Summary: > Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke . Article: >When the documents finally arrived more than seven months later, they included more than 800 pages of information, including 15 burn and fire-related incidents blamed by iPod owners on their iPods. . > After conducting its own preliminary investigation, the federal agency determined that, with more than 175 million iPods sold, âoethe number of incidents is extremely small in relation to the number of products produced, making the risk of injury very low.â . I'm ALARMED!
To reword: our fair use law is very restrictive and doesn't allow for commonly considered fair use cases, such as the right to transfer songs to your ipod from CD. The "fair use" laws we have in the UK are designed for the press and for educational use, not the common people.
Welcome to globalisation. Laws in the US aren't the same as the ones in the UK. In the UK we don't have fair use laws. I'm wondering why this is different to the music mess caused by allofmp3; everyone was so upset that the Russians system was different and against "our" laws.
One of a couple of things is going to happen as we continue the Digital Revolution. Either we're going to need a global legal system since all this internet stuff is global, or we're going to have to shut down the internet and make it the "countrynet" so that everything you do is contained in the same legal framework.
That used to annoy the crap out of me too. It's trivially easy to ask the user where they are and pick sensible defaults for all the rest of the questions, including keyboards etc.
However, as I've switched to a mac I find that in Windows I *should* use the US keyboard layout. Go figure... maybe Microsoft likes UK based Mac users?
I bought mine PAYG for this exact reason. My all-you-can eat data plan is going to be £10 a month when I have to start paying for it in a couple of months. I never call anyone (on this phone) or SMS.
Going to save me a fortune compared to buying one on contract...
Since the world is slowly (rapidly?) moving towards the lap/notebook this market surely can't be a growth one.
i.e. in my house I've moved all my kids computers (4), mine, and the wife's to laptops. Oh, and my low power home server broke so I switched it to EEE701 since the 20MB/sec it cranks out is more than sufficient for the G/N network.
That, and none of the new chips they're bring out seem to be much better than renamed versions of the old ones. My "old" 7900GTX has about the same performance as the 9600 I've got in my MBP...
Except you don't. Instead you buy a box and media and license a game. In most countries you can re-sell the box and media but licenses tend to be transferable only when the licensee allows it. In most cases they do, but outside of the games industry (i.e. rest of the computer industry) license resales can be problematic.
> no regard to what they're committing themselves and their company
Most employees aren't legally empowered to commit their company / organisation to anything. They don't have the authority to sign contracts on behalf of the company / organisation.
Given how quickly laptops get destroyed by viri, spyware, user mis-action etc, why bother with key management. Just have automated backups and in the event of a key loss just perform a restore.
I assume that your laptops containing the important data are backed up, using Connected, or CrashPlan, or something similar. Otherwise what happens when the hard disk fails or the computer gets stolen?
So if the user forgets his passwords just perform a restore.
On my EEE 701 I'm luks encrypting a 1TB hard drive that is our home server. While running a tripwire scan on that USB hard disk the machine is able to sustain 23MB/sec (shown via dstat) and given that my users (family) access it via wireless, I'd say that our netbook massively outperforms the requirements I have.
One way would be to get progressively slower at *processing* a login for a particular user based on the number of failed attempts. I.e. user enters a password, the timer ticks away, and then at the end it really does the test and checks if the password was right.
You would typically double the time delay with a reasonable limit of say 1 minute so that each failed attempt sticks at 1 minute delay.
You put up a banner after the delay reaches 10 secs or so saying "Your login will be slower as you have had X failed attempts recently".
Then elsewhere you limit the number of failed logins from a single IP address to different accounts via a similar method to slow them down trying 100,000,000 accounts with password X.
Oh, and you internally you check that passwords aren't common dictionary attack words to prevent users from running with knives when they create / modify their account...
Run FreeBSD inside of VMware instead? In my case I'm on a laptop so get much better hardware support from Windows, but can run BSD quite happily full screen, and you can run other VMware images at the same time, memory and CPU permitting.
While I agree that for records / data that are structured it may be possible to implement a better regime, a lot of the data that flows around companies isn't structured and is stored either in email that goes back and forth, or in group shared folders in Word\Excel style documents.
I pity the poor Records Manager who would have to go through everyones email to subjectively decide if an email can be deleted without the context that surrounds them.
Apps aren't really well designed for this in mind. They don't come at the problem from a "document lifecycle" perspective but instead a "document creation".
This is generally because data has a variable lifespan. Lets take an email as part of a project as an example. As the author I may decide that the email isn't needed after a week so set an expiry of 1 week. But you, as the recipient, may take that email and turn that into several tasks so for you the email is much more important and thus want to keep it for much longer.
Users aren't really going to be good at making these decisions unless some application continually bombards them with "go check the status of these 1000 documents you've got".
Now if only they knew that the threatening letters I send from my printer (manufactured by Epson) that was bought boxed from a local store in cash was at my house...
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Summary:
> Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke
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Article:
>When the documents finally arrived more than seven months later, they included more than 800 pages of information, including 15 burn and fire-related incidents blamed by iPod owners on their iPods.
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> After conducting its own preliminary investigation, the federal agency determined that, with more than 175 million iPods sold, âoethe number of incidents is extremely small in relation to the number of products produced, making the risk of injury very low.â
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I'm ALARMED!
To reword: our fair use law is very restrictive and doesn't allow for commonly considered fair use cases, such as the right to transfer songs to your ipod from CD. The "fair use" laws we have in the UK are designed for the press and for educational use, not the common people.
Welcome to globalisation. Laws in the US aren't the same as the ones in the UK. In the UK we don't have fair use laws.
I'm wondering why this is different to the music mess caused by allofmp3; everyone was so upset that the Russians system was different and against "our" laws.
One of a couple of things is going to happen as we continue the Digital Revolution. Either we're going to need a global legal system since all this internet stuff is global, or we're going to have to shut down the internet and make it the "countrynet" so that everything you do is contained in the same legal framework.
Or, head, sand, bury.
That used to annoy the crap out of me too. It's trivially easy to ask the user where they are and pick sensible defaults for all the rest of the questions, including keyboards etc.
However, as I've switched to a mac I find that in Windows I *should* use the US keyboard layout. Go figure... maybe Microsoft likes UK based Mac users?
I bought mine PAYG for this exact reason. My all-you-can eat data plan is going to be £10 a month when I have to start paying for it in a couple of months. I never call anyone (on this phone) or SMS.
Going to save me a fortune compared to buying one on contract...
Since the world is slowly (rapidly?) moving towards the lap/notebook this market surely can't be a growth one.
i.e. in my house I've moved all my kids computers (4), mine, and the wife's to laptops. Oh, and my low power home server broke so I switched it to EEE701 since the 20MB/sec it cranks out is more than sufficient for the G/N network.
That, and none of the new chips they're bring out seem to be much better than renamed versions of the old ones. My "old" 7900GTX has about the same performance as the 9600 I've got in my MBP...
In the UK we do via the TV license.
I buy games. I don't rent them.
Except you don't. Instead you buy a box and media and license a game. In most countries you can re-sell the box and media but licenses tend to be transferable only when the licensee allows it. In most cases they do, but outside of the games industry (i.e. rest of the computer industry) license resales can be problematic.
No. And I can't believe I was marked as a troll. Anybody who already plays eve will know the eve-o forums regularly have rickrolls. *sigh*
The mightly EVE cliff... And of course don't forget the YouTube EVE training video.
> no regard to what they're committing themselves and their company
Most employees aren't legally empowered to commit their company / organisation to anything. They don't have the authority to sign contracts on behalf of the company / organisation.
Insensitive clot. I use 32 bit unicode!
Given how quickly laptops get destroyed by viri, spyware, user mis-action etc, why bother with key management. Just have automated backups and in the event of a key loss just perform a restore.
I assume that your laptops containing the important data are backed up, using Connected, or CrashPlan, or something similar. Otherwise what happens when the hard disk fails or the computer gets stolen?
So if the user forgets his passwords just perform a restore.
On my EEE 701 I'm luks encrypting a 1TB hard drive that is our home server. While running a tripwire scan on that USB hard disk the machine is able to sustain 23MB/sec (shown via dstat) and given that my users (family) access it via wireless, I'd say that our netbook massively outperforms the requirements I have.
One way would be to get progressively slower at *processing* a login for a particular user based on the number of failed attempts. I.e. user enters a password, the timer ticks away, and then at the end it really does the test and checks if the password was right.
You would typically double the time delay with a reasonable limit of say 1 minute so that each failed attempt sticks at 1 minute delay.
You put up a banner after the delay reaches 10 secs or so saying "Your login will be slower as you have had X failed attempts recently".
Then elsewhere you limit the number of failed logins from a single IP address to different accounts via a similar method to slow them down trying 100,000,000 accounts with password X.
Oh, and you internally you check that passwords aren't common dictionary attack words to prevent users from running with knives when they create / modify their account...
Bart's junk? ... Bart is junk ...?
or maybe Bart was carrying handfuls of his junk in the film?
Err... confused.
Run FreeBSD inside of VMware instead? In my case I'm on a laptop so get much better hardware support from Windows, but can run BSD quite happily full screen, and you can run other VMware images at the same time, memory and CPU permitting.
The internet is for? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1844775900946449930
While I agree that for records / data that are structured it may be possible to implement a better regime, a lot of the data that flows around companies isn't structured and is stored either in email that goes back and forth, or in group shared folders in Word\Excel style documents.
I pity the poor Records Manager who would have to go through everyones email to subjectively decide if an email can be deleted without the context that surrounds them.
Apps aren't really well designed for this in mind. They don't come at the problem from a "document lifecycle" perspective but instead a "document creation".
This is generally because data has a variable lifespan. Lets take an email as part of a project as an example. As the author I may decide that the email isn't needed after a week so set an expiry of 1 week. But you, as the recipient, may take that email and turn that into several tasks so for you the email is much more important and thus want to keep it for much longer.
Users aren't really going to be good at making these decisions unless some application continually bombards them with "go check the status of these 1000 documents you've got".
Perhaps the answer *is* stackoverflow.com?
What could possibly go wrong at launch time?
Queue song in iTunes playlist: The Weather Girls "It's raining highly radioactive nuclear material... Hallelujah!..."
Still cheaper than the money they will end up wasting on ID cards.
Now if only they knew that the threatening letters I send from my printer (manufactured by Epson) that was bought boxed from a local store in cash was at my house...