Boss: Wear this phone so I can hassle you whenever I want. Me: Nope
but now
Boss: Wear this access control badge so you can get into the server room. Me: OK Boss: Oh ya BTW it is also a phone so I can hassle you whenever I want...
I'm amazed how fragile PS2 games are, one decent-size scratch on the printed side and its a goner. You and I might put such a sensitive and expensive item carefully back in its jewel case, but kids drop them behind the TV or use them as impromptu cutting tools or space weapons. I've lost count of the tearful occasions when things won't load.
Their console isn't modchipped - but I wish it was.
The actions of one corrupt lobbyist group in the US won't easily affect the operations of a worldwide filesharing network with many members outside the US.
I have a friend here in the UK who got a "takedown" e-mail notice forwarded by his ISP from the *AA. Believe it was about some movie being shared. Don't think anything further was heard after he deleted it.
You mean just anyone can mail bulky packages to a US hotel and the hotel will actually accept delivery and store the package on the premises, no questions asked?
How do they protect themselves against "trojan" packages, for example someone mails them a bomb?
That self-contained biosphere, functioning for a long journey duration and where people would have their great-grandchildren in space - I thought we were already on it?
Being in a hurry for work is a good enough reason to increase the risk to my life as I walk along your road? Just try leaving your car behind for a while, you will soon discover the downside of speedsters (trust me.)
Firstly and most importantly: as a citizen living in my country of birth I have a basic and absolute right to be here, a right to exist, that is not conditional on anyone else's permission. In other words my right to be here is not contingent on carrying someone's ID card. I like it that way and I don't see why anyone would want to give up such a right.
Secondly: In the office where I work we stick asset tags on everything to prove we own it. Doesn't your card system make you feel similarly like a piece of owned asset?
Several years of my life were spent doing support for various manufacturers' X.400 mail systems. At the time I disliked them intensely for being huge lumbering bureaucratic things and successfully predicted that lightweight smtp would eventually leave X.400 for dead.
BUT one thing that you couldn't do so easily with an enterprise X.400 network is send spam. Other benefits are all the other stuff that basically is just built in, billing, QOS, end-to-end integrity assurance, everything you could reasonably think of in a mail system.
I try and make my kids run using an account without Administrator rights on their games machine, unfortunately that is a complete nightmare. Every few minutes it's "Dad... I can't install Megablaster 2 Railgun Edition" or "Dad... Flopsy Bear Print Studio says access denied".
And this is after spending a great deal of time putting friendly NTFS permissions onto their "c:\games" directory. If only makers of entertainment software would clean up their act! Surely these things don't actually NEED to have root all over the place.
Get a headset and yak without fear...
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If you talk on your phone for long enough in a public place then eventually you are going to get hassled by somebody who doesn't like you doing that.
Simple answer is to buy the smallest and most unobtrusive bluetooth headset - voila! now you're just another nut talking to himself and nobody will bother you:)
When I started in the computer business (I'm in Britain) during the 1970's my first employment contract had pretty much the same provisions, anything and everything I invented 24x7 forever would be the property of the company.
Then during the early 1980's there was a precendent-setting legal case somewhere and as a result I got sent a contract amendment reducing the company's IPR ownership scope to a level most of us would see as more reasonable.
So the draconian terms in your contract could already be illegal according to your own local common law; if not you could still negotiate better ones. Either way seeing a lawyer couldn't hurt.
But don't call Dell they're busy right now!
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There is an apocryphal story about Robert Maxwell, the deceased British newspaper tycoon. In a crowded elevator one morning he is supposed somehow to have become involved in a dispute with a scruffy-looking guy next to him, to the point where he decided to fire the guy.
"You there, what is your weekly wage?" The bloke (very surprised) replied something like "250 a week mate." So Maxwell pulls out a huge wad of cash and peels the guy off a thousand. "There's your month's notice now get your fired arse out of my office."
The delighted guy grabs the money and leaves... turned out later he was from the phone company. And that's the story of how yes you certainly can fire a visitor:)
Imagine if this really works and pretty soon becomes accepted as completely uncrackable and therefore intrinsically reliable as evidence in legal cases.
Six years later someone finally breaks the camera's security. That would open the floodgates for review of every single past case where some person was rightly or wrongly convicted because of the camera's "tamperproof" evidence.
Me too... I think it's because I run Proxomitron to filter out popups and crap. Just use "select all" highlighting off your browser's menu to bring it all into sharp relief.
These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License This statement just cannot be true. How can the GPL know what country or jurisdiction I am in, or precisely what my local laws prohibit or don't prohibit.
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This is why real tin-foil-hat shooters prefer a shotgun :)
We even labelled the contents of her drawers!
Of course you are aware of the dictionary meaning of the word "drawers" ?
Boss: Wear this phone so I can hassle you whenever I want.
Me: Nope
but now
Boss: Wear this access control badge so you can get into the server room.
Me: OK
Boss: Oh ya BTW it is also a phone so I can hassle you whenever I want...
Not tried these payware tools but an excellent free one for Windows is the evergreen "Proxomitron". Beautifully formatted and color-coded HTTP output.
I'm amazed how fragile PS2 games are, one decent-size scratch on the printed side and its a goner. You and I might put such a sensitive and expensive item carefully back in its jewel case, but kids drop them behind the TV or use them as impromptu cutting tools or space weapons. I've lost count of the tearful occasions when things won't load.
Their console isn't modchipped - but I wish it was.
Installing a keylogger on a machine YOU OWN to monitor YOUR CHILD is about as legally and morally justifiable as it can get.
Surely you mean "about as thoroughly illegal as it can get" ?
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Article 16
1. No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy
The actions of one corrupt lobbyist group in the US won't easily affect the operations of a worldwide filesharing network with many members outside the US.
I have a friend here in the UK who got a "takedown" e-mail notice forwarded by his ISP from the *AA. Believe it was about some movie being shared. Don't think anything further was heard after he deleted it.
I can't believe this!!!
You mean just anyone can mail bulky packages to a US hotel and the hotel will actually accept delivery and store the package on the premises, no questions asked?
How do they protect themselves against "trojan" packages, for example someone mails them a bomb?
That self-contained biosphere, functioning for a long journey duration and where people would have their great-grandchildren in space - I thought we were already on it?
Send them this in your fake header, should give them something to worry about at their monthly web strategy meeting =)
c lient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=disgusting+filthy+goat+s ex
Referer:http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=nav
I thought it said "St. Party's Day"
Being in a hurry for work is a good enough reason to increase the risk to my life as I walk along your road? Just try leaving your car behind for a while, you will soon discover the downside of speedsters (trust me.)
Here is what's so horrible about it.
Firstly and most importantly: as a citizen living in my country of birth I have a basic and absolute right to be here, a right to exist, that is not conditional on anyone else's permission. In other words my right to be here is not contingent on carrying someone's ID card. I like it that way and I don't see why anyone would want to give up such a right.
Secondly: In the office where I work we stick asset tags on everything to prove we own it. Doesn't your card system make you feel similarly like a piece of owned asset?
Pretty soon possession of air-compressors would be illegal. But hey, they can't take away your whoopee cushion!
Several years of my life were spent doing support for various manufacturers' X.400 mail systems. At the time I disliked them intensely for being huge lumbering bureaucratic things and successfully predicted that lightweight smtp would eventually leave X.400 for dead.
BUT one thing that you couldn't do so easily with an enterprise X.400 network is send spam. Other benefits are all the other stuff that basically is just built in, billing, QOS, end-to-end integrity assurance, everything you could reasonably think of in a mail system.
I try and make my kids run using an account without Administrator rights on their games machine, unfortunately that is a complete nightmare. Every few minutes it's "Dad... I can't install Megablaster 2 Railgun Edition" or "Dad... Flopsy Bear Print Studio says access denied".
And this is after spending a great deal of time putting friendly NTFS permissions onto their "c:\games" directory. If only makers of entertainment software would clean up their act! Surely these things don't actually NEED to have root all over the place.
If you talk on your phone for long enough in a public place then eventually you are going to get hassled by somebody who doesn't like you doing that.
:)
Simple answer is to buy the smallest and most unobtrusive bluetooth headset - voila! now you're just another nut talking to himself and nobody will bother you
When I started in the computer business (I'm in Britain) during the 1970's my first employment contract had pretty much the same provisions, anything and everything I invented 24x7 forever would be the property of the company.
Then during the early 1980's there was a precendent-setting legal case somewhere and as a result I got sent a contract amendment reducing the company's IPR ownership scope to a level most of us would see as more reasonable.
So the draconian terms in your contract could already be illegal according to your own local common law; if not you could still negotiate better ones. Either way seeing a lawyer couldn't hurt.
Hmm but I'm not convinced that they're really fully behind this!
If you can visit Santa Clara USA then Intel's museum has a nice introduction to the process of turning sand into chips.
How do you fire a visitor?
:)
There is an apocryphal story about Robert Maxwell, the deceased British newspaper tycoon. In a crowded elevator one morning he is supposed somehow to have become involved in a dispute with a scruffy-looking guy next to him, to the point where he decided to fire the guy.
"You there, what is your weekly wage?" The bloke (very surprised) replied something like "250 a week mate." So Maxwell pulls out a huge wad of cash and peels the guy off a thousand. "There's your month's notice now get your fired arse out of my office."
The delighted guy grabs the money and leaves... turned out later he was from the phone company. And that's the story of how yes you certainly can fire a visitor
Imagine if this really works and pretty soon becomes accepted as completely uncrackable and therefore intrinsically reliable as evidence in legal cases.
Six years later someone finally breaks the camera's security. That would open the floodgates for review of every single past case where some person was rightly or wrongly convicted because of the camera's "tamperproof" evidence.
Me too... I think it's because I run Proxomitron to filter out popups and crap. Just use "select all" highlighting off your browser's menu to bring it all into sharp relief.
These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License
This statement just cannot be true. How can the GPL know what country or jurisdiction I am in, or precisely what my local laws prohibit or don't prohibit.
1. Budget for manned Mars mission approved = 2.3 zillion
2. Spend some on fake mission with old Star Wars props in Tunisian desert = 23 million
3. Profit! 2.3z - 23m = 2.3z!
(Now use huge slush fund for War on Whatever)