Not sure what it's like there, but herein the UK, there's a certain "Cover your ass" culture in any company of any significant size.
Sure, the dropout is probably going to be fine, but what if he's rubbish? Other people, with the benefit of hindsight will point to the fact that he dropped out and use that as proof you did a bad job.
If you get a guy who has a degree at least you can legitimately claim here was no way to know, if he doesn't work out.
I'm not sure. There's a lot of interesting tech here at least. Low weight is a plus for any aircraft and it seems that this can be transferred to other power systems. There have to be some uses for a lightweight helicopter.
Really, the only dead end is use of batteries. I reckon more suitable fuel cells will come as soon as there's a need.
True that it's not really all that different. Although I think the main objection to spam isn't the cost of time and bandwidth, but more of a psychological feeling of powerlessness that there's nothing you can do to stop it. It's essentially a form of harassment.
Established companies with a reputation to maintain, I'd imagine, are actually quite happy to remove you from the mailing list on request.
But Spamhaus has no presence in the US in the first place and no intention of paying any fines imposed by a US court. Spamhaus had no assets for the court to seize. They could have carried on regardless.
I really don't see why they bothered appealing at all. Obviously Spamhaus had valid reasons that they felt were justified.
Why is anyone paying any attention to this piracy list? Surely nobody's suggesting that the piracy level in Canada and Spain is anything like that in China or South Africa. Everyone realises that it's just there as a stick to try to bully these countries into capitulating to American demands.
But it's so obvious. Any politician who's remotely against American "cultural imperialism" is going to see it for what it is and actively work against the measures urged by the US. Surely the watch list does as much harm as good. There are much more subtle ways to get his message across.
Would have been interesting to have a torrent site which lets you share your own files without any problems.
There are several torrent sites that actively prevent copyright infringing torrents, but allow you to upload your own files or those where sharing is permitted by the copyright holder. Google for "legal bittorrent sites"
You have a lot of batteries in an electric car. Surely it's just a matter of charging a lot of them at the same time rather than a single battery very quickly.
What the application does, from a coder's point of view, is open a file, reads a file into a buffer, and closes a file. It then displays the buffer. The file is no longer open.
A lot of applications will open the file, read it and keep it open. Sometimes they do this for a perfectly valid reason bit a lot of the time it's just bad programming.
\ instead of the standard / - leave it to Microsoft when faced with picking a sane choice and and a mind boggling idiotic one...
You have a bunch of commands that use / as the symbol indicating a flag. You want to add directories to your file system. Are you going to change all the commands and thus make any scripts no longer work, use the / for both a directory separator and a flag, thus giving ambiguous commands or use a different separator?
Quite a few. There tens of thousands of people worldwide worth more than $30 million, and just in America, 3 million millionaires (and that's not including residential property as part of the calculation).
The people struggling to pay for somewhere to live aren't exactly the target market.
Well, they could have claimed it was a joke. That they had no intention of actually starting a riot. Might have worked. Would have helped if they hadn't turned up themselves for that to work..
But there's no legal requirement to add password protection to wi-fi. Possibly his actual reason was plausible deniability in case he was sued for file sharing.
I suspect they didn't charge him with under the cell phone law either. That would only add up to 11 penalty points at most (3 for using a phone, 6-8 for driving without insurance) unless they treated it as two separate counts of using a mobile phone while driving a motor vehicle. Driving without due care and attention would be pretty easy to prove in this case.
- I made sure that nothing runs on startup that I don't need
Nice if you know how. Trouble is, Windows apps seem to have several places they might hide. Some of them I have no idea whether I might need them or not.
This has been one (one the many) criticisms of the TSA for a while. It's not just a case of wearing the uniform and showing an ID. They need to be "known" pilots. The airline vouches for them and they need to provide fingerprints.
I have a desktop at work. I have one at home but it's a remnant of a bygone era. If I stop being able to incrementally upgrade it I'll get a high-end laptop. Most of what I do I can use my netbook for.
For work, it's the focus of everything you can do. A laptop is adequate but the keyboard isn't as good, nor is the monitor, nor is the trackpad. You can use an external version of each of these but if you're doing that why go for the expense of a laptop?
For the home, a PC needs a place to live. It needs a desk and chair. These take up space. A laptop can be used on any table and packed away and put on a shelf when finished with.
I'll disagree with what seems to be the consensus here, if they sent emails with the deliberate intent to bring down the mail server. It's a crude hack but it is taking advantage of a flaw in a system to cause damage.
It seems that they carried on emailing without actual malicious intent. However it looks like they were told that this would bring them down. That brings it down to recklessness. Does recklessly damaging a computer system count as hacking?
Someone disagreeing with you in favour of Microsoft does not make them a Microsoft shill. He could actually be arguing based on the arguments he makes. Or taking a devils adovcate position.
Even if he is, what difference does it make if he argument is valid? If Microsoft shill points out, for example, that Photoshop is available for Windows and not Linux, then it's still a valid reason for using Windows over Linux.
This is just an experiment to see if the character gains traction. If not then no problem. It's an alternative universe (as though deaths ever been fatal for a comic character anyway)
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Not sure what it's like there, but herein the UK, there's a certain "Cover your ass" culture in any company of any significant size.
Sure, the dropout is probably going to be fine, but what if he's rubbish? Other people, with the benefit of hindsight will point to the fact that he dropped out and use that as proof you did a bad job.
If you get a guy who has a degree at least you can legitimately claim here was no way to know, if he doesn't work out.
I'm not sure. There's a lot of interesting tech here at least. Low weight is a plus for any aircraft and it seems that this can be transferred to other power systems. There have to be some uses for a lightweight helicopter.
Really, the only dead end is use of batteries. I reckon more suitable fuel cells will come as soon as there's a need.
True that it's not really all that different. Although I think the main objection to spam isn't the cost of time and bandwidth, but more of a psychological feeling of powerlessness that there's nothing you can do to stop it. It's essentially a form of harassment.
Established companies with a reputation to maintain, I'd imagine, are actually quite happy to remove you from the mailing list on request.
But Spamhaus has no presence in the US in the first place and no intention of paying any fines imposed by a US court. Spamhaus had no assets for the court to seize. They could have carried on regardless.
I really don't see why they bothered appealing at all. Obviously Spamhaus had valid reasons that they felt were justified.
Why is anyone paying any attention to this piracy list? Surely nobody's suggesting that the piracy level in Canada and Spain is anything like that in China or South Africa. Everyone realises that it's just there as a stick to try to bully these countries into capitulating to American demands.
But it's so obvious. Any politician who's remotely against American "cultural imperialism" is going to see it for what it is and actively work against the measures urged by the US. Surely the watch list does as much harm as good. There are much more subtle ways to get his message across.
Would have been interesting to have a torrent site which lets you share your own files without any problems.
There are several torrent sites that actively prevent copyright infringing torrents, but allow you to upload your own files or those where sharing is permitted by the copyright holder. Google for "legal bittorrent sites"
You have a lot of batteries in an electric car. Surely it's just a matter of charging a lot of them at the same time rather than a single battery very quickly.
Or doesn't it work like that?
You know, us because i's called a "laptop" doesn't mean you have to put it on your lap.
Those programs don't keep the file open.
What the application does, from a coder's point of view, is open a file, reads a file into a buffer, and closes a file. It then displays the buffer. The file is no longer open.
A lot of applications will open the file, read it and keep it open. Sometimes they do this for a perfectly valid reason bit a lot of the time it's just bad programming.
\ instead of the standard / - leave it to Microsoft when faced with picking a sane choice and and a mind boggling idiotic one...
You have a bunch of commands that use / as the symbol indicating a flag. You want to add directories to your file system. Are you going to change all the commands and thus make any scripts no longer work, use the / for both a directory separator and a flag, thus giving ambiguous commands or use a different separator?
No. The Hugo awards are actually taken pretty seriously by publishers and authors.
When did Ricky Gervais "call in" a Brit award?
Quite a few. There tens of thousands of people worldwide worth more than $30 million, and just in America, 3 million millionaires (and that's not including residential property as part of the calculation).
The people struggling to pay for somewhere to live aren't exactly the target market.
You could still point to the sun. Half the time you'll have a planet in the way but that's another problem:)
Well, they could have claimed it was a joke. That they had no intention of actually starting a riot. Might have worked. Would have helped if they hadn't turned up themselves for that to work..
But there's no legal requirement to add password protection to wi-fi. Possibly his actual reason was plausible deniability in case he was sued for file sharing.
I suspect they didn't charge him with under the cell phone law either. That would only add up to 11 penalty points at most (3 for using a phone, 6-8 for driving without insurance) unless they treated it as two separate counts of using a mobile phone while driving a motor vehicle. Driving without due care and attention would be pretty easy to prove in this case.
- I made sure that nothing runs on startup that I don't need
Nice if you know how. Trouble is, Windows apps seem to have several places they might hide. Some of them I have no idea whether I might need them or not.
This has been one (one the many) criticisms of the TSA for a while. It's not just a case of wearing the uniform and showing an ID. They need to be "known" pilots. The airline vouches for them and they need to provide fingerprints.
I have a desktop at work. I have one at home but it's a remnant of a bygone era. If I stop being able to incrementally upgrade it I'll get a high-end laptop. Most of what I do I can use my netbook for.
For work, it's the focus of everything you can do. A laptop is adequate but the keyboard isn't as good, nor is the monitor, nor is the trackpad. You can use an external version of each of these but if you're doing that why go for the expense of a laptop?
For the home, a PC needs a place to live. It needs a desk and chair. These take up space. A laptop can be used on any table and packed away and put on a shelf when finished with.
I'll disagree with what seems to be the consensus here, if they sent emails with the deliberate intent to bring down the mail server. It's a crude hack but it is taking advantage of a flaw in a system to cause damage.
It seems that they carried on emailing without actual malicious intent. However it looks like they were told that this would bring them down. That brings it down to recklessness. Does recklessly damaging a computer system count as hacking?
Someone disagreeing with you in favour of Microsoft does not make them a Microsoft shill. He could actually be arguing based on the arguments he makes. Or taking a devils adovcate position.
Even if he is, what difference does it make if he argument is valid? If Microsoft shill points out, for example, that Photoshop is available for Windows and not Linux, then it's still a valid reason for using Windows over Linux.
Middle class black kids like comics as well.
This is just an experiment to see if the character gains traction. If not then no problem. It's an alternative universe (as though deaths ever been fatal for a comic character anyway)
I don't think the average HR flunky will bother in the first place. Unless it's part of the standard process, most admin people do things by he book.
Why would he need to do that? It's not like anyone will prosecute anyway.
can't use copyrighted material in parodies or for other works
Yes you can. Parody may be covered under crticism depending on the nature of the parody.