Yup, but the librarian in question didn't stick to safe subjects like race, religion or colour (:-))
--dave
[In case people haven't been following Canadian politics, there's a real debate ongoing in Canada about when merely racist/sexist/religious language turns into inciting attacks on people who are the wrong race, colour or religion. See "Ezra Levant" on Wikipedia if you want an activist and libertarian position on the debate]
Ours is very like the US's definition, with the same prohibitions on extreme misuse, such as inciting a riot or shouting fire in a crowded theatre. We differ only on edge cases, like inciting lesser crimes. We're in complete agreement on the librarian's rigfht to state an opinion or cite a fact.
In Canada it's arguably "obtaining money upon a false and fraudulent pretense", under S 361 of the Criminal Code. For amounts less than $5,000.00, it entitles one to two years of penal servitude.
Perhaps you should petition your local desk sergeant.
Alas, Chrome of course won't tell me what is invalid, and neither firefox nor midori see a problem at all.
This is accessing the site from Toronto, Ontario, via Rogers Cable.
If you set ntlm auth = no, then Samba will reject plain NTLM and require either NTLM v2 (the normal case) or LANMAN (if you have bizzarely backdated your XP box). There is a risk that some software w2ill fail, so it's probably best if you create a pair of virtual servers, and set one up to use NTLMv2. As you find out what fails, you can move the unbroken services to the v2 server.
There is a duopoly of ISPs in Canada, so anything Bell Telephone or Rogers* Cable does affects a huge number of people, and an attempt to require anything that could be characterized as spyware would cause complaints to the Cabinet**.
--dave
* or any of the other local cable monopolies
** the Prime Minister and his heads of department
I think you're forgetting some of the benefits of paying someone else to do the work. I help maintain the cottage road, with a rake and shovel, and about ever 5 or 10 years we get a bulldozer and a load of gravel. I'd much prefer to pay the county a little bit every year in taxes, and get the road-grader to make an annual pass up and down the road.
They are a danger when you allow others to set controls on things you care about. The obvious example is UEFI boot, which is fine if you use it to select who can boot, and bad when Microsoft is making the decision about your device.
In the context of BYOD, I will happily grant MAC access over the camera and gps to an employer when I'm on their network, but they need to publicly agree with me on what they're doing. I and many other people will likely grant an employer the right to encrypt the company's files, so long as they agree not to encrypt or delete mine on the same device.
The asymmetry of power poses a risk even in the acceptable cases, so arguably one should only use mac-implementing programs from a trusted third party, like a Google or Apple.
Various companies happily allow BYOD phones, and allow one to expense a proportion of one's bill to the company. A subset of them expect BYOD pads and laptops.
In general, a company could permit almost any device if it provides "mandatory access controls", such as lockouts for the camera when in the office network, and encrypt-all-corporate-data using a company key. The general case was figured out circa 1985 (orange book) and encryption-as-MAC by the personal electronic health care records in the last few years.
It's more tied than that: I physically can drop the new engine into the Ford, but the surface had hardware to keep me from doing so. I have to use a motorcycle example for this: removing the engine from a Vincent black shadow renders it unrunnable, as the engine is a required part of the frame. Non-identical engines can't be substituted (unlike featherbed Nortons).
Personally, I want the better of the two Surface keyboards, which a colleague described as the best small keyboard he'd ever used. Alas, the keyboard is tied to the platform, which is tied to Windows 8. I suspect they'll only be available via purchasing a Surface for some considerable time, thus the interest in making the whole surface run Linux. I will definitely investigate the "plus", which reportedly does have an Intel processor, and may have the keyboard...
Actually you forgot at least charities and political parties/associations. They can create a legally recognized entity as well, and so have bank accounts. An unincorporated club like the York Fencing Association can have an account too, if it has an officer who will assume responsibility for the account.
Our various governments propose ways of "petitioning for redress of grievance", and, as each becomes popular, strive to cut them off.
In British law, as applied to the 13 colonies, a signed petition could be presented to a governing body and it had a duty to respond. As the Yale law journal points out, that was so heavily used in response to slavery that it was withdrawn in the U.S. (see http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/796438?uid=3739448&uid=2&uid=3737720&uid=4&sid=21101604364957) A certain well-known president is trying to bring it back, but that's a different discussion.
With organized petitioning unavailable, personal appeals to one's representative became popular. It soon became impossible to meet your representative, and written letters turned into counts pro and con that their staffs reported.
Groups and companies then banded together and hired lobbyists, to button-hole legislators in the lobby of their building, where the public was allowed. When these became too bothersome, only selected lobbyists were invited to meetings, and the general public was excluded from the buildings.
The press is still allowed in some selected lobbies, but there is always a back corridor available for legislators to use to bypass them.
Groups then started petitioning in person, on the front lawn of the parliament buildings, and occasionally their representatives would come out and meet them. More often, the police closed off access to the building and its vicinity.
No organization, whether legislative or commercial, enjoys hearing criticism. As soon as they get too much from a given channel, that channel will be cut off. Only the occasional brave, duty-oriented legislator will ask their electors for comments.
In my own country of Canada, this last happened when the government of the day asked for broad comments on amending the copyright law, when my local city councilman needed opinions and options on a garbage-collection proposal, and most recently when the CRTC asked for suggestions to moderate the bad practices of cell-phone providers.
Redress of grievance still exists, but it's genuinely rare.
No, it's semi-infinite, in one dimension only. And you have to seek and backspace one character at a time. I do remember machines with audio-tape as their storage, and I'm surprised MS would go back to something even more primitive (:-))
You may have to wait a while before they get reliable enough: a colleague just bought one for Christmas and hat to take it back because it was unreliably buggy. I'll send him a link and invite his comments.
That's one of the things suggested, by myself as well as others, to the CRTC in Canada. We suffer from, guess what, a duopoly of Rogers Cable and Bell DSL. Ditto Rogers and Bell wireless.
Unions can't protect jobs, although they sometimes think they can. What they can do is protect workers in cases where there is a big imbalance in bargaining power between owner and worker.
In a tech company with less than a hundred-odd people (some exceedingly odd), a union is less than useful. In a low-tech company with many people, it's almost a necessity. When I was at Motor Wheel, the union was cool. When I was at Sun, I never felt the lack.
When car wheels are mostly made by robots, the humans in the plant will probably want a union. Humans working in high tech may not, although the AI's might (:-))
If you chose a time period substantially greater than the time to raise a new generation of humans, then you can guarantee your models won't show humans being displaced by technology.
Persons desirous of having lots of automation, in hopes of having a better life for said humans, tend to chose such long time scales, while persons concerned with being displaced chose periods like "right now", to demonstrate the event actually happens.
Honest economists consider the period, say why, and discuss the trade-offs.
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Yup, but the librarian in question didn't stick to safe subjects like race, religion or colour (:-))
--dave
[In case people haven't been following Canadian politics, there's a real debate ongoing in Canada about when merely racist/sexist/religious language turns into inciting attacks on people who are the wrong race, colour or religion. See "Ezra Levant" on Wikipedia if you want an activist and libertarian position on the debate]
Ours is very like the US's definition, with the same prohibitions on extreme misuse, such as inciting a riot or shouting fire in a crowded theatre. We differ only on edge cases, like inciting lesser crimes. We're in complete agreement on the librarian's rigfht to state an opinion or cite a fact.
Quebec does have an explicit prohibition on SLAPP suits, but to my knowledge, the other provinces do not .
Surely it's criminal, even in the United States?
In Canada it's arguably "obtaining money upon a false and fraudulent pretense", under S 361 of the Criminal Code. For amounts less than $5,000.00, it entitles one to two years of penal servitude.
Perhaps you should petition your local desk sergeant.
--dave
Alas, Chrome of course won't tell me what is invalid, and neither firefox nor midori see a problem at all. This is accessing the site from Toronto, Ontario, via Rogers Cable.
See https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#NTLMAUTH
If you set ntlm auth = no, then Samba will reject plain NTLM and require either NTLM v2 (the normal case) or LANMAN (if you have bizzarely backdated your XP box). There is a risk that some software w2ill fail, so it's probably best if you create a pair of virtual servers, and set one up to use NTLMv2. As you find out what fails, you can move the unbroken services to the v2 server.
--dave
There is a duopoly of ISPs in Canada, so anything Bell Telephone or Rogers* Cable does affects a huge number of people, and an attempt to require anything that could be characterized as spyware would cause complaints to the Cabinet**.
--dave
* or any of the other local cable monopolies
** the Prime Minister and his heads of department
Eventually, if the product is a success. I expect it won't, and that's one of the attractions, as it will cause low prices (:-))
I think you're forgetting some of the benefits of paying someone else to do the work. I help maintain the cottage road, with a rake and shovel, and about ever 5 or 10 years we get a bulldozer and a load of gravel. I'd much prefer to pay the county a little bit every year in taxes, and get the road-grader to make an annual pass up and down the road.
They are a danger when you allow others to set controls on things you care about. The obvious example is UEFI boot, which is fine if you use it to select who can boot, and bad when Microsoft is making the decision about your device.
In the context of BYOD, I will happily grant MAC access over the camera and gps to an employer when I'm on their network, but they need to publicly agree with me on what they're doing. I and many other people will likely grant an employer the right to encrypt the company's files, so long as they agree not to encrypt or delete mine on the same device.
The asymmetry of power poses a risk even in the acceptable cases, so arguably one should only use mac-implementing programs from a trusted third party, like a Google or Apple.
Various companies happily allow BYOD phones, and allow one to expense a proportion of one's bill to the company. A subset of them expect BYOD pads and laptops.
In general, a company could permit almost any device if it provides "mandatory access controls", such as lockouts for the camera when in the office network, and encrypt-all-corporate-data using a company key. The general case was figured out circa 1985 (orange book) and encryption-as-MAC by the personal electronic health care records in the last few years.
I was suggesting that...
It's more tied than that: I physically can drop the new engine into the Ford, but the surface had hardware to keep me from doing so. I have to use a motorcycle example for this: removing the engine from a Vincent black shadow renders it unrunnable, as the engine is a required part of the frame. Non-identical engines can't be substituted (unlike featherbed Nortons).
Personally, I want the better of the two Surface keyboards, which a colleague described as the best small keyboard he'd ever used. Alas, the keyboard is tied to the platform, which is tied to Windows 8. I suspect they'll only be available via purchasing a Surface for some considerable time, thus the interest in making the whole surface run Linux. I will definitely investigate the "plus", which reportedly does have an Intel processor, and may have the keyboard...
--dave
Actually you forgot at least charities and political parties/associations. They can create a legally recognized entity as well, and so have bank accounts. An unincorporated club like the York Fencing Association can have an account too, if it has an officer who will assume responsibility for the account.
Our various governments propose ways of "petitioning for redress of grievance", and, as each becomes popular, strive to cut them off.
In British law, as applied to the 13 colonies, a signed petition could be presented to a governing body and it had a duty to respond. As the Yale law journal points out, that was so heavily used in response to slavery that it was withdrawn in the U.S. (see http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/796438?uid=3739448&uid=2&uid=3737720&uid=4&sid=21101604364957) A certain well-known president is trying to bring it back, but that's a different discussion.
With organized petitioning unavailable, personal appeals to one's representative became popular. It soon became impossible to meet your representative, and written letters turned into counts pro and con that their staffs reported.
Groups and companies then banded together and hired lobbyists, to button-hole legislators in the lobby of their building, where the public was allowed. When these became too bothersome, only selected lobbyists were invited to meetings, and the general public was excluded from the buildings.
The press is still allowed in some selected lobbies, but there is always a back corridor available for legislators to use to bypass them.
Groups then started petitioning in person, on the front lawn of the parliament buildings, and occasionally their representatives would come out and meet them. More often, the police closed off access to the building and its vicinity.
No organization, whether legislative or commercial, enjoys hearing criticism. As soon as they get too much from a given channel, that channel will be cut off. Only the occasional brave, duty-oriented legislator will ask their electors for comments.
In my own country of Canada, this last happened when the government of the day asked for broad comments on amending the copyright law, when my local city councilman needed opinions and options on a garbage-collection proposal, and most recently when the CRTC asked for suggestions to moderate the bad practices of cell-phone providers.
Redress of grievance still exists, but it's genuinely rare.
--dave
Gee, someone doesn't understand math jokes (;-))
Indeed: that was a licence-terms case, rather than a sale.
Anyone know if the boot rom is socketed, and/or if it runs peripheral-device roms in privileged mode?
No, it's semi-infinite, in one dimension only. And you have to seek and backspace one character at a time. I do remember machines with audio-tape as their storage, and I'm surprised MS would go back to something even more primitive (:-))
Chevrolet car, that can only use Chevrolet gas.
You may have to wait a while before they get reliable enough: a colleague just bought one for Christmas and hat to take it back because it was unreliably buggy. I'll send him a link and invite his comments.
That's one of the things suggested, by myself as well as others, to the CRTC in Canada. We suffer from, guess what, a duopoly of Rogers Cable and Bell DSL. Ditto Rogers and Bell wireless.
As opposed to a employee relations person, you understand.
The weasels want people with 5 years experience with Java in 1995, and then wonder why no-one but James Gosling applies.
Send the posting to Larry Page's office with a subject line like "Public relations blunder".
--dave
Unions can't protect jobs, although they sometimes think they can. What they can do is protect workers in cases where there is a big imbalance in bargaining power between owner and worker.
In a tech company with less than a hundred-odd people (some exceedingly odd), a union is less than useful. In a low-tech company with many people, it's almost a necessity. When I was at Motor Wheel, the union was cool. When I was at Sun, I never felt the lack.
When car wheels are mostly made by robots, the humans in the plant will probably want a union. Humans working in high tech may not, although the AI's might (:-))
If you chose a time period substantially greater than the time to raise a new generation of humans, then you can guarantee your models won't show humans being displaced by technology.
Persons desirous of having lots of automation, in hopes of having a better life for said humans, tend to chose such long time scales, while persons concerned with being displaced chose periods like "right now", to demonstrate the event actually happens.
Honest economists consider the period, say why, and discuss the trade-offs.
--dave (a philosopher, not an economist) c-b