I mean, if everything I posted on BBSes in the 1980s were still attributable to me... yikes.
Not to freak you out, but I have archives of the BBS I ran from '93 - present. Well, chunks of it anyway. I know several other past and present sysops who keep much better records than I. While the people I know may not be a statistical sample, I'd say there's a good chance that unless you ran the board yourself, someone has an archive of it.
That said, I need to plug my ongoing BBS... The Dark Tower, currently operated out of Richmond, VA.
Fortunately for me, I'm also free to run all the proprietary software I want. I'm also free to release the software I write under whatever license I want. And if I really wanted it to be free, I'd just make it public domain. Having a large pool of public domain software would still provide RMS with the freedom he desires. It would also lower the cost of commercial software by requiring less work to develop a better product. It also provides an incentive to do so as you can then make a profit off of it.
Freedom's just another word for nothing good enough to use.
Just use either Star Office or Open Office for Windows. It's cheap, easy, and doesn't require you to spend a lot of time setting up a Linux shop. Furthermore, if you've already bought licenses for whatever version of Office, just keep using it and don't bother to upgrade unless there's some feature you really need.
I guess the other thing you need to ask yourself, is what are you qualified to support, and what kind of support overhead would be required by changing? Keep your employer's best interests in mind and only make an OS change if there is a compelling reason to do so.
I would expect proper procedure to generally be issuance of a subpoena for records. A search warrant should only be issued when the subpoena is refused, or the ISP is being investigated as an accessory. IANAL, but I do watch a lot of cop shows on TV. Search warrants should always be performed by law enforcement personel. That's probably the biggest difference between what makes it a search warrant and a subpoena.
(Do not, under any circumstances, chill the pizza and reheat the beer. That would be bad. Once you're sufficiently drunk, you can always reheat the pizza, bite-by-bite, on the old CPUs by using the pepperoni slices as heatsinks, and the pepperoni grease as transfer paste. Just make sure you clean the CPU off verrrrrrrrrry thoroughly first.)
The first case mod I ever saw ('bout 10 years ago) was a 386 built in an empty case of beer. Don't throw out the box!
Given the student services fee I paid at the U of Minnesota ($200+/semester) to fund groups I hated and a crappy health service I didn't use, $14/year seems like a bargain.
Loser admins do not have a right to run an insecure system. It's called "an attractive nuisance." It's a lot like owning a swimming pool. In virtually all jurisdictions, you're required to build a fence around it, because otherwise some kid will come along and drown him/herself.
Likewise, if some script kiddie hacks my server because I hadn't applied a service pack in 2 years and uses it to launch attacks on the FBI or send death threats to the White House, then yes, I am liable for that. Mark my words, as time goes by, the courts will get more and more involved in these sorts of things.
There is really no question that this is a learned response. However the article belies a basic understanding of how atletic actions work. Most notably, when you catch a ball, you don't actually look at the ball as you catch it. You anticipate the path of the ball and keep your gaze steady.
This is further complicated by the lack of gravity. You move your arm and it torques the rest of your body out of position and throws off your reference frame too. I want to get paid to write stupid papers like that. Oh, wait, I'm getting paid right now...
NT 4.0 was released about 5 years ago. Your coworkers are running an out of date operating system on a modern computer. I bet their camera wouldn't work with MacOS as it stood 5 years ago either. Fankly, NT 4.0 still does everything it was designed to do, and does it quite well.
<gasp>My digital camera works beautifully under Win2k. I have no problems burning CDs under Win2k either.</gasp> DarkTower
I have to log in to retrieve my voice mail. And really, that's just an answering machine that the phone company hosts for me.
As for comparing an e-mail message to an answering machine, I think that's really an ideal analogy. The only way you could claim a wiretap on that is if you were somehow unaware that you were talking to a machine.
The very notion that anything I e-mail to someone is available for downloading/printing by anyone but the receipient is a huge privacy violation.
How many fowarded messages have you recieved? At work, I've got a dozen that I've recieved since Monday. Ever show an email to someone else? It should be apparant to anyone using email that messages are saved until expressly deleted.
Instant Messaging may be more suspect. There, the system is setup to deliver messages directly and immediately. Most IM clients will archive by default. I just assume that anything I do on the net is being watched by Big Brother. PS, hooked on phonics worked for me!
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I mean, if everything I posted on BBSes in the 1980s were still attributable to me... yikes.
Not to freak you out, but I have archives of the BBS I ran from '93 - present. Well, chunks of it anyway. I know several other past and present sysops who keep much better records than I. While the people I know may not be a statistical sample, I'd say there's a good chance that unless you ran the board yourself, someone has an archive of it.
That said, I need to plug my ongoing BBS... The Dark Tower, currently operated out of Richmond, VA.
Fortunately for me, I'm also free to run all the proprietary software I want. I'm also free to release the software I write under whatever license I want. And if I really wanted it to be free, I'd just make it public domain. Having a large pool of public domain software would still provide RMS with the freedom he desires. It would also lower the cost of commercial software by requiring less work to develop a better product. It also provides an incentive to do so as you can then make a profit off of it. Freedom's just another word for nothing good enough to use.
Just use either Star Office or Open Office for Windows. It's cheap, easy, and doesn't require you to spend a lot of time setting up a Linux shop. Furthermore, if you've already bought licenses for whatever version of Office, just keep using it and don't bother to upgrade unless there's some feature you really need.
I guess the other thing you need to ask yourself, is what are you qualified to support, and what kind of support overhead would be required by changing? Keep your employer's best interests in mind and only make an OS change if there is a compelling reason to do so.
I would expect proper procedure to generally be issuance of a subpoena for records. A search warrant should only be issued when the subpoena is refused, or the ISP is being investigated as an accessory. IANAL, but I do watch a lot of cop shows on TV. Search warrants should always be performed by law enforcement personel. That's probably the biggest difference between what makes it a search warrant and a subpoena.
(Do not, under any circumstances, chill the pizza and reheat the beer. That would be bad. Once you're sufficiently drunk, you can always reheat the pizza, bite-by-bite, on the old CPUs by using the pepperoni slices as heatsinks, and the pepperoni grease as transfer paste. Just make sure you clean the CPU off verrrrrrrrrry thoroughly first.)
The first case mod I ever saw ('bout 10 years ago) was a 386 built in an empty case of beer. Don't throw out the box!
Given the student services fee I paid at the U of Minnesota ($200+/semester) to fund groups I hated and a crappy health service I didn't use, $14/year seems like a bargain.
Loser admins do not have a right to run an insecure system. It's called "an attractive nuisance." It's a lot like owning a swimming pool. In virtually all jurisdictions, you're required to build a fence around it, because otherwise some kid will come along and drown him/herself.
Likewise, if some script kiddie hacks my server because I hadn't applied a service pack in 2 years and uses it to launch attacks on the FBI or send death threats to the White House, then yes, I am liable for that. Mark my words, as time goes by, the courts will get more and more involved in these sorts of things.
There is really no question that this is a learned response. However the article belies a basic understanding of how atletic actions work. Most notably, when you catch a ball, you don't actually look at the ball as you catch it. You anticipate the path of the ball and keep your gaze steady.
This is further complicated by the lack of gravity. You move your arm and it torques the rest of your body out of position and throws off your reference frame too. I want to get paid to write stupid papers like that. Oh, wait, I'm getting paid right now...
NT 4.0 was released about 5 years ago. Your coworkers are running an out of date operating system on a modern computer. I bet their camera wouldn't work with MacOS as it stood 5 years ago either. Fankly, NT 4.0 still does everything it was designed to do, and does it quite well.
<gasp>My digital camera works beautifully under Win2k. I have no problems burning CDs under Win2k either.</gasp>
DarkTower
I have to log in to retrieve my voice mail. And really, that's just an answering machine that the phone company hosts for me.
As for comparing an e-mail message to an answering machine, I think that's really an ideal analogy. The only way you could claim a wiretap on that is if you were somehow unaware that you were talking to a machine.
The very notion that anything I e-mail to someone is available for downloading/printing by anyone but the receipient is a huge privacy violation.
How many fowarded messages have you recieved? At work, I've got a dozen that I've recieved since Monday. Ever show an email to someone else? It should be apparant to anyone using email that messages are saved until expressly deleted.
Instant Messaging may be more suspect. There, the system is setup to deliver messages directly and immediately. Most IM clients will archive by default. I just assume that anything I do on the net is being watched by Big Brother. PS, hooked on phonics worked for me!