The real cleverness of the Google desktop is how it indexes the info in all those proprietary Microsoft formats like outlook, word and excel. It helps make being forced to live in a corporate environment livable. I'm sure you think this is a bad thing.
People who have been able to make Linux fit their wold, or perhaps their world fit Linux, can do a grep -r to find a lot of such info.
Google has made a solid effort to support their products on open source platforms, I am sure they are putting far more resources into this than can be explained by open source market share.
Whether they do this out of benevolence or greed is a matter for debate, but if the Microsoft monopoly is ever broken it will likely be due to Google.
Because most of us are not as clever and well organized as you. Or not as anal. What do you use to look up contact info for a project you worked on for a week three years ago? Google desktop gives me a quick hit on three emails and my IM logs in windows.
Since I tell legitimate mailers that all of the email addresses on my domain are there, then they inform me about spam target's vacations, whitelists , mailbox deletions and whatnot.
The BASENAME-ADDITION@xxx.xxx is working a lot nicer for me, and I am just about ready to put the kibbosh on the catchall.
He is guilty because he "intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization" did "Access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network" to "otherwise use the service of a computer program , computer, computer system, or computer network."
He could have beaten the rap by attacking the first clause... "Intentionally and without authorization." If he had in the past connected to the coffee shop's wifi while enjoying some delicious upper peninsula java, he was connecting with authorization. A sign on the counter stating "WIFI is for customers only." would not prohibit him from using the service again, unless the business owner had a detailed disclaimer revoking authorization after the customer left the premises.
Or, he could say that he did not know that he was on the coffee shop's internet since once he connected he would be connected automatically later. Probably blew that with his chat with the officer.
Probably an ecconomic decision was made... good Lawyer = $1500 vs. Probation before judgment + fine = $400. Don't know about the value of his time is for the 40 hours of picking up discarded coffee cups on the side of the road.
Show me there is a law that says if you leave the door open I can waltz into your living room.
Here is the law that says it is illegal to connect to WIFI networks without permission.
I have to wonder about law enforcement priorities when a Law Officer has to look up whether an act is illegal before charging someone with a victimless crime and gets a bench warrent issued. Can a police officer start issuing warrants for things that he remembers that someone did that he just found out was illegal? Should he?
FRAUDULENT ACCESS TO COMPUTERS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER NETWORKS (EXCERPT) Act 53 of 1979
752.795 Prohibited conduct.
Sec. 5.
A person shall not intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization do any of the following:
(a) Access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network to acquire, alter, damage, delete, or destroy property or otherwise use the service of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.
(b) Insert or attach or knowingly create the opportunity for an unknowing and unwanted insertion or attachment of a set of instructions or a computer program into a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network, that is intended to acquire, alter, damage, delete, disrupt, or destroy property or otherwise use the services of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network. This subdivision does not prohibit conduct protected under section 5 of article I of the state constitution of 1963 or under the first amendment of the constitution of the United States.
FRAUDULENT ACCESS TO COMPUTERS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER NETWORKS (EXCERPT) Act 53 of 1979
752.794 Prohibited access to computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.
Sec. 4.
A person shall not intentionally access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network to devise or execute a scheme or artifice with the intent to defraud or to obtain money, property, or a service by a false or fraudulent pretense, representation, or promise....
Verizon, T-Mo and Cingular are still limping along. BES and BIS affected to the same degree. I am surprised that my Blackberry internet uses the same data channel from the T-Mo network, I knew that BES did, but I suppose the fact that google always defaulted to google canada was a giveaway.
Nothing for me to d but play Brick Breaker or actually work. I will choose the former no doubt.
They have SOME cisco to be sure. They went with Juniper for a lot of the core, they replaced the ATA186s with motorollas and the linksys deals arent a huge moneymaker for the linksys arm. They use Juniper firewalls, and certainly don't use cisco VOIP call gateways.
Verizon on the other hand, thru its FIOS and its many mergers is a freaking huge customer and there is more money on the table for Verizon in a year than Vonage for a decade.
The reason Cisco shouldn't be giving Verizon high fives all around is the fact that these same patents cover Cisco's entire VOIP line of business. Im sure Verizon has no real expectation of them holding up that long, just long enough for vonage to go under.
Of course an aquisition by a competitor with deep pockets (Sprint) might teach Verizon a costly lesson.
The submitters of these patents are midlevel tech specialists. They get a 1000 dollar bonus per patent, they have no tools or desire to look for prior art.
I fail to understand verizons claims. They say that they are losing customers due to Vonage's abuses of their patents, but don't they need to prove that they are losing money from their own use of their own patents? Not the competing wireline services.
All of these patents date from the Bell Atlantic days, and all of them are from a variety of labs that I personally worked with at the time. The employees of these labs were encouraged to apply for patents for almost any ridiculous thing, and the result is thousands of idiotic, obvious to an expert patents with a ton of prior art.
Bell Atlantic was working with existing VOIP vendors in these same Labs when these patents were filed. They were playing around with Sonus and Cisco gear at the exact same time the patents were filed.
Most of this is in publshed standards. Can Verizon now sue all vendors who implement SIP, why yes they can. Should they be allowed to? No.
Say it together, excessively broad, obvious to an expert, prior art.
DHCP servers will keep a record of the mac address to IP address correlation. If you are sneaking thru somebody elses wireless connection, then the odds are vanishingly small that mac address is being tracked.
On a corporate network changing the mac makes it very hard to trace back to the end user as , at best, the mac is captured and related to a specific switch port maybe once an hour depending on how on thier game the NOC is.
If we are talking about the mac address facing the ISP then it is indeed tracked, and likely trackable to the end home router no matter how many times the ip/mac is changed.
Changing the external mac on a home router is a good way to get a new ip quickly, but not so good for anonymity as every broadband system that I know tracks the handoff of IPs to the end user to a degree.
For a much smaller range of frequencies, 35 companies paid 325 million to just participate in spectrum auctions. I don't know how much money they made on the first set of auctions, but it was a ton.
For the frequencies used in analog tv, minus the much smaller range used for digital tv, the FCC will make a killing. These are some fat frequency ranges that are mostly wasted on old fashioned analog tv. I was pissed when they were going to end analog with no provision for legacy tv, but this is a good solution.
It will mean more fancy schmancy wireless data for us geeks as well.
Out of curiosity, how many dollars do you have to pay a year in order to practice your trade? Is it hundreds of thousands of dollars? No? If you fuck up once, what is the worst possible consequence? Can you be arrested, jailed and sued penniless? No? Gosh, us programmers and engineers have it tough.
I personally failed out of college and smoked dope for 5 years and can buy and sell my Doctor brother. I am not a sterling example, no, but comparing a typical engineers job preparation requirements vs that of a doctor's is a bit specious.
I imagine there is a pretty fucking steep turnaround at around 20 years in, when Doctors will get to coast a bit on the benefits of their built up practice, but hey if you are so bitter, start studying for the MCATs. No one is holding a gun to your head and making you code.
Although what do the Californians care about -16 degrees.
My garage bulbs are very dim at 50 degrees or lower. They do get better as you leave them on and they warm up. I usually have to combine a florescent and an incandescent gor some fixtures.
A. is what is refered to as a tax credit, which are great and you should jump on them when you see them.
Deductions need to be over the standard deduction to be worth the effort. Tax preparation software as well as accountant fees are generally fully deductable, reducint the amount of taxable income.
A good accountant can help you find things that are deductable, the home office is a beuatiful thing.
Your question is clearly excessively vague, but I'll bite.
If you are going to take the standard deduction, then do it with a scractchpad or the IRS web site.
If not I recommend turbo-tax premier up through thier home and business software, or an ongoing cordial business relationship with a tax accountant or tax lawyer. I personally like trurbotax especially if you are trying out hypothetical situations. (Hmmn, maybe that was actually a home office expense, or what if I paid a lot more for that?) but a good tax professional can really open your eyes about what you should be paying. They know what the govies care about and can run the edge for you.
Intuit was a bunch of dickheads a few years ago (registering per computer, very bad idea and it cost them) and TTax is windows and mac only but life sucks. Maybe wine can get it running, or use a vmware running that windows 2000 work image.
If you have employees you should establish a relationship with a tax accountant or tax lawyer.
The scenario described abobe is unlikely to occur. Companies rarely rescind written job offers, and never haggle individual terms after they are accepted. In any case, processing the paperwork and getting them set up is a front loaded cost. The company would be an idiot to hire someone and fire them after 5 minutes.
The reason they do not do this, and you should be glad if they do, is that it would be like hitting the lottery for the employee. You could then get another job, and sue for wrongful termination. Two years later you settle for two years salary. Take a vacation.
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pay per view channels.... That is scientific tinkering too.
Just kidding. I want a cablecard mythtv box. Now.
The only people who should be grateful to Karl Rove and company are oil company execs, the President of Iran and Osama bin Lauden.
Which is kind of funny actually. They were probably all brown and funny looking though.
Was established to conserve Gasoline. The safety bullshit is not backed up by statistics, and a is a family friendly way to justify the limits.
Of course with our current petroleum issues we will have 50 mile an hour limits any day now.
The real cleverness of the Google desktop is how it indexes the info in all those proprietary Microsoft formats like outlook, word and excel. It helps make being forced to live in a corporate environment livable. I'm sure you think this is a bad thing.
People who have been able to make Linux fit their wold, or perhaps their world fit Linux, can do a grep -r to find a lot of such info.
Google has made a solid effort to support their products on open source platforms, I am sure they are putting far more resources into this than can be explained by open source market share.
Whether they do this out of benevolence or greed is a matter for debate, but if the Microsoft monopoly is ever broken it will likely be due to Google.
Because most of us are not as clever and well organized as you. Or not as anal. What do you use to look up contact info for a project you worked on for a week three years ago? Google desktop gives me a quick hit on three emails and my IM logs in windows.
Since I tell legitimate mailers that all of the email addresses on my domain are there, then they inform me about spam target's vacations, whitelists , mailbox deletions and whatnot.
The BASENAME-ADDITION@xxx.xxx is working a lot nicer for me, and I am just about ready to put the kibbosh on the catchall.
He is guilty because he "intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization" did "Access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network" to "otherwise use the service of a computer program , computer, computer system, or computer network."
... good Lawyer = $1500 vs. Probation before judgment + fine = $400. Don't know about the value of his time is for the 40 hours of picking up discarded coffee cups on the side of the road.
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;-- Am. 1996, Act 326, Eff. Apr. 1, 1997
He could have beaten the rap by attacking the first clause... "Intentionally and without authorization." If he had in the past connected to the coffee shop's wifi while enjoying some delicious upper peninsula java, he was connecting with authorization. A sign on the counter stating "WIFI is for customers only." would not prohibit him from using the service again, unless the business owner had a detailed disclaimer revoking authorization after the customer left the premises.
Or, he could say that he did not know that he was on the coffee shop's internet since once he connected he would be connected automatically later. Probably blew that with his chat with the officer.
Probably an ecconomic decision was made
Show me there is a law that says if you leave the door open I can waltz into your living room.
Here is the law that says it is illegal to connect to WIFI networks without permission.
I have to wonder about law enforcement priorities when a Law Officer has to look up whether an act is illegal before charging someone with a victimless crime and gets a bench warrent issued. Can a police officer start issuing warrants for things that he remembers that someone did that he just found out was illegal? Should he?
FROM:
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(kflird55tkhn1vnl
Section 752.795 [Short Link] [Printer-Friendly Versions]
FRAUDULENT ACCESS TO COMPUTERS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER NETWORKS (EXCERPT)
Act 53 of 1979
752.795 Prohibited conduct.
Sec. 5.
A person shall not intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization do any of the following:
(a) Access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network to acquire, alter, damage, delete, or destroy property or otherwise use the service of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.
(b) Insert or attach or knowingly create the opportunity for an unknowing and unwanted insertion or attachment of a set of instructions or a computer program into a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network, that is intended to acquire, alter, damage, delete, disrupt, or destroy property or otherwise use the services of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network. This subdivision does not prohibit conduct protected under section 5 of article I of the state constitution of 1963 or under the first amendment of the constitution of the United States.
History: 1979, Act 53, Eff. Mar. 27, 1980
FRAUDULENT ACCESS TO COMPUTERS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER NETWORKS (EXCERPT)
Act 53 of 1979
752.794 Prohibited access to computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.
Sec. 4.
A person shall not intentionally access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network to devise or execute a scheme or artifice with the intent to defraud or to obtain money, property, or a service by a false or fraudulent pretense, representation, or promise....
Verizon, T-Mo and Cingular are still limping along. BES and BIS affected to the same degree. I am surprised that my Blackberry internet uses the same data channel from the T-Mo network, I knew that BES did, but I suppose the fact that google always defaulted to google canada was a giveaway.
Nothing for me to d but play Brick Breaker or actually work. I will choose the former no doubt.
They have SOME cisco to be sure. They went with Juniper for a lot of the core, they replaced the ATA186s with motorollas and the linksys deals arent a huge moneymaker for the linksys arm. They use Juniper firewalls, and certainly don't use cisco VOIP call gateways.
Verizon on the other hand, thru its FIOS and its many mergers is a freaking huge customer and there is more money on the table for Verizon in a year than Vonage for a decade.
The reason Cisco shouldn't be giving Verizon high fives all around is the fact that these same patents cover Cisco's entire VOIP line of business. Im sure Verizon has no real expectation of them holding up that long, just long enough for vonage to go under.
Of course an aquisition by a competitor with deep pockets (Sprint) might teach Verizon a costly lesson.
The submitters of these patents are midlevel tech specialists. They get a 1000 dollar bonus per patent, they have no tools or desire to look for prior art.
Vonage had 30 minutes to reply in court, to a non-technical jury. Go rocket docket. Goodnight irene.
I fail to understand verizons claims. They say that they are losing customers due to Vonage's abuses of their patents, but don't they need to prove that they are losing money from their own use of their own patents? Not the competing wireline services.
All of these patents date from the Bell Atlantic days, and all of them are from a variety of labs that I personally worked with at the time. The employees of these labs were encouraged to apply for patents for almost any ridiculous thing, and the result is thousands of idiotic, obvious to an expert patents with a ton of prior art.
Bell Atlantic was working with existing VOIP vendors in these same Labs when these patents were filed. They were playing around with Sonus and Cisco gear at the exact same time the patents were filed.
Most of this is in publshed standards. Can Verizon now sue all vendors who implement SIP, why yes they can. Should they be allowed to? No.
Say it together, excessively broad, obvious to an expert, prior art.
I was able to hit ^C before it generated a file list and destroyed a bunch of billing records. I was happy to be on a slow slow boxfor once.
So 69 TCP is good. I like 69. Okay that was very 8th grade.
DHCP servers will keep a record of the mac address to IP address correlation. If you are sneaking thru somebody elses wireless connection, then the odds are vanishingly small that mac address is being tracked.
On a corporate network changing the mac makes it very hard to trace back to the end user as , at best, the mac is captured and related to a specific switch port maybe once an hour depending on how on thier game the NOC is.
If we are talking about the mac address facing the ISP then it is indeed tracked, and likely trackable to the end home router no matter how many times the ip/mac is changed.
Changing the external mac on a home router is a good way to get a new ip quickly, but not so good for anonymity as every broadband system that I know tracks the handoff of IPs to the end user to a degree.
http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2005/01/12/f cc-spectrum-bidders
For a much smaller range of frequencies, 35 companies paid 325 million to just participate in spectrum auctions. I don't know how much money they made on the first set of auctions, but it was a ton.
For the frequencies used in analog tv, minus the much smaller range used for digital tv, the FCC will make a killing. These are some fat frequency ranges that are mostly wasted on old fashioned analog tv. I was pissed when they were going to end analog with no provision for legacy tv, but this is a good solution.
It will mean more fancy schmancy wireless data for us geeks as well.
let-the-police-state-protect-you-from-all-that-is- Bad (Ay-Rabs)
The doctors a sneaking in to your house and spreading germs on you.
Adjust the TFH. The rays are getting thru.
Out of curiosity, how many dollars do you have to pay a year in order to practice your trade? Is it hundreds of thousands of dollars? No? If you fuck up once, what is the worst possible consequence? Can you be arrested, jailed and sued penniless? No? Gosh, us programmers and engineers have it tough.
I personally failed out of college and smoked dope for 5 years and can buy and sell my Doctor brother. I am not a sterling example, no, but comparing a typical engineers job preparation requirements vs that of a doctor's is a bit specious.
I imagine there is a pretty fucking steep turnaround at around 20 years in, when Doctors will get to coast a bit on the benefits of their built up practice, but hey if you are so bitter, start studying for the MCATs. No one is holding a gun to your head and making you code.
Although what do the Californians care about -16 degrees.
My garage bulbs are very dim at 50 degrees or lower. They do get better as you leave them on and they warm up. I usually have to combine a florescent and an incandescent gor some fixtures.
A. is what is refered to as a tax credit, which are great and you should jump on them when you see them.
Deductions need to be over the standard deduction to be worth the effort. Tax preparation software as well as accountant fees are generally fully deductable, reducint the amount of taxable income.
A good accountant can help you find things that are deductable, the home office is a beuatiful thing.
Your question is clearly excessively vague, but I'll bite.
If you are going to take the standard deduction, then do it with a scractchpad or the IRS web site.
If not I recommend turbo-tax premier up through thier home and business software, or an ongoing cordial business relationship with a tax accountant or tax lawyer. I personally like trurbotax especially if you are trying out hypothetical situations. (Hmmn, maybe that was actually a home office expense, or what if I paid a lot more for that?) but a good tax professional can really open your eyes about what you should be paying. They know what the govies care about and can run the edge for you.
Intuit was a bunch of dickheads a few years ago (registering per computer, very bad idea and it cost them) and TTax is windows and mac only but life sucks. Maybe wine can get it running, or use a vmware running that windows 2000 work image.
If you have employees you should establish a relationship with a tax accountant or tax lawyer.
Perhaps they do that at the Baby Gap.
The scenario described abobe is unlikely to occur. Companies rarely rescind written job offers, and never haggle individual terms after they are accepted. In any case, processing the paperwork and getting them set up is a front loaded cost. The company would be an idiot to hire someone and fire them after 5 minutes.
The reason they do not do this, and you should be glad if they do, is that it would be like hitting the lottery for the employee. You could then get another job, and sue for wrongful termination. Two years later you settle for two years salary. Take a vacation.
I didn't tell him about the bats. The poor bastard would find out about them soon enough.