Welcome to Slashdot. We don't censor here (ahem: shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits), so self-censoring just, well, makes your title look stupid. No offence intended.
Also, there's a solution to your problem: Don't buy anything that has DRM. I don't, and I do quite well. CDs are still sold, you know, and so are books.
When a manufacturer puts DRM into a device, it means they want to control the device even when they no longer own it. And that means that at best, you're renting the device with a one time charge that they call a "purchase"... at worst, they're just laughing at you behind your back because you gave them money for nothing.
A lot of us believe that cannabis should be legal, or at least not a Schedule I drug. (I mean, look at the list of Schedule I drugs, there are some very dangerous ones on there... and then there's cannabis, basically just there for political purposes.)
Alcohol is much more dangerous than marijuana. You can easily die from ingesting too much alcohol; not so for cannabis. Or take a look at cigarettes. Nicotine is provably physically addictive; can you say the same of THC? It's also been definitively linked to lung cancer, while cannabis has not (at the very least, there is significant debate about this point).
Anyway, this is been discussed to death through about a million different angles. Let me ask you something: were there a test to see if an employee had drank within the last week, would you be in favour of random alcohol testing? And don't tell me that alcohol isn't addictive, because if it weren't, we wouldn't have AA.
What is this, the electronic version of submitting to a drug test?
Yes. Absolutely.
This is the definition of the slippery slope. Employers have been able to get random drug tests an accepted and even expected part of every job; now that they've completed that goal, it's time to test the waters even further out.
Make no mistake about it, employers who use such tactics want to control their employees lives, plain and simple. They figure that they can make sure nobody in the company does anything even remotely controversial by basically putting a tracking device on their employees' social lives.
And to them, like all employers who would subject me to such non-employment related screening, I say a big, hearty fuck you.
Sorry, either they're actively interfering with the GP's bandwidth or they just have really shitty service.
There's no way YouTube itself is unusable between those hours -- because it's usable to me practically all of the time on any (broadband) connection I've used.
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(Just in case you don't know what you're reading here.)
If I was a parent of a child in that class, at the very, very least I would want the teacher permanently barred from ever teaching anywhere again, and I would be pushing for some serious criminal charges.
Anyway, you could try the old ghetto trick: place the hard drive in a plastic bag closed as tightly as possible, place said bag into a freezer, take it out a few minutes later and immediately connect it to your PC. You might get a few minutes of use out of it (after which it will be permanently dead, but hopefully you'll have backed up what you need to).
Maybe you should just do what you can for your family and then remind them that they should backup with their new drive. You know, as opposed to reinforcing the stereotype that all computer geeks are antisocial bastards that don't care about a person's feelings at all.
Mods: I don't think this is flamebait; or at least, I never intended it to be. I'm just surprised... generally organizations that care about security above other issues tend to go with a Unix-based system. I never said there wasn't a place for Windows servers, just that I'm kinda surprised that the army apparently prefers them over *nix.
What Win32-only stuff? My guess is you mean internal apps that are coded to only be read through IE, in which case, they can run IE on Ubuntu through various means. If you legitimately mean apps coded strictly for Win32, I doubt there are that many, and likely they can run through Wine without any trouble.
While I agree with the general principle that *nix OSes (including Macs) are more secure than Windows, viruses are just as possible on other operating systems.
That said, the government could save shit-tons in licensing fees by switching to a free OS like Ubuntu, and they wouldn't have to worry about something like this happening nearly so often.
Or maybe society is just a collection of people and you should let people be who they are.
Some of us like friends that care.
Others like friends to mind their own.
And, y'know, stating that "people who mind other people's business" are the ones "fucking up" society just means you're a hypocrite since you apparently think other people should change to meet your standards, which contradicts your opinion that people should mind their own business.
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Sorry, it's already been used to download porn. Better luck next time!
Welcome to Slashdot. We don't censor here (ahem: shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits), so self-censoring just, well, makes your title look stupid. No offence intended.
Also, there's a solution to your problem: Don't buy anything that has DRM. I don't, and I do quite well. CDs are still sold, you know, and so are books.
DRM has not been implemented correctly to date.
Are you crazy?
There IS no correct implementation of DRM.
When a manufacturer puts DRM into a device, it means they want to control the device even when they no longer own it. And that means that at best, you're renting the device with a one time charge that they call a "purchase"... at worst, they're just laughing at you behind your back because you gave them money for nothing.
I think you should look at this, it's very relevant to the discussion at hand.
A lot of us believe that cannabis should be legal, or at least not a Schedule I drug. (I mean, look at the list of Schedule I drugs, there are some very dangerous ones on there... and then there's cannabis, basically just there for political purposes.)
Alcohol is much more dangerous than marijuana. You can easily die from ingesting too much alcohol; not so for cannabis. Or take a look at cigarettes. Nicotine is provably physically addictive; can you say the same of THC? It's also been definitively linked to lung cancer, while cannabis has not (at the very least, there is significant debate about this point).
Anyway, this is been discussed to death through about a million different angles. Let me ask you something: were there a test to see if an employee had drank within the last week, would you be in favour of random alcohol testing? And don't tell me that alcohol isn't addictive, because if it weren't, we wouldn't have AA.
What is this, the electronic version of submitting to a drug test?
Yes. Absolutely.
This is the definition of the slippery slope. Employers have been able to get random drug tests an accepted and even expected part of every job; now that they've completed that goal, it's time to test the waters even further out.
Make no mistake about it, employers who use such tactics want to control their employees lives, plain and simple. They figure that they can make sure nobody in the company does anything even remotely controversial by basically putting a tracking device on their employees' social lives.
And to them, like all employers who would subject me to such non-employment related screening, I say a big, hearty fuck you.
Sorry, either they're actively interfering with the GP's bandwidth or they just have really shitty service.
There's no way YouTube itself is unusable between those hours -- because it's usable to me practically all of the time on any (broadband) connection I've used.
That it took them eight years to (fail to) diagnose something like this almost sounds like malpractice.
Get a new doctor, kid, you deserve better.
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(Just in case you don't know what you're reading here.)
Except that he actually received and sent the packets on the server and verified as such.
Would you really let your kid go back to the same class under the same teacher where they could easily have been accidentally hanged the day before?
WARNING! WARNING! CYNICISM OVERLOAD!
My fiancee has worked at a call center and is an American citizen, and I know many American citizens who have worked for McDonalds.
Do your research before making such outlandish claims.
Sorry, no.
If I was a parent of a child in that class, at the very, very least I would want the teacher permanently barred from ever teaching anywhere again, and I would be pushing for some serious criminal charges.
Truth.
Only open a drive in a clean room.
Anyway, you could try the old ghetto trick: place the hard drive in a plastic bag closed as tightly as possible, place said bag into a freezer, take it out a few minutes later and immediately connect it to your PC. You might get a few minutes of use out of it (after which it will be permanently dead, but hopefully you'll have backed up what you need to).
Wow, you're an asshole.
Maybe you should just do what you can for your family and then remind them that they should backup with their new drive. You know, as opposed to reinforcing the stereotype that all computer geeks are antisocial bastards that don't care about a person's feelings at all.
William Shatner, is that you?
Mods: I don't think this is flamebait; or at least, I never intended it to be. I'm just surprised... generally organizations that care about security above other issues tend to go with a Unix-based system. I never said there wasn't a place for Windows servers, just that I'm kinda surprised that the army apparently prefers them over *nix.
The sad thing is that a significant percentage of the US population feel the same as the parent.
The US Army uses Windows servers?
Probably, I'm just more personally familiar with Unix systems.
Like all Unix-based systems, for example.
Ah, so you don't have any actual evidence.
What Win32-only stuff? My guess is you mean internal apps that are coded to only be read through IE, in which case, they can run IE on Ubuntu through various means. If you legitimately mean apps coded strictly for Win32, I doubt there are that many, and likely they can run through Wine without any trouble.
While I agree with the general principle that *nix OSes (including Macs) are more secure than Windows, viruses are just as possible on other operating systems.
That said, the government could save shit-tons in licensing fees by switching to a free OS like Ubuntu, and they wouldn't have to worry about something like this happening nearly so often.
Or maybe society is just a collection of people and you should let people be who they are.
Some of us like friends that care.
Others like friends to mind their own.
And, y'know, stating that "people who mind other people's business" are the ones "fucking up" society just means you're a hypocrite since you apparently think other people should change to meet your standards, which contradicts your opinion that people should mind their own business.