And you obviously haven't used that compatibility pack with advanced documents. The compatibility pack is just a patch to fix what is now somewhat and force people to upgrade if there is a problem. I used it, it doesn't work all that great.
I also have some documents in the 'old' format and it looks 3 times different on Mac with Office 2004, Windows with Office 2003 and Windows with Office 2007 so I don't understand why anyone would even bother using Microsoft formats for publishing stuff. Use TeX, PDF or PS.
Well, you could always just apply for the patent and then make over some money ($1000) to me for breaching my patent instead of going through that tedious litigation process and losing more money on lawyers (@ $100/hour and I can keep 'em in court for more than 10h).
Well, depending on the studio, you can get anywhere from CD-quality masters as you state to analog masters. A studio I worked with stored their digital masters at 96kHz/24bit although most of their input wasn't that high in definition and thus a lot was just wasted.
Sure, using an iPod and some earbuds and your average person, you wouldn't hear much difference (although they did accordingly to the article, just not much). The younger person being more deaf is also correct, since our generation (30) has deafened itself in clubs and parties. I think the next generation might be going back to softer music at more acceptable levels, our generation though it was cool to have music in your ears blaring at 120 dB. I remember waking up wasted on top of a 500W professional speaker during a party, had been there for a few hours, that shot my optimal hearing for a great deal (although I can still hear pretty good).
You will and do hear the difference much better (have tested it myself) when you have a decent output system like a non-plastic surround system (no, not a Bose nor Logitech, think more towards Marantz, Yamaha, Denon). Certain music however sounds the same (modern Pop, Britney Spears, Country;-) ) while others are more lenient to discern higher bitrates (Classical, Electronic, Lounge) although honestly I can't discern any bitrate higher than 256kbps, most times I can't even discern higher than 192kbps but 128 is slightly noticeable.
The misconception is from the writers of that article that iTunes Music Store = iPod music. iTunes and Apple in general have a more broad idea, namely that you buy music for the experience on any device while other vendors like the idea that you buy different versions for each type of device (buy the DRM-laden song on 128 for your Zune, buy the CD for your car and buy the HD-version for your home theater).
Well, it's quite obvious. Usually when a company develops something with the impact of the iPhone, the company keeps it a secret until release (or in-store) date. The problem with that is that people on the bottom (helpdesk trainees, shipping people) get to see it anyway (the product needs training and handling) and leak it to the media. Apple seems to frequently leak from the top aka give it's executives the product to test out and see what it's like instead of just having it as a single prototype at a production meeting, thus leaking it's products from the top.
I'm not talking about leaking software here as in distributing illegal copies of a pre-production of Leopard, just leaking details about it's products or potential products.
I don't know about you, but all distro's I worked with, I have been able to compile a custom kernel. To make it really easy, usually they have the 'kernel-sources.rpm' (for SuSE and Fedora/RedHat) but you could just as well download the latest from kernel.org. The problem is usually, that when YOU compile a kernel, that YOU don't know which options should be turned on to make that particular distro work again (like SELinux or JFS/ReiserFS) but I have not heard yet that they develop their own kernel extensions.
I can help you with the middle one, you see, I was digging around and there was this really large iron shell I found, inside there seems to be a warm, glowing material giving some people around here radiation poisoning. I think you could use it... to bring absolute peace to the Middle East, or you know, make a plot for a really bad movie.
Gentoo and distro's like it (LFS) are not meant to be for the average desktop machines. Desktop machines get re-installed and need all types of upgrades every x-amount of days to keep up.
Gentoo is mainly for: 1) Developing and bleeding edge purposes - yes, it's nice to have a package manager that will include the latest of the late KDE and all it's dependencies. No it's not nice that you'll have to wait for tomorrow to get it complete, but it's easier than having to build something and finding all dependencies yourself as you compile. 2) Razor-edge performance on large single-purpose farms. The only way I would like to use Gentoo in production is when I need the optimizations for a certain product (say Apache OR MySQL) deployed on a large number of identical machines, I only need to build it once, then I can deploy (automatically) on the rest of the machines with all the performance I need pressed out, forget about all other USE flags (set everything - (gtk, kde,... and only +mysql).
Yes, it is safe, it doesn't add or remove anything from a safety perspective. The atime is however useful in case you regularly have to audit your system for financial reasons (SoX) but otherwise not necessary for working. Make a backup of your filesystem and then disable it, no harm will be done.
You should, just as me, talk to your friends and family about these subjects. It's good that the world gets to know what goes on in the world! We all have the obligation to criticize all attacks on free speech.
The war in Iraq, the wars in Congo is watered down for a lot of reasons by all mainstream media. However, there is a solution: daily news podcasts, the blogosphere and a lot of 'new media' has (as always) been used by so called (as the mainstream media calls it) alternative journalists just as the "pirate" radiostations in the 70's, the "resistance" during the world wars and in the soviet nations kept us informed about what was really going on while oppressive fascists tried to influence the sheeple what we thought./. is one of those sources where DRM, the DMCA and censoring is a frequent subject, however the mainstream media doesn't ever give any attention to it.
It's for the government/military. You don't believe that a toilet seat for the white house costs $10000 either do you? (oblig. quote from a movie, guess which one)
Next to that, it costs so much because it has to be 'mil spec' meaning that it has to be handpicked and tested before it can be shipped to the customer. If that wasn't bad enough, the government doesn't pay it's contractors immediately. It can take up to 3 years after the project is done before it is budgetted and you see any $$$ coming your way, that's why doing a job for the government is always higher quoted than civilian and then the lowest quote is picked. Also a reason why you see some members of the military and other policing agencies buying their own gear instead of going with the 'standard issue'.
Your cell phone is max. 2W, even if it malfunctions it can't give more than say 5W before the batteries asplode or a fuse trips. WiFi is in the mW ranges. That's near to nothing, it can hardly warm up your skin, let alone give a significant difference in temperature for your organs (as in cooking or killing tissue). However, microwaves at 700-1500W heat your food and it's not advisable to put your reproductive organs or babies/puppies in a microwave oven since, yeah, it's designed to do that. Radio towers are kW-MW range. Radar installations for example have/had tenths of dead birds in front of them and both of those installations have to be turned off or at least down before being serviced. The power level is significantly different, that's also why there is a big difference in security for those type of installations.
Cell phones transmit more often if I'm correct, but it's again in the mW range, not the full power. And even while you're calling, the cell phone doesn't transmit at it's full power (2W), only the power that is necessary to maintain the connection (at least the modern ones do, the old ones that were the size and weight of a small brick (used to have one) were blazing their power all over the place.
I don't see any problem with this museum, at least not worthy of/. main page. I can probably expect a lot of -1 Trolls on this post, but my +1 Insightful view on it is this:
They basically take evolutionism, replace big bang with God orderly putting everything in place, selection of species and some bacteria turning into apes with orderly creating everything. There you have it, creationism. It's not all that different and neither of them can be proven wrong. You can't prove God does (not) exist and did all that work over billions of years nor can you prove that the big bang was (not) a big explosion. The main questions you're going to remain with is: where does God come from? or where did that mass of stuff exploding come from?
I say, let's peacefully co-exist, I don't care whether you teach it or not in schools, but don't teach creationism nor evolutionism as an exact science and don't teach creationism nor evolutionism as the only true religion. I see a lot of atheists that hang on to evolution and the big bang theory as a religion, something that has to be and is true, no matter what other people think or say. Why? Because you feel the need to be religious about something? What if I come up with a scientific theory that better fits the bill? You're going to massively change then? Or am I going to be incorrect.
Nobody said that the world was made in 7 24h days. Just think about it, let's say the Bible is the book of God and it specified God created everything in 7 days. Before God created our planet and our sun etc., there were no 24 hour days, there was nothing, how would you (or God) then calculate 24 hour days. What if God resided on Mars or Jupiter on that occasion? Would you still say that God's day was 24 hours? The only religion that teaches that as far as I know is catholicism and maybe some other offspring religions in Christendom. Heck, talk to a Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon (they're easy to come by, they even come to you every so often (I don't want to offend anyone, just a joke)), they'll tell you that those 'days' are unspecified in length, could be millions of years.
I hate that people keep putting their personal religion to the front as a fact that can have no objection, there are thousands of believes on any type of subject, I have my own, open your own museum if you want, but don't teach my kids your view on how we got here as a fact. Unless you have a camera or scientific undeniable proof that it happened that way (as in exact, not a theory) I probably will think my own way about it.
The catch is to make it simple enough for everyone to use it. Like include it in the VLC decoder set and distribute it. It's not just distributing code and expecting people to patch it. It's making it simple enough that the average Joe Sixpack can just get a download and doesn't have to jump through hoops to (in this case play) use their legally bought product.
I needed a printer fast so I went and bought a relative cheap all-in-one unit from HP ($60). The box said it would work with Mac OS X. It didn't, so I returned it saying that I wanted my money back since the advertisement was incorrect, even HP confirmed they had problems with their drivers. They went like: No, 15% restocking fee or buy a more expensive model. I said: I don't want a more expensive model, this unit doesn't work as advertised, it's useless, I want my money back, I'll buy another one elsewhere because you don't carry other brands. No, couldn't do it, after a long time, I just took the unit, went outside and advertised to everybody not to buy their stuff anymore.
He wasn't talking about whether or not it's integrated. He's talking about the performance. I can bolt on a datawarehousing application on anything and it will work, the performance is what counts. And I know from experience that MS SQL2005 (what you are talking about since 2000 doesn't have it) is sub-par on performance for that kind of work on very large datasets mainly because of the performance limitations of the underlying system (Windows). Well, the solution is there now (we bought something from one of those big companies that basically sell you their application + consulting for the lifetime of the system) and quite honestly (I'm developing BI for a very large company in the world oil business) it's not what I expect even on the raw dataset (not using their third-party middleware).
That's exactly what I was talking about, the same is true for New York State, There are about 6 booths (both ways) where people hand you tickets and 2 Ez-Pass ones. The Ez-Pass is just about as expensive as manually paying for it, so I don't see the benefit of prepaying and then having some money left over if I don't use toll lanes anymore.
This is a typical big corporation issue I think. It's not that Novell decides to both support and go against Microsoft. It's just that Novell has some clueless managing types at the top that see a presentation about how a certain decision will make them money. They decide to go with the decision if it prognoses to make lots of money. The next board meeting or staff meeting (whoever decides that and at which level I don't know), they see another decision that will help them with their image, they decide to go with it because it makes them look good. They have no clue what they are deciding on, they don't know how the community thinks about it or the underlying reasons until they actually make the decision, and although the community is big and strong, all they see is potential customers they need to win over to their side.
That's so with a lot of large companies, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing and that's fine to upper management as long as the two hands keep their fat paycheck coming in. There's not a whole lot of corpies that actually care about the company as a whole, that have a certain ethic or goal or ideal to work towards as a company, all they want is their weekly $x000. I have seen it in a lot of companies and it's all the same and eventually they go under because of it. In the beginning of the company, there's a few idealists that start the company and that want to bring out their product/invention/whatever and that feel good about it. But as their company grows, they leave or die or get replaced and the monthly employee meetings become yearly and the focus shifts from bringing in new customers or bringing out a good product or working towards a goal or ideal to "make us money, then make us more money and we are losing money here, here and here, let's cut that m'kay". I even had CxO's telling me that they don't care whether or not our computer systems run good or is compliant to standards, as long as I don't have to deal with complains about it, that persons goal was solely becoming a CEO of any company by implementing a change that would make lots of money in a short time, cash out, apply for the new job with 'good' references and examples and as soon as that 'surge' of extra money dries up, they are long gone.
Same with Novell, they don't strive to bring out the best networking software anymore, not since Novell 5. The company is slowing down, big enough to sustain itself and to sustain the paycheck of current management.
Well, if it's in New York state, they would require actually two people sitting there manually charging you every time you pass each way instead of automating it.
Really! You know there is this Windows CD I bought and it had this EULA.txt on, so I copied it, did "cat ~/MyEula > EULA.txt" and burnt it to a blank CD. Well, I never read the EULA, but apparently it is still in effect... hmm... as soon as you open the packaging, the EULA starts taking effect in the US apparently (and if I remember, there have been lawsuits around it).
By the way, if you make a frisbee out of it and throw it at MPAA members, they would arrest you and charge you with assault on (incapable/elderly/demented) people. If you throw a Britney Spears CD, you would be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; if you would just play an American Idol CD near them, you would be charged with attempted murder in the second degree. The MPAA would also charge you with destruction of property for throwing the CD.
All employees, citizens and noncitizens, hired after November 6, 1986, must complete Section 1 of this form at the time of hire, which is the actual beginning of employment. The employer is responsible for ensuring that Section 1 is timely and properly completed.
And you thought you were not registered in whatever you do! You always need to be register to work at least by a SSN and a drivers license if nothing else.
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And you obviously haven't used that compatibility pack with advanced documents. The compatibility pack is just a patch to fix what is now somewhat and force people to upgrade if there is a problem. I used it, it doesn't work all that great.
I also have some documents in the 'old' format and it looks 3 times different on Mac with Office 2004, Windows with Office 2003 and Windows with Office 2007 so I don't understand why anyone would even bother using Microsoft formats for publishing stuff. Use TeX, PDF or PS.
Well, you could always just apply for the patent and then make over some money ($1000) to me for breaching my patent instead of going through that tedious litigation process and losing more money on lawyers (@ $100/hour and I can keep 'em in court for more than 10h).
But as you should probably know, the Chavez - Citgo link, is an urban myth.
Well, depending on the studio, you can get anywhere from CD-quality masters as you state to analog masters. A studio I worked with stored their digital masters at 96kHz/24bit although most of their input wasn't that high in definition and thus a lot was just wasted.
Sure, using an iPod and some earbuds and your average person, you wouldn't hear much difference (although they did accordingly to the article, just not much). The younger person being more deaf is also correct, since our generation (30) has deafened itself in clubs and parties. I think the next generation might be going back to softer music at more acceptable levels, our generation though it was cool to have music in your ears blaring at 120 dB. I remember waking up wasted on top of a 500W professional speaker during a party, had been there for a few hours, that shot my optimal hearing for a great deal (although I can still hear pretty good).
;-) ) while others are more lenient to discern higher bitrates (Classical, Electronic, Lounge) although honestly I can't discern any bitrate higher than 256kbps, most times I can't even discern higher than 192kbps but 128 is slightly noticeable.
You will and do hear the difference much better (have tested it myself) when you have a decent output system like a non-plastic surround system (no, not a Bose nor Logitech, think more towards Marantz, Yamaha, Denon). Certain music however sounds the same (modern Pop, Britney Spears, Country
The misconception is from the writers of that article that iTunes Music Store = iPod music. iTunes and Apple in general have a more broad idea, namely that you buy music for the experience on any device while other vendors like the idea that you buy different versions for each type of device (buy the DRM-laden song on 128 for your Zune, buy the CD for your car and buy the HD-version for your home theater).
This war on pirates has become even more entertaining than the pirate movies they are pirating.
Well, it's quite obvious. Usually when a company develops something with the impact of the iPhone, the company keeps it a secret until release (or in-store) date. The problem with that is that people on the bottom (helpdesk trainees, shipping people) get to see it anyway (the product needs training and handling) and leak it to the media. Apple seems to frequently leak from the top aka give it's executives the product to test out and see what it's like instead of just having it as a single prototype at a production meeting, thus leaking it's products from the top.
I'm not talking about leaking software here as in distributing illegal copies of a pre-production of Leopard, just leaking details about it's products or potential products.
I don't know about you, but all distro's I worked with, I have been able to compile a custom kernel. To make it really easy, usually they have the 'kernel-sources.rpm' (for SuSE and Fedora/RedHat) but you could just as well download the latest from kernel.org. The problem is usually, that when YOU compile a kernel, that YOU don't know which options should be turned on to make that particular distro work again (like SELinux or JFS/ReiserFS) but I have not heard yet that they develop their own kernel extensions.
I can help you with the middle one, you see, I was digging around and there was this really large iron shell I found, inside there seems to be a warm, glowing material giving some people around here radiation poisoning. I think you could use it... to bring absolute peace to the Middle East, or you know, make a plot for a really bad movie.
Gentoo and distro's like it (LFS) are not meant to be for the average desktop machines. Desktop machines get re-installed and need all types of upgrades every x-amount of days to keep up.
Gentoo is mainly for:
1) Developing and bleeding edge purposes - yes, it's nice to have a package manager that will include the latest of the late KDE and all it's dependencies. No it's not nice that you'll have to wait for tomorrow to get it complete, but it's easier than having to build something and finding all dependencies yourself as you compile.
2) Razor-edge performance on large single-purpose farms. The only way I would like to use Gentoo in production is when I need the optimizations for a certain product (say Apache OR MySQL) deployed on a large number of identical machines, I only need to build it once, then I can deploy (automatically) on the rest of the machines with all the performance I need pressed out, forget about all other USE flags (set everything - (gtk, kde,... and only +mysql).
Yes, it is safe, it doesn't add or remove anything from a safety perspective. The atime is however useful in case you regularly have to audit your system for financial reasons (SoX) but otherwise not necessary for working. Make a backup of your filesystem and then disable it, no harm will be done.
You should, just as me, talk to your friends and family about these subjects. It's good that the world gets to know what goes on in the world! We all have the obligation to criticize all attacks on free speech.
/. is one of those sources where DRM, the DMCA and censoring is a frequent subject, however the mainstream media doesn't ever give any attention to it.
The war in Iraq, the wars in Congo is watered down for a lot of reasons by all mainstream media. However, there is a solution: daily news podcasts, the blogosphere and a lot of 'new media' has (as always) been used by so called (as the mainstream media calls it) alternative journalists just as the "pirate" radiostations in the 70's, the "resistance" during the world wars and in the soviet nations kept us informed about what was really going on while oppressive fascists tried to influence the sheeple what we thought.
It's for the government/military. You don't believe that a toilet seat for the white house costs $10000 either do you? (oblig. quote from a movie, guess which one)
Next to that, it costs so much because it has to be 'mil spec' meaning that it has to be handpicked and tested before it can be shipped to the customer. If that wasn't bad enough, the government doesn't pay it's contractors immediately. It can take up to 3 years after the project is done before it is budgetted and you see any $$$ coming your way, that's why doing a job for the government is always higher quoted than civilian and then the lowest quote is picked. Also a reason why you see some members of the military and other policing agencies buying their own gear instead of going with the 'standard issue'.
Your cell phone is max. 2W, even if it malfunctions it can't give more than say 5W before the batteries asplode or a fuse trips. WiFi is in the mW ranges. That's near to nothing, it can hardly warm up your skin, let alone give a significant difference in temperature for your organs (as in cooking or killing tissue). However, microwaves at 700-1500W heat your food and it's not advisable to put your reproductive organs or babies/puppies in a microwave oven since, yeah, it's designed to do that. Radio towers are kW-MW range. Radar installations for example have/had tenths of dead birds in front of them and both of those installations have to be turned off or at least down before being serviced. The power level is significantly different, that's also why there is a big difference in security for those type of installations.
Cell phones transmit more often if I'm correct, but it's again in the mW range, not the full power. And even while you're calling, the cell phone doesn't transmit at it's full power (2W), only the power that is necessary to maintain the connection (at least the modern ones do, the old ones that were the size and weight of a small brick (used to have one) were blazing their power all over the place.
I don't see any problem with this museum, at least not worthy of /. main page. I can probably expect a lot of -1 Trolls on this post, but my +1 Insightful view on it is this:
They basically take evolutionism, replace big bang with God orderly putting everything in place, selection of species and some bacteria turning into apes with orderly creating everything. There you have it, creationism. It's not all that different and neither of them can be proven wrong. You can't prove God does (not) exist and did all that work over billions of years nor can you prove that the big bang was (not) a big explosion. The main questions you're going to remain with is: where does God come from? or where did that mass of stuff exploding come from?
I say, let's peacefully co-exist, I don't care whether you teach it or not in schools, but don't teach creationism nor evolutionism as an exact science and don't teach creationism nor evolutionism as the only true religion. I see a lot of atheists that hang on to evolution and the big bang theory as a religion, something that has to be and is true, no matter what other people think or say. Why? Because you feel the need to be religious about something? What if I come up with a scientific theory that better fits the bill? You're going to massively change then? Or am I going to be incorrect.
Nobody said that the world was made in 7 24h days. Just think about it, let's say the Bible is the book of God and it specified God created everything in 7 days. Before God created our planet and our sun etc., there were no 24 hour days, there was nothing, how would you (or God) then calculate 24 hour days. What if God resided on Mars or Jupiter on that occasion? Would you still say that God's day was 24 hours? The only religion that teaches that as far as I know is catholicism and maybe some other offspring religions in Christendom. Heck, talk to a Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon (they're easy to come by, they even come to you every so often (I don't want to offend anyone, just a joke)), they'll tell you that those 'days' are unspecified in length, could be millions of years.
I hate that people keep putting their personal religion to the front as a fact that can have no objection, there are thousands of believes on any type of subject, I have my own, open your own museum if you want, but don't teach my kids your view on how we got here as a fact. Unless you have a camera or scientific undeniable proof that it happened that way (as in exact, not a theory) I probably will think my own way about it.
The catch is to make it simple enough for everyone to use it. Like include it in the VLC decoder set and distribute it. It's not just distributing code and expecting people to patch it. It's making it simple enough that the average Joe Sixpack can just get a download and doesn't have to jump through hoops to (in this case play) use their legally bought product.
I needed a printer fast so I went and bought a relative cheap all-in-one unit from HP ($60). The box said it would work with Mac OS X. It didn't, so I returned it saying that I wanted my money back since the advertisement was incorrect, even HP confirmed they had problems with their drivers. They went like: No, 15% restocking fee or buy a more expensive model. I said: I don't want a more expensive model, this unit doesn't work as advertised, it's useless, I want my money back, I'll buy another one elsewhere because you don't carry other brands. No, couldn't do it, after a long time, I just took the unit, went outside and advertised to everybody not to buy their stuff anymore.
He wasn't talking about whether or not it's integrated. He's talking about the performance. I can bolt on a datawarehousing application on anything and it will work, the performance is what counts. And I know from experience that MS SQL2005 (what you are talking about since 2000 doesn't have it) is sub-par on performance for that kind of work on very large datasets mainly because of the performance limitations of the underlying system (Windows). Well, the solution is there now (we bought something from one of those big companies that basically sell you their application + consulting for the lifetime of the system) and quite honestly (I'm developing BI for a very large company in the world oil business) it's not what I expect even on the raw dataset (not using their third-party middleware).
It's worse than that, it's like trading in a pure gold or platinum bar with a turd and then carrying that turd around trying to squirt other people.
That's exactly what I was talking about, the same is true for New York State, There are about 6 booths (both ways) where people hand you tickets and 2 Ez-Pass ones. The Ez-Pass is just about as expensive as manually paying for it, so I don't see the benefit of prepaying and then having some money left over if I don't use toll lanes anymore.
... let's just go to the "readable" story: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=printArticleBasic&articleId=9020942
This is a typical big corporation issue I think. It's not that Novell decides to both support and go against Microsoft. It's just that Novell has some clueless managing types at the top that see a presentation about how a certain decision will make them money. They decide to go with the decision if it prognoses to make lots of money. The next board meeting or staff meeting (whoever decides that and at which level I don't know), they see another decision that will help them with their image, they decide to go with it because it makes them look good. They have no clue what they are deciding on, they don't know how the community thinks about it or the underlying reasons until they actually make the decision, and although the community is big and strong, all they see is potential customers they need to win over to their side.
That's so with a lot of large companies, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing and that's fine to upper management as long as the two hands keep their fat paycheck coming in. There's not a whole lot of corpies that actually care about the company as a whole, that have a certain ethic or goal or ideal to work towards as a company, all they want is their weekly $x000. I have seen it in a lot of companies and it's all the same and eventually they go under because of it. In the beginning of the company, there's a few idealists that start the company and that want to bring out their product/invention/whatever and that feel good about it. But as their company grows, they leave or die or get replaced and the monthly employee meetings become yearly and the focus shifts from bringing in new customers or bringing out a good product or working towards a goal or ideal to "make us money, then make us more money and we are losing money here, here and here, let's cut that m'kay". I even had CxO's telling me that they don't care whether or not our computer systems run good or is compliant to standards, as long as I don't have to deal with complains about it, that persons goal was solely becoming a CEO of any company by implementing a change that would make lots of money in a short time, cash out, apply for the new job with 'good' references and examples and as soon as that 'surge' of extra money dries up, they are long gone.
Same with Novell, they don't strive to bring out the best networking software anymore, not since Novell 5. The company is slowing down, big enough to sustain itself and to sustain the paycheck of current management.
Well, if it's in New York state, they would require actually two people sitting there manually charging you every time you pass each way instead of automating it.
Really! You know there is this Windows CD I bought and it had this EULA.txt on, so I copied it, did "cat ~/MyEula > EULA.txt" and burnt it to a blank CD. Well, I never read the EULA, but apparently it is still in effect... hmm... as soon as you open the packaging, the EULA starts taking effect in the US apparently (and if I remember, there have been lawsuits around it).
By the way, if you make a frisbee out of it and throw it at MPAA members, they would arrest you and charge you with assault on (incapable/elderly/demented) people. If you throw a Britney Spears CD, you would be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; if you would just play an American Idol CD near them, you would be charged with attempted murder in the second degree. The MPAA would also charge you with destruction of property for throwing the CD.
It's called form I-9, I have to fill it out every time I start working somewhere:
http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf
All employees, citizens and noncitizens, hired after November 6, 1986, must complete Section 1 of this form at the time of hire, which is the actual beginning of employment. The employer is responsible for ensuring that Section 1 is timely and properly completed.
And you thought you were not registered in whatever you do! You always need to be register to work at least by a SSN and a drivers license if nothing else.