In the case of the executive, he would almost certainly have had an office with a lockable door and blinds on any internal windows, so being walked in on becomes a non-issue. The "janitorial issue" would still be a problem.
If the people involved were just looking, had their monitors turned away from any passers-by, and minimised the window when anyone come in, I would find it hard to see how that could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment for women (or men, or GLBT people, or straights, or whoever).
If the work gets done, security isn't compromised, and the people are discreet there is no inherent reason that porn should be banned from workplaces in general, unless it goes against the principles of the organisation (a religious group, for example), or is otherwise inappropriate (like a school).
Not only is there the difficulty of getting into many harbours with large sailing ships, but we should also remember that sailing ships cannot sail directly into the wind, and make some leeway when sailing across the wind. This means that the Suez and Panama canals are effectively impassable under sail, and so tugs would be needed to avoid the much longer journeys around the south. There is also the issue of calms, and the need to follow the trade winds. These will cause massive variability in shipping schedules, which would in turn prevent just-in-time stock control working for imported goods.
Seriously though, I think part of the problem is my complete lack of ability to understand why anyone would have a launch party for an operating system.
Because MS are giving out money for supplies, which means free (as in beer) beer. The requirements are pretty minimal as well, or so I hear.
A friend of mine uses bluetooth devices for the same thing. If his phone or headset go out of range, his computer instantly locks. I don't think he has implemented auto-unlock, but it would probably be fairly simple to do.
To prevent misunderstandings: Neither I, nor any of my friends or family, have ever been convicted of anything. For that matter, i have never even been fined or ticketed, so none of this is out of self-interest.
Once someone has paid their debt to society as ordered by a judge/magistrate, they should be free to go about their lives. I do believe that criminal records should be publicly available, for potential employers and so on to inspect, but at the end of the day, the decision to employ someone is a gamble, and any past crimes are just one more factor to take into account.
In this case, his employer thought that he would be good at his job and had turned over a new leaf, and so would be a good risk, and made a judgement call on that basis.
No, they'll break into them themselves (so they can ply games and watch illegal movies, and to get around the web filtering) as soon as a simple program to do it is produced. Of course, a black-hat could produce such a utility which adds some malware to it.
A bank teller is just there to act as a nice UI tot he bank's computer system. A good appearance is a key part of UI design, and it is no worse than hiring a pretty newsreader or receptionist: skill is pretty much irrelevant, looks aren't. It is the back-office staff and the loan officers and so on who need to have some skill.
If a large number of the protesters managed to get themselves trained in the correct technique for performing a citizen's arrest, and then handed these troublemakers over to the police, it would both undermine any such dirty tricks and legitimise the protest in the eyes of the public. Also, publicly posting photographs of anyone causing breaking the law, and anyone handed over to the police, would make dirty tricks harder to pull off.
The best part about that is that if they want such photos taken down, they have to admit who they are, even if they weren't caught at the time, which would be especially useful in places without a protection such as the Fifth Amendment.
In Britain, a pretty large proportion of bandwidth is used for iPlayer downloads, which are legal. Youtube is also very popular, and is mostly legal - they have a royalty agreement with the MCPS.
Youtube cannot be downloaded off-peak and then viewed during the day. At least, not without illegally jail braking the content from the site.
Would watching videos which have been cached by your system be violation of the anti-jailbreaking laws? For that matter, would caching a legally streamed file be an illegal copy (and even if it is, is there any loss to the originator if it is from somewhere like youtube where it can be repeatedly watched without fee)? If so, would watching a copy from an ISP's cache or a corporate proxy be a violation? I suspect that such a case would make a lot of scum-sucking dirtbags very happy.
Actually, in Australia, if the defendant wins they will get their costs paid (IANAL, this came from an ISP rep on Whirlpool), and this is part of the reason why no downloaders have bee sued there, and the industry hasn't even bothered filing a suit to get the customer's details. The other reasons are that only actual damages can be awarded, and only the actual downloader, not the ISP customer, is responsible.
Also, I suspect that if they won against a downloader (a leach, so no losses due to uploads, although these would also be hard to prove), the damage to *them* would be far less per file than the cost of buying legally, because the loss wouldn't include wholesaler/retailer profits and overheads, and they really would not want people to notice that.
AIUI, the loser usually has to pay costs, but I hope there is some sort of reasonableness requirement, so you wouldn't end up with damages of $500 and costs of $100000 or something silly like that
Maybe someone got confused, sine AARNet give free unlimited quota from 8PM to 8AM, and free access to peers (including Internode and hence all their mirrors and all of.on.net; Google and YouTube, and a load of other domains) to at least some of their customers.
(Before anyone gets too excited/jealous, AARNet is the Australian Academic Research Network, and access is strictly limited, so no, you cannot get this at home.)
RTFA: the AAPT isn't making the claim, AFACT (the Australian MPAA/RIAA) is. secondly, AAPT offer unlimited data overnight, and it was their marketing of this that got them into trouble. Thirdly, Conroy has promised that the new FTTH network will be built, although I do realise that this isn't a hugely significant promise, especially given its source.
have you considered an alternative to FPTP voting? With the instant-runoff system (and plenty of other preferential systems), you still end up with 2 main parties, but you also get a few seats held by minor parties and independents, because people don't have to worry about tactical voting and so can safely vote for a minor candidate. At the same time, you still have a specific representative for each area, which is a big advantage over proportional representation.
It would be hard to get it implemented, because it would harm the existing 2 parties (not so much because they will instantly become unable to gain a majority, but becuase other parties will become more relevant), and so hey would block it.
I suspect most of those in favour of Fair Tax and similar systems are the upper-middle class, who don't get benefits which the lower and lower-middle class get, but don't have enough to use income-hiding schemes or personal political favours.
If you consider the typical/.er, the person is likely to be under 30, have no children, and probably singe, with either a reasonably well-paid job or a good hope of getting one. This means that a good chunk of/.ers aren't going to get baby bonuses, joint-tax advantages, income support, and so on. This means that they aren't shilling, they're just acting in what they perceive to be their own benefit.
There is also perhaps a hope that a very simple tax system would make it harder for the top earners to avoid tax. For example, one common feature of flat tax schemes seems to be charging corporate and natural persons the same taxes, preventing the common (at least here) technique of having a one-man company contract out your services and then paying yourself a tiny fraction of that, dumping the rest into trusts or other tax-free structures. Whilst this is done by a large cross-section of society (it is common here for tradesmen to do this), knowing that there are multi-millionaires getting away with only paying 30% or so income tax is the sort of thing which leads to jealousy and resentment
Personally, I think that although these flat-tax schemes sound good for me personally, any actual implementation would probably be as bad or worse than the current system in practice, both for me and for society as a whole.
Do you realise that in some countries region coding is not legally enforceable? For example, in Australia, using region coding on the player may be a violation of the Trade Practices Act (according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission).
with video everywhere, you could have all sorts of cool feat... Oh fuck, I've just been meatroll'd by the wall. With video screens everywhere, there would be plenty with poorly secured input feeds, and it would be insane to hope that they wouldn't get used for meatspin, goatse, rickrolls, and so on.
One other point: how hot is the inside of a baking cupcake? I know that roast meats are not heated above 85 degrees or so, even for poultry (and usually lower), even though the oven is far hotter.
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In the case of the executive, he would almost certainly have had an office with a lockable door and blinds on any internal windows, so being walked in on becomes a non-issue. The "janitorial issue" would still be a problem.
If the people involved were just looking, had their monitors turned away from any passers-by, and minimised the window when anyone come in, I would find it hard to see how that could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment for women (or men, or GLBT people, or straights, or whoever).
If the work gets done, security isn't compromised, and the people are discreet there is no inherent reason that porn should be banned from workplaces in general, unless it goes against the principles of the organisation (a religious group, for example), or is otherwise inappropriate (like a school).
Not only is there the difficulty of getting into many harbours with large sailing ships, but we should also remember that sailing ships cannot sail directly into the wind, and make some leeway when sailing across the wind. This means that the Suez and Panama canals are effectively impassable under sail, and so tugs would be needed to avoid the much longer journeys around the south. There is also the issue of calms, and the need to follow the trade winds. These will cause massive variability in shipping schedules, which would in turn prevent just-in-time stock control working for imported goods.
I assume the GP is referring to the federal counter-terrorism laws and South Australia's anti-bikie laws.
Actually, I'm going to one where the host got some money out of MS for expenses. He's not selling his soul for napkins, he's selling it for beer.
That's just so people stop saying they use good marketing to sell a bad product.
And BTW, your comment was definitely damning with faint praise.
Seriously though, I think part of the problem is my complete lack of ability to understand why anyone would have a launch party for an operating system.
Because MS are giving out money for supplies, which means free (as in beer) beer. The requirements are pretty minimal as well, or so I hear.
A friend of mine uses bluetooth devices for the same thing. If his phone or headset go out of range, his computer instantly locks. I don't think he has implemented auto-unlock, but it would probably be fairly simple to do.
To prevent misunderstandings: Neither I, nor any of my friends or family, have ever been convicted of anything. For that matter, i have never even been fined or ticketed, so none of this is out of self-interest.
Once someone has paid their debt to society as ordered by a judge/magistrate, they should be free to go about their lives. I do believe that criminal records should be publicly available, for potential employers and so on to inspect, but at the end of the day, the decision to employ someone is a gamble, and any past crimes are just one more factor to take into account.
In this case, his employer thought that he would be good at his job and had turned over a new leaf, and so would be a good risk, and made a judgement call on that basis.
Babies are those one step on the intelligence scale above lusers.
No, they'll break into them themselves (so they can ply games and watch illegal movies, and to get around the web filtering) as soon as a simple program to do it is produced. Of course, a black-hat could produce such a utility which adds some malware to it.
There would be enough for '3 UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "3-Strikes" Rule'
A bank teller is just there to act as a nice UI tot he bank's computer system. A good appearance is a key part of UI design, and it is no worse than hiring a pretty newsreader or receptionist: skill is pretty much irrelevant, looks aren't. It is the back-office staff and the loan officers and so on who need to have some skill.
If a large number of the protesters managed to get themselves trained in the correct technique for performing a citizen's arrest, and then handed these troublemakers over to the police, it would both undermine any such dirty tricks and legitimise the protest in the eyes of the public. Also, publicly posting photographs of anyone causing breaking the law, and anyone handed over to the police, would make dirty tricks harder to pull off.
The best part about that is that if they want such photos taken down, they have to admit who they are, even if they weren't caught at the time, which would be especially useful in places without a protection such as the Fifth Amendment.
In Britain, a pretty large proportion of bandwidth is used for iPlayer downloads, which are legal. Youtube is also very popular, and is mostly legal - they have a royalty agreement with the MCPS.
Youtube cannot be downloaded off-peak and then viewed during the day. At least, not without illegally jail braking the content from the site.
Would watching videos which have been cached by your system be violation of the anti-jailbreaking laws? For that matter, would caching a legally streamed file be an illegal copy (and even if it is, is there any loss to the originator if it is from somewhere like youtube where it can be repeatedly watched without fee)? If so, would watching a copy from an ISP's cache or a corporate proxy be a violation?
I suspect that such a case would make a lot of scum-sucking dirtbags very happy.
Actually, in Australia, if the defendant wins they will get their costs paid (IANAL, this came from an ISP rep on Whirlpool), and this is part of the reason why no downloaders have bee sued there, and the industry hasn't even bothered filing a suit to get the customer's details. The other reasons are that only actual damages can be awarded, and only the actual downloader, not the ISP customer, is responsible.
Also, I suspect that if they won against a downloader (a leach, so no losses due to uploads, although these would also be hard to prove), the damage to *them* would be far less per file than the cost of buying legally, because the loss wouldn't include wholesaler/retailer profits and overheads, and they really would not want people to notice that.
AIUI, the loser usually has to pay costs, but I hope there is some sort of reasonableness requirement, so you wouldn't end up with damages of $500 and costs of $100000 or something silly like that
Maybe someone got confused, sine AARNet give free unlimited quota from 8PM to 8AM, and free access to peers (including Internode and hence all their mirrors and all of .on.net; Google and YouTube, and a load of other domains) to at least some of their customers.
(Before anyone gets too excited/jealous, AARNet is the Australian Academic Research Network, and access is strictly limited, so no, you cannot get this at home.)
RTFA: the AAPT isn't making the claim, AFACT (the Australian MPAA/RIAA) is.
secondly, AAPT offer unlimited data overnight, and it was their marketing of this that got them into trouble.
Thirdly, Conroy has promised that the new FTTH network will be built, although I do realise that this isn't a hugely significant promise, especially given its source.
have you considered an alternative to FPTP voting? With the instant-runoff system (and plenty of other preferential systems), you still end up with 2 main parties, but you also get a few seats held by minor parties and independents, because people don't have to worry about tactical voting and so can safely vote for a minor candidate. At the same time, you still have a specific representative for each area, which is a big advantage over proportional representation.
It would be hard to get it implemented, because it would harm the existing 2 parties (not so much because they will instantly become unable to gain a majority, but becuase other parties will become more relevant), and so hey would block it.
I suspect most of those in favour of Fair Tax and similar systems are the upper-middle class, who don't get benefits which the lower and lower-middle class get, but don't have enough to use income-hiding schemes or personal political favours.
If you consider the typical /.er, the person is likely to be under 30, have no children, and probably singe, with either a reasonably well-paid job or a good hope of getting one. This means that a good chunk of /.ers aren't going to get baby bonuses, joint-tax advantages, income support, and so on. This means that they aren't shilling, they're just acting in what they perceive to be their own benefit.
There is also perhaps a hope that a very simple tax system would make it harder for the top earners to avoid tax. For example, one common feature of flat tax schemes seems to be charging corporate and natural persons the same taxes, preventing the common (at least here) technique of having a one-man company contract out your services and then paying yourself a tiny fraction of that, dumping the rest into trusts or other tax-free structures. Whilst this is done by a large cross-section of society (it is common here for tradesmen to do this), knowing that there are multi-millionaires getting away with only paying 30% or so income tax is the sort of thing which leads to jealousy and resentment
Personally, I think that although these flat-tax schemes sound good for me personally, any actual implementation would probably be as bad or worse than the current system in practice, both for me and for society as a whole.
Do you realise that in some countries region coding is not legally enforceable? For example, in Australia, using region coding on the player may be a violation of the Trade Practices Act (according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission).
For clarification, I was using Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Sorry about that, I know I should have added units.
Yeah, sorry, I was using Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Stupid mistake that, I should have known better
with video everywhere, you could have all sorts of cool feat... Oh fuck, I've just been meatroll'd by the wall.
With video screens everywhere, there would be plenty with poorly secured input feeds, and it would be insane to hope that they wouldn't get used for meatspin, goatse, rickrolls, and so on.
Don't be silly, we all know that AIDS is caused by a virus, but if you have a shower, you'll be fine.
One other point: how hot is the inside of a baking cupcake? I know that roast meats are not heated above 85 degrees or so, even for poultry (and usually lower), even though the oven is far hotter.