You need to grow up and realize that breaking the rules/law is wrong whether or not you get caught.
That's not true. Violating basic ethical principles is wrong; and of course, laws ideally should embody these, but they don't always do that, and in cases where they're not - especially cases where the law is actually opposed to those principles -, it's not wrong in an ethical sense to break the law.
Not that that's the case here, of course; sticking custom bar codes on stuff in order to pay a lower price is pretty much a textbook example of fraud, I think. But I think it's worth keeping in mind that you should follow the law because it's what's right, not simply because it's "the law".
RF interference has been a problem for a long while - I remember first reading about this when the Pentium-60 came out. An article back then mentioned that future processors would have frequencies in the FM radio range, and that this would be a huge problem for chip designers.
Of course, chip designers coped, like they had doubtlessly coped with problems like that before, and nothing happened. The same will probably be true here, too: sure, there'll be problems, but the chip manufacturers will sort them out. After all, that's their job, and they've been doing the same thing for decades.
I don't think that RF interference will turn out to be a huge problem now. It didn't back when the first Pentium came out, and it won't now, either.
If everyone got ticketed every time they exceeded the speed limit, the people would soon get fed up with the current speed limits and petition to have them raised across the board. Out West on the Interstates the speeds limits usually run from 75 to 85mph and you don't see many speeders out there. Much past 75 is beyond the comfort zones for most Americans (Germans would just be getting warmed up.)
That's a common misconception, but still a misconception - while there is no *general* speed limit on motorways in Germany, there will still be specific limits in many parts. Judging from my own (admittedly limited) experience, I'd guess that on average, somewhat more than 50% of a motorway will have a speed limit. You'll definitely have speed limits whenever there's villages nearby (noise control), at slip roads, at points where construction work's going on, and so on - so all in all, you'll have to obey a speed limit after all more often than not.
Thanks. Can you send it to oil3c4glz2@spambob.net? Sorry about the spam trap email, but with the amount of spam I'm getting (around 800 messages a day, currently), I'd rather not post my real email address in a public forum where it could be harvested. ^_~
Do you have that material mirrored in a publicy-accessible location somewhere? I'd like to look at it myself - more out of morbid curiosity than anything else, admittedly, but I never understood the whole "let's remove every trace that these guys ever existed" craze.
I've got to say the photos at least were rather disappointing - a few (three) shots of some terminals, two totally unrelated ones, and that was it. No actual server racks or anything, which would have been what I'd actually be interested in seeing.
That might even work - if your boss is clueless enough, just tell him that most of the spyware he gets on his windows desktop comes in through port 80, and that the IT department refuses to recognise the problem and turn off that port. If you do it right, he just might come down on them and demand that they block that port immediately.;)
EU directives do not directly have an effect, though - rather, the EU member countries are required to "translate" them into local laws, so to speak, which is something that the UK may or may not have done yet.
The statement that they "delayed publication for fear of prosecution" is somewhat misleading, though. What they actually did was consult with their lawyers; the difference here is that they were still intent on publishing their findings and simply wanted to cover themselves with regard to legal issues, whereas "delayed [...] for fear of prosecution" seems to imply that while they wanted to publish, they didn't and (and that's the crucial difference) didn't *plan* to.
That's how I'd read it, at least, and that's also how you seem to have read it, but in reality, they did plan to publish their findings. Yes, it's still bad, and yes, it probably still would've deserved the censorship icon, but I think it's still an important difference.
In most cases, I've had a pretty difficult time explaining the POP paradigm to less tech-savvy folks anyway. Before I manage to fix things, they don't understand why their friends are getting bounced emails about "full accounts" when their local inbox in OE is empty. Gmail and other webmail services remove that confusion and additionally provide the feature that the email-checking experience is roughly identical on any machine they use to check their mail. Non-power users simply don't consider it worth the effort to use a local mail reader.
No flamebait intended, but if your friends didn't understand the reasons for these things, then your explanation can't have been that good. Would they be surprised if their RL mailbox turned out to be full after a while if they never removed mail from it? Probably not.
Unfortunately, though (and this is not intended as a GAIM bash!), when you go beyond the basic feature of being able to talk to people etc., GAIM frequently breaks in annoying ways. I've used GAIM since its 0.5x days at least (not sure if I tried it before that), and there's *always* something - file transfers are a frequent problem, for example, as are direct connects, inline images, etc. Depending on the version, it's also rather prone to crashing - versions around 0.59.x were best, IMO, then things degraded pretty seriously, and the current release (1.5.0) has recovered again for the most part.
GAIM is a nice program, and I certainly prefer it over closed-source clients who might do goodness-only-knows-what on my box, but it does have its flaws, too.
If you want strong encryption with nice properties, do look into off-the-record messaging - there's both a GAIM plugin (works with all protocols) and an AIM proxy. I think AdiumX also has support for this built in.
It's got some nice properties like perfect forward secrecy and plausible deniability, and it's GPL/LGPL-licensed. (GPL for the AIM proxy, toolkit and GAIM plugin; LGPL for the library)
Games, on the other hand, pretty much require a setup that is going to be used at home, where presumably there is usually someone around to supervise. It's not like kids can sneak out after school and hang out in the woods playing GTA with their friends.
No? Parents, even responsible ones, cannot (and should not, but that's a different issue) monitor their kids 24 hours a day. Have you never played a "forbidden" computer game late at night after you "officially" had gone to bed, all alone in your room, with the sound turned off, while your parents were already sleeping as well? I know I have, at least, and I'd be surprised if I was the only one.
Generally, BTW, in my own opinion, the whole idea that games should be rated things like "Mature" or "Adult Only" is nonsensical. I agree that it's the parents' responsibility to restrict what their kids can and cannot see/play/consume, but these kinds of opaque labels don't help with that - what you'd really need is a detailed breakdown of how much of certain contents that parents might find objectionable a game has, and print that on the box. Everything else is essentially allowing parents to give up their own responsibility in this area already - no matter whether there's legislation that would actually make it an offense to sell games with certain ratings to minors or not.
A minor note regarding "degrading" porn - that's just the same issue as with swear words. Porn in and on itself is not degrading; rather, people choose to view it as such, just like people choose to be offended by so-called "swear words", even though, as you rightly point out, the words themselves are just that - words.
As long as noone's *forced* to participate in it, porn isn't degrading, ever. Maybe it's not something you like, but how would you be to say that your sexuality is more valid than that of others? (On a side note, I'm not saying that you're actually saying that.)
It may be just me, but I honestly have to question whether someone can really be a "security guru" when they tell me that something should "scare the holey moley" out of me (or anyone, for that matter). That kind of sensationalism just leads to blind panics and failed attempts at security that actually makes thing less secure than they originally were.
What's more, someone who actually knows something about security (whether it's computer security or not) should not have to resort to that kind of attention-whoring, anyway - so if someone still does, it also makes me wonder just how competent they really are.
Are you sure about that? Most if not all metalheads I've met (and I've met quite a bunch) were among the most mellow, meek, polite and tolerant people I've ever met.
But it's not just about *those* 45 year-olds, is it? It's about *all* 45 year-olds. If a bunch of people hang out in front of your store and interfere with your legitimate business, by all means, get rid of them, no matter what age they are, but don't go around claiming that *all* people of the same age group are like that. That's just age-ism, for lack of a better word.
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That's not true. Violating basic ethical principles is wrong; and of course, laws ideally should embody these, but they don't always do that, and in cases where they're not - especially cases where the law is actually opposed to those principles -, it's not wrong in an ethical sense to break the law.
Not that that's the case here, of course; sticking custom bar codes on stuff in order to pay a lower price is pretty much a textbook example of fraud, I think. But I think it's worth keeping in mind that you should follow the law because it's what's right, not simply because it's "the law".
RF interference has been a problem for a long while - I remember first reading about this when the Pentium-60 came out. An article back then mentioned that future processors would have frequencies in the FM radio range, and that this would be a huge problem for chip designers.
Of course, chip designers coped, like they had doubtlessly coped with problems like that before, and nothing happened. The same will probably be true here, too: sure, there'll be problems, but the chip manufacturers will sort them out. After all, that's their job, and they've been doing the same thing for decades.
I don't think that RF interference will turn out to be a huge problem now. It didn't back when the first Pentium came out, and it won't now, either.
That's a common misconception, but still a misconception - while there is no *general* speed limit on motorways in Germany, there will still be specific limits in many parts. Judging from my own (admittedly limited) experience, I'd guess that on average, somewhat more than 50% of a motorway will have a speed limit. You'll definitely have speed limits whenever there's villages nearby (noise control), at slip roads, at points where construction work's going on, and so on - so all in all, you'll have to obey a speed limit after all more often than not.
Um... where exactly do you live? Of course ambulances drive faster than the speed limits; or at least, they do so if there's an emergency.
Thanks. Can you send it to oil3c4glz2@spambob.net? Sorry about the spam trap email, but with the amount of spam I'm getting (around 800 messages a day, currently), I'd rather not post my real email address in a public forum where it could be harvested. ^_~
Do you have that material mirrored in a publicy-accessible location somewhere? I'd like to look at it myself - more out of morbid curiosity than anything else, admittedly, but I never understood the whole "let's remove every trace that these guys ever existed" craze.
In South Korea, only old people use MySpace...
I've got to say the photos at least were rather disappointing - a few (three) shots of some terminals, two totally unrelated ones, and that was it. No actual server racks or anything, which would have been what I'd actually be interested in seeing.
No, no, they will still run immediately. You just won't be able to *interact* with them without activating the interface.
That might even work - if your boss is clueless enough, just tell him that most of the spyware he gets on his windows desktop comes in through port 80, and that the IT department refuses to recognise the problem and turn off that port. If you do it right, he just might come down on them and demand that they block that port immediately. ;)
EU directives do not directly have an effect, though - rather, the EU member countries are required to "translate" them into local laws, so to speak, which is something that the UK may or may not have done yet.
The statement that they "delayed publication for fear of prosecution" is somewhat misleading, though. What they actually did was consult with their lawyers; the difference here is that they were still intent on publishing their findings and simply wanted to cover themselves with regard to legal issues, whereas "delayed [...] for fear of prosecution" seems to imply that while they wanted to publish, they didn't and (and that's the crucial difference) didn't *plan* to.
That's how I'd read it, at least, and that's also how you seem to have read it, but in reality, they did plan to publish their findings. Yes, it's still bad, and yes, it probably still would've deserved the censorship icon, but I think it's still an important difference.
VoIP is not "high-bandwidth" anymore - not in these days.
No flamebait intended, but if your friends didn't understand the reasons for these things, then your explanation can't have been that good. Would they be surprised if their RL mailbox turned out to be full after a while if they never removed mail from it? Probably not.
Unfortunately, though (and this is not intended as a GAIM bash!), when you go beyond the basic feature of being able to talk to people etc., GAIM frequently breaks in annoying ways. I've used GAIM since its 0.5x days at least (not sure if I tried it before that), and there's *always* something - file transfers are a frequent problem, for example, as are direct connects, inline images, etc. Depending on the version, it's also rather prone to crashing - versions around 0.59.x were best, IMO, then things degraded pretty seriously, and the current release (1.5.0) has recovered again for the most part.
GAIM is a nice program, and I certainly prefer it over closed-source clients who might do goodness-only-knows-what on my box, but it does have its flaws, too.
If you want strong encryption with nice properties, do look into off-the-record messaging - there's both a GAIM plugin (works with all protocols) and an AIM proxy. I think AdiumX also has support for this built in.
It's got some nice properties like perfect forward secrecy and plausible deniability, and it's GPL/LGPL-licensed. (GPL for the AIM proxy, toolkit and GAIM plugin; LGPL for the library)
No? Parents, even responsible ones, cannot (and should not, but that's a different issue) monitor their kids 24 hours a day. Have you never played a "forbidden" computer game late at night after you "officially" had gone to bed, all alone in your room, with the sound turned off, while your parents were already sleeping as well? I know I have, at least, and I'd be surprised if I was the only one.
Generally, BTW, in my own opinion, the whole idea that games should be rated things like "Mature" or "Adult Only" is nonsensical. I agree that it's the parents' responsibility to restrict what their kids can and cannot see/play/consume, but these kinds of opaque labels don't help with that - what you'd really need is a detailed breakdown of how much of certain contents that parents might find objectionable a game has, and print that on the box. Everything else is essentially allowing parents to give up their own responsibility in this area already - no matter whether there's legislation that would actually make it an offense to sell games with certain ratings to minors or not.
A minor note regarding "degrading" porn - that's just the same issue as with swear words. Porn in and on itself is not degrading; rather, people choose to view it as such, just like people choose to be offended by so-called "swear words", even though, as you rightly point out, the words themselves are just that - words.
As long as noone's *forced* to participate in it, porn isn't degrading, ever. Maybe it's not something you like, but how would you be to say that your sexuality is more valid than that of others? (On a side note, I'm not saying that you're actually saying that.)
It may be just me, but I honestly have to question whether someone can really be a "security guru" when they tell me that something should "scare the holey moley" out of me (or anyone, for that matter). That kind of sensationalism just leads to blind panics and failed attempts at security that actually makes thing less secure than they originally were.
What's more, someone who actually knows something about security (whether it's computer security or not) should not have to resort to that kind of attention-whoring, anyway - so if someone still does, it also makes me wonder just how competent they really are.
Are you sure about that? Most if not all metalheads I've met (and I've met quite a bunch) were among the most mellow, meek, polite and tolerant people I've ever met.
But it's not just about *those* 45 year-olds, is it? It's about *all* 45 year-olds. If a bunch of people hang out in front of your store and interfere with your legitimate business, by all means, get rid of them, no matter what age they are, but don't go around claiming that *all* people of the same age group are like that. That's just age-ism, for lack of a better word.
I'm not sure if the "scrambling" in the title is an intentional pun here, but if it, it's brilliant - hats off to you. :)
To the nose? :) (Admittedly, that technically would be "ad nasum", but what you wrote is closer to that than to "ad nauseam". :))
Strange question, considering that this is Slashdot. :)