Sure, why not. Rephrased, are there movies I'd see if they were cheaper that I won't at full price? Heck yea. This is extra true if you have kids who are less discriminating consumers. If you have a cheap theater near you and ever wait to see a movie until it gets there, your answer to this question is "Yes".
I'm one of the people who thinks that if a machine has been compromised (provably), it should be fair game to hack it again for the purpose of removing the offender (and itself). Security companies are usually against even this though - and it be a lot less intrusive than the summary here indicates.
How do you prove it without getting in? How do you differentiate the actions of an authorized user on THEIR system from a hacker who compromised them? If my employee is attacking your system, you contact me, and I fire them (after investigating your claim, of course).
I used to work for a hospital. I very much don't want some anonymous coward hacking my systems because they THINK they're hacked and because they THINK they can fix it without breaking anything on a system they know nothing about.
I am also a high school computer teacher, and our building got renovated about three years ago. I was able to ask for lots of goodies too, but be prepared for the contractors to ignore whatever suggestions you make.
Well, of course. Contractors work on contracts. They are not the right people to ask for things. You need to get it into the RFP or spec or whatever your corner of the world calls the document that tells the contractors what to do in order to get money.
if it was hot enough to evaporate the surface surely it should be hot enough to evaporate all of the planet.
Rather like saying if a stove is hot enough to evaporate some of a pot of water it will evaporate all of it. Clearly not true.
Also if the planet loses mass wouldn't it move?
No. However as the star loses mass, it's gravity decreases and THAT causes the planet to spiral outward a bit. That's expected to happen to earth, too, however not far enough that we'll escape crisping.
Funny, I'm baffled by people who think mass transit is a solution for most people. As I've posted here before, it takes me 22 minutes to drive to work. It would take me 1h20m to take mass transit. A driverless car would get me here in the same 22 minutes. Mass transit may never accomplish that, because it's also getting a bunch of other people where they want to go. I'm not married to the notion of driving myself around. I'd be happy to give that up, but right now the price of 2 hours per day out of my life is too high. Fix that and we can talk.
This is not true, unless you think the ATM itself is also manually pushing 4 buttons with its finger to authenticate to your bank. Somewhere along the line, that manual action has a digital analogue.
A 12 volt battery will only deliver 550 amps through a 0.21 ohm load. Since the human body is around 50,000 or more, your "friend" would have delivered a whopping 0.00024 amps to the would-be thief, which you can't even feel. Sorry, but I used to be a truck mechanic and the batteries were rated a good bit higher than 550 CCA. I touched both terminals numerous times, and you really feel nothing. I started trucks by shorting across the starter numerous times which touching the frame. Nothing.
Now, the ignition coil at around 20kV, would be a very different thing. I never experienced that first hand since everything I worked on was diesel, but my mechanic friends told me it hurt like a s.o.b.
I'm really not that bothered. I've long been on the "free speech, period!" bandwagon, but realistically all our rights have limits, and those limits generally start about where someone else's rights begin. You have religious freedom, so long as your religion doesn't involve deflowering underage girls, for example. We put you in jail for that. This guy isn't saying anything of value. He's just being a dick. At some point his right to be a dick has to give way to her right not to be harassed for the rest of her life.
Would you explain, please, how many other planets have magnetic fields? Oh, right. You have no (pardon the pun) earthly idea because we can't detect magnetism on exoplanets yet. Ok, then, how many have large moons? Oh, right, you can't detect that either. How many have water? You don't know. How many are geologically active? You don't know.
Planetary scientists should stop saying our planet is "strange" until they actually have something to compare it to.
True, this describes common usage, but this is not how it should be. Cloud *should* be commodity, highly scalable rented compute time/space/whatever. Some marketing nitwit co-opted the term "cloud" and used it as a synonym for "internet". As a result, that old ftp server we had 30 years ago is now "cloud computing".
I don't deny that "cloud == internet" is what people mean these days. I deny that it's useful in any way other than as marketing nonsense.
If you're not a terrorist, there is nothing to fear from this.
It's sad that people still believe this is true. Would you say the same in Syria? Governments are composed of people. Sometimes they're composed of good and moral people, sometimes they're composed of psychopaths. Nah, that's not right. ALWAYS they're composed of a mix, and plenty of people have been thrown under the bus for saying things someone in power didn't like.
As for the rest, if India wants to fork facebook, go ahead. The rest of us will manage just fine, and anyway, I'd rather not have the current natural monopoly. A national facebook won't really solve that, but it might shake things up trivially.
No, it's not the MBA effect. *sigh* I have an MBA. I rant about the exact same things you do. They don't teach managing to the quarter or tweaking some stupid number to get a bonus. Quite the contrary, they teach building incentive systems that DON'T reward doing stupid or harmful things to your business. The "it will cost more later" argument is perfectly well respected by any competent MBA, though of course how much more and how much later matters. The damn sad thing is that if I come in and engage in a course of action that drives a company's revenue through the roof this year, but puts it out of business in 5, the market will put the share price through the roof and give me a ton of money. The market is not composed of MBAs. It's composed of fools. The only solution I can think of is simply not to take a company public, because when you do, you have to pander to fools rather than build REAL value.
AND it means they've bothered to learn the lessons others already have. Sure, you can go out and learn from the school of hard knocks, but if other people have already done that, what kind of person thinks it's a good idea to go make the same mistakes others have?
That's the general reason you "book" learn things rather than having everybody start from zero.
Except it's not really for a big corporation to just go ignore law because it impedes what they want to do, even if that big corporation is one most of us like most of the time.
And how do you think they facilitate this searching and viewing of short sections? They copied the books. Without permission. That's copyright violation.
You might be better off not knowing what the guy in the next cube gets paid, but you're probably much better off knowing what the reasonable salary range for the job you do is. If you're towards the top and getting tiny raises, you can be comforted knowing it's not because you're not respected, but because you're already well compensated. If you're towards the bottom and are actually good at what you do, perhaps you should be pushing for that raise or looking for an exit.
The only time I've looked at such information was when it was in a database I was required to work on and seeing it was simply unavoidable. It was one of those prepackaged deals where you can't select just the fields you want, you see it all. In other words, not what most of you would call a database, but a non-IT pro friendly consumer package. Not my choice. Anyway, I saw the data and never breathed a word of it to anyone.
It's simple ethics. It's also worth noting that 26% of people doing it means 74% aren't. Ethics aren't dead.
It's ok for lawyers to make a buck, but there's something wrong with the system when the typical result of a class action lawsuit is the people who were actually wronged making a buck LITERALLY while the lawyers, who were not harmed at all, walk off with more money than the average American makes in a lifetime.
Hacking, even for white-hat reasons, is illegal in most jurisdictions.
Maybe I learned it differently, but I've always drawn the line between white and grey at permission, and hacking a site with permission is legal, and generally just called a penetration test.
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Sure, why not. Rephrased, are there movies I'd see if they were cheaper that I won't at full price? Heck yea. This is extra true if you have kids who are less discriminating consumers. If you have a cheap theater near you and ever wait to see a movie until it gets there, your answer to this question is "Yes".
How do you prove it without getting in? How do you differentiate the actions of an authorized user on THEIR system from a hacker who compromised them? If my employee is attacking your system, you contact me, and I fire them (after investigating your claim, of course).
I used to work for a hospital. I very much don't want some anonymous coward hacking my systems because they THINK they're hacked and because they THINK they can fix it without breaking anything on a system they know nothing about.
Have you checked the prices on Legos lately? Damned expensive, even for kids' sets. Give it another generation and $2,600 will be in the ballpark.
Well, of course. Contractors work on contracts. They are not the right people to ask for things. You need to get it into the RFP or spec or whatever your corner of the world calls the document that tells the contractors what to do in order to get money.
Rather like saying if a stove is hot enough to evaporate some of a pot of water it will evaporate all of it. Clearly not true.
No. However as the star loses mass, it's gravity decreases and THAT causes the planet to spiral outward a bit. That's expected to happen to earth, too, however not far enough that we'll escape crisping.
Oh, nonsense. They'll only patent using a battery to power a touchscreen phone with rounded corners.
Funny, I'm baffled by people who think mass transit is a solution for most people. As I've posted here before, it takes me 22 minutes to drive to work. It would take me 1h20m to take mass transit. A driverless car would get me here in the same 22 minutes. Mass transit may never accomplish that, because it's also getting a bunch of other people where they want to go. I'm not married to the notion of driving myself around. I'd be happy to give that up, but right now the price of 2 hours per day out of my life is too high. Fix that and we can talk.
This is not true, unless you think the ATM itself is also manually pushing 4 buttons with its finger to authenticate to your bank. Somewhere along the line, that manual action has a digital analogue.
A 12 volt battery will only deliver 550 amps through a 0.21 ohm load. Since the human body is around 50,000 or more, your "friend" would have delivered a whopping 0.00024 amps to the would-be thief, which you can't even feel. Sorry, but I used to be a truck mechanic and the batteries were rated a good bit higher than 550 CCA. I touched both terminals numerous times, and you really feel nothing. I started trucks by shorting across the starter numerous times which touching the frame. Nothing.
Now, the ignition coil at around 20kV, would be a very different thing. I never experienced that first hand since everything I worked on was diesel, but my mechanic friends told me it hurt like a s.o.b.
I'm really not that bothered. I've long been on the "free speech, period!" bandwagon, but realistically all our rights have limits, and those limits generally start about where someone else's rights begin. You have religious freedom, so long as your religion doesn't involve deflowering underage girls, for example. We put you in jail for that. This guy isn't saying anything of value. He's just being a dick. At some point his right to be a dick has to give way to her right not to be harassed for the rest of her life.
Would you explain, please, how many other planets have magnetic fields? Oh, right. You have no (pardon the pun) earthly idea because we can't detect magnetism on exoplanets yet. Ok, then, how many have large moons? Oh, right, you can't detect that either. How many have water? You don't know. How many are geologically active? You don't know.
Planetary scientists should stop saying our planet is "strange" until they actually have something to compare it to.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. We *can* get more.
True, this describes common usage, but this is not how it should be. Cloud *should* be commodity, highly scalable rented compute time/space/whatever. Some marketing nitwit co-opted the term "cloud" and used it as a synonym for "internet". As a result, that old ftp server we had 30 years ago is now "cloud computing".
I don't deny that "cloud == internet" is what people mean these days. I deny that it's useful in any way other than as marketing nonsense.
It's sad that people still believe this is true. Would you say the same in Syria? Governments are composed of people. Sometimes they're composed of good and moral people, sometimes they're composed of psychopaths. Nah, that's not right. ALWAYS they're composed of a mix, and plenty of people have been thrown under the bus for saying things someone in power didn't like.
As for the rest, if India wants to fork facebook, go ahead. The rest of us will manage just fine, and anyway, I'd rather not have the current natural monopoly. A national facebook won't really solve that, but it might shake things up trivially.
Less than one, obviously, since the LoC will contain that plus other stuff. ;-)
No, it's not the MBA effect. *sigh* I have an MBA. I rant about the exact same things you do. They don't teach managing to the quarter or tweaking some stupid number to get a bonus. Quite the contrary, they teach building incentive systems that DON'T reward doing stupid or harmful things to your business. The "it will cost more later" argument is perfectly well respected by any competent MBA, though of course how much more and how much later matters. The damn sad thing is that if I come in and engage in a course of action that drives a company's revenue through the roof this year, but puts it out of business in 5, the market will put the share price through the roof and give me a ton of money. The market is not composed of MBAs. It's composed of fools. The only solution I can think of is simply not to take a company public, because when you do, you have to pander to fools rather than build REAL value.
AND it means they've bothered to learn the lessons others already have. Sure, you can go out and learn from the school of hard knocks, but if other people have already done that, what kind of person thinks it's a good idea to go make the same mistakes others have?
That's the general reason you "book" learn things rather than having everybody start from zero.
Except it's not really for a big corporation to just go ignore law because it impedes what they want to do, even if that big corporation is one most of us like most of the time.
And how do you think they facilitate this searching and viewing of short sections? They copied the books. Without permission. That's copyright violation.
You might be better off not knowing what the guy in the next cube gets paid, but you're probably much better off knowing what the reasonable salary range for the job you do is. If you're towards the top and getting tiny raises, you can be comforted knowing it's not because you're not respected, but because you're already well compensated. If you're towards the bottom and are actually good at what you do, perhaps you should be pushing for that raise or looking for an exit.
+1.
The only time I've looked at such information was when it was in a database I was required to work on and seeing it was simply unavoidable. It was one of those prepackaged deals where you can't select just the fields you want, you see it all. In other words, not what most of you would call a database, but a non-IT pro friendly consumer package. Not my choice. Anyway, I saw the data and never breathed a word of it to anyone.
It's simple ethics. It's also worth noting that 26% of people doing it means 74% aren't. Ethics aren't dead.
It's ok for lawyers to make a buck, but there's something wrong with the system when the typical result of a class action lawsuit is the people who were actually wronged making a buck LITERALLY while the lawyers, who were not harmed at all, walk off with more money than the average American makes in a lifetime.
Maybe I learned it differently, but I've always drawn the line between white and grey at permission, and hacking a site with permission is legal, and generally just called a penetration test.
You know what works best to make that happen? Competition. And yes, that would be a good thing.
In the US, virtually no one has an employment contract.