I like House. The characters are great. I just wish there were a few more instances where patiences aren't miraculously saved. Or the puzzle is solved a minute too late. House would still be right and the puzzle solved. (Slight disclaimer however, I've only seen seasons 1 & 3. Season 2 I have yet to catch up on.)
i'm sure the early term fee would be less than you'd pay over the next year in monthlies. doesn't verizon pro-rate that shit now based on how long you stuck around??
Nothing in this section authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for not providing any information beyond that person's name, address, or date of birth I'm no lawyer, but couldn't you spin the request to see the license as the officer trying to get his name, address and birthday off of the license?
I don't see anything to support the guys argument that says it "specifically protects citizens from having to hand over their driver's license". These days that would require something akin to the law saying "they cannot ask for your license."
Oh how I wish this had happened during the work week and taken out some computers at my company. Sure the powers that be would declare a switch to Ubuntu as a knee jerk reaction, as they do with so many other things to make my life hell... but in this case my life would be so much easier. Throw up a puppet server, and never worry about having to reformat a broken Windows box ever again.
At some point a lot of these fall into the category of technological failings. Did you scan the list? I saw far more data loss because of shoddy management than average Joe's being scammed via a technical exploit. Dumpsters filled with paper records of employee SSN's and DL's. Backups being lost on non-encrypted media. Systems containing data that are stolen. Some people got scammed via e-mail, but most of this was because of shoddy physical security.
Put in place real penalties for these corporations (Kaiser fined 200k for putting patient info online? Their whole legal department probably costs them 10 times that easy to operate!) and I bet phishing attacks as a whole would barely make a newsworthy headline.
I dunno, if this gains any traction (I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea how likely this would be), but I could see it leading to laws where the government says ISPs need to monitor all our traffic when we logon, in order to proactively alert us to shifty dealings on our computers. Of course the NSA will also get copies of that data to support the "War on Terror".
Or they could pass laws regulating what type of traffic is on the Internet in general. P2P is gone for the aforementioned reason. The need to "protect" witless users from intentional or unintentional copyright infringement.
But I'm tired so perhaps I'm just not able to make much sense right now.
Hopefully because they realize it's bullshit to blame videogames for idiots who act badly. I watched Zappa on Crossfire (via YouTube) yesterday and it was the same argument ~20 years ago, except about rock music.
If you don't like the content DON'T FUCKING BUY IT.
Unless you know of a magical wand that someone will wave which converts all the OpenGL code out there to the new spec, I'd think this book will be 100% relevant for a while.
I'm typically against any bill any legislative body tries to pass these days. But I'm ESPECIALLY against a bill that defines who is allowed what protections.
There was an argument over including a "Bill of Rights" in our Constitution over the same principle. If you enumerate only certain rights, you run the risk that it inherently denies others. I haven't read this bill, but by stipulating who is allowed protection you reduce the rights of others. That goes against the very principles our country was designed upon.
If this passes, it's just another thing to use as evidence that our elected officials don't give a shit about the people that they should be working for.
My opinion is, if no data that is intrinsically damaging to the welfare of agents and the US as a whole was leaked, and all that was brought to light was a potentially illegal spying operation, this guy shouldn't be persecuted like this. In fact, the citizens should be giving him kudos for having fucking balls like this.
Classifying potentially illegal/unethical activities to CTA (cover their ass) shouldn't be given the same protections as making sure our nuke launch codes aren't taped to lamp posts across the country.
More evidence to support the fact that Joe Average doesn't give a shit which is allowing our officials to walk all over us for their own gain.
So your stance is legal or not, classified data should be kept classified? Exactly how does leaking the fact that our government is spying on citizens directly impact national security?
If he had leaked intel that would put agents lives at risk (for example), that's a bit different than exposing another one of this administrations dirty little secrets that will ultimately be swept under the rug again anyway.
Thomas Jefferson would probably be working for Google if he were alive today. Or screaming "Help help get me out of this fucking hole in the ground!"
Yeah I'm bored today.
Ok so I am not researching this, but I was under the impression, mostly from reading Slashdot stories, that you didn't have to offer up the source automatically with the binary. You do need to give it up if someone requests a copy. Is that diff in GPLv3?
speakin' from a/.'er/nerd point of view, who cares if you can name them all? gentoo, slackware, debian, redhat can be tweaked to fulfill most server roles. if you need something more specific then look for it (KnoppMyth, super tiny installs, Beowulf versions for you toaster:))
from the end-user role, if you aren't a computer person and you're running linux at home, you were probably setup by a friend or family member who is a nerd. so what would they care if there really is 1,000 other distros out there to check email and download pr0n on?
i don't think that because there is so many distros it really creates such a huge issue. find the tool for the job. only anal retentive types are worried about knowing EVERY option there is.
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I thought that's what LSD was for?
I'm guessing the broke one's end up unhappy because they blew it and became broke again.
I like House. The characters are great. I just wish there were a few more instances where patiences aren't miraculously saved. Or the puzzle is solved a minute too late. House would still be right and the puzzle solved. (Slight disclaimer however, I've only seen seasons 1 & 3. Season 2 I have yet to catch up on.)
I reject all lawsuits, epic or otherwise!
Futher, I hereby declare that all lawsuits be dismissed!
I bet it won't work for Silicon Knights either.
Who needs software patents when it sounds like people would be better off no using computers there at all?
i'm sure the early term fee would be less than you'd pay over the next year in monthlies. doesn't verizon pro-rate that shit now based on how long you stuck around??
I don't see anything to support the guys argument that says it "specifically protects citizens from having to hand over their driver's license". These days that would require something akin to the law saying "they cannot ask for your license."
Why not switch to a non-RIAA music format. Sign local indie bands only. Anyone with a big business contract is SOL
Does this mean retail stores need to have everyone that enters sign a register saying they were there?
Oh how I wish this had happened during the work week and taken out some computers at my company. Sure the powers that be would declare a switch to Ubuntu as a knee jerk reaction, as they do with so many other things to make my life hell... but in this case my life would be so much easier. Throw up a puppet server, and never worry about having to reformat a broken Windows box ever again.
I can dream right?
Wouldn't smaller dies = more per wafer = more cost effective solution?
Put in place real penalties for these corporations (Kaiser fined 200k for putting patient info online? Their whole legal department probably costs them 10 times that easy to operate!) and I bet phishing attacks as a whole would barely make a newsworthy headline.
I dunno, if this gains any traction (I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea how likely this would be), but I could see it leading to laws where the government says ISPs need to monitor all our traffic when we logon, in order to proactively alert us to shifty dealings on our computers. Of course the NSA will also get copies of that data to support the "War on Terror".
Or they could pass laws regulating what type of traffic is on the Internet in general. P2P is gone for the aforementioned reason. The need to "protect" witless users from intentional or unintentional copyright infringement.
But I'm tired so perhaps I'm just not able to make much sense right now.
Hopefully because they realize it's bullshit to blame videogames for idiots who act badly. I watched Zappa on Crossfire (via YouTube) yesterday and it was the same argument ~20 years ago, except about rock music.
If you don't like the content DON'T FUCKING BUY IT.
Unless you know of a magical wand that someone will wave which converts all the OpenGL code out there to the new spec, I'd think this book will be 100% relevant for a while.
I'm typically against any bill any legislative body tries to pass these days. But I'm ESPECIALLY against a bill that defines who is allowed what protections.
There was an argument over including a "Bill of Rights" in our Constitution over the same principle. If you enumerate only certain rights, you run the risk that it inherently denies others. I haven't read this bill, but by stipulating who is allowed protection you reduce the rights of others. That goes against the very principles our country was designed upon.
If this passes, it's just another thing to use as evidence that our elected officials don't give a shit about the people that they should be working for.
My opinion is, if no data that is intrinsically damaging to the welfare of agents and the US as a whole was leaked, and all that was brought to light was a potentially illegal spying operation, this guy shouldn't be persecuted like this. In fact, the citizens should be giving him kudos for having fucking balls like this.
Classifying potentially illegal/unethical activities to CTA (cover their ass) shouldn't be given the same protections as making sure our nuke launch codes aren't taped to lamp posts across the country.
More evidence to support the fact that Joe Average doesn't give a shit which is allowing our officials to walk all over us for their own gain.
So your stance is legal or not, classified data should be kept classified? Exactly how does leaking the fact that our government is spying on citizens directly impact national security?
If he had leaked intel that would put agents lives at risk (for example), that's a bit different than exposing another one of this administrations dirty little secrets that will ultimately be swept under the rug again anyway.
I think that speaks more to the greedy nature of those companies than the majority of people that stand behind the GPL
Ok so I am not researching this, but I was under the impression, mostly from reading Slashdot stories, that you didn't have to offer up the source automatically with the binary. You do need to give it up if someone requests a copy. Is that diff in GPLv3?
speakin' from a /.'er/nerd point of view, who cares if you can name them all? gentoo, slackware, debian, redhat can be tweaked to fulfill most server roles. if you need something more specific then look for it (KnoppMyth, super tiny installs, Beowulf versions for you toaster :))
from the end-user role, if you aren't a computer person and you're running linux at home, you were probably setup by a friend or family member who is a nerd. so what would they care if there really is 1,000 other distros out there to check email and download pr0n on?
i don't think that because there is so many distros it really creates such a huge issue. find the tool for the job. only anal retentive types are worried about knowing EVERY option there is.
i remember reading about that
When the fuck do *I* get paid for letting them use my PC as a platform for making them richer?