wait a second.....I go to *their* website, and see that they are advertising P2P programs that allow me to download files for free? Wouldn't that then give me a good excuse of why I was downloading? "I swear your honour, I went to their website and the RIAA had advertisments on their website for eDonkey. Why were they advertising something that is illegal?"
Be careful about this. I did something similar at my last job and I ended up getting slapped down pretty hard for it. The back channels are very useful for those of us who make/need them, but for the higher ups in management it can be seen as undermining their authority.
Just to give you an example. I was working in a NOC when I noticed that a Tier 1 agent was making some mistakes. Nothing huge, and nothing that should have gotten them in any trouble, just stuff that was done mostly out of ignorance. Officially I was supposed to go to my manager who would go to his VP, who would talk to the VP in charge of the help desk, who would talk to the help desk manager, who would talk to the agents Team lead, who would then either talk to the agent or to the agents Tier 2 agents. I just called a friend of mine who was working as a Tier 2 at the time, and asked him to teach that agent. When the helpdesk manager found out he went screaming to my manager about it. By the end of it both the Tier 1 agent and myself were subjected to disciplinary action over he getting taught something he didn't know.
Don't get me wrong. When people below me create their own little networks I encourage them to keep up with them. I've told my teams that I don't care how they do their job as long as it's high quality and I don't get any scary emails about them (like my manager got about me). However, if I do get a scary email about my employee, then it had better be over something worth my time like he convinced a friend to allocate him a server to work on without the server getting it billed to my department. That is worth my time. Now if he had verbal approval from me, got the server and then submitted the paperwork, then I would support my employee 100%.
Ok, I admit I've never lived there. I'm just going off of what I experienced the few weeks that I was there. Everytime I needed to go somewhere I was able to take transit. I guess YMMV applies to my original post.
I actually hope this lawsuit succeeds (wait, hear me out). If it does, then the California government has just opened the door for its citizens to sue them for not providing sufficient public transportation and thereby contributing to greenhouse gasses. They have the means to cut down on the required use of personal vehicles, but have chosen not too make use of that means, therefore they are at fault for requiring people to drive as much as they do.
And before anyone blasts into me that it's too hard to get public transportation working in a major city, look at cities like Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, London, New York, Chicago (ok, Chicago needs help), Tokoyo, and pretty much every European city.
I did a quick search on Sonymusic.com for EULA, and got nothing in return. I looked in their help section, and saw nothing. Gee, I wonder why they won't post that..........
"strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government" . . . sorry, your post just made think of Monty Python. You wouldn't be related to that peasant, would you?
I only ask since I don't know. Isn't it possible to run an SMTP server on a different port then 25? It only has to send out from a zombie machine, not recieve mail, so why not run it on say....port 2000? Or is it the fact that it has to send *to* port 25 that's getting blocked?
well, as for crime...the guy just walks the plank. Though for liablilty purposes, it is the ocean that kills them, not the company. (yes, I stole that from simpsons)
Well I'll be damned. Someone mod this parent up as informative.
I just checked on Visa.com and they mention the "See ID" thing. Visa wants the merchant to have the customer show ID, AND then sign the card. Then the merchant is supposed to compare all three signatures.
If they don't have your fingerprints, how can they tell which ones are yours (and can therefore be ignored), and which ones they need to search for in databases? It's the same way that if you come across a crime scene on foot, they will take your shoe prints so that they know whose are whose? I say you've gotten a little sensitive about this and need to chill out.
Now if your neighbor got robbed and they took your prints, that would be a different story.
Hold on....why wouldn't you take a CC with See ID on it? I write that on mine so that people ask for my drivers license, comparing my photo to...well, to me. That plus the name on the CC and the name on my DL.
Perhaps, but if CNN/FOX/Etc thought that were the case, then I would bet that they would be tossing their hats into the ring. They would not want even a small precendent set in the appeals courts saying the web is not a journalistic forum.
Actually, I hate to say it, but he has a point. The companies want the user to actually see their ad, plus have it running long enough for others to notice too which might explain some of the lag as well
But don't we "hire" them to make the tough decisions as well as the easy ones?
hmmmm.....I wonder if I can sue the gov't for false advertising when they say it is a war....You can't have a war without declaring one, can you? (yes, I am aware that a declaration is just a technicality, but still. They're claiming it is a war, so they should have to make one)
On another note, during the war of 1812, the Militia ( as in todays National Guard) could not be forced to fight outside of US borders. I wonder if that could be used as an excuse for a Guardsman not to go?
1) Use of Military Power: Both approve of foreign intervention, but one party prefers to get the tacit approval of the international community before invading.
Or how about
"Use of military power: If going to war with Iraq was so important, why was a declaration of war not asked for?"
That does no one any good. Now, if you were to carry a really strong magnet with you when you vote for a local election, then maybe something can happen. Just wave the magnet over the machine when you're voting for your mayor and then complain that the machine is screwed up. Do it on one, and have 3 friends do it on others.
The machines are screwed up, and the election gets tossed. Plus, only a minor election gets screwed up so it would be easier to re-hold the election.
Maybe someone can explain something to me. If all you have to do is prove prior art, why would a patent case last more then a few hours in front of a judge?
"Here is the patent judge. Here is the prior art. According to the patent, this was done [insert date here]. This prior art was done [insert earlier date here]."
It seems simple to me. Why is it so hard in real life?
It's not that they touch install.log, it's just one way to "prove" that nothing was installed. IIRC, everytime something is installed on a windows machine, an entry is placed in install.log
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wait a second.....I go to *their* website, and see that they are advertising P2P programs that allow me to download files for free? Wouldn't that then give me a good excuse of why I was downloading? "I swear your honour, I went to their website and the RIAA had advertisments on their website for eDonkey. Why were they advertising something that is illegal?"
Just an idea, and IANAL
Get a lawyer. There is nothing here that can really help you other then moral support.
Be careful about this. I did something similar at my last job and I ended up getting slapped down pretty hard for it. The back channels are very useful for those of us who make/need them, but for the higher ups in management it can be seen as undermining their authority.
Just to give you an example. I was working in a NOC when I noticed that a Tier 1 agent was making some mistakes. Nothing huge, and nothing that should have gotten them in any trouble, just stuff that was done mostly out of ignorance. Officially I was supposed to go to my manager who would go to his VP, who would talk to the VP in charge of the help desk, who would talk to the help desk manager, who would talk to the agents Team lead, who would then either talk to the agent or to the agents Tier 2 agents. I just called a friend of mine who was working as a Tier 2 at the time, and asked him to teach that agent. When the helpdesk manager found out he went screaming to my manager about it. By the end of it both the Tier 1 agent and myself were subjected to disciplinary action over he getting taught something he didn't know.
Don't get me wrong. When people below me create their own little networks I encourage them to keep up with them. I've told my teams that I don't care how they do their job as long as it's high quality and I don't get any scary emails about them (like my manager got about me). However, if I do get a scary email about my employee, then it had better be over something worth my time like he convinced a friend to allocate him a server to work on without the server getting it billed to my department. That is worth my time. Now if he had verbal approval from me, got the server and then submitted the paperwork, then I would support my employee 100%.
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Ok, I admit I've never lived there. I'm just going off of what I experienced the few weeks that I was there. Everytime I needed to go somewhere I was able to take transit. I guess YMMV applies to my original post.
I actually hope this lawsuit succeeds (wait, hear me out). If it does, then the California government has just opened the door for its citizens to sue them for not providing sufficient public transportation and thereby contributing to greenhouse gasses. They have the means to cut down on the required use of personal vehicles, but have chosen not too make use of that means, therefore they are at fault for requiring people to drive as much as they do.
And before anyone blasts into me that it's too hard to get public transportation working in a major city, look at cities like Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, London, New York, Chicago (ok, Chicago needs help), Tokoyo, and pretty much every European city.
This is great, go for it guys!!! Woohoo. (idiots)
(yes, there is some sarcasm there)
That's great, and if you take your adapter to another location then the police will be showing up at the wrong address.
Your IP does NOT show your physical address. You're thinking of something else.
I did a quick search on Sonymusic.com for EULA, and got nothing in return. I looked in their help section, and saw nothing. Gee, I wonder why they won't post that..........
"strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government"
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sorry, your post just made think of Monty Python. You wouldn't be related to that peasant, would you?
I only ask since I don't know. Isn't it possible to run an SMTP server on a different port then 25? It only has to send out from a zombie machine, not recieve mail, so why not run it on say....port 2000? Or is it the fact that it has to send *to* port 25 that's getting blocked?
well, as for crime...the guy just walks the plank. Though for liablilty purposes, it is the ocean that kills them, not the company. (yes, I stole that from simpsons)
Well I'll be damned. Someone mod this parent up as informative.
I just checked on Visa.com and they mention the "See ID" thing. Visa wants the merchant to have the customer show ID, AND then sign the card. Then the merchant is supposed to compare all three signatures.
If they don't have your fingerprints, how can they tell which ones are yours (and can therefore be ignored), and which ones they need to search for in databases? It's the same way that if you come across a crime scene on foot, they will take your shoe prints so that they know whose are whose? I say you've gotten a little sensitive about this and need to chill out.
Now if your neighbor got robbed and they took your prints, that would be a different story.
Hold on....why wouldn't you take a CC with See ID on it? I write that on mine so that people ask for my drivers license, comparing my photo to...well, to me. That plus the name on the CC and the name on my DL.
Perhaps, but if CNN/FOX/Etc thought that were the case, then I would bet that they would be tossing their hats into the ring. They would not want even a small precendent set in the appeals courts saying the web is not a journalistic forum.
Actually, I hate to say it, but he has a point. The companies want the user to actually see their ad, plus have it running long enough for others to notice too which might explain some of the lag as well
That a publicly funded organization is actually trying to cut costs. Too bad it doesn't happen more often.
But don't we "hire" them to make the tough decisions as well as the easy ones? hmmmm.....I wonder if I can sue the gov't for false advertising when they say it is a war....You can't have a war without declaring one, can you? (yes, I am aware that a declaration is just a technicality, but still. They're claiming it is a war, so they should have to make one) On another note, during the war of 1812, the Militia ( as in todays National Guard) could not be forced to fight outside of US borders. I wonder if that could be used as an excuse for a Guardsman not to go?
To hell with saying this is funny, I would *love* to see him get asked these during a serious debate.
Or how about
"Use of military power: If going to war with Iraq was so important, why was a declaration of war not asked for?"
You know, just to make it a question.
That does no one any good. Now, if you were to carry a really strong magnet with you when you vote for a local election, then maybe something can happen. Just wave the magnet over the machine when you're voting for your mayor and then complain that the machine is screwed up. Do it on one, and have 3 friends do it on others.
The machines are screwed up, and the election gets tossed. Plus, only a minor election gets screwed up so it would be easier to re-hold the election.
Maybe someone can explain something to me. If all you have to do is prove prior art, why would a patent case last more then a few hours in front of a judge?
"Here is the patent judge. Here is the prior art. According to the patent, this was done [insert date here]. This prior art was done [insert earlier date here]."
It seems simple to me. Why is it so hard in real life?
Are you hiring? :)
Then I stand corrected. Live and learn I guess.
It's not that they touch install.log, it's just one way to "prove" that nothing was installed. IIRC, everytime something is installed on a windows machine, an entry is placed in install.log
Doesn't bother me at all. The British were once that way, and look at them now. The US's time will come. It just may take a few more years/decades.