Disclosing trade secrets has done and does do appreciable damage to the company for whom they are secrets.
???!!!
Disclosing Apple's "trade secrets" in casu means telling the public about some upcoming launch -- and this will enhance the hype about the launched product, thus enhancing sales (I would know, I do have a fifth-gen iPod... which was hyped this exact way). Absolutely no harm was done: hell, I think the offending Doe could even prove in court that he actually leaked the launch to HELP Apple's sales.
Apple is pissed off because they don't know how to find a leak (you know, the colorant in the water etc.)
I am dying to tell my wife she can't talk to me on the phone while I'm driving... hell, make that she can't talk to me on the phone at all, and I'll give a nice tip.
Do people actually think that asking for the network to provide the shows free of charge without advertising is a reasonable request?
No -- at least I don't. But I believe (and I think many here do) that just as you can get up and go fetch a beer on the fridge or take a leak during the ads (or FF over them on the TiVo), there is no point on the ads being "unskippable" (this is the main reason I used to like watching DVDs on the PC: the "unskippable" ads and warnings at the beginning... but my new DVD set just skips over them without complaining:-)
some kids started packing "butterfly" pocket knives... especially the bullies liked to flash them around when the adults were not looking. I went downtown and got one too. One bully flashed his to me and I flashed mine out, and said "I hope you are willing to go to jail for murdering me, because _I_ am willing to go to jail for murdering you if we start to fight. I will punch you in the heart." The guy backed down and the word got out. No one _ever_ touched me in junior high.
a victim? He bullied them for their cash. He acted like every victim of bullying MUST act IMO: he fought back with whatever weapons he had -- lawyers, in casu.
It was either that or a kick in the balls. I was a short, skinny kid, and NO bully EVER touched me without being kicked in the balls. They usually learned the first time. One that didn't learned on the second time. Period. If I can't kick you in the balls today, I will tomorrow when you're not looking. Nobody can look over the shoulder all the time.
Up to age of twelve: none whatsoever. Kids of that age are still prone to do things and talk to people they should not. They may have _one_ or _two_ harmless secrets; parents who know how to do stuff keep always one of them "in the loop", so while the other does _not_ know the secret, it knows it's a harmless one. Children must be encouraged to be frank at all times, but _especially_ with their parents.
Up to age of sixteen: some privacy. Kids must change their clothes without parents coming. Thirteen year-olds of either sex have the sacred right of masturbating. They can have private conversations with people of the same age. They can keep some secrets, or chose not to tell some things (like they had sex with a person of the same age) up to a most adequate moment -- but they do not have the right to conceal that they are breaking the household rules.
Up to the age of eighteen (emancipation age on your jurisdiction here): good privacy. They are young adults that have the right of doing anything that is not forbidden by the household rules. They do _not_ have the right to break the rules. (At my jurisdiction at least) Parents cannot throw them out the door, so they must live under the book. They can be grounded and their privacy can be revoked in case of disobedience.
From there: they are adults. They can break the rules of the household, provided they work and get their own money and get out of the house. They are entitled to the highest level of privacy: nothing should be broken without probable cause. And it's a police matter, not a parental one.
Yes, I have a 6yo boy and a newborn baby girl. This are my parenting rules, and my boy knows them by heart. We are friendly with each other; I deal with his mistakes in a friendly manner. He trusts me that an eventual punishment will always be proportional to his misbehaviour. And he trusts that I love him. I think I can pull it off.
down here -- Brasil -- minimum wage is US$.75/hour. This means people get by with less than US$ 200/month. US$ 15 for a CD -- which is the current price here -- is not an option. But US$.75 -- which is how much a pirate CD costs in a street corner -- is. The recording industry is doing this to itself. People would pay US$ 2 for a CD. But not $15.
is to drive the cost of software not towards zero, but towards the true cost of coding it. Software costs nothing to copy; it only costs to code. So, why charge people per copy? Just charge all users for the effort to code it. If the users don't shell $$$ for it, it does not get done. You eliminate a lot of aberrations like Microsoft itself: it shells out $ 50.000 for developing MS-DOS, charges its users 10 million; then it shells out 500.000 for developing MS-Word, charges its uses 30 million; and so on. Feel free to ignore me.
Maybe except for the ending, of course; but maybe you are right, I should strive harder to ignore this kind of comment.
But come on,/. is what it is. And it has been like this for 15 years. Now, the "disagreeing" poster was just venting off "this ask/. was shit and dumb, and every ask/. has been shit and dumb, and I don't know why I am reading this"... well, if you don't know why you are reading something, IMHO maybe you shouldn't be reading that. As another poster answered him, "please nominate a similar site that sucks less" -- and as I would complete "and post there".
I often whine and try to warn editors about dupes -- now, THAT is dumb. But if someone took the work to effectively "ask/." -- and to sort out the 1:100 SNR till he finds some informative answer to his doubt (or school work, or whatever), the least I think I can do is to put up (and answer informatively if I can) or shut up.
There is more: some of us really like/. just the way it is-- questionable mental sanity or not. And some of us think that the question brought by the original poster *may* be an interesting question. And maybe I felt offended by the parent post when he downplayed... oooh I dunno.
Maybe I would even like a more k5-like/.... but k5 itself is less and less about tech those days, and they make too much effort to be not-./-like -- WRT software freedom issues for instance --, so k5 is not really good for me.
Your sig: "Your right to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs my right not to get blown up."
Woundn't it be "the right of 200 million people to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs the right of 4000 people not to get blown up" ?? --- especially in the light of "when the 200 million people can't walk the streets unmolested, many more than 4000 people *will* get blown up *because* of it"?:-) As I said in the subject, it's just irresistible to me...
Every Nokia phone I had (I had ten to twelve of them) had a "profiles" option, and inside each profile "rings for" where you can select which of your caller groups your phone rings for. Simple. Already exists. It works. For instance, I have a profile called "in class", that is absolutely silent... except if my (39 weeks pregnant) wife calls -- and if she does, it vibrates. If anyone else calls, too bad...
On the contrary, not recognizing that you are a special case and that the vast majority of people who use "tax software" on their computers are not CPAs is short sighted.
FYI, everyone here in Brasil who earns more than ~US$ 20,000.00 a year is obligated to turn his/her taxes in via a tax software and every company is also obligated to turn its taxes via a tax software. Luckily for me, there are two versions of said software: a Windows version developed in Delphi and using Paradox tables -- which works perfectly, flawlessly under wine -- and a multiplatform one, that runs under any j2re1.4+. I use the latter b/c its interface is better than the former.
Tell me that p2p and even street-sold pirate records do NOT affect at all record sales.
People (that I know) that download p2p music normally buy "official" records and support (going to shows etc) the musicians they like. They also throw out a lot of the downloaded stuff -- the things that are no good.
There are two kinds of people (that I know) that buy street-sold pirate records: the immense majority are relatively poor people that buy one CD for R$ 3 (US$ 1.50), because they can, and they wouldn't pay R$ 40 (US$ 20) -- which is the price of a hit CD on the stores -- they just would not buy the record at all. Some perspective here: our minimum wage is R$ 300/month (US$ 150) and the price of one record is over 10% this value.
Most medium-class folks I know abstain from buying street-sold pirate records; most of the ones that do, use them as the p2p downloaders: to have a large (as in they'll never hear it all), garbage, music collection, and to select to which musicians they'll support by buying the official records.
Mind you, one of our (reasonably good, 1980's hit) musicians decided to sign off a record company and go indie -- with good results for him. I'm not really a big Lobão fan, but he sells his new CDs on the newspaper stands (because the big record companies tell the music stores "if you buy his CDs I won't sell to you") for R$ 10 -- which is far cheaper than Sony/etc would charge for them.
AFAIK down here publishing something on the internet is considered "public performance" and the copyrights over a "bootleg" are somewhat confusing. There/is/ some caselaw considering recordings of shows (done not-for-profit) as non-infringing.
When the sole purpose of the laptops will be scan-and-ftp, a P300 is waaaay faster than any embedded thousand-dollar solution. Alas, it's possible that your embedded thousand-dollar solution is exactly that: a linux (or BSD/ECOS/QNX/whatever) running in a ColdFire (Motorola 68000) that grabs things via sane from the built-in scanner and FTPs it to the right place. A Mac Mini will cost something like US$ 500 -- which is US$ 100 more than the price of the combo P300 + flatbed scanner.
So, yes, I fail to see the "pound foolish" side of things.
+1, Informative AND +1, Insightful. Solves the problem at hand, with exactly the requirements the original post stated: little space, and fast in time. Kudos to you, my friend.
He wants a scanner that you press a button and it scans and then send the scanned image to a preconfigured FTP/SMB address... so he can digitalize a lot of stuff in parallel and without using dedicated scanner/pc pairs.
Seriously, what is "wu-oo-hu-woo music"?? And, no, my rate is accurate: one in six trekkies I knew was hot, one in forty was uber-hot ("Victoria's secret catalog level") -- and I knew 100+ trekkies.
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Disclosing trade secrets has done and does do appreciable damage to the company for whom they are secrets.
???!!!
Disclosing Apple's "trade secrets" in casu means telling the public about some upcoming launch -- and this will enhance the hype about the launched product, thus enhancing sales (I would know, I do have a fifth-gen iPod... which was hyped this exact way). Absolutely no harm was done: hell, I think the offending Doe could even prove in court that he actually leaked the launch to HELP Apple's sales.
Apple is pissed off because they don't know how to find a leak (you know, the colorant in the water etc.)
I am dying to tell my wife she can't talk to me on the phone while I'm driving... hell, make that she can't talk to me on the phone at all, and I'll give a nice tip.
Do people actually think that asking for the network to provide the shows free of charge without advertising is a reasonable request?
:-)
No -- at least I don't. But I believe (and I think many here do) that just as you can get up and go fetch a beer on the fridge or take a leak during the ads (or FF over them on the TiVo), there is no point on the ads being "unskippable" (this is the main reason I used to like watching DVDs on the PC: the "unskippable" ads and warnings at the beginning... but my new DVD set just skips over them without complaining
some kids started packing "butterfly" pocket knives... especially the bullies liked to flash them around when the adults were not looking. I went downtown and got one too. One bully flashed his to me and I flashed mine out, and said "I hope you are willing to go to jail for murdering me, because _I_ am willing to go to jail for murdering you if we start to fight. I will punch you in the heart." The guy backed down and the word got out. No one _ever_ touched me in junior high.
a victim? He bullied them for their cash. He acted like every victim of bullying MUST act IMO: he fought back with whatever weapons he had -- lawyers, in casu.
It was either that or a kick in the balls. I was a short, skinny kid, and NO bully EVER touched me without being kicked in the balls. They usually learned the first time. One that didn't learned on the second time. Period. If I can't kick you in the balls today, I will tomorrow when you're not looking. Nobody can look over the shoulder all the time.
Up to age of twelve: none whatsoever. Kids of that age are still prone to do things and talk to people they should not. They may have _one_ or _two_ harmless secrets; parents who know how to do stuff keep always one of them "in the loop", so while the other does _not_ know the secret, it knows it's a harmless one. Children must be encouraged to be frank at all times, but _especially_ with their parents.
Up to age of sixteen: some privacy. Kids must change their clothes without parents coming. Thirteen year-olds of either sex have the sacred right of masturbating. They can have private conversations with people of the same age. They can keep some secrets, or chose not to tell some things (like they had sex with a person of the same age) up to a most adequate moment -- but they do not have the right to conceal that they are breaking the household rules.
Up to the age of eighteen (emancipation age on your jurisdiction here): good privacy. They are young adults that have the right of doing anything that is not forbidden by the household rules. They do _not_ have the right to break the rules. (At my jurisdiction at least) Parents cannot throw them out the door, so they must live under the book. They can be grounded and their privacy can be revoked in case of disobedience.
From there: they are adults. They can break the rules of the household, provided they work and get their own money and get out of the house. They are entitled to the highest level of privacy: nothing should be broken without probable cause. And it's a police matter, not a parental one.
Yes, I have a 6yo boy and a newborn baby girl. This are my parenting rules, and my boy knows them by heart. We are friendly with each other; I deal with his mistakes in a friendly manner. He trusts me that an eventual punishment will always be proportional to his misbehaviour. And he trusts that I love him. I think I can pull it off.
down here -- Brasil -- minimum wage is US$ .75/hour. This means people get by with less than US$ 200/month. US$ 15 for a CD -- which is the current price here -- is not an option. But US$ .75 -- which is how much a pirate CD costs in a street corner -- is. The recording industry is doing this to itself. People would pay US$ 2 for a CD. But not $15.
is to drive the cost of software not towards zero, but towards the true cost of coding it. Software costs nothing to copy; it only costs to code. So, why charge people per copy? Just charge all users for the effort to code it. If the users don't shell $$$ for it, it does not get done. You eliminate a lot of aberrations like Microsoft itself: it shells out $ 50.000 for developing MS-DOS, charges its users 10 million; then it shells out 500.000 for developing MS-Word, charges its uses 30 million; and so on. Feel free to ignore me.
Maybe except for the ending, of course; but maybe you are right, I should strive harder to ignore this kind of comment.
/. is what it is. And it has been like this for 15 years. Now, the "disagreeing" poster was just venting off "this ask /. was shit and dumb, and every ask /. has been shit and dumb, and I don't know why I am reading this"... well, if you don't know why you are reading something, IMHO maybe you shouldn't be reading that. As another poster answered him, "please nominate a similar site that sucks less" -- and as I would complete "and post there".
/." -- and to sort out the 1:100 SNR till he finds some informative answer to his doubt (or school work, or whatever), the least I think I can do is to put up (and answer informatively if I can) or shut up.
/. just the way it is-- questionable mental sanity or not. And some of us think that the question brought by the original poster *may* be an interesting question. And maybe I felt offended by the parent post when he downplayed ... oooh I dunno.
/. ... but k5 itself is less and less about tech those days, and they make too much effort to be not-./-like -- WRT software freedom issues for instance --, so k5 is not really good for me.
But come on,
I often whine and try to warn editors about dupes -- now, THAT is dumb. But if someone took the work to effectively "ask
There is more: some of us really like
Maybe I would even like a more k5-like
Your sig:
:-) As I said in the subject, it's just irresistible to me...
"Your right to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs my right not to get blown up."
Woundn't it be "the right of 200 million people to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs the right of 4000 people not to get blown up" ?? --- especially in the light of "when the 200 million people can't walk the streets unmolested, many more than 4000 people *will* get blown up *because* of it"?
Debian [and Ubuntu] uses postfix :-)
Every Nokia phone I had (I had ten to twelve of them) had a "profiles" option, and inside each profile "rings for" where you can select which of your caller groups your phone rings for.
Simple.
Already exists.
It works.
For instance, I have a profile called "in class", that is absolutely silent... except if my (39 weeks pregnant) wife calls -- and if she does, it vibrates. If anyone else calls, too bad...
No offense meant, but this kind of whining is somewhat pathetic. /., leave it. Go away. Don't read; mainly, don't post!
If you are disliking
This was not offtopic: it was (at least attempting to be) FUNNY and on-topic WRT the parent posting referring to the fact that Fry is his own grandpa.
On the contrary, not recognizing that you are a special case and that the vast majority of people who use "tax software" on their computers are not CPAs is short sighted.
FYI, everyone here in Brasil who earns more than ~US$ 20,000.00 a year is obligated to turn his/her taxes in via a tax software and every company is also obligated to turn its taxes via a tax software. Luckily for me, there are two versions of said software: a Windows version developed in Delphi and using Paradox tables -- which works perfectly, flawlessly under wine -- and a multiplatform one, that runs under any j2re1.4+. I use the latter b/c its interface is better than the former.
is the only man that reproduces himself.
Tell me that p2p and even street-sold pirate records do NOT affect at all record sales.
People (that I know) that download p2p music normally buy "official" records and support (going to shows etc) the musicians they like. They also throw out a lot of the downloaded stuff -- the things that are no good.
There are two kinds of people (that I know) that buy street-sold pirate records: the immense majority are relatively poor people that buy one CD for R$ 3 (US$ 1.50), because they can, and they wouldn't pay R$ 40 (US$ 20) -- which is the price of a hit CD on the stores -- they just would not buy the record at all. Some perspective here: our minimum wage is R$ 300/month (US$ 150) and the price of one record is over 10% this value.
Most medium-class folks I know abstain from buying street-sold pirate records; most of the ones that do, use them as the p2p downloaders: to have a large (as in they'll never hear it all), garbage, music collection, and to select to which musicians they'll support by buying the official records.
Mind you, one of our (reasonably good, 1980's hit) musicians decided to sign off a record company and go indie -- with good results for him. I'm not really a big Lobão fan, but he sells his new CDs on the newspaper stands (because the big record companies tell the music stores "if you buy his CDs I won't sell to you") for R$ 10 -- which is far cheaper than Sony/etc would charge for them.
AFAIK down here publishing something on the internet is considered "public performance" and the copyrights over a "bootleg" are somewhat confusing. There /is/ some caselaw considering recordings of shows (done not-for-profit) as non-infringing.
Long answer: CRON. Use the same configuration that pam_time.so uses, and kill the processes whose owner is outside of the time table.
he can write a single 4-line shell script that, using ldap-utils or somesuch, goes into his LDAP directory and writes pam_time.so's config flat file.
:-)
Putting such script in the machines' crontabs would be sufficient, IMHO.
YMMV, HTH
only the "penny wise" side :-)
When the sole purpose of the laptops will be scan-and-ftp, a P300 is waaaay faster than any embedded thousand-dollar solution. Alas, it's possible that your embedded thousand-dollar solution is exactly that: a linux (or BSD/ECOS/QNX/whatever) running in a ColdFire (Motorola 68000) that grabs things via sane from the built-in scanner and FTPs it to the right place. A Mac Mini will cost something like US$ 500 -- which is US$ 100 more than the price of the combo P300 + flatbed scanner.
So, yes, I fail to see the "pound foolish" side of things.
+1, Informative AND +1, Insightful.
Solves the problem at hand, with exactly the requirements the original post stated: little space, and fast in time.
Kudos to you, my friend.
He wants a scanner that you press a button and it scans and then send the scanned image to a preconfigured FTP/SMB address... so he can digitalize a lot of stuff in parallel and without using dedicated scanner/pc pairs.
Seriously, what is "wu-oo-hu-woo music"??
And, no, my rate is accurate: one in six trekkies I knew was hot, one in forty was uber-hot ("Victoria's secret catalog level") -- and I knew 100+ trekkies.
Which proves that you will eventually grasp the concept... The original post was just offensive.