I never did it personally. I knew one guy who did wreck a company car, but I wasn't there long enough to learn if it helped his career. I was there as a collage co-op student, and when I graduated I moved on.
You forget that when the defendant looses, they ususally get to pay the plaintif's legal costs as well as whatever compensation is deemed appropriate for whatever they did that got them sued in the first place.
An unintended consequence of this reform is to... make big corporations essentially untouchable for the average Joe Citizen.
While I see your point, I believe this is already the case. Your best bet against a big corporation is small claims court. Successful lawsuits against big corporations are almost always class actions, where a bunch of average Joe Citizens pool their resources.
OK, so my plan isn't perfect. Can anyone suggest anything better?
You're quite right. When I worked at Oldsmobile the stock advice for getting ahead was to wreck a company car. Your name would appear in the monthly safety report sent to all managers. Later, when your name came up for promotion, the managers would remember that they'd heard of you, but not remember where.
You're close. It should be manditory for the plantif to pay court costs and the defendant's legal costs if the plantif loses. Period. That's all the tort reform we need. It would halt frivolous lawsuits overnight. But that would put a lot of lawyers out of work, and since most legislators are lawyers it will never become law.
Jobs bought the interface off of Xerox and Xerox invested heavily into Apple at the time.
Can you site sources for these apparantly contradictory claims? I doubt either is true. Indeed, I recall Xerox being quite upset with Apple over the Lisa/Mac. Perhaps you're confusing Xerox with McIntosh, who were paid for the use of the name.
"Gestapo" was the parent's verbiage, I just re-directed it from safety to environmental. But environmentalists often go too far. Our environmental laws could use some adjustment. Ronald Regan was right -- a Christmas tree does give off more oxides of nitrogen than an automobile. The Great Smokey Mountains are smokey because of this. Los Angeles is a natural inversion zone, and the air was bad there when humans first settled there, decades before internal combustion engines. It's not all the automobile's fault, and since they added catalitic converters in 1975 cars (and trucks) have been incredibly clean-running. All the laws since then have wasted gas to get us very little additional reduction in polution.
That said, the Republican's plan to "adjust" the environmental laws by simply throwing them all out is just as extreme as the Green Party's dream of outlawing gasoline. There's a sensible middle ground somewhere, but we haven't quite found it.
allowing
users to get into the inner workings of their cars is not inherently evil.
Since the late 1970's this has been considered evil in the USA. The EPA mandated caps on the idle screws back then, and it's been downhill ever since. You really can't adjust anything under the hood anymore -- not like you used to. All in the name of keeping the air clean, which is a reasonable goal. And cars are better for it -- they don't need those adjustments anymore.
I hope the safety gestapo doesn't win the argument.
It's not the safety gestapo, it's the environmental gestapo, and they won the arguement 30 years ago.
You miss the point. This isn't to show just one picture, but to show hundreds. Hell, you could show home movies. What I don't understand is why he didn't include 802.11 so you can manage it remotely.
What we need is a simple rule: If it orbits a star and has an atmosphere, it's a planet. If not, it's not. I.e., things orbiting other planets are moons, even if they have an atmosphere. Things orbiting a star are asteroids (or whatever) if they don't have an atmosphere, no matter how large they are.
Pluto has an atmosphere, so it's a planet. What about Sedna? Does anyone know, or must we wait until Monday?
I feel that from an administration standpoint with a large number of hosts it wouldn't matter if you were using RedHat, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or any other *nix for that matter as long as the machines you were running were using the same distro.
You haven't actually been an admin at a company with a large number of machines, have you? I worked for a large aerospace company and our Management (he wasn't even a PHB) wanted to know why we had an average of one admin for 20 machines when HP said one admin should be able to handle 200. Then HP explained that those 200 machines were absolutely identical -- same exact hardware, same exact OS patch level, and same exact applications. In the Real World, we had no two machines alike and thus needed the 1/20 ratio. And this was all the same brand of hardware and OS! Each department was different, which basically made vacation and illness backups a matter of "pray they don't call you." The admins who had the easiest time of it were those who worked on BSD boxes; the VR4 boxes were all over the map; even the users understood that if their admin was away, they were better off not bothering the backup on call for any more than password resets because they'd as likely break something else as fix your problem.
Granted, if you ran an all RedHat shop or an all Mandrake shop things would be easier than simply an all Linux shop, but the same would be true for an all OpenBSD shop vs an all FreeBSD or NetBSD shop. But if each department is free to buy what they want I'd rather find who-knows-which-BSD on the box than who-knows-which-Linux.
If my post was "Flamebait" then answer my question: Who actually uses GNU/HURD? The GNU guys don't even use it! That's a statement of fact, not a flame. I certainly don't expect them to use anything that's not released under the GPL, so their use of Linux is no real surprise, but given Stallman's history with the whole "Linux" vs "GNU/Linux" thing I'm assuming he'd use GNU/HURD if it was any good.
Read Knowledge Base article 290497. It contains such helpful hints as, "Request that the sender rename the extension, and then resend you the file." It goes on to tell you the "fix": modify the Registry to allow the specific file extension you want to recieve; there's no way to just open it up to all of them. And that "fix" only works if you're NOT on an Exchange server, if you are, you're SOL unless you also happen to be the Exchange Admin. This is not something that a 10 year old can solve, but then you're an AC so I've probably just been trolled, right?
I looked everywhere I could think to look. When I look in Tools, Options, Security I do NOT see "Do not Allow attachments to be Opened that cound potentially contain a virus". Oh, if it were only that easy. I see:
Encrypted e-mail
Encrypt contents and attachments for outgoing messages
Add ditigal signature to outgoing messages
Send clear text signed message when sending signed messages
Request S/MIME reciept for all S/MIME signed messages
Security Zones
Zone: [Zone Settings...] (I looked, but there's nothing about email attachments)
Digital IDs (Certificates)
[Import/Export...] [Get a Digital ID...] (again, nothing about attachments)
This is with Outlook 2002. What version of Outlook are you using?
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So are light, radio waves, and sound. What's your point? The AC was right.
I never did it personally. I knew one guy who did wreck a company car, but I wasn't there long enough to learn if it helped his career. I was there as a collage co-op student, and when I graduated I moved on.
You forget that when the defendant looses, they ususally get to pay the plaintif's legal costs as well as whatever compensation is deemed appropriate for whatever they did that got them sued in the first place.
OK, so my plan isn't perfect. Can anyone suggest anything better?
Rent "The President's Analyst." Then you might want to check out "Fun with Dick and Jane." Both feature the phone company.
You're quite right. When I worked at Oldsmobile the stock advice for getting ahead was to wreck a company car. Your name would appear in the monthly safety report sent to all managers. Later, when your name came up for promotion, the managers would remember that they'd heard of you, but not remember where.
You're close. It should be manditory for the plantif to pay court costs and the defendant's legal costs if the plantif loses. Period. That's all the tort reform we need. It would halt frivolous lawsuits overnight. But that would put a lot of lawyers out of work, and since most legislators are lawyers it will never become law.
While a facinating history, none of those stories tell of Xerox investing in Apple or of Jobs paying Xerox for the Mac's user interface.
You're free to recieve it, just as you're free to recieve satellite signals. You only pay to decode it.
They may be surrounded by hills, but those three cities are all flat. I suppose Orlando is next on their list.
That said, the Republican's plan to "adjust" the environmental laws by simply throwing them all out is just as extreme as the Green Party's dream of outlawing gasoline. There's a sensible middle ground somewhere, but we haven't quite found it.
Oh, we're smart. We're just cheap.
OK, OK, I give up! Let's just call them "rocks."
Really, is this story telling us anything a /. reader couldn't do cheaper and better?
You miss the point. This isn't to show just one picture, but to show hundreds. Hell, you could show home movies. What I don't understand is why he didn't include 802.11 so you can manage it remotely.
Comets are snowballs; asteroids are rocks. Oversimplification, but you get the idea.
Pluto has an atmosphere, so it's a planet. What about Sedna? Does anyone know, or must we wait until Monday?
I hope I get one of these in MetaMod.
Granted, if you ran an all RedHat shop or an all Mandrake shop things would be easier than simply an all Linux shop, but the same would be true for an all OpenBSD shop vs an all FreeBSD or NetBSD shop. But if each department is free to buy what they want I'd rather find who-knows-which-BSD on the box than who-knows-which-Linux.
If my post was "Flamebait" then answer my question: Who actually uses GNU/HURD? The GNU guys don't even use it! That's a statement of fact, not a flame. I certainly don't expect them to use anything that's not released under the GPL, so their use of Linux is no real surprise, but given Stallman's history with the whole "Linux" vs "GNU/Linux" thing I'm assuming he'd use GNU/HURD if it was any good.
Read Knowledge Base article 290497. It contains such helpful hints as, "Request that the sender rename the extension, and then resend you the file." It goes on to tell you the "fix": modify the Registry to allow the specific file extension you want to recieve; there's no way to just open it up to all of them. And that "fix" only works if you're NOT on an Exchange server, if you are, you're SOL unless you also happen to be the Exchange Admin. This is not something that a 10 year old can solve, but then you're an AC so I've probably just been trolled, right?