Of course it fails. Too often the uniform is trying to cover the slime. Clean gloves hide dirty hands. When I see a suit I think "used car salesman" or "politician".
Suits and ties are red flags for me to be on my guard. Especially if the tie is, in fact, red.;-)
If you are in Italy, the red flag is a blue tie. Hint: Berlusconi, talking about used car salesmen. Well, used car salesmen are actually a lot more respectable than some of our politicos.
About suits and ties being red flags, you are probably right, works here as well.
Suits and ties usually means: young, unexperienced, willing, cheap.
You can be young, cheap and unexperienced, yet be "sold" at a very high markup by your local Big4:-)
Well Nazist military who conspired against Hitler were indeed executed for treason. They infringed the law and their oath. But are heroes nonetheless.
Sometimes infringing the law is the only right thing to do.
The other leaks are about torture, execution of civilians (I find the distinction between citizens and non citizens disgusting but yes, US citizens as well) without due process, involvement of the US in interference with due process and democratic processes of allies (in cases regarding mass murder and war crimes in which the US were involved), trying to rig justice, knowing (and condoning) pollution of poor countries in Africa (the kind of pollution which causes death), corruption, condoning of corruption, small things such as sexual child abuse during "peace operations" and "exporting democracy". Why did they decide to classify instead of PROSECUTE THE GUILTY?
I wonder what would happen if say Google would go dark for a day, US only: replace the standard search page with a page "this is what you will see if the PROTECT-IP act becomes law". It seems, from the face of it, that this is basically the only thing Google can do to survive under such an act. Let the country feel how it would be, to do without their favourite search engine. Have Bing and Yahoo cooperate in this - all out for a day in the US, not a holiday or so, no a normal weekday - and the outcry should be sufficient. And it would give a good idea on the economic losses this bill could cause.
And in the meantime of course they would continue to provide services as usual in jurisdictions that are not affected, i.e. the rest of the world.
If that doesn't get the message home, nothing would, and the US is doomed.
Wikipedia just did that to Italy. The law proposal was amended within days of Wikipedia strike.
Maybe they SHOULD.
Yes because US never supported a group of terrorist, your hands are so clean on that issue.
Ehm, the US actually did actively support terrorist groups, finance them, educate them, and all that stuff.
The US even engaged in drugs traffic in order to illegally finance terrorist activities abroad (e.g.: Nicaragua) including rape, kidnappings, murder of civilians.
Ah, but it isn't terrorism if the US conveniently redefine this word whenever they feel like it.:-)
Come to terms with it: some of us experienced data loss, lousy (and costly support calls) to Microsoft, using their latest Windows Vista Ultimate.
If we hate it, it is more likely it comes from familiarity rather than from ignorance.
Windows Vista is slow and its "security" is a huge ineffective PITA.
I very much doubt Windows 7 will be any better.
this is garbage: vista drivers have more restrictions than their XP counterparts, so drivers which just worked on XP don't anymore.
This adds ZERO to security as you can write a misbehaved application which installs a driver "to do the dirty work". Also as VISTA requires user authorisation pretty much to do anything, chances are an unsuspecting user WILL give permission to the App.
The main issue is that you can't write a system application without writing drivers anymore.
This is both stupid and wrong.
I don't want Windows. FULL STOP.
I was a Vindows Vista early adopter.
I plan doing away with both Microsoft AND x86 Intel in my forthcoming netbooks.
Arm Cortex A8 and home cross-compiled embedded Linux is fine for me.
I don't plan buying Windows 7, _AT ALL_.
Well, it is only ironic that Berlusconi is passing this kind of law, talking about legality. In Italy's case the cure is probably electing someone slightly more democratic and more honest. In general this problem in my view arises from the industry having far too power, and using this power in order to interfere with things like "fair trial". The only real solution is letting these folks have LESS POWER, and this is only achievable by giving them less money.
Don't go to the movies, read a book, build something, find a hobby. If you really must, buy second hand home video and music.
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Of course it fails. Too often the uniform is trying to cover the slime. Clean gloves hide dirty hands. When I see a suit I think "used car salesman" or "politician".
Suits and ties are red flags for me to be on my guard. Especially if the tie is, in fact, red. ;-)
If you are in Italy, the red flag is a blue tie. Hint: Berlusconi, talking about used car salesmen. Well, used car salesmen are actually a lot more respectable than some of our politicos. About suits and ties being red flags, you are probably right, works here as well. Suits and ties usually means: young, unexperienced, willing, cheap. You can be young, cheap and unexperienced, yet be "sold" at a very high markup by your local Big4 :-)
Hail our new brain toting Swiss Overlords!
Well, if you want to save on memory upgrades on a mac you can buy off the shelf ram and install it yourself. It is easy and won't break the warranty.
They did, and they were hanged, as this argument DID NOT WORK.
Well Nazist military who conspired against Hitler were indeed executed for treason. They infringed the law and their oath. But are heroes nonetheless. Sometimes infringing the law is the only right thing to do.
The other leaks are about torture, execution of civilians (I find the distinction between citizens and non citizens disgusting but yes, US citizens as well) without due process, involvement of the US in interference with due process and democratic processes of allies (in cases regarding mass murder and war crimes in which the US were involved), trying to rig justice, knowing (and condoning) pollution of poor countries in Africa (the kind of pollution which causes death), corruption, condoning of corruption, small things such as sexual child abuse during "peace operations" and "exporting democracy". Why did they decide to classify instead of PROSECUTE THE GUILTY?
barbarians :-)
Flat out nothing. Happily switched to Mac and Linux. One of the best decisions I ever made.
I for one welcome our new wall climbing overloards
I wonder what would happen if say Google would go dark for a day, US only: replace the standard search page with a page "this is what you will see if the PROTECT-IP act becomes law". It seems, from the face of it, that this is basically the only thing Google can do to survive under such an act. Let the country feel how it would be, to do without their favourite search engine. Have Bing and Yahoo cooperate in this - all out for a day in the US, not a holiday or so, no a normal weekday - and the outcry should be sufficient. And it would give a good idea on the economic losses this bill could cause.
And in the meantime of course they would continue to provide services as usual in jurisdictions that are not affected, i.e. the rest of the world.
If that doesn't get the message home, nothing would, and the US is doomed.
Wikipedia just did that to Italy. The law proposal was amended within days of Wikipedia strike. Maybe they SHOULD.
Yes because US never supported a group of terrorist, your hands are so clean on that issue.
Ehm, the US actually did actively support terrorist groups, finance them, educate them, and all that stuff. The US even engaged in drugs traffic in order to illegally finance terrorist activities abroad (e.g.: Nicaragua) including rape, kidnappings, murder of civilians. Ah, but it isn't terrorism if the US conveniently redefine this word whenever they feel like it. :-)
The problem is that deep down, most robots know that killing off the humans would be the intelligent decision.
Come to terms with it: some of us experienced data loss, lousy (and costly support calls) to Microsoft, using their latest Windows Vista Ultimate. If we hate it, it is more likely it comes from familiarity rather than from ignorance. Windows Vista is slow and its "security" is a huge ineffective PITA. I very much doubt Windows 7 will be any better.
this is garbage: vista drivers have more restrictions than their XP counterparts, so drivers which just worked on XP don't anymore. This adds ZERO to security as you can write a misbehaved application which installs a driver "to do the dirty work". Also as VISTA requires user authorisation pretty much to do anything, chances are an unsuspecting user WILL give permission to the App. The main issue is that you can't write a system application without writing drivers anymore. This is both stupid and wrong.
Maybe he had red Do Nice Engineers Finish Last in Tough Times? by the same author http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3796861/Do-Nice-Engineers-Finish-Last-in-Tough-Times.htm and chose not to be too nice, uh?
Apparently someone did develop an EXT2 driver for Windows, which is available for free: http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
I don't want Windows. FULL STOP. I was a Vindows Vista early adopter. I plan doing away with both Microsoft AND x86 Intel in my forthcoming netbooks. Arm Cortex A8 and home cross-compiled embedded Linux is fine for me. I don't plan buying Windows 7, _AT ALL_.
Well, it is only ironic that Berlusconi is passing this kind of law, talking about legality. In Italy's case the cure is probably electing someone slightly more democratic and more honest. In general this problem in my view arises from the industry having far too power, and using this power in order to interfere with things like "fair trial". The only real solution is letting these folks have LESS POWER, and this is only achievable by giving them less money. Don't go to the movies, read a book, build something, find a hobby. If you really must, buy second hand home video and music.