OK, You're a commie... Well, at least a little too socialist for my taste. Let's look at this a little closer:
"no more hiring cheap foreign nationals to avoid paying for someone's experience" So you're saying that as a business owner I don't have the RIGHT to hire anyone I want? The market can't punish me for hiring the wrong people and reward me for hiring the right ones?
"They could make IT companies hire and/or keep older workers, no more getting turned out to field when you don't know the lastest language (even though you could learn it in a month)." If they can learn it, they should. No excuses, do it on your own time, make yourself more valuable, and you won't get the boot.
"They could give worker's a decent working day, nothing wrong with the occasional clock wrapper, but 70 hour weeks are insane and exploitive." Perhaps your funniest one yet. This isn't the triangle shirt factory, there are no chains on the doors, if your hours suck, walk your ass out. Or are you 'trapped' by that nice fat paycheck?
"They could use a guild structure to offer an employment path that doesn't go through college, but instead focuses on on the job training, which many geeks prefer to dry textbook learning" Ughh, I don't want my value to a company to be determined en masse. That's my biggest problem with working in an organized 'union' situation - I only get paid what my class gets paid. If my boss wants to promote me, or pay me more, there will invariably be some other 'guild' members to file a grievance for being passed over...
"someday you may not want to work a 70 hour week, you may have a family, you may grey hair or be balding, do you want to be replaced by an undercutting youngster or foreigner? " Some day you may own a software development company, do you want to be FORCED to hang on to dead weight, or do you want to hire the best people for the job?
Not to nit-pick, but the accord and the integra are substantially different cars, frame, suspension, wheels, and advertising $ spent are all different. And the Catera is based on an Opel, not the Cavalier...
I just can't stopp luaghing at the the thought of some stuffy lawyer dictating the phrase flyingbuttmonkeys half a dozen times... And imagine the water cooler chat too: "Hey Bill, what are we doing abou the flyingbuttmonkey issue?" "Well Biff, I'm sure not gonna sit on this flyingbuttmonkey thing any longer" "Hey Sue, did you get that flyingbuttmonkey thing out for me?"
hahahahaha...
CDPD vs Palm VII? You must be kidding, right? CDPD is twice as fast, gives your palm real TCP/IP access, and costs anywhere from $5-$15 less per month. The palm VII is tied to the Palm.net service, and you have to use PQAs for everything (you can still use them with a CDPD service if you want, so it's not an advantage). Added bonus, you can take the modem off and revert to a smaller form factor if desired (note - my Palm Vx _with_ it's Minstrel V is smaller than the Palm VII). For 95% of users, the VII is not worth the drawbacks.
to any person with whom the caller has an established business relationship at the time the call is made
Couldn't ABC make the argument that the population of the USA has an established business relationship with them based simply on the fact that everyone has watched ABC at some point? They make money by selling our eyeballs, so if we give them our eyes to sell, that sounds like a business relationship to me!
When California raised its freeway limit from 55 mph to 65 mph four years ago, average speeds dutifully rose from 65mph to 75mph
That's a popular myth that the NHTSA would like you to believe, but actually, the median speed rose from 68.4 to 69.2mph. Not exactly earth shattering, is it?
The only reason the MPAA regulates itself is to keep the gov't off of it's back. Had the video game industry decided to do teh same, there would be no law like this on the books....
It just ain't so... According to an interview on KROQ this morning, teh movie was _never_ shown to tes audiences, because they were rushing to get it done (they finished less than a week before film shipped). In fact, after Fox realized how big this would be, they released more $$ to shoot additional scenes taht the $$grubbers had ruled out.
Have you read the "preliminary report" from ICANN? It reads worse than 75% of the cruft that comes out of the US Congress. What in the hell are they thinking? Are they so full of themselves that they feel that all the 'whereas' and 'be it resolved' BS is obligatory? That steaming pile of over-politicized, self-important, penis-extending, CRAP pisses me off more than anything else I've read on/. in weeks....
You're almost as stupid as cringley... Filtering E-mail requires access to the application layer - re-routing all E-mail is an entirely different matter, one neither I or the article ever alluded to.
Now, I'm not going to debate the merits/dangers of carnivore here, I just want to point out a few 'inacuracies' from Cringley's column.
Every ISP I've ever seen, been in, or worked at used (at the very least) layer 2 switches to isolate colo'd servers. Some would even go as far as layer 3 switching and subnetting. How on earth does Cringley think that any colo'd server could sniff an entire ISP's network?
I used to think that Cringley had at least a modicum of clue, but now I wonder. In an earlier part of his column, he suggests that every router could be set up to re-direct E-mail to the FBI with 'just a few lines' of configuration in the router. What a bunch of crap! Filtering E-mail requires access to the application layer, not the network layer as most ISP's routers would look at. And to suggest that such a scheme would inflict no penalty on teh routers is just ludicrous. Jumping from layer 3 routing to layer 7 routing would be a serious hit, especially on a GB level router.
sigh.... Unfortunately, I suppose there are people in this world that are ignorant enough to write stuff like that, let alone buy it.
I'll go you one further, that Police CD I just crushed under my car seat (every breath you take, not cheap to replace), can I replace the songs by duping my friend's CD? How about ripping my friend's CD to play in my MP3car?
I think all of us would agree that that's logical fair use, however according to th big cheese at RIAA, that's not fair use...
These days, if you want to settle down early, raise a family in a small 2 bedroom house, with only 1 TV, 1 car, and almost never eat out (basically live a 50's life in the 00's), you can have a relatively stress free life. We don't want to do that though.
We choose to push ourselves, mentally, physically, and yes - emotionally, to excel at our jobs. The technology that we use is merely a commodity catalyst, remove it and I can guarantee that we'd find another. I know this because we're not content to work the same job for 30 years, heck most of us move on (and up) before 3 years go by. We (I'm including probably 90% of you reading here) want to be the indespensible prized employee, a fast-burner, top of our game, and highly promotable. If that means working 4 hours after you get home, or taking a laptop with you on vacation, we'll do it. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but that's the path we've chosen.
I don't _need_ a six figure income, nor do I need the Sea-Doo in my garage, or the convertible next to it. Hell, at 24, I don't even _need_ to own my own home, but it's what I chose to do. It really has nothing to do with the technology that we use to achieve our goals, there's just been a fundamental change in those goals. Maybe generation.com is too materialistic, maybe we oughta slow down, smell the roses, crap in the woods - whatever. But maybe, just maybe, we're right!
I wouldn't much mind if this sort of thing required a warrant and if they were required to toss any data without a specific person's (or IP, at the outside) name/id on it.
Sigh, the FBI does rquire a warrant to use Carnivore, and to top it off, it's _really_ hard to get. As for tossing extraneous data, it's the software that analyzes all the traffic, not humans. IANAFBIA, but from my experience, c-vore only _collects_ data on the target, agents don't even see the rest of the cruft.
Let's get off of our parannoid horses for a minute, and think about this rationally. Do you _really_ think that the FBI would waste the thousands of hours of manpower it would require to manually analyze just one hour's worth of unfiltered data? Even if they did see that metallica.MP3 file you e-mailed to your aunt, would they really care enough to note who you are? Of course not, they're after the sick-ass guy who brags about whipping pre-pubescent girls and rubbing salt in their wounds (trust me, I'm _not_ overstating this).
Besides, if you really need to overthrow the gov't (of course one day we will, history teaches us that) you'll just have to use encryption...
Who do you sue in a bankrupt company, and more importantly, who pays the damages? They're already bankrupt, what do they care if another $100M is aded to their debt?
You missed a LOT of important points here. I don't really give a crap about home users, it's the thousands of PCs I have to support at work that concern me. Think about it, if each one has it's own recovery CD that can only be used with it, I'm screwed. We build our own rebuild CDs, with the PCs configured the way we want, with the drivers we want, the software we want, the services running (or stopped) per our desires. I could never use an OEM, off the shelf recovery CD for work without quadrupling my tech's workload when prepping new PCs or re-distributing PCs.
What a load of crap. I pay my ISP for straight juice, no filtering, no caching, nothing but juice. If they started forcing me to use a filtered service, I'd be gone in a flash. Now, as an option - that might be nice for some users, but you can't just go around filtering ports at the ISP because they might be used by a trojan. All that'd do is make the authors use more common ports for their apps...
Siezing evidence is standard procedure in a criminal investigation. The PC is generally locked down, then hooked up to another PC running investigative software. Sometimes a sector copy of the HD is taken and the evidence is collected off of that.
The collected evidence is used by the investigators and the DA to build their case, and generally presented in court and explained to the jury by an expert witness.
Sorry to tell you, but Canada has some of the strictest gun registration laws around - at least for anything other than a plain old hunting rifle/shotgun.
So what do we do when we need ~1 million RIMMS post haste? We pay a little more (or flex our muscle) to get priority. What does the rest of the world do? They a) pay _even more_ b) wait interminably for the prices to come back down to the merely astronomical level (all the while pissing off their customers) or c) screw it and jump to DDR-DRAM. This does not look good for the short term _availability_, and the long term _viability_ of RIMMs.
People do NOT go to jail for trying to pass oregano off as pot, at least not in the US of A. The penal codes specifically define a crime as one where an actual illegal act took place. Even cops busting pedos have to use _real_ child porn to do it (usually pics of victims used with the family's permission, the FBI has a file of them, and it's a pain in the @$$ to get them). If a cop tries to sell baby powder as coke, he can't bust the buyer...
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OK, You're a commie... Well, at least a little too socialist for my taste. Let's look at this a little closer:
"no more hiring cheap foreign nationals to avoid paying for someone's experience"
So you're saying that as a business owner I don't have the RIGHT to hire anyone I want? The market can't punish me for hiring the wrong people and reward me for hiring the right ones?
"They could make IT companies hire and/or keep older workers, no more getting turned out to field when you don't know the lastest language (even though you could learn it in a month)."
If they can learn it, they should. No excuses, do it on your own time, make yourself more valuable, and you won't get the boot.
"They could give worker's a decent working day, nothing wrong with the occasional clock wrapper, but 70 hour weeks are insane and exploitive."
Perhaps your funniest one yet. This isn't the triangle shirt factory, there are no chains on the doors, if your hours suck, walk your ass out. Or are you 'trapped' by that nice fat paycheck?
"They could use a guild structure to offer an employment path that doesn't go through college, but instead focuses on on the job training, which many geeks prefer to dry textbook learning"
Ughh, I don't want my value to a company to be determined en masse. That's my biggest problem with working in an organized 'union' situation - I only get paid what my class gets paid. If my boss wants to promote me, or pay me more, there will invariably be some other 'guild' members to file a grievance for being passed over...
"someday you may not want to work a 70 hour week, you may have a family, you may grey hair or be balding, do you want to be replaced by an undercutting youngster or foreigner? "
Some day you may own a software development company, do you want to be FORCED to hang on to dead weight, or do you want to hire the best people for the job?
Not to nit-pick, but the accord and the integra are substantially different cars, frame, suspension, wheels, and advertising $ spent are all different. And the Catera is based on an Opel, not the Cavalier...
I just can't stopp luaghing at the the thought of some stuffy lawyer dictating the phrase flyingbuttmonkeys half a dozen times... And imagine the water cooler chat too: "Hey Bill, what are we doing abou the flyingbuttmonkey issue?" "Well Biff, I'm sure not gonna sit on this flyingbuttmonkey thing any longer" "Hey Sue, did you get that flyingbuttmonkey thing out for me?"
hahahahaha...
CDPD vs Palm VII? You must be kidding, right?
CDPD is twice as fast, gives your palm real TCP/IP access, and costs anywhere from $5-$15 less per month. The palm VII is tied to the Palm.net service, and you have to use PQAs for everything (you can still use them with a CDPD service if you want, so it's not an advantage).
Added bonus, you can take the modem off and revert to a smaller form factor if desired (note - my Palm Vx _with_ it's Minstrel V is smaller than the Palm VII).
For 95% of users, the VII is not worth the drawbacks.
Couldn't ABC make the argument that the population of the USA has an established business relationship with them based simply on the fact that everyone has watched ABC at some point? They make money by selling our eyeballs, so if we give them our eyes to sell, that sounds like a business relationship to me!
That's a popular myth that the NHTSA would like you to believe, but actually, the median speed rose from 68.4 to 69.2mph. Not exactly earth shattering, is it?
The only reason the MPAA regulates itself is to keep the gov't off of it's back. Had the video game industry decided to do teh same, there would be no law like this on the books....
It just ain't so... According to an interview on KROQ this morning, teh movie was _never_ shown to tes audiences, because they were rushing to get it done (they finished less than a week before film shipped). In fact, after Fox realized how big this would be, they released more $$ to shoot additional scenes taht the $$grubbers had ruled out.
According to the 'Comment Options' page, it can happen if the user has a small comment penalty.
Umm, it could easily have been moderated to -2, thus disappearing... Not everything has a nasty reason behind it.
Have you read the "preliminary report" from ICANN? It reads worse than 75% of the cruft that comes out of the US Congress. What in the hell are they thinking? Are they so full of themselves that they feel that all the 'whereas' and 'be it resolved' BS is obligatory? That steaming pile of over-politicized, self-important, penis-extending, CRAP pisses me off more than anything else I've read on
You're almost as stupid as cringley... Filtering E-mail requires access to the application layer - re-routing all E-mail is an entirely different matter, one neither I or the article ever alluded to.
Now, I'm not going to debate the merits/dangers of carnivore here, I just want to point out a few 'inacuracies' from Cringley's column.
Every ISP I've ever seen, been in, or worked at used (at the very least) layer 2 switches to isolate colo'd servers. Some would even go as far as layer 3 switching and subnetting. How on earth does Cringley think that any colo'd server could sniff an entire ISP's network?
I used to think that Cringley had at least a modicum of clue, but now I wonder. In an earlier part of his column, he suggests that every router could be set up to re-direct E-mail to the FBI with 'just a few lines' of configuration in the router. What a bunch of crap! Filtering E-mail requires access to the application layer, not the network layer as most ISP's routers would look at. And to suggest that such a scheme would inflict no penalty on teh routers is just ludicrous. Jumping from layer 3 routing to layer 7 routing would be a serious hit, especially on a GB level router.
sigh.... Unfortunately, I suppose there are people in this world that are ignorant enough to write stuff like that, let alone buy it.
I'll go you one further, that Police CD I just crushed under my car seat (every breath you take, not cheap to replace), can I replace the songs by duping my friend's CD? How about ripping my friend's CD to play in my MP3car?
I think all of us would agree that that's logical fair use, however according to th big cheese at RIAA, that's not fair use...
Because he's got a Vortex Tornado X2 just waiting for you baby! BTW - his mouse is poised over cmdr. taco as we speak..
These days, if you want to settle down early, raise a family in a small 2 bedroom house, with only 1 TV, 1 car, and almost never eat out (basically live a 50's life in the 00's), you can have a relatively stress free life. We don't want to do that though.
We choose to push ourselves, mentally, physically, and yes - emotionally, to excel at our jobs. The technology that we use is merely a commodity catalyst, remove it and I can guarantee that we'd find another. I know this because we're not content to work the same job for 30 years, heck most of us move on (and up) before 3 years go by. We (I'm including probably 90% of you reading here) want to be the indespensible prized employee, a fast-burner, top of our game, and highly promotable. If that means working 4 hours after you get home, or taking a laptop with you on vacation, we'll do it. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but that's the path we've chosen.
I don't _need_ a six figure income, nor do I need the Sea-Doo in my garage, or the convertible next to it. Hell, at 24, I don't even _need_ to own my own home, but it's what I chose to do. It really has nothing to do with the technology that we use to achieve our goals, there's just been a fundamental change in those goals. Maybe generation.com is too materialistic, maybe we oughta slow down, smell the roses, crap in the woods - whatever. But maybe, just maybe, we're right!
Sigh, the FBI does rquire a warrant to use Carnivore, and to top it off, it's _really_ hard to get. As for tossing extraneous data, it's the software that analyzes all the traffic, not humans. IANAFBIA, but from my experience, c-vore only _collects_ data on the target, agents don't even see the rest of the cruft.
Let's get off of our parannoid horses for a minute, and think about this rationally. Do you _really_ think that the FBI would waste the thousands of hours of manpower it would require to manually analyze just one hour's worth of unfiltered data? Even if they did see that metallica.MP3 file you e-mailed to your aunt, would they really care enough to note who you are? Of course not, they're after the sick-ass guy who brags about whipping pre-pubescent girls and rubbing salt in their wounds (trust me, I'm _not_ overstating this).
Besides, if you really need to overthrow the gov't (of course one day we will, history teaches us that) you'll just have to use encryption...
Who do you sue in a bankrupt company, and more importantly, who pays the damages? They're already bankrupt, what do they care if another $100M is aded to their debt?
You missed a LOT of important points here. I don't really give a crap about home users, it's the thousands of PCs I have to support at work that concern me.
Think about it, if each one has it's own recovery CD that can only be used with it, I'm screwed. We build our own rebuild CDs, with the PCs configured the way we want, with the drivers we want, the software we want, the services running (or stopped) per our desires. I could never use an OEM, off the shelf recovery CD for work without quadrupling my tech's workload when prepping new PCs or re-distributing PCs.
What a load of crap. I pay my ISP for straight juice, no filtering, no caching, nothing but juice. If they started forcing me to use a filtered service, I'd be gone in a flash. Now, as an option - that might be nice for some users, but you can't just go around filtering ports at the ISP because they might be used by a trojan. All that'd do is make the authors use more common ports for their apps...
Wow, now even the posters aren't reading the articles.... The movie is about 50GB
Siezing evidence is standard procedure in a criminal investigation. The PC is generally locked down, then hooked up to another PC running investigative software. Sometimes a sector copy of the HD is taken and the evidence is collected off of that.
The collected evidence is used by the investigators and the DA to build their case, and generally presented in court and explained to the jury by an expert witness.
Sorry to tell you, but Canada has some of the strictest gun registration laws around - at least for anything other than a plain old hunting rifle/shotgun.
So what do we do when we need ~1 million RIMMS post haste? We pay a little more (or flex our muscle) to get priority. What does the rest of the world do? They a) pay _even more_ b) wait interminably for the prices to come back down to the merely astronomical level (all the while pissing off their customers) or c) screw it and jump to DDR-DRAM.
This does not look good for the short term _availability_, and the long term _viability_ of RIMMs.
People do NOT go to jail for trying to pass oregano off as pot, at least not in the US of A. The penal codes specifically define a crime as one where an actual illegal act took place. Even cops busting pedos have to use _real_ child porn to do it (usually pics of victims used with the family's permission, the FBI has a file of them, and it's a pain in the @$$ to get them). If a cop tries to sell baby powder as coke, he can't bust the buyer...