It wouldn't be illegal, but I don't think it would be smart to automatically exclude all former SCO employees from consideration. My bet is that most of their employees are just regular joes working a job to pay the bills. I'm betting only a small portion of them are actively involved in lawsuit planning, and an even smaller portion are actually making anything off the lawsuits. That being said, if Darl McBride's resume crossed my desk, it would go straight in the trash after being defaced in various ways. Many SCO insiders have a history of this kind of crap well before they came to SCO (see Darl McBride vs. Ikon).
I find it interesting that the conference call was scheduled for 5 PM Eastern time, right after the stock market has closed for the day. Gee, why would they want to do that?
You need to report these scumbags to your state attorney general for using some of the most dishonest business tactics I've ever heard of. There's no such thing as a perpetual contract, obligating you to pay for the rest of your life. Since these people have no doubt ruined your credit, you should contact a lawyer and ask about filing a civil suit.
I think you just identified the reason why you can't rely on file extensions for virus protection. Since some genius decided that a scripting language needed to be inserted into MS Office, a virus can come to you in the form of a Word or Excel document. You won't know this until you scan it. Also, I believe there are some exploits that can come in the form of a corrupt image file, which means you've got to be careful of those too. The only way you can truly have virus protection is to scan all downloads and restrict access permissions. For example, your "downloads directory" should not have executable rights.
I can't say this is a bad policy. Many companies do this now, since someone calling and asking for the "technology director" or something like that is almost certainly a junk (sales) caller. They take up so much of peoples' time they have to be screened out fairly aggressively. In the case of departments, how many people must have tried to call the MS Word Development department to bitch about something in Word not working right?
Land line service would be a lot more reasonable if they would just use a more sensible billing system. Gouging people for making calls in the middle of the day or for calling to the "local toll" area (more expensive than long distance) is just retarded and will accelerate the demise of the old monopolies. Luckily, most phone companies are developing pricing structures that are a lot more reasonable. Unlimited long distance for a flat fee is becoming more common now. Too bad AT&T never could figure this out before they were forced to exit the residential market after suffering massive losses.
Is it just me or do virtually ALL newer cordless phones suck? The best one I've ever had was a 900 MHz phone I bought about 7 years ago for $30. Except for needing a new battery a couple of times, it has never had any problems and still sounds great. I couldn't say the same for any newer models that cost a lot more.
Shitty movies, like I Robot, are made almost exclusively to serve as an advertising vehicle. That's probably how the profits for this movie will be made, since they certainly won't be made at the box office. This is why I have become very selective as to which new movies I will see in the theater, and I suspect many people will start doing the same. Hopefully the era of advertising-disguised-as-shitty-movie will come to an end when viewers lose patience.
Finding every penny can be difficult when the larger spammers route money overseas into foreign bank accounts. Then there's the Florida bankruptcy laws which make it nearly impossible to take the spammer's multi million dollar mansion (many spammers have one in Florida for this reason). I do agree, however, that more efforts like this will decrease the profitability of spamming and cause more people to come to the conclusion that spamming is not worth it. Then of course they'll go back to selling used cars, bouncing checks, or whatever they did before the internet became popular.
I place the blame for this solely on the professors. They have been known to receive "incentives" for frequently changing versions. The cost, of course, is paid by the students. If professors stopped choosing the newest edition, which has no additional material from the older one, publishers would stop playing these games.
I've noticed this seems to be the official policy almost everywhere, but implementation of it is a different story. Even when a student has been caught cheating multiple times and should face expulsion, they are usually given the chance to withdraw and not have any cheating offense noted on their proverbial permanent record. This is, of course, to make it easier for the school so they don't have to go through the trouble of expelling someone and all the legal mess it can involve. I'd be willing to bet there are few schools that not only have a zero tolerance policy on cheating but that actually follow through with it in all cases.
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I'd say it's more likely that the teacher simply noticed a difference in writing style and became suspicious enough to investigate. That's usually how cheaters are discovered and it never seems to occur to them how obvious this will be to the teacher.
In a strictly morbid sense, a train getting blown up in the United States wouldn't exactly terrorize the population. In order for there to be an effect that the terrorist would desire, the people as a whole need to be made fearful of everyday activities. For most people, going to work is an every day activity, along with driving a car or going shopping. Flying on a plane is something most people do occaisionally, perhaps yearly. Riding Amtrak is not something most people will ever do, so they wouldn't think of an Amtrak terrorist attack as something that could directly affect them. In order to have the desired effect, a terrorist target would have to be some type of place that everyone goes to sometimes, such as a mall or a large store. And from what I've seen, these types of places never have much security except for the mall cops whose primary purpose is to harass kids and pretend they are doing something about shoplifters.
At this point, I think the "storage wars" between mail providers are more hype than substance. The only real result I've seen is Yahoo giving users 100MB of storage, which is great. I've benefitted from that already. With GMail being an exclusive club (sort of) and hotmail failing to deliver on a previously announced upgrade, I'd be surprised to see anything come of this. Besides, hotmail is a pain in the ass to use. Between their clunky interface and worthless spam filtering (not to mention their own spam), I'd take a 100MB Yahoo account any day. Besides, who would actually use 2GB anyway?
All of this is true, but a store is in fact legally required to honor any return policy that is in effect at the time of the sale. If they say you can return it for any reason within 30 days and they then refuse a return, that is illegal.
Wow, talk about reading into something. My screen name is actually derived from a wierd combination of my first and last name. All the other good ones were taken. Watch some of the reruns of Real World / Road Rules and see if parts of it don't resemble an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog. For that matter, see if there's a single episode where they don't have a flamboyant gay with a homophobe roommate. I have nothing whatsoever against gays, I just think it's a little ridiculous* to push an agenda for them.
* Not to brag, but I appear to be one of the few slashdotters that knows how to spell this word.
I've always wondered when this type of sponsorship will reach a saturation point, where there will be so many different corporate names presented that people simply can't remember any of them in particular. If some event is sponsored by Coke and you see their name everywhere, you'll remember it. But when there are 100 different sponsors, will you even remember half of them?
I remember just a short time ago (early 90's, I believe) MTV was running a "fight censorship" campaign. I always wondered what the hell they were fighting since they have always been the single biggest purveyor of censorship for music. If a song is too long, shorten it. If anything can offend any minority group (especially gays), cut it. If there's any corporate label or anything resembling profanity, remove it. The only exception is for sex; anything short of full nudity is allowed. Anything promoting homosexuality, no matter how graphic, is allowed. I guess it wasn't really censorship MTV was fighting, but more like they were pushing for a type of censorship that allows them to promote a certain agenda. That being said, I think MTV in the U.S. has become almost irrelevant to the music scene. They almost never even play music or music related shows anymore, and I don't know anyone who watches them.
Sadly it is. Our taxes pay to rebuild these idiots' houses every year after they flood. Same thing for houses in California located near forests that are almost guaranteed to catch fire since there's so much dry wood. Welfare is not just limited to foodstamps.
That must have been around 2000-2001, when Microsoft was calling the new version of every product.NET. That was annoying as hell, as most people couldn't even figure out exactly what.net was supposed to be. That's what happens when you let the marketing department get out of control.
Do they by chance live in West Virginia? Insurance companies in this state have been trying pretty hard to drop a lot of their customers since it's not an especially profitable state to insure people in. The state has tried to pass laws preventing some of this, but the result is usually that it just drives more companies to exit the state.
Insurance in the U.S. is heavily regulated at the state level. In almost every state, companies have to file a request with the insurance department before they can change rates. This is to prevent price gouging and also to prevent fly-by-night insurance company scams. Sometimes shady companies will sell insurance really cheap, get a bunch of people signed up and pocket the money. Then when the claims come rolling in and they can't afford to pay them, they fold the company and move on. Insurance is heavily regulated to prevent scams, which have always been common due to the nature of insurance. Regarding insurance as a public service, that's what it is in a lot of ways. The federal FAIR plans are designed to provide insurance where a company could not do so profitably (flood plains, etc.) Insurance is a ripoff in many ways, but it's not as if companies have free reign to do whatever they want.
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It wouldn't be illegal, but I don't think it would be smart to automatically exclude all former SCO employees from consideration. My bet is that most of their employees are just regular joes working a job to pay the bills. I'm betting only a small portion of them are actively involved in lawsuit planning, and an even smaller portion are actually making anything off the lawsuits. That being said, if Darl McBride's resume crossed my desk, it would go straight in the trash after being defaced in various ways. Many SCO insiders have a history of this kind of crap well before they came to SCO (see Darl McBride vs. Ikon).
I find it interesting that the conference call was scheduled for 5 PM Eastern time, right after the stock market has closed for the day. Gee, why would they want to do that?
You need to report these scumbags to your state attorney general for using some of the most dishonest business tactics I've ever heard of. There's no such thing as a perpetual contract, obligating you to pay for the rest of your life. Since these people have no doubt ruined your credit, you should contact a lawyer and ask about filing a civil suit.
I think you just identified the reason why you can't rely on file extensions for virus protection. Since some genius decided that a scripting language needed to be inserted into MS Office, a virus can come to you in the form of a Word or Excel document. You won't know this until you scan it. Also, I believe there are some exploits that can come in the form of a corrupt image file, which means you've got to be careful of those too. The only way you can truly have virus protection is to scan all downloads and restrict access permissions. For example, your "downloads directory" should not have executable rights.
I can't say this is a bad policy. Many companies do this now, since someone calling and asking for the "technology director" or something like that is almost certainly a junk (sales) caller. They take up so much of peoples' time they have to be screened out fairly aggressively. In the case of departments, how many people must have tried to call the MS Word Development department to bitch about something in Word not working right?
Land line service would be a lot more reasonable if they would just use a more sensible billing system. Gouging people for making calls in the middle of the day or for calling to the "local toll" area (more expensive than long distance) is just retarded and will accelerate the demise of the old monopolies. Luckily, most phone companies are developing pricing structures that are a lot more reasonable. Unlimited long distance for a flat fee is becoming more common now. Too bad AT&T never could figure this out before they were forced to exit the residential market after suffering massive losses.
Is it just me or do virtually ALL newer cordless phones suck? The best one I've ever had was a 900 MHz phone I bought about 7 years ago for $30. Except for needing a new battery a couple of times, it has never had any problems and still sounds great. I couldn't say the same for any newer models that cost a lot more.
They must be using RIAA Math.
Shitty movies, like I Robot, are made almost exclusively to serve as an advertising vehicle. That's probably how the profits for this movie will be made, since they certainly won't be made at the box office. This is why I have become very selective as to which new movies I will see in the theater, and I suspect many people will start doing the same. Hopefully the era of advertising-disguised-as-shitty-movie will come to an end when viewers lose patience.
Wow, what kind of world will this be when you can't even view a goatse troll without being subjected to advertising?
Finding every penny can be difficult when the larger spammers route money overseas into foreign bank accounts. Then there's the Florida bankruptcy laws which make it nearly impossible to take the spammer's multi million dollar mansion (many spammers have one in Florida for this reason). I do agree, however, that more efforts like this will decrease the profitability of spamming and cause more people to come to the conclusion that spamming is not worth it. Then of course they'll go back to selling used cars, bouncing checks, or whatever they did before the internet became popular.
Too bad he wasn't running back in '69.
I place the blame for this solely on the professors. They have been known to receive "incentives" for frequently changing versions. The cost, of course, is paid by the students. If professors stopped choosing the newest edition, which has no additional material from the older one, publishers would stop playing these games.
I've noticed this seems to be the official policy almost everywhere, but implementation of it is a different story. Even when a student has been caught cheating multiple times and should face expulsion, they are usually given the chance to withdraw and not have any cheating offense noted on their proverbial permanent record. This is, of course, to make it easier for the school so they don't have to go through the trouble of expelling someone and all the legal mess it can involve. I'd be willing to bet there are few schools that not only have a zero tolerance policy on cheating but that actually follow through with it in all cases.
I'd say it's more likely that the teacher simply noticed a difference in writing style and became suspicious enough to investigate. That's usually how cheaters are discovered and it never seems to occur to them how obvious this will be to the teacher.
In a strictly morbid sense, a train getting blown up in the United States wouldn't exactly terrorize the population. In order for there to be an effect that the terrorist would desire, the people as a whole need to be made fearful of everyday activities. For most people, going to work is an every day activity, along with driving a car or going shopping. Flying on a plane is something most people do occaisionally, perhaps yearly. Riding Amtrak is not something most people will ever do, so they wouldn't think of an Amtrak terrorist attack as something that could directly affect them. In order to have the desired effect, a terrorist target would have to be some type of place that everyone goes to sometimes, such as a mall or a large store. And from what I've seen, these types of places never have much security except for the mall cops whose primary purpose is to harass kids and pretend they are doing something about shoplifters.
At this point, I think the "storage wars" between mail providers are more hype than substance. The only real result I've seen is Yahoo giving users 100MB of storage, which is great. I've benefitted from that already. With GMail being an exclusive club (sort of) and hotmail failing to deliver on a previously announced upgrade, I'd be surprised to see anything come of this. Besides, hotmail is a pain in the ass to use. Between their clunky interface and worthless spam filtering (not to mention their own spam), I'd take a 100MB Yahoo account any day. Besides, who would actually use 2GB anyway?
All of this is true, but a store is in fact legally required to honor any return policy that is in effect at the time of the sale. If they say you can return it for any reason within 30 days and they then refuse a return, that is illegal.
Wow, talk about reading into something. My screen name is actually derived from a wierd combination of my first and last name. All the other good ones were taken. Watch some of the reruns of Real World / Road Rules and see if parts of it don't resemble an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog. For that matter, see if there's a single episode where they don't have a flamboyant gay with a homophobe roommate. I have nothing whatsoever against gays, I just think it's a little ridiculous* to push an agenda for them.
* Not to brag, but I appear to be one of the few slashdotters that knows how to spell this word.
I've always wondered when this type of sponsorship will reach a saturation point, where there will be so many different corporate names presented that people simply can't remember any of them in particular. If some event is sponsored by Coke and you see their name everywhere, you'll remember it. But when there are 100 different sponsors, will you even remember half of them?
I remember just a short time ago (early 90's, I believe) MTV was running a "fight censorship" campaign. I always wondered what the hell they were fighting since they have always been the single biggest purveyor of censorship for music. If a song is too long, shorten it. If anything can offend any minority group (especially gays), cut it. If there's any corporate label or anything resembling profanity, remove it. The only exception is for sex; anything short of full nudity is allowed. Anything promoting homosexuality, no matter how graphic, is allowed. I guess it wasn't really censorship MTV was fighting, but more like they were pushing for a type of censorship that allows them to promote a certain agenda. That being said, I think MTV in the U.S. has become almost irrelevant to the music scene. They almost never even play music or music related shows anymore, and I don't know anyone who watches them.
Sadly it is. Our taxes pay to rebuild these idiots' houses every year after they flood. Same thing for houses in California located near forests that are almost guaranteed to catch fire since there's so much dry wood. Welfare is not just limited to foodstamps.
That must have been around 2000-2001, when Microsoft was calling the new version of every product .NET. That was annoying as hell, as most people couldn't even figure out exactly what .net was supposed to be. That's what happens when you let the marketing department get out of control.
Do they by chance live in West Virginia? Insurance companies in this state have been trying pretty hard to drop a lot of their customers since it's not an especially profitable state to insure people in. The state has tried to pass laws preventing some of this, but the result is usually that it just drives more companies to exit the state.
Insurance in the U.S. is heavily regulated at the state level. In almost every state, companies have to file a request with the insurance department before they can change rates. This is to prevent price gouging and also to prevent fly-by-night insurance company scams. Sometimes shady companies will sell insurance really cheap, get a bunch of people signed up and pocket the money. Then when the claims come rolling in and they can't afford to pay them, they fold the company and move on. Insurance is heavily regulated to prevent scams, which have always been common due to the nature of insurance. Regarding insurance as a public service, that's what it is in a lot of ways. The federal FAIR plans are designed to provide insurance where a company could not do so profitably (flood plains, etc.) Insurance is a ripoff in many ways, but it's not as if companies have free reign to do whatever they want.