No, but you can bet that amongst people burned by criminal fraud actions there are suicides, people unable to meet medical bills, people who lose their homes and suffer other fates that, had violence been involved, would merit stiff sanctions.
If I burn your house down, well, arson carries a stiff penalty. If you lose your house because I defraud you, I might get a small fine and a nice minimum security break. Boo-hoo.
Well, it's not like there's any downside. Sell someone dope, go to a maximum security jail and be anally raped for the rest of your life; destroy thousands or tens of thousands of peoples' lives and you get a slap over the wrist.
We give these things special names ("white collar crime"), don't police them especially rigourously, and allow people to escape liability hiding behind limited-liability constructs, so why wouldn't you take the risk?
I hate to tell you this, but that is in fact the precise objective of most modern employment contracts in the IT world: to enslave you to one company by rendering to enemployable outside of McDonalds should you leave.
An interesting light on this is that employees seem to get fucked worse than contractors in this area. Every IT company I've worked for has had stupid, draconian, and illegal-under-NZ-law contracts and refused to budge from them, citing the advice of "employment experts" - who are presumably not lawyers.
But every contract gig I've had has been very clear and limited around these things' my current client is a bank, for example, and there's nothing stopping me from working for another bank next week so long as I don't reveal confidential information.
What sucks most of all around this (for employees) is that it's yet more evidence that company loyalty is a one way street.
Because the Palm has a shitload better UI, as well as a better life. And some of us have cellphones that need to be charged once a week, not once a day.
I don't see why people bother with iPaqs. They're bigger, bulkier, and far less practical.
Which standard wins is largely going to be a question of what burners end up being used for. DVD-R has the benefit of the widest compatability with consumer DVD players, so if all you're interested in is dumping your home movies to DVD rather than VHS, that seems the best bet.
Yeah, web servers and web browsers haven't changed anything, have they? It was that visionary Bill who invented the Web, not some goddamn hippie scientists giving away their software.
For fun. For stupidity. To cheat at games. To see if they can install IIS on someone's XBOX and get free hosting. For mean ol' malice. Why do people hang around IRC networks soley to fuck things up for other people?
It's the same mindset, and it'll hit consoles sooner or later.
Actually, if a book is declared obscene or libellous, a library may well stop carrying it, and the Wayback machine has the same problem.
And while it is sometimes delightful that it preserves things that, eg, Big Companies may prefer we didn't see, it's less delightful that the ramblings of a 17 year old's blog may come back to haunt them years later...
Macrovision fucks the signal up so that playback devices which have any signal compensation on their inputs will go bananas. Most televisions don't, but one of the reasons Macrovision stripping devices have a legit market is that quite a few projectors do.
Likewise, older VCRs without clever circuts to improve signal quality can ignore Macrovision.
(OT) I call bullshit. Win95 can't have an uptime of months.
(OnT) Macrovision execs must be shitting themselves. Like the bogus software protection industry that mostly no longer exists, they're watching their empire go up in smoke if the big boys walk away.
a/ Mercedes have cheap, downmarket models (bottom end C series and the A series).
b/ Mercedes are not actually that rarefied in a number of markets (go to Germany some time) - Apple used to have a number of niche markets they dominated, but they're going away.
c/ Mercedes (through Daimler-Benz) built enough of an empire to have subsumed much larger companies (Chrysler exist in name only...). I don't see DaimlerChrysler thinking a dismal market placing is acceptable. I don't see Apple buying out any large US hardware manufacturers any time soon.
If you were talking NIS+, I could see this being viable. With vanilla NIS, I'm impressed and curious. You should consider writing an article, since it sounds like you have some serious best practise tips to give.
For example: in Wellington, we have CityLink; for a few thousand dollars per office up front and a few hundred dollars per office per month ongoing, you can have a gigabit fibre WAN (although you'd be more likely to run 100 MBps, gigabit router and switch ports not being cheap); at that point, backups to disks in physically diverse locations becomes a very viable option.
Full image backups are OK if you can install to the same hardware in the Windows world; if you toast a Dell GX1 and can only get a GX160, you're going to have a whole world of pain (which is why in my MacOS wrangling days I'd install systems for any Mac, so the system disc could be swapped into new systems at will).
Personally, we didn't even try at a number of places I've worked (years ago, before My Documents could be replicated to servers automatically and so on) - we just couldn't get everyone into the habit; since we were a Mac shop, we used Retrospect to monitor and backup everyones' workstation and make sure we hoovered out everything that couldn't be restored trivially. They do Windows now, and it's all user transparent.
Short sighted? It would be short sighted to let them continue research into anthrax detection. After all, the FBI investigation was pulled as soon as the evidence pointed to extremist right-wingers linked with millitary research scientists.
Some longer words: one of the problems in some parts of the free software world is that certain developers are very keen on following a lot of Microsoft's paths, such as a BASIC variant pervasively embedded in their applications. Sure, those people might say they have no intention of making the dumb mistakes Microsoft have, but since their intention is the same as Microsoft's (more features, easier to use), it's not unreasonable to suppose they'll make the same pratfalls.
Excellent comrade! You understand that there is nothing to fear from the Chinese government tracking which train you and your accomplices board, who you have coffee with, and where you go!
ICANN own the root nameservers. The ccTLDs are the main (only) big organistations currently telling ICANN to get fucked. I'm guessing ICANN are spoiling for a showdown with one or two, so they can slap the rest into line.
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No, but you can bet that amongst people burned by criminal fraud actions there are suicides, people unable to meet medical bills, people who lose their homes and suffer other fates that, had violence been involved, would merit stiff sanctions.
If I burn your house down, well, arson carries a stiff penalty. If you lose your house because I defraud you, I might get a small fine and a nice minimum security break. Boo-hoo.
Well, it's not like there's any downside. Sell someone dope, go to a maximum security jail and be anally raped for the rest of your life; destroy thousands or tens of thousands of peoples' lives and you get a slap over the wrist.
We give these things special names ("white collar crime"), don't police them especially rigourously, and allow people to escape liability hiding behind limited-liability constructs, so why wouldn't you take the risk?
I hate to tell you this, but that is in fact the precise objective of most modern employment contracts in the IT world: to enslave you to one company by rendering to enemployable outside of McDonalds should you leave.
An interesting light on this is that employees seem to get fucked worse than contractors in this area. Every IT company I've worked for has had stupid, draconian, and illegal-under-NZ-law contracts and refused to budge from them, citing the advice of "employment experts" - who are presumably not lawyers.
But every contract gig I've had has been very clear and limited around these things' my current client is a bank, for example, and there's nothing stopping me from working for another bank next week so long as I don't reveal confidential information.
What sucks most of all around this (for employees) is that it's yet more evidence that company loyalty is a one way street.
Because the Palm has a shitload better UI, as well as a better life. And some of us have cellphones that need to be charged once a week, not once a day.
I don't see why people bother with iPaqs. They're bigger, bulkier, and far less practical.
We all know that porn site's choice of encoders dictates the success of media formats!
Which standard wins is largely going to be a question of what burners end up being used for. DVD-R has the benefit of the widest compatability with consumer DVD players, so if all you're interested in is dumping your home movies to DVD rather than VHS, that seems the best bet.
TORA is open and supports MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as Oracle.
Yeah, web servers and web browsers haven't changed anything, have they? It was that visionary Bill who invented the Web, not some goddamn hippie scientists giving away their software.
For fun. For stupidity. To cheat at games. To see if they can install IIS on someone's XBOX and get free hosting. For mean ol' malice. Why do people hang around IRC networks soley to fuck things up for other people?
It's the same mindset, and it'll hit consoles sooner or later.
DDOS, or other attacks where you want to own other people's boxen. And consoles are probably less likely to be kept patched up than PCs.
The network kit for the PS2 comes with a hard drive.
Actually, if a book is declared obscene or libellous, a library may well stop carrying it, and the Wayback machine has the same problem.
And while it is sometimes delightful that it preserves things that, eg, Big Companies may prefer we didn't see, it's less delightful that the ramblings of a 17 year old's blog may come back to haunt them years later...
Genes want to be free!
(That explains the stirrings in my pants...)
Macrovision fucks the signal up so that playback devices which have any signal compensation on their inputs will go bananas. Most televisions don't, but one of the reasons Macrovision stripping devices have a legit market is that quite a few projectors do.
Likewise, older VCRs without clever circuts to improve signal quality can ignore Macrovision.
(OT) I call bullshit. Win95 can't have an uptime of months.
(OnT) Macrovision execs must be shitting themselves. Like the bogus software protection industry that mostly no longer exists, they're watching their empire go up in smoke if the big boys walk away.
Because you'll get a rep as a timewaster as far as prospective employers are concerned.
They point to Mercedes, missing the points that:
a/ Mercedes have cheap, downmarket models (bottom end C series and the A series).
b/ Mercedes are not actually that rarefied in a number of markets (go to Germany some time) - Apple used to have a number of niche markets they dominated, but they're going away.
c/ Mercedes (through Daimler-Benz) built enough of an empire to have subsumed much larger companies (Chrysler exist in name only...). I don't see DaimlerChrysler thinking a dismal market placing is acceptable. I don't see Apple buying out any large US hardware manufacturers any time soon.
If you were talking NIS+, I could see this being viable. With vanilla NIS, I'm impressed and curious. You should consider writing an article, since it sounds like you have some serious best practise tips to give.
Depends on location.
For example: in Wellington, we have CityLink; for a few thousand dollars per office up front and a few hundred dollars per office per month ongoing, you can have a gigabit fibre WAN (although you'd be more likely to run 100 MBps, gigabit router and switch ports not being cheap); at that point, backups to disks in physically diverse locations becomes a very viable option.
Full image backups are OK if you can install to the same hardware in the Windows world; if you toast a Dell GX1 and can only get a GX160, you're going to have a whole world of pain (which is why in my MacOS wrangling days I'd install systems for any Mac, so the system disc could be swapped into new systems at will).
Personally, we didn't even try at a number of places I've worked (years ago, before My Documents could be replicated to servers automatically and so on) - we just couldn't get everyone into the habit; since we were a Mac shop, we used Retrospect to monitor and backup everyones' workstation and make sure we hoovered out everything that couldn't be restored trivially. They do Windows now, and it's all user transparent.
Short sighted? It would be short sighted to let them continue research into anthrax detection. After all, the FBI investigation was pulled as soon as the evidence pointed to extremist right-wingers linked with millitary research scientists.
One word: Evolution.
Some longer words: one of the problems in some parts of the free software world is that certain developers are very keen on following a lot of Microsoft's paths, such as a BASIC variant pervasively embedded in their applications. Sure, those people might say they have no intention of making the dumb mistakes Microsoft have, but since their intention is the same as Microsoft's (more features, easier to use), it's not unreasonable to suppose they'll make the same pratfalls.
Excellent comrade! You understand that there is nothing to fear from the Chinese government tracking which train you and your accomplices board, who you have coffee with, and where you go!
ICANN own the root nameservers. The ccTLDs are the main (only) big organistations currently telling ICANN to get fucked. I'm guessing ICANN are spoiling for a showdown with one or two, so they can slap the rest into line.