Nearly three-quarters of women surveyed by the industry group complained about being ignored, patronized or offended by sales people when shopping for electronics.
I'd say 100% of customers (male and female) at Fry's
Electronics would report at least one of those responses
from sales people.
Hmm, and I've had rude sales people at Radio Shack,
Circuit City, Best Buy, and pretty much all of em. I'm sure
that sales people are more likely to be patronizing to a
woman buying technology - but I think the 75%
mistreatment number is a bit of misleading hyperbole
because it fails to account for the fact that low level retail
sales is generally carried out by surly teens who hate their
job.
Every now and then the editors will pick a comment that is offtopic, inflamatory, and critical of the editorial staff (this one is a prime example) and $rtbl everyone who mods it up. This is cruel, unfair, and presumably very effective.
I'm not sure how effective it is to take away mod privs
forever. I changed accounts a couple times because of
I lost an email addresses or lost mod privs, but when this
account lost
mod privs I decided I didn't care enough about moderating
to create a new one. I don't meta-mod anymore and I don't
browse slashdot as often as I used to, the site is not nearly
as interesting to me now. Who knows, that might just
be the point of $rtbl.
I realize that Slashdot is their site, but ignoring or
blacklisting anyone who complains (or mods up someone
who complains) removes the only thing that a web news
board has to offer. The editors have made the decision that
some users are too much trouble to keep, they are a large
site and can afford to make those sorts of decisions, but
I think they make the site that much less interesting when
the majority of moderators share the views of the editors.
Yes, I would prefer to enjoy air and water here on earth as opposed to sitting in a bubble on the moon refining minerals for the sake of doing so. Think about it, trekkie.
I'm glad you are in no sort of position to decide how
funds are spent or what projects are worked on. People
like you never bother working on anything that lacks
immediate gratification - since that sort of behaviour is
self limiting the people who actually create things with
long term value can get on with getting things done.
Your link argues 0 economic advantages of space exploration. [personal attack removed]
What it does describe is how materials could be made on the moon (probably for a significantly greater cost than on earth).
So how is a new source of material creation not an
economic advantage?
The initial costs of exploiting a new resource are always
high, but we don't get to advance without them. Or would
you rather we
sit here on Earth fighting ever nastier wars over diminishing
resources.
I can't remember hearing music that was specific to elevators, but I Meir and Frank department stores
had music throughout the stores - including the elevator.
Some protocols use ip information in the protocol
(games, telephony and streaming specifically)
IPSEC interoperability
The practical result of this is that a lot of black magic is
done by either the firewall or applications to make some
programs work in the presence of NAT.
For the sake of your soul I hope you rooting for an example
to be made of all those Enron, Worldcom, and Adelphi execs
too. Or is it just poor people who need to be "made an
example of" by our legal system.
I think some jail time for Adrian is
appropriate, he did break the law and did cause damage
to his victims. Discounting his claim of good inention, the
amount of damage he caused was not great - I don't
think that he should be turned into a pillar of salt or
whatever is in vogue with the law and order crowd these
days.
You don't need encryption for protection from wiretaps in those situations, the spooks are already required to disconnect (or ditch-and-not-listen-to any recording) the instant they realize it's a call that is unrelated to the matter being investigated.
The rule that the cops have to stop listening when they
determine that the communication does not concern the
warrant only applies to real time communications, such as
PSTN voice calls. They do not apply to interceptions
of voice mail, email, VOIP and other electronic
communications.
The major difference in interception of non-real time
communicatons is that all communications are
by necessity captured, the work of
searching the captured communications is split
into different areas of responsibility. The preliminary team
winnows the raw communication to only those sections that
relate to the warrant, the second team encounters the
cleaned communication with just the portion that that is
revelvant to the warrant, and sometimes produces a precis
that will be used in prosecution of a case or to obtain
further warrants. So at some point some person will be
listening to you talk about your embarassing health
problems.
Before PA1 and PA2 it was difficult to get a warrant for non
real time communications and had a limited number of
crimes for which it was even possible to obtain such a
warrant (the Title III warrant of which you might have
heard).
Anyone who knows anything about human nature realizes
that these tap capabilities will be abused for a variety of
reasons (most much more banal than political), so we need
to have auditability and accountability for all taps -
people who will abuse tap capabilities that they have access
to will probably not get a warrant to do so.
There is also CALEA (which has different rules - most likely
those that govern PSTN voice calls), which may or may not
apply to various forms of electronic communications. Legal
at my employer is still unsure, but thinks it is likely that
at least some forms of VOIP are subject to CALEA.
We have China racing through their industrial revolution
and announcing moon plans. India and the EU have made
noises about the moon too.
The US got their first, and I'm all for us leading the pack
once more if everyone is heading there. Some superpower
we are if we cannot repeat our successes of 30-40 years
ago.
Why do you call immigration policies that encourage
smart people to come to the US to get an education
(and maybe become citizens) foolish?
Even Bush seems to have broken with the party line and
recognized that we need immigration to keep growing.
(Racialy motivated distrust disguised as tough immigration
policy plays well with a sizeable portion of both parties,
but seems to be dearer to the Republicans).
I'm a little sad that many Americans don't value
learning and knowledge, but I'm glad that people from
other nations are coming here to continue the tradition.
As an Indian I can tell you that a Bangalore version of the dot bomb is unlikely to happen because Indian entrepreneurs are considerably more conservative/cautious than their American counterparts.
That attitude is part of the reason America is so much
better at
creating wealth than the rest of the world.
Non-Americans love to point at our crashes and failures,
but we have so much energy and try so many things (and
plenty of the things we try are extremely stupid) that we
almost can't help but have a large number of successes.
If you need to keep changing your filter, the spammers have already won.
If you are stating that Outlook client pass/fail filters
are bad because (among other flaws) they need constant
updating, then you are preaching to the choir. Until
Exchange gets a good scoring filter, it makes sense to at
least improve the flawed tools that are available to most
corporate users.
Why not filter out spam by anything with > 3 periods, and/or commas?
What seems slightly more workable is to ignore punctuation
in the subject when checking for 'spam' words. This would
fit more in line with the extremely naive filtering available
to Outlook users.
Going simply by punctuation density could cause a lot of
false positives based on acronyms and ellipses.
Not sure if it is self defeating or not
on
What You Can't Say
·
· Score: 1
As far as I can tell some people use the n-word to keep the
memory of injustice fresh in their mind.
The 'our word' aspect of it is just emotional blackmail, and
becomes less effective the more it is used. The 'street'
aspect of it is a reminder of past sins (slavery and
segregation) and continued inequality (it has been
less than a generation since the last major legal barriers
to equality fell - it will likely be another 15 years before
we see full natural integration and equality). The fact that it
pisses some white people off and draws the 'reverse racism'
label is probably just icing on the cake to people looking to
piss off white middle America.
If there is a segment of American black culture that uses
the word to empower themselves then why should I be
offended, I have no wish to use that word myself. Sure it is
self-censorship, I just do it with full awareness of
everything that word means.
I agree with the sentiment that the future for IP law
looks bad, but I think there are some real problems which
would
be addressed by worldwide recognition of copyright,
trademark, and patents. Sooner or later there will have to
be universal laws covering IP and the US is the only
country with the clout and will to make it happen right now.
The problem with US IP law is that it is driven by
short sited lobbying from middle men who do no actually
create anything. It would be a shame if the "rights" of
professional descendants and RIAA were to form the basis
for worldwide copyright, but it appears to be the way things
are headed at this point.
Exactly the same effect the US encryption laws had on the rest of the world - all the encryption jobs moved overseas.
That was a bit different. There were two seperate problems
with crypto in the US - patents on fundamental techniques
given to RSA and export controls that were never updated
to reflect the advances in the state of the art.
The export controls did exactly what you stated: drove
crypto jobs out of the US. The problem of patents on
fundamental techniques will soon be addressed by
The Patent Law Treaty.
Do a google search or check the WIPO page for a view of
what the future holds concerning US IP laws applying to
the rest of the world.
First of all, as far as I remember, there are no patent violations in the case with SCO.
Point taken, but we are speaking of a hypothetical case in
which Linux is declared "illegal". SCO's
complaint against IBM and press releases contain all sorts
of allegations about their IP being included in Linux without
their consent. If a judge were to find in SCO's favor
in the IBM case it could lend weight to SCO's claims
that they own the "intellectual property" behind every
modern OS.
Just because an american judge might declare something illegal in the US, does not in any way make it illegal in other countries, EVEN if they recognize patent and copyright.
The Berne Convention does require other countries to
recognize copyright of other nations that have signed the
covenant. The Patent Law Treaty will sow up the same sort
of thing for patents.
It would still only be illegal inside USA if it came to that, so I don't the rest of the world would notice much change.
Patent and copyright recognition are the big demands the
US and WTO
make of countries that want to join the globalization
oligarchy. I think it fairly likely that a change in the legal
status of Linux in the US would have effects throughout the
world.
In other words, nothing will change because nothing CAN change.
I agree that making Linux "illegal" would not stop people
from using it. It would put an end to: comercial software,
many supported and semi-supported porting efforts,
corporate desktops, embedded devices, hosting companies
offering Linux, etc.
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I'd say 100% of customers (male and female) at Fry's Electronics would report at least one of those responses from sales people.
Hmm, and I've had rude sales people at Radio Shack, Circuit City, Best Buy, and pretty much all of em. I'm sure that sales people are more likely to be patronizing to a woman buying technology - but I think the 75% mistreatment number is a bit of misleading hyperbole because it fails to account for the fact that low level retail sales is generally carried out by surly teens who hate their job.
I'm not sure how effective it is to take away mod privs forever. I changed accounts a couple times because of I lost an email addresses or lost mod privs, but when this account lost mod privs I decided I didn't care enough about moderating to create a new one. I don't meta-mod anymore and I don't browse slashdot as often as I used to, the site is not nearly as interesting to me now. Who knows, that might just be the point of $rtbl.
I realize that Slashdot is their site, but ignoring or blacklisting anyone who complains (or mods up someone who complains) removes the only thing that a web news board has to offer. The editors have made the decision that some users are too much trouble to keep, they are a large site and can afford to make those sorts of decisions, but I think they make the site that much less interesting when the majority of moderators share the views of the editors.
I'm glad you are in no sort of position to decide how funds are spent or what projects are worked on. People like you never bother working on anything that lacks immediate gratification - since that sort of behaviour is self limiting the people who actually create things with long term value can get on with getting things done.
What it does describe is how materials could be made on the moon (probably for a significantly greater cost than on earth).
So how is a new source of material creation not an economic advantage?
The initial costs of exploiting a new resource are always high, but we don't get to advance without them. Or would you rather we sit here on Earth fighting ever nastier wars over diminishing resources.
I can't remember hearing music that was specific to elevators, but I Meir and Frank department stores had music throughout the stores - including the elevator.
The practical result of this is that a lot of black magic is done by either the firewall or applications to make some programs work in the presence of NAT.
It's political and many of the statements in it are so oversimplified that they are wrong.
I think some jail time for Adrian is appropriate, he did break the law and did cause damage to his victims. Discounting his claim of good inention, the amount of damage he caused was not great - I don't think that he should be turned into a pillar of salt or whatever is in vogue with the law and order crowd these days.
The rule that the cops have to stop listening when they determine that the communication does not concern the warrant only applies to real time communications, such as PSTN voice calls. They do not apply to interceptions of voice mail, email, VOIP and other electronic communications.
The major difference in interception of non-real time communicatons is that all communications are by necessity captured, the work of searching the captured communications is split into different areas of responsibility. The preliminary team winnows the raw communication to only those sections that relate to the warrant, the second team encounters the cleaned communication with just the portion that that is revelvant to the warrant, and sometimes produces a precis that will be used in prosecution of a case or to obtain further warrants. So at some point some person will be listening to you talk about your embarassing health problems.
Before PA1 and PA2 it was difficult to get a warrant for non real time communications and had a limited number of crimes for which it was even possible to obtain such a warrant (the Title III warrant of which you might have heard).
USC 18 section 2516 for the nity grity.
Anyone who knows anything about human nature realizes that these tap capabilities will be abused for a variety of reasons (most much more banal than political), so we need to have auditability and accountability for all taps - people who will abuse tap capabilities that they have access to will probably not get a warrant to do so.
There is also CALEA (which has different rules - most likely those that govern PSTN voice calls), which may or may not apply to various forms of electronic communications. Legal at my employer is still unsure, but thinks it is likely that at least some forms of VOIP are subject to CALEA.
We have China racing through their industrial revolution and announcing moon plans. India and the EU have made noises about the moon too.
The US got their first, and I'm all for us leading the pack once more if everyone is heading there. Some superpower we are if we cannot repeat our successes of 30-40 years ago.
Of course the book you link to is biased as well, no one writes popular history without an agenda.
Even Bush seems to have broken with the party line and recognized that we need immigration to keep growing. (Racialy motivated distrust disguised as tough immigration policy plays well with a sizeable portion of both parties, but seems to be dearer to the Republicans).
I'm a little sad that many Americans don't value learning and knowledge, but I'm glad that people from other nations are coming here to continue the tradition.
That attitude is part of the reason America is so much better at creating wealth than the rest of the world. Non-Americans love to point at our crashes and failures, but we have so much energy and try so many things (and plenty of the things we try are extremely stupid) that we almost can't help but have a large number of successes.
faux queue man!
If you are stating that Outlook client pass/fail filters are bad because (among other flaws) they need constant updating, then you are preaching to the choir. Until Exchange gets a good scoring filter, it makes sense to at least improve the flawed tools that are available to most corporate users.
What seems slightly more workable is to ignore punctuation in the subject when checking for 'spam' words. This would fit more in line with the extremely naive filtering available to Outlook users.
Going simply by punctuation density could cause a lot of false positives based on acronyms and ellipses.
The 'our word' aspect of it is just emotional blackmail, and becomes less effective the more it is used. The 'street' aspect of it is a reminder of past sins (slavery and segregation) and continued inequality (it has been less than a generation since the last major legal barriers to equality fell - it will likely be another 15 years before we see full natural integration and equality). The fact that it pisses some white people off and draws the 'reverse racism' label is probably just icing on the cake to people looking to piss off white middle America.
If there is a segment of American black culture that uses the word to empower themselves then why should I be offended, I have no wish to use that word myself. Sure it is self-censorship, I just do it with full awareness of everything that word means.
Excellent site, thanks.
Can you list an ISBN? I can't come up with any reference to this book newer than 1990 and no exact matches at the online book stores.
The problem with US IP law is that it is driven by short sited lobbying from middle men who do no actually create anything. It would be a shame if the "rights" of professional descendants and RIAA were to form the basis for worldwide copyright, but it appears to be the way things are headed at this point.
That was a bit different. There were two seperate problems with crypto in the US - patents on fundamental techniques given to RSA and export controls that were never updated to reflect the advances in the state of the art.
The export controls did exactly what you stated: drove crypto jobs out of the US. The problem of patents on fundamental techniques will soon be addressed by The Patent Law Treaty.
Do a google search or check the WIPO page for a view of what the future holds concerning US IP laws applying to the rest of the world.
Point taken, but we are speaking of a hypothetical case in which Linux is declared "illegal". SCO's complaint against IBM and press releases contain all sorts of allegations about their IP being included in Linux without their consent. If a judge were to find in SCO's favor in the IBM case it could lend weight to SCO's claims that they own the "intellectual property" behind every modern OS.
Just because an american judge might declare something illegal in the US, does not in any way make it illegal in other countries, EVEN if they recognize patent and copyright.
The Berne Convention does require other countries to recognize copyright of other nations that have signed the covenant. The Patent Law Treaty will sow up the same sort of thing for patents.
Patent and copyright recognition are the big demands the US and WTO make of countries that want to join the globalization oligarchy. I think it fairly likely that a change in the legal status of Linux in the US would have effects throughout the world.
I agree that making Linux "illegal" would not stop people from using it. It would put an end to: comercial software, many supported and semi-supported porting efforts, corporate desktops, embedded devices, hosting companies offering Linux, etc.
I'd say a lot can change.