For me, that would depend on who was doing the giving. If my best friend gave me cash while I'm between jobs I'd be very grateful. I wouldn't feel belittled or insulted at all.
From the summary: but the dispute highlights the public safety versus employee privacy issue.
Having read the FA, I don't see privacy as the issue. It's about whether or not the GPS system is as reliable as the paper based admin for determining billing. I don't know where privacy comes into it - they're tracking the trucks, not the contractors. Yes privacy is an issue in employment in general, but this article is not about that. I suppose you could twist any article to fit your hobby horse though.
So build a closet out of fire-retardant building materials. Try your local building supplies shop. Make sure there is adequate cooling/ventilation for the sake of your server.
Heck, you could even build some kind of coolstore. A bit OTT but doable if you have the money.
Spyware is a pain in the neck to remove... ... unless the end user is willing to take the plunge and give linux a try. Of course finding the equivilent to some of their favourite apps may or may not be a pain in the neck depending on whether they are gamers or just do a bit of email, surfing and word processing..
Wait, if EULAs are struck down, what will that do to the GPL?
The GPL is not an end user license, it's a distribution license. You don't have to accept the GPL to use GPLed software. You do have to accept it to distribute GPLed software. If you don't accept the GPL then the work is still covered by copyright law which prohibits redistribution without the copyright-holder's permission. At least that's how I think it works here in New Zealand, and I imagine USA is similar.
Please learn how to make a link, rather than subject/. to another spaced-out URL!
Maybe he was saving the site from being/.ed. The extra work of cut, paste, remove spaces rather than clickity-linky might slow down the onslaught of/.ers since/.ers are inherently lazy.
Spammers have a 100% method of separating real submissions from bogus ones - the presence of a valid credit card number. If the check digit at the end of the CC number is invalid then delete the submission.
I know this is not a popular view these days, but whatever rules you make about internet use in your house are fair - it's your house. Keep in mind, though, that all teenage boys wank over naughty pictures - this is normal. And no-one wants to admit that to their parents - that would be embarrassing for the kid. If you're concerned, have all internet traffic enter your house through a box you control, and install dans guardian on it. I'm too lazy to link to it - GIYF.
I'm in the free world, and he's not my leader. Admittedly, the US has some influence over my country's government, which varies with different leaders here, but there are still a number of issues on which we have stood our ground against bigger countries like the US.
Then what do you call downloading and not paying for an album/song?
Bootlegging. Pirates kill people in order to loot their cargo (this still happens on the world's oceans). I won't put people who murder and people who infringe copyrights under the same label. I'm not saying it's okay to infringe on someone else's temporarily granted right to exclusive distribution of an intellectual work. But please don't use the same label for such people as you would for murderers.
how would save games be handeled? you cant assume they have a HD if its a live cd.
Yes you can. HDDs are pretty much universal on PCs. You'd need to have read/write drivers for FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, reiserFS, etc. But HDD is likely to be there, or at least some device that looks like a mass storage device. You'd need to support SCSI, IDE, USB and Firewire mass storage probably.
If you're doing this using your employer's computer, using your employer's Internet connectivity, in your employer's facilities then you this law doesn't protect you.
And neither should it! They provide you with the tools to do your job for them, not for your own use. OTOH I don't see what business it is of theirs what you do in your own time with your own resources.
While it's fraudulent to add qualifications to your resume, it's not fraudulent to leave them out. So trim your resume to the job. I've done this before.
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For me, that would depend on who was doing the giving. If my best friend gave me cash while I'm between jobs I'd be very grateful.
I wouldn't feel belittled or insulted at all.
Exactly. I use spamgourmet for this.
So is going down on people screaming.
Perhaps he could put aside some of the profits into some kind of contingency fund to cover the eventually that doing the right thing costs money.
From the summary:
but the dispute highlights the public safety versus employee privacy issue.
Having read the FA, I don't see privacy as the issue. It's about whether or not the GPS system is as reliable as the paper based admin for determining billing.
I don't know where privacy comes into it - they're tracking the trucks, not the contractors. Yes privacy is an issue in employment in general, but this article is not about that. I suppose you could twist any article to fit your hobby horse though.
The issues you raise are documented in this artical: The Toxic Call Centre .
then why is it that GPLed software won't let me install it unless I click I Agree
Because whoever wrote the installer for the GPLed package you're installing added the Click-I-Agree requirement. The GPL itself doesn't require it.
So build a closet out of fire-retardant building materials. Try your local building supplies shop. Make sure there is adequate cooling/ventilation for the sake of your server.
Heck, you could even build some kind of coolstore. A bit OTT but doable if you have the money.
Spyware is a pain in the neck to remove ...
... unless the end user is willing to take the plunge and give linux a try. Of course finding the equivilent to some of their favourite apps may or may not be a pain in the neck depending on whether they are gamers or just do a bit of email, surfing and word processing ..
Wait, if EULAs are struck down, what will that do to the GPL?
The GPL is not an end user license, it's a distribution license.
You don't have to accept the GPL to use GPLed software. You do have to accept it to distribute GPLed software. If you don't accept the GPL then the work is still covered by copyright law which prohibits redistribution without the copyright-holder's permission.
At least that's how I think it works here in New Zealand, and I imagine USA is similar.
IANAL
If you install Linux on your gateway - you void the warrenty.
Even on the hardware? Is that legal?
Given your nick, this might not bother you too much, but the other LA (Louisiana, that is) still calls them `parishes'. At least counties are secular.
Parish was originally a secular word too. It simply means neighbourhood from the greek para beside and oikos house.
For that post I've added you to my friends list.
Please learn how to make a link, rather than subject /. to another spaced-out URL!
/.ed. /.ers since /.ers are inherently lazy.
Maybe he was saving the site from being
The extra work of cut, paste, remove spaces rather than clickity-linky might slow down the onslaught of
Spammers have a 100% method of separating real submissions from bogus ones - the presence of a valid credit card number.
If the check digit at the end of the CC number is invalid then delete the submission.
Thanks for the new sig.
I know this is not a popular view these days, but whatever rules you make about internet use in your house are fair - it's your house.
Keep in mind, though, that all teenage boys wank over naughty pictures - this is normal. And no-one wants to admit that to their parents - that would be embarrassing for the kid.
If you're concerned, have all internet traffic enter your house through a box you control, and install dans guardian on it. I'm too lazy to link to it - GIYF.
If the leader of the free world...
I'm in the free world, and he's not my leader.
Admittedly, the US has some influence over my country's government, which varies with different leaders here, but there are still a number of issues on which we have stood our ground against bigger countries like the US.
I'm glad to see that Big Brother is alive and well on the left coast
Except it's not the authorities imposing this, it's the bars.
Civil libertarians can still boycott those bars.
"My personal site uses a simple image of my email address with no link. So far no spam, but the odd real email."
.wav file?
I prefer not to do that as I like to keep my pages accessible to visually impaired people.
What about an alternative
I guess that would be good. Unless the user is blind and deaf.
Then what do you call downloading and not paying for an album/song?
Bootlegging.
Pirates kill people in order to loot their cargo (this still happens on the world's oceans).
I won't put people who murder and people who infringe copyrights under the same label.
I'm not saying it's okay to infringe on someone else's temporarily granted right to exclusive distribution of an intellectual work.
But please don't use the same label for such people as you would for murderers.
Basically if only Linux users could trade or burn music, no one would care.
Unless Linux became mainstream, in which case they'd be back to the situation where any Joe Schmoe can trade or burn music.
Therefore it is in the interests of RIAA to stop free OSes from becoming mainstream.
how would save games be handeled? you cant assume they have a HD if its a live cd.
Yes you can. HDDs are pretty much universal on PCs.
You'd need to have read/write drivers for FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, reiserFS, etc. But HDD is likely to be there, or at least some device that looks like a mass storage device. You'd need to support SCSI, IDE, USB and Firewire mass storage probably.
If you're doing this using your employer's computer, using your employer's Internet connectivity, in your employer's facilities then you this law doesn't protect you.
And neither should it! They provide you with the tools to do your job for them, not for your own use.
OTOH I don't see what business it is of theirs what you do in your own time with your own resources.
A very sensible law.
Perhaps you will learn the term "overqualified"
While it's fraudulent to add qualifications to your resume, it's not fraudulent to leave them out. So trim your resume to the job.
I've done this before.