He did say it was telemarketing, so yes he could get callers fired.
I was once the system admin for the call-recording servers at a financial services company. I know the pain that the call center employees went through. Luckily, they weren't outsourced, so more than just the call time mattered. Compliance/adherence and quality mattered a great deal.
Mind you, that company was more like Initech than any other company I've worked for, and I'm glad to be out of there.
This is a great idea! Drunk driving accidents plummet.
Meanwhile we'll have drivers trying to dial their cellphone, navigate with the GPS, fast-forward the DVD, eat their burger, drink their soda, and read the newspaper, all while taking a rolling breathalyzer test.
Genius. That lawmaker must work for the Eastern Standard Tribe.
Which raises the question, What license did SCO have from Novell to disallow this?"
This is answered in a 1985 issue of AT&T's $ echo publicaction, which specifically says in a derivitive work, the UNIX source remains the property of AT&T, and the licensee's code remains the property of the licensee.
IOW, SCO has nothing to disallow this. Those technologies belong to IBM, period. SCO can't use them in their own product without permission from IBM, and IBM can use them as they see fit.
Actually, I think I heard about this incident. It's a good argument for compartmentalization.
I used to work for a healthcare transaction company, and we developers had absolutely no access to patient data. I had no access to production databases, just dev and staging. Those databases used fake test data only. We weren't likely to be sued by Ima Genius or Homer Simpson over the loss of their records.
Which, when combined with "Politics. feh." indicates that this behavior doesn't need to be discouraged.
MY point is that whenever anyone from either party pulls this crap, they need to be hammered for it. Lapsing into this kind of "Everyone does it, so who cares?" is why people in government continue to try to get away with this.
Nixon should have been arraigned, not pardoned. Clinton should have gotten another impeachment. Someone - possibly several people - need to be fired and charged over this.
I've gotten a few dozen spams sent using Habeas. I quickly set up a couple filters to siphon off messages with Habeas headers into a separate folder, then I would look through them, and manually apply another filter to forward the spam to Habeas's reporting address.
I sent the last two reports this morning, and since then Spamassassin has caught at least one message that has been blacklisted by Habeas...maybe the tide is starting to turn.
Yes, routers will have to be updated, if they aren't already IPv6 capable. Switches and most other gear work at different network layers and don't deal with IP addresses at all. Switches and bridges, for example, are only concerned with MAC addresses.
"We are hoping to boost our stock by reminding everyone before our big conference call that no matter what anyone else thinks, and despite the fact that every assertion we make has been logically shot down, and despite the fact that we've lost ground in court, and despite the fact that nothing has been decided in court yet, we're right!"
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That's a good alliance. Alfa Romeo owners should already be used to constantly taking their cars in for repair...
Won't somebody please think of the compasses?!
Yep. And those are the same people who blame meteorologists for bad weather. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
We must protect our children from bare boobies at all costs! Won't someone pleeeeeeease think of the children?!
Slap it on the nose with a newspaper and say, "Bad! Bad packet!"?
Any word on whether they found a stargate there?
Unless this company is owned by Bombardier, there's a potential problem with that name.
knowing that Windows XP may be powering my friendly neighborhood ATM. I'm sure my money's secure...right? Right?
What's next? Diebold forgot to disable Universal PnP?
You'll also be able to use it to travel to distant worlds at a Farcaster terminal.
Or am I the only one who reads Dan Simmons?
For a second there I was starting to think this was true!
How did this get modded Insightful?
It's a danger to public safety, not because it was malware, but because it was interfering with the operation of 911.
Is this Microsoft's way of saying they're not gonna patch Windows vulnerabilities any more?
He did say it was telemarketing, so yes he could get callers fired.
I was once the system admin for the call-recording servers at a financial services company. I know the pain that the call center employees went through. Luckily, they weren't outsourced, so more than just the call time mattered. Compliance/adherence and quality mattered a great deal.
Mind you, that company was more like Initech than any other company I've worked for, and I'm glad to be out of there.
This is a great idea! Drunk driving accidents plummet.
Meanwhile we'll have drivers trying to dial their cellphone, navigate with the GPS, fast-forward the DVD, eat their burger, drink their soda, and read the newspaper, all while taking a rolling breathalyzer test.
Genius. That lawmaker must work for the Eastern Standard Tribe.
Which raises the question, What license did SCO have from Novell to disallow this?"
This is answered in a 1985 issue of AT&T's $ echo publicaction, which specifically says in a derivitive work, the UNIX source remains the property of AT&T, and the licensee's code remains the property of the licensee.
IOW, SCO has nothing to disallow this. Those technologies belong to IBM, period. SCO can't use them in their own product without permission from IBM, and IBM can use them as they see fit.
Worst. Name. Ever.
Actually, I think I heard about this incident. It's a good argument for compartmentalization.
I used to work for a healthcare transaction company, and we developers had absolutely no access to patient data. I had no access to production databases, just dev and staging. Those databases used fake test data only. We weren't likely to be sued by Ima Genius or Homer Simpson over the loss of their records.
"I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry."
Andy, you're fired!
Which, when combined with "Politics. feh." indicates that this behavior doesn't need to be discouraged.
MY point is that whenever anyone from either party pulls this crap, they need to be hammered for it. Lapsing into this kind of "Everyone does it, so who cares?" is why people in government continue to try to get away with this.
Nixon should have been arraigned, not pardoned.
Clinton should have gotten another impeachment.
Someone - possibly several people - need to be fired and charged over this.
Right here:
In DC, this is called `Business As Usual`.
Ah. I see. Because it's commonly done by both parties, that makes it okay, and we can just ignore it.
I've gotten a few dozen spams sent using Habeas. I quickly set up a couple filters to siphon off messages with Habeas headers into a separate folder, then I would look through them, and manually apply another filter to forward the spam to Habeas's reporting address.
I sent the last two reports this morning, and since then Spamassassin has caught at least one message that has been blacklisted by Habeas...maybe the tide is starting to turn.
I think they're trying to keep out illegal aliens...
Yes, routers will have to be updated, if they aren't already IPv6 capable. Switches and most other gear work at different network layers and don't deal with IP addresses at all. Switches and bridges, for example, are only concerned with MAC addresses.
"We are hoping to boost our stock by reminding everyone before our big conference call that no matter what anyone else thinks, and despite the fact that every assertion we make has been logically shot down, and despite the fact that we've lost ground in court, and despite the fact that nothing has been decided in court yet, we're right!"