log in as him 4 times...keep locking out his account...I'm the master Domain admin
Given your evident lack of embarrassment, I assume that though you're the "master domain admin", you are not personally responsible for this policy of lockout madness? The idiot that is responsible for such a policy is surely the best target for this kind of treatment? And if that doesn't get the message through, the same jape on the exec team will get the policy changed in a hurry.
I think your sliced meat policy is spot on though.
video of ordinary people explaining why they think copyright exists. It's pretty clear that most people don't understand it at all.
I disagree. The people in this video...seem to get the gist of what intellectual property rights are supposed to protect.
You disagree because apparently you don't understand why copyright exists either. The purpose of copyright is not to protect "intellectual property rights" and your guff about copyrights' role in supply and demand is just a red herring. Copyrights exist to promote the useful arts and science, for the benefit of society as a whole. Encouraging producers by extending certain (limited, supposedly) monopoly rights is (one) means to an end, but it's not the end in and of itself.
GP is wrong - most analyses show that pharmcos spend between two and three times as much on marketing as they do on R&D. The raw data for these studies is the pharmcos' SEC filings. There's plenty of analysis of this
equivalent to a jet flying at a speed of 30,000 kmph, at a height of just one metre above the ground, and yet being able to see and catalogue every single blade of grass it passes over
The "worst offender" (from Nerds on Site) mentioned in the TFA also copied the contents of the hard drive onto his own system. He even had the temerity to joke about going through the woman's holiday photos later.
When the boss of Nerds on Site saw the video he said "that guy is not an employee, as of right now". The voiceover at the end of the segment said the arsehole was still actually with NoS, but not in a customer-facing role. So that's all right then.
my experience has been geeks, true geeks who really know technology are the ones far more likely to shrug and take no money for helping someone with technology
Oh they had some of those too - one store they took a system in to (with a few corrupted Windows files) the guy was quite upfront - "put your install disk in, follow the prompts. No Charge". Another of their advisory geeks told an anecdote of working at one ShittyShop where he diagnosed and fixed a non-booting system in thirty seconds - motherboard power connector loose - he didn't charge the customer and subsequently received a mighty bollocking from his boss.
But you're still right that this was about ripoffs by assholes, not geeks. Point is, for the most part, geeks who know their shit don't work for these crappy outfits. (The "worst offender" mentioned in TFA is never going to dare show his chubby, grinning face where any genuine geek might spot him, poor bastard. His performance was teeth-grinding, sphincter-clenching embarassment.)
You can't have seen the show - they inserted RAM that had been "blown" (I think they'd dropped a blob of solder on some crucial area) so the machine wouldn't even POST. It's not hard to diagnose why a machine won't even get to post - RAM or motherboard or CPU or an external card. (Indeed all four of those reasons were given by various different techs).
It may seem like satire, but having seen Mr Fair on several occasions, his description is closer to the reality than you might imagine. He certainly fits your tag of "muso first, guitarist second", although a music snob like yourself would probably claim that he is using a guitar as a percussion instrument. I'd recommend you listen to some of his recordings before making stupid claims about who is full of shit.
I taught myself to play guitar. It's incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play the high sounds, and the fat strings play the low sounds. If you put your finger on the string father out by the tuning end it makes a lower sound. If you want to play fast move your hand fast and if you want to play slower move your hand slower. That's all there is to it. You can learn the names of notes and how to make chords that other people use, but that's pretty limiting. Even if you took a few years and learned all the chords you'd still have a limited number of options. If you ignore the chords your options are infinite and you can master guitar playing in one day.
Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier and skinnier as they go down. But he thing to remember is it's your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different sized strings on it because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put all of the same thickness on so he wouldn't have so much to worry about. What ever string he hit had to be the right one because they were all the same.
Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. If you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place would be wrong. But that absurd. How could it be wrong? It's your guitar and you're the one playing it. It's completely up to you to decide hoe it should sound. In fact I don't tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they're all about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all they don't depend on body resonating for the sound so it doesn't matter if you paint them. As also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction to effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the strings can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls.
The first guitar I bought was a Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it really doesn't matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I've never tried one. I guess they sound alright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you'd feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn't to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world.
backup All your data ; backup Frequently ; take some backups Off-site ; Keep some old backups ; Test your backups ; Secure your backups ; perform Integrity checking
I'm struggling to make AFOKTSI memorable. A-fockt-si? Sounds east-European for something I'd rather not hear more about.
Only 6% of developers...have adopted GPLv3...Two-thirds say they will not be adopting GPLv3 anytime in the next year, and 43% say they will never implement the new license
Interesting to compare this "shunning" with Vista:
less than 2% of UK-based firms have already upgraded all their desktops to Windows Vista. Just shy of 5% said that they have begun a Windows Vista desktop upgrade program. 6.5% said they will upgrade in the next 6 months; 12.6% in the next 12 months; 13% in the next 18 months; and 18% in the next two years
the new "fleet" (if I could call them that) of sysadmins
Now you got me thinking - what is the collective noun for sys admins? Google only offered up "a pallor of sys admins". How about a rack of sys admins? A compilation of sys admins? A command-line of sys admins? A sneer of sys admins?
If you write a book that is similar enough to,...Da Vinci Code, you will get sued for copyright infringement, even if the words are not identical.
Are you not aware that the author of Da Vinci Code easily triumphed in court? He won specifically because copyrights do not cover ideas. Conflating copyrights with patents is doublethink
When a bunch of cops stopped an alleged speeder in front of my old house, I complained about the constant blue and red lights and strobes keeping me awake -- I was told I have no right to prevent it
And that's your idea of "tyranny" is it? [rolls eyes]
Maybe you'd have a point if the cop had given you a tazing (which it sounds like you deserved), but really, such risible statements only serve to undermine what little sense there is in the rest of your screed
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Given your evident lack of embarrassment, I assume that though you're the "master domain admin", you are not personally responsible for this policy of lockout madness? The idiot that is responsible for such a policy is surely the best target for this kind of treatment? And if that doesn't get the message through, the same jape on the exec team will get the policy changed in a hurry.
I think your sliced meat policy is spot on though.
You disagree because apparently you don't understand why copyright exists either. The purpose of copyright is not to protect "intellectual property rights" and your guff about copyrights' role in supply and demand is just a red herring. Copyrights exist to promote the useful arts and science, for the benefit of society as a whole. Encouraging producers by extending certain (limited, supposedly) monopoly rights is (one) means to an end, but it's not the end in and of itself.
GP is wrong - most analyses show that pharmcos spend between two and three times as much on marketing as they do on R&D. The raw data for these studies is the pharmcos' SEC filings. There's plenty of analysis of this
Three stories on Italy so far is nothing. We need to get posting submissions about the 16 billion pixel image of da Vinci's Last Supper. This one could be the big one
The BBC coverage of this story has a nice analogy :
The "worst offender" (from Nerds on Site) mentioned in the TFA also copied the contents of the hard drive onto his own system. He even had the temerity to joke about going through the woman's holiday photos later.
When the boss of Nerds on Site saw the video he said "that guy is not an employee, as of right now". The voiceover at the end of the segment said the arsehole was still actually with NoS, but not in a customer-facing role. So that's all right then.
Oh they had some of those too - one store they took a system in to (with a few corrupted Windows files) the guy was quite upfront - "put your install disk in, follow the prompts. No Charge". Another of their advisory geeks told an anecdote of working at one ShittyShop where he diagnosed and fixed a non-booting system in thirty seconds - motherboard power connector loose - he didn't charge the customer and subsequently received a mighty bollocking from his boss.
But you're still right that this was about ripoffs by assholes, not geeks. Point is, for the most part, geeks who know their shit don't work for these crappy outfits. (The "worst offender" mentioned in TFA is never going to dare show his chubby, grinning face where any genuine geek might spot him, poor bastard. His performance was teeth-grinding, sphincter-clenching embarassment.)
You can't have seen the show - they inserted RAM that had been "blown" (I think they'd dropped a blob of solder on some crucial area) so the machine wouldn't even POST. It's not hard to diagnose why a machine won't even get to post - RAM or motherboard or CPU or an external card. (Indeed all four of those reasons were given by various different techs).
...is another person's terrorist attack
It may seem like satire, but having seen Mr Fair on several occasions, his description is closer to the reality than you might imagine. He certainly fits your tag of "muso first, guitarist second", although a music snob like yourself would probably claim that he is using a guitar as a percussion instrument. I'd recommend you listen to some of his recordings before making stupid claims about who is full of shit.
How to play Guitar by David [Jad] Fair
I taught myself to play guitar. It's incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play the high sounds, and the fat strings play the low sounds. If you put your finger on the string father out by the tuning end it makes a lower sound. If you want to play fast move your hand fast and if you want to play slower move your hand slower. That's all there is to it. You can learn the names of notes and how to make chords that other people use, but that's pretty limiting. Even if you took a few years and learned all the chords you'd still have a limited number of options. If you ignore the chords your options are infinite and you can master guitar playing in one day.
Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier and skinnier as they go down. But he thing to remember is it's your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different sized strings on it because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put all of the same thickness on so he wouldn't have so much to worry about. What ever string he hit had to be the right one because they were all the same.
Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. If you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place would be wrong. But that absurd. How could it be wrong? It's your guitar and you're the one playing it. It's completely up to you to decide hoe it should sound. In fact I don't tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they're all about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all they don't depend on body resonating for the sound so it doesn't matter if you paint them. As also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction to effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the strings can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls.
The first guitar I bought was a Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it really doesn't matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I've never tried one. I guess they sound alright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you'd feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn't to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world.
Hmmm. Better might be :
backup All your data ; backup Frequently ; take some backups Off-site ; Keep some old backups ; Test your backups ; Secure your backups ; perform Integrity checking
I'm struggling to make AFOKTSI memorable. A-fockt-si? Sounds east-European for something I'd rather not hear more about.
HAND. HIBT?
Oops. Someone missed the 3rd step in the Tao of Backup : separation
That list again in full:
Backup all your data
Backup frequently
Take some backups off-site
Keep some old backups
Test your backups
Secure your backups
Perform integrity checking
And note that it's not necessary to purchase anything to achieve backup enlightenment.
Interesting to compare this "shunning" with Vista :
Summary : GPLv3 is more popular than Vista
That's disingenuous - Taiwan is not recognised as an independent country by anybody, including a large proportion of the Taiwanese themselves.
Pardon me for interrupting your rant, but Palestine was allocated the .ps country code in October 1999.
They should get a snappy tag-line to go with it. Maybe something like "Shock and Awe". Oh wait...
No, you're thinking of the automated ATM machine.
There must be something in the air today - only this morning, I heard a radio presenter talking about "personal PIN numbers"
ZDNet's David Berlind already uses the acronym C.R.A.P. (for Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection)
Now you got me thinking - what is the collective noun for sys admins? Google only offered up "a pallor of sys admins". How about a rack of sys admins? A compilation of sys admins? A command-line of sys admins? A sneer of sys admins?
Are you not aware that the author of Da Vinci Code easily triumphed in court? He won specifically because copyrights do not cover ideas. Conflating copyrights with patents is doublethink
And that's your idea of "tyranny" is it? [rolls eyes]
Maybe you'd have a point if the cop had given you a tazing (which it sounds like you deserved), but really, such risible statements only serve to undermine what little sense there is in the rest of your screed
[My emphasis] Whoosh
Trust a logicnazic to come and spoil all the fun.
But I still think use of "doublethink" is justified, in the sense of "enjoying the malicious pleasure of the contrast between what one believes to be true and what one knows to be true"