I guess I'm lucky to work for a more enlightened company. Our policy is simple: we're all adults with a job to do, and as long as you do it efficiently without causing problems, nothing else really matters. Honestly, I'd hate working for your employer and probably wouldn't last a month.
"Why?" Is a very good question. I strongly believe in government transparency.
Seriously, you see no legitimate purposes for secrecy, even weapons designs or submarine movements or spy activity? On second thought, I guess I shouldn't find your lack of understanding of consequences to be too surprising.
Okay, admittedly, giving the data to wikileaks would be something that I would do given the situation, which is certainly not for everyone.
But why? To prove the police right that citizens will do everything they can to endanger national security? Presumably the camera contained information that needed to stay secret. I understand your idea in general, but in this specific case I think it's bad to be handing out national secrets. In today's political environment, you'd likely be tried (and convicted) of treason, and rightly so.
Who said anything about taunting a TLA? I don't even know what that is. I don't taunt any police organization besides purposefully seeking justice in a court of law or asserting my rights during an encounter.
Well, sticking up for your rights and advocating publishing their secret data on the Internet. I can't possibly imagine how that would piss them off.
I think the individual would have been better off (as in, not having his home raided and property taken) to have just given the data to wikileaks.
"Hey, our national security data turned up on Wikileaks! I wonder how it got there. Oh look, a serial number in the EXIF data. What'd we do with that camera anyway?"
Basically, the poor guy was screwed. He reported the problem and suffered for it. If he didn't report it at all, an audit at MI6 might have turned up the problem and they would have confiscated everything he owned capable of storing the data, possibly including himself.
If he'd followed your harebrained advice, he would probably be dead. Seriously, what part of "taunt the TLA" seems like a good idea to you?
I feel badly for him. My sig is normally meant to be humorous.
I've yet to hear a decent reason for a netbook (or subnotebook, or ultraportable, or whatever the buzzword is this week), other than "it's small and light", which makes zero sense to me whatsoever.
I can only speak for myself, but I've come to love my Eee. The size doesn't seem that impressive until you actually use one for a while and realize that it's roughly as portable as a paperback book. It's not that you can take it somewhere you couldn't take a laptop, but that you can take it anywhere without thinking - just throw it in a bag and go.
I'm perfectly capable of toting a fullsize laptop around, but I'm less likely to bring it than I am the Eee.
I didn't want to be in their database. I would think that would be a defensible motive on Slashdot of all places. Sure, I had my license. No, I didn't want to hand over my personal information to the disgruntled clerk.
I'm pretty sure that the person at Target wasn't thinking far enough ahead to be concerned that I might sue. I've found that almost every place will work with if you if you start the process with a friendly smile and treat the other person nicely. That episode at Wal-Mart and another at Circuit City when a clerk tried to charge me a restocking fee for a DOA graphics card were the only two times I can readily remember when acting civilly didn't get results.
To Wal-Mart's credit, they were pretty cool about refunding a bike once. I bought a cheap road bike to ride 1.5 miles to work. On day one, the brakes gave out. On day two the chain broke. On day three, I stood in line at Wal-Mart to return it. While it was a low-end model, the clerk agreed that I should have been able to ride it more than 6 miles before it started falling apart and I got a full refund.
So even though it doesn't make "sense", they had no idea what the providence of your diapers were; you could have bought them stolen for 20 cents on the dollar.
But, again, I was making an exchange and not getting a refund. I was trading them something worth $X for something worth $(X-0.07). Even if I'd stolen the original package, they would be no worse off after the swap. It was a lot of inconvenience for no net difference.
How hard was it to show them a driver's license, anyway?
To show them? Not hard at all. To allow them to record the information like they wanted to do? That was more than I could accept.
Walmart has very customer friendly return policies in their bricks-and-mortar stores.
BS. I bought a package of baby diapers in our local store before going to a conference in another city. I managed to buy the wrong size, so we went to exchange them at a Wal-Mart in that town. I was civil and polite from the very beginning. The difference in price was $0.07, but they absolutely positively would not exchange them without my driver's license. This resulted in one of the very rare occasions where escalation to a few well-chosen f-bombs to the manager got them to cooperate. Now, keep in mind that I wasn't asking for a refund or anything else even possibly fraudulent. I was giving them an unopened package of baby diapers (of all things) in exchange for a similarly-priced package of the same brand. If I were a thief, I would have just stolen the right size in the first place, and in any event it was an even swap.
No, Wal-Mart is not always customer-friendly.
Target, on the other hand, are a bunch of bastards with crazy rules like "we'll take it, but you have to find something else to buy from the same department."
I've had the opposite experience. I bought an LED flashlight at Target that broke in the "on" position and melted down. When I returned it (having already lost the receipt), they offered my money back before I even brought it up.
Maybe they'll even teach something like "Evolution is mostly popular because many atheists think it can discount the first two pages of the bible, thereby disproving god forever"
Yes, I'm sure that some knuckle-dragging anti-knowledge jackass will say exactly that. The sad part is that their students will someday be expected to differentiate between fairy tale and reality but will have no experience with doing so.
I'm a conservative Christian, by the way. I just don't believe that God hates us and delights in playing cruel hoaxes on his beloved.
// The Foo library likes to send hex strings without the // 0x prefix for some reason. Make sure we add it for // consistency with other data sources. hex = "0x" + number_str; return convert_hex_string_to_decimal_string(hex);
The OSI and FSF agree that free or open source licenses, respectively, should never have any sort of usage clause in them. Richard Stallman has publicly encouraged everybody to find ways to profit off free software.
The Affero GPL has usage clauses and is endorsed by the FSF.
And no one knew this until the day of the election? If that was the real reason, it would have been brought up earlier and extended to all polling places, not just the ones favoring the petitioner.
He was also of the firm opinion that his views shouldn't be able to affect your life. Who cares if he's anti-$FOO in his personal life as long as he refuses to sign anti-$FOO legislation?
Cool - thanks for the information. I may give it a shot if only to see what all the fuss is about. The one thing that really interests me is the idea of truly random playlists. I'm 99% OK with the Sansa's built-in firmware, but every time you start random play mode, it starts with the first song in alphabetical order. Fixing that alone is worth the price of entrance for me.
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I originally stated:
I'd say that exposing the company to lawsuits would definitely count as causing problems and would be addressed.
For anything that doesn't support 802.1X natively (printers, net cams, etc), you can white list the MAC on a port.
Look at me! I'm a printer! Hack hack hack.
You will not be hearing this from me again:
Real, you're awesome. Good luck!
I guess I'm lucky to work for a more enlightened company. Our policy is simple: we're all adults with a job to do, and as long as you do it efficiently without causing problems, nothing else really matters. Honestly, I'd hate working for your employer and probably wouldn't last a month.
"Why?" Is a very good question. I strongly believe in government transparency.
Seriously, you see no legitimate purposes for secrecy, even weapons designs or submarine movements or spy activity? On second thought, I guess I shouldn't find your lack of understanding of consequences to be too surprising.
Okay, admittedly, giving the data to wikileaks would be something that I would do given the situation, which is certainly not for everyone.
But why? To prove the police right that citizens will do everything they can to endanger national security? Presumably the camera contained information that needed to stay secret. I understand your idea in general, but in this specific case I think it's bad to be handing out national secrets. In today's political environment, you'd likely be tried (and convicted) of treason, and rightly so.
Who said anything about taunting a TLA? I don't even know what that is. I don't taunt any police organization besides purposefully seeking justice in a court of law or asserting my rights during an encounter.
Well, sticking up for your rights and advocating publishing their secret data on the Internet. I can't possibly imagine how that would piss them off.
An audit would just have shown the camera missing and assume the camera was emptied or something.
When in your entire life have you ever dealt with the government and had them assume that everything was alright?
I think the individual would have been better off (as in, not having his home raided and property taken) to have just given the data to wikileaks.
"Hey, our national security data turned up on Wikileaks! I wonder how it got there. Oh look, a serial number in the EXIF data. What'd we do with that camera anyway?"
Basically, the poor guy was screwed. He reported the problem and suffered for it. If he didn't report it at all, an audit at MI6 might have turned up the problem and they would have confiscated everything he owned capable of storing the data, possibly including himself.
If he'd followed your harebrained advice, he would probably be dead. Seriously, what part of "taunt the TLA" seems like a good idea to you?
I feel badly for him. My sig is normally meant to be humorous.
He was only able to jump like that because there was one sixth the gravity.
I've yet to hear a decent reason for a netbook (or subnotebook, or ultraportable, or whatever the buzzword is this week), other than "it's small and light", which makes zero sense to me whatsoever.
I can only speak for myself, but I've come to love my Eee. The size doesn't seem that impressive until you actually use one for a while and realize that it's roughly as portable as a paperback book. It's not that you can take it somewhere you couldn't take a laptop, but that you can take it anywhere without thinking - just throw it in a bag and go.
I'm perfectly capable of toting a fullsize laptop around, but I'm less likely to bring it than I am the Eee.
I didn't want to be in their database. I would think that would be a defensible motive on Slashdot of all places. Sure, I had my license. No, I didn't want to hand over my personal information to the disgruntled clerk.
Your diapers could have been counterfeit, not containing what you believed they were, etc
And a receipt would have protected them how?
I'd call that "security theater", where it looks like they're actively doing something but nothing valuable actually happens.
Sorry honey, but the kid will have to just shit himself because I'm taking a stand?
Look honey - I got the diapers without being added to Yet Another Database.
I'm pretty sure that the person at Target wasn't thinking far enough ahead to be concerned that I might sue. I've found that almost every place will work with if you if you start the process with a friendly smile and treat the other person nicely. That episode at Wal-Mart and another at Circuit City when a clerk tried to charge me a restocking fee for a DOA graphics card were the only two times I can readily remember when acting civilly didn't get results.
To Wal-Mart's credit, they were pretty cool about refunding a bike once. I bought a cheap road bike to ride 1.5 miles to work. On day one, the brakes gave out. On day two the chain broke. On day three, I stood in line at Wal-Mart to return it. While it was a low-end model, the clerk agreed that I should have been able to ride it more than 6 miles before it started falling apart and I got a full refund.
So even though it doesn't make "sense", they had no idea what the providence of your diapers were; you could have bought them stolen for 20 cents on the dollar.
But, again, I was making an exchange and not getting a refund. I was trading them something worth $X for something worth $(X-0.07). Even if I'd stolen the original package, they would be no worse off after the swap. It was a lot of inconvenience for no net difference.
How hard was it to show them a driver's license, anyway?
To show them? Not hard at all. To allow them to record the information like they wanted to do? That was more than I could accept.
Walmart has very customer friendly return policies in their bricks-and-mortar stores.
BS. I bought a package of baby diapers in our local store before going to a conference in another city. I managed to buy the wrong size, so we went to exchange them at a Wal-Mart in that town. I was civil and polite from the very beginning. The difference in price was $0.07, but they absolutely positively would not exchange them without my driver's license. This resulted in one of the very rare occasions where escalation to a few well-chosen f-bombs to the manager got them to cooperate. Now, keep in mind that I wasn't asking for a refund or anything else even possibly fraudulent. I was giving them an unopened package of baby diapers (of all things) in exchange for a similarly-priced package of the same brand. If I were a thief, I would have just stolen the right size in the first place, and in any event it was an even swap.
No, Wal-Mart is not always customer-friendly.
Target, on the other hand, are a bunch of bastards with crazy rules like "we'll take it, but you have to find something else to buy from the same department."
I've had the opposite experience. I bought an LED flashlight at Target that broke in the "on" position and melted down. When I returned it (having already lost the receipt), they offered my money back before I even brought it up.
Maybe they'll even teach something like "Evolution is mostly popular because many atheists think it can discount the first two pages of the bible, thereby disproving god forever"
Yes, I'm sure that some knuckle-dragging anti-knowledge jackass will say exactly that. The sad part is that their students will someday be expected to differentiate between fairy tale and reality but will have no experience with doing so.
I'm a conservative Christian, by the way. I just don't believe that God hates us and delights in playing cruel hoaxes on his beloved.
I actually prefer stuff like:
May I suggest picking either 120V or 240V, but sticking with it?
I'll start: ~20 years, 0 exploding caps.
~25 years, 1 set of exploding caps. On the graphics card in an eMac.
Apple repaired it for free, so I guess you could call it even.
I hope someone buys Transmeta like Google, Yahoo, IBM, etc, because those Transmeta chips run fast and use as little electricity as possible.
Do you have any numbers to show that their performance per watt is any better than the Atom or other low-power CPUs?
The OSI and FSF agree that free or open source licenses, respectively, should never have any sort of usage clause in them. Richard Stallman has publicly encouraged everybody to find ways to profit off free software.
The Affero GPL has usage clauses and is endorsed by the FSF.
That's BS. The St. Louis Democratic Party might be a lot of things, but they're not incompetent at running elections.
And no one knew this until the day of the election? If that was the real reason, it would have been brought up earlier and extended to all polling places, not just the ones favoring the petitioner.
He was also of the firm opinion that his views shouldn't be able to affect your life. Who cares if he's anti-$FOO in his personal life as long as he refuses to sign anti-$FOO legislation?
Cool - thanks for the information. I may give it a shot if only to see what all the fuss is about. The one thing that really interests me is the idea of truly random playlists. I'm 99% OK with the Sansa's built-in firmware, but every time you start random play mode, it starts with the first song in alphabetical order. Fixing that alone is worth the price of entrance for me.