Non-citizens in the US don't have anywhere the same legal protections as citizens. This is to be expected in ANY country that you visit where you are not a citizen.
So why do you expect that this proposed legislation should be any different?
Sometime soon this section will die a slow death, but the stinking corpse will still lay around for all to see. Kinda like Slashback or those regular friendly fireside chats Cmdr Taco started (and then stopped) all those years ago.
I agree that news organisations should report things as being likely (Ie look out for those nasty scammers that may come out of the woodwork) . But my point is that the story received a beat-up/FUD makeover between being posted on computerworld and posted here
The TFA does not mention any sites that are being used for phishing. Instead it talks about how phishing sites were set up in the wake of Katrina, and that the sites being registered now may be destined for phishing. Talk about FUD.
damn I actually have to appologise to kdawson. Sorry for saying you added words to the article. But your editing is still crap. When I read "Here's the local article from the Worcester Telegram & Gazette." I expect that the quoted text actually came from that article.
"Allow me to translate Ms. Wilderman's words into plain English: 'Mr. Deeb hasn't actually violated any law or regulation that I can find, but I don't like what he's doing because I'm ignorant and irrationally afraid of chemicals, so I'll abuse my power to steal his property and shut him down."
appears nowhere in the linked article, yet kdawson has chosen to sensationalize by adding his own words and making it look as if they were part of the article.
In fact the article actually states:
"Mr. Deebâ(TM)s home lab likely violated the regulations of many state and local departments, although officials have not yet announced any penalties. "
This is a bit OT, but I thought I would bring it up any way.
I am in the middle of reading Cape Wind, BBS, 2007 which is about trying to put a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The location is perfect for a wind farm, and the need in NE for clean cheap power is high. But when all the backyards are owned by millionaires, it makes for an extreme NIMBY makeover.
I am finding the book to be a fascinating but horrifying read as to the lengths people will go to subvert the political process to protect what they believe is their right to quietly enjoy a public owned location. A typical example was adding a last minute rider to an Iraq war finance bill specifically aimed at blocking this one project. I'm not pro-war, but even I found tactics like this to be underhanded.
I have been getting interested in wind power from an engineering perspective, but reading this book has been a real eye opener as to how the political process is probably more important than the actual mechanics and cost/benefit/profit analysis. I'd recommend it to anyone as a good read, and while I don't understand the "anti" viewpoint all that well, this book gives some interesting lessons.
BTW I linked to Aaazon, but screw them - I got my copy from my local library!
The trouble with Judo is that they an turn the tables on you (been there done that). with dancing the role of leader and follower is precisely defined;-)
Ha! I see you your "martial arts" class and raise you a "dancing class" (ie salsa).
Not only do you get to *see* attractive females.. you also get to *hold* onto them!!
And when you go out dancing at clubs you can dance with a variety of females all in the same night and not have to worry about hiding it from *any* of them. And they *enjoy* it!!!
touche.. but I was thinking of sub-five foot people. So I think my unstated assumption ultimately wins as there are no sub-five foot players listed there:-)
I remember a stat that I saw a long time ago (I can't remember who to attribute it to). But basically it said that with 10,000 hours of training you can go from zero to a world class practitioner in *any* field you choose. That could me artist, scientist, astronaut etc.
But I doubt that many people have the finances or drive to keep up such a regime until you achieve your goal. And thats what separates the world class people from the rest of us.
Of course some people do have a natural ability that also gives them a benefit. So I doubt a really short person could ever be competitive in a world class basketball - unless there was a league for really short people.
Have you ever used one? And I mean seriously used.. not played with one in a shop? It has major productivity and UI boosts over XP (never used Vista so I can't compare) .
If the problem cannot be well defined then the time to reach a solution cannot be defined.
But if the problem is well defined then the solution time can also be well defined.
I consider opening the case of of a product that you are trained to service to be a well defined (and with an iMac a trivial) problem. If that extends to hours or days then then something is wrong with the person doing the work, not with the definition of the problem.
My reluctance to deal with it personally stems from the fact that for me it is *not* a well defined problem, so there is risk attached to any action I make.. so yes it could take me hours to work out how to open and close an imac case.
It is both.. scary for someone not familiar with the case. Easy for a qualified service person.
Pulling apart a current generation of iMac is not for the faint hearted in terms of cracking open this or that. However it is not a time consuming task either. I would expect a qualified service guy to be able to crack open a machine in a matter of minutes. The time to change out a SATA hard drive would be small compared to the time to get the case apart.
Just in case you are monitoring/. (which I'm sure you do) I just wanted to tell you about my experiences week with my iMac. You see I have filled up my hard drive and I want to put a bigger one in. As its still under warrantee I wanted an accredited service center to do the work for me (plus those pics I have seen on the web about pulling iMacs apart to change a drive just plain out scare me).
So I called my local Apple store to ask for a price and turnover time. And the sales drone told me.. "You'll have to make an appointment with the Genius Bar to get that information". WTF? I have schedule an appointment at the Apple store, turn up at the allotted time in order to ask how much to put in a hard drive?????
So I was in the same shopping centre as the Apple store this morning, so I dropped in to see if I could casually ask the Genius Bar guy what it would cost etc. That's all going well until I mention that I already have the drive (and in fact running my system off it as an external drive). The Genius pulled me up and basically said "whoa.. non Apple drive. Sorry we can't install that here. As if it does something and kills the rest of the system then we would be responsible". WTF??? Its a frickin' SATA drive. Could even be the same brand that Apple will install. If it kills my iMac then there will be a lot of very unhappy people in the rest of the world and major class action lawsuits when this brand of drive takes down a huge number of other computers.
Boy am I pissed about this quality service. At least the people at the Genius bar gave a me a list of authorised service centres in the local area. But that gets even more WTFery.. I called one of them up and its 2 business day turn around time just to pop the covers off and switch a drive?!?!?!!?
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So why do you expect that this proposed legislation should be any different?
I could have posted but you beat me to it with the 8x10 color glossy photos.
I wonder how many other people would even get that reference?
The did this in the ad by fobbing off the Pizza delivery guy - who seemed to be cast as a teenage Gates look-a-like
Sometime soon this section will die a slow death, but the stinking corpse will still lay around for all to see. Kinda like Slashback or those regular friendly fireside chats Cmdr Taco started (and then stopped) all those years ago.
I agree that news organisations should report things as being likely (Ie look out for those nasty scammers that may come out of the woodwork) . But my point is that the story received a beat-up/FUD makeover between being posted on computerworld and posted here
Replying to myself. Even the summary that kdawson quotes uses the word may. Apparently reading comprehension is not required at /.
The TFA does not mention any sites that are being used for phishing. Instead it talks about how phishing sites were set up in the wake of Katrina, and that the sites being registered now may be destined for phishing. Talk about FUD.
Or is that obvious?
Again .. god dammit .. why did I just waste time and bandwidth??
damn I actually have to appologise to kdawson. Sorry for saying you added words to the article. But your editing is still crap. When I read "Here's the local article from the Worcester Telegram & Gazette." I expect that the quoted text actually came from that article.
"Allow me to translate Ms. Wilderman's words into plain English: 'Mr. Deeb hasn't actually violated any law or regulation that I can find, but I don't like what he's doing because I'm ignorant and irrationally afraid of chemicals, so I'll abuse my power to steal his property and shut him down."
appears nowhere in the linked article, yet kdawson has chosen to sensationalize by adding his own words and making it look as if they were part of the article.
In fact the article actually states:
"Mr. Deebâ(TM)s home lab likely violated the regulations of many state and local departments, although officials have not yet announced any penalties. "
***whooosh***
Although big dog is great (and I was amazed at its abilities), I pissed myself laughing at this one instead: Another big dog robot
Ok .. then I'll have it. You were mixing in Portuguese weren't you???
I am in the middle of reading Cape Wind, BBS, 2007 which is about trying to put a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The location is perfect for a wind farm, and the need in NE for clean cheap power is high. But when all the backyards are owned by millionaires, it makes for an extreme NIMBY makeover.
I am finding the book to be a fascinating but horrifying read as to the lengths people will go to subvert the political process to protect what they believe is their right to quietly enjoy a public owned location. A typical example was adding a last minute rider to an Iraq war finance bill specifically aimed at blocking this one project. I'm not pro-war, but even I found tactics like this to be underhanded.
I have been getting interested in wind power from an engineering perspective, but reading this book has been a real eye opener as to how the political process is probably more important than the actual mechanics and cost/benefit/profit analysis. I'd recommend it to anyone as a good read, and while I don't understand the "anti" viewpoint all that well, this book gives some interesting lessons.
BTW I linked to Aaazon, but screw them - I got my copy from my local library!
The trouble with Judo is that they an turn the tables on you (been there done that). with dancing the role of leader and follower is precisely defined ;-)
Of course if you really wanted to be nerdish, you could go the Dr Franknfurter route and build your man Rocky from scratch!
Not only do you get to *see* attractive females .. you also get to *hold* onto them!!
And when you go out dancing at clubs you can dance with a variety of females all in the same night and not have to worry about hiding it from *any* of them. And they *enjoy* it!!!
touche .. but I was thinking of sub-five foot people. So I think my unstated assumption ultimately wins as there are no sub-five foot players listed there :-)
But I doubt that many people have the finances or drive to keep up such a regime until you achieve your goal. And thats what separates the world class people from the rest of us.
Of course some people do have a natural ability that also gives them a benefit. So I doubt a really short person could ever be competitive in a world class basketball - unless there was a league for really short people.
Have you ever used one? And I mean seriously used .. not played with one in a shop? It has major productivity and UI boosts over XP (never used Vista so I can't compare) .
But if the problem is well defined then the solution time can also be well defined.
I consider opening the case of of a product that you are trained to service to be a well defined (and with an iMac a trivial) problem. If that extends to hours or days then then something is wrong with the person doing the work, not with the definition of the problem.
My reluctance to deal with it personally stems from the fact that for me it is *not* a well defined problem, so there is risk attached to any action I make .. so yes it could take me hours to work out how to open and close an imac case.
Pulling apart a current generation of iMac is not for the faint hearted in terms of cracking open this or that. However it is not a time consuming task either. I would expect a qualified service guy to be able to crack open a machine in a matter of minutes. The time to change out a SATA hard drive would be small compared to the time to get the case apart.
Just in case you are monitoring /. (which I'm sure you do) I just wanted to tell you about my experiences week with my iMac. You see I have filled up my hard drive and I want to put a bigger one in. As its still under warrantee I wanted an accredited service center to do the work for me (plus those pics I have seen on the web about pulling iMacs apart to change a drive just plain out scare me).
So I called my local Apple store to ask for a price and turnover time. And the sales drone told me .. "You'll have to make an appointment with the Genius Bar to get that information". WTF? I have schedule an appointment at the Apple store, turn up at the allotted time in order to ask how much to put in a hard drive?????
So I was in the same shopping centre as the Apple store this morning, so I dropped in to see if I could casually ask the Genius Bar guy what it would cost etc. That's all going well until I mention that I already have the drive (and in fact running my system off it as an external drive). The Genius pulled me up and basically said "whoa .. non Apple drive. Sorry we can't install that here. As if it does something and kills the rest of the system then we would be responsible". WTF??? Its a frickin' SATA drive. Could even be the same brand that Apple will install. If it kills my iMac then there will be a lot of very unhappy people in the rest of the world and major class action lawsuits when this brand of drive takes down a huge number of other computers.
Boy am I pissed about this quality service. At least the people at the Genius bar gave a me a list of authorised service centres in the local area. But that gets even more WTFery .. I called one of them up and its 2 business day turn around time just to pop the covers off and switch a drive?!?!?!!?
I can't see where the actual article is