This is a sign of any new store policy. Stop accepting returns for opened software; get bitched out. Demand zip codes for internal marketing purposes; get bitched out. Stop selling guns without a waiting period; get bitched out. Demand SSN, address, phone numbers on checks; get bitched out.
Retailers need to stop being such babies. I sell games to kids because if I don't i get yelled at. What a fucking pathetic excuse. A woman yelling has nothing to do with your job. As soon as she gets pissy, tell her to go to customer service. If she refuses, call security. Otherwise, just ignore her.
It's that simple.
But to refuse to do your job because someone might get upset and not like you is just sad.
Like alcohol and cigarettes, if you give your kid a video game, movie, book, or CD that the government deems harmful, you'll lose your kid.
Right now, movies, music, and games are rated by commercial entities. Their ratings are suggestions from one private group to another. Once the government starts rating games, the ratings become law.
There are a few ways to stop this. One is to ensure that Child Protective Services investigates every possible case of a child playing a "M" rated game. Or whatever their 17 and older rating is. Have your kid take a pirated copy of a game to their kid's house. Then, call CPS on them. Get all the parents you possibly can investigated. Once a good percentage of the parents lose their kids for a few days, the law will be struck down.
The other way is just to stop selling physical copies of games in NY. I don't really dig on consoles, but all the major consoles have downloadable content. Just sell games online-only and use credit card for verification of age. Again, if a parent complains, have his kid taken by CPS while they investigate abandonment.
Underdeveloped countries need things a lot worse than telephones.
If you really want to help 3rd world countries, stop thinking tech. Start thinking about simple things like how to get food, water, and medicine into these places.
Start speaking out about people buying diamonds.
Start encouraging your governments to protect UN, Red Cross, Peace Corps, and other convoys trying to deliver supplies.
Start encouraging assassination of leaders who seize supplies.
Blow up the homes, cars, wives, children, and friends of some of these fucking warlords until they stop chopping arms off of kids.
>>My point is, not only does the shop still loose the money it would of lost by having a physical copy stolen, it also potentially loses the ability to even sell Windows.
The shop has no financial stake in Windows. Their bread and butter comes from selling a service to the customer. That service is installing, upgrading, and fixing computers.
If the shop relies on the money they make through the sale of a copy of Windows, then that shop has a broken model. Sure, and extra $20 in the till is nice, but it shouldn't make or break the bank.
I see this problem with a lot of "mom and pop" stores. They rely on old streams of revenue without taking into account how replaceable they really are. Mom and pop can buy 100 widgets for $1 each. They sell them for $2. WalMart can buy 1,000,000 widgets for $0.80 each and sell them for $0.99. The mom and pop shops are doomed to failure if they rely on moving stock.
What they need to focus on is selling a service. Don't sell Dell or Gateway, any asshole can do that. Sell a custom-built box that fits the customer like a glove. Customer wants to surf and do email; build a low-end box. Gamer comes in; build something kick-ass. Help people fix problems and educate people on how to use a computer. Sure, it's a harder job than pushing a boxed copy of WinXP, but there is a lot more money to be made there.
As for installing software, let the customer decide. If they want Windows, try and give it to them as cheaply as possible. Sell student copies or build custom NLite auto-install DVDs that the customer can "find" in a box behind the store. Or just install Linux and teach them to use that.
But, whatever you do, don't rely on pushing someone else's product from your shelf.
If you work a government contract, you'll have to submit. In order to get a low-end clearance, you'll have people look at your finances, run a criminal background check, and possibly investigate your contacts for the last 5 years to look for subversive connections.
For the higher clearances, you'll need to submit to lie detector screening and have contacts for the last 10 years checked.
The good part of a government ob is that it's almost impossible to get fired...
It does seem like a no-brainer. However, let's look at it from another, purely hypothetical, angle.
Let's say you are having a wedding. You want photos of that wedding. You can take them yourself, or pay someone to take them. If you pay someone, only part of that payment covers the total cost. The photographer makes his money back by selling the photos of your event.
Now, you *can* pay someone enough and they will just download the RAW images and burn them to a DVD for you. But it's very expensive.
So, the Government wants to research fusion. They don't want to hire all the scientists and fund the entire project. They just want to give someone $1b and reap the rewards. The problem is that it costs a company $2b to get a working product.
If the taxpayers want it, they can purchase it outright. They should have that option. But it'll cost a lot more than an additional $1b. The company took the risk. If they dumped $4b and got nothing, they'd eat it. If they succeed, they should benefit.
If you lived in MA, you'd be stupid to vote out Kennedy. As a senior member, he has a lot of power and influence in congress. If they vote in someone else, it'd be 10 years before the new guy could even propose legislation without being laughed at. Maybe another 10 years before he could pull the members of his party to pass legislation.
People like Hatch, Kennedy, Stevens, Pilosi, and all those other idiots *should* be voted out. It's in the best interest of the other 49 states to get rid of these assholes. But, that one state, the one that votes for these morons, has no choice but to keep them around. To vote them out would guarantee their state drops off the face of congress for at least 10 years.
I used to think that term limits were the way to go. However, after looking at CA, I see that's a really dumb way to do it. With term limits, everyone is a junior and the lobbyists just roll right over them.
Now I'm thinking that we should make it illegal for the incumbent to actively campaign. If the people really want to re-elect them, their record should stand on it's own. We should also make congress more work. Be in your seats Monday through Friday from 0700 till 1700. Be back in your district Saturday morning by 0800 and work till 1600 doing charity work and meeting the people. They can take Sunday morning off for church, but they need to go on local TV Sunday night for an hour and explain to the voters what they did that week. If the voters so choose, a junior senator can have a one-week vacation in the Summer; a senior senator, maybe two-weeks. Both unpaid.
There should also be a weekly financial statement of every dollar that the official spent and a record of where that money came from. It should be in the Sunday morning paper. If they guy goes to Starbucks for a coffee, he should be able to show where the dollar came from. A senator should not be allowed to accept any gift, nor should his family members.
That's kind of a cop-out. Just saying that a platform leads to insecurity is missing a big part of the problem.
I've worked with USMC, USAF, and NATO workstations and servers. Both CLASS and UNCLASS.
The first thing the DoD does right is to remove desktop admin rights. I love the fact that we lock workstations pretty hard. If your shop follows the NSA guidelines for Win2k, it's pretty solid. Ideally, the user cannot WRITE to any part of the drive other than his home folders. Of course, a rights-elevating script can destroy that.
The USMC started enforcing standard text emails. They also push cryptographic signing and public-key encryption. Fery few civilian companies do that.
The second thing the DoD does right is in user training. We (used to) regularly call people and ask for their password. If they gave it out, their commander got bitched at. He usually ensured that everyone came in on Saturday to practice not giving out passwords...
The DoD also tends to filter out web sites. There are some places that only allow.mil/gov access. More common is blocking of Asian and Eastern-European IP addresses at the gateway routers. If a phishing site is identified, we usually block entire Class-Cs without a second thought. If the users have a problem, we whitelist on an as-needed basis.
The DoD also filters email attachments. Sometimes this is strange. I can send a Word document with 9000 macros, but a basic Visio diagram gets blocked. Zipping, Raring, or Taring a file isn't usually enough to get through the filters.
The DoD also segregates their critical communications. Everyone loves email and Google, but we can still deploy bombs and bullets without Wikipedia. All our *good stuff* is completely inaccessible from the internets.
The biggest flaw is, as you said, using outdated software. However, there is no easy way around this. Once MS releases a patch, the DoD has to decide if it's needed. Then they have to decide if it will break anything. Form there, they filter it to the USMC. They decide if they need it and if it will break anything. This continues to happen all the way down to the Base communication support people. By that time, the exploit has been in the wild for a few months.
The only real alternative is to *cowboy* your way through the patches and hope that nothing breaks.
You are under the impression that every cop in a patrol car is looking for traffic violations. That isn't the case. My home town is near an interstate. We have several cars dedicated to driving routes that take them past convenience stores all night long. If they don't get a signal from the clerk, they know something is wrong.
There is also a group that drives back alleys looking for suspicious activity. The alley system isn't completely connected, so they make jumps across the main roads all the time.
If either of these groups stops to write a ticket, then they aren't doing their jobs.
Measuring police worth in tickets written marks you as an idiot. HTH. HAND.
Look at it this way: As a taxpayer, I'm paying a cop for an 8-hour shift. If he's on traffic patrol, I pay him to drive around. If he spends an hour of his shift in heavy traffic at stop lights, then the taxpayer is not getting their money's worth.
From a waste standpoint, it's better if cops are moving through traffic vice standing still in it. Safety should be the first concern, but I think cops should move to the front of the line waiting for a light to change. At least there, he can maybe catch someone running a light.
Cops in my neighborhood (a gated community with private police force) do not obey any traffic laws other than speed limits. They get paid to patrol and look for suspicious behavior. If they stop at intersections, then we are getting ripped off.
Sure, it's a weak argument, but over hundreds of shifts and dozens of stops, it all adds up.
At my office, we have a master image of our desktop configuration. The image sits in a Debian box next to my desk.
When we get a new PC, we remove the drive and drop it into an external USB/IDE/SATA enclosure and connect ti to the Debian box. We DD the image onto the drive. It usually takes less than an hour per drive.
We can also image a drive across the LAN, but it's slower and we have to be present at the user's computer to boot off a KNOPPIX disc.
We have played with the idea of creating a DVD that has a cut-down debian distro and the image file. Then we can just drop in the restore disc and reboot. Come back an hour later and we're done.
You could also drop the image on the portable drive and use a boot CD to image PCs without opening them.
The 360 should be the easiest keys to revoke. MS can just push an updated set of keys to the players to update them.
Now the Panasonic/Sony/Kenwood/JVC standalone players are another matter altogether. How do you revoke a key for a device that will have to be returned to BestBuy in order to update it? Maybe they can send the new keys on a DVD that will automagically update the players.
Cowboy Bebop is almost exactly like Firefly and close to StarWars. It's about a band of nobodies who travel around in space doing cool things. StarWars is a has too much of a God complex. A nobody changes the universe forever. CB and FF are just about normal people doing normal things and no one notices.
I've never seen Trigun. I can't comment.
GITS is more like The Matrix. Hackers are changing everyday life for everyone. Crazy stuff happens in "the ether". GITS is *much* better than The Matrix.
My guess is that it uses SNMP to monitor systems. SNMP is included with every version of Windows from NT on up that tree. I think you have to install the service separately and then enable it with the proper community strings. After that, you can track memory, HD, processor usage. We used to use it with MRTG and HP Openview to find out which users were saving shit to their desktops vice the network server.
It's too late to fix the TLD problem; com/net/org seem to be mostly US sites. Since the US policies are driven by right-wing christians, I'd create a.fam. Technically, it should be a *.fam.us. If Germany wants to create a safe internet with their standards, let them create *.fam.de.
>>Why no other organised religions - judaism, islam, buddism, hinduism, shintoism, sikhism, and whatever else you can think of)?
Those are fairly small minorities in the US. Judaism and Islam should probably be on the council too.
>>Why no *non-organised* religions, like neopaganism, wicca, and so on?
Again, it's a numbers game. When 50-million wiccans constantly force their beliefs on others, they get a say.
>>And, most important, why should *religious organisations* be allowed to decide what's safe or unsafe for kids, anyway?
Many people do not have a problem with unfiltered internet. It's mainly christian conservatives forcing the issue. Give them a solution and send them on their way. If $group is not happy with the.fam, let them have a.$grp and manage it their own way.
>>Do you mean that I'd have to design my entire site before applying for a domain?
In short, yes. It'd be hell on dynamic content, but the people pushing for this do not want community groups and dynamic blogs.
You'd have to give out very detailed information to apply for a domain. Your domain would be certified clean according to a specific set of written rules. If your site clears these rules, then you can start it up. If you violate the rules at any point (you put "fuck" in your blog), your domain is suspended and you have to pay a fine. Repeat offenses would bar you from the domain.
>>Do you also mean that once it's up, I could never change any part of it, at least not until I submit the site for a rescan to see that it's still "safe"?
If someone sees objectionable content on your site, they would have to contact you directly via email. The registrar would be CCd. If you did not respond (either "this site is fine" or "site cleaned up") within 24 hours, the registrar would step in and make a ruling. If the site *is* objectionable, they would suspend your account.
>>(For that matter, why is "links only to.fam domains" a sufficient criterion for determining "safety", anyway?) What about database-driven sites?
If you violate the TOS of the domain, you have 24 hours to return to compliance. After that, your site is pulled. If you can clean it up, you get it back. If you are a repeat offender, you lose your domain.
>>What you're essentially proposing is a huge bureaucracy that's slow, inefficient and costly, and that - most importantly - wouldn't even work out (people do make mistakes, after all, and things *would* slip through).
Since it would be managed by churches, it's up to them to deal with it. If they can't, then it's their problem. The parents themselves would be the police. They would report bad sites to the registrar who would then deal with it. No cost to taxpayers and less money in church budgets for crap like church buildings and missionary work.
>>The proposal to change email is also laughable at best. Even if you think that requiring an SSN to get an email account would be a good idea, how do you handle people from outside the USA (95% of the world's population, last I counted) that don't even *have* an SSN? For that matter, how do you handle people that ARE from the USA and don't have an SSN?
Again, this is being driven by the USA right wing. Why would a small-minded right-winger even want to talk to someone outside the USA. If they did have a valid reason, then they could ask mom or dad to remove the filter software/hardware and allow them to access gmail.com.
SSN was a bad idea. Maybe have the person go to a registry center and apply
I would think that too much compression would increase the weight of the plane. You figure an average 200lbs/person and then another 100lbs for luggage.
At what point does the plane get too heavy to fly?
The Christian Right are the ones forcing the discussion of censorship on the internet, radio, and on TV. If we create a domain for them to bask in, then they will have no excuse to blame anyone else.
I work in a shared office environment, so I'm a bit biased to that setup.
We require people to lock their workstations if they get up. If they are gone for more than 5 minutes, we require them to logoff.
And you are right about the time. If I come in and spend 20 minutes talking to my boss before I sit down, I wouldn't get paid for that time under my system.
The person who came up with.xxx should be slapped. I mean, what kind of fucking idiot is this person/are these people?
If you want to clear the internet of pr0n and make it safe for kids, create a.fam domain and then make the registrar a board consisting of the LDS Church, Christian Coalition, Southern Baptist Conference, and Catholic Church. Before any site is accepted, a scan will be done on their code to ensure *every* link on the page ends in.fam.
Create e-mail servers that require a name, address, SSN, and valid phone number to activate e-mail. Have monks (like they have anything better to do) call every person who registers and verify their information.
After that, sell software that only allows.fam domains to be processed. Nothing from an IP address outside the.fam will be accepted.
Users should be classified based on their ages. If you are between 8 and 18 and you e-mail someone more than 1 year older than you, the e-mail gets sent to LDS missionaries (give them something to to besides annoy me) for review. If the content is inappropriate, your e-mail is revoked. Make it work the same way for older people e-mailing younger people. Just give more leeway.
In about 30 days and with absolutely no resistance, you could create a family-safe internet.
Seriously, if you or someone you know came up with the idea of.xxx, please turn in your geek card and go work a help desk in India and leave the real thinking to much smarter people.
Copy your WinXP disc to a folder on the hard drive. Download SP2 from the MS site.
Download and extract (using winrar or 7zip) the drivers from NVIDIA. I have NForce mobo and NV graphics, so I need 2 files.
Start Nlite. Let it scan your WinXP CD folder.
Tell it to integrate the service pack.
Tell it to integrate the drivers folder.
Finish applying tweaks as desired.
Burn to CD and install with that. It'll detect your RAID array at install time with no need for a floppy. It'll detect and install the graphics card drivers.
Once you are done, use AutopatcherXP to install critical updates.
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While I don't suffer from the connectivity problem, I have another gripe: SATA connectors stick straight out.
Sure, you can spend a bit more to get a good, angled cable. But the free ones included with hard drives and motherboards are always annoying.
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This is a sign of any new store policy. Stop accepting returns for opened software; get bitched out. Demand zip codes for internal marketing purposes; get bitched out. Stop selling guns without a waiting period; get bitched out. Demand SSN, address, phone numbers on checks; get bitched out.
Retailers need to stop being such babies. I sell games to kids because if I don't i get yelled at. What a fucking pathetic excuse. A woman yelling has nothing to do with your job. As soon as she gets pissy, tell her to go to customer service. If she refuses, call security. Otherwise, just ignore her.
It's that simple.
But to refuse to do your job because someone might get upset and not like you is just sad.
Like alcohol and cigarettes, if you give your kid a video game, movie, book, or CD that the government deems harmful, you'll lose your kid.
Right now, movies, music, and games are rated by commercial entities. Their ratings are suggestions from one private group to another. Once the government starts rating games, the ratings become law.
There are a few ways to stop this. One is to ensure that Child Protective Services investigates every possible case of a child playing a "M" rated game. Or whatever their 17 and older rating is. Have your kid take a pirated copy of a game to their kid's house. Then, call CPS on them. Get all the parents you possibly can investigated. Once a good percentage of the parents lose their kids for a few days, the law will be struck down.
The other way is just to stop selling physical copies of games in NY. I don't really dig on consoles, but all the major consoles have downloadable content. Just sell games online-only and use credit card for verification of age. Again, if a parent complains, have his kid taken by CPS while they investigate abandonment.
Underdeveloped countries need things a lot worse than telephones.
If you really want to help 3rd world countries, stop thinking tech. Start thinking about simple things like how to get food, water, and medicine into these places.
Start speaking out about people buying diamonds.
Start encouraging your governments to protect UN, Red Cross, Peace Corps, and other convoys trying to deliver supplies.
Start encouraging assassination of leaders who seize supplies.
Blow up the homes, cars, wives, children, and friends of some of these fucking warlords until they stop chopping arms off of kids.
>>My point is, not only does the shop still loose the money it would of lost by having a physical copy stolen, it also potentially loses the ability to even sell Windows.
The shop has no financial stake in Windows. Their bread and butter comes from selling a service to the customer. That service is installing, upgrading, and fixing computers.
If the shop relies on the money they make through the sale of a copy of Windows, then that shop has a broken model. Sure, and extra $20 in the till is nice, but it shouldn't make or break the bank.
I see this problem with a lot of "mom and pop" stores. They rely on old streams of revenue without taking into account how replaceable they really are. Mom and pop can buy 100 widgets for $1 each. They sell them for $2. WalMart can buy 1,000,000 widgets for $0.80 each and sell them for $0.99. The mom and pop shops are doomed to failure if they rely on moving stock.
What they need to focus on is selling a service. Don't sell Dell or Gateway, any asshole can do that. Sell a custom-built box that fits the customer like a glove. Customer wants to surf and do email; build a low-end box. Gamer comes in; build something kick-ass. Help people fix problems and educate people on how to use a computer. Sure, it's a harder job than pushing a boxed copy of WinXP, but there is a lot more money to be made there.
As for installing software, let the customer decide. If they want Windows, try and give it to them as cheaply as possible. Sell student copies or build custom NLite auto-install DVDs that the customer can "find" in a box behind the store. Or just install Linux and teach them to use that.
But, whatever you do, don't rely on pushing someone else's product from your shelf.
>>but it is the same as stealing one off the shelf
No, it isn't. If your shop has 20 boxed copies of WinXP, and one of your techs installs an unlicensed copy, you still have 20 boxes on the shelf.
I'm not arguing that violating a license agreement isn't wrong, but it is definitely not stealing.
If you work a government contract, you'll have to submit. In order to get a low-end clearance, you'll have people look at your finances, run a criminal background check, and possibly investigate your contacts for the last 5 years to look for subversive connections.
For the higher clearances, you'll need to submit to lie detector screening and have contacts for the last 10 years checked.
The good part of a government ob is that it's almost impossible to get fired...
It does seem like a no-brainer. However, let's look at it from another, purely hypothetical, angle.
Let's say you are having a wedding. You want photos of that wedding. You can take them yourself, or pay someone to take them. If you pay someone, only part of that payment covers the total cost. The photographer makes his money back by selling the photos of your event.
Now, you *can* pay someone enough and they will just download the RAW images and burn them to a DVD for you. But it's very expensive.
So, the Government wants to research fusion. They don't want to hire all the scientists and fund the entire project. They just want to give someone $1b and reap the rewards. The problem is that it costs a company $2b to get a working product.
If the taxpayers want it, they can purchase it outright. They should have that option. But it'll cost a lot more than an additional $1b. The company took the risk. If they dumped $4b and got nothing, they'd eat it. If they succeed, they should benefit.
If you lived in MA, you'd be stupid to vote out Kennedy. As a senior member, he has a lot of power and influence in congress. If they vote in someone else, it'd be 10 years before the new guy could even propose legislation without being laughed at. Maybe another 10 years before he could pull the members of his party to pass legislation.
People like Hatch, Kennedy, Stevens, Pilosi, and all those other idiots *should* be voted out. It's in the best interest of the other 49 states to get rid of these assholes. But, that one state, the one that votes for these morons, has no choice but to keep them around. To vote them out would guarantee their state drops off the face of congress for at least 10 years.
I used to think that term limits were the way to go. However, after looking at CA, I see that's a really dumb way to do it. With term limits, everyone is a junior and the lobbyists just roll right over them.
Now I'm thinking that we should make it illegal for the incumbent to actively campaign. If the people really want to re-elect them, their record should stand on it's own. We should also make congress more work. Be in your seats Monday through Friday from 0700 till 1700. Be back in your district Saturday morning by 0800 and work till 1600 doing charity work and meeting the people. They can take Sunday morning off for church, but they need to go on local TV Sunday night for an hour and explain to the voters what they did that week. If the voters so choose, a junior senator can have a one-week vacation in the Summer; a senior senator, maybe two-weeks. Both unpaid.
There should also be a weekly financial statement of every dollar that the official spent and a record of where that money came from. It should be in the Sunday morning paper. If they guy goes to Starbucks for a coffee, he should be able to show where the dollar came from. A senator should not be allowed to accept any gift, nor should his family members.
That's kind of a cop-out. Just saying that a platform leads to insecurity is missing a big part of the problem.
.mil/gov access. More common is blocking of Asian and Eastern-European IP addresses at the gateway routers. If a phishing site is identified, we usually block entire Class-Cs without a second thought. If the users have a problem, we whitelist on an as-needed basis.
I've worked with USMC, USAF, and NATO workstations and servers. Both CLASS and UNCLASS.
The first thing the DoD does right is to remove desktop admin rights. I love the fact that we lock workstations pretty hard. If your shop follows the NSA guidelines for Win2k, it's pretty solid. Ideally, the user cannot WRITE to any part of the drive other than his home folders. Of course, a rights-elevating script can destroy that.
The USMC started enforcing standard text emails. They also push cryptographic signing and public-key encryption. Fery few civilian companies do that.
The second thing the DoD does right is in user training. We (used to) regularly call people and ask for their password. If they gave it out, their commander got bitched at. He usually ensured that everyone came in on Saturday to practice not giving out passwords...
The DoD also tends to filter out web sites. There are some places that only allow
The DoD also filters email attachments. Sometimes this is strange. I can send a Word document with 9000 macros, but a basic Visio diagram gets blocked. Zipping, Raring, or Taring a file isn't usually enough to get through the filters.
The DoD also segregates their critical communications. Everyone loves email and Google, but we can still deploy bombs and bullets without Wikipedia. All our *good stuff* is completely inaccessible from the internets.
The biggest flaw is, as you said, using outdated software. However, there is no easy way around this. Once MS releases a patch, the DoD has to decide if it's needed. Then they have to decide if it will break anything. Form there, they filter it to the USMC. They decide if they need it and if it will break anything. This continues to happen all the way down to the Base communication support people. By that time, the exploit has been in the wild for a few months.
The only real alternative is to *cowboy* your way through the patches and hope that nothing breaks.
Slashdot is a soapbox. Every time I post, I'm taking the opportunity to stand up and voice an opinion.
/., and Kuro5hin screen names. So, everyone who matters does know who BH is.
AC, OTOH, are just assholes screaming obscenities from the back of the crowd.
Furthermore, all my friends know and respect my Digg,
Normally I don't respond to AC...
You are under the impression that every cop in a patrol car is looking for traffic violations. That isn't the case. My home town is near an interstate. We have several cars dedicated to driving routes that take them past convenience stores all night long. If they don't get a signal from the clerk, they know something is wrong.
There is also a group that drives back alleys looking for suspicious activity. The alley system isn't completely connected, so they make jumps across the main roads all the time.
If either of these groups stops to write a ticket, then they aren't doing their jobs.
Measuring police worth in tickets written marks you as an idiot. HTH. HAND.
Look at it this way: As a taxpayer, I'm paying a cop for an 8-hour shift. If he's on traffic patrol, I pay him to drive around. If he spends an hour of his shift in heavy traffic at stop lights, then the taxpayer is not getting their money's worth.
From a waste standpoint, it's better if cops are moving through traffic vice standing still in it. Safety should be the first concern, but I think cops should move to the front of the line waiting for a light to change. At least there, he can maybe catch someone running a light.
Cops in my neighborhood (a gated community with private police force) do not obey any traffic laws other than speed limits. They get paid to patrol and look for suspicious behavior. If they stop at intersections, then we are getting ripped off.
Sure, it's a weak argument, but over hundreds of shifts and dozens of stops, it all adds up.
At my office, we have a master image of our desktop configuration. The image sits in a Debian box next to my desk.
When we get a new PC, we remove the drive and drop it into an external USB/IDE/SATA enclosure and connect ti to the Debian box. We DD the image onto the drive. It usually takes less than an hour per drive.
We can also image a drive across the LAN, but it's slower and we have to be present at the user's computer to boot off a KNOPPIX disc.
We have played with the idea of creating a DVD that has a cut-down debian distro and the image file. Then we can just drop in the restore disc and reboot. Come back an hour later and we're done.
You could also drop the image on the portable drive and use a boot CD to image PCs without opening them.
The 360 should be the easiest keys to revoke. MS can just push an updated set of keys to the players to update them.
Now the Panasonic/Sony/Kenwood/JVC standalone players are another matter altogether. How do you revoke a key for a device that will have to be returned to BestBuy in order to update it? Maybe they can send the new keys on a DVD that will automagically update the players.
Cowboy Bebop is almost exactly like Firefly and close to StarWars. It's about a band of nobodies who travel around in space doing cool things. StarWars is a has too much of a God complex. A nobody changes the universe forever. CB and FF are just about normal people doing normal things and no one notices.
I've never seen Trigun. I can't comment.
GITS is more like The Matrix. Hackers are changing everyday life for everyone. Crazy stuff happens in "the ether". GITS is *much* better than The Matrix.
My guess is that it uses SNMP to monitor systems. SNMP is included with every version of Windows from NT on up that tree. I think you have to install the service separately and then enable it with the proper community strings. After that, you can track memory, HD, processor usage. We used to use it with MRTG and HP Openview to find out which users were saving shit to their desktops vice the network server.
>>why not churches from other countries
.fam. Technically, it should be a *.fam.us. If Germany wants to create a safe internet with their standards, let them create *.fam.de.
.fam, let them have a .$grp and manage it their own way.
.fam domains" a sufficient criterion for determining "safety", anyway?) What about database-driven sites?
It's too late to fix the TLD problem; com/net/org seem to be mostly US sites. Since the US policies are driven by right-wing christians, I'd create a
>>Why no other organised religions - judaism, islam, buddism, hinduism, shintoism, sikhism, and whatever else you can think of)?
Those are fairly small minorities in the US. Judaism and Islam should probably be on the council too.
>>Why no *non-organised* religions, like neopaganism, wicca, and so on?
Again, it's a numbers game. When 50-million wiccans constantly force their beliefs on others, they get a say.
>>And, most important, why should *religious organisations* be allowed to decide what's safe or unsafe for kids, anyway?
Many people do not have a problem with unfiltered internet. It's mainly christian conservatives forcing the issue. Give them a solution and send them on their way. If $group is not happy with the
>>Do you mean that I'd have to design my entire site before applying for a domain?
In short, yes. It'd be hell on dynamic content, but the people pushing for this do not want community groups and dynamic blogs.
You'd have to give out very detailed information to apply for a domain. Your domain would be certified clean according to a specific set of written rules. If your site clears these rules, then you can start it up. If you violate the rules at any point (you put "fuck" in your blog), your domain is suspended and you have to pay a fine. Repeat offenses would bar you from the domain.
>>Do you also mean that once it's up, I could never change any part of it, at least not until I submit the site for a rescan to see that it's still "safe"?
If someone sees objectionable content on your site, they would have to contact you directly via email. The registrar would be CCd. If you did not respond (either "this site is fine" or "site cleaned up") within 24 hours, the registrar would step in and make a ruling. If the site *is* objectionable, they would suspend your account.
>>(For that matter, why is "links only to
If you violate the TOS of the domain, you have 24 hours to return to compliance. After that, your site is pulled. If you can clean it up, you get it back. If you are a repeat offender, you lose your domain.
>>What you're essentially proposing is a huge bureaucracy that's slow, inefficient and costly, and that - most importantly - wouldn't even work out (people do make mistakes, after all, and things *would* slip through).
Since it would be managed by churches, it's up to them to deal with it. If they can't, then it's their problem. The parents themselves would be the police. They would report bad sites to the registrar who would then deal with it. No cost to taxpayers and less money in church budgets for crap like church buildings and missionary work.
>>The proposal to change email is also laughable at best. Even if you think that requiring an SSN to get an email account would be a good idea, how do you handle people from outside the USA (95% of the world's population, last I counted) that don't even *have* an SSN? For that matter, how do you handle people that ARE from the USA and don't have an SSN?
Again, this is being driven by the USA right wing. Why would a small-minded right-winger even want to talk to someone outside the USA. If they did have a valid reason, then they could ask mom or dad to remove the filter software/hardware and allow them to access gmail.com.
SSN was a bad idea. Maybe have the person go to a registry center and apply
Since it's run by Christians, I assume they would forgive one-time minor infractions.
Maybe after praying with your pastor or confessing to your priest, you could get back on.
I would think that too much compression would increase the weight of the plane. You figure an average 200lbs/person and then another 100lbs for luggage.
At what point does the plane get too heavy to fly?
The Christian Right are the ones forcing the discussion of censorship on the internet, radio, and on TV. If we create a domain for them to bask in, then they will have no excuse to blame anyone else.
I work in a shared office environment, so I'm a bit biased to that setup.
We require people to lock their workstations if they get up. If they are gone for more than 5 minutes, we require them to logoff.
And you are right about the time. If I come in and spend 20 minutes talking to my boss before I sit down, I wouldn't get paid for that time under my system.
The person who came up with .xxx should be slapped. I mean, what kind of fucking idiot is this person/are these people?
.fam domain and then make the registrar a board consisting of the LDS Church, Christian Coalition, Southern Baptist Conference, and Catholic Church. Before any site is accepted, a scan will be done on their code to ensure *every* link on the page ends in .fam.
.fam domains to be processed. Nothing from an IP address outside the .fam will be accepted.
.xxx, please turn in your geek card and go work a help desk in India and leave the real thinking to much smarter people.
If you want to clear the internet of pr0n and make it safe for kids, create a
Create e-mail servers that require a name, address, SSN, and valid phone number to activate e-mail. Have monks (like they have anything better to do) call every person who registers and verify their information.
After that, sell software that only allows
Users should be classified based on their ages. If you are between 8 and 18 and you e-mail someone more than 1 year older than you, the e-mail gets sent to LDS missionaries (give them something to to besides annoy me) for review. If the content is inappropriate, your e-mail is revoked. Make it work the same way for older people e-mailing younger people. Just give more leeway.
In about 30 days and with absolutely no resistance, you could create a family-safe internet.
Seriously, if you or someone you know came up with the idea of
What would really be nice is if you could go to the Domain Controller at the end of the week and find out what users were logged in and for how long.
I'm almost sure Windows tracks this. Does SAMBA track it when acting as a DC?
In any event, figure out how that works and just have a script e-mail a report at the end of the week.
I'd suggest you check out NLite.
Copy your WinXP disc to a folder on the hard drive. Download SP2 from the MS site.
Download and extract (using winrar or 7zip) the drivers from NVIDIA. I have NForce mobo and NV graphics, so I need 2 files.
Start Nlite. Let it scan your WinXP CD folder.
Tell it to integrate the service pack.
Tell it to integrate the drivers folder.
Finish applying tweaks as desired.
Burn to CD and install with that. It'll detect your RAID array at install time with no need for a floppy. It'll detect and install the graphics card drivers.
Once you are done, use AutopatcherXP to install critical updates.
While I don't suffer from the connectivity problem, I have another gripe: SATA connectors stick straight out.
Sure, you can spend a bit more to get a good, angled cable. But the free ones included with hard drives and motherboards are always annoying.