I tried to stand by your window to read my book using your light. The window let me. Does this mean I automatically get the right to use your light? Technically possible != illegal.
Oh that's a watertight legal opinion. So if I left my keys in the car and someone stole it, I'm responsible for the people they kill? And if I watch someone's TV through their window, that's theft? Or I read my newspaper by the light coming out of their window?
You should all note that the law these people have been accused of breaking is one designed to stop people stealing cable TV using hacked decoders. It was not designed for "theft" of Internet access. There is a defence to the accusation that the service was made public. However, in the recent cases the accused didn't get to make a defence, and probably never received legal advice anyway: they admitted "guilt" to the police, who are neither impartial nor independent, in order to have the case dropped.
But in New Salem (formerly known as Great Britain) anything that could possibly be construed as possibly putting possible children at possible risk by possible pedophiles is treated as a priori evidence of guilt of child abuse.
"EULA's were given legal weight by Congress a number of years ago"
So Congress said anything written in a document called a "EULA" has legal weight, did it? It said that gagging clauses over reviews were legal, did it? I think not.
Since no-one actually obeys the law (or is even aware of it) there aren't enough transactions to warrant the $100,000,000 it would take for the Government boondoggle IT system required.
There is no tax due in the UK on your personal property when disposed of, even if at a profit (personal effects are exempt from capital gains tax because they would mostly generate losses to be offset against other gains). If you trade stuff you acquire for re-sale, and you trade enough to go over the VAT threshold (which is quite high), you will have to account for VAT as a second-hands good trade (essentially, VAT is charged on the difference between the buy and sell price). On the upside, you can reclaim VAT on all the kit you use to trade (e.g. computers, fuel, etc.).
In the US and Canada things are a bit different due to sales tax. In Ontario, for example, everyone is required to send a cheque for PST to the Ontario finance minister for all sales of goods, no matter how small, no matter if a yard sale, no matter if a private sale. Of course, not one citizen abides by this crap law (except where the provincial or federal Government can track the ownership of private goods, such as cars, planes and boats). But once EBay are sending nice XML files straight to the Government tax weasels you can imagine a nice automated bill (applied directly to your EBay account, naturally).
Duh. You don't understand why this is, do you? A nice middle class person will accept a caution. This gives a +1 "detected crime" bonus towards the targets. The other crimes are unlikely to be detected, which is not worth anything towards the targets. Don't blame the police - they are just following the Soviet central planning diktats.
Is that because pre-entry clearing is going to be done in the US, just as pre-entry to the US by air from Canada is done in Canada (so passengers arrive in a domestic arrivals terminal)?
I run my own business. I'm in business to make money, not futz with IT. I ran Small Business Server 2003. The 'Just Works' comment does not apply. One day things work, another day they don't. I haven't got time to trawl the web to find out why. I have simple requirements for IT, serving files, sharing printers, doing backups, not much.
I junked SBS and put Mac OS X Server in its place. A year later, I'm still happy.
Gregory Benford's "Cosm" ran a similar idea: Universes are created in particle accelerators accidentally, and inherit physical "constants" from the parent universe.
.. you realize that people are put on the register for being caught peeing in public (and someone might have seen a sex organ, hence sexual offender). They've polluted the database with trivial shit. Way to go.
I can think of lots of improvements because popping up of confirmation boxes is a TERRIBLE way to implement a UI. Instead, for example, a little warning picture, coloured appropriately, subtly placed, which automatically goes away when a keyboard is detected is more appropriate. When direct keyboard input is necessary the subtlety can be changed and the warning more direct (e.g. the caps lock warning symbol in the password dialogs on Mac OS X).
The very fact you can't think of a better implementation means (a) you do need a book recommendation, and (b) you should see a doctor and find out why you lack empathatic reasoning. In the meantime, try not to get involved in UI design in your work. It will only lead to irritation (someone else's, if not yours).
If you truly can't see what's wrong with that kind of error message then you should go and read Cooper's "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum" on why UI design is so awful and what can be done about it.
My experience of this comes from dealing with a close friend and colleague with Asperger's. In the end I got the knack for dealing with him. I understand only too well the issues (e.g. the "if you don't agree with me it's because you don't understand, so I will explain it again" syndrome).
You still cause offense, whether or not it was intended. True, Comic Shop Guy is very different from Asperger's Programmer, and those of us who know and can recognize the difference can hold our tempers (in the latter case) and react differently. But my point remains: you shouldn't be allowed to write user interfaces or work in technical support interacting with users.
The IT professionals I've come across that are rude are simply lacking in social skills and are shocked when they are told later that they are being rude or arrogant. It's down to the prevalence of Asperger's (or towards that part of the spectrum of autism). It's a natural condition. The thing is that too many companies allow geeks with no social abilities to interface to customers (directly in the case of tech support, indirectly in the case of writing UIs). It's time that the management of companies recognized the situation and had professional customer-facing technical support that came with a smile and empathy, and had professional interaction designers that realize "Error: Keyboard not connected; press F1 to continue" is not an acceptable thing to say to people.
The UK claims that it doesn't encroach on another country's land or waters because Sealand isn't a country. Which is why I said that it is the UK making the claims, not Sealand.
No, actually the UK claims it to be inside UK jurisdiction. It was outside UK territorial waters, and the UK then decided to extend its territorial waters further and claim Sealand.
K.
Seems to me that people with light arms are holding the US Army to a standstill in Iraq. Don't you want the right to hold your own army at bay if the President refuses to uphold the Constitution? Or do you trust your President completely?
I hope there actually is some killing of mockingbirds in the game version. I, like Homer Simpson, was sorely disappointed with the original book on this matter.
Slashdot Mirror
I tried to stand by your window to read my book using your light. The window let me. Does this mean I automatically get the right to use your light? Technically possible != illegal.
Oh that's a watertight legal opinion. So if I left my keys in the car and someone stole it, I'm responsible for the people they kill? And if I watch someone's TV through their window, that's theft? Or I read my newspaper by the light coming out of their window?
You should all note that the law these people have been accused of breaking is one designed to stop people stealing cable TV using hacked decoders. It was not designed for "theft" of Internet access. There is a defence to the accusation that the service was made public. However, in the recent cases the accused didn't get to make a defence, and probably never received legal advice anyway: they admitted "guilt" to the police, who are neither impartial nor independent, in order to have the case dropped.
But in New Salem (formerly known as Great Britain) anything that could possibly be construed as possibly putting possible children at possible risk by possible pedophiles is treated as a priori evidence of guilt of child abuse.
"EULA's were given legal weight by Congress a number of years ago"
So Congress said anything written in a document called a "EULA" has legal weight, did it? It said that gagging clauses over reviews were legal, did it? I think not.
Since no-one actually obeys the law (or is even aware of it) there aren't enough transactions to warrant the $100,000,000 it would take for the Government boondoggle IT system required.
There is no tax due in the UK on your personal property when disposed of, even if at a profit (personal effects are exempt from capital gains tax because they would mostly generate losses to be offset against other gains). If you trade stuff you acquire for re-sale, and you trade enough to go over the VAT threshold (which is quite high), you will have to account for VAT as a second-hands good trade (essentially, VAT is charged on the difference between the buy and sell price). On the upside, you can reclaim VAT on all the kit you use to trade (e.g. computers, fuel, etc.).
In the US and Canada things are a bit different due to sales tax. In Ontario, for example, everyone is required to send a cheque for PST to the Ontario finance minister for all sales of goods, no matter how small, no matter if a yard sale, no matter if a private sale. Of course, not one citizen abides by this crap law (except where the provincial or federal Government can track the ownership of private goods, such as cars, planes and boats). But once EBay are sending nice XML files straight to the Government tax weasels you can imagine a nice automated bill (applied directly to your EBay account, naturally).
Duh. You don't understand why this is, do you? A nice middle class person will accept a caution. This gives a +1 "detected crime" bonus towards the targets. The other crimes are unlikely to be detected, which is not worth anything towards the targets. Don't blame the police - they are just following the Soviet central planning diktats.
Is that because pre-entry clearing is going to be done in the US, just as pre-entry to the US by air from Canada is done in Canada (so passengers arrive in a domestic arrivals terminal)?
Good point. But of course I've switched to Mac desktops too. :-)
I run my own business. I'm in business to make money, not futz with IT. I ran Small Business Server 2003. The 'Just Works' comment does not apply. One day things work, another day they don't. I haven't got time to trawl the web to find out why. I have simple requirements for IT, serving files, sharing printers, doing backups, not much.
I junked SBS and put Mac OS X Server in its place. A year later, I'm still happy.
Gregory Benford's "Cosm" ran a similar idea: Universes are created in particle accelerators accidentally, and inherit physical "constants" from the parent universe.
.. you realize that people are put on the register for being caught peeing in public (and someone might have seen a sex organ, hence sexual offender). They've polluted the database with trivial shit. Way to go.
That won't be true when the dollar halves in value on the world markets.
I can think of lots of improvements because popping up of confirmation boxes is a TERRIBLE way to implement a UI. Instead, for example, a little warning picture, coloured appropriately, subtly placed, which automatically goes away when a keyboard is detected is more appropriate. When direct keyboard input is necessary the subtlety can be changed and the warning more direct (e.g. the caps lock warning symbol in the password dialogs on Mac OS X).
The very fact you can't think of a better implementation means (a) you do need a book recommendation, and (b) you should see a doctor and find out why you lack empathatic reasoning. In the meantime, try not to get involved in UI design in your work. It will only lead to irritation (someone else's, if not yours).
If you truly can't see what's wrong with that kind of error message then you should go and read Cooper's "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum" on why UI design is so awful and what can be done about it.
My experience of this comes from dealing with a close friend and colleague with Asperger's. In the end I got the knack for dealing with him. I understand only too well the issues (e.g. the "if you don't agree with me it's because you don't understand, so I will explain it again" syndrome).
You still cause offense, whether or not it was intended. True, Comic Shop Guy is very different from Asperger's Programmer, and those of us who know and can recognize the difference can hold our tempers (in the latter case) and react differently. But my point remains: you shouldn't be allowed to write user interfaces or work in technical support interacting with users.
The IT professionals I've come across that are rude are simply lacking in social skills and are shocked when they are told later that they are being rude or arrogant. It's down to the prevalence of Asperger's (or towards that part of the spectrum of autism). It's a natural condition. The thing is that too many companies allow geeks with no social abilities to interface to customers (directly in the case of tech support, indirectly in the case of writing UIs). It's time that the management of companies recognized the situation and had professional customer-facing technical support that came with a smile and empathy, and had professional interaction designers that realize "Error: Keyboard not connected; press F1 to continue" is not an acceptable thing to say to people.
I reckon it's running Nucleus, from Mentor Graphics. That's what runs the iPods.
The UK claims that it doesn't encroach on another country's land or waters because Sealand isn't a country. Which is why I said that it is the UK making the claims, not Sealand.
No, actually the UK claims it to be inside UK jurisdiction. It was outside UK territorial waters, and the UK then decided to extend its territorial waters further and claim Sealand. K.
Oh, won't someone puhlease think of the children!
K.
Wow. Sued by Microsoft for competing with them? Those guys just don't know when to stop, do they?
K.
Seems to me that people with light arms are holding the US Army to a standstill in Iraq. Don't you want the right to hold your own army at bay if the President refuses to uphold the Constitution? Or do you trust your President completely?
K.
I hope there actually is some killing of mockingbirds in the game version. I, like Homer Simpson, was sorely disappointed with the original book on this matter.
K.
Canada is shut because it takes 3-5 years to get a skilled worker residence visa. Go somewhere else.
K.