I love it that people are getting worked up about this. The Supreme Court is going to look at this and say that since Canadians are already paying a levi on all blank recording media that gets sold in the country they cannot be charged an additional tax on the ISP they use to access the internet.
The onus on the Recording Association to prove that the main purpose of the ISP's is to facilitate illegal downloading of music is simply too broad to be logically proven. Most sane people (which I'd hope a Supreme Court judge would be) would conclude that since the music association is already being recompensed they have no legal need to demand this additional tax, if they want a cut of the CDR tax they (the artists) should talk to the industry association (the Canadian version of the RIAA). I believe this has already happened and they were rebuffed in the backroom, thusly they felt this is the only alternative and they needed a new tax.
Just another piece of fluff news ment to try getting people up in arms.
Cause god knows that farmer jack with his 25 acres of farmland wants to cover it with solar panels to make a few dollars selling power into the local grid, while the companies with thousands of acres of land thats good for nothing after oil pumping operations are done, can't do the same thing cheaper and can't generate more power than farmer jack.
I don't know where all this talk of control comes from. Anyone who has oil on their land is free to develop it, just shell out the millions for the pumping equipment and all the guys to pump the oil for you. ALthough theres still the refining costs, and the trucking costs, then you still need someone to buy the oil after you do all the work to it. Oil companies are just businesses that want what any healthy business wants, to make money. If oil companies thought they could make more money selling alternative power than they make selling cheap oil, you better believe it they'd be doing it.
As it is, you'll see Shell, Mobil and Exxon selling solar panels or natural gas right alonside the existing oil infrastructure in a few years if not sooner. The price of getting the oil out of the ground keeps getting higher when you have to look harder to get it, the natural gas exploration alonside Canada's eastern shore for example is being done by Shell and Exxon Mobil, why would they be doing this if they wern't concerned about oil supply?
The heads of oil companies don't sit in a darkened room deciding the fate of the planet, they probably go to a board meeting and get shown power point slides about current reserves and exploration estimates, they aren't concerned with keeping solar down, or weather hydrogen is "better" or not, they probably have a time table about when to phase hydrogen or natural gas into general distribution instead of just pilot projects in remote communities.
The oil companies will re-invent themselves into pushing the green energies, just as soon as the oil begins to cost too much.
is because they know the oil is running out and they want to be online with a new type of energy to sell you.
It truly is all about the benjamins, but they make so much now from oil that its not profitable for them to sell solar, when it gets too expensive to sell oil they'll push solar.
No, the hospital administrators are not responsible. If you had even read the article you'd have noticed that one of the firms that the hospital uses handles hundreds of files they recieve in the run of a business day to be transcribed.
This is simply too much for a hospital to handle with its limited budget, think about it, they'd have to have hundreds of people on staff whose job it was to only transcribe doctors notes into people's electronic health records. Its just not feasable to do for a hospital, so they contract the work out to a company that specializes in this industry. The hospital knew that their contractor used subcontractors to get the work done, but they didn't know that the subcontractors used subcontractos. They have since changed their contracts for such work to include the company to tell them if they use subcontractors down the line.
Not really, I think most firms in the US and abroad actually do want to do a good job, just that there are just enough Bad Guys (tm) out there that sometimes companies and people get burned.
This was an isolated incident that happened cause a woman didn't get paid by the jerk she was working for. If it was the USA she was working in she could sue the bastard, in Pakistan she didn't have a lot of recourse.
I'll just note that in the article she says she didn't have any intention of making the records public and she retracted her threat after she got some money from another contractor.
Oh of course, i'm totally with you. If my previous post led you to believe I wasn't then I aploogize, however I can't help myself from taking the opposite position in an argument.
You are correct that the abortion argument will not end untill a generation or 2 have passed (and perhaps not even then)
I'm not disputing that we're harming the planet, just that on the planet's time scale, we're not even a blip. Humanity could blow itself up and destroy every living thing on the surface and in the sea, and our planet would still recover (albiet in another couple billion years). A planet is a hard thing to kill.
careful there, your starting to tred on some shaky ground.
I am in agreement that stem cells should be used for medical research, and that human cloning is probably a good thing (provided that it can be made to work as well as the natural way), but some people believe that if you profit (in any way) from an evil act (like some believe abortion to be) then you validate the act and the methods used.
This reason is why Nazi research isn't used in medicine, seeing as a lot of it was carried out in the death camps on the Jews and anyone else Hitler or the SS didn't like. The medical community swear an oath to do no harm, and by using research gained by harming people or animals the case can, and has, been made that it is unethical.
The problem with this area is that the anti-abortion people don't want to give definitions for what they are preaching. Purposefully keeping people in the dark, and misinforming the public about what is actually involved in the research. While I am sure there are many people in the anti-abortion movement who genuinely believe that fetus's have the same rights as any person living, I am sorry to say that I don't believe that the majority of people in the movement believe this and are simply paying lip service for political gain.
The precious things we already have. I like that.
Despite the fact that our planet is going to do what it wants anyway with no help from us. Really we're just along for the ride on this giant orbiting space ship. We do have an influence on the direction our planet goes environmentally, however I don't think its any more than asking to go to the pee pee room on the way to nanny's house, you just delay the inevitable unplesentness that is to come.
To my view if the ice at the Antartic pole melts, then wouldn't Antartica rise to become more land? Once freed of the massive weight of ice that currently sits on it I think it would bob to the surface creating more land mass for people displaced by rising water levels to live on.
Although that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
If you are new to the company and the field, find someone who has been doing this job for a while and pick their brain whenever you can. Then go out to the net and find what information you can. I have found that a mentor can really give you a step up in the game. Talk to people online who have been hacked, find out what they did wrong, read security vulnerability reports, subscribe to CERT and BugTraq and any other security list you can find, then realize that you still don't know enough.
This game is so complex, realize that you can't reasonably expect yourself to learn everything in a week and be an expert. It has been mentioned that the only real teacher is experience, this is so true that it should be mentioned in every book you buy on this subject.
A better way to start is to get a job as a sysadmin for some company and go to town with a test box. Install OpenBSD, about 10 flavors of linux and (I can't believe I'm suggesting this! *dons flame suit*) Windows. For better or worse Windows is here to stay and most companies are using it so you better learn it or you'll be limiting your employment opportunities. (But study Linux more *peeks out of helmet*).
But if we just blindly hired someone who has proven that they can't be trusted to do the right thing, then what happens when the person goes right back to the way they were and takes your company down when you a) eventually fire him due to layoffs/bad performance/whatever or b) offend him in some way.
Its sad to say, but criminals have shown that they just don't care about the law, be it stupid or not, and I just don't find that acceptable.
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I work in a place where we have to justify ourselves by getting projects that bring in money to the department. Its an interesting place to work, and really fast paced if you want it to be. But you can't ever worry about your job, if you can't find another project then its a bitch, but that gets determined by you, not the company finding work for you to do. This kind of approach keeps people there as long as things are interesting, but when they cool down people have a way of leaving, but we get lots of people that come back to do interesting projects even after they have left, so its a interesting model.
its easily implementable. I wish some phone company would do it. You just empower the phone company to collect the fees for you and send you a cheque after you clear the calls you don't want charged from a database. once a month is all it takes. If telemarketers had to pay 10 bucks for each non sale they got, they'd quickly go under.
I'm not sure how much it costs to pump water from the creeks to make snow, but it has to be more expensive and energy wasteful to do this process. I mean if running their recycling process takes a million dollars in oil every year, and it only takes 100,000 dollars in oil to pump from the rivers then its not really saving anything at all.
is prove that they should be under federal investigation for totally shattering most of the anti-hacking and anti-terrorism laws that were passed in the last year. The RIAA is not the government and is still (the last time I checked) under the same laws that the rest of us must follow. Under the US's own definitions of terrorism this will classify as cyber-terrorism and is punishable by mandatory life sentences for all parties including the upper managment of the RIAA for allowing this to go on.
simple, just arrest them all.
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The onus on the Recording Association to prove that the main purpose of the ISP's is to facilitate illegal downloading of music is simply too broad to be logically proven. Most sane people (which I'd hope a Supreme Court judge would be) would conclude that since the music association is already being recompensed they have no legal need to demand this additional tax, if they want a cut of the CDR tax they (the artists) should talk to the industry association (the Canadian version of the RIAA). I believe this has already happened and they were rebuffed in the backroom, thusly they felt this is the only alternative and they needed a new tax.
Just another piece of fluff news ment to try getting people up in arms.
I don't know where all this talk of control comes from. Anyone who has oil on their land is free to develop it, just shell out the millions for the pumping equipment and all the guys to pump the oil for you. ALthough theres still the refining costs, and the trucking costs, then you still need someone to buy the oil after you do all the work to it. Oil companies are just businesses that want what any healthy business wants, to make money. If oil companies thought they could make more money selling alternative power than they make selling cheap oil, you better believe it they'd be doing it.
As it is, you'll see Shell, Mobil and Exxon selling solar panels or natural gas right alonside the existing oil infrastructure in a few years if not sooner. The price of getting the oil out of the ground keeps getting higher when you have to look harder to get it, the natural gas exploration alonside Canada's eastern shore for example is being done by Shell and Exxon Mobil, why would they be doing this if they wern't concerned about oil supply?
The heads of oil companies don't sit in a darkened room deciding the fate of the planet, they probably go to a board meeting and get shown power point slides about current reserves and exploration estimates, they aren't concerned with keeping solar down, or weather hydrogen is "better" or not, they probably have a time table about when to phase hydrogen or natural gas into general distribution instead of just pilot projects in remote communities.
The oil companies will re-invent themselves into pushing the green energies, just as soon as the oil begins to cost too much.
is because they know the oil is running out and they want to be online with a new type of energy to sell you. It truly is all about the benjamins, but they make so much now from oil that its not profitable for them to sell solar, when it gets too expensive to sell oil they'll push solar.
Or just don't buy a car with an emergency roadside assistance package.
Don't forget the servers stashed on the other side, the thieves didn't take them either....
This is simply too much for a hospital to handle with its limited budget, think about it, they'd have to have hundreds of people on staff whose job it was to only transcribe doctors notes into people's electronic health records. Its just not feasable to do for a hospital, so they contract the work out to a company that specializes in this industry. The hospital knew that their contractor used subcontractors to get the work done, but they didn't know that the subcontractors used subcontractos. They have since changed their contracts for such work to include the company to tell them if they use subcontractors down the line.
Read the article before you post.
Not really, I think most firms in the US and abroad actually do want to do a good job, just that there are just enough Bad Guys (tm) out there that sometimes companies and people get burned. This was an isolated incident that happened cause a woman didn't get paid by the jerk she was working for. If it was the USA she was working in she could sue the bastard, in Pakistan she didn't have a lot of recourse. I'll just note that in the article she says she didn't have any intention of making the records public and she retracted her threat after she got some money from another contractor.
Really, Darth Vader is the most evil man, aside from the emperor, in the whole Galaxy! Of course he's got to have his own music!
My God man, you mean to say that you wouldn't want the Imperial March to play every time you came into a room?
Yes "saftey examinations", uh ha, more like "bug placement" to me.
You are correct that the abortion argument will not end untill a generation or 2 have passed (and perhaps not even then)
I'm not disputing that we're harming the planet, just that on the planet's time scale, we're not even a blip. Humanity could blow itself up and destroy every living thing on the surface and in the sea, and our planet would still recover (albiet in another couple billion years). A planet is a hard thing to kill.
I am in agreement that stem cells should be used for medical research, and that human cloning is probably a good thing (provided that it can be made to work as well as the natural way), but some people believe that if you profit (in any way) from an evil act (like some believe abortion to be) then you validate the act and the methods used.
This reason is why Nazi research isn't used in medicine, seeing as a lot of it was carried out in the death camps on the Jews and anyone else Hitler or the SS didn't like. The medical community swear an oath to do no harm, and by using research gained by harming people or animals the case can, and has, been made that it is unethical.
The problem with this area is that the anti-abortion people don't want to give definitions for what they are preaching. Purposefully keeping people in the dark, and misinforming the public about what is actually involved in the research. While I am sure there are many people in the anti-abortion movement who genuinely believe that fetus's have the same rights as any person living, I am sorry to say that I don't believe that the majority of people in the movement believe this and are simply paying lip service for political gain.
The precious things we already have. I like that. Despite the fact that our planet is going to do what it wants anyway with no help from us. Really we're just along for the ride on this giant orbiting space ship. We do have an influence on the direction our planet goes environmentally, however I don't think its any more than asking to go to the pee pee room on the way to nanny's house, you just delay the inevitable unplesentness that is to come.
To my view if the ice at the Antartic pole melts, then wouldn't Antartica rise to become more land? Once freed of the massive weight of ice that currently sits on it I think it would bob to the surface creating more land mass for people displaced by rising water levels to live on. Although that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
seems most of the problems can be solved by using the sftp server that comes with ssh.
Finally someone talking about replicators. :-)
homelessness comes from stupidity. right. hope you never get fired and can't find work.
This cannot be overstated.
If you are new to the company and the field, find someone who has been doing this job for a while and pick their brain whenever you can. Then go out to the net and find what information you can. I have found that a mentor can really give you a step up in the game. Talk to people online who have been hacked, find out what they did wrong, read security vulnerability reports, subscribe to CERT and BugTraq and any other security list you can find, then realize that you still don't know enough.
This game is so complex, realize that you can't reasonably expect yourself to learn everything in a week and be an expert. It has been mentioned that the only real teacher is experience, this is so true that it should be mentioned in every book you buy on this subject.
A better way to start is to get a job as a sysadmin for some company and go to town with a test box. Install OpenBSD, about 10 flavors of linux and (I can't believe I'm suggesting this! *dons flame suit*) Windows. For better or worse Windows is here to stay and most companies are using it so you better learn it or you'll be limiting your employment opportunities. (But study Linux more *peeks out of helmet*).
Its sad to say, but criminals have shown that they just don't care about the law, be it stupid or not, and I just don't find that acceptable.
I work in a place where we have to justify ourselves by getting projects that bring in money to the department. Its an interesting place to work, and really fast paced if you want it to be. But you can't ever worry about your job, if you can't find another project then its a bitch, but that gets determined by you, not the company finding work for you to do. This kind of approach keeps people there as long as things are interesting, but when they cool down people have a way of leaving, but we get lots of people that come back to do interesting projects even after they have left, so its a interesting model.
I just love CNN. They even get the numbers wrong in their own articles.
Title: Hacker accesses 5.6 Million Credit cards
Story: Hacker has access to 2.2 Million Credit cards.
I wonder which it is.
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That would be cool, if you could flip a switch and change the color of your car.
its easily implementable. I wish some phone company would do it. You just empower the phone company to collect the fees for you and send you a cheque after you clear the calls you don't want charged from a database. once a month is all it takes. If telemarketers had to pay 10 bucks for each non sale they got, they'd quickly go under.
I'm not sure how much it costs to pump water from the creeks to make snow, but it has to be more expensive and energy wasteful to do this process. I mean if running their recycling process takes a million dollars in oil every year, and it only takes 100,000 dollars in oil to pump from the rivers then its not really saving anything at all.
is prove that they should be under federal investigation for totally shattering most of the anti-hacking and anti-terrorism laws that were passed in the last year. The RIAA is not the government and is still (the last time I checked) under the same laws that the rest of us must follow. Under the US's own definitions of terrorism this will classify as cyber-terrorism and is punishable by mandatory life sentences for all parties including the upper managment of the RIAA for allowing this to go on. simple, just arrest them all.