In the movie Euro Trip there was a scene where the guy goes to meet his German girfriend and a boy does the Hitler salute with the moustache. It raised an uproar, especially in Germany and many German politicians swore up and down that they had excercised the Ghost of Hitler. Have they? If i remember the massive book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", Nazi movies in theaters were do devoid of audience that Wilhelm Frick, the Minister of the Interior, issued a stern warning against "treasonable behavior on the part of cinema audiences." First you start by censoring what's available. Then you start by slowly ratcheting up the local propaganda, and then you outlaw any and all unapproved broadcasts and networks. German politicians are treading the thinnest line possible between Liberty and Hitler.
The Constitution is in some ways an ambiguous document and each of the justices has a different idea of how it should be interpreted
The Constitution is not the Quran to be "interpreted" in many different ways. the Constitution is the LAW. It is not a religious document (as neocons want it) and it is not a piece of paper (as illiterate Bush thought it was) It clearly defines the contract between the People (and that includes resident non-citizens), the States and the Federal Government. To specifically avoid the ambiguity that the British non-constitution has, the Founders made sure the document was written, written well in clear lucid writing and signed by all the Founders as a sort of ratification. Don't you read history?
Since when is disconnection an option for internet? Of course utilities can do that. But for non-payment. Not for piracy or excess usage. What is your point?
Yes. On the Utility part. Just because i use more doesn't mean my access is cut off. That is what this bill aims at. Nobody is disputing that internet can be billed on usage. Everybody is disputing that internet access can b e cut off, because i exceeded a limit set by my Telco. Get it first through your thick head before you post.
IRS is just hired hands. The real culprit is congress which passes laws that force IRS to act stupid. Making a jury laugh does not change the law. Unless the law is in direct violation of the constitution, a judge will not rule in your favor even though you can prove the law is stupid.
And you _boast_ about running _Windows_? That says a lot, even if you can't see it.
Since when was running windows on a PC considered "a lot" ? 80% of slashdot crowd runs Windows. Liking and Running Windows are different things. I do not Like Windows better than i like Mac OS X. But that doesn't prevent me from running windows because of the sheer volume of software i own run On windows. Company of Heroes, Crysis, Railroads, etc all run on Windows, not linux.
PS/2 isn't safely hot-pluggable,
Since when were keyboards and mice considered hot-pluggable? Try removing the keyboard from Ubuntu and see the fun. I did act a bit idiotic earlier and my apologies.
I run Windows 7 64-bit on an M2N-E-SLI motherboard having 4GB RAM with an AMD X2 5600+ processor and two 9800 GTX+ cards. My keyboard is MS Natural plugged into the PS/2 port via an adapter. The mouse is a Microsoft mouse plugged into PS/2 mouse port. Iam not living in the past. I just happen to know more about computer hardware.
The money is printed by the Federal Reserve and NOT by the Federal Government. Sheesh, don't you know the difference? It is legal tender for all debts. The IRS is NOT prosecuting him for paying in Gold. The IRS doesn't care how you pay someone. Gold, Silver, mud, iron, hell in Nevada even Sex. What it cares about is its value in USD. In this case this guy paid in Gold, whose real value is more than what its face value states. RTFA and research before you open your pie hole.
No offense taken. I have seen my share of IT policies and policy makers. I don't judge them nowadays: just accept the situation and work within its limitations. And Ghosting the machine? That was done by my ex-esteemed majesty: the CTO. He had a doctorate in Computer Science which was ironical and comical. And that policy was one of the better ones. The worst ones were those when entire machines were condemnded and destroyed just because they were not needed (never been used at all). And places where the firewall/proxy was a self-learning piece of crap that tried to keep tabs on what sites you visited MORE often than others and then; Blocked them one fine day. So, if am visiting reddit.com more often than yahoo.com, tomorrow morning i find reddit.com blocked. Another IT policy was where Lotus notes was the email client and sending out attachments was prohibited to all, except for managers. And the size of the attachment was limited to 2MB. Another was a place where the only way of passing documents to each other was NOT through a file server, but by email and outlook. In my younger days i ranted and raved against these. I slowly realized that doing so brings no benefit to you, and it marks you as a target. So i have learned to accept the incomprehensible stupidity that exists and work within it. For instance, in a place where the Ghosting was done, we should not store any documents/workplace in local drives (including Eclipse workplaces). Everything was to be in 'net drive. The fact that it slowed down the entire process never entered the PhD's mind. So we did exactly what he wanted. We set the TEMP folders to the 'net drive. We set Lotus Notes ID files to net drive. We put our Word docs, Excel sheets, even the 3nd paging file on to the 'net drive. It made the systems damn slow. And ours were Intel coreDuo machines with 4GB RAM. Did the PhD listen or even learn? NOPE. he just bought faster routers, faster servers and pushed us off the net drives when we used it more. In other words: throttling. The more we stored, the slower our speeds became. Some went and complained. He bawled them out. Some accepted the fate. Our ultimate sweet revenge came when our project's build was taing longer to check-in to VSS every day. When the management wanted to know the reason for delay, we just put it in writing that our drives were taking longer to respond. Obviously we thought the management would learn and fire the PhD. But alas, we were mistaken. Instead he ended up replacing ALL our PCs with slower ones from taiwan: the ones which have no internal drive and boot via LAN. His convinced the management that since faster CPUs and local drives were not enabling us to work faster, the company would be better served by diskless machines which could "match" the speed of the 10MBps net drive. Great! I left the company the same day.
All True. Absolutely true and good. BUT, who said corporate IT's were sensible??? My ex-employer had a corporate IT policy: Any complaint you make about your PC: whether it is Word not working or disk errors, their solution was simple: Wipe and Reimage. Much like cutting off your head because you have a running nose and an earache: No head, No Complaints! Corporates love those public kiosk machines: Absolute control. Hell, one bank i worked for didn't even allow IE to store cookies! Policy.
It didn't go over my head as you imply. Am just saying the ground reality is not what you think. Corporates have PCs whose USB ports are disabled, DVD disconnected and system literally locked (with a MasterLock).
people is aware that they shall only use trusted usb sticks and open trusted email
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your naive quote. You just summarized a network administrator's worst nightmare: Trusted USB sticks and Trusted email. Tell me, how do you "trust" a USB stick? Put a stamp on it?
Usability != USB Drives. In most of the corporates i have worked for, my USB ports have been disabled and my DVD drive missing. I didn't feel least constricted, if that is what you mean. If i needed a software, i had to follow the stupid process, but i did not miss a USB drive or a DVD drive for work. Minimalist physical configurations leave you less worrying about issues. You are probably too young and inexperienced in the corporate world. That's why you seem to equate USB with PSU.
'We're putting a ton of money into back-end systems for both mobile and the broadband site...
Meaning: Our administrators report our server utilisation stands at 83%. The remaining 17% is a huge potential for us to squeeze more money from customers without spending a cent.
We're making serious investments in the games space because it's now seen as a huge strategic initiative for AT&T.
Meaning: We have to threaten EA, Relic, and other Game makers to provide their games free of cost to us, else they will face "unfortunate accidents" when their customers try to visit their sites.
And before it just wasn't; it wasn't on the executive agenda.
Meaning: That's true. It never struck us that we could make more money by utilising remaining reserve of 17% of servers capacity and get the games for free from EA by just threatening them.
1) You need an anti-virus solution in the Linux box. Assuming that is your only gateway to the external internet, putting up a anti-virus enabled firewall and stopping unwanted protocols is enough to filter out most stuff. 2) Disable USB and DVD drives on every PC. Physically. Period. Its cheap and fast.
Try saying that to AIG and State Farm. StateFarm recently was in the news for rejecting coverage of someone whose DNA tests were known to it. Hitler would have loved this. It would have given the SS and Gestapo valid, legal reasons that were sought in this conference.
Instead of debating it in Senate (which exists solely for debates), why put it to Commerce Committee and why now? The answer can b e got here. It says a former tech exec has joi ned the committee. Which means he is trying to pre-empt any legislation by the Congress by putting it for consideration in the committee. Which effectively kills any legislation and also protects the interests of telecoms. Sneaky, disgusting and probably illegal. But then the senate has a record of disgust. So nothing new here.
Am referring to this This is used to tune into over-air channels and makes a Mac into a TV / media Center. And yes, it HAS issues with DTV transition. Am NOT talking about Apple TV. That's a different product for a different market. Connecting this to your Apple TV or even directly to a Mac is possible. The point is they too have issues with DTV transition. Not just Microsoft.
I care less about Microsoft than i care about Apple. But that is not the fact. 90% Windows != 90% Media Center Windows. Apple is way more popular as a media center than Windows. Ask anyone who bought the Mac Mini. Mini too has the same tuning issues until Apple updates the channels.
Nope. The fact that fingerprints are unique, and grow exactly in the same form even after a burn or erasure clearly shows a higher purpose. Don't you visit the Creationist mueseum in Texas. God made us. In his image. And his fingerprint is what all of us have.
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In the movie Euro Trip there was a scene where the guy goes to meet his German girfriend and a boy does the Hitler salute with the moustache.
It raised an uproar, especially in Germany and many German politicians swore up and down that they had excercised the Ghost of Hitler.
Have they?
If i remember the massive book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", Nazi movies in theaters were do devoid of audience that Wilhelm Frick, the Minister of the Interior, issued a stern warning against "treasonable behavior on the part of cinema audiences."
First you start by censoring what's available. Then you start by slowly ratcheting up the local propaganda, and then you outlaw any and all unapproved broadcasts and networks.
German politicians are treading the thinnest line possible between Liberty and Hitler.
The Constitution is in some ways an ambiguous document and each of the justices has a different idea of how it should be interpreted
The Constitution is not the Quran to be "interpreted" in many different ways.
the Constitution is the LAW. It is not a religious document (as neocons want it) and it is not a piece of paper (as illiterate Bush thought it was)
It clearly defines the contract between the People (and that includes resident non-citizens), the States and the Federal Government.
To specifically avoid the ambiguity that the British non-constitution has, the Founders made sure the document was written, written well in clear lucid writing and signed by all the Founders as a sort of ratification.
Don't you read history?
Since when is disconnection an option for internet?
Of course utilities can do that. But for non-payment. Not for piracy or excess usage.
What is your point?
Yes. On the Utility part.
Just because i use more doesn't mean my access is cut off.
That is what this bill aims at.
Nobody is disputing that internet can be billed on usage.
Everybody is disputing that internet access can b e cut off, because i exceeded a limit set by my Telco.
Get it first through your thick head before you post.
IRS is just hired hands.
The real culprit is congress which passes laws that force IRS to act stupid.
Making a jury laugh does not change the law.
Unless the law is in direct violation of the constitution, a judge will not rule in your favor even though you can prove the law is stupid.
And you _boast_ about running _Windows_? That says a lot, even if you can't see it.
Since when was running windows on a PC considered "a lot" ?
80% of slashdot crowd runs Windows.
Liking and Running Windows are different things.
I do not Like Windows better than i like Mac OS X.
But that doesn't prevent me from running windows because of the sheer volume of software i own run On windows.
Company of Heroes, Crysis, Railroads, etc all run on Windows, not linux.
PS/2 isn't safely hot-pluggable,
Since when were keyboards and mice considered hot-pluggable? Try removing the keyboard from Ubuntu and see the fun.
I did act a bit idiotic earlier and my apologies.
You don't need to worry. He already made a fool himself and showed his abysmal ignorance of the constitution.
I run Windows 7 64-bit on an M2N-E-SLI motherboard having 4GB RAM with an AMD X2 5600+ processor and two 9800 GTX+ cards.
My keyboard is MS Natural plugged into the PS/2 port via an adapter. The mouse is a Microsoft mouse plugged into PS/2 mouse port.
Iam not living in the past.
I just happen to know more about computer hardware.
The money is printed by the Federal Reserve and NOT by the Federal Government. Sheesh, don't you know the difference?
It is legal tender for all debts.
The IRS is NOT prosecuting him for paying in Gold. The IRS doesn't care how you pay someone. Gold, Silver, mud, iron, hell in Nevada even Sex.
What it cares about is its value in USD.
In this case this guy paid in Gold, whose real value is more than what its face value states.
RTFA and research before you open your pie hole.
Ahhh, you must be born yesterday.
There is something called PS/2.
God, what kind of morons are they turning out of colleges nowadays!
No offense taken.
I have seen my share of IT policies and policy makers.
I don't judge them nowadays: just accept the situation and work within its limitations.
And Ghosting the machine? That was done by my ex-esteemed majesty: the CTO. He had a doctorate in Computer Science which was ironical and comical.
And that policy was one of the better ones.
The worst ones were those when entire machines were condemnded and destroyed just because they were not needed (never been used at all). And places where the firewall/proxy was a self-learning piece of crap that tried to keep tabs on what sites you visited MORE often than others and then; Blocked them one fine day.
So, if am visiting reddit.com more often than yahoo.com, tomorrow morning i find reddit.com blocked.
Another IT policy was where Lotus notes was the email client and sending out attachments was prohibited to all, except for managers. And the size of the attachment was limited to 2MB.
Another was a place where the only way of passing documents to each other was NOT through a file server, but by email and outlook.
In my younger days i ranted and raved against these. I slowly realized that doing so brings no benefit to you, and it marks you as a target.
So i have learned to accept the incomprehensible stupidity that exists and work within it.
For instance, in a place where the Ghosting was done, we should not store any documents/workplace in local drives (including Eclipse workplaces). Everything was to be in 'net drive. The fact that it slowed down the entire process never entered the PhD's mind. So we did exactly what he wanted. We set the TEMP folders to the 'net drive. We set Lotus Notes ID files to net drive. We put our Word docs, Excel sheets, even the 3nd paging file on to the 'net drive.
It made the systems damn slow. And ours were Intel coreDuo machines with 4GB RAM. Did the PhD listen or even learn? NOPE. he just bought faster routers, faster servers and pushed us off the net drives when we used it more. In other words: throttling. The more we stored, the slower our speeds became.
Some went and complained. He bawled them out. Some accepted the fate. Our ultimate sweet revenge came when our project's build was taing longer to check-in to VSS every day. When the management wanted to know the reason for delay, we just put it in writing that our drives were taking longer to respond. Obviously we thought the management would learn and fire the PhD. But alas, we were mistaken. Instead he ended up replacing ALL our PCs with slower ones from taiwan: the ones which have no internal drive and boot via LAN. His convinced the management that since faster CPUs and local drives were not enabling us to work faster, the company would be better served by diskless machines which could "match" the speed of the 10MBps net drive.
Great!
I left the company the same day.
All True.
Absolutely true and good.
BUT, who said corporate IT's were sensible???
My ex-employer had a corporate IT policy: Any complaint you make about your PC: whether it is Word not working or disk errors, their solution was simple: Wipe and Reimage.
Much like cutting off your head because you have a running nose and an earache: No head, No Complaints!
Corporates love those public kiosk machines: Absolute control.
Hell, one bank i worked for didn't even allow IE to store cookies! Policy.
It didn't go over my head as you imply.
Am just saying the ground reality is not what you think.
Corporates have PCs whose USB ports are disabled, DVD disconnected and system literally locked (with a MasterLock).
people is aware that they shall only use trusted usb sticks and open trusted email
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your naive quote.
You just summarized a network administrator's worst nightmare: Trusted USB sticks and Trusted email.
Tell me, how do you "trust" a USB stick? Put a stamp on it?
Usability != USB Drives.
In most of the corporates i have worked for, my USB ports have been disabled and my DVD drive missing.
I didn't feel least constricted, if that is what you mean.
If i needed a software, i had to follow the stupid process, but i did not miss a USB drive or a DVD drive for work.
Minimalist physical configurations leave you less worrying about issues.
You are probably too young and inexperienced in the corporate world. That's why you seem to equate USB with PSU.
'We're putting a ton of money into back-end systems for both mobile and the broadband site...
Meaning: Our administrators report our server utilisation stands at 83%. The remaining 17% is a huge potential for us to squeeze more money from customers without spending a cent.
We're making serious investments in the games space because it's now seen as a huge strategic initiative for AT&T.
Meaning: We have to threaten EA, Relic, and other Game makers to provide their games free of cost to us, else they will face "unfortunate accidents" when their customers try to visit their sites.
And before it just wasn't; it wasn't on the executive agenda.
Meaning: That's true. It never struck us that we could make more money by utilising remaining reserve of 17% of servers capacity and get the games for free from EA by just threatening them.
1) You need an anti-virus solution in the Linux box. Assuming that is your only gateway to the external internet, putting up a anti-virus enabled firewall and stopping unwanted protocols is enough to filter out most stuff.
2) Disable USB and DVD drives on every PC. Physically. Period.
Its cheap and fast.
Try saying that to AIG and State Farm.
StateFarm recently was in the news for rejecting coverage of someone whose DNA tests were known to it.
Hitler would have loved this.
It would have given the SS and Gestapo valid, legal reasons that were sought in this conference.
Instead of debating it in Senate (which exists solely for debates), why put it to Commerce Committee and why now?
The answer can b e got here. It says a former tech exec has joi ned the committee.
Which means he is trying to pre-empt any legislation by the Congress by putting it for consideration in the committee.
Which effectively kills any legislation and also protects the interests of telecoms.
Sneaky, disgusting and probably illegal.
But then the senate has a record of disgust. So nothing new here.
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Sadly, i do.
When did Slashdot transition from a site for geeks into a site for exclusive Microsoft bashing???
Not just Microsoft.
These guys make TV tuners for Macs. They too have the same problem which they have acknowledged.
Am referring to this
This is used to tune into over-air channels and makes a Mac into a TV / media Center.
And yes, it HAS issues with DTV transition.
Am NOT talking about Apple TV. That's a different product for a different market.
Connecting this to your Apple TV or even directly to a Mac is possible.
The point is they too have issues with DTV transition. Not just Microsoft.
I care less about Microsoft than i care about Apple.
But that is not the fact.
90% Windows != 90% Media Center Windows.
Apple is way more popular as a media center than Windows.
Ask anyone who bought the Mac Mini.
Mini too has the same tuning issues until Apple updates the channels.
Tuning bug.
Try the Elisa or Ubuntu Media center.
They too have the same channel search issues.
Nope.
The fact that fingerprints are unique, and grow exactly in the same form even after a burn or erasure clearly shows a higher purpose.
Don't you visit the Creationist mueseum in Texas.
God made us. In his image.
And his fingerprint is what all of us have.