Ask a careful question so that it leads directly to the answer you want. Set the conditions and assumptions to levels you know will give the desired outcome. Don't tell anyone about all the situations where you don't get the answer you want.
Ever see a MS study on a Beowolf/Google type deployment? It isn't hard to understand why.
I think they strongly suspect it, they don't know.
Secondly only sometimes is the from false.
Someone might actually send the virus to someone else an email asking "What is this file you sent me".
For me silent failure is broken. I have many times sent someone an email that they needed, only to find out it isn't getting through due to any of a multitude of reasons. The worst is when their mailserver, which they don't control, blindly chucks email for stupid wrong reasons.
If a suspect message is found it should notify the sender.
I send emails to some companies, they block all sorts of files. I tried to send a zip file that the customer, which was blocked. I immediately got a message refused notice.
This allowed me to inform the customer that they would not get what I was trying to send, and we made alternate arrangements. If they didn't send out the failure my customer would have been screwed, and I wouldn't have even known. When stuff doesn't happen in business you get blamed even when it is their fault.
In a large company,or even a small one, the workers and even managers can not overturn IS/IT polcies.
When you can import cheap goods from offshore, it frees up more money for other things.
One thing that should happen if this starts going 'too far' is you get a large trade deficit (the US has one), and the curriencies start to adjust (the US dollar has fallen a lot).
This year your foreign made car, lets say a rebranded Daewoo (Chevy Optima maybe?) is now 20% more expensive than it was to make last year. This sort of cost advantage makes locally built vehicles (Chevy Cobalt/Cavalier) more competative.
This is how the free market works, the really nice part is it might become cheaper to export vehicles from one market to another (Sending US built Honda Accords to Japan for instance)
It isn't all doom and gloom in manufacturing, and it won't be in other careers either.
I think most people had the same understanding that I had of prior art. It is very hard to find good prior art. Just being the same, and doing the same thing isn't quite enough. It needs to solve the same problem, by doing the same thing, in the same way, and be the same.
Things as silly and obvious as putting a CVT on a lawmower blade (to keep it at at the same speed) using off the shelf components could be considered a patentable idea, if it is done for a non obvious reason. (ie better mulching performance)
The problem is this again will only hurt the little guy.
A lawyer would then before acting on either side of the suit would want to understand the case, and prepare his defence if they rule the case was frivolous. This in turn would drive up the cost of legal action, which wouldn't bother some, but could prove even more damaging to others.
People are settling even when they could win because they know the legal costs are enough to finish them, double legal costs and it will only get worse.
Actually many of those power plants shut down because they could make more money supplying California then making their actual products.
I remember because there were some labour unions upset that they were doing this. I don't know what the problem is, getting sent home full pay because the company could make an even more profit due to the NIMBY attitude of California.
The point of free software is that you can make a choice. You aren't stuck by what anyone else thinks of a situation, you can do what you think is best.
Yes this will lead to what outsiders think of as wasted effort. But it is obviously worthwhile to the person who is expending it. People should be free to spend their time, money and energy on whatever they want.
A community of choice and freedom will not have a single orderly progression, but that is okay.
Sorry it isn't your choice. When I make an agreement with someone, particularly disclosing personal information, they MUST respect the agreement. I hope companies that just ignore their own policies like this get in trouble.
The other point is that unless you were eating cow brain or spinal material from an infected cow, you don't even have a CHANCE of getting the diesease.
A patent is a government sponsored monopoly for the inventor. The value to the inventor is their monopoly control of that technology.
Imagine that with a simple request to a competitor you could shut them down, and become a monopoly in that field. That is the power a patent.
The defensive strategy is just blackmail, if you shut us down, we'll shut you down too. Because they know they're probaly sitting one something of someone else, but they know you won't do anything because of their counterattack.
Note in the SCO case, IBM launched a patent offensive. I think this strongly suggests you may never want to fight IBM on ANYTHING, even if you're right, they'll still squash you with their other weapons.
The actual substance of the claim doesn't matter; an injunction against distributing Linux which held for even a year could destroy its adoption by vendors and end users.
In the jurisdiction where the injunction is valid. If an injuction was granted in the US, it would definately hurt US companies, the rest of the would could pretty much continue.
The second issue is that if granting an injunction would do more harm then not, the court should either not grant the injunction, or take steps to minimize the effect.
Yes, thats fun, change your email address every few weeks. Last time I changed I missed piles of old places I put it, and my friends still years later send to the old address.
This solution may work, but it is too much work, and quie inconvenient
That company doesn't sound very stable. Think about it, someone works to correct a problem, and they fire them? Either the story is incomplete. There might have been something else going on that even the poster isn't aware of. The management is truely incompetent.
Not backing up data like that is quite bad, suggesting that it be done isn't an excuse to get fired, unless you blew your budget on something stupid, then asked for more money.
Think about it, why are these big important people trying to talk to the people who do stuff in a semi social setting? Lots of people will think they're all out to get you, but really don't you think the company president wants to develop a pruned team of yes men. Most of them have better things to do with their evenings.
I think they probaly want to understand what people are thinking, and where the group sees itself going. That being said, be open, honest, explain what you see as being valuable and important and value added, what you feel wastes your time. Ask how those confusing bits of your day fit into the big picture, get an understanding of where you fit in the big picture, learn what other areas do.
You don't have to lie and say everything is wonderful, and you wouldn't change a thing. Nor should you sit in front of your boss and complain about how much of an idiot he is. Neither one will benefit the company, and neither one will show you as a capable intelligent thinker, if you aren't, why keep you around?
Making software that evades my security measures is wrong. If I purposely put in place software to protect me from viewing popup ads, and you circumvent it you may be guilty of a "hacking" crime.
I did not authorize you to pop up ads on my computer, I explicitly configured to prevent this.
By enabling your software to evade my blocking software you can't claim that you were authorized. When I take steps to avoid something, you can't claim implied consent anymore.
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The bot could run the java applet through the SSL connection, take a screenshot, crop the image, send that out as is currently done.
A bit more work, but not impossible.
Sheesh, it doesn't take a huge conspiricy.
Ask a careful question so that it leads directly to the answer you want.
Set the conditions and assumptions to levels you know will give the desired outcome.
Don't tell anyone about all the situations where you don't get the answer you want.
Ever see a MS study on a Beowolf/Google type deployment? It isn't hard to understand why.
I think they strongly suspect it, they don't know.
Secondly only sometimes is the from false.
Someone might actually send the virus to someone else an email asking "What is this file you sent me".
For me silent failure is broken.
I have many times sent someone an email that they needed, only to find out it isn't getting through due to any of a multitude of reasons.
The worst is when their mailserver, which they don't control, blindly chucks email for stupid wrong reasons.
If a suspect message is found it should notify the sender.
I send emails to some companies, they block all sorts of files. I tried to send a zip file that the customer, which was blocked.
I immediately got a message refused notice.
This allowed me to inform the customer that they would not get what I was trying to send, and we made alternate arrangements.
If they didn't send out the failure my customer would have been screwed, and I wouldn't have even known. When stuff doesn't happen in business you get blamed even when it is their fault.
In a large company,or even a small one, the workers and even managers can not overturn IS/IT polcies.
I like it, clearly explains what is happening.
When you can import cheap goods from offshore, it frees up more money for other things.
One thing that should happen if this starts going 'too far' is you get a large trade deficit (the US has one), and the curriencies start to adjust (the US dollar has fallen a lot).
This year your foreign made car, lets say a rebranded Daewoo (Chevy Optima maybe?) is now 20% more expensive than it was to make last year.
This sort of cost advantage makes locally built vehicles (Chevy Cobalt/Cavalier) more competative.
This is how the free market works, the really nice part is it might become cheaper to export vehicles from one market to another (Sending US built Honda Accords to Japan for instance)
It isn't all doom and gloom in manufacturing, and it won't be in other careers either.
Who cares, just because the person who does something bad has some sort of link to me, doesn't mean I'm bad, or our shared group is bad.
Not all former members of the US military are terrorists even if one was (ie McVeigh).
The act of making this virus is not acceptable to the open source community or the anti SCO lawsuit crowd in general.
(Yes I chose an obvious example to emphasize my point)
I think most people had the same understanding that I had of prior art.
It is very hard to find good prior art.
Just being the same, and doing the same thing isn't quite enough.
It needs to solve the same problem, by doing the same thing, in the same way, and be the same.
Things as silly and obvious as putting a CVT on a lawmower blade (to keep it at at the same speed) using off the shelf components could be considered a patentable idea, if it is done for a non obvious reason. (ie better mulching performance)
IANAL
The problem is this again will only hurt the little guy.
A lawyer would then before acting on either side of the suit would want to understand the case, and prepare his defence if they rule the case was frivolous. This in turn would drive up the cost of legal action, which wouldn't bother some, but could prove even more damaging to others.
People are settling even when they could win because they know the legal costs are enough to finish them, double legal costs and it will only get worse.
I tailored my application to exactly what they did, highlighting work I had done that was relevant.
I was trying the generic approach, I had a very good resume, didn't get much attention.
Then I started targetted resumes and cover letters. My response rate went much much higher.
It isn't hard to do, just take half the Job ad and incorporate it into your resume and cover letter.
Not any different than an exam question.
The problem has little/nothing to do with it being metric/imperial.
Someone ordered the wrong part. That's it.
This is why drawings should be controlled. Only current known valid drawings should be used for anything.
This problem is as basic as someone using patches for linux kernel 1.2.13 on a 2.6 series kernel
Actually many of those power plants shut down because they could make more money supplying California then making their actual products.
I remember because there were some labour unions upset that they were doing this.
I don't know what the problem is, getting sent home full pay because the company could make an even more profit due to the NIMBY attitude of California.
The point of free software is that you can make a choice. You aren't stuck by what anyone else thinks of a situation, you can do what you think is best.
Yes this will lead to what outsiders think of as wasted effort. But it is obviously worthwhile to the person who is expending it. People should be free to spend their time, money and energy on whatever they want.
A community of choice and freedom will not have a single orderly progression, but that is okay.
The only reasonable expectation of privacy is that laid out in the privacy policy you agreed to when getting the card.
Any actions involving the information provided which are not explicity documented in the privacy policy are definately not permitted.
Sorry it isn't your choice.
When I make an agreement with someone, particularly disclosing personal information, they MUST respect the agreement.
I hope companies that just ignore their own policies like this get in trouble.
The other point is that unless you were eating cow brain or spinal material from an infected cow, you don't even have a CHANCE of getting the diesease.
A patent is a government sponsored monopoly for the inventor.
The value to the inventor is their monopoly control of that technology.
Imagine that with a simple request to a competitor you could shut them down, and become a monopoly in that field. That is the power a patent.
The defensive strategy is just blackmail, if you shut us down, we'll shut you down too. Because they know they're probaly sitting one something of someone else, but they know you won't do anything because of their counterattack.
Note in the SCO case, IBM launched a patent offensive. I think this strongly suggests you may never want to fight IBM on ANYTHING, even if you're right, they'll still squash you with their other weapons.
The actual substance of the claim doesn't matter; an injunction against distributing Linux which held for even a year could destroy its adoption by vendors and end users.
In the jurisdiction where the injunction is valid.
If an injuction was granted in the US, it would definately hurt US companies, the rest of the would could pretty much continue.
The second issue is that if granting an injunction would do more harm then not, the court should either not grant the injunction, or take steps to minimize the effect.
Why wouldn't you want copper?
Copper is much cheaper.
Silver only conducts 10% better then copper.
Plus making sure you have a good contact by itself will do a lot just by itself.
I think some groups have accomplished this in Europe (Germany?).
I thought Redhat was trying to do this now in the US.
Yes, thats fun, change your email address every few weeks.
Last time I changed I missed piles of old places I put it, and my friends still years later send to the old address.
This solution may work, but it is too much work, and quie inconvenient
Kinda like in minority report.
Scan local cell phones, beam personalized ads to you.
They know where you go, pretty easy to build a profile.
Watch enough science fiction and a LOT of these ideas have been thought of.
I was born after you graduated.
Young and stupid, it's not just an excuse, it's a way of life.
The Engineering Manager didn't want backups for his workstations? Must have been an interesting place.
That company doesn't sound very stable.
Think about it, someone works to correct a problem, and they fire them?
Either the story is incomplete. There might have been something else going on that even the poster isn't aware of.
The management is truely incompetent.
Not backing up data like that is quite bad, suggesting that it be done isn't an excuse to get fired, unless you blew your budget on something stupid, then asked for more money.
Think about it, why are these big important people trying to talk to the people who do stuff in a semi social setting?
Lots of people will think they're all out to get you, but really don't you think the company president wants to develop a pruned team of yes men. Most of them have better things to do with their evenings.
I think they probaly want to understand what people are thinking, and where the group sees itself going.
That being said, be open, honest, explain what you see as being valuable and important and value added, what you feel wastes your time. Ask how those confusing bits of your day fit into the big picture, get an understanding of where you fit in the big picture, learn what other areas do.
You don't have to lie and say everything is wonderful, and you wouldn't change a thing. Nor should you sit in front of your boss and complain about how much of an idiot he is. Neither one will benefit the company, and neither one will show you as a capable intelligent thinker, if you aren't, why keep you around?
IANAL, it probably shows.
Intent is important in a criminal case.
If they intended to send you a popup and avoid your security, you might have a good case.
Making software that evades my security measures is wrong.
If I purposely put in place software to protect me from viewing popup ads, and you circumvent it you may be guilty of a "hacking" crime.
I did not authorize you to pop up ads on my computer, I explicitly configured to prevent this.
By enabling your software to evade my blocking software you can't claim that you were authorized.
When I take steps to avoid something, you can't claim implied consent anymore.