e.g. when going to a doctor I need to be able to trust his knowledge of the human body. Unfortunately we allow some idiots to call themselves 'doctor' while selling quackery like homeopathy. Don't forget all the quacks who cheated their way thru med school -- homeopathy does not have a monopoly on quackism...:-)
So you demand access to a chip in the monitor, also. And then, I buy a monitor, cut it open, plug each LCD/OLED "on" line to one wire (yeah, this can take a long time, but I'll only have to do it once) or put a giant CCD on top of it and with proper calibration I still have the unadulterated, hi-quality digital stream. I'll repeat myself: DRM does not exist. DRM is fraud. Attempted DRM (ADRM?) is not about "don't sell a copy of that movie!", it's about "if you want to see that movie in another TV set, pay another fee".
IIRC alt.suicide most quick, effective and painless method of choice was 'hanging by car' (tying a 100m long rope to a tree or telephone poll and around your neck with good knots, entering your car, hit the accelerator hard and put it into gear). If you use a gun, put it inside your mouth, in the direction of the brain. Booze + pills are also an option.
First, DRM does not exist. Content that can be viewed or listened to can be copied. Second, attempts at implementing DRM are a _terrible_ thing -- because they are just attempts to prevent honest people from exercising their fair use rights, and lock people on carriers, distributors, or platforms. Nothing else. Forget the 'piracy!' screams, it just translates to 'the consumer wants to buy a CD and listen to the same music on his iPod without paying another fee for it' or 'the consumer wants to watch the movie on this DVD... but after, he wants to lend it to a friend, that will watch it and we will not receive any money for it'.
Why can't I use DRM to protect and maintain a durable finely gained control of how my data is used and by whom? Answer: because it's mathematically impossible.
What's the end you want? One that draws your foes into a collabrative fold, or one that keeps you unnecessarily at odds depriving everyone of more choice, more ability? I, personally, don't care if they try to implement DRM schemes... as long as the Free Software they are using to leverage their problem remains Free. The case, here, is that they want to use software developed by thousands of people against the license that those same people freed their software. The issue is the same: DRMers want to be in control of what people do with their own things.
(as a contributor). Qt is GPL'd, and a fork is available at all times. Lots of good, GPL'd Qt software can only work with the fork if Nokia chooses to close it up. The loss are the good brains at Trolltech.
If antimatter behaves backwardsly, and this is the reason there's not that much antimatter around earth (as they suggest), then shouldn't there be antimatter galaxys which exert antigravity on matter? If so, why can't we see any? (a) we can see a lot of galaxies; how can we tell the difference? (b) maybe they are so far away (pushed by the antigravity effects of the inflation, or somesuch) that they are beyond our "visible bubble" ("c" times the age of the universe)
But he should never forget (and neither should the GPP) that the customer is always right!!! Maybe in sales the customer is always right. But this isn't a sales deal this is a tech issue and that is how the question was phrased. So in this instance most of the time the customer is wrong. The only truth to your statement is that the customer always knows what they need the end result to be, they are far from always right, though. That is just bullshit sales jargen that managers with no clue use to enforce fake rules.
The problem is here that the internet made everyone experts on everything and some weekend gamer wants to expand his resume, and his boss was dumb enough to sell it up and now here you are. Don't be silly. If I was your client, and you gave me this BS "only on sales the customer is right, on ops the customer is just a nuisance", you would be out of a job. As many people said below, there are a lot of competitors who would think I'm right and you are never irreplaceable. The client supplies what you need ($$$), not the other way around. Did you know that each satisfied customer generates at most three more sales and each unsatisfied customer BLOCKS at least eleven sales?? [citation needed]
Get this: every part of a deal is a sales deal. I (and many consumers) only shop where I know I will be well treated before, during, and, most importantly, after a deal.
One example: I make my car insurance with the same broker for 12 years... because she always gets me a good deal and the insurance company she deals with never failed to deliver in the case of a broken car window (covered by my insurance) or anything else. Once the insurance company made something covered difficult, and one call to the broker, things were solved in the same day: because she knows _I_ make her bottom line, next year I will purchase the insurance for two cars again and she will get the comission... so she can eat.
Other example: I am a jeans-and-t-shirt kind of guy, but sometimes I have to wear a suit. I bought three different suits in the last 12 years, and in the same period, my weigth varied from 80kg to 100kg (175lb to 220lb), up and down, and _every_ single adjustment I had to do in my current suit was done for free, quickly (saving me to have to buy ten instead of three suits).
So, don't give me "I only do what the client wants if it's convenient", because your client always has the power to put you out of business.
Well, and as alternatives the OP could proxy his database thru SQLrelay... or replicate his client's tables in other database, giving access to that one.
But he should never forget (and neither should the GPP) that the customer is always right!!!
Why doesn't Slashdot cache pages on it's own servers for sites it links to in main articles for 24 hours? I'm sure there's a lot of angry webmasters out there that would appreciate this. Because angrier webmasters with decent bandwidth would lose their ad revenue and sue for damages.
I live in a nice 3,000,000 people city; we have theaters, movies, moderately high-speed Net access (2Mbps from my home), cable/sat TV, universities,... Care to elaborate?
(1) s/Spain/Portugal/ (2) yes, they are named suspects but AFAIK they weren't arrested or prosecuted, much less convicted -- and they should not be unless police gathers more (relevant) evidence. My kids bleed quite often. They play and fall and cut themselves. My car certainly has a lot of "trace amounts" of blood and vomit matching their DNA. But I inform you that they are alive and well, ready to play some more, bleed some more, and vomit some more (both of them have motion sickness). This is one more reason why you can't even prosecute HR based on NR's blood stain on a sleeping bag.
is what I have read insofar. I had zits (and sex -- HR's explanation) that produced such stains. My point is exactly that this is not evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt" for any reasonable definition of "reasonable":-)
to keep innocent people _out_ far more than to keep the guilty _in_. So, yes, if you think you are capable of disposing completely of the body and kill your wife without leaving behind the murder weapon or any witnesses, by all means come to Brasil. You would never be prosecuted here without those things. OTOH, if you (completely hypotetically) marry a Russian girl and she flies out of the country leaving a trail of suspicious (but ultimately irrelevant) evidence trying to frame you (*), you may also want to come here.
(*) I am not saying that this is what happened. I am saying that this is _plausible_ and if I were NR trying to skip town and wanting my mom to pick up the kids and bring them to Russia, _that_ is exactly what I would do. So, HR is not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But yes, as a lot of people pointed out, he talked himself into jail, because juries are _known_ to put oddballs away.
Here in Brazil, to prosecute for any crime, the D.A. has to show that he has reasonable evidence that (1) the crime was committed ["materialidade"] __AND__ (2) that the accused committed the crime ["autoria"]. The prosecutor would be laughed out of court without (1) the body, (2) the murder weapon, (3) any _relevant_ evidence, (4) any witness... because not even the "materialidade" of the crime can be proven. It's reasonable to suppose Nina is in Russia with her kids... especially since nobody presented any evidence in contrary./in dubio pro reu/ == "in doubt, for the defendant".
You cannot prosecute for murder without a dead body period. Even if you have witnesses, it's not beyond a reasonable doubt that the witness isn't lying... as you don't have no fscking remains.
The kind of idiot who wouldn't have a paper to publish on their website if they actually weren't creating their own security holes.
This is IT security equivalent of a strawman argument. No, the kind of idiot who wants to leave this kind of hole open to drop all your tables (or best, fill them with junk/wrong/malicious records) if he's fired. It's a nice way to create an "extendend severance package".
perl is more a scriping languge than a programmers tool I would agree with you if you hadn't written the... "pearl" above. Very good joke. Specially the "scriping" (sic) part.
The fact is that Google _has_ being served subpoenas all the time for this. And it has resisted complying ("we are Google Brasil, the data is at Google USA, we don't know anything...") for a long time now. So, after some time threatening to prosecute Google Brasil for criminal and civil charges, they woke up and said "ok, ok, here is the data you subpoenaed us for..."
Actually, they are the tip of the iceberg. Acquaintances of mine, artists with no projection (and never signed), are having the opportunity to display _and_ _sell_ their work in a similar manner... with enough money coming in that they can _eat_ without a "day job", something they have being striving for in the last decade or so. Go check out myspace, magnatune, etc.
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I'll repeat myself: DRM does not exist. DRM is fraud. Attempted DRM (ADRM?) is not about "don't sell a copy of that movie!", it's about "if you want to see that movie in another TV set, pay another fee".
IIRC alt.suicide most quick, effective and painless method of choice was 'hanging by car' (tying a 100m long rope to a tree or telephone poll and around your neck with good knots, entering your car, hit the accelerator hard and put it into gear). If you use a gun, put it inside your mouth, in the direction of the brain. Booze + pills are also an option.
Second, attempts at implementing DRM are a _terrible_ thing -- because they are just attempts to prevent honest people from exercising their fair use rights, and lock people on carriers, distributors, or platforms. Nothing else. Forget the 'piracy!' screams, it just translates to 'the consumer wants to buy a CD and listen to the same music on his iPod without paying another fee for it' or 'the consumer wants to watch the movie on this DVD... but after, he wants to lend it to a friend, that will watch it and we will not receive any money for it'. Why can't I use DRM to protect and maintain a durable finely gained control of how my data is used and by whom? Answer: because it's mathematically impossible. What's the end you want? One that draws your foes into a collabrative fold, or one that keeps you unnecessarily at odds depriving everyone of more choice, more ability? I, personally, don't care if they try to implement DRM schemes... as long as the Free Software they are using to leverage their problem remains Free. The case, here, is that they want to use software developed by thousands of people against the license that those same people freed their software. The issue is the same: DRMers want to be in control of what people do with their own things.
(as a contributor). Qt is GPL'd, and a fork is available at all times. Lots of good, GPL'd Qt software can only work with the fork if Nokia chooses to close it up. The loss are the good brains at Trolltech.
(b) maybe they are so far away (pushed by the antigravity effects of the inflation, or somesuch) that they are beyond our "visible bubble" ("c" times the age of the universe)
The problem is here that the internet made everyone experts on everything and some weekend gamer wants to expand his resume, and his boss was dumb enough to sell it up and now here you are. Don't be silly. If I was your client, and you gave me this BS "only on sales the customer is right, on ops the customer is just a nuisance", you would be out of a job. As many people said below, there are a lot of competitors who would think I'm right and you are never irreplaceable. The client supplies what you need ($$$), not the other way around. Did you know that each satisfied customer generates at most three more sales and each unsatisfied customer BLOCKS at least eleven sales?? [citation needed]
Get this: every part of a deal is a sales deal. I (and many consumers) only shop where I know I will be well treated before, during, and, most importantly, after a deal.
One example: I make my car insurance with the same broker for 12 years... because she always gets me a good deal and the insurance company she deals with never failed to deliver in the case of a broken car window (covered by my insurance) or anything else. Once the insurance company made something covered difficult, and one call to the broker, things were solved in the same day: because she knows _I_ make her bottom line, next year I will purchase the insurance for two cars again and she will get the comission... so she can eat.
Other example: I am a jeans-and-t-shirt kind of guy, but sometimes I have to wear a suit. I bought three different suits in the last 12 years, and in the same period, my weigth varied from 80kg to 100kg (175lb to 220lb), up and down, and _every_ single adjustment I had to do in my current suit was done for free, quickly (saving me to have to buy ten instead of three suits).
So, don't give me "I only do what the client wants if it's convenient", because your client always has the power to put you out of business.
The customer is always right, and if you don't agree with the customer, you are obviously wrong. Period.
And you are 100% right.
Well, and as alternatives the OP could proxy his database thru SQLrelay... or replicate his client's tables in other database, giving access to that one.
But he should never forget (and neither should the GPP) that the customer is always right!!!
I live in a nice 3,000,000 people city; we have theaters, movies, moderately high-speed Net access (2Mbps from my home), cable/sat TV, universities, ...
Care to elaborate?
(1) s/Spain/Portugal/
(2) yes, they are named suspects but AFAIK they weren't arrested or prosecuted, much less convicted -- and they should not be unless police gathers more (relevant) evidence. My kids bleed quite often. They play and fall and cut themselves. My car certainly has a lot of "trace amounts" of blood and vomit matching their DNA. But I inform you that they are alive and well, ready to play some more, bleed some more, and vomit some more (both of them have motion sickness). This is one more reason why you can't even prosecute HR based on NR's blood stain on a sleeping bag.
is what I have read insofar. I had zits (and sex -- HR's explanation) that produced such stains. My point is exactly that this is not evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt" for any reasonable definition of "reasonable" :-)
to keep innocent people _out_ far more than to keep the guilty _in_. So, yes, if you think you are capable of disposing completely of the body and kill your wife without leaving behind the murder weapon or any witnesses, by all means come to Brasil. You would never be prosecuted here without those things.
OTOH, if you (completely hypotetically) marry a Russian girl and she flies out of the country leaving a trail of suspicious (but ultimately irrelevant) evidence trying to frame you (*), you may also want to come here.
(*) I am not saying that this is what happened. I am saying that this is _plausible_ and if I were NR trying to skip town and wanting my mom to pick up the kids and bring them to Russia, _that_ is exactly what I would do. So, HR is not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But yes, as a lot of people pointed out, he talked himself into jail, because juries are _known_ to put oddballs away.
Here in Brazil, to prosecute for any crime, the D.A. has to show that he has reasonable evidence that (1) the crime was committed ["materialidade"] __AND__ (2) that the accused committed the crime ["autoria"]. The prosecutor would be laughed out of court without (1) the body, (2) the murder weapon, (3) any _relevant_ evidence, (4) any witness... because not even the "materialidade" of the crime can be proven. It's reasonable to suppose Nina is in Russia with her kids... especially since nobody presented any evidence in contrary. /in dubio pro reu/ == "in doubt, for the defendant".
You cannot prosecute for murder without a dead body period. Even if you have witnesses, it's not beyond a reasonable doubt that the witness isn't lying... as you don't have no fscking remains.
s/extendend/extended/
This is IT security equivalent of a strawman argument. No, the kind of idiot who wants to leave this kind of hole open to drop all your tables (or best, fill them with junk/wrong/malicious records) if he's fired. It's a nice way to create an "extendend severance package".
The fact is that Google _has_ being served subpoenas all the time for this. And it has resisted complying ("we are Google Brasil, the data is at Google USA, we don't know anything...") for a long time now. So, after some time threatening to prosecute Google Brasil for criminal and civil charges, they woke up and said "ok, ok, here is the data you subpoenaed us for..."
They use the word "suspects" but they really have probable cause and Google has being trying not to comply with DA's subpoenas for a long time now.
Actually, they are the tip of the iceberg.
Acquaintances of mine, artists with no projection (and never signed), are having the opportunity to display _and_ _sell_ their work in a similar manner... with enough money coming in that they can _eat_ without a "day job", something they have being striving for in the last decade or so. Go check out myspace, magnatune, etc.
Mixing and mastering engineers seem to be working in the "just saturate every frequency and let's go grab a beer" mode lately.