They say it isn't critical in the systems they are not patching! How much bullshit is that? If it is the same problem in all systems (and other people have said it was) then how can it be critical in some but not others?
I know you're joking, but where I used to work (a large multinational financial institution, well insurance company) they almost always simply truncated or rounded up to make them end up with more money that way.
One exception was for when people were making payments into a pension scheme because there were exceedingly strict government rules about what to do. Although I forget the details now, but something about putting a percentage of your salary into the pension scheme we couldn't take MORE so we had to truncate then, otherwise if they wanted to put in 2% salary and we took 2.000001% they could sue us over it or something.
I also remember a maths teacher pointing out why interest is paid monthly on what you have in the account at the beginning of the month, otherwise you could make money by taking your money out and putting it back in every day, or hour, or minute if they calculated it that way (just check for yourself it you want!)
For people having issues with car insurance, I know someone that was going to buy an old banger and insured it 3rd party* only and then after a few years and several years of no-claims could then insure the car he really wanted to, which his mother had insured for him in her name in the mean time.
But his mother knew someone at the insurance company and they issued him a note saying he had had insurance for the last 5 years to get the no claims bonus anyway so he didn't. He seemed to think it would work out cheaper. This is the same guy that always buys diesel cars as last I heard he was living on a farm and could use their cheaper diesel to drive around with. Yes both of these things are illegal!
* In the UK you have 3rd party fire & theft and fully comprehensive. 3rd party means if you hit someone THEY are covered but your car is not, but if it's stolen or burnt then it is. Fully comp is well.. fully comp and MOST companies allow you to drive other peoples cars on your insurance, but normally only 3rd party on it.
I would like to protest in the stongest possible terms to your previous sketch about village idiots. Many of my best friends are vilage idiots, and only a few of them run large companies.
But if 'big company' (RIAA anyone) sues 'Joe Schmoe' (or 4000 John Doe's as they have) and the people can't reclaim the money then to be honest it would be cheaper to actually give them the 3 grand they ask for. Out of principle I would fight the bastards. Of course 'loser pays up to what THEY paid' would probably work that way as the companies would spend more.
There are problems with all the things mentioned - perhaps it should be a rule about if it is a person getting sued by a company and they win they are completely entitled to reclaim ANY expenditure (well within reason) from that company. That should stop companies suing all these people because they can. Perhaps if the court case is frivolous, and happens more then once the person / company sueing can be taken to court to reclaim the Police and Court times. I'm not sure how to solve if one person sues another... most of it depends on the circumstances. I think almost all laws should be flexible as almost every law I could think of a reason to break it. Speeding? Well your honour I was being chased down by this guy and was afraid for my life so tried to speed away. Murder? Well this guy came into my house, I caught him with a knife walking towards my son's room so I shot him. Of course there are times they are obviously guilty and should get the full extent of the law!
I had a friend who used to work in Halfords in the UK (they sell bikes and accessories basically), and he was the store manager. A guy tried to shoplift so my mate grabbed the guy and held him down until police arrived. The guy then sued my mate for assault (I think the exact wording in UK law is 'unwanted touches' are assault). In court the Magistrate (think that is a Justice of the Peace in the US) asked the shoplifter why he was sueing for assault, and the guy replied 'he shouldn't have fucking touched me'. The magistrate then replied 'No, you should have fucking stole from his shop' and did the guy for wasting court time, police time as well as anything else he could think of!
Could put it next to the stick of memory I have in my keychain (well the holes are just the right size). I think it's a whole meg, or might be 4 it's that old.
Or have a second computer count the ballots printed from the first, and compare. Make damn sure that one is open source or at the very least another company so they can't fix it. Then put the paper in the box. If the first two match completely would that be OK for not having to check all paper ballots? Of course some random matching should be done on SOME ballots anyway.
Yeah my GF lives in Nevada and mentioned electronic voting and my immediate thought was "oh shit, diebold" but it isn't, it's Sequoia that is actually doing this.
Now as I'm trying to sort out moving to NV, and will presumably sometime get to vote (have to be a citizen though?) does anyone know about this company. I did a quick google and found nothing bad in the stuff I found (unlike diebold where every result seems to also include the words ballot-tampering or similar!)
Where I used to work we didn't do anything in the registry if we could help it - we ended up writing a few standard libraries to do similar things. If it's program related data, dump it on the H drive (read only) with the program files, if it's user data, dump it on their Y drive. Roaming profiles works fine with that and it doesn't require any stupid registry stuff that ends up getting copied up and down the whole damn system. Like the time someone was running a newer version of notes, which overwrote the old notes data which when a new person logged into the machine they inherited and within a few days no-one could check their mail. Good thing this was only in the test environment. Or the time I found out why it took me 20 minutes to log on every single damn day because it was copying my ENTIRE REGISTRY FILE DOWN plus all my 'personal files' and some program had filled it with crap, which I have a feeling was MSDN doing a full install in 'my docs'. Removed that stuff and it logged on in seconds afterwards:)
But I digress. I hate the registry, it's a terrible idea if you need to copy a system out to reinstall XP or something, then you have to reinstall every single damn program back in. But if the registry didn't exist everyone could simply have two HDs, one for windows and one for all their applications and it wouldn't care about it if you reinstalled. This would also mean if (or rather, when) your machine gets screwed up (viruses / trojans / other hacks / simply dies because it's got too much shit on it in the registry) you can reinstall and have everything still the way you want. Window size, everything like that could be ini files and not registry and wouldn't be wiped.
Going back to this company, if we had the ini file wrong we simply updated it and next time people ran, easy. Or if it was on their Y drive we ammended the batch file that ran almost every program (which while sounding stupid was very usefull) to delete or fix the problem then run the program. All remotely done, no need to get every user to run stuff on startup to fix registry issues, then find out one guy didn't do it and everyone else that logged in gained all the settings (as mentioned above).
Is www.bantheregistry.org available? I think I might want to start my own charity:P
But I'm FROM the UK, just in the US at the moment... why can't I check? If you go with the 'you don't have a TV license' argument, not everyone in the UK has one (last time I heard a few years back there are about 20 million licenses for around 60 million people, but of course most of that will live together. I did hear there were around 22 million addresses in the UK (including businesses) so it's probably pretty much saturation point anyway.
On an unrelated note does anyone have a proxy server or do I have to hassle my parents to set up privoxy on their machine so I can connect through (and no YOU can't!)
Should I just block all.WMF images? This may help, but it is not sufficient. WMF files are recognized by a special header and the extension is not needed. The files could arrive using any extension, or embeded in Word or other documents.
Several years ago at work when we all had badges with our pictures on it (which they have since replaced with BLANK WHITE ONES which even open all the doors for you if you get close enough) a friend of mine had his face removed by another guy. So he drew a smiley face on instead. It worked for many months until someone in security got wind of it and forced him to get a new one.
And the new ones they ended up sticking labels on so you knew whose badge was whose. Then again this is the same company that is still running NT and is still running a project to upgrade to XP... while not wanting to upgrade systems that run in clipper or quick basic....
I thought selling a movie ticket to an R rated film wouldn't get you fined, just possibly fired. Then again IANAL and IANAA (I am not an American) so my knowledge of US law is a little sparse. I have heard from various sources that you can't get done for selling movie tickets to a kid so that would be where the difference is (can someone confirm?)
They should either ditch the law or extend it for EVERYTHING that is age restricted which is why I thought it was thrown out earlier because it picks on video games.
In the UK (hmm... IAAL - I am a Limey) while there is no actual law stopping sale of DVDs / Games to underage kids almost all the retailers have agreed not to do this. Also we have movie style ratings - 15, 18 etc which probably makes it easier as everyone seems to know the movie rating systems.
Yes, OK you can browse through windows explorer, although it uses a different executable to run (according to my firewall anyway) and I've got my firewall blocking that (and a lot of IE as well). I was trying to say that I thought my original post's parent was talking about windows explorer, not internet explorer as in looking at his own thumbnails and not on the internet like the parent was suggesting. Actually that doesn't sound much clearer.
This is also the same as the linux one that I can't remember the name of IIRC (I keep dipping in and out of linux, when I get sorted with another machine I will put some flavour back on my laptop but until then I want to play games and I have the windows versions so still need it). Konqueror is it? I'm sure someone will flame me for being on slashdot and not having linux now...
Doesn't he mean Windows Explorer rather then Internet Explorer? As in the old filemanager for those who remember the win 3 days (and I still remember it was called fileman.exe and was still available in windows NT)
Some Indian's I used to work with basically said almost every little village has it's own language, so you learn that first, then probably Hindi and then probably English. But not neccersarily.
Where wound and wound are pronounced differently. And how about:
He decided to desert his dessert in the desert
Where the first desert and dessert are pronounced the same and the second desert is pronounced differently.
I do think it will become the main language as almost the entire population seems to speak it! I think we need to change some of the spellings though, and sort out the whole English / US thing. I meant it's MATHS!
But I do agree French is bad, I mean the whole 'un' and 'une' thing. So wait, this table is feminine (I can't remember so just guessing) so it's 'une table' but this door (again a guess) is masculine so it's 'un porte'. Mind you German has masculine, feminine and... well a third (transgender?).
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They say it isn't critical in the systems they are not patching! How much bullshit is that? If it is the same problem in all systems (and other people have said it was) then how can it be critical in some but not others?
I know you're joking, but where I used to work (a large multinational financial institution, well insurance company) they almost always simply truncated or rounded up to make them end up with more money that way.
One exception was for when people were making payments into a pension scheme because there were exceedingly strict government rules about what to do. Although I forget the details now, but something about putting a percentage of your salary into the pension scheme we couldn't take MORE so we had to truncate then, otherwise if they wanted to put in 2% salary and we took 2.000001% they could sue us over it or something.
I also remember a maths teacher pointing out why interest is paid monthly on what you have in the account at the beginning of the month, otherwise you could make money by taking your money out and putting it back in every day, or hour, or minute if they calculated it that way (just check for yourself it you want!)
For people having issues with car insurance, I know someone that was going to buy an old banger and insured it 3rd party* only and then after a few years and several years of no-claims could then insure the car he really wanted to, which his mother had insured for him in her name in the mean time.
But his mother knew someone at the insurance company and they issued him a note saying he had had insurance for the last 5 years to get the no claims bonus anyway so he didn't. He seemed to think it would work out cheaper. This is the same guy that always buys diesel cars as last I heard he was living on a farm and could use their cheaper diesel to drive around with. Yes both of these things are illegal!
* In the UK you have 3rd party fire & theft and fully comprehensive. 3rd party means if you hit someone THEY are covered but your car is not, but if it's stolen or burnt then it is. Fully comp is well.. fully comp and MOST companies allow you to drive other peoples cars on your insurance, but normally only 3rd party on it.
Well then you'd be using the second amendment - the right to have bare arms!
Dear Sir,
I would like to protest in the stongest possible terms to your previous sketch about village idiots. Many of my best friends are vilage idiots, and only a few of them run large companies.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong, Mrs.
p.s. I have never kissed CmdrTaco
But if 'big company' (RIAA anyone) sues 'Joe Schmoe' (or 4000 John Doe's as they have) and the people can't reclaim the money then to be honest it would be cheaper to actually give them the 3 grand they ask for. Out of principle I would fight the bastards. Of course 'loser pays up to what THEY paid' would probably work that way as the companies would spend more.
There are problems with all the things mentioned - perhaps it should be a rule about if it is a person getting sued by a company and they win they are completely entitled to reclaim ANY expenditure (well within reason) from that company. That should stop companies suing all these people because they can. Perhaps if the court case is frivolous, and happens more then once the person / company sueing can be taken to court to reclaim the Police and Court times. I'm not sure how to solve if one person sues another... most of it depends on the circumstances. I think almost all laws should be flexible as almost every law I could think of a reason to break it. Speeding? Well your honour I was being chased down by this guy and was afraid for my life so tried to speed away. Murder? Well this guy came into my house, I caught him with a knife walking towards my son's room so I shot him. Of course there are times they are obviously guilty and should get the full extent of the law!
I had a friend who used to work in Halfords in the UK (they sell bikes and accessories basically), and he was the store manager. A guy tried to shoplift so my mate grabbed the guy and held him down until police arrived. The guy then sued my mate for assault (I think the exact wording in UK law is 'unwanted touches' are assault). In court the Magistrate (think that is a Justice of the Peace in the US) asked the shoplifter why he was sueing for assault, and the guy replied 'he shouldn't have fucking touched me'. The magistrate then replied 'No, you should have fucking stole from his shop' and did the guy for wasting court time, police time as well as anything else he could think of!
erm.... funny you should say that...
Could put it next to the stick of memory I have in my keychain (well the holes are just the right size). I think it's a whole meg, or might be 4 it's that old.
:P
And yes I'm a sad git
Or have a second computer count the ballots printed from the first, and compare. Make damn sure that one is open source or at the very least another company so they can't fix it. Then put the paper in the box. If the first two match completely would that be OK for not having to check all paper ballots? Of course some random matching should be done on SOME ballots anyway.
Yeah my GF lives in Nevada and mentioned electronic voting and my immediate thought was "oh shit, diebold" but it isn't, it's Sequoia that is actually doing this.
Now as I'm trying to sort out moving to NV, and will presumably sometime get to vote (have to be a citizen though?) does anyone know about this company. I did a quick google and found nothing bad in the stuff I found (unlike diebold where every result seems to also include the words ballot-tampering or similar!)
Damned if you do, damned if you don't!
Where I used to work we didn't do anything in the registry if we could help it - we ended up writing a few standard libraries to do similar things. If it's program related data, dump it on the H drive (read only) with the program files, if it's user data, dump it on their Y drive. Roaming profiles works fine with that and it doesn't require any stupid registry stuff that ends up getting copied up and down the whole damn system. Like the time someone was running a newer version of notes, which overwrote the old notes data which when a new person logged into the machine they inherited and within a few days no-one could check their mail. Good thing this was only in the test environment. Or the time I found out why it took me 20 minutes to log on every single damn day because it was copying my ENTIRE REGISTRY FILE DOWN plus all my 'personal files' and some program had filled it with crap, which I have a feeling was MSDN doing a full install in 'my docs'. Removed that stuff and it logged on in seconds afterwards :)
:P
But I digress. I hate the registry, it's a terrible idea if you need to copy a system out to reinstall XP or something, then you have to reinstall every single damn program back in. But if the registry didn't exist everyone could simply have two HDs, one for windows and one for all their applications and it wouldn't care about it if you reinstalled. This would also mean if (or rather, when) your machine gets screwed up (viruses / trojans / other hacks / simply dies because it's got too much shit on it in the registry) you can reinstall and have everything still the way you want. Window size, everything like that could be ini files and not registry and wouldn't be wiped.
Going back to this company, if we had the ini file wrong we simply updated it and next time people ran, easy. Or if it was on their Y drive we ammended the batch file that ran almost every program (which while sounding stupid was very usefull) to delete or fix the problem then run the program. All remotely done, no need to get every user to run stuff on startup to fix registry issues, then find out one guy didn't do it and everyone else that logged in gained all the settings (as mentioned above).
Is www.bantheregistry.org available? I think I might want to start my own charity
But I'm FROM the UK, just in the US at the moment... why can't I check? If you go with the 'you don't have a TV license' argument, not everyone in the UK has one (last time I heard a few years back there are about 20 million licenses for around 60 million people, but of course most of that will live together. I did hear there were around 22 million addresses in the UK (including businesses) so it's probably pretty much saturation point anyway.
On an unrelated note does anyone have a proxy server or do I have to hassle my parents to set up privoxy on their machine so I can connect through (and no YOU can't!)
Churchill once said "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
Should I just block all .WMF images?
:(
This may help, but it is not sufficient. WMF files are recognized by a special header and the extension is not needed. The files could arrive using any extension, or embeded in Word or other documents.
From here
So blocking WMF files doesn't seem to help
Several years ago at work when we all had badges with our pictures on it (which they have since replaced with BLANK WHITE ONES which even open all the doors for you if you get close enough) a friend of mine had his face removed by another guy. So he drew a smiley face on instead. It worked for many months until someone in security got wind of it and forced him to get a new one.
And the new ones they ended up sticking labels on so you knew whose badge was whose. Then again this is the same company that is still running NT and is still running a project to upgrade to XP... while not wanting to upgrade systems that run in clipper or quick basic....
I thought selling a movie ticket to an R rated film wouldn't get you fined, just possibly fired. Then again IANAL and IANAA (I am not an American) so my knowledge of US law is a little sparse. I have heard from various sources that you can't get done for selling movie tickets to a kid so that would be where the difference is (can someone confirm?)
They should either ditch the law or extend it for EVERYTHING that is age restricted which is why I thought it was thrown out earlier because it picks on video games.
In the UK (hmm... IAAL - I am a Limey) while there is no actual law stopping sale of DVDs / Games to underage kids almost all the retailers have agreed not to do this. Also we have movie style ratings - 15, 18 etc which probably makes it easier as everyone seems to know the movie rating systems.
Yes, OK you can browse through windows explorer, although it uses a different executable to run (according to my firewall anyway) and I've got my firewall blocking that (and a lot of IE as well). I was trying to say that I thought my original post's parent was talking about windows explorer, not internet explorer as in looking at his own thumbnails and not on the internet like the parent was suggesting. Actually that doesn't sound much clearer.
This is also the same as the linux one that I can't remember the name of IIRC (I keep dipping in and out of linux, when I get sorted with another machine I will put some flavour back on my laptop but until then I want to play games and I have the windows versions so still need it). Konqueror is it? I'm sure someone will flame me for being on slashdot and not having linux now...
Doesn't he mean Windows Explorer rather then Internet Explorer? As in the old filemanager for those who remember the win 3 days (and I still remember it was called fileman.exe and was still available in windows NT)
Mod parent up double plus good!
Some Indian's I used to work with basically said almost every little village has it's own language, so you learn that first, then probably Hindi and then probably English. But not neccersarily.
A frog? In which bidet?
(it's Red Dwarf if you didn't understand)
English is horrible it it's own way. For example:
... well a third (transgender?).
The bandage was wound around the wound
Where wound and wound are pronounced differently. And how about:
He decided to desert his dessert in the desert
Where the first desert and dessert are pronounced the same and the second desert is pronounced differently.
I do think it will become the main language as almost the entire population seems to speak it! I think we need to change some of the spellings though, and sort out the whole English / US thing. I meant it's MATHS!
But I do agree French is bad, I mean the whole 'un' and 'une' thing. So wait, this table is feminine (I can't remember so just guessing) so it's 'une table' but this door (again a guess) is masculine so it's 'un porte'. Mind you German has masculine, feminine and
Isn't that meant to be 'blue on blue' now? And should I be worried being a Brit?
Crap, should have been AC as I had mod points.
Anyway the blurb about the book and the download link are here