Don't code to the best of your abilities. Don't make everything great. Just make it work. Don't throw in any ideas you may want to keep for yourself. If you figure out a really great way to do something that can be done in a much longer cumbersome way, submit the crappy way of doing it. Keep the better way to yourself for future projects. If you don't submit the code to them, there is no way for them to know if you thought of it while on their clock or after the job was over. You can still code what they want while keeping the good ideas for yourself. Don't invent on their behalf if they aren't going to let you keep what you invent.
What exactly does calling them on the phone do to stop piracy? People will just lie on the phone to get the activation. All they have to do is say they reinstalled windows for blah blah blah reason. What if you reinstall windows every couple of months? Are they really going to eventually tell you no when you tell them you reinstalled windows and you need another activation? If not, there is no point to put this restriction in the game. If so, their activation limit basically is giving them a way to ban your use of the game for any reason. In the end there is not one good reason for this kind of activation limit.
Georgia struck first. They were hoping to take control of Ossetia by force. And Ossetia only provoked Georgia by claiming to be independent for the last 20 years, Ossetia did not spark this confrontation. The world community is at fault for not supporting Ossetia as a sovereign nation. Ossetia even had democratic elections to affirm that everyone there does not want to part of Georgia. Make no mistake Georgia attacked Ossetia because the US still recognizes Ossetia as part of Georgia which would make this attack in the eyes of the US, a civil war. The problem with Georgia's plan is that Russia accepts Ossetia as a separate country and the US wasn't going to be able to stop Russia from doing what we would have done in such a situation. If you don't like that logic, think about Israel. They are a country we accept to exist, but Palestine does not. So Palestinians attack it, and we help to stop those attacks.
The only thing that has hurt our relationship with Russia was John McCain getting involved with the current president's business and claiming Russia was the invader based on the incorrect news headlines. And to top it off Joe Lieberman, who is Jewish, sides with John McCain. It boggles my mind that a man from a country constantly attacked because it's enemies don't recognize Israel's right to exist could do a 180 and not recognize Ossetia's right to exist. McCain basically made a speech off the incorrect information in the press and Joe Lieberman is a hypocrite trying to be vice president.
"If you think about the fact that.NET loads DLLs into the browser itself and then Microsoft assumes they're safe because they're.NET objects, you see that Microsoft didn't think about the idea that these could be used as stepping stones for other attacks. This is a real tour de force."
According to this statement, Microsoft just needs to not assume.NET objects are safe. Problem solved.
Pay rates are going to be defined in a database. A backup of the pay rates table and a simple replacement of all pay rates to 6.55 is all that is needed. When the budget passes you can restore the old rates.
Unless you can make a strong argument that them running a bunch of queries will slow the system to a crawl, there is really no reason not to let them have access. Are the systems even shared with other customers? If not, then you really have no good reason.
The case of trespassing would never hold up, if they wanted it to be private they should have installed a gate. Plus I wonder what the addressing on the private road was. If their address was labeled at the start of the road and that is where their mail box is, that would be private. But if the road is named and their address is listed on their house and their mailbox is at the house and not the start of the road, it is not private.
I assume for a patent on scanning and reading info off checks, one would own the patent for the scanner and for OCR technology. Otherwise, who the hell gives someone a patent based on putting two completely related technologies together.
They shouldn't be allowed to make full bit by bit copies of drives, disassemble devices to access drives, and/or install or boot their own software on a device. That would limit them to conducting searches for evidence that won't require exact copies of data or special software. That may allow something like looking at a call log or a phone book, but exclude imaging your laptop hard drive and searching it for documents, key words, or pictures. And this shouldn't be a problem, because if they have you arrested and have the device, they can get a warrant to copy it if they really need to for their investigation.
You can disable the security to make it so that those "error" messages don't popup any more. Of course if your going to disable vista's "enhanced" security features, you might as well just stick with XP.
These suits have nothing to do with damages and everything to do with convincing schools to pay for crappy drm laden services like ruckus. Purdue wasn't on the RIAA's list of colleges with the most downloading, but as soon as they dropped ruckus(since no one used it) they jumped to the top of the list. From what I have seen less people download music for free today than they did 4 years ago(only due to itunes, not because of anything the RIAA has done).
What fantasy world do you live in? A lot of people drink and drive every day. With the law as strict as it is, people still do it. And you don't see deaths occurring nightly. The fact is the limit used to be.10, so to get all high and mighty on a guy who blew.89 is ridiculous. It's like going crazy over an 18 year old drinking, when that was the legal age and should be. What they need to do is write it into law that the federal government can't withhold federal road funds just because they don't like your state limit of.10 or a drinking age of 18.
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Don't code to the best of your abilities. Don't make everything great. Just make it work. Don't throw in any ideas you may want to keep for yourself. If you figure out a really great way to do something that can be done in a much longer cumbersome way, submit the crappy way of doing it. Keep the better way to yourself for future projects. If you don't submit the code to them, there is no way for them to know if you thought of it while on their clock or after the job was over. You can still code what they want while keeping the good ideas for yourself. Don't invent on their behalf if they aren't going to let you keep what you invent.
What exactly does calling them on the phone do to stop piracy? People will just lie on the phone to get the activation. All they have to do is say they reinstalled windows for blah blah blah reason. What if you reinstall windows every couple of months? Are they really going to eventually tell you no when you tell them you reinstalled windows and you need another activation? If not, there is no point to put this restriction in the game. If so, their activation limit basically is giving them a way to ban your use of the game for any reason. In the end there is not one good reason for this kind of activation limit.
Whiny brits are pants.
Well this isn't an issue unless one of those countries files a formal complaint. If they do, it will be interesting to see what happens.
Georgia struck first. They were hoping to take control of Ossetia by force. And Ossetia only provoked Georgia by claiming to be independent for the last 20 years, Ossetia did not spark this confrontation. The world community is at fault for not supporting Ossetia as a sovereign nation. Ossetia even had democratic elections to affirm that everyone there does not want to part of Georgia. Make no mistake Georgia attacked Ossetia because the US still recognizes Ossetia as part of Georgia which would make this attack in the eyes of the US, a civil war. The problem with Georgia's plan is that Russia accepts Ossetia as a separate country and the US wasn't going to be able to stop Russia from doing what we would have done in such a situation. If you don't like that logic, think about Israel. They are a country we accept to exist, but Palestine does not. So Palestinians attack it, and we help to stop those attacks. The only thing that has hurt our relationship with Russia was John McCain getting involved with the current president's business and claiming Russia was the invader based on the incorrect news headlines. And to top it off Joe Lieberman, who is Jewish, sides with John McCain. It boggles my mind that a man from a country constantly attacked because it's enemies don't recognize Israel's right to exist could do a 180 and not recognize Ossetia's right to exist. McCain basically made a speech off the incorrect information in the press and Joe Lieberman is a hypocrite trying to be vice president.
Russia acted as we should have acted. They stopped Georgia from massacring the country of South Ossetia. Please someone fix the title.
No it was the only legal copy in the whole country.
"If you think about the fact that .NET loads DLLs into the browser itself and then Microsoft assumes they're safe because they're .NET objects, you see that Microsoft didn't think about the idea that these could be used as stepping stones for other attacks. This is a real tour de force."
According to this statement, Microsoft just needs to not assume .NET objects are safe. Problem solved.
That law definitely has it's problems. It basically rewards incompetence.
Pay rates are going to be defined in a database. A backup of the pay rates table and a simple replacement of all pay rates to 6.55 is all that is needed. When the budget passes you can restore the old rates.
Just take some car wax and wax up that cd.
They should call it a parody and move on.
Unless you can make a strong argument that them running a bunch of queries will slow the system to a crawl, there is really no reason not to let them have access. Are the systems even shared with other customers? If not, then you really have no good reason.
Does this mean the Nintendo Wii will be able to work with all flash sites? That would be good.
The case of trespassing would never hold up, if they wanted it to be private they should have installed a gate. Plus I wonder what the addressing on the private road was. If their address was labeled at the start of the road and that is where their mail box is, that would be private. But if the road is named and their address is listed on their house and their mailbox is at the house and not the start of the road, it is not private.
Not true: http://acmascis.net/bloggers/haytham/2008/02/code-protector-stop-net.html
I assume for a patent on scanning and reading info off checks, one would own the patent for the scanner and for OCR technology. Otherwise, who the hell gives someone a patent based on putting two completely related technologies together.
They shouldn't be allowed to make full bit by bit copies of drives, disassemble devices to access drives, and/or install or boot their own software on a device. That would limit them to conducting searches for evidence that won't require exact copies of data or special software. That may allow something like looking at a call log or a phone book, but exclude imaging your laptop hard drive and searching it for documents, key words, or pictures. And this shouldn't be a problem, because if they have you arrested and have the device, they can get a warrant to copy it if they really need to for their investigation.
The funny thing is that the ISP took it down after the RIAA ignored the warnings. This means they did not comply. So they may still be liable.
You can disable the security to make it so that those "error" messages don't popup any more. Of course if your going to disable vista's "enhanced" security features, you might as well just stick with XP.
Linux is a free download, no one can stop anyone from using it.
These suits have nothing to do with damages and everything to do with convincing schools to pay for crappy drm laden services like ruckus. Purdue wasn't on the RIAA's list of colleges with the most downloading, but as soon as they dropped ruckus(since no one used it) they jumped to the top of the list. From what I have seen less people download music for free today than they did 4 years ago(only due to itunes, not because of anything the RIAA has done).
Just repeat your normal password 3-4 times to make it long enough that ophcrack can't break it.
What fantasy world do you live in? A lot of people drink and drive every day. With the law as strict as it is, people still do it. And you don't see deaths occurring nightly. The fact is the limit used to be .10, so to get all high and mighty on a guy who blew .89 is ridiculous. It's like going crazy over an 18 year old drinking, when that was the legal age and should be. What they need to do is write it into law that the federal government can't withhold federal road funds just because they don't like your state limit of .10 or a drinking age of 18.
So possession of blank cds and dvds is also illegal?