I remember something along these lines where I used to work. One of my co-workers was looking for a car and found one that was going quite cheap for the specs. Essentially it had almost no km's, was in immaculate mechanical condition, and had no body damage.
The key to the low price was in the disclaimer near the bottom, which was something like:
Was used in the adult production "in da butt", so interior cleaning may be recommended
Bought a 3rd-party X-box over 6 months ago. I got a second when it RROD'ed, and noticed that the other couldn't play some games that my original could. I'm guessing that the original has a non-original DVD drive, and that those games are well-silkscreened copies, as they never did come with a case the way the Halo game had when I got the system...
So I wonder if when I turn that sucker on now (it's been solder-reballed which fixed the RROD) whether it will be permabanned from XBL. Mind you the only time I really log on to XBL is when playing video files etc, because it appears for some rather idiotic reason it tied the Codec downloads to your account rather than an overall system update. I suppose I'll just have to run it unplugged from the network.
Overall I wouldn't have a problem with not using the machine on XBL (I don't really do so anyways), but the fact that updates/codecs/etc are tied in there makes it a pain in the ass.
What I wonder about is the tabloids and those the articles against those who are voluntarily famous (i.e. those in hollywood, politics, etc) VS those who end up thus by circumstance.
Certainly articles about somebody's kidnapped, murdered, or abused children (or somebody who was a victim of said situation) go beyond tacky to being almost dangerous in the assumptions they lay upon the weak-minded.
Well, when I use my "locator" on a 3rd-party apps, then the phone asks me if it's OK the first time around. If it's using an actual API then building a "safelist" and having it ask before sharing other private data shouldn't be so difficult. For a non-jailbroken phone, jailing the apps aware from that private data and requiring the API should make such things pretty hard to get away with.
I wonder if this malware was in fact targetted specifically at KP. It might have just been an open door that the creator or others (think: those that don't want to use their own computers could pay to hijack somebody else's).
In most cases, if something is illegal, there's a shady market for it somewhere.
Anyone have any experience with these? I have a pretty decent "wander area" between my headset and the cellphone or computer before voice quality degrades. I haven't tried it with music yet but I'm grabbing an inexpensive receiver that will be plugging into my stereo head unit By the time it arrives this thread will probably be a bit dead (where I live delivery takes a few weeks), but can anyone else comment on bluetooth audio transmission for music?
Now I don't suggest we have a domain for everything, but ".bank" sounds like a good idea and something useful for that particular industry. Much like you need to be an educational institution to use.EDU or a government entity for.GOV, why not allow only properly registered banks to use a.bank domain, with some checks to ensure they're not scammy duplicates.
After a year or two, anything not using the ".bank" domain should hopefully raise enough suspicion to become fairly obvious as a scam.
Actually, I wouldn't mind a setting that allowed it to show a given ad once... a month, and at a normalized volume. Heck, a lot of internet banner systems can cap their frequency so you don't get the same thing OVER and OVER again, like that fricking "Bendaroos" ad that comes on full blast every 5 minutes while my kid is watching cartoons.
But I am willing to put up with a given ad once. Some are actually quite amusing the first time around. Heck, while you're at it, give us an option to click a button and rate things. With most cable having gone digital these days it shouldn't be *too* hard to implement, and might allow users to self-moderate annoying ads and/or could even be used to provide feedback on programming too.
I've never tested the theory, but if a company actually has a proper legal dept, I'm fairly sure I can't just plop down a court summons on the secretary's desk in a nondescript envelope.
The story is light on details though.
Overall, is the idea of "let's sell bottled water" worth several billion. It hardly seems unique...
"Similarly, unions have a habit of protecting people at work regardless of the merit of that."
Overly high wages and other such things have never really been a problem in most of the unions I've known, the pay rates for most positions was less than a similar private sector. Being un-firable, however, was a major issue. The whole system resolves around seniority, so being around longer means more perks. You tend to get higher pay and are less able to be fired. The good part of this is that you can't take somebody who's dedicated his/her life to the company and shitcan them because you've decided to replace them with some guy from out-of-country at 20% of the wage. The bad part is when you get those that are just hanging around your last few years waiting for retirement - or that are obviously working below their capabilities - and have some fairly major personality issues, yet there's not glaringly apparent reason to fire them.
Guess what though, this happens in the private non-union sector too. I had a positions where the lead programmer was an egocentric asshole - even the boss admitted as much - but he had entrenched himself with code that others couldn't easily maintain and nobody could work with him long enough to figure all his little $secrets. We had techs/admins that were not bad workers, but got loaded with so much drop-by shit that they got overloaded and made mistakes. There was also plenty of nepotism or hiring-of-friends, back-patting, and favours to go around. One thing that didn't tend to happen as much in the union jobs though, is getting screwed with constant (unpaid) OT because the company decided to save bucks by cheaping out in some fashion or another.
So when I think of whatever might be bad in a union job, there's the same crap for non-union jobs, and sometimes worse. It might just be a little less visible. No job is always rosy. Overall though, I've found that people tend to be a bit nicer and/or happier in union environments. Not because of pay, or even because they're hassle-free, but because of the little things that tend to make life a bit more bearable.
Do your best to enjoy the good little things, and to ignore the other bad little things, and try not to be like the people that drive you crazy. Seriously, some of the people I know that complain the most about others are in turn the biggest jerks to those under them
Something like the two pilots that recently overshot their destination and didn't notice for several hours despite numerous warnings, phone calls, and other notifications.
There is only so much one can do to compensate for PEBKC, and in the case of modern aviation you expect that the person between the keyboard (or console) and the chair is a trained professional who doesn't make stupid mistakes like that and doesn't need a big red flashing light for every different stupid thing he/she might do...
If the users wanted momentary damages, they should have formed/joined litigation or a class action against Wallace themselves.
That aside, you don't get money for criminal charges, so it's not always about the cash. Having facebook actually go after guy - hopefully enough to get contempt charges and have him thrown in the slammer - will hopefully help deter him from further victims, and give a similar "moral victory" to those that were wronged.
If somebody did something to screw me out of $100, it might not be worth it for me alone to sue for damages in court. However it would likely still put a smile on my face if $BIGCORP managed to wipe them out.
Just out of curiosity, what are the privacy rights on say,a storage facility.Can the cops just walk on in and open things up, or do they need a warrant?
The speed limits, turn restrictions, signage, whatever is all there for a reason. It's to create a safe and predictable driving environment for everyone
Except in places where they're made so that it's easier to make money off of speeding tickets, etc. No, this isn't the case always, but there have been plenty of cases where limits are *lowered* for no apparent reason (and suddenly that stretch is radar-heaven), or where stop-lights have had the yellow-red interval lowered to a point where it's less safe, or numerous other foolish reasons.
As a motorist it's not my place to decide whether a law/sign/etc is in place for the right or wrong reason, but it's also wrong to ignore the fact that this happens.
npviewer is part of "nspluginwrapper", and IMHO should be avoided like the plague. It causes nothing but problems, especially the infamous "I've crashed your firefox but will continue to run flash in a wrapper while consuming CPU" issue.
Adobe has had flash10 in "alpha" for linux/64-bit for awhile now. I'd heartily recommend it over the 32-bit wrapped version.
It's not out on Gentoo? That's odd, because even on our Debian/Lenny systems at the office Grub2 has been available for quite awhile, and Debian/stable is hardly known for being "bleeding edge"
Because I'm in BC now, and it was just a few days ago that they passed the anti-cellphone, and it still doesn't take take effect until early next year.
There is a law against "smoking in the workplace," as well, but I've yet to hear of any truckers being nailed for it while doing so in their trucks.
My original site (domain in the WHOIS) started because I had a 'net account that allowed hosting, and enough hardware to do so. Other than a photo gallery, most of my own content has been a been a bit lame, but since I had space and CPU to spare, it mainly hosted a bunch of friends who are fairly decent at anime and other such things.
The "lawn" site was originally intended to be a blog of sorts and/or a discussion about technology and various other things, and how they've changed over time. Since the layout sucked though, it got less than a dozen *real* hit a month, and plenty of spammers. It then mostly turned into a game of testing forum-based anti-spam measures to see how well it kept *them* out, but still no real content.
Sad since my job used to be maintaining forums for some fairly prominent (but not my own) domains...I just can't seem to drive useful traffic to my own.
I should probably take this to email before I get nailed as massively OT though. If you care to talk further it's the one in my whois. I do appreciate feedback, and suggestions/collaboration are always welcome.
p.l.s. (post lack-of-signature) I don't think I've been called troll quite so much in one message. Still not sure why
I colo with a few buddies and it was recently moved to a new server. Unfortunately they did so whilst I was away, and missed the DB's. There wasn't anything really useful in that one anyhow, though I'm a bit more miffed about the loss of my gallery2 database.
Once I figure something useful to put up there I'll probably have it back. I'm great at the technical area of things but not so much at the "decor" which attracts visitors, any suggestions?
It's actually funny. A lot of things in windows are various hacks to improve security. For example, disabling access to the "Internet Properties" control panel from IE. At least on XP, that policy doesn't work because it is still accessible from elsewhere such as the privacy/cookies section in media player. The lack of an underlying security method makes some things very difficult or well near impossible to secure.
For Linux, the problem is the opposite. You're working against certain levels of security to improve accessibility. For example, when accessing thumb drives or scanners, you may need to work with udev to ensure than the/dev/x entries are read+writable by a particular group (floppy, disk, cdrom, plugdev, whatever) that your normal users would belong to. You don't want all the dev block entries to be thus because then the user could have direct access to your system disks.
Not entirely true. Most wine installs have access to either your homedir or the root directory as various drive letters (mind you only as the user it runs as).
So technically if it was a runs-in-wine-but-targets-'nix type of virus, it could find your.bashrc or whatever, and edit it to launch on login.
Except that might only work with older games, now that the newer ones seem to require either authentication-via-internet or playing via an internet lobby (gee, thanks steam and battle.net)...
That's actually one of the big issues raised about Starcraft 2... no way to play a local multiplayer without an internet connection...
Telus in British Columbia was "BC Tel". I may be wrong, but I believe that in both BC and Alberta (western-most and adjascent province) they were at least one time partly public entities.
Add a section to the installer that gives you one of the usual options to:
"Click yes to notify Nvidia of your driver installation. This will send minimum information needed to track how many users are installing our drivers on various varieties of systems. Information included in the notification will include: - Your NVidia card model - Your CPU model - Your RAM - You Linux Distribution and kernel version"
Give or take some of the above info, it should be minimally intrusive, but help them to better track the usage of their drivers and even what varieties of systems they are most used on.
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I remember something along these lines where I used to work. One of my co-workers was looking for a car and found one that was going quite cheap for the specs. Essentially it had almost no km's, was in immaculate mechanical condition, and had no body damage.
The key to the low price was in the disclaimer near the bottom, which was something like:
Was used in the adult production "in da butt", so interior cleaning may be recommended
Bought a 3rd-party X-box over 6 months ago. I got a second when it RROD'ed, and noticed that the other couldn't play some games that my original could. I'm guessing that the original has a non-original DVD drive, and that those games are well-silkscreened copies, as they never did come with a case the way the Halo game had when I got the system...
So I wonder if when I turn that sucker on now (it's been solder-reballed which fixed the RROD) whether it will be permabanned from XBL. Mind you the only time I really log on to XBL is when playing video files etc, because it appears for some rather idiotic reason it tied the Codec downloads to your account rather than an overall system update. I suppose I'll just have to run it unplugged from the network.
Overall I wouldn't have a problem with not using the machine on XBL (I don't really do so anyways), but the fact that updates/codecs/etc are tied in there makes it a pain in the ass.
What I wonder about is the tabloids and those the articles against those who are voluntarily famous (i.e. those in hollywood, politics, etc) VS those who end up thus by circumstance.
Certainly articles about somebody's kidnapped, murdered, or abused children (or somebody who was a victim of said situation) go beyond tacky to being almost dangerous in the assumptions they lay upon the weak-minded.
Well, when I use my "locator" on a 3rd-party apps, then the phone asks me if it's OK the first time around. If it's using an actual API then building a "safelist" and having it ask before sharing other private data shouldn't be so difficult. For a non-jailbroken phone, jailing the apps aware from that private data and requiring the API should make such things pretty hard to get away with.
I wonder if this malware was in fact targetted specifically at KP. It might have just been an open door that the creator or others (think: those that don't want to use their own computers could pay to hijack somebody else's).
In most cases, if something is illegal, there's a shady market for it somewhere.
Anyone have any experience with these?
I have a pretty decent "wander area" between my headset and the cellphone or computer before voice quality degrades. I haven't tried it with music yet but I'm grabbing an inexpensive receiver that will be plugging into my stereo head unit
By the time it arrives this thread will probably be a bit dead (where I live delivery takes a few weeks), but can anyone else comment on bluetooth audio transmission for music?
Now I don't suggest we have a domain for everything, but ".bank" sounds like a good idea and something useful for that particular industry. Much like you need to be an educational institution to use .EDU or a government entity for .GOV, why not allow only properly registered banks to use a .bank domain, with some checks to ensure they're not scammy duplicates.
After a year or two, anything not using the ".bank" domain should hopefully raise enough suspicion to become fairly obvious as a scam.
Actually, I wouldn't mind a setting that allowed it to show a given ad once... a month, and at a normalized volume.
Heck, a lot of internet banner systems can cap their frequency so you don't get the same thing OVER and OVER again, like that fricking "Bendaroos" ad that comes on full blast every 5 minutes while my kid is watching cartoons.
But I am willing to put up with a given ad once. Some are actually quite amusing the first time around. Heck, while you're at it, give us an option to click a button and rate things. With most cable having gone digital these days it shouldn't be *too* hard to implement, and might allow users to self-moderate annoying ads and/or could even be used to provide feedback on programming too.
I've never tested the theory, but if a company actually has a proper legal dept, I'm fairly sure I can't just plop down a court summons on the secretary's desk in a nondescript envelope.
The story is light on details though.
Overall, is the idea of "let's sell bottled water" worth several billion. It hardly seems unique...
"Similarly, unions have a habit of protecting people at work regardless of the merit of that."
Overly high wages and other such things have never really been a problem in most of the unions I've known, the pay rates for most positions was less than a similar private sector.
Being un-firable, however, was a major issue. The whole system resolves around seniority, so being around longer means more perks. You tend to get higher pay and are less able to be fired. The good part of this is that you can't take somebody who's dedicated his/her life to the company and shitcan them because you've decided to replace them with some guy from out-of-country at 20% of the wage. The bad part is when you get those that are just hanging around your last few years waiting for retirement - or that are obviously working below their capabilities - and have some fairly major personality issues, yet there's not glaringly apparent reason to fire them.
Guess what though, this happens in the private non-union sector too. I had a positions where the lead programmer was an egocentric asshole - even the boss admitted as much - but he had entrenched himself with code that others couldn't easily maintain and nobody could work with him long enough to figure all his little $secrets. We had techs/admins that were not bad workers, but got loaded with so much drop-by shit that they got overloaded and made mistakes. There was also plenty of nepotism or hiring-of-friends, back-patting, and favours to go around. One thing that didn't tend to happen as much in the union jobs though, is getting screwed with constant (unpaid) OT because the company decided to save bucks by cheaping out in some fashion or another.
So when I think of whatever might be bad in a union job, there's the same crap for non-union jobs, and sometimes worse. It might just be a little less visible. No job is always rosy. Overall though, I've found that people tend to be a bit nicer and/or happier in union environments. Not because of pay, or even because they're hassle-free, but because of the little things that tend to make life a bit more bearable.
Do your best to enjoy the good little things, and to ignore the other bad little things, and try not to be like the people that drive you crazy. Seriously, some of the people I know that complain the most about others are in turn the biggest jerks to those under them
Something like the two pilots that recently overshot their destination and didn't notice for several hours despite numerous warnings, phone calls, and other notifications.
There is only so much one can do to compensate for PEBKC, and in the case of modern aviation you expect that the person between the keyboard (or console) and the chair is a trained professional who doesn't make stupid mistakes like that and doesn't need a big red flashing light for every different stupid thing he/she might do...
If the users wanted momentary damages, they should have formed/joined litigation or a class action against Wallace themselves.
That aside, you don't get money for criminal charges, so it's not always about the cash. Having facebook actually go after guy - hopefully enough to get contempt charges and have him thrown in the slammer - will hopefully help deter him from further victims, and give a similar "moral victory" to those that were wronged.
If somebody did something to screw me out of $100, it might not be worth it for me alone to sue for damages in court. However it would likely still put a smile on my face if $BIGCORP managed to wipe them out.
Just out of curiosity, what are the privacy rights on say,a storage facility.Can the cops just walk on in and open things up, or do they need a warrant?
The speed limits, turn restrictions, signage, whatever is all there for a reason. It's to create a safe and predictable driving environment for everyone
Except in places where they're made so that it's easier to make money off of speeding tickets, etc. No, this isn't the case always, but there have been plenty of cases where limits are *lowered* for no apparent reason (and suddenly that stretch is radar-heaven), or where stop-lights have had the yellow-red interval lowered to a point where it's less safe, or numerous other foolish reasons.
As a motorist it's not my place to decide whether a law/sign/etc is in place for the right or wrong reason, but it's also wrong to ignore the fact that this happens.
npviewer is part of "nspluginwrapper", and IMHO should be avoided like the plague. It causes nothing but problems, especially the infamous "I've crashed your firefox but will continue to run flash in a wrapper while consuming CPU" issue.
Adobe has had flash10 in "alpha" for linux/64-bit for awhile now. I'd heartily recommend it over the 32-bit wrapped version.
See here:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
It's not out on Gentoo? That's odd, because even on our Debian/Lenny systems at the office Grub2 has been available for quite awhile, and Debian/stable is hardly known for being "bleeding edge"
Because I'm in BC now, and it was just a few days ago that they passed the anti-cellphone, and it still doesn't take take effect until early next year.
There is a law against "smoking in the workplace," as well, but I've yet to hear of any truckers being nailed for it while doing so in their trucks.
Not a troll at all, what makes you think so?
My original site (domain in the WHOIS) started because I had a 'net account that allowed hosting, and enough hardware to do so. Other than a photo gallery, most of my own content has been a been a bit lame, but since I had space and CPU to spare, it mainly hosted a bunch of friends who are fairly decent at anime and other such things.
The "lawn" site was originally intended to be a blog of sorts and/or a discussion about technology and various other things, and how they've changed over time. Since the layout sucked though, it got less than a dozen *real* hit a month, and plenty of spammers. It then mostly turned into a game of testing forum-based anti-spam measures to see how well it kept *them* out, but still no real content.
Sad since my job used to be maintaining forums for some fairly prominent (but not my own) domains...I just can't seem to drive useful traffic to my own.
I should probably take this to email before I get nailed as massively OT though. If you care to talk further it's the one in my whois. I do appreciate feedback, and suggestions/collaboration are always welcome.
p.l.s. (post lack-of-signature) I don't think I've been called troll quite so much in one message. Still not sure why
Hey Rachael,
I colo with a few buddies and it was recently moved to a new server. Unfortunately they did so whilst I was away, and missed the DB's. There wasn't anything really useful in that one anyhow, though I'm a bit more miffed about the loss of my gallery2 database.
Once I figure something useful to put up there I'll probably have it back. I'm great at the technical area of things but not so much at the "decor" which attracts visitors, any suggestions?
It's actually funny. A lot of things in windows are various hacks to improve security. For example, disabling access to the "Internet Properties" control panel from IE. At least on XP, that policy doesn't work because it is still accessible from elsewhere such as the privacy/cookies section in media player. The lack of an underlying security method makes some things very difficult or well near impossible to secure.
For Linux, the problem is the opposite. You're working against certain levels of security to improve accessibility. For example, when accessing thumb drives or scanners, you may need to work with udev to ensure than the /dev/x entries are read+writable by a particular group (floppy, disk, cdrom, plugdev, whatever) that your normal users would belong to. You don't want all the dev block entries to be thus because then the user could have direct access to your system disks.
Not entirely true. Most wine installs have access to either your homedir or the root directory as various drive letters (mind you only as the user it runs as).
So technically if it was a runs-in-wine-but-targets-'nix type of virus, it could find your .bashrc or whatever, and edit it to launch on login.
Except that might only work with older games, now that the newer ones seem to require either authentication-via-internet or playing via an internet lobby (gee, thanks steam and battle.net)...
That's actually one of the big issues raised about Starcraft 2... no way to play a local multiplayer without an internet connection...
Telus in British Columbia was "BC Tel". I may be wrong, but I believe that in both BC and Alberta (western-most and adjascent province) they were at least one time partly public entities.
This article mentions Telus as having been provincially owned in Alberta:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0011790
This article mentions "BC Tel" as having been a public utility:
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/BRITISH-COLUMBIA-TELEPHONE-COMPANY-Company-History.html
Add a section to the installer that gives you one of the usual options to:
"Click yes to notify Nvidia of your driver installation. This will send minimum information needed to track how many users are installing our drivers on various varieties of systems. Information included in the notification will include:
- Your NVidia card model
- Your CPU model
- Your RAM
- You Linux Distribution and kernel version"
Give or take some of the above info, it should be minimally intrusive, but help them to better track the usage of their drivers and even what varieties of systems they are most used on.
Not everyone who supports gay rights is in fact a homosexual himself/herself, and thus are likely still capable of reproducing.
However, this is slashdot... so that (reproduction) might still be an unlikely phenomenoa