depends on 'secure'. Win98 is completely secure from all the worms flying around...it's too ancient to work with them;-)
Reminds me of a (very) old/. post where a guy said he was running Solaris *2* on his server...why? because exactly nobody even tried to hack it, much less knew how too.
Sometimes the old n ancient will suffice just as well too...
doh....I humbly beg apologies. Didn't think before I typed, was mostly trying to point out the parent's desire to send him a message. Hopefully it won't get lost in the deluge of spam now:(
Interesting to see if/. could put some sort of a filter on submissions checking for emails to prevent the accidental dumbdumb move like mine
We should ban *any* anti-abortion group because people who go to those meetings, and watch their literature might kill doctors who perform abortions.
You can't ban things based on what people do after the fact. Can 'environment' increase a 'bad' persons tendencies? sure. But I don't want my choices restricted to only the lowest common denomenator safe for everyone. We wouldn't be able to do anything.
The kiddie-porn is illegal not because people will go out and do bad things after watching it. It's illegal because a child was 'hurt' in the making of the kiddie-porn in the first place.*
because before viewing the violent porn, this guy was obviously a choir boy...
Last time I checked, killing someone is still illegal. Why is this law needed? It's not like it's child porn is it? The 'actors' know exactly what they're getting signing up for the job, being adults and all...
Reminds me of a quote by that evil-incarnate W. Axl Rose (Guns n Roses) in reponse to people wanting to ban some GNR songs:
"If you're going to ban something, ban the Bible. More people have been killed because of/in the name of that any of our songs"
I won't be buying another ink-jet printer....ever*. I wouldn't even get 50 pages out of the inks before it clogged and reported problems, or 'empty'.
I have a solid Samsung Laser (1610 maybe?) I bought 5 *years* ago. Still going strong. only B & W but hey, I don't need color all that often (that's what work is for...ha).
My next purchase will be a laser 'all in one' that will be B & W too. Mostly because I'm not ready to shell out $500-700 for the all in one color monsters for my own small needs.
*Unless you need to do uber-quality photo prints, ink-jets are relics.
Agreed that would be pointless. The 'ads', as far as I understand, will be placed on the website, ala iTunes Music Store, where you actually go to download the songs.
Once the file is downloaded, just about *any* advertising is going to be too much for the avg person to deal with.
Ads in the songs is ridiculous?...wow it's radio!
Ads on the Application playing the songs?...as you mention it's useless since most people don't 'watch' their music play;-)
That seems to leave ads for when you're searching, getting, downloading the music from the service.
The adverts are on the web pages serving up the song files, not in the songs themselves. I don't think *anybody* would deal with that. Just started fiddling with Audacity this weekend....me likey!
An insightful AC...what a concept. I suppose it's fittingly in the conversation about *satan* realizing the market has shifted...
Seriously though, the concept of free downloads, but not writing to CD or transferring to portable players? That will cause the motivation to crack the encryption it's laced with...
How would they know? When they walk in they'd clearly see which I'm using;-) Open area or not if your boss sees you yakking on your cell phone enough he's going to question whether you're doing your work. Now if I'm on the office phone but taking personal calls, they can't really tell without checking the phone records.
Personally if the people who work under me are meeting the goals I've set for them, I don't care what they do (legally anyway;-)) But if they aren't getting their work done AND I see them always checking personal email, or on their cell phone, or even excessively on their office phone and they aren't types who'd need that, I'm going to question it.
I've worked in numerous corporate and gov't centers ranging from 200 to 1000+ in size. All of them implemented some sort of phone restrictions that don't let you dial certain area codes. Heck, when new cell phone exchanges were introduced here (Northern, VA - DC - MD) it took a few days before someone realized the new exchanges weren't on the approved list. As you say, companies don't pay the same way consumers do for LD calls, but few companies are willing to deal with the penny-ante hassle of tracking down who made what calls and billing them for individually (or disciplining etc), let alone just swallow the cost of employees making the calls.
Some people do need more default access; sales people, CEO's, VPs and their secretaries, but the bulk of any office certainly doesn't need that type of access. Even if they do it is usually protected with charge codes to prevent people from making calls and then claiming it wasn't them who called.
So it comes down to tailoring the usage to the employees true needs. As has been mentioned, developers need access to technical resources (which are fairly hard to blanket qualify since blogs and other stuff sometimes is of great help).
If the company is big enough to warrant a telephone system, my guess is they block long distance calls, or at the very least pr0n numbers...so yes they do block indiscriminate calling.
Once upon a time the phone was the 'luxury' that computers have been more recently. So it was bad form to make or take personal calls during the day. Computers open up a new level of access to things and interactivity that's bound to initially be 'suspect' by the powers that be.
Eventually things will even out and more access will be the norm than less. But some blocking will always occur, or at least the threat of it will keep people with a modicum of intelligence (no comments on how rare that is!) from going to questionable sites.
My favorite irony is that it won't be long before I can have my home VOIP route my calls to my office phone over the internet. So am I using the phone? the computer? both? and it would be a bit harder, but not impossible, to track that.
"For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.
Roughly translated:
We can't *believe* how fscking stupid our neighbors are...we ran a power cord from their external outlet 3 years ago, and they haven't even noticed!
I have the Sprint Treo650 and using PDANet I can get 70K speeds pretty regularly. I won't claim to know if this is EV-DO but my guess is it's not. It's using the same data network that Sprint had in place for the 600.
It's not the 300K of the latest and greatest, but it's free and it's anywhere you can get a signal;-)
Um, no. By your logic they have stolen the *copyright*; the legal right to make a copy. No one says any such thing. They are simply violating the copyright granted to the legitmate holder. This is not *theft* by any definition.
Your USPTO example is flawed as well, because there can be only one Patent Holder. If someone beats you to the USPTO, then yes they have *stolen* your ability to get a patent. Just as if they 'stole' your car, you can't use it anymore.
When this law is overturned constitutionally...can we please prohibit the author(s) from writing future bills? Since they obviously don't know how to do their 'craft'.
Maybe we can have a 'Certification' course for being able to actually write proposed legistlation?
Now as to whether we can or can't afford to build more prisons, that's a matter of actually taxing people. Something the current administration feels is apparently more 'cruel and unusual' punishment than say, torture.
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depends on 'secure'. Win98 is completely secure from all the worms flying around...it's too ancient to work with them ;-)
/. post where a guy said he was running Solaris *2* on his server...why? because exactly nobody even tried to hack it, much less knew how too.
Reminds me of a (very) old
Sometimes the old n ancient will suffice just as well too...
doh....I humbly beg apologies. Didn't think before I typed, was mostly trying to point out the parent's desire to send him a message. Hopefully it won't get lost in the deluge of spam now :(
/. could put some sort of a filter on submissions checking for emails to prevent the accidental dumbdumb move like mine
Interesting to see if
um...how about his email?
;-)
meNO@SPAMthalagyrt.com = me@thalagyrt.com
or at least that would be my first guess
Child porn was illegal long before the ability to create realistic 'simulated' stuff. Hence it's illegal because it hurt the real kids involved.
and a 2nd analogy:
We should ban *any* anti-abortion group because people who go to those meetings, and watch their literature might kill doctors who perform abortions.
You can't ban things based on what people do after the fact. Can 'environment' increase a 'bad' persons tendencies? sure. But I don't want my choices restricted to only the lowest common denomenator safe for everyone. We wouldn't be able to do anything.
The kiddie-porn is illegal not because people will go out and do bad things after watching it.
;-)
It's illegal because a child was 'hurt' in the making of the kiddie-porn in the first place.*
*Traci Lords not withstanding
because before viewing the violent porn, this guy was obviously a choir boy...
Last time I checked, killing someone is still illegal. Why is this law needed? It's not like it's child porn is it? The 'actors' know exactly what they're getting signing up for the job, being adults and all...
Reminds me of a quote by that evil-incarnate W. Axl Rose (Guns n Roses) in reponse to people wanting to ban some GNR songs:
"If you're going to ban something, ban the Bible. More people have been killed because of/in the name of that any of our songs"
Nope...my only laser knowledge to date is my b&w
bad memory.....it's the ML-1210, still on the original cartridge too.
Picture is here.
Um, buy a laser?
I won't be buying another ink-jet printer....ever*. I wouldn't even get 50 pages out of the inks before it clogged and reported problems, or 'empty'.
I have a solid Samsung Laser (1610 maybe?) I bought 5 *years* ago. Still going strong. only B & W but hey, I don't need color all that often (that's what work is for...ha).
My next purchase will be a laser 'all in one' that will be B & W too. Mostly because I'm not ready to shell out $500-700 for the all in one color monsters for my own small needs.
*Unless you need to do uber-quality photo prints, ink-jets are relics.
Agreed that would be pointless. The 'ads', as far as I understand, will be placed on the website, ala iTunes Music Store, where you actually go to download the songs.
;-)
Once the file is downloaded, just about *any* advertising is going to be too much for the avg person to deal with.
Ads in the songs is ridiculous?...wow it's radio!
Ads on the Application playing the songs?...as you mention it's useless since most people don't 'watch' their music play
That seems to leave ads for when you're searching, getting, downloading the music from the service.
The adverts are on the web pages serving up the song files, not in the songs themselves. I don't think *anybody* would deal with that. Just started fiddling with Audacity this weekend....me likey!
An insightful AC...what a concept. I suppose it's fittingly in the conversation about *satan* realizing the market has shifted...
Seriously though, the concept of free downloads, but not writing to CD or transferring to portable players? That will cause the motivation to crack the encryption it's laced with...
you can expect a bought-out microsoft to offer less compelling products less frequently
And the difference between that scenario and now is....? How could they get any *less* productive/innovative than they already are?
How would they know? When they walk in they'd clearly see which I'm using ;-) Open area or not if your boss sees you yakking on your cell phone enough he's going to question whether you're doing your work. Now if I'm on the office phone but taking personal calls, they can't really tell without checking the phone records.
;-)) But if they aren't getting their work done AND I see them always checking personal email, or on their cell phone, or even excessively on their office phone and they aren't types who'd need that, I'm going to question it.
Personally if the people who work under me are meeting the goals I've set for them, I don't care what they do (legally anyway
Because unless I'm issued a cell phone as my employment, that's a dead giveaway I'm not doing 'office' work.
I've worked in numerous corporate and gov't centers ranging from 200 to 1000+ in size. All of them implemented some sort of phone restrictions that don't let you dial certain area codes. Heck, when new cell phone exchanges were introduced here (Northern, VA - DC - MD) it took a few days before someone realized the new exchanges weren't on the approved list. As you say, companies don't pay the same way consumers do for LD calls, but few companies are willing to deal with the penny-ante hassle of tracking down who made what calls and billing them for individually (or disciplining etc), let alone just swallow the cost of employees making the calls.
Some people do need more default access; sales people, CEO's, VPs and their secretaries, but the bulk of any office certainly doesn't need that type of access. Even if they do it is usually protected with charge codes to prevent people from making calls and then claiming it wasn't them who called.
So it comes down to tailoring the usage to the employees true needs. As has been mentioned, developers need access to technical resources (which are fairly hard to blanket qualify since blogs and other stuff sometimes is of great help).
If the company is big enough to warrant a telephone system, my guess is they block long distance calls, or at the very least pr0n numbers...so yes they do block indiscriminate calling.
Once upon a time the phone was the 'luxury' that computers have been more recently. So it was bad form to make or take personal calls during the day. Computers open up a new level of access to things and interactivity that's bound to initially be 'suspect' by the powers that be.
Eventually things will even out and more access will be the norm than less. But some blocking will always occur, or at least the threat of it will keep people with a modicum of intelligence (no comments on how rare that is!) from going to questionable sites.
My favorite irony is that it won't be long before I can have my home VOIP route my calls to my office phone over the internet. So am I using the phone? the computer? both? and it would be a bit harder, but not impossible, to track that.
From the article:
"For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.
Roughly translated:
We can't *believe* how fscking stupid our neighbors are...we ran a power cord from their external outlet 3 years ago, and they haven't even noticed!
Dude....free energy!
I have the Sprint Treo650 and using PDANet I can get 70K speeds pretty regularly. I won't claim to know if this is EV-DO but my guess is it's not. It's using the same data network that Sprint had in place for the 600.
;-)
It's not the 300K of the latest and greatest, but it's free and it's anywhere you can get a signal
it doesn't need to be functioning...that's why the Gold Record with info on it was included as part of the mission ;-)
you are stealing the "right to copy"
Um, no. By your logic they have stolen the *copyright*; the legal right to make a copy. No one says any such thing. They are simply violating the copyright granted to the legitmate holder. This is not *theft* by any definition.
Your USPTO example is flawed as well, because there can be only one Patent Holder. If someone beats you to the USPTO, then yes they have *stolen* your ability to get a patent. Just as if they 'stole' your car, you can't use it anymore.
When this law is overturned constitutionally...can we please prohibit the author(s) from writing future bills? Since they obviously don't know how to do their 'craft'.
Maybe we can have a 'Certification' course for being able to actually write proposed legistlation?
ok enough fantasy land, back to reality....ugh
have you looked at Strongly Typed Datasets?
personally I don't generally like prepacked stuff at that level, since most complex systems aren't just simple CRUD operations.
But if that's all you need it's pretty much out of the box.
try googling "US prison overcrowding" you'll find numerous references...
Now as to whether we can or can't afford to build more prisons, that's a matter of actually taxing people. Something the current administration feels is apparently more 'cruel and unusual' punishment than say, torture.
Just color me one spec of blue in a red state.