Antigua is arguing that they should be able to have a business that caters to US customers with no afford to US law.
You misunderstand. The reason that the WTO sided with Antigua (and allowed Antigua to take the action it is planning) is that the US allows its citizens to gamble. In banning US citizens from gambling on Antigua, the US was not taking a moral stance, but instead was taking an anti-free trade stance.
Probably doesn't matter then. Reading articles about Orca, there were hints that Orca ran using Micorosft technologies (like the fact that Microsoft did some consulting on Orca).
I'll probably get a troll mod for this from some Windows fanboi!
If Munich had stayed with Windows XP combined with Office 2003 instead of choosing Linux combined with OpenOffice.org, it would have saved money, the study apparently claimed.
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The city's own calculations did not consider all migration costs, according to the report. It apparently claimed that Munich compared the migration to a 10-year-old Linux version with a migration to a newer version of Windows, probably Windows 7, and said that if the city had stuck with Windows, no new software would have been necessary.
Please tell me, oh wise ones in Microsoft and HP how Munich could stay with XP, given that it is rapidly reaching EOL and support for newer hardware is likely to be problematic?
As are contracts where there is no consideration provided. It's hard to imagine what consideration was provided to the student.
I imagine that the school administrators said: "sign this and we won't kick you out". If so, then by kicking him out, they likely voided the NDA.
IANAL and laws in Canada may be different, etc..
I'm still waiting for final resolution of fallout from the 2007 financial meltdown. A mutual fund I had shares in lied about the value of mortgage-backed securities they held.
At this point, I think that it is pretty clear that almost no-one is going to be held to account for the illegal activities that led to the financial meltdown. If you are waiting for restitution from the mutual fund, I suggest that you give up.
If Google put into their website terms that anyone in law enforcement or a member of congress was not allowed to use Google's services, how long would it be before breaking a site's terms was no longer a criminal act?
Actually, even if Google does not do this, how about a grassroots campaign to do it?
The absolute minimum that can be awarded per infringed work is $200, and that's if you can convince the fact finder that you infringed without knowing. For a file sharer, that's a hard case to make. Damages can go up to $150,000 per infringed work if it was willful
Only if the copyright was registered within some period of first publication. Was the copyright on these photos registered in the appropriate timeframe? If not, then all that can be awarded is actual damages, not statutory damages, so no "up to $150,000"
BES can control individuals or groups of phones to only run certain programs or access certain features. that's what's missing from those alternatives + Exchange
In other words, it's all about "Enterprise features", or, to give it it's real name "CIO wants to use Windows/BB, etc.".
The world has moved on to BYOD, why would I want someone else to be able to control what programs I can run on my personal device? The answer to this dilemma is virtual machines running on the phone, with the VM able to access the work email/calendar, etc. and limited in what else it can access and subject to control from the enterprise IT department, while the non-VM activity on the phone is under my control.
If you're using Windows, keep it up-to-date and use a decent antivirus program -
I you are using Windows, then the simple answer is that you can never be sure that your machine is secure. You can never know if Microsoft has put a backdoor into the system that hides itself.
Even if you are using anti-virus, it is ineffective. I have seen 2 machines compromised in the last year that both had fully up-to-date antivirus. Only a couple of days after the compromise did the anti-virus detect the issue (in the first case, I tracked down the executable and submitted it to a site that tests against multiple anti-virus engines and most did not detect it until a few days later).
I had a friend who installed POS systems in small businesses for a living. At restaurants, the most important feature of any POS system was the ability to make a table disappear out of the records.
For our purposes, the most interesting results of the study came from the comparison of the senior business executives to the offenders at Broadmoor. The study showed that three out of the eleven personality disorders were more common in the senior business managers than in the criminal psychiatric patients
The loss of institutional knowledge can be devastating: there may be no one left who knows _why_ things were done certain ways, and it can really endanger ongoing services and other contracts to lose that much of a key department without some kind of plan.
Then perhaps the employer should not take the actions that lead to mass resignations. Perhaps they should, you know, keep the critical employees happy! Employees are not fungible.
Seriously, how many people here at/. are not already aware how poorly anti-virus software works? This "study" is just a "slashvertisement". From TFA
Imperva, which sponsored the antivirus study, has a horse in this race. Its Web application and data security software are part of a wave of products that look at security in a new way.
It isn't terribly tricky to script an invocation of "explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" on login; but the fact that they don't just offer a GPO setting to switch strongly suggests that somebody at Microsoft is hitting the kool-aide far harder than is advisable.
At they highest levels of Microsoft, they are convinced that providing the same "user experience" to mobile users as desktop users will be Microsoft's salvation. Somehow they think that this will force adoption of mobile devices running Windows (they think that users will demand Microsoft mobile devices because they look the same as PCs). That's why they don't want to allow people to make PCs easy to configure such that they are different to mobile devices.
why cars like Mercedes are adding brake assist, where a quick application of the brake triggers a stronger stopping force than requested because American drivers don't stop nearly as fast as possible in their cars, rarely beyond what you get sliding along on melted rubber.
Not just expensive cars. It is (or at least, was) an option on the Nissan Versa (at one time the cheapest car in the USA).
It also helps you notice things like scratches earlier so you can take care of them, otherwise you might lose the car earlier than you should to rust. That's simply wasteful.
Depends on where you live. In many parts of the world cars don't rust quickly enough to matter even if the paint gets scraped.
I can confirm that OpenVPN was being blocked just a couple of weeks ago, while it used to work in the summer. Strangely, ssh connections were not being blocked. I did manage to get openvpn working, but the endpoint was on port 53/tcp. Using tcp for VPN traffic is sub-optimal, so this was not a good solution.
The other odd thing was the websites being blocked included imdb. What subversive information is on imdb?
Yes, if it's a windows box, I run chkdsk/F/R a few times, and defragment the drive after deploy. (Not because it needs it, but for the exercise.) Similar with fsck on linux. If it fails, I want it to fail when the in-store return policy is still in effect, so I don't have to deal with the manufacturer.
Rather ineffective tests.
Use smartctl and schedule long tests. Also try something like:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda bs=64k
betteridge's law of headlines applies here. Hard drives go through extensive calibration before shipping, so the need for burn in doesn't really exist. As for problems with RMAs for hard drives used under Linux, repartitioned, etc. No.
The airlines need to address this. They have the resources.
I suspect that the beancounters in airlines are the ultimate cause of the financial issues of US airlines. Travelling by air has become much less pleasant than it was, what with the lack of food, extra fees, less legroom, etc.. On a recent trip to Asia, it was clear that the standard of service on Asian airlines is much better: hot food provided free on short flights, baggage limits applied loosely, more attentive flight attendants, etc..
I think that the beancounters think that the unpleasantness from security and all the other nickel and dime changes affect travellers on all airlines equally, which is true, but the real problem is that the number of air travellers has dropped. Perhaps if travelling by air were more pleasant, more people would travel.
The airlines should lobby to make security less intrusive and focus on real threats, followed by providing better service on-board.
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You misunderstand. The reason that the WTO sided with Antigua (and allowed Antigua to take the action it is planning) is that the US allows its citizens to gamble. In banning US citizens from gambling on Antigua, the US was not taking a moral stance, but instead was taking an anti-free trade stance.
Detailed analysis of Nokia.
"NT", "XP", they kind of sound the same. I'm sure that when listening from a distance, one could be confused with the other.
Probably doesn't matter then. Reading articles about Orca, there were hints that Orca ran using Micorosft technologies (like the fact that Microsoft did some consulting on Orca).
I'll probably get a troll mod for this from some Windows fanboi!
Please tell me, oh wise ones in Microsoft and HP how Munich could stay with XP, given that it is rapidly reaching EOL and support for newer hardware is likely to be problematic?
As are contracts where there is no consideration provided. It's hard to imagine what consideration was provided to the student. I imagine that the school administrators said: "sign this and we won't kick you out". If so, then by kicking him out, they likely voided the NDA. IANAL and laws in Canada may be different, etc..
At this point, I think that it is pretty clear that almost no-one is going to be held to account for the illegal activities that led to the financial meltdown. If you are waiting for restitution from the mutual fund, I suggest that you give up.
If Google put into their website terms that anyone in law enforcement or a member of congress was not allowed to use Google's services, how long would it be before breaking a site's terms was no longer a criminal act?
Actually, even if Google does not do this, how about a grassroots campaign to do it?
Only if the copyright was registered within some period of first publication. Was the copyright on these photos registered in the appropriate timeframe? If not, then all that can be awarded is actual damages, not statutory damages, so no "up to $150,000"
In other words, it's all about "Enterprise features", or, to give it it's real name "CIO wants to use Windows/BB, etc.".
The world has moved on to BYOD, why would I want someone else to be able to control what programs I can run on my personal device? The answer to this dilemma is virtual machines running on the phone, with the VM able to access the work email/calendar, etc. and limited in what else it can access and subject to control from the enterprise IT department, while the non-VM activity on the phone is under my control.
I you are using Windows, then the simple answer is that you can never be sure that your machine is secure. You can never know if Microsoft has put a backdoor into the system that hides itself.
Even if you are using anti-virus, it is ineffective. I have seen 2 machines compromised in the last year that both had fully up-to-date antivirus. Only a couple of days after the compromise did the anti-virus detect the issue (in the first case, I tracked down the executable and submitted it to a site that tests against multiple anti-virus engines and most did not detect it until a few days later).
I had a friend who installed POS systems in small businesses for a living. At restaurants, the most important feature of any POS system was the ability to make a table disappear out of the records.
You are correct, this isn't capitalism, it's crony capitalism, which is what the summary identifies it as.
Well done missing out the key word ("crony") and writing your own strawman.
Then perhaps the employer should not take the actions that lead to mass resignations. Perhaps they should, you know, keep the critical employees happy! Employees are not fungible.
At they highest levels of Microsoft, they are convinced that providing the same "user experience" to mobile users as desktop users will be Microsoft's salvation. Somehow they think that this will force adoption of mobile devices running Windows (they think that users will demand Microsoft mobile devices because they look the same as PCs). That's why they don't want to allow people to make PCs easy to configure such that they are different to mobile devices.
Not just expensive cars. It is (or at least, was) an option on the Nissan Versa (at one time the cheapest car in the USA).
Depends on where you live. In many parts of the world cars don't rust quickly enough to matter even if the paint gets scraped.
Seriously, given that the UK probably would not exist today if not for this man's work, an MBE is too little too late.
Could that be because the remote also dis-arms the alarm system? Using the key alone will set off the alarm on many cars.
I can confirm that OpenVPN was being blocked just a couple of weeks ago, while it used to work in the summer. Strangely, ssh connections were not being blocked. I did manage to get openvpn working, but the endpoint was on port 53/tcp. Using tcp for VPN traffic is sub-optimal, so this was not a good solution.
The other odd thing was the websites being blocked included imdb. What subversive information is on imdb?
Rather ineffective tests.
Use smartctl and schedule long tests. Also try something like:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda bs=64k
betteridge's law of headlines applies here. Hard drives go through extensive calibration before shipping, so the need for burn in doesn't really exist. As for problems with RMAs for hard drives used under Linux, repartitioned, etc. No.
The airlines need to address this. They have the resources.
I suspect that the beancounters in airlines are the ultimate cause of the financial issues of US airlines. Travelling by air has become much less pleasant than it was, what with the lack of food, extra fees, less legroom, etc.. On a recent trip to Asia, it was clear that the standard of service on Asian airlines is much better: hot food provided free on short flights, baggage limits applied loosely, more attentive flight attendants, etc..
I think that the beancounters think that the unpleasantness from security and all the other nickel and dime changes affect travellers on all airlines equally, which is true, but the real problem is that the number of air travellers has dropped. Perhaps if travelling by air were more pleasant, more people would travel.
The airlines should lobby to make security less intrusive and focus on real threats, followed by providing better service on-board.