Does anyone know if there is hard evidence (heh) proving this guy's guilt? It would be a real shame for this to be a false accusation that destroys a man's career...
Oh yes it would be just *awful* if this poor man had to retire on $11.6 million in cash and $40-50 million in HP stock.
I agree with your basic premise, not guilty means that he should be made whole after this mess is sorted out. This "resignation" is there to make problems for HP go away whether or not Hurd actually did anything. However I find it VERY hard to feel bad for someone that makes over 1000 times what the average middle class salaried worker makes. I'm pretty sure he can retire comfortably and his kids won't even really have to work ever again either.
thereby creating jobs for other industries and making America look better.
Because no one spends money to "create jobs". They spend money to create a useful product or service. Hiring people to perform the necessary work is not a primary function of the business. Nor does making the businesses home country look better factor in unless that business profits from said appearances.
Whenever you say "the government" should do something, you need to replace "the government" with "the government should take something from me/my family/my neighbors" .
The government is not some entity separate from yourself, it acts using YOUR assets and its rules affect YOU.
So we can call that about 10 a week. How many non-combatant murders were there in Iraq in the same period?
I'll try to find it myself but it'll take a bit to get the figures I'm after.
It gets really sad when you consider that gang violence and sectarian violence and terrorism really aren't all that different. You have a group of people asserting influence by force. They occasionally fly the flag of representing some minority or locality. They're fighting over "turf" and wrongs inflicted on them both recently and long in the past.
I'm suggesting that, as tragic as both carbomings and gang violence are, that Iraq is hardly a den of horrible violence.
Iraq is not like Afghanistan or Somalia in that it has had a government and has a lot of the infrastructure and chain of command necessary to operate a functional state. They ought to be able to manage on their own or at least manage with help from their regional neighbors.
..historians will be sitting around looking at archives of late 90's advertising wondering "Man, Duke Nukem Forever must have been an epic game if these ads are true. Too bad those jerks from the 21st century didn't think to save a copy of it on media that didn't rot away".
I still think its a slippery slope. If specific rights are enumerated that leaves the door open to restrict everything else. You still have to deal with interpretations of those rights as well, which means you wind up with some governing body that has to have the authority to make those rulings.
I don't want a "bill of rights" or any other such governing document for the Internet. Implying that there needs to be a decree protecting our rights online implies that there is some place for extensive control or oversight that we need to be protected from. By establishing protection for some things, we create a basis for loss of other things.
Why not sandbox it entirely? If the JS engine in Acrobat can run arbitrary commands I don't want it reading files from my local filesystem either. I suppose it wouldn't directly be able to transmit those files if its not able to write to a network socket, but that doesn't mean it should be allowed to read random things either.
Adobe obviously wants to keep a very tight grip on the PDF ecosystem, why not limit Reader and only allow it to perform scripting actions on signed and verified PDFs? This benefits Adobe since the only tool that can create and submit PDFs for signing and verifying would probably be from Adobe.
I have a few friends who are similarly built. They pretty much get their way when they want to BECAUSE they are over 6'6" and appear to know how to use their muscle. It gets even scarier when they play nice instead of play hardass.
Isn't that a failing of the test more than anything?
For most (if not all) of the math tests I took in high school and at university a calculator could be used without restriction. Often, simply having to show your work is enough, it leaves the calculator as the assistive tool that it is.
Even in the case of advanced calculators or programs, the teachers/proctors were generally aware enough to recognize if someone sat there poking keys and then scibbling furiously, they were copying the steps from their calculator. Its essentially pattern based security.
Lastly for the students inclined to just use the calculator it was often as much of a mental hurdle to get the calculator to do it for them as it was to do the work outright.
The idea of protecting a calculators OS to protect its use/reputation in standardized, or any other testing, is weak.
Its pretty trivial to have 10000 domain names pointing to 10 servers.
It also seems trivial that when a domain name is flagged to also flag its server, then when a new domain name shows up that points to a flagged server rate it appropriately.
Its a clever trick, but hardly an unfightable step in the spam-arms-race.
I find it hard to envision a behemoth like Microsoft doing anything "defiantly". If you're the 800kg gorilla in the room, people defy you not the other way around.
Slashdot Mirror
It's spelled C-E-O.
Does anyone know if there is hard evidence (heh) proving this guy's guilt? It would be a real shame for this to be a false accusation that destroys a man's career...
Oh yes it would be just *awful* if this poor man had to retire on $11.6 million in cash and $40-50 million in HP stock.
I agree with your basic premise, not guilty means that he should be made whole after this mess is sorted out. This "resignation" is there to make problems for HP go away whether or not Hurd actually did anything. However I find it VERY hard to feel bad for someone that makes over 1000 times what the average middle class salaried worker makes. I'm pretty sure he can retire comfortably and his kids won't even really have to work ever again either.
thereby creating jobs for other industries and making America look better.
Because no one spends money to "create jobs". They spend money to create a useful product or service. Hiring people to perform the necessary work is not a primary function of the business. Nor does making the businesses home country look better factor in unless that business profits from said appearances.
You want that in station wagons, Libraries of Congress, or circles around the Earth?
How much will that cost those of us that don't get free SSD drives "for reviews"?
Jack Ryan, "How do you get a crew of highly trained sailors to want to get off a nuclear submarine^H^H^H floating data centre?"
Whenever you say "the government" should do something, you need to replace "the government" with "the government should take something from me/my family/my neighbors" .
The government is not some entity separate from yourself, it acts using YOUR assets and its rules affect YOU.
So we can call that about 10 a week. How many non-combatant murders were there in Iraq in the same period?
I'll try to find it myself but it'll take a bit to get the figures I'm after.
It gets really sad when you consider that gang violence and sectarian violence and terrorism really aren't all that different. You have a group of people asserting influence by force. They occasionally fly the flag of representing some minority or locality. They're fighting over "turf" and wrongs inflicted on them both recently and long in the past.
I'm suggesting that, as tragic as both carbomings and gang violence are, that Iraq is hardly a den of horrible violence.
Iraq is not like Afghanistan or Somalia in that it has had a government and has a lot of the infrastructure and chain of command necessary to operate a functional state. They ought to be able to manage on their own or at least manage with help from their regional neighbors.
How many people were killed due to gang related violence in Chicago this week?
That's all I can say without seeing some math.
2+2=5. There you've seen some math, now please continue.
..historians will be sitting around looking at archives of late 90's advertising wondering "Man, Duke Nukem Forever must have been an epic game if these ads are true. Too bad those jerks from the 21st century didn't think to save a copy of it on media that didn't rot away".
Yep, and if you violate them you can be sent to cyber jail.
http://failblog.org/2010/07/16/epic-fail-video-understanding-of-the-internet-fail-2/
I have a basic understanding of ACTA.
I still think its a slippery slope. If specific rights are enumerated that leaves the door open to restrict everything else. You still have to deal with interpretations of those rights as well, which means you wind up with some governing body that has to have the authority to make those rulings.
I don't want a "bill of rights" or any other such governing document for the Internet. Implying that there needs to be a decree protecting our rights online implies that there is some place for extensive control or oversight that we need to be protected from. By establishing protection for some things, we create a basis for loss of other things.
Why not sandbox it entirely? If the JS engine in Acrobat can run arbitrary commands I don't want it reading files from my local filesystem either. I suppose it wouldn't directly be able to transmit those files if its not able to write to a network socket, but that doesn't mean it should be allowed to read random things either.
Adobe obviously wants to keep a very tight grip on the PDF ecosystem, why not limit Reader and only allow it to perform scripting actions on signed and verified PDFs? This benefits Adobe since the only tool that can create and submit PDFs for signing and verifying would probably be from Adobe.
I have a few friends who are similarly built. They pretty much get their way when they want to BECAUSE they are over 6'6" and appear to know how to use their muscle. It gets even scarier when they play nice instead of play hardass.
Isn't that a failing of the test more than anything?
For most (if not all) of the math tests I took in high school and at university a calculator could be used without restriction. Often, simply having to show your work is enough, it leaves the calculator as the assistive tool that it is.
Even in the case of advanced calculators or programs, the teachers/proctors were generally aware enough to recognize if someone sat there poking keys and then scibbling furiously, they were copying the steps from their calculator. Its essentially pattern based security.
Lastly for the students inclined to just use the calculator it was often as much of a mental hurdle to get the calculator to do it for them as it was to do the work outright.
The idea of protecting a calculators OS to protect its use/reputation in standardized, or any other testing, is weak.
Right on! Since we can't filter all the garbage out it isn't worth picking up ANY of the garbage at all.
Test subjects familiar with the use of indoor plumbing makes it easier to get samples.
So when you want to register a domain for unpopular political, social, or religious activities you can be outed?
Its pretty trivial to have 10000 domain names pointing to 10 servers.
It also seems trivial that when a domain name is flagged to also flag its server, then when a new domain name shows up that points to a flagged server rate it appropriately.
Its a clever trick, but hardly an unfightable step in the spam-arms-race.
Which bank?
If the repo men can come and take it, then you really didn't own it any more than if you rented it.
I find it hard to envision a behemoth like Microsoft doing anything "defiantly". If you're the 800kg gorilla in the room, people defy you not the other way around.