If you look at the "major political campaign donations" lists, I believe telecoms have overwhelmingly given to Democrats as well... as have most tech companies. For AT&T specifically, they favor Republicans by 2% at the moment. It has shifted back and forth.
How about chainsaws? Hedge trimmers? Clippers? Scissors? Sharp pointy objects? Alcohol? All of those, misused, can cause permanent damage.
If you start requiring "training" for computer usage, it seems to me that you are not far off to requiring training to use just about anything you pick up at a hardware store.
Besides... what's the training going to include? Are you going to teach on Windows? Linux? Mac? All three? Okay... which version of Windows? Which version of Linux? KDE or Gnome? What about openSolaris, if is still around? What browser?
I wouldn't just have her dump her Windows cold though - a dual boot would likely be first.
I'm sorry, that is not legal. We have determined that dual-booting causes too many problems, and you will be required to remove that setup within 30 days of this notice.
I sound a bit harsh, sorry.:) I think my point is this: if you value your freedom very much, you probably don't want to go down the path of requiring registration, training, licensing, or whatever simply to use your computer. Your mother would still have problems, even if she did a training thing. Automotive accidents didn't disappear once we started requiring a license to drive them...;)
Last time I tried my parents on Linux (Ubuntu, openSuSE), I had problems with (1) Flash video, (2) Printing/Scanning with a Canon printer (took a long time of digging to find Linux drivers for it), and (3) Some minor sound glitches.
It was also actually slower than Windows 7, which was strange and surprised me. Not sure if it was just hardware/driver related.
Only if said people decided to all park their cars in the same garage, right?
How would you deal with the problem? I'm not sure data is really analogous to physical property. And most people argue that it most definitely is not when we talk about pirating and DRM... but then in situations like these, data physical property is an apt analogy, somehow.
(I am condemning my own office-floor analogy with that, too.)
No, not really. Read the thread - this hosting business was located on, apparently, one dedicated server... so when if you need to confiscate said server and make sure nobody can access it to destroy anything, you have to take the entire server offline. You can't just take part of the server offline.
This isn't like closing an entire city becuase of a pawn shop, it's more like closing an entire floor of offices because you need to keep some of the offices from being tampered with, and you don't know who has keys to what offices.
What you are describing would be accurate if they got the parent "host" that provided the dedicated server... but they didn't, they got a sub-host who was running on one server.
Possibly, but that would be clearly individual hosted sites not the whole block.
All of the hosted sites were hosted on a single physical server. That means, to remove access to the evidence, you have to take the entire server - otherwise, someone may still have access to it and remove the data you're looking for.
Blanket takedown of the whole business not individual sites screams arbitrary and excess - exactly the kind of thing you expect to see with a NSL.
The only reason his whole business is down is because his whole business was run on a single server.
No, you should not be grateful to ME, but you should be grateful.
I guess the correct response towards BP making progress towards fixing what they caused is more anger and derision. That will make them want to fix it better. Yeah.
I'm all for holding BP (and other corps) culpable for the damage they cause, etc., but I'm also all for being empathetic to those who it has hurt. I, for one, have found BP finally stopping the leak (at least temporarily) to be extremely welcome news, and I am NOT going to deride them for that progress. Am I upset with they way they handled the drilling and all that? Yes. But I'm not going to blast them for something they did that has actually made a noted difference. That's stupid and rather unsympathetic towards those who have been waiting for it to stop for months.
I find it "distasteful" that a company knowingly cut corners on safety to raise short term gains at such a grave risk. My anger towards that can't begin to compare with what someone says on a silly Twitter account.
I don't mean to defend BP. I mean to be sympathetic towards those that the oil spill has hurt and be HAPPY, finally, that the spilling is stopped. Fine, still be mad at BP, but at least be happy that the spill has stopped... not for the sake of BP, but for the sake of those it is still affecting.
Precisely. $3000 is of course more than $500, and Google certainly could afford more... although, on the other hand, Google has way more products to find bugs in, etc. Anyways, the whiff of "entitlement" in that statement seems strong to me.
Hmm. I'll grant you that, I guess. It tends to come across, in news and posts, that all executives at BP had complete knowledge of this beforehand and really TRIED to create the disaster.
Katrina wasn't Bush's fault, but how he handled it was (that's not a statement as to how he handled it; but however he handled it, good or bad, was "his" fault).
The deficit? You can hardly blame that ALL on Bush. I thought he spent too much. I think Obama is spending way more.
Afghanistan? We can only blame Obama for how he is currently handling it.
Anyone that continually blames bad handling of the current situation on the past administration because the problem started with them is trying to blame-shift. Obama should take the blame - good or bad - for how he is handling the current issues, even if the issues did not START with him. There are plenty of "new" things to complain about with any given President, too.
Lest anyone is confused, BPGlobalPR is a parody/joke. Not BP. I find it distasteful that they are so angry at BP that they don't even appear to be happy that BP has actually stopped the leak for the time being.
That's because it was Bush's fault. But this isn't Obama's fault, he couldn't help it.
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I'm waiting for someone to somehow say that this was an inherited problem from the previous administration. Like everything else bad that will happen in the next 2.5 years:)
Individual people in the business may have empathy or remorse though. Correct, the corporation is not human... but many people in the corporation are human and may, in fact, have empathy or remorse. Most probably do. To say that BP is a corporation and thus everyone working on the spill didn't really care is unfair.
I am not trying to defend BP. I am trying to defend BP workers who are not at fault for what other workers, managers, or executives did that caused this leak. For all I know, the CEO or any number of other executives had little or nothing to do with this. In my experience in a large corporation, most of the execs know very little about details of any given project, heh. I guess that is something we'll find out.
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You mean like comcast?
If you look at the "major political campaign donations" lists, I believe telecoms have overwhelmingly given to Democrats as well... as have most tech companies. For AT&T specifically, they favor Republicans by 2% at the moment. It has shifted back and forth.
That's because the other phones do not have any magic, and thus need to be treated differently. Magic is delicate, you see.
Mine was an MP something as well. I eventually found out that Canon Australia (canon.com.au) had Linux drivers available and downloaded those.
How about chainsaws? Hedge trimmers? Clippers? Scissors? Sharp pointy objects? Alcohol? All of those, misused, can cause permanent damage.
If you start requiring "training" for computer usage, it seems to me that you are not far off to requiring training to use just about anything you pick up at a hardware store.
Besides... what's the training going to include? Are you going to teach on Windows? Linux? Mac? All three? Okay... which version of Windows? Which version of Linux? KDE or Gnome? What about openSolaris, if is still around? What browser?
I wouldn't just have her dump her Windows cold though - a dual boot would likely be first.
I'm sorry, that is not legal. We have determined that dual-booting causes too many problems, and you will be required to remove that setup within 30 days of this notice.
I sound a bit harsh, sorry. :) I think my point is this: if you value your freedom very much, you probably don't want to go down the path of requiring registration, training, licensing, or whatever simply to use your computer. Your mother would still have problems, even if she did a training thing. Automotive accidents didn't disappear once we started requiring a license to drive them... ;)
I don't know how to link it to Antennagate, but the connection's there, I'm sure.
Not if you're using an iPhone, it isn't. ;)
Dell doesn't sell many Mac's. That makes iTunes, in this discussion, basically Windows Only.
Last time I tried my parents on Linux (Ubuntu, openSuSE), I had problems with (1) Flash video, (2) Printing/Scanning with a Canon printer (took a long time of digging to find Linux drivers for it), and (3) Some minor sound glitches.
It was also actually slower than Windows 7, which was strange and surprised me. Not sure if it was just hardware/driver related.
Only if said people decided to all park their cars in the same garage, right?
How would you deal with the problem? I'm not sure data is really analogous to physical property. And most people argue that it most definitely is not when we talk about pirating and DRM... but then in situations like these, data physical property is an apt analogy, somehow.
(I am condemning my own office-floor analogy with that, too.)
That is another argument... but in that case, Google is stupid, not insulting. If you want to argue that route, I may agree with you.
No, not really. Read the thread - this hosting business was located on, apparently, one dedicated server... so when if you need to confiscate said server and make sure nobody can access it to destroy anything, you have to take the entire server offline. You can't just take part of the server offline.
This isn't like closing an entire city becuase of a pawn shop, it's more like closing an entire floor of offices because you need to keep some of the offices from being tampered with, and you don't know who has keys to what offices.
What you are describing would be accurate if they got the parent "host" that provided the dedicated server... but they didn't, they got a sub-host who was running on one server.
Possibly, but that would be clearly individual hosted sites not the whole block.
All of the hosted sites were hosted on a single physical server. That means, to remove access to the evidence, you have to take the entire server - otherwise, someone may still have access to it and remove the data you're looking for.
Blanket takedown of the whole business not individual sites screams arbitrary and excess - exactly the kind of thing you expect to see with a NSL.
The only reason his whole business is down is because his whole business was run on a single server.
Already-known professional security researchers are the only ones that can provide these? Maybe they are trying to get young whipper-snappers.
Maybe they aren't catering to those types of people?
No, you should not be grateful to ME, but you should be grateful.
I guess the correct response towards BP making progress towards fixing what they caused is more anger and derision. That will make them want to fix it better. Yeah.
I'm all for holding BP (and other corps) culpable for the damage they cause, etc., but I'm also all for being empathetic to those who it has hurt. I, for one, have found BP finally stopping the leak (at least temporarily) to be extremely welcome news, and I am NOT going to deride them for that progress. Am I upset with they way they handled the drilling and all that? Yes. But I'm not going to blast them for something they did that has actually made a noted difference. That's stupid and rather unsympathetic towards those who have been waiting for it to stop for months.
I find it "distasteful" that a company knowingly cut corners on safety to raise short term gains at such a grave risk. My anger towards that can't begin to compare with what someone says on a silly Twitter account.
I don't mean to defend BP. I mean to be sympathetic towards those that the oil spill has hurt and be HAPPY, finally, that the spilling is stopped. Fine, still be mad at BP, but at least be happy that the spill has stopped ... not for the sake of BP, but for the sake of those it is still affecting.
Precisely. $3000 is of course more than $500, and Google certainly could afford more ... although, on the other hand, Google has way more products to find bugs in, etc. Anyways, the whiff of "entitlement" in that statement seems strong to me.
Pricing ABOVE true market value is a personal insult, too? Yikes. ;)
Why is it insulting? Maybe it's "too little" but getting money for what most companies don't pay for is insulting?
Are people really that stuck up? hehe.
Hmm. I'll grant you that, I guess. It tends to come across, in news and posts, that all executives at BP had complete knowledge of this beforehand and really TRIED to create the disaster.
Katrina wasn't Bush's fault, but how he handled it was (that's not a statement as to how he handled it; but however he handled it, good or bad, was "his" fault).
The deficit? You can hardly blame that ALL on Bush. I thought he spent too much. I think Obama is spending way more.
Afghanistan? We can only blame Obama for how he is currently handling it.
Anyone that continually blames bad handling of the current situation on the past administration because the problem started with them is trying to blame-shift. Obama should take the blame - good or bad - for how he is handling the current issues, even if the issues did not START with him. There are plenty of "new" things to complain about with any given President, too.
Or, you could look at the live video feed that was perfectly honest and trustworthy when it was leaking. I assume you just didn't know about it, hehe.
Lest anyone is confused, BPGlobalPR is a parody/joke. Not BP. I find it distasteful that they are so angry at BP that they don't even appear to be happy that BP has actually stopped the leak for the time being.
That's because it was Bush's fault. But this isn't Obama's fault, he couldn't help it.
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I'm waiting for someone to somehow say that this was an inherited problem from the previous administration. Like everything else bad that will happen in the next 2.5 years :)
Individual people in the business may have empathy or remorse though. Correct, the corporation is not human... but many people in the corporation are human and may, in fact, have empathy or remorse. Most probably do. To say that BP is a corporation and thus everyone working on the spill didn't really care is unfair.
I am not trying to defend BP. I am trying to defend BP workers who are not at fault for what other workers, managers, or executives did that caused this leak. For all I know, the CEO or any number of other executives had little or nothing to do with this. In my experience in a large corporation, most of the execs know very little about details of any given project, heh. I guess that is something we'll find out.