If you allow that to go unpunished, it provides a defense for anyone in the future who does the same thing in an instance where it *is* a security violation.
No it doesn't. If it IS a security violation, the defense won't stand up. Slippery slope arguments are logically silly and when applied very unjust (punishing those who do no harm to discourage others from more extreme acts).
The guy took digital photos of his employer's non-public building areas while there as an employee.
So what? It's not a bank, a nuclear research facility, the changing rooms of Moulin Rouge; it's an office building. And if you look at the actual photo, it wasn't even that, but the interior of a truck making a delivery.
MS, through hiring staff as "permanent temps" can fire them for no cause, so there is no legal recourse But what harm could conceivably be done to MS I can't imagine. It's hardly a secret that MS uses Macs, since they have a Mac Business Unit to port Office.
And in all the places I've worked, no one has ever cared what snaps anyone took or what they did with them. I sense somehow that the "terrorism" angle is the subtext. It's become an excellent pretext for stomping on people's rights.
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Who primarily listened to radio to hear new artists? At most I did this on local "alternative" stations for a few hours a week (unfortunately none wher I live now). Most of the time it's for ambient music, news and weather.
The PC of whatever form factor is silly as a primary source of radio-type sound. Can it replace an earphone FM radio as large as a cigarette lighter? Can I take one trekking in Nepal to listen to the BBC World Service on shortwave? Can it run for days on 2 AA batteries?
>Anyway, I wouldn't blame the posters -- unlike the editors who have no excuse at all for being so unprofessional
This is a fucking blog, not a professional news site. Treat it as such.
No, it's not a blog. It has editors who collect salaries, supposedly for editing. I used to edit a news site, posted 80 stories a day, and I was mortified if there was a dupe (same story from different source), and pulled it immediately. Here the editors post 1/10th that number of stories each per day. The is no excuse. Even less so for spelling mistakes.
While health care in the US is not as socialized...thus the damage they do to themselves is costing others.
True enough, but why does this not apply to alcohol, which causes deaths of both the imbibers and often innocent bystanders should they be in control of a vehicle, a gun, or a frying pan? Also, I think many drug-related deaths are due to the illegality of the supply -- low quality and contamination casuing complications, dirty needles causing hepatitis and AIDS; excessive prices leading to crime and self-neglect to pay for them.
fter all, a CD-ROM drive from 10 years ago is pretty much obsolete.
Only in that it isn't a burner; CDROMS are in the same format now as then. To play music, VCDs, or install software from a CD they stil work fine. Yes, it's going to take longer to install an OS from your 2x drive, but how often does a normal person do that -- even a geek is unlikely to do it more than once or twice a year. Maybe gamers who run off the CD will be frustrated, but there are several "virtual CD" apps that solve that problem by using the hard disk (assuming your hard disk isn't also 10 years old...)
The best solution would be that the original author retains the copyright, but only LICENSES the work to publishers and others to sell and distribute for profit.
That is in fact how it usually operates now, at least for books. (In "works for hire" the copyright belongs to the company that commissioned it.)
The usual author's contract gives the publisher rights to exclusively publish a work (say in a specific country). The author may retain foreign, paperback, movie rights and sell them separately.
There are various termination clauses, including one that the rights revert to the author after it has been out of print for a specified peiod (often one year).
Although these new drives seem to give better reliability..
The drives tested may be "new", but MO disks have been around for maybe 10 years. They were standard for Mac DTP use here (Hong Kong) at least. Recently cheap CD burners are taking their place for that (and I managed to pick up a freebie as a result).
Too bad they never got the momentum of Iomega's Zip drives with PCs. Though MO disks are half or less the price, the drives were several times more expensive. Then Iomega's QC went in the toilet and you couldn't trust Zip drives at all. If Fujitsu had tried to get the price down and kept reliability they might have become standard in PCs to replace the floppy. The small, rugged cartridge and 128 to 640 MB storage was compelling, the drives just too expensive.
we're moving increasingly towards a society where we don't have to interact with any other people. In this new model, you can go to the store and don't need to talk to a cashier or the nice man at the butcher counter.
Yes, but china will not act like terrorists. They will flat out attack. In which case, few commercial buildings can be designed to withstand a war. There is a difference.
Sure, but I was responding to your statement that "This will lead to enemies", which imples that it doesn't already. As for terrorism, if it it does come to hostilities, the Mainland surely has thousands of sleepers in place that would perform sabotage and random acts of destruction. Though in wartime it's usually given a different name than "terrorism".
Of course the towers could be damaged or fall in a war as well, but they will probably not be deliberately targeted with some kind of terrorist attacks.
Yes, but I was responding to your more general statement that I quoted "nobody is going to revenge them for what they didn't do". On the dipomatic front, for instance, they use their influence at the UN to keep Taiwan out of the WHO, which was a very big deal during SARS a few months ago.
Taiwan is doing well finacially, and yes, after a time they will be arragant as well. This will lead to enemies.
Taiwan has had a mortal enemy in Beijing since 1949. They survived first because Mao had enoug trouble on the Mainland and decided to let them wait, later because the US supported and armed Taiwan, and now as well because Taiwan pumps billions into China's economy. But the PLA never ceases to build up arms for an assault across the Taiwan Strait and periodicaly rattles their sabres.
You know what? Nobody is going to revenge them for what they didn't do.
Perhaps you've heard of the Beijing government that periodically threatens to invade Taiwan (for instance if they elect a president the MAinland doesn't like)? The one armed with nuclear weapons? (That's real ones, H-bombs and ICBMs, not pretend "WMDs".)
If you have a US produced "hour long" programme then there is only actually 42-43 minutes of content. So it's a choice between either a 50 minute slot and the 7.5 minutes of adverts. Or an hour long slot including, in addition, 10 minutes of station promotion and trailers.
There are other choices. On Australia's ABC, (modelled on the BBC) they just ran 45 min shows, started the next one when it finished. So you could watch two "hour" shows in 90 minutes. You don't have to religiously keep to o'clock and half-past start time, especially later at night. Or if you do, you can run a short news show, a cartoon or other short feature.
Because they worked. The original parallel zip at work is still going after over 5 years of daily use in a dusty office. I bought two internal Zip drives later and they both failed within months with the infamous click of death.
She's also got her old Mac (upgraded to 1 MB RAM), which she keeps because a few programs never did work under MacOS 7.x,
Try minivMac, a Mac emulator. This emulates the Mac plus, and runs old Mac OSs (Systems 1 through 7) and software on new Macs (and PCs). Other sites like this have the necessary ROMs and OS images, or you can make these on her old Mac.
and the monitor and graphics are a bit wonky
You can get a Mac-VGA converter for less than $10 and use any PC monitor.
My son still has a power mac 6100 in his room, runs some games and stuff on it. It functions, you just have to boot it twice for the monitor to get a signal for some reason.
Dead PRAM battery. Does it have the right date? If it's 1956, definitely. Not hard to replace, but it's not a common size -- 1/2 AA 3.6 V. The Apple branded ones are extortionately priced; I believe some chain stores like Radio Shack have a compatible one.
There is a capacitor charged by the battery that kick starts the machine. If the battery is dead, turning it on for a few moments charges it from the power supply, then when you power on again it boots.
I'm not going to dump $1500 or so for the priviledge of getting some overpriced, proprietary hardware platform.
You can get a new eMac for $799. These are like the original iMacs, but with a G4 and a 17" CRT monitor. Maybe $500 used. Or get a used G4 tower for a few hundred and share your existing monitor.
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No it doesn't. If it IS a security violation, the defense won't stand up. Slippery slope arguments are logically silly and when applied very unjust (punishing those who do no harm to discourage others from more extreme acts).
So what? It's not a bank, a nuclear research facility, the changing rooms of Moulin Rouge; it's an office building. And if you look at the actual photo, it wasn't even that, but the interior of a truck making a delivery.
MS, through hiring staff as "permanent temps" can fire them for no cause, so there is no legal recourse But what harm could conceivably be done to MS I can't imagine. It's hardly a secret that MS uses Macs, since they have a Mac Business Unit to port Office.
And in all the places I've worked, no one has ever cared what snaps anyone took or what they did with them. I sense somehow that the "terrorism" angle is the subtext. It's become an excellent pretext for stomping on people's rights.
The PC of whatever form factor is silly as a primary source of radio-type sound. Can it replace an earphone FM radio as large as a cigarette lighter? Can I take one trekking in Nepal to listen to the BBC World Service on shortwave? Can it run for days on 2 AA batteries?
This is a fucking blog, not a professional news site. Treat it as such.
No, it's not a blog. It has editors who collect salaries, supposedly for editing. I used to edit a news site, posted 80 stories a day, and I was mortified if there was a dupe (same story from different source), and pulled it immediately. Here the editors post 1/10th that number of stories each per day. The is no excuse. Even less so for spelling mistakes.
True enough, but why does this not apply to alcohol, which causes deaths of both the imbibers and often innocent bystanders should they be in control of a vehicle, a gun, or a frying pan? Also, I think many drug-related deaths are due to the illegality of the supply -- low quality and contamination casuing complications, dirty needles causing hepatitis and AIDS; excessive prices leading to crime and self-neglect to pay for them.
Only in that it isn't a burner; CDROMS are in the same format now as then. To play music, VCDs, or install software from a CD they stil work fine. Yes, it's going to take longer to install an OS from your 2x drive, but how often does a normal person do that -- even a geek is unlikely to do it more than once or twice a year. Maybe gamers who run off the CD will be frustrated, but there are several "virtual CD" apps that solve that problem by using the hard disk (assuming your hard disk isn't also 10 years old...)
Are the guys at MS indirectly saying that Windows is not stable?
No, like the guys at Apple, they're saying OS X is more stable than Mac OS (9 and lower).
That is in fact how it usually operates now, at least for books. (In "works for hire" the copyright belongs to the company that commissioned it.)
The usual author's contract gives the publisher rights to exclusively publish a work (say in a specific country). The author may retain foreign, paperback, movie rights and sell them separately. There are various termination clauses, including one that the rights revert to the author after it has been out of print for a specified peiod (often one year).
RTFA and DO THE FUCKING ARITHMETIC.
The drives tested may be "new", but MO disks have been around for maybe 10 years. They were standard for Mac DTP use here (Hong Kong) at least. Recently cheap CD burners are taking their place for that (and I managed to pick up a freebie as a result). Too bad they never got the momentum of Iomega's Zip drives with PCs. Though MO disks are half or less the price, the drives were several times more expensive. Then Iomega's QC went in the toilet and you couldn't trust Zip drives at all. If Fujitsu had tried to get the price down and kept reliability they might have become standard in PCs to replace the floppy. The small, rugged cartridge and 128 to 640 MB storage was compelling, the drives just too expensive.
Who talks to the checkout clerk anyway?
Sure, but I was responding to your statement that "This will lead to enemies", which imples that it doesn't already. As for terrorism, if it it does come to hostilities, the Mainland surely has thousands of sleepers in place that would perform sabotage and random acts of destruction. Though in wartime it's usually given a different name than "terrorism".
Yes, but I was responding to your more general statement that I quoted "nobody is going to revenge them for what they didn't do". On the dipomatic front, for instance, they use their influence at the UN to keep Taiwan out of the WHO, which was a very big deal during SARS a few months ago.
Taiwan has had a mortal enemy in Beijing since 1949. They survived first because Mao had enoug trouble on the Mainland and decided to let them wait, later because the US supported and armed Taiwan, and now as well because Taiwan pumps billions into China's economy. But the PLA never ceases to build up arms for an assault across the Taiwan Strait and periodicaly rattles their sabres.
Perhaps you've heard of the Beijing government that periodically threatens to invade Taiwan (for instance if they elect a president the MAinland doesn't like)? The one armed with nuclear weapons? (That's real ones, H-bombs and ICBMs, not pretend "WMDs".)
A normal American wouldn't have any idea how tall a "half km" was.
There are other choices. On Australia's ABC, (modelled on the BBC) they just ran 45 min shows, started the next one when it finished. So you could watch two "hour" shows in 90 minutes. You don't have to religiously keep to o'clock and half-past start time, especially later at night. Or if you do, you can run a short news show, a cartoon or other short feature.
Sounds like a more gory version of Schrodinger's cat execution machine.
Because they worked. The original parallel zip at work is still going after over 5 years of daily use in a dusty office. I bought two internal Zip drives later and they both failed within months with the infamous click of death.
My bicycle is 23 years old...
Try minivMac, a Mac emulator. This emulates the Mac plus, and runs old Mac OSs (Systems 1 through 7) and software on new Macs (and PCs). Other sites like this have the necessary ROMs and OS images, or you can make these on her old Mac.
and the monitor and graphics are a bit wonky
You can get a Mac-VGA converter for less than $10 and use any PC monitor.
Dead PRAM battery. Does it have the right date? If it's 1956, definitely. Not hard to replace, but it's not a common size -- 1/2 AA 3.6 V. The Apple branded ones are extortionately priced; I believe some chain stores like Radio Shack have a compatible one.
Get the manual from this site. You can buy the battery at Macbatteries.com.
There is a capacitor charged by the battery that kick starts the machine. If the battery is dead, turning it on for a few moments charges it from the power supply, then when you power on again it boots.
I believe the topic was not dollars per MHz runing an arbitrary OS, but a box that would run OSX.
Most of those who make or consume "scifi" use that term. The idea is we let them keep that and use "SF" for the real thing.
You can get a new eMac for $799. These are like the original iMacs, but with a G4 and a 17" CRT monitor. Maybe $500 used. Or get a used G4 tower for a few hundred and share your existing monitor.