Sadly the CIA gave him that sway when they unsuccessfully tried to launch a coup against him in 2002 after he nationalized oil production. Very similar to what happened the coup against Mohommad Mossadegh in Iran in the 1950's. The downside is we got caught with our hand in the cookie jar this time around, and Chavez has been very carte blanche about dragging it out every time anything critical of him comes out. Its only gotten worse as Chavez has gotten... umm... how to put it nicely... battier? Its a shame, he was a cool leader when he began; and had a number of revolutionary ideas (even if he completely understood the history of Simon Bolivar).
Honestly, I don't. To me its funny because I know better. It reminds me of the "egress" trick PT Barnum played on customers, granted in his circumstance it was more to get people to leave an overcrowded museum. Honestly what ever happened to caveat emptor? Its an optional service. Do some damn research and for god sake don't pay for it. If you've done the research to get such high end equipment go the extra mile to see what is necessary to configure it. What ever happened to informed decision making? If I'm laying out that kind of cash you can be damn well sure that I'm going to know every single piece of equipment down to whether or not the individual ports are gold plated. Bravo Best Buy, while its scheister-iffic, I applaud your idiot tax.
Um, actually most of what Google and their Counsel listed would not be hard to prove. A) Account is created originating from IP's owned by Viacom. These accounts also occasionally log in from Kinko's. B) Viacom owned material is uploaded from IP's owned by Viacom. C) Accounts accused of uploading Viacom owned material log in occasionally from Viacom owned IP's. Said accounts were created at Kinko's. D) There'd be a paper trail for all DMCA requests to have materials deleted. E) Requests from accounts created/used on viacom IP's requesting material to be restored. If such accounts had ever logged in from a Viacom owned IP or was created on a Viacom owned IP, it would show some potential for what Google is saying. This is especially true if all of the accounts ONLY uploaded Viacom related materials.
Now of course there is a possibility that Bob from accounting created an account and uploaded baby videos. But such videos wouldn't raise the ire of viacom, nor would they fall under a DMCA request. So that means Bob would have to be uploading Viacom property. As far as I know an employee stealing their employer's property isn't anyone's problem except the employer and the employee. You can't sue someone else for it - well you can, but you'll lose. So everything Google says makes sense, and I can guarantee that a company that makes its living off of tracking users has the logs. You're right, there's not a speck of evidence; there's a goddamned ocean.
Given the nature of our software (medical) we often need a direct connection to the user's session. This is useful both for working on customer workstations, and on servers at foreign sites with field technicians. While we can (and do) use RDP for the occasional console connection to facilitate this, VNC is simply easier, faster, and more lightweight. TightVNC offers encryption but still allows the user at the far end to interact with the desktop. We *do* use both, but typically use VNC/Logmein for servers and the occasional workstation, and we tend to use RDP for NAS's.
At our company we install MSE on all outgoing XP/VISTA/7 workstations. The cool thing is that in the license there's nothing that precludes the software from enterprise usage. So, we can install it on client machines, let them use it, and it doesn't cost us OR them a cent for AV protection. Good deal. Only comment on its effectiveness is that it detects VNC as unsafe software which is annoying, but 100% accurate as it can compromise security. I just wish it would remember that I want it ignored after a reboot. Overall, two thumbs up.
Small amounts of mercury have been used for ages in the silver amalgam used for fillings in teeth, with no dangerous side effects. Just a counterpoint about the mercury. Under certain conditions its perfectly safe.
While I agree that jailbreaking could potentially facilitate piracy, you're missing one major flaw with your theory. The app store is the primary/only *legitimate* source for iphone applications. By banning the users, they force them to resort to piracy for applications, since they have no alternate way to purchase them. I do however wonder what the US government has to say about this, since punishing users for jailbreaking is what the legislation about locking a device so a single network was designed to prevent. You have to jailbreak to use TMobile. So are all tmobile users going to be prevented from using the app store?
So despite all of the ripping on the movie for being simplistic, I'm amazed at how much conversation it has spawned on this site alone. Pretty good for a simple story. Don't you think so?
Who issues these 'artistic licenses' and who is his or her superior? For s/he surely needs to be fired for considering an ascot a piece of anatomy and printing licenses declaring it so.
To the idiots who claim that just because the DoD depends on GPS sattelites they're not going to let them fail, please do some damn research before nailing my karma. Here are just a small handful of sources backing what I'm saying. Googling "gps satellites failing" will give you a few thousand more.
This is especially idiotic considering GPS satellites that are currently in orbit are beginning to fail, and no country wants the responsibility of modernizing them, or repairing them. So what happens when GPS doesn't work anymore? Further, what if a GPS receiver goes offline on a ship? The reason to keep both was for functional redundancy in case one would in fact go offline.
I'd go with algorithms and logic if you can only choose one of the two. While the other stuff is doubtlessly useful, nothing will serve you better in programming than a firm understanding of algorithms, and logic which can be used to know when to employ them and how to create them. Just my $0.02, YMMV.
I complain about all of those things. Except one day I was hit by a realization at 4am while trying to get a workstation to function: "Hey, I could be getting paid for this." See a lot of us in IT do it, despite all of our bitching and moaning, because we really do love it. We love computers, we love technology, we love being the go-to-people whenever anything that goes "BEEP!" with flashy lights isn't working quite right. We wish we got more respect, and we wish we were better compensated. But then again, who doesn't? Who ever says, "Man, I just make TOO MUCH money!" I work on call hours, and yes it does suck. However the fact remains that the first thing I do when I get home is sit down at my computer. I'm still up til 2am (or later) working on computers. The only difference between that and being on call is that we don't have the control we normally do. But we're still doing the same work. We do it because we love it, even though we say we hate it. Its just one of those things we love to hate.
If you're going to get scared away by the negative parts, take a hard look at how you spend your time now. If you're working on computers all the time, and you enjoy making them work, fixing them, etc, then don't run away quite so fast. If you're a programmer, the same point stands. I left the comp sci department in college because the professor demanded we be in the lab 80+ hours a week. I thought he was crazy. Thing is, every programmer I've met spends easily 80 hours a week programming. Sometimes more. I see them literally pull 48 hour shifts, stopping only briefly to take catnaps without leaving their chairs. They do it because its their passion and there's nothing else they'd rather be doing. Its not like they're hourly. The prof was just weeding out the people who weren't really cut out for it, and he saved me a lot of time, energy, and frustration. Hell, maybe a trip to the psych ward too. It comes down to this: if its what you love, you learn to take the bad along with the good. Don't let other people warp your perspective.
But as the complainant he has the option of calling again, and again, and again, ad nauseum. They can't cite him for anything. If he chooses to go to the media with it, it could undermine all DRM cases that occur in the nation because of selective enforcement.
To an extent. The discretion not to arrest/prosecute is solely dependent on whether or not the case has a complainant usually, and how much they're willing to complain. IE: You can smoke pot in your apartment alone and if no neighbors care, then you're fine. If they call the cops, they've officially filed a complaint against you and the officers have to do something, even if its just showing up and shrugging. Same thing here: he's officially filed a complaint against himself so if their commonlaw system is anything like ours (should be, based off the same one) they have to act. I think anyways, IANAL, I am just a prelaw student so I could be way off.
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So that was supposed to say misunderstood. My bad.
Sadly the CIA gave him that sway when they unsuccessfully tried to launch a coup against him in 2002 after he nationalized oil production. Very similar to what happened the coup against Mohommad Mossadegh in Iran in the 1950's. The downside is we got caught with our hand in the cookie jar this time around, and Chavez has been very carte blanche about dragging it out every time anything critical of him comes out. Its only gotten worse as Chavez has gotten... umm... how to put it nicely... battier? Its a shame, he was a cool leader when he began; and had a number of revolutionary ideas (even if he completely understood the history of Simon Bolivar).
Honestly, I don't. To me its funny because I know better. It reminds me of the "egress" trick PT Barnum played on customers, granted in his circumstance it was more to get people to leave an overcrowded museum. Honestly what ever happened to caveat emptor? Its an optional service. Do some damn research and for god sake don't pay for it. If you've done the research to get such high end equipment go the extra mile to see what is necessary to configure it. What ever happened to informed decision making? If I'm laying out that kind of cash you can be damn well sure that I'm going to know every single piece of equipment down to whether or not the individual ports are gold plated. Bravo Best Buy, while its scheister-iffic, I applaud your idiot tax.
Now of course there is a possibility that Bob from accounting created an account and uploaded baby videos. But such videos wouldn't raise the ire of viacom, nor would they fall under a DMCA request. So that means Bob would have to be uploading Viacom property. As far as I know an employee stealing their employer's property isn't anyone's problem except the employer and the employee. You can't sue someone else for it - well you can, but you'll lose. So everything Google says makes sense, and I can guarantee that a company that makes its living off of tracking users has the logs. You're right, there's not a speck of evidence; there's a goddamned ocean.
Given the nature of our software (medical) we often need a direct connection to the user's session. This is useful both for working on customer workstations, and on servers at foreign sites with field technicians. While we can (and do) use RDP for the occasional console connection to facilitate this, VNC is simply easier, faster, and more lightweight. TightVNC offers encryption but still allows the user at the far end to interact with the desktop. We *do* use both, but typically use VNC/Logmein for servers and the occasional workstation, and we tend to use RDP for NAS's.
At our company we install MSE on all outgoing XP/VISTA/7 workstations. The cool thing is that in the license there's nothing that precludes the software from enterprise usage. So, we can install it on client machines, let them use it, and it doesn't cost us OR them a cent for AV protection. Good deal. Only comment on its effectiveness is that it detects VNC as unsafe software which is annoying, but 100% accurate as it can compromise security. I just wish it would remember that I want it ignored after a reboot. Overall, two thumbs up.
Small amounts of mercury have been used for ages in the silver amalgam used for fillings in teeth, with no dangerous side effects. Just a counterpoint about the mercury. Under certain conditions its perfectly safe.
As soon as they fill out all of the paperwork, and find a way to blame the downtime on someone with we don't like.
While I agree that jailbreaking could potentially facilitate piracy, you're missing one major flaw with your theory. The app store is the primary/only *legitimate* source for iphone applications. By banning the users, they force them to resort to piracy for applications, since they have no alternate way to purchase them. I do however wonder what the US government has to say about this, since punishing users for jailbreaking is what the legislation about locking a device so a single network was designed to prevent. You have to jailbreak to use TMobile. So are all tmobile users going to be prevented from using the app store?
Most of the time the ISP supplies a supported router. I'm sure google would be no different. If not, cheap routers aren't that hard to come by.
Or aeroplanes! Or scopes! Or security systems! Or police vehicles! Or traffic signals! Oh the limitless fun an aspiring criminal could have!
So despite all of the ripping on the movie for being simplistic, I'm amazed at how much conversation it has spawned on this site alone. Pretty good for a simple story. Don't you think so?
Who issues these 'artistic licenses' and who is his or her superior? For s/he surely needs to be fired for considering an ascot a piece of anatomy and printing licenses declaring it so.
You would do well to do some research.
Considering most of these articles were on slashdot before, you don't have much of an excuse.
This is especially idiotic considering GPS satellites that are currently in orbit are beginning to fail, and no country wants the responsibility of modernizing them, or repairing them. So what happens when GPS doesn't work anymore? Further, what if a GPS receiver goes offline on a ship? The reason to keep both was for functional redundancy in case one would in fact go offline.
I'd go with algorithms and logic if you can only choose one of the two. While the other stuff is doubtlessly useful, nothing will serve you better in programming than a firm understanding of algorithms, and logic which can be used to know when to employ them and how to create them. Just my $0.02, YMMV.
Agreed 100%.
I complain about all of those things. Except one day I was hit by a realization at 4am while trying to get a workstation to function: "Hey, I could be getting paid for this." See a lot of us in IT do it, despite all of our bitching and moaning, because we really do love it. We love computers, we love technology, we love being the go-to-people whenever anything that goes "BEEP!" with flashy lights isn't working quite right. We wish we got more respect, and we wish we were better compensated. But then again, who doesn't? Who ever says, "Man, I just make TOO MUCH money!" I work on call hours, and yes it does suck. However the fact remains that the first thing I do when I get home is sit down at my computer. I'm still up til 2am (or later) working on computers. The only difference between that and being on call is that we don't have the control we normally do. But we're still doing the same work. We do it because we love it, even though we say we hate it. Its just one of those things we love to hate.
If you're going to get scared away by the negative parts, take a hard look at how you spend your time now. If you're working on computers all the time, and you enjoy making them work, fixing them, etc, then don't run away quite so fast. If you're a programmer, the same point stands. I left the comp sci department in college because the professor demanded we be in the lab 80+ hours a week. I thought he was crazy. Thing is, every programmer I've met spends easily 80 hours a week programming. Sometimes more. I see them literally pull 48 hour shifts, stopping only briefly to take catnaps without leaving their chairs. They do it because its their passion and there's nothing else they'd rather be doing. Its not like they're hourly. The prof was just weeding out the people who weren't really cut out for it, and he saved me a lot of time, energy, and frustration. Hell, maybe a trip to the psych ward too. It comes down to this: if its what you love, you learn to take the bad along with the good. Don't let other people warp your perspective.
someone better call Gordon Freeman!!!
Kay, how many times have you flashy-thinged me??
Hm, my mistake then. Sorry! :)
Lol, 90% of what I've learned about computers has come as a result of me breaking something (hard OR software).
But as the complainant he has the option of calling again, and again, and again, ad nauseum. They can't cite him for anything. If he chooses to go to the media with it, it could undermine all DRM cases that occur in the nation because of selective enforcement.
To an extent. The discretion not to arrest/prosecute is solely dependent on whether or not the case has a complainant usually, and how much they're willing to complain. IE: You can smoke pot in your apartment alone and if no neighbors care, then you're fine. If they call the cops, they've officially filed a complaint against you and the officers have to do something, even if its just showing up and shrugging. Same thing here: he's officially filed a complaint against himself so if their commonlaw system is anything like ours (should be, based off the same one) they have to act. I think anyways, IANAL, I am just a prelaw student so I could be way off.