My co-worker has a recent offspring who between her first and last name has a dot. I'm certain he wrote it on the birth certificate after his wife had signed it, but her name is officially [firstname].[lastname]// actual first and last nam8/t1ithheld to protect the guilty.
In Canada, every time i purchase blank media, i pay a tax which goes directly to the CRIA to defray their supposed lost revenue due to filesharing. Since i burn backups of all my customer's websites, all the software generated by my development company, my personal files, etc. I end up forking out a lot of bread to an industry who are (IMO) practicing government sanctioned profiteering.
My legitimate use of writeable media does not exempt me from this levy.
Now they're going to hunt for music swappers are they? How cute.
I Suggest, to every other Canadian who may read this, and who burns their own files to CDR that they begin to loudly and belligerently refuse to pay the blank media levy.
I am neither an advocate nor an opponent of file sharing, but if we're paying for it already (and we are) the music industry cant have it both ways.
For anyone unfamiliar with the Canadian blank media levy, you can read about it here http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
A few days ago, my nameservers were ddosed into extinction, - I had an unhappy day playing with routers and on hold to various tech support departments. The thought springing to my mind is that Vlad the Impaler was also from Eastern Europe. Perhaps a "traditional" approch to this sort of banditry would be helpful. Oh, i'm feeling better already.
Not only proxy filtering, but search engines can sometimes squash perfectly innocent content for the same reasons. I used to maintain an amateur astronomy site and found that hotbot ( which back then I thought was the cat's pajamas ) filtered/blocked several of my pages due to the occurrence of the word "naked". [ naked eye astronomy ]
I rewrote the content to use the phrase "unassisted eye astronomy" which was kludgy sounding, but didn't get filtered.
This solved my problem at the time, but it wasn't a good solution. If speakers whose intent is not porn, or other spamism must revise innocent usage of expressions, what manglement will be permanently inflicted on the language?
Next, how fast will n0rp sites modify their usage, and everybody's filtering start screening for "4matuer n4ked eye ass-tronomy, observe far IR emitting heavenly bodies"
Shall we start a filtering arms race?
I dont know what it is, but there has to be a better solution.
It's possible that it might make an appealing target for terrorists. But come-ON, I want my space elevator!
Every innovation I have ever seen has always been greeting with various forms of "you cant do that because XYZ" from the experts.
Two things I am sure of :
A continued program of space exploration is important and necessary.
Rockets are not a good solution.
Besides which, a space elevator has such propeller-head appeal, woot!
Has damage been prevented? It depends on how the matter is handled internally by the bank. Will they address it rationally as a security issue, and take sober, thoughtful and humane steps to prevent recurrence? Or as I've personally witnessed, will it become a PR issue, with finger pointing, hysterics and ritual sacrifice of junior it personnel.
Unfortunately, a bank is just like many other work environments, security is treated as:
A] a "thing" that [does||doesn't] exist B] a list of items in a 3-ring binder C] a thread which runs alongside every other process.
In my experience the third case is rarest, and the only one to be effective. It must be part of the culture.
Also, how much of the customer's money is being drunkenly flung about in the fallout?
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My co-worker has a recent offspring who between her first and last name has a dot. I'm certain he wrote it on the birth certificate after his wife had signed it, but her name is officially [firstname].[lastname] // actual first and last nam8/t1ithheld to protect the guilty.
In Canada, every time i purchase blank media, i pay a tax which goes directly to the CRIA to defray their supposed lost revenue due to filesharing. Since i burn backups of all my customer's websites, all the software generated by my development company, my personal files, etc. I end up forking out a lot of bread to an industry who are (IMO) practicing government sanctioned profiteering.
My legitimate use of writeable media does not exempt me from this levy.
Now they're going to hunt for music swappers are they? How cute.
I Suggest, to every other Canadian who may read this, and who burns their own files to CDR that they begin to loudly and belligerently refuse to pay the blank media levy.
I am neither an advocate nor an opponent of file sharing, but if we're paying for it already (and we are) the music industry cant have it both ways.
For anyone unfamiliar with the Canadian blank media levy, you can read about it here
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
A few days ago, my nameservers were ddosed into extinction, - I had an unhappy day playing with routers and on hold to various tech support departments. The thought springing to my mind is that Vlad the Impaler was also from Eastern Europe. Perhaps a "traditional" approch to this sort of banditry would be helpful. Oh, i'm feeling better already.
Not only proxy filtering, but search engines can sometimes squash perfectly innocent content for the same reasons. I used to maintain an amateur astronomy site and found that hotbot ( which back then I thought was the cat's pajamas ) filtered/blocked several of my pages due to the occurrence of the word "naked". [ naked eye astronomy ] I rewrote the content to use the phrase "unassisted eye astronomy" which was kludgy sounding, but didn't get filtered. This solved my problem at the time, but it wasn't a good solution. If speakers whose intent is not porn, or other spamism must revise innocent usage of expressions, what manglement will be permanently inflicted on the language? Next, how fast will n0rp sites modify their usage, and everybody's filtering start screening for "4matuer n4ked eye ass-tronomy, observe far IR emitting heavenly bodies" Shall we start a filtering arms race? I dont know what it is, but there has to be a better solution.
It's possible that it might make an appealing target for terrorists. But come-ON, I want my space elevator! Every innovation I have ever seen has always been greeting with various forms of "you cant do that because XYZ" from the experts. Two things I am sure of : A continued program of space exploration is important and necessary. Rockets are not a good solution. Besides which, a space elevator has such propeller-head appeal, woot!
Has damage been prevented? It depends on how the matter is handled internally by the bank. Will they address it rationally as a security issue, and take sober, thoughtful and humane steps to prevent recurrence?
Or as I've personally witnessed, will it become a PR issue, with finger pointing, hysterics and ritual sacrifice of junior it personnel.
Unfortunately, a bank is just like many other work environments, security is treated as:
A] a "thing" that [does||doesn't] exist
B] a list of items in a 3-ring binder
C] a thread which runs alongside every other process.
In my experience the third case is rarest, and the only one to be effective.
It must be part of the culture.
Also, how much of the customer's money is being drunkenly flung about in the fallout?