why not do it for another 4 years while attending college. Then you'll be that much smarter when you go looking.
This is actually a great trend. Within hours we get a story telling us our country's educational system sucks so we can't turn out enough qualified people to fill high-tech jobs, and then one where apparently someone somewhere will hire you without bothering to go to college. Irony anyone?
Please stop throwing around the word freedom. Have we not the freedom to close our borders? The constitution guarentees freedom and rights to our citizens, it's scope is strictly national.
THe US has never been a meritocracy. Skills are important, but so is lifting up our own poor and giving them the skills to earn a living before we start emptying Calcutta's slums.
They're filled with posts because HR people don't clean them up once they're filled, they advertise positions they don't intend to fill, and they cross-post extensively. Not to mention the use of multiple headhunters advertising what is the same position.
Workers with experience (regardless of age) are more valuable (and thus worth more money) at any position, including an entry level one. Any competent manager knows that. With experience (and just to piss off the kiddies, I'll be very explicit and say WORK experience) comes (for most) a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that doesn't translate to a resume.
The average 40 year old with 15 years of experience is worth more than the average 21 year old if their technical knowledge is equal. Problem is that the 40 yo probably knows his rights and can't be molded into a 70 hour week serf.
The fact is that in the US discrimination in hiring policies based on factors such as age, race, etc. is ILLEGAL, as are mandatory 70 hour work weeks. The point isn't well you can go get another job. Sure, we all can, there's always an unfortunate few who don't know better who'll fill the gap. The rest of us need to take a stand because they cannot.
My grandfather died at 59 from lung cancer, after working in coal mines for years. His union didn't take 30 minute smoke breaks. They worked long and hard for what wasn't much of a wage, even at the time. Most of us here spend what he earned at starbucks. That union fought to get the workers protection and health coverage because their jobs were killing workers. Strikes give the unions a bad image, but they are a necessary evil given the overwhelming evil embodied in large corporations.
Are we for corporations or against them? I know the union's stereotypes, and some are deserved, but if it's them or the corps., I'll take the unions.
Just thought I'd start a whole thread for the discussion of the advantages of collective bargaining versus the disadvantages of the union stereotype which seems to be rampant here. Does the libertarian value the right of people to organize or not? How many union members are out there to defend their status?
I used to work in a facility that had a factory which manufactured radio gear, tested, etc. They had special EMF-free zones for testing devices which were wood-frame closets wrapped in grounded copper mesh screen. Should do the trick more effectively than the steel, and be lighter/easier to work with.
Being in a similar situation, I have also pondered this koan, and believe it truly unsolvable. You want to to only monitor true abuses, not minor nit-picky transgressions, and respect privacy as much as possible.
Can't be done.
You need must monitor every email is you're to catch those creating true liability. You must log every page view if you're to catch the porn surfers. If you sample these things, those you catch can accuse you of singling them out. If you smple, you might miss some doosies. And as the filter companies have shown us, these sampling and filtering methods do not work (yet?).
Perhaps what you need is a modest plan involving user education, a written policy protecting user privacy and agreeing to full disclosure when it must be violated in the course of some investigation, and enough documentation to demonstrate due vigilance wrt these issues in case a suit arises.
In the end, those who want to bad enough will screw everything useful up for everyone. The trick isn't on preventing it so much as being able to prove that you made every reasonable attempt to prevent it.
Transcender (maker of practice tests for EIA/TIA, MS and Cisco cert. exams) has a similar licensing scheme which prohibits resale of their product when you're done using it (i.e. you passed the test and no longer need it.) I understand the notion of protecting revenue streams, but I think it's time to enact laws protecting a consumers rights!
www.qubit.com. Supposed to have ethernet in the base station.
I'm sure the last thing any of these companies wants is to have businesses, who normally foprk over way too much money for PCs to begin with, to start using these appliances. By only including a modem, they're sending the message that this is an at-home only product. Assholes.
VPN is a secure encrypted connection over an insecure connection to a remote network. Work from home, have your machine pretend to be right on the network at work.
The writer seems to be bitching that he can't NAT his home network on anymore, and he seems to still be able to do that (atleast section 6. doesn't outlaw it) as long as he's not hosting servers for a business enterprise.
BUT...
Why would they disallow VPN? This just prevents people from working from home.
Can https or SSL be considered a VPN? A whole bunch of etraders will be grumpy!
Seems to me that the big problem with examining this problem vis-a-vis the gun issue is problematic. When you make a thing (i.e. gun) that can do something illegal (of course, so can a baseball bat), it's not illegal as long as the thing has a legitimate purpose, too. Gun makers have never been successfully sued on the basis of "you make guns, you're liable." They get sued for selling guns that are too cheap to be of any use but spraying bullets over a playground, and for dumping guns in quantities far exceeding local demand in localities where gun purchase laws are weak, making it easy for criminals from other jurisdictions to come there, buy the gun and return home to commit a crime with a gun they could not have bought at home.
Similar laws govcern things like lock picks and bongs. I doubt anyone ever got arrested for having made their own lock picks, or having a bong (hell, head shops would go out of business!) But there are laws that allow the prosecution of possession of burglery tools or drug paraphenalia in most states. Just another charge to pile on when someone gets arrested for something else they were doing. Locksmiths need picks. Someone somewhere might actually be smoking tobacco in that bong.
Intellectual property would seem to be diffeent. It's speech, and it might even be protected speech (still waiting to hear on that...) But it also does something, performs a function. SO it's a real murky water.
Keep in mind that the FAA and the National Weather Service are almost always co-defendants in lawsuits over air-traffic disasters. Usually cited for negligence (they also usually win their cases). A weather forecast is really just more IP, and in fact comes with its own implicit disclaimer.
I do find this an interesting issue. Many here take the side that it's not fair that the big software houses don't have to warranty their product free from defect and disavow liability (ala UCITA), yet the same folks seem to flip flop when smaller developers are also concerned with the same issue. Where should the liability rest, then? If I create a tool whose sole purpose is to share files, am I aiding and abetting? The algorithm is certainly protected speech. Maybe the implementation isn't. I can draw a general diagram of how a bomb works, no problem. It's in the encyclopedia. Schematics and instructions on how to sneak into the white house are probably illegal.
As we move forward and computers do more and more for us (i.e higher level languages, voice command, etc.) what if I give a few voice commands and the programm breaks the law by trying to execute my commands, even though any human listening to my instructions would understand that that isn't my intent? I could say retrieve all pictures of Natalie Portman, and who knows what sort of smut it might find labeled with ther name.
So If I'm a etailer that hangs onto old stuff in it's original box or buys other's surplus to sell later for a small profit, when it's a few versions behind, am I stealing IP? The few places I've seen that did this have been consumed and no longer do it.
I continue to be amazed by the utter lack of thoughtful commentary on modern science here. There are many pure science-related stories here (a good thing) and when the topic if fusion or nano-tech or any of a raft of pie-in-the-shy technologies, the tone is generally positive. But slashdotters still scoff at meteorologists and their attempts to better understand our environment.
Meteorology is at it's heart a combination of some of the most difficult problems in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science. It is also one of very few modern sciences that affect everyone every day. It is complex and complicated and not something one can easily isolate in the lab to study. Weather kills a great many people every day, and the fact of the matter is that we don't understand it.
Take Global Warming. Does it exist? Right now, it certainly seems that way. Is it long-term or short? Does it reflect some sort of impact mankind has on the planet? No one knows. Can't know. Some think yes, some think no, but there's no sure way to tell until about 1000 years from now, maybe more. Should we care? Um, yeah. (See earlier note about affects everyone...)
Pure science often involves proving using the scientific method that which many people take for granted or assume or is taken as a "rule." This is very important information, and these people deserve credit for doing useful scientific work.
The grocery cards are a bad example in that they are voluntary. You don't have to have them/use them, or you can use them intermittnetly (only when you buy on sale). Yes, it's more expensive not to use them. Think of the savings as the grocery store paying you for the use of your personal data.
Pharmacies are a better example, where the data collected are not voluntary -- you want meds, you have to give them a minimum of info. They've tried (and changed their minds when it hit the evening news) to sell the data. That's scary!
to the earth. One big conducting cable between the two, passing through the variable magnetic field would creat enormous amounts of electricity! Sure, it's a big cable, but you could probably do it quicker than getting fusion to work.
Isn't one of the logical ends of this the Quake (or Unreal or whatever) card, where the whole engine is in silicon and for $100 you get the card and several levels on a CD? Once you have the card, it will work with any game using the engine?
Way back when, the pentagon papers engendered an enormous amount of debate and discussion at the highest levels of editorial control before being published by the Washinton Post. Not to say Post good/Times bad, they share the top of my list of great papers, and get high marks for jourmalism generally, especially compared with other media.
But they should have taken care here. We aren't talking about something that happened 50 years ago in a western country where the worst likely outcome for descendants of said conspirators would be bookings on the talk-show circuit and their 15 minutes of fame. Iran may be moderating, but it's a long slow process, and I think you'll be able to mail most of these people's remains to the Times in a small manila envelope.
I am also appalled at the contention that all these people are really old, so who cares if the government kills them? They may still be alive themselves. Old or not, their secret deserves protection, as do their lives.
Don't we have some readers in the DOJ? It would be very nice to see some pro-active anti-trust, pro-competative litigation for once.
They announced an investigation into high gasline prices in the mid-west US, and the next day prices dropped $.25/gal back to within a dime of national average. I for one would like to see Rambus take it on the chin this time.
In most states sales tax is the duty (ha) of the consumer. Companies doing business in the state must collect that state's tax for them, but businesses and individuals who buy stuff from out of state (catalogs, the net, etc.) are supposed to pay it themselves. Now, I've never heard of a state going after individuals since they aren't required to keep detailed records of these things, businesses are fair game.
This is covered by the Uniform Code I think (not the new UCITA, but the part governing commerce, etc.)
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If you read far enough into the discussion, you'll see that there is some question as to whether they released ALL the code they're required to under the GPL. And given the amount of tamper-proofing they seem to have done (again, based on reading the forum over there), they DO care, and do not want hacking going on.
The users there are trying (mostly) to figure out how to allow a user to add their own, larger hard drives without paying TIVO's premium price. TIVO would then NOT be making money, hence the contention.
Aren't there (or soon to be) relay programs that act as waypoints for these file exchanges? The person you get the file from/through might not be the person who's sharing it. ISPs have been held harmless in the whole responsibility-for-content debate, wouldn't this be very similar?
Is a box with ethernet and audio line outs that I could mount with the stereo, and just run the net connection over there instead of the audio wires (being better able to deal with the distance). Then allow users to play MP3 they have on their local machine out through this device and through the stereo.
I have nice PC speakers, but they're being used for other things (games, etc) and they aren't as nice as my stereo setup. But it's a pain to dedicate a whole freaking PC to sitting behind the stereo, plus then you have to control it remotely, which just seems to be getting to be way more work than this ought to be (actually, this might be just what I want if it has an RJ45 on the back!).
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why not do it for another 4 years while attending college. Then you'll be that much smarter when you go looking.
This is actually a great trend. Within hours we get a story telling us our country's educational system sucks so we can't turn out enough qualified people to fill high-tech jobs, and then one where apparently someone somewhere will hire you without bothering to go to college. Irony anyone?
Well, at least when you get married you won't have to make that motorcycle payment any more.
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Please stop throwing around the word freedom. Have we not the freedom to close our borders? The constitution guarentees freedom and rights to our citizens, it's scope is strictly national.
THe US has never been a meritocracy. Skills are important, but so is lifting up our own poor and giving them the skills to earn a living before we start emptying Calcutta's slums.
They're filled with posts because HR people don't clean them up once they're filled, they advertise positions they don't intend to fill, and they cross-post extensively. Not to mention the use of multiple headhunters advertising what is the same position.
Workers with experience (regardless of age) are more valuable (and thus worth more money) at any position, including an entry level one. Any competent manager knows that. With experience (and just to piss off the kiddies, I'll be very explicit and say WORK experience) comes (for most) a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that doesn't translate to a resume.
The average 40 year old with 15 years of experience is worth more than the average 21 year old if their technical knowledge is equal. Problem is that the 40 yo probably knows his rights and can't be molded into a 70 hour week serf.
The fact is that in the US discrimination in hiring policies based on factors such as age, race, etc. is ILLEGAL, as are mandatory 70 hour work weeks. The point isn't well you can go get another job. Sure, we all can, there's always an unfortunate few who don't know better who'll fill the gap. The rest of us need to take a stand because they cannot.
My grandfather died at 59 from lung cancer, after working in coal mines for years. His union didn't take 30 minute smoke breaks. They worked long and hard for what wasn't much of a wage, even at the time. Most of us here spend what he earned at starbucks. That union fought to get the workers protection and health coverage because their jobs were killing workers. Strikes give the unions a bad image, but they are a necessary evil given the overwhelming evil embodied in large corporations.
Are we for corporations or against them? I know the union's stereotypes, and some are deserved, but if it's them or the corps., I'll take the unions.
Just thought I'd start a whole thread for the discussion of the advantages of collective bargaining versus the disadvantages of the union stereotype which seems to be rampant here. Does the libertarian value the right of people to organize or not? How many union members are out there to defend their status?
I used to work in a facility that had a factory which manufactured radio gear, tested, etc. They had special EMF-free zones for testing devices which were wood-frame closets wrapped in grounded copper mesh screen. Should do the trick more effectively than the steel, and be lighter/easier to work with.
Being in a similar situation, I have also pondered this koan, and believe it truly unsolvable. You want to to only monitor true abuses, not minor nit-picky transgressions, and respect privacy as much as possible.
Can't be done.
You need must monitor every email is you're to catch those creating true liability. You must log every page view if you're to catch the porn surfers. If you sample these things, those you catch can accuse you of singling them out. If you smple, you might miss some doosies. And as the filter companies have shown us, these sampling and filtering methods do not work (yet?).
Perhaps what you need is a modest plan involving user education, a written policy protecting user privacy and agreeing to full disclosure when it must be violated in the course of some investigation, and enough documentation to demonstrate due vigilance wrt these issues in case a suit arises.
In the end, those who want to bad enough will screw everything useful up for everyone. The trick isn't on preventing it so much as being able to prove that you made every reasonable attempt to prevent it.
Transcender (maker of practice tests for EIA/TIA, MS and Cisco cert. exams) has a similar licensing scheme which prohibits resale of their product when you're done using it (i.e. you passed the test and no longer need it.) I understand the notion of protecting revenue streams, but I think it's time to enact laws protecting a consumers rights!
www.qubit.com. Supposed to have ethernet in the base station.
I'm sure the last thing any of these companies wants is to have businesses, who normally foprk over way too much money for PCs to begin with, to start using these appliances. By only including a modem, they're sending the message that this is an at-home only product. Assholes.
VPN is a secure encrypted connection over an insecure connection to a remote network. Work from home, have your machine pretend to be right on the network at work.
The writer seems to be bitching that he can't NAT his home network on anymore, and he seems to still be able to do that (atleast section 6. doesn't outlaw it) as long as he's not hosting servers for a business enterprise.
BUT...
Why would they disallow VPN? This just prevents people from working from home.
Can https or SSL be considered a VPN? A whole bunch of etraders will be grumpy!
Seems to me that the big problem with examining this problem vis-a-vis the gun issue is problematic. When you make a thing (i.e. gun) that can do something illegal (of course, so can a baseball bat), it's not illegal as long as the thing has a legitimate purpose, too. Gun makers have never been successfully sued on the basis of "you make guns, you're liable." They get sued for selling guns that are too cheap to be of any use but spraying bullets over a playground, and for dumping guns in quantities far exceeding local demand in localities where gun purchase laws are weak, making it easy for criminals from other jurisdictions to come there, buy the gun and return home to commit a crime with a gun they could not have bought at home.
Similar laws govcern things like lock picks and bongs. I doubt anyone ever got arrested for having made their own lock picks, or having a bong (hell, head shops would go out of business!) But there are laws that allow the prosecution of possession of burglery tools or drug paraphenalia in most states. Just another charge to pile on when someone gets arrested for something else they were doing. Locksmiths need picks. Someone somewhere might actually be smoking tobacco in that bong.
Intellectual property would seem to be diffeent. It's speech, and it might even be protected speech (still waiting to hear on that...) But it also does something, performs a function. SO it's a real murky water.
Keep in mind that the FAA and the National Weather Service are almost always co-defendants in lawsuits over air-traffic disasters. Usually cited for negligence (they also usually win their cases). A weather forecast is really just more IP, and in fact comes with its own implicit disclaimer.
I do find this an interesting issue. Many here take the side that it's not fair that the big software houses don't have to warranty their product free from defect and disavow liability (ala UCITA), yet the same folks seem to flip flop when smaller developers are also concerned with the same issue. Where should the liability rest, then? If I create a tool whose sole purpose is to share files, am I aiding and abetting? The algorithm is certainly protected speech. Maybe the implementation isn't. I can draw a general diagram of how a bomb works, no problem. It's in the encyclopedia. Schematics and instructions on how to sneak into the white house are probably illegal.
As we move forward and computers do more and more for us (i.e higher level languages, voice command, etc.) what if I give a few voice commands and the programm breaks the law by trying to execute my commands, even though any human listening to my instructions would understand that that isn't my intent? I could say retrieve all pictures of Natalie Portman, and who knows what sort of smut it might find labeled with ther name.
oooohh, my head hurts....
So If I'm a etailer that hangs onto old stuff in it's original box or buys other's surplus to sell later for a small profit, when it's a few versions behind, am I stealing IP? The few places I've seen that did this have been consumed and no longer do it.
I agree. I finally bent over and went to the dark side, and my life is a little less annoying for it.
But can someone tell me how to have my links folder contents be in an order other than alphabetical?
I continue to be amazed by the utter lack of thoughtful commentary on modern science here. There are many pure science-related stories here (a good thing) and when the topic if fusion or nano-tech or any of a raft of pie-in-the-shy technologies, the tone is generally positive. But slashdotters still scoff at meteorologists and their attempts to better understand our environment.
Meteorology is at it's heart a combination of some of the most difficult problems in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science. It is also one of very few modern sciences that affect everyone every day. It is complex and complicated and not something one can easily isolate in the lab to study. Weather kills a great many people every day, and the fact of the matter is that we don't understand it.
Take Global Warming. Does it exist? Right now, it certainly seems that way. Is it long-term or short? Does it reflect some sort of impact mankind has on the planet? No one knows. Can't know. Some think yes, some think no, but there's no sure way to tell until about 1000 years from now, maybe more. Should we care? Um, yeah. (See earlier note about affects everyone...)
Pure science often involves proving using the scientific method that which many people take for granted or assume or is taken as a "rule." This is very important information, and these people deserve credit for doing useful scientific work.
The grocery cards are a bad example in that they are voluntary. You don't have to have them/use them, or you can use them intermittnetly (only when you buy on sale). Yes, it's more expensive not to use them. Think of the savings as the grocery store paying you for the use of your personal data.
Pharmacies are a better example, where the data collected are not voluntary -- you want meds, you have to give them a minimum of info. They've tried (and changed their minds when it hit the evening news) to sell the data. That's scary!
to the earth. One big conducting cable between the two, passing through the variable magnetic field would creat enormous amounts of electricity! Sure, it's a big cable, but you could probably do it quicker than getting fusion to work.
Isn't one of the logical ends of this the Quake (or Unreal or whatever) card, where the whole engine is in silicon and for $100 you get the card and several levels on a CD? Once you have the card, it will work with any game using the engine?
This is the fault of the Times, plain and simple.
Way back when, the pentagon papers engendered an enormous amount of debate and discussion at the highest levels of editorial control before being published by the Washinton Post. Not to say Post good/Times bad, they share the top of my list of great papers, and get high marks for jourmalism generally, especially compared with other media.
But they should have taken care here. We aren't talking about something that happened 50 years ago in a western country where the worst likely outcome for descendants of said conspirators would be bookings on the talk-show circuit and their 15 minutes of fame. Iran may be moderating, but it's a long slow process, and I think you'll be able to mail most of these people's remains to the Times in a small manila envelope.
I am also appalled at the contention that all these people are really old, so who cares if the government kills them? They may still be alive themselves. Old or not, their secret deserves protection, as do their lives.
Don't we have some readers in the DOJ? It would be very nice to see some pro-active anti-trust, pro-competative litigation for once.
They announced an investigation into high gasline prices in the mid-west US, and the next day prices dropped $.25/gal back to within a dime of national average. I for one would like to see Rambus take it on the chin this time.
In most states sales tax is the duty (ha) of the consumer. Companies doing business in the state must collect that state's tax for them, but businesses and individuals who buy stuff from out of state (catalogs, the net, etc.) are supposed to pay it themselves. Now, I've never heard of a state going after individuals since they aren't required to keep detailed records of these things, businesses are fair game.
This is covered by the Uniform Code I think (not the new UCITA, but the part governing commerce, etc.)
If you read far enough into the discussion, you'll see that there is some question as to whether they released ALL the code they're required to under the GPL. And given the amount of tamper-proofing they seem to have done (again, based on reading the forum over there), they DO care, and do not want hacking going on.
The users there are trying (mostly) to figure out how to allow a user to add their own, larger hard drives without paying TIVO's premium price. TIVO would then NOT be making money, hence the contention.
Aren't there (or soon to be) relay programs that act as waypoints for these file exchanges? The person you get the file from/through might not be the person who's sharing it. ISPs have been held harmless in the whole responsibility-for-content debate, wouldn't this be very similar?
Does this mean Titan A.E. isn't eligible, since it was first delivered via the net? This could put a serious wrinkle in electronic delivery.
Is a box with ethernet and audio line outs that I could mount with the stereo, and just run the net connection over there instead of the audio wires (being better able to deal with the distance). Then allow users to play MP3 they have on their local machine out through this device and through the stereo.
I have nice PC speakers, but they're being used for other things (games, etc) and they aren't as nice as my stereo setup. But it's a pain to dedicate a whole freaking PC to sitting behind the stereo, plus then you have to control it remotely, which just seems to be getting to be way more work than this ought to be (actually, this might be just what I want if it has an RJ45 on the back!).
This must be why I keep buying CDs.