Everyone who is posting suggestions is actually being useful. These are called 'Ideas' and the original poster can read these 'ideas' and see if something suitable comes to mind. It may also provide him with the valuable insight after researching these solutions that maybe he in fact does need a network admin.
It's also possible one of the solutions offered will actually suit his needs. He may not require slashdots "help" in any form, he may simply just reaching out to see if there is something he hasn't thought of yet. Communal advice and information. Welcome to the digital age.
For all you know he could be an exceptionally skilled network admin and more advanced than the people around him so a conversation with them may have a lower chance of yielding results, so he thought he'd throw it out there and see if anyone with knowledge would come forward and offer some ideas.
Being thorough doesn't mean you're "screwed" because you're at the point where you "need" help from people who browse slashdot.
You may have the same options as anyone else, you may not get the same results. Upbringing, interests, what you do in your spare time, how your particular mind works, and what's important to you.
Working with computers doesn't put you at the height of the social food chain. I find that many women are very concerned with this. Its been my experience. Not all the women I've seen / met / know are like this, but statistically in my life they are worried about it.
Don't blame men because some women wants to take a selfie instead of take an info tech job and interests. You know why they have that geek image for men in the IT field? Because they're focused on what they love vs being super socially popular and having a fantastic image for everyone to be jealous about, and they don't care to show that. Some men, anyway, not all.
But you get my point. And you know what else? It's changing. More and more, women are figuring out they really can be interested in these things and let their life passion be in that field.
I've had them call my parents before and sadly my mother let them on.
My parents of course, had me setup my own remote connection to the PC long before so that I can help with technical problems easily.
So the scammer happened to actively be on the computer system still, as I was called after the call ended with the scammer, as they were trying to get money from my parents, which most definitely not about to occur.
Anyway, I connected in and naturally the scammer didn't disconnect. We exchanged a few words of bravado while he tried to tell me he had more control of the system than I did. As to which I ensured I got the last word in before dropping his ass into oblivion, because, yeah, no. I think not. His shitty little service were one of those if you move the mouse he loses control, and my remote program didn't have that functionality. I assure you fun ensued prior to me disconnecting him.
Wish these folks were local, I'd like to do bad things to them.
Okay, fighting the flu may spread it. So does taking public transportation and being around people in general.
Also whenever I buy gas I increase the demand for it assisting in rising costs for others
Same thing when I purchase groceries too, what about those poor families? I should buy less groceries so prices may go down a bit.
My gas and electric bills have the same effect. When I heat my house it increases a demand for these utilities which means my neighbors
Will potentially have to pay more as well due to increase in demand.
If it's not dramatically affecting people, I'm going to do things to help me survive, and other people will be affected, just as they affect me
Step 1 - Bitlocker etc. Encrypt your drive. They will not spend the resources decrypting it, and cannot force you to give up passwords
to things without a court order.
Step 2 - Pay for a server located in a country that you trust (as much as possible anyway) and sync or store files there.
Accessing things you need when you need them instead of always carrying them around.
If step 2 is an issue for you due to wanting access to content while without internet, see step 1.
Now if you are actually doing something terrible and have incriminating files on your computer, if they really want them, encryption won't do it.
But depending what it is I believe these people should be caught.
However encrypting your drive and putting on a password will be enough to stave off random searches for no reason of normal crap
Like family photos etc, it won't be enough for them to put in the resources to get access to it..
I summed up why I would want one. I personally don't want and or need a smart phone.
Maybe for you, you shouldn't get a stand alone one if you were going to get two data plans, and just one phone with a smart watch addon
Or not get one at all, since I don't think it works for you. You probably need to check your facebook every five minutes to make sure everyone
still thinks you're cool.
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I also said for those who did need a smart phone, the screen on your wrist could be handy to see if you even want to answer a call etc, without pulling
out your phone. The rest of us who only need to really use it for communication and display light information it's great.
So...we're all focused on the power jobs. The money makers, the prestige. Everyone pretends it's about fairness and equality.
It's, it's really not. It's just finding more ways personally to gain an advantage by your gender. Regardless of what side of the fence you're on.
When's the last time a fem group went after a construction company and demanded more female pipe layers? More female ditch diggers?
More females in hard labor? Or Sewage jobs? Garbage disposal? Security guards? Street Cleaners? Truck Drivers? Roofers? Welders?
This has absolutely nothing to do with equality. It's just a regular human (Notice that the word human encompasses humans, regardless of gender?) power grab
and using any means shamelessly. >
The worst part for me is that even though I know exactly what this is, I can't be against it, because there still is women with high potential or proven skills that have been ignored.
So although I believe the stated motives are crap, in the end I do think it addresses some problems for equality as a side effect.
Gentlemen, please do your best to not discriminate, so we can stop having special interest groups (Encompassing groups beyond feminists) muck around for
power grabs unfairly and oppressing people not part of that special interest group in the name of equality. it shames human kind to let it continue.
I don't need a giant screen for simple text messages. If it's a large conversation worth that would be very difficult to type on one single small screen, I'd just call the person. I don't intend to write an email from it.
Yes, I was imaging using a blue tooth device paired to it. I did think this through, you may not have.
Ever use a speaker phone before? If it's an important quick call, it can be handy, ideally not used in areas where having a conversation
on the phone where 3rd parties can hear the conversation is an issue. Say you're just out walking and buddy calls you. You can
just pick it up, have a quick chat, where are you, oh, I'm here walking over to X store or whatever. Alright, meet you there.
Personally I'd rather hold my arm up like looking at the time for a few seconds than a phone to my ear.
Obviously for more private conversations you'd want to use your blue tooth device and be somewhere you're not disturbing people.
Plus I think it would be quite convenient for reading quick text messages.
What's also nice is that you can pair it with a phone if you need a bigger device for extended text messaging and other features.
The real boon is having a display on your arm that is easy to look at, instead of digging your phone out to see who is calling or texting.
My personal experience with my phone in my pocket or a case is it falling out, into water, or just on concrete. Getting scratched and damaged
Or just pressure from being in pockets damaging the touch screen etc.
Honestly until I saw this, my next phone was going to be as old styled as possible, hopefully no touch screen etc.
My current phone is touch screen and it's going, but it doesn't do smart phone stuff, doesn't run android etc
Means I don't facebook or do data from it, I charge it once every week or two weeks, I text and phone from it, and it works good.
So maybe not for everyone, but for me, a functional stand alone watch phone would be great.
I've wanted something like this since I was a kid. Something incredibly useful, portable, does many functions, even phone calls, from a watch? Hell yeah I'll buy one.
Someone mentioned heat and games. I don't want to play games on it.
I want to text, make phone calls, maybe pictures / video, and get information on it. Like news or directions. It shouldn't heat up too much with that barring the
video.
Technology has been useful, and it has been convenient for the task it's replacing/performing. However it is rarely convenient to carry with you all the time.
Priceless.
I didn't know about this! I've been the IT career for most of my career life!
I tried it today and it blew my mind! I first went around showing all my co-workers this. They were super amazed and thought I was extra smart!
They told my manager how incredibly smart I am and I gained +1 to salary! Thank you Slashdot!
Now all the cute blondes at work worship me to! Knowing this has made me more attractive and successful, and gets me laid!
Please post more articles like this, a few more and I will be the CEO of a major corporation by being the super office hero guy.
Okay. NYC was purely an arbitary example.
I do not know where the NSA would route connections, should they decide or are able to route connections.
It's entirely possible that it could be in space, and that was sub-optimal as you were not trying to communicate with a server located in space.
And I didn't say all VPN's. I said, traffic from an IP address. It's possible that he is actually being targeted. Maybe they don't really care, and are just looking because someone used that IP previously or who knows.
Also lots of thinks are technically possible. Viruses, botnets etc, can do a lot.
This is guess work though. There are content that is sent out freely. Such as porn - There is plenty of free porn on the internet, from different providers of porn.
Some videos are restricted to their site only, others are released for promotional reasons.
There is no way for the average citizen to know if these are content that is permitted to be hosted by anyone (Often including a banner for that site)) or
if you're watching it without permission / authorization.
Therefore porn being uploaded doesn't automatically come with the gumption that it's illegal and you have a decent understanding that these particular files
are copyrighted and not authorized to be distributed.
If you're about to say 'Well, you may be allowed to watch, but not distribute' - You made an error when using a peer protocol which sole purpose is to have multiple peers distribute content, which you should of been well aware that the method this distribution platform uses relies on other users distributing pieces as they download it actively.
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Actually that's not entirely true.
You're basing it on an entirely technical stand point of 'If I have control over this device, do I need it to slow down the internet as a side effect of me capturing their packets'
The answer is no. The issue is when a targets traffic is not routed through the most ideal pathway and through devices you do not control to capture packets. Or the device itself does not have the ability to do it. An example would be a major node where a ton of traffic goes through, it may not be practical for routing reasons for it to sift and record a specific IP's traffic, or all etc.
What you might be able to do, is route that specific IP's traffic somewhere else, which then records the packet and forwards it onto it's destination.
Man in the middle attack. The problem you run into is that your network path is no longer optimal, which leaves you getting latency issues. Although
not directly due to the recording of the packets, but due to the altered pathway to direct your traffic. If a recording server is in new york, and you live
in california, and connect to a california service, you may notice a delay if it gets routed to new york first.
I don't think your analogy is quite right for the gas fire one.
By uploading the actual bit torrent file, that is your permission file. People are unable to download the torrent without that torrent file.
So when you uploaded that file linking it your files, you permitted the connection to download files.
Given the nature of the torrent protocol, you cannot say that I used bittorrent for the purpose of a direct download to users who
directly connected to me only without understanding that during the process due to the nature of bittorrent that
other users would also receive parts of that file from other users.
Gina Kensington was sacked by Air New Zealand earlier this year following a dispute over sick leave she took to care for her sister.
Factual statements we have is that they disputed her sick leave. She was let go. She disputed the firing.
What I said is just a likely scenario as to what may have triggered the dispute. It's entirely possible they just said we're not going to take your word for it, you need to provide us with proof that you were caring for your sick sister and she may not have.
The decision to fire her may not have come from someone simply saying she went on vacation.
It's entirely possible that they only doubted her word and asked for proof after someone said something. Then when she failed to provide
proof is when they let her go.
Actually no I go to another country to purchase the same item licensed in Canada for more money which is cheaper in the US. The laws we are required to follow, even if the object is only licensed in the US is that we have to pay taxes on purchases depending on our stay.
The laws you're speaking off are for resale purposes, importing for the sake of selling. You may not be licensed to distribute that product in another country However you may purchase personal possessions in other countries and bring them home. This is why there is such a huge issue over hardware and license rights, people telling you how you can use the product you purchased.
Licenses for software correspond to the laws of the country of origin and the laws the respected citizens must follow. E.G If you're a US citizen, and your product is licensed in the US, you may purchase it and use it in other countries. The purchase is considered to be done in the US following US laws and taxes given that you're a US citizen.
While visiting the US you're also allowed to purchase software not as a US citizen and make use of the software outside of the country. The sale still happened in the US and governed by US laws.
If you live in the UK or other countries, in order to purchase software you often need a US address with credit card or it has to be set for international sales.to follow the rules correctly.
The issue is that there are legit files torrented. PB has been host to them, as the promo bay and so fourth. So since the only distinction between illegally downloading and distributed copyrighted content without authorization is when people without authorization upload the content, then other people download the content and continue to distribute it.
So if an authorized person uploaded content to other users, those users didn't do anything wrong. You can't actively upload files to people and then turn around, sue them saying you're not allowed. If they permitted that then it's not a crime, it's a new business model, and I'll get right on suing you for reading this content without approval or authorization even though I posted it online to slash dot you're not authorized to view it.
In order to "upload the files" there is no passively seeing who downloads them. Downloading a.torrent file itself isn't illegal.
The torrent file links you to someone who has the files in question, and that person actively uploads them to you.
So what has happened is the copyright holder posted a link to their files on one of their computers, and actively uploaded the files to several users, who in turn uploaded them to more users.
Prenda directly uploaded their copyrighted material to users who requested it. This is not a passive function. This would be the same if you walked into a store, and the owner pulled a book off the shelf, walked out side and handed it to a stranger. Said nothing, and walked back inside. Then phoned the police and said you didn't have permission to have that book from their store.
Prenda, should they have done this, circumvented all password and user functions to protect their content, and uploaded it freely to those who requested it. It would be like if you fell on a webpage looking for content, and it started playing in the video box, then they sued you for not signing in / paying for their content.
You've clearly never had a problem at work or been caught for something you said etc,and asked, 'Who told you that?'
They won't tell you. It's common practice to protect people so they're not discouraged from mentioning anything. On top of that, who is someone vs the company? The company isn't a life form. (Metaphorically maybe) but that means someone in that office, said I think you're doing this. You're fired.
She claims she wasn't. So they said prove it. Back to my previous winning statement?
If anything the CIA operates facebook, not posts on it.
But you know what? You could be right, except it's not a wide speculation. It's a common speculation. Frequently, when people are busted for something at work it occurs through probably 3 main methods.
1. Someone saw you do it / found out from you that you did it. 2. You were caught / revealed on Camera 3. Audit of records / changes / logging shows an issue.
So given the nature of the incident, the logical speculation to fall within would be number 1. Number 2 does not apply to this situation (At least not by a work related camera, maybe a personal one uploading pictures to FB) Number 3 does not apply.
It would be like if you got up in the morning, and saw your car window was smashed out, change missing.from the cupholder. Did someone accidentally smash the window, and the change fell out of the car? Was it tipped over on the side, change fell out when the window touched a rock when tipped?
Or someone busted your window to steal the change out of the car. It's possible that's not what happened, since you didn't see it happen.
But it's a reasonable speculation without evidence, not out of this world like you're suggesting.
If you think it's okay for them to out their informant and prove where they got the information from, is also risking the privacy of the whistle blower.
I'm confident that is where the information came from. How is it okay to deprive the person reporting the fraud of privacy to avoid retribution and other people who may commit fraud to target or deliberate alienate themselves from this person for holding to honesty and values and chooses not to participate silently in a company being ripped off? (Not saying companies haven't ripped people off before, but two wrongs do not make a right)
The company fired her, believing she committed a fraudulent act. If you are being accused of doing something wrong, you are required to prove that you didn't. Therefore, she needs to prove she did not take a vacation instead.
It's the same thing as when a company requires you to obtain a note from a doctor proving that you were sick for the time that you claim. Failure to provide proof for claims of time off are reason for dismissal.
People simply forget - proving you took time off for the correct reasons are necessary because you are asking the company for paid time off etc. So it lands on your lap to prove that it was justified.
Would you try and sue the IRS because they decided to investigate your tax claims and request receipts, and you turn around and say, well, what proof do you have that you should do an investigation on me in the first place? Even if you do not have the receipts and have committed fraud?
Of course not, that sounds silly! So does demanding a company prove they had proof of a fraudulent activity prior to dismissing you especially when you did actually commit the fraudulent activity
In Canada they cannot fire you without reason. They must follow a system of write ups to correct problems, and after so many they may terminate you with sufficent cause, or you can potentially fight it.
Often they will lay you off instead so people are less inclined to fight it as they have EI as a backup until they find a new job. In theory you can fight the lay off as well. Examples would be in cases when they hire new staff to fill your position after you leave without notfiying you and giving you an opportunity to return to work.
The other caveat is if they give you severance pay they can let you go. Depending how long you've worked there will entitle you additional weeks of pay after termination.
Someone tipped them off that she wasn't caring for her sister and was using it like a vacation. To what extent we don't know. An argument of 'I was smart and there's no way you could have known what I was up to, so you can't have fired me for that' is exceptionally child like.idea.
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Everyone who is posting suggestions is actually being useful. These are called 'Ideas' and the original poster can read these 'ideas' and see if something suitable comes to mind. It may also provide him with the valuable insight after researching these solutions that maybe he in fact does need a network admin.
It's also possible one of the solutions offered will actually suit his needs. He may not require slashdots "help" in any form, he may simply just reaching out to see if there is something he hasn't thought of yet. Communal advice and information. Welcome to the digital age.
For all you know he could be an exceptionally skilled network admin and more advanced than the people around him so a conversation with them may have a lower chance of yielding results, so he thought he'd throw it out there and see if anyone with knowledge would come forward and offer some ideas.
Being thorough doesn't mean you're "screwed" because you're at the point where you "need" help from people who browse slashdot.
I've used cacti to monitor servers before, works quite well.
Supports many SNMP functions, easy to setup.
Equal opportunity doesn't mean equal result.
You may have the same options as anyone else, you may not get the same results. Upbringing, interests, what you do in your spare time, how your particular mind works, and what's important to you.
Working with computers doesn't put you at the height of the social food chain. I find that many women are very concerned with this. Its been my experience.
Not all the women I've seen / met / know are like this, but statistically in my life they are worried about it.
Don't blame men because some women wants to take a selfie instead of take an info tech job and interests.
You know why they have that geek image for men in the IT field? Because they're focused on what they love vs being super socially popular and having a fantastic image for everyone to be jealous about, and they don't care to show that.
Some men, anyway, not all.
But you get my point. And you know what else? It's changing. More and more, women are figuring out they really can be interested in these things and let their life passion be in that field.
It's not all our fault these days though.
I've had them call my parents before and sadly my mother let them on. My parents of course, had me setup my own remote connection to the PC long before so that I can help with technical problems easily. So the scammer happened to actively be on the computer system still, as I was called after the call ended with the scammer, as they were trying to get money from my parents, which most definitely not about to occur. Anyway, I connected in and naturally the scammer didn't disconnect. We exchanged a few words of bravado while he tried to tell me he had more control of the system than I did. As to which I ensured I got the last word in before dropping his ass into oblivion, because, yeah, no. I think not. His shitty little service were one of those if you move the mouse he loses control, and my remote program didn't have that functionality. I assure you fun ensued prior to me disconnecting him. Wish these folks were local, I'd like to do bad things to them.
Okay, fighting the flu may spread it. So does taking public transportation and being around people in general. Also whenever I buy gas I increase the demand for it assisting in rising costs for others Same thing when I purchase groceries too, what about those poor families? I should buy less groceries so prices may go down a bit. My gas and electric bills have the same effect. When I heat my house it increases a demand for these utilities which means my neighbors Will potentially have to pay more as well due to increase in demand. If it's not dramatically affecting people, I'm going to do things to help me survive, and other people will be affected, just as they affect me
Step 1 - Bitlocker etc. Encrypt your drive. They will not spend the resources decrypting it, and cannot force you to give up passwords to things without a court order. Step 2 - Pay for a server located in a country that you trust (as much as possible anyway) and sync or store files there. Accessing things you need when you need them instead of always carrying them around. If step 2 is an issue for you due to wanting access to content while without internet, see step 1. Now if you are actually doing something terrible and have incriminating files on your computer, if they really want them, encryption won't do it. But depending what it is I believe these people should be caught. However encrypting your drive and putting on a password will be enough to stave off random searches for no reason of normal crap Like family photos etc, it won't be enough for them to put in the resources to get access to it..
I summed up why I would want one. I personally don't want and or need a smart phone.
Maybe for you, you shouldn't get a stand alone one if you were going to get two data plans, and just one phone with a smart watch addon
Or not get one at all, since I don't think it works for you. You probably need to check your facebook every five minutes to make sure everyone
still thinks you're cool.
. I also said for those who did need a smart phone, the screen on your wrist could be handy to see if you even want to answer a call etc, without pulling
out your phone. The rest of us who only need to really use it for communication and display light information it's great.
So...we're all focused on the power jobs. The money makers, the prestige. Everyone pretends it's about fairness and equality.
It's, it's really not. It's just finding more ways personally to gain an advantage by your gender. Regardless of what side of the fence you're on.
When's the last time a fem group went after a construction company and demanded more female pipe layers? More female ditch diggers?
More females in hard labor? Or Sewage jobs? Garbage disposal? Security guards? Street Cleaners? Truck Drivers? Roofers? Welders?
This has absolutely nothing to do with equality. It's just a regular human (Notice that the word human encompasses humans, regardless of gender?) power grab and using any means shamelessly.
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The worst part for me is that even though I know exactly what this is, I can't be against it, because there still is women with high potential or proven skills that have been ignored.
So although I believe the stated motives are crap, in the end I do think it addresses some problems for equality as a side effect.
Gentlemen, please do your best to not discriminate, so we can stop having special interest groups (Encompassing groups beyond feminists) muck around for
power grabs unfairly and oppressing people not part of that special interest group in the name of equality. it shames human kind to let it continue.
I don't need a giant screen for simple text messages. If it's a large conversation worth that would be very difficult to type on one single small screen, I'd just call the person. I don't intend to write an email from it.
Yes, I was imaging using a blue tooth device paired to it. I did think this through, you may not have.
Ever use a speaker phone before? If it's an important quick call, it can be handy, ideally not used in areas where having a conversation
on the phone where 3rd parties can hear the conversation is an issue. Say you're just out walking and buddy calls you. You can
just pick it up, have a quick chat, where are you, oh, I'm here walking over to X store or whatever. Alright, meet you there.
Personally I'd rather hold my arm up like looking at the time for a few seconds than a phone to my ear.
Obviously for more private conversations you'd want to use your blue tooth device and be somewhere you're not disturbing people.
Plus I think it would be quite convenient for reading quick text messages.
What's also nice is that you can pair it with a phone if you need a bigger device for extended text messaging and other features.
The real boon is having a display on your arm that is easy to look at, instead of digging your phone out to see who is calling or texting.
My personal experience with my phone in my pocket or a case is it falling out, into water, or just on concrete. Getting scratched and damaged
Or just pressure from being in pockets damaging the touch screen etc.
Honestly until I saw this, my next phone was going to be as old styled as possible, hopefully no touch screen etc.
My current phone is touch screen and it's going, but it doesn't do smart phone stuff, doesn't run android etc
Means I don't facebook or do data from it, I charge it once every week or two weeks, I text and phone from it, and it works good.
So maybe not for everyone, but for me, a functional stand alone watch phone would be great.
I've wanted something like this since I was a kid. Something incredibly useful, portable, does many functions, even phone calls, from a watch? Hell yeah I'll buy one. Someone mentioned heat and games. I don't want to play games on it. I want to text, make phone calls, maybe pictures / video, and get information on it. Like news or directions. It shouldn't heat up too much with that barring the video. Technology has been useful, and it has been convenient for the task it's replacing/performing. However it is rarely convenient to carry with you all the time. Priceless.
This article made me click my own sig.
I didn't know about this! I've been the IT career for most of my career life!
I tried it today and it blew my mind! I first went around showing all my co-workers this. They were super amazed and thought I was extra smart!
They told my manager how incredibly smart I am and I gained +1 to salary! Thank you Slashdot!
Now all the cute blondes at work worship me to! Knowing this has made me more attractive and successful, and gets me laid!
Please post more articles like this, a few more and I will be the CEO of a major corporation by being the super office hero guy.
Okay. NYC was purely an arbitary example. I do not know where the NSA would route connections, should they decide or are able to route connections. It's entirely possible that it could be in space, and that was sub-optimal as you were not trying to communicate with a server located in space. And I didn't say all VPN's. I said, traffic from an IP address. It's possible that he is actually being targeted. Maybe they don't really care, and are just looking because someone used that IP previously or who knows. Also lots of thinks are technically possible. Viruses, botnets etc, can do a lot.
This is guess work though. There are content that is sent out freely. Such as porn - There is plenty of free porn on the internet, from different providers of porn. Some videos are restricted to their site only, others are released for promotional reasons. There is no way for the average citizen to know if these are content that is permitted to be hosted by anyone (Often including a banner for that site)) or if you're watching it without permission / authorization. Therefore porn being uploaded doesn't automatically come with the gumption that it's illegal and you have a decent understanding that these particular files are copyrighted and not authorized to be distributed. If you're about to say 'Well, you may be allowed to watch, but not distribute' - You made an error when using a peer protocol which sole purpose is to have multiple peers distribute content, which you should of been well aware that the method this distribution platform uses relies on other users distributing pieces as they download it actively. \
Actually that's not entirely true. You're basing it on an entirely technical stand point of 'If I have control over this device, do I need it to slow down the internet as a side effect of me capturing their packets' The answer is no. The issue is when a targets traffic is not routed through the most ideal pathway and through devices you do not control to capture packets. Or the device itself does not have the ability to do it. An example would be a major node where a ton of traffic goes through, it may not be practical for routing reasons for it to sift and record a specific IP's traffic, or all etc. What you might be able to do, is route that specific IP's traffic somewhere else, which then records the packet and forwards it onto it's destination. Man in the middle attack. The problem you run into is that your network path is no longer optimal, which leaves you getting latency issues. Although not directly due to the recording of the packets, but due to the altered pathway to direct your traffic. If a recording server is in new york, and you live in california, and connect to a california service, you may notice a delay if it gets routed to new york first.
I don't think your analogy is quite right for the gas fire one.
By uploading the actual bit torrent file, that is your permission file. People are unable to download the torrent without that torrent file.
So when you uploaded that file linking it your files, you permitted the connection to download files.
Given the nature of the torrent protocol, you cannot say that I used bittorrent for the purpose of a direct download to users who
directly connected to me only without understanding that during the process due to the nature of bittorrent that
other users would also receive parts of that file from other users.
Gina Kensington was sacked by Air New Zealand earlier this year following a dispute over sick leave she took to care for her sister.
Factual statements we have is that they disputed her sick leave. She was let go. She disputed the firing.
What I said is just a likely scenario as to what may have triggered the dispute. It's entirely possible they just said we're not going to take your word for it, you need to provide us with proof that you were caring for your sick sister and she may not have.
The decision to fire her may not have come from someone simply saying she went on vacation.
It's entirely possible that they only doubted her word and asked for proof after someone said something. Then when she failed to provide
proof is when they let her go.
Actually no I go to another country to purchase the same item licensed in Canada for more money which is cheaper in the US. The laws we are required to follow, even if the object is only licensed in the US is that we have to pay taxes on purchases depending on our stay.
The laws you're speaking off are for resale purposes, importing for the sake of selling.
You may not be licensed to distribute that product in another country However you may purchase personal possessions in other countries and bring them home.
This is why there is such a huge issue over hardware and license rights, people telling you how you can use the product you purchased.
Licenses for software correspond to the laws of the country of origin and the laws the respected citizens must follow. E.G If you're a US citizen, and your product is licensed in the US, you may purchase it and use it in other countries. The purchase is considered to be done in the US following US laws and taxes given that you're a US citizen.
While visiting the US you're also allowed to purchase software not as a US citizen and make use of the software outside of the country. The sale still happened in the US and governed by US laws.
If you live in the UK or other countries, in order to purchase software you often need a US address with credit card or it has to be set for international sales.to follow the rules correctly.
The issue is that there are legit files torrented. PB has been host to them, as the promo bay and so fourth. So since the only distinction between illegally downloading and distributed copyrighted content without authorization is when people without authorization upload the content, then other people download the content and continue to distribute it.
So if an authorized person uploaded content to other users, those users didn't do anything wrong. You can't actively upload files to people and then turn around, sue them saying you're not allowed. If they permitted that then it's not a crime, it's a new business model, and I'll get right on suing you for reading this content without approval or authorization even though I posted it online to slash dot you're not authorized to view it.
Make sense when I put it that way?
You may not understand how a torrent works.
In order to "upload the files" there is no passively seeing who downloads them. .torrent file itself isn't illegal.
Downloading a
The torrent file links you to someone who has the files in question, and that person actively uploads them to you.
So what has happened is the copyright holder posted a link to their files on one of their computers, and actively uploaded the files to several users, who in turn uploaded them to more users.
Prenda directly uploaded their copyrighted material to users who requested it. This is not a passive function.
This would be the same if you walked into a store, and the owner pulled a book off the shelf, walked out side and handed it to a stranger.
Said nothing, and walked back inside. Then phoned the police and said you didn't have permission to have that book from their store.
Prenda, should they have done this, circumvented all password and user functions to protect their content, and uploaded it freely to those who requested it.
It would be like if you fell on a webpage looking for content, and it started playing in the video box, then they sued you for not signing in / paying for their content.
You've clearly never had a problem at work or been caught for something you said etc,and asked, 'Who told you that?'
They won't tell you. It's common practice to protect people so they're not discouraged from mentioning anything.
On top of that, who is someone vs the company? The company isn't a life form. (Metaphorically maybe) but that means
someone in that office, said I think you're doing this. You're fired.
She claims she wasn't. So they said prove it. Back to my previous winning statement?
If anything the CIA operates facebook, not posts on it.
But you know what? You could be right, except it's not a wide speculation. It's a common speculation. Frequently, when people
are busted for something at work it occurs through probably 3 main methods.
1. Someone saw you do it / found out from you that you did it.
2. You were caught / revealed on Camera
3. Audit of records / changes / logging shows an issue.
So given the nature of the incident, the logical speculation to fall within would be number 1.
Number 2 does not apply to this situation (At least not by a work related camera, maybe a personal one uploading pictures to FB)
Number 3 does not apply.
It would be like if you got up in the morning, and saw your car window was smashed out, change missing.from the cupholder.
Did someone accidentally smash the window, and the change fell out of the car?
Was it tipped over on the side, change fell out when the window touched a rock when tipped?
Or someone busted your window to steal the change out of the car.
It's possible that's not what happened, since you didn't see it happen.
But it's a reasonable speculation without evidence, not out of this world like you're suggesting.
If you think it's okay for them to out their informant and prove where they got the information from, is also risking the privacy of the whistle blower.
I'm confident that is where the information came from. How is it okay to deprive the person reporting the fraud of privacy to avoid retribution and other people who may commit fraud to target or deliberate alienate themselves from this person for holding to honesty and values and chooses not to participate silently in a company being ripped off? (Not saying companies haven't ripped people off before, but two wrongs do not make a right)
The company fired her, believing she committed a fraudulent act. If you are being accused of doing something wrong, you are required to prove that you didn't.
Therefore, she needs to prove she did not take a vacation instead.
It's the same thing as when a company requires you to obtain a note from a doctor proving that you were sick for the time that you claim.
Failure to provide proof for claims of time off are reason for dismissal.
People simply forget - proving you took time off for the correct reasons are necessary because you are asking the company for paid time off etc.
So it lands on your lap to prove that it was justified.
Would you try and sue the IRS because they decided to investigate your tax claims and request receipts, and you turn around and say, well, what proof do you have that you should do an investigation on me in the first place? Even if you do not have the receipts and have committed fraud?
Of course not, that sounds silly! So does demanding a company prove they had proof of a fraudulent activity prior to dismissing you especially when you did actually commit the fraudulent activity
In Canada they cannot fire you without reason. They must follow a system of write ups to correct problems, and after so many they may terminate you with sufficent cause, or you can potentially fight it.
Often they will lay you off instead so people are less inclined to fight it as they have EI as a backup until they find a new job.
In theory you can fight the lay off as well. Examples would be in cases when they hire new staff to fill your position after you leave without notfiying
you and giving you an opportunity to return to work.
The other caveat is if they give you severance pay they can let you go. Depending how long you've worked there will entitle you additional weeks of pay after termination.
Someone tipped them off that she wasn't caring for her sister and was using it like a vacation. To what extent we don't know.
An argument of 'I was smart and there's no way you could have known what I was up to, so you can't have fired me for that' is exceptionally child like.idea.