In some other countries this situation wouldn't have arisen. I mean the countries where the argument
"it's been our policy so far so we'll do it to you too, even that you've shown us through sheer logic it's stupid" can't be used by a sane person claiming to be a professional. I don't know how difficult it is to change the custom of treating the argument "it's our policy, so it's beyond the idea of being ever changed" in the U.S. (I've lived in Russia and Israel for a while.)
While in the US it's probably next to impossible to get out of the situation like this when the words "our policy" have been pronounced (I mean, other than trying to do it through a lawyer which is probably not a good idea if one wants to continue his career at the place), I believe that it's still possible to find a place that does value the specialists just for their professional background.
Personally, I find the idea of credit check as a condition for building employer/employee relationship very insulting. Even setting aside the issues of people with zero credit history because they're new or because they prefer living with a positive balance on their account, I can imagine descent people have nasty spots in their credit history. I know very good professionals who are amazing (friendly & dependable) people, who had severe credit problems because they had gotten into very nasty family health issues in the U.S. In this country (IMHO, of course), noone (aside from very rich people) can be protected from this or racket-like legal action shaking money out of normal people by just forcing them to defend their case when they hurt noone.
(This is one of the reasons why I wouldn't like my kids to grow up here and why I have never attempted to achieve permanent residency here.) I'm not saying the U.S. is bad in general, I'm just saying that for me the cons outweigh the pros.
I would have refused that job unless the guys were sane enough to take my argument and take back their stupid "policy" issues at least in my case. If they don't respect my privacy concerns in this matter, they can go hire someone else. My current employer didn't ask me these questions, and this is actually the 1st time (this article) that I've learnt this happens. I mean, I could have imagined something like this in the banking industry, or accounting (maybe...), but not IT.
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I think there is also another aspect in it. You know, sometimes a child doesn't like a new hi-tech super-complicated talking doll or toy airplane because it's too detailed and leaves no room for the phantasy to add the missing details. The best loved toys are sometimes those that hardly have any more than basic hints to what it is - because with them the imagination plays really wild. It may be that when a designer creates a too complicated and detailed FX-laden game, not only the imagination bond charm is lost for the end user, but also for the designer as well!
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I've always been amazed at the marvelous art
of the Spectrum game designers. Cramped into a 8-bit
environment with really sucking video, they managed
to create very addictive games, with really non-trivial gaming ideas. (When you don't have too much resources to waste, every bit of your game better be brilliant).
Now the newer generation
computer games have all those fancy video effects, tons
of multimedia played in your face, but the signal to noise ration is much lower IMHO than was on Spectrum. Kinda like the modern
FX-laden films with no really good plot behind them compared to the old classics. Perhaps I'm getting old, but Spectrum emulation is one of the best gaming environments I've seen on Linux...
It's a very common mistake of admins in a lot of large corps to think that a firewall allows you to make the internal network "trusted". As long as you have at least one not-very-responsible-or-not-very-competent person with admin access to his own workstation compromising it, voluntarily or not, you effectively build grounds for a tunnel through the firewall.
One solution is to split the intranet into a lot of untrusted small networks with no mutual trust.
As long as one gets massive attacks like the one in the article, it means the split was not done, or not done into small enough networks.
The Dell's online computer purchases, in the
"educational" section, only offer Windows as
the O.S. [Last verified - about a month ago,
when my friend from an American university whose
IT dept prefers Dell computers to purchase from
the scientific research grants money asked
me to help him select his future computer config.]
Neither the "no-OS-gimme-refund" or
a prepackaged Linux option is available. How
does this coincide with the present Dell attempts
to position itself as a friend of Linux?
Agreed wrt the clients, but definitely the/. submission suggested more. "A definite *must read* for anyone concerned about security...and that should be everyone!" - that doesn't say "unless you're a geek with at least basic knowledge of security vs secrecy issues". This plus the big name (Diffie's) made me RTFA which I probably wouldn't have if I knew who it actually is aimed at.
Depending on what you call reliably.
When somebody's transponder is not working,
they still get a primary radar target on their
screen (one without the reference to the particular
plane, its flight plan and, most important, without any info on its altitude). They still know its position and they usually make a pretty good guess as to what broader type of the aircraft it is judging on the groundspeed and maneuvers (i.e. they can tell a glider from a 757:-) ). And they do issue traffic alerts to other traffic (saying things like "[aircraft callsign], [ATC facility callsign], traffic at 12 o'clock, 5 miles, altitude unknown, primary target". Now if they have a NOTAM that about this time at this place an unmanned balloon is being launched, you can be sure the controller that has this target will guess right that here it comes.
Transponder is an active component interrogated by the secondary radar (its responses are correlated
with the primary radar responses by the ATC computer that presents the data on the controller's screen). The primary radar is the
old radar they taught you about in school, which just shows things reflected off radar reflective material like metal.
Great thing a radar reflector was used in a project, eventhough the probability of some plane hitting it was probably very small. It did improve safety for the air traffic around the place.
The websites benefited through publicity/extra clicks/banners etc. In a sense, Igor may have gotten into a situation similar to the one Kevin had gotten into - although not having any obvious profit right away due to the acts incriminated to him, he will probably have some publicity that he'll be able to exploit (write a book later on?). Although I'd think one must be damn crazy to ever chose being a prison inmate for some dubious future profit. Kevin didn't want it for sure...
I'm not compfortable with a microwave radiation
already coming out of those cellphones/laptops.
The more speed they cram in there the more scary
it becomes... And most of the people
carry their cellphones right around THERE on their body. I am not very knowledgeable in the exact profiles of those gadgets emissions, but my gut feeling says to stay out of the guinea pigs it is all tried upon. I'd be happy to get proven wrong 40 yrs down the road when the cellular generation people start having grandkids!
Surely, this logic can also be applied to any new drug, but the key diff here is that may be taking a new drug as a last resort fighting a battle against a nasty disease - but are you running for your life that hard when you buy these gadgets??
Right. And actually, by having validated your address, you increase its value in the spammers' DBs, helping the spammer making more money when he resells it further!
What about admin. email? What about legit. mailing lists? And don't you think the spammers
will still have the ISPs shift the costs to
the end subscribers with things like relay raping?
Did you play the game on IBM 370? I played the "Klings" on "Iskra-226" - it took me 15 more years to hear about the Star Wars (or is that the Star Trek? call me ignorant, I don't own
a TV and don't intend to...) with its Klingon language (which I learned about in the first place by seeing the TeX metafont packages
for Klingon:-)
My favourite of the Soviet-era computing is
the BESM-6 - the last masterpiece work before
the "party line" called for the Western computers
cloning. This article (in Russian) has a photo of one, if we're talking pictures here...
I don't mind the artificial crap at all (the volume it occupies and the hassle of its removal). I am more concerned with the artificial fart to smell:-)
I wonder if the smells of the rotten food can be contained within the case of this "organic battery". If not, it will hardly be usable within an apartment, nor will a portable version (like many previous posters considered) be possible to sell.
I always interpreted GNU/Linux as
"GNU environment running over the Linux kernel".
It seems that 90% of the users care for the
front-end tools (such as their $EDITOR - vim
or emacs or whatever, their shell - like bash,
etc.) Most of this is GNU, so I think the FSF
does have a point about the GNU/Linux name.
I even say "GNU/Linux" myself in the context
of discussions dealing with the end-user environment.
OTOH, as far as I read into the FSF docs on the
"GNU/Linux" issue, they're *so* nerdy in the worse sense of the word and so much repeating themselves along the
lines, that I perfectly understand the frustration
of people like you who don't have the patience of hearing the rational points behind all the major rant.
I wonder how big was the percentage of the Australians that were found to put "CowboyNealism" or smth in that vein into this "Faith" column on the answer form?
I believe the parent post is saying that
because there is a record of the origin of the
code&ideas in the lkml, noone can claim
that there's been a wilful violation.
What you seem to be saying, though, and correctly, that if you legally (copyright-wise) copy someone's idea into your product you still infringe on someone's patent if the original code did.
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that spamassassin is all too keen on murder kills spam and non-spam
The principle of 1-800 resolution is the same in all SS7 variants (ANSI or ITU shouldn't matter here). If you disagree with the SS7-logic-based reasoning in my prev. post, I'd suggest you elaborate.
1-800 will know your number at the point of resolving the 1-800 to an actual number (SS7 SDP/SCP node has your number as an input to tell which one you should go to - say, based on your geo. proximity). Big direct marketers can surely own the application on the SCP and hence collect your data.
Of course, cid suppression might work on the final (non-signaling!) voice link to the guy you're dialing so, unless he is connected in real time to that SCP, he won't know instantly that it's you calling - such setups do happen in some callcenters.
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While in the US it's probably next to impossible to get out of the situation like this when the words "our policy" have been pronounced (I mean, other than trying to do it through a lawyer which is probably not a good idea if one wants to continue his career at the place), I believe that it's still possible to find a place that does value the specialists just for their professional background.
Personally, I find the idea of credit check as a condition for building employer/employee relationship very insulting. Even setting aside the issues of people with zero credit history because they're new or because they prefer living with a positive balance on their account, I can imagine descent people have nasty spots in their credit history. I know very good professionals who are amazing (friendly & dependable) people, who had severe credit problems because they had gotten into very nasty family health issues in the U.S. In this country (IMHO, of course), noone (aside from very rich people) can be protected from this or racket-like legal action shaking money out of normal people by just forcing them to defend their case when they hurt noone. (This is one of the reasons why I wouldn't like my kids to grow up here and why I have never attempted to achieve permanent residency here.) I'm not saying the U.S. is bad in general, I'm just saying that for me the cons outweigh the pros.
I would have refused that job unless the guys were sane enough to take my argument and take back their stupid "policy" issues at least in my case. If they don't respect my privacy concerns in this matter, they can go hire someone else. My current employer didn't ask me these questions, and this is actually the 1st time (this article) that I've learnt this happens. I mean, I could have imagined something like this in the banking industry, or accounting (maybe...), but not IT.
I think there is also another aspect in it. You know, sometimes a child doesn't like a new hi-tech super-complicated talking doll or toy airplane because it's too detailed and leaves no room for the phantasy to add the missing details. The best loved toys are sometimes those that hardly have any more than basic hints to what it is - because with them the imagination plays really wild. It may be that when a designer creates a too complicated and detailed FX-laden game, not only the imagination bond charm is lost for the end user, but also for the designer as well!
I've always been amazed at the marvelous art of the Spectrum game designers. Cramped into a 8-bit environment with really sucking video, they managed to create very addictive games, with really non-trivial gaming ideas. (When you don't have too much resources to waste, every bit of your game better be brilliant). Now the newer generation computer games have all those fancy video effects, tons of multimedia played in your face, but the signal to noise ration is much lower IMHO than was on Spectrum. Kinda like the modern FX-laden films with no really good plot behind them compared to the old classics. Perhaps I'm getting old, but Spectrum emulation is one of the best gaming environments I've seen on Linux...
As long as one gets massive attacks like the one in the article, it means the split was not done, or not done into small enough networks.
The Dell's online computer purchases, in the "educational" section, only offer Windows as the O.S. [Last verified - about a month ago, when my friend from an American university whose IT dept prefers Dell computers to purchase from the scientific research grants money asked me to help him select his future computer config.]
Neither the "no-OS-gimme-refund" or a prepackaged Linux option is available. How does this coincide with the present Dell attempts to position itself as a friend of Linux?
Agreed wrt the clients, but definitely the /. submission suggested more. "A definite *must read* for anyone concerned about security...and that should be everyone!" - that doesn't say "unless you're a geek with at least basic knowledge of security vs secrecy issues". This plus the big name (Diffie's) made me RTFA which I probably wouldn't have if I knew who it actually is aimed at.
Transponder is an active component interrogated by the secondary radar (its responses are correlated with the primary radar responses by the ATC computer that presents the data on the controller's screen). The primary radar is the old radar they taught you about in school, which just shows things reflected off radar reflective material like metal.
Great thing a radar reflector was used in a project, eventhough the probability of some plane hitting it was probably very small. It did improve safety for the air traffic around the place.
The websites benefited through publicity/extra clicks/banners etc. In a sense, Igor may have gotten into a situation similar to the one Kevin had gotten into - although not having any obvious profit right away due to the acts incriminated to him, he will probably have some publicity that he'll be able to exploit (write a book later on?). Although I'd think one must be damn crazy to ever chose being a prison inmate for some dubious future profit. Kevin didn't want it for sure...
as if we don't have enough water-related injustices/provocations/conflicts in the Middle East, here's another way to stir it up :(
Surely, this logic can also be applied to any new drug, but the key diff here is that may be taking a new drug as a last resort fighting a battle against a nasty disease - but are you running for your life that hard when you buy these gadgets??
Only he himself can. But I'm just hoping he did it for the better reason :)
Right. And actually, by having validated your address, you increase its value in the spammers' DBs, helping the spammer making more money when he resells it further!
You are not the 1st one with this idea, pity it doesn't work :-(
I am not sure this would be legal. And if it were, it would damage your credit history.
Nevertheless, I am sure her ex-husband divorced her because of her spam-related occupation, not because of her appearance!
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Did you play the game on IBM 370? I played the "Klings" on "Iskra-226" - it took me 15 more years to hear about the Star Wars (or is that the Star Trek? call me ignorant, I don't own a TV and don't intend to...) with its Klingon language (which I learned about in the first place by seeing the TeX metafont packages for Klingon :-)
My favourite of the Soviet-era computing is the BESM-6 - the last masterpiece work before the "party line" called for the Western computers cloning. This article (in Russian) has a photo of one, if we're talking pictures here...
I don't mind the artificial crap at all (the volume it occupies and the hassle of its removal). I am more concerned with the artificial fart to smell :-)
I wonder if the smells of the rotten food can be contained within the case of this "organic battery". If not, it will hardly be usable within an apartment, nor will a portable version (like many previous posters considered) be possible to sell.
I always interpreted GNU/Linux as "GNU environment running over the Linux kernel". It seems that 90% of the users care for the front-end tools (such as their $EDITOR - vim or emacs or whatever, their shell - like bash, etc.) Most of this is GNU, so I think the FSF does have a point about the GNU/Linux name. I even say "GNU/Linux" myself in the context of discussions dealing with the end-user environment.
OTOH, as far as I read into the FSF docs on the "GNU/Linux" issue, they're *so* nerdy in the worse sense of the word and so much repeating themselves along the lines, that I perfectly understand the frustration of people like you who don't have the patience of hearing the rational points behind all the major rant.
I wonder how big was the percentage of the Australians that were found to put "CowboyNealism" or smth in that vein into this "Faith" column on the answer form?
What you seem to be saying, though, and correctly, that if you legally (copyright-wise) copy someone's idea into your product you still infringe on someone's patent if the original code did.
that spamassassin
is all too keen on murder
kills spam and non-spam
The principle of 1-800 resolution is the same
in all SS7 variants (ANSI or ITU shouldn't matter here). If you disagree with the SS7-logic-based reasoning in my prev. post, I'd suggest you elaborate.
Of course, cid suppression might work on the final (non-signaling!) voice link to the guy you're dialing so, unless he is connected in real time to that SCP, he won't know instantly that it's you calling - such setups do happen in some callcenters.