Exchange as used by the DOD has encryption, and use is transparent. You just click on the Options box that says "Encrypt e-mail" (and/or the one that says "Digitally sign"), hit 'send', and your private key is automagically pulled off your CAC and used to sign your e-mail, while the other guy's public key is pulled off the global directory and used to encrypt the e-mail before it goes. At the recepient's end, Exchange/Outlook automatically pulls my public key out of the global directory and uses it to check signature, and gets the recepient's private key off his CAC to decrypt the e-mail.
All each of us have to do is have our CAC stuck in the slot in the computer keyboard, which we had to do to log in in the first place, and check a box in 'Options'--which can be configured to be checked by default, so we don't even have to do that.
That's how you get encryption usable and used by everyone. That, and having senior authorities *require* that encryption/digital signing be used.
When you're employed, try living below your means and saving the surplus. Amazing how much less of a panic losing your job is when you have $10-20K socked away in a bank account. Now you have several months cushion to search for another job; you don't have to leap at the first thing that turns up, no matter how bad. You don't have to panic, and you don't have to live in fear at your current job that you might get laid-off unexpectedly.
Seriously, it's too useful to have a cash reserve for emergencies. Start a savings account.
Well, they could use in-game methods to keep the supply of Jedi low or at least 'special', like we did in tabletop D&D with PC drow characters: the authorities (Imperial, natch) try to kill you on sight, all the time.
My microwave oven doesn't run Linux, either, but it somehow manages to still be useful to me.
*whistles innocently*
Don't be too sure about that. I've worked on embedded systems on consumer devices, and you'd be amazed at what runs Linux these days. Hardware manufacturers really like NOT paying license fees & royalties for their embedded firmware.
The true reach of the Internet first came home to me in 1991, during the Persian Gulf War; I was playing on a MUD and one of the regulars there started talking about air raid sirens and that there were missiles coming down, that one had hit and the rest had been shot down...
He was in Israel, when Iraq launched the Scuds on Israel and we were getting real-time reports from him, before it hit the news in the U.S.
Sometimes the opposite is true. Cell phone works when landlines dont. I know this has been the case for several disasters. Turns out stringing wires all over the place can be fragile.
On the other hand, after hurricane Katrina, there was no cell phone service (hurricane winds knocked all the cell towers down in a huge swath) and no land-line service (phone lines down). The only thing working was ham radio, and, oddly, text-messaging on the periphery (SMS apparently uses a different channel than regular voice, so wasn't blocked by massive overload of everyone trying to call their relatives).
If no one is hurt by your 'theft', it's not really stealing, is it? Stealing is bad because it deprives people of their stuff. It is not bad because there is some intrinsic immorality to picking up object A from point B and carrying it to point C.
Same problem with vacation time here. Multiple family members with severe health issues that required taking them to the doctor, the emergency room, visiting the hospital, covering things they would normally have taken care of... Vacation? What vacation? I have to bank up comp time just to have time off to handle my *own* doctor/dentist/kumquat visits.
Two years in a row I've had to watch the rest of the family go off to the in-laws for the annual Christmas vacation/road trip, leaving me behind because I couldn't afford the vacation time--it was all spent already.
I *NEED* a vacation, but the bills have to be paid, and I don't have the option of moving right now (due to the above family members), so I stay with my current job. Fortunately, my bosses are reasonable, the pay is good, the policies sane. It's not work's fault that life has been a bitch the last few years. I think I may finally have some vacation accumulated this year.
People need to remember that their time is worth money. You only get so much lifespan to spend, and it may be shorter than you think. You want me to spend my lifespan on your projects, you had best compensate me. I have bills to pay; I can't work for free.
And if you force me to work uncompensated via required overtime/exempt employee status? Oddly, my productivity is no greater if I work > 40 hours than if I work 40 hours a week. It's usually less, and the quality of my work goes down. There's an old Soviet-era adage: "You pretend to pay us, we pretend to work". You get what you pay for, including worker quality.
(This does not apply to my current employer, who has sane and rigorous overtime/comp-time policies. Probably because they're billing the DoD for all those hours, and have to document any overtime up, down and sideways.)
Actually.. no, you don't. You are *supposed* to pick and choose. Please go read the New Testament if you want to talk about what "real" Christians are supposed to do, and think about what you are reading and pray for guidance and insight.
If you want to know what 12th C. B.C. Yahwists were supposed to do, read the Old Testament. If you want to know what Orthodox Jews are supposed to do, read the Torah, the Mishnah, and argue with assorted rabbis for a few lifetimes. If you want to know what Muslims are supposed to do, read the Koran, the Suras, and learn from a teaching mullah for a few decades. No enduring religion is so simple and inflexible.
The argument that you must follow "all or none" is a strawman held up by both atheists and extreme literalists, curiously enough. Me, I'll sit back and make popcorn while they argue.
Personally, I use Adblock Plus and NoScript at home, because all that blinky-wiggly-flashy crap is too distracting and ruins my enjoyment of reading articles online. However, even if no one used Adblock Plus or NoScript or Flashblock, advertisers are still screwed. Why?
Because people have learned to ignore ads. See the following articles by Usability guru Jakob Nielsen:
That's why ads are more and more intrusive: because advertisers have, like an incompetent pet owner, trained users NOT to look at graphical banners and sidebar ads. (I wish they'd figure out they've trained people to auto-close pop-ups, pop-unders and sliding windows, too). They've trained users to the point where users will overlook content that resembles an ad.
Fortunately my mail host provides service on non-standard ports to spite ISPs that insist on blocking port 25. They also provide SSL access to my e-mail, so I don't have to drag it down in the clear.
I haven't listened to anything 'new' from the big labels since the 90s grunge era. Hasn't been anything from them worth listening to. All the new stuff I listen to has turned out to be either (a) euro-metal like Nightwish or Lordi, or (b) folk/celtic/filk/etc. There's some astonishingly good singers and songs in the folk arena, and I've learned about them all from Internet word-of-mouth (e.g. Heather Alexander, Seanan MacGuire), or witnessing them perform. (Dragon*Con introduced me to Emerald Rose and Michael Langcor, for example). Folk doesn't tend to be a big label, big marketing genre--most folk albums are produced and marketed by the artists themselves, via their websites and at concerts.
As for the old stuff, I love classic rock. Euro-metal seems to be the only vestige of classic rock left these days.
Nobody ousted Alan, he threw a mild hissy fit and quit over being told he was wrong.
BTW, the other branches of that LKML thread show that he and Linus are still arguing over exactly who was wrong about what where. It's too gnarly a problem for me to figure out from casual reading, so I can't say who's wrong. I doubt you can, either, since two of the biggest experts on Linux kernel code are still arguing over it...
I'd suspect that the guys that built the I-10 causeway across western Louisiana had built a highway across it. A quick look at Wikipedia suggests that the Darien Gap's challenges are political and financial, not technical. If engineers can build a highway across the Atchafalya basin (all swamp) from New Orleans to Lafayette, they can build one across the Darien Gap.
The concept that I need to get any permission beyond those of the property owner (and adjacent neighbors who might be affected by the noise, if the 'loud' goes beyond the legal limits of annoying the neighbors) to hold a private party on private property, no matter how loud, large and outdoors it is... just boggles my mind.
Commercial parties (as in, you charge for admission/drinks/etc) are another matter--those are businesses, and they fall under business regulations & zoning & crap. (At least in town. There's something to be said for living out in the country on property that's zoned for Any Use Whatsoever...)
There's something desperately wrong with a country that makes parties illegal. Not doing criminal shit at parties, but the party itself. It's the sort of thing you expect to see in Iran or Saudi Arabia. I feel sorry for you Brits.
I think you need one of these:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
But what do I know? I'm only from the city with the biggest freaking outdoor party IN THE WORLD: Mardi Gras!
Conspiracy has been defined in the US as an agreement of two or more people to commit a crime, or to accomplish a legal end through illegal actions....
Conspiracy law usually does not require proof of specific intent by the defendants to injure any specific person to establish an illegal agreement. Instead, usually the law only requires the conspirators have agreed to engage in a certain illegal act. This is sometimes described as a "general intent" to violate the law.
Conspiracy requires an agreement between people to commit a crime, so at the very least there must be (a) two people, and (b) evidence that they agreed to commit a crime. Some state laws further require an overt act to be committed in furtherance of the proposed crime.
I am in complete agreement. All the running from bullies and crying and pleading and reporting them to the teacher didn't stop the bullies from harassing me when I was a kid in school. All the counseling didn't stop them.
Hitting one upside the head with a stack of books and telling the rest to (paraphrased) "bring it on, there's more where that came from" did. When they realized that their lame threats weren't scaring me anymore, and that I was willing to get hit to hit them back, they stopped. I never got bullied again. Wish I'd figured that out years earlier. I'd have had a lot happier childhood.
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Exchange as used by the DOD has encryption, and use is transparent. You just click on the Options box that says "Encrypt e-mail" (and/or the one that says "Digitally sign"), hit 'send', and your private key is automagically pulled off your CAC and used to sign your e-mail, while the other guy's public key is pulled off the global directory and used to encrypt the e-mail before it goes. At the recepient's end, Exchange/Outlook automatically pulls my public key out of the global directory and uses it to check signature, and gets the recepient's private key off his CAC to decrypt the e-mail.
All each of us have to do is have our CAC stuck in the slot in the computer keyboard, which we had to do to log in in the first place, and check a box in 'Options'--which can be configured to be checked by default, so we don't even have to do that.
That's how you get encryption usable and used by everyone. That, and having senior authorities *require* that encryption/digital signing be used.
When you're employed, try living below your means and saving the surplus. Amazing how much less of a panic losing your job is when you have $10-20K socked away in a bank account. Now you have several months cushion to search for another job; you don't have to leap at the first thing that turns up, no matter how bad. You don't have to panic, and you don't have to live in fear at your current job that you might get laid-off unexpectedly.
Seriously, it's too useful to have a cash reserve for emergencies. Start a savings account.
Well, they could use in-game methods to keep the supply of Jedi low or at least 'special', like we did in tabletop D&D with PC drow characters: the authorities (Imperial, natch) try to kill you on sight, all the time.
My microwave oven doesn't run Linux, either, but it somehow manages to still be useful to me.
*whistles innocently*
Don't be too sure about that. I've worked on embedded systems on consumer devices, and you'd be amazed at what runs Linux these days. Hardware manufacturers really like NOT paying license fees & royalties for their embedded firmware.
re: the "edgier and original" 90s:
Rob Liefield drawing BFGs held by muscle-bound groteques of no sane proportions? The 9000th "mutant massacre" in X-Men?
Yeah, I'll pass on the "good old days", thanks.
The true reach of the Internet first came home to me in 1991, during the Persian Gulf War; I was playing on a MUD and one of the regulars there started talking about air raid sirens and that there were missiles coming down, that one had hit and the rest had been shot down...
He was in Israel, when Iraq launched the Scuds on Israel and we were getting real-time reports from him, before it hit the news in the U.S.
Sometimes the opposite is true. Cell phone works when landlines dont. I know this has been the case for several disasters. Turns out stringing wires all over the place can be fragile.
On the other hand, after hurricane Katrina, there was no cell phone service (hurricane winds knocked all the cell towers down in a huge swath) and no land-line service (phone lines down). The only thing working was ham radio, and, oddly, text-messaging on the periphery (SMS apparently uses a different channel than regular voice, so wasn't blocked by massive overload of everyone trying to call their relatives).
If no one is hurt by your 'theft', it's not really stealing, is it? Stealing is bad because it deprives people of their stuff. It is not bad because there is some intrinsic immorality to picking up object A from point B and carrying it to point C.
Same problem with vacation time here. Multiple family members with severe health issues that required taking them to the doctor, the emergency room, visiting the hospital, covering things they would normally have taken care of... Vacation? What vacation? I have to bank up comp time just to have time off to handle my *own* doctor/dentist/kumquat visits.
Two years in a row I've had to watch the rest of the family go off to the in-laws for the annual Christmas vacation/road trip, leaving me behind because I couldn't afford the vacation time--it was all spent already.
I *NEED* a vacation, but the bills have to be paid, and I don't have the option of moving right now (due to the above family members), so I stay with my current job. Fortunately, my bosses are reasonable, the pay is good, the policies sane. It's not work's fault that life has been a bitch the last few years. I think I may finally have some vacation accumulated this year.
This.
People need to remember that their time is worth money. You only get so much lifespan to spend, and it may be shorter than you think. You want me to spend my lifespan on your projects, you had best compensate me. I have bills to pay; I can't work for free.
And if you force me to work uncompensated via required overtime/exempt employee status? Oddly, my productivity is no greater if I work > 40 hours than if I work 40 hours a week. It's usually less, and the quality of my work goes down. There's an old Soviet-era adage: "You pretend to pay us, we pretend to work". You get what you pay for, including worker quality.
(This does not apply to my current employer, who has sane and rigorous overtime/comp-time policies. Probably because they're billing the DoD for all those hours, and have to document any overtime up, down and sideways.)
Please turn in your geek card until you've read E. E. Smith's "Lensman" series.
Then you will know about "sunbeams" and "dirigible planets", and can stop asking foolish questions like the above.
Actually.. no, you don't. You are *supposed* to pick and choose. Please go read the New Testament if you want to talk about what "real" Christians are supposed to do, and think about what you are reading and pray for guidance and insight.
If you want to know what 12th C. B.C. Yahwists were supposed to do, read the Old Testament. If you want to know what Orthodox Jews are supposed to do, read the Torah, the Mishnah, and argue with assorted rabbis for a few lifetimes. If you want to know what Muslims are supposed to do, read the Koran, the Suras, and learn from a teaching mullah for a few decades. No enduring religion is so simple and inflexible.
The argument that you must follow "all or none" is a strawman held up by both atheists and extreme literalists, curiously enough. Me, I'll sit back and make popcorn while they argue.
Personally, I use Adblock Plus and NoScript at home, because all that blinky-wiggly-flashy crap is too distracting and ruins my enjoyment of reading articles online. However, even if no one used Adblock Plus or NoScript or Flashblock, advertisers are still screwed. Why?
Because people have learned to ignore ads. See the following articles by Usability guru Jakob Nielsen:
Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored, and
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings
That's why ads are more and more intrusive: because advertisers have, like an incompetent pet owner, trained users NOT to look at graphical banners and sidebar ads. (I wish they'd figure out they've trained people to auto-close pop-ups, pop-unders and sliding windows, too). They've trained users to the point where users will overlook content that resembles an ad.
Advertisers: You're doing it wrong.
*pedantic mode on*
Actually, copper oxidizes to a lovely green color known as 'verdigris'.
*pedantic mode off*
Fortunately my mail host provides service on non-standard ports to spite ISPs that insist on blocking port 25. They also provide SSL access to my e-mail, so I don't have to drag it down in the clear.
I haven't listened to anything 'new' from the big labels since the 90s grunge era. Hasn't been anything from them worth listening to. All the new stuff I listen to has turned out to be either (a) euro-metal like Nightwish or Lordi, or (b) folk/celtic/filk/etc. There's some astonishingly good singers and songs in the folk arena, and I've learned about them all from Internet word-of-mouth (e.g. Heather Alexander, Seanan MacGuire), or witnessing them perform. (Dragon*Con introduced me to Emerald Rose and Michael Langcor, for example). Folk doesn't tend to be a big label, big marketing genre--most folk albums are produced and marketed by the artists themselves, via their websites and at concerts.
As for the old stuff, I love classic rock. Euro-metal seems to be the only vestige of classic rock left these days.
It's the "Times-Picayune", and like most local newspaper sites, it's pretty reliable about local news.
Nobody ousted Alan, he threw a mild hissy fit and quit over being told he was wrong.
BTW, the other branches of that LKML thread show that he and Linus are still arguing over exactly who was wrong about what where. It's too gnarly a problem for me to figure out from casual reading, so I can't say who's wrong. I doubt you can, either, since two of the biggest experts on Linux kernel code are still arguing over it...
I'd suspect that the guys that built the I-10 causeway across western Louisiana had built a highway across it. A quick look at Wikipedia suggests that the Darien Gap's challenges are political and financial, not technical. If engineers can build a highway across the Atchafalya basin (all swamp) from New Orleans to Lafayette, they can build one across the Darien Gap.
The concept that I need to get any permission beyond those of the property owner (and adjacent neighbors who might be affected by the noise, if the 'loud' goes beyond the legal limits of annoying the neighbors) to hold a private party on private property, no matter how loud, large and outdoors it is... just boggles my mind.
Commercial parties (as in, you charge for admission/drinks/etc) are another matter--those are businesses, and they fall under business regulations & zoning & crap. (At least in town. There's something to be said for living out in the country on property that's zoned for Any Use Whatsoever...)
Who modded a Dilbert quote "Insightful"? Go give yourself 50 lashes with a wet noodle if you did.
There's something desperately wrong with a country that makes parties illegal. Not doing criminal shit at parties, but the party itself. It's the sort of thing you expect to see in Iran or Saudi Arabia. I feel sorry for you Brits.
I think you need one of these:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
But what do I know? I'm only from the city with the biggest freaking outdoor party IN THE WORLD: Mardi Gras!
Actually, no. Under U.S. Law, "Conspiracy" Does Not Work Like That. (I have no idea how it works where you are, if you're not in the USA).
From Wikipedia, regarding Criminal conspiracy under U.S. Law:
Conspiracy has been defined in the US as an agreement of two or more people to commit a crime, or to accomplish a legal end through illegal actions....
Conspiracy law usually does not require proof of specific intent by the defendants to injure any specific person to establish an illegal agreement. Instead, usually the law only requires the conspirators have agreed to engage in a certain illegal act. This is sometimes described as a "general intent" to violate the law.
Conspiracy requires an agreement between people to commit a crime, so at the very least there must be (a) two people, and (b) evidence that they agreed to commit a crime. Some state laws further require an overt act to be committed in furtherance of the proposed crime.
I am in complete agreement. All the running from bullies and crying and pleading and reporting them to the teacher didn't stop the bullies from harassing me when I was a kid in school. All the counseling didn't stop them.
Hitting one upside the head with a stack of books and telling the rest to (paraphrased) "bring it on, there's more where that came from" did. When they realized that their lame threats weren't scaring me anymore, and that I was willing to get hit to hit them back, they stopped. I never got bullied again. Wish I'd figured that out years earlier. I'd have had a lot happier childhood.
I find that not paying the overcharge gets them to pay attention when you call customer support.
The magic words are "I'm disputing this charge". Try it.