Slavery was only the third or fourth most important issue,,,
...but it was the only one that people weren't willing to compromise on. As an example, the North wanted high tariffs, and the South wanted them low; over the years, they went up and down as different factions got enough power to change them. States Rights and Federal Authority clashed over and over, with varying results, but on Slavery, neither side would budge and eventually, the southern hot-heads got their way and we ended up with the Civil War.
Things like that all depend on which distro you're using. If you want something that Just Works, use Ubuntu, or one of its variants, because the only thing different is which DE you're using. My sister's been using it for years, with me for tech support. It's probably been at least two years since she asked me for help on something that turned out to be Linux related; almost always it's how to get a program to do something she wants, or if a program she needs for school will run under Wine. (I don't know; let's find out.)
Well, that works for you. However, I was writing about the general case, and there are lots of geeks out there who are simply making life harder for themselves by assuming that the rules don't apply to them.
You do what you have to do; I might not like the way it looks, but I'd never say anything to you about it because it's none of my business. Middle managers and similar droids would probably disapprove, but how often are they likely to see how you eat? (The big problem, of course, comes when you have to be social with prospective employers, clients or customers. If you do your best to make a good impression otherwise, the smart ones will overlook this one "lapse.") I'd suggest sticking to Asian cuisine, but from what you write, chopsticks probably aren't any easier for you.
Being a geek, as I am, is no excuse for not knowing how to hold a fork correctly. Personally, I blame the directors of television commercials who seem to think that it's cute to have children hold their forks like a shovel. And, as far as proper dress goes, I suspect that it's not so much a matter of not knowing what to wear, it's not understanding that such things are important to the people you want to impress, and that doing things their way (when you're with them) will make it easier to get them to do what you want.
Now, there's an idea: present business attire to geeks as a specialized form of cosplay!
Judging from his url he's Danish. The word exists in Danish and means the same, but it's spelled "marked". There are a few such mistakes that are very easy to make for us Nordic guys.
Thank you; I hadn't noticed. I do try to be patient when I know that a writer's native language isn't English. As an example, there's a Scandinavian on one of my mailing lists that has some rather odd ideas about English spelling and usage. Considering his temper, I've never even considered telling him that saying that, "That just doe snot work!" Isn't quite right.
I do wish you'd stop using that. The correct term is "global market place." I don't want to be a grammar/spelling/usage nazi, but the way you mangle the term is getting to be positively painful.
At that point, they had something he needed: money. To get it, he had to play their game by their rules, and wearing a hoodie wasn't one of them. All he did was make it harder for himself than it had to be because he wasn't willing to play the game.
I won't say that Linux (which is what I run) is completely safe, but it's far, far safer than Windows is. That's not to say that everybody should be running Linux, but that everybody who runs Windows should be asking Microsoft why Windows is so vulnerable.
What makes you think that the craft has to be assembled first and then lifted into orbit? Building it in space from pre-fab modules is much more practical.
Closer would be that an IP is like a street address. However many (most?) of them point to apartment buildings. Even if you prove that somebody in that building broke the law that doesn't mean that the building's owner is responsible.
Normally, you just tell them the interval, and they ship it on whatever date required. That is, if you want it every four weeks, it's not going to get shipped on exactly the same date each month. When it gets here, of course, depends on the USPS.
For the last several years, I've been getting Cafe Gevalia delivered by mail. I set this up by going to their website, setting up an account and creating a recurring order. Ever since, I've gotten my coffee mailed to me without my having to do anything. Wouldn't that be an example of prior art, or if not, why not?
Allowing passwords to use mixed case, numbers and symbols is a good idea. The more characters allowed in passwords, the more potential passwords there are, and the harder brute force attacks get. (I don't know enough about other attacks to guess if this is true for them as well.) However, requiring mixed case and numbers and symbols negates this because it limits the possible passwords by eliminating all those that don't meet all of the requirements. Yes, lazy people will probably stick to just letters in one case, but attackers would still have to write their programs to take all of those possibilities into account. Add into that a limited number of attempts before the account is locked and breaking into an account that way becomes far more difficult.
What we have here in the USofA is Trial by Jury. The selection process is just about guaranteed to ensure that nobody on the jury has any technical knowledge of the matter at hand because that also means that they have no pre-formed opinions, but the jury does have at a minimum, two centuries or more of combined real-life experience to call on. Add to that the required standard of judgment (either "reasonable doubt" or "preponderance of evidence") and you'll see that what's important isn't so much what might be true as what you can persuade a jury (none of whom are geeks) is probably true. And, when you add in the costs of defending yourself you'll understand why many of us feel that it's better to be safe than sorry.
You've got two choices in that situation. You can either find out who the perp really is, or you can prove that it wasn't you. As you point out, the first one isn't going to be easy. And, I hope we all know that it's almost impossible to prove a negative (I didn't do it.) leaving you with effectively no way of clearing your name. Personally, I live in the type of neighborhood where I don't have to worry about my neighbors using my WiFi and I'd be very astonished if any of them were interested in the kind of thing that could get me (or them) in trouble, but my wireless is still properly secured because I don't see any reason to take chances.
The term for criminal cases is "reasonable doubt", which is still not the same level as unqualified "proof". As you point out, "reasonable" is in the eyes of the jury.
Exactly. And how reasonable your open WiFi defense is would depend on where you live. If you live in (or close to) a college dorm full of broke students, you might pull it off; if you live in an upscale neighborhood it probably won't work. And, as you point out, that's only for criminal cases. In civil suits, "preponderance of evidence" as the GP wrote, applies. That means your open WiFi defense isn't going to work unless you can make the jury believe that somebody leaching off of your hotspot probably did the downloading and you probably didn't and that's much harder to prove.
Actually, Wikipedia says that they survived until somewhere around 2000-2500 BCE, about 4000-4500 years ago. Still, cloning a mammoth does sound interesting. What could possibly go wrong?
Hi, Jetra. I can do you one better: I've never used Facebook and the few times I've gotten there by accident I've left as quickly as possible because I can't imagine there being anything there that could possibly interest me.
Thank you; I've just signed it. Not because I expect it to do any good, but because I'm curious about just what self-serving excuse the administration will come up with for not getting rid of a government official who doesn't understand the limits of his authority.
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Slavery was only the third or fourth most important issue,,,
...but it was the only one that people weren't willing to compromise on. As an example, the North wanted high tariffs, and the South wanted them low; over the years, they went up and down as different factions got enough power to change them. States Rights and Federal Authority clashed over and over, with varying results, but on Slavery, neither side would budge and eventually, the southern hot-heads got their way and we ended up with the Civil War.
Things like that all depend on which distro you're using. If you want something that Just Works, use Ubuntu, or one of its variants, because the only thing different is which DE you're using. My sister's been using it for years, with me for tech support. It's probably been at least two years since she asked me for help on something that turned out to be Linux related; almost always it's how to get a program to do something she wants, or if a program she needs for school will run under Wine. (I don't know; let's find out.)
Well, that works for you. However, I was writing about the general case, and there are lots of geeks out there who are simply making life harder for themselves by assuming that the rules don't apply to them.
You do what you have to do; I might not like the way it looks, but I'd never say anything to you about it because it's none of my business. Middle managers and similar droids would probably disapprove, but how often are they likely to see how you eat? (The big problem, of course, comes when you have to be social with prospective employers, clients or customers. If you do your best to make a good impression otherwise, the smart ones will overlook this one "lapse.") I'd suggest sticking to Asian cuisine, but from what you write, chopsticks probably aren't any easier for you.
Being a geek, as I am, is no excuse for not knowing how to hold a fork correctly. Personally, I blame the directors of television commercials who seem to think that it's cute to have children hold their forks like a shovel. And, as far as proper dress goes, I suspect that it's not so much a matter of not knowing what to wear, it's not understanding that such things are important to the people you want to impress, and that doing things their way (when you're with them) will make it easier to get them to do what you want.
Now, there's an idea: present business attire to geeks as a specialized form of cosplay!
Judging from his url he's Danish. The word exists in Danish and means the same, but it's spelled "marked". There are a few such mistakes that are very easy to make for us Nordic guys.
Thank you; I hadn't noticed. I do try to be patient when I know that a writer's native language isn't English. As an example, there's a Scandinavian on one of my mailing lists that has some rather odd ideas about English spelling and usage. Considering his temper, I've never even considered telling him that saying that, "That just doe snot work!" Isn't quite right.
the global marked place
I do wish you'd stop using that. The correct term is "global market place." I don't want to be a grammar/spelling/usage nazi, but the way you mangle the term is getting to be positively painful.
If they started caring, picking up proper social etiquette is really not that hard.
I should hope so; most normal children manage to do it by the time they're ten. What I'm wondering is, why didn't they?
At that point, they had something he needed: money. To get it, he had to play their game by their rules, and wearing a hoodie wasn't one of them. All he did was make it harder for himself than it had to be because he wasn't willing to play the game.
I won't say that Linux (which is what I run) is completely safe, but it's far, far safer than Windows is. That's not to say that everybody should be running Linux, but that everybody who runs Windows should be asking Microsoft why Windows is so vulnerable.
Just because we can generally predict what North Korea and Iran are going to do doesn't mean that we like what they're doing.
What makes you think that the craft has to be assembled first and then lifted into orbit? Building it in space from pre-fab modules is much more practical.
You have a sense of karmic payback similar to that of the Mikado. Sir, I salute you!
After all is said and done, it really is a small, small world.
Closer would be that an IP is like a street address. However many (most?) of them point to apartment buildings. Even if you prove that somebody in that building broke the law that doesn't mean that the building's owner is responsible.
Normally, you just tell them the interval, and they ship it on whatever date required. That is, if you want it every four weeks, it's not going to get shipped on exactly the same date each month. When it gets here, of course, depends on the USPS.
For the last several years, I've been getting Cafe Gevalia delivered by mail. I set this up by going to their website, setting up an account and creating a recurring order. Ever since, I've gotten my coffee mailed to me without my having to do anything. Wouldn't that be an example of prior art, or if not, why not?
Allowing passwords to use mixed case, numbers and symbols is a good idea. The more characters allowed in passwords, the more potential passwords there are, and the harder brute force attacks get. (I don't know enough about other attacks to guess if this is true for them as well.) However, requiring mixed case and numbers and symbols negates this because it limits the possible passwords by eliminating all those that don't meet all of the requirements. Yes, lazy people will probably stick to just letters in one case, but attackers would still have to write their programs to take all of those possibilities into account. Add into that a limited number of attempts before the account is locked and breaking into an account that way becomes far more difficult.
My first thought was that PhD was an abbreviation for something naughty and/or sexy in German. I must say, I was disappointed to learn that it isn't.
What we have here in the USofA is Trial by Jury. The selection process is just about guaranteed to ensure that nobody on the jury has any technical knowledge of the matter at hand because that also means that they have no pre-formed opinions, but the jury does have at a minimum, two centuries or more of combined real-life experience to call on. Add to that the required standard of judgment (either "reasonable doubt" or "preponderance of evidence") and you'll see that what's important isn't so much what might be true as what you can persuade a jury (none of whom are geeks) is probably true. And, when you add in the costs of defending yourself you'll understand why many of us feel that it's better to be safe than sorry.
You've got two choices in that situation. You can either find out who the perp really is, or you can prove that it wasn't you. As you point out, the first one isn't going to be easy. And, I hope we all know that it's almost impossible to prove a negative (I didn't do it.) leaving you with effectively no way of clearing your name. Personally, I live in the type of neighborhood where I don't have to worry about my neighbors using my WiFi and I'd be very astonished if any of them were interested in the kind of thing that could get me (or them) in trouble, but my wireless is still properly secured because I don't see any reason to take chances.
The term for criminal cases is "reasonable doubt", which is still not the same level as unqualified "proof". As you point out, "reasonable" is in the eyes of the jury.
Exactly. And how reasonable your open WiFi defense is would depend on where you live. If you live in (or close to) a college dorm full of broke students, you might pull it off; if you live in an upscale neighborhood it probably won't work. And, as you point out, that's only for criminal cases. In civil suits, "preponderance of evidence" as the GP wrote, applies. That means your open WiFi defense isn't going to work unless you can make the jury believe that somebody leaching off of your hotspot probably did the downloading and you probably didn't and that's much harder to prove.
Actually, Wikipedia says that they survived until somewhere around 2000-2500 BCE, about 4000-4500 years ago. Still, cloning a mammoth does sound interesting. What could possibly go wrong?
Hi, Jetra. I can do you one better: I've never used Facebook and the few times I've gotten there by accident I've left as quickly as possible because I can't imagine there being anything there that could possibly interest me.
Thank you; I've just signed it. Not because I expect it to do any good, but because I'm curious about just what self-serving excuse the administration will come up with for not getting rid of a government official who doesn't understand the limits of his authority.