Be careful that you're not buying one of the retarded EZD discs for $5. For those who don't know, an EZD is a self-destructing DVD that is only watchable for 48 hours after the disc comes into contact with oxygen. They're being marketed as the end of late fees (rental market). I think the stupid [Circuit City] DIVX discs were better, and they sucked. At least with DIVX the discs didn't go bad, so you don't have hordes of people throwing them out.
It does cost you money. Retail goods and services which can be purchased with credit cards usually raise the prices to to cover their merchant account costs, which go up as fraud increases. This is why you'll sometimes see retailers with a 2% cash/check/eft/anythingbutplastic discount. Retailers aren't allowed to list the added merchant costs as a line-item on your receipt, so you don't realise you're paying for it. I agree about the quarter of your life part. The system really isn't designed well to help people fix it. I know a person who has drug and prostitution charges on her records because of identity theft. It's ludicrous how difficult it is to fix these things.
As I stated to the other reply, I did not know that about H1-B visas. The ones who are granted greencards and stay permanently would fall under the group I said people approve of. Hopefully, the ones who are denied a greencard are denied because there are unemployed U.S. workers who are capable of performing the job in question. The ones who choose to leave, because they never intended to stay, are the ones who I stated, or at least tried to state, skilled U.S. workers who are unemployed are upset at. Not even at the workers themselves, but at the companies for hiring them and at the government for allowing it. It's not a perfect system, and it never will be. The skilled U.S. workers who need a job and the foreign workers who should be allowed to stay but aren't are the victims in this system. I have nothing against foreign workers in general, only against a system that allows citizens to remain unemployed as foreign workers with no intent to stay are employed instead.
This particular statement was meant to be a summary of one particular view held by a section of the population, not necessarily a statement of my own opinion, perhaps a disclaimer should have been made. I did not know that about H1-B, but I really don't think it matters. When millions are unemployed and possess the skills to perform the job functions, then they are going to be upset with companies bringing in millions of foreign workers to fill positions. If I were in their shoes I would have started off pursuing a more permanent means of entrance. Six years is also plenty of time to pursue them while working on an H1-B visa, unless H1-B prevents you from doing so. I've lived abroad and been subjected to foreign labor restrictions (well, my parents were, but it still impacted me as it was from age 4 to 16, because if they couldn't work I couldn't eat). Also, my mother-in-law was a naturalized citizen. So I'm not just some elitist 'get the hell out of my country' hick (not that I think you stated/implied that I am).
I do understand that skilled workers coming in thru legal avenues is in a different class as illegal aliens. I was merely stated a common complaint about income going to foreigners when it could be going to citizens. In a poor economy with millions of skilled workers unemployed, citizens stop caring about how a foreign worker came into the country, and focus on the fact that the worker is not a citizen.
I also know that H1-B sponsored workers pay tax, but they still send a considerable portions of their income back home to family.
Personally, I think people coming in on an H1-B visa is fine. Let me say that again, I have no problem with bringing in foreign labor to bring supply up to meet demand. However, there are millions of skilled U.S. workers who could be performing these jobs but are unemployed. I think that is wrong. The long term effect on the U.S. economy is not good.
I think every government of every country has a responsibility to its citizens to ensure that domestic businesses are doing what is good for the domestic economy. If millions of skilled workers are unemployed, then there should be no new work visas issued to bring in foreign workers.
Anyway. The world is what it is and we all try to make the best of it. Everybody on the planet has an equal right to a good life.
I think troll would be more appropriate for your response. I think the parent poster made it pretty clear that being a citizen of the U.S., not ancestral lineage, is what makes one American. My ancestral roots are Frech (several hundred years back), Norwegian (not sure how far back) and Italian (3 generations back). I sent the bulk of my childhood living abroad. But I was born in the U.S., I'm a U.S. citizen, and my permanent residence is in the U.S. I am American. If someone permanently moves to the U.S., then they are making a long term investment in the U.S. economy. Many people dislike immigrant workers, like H1-B sponsored workers and illegal aliens, because they have a habit of working here for a few years, pumping their earnings into the economy of their home country, and leaving. It provides little benefit to the U.S. economy. It takes money out of the U.S. economy and leaves U.S. workers unemployed, further hurting the economy, because the slack must be taken up by social programs like government unemployment benefits, public housing, and government health care.
uh, gnome-terminal already has tabbed support, has for a while. shift+ctrl+t for a new tab. ctrl+pgup/pgdown to cycle. Or right-click in a terminal window and select New Tab. It's in the file menu too, if you leave the menubar enabled.
So write to the FCC and your local Congressional Reps saying that any taxation on VoIP should be limited to calls which terminate to a POTS line. Government is for the people, but you have to speak to be heard.
If there is such a law, it's as obeyed as the no wire cutters law in Texas, assuming that one still exists, or the former no butt-sex law. I lived in England from 1980 to 1988 and never once saw a bag of oats in a london taxi.
Right, because the Internet is completely hosted in the US. Oh, and no OS will ever do anything like override the BIOS. Oh wait, Windows and Linux already do that. For example, the Dell Latitude C400 uses an Intel i830 integrated graphics chip set that 'steals' a chunk of the main memory. The BIOS in these machines is hard coded to 1 MB of stolen memory. The driver that both Windows and Linux load overried this to soemthing sensible. I haven't messed with sleep/hibernation settings in Linux (because I don't know where they are) but I know that my Windows 2000 install totally ignores the settings in the BIOS. I have no doubt that even if every BIOS chip starts including DRM, at least the Linux kernel will get past it.
It will never be technically impossible. Content has to be converted to analog to be consumable by humans. As long as there are electrical engineers and programmers, digital content will be copyable, legally or not.
wrong. That is the analog hole method that content companies are trying to make illegal. They want TVs, DVD players, CD players, general computers, pretty much anything that displays copyrighted digital content to not have any analog output, only digital with DRM controls. That's part of the CDBTPA, and one of the things that has been causing problems with HDTV. The content companies say they won't release content without controls. The stations don't have any content to advertise to entice consumers to sign up. And the manufacturers are screwed because there's no demand, and adding crippling features would reduce what demand there is. But to get back on track, what he's talking about isn't affected by the DMCA. He's using an approved device (his CD player) to access the content, the copying is taking place after the mechanism has granted access.
I seem to recall HP specifically stating they did not purchase a license, clarifying that they had examined the situation, and determined they were under no legal threat.
Just like today, you can take a document and send it through the mail (to yourself) just to get it stamped with the current date.
If you're mentioning that in reference to such things as legally establishing a timeline (patent prior-art, copyright, etc), an IP lawyer once told me it doesn't work. It might if you have a tamper-proof envelope, but otherwise it won't hold up.
I'm not joking. I called in to complain about the flawed BIOS implementation for laptops with the i830M chipset (doesn't allow you to change how much shared memory it uses), and the tech suggested emailing michael_dell@dell.com. I had a response from his staff, by phone, that same day. They were very attentive to get a good description of the problem and how it affected me.
By physically he meant you can put more memory sticks on the motherboard. The G5 boards available have 8 slots, someone posted info that a Tyan dual Opteron board has 16.
he didn't say Solaris is a de facto standard, he just said MS isn't, using the fact that his professional experience has been dedicated to Solaris and Linux as justification for the statement. The servers he's talking about rolling out are in a different target demographic than small Law firm, so it doesn't make sense to compare the two..Net and J2EE are enterprise application server platforms, and I don't think there is one de facto standard for enterprise application servers. There's a handful of competing platforms, which all have their own strengths and weaknesses.
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Be careful that you're not buying one of the retarded EZD discs for $5. For those who don't know, an EZD is a self-destructing DVD that is only watchable for 48 hours after the disc comes into contact with oxygen. They're being marketed as the end of late fees (rental market). I think the stupid [Circuit City] DIVX discs were better, and they sucked. At least with DIVX the discs didn't go bad, so you don't have hordes of people throwing them out.
It does cost you money. Retail goods and services which can be purchased with credit cards usually raise the prices to to cover their merchant account costs, which go up as fraud increases. This is why you'll sometimes see retailers with a 2% cash/check/eft/anythingbutplastic discount. Retailers aren't allowed to list the added merchant costs as a line-item on your receipt, so you don't realise you're paying for it. I agree about the quarter of your life part. The system really isn't designed well to help people fix it. I know a person who has drug and prostitution charges on her records because of identity theft. It's ludicrous how difficult it is to fix these things.
As I stated to the other reply, I did not know that about H1-B visas. The ones who are granted greencards and stay permanently would fall under the group I said people approve of. Hopefully, the ones who are denied a greencard are denied because there are unemployed U.S. workers who are capable of performing the job in question. The ones who choose to leave, because they never intended to stay, are the ones who I stated, or at least tried to state, skilled U.S. workers who are unemployed are upset at. Not even at the workers themselves, but at the companies for hiring them and at the government for allowing it. It's not a perfect system, and it never will be. The skilled U.S. workers who need a job and the foreign workers who should be allowed to stay but aren't are the victims in this system. I have nothing against foreign workers in general, only against a system that allows citizens to remain unemployed as foreign workers with no intent to stay are employed instead.
This particular statement was meant to be a summary of one particular view held by a section of the population, not necessarily a statement of my own opinion, perhaps a disclaimer should have been made. I did not know that about H1-B, but I really don't think it matters. When millions are unemployed and possess the skills to perform the job functions, then they are going to be upset with companies bringing in millions of foreign workers to fill positions. If I were in their shoes I would have started off pursuing a more permanent means of entrance. Six years is also plenty of time to pursue them while working on an H1-B visa, unless H1-B prevents you from doing so. I've lived abroad and been subjected to foreign labor restrictions (well, my parents were, but it still impacted me as it was from age 4 to 16, because if they couldn't work I couldn't eat). Also, my mother-in-law was a naturalized citizen. So I'm not just some elitist 'get the hell out of my country' hick (not that I think you stated/implied that I am).
I do understand that skilled workers coming in thru legal avenues is in a different class as illegal aliens. I was merely stated a common complaint about income going to foreigners when it could be going to citizens. In a poor economy with millions of skilled workers unemployed, citizens stop caring about how a foreign worker came into the country, and focus on the fact that the worker is not a citizen.
I also know that H1-B sponsored workers pay tax, but they still send a considerable portions of their income back home to family.
Personally, I think people coming in on an H1-B visa is fine. Let me say that again, I have no problem with bringing in foreign labor to bring supply up to meet demand. However, there are millions of skilled U.S. workers who could be performing these jobs but are unemployed. I think that is wrong. The long term effect on the U.S. economy is not good.
I think every government of every country has a responsibility to its citizens to ensure that domestic businesses are doing what is good for the domestic economy. If millions of skilled workers are unemployed, then there should be no new work visas issued to bring in foreign workers.
Anyway. The world is what it is and we all try to make the best of it. Everybody on the planet has an equal right to a good life.
I think troll would be more appropriate for your response. I think the parent poster made it pretty clear that being a citizen of the U.S., not ancestral lineage, is what makes one American. My ancestral roots are Frech (several hundred years back), Norwegian (not sure how far back) and Italian (3 generations back). I sent the bulk of my childhood living abroad. But I was born in the U.S., I'm a U.S. citizen, and my permanent residence is in the U.S. I am American. If someone permanently moves to the U.S., then they are making a long term investment in the U.S. economy. Many people dislike immigrant workers, like H1-B sponsored workers and illegal aliens, because they have a habit of working here for a few years, pumping their earnings into the economy of their home country, and leaving. It provides little benefit to the U.S. economy. It takes money out of the U.S. economy and leaves U.S. workers unemployed, further hurting the economy, because the slack must be taken up by social programs like government unemployment benefits, public housing, and government health care.
Yeah, AMD ends in M.
According to this release it is another RPC buffer exploit.
uh, gnome-terminal already has tabbed support, has for a while. shift+ctrl+t for a new tab. ctrl+pgup/pgdown to cycle. Or right-click in a terminal window and select New Tab. It's in the file menu too, if you leave the menubar enabled.
So write to the FCC and your local Congressional Reps saying that any taxation on VoIP should be limited to calls which terminate to a POTS line. Government is for the people, but you have to speak to be heard.
If there is such a law, it's as obeyed as the no wire cutters law in Texas, assuming that one still exists, or the former no butt-sex law. I lived in England from 1980 to 1988 and never once saw a bag of oats in a london taxi.
Right, because the Internet is completely hosted in the US. Oh, and no OS will ever do anything like override the BIOS. Oh wait, Windows and Linux already do that. For example, the Dell Latitude C400 uses an Intel i830 integrated graphics chip set that 'steals' a chunk of the main memory. The BIOS in these machines is hard coded to 1 MB of stolen memory. The driver that both Windows and Linux load overried this to soemthing sensible. I haven't messed with sleep/hibernation settings in Linux (because I don't know where they are) but I know that my Windows 2000 install totally ignores the settings in the BIOS. I have no doubt that even if every BIOS chip starts including DRM, at least the Linux kernel will get past it.
where's a frelling wind scar when I need one?!
It will never be technically impossible. Content has to be converted to analog to be consumable by humans. As long as there are electrical engineers and programmers, digital content will be copyable, legally or not.
wrong. That is the analog hole method that content companies are trying to make illegal. They want TVs, DVD players, CD players, general computers, pretty much anything that displays copyrighted digital content to not have any analog output, only digital with DRM controls. That's part of the CDBTPA, and one of the things that has been causing problems with HDTV. The content companies say they won't release content without controls. The stations don't have any content to advertise to entice consumers to sign up. And the manufacturers are screwed because there's no demand, and adding crippling features would reduce what demand there is. But to get back on track, what he's talking about isn't affected by the DMCA. He's using an approved device (his CD player) to access the content, the copying is taking place after the mechanism has granted access.
Yeah, but I don't really care for lisetning to data CDs, blood just doesn't feel to good trickling out of my ears.
I seem to recall that allowing dual-boot and shipping machines with no OS were two things the anti-trust settlement were supposed to fix.
I seem to recall HP specifically stating they did not purchase a license, clarifying that they had examined the situation, and determined they were under no legal threat.
it means 31% of the employees weren't recognized as employees. It should have been a positive match, but returned a negative, falsely.
indeed, didn't mean to imply anything about the digital timestamp. :)
If you're mentioning that in reference to such things as legally establishing a timeline (patent prior-art, copyright, etc), an IP lawyer once told me it doesn't work. It might if you have a tamper-proof envelope, but otherwise it won't hold up.
It's called a Canyonero.
I'm not joking. I called in to complain about the flawed BIOS implementation for laptops with the i830M chipset (doesn't allow you to change how much shared memory it uses), and the tech suggested emailing michael_dell@dell.com. I had a response from his staff, by phone, that same day. They were very attentive to get a good description of the problem and how it affected me.
By physically he meant you can put more memory sticks on the motherboard. The G5 boards available have 8 slots, someone posted info that a Tyan dual Opteron board has 16.
Well, you may have read that in his statement, but he never actually said it. That's all I was saying.
he didn't say Solaris is a de facto standard, he just said MS isn't, using the fact that his professional experience has been dedicated to Solaris and Linux as justification for the statement. The servers he's talking about rolling out are in a different target demographic than small Law firm, so it doesn't make sense to compare the two. .Net and J2EE are enterprise application server platforms, and I don't think there is one de facto standard for enterprise application servers. There's a handful of competing platforms, which all have their own strengths and weaknesses.