The air conditioning your employer uses removing the heat you emit at work has a non-zero cost. Since to you, that's not insignificant, I expect you'll visit your personnel office and work out some kind of payroll deduction for the marginal cost of cooling the building while you're in it.
Oh, air conditioning is a cost of doing business? Thank you.
If it's the former, you have no argument. If it's the latter, I'd like a login to a machine on whatever Internet access you have, please.
Come work for me, and I'm sure we can work something out with that access. Your analogy of a perfect stranger accessing a machine is invalid in the context of the more significant ties between worker and employer. Nice try, though. The argument stands, unless you're a state worker in Georgia, in which case we all know Internet bandwidth costs $5/kb/sec or something like that.
Did you miss the word "signifcantly" in the post? Then you're inattentive. If you didn't miss it, you're disingenuous. If you saw it, and still wrote that half-assed attempt at sarcasm, you're just a fucking moron.
And shareholders have a way of losing money when the Comptroller of the Currency brings the hammer down with tight regulation on pseudo-banks when the government gets buried in consumer complaints.
No idea--either they're (PayPal) idiots, or it was something that didn't match in a list of routing numbers--a "PAYABLE THROUGH," maybe? Though that's usually credit unions.
Yeah, I know it was probably the braindead idea that really put them under. But the bad publicity and mainstream media airing of their intentions on tracking individuals with those innocent looking little kittens couldn't have helped.
I never did actually scan a product to see what happened, and never got around to installing the software.
. . . can only mean that they will become more scarce. Then, decades from now, when I'm old and grey, I'll retire on the income from selling the ones I collected from every Radio Shack in the four state area when Digital Convergence broke out the jackboots.
I dance a jig on their grave. See where empty-headed threats and intellectual property rhetoric lead?
That's better than nothing. Where I am, I can use anything that's legal and doesn't break the network. Right now, that includes the GIMP and cdrecord (with the cool graphical front end), both under Win32. I enjoy the amazed looks when I tell them these are free, and substitute (at least for my purposes) for Photoshop and EZ CD creator Pro and saved the University $500.00 in licenses.
Turning off the preview pane is a good idea (I do), but there's always the possibility that you'll inadvertently open the message. (Lots of spam has subject lines that are intentionally misleading, and not all of them are obvious about it. Also, it's possible to get "on a roll" when going through email, and bam, you've opened a spam). NoHTML is meant to protect from these situations. In fact, the page describing it cautions users to turn off the preview pane, since the message will be rendered in it before NoHTML processes it.
They may technically have a legal right, but they certainly don't have a moral one.
And laws aren't that cut and dried, and various states and localities have laws to protect workers from this and similar kind of capriciousness. In fact, some companies unknowingly tie their own hands with internal policies allowing grievances, etc. An attorney can help exhaust those options--a legal aid attorney can help a wrongly (legally or morally) terminated worker in this kind of situation at least cost their former employer some time and money, and maybe even obtain some severance in return for a promise not to sue. And if that doesn't work, he can always puruse an Office Space type remedy:).
And if you're condemned to use Outlook at your place of employment, and don't want to let the spammers know of your apparent interest in "Busty and Hung Transexual Bestiality Porn" or "Earning a Non-accredited University Degree in Offshore Internet Gambling and Investing" when Outlook dutifully loads their fingerprinted URL, you can get NoHTML which will strip the HTML from your messages before that happens.
Posted again because some punk-ass bitch modded it down. It's not offtopic, and the moderator who so moderated it should be slapped down in M2. And, since I have karma to burn, here we go:
Olympics.
by fogof on Saturday February 09, @12:40PM (Score:0) (#2979515)
Who cares about the olympics.... It's just another nike/roots/.... comercial...
I am glad that the olympics is not on the net... it makes for less polution...
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It's just that they know that the only thing anyone would give a darn about that's hosted there must be warez, mp3s, or porn. Therefore, a run on a page is an automatic TOS violation.
... that if J. Random Hax0r writes and distributes a piece of software that collects information clandestinely from computers on which it's installed, he gets his door kicked down and everything with a byte of RAM or potential for magnetic storage confiscated, his life ruined, and possibly sent to prison but when a barely legitimate distributor of file sharing apps produces a "product" with these same attributes, there doesn't seem to be a great presence of Federal law enforcement at its place of business?
The seller can pick "buyer pays actual shipping charges" in the auction setup, but hey they don't have to follow that when they send you the info at the end. Charge a big amount for "handling" or "paypal fees". Then send the package not by USPS priority, but by media mail or something -> instant profit. Sure ebay says you can't charge excessive handling or paypal fees, but they are "only a venue" and won't do anything if you complain.
That particular scam hasn't happened to me, but if a seller insists on a "handling" charge after having specified "actual shipping" in the auction, I'd refuse to go through with the transaction. If the seller left a negative, I'd retailiate in kind, specifying why in both the followup and the feedback against his account. IOW, he'd only do it to someone intelligent enough to read the feedback one time.
Nothing says the FBI is only for suppression of free speech and for corporate players like Adobe and their purchased laws like the DMCA like having the FBI tell you that they "don't have the resources" to prosecute such a small matter.
Don't call that "double opt-in." By calling it that, you play right into the spammers' language games. It's only one opt-in, but it's required that they verify with the person who they claim so opted. Maybe "verified opt-in" would be better.
Yes you can. That's essentially what M$ did with WMV DRM. It's all a feature of the OS...this makes it easy for M$ to do this.
Where can I find the MS documentation for the APIs that would allow me to do this? I found information about SAP (only supported on ME and later), but nothing about prohibiting application access to video memory or disabling OS (or third party) screen capture utilities. Thanks.
OK, can you turn off PrtSc or Alt-PrtSc for "protected" messages? Really--if the client can see it, the client can copy it, unless you're working from dumb terminals, and don't allow cameras in the facility. This is the same intractable problem the RIAA and MPAA can't solve.
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Oh, air conditioning is a cost of doing business? Thank you.
Come work for me, and I'm sure we can work something out with that access. Your analogy of a perfect stranger accessing a machine is invalid in the context of the more significant ties between worker and employer. Nice try, though. The argument stands, unless you're a state worker in Georgia, in which case we all know Internet bandwidth costs $5/kb/sec or something like that.
Did you miss the word "signifcantly" in the post? Then you're inattentive. If you didn't miss it, you're disingenuous. If you saw it, and still wrote that half-assed attempt at sarcasm, you're just a fucking moron.
And shareholders have a way of losing money when the Comptroller of the Currency brings the hammer down with tight regulation on pseudo-banks when the government gets buried in consumer complaints.
No idea--either they're (PayPal) idiots, or it was something that didn't match in a list of routing numbers--a "PAYABLE THROUGH," maybe? Though that's usually credit unions.
I never did actually scan a product to see what happened, and never got around to installing the software.
I dance a jig on their grave. See where empty-headed threats and intellectual property rhetoric lead?
That's better than nothing. Where I am, I can use anything that's legal and doesn't break the network. Right now, that includes the GIMP and cdrecord (with the cool graphical front end), both under Win32. I enjoy the amazed looks when I tell them these are free, and substitute (at least for my purposes) for Photoshop and EZ CD creator Pro and saved the University $500.00 in licenses.
Agreed. But purchasing managers that submit or sign off on obviously rigged bid specs should be removed from positions requiring judgement.
Want to burn some karma in m2? Bring it on.
1977 - UCSD Pascal P-Code was going to unify computing under one language.
1990 - Visual Basic revolutionized programming by interpreting to P-code and requiring a run-time.
1991 - Java was going to rock our worlds and promised "write once, run anywhere" using an intermediate byte code that looks a lot like P-code.
2002 - Microsoft promises one runtime to which many languages will compile in the megarevolutionary (and some say Orwellian) dot net architecture.
Like it was said in Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun.
Turning off the preview pane is a good idea (I do), but there's always the possibility that you'll inadvertently open the message. (Lots of spam has subject lines that are intentionally misleading, and not all of them are obvious about it. Also, it's possible to get "on a roll" when going through email, and bam, you've opened a spam). NoHTML is meant to protect from these situations. In fact, the page describing it cautions users to turn off the preview pane, since the message will be rendered in it before NoHTML processes it.
And laws aren't that cut and dried, and various states and localities have laws to protect workers from this and similar kind of capriciousness. In fact, some companies unknowingly tie their own hands with internal policies allowing grievances, etc. An attorney can help exhaust those options--a legal aid attorney can help a wrongly (legally or morally) terminated worker in this kind of situation at least cost their former employer some time and money, and maybe even obtain some severance in return for a promise not to sue. And if that doesn't work, he can always puruse an Office Space type remedy :).
And if you're condemned to use Outlook at your place of employment, and don't want to let the spammers know of your apparent interest in "Busty and Hung Transexual Bestiality Porn" or "Earning a Non-accredited University Degree in Offshore Internet Gambling and Investing" when Outlook dutifully loads their fingerprinted URL, you can get NoHTML which will strip the HTML from your messages before that happens.
Did you contact an attorney about suing for wrongful termination? Can you provide a link to your post?
Olympics.
by fogof on Saturday February 09, @12:40PM (Score:0) (#2979515)
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Who cares about the olympics
I am glad that the olympics is not on the net
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Financial Aid? Easy. If your EFC exceeds your COA you're SOL for the FSEOG. It's really all you need to know.
It's just that they know that the only thing anyone would give a darn about that's hosted there must be warez, mp3s, or porn. Therefore, a run on a page is an automatic TOS violation.
... that if J. Random Hax0r writes and distributes a piece of software that collects information clandestinely from computers on which it's installed, he gets his door kicked down and everything with a byte of RAM or potential for magnetic storage confiscated, his life ruined, and possibly sent to prison
but
when a barely legitimate distributor of file sharing apps produces a "product" with these same attributes, there doesn't seem to be a great presence of Federal law enforcement at its place of business?
That particular scam hasn't happened to me, but if a seller insists on a "handling" charge after having specified "actual shipping" in the auction, I'd refuse to go through with the transaction. If the seller left a negative, I'd retailiate in kind, specifying why in both the followup and the feedback against his account. IOW, he'd only do it to someone intelligent enough to read the feedback one time.
Nothing says the FBI is only for suppression of free speech and for corporate players like Adobe and their purchased laws like the DMCA like having the FBI tell you that they "don't have the resources" to prosecute such a small matter.
Don't call that "double opt-in." By calling it that, you play right into the spammers' language games. It's only one opt-in, but it's required that they verify with the person who they claim so opted. Maybe "verified opt-in" would be better.
Probably because that's the only way to be fairly certain that you're not infringing on some bogus patent, hmm?
Where can I find the MS documentation for the APIs that would allow me to do this? I found information about SAP (only supported on ME and later), but nothing about prohibiting application access to video memory or disabling OS (or third party) screen capture utilities. Thanks.
OK, can you turn off PrtSc or Alt-PrtSc for "protected" messages? Really--if the client can see it, the client can copy it, unless you're working from dumb terminals, and don't allow cameras in the facility. This is the same intractable problem the RIAA and MPAA can't solve.