Email isn't private because it can be relayed through any server on the Internet, in plain text.
A lot of my email is encrypted between servers using SMTPTLS. It's not going through "any server on the planet", although the packets may be going through any router on the planet. There is a significant difference. The routers don't decrypt the email (unless there is an active MITM attack) and so there is some expectation of privacy.
On the otherside, an employer or contractor can 'expense' their meals if it's business related.
Excellent point. I propose that if free lunches for employees are treated like income for tax purposes, so should business meals that employees get reimbursement for.
If I stream Pandora (or music on the device) from my phone to my car's radio and I use the car radio's remote control to skip tracks, increate or decrease volume etc., where does this law put me?
You could have just not let her run as a user that was a local adminstrator. Doing that results a similar level of security as running on Linux as a non-root user.
And how does she get updates to Flash, Java and other programs that have their own updater program that require intervention by a user with and Administrator login?
I'm sorry, but no. Running as a non-administrator only works if you have someone else who keeps the system updated.
Arrgh.../. ate my filenames, even though I posted it as Plain Old Text:
I generally file by//.pdf, although I may vary the hierachy if appropriate, for example: TAXES//.pdf
Should be:
I generally file by <TOPIC>/<YEAR>/<MONTH#>.pdf or perhaps <TOPIC>/<YEAR>/<MONTH#>/scans.pdf. I use other variations to the hierarchy if appropriate, for example: TAXES/<YEAR>/<Type_of_Form>.pdf. So all W2s for a particular tax year. would be in the same PDF file.
All scanned invoices for a particular year/month would be in the same PDF file and in the same directory as any downloaded invoices.
It's not important that I use the same hierarchy everywhere, I use the hierachy that will make it easiest to find the document in the future and that varies according to what I am filing.
Your suggestion is over-complicated IMHO. I use Xsane and scan as multi-page documents. Xsane allows me to add pages to the scan set and reproduce a new PDF file. There are some downsides to my method: I need to have an approximate idea of the date of the document that I am looking for.
I generally file by//.pdf, although I may vary the hierachy if appropriate, for example: TAXES//.pdf
Perhaps more important, though, is to extract the data into some form of record keeping (even if it is only a spreadheet) at the time that it is saved. Then, unless I am being audited, I really don't need the scans.
A bettern analogy is to look at where the electricity comes from. The vacuum cleaner can be run off a generator that is unconnected to anything else. In other words, you need electricity to run the vacuum cleaner, but you don't need a connection to the power grid.
These DRM-filled games won't work when connected to a LAN that is not connected (via the Internet) to the DRM servers. A local connection is not sufficient.
Uh, people with millions of dollars who plan to evade taxes can't find a way around the reporting of offshore wire transfers?
I think that is a rather naive assumption. They are already planning to break the law. Breaking the law in the process of moving the money offshore is hardly going to worry them.
The original invention/discovery was made before the date after which drugs are eligible for patent protection in India. So the original invention was too early and the changes were not sufficient for a new patent that would have been after drigs became eligible for protection in India
The reasons why there are bad directors is because they really don't matter.
They appoint the CEO and decide his remuneration. That's probably their most important job and, as the article states, HP's board has failed at this task.
They probably can do little positive for companies, but bad decisions can have a big impact.
Most of those legacy hard drives everybody always think can be re used are actually far lower RPM IDE hard drives.
Wow! You must have some really old drives. Just looked at the 120GB hard drive that is sitting on my desk -- it's a 7200 RPM drive and was announced in 2001.
while a patent claiming "adding a first number to a second number to generate a third number" would be an unpatentable algorithm, a patent claiming "executing an adder by a processor of a computing device, the adder configured for adding a first number to a second number to generate a third number, the third number stored in a memory of the computing device" would not be an unpatentable algorithm, as it is tied to a specific machine.
Read the claims of the Uniloc patent (which was invalidated) -- some of them are similar to your example of patentable material.
No matter if you use gmail or your own server, smtp with remote servers usually goes in plain text.
That is becoming less true. Many servers (including GMAIL's) support SMTPTLS. Unfortuanately, the lack of certificate validation (because few mailservers have signed certificates) makes them open to man-in-the-middle attacks, but not to simple packet sniffing.
The problem is Microsoft does make good products. They don't make great products, though.
I don't think that is accurate. For the most part, Microsoft makes products that are barely good enough, combined with the fact that Microsoft's monopoly position made it such that most buyers of computers were simply unaware of what was possible. For example, BSODs are rare now, but Microsft was able to convince a generation of buyers that random BSODs were acceptable when competing products did not suffer the same problems.
The fact is that we don't know how far the industry would have progressed without the illegal anti-trust violations which resulted in the supression of competition.
I had to argue with a UK carrier to get a refund on the international roaming that I had done in the EU. My trouble tickets were closed without a proper resolution (I received a small refund) and it took a lot of persistence to get a full refund.
EU roaming rates are limited by EU regulations, yet there were reports of the same problem going back months (to the date that the roaming rates were limited by EU regulations).
I can understand human error leading to roaming rates being incorrect when the limits were first implemented, but almost a year later? It's hard to believe that mere human error is at fault here. Perhaps the fact that the carrier has a huge financial incentive in *not* fixing the problem.
Windows works nicely under KVM with the signed Windows virtio drivers from RedHat and the drives presented as virtio drives. This gives a significant improvement in I/O speed.
I'd be happy respecting them more if I paid them less - plumbers call out fees in the UK are astonishing.
You should try calling out a plumber in California. You would be glad to pay what whose plumbers are charging you in the UK (and yes, I do know how much plumbers charge in the UK).
I have seen this at a remote office of a former employer. I think they were using addresses that were allocated to Sun and I think that the reason they used those addresses was that Sun used them in their training. Somewhere in the 129.x.x.x range, if I am not mistaken.
You're obviously very young or have worked for smaller companies, which is why you think that their status as "convicted monopolist" makes any difference to anyone. If their products didn't fill a need which there was not a better product available to fill, trust me, they wouldn't retain the business they do.
And you don't understand the concept of monopoly abuse. There were few "better products" because Microsoft used its monopoly power to suppress them. Microsoft did not make products that were better than the competition, instead, they used illegal means to prevent the competition from developing and releasing competing products.
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A lot of my email is encrypted between servers using SMTPTLS. It's not going through "any server on the planet", although the packets may be going through any router on the planet. There is a significant difference. The routers don't decrypt the email (unless there is an active MITM attack) and so there is some expectation of privacy.
How is this any different from the use of a GPS tracking device attached to someone's car. The Supremes decided that GPS tracking devices need warrants. They even suggested in that ruling that warrants would be required to tracka smartphone.
Excellent point. I propose that if free lunches for employees are treated like income for tax purposes, so should business meals that employees get reimbursement for.
If I stream Pandora (or music on the device) from my phone to my car's radio and I use the car radio's remote control to skip tracks, increate or decrease volume etc., where does this law put me?
And how does she get updates to Flash, Java and other programs that have their own updater program that require intervention by a user with and Administrator login?
I'm sorry, but no. Running as a non-administrator only works if you have someone else who keeps the system updated.
Should be: I generally file by <TOPIC>/<YEAR>/<MONTH#>.pdf or perhaps <TOPIC>/<YEAR>/<MONTH#>/scans.pdf. I use other variations to the hierarchy if appropriate, for example: TAXES/<YEAR>/<Type_of_Form>.pdf. So all W2s for a particular tax year. would be in the same PDF file.
All scanned invoices for a particular year/month would be in the same PDF file and in the same directory as any downloaded invoices.
It's not important that I use the same hierarchy everywhere, I use the hierachy that will make it easiest to find the document in the future and that varies according to what I am filing.
Your suggestion is over-complicated IMHO. I use Xsane and scan as multi-page documents. Xsane allows me to add pages to the scan set and reproduce a new PDF file. There are some downsides to my method: I need to have an approximate idea of the date of the document that I am looking for.
I generally file by //.pdf, although I may vary the hierachy if appropriate, for example: TAXES//.pdf
Perhaps more important, though, is to extract the data into some form of record keeping (even if it is only a spreadheet) at the time that it is saved. Then, unless I am being audited, I really don't need the scans.
A bettern analogy is to look at where the electricity comes from. The vacuum cleaner can be run off a generator that is unconnected to anything else. In other words, you need electricity to run the vacuum cleaner, but you don't need a connection to the power grid.
These DRM-filled games won't work when connected to a LAN that is not connected (via the Internet) to the DRM servers. A local connection is not sufficient.
Uh, people with millions of dollars who plan to evade taxes can't find a way around the reporting of offshore wire transfers?
I think that is a rather naive assumption. They are already planning to break the law. Breaking the law in the process of moving the money offshore is hardly going to worry them.
That's the correct spelling for grey to you, colonist.
Actually, Wikipedia doesn't have a USA version, it has an English version.
The original invention/discovery was made before the date after which drugs are eligible for patent protection in India. So the original invention was too early and the changes were not sufficient for a new patent that would have been after drigs became eligible for protection in India
That's easy, the first sentence gives it away:
This is /., so that sentence is clearly a fake.
They appoint the CEO and decide his remuneration. That's probably their most important job and, as the article states, HP's board has failed at this task.
They probably can do little positive for companies, but bad decisions can have a big impact.
Wow! You must have some really old drives. Just looked at the 120GB hard drive that is sitting on my desk -- it's a 7200 RPM drive and was announced in 2001.
Read the claims of the Uniloc patent (which was invalidated) -- some of them are similar to your example of patentable material.
The link isn't loading for me. Someone must have DDoSed the server.
That is becoming less true. Many servers (including GMAIL's) support SMTPTLS. Unfortuanately, the lack of certificate validation (because few mailservers have signed certificates) makes them open to man-in-the-middle attacks, but not to simple packet sniffing.
I don't think that is accurate. For the most part, Microsoft makes products that are barely good enough, combined with the fact that Microsoft's monopoly position made it such that most buyers of computers were simply unaware of what was possible. For example, BSODs are rare now, but Microsft was able to convince a generation of buyers that random BSODs were acceptable when competing products did not suffer the same problems.
The fact is that we don't know how far the industry would have progressed without the illegal anti-trust violations which resulted in the supression of competition.
Or not. Because he has little to do with it. He is CEO of T-Mobile USA and the report is of "errors" by T-Mobile UK.
I had to argue with a UK carrier to get a refund on the international roaming that I had done in the EU. My trouble tickets were closed without a proper resolution (I received a small refund) and it took a lot of persistence to get a full refund.
EU roaming rates are limited by EU regulations, yet there were reports of the same problem going back months (to the date that the roaming rates were limited by EU regulations).
I can understand human error leading to roaming rates being incorrect when the limits were first implemented, but almost a year later? It's hard to believe that mere human error is at fault here. Perhaps the fact that the carrier has a huge financial incentive in *not* fixing the problem.
Windows works nicely under KVM with the signed Windows virtio drivers from RedHat and the drives presented as virtio drives. This gives a significant improvement in I/O speed.
KVM and Xen can be managed through virt-manager. No need to use any command-line tools.
You should try calling out a plumber in California. You would be glad to pay what whose plumbers are charging you in the UK (and yes, I do know how much plumbers charge in the UK).
I have seen this at a remote office of a former employer. I think they were using addresses that were allocated to Sun and I think that the reason they used those addresses was that Sun used them in their training. Somewhere in the 129.x.x.x range, if I am not mistaken.
And you don't understand the concept of monopoly abuse. There were few "better products" because Microsoft used its monopoly power to suppress them. Microsoft did not make products that were better than the competition, instead, they used illegal means to prevent the competition from developing and releasing competing products.