Really. It's just like using an envelope instead of a postcard. If you knew the nosey neighbour across the street was peeking in your mailbox, wouldn't you start putting even the innocent stuff in envelopes?
This is a pretty empty article. Jamie asserts that three websites were blocked by N2H2. We all know censorware doesn't work, so what is the point of this article?
what about all the promises that Census information was confidential? Are they allowed to simply ignore promises when it's convienent
It is still confidential. No-one outside the government is going to see it. You obviously missed the point of my analogy with having two transactions with Amazon. The individual transactions are confidential, and the correlation between the two is confidential. So long as none of the information leaves the organization, no breach of promise or privacy has occurred.
After all, it's not like they're publishing the results of the correlation. It's more like buying a book from Amazon and then buying another book from Amazon (yeah, I know you're boycotting them). You don't mind that they're correlating the two sales so long as the whole is maintained under the same privacy policy as the two originals. In fact, the "people who bought this book also bought..." feature is one of Amazon's better "innovations".
Of course, if you were lying on your Census form, or on your tax return, then you might have reason to be worried...
Suppose someone came to you and said he was going to kill himself by slashing his jugular with a broken W2K CD. You could either talk him out of it altogether, which will probably lead him to ignore you totally, or you could point out the relative painfulness of this method, and suggest he investigate alternatives.
There are very few well-planned suicides. One of the reasons for this is that the act of planning to kill yourself can be a sufficiently positive experience to pull you back from the brink.
Hacking away from the inside can be the only thing that keeps you sane. When I found that our corporate http proxies were blocking chiark I started playing with ways to avoid them. So far I am winning (witness this post), but I have had the interesting experience of having my home IP address blocked at the corporate firewall.
Sometimes it doesn't seem fair. After all, if they had any brains at all they wouldn't be working in information security, would they? But they have all the budget, and all the hardware, so it evens out.
At the time of writing, this is the first non-troll post.
Your suggestion to get quotes for something which will never be purchased is, essentially, a theft of the resources of the company giving the quotes.
Right. That's why I keep getting arrested and thrown in jail, right?
Or maybe it's not theft at all, but an acceptable cost of doing business, that is absorbed by the people who do make the purchase. Have you never browsed in a store? Never followed a link to ebay to look at the latest goofy thing being auctioned?
Maybe I should have them put it on Napster? Then it would be theft.
When I was hired to my current job I was doing every other week on call, with a bunch of crappy apps on 150 poorly configured NT servers in distant locations on slow links. Oncall was a nightmare. I got paid no extra for the odd hours of the night at which Dr. Watson would decide to Dr. Watson.
Then the extremely controlling senior tech (hi, Mike!) quit. Within weeks I was down to on call one week in thirteen, and instead of first level I was down to second level, and in some cases third level. Of course, I still don't get paid any extra.
To answer the question (in a pathetic attempt to get back on topic): get some quotes from third party companies to do the additional support you require. That gives you a figure to base your extra compensation on. I would recommend a fixed extra amount for oncall weeks, rather than trying anything per-incident, as the more complex you make your scheme the more loopholes there will be in it. I've seen companies where a pager would go off and half the department would get in their cars to drive to the office for the "having to go in" bonus.
As long as the problems are getting fixed (and you should make sure they are) it is in your interests to have them fixed from home. They get fixed quicker that way.
The BIOS was copyrighted by IBM. No-one could make a clone without an equivalently functional BIOS, and IBM would have sued anyone who simply copied it. Hence the need to spec the BIOS as a black box, and reimplement it in a clean room.
Remember, this is DOS 1.0 we're talking about. Unlike a real OS, it does not abstract the hardware. You are right about only having to recreate the interface, but the interface is the hardware.
what would be the motivation for the original developers? They only develop with the promise of being rewarded for their work. That reward is guaranteed by the copyrights. I'm definately not bashing open-source
and by your argument, it shouldn't exist.
I've made my living writing software for over ten years now, and I've yet to sell a single copy. I don't know who's using my software, or how many people they've given / sold it to, and I don't care. I got paid for my time writing it, and I have as much right to reuse that code (apart from certain stuff that was explicitly confidential) as they do.
Yes, I care about getting rewarded for my work. But copyright is not the only way to achieve that. Think of something else that doesn't require a huge legislative and judicial infrastructure that has to be paid for through taxes.
Isn't Earth's escape velocity about 25,000 mph? You're saying that 28 years of slingshotting gained an extra 15% from how fast it was going to start with?
Boy, the poster above got it right when he described Pioneer 10 as a tank. It certainly accelerates like one.
Thank you for taking the time to look up the numbers (and reminding me about the SDP/Liberal alliance).
At the time I lived in an incredibly strong Tory constituency (Leeds NW), where the sitting MP managed to get arrested in a gay bar and still got reelected. Then I moved. To Huntingdon, where John Major had a majority larger than some constituencies' electorate. Then I moved again, to America, where I don't get a vote at all. I get a postal vote back in Huntingdon, for all the good it does me.
In fact, the only vote I ever cast in a Parliamentary election that was worth the effort was in 1987, when I was a student in Cambridge. I didn't vote for the winner, though.
Of course, this is only valid for a two-party system.
In England in the 80s we saw the Social Democrats (the third party) get almost 25% of the popular vote, but only 5% of the seats in Parliament, precisely because of this kind of "districting". So much for voter power being increased.
You are absolutely correct, and had I not blown all my moderator points on a bunch of $2 karma whores yesterday, this post would be significantly higher up the page.
To be honest, I don't know if the last part is true or not. It seemed likely that proportion of orphans executed compared with the general executee population is pretty constant from state to state. I thus base my claim on the fact that Texas executes more people than any other state.
Would this be an example of what Shrub calls "fuzzy numbers", i.e. any statistic that counters the Republican world-view? Like the fact that Texas executes more orphans than any other state in the nation?
The right decision would be allow insurance companies to exclude claims caused by the genetic condition, or to increase premiums for full coverage. What you have now is a situation where because I have a 50% chance of developing Huntingdon's Chorea, I can't insure myself against getting hit by a bus.
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Interestingly, the top 10 links in the MSN search are all for the Canadian military. And then IE5 GPFed on me.
Is Dungeons & Dragons really a Canadian conspiracy as many have suspected all along?
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AOL keyword: DnD
Internet keyword: DnD
Did I misread it? If not, what is an internet keyword? My browser (IE5 - I'm at work) thinks I want to go to MSN when I type DnD in the address box.
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Really. It's just like using an envelope instead of a postcard. If you knew the nosey neighbour across the street was peeking in your mailbox, wouldn't you start putting even the innocent stuff in envelopes?
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DeCSS has not been ruled illegal. Linking to it has.
So actually he means banning of links to any kind of material simply because it may at some point become illegal.
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This is a pretty empty article. Jamie asserts that three websites were blocked by N2H2. We all know censorware doesn't work, so what is the point of this article?
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what about all the promises that Census information was confidential? Are they allowed to simply ignore promises when it's convienent
It is still confidential. No-one outside the government is going to see it. You obviously missed the point of my analogy with having two transactions with Amazon. The individual transactions are confidential, and the correlation between the two is confidential. So long as none of the information leaves the organization, no breach of promise or privacy has occurred.
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After all, it's not like they're publishing the results of the correlation. It's more like buying a book from Amazon and then buying another book from Amazon (yeah, I know you're boycotting them). You don't mind that they're correlating the two sales so long as the whole is maintained under the same privacy policy as the two originals. In fact, the "people who bought this book also bought ..." feature is one of Amazon's better "innovations".
Of course, if you were lying on your Census form, or on your tax return, then you might have reason to be worried...
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Suicide is wrong
So what should the punishment be? Death?
Suppose someone came to you and said he was going to kill himself by slashing his jugular with a broken W2K CD. You could either talk him out of it altogether, which will probably lead him to ignore you totally, or you could point out the relative painfulness of this method, and suggest he investigate alternatives.
There are very few well-planned suicides. One of the reasons for this is that the act of planning to kill yourself can be a sufficiently positive experience to pull you back from the brink.
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After the article about Nullsoft yesterday I was starting to think AOL may have acquired a clue. Apparently the clue is extremely localised.
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Hacking away from the inside can be the only thing that keeps you sane. When I found that our corporate http proxies were blocking chiark I started playing with ways to avoid them. So far I am winning (witness this post), but I have had the interesting experience of having my home IP address blocked at the corporate firewall.
Sometimes it doesn't seem fair. After all, if they had any brains at all they wouldn't be working in information security, would they? But they have all the budget, and all the hardware, so it evens out.
At the time of writing, this is the first non-troll post.
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Come on, guys! We haven't had a decent poll in months, and when but when decent poll fodder does come along, you post it as an article.
Post this as a poll. You could probably do the same with some of the lameness that gets foisted on us in Ask Slashdot, too.
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Your suggestion to get quotes for something which will never be purchased is, essentially, a theft of the resources of the company giving the quotes.
Right. That's why I keep getting arrested and thrown in jail, right?
Or maybe it's not theft at all, but an acceptable cost of doing business, that is absorbed by the people who do make the purchase. Have you never browsed in a store? Never followed a link to ebay to look at the latest goofy thing being auctioned?
Maybe I should have them put it on Napster? Then it would be theft.
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When I was hired to my current job I was doing every other week on call, with a bunch of crappy apps on 150 poorly configured NT servers in distant locations on slow links. Oncall was a nightmare. I got paid no extra for the odd hours of the night at which Dr. Watson would decide to Dr. Watson.
Then the extremely controlling senior tech (hi, Mike!) quit. Within weeks I was down to on call one week in thirteen, and instead of first level I was down to second level, and in some cases third level. Of course, I still don't get paid any extra.
To answer the question (in a pathetic attempt to get back on topic): get some quotes from third party companies to do the additional support you require. That gives you a figure to base your extra compensation on. I would recommend a fixed extra amount for oncall weeks, rather than trying anything per-incident, as the more complex you make your scheme the more loopholes there will be in it. I've seen companies where a pager would go off and half the department would get in their cars to drive to the office for the "having to go in" bonus.
As long as the problems are getting fixed (and you should make sure they are) it is in your interests to have them fixed from home. They get fixed quicker that way.
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The BIOS was copyrighted by IBM. No-one could make a clone without an equivalently functional BIOS, and IBM would have sued anyone who simply copied it. Hence the need to spec the BIOS as a black box, and reimplement it in a clean room.
Remember, this is DOS 1.0 we're talking about. Unlike a real OS, it does not abstract the hardware. You are right about only having to recreate the interface, but the interface is the hardware.
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what would be the motivation for the original developers? They only develop with the promise of being rewarded for their work. That reward is guaranteed by the copyrights. I'm definately not bashing open-source
and by your argument, it shouldn't exist.
I've made my living writing software for over ten years now, and I've yet to sell a single copy. I don't know who's using my software, or how many people they've given / sold it to, and I don't care. I got paid for my time writing it, and I have as much right to reuse that code (apart from certain stuff that was explicitly confidential) as they do.
Yes, I care about getting rewarded for my work. But copyright is not the only way to achieve that. Think of something else that doesn't require a huge legislative and judicial infrastructure that has to be paid for through taxes.
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Isn't Earth's escape velocity about 25,000 mph? You're saying that 28 years of slingshotting gained an extra 15% from how fast it was going to start with?
Boy, the poster above got it right when he described Pioneer 10 as a tank. It certainly accelerates like one.
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Thank you for taking the time to look up the numbers (and reminding me about the SDP/Liberal alliance).
At the time I lived in an incredibly strong Tory constituency (Leeds NW), where the sitting MP managed to get arrested in a gay bar and still got reelected. Then I moved. To Huntingdon, where John Major had a majority larger than some constituencies' electorate. Then I moved again, to America, where I don't get a vote at all. I get a postal vote back in Huntingdon, for all the good it does me.
In fact, the only vote I ever cast in a Parliamentary election that was worth the effort was in 1987, when I was a student in Cambridge. I didn't vote for the winner, though.
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Of course, this is only valid for a two-party system.
In England in the 80s we saw the Social Democrats (the third party) get almost 25% of the popular vote, but only 5% of the seats in Parliament, precisely because of this kind of "districting". So much for voter power being increased.
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You are absolutely correct, and had I not blown all my moderator points on a bunch of $2 karma whores yesterday, this post would be significantly higher up the page.
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So that video clip I saw of him SAYING he invented the internet was just CGI??
See? He invented the Common Gateway Interface too!
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To be honest, I don't know if the last part is true or not. It seemed likely that proportion of orphans executed compared with the general executee population is pretty constant from state to state. I thus base my claim on the fact that Texas executes more people than any other state.
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Would this be an example of what Shrub calls "fuzzy numbers", i.e. any statistic that counters the Republican world-view? Like the fact that Texas executes more orphans than any other state in the nation?
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The right decision would be allow insurance companies to exclude claims caused by the genetic condition, or to increase premiums for full coverage. What you have now is a situation where because I have a 50% chance of developing Huntingdon's Chorea, I can't insure myself against getting hit by a bus.
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Fscking Submit buttons is way too close to the "No Score +1 Bonus" check box!
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