If you don't want something to come back and bite you in the ass, don't do it.
If you don't want all the world to see your life on the Internet, don't expose it.
Should this guy have a right to erase his past creations? Only if he feels like enforcing the copyright on public record.
Should people judge her based on who she used to be? Only if she's less than honest about it, in which case she has already judged herself.
And before you try to tell me I don't know what it's like: Yes, I do. I have a website, and I take care not to put personally identifiable stuff on it. I have no sympathy for Jenni Ringley and her ilk.
Maybe, having to put "Sank Sunbeam and The SCO Group through excessive litigation" on his resume, and a special "Ambulance Chaser" license plate on his car.
With enough cases of compromised customer records, spread out over time, a class-action lawsuit and some very bad PR. Hence, the "infinitesimal" hyperbole.
Using such emphatic language only makes me skeptical.
Under Sarbanes-Oxley, they should be required to inform the likely victims. Besides, if the telco has a breach of security, doesn't that also constitute a breach of contract by violating their privacy statement?
As I said, the only way I would take a job with Microsoft, would be to cease their operations. Fire the lot of them, sell the assets. Terminate all business activities. That is the only way any price would be worth a job at Microsoft.
Don't bother me, Microsoft. You are monopolistic predators. The only way I'll work for you is if I get root privileges, so I can run "fdisk" and "format" on your ass.
The last I knew, PHP had variables, conditionals, loops, and functions. Perl has these, too, as do Python, Lisp, Bash, and even PostScript. Their Turing completeness has nothing to do with their execution environments.
Stop being a consumer and there will be peace on Earth.
What if I want to be a producer? Will I have to play by the {MP,RI}AA rules? Believe me, the *AA would very much like to have a lock on the media production, too.
DRM is bad for everyone. The first battle the DRM supporters will fight is against the consumers. The producers know too much. If the DRM camel can get its nose into the consumers' end of the tent, it won't matter how tightly the producers have sealed their end.
Except that: 1. It's Hollywood's war against us, the consumers, so it matters to me; 2. Can you really justify to the purple-fingered Iraqis that we never should have removed Saddam?
Why are they so eager to announce this? The MPAA has already said they want to crush P2P, especially BitTorrent, and they'll do it by polluting the download pool with invalid content. With this announcement, MS is just inviting the same from their detractors. And they have far more detractors than BitTorrent has.
Given their security record, any MS-created P2P application will be just one more gaping hole in their Swiss-cheese-inspired security implementation.
Yeah, I know, the cause wasn't a problem with the Concorde itself, it was an accident involving another aircraft. The concern I have is the sheer number of people on board, and the severity of any crash. It's like driving 45mph vs. 75mph. Any accident at 75mph will have more severe consequences than a similar accident at 45mph. Heaven forbid that a school bus go off the road at 75mph.
Something I noticed after the 5.2 quake in southern California, is that there was a tremendous number of temblors immediately following, but they were all focused around the site of the original quake. I had to wonder how much stress was building up along the fault line, to the north and south.
As I type this, I see >800 quakes on the California/Nevada quake map, and I wonder how much more stress is building up around Silicon Valley. (Yes, I live and work in the Valley.)
I suspect that big slips north and south increase the odds of a slip in between. Are there any geologists out there who can verify this?
Between (1) being a powerhouse programmer and software designer, and (2) owning a bithead-oriented nightclub, he can provide a setup to handle any Slashdotting.
No, he's just being bitter. I don't begrudge him that. But if he doesn't want Slashdot to pick up on his comment, he shouldn't post it where all the world can read it. He gets no sympathy from me.
"Off the air" means there is no broadcast signal involved. It used to mean there was no signal, period, as in "the station is off the air."
What you're describing is not "off the air," it's part of the signal that is not part of the audiovisual transmission. Closed-captioning in NTSC is embedded in the vertical retrace, not normally visible in the picture, but still "on the air."
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I suggest you take a look at New Rome Sucks for an example of how bad cops make your advice worthless.
If you don't want something to come back and bite you in the ass, don't do it.
If you don't want all the world to see your life on the Internet, don't expose it.
Should this guy have a right to erase his past creations? Only if he feels like enforcing the copyright on public record.
Should people judge her based on who she used to be? Only if she's less than honest about it, in which case she has already judged herself.
And before you try to tell me I don't know what it's like: Yes, I do. I have a website, and I take care not to put personally identifiable stuff on it. I have no sympathy for Jenni Ringley and her ilk.
Maybe, having to put "Sank Sunbeam and The SCO Group through excessive litigation" on his resume, and a special "Ambulance Chaser" license plate on his car.
With enough cases of compromised customer records, spread out over time, a class-action lawsuit and some very bad PR. Hence, the "infinitesimal" hyperbole.
Using such emphatic language only makes me skeptical.
Under Sarbanes-Oxley, they should be required to inform the likely victims. Besides, if the telco has a breach of security, doesn't that also constitute a breach of contract by violating their privacy statement?
And it's leverage enabled for system empowerment!
As I said, the only way I would take a job with Microsoft, would be to cease their operations. Fire the lot of them, sell the assets. Terminate all business activities. That is the only way any price would be worth a job at Microsoft.
Don't bother me, Microsoft. You are monopolistic predators. The only way I'll work for you is if I get root privileges, so I can run "fdisk" and "format" on your ass.
Perhaps you could get class-action status with Ms. Bai. Then you'd have the Bai-Chi lawsuit.
Thanks, and remember to tip your server.
Because, you know, it's illegal in Sweden to download copyrighted material.
"Wookey" is his full name. Check out his Debian developer's profile.
If I had mod points, you would be Funny immediately.
The last I knew, PHP had variables, conditionals, loops, and functions. Perl has these, too, as do Python, Lisp, Bash, and even PostScript. Their Turing completeness has nothing to do with their execution environments.
In any size enterprise, it shows that you are adaptable and resilient.
;-)
Oh yeah, FP!
Stop being a consumer and there will be peace on Earth.
What if I want to be a producer? Will I have to play by the {MP,RI}AA rules? Believe me, the *AA would very much like to have a lock on the media production, too.
DRM is bad for everyone. The first battle the DRM supporters will fight is against the consumers. The producers know too much. If the DRM camel can get its nose into the consumers' end of the tent, it won't matter how tightly the producers have sealed their end.
Except that: 1. It's Hollywood's war against us, the consumers, so it matters to me; 2. Can you really justify to the purple-fingered Iraqis that we never should have removed Saddam?
Why are they so eager to announce this? The MPAA has already said they want to crush P2P, especially BitTorrent, and they'll do it by polluting the download pool with invalid content. With this announcement, MS is just inviting the same from their detractors. And they have far more detractors than BitTorrent has.
Given their security record, any MS-created P2P application will be just one more gaping hole in their Swiss-cheese-inspired security implementation.
How do you install it? Do you think they're going to use Linux or the Hurd to install GRUB on a pure Solaris system?
Yeah, I know, the cause wasn't a problem with the Concorde itself, it was an accident involving another aircraft. The concern I have is the sheer number of people on board, and the severity of any crash. It's like driving 45mph vs. 75mph. Any accident at 75mph will have more severe consequences than a similar accident at 45mph. Heaven forbid that a school bus go off the road at 75mph.
Bigger planes, bigger fuel tanks, bigger explosions, and bigger craters. Didn't they learn anything from the Concorde disaster?
Something I noticed after the 5.2 quake in southern California, is that there was a tremendous number of temblors immediately following, but they were all focused around the site of the original quake. I had to wonder how much stress was building up along the fault line, to the north and south.
As I type this, I see >800 quakes on the California/Nevada quake map, and I wonder how much more stress is building up around Silicon Valley. (Yes, I live and work in the Valley.)
I suspect that big slips north and south increase the odds of a slip in between. Are there any geologists out there who can verify this?
From TFA:
My computer is slow (a 2.2 GHz Celeron with 512 MB RAM)
By that definition, my 500 MHz laptop positively crawls.
Between (1) being a powerhouse programmer and software designer, and (2) owning a bithead-oriented nightclub, he can provide a setup to handle any Slashdotting.
No, he's just being bitter. I don't begrudge him that. But if he doesn't want Slashdot to pick up on his comment, he shouldn't post it where all the world can read it. He gets no sympathy from me.
I can't believe I have to explain this.
"Off the air" means there is no broadcast signal involved. It used to mean there was no signal, period, as in "the station is off the air."
What you're describing is not "off the air," it's part of the signal that is not part of the audiovisual transmission. Closed-captioning in NTSC is embedded in the vertical retrace, not normally visible in the picture, but still "on the air."
Got it?
Does that mean it dials up some service provider and gets it through the phone line instead?
Or do you just mean on an alternate signal channel?