Acronis True Image is the only program so far that doesn't suck at backups. I use it constantly to backup to a USB harddrive I bought at discount. Perfect. Takes just minutes thanks to incremental backups.
If there was proof there was access to facebook, why not just sue and claim discrimination based on some contents in facebook... even a most basic profile contains information an employer would *never* ask for, in fear of lawsuits over discrimination (age, religion, sexual orientation in particular).
Using the courts to get this information isn't any better than asking point blank "what's your sexual orientation".
Ok, so when a transfer is done, the transfer amount is imediately deducted from the account it's sent from...
And technically put in a temporary account, until it clears and hits the destination account.
Now if the transfer is held, for "security" reasons... the amount of money in question still exists, and sits in a bank account...
who gets the interest? Does the financial firm keep it? Do the feds steal it? Does it go to the origin account holder (even though interest isn't earned on that account)? Or to the destination (even though the interest wasn't collected on that account)?
Remember, all these firms don't keep cash in a drawer in the back room... it's electronic transfers between bank accounts.
Could I start one of these companies, delay random large transfers, and make profit off of the interest I keep on my bank account?
Perhaps white people shouldn't be allowed to rent vans, or park need federal buildings. I've got 168 reasons why that's a 100% valid and respectable law.
They are upset Microsoft would rather change the product, rather than pay an insane amount of cash to Eolas.
Now Eolas is effectively worth nothing more than the $500 mill reward they got a few years ago... after all it must have spent on defending the patent... $0 return.
To bad for them... they have a patent that's worth about as much as the lint in my pocket.
That's the problem with patents... there's nothing dictating that people have to use your technology. Sorry Eolas... you really lost at the end of the day. Your company's name is loosing credibility as you didn't invent anything (most consider prior art like ViolaWWW and even Hypercard to be the first).
My bet is they will somehow take Microsoft back to court, and try and get them to license, under some insane law.
Patents suck.
IMHO if you don't enforce your patent from day 1, you loose..... I hate this BS where a company can sit idle for years, wait until it's embedded in everything, then start asking for backpayment. It happened with GIF too. IMHO that's fraud.
On beahalf of NJ Citizens that can read, I appologize that yet another out of touch elected official is wasting tax dollars, and Slashdot bandwidth with this stupidity.
Yea, there are a bunch of rulings that makes this pretty obivious that it has no legal standing...
but that's how our state's government works. Lawmakers write stupid laws, and debate them forever.... the process allows them to look productive and use tax money. Only lawmakers win at this game... the rest of us just get higher taxes, and more problems.
For a period it's Democrats, then it becomes Republicans, then it switches back... each does it, and the other claims to be the cure. The reality is it's all NJ politicians.
Perhaps we should compaign to get another country to request google data.
Would create some controversy if Google was asked by another country to give data about US citizens (when in fact, the US gov is asking google for non-american data as well).
Or where can we contact for reimburstment of bandwidth costs?
As I recall, US Citizens are not required (without a warrant) to furnish goods and or services to the Government without compensation.
Under that principle, I believe if they ignore robots.txt (which is a standard that says a particular site is unavailable goods/service)... it would be a violation.
I'm more than willing to sell it to them.... but don't think the government is entitled to free data. That's called theft.
1. Secret law? There's so many conflicts right there alone, this should have been the first thing in the courts, not the actual ID bit.
2. US Airport security is nothing more than a joke. It's designed to make people "feel" safer, not actually "be" safer. Big difference.
Anyone who has been to any airport knows how weak it is.
The 9/11 Terrorists realized to get past security they needed 1 thing. And they could buy it at walmart: A razor blade. As long as they shaved, they weren't suspicious.
No matter what the US does, until they thoroughly check every passenger, it's just a matter of time. The only reason we haven't had another attack, is nobody has been in the mood to attack. Nothing more. There's no possible way to dispute that. There are as many chances to attack as their are flights in the US.
No matter what the technique to security is, unless it covers everyone, and everything, they will succeed.
I love the racial profiling idea... how stupid that is. Remember this guy? Any idea what they were planning to do with him? Yea... get past security. And the State Dept. said at the time there were dozens of Americans "missing" in similar situations in that area.
Until you have 360 degrees of security, your still easily attacked. It just involves your enemy taking the extra step of walking around you first and finding that hole.
THIS is why I can't stand American politics... it's all designed to "FEEL GOOD". Nobody gets anything done.
IMHO it's going to be rather depressing when that thing runs out of battery life and falls into the atmosphere (I presume that's the plan when it dies).
Going to be like that scene from the movie "Mission To Mars" when Woody opens his helmet.
Many famous musicians performed under pen names because of contract issues (one of the more famous being George Harrison with Roy Orbison under various names).
If you don't like their music, and downloaded it online... could you sue his estate?/I am a fan, just an example.
But seriously, my father bought one... despite him taking about 3 weeks of studying to figure out how it worked.... it meant lots of upgrades to the computer for him:
New USB2 card New Hard Drive (had 30GB drive, and 40GB iPod) Fresh Windows Install
"It's a crime and it is important we take this seriously... especially for school officials... it could have done a tremendous amount of damage," said Canton City Prosecutor Frank Fronchione.
HA! An overloaded server is damage? Tremendous?
I think this guy is trying to turn an overloaded school website (like anyone visits that anyway) into a mini-9/11.
Tremendous Damage is essentially reserved for 9/11, Oklahoma City, type damage.
IMHO that's borderline slander since it's extremely unlike for any true damage, forget about "Tremendous".
Those are just words to get in the paper, at the expense of someone else's reputation.
If I were that kids parents, I'd consider a lawsuit. Then again, nobody ever wins a lawsuit against a prosecutor.
Things were done the way they should have been done.
The point of 2 week notice is to let the employer have some time to find an alternative for that job. So a store clerk finds out their only help just quit, leaving them to loose money until they find a replacement.
If the company doesn't need the person, the company has no purpose for keeping them on the clock. Once they intend to quit, there is a level of trust (appropriately gone).
The company acted 100% correct by terminating employee's permissions.
The company acted 100% correct by still paying for the period (and presumably keeping all benefits and such going as if the employee worked through their 2 weeks).
The employee was 100% correct in how the notice was delivered.
Everyone did things correct.
Leaving is always bittersweet I guess.
When ever someone quits, you must look at them as an outsider at that point. That's just good business security. I'd expect the same for any job (accounts payable, lawyers, HR especially).
The employee was 100% correct in how they did things (assuming the letter was written correctly).
Beta's don't typically get tech support. - Meaning no need to reply to email's, phone, etc. on the topic. Also no need to train support staff. This means lower costs. Cheap is good.
Nonbinding review - We all know reviews are critical to a products success. Slashdot regularly posts reviews of hardware and software (there's a new laptop HD review just a few below this topic). With beta's, they don't stick, because "it's still in development". A company can get reviews and improve their product several times, and not have a review that's binding. Then when they resolve the big complaints, rebrand it as "Release", and get a real good review
The economics of a beta work out very well. It's cheaper, and gives them the advantage of nonbinding reviews. When you release a bad 1.0, you get bad press, and that image sticks in people's minds.
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Acronis True Image is the only program so far that doesn't suck at backups. I use it constantly to backup to a USB harddrive I bought at discount. Perfect. Takes just minutes thanks to incremental backups.
If there was proof there was access to facebook, why not just sue and claim discrimination based on some contents in facebook... even a most basic profile contains information an employer would *never* ask for, in fear of lawsuits over discrimination (age, religion, sexual orientation in particular).
Using the courts to get this information isn't any better than asking point blank "what's your sexual orientation".
Ok, so when a transfer is done, the transfer amount is imediately deducted from the account it's sent from...
And technically put in a temporary account, until it clears and hits the destination account.
Now if the transfer is held, for "security" reasons... the amount of money in question still exists, and sits in a bank account...
who gets the interest? Does the financial firm keep it? Do the feds steal it? Does it go to the origin account holder (even though interest isn't earned on that account)? Or to the destination (even though the interest wasn't collected on that account)?
Remember, all these firms don't keep cash in a drawer in the back room... it's electronic transfers between bank accounts.
Could I start one of these companies, delay random large transfers, and make profit off of the interest I keep on my bank account?
Perhaps white people shouldn't be allowed to rent vans, or park need federal buildings. I've got 168 reasons why that's a 100% valid and respectable law.
I'm sure I could come up with a bunch more...
All veterans should be on the do-not-fly-list
They are upset Microsoft would rather change the product, rather than pay an insane amount of cash to Eolas.
Now Eolas is effectively worth nothing more than the $500 mill reward they got a few years ago... after all it must have spent on defending the patent... $0 return.
To bad for them... they have a patent that's worth about as much as the lint in my pocket.
That's the problem with patents... there's nothing dictating that people have to use your technology. Sorry Eolas... you really lost at the end of the day. Your company's name is loosing credibility as you didn't invent anything (most consider prior art like ViolaWWW and even Hypercard to be the first).
My bet is they will somehow take Microsoft back to court, and try and get them to license, under some insane law.
Patents suck.
IMHO if you don't enforce your patent from day 1, you loose..... I hate this BS where a company can sit idle for years, wait until it's embedded in everything, then start asking for backpayment. It happened with GIF too. IMHO that's fraud.
more like she doesn't want them googling her statements to find out she's making up 50% of her lectures.
It's called job security.
all porn moves to .xxx
.lol
all religous stuff moves to
On beahalf of NJ Citizens that can read, I appologize that yet another out of touch elected official is wasting tax dollars, and Slashdot bandwidth with this stupidity.
Yea, there are a bunch of rulings that makes this pretty obivious that it has no legal standing...
but that's how our state's government works. Lawmakers write stupid laws, and debate them forever.... the process allows them to look productive and use tax money. Only lawmakers win at this game... the rest of us just get higher taxes, and more problems.
For a period it's Democrats, then it becomes Republicans, then it switches back... each does it, and the other claims to be the cure. The reality is it's all NJ politicians.
Perhaps we should compaign to get another country to request google data.
Would create some controversy if Google was asked by another country to give data about US citizens (when in fact, the US gov is asking google for non-american data as well).
Would get a lot more voices involved.
Since very early on, science has always been persecuated.
It's not just science... most brilliant minds are "ahead of their times".
In 200-300 years, people will look back at the stupidity of today.
Will they respect robots.txt?
Or where can we contact for reimburstment of bandwidth costs?
As I recall, US Citizens are not required (without a warrant) to furnish goods and or services to the Government without compensation.
Under that principle, I believe if they ignore robots.txt (which is a standard that says a particular site is unavailable goods/service)... it would be a violation.
I'm more than willing to sell it to them.... but don't think the government is entitled to free data. That's called theft.
can you hear me now? Good.
Using a text editor of your choice, write the following in a file:
"LOVE"
save, and burn to a CD-R
You can now say you legally made love with your computer!
1. Secret law? There's so many conflicts right there alone, this should have been the first thing in the courts, not the actual ID bit.
2. US Airport security is nothing more than a joke. It's designed to make people "feel" safer, not actually "be" safer. Big difference.
Anyone who has been to any airport knows how weak it is.
The 9/11 Terrorists realized to get past security they needed 1 thing. And they could buy it at walmart: A razor blade. As long as they shaved, they weren't suspicious.
No matter what the US does, until they thoroughly check every passenger, it's just a matter of time. The only reason we haven't had another attack, is nobody has been in the mood to attack. Nothing more. There's no possible way to dispute that. There are as many chances to attack as their are flights in the US.
No matter what the technique to security is, unless it covers everyone, and everything, they will succeed.
I love the racial profiling idea... how stupid that is. Remember this guy? Any idea what they were planning to do with him? Yea... get past security. And the State Dept. said at the time there were dozens of Americans "missing" in similar situations in that area.
Until you have 360 degrees of security, your still easily attacked. It just involves your enemy taking the extra step of walking around you first and finding that hole.
THIS is why I can't stand American politics... it's all designed to "FEEL GOOD". Nobody gets anything done.
It's political masturbation.
IMHO it's going to be rather depressing when that thing runs out of battery life and falls into the atmosphere (I presume that's the plan when it dies).
Going to be like that scene from the movie "Mission To Mars" when Woody opens his helmet.
The following are quick links for each popular search engine to perform the search:
Google
Yahoo
MSN
AOL
If a lot of people did it every day, it would eventually skew popular queries, and send a little message, should Google loose the fight.
It's on my blog already. If a ton of people do the same, and get a big campaign going, it could be interesting.
Many famous musicians performed under pen names because of contract issues (one of the more famous being George Harrison with Roy Orbison under various names).
/I am a fan, just an example.
If you don't like their music, and downloaded it online... could you sue his estate?
Ok, that was funny.
/hates iPod
But seriously, my father bought one... despite him taking about 3 weeks of studying to figure out how it worked.... it meant lots of upgrades to the computer for him:
New USB2 card
New Hard Drive (had 30GB drive, and 40GB iPod)
Fresh Windows Install
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Oh I hope they make a nice big holographic picture for his tombstone.
Would be such a fitting tribute.
HA! An overloaded server is damage? Tremendous?
I think this guy is trying to turn an overloaded school website (like anyone visits that anyway) into a mini-9/11.
Tremendous Damage is essentially reserved for 9/11, Oklahoma City, type damage.
IMHO that's borderline slander since it's extremely unlike for any true damage, forget about "Tremendous".
Those are just words to get in the paper, at the expense of someone else's reputation.
If I were that kids parents, I'd consider a lawsuit. Then again, nobody ever wins a lawsuit against a prosecutor.
Oh please say so... WEP is so hard for users to configure (long key), and most want to run their AP in WPA mode for more security.
In 20 years, airplanes will need to seal their windows to prevent security breaches. No more looking outside.
Sad really.
You know when they market this you'll see it as
New! - Microsoft's Exclusive Patented Technology allows for graphics outside the kernel, to provide higher stability.
New! - Microsoft's Revolutionary Technology allows for graphics outside the kernel, to provide higher stability.
Just wait.... they'll make it sound like a new concept. Rather than a copycat.
Things were done the way they should have been done.
The point of 2 week notice is to let the employer have some time to find an alternative for that job. So a store clerk finds out their only help just quit, leaving them to loose money until they find a replacement.
If the company doesn't need the person, the company has no purpose for keeping them on the clock. Once they intend to quit, there is a level of trust (appropriately gone).
The company acted 100% correct by terminating employee's permissions.
The company acted 100% correct by still paying for the period (and presumably keeping all benefits and such going as if the employee worked through their 2 weeks).
The employee was 100% correct in how the notice was delivered.
Everyone did things correct.
Leaving is always bittersweet I guess.
When ever someone quits, you must look at them as an outsider at that point. That's just good business security. I'd expect the same for any job (accounts payable, lawyers, HR especially).
The employee was 100% correct in how they did things (assuming the letter was written correctly).
Why Specifically?
The economics of a beta work out very well. It's cheaper, and gives them the advantage of nonbinding reviews. When you release a bad 1.0, you get bad press, and that image sticks in people's minds.