Obviously this is not a primary tactic. However, it is one point among many that is part of basic investigatory (sp?) training.
Would it also surprise you (general, not specific) to find out that the amount and type of toiletries also is a trouble indicator? Not so much now after the whole 3 oz. thing, but these are all things that were put together during the 'war on drugs'. Anyway, frequent travelers carry very little in the way of toiletries whereas infrequent tourists tend to pack too much. Again, GGP is pointing out a 'valid' technique, but you rightfully point out how absurd it is to elevate it to the general case of every traveler.
Speed cameras have done more than any other single cause to destroy respect for the law among the general public in the UK
MOD PARENT UP!
This little bit of wisdom needs to be shouted from the rooftops, plastered on billboards, and used for the vision test at the DMV.
100% adherence to the law is impossible. Rational laws with rational law enforcement keeps the most egregious (read dangerous) offenders at bay. If enforcement becomes universal all the time every time, then why bother with adherence? Why not do whatever, or go however far since the punishment is the same. If I'm going to lose my license doing 5 over 4 times in a week, hell, why not have fun with it?
Once the public loses respect for law enforcement it is most plainly evident in their disregard of the law. How many times must human kind travel down the same road?
A few programmer friends got me copies of XP from the MS employee store for $35 each, which I have running on 2 machines.
You have just admitted to copyright infringement by violating license terms. Does your high horse give you enough clearance to be heard over the din of others turning themselves in?
You are in exactly the same gray area the article talks about. I think I'll report you to the BSA and see what kind of reward I can collect out of your hide.
A good business practice would be to treat all your customers equal
Sure it is. But in the Real World you can go broke doing it.
My employer spends millions with a single vendor. That vendor has assigned us a personal representative who is available day or night. The vendor could not do that for every shmoe on the website, nor would we accept a generic email address for our service needs.
Mod parent up, frame it and post on the front page for eternity.
Trying to codify the legal fees is a losing proposition. Why? because once codified, you can start bending the code. They even coined a term for it: loopholes.
A high ethical canon, oversight, and leniency for the disadvantaged in the court room is much a better system as a whole. You can always pick individuals to stress pros and cons of any system.
Bright light, not black ink is the way to ensure fairness.
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foods are cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures before grinding
Great! Where the hell am I going to find room in my kitchen for the new Ronco liquid nitro food processor? A better question is will Sears service the darn thing?
You can go a long way on your own just by reading cited resources and sending a polite *letter*, not an email. Send it certified, return receipt, yadda, yadda.
because they're loose cannons that pervert the mechanisms of the courts.
You are missing his/her point. Nullification is there precisely to 'pervert the mechanisms of the courts' in favor of the mechanisms of justice. Our communal sense of justice can clearly run contrary to the letter and even spirit of the law. The hope is that 12 (or 6) members of the community are a broad enough cross section to reflect the communal sense of justice in the decision they are called to make.
Jury nullification is another of the original checks and balances the framers had in mind when founding the USA.
I would have hoped for a Pyrrhic victory for the RIAA. I may very well have found for the plaintiff, but on the question of damages, I would award US$24--one dollar per song. However, being in the computer field for a number of years, I'm sure they would have excused me from the jury pool real quick.
So, we are going to abandon the politically unstable Middle East and start getting all of our fuel from Africa. Everyone knows that Africa has a reputation for political stability, and infrastructure.
Why is it that we never discovery an abundant fuel resource in Canada, Switzerland, or some other stable non-threatening geographical locale?
Wouldn't video games be the obvious cure to TV induced ADD?
No. Absolutely not. Video games are a form of hyper stimulation. Basically, you get into a trance like state with an intense focus on the rules of the game universe. ADD/ADHD folks are already hyper-stimulated, hence their condition.
There has been work done using game like simulations to treat ADD, but you could only compare them to a videogame in the most rudimentary sense.
The 'cure' is simply large quantities of quality time with educated parents/teachers/circle of love members learning how to cope.
...or the incidence of occurrence for these traits has stayed the same in proportion to the entire population. And as population has exploded, the percentage of "flawed" people is the same, but are physically more numerous because the human census is greater.
i was willing to pay *twice* their subscription price if they would make the magazine available digitally because i did't want a dead tree version. they told me in many different ways, no can do.
You don't understand the magazine biz. Subscriptions basically do two things: cover shipping and handling and prove to advertisers how many eyeballs are reached.
You care about the ink around the ads, the rag only cares about the ads. The content is simply cheese.:)
Now maybe some real measures will be done about the rampaging problem of ID theft.
Why do we have to pay three separate organizations to be more judicious about how they share our information? Especially when we have no control over how they got it to begin with.
I'm referring to placing a lock on your credit files _before_ an ID theft occurs. I'm lucky enough to live in a state that passed a law giving me this 'ability'. The big three ID theft enablers--I mean credit reporting organizations do not have to honor any freeze requests without a report of theft.
One last rhetorical question, why have we allowed an entire industry to spring up around ID theft prevention?
Run the backup to local drive as often as you feel necessary. Having the information on a second place of the disk improves your recovery chances _when_ you have to send that bad boy out to a service for recovery.
Copy backups to the network upon login. Copy backups to the network upon login. Copy backups to the network upon login. And finally, make it impossible, or at least very irritating, for the user to interrupt this step.
Personally, I would advocate working off of the professionally(?) managed servers.
/. is linking to an 'article' that is like 5 words longer than the quoted text. Would it, maybe, be useful to have a link to something that actually says What Does This Mean To The Average Slashdot Audience? Mini-rant off. Thanks for letting me vent.
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I'd mod you insightful if I had points. That is probably the most 'normal' thing you could do to get past security without scrutiny.
Obviously this is not a primary tactic. However, it is one point among many that is part of basic investigatory (sp?) training.
Would it also surprise you (general, not specific) to find out that the amount and type of toiletries also is a trouble indicator? Not so much now after the whole 3 oz. thing, but these are all things that were put together during the 'war on drugs'. Anyway, frequent travelers carry very little in the way of toiletries whereas infrequent tourists tend to pack too much. Again, GGP is pointing out a 'valid' technique, but you rightfully point out how absurd it is to elevate it to the general case of every traveler.
Speed cameras have done more than any other single cause to destroy respect for the law among the general public in the UK
MOD PARENT UP!
This little bit of wisdom needs to be shouted from the rooftops, plastered on billboards, and used for the vision test at the DMV.
100% adherence to the law is impossible. Rational laws with rational law enforcement keeps the most egregious (read dangerous) offenders at bay. If enforcement becomes universal all the time every time, then why bother with adherence? Why not do whatever, or go however far since the punishment is the same. If I'm going to lose my license doing 5 over 4 times in a week, hell, why not have fun with it?
Once the public loses respect for law enforcement it is most plainly evident in their disregard of the law. How many times must human kind travel down the same road?
MOD PARENT UP. Oh, to be out of points.
So you're the person who buys all those papers in the supermarket check out line!
:)
I'd like to have a chat over coffee someday. See, there is this bridge in Arizona...
File suit and use discovery to compel you to comply with an audit request.
If your Linux only claim is true, you make them foot the defense and audit bill under threat of a counter suit.
Or, invite them in at their own expense and save all the BS.
A few programmer friends got me copies of XP from the MS employee store for $35 each, which I have running on 2 machines.
You have just admitted to copyright infringement by violating license terms. Does your high horse give you enough clearance to be heard over the din of others turning themselves in?
You are in exactly the same gray area the article talks about. I think I'll report you to the BSA and see what kind of reward I can collect out of your hide.
Food for thought?
A good business practice would be to treat all your customers equal
Sure it is. But in the Real World you can go broke doing it.
My employer spends millions with a single vendor. That vendor has assigned us a personal representative who is available day or night. The vendor could not do that for every shmoe on the website, nor would we accept a generic email address for our service needs.
Mod parent up, frame it and post on the front page for eternity. Trying to codify the legal fees is a losing proposition. Why? because once codified, you can start bending the code. They even coined a term for it: loopholes. A high ethical canon, oversight, and leniency for the disadvantaged in the court room is much a better system as a whole. You can always pick individuals to stress pros and cons of any system. Bright light, not black ink is the way to ensure fairness.
foods are cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures before grinding
Great! Where the hell am I going to find room in my kitchen for the new Ronco liquid nitro food processor? A better question is will Sears service the darn thing?
What if the law in the US says you cannot follow the law in China?
Although not a corporate insider, I would posit that that is one of the reasons why Yahoo! China IS a separate entity.
You can go a long way on your own just by reading cited resources and sending a polite *letter*, not an email. Send it certified, return receipt, yadda, yadda.
but wouldn't they expect Yahoo! U.S. to rollover if presented for an information request on the basis of "national security"?
Yahoo! China has to follow the laws of that country, just as we expect Yahoo! U.S. to do so.
Maybe the U.S. Government should issue Letters of Marque to multi-national corporations...
I don't for a second condone what Yahoo! did on moral grounds. However, legally they acted as expected.
because they're loose cannons that pervert the mechanisms of the courts.
You are missing his/her point. Nullification is there precisely to 'pervert the mechanisms of the courts' in favor of the mechanisms of justice. Our communal sense of justice can clearly run contrary to the letter and even spirit of the law. The hope is that 12 (or 6) members of the community are a broad enough cross section to reflect the communal sense of justice in the decision they are called to make.
Jury nullification is another of the original checks and balances the framers had in mind when founding the USA.
I would have hoped for a Pyrrhic victory for the RIAA. I may very well have found for the plaintiff, but on the question of damages, I would award US$24--one dollar per song. However, being in the computer field for a number of years, I'm sure they would have excused me from the jury pool real quick.
So, we are going to abandon the politically unstable Middle East and start getting all of our fuel from Africa. Everyone knows that Africa has a reputation for political stability, and infrastructure.
Why is it that we never discovery an abundant fuel resource in Canada, Switzerland, or some other stable non-threatening geographical locale?
Pardon me for pointing out the obvious...
No. Just a parent continually looking for the best way to reach my son. :)
Wouldn't video games be the obvious cure to TV induced ADD?
No. Absolutely not. Video games are a form of hyper stimulation. Basically, you get into a trance like state with an intense focus on the rules of the game universe. ADD/ADHD folks are already hyper-stimulated, hence their condition.
There has been work done using game like simulations to treat ADD, but you could only compare them to a videogame in the most rudimentary sense.
The 'cure' is simply large quantities of quality time with educated parents/teachers/circle of love members learning how to cope.
...or the incidence of occurrence for these traits has stayed the same in proportion to the entire population. And as population has exploded, the percentage of "flawed" people is the same, but are physically more numerous because the human census is greater.
i was willing to pay *twice* their subscription price if they would make the magazine available digitally because i did't want a dead tree version. they told me in many different ways, no can do.
:)
You don't understand the magazine biz. Subscriptions basically do two things: cover shipping and handling and prove to advertisers how many eyeballs are reached.
You care about the ink around the ads, the rag only cares about the ads. The content is simply cheese.
Now maybe some real measures will be done about the rampaging problem of ID theft.
Why do we have to pay three separate organizations to be more judicious about how they share our information? Especially when we have no control over how they got it to begin with.
I'm referring to placing a lock on your credit files _before_ an ID theft occurs. I'm lucky enough to live in a state that passed a law giving me this 'ability'. The big three ID theft enablers--I mean credit reporting organizations do not have to honor any freeze requests without a report of theft.
One last rhetorical question, why have we allowed an entire industry to spring up around ID theft prevention?
Start here:
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241397
here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325003
and here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170207
Run the backup to local drive as often as you feel necessary. Having the information on a second place of the disk improves your recovery chances _when_ you have to send that bad boy out to a service for recovery.
Copy backups to the network upon login. Copy backups to the network upon login. Copy backups to the network upon login. And finally, make it impossible, or at least very irritating, for the user to interrupt this step.
Personally, I would advocate working off of the professionally(?) managed servers.
Great lawyers keep people OUT of court, not in.
is probably buying the company as we type.
Sounds like just the hook to make Gphone attractive to advertisers.
... go right to throwing down a random opinion based on the Slashdot summary.
;)
Oh yea, that is original. And that is going to make you stick out around here how?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
/. is linking to an 'article' that is like 5 words longer than the quoted text. Would it, maybe, be useful to have a link to something that actually says What Does This Mean To The Average Slashdot Audience? Mini-rant off. Thanks for letting me vent.