While I think that saying all battered women behave the same is definitely a generality, I have known some women in this situation. It is much more an emotional/psychological based issue than a intellectual one.
They will if the courts start costing them big-time money (more than they do already). OK, so they're getting $3000 settlements. How much are they paying their pack of lawyers per hour? I bet it's a lot, so even the profit from that might be small.
Start having a bunch of people hitting back. Lawyers in court == more lost money. Start having them losing cases for big money == more lost money. Start having the courts perhaps decide that they lose the rights to press suites in regards to the material they're sueing for (some have indicated that it's possible).
Why the psychiatric angle at all? Can't he be barred for "Extremely unprofessional behavior not appropriate of a member of the bar" or something along those lines?
It does still say he's a "member in good standing" though, I wonder if you can be a member in poor standard or the alternative is to just be disbarred?
Well, it's worse than that. In many cases, stolen credit=profit for the card companies, etc. When a merchant processes a fraudulent transaction, who do you think gets burned? Not the credit-card company. The merchant eats the transaction, and sometimes additional penalties (see: profit) for being a bad boy and accepting fraudulent cards without checking them properly... despite the fact that CC companies seem to strongly avoid implementing better ways to check against fraud.
I'd always assumed that it was due to a good training process, and a strong (and held to) set of requirements for even getting on a starship in the first place. There were plenty of less intelligent people on the various planets they landed on, and various cases of nepotism in the hierarchy, so I can stick with the idea that you had to be somewhat bright to get into a decent position on a starship.
Of course, it was just Star Trek, which is TV not reality:-)
I've also seen nearly as many complaints from Bible-belters about Ned Flanders and the portrayal of Christianity
I almost wish more Christians *were* like Ned. Yes, his character definitely reaches from the area of devoted to obsessive, but personality-wise he has been very accepting of others and in general displayed the good side of the religion quite well. I don't even have cable nowadays, so I don't watch the Simpsons often, but when I was younger I was a regular viewer. Ned was always the slightly nutty, but genuinely nice, do-your-best, accept-others type individual. Despite his own strong beliefs he never did seem to look down on other religious, although he (and his family) stuck to his own personally.
Ned sounds like a nice type of guy to have as a neighbour. Somewhat like a cross between Wilson (Home Improvement) and a very religious Brady-Bunch. Perhaps the Belters should look more at Flanders as a rolemodel of acceptance and devotion.
I think this has more to do with a shift in the programming market from desktop-based apps to online web-applications. In a lot of cases this makes sense, as it leaves you with a centralized point for updates and databases - independent of any individual machine - which could be accessed in theory from anywhere in the world. The advent of things such as AJAX which reduces page-loads and makes programs a little more seemless seems to help as well.
I've been seeing a decent number of jobs requiring PHP, ASP, Perl, Java, etc skills, and less so with C/C++ skills in the last while. It's not quite the same as the web-boom of ages previous, where any jack could make a wad of cash hosting sites on cheap servers, or developing HTML/JavaScript pages. Script-based languages still require a good deal of skill to program in properly, especially with the security angles and concerns of having a page available to so many people.
But when it goes to court, then they should be viewable both by the judiciary and those researching the case. Chances are your contract with the care facility is going to be fine, unless somebody is sued for violation of said contract or some issue related to it.
From what I can understand, the person is still seeing the appropriate number associated with the service (skype, calling card, etc), rather than the person. Just like when I call from a payphone, if the number is displayed it's the number of the phone itself, not the caller.
This would more cover the case where you have an assigned number of 555-1234, but you knowingly spoof the number to show up as 5555-9876 to avoid callback.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer and laws tend to have lots of interesting loopholes and workarounds that makes the legal system "so much fun"
This reminds me of where I used to work. Oddly, we had a few UPS's, several monitors, and various other computer components "catch smoke," oftimes right out of the box. Tested the power on the wall, and it was good. The monitors were plugged into decent power bars as well, so shouldn't have suffered surges.
What we figured is that it had something to do with our neighboring business, a dentist, especially since in the very next room was a big X-ray machine and other large equipment. It could be one of those environmental things that just can't be easily easily found, but then again it could just as easily be a common recurring defect, contributing, climate conditions (not power, but humidity, heat, etc), and the fact that the first few were returned refurbs anyhow.
We used to do it a fair bit where I used to work. One machine functions as a DHCP server and NAT gateway. Since DHCP tells the computer to connect through the NAT box, all connections go in - and out - the same NIC.
Well, I'll be the first admit that my C-skills are pretty rusty, though I do spend a good amount of time with languages that use related structures, I haven't done any actual from-scratch projects with C/C++ in a long time. That being said, I've been able to debug, trace, and fix various projects over the last few years. Off the top of my head some webcam drivers (I think it was for the whatever driver the "Creative Webcam Go" used) as well as the OpenH323gk project.
Actually tracking down security issues, though, would be a bit harder. When you've got a bug you know about you can debug, trace, and find the source of the loop/crash/etc just by following your debug trail. With a security issue, you might not know it's even there unless it's pointed out... it's not the same as having a visible crash or malfunction in most cases.
So upgrading/fixing broken code is not too hard. Finding abstract or obscure faults is - IMHO - a lot more difficult. Even with well-commented code, you can't fix what you don't know is there. Alternately, it's sometimes a combination of your coding-type and that of the original coder as to whether a particular piece of source is readable/fixable.
I thought about this, but technically it would fulfill the needs of the software just to have 10 fingers scanned, whereas having less than such might lead to some form of error
I've seen some interesting requirements from various systems in my time, sometimes they're a bit hard-wired too. What happens if the person in question only has 9 fingers (accidents do happens, and finger-severing ones tend to be not that uncommon). Are they blocked out when the system absolutely requires ten fingers, or do they have to acquiesce to some other form of identification/searches/etc?
Well, from everything I've seen and heard, video tends to be "randomly slower" on Vista anyhow. My co-worker's dual-SLI cards ran like crap on Vista compared to XP, even with the latest drivers. One of my clients was complaining that his DVD playback was laggy and rough in Vista as well. Numerous complains have abounded in regards to poor game/video performance in Vista compared to XP. With that in mind, a little of such going the other way wouldn't be terrible. If I can run DX9 games in Cedega/Wine without noticeable issues (sometimes faster than XP, since the driver for my laptop isn't updated by the 'nix one is) then I'd say DX10 shouldn't be that huge an issue to run on something other than Vista too.
No, the problem is that they're capable (of meeting their own agendas) but so powerful that they're drunk on it. At that point, when it appears that nothing and nobody will stop them - despite whatever bad image they portray - they're going to keep trying for more, and caring about it less.
That applies to currently. In the case of games, yes it is an in-game currency, but effectively it functions more like goods/services when converting into real world dollars.
However, it's still not that simple. If I have to claim the $50 in gamebux that I made farming gold, or whatever, does that mean I can deduct the cost of the following:
The game
The subscription (to WOW or whatever)
The internet connection
The PC used to access the internet
In other businesses, those might be viable expenses depending on what you do, how about when you're "profiting" from a game?
There's a criminal record, an arrest record, and then a police record. I think the latter is the worst. I have never been charged with a crime, nor arrested. However, just being in the vicinity of a crime (and thus questioned) can leave you with a police record.
My current employer had mine pulled when I applied for the job (a school district, so they're pretty careful here). It was quite interesting to see the types of things that show up on there... pretty much anything past a parking ticket, and from what I've heard even being witness to various events will be on the police record just noting you as a "person of interest." Pretty bare on details though, the major paperwork usually ends up getting filed and shipped somewhere after a certain amount of time.
Oh, and before the rants start, I'm a Canadian, so that sort of stuff happens outside of the US too. Really, I could see why police would keep such records, but not really why employers or others should be able to require them. I've heard of many cases where an individual has been accused to doing bad things to his/her kids, and that sort of thing would be on the record. What it might not mention, is that it was an accusation from a spouse in the middle of (or just before filing) a divorce proceeding... which is not that uncommon, unfortunately. Never happened to me, but I know plenty of people that have had divorce cases get nasty, especially when it came down to custody rights.
Sorry, but your innuendo falls a little short. It's been pretty visible that the US has mass spy programs against its own citizens (which has long been held less acceptable than against foreign "competition"), and they've done very little to hide the fact that they have a strong interest in collecting and using whatever information they can.
Why do the french have to be up to anything? If I get new deadbolts because I see my neighbour burying bodies in the backyard, it doesn't mean I have any bodies in my yard, it just means I don't want to end fertilizing his...
Back in the day a disk came that had your browser (netscape) when you signed up for internet service. Nowadays your DSL/cable modem still comes with a disc in most cases, so why not have an easily installable firefox, netscape, or opera, whatever on there?
Except if they're investigating mail issues, fixing user accounts, etc. Some of this can be done with permission, which actually checking into the user account should. I've had to login to clients' email accounts myself in order to verify whether a problem is on the server (misconfiguration), the client (misconfiguration, connection issues, etc), or the user (wrong password, etc). Of course, sometimes it's just a telnet to port 110/25 in order to receive/send a test email, so I never see actual messages, but at times it can involve locally popping into the user's webmail or imap account to check that things work as expected.
Now when it comes to actual server issues, let's say you have consistently large emails bogging down the system. Or a new variety of SPAM, etc. At some point you might legitimately have a strong need to investigate what it is that's causing the holdup, and/or filter it appropriately (you do want to block large spams, you don't necessarily want to block normal emails with large attachments, etc).
Actually, the postal model works quite well. While the gov't can't just decide to rifle through your mail, I believe there are procedures for postal services to inspected and/or open-to-inspect suspicious mail. The only problem with this in the e-world is that the volume of email in a minute amount of time might be much greater than snail-mail, which if there is a "permission" process could become a bottleneck.
I wouldn't want the government reading all my emails. I might be OK if the ISP potentially ran across some of them in the scenario of a real issue... provided they weren't targeting anyone specific or for the purpose of reading emails. I've used a traffic sniffer at work to identify bad packets or virus-caused flooding, and seen all sorts of interesting goodies at the same time (why would ANY website submit a login via plan http instead of https??)
Even without DMA that sounds like a really long time. DMA'less transfers can be a lot slower depending on your CPU speed, but not nearly that bad. I'm not aware of the details on this issue (don't deal with macs that often, and never run into it on the ones I do deal with), so I can't comment.
Since apple hardware and OS's tend to run together though, I'd imagine that the OS would always have whatever driver(s) are needed to access the DMA controller on the motherboard. It's probably a different issue.
Well, somebody modded me flamebait, so perhaps I need to explain things a bit more.
Most modern linuxes enable DMA (or use SATA, which doesn't seem to need a DMA driver or it's just part of the SATA driver). However, I've had the distinct displeasure of forgetting to compile the right drive-controller driver into a kernel, and wondering why:
a) My transfers for so damned slow
b) My drive was chugging around a lot
c) My CPU usage went through the roof while copying files
Eventually I discovered the missing DMA driver, but in the meantime it was definitely putting a lot more strain on my CPU, etc. That being said though, if I was compiling kernels regularly, running heavy graphics software (rendering) or many other such things I could put the same strain on the hardware (regardless of OS), so it really shouldn't be something that could be considered an issue that could affect warranty... unless warranties are going to start stating "you cannot utilize more than 60% CPU for more than 10 consecutive minutes" or some other stupid claim
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While I think that saying all battered women behave the same is definitely a generality, I have known some women in this situation. It is much more an emotional/psychological based issue than a intellectual one.
They will if the courts start costing them big-time money (more than they do already). OK, so they're getting $3000 settlements. How much are they paying their pack of lawyers per hour? I bet it's a lot, so even the profit from that might be small.
Start having a bunch of people hitting back. Lawyers in court == more lost money. Start having them losing cases for big money == more lost money. Start having the courts perhaps decide that they lose the rights to press suites in regards to the material they're sueing for (some have indicated that it's possible).
Why the psychiatric angle at all? Can't he be barred for "Extremely unprofessional behavior not appropriate of a member of the bar" or something along those lines?
It does still say he's a "member in good standing" though, I wonder if you can be a member in poor standard or the alternative is to just be disbarred?
Well, it's worse than that. In many cases, stolen credit=profit for the card companies, etc. When a merchant processes a fraudulent transaction, who do you think gets burned? Not the credit-card company. The merchant eats the transaction, and sometimes additional penalties (see: profit) for being a bad boy and accepting fraudulent cards without checking them properly... despite the fact that CC companies seem to strongly avoid implementing better ways to check against fraud.
I'd always assumed that it was due to a good training process, and a strong (and held to) set of requirements for even getting on a starship in the first place. There were plenty of less intelligent people on the various planets they landed on, and various cases of nepotism in the hierarchy, so I can stick with the idea that you had to be somewhat bright to get into a decent position on a starship.
:-)
Of course, it was just Star Trek, which is TV not reality
I've also seen nearly as many complaints from Bible-belters about Ned Flanders and the portrayal of Christianity
I almost wish more Christians *were* like Ned. Yes, his character definitely reaches from the area of devoted to obsessive, but personality-wise he has been very accepting of others and in general displayed the good side of the religion quite well. I don't even have cable nowadays, so I don't watch the Simpsons often, but when I was younger I was a regular viewer. Ned was always the slightly nutty, but genuinely nice, do-your-best, accept-others type individual. Despite his own strong beliefs he never did seem to look down on other religious, although he (and his family) stuck to his own personally.
Ned sounds like a nice type of guy to have as a neighbour. Somewhat like a cross between Wilson (Home Improvement) and a very religious Brady-Bunch. Perhaps the Belters should look more at Flanders as a rolemodel of acceptance and devotion.
I think this has more to do with a shift in the programming market from desktop-based apps to online web-applications. In a lot of cases this makes sense, as it leaves you with a centralized point for updates and databases - independent of any individual machine - which could be accessed in theory from anywhere in the world. The advent of things such as AJAX which reduces page-loads and makes programs a little more seemless seems to help as well.
I've been seeing a decent number of jobs requiring PHP, ASP, Perl, Java, etc skills, and less so with C/C++ skills in the last while. It's not quite the same as the web-boom of ages previous, where any jack could make a wad of cash hosting sites on cheap servers, or developing HTML/JavaScript pages. Script-based languages still require a good deal of skill to program in properly, especially with the security angles and concerns of having a page available to so many people.
But when it goes to court, then they should be viewable both by the judiciary and those researching the case. Chances are your contract with the care facility is going to be fine, unless somebody is sued for violation of said contract or some issue related to it.
From what I can understand, the person is still seeing the appropriate number associated with the service (skype, calling card, etc), rather than the person. Just like when I call from a payphone, if the number is displayed it's the number of the phone itself, not the caller.
This would more cover the case where you have an assigned number of 555-1234, but you knowingly spoof the number to show up as 5555-9876 to avoid callback.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer and laws tend to have lots of interesting loopholes and workarounds that makes the legal system "so much fun"
This reminds me of where I used to work. Oddly, we had a few UPS's, several monitors, and various other computer components "catch smoke," oftimes right out of the box. Tested the power on the wall, and it was good. The monitors were plugged into decent power bars as well, so shouldn't have suffered surges.
What we figured is that it had something to do with our neighboring business, a dentist, especially since in the very next room was a big X-ray machine and other large equipment. It could be one of those environmental things that just can't be easily easily found, but then again it could just as easily be a common recurring defect, contributing, climate conditions (not power, but humidity, heat, etc), and the fact that the first few were returned refurbs anyhow.
We used to do it a fair bit where I used to work. One machine functions as a DHCP server and NAT gateway. Since DHCP tells the computer to connect through the NAT box, all connections go in - and out - the same NIC.
Well, I'll be the first admit that my C-skills are pretty rusty, though I do spend a good amount of time with languages that use related structures, I haven't done any actual from-scratch projects with C/C++ in a long time. That being said, I've been able to debug, trace, and fix various projects over the last few years. Off the top of my head some webcam drivers (I think it was for the whatever driver the "Creative Webcam Go" used) as well as the OpenH323gk project.
Actually tracking down security issues, though, would be a bit harder. When you've got a bug you know about you can debug, trace, and find the source of the loop/crash/etc just by following your debug trail. With a security issue, you might not know it's even there unless it's pointed out... it's not the same as having a visible crash or malfunction in most cases.
So upgrading/fixing broken code is not too hard. Finding abstract or obscure faults is - IMHO - a lot more difficult. Even with well-commented code, you can't fix what you don't know is there. Alternately, it's sometimes a combination of your coding-type and that of the original coder as to whether a particular piece of source is readable/fixable.
I thought about this, but technically it would fulfill the needs of the software just to have 10 fingers scanned, whereas having less than such might lead to some form of error
I've seen some interesting requirements from various systems in my time, sometimes they're a bit hard-wired too. What happens if the person in question only has 9 fingers (accidents do happens, and finger-severing ones tend to be not that uncommon). Are they blocked out when the system absolutely requires ten fingers, or do they have to acquiesce to some other form of identification/searches/etc?
Well, from everything I've seen and heard, video tends to be "randomly slower" on Vista anyhow. My co-worker's dual-SLI cards ran like crap on Vista compared to XP, even with the latest drivers. One of my clients was complaining that his DVD playback was laggy and rough in Vista as well. Numerous complains have abounded in regards to poor game/video performance in Vista compared to XP. With that in mind, a little of such going the other way wouldn't be terrible. If I can run DX9 games in Cedega/Wine without noticeable issues (sometimes faster than XP, since the driver for my laptop isn't updated by the 'nix one is) then I'd say DX10 shouldn't be that huge an issue to run on something other than Vista too.
No, the problem is that they're capable (of meeting their own agendas) but so powerful that they're drunk on it. At that point, when it appears that nothing and nobody will stop them - despite whatever bad image they portray - they're going to keep trying for more, and caring about it less.
That applies to currently. In the case of games, yes it is an in-game currency, but effectively it functions more like goods/services when converting into real world dollars.
However, it's still not that simple. If I have to claim the $50 in gamebux that I made farming gold, or whatever, does that mean I can deduct the cost of the following:
The game
The subscription (to WOW or whatever)
The internet connection
The PC used to access the internet
In other businesses, those might be viable expenses depending on what you do, how about when you're "profiting" from a game?
There's a criminal record, an arrest record, and then a police record. I think the latter is the worst. I have never been charged with a crime, nor arrested. However, just being in the vicinity of a crime (and thus questioned) can leave you with a police record.
My current employer had mine pulled when I applied for the job (a school district, so they're pretty careful here). It was quite interesting to see the types of things that show up on there... pretty much anything past a parking ticket, and from what I've heard even being witness to various events will be on the police record just noting you as a "person of interest." Pretty bare on details though, the major paperwork usually ends up getting filed and shipped somewhere after a certain amount of time.
Oh, and before the rants start, I'm a Canadian, so that sort of stuff happens outside of the US too. Really, I could see why police would keep such records, but not really why employers or others should be able to require them. I've heard of many cases where an individual has been accused to doing bad things to his/her kids, and that sort of thing would be on the record. What it might not mention, is that it was an accusation from a spouse in the middle of (or just before filing) a divorce proceeding... which is not that uncommon, unfortunately. Never happened to me, but I know plenty of people that have had divorce cases get nasty, especially when it came down to custody rights.
Sorry, but your innuendo falls a little short. It's been pretty visible that the US has mass spy programs against its own citizens (which has long been held less acceptable than against foreign "competition"), and they've done very little to hide the fact that they have a strong interest in collecting and using whatever information they can.
Why do the french have to be up to anything? If I get new deadbolts because I see my neighbour burying bodies in the backyard, it doesn't mean I have any bodies in my yard, it just means I don't want to end fertilizing his...
Back in the day a disk came that had your browser (netscape) when you signed up for internet service. Nowadays your DSL/cable modem still comes with a disc in most cases, so why not have an easily installable firefox, netscape, or opera, whatever on there?
Except if they're investigating mail issues, fixing user accounts, etc. Some of this can be done with permission, which actually checking into the user account should. I've had to login to clients' email accounts myself in order to verify whether a problem is on the server (misconfiguration), the client (misconfiguration, connection issues, etc), or the user (wrong password, etc). Of course, sometimes it's just a telnet to port 110/25 in order to receive/send a test email, so I never see actual messages, but at times it can involve locally popping into the user's webmail or imap account to check that things work as expected.
Now when it comes to actual server issues, let's say you have consistently large emails bogging down the system. Or a new variety of SPAM, etc. At some point you might legitimately have a strong need to investigate what it is that's causing the holdup, and/or filter it appropriately (you do want to block large spams, you don't necessarily want to block normal emails with large attachments, etc).
Actually, the postal model works quite well. While the gov't can't just decide to rifle through your mail, I believe there are procedures for postal services to inspected and/or open-to-inspect suspicious mail. The only problem with this in the e-world is that the volume of email in a minute amount of time might be much greater than snail-mail, which if there is a "permission" process could become a bottleneck.
I wouldn't want the government reading all my emails. I might be OK if the ISP potentially ran across some of them in the scenario of a real issue... provided they weren't targeting anyone specific or for the purpose of reading emails. I've used a traffic sniffer at work to identify bad packets or virus-caused flooding, and seen all sorts of interesting goodies at the same time (why would ANY website submit a login via plan http instead of https??)
Even without DMA that sounds like a really long time. DMA'less transfers can be a lot slower depending on your CPU speed, but not nearly that bad. I'm not aware of the details on this issue (don't deal with macs that often, and never run into it on the ones I do deal with), so I can't comment.
Since apple hardware and OS's tend to run together though, I'd imagine that the OS would always have whatever driver(s) are needed to access the DMA controller on the motherboard. It's probably a different issue.
Well, somebody modded me flamebait, so perhaps I need to explain things a bit more.
Most modern linuxes enable DMA (or use SATA, which doesn't seem to need a DMA driver or it's just part of the SATA driver). However, I've had the distinct displeasure of forgetting to compile the right drive-controller driver into a kernel, and wondering why:
a) My transfers for so damned slow
b) My drive was chugging around a lot
c) My CPU usage went through the roof while copying files
Eventually I discovered the missing DMA driver, but in the meantime it was definitely putting a lot more strain on my CPU, etc. That being said though, if I was compiling kernels regularly, running heavy graphics software (rendering) or many other such things I could put the same strain on the hardware (regardless of OS), so it really shouldn't be something that could be considered an issue that could affect warranty... unless warranties are going to start stating "you cannot utilize more than 60% CPU for more than 10 consecutive minutes" or some other stupid claim
I'm fairly sure I *wouldn't* want to see the ad for that... *shudders*
It wasn't that they wouldn't accept cow, it's that they didn't have two chickens and a hog to make change with at the time!