Law enforcement from where? A lot of us don't live in the USA, so they have no legal right to install bullshit like that on our computers... (not that I think they do anyhow without a warrant)
I worked in a school district, and we had a teacher who:
a) Upgraded his own RAM (and used incompatible PC100 RAM on a PC133 board)
b) "Upgraded" his own OS (it was awhile ago, but the machine *was* win98 and he overwrote it with 2k)
c) Installed a bunch of filesharing software and downloaded a ton of games/music/movies
Then, when the computer finally broke down and cried mama, he got pissed off with IT for "taking too long" to fix it. When we initially went to backup his files (first step before messing inside a kibbled PC) about 80-90% of the files were downloaded crap.
The saddest part: since this teacher was fairly savvy with technology, the others deferred to him and constantly referred to his very *bad* advice/expertise in various school computer stuff. It went on for quite a long time until the school got a new principal who took away his computer and stepped on him fairly firmly.
Yeah, it's too bad. While I'm not sure if it would be a foot-shooting move or not, were MS to *sell* a functional DirectX system for Linux (that didn't completely screw up the rest of my OS) I might just be tempted to buy it. Actually, it might be a good way for them to move into the FOSS market by leveraging their existing technologies.
Even with assigned seating, is there some difference in the identification code that not only shows what theatre the movie is tagged to, but also the time of the showing/recording?
What are they going to do, pull every record for a month and question those who sat around 5-A?
We spend TWICE what England and Canada do per capita on health care.
And as a Canadian, I would *love* to see the US come up with a nationalized health plan. Why? Because there are *tons* of doctors here who get out of med school and skip the border to make bigger paychecks. This more-or-less totally screws our own health-care system as the US get-rich-quick system leaves our own understaffed.
Not that I really want to have a doctor who's in it solely for getting rich, but it seems to me that if both countries had equalized healthcare then the only ones going through med school would be the ones that want to become part of a healthcare system (and make a decent living, but not make themselves filthy rich).
This goes with the assumption that the main benefit of use would go to users installing them as sources of power for a whole household.
While that might eventually be the case, I'd imagine that the first step might be more in the integration of solar energy. Imagine if all A/C units came without a plug and instead had integrated solar panel(s). After market-penetration reached a high-enough level, there could be a huge reduction on grid-usage during the summer (after all, if it's sunny enough to be hot, it's sunny enough to provide power).
It used to have a forum, but work has been keeping me too busy and it was getting nailed with all kinda of SPAM, so I've offlined it until I have a chance to add some better counter-measures.
Except wouldn't it take only a few investors to stand up to the RIAA, get the charges toss out in court (and hopefully damages awarded to the defendant), and set a precedent which would strongly discourage future frivolous lawsuits?
That is, supposing they don't just fold and settle out (I'm hoping that the insult and idiocy of such a lawsuit would be enough to discourage such).
Hogan's written some good books. This was one of the first of his books I've read, but I grabbed a bunch of others (some a fair bit older) and they're all quite good.
Agreed. It seems that however unreasonable this guy was in the beginning, his incarceration and punishment to-date have already greatly exceeded a reasonable amount.
Scary to see what they can do to you if the really want to, because I can't say that - had he complied more - they wouldn't have found another way to screw him over just as much or more.
But it still doesn't preclude selling audiobooks. A lot of people buy audiobooks because they like the way a particular person reads. I remember seeing plenty of books read out by actors (Lemmon comes to mind). If granny has to choose between "nice sounding male voice X" and "computerish sounding person X", she'll probably still stick with the audiobooks. Not to mention that those buying kindles, with the exception of the visually impaired who supposedly aren't the target of this particular rant, aren't necessarily the audiobook types anyhow.
There are plenty subtleties of a human voice that a computer isn't going to match any time soon. Speech patterns, accent, and tone vary greatly by narrator. The idea that the kindles are taking aware from the value of audiobooks is a bit absurd (unless you count to the impaired, which again are supposedly not the target of this argument).
Indeed. Plenty of big corps also have PR sections and foundations (Ronald McDonald Children's Charity, Tim Horton's Camp). These foster goodwill between the consumer and the company, so in theory you're spending some money to gain goodwill (and thus gain more customers and sell more product)
Suing customers doesn't gain goodwill, and the music and movie industries actions against customers in general has earned them a pretty poor reputation as of late, thus it is seen by many as cool to "fight da man" and download music/movies, etc.
There are lots of cases wherein providing the information requested can get you in a lot of trouble in itself. As mentioned in other threads, there are many companies where the sysadmin-level and supervisory-level passwords are kept segregated, mainly because giving any one person (even your boss) gives too much ability to perpetuate fraud.
In other situations - and this one may have been more of a concern in this case - it's a case of the blame game. You leave the passwords with somebody who's not supposed to happen and/or is incompetent. They fuck things up royally, and then blame it on a malicious act by you. Blame-my-predecessor is a pretty common game, hence see the fairly popular three envelopes joke. The end result of that could be the same as or worse than how things ended up now, depending on the level of (in)competency of the person who now has access (imagine that they lack enough knowledge to screw things up while royally, but have enough to wipe out or tamper with logs leaving false evidence).
Sounds like the guy had a bad attitude yes, but it also sounds like that made the perfect excuse for an opportunistic manager to rake him over the coals post-firing.
My own practice is to keep a secure document with access procedures (passwords/keys/etc), and generally if I leave a company I still provide some support afterwards.
I've never been canned (although I have been downsized in an understandable situation where a company was going downhill) by wrathful management though, so I'm not sure how that would play out. Even with a list of passwords, there are still VPN's, SSH keys, and many other access levels that would have to be revoked to lock out my accounts properly, but I suppose setting my shell to/bin/false would do well enough in most cases, though there might be 100+ servers to go over in this regard.
but when that privilege was renounced, that he should have removed remote access.
How? He was no longer authorized to administrate the network. This would mean he likely was also not authorized to make the changes required to lock himself out.
When employees with sensitive information leave (voluntarily or no), it's generally best-practice to have those left behind ensure that their access is revoked as completely and quickly as possible, with the exception of certain situations (an employee leaves no good terms but continues to provide occasional support remotely, etc).
It seems to me that the amount/type of bonds is set based a variety of aspects, but high among those is the type of case and the arguments presented by the prosecutor as to whether the defendant is a risk or not...
I've got a 700 series and have been using Easy Peasy, which is a successor to Ubuntu-EEE (one of the other Ubuntu-derived distros). Despite the lame name, it's a fairly nice Ubuntu-derivative. My main complaint about it is that it tries to maximize almost everything, and sometimes does so to my dialog windows etc (I'm sure there's a setting to turn that off, but I haven't found where yet).
Other than that, overhead is fairly low and it's easy to navigate.
I work in a big city (Canada) and make a decent enough wage, especially for the current economic situation. When we were interviewing, a large portion of the candidates were - frankly - rather pathetic.
Supposed IT professionals who didn't know the names of the parts in their computer, or thought that knowing HTML made them a hot-shot programmer (lefover dot-bombers?). We had plenty of people show up who didn't even come close to meeting the listed skill requirements, and just wasted our time listing "alternative" experience from about a decade ago.
I know there are quite a number of MCSE's etc out there (and I'm more of a Unix/Linux shop type), but even then I've seen few with actual skills. While my own Windows administration skills have become a bit rusty over the years in favor of Unix, I wouldn't trust a lot of the so-called experts to fix my desktop let alone run my server!
So though I keep hearing about all these skilled workers out there, I wonder where they all are. Seems to me that the market has created a lot of people with a few pieces of paper claiming to be experts, but I haven't much of the real thing around here.
I haven't really been following this case that closely other than catching it initially, but it seems to me that when these things hit the courts, the "career suicide" part of things really depends on who wins.
Facing up against your former firm and winning might make one seem enough of a tiger to get hired on in another.
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Law enforcement from where? A lot of us don't live in the USA, so they have no legal right to install bullshit like that on our computers... (not that I think they do anyhow without a warrant)
Also a good idea for /tmp!
Think it's only sales?
I worked in a school district, and we had a teacher who:
a) Upgraded his own RAM (and used incompatible PC100 RAM on a PC133 board)
b) "Upgraded" his own OS (it was awhile ago, but the machine *was* win98 and he overwrote it with 2k)
c) Installed a bunch of filesharing software and downloaded a ton of games/music/movies
Then, when the computer finally broke down and cried mama, he got pissed off with IT for "taking too long" to fix it. When we initially went to backup his files (first step before messing inside a kibbled PC) about 80-90% of the files were downloaded crap.
The saddest part: since this teacher was fairly savvy with technology, the others deferred to him and constantly referred to his very *bad* advice/expertise in various school computer stuff. It went on for quite a long time until the school got a new principal who took away his computer and stepped on him fairly firmly.
Yeah, it's too bad. While I'm not sure if it would be a foot-shooting move or not, were MS to *sell* a functional DirectX system for Linux (that didn't completely screw up the rest of my OS) I might just be tempted to buy it. Actually, it might be a good way for them to move into the FOSS market by leveraging their existing technologies.
Even with assigned seating, is there some difference in the identification code that not only shows what theatre the movie is tagged to, but also the time of the showing/recording?
What are they going to do, pull every record for a month and question those who sat around 5-A?
In that case, it sounds like this "watermarking" would make it easy to identify if it's the projectionist making the copy rather than a patron.
... as what other people attribute to me online.
To be fair, I have seen crashed ATM's, BSOD's, and I believe a windows screen once.
And yes, I did see Diebold branding on a few of these
We spend TWICE what England and Canada do per capita on health care.
And as a Canadian, I would *love* to see the US come up with a nationalized health plan. Why? Because there are *tons* of doctors here who get out of med school and skip the border to make bigger paychecks. This more-or-less totally screws our own health-care system as the US get-rich-quick system leaves our own understaffed.
Not that I really want to have a doctor who's in it solely for getting rich, but it seems to me that if both countries had equalized healthcare then the only ones going through med school would be the ones that want to become part of a healthcare system (and make a decent living, but not make themselves filthy rich).
I don't use Netflix nor SL, but wasn't there supposed to be a version of Silverlight for Linux?
Does it still require some extra windows components to work with Netflix, then?
This goes with the assumption that the main benefit of use would go to users installing them as sources of power for a whole household.
While that might eventually be the case, I'd imagine that the first step might be more in the integration of solar energy. Imagine if all A/C units came without a plug and instead had integrated solar panel(s). After market-penetration reached a high-enough level, there could be a huge reduction on grid-usage during the summer (after all, if it's sunny enough to be hot, it's sunny enough to provide power).
It used to have a forum, but work has been keeping me too busy and it was getting nailed with all kinda of SPAM, so I've offlined it until I have a chance to add some better counter-measures.
Except wouldn't it take only a few investors to stand up to the RIAA, get the charges toss out in court (and hopefully damages awarded to the defendant), and set a precedent which would strongly discourage future frivolous lawsuits?
That is, supposing they don't just fold and settle out (I'm hoping that the insult and idiocy of such a lawsuit would be enough to discourage such).
Hogan's written some good books. This was one of the first of his books I've read, but I grabbed a bunch of others (some a fair bit older) and they're all quite good.
Become a Mac user, and you came come out in both ways...
*ducks*
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Agreed. It seems that however unreasonable this guy was in the beginning, his incarceration and punishment to-date have already greatly exceeded a reasonable amount.
Scary to see what they can do to you if the really want to, because I can't say that - had he complied more - they wouldn't have found another way to screw him over just as much or more.
But it still doesn't preclude selling audiobooks. A lot of people buy audiobooks because they like the way a particular person reads. I remember seeing plenty of books read out by actors (Lemmon comes to mind). If granny has to choose between "nice sounding male voice X" and "computerish sounding person X", she'll probably still stick with the audiobooks. Not to mention that those buying kindles, with the exception of the visually impaired who supposedly aren't the target of this particular rant, aren't necessarily the audiobook types anyhow.
There are plenty subtleties of a human voice that a computer isn't going to match any time soon. Speech patterns, accent, and tone vary greatly by narrator. The idea that the kindles are taking aware from the value of audiobooks is a bit absurd (unless you count to the impaired, which again are supposedly not the target of this argument).
Indeed. Plenty of big corps also have PR sections and foundations (Ronald McDonald Children's Charity, Tim Horton's Camp). These foster goodwill between the consumer and the company, so in theory you're spending some money to gain goodwill (and thus gain more customers and sell more product)
Suing customers doesn't gain goodwill, and the music and movie industries actions against customers in general has earned them a pretty poor reputation as of late, thus it is seen by many as cool to "fight da man" and download music/movies, etc.
There are lots of cases wherein providing the information requested can get you in a lot of trouble in itself. As mentioned in other threads, there are many companies where the sysadmin-level and supervisory-level passwords are kept segregated, mainly because giving any one person (even your boss) gives too much ability to perpetuate fraud.
In other situations - and this one may have been more of a concern in this case - it's a case of the blame game. You leave the passwords with somebody who's not supposed to happen and/or is incompetent. They fuck things up royally, and then blame it on a malicious act by you. Blame-my-predecessor is a pretty common game, hence see the fairly popular three envelopes joke. The end result of that could be the same as or worse than how things ended up now, depending on the level of (in)competency of the person who now has access (imagine that they lack enough knowledge to screw things up while royally, but have enough to wipe out or tamper with logs leaving false evidence).
Sounds like the guy had a bad attitude yes, but it also sounds like that made the perfect excuse for an opportunistic manager to rake him over the coals post-firing.
My own practice is to keep a secure document with access procedures (passwords/keys/etc), and generally if I leave a company I still provide some support afterwards.
I've never been canned (although I have been downsized in an understandable situation where a company was going downhill) by wrathful management though, so I'm not sure how that would play out. Even with a list of passwords, there are still VPN's, SSH keys, and many other access levels that would have to be revoked to lock out my accounts properly, but I suppose setting my shell to /bin/false would do well enough in most cases, though there might be 100+ servers to go over in this regard.
but when that privilege was renounced, that he should have removed remote access.
How? He was no longer authorized to administrate the network. This would mean he likely was also not authorized to make the changes required to lock himself out.
When employees with sensitive information leave (voluntarily or no), it's generally best-practice to have those left behind ensure that their access is revoked as completely and quickly as possible, with the exception of certain situations (an employee leaves no good terms but continues to provide occasional support remotely, etc).
It seems to me that the amount/type of bonds is set based a variety of aspects, but high among those is the type of case and the arguments presented by the prosecutor as to whether the defendant is a risk or not...
I've got a 700 series and have been using Easy Peasy, which is a successor to Ubuntu-EEE (one of the other Ubuntu-derived distros). Despite the lame name, it's a fairly nice Ubuntu-derivative. My main complaint about it is that it tries to maximize almost everything, and sometimes does so to my dialog windows etc (I'm sure there's a setting to turn that off, but I haven't found where yet).
Other than that, overhead is fairly low and it's easy to navigate.
I work in a big city (Canada) and make a decent enough wage, especially for the current economic situation. When we were interviewing, a large portion of the candidates were - frankly - rather pathetic.
Supposed IT professionals who didn't know the names of the parts in their computer, or thought that knowing HTML made them a hot-shot programmer (lefover dot-bombers?). We had plenty of people show up who didn't even come close to meeting the listed skill requirements, and just wasted our time listing "alternative" experience from about a decade ago.
I know there are quite a number of MCSE's etc out there (and I'm more of a Unix/Linux shop type), but even then I've seen few with actual skills. While my own Windows administration skills have become a bit rusty over the years in favor of Unix, I wouldn't trust a lot of the so-called experts to fix my desktop let alone run my server!
So though I keep hearing about all these skilled workers out there, I wonder where they all are. Seems to me that the market has created a lot of people with a few pieces of paper claiming to be experts, but I haven't much of the real thing around here.
I haven't really been following this case that closely other than catching it initially, but it seems to me that when these things hit the courts, the "career suicide" part of things really depends on who wins.
Facing up against your former firm and winning might make one seem enough of a tiger to get hired on in another.
Bill's the guy that's responsible for creating this monster. Obviously he didn't do it all by himself, but he's ultimately the captain of the ship.
However to be fair I believe that Einstein's goals were a little more altruistic to start with.