Remember that if you hand it over, YOU will be expected to administer, troubleshoot, maintain, and improve a system that you did not and are not getting paid for. The only work around I see is for them to update your paygrade as renumeration then add those taskes to your new job description. Otherwise you are in for a trampling.
Since most people (home consumers) can't be bothered to change a default name/password/ssid on damn things anyway about 80% or more are unsecure as it it. If you want a secure connection, don't use the air, use a wire, and better yet, make sure you own and monitor its entire length.
Once we have a working space elevator, we can attach a mass driver to the end to do precisely that. Until then we need a stop gap solution. (Tongue in cheek).
But yeah! I got my first accepted submission on my first try. (Sarcastic self-congratulatory pack pat ensues).
I thought this was interesting for many reasons, but I can attest that incomplete information can hinder things very much. I have never worked directly with name registrations, but I used to process DNS records about 13 years ago, and it was painful when I would get an incomplete request.
"According to SOPA regulations we have been reqired to remove this content/site."
The main difference is who holds the stick. Here it is the corporation who holds the intellectual property (although there is not much intellectual coming out of Hollywood). There it is the government.
For the same reason we have security theater.
For the same reason we have a 'War on Drugs'.
We seem to be blind to the fact (as a society or a government), that you cannot legislate or regulate a cure to a problem. People will always do what seems in their best interest, be it recreationally, economically, or otherwise.
Very little our government does actually address the core issue, it just places band-aids on top of it. This, I think at least partly because a democracy is a system of compromise and once you have compromised the strength of many solutions is sapped by that compromise. This is not to say that it never works, but it is degrading quickly. Creating stop-gap solutions and band-aids helps those in power feel like they have made a difference, and for the most part the willfully uninformed public follows and agrees.
As a case in point take the drug war. It would be unfeasible to say shoot all smugglers and dealers. It is also impossible (in our current society) to say legalize all drugs. Instead we have a multibillion boondoggle of a system to try to stop and regulate illegal drugs, and it has never worked. In addtion, even though it is obvious that it doesn't work, there are those who benefit from it's existence and will push to keep it even if it is a failure.
There will always be those who find it better to game the system than to stay within it.
There will always be a disenfranchised group who feels they have to act differently than the norms for the interest.
There will always be those who feel they have the tight to abuse or prey on others.
I recently trued to 'e-borrow' a recent book from the library. First, it is a newer best seller (A Dance With Dragons). I checked itout physically, but as a best seller it was only a 7day checkout with no renewal. This was not enought time for me, so I decided (for the first time) to checkout an e-book. I have now been on a waiting list for two weeks, as the local group of livraries cannot lend but so many e-copies at a time. And still don't have the book. I don't know what more difficulty I could have. If I were going to purchase the book (or e-book) because of the difficulty in obtaining it another way I would have done so by now. The only further dificulty they could possibly put on the system (to me), is to not let the library get the book at all, and if the publisher did that, I would be inclined to never purchase any book again and instead get pirated e-copies.
The main problem is this is an entrenched, rich, power laden industry, and as such wields a BIG STICK, just like the MPAA and RIAA. No matter how dead, dying, or different an industry may become, the power in the seat will ALWAYS resist the change.
/. Needs to watch the submissions a little closer. The article clearly states that the sphere hit his roof, not crashed through it. /. = good /. + sensationalism = bad
FYI, I do believe whole-heartedly in free speech. I just used Fox News to fill you the syllables. I could have just as easily used MSNBC. Both say (IMHO) some reprehensible things, but they have the right to do so.
And BTW, the whole thing is meant as a joke!
(Hopefully this wont get/. a take down notice!)
Sung to the tune of Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American"
"Sucks to be an American"
[Verse]
If tomorrow all my posts were gone I'd created all my life,
And I had to start again under a lawsuit filled with strife.
I'd curse my karma to be living here today,
'Cause congress sold the flag of freedom
And the corporations took it away.
[Chorus]
It sucks to be an American
Where we have Fox News on TV
My girl can't sing a cover of Brittney Spears
Because SOPA's censored she,
They issued a take down, and sued my family
For 15 million bucks,
Cause there ain't no doubt congress sold this land,
And SOPAs just one way.
[Verse]
From the Sony lakes of Minnesota, to the Disney hills of Tennessee
Across the plais of RCA Texas, from company to company.
From multinational owned Detroit and Houston and L.A,
There's fear in every American heart
And it's time we stand and say:
[Chorus]
It sucks to be an American
Where we have Fox News on TV
My girl can't sing a cover of Brittney Spears
Because SOPA's censored she,
They issued a take down, and sued my family
For 15 million bucks,
Cause there ain't no doubt congress sold this land,
And SOPAs just one way.
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Remember that if you hand it over, YOU will be expected to administer, troubleshoot, maintain, and improve a system that you did not and are not getting paid for. The only work around I see is for them to update your paygrade as renumeration then add those taskes to your new job description. Otherwise you are in for a trampling.
Since most people (home consumers) can't be bothered to change a default name/password/ssid on damn things anyway about 80% or more are unsecure as it it. If you want a secure connection, don't use the air, use a wire, and better yet, make sure you own and monitor its entire length.
For the low low price of $0.05 per 5 pictures, tons of poor dweebs and Indians (from India) will do it on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. :-P
Once we have a working space elevator, we can attach a mass driver to the end to do precisely that. Until then we need a stop gap solution. (Tongue in cheek).
Please, don't compare GoDaddy to prostitutes. At least the services prostitutes offer are honest.
I am not sure all prostitutes offer honest service, but I have yet to meet one who prevented you from pulling out when you wanted!
When submitted this I had not looked at recent submissions and bs03d had submitted a story on the same subject, using the same title! I voted his up, but for some reason mine was accepted with additions from him.
But yeah! I got my first accepted submission on my first try. (Sarcastic self-congratulatory pack pat ensues).
I thought this was interesting for many reasons, but I can attest that incomplete information can hinder things very much. I have never worked directly with name registrations, but I used to process DNS records about 13 years ago, and it was painful when I would get an incomplete request.
The only Apple product I use/own is iTunes, and guess what, I don't need it for anything. It is uninstalling now.
Is it so different that what we could see here?
"According to SOPA regulations we have been reqired to remove this content/site."
The main difference is who holds the stick. Here it is the corporation who holds the intellectual property (although there is not much intellectual coming out of Hollywood). There it is the government.
For the same reason we have security theater.
For the same reason we have a 'War on Drugs'.
We seem to be blind to the fact (as a society or a government), that you cannot legislate or regulate a cure to a problem. People will always do what seems in their best interest, be it recreationally, economically, or otherwise.
Very little our government does actually address the core issue, it just places band-aids on top of it. This, I think at least partly because a democracy is a system of compromise and once you have compromised the strength of many solutions is sapped by that compromise. This is not to say that it never works, but it is degrading quickly. Creating stop-gap solutions and band-aids helps those in power feel like they have made a difference, and for the most part the willfully uninformed public follows and agrees.
As a case in point take the drug war. It would be unfeasible to say shoot all smugglers and dealers. It is also impossible (in our current society) to say legalize all drugs. Instead we have a multibillion boondoggle of a system to try to stop and regulate illegal drugs, and it has never worked. In addtion, even though it is obvious that it doesn't work, there are those who benefit from it's existence and will push to keep it even if it is a failure.
There will always be those who find it better to game the system than to stay within it.
There will always be a disenfranchised group who feels they have to act differently than the norms for the interest.
There will always be those who feel they have the tight to abuse or prey on others.
The main problem is this is an entrenched, rich, power laden industry, and as such wields a BIG STICK, just like the MPAA and RIAA. No matter how dead, dying, or different an industry may become, the power in the seat will ALWAYS resist the change.
/. Needs to watch the submissions a little closer. The article clearly states that the sphere hit his roof, not crashed through it.
/. = good
/. + sensationalism = bad
I guess they won't be getting Ice Cream Sandwich without rooting either.
The site has gone from blinking 'Server Overtemp' to 'Server Meltdown!' /. is killing it:( .. Merry x-Mas all!
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Don't forget to donate if you can
FYI, I do believe whole-heartedly in free speech. I just used Fox News to fill you the syllables. I could have just as easily used MSNBC. Both say (IMHO) some reprehensible things, but they have the right to do so. And BTW, the whole thing is meant as a joke!
(Hopefully this wont get /. a take down notice!)
Sung to the tune of Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American"
"Sucks to be an American"
[Verse]
If tomorrow all my posts were gone I'd created all my life,
And I had to start again under a lawsuit filled with strife.
I'd curse my karma to be living here today,
'Cause congress sold the flag of freedom
And the corporations took it away.
[Chorus]
It sucks to be an American
Where we have Fox News on TV
My girl can't sing a cover of Brittney Spears
Because SOPA's censored she,
They issued a take down, and sued my family
For 15 million bucks,
Cause there ain't no doubt congress sold this land,
And SOPAs just one way.
[Verse]
From the Sony lakes of Minnesota, to the Disney hills of Tennessee
Across the plais of RCA Texas, from company to company.
From multinational owned Detroit and Houston and L.A,
There's fear in every American heart
And it's time we stand and say:
[Chorus]
It sucks to be an American
Where we have Fox News on TV
My girl can't sing a cover of Brittney Spears
Because SOPA's censored she,
They issued a take down, and sued my family
For 15 million bucks,
Cause there ain't no doubt congress sold this land,
And SOPAs just one way.