Hmm, lemme see... wise and profound old culture, who invented our modern numbering system over 2000 years ago, writes a copyright law in the 21st century addressing contemporary technology issues, and gets it substantially right.
Tor, I2P, and thousands of anonymising proxies all over the web. The guy totally has no excuse.
If you're going to say stuff that could bring down unwanted consequences, then do it in a way that's extremely difficult to trace back to you personally.
One wonders how, without gravity, an astronaut would be able to chop and spread out a line on the mirror. Guess (s)he would just have to stick the rolled $100 bill into a tiny opening in the bag and snort, but that would be wasteful with unchopped coke.
You don't get to choose which camera you see each session. In fact, the location is 'secret' (though you may be able to figure it out). Single person surveillance won't work.
You're assuming the surveillance camera network and the 'snooper' game server components won't get pwn3d.
Giving the public access to the big brother camera network will open up unprecedented opportunities for cyber-bullying, especially for people living in dwellings whose front doors are within the frame of a camera.
You only need a few miscreants spying on some poor bugger, then sending harassing and threatening SMS messages as s/he moves about the city in the normal course of his/her day.
If it's not affecting their productivity I wouldn't have a worry. But if they're under-performing and showing clear signs of dysfunctional behaviour such as porn addiction, that's where I'd step in and discuss it with them as a problem.
What is it about porn that provokes such an outrage?
If I was a manager in that organisation, I'd be putting the porn-surfing under the larger categories of "non-work activity" and "non-work-related use of NSF resources" and disciplinging employees on that basis.
If employees did ridiculous amounts of porn-surfing, I'd be addressing matters of how they feel about their job, and whether they had a psychological issue that drove their porn addiction; at their next review I'd prescribe a course of counselling as an assessable item of job performance.
If someone is so heavily pulled to porn, something is badly off-track in his/her life. S/he might otherwise be an excellent worker, but needing to be brought into line and pushed in a direction of emotional/psychological healing.
What I'd like to ask is - why is it a scandal if employees wasted company resources accessing porn, but not if they waste similar resources accessing (say) medieval re-enactment sites and forums?
Closing the basement shades will do wonders on the privacy front.
Translated into/. language: Either operate exclusively through a watertight alias (use a proxy, don't share photos of you groping the office slapper at the Christmas party, don't engage in identifying talk), or just assume that everything you say and do on social networks will be cc'ed to your boss(es), appended to your CVs for the next 50 years and plastered all over your cubicle walls.
It's been said that the pumping capacity of the heart is sufficient to service the needs of the brain, or those of the reproductive organs, but not both at once.
Some ISPs, including one of the market leaders Orcon, have clearly stated they will opt out and instead offer voluntary filtering software to their subscribers.
Hopefully we IPREDator before we get the filters
Sorry, but IPREDator in recent discussion, has been flagged as not quite the knight in shining armour. Best we fall back on the likes of Tor or I2P.
Results of filtering - bearing in mind that the incumbent Labor federal government is largely ruled by the Catholic-dominated right wing faction:
Child porn sites.... gone (except for tech-savvy paedophiles ie most paedophiles)
Gay advocacy sites... going
Abortion advice/counselling sites... going!
Teenage sexuality and health sites... going!
Anti-Catholic sites... endangered
This is a huge worry. The blacklist will not be subject to public oversight. As an Aussie expat, I'm glad to be residing across the ditch in New Zealand (where ISPs are allowed to opt out of the filtering).
Sounds a lot like, deep down, you don't really want to be there, or at least you don't want to be working on that project. Are you happy working as a coder? Do you like your particular technical area? Do you truly like your colleagues? Your employer?
Conditions such as depression not withstanding, it sounds like something deeper within you is trying to tell you something.
According to P.T.Barnum, there's a 'sucker born every minute'. He goes on to say that one should 'never give a sucker an even break'.
To those who actually pay out money for DRM-encumbered media... "Come in, Sir! Welcome, Madam! There's this bridge spanning Sydney Harbour, priced way beneath its value, that you may be interested in buying shares in!"
Personally, I try to acquire my media files - ebooks, music and video - for free. If I can't get them for free, I'm sometimes willing to pay for them. But the only way I'll even think about paying is if I'll be ending up with cleartext files. Hell will freeze over before I'll put down hard money in return for some encrypted copy of a media file. WTF are consumers thinking?!?
Shouldn't be too hard to harvest energy from changes of momentum and orientation, similar to how many mechanical watches have for years been able to wind themselves.
This is a bit of a strawman. OOo is the same basic experience as MS Word.
Yes, but a decade later.
Yes, but the same Joe Sixpack couldn't get past the Windows installer either, so that's not exactly distinguishing between OS's. I venture that some linux distributions are comparable or easier to install than Windows, in fact.
They are now, but they sure weren't back in the mid-late 1990s when Windows was winning its market share.
Time and time again... [Microsoft] have shown themselves inept at producing quality, standards-oriented software.
Depends on how you define 'quality'. For maybe 80% or more of users out there, 'quality' is mostly to do with attractiveness and usability, with security and standards-compliance falling way down the priority list.
Even though they've been a pack of cowboys and an odious corporate citizen, MS has so often led the field with its usability paradigms - MS Word was leaps ahead of WordStar and WordPerfect, and Excel was leaps ahead of MultiCalc and Lotus. With the OS, a half-intelligent user can find their way around unfamiliar areas in minutes, versus hours of trawling through manpages, weird config files (and all too often, also source files) to do equivalent things in open source OSs.
OpenBSD might be about the world's best OS out there from an overall technical and security point of view, but to your average Joe Sixpack user, who wouldn't even be able to get through the installer, OpenBSD is a ridiculous load of shit.
Microsoft being forced to design Windows in a way that allows users "to choose which competing operating system(s) instead of, or in addition to, Windows they want to install and which one they want to have as default..."
Obvious really - Thag and his wife Urga came back from the show to find their trusty mammoth leg-clamped for over-parking. They couldn't afford the unclamping fee, so had to walk home. The rest is history.
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Hmm, lemme see... wise and profound old culture, who invented our modern numbering system over 2000 years ago, writes a copyright law in the 21st century addressing contemporary technology issues, and gets it substantially right.
Why am I not surprised?
Where are our mod points when we need them?!
Tor, I2P, and thousands of anonymising proxies all over the web. The guy totally has no excuse.
If you're going to say stuff that could bring down unwanted consequences, then do it in a way that's extremely difficult to trace back to you personally.
One wonders how, without gravity, an astronaut would be able to chop and spread out a line on the mirror. Guess (s)he would just have to stick the rolled $100 bill into a tiny opening in the bag and snort, but that would be wasteful with unchopped coke.
Supported, of course, by schools of sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads.
Or for the online community:
A - anal
B - bestial
AB - you guessed it!
O - oral
The difference is that the ability to spy through cameras removes the accountability of physical presence.
You're assuming the surveillance camera network and the 'snooper' game server components won't get pwn3d.
Giving the public access to the big brother camera network will open up unprecedented opportunities for cyber-bullying, especially for people living in dwellings whose front doors are within the frame of a camera.
You only need a few miscreants spying on some poor bugger, then sending harassing and threatening SMS messages as s/he moves about the city in the normal course of his/her day.
If it's not affecting their productivity I wouldn't have a worry. But if they're under-performing and showing clear signs of dysfunctional behaviour such as porn addiction, that's where I'd step in and discuss it with them as a problem.
What is it about porn that provokes such an outrage?
If I was a manager in that organisation, I'd be putting the porn-surfing under the larger categories of "non-work activity" and "non-work-related use of NSF resources" and disciplinging employees on that basis.
If employees did ridiculous amounts of porn-surfing, I'd be addressing matters of how they feel about their job, and whether they had a psychological issue that drove their porn addiction; at their next review I'd prescribe a course of counselling as an assessable item of job performance.
If someone is so heavily pulled to porn, something is badly off-track in his/her life. S/he might otherwise be an excellent worker, but needing to be brought into line and pushed in a direction of emotional/psychological healing.
What I'd like to ask is - why is it a scandal if employees wasted company resources accessing porn, but not if they waste similar resources accessing (say) medieval re-enactment sites and forums?
Translated into /. language: Either operate exclusively through a watertight alias (use a proxy, don't share photos of you groping the office slapper at the Christmas party, don't engage in identifying talk), or just assume that everything you say and do on social networks will be cc'ed to your boss(es), appended to your CVs for the next 50 years and plastered all over your cubicle walls.
And eating frozen supermarket burgers on stale buns.
It's been said that the pumping capacity of the heart is sufficient to service the needs of the brain, or those of the reproductive organs, but not both at once.
...the driver had better concentrate on the guidance system and not be distracted by any scent of a woman.
Some ISPs, including one of the market leaders Orcon, have clearly stated they will opt out and instead offer voluntary filtering software to their subscribers.
Sorry, but IPREDator in recent discussion, has been flagged as not quite the knight in shining armour. Best we fall back on the likes of Tor or I2P.
Yeah right.
Results of filtering - bearing in mind that the incumbent Labor federal government is largely ruled by the Catholic-dominated right wing faction:
This is a huge worry. The blacklist will not be subject to public oversight. As an Aussie expat, I'm glad to be residing across the ditch in New Zealand (where ISPs are allowed to opt out of the filtering).
Sounds a lot like, deep down, you don't really want to be there, or at least you don't want to be working on that project. Are you happy working as a coder? Do you like your particular technical area? Do you truly like your colleagues? Your employer?
Conditions such as depression not withstanding, it sounds like something deeper within you is trying to tell you something.
According to P.T.Barnum, there's a 'sucker born every minute'. He goes on to say that one should 'never give a sucker an even break'.
To those who actually pay out money for DRM-encumbered media... "Come in, Sir! Welcome, Madam! There's this bridge spanning Sydney Harbour, priced way beneath its value, that you may be interested in buying shares in!"
Personally, I try to acquire my media files - ebooks, music and video - for free. If I can't get them for free, I'm sometimes willing to pay for them. But the only way I'll even think about paying is if I'll be ending up with cleartext files. Hell will freeze over before I'll put down hard money in return for some encrypted copy of a media file. WTF are consumers thinking?!?
Shouldn't be too hard to harvest energy from changes of momentum and orientation, similar to how many mechanical watches have for years been able to wind themselves.
Or they'll only let him in if he's wearing a certified eye patch, arrr arrr!
Yes, but a decade later.
They are now, but they sure weren't back in the mid-late 1990s when Windows was winning its market share.
Depends on how you define 'quality'. For maybe 80% or more of users out there, 'quality' is mostly to do with attractiveness and usability, with security and standards-compliance falling way down the priority list.
Even though they've been a pack of cowboys and an odious corporate citizen, MS has so often led the field with its usability paradigms - MS Word was leaps ahead of WordStar and WordPerfect, and Excel was leaps ahead of MultiCalc and Lotus. With the OS, a half-intelligent user can find their way around unfamiliar areas in minutes, versus hours of trawling through manpages, weird config files (and all too often, also source files) to do equivalent things in open source OSs.
OpenBSD might be about the world's best OS out there from an overall technical and security point of view, but to your average Joe Sixpack user, who wouldn't even be able to get through the installer, OpenBSD is a ridiculous load of shit.
Microsoft being forced to design Windows in a way that allows users "to choose which competing operating system(s) instead of, or in addition to, Windows they want to install and which one they want to have as default..."
The fossils were found under a parking lot.
Obvious really - Thag and his wife Urga came back from the show to find their trusty mammoth leg-clamped for over-parking. They couldn't afford the unclamping fee, so had to walk home. The rest is history.