At present very few people are licensed to lend DVD's or CD's. That's a standard part of the "No part of this work may be begged/stolen/borrowed/lent/resold in a different cover without permission of the copyright holder, which is rarely granted (for full applications, complete correct forms available from basement toilet/store room guarded by the leopard)" line.
Bravo Sierra. Video retailers engage in no special license to lend DVDs for profit. Hint: What comes up on the screen as a "license" for the work has no basis in law and can (and should) be routinely ignored... Did you sign a contract when you purchased the DVD? No? Then law trumps anything else...
CD's, on the other hand, are not rental by law. The law makes exceptions for libraries (not for profit lending), but otherwise, you cannot lend CDs for profit. Why the law is inconsistent in this area is likely due to the different timing and desires of those that buy congressman on a regular basis...
Seriously, Chicago does have this problem and every attempt to cleanse the voting roles of dead voters is shot down as being discriminatory against minorities.
I guess you've never heard of the dead as "The Silent Majority" then...
Sorry, I was poking fun at IT management in general, not you in particular. Please forgive my snickering that your response now sits at +4 funny.
Actually, I think the best IT management comes from those with a solid understanding of the business processes they are there to support. IT knowledge in general is secondary.
Often, IT forgets that they are the means, not the end. Unless you sell software, of course...
Uh... no. Hertz is cycles per second and the usage of it predates digital computers by quite a bit. As a result, it uses the decimal SI prefixes just like 1 kilometer is 1000 meters exactly, not 1024 meters. You'd screw up quite a bit of acoutic, light and other measurements if you were to try and use a binary-based prefix with hertz.
If you doubt this, take a look at a nearby radio and realize what those station numbers refer to. Marconi predates Moore by just a bit.
No copyright violation happened when Skylarov reverse engineered the ROT 13 "encryption" on the adobe format.
I know this was a joke, but can an argument be made that Skylarov was making a compatability/interoperability program? Just because the "interoperability" is a manner in opposition to the original copyright holder's intent should be irrelevant...
You can invoke the fifth amendment while being questioned by the police or testifying before a court. The privilege is pretty much defined as a limited right to remain silent. It does not allow you to obstruct the execution of a lawful search warrant or discovery process without paying a price.
You cannot compel someone to reveal their encryption keys within the context of a search warrant. Now if the authorities can discover the keys in another manner, that is totally legit. Remember, it's not so important that type of encryption as it is the key handling process.
Put another way, I don't do accounting in Python - why would I want to write applications in Excel? Spreadsheets are the right tool for quite a few jobs, but this isn't one of them.
Don't think of it as a spreadsheet program. Think of it as a feature-rich set of APIs that are widely distributed... A runtime library, if you will.
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Beat me to it. I was just about to post "He runs Windows, the fucking pouser."
Precisly correct. He does all this to "feel good" without understanding the threat. Does he check his firewall logs daily? Did he disable LM hashes on his Windows box? (If not, the 14 char password is really just two sevens...)
I've always maintained that strict adherence to protocol is the last bastion for the truly evil and truly stupid...
It has become her all consuming hobby to track these folks down and allocate whatever government resources she can muster to prosecute intruders into her systems. Woe be unto those that intrude into one of Melissa's systems.
She sounds like a chick I'd like to meet! Bet I'd impress her by writing a virus and naming it after her
And there is STILL a very stupid 2Gb limitation on Windoze XP that pisses off anyone who ever had to do video or sound editing: the fscking recycle bin recycles up to 2gb max.
No wonder I've never heard of this limitation... I turn off the Recycle Bin at first boot. And since my bigger files tend to be "more valuable", yes, I do take better care of them. (Backing up 16GB database files does suck...)
Latency is measured in units of time. Lightyears are a measure of distance.
He could be referring to the latency incurred with a transmission distance of a light year... What is the latency of a lightyear? Assuming light speed communication, one year. Of course, add a bit for frame/packet decode...
Yeah, the rest of the post is meaningless... Kinda like all of this one!
Except for the concurrency bit, your describing ATM and credit card authorization processing. Response times are supposed to be milliseconds including communication latency. If you don't keep up your service agreements, you pay big bucks to the network... Lots of strange custom boxes doing this work on the backend.
My point was, fill the filesystem to the brim with 0x00 files, wipe them out, then pipe dd, through a compressor (which will catch the zeroing done, bzip2 works really well here), then to where its going.
With the added benefit of overwriting unallocated space. You don't want deleted files to be recoverable*.
In my hometown, we have a corporation called Hobart. Back in the day (1930s-1950s) they made steel houses. They were all one piece as the left the shop, and were set up on site.
Excellent! Now I don't have to worry about the security configuration of my wireless gear!
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At present very few people are licensed to lend DVD's or CD's. That's a standard part of the "No part of this work may be begged/stolen/borrowed/lent/resold in a different cover without permission of the copyright holder, which is rarely granted (for full applications, complete correct forms available from basement toilet/store room guarded by the leopard)" line.
Bravo Sierra. Video retailers engage in no special license to lend DVDs for profit. Hint: What comes up on the screen as a "license" for the work has no basis in law and can (and should) be routinely ignored... Did you sign a contract when you purchased the DVD? No? Then law trumps anything else...
CD's, on the other hand, are not rental by law. The law makes exceptions for libraries (not for profit lending), but otherwise, you cannot lend CDs for profit. Why the law is inconsistent in this area is likely due to the different timing and desires of those that buy congressman on a regular basis...
Seriously, Chicago does have this problem and every attempt to cleanse the voting roles of dead voters is shot down as being discriminatory against minorities.
I guess you've never heard of the dead as "The Silent Majority" then...
Sorry, I was poking fun at IT management in general, not you in particular. Please forgive my snickering that your response now sits at +4 funny.
Actually, I think the best IT management comes from those with a solid understanding of the business processes they are there to support. IT knowledge in general is secondary.
Often, IT forgets that they are the means, not the end. Unless you sell software, of course...
Guys, he said he was an IT Director. Please don't go confusing him with crontab this or apt-get that...
At least tell him to find his favorite geek to explain it to him...
Uh... no. Hertz is cycles per second and the usage of it predates digital computers by quite a bit. As a result, it uses the decimal SI prefixes just like 1 kilometer is 1000 meters exactly, not 1024 meters. You'd screw up quite a bit of acoutic, light and other measurements if you were to try and use a binary-based prefix with hertz.
If you doubt this, take a look at a nearby radio and realize what those station numbers refer to. Marconi predates Moore by just a bit.
Pun acknowledged. Excellent job, young Jedi!
No copyright violation happened when Skylarov reverse engineered the ROT 13 "encryption" on the adobe format.
I know this was a joke, but can an argument be made that Skylarov was making a compatability/interoperability program? Just because the "interoperability" is a manner in opposition to the original copyright holder's intent should be irrelevant...
You can invoke the fifth amendment while being questioned by the police or testifying before a court. The privilege is pretty much defined as a limited right to remain silent. It does not allow you to obstruct the execution of a lawful search warrant or discovery process without paying a price.
You cannot compel someone to reveal their encryption keys within the context of a search warrant. Now if the authorities can discover the keys in another manner, that is totally legit. Remember, it's not so important that type of encryption as it is the key handling process.
If the cops bust you, and you have an encrypted hard drive and you don't hand over the password, you will be charged with obstruction of justice.
And the link you so thoughtfully provided says nothing about forcing someone to testify against themselves, which is what you're talking about.
Damn, did I just feed a troll?
at least give me something tangible, like a PDF
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Sorry, something about that just hit me as funny... Please tell me, what is tangible about a PDF?
It's labeled "Actual Number" (implying that's a real download number).
Guess they got me on a technicality. That's an "actual number" alright!
On four different machines sitting in front of me, the counter is off by about 500 between the lowest and the highest. \
:)
While the counter is cute, I'd call it a bogometer.
How can Safari have been the first to pass the test?
I mean, how did he test the test?
Put another way, I don't do accounting in Python - why would I want to write applications in Excel? Spreadsheets are the right tool for quite a few jobs, but this isn't one of them.
Don't think of it as a spreadsheet program. Think of it as a feature-rich set of APIs that are widely distributed... A runtime library, if you will.
Beat me to it. I was just about to post "He runs Windows, the fucking pouser."
Precisly correct. He does all this to "feel good" without understanding the threat. Does he check his firewall logs daily? Did he disable LM hashes on his Windows box? (If not, the 14 char password is really just two sevens...)
I've always maintained that strict adherence to protocol is the last bastion for the truly evil and truly stupid...
It has become her all consuming hobby to track these folks down and allocate whatever government resources she can muster to prosecute intruders into her systems. Woe be unto those that intrude into one of Melissa's systems.
:(
She sounds like a chick I'd like to meet! Bet I'd impress her by writing a virus and naming it after her
I did it already... She wasn't impressed.
I use NTFS...
And there is STILL a very stupid 2Gb limitation on Windoze XP that pisses off anyone who ever had to do video or sound editing: the fscking recycle bin recycles up to 2gb max.
No wonder I've never heard of this limitation... I turn off the Recycle Bin at first boot. And since my bigger files tend to be "more valuable", yes, I do take better care of them. (Backing up 16GB database files does suck...)
I routinely work with files over the 2gb limit...
That's a filesystem limit, not an OS limit. Use NTFS (yuck!), and you won't have that problem...
Also, newer fans don't emit any magnetic field at all, as they don't use electric motors
I give up... Hampters?
Since latency's going to be over lightyears away
Latency is measured in units of time. Lightyears are a measure of distance.
He could be referring to the latency incurred with a transmission distance of a light year... What is the latency of a lightyear? Assuming light speed communication, one year. Of course, add a bit for frame/packet decode...
Yeah, the rest of the post is meaningless... Kinda like all of this one!
Running as root can lead to the immediate destruction of your filesystem and potentially hardware by a malicious program,
(emphasis mine)
Shenanigans! Shenanigans Officer Barbrady!
Except for the concurrency bit, your describing ATM and credit card authorization processing. Response times are supposed to be milliseconds including communication latency. If you don't keep up your service agreements, you pay big bucks to the network... Lots of strange custom boxes doing this work on the backend.
"coin-operated think tanks"
My gawd, that has to the the most brilliant, funny, and succinct turn-of-phrase I've read in a long time...
My point was, fill the filesystem to the brim with 0x00 files, wipe them out, then pipe dd, through a compressor (which will catch the zeroing done, bzip2 works really well here), then to where its going.
With the added benefit of overwriting unallocated space. You don't want deleted files to be recoverable*.
(*Unless you do, of course...)
Let Ubuntu be Debian unstable...
In my hometown, we have a corporation called Hobart. Back in the day (1930s-1950s) they made steel houses. They were all one piece as the left the shop, and were set up on site.
Excellent! Now I don't have to worry about the security configuration of my wireless gear!