Can the RIAA appeal this verdict and demand more money? NewYorkCountryLawyer, are you listening? $54,000 is still an unreasonable amount for downloading a few songs (my entire 80GByte MP3 collection only cost about $10,000). If you accept the RIAA's contention that each of these songs could be passed on to other people, who could in turn pass them on to more people, it may sound reasonable. However, it that is the case, then shouldn't the commercial price of a song on iTunes be about $2000?
Interesting that the space between the legs is exactly 19 inches, but 1) the airflow is not "unprecedented", airflow up is blocked by a melamine board, 2) This leaves your server susceptible to the "pepsi syndrome", especially during parties, and 3) Woodscrews into beaver board does not constitute a secure mounting, especially after you pulled it out and put it back in a few times. There is a lot of torque on a pizza box that is supported only by screws through one edge.
How much memory is required to store the entire database for GPS navigation? Do most smart phones even have that much memory? Sure, Google maps is annoying when you drive out of range of a data service cell tower and it suddenly tells you "I have absolutely no fucking idea where you are now!" but I assumed there was enough data there that it actually _needed_ to be connected. I'd be more than happy to just have it update the data when connected and still work when not connected.
Many years ago, the Amdahl UTS admins sent out an email to all developers, stating "We've changed the admin password for the development machines, and we can't tell you what the new password is because it's a secret." I rushed to try logging in as admin, and sure enough, their new password was "Asecret"!
I deal with a much worse bank. They put a cookie on each computer to verify they have "seen" that computer before. If they fail to find it, they force the user to reply to an email to reestablish credentials. I've got Firefox configured to delete all cookies every time it exits. I've simply given up on logging into that account.
And I'm just sayin' you should be careful who you shine a laser at. For example, if you did this to the cop who brought a gun to a snowball fight, you just might wind up getting yourself shot!
And if the FAA catches you shining a laser at the cockpit of an airplane, you WILL do time in federal PITA prison for assault with a deadly weapon -- regardless of whether or not it has a firearm attached. Why shouldn't the same standard of "you are putting lives at risk by potentially blinding the pilot" also apply to people driving automobiles? They kill a lot more people than pilots do, and airplanes have redundant systems to compensate for loss of a pilot, whereas cars simply crash.
The arrogance is intentional and deliberate. These people aren't getting paid for this, and simply don't have time to deal with noobs. Nor do they have time to screen patches from everyone who is trying to be helpful. Some intimidation is necessary to weed out those who aren't really serious and haven't made a concerted effort to fully understand the problem before contacting the kernel developers.
Unix developers have always had an attitude, but in my experience they have been far more tolerant than Microsoft Developers (who insisted we rewrite all the Winsock2 code Intel was doing for them for free to better suit their revision control system) or that paragon of arrogance, the original SCO. When I worked for Amdahl UTS, one of my coworkers got the comment in his annual review that he "has little tolerance for mediocrity". Problem is, he thought this was a GOOD thing, while his manager was using it as a negative to justify a bare cost of living raise. Yes, they don't suffer fools easily, so make sure you do your homework first and get your facts straight before talking to them. Really, they are a lot like slashdot posters who rush to point out even the most minor mistakes in a post.
Similarly, the overall number of economists decreased by 14%. I can understand why the FCC needs engineers... but why exactly do they need economists to regulate communication?
I believe making people think you are pointing a lethal weapon at them with a laser sight attached is an extremely bad idea unless you actually are pointing a lethal weapon at them, since it justifies them shooting first in self defense. And yes, I had coworkers who thought it would be "fun" to shine a laser pointer into the studios across the street -- please don't do that when I'm standing in the window!
There is an old story that in hell there is a room with a beautiful banquet laid out, but all the people in it are miserable and starving because they all have spoons attached to the ends of their arms that are too long to feed themselves. And in heaven, there is a similar room, except that everybody in it is happy and well-fed because they are feeding each other. True Christians get that religion is about compassion, about emulating the life of Christ and working to relieve suffering here on Earth, not about feeling superior to others because you worship the one TRUE God. Unfortunately, there appears to be an order of magnitude more people that call themselves "Christians" but aren't then there are that truly grasp this concept.
Great technology, but not being used to it's best purpose. Wouldn't using this to disseminate information about obtaining food and water, preventing cholera, maybe even about birth control be a much better application of this technology? How about using it to help find missing relatives?
Now, if I could only get them to inscribe 1 Timothy 5:23 on my wine bottles. ("Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy
stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.") I believe my father had this quote on the front of his wine log.
I can check out every CD the library has and rip each song to MP3s. I asked the librarian about this, and his response was to the effect of "Well, you COULD do that, but we don't want to know about it if you do!" Clearly, the libraries are actively engaged in facilitating unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material!
Libraries also accept donations from citizens, and get a substantial portion of their collections for free (especially the CDs and DVDs). I believe they do pay a premium for periodicals, which is silly because almost all that content is available for free online now.
Quite simply, don't store any data in "the cloud" that you would object to seeing printed on the front page of a newspaper the next morning. If you want to keep something confidential, store it on a server controlled by you, and use adequate encryption when transmitting it.
Tracing down the communications "networks" of suspected terrorists actually does sound like a useful way of generating intelligence, so the FBI may have a valid rationale behind doing this. However, I fail to see how this constitutes an "emergency", since there is little requirement for timeliness -- these records are not going to disappear if they don't collect them right away, and the analysts are going to take weeks or months to analyze them anyway. In short, I don't see any down side to using approved procedures to collect this information, making sure to dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s. Failing to do so is either laziness or the result of a delusion caused by watching too much "24".
The people that overreact to shit like this almost certainly have too much time on their hands. I was working for HP. One of the computers in my cubicle was running an HP approved Linux distro, installed by HP personnel, and not reconfigured by me. It randomly cycled through screen savers, including the one that displayed messages from the fortune files. One of the fortune files was the Zippy the pinhead one that contained the quote "I want to kill everyone here with a cute, colorful hydrogen bomb!" Now imagine the reaction of their highly trained, skilled rent-a-cop upon seeing this at 3am while on rounds. And the overreaction of their security staff, assuming I must be a dangerous sociopath because this was on MY machine, and I am obviously responsible for anything displayed on my machine. The result -- I was suspended for a week until they straightened it out. With pay. I was on the critical path for our project, which means project delivery was delayed for a week due to these dick heads. One of my coworkers investigated and explained it to them (which was difficult, since they had recorded the quote incorrectly) and I finally got called back to work. Nope, they never apologized or admitted their mistake in any way, shape or form. And of course I spent that one week hiatus applying for better jobs, one of which came through about a month later.
Odds are if it looks like a bomb to the layman, it's probably a prop. Note to laymen: if it's got a huge red digital display counting down the seconds until it goes "boom", just like every bomb you ever seen in a move or television show, then it almost certainly IS NOT a bomb. Seriously -- what terrorist that actually wanted to blow shit up would bother to wire up a huge, conspicuous countdown timer?
My daughter's school has a policy against bringing toys to school; that is probably the policy this kid violated. He almost certainly is not the one that needs counseling.
These days, every school district I have seen publishes a student manual and various district regulations on their web site, so I don't think saying they don't let you have access to the policy manual is a fair accusation. What is fair to say is that they don't always know or follow their own policies. But then, there are currently so many conflicting federal, state, and local statutes governing schools that I honestly believe it is impossible to follow them all. If you don't like the way the public school system is run, feel free to shell out the $10,000 per year it now costs to send a child to private school. Otherwise, shut up and accept the fact the the school system is suboptimal and that the main reason for that is they have not been given the resources necessary to do the job the right way. My daughter attends school in a wealthy neighborhood in a comparatively good school district, and she is still jammed into a classroom with 26 other 3rd graders.
But, if we treated terrorism as a crime instead of a political statement, then how would we justify invading other countries like Afghanistan and Iraq?
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Can the RIAA appeal this verdict and demand more money? NewYorkCountryLawyer, are you listening? $54,000 is still an unreasonable amount for downloading a few songs (my entire 80GByte MP3 collection only cost about $10,000). If you accept the RIAA's contention that each of these songs could be passed on to other people, who could in turn pass them on to more people, it may sound reasonable. However, it that is the case, then shouldn't the commercial price of a song on iTunes be about $2000?
I'd say his wildlife photography career has jumped the shark...
Interesting that the space between the legs is exactly 19 inches, but 1) the airflow is not "unprecedented", airflow up is blocked by a melamine board, 2) This leaves your server susceptible to the "pepsi syndrome", especially during parties, and 3) Woodscrews into beaver board does not constitute a secure mounting, especially after you pulled it out and put it back in a few times. There is a lot of torque on a pizza box that is supported only by screws through one edge.
How much memory is required to store the entire database for GPS navigation? Do most smart phones even have that much memory? Sure, Google maps is annoying when you drive out of range of a data service cell tower and it suddenly tells you "I have absolutely no fucking idea where you are now!" but I assumed there was enough data there that it actually _needed_ to be connected. I'd be more than happy to just have it update the data when connected and still work when not connected.
Many years ago, the Amdahl UTS admins sent out an email to all developers, stating "We've changed the admin password for the development machines, and we can't tell you what the new password is because it's a secret." I rushed to try logging in as admin, and sure enough, their new password was "Asecret"!
Damn, those girls Nicole, Jessica, and Ashley must REALLY get around!
I deal with a much worse bank. They put a cookie on each computer to verify they have "seen" that computer before. If they fail to find it, they force the user to reply to an email to reestablish credentials. I've got Firefox configured to delete all cookies every time it exits. I've simply given up on logging into that account.
And I'm just sayin' you should be careful who you shine a laser at. For example, if you did this to the cop who brought a gun to a snowball fight, you just might wind up getting yourself shot!
And if the FAA catches you shining a laser at the cockpit of an airplane, you WILL do time in federal PITA prison for assault with a deadly weapon -- regardless of whether or not it has a firearm attached. Why shouldn't the same standard of "you are putting lives at risk by potentially blinding the pilot" also apply to people driving automobiles? They kill a lot more people than pilots do, and airplanes have redundant systems to compensate for loss of a pilot, whereas cars simply crash.
The arrogance is intentional and deliberate. These people aren't getting paid for this, and simply don't have time to deal with noobs. Nor do they have time to screen patches from everyone who is trying to be helpful. Some intimidation is necessary to weed out those who aren't really serious and haven't made a concerted effort to fully understand the problem before contacting the kernel developers.
Unix developers have always had an attitude, but in my experience they have been far more tolerant than Microsoft Developers (who insisted we rewrite all the Winsock2 code Intel was doing for them for free to better suit their revision control system) or that paragon of arrogance, the original SCO. When I worked for Amdahl UTS, one of my coworkers got the comment in his annual review that he "has little tolerance for mediocrity". Problem is, he thought this was a GOOD thing, while his manager was using it as a negative to justify a bare cost of living raise. Yes, they don't suffer fools easily, so make sure you do your homework first and get your facts straight before talking to them. Really, they are a lot like slashdot posters who rush to point out even the most minor mistakes in a post.
Similarly, the overall number of economists decreased by 14%. I can understand why the FCC needs engineers... but why exactly do they need economists to regulate communication?
I believe making people think you are pointing a lethal weapon at them with a laser sight attached is an extremely bad idea unless you actually are pointing a lethal weapon at them, since it justifies them shooting first in self defense. And yes, I had coworkers who thought it would be "fun" to shine a laser pointer into the studios across the street -- please don't do that when I'm standing in the window!
There is an old story that in hell there is a room with a beautiful banquet laid out, but all the people in it are miserable and starving because they all have spoons attached to the ends of their arms that are too long to feed themselves. And in heaven, there is a similar room, except that everybody in it is happy and well-fed because they are feeding each other. True Christians get that religion is about compassion, about emulating the life of Christ and working to relieve suffering here on Earth, not about feeling superior to others because you worship the one TRUE God. Unfortunately, there appears to be an order of magnitude more people that call themselves "Christians" but aren't then there are that truly grasp this concept.
Great technology, but not being used to it's best purpose. Wouldn't using this to disseminate information about obtaining food and water, preventing cholera, maybe even about birth control be a much better application of this technology? How about using it to help find missing relatives?
Now, if I could only get them to inscribe 1 Timothy 5:23 on my wine bottles. ("Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.") I believe my father had this quote on the front of his wine log.
I can check out every CD the library has and rip each song to MP3s. I asked the librarian about this, and his response was to the effect of "Well, you COULD do that, but we don't want to know about it if you do!" Clearly, the libraries are actively engaged in facilitating unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material!
Libraries also accept donations from citizens, and get a substantial portion of their collections for free (especially the CDs and DVDs). I believe they do pay a premium for periodicals, which is silly because almost all that content is available for free online now.
Damn... my 9-year old daughter would LOVE that game! Anybody know where I can get a bootleg copy?
Single word solution for zero-g administering of coke: eyedrops.
Quite simply, don't store any data in "the cloud" that you would object to seeing printed on the front page of a newspaper the next morning. If you want to keep something confidential, store it on a server controlled by you, and use adequate encryption when transmitting it.
Tracing down the communications "networks" of suspected terrorists actually does sound like a useful way of generating intelligence, so the FBI may have a valid rationale behind doing this. However, I fail to see how this constitutes an "emergency", since there is little requirement for timeliness -- these records are not going to disappear if they don't collect them right away, and the analysts are going to take weeks or months to analyze them anyway. In short, I don't see any down side to using approved procedures to collect this information, making sure to dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s. Failing to do so is either laziness or the result of a delusion caused by watching too much "24".
The people that overreact to shit like this almost certainly have too much time on their hands. I was working for HP. One of the computers in my cubicle was running an HP approved Linux distro, installed by HP personnel, and not reconfigured by me. It randomly cycled through screen savers, including the one that displayed messages from the fortune files. One of the fortune files was the Zippy the pinhead one that contained the quote "I want to kill everyone here with a cute, colorful hydrogen bomb!" Now imagine the reaction of their highly trained, skilled rent-a-cop upon seeing this at 3am while on rounds. And the overreaction of their security staff, assuming I must be a dangerous sociopath because this was on MY machine, and I am obviously responsible for anything displayed on my machine. The result -- I was suspended for a week until they straightened it out. With pay. I was on the critical path for our project, which means project delivery was delayed for a week due to these dick heads. One of my coworkers investigated and explained it to them (which was difficult, since they had recorded the quote incorrectly) and I finally got called back to work. Nope, they never apologized or admitted their mistake in any way, shape or form. And of course I spent that one week hiatus applying for better jobs, one of which came through about a month later.
Odds are if it looks like a bomb to the layman, it's probably a prop. Note to laymen: if it's got a huge red digital display counting down the seconds until it goes "boom", just like every bomb you ever seen in a move or television show, then it almost certainly IS NOT a bomb. Seriously -- what terrorist that actually wanted to blow shit up would bother to wire up a huge, conspicuous countdown timer?
My daughter's school has a policy against bringing toys to school; that is probably the policy this kid violated. He almost certainly is not the one that needs counseling.
These days, every school district I have seen publishes a student manual and various district regulations on their web site, so I don't think saying they don't let you have access to the policy manual is a fair accusation. What is fair to say is that they don't always know or follow their own policies. But then, there are currently so many conflicting federal, state, and local statutes governing schools that I honestly believe it is impossible to follow them all. If you don't like the way the public school system is run, feel free to shell out the $10,000 per year it now costs to send a child to private school. Otherwise, shut up and accept the fact the the school system is suboptimal and that the main reason for that is they have not been given the resources necessary to do the job the right way. My daughter attends school in a wealthy neighborhood in a comparatively good school district, and she is still jammed into a classroom with 26 other 3rd graders.
But, if we treated terrorism as a crime instead of a political statement, then how would we justify invading other countries like Afghanistan and Iraq?