The result is a class of devices that can happily co-inhabit a chunk of spectrum, thereby destroying the 'bandwidth is like real estate" concept.
Oh yes, positively laid to waste. Thats why my cordless phone makes my Wifi slow down, not to mention the interference issues you get in higher-rent appartment buildings were everyone has a WAP...
Why does Microsoft get the dough? Why is he not convicted? Why did it have to be Microsoft going after this guy, rather than the government or some class action lawyers?
Microsoft went after him for civil damages because they had to deal with his bullshit by way of Hotmail.com. If you want a some blood from Snotty Scotty, sue him for what he did to your mail server.
The point you missed, and the parent was alluding to, was there is a potentially BIG difference between what was actually required by the court order and what the officers who came banging at the door actually demanded, verbally and for which there is no evidence trail other than the poor admin's word and he probably is either gagged or to scared to talk.
The parent described a "very likely set of events" that he would know was not correct if he'd RTFA. The Rackspace people _knew_ what was required of the - The Fine Article makes that clear. They searched for the relavent logs and weren't able to extract them in time to make the deadline, and therefore decided (for some reason) to hand over the disks instead of just making copies of the whole thing. Rackspace took their customer down, and then tried to paint it as the Feds fault. (Besides, why the hell doesn't a provider the size of Rackspace have a plan for dealing with federal supoenas? You can't tell me this is the first time they've ever been visited by law enforcement).
Uh, you place child porn in the same category as downloading music (without even specifying that you're referring to illegally downloading music)?
Yes, yes I do.
For this purpose I have two categories. The first one is "Things that will result in legal problems". This category also includes libel, hacking and, if you live in China, saying nasty things about the government. Apparently now in Britain it includes saying nasty things about anyone.
The other category is things that will not make your life legally less pleasant. This includes reading Slashdot and Fark, reading the excellent article on Wikipedia about the operational principles of Water Pipes (Calling it a Bong will get you kicked out of places that sell them), and whacking off to porn involving consenting adults.
So, back to the question, why should I care? (as a home user)
Because although you'll probably get off in the end, things will get sticky when somebody knocks on your door with a warrant/subpoena for all of the music/kiddy porn "you" have been downloading?
Again, this situation begs the question; what kind of people are accessing Indymedia? Why, people looking at the other side of the argument--Liberals and Progressives.
Right. It's a Liberal/Progressive site so it _must_ be part of the evil Dubya conspiracy. Way to make solid connections there. I think you need to invest in a better grade of tinfoil.
More likely this is being used for a Republican pollitical pollster--it would not be the first time they have used FBI or Homeland security data for Republican pollitics.
The request was initiated by the _Italian_ government as part of a co-operative law enforcement treaty. I'm sure thats Republican all the way. Cause those Italiians just love their Dubya.
No hosting company would do this without some kind of mamgement meeting about how to handle it. The logs/hardware mix-up just wouldn't happen would it? It would be discussed and understood properly. The job wouldn't be left to a kid or something either.
Welcome to the real world, kid. Out here, mediocrity and incompetence are the rule rather than the exception. I'm pretty sure where I work (University) if we were unable to locate the files required by the subpoena by the deadline our legal counsel would probably tell us to hand over the whole server.
Unless, you say, RTFA, and found they _had_ a court order. Thats what a subpeona _is_. The Feds appear to have actually acted quite reasonably. Rackspace were the ones who pulled the drives instead of making an image of them. I'm failing to see how this is in anyway the feds fault.
Seriously, I realize that most Slashdotters don't like the Bush administration (frankly, neither do I. I voted Libertarian where possible, democratic elsewhere). But having read the first couple dozen posts here most of you come across as being just about as objective as the people pushing Intelligent Design - You've got your world view and you're willing to ignore any number of inconvenient facts to advance it.
unlike normal people doing normal jobs, Law Enforcement officers are trained never to rationalise, never to second guess, and to always assume that they're right. There's good reasons for this, but sometimes it has bad results.
And totally unlike a bunch of people on Slashdot who haven't bothered to read the article and find that it was in fact, Rackspace and their employees who chose to pull the harddrives and not the feds.
You didn't say where the employer derives a legal right to do this. You just (successfully) made the point that an employer has an interest in such rules existing.
You've got this backwards. The employer has right to fire employees who do things that negatively impact his/her business, minus things that would infringe upon the rights of the employee. The NRLB doesn't think you have a right to go do whatever you want while wearing your employers uniform. Take it off, and your employer can no longer fire you for it.
So in short, you and a bunch of your pals can't go tear up the bars while wearing your UPS uniform. Bring a change of clothes and quit with the doomsday shit. The Bush administration has done a lot of fairly evil crap, but this isn't it.
This ruling says that they can now fire you with impunity for the latter. A blanche-er carte blanche to engage in union-busting practices couldn't have been given to Industry.
No it doesn't. What it says is that you and a bunch of your buddies can't go get plastered at the bar after work in uniform. IN UNIFORM is the key to this ruling.
If it's mainstream, more people will download it. Also, however, I mentioned that it's not perfect and the point you bring up is exactly the point I implied. I think there should be a way to customize it so that the tracker can also upload the file to you and so that it can vary the upload bandwidth based on how many people are seeding that torrent at that particular time.
Someone more knowledgeable help me out, is there a way to do this yet? I know it's possible, and it seems desirable.
The person who sets up the tracker also seeds the torrent. Thats how the file gets distributed in the first place.
...are ridiculous. I don't care if they are legal, they aren't in the spirit of freedom (in the sense of living in a free country).
Non-disclosure? Sure, it makes sense.
Non-compete? No, it denies the freedom of place of work.
It's a contract. You don't like it, don't sign it. They're generally not held to be enforcable for the guys in the trenches, but when you get to the upper levels of management it becomes basically impossible to take a higher level job and _not_ disclose proprietary information. If this guy was working directly on MSN Search at Microsoft, he should have to abide by the agreement that _he made_ when he was hired. He was a Microsoft VP, it's not like he couldn't just take a vacation until the term of the Non-Compete expires.
The only thing that surprises me about this statement is that companies are willing to spend 2x as much on the hardware and the additional money on the OS. Yeah, in corporate environments it's probably not as big of a deal but when you are talking 25+ of 10k+ machines that's a lot of cash you could have saved by going w/cheaper hardware and a free OS
OS X is perceived as being easier to support (it probably is). Additional support costs and downtime due to users not being able to figure out wtf they're doing will eat that increased cost in no time at all.
Up in VT a buddy of mine bought a pistol from a vendor at a flea market. No ID no nothing and 100% legal. It's only a 2.5hour drive for me, and you can conceal a pistol much more easily.
And what bizzare world do you live in where a pistol is in any way the equivalent of a machine gun again?
People's reaction to this is "greater than if you had told them the same thing upfront" because they don't understand what it's all about. They hear that there's a sex scene in the game and they pull out their pitchforks and torches. They probably think this is actually a scene you'd come across during normal gameplay, and therefore they do feel deceived.
Or, Rockstar disabled the content but left it there knowing that somebody was eventually going to find it - but not until after they'd been rated.
Sometimes I wonder if any of you folks have jobs at all. You don't get to pick your own e-mail system, or your own computer when you work in an office for and employer. It's called being an employee, and although nobody seems to like it that much, it's a popular life-style.
I have one. I'm a systems administrator. If someone in my organization needs IT resources to carry out the mission of the organization, it's my job to arrange for them to get them. If you need resources to accept the DNC list from a couple of states, your company needs to see that you have a large enough email quota to accomplish that. In short, I don't think that "My company had to increase my email quota and thats just way to huge a burden upon me and my annoying employers" is in any way a legitimate reason that some states shouldn't be allowed to have different rules. In short, I think you're whiny, and if not personally a scum-sucking weasal, then you at least work for them.
Actually, I think this is a very reasonable question that needs to be addressed. If I have a company (and calling center) operating out of Minnesota and we have customers/former customers scattered around the country, I don't want to have to keep up on the particulars of laws in 49 other states.
I want to open a mail order business selling booze and flechette rounds for shotguns! What do you mean I have to keep up with the laws in 49 other states? They're legal out here in the boondocks!
On a federal level, you are allowed to call customers you formerly did business with for 18 months after the termination of the business relationship. Not so in this other state. Apparently you aren't allowed to call even the day after the relationship ends. If you get caught calling people on the state DNC list, you had better have paid the man or else it's game on for lawsuits.
Hey, this state list sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I'd rather not talk to poeple I no longer have a business relationship with.
I picked e-mail, and the updates are entirely at the discretion of the state. So every month or so, my office e-mail gets choked with the list in several parts, so I had to work a special deal with the MIS guys to get extra space on the server.
Poor boy. Here's a nickel, go get yourself a real computer.
You know, I used to have an old comp that had the turbo button. Did that actually do anything?
On a lot of old machines it actually changed the clock multiplier. Back when there wasn't a new, faster processor stepping every 5 minutes people wrote games that used loops for timing. When you bought your new 286 to replace the 8086, all your games ran too fast. Hence the turbo button. Turn it off and halve your clock speed.
So how much Gasoline do we burn to produce Gasoline, and why doesn't that count?
While I'm not going to pretend to know exactly how much, I can pretty safely say that that less than a gallon of oil is used to produce a gallon of oil. Why? Because the pumping equipment, the tankers and refining equipment for oil are all largely run off of oil products, and there is still some left at the end of the process to sell to me to run my car.
And why can't we burn Ethanol to produce Ethanol?
Because you don't get enough energy out of Ethanol to make it self sustaining. Thats what this report is saying. I need x amount of energy to produce y amount of ethanol. y amount of ethanol produces z amount of energy. x > z. Therefore if I'm burning gas to produce ethanol which I'm going to replace gasoline with, at the end of the process I have less fuel, less energy than I started with. I've lost instead of gained. If this report is correct then manufacturing ethanol to replace gasoline leaves you worse off than if you just burned the gasoline.
But I wonder how much time it will bet logitech and microsoft to come up with similar solutions. Come on, the keyboard hasn't evolved in the last 25 years. How many ppl still use the SCROLL LOCK key ? Umm ? And don't tell me slapping a bunch of "multi" - "media" keys on top is a revolution.
Well, I do, although mostly not for things it was intended for. On the other hand, I'm using an IBM model M manufactured in 1984, so I may not be the expert on keyboard evolution.
Gasoline takes more energy to produce than you can get from it. That energy just came from the sun a million (?) years ago. Gasoline is a means by which we can transfer solar energy to our cars without sail-ssized solar panels.
No, not meaningless. We're using Ethanol to replace Gasoline. We're burning Gasoline to produce it. If we're burning more gasoline to produce Ethanol than we're replacing _with_ Ethanol, then our current policy of burning Ethanol is pretty damn stupid.
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Because the law says it's their job. If you don't like it, talk to your congress critter and get it changed.
Oh yes, positively laid to waste. Thats why my cordless phone makes my Wifi slow down, not to mention the interference issues you get in higher-rent appartment buildings were everyone has a WAP...
Talk to these people
It's primarily a Learning Management System, but they do integration with other web sites for content posting.
Microsoft went after him for civil damages because they had to deal with his bullshit by way of Hotmail.com. If you want a some blood from Snotty Scotty, sue him for what he did to your mail server.
The parent described a "very likely set of events" that he would know was not correct if he'd RTFA. The Rackspace people _knew_ what was required of the - The Fine Article makes that clear. They searched for the relavent logs and weren't able to extract them in time to make the deadline, and therefore decided (for some reason) to hand over the disks instead of just making copies of the whole thing. Rackspace took their customer down, and then tried to paint it as the Feds fault. (Besides, why the hell doesn't a provider the size of Rackspace have a plan for dealing with federal supoenas? You can't tell me this is the first time they've ever been visited by law enforcement).
Yes, yes I do.
For this purpose I have two categories. The first one is "Things that will result in legal problems". This category also includes libel, hacking and, if you live in China, saying nasty things about the government. Apparently now in Britain it includes saying nasty things about anyone.
The other category is things that will not make your life legally less pleasant. This includes reading Slashdot and Fark, reading the excellent article on Wikipedia about the operational principles of Water Pipes (Calling it a Bong will get you kicked out of places that sell them), and whacking off to porn involving consenting adults.
Because although you'll probably get off in the end, things will get sticky when somebody knocks on your door with a warrant/subpoena for all of the music/kiddy porn "you" have been downloading?
Right. It's a Liberal/Progressive site so it _must_ be part of the evil Dubya conspiracy. Way to make solid connections there. I think you need to invest in a better grade of tinfoil.
More likely this is being used for a Republican pollitical pollster--it would not be the first time they have used FBI or Homeland security data for Republican pollitics.
The request was initiated by the _Italian_ government as part of a co-operative law enforcement treaty. I'm sure thats Republican all the way. Cause those Italiians just love their Dubya.
Welcome to the real world, kid. Out here, mediocrity and incompetence are the rule rather than the exception. I'm pretty sure where I work (University) if we were unable to locate the files required by the subpoena by the deadline our legal counsel would probably tell us to hand over the whole server.
Unless, you say, RTFA, and found they _had_ a court order. Thats what a subpeona _is_. The Feds appear to have actually acted quite reasonably. Rackspace were the ones who pulled the drives instead of making an image of them. I'm failing to see how this is in anyway the feds fault.
Seriously, I realize that most Slashdotters don't like the Bush administration (frankly, neither do I. I voted Libertarian where possible, democratic elsewhere). But having read the first couple dozen posts here most of you come across as being just about as objective as the people pushing Intelligent Design - You've got your world view and you're willing to ignore any number of inconvenient facts to advance it.
unlike normal people doing normal jobs, Law Enforcement officers are trained never to rationalise, never to second guess, and to always assume that they're right. There's good reasons for this, but sometimes it has bad results.
And totally unlike a bunch of people on Slashdot who haven't bothered to read the article and find that it was in fact, Rackspace and their employees who chose to pull the harddrives and not the feds.
You've got this backwards. The employer has right to fire employees who do things that negatively impact his/her business, minus things that would infringe upon the rights of the employee. The NRLB doesn't think you have a right to go do whatever you want while wearing your employers uniform. Take it off, and your employer can no longer fire you for it.
So in short, you and a bunch of your pals can't go tear up the bars while wearing your UPS uniform. Bring a change of clothes and quit with the doomsday shit. The Bush administration has done a lot of fairly evil crap, but this isn't it.
This ruling says that they can now fire you with impunity for the latter. A blanche-er carte blanche to engage in union-busting practices couldn't have been given to Industry.
No it doesn't. What it says is that you and a bunch of your buddies can't go get plastered at the bar after work in uniform. IN UNIFORM is the key to this ruling.
Someone more knowledgeable help me out, is there a way to do this yet? I know it's possible, and it seems desirable.
The person who sets up the tracker also seeds the torrent. Thats how the file gets distributed in the first place.
Non-disclosure? Sure, it makes sense.
Non-compete? No, it denies the freedom of place of work.
It's a contract. You don't like it, don't sign it. They're generally not held to be enforcable for the guys in the trenches, but when you get to the upper levels of management it becomes basically impossible to take a higher level job and _not_ disclose proprietary information. If this guy was working directly on MSN Search at Microsoft, he should have to abide by the agreement that _he made_ when he was hired. He was a Microsoft VP, it's not like he couldn't just take a vacation until the term of the Non-Compete expires.
OS X is perceived as being easier to support (it probably is). Additional support costs and downtime due to users not being able to figure out wtf they're doing will eat that increased cost in no time at all.
And what bizzare world do you live in where a pistol is in any way the equivalent of a machine gun again?
People's reaction to this is "greater than if you had told them the same thing upfront" because they don't understand what it's all about. They hear that there's a sex scene in the game and they pull out their pitchforks and torches. They probably think this is actually a scene you'd come across during normal gameplay, and therefore they do feel deceived.
Or, Rockstar disabled the content but left it there knowing that somebody was eventually going to find it - but not until after they'd been rated.
Uhhh...No. A rifle? Yes. A machine gun? You can get one, provided a clear criminal record, but it's not exactly easy.
I have one. I'm a systems administrator. If someone in my organization needs IT resources to carry out the mission of the organization, it's my job to arrange for them to get them. If you need resources to accept the DNC list from a couple of states, your company needs to see that you have a large enough email quota to accomplish that. In short, I don't think that "My company had to increase my email quota and thats just way to huge a burden upon me and my annoying employers" is in any way a legitimate reason that some states shouldn't be allowed to have different rules. In short, I think you're whiny, and if not personally a scum-sucking weasal, then you at least work for them.
I want to open a mail order business selling booze and flechette rounds for shotguns! What do you mean I have to keep up with the laws in 49 other states? They're legal out here in the boondocks!
If you get caught calling people on the state DNC list, you had better have paid the man or else it's game on for lawsuits.
Hey, this state list sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I'd rather not talk to poeple I no longer have a business relationship with.
I picked e-mail, and the updates are entirely at the discretion of the state. So every month or so, my office e-mail gets choked with the list in several parts, so I had to work a special deal with the MIS guys to get extra space on the server.
Poor boy. Here's a nickel, go get yourself a real computer.
On a lot of old machines it actually changed the clock multiplier. Back when there wasn't a new, faster processor stepping every 5 minutes people wrote games that used loops for timing. When you bought your new 286 to replace the 8086, all your games ran too fast. Hence the turbo button. Turn it off and halve your clock speed.
While I'm not going to pretend to know exactly how much, I can pretty safely say that that less than a gallon of oil is used to produce a gallon of oil. Why? Because the pumping equipment, the tankers and refining equipment for oil are all largely run off of oil products, and there is still some left at the end of the process to sell to me to run my car.
And why can't we burn Ethanol to produce Ethanol?
Because you don't get enough energy out of Ethanol to make it self sustaining. Thats what this report is saying. I need x amount of energy to produce y amount of ethanol. y amount of ethanol produces z amount of energy. x > z. Therefore if I'm burning gas to produce ethanol which I'm going to replace gasoline with, at the end of the process I have less fuel, less energy than I started with. I've lost instead of gained. If this report is correct then manufacturing ethanol to replace gasoline leaves you worse off than if you just burned the gasoline.
But I wonder how much time it will bet logitech and microsoft to come up with similar solutions. Come on, the keyboard hasn't evolved in the last 25 years. How many ppl still use the SCROLL LOCK key ? Umm ? And don't tell me slapping a bunch of "multi" - "media" keys on top is a revolution.
Well, I do, although mostly not for things it was intended for. On the other hand, I'm using an IBM model M manufactured in 1984, so I may not be the expert on keyboard evolution.
Onward folding springs!
No, not meaningless. We're using Ethanol to replace Gasoline. We're burning Gasoline to produce it. If we're burning more gasoline to produce Ethanol than we're replacing _with_ Ethanol, then our current policy of burning Ethanol is pretty damn stupid.