As opposed to Gonzales who said habeus corpus wasn't really a right? Who said that torture was OK?
You can keep him.
I'm not defending Holder, but Gonzales didn't seem to have the barest clue about what the Constitution said and what it meant.
Sorry, but pretty much anybody from the Bush era (and quite honestly a bunch who are still in Washington) has no business working at a place which has a privacy policy.
I'm not going to 'boycott' them, but I am going to stop using them, and I now no longer care who they have on their board.
I am disconnecting anything which I have which still points to DropBox since I haven't used it in a while anyway.
But for a company which does cloud storage to expect that people won't look at that appointment and say "oh hell no", they're sadly mistaken. You might as well appoint Alberto Gonzales as a Constitutional scholar and privacy expert.
I'm betting DropBox suddenly sees a drop in usage.
The company itself can have hundreds, so long as it's not installed on more than 10 you're still good.
And, what is the benefit of MS Security Essentials if you have it on 10 out of hundreds of PCs?
You still need an AV solution for the rest of them, in which case you've accomplished nothing by having it only on a fraction of your machines. And if you have to manage the AV on a larger number of machines that don't have MSSE... WTF is the point?
Is this like putting air in the tires of only a few of your delivery trucks? Chairs at a fraction of your desks? A roof which covers 10% of your building?
A bit of extra work and you have something that is really tailord for your company. You can make two images. One for clients and one for servers. Or go evebn further and edit YaST so you have only one image for several options. Portable, desktop, software selections per department,...
And, really, unless you invest in the time of managing these machines, including patch roll out and the like... all you're doing is making problems for yourself down the road.
People expect their work computers to work, they expect the process of updating to be hands-off, transparent, and uniform (why does Sally have a completely different version that I do?).
If you're just going to fire up Linux on someone's machine and walk away and leave them to fend for themselves, you should expect major problems and grumbling.
If you haven't put thought into managing the life cycle and support of the machines, you're doing it wrong, and it will bite you in the ass.
It's one thing to install a distro on your own machine. It's entirely something else to deal with all of the compatibility and support issues people will inevitably encounter. This sounds like it's being done quite ad hoc, so you better have a very small shop of people who don't need hand-holding when it comes to computers.
It has an "onunload" function that pops up an error message
And this is why I don't allow javascript to run on arbitrary sites.
Because javascript can be used to do way too many annoying things. Like websites which think they can disable my right click (so I can use the back button) because they think I'm going to steal their images.
It's also why Flash doesn't get installed on machines I control.
How does that support that the security industry is somehow part of the problem? They found a simple and convenient way to give the ransomware the boot, what's your point?
Because, if you publicize how you caught their error, they can fix it.
So, now the next iteration of this will possibly NOT be fixable.
Someone found a way to fix it, and didn't tell how it was done. Someone else then publicized it... and when you explain the ways and means, the bad guys can know how you did it.
What they've done is tell the ransomware folks how to 'improve' their malware.
Until your boss starts howling that he sent you an email at 8pm and you didn't reply to it until morning.
Increasingly, companies are expecting you to put in your day, and then still work all of the rest of the day.
My wife's company just keeps scheduling after hours work, piling on the day to day work, and expecting that people will magically do their full work week and cover all of the after-hours work.
At a certain point, companies need to understand they don't own the right to all of your time in a week, and there is a point in the day where you say "and, I'm finished for today".
But companies want to run their employees like rented mules.
Having it all "in the cloud" so that it's available from the mobile-device-of-the-moment is what most people actually want.
Well, the media companies like it too.
Since they're largely also ISPs, they can charge you for the media, charge you for the bandwidth to access your media every time you use it, and make your media go away any time they decide the license terms have changed. You'll pay through the nose, and then pay again and again until they take it away.
And this is precisely why I won't buy any Blu Rays with that stupid Ultraviolet crap on it. As far as I know, you can't watch a movie on a plane or at your cottage, because it won't be able to connect to the server to confirm you are licensed to watch it.
And this is also why I'm ripping my older DVDs, so that I can watch the movie when and how I want.
If controlling our own media is a geeky thing, then I guess I'm still a geek.
Plus, we're much more reluctant to humiliate teenagers by forcing them to wear mediaeval torture devices to straighten their teeth just when they're most sensitive about their appearance.
Instead, you've decided to go with the long drawn out process of having them be sensitive about their appearance for the rest of their lives.
Why settle for just a few years of humiliation, when you can have a lifetime's worth?
Suddenly all those stories about British schools make much more sense.;-)
I still remember the first computer I encountered with a 1GB hard drive back in 1995.
At the time, with Windows installed the HD was so overwhelmingly empty as to have an echo.
People used to go over and sit at the machine just to bring up a file browser and see the listed free space and go "oooh.... pretty".
Fast forward a few decades, and you can buy and 8GB USB stick in the express checkout at Wal Mart next to the bubble gum (literally).
Every now and then I need to remind people that their smart phone is a computer which is at least a million times faster and with at least a million times more capacity that the first ones I got to use. Because storage was measured in KB, and processor speed was in KHz.
I once joked to a university professor that 1GB of iron core memory would alter Earth's magnetic field beyond belief. Now I can't find many people who know what I mean by iron core memory.
Of course, I had an onion on my belt, which was the style in those days...
How would you like to have your every move and word recorded and transmitted by your employer every second of every working day?
Nothing about my day job provides for use of force, arrest, and charging people with criminal acts which could lead to their incarceration.
Given the history of abuses from the LAPD (and lots of other PDs)... the stakes are much higher, and we've passed the point where we can just assume all police are honest.
So, you'll forgive me if I don't go all "boo hoo" about the level of tracking being applied to them. We see plenty enough stories which indicate cops can often have very little regard (or understanding) of the law.
Quite frankly, I don't believe there's enough tracking of police officers.
I have long maintained that if you could induce the placebo effect 50% of the time you'd be doing better than modern medicine.
That being said, since homeopathy has no measurable effects, and works in an undefined way which can't be seen or measured... calling it out as bunk is probably good.
You can't make medical claims unless you have evidence to back it up. And it sounds like there's zero actual evidence.
Maybe you just don't have a very good grasp on who "most people here" are.
If "most people here" care neither about the 50th anniversary of BASIC nor of time-sharing on computers... one might argue that "most people here" aren't actually the target audience for Slashdot.
That's like saying on an aviation forum nobody cares about the Wright Brothers's place in history.
Except some people campaign for their freedom to oppose the rights of others to pursue their freedom from.
And they interchangeably paint themselves as being free to, and then suddenly not free from as it suits their purposes (and in a way that is inconsistent with what they're saying).
When you attack someone's beliefs, that apparently is your free speech. When they fire back at you and decide not to do business with you, suddenly it's "help help I'm being repressed".
I remember doing that stuff... it was kind of fun in its own way. I guess I'm "really old"...:)
LOL, here I'm using "really old" in such a way as to mean "my age or older".
Was talking to someone the other day, and apparently his kid had found his cassette tapes -- he said it took 10 minutes to explain that it used to be for playing music, and another 5 minutes to convince that he wasn't joking.
I can only imagine trying to explain the function of rabbit ears, or how the youngest person in the room was the TV remote. And don't even get me started on black and white TV with 3 stations.;-)
Well, someone had to figure out how to use the memory over 640K, because Billy Boy hadn't yet done so.
It's OK, it happens to all of us. Just think of all the fun you'll have telling your grandchildren about loading programs from cassette tape, or typing in the source code from a magazine. That should be good for some laughs... because you'll need to explain both concepts to them.
If you're really old you can tell them stories about toggling in boot sequences or using punch cards. That'll really blow their mind.
And, yet it should be taken as natural that religious people can spout off against either of those groups, and have it be protected speech. But if someone fires back and talks about them, then it's persecution.
You really can't have it both ways. And the noise I see from Christians saying their free speech is being violated, all the while expecting to be able to do the same thing, tells me that there is no reasoned principle here... just a sense of self entitlement.
You are free to believe what you like and to say it. You are not free from repercussions when people decide they don't like your message.
When someone expects to be able to say hateful things because their religion says, and then gets up in arms when someone calls them on it... the word you're looking for is hypocrisy.
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Big deal, so I'm neither a lawyer nor up on my latin.
I still know what it means, and that Gonzales said it didn't exist as a right.
Do you have anything intelligent to add to the topic?
As opposed to Gonzales who said habeus corpus wasn't really a right? Who said that torture was OK?
You can keep him.
I'm not defending Holder, but Gonzales didn't seem to have the barest clue about what the Constitution said and what it meant.
Sorry, but pretty much anybody from the Bush era (and quite honestly a bunch who are still in Washington) has no business working at a place which has a privacy policy.
I'm not going to 'boycott' them, but I am going to stop using them, and I now no longer care who they have on their board.
I am disconnecting anything which I have which still points to DropBox since I haven't used it in a while anyway.
But for a company which does cloud storage to expect that people won't look at that appointment and say "oh hell no", they're sadly mistaken. You might as well appoint Alberto Gonzales as a Constitutional scholar and privacy expert.
I'm betting DropBox suddenly sees a drop in usage.
Really? Like actually really? Doing what?
Because I haven't found 1GB to be enough RAM for Windows XP or much else in several years.
I seem to recall Vista would keel over with that much memory.
Is Win 7 actually smaller??
And, what is the benefit of MS Security Essentials if you have it on 10 out of hundreds of PCs?
You still need an AV solution for the rest of them, in which case you've accomplished nothing by having it only on a fraction of your machines. And if you have to manage the AV on a larger number of machines that don't have MSSE ... WTF is the point?
Is this like putting air in the tires of only a few of your delivery trucks? Chairs at a fraction of your desks? A roof which covers 10% of your building?
And, really, unless you invest in the time of managing these machines, including patch roll out and the like ... all you're doing is making problems for yourself down the road.
People expect their work computers to work, they expect the process of updating to be hands-off, transparent, and uniform (why does Sally have a completely different version that I do?).
If you're just going to fire up Linux on someone's machine and walk away and leave them to fend for themselves, you should expect major problems and grumbling.
If you haven't put thought into managing the life cycle and support of the machines, you're doing it wrong, and it will bite you in the ass.
It's one thing to install a distro on your own machine. It's entirely something else to deal with all of the compatibility and support issues people will inevitably encounter. This sounds like it's being done quite ad hoc, so you better have a very small shop of people who don't need hand-holding when it comes to computers.
And this is why I don't allow javascript to run on arbitrary sites.
Because javascript can be used to do way too many annoying things. Like websites which think they can disable my right click (so I can use the back button) because they think I'm going to steal their images.
It's also why Flash doesn't get installed on machines I control.
Because, if you publicize how you caught their error, they can fix it.
So, now the next iteration of this will possibly NOT be fixable.
Someone found a way to fix it, and didn't tell how it was done. Someone else then publicized it ... and when you explain the ways and means, the bad guys can know how you did it.
What they've done is tell the ransomware folks how to 'improve' their malware.
Until your boss starts howling that he sent you an email at 8pm and you didn't reply to it until morning.
Increasingly, companies are expecting you to put in your day, and then still work all of the rest of the day.
My wife's company just keeps scheduling after hours work, piling on the day to day work, and expecting that people will magically do their full work week and cover all of the after-hours work.
At a certain point, companies need to understand they don't own the right to all of your time in a week, and there is a point in the day where you say "and, I'm finished for today".
But companies want to run their employees like rented mules.
Well, the media companies like it too.
Since they're largely also ISPs, they can charge you for the media, charge you for the bandwidth to access your media every time you use it, and make your media go away any time they decide the license terms have changed. You'll pay through the nose, and then pay again and again until they take it away.
And this is precisely why I won't buy any Blu Rays with that stupid Ultraviolet crap on it. As far as I know, you can't watch a movie on a plane or at your cottage, because it won't be able to connect to the server to confirm you are licensed to watch it.
And this is also why I'm ripping my older DVDs, so that I can watch the movie when and how I want.
If controlling our own media is a geeky thing, then I guess I'm still a geek.
No, you're mistaken ... that's the USS-Nokia. ;-)
Yeah, they'd be electricity and property taxes for the acres of space you'd need for all those drives.
I remember some of the components which used to be hooked up to the VAXen at my school ... the MBytes/unit volume ratio wasn't exactly favorable. :-P
Instead, you've decided to go with the long drawn out process of having them be sensitive about their appearance for the rest of their lives.
Why settle for just a few years of humiliation, when you can have a lifetime's worth?
Suddenly all those stories about British schools make much more sense. ;-)
I still remember the first computer I encountered with a 1GB hard drive back in 1995.
At the time, with Windows installed the HD was so overwhelmingly empty as to have an echo.
People used to go over and sit at the machine just to bring up a file browser and see the listed free space and go "oooh .... pretty".
Fast forward a few decades, and you can buy and 8GB USB stick in the express checkout at Wal Mart next to the bubble gum (literally).
Every now and then I need to remind people that their smart phone is a computer which is at least a million times faster and with at least a million times more capacity that the first ones I got to use. Because storage was measured in KB, and processor speed was in KHz.
I once joked to a university professor that 1GB of iron core memory would alter Earth's magnetic field beyond belief. Now I can't find many people who know what I mean by iron core memory.
Of course, I had an onion on my belt, which was the style in those days ...
You know, storing vast quantities of stuff on disk was a good starting point, and worthy of recognition.
And then they had to go and mention the cloud and spoil it.
This is why we can't have nice things, because you can't talk about anything without reverting to the latest buzz words.
Meh, methinks maybe more m's might be made mandatory, mostly managing mellifluous meter and mode. ;-)
Nothing about my day job provides for use of force, arrest, and charging people with criminal acts which could lead to their incarceration.
Given the history of abuses from the LAPD (and lots of other PDs) ... the stakes are much higher, and we've passed the point where we can just assume all police are honest.
So, you'll forgive me if I don't go all "boo hoo" about the level of tracking being applied to them. We see plenty enough stories which indicate cops can often have very little regard (or understanding) of the law.
Quite frankly, I don't believe there's enough tracking of police officers.
What you say is interesting, but I disagree.
People use M$ in the same way they use Di$ney ... to connote money grubbing corporations.
I have never understood that to have anything to do with variables in BASIC.
Though, for all I know, you could be correct. But I've never used it that way.
I wonder how this plays into this bit coins they mysteriously found in another wallet later that they said they'd give the refunds from.
Either this was a scam all along, or these guys really dropped the ball.
And if the researchers are saying their explanation doesn't hold water, it's increasingly hard to believe them.
I have long maintained that if you could induce the placebo effect 50% of the time you'd be doing better than modern medicine.
That being said, since homeopathy has no measurable effects, and works in an undefined way which can't be seen or measured ... calling it out as bunk is probably good.
You can't make medical claims unless you have evidence to back it up. And it sounds like there's zero actual evidence.
If "most people here" care neither about the 50th anniversary of BASIC nor of time-sharing on computers ... one might argue that "most people here" aren't actually the target audience for Slashdot.
That's like saying on an aviation forum nobody cares about the Wright Brothers's place in history.
Except some people campaign for their freedom to oppose the rights of others to pursue their freedom from.
And they interchangeably paint themselves as being free to, and then suddenly not free from as it suits their purposes (and in a way that is inconsistent with what they're saying).
When you attack someone's beliefs, that apparently is your free speech. When they fire back at you and decide not to do business with you, suddenly it's "help help I'm being repressed".
LOL, here I'm using "really old" in such a way as to mean "my age or older".
Was talking to someone the other day, and apparently his kid had found his cassette tapes -- he said it took 10 minutes to explain that it used to be for playing music, and another 5 minutes to convince that he wasn't joking.
I can only imagine trying to explain the function of rabbit ears, or how the youngest person in the room was the TV remote. And don't even get me started on black and white TV with 3 stations. ;-)
Well, someone had to figure out how to use the memory over 640K, because Billy Boy hadn't yet done so.
It's OK, it happens to all of us. Just think of all the fun you'll have telling your grandchildren about loading programs from cassette tape, or typing in the source code from a magazine. That should be good for some laughs ... because you'll need to explain both concepts to them.
If you're really old you can tell them stories about toggling in boot sequences or using punch cards. That'll really blow their mind.
And, yet it should be taken as natural that religious people can spout off against either of those groups, and have it be protected speech. But if someone fires back and talks about them, then it's persecution.
You really can't have it both ways. And the noise I see from Christians saying their free speech is being violated, all the while expecting to be able to do the same thing, tells me that there is no reasoned principle here ... just a sense of self entitlement.
You are free to believe what you like and to say it. You are not free from repercussions when people decide they don't like your message.
When someone expects to be able to say hateful things because their religion says, and then gets up in arms when someone calls them on it ... the word you're looking for is hypocrisy.