So by your logic (if I'm reading it correctly) journalists should do nothing. In fact none of us should do anything. Let everything be. The world becomes a worse place to live, but so be it. We're not Yahoo executives, so don't bother trying.
Not exactly true. By themselves they won't, but within a version-controlled system it's fine. SOX has nothing to do with errors. It only has to do with accountability and the law is very vague. As long as your company can say a particular copy of a spreadsheet was digitally signed by an employee on a certain date there's nothing to worry about (IANAL, of course, but I've taken the corporate training on the subject). And every company dealing with SOX has software in place for maintaining relevant documents with employee names and times attached. So far every company I know of has custom in-house workflow software for SOX compliance, all of which allow document attachments.
If the DOJ shows up at a library wanting to know who is reading about a certain topic they have to comply, even if they believe the order is wrong and evil, and/or unconstituional.
Really? They're going to hold a gun to someone's head? Some people are willing to go to jail for what they believe in. It seems you're not and are projecting that on everyone else.
If by "liberals" you mean people, and by "going overboard" you mean caring... then yes, many of us are guilty as charged. Good job stereotyping and trying to negate an opinion based on your pointless classification!
China is working to be a huge economic superpower. They can only become one with the interaction of other nations and companies in those nations. If no one did any business with China they would remain weak and be forced to act on the pressures of other nations.
These days economic persuasion is one of the most effective ways of bringing about reform. Having international businesses operate there puts no economic pressure on them at all.
But Yahoo!, along with Google and MSN, are business, first and foremost.
They're groups of people, first and foremost. And each individual in that group lives by his/her own moral values. Being a group of people they also operate collectively by a set of moral values. They've chosen money as being more important than free Chinese citizens.
Companies are artificial entities. They only exist because of the people that run them. These are people choosing to not support freedom when they could actually make a public stand. We're not talking about a company choosing profits first because a company is not an entity which can make choices. We're talking about people choosing money over the rights of other human beings.
The reason I don't bother with any of them is because they mostly look like game publisher advertising. Just like I wouldn't bother reading an opinion piece about Microsoft in a Microsoft-published magazine, I don't want to read about the PS3 in a magazine that appears to be published by a Sony subsidiary. Almost always, if I flip through one of these gaming magazines, they rate every game 3, 4, or 5 out of 5. As if no games suck. These rags appear to be flooded more with commercial interests, not real gamer interests.
"Ressam handed the Customs agent a Price Costco membership card in the same false name as his passport. As that agent began an initial pat-down, Ressam panicked and tried to run away."
What the hell do phone records have to do with that story? He was only caught because he freaked and tried to run. You can keep googling and get back to us, because you won't find any stories showing NSA analysis of these phone records have caugh anyone.
Also, the phone records were elegedly recorded after 9/11/2001. This story happened before 2000, so I don't know what you're trying to prove.
Because a more inflamatory title/article gets you more links from blogs and to the front page of slashdot. The articles teaches us more about how to make money on the internet than anything about Windows.
In the 80s I was discussing viruses which were spread on floppies with my friends. Some the BBS's I used scanned uploaded files for viruses. Many thousands of computers were already hooked up to Compuserve. People were definitely expecting millions of machines to be attached to each other in the near future. Viruses were already actively being researched.
The reason personal computers will always be susceptible is because they're general purpose computers. A phone which only serves as a phone can not get a virus. But a phone which runs small applications like downloadable games can easily get a virus. It has nothing to do with the user being prepared. If a platform vendor chooses to allow apps they haven't written to run, then they need to proactively fight viruses. Either that or face a lot of annoyed customers.
A company blindly ignoring the customer to tend to its own agenda will be its downfall. Or at least the failure of any resulting products.
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From Wikipedia also:
"Proprietary software is software that has restrictions on using and copying it, usually enforced by a proprietor. The prevention of use, copying, or modification can be achieved by legal or technical means. Technical means include releasing machine-readable binaries only, and withholding the human-readable source code. Legal means can involve software licensing, copyright and patent law."
Just because a bunch of companies get together a support a format doesn't mean that format is not proprietary. Is it open? Is it controlled by a common standards body? Can a reader/writer of the format be created by anyone for free?
The IRS collects social security. The social security numbers we're talking about are fraudulent. They're collecting taxes with fraudulent data. Therefore they should care.
The actual problem are the employers hiring illegals and paying them under the table.
A very large proportion of employers are playing by the rules and requiring papers. But those papers are often forged. Employers pay social security to the federal government with fake numbers and the government doesn't notice. They actually take social security taxes under false IDs, which should be the simplest thing to check. And then they complain employers aren't doing enough.
If you didn't run into a bug with Windows 2000 then you didn't use it intensely. That bug count was sent within a week of Windows 2000 shipping. These were the bugs left at the time it went from beta to production. And there's no way to know how many were fixed with updates.
According to that chart, his system is becoming less stable almost every day. Starting from a "10" on May 6 he's down to about a "6" on May 22. It looks like Vista Beta is all downhill.
Ah, the classic debate between content owners and content distributors. And who loses? The customer. The technology and profitability for the greatest ideas we can come up with are already here. It's only these large companies holding them back through distrust and fighting. Sure DVRs are already prominent, but they can't even stop fighting over the technologies that are already here. Imagine what we're missing.
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The information is not classified, it's Official Use Only, which is a form of protected information.
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Apparently not.
No, then they're fired for not complying with the corporation's SOX rules.
So by your logic (if I'm reading it correctly) journalists should do nothing. In fact none of us should do anything. Let everything be. The world becomes a worse place to live, but so be it. We're not Yahoo executives, so don't bother trying.
Yeah, that'll help.
won't pass HIPAA or Sarbanes-Oxley auditing
Not exactly true. By themselves they won't, but within a version-controlled system it's fine. SOX has nothing to do with errors. It only has to do with accountability and the law is very vague. As long as your company can say a particular copy of a spreadsheet was digitally signed by an employee on a certain date there's nothing to worry about (IANAL, of course, but I've taken the corporate training on the subject). And every company dealing with SOX has software in place for maintaining relevant documents with employee names and times attached. So far every company I know of has custom in-house workflow software for SOX compliance, all of which allow document attachments.
If the DOJ shows up at a library wanting to know who is reading about a certain topic they have to comply, even if they believe the order is wrong and evil, and/or unconstituional.
Really? They're going to hold a gun to someone's head? Some people are willing to go to jail for what they believe in. It seems you're not and are projecting that on everyone else.
Another case of liberals going overboard.
If by "liberals" you mean people, and by "going overboard" you mean caring... then yes, many of us are guilty as charged. Good job stereotyping and trying to negate an opinion based on your pointless classification!
China is working to be a huge economic superpower. They can only become one with the interaction of other nations and companies in those nations. If no one did any business with China they would remain weak and be forced to act on the pressures of other nations.
These days economic persuasion is one of the most effective ways of bringing about reform. Having international businesses operate there puts no economic pressure on them at all.
But Yahoo!, along with Google and MSN, are business, first and foremost.
They're groups of people, first and foremost. And each individual in that group lives by his/her own moral values. Being a group of people they also operate collectively by a set of moral values. They've chosen money as being more important than free Chinese citizens.
Companies are artificial entities. They only exist because of the people that run them. These are people choosing to not support freedom when they could actually make a public stand. We're not talking about a company choosing profits first because a company is not an entity which can make choices. We're talking about people choosing money over the rights of other human beings.
The reason I don't bother with any of them is because they mostly look like game publisher advertising. Just like I wouldn't bother reading an opinion piece about Microsoft in a Microsoft-published magazine, I don't want to read about the PS3 in a magazine that appears to be published by a Sony subsidiary. Almost always, if I flip through one of these gaming magazines, they rate every game 3, 4, or 5 out of 5. As if no games suck. These rags appear to be flooded more with commercial interests, not real gamer interests.
"Ressam handed the Customs agent a Price Costco membership card in the same false name as his passport. As that agent began an initial pat-down, Ressam panicked and tried to run away."
What the hell do phone records have to do with that story? He was only caught because he freaked and tried to run. You can keep googling and get back to us, because you won't find any stories showing NSA analysis of these phone records have caugh anyone.
Also, the phone records were elegedly recorded after 9/11/2001. This story happened before 2000, so I don't know what you're trying to prove.
But if we catch terrorists and avert attacks, what's the harm in the government monitoring these phone calls?
Names, please? Name one terrorist caught or one attack averted due directly or indirectly to the NSA having these phone records.
Can I have an estimate of how many lives have been saved so I can weigh that against the loss of privacy and/or potential abuses?
That's ok, I'll wait for the answer...
I'd hate to break it to you, but he's not a criminal. A weak president perhaps, but not a criminal.
He's responsible for the actions of the military. Here's therefore guilty of war crimes. His own lawyer told him so (2 years ago, IIRC).
Or at least the day: http://seenonslash.com/
Because a more inflamatory title/article gets you more links from blogs and to the front page of slashdot. The articles teaches us more about how to make money on the internet than anything about Windows.
In the 80s I was discussing viruses which were spread on floppies with my friends. Some the BBS's I used scanned uploaded files for viruses. Many thousands of computers were already hooked up to Compuserve. People were definitely expecting millions of machines to be attached to each other in the near future. Viruses were already actively being researched.
The reason personal computers will always be susceptible is because they're general purpose computers. A phone which only serves as a phone can not get a virus. But a phone which runs small applications like downloadable games can easily get a virus. It has nothing to do with the user being prepared. If a platform vendor chooses to allow apps they haven't written to run, then they need to proactively fight viruses. Either that or face a lot of annoyed customers.
A company blindly ignoring the customer to tend to its own agenda will be its downfall. Or at least the failure of any resulting products.
From Wikipedia also:
"Proprietary software is software that has restrictions on using and copying it, usually enforced by a proprietor. The prevention of use, copying, or modification can be achieved by legal or technical means. Technical means include releasing machine-readable binaries only, and withholding the human-readable source code. Legal means can involve software licensing, copyright and patent law."
Just because a bunch of companies get together a support a format doesn't mean that format is not proprietary. Is it open? Is it controlled by a common standards body? Can a reader/writer of the format be created by anyone for free?
Not so non-proprietary now, is it?
The IRS collects social security. The social security numbers we're talking about are fraudulent. They're collecting taxes with fraudulent data. Therefore they should care.
The actual problem are the employers hiring illegals and paying them under the table.
A very large proportion of employers are playing by the rules and requiring papers. But those papers are often forged. Employers pay social security to the federal government with fake numbers and the government doesn't notice. They actually take social security taxes under false IDs, which should be the simplest thing to check. And then they complain employers aren't doing enough.
Or that mice go through a Microsoft maze faster than an "open" maze.
I hope there's a hunk of cheese at the end of this maze. Mmmm... Microsoft cheese...
I agree. And we all know how their "Get The Facts" campaign has completely stopped the growth of Linux.
I've documented many of the bugs I've run into. They cost me (or really my employer) hundreds of hours of my work time.
If you didn't run into a bug with Windows 2000 then you didn't use it intensely. That bug count was sent within a week of Windows 2000 shipping. These were the bugs left at the time it went from beta to production. And there's no way to know how many were fixed with updates.
According to that chart, his system is becoming less stable almost every day. Starting from a "10" on May 6 he's down to about a "6" on May 22. It looks like Vista Beta is all downhill.
Ah, the classic debate between content owners and content distributors. And who loses? The customer. The technology and profitability for the greatest ideas we can come up with are already here. It's only these large companies holding them back through distrust and fighting. Sure DVRs are already prominent, but they can't even stop fighting over the technologies that are already here. Imagine what we're missing.