While it is their servers, and they may have legal ability to review data for certain purposes, technical support usually isn't one of those purposes allowed by some state laws or by ethics. (Please note that I am not a lawyer, but I have both been a systems administrator and a technical support representative.)
What I really question is their ethics. The person who casually looked at your data without your explicit permission showed a disturbing lack of ethics. The person who followed up with you also showed the same lack of ethics. On this basis alone, I would choose to not do business with them.
I'm disappointed with the state of perl. I used to be a huge perl nut and have a major project that is all mod_perl. But I'm growing increasingly fustrated by the lack of modern programming tools, especially compared to other modern languages. Even PHP has a better choice of editors. Heck, I can write syntax colored, intellesense'd python in Visual Studio!
I'm sorry. I'm not exactly the sharpest knife in the programming drawer and I don't call people out very often... but what in the hell are you talking about? What the hell does a color syntax highlighting editor have to do with Perl?
On UNIX, both vim and emacs have color syntax highlighting of Perl.
On Mac OS X, you have Textmate (this is the one text editor you need if you script, code, or write web pages on Mac OS X) and many others.
If you code on a Windows box, there's probably something out there for you. . .
And moderators... why did you mod this inane, semi-educated babble up?
I hit submit instead of preview. I've tested this on my system. mDNSResponder doesn't seem to be affected in an adverse way by this change. I can still resolve the hosts via the Bonjour domain (.local) on my subnet. I'll test this at work tomorrow more extensively since I have a/22 network of Mac's to play with...
If this is a real concern, there is a workaround to have mDNSResponder run without root privileges. Part of the claim is that they can deliver root payloads - this is likely because mDNSResponder runs as the root user and they might be using a buffer overflow exploit [NOTE: I have not analyzed the mDNSResponder code - this is a guess.]
If someone wants an explanation of what the above commands accomplish, please read further. 1. launchctl is used to unload and load the mDNSResponder daemon. 2. We change the owner of the mDNSResponder to nobody and ensure that wheel is the group. The group is used to ensure that members of the wheel group may launch mDNSResponder and not other users of the system (with the exception of root and anything else running as nobody.) 3. We change the permissions of the mDNSResponder program to be setuid nobody. This means that mDNSResponder will run as nobody and only be able to affect files owned by that account or by files it may happen to have write privileges against.
It's now significantly more expensive to buy music from Apple compared to Wal-mart.
Except that you don't have to burn fossil fuels to get your music to your house. Nor is there any fossil fuel expended in transporting the disk to the store. Nor do you have to listen to the limited previews through headphones used by 90% of the people in your area. You can shop naked if you wish.
I suggest that to change this image, for every H-1b Microsoft hires, Bill Gates donates a $60,000 scholarship to an American high school student to study computer science, or a $50,000 scholarship to an unemployed American programmer to update their skillset and get a higher degree. Then maybe we'll believe what he says on this topic. Until then, he's just lobbying for the Cheap Labor crowd, which includes his own business.
I'll make a different suggestion.
First, the stick: I think that any company that hires an H1-B visa slave^H^H^H^H^Hemployee, they pay a US$ (10,000,000 * year) per year per H1-B visa employee permit fee to the state and federal governments. The monies would be dedicated to job retraining programs or that any U.S. Citizen or other legal immigrant could take advantage of . . . first come, first serve.
Last, the carrot: Any company that hires a bright, but otherwise near-but-not-fully-qualified applicant receives any training expenses and 50% of their annual salary and benefits as write-offs on their taxes. There can be some exclusions or limitations to prevent dishonest companies from abusing the program by churning through employees rapidly. So, 100% of money spent for training or retraining and half of the new employee's salary would be wiped from their company's federal tax obligations.
This way if the H1-B is REALLY vital to the companies product strategy.. the company can pay the fees and move on. Then for more common employees, American companies would have an incentive to hire a U.S. Citizen or green card holder who doesn't meet all of the "Must have these skills" qualifications and then get them trained up...
No, no, no. Heads are not going to roll down at the Seattle Times. The heads will get mangled into squishy, bloody, grey blobs by the flying chairs and their leader, Mr. Ballmer.
I received the opposite opinion from her blog. Here's the quote:
"The iPod is still too small a part of the overall potential of the market and its propietary DRM just bugs me. Speaking of DRM, it is time to rethink that strategy as well."
Please note, "Speaking of DRM, it is time to rethink that strategy as well." This would seem to indicate that she now believes that DRM is an ill conceived strategy, one that she supported at one time, but has had second thoughts.
I believe this boils down to one philosophical statement I've adopted, "As a general rule, as you treat a person so they will behave." (Note: This doesn't mean I see the world through rose colored glasses.)
I am legally prevented from writing, distributing or using Free Software that can play music encoded with Apple's Fairplay DRM. Therefore it is a Free Software issue.... Lastly, and most importantly, it is a consumers rights issue. If I have legally obtained documents, I will view them as I please.
This is not a Free Software issue. This is a "I can't do whatever I want, whenever I want" issue. Ignoring reverse engineering for compatibility purposes, you have no legal right to write or distribute Free Software that will play music encoded with Apple's Fairplay.
Regardless of your wishes, Apple owns the rights to Fairplay and is choosing not license the rights to others. Apple is also choosing that iTunes and Fairplay will only run on the Mac OS X and Windows 2K/XP operating systems. Apple is not interested in people who are not running one of those operating systems. And since you can only purchase Fairplay encoded music through iTunes, you already have the ability to play the encoded music file.
If you do not like these terms, then you do have other choices in the market. You don't have to purchase any music from iTunes. You certainly don't have to purchase an iPod, although the iPod does play unprotected music in a variety of formats. Vote with your wallet accordingly.
they [the Supreme Court Justices] are the last line of defense between the government and the Constitution.
Actually, the people are.
Yes, it is we the people who are the last line of defense between the constitution and the government. The First and Second Ammendments are what protect our ability to keep the government in check. Too bad that we the prople have forgotten our duty and responsibility to do this.
P.S. Before I forget, since I've seen a few posts screaming about it, the court decision regarding private property was based off state law. The state law of Connecticut allowed the state to use its power of eminent domain for public use or public benefit. This is why the Supreme's made their decision... they were reviewing a state law and a state court case, not a Federal law. This only affects those states who's takings clause allow for takings for public benefit. IANAL, YMMV, etc.
"Mac OS X is becoming a malware target! There are no viruses yet, but there will be some!"
What they didn't add in to the article was the next sentenance, "When we figure out how to take advantage of the vulnerabilities our virus-writers will produce top-notch viruses and unlike games, Mac users will no longer miss out on the fun!"
I equate the violence in the games as the "thug" component, personally. When you add criminal violence to "Urban", you get "Thug". And, if you had RTFA, you would have seen most of the games were violent in nature - some more, some less. So, I think the article submitter was correct in using the term Thug and there was no racist tones except in your shallow mind.
I think he does. If you make an illegal copy of something and proceed to use it, isn't the owner of the copyright deprived of the money that you would have otherwise spent? You are using their property against their wishes. Think about it in those simple terms.
Argument semantics all you want, but most of the world views this as stealing and that means you're wrong in the majority viewpoint.
Don't try to gloss over the issue with that stupid mantra of "But I wouldn't have paid for it anyway." If you really would not have paid for it anyways, do not use it.
I'm of tired of this argument.
</rant>
Yes, VOIP can be affected by network outages giving your company a single point of failure - its network. However, you do not have to limit this to a single network. To route VOIP over your data network is asinine *AND* stupid. Especially if you are running Windows boxes and get slammed by every virus, worm, and badly written application that are known to man.
However, this does not mean VOIP is not without merit. Build a parallel IP network that is dedicated to VOIP and use non-routable addresses that to dot overlap with your data network.
(So much for my good karma, but I had to do this... my apologies to any who think this post should be burned, or to those to spit the beverage of their choice all over their display.)
MG: "So, like, I had this computer running Windows and I was typing a really cool paper. The computer went beep, beep, and it ate my cool paper."
DD: "Dude, that's a bummer. Was it a Dell?"
MG: "Uh like whatever."
DD: "Dude, like Dell has Linux. It won't go beep, beep and eat your paper."
MG: "Like Cool!"
DD: "Dude, you're getting Linux!"
MG: Giggles
DD: "Uh, who's that dude in the penguin suit?" <THC Induced giggling>
You can try using that combination. I did and it was awful. Using the keyboard drained new batteries within a day. Rechargables held their charge slightly less time. Not to mention that it was precarious to use in a moving vehicle. Besides, one of my biggest complaints about the Palm* and clones is the narrow screen - and it is worse when you are actually trying to read the screen at a distance of 2 feet. The wider display on the Dana makes for more pleasent reading.
This looks like it has more use to a reporter, casual camper or day hiker, or author, etc.
Uhm, for the past several years Apple's iMacs (the all-in-one variety, not the sunflower looking things) have had no fans and are whisper quiet. This thing is another Apple knockoff. Even down to the translucent plastic with white background on the front.
So if anyone has had cajones to stand up to Corporate America it has been Apple. (Hey, don't forget the Grammy speach by the iMac where it said, "MP3 Forever!" to the RIAA/MPAA crowd. That's cajones.)
The US already has one of those hidden "reset buttons" to set everything back to "factory defaults". It's called the 2nd Amendment, which protects the individual right to keep and bear arms (check out recent court cases before you flame this, namely U.S. vs Emerson.)
The Australians and British are now defenseless against their governments. The governments took their guns and can now legislate anything the legislature wishes without fear of reprisal from the people. There are those in the US, that dream of being able to rule with such power. It is the guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens that these people fear, and they are relentless in their crusade to disarm the American people. To turn us into subjects, serfs, or even slaves.
If you allow these people, like Sarah Brady, to steal your unalienable right to keep and bear arms, then how will you defend your unalienable right to freedom of speech or religion? Your unalienable right to be secure in your home? Wake up America. Vigorously defend ALL of our rights now, or lose them one by one.
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I can't hear this announcement via my tmux session. The GNU projects expects us to switch back after being abandonware for this long?
My company had open enrollment for all benefits this month... our premiums for medical insurance went down and our coverage went up.
What does anecdotal evidence prove? Nothing by itself.
While it is their servers, and they may have legal ability to review data for certain purposes, technical support usually isn't one of those purposes allowed by some state laws or by ethics. (Please note that I am not a lawyer, but I have both been a systems administrator and a technical support representative.)
What I really question is their ethics. The person who casually looked at your data without your explicit permission showed a disturbing lack of ethics. The person who followed up with you also showed the same lack of ethics. On this basis alone, I would choose to not do business with them.
I'm sorry. I'm not exactly the sharpest knife in the programming drawer and I don't call people out very often
On UNIX, both vim and emacs have color syntax highlighting of Perl.
On Mac OS X, you have Textmate (this is the one text editor you need if you script, code, or write web pages on Mac OS X) and many others.
If you code on a Windows box, there's probably something out there for you. . .
And moderators
I hit submit instead of preview. I've tested this on my system. mDNSResponder doesn't seem to be affected in an adverse way by this change. I can still resolve the hosts via the Bonjour domain (.local) on my subnet. I'll test this at work tomorrow more extensively since I have a /22 network of Mac's to play with...
If this is a real concern, there is a workaround to have mDNSResponder run without root privileges. Part of the claim is that they can deliver root payloads - this is likely because mDNSResponder runs as the root user and they might be using a buffer overflow exploit [NOTE: I have not analyzed the mDNSResponder code - this is a guess.]
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSRespon der.plist /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSRespon der.plist
% sudo launchctl unload
% sudo chown nobody:wheel
% sudo chmod 4750
% sudo launchctl load
If someone wants an explanation of what the above commands accomplish, please read further.
1. launchctl is used to unload and load the mDNSResponder daemon.
2. We change the owner of the mDNSResponder to nobody and ensure that wheel is the group. The group is used to ensure that members of the wheel group may launch mDNSResponder and not other users of the system (with the exception of root and anything else running as nobody.)
3. We change the permissions of the mDNSResponder program to be setuid nobody. This means that mDNSResponder will run as nobody and only be able to affect files owned by that account or by files it may happen to have write privileges against.
Except that you don't have to burn fossil fuels to get your music to your house. Nor is there any fossil fuel expended in transporting the disk to the store. Nor do you have to listen to the limited previews through headphones used by 90% of the people in your area. You can shop naked if you wish.
Yes, this is an improvement.
I'll make a different suggestion.
First, the stick: I think that any company that hires an H1-B visa slave^H^H^H^H^Hemployee, they pay a US$ (10,000,000 * year) per year per H1-B visa employee permit fee to the state and federal governments. The monies would be dedicated to job retraining programs or that any U.S. Citizen or other legal immigrant could take advantage of . . . first come, first serve.
Last, the carrot: Any company that hires a bright, but otherwise near-but-not-fully-qualified applicant receives any training expenses and 50% of their annual salary and benefits as write-offs on their taxes. There can be some exclusions or limitations to prevent dishonest companies from abusing the program by churning through employees rapidly. So, 100% of money spent for training or retraining and half of the new employee's salary would be wiped from their company's federal tax obligations.
This way if the H1-B is REALLY vital to the companies product strategy
Thoughts, comments, snide comments?
No, no, no. Heads are not going to roll down at the Seattle Times. The heads will get mangled into squishy, bloody, grey blobs by the flying chairs and their leader, Mr. Ballmer.
I received the opposite opinion from her blog. Here's the quote:
"The iPod is still too small a part of the overall potential of the market and its propietary DRM just bugs me. Speaking of DRM, it is time to rethink that strategy as well."
Please note, "Speaking of DRM, it is time to rethink that strategy as well." This would seem to indicate that she now believes that DRM is an ill conceived strategy, one that she supported at one time, but has had second thoughts.
I believe this boils down to one philosophical statement I've adopted, "As a general rule, as you treat a person so they will behave." (Note: This doesn't mean I see the world through rose colored glasses.)
This is not a Free Software issue. This is a "I can't do whatever I want, whenever I want" issue. Ignoring reverse engineering for compatibility purposes, you have no legal right to write or distribute Free Software that will play music encoded with Apple's Fairplay.
Regardless of your wishes, Apple owns the rights to Fairplay and is choosing not license the rights to others. Apple is also choosing that iTunes and Fairplay will only run on the Mac OS X and Windows 2K/XP operating systems. Apple is not interested in people who are not running one of those operating systems. And since you can only purchase Fairplay encoded music through iTunes, you already have the ability to play the encoded music file.
If you do not like these terms, then you do have other choices in the market. You don't have to purchase any music from iTunes. You certainly don't have to purchase an iPod, although the iPod does play unprotected music in a variety of formats. Vote with your wallet accordingly.
Yes, it is we the people who are the last line of defense between the constitution and the government. The First and Second Ammendments are what protect our ability to keep the government in check. Too bad that we the prople have forgotten our duty and responsibility to do this.
P.S. Before I forget, since I've seen a few posts screaming about it, the court decision regarding private property was based off state law. The state law of Connecticut allowed the state to use its power of eminent domain for public use or public benefit. This is why the Supreme's made their decision
No, no, no. It stands for People for the Eating of Tasty Algae!
We'll have a Jedi Senator years before we'll have an atheist one.
Just watch out if he becomes Chancellor, err wait, Prime Minister, err, President, we could be in a world of trouble.
"Mac OS X is becoming a malware target! There are no viruses yet, but there will be some!"
What they didn't add in to the article was the next sentenance, "When we figure out how to take advantage of the vulnerabilities our virus-writers will produce top-notch viruses and unlike games, Mac users will no longer miss out on the fun!"
I equate the violence in the games as the "thug" component, personally. When you add criminal violence to "Urban", you get "Thug". And, if you had RTFA, you would have seen most of the games were violent in nature - some more, some less. So, I think the article submitter was correct in using the term Thug and there was no racist tones except in your shallow mind.
Just my 0.02 USD,
I guess they aren't monkeying around with this project.
I think he does. If you make an illegal copy of something and proceed to use it, isn't the owner of the copyright deprived of the money that you would have otherwise spent? You are using their property against their wishes. Think about it in those simple terms.
Argument semantics all you want, but most of the world views this as stealing and that means you're wrong in the majority viewpoint.
Don't try to gloss over the issue with that stupid mantra of "But I wouldn't have paid for it anyway." If you really would not have paid for it anyways, do not use it.
I'm of tired of this argument.
</rant>
Yes, VOIP can be affected by network outages giving your company a single point of failure - its network. However, you do not have to limit this to a single network. To route VOIP over your data network is asinine *AND* stupid. Especially if you are running Windows boxes and get slammed by every virus, worm, and badly written application that are known to man.
However, this does not mean VOIP is not without merit. Build a parallel IP network that is dedicated to VOIP and use non-routable addresses that to dot overlap with your data network.
(So much for my good karma, but I had to do this ... my apologies to any who think this post should be burned, or to those to spit the beverage of their choice all over their display.)
MG: "So, like, I had this computer running Windows and I was typing a really cool paper. The computer went beep, beep, and it ate my cool paper."
DD: "Dude, that's a bummer. Was it a Dell?"
MG: "Uh like whatever."
DD: "Dude, like Dell has Linux. It won't go beep, beep and eat your paper."
MG: "Like Cool!"
DD: "Dude, you're getting Linux!"
MG: Giggles
DD: "Uh, who's that dude in the penguin suit?" <THC Induced giggling>
Apple's knowledge base readily admits this. See this link for a workaround:
iTunes 2: How to Overcome 32 000 Song Library Size Limitation
You can try using that combination. I did and it was awful. Using the keyboard drained new batteries within a day. Rechargables held their charge slightly less time. Not to mention that it was precarious to use in a moving vehicle. Besides, one of my biggest complaints about the Palm* and clones is the narrow screen - and it is worse when you are actually trying to read the screen at a distance of 2 feet. The wider display on the Dana makes for more pleasent reading.
This looks like it has more use to a reporter, casual camper or day hiker, or author, etc.
Uhm, for the past several years Apple's iMacs (the all-in-one variety, not the sunflower looking things) have had no fans and are whisper quiet. This thing is another Apple knockoff. Even down to the translucent plastic with white background on the front.
So if anyone has had cajones to stand up to Corporate America it has been Apple. (Hey, don't forget the Grammy speach by the iMac where it said, "MP3 Forever!" to the RIAA/MPAA crowd. That's cajones.)
The US already has one of those hidden "reset buttons" to set everything back to "factory defaults". It's called the 2nd Amendment, which protects the individual right to keep and bear arms (check out recent court cases before you flame this, namely U.S. vs Emerson.)
The Australians and British are now defenseless against their governments. The governments took their guns and can now legislate anything the legislature wishes without fear of reprisal from the people. There are those in the US, that dream of being able to rule with such power. It is the guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens that these people fear, and they are relentless in their crusade to disarm the American people. To turn us into subjects, serfs, or even slaves.
If you allow these people, like Sarah Brady, to steal your unalienable right to keep and bear arms, then how will you defend your unalienable right to freedom of speech or religion? Your unalienable right to be secure in your home? Wake up America. Vigorously defend ALL of our rights now, or lose them one by one.