Never? I think you have an unrealistic expectation of the quality of service you can expect from email. I don't believe email has ever guaranteed delivery. We've just gotten used to the fact that like the postal orifice, it nearly always works, so we act like it really always works.
The problem, IMO, is that the grant of rights is often extreme relative to the cost of developing the "invention". If I puzzle out how to do something in my spare time in 5 days, it seems outrageous to grant a 17-20 year monopoly. On the other hand, if I'm a drug company and I spend 10 years and billions of dollars developing a drug does deserve a chance to recoup those costs and reap some profit.
At least that's my experience. I went to the local Bose store to try them out, expecting to put them on and hoping to experience instant suppression of surrounding noise and conversation. No such luck. I checked out a pair at Sharper Image, too, and they claim 14 dB reduction. Even if the Bose ones (at $300) do more, 14 dB just isn't enough. Ear plugs are 20 dB+ and cost pennies.
If you want your music to sound better when there's ambient noise, noise cancelling headsets are probably great. If you want quiet, you want ear plugs.
Give me an idea what the job pays. Responding to an ad takes some effort because I'll research your company before I even contact you. I don't want to invest a lot of time in the process only to find out that you really want to hire someone for $20,000 less than I'm making now.
I know it's hard to show your hand even that little bit, but if you want exceptional people to respond, you need to make it clear that you're exceptional, too.
Here's a novel concept: Why don't you simply try hiring people who are trustworthy?
That's the obvious answer, but how do you find people who are trustworthy? People who seem to be trustworthy consist of those who are and those who aren't, but are good at acting like they are, or haven't been caught yet.
I wondered how long it would take for this post to appear. Calls for donations for his legal defense are as premature as calls for his conviction would be. Do we know anything beyond that he's been arrested?
Generally speaking, getting to do something you like to do anyway isn't part of punishment. Murderers should get the jobs nobody else is willing to do, not the ones smart people are dying to get. Refraining from killing people gets you good behavior points. Killing people, absent a darn good reason, should get you permanently removed from the rest of us.
That said, let's just hope that there's an unlikely happy ending somewhere for this story.
Nevertheless, Saddam did satisfy the inspectors that he had done so. Bush chose to stick his fingers in his ears and say "La La La 9-11 Al Qaeda WMD!" and sent in the troops anyway.
No, he didn't. Saddam went out of his way to frustrate their efforts. How many times were the denied access to sites? How many times were they kicked out? Saddam is the proximate cause of the Iraq war because he was stupid enough to keep smacking the 800 pound gorilla on the nose. If the inspectors were allowed to go wherever they wanted, whenever they wanted, there would have been no credible cause for invasion. At the time, Saddam seemed to be doing everything in his power to make it impossible to know if he had WMDs without getting invaded.
We won't be launching any kind of war against North Korea, pre-emptive or otherwise. Like all bullies, Bush is, at heart, a pussy.
Terribly naive. Bush didn't go to Iraq, he sent others to do it for him, so his *cough* feline qualities, true or otherwise, don't matter. What he's not afraid of is doing something unpopular when he thinks he's right. That would be admirable if he wasn't so often wrong.
I'm confident that attacking North Korea is unnecessary. I'm not confident Dubya has enough clues to rub together to get to the same conclusion.
I so wish companies would stop the useless, transparent lies.
"This $FOO is for your protection." No it's not. It's for THEIR protection, and most of the time that's fine. What's wrong with "We're videotaping you because we want to deter robbers."
Time Warner cable, the broadband service provider I cancelled over a year ago, sends me a bill notifying me of a $5 credit every month. Multiple calls to their hell desk and customer disservice inevitably result in 1) they can't find any such thing 2) Oh, there it is!
What happens next varies. Usually, they promise to get a refund check out. Once, they told me there's some form they have to fill out to get a refund sent, and promised to do so, or send it to me, whichever was the case. I suspect they've spent a largish multiple of that $5 credit not sending it to me. I finally decided, months ago, that it wasn't worth my time chasing it. Instead, I'll just tell anyone who cares to ask.:)
The second was Earthstink, back when I had dialup. I cancelled a credit card (credit cards bad!), notified them that I they shouldn't use the card anymore, and paid in advance for 6 months. For each of the next three months, they cancelled my service because the credit card charge was rejected. Each time I had to call them and point out their idiocy. Yes, I sent a check. Here's the number. Yes, it cleared my bank. Eventually, I even had the bank pull it off microfilm and send me a copy, which I sent to them. The next month, they cancelled my account for nonpayment again. Morons. I had done everything possible to get it *right*, including putting my account number on the check, which I don't usually do. Yes, it was the right account number. Remember, I had to get a copy of the check to prove it. I finally cancelled the service and asked for a refund of the unused portion, which they promised to send. Think I got it? Nope. Losers. I spent years recommending that anyone needing network service use someone else. Anyone else.
was simply that there was huge hype, followed by an expensive product that didn't do anything amazing, other than balance itself. Tons of cool factor, but why do I need it? Why do I need it for $5,000?!? The market answered. We don't.
It's half the price of a cheap car, lots slower, much more limited range, dangerous to ride on a roadway, dangerous to pedestrians on a sidewalk, holds one person, minimal cargo capacity, need I go on? It's not price competitive. It's not going to change the world, but it might become the plaything of people (or municipalities) with too much money.
I go over much the same issues in wanting to replace a car. I'd like a hybrid. Too expensive vs the gas it saves. Ok, how about a used Insight? Only carries two people.
The segway is just another example of a really, really cool idea that doesn't solve a problem.
Yep, they nailed it. I didn't and won't see the movie for simple reasons.
It has a stupid name (Snakes on a Plane?!?), a stupid premise, and nothing in the advertising I saw made me expect anything other than a stupid movie. In fact, I expect it to be a movie centered around what would have been a 30 second plot device in a James Bond movie 25 years ago.
Sounds like these people are waking up to the simple fact that new marketing doesn't make bad movies blockbusters. Shoulda called this one "Ad Execs on Crack."
If I tell you something, and you confirm it through some other source, I gain credibility. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's not foolproof, of course. I could tell you a series of truths to build up confidence, then lie to you, but that's not substantially different than saying "Hi, I'm Dick Cheney and you should believe me because I'm in a position to know."--then lying to you.
I have to agree with this one. Last time I had to move mail service from one box to another, Sendmail had two vulnerabilities discovered during the time we were planning the move (and no, it wasn't a long planning period). Sendmail did not make the cut. Postfix worked great until the powers that were decided we'd be much better off paying a central group a lot more to provide the service than it cost us to do it.
I really don't care about the free CDs, or any other fine that would be levied against Sony. They're huge, and they aren't going to be hurt by this.
What I want is criminal prosecution of the people in Sony's management who directed that this be done, and directed that this malware be distributed. I can't imagine that if I, Mr. John Q. Public, recorded some of my own songs and packaged them with a rootkit of my own, that I'd be prosecuted for it. More than that, I can't imagine that if some employees of Sony burned the CD and took it to work to listen to, where it then installed itself on their computers, that Sony wouldn't quickly rack up the requisite amount in damages and I'd shortly have the FBI on my doorstep.
Is there any valid reason they're not being prosecuted for this? Is it as simple as the DoJ isn't bothered by it? $DIETY knows, I'll never buy another Sony anything if I can help it, but that's not enough. It's well past time that corporations learn they aren't above the law, even if they do write and pay for it.
First, I'm not sure that's true. I can sell things (generating income) and not have to give my SSN. Now, there might well be a regulation somewhere confirming what you say, I just don't know it and haven't seen it.
Second, I did wonder as I filled out their forms (before cancelling when they asked for my SSN) if the scenario you describe might be true--but that's not what they said. They didn't say "We're required by USC Foo.bar.baz to get your SSN and report stuff to the IRS." They said we use your SSN to prove you are who you say you are, which IMO, is indefensible. As I said, the number of people who know my SSN is in the thousands. The number of people who can get it if they really want to is certainly many, many thousands if not more.
And that's where they lost me. First, I don't want to give out my SSN. Or my bank account #. Let me put it on a credit card (which I'd pay off immediately) and I'm interested. Tell me I have to give you everything you need to steal my identity so I can lend money and I'm a lot let interested. Tell me you need it for authentication, of all things, because after all, the only people who know my SSN are everyone I've ever had a loan, bank account, credit card, every school I've ever attended, the U.S. government (who employs millions of people), the HR department of every company I've ever worked for, and you lost me.
Thanks for beating me to pointing that out. It is not true that everyone is compelled to hand over their fingerprints, nor should it be true.
I am NOT a criminal, and the fact that I am a private citizen doesn't entitle ANY government to treat me like a criminal, or a suspect in a crime without probable cause.
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Never? I think you have an unrealistic expectation of the quality of service you can expect from email. I don't believe email has ever guaranteed delivery. We've just gotten used to the fact that like the postal orifice, it nearly always works, so we act like it really always works.
:)
That said, 90% failure is ridiculous.
The problem, IMO, is that the grant of rights is often extreme relative to the cost of developing the "invention". If I puzzle out how to do something in my spare time in 5 days, it seems outrageous to grant a 17-20 year monopoly. On the other hand, if I'm a drug company and I spend 10 years and billions of dollars developing a drug does deserve a chance to recoup those costs and reap some profit.
Bad patents is only half the problem.
At least that's my experience. I went to the local Bose store to try them out, expecting to put them on and hoping to experience instant suppression of surrounding noise and conversation. No such luck. I checked out a pair at Sharper Image, too, and they claim 14 dB reduction. Even if the Bose ones (at $300) do more, 14 dB just isn't enough. Ear plugs are 20 dB+ and cost pennies.
If you want your music to sound better when there's ambient noise, noise cancelling headsets are probably great. If you want quiet, you want ear plugs.
If that's in the job description, why would you *care* if you ever get any work done? Seriously, sign me up. Now.
Well, except for the coke part.
Narrow minded, and deliberately so. The OP's claim that XP being cheap for educational use, and therefore the right thing, follows exactly that logic.
Linux is free for anyone who doesn't want to pay for commercial support. XP costs less than that?
Give me an idea what the job pays. Responding to an ad takes some effort because I'll research your company before I even contact you. I don't want to invest a lot of time in the process only to find out that you really want to hire someone for $20,000 less than I'm making now.
I know it's hard to show your hand even that little bit, but if you want exceptional people to respond, you need to make it clear that you're exceptional, too.
That's the obvious answer, but how do you find people who are trustworthy? People who seem to be trustworthy consist of those who are and those who aren't, but are good at acting like they are, or haven't been caught yet.
Yes, it was an insightful move, but not one that deserves a 17 year revenue stream. The US PTO deserves a -1 Redundant.
I wondered how long it would take for this post to appear. Calls for donations for his legal defense are as premature as calls for his conviction would be. Do we know anything beyond that he's been arrested?
Generally speaking, getting to do something you like to do anyway isn't part of punishment. Murderers should get the jobs nobody else is willing to do, not the ones smart people are dying to get. Refraining from killing people gets you good behavior points. Killing people, absent a darn good reason, should get you permanently removed from the rest of us.
That said, let's just hope that there's an unlikely happy ending somewhere for this story.
No, he didn't. Saddam went out of his way to frustrate their efforts. How many times were the denied access to sites? How many times were they kicked out? Saddam is the proximate cause of the Iraq war because he was stupid enough to keep smacking the 800 pound gorilla on the nose. If the inspectors were allowed to go wherever they wanted, whenever they wanted, there would have been no credible cause for invasion. At the time, Saddam seemed to be doing everything in his power to make it impossible to know if he had WMDs without getting invaded.
Terribly naive. Bush didn't go to Iraq, he sent others to do it for him, so his *cough* feline qualities, true or otherwise, don't matter. What he's not afraid of is doing something unpopular when he thinks he's right. That would be admirable if he wasn't so often wrong.
I'm confident that attacking North Korea is unnecessary. I'm not confident Dubya has enough clues to rub together to get to the same conclusion.
I so wish companies would stop the useless, transparent lies.
"This $FOO is for your protection." No it's not. It's for THEIR protection, and most of the time that's fine. What's wrong with "We're videotaping you because we want to deter robbers."
Time Warner cable, the broadband service provider I cancelled over a year ago, sends me a bill notifying me of a $5 credit every month. Multiple calls to their hell desk and customer disservice inevitably result in 1) they can't find any such thing 2) Oh, there it is!
:)
What happens next varies. Usually, they promise to get a refund check out. Once, they told me there's some form they have to fill out to get a refund sent, and promised to do so, or send it to me, whichever was the case. I suspect they've spent a largish multiple of that $5 credit not sending it to me. I finally decided, months ago, that it wasn't worth my time chasing it. Instead, I'll just tell anyone who cares to ask.
The second was Earthstink, back when I had dialup. I cancelled a credit card (credit cards bad!), notified them that I they shouldn't use the card anymore, and paid in advance for 6 months. For each of the next three months, they cancelled my service because the credit card charge was rejected. Each time I had to call them and point out their idiocy. Yes, I sent a check. Here's the number. Yes, it cleared my bank. Eventually, I even had the bank pull it off microfilm and send me a copy, which I sent to them. The next month, they cancelled my account for nonpayment again. Morons. I had done everything possible to get it *right*, including putting my account number on the check, which I don't usually do. Yes, it was the right account number. Remember, I had to get a copy of the check to prove it. I finally cancelled the service and asked for a refund of the unused portion, which they promised to send. Think I got it? Nope. Losers. I spent years recommending that anyone needing network service use someone else. Anyone else.
was simply that there was huge hype, followed by an expensive product that didn't do anything amazing, other than balance itself. Tons of cool factor, but why do I need it? Why do I need it for $5,000?!? The market answered. We don't.
It's half the price of a cheap car, lots slower, much more limited range, dangerous to ride on a roadway, dangerous to pedestrians on a sidewalk, holds one person, minimal cargo capacity, need I go on? It's not price competitive. It's not going to change the world, but it might become the plaything of people (or municipalities) with too much money.
I go over much the same issues in wanting to replace a car. I'd like a hybrid. Too expensive vs the gas it saves. Ok, how about a used Insight? Only carries two people.
The segway is just another example of a really, really cool idea that doesn't solve a problem.
Yep, they nailed it. I didn't and won't see the movie for simple reasons.
It has a stupid name (Snakes on a Plane?!?), a stupid premise, and nothing in the advertising I saw made me expect anything other than a stupid movie. In fact, I expect it to be a movie centered around what would have been a 30 second plot device in a James Bond movie 25 years ago.
Sounds like these people are waking up to the simple fact that new marketing doesn't make bad movies blockbusters. Shoulda called this one "Ad Execs on Crack."
Pseudonymity works just fine.
If I tell you something, and you confirm it through some other source, I gain credibility. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's not foolproof, of course. I could tell you a series of truths to build up confidence, then lie to you, but that's not substantially different than saying "Hi, I'm Dick Cheney and you should believe me because I'm in a position to know."--then lying to you.
It's as much stealing as sending the signal into their home is trespassing.
I think you just shake your head at your failure to secure it in the first place, decide if you care, and if you do, lock it down.
Funny way to deal with it, though.
It's sooo cute when the furriners think better of our government than we do.
I have to agree with this one. Last time I had to move mail service from one box to another, Sendmail had two vulnerabilities discovered during the time we were planning the move (and no, it wasn't a long planning period). Sendmail did not make the cut. Postfix worked great until the powers that were decided we'd be much better off paying a central group a lot more to provide the service than it cost us to do it.
I really don't care about the free CDs, or any other fine that would be levied against Sony. They're huge, and they aren't going to be hurt by this.
What I want is criminal prosecution of the people in Sony's management who directed that this be done, and directed that this malware be distributed. I can't imagine that if I, Mr. John Q. Public, recorded some of my own songs and packaged them with a rootkit of my own, that I'd be prosecuted for it. More than that, I can't imagine that if some employees of Sony burned the CD and took it to work to listen to, where it then installed itself on their computers, that Sony wouldn't quickly rack up the requisite amount in damages and I'd shortly have the FBI on my doorstep.
Is there any valid reason they're not being prosecuted for this? Is it as simple as the DoJ isn't bothered by it? $DIETY knows, I'll never buy another Sony anything if I can help it, but that's not enough. It's well past time that corporations learn they aren't above the law, even if they do write and pay for it.
First, I'm not sure that's true. I can sell things (generating income) and not have to give my SSN. Now, there might well be a regulation somewhere confirming what you say, I just don't know it and haven't seen it.
Second, I did wonder as I filled out their forms (before cancelling when they asked for my SSN) if the scenario you describe might be true--but that's not what they said. They didn't say "We're required by USC Foo.bar.baz to get your SSN and report stuff to the IRS." They said we use your SSN to prove you are who you say you are, which IMO, is indefensible. As I said, the number of people who know my SSN is in the thousands. The number of people who can get it if they really want to is certainly many, many thousands if not more.
And that's where they lost me. First, I don't want to give out my SSN. Or my bank account #. Let me put it on a credit card (which I'd pay off immediately) and I'm interested. Tell me I have to give you everything you need to steal my identity so I can lend money and I'm a lot let interested. Tell me you need it for authentication, of all things, because after all, the only people who know my SSN are everyone I've ever had a loan, bank account, credit card, every school I've ever attended, the U.S. government (who employs millions of people), the HR department of every company I've ever worked for, and you lost me.
SSNs are NOT authenicators, and never will be.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Thanks for beating me to pointing that out. It is not true that everyone is compelled to hand over their fingerprints, nor should it be true.
I am NOT a criminal, and the fact that I am a private citizen doesn't entitle ANY government to treat me like a criminal, or a suspect in a crime without probable cause.