When I was studying journalism - television production - our teacher told us to bulk erase our source tapes or reuse them. The idea is that it can't be subpoenaed if it doesn't exist. I'm guessing this is based on his participation in the Kent State riots... but I'm not positive.
He doesn't get the driving force behind the people who want these sort of laws. They don't want to reduce the SEM their children see, they want to eliminate it completely and will never be happy otherwise. Which shows just how far out there they really are. You can't uninvent things.
No. They don't want anyone to see it at all. "Think of the children" is just an excuse. I don't really want my kids surfing porn so the firewall blocks it.
In an ideal world they'd keep pushing it back until the start and end finally met, and then abolish it entirely, leaving the clocks on summer time all year round. But until that time, at least things are a bit better. And next time they change it, you Windows-wrestlers will know what to do.
So how's about we just don't observe it at all? You want to be up earlier, more power to you. You get later light regardless of what time it shows on the clock. Get home with more daylight means running the AC more when you get there. That "quality of life" means that kids end up walking to school and their bus stops that much earlier. I don't see the benefit and am glad to live in a state that doesn't observe it, except faintly across the horizon.
As for accounting specifically, that's one area that's less suited to OSS than other areas. The IRS doesn't look kindly on "well, there's a bug report filed". Your accounting needs to work 100% of the time. Accounting software could very well be Open Source, but it's a bit more liability than if the GIMP crashes. Lots of business owners won't feel comfortable with accounting software without some guarantees. I've had problems with commercial accounting software. In one case I had to send my database to the vendor who was able to edit the data and send it back to me (all on 3 1/2" floppy). Bugs exist in all software. That's not counting the "goofy" implimentations that I have seen in decent sized accounting systems.
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How do you think the MIB keeps track of all the aliens?
OO.o may run under windows, but it does not run well. It crashes more often than is acceptable in any kind of business situation. Sure, you can tell everyone to save often, but try reminding accounting of that AFTER they've lost X hours worth of updates... If you're going to run OO.o, it should be run under a linux environment. The windows build is questionably reliable at best.
Must be your particular Windows environment. I can't even remember the last time OO.o crashed on me, Win or *nix. And if your "accounting" department is using spreadsheets for accounting instead of a fully auditable database based accounting package, it's time to leave anyway. Accounting has standards too, one of those is to be able to see who made what changes - can't do that with a spreadsheet.
Except, whatever the attorneys say is not fact or evidence. Only sworn testimony and physical evidence is supposed to be considered by the jury. A properly instructed jury would understand that. On the other hand, what did the children who testified say other than they saw naked pictures?
And when it comes down to it, why didn't she merely turn off the monitor?
I remember reading that a majority of all credit reports contain errors. Unless you work really hard at getting old stuff removed there can be tons of wrong or outdated information.
They will also possibly see where you shop if you use store credit cards, whether you bought a sofa at Levitz if you finance it with Levitz, where you bought your last car from and whether you are applying for other jobs. The main reason people fall into credit problems are: divorce, a huge medical bill or loss of employment. Do this employers take this things into consideration or do they just look at the credit report and not care why it looks like it does?
About ten years ago I guy I know withdrew his application for a job that he was well qualified for because the new employer wanted a credit report. The job was for butcher. Cause we all know that keeping your spending in line is really important when slicing steaks.
Or it could be read as "My government takes a combined 15.3% of my pay between my employer and I over my lifetime to offer me some kind of 'retirement', they should at least give it to me"
I once applied for a job at Hollywood Video that required one of these online "personality" or "lie detector" type tests. I truly believe that only a sociopathic lier can *pass* these tests as they ask the same question multiple times with minor variations. Would you take a soda from the vending machine, ok.. but would you take some gum - what if you saw a co-worker take some gum? How about if you saw a candy wrapper on the floor would you think that someone was trying to rob the safe and rush to "protect" it? Ok. I made that last part up, but I was weeded out as not even eligible for an interview. I was amazed. I have never stolen anything in my life, have had to submit fingerprints for background checks, etc. but this was the most invasive (and in my mind least accurate) "interview" that I have ever subjected myself to, but this is a company that is so paranoid about their own employees that the timeclock would not let people clock in if they were not on the schedule for that timeframe. If you think everyone is stealing from you - and you treat them as if they are - they will eventually.
As a side note I got a different job that required a higher level of responsibility with absolutely no supervision that didn't have nearly as an invasive and untrusting interview process... and I probably lasted longer at that job than the PFY who HV hired over me.:)
What if, after all of this, Darl and Co. are really trying to get all of IBM's code? I mean, IBM is providing code to them to compare to SCO's stuff. Maybe this is just a really very backhanded way of getting to read through all of IBM's code - GPL, proprietary, you name it. If Darl and Co. simply run off or create another company that uses code from IBM or they just use IBM's coding techniques to better and further SCO code and products would anyone really know? Hell, SCO can't show where there is any matching code now maybe they have figured out a plan to use obfuscated IBM code in their own stuff.
I am a professional income tax preparer and an EA. I have always been allowed to use my clients' tax information for other purposes as long as I obtain a signature. The Gramm-Leech-Bliley "privacy act" (hint it's more about letting banks own brokerage firms - repealing Depression Era legislation - than protecting consumer privacy) only required me to disclose my "privacy policy" and keeps the credit card companies mailing you a privacy statement on an annual basis. It did not let me start sharing your information, just required me to tell you if I did (with a signature from you)
To summarize:
Although I never did - I have always been able to use your information with your signature.
GLB didn't make your information "more secure" it allowed your bank to give your information to a "related" brokerage firm.
This will not make your information more (or less) secure either.
PS - Take a look at your packet of papers that you carried with you out of your local tax office... in a lot of cases you will find a 7216 form - the one that lets the preparer use your information for other than tax purposes.
"i think they do just fine scaring people away from e-filing on their own... e-filing costs ~$30 (part irs, part h&r/intuit) while paper filing costs ~30 seconds or print time, ink, and a stamp."
E-filing costs nothing. And if your preparer is being charged for it you can bet it costs less than $10 if they are a small company. If you are being charged for e-filing then you are really paying more for your bank product ie RAL, etc. If you pay close attention, HRB (in its offices) only charges for e-filing when you get a bank product(not direct deposit).
As a musician, I'm going to say you're dead wrong there. Either the label or the artist themselves has invested a great deal of time and money in creating and recording the music. Because they made the investment, they should have the right to control distribution of the music.
Loan the CD out all you want. Make all the copies you want for your own personal use. But every time you give that song away to someone else, you inhibit their ability to recover their investment.
Well written. I personally want to continue to be able to make copies of CDs that I know are going to end up on the floor in my kids' room. I can't stop that, I can only reduce my "loss" to the price of a CDR instead of the original (which sits on my shelf in pristine condition). But now Sony has decided that I should install a root kit when I insert the "CD". That's not really fair use. When am I going to be allowed to install software on their computers without their consent? That would be (more) fair.
Fair Use aside tt's when people "share" music that things start to get funky in my opinion. It is one thing to listen to music with your friends, passing them the other ear bud from your iPod, it is another to "share" it with thousands or millions of "friends" on the internet. The former might encourage your friend to buy a copy of the music - or they might just get a copy from you, the latter definately implies that your "friends" never pay for their copy of the music.
The next question that comes to mind is why isn't the music industry embracing this new advertising medium? All of the time, effort and money that goes into "sharing" could be susidized by the industry. People do actually buy CDs of music that they like and I don't see the RIAA trying to sue radio listeners and MTV watchers (payola and royalties aside)
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Probably one could fix the entire legal mess in this country by requiring a jury of legal experts instead of a jury of one's peers. When one's peers are lagging behind some second and third world countries in math and english and reasoning scores, who on earth would want them on a jury? They'll buy the big flashy lawyer's story in a heartbeat, because obviously no one who looks and acts just like them could get the attention of such an obviously famous and important lawyer unless they had done *something*... I welcome the singularity, that's all I can say.
..."jury of your peers", that is we believe that we will be judged by a jury of our peers if accused of a crime. I wonder where that notion comes from. It's not in the US Constitution. The Constitution states:
"...an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed..."
That would appear to be a jury of impartial people. Why then does then idea of a jury of our peers permeate society? A jury of our peers would never convict anyone. Think about it. Some people get off sure, but imagine if OJ had a jury of former NFL playing, B-grade movie actors. What if Michael had a jury of face-lifted, bleached skin fading pop stars? Or if Martha had a jury of stock trading towel peddling home fashion divas? How about Scott Peterson having a jury filled with cheating husbands accused of killing their wives who were arrested with $10,000 cash on the way to the Mexican border?
Jury of your peers indeed. The best you can hope for is an impartial jury. Stop saying "jury of your peers" because it doesn't exist or we would never convict anyone.
I keep beating the drum about this. There's no reasonable way to do a mail merge *to email* in Oo. It's just a couple of clicks in Word. Evolution is not as good as Outlook. I would love to go Linux on the desktop (and have done so at home), but I cannot see bringing it into the office as the default setup.
So you want to be able to send a.doc by email and OO.org won't let you? Boo Hoo. Email should be text anyway. It's the "desire" to have interactive/pretty email that brings the internet to a crawl because your cubicle mate sent you email titled "I love you".
Or is it that you need to send email to a whole bunch of people and can't figure out how to write it using an email client?
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When I was studying journalism - television production - our teacher told us to bulk erase our source tapes or reuse them. The idea is that it can't be subpoenaed if it doesn't exist. I'm guessing this is based on his participation in the Kent State riots... but I'm not positive.
He doesn't get the driving force behind the people who want these sort of laws. They don't want to reduce the SEM their children see, they want to eliminate it completely and will never be happy otherwise. Which shows just how far out there they really are. You can't uninvent things.
No. They don't want anyone to see it at all. "Think of the children" is just an excuse. I don't really want my kids surfing porn so the firewall blocks it.
In an ideal world they'd keep pushing it back until the start and end finally met, and then abolish it entirely, leaving the clocks on summer time all year round. But until that time, at least things are a bit better. And next time they change it, you Windows-wrestlers will know what to do.
So how's about we just don't observe it at all? You want to be up earlier, more power to you. You get later light regardless of what time it shows on the clock. Get home with more daylight means running the AC more when you get there. That "quality of life" means that kids end up walking to school and their bus stops that much earlier. I don't see the benefit and am glad to live in a state that doesn't observe it, except faintly across the horizon.You don't really expect MS to follow an accepted definition of "Open Source" do you?
I've had problems with commercial accounting software. In one case I had to send my database to the vendor who was able to edit the data and send it back to me (all on 3 1/2" floppy). Bugs exist in all software. That's not counting the "goofy" implimentations that I have seen in decent sized accounting systems.
How do you think the MIB keeps track of all the aliens?
Or you could just read the front page of Fresh Meat. They show many projects a day, some kind of obscure.
Is that a peripheral for Decide Decide Revolution?
Doh! You just ungeeked yourself.
...Thank god I own a gun...Don't you mean the framers of the Constitution?
I'm beginning to think this place is full of geeks.
OO.o may run under windows, but it does not run well. It crashes more often than is acceptable in any kind of business situation. Sure, you can tell everyone to save often, but try reminding accounting of that AFTER they've lost X hours worth of updates... If you're going to run OO.o, it should be run under a linux environment. The windows build is questionably reliable at best.
Must be your particular Windows environment. I can't even remember the last time OO.o crashed on me, Win or *nix. And if your "accounting" department is using spreadsheets for accounting instead of a fully auditable database based accounting package, it's time to leave anyway. Accounting has standards too, one of those is to be able to see who made what changes - can't do that with a spreadsheet.
Except, whatever the attorneys say is not fact or evidence. Only sworn testimony and physical evidence is supposed to be considered by the jury. A properly instructed jury would understand that. On the other hand, what did the children who testified say other than they saw naked pictures?
And when it comes down to it, why didn't she merely turn off the monitor?
I know how my wife votes, just like I tell her to.
I remember reading that a majority of all credit reports contain errors. Unless you work really hard at getting old stuff removed there can be tons of wrong or outdated information.
They will also possibly see where you shop if you use store credit cards, whether you bought a sofa at Levitz if you finance it with Levitz, where you bought your last car from and whether you are applying for other jobs. The main reason people fall into credit problems are: divorce, a huge medical bill or loss of employment. Do this employers take this things into consideration or do they just look at the credit report and not care why it looks like it does?
About ten years ago I guy I know withdrew his application for a job that he was well qualified for because the new employer wanted a credit report. The job was for butcher. Cause we all know that keeping your spending in line is really important when slicing steaks.
Or it could be read as "My government takes a combined 15.3% of my pay between my employer and I over my lifetime to offer me some kind of 'retirement', they should at least give it to me"
I once applied for a job at Hollywood Video that required one of these online "personality" or "lie detector" type tests. I truly believe that only a sociopathic lier can *pass* these tests as they ask the same question multiple times with minor variations. Would you take a soda from the vending machine, ok.. but would you take some gum - what if you saw a co-worker take some gum? How about if you saw a candy wrapper on the floor would you think that someone was trying to rob the safe and rush to "protect" it? Ok. I made that last part up, but I was weeded out as not even eligible for an interview. I was amazed. I have never stolen anything in my life, have had to submit fingerprints for background checks, etc. but this was the most invasive (and in my mind least accurate) "interview" that I have ever subjected myself to, but this is a company that is so paranoid about their own employees that the timeclock would not let people clock in if they were not on the schedule for that timeframe. If you think everyone is stealing from you - and you treat them as if they are - they will eventually.
:)
As a side note I got a different job that required a higher level of responsibility with absolutely no supervision that didn't have nearly as an invasive and untrusting interview process... and I probably lasted longer at that job than the PFY who HV hired over me.
...but there is no captial "S" in Microsoft.
or a capital one either.
What if, after all of this, Darl and Co. are really trying to get all of IBM's code? I mean, IBM is providing code to them to compare to SCO's stuff. Maybe this is just a really very backhanded way of getting to read through all of IBM's code - GPL, proprietary, you name it. If Darl and Co. simply run off or create another company that uses code from IBM or they just use IBM's coding techniques to better and further SCO code and products would anyone really know? Hell, SCO can't show where there is any matching code now maybe they have figured out a plan to use obfuscated IBM code in their own stuff.
To summarize:
- Although I never did - I have always been able to use your information with your signature.
- GLB didn't make your information "more secure" it allowed your bank to give your information to a "related" brokerage firm.
- This will not make your information more (or less) secure either.
PS - Take a look at your packet of papers that you carried with you out of your local tax office... in a lot of cases you will find a 7216 form - the one that lets the preparer use your information for other than tax purposes.Fair Use aside tt's when people "share" music that things start to get funky in my opinion. It is one thing to listen to music with your friends, passing them the other ear bud from your iPod, it is another to "share" it with thousands or millions of "friends" on the internet. The former might encourage your friend to buy a copy of the music - or they might just get a copy from you, the latter definately implies that your "friends" never pay for their copy of the music.
The next question that comes to mind is why isn't the music industry embracing this new advertising medium? All of the time, effort and money that goes into "sharing" could be susidized by the industry. People do actually buy CDs of music that they like and I don't see the RIAA trying to sue radio listeners and MTV watchers (payola and royalties aside)
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Well it didn't show mine. Mine is 10.23.1.75. So looks like I'm safe.
Huh. All those links seems to point to the same page. What's up with that?
Or is it that you need to send email to a whole bunch of people and can't figure out how to write it using an email client?