"With the advent of cyberspace, we've had to evolve these policies," Farr said. "Somewhere between First Amendment rights and total repression there is a practical middle ground."
is taken somewhat out of context. The policies referred to are those held by a company concerning what an employee may publicly say about their employer, and whether it is opinion or fact. Surely you're not unfamiliar with this concept? Companies have had these policies for some time. As an example, stockholders are often restricted from what they may discuss in public about a company's business, and for good reason.
This statement does not refer to a person's absolute freedom of speech, but rather their freedom to speak on a specific topic, which in certain cases IS restricted.
The First Admendment does not guarantee your right to say anything you like, it guarantees that Congress won't pass a law that restricts that right.
A contract, implied or literal, between an employee and their company, is a different matter.
You want to know what my big beef with Google is? Lack of documentation. Lack of an easily-findable page that details what certain things do, and how the team has changed Google's behavior recently. Google also under-advertises its world-accessable beta features. I could have been using Google News, now a staple of my news-finding experience, long before I heard about it on a message board.
You mean like this link from the main page, (link text is "Services & Tools") which lists all the optional services?
Unless you're looking for something else. There is also this page which is reached from the "All about Google" link on the Services & Tools page. It describes all the features of the site and how they've changed recently.
I'd agree about the beta services, though. They are tricky to find if you don't know where to look (and I typically don't until I see it linked somewhere). However, a quick Google Search for "beta service" turned up some interesting links.
$40 billion? Hmm... with that, we could have paid back 1.1% of the U.S. National Debt.
The entire U.S. space program in the 1960's and 1970's cost roughly the same amount of money that U.S. consumers spent on cosmetics in the same period of time. The real cost of the space programs, even counting wasted money (it is still a lot of experimentation) is pretty low, depending on what you compare it to.
And what they're doing, at least to me, is pretty important.
There sure are a lot of replies here that don't get it. What this is, young ones, is a good old-fashioned HACK.
The very cradle of modern geek society was heavily into model trains as well; read up on the TMRC sometime. They were the spiritual leaders of a lot you consider to be cool now.
An excellent point. I guess I meant "nothing to do with" in the purely contextual sense, even though the "Day of Jugdement" applies in both cases, albeit in differing degrees.
An example of the same word/same definition but different context that comes to mind can be had in "solicitor": In England it means a rather different profession than it does in the U.S. (generally speaking =) but the two are pretty unrelated. Except, of course, when they are seen to hire one another, as needed. Ahem.
The Domesday book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time).
The book has nothing to do with the "doomsday" world-ending yadda, it was mainly set up to inform the king of how much tax monies he should have been receiving.
This is also the exact reason I left Linux behind (for FreeBSD) a while ago.
I already see too heavy a corporate hand in the major Linux distributions. Understandable, but that isn't what I started using Linux for.
I don't think the development core of the various BSD's care whether or not their OS becomes mainstream, they're just trying to make the best OS they can.
And in my experience, using BSD day-to-day, it shows.
Sure, but that's not the point of redunancy. The question you want to ask is: How likely is it that both redundant components will fail at the same time?.
That's how mirrored RAID arrays work: you increase your chances of a disk failure by adding more disks to the system due to probability; but your chances of recovering the data in the event of a crash go up, since more than one disk failing at once is unlikely.
I'm certain they meant 8 megabit, especially considering 802.11b's max bandwidth is 10 megabit, and usually (in my experience) more like 3-5, given signal strength and distance to the WEP node.
Well, The Fellowship of the Ring is just over three hours long on the new CD set.
If you can spend three hours watching a movie once or twice a month, you can spend three hours reading the books instead, which will get you through the series in (much) less than a year.
when does the deeds of one's past no
longer impact who you may be in the future?
Maybe never. Maybe that's part of the deterrent effect of being caught and convicted of committing a felony that destroyed millions of dollars in equimpent and real estate and endangered many lives.
I dunno, maybe you should have to live with the consequences of your actions for the rest of your life, as well as having to be confined for 3-5 years as "punishment".
I did things when I was young that I'd do over if I could. I have to live with them, every day. Don't you? You do something as big as this, living with it gets that much harder.
I still mislike the intentional degredation of any service in response to an outside influence, though. If there's a way this can be manipulated to have an adverse effect, it'll be attempted, no matter how hard it is to do.
I did read the article. And then I looked beyond it. Keep in mind that no virus/worm has yet been written with throttle-equipped computers in mind.
Hackers/kiddies/whomever are annoyingly clever at times. My assumption is that someone may be able to take advantage of a throttle to compromise legitimate traffic.
Since that's what exploits are all about, I have absolutely no doubt someone will try it if such defenses become commonplace.
Sounds to me like a clever programmer could use this very feature as the payload. You don't need to DDoS your target machines if the throttle will effectively do it for you.
I don't keep any volatile data. Email I discard almost immediately, after I've dealt with it. Software I can always get from CVS somewhere, and I can save my own code there, too.
Documentation of projects I'm working on for employers etc. is on their disks, and so not my problem.
All my financial records are at my accountant's offices; again, usually not my problem.
About the only data I have on my personal computers worth saving are my.*rc, config files and so forth, and game saves, which really aren't all that important.
Replacing Word's default file save format won't "doom" Word. 99% of the people who use Word don't know nor do they care what format the saved file is in, so long as the people they send the file to can read it.
Hmm... maybe I've just made your point for you. =) The albatross around Microsoft's neck has sort of always been that backward compatibility, hasn't it?
Mostly that's a reaction to seeing many, many people react with vigorous outrage to a proposed solution while having no alternative in mind.
I think we all agree the problem exists; and there are many voices even right here on Slashdot that can express what's wrong with it. I don't feel the need to repeat their objections; but I do think it's important to bring alternatives to the table.
I don't have any yet. When I come up with one, I'll present it, but in the meantime, I invite you to review the title of my post - what DO we do about it? Right now, I have no idea.
There's a legitamate problem to be solved here. I don't like their solution, but I will refrain from critisizing it until I come up with one of my own.
It's not just a question of parenting and observation of your child's activities anymore; adult content isn't something you have to go looking for anymore. It lands in my inbox every day, thanks to spammers. Must I forbid my children from using the computer at all? That's not a good solution either.
I, for one, would rather see them focusing efforts on keeping the adult sites from using "push" marketing tactics and pass enforcable laws against the spammers.
I refuse to buy a lifetime subscription not because of the high price, but because I have no faith in the possibility the service will still be available in the 40-odd years I probably have left.
Technology has changed in incredible ways in the last 4 years--and at a blinding rate, at that--not to mention the last 40.
Why on earth would I want a "lifetime" subscription for a service that's nearly guaranteed to be outmoded in only several years, if that?
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"With the advent of cyberspace, we've had to evolve these policies," Farr said. "Somewhere between First Amendment rights and total repression there is a practical middle ground."
is taken somewhat out of context. The policies referred to are those held by a company concerning what an employee may publicly say about their employer, and whether it is opinion or fact. Surely you're not unfamiliar with this concept? Companies have had these policies for some time. As an example, stockholders are often restricted from what they may discuss in public about a company's business, and for good reason.
This statement does not refer to a person's absolute freedom of speech, but rather their freedom to speak on a specific topic, which in certain cases IS restricted.
The First Admendment does not guarantee your right to say anything you like, it guarantees that Congress won't pass a law that restricts that right.
A contract, implied or literal, between an employee and their company, is a different matter.
Blast on those trailing slashes. The Services & Tools page can be found here.
You mean like this link from the main page, (link text is "Services & Tools") which lists all the optional services?
Unless you're looking for something else. There is also this page which is reached from the "All about Google" link on the Services & Tools page. It describes all the features of the site and how they've changed recently.
I'd agree about the beta services, though. They are tricky to find if you don't know where to look (and I typically don't until I see it linked somewhere). However, a quick Google Search for "beta service" turned up some interesting links.
It's more to the point, in any case.
The entire U.S. space program in the 1960's and 1970's cost roughly the same amount of money that U.S. consumers spent on cosmetics in the same period of time. The real cost of the space programs, even counting wasted money (it is still a lot of experimentation) is pretty low, depending on what you compare it to.
And what they're doing, at least to me, is pretty important.
The very cradle of modern geek society was heavily into model trains as well; read up on the TMRC sometime. They were the spiritual leaders of a lot you consider to be cool now.
An example of the same word/same definition but different context that comes to mind can be had in "solicitor": In England it means a rather different profession than it does in the U.S. (generally speaking =) but the two are pretty unrelated. Except, of course, when they are seen to hire one another, as needed. Ahem.
The Domesday book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time).
The book has nothing to do with the "doomsday" world-ending yadda, it was mainly set up to inform the king of how much tax monies he should have been receiving.
Find out more.
I already see too heavy a corporate hand in the major Linux distributions. Understandable, but that isn't what I started using Linux for.
I don't think the development core of the various BSD's care whether or not their OS becomes mainstream, they're just trying to make the best OS they can.
And in my experience, using BSD day-to-day, it shows.
That's how mirrored RAID arrays work: you increase your chances of a disk failure by adding more disks to the system due to probability; but your chances of recovering the data in the event of a crash go up, since more than one disk failing at once is unlikely.
Otherwise their actions are about as threatening as the BSA's. Right?
Be is the B in BSD. Er... B is the Be... wait... no... never mind.
I'm certain they meant 8 megabit, especially considering 802.11b's max bandwidth is 10 megabit, and usually (in my experience) more like 3-5, given signal strength and distance to the WEP node.
Well, The Fellowship of the Ring is just over three hours long on the new CD set.
If you can spend three hours watching a movie once or twice a month, you can spend three hours reading the books instead, which will get you through the series in (much) less than a year.
The Return of the King won't even be out by then.
Maybe never. Maybe that's part of the deterrent effect of being caught and convicted of committing a felony that destroyed millions of dollars in equimpent and real estate and endangered many lives.
I dunno, maybe you should have to live with the consequences of your actions for the rest of your life, as well as having to be confined for 3-5 years as "punishment".
I did things when I was young that I'd do over if I could. I have to live with them, every day. Don't you? You do something as big as this, living with it gets that much harder.
I still mislike the intentional degredation of any service in response to an outside influence, though. If there's a way this can be manipulated to have an adverse effect, it'll be attempted, no matter how hard it is to do.
Hackers/kiddies/whomever are annoyingly clever at times. My assumption is that someone may be able to take advantage of a throttle to compromise legitimate traffic.
Since that's what exploits are all about, I have absolutely no doubt someone will try it if such defenses become commonplace.
I must think on this.
ftp, baby. ftp.
You remember ftp, don't ya?
Documentation of projects I'm working on for employers etc. is on their disks, and so not my problem.
All my financial records are at my accountant's offices; again, usually not my problem.
About the only data I have on my personal computers worth saving are my .*rc, config files and so forth, and game saves, which really aren't all that important.
Hmm... maybe I've just made your point for you. =) The albatross around Microsoft's neck has sort of always been that backward compatibility, hasn't it?
I'm not seeing evidence of tax dollars being used to build the infrastructure; just making it possible for someone (private corp., maybe) to do so.
I think we all agree the problem exists; and there are many voices even right here on Slashdot that can express what's wrong with it. I don't feel the need to repeat their objections; but I do think it's important to bring alternatives to the table.
I don't have any yet. When I come up with one, I'll present it, but in the meantime, I invite you to review the title of my post - what DO we do about it? Right now, I have no idea.
It's not just a question of parenting and observation of your child's activities anymore; adult content isn't something you have to go looking for anymore. It lands in my inbox every day, thanks to spammers. Must I forbid my children from using the computer at all? That's not a good solution either.
I, for one, would rather see them focusing efforts on keeping the adult sites from using "push" marketing tactics and pass enforcable laws against the spammers.
Technology has changed in incredible ways in the last 4 years--and at a blinding rate, at that--not to mention the last 40.
Why on earth would I want a "lifetime" subscription for a service that's nearly guaranteed to be outmoded in only several years, if that?