was due), and the African immigrant contributed one slide (the project was a slide and a paper). White guy and I ended up writing the entire paper, and we were not pleased.
I was the group leader for both projects. The lesson I learned wasn't that foreign students are worthless, but rather that people needed to be treated differently. For any project, I map out the pieces and dependencies that need to be completed in a shared spreadsheet, and let team members choose what they work on. This works out very well for motivated students, and functional procrastinators since the dependencies are also worked out. Unfortunately, simply telling everyone what needs to be done is not a one-size-fits-all solution. If I had assigned tasks to specific individuals early on and followed up regularly, I would have obtained better results. If output was poor or non-existent, we could have adjusted expectations ("you need to turn this in earlier so we can correct for ESL") or escalate to the professor if necessary.
If you are an "A" student, working with other "A" students is the easiest way to keep that A. Learning how to get the most of B and C students is likely more valuable than a slight downtick in your GPA.
Fast food companies have figured this out. Paper checks cost too much, so workers receive a debit card, which the company deposits paychecks in.
Crummy selection pretty much nails it. If there were an infinite number of movies, the algorithm would work well. Consider the following scenario: You are one of 3000 subscribers that likes 18th century historical dramas. A documentary on royal intrigues is highly regarded by the 30 or so subscribers in your group that have seen it. Unfortunately, it won't be recommended to you because other subscribers ran out of movies long ago and now watch whatever is on the main page. Many of those 3k subscribers watched Ip Man because it looked tolerable, not because it had an intersection with your interests, but it'll be recommended anyway. Hidden gems are drowned out because the algorithm can't tell the difference between a movie you want to see and a movie you saw because you wanted to see something, anything that night.
The process is called intaglio.
Sonicwall offers a Network Security Appliance firewall. I can hear their marketing department: "NSA? That spells security!" Good luck with that today.