Did the service technician violate the privacy of the computer owner by looking at files on the hard drive that might not have been required to perform the repair work?
I'd think that would depend on the amount of effort the defendant went through to hide those images. If they were in a TrueCrypt partition and the tech found that his client's PC was infected with a keystroke logger and went through the logfile to find the password to decrypt the images, then that would seem like a violation. On the other hand, if they were unencrypted in a folder named "CHILD_PORN" on the Desktop then I don't think the tech did anything wrong.
In my mind, it's like the difference between a neighbor seeing you naked because you're taking a shower and they're sneaking around your house, versus seeing you naked because you're sunbathing in your unfenced backyard. The former has a reasonable expectation of privacy; the latter doesn't.
And at the end of the day, FreeBSD works. It is the most boring OS you'll ever find. It is about as exciting as your water heater.
Speak for yourself! FreeBSD 7 is bringing things like SMPng with vastly improved multiprocessor support and other spiffy features. It's not boring in the slightest if you have an appreciation for rock-solid engineering and elegant design.
FreeBSD 7.0 I think *may* be the first to use GCC4, but it might still be on 3.
For the record:
$ uname -r 7.0-BETA1 $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Intent is the difference between involuntary manslaughter and 1'st degree murder.
In this case, it might be the difference between attempted murder and criminal negligence (which can still bring down the might and wrath of the law upon you).
I wish now that I had had the balls to escalate it to the dean or maybe even higher.
I went to the dean exactly one time. I was taking some general ed course or another that didn't require attendance. I showed up on the scheduled day of the final exam, only to find out (with a handful of other students) that the professor had rescheduled it. When we asked her why she didn't notify us, she answered that she'd announced it in (attendance-optional) class.
The dean explained that 1) she wasn't allowed to reschedule finals without the approval of high administration, 2) she would have had to contact each student to tell them what happened, and 3) we had to be allowed to take the final without penalty. I got my A.
Why have the BSDs taken so long to realize this simple fact of life?
Well, in the case of OpenBSD, it's because they've gone over the Sendmail code with a fine-toothed comb and patched up any problems they found along the way. It's pretty well vetted by people who care intensely about such things. Therefore, replacing Sendmail with anything else would be a case of the devil you know being better than the devil you don't.
Drop webmail altogether and use something like mutt.
How well does that work for ya when you're visiting family for the holidays and want to use their Wii to check your email?
I use native clients 99.9% of the time, but still have a webmail interface on my home server for the other.1% when I don't have the option of installing software on a borrowed machine (or simply don't want to).
Probably going to get modded "-1 Troll" for this, but having seen and used the product, I don't think Vista is all that bad.
That's fine - to each his own. It's just that all the popular tech press (and even some non-tech press, like the Wall Street Journal via Walt Mossberg) is ambivalent at best of Redmond's newest. It's not just Slashdot that's calling it a dog.
But on that same coin, Linux and MacOS have been getting their fair share of extra processor-eating-eye-candy, too, so what's the big deal here?
The big deal is that OS X and Linux are using the graphics card as a coprocessor to enhance performance. You get some shiny effects for free or cheap along the way, so developers are throwing those in for those who want it. In many cases the new snazzy displays actually run better than their boring counterparts; they're not using it to drive hardware sales.
You're a little wrong there, latex may be that old (I don't know its incept date), but it is the result of many years of gradual improvement and changes. Not all of it is that old.
The layout engine was finalized in 1982 (although the design itself was finished earlier; 1982 is just the date that it was forever set in fixed-point stone). 40 years is an overstatement, but you can reasonably say that TeX's output is over 25 years old.
That's true for more people than you'd think. But again, licensing is by state. If a Texan moves to Colorado, they'll have to get a new license in CO(lorado). If CO's exam involves a slippery conditions test, then they'll have to pass it regardless of whether they'd have to in TX.
Many proofs are very long and the people interested in them generally have journal subscriptions and such to access details.
To hell with anyone who wants to learn something new without shelling out for a journal subscription, right? We don't want anyone being exposed to new information outside their field. Bad Things!
Hundred page proofs are not really suitable for Wikipedia
Why? If it's an important proof and you can present it more easily in Wikipedia format (for example, by adding anchor tags all over it so that you can link to "Proof#coolpart"), what would be the argument against doing so? 100 pages will only take up a tiny slice of a modern RAID, and if few people ever view it then it will hardly take any bandwidth. Still, it'll be available for anyone who needs it. I guess I just don't see the reason why you'd want to prune knowledge from the site.
Oh, I have nothing whatsoever against people who need SUVs or other heavy trucks, and it certainly sounds like you needed one. I just get the idea that the OP was driving a 4x4 down the highway to his office job, and I don't have a lot of sympathy for that.
Allow them. Period. Otherwise you set up circumstances for vandals to thrive like they do around all other ambiguous rules. Put another way, if there are any rules specifying when you can delete proof, I guaran-frickin-tee that some kid will use them to remove articles about the four-color theorem and Godel's incompleteness theorem. They'll claim that they're doing it for nebulous purity reasons; that's just because you won't be able to see their smug little grins as they exercise their power.
The last think Wikipedia needs to do is give the Deletionists more ammunition. They're pissing off enough people as it is.
In the US, is it required to take a slippery driving course to get a drivers' license? Or is it up to the individual states?
If anything, it would be up to the states since driving licenses are state-issued. That's probably for the best here anyway because of the range of climates; it's highly unlikely that someone living in south Texas will need much snow practice.
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While I agree with your post, a minor nitpick: everyone has that right, not just MS partners.
I'd think that would depend on the amount of effort the defendant went through to hide those images. If they were in a TrueCrypt partition and the tech found that his client's PC was infected with a keystroke logger and went through the logfile to find the password to decrypt the images, then that would seem like a violation. On the other hand, if they were unencrypted in a folder named "CHILD_PORN" on the Desktop then I don't think the tech did anything wrong.
In my mind, it's like the difference between a neighbor seeing you naked because you're taking a shower and they're sneaking around your house, versus seeing you naked because you're sunbathing in your unfenced backyard. The former has a reasonable expectation of privacy; the latter doesn't.
Speak for yourself! FreeBSD 7 is bringing things like SMPng with vastly improved multiprocessor support and other spiffy features. It's not boring in the slightest if you have an appreciation for rock-solid engineering and elegant design.
For the record:
In this case, it might be the difference between attempted murder and criminal negligence (which can still bring down the might and wrath of the law upon you).
Since about 10 years ago. :-)
Not registering for a glorified blog, until recently, has absolutely no bearing on someone's experience or lack thereof."The grapes are sour anyway!"
I went to the dean exactly one time. I was taking some general ed course or another that didn't require attendance. I showed up on the scheduled day of the final exam, only to find out (with a handful of other students) that the professor had rescheduled it. When we asked her why she didn't notify us, she answered that she'd announced it in (attendance-optional) class.
The dean explained that 1) she wasn't allowed to reschedule finals without the approval of high administration, 2) she would have had to contact each student to tell them what happened, and 3) we had to be allowed to take the final without penalty. I got my A.
Well, in the case of OpenBSD, it's because they've gone over the Sendmail code with a fine-toothed comb and patched up any problems they found along the way. It's pretty well vetted by people who care intensely about such things. Therefore, replacing Sendmail with anything else would be a case of the devil you know being better than the devil you don't.
Making a mental note not to get sick where you live.
I'm guessing that's what the average Slashdotter thought a 404 was.
How well does that work for ya when you're visiting family for the holidays and want to use their Wii to check your email?
I use native clients 99.9% of the time, but still have a webmail interface on my home server for the other .1% when I don't have the option of installing software on a borrowed machine (or simply don't want to).
A "blue" Mac will eventually continue with the boot process. A "blue" PC will start a new one.
As a car driver, I need to stay current with Monsanto technology, or risk hearing loss.
As long as we're throwing out wholly unrelated lists of things, I mean.
That's fine - to each his own. It's just that all the popular tech press (and even some non-tech press, like the Wall Street Journal via Walt Mossberg) is ambivalent at best of Redmond's newest. It's not just Slashdot that's calling it a dog.
But on that same coin, Linux and MacOS have been getting their fair share of extra processor-eating-eye-candy, too, so what's the big deal here?The big deal is that OS X and Linux are using the graphics card as a coprocessor to enhance performance. You get some shiny effects for free or cheap along the way, so developers are throwing those in for those who want it. In many cases the new snazzy displays actually run better than their boring counterparts; they're not using it to drive hardware sales.
Is The Gimp available for a VAX-11? If so, you two could have a lot in common.
The layout engine was finalized in 1982 (although the design itself was finished earlier; 1982 is just the date that it was forever set in fixed-point stone). 40 years is an overstatement, but you can reasonably say that TeX's output is over 25 years old.
"If you'd quit giving our transmitters dumb names like "pulsar" and instead listen to the dang things, you might learn a thing or two."
That's true for more people than you'd think. But again, licensing is by state. If a Texan moves to Colorado, they'll have to get a new license in CO(lorado). If CO's exam involves a slippery conditions test, then they'll have to pass it regardless of whether they'd have to in TX.
To hell with anyone who wants to learn something new without shelling out for a journal subscription, right? We don't want anyone being exposed to new information outside their field. Bad Things!
Why? If it's an important proof and you can present it more easily in Wikipedia format (for example, by adding anchor tags all over it so that you can link to "Proof#coolpart"), what would be the argument against doing so? 100 pages will only take up a tiny slice of a modern RAID, and if few people ever view it then it will hardly take any bandwidth. Still, it'll be available for anyone who needs it. I guess I just don't see the reason why you'd want to prune knowledge from the site.
Oh, I have nothing whatsoever against people who need SUVs or other heavy trucks, and it certainly sounds like you needed one. I just get the idea that the OP was driving a 4x4 down the highway to his office job, and I don't have a lot of sympathy for that.
Allow them. Period. Otherwise you set up circumstances for vandals to thrive like they do around all other ambiguous rules. Put another way, if there are any rules specifying when you can delete proof, I guaran-frickin-tee that some kid will use them to remove articles about the four-color theorem and Godel's incompleteness theorem. They'll claim that they're doing it for nebulous purity reasons; that's just because you won't be able to see their smug little grins as they exercise their power.
The last think Wikipedia needs to do is give the Deletionists more ammunition. They're pissing off enough people as it is.
Is RMS on the no-fly list or something?
(Rick, if you're reading this: you know we love ya)
From his post: "So we buy these monsters to get to work every day !"
If anything, it would be up to the states since driving licenses are state-issued. That's probably for the best here anyway because of the range of climates; it's highly unlikely that someone living in south Texas will need much snow practice.