A good server admin has his datacenter running so smoothly that he hardly ever needs to do any work during his shift. And he needs to pass all that time somehow
No one has a right to privacy when using a phone that they stole.
But what about the rights of the person that they stole the phone from? Such as when their friends attempt to call (not knowing that the phone is stolen).
Or (in the lucky event where the thief is found and the phone is returned) the calls that the owner makes after police have "forgotten" to switch of the trace?
But, as a customer, you first have to prove that. But I guess, Nassau PD now has that proof... It will be interesting to watch whether they'll now sue their document disposal company...
it's important to know whom you are sharing with, so that you are not accidentally sharing with a MAFIAA spy.
And, if you read the article, this is exactly what happened:
In this case, the defendant added the anti-piracy monitoring company as a friend, which allowed him to be “caught.”
By accepting everybody and his dog, the defendant not only put himself at risk, but also his other friends that were linked to him on RetroShare. Hopefully only he himself will be sold into slavery, and not all his friends too.
I just switched from Chrome back to Firefox and the memory management of Firefox still leaves a LOT to be desired.
... and it would also be nice if they finally fixed some of their ten-year old bugs with hundreds of votes (history glitches, modal dialog boxes, focus stealing, unselectable texts,...). Internet Explorer 6 is now niche, and there are no users to be gained by emulating some of its behavior.
Why would any artist agree to such a lopsided deal, unless they're total morons?
Because nobody understands legalese. And because they might be naive (or realistic) enough to have the contract explained to them by the MAFIAA lawyers who go "well, when it says here 'you have to give us all the proceeds', it doesn't really mean 'you have to give us all the proceeds', but only a tiny commission". And if the artist doesn't beleive the well meaning MAFIAA lawyer, well tough luck, no record deal, there's a huge queue of other artists just waiting to sign.
These contracts are as lopsided as any of the hundreds of contracts that each of us routeline signs in our life: banking, internet access, schools, employment, etc. Most don't even read these contracts. And those few of us who do read them end up signing them anyways. At least if they want a bank account, access the internet, send their kids to school, have a job, rent a car, be a volunteer in a non-profit, get a loan,...
People secretely hope that most businesses will not enforce those lopsided clauses in an abuse way, and that if they do, a court will strike these clauses down as too one-sided and thus unenforceable. It often does work out ok. But unfortunately not always.
Problem is: if nobody else questions those lopsided contracts, you cannot negotiate. If legalese is so different from everyday's English, you cannot possible know what you are signing, and you have to trust an expert in the field (i.e. a lawyer) at some point.
Maybe the cops felt that he was "testing" security by attempting to sneak a fake disassembled bomb in (trigger on wrist, explosive in the shoes), either as a rehearsal for the real thing, or for a disparaging article "security don't spot a thing"...
Ha! And you know they'd go straight for the warmest parts!
Actually, these are actually the coldest part. The purpose of the small baggy is to keep the marbles away from the body heat, because they produce more and better cream when slightly cooler than the body.
But unfortunately spam on PC does not pay $500 per message. Or else I could give up my day job, and make a good living off that strange Arabic spam I get from google...
But yes, you can keep VLAN's physically separated for security purposes, you just need additional physical connections.
But within the switch they would still come together, so you'd still have a potential problem if you don't trust that your switch is doing what it is supposed to do.
And if you separate the switched as well, you no longer have VLAN's, but just different, physically separated LANs (d'oh...)
To be fair, he was complaining about phyisically segmenting the virtual machines that exist on a single physical machine. Of course, that's fundementally impossible, since these virtual machines share the same computing resoruce. His complaint may be a ridiculous complaint, but nevertheless.
Not so ridiculous I think. There was an article here on Slashdot a couple of days ago about the possibility to spy from one virtual machine onto another one running on the same virtual host by observing the cache line eviction pattern. All VM's share a same cache, and by observing which cache lines gets thrown out (presumably due to the usage by the other VM's), it is possible to infere what goes on in these other VMs.
Just like Slashdot has hidden your comment, because I have to scroll down to see it?
The difference is that on Slashdot you expect to have to scroll down to see all the comments, so people will do it.
Apple's site, on the other hand, is laid out just as if the items above the fold were the complete site, so there's no clue (except the scrollbar itself) that there may be more on the site. And who, except geeks, pays attention to details such as seemingly useless scrollbars? We're talking about Apple's site here after all!
Slashdot Mirror
... all the while trying to save "cost" :-)
A good server admin has his datacenter running so smoothly that he hardly ever needs to do any work during his shift. And he needs to pass all that time somehow
But won't your heterosexual coworkers complain about discrimination then?
No one has a right to privacy when using a phone that they stole.
But what about the rights of the person that they stole the phone from? Such as when their friends attempt to call (not knowing that the phone is stolen).
Or (in the lucky event where the thief is found and the phone is returned) the calls that the owner makes after police have "forgotten" to switch of the trace?
Yes, otherwise they are in breach of contract.
But, as a customer, you first have to prove that. But I guess, Nassau PD now has that proof... It will be interesting to watch whether they'll now sue their document disposal company...
it's important to know whom you are sharing with, so that you are not accidentally sharing with a MAFIAA spy.
And, if you read the article, this is exactly what happened:
In this case, the defendant added the anti-piracy monitoring company as a friend, which allowed him to be “caught.”
By accepting everybody and his dog, the defendant not only put himself at risk, but also his other friends that were linked to him on RetroShare. Hopefully only he himself will be sold into slavery, and not all his friends too.
Clicking an EULA button is far different from accepting an employment contract. And if the terms are not to your liking - walk away.
... and have no job at all.
I just switched from Chrome back to Firefox and the memory management of Firefox still leaves a LOT to be desired.
... and it would also be nice if they finally fixed some of their ten-year old bugs with hundreds of votes (history glitches, modal dialog boxes, focus stealing, unselectable texts, ...). Internet Explorer 6 is now niche, and there are no users to be gained by emulating some of its behavior.
Why would any artist agree to such a lopsided deal, unless they're total morons?
Because nobody understands legalese. And because they might be naive (or realistic) enough to have the contract explained to them by the MAFIAA lawyers who go "well, when it says here 'you have to give us all the proceeds', it doesn't really mean 'you have to give us all the proceeds', but only a tiny commission". And if the artist doesn't beleive the well meaning MAFIAA lawyer, well tough luck, no record deal, there's a huge queue of other artists just waiting to sign.
These contracts are as lopsided as any of the hundreds of contracts that each of us routeline signs in our life: banking, internet access, schools, employment, etc. Most don't even read these contracts. And those few of us who do read them end up signing them anyways. At least if they want a bank account, access the internet, send their kids to school, have a job, rent a car, be a volunteer in a non-profit, get a loan, ...
People secretely hope that most businesses will not enforce those lopsided clauses in an abuse way, and that if they do, a court will strike these clauses down as too one-sided and thus unenforceable. It often does work out ok. But unfortunately not always.
Problem is: if nobody else questions those lopsided contracts, you cannot negotiate. If legalese is so different from everyday's English, you cannot possible know what you are signing, and you have to trust an expert in the field (i.e. a lawyer) at some point.
W00t, so the American MAFIAA is more powerful than the Russian Mafia. Who would have known?
He drives a Chevy Volt
Maybe the cops felt that he was "testing" security by attempting to sneak a fake disassembled bomb in (trigger on wrist, explosive in the shoes), either as a rehearsal for the real thing, or for a disparaging article "security don't spot a thing"...
Don't bombs usually require some kind of....uh.....explosive?
That's what the extra insoles were for.
Ha! And you know they'd go straight for the warmest parts!
Actually, these are actually the coldest part. The purpose of the small baggy is to keep the marbles away from the body heat, because they produce more and better cream when slightly cooler than the body.
But unfortunately spam on PC does not pay $500 per message. Or else I could give up my day job, and make a good living off that strange Arabic spam I get from google...
lack of space in the oven for genuine customers' pizzas
... so the pizza parlor just tries to pass on those pies to other customers who ordered a similar one.
==> So, when playing this prank, remember to ask for extra anchovies...
A, that's the polite way to call this kind of activity!
The fuel band has no GPS
But yes, you can keep VLAN's physically separated for security purposes, you just need additional physical connections.
But within the switch they would still come together, so you'd still have a potential problem if you don't trust that your switch is doing what it is supposed to do.
And if you separate the switched as well, you no longer have VLAN's, but just different, physically separated LANs (d'oh...)
To be fair, he was complaining about phyisically segmenting the virtual machines that exist on a single physical machine. Of course, that's fundementally impossible, since these virtual machines share the same computing resoruce. His complaint may be a ridiculous complaint, but nevertheless.
Not so ridiculous I think. There was an article here on Slashdot a couple of days ago about the possibility to spy from one virtual machine onto another one running on the same virtual host by observing the cache line eviction pattern. All VM's share a same cache, and by observing which cache lines gets thrown out (presumably due to the usage by the other VM's), it is possible to infere what goes on in these other VMs.
Just like Slashdot has hidden your comment, because I have to scroll down to see it?
The difference is that on Slashdot you expect to have to scroll down to see all the comments, so people will do it.
Apple's site, on the other hand, is laid out just as if the items above the fold were the complete site, so there's no clue (except the scrollbar itself) that there may be more on the site. And who, except geeks, pays attention to details such as seemingly useless scrollbars? We're talking about Apple's site here after all!
You know the math.
I do.
If the profit of doing something illegal is less than the fine then you do the illegal thing.
But, do you?
if even one extra ink dot is missing or wrong, they get fined some huge amount per hour.
... and same should apply in the event it rains, and the poster gets soaked!
But now that I think of it, Microsoft is already quite an efficient protector against typical situations where you could get or give AIDS...
Is there any reason for this except "this is how we've always done it"?
Yes. Privacy!