I've tried several different browsers, but each time I go to the juicebox.com web page, all I get is an empty white page, or a white page with 'copyright 2005 Mattel' at the bottom.
Oh no! All my plain white empty pages are going to receive DMCA takedown orders from Mattel now.
(B) A completely transparent society where everything is public -- including our corporate master's finance books and the data of the wealthy elites?
I have a better idea. When are people such as yourself going to get the ability to see through transparent jokes? Then maybe your call for a transparent society will have some merit.
If you didn't pick up on this, maybe you're wrong about all those goofy conspiracy theories you constantly banter about?
As CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, my principal concern is protecting the magic of the movies.
Most "magic" has more utility than filling your pockets with gobs of money.
Nothing will stop them from making money. If they can make 37 cents from showing their 10 year old movies on TV, they will do that. On the other hand, if they can make 40 cents by not showing them on broadcast TV and just re-release them on DVD every few years, they will do that.
The new version 3 of the Google Toolbar has a spell-check feature for web forms. I think it's even out of beta now (which is a miracle considering how long Google leaves things in beta typically).
I've ben ussing it fer moonths and it's werks graet! (just kidding)
Hehe. In comparison to you, I'm still a newbie. But if we're talking about C, I've been developing in that for 17 years. Borland Turbo-C 1.5 was the first environment I used if I remember correctly. I still miss that environment and IDE.
I'd like a platform with longevity after being burned by using VisualBasic.
Apologies if I misunderstood your comment, but... I've been a Visual Basic developer for 10 years (and an MCSD on the VB6 track for 4 years). What sort of longevity were you looking for in your development environment?
It will. The web service will just be written in Java.
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Nobody else has pshaw'd your 100 WPM yet?
I learned to type on my Comoodore 64 when I was 10 years old. I only used two fingers on each hand but by the time I took my first typing course in junior high I was typing 70 WPM. Interestingly, my typing teacher (who obviously touch-typed) typed 60 WPM. By my third year of typing I was up to 110 WPM and today I easily get 130+ WPM with 98+% accuracy. When one considers that is faster than 2 words per second, it is hard to believe, but it's very true.
There are plenty of typists that are even faster than I. Of course, most of them are that fast when using IM speak. cul8r! That technically counts as 3 words.
I agree with a lot of what you said. However, you will never have perfect security and to hold companies to a standard of perfection is unrealistic and unfair.
Nope. It shouldn't be that hard to have every employee's access to every account logged.
OK, what about an employee that installs a hardware keystroke logger onto a shared computer and runs the illegal reports under other employees' accounts? For every point you bring up, there is going to be a way around it. Admittedly, for every way around something, there's going to be a more secure counter measure. Which there is a way around. Which there is a counter measure for. (repeat forever)
Hold companies to a reasonable level of security, sure. Don't expect perfection from an imperfect system in an imperfect world, though.
Based on forensic examination of Lembo's computers, it was determined that he had employed upper-level bank employees to access and identify individual accounts in their respective banks," the police statement said.
It doesn't matter what laws you enact. If you RTFA, you'll see that this was an inside job done by corrupt upper-level employees. Setting aside security-Utopia for a second, at some point you have to trust your own employees, especially "upper level" ones. When that trust turns out to be misplaced, there's not a lot one can do to prevent malfeasance.
I am not a doctor, but I find it very hard to believe what you say. In fact, I think you're thinking about a human's skin which is replaced on a regular schedule.
There are so many common sense ways to shoot holes in what you say, but I'll wait for someone more knowledge on the subject to respond.
Ahh, the infamous Anonymous Coward. Declares "You're stupid" in their subject line, spouts falsehoods as facts and oversimplifies the entire discussion.
Where would Slashdot be without you, Anonymous Coward?
I understand why Hormel wants to do this. Normally you don't want your product associated with such a negative thing.
But Spam? Of the people that actually enjoy eating it, would anything dissuade them from doing so? I mean, they're eating gelatinous pig parts. They don't seem like very discerning consumers to me.
I'm sure there are going to be many cries of privacy invasion in regard to this. The library's published reason for taking this measure is:
...library officials discovered that many patrons logged onto library computers using library cards and passwords of friends or relatives. That realization, coupled with a new library policy that allows parents to install automatic Internet filters on their children's accounts, prompted the search for better computer security...
So there's the problem. Please include your personal counter suggestion with any criticisms.
+5 Funny!? That is outrageous! I was totally serious!
Wait a minute, no I wasn't. I can only think that the first person that modded my original comment +1 Informative was trying to be funny in their own right.
The doctrine of sovereign immunity is also used in republican democracies such as the United States and India. Because the legal systems in these countries devolved from English Common Law, the concept of sovereign immunity is retained. In these systems, governments, agents, or officials of the government may enjoy immunity for various acts, usually limited to acts that emanate from the function of government, and not those acts that would normally come within the ambit of the activities of private citizens such as contractual relations or liability for negligence.
In the United States, most U.S. states have waived their sovereign immunity by statute. These statutes, called a tort claims act, allow individuals to sue the U.S. state government and officals of the state government for constitutional violations or negligent acts. In many cases, an individual cannot personnally sue an offical of the government, such as a police officer, unless the agent acted with malice or was grossly negligent. Because it is hard to prove that a government official acted with malicious intent, most lawsuits against individual police officers are dismissed. The individual may, in many states, sue the state itself for the injury caused by the government official. However, most states limit the amount of damages an individual can recover from the state (i.e. awards are capped at $100,000 or $200,000).
Furthermore, the United States Supreme Court has enunciated an abrogation doctrine, which permits the U.S. Congress to remove the sovereign immunity of the states pursuant to its Fourteenth Amendment enforcement powers.
I'm used to being able to do whatever I want with my current DVDs. I can take them to any region of the world and play them with no problem. If I want to fast-forward through the several minutes of commercials at the beginning of a DVD, no problem. If I want to make a backup copy in case the original gets destroyed, the movie companies have bent over backwards to make this easy.
DVDs have never been horribly crippled in any way in the past, so they shouldn't be in the future.
IANAL, but from what I recall the doctrine of sovereign immunity basically says that people can't sue the government unless the government gives them permission to sue them.
More interestingly, the government is generally not responsible for the acts or omissions of its employees even if they acted negligently or in bad faith.
What's to stop someone from signing up for every mailing list everywhere and setting up an automated application to flag it as spam so the money starts rolling in? Three or four thousand such flags per day, even at a few cents each should start to add up fairly quickly.
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I've tried several different browsers, but each time I go to the juicebox.com web page, all I get is an empty white page, or a white page with 'copyright 2005 Mattel' at the bottom.
Oh no! All my plain white empty pages are going to receive DMCA takedown orders from Mattel now.
(B) A completely transparent society where everything is public -- including our corporate master's finance books and the data of the wealthy elites?
I have a better idea. When are people such as yourself going to get the ability to see through transparent jokes? Then maybe your call for a transparent society will have some merit.
If you didn't pick up on this, maybe you're wrong about all those goofy conspiracy theories you constantly banter about?
As CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, my principal concern is protecting the magic of the movies.
Most "magic" has more utility than filling your pockets with gobs of money.
Nothing will stop them from making money. If they can make 37 cents from showing their 10 year old movies on TV, they will do that. On the other hand, if they can make 40 cents by not showing them on broadcast TV and just re-release them on DVD every few years, they will do that.
The new version 3 of the Google Toolbar has a spell-check feature for web forms. I think it's even out of beta now (which is a miracle considering how long Google leaves things in beta typically).
I've ben ussing it fer moonths and it's werks graet! (just kidding)
(Oblig Simpsons Quote)
"Furious George! What have they done to you? Smithers, this monkey is going to need most of your skin."
Hehe. In comparison to you, I'm still a newbie. But if we're talking about C, I've been developing in that for 17 years. Borland Turbo-C 1.5 was the first environment I used if I remember correctly. I still miss that environment and IDE.
I'd like a platform with longevity after being burned by using VisualBasic.
Apologies if I misunderstood your comment, but... I've been a Visual Basic developer for 10 years (and an MCSD on the VB6 track for 4 years). What sort of longevity were you looking for in your development environment?
It will. The web service will just be written in Java.
Nobody else has pshaw'd your 100 WPM yet?
I learned to type on my Comoodore 64 when I was 10 years old. I only used two fingers on each hand but by the time I took my first typing course in junior high I was typing 70 WPM. Interestingly, my typing teacher (who obviously touch-typed) typed 60 WPM. By my third year of typing I was up to 110 WPM and today I easily get 130+ WPM with 98+% accuracy. When one considers that is faster than 2 words per second, it is hard to believe, but it's very true.
There are plenty of typists that are even faster than I. Of course, most of them are that fast when using IM speak. cul8r! That technically counts as 3 words.
I agree with a lot of what you said. However, you will never have perfect security and to hold companies to a standard of perfection is unrealistic and unfair.
Nope. It shouldn't be that hard to have every employee's access to every account logged.
OK, what about an employee that installs a hardware keystroke logger onto a shared computer and runs the illegal reports under other employees' accounts? For every point you bring up, there is going to be a way around it. Admittedly, for every way around something, there's going to be a more secure counter measure. Which there is a way around. Which there is a counter measure for. (repeat forever)
Hold companies to a reasonable level of security, sure. Don't expect perfection from an imperfect system in an imperfect world, though.
Based on forensic examination of Lembo's computers, it was determined that he had employed upper-level bank employees to access and identify individual accounts in their respective banks," the police statement said.
It doesn't matter what laws you enact. If you RTFA, you'll see that this was an inside job done by corrupt upper-level employees. Setting aside security-Utopia for a second, at some point you have to trust your own employees, especially "upper level" ones. When that trust turns out to be misplaced, there's not a lot one can do to prevent malfeasance.
I am not a doctor, but I find it very hard to believe what you say. In fact, I think you're thinking about a human's skin which is replaced on a regular schedule.
There are so many common sense ways to shoot holes in what you say, but I'll wait for someone more knowledge on the subject to respond.
Ahh, the infamous Anonymous Coward. Declares "You're stupid" in their subject line, spouts falsehoods as facts and oversimplifies the entire discussion.
Where would Slashdot be without you, Anonymous Coward?
I understand why Hormel wants to do this. Normally you don't want your product associated with such a negative thing.
But Spam? Of the people that actually enjoy eating it, would anything dissuade them from doing so? I mean, they're eating gelatinous pig parts. They don't seem like very discerning consumers to me.
I'm sure there are going to be many cries of privacy invasion in regard to this. The library's published reason for taking this measure is:
...library officials discovered that many patrons logged onto library computers using library cards and passwords of friends or relatives. That realization, coupled with a new library policy that allows parents to install automatic Internet filters on their children's accounts, prompted the search for better computer security...
So there's the problem. Please include your personal counter suggestion with any criticisms.
+5 Funny!? That is outrageous! I was totally serious!
Wait a minute, no I wasn't. I can only think that the first person that modded my original comment +1 Informative was trying to be funny in their own right.
To all the anonymous cowards that gave such witty comebacks replete with namecalling, I offer:
Sovereign Immunity
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Sovereign immunity in republican democracies
The doctrine of sovereign immunity is also used in republican democracies such as the United States and India. Because the legal systems in these countries devolved from English Common Law, the concept of sovereign immunity is retained. In these systems, governments, agents, or officials of the government may enjoy immunity for various acts, usually limited to acts that emanate from the function of government, and not those acts that would normally come within the ambit of the activities of private citizens such as contractual relations or liability for negligence. In the United States, most U.S. states have waived their sovereign immunity by statute. These statutes, called a tort claims act, allow individuals to sue the U.S. state government and officals of the state government for constitutional violations or negligent acts. In many cases, an individual cannot personnally sue an offical of the government, such as a police officer, unless the agent acted with malice or was grossly negligent. Because it is hard to prove that a government official acted with malicious intent, most lawsuits against individual police officers are dismissed. The individual may, in many states, sue the state itself for the injury caused by the government official. However, most states limit the amount of damages an individual can recover from the state (i.e. awards are capped at $100,000 or $200,000). Furthermore, the United States Supreme Court has enunciated an abrogation doctrine, which permits the U.S. Congress to remove the sovereign immunity of the states pursuant to its Fourteenth Amendment enforcement powers.
I'm used to being able to do whatever I want with my current DVDs. I can take them to any region of the world and play them with no problem. If I want to fast-forward through the several minutes of commercials at the beginning of a DVD, no problem. If I want to make a backup copy in case the original gets destroyed, the movie companies have bent over backwards to make this easy.
DVDs have never been horribly crippled in any way in the past, so they shouldn't be in the future.
Yeah, it's real easy to play the Google search link game:
& q=doctrine+of+sovereign+immunity+
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8
Read that, you might actually learn something.
IANAL, but from what I recall the doctrine of sovereign immunity basically says that people can't sue the government unless the government gives them permission to sue them.
More interestingly, the government is generally not responsible for the acts or omissions of its employees even if they acted negligently or in bad faith.
Good luck with that.
What's to stop someone from signing up for every mailing list everywhere and setting up an automated application to flag it as spam so the money starts rolling in? Three or four thousand such flags per day, even at a few cents each should start to add up fairly quickly.
We regret that Sys-Con Media has been unable to apply a standard of journalistic ethics that we can comfortably operate under.
How do you expect companies to make obscene amounts of money with you holding on to your morals like this?
As evidenced by the varied computer-related programming on MTV:
Real Programming
Code Rules
Cyberpunked
etc
It's obvious that kids today have a healthy interest in computer programming.
It was just some dork opening various joke emails from his dorky friends.
Your torrent is working great - thanks! Only 12 peers but I'm getting great speed.