Ehh... yeah.. right. The US prisons aren't full of minor marijuana offenders the way it is, you think that pumping more money into this system is a good idea.
Not putting them in prison would probably help solving the economic problem.
I don't really have an opinion on wether or not it should be legalized, I just think that maybe you shouldn't be put in prison for having a quarter of an ounce weed, only due to the costs.
According to your logic I should just give up my house, my car, the place I love to live, and move my family to some shit-hole trailer park in BumFuck S. Dakota (apologies to S.Dakota residents) so I can actually afford to live off of the McJob some illegal alien is risking death to come into this country to have.
I don't think that is what he was saying at all.
Many years ago, when I got my first job (crappy techsupport job, McD would be close to better, but thats besides the point), I went on one of those training course. I can't remember what it was called, but we all called it corporate brainwashing. In that course, I learnt one thing, which I follow religiously still today.
If you get upset by something, especially if its an email message or something else you can hold off responding to, hold it off. Walk around, take a five min break and have a cup of coffie, and then reply. You'll see that it will end up being better for everyone, and people like me (who really doesn't have an opinion on your post or the parent) wouldn't have to read you're offensive language.
It's not that difficult to get your opinions through in a nice way.
This one is going to pass just like every other Microsoft injustice.
There is no proof that Microsoft had anything to do with this, and I think they didn't. I believe what he said in the article, he was fired because of the ties @stake has with Msoft, not because they specifically called @stake and asked for him to be fired.
That being said, this whole thing is bad. I do however have to agree with one of the posts above, that mentiones that although freedom of speech is a good thing, the employer can choose to fire you because you are using that freedom against the will of the company. I guess that is the freedom that the company has (upto a certain point ofcourse).
It's been said many times before, freedom comes at a price! If you use your freedom, you must be prepared to deal with the Consequences.
20 years ago, oil was supposed to run out in 50 years. A few weeks ago, I read a report that said that oil will run out in 50 years.
Improvments in technology enables us to harvest natural resources where it couldn't be harvested before.
I don't think you should worry about the gas running out.
If nothing else, I have a bad stomach, so I could pay you a visit once a month or so to fill up you gastanks:)
Well, there will always be virus authors, it's like banning weapons: you're only taking away from those who get things through legitimate means.
Not true at all. In Europe, I don't think that most people, criminals or not, can get hold of weapons easily. There are better things to compare it to than banning weapons!
Think what this would ban: bug tracking and security lists, compilers, assemblers, debuggers, hex editors, etc. These are how viruses get written.
Apart from the first two, NO!
He didn't say people are no longer allowed to look at files in hexeditors or that he thinks that no-one can write assemblycode anymore. He also never said that a developer isn't allowed to debug his own code.
To be honest, I don't even think he knows what he said. I don't think it was thought through fully, and it just kinda slipped out or something (or they guy is a complete retard, but I don't think thats the case, based on the position his holding).
Don't get me wrong here, I think that this idea of his is stupid and won't happen. I just think that there is no need to make it worse than it is.
I see many posts with support for removing the personal information. I have seven or so domain names registered under my name with my real email address and information, even though it's my second email account to which I expect SPAM. Trust me, I do get spam to that email inbox due to the whois database.
However, I work for a company where it is sometimes necessary to track down owners of domains and report them to the appropriate authorities. Even though a lot of people fake the information, the whois database has come in handy more often than not.
Another good thing, for myself atleast, is that I have gotten offers on some domain names I used to own. I am guessing they got the email address from the whois database, as I hadn't used the domain in question at all. I managed to sell it for quite a bit more than I bought it (it was a four digit sum, but still way more than I paid for it).
I am slightly split on this issue. I don't want my personal information in there (and faking is not an option for me, I want to stick to the rules), but I want to see other peoples information. Guess there is a tradeoff somewhere along the line.
Anyways, just wanted to point out that the WHOIS database can be extremly useful and/or helpful sometimes.
How is my age in any way relevant to computer users in general?
I do appreciate you telling me your F-Prot usage history though, I really appreciate it.
You should refrain from letting your hands type checks that your brain can't cash.
Nice... I'm sorry to say I'm too tired to start a stupid postingwar on a messageboard.
The specific anti-virus product isn't (or shouldn't at least) in most cases responsible for replying to infected e-mails.
And this statement is based on your surveys.. right?
You keep making statements about F-Prot skipping some features, and not having added the functionality of replying to emails, when you obviously don't know the first thing about virus/spam scanning email messages.
Please tell me what it is I don't know about scanning, and how scanning is relevant to replying.
Until recently, no e-mail worms spoofed the email address. F-Prot obviously never had the functionality of replying to infected emails.
Until just recently, it was really good to reply to the sender alerting him about the fact that he sent out a virus/worm. Where was F-Prot back then??
The way I see it, it's been three steps.
Step 1: No email worms.
Step 2: Email worms that didn't spoof the sender (replying to sender is good).
Step 3: Email worms that spoof the sender (replying to sender is bad).
Seems to me that F-Prot is complaining that everyone hasn't reached step 3 yet (with spoofed sender addresses, infected emails shouldn't be replied to), even though we pretty much reached it just now. Before Sobig, even though there were worms that spoofed the sender, they were a minority. After Sobig, spoofing worms are a majority, which means that AV products need to change. This won't happen in a second like it did for F-Prot, because most AV vendors didn't skip step 2 like F-Prot did.
This coming from a company who 95% of computer users never heard, and who never even added the functionality of replying to emails even though it was really good until just recently, makes me believe his just looking for his two minutes of fame.
I agree that sometimes lawsuits are required to force companies to change their behaviour. However, this lawsuit was, IMHO, stupid, because of the sum that was paid out (can't remember the exact figure, but it was huge).
I was in NY a few weeks ago (I live in Europe), and after two days I started taking pictures of warning labels, because they were stupid. The reason for these retarded warning labels is obviously the retarded lawsuits.
Some Examples:
"WARNING: Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear". (ehhh... the entire europe is doing fine without this warning in our side-mirrors)
"On an American AC unit: Caution: Avoid dropping air conditioners out of windows."
"On an American Airlines packet of nuts: Instructions: open packet, eat nuts."
"On a childs superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly."
"On an American Iron: Warning: Never iron clothes on the body."
The case sited in this story does sound stupid, but I would like to hear the whole story before I judge.
I find this lawsuit stupid, mainly due to the sum of money paid out. I can agree with a $5 reduction coupon, but not 12K. How do the courts decide these sums??
I'll help you move to linux for free, or I'll charge you $50 to fix your system this time.
tell them the charge will double each time they need help, for either system.
You may not get Blaster or Sobig when having linux, but linux isn't trivial to use. It does require quite some administrative work.
I have a redhat box running as a router/firewall, and it also runs shoutcast/teamspeak when I need it. I removed everything that I could from that system, trying to secure it as much as possible.
Still, I download way more patches from the RedHat update thingy than I do from Windows Update for my win2000 box(es).
I personally prefer linux over Windows, but I do believe that it is more work securing a linuxbox than a windowsbox, if you want to use it as a server.
Get US-encoded DVD's? Does the submitter mean getting those DVD's in Australia... well....fat chance.
Is there a law in place in Australia against importing Region 1 DVDs???
I understand that there are trade-barriers in place, so that you have to pay VAT on the DVD's. But is there a law that actually states that you cannot import region 1 DVDs?
Last I checked, several online retailers in the US and Canada are willing to ship their DVD's worldwide. DVDBoxOffice will even package them one by one so you don't have to pay VAT (when shipping to Europe atleast). Play is based in the UK, and they sell region 1 DVDs and ship worldwide.
In regards to the region protection in DVDplayers.. well.. it's a joke. I think I could solder a chip into one of those players in my sleep (I know some are harder etc). On top of that, some cheap players I've come across had a hidden menu where you could simply change the region. So, I don't see how it would be difficult to get Region 1 DVD's in Australia, or any other western country for that matter.
Do you agree its a good idea, if they follow a standard and its checked?
It may be a good idea, I haven't really decided yet. For me, it would depend on the standards that are set. As we don't have any standards right now, I would currently think that it is a very bad idea.
I don't really understand the benefit of this compared to normal security systems such as alarms in combination with CCTV. It doesn't seem to give you too much of a benefit (even though it may help), but it invades your privacy a lot more.
I might have thought differently if I was still living in London, where you're caught on CCTV like 20 times a day.
However, coming from the country of Sweden, the country that has one of the strictest privacy regulations in the world, I tend to be opposed to anything that invades my personal privacy.
I guess I shouldn't really care too much though, as these chips (if used in combination with cameras) already break Swedish privacy regulations. The chance of them being used in Sweden in the nearterm is relatively low.
you're on someone else's property therefore they have the right to survalliance and to enfore security where needed
I don't know which country you live in, but in most central and northen european coutries you would be wrong!
Try opening a shop in Sweden and install videocameras that record, and then get your ass sued. Then you might see that just because you pay the rent for the space, you DON'T automatically have the right to do whatever you want, even if it is in regards to security and survalliance.
...which is why I believe this scheme will be excellent as long as photos get deleted upon purchase and that the tags are disabled after leaving the store.
.. and if they don't? Who's gonna check to make sure.. you?
The problem is obviously the lack of control over this system from the government. There is no legistaltion that says that pictures must be disabled when leaving the shop, or that the tags must be disabled.
Then you obviously have the second problem, which is define the word 'delete'. When I leave the shop, I want them to write garbage data 6 times to the location on the harddrive where my photo was. If they don't do this, I don't consider my picture 'deleted'. I believe that the DOD has a standard for what can be considered deleted, and I want them to follow this standard!
This sounds like a really good business idea to me!
I mean, c'mon, 1 billion dollars. The nigerian son of the king only had like 300 million to share. My 1000 dollars would only have given me like 10 million back.
Just tell me who my lawyer should contact if I want to join:)
One of my favourites - put the hard drive in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer - cooling it down shrinks the parts and may enable the drive to spin up properly. I actually try this and get lots of funny looks from my wife. Still, it doesn't work.
This trick can work on some IBM hard drives. IBM had a problem where you would hear a clicking sound. The reason for the clicking was sometimes that the disk had increased in size due to the heat, and the heads were unable to compensate. Putting the drive in the freezer made the disk shrink getting the heads correctly aligned again.
Obviously, the drive did the same thing after 10 min, but atleast you got the most important data off the drive.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe, but you still need talent.... :)
:)
Seems to me that it is the lack of talent that sells today... so I think you should just go ahead and record your rock opera
...a bit more money could solve the drug problem
Ehh... yeah.. right. The US prisons aren't full of minor marijuana offenders the way it is, you think that pumping more money into this system is a good idea.
Not putting them in prison would probably help solving the economic problem.
I don't really have an opinion on wether or not it should be legalized, I just think that maybe you shouldn't be put in prison for having a quarter of an ounce weed, only due to the costs.
According to your logic I should just give up my house, my car, the place I love to live, and move my family to some shit-hole trailer park in BumFuck S. Dakota (apologies to S.Dakota residents) so I can actually afford to live off of the McJob some illegal alien is risking death to come into this country to have.
I don't think that is what he was saying at all.
Many years ago, when I got my first job (crappy techsupport job, McD would be close to better, but thats besides the point), I went on one of those training course. I can't remember what it was called, but we all called it corporate brainwashing. In that course, I learnt one thing, which I follow religiously still today. If you get upset by something, especially if its an email message or something else you can hold off responding to, hold it off. Walk around, take a five min break and have a cup of coffie, and then reply. You'll see that it will end up being better for everyone, and people like me (who really doesn't have an opinion on your post or the parent) wouldn't have to read you're offensive language.
It's not that difficult to get your opinions through in a nice way.
This one is going to pass just like every other Microsoft injustice.
There is no proof that Microsoft had anything to do with this, and I think they didn't. I believe what he said in the article, he was fired because of the ties @stake has with Msoft, not because they specifically called @stake and asked for him to be fired.
That being said, this whole thing is bad. I do however have to agree with one of the posts above, that mentiones that although freedom of speech is a good thing, the employer can choose to fire you because you are using that freedom against the will of the company. I guess that is the freedom that the company has (upto a certain point ofcourse).
It's been said many times before, freedom comes at a price! If you use your freedom, you must be prepared to deal with the Consequences.
20 years ago, oil was supposed to run out in 50 years. A few weeks ago, I read a report that said that oil will run out in 50 years.
:)
Improvments in technology enables us to harvest natural resources where it couldn't be harvested before.
I don't think you should worry about the gas running out.
If nothing else, I have a bad stomach, so I could pay you a visit once a month or so to fill up you gastanks
We are all individuals!
Well, there will always be virus authors, it's like banning weapons: you're only taking away from those who get things through legitimate means.
Not true at all. In Europe, I don't think that most people, criminals or not, can get hold of weapons easily. There are better things to compare it to than banning weapons!
Think what this would ban: bug tracking and security lists, compilers, assemblers, debuggers, hex editors, etc. These are how viruses get written.
Apart from the first two, NO!
He didn't say people are no longer allowed to look at files in hexeditors or that he thinks that no-one can write assemblycode anymore. He also never said that a developer isn't allowed to debug his own code.
To be honest, I don't even think he knows what he said. I don't think it was thought through fully, and it just kinda slipped out or something (or they guy is a complete retard, but I don't think thats the case, based on the position his holding).
Don't get me wrong here, I think that this idea of his is stupid and won't happen. I just think that there is no need to make it worse than it is.
... atleast his getting an investigation :)
I see many posts with support for removing the personal information. I have seven or so domain names registered under my name with my real email address and information, even though it's my second email account to which I expect SPAM. Trust me, I do get spam to that email inbox due to the whois database.
However, I work for a company where it is sometimes necessary to track down owners of domains and report them to the appropriate authorities. Even though a lot of people fake the information, the whois database has come in handy more often than not.
Another good thing, for myself atleast, is that I have gotten offers on some domain names I used to own. I am guessing they got the email address from the whois database, as I hadn't used the domain in question at all. I managed to sell it for quite a bit more than I bought it (it was a four digit sum, but still way more than I paid for it).
I am slightly split on this issue. I don't want my personal information in there (and faking is not an option for me, I want to stick to the rules), but I want to see other peoples information. Guess there is a tradeoff somewhere along the line.
Anyways, just wanted to point out that the WHOIS database can be extremly useful and/or helpful sometimes.
Just because you're too young to know them...
How is my age in any way relevant to computer users in general?
I do appreciate you telling me your F-Prot usage history though, I really appreciate it.
You should refrain from letting your hands type checks that your brain can't cash.
Nice... I'm sorry to say I'm too tired to start a stupid postingwar on a messageboard.
The specific anti-virus product isn't (or shouldn't at least) in most cases responsible for replying to infected e-mails.
And this statement is based on your surveys.. right?
You keep making statements about F-Prot skipping some features, and not having added the functionality of replying to emails, when you obviously don't know the first thing about virus/spam scanning email messages.
Please tell me what it is I don't know about scanning, and how scanning is relevant to replying.
What a troll!
Yes, my post was a troll.
I find this most interesting.
Until recently, no e-mail worms spoofed the email address. F-Prot obviously never had the functionality of replying to infected emails.
Until just recently, it was really good to reply to the sender alerting him about the fact that he sent out a virus/worm. Where was F-Prot back then??
The way I see it, it's been three steps.
Step 1: No email worms.
Step 2: Email worms that didn't spoof the sender (replying to sender is good).
Step 3: Email worms that spoof the sender (replying to sender is bad).
Seems to me that F-Prot is complaining that everyone hasn't reached step 3 yet (with spoofed sender addresses, infected emails shouldn't be replied to), even though we pretty much reached it just now. Before Sobig, even though there were worms that spoofed the sender, they were a minority. After Sobig, spoofing worms are a majority, which means that AV products need to change. This won't happen in a second like it did for F-Prot, because most AV vendors didn't skip step 2 like F-Prot did.
This coming from a company who 95% of computer users never heard, and who never even added the functionality of replying to emails even though it was really good until just recently, makes me believe his just looking for his two minutes of fame.
Is this a trick question? How would I know how my salary stacks up if I'm not entitled to a copy of the report?
Step 1: Release report.
Step 2: Get people with good salaries to buy report.
Step 3: Profit!
The lawsuit is not so stupid in that context.
I agree that sometimes lawsuits are required to force companies to change their behaviour. However, this lawsuit was, IMHO, stupid, because of the sum that was paid out (can't remember the exact figure, but it was huge).
I was in NY a few weeks ago (I live in Europe), and after two days I started taking pictures of warning labels, because they were stupid. The reason for these retarded warning labels is obviously the retarded lawsuits.
Some Examples:
"WARNING: Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear". (ehhh... the entire europe is doing fine without this warning in our side-mirrors)
"On an American AC unit: Caution: Avoid dropping air conditioners out of windows."
"On an American Airlines packet of nuts: Instructions: open packet, eat nuts."
"On a childs superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly."
"On an American Iron: Warning: Never iron clothes on the body."
The case sited in this story does sound stupid, but I would like to hear the whole story before I judge.
I find this lawsuit stupid, mainly due to the sum of money paid out. I can agree with a $5 reduction coupon, but not 12K. How do the courts decide these sums??
I use a trackball at work, and a mouse at home. Try replicating the movement between the two, and you'll see how different they are.
Unless you are forced to use a mouse (not trackball, pen or weird device stuck to your head), this won't, IMHO, really work.
I'll help you move to linux for free, or I'll charge you $50 to fix your system this time. tell them the charge will double each time they need help, for either system.
You may not get Blaster or Sobig when having linux, but linux isn't trivial to use. It does require quite some administrative work.
I have a redhat box running as a router/firewall, and it also runs shoutcast/teamspeak when I need it. I removed everything that I could from that system, trying to secure it as much as possible. Still, I download way more patches from the RedHat update thingy than I do from Windows Update for my win2000 box(es).
I personally prefer linux over Windows, but I do believe that it is more work securing a linuxbox than a windowsbox, if you want to use it as a server.
I preteded to be McBride and donated 50 IQ points! .. umm.. ehhh... tinkin...
As hi has no IQ leeft, this thign wil b ovr by
Be Nice To Me: I Gave Points Today!
I Donated 10 IQ Points To Flooble's Give Points! Page. funny joke ratings, random joke, quizzes
I read the headline for this article, and now everyone in the office is looking at me cause I was laughing so hard.
My stomach hurts...
Get US-encoded DVD's? Does the submitter mean getting those DVD's in Australia ... well....fat chance.
Is there a law in place in Australia against importing Region 1 DVDs???
I understand that there are trade-barriers in place, so that you have to pay VAT on the DVD's. But is there a law that actually states that you cannot import region 1 DVDs?
Last I checked, several online retailers in the US and Canada are willing to ship their DVD's worldwide. DVDBoxOffice will even package them one by one so you don't have to pay VAT (when shipping to Europe atleast). Play is based in the UK, and they sell region 1 DVDs and ship worldwide.
In regards to the region protection in DVDplayers.. well.. it's a joke. I think I could solder a chip into one of those players in my sleep (I know some are harder etc). On top of that, some cheap players I've come across had a hidden menu where you could simply change the region. So, I don't see how it would be difficult to get Region 1 DVD's in Australia, or any other western country for that matter.
Do you agree its a good idea, if they follow a standard and its checked?
It may be a good idea, I haven't really decided yet. For me, it would depend on the standards that are set. As we don't have any standards right now, I would currently think that it is a very bad idea.
I don't really understand the benefit of this compared to normal security systems such as alarms in combination with CCTV. It doesn't seem to give you too much of a benefit (even though it may help), but it invades your privacy a lot more.
I might have thought differently if I was still living in London, where you're caught on CCTV like 20 times a day.
However, coming from the country of Sweden, the country that has one of the strictest privacy regulations in the world, I tend to be opposed to anything that invades my personal privacy.
I guess I shouldn't really care too much though, as these chips (if used in combination with cameras) already break Swedish privacy regulations. The chance of them being used in Sweden in the nearterm is relatively low.
you're on someone else's property therefore they have the right to survalliance and to enfore security where needed
...which is why I believe this scheme will be excellent as long as photos get deleted upon purchase and that the tags are disabled after leaving the store.
.. and if they don't? Who's gonna check to make sure.. you?
I don't know which country you live in, but in most central and northen european coutries you would be wrong!
Try opening a shop in Sweden and install videocameras that record, and then get your ass sued. Then you might see that just because you pay the rent for the space, you DON'T automatically have the right to do whatever you want, even if it is in regards to security and survalliance.
The problem is obviously the lack of control over this system from the government. There is no legistaltion that says that pictures must be disabled when leaving the shop, or that the tags must be disabled.
Then you obviously have the second problem, which is define the word 'delete'. When I leave the shop, I want them to write garbage data 6 times to the location on the harddrive where my photo was. If they don't do this, I don't consider my picture 'deleted'. I believe that the DOD has a standard for what can be considered deleted, and I want them to follow this standard!
This sounds like a really good business idea to me! I mean, c'mon, 1 billion dollars. The nigerian son of the king only had like 300 million to share. My 1000 dollars would only have given me like 10 million back.
:)
Just tell me who my lawyer should contact if I want to join
One of my favourites - put the hard drive in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer - cooling it down shrinks the parts and may enable the drive to spin up properly. I actually try this and get lots of funny looks from my wife. Still, it doesn't work.
This trick can work on some IBM hard drives. IBM had a problem where you would hear a clicking sound. The reason for the clicking was sometimes that the disk had increased in size due to the heat, and the heads were unable to compensate. Putting the drive in the freezer made the disk shrink getting the heads correctly aligned again.
Obviously, the drive did the same thing after 10 min, but atleast you got the most important data off the drive.
Also, you have to spray the wall using Times new roman, 12 points, double spacing. Otherwise, it may not be accepted.
hmm.. just noticed that it was linked from the article already.. sorry about that.. didn't mean to be a karma whore... just missed the link :(