So, what exactly is the difference between a boss looking over your shoulder and using a tool to do it over the network? Same thing, different way of doing it.
What's the difference between my boss listening to me talk on the phone by standing near me and installing a wire tap? What about if I have some good reason for doing something, not just being some statistic. If a boss is looking over your shoulder, they may understand _why_ you are doing something. The fact that according to statistics you contacted a porn site 3 months ago can get you fired, even though that porn site was a re-direct from another site that was one letter off of some other site that _was_ business related.
I'd love to see the rule that says your employer is required to allow you to surf the web and use their network while you are on break.
Well, at _my_ job I'm allowed to browse the web whenever I like, or read a book etc. If nobody is asking for my help, I can do pretty much whatever I want. But my job isn't like most, so I wasn't trying to be specific to me. I'm at work right now, and my boss is very happy to let me read/.
I'm not saying that an employer sould be _required_ to let someone browse the web on break, but I think it's a good idea. You have a break, you decide you want to look up something, so you do it. It's called employee morale.
At least come up with some real arguments.
See above, employee morale sinks if the employees think bosses are checking up on every little thing they do. If there seems to be a problem, there are other ways of dealing with it than "everyone's a criminal, we're monitoring you, trust the computer, the computer is your friend."
Yup...that means I like the Windows Find applet. Sue me.
I remember back when NT could search the contents of files, instead of just file names. Someone was talking about it and just going on... Another person asked them what it was called, and the person replied "search." The reply?
"search, huh, that's an odd name for grep."
Of course, having lots of small programs that do one thing and do it well and piping them together however I want is the power and strength of *NIX command prompt, something a GUI can never give you...
In the US as I understand it, you have to pay for everything yourself or by an insurance. Those who can't afford an insurance are in a very bad situation.
Yes, as someone without health insurance in the US, I can't get sick, or I will become bankrupt.
However, emergency rooms still must take me in and treat me regardless of my ability to pay, if I get injured in a car then car insurance covers it, if I get injured at work then workers compensation covers it. So it's not like if I get hit by a car while walking everyone has to leave me by the side of the road while I bleed to death.
1st, there are(/should be) ways to see if someone is doing something they're not supposed to without monitoring. Sort of like how an employer shouldn't wiretap all the phones, the boss should pay attention to what his employees are doing, to see if they are spending hours every day talking to friends.
2nd, what about if someone is looking up something during say, a lunch break. Or during mandatory paid break time. (in Oregon, the law requires something like 1 15-min paid break for every 4 hours working)
There are, of course, things that should and should not be done. If your entire office is on one DSL link, don't be downloading ISOs etc. It's called common sense, and everyone should use it.
do you think that businesses sell cars to poor people and DON'T MAKE MONEY OFF THEM?!
I think the poster was saying that they don't make as much of a profit per car selling on the lower end vs the higher end. If there was not as much profit on the higer end, they may have to charge more on the lower end to make all their shareholders happy.
So I think that you're both talking about the same thing, only he wasn't being a specific and precise.
recent studies found that freedom of speech is the most cherished right of most Americans. The same studies also found that Americans were often more then happy to try to silence discenting opinions.
Person 1: "Freedom of speach is the most important right we have"
Person 2: "No, I think..."
Person 1: "EVIL FIEND! You will say that freedom of speach is the most important right we have or say nothing at all!"
I was reading this, and then I thought of Mozilla's usually unused (by me) sidebar. Could something like this be a sidebar-type thingy. If the site has comments, you can read them in a sidebar. This wouldn't change the content of the page at all...
they should not be expected to provide support for any non-MS software preloaded by the OEM.
If I remember correctly, they don't even support MS software on an OEM machine. If you have a problem with Windows on your OEM machine, you call that OEM for support.
Isn't it time digital authograps (PGP signatures or whatever) are necessary for online activities?
Well,
this article talks about how digital signatures are not really the same as written signatures (and the article was even
discussed on/. Very interesting article.
In Eugene, EWEB (the Eugene Water and Eletric board) recently got permission in a vote to provide telecommunication services. They already had huge amounts of fiber going between substations and thier headquarters.
Along those lines, EWEB sees the business advantages for a high-speed connection to its customers and thinks that by installing a community-wide, broadband system two objectives could be achieved: The first would be the completion of the customer-utility connection. The second would be the creation of a community-owned system that would be accessible to all citizens and would increase the information transporation capabilities of the community.
(from http://www.eweb.org/telecom/index.html)
Nothing irritates me more than the assumption of northeasterners and west coast residents that anyone living in between those two regions is a 'bum hick yokel'.
Try coming from Oregon and get things like "Where's that" ("above california...." "ohhh....") or "Are you a lumberjack or an Indian?" (yes, I have gotten that question from someone on the East Coast... in person... and yes I am 6'4" tall, blonde and pasty white.)
If it isn't released on Vinly it probably is some pop bullshit that isn't meant to last (or be good anyway)
Well, how about The Angeles String Quartet (who just released the complete Haydn String Quartets on 21 CDs), or how about independant bands who aren't on labels yet? A lot of them are good, and it's a lot cheaper to make your own CD than your own Vinyl.
Look, I hate all the copy-protection crap just as much as the next guy, but don't try to be pompus about 'get vinyl.' It isn't an option in 99% of cases, and there is a lot of good stuff that isn't coming out on it.
But the point is that it will be reduced (to only people who, for example, knwo what D/A A/D means, which I assure you is a minority). As far as the RIAA is concerned, that's a big win.
How is this a big win? There was that one crap^W country CD that was released non-protected in Australia and it's all over Gnutella etc now. All it takes is one guy who makes a really good copy, and it's all over, because it's digitally copied over and over and shared everywhere after that.
but nobody wants to use something where they are made to feel stupid when they first sit down and use it
You've never seen someone who has little to no computer experience sit down in front of a Windows or Mac have you? I work in a university computer lab, and people are always saying "I'm so stupid" etc.
People have to learn to use a computer, any computer. However, the longer you use computers, the easier it is to use things you don't usually use. I can solve programs in Claris Works even though I never use it, because I am willing to poke around and see what I can do, when someone who haven't used computers as long aren't comfortable with that.
3) People are convinced their old P-133 running Win95 retail on 16Mb RAM is enough for surfing
It is if you run linux and surfing with links or lynx. Actually i'm doing it on a p100 with 16mb.
I got a p100 w/ 16mb RAM when I first came to college (96). I still use it. I had it on the university's ethenet for 2 years, and it worked just fine for me. And that is with running Win9x (95 upgraded later to 98)
So, yes, I'm convinced that a P133 with Win95 retail on 16MB of ram is enough for surfing, I've done it on less:-) (and don't get me started with using Mosaic on win 3.1 on a 486 years ago)
And now for something completely different. Did the orig. poster I quoted really mean 16 Megabits of ram? I'm assuming you meant 16MB
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Microsoft has always touted the user interface of Windows NT as a selling feature, implying even a rank idiot could operate a Windows NT server (and many do) someone's reply:
But by this logic Unix has an inherent failure in letting any idiot do rm -r when they've just backed up one level from a symlink, and trashed a vital directory structure!
Who ever said that the Un*x CLUI was user-friendly and usable by idiots? Anybody who has should be slapped. So, if being user-friendly is a selling point, it should be user friendly.
Well, there is a related thing that doesn't have the privacy stuff, doesn't have people trying to read their cell phones while driving, and helps to clear up traffic. It's called NextBus (www.nextbus.com for the paranoid).
Basically, GPS transmitters on buses and trains to give you positions and time until arrivals via the web, your cell phone, pagers, etc. I know that Tri-Met is going to be using it for the new Portland Steetcar.
In the UK, I believe they already have CCTV cameras on major motorways to read people's license plates, track their average speed and issue electronic tickets automatically.
We have this in Oregon now. It's only allowed in 2 cities (sort of a pilot project that's been going on for 6 or 7 years). The things aren't permament, they're just vans that they park on the side of the road with a regular radar gun connected to a camera. The cop sets the speed (usually 5-10 MPH over the limit) and it takes pictures and mails out tickets if the speed it captures is over it's limit. There are ways of appealing.
They also just started using red-light cameras, where they put cameras on the poles holding up traffic lights. If you run the red, it takes your picture.
And now for something completely different... my friends from South Africa say they call Traffic lights 'robots' there.
He later decided to use the same world for LOTR in order to create a new mythology.
Umm... he started creating the mythology way before LOTR, or even the Hobbit were written. Pieces were being put together and he placed these 2 stories inside of them. The Hobbit just was the first story to get published.
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What's the difference between my boss listening to me talk on the phone by standing near me and installing a wire tap? What about if I have some good reason for doing something, not just being some statistic. If a boss is looking over your shoulder, they may understand _why_ you are doing something. The fact that according to statistics you contacted a porn site 3 months ago can get you fired, even though that porn site was a re-direct from another site that was one letter off of some other site that _was_ business related.
I'd love to see the rule that says your employer is required to allow you to surf the web and use their network while you are on break.
Well, at _my_ job I'm allowed to browse the web whenever I like, or read a book etc. If nobody is asking for my help, I can do pretty much whatever I want. But my job isn't like most, so I wasn't trying to be specific to me. I'm at work right now, and my boss is very happy to let me read /.
I'm not saying that an employer sould be _required_ to let someone browse the web on break, but I think it's a good idea. You have a break, you decide you want to look up something, so you do it. It's called employee morale.
At least come up with some real arguments.
See above, employee morale sinks if the employees think bosses are checking up on every little thing they do. If there seems to be a problem, there are other ways of dealing with it than "everyone's a criminal, we're monitoring you, trust the computer, the computer is your friend."
I remember back when NT could search the contents of files, instead of just file names. Someone was talking about it and just going on... Another person asked them what it was called, and the person replied "search." The reply?
"search, huh, that's an odd name for grep."
Of course, having lots of small programs that do one thing and do it well and piping them together however I want is the power and strength of *NIX command prompt, something a GUI can never give you...
Yes, as someone without health insurance in the US, I can't get sick, or I will become bankrupt.
However, emergency rooms still must take me in and treat me regardless of my ability to pay, if I get injured in a car then car insurance covers it, if I get injured at work then workers compensation covers it. So it's not like if I get hit by a car while walking everyone has to leave me by the side of the road while I bleed to death.
2nd, what about if someone is looking up something during say, a lunch break. Or during mandatory paid break time. (in Oregon, the law requires something like 1 15-min paid break for every 4 hours working)
There are, of course, things that should and should not be done. If your entire office is on one DSL link, don't be downloading ISOs etc. It's called common sense, and everyone should use it.
I think the poster was saying that they don't make as much of a profit per car selling on the lower end vs the higher end. If there was not as much profit on the higer end, they may have to charge more on the lower end to make all their shareholders happy.
So I think that you're both talking about the same thing, only he wasn't being a specific and precise.
Yes, but are you willing to pay 10% more to go from warp 7 to warp 8? How much is that increase in speed worth to you? *eg*
Person 1: "Freedom of speach is the most important right we have"
Person 2: "No, I think..."
Person 1: "EVIL FIEND! You will say that freedom of speach is the most important right we have or say nothing at all!"
I was reading this, and then I thought of Mozilla's usually unused (by me) sidebar. Could something like this be a sidebar-type thingy. If the site has comments, you can read them in a sidebar. This wouldn't change the content of the page at all...
If I remember correctly, they don't even support MS software on an OEM machine. If you have a problem with Windows on your OEM machine, you call that OEM for support.
Well, this article talks about how digital signatures are not really the same as written signatures (and the article was even discussed on /. Very interesting article.
yet.
p.s - most companies?!?
You said "country singer" and "nice songs." Aren't these mutually exclusive?
Try coming from Oregon and get things like "Where's that" ("above california...." "ohhh....") or "Are you a lumberjack or an Indian?" (yes, I have gotten that question from someone on the East Coast... in person... and yes I am 6'4" tall, blonde and pasty white.)
Well, how about The Angeles String Quartet (who just released the complete Haydn String Quartets on 21 CDs), or how about independant bands who aren't on labels yet? A lot of them are good, and it's a lot cheaper to make your own CD than your own Vinyl.
Look, I hate all the copy-protection crap just as much as the next guy, but don't try to be pompus about 'get vinyl.' It isn't an option in 99% of cases, and there is a lot of good stuff that isn't coming out on it.
How is this a big win? There was that one crap^W country CD that was released non-protected in Australia and it's all over Gnutella etc now. All it takes is one guy who makes a really good copy, and it's all over, because it's digitally copied over and over and shared everywhere after that.
You've never seen someone who has little to no computer experience sit down in front of a Windows or Mac have you? I work in a university computer lab, and people are always saying "I'm so stupid" etc.
People have to learn to use a computer, any computer. However, the longer you use computers, the easier it is to use things you don't usually use. I can solve programs in Claris Works even though I never use it, because I am willing to poke around and see what I can do, when someone who haven't used computers as long aren't comfortable with that.
It is if you run linux and surfing with links or lynx. Actually i'm doing it on a p100 with 16mb.
I got a p100 w/ 16mb RAM when I first came to college (96). I still use it. I had it on the university's ethenet for 2 years, and it worked just fine for me. And that is with running Win9x (95 upgraded later to 98)
So, yes, I'm convinced that a P133 with Win95 retail on 16MB of ram is enough for surfing, I've done it on less :-) (and don't get me started with using Mosaic on win 3.1 on a 486 years ago)
And now for something completely different. Did the orig. poster I quoted really mean 16 Megabits of ram? I'm assuming you meant 16MB
someone's reply: But by this logic Unix has an inherent failure in letting any idiot do rm -r when they've just backed up one level from a symlink, and trashed a vital directory structure!
Who ever said that the Un*x CLUI was user-friendly and usable by idiots? Anybody who has should be slapped. So, if being user-friendly is a selling point, it should be user friendly.
(and each one costs 2 arms and 1.5 legs).
Basically, GPS transmitters on buses and trains to give you positions and time until arrivals via the web, your cell phone, pagers, etc. I know that Tri-Met is going to be using it for the new Portland Steetcar.
We have this in Oregon now. It's only allowed in 2 cities (sort of a pilot project that's been going on for 6 or 7 years). The things aren't permament, they're just vans that they park on the side of the road with a regular radar gun connected to a camera. The cop sets the speed (usually 5-10 MPH over the limit) and it takes pictures and mails out tickets if the speed it captures is over it's limit. There are ways of appealing.
They also just started using red-light cameras, where they put cameras on the poles holding up traffic lights. If you run the red, it takes your picture.
And now for something completely different... my friends from South Africa say they call Traffic lights 'robots' there.
Utterly disgusting, and struggling to not retch after a drop hits your mouth?
Umm... he started creating the mythology way before LOTR, or even the Hobbit were written. Pieces were being put together and he placed these 2 stories inside of them. The Hobbit just was the first story to get published.
Actually, Paul was a whiny little bitch early on in the book...