Yet, not too surprisingly, Windows has found its way into Cuba
Most likely from Canada, which prohibits complying with the US Cuba export restrictions laws. Complying with US law with regards to Cuba can land you in jail for up to 5 years.
Microsoft is more worried about the large-scale pirates - the ones that sell the disks to unwitting consumers, either standalone or as part of a new PC. This would allow them to more easily show that the disks themselves are counterfeit.
Story is a little different than the headline...
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The issue was that he claimed that the mere fact that the FBI linked an IP address to him wasn't sufficient cause for a search warrant. They had conversations and logs of information coming from that IP address. The man claims that that is insufficient cause for a search warrant - and the trial judge and appeal court judges disagreed.
He wasn't charged based on the IMs - he was charged because they found CDs of child porn in his room. Had they searched his place and found no child porn images, he most likely would not have been charged - at the very worst, he would have been charged and been able to raise a successful defence that it wasn't him (unless they had hard evidence to link the conversations to him).
Yes, you can. Even if the action isn't illegal per se, it could result in a hostile school environment or bring discredit to the school. The high school I went to made the controversial decision to suspend a student based on the fact that he was working as a male stripper (this was in Ontario, when there was an OAC year (basically Grade 13), and the student was 18), as it was a Catholic high school and would bring the school into disrepute. Suffice it to say the suspension caused even more attention to be drawn to the school and the guy involved.
The university I attended had a student code of conduct that applied whether you were on or off campus. It has been used in recent years to suspend students involved in off-campus altercations and other various illegal activites, though it could be used for non-illegal activites as well. It was introduced after a riot started on a street near the university, in which the police had to appear in full riot gear and use tear gas and the like to control the crowd.
Restraining orders are good, but they are more cumbersome and have essentially the same effect (if a bully can't get within 300m of you at school, he is effectively suspended from school). The courts should be a last resort - there's no need to tie them up with issues that can be dealt using alternate methods.
They have a responsibility because they sold and served you the alcohol - in many (most?) locales it is illegal to serve to the point of intoxication, so they owe you a duty of care.
In Ontario, bars owe a duty of care to patrons (and therefore to anyone they injure), but people who hold parties in which guests may drink do not owe a duty of care, as they bring their own alcohol and consume it on their own. This would be a more appropriate analogy - MySpace provides the site, pages, and outlet (for free no less), but does not police content, private messages, conduct background checks on members, etc. What you do is your own responsibility - if you want to consume all the alcohol you want at a friends place and drive, it is your responsibility... and if you want to meet some guy in a motel, or run off with him, it is your responsibility as well (and in the case of minors, the parents are responsible as well).
Meeting places have existed for as long as we have been on this planet. Whether it be a bar, pool room, mall, telephone chat line, writing a 'penpal' by mail, etc. people will meet up with other (sometimes unsavoury) people... and sometimes this will lead to unwanted situations (kidnapping, date rape, assault, etc.). Is it the fault of the bar, or the mall, or the postal service that they didn't stop you from meeting a sexual predator?
NetWare 4 was probably the best thing since sliced bread... but they lost momentum (and everything else) with more recent versions.
I work in a Novell shop. I'm a Windows sysadmin. My preference is for Windows, so I'm looking at this from that point of view - and I'll admit I'm biased towards Windows.
Novell QA went right down the crapper in recent versions. Netware would crash multiple times per day when it was first set up (we moved from Banyan Vines) - it took years of patches from Novell to get it to any semblence of stability. The Novell client often breaks things with each new version - and it's a pain to instruct new users on the difference between a local (Windows) login and their Netware login.
While NDS is great, the management tools for it absolutely suck. Novell went schizophrenic on the management tools - you have iManage, NWAdmin, and ConsoneOne, all of which can do some things but not everything, so you need 3 management tools just to manage Netware.
Groupwise is absolutely hideous - the client is unintuitive and fell out of the ugly tree. Things which are easy to do in Outlook are a chore to do in Groupwise. Oh, and Groupwise didn't even have a flag in the client to indicate if you had replied or forwarded a message until ~2 years ago - I'd have to go searching through my Sent mail to figure out if I had replied to a message.
Novell fumbled, and Microsoft picked up the ball - Microsoft went out there with excellent marketing, developer support (including hardware/device driver support), and incentives to switch. Microsoft didn't get it right with their first versions (Windows NT 3 anyone?), but they kept at it and kept improving the software.
You have to remember that it's an AWARD and not a certification or qualification. It's awarded at Microsoft's sole discretion, and does not make you an expert in all Microsoft products.
Do I bring it up in everyday conversation? No. Just like I don't bring up any of my other certifications or educational qualifications either (like my MCP, or even my BSc).
I'm a Microsoft MVP, and I'm not unemployed, and I'm not a loser.
Those active in other communities (ie Linux) are not told that they are unemployed losers for helping people out. So what if a bunch of us want to actually help people by making use of our expertise?
Not every MVP is an expert in every area, but they are an expert in the area that they were awarded in. For example, my award is in Mobile Devices, but I'm far from being an expert in FoxPro.
That's true - that it is up to the judge, but usually unless results are mixed or one or both parties are rich or large companies and the appeal is in the public interest (ie an appeal on a constitutional issue or an issue of law dealing with the wording of specific statutes) the losing party has to pay costs.
"In Lanteigne's case, she will have to pay her lawyer regardless of the outcome."
Not quite true. Canada has a loser-pays system, so the losing party has to pay the winning party's costs, but it's usually only a portion (depending on the case - if the judge feels the actions by the plaintiff are malicious and without merit, then the losing party will receive most, if not all, of their legal fees paid by the plaintiff).
We use Novell Netware and Groupwise where I work. I can't say it enough - I absolutely HATE Netware and Groupwise. Novell's QA went out the window years ago - we've been running it for 3 years, and it still crashes network-wide at least once a week, even with Novell techs in working on the server and the crashes. Not to mention it's a royal pain to manage (there are at least 3 different user/object administrator tools, and none of them do everything). There are also major issues with stuff like NDPS (you can set up the printer and have it install to workstations, but you then have to set up the printer settings on each computer - stuff like whether a duplex unit is installed, etc).
Groupwise is a whole other story. It likes to crash, but by far the worst thing about Groupwise is it's client - it's ugly, non-functional, complex, and can't handle some of the most basic tasks (setting up a multi-day appointment requires you to create individual appointments for each day, and creating a Vacation message requires you to go through and set up a complex rule).
Go with anything else - I administer a separate Windows server where I work, and I used to do some Linux sysadmin stuff. Doesn't matter whether it's Unix, Linux, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun... just stay away from Novell products!
Gmail is already above 2GB now - they're steadily increasing the space as time goes on, to allow for natural growth of people's e-mail archives (you can see the ticker steadily moving upwards on the Gmail login page)
The issue isn't with RIM per se, but the fact that the US courts are trying to apply US patent laws to systems physically located in Canada - which should fall under Canadian patent law. If the US courts uphold this, it will present a huge barrier to Canadian (or for that matter, any other countries) companies entering the US in any way (including sales and support to US companies from Canada), as a US company that holds a patent will be able to sue the Canadian company for using their patent in Canada to supply technology, services, etc. to US entities.
Not all Crown Corporations have an interest in making as much money as possible - for example, the CBC's main objective is to not use as much government money as possible, and it's the same as Via Rail (the government expects BOTH to lose money). Canada Post is expected to break even, and possibly make a little bit of money (Canada Post owns Purolator Courier, a major courier company in Canada) - it gave the government a dividend of $63mln last year.
A lot of the federal Crown corporations that were expected to make money were privatised (ie CN Rail, Petro Canada)
The CBC is not a for-profit corporation - it is a Crown corporation, and therefore owned by the Government of Canada. It receives taxpayer funding - it has never made any money that has gone into the public coffers (which is where any money that happens to be made by a Crown corporation goes - for example, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario, and it makes around 600 million dollars each year that is put into the Ontario government's coffers to fund the government's operations)
Also note that Canadians are not considered foreigners for the purpose of such awards - General (ret'd) John de Chastelain was invested as a Companion of Honour (non-honourary), a prestigious order limited to 65 members.
A multicore processor is a processor with more than one processor core in a single die. So, an example of a multicore processor would be putting two Pentium 4 processor cores in the same processor die, thereby giving the operating system two processors to work with, instead of just one. This is roughly the same as having a dual-processor system, except that because the processor cores are side-by-side they can interact at processor speeds, rather than bus interconnect speeds. It's one method of creating faster computers without having to create new processors, or continually speed up the processor by increasing the frequency.
The Xeon processors will be the first Intel chips to use multicore processors, and will eventually make its way into mainstream chips.
I guess this begs the question - why was the new code not tested, using live data, on the test/devel machine? In an environment such as this, you can't do half-assed testing - you have to run real, live data into it and test it out (ie one month before, duplicate the data - if it isn't already duplicating it real-time into the test machine, which I would expect - and run the code. Any problems, wait one month and try again).
This comes down to poor testing. The manager(s) involved should (and probably will) be fired - they would have had to have signed off on the code change, and odds are that they rushed the programmers/QA people through testing.
Note that the charges are for those that are doing zone transfers (ie those transferring the entire blacklist to their own DNS servers, for faster queries and cutting down on query traffic across their Internet connection), not for those who just want to query their servers to find if a specific IP is in the blacklist.
Spamhaus advises organizations set up a zone transfer if they're receiving 200,000+ e-mails per day. I doubt the average user (or small organization, corporation, etc.) will be receiving that much e-mail in a day (at least for now...)
I use both Opera and Firefox. The one thing Opera has going for it is that it has a better caching system - going forwards and backwards. See Bug 38486 for information on this. Firefox (and Mozilla) are dog slow when going forwards or backwards, because it reloads the entire page and re-parses everything. Opera is instantaneous. Even IE is faster.
That said, I hate Opera's handling of history and typed-in links - it's slow, they show up in alphabetical order (if you type in part of a URL - otherwise I think it's random) and it's a FIFO system (so it's not based on last-visited or number of times visited or anything like that). Opera also seems to have more problems rendering content, and actually crashes more often than any of the Firefox nightlies.
Yes, you can use it to develop and distribute commercial software. Section 1.1 of the EULA is for the Toolkit ONLY. It's a standard clause - you'll see something similar in the Master EULA for MSDN Professional/Enterprise/Universal (the only other EULA I can easily find online), and these people pay big dollars for the package.
Section 4 is a standard clause - it's designed so that they keep all rights not given to you in the EULA, rather than you having all the rights not explicitly excluded in the EULA.
However, downloaders be warned: the music industry will now proceed to actually participate in copyright infringement by downloading those shared songs or otherwise monitoring the downloads of those shared songs. The "my songs are shared out but were not actually downloaded" argument might not work next time.
That means they'll have to successfully download every single one of those 600, 1000, whatever songs and present evidence that those files came from that system. With only 1 song downloaded, they'd be able to nail them for 1 copyright infringement - not exactly something you can get a lot of money for, as you can only prove 1 person downloaded 1 song from you (bill for copyright infringement: at most $20 in actual damages, and that's being generous).
This effectively shuts down the lawsuits against individual consumers.
You've got it backwards - Protected B is higher than Protected A. Protected A is basically personally identifiable data that may or may not be public that should not be disclosed. Protected B is data that may cause harm to a person if it is released (this includes medical records, police investigations, etc.). Protected C is data that may cause extreme harm or death to a person if released - this is a very rare classification, and is actually handled at the same level as classified documents.
All of the classifications above are considered "secrets" under the Security of Information Act and is therefore illegal to disclose.
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Microsoft is more worried about the large-scale pirates - the ones that sell the disks to unwitting consumers, either standalone or as part of a new PC. This would allow them to more easily show that the disks themselves are counterfeit.
He wasn't charged based on the IMs - he was charged because they found CDs of child porn in his room. Had they searched his place and found no child porn images, he most likely would not have been charged - at the very worst, he would have been charged and been able to raise a successful defence that it wasn't him (unless they had hard evidence to link the conversations to him).
The university I attended had a student code of conduct that applied whether you were on or off campus. It has been used in recent years to suspend students involved in off-campus altercations and other various illegal activites, though it could be used for non-illegal activites as well. It was introduced after a riot started on a street near the university, in which the police had to appear in full riot gear and use tear gas and the like to control the crowd.
Restraining orders are good, but they are more cumbersome and have essentially the same effect (if a bully can't get within 300m of you at school, he is effectively suspended from school). The courts should be a last resort - there's no need to tie them up with issues that can be dealt using alternate methods.
They have a responsibility because they sold and served you the alcohol - in many (most?) locales it is illegal to serve to the point of intoxication, so they owe you a duty of care.
In Ontario, bars owe a duty of care to patrons (and therefore to anyone they injure), but people who hold parties in which guests may drink do not owe a duty of care, as they bring their own alcohol and consume it on their own. This would be a more appropriate analogy - MySpace provides the site, pages, and outlet (for free no less), but does not police content, private messages, conduct background checks on members, etc. What you do is your own responsibility - if you want to consume all the alcohol you want at a friends place and drive, it is your responsibility... and if you want to meet some guy in a motel, or run off with him, it is your responsibility as well (and in the case of minors, the parents are responsible as well).
Meeting places have existed for as long as we have been on this planet. Whether it be a bar, pool room, mall, telephone chat line, writing a 'penpal' by mail, etc. people will meet up with other (sometimes unsavoury) people... and sometimes this will lead to unwanted situations (kidnapping, date rape, assault, etc.). Is it the fault of the bar, or the mall, or the postal service that they didn't stop you from meeting a sexual predator?
I seem to have seen this discussed before
I work in a Novell shop. I'm a Windows sysadmin. My preference is for Windows, so I'm looking at this from that point of view - and I'll admit I'm biased towards Windows.
Novell QA went right down the crapper in recent versions. Netware would crash multiple times per day when it was first set up (we moved from Banyan Vines) - it took years of patches from Novell to get it to any semblence of stability. The Novell client often breaks things with each new version - and it's a pain to instruct new users on the difference between a local (Windows) login and their Netware login.
While NDS is great, the management tools for it absolutely suck. Novell went schizophrenic on the management tools - you have iManage, NWAdmin, and ConsoneOne, all of which can do some things but not everything, so you need 3 management tools just to manage Netware.
Groupwise is absolutely hideous - the client is unintuitive and fell out of the ugly tree. Things which are easy to do in Outlook are a chore to do in Groupwise. Oh, and Groupwise didn't even have a flag in the client to indicate if you had replied or forwarded a message until ~2 years ago - I'd have to go searching through my Sent mail to figure out if I had replied to a message.
Novell fumbled, and Microsoft picked up the ball - Microsoft went out there with excellent marketing, developer support (including hardware/device driver support), and incentives to switch. Microsoft didn't get it right with their first versions (Windows NT 3 anyone?), but they kept at it and kept improving the software.
Do I bring it up in everyday conversation? No. Just like I don't bring up any of my other certifications or educational qualifications either (like my MCP, or even my BSc).
Those active in other communities (ie Linux) are not told that they are unemployed losers for helping people out. So what if a bunch of us want to actually help people by making use of our expertise?
Not every MVP is an expert in every area, but they are an expert in the area that they were awarded in. For example, my award is in Mobile Devices, but I'm far from being an expert in FoxPro.
That's true - that it is up to the judge, but usually unless results are mixed or one or both parties are rich or large companies and the appeal is in the public interest (ie an appeal on a constitutional issue or an issue of law dealing with the wording of specific statutes) the losing party has to pay costs.
Not quite true. Canada has a loser-pays system, so the losing party has to pay the winning party's costs, but it's usually only a portion (depending on the case - if the judge feels the actions by the plaintiff are malicious and without merit, then the losing party will receive most, if not all, of their legal fees paid by the plaintiff).
Groupwise is a whole other story. It likes to crash, but by far the worst thing about Groupwise is it's client - it's ugly, non-functional, complex, and can't handle some of the most basic tasks (setting up a multi-day appointment requires you to create individual appointments for each day, and creating a Vacation message requires you to go through and set up a complex rule).
Go with anything else - I administer a separate Windows server where I work, and I used to do some Linux sysadmin stuff. Doesn't matter whether it's Unix, Linux, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun... just stay away from Novell products!
Gmail is already above 2GB now - they're steadily increasing the space as time goes on, to allow for natural growth of people's e-mail archives (you can see the ticker steadily moving upwards on the Gmail login page)
The issue isn't with RIM per se, but the fact that the US courts are trying to apply US patent laws to systems physically located in Canada - which should fall under Canadian patent law. If the US courts uphold this, it will present a huge barrier to Canadian (or for that matter, any other countries) companies entering the US in any way (including sales and support to US companies from Canada), as a US company that holds a patent will be able to sue the Canadian company for using their patent in Canada to supply technology, services, etc. to US entities.
A lot of the federal Crown corporations that were expected to make money were privatised (ie CN Rail, Petro Canada)
The CBC is not a for-profit corporation - it is a Crown corporation, and therefore owned by the Government of Canada. It receives taxpayer funding - it has never made any money that has gone into the public coffers (which is where any money that happens to be made by a Crown corporation goes - for example, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario, and it makes around 600 million dollars each year that is put into the Ontario government's coffers to fund the government's operations)
Also note that Canadians are not considered foreigners for the purpose of such awards - General (ret'd) John de Chastelain was invested as a Companion of Honour (non-honourary), a prestigious order limited to 65 members.
Anyone else think of the book Microserfs by Douglas Coupland when they read this /. story?
The Xeon processors will be the first Intel chips to use multicore processors, and will eventually make its way into mainstream chips.
This comes down to poor testing. The manager(s) involved should (and probably will) be fired - they would have had to have signed off on the code change, and odds are that they rushed the programmers/QA people through testing.
Spamhaus advises organizations set up a zone transfer if they're receiving 200,000+ e-mails per day. I doubt the average user (or small organization, corporation, etc.) will be receiving that much e-mail in a day (at least for now...)
That said, I hate Opera's handling of history and typed-in links - it's slow, they show up in alphabetical order (if you type in part of a URL - otherwise I think it's random) and it's a FIFO system (so it's not based on last-visited or number of times visited or anything like that). Opera also seems to have more problems rendering content, and actually crashes more often than any of the Firefox nightlies.
Section 4 is a standard clause - it's designed so that they keep all rights not given to you in the EULA, rather than you having all the rights not explicitly excluded in the EULA.
That means they'll have to successfully download every single one of those 600, 1000, whatever songs and present evidence that those files came from that system. With only 1 song downloaded, they'd be able to nail them for 1 copyright infringement - not exactly something you can get a lot of money for, as you can only prove 1 person downloaded 1 song from you (bill for copyright infringement: at most $20 in actual damages, and that's being generous).
This effectively shuts down the lawsuits against individual consumers.
All of the classifications above are considered "secrets" under the Security of Information Act and is therefore illegal to disclose.