Foreign governments and educational institutions have access to the Windows sources, too.
How do they know it's the same source that was used to compile the binaries? And MS could just deploy a few more back doors any time, using their auto-update infrastructure.
I still think that a more likely place for intentionally placed exploits is in the CPU. Common operating systems have enough unintentional flaws for a long time, with more coming out very major release.
The question then is how on God's Green Earth have so many people deployed this stuff and not audited it thoroughly (or at all)?
Because your client will want new plugins every week, gets tired of asking you everytime, and wants you to set up the permissions so that the GUI plugin installer works ("what do you mean not a good idea? the last site I had worked that way and I never had any problems with it"), then proceeds to install all the plugins he needs to make his blog on cats and other larger-than-life stuff buzzword compatible.
Here's my idea: require the company to define the value of the patent (i.e. how much inventing it cost) with the patent application. And the patent application processing fee is 10% of that value. The patent owner can only sue for damages up to the patent value.
If you actually used a billion to make that invention, then 10% of that is a small price to pay for protection of the investment. If you're a troll, you need to be a troll with very deep pockets. And hopefully some part of that 10% fee can be used to properly review patent applications and establish a court that specializes in handling patent disputes so that lawsuits can be streamlined.
A contract, a real life contract, needs a real signature on a real piece of paper
I don't know about Italy specifically, but in most places you do not need a piece of paper with hand written signatures to have a contract. Paper contracts are used for "important" stuff because it offers a simple way for proving afterwards that there indeed was a contract and what it's terms were.
If a written contract was necessary, how would two illiterate people agree on things?
Next time when you start a program from Windows start menu, watch closely your computer. You can see that there are no elves taking the old computer and bringing a new one. So it's still the same computer.
However, if the software being started is a truely remarkable, almost magical software such as a Strong AI (brought to you by Strong AI labs, patent pending), then who knows, maybe there will be elves.
Maybe it's just a european thing, but if you have something called effectiveness, and it first has a bigger number assigned to it, and then a lower number, my interpretation of the situation would be that effectiveness has been going down, getting worse, etc.
Fear of being judged for it? How about the rest of us who have a fear of being shot by them when they go crazy. The mentally ill should be registered like sex offenders and shouldn't be out without supervision.
I think we need a disorder classification for people who are obsessively trolling the internet.
It's not really that complicated, take shovels and brooms and go dig them up. The world's population is still increasing, there won't be a shortage of manual labor.
The generation gap would have to be handled by the same system that takes care of nights. Or alternatively, non-critical functions of the society will stop for a moment. Office slaves will have a day off from that cold white LED glow of their workstations, and will get some time to enjoy the company of their families and friends. Temporarily running out of electricity won't be the end of humanity. Until/unless we get usable fusion power, we may just have to adapt.
Unless someone stalks you or to directly assaults you, physically or verbally ( that would be bullying), you have no place demanding from them to stop. You can politely ask, that work most of the times, unless your request is absurd, but I guess that would require a degree of civility that seems above you.
A question about applying this to the subject of the day: If someone assaults my demographic (not me directly), with (a) me being the only person of that demographic there, (b) there are N other people representing that demographic at the location (with varying values of N); am I allowed to take a stand for my demographic and demand them to stop?
and her fault for getting that other person fired.
No. If it were her fault, that would mean he did something that had warranted him getting fired and she was just a whistleblower, pointing out a good reason why he is not fit for his job. Is that what actually happpened?
Now that we're asserting blame, I think the company the man worked for is to be blamed for him losing his job. If a non-PR employee tells a dongle joke in a crowd and someone gets upset, isn't firing him a bit over board? I'd imagine that the proper non-overreacting response would be to ask the guy to explain himself (of course there is a slight chance that this happened and he told his boss to f- off), then tell him to watch his mouth at public events.
If you think wealth redistribution is a good thing let's personalize it for a moment. Let's say you go to work every day. You save for a year to buy a new flat screen TV. Your neighbor sits at home and smokes crack all day. He doesn't think it's fair that you have a flat screen TV and he doesn't. So he breaks into your house (while you're at work of course) and takes yours. He likes his new TV and hey you can always save for another year and go buy another one. Two days later he's out of crack and sells your TV for 10% of what you paid to buy more crack. That's the reality of wealth redistribution.
(a) If you have to save an year to buy a TV you would be at the receiving end of a wealth redistribution.
(b) Ditto for not being able to afford a home insurance that would cover burglaries.
(c) Maybe if your neighbor was not so poor he would have seen some future for his life and never got into drugs. Maybe some part of that wealth redistribution could pay for his rehab and actually become a productive tax-paying citizen.
The reason these people who are poor do not have weath is because they have not earned wealth making wise choices. The reason the ones that do have wealth have it is because they've earned it.
Wait, is that crack you're smoking?
Do you choose to born to a poor uneducated family who lives in a ghetto?
How have you earned the few million dollars you inherit when your grandparents or parents die?
A further consequence of course is that you're not very likely to go to work everyday if it means that everything you earn is just going to be taken from you.
So you mean like slavery? Like what the poor people get trapped into (like your crack-smoking neighbor)?
Sounds to me you have no clue. Go buy one.. though I suspect you may have to save a few years to afford one. And be careful your neighbor doesn't steal it when you finally get it.
Step 1: Flag the person as a criminal.
That's all the steps. The chance of false positive is very small. Most people either have already done something illegal, or will do something illegal at some point of their lives.
I quoted the problematic part. s/boss/client/ and all is well. Independent contractors do this all the time.
Some other important things: (a) You want to get permission from your boss/client *before* making the arrangement. (b) You *don't* want to disclose the rate of your subcontractor to your boss/client. (c) You *definitely* don't want to send your *personal* RSA token and access credentials to your subcontractor.
On one hand, companies outsource "our" jobs with absolutely no remorse at all.
On the other hand,... fingers?
On the other hand, many companies wouldn't mind... IF you told them what was going on. I'm guessing the major issue here is the omission of details by the employee.
If a rail system is 10 miles from your home, and 20 miles from your destination, what good is it exactly?
Alternative point of view: If the nearest airport is 10 miles from your home, and 20 miles from your destination, what good is it exactly? My understanding is, that even in the US every suburb doesn't have it's own international airport. Somehow people still manage to locate one and get there.
But you could try fashioning a parabolic reflector dish and put your existing antenna in the center of it. I've heard of people doing that with cell phones and wi-fi adapters before.
Also, before trying to build an antenna, one should probably experiment with placement of the current antenna. Even with LoS and flat terrain (no vertical reflectors), there will still be a ground reflection that can double or zero your received signal.
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Foreign governments and educational institutions have access to the Windows sources, too.
How do they know it's the same source that was used to compile the binaries? And MS could just deploy a few more back doors any time, using their auto-update infrastructure.
I still think that a more likely place for intentionally placed exploits is in the CPU. Common operating systems have enough unintentional flaws for a long time, with more coming out very major release.
The question then is how on God's Green Earth have so many people deployed this stuff and not audited it thoroughly (or at all)?
Because your client will want new plugins every week, gets tired of asking you everytime, and wants you to set up the permissions so that the GUI plugin installer works ("what do you mean not a good idea? the last site I had worked that way and I never had any problems with it"), then proceeds to install all the plugins he needs to make his blog on cats and other larger-than-life stuff buzzword compatible.
Here's my idea: require the company to define the value of the patent (i.e. how much inventing it cost) with the patent application. And the patent application processing fee is 10% of that value. The patent owner can only sue for damages up to the patent value.
If you actually used a billion to make that invention, then 10% of that is a small price to pay for protection of the investment. If you're a troll, you need to be a troll with very deep pockets. And hopefully some part of that 10% fee can be used to properly review patent applications and establish a court that specializes in handling patent disputes so that lawsuits can be streamlined.
Won't help with already issued patents though.
A contract, a real life contract, needs a real signature on a real piece of paper
I don't know about Italy specifically, but in most places you do not need a piece of paper with hand written signatures to have a contract. Paper contracts are used for "important" stuff because it offers a simple way for proving afterwards that there indeed was a contract and what it's terms were.
If a written contract was necessary, how would two illiterate people agree on things?
People video me in with their hidden cameras because I'm paranoid. Also, taking an image of me damages mhy soul.
Next time when you start a program from Windows start menu, watch closely your computer. You can see that there are no elves taking the old computer and bringing a new one. So it's still the same computer.
However, if the software being started is a truely remarkable, almost magical software such as a Strong AI (brought to you by Strong AI labs, patent pending), then who knows, maybe there will be elves.
Maybe it's just a european thing, but if you have something called effectiveness, and it first has a bigger number assigned to it, and then a lower number, my interpretation of the situation would be that effectiveness has been going down, getting worse, etc.
Fear of being judged for it? How about the rest of us who have a fear of being shot by them when they go crazy. The mentally ill should be registered like sex offenders and shouldn't be out without supervision.
I think we need a disorder classification for people who are obsessively trolling the internet.
... still waiting for that success though.
It's not really that complicated, take shovels and brooms and go dig them up. The world's population is still increasing, there won't be a shortage of manual labor.
The generation gap would have to be handled by the same system that takes care of nights. Or alternatively, non-critical functions of the society will stop for a moment. Office slaves will have a day off from that cold white LED glow of their workstations, and will get some time to enjoy the company of their families and friends. Temporarily running out of electricity won't be the end of humanity. Until/unless we get usable fusion power, we may just have to adapt.
Too bad it's made by sony though.
Too bad any potential alternatives will mean giving more money to Microsoft. And it's hard to beat the evil of MS tax.
Unless someone stalks you or to directly assaults you, physically or verbally ( that would be bullying), you have no place demanding from them to stop. You can politely ask, that work most of the times, unless your request is absurd, but I guess that would require a degree of civility that seems above you.
A question about applying this to the subject of the day: If someone assaults my demographic (not me directly), with (a) me being the only person of that demographic there, (b) there are N other people representing that demographic at the location (with varying values of N); am I allowed to take a stand for my demographic and demand them to stop?
and her fault for getting that other person fired.
No. If it were her fault, that would mean he did something that had warranted him getting fired and she was just a whistleblower, pointing out a good reason why he is not fit for his job. Is that what actually happpened?
Now that we're asserting blame, I think the company the man worked for is to be blamed for him losing his job. If a non-PR employee tells a dongle joke in a crowd and someone gets upset, isn't firing him a bit over board? I'd imagine that the proper non-overreacting response would be to ask the guy to explain himself (of course there is a slight chance that this happened and he told his boss to f- off), then tell him to watch his mouth at public events.
If you think wealth redistribution is a good thing let's personalize it for a moment. Let's say you go to work every day. You save for a year to buy a new flat screen TV. Your neighbor sits at home and smokes crack all day. He doesn't think it's fair that you have a flat screen TV and he doesn't. So he breaks into your house (while you're at work of course) and takes yours. He likes his new TV and hey you can always save for another year and go buy another one. Two days later he's out of crack and sells your TV for 10% of what you paid to buy more crack. That's the reality of wealth redistribution.
(a) If you have to save an year to buy a TV you would be at the receiving end of a wealth redistribution.
(b) Ditto for not being able to afford a home insurance that would cover burglaries.
(c) Maybe if your neighbor was not so poor he would have seen some future for his life and never got into drugs. Maybe some part of that wealth redistribution could pay for his rehab and actually become a productive tax-paying citizen.
The reason these people who are poor do not have weath is because they have not earned wealth making wise choices. The reason the ones that do have wealth have it is because they've earned it.
Wait, is that crack you're smoking?
Do you choose to born to a poor uneducated family who lives in a ghetto?
How have you earned the few million dollars you inherit when your grandparents or parents die?
A further consequence of course is that you're not very likely to go to work everyday if it means that everything you earn is just going to be taken from you.
So you mean like slavery? Like what the poor people get trapped into (like your crack-smoking neighbor)?
Sounds to me you have no clue. Go buy one.. though I suspect you may have to save a few years to afford one. And be careful your neighbor doesn't steal it when you finally get it.
Step 1: Flag the person as a criminal.
That's all the steps. The chance of false positive is very small. Most people either have already done something illegal, or will do something illegal at some point of their lives.
I say we cut down the CO2 emissions... with a herring.
Rename your SSID to "if you don't stop trying to hack in, I will call the police" (or whatever will fit). That should be enough of a hint.
Intimidation by SSID might work but the direction of approach may be wrong. Here's some SSIDs I wouldn't try to free ride on:
House of Anal Pain
SiegHeil45
NRA-nut
MC <insert your local variety here>
I wonder what large companies do to prevent disgruntled employees trying to log in as steve.jobs or bill.gates and DoSing them every day.
Quite simple really. They will find the disgruntled employee, and fire him.
my boss
I quoted the problematic part. s/boss/client/ and all is well. Independent contractors do this all the time.
Some other important things: (a) You want to get permission from your boss/client *before* making the arrangement. (b) You *don't* want to disclose the rate of your subcontractor to your boss/client. (c) You *definitely* don't want to send your *personal* RSA token and access credentials to your subcontractor.
I'm a bit torn on TFS.
On one hand, companies outsource "our" jobs with absolutely no remorse at all.
On the other hand, ... fingers?
On the other hand, many companies wouldn't mind... IF you told them what was going on. I'm guessing the major issue here is the omission of details by the employee.
If a rail system is 10 miles from your home, and 20 miles from your destination, what good is it exactly?
Alternative point of view: If the nearest airport is 10 miles from your home, and 20 miles from your destination, what good is it exactly? My understanding is, that even in the US every suburb doesn't have it's own international airport. Somehow people still manage to locate one and get there.
But you could try fashioning a parabolic reflector dish and put your existing antenna in the center of it. I've heard of people doing that with cell phones and wi-fi adapters before.
To me this sounds like the easiest approach. But, the reflector doesn't necessarily need to be parabolic, see, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagi-Uda_antenna .
Also, before trying to build an antenna, one should probably experiment with placement of the current antenna. Even with LoS and flat terrain (no vertical reflectors), there will still be a ground reflection that can double or zero your received signal.
As other replies to your post pointed out, "completed" on that site seems to mean 100% of achievements.
For example, for Mass Effect 2 the particular achievement that indicates story mode completion is this: http://www.trueachievements.com/a60985/mission-accomplished-achievement.htm .
Some additional thoughts on the subject of vested interest: http://scholarsandrogues.com/2010/05/05/industry-scientists-climate-profits/
Phone company sends me a bill. Facebook doesn't.
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