I am inclined to agree with that. There are a lot of great universities out there. MIT and Harvard are among the ones with enormous endowments that still get hundreds of millions in donor cash that could probably be put to better use at schools with less name recognition.
Reminds me of the scene from Babylon 5 where Londo explains that an action figure of him is lacking the appropriate alien sex organs and that is why is should be banned.
Yep, I bought some merchandise on Ebay that turned out to be counterfeit and Ebay/Paypals dispute solution was for me to pay to ship it back to the seller and then I would get my money back. When I explained that:
1. It is nearly as expensive to ship it back as it cost to buy it. 2. It would be illegal for me to ship counterfeit merchandise back out of the country. 3. I can prove it is counterfeit.
They would not change their minds and refund me under their protection policy so with about 1 exception I have never used paypal or ebay since then. I pretty much won't use either service unless I absolutely have to and would rather pay more than use them.
Basically the only fraud protection policy Paypal/Ebay honors is when it protects them from ever having to pay out.
First off the guy is clearly incorrect since this theory of his would invalidate virtually all regulation of say railways or power lines or gas lines.
More importantly, the guy is wrong because the property in question, not the cables/towers themselves but rather the right-of-way and the licensed spectrum that does not truly belong to those cable/telco companies. Those right-of-ways along public roads and along people's property underground are takings in and of themselves. The cable/telco cannot claim that regulating or placing conditions on the takings that they benefit from are themselves takings.
Seeing as 111.1 seconds to put a 101 key keyboard together has a labor cost of just 1.2 cents and will sell for anywhere from $3-$100 depending on the brand, model, and store it is sold in the labor cost is a tiny piece of the price.
You could easily pay the same workers $7 per hour and the labor cost per keyboard would only go up by about 20.4 cents a unit. I would be willing to pay an extra quarter for a keyboard knowing the work was done in humane conditions and the guy making them got a 1700% raise.
I've used the network equipment guides to harden routers and switches before and they are very handy.
I can't speak to how well they withstand attacks after that but if you follow their instructions an nmap scan basically reveals no open services (ssh ports have their own access lists)
I prefer the guides to tools like RAT because auditors get so out of date that you end up chasing down their rules to find out they don't even know about the last few years of security enhancements. Cisco's Output Interpreter is also good for advice on hardening your devices.
I would suggest that this just evens the scales more or less for hiring someone as an employee vs a 1099 or through another company. Part of the motivation could be the very prevalent practice of companies ignoring IRS rules to hire employees as contractors or hiring someone through another company that hires the person as a 1099 contractor. It cost's the state money when people don't get hired as employees and receive company benefits.
It should not qualify for copyright protection. It is not an "entertainment performance". It is not a play, it is not a television show, it is not a pundit special. What candidates say is newsworthy and anyone should be able to record their own footage or for logistical reasons MSNBC may record it on their own but they should not be able to claim copyright over the footage of a newsworthy event or else other news organizations and journalists of all stripes including bloggers should be free to record their own versions , whether openly or secretly. This is not an entertainment performance, it is not a professional sporting event, this is a political debate and the public owns it.
How does a recording of a debate by our presidential candidates in which there is no other content other than the debate itself and the MSNBC is simply acting as the host and moderator qualify as a creative work that is eligible for copyright?
In addition, is not the debate itself newsworthy and therefore not an entertainment event that could be restricted as to who may record it or later show it.
This is a similar idea to the International/Intercontinental Peace Bridge proposed between Russian Kamchatka and Alaska. Most likely it would feature multiple railways and pipelines for oil and natural gas as well as fiber optic communication lines. It is highly doubtful it could be built to safely allow cars and trucks and unlikely that many people would be interested in making the drive. Talk about a long way to the next rest stop.
A tunnel might prove more expensive than a bridge, but given the extremely violent seas along the route, a tunnel would probably be safer. A bridge would have to be covered anyways.
I hope they accidentally sue some really nutty people like someone who is a higher up in Scientology or some other cult and the RIAA execs and their lawyers end up with weirdos harrassing them at home and threatening their families.
From what I've heard high level appointees typically produce a signed and undated resignation letter citing "personal reasons" when they are appointed to be held by the President if he needs to fire them. And they also traditionally resign when the President is reelected so he can choose whether to reappoint them.
I was referring to using a laptop over insecure wifi. Not sitting at a cyber cafe in Lagos and sending my bank account information to the former Minister of Finance for my finders fee.
These software programs are called packet sniffers and many can be downloaded free online. They are typically set up to capture passwords, credit card numbers and bank account information -- which is why Mr. Vamosi says shopping on the Web is not a great way to kill time during a flight delay.
"Where I'd draw the line is putting in your bank account information or credit card number," he said, adding that checking e-mail messages probably is not that risky, but if you want to be cautious, change your password once you are on a secure connection again.
When you shop on the web, nearly all online stores will be encrypting your credit card and other information needed to checkout. There may be some debate as to whether they implemented it properly and one should use caution but in general SSL is gonna have you covered. Checking your email, at least with a pop3 client is among the worst things you can do on an unsecured hotspot because far too many email services still don't use encryption for the password exchange. In addition very few email services pop3 or webmail encrypt the messages so basically if you are reading your email, so is someone else. Email is one of the few services that you can still expect to see someones password come up in plaintext. Even AIM doesn't do that anymore although the messages are in plaintext unless SecureIM has been turned on for you and the person you are chatting with.
Since when can some random uninvolved third party with no standing sue to see an unreleased product? Is the judge JT's drinking buddy or just completely out of his mind?
I am not entirely familiar with the case but lets just say that it was no ordinary boarding school but a gulag prison for teens whose parents are desperate and get tricked into sending their kids to these places. There is a lot more to this story but defamation lawsuits are usually a way these cult programs deal with criticism. Check out the fornits.com forums for more info. They talk about Sue Scheff a lot there. I am not sure what the full story is but its something along the lines of how these gulags pay large referal fees to "educational consultants" to recruit for their programs. They charge hundreds of dollars a day to basically warehouse and abuse kids.
I am talking about MD. Heres my point. I have no problem with gambling or casinos except that the gaming licenses are typically a giveaway to the wealthy and connected, in this case horse track owners. I am sorry no one cares about horses anymore, what a terrible tragedy that a business that no one goes to might not be viable anymore. I just think that if operating a game of chance is illegal for the rest of us, it should be illegal for the uber rich too.
Of all gambling slot machines are the absolute worst, they are mindless repetitive (some might say addictive) money pits with far worse odds to the player than card/table games. They represent no risk on the part of the house since the odds are guaranteed to play out in their favor. Poker and many other card games are played between players and the house need not make any money. Other table games are a bigger risk to the house since the odds are less in their favor and there is more chance of a player winning big.
If you are going to allow limited gambling, I'd recomend that only home games in which the operator receives no rake should be legal and gambling establishments should be illegal.
A brick and mortar casino gaming license wouldn't be quite as lucrative a give away to the wealthy and well connected if they had to compete with online casinos that anyone can set up overseas. Lets face it, a legal casino in an area where gambling of most forms is illegal is basically an ATM machine with flashing lights.
In my state the hypocrisy is reaching new heights as the GOP governor continues to try to allow slot machines at horse tracks while it is still technically illegal to play poker among friends.
I was getting 25-30/hour for doing this kind of work. They were probably billing me out at around $100/hour. More recently I worked on a short project at a school system, literally logging into hundreds of servers and doing a few quick things with each one, as a one off for a company paying me $30/hour and I ended up with an email of the contract by accident and it said I was being billed at $107/hr.
The Republican Party or GOP is actually two parties. The Supreme Council for the Christian Revolution in America seeks to create a falsely democratic, racist theocracy in America, much like Iran's system of Islamic theocracy, so they can destroy personal liberty, privacy, science, secular education, and religious freedom. And then there is the anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-environment, anti-labor, anti-civil-rights, Profit and Greed Party, whose primary goal is to destroy the middle class, which historically has been the source of emerging business competitors and support for regulation and socioeconomic fairness. Their plan as it stands now is to use the media and government economic policy to create an America of educated, yet intellectually lazy, consumers who will labor for third world wages and spend themselves into debt peonage. In some ways the PGP is a sort of Anarcho-Darwinist party. The only thing the PGP supports the government for is property rights and only when it comes to their property. For our property, they see nothing wrong with eminent domain to benefit their projects or high taxes to pay for corporate welfare and wasteful and unnaccountable government contracts to their companies.
In the early days of unnofficial strategy guides, they were actually really cool and helpful. I stopped buying them a few years ago because effectively they became the manual that should be included with the game and they lost the point of view of the player and became much more manual-ish. If I played RPG's I would probably still buy them but for RTS and FPS games, they stopped being worth the money and I hate to reward the complete absence of a good manual by sending the publisher an extra $20.
And to think I just ran into someone who is a rising start at Blackboard as a project manager.
Why would a company that already controls the biggest share of the university market seek to eliminate the small players with an expensive patent suit. They already aquired their biggest competitor so its basically just them and some smaller companies and schools that choose to build their own. They also have yet to attempt to compete in the highschool market. This lawsuit is a distraction at best. Patents are not for enforcing, they are for defending, especially vague ones that cover an entire business sector like this.
And they wonder why consumers want to block all ads. Its because of illegal virus ads like this. If they prosecuted spyware companies the way they do with other virus creators we would not have as much of a problem with people setting up shop as if this is a legitimate business and then hijacking people's computers for profit and waiting for enough complaints to pile up that maybe the state attempts an enforcement action which at worst closes the company and more likely a few small fines and promises to behave in the future. Either way the owners of these companies never serve a day in prison for releasing their viruses.
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I am inclined to agree with that. There are a lot of great universities out there. MIT and Harvard are among the ones with enormous endowments that still get hundreds of millions in donor cash that could probably be put to better use at schools with less name recognition.
Reminds me of the scene from Babylon 5 where Londo explains that an action figure of him is lacking the appropriate alien sex organs and that is why is should be banned.
Yep, I bought some merchandise on Ebay that turned out to be counterfeit and Ebay/Paypals dispute solution was for me to pay to ship it back to the seller and then I would get my money back. When I explained that:
1. It is nearly as expensive to ship it back as it cost to buy it.
2. It would be illegal for me to ship counterfeit merchandise back out of the country.
3. I can prove it is counterfeit.
They would not change their minds and refund me under their protection policy so with about 1 exception I have never used paypal or ebay since then. I pretty much won't use either service unless I absolutely have to and would rather pay more than use them.
Basically the only fraud protection policy Paypal/Ebay honors is when it protects them from ever having to pay out.
First off the guy is clearly incorrect since this theory of his would invalidate virtually all regulation of say railways or power lines or gas lines.
More importantly, the guy is wrong because the property in question, not the cables/towers themselves but rather the right-of-way and the licensed spectrum that does not truly belong to those cable/telco companies. Those right-of-ways along public roads and along people's property underground are takings in and of themselves. The cable/telco cannot claim that regulating or placing conditions on the takings that they benefit from are themselves takings.
Seeing as 111.1 seconds to put a 101 key keyboard together has a labor cost of just 1.2 cents and will sell for anywhere from $3-$100 depending on the brand, model, and store it is sold in the labor cost is a tiny piece of the price.
You could easily pay the same workers $7 per hour and the labor cost per keyboard would only go up by about 20.4 cents a unit. I would be willing to pay an extra quarter for a keyboard knowing the work was done in humane conditions and the guy making them got a 1700% raise.
I've used the network equipment guides to harden routers and switches before and they are very handy.
I can't speak to how well they withstand attacks after that but if you follow their instructions an nmap scan basically reveals no open services (ssh ports have their own access lists)
I prefer the guides to tools like RAT because auditors get so out of date that you end up chasing down their rules to find out they don't even know about the last few years of security enhancements. Cisco's Output Interpreter is also good for advice on hardening your devices.
I would suggest that this just evens the scales more or less for hiring someone as an employee vs a 1099 or through another company. Part of the motivation could be the very prevalent practice of companies ignoring IRS rules to hire employees as contractors or hiring someone through another company that hires the person as a 1099 contractor. It cost's the state money when people don't get hired as employees and receive company benefits.
It should not qualify for copyright protection. It is not an "entertainment performance". It is not a play, it is not a television show, it is not a pundit special. What candidates say is newsworthy and anyone should be able to record their own footage or for logistical reasons MSNBC may record it on their own but they should not be able to claim copyright over the footage of a newsworthy event or else other news organizations and journalists of all stripes including bloggers should be free to record their own versions , whether openly or secretly. This is not an entertainment performance, it is not a professional sporting event, this is a political debate and the public owns it.
How does a recording of a debate by our presidential candidates in which there is no other content other than the debate itself and the MSNBC is simply acting as the host and moderator qualify as a creative work that is eligible for copyright?
In addition, is not the debate itself newsworthy and therefore not an entertainment event that could be restricted as to who may record it or later show it.
This is a similar idea to the International/Intercontinental Peace Bridge proposed between Russian Kamchatka and Alaska. Most likely it would feature multiple railways and pipelines for oil and natural gas as well as fiber optic communication lines. It is highly doubtful it could be built to safely allow cars and trucks and unlikely that many people would be interested in making the drive. Talk about a long way to the next rest stop.
A tunnel might prove more expensive than a bridge, but given the extremely violent seas along the route, a tunnel would probably be safer. A bridge would have to be covered anyways.
I am an Information Systems major and we are required to take two classes for Database Design, Oracle SQL, and Oracle Forms and Reports.
I hope they accidentally sue some really nutty people like someone who is a higher up in Scientology or some other cult and the RIAA execs and their lawyers end up with weirdos harrassing them at home and threatening their families.
From what I've heard high level appointees typically produce a signed and undated resignation letter citing "personal reasons" when they are appointed to be held by the President if he needs to fire them. And they also traditionally resign when the President is reelected so he can choose whether to reappoint them.
I think this guy has never had one of his lies pointed out in his face.
I was referring to using a laptop over insecure wifi. Not sitting at a cyber cafe in Lagos and sending my bank account information to the former Minister of Finance for my finders fee.
When you shop on the web, nearly all online stores will be encrypting your credit card and other information needed to checkout. There may be some debate as to whether they implemented it properly and one should use caution but in general SSL is gonna have you covered. Checking your email, at least with a pop3 client is among the worst things you can do on an unsecured hotspot because far too many email services still don't use encryption for the password exchange. In addition very few email services pop3 or webmail encrypt the messages so basically if you are reading your email, so is someone else. Email is one of the few services that you can still expect to see someones password come up in plaintext. Even AIM doesn't do that anymore although the messages are in plaintext unless SecureIM has been turned on for you and the person you are chatting with.
Since when can some random uninvolved third party with no standing sue to see an unreleased product? Is the judge JT's drinking buddy or just completely out of his mind?
I am not entirely familiar with the case but lets just say that it was no ordinary boarding school but a gulag prison for teens whose parents are desperate and get tricked into sending their kids to these places. There is a lot more to this story but defamation lawsuits are usually a way these cult programs deal with criticism. Check out the fornits.com forums for more info. They talk about Sue Scheff a lot there. I am not sure what the full story is but its something along the lines of how these gulags pay large referal fees to "educational consultants" to recruit for their programs. They charge hundreds of dollars a day to basically warehouse and abuse kids.
I am talking about MD. Heres my point. I have no problem with gambling or casinos except that the gaming licenses are typically a giveaway to the wealthy and connected, in this case horse track owners. I am sorry no one cares about horses anymore, what a terrible tragedy that a business that no one goes to might not be viable anymore. I just think that if operating a game of chance is illegal for the rest of us, it should be illegal for the uber rich too.
Of all gambling slot machines are the absolute worst, they are mindless repetitive (some might say addictive) money pits with far worse odds to the player than card/table games. They represent no risk on the part of the house since the odds are guaranteed to play out in their favor. Poker and many other card games are played between players and the house need not make any money. Other table games are a bigger risk to the house since the odds are less in their favor and there is more chance of a player winning big.
If you are going to allow limited gambling, I'd recomend that only home games in which the operator receives no rake should be legal and gambling establishments should be illegal.
A brick and mortar casino gaming license wouldn't be quite as lucrative a give away to the wealthy and well connected if they had to compete with online casinos that anyone can set up overseas. Lets face it, a legal casino in an area where gambling of most forms is illegal is basically an ATM machine with flashing lights.
In my state the hypocrisy is reaching new heights as the GOP governor continues to try to allow slot machines at horse tracks while it is still technically illegal to play poker among friends.
I was getting 25-30/hour for doing this kind of work. They were probably billing me out at around $100/hour. More recently I worked on a short project at a school system, literally logging into hundreds of servers and doing a few quick things with each one, as a one off for a company paying me $30/hour and I ended up with an email of the contract by accident and it said I was being billed at $107/hr.
Now if there is a nuclear war Jack Thompson has someone to sue for 600 million dollars.
The Republican Party or GOP is actually two parties. The Supreme Council for the Christian Revolution in America seeks to create a falsely democratic, racist theocracy in America, much like Iran's system of Islamic theocracy, so they can destroy personal liberty, privacy, science, secular education, and religious freedom. And then there is the anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-environment, anti-labor, anti-civil-rights, Profit and Greed Party, whose primary goal is to destroy the middle class, which historically has been the source of emerging business competitors and support for regulation and socioeconomic fairness. Their plan as it stands now is to use the media and government economic policy to create an America of educated, yet intellectually lazy, consumers who will labor for third world wages and spend themselves into debt peonage. In some ways the PGP is a sort of Anarcho-Darwinist party. The only thing the PGP supports the government for is property rights and only when it comes to their property. For our property, they see nothing wrong with eminent domain to benefit their projects or high taxes to pay for corporate welfare and wasteful and unnaccountable government contracts to their companies.
In the early days of unnofficial strategy guides, they were actually really cool and helpful. I stopped buying them a few years ago because effectively they became the manual that should be included with the game and they lost the point of view of the player and became much more manual-ish. If I played RPG's I would probably still buy them but for RTS and FPS games, they stopped being worth the money and I hate to reward the complete absence of a good manual by sending the publisher an extra $20.
And to think I just ran into someone who is a rising start at Blackboard as a project manager.
Why would a company that already controls the biggest share of the university market seek to eliminate the small players with an expensive patent suit. They already aquired their biggest competitor so its basically just them and some smaller companies and schools that choose to build their own. They also have yet to attempt to compete in the highschool market. This lawsuit is a distraction at best. Patents are not for enforcing, they are for defending, especially vague ones that cover an entire business sector like this.
And they wonder why consumers want to block all ads. Its because of illegal virus ads like this. If they prosecuted spyware companies the way they do with other virus creators we would not have as much of a problem with people setting up shop as if this is a legitimate business and then hijacking people's computers for profit and waiting for enough complaints to pile up that maybe the state attempts an enforcement action which at worst closes the company and more likely a few small fines and promises to behave in the future. Either way the owners of these companies never serve a day in prison for releasing their viruses.