Dude, you're all over the place. You start out by quoting Ben Franklin and saying that...Just someone complaining that privacy is not worth a slight inconvenience... then when I point out that our government is controlled by Republicans you respond with Republicans do a better job. - a better job of what? Eroding our freedoms?
And here's something else to think about. Who do you think would do a better job with the military, a highly decorated Vietnam Vet or a career politician with nothing but failed business ventures under his belt?
As a former, highly decorated Marine myself I know who I would follow. And from all the Generals that have spoken out against how our war on terror is being conducted I think I'm not alone.
I was in 8 years and served in the first Gulf War. In speaking with the old timers that had been through Vietnam the common thing they talked about was how we should not make the same mistakes we made in Vietnam. Don't let the politicians run the war and if we have to commit, we commit full force.
I believe Kerry would have gone to Afghanistan with everything we've got. Bin Laden would have been captured or killed and we would have sent a deafening message to Iraq, Iran and everyone else - "Don't fuck with us!" Instead we went to Afghanistan, did a half-ass job, Bin Laden got away, most of the country is still controlled by local militias, opium production is at an all time high.
In the mean time we're diverting aircraft because someone lost their blackberry/ipod. Bin Laden must be laughing his ass off!
Again, your problem, and that of the current administration, is that you can't keep your eye on the ball.
And here I thought people were starting to worry more about their on-line privacy because the Repubican controlled government can't tell a terrorist from a hole in the wall...
In the absense of a "You're Dumb" option for moderators let me just say, You're Dumb.
Your senario would be applicable to the current conversation if, in standing in front of the bum, you took out some recording equipment, made some good copies and distributed them to your friends.
Now consider this. I go to Wal-Mart, buy the latest 50 Cent CD and a stack of blank CDs. I walk back to my car, take out my laptop, burn copies and hand them out to who ever wants one. Would you think this is okay?
I for one would not want to try to sell something to a potential customer by annoying them.
I imagine that, subconsiously, the user would start equating your product with something they hate.
It seems to me that the product placement, as it exists in games today, is alot more effective so long and your not seeing a ad for Mountain Due right before your fall into a lava pit. The opposite, in my mind, would be more effective - imagine crawling out of a lava lake and the first thing you see is a cool, refreshing, thirst quenching, Sprite with a fresh can of ammo sitting beside it...
...that with that many people broadcasting, by the time you find a song you like, the car your getting your music from will be out of range or turned off before the song ends...
I'm not "one of those IIS guys" and in your haste to try to show everyone how smart you are you missed the whole point.
Doing the move the right way was not just a matter of copying the data and plugging in the new hardware.
By the way, because we have 're-issuance insurance' from the nice guys at RapidSSL.com (for the low, low price of just$19.99), it seemed easier to me to just get a new cert than to try to migrate the existing one.
"...they do not always understand what is involved."
- you hit the nail right on the head!
I'm working on a project right now (software is installing as I type this) where I'm supposed to migrate an existing web server to a new datacenter accross the country.
The PM's take on the whole thing was "All you have to do is:"
- Load the software on the new server.
- transfer the data
- ship the server to the new location
- have the server racked and powered up
I could tell he though I was just being difficult when I told him:
- While we're at it we should upgrade the app that's running on it since it's no longer supported.
- If we upgrade the server will be running a different web server and therefore will need a new ssl cert.
- Get the network guys engaged so they can punch what ever holes are needed in the firewall.
- We'll need to do some level of testing.
- Notify the end users that the look-n-feel will change/new applets will be downloaded, etc.
And now, as far as upper management is concerned, I'm the one that is behind schedule...
I'm generally against the 'sue them all' mentality but in my opinion Vonage needs fix this. Everyone from age 6 on up knows that, in an emergency, you look for the closest phone and dial 911. We expect this to work.
If I'm visiting at someone's house and my kid start choking on something, I expect to be able to reach for the nearest phone and dial.
Vonage coming back and saying that the 75 year-old homeowner should have read the terms is bull.
Part of their setup procedures should include 911 dialing. If no one at Vonage had realized this before they suck...
Come look for me the next time you need something that does not work. I would be happy to deliver it for the bargain basement price of only $100,000,000.
Please re-read my question to you:
"...going to Wal-Mart, buying a cd, burning..."
I believe I understand your point, I just don't agree. If a bunch of artist got together, put all their art work in a museum and charged $15.00 per person to view their work, I would think it ethically wrong for someone to pay to get in, take a bunch of high quality digital pictures and display them for free somewhere else. You seem to suggest there is nothing wrong with that.
"They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them..."
then, it would be wrong.
But you are ignoring the fact that there are artists/software developers/companies that are developing and marketing their material expecting to make some money off of their work. The fact that it is as easy to steal their work as it is to look up at the sky does not make it right.
My question to you is "Would you be so quick to defend these people if they were going to Wal-Mart, buying a cd, burning copies and distributing them freely on the streets?"
I'm all for modern day Robin Hoods but what is happening with file sharing systems is just wrong.
Maybe copyright infringement != theft but we all know what's going on here so let be honest and take ownership of what we're doing. You can get as legally technical as you want but ultimately people are taking stuff they did not pay for.
And, by the way, the speed limit on my way to work is 70 mph so I'm going 10 - 20 over (along with most everyone else). I've been driving for 22 years and have had 3 accidents (under 35 mph, non at fault.)
In my opinion the people that cause accidents are the idiots on the fast lane going less than the speed limit while talking on the cell phone.
It's been said a thousand times in/. and I'll say it again.
These idiots are stealing other peoples/companies stuff and redistributing
They know it's illegal but they do it anyway so they get no simpathy from me.
I speed (allot) normally doing 80-90 mph on the way to/from work. If I get busted, guess what? I got busted! I know I'm breaking the law so you won't see me whine when I get a ticket.
A few years back I was working for IBM and I remember Lou Gerstner having a 'town hall' type meeting with everyone. One of the things he talked about was how poorly the desktop market was doing and essentially that they were looking for ideas. The first thing that came to mind was, 'well the desktop models are expensive and ugly'.
While I agree they should keep the ThinkPad and server lines, the market for plain old desktops doesn't seem to support a big player like IBM. Especially when most anyone can build one themselves for half the price.
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low level radiation, etc... My old Nokia phone used to make my monitor flicker really bad if a call was coming in and would actually turn on my cordless electric shaver if it was near by.
(Yes, I got rid of it)
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Without the Lewinsky thing, I think Gore would have easily won the election.
How can a hole in the ground be 'massive'?
Huh?
...Just someone complaining that privacy is not worth a slight inconvenience... then when I point out that our government is controlled by Republicans you respond with Republicans do a better job. - a better job of what? Eroding our freedoms?
Dude, you're all over the place. You start out by quoting Ben Franklin and saying that
And here's something else to think about. Who do you think would do a better job with the military, a highly decorated Vietnam Vet or a career politician with nothing but failed business ventures under his belt?
As a former, highly decorated Marine myself I know who I would follow. And from all the Generals that have spoken out against how our war on terror is being conducted I think I'm not alone.
I was in 8 years and served in the first Gulf War. In speaking with the old timers that had been through Vietnam the common thing they talked about was how we should not make the same mistakes we made in Vietnam. Don't let the politicians run the war and if we have to commit, we commit full force.
I believe Kerry would have gone to Afghanistan with everything we've got. Bin Laden would have been captured or killed and we would have sent a deafening message to Iraq, Iran and everyone else - "Don't fuck with us!" Instead we went to Afghanistan, did a half-ass job, Bin Laden got away, most of the country is still controlled by local militias, opium production is at an all time high.
In the mean time we're diverting aircraft because someone lost their blackberry/ipod. Bin Laden must be laughing his ass off!
Again, your problem, and that of the current administration, is that you can't keep your eye on the ball.
Try to focus...
In the absense of a "You're Dumb" option for moderators let me just say, You're Dumb.
Your senario would be applicable to the current conversation if, in standing in front of the bum, you took out some recording equipment, made some good copies and distributed them to your friends.
Now consider this. I go to Wal-Mart, buy the latest 50 Cent CD and a stack of blank CDs. I walk back to my car, take out my laptop, burn copies and hand them out to who ever wants one. Would you think this is okay?
Who will be in the "driver's seat" - our kids.
Who will be driving - HAL.
I for one would not want to try to sell something to a potential customer by annoying them.
I imagine that, subconsiously, the user would start equating your product with something they hate.
It seems to me that the product placement, as it exists in games today, is alot more effective so long and your not seeing a ad for Mountain Due right before your fall into a lava pit. The opposite, in my mind, would be more effective - imagine crawling out of a lava lake and the first thing you see is a cool, refreshing, thirst quenching, Sprite with a fresh can of ammo sitting beside it...
But what do I know, I'm just a stupid IT guy...
...that with that many people broadcasting, by the time you find a song you like, the car your getting your music from will be out of range or turned off before the song ends...
This is one time I'm soooo glad I did not get the first post w/o RTFA. I had completely fallen for it....
I'm not "one of those IIS guys" and in your haste to try to show everyone how smart you are you missed the whole point.
Doing the move the right way was not just a matter of copying the data and plugging in the new hardware.
By the way, because we have 're-issuance insurance' from the nice guys at RapidSSL.com (for the low, low price of just$19.99), it seemed easier to me to just get a new cert than to try to migrate the existing one.
"...they do not always understand what is involved."
- you hit the nail right on the head!
I'm working on a project right now (software is installing as I type this) where I'm supposed to migrate an existing web server to a new datacenter accross the country.
The PM's take on the whole thing was "All you have to do is:"
- Load the software on the new server.
- transfer the data
- ship the server to the new location
- have the server racked and powered up
I could tell he though I was just being difficult when I told him:
- While we're at it we should upgrade the app that's running on it since it's no longer supported.
- If we upgrade the server will be running a different web server and therefore will need a new ssl cert.
- Get the network guys engaged so they can punch what ever holes are needed in the firewall.
- We'll need to do some level of testing.
- Notify the end users that the look-n-feel will change/new applets will be downloaded, etc.
And now, as far as upper management is concerned, I'm the one that is behind schedule...
I'm generally against the 'sue them all' mentality but in my opinion Vonage needs fix this. Everyone from age 6 on up knows that, in an emergency, you look for the closest phone and dial 911. We expect this to work.
If I'm visiting at someone's house and my kid start choking on something, I expect to be able to reach for the nearest phone and dial.
Vonage coming back and saying that the 75 year-old homeowner should have read the terms is bull.
Part of their setup procedures should include 911 dialing. If no one at Vonage had realized this before they suck...
To the Feds -
Come look for me the next time you need something that does not work. I would be happy to deliver it for the bargain basement price of only $100,000,000.
1. reset his password.
2. send an anonymous letter to his mom/dad with new password.
3. Mom/dad login and claim that they cracked his password.
4. Yahoo can maintain that they held their ground.
5. Mom/dad get what they wanted.
6. Son rolls in grave as his mom/dad find out about his intrest in (insert_bad_stuff_here).
Please re-read my question to you: "...going to Wal-Mart, buying a cd, burning ..."
I believe I understand your point, I just don't agree. If a bunch of artist got together, put all their art work in a museum and charged $15.00 per person to view their work, I would think it ethically wrong for someone to pay to get in, take a bunch of high quality digital pictures and display them for free somewhere else. You seem to suggest there is nothing wrong with that.
If, as the Counting Crows put it,
"They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them..."
then, it would be wrong.
But you are ignoring the fact that there are artists/software developers/companies that are developing and marketing their material expecting to make some money off of their work. The fact that it is as easy to steal their work as it is to look up at the sky does not make it right.
My question to you is "Would you be so quick to defend these people if they were going to Wal-Mart, buying a cd, burning copies and distributing them freely on the streets?"
I'm all for modern day Robin Hoods but what is happening with file sharing systems is just wrong.
Maybe copyright infringement != theft but we all know what's going on here so let be honest and take ownership of what we're doing.
You can get as legally technical as you want but ultimately people are taking stuff they did not pay for.
And, by the way, the speed limit on my way to work is 70 mph so I'm going 10 - 20 over (along with most everyone else).
I've been driving for 22 years and have had 3 accidents (under 35 mph, non at fault.)
In my opinion the people that cause accidents are the idiots on the fast lane going less than the speed limit while talking on the cell phone.
It's been said a thousand times in /. and I'll say it again.
These idiots are stealing other peoples/companies stuff and redistributing
They know it's illegal but they do it anyway so they get no simpathy from me.
I speed (allot) normally doing 80-90 mph on the way to/from work. If I get busted, guess what? I got busted! I know I'm breaking the law so you won't see me whine when I get a ticket.
A few years back I was working for IBM and I remember Lou Gerstner having a 'town hall' type meeting with everyone. One of the things he talked about was how poorly the desktop market was doing and essentially that they were looking for ideas. The first thing that came to mind was, 'well the desktop models are expensive and ugly'.
While I agree they should keep the ThinkPad and server lines, the market for plain old desktops doesn't seem to support a big player like IBM. Especially when most anyone can build one themselves for half the price. --- I'm new here and therefore don't rate a sig.
"Apparently not" is right!
Google, here I come!!!
Doh! First post ever in /. and already got hit by the grammar Nazi :) !!!
I meant I got rid of the cell phone, not the shaver.
low level radiation, etc... My old Nokia phone used to make my monitor flicker really bad if a call was coming in and would actually turn on my cordless electric shaver if it was near by. (Yes, I got rid of it)