Rightly? No, sadly and wrongly. You probably should read up on the history of Jury Nullification (start here: Jury Nullification in the United States) and you will find that it was first used to prevent convictions under the fugitive slave laws. Jury Nullification is a viable answer... but it must be applied on a per case basis. You cannot go in as a juror with the express intent of nullifying a law that you do not like. You must give the prosecution a chance to present its case.
So Congress backed out until things cool down and they can try again... whether it's by reintroducing this same stuff or by attaching it, piece by piece, as riders to other bills.
We cannot turn down the heat. If we do, we will find this legislation passed before we can do anything about it.
Only one of the last 6 companies I worked for DIDN'T have a mainframe.
Not only does my current company still have a mainframe- we're doing a major software upgrade on it next year.
The mainframe never died.
Mainframe computers were designed around the idea of doing a large volume of repetitive transactions... and mainframes do that very well. If that's what you need done, a mainframe is actually quite a good choice if you can deal with the operational and maintenance costs.
The government is responsible for providing for the general welfare and all these things it does directly benefit the general welfare, QED.
Wrong. The government is responsible for providing for the common defense and promoting the general welfare. The government is not responsible for providing for the general welfare.
Despite what Supreme Court rulings over the years may imply, the words "provide" and "promote" do not mean the same thing.
Those of us who know better will mourn. The computer world has lost one of its greatest architects. You laid the foundation for quite possibly EVERYTHING in the modern computer world. I can only hope we will use what you gave us for good things.
Having experienced what happens in a socialized, European system through what happened to my grandparents, I can tell you that you really don't want it. When they finally identified the cancer with my grandmother, they only would give her pain medication. They would not treat her with surgery, chemo, radiation, or whatnot. She died in the hospital and there was a state-mandated autopsy. When my grandfather needed anything, they gave him pain meds and sent him home... no matter how my mother or my aunt argued with the doctors. The "death panels" are quite real... though they aren't necessarily called that. They do make decisions in those systems regarding what they will and won't do based on a person's age, condition, etc.
Socialized medicine works fine for an overall healthy population that takes care of itself and doesn't have junk food shoved down its collective throat. Until you can get the corn refiners and big pharma out of their shared bed, the US will continue to be a generally unhealthy population.
But the software that hijacks the NXDOMAIN traffic can't do anything about DNSSEC-enabled requests. If they hijack the response, then the receiving program will know whether or not something intercepted it because the NXDOMAIN stuff is actually issued by the root DNS servers and those were signed for many TLDs. Whether or not the actual response is signed is irrelevant. They have to skip requests that have DNSSEC turned on or they won't be invisible to the end user.
This is a problem with the downsizing of companies. They try to push as much work as possible onto as few people as possible, often burning out the good people because they never get any time off, are constantly on outage calls, etc., and then nobody listens to them because they've identified a myriad of problems... but fixing them would require not putting out that extra new feature so they use operations to hold things together while disregarding their importance.
I've had the opportunity to meet him at a concert when I was one of his extras. He is a good man and has a wonderful family. He treats people with respect it's difficult to not give it back to him... especially when he requests permission to do all of the spoofs even though he doesn't legally need to do so.
And I can't listen to several songs without the Weird Al spoof popping into my head either.
Umm, the last update/version of the client that I found was an FC10 RPM with version number 2.1.0.81 back in January, 2010. Is that providing a client? Yes... but they barely pay any attention to it.
Probably time to start looking for an alternative...
I get tired of people who hide behind AC thinking they can get away with harassment and forum owners who won't take control of the situation. At least this requires a court order, which means the person or group demanding the information be made available must provide a reasonable justification to the court as to why it must be done. It's not a perfect system, but it's better than saying, "You can't allow anonymous posting."
I'm always amazed at how so many people can so easily fall for something that was at best a third grade attempt. Several of my coworkers and I were unhappy, to say the least, because we all took one look at the email and said that a blind man should've been able to pick up on this. And then someone chimed in with probably what was the best comment about why this happened. He suggested that it's been many years since we've seen this kind of attack go this rampant so everyone's guard was let down such that they didn't believe these attacks happened any more.
The distrust of recruiters is well placed. I don't know how many of them I've come across who say something like, "We need someone who knows SQL databases." I've gone so far as to ask them, "Which one? You realize that SQL is a language, not a database." I usually get blank stares as a result.
We recently went through some rounds of interviews. We usually bring the candidate into a conference room with the entire team and sit with him or her for a couple of hours and ask questions and just talk. One of the candidates we brought in had a resume that looked like the interview process should've been a matter of formality and only to determine if we liked the personality or not. Instead we found that the resume was like it was shot full of steroids. The candidate said he had extensive experience with several things we used, yet when asked questions he admitted that he had used the technology once a couple of years ago for a few minutes. He was looking for a senior level position, but we weren't willing to give him anything above a junior level. He took himself out of the process. What surprised me the most was the source of the resume... the contracting firm that presented him to us... because they usually do a reasonably good pre-screening with the candidates they want to forward on.
In our interviews, we ask questions that have "one right answer" and some that have "no one right answer." In some cases, we're looking to see if you really do have the basic knowledge you say you do and in others we're also trying to determine your methodologies... how you attack problems, etc. This way of doing things only failed us once, but we weren't exactly able to predict that the guy was going to step on toes the way he did.
I worked for a Wall Street firm for a couple of years. My experience there is that the IT folks are overlooked as being an integral part of the success and failure of the company. For example, traders would be upset if their bonuses weren't equivalent to at least their annual salaries. Us IT folk, however, were lucky to see a bonus check that was equivalent to about twice our bi-weekly paychecks.
In my exit interview, I told the person straight up... we're the ones providing the traders with timely data and faster calculations so that they don't have to go back to using a stubby pencil. Start recognizing what the IT people do, because if they all decided to stop working, the traders would be stuck going back to doing their calculations with stubby pencils and would fall so far behind they'd be losing more money than they'd be generating.
That's probably the only place creativity has increased.... how to come up with yet another stifling law suit that the ball-less judges won't throw out as frivolous.
You are aware that the McGann TARDIS is based on the one from Tom Baker's season that began with "The Masque of Mandragora"... the season that saw the end of Sarah Jane Smith's tenure and the start of Leela's. It was based on that wooden set (that warped in the off-season) along with what you saw in "The Deadly Assassin."
All that aside, I found the new Doctor and companion to be well done and the opening story quite entertaining. Could I pick it apart? Sure. Doesn't change that it was fun and well done. Many thanks to Russell T. Davies for regenerating the series and to Stephen Moffat for continuing it.
All you ever have to do is look at various high-level politicians and you'll know that it's true. The better study would be determining how often they get caught.
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Rightly? No, sadly and wrongly. You probably should read up on the history of Jury Nullification (start here: Jury Nullification in the United States) and you will find that it was first used to prevent convictions under the fugitive slave laws. Jury Nullification is a viable answer... but it must be applied on a per case basis. You cannot go in as a juror with the express intent of nullifying a law that you do not like. You must give the prosecution a chance to present its case.
Because the "people" investing in them wanted them to vote that way.
So Congress backed out until things cool down and they can try again... whether it's by reintroducing this same stuff or by attaching it, piece by piece, as riders to other bills.
We cannot turn down the heat. If we do, we will find this legislation passed before we can do anything about it.
I know there might be negative ramifications, but I'm glad to see this day arrive. The sooner IE dies, the better.
There. Fixed it for you. :)
Only one of the last 6 companies I worked for DIDN'T have a mainframe.
Not only does my current company still have a mainframe- we're doing a major software upgrade on it next year.
The mainframe never died.
Mainframe computers were designed around the idea of doing a large volume of repetitive transactions... and mainframes do that very well. If that's what you need done, a mainframe is actually quite a good choice if you can deal with the operational and maintenance costs.
Wrong. The government is responsible for providing for the common defense and promoting the general welfare. The government is not responsible for providing for the general welfare.
Despite what Supreme Court rulings over the years may imply, the words "provide" and "promote" do not mean the same thing.
Those of us who know better will mourn. The computer world has lost one of its greatest architects. You laid the foundation for quite possibly EVERYTHING in the modern computer world. I can only hope we will use what you gave us for good things.
Having experienced what happens in a socialized, European system through what happened to my grandparents, I can tell you that you really don't want it. When they finally identified the cancer with my grandmother, they only would give her pain medication. They would not treat her with surgery, chemo, radiation, or whatnot. She died in the hospital and there was a state-mandated autopsy. When my grandfather needed anything, they gave him pain meds and sent him home... no matter how my mother or my aunt argued with the doctors. The "death panels" are quite real... though they aren't necessarily called that. They do make decisions in those systems regarding what they will and won't do based on a person's age, condition, etc.
Socialized medicine works fine for an overall healthy population that takes care of itself and doesn't have junk food shoved down its collective throat. Until you can get the corn refiners and big pharma out of their shared bed, the US will continue to be a generally unhealthy population.
You are aware that the same venture capitalist who helped get Paxfire off the ground is the same venture capitalist who helped get OpenDNS going. http://web.archive.org/web/20100517145950/http://minorventures.com/
But the software that hijacks the NXDOMAIN traffic can't do anything about DNSSEC-enabled requests. If they hijack the response, then the receiving program will know whether or not something intercepted it because the NXDOMAIN stuff is actually issued by the root DNS servers and those were signed for many TLDs. Whether or not the actual response is signed is irrelevant. They have to skip requests that have DNSSEC turned on or they won't be invisible to the end user.
DNSSEC will help you avoid the NXDOMAIN hijacking. Use a DNS server that has it enabled.
This is a problem with the downsizing of companies. They try to push as much work as possible onto as few people as possible, often burning out the good people because they never get any time off, are constantly on outage calls, etc., and then nobody listens to them because they've identified a myriad of problems... but fixing them would require not putting out that extra new feature so they use operations to hold things together while disregarding their importance.
I've had the opportunity to meet him at a concert when I was one of his extras. He is a good man and has a wonderful family. He treats people with respect it's difficult to not give it back to him... especially when he requests permission to do all of the spoofs even though he doesn't legally need to do so.
And I can't listen to several songs without the Weird Al spoof popping into my head either.
Best wishes to you, Weird Al!
Umm, the last update/version of the client that I found was an FC10 RPM with version number 2.1.0.81 back in January, 2010. Is that providing a client? Yes... but they barely pay any attention to it.
Probably time to start looking for an alternative...
"If we come out with one now, we can't shed our, 'Me too!' image."
And in all honesty, it's not exactly the worst move for them either.
Actually, this can frequently be done pro bono as well, in which case the lawyer or law firm is doing it at their own cost.
I get tired of people who hide behind AC thinking they can get away with harassment and forum owners who won't take control of the situation. At least this requires a court order, which means the person or group demanding the information be made available must provide a reasonable justification to the court as to why it must be done. It's not a perfect system, but it's better than saying, "You can't allow anonymous posting."
I'm always amazed at how so many people can so easily fall for something that was at best a third grade attempt. Several of my coworkers and I were unhappy, to say the least, because we all took one look at the email and said that a blind man should've been able to pick up on this. And then someone chimed in with probably what was the best comment about why this happened. He suggested that it's been many years since we've seen this kind of attack go this rampant so everyone's guard was let down such that they didn't believe these attacks happened any more.
The distrust of recruiters is well placed. I don't know how many of them I've come across who say something like, "We need someone who knows SQL databases." I've gone so far as to ask them, "Which one? You realize that SQL is a language, not a database." I usually get blank stares as a result.
We recently went through some rounds of interviews. We usually bring the candidate into a conference room with the entire team and sit with him or her for a couple of hours and ask questions and just talk. One of the candidates we brought in had a resume that looked like the interview process should've been a matter of formality and only to determine if we liked the personality or not. Instead we found that the resume was like it was shot full of steroids. The candidate said he had extensive experience with several things we used, yet when asked questions he admitted that he had used the technology once a couple of years ago for a few minutes. He was looking for a senior level position, but we weren't willing to give him anything above a junior level. He took himself out of the process. What surprised me the most was the source of the resume... the contracting firm that presented him to us... because they usually do a reasonably good pre-screening with the candidates they want to forward on.
In our interviews, we ask questions that have "one right answer" and some that have "no one right answer." In some cases, we're looking to see if you really do have the basic knowledge you say you do and in others we're also trying to determine your methodologies... how you attack problems, etc. This way of doing things only failed us once, but we weren't exactly able to predict that the guy was going to step on toes the way he did.
I worked for a Wall Street firm for a couple of years. My experience there is that the IT folks are overlooked as being an integral part of the success and failure of the company. For example, traders would be upset if their bonuses weren't equivalent to at least their annual salaries. Us IT folk, however, were lucky to see a bonus check that was equivalent to about twice our bi-weekly paychecks.
In my exit interview, I told the person straight up... we're the ones providing the traders with timely data and faster calculations so that they don't have to go back to using a stubby pencil. Start recognizing what the IT people do, because if they all decided to stop working, the traders would be stuck going back to doing their calculations with stubby pencils and would fall so far behind they'd be losing more money than they'd be generating.
Seems like my prediction finally came true.
That's probably the only place creativity has increased.... how to come up with yet another stifling law suit that the ball-less judges won't throw out as frivolous.
You are aware that the McGann TARDIS is based on the one from Tom Baker's season that began with "The Masque of Mandragora"... the season that saw the end of Sarah Jane Smith's tenure and the start of Leela's. It was based on that wooden set (that warped in the off-season) along with what you saw in "The Deadly Assassin."
All that aside, I found the new Doctor and companion to be well done and the opening story quite entertaining. Could I pick it apart? Sure. Doesn't change that it was fun and well done. Many thanks to Russell T. Davies for regenerating the series and to Stephen Moffat for continuing it.
Something sounds awfully fishy about this. If it's real, that's not exactly a day I'd want to release something like this.
All you ever have to do is look at various high-level politicians and you'll know that it's true. The better study would be determining how often they get caught.
Simply put, the H.264 Codec