How many of the people serving time are doing so for pot, and how many for things like cocaine, heroin and the 'heavy' drugs.
The reason why the SWAT teams are needed is because these people are much more likely to be in the field of say.. 'organised crime' and so likely to be much more dangerous.
I doubt very much that your average criminal in the US prison system was there for nothing more then smoking.. or even selling pot.
i) Every single police officer in your town/city is out to get you. Yes, you personally.
OR
ii) By your actions [ie: speeding constantly] and mannerisms [calling the police officer a dick head] you are causing the police to be much more interested in your behavior then they would otherwise be.
Of course, if you live in a small town i) is very possible, otherwise I'd tend to think it was ii.
But is it across all applications? Winzip was just an example, any application which deals with files works in a similar way. I am sure it's not too far off, and when it does, it will make things a lot easier for everyone.
How can I get rid of Nautilus? I have Ximian installed because a ''friend' told me that's how I upgraded my desktop. Now it is stuck on there, and I don't want to blow away all of my settings on a reinstall.
One thing I really enjoy about Windows administration is that I can open up a network share on another PC using the UNC path.. ie://Frog/C$, then open up a winzip file, and without extracting the file to the desktop, drag the file out of the archive and onto the network share.
And it works. Amazing! I use linux for my internet gateway and DNS/Proxy/Caching whatever, but what I secretly lust after is this kind of integration.
For those features, you don't have to wait. Mandrake's 8.1beta1 (Raklet) is at least as stable as XP, contains a lot more by way of useful applications, and doesn't tie you in to anything.
The key and most critical difference being that it doesn't run win32 apps.
Having worked in a call center, and been through several others, I c..
I'm sitting in a call centre right this second taking calls, and all I can say to that is, if you haven't found an employer who can make that job fun, then quit.:)
On a related note, how in the world could you use a voice-control/dictation function when your job involves talking on the phone? "Excuse me, sir, I realize your $5,000,000 system is belching fire, but I need to put you on mute while I tell my computer your customer ID." Hell, it's hard enough to type and talk on the phone at the same time for me. Well, personally I keep my customers on mute most of the time, unless I specifically need to talk to them.
They don't want to invest 20 bucks for reasonable control measures, thats their fucking problem, not mine.
Hark, at the wild mating cry of the hax0r! Sorry, the world just does NOT work that way.
ie: If someone leaves a system unsecured, no matter how unsecure it is, if you tamper with it, you are breaking in, and in the eyes of the law, it is not their fault for leaving it unsecure.
In each case the law was thrown out and popular opinion held sway.
Perhaps this is what the law is.. remember the whole point of democracy is that everyone gets to vote on laws [The US not being a democracy after all].
Are you looking forward to the day when the internet lets everyone decide on every proposed law, or trial? [Rhetorical question only]
OK, I accept that his world may be real to him. But he's expected to talk to us about our world - unless he can react to a 'ball' in some way (even on completely his own terms), surely he'll always be manipulating the word "ball", and not actually mean a ball. He'll be faking it! Chinese room anyone?
No, but he knows the word banana, and knows the word happy meal, and eventually he will know the word 'food', perhaps 'meal' and know that they are all linked together. [There is an article on this in new scientist, which is much better then the quoted one.]
Perhaps one day we will be able to hook a camera up, and it will be able to identify what a 'banana' is.
So ultimately, the money that you grudgingly give to your government is being diverted away from worthwhile projects to keep someone who repeatedly destroyed your stuff in jail?
IMHO, the best way to provide corporate desktop computers is to buy hundreds of identical boxes, find the optimal installation for Linux and required applications, and then clone that configuration.
Far be it from me to want to support anything linuxy [ducks], but the best way to do corporate desktop builds is through ghost, or some derivative there of, with a script to tidy up afterwards. MS provides sysprep, and I would be absolutely ASTOUNDED if you couldn't write a linux build disk that connects to a server, downloads and extracts an image, and then runs a batch file to configure it, all without human intervention at all.
Uhuh, but unless you are using a dodgy clone NIC, the vendor code has been assigned to the manufacturer by a committee and is hard coded into the chipset, and the card bit is meant to be as well.
Everyone NIC in the world is meant to have a different number. Read the standard and catch up.
> I can't understand why nobody is questioning this decision.
I think if your admins can't keep an NT server up to date, they aren't bright enough to think up a new infrastructure.
FYI: My company was fine, although we really only run our authentication/exchange and a few other misc things off Win2K. Our best defense is: A large firewall of unix boxes between us and the real world, and virus scanners on the exchange boxes.
Melissa never affected us, nor did any of the other outbreaks.
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Umm.. exchange stores mail in a database. PST files are for offline storage.
Which amendment was the 'you are allowed to give the finger to whoever you want' amendment again?
The reason why the SWAT teams are needed is because these people are much more likely to be in the field of say.. 'organised crime' and so likely to be much more dangerous.
I doubt very much that your average criminal in the US prison system was there for nothing more then smoking.. or even selling pot.
i) Every single police officer in your town/city is out to get you. Yes, you personally.
OR
ii) By your actions [ie: speeding constantly] and mannerisms [calling the police officer a dick head] you are causing the police to be much more interested in your behavior then they would otherwise be.
Of course, if you live in a small town i) is very possible, otherwise I'd tend to think it was ii.
But is it across all applications? Winzip was just an example, any application which deals with files works in a similar way. I am sure it's not too far off, and when it does, it will make things a lot easier for everyone.
Why do you think you have the right to sit around making trouble for others?
How can I get rid of Nautilus? I have Ximian installed because a ''friend' told me that's how I upgraded my desktop. Now it is stuck on there, and I don't want to blow away all of my settings on a reinstall.
And it works. Amazing! I use linux for my internet gateway and DNS/Proxy/Caching whatever, but what I secretly lust after is this kind of integration.
You obviously haven't met many engineers then :)
For those features, you don't have to wait. Mandrake's 8.1beta1 (Raklet) is at least as stable as XP, contains a lot more by way of useful applications, and doesn't tie you in to anything.
The key and most critical difference being that it doesn't run win32 apps.
Sorry, I think the Roman Empire could kick your ass [Technological differences not withstanding].
I'm sitting in a call centre right this second taking calls, and all I can say to that is, if you haven't found an employer who can make that job fun, then quit.
On a related note, how in the world could you use a voice-control/dictation function when your job involves talking on the phone? "Excuse me, sir, I realize your $5,000,000 system is belching fire, but I need to put you on mute while I tell my computer your customer ID." Hell, it's hard enough to type and talk on the phone at the same time for me.
Well, personally I keep my customers on mute most of the time, unless I specifically need to talk to them.
You've effectively just described a call centre, provided the building is designed correctly, the noise isn't a problem.
Hark, at the wild mating cry of the hax0r! Sorry, the world just does NOT work that way.
ie: If someone leaves a system unsecured, no matter how unsecure it is, if you tamper with it, you are breaking in, and in the eyes of the law, it is not their fault for leaving it unsecure.
Perhaps this is what the law is.. remember the whole point of democracy is that everyone gets to vote on laws [The US not being a democracy after all].
Are you looking forward to the day when the internet lets everyone decide on every proposed law, or trial? [Rhetorical question only]
Then ask them what a cracker is.
You might find it enlightening.
It doesn't just choose a random list of words from the 200 that it knows.
Hell, your history books ARE biased unfairly. I cringe everytime I hear an American talk about US involvement in WW2.
No, but he knows the word banana, and knows the word happy meal, and eventually he will know the word 'food', perhaps 'meal' and know that they are all linked together. [There is an article on this in new scientist, which is much better then the quoted one.]
Perhaps one day we will be able to hook a camera up, and it will be able to identify what a 'banana' is.
Indeed, I am looking forward to it, especially if it fixes all of the diplomacy stuff :)
In fact, a lawsuit not so recently gave Sid Meier the rights to the 'civ' name again.
Roll on corporal punishment, say I.
Far be it from me to want to support anything linuxy [ducks], but the best way to do corporate desktop builds is through ghost, or some derivative there of, with a script to tidy up afterwards. MS provides sysprep, and I would be absolutely ASTOUNDED if you couldn't write a linux build disk that connects to a server, downloads and extracts an image, and then runs a batch file to configure it, all without human intervention at all.
Everyone NIC in the world is meant to have a different number. Read the standard and catch up.
PS: I don't care what your MAC address is.
I think if your admins can't keep an NT server up to date, they aren't bright enough to think up a new infrastructure.
FYI: My company was fine, although we really only run our authentication/exchange and a few other misc things off Win2K. Our best defense is: A large firewall of unix boxes between us and the real world, and virus scanners on the exchange boxes.
Melissa never affected us, nor did any of the other outbreaks.