Well, the windows equivalent is file sharing, and that's off by default too. And if it got turned on I'd blame the user, because they would have had to do it.
There are jobs that do follow those policies, but they are companies where the computer is much less the focus, and the employees only use 1 or 2 programs. They are seriously locked down, IE can access only 2 domain names, you can't right-click anywhere, and you can't see any other folder other than My Documents. Its power users that they can't restrict, those people that need to actually have admin rights on their computer from time to time.
PS: Some added security measures were do to me, since I was able to get around hidden drives and also was able to change the background picture. Surely this is not hacking, but that's what IT there thought.
Nevermind the thousands of people who depended on those jobs in the 1980s for cars are all basically poor now, and that we seemed to have some rather poor economic situations in the us afterwards...
"Or perhaps we should only worry about the American poor."
Bingo!
Don't get me wrong, I do care that others are suffering, and that problem *needs* to be solved. But there are people in our own respective countries (US in my case) that are also suffering.
To give an analogy, would you give money to the salvation army or buy food and housing for your child?
I remember why I switched. I heard it was easier to find song lyrics (for songs stuck in my head) on google rather than altavista. Then I figured, if I'm doing it for music, why not everything else?
Using 64kbps is useless anyway, unless vonage does end-to-end between 2 vonage customers. Because if it has to go over POTS at any point, it has to be kicked down to 8kbps as that's all that POTS can handle.
If you notice, phone calls sound incredibly shitty on FM radio shows. Why? Because FM is at 64kbps and POTS is at 8.
I'm not saying this to advocate piracy or anything, but the school I went to had 1 legitimate Windows 95 CD and one Office CD, which was installed on no less than 100 computers. And I know that other schools do this as well.
I live in Massachusetts and I can tell you of the exception to this rule: the "well off" schools. Schools like the Wayland Public schools do keep proper lisencing for software, but if this is a small school that's not particularly well off (as evinced from the # of computers) then its likely they'll look at the piracy option.
Because entrapment is only applicable if you're making someone do something illegal that they wouldn't have done on their own. For example, police asking for drugs from a suspected drug dealer would not be entrapment because the guy would already have the drugs if he's going to sell them to the cops.
I'm a google fanboy, but as far as directions go, I have to agree with you. I've tried using google maps 3 times and each time something like mapquest had clearer and more useful directions. Its nice for the images, but not the directions.
I hope they're doing this kind of stuff with EDGE, UDMA, or EVDO because if they're using vanilla GSM/GPRS then its too slow for more than just one PC. I tried doing this with 1 or 2 friends, and having that 2nd pc online made things like google timeout.
1. Make ads for TV 2. Slowly make them more annoying 3. Discover that people are avoiding your ads like the plague 4. Try to subvert to force said people to watch your ads 5. ??? 6. Profit!
"I'm sorry, but if we want to outsource our lowest common denominator positions, go for it."
Pardon me, but IT positions are not like cashier positions. While cashiers do get promoted over time, its not because they've learned anything being a cashier. In IT, as in other professions, you can't graduate from college and suddenly be the senior IT manager (unless you know people in a company that will automatically hire you). You need to gain on the job experience, which most senior positions list as a requirement: x years of experience.
Outsourcing all entry level positions is like removing the first 10 stories of an office building because they're of the least monetary value anyway.
I think this qualifies as a "fundamental breakdown of the law." Not only do we have to get tougher on the companies when it comes to laws, we have to get tougher on the lawmakers. Maybe, just maybe, we should have a system that regulates lobbyists, since these types of companyes seem to have really good ones.
Well, it would help if you weren't comparing two drastically different things. In a language, there are easy things to wrote, like small words and nontechnical dissertations. There are also difficult things to write, like if you are writing technical documents like an engineering manual or medical text. If you discuss multivariable calculus specifically it is something out of the range of experience for normal people. A much better analogy (and one that doesn't support your point) is to compair spelling ability with general math ability. Certain math problems are easy, like 2+2 but others are much harder sqrt(17). Both can be done by hand, but we understandably have different views of what we expect from people trying to perform them. I don't expect people to be able to flawlessly write documents like they were in a spelling bee. I also don't expect people to multiply 9 digit numbers in their head. But if you find someone who's unable to use the correct tense in a sentence, can't spell a phrase such as, "no one", and cannot use the correct homonym, then you shouldn't be coddling them and saying, "it's alright."
Don't protect people from their mistakes, let them learn from them.
I think the first time I remember hearing the word Fuck was from a girl when I was in 3rd grade. But I can't remember the first time I heard it. I think that in psych class that is called something like specific memory or something. Its where monotnous activities, like learning certain actions or events. Do you remember the first time you heard how Romeo & Juliet ended?
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Well, the windows equivalent is file sharing, and that's off by default too. And if it got turned on I'd blame the user, because they would have had to do it.
Parent Moderation -1: False logic.
There are jobs that do follow those policies, but they are companies where the computer is much less the focus, and the employees only use 1 or 2 programs. They are seriously locked down, IE can access only 2 domain names, you can't right-click anywhere, and you can't see any other folder other than My Documents. Its power users that they can't restrict, those people that need to actually have admin rights on their computer from time to time.
PS: Some added security measures were do to me, since I was able to get around hidden drives and also was able to change the background picture. Surely this is not hacking, but that's what IT there thought.
Nevermind the thousands of people who depended on those jobs in the 1980s for cars are all basically poor now, and that we seemed to have some rather poor economic situations in the us afterwards...
"Or perhaps we should only worry about the American poor."
Bingo!
Don't get me wrong, I do care that others are suffering, and that problem *needs* to be solved. But there are people in our own respective countries (US in my case) that are also suffering.
To give an analogy, would you give money to the salvation army or buy food and housing for your child?
"The service also provides optional voice scrambling, to make the caller sound like someone of the opposite sex."
I've been waiting years for Scream: Home Edition!
I remember why I switched. I heard it was easier to find song lyrics (for songs stuck in my head) on google rather than altavista. Then I figured, if I'm doing it for music, why not everything else?
Using 64kbps is useless anyway, unless vonage does end-to-end between 2 vonage customers. Because if it has to go over POTS at any point, it has to be kicked down to 8kbps as that's all that POTS can handle.
If you notice, phone calls sound incredibly shitty on FM radio shows. Why? Because FM is at 64kbps and POTS is at 8.
I'm not saying this to advocate piracy or anything, but the school I went to had 1 legitimate Windows 95 CD and one Office CD, which was installed on no less than 100 computers. And I know that other schools do this as well.
I live in Massachusetts and I can tell you of the exception to this rule: the "well off" schools. Schools like the Wayland Public schools do keep proper lisencing for software, but if this is a small school that's not particularly well off (as evinced from the # of computers) then its likely they'll look at the piracy option.
Because entrapment is only applicable if you're making someone do something illegal that they wouldn't have done on their own. For example, police asking for drugs from a suspected drug dealer would not be entrapment because the guy would already have the drugs if he's going to sell them to the cops.
I'm a google fanboy, but as far as directions go, I have to agree with you. I've tried using google maps 3 times and each time something like mapquest had clearer and more useful directions. Its nice for the images, but not the directions.
"And the Corp. edition just meant no activation..."
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
I hope they're doing this kind of stuff with EDGE, UDMA, or EVDO because if they're using vanilla GSM/GPRS then its too slow for more than just one PC. I tried doing this with 1 or 2 friends, and having that 2nd pc online made things like google timeout.
Excellent idea
1. Make ads for TV
2. Slowly make them more annoying
3. Discover that people are avoiding your ads like the plague
4. Try to subvert to force said people to watch your ads
5. ???
6. Profit!
You shouldn't be badmouthing the Network Time Protocol like that. It's only trying to help!
"(did I miss anything?)"
The point?
"I'm sorry, but if we want to outsource our lowest common denominator positions, go for it."
Pardon me, but IT positions are not like cashier positions. While cashiers do get promoted over time, its not because they've learned anything being a cashier. In IT, as in other professions, you can't graduate from college and suddenly be the senior IT manager (unless you know people in a company that will automatically hire you). You need to gain on the job experience, which most senior positions list as a requirement: x years of experience.
Outsourcing all entry level positions is like removing the first 10 stories of an office building because they're of the least monetary value anyway.
I'll bet its the senior positions like System Administrators, Network Administrators, and so on.
Monster, Dice, and other job sites seem to list mostly those positions. Why? Because the entry level positions are gone.
Wait a couple decades, when all the people qualified for senior positions are retired, and let me know if outsourcing was a good idea.
I think this qualifies as a "fundamental breakdown of the law." Not only do we have to get tougher on the companies when it comes to laws, we have to get tougher on the lawmakers. Maybe, just maybe, we should have a system that regulates lobbyists, since these types of companyes seem to have really good ones.
Wouldn't it be great if other companies did this?
Golf courses could make the hole smaller to encourage more people to buy Tiger Woods video games.
McDonalds could increase the amount of ice in drinks to make people buy bigger drinks.
Motion Picture creators could degrade the quality of videos to make people move to a new format.
Nike could make their shoes less comfortable and then sell replacement linings.
Is this funny or insightful?
It's probably both.
Its about time google started working on world peace, as a lot of people had already speculated.
But seriously, the cynical part of me knows that this is partially a PR move, albeit beneficial to more than just themselves.
The right to remain silent?
"things to wrote"
What delicious irony, I will learn to use a spelling and grammar checker even on Slashdot!
Well, it would help if you weren't comparing two drastically different things. In a language, there are easy things to wrote, like small words and nontechnical dissertations. There are also difficult things to write, like if you are writing technical documents like an engineering manual or medical text. If you discuss multivariable calculus specifically it is something out of the range of experience for normal people. A much better analogy (and one that doesn't support your point) is to compair spelling ability with general math ability. Certain math problems are easy, like 2+2 but others are much harder sqrt(17). Both can be done by hand, but we understandably have different views of what we expect from people trying to perform them. I don't expect people to be able to flawlessly write documents like they were in a spelling bee. I also don't expect people to multiply 9 digit numbers in their head. But if you find someone who's unable to use the correct tense in a sentence, can't spell a phrase such as, "no one", and cannot use the correct homonym, then you shouldn't be coddling them and saying, "it's alright."
Don't protect people from their mistakes, let them learn from them.
I think the first time I remember hearing the word Fuck was from a girl when I was in 3rd grade. But I can't remember the first time I heard it. I think that in psych class that is called something like specific memory or something. Its where monotnous activities, like learning certain actions or events. Do you remember the first time you heard how Romeo & Juliet ended?
How about, "don't misinterpret this as saying that spyware is somehow right."