As I see it J&J are being corporate whores and will try to get money from a charity that has helped millions around the world for longer than any of us here have been born.
Helping millions around the world does not allow you to license the rights to something that is not yours. If I save your cat from a stray dog, am I allowed to sell your car on eBay? You have to make sure not to allow your reverence for good deeds suddenly permit bad ones.
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"Why do you need a botnet that big?" he asks. "You don't need a million [infected computers] to send spam."
For spam, a million-strong botnet might be overkill. But botnets can do much more - like launching denial-of-service attacks.
So the question is, who is controlling these botnets and why?
It is possible that the creators of this worm did not have any idea how successful they would be. They may have figured they'd get 5,000 PC's, not 500,000. Now suddenly they have a monster by the tail and are not sure what to do with it.
I realize most of the/. readers are far, if not radical left, wingers
If you are truly a Republican, then you should support smaller, less-intrusive government. And there is absolutely no way you can possibly think that is what you've been getting for the past six years. Government spending is through the roof, new agencies and laws and restrictions are being constantly set up, presidential powers are expanding every week through executive order after executive order. Are you Republican? If so, stand up against expansion of government into your personal and everyday life, regardless of who is in there.
Or, instead, perhaps you are a blind Bush follower. They do exist, as represented by the 26% who still approve of the job he is doing. I do not understand this, or any blind loyalty. As citizens, we owe it to our country to never blindly follow but instead keep a keen eye on whoever is in office to make sure they do not run roughshod over our liberty. If you're truly an American, then you will do so too.
the employees forming close, almost family-like ties, but management was completely insane. That's where I discovered that being the guy that is considered absolutely invaluable doesn't actually insure job security
Wow, it's good to hear I wasn't the only one. In the 40-person company where I worked as the sole I.T. guy, the owners were also insane. I got booted after seven years of service because the owner's wife took a dislike to me (I couldn't fix the inherent problems with the horrid software she chose to buy without consulting anyone, she didn't understand why I had the desktop publishers using Macs, etc.) That's (micro)politics too, so it's dangerous to assume small companies don't have that problem. Now I'm at a Fortune 100 company where you essentially have to get arrested to get fired, though such job security is compensated for by the endless red tape required to get anything done. Everything is a tradeoff.
I'm meeting more and more people who are shunning traditional TV and audio content--the very content that is being proposed to be locked down in TFA. The rush away from such content will become a stampede if such controls are enacted. Imagine not being allowed to record your favorite show in your living room while you're at work and then play it in your exercise room when you get home. The sheer lunacy of it will turn consumers off extremely quickly and therefore these companies will lose even more money. But they are far too short-sighted to realize this, so we will all suffer. Well, except for book publishers, who will see sales soar as we revert to earlier (and fully portable) media forms.
The theater and others involved can't guess intent.
They most certainly can if, as in this case, the camera came out 3/4 through the film and was turned off in 20 seconds. That is self-sufficient proof that there was no intent whatsoever to pirate the entire film or even a substantial portion of it.
People weigh odds differently and in my view the odds are not something I wish to play with.
You play with the odds every single day of your life. As the original poster noted, you "play" with the odds by driving a car....or flying in an airplane....or using a lawnmower....or eating. NOTHING you do is safe. That you are singling out sex as the one thing to avoid "playing" the odds with even though statictics clearly show all other activities I list above are more likely to injure you indicates you have a different actual reason for avoiding sex and are just using STD's as a cover.
To be clear: There is nothing inherently wrong with avoiding sex, but telling others that you are avoiding it for unsupportable reasons and implying they should do the same is not right.
Even the slightest change can throw some people off.
Then those people need to be taught to not let changes throw them off. One of the roles of education should be to teach diversity; not just racial diverity but all diversity. That the world is different everywhere. Some people use Macs, some PC's, some Linux. Some drink coffee, some tea, some soy milk. Some take their shoes off when they enter homes, some don't. The world has differences in it. Teaching students to expect standardization is to let them down in a very big way.
And I'd prefer to know that if something says Cisco, it's the real deal, not some 60 dollar best-buy grade piece of switchgear.
You seem to be assuming that Cisco is higher quality than Linksys. That's not my experience. The Cisco switches we use at [[name of my global financial institution omitted]] have for years been unable to properly auto-resolve to our PC's or Macs at full duplex unless the ports are forced manually to that speed. Even an upgrade to 6500-series switches did not solve that. But an el-cheapo 5-port Linksys or D-Link switch I buy at CompUSA works perfectly. Cisco claims it's a problem with the PC manufacturers' ethernet cards...all of them. Right. So I'm glad for this branding merger--it'll bring the public's opinion of Cisco down to reality where it belongs.
Let's try and look at this from the Duke IT perspective: 1. Wireless network is (presumably) working great.
That word "presumably" was pretty close to the heart of this entire debacle. It's an assumption and those are the first things you should throw out when performing logical troubleshooting.
2. iPhone is released, students start showing up with it. 3. Wireless starts getting slammed. Yes it was a wrong conclusion and faulty logic but come on
Come on what? Logically fixing this problem is their primary job. Not publicly pointing the finger at Apple before that logic had run its course.
was it really that horrible? When something breaks the first thing you ask is "What has changed", in this case iPhones were introduced to the network.
What they essentially did was the same as if an engineer blamed a person walking across a bridge for the bridge collapsing. The iPhones were making completely normal use of infrastructure yet they were blamed when that infrastructure failed. Engineers (be they civil or network) need to make sure their house is clean before they start casting aspersions. Speaking as an OS engineer myself, I do not blame the user when the OS crashes; I examine the OS. The user should not be able to make it crash just as iPhones should not be able to take down a wireless network.
Not 'bizarre' at all. Actually I and everyone I know expected exactly those reactions
In no way in your post explain why it was distasteful.
If you don't like me or my methods and I call myself a kumquat, do you suddenly find the term "kumquat" distasteful? If not, then why does Bush make you dislike "democracy"?
Because the RIAA, much like a 3rd world strongman dictator, is trying to save face. The defendant probably told her attorney "make this go away" and $1 wasn't going to accomplish that. A $1 judgment would raise more eyebrows and get more publicity than a $300 one. Anyone can tell that a $1 win for the RIAA is really a loss, but $300 will make a notable percentage of the public think the RIAA won. Thus, everyone involved on both sides knew $1 wasn't going to be accepted under any circumstances and would therefore have been a waste of time. It's all about appearances for the RIAA. Their whole campaign is to give the public the impression they are not only going after violators but are winning, and not just winning $1.
Is it any surprise that Cisco is dismissing "radio" as "old fashioned" (nice choice of calling it "radio" instead of "wireless"), when high-bandwidth wireless technologies like WiMAX and UMTS Rev 8 are at least an option worth considering?
Indeed. Electricity and light are older than radio, but I notice Cisco is still using those for their hardwired connections.
While Michael is primarily working on non-CUPS projects, he will continue to develop and support CUPS
He and all the other developers were probably pulled onto the iPhone project so they could get it out the door. CUPS, like the rest of Leopard, was put on the backburner for a while and thusly delayed until October. Odds are good he's back on CUPS by now.
your personal views are irrelevant. The city already has far more tourists than it can handle. We don't want or need your money. Stay away, please.
As long as your mayor keeps spending money on tourism advertising, it seems it's your personal views that are irrelevant (at least to him and the others running your city.)
Oh, and way to perpetuate the, ahem, "friendly" New Yorker stereotype.
PS: Feel free to come down to Philly sometime. We have the hospitality without the cameras or attitude. (Offer not valid at Eagles games)
Why on earth was this modded flamebait? Do not think for one second that a blanket camera system that tracks faces, license plates, and any other identifying characteristics, will not eventually be used to track people that the current government dislikes. It is very well documented that the FBI has kept (and still keeps) files on political protesters, for example. Whoever "flamebaited" the parent needs to either wake up or at the very least lose the white bias.
If they want me to spend my money there, they will not do this. I have already curtailed a previously-planned trip to London because I do not want to partake of their police state where anybody can be detained by police without reason. Now NYC wants to duplicate their Orwellian setup? Then I won't go to NYC. And I'm just the type of affluent daytripper (I live near Philly) that NYC is constantly trying to get to come spend money in Manhattan. Sorry guys, you can either get my money or put a camera on me, not both.
If you read the original article (which admittedly is hard to do if you're not a WSJ subscriber), Sprint apparently counts each transfer to another agent or department as a "call". So every time they mis-transferred someone, the victim^M^M^M^M^M^Mcustomer got screwed by having another negative strike put against them in Sprint's "Is this someone we want to drop?" database. Good lord, what a horrible company.
All of you damned users not running Microsoft OS will be liable.
Just because anti-spyware software does not exist for your software platform is no excuse!
This exact thing happened at my workplace recently (the 3rd largest bank in the U.S...look it up.) Our new "WebConnect" VPN system will not work with Linux and Mac OS X because their first step upon connecting to it is for it to check for viruses and spyware. As this checker ("WholeSecurity", owned by Symantec) does not work on anything but Microsoft systems, only they are allowed in. Because Linux and Mac OS X are nearly mal-ware free, and therefore weren't programmed for by the mal-ware checker developers, these more secure OSes are completely precluded from connecting.
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Or, instead, perhaps you are a blind Bush follower. They do exist, as represented by the 26% who still approve of the job he is doing. I do not understand this, or any blind loyalty. As citizens, we owe it to our country to never blindly follow but instead keep a keen eye on whoever is in office to make sure they do not run roughshod over our liberty. If you're truly an American, then you will do so too.
I'm meeting more and more people who are shunning traditional TV and audio content--the very content that is being proposed to be locked down in TFA. The rush away from such content will become a stampede if such controls are enacted. Imagine not being allowed to record your favorite show in your living room while you're at work and then play it in your exercise room when you get home. The sheer lunacy of it will turn consumers off extremely quickly and therefore these companies will lose even more money. But they are far too short-sighted to realize this, so we will all suffer. Well, except for book publishers, who will see sales soar as we revert to earlier (and fully portable) media forms.
To be clear: There is nothing inherently wrong with avoiding sex, but telling others that you are avoiding it for unsupportable reasons and implying they should do the same is not right.
If you don't like me or my methods and I call myself a kumquat, do you suddenly find the term "kumquat" distasteful? If not, then why does Bush make you dislike "democracy"?
Only in corporate newspeak could bargain basement broadband prices be a bad thing.
Personally I'm hoping for CUPS to become AppleScriptable. In Tiger the only way to create new printers via script is through GUI scripting, which is ugly, slow, and prone to failure. Even giving us the ability in Leopard to create printers using "defaults write" would be better than what we have now.
Oh, and way to perpetuate the, ahem, "friendly" New Yorker stereotype.
PS: Feel free to come down to Philly sometime. We have the hospitality without the cameras or attitude.
(Offer not valid at Eagles games)
If they want me to spend my money there, they will not do this. I have already curtailed a previously-planned trip to London because I do not want to partake of their police state where anybody can be detained by police without reason. Now NYC wants to duplicate their Orwellian setup? Then I won't go to NYC. And I'm just the type of affluent daytripper (I live near Philly) that NYC is constantly trying to get to come spend money in Manhattan. Sorry guys, you can either get my money or put a camera on me, not both.
If you read the original article (which admittedly is hard to do if you're not a WSJ subscriber), Sprint apparently counts each transfer to another agent or department as a "call". So every time they mis-transferred someone, the victim^M^M^M^M^M^Mcustomer got screwed by having another negative strike put against them in Sprint's "Is this someone we want to drop?" database. Good lord, what a horrible company.
This is a consumer protection bill and protecting the citizenry is raison d'etre of the government.
"Privacy" does not equate to "lying to get people to answer a sales call they would otherwise have exercised their right to ignore". No, no it really doesn't. Being a deceptive cheat is not "legitimate use" in a civilized society.