Call me old fashioned but a "good" sysadmin doesn't screw up to the point of getting fired let alone destroying the network they used to admin. A skilled hacker, on the other hand, would be the one that didn't get caught. That said, you are right about incompetence.
Yet another example of punishing the guilty instead of the innocent. You want to stop dangerous texting? Punish those who get in wrecks under existing manslaughter or other applicable laws that kill someone while doing it. Don't ban the innocent from it. Think of catching dolphins in a tuna net. That's what laws like this do. Prohibition was similar. Banning alcohol caused a massive increase in crime and removing the ban stopped the mobsters of the era cold almost over night.
Punish people if they cause an accident...not because they *might* cause one.
Cities run by liberals and unions will spend money on anything, whether legit or not, as long as it makes them look "progressive". While recycling certainly is not a bad thing, this is an utter waste of tax payer money on many levels.
I have a co-worker who has told me that her wifi dies when she turns on her microwave oven. Her router sits very near the microwave. As your neighbors are also being affected, that lends evidence that the interference is caused by a pretty strong signal. Look for a business that uses something around those hours.
No corporation, regardless of size, has remotely close to the power of the federal government. Go look up the money available to a given company and then look at how much the federal budget is. The difference is staggering.
The 1st amendment is sufficient as written to control the federal government in the area of free speech and freedom of religion. That was the intent of the Constitution in general...limiting the power of government over free people. The constitution was NEVER designed to limit or otherwise interfere with private business of any kind within the borders of the US. (The fed was given the power to tax imports from private businesses outside the borders...this is called a tariff. The fed was also given the ability to regulate interstate commerce...it has been abused by congress mightily).
As was said by a previous poster, the 1st amendment only guarantees that congress can't make a law that infringes on your right to free speech, your right to the "free exercise of religion", freedom of the press or preventing you from petitioning the government "for a redress of grievances". This amendment also prevents congress from passing a law "...respecting an establishment of religion".
This amendment says nothing about what a private company can or cannot tell its employees to do or say.
Amen. This one mistake will now cost every other commercial pilot in the country. It's the same thing with gun laws. Punishing the innocent instead of the guilty.
Punish the pilots who screwed up...not the entire remaining staff of pilots who didn't.
This is a stupid and ultimately harmful answer to what happened.
Solution for PC games is obvious. PDF on the Disc containing every page that would have been printed.
I suppose for console games that a URL to visit online where you can download the manual would work but then what if the site goes down or the file is removed...or they might make you setup a "free" account and be forced to provide personal details in order to access the manual. (Yes I know it will get out eventually...)
If you go read his site, the fight isn't quite over. He states that Nissan Motors is attempting to register a Federal Trademark in the computer industry. He is going back to court again to fight this.
See http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php (bottom of page)
Interesting. You want people to fight for their freedoms but when someone does, all of a sudden they're a bunch of idiots. Not saying I agree w/ everything the Tea Party stands for but at least they're willing to to stand for it in public and fight for it. If they don't get loud, no one listens. Most of them probably have no desire for fame or fortune. They simply want their freedom. If you really want people to stand up for their rights, be prepared for the consequences.
For the sake of this argument, let's take the statement that Paypal froze their funds as being true (I know, this is Slashdot, where the summary is usually wrong).
I saw this on Friday at his site (http://www.cryptome.org) and he indeed did have his paypal account frozen. No assumption is required this time.
You are wrong about one thing. It is the people who should actively seek solutions to poverty, crime and war. By giving that power to politicians, you ensure that there will, in fact, be more laws passed and no solutions found. People need to stand up and take the responsibility back from the government and quit relying on that government for their every need and whim.
No! socialism supports the rulers of those workers. Look at what happened to the USSR. Workers were held down, not helped up. The only way to help workers is to get the government out of the damn way and let them help themselves. All socialism does is force them to stay exactly where they are....slaving away for those who rule them (union bosses, government officials, etc)
...They are socialist in principle (more worker control), but are generally not politically radical enough or strong enough to determine a political system. Most major modern unions are quite politically moderate, so they don't really act to support either socialism or capitalism...
What crack are you smoking? Unions push a vote almost 100% democratic-..ie Socialist!! I am a grudging member of one against my will and I have seen all the propaganda. Unions claim to want to help workers but they do nothing other than pad their own pockets w/ the hard earned money of the members and push socialist candidates into office. It is virtual slavery. Because I work under a union contract, I cannot get a raise for the rest of my career at my current place of employment. Tell me again how this is supposed to be helping me, the worker? You say unions aren't powerful yet they control and run the entire country now. They started by enslaving urban areas (like Chicago) and now they have elected one of their own to the Presidency assuring them total control of this country for several years. You really need to wake up and smell the coffee about unions. They have totally snow-jobbed you into complacency.
...Bush was the exact opposite--a total sell-out to deregulation- and hate-mongers...
One day maybe you will realize that the massive part of the population that opposes the Democratic Party are not hatemongers. The world is not as black and white as your statement implies. The large percentage of people who voted for Bush in 2000 were good law-abiding citizens who don't like socialists telling them how to run their lives and their businesses. Just like you don't like people you disagree with telling you how to run yours.
I am really sick and tired of this "you aren't a good democrat so therefore you are a hate-mongering nazi" attitude that is so prevalent amongst those on the left. It simply doesn't reflect reality.
Oh...if Bush had been a sellout to deregulation, the economy would be better, not worse. Not to say that a total sellout to deregulation is ideal but Bush implemented socialistic policies(bailouts of failing companies) at the end of his 2nd term that finished off what little chance there was at a natural recovery. When those policies failed as socialism is bound to do, Bush's party was thrown out of office and an even more socialistic party elected, hence the continued languishing of the economy.
Matter of fact, an SG1 eppy detailed what happened if a wormhole from a stargate went through a star. The star got all weird and red-shifted nearly killing off a primitive planet and the Asgard had to flick their magic technobuttons to fix it...
That's my feeling exactly... though RDA's brief appearance was a little jarring. He's getting fat:(
On a completely unrelated note, was anyone else a little weirded out by the commercials for Sanctuary, in which Amanda Tapping (SG-1's blonde, American Samantha Carter) is a brown-haired Brit? She looked similar enough to be eerie, but different enough that I had to go look it up on IMDB before I'd believe it was her...
Add to that she was playing Sam Carter on SGU w/ blonde hair and then they'd cut to a commercial of her in Sanctuary showing her w/ brown hair...freaky.
What happens if government or law enforcement get into this game? Sounds like it could easily get abused. Just because there is an off switch for it now doesn't guarantee that there might be a future version of the technology embedded into TVs or other devices that will automatically report on everything the user is using that remote for.
I respectfully disagree. My 4 year old HP ScanJet 3500c works perfectly fine in windows 7 rc. No muss no fuss. Autodetected by the OS. I fully acknowledge that I may be the exception rather than the rule but I state my example simply to provide a case that someone's old hardware still does work and works fine.
I will say I had trouble getting my 10 year old HP 895cse inkjet printer(USB) to work in windows 7 RC. I had to do some proverbial backflips but I did eventually get it to work.
I stand corrected but I hope you saw where I was going with my post...
I should have said the original act provided for 14 years protection and an option to renew for 14.
That would mean that if we used that provision, everything Disney did up until 1995 or so would be public domain...
My point was that Disney and others have in effect bypassed the constitutional provision against perpetual copyright by bribing congress to change the law.
I looked up the current theoretical expiration date and the earliest would be 2019.
Of course, what you really need is the NCIS image enhancement package.
YES!! I wish I had mod-points today. You'd get a +1 for the NCIS reference. Let McGee get to work on that and you'll have an answer before the next commercial break.
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Call me old fashioned but a "good" sysadmin doesn't screw up to the point of getting fired let alone destroying the network they used to admin. A skilled hacker, on the other hand, would be the one that didn't get caught. That said, you are right about incompetence.
Bad 80s reference in 3...2...1...
"Showtime Synergy!"
Yet another example of punishing the guilty instead of the innocent. You want to stop dangerous texting? Punish those who get in wrecks under existing manslaughter or other applicable laws that kill someone while doing it. Don't ban the innocent from it. Think of catching dolphins in a tuna net. That's what laws like this do. Prohibition was similar. Banning alcohol caused a massive increase in crime and removing the ban stopped the mobsters of the era cold almost over night.
Punish people if they cause an accident...not because they *might* cause one.
Cities run by liberals and unions will spend money on anything, whether legit or not, as long as it makes them look "progressive". While recycling certainly is not a bad thing, this is an utter waste of tax payer money on many levels.
You mean like when N. Korea got caught red handed trying to tunnel into S. Korea and send a large military force through said tunnel recently?
I have a co-worker who has told me that her wifi dies when she turns on her microwave oven. Her router sits very near the microwave. As your neighbors are also being affected, that lends evidence that the interference is caused by a pretty strong signal. Look for a business that uses something around those hours.
No corporation, regardless of size, has remotely close to the power of the federal government. Go look up the money available to a given company and then look at how much the federal budget is. The difference is staggering.
The 1st amendment is sufficient as written to control the federal government in the area of free speech and freedom of religion. That was the intent of the Constitution in general...limiting the power of government over free people. The constitution was NEVER designed to limit or otherwise interfere with private business of any kind within the borders of the US. (The fed was given the power to tax imports from private businesses outside the borders...this is called a tariff. The fed was also given the ability to regulate interstate commerce...it has been abused by congress mightily).
As was said by a previous poster, the 1st amendment only guarantees that congress can't make a law that infringes on your right to free speech, your right to the "free exercise of religion", freedom of the press or preventing you from petitioning the government "for a redress of grievances". This amendment also prevents congress from passing a law "...respecting an establishment of religion".
This amendment says nothing about what a private company can or cannot tell its employees to do or say.
Amen. This one mistake will now cost every other commercial pilot in the country. It's the same thing with gun laws. Punishing the innocent instead of the guilty. Punish the pilots who screwed up...not the entire remaining staff of pilots who didn't. This is a stupid and ultimately harmful answer to what happened.
Solution for PC games is obvious. PDF on the Disc containing every page that would have been printed. I suppose for console games that a URL to visit online where you can download the manual would work but then what if the site goes down or the file is removed...or they might make you setup a "free" account and be forced to provide personal details in order to access the manual. (Yes I know it will get out eventually...)
If you go read his site, the fight isn't quite over. He states that Nissan Motors is attempting to register a Federal Trademark in the computer industry. He is going back to court again to fight this. See http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php (bottom of page)
Interesting. You want people to fight for their freedoms but when someone does, all of a sudden they're a bunch of idiots. Not saying I agree w/ everything the Tea Party stands for but at least they're willing to to stand for it in public and fight for it. If they don't get loud, no one listens. Most of them probably have no desire for fame or fortune. They simply want their freedom. If you really want people to stand up for their rights, be prepared for the consequences.
For the sake of this argument, let's take the statement that Paypal froze their funds as being true (I know, this is Slashdot, where the summary is usually wrong).
I saw this on Friday at his site (http://www.cryptome.org) and he indeed did have his paypal account frozen. No assumption is required this time.
I lose over 30% of my income to taxes every year. That is an effing pinch to my wallet. That is excessive.
Give them to your local public school. Many schools need computers and monitors desperately.
You are wrong about one thing. It is the people who should actively seek solutions to poverty, crime and war. By giving that power to politicians, you ensure that there will, in fact, be more laws passed and no solutions found. People need to stand up and take the responsibility back from the government and quit relying on that government for their every need and whim.
...socialism supports workers...
No! socialism supports the rulers of those workers. Look at what happened to the USSR. Workers were held down, not helped up. The only way to help workers is to get the government out of the damn way and let them help themselves. All socialism does is force them to stay exactly where they are....slaving away for those who rule them (union bosses, government officials, etc)
...They are socialist in principle (more worker control), but are generally not politically radical enough or strong enough to determine a political system. Most major modern unions are quite politically moderate, so they don't really act to support either socialism or capitalism...
What crack are you smoking? Unions push a vote almost 100% democratic-..ie Socialist!! I am a grudging member of one against my will and I have seen all the propaganda. Unions claim to want to help workers but they do nothing other than pad their own pockets w/ the hard earned money of the members and push socialist candidates into office. It is virtual slavery. Because I work under a union contract, I cannot get a raise for the rest of my career at my current place of employment. Tell me again how this is supposed to be helping me, the worker? You say unions aren't powerful yet they control and run the entire country now. They started by enslaving urban areas (like Chicago) and now they have elected one of their own to the Presidency assuring them total control of this country for several years. You really need to wake up and smell the coffee about unions. They have totally snow-jobbed you into complacency.
...Bush was the exact opposite--a total sell-out to deregulation- and hate-mongers...
One day maybe you will realize that the massive part of the population that opposes the Democratic Party are not hatemongers. The world is not as black and white as your statement implies. The large percentage of people who voted for Bush in 2000 were good law-abiding citizens who don't like socialists telling them how to run their lives and their businesses. Just like you don't like people you disagree with telling you how to run yours.
I am really sick and tired of this "you aren't a good democrat so therefore you are a hate-mongering nazi" attitude that is so prevalent amongst those on the left. It simply doesn't reflect reality.
Oh...if Bush had been a sellout to deregulation, the economy would be better, not worse. Not to say that a total sellout to deregulation is ideal but Bush implemented socialistic policies(bailouts of failing companies) at the end of his 2nd term that finished off what little chance there was at a natural recovery. When those policies failed as socialism is bound to do, Bush's party was thrown out of office and an even more socialistic party elected, hence the continued languishing of the economy.
Now Obama seems to be on the war path to completely destroy our economy...
Those of us not aligned with the Democrats warned at the top of our voices that this would happen if Obama was elected.
Matter of fact, an SG1 eppy detailed what happened if a wormhole from a stargate went through a star. The star got all weird and red-shifted nearly killing off a primitive planet and the Asgard had to flick their magic technobuttons to fix it...
That's my feeling exactly... though RDA's brief appearance was a little jarring. He's getting fat :(
On a completely unrelated note, was anyone else a little weirded out by the commercials for Sanctuary, in which Amanda Tapping (SG-1's blonde, American Samantha Carter) is a brown-haired Brit? She looked similar enough to be eerie, but different enough that I had to go look it up on IMDB before I'd believe it was her...
Add to that she was playing Sam Carter on SGU w/ blonde hair and then they'd cut to a commercial of her in Sanctuary showing her w/ brown hair...freaky.
What happens if government or law enforcement get into this game? Sounds like it could easily get abused. Just because there is an off switch for it now doesn't guarantee that there might be a future version of the technology embedded into TVs or other devices that will automatically report on everything the user is using that remote for.
my $.02
I respectfully disagree. My 4 year old HP ScanJet 3500c works perfectly fine in windows 7 rc. No muss no fuss. Autodetected by the OS. I fully acknowledge that I may be the exception rather than the rule but I state my example simply to provide a case that someone's old hardware still does work and works fine.
I will say I had trouble getting my 10 year old HP 895cse inkjet printer(USB) to work in windows 7 RC. I had to do some proverbial backflips but I did eventually get it to work.
I stand corrected but I hope you saw where I was going with my post... I should have said the original act provided for 14 years protection and an option to renew for 14. That would mean that if we used that provision, everything Disney did up until 1995 or so would be public domain... My point was that Disney and others have in effect bypassed the constitutional provision against perpetual copyright by bribing congress to change the law. I looked up the current theoretical expiration date and the earliest would be 2019.
Yep. that pretty much sums it up! ;-)
Of course, what you really need is the NCIS image enhancement package.
YES!! I wish I had mod-points today. You'd get a +1 for the NCIS reference. Let McGee get to work on that and you'll have an answer before the next commercial break.