looks like you didn't read the article: so far it's the phone companies and the ISPs who have paid (for installing the equipment that enables the wiretapping) and they want their money back, so they bill for wiretaps. the cops don't want to pay, so suggest that the cost be borne by the telephone and ISP customers
Ideally, I'd like to see the fee charged only to those people who actually do get their phones tapped, though.
these wiretaps are done because the cops suspect you. do you want them to pay even if the suspicion turns out to be unjustified?
the problem with the proposal is that they want the victims to pay. even if we believe their specious arguments, this would be for the security of the country, thus should be aid from the general revenue (taxes) rather than the victims of the snooping.
You mean the 486DX is the 386DX with the 387 built in.
no, there were other differences as well
The 486SX is the 486DX with the coprocessor disabled, which is basically a 386DX that runs faster.
only the first few versions: when intel came out with the 486, AMD offered really cheap 386 clones that threatened the 486 market. intel didn't want to lower the 486 prices, so simply disabled the floating point unit on the 486dx and offered it as 486sx at a price that was competitive to AMD's 386s. later versions had the circuits for the floating point unit removed.
The 386SX is a 16 bit CPU on the outside in stead of the 32 bit 386DX and higher
no, the 386 was a 32bit cpu, but with a 16bit memory bus interface, so full word access took twice as long. otherwise it was identical to he 386dx.
The first time I commented to a coworker that this was a real hassle, he just pointed out that all you had to do was change it 3 times and you could go back to the original.
one place i worked at you had to change it every month and couldn't reuse an old password fo 2 years. the system also made sure that your new password was not "similar" with any of the last 23 you used.
Forcing changes in passwords that guarantee that users will write the new password on post it notes on their monitors is not smart either.
then why are there so many policies that do just that?
I know, I see it all the time, and the users simply do NOT get why this is dangerous.
that's where you are wrong: they know damn well that it is dangerous and they also know why. but you can't log in and do your work without knowing your password, and in many places it is a pain in the neck to get access once you have forgotten your password. given the choice of engaging in a dangerous practice and not being able to do their work most chose to be able to do their work without having to jump through all those hoops to get access again.
the whole thing appears to be a case of somebody needing to get his name into the papers, and the press having nothing better to print: so far we have only instruments and methods to discover certain types of planets (which won't support our type of life), and for some strange reasons that's all we have discovered so far. to speculate in such a situation whether we might be alone because no planet similar to earth has been discovered is sheer nonsense.
well, there are infinite natural numbers, and not every natural number is even. yet cantor proved that there are as many even numbers as natural numbers
Haven't read the entire article, but from what I understand this guy was involved in converting low-level code to high-level code for his employer. He then wrote a program to do this, at home.
i understood it slightly differently: he was working on porting projects for about 10 years before starting with them and was hired for his porting expertise, to port existing programs (assembly programmer). during his previous projects he had already developed a few utilities to automate part of the work, so it is quite apparent that he was thinking about this for quite some time before starting with them
They produce the movies, it's their call. If they don't want you to be able to do thing 'x' with it, then you can't, it's that simple. If they require you to use a particular piece of hardware to view their movies, then that's that.
so a book publisher would be within his rights to demand that i read the books i bought from him only sitting on a chair bought in his other store, wearing a suite made by his brother, issuing a prayer to allah everytime i turn a page?
wrong. copyright is the right to make a copy. you get the right to have a copy be legally obtaining it.
Once you have the copy, you should be able to use it any which way you want that doesn't involve redistributing another copy.
that's the point: redistributing another copy. there are a few situations where making a copy is a quite reasonable action
By restricting dvd's to licensed players through the new artificial construct called the dmca they have taken away ability from end users.
without having done anything about copy protection. if i take a DVD and copy it bit by bit to a raw DVD, i have a perfect copy that i can view with any DVD player
based on what seems to have happened in the BSD case it appears that the whole unix "IP" is so muddled that it's practically worthless, except in sco's sorry excuse for a mind
from their filing (at as quoted on groklaw) it appears they used openserver and switched to linux when scox announced they would drop support for that, apparently expecting openserver users to switch to unixware
idiot. do you really think they conceived the offshoring plan after the fuckup and implemented it within days? didn't you read that some CxO publically announced the outsourcing in the middle of the project?
how many big construction projects that started from scratch have been on schedule and didn't have large cost overruns?
the problem with most large IT projects is that they tend to be quite complex and often cover new ground. it's hard to come up with precise estimates when you even don't know yet what exactly is involved. but how exactly do tell that upper management?
in my experience, the majority of managers (at least those i have worked with) are ok. it's just that the jerks who give you the impression that you work under them can destroy any working relationship with a company
The best of managers will recognize that the largest part of their job is to be a drama sponge... absorb the drama radiating down, dampen the drama radiating up, and shield their team to let them get work done.
you'll see that mostly with the managers you work with directly. the upper levels have more contact with those people who are only worried about the next quarterly result
However, what can a manager do when a project or organization starts to underperform? Too frequently, managers will attempt to improve performance by "shaking things up". They think "Okay, after one more reorganization, then things will be right." or "Well, if we put this process into place, it will be perfect."
a real solution would require an analysis of the reasons and careful planning what to do about them. in our corporate culture, this would require too much time. so even decent managers are forced to try to fix things using the "hope this will work" method
Downloading copyrighted materials may be perfectly legal in Canada (albeit unethical IMO, since one is aiding another in violating copyright), but it makes no sense to even _BEGIN_ to tolerate uploading whenever and wherever you can positively ascertain that it is occurring.
it isn't unethical. everytime you buy a writable CD or a tape, you pay a levy to some canadian copyrighthlders' association because the thing might be used to write copyrighted material to it. in other words, you paid already for the right to copy. uploading would only be enablinvg peole to exercise that right
it would leave tens of thousands of audio engineers on the street.
they wouldn't work for the big labels. but if the projection that their demise would be a boon for independent artists are correct, you would assume that there is enough need for them. after all, the artists still would have a need to record
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looks like you didn't read the article: so far it's the phone companies and the ISPs who have paid (for installing the equipment that enables the wiretapping) and they want their money back, so they bill for wiretaps. the cops don't want to pay, so suggest that the cost be borne by the telephone and ISP customers
these wiretaps are done because the cops suspect you. do you want them to pay even if the suspicion turns out to be unjustified?
the problem with the proposal is that they want the victims to pay. even if we believe their specious arguments, this would be for the security of the country, thus should be aid from the general revenue (taxes) rather than the victims of the snooping.
there was. basically it was a 486dx with an extra pin that was connected to the 486sx to disable it
no, there were other differences as well
The 486SX is the 486DX with the coprocessor disabled, which is basically a 386DX that runs faster.
only the first few versions: when intel came out with the 486, AMD offered really cheap 386 clones that threatened the 486 market. intel didn't want to lower the 486 prices, so simply disabled the floating point unit on the 486dx and offered it as 486sx at a price that was competitive to AMD's 386s. later versions had the circuits for the floating point unit removed.
The 386SX is a 16 bit CPU on the outside in stead of the 32 bit 386DX and higher
no, the 386 was a 32bit cpu, but with a 16bit memory bus interface, so full word access took twice as long. otherwise it was identical to he 386dx.
i guess SX stood for "sucks"
one place i worked at you had to change it every month and couldn't reuse an old password fo 2 years. the system also made sure that your new password was not "similar" with any of the last 23 you used.
then why are there so many policies that do just that?
I know, I see it all the time, and the users simply do NOT get why this is dangerous.
that's where you are wrong: they know damn well that it is dangerous and they also know why. but you can't log in and do your work without knowing your password, and in many places it is a pain in the neck to get access once you have forgotten your password. given the choice of engaging in a dangerous practice and not being able to do their work most chose to be able to do their work without having to jump through all those hoops to get access again.
so why are we having this discussion?
the whole thing appears to be a case of somebody needing to get his name into the papers, and the press having nothing better to print: so far we have only instruments and methods to discover certain types of planets (which won't support our type of life), and for some strange reasons that's all we have discovered so far. to speculate in such a situation whether we might be alone because no planet similar to earth has been discovered is sheer nonsense.
well, there are infinite natural numbers, and not every natural number is even. yet cantor proved that there are as many even numbers as natural numbers
i understood it slightly differently: he was working on porting projects for about 10 years before starting with them and was hired for his porting expertise, to port existing programs (assembly programmer). during his previous projects he had already developed a few utilities to automate part of the work, so it is quite apparent that he was thinking about this for quite some time before starting with them
yeah, and with all this stupidity they managed to come up with a calendar that's more precise than the one europe devoloped over 1000 years later
doesn't that mean we have to sacrifice a few virgins to keep the world going?
so a book publisher would be within his rights to demand that i read the books i bought from him only sitting on a chair bought in his other store, wearing a suite made by his brother, issuing a prayer to allah everytime i turn a page?
wrong. copyright is the right to make a copy. you get the right to have a copy be legally obtaining it.
Once you have the copy, you should be able to use it any which way you want that doesn't involve redistributing another copy.
that's the point: redistributing another copy. there are a few situations where making a copy is a quite reasonable action
By restricting dvd's to licensed players through the new artificial construct called the dmca they have taken away ability from end users.
without having done anything about copy protection. if i take a DVD and copy it bit by bit to a raw DVD, i have a perfect copy that i can view with any DVD player
we are not talking about copying. we are talking about viewing a DVD that was paid for
based on what seems to have happened in the BSD case it appears that the whole unix "IP" is so muddled that it's practically worthless, except in sco's sorry excuse for a mind
from their filing (at as quoted on groklaw) it appears they used openserver and switched to linux when scox announced they would drop support for that, apparently expecting openserver users to switch to unixware
they are currently working for what used to be a software company, but did they ever work in software?
umm, i thought i was in a thread about baystar and SCO? how is your rant related to the subject?
idiot. do you really think they conceived the offshoring plan after the fuckup and implemented it within days? didn't you read that some CxO publically announced the outsourcing in the middle of the project?
the problem with most large IT projects is that they tend to be quite complex and often cover new ground. it's hard to come up with precise estimates when you even don't know yet what exactly is involved. but how exactly do tell that upper management?
in my experience, the majority of managers (at least those i have worked with) are ok. it's just that the jerks who give you the impression that you work under them can destroy any working relationship with a company
The best of managers will recognize that the largest part of their job is to be a drama sponge ... absorb the drama radiating down, dampen the drama radiating up, and shield their team to let them get work done.
you'll see that mostly with the managers you work with directly. the upper levels have more contact with those people who are only worried about the next quarterly resultHowever, what can a manager do when a project or organization starts to underperform? Too frequently, managers will attempt to improve performance by "shaking things up". They think "Okay, after one more reorganization, then things will be right." or "Well, if we put this process into place, it will be perfect."
a real solution would require an analysis of the reasons and careful planning what to do about them. in our corporate culture, this would require too much time. so even decent managers are forced to try to fix things using the "hope this will work" method
it isn't unethical. everytime you buy a writable CD or a tape, you pay a levy to some canadian copyrighthlders' association because the thing might be used to write copyrighted material to it. in other words, you paid already for the right to copy. uploading would only be enablinvg peole to exercise that right
they wouldn't work for the big labels. but if the projection that their demise would be a boon for independent artists are correct, you would assume that there is enough need for them. after all, the artists still would have a need to record
well, the radio stations have to put something between commercials, and the witless prattling of most radio announcers won't attract much audience
by supporting illegal p2p sharing
according to the court decision discussed here, it isn't illegal, at least in canada
it's not a tax. it's a levy collected by the government and passed on to the music industry
The Canadian GST was supposed to be used to pay off the deficit and then disappear.
no. the GST was supposed to be a replacement for the (hidden) MST (manufacturer's sales tax) which was raised at the point of production