The company doesn't care about whether there's a "linux" or not. They're using RHEL/SuSE/whatever not this mysterious "Linux". I think you'll find a whole lot of "Linux people" disagreeing with you there. Every single Linux admin I've ever met has used lots of different distros and knows the quirks of each one. The company will hire people who can do the job on the system used, not those who don't.
A *good* Linux admin will know whether they can use the system or not and apply for jobs accordingly. A bad admin might try and wing it but hey, they're a bad admin and should never had been hired in the first place.
I agree with you there, you're average good *nix admin can be thrown in front of a new distro or flavor and be able to a fair job of being an admin on it. For example, I leaned HP-UX in college as well as when I did hardware support for Celestica. When I sat down in front of my first linux box, I wasn't totally lost - the basic structure was there. Just like when I sat down at my new job working on AIX, sure it's a little different but I haven't had much of a learning curve (vi works on everything). It's like a windows user going from 95 to XP, it's not the same OS and there will be some things that the average Joe would get stuck on for a few minutes, but it's the same basic concept.
Going from XP to a *nix system is a a jump for your average user and a bigger jump for a windows admin to being a linux admin. Let's be honest, Linux on the desktop is not where it needs to be for the average user - users have a rep for being idiots for a reason. Asking them to type a command at the cli will come across as mystical mumbo jumbo and the GUI doesn't do everything - but is HAS come a LONG way from even just a couple of years ago - I think that with Vista being out, a Linux/Debian/BSD distro will look even better for both the home market and the enterprise workstation.
listening to that tape was downright painful, brought up my own very nasty battles with verizon a few years back. In a two year period, I had over $800 in over billings reversed but only by keeping accurate logs and countless hours. You know you're getting a rep at a place when the customer retention department refuses to talk to you. I used to think that phone companies were trained in terrorist camps, now I know better. They run them. This is why I'm with Cingular now.
Unless Verizon has changed since I was with them, he'll get the money back if he fights for it, but it won't be easy.
In October 1992, the U.S. Congress passed the Audio Home Recording Act. Under the AHRA, manufacturers and importers of digital audio recorders (including, for example, DAT, DCC, and MiniDisc recorders) and blank media are required to make royalty payments. The AARC was the first organization to distribute AHRA monies in 1995. The royalty rate was established through arbitration, and is currently at 2% of manufacturers' revenue.
So, pirate all the music you want, but keep it on CDs boys and girls. Every bit of non pirated music or data that goes on those CDs is wasted "royality". I wonder if DVDs are covered too, how about just throwing a hardrive in there too, I'd pay 2% extra to be exempt from a lawsuit.
I love technology, my wife is on the east coast (1700 miles, 28 hours by car) in training for the Army. About half of our communication is by email or cell phone when she gets passes on the weekends. I work from the house, so it will let me be closer to her next month when I take an extended trip.
Before she went into the army, I would fire up the laptop and work from bed while she snuggled up next to me until she was ready to get up. Pretty much the best working conditions I could imagine and when my days would be 18 hours long at times, the extra closeness to her was much appreicated.
It's also made the house seem that much more empty since she's been gone, I'll be glad for October to be here when she'll be home for a while before going active.
What i'm saying here is that technology and remote work doesn't have to be a bad thing for a relationship, it can be good for a relationship as well!
If the user is forced to keep track of 3 or 4 passwords this way, you're guaranteed your passwords will be in cubicle walls
Then those users would be guaranteed to meet with HR, probably for an exit interview if it happened more than once. What's really sad is that from what things sound like in this article, a password of MonkeyBanana1 was probaby a stronger password then was used by the head of the FBI.
It does sound like we're in agreement about one point tho, the weakest link in any security chain is almost always the user. Why bother with scanning the firewall for a weakness when a little social engineering can bring much better results, faster and with less chance of getting caught? I'm honestly supirsed at all of the violations of the regulations we see pretaining to the government storage of classified data, be it the VA or the FBI.
Like many of us, i used to work in a call center doing customer support. Here is one of my favorites...
"Sir, I need you to right click on your "my computer icon" and go down to properties and left click on it"
several second pause....
"Sir, have you right clicked on my computer?"
"No, how the hell can I right click on your computer when I'm in Georgia and you're in Colorado?"
several seconds of mute-button laughter later...
"Sir, I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear. There is an icon on your desktop with the text of "My computer" under it, if you could right click on that and go down to properties."
"How the hell did you know that? Are you spying on me?...'click of a customer hang up'"
Surely this proves that 90 day password expiration policies encourage users to pick weaker passwords they can remember because they are having to change them all the time?
Surely this really proves that the IT department wasn't enforcing strong passwords and that's about all it proves. Having strong passwords that change every 90 days is NOT an unreasonable policy and is easy to enforce with any OS.
The IT department should be on trial along with the consultant.
we should make two "rooms" somewhere close enough to DC to bring policymakers to.
I think you're on the right track, only I'd say one room and put all the policy makers who oppose net nutrality in there along with a selected few from/. (vets, martial artists, body builders). Each person would have a half brick under their chair and the ones who walk out get to make the decision. Actually, that's how I propose to solve a lot of conflicts, that and a cattle prod and tube of KY. Is it "might makes right", yup, but when isn't that the case?
Crap for drivers. Only been running an AMD64 for a few weeks now, so I've yet to try out the flavors of linux for it, but only ran XP64 for about an hour before formatting the drive. Doesn't do much good to run 64bit OS if you can't talk to your printer and you have to use hacked up inf files to get the on board NIC working.
Give it a year or so to get some freak'n driver support and then give it a shot. Till then, stick with XP pro or Linux.
Ever seen how much it costs to take the RHCE test? $795 a pop, for ONE test. Classes for it run $3000ish.
Of course, I'm thinking both are a good idea for me to take, since this place I work at is closing most of the America's plants, and Thursday is my last day - time to update the Certs!
*shock and awe* - people are actually advertising for CompTia A+ certs being deseriable! Amazing, and I always thought with an A+ and $1.50 you could buy a cup of $1.25 coffee!
Of course, since the company I work for is closing and my last day is this week, this is excellent news and I hope I can get some of that Dot-com cash while it still flows - I can rack up quite a savings for when the bubble bursts again:-)
I think the big reason to ban window units is horizontally-sliding windows. Window units are pretty much only designed to work in the more traditional vertically-sliding windows, so trying to retrofit one into a window that slides sideways (like a patio door) is... pretty much a recipe for disaster....:-)
Dunno about that. I have sliding horizontally-sliding windows and 2 window AC units. One was designed for this and came with everything to fit just right into the window. I also have one that took me maybe a half hour to install because I had to cut a piece of wood to fit around it and attach to the window. BOTH are mounted with 2" wood screws into the frame of the window sill, so I'm not too worried about them falling out.
The one I had to retrofit is in the bedroom, and since both my wife and I work nights, it's been a life saver. Little bit o' insulation on the other windows and we stay nice and cool in there on the hottest of days.
I'm with Digis in Colorado and have excellent service (even tho I'm in a bad location). I get 1M up and 1M down, but for a lot less than cable or Mesa (think it runs $24.95 with my static IP).
Hell, god forbid if the news started spending 10 minutes on each news story. Sure, that would only be 4 or 5 news stories a night, but it would be better to know something about a topic than just associate an emotion with a 30 second news clip. Hell, god forbid/.ers actually start RTFA before posting, and keep posts on topic.:-)
While you do make a good point in that we associate emotions with events, I would find a news story that lasted 10 minutes to be probably 8 or 9 minutes of filler or opinion. The media has a hard enough time keeping bias out of the news with 30 seconds a clip, how much do you imagine there will be if we ask them to fill up 10 minutes? The purpose of a news article is to inform people of what is happening in the world, not to impart some deep understanding to everyone who watches it.
The truth does not matter. Everything can be spinned and made into an emotional issue. Everything can be rationalized.
The truth as defined by whom? There are 3 versions of every memory and story. 1st we have your side and how you remember it happening - this is the truth to you. Next we have my side and how I remember it happening - this is the truth to me. Next we have what really happened, but since no one is see it for what it really is it may as well not even exist. Remember, nothing ever happens exactly the way you remember it.
and even then that is not enough time to capture everything needed to understand a topic
While some places do a really good job of presenting ideas and concepts (PBS, Nova, Etc) 0 if you want to really understand a topic, don't rely on TV at all, or for that matter/. Go out and do some real research.
Hope you'll take what I said here as some constuctive feedback on posting and not much else:D
Is that you're terror attack strategy? Try to break into the 911 network just as someone who doesn't speak very good English, is having a heart attack?
Your response has shown me that I didn't make myself very clear in the posting. I was simply refuting the statement that no one dies when networks go down and provided a simple example to back it up.
I'm not so small minded to think that attacking just the 911 system would be an effective terror attack. Now, take down the cell towers and phone exchanges in NYC would cause havoc enough, but do it while turning off the power grids and killing off the communication channels the emergency response units use to communicate to people in the field. With no way to contact police and emergency responce units, the greed and paranoia of 8 million people would quickly make a war zone look like a kindergarden.
I could go farther, but I don't want to give up too many ideas to the RIAA/MPAA and the phone company to use for evil.
Without the backing of US troops, has anything the UN decided on made a damn bit of difference to the world? If they have, it's fallen below the scope of my attention - which I will admit is somewhat limited at times.
Ok, so I disagree with almost everything you said in your post, and think that those who claim it to be brilliant must have an IQ close to that of your average house plant.
I do however respect your right to your point of view and you put your thoughts forth in an organized manner. I was able to clearly understand your point of view, and that generally is the point of communication (even on/.)
I could go on for hours and hours with the flaws of unions and liberal philosophies, but it's really not worth the effort. Let me just say that they both had a place and a time when they were useful and needed, but that time has passed.
corporations are antithetical to values that most people consider good qualities: fairness, sharing, caring, and that other kumbaya stuff that you probably would like your kids to learn.
Sure, I'd love my kids to learn that stuff. In fact, I've been teaching them that their whole lives. However, they also are learning that they need to work for what they want, they are learning that rewards only go to those who are willing to take the risks to get them. They are also learning that it's wrong for a government to do for the people what they can do for themselves.
I have no clue to your background, nor do you have any clue to mine. I suggest that further discussions be taken offline, I'd be happy to discuss philosophies with someone as rational as yourself.
You just stated all the reasons why I still love my local drive in and continue to support it as best I can. I don't even sneak food into the place because I know that they stay in business by thier food sales.
Oh, that and when it's the just the wife and I, she thinks it's kinky to play around or get busy in the back seat like we're a couple of teenagers.
It depends on what network is crashed. Crash the network of your local 911 and see how many people die because the operator isn't able to find the address of a heart patient who can't speak well enough during the attack to give thier address.
We've become very dependant on computers and networking. Sometimes, very critical systems are left wide open. I think that having them tested for security leaks is a good idea.
A friend of mine who is a consultant did a 26 page report on a small town police department's network, finding that he was able to access everthing on thier network, including personal and critical information from home, with out a user account on the network.
Got back this weekend. Had a wonderful time, so beautiful up there. Didn't lose a single thing to a thief, everyone was really polite and nice, even when we got somewhat lost on the moscow subway.
[ off topic ] Don't think there is a thing wrong with Siberia. In fact, later this week my wife and I are taking our honeymoon to Moscow and St. Petersburg. ok, so neither are exactly Siberia, but closer than say Mexico or the Bahama's.
Little scared, neither of us have a clue of to the language and if we get seperated from our private tour guide we can only hope that someone will be able to understand our gestures, pointing in the phrase book or speak a little english, german or even french.
Not all couples plan their honeymoon for 8 months, not all couples go to Russia but then again, not all couples get married a month to the day of when they first met either. [/ off topic ]
[ on topic ] Do believe that I read that this posting was a total farse and should be read as strictly humor. could be wrong, but that's the the register presented it.
P.S., the Colorado Dept of Transportation will actually adjust the speed limit to match the drivers,
Where has CDOT done this? I've lived in CO for most of my life (less a little stint playing soldier man for Uncle) and I've never seen them adjust a speed limit because everyone was going faster or slower on it. Not doubting your claim, just looking for an exmaple.
I think the problem with our definations here is the type of contractor we're speaking of. You're excellent link to find law points out several key factors... for an independent contractor.
HP and other firms like HP do NOT hire temps directly. They hire through firms like Volt, Adecco and ManPower. So, you never really work for HP, you work for the temp agency that _places_ you with HP, or Celestica, Or any other of a thousand places that use temp agencies as their "flex force".
I find this remarkable, when I was a temp through Volt for Celestica (missed the HP days at the plant they bought by a month), I was just delighted to have a job and was impressed that I wasn't treated like a second class person, and was given the same responsibilites as my full time coworkers. Hell, I wasn't going to sue because they treated me with respect.
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The company doesn't care about whether there's a "linux" or not. They're using RHEL/SuSE/whatever not this mysterious "Linux". I think you'll find a whole lot of "Linux people" disagreeing with you there. Every single Linux admin I've ever met has used lots of different distros and knows the quirks of each one. The company will hire people who can do the job on the system used, not those who don't.
A *good* Linux admin will know whether they can use the system or not and apply for jobs accordingly. A bad admin might try and wing it but hey, they're a bad admin and should never had been hired in the first place.
I agree with you there, you're average good *nix admin can be thrown in front of a new distro or flavor and be able to a fair job of being an admin on it. For example, I leaned HP-UX in college as well as when I did hardware support for Celestica. When I sat down in front of my first linux box, I wasn't totally lost - the basic structure was there. Just like when I sat down at my new job working on AIX, sure it's a little different but I haven't had much of a learning curve (vi works on everything). It's like a windows user going from 95 to XP, it's not the same OS and there will be some things that the average Joe would get stuck on for a few minutes, but it's the same basic concept.
Going from XP to a *nix system is a a jump for your average user and a bigger jump for a windows admin to being a linux admin. Let's be honest, Linux on the desktop is not where it needs to be for the average user - users have a rep for being idiots for a reason. Asking them to type a command at the cli will come across as mystical mumbo jumbo and the GUI doesn't do everything - but is HAS come a LONG way from even just a couple of years ago - I think that with Vista being out, a Linux/Debian/BSD distro will look even better for both the home market and the enterprise workstation.
listening to that tape was downright painful, brought up my own very nasty battles with verizon a few years back. In a two year period, I had over $800 in over billings reversed but only by keeping accurate logs and countless hours. You know you're getting a rep at a place when the customer retention department refuses to talk to you. I used to think that phone companies were trained in terrorist camps, now I know better. They run them. This is why I'm with Cingular now.
Unless Verizon has changed since I was with them, he'll get the money back if he fights for it, but it won't be easy.
We've got it down here in the States too, only it seems people have forgotten about it. http://www.riaa.com/issues%5Clicensing%5Caarc.asp
In October 1992, the U.S. Congress passed the Audio Home Recording Act. Under the AHRA, manufacturers and importers of digital audio recorders (including, for example, DAT, DCC, and MiniDisc recorders) and blank media are required to make royalty payments. The AARC was the first organization to distribute AHRA monies in 1995. The royalty rate was established through arbitration, and is currently at 2% of manufacturers' revenue.
So, pirate all the music you want, but keep it on CDs boys and girls. Every bit of non pirated music or data that goes on those CDs is wasted "royality". I wonder if DVDs are covered too, how about just throwing a hardrive in there too, I'd pay 2% extra to be exempt from a lawsuit.
I love technology, my wife is on the east coast (1700 miles, 28 hours by car) in training for the Army. About half of our communication is by email or cell phone when she gets passes on the weekends. I work from the house, so it will let me be closer to her next month when I take an extended trip.
Before she went into the army, I would fire up the laptop and work from bed while she snuggled up next to me until she was ready to get up. Pretty much the best working conditions I could imagine and when my days would be 18 hours long at times, the extra closeness to her was much appreicated.
It's also made the house seem that much more empty since she's been gone, I'll be glad for October to be here when she'll be home for a while before going active.
What i'm saying here is that technology and remote work doesn't have to be a bad thing for a relationship, it can be good for a relationship as well!
If the user is forced to keep track of 3 or 4 passwords this way, you're guaranteed your passwords will be in cubicle walls
Then those users would be guaranteed to meet with HR, probably for an exit interview if it happened more than once. What's really sad is that from what things sound like in this article, a password of MonkeyBanana1 was probaby a stronger password then was used by the head of the FBI.
It does sound like we're in agreement about one point tho, the weakest link in any security chain is almost always the user. Why bother with scanning the firewall for a weakness when a little social engineering can bring much better results, faster and with less chance of getting caught? I'm honestly supirsed at all of the violations of the regulations we see pretaining to the government storage of classified data, be it the VA or the FBI.
Like many of us, i used to work in a call center doing customer support. Here is one of my favorites...
"Sir, I need you to right click on your "my computer icon" and go down to properties and left click on it"
several second pause....
"Sir, have you right clicked on my computer?"
"No, how the hell can I right click on your computer when I'm in Georgia and you're in Colorado?"
several seconds of mute-button laughter later...
"Sir, I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear. There is an icon on your desktop with the text of "My computer" under it, if you could right click on that and go down to properties."
"How the hell did you know that? Are you spying on me?...'click of a customer hang up'"
Surely this proves that 90 day password expiration policies encourage users to pick weaker passwords they can remember because they are having to change them all the time?
Surely this really proves that the IT department wasn't enforcing strong passwords and that's about all it proves. Having strong passwords that change every 90 days is NOT an unreasonable policy and is easy to enforce with any OS.
The IT department should be on trial along with the consultant.
we should make two "rooms" somewhere close enough to DC to bring policymakers to.
/. (vets, martial artists, body builders). Each person would have a half brick under their chair and the ones who walk out get to make the decision. Actually, that's how I propose to solve a lot of conflicts, that and a cattle prod and tube of KY. Is it "might makes right", yup, but when isn't that the case?
I think you're on the right track, only I'd say one room and put all the policy makers who oppose net nutrality in there along with a selected few from
What about the 64-Bit version of Windows XP?
Crap for drivers. Only been running an AMD64 for a few weeks now, so I've yet to try out the flavors of linux for it, but only ran XP64 for about an hour before formatting the drive. Doesn't do much good to run 64bit OS if you can't talk to your printer and you have to use hacked up inf files to get the on board NIC working.
Give it a year or so to get some freak'n driver support and then give it a shot. Till then, stick with XP pro or Linux.
Where does Red Hat's income come from?
Ever seen how much it costs to take the RHCE test? $795 a pop, for ONE test. Classes for it run $3000ish.
Of course, I'm thinking both are a good idea for me to take, since this place I work at is closing most of the America's plants, and Thursday is my last day - time to update the Certs!
*shock and awe* - people are actually advertising for CompTia A+ certs being deseriable! Amazing, and I always thought with an A+ and $1.50 you could buy a cup of $1.25 coffee!
Breaking the rules of replying to ACs....
:-)
Dude, do you know why divorce is so expensive?
Because sometimes it's worth it!
Of course, since the company I work for is closing and my last day is this week, this is excellent news and I hope I can get some of that Dot-com cash while it still flows - I can rack up quite a savings for when the bubble bursts again
I think the big reason to ban window units is horizontally-sliding windows. Window units are pretty much only designed to work in the more traditional vertically-sliding windows, so trying to retrofit one into a window that slides sideways (like a patio door) is... pretty much a recipe for disaster.... :-)
Dunno about that. I have sliding horizontally-sliding windows and 2 window AC units. One was designed for this and came with everything to fit just right into the window. I also have one that took me maybe a half hour to install because I had to cut a piece of wood to fit around it and attach to the window. BOTH are mounted with 2" wood screws into the frame of the window sill, so I'm not too worried about them falling out.
The one I had to retrofit is in the bedroom, and since both my wife and I work nights, it's been a life saver. Little bit o' insulation on the other windows and we stay nice and cool in there on the hottest of days.
I'm with Digis in Colorado and have excellent service (even tho I'm in a bad location). I get 1M up and 1M down, but for a lot less than cable or Mesa (think it runs $24.95 with my static IP).
Hell, god forbid if the news started spending 10 minutes on each news story. Sure, that would only be 4 or 5 news stories a night, but it would be better to know something about a topic than just associate an emotion with a 30 second news clip. /.ers actually start RTFA before posting, and keep posts on topic. :-)
/. Go out and do some real research.
:D
Hell, god forbid
While you do make a good point in that we associate emotions with events, I would find a news story that lasted 10 minutes to be probably 8 or 9 minutes of filler or opinion. The media has a hard enough time keeping bias out of the news with 30 seconds a clip, how much do you imagine there will be if we ask them to fill up 10 minutes? The purpose of a news article is to inform people of what is happening in the world, not to impart some deep understanding to everyone who watches it.
The truth does not matter. Everything can be spinned and made into an emotional issue. Everything can be rationalized.
The truth as defined by whom? There are 3 versions of every memory and story. 1st we have your side and how you remember it happening - this is the truth to you. Next we have my side and how I remember it happening - this is the truth to me. Next we have what really happened, but since no one is see it for what it really is it may as well not even exist. Remember, nothing ever happens exactly the way you remember it.
and even then that is not enough time to capture everything needed to understand a topic
While some places do a really good job of presenting ideas and concepts (PBS, Nova, Etc) 0 if you want to really understand a topic, don't rely on TV at all, or for that matter
Hope you'll take what I said here as some constuctive feedback on posting and not much else
Is that you're terror attack strategy? Try to break into the 911 network just as someone who doesn't speak very good English, is having a heart attack?
Your response has shown me that I didn't make myself very clear in the posting. I was simply refuting the statement that no one dies when networks go down and provided a simple example to back it up.
I'm not so small minded to think that attacking just the 911 system would be an effective terror attack. Now, take down the cell towers and phone exchanges in NYC would cause havoc enough, but do it while turning off the power grids and killing off the communication channels the emergency response units use to communicate to people in the field. With no way to contact police and emergency responce units, the greed and paranoia of 8 million people would quickly make a war zone look like a kindergarden.
I could go farther, but I don't want to give up too many ideas to the RIAA/MPAA and the phone company to use for evil.
Well put and I have to agree.
Without the backing of US troops, has anything the UN decided on made a damn bit of difference to the world? If they have, it's fallen below the scope of my attention - which I will admit is somewhat limited at times.
Ok, so I disagree with almost everything you said in your post, and think that those who claim it to be brilliant must have an IQ close to that of your average house plant.
/.)
I do however respect your right to your point of view and you put your thoughts forth in an organized manner. I was able to clearly understand your point of view, and that generally is the point of communication (even on
I could go on for hours and hours with the flaws of unions and liberal philosophies, but it's really not worth the effort. Let me just say that they both had a place and a time when they were useful and needed, but that time has passed.
corporations are antithetical to values that most people consider good qualities: fairness, sharing, caring, and that other kumbaya stuff that you probably would like your kids to learn.
Sure, I'd love my kids to learn that stuff. In fact, I've been teaching them that their whole lives. However, they also are learning that they need to work for what they want, they are learning that rewards only go to those who are willing to take the risks to get them. They are also learning that it's wrong for a government to do for the people what they can do for themselves.
I have no clue to your background, nor do you have any clue to mine. I suggest that further discussions be taken offline, I'd be happy to discuss philosophies with someone as rational as yourself.
You just stated all the reasons why I still love my local drive in and continue to support it as best I can. I don't even sneak food into the place because I know that they stay in business by thier food sales.
Oh, that and when it's the just the wife and I, she thinks it's kinky to play around or get busy in the back seat like we're a couple of teenagers.
It depends on what network is crashed. Crash the network of your local 911 and see how many people die because the operator isn't able to find the address of a heart patient who can't speak well enough during the attack to give thier address.
We've become very dependant on computers and networking. Sometimes, very critical systems are left wide open. I think that having them tested for security leaks is a good idea.
A friend of mine who is a consultant did a 26 page report on a small town police department's network, finding that he was able to access everthing on thier network, including personal and critical information from home, with out a user account on the network.
Got back this weekend. Had a wonderful time, so beautiful up there. Didn't lose a single thing to a thief, everyone was really polite and nice, even when we got somewhat lost on the moscow subway.
It's worse than that he's dead Jim!
[ off topic ]
/on topic ]
Don't think there is a thing wrong with Siberia. In fact, later this week my wife and I are taking our honeymoon to Moscow and St. Petersburg. ok, so neither are exactly Siberia, but closer than say Mexico or the Bahama's.
Little scared, neither of us have a clue of to the language and if we get seperated from our private tour guide we can only hope that someone will be able to understand our gestures, pointing in the phrase book or speak a little english, german or even french.
Not all couples plan their honeymoon for 8 months, not all couples go to Russia but then again, not all couples get married a month to the day of when they first met either.
[/ off topic ]
[ on topic ]
Do believe that I read that this posting was a total farse and should be read as strictly humor. could be wrong, but that's the the register presented it.
[
P.S., the Colorado Dept of Transportation will actually adjust the speed limit to match the drivers,
Where has CDOT done this? I've lived in CO for most of my life (less a little stint playing soldier man for Uncle) and I've never seen them adjust a speed limit because everyone was going faster or slower on it. Not doubting your claim, just looking for an exmaple.
I think the problem with our definations here is the type of contractor we're speaking of. You're excellent link to find law points out several key factors... for an independent contractor.
HP and other firms like HP do NOT hire temps directly. They hire through firms like Volt, Adecco and ManPower. So, you never really work for HP, you work for the temp agency that _places_ you with HP, or Celestica, Or any other of a thousand places that use temp agencies as their "flex force".
I find this remarkable, when I was a temp through Volt for Celestica (missed the HP days at the plant they bought by a month), I was just delighted to have a job and was impressed that I wasn't treated like a second class person, and was given the same responsibilites as my full time coworkers. Hell, I wasn't going to sue because they treated me with respect.
Wonderful! Simply wonderful, if I had the cash, I'd be confusing the hell out of amazon instead of it suggesting text books to me all the time!