I'd like to teach the world to code In perfectly formed C; And write BigTables and Hadoop But what's in it for me? I'd like to work a 9 to 5 And have a family; With no complaints from every side About its quality.
"Those recordings of the early 21st Century aren't worth much" said my personal archaeologist, "They had no idea of how to record emmfozing or dexitereboping".
Indeed. And it shouldn't be completely impossible for the average Joe or Jane to defend themselves against the legal steamroller, either. This Inquisition has been way, way to unbalanced in favor of the accusers for way too long. Accept extortionate demand or be bankrupted trying to prove your innocence. It isn't fair.
This ruling is huge... It is one of the most newsworthy copyright posts I have ever seen on Slashdot.
[X] Strongly Agree. It's been a long time coming, hasn't it? Let's hope the long summer of love for the RIAA is over. Too many people screwed over, too many peoples' lives turned upside down by this latest Inquisition. File-sharers under every bed. Let it stop now.
"Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyer's Guild...Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-- Joseph Welch, Army-McCarthy hearings (from Wikipedia)
... Doesn't that make it pretty much impossible to file a copyright infringement claim against someone for downloading a file? The only way I can think of to tie an IP address download to an individual would be to look at the hard drive of the computer to determine if the file was ever there...
You may be entirely right, and I simply don't care.
Yes, I have friends and family who depend on their intellectual property to survive - they're artists, and it's a hard slog.
However, I believe "no illegal search and seizure" is still an important principle, and remains a fundamental right, whether or not people believe the Constitution is still enforceable. It's still a document worth fighting for.
There are trolls (noun) and people who troll (verb). To paw through peoples' belongings without a court order establishing reasonable grounds for suspicion that a named individual is doing something wrong, is utterly excoriable. "I think they're hiding something" is not enough. Nobody needs the return of the Inquisition.
Back somewhere in the late 60's-early 70's, there was a computer that came in for repair in the company I worked for - it was an SDS 930 (lovely old discrete-transistor machine). Someone had plugged a "MagPack" (an early cartridge tape drive) into the wrong slot on the bus, and the connector that was supposed to go there, into the MagPack's bus. The connectors were the same, but the circuits weren't. The circuit plugged into the MagPack's slot got a good healthy dose of one phase of a 440v power supply into a circuit that was expecting 0.5VDC. You could tell the logic state of the machine at that moment by following the carbon trails. Flipps were permanently flipped, flopps were permanently flopped. It looked like lightning had struck the frame.
Connector standards, even for simple antiques like RS-232 were a revelation, and were a service to us all. Gotta remember that engineering practices didn't just appear, they evolved. I respect connectors, especially after diving into their construction in a bit of detail. Properly designed, any good standard wiring loom connector will give you very little grief.
However, a jeweler's hot wax pen does have that level of finesse, and they've been around for decades. My dad used one in his shop, and they're configured for delicate work and fine trigger control. They're used to make wax moulds for lost wax casting in the manufacture of jewelry. I think you'd just have to raise the tip temperature and insulate the fingers a bit from the extra heat, and there you'll be.
If they can make small, lightweight drones, why not large ones? It would be an interesting take on delivering the mail.
Large drones, distribute to smaller drones, distribute to single mail delivery sized drones dropping little packages off on your door step. Maybe not today, but a potential future application? Sets the imagination a'buzz...
Come to Australia. You might accidentally get killed from the local fauna, but there are some very intelligent people in the constab. They're not all on the streets running the breathalysers, perhaps, but the ones I've dealt with actually show up if you report you heard a gun shot, and ask questions as if they're thinking about your answers, rather than just recording them. It's almost as if they require the ability to think from their troops. I'm originally from Los Angeles, and the contrast between the two police cultures seems pretty dramatic to me.
Is your local constabulary at all competent in this sort of matters...?.
It sort of depends. If they had a department that was set up for these sort of affairs (perhaps some political force required them to set it up?) then they might have dedicated resources waiting for a phone call from you to break the tedium.
Make a little shield with a bit of foil and a coathanger. While tracking the incoming attempts, shield your WAP from various directions until it stops. Gives you a direction, and you can bend the coathanger into a little stand to hold the shield in place next to your WAP. It's likely to be in the direction of a near wall, isn't it?
"The production systems are supposed to be kept off line... so they aren’t vulnerable to viruses distributed via the Internet." followed by, "...these air gaps can be hopped if the two systems use common computer peripherals such as... USB sticks..."
He is saying not connecting these to the internet is not enough.
It's amazing what security enhancements can be made with a little dollop of silicone glue.
"Bit o' Silastic in the USB port when you're finished, George..."
Please do not equate number of job postings with actual job availability. Many postings are headhunter duplications. Some are false postings to present the appearance of meeting legal requirements or for PR purposes.
You are absolutely correct. Where I live, it's common to see at least three to perhaps a dozen different postings for the same job. And I've been to a number of interviews where they clearly were only "recruiting" to tick a box somewhere. After a while, you learn to pick them out. That's a bad basis from which to gather stats.
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I'd like to teach the world to code
In perfectly formed C;
And write BigTables and Hadoop
But what's in it for me?
I'd like to work a 9 to 5
And have a family;
With no complaints from every side
About its quality.
"Those recordings of the early 21st Century aren't worth much" said my personal archaeologist, "They had no idea of how to record emmfozing or dexitereboping".
Or perhaps they want to declare a war and lose, to get those fat reparations, like the Duchy of Grand Fenwick (Wibberly, "The Mouse that Roared".)
*too unbalanced. Sorry (OCD).
Indeed. And it shouldn't be completely impossible for the average Joe or Jane to defend themselves against the legal steamroller, either. This Inquisition has been way, way to unbalanced in favor of the accusers for way too long. Accept extortionate demand or be bankrupted trying to prove your innocence. It isn't fair.
This ruling is huge... It is one of the most newsworthy copyright posts I have ever seen on Slashdot.
[X] Strongly Agree. It's been a long time coming, hasn't it? Let's hope the long summer of love for the RIAA is over. Too many people screwed over, too many peoples' lives turned upside down by this latest Inquisition. File-sharers under every bed. Let it stop now.
"Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyer's Guild...Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-- Joseph Welch, Army-McCarthy hearings (from Wikipedia)
Ray, dude, you're still on my hero list.
BTW, after this ruling, the plaintiff withdrew the entire case. Probably hoping to find a less intelligent judge somewhere else.
I suspect so. A burglar will always prefer the house with the poorest security.
... Doesn't that make it pretty much impossible to file a copyright infringement claim against someone for downloading a file? The only way I can think of to tie an IP address download to an individual would be to look at the hard drive of the computer to determine if the file was ever there...
You may be entirely right, and I simply don't care.
Yes, I have friends and family who depend on their intellectual property to survive - they're artists, and it's a hard slog.
However, I believe "no illegal search and seizure" is still an important principle, and remains a fundamental right, whether or not people believe the Constitution is still enforceable. It's still a document worth fighting for.
There are trolls (noun) and people who troll (verb). To paw through peoples' belongings without a court order establishing reasonable grounds for suspicion that a named individual is doing something wrong, is utterly excoriable. "I think they're hiding something" is not enough. Nobody needs the return of the Inquisition.
SCREAM... PAF! (small mushroom cloud of oily capacitor smoke).
Maybe it was 120V after all...
Back somewhere in the late 60's-early 70's, there was a computer that came in for repair in the company I worked for - it was an SDS 930 (lovely old discrete-transistor machine). Someone had plugged a "MagPack" (an early cartridge tape drive) into the wrong slot on the bus, and the connector that was supposed to go there, into the MagPack's bus. The connectors were the same, but the circuits weren't. The circuit plugged into the MagPack's slot got a good healthy dose of one phase of a 440v power supply into a circuit that was expecting 0.5VDC. You could tell the logic state of the machine at that moment by following the carbon trails. Flipps were permanently flipped, flopps were permanently flopped. It looked like lightning had struck the frame.
Connector standards, even for simple antiques like RS-232 were a revelation, and were a service to us all. Gotta remember that engineering practices didn't just appear, they evolved. I respect connectors, especially after diving into their construction in a bit of detail. Properly designed, any good standard wiring loom connector will give you very little grief.
Posting to undo an egregiously stupid mod. #spamapology
...and I wouldn't buy a Sony product if they paid me to take it. I have not forgotten what they do to their customers in the name of IP. Groklaw it.
Scan down to "Master Touch". It's a wax pen in common use, and the web site is a jewelry supplier. http://www.zilverwerk.net/Assortiment/KerrLab%20-%20Jewelry%20-%20Products.htm
However, a jeweler's hot wax pen does have that level of finesse, and they've been around for decades. My dad used one in his shop, and they're configured for delicate work and fine trigger control. They're used to make wax moulds for lost wax casting in the manufacture of jewelry. I think you'd just have to raise the tip temperature and insulate the fingers a bit from the extra heat, and there you'll be.
Uh.... what?
That sentence crazily.
Good one. I'll share that dream.
If they can make small, lightweight drones, why not large ones? It would be an interesting take on delivering the mail.
Large drones, distribute to smaller drones, distribute to single mail delivery sized drones dropping little packages off on your door step. Maybe not today, but a potential future application? Sets the imagination a'buzz...
Rename your SSID to "LegalAid". If The Law ain't scary, The Lawyers are.
Come to Australia. You might accidentally get killed from the local fauna, but there are some very intelligent people in the constab. They're not all on the streets running the breathalysers, perhaps, but the ones I've dealt with actually show up if you report you heard a gun shot, and ask questions as if they're thinking about your answers, rather than just recording them. It's almost as if they require the ability to think from their troops. I'm originally from Los Angeles, and the contrast between the two police cultures seems pretty dramatic to me.
Is your local constabulary at all competent in this sort of matters...?.
It sort of depends. If they had a department that was set up for these sort of affairs (perhaps some political force required them to set it up?) then they might have dedicated resources waiting for a phone call from you to break the tedium.
If you can find out who's stealing your bandwidth, you don't need the police -- you need a lawyer. In civil matters they are a *lot* more scary.
Make a little shield with a bit of foil and a coathanger. While tracking the incoming attempts, shield your WAP from various directions until it stops. Gives you a direction, and you can bend the coathanger into a little stand to hold the shield in place next to your WAP. It's likely to be in the direction of a near wall, isn't it?
Amazing stuff, tinfoil.
TFA answered this. It stated:
"The production systems are supposed to be kept off line... so they aren’t vulnerable to viruses distributed via the Internet." followed by, "...these air gaps can be hopped if the two systems use common computer peripherals such as... USB sticks..."
He is saying not connecting these to the internet is not enough.
It's amazing what security enhancements can be made with a little dollop of silicone glue.
"Bit o' Silastic in the USB port when you're finished, George..."
"We have these things called Aircraft Carriers. Planes land on them."
One of the more ascerbic utterances of last year, I still laugh when I hear it.
Quantity does indeed have a quality all of its own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft
Please do not equate number of job postings with actual job availability. Many postings are headhunter duplications. Some are false postings to present the appearance of meeting legal requirements or for PR purposes.
You are absolutely correct. Where I live, it's common to see at least three to perhaps a dozen different postings for the same job. And I've been to a number of interviews where they clearly were only "recruiting" to tick a box somewhere. After a while, you learn to pick them out. That's a bad basis from which to gather stats.