Some wanker modded the original "dupe" post down as "offtopic".
As today's FA in the Nation notes, this story was originally in Israel's Haaretz, and was covered here in February:
Posted by
michael
on Friday February 21, @12:50AM from the info-for-the-lowest-bidder dept.
l2718 writes "Ha'aretz has a disquieting report on a presentation made by eBay's senior counsel to law-enforcement officials. Apparently eBay logs all user interaction with them, and will happily hand over all the information to any law-enforcement official without a warrant -- a fax is quite sufficient. He is actually proud of their 'flexible' privacy policy."
The issue is not so much why the editors are so braindead as to repost the same story five months later (they don't give a shit, is the obvious answer), but why there has been no reaction at all in that time, except for the geek ravings here that no one takes any notice of. Ebay got away with it, and who knows how many other companies are doing the same without admitting it, or having anyone stand up to them.
They get to an interview... "Do you have experience with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Access?" "No sir, but I have used Kblah, OOBlah, and StarBlah."
Wrong answer, Say "Yes".
If it's a technical job requiring you to have deep knowledge of VBA macros, of course you actually have to study it. Otherwise, using the K* and OO gives you almost exactly the same experience. If lying bothers you, (and this is trivial on the scale of job interview lying), spend an afernoon playing with someone's Windows PC and create and print a few documents, add up your shopping list, sort it alphabetically. You now have all the experience you need to do 99% of real world MSOffice work.
You don't have to "study" MS Office for six years to learn how to write a memo, or add up a column of figures. I worked it out, the closest I came to a computer at school was a pocket calculator.
On your resume, you write "experienced with MS Office and Linux office software". Or reverse the order if you think they'd prefer to hear that. You now have one more ability that may help you get the job.
Harrison Ford will always be Indiana Jones, plain and simple.
In the Young Indiana Jones TV series, there were three actors playing the role: Corey Carrier, ages 8 to 12, Sean Patrick Flanery, 17 to 21 and George Hall in his 90s. I thought Flanery was quite good...
Where would we be without the Shannara books? Tolkien didn't publish enough for the voracious readers and we wanted more in the same genre that was invented by those books!
The same can be said for the original sword & sorcery books created by the Conan the Barbarian series (which actually generously allowed many authors to write books on it), and the spy novels that started with the James Bond books (yes, they were books first).
Extending this, actually Tolkien didn't create his "genre" out of thin air, he consciously recycled elements of Norse, Finnish and other legends; as well as the literary fantasy novels that had been written for the previous century or more. And similarly Robert E Howard's Conan (the "generously allowed other authors" bit was from his estate, because he died at 36 after a brief but very intense career as a pulp writer) also was following a well-marked trail in the dime novels and adventure magazines of the early 20th C.
None of these authors or series (including Fleming's Bond) could have existed if the now largely forgotten "inventors" of the genres they became an epitome of had been able to lay claim to the whole field of "similar" characters and situations. Literature is a conversation, books follow other books. The Potter series itself is not an original concept; just well executed and superbly marketed. Allowing a corporation to bully anyone else from writing in a particular genre is repugnant. Basically I think this is due more to the movie and associated products -- like Star Wars, (with barely an original concept in the whole series) every little McDonald's plastic toy has a little (R) and TM. Fine -- but when it comes to literature, if it's not plagiarism, leave them alone.
Yes, the United States is the only country to use a nuclear weapon, but we used it responsibly and continue to use our power responsibly. Saddam would try and drop it on DC.
For God's sake, Americans are so fucking full of themselves.
Why on earth would Saddam have dropped a bomb on DC? 15 minutes later Baghdad is toast. If he had ambitions in that direction, he DID have bio war capacity, and could have unleashed smallpox and killed millions with a good chance of getting away with it -- but he didn't.
America used their bomb "responsibly"? You destroyed two cities full of civilians. It was revenge.
Calling the dictatorships in the middle east "international terrorists" is accurate. Saddam attempted to assassinate Bush (version 1.0). He also manufactured WMD (whether or not they are still there is irrelevant, there are numerous reports throughout the 90s that showed they were). Iraq = terrorists
Recall GWB moved the war forward a couple of days when he ordered the strike on the house where Saddam was reported to be staying. I.E, he tried to assassinate him. As for the WMD, well how many months has the US been in control of Iraq and not found the slightest evidence of them? Saddam was an evil dictator, he oppressed his own people, and went to war with his neighbours. But that's not "terrorism". Certainly, it wasn't terrorism against the US, and years of frantic digging have failed to find any evidence linking Saddam with any terrorists who operated against the US. He's not an idiot, he has a very strong sense of self-preservation and knew that attacking the US in any way would get him nothing but grief -- attacking Israel gets him points with the fundamantalists; though he could care less about religion personally.
Yes, becasue this is just a concept, not a product. They have developed a technology that includes a tracking chip (seems to be optical). They are touting for printer manufacturers to actually make a printer. So don't look to buy one for a couple of years, if ever.
Stop using POP3 and move to IMAP instead. Then you can choose what parts of an email are actually downloaded. Better yet, you can nuke those 110k mails directly without opening them.
Dammit - stop attaching files in the first place. Instead, post them somewhere
In particular, don't attach Word files. The vast majority of these could simply have the page or two of text pasted into the email message. Much easier to file and keep track of than a huge pile of Word documents. I'd like to say just use ASCII text, don't waste everyone's time dicking around with fonts and colours for simple correspondence, not to mention cute images.
>>"Perpetual motion is proven impossible."
>Submarines, airplanes and rockets were all thought to be impossible at one time too.
There is a big difference between "thought to be impossible" and "proven imposible". And the specific cases you mentioned, the "imposisbility" referred to practical engineering rather than theory. Just as I could say that it is impossible to make a battery that runs a car for a week -- it is impossible now, but that implies nothing about future technology.
billg sez: "I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous."
Yes, since he's already the richest man in history. Also, I'm sure he's lying when he says he "receives a lot of spam". If he doesn't have an effective filtering system (including a human secretary to screen all the hate mail and other crap) I'll eat my hat.
* = except their own spam and their VAR partners and other 3rd parties.
billg says: 'Our proposal is to create a regulatory "safe harbor" status for senders who comply with guidelines.... Compliance would be confirmed by a self-regulatory body. Senders who do not comply would have to insert an "ADV:" label, for advertisement, in the subject line of all unsolicited commercial e-mail.'
So for members of this "self-regulating body" will NOT have to label their spam. But they expect the penis enlargers and Nigerians to do that? Completely futile.
The system that could come out of this is one where by default all email not certified by MS is bounced. Thus everyone who wants their mail to get through must buy a certificate from MS.
Ick...if you're going to do that, why bother buying a multi-megapixel camera?
If he's only using it for viewing on screen, why make hi res (priting quality) images at all? Hi res isn't better, it takes longer to render and you leave it to the vagaries of whatever viewer you use what information is thrown away on display. If you are going to print it too, that is different. I noticed on a friend's camea it had an "email" setting, which actually created a low res as well as, rather than instead of. This wasn't useful as he was already limited by his flash card capacity.
I set up Dad's computer this way...the large files from the digital camera get cut down to somewhere around 16-32K each, which is better for sending them out over a dial-up connection
Even simpler, look at the setup for the camera. Probably you can set it to make "web" images (low res) by default, rather than print (hi res) ones. That also allows it to save many more images in its chip.
The Wayback only has a few text pages, not the actual files hosted.
Here's the text of the opening page; it did have ROMS, as well as manuals. So unfortunately it was blatantly illegal -- though definitely done for love, not money.
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Some of us have things called student loans which make it easier.
If you're living on student loans of course you'd travel to Las Vegas and rent a hotel room, in the hope of getting a free T-shirt, some mousepads and AOL CDROMS. All that stuff must be worth at least $9.75.
Have a look at the CDRs that come with any printers, scanners, webcams, etc and you will find at least some basic image editing software.
Our scanner came bundled with Adobe PhotoDeluxe, (ie, free as in beer). It is a very user-friendly simplified PhotoShop. It was perfect for the web graphics we were doing. And its native files were PhotoShop compatible in case you need to pass them on.
A slight step up is Adobe PhotoShop Elements, which is very cheap and you might find that bundled too.
Old versions of PhotoShop are very cheap (on Ebay, and elsewhere). Two or more versions behind are pocket money, and may entitle you to cheap upgrades if you get the paperwork.
Hasn't the CIA posted al Qaeda photos and videos they found in Kabul? Surely they've violated Osama's copyrights. He could just send a notice to Hatch's Pirate-terminator (TM) and have smoke coming out of Langley's basement....
Even better, if Hatch's suggested remedy of remote destruction of computers violating IP was legal, the owner of the script in question would be entitled to DESTROY THE US SENATE.GOV SERVER.
I really don't see what the big deal is if people realize that USB 2.0 != high speed (480 MBit/sec).
But people don't; that's the whole point. One might as well sell a 15 year old copy of Wordstar 4 and label it as a "Windows word procesor". It is too, if you run it in a DOS Window.
All people posting that an article is a dupe should be modded down and beaten with a mainframe manual. There is nothing more redundant than seeing that all the time.
SInce it IS a dupe, you can just close the page, or go back to the orignal version to read the cooments ther, without such distractions -- the earlier one is still open for comments, BTW.
I see lots of "It's a dupe" posts as a way to let the "editors" know that it does annoy people. Just one post lets them ignore that. Though they still blow us off, at least they can't say no one cares.
Anyway, I wouldn't blame the posters -- unlike the editors who have no excuse at all for being so unprofessional, each poster quite likely was looking at a page without the other dupe posts, not everyone refreshes the page every 30 seconds. Most of these are, or will soon be modded "redundant". You can modify your prefs so that a single redundant mod makes it disappear, and you will remain ignorant that you are reading a Groundhog story.
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As today's FA in the Nation notes, this story was originally in Israel's Haaretz, and was covered here in February:
The issue is not so much why the editors are so braindead as to repost the same story five months later (they don't give a shit, is the obvious answer), but why there has been no reaction at all in that time, except for the geek ravings here that no one takes any notice of. Ebay got away with it, and who knows how many other companies are doing the same without admitting it, or having anyone stand up to them.Wrong answer, Say "Yes".
If it's a technical job requiring you to have deep knowledge of VBA macros, of course you actually have to study it. Otherwise, using the K* and OO gives you almost exactly the same experience. If lying bothers you, (and this is trivial on the scale of job interview lying), spend an afernoon playing with someone's Windows PC and create and print a few documents, add up your shopping list, sort it alphabetically. You now have all the experience you need to do 99% of real world MSOffice work.
You don't have to "study" MS Office for six years to learn how to write a memo, or add up a column of figures. I worked it out, the closest I came to a computer at school was a pocket calculator.
On your resume, you write "experienced with MS Office and Linux office software". Or reverse the order if you think they'd prefer to hear that. You now have one more ability that may help you get the job.
In the Young Indiana Jones TV series, there were three actors playing the role: Corey Carrier, ages 8 to 12, Sean Patrick Flanery, 17 to 21 and George Hall in his 90s. I thought Flanery was quite good...
Try Ursula Le Guins' Earthsea series.
The same can be said for the original sword & sorcery books created by the Conan the Barbarian series (which actually generously allowed many authors to write books on it), and the spy novels that started with the James Bond books (yes, they were books first).
Extending this, actually Tolkien didn't create his "genre" out of thin air, he consciously recycled elements of Norse, Finnish and other legends; as well as the literary fantasy novels that had been written for the previous century or more. And similarly Robert E Howard's Conan (the "generously allowed other authors" bit was from his estate, because he died at 36 after a brief but very intense career as a pulp writer) also was following a well-marked trail in the dime novels and adventure magazines of the early 20th C.
None of these authors or series (including Fleming's Bond) could have existed if the now largely forgotten "inventors" of the genres they became an epitome of had been able to lay claim to the whole field of "similar" characters and situations. Literature is a conversation, books follow other books. The Potter series itself is not an original concept; just well executed and superbly marketed. Allowing a corporation to bully anyone else from writing in a particular genre is repugnant. Basically I think this is due more to the movie and associated products -- like Star Wars, (with barely an original concept in the whole series) every little McDonald's plastic toy has a little (R) and TM. Fine -- but when it comes to literature, if it's not plagiarism, leave them alone.
The name was probably the publisher's idea, admittedly a bit sleazy. And if it was illegal to be a hack writer....
For God's sake, Americans are so fucking full of themselves.
Why on earth would Saddam have dropped a bomb on DC? 15 minutes later Baghdad is toast. If he had ambitions in that direction, he DID have bio war capacity, and could have unleashed smallpox and killed millions with a good chance of getting away with it -- but he didn't. America used their bomb "responsibly"? You destroyed two cities full of civilians. It was revenge.
Recall GWB moved the war forward a couple of days when he ordered the strike on the house where Saddam was reported to be staying. I.E, he tried to assassinate him. As for the WMD, well how many months has the US been in control of Iraq and not found the slightest evidence of them? Saddam was an evil dictator, he oppressed his own people, and went to war with his neighbours. But that's not "terrorism". Certainly, it wasn't terrorism against the US, and years of frantic digging have failed to find any evidence linking Saddam with any terrorists who operated against the US. He's not an idiot, he has a very strong sense of self-preservation and knew that attacking the US in any way would get him nothing but grief -- attacking Israel gets him points with the fundamantalists; though he could care less about religion personally.
- Traditional printers has some sort of paper-feeding mechanism
- Beem over the document to your printer
English isn't their native language, but Swedes usually speak better English than most Americans (certainly better than our esteemed editors)...Yes, becasue this is just a concept, not a product. They have developed a technology that includes a tracking chip (seems to be optical). They are touting for printer manufacturers to actually make a printer. So don't look to buy one for a couple of years, if ever.
You can do that with POP3.
In particular, don't attach Word files. The vast majority of these could simply have the page or two of text pasted into the email message. Much easier to file and keep track of than a huge pile of Word documents. I'd like to say just use ASCII text, don't waste everyone's time dicking around with fonts and colours for simple correspondence, not to mention cute images.
>Submarines, airplanes and rockets were all thought to be impossible at one time too.
There is a big difference between "thought to be impossible" and "proven imposible". And the specific cases you mentioned, the "imposisbility" referred to practical engineering rather than theory. Just as I could say that it is impossible to make a battery that runs a car for a week -- it is impossible now, but that implies nothing about future technology.
billg sez: "I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous."
Yes, since he's already the richest man in history. Also, I'm sure he's lying when he says he "receives a lot of spam". If he doesn't have an effective filtering system (including a human secretary to screen all the hate mail and other crap) I'll eat my hat.
He never said that. If you think he really did, perhaps you have a citation other than someone else's unsourced "quote"?
billg says: 'Our proposal is to create a regulatory "safe harbor" status for senders who comply with guidelines.... Compliance would be confirmed by a self-regulatory body. Senders who do not comply would have to insert an "ADV:" label, for advertisement, in the subject line of all unsolicited commercial e-mail.'
So for members of this "self-regulating body" will NOT have to label their spam. But they expect the penis enlargers and Nigerians to do that? Completely futile.
The system that could come out of this is one where by default all email not certified by MS is bounced. Thus everyone who wants their mail to get through must buy a certificate from MS.
If he's only using it for viewing on screen, why make hi res (priting quality) images at all? Hi res isn't better, it takes longer to render and you leave it to the vagaries of whatever viewer you use what information is thrown away on display. If you are going to print it too, that is different. I noticed on a friend's camea it had an "email" setting, which actually created a low res as well as, rather than instead of. This wasn't useful as he was already limited by his flash card capacity.
Even simpler, look at the setup for the camera. Probably you can set it to make "web" images (low res) by default, rather than print (hi res) ones. That also allows it to save many more images in its chip.
The Wayback only has a few text pages, not the actual files hosted.
Here's the text of the opening page; it did have ROMS, as well as manuals. So unfortunately it was blatantly illegal -- though definitely done for love, not money.
If you're living on student loans of course you'd travel to Las Vegas and rent a hotel room, in the hope of getting a free T-shirt, some mousepads and AOL CDROMS. All that stuff must be worth at least $9.75.
Have a look at the CDRs that come with any printers, scanners, webcams, etc and you will find at least some basic image editing software.
Our scanner came bundled with Adobe PhotoDeluxe, (ie, free as in beer). It is a very user-friendly simplified PhotoShop. It was perfect for the web graphics we were doing. And its native files were PhotoShop compatible in case you need to pass them on.
A slight step up is Adobe PhotoShop Elements, which is very cheap and you might find that bundled too.
Old versions of PhotoShop are very cheap (on Ebay, and elsewhere). Two or more versions behind are pocket money, and may entitle you to cheap upgrades if you get the paperwork.
Hasn't the CIA posted al Qaeda photos and videos they found in Kabul? Surely they've violated Osama's copyrights. He could just send a notice to Hatch's Pirate-terminator (TM) and have smoke coming out of Langley's basement....
Even better, if Hatch's suggested remedy of remote destruction of computers violating IP was legal, the owner of the script in question would be entitled to DESTROY THE US SENATE.GOV SERVER.
But people don't; that's the whole point. One might as well sell a 15 year old copy of Wordstar 4 and label it as a "Windows word procesor". It is too, if you run it in a DOS Window.
SInce it IS a dupe, you can just close the page, or go back to the orignal version to read the cooments ther, without such distractions -- the earlier one is still open for comments, BTW.
I see lots of "It's a dupe" posts as a way to let the "editors" know that it does annoy people. Just one post lets them ignore that. Though they still blow us off, at least they can't say no one cares.
Anyway, I wouldn't blame the posters -- unlike the editors who have no excuse at all for being so unprofessional, each poster quite likely was looking at a page without the other dupe posts, not everyone refreshes the page every 30 seconds. Most of these are, or will soon be modded "redundant". You can modify your prefs so that a single redundant mod makes it disappear, and you will remain ignorant that you are reading a Groundhog story.