"So my question to you; how do you get escalated??"
Depends on the place I guess. In some places Level 1 is more like Level 0, with barely computer-literate people reading from a script. If the script doesn't work it gets escalated. Some places might not be as organized with their policies and procedures, and they'd let a Level 1 tech flounder for an hour on the phone, but most times they're under pressure to finish the call and clear the queue.
Maybe the OP was being facetious, but $100k buys a comfortable, though hardly lavish lifestyle in Sili Valley. If you want to live close to work, that's an apartment in a safe neighborhood, nice car, and all the bling that spare cash will buy (computer, clothes, jewelry etc. cost about the same everywhere). If you can put up with the hour+ commute each way and you want the American Dream of a house with a yard, you'll be leveraged out the butt for a $4-500K house out in the sticks and eating ramen noodles so you can make your house payment.
I was going to say you'd do it as a hobbyist for educational purposes, but then your comment beat me to it. With WAP+gateways+4 port switch selling for $60, there's not many practical reasons for doing it yourself unless you need some custom iptables firewall rules.
Working phone support just plain sucks. It takes you 20 minutes to talk them through some procedure you could do in 30 sec in person. Windows XP has remote control, but talking them through starting a remote control session is as bad as fixing the problem. Doing carry-in or house call repairs aren't as bad, but inevitably, you'll get sucked in to providing user training tutorial help rather than computer problem fixing help. Remember, this is a freelance or help the family scenario where you have the luxury of time. In a professional call center like an ISP or a Dell Computer, they're under tremendous time pressure with a call queue maybe 1/2 hr long or more. All they do it read through a script and rush people off the phone, or they escalate to Level 2 or Level 3 support.
didn't research biology or geology
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Sure, it's just a plot device, but it's silly for the reviewer to portray this as hard, well-researched sci-fi. A mass extinction every 12,000 would be pretty obvious in the fossil record.
CDs are physical property. You buy them, you own them. You can't copy them or perform them publicly, but you can do anything else to them as you wish as your property. There may be import and export restrictions, but those are not based on copyright. The US has export controls for munitions and defense related technologies. Other countries may have import tariffs or censorship restrictions.
Distributors and wholesalers may be restricted from selling in countries where their contracts don't assign rights. Authorized retailers might have contracts that restrict them from buying unofficial imports, but under first sale doctrine nothing stops me from buying retail and taking it to another country to sell it.
It was a long response that didn't really answer anything. He essentially said, yes it's a contradiction. It's not illegal to circumvent the access controls of a public domain work, but it is illegal to traffic in the tools of circumvention. It's not a problem now. If it gets to be a problem, Congress or the Copyright Office would probably do something or they might not. If you think it's a problem, you can always comment to the Copyright Office during the DMCA's periodic review.
Well the specs in the Slashdot blurb are a little off. According to the Univ of Missouri site, it weighs 822 lbs with driver. Of that 176 lbs is the driver and 320 lbs is batteries.
A Prius has about the same surface area as one of these solar racers. If you covered the entire car with solar cells, you'd get about the same power, 1500W max in bright sunlight at high noon. That's about 2HP which is less power than a 50cc moped, maybe as much power as a lawnmower, and maybe as much power as 3-4 professional bicycle racers. 2HP might be enough to run the headlights and A/C, but forget about it for moving 3000lbs of car + passengers.
The way these patent suits usually gets settled is with a cross-licensing agreement. Company A sues Company B for patent infringement. Company B looks through own portfolio for patents that might be infringed by Company A's products, and files a counterclaim. Then they settle out of court by agreeing to license each other's patents with maybe a small payment one way or the other.
Except here, Intertrust doesn't make any products. They're just an IP holding company. It still might be possible to go after Intertrust's investors, Sony and Phillips, for some patent infringement claim and settle out of court that way. Thus preserving the status quo in patent law.
And they're understaffed compared to a more expensive stores where there's more employees to keep an eye on the customers, i.e. "can I help you find something today?"
"Bullet is iron, diameter is 5 mm, length 25 mm, weight is 2,75 g. Muzzle velocity about 33 m/s."
In comparison, an air rifle shoots a 4.5mm pellet at about 800 ft/s.
Re:on second thought, pass the lead gloves please.
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DU is almost pure U-238 which is less radioactive than the U-235 used to make bombs, but I suspect some of the health risks of uranium are chemical instead of radiological. Uranium is a heavy metal like lead or mercury. Breathing in uranium dust or drinking contaminated water can't be good.
"Market forces should be deciding the fate of the music industry, not Congress"
Econ 101 doesn't apply here. Economics deals with the allocation of scarce resources. Information is a limitless resource; it can be transmitted and copied endlessly. Only the artificial construct of Copyright Law makes it scarce (not necessarily a bad thing if there is balance as the Founders intended). The means of reproduction, like printing presses, photocopiers, and computers, are a scarce resource, but they're getting cheaper all the time. Other things that go into an album like a musician's time and creativity are scarce, but that's a miniscule fraction of the price of a CD. A musician's time is more directly related to things like live concerts, and there you'll see market forces at work.
As long as it's just for data transfer and he's keeping backups of the data, I guess good for him, but personally I'd be pretty nervous about shipping damage knowing how package handlers throw around those boxes. Think you did a good job packing? Would you throw the box down a flight of stairs? Remember this story?
I'm guessing what probably happened was it gave you a receipt and not enough money. At least with a receipt you can inspect the results of your transaction and complain to the bank. Electronic voting with no paper trail means you won't ever know if something goes wrong.
As bad as ATM security might be, they're still better than voting machines in one way. There's a paper trail. They print a paper receipt for the user and print an internal receipt for its own records. IMHO a paper trail is even more important than open source or code review.
Yes, supply chain tracking would be the honest, non-intrusive way to use RFID tags. I have no problem tagging pallets or even tagging retail packages because the packaging gets thrown out. But why are they worried about privacy advocates and scare stories in the news if they're only tagging pallets. The only reason to tag the product and not the packaging is to track the consumer after the sale just like an animal on those nature shows.
Considering that spam king Alan Ralsky lives in West Bloomfield, MI, and that Ralsky has bragged numerous times to news reporters about the millions of advertisements that he's sent, I would say yes this law would be successful in either landing the Spam King in jail or run out of the state.
Agree there. On an Athlon, mistakes like a loose heatsink are instant death no matter if it's overclocked or not. Other things that cause permanent damage like electromigration are long term effects. They'll take much longer to appear than the 30 day warranty on an OEM CPU, and for retail CPUs the warranty is void anyway if you use any other heatsink than the retail cooler which is adequate for the stock speed and not much more.
Before GPS, autopilots worked by inertia navigation. They used gyros and accelerometers to measure direction and accelerations. Then they integrated measurements over time to get velocity and position. New autopilots could probably still do inertial navigation too.
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"So my question to you; how do you get escalated??"
Depends on the place I guess. In some places Level 1 is more like Level 0, with barely computer-literate people reading from a script. If the script doesn't work it gets escalated. Some places might not be as organized with their policies and procedures, and they'd let a Level 1 tech flounder for an hour on the phone, but most times they're under pressure to finish the call and clear the queue.
Maybe the OP was being facetious, but $100k buys a comfortable, though hardly lavish lifestyle in Sili Valley. If you want to live close to work, that's an apartment in a safe neighborhood, nice car, and all the bling that spare cash will buy (computer, clothes, jewelry etc. cost about the same everywhere). If you can put up with the hour+ commute each way and you want the American Dream of a house with a yard, you'll be leveraged out the butt for a $4-500K house out in the sticks and eating ramen noodles so you can make your house payment.
I was going to say you'd do it as a hobbyist for educational purposes, but then your comment beat me to it. With WAP+gateways+4 port switch selling for $60, there's not many practical reasons for doing it yourself unless you need some custom iptables firewall rules.
They're a relic of a different time. Think Open Standards, not Open Source. The term Open Source only dates back to 1998.
Working phone support just plain sucks. It takes you 20 minutes to talk them through some procedure you could do in 30 sec in person. Windows XP has remote control, but talking them through starting a remote control session is as bad as fixing the problem. Doing carry-in or house call repairs aren't as bad, but inevitably, you'll get sucked in to providing user training tutorial help rather than computer problem fixing help. Remember, this is a freelance or help the family scenario where you have the luxury of time. In a professional call center like an ISP or a Dell Computer, they're under tremendous time pressure with a call queue maybe 1/2 hr long or more. All they do it read through a script and rush people off the phone, or they escalate to Level 2 or Level 3 support.
Sure, it's just a plot device, but it's silly for the reviewer to portray this as hard, well-researched sci-fi. A mass extinction every 12,000 would be pretty obvious in the fossil record.
CDs are physical property. You buy them, you own them. You can't copy them or perform them publicly, but you can do anything else to them as you wish as your property. There may be import and export restrictions, but those are not based on copyright. The US has export controls for munitions and defense related technologies. Other countries may have import tariffs or censorship restrictions.
Distributors and wholesalers may be restricted from selling in countries where their contracts don't assign rights. Authorized retailers might have contracts that restrict them from buying unofficial imports, but under first sale doctrine nothing stops me from buying retail and taking it to another country to sell it.
It was a long response that didn't really answer anything. He essentially said, yes it's a contradiction. It's not illegal to circumvent the access controls of a public domain work, but it is illegal to traffic in the tools of circumvention. It's not a problem now. If it gets to be a problem, Congress or the Copyright Office would probably do something or they might not. If you think it's a problem, you can always comment to the Copyright Office during the DMCA's periodic review.
Yeah, after posting I saw someone else point out that the FAQ was for an old car. My bad. :)
Well the specs in the Slashdot blurb are a little off. According to the Univ of Missouri site, it weighs 822 lbs with driver. Of that 176 lbs is the driver and 320 lbs is batteries.
A Prius has about the same surface area as one of these solar racers. If you covered the entire car with solar cells, you'd get about the same power, 1500W max in bright sunlight at high noon. That's about 2HP which is less power than a 50cc moped, maybe as much power as a lawnmower, and maybe as much power as 3-4 professional bicycle racers. 2HP might be enough to run the headlights and A/C, but forget about it for moving 3000lbs of car + passengers.
The way these patent suits usually gets settled is with a cross-licensing agreement. Company A sues Company B for patent infringement. Company B looks through own portfolio for patents that might be infringed by Company A's products, and files a counterclaim. Then they settle out of court by agreeing to license each other's patents with maybe a small payment one way or the other.
Except here, Intertrust doesn't make any products. They're just an IP holding company. It still might be possible to go after Intertrust's investors, Sony and Phillips, for some patent infringement claim and settle out of court that way. Thus preserving the status quo in patent law.
And they're understaffed compared to a more expensive stores where there's more employees to keep an eye on the customers, i.e. "can I help you find something today?"
"Bullet is iron, diameter is 5 mm, length 25 mm, weight is 2,75 g.
Muzzle velocity about 33 m/s."
In comparison, an air rifle shoots a 4.5mm pellet at about 800 ft/s.
DU is almost pure U-238 which is less radioactive than the U-235 used to make bombs, but I suspect some of the health risks of uranium are chemical instead of radiological. Uranium is a heavy metal like lead or mercury. Breathing in uranium dust or drinking contaminated water can't be good.
"I can't think of a single legitimate reason to 'rent' a mailing list."
So tbey can charge more to 'sell' a mailing list?
"Market forces should be deciding the fate of the music industry, not Congress"
Econ 101 doesn't apply here. Economics deals with the allocation of scarce resources. Information is a limitless resource; it can be transmitted and copied endlessly. Only the artificial construct of Copyright Law makes it scarce (not necessarily a bad thing if there is balance as the Founders intended). The means of reproduction, like printing presses, photocopiers, and computers, are a scarce resource, but they're getting cheaper all the time. Other things that go into an album like a musician's time and creativity are scarce, but that's a miniscule fraction of the price of a CD. A musician's time is more directly related to things like live concerts, and there you'll see market forces at work.
As long as it's just for data transfer and he's keeping backups of the data, I guess good for him, but personally I'd be pretty nervous about shipping damage knowing how package handlers throw around those boxes. Think you did a good job packing? Would you throw the box down a flight of stairs? Remember this story?
Not just that! Jack Wagner played Dr. Peter Burns on Melrose Place. That guy sure gets around.
Yeah, old news. This is footnote 39 in the OSI position paper on the SCO-IBM lawsuit.
I'm guessing what probably happened was it gave you a receipt and not enough money. At least with a receipt you can inspect the results of your transaction and complain to the bank. Electronic voting with no paper trail means you won't ever know if something goes wrong.
As bad as ATM security might be, they're still better than voting machines in one way. There's a paper trail. They print a paper receipt for the user and print an internal receipt for its own records. IMHO a paper trail is even more important than open source or code review.
Yes, supply chain tracking would be the honest, non-intrusive way to use RFID tags. I have no problem tagging pallets or even tagging retail packages because the packaging gets thrown out. But why are they worried about privacy advocates and scare stories in the news if they're only tagging pallets. The only reason to tag the product and not the packaging is to track the consumer after the sale just like an animal on those nature shows.
Considering that spam king Alan Ralsky lives in West Bloomfield, MI, and that Ralsky has bragged numerous times to news reporters about the millions of advertisements that he's sent, I would say yes this law would be successful in either landing the Spam King in jail or run out of the state.
Agree there. On an Athlon, mistakes like a loose heatsink are instant death no matter if it's overclocked or not. Other things that cause permanent damage like electromigration are long term effects. They'll take much longer to appear than the 30 day warranty on an OEM CPU, and for retail CPUs the warranty is void anyway if you use any other heatsink than the retail cooler which is adequate for the stock speed and not much more.
Before GPS, autopilots worked by inertia navigation. They used gyros and accelerometers to measure direction and accelerations. Then they integrated measurements over time to get velocity and position. New autopilots could probably still do inertial navigation too.