He used MS as an example of how misleading a press release can be and asked that/. readers take the actual article with a grain of salt. It wasn't so much to bash MS as to take into account the source of the article.
Sure, in biology, differences help make the species stronger. Not true in IT. Which is harder to maintain, a shop full of [InsertOSHere] standard PCs, or a mixed environment with different hardware, different OSs, and different applications. Sure, it might lesson the potential vulnerability to various virus and other automated tasks, but at what cost? Suddenly instead of needing one or two specialized skill sets, you need lots. Not to mention the fact that the more environments you support, the more likely you are to have a security hardened environment.
But still there is no legal recourse, especially under EOE. If the application is unavailable, its unavailable to everyone. Of course, as others have mentioned, it is available online as well.
I kind of doubt there is much your going to be able to find. As long as the application is available in one way or another to those with disabilites, then there's likely nothing you can do. I can understand the frustration, seems silly that the manager wasn't more concerned that their only way of collecting applicants was not working. Guess new hirings are not high on the list.
Imagine that these ids can be read from a distance. Now suppose a chain of stores, say some clothing stores, installs sensors and begins reading these tags. You sign up for their "monthly mailing list", and now they know who you are and what your unique ID is.
After a trip, you get an email/letter saying, "Thanks for visiting our [exotic destination] location. We hope you enjoyed your trip". Okay, not terrible, but I don't really want clothing stores knowing where I take my vacations.
Now, substitute that store with your employer, and your vacation destination with a labour lawyer. All of a sudden you employer knows you've been talking to a labour lawyer.
There are definitely worse scenarios, if you let your imagination run a little
If I read that correctly, its not really a forcefield as we think of it. Its more like a bunch of sensors, that when they detect a threat, shoot something in the way of the threat so the decoy is hit instead of the tank. Its like chaff or any other decoy.
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Perhaps google pages would have been a better hosting choice for a story that appears on slashdot. I can't even load the page.
Finally, an intelligent post on this story. This has always, and most likely always will be the case. Unless you know with 100% certainty what a hacker or piece of malware did to your system, you should always rebuild the box. As you said, any removal of the infection is basically a calculated risk. I'm not saying you need to low-level format after every email virus that comes out. However, in any environment where you rely on your desktops and servers, you should have a plan in place to rebuild your boxes in relatively quick order.
By buying a PC with Windows, you are paying the "Microsoft Tax" as people like to call it. So, you're basically handing MS a cheque, and then not using their product. Not sure why you'd want to do that.
Its that the actual bully will be charged under this instead of the existing laws, like assault. So instead of a 16 or 17 year-old possibly being brought up on assault charges, and likely as an adult, he'll get a slap on the wrist, a weak off school and a couple hundred in fines. I'd rather see him standing in front of a judge explaining why he was picking on a little kid and taking his lunch money, and in certain circumstances, be looking at either a juvenile facility or a criminal record.
I am completely in favour of the good samaritan portion of the law. These kids should be reporting this kind of behvaiour, either to the police, or their teachers. I think this is a great way of cutting down on the number of bullying incidents. Since usually most of the school knows and sees what's happening and have to report it, we should see fewer incidents.
This is the thing I don't understand about a little bylaw they're trying to pass here against bullying. Basically, if you're caught being a bully, they can fine you, suspend you, etc. etc. Fine, whatever. If when my son goes to school and is being bullied, I'm pressing assault charges. Its that simple.
Now, the one *good* thing about this bylaw is that kids standing around witnessing the abuse/bullying and not reporting it can also be charged under the bylaw.
This has all come about after a video of about 3 or 4 girls beating up another girl was shared on the internet. Basically showed a crowd of kids cheering as they beat up this poor girl.
Exactly, I had to recheck the article to make sure they weren't going to START charging a subscription fee to play. Of course since the box says Free Online Play, they might have a problem switching to a subscription model.
Wow, the equivalent Social Insurance Number (in Canada) should not be used for account numbers. In fact, there's a section of the privcy legislation regarding your SIN http://www.privcom.gc.ca/fs-fi/02_05_d_02_e.asp.
You'll see that insurance companies are not among those authorized to use your SIN. Bascially, its only used for income tax purposes. So, if they're not providing you income, they don't get it. And paying for healthcare is not considered income.
I'm usually a pretty free mind when it comes to game or media content. I've played, but am not a huge fan of the GTA series. I think, like movies, these games should be rated (accurately, no hiding content!), and minors not allowed to buy M, or R, or whatever the rating is, games. However, I don't like the idea of this bully game at all. Maybe because I was bullied as a child, and the thought of kids playing as a bully really turns my stomach. In any case, I don't think children should be allowed to purchase this game without parental supervision. I would also wonder about the parenting technicques of anyone who bought this for their child.
See above. And they can't even afford to do it themselves. http://www.webcall.ca/ is SaskTels residential VoIP service (Navigata is a wholly owned subsidiary or SaskTel), and they don't offer 306.
You are hilarious, and obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about, which goes for most people posting in this thread. SaskTel has NO choice on what the charge for pretty much anything. As the ILEC, their rates are set by the CRTC, not by SaskTel themselves. If they want to raise/lower rates, they have to apply to have it done.
If the rates were so expensive, then why can Primus provide 306 numbers? I happen to have one (and have great service from them). Vonage hasn't moved into SK because they don't think they'll make their money back. It does cost money to rent T1s (PRIs), put in the equipment and so forth required to run a VoIP service. Besides, SaskTel is working on offering Webcall in SK, but is dealing with issues other than cost.
You're absolutely right. I shouldn't have said that it was verizon's mail servers. It could be someone accidentally (through bad code) sending to null, instead of [emptyvar]. I guess my main point was that there is no reason he shouldn't be able to have null@vtext.com. Its a perfectly legit and reasonable email address to have.
Would you? Honestly?
I probably wouldn't. You can deny that it would be interesting to get some of that stuff that was meant to go elsewhere. Hell, I'd probably build a site of the strange stuff I've received.
I'm not a java programmer, but I figured it would be something like that. There's no reason someone shouldn't be able to have the email address null@somedomain
I would disagree. Sure, you wouldn't want someone using root or other default names like administrator, but null, while a reserved word in some circumstances, should not be a problem for a mail server. If my mail servers get an email to a non-existant account, they don't deliver it to "null". This sounds to me like something strange (unescaped maybe) on verizon's mail servers.
Heh, first thing that jumped to my mind was Asteroids on the Atari. I remember beating it by wrapping the score... I think at 100,000 points. And those old atari joysticks didn't have thumb friendly buttons either.
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He used MS as an example of how misleading a press release can be and asked that /. readers take the actual article with a grain of salt. It wasn't so much to bash MS as to take into account the source of the article.
I know, it sucks when a work of fiction isn't true to life.
Sure, in biology, differences help make the species stronger. Not true in IT. Which is harder to maintain, a shop full of [InsertOSHere] standard PCs, or a mixed environment with different hardware, different OSs, and different applications. Sure, it might lesson the potential vulnerability to various virus and other automated tasks, but at what cost? Suddenly instead of needing one or two specialized skill sets, you need lots. Not to mention the fact that the more environments you support, the more likely you are to have a security hardened environment.
But still there is no legal recourse, especially under EOE. If the application is unavailable, its unavailable to everyone. Of course, as others have mentioned, it is available online as well.
I kind of doubt there is much your going to be able to find. As long as the application is available in one way or another to those with disabilites, then there's likely nothing you can do. I can understand the frustration, seems silly that the manager wasn't more concerned that their only way of collecting applicants was not working. Guess new hirings are not high on the list.
You can also "report" stories. If there are enough reports, its autmoatically removed.
Actually, when I first wrote that comment instead of clothing store I put "the Gap" for that same reason, but changed it before I submitted it.
Imagine that these ids can be read from a distance. Now suppose a chain of stores, say some clothing stores, installs sensors and begins reading these tags. You sign up for their "monthly mailing list", and now they know who you are and what your unique ID is.
After a trip, you get an email/letter saying, "Thanks for visiting our [exotic destination] location. We hope you enjoyed your trip". Okay, not terrible, but I don't really want clothing stores knowing where I take my vacations.
Now, substitute that store with your employer, and your vacation destination with a labour lawyer. All of a sudden you employer knows you've been talking to a labour lawyer.
There are definitely worse scenarios, if you let your imagination run a little
If I read that correctly, its not really a forcefield as we think of it. Its more like a bunch of sensors, that when they detect a threat, shoot something in the way of the threat so the decoy is hit instead of the tank. Its like chaff or any other decoy.
Perhaps google pages would have been a better hosting choice for a story that appears on slashdot. I can't even load the page.
Finally, an intelligent post on this story. This has always, and most likely always will be the case. Unless you know with 100% certainty what a hacker or piece of malware did to your system, you should always rebuild the box. As you said, any removal of the infection is basically a calculated risk. I'm not saying you need to low-level format after every email virus that comes out. However, in any environment where you rely on your desktops and servers, you should have a plan in place to rebuild your boxes in relatively quick order.
By buying a PC with Windows, you are paying the "Microsoft Tax" as people like to call it. So, you're basically handing MS a cheque, and then not using their product. Not sure why you'd want to do that.
Its that the actual bully will be charged under this instead of the existing laws, like assault. So instead of a 16 or 17 year-old possibly being brought up on assault charges, and likely as an adult, he'll get a slap on the wrist, a weak off school and a couple hundred in fines. I'd rather see him standing in front of a judge explaining why he was picking on a little kid and taking his lunch money, and in certain circumstances, be looking at either a juvenile facility or a criminal record.
I am completely in favour of the good samaritan portion of the law. These kids should be reporting this kind of behvaiour, either to the police, or their teachers. I think this is a great way of cutting down on the number of bullying incidents. Since usually most of the school knows and sees what's happening and have to report it, we should see fewer incidents.
This is the thing I don't understand about a little bylaw they're trying to pass here against bullying. Basically, if you're caught being a bully, they can fine you, suspend you, etc. etc. Fine, whatever. If when my son goes to school and is being bullied, I'm pressing assault charges. Its that simple.
Now, the one *good* thing about this bylaw is that kids standing around witnessing the abuse/bullying and not reporting it can also be charged under the bylaw.
This has all come about after a video of about 3 or 4 girls beating up another girl was shared on the internet. Basically showed a crowd of kids cheering as they beat up this poor girl.
My myth box controls my digital cable box via a serial cable. You can also do it via USB (so I've heard) or via IR.
Exactly, I had to recheck the article to make sure they weren't going to START charging a subscription fee to play. Of course since the box says Free Online Play, they might have a problem switching to a subscription model.
Wow, the equivalent Social Insurance Number (in Canada) should not be used for account numbers. In fact, there's a section of the privcy legislation regarding your SIN http://www.privcom.gc.ca/fs-fi/02_05_d_02_e.asp. You'll see that insurance companies are not among those authorized to use your SIN. Bascially, its only used for income tax purposes. So, if they're not providing you income, they don't get it. And paying for healthcare is not considered income.
I'm usually a pretty free mind when it comes to game or media content. I've played, but am not a huge fan of the GTA series. I think, like movies, these games should be rated (accurately, no hiding content!), and minors not allowed to buy M, or R, or whatever the rating is, games. However, I don't like the idea of this bully game at all. Maybe because I was bullied as a child, and the thought of kids playing as a bully really turns my stomach. In any case, I don't think children should be allowed to purchase this game without parental supervision. I would also wonder about the parenting technicques of anyone who bought this for their child.
You are hilarious, and obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about, which goes for most people posting in this thread. SaskTel has NO choice on what the charge for pretty much anything. As the ILEC, their rates are set by the CRTC, not by SaskTel themselves. If they want to raise/lower rates, they have to apply to have it done.
If the rates were so expensive, then why can Primus provide 306 numbers? I happen to have one (and have great service from them). Vonage hasn't moved into SK because they don't think they'll make their money back. It does cost money to rent T1s (PRIs), put in the equipment and so forth required to run a VoIP service. Besides, SaskTel is working on offering Webcall in SK, but is dealing with issues other than cost.
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You're absolutely right. I shouldn't have said that it was verizon's mail servers. It could be someone accidentally (through bad code) sending to null, instead of [emptyvar]. I guess my main point was that there is no reason he shouldn't be able to have null@vtext.com. Its a perfectly legit and reasonable email address to have.
Would you? Honestly?
I probably wouldn't. You can deny that it would be interesting to get some of that stuff that was meant to go elsewhere. Hell, I'd probably build a site of the strange stuff I've received.
I'm not a java programmer, but I figured it would be something like that. There's no reason someone shouldn't be able to have the email address null@somedomain
I would disagree. Sure, you wouldn't want someone using root or other default names like administrator, but null, while a reserved word in some circumstances, should not be a problem for a mail server. If my mail servers get an email to a non-existant account, they don't deliver it to "null". This sounds to me like something strange (unescaped maybe) on verizon's mail servers.
Heh, first thing that jumped to my mind was Asteroids on the Atari. I remember beating it by wrapping the score... I think at 100,000 points. And those old atari joysticks didn't have thumb friendly buttons either.