You're right, and the authorities may have trouble building a case because of that.
One of the first things they teach you when securing a (real) router is to set up a clear login banner that has been approved by legal counsel. Otherwise, you could have problems prosecuting an intrusion, depending on the laws where the intrusion took place.
The ancient greeks knew the earth was spherical. It's first suggested by the likes of Aristotle and Pythagoras around 600 BC. Eratosthenes, around 300 BC, went so far as to measure the circumference of the earth to a fairly good degree of accuracy by observing the difference in the length of shadows cast at different points on the earth at the same time of day. There's a good summary of who figured out what here.
Ptolemy (2nd century AD) was the church's calendar guy and had the spherical orbital model of the solar system figured out, except he had the earth at the middle of it. It wasn't until Copernicus (16th C. AD) and Galileo (late 16th and early 17th C. AD) that it was corrected to put the sun at the middle but we all know what happened next.
There is a table that maps the tollfree number to the real directory number. It really does work like DNS in that when you dial a tollfree number, the switch you're talking to does a "database dip" to fetch the real number to complete the call. When you have a new tollfree number assigned, it takes some time for the number to be reachable everywhere but I'm not certain what the convergence time is or how exactly those updates are carried out through the network.
Do you really want your news media to be completely reliant upon the government? Under such circumstances, would you trust their objectivity?
I don't really know if I'd trust their objectivity more or less than the media empires owned and controlled by the Asper and Black families.
"Hollinger owns 379 newspapers worldwide including The Jerusalem Post and the Ottawa Citizen. It also owns several magazines, including TheSpectator in the UKfamilies." --http://bankrupt.com/TCREUR_Public/000427.mbx
and that was in 2000. Between Hollinger and the Asper empire (CanWest, which owns hundreds of newspapers, TV, and other media holdings across Canada) they pretty much wrapped media up in a tight little bow in this country. I shudder to think what would happen if we didn't have the CBC. Google for some Asper censorship stories. His newspapers run the stories head office wants run and, what's worse, they DON'T run the stories head office DOESN'T want run. It seems to be a well kept secret that private sector media is frighteningly concentrated in Canada.
I guess it's good to have both for balance, but certainly at this point I trust the CBC, which gets its funding from the Government, which is accountable to me, more than I trust Hollinger and CanWest, which are really only family dynasties accountable to nobody.
That's why you have different classifications of the same job as well as salary ranges within each classification. PIPSC covers many of the IT workers in the Canadian federal government. My ex-girlfriend is a civilian tech worker for the Department of Defense.
In Canada, at least, you cannot see or set ANI digits unless you are an intra-LATA carrier. It's a safe assumption that the same holds true in the USA.
The poster a little farther above is also correct that call centers heavily depend on being able to set CLID digits. By law you have to set the client's contact number on the outdial, which makes this feature critical if you're calling on behalf of a number of different clients on the same trunks. Tantacomm sells a device that does just the trick. All you need is a properly provisioned PRI.
I would think the same should be possible with the right combination of hardware, software, and a plain old ISDN BRI. Sounds like a fun open source project to me.
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hmmmm...I wonder if that will be true when the long-sought-after Smell-o-Vision comes to fruition.
they cheat by using a construct known as a "limit" in order to make it infinitely close to infinity but not quite. It lets you do all kind of cheaty types of things like measure the volume under a curve that gets infinitely steep as it approaches a particular point (asymptote), add up a series numbers that get infinitely small as you go along (sum of an infinite series), make.999999 repeating actually equal 1, and prove that Achilles does actually catch the turtle.
There's a good lesson to be learned here. Don't give out your personal cell phone number to anybody but your immediate family and close friends. Heck, only the HR department has my home phone number and I have, to date, declined to list it on the periodic "we're updating the internal staff phone list, please fill out this form and return it to us" request. Actually, decline is the wrong word. I fill in everything but the stuff I don't feel they should have...home number, email address, IM names, etc, and I simply don't respond when they follow up with the "hey, we noticed that you didn't fill everything out" email.
Of course, I didn't have a personal cell phone or pager when I began my employment here, so those items were provided by them. That gives them plenty of ways to be able to contact me if I'm available to take a call. If I don't answer either of those, I'm either in the pool, shower, shitter, or otherwise unavailable.
Something doesn't sound quite right about this. There's no reason to lose your employment because of actions taken with your own personal property. If you were completely reasonable, friendly, courteous, and gave them every opportunity to resolve the conflict, you should see a lawyer because you probably have a very good case for wrongful dismissal.
Sometimes if you have a good business justification, it is smooth sailing, if you are just whining because you think they are interfering with your "personal freedom" you might want to look at your definition of "viable employment".
I don't necessarily agree here. Any shop that has mission critical gear that needs to be operational at all times is not adequately staffed if it's managed by one guy who's on call 24/7.
It's not about whining about personal freedoms, it's about establishing a realistic and reasonable expectation of availability when not at the office. 24/7 availability is not sustainable or viable by any means over the long term.
Consider vacations and sick time. Employers are legally required to provide those in most places and it's incumbent upon the employer to be prepared for those eventualities. If the employer's answer to that is to grief and guilt trip the employee, that employer has a poorly planned and managed operation and really has no business operating at all.
In my experience, security is not a product, service, or a figurehead you can throw money at. It is a state of mind that most business folks don't have. It is incompatible with the reactive mindset that is exhibited by most company leaders today.
I think the real real reason is more subtle than just the intermixing of languages and sharing of words. Every language's old words were taken from other earlier languages...either an earlier form of the same language or a different one altogether.
However, the largest reason according to linguists is how english treats the verb. In French, verbs mainly end in -er -ir or -re and there are solid rules for how to conjugate them into their various forms. I understand the same can be said for Latin, but I've only studied French as a second language.
English, on the other hand, can make a verb out of anything, and it is generally accepted when people do. You e-mail your mom. You plate your food. You taxi to the grocery store. And when the language changes, you don't need to take it to a committee for approval (like if you want to start a sentence with the word "and").
English has changed so much over time, even in the last hundred years. The only real rules are what are generally accepted by the majority as the de-facto standard. I guess it's a lot like open source in that way.
What about this "at-will employment" stuff? I'm not American so I really don't know for sure, but can't a company let you go for no particular reason at all in states that have at-will employment?
any information at all about this would be appreciated. I really am curious...
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Not to say the RIAA is always right, but if music pirating wasn't making the record companies lose money, why would they be so against it? If they lost no money, it would be a great marketing scheme. But they lose money. Not as many people buy CD's.
My theory is that they know what the future holds for them. Their real concern isn't sliding sales, it's that they are doomed to irrelevance. Delivering music to the consumer is their job and they're facing the same fate as the millions of people who have suffered the same fate - their job is being eliminated by technological automation.
It used to be difficult to move music from the artist to the consumer. That is why they existed and that is the value they presented. If they no longer present value, they should not be allowed to exist. Nobody weeps for the buggy whip makers. They are trying to use legal means to enforce the status quo but nobody can stop the clock.
This is, in fact, a very simple situation. Get your marching orders in writing. Document your objections and suggested solutions in writing. Get the employer's reaction in writing. In the end it's their ass that's on the line, not the contractor's, and you have the documentation to prove it.
Doing so would require the elimination of two things that are impossible to eliminate: scarcity and greed.
Without controlling the reproduction of the human population, it will continue to behave like any population...bacteria, plankton, coyotes, or what have you. It will continue to expand until it consumes all available resources, at which time it will be irradicated or will reach a state of equilibrium with the resources it requires to survive. Humanity cannot continue to experience exponential population growth. The earth simply cannot support it. 1/5 of all the people who have EVER lived are alive today. Consider the ramifications of that and then fast-forward 100 years. We are heading for some massive humanitarian disasters within our lifetimes. That frightens me deeply.
Greed is borne out of the innate human desire for superiority. Power is not a tool, but an end unto itself. As long as you have people, you will have people who strive to have more than his neighbour. Communism doesn't work because of greed. Capitalism embraces greed, but is it really any better?
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they threw all that SCO code into Linux, what's stopping them from doing the same with the MS code in OS/2?
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You're right, and the authorities may have trouble building a case because of that.
One of the first things they teach you when securing a (real) router is to set up a clear login banner that has been approved by legal counsel. Otherwise, you could have problems prosecuting an intrusion, depending on the laws where the intrusion took place.
The ancient greeks knew the earth was spherical. It's first suggested by the likes of Aristotle and Pythagoras around 600 BC. Eratosthenes, around 300 BC, went so far as to measure the circumference of the earth to a fairly good degree of accuracy by observing the difference in the length of shadows cast at different points on the earth at the same time of day. There's a good summary of who figured out what here.
Ptolemy (2nd century AD) was the church's calendar guy and had the spherical orbital model of the solar system figured out, except he had the earth at the middle of it. It wasn't until Copernicus (16th C. AD) and Galileo (late 16th and early 17th C. AD) that it was corrected to put the sun at the middle but we all know what happened next.
There is a table that maps the tollfree number to the real directory number. It really does work like DNS in that when you dial a tollfree number, the switch you're talking to does a "database dip" to fetch the real number to complete the call. When you have a new tollfree number assigned, it takes some time for the number to be reachable everywhere but I'm not certain what the convergence time is or how exactly those updates are carried out through the network.
Do you really want your news media to be completely reliant upon the government? Under such circumstances, would you trust their objectivity?
I don't really know if I'd trust their objectivity more or less than the media empires owned and controlled by the Asper and Black families.
"Hollinger owns 379 newspapers worldwide including The Jerusalem Post and the Ottawa Citizen. It also owns several magazines, including TheSpectator in the UKfamilies." --http://bankrupt.com/TCREUR_Public/000427.mbx
and that was in 2000. Between Hollinger and the Asper empire (CanWest, which owns hundreds of newspapers, TV, and other media holdings across Canada) they pretty much wrapped media up in a tight little bow in this country. I shudder to think what would happen if we didn't have the CBC. Google for some Asper censorship stories. His newspapers run the stories head office wants run and, what's worse, they DON'T run the stories head office DOESN'T want run. It seems to be a well kept secret that private sector media is frighteningly concentrated in Canada.
here's one to get started on
I guess it's good to have both for balance, but certainly at this point I trust the CBC, which gets its funding from the Government, which is accountable to me, more than I trust Hollinger and CanWest, which are really only family dynasties accountable to nobody.
That's why you have different classifications of the same job as well as salary ranges within each classification. PIPSC covers many of the IT workers in the Canadian federal government. My ex-girlfriend is a civilian tech worker for the Department of Defense.
In Canada, at least, you cannot see or set ANI digits unless you are an intra-LATA carrier. It's a safe assumption that the same holds true in the USA.
The poster a little farther above is also correct that call centers heavily depend on being able to set CLID digits. By law you have to set the client's contact number on the outdial, which makes this feature critical if you're calling on behalf of a number of different clients on the same trunks. Tantacomm sells a device that does just the trick. All you need is a properly provisioned PRI.
I would think the same should be possible with the right combination of hardware, software, and a plain old ISDN BRI. Sounds like a fun open source project to me.
Matt...
hmmmm...I wonder if that will be true when the long-sought-after Smell-o-Vision comes to fruition.
they cheat by using a construct known as a "limit" in order to make it infinitely close to infinity but not quite. It lets you do all kind of cheaty types of things like measure the volume under a curve that gets infinitely steep as it approaches a particular point (asymptote), add up a series numbers that get infinitely small as you go along (sum of an infinite series), make .999999 repeating actually equal 1, and prove that Achilles does actually catch the turtle.
There's a good lesson to be learned here. Don't give out your personal cell phone number to anybody but your immediate family and close friends. Heck, only the HR department has my home phone number and I have, to date, declined to list it on the periodic "we're updating the internal staff phone list, please fill out this form and return it to us" request. Actually, decline is the wrong word. I fill in everything but the stuff I don't feel they should have...home number, email address, IM names, etc, and I simply don't respond when they follow up with the "hey, we noticed that you didn't fill everything out" email.
Of course, I didn't have a personal cell phone or pager when I began my employment here, so those items were provided by them. That gives them plenty of ways to be able to contact me if I'm available to take a call. If I don't answer either of those, I'm either in the pool, shower, shitter, or otherwise unavailable.
Something doesn't sound quite right about this. There's no reason to lose your employment because of actions taken with your own personal property. If you were completely reasonable, friendly, courteous, and gave them every opportunity to resolve the conflict, you should see a lawyer because you probably have a very good case for wrongful dismissal.
Sometimes if you have a good business justification, it is smooth sailing, if you are just whining because you think they are interfering with your "personal freedom" you might want to look at your definition of "viable employment".
I don't necessarily agree here. Any shop that has mission critical gear that needs to be operational at all times is not adequately staffed if it's managed by one guy who's on call 24/7.
It's not about whining about personal freedoms, it's about establishing a realistic and reasonable expectation of availability when not at the office. 24/7 availability is not sustainable or viable by any means over the long term.
Consider vacations and sick time. Employers are legally required to provide those in most places and it's incumbent upon the employer to be prepared for those eventualities. If the employer's answer to that is to grief and guilt trip the employee, that employer has a poorly planned and managed operation and really has no business operating at all.
In my experience, security is not a product, service, or a figurehead you can throw money at. It is a state of mind that most business folks don't have. It is incompatible with the reactive mindset that is exhibited by most company leaders today.
I think the real real reason is more subtle than just the intermixing of languages and sharing of words. Every language's old words were taken from other earlier languages...either an earlier form of the same language or a different one altogether.
However, the largest reason according to linguists is how english treats the verb. In French, verbs mainly end in -er -ir or -re and there are solid rules for how to conjugate them into their various forms. I understand the same can be said for Latin, but I've only studied French as a second language.
English, on the other hand, can make a verb out of anything, and it is generally accepted when people do. You e-mail your mom. You plate your food. You taxi to the grocery store. And when the language changes, you don't need to take it to a committee for approval (like if you want to start a sentence with the word "and").
English has changed so much over time, even in the last hundred years. The only real rules are what are generally accepted by the majority as the de-facto standard. I guess it's a lot like open source in that way.
Why isn't the US government doing anything about all the cheap labour being dumped onto the market by the mid/far east?
Isn't that far more damaging to the economy?
Which side are we rooting for??
This weather bar?
What about this "at-will employment" stuff? I'm not American so I really don't know for sure, but can't a company let you go for no particular reason at all in states that have at-will employment?
any information at all about this would be appreciated. I really am curious...
SCO stock has lost 25% of its value in the last 24 hours. Let it ride, baby, let it ride.
Or as Disco Stu would say, "if these trends continue...eyyy..."
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LinuxTag is the largest Linux and Open Source fair in Europe. Our concept unites technical expertise and the special charm of the world of free software. This mixture has made LinuxTag the most successful event of its kind.
The Open Source culture finds its expression in the organization of the event: everyone is invited to play an active part in the preparation of the fair. At LinuxTag, innovative technologies are not only planned out in theory, but also made a reality.
Concepts. Information. Orientation.
The LinuxTag concept is tried and true. As a convention for professionals and a fair for a broader public, LinuxTag has something to offer every visitor. Users learn about the latest in applications; developers display their current products and inform one another about their work. Decision-makers and IT specialists gather information on the professional use of free software.
For young entrepreneurs, LinuxTag offers the chance to address specialists in the field face to face. This is the stepping-stone to turn new business ideas into successful strategies. LinuxTag sets the standards for the development of innovative concepts and powerful synergies.
Not to say the RIAA is always right, but if music pirating wasn't making the record companies lose money, why would they be so against it? If they lost no money, it would be a great marketing scheme. But they lose money. Not as many people buy CD's.
My theory is that they know what the future holds for them. Their real concern isn't sliding sales, it's that they are doomed to irrelevance. Delivering music to the consumer is their job and they're facing the same fate as the millions of people who have suffered the same fate - their job is being eliminated by technological automation.
It used to be difficult to move music from the artist to the consumer. That is why they existed and that is the value they presented. If they no longer present value, they should not be allowed to exist. Nobody weeps for the buggy whip makers. They are trying to use legal means to enforce the status quo but nobody can stop the clock.
Their days are numbered.
This is, in fact, a very simple situation. Get your marching orders in writing. Document your objections and suggested solutions in writing. Get the employer's reaction in writing. In the end it's their ass that's on the line, not the contractor's, and you have the documentation to prove it.
Believe me, it works.
Doing so would require the elimination of two things that are impossible to eliminate: scarcity and greed.
Without controlling the reproduction of the human population, it will continue to behave like any population...bacteria, plankton, coyotes, or what have you. It will continue to expand until it consumes all available resources, at which time it will be irradicated or will reach a state of equilibrium with the resources it requires to survive. Humanity cannot continue to experience exponential population growth. The earth simply cannot support it. 1/5 of all the people who have EVER lived are alive today. Consider the ramifications of that and then fast-forward 100 years. We are heading for some massive humanitarian disasters within our lifetimes. That frightens me deeply.
Greed is borne out of the innate human desire for superiority. Power is not a tool, but an end unto itself. As long as you have people, you will have people who strive to have more than his neighbour. Communism doesn't work because of greed. Capitalism embraces greed, but is it really any better?
I agree...why are we even bothering? We won't find anything.
Everyone knows first contact doesn't happen until a civilization becomes warp capable. We have a few years to go yet.