I put a strong password on, Enable WPA/PSKless, enable mac filtering, disable the ssid broadcast and change the ssid to something like "Youdumbfuck". then save the whole sha-bang. Let them figure it out. Because almost everytime I have seen an unsecured wireless AP, the admin and password are factory defaults.
Ignorant != Stupid. Ignorant implies that one is lacking of some knowledge. In this case, ignorance of alternatives. The word is perfectly well used by the OP and the offense you take is probably due to your ignorance of the meaning of the word ignorant. Though I do feel sympathy because the word is often used in a purely negative context.
Now you could debate worth of such knowledge. I am ignorant of Klingon and I intend to stay that way forever. Knowledge of Klingon has no worth to me
The statment that I responded to had a fairly negative connotation toward ppl that simply don't give a shit that you might want your file in a Star Office format. When EVERYONE else uses MS Office. I have a pet peave that places still distribute stuff via a MS word document, when in all probability PDF is a much better alternative. But I am not out there telling ppl they are ignorant of the alternative. I simply deal with it and go on with my day. Yes I know Ignorant doesn't equal Stupid.
their position is so strong because their software is almost universal world-wide. people using alternatives still elicit rolling eyes and sighs from the technologically ignorant when they encounter the odd person or three who require documents in a non-microsoft format. if that number jumped to 30% of the people they deal with on a daily basis, they wouldn't be so ignorant after awhile.
I am technically literate. I roll my eyes when some one sends me something from some 1% market share application like they are making a statement. I have a job to do, wife and kids to see. A life outside of work. Save the idealism for religion and esoteric college courses. To call ppl ignorant because they have something better to do than worry about which format is used is, well, ignorant.
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This wasn't an issue before people started pirating left and right. Content providers didn't give a rats ass about backups. They didn't care that you might rip their CD's to play in your own mp3 player. Once people started redistributing the content en masse, they got pissed. They came up with DRM schemes. The scheme was intended to stop piracy, an unfortunate side effect was that it also prevented legitimate use in the process. Looking at the order of events, these companies never would have tried this shit had people not abused the freedoms of the media vehicle. Blaming a company for protecting its interests is ignorant as hell. You need to look at the original reason for the behavior.
Actually if you look at betamax vs. vhs (or sony vs. jvc). You will find the driving force behind that litigation is that VHS allowed you to record broadcast. Gasp, the sky was falling. So nothing new here. Despite the "piracy" that the media conglomerates like to harp on, they still have made record profits despite. I guess region coding wasn't a mechanism aimed @ lining their pockets, but rather rampant piracy? So DRM hasn't stopped a crook from doing what they are going to do. Look @ Canada, they are doing away with their gun legistlation laws, becuase CRIMINALS don't bother. The only thing draconian measures do is screw the paying customer. There were already laws in place to handle copy right infringment. And guess what w/ RIAA sueing ppl on the P2P networks, it is working. The broad cast flag is another concern. At least I have HDTV tuner w/o that in the hardware.
Out of Wack Copy Right law
I agree somewhat here. Public domain timelines should be maintained. Yet, if no one actually payed for the shit, it would enter public domain - the companies holding it wouldn't have a reason to pay into holding it.
There is also the extreme counter argument. What if a content creator, lets say a writer, wanted to control his ideas so he could PREVENT big business from profiting off his work posthumously? If you remove the estate holders right to control copyright, you take thier only weapon away. I'm not arguing all applications of copyright law are great, I'm arguing that you have to respect them if you would later like to invoke them for the right reasons.
Copy Righted materials naturally (with some worthwhile exceptions) pass into the Public Domain. It doesn't matter if ppl pay or don't pay. "It's a Wonderfull Life" was a perfect example. Until Vivendi found a song on the movie sound track that they could extend the copy rights on and pull the movie out of the public domain. The biggest infringer of Copy Right is Disney and the subsequent purchase of Senator Hollings. For a company that got its start making cartoons on stories out of the public domain (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Snow White, Cindarella...) it all smacks of bitter irony. This was an example of WHY the public domain used to work, and soon as it was time for Disney to contribute back to what helped get it started. Corporate greed.
Oh, how little you understand. This isn't about oil. It's also not about fighting terrorism or any shit like that. Take a look at a map. If you can find Iraq you will notice that it is centered in the Middle East and has most of its major cities close to Iran, while the west is empty. This is an IDEAL staging area. This is about POWER. Being in alliance with Isreal, which has the West side of the Middle East Covered - you can effectively exercise control over this part of the world using the two countries as staging areas. Possible oil pricing is a positive byproduct.
Actually, you should read the book "Osama bin Laden: His war on America". Very informative. I will disagree on your slightly anti-zionist tack on this one. Isreal was returned to a strip of barren wasteland that can fit into the square mileage of lake Michigan, and made it prosper. I don't believe we did it for them. Just allowed them to protect themselves. Saddam pissed of a Texa
I like the fact that if you go to Flowers.com, there is "service fee" of like $8. They don't tell you what it is for. Remember, there is a delivery fee and taxes outside of that. I just google for a local florist and save myself $8. At least they did it last time I tried to ordered. Won't go back to them any time soon.
I am fully aware, and I don't give a shit. I learned it by watching business F*CK any one and everyone every which way they can for red cent. DMCA, Broadcast Flag, Out of Wack Copy Right law, F'd up patent system all purchased by big business through Congress. If it is ok for us to go to Iraq, and lets face it, it is about oil. Then the moral bar has been lowered so much that it really doesn't take much to step over it. I sure as hell am done trying to put it back were it should be.
Actually, I like to do the "all day" movie ticket. Get in there with the matinee price, and have the entire schedule for movies already lined up. Finish one movie and then walk on down the isle to my next... Yes sireeee, I am CHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAP. Start off w/ a.25 cent refill popcorn during the adds and refill again after the shift change, otherwise they may catch on (however unlikely). It's a science I tell you, sticking it to the man. Gotta get my own theme song.
Actually, I like to do the "all day" movie ticket. Get in there with the matinee price, and have the entire schedule for movies already lined up. Finish one movie and then walk on down the isle to my next... Yes sireeee, I am CHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAP. Start off w/ a.25 cent refill popcorn during the adds and refill again after the shift change, otherwise they may catch on (however unlikely). It's a science I tell you, sticking it to the man. Gotta get my own theme song.
I love it, I am to blame for the Corporate Imperialism that outfits like McD's represent. [Sarcastic] I am sure that at one time, you could get a great paying, living wage job w/ benefits @ McD's but it was those cup wielding beatniks that forced their labor force into minimum wage offerings. [/Sarcastic]. I am pretty sure that McD's in an effort to yet pinch another penny (hell, they already grind up the entire left over cow and market it as Real Beef TM, YES Real Beef is TRADE MARKED, not 100% beef, cause that is a lie, but REAL BEEF.) put in the self service drink fountains. I still have to purchase my coffee every time since they have that behind the counter. So what came first, the filched drink or the "convenience" drink island? Chicken or the egg anyone? BTW the Anti-establishment was a tounge in cheek sort of thing. But I guess you weren't perceptive enough.
I find it convenient to keep an empty McD's cup in the car. So when I get a burger there, I don't even inconvenience them with the effort of having to ring up the drink. I also keep the large popcorn bag that cost
$4.85 but has.25 cent refills @ the theater that I go to (that they never charge for) very convenient after I just paid $9.25 to see a movie. If they want me to sit through commercials, my popcorn is essentially subsidized (sp?) anyways. Yes, I am that cheap and just slightly enough anti-establishment;-). Though not anti enough not to go there...
Are you delusional? $10K for a decent tape system. For SOHO? Try ~2k TOPS. There are plenty of solutions out there. We as a SOHO software developer and consultancy use a direct to disk system from Storcase (www.storcase.com). Our system with a 14 day restore horizon (full daily backups) cost a little over $2k. We also store critical data (Accounting, Customer Records) at another owners house all over a Sonic 2 Sonic wall VPN. A 22GB Backup only takes about 1 1/2. Try a critical restore of 22GB over one of these online providers. How much is your business going to suffer.
Our EULA held up just fine in court. It gave us Jurisdiction, and totally knocked the wind out of the defenses sails. Maybe you mean people that aren't lawyers or judges...
I know as a software developer my-self, that if there isn't a particular application out there that we need, we write it for ourselves. Maybe that is what Microsoft did, and decided to release it.
I would rather have the OPTION of Sharepoint/Exchange/Project Server etc... Than not. At least on a Windows platform I have a choice.
What is to stop a user with WRITE privs to the data base (db's are not much good if you can't input into them) from writing erronous data. I can hose a database with a SQL statement... You either trust someone at somepoint or you don't.
You hit the nail on the head. My wife and I share the middle teir service. If one of us doesn't watch our pick in 2 days, it goes back unwatched. If you want it again, just re-queue.
For the people that are ripping all these movies, lets assume a prolific 20 DVD's a month at an average rate of 3GB a movie, they are filling up a 300GB HD every 5 months, and a 300 GB HD is in the$130 range, it's cheaper to keep the service and re-queue if you want to watch it again, plus all the saved effort of not squandering time ripping in the first place.
I would love to see the netflix rippers get busted.
The fact is, there are no motivated, large, easily publicly seen groups of Muslims holding a demonstration against this Islamic Ferver of death that we as westerners see out there. I have lived in Cleveland and Detroit, both with HUGE Arab and Islamic populations, and have seen squat.
I need to point a couple of things out, It's ok for the Taliban, under Sharia, to blow up CENTURIES old Buddist reliefs. Where was the out cry and nashing of teeth? In Norway, Christmas 2004, there was an add campaing depicting Jesus Christ in his robes, with a Compact Disc for a Halo, holding a Gucchi Hand bag, and Nike sneakers.
It was simply a commentary on how Christianity has been hi-jacked for consumerism. And there is a good amount of truth to this. Same as, the Prophet Mohammed and the religion of Islam has been hi-jacked by back water fundalmentalist. The Cartoon holds fundamental truths, which a very publicly viewable portion of followers of Islam have affirmed for he rest of CIVILIZED earth.
Honestly, as a Westerner, I believe that Islam is a Me Too religion (about 7 centuries after Judaism and Christianity.). The Muslim migration has proven that as they spread to other countrys, Norway, Denmark, France, that they are not truly willing to integrate to the laws, and popular beliefs of those host countrys.
They remain a fairly insular lot, and that always makes the natives nervous. With good reason in my opinion. If you are closed society, then you are generally not trusted.
Does anyone remember the "Outer Limits" TV Show?
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"Do not attempt to adjust your TV Set, we control the vertical, we control the horizontal..." scary stuff. Luv living in this country where the Government works for the highest bidder.
I know exactly where you are comming from. I worked for some piss ant IT firm in Cleveland, OH, and the owner pretty much said its your job to get trained to support MY customers. Well needless to say, I did my own Certification (Was already NT4 MCSE and Novel CNE)at the time. Went and got my MCSE for Exchange/ISA/Server 2000, CCNP. Found another job (20k more a year), waited until we were in the middle of a big upgrade from NT4/Exchange to Server 2k and Exchange 2k for one of HIS customers and walked the fuck out. What was funny about this is that I was the only only one that new what needed done, the other guys were like, ADSI what? DCPROMO???
Alas that was years ago.
Get your training, use your current employer as your test lab, and get another job.
Actually I do, I have been an MCSE Since '98, you wouldn't believe all the crap I have waded through (like getting Quickbooks to run on Terminal Server...)
To quote " But how much time is lost trying to unload all the CRAP that Dell/Gateway/Compaq or whatever loads into the machine because they have special deals with all these companies?"
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I put a strong password on, Enable WPA/PSKless, enable mac filtering, disable the ssid broadcast and change the ssid to something like "Youdumbfuck". then save the whole sha-bang. Let them figure it out. Because almost everytime I have seen an unsecured wireless AP, the admin and password are factory defaults.
I am technically literate. I roll my eyes when some one sends me something from some 1% market share application like they are making a statement. I have a job to do, wife and kids to see. A life outside of work. Save the idealism for religion and esoteric college courses. To call ppl ignorant because they have something better to do than worry about which format is used is, well, ignorant.
Actually if you look at betamax vs. vhs (or sony vs. jvc). You will find the driving force behind that litigation is that VHS allowed you to record broadcast. Gasp, the sky was falling. So nothing new here. Despite the "piracy" that the media conglomerates like to harp on, they still have made record profits despite. I guess region coding wasn't a mechanism aimed @ lining their pockets, but rather rampant piracy? So DRM hasn't stopped a crook from doing what they are going to do. Look @ Canada, they are doing away with their gun legistlation laws, becuase CRIMINALS don't bother. The only thing draconian measures do is screw the paying customer. There were already laws in place to handle copy right infringment. And guess what w/ RIAA sueing ppl on the P2P networks, it is working. The broad cast flag is another concern. At least I have HDTV tuner w/o that in the hardware.
Copy Righted materials naturally (with some worthwhile exceptions) pass into the Public Domain. It doesn't matter if ppl pay or don't pay. "It's a Wonderfull Life" was a perfect example. Until Vivendi found a song on the movie sound track that they could extend the copy rights on and pull the movie out of the public domain. The biggest infringer of Copy Right is Disney and the subsequent purchase of Senator Hollings. For a company that got its start making cartoons on stories out of the public domain (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Snow White, Cindarella...) it all smacks of bitter irony. This was an example of WHY the public domain used to work, and soon as it was time for Disney to contribute back to what helped get it started. Corporate greed.
Actually, you should read the book "Osama bin Laden: His war on America". Very informative. I will disagree on your slightly anti-zionist tack on this one. Isreal was returned to a strip of barren wasteland that can fit into the square mileage of lake Michigan, and made it prosper. I don't believe we did it for them. Just allowed them to protect themselves. Saddam pissed of a Texa
If you cant walk into a room and tell who the chump is, it is most likely you.
I never held that the cost of popcorn was subsidized in the movie ticket price, I stated that the adds that I forced to watch do.
I like the fact that if you go to Flowers.com, there is "service fee" of like $8. They don't tell you what it is for. Remember, there is a delivery fee and taxes outside of that. I just google for a local florist and save myself $8. At least they did it last time I tried to ordered. Won't go back to them any time soon.
I am fully aware, and I don't give a shit. I learned it by watching business F*CK any one and everyone every which way they can for red cent. DMCA, Broadcast Flag, Out of Wack Copy Right law, F'd up patent system all purchased by big business through Congress. If it is ok for us to go to Iraq, and lets face it, it is about oil. Then the moral bar has been lowered so much that it really doesn't take much to step over it. I sure as hell am done trying to put it back were it should be. Actually, I like to do the "all day" movie ticket. Get in there with the matinee price, and have the entire schedule for movies already lined up. Finish one movie and then walk on down the isle to my next... Yes sireeee, I am CHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAP. Start off w/ a .25 cent refill popcorn during the adds and refill again after the shift change, otherwise they may catch on (however unlikely). It's a science I tell you, sticking it to the man. Gotta get my own theme song.
Actually, I like to do the "all day" movie ticket. Get in there with the matinee price, and have the entire schedule for movies already lined up. Finish one movie and then walk on down the isle to my next... Yes sireeee, I am CHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAPCHEAP. Start off w/ a .25 cent refill popcorn during the adds and refill again after the shift change, otherwise they may catch on (however unlikely). It's a science I tell you, sticking it to the man. Gotta get my own theme song.
I love it, I am to blame for the Corporate Imperialism that outfits like McD's represent. [Sarcastic] I am sure that at one time, you could get a great paying, living wage job w/ benefits @ McD's but it was those cup wielding beatniks that forced their labor force into minimum wage offerings. [/Sarcastic]. I am pretty sure that McD's in an effort to yet pinch another penny (hell, they already grind up the entire left over cow and market it as Real Beef TM, YES Real Beef is TRADE MARKED, not 100% beef, cause that is a lie, but REAL BEEF.) put in the self service drink fountains. I still have to purchase my coffee every time since they have that behind the counter. So what came first, the filched drink or the "convenience" drink island? Chicken or the egg anyone? BTW the Anti-establishment was a tounge in cheek sort of thing. But I guess you weren't perceptive enough.
I find it convenient to keep an empty McD's cup in the car. So when I get a burger there, I don't even inconvenience them with the effort of having to ring up the drink. I also keep the large popcorn bag that cost $4.85 but has .25 cent refills @ the theater that I go to (that they never charge for) very convenient after I just paid $9.25 to see a movie. If they want me to sit through commercials, my popcorn is essentially subsidized (sp?) anyways. Yes, I am that cheap and just slightly enough anti-establishment ;-). Though not anti enough not to go there...
Newton, Eintstien, Ben Franklin. They all don't matter. What exactly is the point?
Are you delusional? $10K for a decent tape system. For SOHO? Try ~2k TOPS. There are plenty of solutions out there. We as a SOHO software developer and consultancy use a direct to disk system from Storcase (www.storcase.com). Our system with a 14 day restore horizon (full daily backups) cost a little over $2k. We also store critical data (Accounting, Customer Records) at another owners house all over a Sonic 2 Sonic wall VPN. A 22GB Backup only takes about 1 1/2. Try a critical restore of 22GB over one of these online providers. How much is your business going to suffer.
Our EULA held up just fine in court. It gave us Jurisdiction, and totally knocked the wind out of the defenses sails. Maybe you mean people that aren't lawyers or judges...
Check out this developer: www.jasonburgess.com Wouldn't pirate his software.
I know as a software developer my-self, that if there isn't a particular application out there that we need, we write it for ourselves. Maybe that is what Microsoft did, and decided to release it. I would rather have the OPTION of Sharepoint/Exchange/Project Server etc... Than not. At least on a Windows platform I have a choice.
What is to stop a user with WRITE privs to the data base (db's are not much good if you can't input into them) from writing erronous data. I can hose a database with a SQL statement... You either trust someone at somepoint or you don't.
For the people that are ripping all these movies, lets assume a prolific 20 DVD's a month at an average rate of 3GB a movie, they are filling up a 300GB HD every 5 months, and a 300 GB HD is in the$130 range, it's cheaper to keep the service and re-queue if you want to watch it again, plus all the saved effort of not squandering time ripping in the first place.
I would love to see the netflix rippers get busted.I need to point a couple of things out, It's ok for the Taliban, under Sharia, to blow up CENTURIES old Buddist reliefs. Where was the out cry and nashing of teeth? In Norway, Christmas 2004, there was an add campaing depicting Jesus Christ in his robes, with a Compact Disc for a Halo, holding a Gucchi Hand bag, and Nike sneakers.
It was simply a commentary on how Christianity has been hi-jacked for consumerism. And there is a good amount of truth to this. Same as, the Prophet Mohammed and the religion of Islam has been hi-jacked by back water fundalmentalist. The Cartoon holds fundamental truths, which a very publicly viewable portion of followers of Islam have affirmed for he rest of CIVILIZED earth.Honestly, as a Westerner, I believe that Islam is a Me Too religion (about 7 centuries after Judaism and Christianity.). The Muslim migration has proven that as they spread to other countrys, Norway, Denmark, France, that they are not truly willing to integrate to the laws, and popular beliefs of those host countrys.
They remain a fairly insular lot, and that always makes the natives nervous. With good reason in my opinion. If you are closed society, then you are generally not trusted.Is there a better country that I can move to?
Alas that was years ago.
Get your training, use your current employer as your test lab, and get another job.I don't think this is opinion here, Some one wanted to know if it was loud with 3 fans or not. Someone answered w/ what I would consider a fact.
Actually I do, I have been an MCSE Since '98, you wouldn't believe all the crap I have waded through (like getting Quickbooks to run on Terminal Server...)
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