I don't like unions, and never have. My past employer was a railroad maintenance company whose people were split firmly down the middle, 50% union, 50% non-union, and this caused all kinds of derision between the employees. The non-unions didn't like it when the other half got seemingly better pay, and the unions didn't like the fact that the other half got more vacation time.
Even now, the company I do consulting work for has GM as its major contractor. Anyone remember when GM workers went on strike last year? I had to go through those picket lines every day. Even though I had my contractor's ID in full view with a "visitor" parking pass, they still harassed me. I had to take to bringing a firearm to work with me to prevent people from hassling me or destroying my car.
Unions are not worth the time and trouble. Even if we organized amongst ourselves there would still be those who would want to grab for power. This happens in all forms of structured society, and we are not immune. If you don't like your working conditions, find another job. Fighting with your employer is like trying to fight a rental eviction notice. You're not wanted, one way or another, so you may as well leave and find a better position.
Want a casual atmosphere where everything goes your way? Start your own business. If that scares you, look at the corporate cultures of many tech startups. Try to join one of them. If not, find a company that has good employee relations (Southwest Airlines comes to mind) and get hired on there, then see if they will let you have at least some of the freedom you seek.
As far as lobbying power, I'd rather propose something like the AARP or the Association of Internet Professionals (they still around?). Those who want the organization's lobbying power can join up and make their voice known through their organization. That way, if you agree you can vote with the organization. It makes everyone individually responsible for themselves, but gives them the power to change on a large scale if they can get others to go along.
Jobs are a very touchy subject in this day. No one likes to be told what to do, especially if it is forceful or demanding. Stand your ground, but don't go jumping on a bandwagon that might run you over, just for the fun of it.
So, what they are saying is that if a registrant gives an "incomplete" address, their database can be removed from the database. Would getting the city wrong on your mailing address count? (According to bulk mail rules that my employer must follow, you must get all portions of the address correct, including zip+4, correct for it to be a complete address)
If so, then our antagonist in this case should have THEIR domain removed. My proof:
A search at USPS ZIP+4 Code Lookup for the address listed on aol.com, which is: 22000 AOL Way, DULLES VA 20166 (note the lack of zip+4, which I imagine NSI must retrieve before mailing) comes back from the USPS' own database as: "he address you entered was not found in DULLES VA in our database." Hmm, very interesting?
Now, once one corrects for the obvious flaw in the CITY (which is not commonly known), the new address becomes: 22000 AOL Way, STERLING VA 20166-9302, which is valid. But why, oh why, is their registration record incorrect, yet their domain continues to exist, in violation of NSI's standard for complete addresses?
One more thing to consider: Is my address wrong because I add a "tag" to trace junk mail or because I omit the street suffix, as in: 1208 Tiffany #K5 (no Ln, add #K5), but the USPS still delivers it correctly?
You may add the quoting of this bill onto the ever-growing list of idiot assumptions that spammers make. A bill not passed by both houses of Congress and not signed by the President is not law, and, thus, does not supersede any other laws. They are in (alleged, not yet conclusively proven) violation of provisions restricting junk electronic communications (faxes) that has been interpreted by some courts to include spam as well. Simply because they are in compliance with a proposed law is much like car makers saying they meet "2002 government safety standards." That's great, but it's not required yet. And, if those standards included a provision for, say, a lack of a steering wheel because it might impale someone, then they would still be in violation of current law requiring steering wheels unless the new (thus superseding) law provided some form of exemption. That is all, of course, contingent on the law ACTUALLY BEING PASSED!
Right now, if you are aged 14-19, plus or minus a couple years, you are the middle generation in between what many people are calling a revolution. Most of you grew up, or at least were born and lived a couple years, without the electronics toys and so forth. Those younger than you are being born into and living entirely in this era that was invented and really began roaring along (I didn't say it still isn't) before you were born.
You're not behind, but you didn't get in first, either. Of course, that should be all the more reason to try even harder to make your contribution.
The only problem with that theory is the likely possibility that, when dialing into AOL, you are simply accessing a frame relay (or other data) network that passes all information back to Virginia.
It's much like what Tymnet and so forth used to do. You'd just call in and announce where you were going, and Tymnet would pass your data directly to the destination server without modification.
If the opposite ruling were true--that you could only be prosecuted where you are--but the "electronic presence" held, long distance phone fraud would be impossible to prosecute (IMHO) because you're not "talking" to your local switch, instead you're talking to the person at the end of the line because no "server" in between changes up the data.
Wes (Copyright 1999, ARR. See author for republishing rights)
In the US, you apply to a lender, any lender, so long as you want to do business with them. Even the bank where your money winds up (i.e. paycheck deposit, electronic, etc) requires that you tell them income.
On every credit card app. I've ever seen, there's a box: "Annual Income" You can also opt to put more or less in the "Secondary Income" box.
> 3) I think the X Consortium registered X.org > before there were any restrictions on name length. Actually, according to ye olde whois:
Registrant: The Open Group ( X57-DOM) Apex Plaza, Forbury Road Reading, Berks RG1 1AX UNITED KINGDOM
Record last updated on 01-Mar-99. Record created on 18-Jan-97.
According to all the other single letter domains, they were registered in 1993.. So, the original question stands, why do these guys get special treatment?
Intel's servers are PRIVATE. They are not common-carrier because Intel operates them solely for Intel's use and profit. AT&T, on the other hand, operates and markets its networks for the public's general use (and AT&T's profit), so AT&T is common-carrier because they allow people outside their organization to use their network on a regular basis to conduct unmonitored communications.
This is more akin to tell you to quit calling me. AT&T, GTE, SWBell, whoever, cannot make that determination for me because they have no relation to me other than customer/provider. Intel, however, can make that determination (i.e. prohibiting non-work phone calls/e-mails, etc) because their network is only for their use.
Mostly, the only reason I came up with the idea of accepting an e-mail was to appease those who would say, "what are you going to do about e-mail you want, but don't know its coming."
In saying you gave permission, I intended it more to mean that I can forbid anyone to come on my land without my permission, but that if someone shows up I want to talk to, I can invite them back at a later date. However, if I didn't say anything to you, previously indicated that I didn't want you there ("No Trespassing" sign) or told you purposefully to go away, then that's that.
In a way, sure I get to decide your fate after the fact. You trespass, I prosecute. You e-mail me after I've said no (list, spam-blocked e-mail address, whatever), I prosecute.
Rulings like this only strengthen my position: I want the option to have a ban on spam in my e-mail box. I want to be able to go after any person or business who sends me advertising or electronic mail I do not want. It's already illegal to send me junk faxes, so I want it illegal to send me junk e-mails.
The Intel employees have the inherent right to do their job unobstructed by outside forces that do not concern them. This guy's complaint did not concern them because they a) aren't unionized and b) since they aren't, they deal with management on an individual basis. His experiences are not necessarily those of the other workers.
I like the idea of electronic trespass. If someone e-mails me without my permission (it would be implied that if I replied FAVORABLY, such as a long-lost friend e-mailing me and I replied back with a positive response, then I have given permission), then that is trespass. Its the rough equivalent of putting up a sign in my front yard. Sure, I can delete the message, but that's like informing me I have to tear down a sign on my own land that I didn't ask for in the first place.
Free speech, I believe, should always apply. Conversely, though you may have the right to speak, I have the right not to hear you.
Of course public schools don't adequately prepare students. They don't even adequately pay teachers!
I think the country (US) has its pay scales backwards.. We need to pay CEOs $30,000 and pay police, fire, EMS, teachers and civil servants $100k or more a year.
You are very right on all points. The theft of anything--movies, software, a box of pens from your local OfficeMax--is wrong and illegal, regardless of who you are stealing from.
People need to remember that the CEO of a media company doesn't "feel the pain" when a company loses money to piracy. Instead, its the administrative assistant at the low end of the totem pole whose job means they can finally afford a decent house in a good neighborhood.
Take a look at your own lives, people. You pour time, effort and, in many cases, money into your creations. Imagine if you had written a piece of software like The GiMP? Ok, it instantly becomes one of the more popular graphics programs. Adobe comes along and changes it into PhotoShop 8. You'd cry hell.
Why is that any different from thousands of people a month running off with a pirated copy of a movie? Looking at ticket prices alone, 1,000 stolen and, hence, unpurchased ticket viewings, priced at $5.50 apiece results in $5500 a month, or $66,000 a YEAR! That's someone (or two, maybe three someones) salary!
Personally, I enjoy being a sysadmin. (Of course, to quote the BOFH: "...thus convincing me that all network problems are user inflicted.") I get a job where I can play with my favorite toys all day, and get paid for it, too!
This job is exactly what I wanted it to be, which is doing something that no one notices until it goes wrong, meaning that if I do my job right no one notices me (except for my boss, who hounds me every day) unless I appear at one of those "employee recognition" functions. (Does anyone ever go to those things? I'd like to know... People tell me that all black is bad for a formal affair, but they sure as **** don't want me wearing t-shirt and jeans)
Actually, you may visit the Bastard's home at NetworkWeek, where new columns come out every Wednesday, and you may read all stories back to the beginning in 1995. Highly recommended for a start-up page.
Even taking into account that the universe punishes stupidity, that reason alone is probably a very good reason why we have laws to protect us from ourselves, and each other.
How the attacker got there makes absolutely no difference. He could have been a pizza delivery boy who just decided to get more than the usual in tips. (MY APOLOGIES to delivery people everywhere. I am one.) The point remains that he should not have done what he did and since this horrible action occured, he should be punished.
As many others have stated, the first time she said "NO," it became rape, regardless of any other actions that came before.
The only problem with that logic, as I see it, is very simple: Cellular phone battery life: 60 hours (stand-by only, much less if talking); Motorola Advisor Flex Pager battery life: 1.5 months, no matter what.
In addition, since this is a text pager, I have some e-mail sent to it, get CNN headlines, can store all manner of texts in the notebook, it has date/time AND I can set it to absolute silence.
Yes, I carry a cell-phone, but it's almost always off unless I'm calling out on it (no one has the number), and, 9/10 times I can leave the phone at home. It's mostly for driving and answering pages when I'm not near a landline.
FREE TIP: For those who don't like to pay long distance, make plenty of short calls, and can stand a 15-second advert, look at Broadpoint's Freeway. Sure, it's advertising, but whoever said you had to answer honestly?
Yeah, but that's what bothers me about this palmtop trend. WinCE machines (can we call them machines? no moving parts...) keep getting bigger and bigger. Some of them at my local CompUSA are the size of the Sony VAIO 505F I just bought (lessee.. Crap operating system, 8-bit color, small amount of ram; compared to Linux 2.1.7, 64M of RAM, 4.1GB hard drive, built in sound, MPEG-2 built in, 56k modem built in, the list of features just goes on. WinCE box: 2.4 lbs, Vaio 505F: 2.9 lbs), and they do so much less. So, want something that's palm-sized? Look into the Toshiba Libretto. It's a REAL COMPUTER in the space of a VCR cassette.
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Even now, the company I do consulting work for has GM as its major contractor. Anyone remember when GM workers went on strike last year? I had to go through those picket lines every day. Even though I had my contractor's ID in full view with a "visitor" parking pass, they still harassed me. I had to take to bringing a firearm to work with me to prevent people from hassling me or destroying my car.
Unions are not worth the time and trouble. Even if we organized amongst ourselves there would still be those who would want to grab for power. This happens in all forms of structured society, and we are not immune. If you don't like your working conditions, find another job. Fighting with your employer is like trying to fight a rental eviction notice. You're not wanted, one way or another, so you may as well leave and find a better position.
Want a casual atmosphere where everything goes your way? Start your own business. If that scares you, look at the corporate cultures of many tech startups. Try to join one of them. If not, find a company that has good employee relations (Southwest Airlines comes to mind) and get hired on there, then see if they will let you have at least some of the freedom you seek.
As far as lobbying power, I'd rather propose something like the AARP or the Association of Internet Professionals (they still around?). Those who want the organization's lobbying power can join up and make their voice known through their organization. That way, if you agree you can vote with the organization. It makes everyone individually responsible for themselves, but gives them the power to change on a large scale if they can get others to go along.
Jobs are a very touchy subject in this day. No one likes to be told what to do, especially if it is forceful or demanding. Stand your ground, but don't go jumping on a bandwagon that might run you over, just for the fun of it.
If so, then our antagonist in this case should have THEIR domain removed. My proof:
A search at USPS ZIP+4 Code Lookup for the address listed on aol.com, which is: 22000 AOL Way, DULLES VA 20166 (note the lack of zip+4, which I imagine NSI must retrieve before mailing) comes back from the USPS' own database as: "he address you entered was not found in DULLES VA in our database." Hmm, very interesting?
Now, once one corrects for the obvious flaw in the CITY (which is not commonly known), the new address becomes: 22000 AOL Way, STERLING VA 20166-9302, which is valid. But why, oh why, is their registration record incorrect, yet their domain continues to exist, in violation of NSI's standard for complete addresses?
One more thing to consider: Is my address wrong because I add a "tag" to trace junk mail or because I omit the street suffix, as in: 1208 Tiffany #K5 (no Ln, add #K5), but the USPS still delivers it correctly?
Just a thought.
You may add the quoting of this bill onto the ever-growing list of idiot assumptions that spammers make. A bill not passed by both houses of Congress and not signed by the President is not law, and, thus, does not supersede any other laws. They are in (alleged, not yet conclusively proven) violation of provisions restricting junk electronic communications (faxes) that has been interpreted by some courts to include spam as well. Simply because they are in compliance with a proposed law is much like car makers saying they meet "2002 government safety standards." That's great, but it's not required yet. And, if those standards included a provision for, say, a lack of a steering wheel because it might impale someone, then they would still be in violation of current law requiring steering wheels unless the new (thus superseding) law provided some form of exemption. That is all, of course, contingent on the law ACTUALLY BEING PASSED!
Right now, if you are aged 14-19, plus or minus a couple years, you are the middle generation in between what many people are calling a revolution. Most of you grew up, or at least were born and lived a couple years, without the electronics toys and so forth. Those younger than you are being born into and living entirely in this era that was invented and really began roaring along (I didn't say it still isn't) before you were born.
You're not behind, but you didn't get in first, either. Of course, that should be all the more reason to try even harder to make your contribution.
The only problem with that theory is the likely possibility that, when dialing into AOL, you are simply accessing a frame relay (or other data) network that passes all information back to Virginia.
It's much like what Tymnet and so forth used to do. You'd just call in and announce where you were going, and Tymnet would pass your data directly to the destination server without modification.
If the opposite ruling were true--that you could only be prosecuted where you are--but the "electronic presence" held, long distance phone fraud would be impossible to prosecute (IMHO) because you're not "talking" to your local switch, instead you're talking to the person at the end of the line because no "server" in between changes up the data.
Wes
(Copyright 1999, ARR. See author for republishing rights)
In the US, you apply to a lender, any lender, so long as you want to do business with them. Even the bank where your money winds up (i.e. paycheck deposit, electronic, etc) requires that you tell them income.
On every credit card app. I've ever seen, there's a box: "Annual Income" You can also opt to put more or less in the "Secondary Income" box.
So, tell me, can you switch banks easily?
Registrant:
The Open Group ( X57-DOM)
Apex Plaza, Forbury Road
Reading, Berks RG1 1AX
UNITED KINGDOM
Record last updated on 01-Mar-99.
Record created on 18-Jan-97.
According to all the other single letter domains, they were registered in 1993.. So, the original question stands, why do these guys get special treatment?
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This is more akin to tell you to quit calling me. AT&T, GTE, SWBell, whoever, cannot make that determination for me because they have no relation to me other than customer/provider. Intel, however, can make that determination (i.e. prohibiting non-work phone calls/e-mails, etc) because their network is only for their use.
In saying you gave permission, I intended it more to mean that I can forbid anyone to come on my land without my permission, but that if someone shows up I want to talk to, I can invite them back at a later date. However, if I didn't say anything to you, previously indicated that I didn't want you there ("No Trespassing" sign) or told you purposefully to go away, then that's that.
In a way, sure I get to decide your fate after the fact. You trespass, I prosecute. You e-mail me after I've said no (list, spam-blocked e-mail address, whatever), I prosecute.
The Intel employees have the inherent right to do their job unobstructed by outside forces that do not concern them. This guy's complaint did not concern them because they a) aren't unionized and b) since they aren't, they deal with management on an individual basis. His experiences are not necessarily those of the other workers.
I like the idea of electronic trespass. If someone e-mails me without my permission (it would be implied that if I replied FAVORABLY, such as a long-lost friend e-mailing me and I replied back with a positive response, then I have given permission), then that is trespass. Its the rough equivalent of putting up a sign in my front yard. Sure, I can delete the message, but that's like informing me I have to tear down a sign on my own land that I didn't ask for in the first place.
Free speech, I believe, should always apply. Conversely, though you may have the right to speak, I have the right not to hear you.
Of course public schools don't adequately prepare students. They don't even adequately pay teachers!
I think the country (US) has its pay scales backwards.. We need to pay CEOs $30,000 and pay police, fire, EMS, teachers and civil servants $100k or more a year.
People need to remember that the CEO of a media company doesn't "feel the pain" when a company loses money to piracy. Instead, its the administrative assistant at the low end of the totem pole whose job means they can finally afford a decent house in a good neighborhood.
Take a look at your own lives, people. You pour time, effort and, in many cases, money into your creations. Imagine if you had written a piece of software like The GiMP? Ok, it instantly becomes one of the more popular graphics programs. Adobe comes along and changes it into PhotoShop 8. You'd cry hell.
Why is that any different from thousands of people a month running off with a pirated copy of a movie? Looking at ticket prices alone, 1,000 stolen and, hence, unpurchased ticket viewings, priced at $5.50 apiece results in $5500 a month, or $66,000 a YEAR! That's someone (or two, maybe three someones) salary!
--Rant Mode OFF--
This job is exactly what I wanted it to be, which is doing something that no one notices until it goes wrong, meaning that if I do my job right no one notices me (except for my boss, who hounds me every day) unless I appear at one of those "employee recognition" functions. (Does anyone ever go to those things? I'd like to know... People tell me that all black is bad for a formal affair, but they sure as **** don't want me wearing t-shirt and jeans)
Actually, you may visit the Bastard's home at NetworkWeek, where new columns come out every Wednesday, and you may read all stories back to the beginning in 1995. Highly recommended for a start-up page.
Even taking into account that the universe punishes stupidity, that reason alone is probably a very good reason why we have laws to protect us from ourselves, and each other.
As many others have stated, the first time she said "NO," it became rape, regardless of any other actions that came before.
In addition, since this is a text pager, I have some e-mail sent to it, get CNN headlines, can store all manner of texts in the notebook, it has date/time AND I can set it to absolute silence.
Yes, I carry a cell-phone, but it's almost always off unless I'm calling out on it (no one has the number), and, 9/10 times I can leave the phone at home. It's mostly for driving and answering pages when I'm not near a landline.
FREE TIP: For those who don't like to pay long distance, make plenty of short calls, and can stand a 15-second advert, look at Broadpoint's Freeway. Sure, it's advertising, but whoever said you had to answer honestly?
Yeah, but that's what bothers me about this palmtop trend. WinCE machines (can we call them machines? no moving parts...) keep getting bigger and bigger. Some of them at my local CompUSA are the size of the Sony VAIO 505F I just bought (lessee.. Crap operating system, 8-bit color, small amount of ram; compared to Linux 2.1.7, 64M of RAM, 4.1GB hard drive, built in sound, MPEG-2 built in, 56k modem built in, the list of features just goes on. WinCE box: 2.4 lbs, Vaio 505F: 2.9 lbs), and they do so much less. So, want something that's palm-sized? Look into the Toshiba Libretto. It's a REAL COMPUTER in the space of a VCR cassette.