the DMCA could be interpreted to apply because it is all about interpretation. first you must prove that social engineering is a technology. after that it's probably a walk in the park. all laws are grey. not only that, they're interpreted based on the intent of the action.
say your car slips on some snow on the way home and you unfortunately take out a few school kids on the way home. you're most likely not going to be convicted of vehicular homicide even though that's what happened. you didn't intend to drive recklessly, you were carefull and have 5 cars behind you to say you were carefull. so, instead you get a guilty conscense to live with and no charges.
to respond to your point on unauthorized access to computer systems. if someone gives you the root pwd, don't you effectively have authorized access? i guess that i would need to read the Homeland Security Act to see how it defines unauthorized access, but i'm feeling lazy today.
in the end the one with the biggest pile of bullshit story wins. there is no black and white, only many lawyers who determine the fate.
not it wasn't bad at all. there was a 1:12 adult to camper ratio. we managed to have quite a blast and get away with quite a lot of things that young teens are quite interested in. we even managed to find ourselves at a kegger on evening, but we had to sneak away from the camp for a few hours for that one.
Sun sells hardware and enterprise software. I'm not sure why they would care too much if that software ran on Linux/Solaris or even the Windows OS as long as it was their enterprise app servers on thier hardware with their engineers supporting the systems.
yeah, i went to church camp in the summer when i was a youth. and from what i vaguely remember, i would much rather send my daughter to a linux admin summer camp than to church camp. sure she'll be out numbered, but the pale pasty caffiene slurping zombies will be too busy trying to get their fps as high as possible or see who's beowulf cluster can out-crunch the others to stop to ask her name let alone attempt anything we did while away at church camp!
this is true far, far too often. an end user says we need a web site that... we would like a java app to... this is where the systems analyst fails. it's their responsibility to keep asking further what the real requirements are, "we need to be able to collect, process and track orders in real time from our global customers." is a much better requirement statement than "we need a web site that takes orders from our customers".
Keates dismisses the notion hosting the centre in Belleville is a draw back. He says most people will have to travel no matter where it is, geographically speaking its in the sweet spot -- between Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. Heaven says Sun Canada gets 50 per cent of its revenue in the triangle.
it's exactly where i want to be spending time in january! how about some nice caribean trainning centers i can get my manager to send me off to. i'd go to class honest;).
you state that we will run out of the raw materials used for gasoline, but that includes some huge assumptions.
1. our use of this fuel continues (i wonder if early 1900's late 1800's coal there were environmentalists pushing to stop coal use and find another fuel for mass usage?).
2. the supply of the raw materials is really less than we'll ever use. no one knows exactly how much supply of those raw materials exists. people have guesses, and all the time they keep finding more and more. it's like it's just seeping up from some where. aliens giving energy to that inhabited planet or sum such.
at any rate, i think it's much more plausable to assume that we'll NOT run out of gasoline raw materials than it is to assume. from recent events i think we can assume that our usage of gasoline raw materials will decrease. this decrease will probably be slow in order to protect the huge economies built around the industry, but it looks to be in progress.
you also state that you don't see hydrogen/gasoline as a power generator (able to generate power). then you state that they're both stored power. most would conclude that if they're stored power, they're able to generate power for use in a vehicle. it's more a transfer of power or energy from the source to the consumer, but it's still generating power. ultimately (as far as we currently know) all our power comes from that big bright think up in the sky. it gets stored in various elements around the planet and eventually we harvest it for our needs.
i think the same thing would happen to your left foot while driving an manual transmission vehicle in 2mph traffic. the problem isn't the vehicle engineering obviously. motorcycles stll use 2 arms and 2 feet to operate, just things are placed a little differently as you're quite aware of i'm sure.
SCO has no desire to take legal action against fellow Linux vendors.
they also mention that they have no desire... again not an out right denial, but reading the article it seems that they're pretty pissed about this "journalism".
yeah right, then we'd probably think about all that wacky stuff the next time we developed a web site. then mgmt will want to know why this new site is going to take 2x the development time just to be secure. isn't the last one secure?... and there goes the bonus and extra vacation time. insecure and slapped together sounds like a winner to me;).
good question, but i would argue that a companies influence to go a certain direction sometimes is not always for the customer, but often to help out strategic business partners. the bios folks, the motherboard, the hdd, cpu, the OS, they all need each other to survive in some sort of way.
so one day the OS folks say, "Hey look, we're getting raped over the coals here with people ripping our software all over the place. it would be really really nice if we could digitally sign our software and have the users install some key at the hardware level that will unlock the software. that way people stop sealing our stuff!".
so the bois and cpu guys just say "yeah, whatever you need, we'll send you the engineering/development and implementation bill.
to sumarize. i would ask what is their exact modivational source for including some TCPA in thier systesm...
i'm not sure, but it seems the gif patent holders waited quite a while before enforcing their patent. same for mp3's (finally redHat isn't distrubuting mp3 software, i guess debian won't either?).
i'll venture that a good quantity of people already have a computer and have a legit copy of Win9x/2k/XP somwwhere. Is there a moral reason (outside some shaky EULA that says you can only use it on one machine) not to install it on other machines? i'd also venture to guess that there's MANY, MANY, MANY unused licensed copies of Win9x/2k/XP.
it's friday afternoon, lighten up. a few more hours and you can go crack open the ice cold refreshment and be done till the dreaded monday rolls back around again. 63 Hours away from the display, away from flurescent humm, and away from $1/1GB HDD stories.
forcasters do know when a storm is on the way. they don't get long range stuff accurate, but the admit that. the "look at the sky" and "tomorrow will be the same as today" isn't really that accurate when you're leaving for work at 7a.m and it would be helpfull to know that while it's nice and sunny at 7a.m., it'll be cold and rainy starting around 3-6 with thunderstorms. you'll be sure to roll up the windows if you're driving and possibly grab a raincoat/umbrella.
tomorrow's weather == today's weather can be good for someplaces (Yuccatan?), but 'round these parts the weather can swing drastically in a short 24 hr period.
Best Buy Co. now owns Sam Goody and Suncoast. And according to the article linked below, they're closing up Sam Goody and Suncoast all over the place. Decline in cd sales they claim.
However, I think some referee needs to be monitoring Google's movements so that they cannot making under-the-table changes to the formula while claiming their not.
as others have pointed out, they're a private company. in what interest of the general public do they need regulated? (assuming they have a monopoly, are they using that monopoly to thwart the competition?) 4 years ago we had tons of search engines, yahoo, alta-vista, excite, and many many others. every major web site out there was implementing their own search technology. surfers would have to go to all the different sites to dredge through the results for what they were looking for. then, some plain jane site popped up and gave the surfers what they needed. fast, good results w/o blink tags and punch the monkey banners.
why would anyone have to confirm their claims about revenue or influence of page rankings? it's their business and let them run it how they want. if you like their product (which happens to be FREE) then use it. if not, go somewhere else (do other search engines still exist?).
next we'll need regulation on McDonalds to ensure they don't go around changing the formula for their Big Mac w/o properly notifying the public. and nvidia is pretty big, let's regulate them so they don't change their API again causing troubles for uses of kernel 2.4.x+1.
maybe your definition is a little different than the one here
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
what is it about mr. gates that you find foolish or stupid? it's fairly safe to say the second definition is out.
i would like to argue against another's "evil" description of mr. gates. practicing immoral and or unethical business practices isn't exactly evil to me, but dictionary.com defines it primarily as "Morally bad or wrong; wicked", so it might be correct to label mr. gates as "evil".
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the DMCA could be interpreted to apply because it is all about interpretation. first you must prove that social engineering is a technology. after that it's probably a walk in the park. all laws are grey. not only that, they're interpreted based on the intent of the action.
say your car slips on some snow on the way home and you unfortunately take out a few school kids on the way home. you're most likely not going to be convicted of vehicular homicide even though that's what happened. you didn't intend to drive recklessly, you were carefull and have 5 cars behind you to say you were carefull. so, instead you get a guilty conscense to live with and no charges.
to respond to your point on unauthorized access to computer systems. if someone gives you the root pwd, don't you effectively have authorized access? i guess that i would need to read the Homeland Security Act to see how it defines unauthorized access, but i'm feeling lazy today.
in the end the one with the biggest pile of bullshit story wins. there is no black and white, only many lawyers who determine the fate.
not it wasn't bad at all. there was a 1:12 adult to camper ratio. we managed to have quite a blast and get away with quite a lot of things that young teens are quite interested in. we even managed to find ourselves at a kegger on evening, but we had to sneak away from the camp for a few hours for that one.
Sun sells hardware and enterprise software. I'm not sure why they would care too much if that software ran on Linux/Solaris or even the Windows OS as long as it was their enterprise app servers on thier hardware with their engineers supporting the systems.
yeah, i went to church camp in the summer when i was a youth. and from what i vaguely remember, i would much rather send my daughter to a linux admin summer camp than to church camp. sure she'll be out numbered, but the pale pasty caffiene slurping zombies will be too busy trying to get their fps as high as possible or see who's beowulf cluster can out-crunch the others to stop to ask her name let alone attempt anything we did while away at church camp!
this is true far, far too often. an end user says we need a web site that... we would like a java app to... this is where the systems analyst fails. it's their responsibility to keep asking further what the real requirements are, "we need to be able to collect, process and track orders in real time from our global customers." is a much better requirement statement than "we need a web site that takes orders from our customers".
Keates dismisses the notion hosting the centre in Belleville is a draw back. He says most people will have to travel no matter where it is, geographically speaking its in the sweet spot -- between Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. Heaven says Sun Canada gets 50 per cent of its revenue in the triangle.
;).
it's exactly where i want to be spending time in january! how about some nice caribean trainning centers i can get my manager to send me off to. i'd go to class honest
you state that we will run out of the raw materials used for gasoline, but that includes some huge assumptions.
1. our use of this fuel continues (i wonder if early 1900's late 1800's coal there were environmentalists pushing to stop coal use and find another fuel for mass usage?).
2. the supply of the raw materials is really less than we'll ever use. no one knows exactly how much supply of those raw materials exists. people have guesses, and all the time they keep finding more and more. it's like it's just seeping up from some where. aliens giving energy to that inhabited planet or sum such.
at any rate, i think it's much more plausable to assume that we'll NOT run out of gasoline raw materials than it is to assume. from recent events i think we can assume that our usage of gasoline raw materials will decrease. this decrease will probably be slow in order to protect the huge economies built around the industry, but it looks to be in progress.
you also state that you don't see hydrogen/gasoline as a power generator (able to generate power). then you state that they're both stored power. most would conclude that if they're stored power, they're able to generate power for use in a vehicle. it's more a transfer of power or energy from the source to the consumer, but it's still generating power. ultimately (as far as we currently know) all our power comes from that big bright think up in the sky. it gets stored in various elements around the planet and eventually we harvest it for our needs.
i think the same thing would happen to your left foot while driving an manual transmission vehicle in 2mph traffic. the problem isn't the vehicle engineering obviously. motorcycles stll use 2 arms and 2 feet to operate, just things are placed a little differently as you're quite aware of i'm sure.
SCO has no desire to take legal action against fellow Linux vendors.
they also mention that they have no desire... again not an out right denial, but reading the article it seems that they're pretty pissed about this "journalism".
yeah right, then we'd probably think about all that wacky stuff the next time we developed a web site. then mgmt will want to know why this new site is going to take 2x the development time just to be secure. isn't the last one secure? ... and there goes the bonus and extra vacation time. insecure and slapped together sounds like a winner to me ;).
good question, but i would argue that a companies influence to go a certain direction sometimes is not always for the customer, but often to help out strategic business partners. the bios folks, the motherboard, the hdd, cpu, the OS, they all need each other to survive in some sort of way.
so one day the OS folks say, "Hey look, we're getting raped over the coals here with people ripping our software all over the place. it would be really really nice if we could digitally sign our software and have the users install some key at the hardware level that will unlock the software. that way people stop sealing our stuff!".
so the bois and cpu guys just say "yeah, whatever you need, we'll send you the engineering/development and implementation bill.
to sumarize. i would ask what is their exact modivational source for including some TCPA in thier systesm...
but only an idiot buys a desktop motherboard made by Via, ... as I've learned from repeated harsh experience.)
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pom pom's and short skirts...
fans who won't quit,
and those twins...
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i'm not sure, but it seems the gif patent holders waited quite a while before enforcing their patent. same for mp3's (finally redHat isn't distrubuting mp3 software, i guess debian won't either?).
i'll venture that a good quantity of people already have a computer and have a legit copy of Win9x/2k/XP somwwhere. Is there a moral reason (outside some shaky EULA that says you can only use it on one machine) not to install it on other machines? i'd also venture to guess that there's MANY, MANY, MANY unused licensed copies of Win9x/2k/XP.
it's friday afternoon, lighten up. a few more hours and you can go crack open the ice cold refreshment and be done till the dreaded monday rolls back around again. 63 Hours away from the display, away from flurescent humm, and away from $1/1GB HDD stories.
lighten up. go re-read that BarMonkey story...
cron pouring drinks. wow.
on the topic of V.2, a blender would be really nice feature. the ability to make pina coladas, margaritas, etc.
someone's got to have some VC laying around for delightfull ideas such as this ( please don't throw an e or i onto the name though. )
if you all would stop pirating the DirectTV signal, perhaps they would
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forcasters do know when a storm is on the way. they don't get long range stuff accurate, but the admit that. the "look at the sky" and "tomorrow will be the same as today" isn't really that accurate when you're leaving for work at 7a.m and it would be helpfull to know that while it's nice and sunny at 7a.m., it'll be cold and rainy starting around 3-6 with thunderstorms. you'll be sure to roll up the windows if you're driving and possibly grab a raincoat/umbrella.
tomorrow's weather == today's weather can be good for someplaces (Yuccatan?), but 'round these parts the weather can swing drastically in a short 24 hr period.
Best Buy Co. now owns Sam Goody and Suncoast. And according to the article linked below, they're closing up Sam Goody and Suncoast all over the place. Decline in cd sales they claim.
t er /music/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1791893
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodrepor
However, I think some referee needs to be monitoring Google's movements so that they cannot making under-the-table changes to the formula while claiming their not.
as others have pointed out, they're a private company. in what interest of the general public do they need regulated? (assuming they have a monopoly, are they using that monopoly to thwart the competition?) 4 years ago we had tons of search engines, yahoo, alta-vista, excite, and many many others. every major web site out there was implementing their own search technology. surfers would have to go to all the different sites to dredge through the results for what they were looking for. then, some plain jane site popped up and gave the surfers what they needed. fast, good results w/o blink tags and punch the monkey banners.
why would anyone have to confirm their claims about revenue or influence of page rankings? it's their business and let them run it how they want. if you like their product (which happens to be FREE) then use it. if not, go somewhere else (do other search engines still exist?).
next we'll need regulation on McDonalds to ensure they don't go around changing the formula for their Big Mac w/o properly notifying the public. and nvidia is pretty big, let's regulate them so they don't change their API again causing troubles for uses of kernel 2.4.x+1.
maybe your definition is a little different than the one here
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
what is it about mr. gates that you find foolish or stupid? it's fairly safe to say the second definition is out.
i would like to argue against another's "evil" description of mr. gates. practicing immoral and or unethical business practices isn't exactly evil to me, but dictionary.com defines it primarily as "Morally bad or wrong; wicked", so it might be correct to label mr. gates as "evil".
i've always heard the shed had a few sharp tools in there. unfortunately, there's not many 'round here.