If you get them, just do what I do -- find a thread you don't have any interest in and moderate the first X posts as "under-rated". (X is the number of mod points you get, which is 15 for me.)
This gives you the benefit of nothaving to actually moderate plus you can't be meta-moderated.
I get points about once a week. YMMV. CYLDFD.
I'm really only posting here in case there's an acheivement... achievement... anchoviement.
Sorry, not enough sleep makes everything seem funny. At least I'm not rambling on pointlessly.
What if this is all a marketing campaign? They've got multiple front-page/. articles, it's up all over the "geek" news sites, and tens of thousands of people in their market segment now know about a product that, up until a month ago, was completely unknown.
It's being timed with the type of elegant precision normally reserved for Swiss watchmakers.* With these last three articles, they've kept themselves in the forefront for the last three weeks WITH NO COST TO THEM.
I'll wager that the next "press release" will be that they've decided that JooJoo is too juvenile and they're rebranding as [Sigma]pic €omputer. (/. has some odd problems with characters, as we all know.)
(I thought about using "Italian train station masters" given the JooJoo brand, but thought it would be in poor taste.)
There's an image that you can probably find with GIS. It takes the DOJ stats for violent crime and puts them in a graph along with the release dates of various games like Postal, Doom, Mortal Kombat, etc.
I heard that in the US it’s rather easy to change your name (other than here in Germany, where you have to have a name like Hitler Likestogetraped to get it changed). Use it. Seriously.:)
You want him to change his name to Hitler Likestogetraped?
I somehow doubt his potential employers would even GET to the point where they'd Google that.
Why does that make me prissy and self-righteous? Are you assuming that I'm either a preaching Mormon or Muslim? Neither are true. I simply have enough self-confidence that I don't require alcohol to cut loose and have a good time without worrying about what other people think about me.
Also, the money. I've saved thousands of dollars by not drinking. It's up to you -- if you want to piss your cash away, I'm not going to even try and stop you.
In Canada, it's still not a violation of copyright law to copy something for personal use. The last two attempts to change the law (Bills C-60 and C-61) were put aside during the last few elections.
It is, and always has been, a violation to provide the copies. This provides the interesting point where if someone downloads an album via Azureus, that's legal up until the point when you start seeding. (Which is, of course, before you're done downloading, but that's a matter for the philosophers.) In short, up here, it's legal to download but unlawful to upload.* That's because we pay a CIRA levy on all blank media; a "pirate tax", if you will. CIRA has already decided that I'm going to use that spindle of DVD-Rs for pirating, so I should pay a little extra at the counter to compensate them for the loss of revenue. I am not making that up.
Now, the proposed penalties for uploading under C-61 were $20k per offence. It was $500 for downloading, or $20k if you broke any encoding whatsoever. These values were going to be put into Canadian law but were fortunately stopped by government instability. (That's a much longer story than/. has time for.)
Canadian law does not require our judges to use previous cases as a stepping point for punitive damages; you won't see a billion-dollar fine put up simply because you have to have a rationale for the punishment.
Our courts are also loser-pay, which is why you can't just drop a lawsuit or you admit you've lost and will have to pay the costs. If they were to sue, say, me, I would refer them to my lawyer. They know that I've got one, and that that first call is likely to cost them the $200 once the dust settles. (I would call her in the meantime and tell her to have No Mercy.) You won't get scare-tactic suits up here like you have in the states.
* I know that not all copyright infringement is music-sharing online. In fact, the most dangerous type (from my EE perspective) is false labelling on electronics, especially circuit breakers and other protective devices. This is an endemic problem and it's scary as fuck when a 200A breaker keeps going and melts into fucking slag at 400A.
Actually, the ones that aren't fine with the status quo no longer live in Iran. My co-worker left as soon as he could; so did a previous co-worker. They have families, and they don't want to have them grabbed or imprisoned just for saying, "this is bullshit!". (A right that we have in the West, but one that sadly, is not conferred to the rest of the world.)
They're both Engineers -- Iran's loss, our gain. At the rate they're going, they won't have anyone left in the country smart enough to change a light bulb in a few years. Then they can sit in the dark with no Internet and complain how Britain and the US are evil.
That was my thought when I read the title on RSS -- are they conflating correlation and causation again?
I would suggest that if you've got a lot of technology at your house (in my case, the computers outnumber the people) then you have a fair bit of extra cash on hand. That probably means that you've got a well-paying job, not two or three low-end jobs. That means you're home more often and spend more time with your kids and thus encourage them to read.
I know a guy my age who learned Japanese just to be able to play imported games and watch anime. A kid I know was motivated to read so he could follow along the Final Fantasy plotlines.
Well, no, it looks like they are using the public info to check up on people whom they are already investigating. If they're just fishing, then they simply have no decency.
If it's on your public profile, that's akin to leaving stuff on your front lawn. Anyone can drive up and take a picture. If you're loading weed onto a truck in broad daylight in a residential neighbourhood, don't be shocked if your neighbours call the police.
Likewise, if you've left a photo of yourself with, say, a flatbed of marijuana and a status of "BRB -- going to Canada for delivery" on your public profile, don't be surprised if you get pulled over.
Why wouldn't the feds do this? It would be irresponsible of them to *NOT* look at social networking sites for illegal activities. I'm not saying that there's a treasure trove of information there, but come on, this isn't private data we're talking about here. If the FBI or CIA ir CSIS or NSA or ABC is looking for info on me, they should at the very least be putting "Beardo the Bearded" into Google and following the links.
If someone is putting things up in public for anyone to see then I can't see any problems with a government agency looking over these records. I'm all for privacy, but once you put it up in public, good luck, Mrs. Streisand.
I've got an LG DVR that works fantastically for my purposes. It records TV, let me watch just about anything, including.AVI files encoded with DivX. (Home movies, of course.) It'll even play directly off a thumb drive or other USB storage mechanism. Favorite movies can be copied to the hard drive, and children as young as 5 can be taught how to turn on "Cars" or "Enchanted" and watch them. (The first is a home-made documentary on the manufacturing of internal-combustion vehicles, the second was a PBS special about wizards in the dark ages.) A 250G HDD can hold somewhere in the neighbourhood of 250 similarly-encoded movies, although that would leave no space for taping.
The remote even has a TV section that was able to control my TV within about 30 seconds of reading the manual. Not all functions, but enough so that I can turn on the TV, switch to the DVR, and start the movie with just one remote.
It was $300 and replaced the Daytek I'd had for years. The Daytek died after about 3 years of service, but since I bought it from Costco they gave me my money back. (I got the LG from Costco with the cash they gave me from the Daytek.)
The only issue I have had was with recording some shows -- there's a broadcast flag on some shows that won't let you record. In that case, I've heard that some people would download the torrent and watch it via the thumb drive. Those people apparently don't have to watch any of the commercials. The sound quality isn't as good as I would like it to be, but it's tolerable. Also, unlike the Daytek, you can't watch off the HDD while recording. (This was an undocumented feature in the Daytek.)
1. Any institution has to follow Federal regulations, including OSHA. No exceptions. Any employee has the right to refuse work if it is unsafe, and if you are threatened to get fired, call the Workman's Compensation Board and get their asses fined heavily. ($10k on a first offence, escalating from there.) If they do fire you, remind them that you've got nothing better to do all day than follow them around and call the WCB for any infractions, and hey, check out this new camera.
2. A non-compete clause that broad will not stand up in court. Ask a lawyer for details.
3. Signing a contract without running it past your lawyer or at the very least reading all source documents is foolhardy. If they won't give it to you, make a note on the contract that "employee manual not provided; cannot agree to terms therin". Then you're good to go.
4. Getting TOIL is better than getting cash. Money's just money, but you can't buy more time. If you've gone in at midnight to fix a three-hour fire, then you get 3 x 1.5 hours paid or time off in lieu.
I required the employee handbook before signing the contract where I work now, and asked for more $ during negotiations. (I got both, and this was in March 2009.) I get paid hourly with TOIL at 1.5x / 2.0x.
So what you're saying is that rabid adherence to a particular ideology is ridiculous, and instead, a combination of the better ideas of a series of ideologies would create a better system and one that provides a balance of positive benefits for all members involved?
In other words, we can find a balance between anarchy and fascism that provides a symbiotic relationship at the peak of some kind of curve.
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Holy FUCK. You know, you could probably auction that number off on eBay.
I got my account in 2000 as a condition of employment. Yes, you read that correctly.
It's 100 kibistories. Lighten up fr
(The ancis is gone because I'm using a kibipost)
If you get them, just do what I do -- find a thread you don't have any interest in and moderate the first X posts as "under-rated". (X is the number of mod points you get, which is 15 for me.)
This gives you the benefit of nothaving to actually moderate plus you can't be meta-moderated.
I get points about once a week. YMMV. CYLDFD.
I'm really only posting here in case there's an acheivement... achievement... anchoviement.
Sorry, not enough sleep makes everything seem funny. At least I'm not rambling on pointlessly.
Wait.
As I posted above, I was being literal with the pissing statement.
Figuratively, I piss my cash away on dive gear, bike lights, and cake.
What if this is all a marketing campaign? They've got multiple front-page /. articles, it's up all over the "geek" news sites, and tens of thousands of people in their market segment now know about a product that, up until a month ago, was completely unknown.
It's being timed with the type of elegant precision normally reserved for Swiss watchmakers.* With these last three articles, they've kept themselves in the forefront for the last three weeks WITH NO COST TO THEM.
I'll wager that the next "press release" will be that they've decided that JooJoo is too juvenile and they're rebranding as [Sigma]pic €omputer. (/. has some odd problems with characters, as we all know.)
(I thought about using "Italian train station masters" given the JooJoo brand, but thought it would be in poor taste.)
Yes, I was being literal. :)
Figuratively, I piss away my cash on diving gear, bike lights, and bakery treats.
Hey, VCN is a pretty good program.
That depends. Will it have a Special Purpose Internet Connection Enhancement?
My thoughts, in order: (I get /. feeds via my Google home page.)
"Holy shit, SPICE is open source now?"
"When did Red Hat buy SPICE?"
"Why would Red Hat buy SPICE?"
"Hopefully there's some documentation."
"Oh, they mean SPICE, not SPICE."
"Maybe I can post something like 'as an EE, fuck you for getting my hopes up'."
"Aw, Octorian's posted about SPICE."
"Fucking Slashdot."
There's an image that you can probably find with GIS. It takes the DOJ stats for violent crime and puts them in a graph along with the release dates of various games like Postal, Doom, Mortal Kombat, etc.
(I know, correlation.)
(Also, I'm at work so GIS is a Bad Plan.)
Dag nab it. Posting to fix a slip of the finger.
My last of 15 -- thanks for not letting us undo, /.
(You were supposed to get an "interesting".)
I heard that in the US it’s rather easy to change your name (other than here in Germany, where you have to have a name like Hitler Likestogetraped to get it changed). Use it. Seriously. :)
You want him to change his name to Hitler Likestogetraped?
I somehow doubt his potential employers would even GET to the point where they'd Google that.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Unless you are found guilty in a court of law, then you are presumed to be innocent.
I don't drink, you insensitive clod!
Why does that make me prissy and self-righteous? Are you assuming that I'm either a preaching Mormon or Muslim? Neither are true. I simply have enough self-confidence that I don't require alcohol to cut loose and have a good time without worrying about what other people think about me.
Also, the money. I've saved thousands of dollars by not drinking. It's up to you -- if you want to piss your cash away, I'm not going to even try and stop you.
That's why I have a broadcasting licence.
I just have to have 35% Canadian content on all mix tapes, MP3 collections, and playlists in accordance with CRTC regulations.
In Canada, it's still not a violation of copyright law to copy something for personal use. The last two attempts to change the law (Bills C-60 and C-61) were put aside during the last few elections.
It is, and always has been, a violation to provide the copies. This provides the interesting point where if someone downloads an album via Azureus, that's legal up until the point when you start seeding. (Which is, of course, before you're done downloading, but that's a matter for the philosophers.) In short, up here, it's legal to download but unlawful to upload.* That's because we pay a CIRA levy on all blank media; a "pirate tax", if you will. CIRA has already decided that I'm going to use that spindle of DVD-Rs for pirating, so I should pay a little extra at the counter to compensate them for the loss of revenue. I am not making that up.
Now, the proposed penalties for uploading under C-61 were $20k per offence. It was $500 for downloading, or $20k if you broke any encoding whatsoever. These values were going to be put into Canadian law but were fortunately stopped by government instability. (That's a much longer story than /. has time for.)
Canadian law does not require our judges to use previous cases as a stepping point for punitive damages; you won't see a billion-dollar fine put up simply because you have to have a rationale for the punishment.
Our courts are also loser-pay, which is why you can't just drop a lawsuit or you admit you've lost and will have to pay the costs. If they were to sue, say, me, I would refer them to my lawyer. They know that I've got one, and that that first call is likely to cost them the $200 once the dust settles. (I would call her in the meantime and tell her to have No Mercy.) You won't get scare-tactic suits up here like you have in the states.
* I know that not all copyright infringement is music-sharing online. In fact, the most dangerous type (from my EE perspective) is false labelling on electronics, especially circuit breakers and other protective devices. This is an endemic problem and it's scary as fuck when a 200A breaker keeps going and melts into fucking slag at 400A.
My laptop is called a "Eee PC"... I think it's a damned stupid name, but I really like the machine...
Call it a Triple-E CompuRock EXTREME! and you'll feel better about it.
Actually, the ones that aren't fine with the status quo no longer live in Iran. My co-worker left as soon as he could; so did a previous co-worker. They have families, and they don't want to have them grabbed or imprisoned just for saying, "this is bullshit!". (A right that we have in the West, but one that sadly, is not conferred to the rest of the world.)
They're both Engineers -- Iran's loss, our gain. At the rate they're going, they won't have anyone left in the country smart enough to change a light bulb in a few years. Then they can sit in the dark with no Internet and complain how Britain and the US are evil.
That was my thought when I read the title on RSS -- are they conflating correlation and causation again?
I would suggest that if you've got a lot of technology at your house (in my case, the computers outnumber the people) then you have a fair bit of extra cash on hand. That probably means that you've got a well-paying job, not two or three low-end jobs. That means you're home more often and spend more time with your kids and thus encourage them to read.
I know a guy my age who learned Japanese just to be able to play imported games and watch anime. A kid I know was motivated to read so he could follow along the Final Fantasy plotlines.
Well, no, it looks like they are using the public info to check up on people whom they are already investigating. If they're just fishing, then they simply have no decency.
If it's on your public profile, that's akin to leaving stuff on your front lawn. Anyone can drive up and take a picture. If you're loading weed onto a truck in broad daylight in a residential neighbourhood, don't be shocked if your neighbours call the police.
Likewise, if you've left a photo of yourself with, say, a flatbed of marijuana and a status of "BRB -- going to Canada for delivery" on your public profile, don't be surprised if you get pulled over.
Why wouldn't the feds do this? It would be irresponsible of them to *NOT* look at social networking sites for illegal activities. I'm not saying that there's a treasure trove of information there, but come on, this isn't private data we're talking about here. If the FBI or CIA ir CSIS or NSA or ABC is looking for info on me, they should at the very least be putting "Beardo the Bearded" into Google and following the links.
If someone is putting things up in public for anyone to see then I can't see any problems with a government agency looking over these records. I'm all for privacy, but once you put it up in public, good luck, Mrs. Streisand.
I've got an LG DVR that works fantastically for my purposes. It records TV, let me watch just about anything, including .AVI files encoded with DivX. (Home movies, of course.) It'll even play directly off a thumb drive or other USB storage mechanism. Favorite movies can be copied to the hard drive, and children as young as 5 can be taught how to turn on "Cars" or "Enchanted" and watch them. (The first is a home-made documentary on the manufacturing of internal-combustion vehicles, the second was a PBS special about wizards in the dark ages.) A 250G HDD can hold somewhere in the neighbourhood of 250 similarly-encoded movies, although that would leave no space for taping.
The remote even has a TV section that was able to control my TV within about 30 seconds of reading the manual. Not all functions, but enough so that I can turn on the TV, switch to the DVR, and start the movie with just one remote.
It was $300 and replaced the Daytek I'd had for years. The Daytek died after about 3 years of service, but since I bought it from Costco they gave me my money back. (I got the LG from Costco with the cash they gave me from the Daytek.)
The only issue I have had was with recording some shows -- there's a broadcast flag on some shows that won't let you record. In that case, I've heard that some people would download the torrent and watch it via the thumb drive. Those people apparently don't have to watch any of the commercials. The sound quality isn't as good as I would like it to be, but it's tolerable. Also, unlike the Daytek, you can't watch off the HDD while recording. (This was an undocumented feature in the Daytek.)
Am I the only one here with a valid IMEI number, or is /. broken again?
A few things:
1. Any institution has to follow Federal regulations, including OSHA. No exceptions. Any employee has the right to refuse work if it is unsafe, and if you are threatened to get fired, call the Workman's Compensation Board and get their asses fined heavily. ($10k on a first offence, escalating from there.) If they do fire you, remind them that you've got nothing better to do all day than follow them around and call the WCB for any infractions, and hey, check out this new camera.
2. A non-compete clause that broad will not stand up in court. Ask a lawyer for details.
3. Signing a contract without running it past your lawyer or at the very least reading all source documents is foolhardy. If they won't give it to you, make a note on the contract that "employee manual not provided; cannot agree to terms therin". Then you're good to go.
4. Getting TOIL is better than getting cash. Money's just money, but you can't buy more time. If you've gone in at midnight to fix a three-hour fire, then you get 3 x 1.5 hours paid or time off in lieu.
I required the employee handbook before signing the contract where I work now, and asked for more $ during negotiations. (I got both, and this was in March 2009.) I get paid hourly with TOIL at 1.5x / 2.0x.
So what you're saying is that rabid adherence to a particular ideology is ridiculous, and instead, a combination of the better ideas of a series of ideologies would create a better system and one that provides a balance of positive benefits for all members involved?
In other words, we can find a balance between anarchy and fascism that provides a symbiotic relationship at the peak of some kind of curve.
"Cagers" is cute. I call them "four-wheels".