I quit because the customers were so abusive and hostile that there were times I wanted to either drink myself into oblivion, or just drive off a cliff.
Seriously, if you ever tell anyone to go kill themselves because you are angry, I hope you get raped with a cactus.
Since when was it uncommon for someone allegedly involved (directly or otherwise) to be fingerprinted? So they made someone do it to a phone instead of an ink pad this time. What's the task difference here?
Here's the thing.
Say you're wanted for organized crime or terrorism charges. The cops get enough evidence to get an arrest warrant for you, and a search warrant for your properties. When they arrest you, you get fingerprinted. During your arrest, per the terms of their search warrant, they confiscate every electronic device in your house.
You weren't alone when they arrested you though. Your live in girlfriend Tina was there, as was your buddy Mike, and a friend of his, Chico. During your arrest, those three will most likely be searched for weapons, cuffed, have their names/ids ran, but this is not being arrested. This is temporary detainment pursuant to the execution of a search/arrest warrant. This won't show up on their criminal record. They won't be fingerprinted or interrogated. Once its determined that they do not have any weapons on them, or anything illegal found while searching for weapons, and don't have any arrest warrants, they will be let go. They'll let Tina grab her purse, after checking it for weapons, just like they'd let mike and chico grab their wallets had they left them laying somewhere, and things like clothing, jackets, shoes, etc. But nothing else.
The problem is, Tinas nice new iPhone 6 is sitting on the kitchen counter charging. It wasn't in her pocket or purse when they came in, so its confiscated pursuant to the search order.
Now, the police have your fingerprints, as you've been arrested, booked, and charged with a crime. The problem is, your fingerprints dont unlock Tinas phone. They wont just turn the phone over to Tina. It might have incriminating evidence on it. But Tina was never arrested or booked, so they do not have her fingerprints on file, so can not try to fool the phone with a copy of her fingerprints.
Try to get a contractor in to work on your house without paying some upfront. Try getting your car worked on at a shop without either paying upfront, or paying before you get your car back.
Welcome to the real world. Unlike in your fantasy world, people wont invest a lot of time, not to mention the years spent acquiring their knowledge, without some assurance that they will get paid for a project.
And you do pay for things you don't own. Unless every piece of software on your computer, from the bios, to the operating system, to the drivers and other software running on it are open source, you either paid for something you don't own, you paid for a license, or you pirated it. Which kinda negates your statement about paying for stuff.
It all depends on how the programmer does business, and what the terms of the job are.
If I buy a license for Windows 7, or vBulletin, I know I do not own the code to those. Sure, in one of them, windows, I have little/no access to the code, but in vBulletin, I have complete access to the code. Now based on the terms of the license agreement I agreed to when I purchased it, I am free to modify that code however I want, as long as I abide by the terms of the license, ie only running one instance of the software, and whatever other restrictions they have. This does not mean I own the code, other than any code I added to it while customizing it, nor does it mean I can sell it as my own.
Now, when it comes to freelance coding and the like, it depends on your agreement. As a freelance coder myself, granted I'm just small time compared to some, if I write a piece of software, and have it up for sale, any buyers get a limited license to use it. But if I am engaged to do a custom job, I generally turn over all rights to the source code when I am done, and license any of my custom libraries to them. When I do it this way though, they only get a limited maintenance agreement, such as only one installation, and I will only fix bugs that were in the original code. If the code has been modified at all, I will not touch it. If they want a more comprehensive maintenance agreement, they can license the code from me, and I will be happy to maintain it, as long as I am the only coder working on it.
I absolutely loathe it when another coder screws up code I have written, then the original customer expects me to fix it.
Google is paying the bandwidth costs for all those people that don't click through, so they are saving those news sites some money. And I'm betting a majority of the people who use google news, and the like, are more tech-smart than the average news reader, so odds are they have a ad blocker installed, like I do. So these sites wouldn't be all the extra ad revenue that they think they will.
Yeah, yeah yeah, I know, ad blockers hurt site's. Sure, that is true, but those annoying ass flash ad's with autoplaying sound, and those ads that cover the content, yeah, they make me want to hurt the sites owner. So I run a white list, sites I visit a lot, that dont have annoying ads, are whitelisted. And any site that runs adsense ads doesn't get blocked either.
And as to the news sites that are considering charging for their online access, well, I am betting they will be going out of business, or reversing their decision shortly after implementing that scam. Why would anyone pay to read a certain news papers website when they can get pretty much the same news somewhere else for free?
I can understand her anger at not being able to find a job, and yeah, pretty much all collages help graduates find jobs, but FFS, she should have picked a better major. I'm a geek, and I wont even go into a computer sciences or information tech, field, there are 10 times as many applicants than their are job openings in that field. 10 years ago, anyone with an IT or Comp Sci degree would get hired on the spot, these days, you might as well have a liberal arts degree.
true not everyone looses or has their phone stolen, I did, a rather nice phone too, filed a police report, the officer that did the report told me not to hold my breath, they get 50-100 reported stolen phones a week, and thats just the ones that get reported. In 1 town.
Location is probably one of the most important factors when starting a business like this, We had one start up in my town about a year ago, they had good ideas, Not only computer gaming, but also xbox's, ps2's, older console games, board games, d&d/MTG tables, and they actually sold food. But they went under in less than 6 months, why you ask? Location. They were on the corner of 2 very busy streets, in a bad area. Also, their parking lot was across said very busy streets, so not only did you need to worry about being in said bad area, you also needed to worry about getting ran over while walking to your car.
actually, per the article: In December 2000, a technician named James Kassenborg showed up, allegedly said that certain icons and files were not needed--and deleted all of Boyd's scripts and related projects when installing the connection. All the "screenplays" were on Boyd's personal computer, not on SBC's server. The stupid thing was letting a SBC "technician" anywhere near his computer if those "screenplays" were really worth the ammount they said they were.
other then the fact that, that was the stupidist thing i have ever read,
you do realise, that your "american" computer was built in tiwan right?
so, how do you go out in public with out getting shot for your stupid ways?
actually a lot of places have always on fax numbers,
the McDonalds i worked at in highschool did, my highschool did,
The 5 person Siding and Windows company i used to work for does,
The billion dollar worldwide corperation I currently work for has 4 different always on fax lines that I know of, probably more in different people's offices.
they also said that about cars, computers, video games, television, space flight, electric cars.
all those are still around, and probably will be for as long as we are.
I doubt blogging is going anywhere.
yeah, thats going to be real popular, untill there is a sensor malfunction and you take out the little old lady in the pinto stationwagon.
Those would have to be out for a few years before, and open source, before Id even begin to trust them.
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I quit because the customers were so abusive and hostile that there were times I wanted to either drink myself into oblivion, or just drive off a cliff.
Seriously, if you ever tell anyone to go kill themselves because you are angry, I hope you get raped with a cactus.
Since when was it uncommon for someone allegedly involved (directly or otherwise) to be fingerprinted? So they made someone do it to a phone instead of an ink pad this time. What's the task difference here?
Here's the thing.
Say you're wanted for organized crime or terrorism charges. The cops get enough evidence to get an arrest warrant for you, and a search warrant for your properties.
When they arrest you, you get fingerprinted. During your arrest, per the terms of their search warrant, they confiscate every electronic device in your house.
You weren't alone when they arrested you though. Your live in girlfriend Tina was there, as was your buddy Mike, and a friend of his, Chico.
During your arrest, those three will most likely be searched for weapons, cuffed, have their names/ids ran, but this is not being arrested. This is temporary detainment pursuant to the execution of a search/arrest warrant. This won't show up on their criminal record. They won't be fingerprinted or interrogated. Once its determined that they do not have any weapons on them, or anything illegal found while searching for weapons, and don't have any arrest warrants, they will be let go. They'll let Tina grab her purse, after checking it for weapons, just like they'd let mike and chico grab their wallets had they left them laying somewhere, and things like clothing, jackets, shoes, etc. But nothing else.
The problem is, Tinas nice new iPhone 6 is sitting on the kitchen counter charging. It wasn't in her pocket or purse when they came in, so its confiscated pursuant to the search order.
Now, the police have your fingerprints, as you've been arrested, booked, and charged with a crime. The problem is, your fingerprints dont unlock Tinas phone. They wont just turn the phone over to Tina. It might have incriminating evidence on it. But Tina was never arrested or booked, so they do not have her fingerprints on file, so can not try to fool the phone with a copy of her fingerprints.
That's the difference here.
Did they have Don Johnson with them?
That would have convinced me they were legit too...
What are you smoking?
Try to get a contractor in to work on your house without paying some upfront. Try getting your car worked on at a shop without either paying upfront, or paying before you get your car back.
Welcome to the real world. Unlike in your fantasy world, people wont invest a lot of time, not to mention the years spent acquiring their knowledge, without some assurance that they will get paid for a project.
And you do pay for things you don't own. Unless every piece of software on your computer, from the bios, to the operating system, to the drivers and other software running on it are open source, you either paid for something you don't own, you paid for a license, or you pirated it. Which kinda negates your statement about paying for stuff.
Sorry, couldn't resist feeding the dirty troll.
It all depends on how the programmer does business, and what the terms of the job are.
If I buy a license for Windows 7, or vBulletin, I know I do not own the code to those. Sure, in one of them, windows, I have little/no access to the code, but in vBulletin, I have complete
access to the code. Now based on the terms of the license agreement I agreed to when I purchased it, I am free to modify that code however I want, as long as I abide by the terms of the license, ie only running one instance of the software, and whatever other restrictions they have. This does not mean I own the code, other than any code I added to it while customizing it, nor does it mean I can sell it as my own.
Now, when it comes to freelance coding and the like, it depends on your agreement.
As a freelance coder myself, granted I'm just small time compared to some, if I write a piece of software, and have it up for sale, any buyers get a limited license to use it.
But if I am engaged to do a custom job, I generally turn over all rights to the source code when I am done, and license any of my custom libraries to them. When I do it this way though,
they only get a limited maintenance agreement, such as only one installation, and I will only fix bugs that were in the original code. If the code has been modified at all, I will not touch it.
If they want a more comprehensive maintenance agreement, they can license the code from me, and I will be happy to maintain it, as long as I am the only coder working on it.
I absolutely loathe it when another coder screws up code I have written, then the original customer expects me to fix it.
I honestly don't see what the big deal is.
Google is paying the bandwidth costs for all those people that don't click through, so they are saving those news sites some money.
And I'm betting a majority of the people who use google news, and the like, are more tech-smart than the average news reader, so
odds are they have a ad blocker installed, like I do. So these sites wouldn't be all the extra ad revenue that they think they will.
Yeah, yeah yeah, I know, ad blockers hurt site's. Sure, that is true, but those annoying ass flash ad's with autoplaying sound, and those ads
that cover the content, yeah, they make me want to hurt the sites owner. So I run a white list, sites I visit a lot, that dont have annoying ads, are whitelisted.
And any site that runs adsense ads doesn't get blocked either.
And as to the news sites that are considering charging for their online access, well, I am betting they will be going out of business, or reversing their decision shortly
after implementing that scam. Why would anyone pay to read a certain news papers website when they can get pretty much the same news somewhere else for free?
What did you say?
Mal: "I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind you." (Zoe punches the thug out) "Drunks are so cute."
I can understand her anger at not being able to find a job,
and yeah, pretty much all collages help graduates find jobs, but FFS, she should have picked a better major.
I'm a geek, and I wont even go into a computer sciences or information tech, field, there are 10 times as many
applicants than their are job openings in that field. 10 years ago, anyone with an IT or Comp Sci degree would
get hired on the spot, these days, you might as well have a liberal arts degree.
true not everyone looses or has their phone stolen, I did, a rather nice phone too, filed a police report, the officer that did the report told me not to hold my breath, they get 50-100 reported stolen phones a week, and thats just the ones that get reported. In 1 town.
actually, most motels and hotels have free broadband internet access these days, atleast in the states
I know how you feel, most of the "news" posted on this site
I have already read on other sites, cnn, theregister, ect.
But I still keep coming back...
Location is probably one of the most important factors
when starting a business like this,
We had one start up in my town about a year ago, they had good ideas,
Not only computer gaming, but also xbox's, ps2's, older console games,
board games, d&d/MTG tables, and they actually sold food.
But they went under in less than 6 months, why you ask?
Location. They were on the corner of 2 very busy streets, in a bad area.
Also, their parking lot was across said very busy streets, so not only did
you need to worry about being in said bad area, you also needed to worry
about getting ran over while walking to your car.
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http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-p
It has built in wi-fi. SDIO Wi-Fi 802.11b
So if you have a laptop with wifi secured in your car, you could set it up to automatically download images from the camera when they are taken
actually, per the article:
In December 2000, a technician named James Kassenborg showed up, allegedly said that certain icons and files were not needed--and deleted all of Boyd's scripts and related projects when installing the connection.
All the "screenplays" were on Boyd's personal computer, not on SBC's server.
The stupid thing was letting a SBC "technician" anywhere near his computer if those "screenplays" were really worth the ammount they said they were.
they make you sign a waver saying they arnt responsible for lost information,
then wipe the hard drive and re-install windows, if they can.
How exactly is this Your Rights Online? unless said $4000 cat is a blogger, it has nothing to do with online as i see it.
the best way ive found yet is to back everything up to /dev/null
its incredibally fast and saves you on storage space for backup tapes.
maybe they used to fly north for the winter instead of south?
Does this mean that for a while, depending on how long it takes for the field to reverse that there will be no north or south magnetic pole?
other then the fact that, that was the stupidist thing i have ever read, you do realise, that your "american" computer was built in tiwan right? so, how do you go out in public with out getting shot for your stupid ways?
actually a lot of places have always on fax numbers, the McDonalds i worked at in highschool did, my highschool did, The 5 person Siding and Windows company i used to work for does, The billion dollar worldwide corperation I currently work for has 4 different always on fax lines that I know of, probably more in different people's offices.
they also said that about cars, computers, video games, television, space flight, electric cars. all those are still around, and probably will be for as long as we are. I doubt blogging is going anywhere.
yeah, thats going to be real popular, untill there is a sensor malfunction and you take out the little old lady in the pinto stationwagon. Those would have to be out for a few years before, and open source, before Id even begin to trust them.