I was just thinking he could copy Windows on to a USB drive and shove it up his ass, and then claim he runs Windows.
Would be less painful than an actual install, too.
This should be blatantly obvious. Of course they already know most of the answers. But they're using this as a test of your honesty. Why should the IRS go through a lot of work to make your return slightly easier, when they're benefiting from having you self-report?
If your answers don't match what they already know, they can fine you up the wazoo, charge back interest, etc. Much more profitable and less work.
Your latter guess has been mandated by law since the passage of the 1996 telecommunications act. Your cell phone can be listened to and tracked anywhere within coverage area as long as your cellphone has its battery inserted.
It's because you paid money for access to DRM-protected content. You didn't buy shit. It's their device (you paid money for the use of it), their content (you pay a fee to get to view it). At no time did they actually give you anything.
It's just like a DVD. What are you paying $20 for? Is it for the right to view the content? If it were, then you should be able to get a cheap replacement when the disc fails, right? Well if it's not that, then you paid for the copy of the movie, I suppose? But then, why can't you make a copy?
Pay money for DRM'd content and you'll get exactly what they want to give you - smoke and mirrors.
Parent's comments have everything to do with the parent's employer and nothing to do with the actual 9/80 schedule.
I've been working 9/80 for over 5 years now. It's a great benefit for me. The extra hour isn't even noticeable after you've already been working 8 hours. And when you can bail an extra hour early on the on-Friday, you feel like you got a little bonus.
Getting stuff done during the week isn't much of a problem. The grocery stores are less crowded in the evenings. Any "business hours" business can be conducted on the off-Friday, or during your extra hour on the on-Friday if you start early enough.
Insist on flex-time, however, that goes for any schedule, not just 9/80.
You will become spoiled by the 3-day weekends. 2-day weekends don't seem long enough.
As far as management respect, don't work wherever the parent does, obviously. My customers don't care that I don't respond on an off-Friday, because they're off too.
Questions/issues may include:
* Will all employees be on the 9/80 schedule (and will they all be on the SAME one)? If some people are not allowed to do 9/80 (e.g. hourly employees), are they going to be resentful?
* How is overtime handled on the off-Friday? For example, we have a certain number of hours of OT that are automatically unpaid if they are worked on an "on-day". But if they are worked on an "off-day", including an off-Friday, the mandatory window can be waived.
* Can you switch on and off of the 9/80 schedule at will?
* How will your timekeeping be handled with the different-length workweeks? Our work week is cut down the middle of the Friday to make each "week" 40 hours and makes time accounting complicated.
I have yet to see anybody in this thread mention any improvement in Vista that you can't add on FOR FREE in XP. In many instances these features can be added with downloads from Microsoft itself.
Let's see:
Desktop search/application autocomplete - Use Launchy. Works like Mac's Spotlight. Add Google Desktop if you like.
Show window previews in Alt-Tab - Get TweakUI from Microsoft.
Web snippets on the desktop - That's been there since Windows 98. I think it's atrocious, but knock yourself out.
Translucent windows - Capability is built into XP, download free 3rd-party software to manage it.
So, please, tell me in what way Vista is an upgrade over XP, that you can't add on to XP for free.
BTW, it's time for my father to get a new computer. I'm getting him a Mac mini for Xmas rather than try to lay Vista on him.
I wanted these servers to shut down. I wanted all these people who bought DRM'd music to be left out in the cold. I wanted there to be outrage at how they got screwed by WalMart and DRM.
Only when the end users feel the pain of DRM will there be real resistance to this crap.
I have the RAZR2 (V8). You can operate the phone entirely through voice commands, including dialing people in the phonebook and just dialing phone numbers.
You can set "Talking Phone" mode so that it reads each menu item as you go over it.
The keys are not physically separated but there are ridges between the rows of keys, and the imprinting is raised so you can tell by feel when you're on a key.
The phone has audible caller-ID, but for some stupid reason T-Mobile disables that on their phones. If you look into the RAZR2, be sure that features is enabled or get an unlocked phone.
Ignoring for now that nowhere in the article does he claim that SELinux provides or is required for "100% security", there's no such damn thing. Unless you pull out the power cord, of course.
Yes, we disable SELinux at our shop. As the article mentions, it's a pain in the ass, and the tools to manage it are not mature enough. If all you have is RHEL, and you have nothing else to do, you can look at configuring it. If you have a bunch of corporate mucky-mucks breathing down your neck, and you have to get the latest version of GnuWhatever compiled for 5 different OSs, there's no time to deal with this nonsense.
SELinux probably works just great for what it was designed for - NSA top-secret systems. There's always a tradeoff between security and usability, and right now, SELinux is just above yanking the power cord.
Saw this a long time ago, still appropriate today.
Think of the Internet as a highway
There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway". They don't know didley about the Net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor.
Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the net...
A highway hundreds of lanes wide. Most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on ramps at every intersection.
No signs. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions.
Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a capital offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.
AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds of ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been assembled at home from kits. Some are built around 2.5 horsepower lawn mower engines with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn nitroglycerin and idle at 120.
No license plates. World War II bomber nose art instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or vampire eagles. Bumper mounted machine guns. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a white phosphorus grenade up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks cruise around with anti-aircraft missile batteries to shoot down the traffic helicopter. Little kids on tricycles with squirt guns filled with hydrochloric acid switch lanes without warning.
NO OFFRAMPS. None.
Now that's the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
Just last week, I was going through my mail and found, like I do all the time, a set of balance transfer/cash/etc. checks for one of my credit cards. I opened it since I always shred these checks, and was surprised to find not only a set of my checks, but also someone else's.
If I had wanted to, I could have used those checks in 6 different places where they wouldn't have checked ID. The banks sure as hell don't check signatures anymore -- I've seen instances where checks with NO signature go through.
Instead, I shredded both sets of checks and called up the responsible credit card company to close my account. Who knows who the hell might wind up with my checks in the future.
The conversation went something like this:
Cust Rep: How may I help you today?
Me: I need to close my account immediately.
CR: That's too bad, may I ask why?
Me: Yes, you sent me balance transfer checks for another account holder.
CR: I see, but how does that affect you?
Me: (stunned for a second) Because I don't want the same thing to happen to ME.
CR: (pause) OK, we'll go ahead and close that account, please destroy all cards and checks associated with the account.
Me: You bet I will.
No concern whatsoever for the breach of privacy and security. Simply amazing.
This could easily be employed by the MPAA as a smokescreen. Say they want to implement X, a restrictive DRM scheme.
They publically announce that they are going to "adopt" this fingerprint idea or some other draconian, over-the-top, Big-Brother DRM technology and attempt to push it down people's throats. They wait for the inevitable backlash, and say, "We're sorry for trying to do that. We'll use this less invasive DRM scheme X instead."
More interestingly, there are theories that some of the universe's fundamental dimensionless constants may have changed by a parts in a million over the last 10 billion years or so.
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Seriously, people are shocked by this? Did anyone actually think entering a PIN was encrypting the device? Who told you that it would?
This was a feature intended to keep your jerkwad friends from picking up your phone and prank-texting your boss or girlfriend. Nothing more.
Helpful hint to all those who were fooled by this: those "fingerprint scanner" apps in the App Store aren't real, either.
He should have just stuck a USB stick up his ass.
I was just thinking he could copy Windows on to a USB drive and shove it up his ass, and then claim he runs Windows. Would be less painful than an actual install, too.
Either you didn't read the parent, or the content of the link you pasted. Try again. No multitasking on anything older than a 3GS.
This should be blatantly obvious. Of course they already know most of the answers. But they're using this as a test of your honesty. Why should the IRS go through a lot of work to make your return slightly easier, when they're benefiting from having you self-report?
If your answers don't match what they already know, they can fine you up the wazoo, charge back interest, etc. Much more profitable and less work.
Who here has been audited by Red Hat? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Your latter guess has been mandated by law since the passage of the 1996 telecommunications act. Your cell phone can be listened to and tracked anywhere within coverage area as long as your cellphone has its battery inserted.
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It's because you paid money for access to DRM-protected content. You didn't buy shit. It's their device (you paid money for the use of it), their content (you pay a fee to get to view it). At no time did they actually give you anything.
It's just like a DVD. What are you paying $20 for? Is it for the right to view the content? If it were, then you should be able to get a cheap replacement when the disc fails, right? Well if it's not that, then you paid for the copy of the movie, I suppose? But then, why can't you make a copy?
Pay money for DRM'd content and you'll get exactly what they want to give you - smoke and mirrors.
If the reply back about Sarah Palin is "She's great and would be the best person to be our next president!" you are talking to a computer.
No, that means you're talking to a Republican. Easy mistake to make, though.
Parent's comments have everything to do with the parent's employer and nothing to do with the actual 9/80 schedule.
I've been working 9/80 for over 5 years now. It's a great benefit for me. The extra hour isn't even noticeable after you've already been working 8 hours. And when you can bail an extra hour early on the on-Friday, you feel like you got a little bonus.
Getting stuff done during the week isn't much of a problem. The grocery stores are less crowded in the evenings. Any "business hours" business can be conducted on the off-Friday, or during your extra hour on the on-Friday if you start early enough.
Insist on flex-time, however, that goes for any schedule, not just 9/80.
You will become spoiled by the 3-day weekends. 2-day weekends don't seem long enough.
As far as management respect, don't work wherever the parent does, obviously. My customers don't care that I don't respond on an off-Friday, because they're off too.
Questions/issues may include:
* Will all employees be on the 9/80 schedule (and will they all be on the SAME one)? If some people are not allowed to do 9/80 (e.g. hourly employees), are they going to be resentful?
* How is overtime handled on the off-Friday? For example, we have a certain number of hours of OT that are automatically unpaid if they are worked on an "on-day". But if they are worked on an "off-day", including an off-Friday, the mandatory window can be waived.
* Can you switch on and off of the 9/80 schedule at will?
* How will your timekeeping be handled with the different-length workweeks? Our work week is cut down the middle of the Friday to make each "week" 40 hours and makes time accounting complicated.
tl;dr - 9/80 is great. Do it.
I have yet to see anybody in this thread mention any improvement in Vista that you can't add on FOR FREE in XP. In many instances these features can be added with downloads from Microsoft itself.
Let's see:
So, please, tell me in what way Vista is an upgrade over XP, that you can't add on to XP for free.
BTW, it's time for my father to get a new computer. I'm getting him a Mac mini for Xmas rather than try to lay Vista on him.
I wanted these servers to shut down. I wanted all these people who bought DRM'd music to be left out in the cold. I wanted there to be outrage at how they got screwed by WalMart and DRM.
Only when the end users feel the pain of DRM will there be real resistance to this crap.
I have the RAZR2 (V8). You can operate the phone entirely through voice commands, including dialing people in the phonebook and just dialing phone numbers. You can set "Talking Phone" mode so that it reads each menu item as you go over it. The keys are not physically separated but there are ridges between the rows of keys, and the imprinting is raised so you can tell by feel when you're on a key. The phone has audible caller-ID, but for some stupid reason T-Mobile disables that on their phones. If you look into the RAZR2, be sure that features is enabled or get an unlocked phone.
Ignoring for now that nowhere in the article does he claim that SELinux provides or is required for "100% security", there's no such damn thing. Unless you pull out the power cord, of course.
Yes, we disable SELinux at our shop. As the article mentions, it's a pain in the ass, and the tools to manage it are not mature enough. If all you have is RHEL, and you have nothing else to do, you can look at configuring it. If you have a bunch of corporate mucky-mucks breathing down your neck, and you have to get the latest version of GnuWhatever compiled for 5 different OSs, there's no time to deal with this nonsense.
SELinux probably works just great for what it was designed for - NSA top-secret systems. There's always a tradeoff between security and usability, and right now, SELinux is just above yanking the power cord.
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Saw this a long time ago, still appropriate today.
Think of the Internet as a highway
There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway". They don't know didley about the Net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor.
Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the net...
A highway hundreds of lanes wide. Most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on ramps at every intersection.
No signs. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions.
Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a capital offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.
AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds of ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been assembled at home from kits. Some are built around 2.5 horsepower lawn mower engines with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn nitroglycerin and idle at 120.
No license plates. World War II bomber nose art instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or vampire eagles. Bumper mounted machine guns. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a white phosphorus grenade up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks cruise around with anti-aircraft missile batteries to shoot down the traffic helicopter. Little kids on tricycles with squirt guns filled with hydrochloric acid switch lanes without warning.
NO OFFRAMPS. None.
Now that's the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
A relatively low number of computer users are likely to get Vista by downloading it from the Internet.
They're obviously unfamiliar with the concept of Bittorrent.
I don't see what the problem is. They're perfectly cromulent words.
What a great opportunity to try out my new sig :).
Considering what she does for music, shouldn't that go in the mangle table?
Damn straight.
Just last week, I was going through my mail and found, like I do all the time, a set of balance transfer/cash/etc. checks for one of my credit cards. I opened it since I always shred these checks, and was surprised to find not only a set of my checks, but also someone else's.
If I had wanted to, I could have used those checks in 6 different places where they wouldn't have checked ID. The banks sure as hell don't check signatures anymore -- I've seen instances where checks with NO signature go through.
Instead, I shredded both sets of checks and called up the responsible credit card company to close my account. Who knows who the hell might wind up with my checks in the future.
The conversation went something like this:
No concern whatsoever for the breach of privacy and security. Simply amazing.
This could easily be employed by the MPAA as a smokescreen. Say they want to implement X, a restrictive DRM scheme.
They publically announce that they are going to "adopt" this fingerprint idea or some other draconian, over-the-top, Big-Brother DRM technology and attempt to push it down people's throats. They wait for the inevitable backlash, and say, "We're sorry for trying to do that. We'll use this less invasive DRM scheme X instead."
So, instead of yelling, "Dead stick!" you'll be yelling, "Blue screen!"
PI IS EXACTLY THREE!
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