Possibly, if I read the report correctly, he was using his employer's computer to kick off his own business, which is hardly ethical and possibly illegal (IANAL).
Clearly, what he should have done was to have an accident with the laptop: it should have ended up under a wheel of his car, or his car was broken into and the laptop stolen.
Only stupid people desert, when there are plenty of legal ways to quit.
According to a report I heard on the radio, eating (or rather over-eating) is a popular way to get out of the military. Eating enough to fail the physical requirements (ie. to be sufficiently over-weight) would seem to be a fairly innocuous way to get out of the military.
but its not ok for foreign companies to take over a US business.
You do know that the company that is currently running the ports is British, don't you? You might remember Britain: that's where the shoe bomber came from! Britain's culture has allowed extremist muslim ideology to flourish there.
There is an open source version and a commercial version.
There is no reason that the government could not license source code and have a trusted person build the binaries for use on actual government machines -- heck, they should be doing that already!
The issue is about what and who may be allowed into the country via the foreign-controlled ports. Sure, individual terrorists can sneak in anyway at the Mexican border, but at the border you can't just sneak in a huge boatload of bombs (pun intended).
Isn't the problem for the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" that they claim their book is fact? If it were fiction, then they would probably have a viable copyright claim, but while they claim their book is fact, they have the problem that facts are not generally copyrightable. Ironic really!
Then they effectively took away your right to self-defense
Since when? Not having guns is not the same as no right to self-defence. See above. What has happened is that you're not allowed to shoot people in the back, as they run away from you - no matter how must they have pissed you off.
Another fine method, which only works if you are in control of your mail server, is to use one mail account per contact with a specific number, like user101 for MSN and user102 for Yahoo.
If you control your own mailserver, there are better ways to do this. Postfix (and I think other MTAs) supports a "recipient_delimiter". You can set this to "+" (or even "_") and then use email addresses in the form:
user+example.com@mydomain
All emails in this form are delivered to "user" (the MTA strips off the + and everything that follows it up to the "@"). There is no need to add a separate user or alias each time you need to use a new address. Now one problem is that a lot of websites think that "+" is not a valid character, hence using "_" may be more effective.
Gmail supports a recipient delimeter of "+". I found this out by experimentation.
The article states that total cinema receipts were $38 million, of which the studios receive about 55% (~$21M). Total expenses were ~$49M, yet by selling $9M worth of DVDs, the studios are now in the black (apparently).
Clearly, the math used by the author is: $48M ~= $38M + $9M, but this ignores the previously stated fact that the studios only receive 55% of ticket sales (and presumably only some proportion of DVD sales).
The reporter got that aspect wrong. Read the original documents and it becomes clear that the recipients are "commanded" to appear in various lawyers' offices.
Or Galeon -- it has a "Clone Tab" option, which copies the tab, and all it's associated history. Very useful!
In fact, a related feature of Galeon is that if I right-click and open in a new tab, that new tab also retains the history of the tab from whence I came. SO, now I can navigate backwards in the new tab effectively.
In fact, I think Galeon's handling of tabs is much better than Firefox. I can drag tabs from one window to another, re-order the tabs, drag a tab to the desktop and get a new window. The only lacking feature is one that was removed some time back: the ability to save an arbitrary session (all it does is save some kind of default as you browse for crash recovery). Probably some of these features also exist in Firefox, but they have been in Galeon for a long time.
Looks like this has been corrected with the latest definitions.
It's been corrected already? I could have used this to delete the last remnants of a broken Norton Internet Security that was resisting both removal and re-installation (it would not scan files, so Excel and Word would hang up when opening files, because the scan was initiated but never completed).
Well, encryption won't help if the only information they want are the headers. Those nifty "TO" and "FROM" fields let them know who you're contacting
It depends how the information is to be captured. An increasing number of SMTP servers now support STARTTLS in SMTP (including Gmail). With TLS even the envelope addresses cannot be seen unless you have access to one of the servers that actually relay the email (or you can decrypt the data).
Every Windows PC I get to repair has at least 10 pieces of spyware running.
The last Windows PC I was asked to help with had a program that would not uninstall, kept re-inserting itself into the registry and seemed to have hidden the key program that was responsible for this activity (since I booted into the recovery console from CDs, and re-named the relevent directories under "Program Files".
Sounds like spyware, right? It was Symantec/Norton Internet Security 2005.
The reason I was trying to fix this was that the anti-virus component was broken (it would not actually scan, so programs like Excel hung up when opening files) and it would not re-install.
Most relevantly, maintaining a physical presence costs a company between $5 and $10 an hour. As a full-timer, that comes out to at least $10k per year.
Some quick calculations based on the office where I presently work and the last place I worked, including things like HVAC, insurance and cleaning, show a figure of $5k/year per employee to be quite generous.
I did not include the cost of buying or leasing furniture, PCs, etc.
This report has details of rental rates in San Jose: $23 - $30 per square foot. At less than 200 square feet per employee (10 x 10 office plus shared space), that comes out to less than $6k. There are plenty of less expensive places in the Bay Area (although San Francisco is more expensive).
Firstly, unless you worked for Webvan, or some other profligate doc com company, office space does not cost $10k per employee. Not even in the SF Bay area.
Secondly, you have to consider that the cost of your space is probably only half or less of the total: conference rooms, bathrooms, corridors, etc.: all must be considered, and while the corridors may have to larger if each employee has more space, the bathrooms and conference rooms and other shared areas don't.
So, the delta cost to a company for you to have a cube vs. an office: probably less than $2k per year. For $2k off my gross wages, I would opt for an individual office.
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Still, in theory you can't just ignore the law of the land because of case law.
What do you think happens when the SCOTUS rules that a law is unconstitutional?
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Just because a court does something, it doesn't make it legal. Decisions in lower courts are overturned by higher courts all the time.
That is just nonsense. The definition in the USA of what is legal or not is that which a court has ruled. Just because courts get overruled is irrelevent -- it is still legal or otherwise until that court is overruled. Now, in this case was the court that halted the recounts overruled?
OpenGroupware is a web-based groupware solution (with a closed-source, non-free outlook plugin).
I have installed it on a couple of networks. The biggest probelm seems to be that there is no reliable calendar client that will work with it (other than aoutlook through the connector). Sunbird and other calendar clients crash or don't properly create appointments.
Oh, and it does not provide an MTA, but there are plenty of good solutions for this.
A friend of mine did that very thing today. My friend had only kept the account for the email address and apparently, AOL will let him keep using the email address even though he is no longer paying anything to AOL.
I was amazed at this, but now, perhaps it make sense: AOL is monetizing all those long-standing email addresses!
People have long paid more money to make more long distance calls, that only makes sense. Why not for heavier internet usage? It makes sense that heavier users pay higher fees.
But all-you-can-eat long distance plans have been available for some time now, furthermore, I suspect that the bulk of the costs that long distance providers face is that of acquiring, retaining and billing customers.
The biggest cost is not in the backbone, but the final mile, and in the case of DSL, this is not shared, so why pay more? In effect, it is and unlimited resource up to the technological cap.
The other problem with the proposals is that it involves a massive information-gathering exercise. Who knows what misuse that information could be put to?
I mean he doesn't list any steps that he has taken to fight the IT department. He and his management are unhappy with the way IT department works.
While his article is not complete, it does look like he has taken action:
Even senior management can't break through the barrier.
Next:
has this guy filed a formal written complaint to the upper management stating that the IT department is not co-operating?
This is the last thing I would advise anyone to do in a highly political company. It's suicide: you will be marked forever! Support will be worse.
And ocassionaly buy them beer and lunch and see those 9 months turn to 9 seconds!
In my experience, in highly bureaucratic environments, this will not bring about long-term change. The best you can hope for is that some employees will bypass their normal procedures once or twice -- but this will come with consequences! Long term change can only come about if the CEO wants it to. Some companies are just not destined for success.
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Possibly, if I read the report correctly, he was using his employer's computer to kick off his own business, which is hardly ethical and possibly illegal (IANAL).
Clearly, what he should have done was to have an accident with the laptop: it should have ended up under a wheel of his car, or his car was broken into and the laptop stolen.
Isn't the problem for the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" that they claim their book is fact? If it were fiction, then they would probably have a viable copyright claim, but while they claim their book is fact, they have the problem that facts are not generally copyrightable. Ironic really!
The fact is that Blair reneged on a promise to give a statutary right to householders to defend themselves.
user+example.com@mydomain
All emails in this form are delivered to "user" (the MTA strips off the + and everything that follows it up to the "@"). There is no need to add a separate user or alias each time you need to use a new address. Now one problem is that a lot of websites think that "+" is not a valid character, hence using "_" may be more effective.
Gmail supports a recipient delimeter of "+". I found this out by experimentation.
It is still about $19M short of break even, even if you assume that the $9M is net to the studio.
The article states that total cinema receipts were $38 million, of which the studios receive about 55% (~$21M). Total expenses were ~$49M, yet by selling $9M worth of DVDs, the studios are now in the black (apparently).
Clearly, the math used by the author is: $48M ~= $38M + $9M, but this ignores the previously stated fact that the studios only receive 55% of ticket sales (and presumably only some proportion of DVD sales).
The reporter got that aspect wrong. Read the original documents and it becomes clear that the recipients are "commanded" to appear in various lawyers' offices.
Or Galeon -- it has a "Clone Tab" option, which copies the tab, and all it's associated history. Very useful!
In fact, a related feature of Galeon is that if I right-click and open in a new tab, that new tab also retains the history of the tab from whence I came. SO, now I can navigate backwards in the new tab effectively.
In fact, I think Galeon's handling of tabs is much better than Firefox. I can drag tabs from one window to another, re-order the tabs, drag a tab to the desktop and get a new window. The only lacking feature is one that was removed some time back: the ability to save an arbitrary session (all it does is save some kind of default as you browse for crash recovery). Probably some of these features also exist in Firefox, but they have been in Galeon for a long time.
Sounds like spyware, right? It was Symantec/Norton Internet Security 2005.
The reason I was trying to fix this was that the anti-virus component was broken (it would not actually scan, so programs like Excel hung up when opening files) and it would not re-install.
I did not include the cost of buying or leasing furniture, PCs, etc.
This report has details of rental rates in San Jose: $23 - $30 per square foot. At less than 200 square feet per employee (10 x 10 office plus shared space), that comes out to less than $6k. There are plenty of less expensive places in the Bay Area (although San Francisco is more expensive).
Firstly, unless you worked for Webvan, or some other profligate doc com company, office space does not cost $10k per employee. Not even in the SF Bay area.
Secondly, you have to consider that the cost of your space is probably only half or less of the total: conference rooms, bathrooms, corridors, etc.: all must be considered, and while the corridors may have to larger if each employee has more space, the bathrooms and conference rooms and other shared areas don't.
So, the delta cost to a company for you to have a cube vs. an office: probably less than $2k per year. For $2k off my gross wages, I would opt for an individual office.
I have installed it on a couple of networks. The biggest probelm seems to be that there is no reliable calendar client that will work with it (other than aoutlook through the connector). Sunbird and other calendar clients crash or don't properly create appointments.
Oh, and it does not provide an MTA, but there are plenty of good solutions for this.
I was amazed at this, but now, perhaps it make sense: AOL is monetizing all those long-standing email addresses!
The biggest cost is not in the backbone, but the final mile, and in the case of DSL, this is not shared, so why pay more? In effect, it is and unlimited resource up to the technological cap.
The other problem with the proposals is that it involves a massive information-gathering exercise. Who knows what misuse that information could be put to?