Adult passengers, perhaps, but what about children. Children should certainly be banned from automobiles. Not only would they be unable to distract the driver, in the unfortunately even of an accident, they would no be in the automobile and therefore be unharmed.
At least in my country, an officer is not allowed to just randomly pull over a vehicle for no reason and then search that vehicle. They are supposed to have probable cause; they can't just go search someoneone to see what they can find. Unless they have a dog, that is. That's right. A police dog can decide your vehicle has drugs or whatever else they're looking for and when the dog starts barking, suddenly the officer has a perfectly legal search. Yes, it would be illegal and a violation of civil rights if that officer used his hands and eyes to locate the same drugs. However, the same search performed with a dog's nose instead of a human officer's hands and eyes is suddenly legal and constitutional. Isn't that amazing, how you can take an unconstitutional act, filter it through the nervous system of the lowly dog, and suddenly it becomes legal and has the court's blessing?
The dog still has to be near your vehicle for a reason. That reason could be that you were parked in a lot where the dog was walking, but you still can't be pulled over for no reason other than to have the dog sniff your vehicle.
Now, let's take the dog out of the equation. Your parked in that same random parking lot and a cop walks by and smells the pot emanating from your car. He's been on the force for a while and has been involved with drug busts before. He knows, with no doubt whatsoever, the smell of pot. He now has a legal reason to search your car. Complete with the court's blessing.
Except they weren't searching the physical premise where these 10 players reside... nor any virtual equivalency. They were searching third party records of drug tests performed on these 10 players. The closest pre-digital analogy I can come up with is bank records. If it was 1909 and the police had obtained a warrant to search my bank records, would that give them the right to also peak at yours that are stored in the same filing cabinet at the bank?
My TV has a VGA input and a 1/8" phone connector for the audio... so I don't even use DVI for that:)
For a while I had a computer where the video card had one VGA output and one DVI output. The video card was capable of sending a different signal out each port. I had two identical monitors that had both a VGA and a DVI input... so I connected one monitor to VGA and one to DVI to get a dual monitor setup. I never noticed any difference between the two monitors as far as connection quality was concerned.
The other reasons that there are "cash only" places...
1. They may wish to avoid paying the "credit card tax"... not sales tax, which they actually just pass directly on to you (at least here they do... I get a subtotal that goes to the store and then a final total that includes sales tax). But most credit card companies take a certain percentage of the sale as their processing fee... not to mention actually have a transaction fee at the same time.
2. They may not want checks because they are such a hassle to deal with. If one bounces, they have to go after you directly to collect that money.
Cash doesn't bounce... and it doesn't mysteriously divert itself to some processing company. Sometimes it disappears, but theft has been a problem long enough that most places have some means to deal with it.
Not that I like the processes... heck, I dislike it when places won't take my desired card even though they accept other cards. I rarely carry cash and only use checks for person-to-person transactions.
It wasn't until there was a sudden spike in gas prices that the average consumer "demanded" fuel efficient automobiles. Prior to that, the demand was higher for big trucks and SUVs and that's what the American auto industry was tooled up for. Sure, there was some demand for fuel efficiency, but the majority of the demand was in other areas. R&D takes a long time in the real world. It's not something you decide to do one day then wake up the next and start banging out code until you have something that kinda-sorta works a week later.
They may say that, but they can't enforce it. I've done it, in fact. Had a charge where both PayPal and the merchant who contracted through PayPal claimed they couldn't get me a receipt for my payment... so I called up American Express and they said "No problem, we'll put an immediate credit on your account pending receiving a receipt." And they did. They did a chargeback to PayPal who did a chargeback to the merchant in question. The merchant wasn't too happy about it, but he should have given me my receipt!
We actually met a couple times quite a while ago (back in the MALUG days). If you're still in the same area, I'd like to know where you sell those licenses through and for how much. I have a contact that's in need of anywhere from 5-15 licenses of XP Pro but only has XP Home.
There isn't actually a deal yet, just a proposal that will be brought before the union on Saturday. Theoretically, the union leaders could lift the strike order by Monday if all goes well. From what I understand, the guy saying the deal is all but done and sure to be accepted doesn't even work in the industry anymore...
Me, too... fortunately, MythTV will still remember and when they pop up in my available recordings list maybe I'll remember what the story is all about...
tell me 1 reason why vista's new way of handeling printers and drivers can justify why i now have to buy 50 new licences of Acrobat + another 20K in software for our Oce Print Manager.. just so our office can use Vista to print instead of the xp box's they have..
So you're obviously talking about a network environment here, not a home PC. So my suggestion would be to not buy Acrobat at all. I've saved a ton of money by creating a printer object using samba that instead of pointing to an actual printer takes the postscript output fed to it and gives it to a perl script that runs it through ghostscript to turn it into a PDF file and then emails it to the user that printed it. This solves what 99% of the people who were asking for Acrobat writer wanted while not costing a dime. I was also able to make it available to everybody across the corporation while still not costing a dime so even people who would have never been approved for spending the money to purchase Acrobat writer can create PDF files.
I wanna like PGP, I really do... but tell me this comment isn't ugly. OK, now stop lying. Every time I see a PGP signed message I can't help but think how aweful it looks. What is the average user gonna wanna put up with that. Sure, you have the right software/plugins/whatever, it can be made to look better and be non-obtrusive, but the fact of the matter is, but default it's ugly.
IMHO, the biggest problem with X.509 certificates is cost. Sure, you can get a free one from Thawte, but then it doesn't include your name. There's another set of hoops you have to jump through to get that part which may or may not be free. I've intended to do it a couple times, but just have yet to make contact with an assurer in my area... and the cost of using the third party verification is just too much. Yes, I'm cheap.
CAcert could make some strides in that area... if they can ever get their root certificate include by default in mainline browsers/mail clients.
The second biggest obstacle for X.509 is webmail... and a lot of people use that exclusively. While it's possible to use a plugin like firegpg for webmail to get GnuPG working, I don't know of any way to make that work for X.509.
And of course, never underestimate the chicken/egg issue or the ignorance issue. People don't realize that email is sent from server to server in the clear and stored in a way that other people can read their email. They think that little password they have to enter keeps everybody out... you know, they one they use on every other site in the world and just entered into the eBay/PayPal/MySpace/whatever phish. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) - WinPT 1.2.0
I'm not the OP here, but I think in this case 'sadly' refers to the fact that the officer acted in a way that's going to cost the city money, not that it's unfortunate that the guy is going to sue. At least that's what I'd hope it meant.
By default, the anti-phish in Mozilla provided by Google downloads a local copy of the database and checks against that. You have the option of sending every site you visit to Google for evaluation, but saying 'no' to that doesn't completely remove you from being protect (and the default answer to that is 'no').
Sure, but it drastically reduces what they have to try. For example: abcdefghij is not a possible password, so they don't have to try it. Heck, aBcDeFgHiJ is not valid, nor is aBcDeFgH12 or aBcDeFgH1! or a slew of other passwords. I haven't done the math, but I've gotta believe that this eliminates literally thousands of possibilities. Personally, I think just a minimum length is plenty as long as numbers and symbols are allowed. However, "include at least two non-alpha characters" is a perfectly reasonable middle ground requirement that still makes it so they have to try every possible combination without invalidating quite so many passwords (my first two examples would still be invalid).
Funny, my AKO account (which is provided by the US Army, a branch of the US Government) has the most ridiculous password policy I've ever seen. It has to be 10 characters long, expires every 150 days, and must contain at least two lower case letters, uppercase letters, numbers, AND symbols. I guess they don't realize that be mandating what 8 of the 10 characters have to be they've actually reduced the number of possible combinations.
Oh, and it gets better. In order to change this password, you have to log in with a special access card. The card itself is not hard to obtain (at least I'm pretty sure it's just the Military ID)... trouble is, being a reservist I don't exactly have a CAC reader setting at home. So now that my absolutely ridiculous password has expired, I just can't access the mandatory system. Absolutely brilliant.
Did anybody visit that site and see the following text:
Don't be tricked by illegal copies of Microsoft Office selling for 49$ - 69$. Get the peace of mind of purchasing a fully licensed Office Suite for a quarter of the price
They'd much rather you were tricked into paying them for free software:).
Troll? You've gotta be kidding. In the state of Michigan, requirement number one to getting a license plate for your care is insurance. Try driving w/out a plate, and see how far you can go. And we're not the only state with no fault insurance.
Assuming this works, everyone would have some of their own stem cells harvested when young, for use in the future
This is possible now. It can be collected from the umbilical cord at birth and is completely harmless to the baby, though very expensive. It can also be donated to a cord blood bank, though in that case it's not kept specifically for your future use.
Oh ya, and in a criminal case the defendant has a right to an attorney, even if they can't afford one. I don't think there's any such provisions in a civil case. By keeping this in civil court, the RIAA knows they can be bullies and get away with it.
Personally, I wish they were criminal. Criminal cases in the US have a much higher burdon of proof. The require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Civil cases, on the other hand, only require a "preponderance of the evidence." Screenshots of dynamic IP addresses are more than just a reasonable doubt. Even criminal cases can result in fines, typically much lower than what the RIAA is asking for in its civil cases.
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Adult passengers, perhaps, but what about children. Children should certainly be banned from automobiles. Not only would they be unable to distract the driver, in the unfortunately even of an accident, they would no be in the automobile and therefore be unharmed.
At least in my country, an officer is not allowed to just randomly pull over a vehicle for no reason and then search that vehicle. They are supposed to have probable cause; they can't just go search someoneone to see what they can find. Unless they have a dog, that is. That's right. A police dog can decide your vehicle has drugs or whatever else they're looking for and when the dog starts barking, suddenly the officer has a perfectly legal search. Yes, it would be illegal and a violation of civil rights if that officer used his hands and eyes to locate the same drugs. However, the same search performed with a dog's nose instead of a human officer's hands and eyes is suddenly legal and constitutional. Isn't that amazing, how you can take an unconstitutional act, filter it through the nervous system of the lowly dog, and suddenly it becomes legal and has the court's blessing?
The dog still has to be near your vehicle for a reason. That reason could be that you were parked in a lot where the dog was walking, but you still can't be pulled over for no reason other than to have the dog sniff your vehicle.
Now, let's take the dog out of the equation. Your parked in that same random parking lot and a cop walks by and smells the pot emanating from your car. He's been on the force for a while and has been involved with drug busts before. He knows, with no doubt whatsoever, the smell of pot. He now has a legal reason to search your car. Complete with the court's blessing.
Except they weren't searching the physical premise where these 10 players reside... nor any virtual equivalency. They were searching third party records of drug tests performed on these 10 players. The closest pre-digital analogy I can come up with is bank records. If it was 1909 and the police had obtained a warrant to search my bank records, would that give them the right to also peak at yours that are stored in the same filing cabinet at the bank?
My TV has a VGA input and a 1/8" phone connector for the audio... so I don't even use DVI for that :)
For a while I had a computer where the video card had one VGA output and one DVI output. The video card was capable of sending a different signal out each port. I had two identical monitors that had both a VGA and a DVI input... so I connected one monitor to VGA and one to DVI to get a dual monitor setup. I never noticed any difference between the two monitors as far as connection quality was concerned.
The other reasons that there are "cash only" places...
1. They may wish to avoid paying the "credit card tax"... not sales tax, which they actually just pass directly on to you (at least here they do... I get a subtotal that goes to the store and then a final total that includes sales tax). But most credit card companies take a certain percentage of the sale as their processing fee... not to mention actually have a transaction fee at the same time.
2. They may not want checks because they are such a hassle to deal with. If one bounces, they have to go after you directly to collect that money.
Cash doesn't bounce... and it doesn't mysteriously divert itself to some processing company. Sometimes it disappears, but theft has been a problem long enough that most places have some means to deal with it.
Not that I like the processes... heck, I dislike it when places won't take my desired card even though they accept other cards. I rarely carry cash and only use checks for person-to-person transactions.
now they all have abandonware/ vaporware
The Virus world has had vaporware for years.... I've yet to see that promised virus that would cause my computer to burst into flames...
It wasn't until there was a sudden spike in gas prices that the average consumer "demanded" fuel efficient automobiles. Prior to that, the demand was higher for big trucks and SUVs and that's what the American auto industry was tooled up for. Sure, there was some demand for fuel efficiency, but the majority of the demand was in other areas. R&D takes a long time in the real world. It's not something you decide to do one day then wake up the next and start banging out code until you have something that kinda-sorta works a week later.
They may say that, but they can't enforce it. I've done it, in fact. Had a charge where both PayPal and the merchant who contracted through PayPal claimed they couldn't get me a receipt for my payment... so I called up American Express and they said "No problem, we'll put an immediate credit on your account pending receiving a receipt." And they did. They did a chargeback to PayPal who did a chargeback to the merchant in question. The merchant wasn't too happy about it, but he should have given me my receipt!
Tim,
We actually met a couple times quite a while ago (back in the MALUG days). If you're still in the same area, I'd like to know where you sell those licenses through and for how much. I have a contact that's in need of anywhere from 5-15 licenses of XP Pro but only has XP Home.
Thanks,
Jake
There isn't actually a deal yet, just a proposal that will be brought before the union on Saturday. Theoretically, the union leaders could lift the strike order by Monday if all goes well. From what I understand, the guy saying the deal is all but done and sure to be accepted doesn't even work in the industry anymore...
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Me, too... fortunately, MythTV will still remember and when they pop up in my available recordings list maybe I'll remember what the story is all about...
So you're obviously talking about a network environment here, not a home PC. So my suggestion would be to not buy Acrobat at all. I've saved a ton of money by creating a printer object using samba that instead of pointing to an actual printer takes the postscript output fed to it and gives it to a perl script that runs it through ghostscript to turn it into a PDF file and then emails it to the user that printed it. This solves what 99% of the people who were asking for Acrobat writer wanted while not costing a dime. I was also able to make it available to everybody across the corporation while still not costing a dime so even people who would have never been approved for spending the money to purchase Acrobat writer can create PDF files.
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Hash: SHA1
I wanna like PGP, I really do... but tell me this comment isn't ugly. OK, now stop lying. Every time I see a PGP signed message I can't help but think how aweful it looks. What is the average user gonna wanna put up with that. Sure, you have the right software/plugins/whatever, it can be made to look better and be non-obtrusive, but the fact of the matter is, but default it's ugly.
IMHO, the biggest problem with X.509 certificates is cost. Sure, you can get a free one from Thawte, but then it doesn't include your name. There's another set of hoops you have to jump through to get that part which may or may not be free. I've intended to do it a couple times, but just have yet to make contact with an assurer in my area... and the cost of using the third party verification is just too much. Yes, I'm cheap.
CAcert could make some strides in that area... if they can ever get their root certificate include by default in mainline browsers/mail clients.
The second biggest obstacle for X.509 is webmail... and a lot of people use that exclusively. While it's possible to use a plugin like firegpg for webmail to get GnuPG working, I don't know of any way to make that work for X.509.
And of course, never underestimate the chicken/egg issue or the ignorance issue. People don't realize that email is sent from server to server in the clear and stored in a way that other people can read their email. They think that little password they have to enter keeps everybody out... you know, they one they use on every other site in the world and just entered into the eBay/PayPal/MySpace/whatever phish.
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Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) - WinPT 1.2.0
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I'm not the OP here, but I think in this case 'sadly' refers to the fact that the officer acted in a way that's going to cost the city money, not that it's unfortunate that the guy is going to sue. At least that's what I'd hope it meant.
By default, the anti-phish in Mozilla provided by Google downloads a local copy of the database and checks against that. You have the option of sending every site you visit to Google for evaluation, but saying 'no' to that doesn't completely remove you from being protect (and the default answer to that is 'no').
Sure, but it drastically reduces what they have to try. For example: abcdefghij is not a possible password, so they don't have to try it. Heck, aBcDeFgHiJ is not valid, nor is aBcDeFgH12 or aBcDeFgH1! or a slew of other passwords. I haven't done the math, but I've gotta believe that this eliminates literally thousands of possibilities. Personally, I think just a minimum length is plenty as long as numbers and symbols are allowed. However, "include at least two non-alpha characters" is a perfectly reasonable middle ground requirement that still makes it so they have to try every possible combination without invalidating quite so many passwords (my first two examples would still be invalid).
Which is also an easier command line to remember?
Funny, my AKO account (which is provided by the US Army, a branch of the US Government) has the most ridiculous password policy I've ever seen. It has to be 10 characters long, expires every 150 days, and must contain at least two lower case letters, uppercase letters, numbers, AND symbols. I guess they don't realize that be mandating what 8 of the 10 characters have to be they've actually reduced the number of possible combinations.
Oh, and it gets better. In order to change this password, you have to log in with a special access card. The card itself is not hard to obtain (at least I'm pretty sure it's just the Military ID)... trouble is, being a reservist I don't exactly have a CAC reader setting at home. So now that my absolutely ridiculous password has expired, I just can't access the mandatory system. Absolutely brilliant.
Reference: Page 2 of this PDF
They'd much rather you were tricked into paying them for free software
Troll? You've gotta be kidding. In the state of Michigan, requirement number one to getting a license plate for your care is insurance. Try driving w/out a plate, and see how far you can go. And we're not the only state with no fault insurance.
This is possible now. It can be collected from the umbilical cord at birth and is completely harmless to the baby, though very expensive. It can also be donated to a cord blood bank, though in that case it's not kept specifically for your future use.
Then blame me while you're at it. I actually did vote for Bush.
Oh ya, and in a criminal case the defendant has a right to an attorney, even if they can't afford one. I don't think there's any such provisions in a civil case. By keeping this in civil court, the RIAA knows they can be bullies and get away with it.
Personally, I wish they were criminal. Criminal cases in the US have a much higher burdon of proof. The require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Civil cases, on the other hand, only require a "preponderance of the evidence." Screenshots of dynamic IP addresses are more than just a reasonable doubt. Even criminal cases can result in fines, typically much lower than what the RIAA is asking for in its civil cases.
Of course it's OK