If on 9-12 we had wiped out two middle eastern cities... and DEMANDED that everyone involved with 9-11 be turned over to us or else...
Terrorisim would not be an issue today.
It sure as hell would be, especially since our government be the ones performing the terrorist acts. Unless you think completely obliterating large swaths of a foreign populace with no association to the acts of 9/11, and following up the violent exhibition of power with demands isn't terrorism.
Lets face it, we (the US) are not a popular country as it is because of our current wars. However, we are at least trying to minimize collateral damage and be somewhat helpful to foreign governments and citizens. If we took your route and started leveling cities because *someone* in their country was involved in a terrorist attack, I imagine our country would be standing alone in a war on our own soil.
Also, does that also mean DC should level Chicago and New York if we discover the existence of a homegrown terrorist group, such as the Michigan Militia or any of the Christian terrorist organizations?
Although a good number of Christians do still celebrate the original in it's original intention.
And that good number is 100%. Seriously, have you ever walked up to a Christian and told them the story of Christmas, and had them completely surprised because it's the first time they'd heard it?
Based on other cases which have already received their decisions from SCOTUS over the past year, this isn't their intelligence test. They've already failed at protecting citizens, consumer protections, and very prominently shown they favor big corp/big gov over all else.
The infamous "You can waive your right to class actions and the corporation gets to choose the arbitrator if you sue" case was my "as basic as it gets" test for them. And boy, did they fuck that one up.
I'd amend that to a big "maybe" for sticking around.
All of what you said (and the initial reaction to quit in the GP) all hinges on the root cause of the mess. If it's a result of the predecessor not doing things correctly and flying by the seat of his pants, you're correct at jumping at the opportunity. However, if it's caused by management screwing IT every chance they get with poor timelines, lack of funding, no foresight, and so on, run like hell.
Yea, sure bugs exist. But when you force this software on your customers, and restrict their ability to remove the software, you better make damn sure that software's secure.
In a severely abbreviated, off the top of my head, fill in the blanks on your own fashion:
CREATE TRIGGER `database`.`TailToFile` BEFORE INSERT on `database`.`table` FOR EACH ROW BEGIN /* manipulate data and print to file or pipe it elsewhere */ END
You could have config options, piped to/dev/null when not in use, etc.
I've actually used PL/Perl in postgresql to do some pretty interesting stuff with the filesystem via triggers.
Yes, this outdated and rarely enforced law will surely be used to protect us by the government, who completely respects citizen privacy and stand up against corporate abuse...
Really need to check responses sooner than a days later..
Anyhoo, the AT&T decision in the Supreme Court has allowed companies to force you to waive your right to class actions. They're required to allow an opt-out, but the last real example I've seen is the PSN EULA, which removes the right to class action with a click, but requires that you write a form letter to their legal department within 7 (or 14, I forget) days to reinstate the right to class actions. They also state that they get to choose the arbitrator for any non-class action suits. Other fallout from this decision has had EA put in that you wait ALL rights to sue, but this was recent, and so far untested in courts.
Blizzard has had it's fairly abusive EULA held up in court so far. Theirs states that you do not own a copy of the games you purchase from them, but your $60 entered you into a contract that they can change or terminate at any time for any reason, revoking your rights to the software. They also specify that regardless of where you physically are, the jurisdiction for all legal matter is the County of Los Angeles. I'm quite sure this was chosen because it'd be more friendly to their cause. So far, they've won the case(s?) that have been brought using the "contract revocation" reason.
Sure! Unless your project spec requires that a standard actually exists to develop based upon... or you want to do less encoding work to push multimedia out to a client... or you don't want to do stupid javascript tricks reminiscent of the old NS4/IE5/IE5.5 days for compatibility problems across platforms...
I'm just poking fun, but right now, the biggest strike against HTML5 for me was its unwillingness to actually standardize. W3 has it as a "Last Call" draft, so maybe it'll be finalized in the near future. However, the fact the working group suggested it become a "living standard" makes me leery (and makes it nonviable for some projects).
They are not legally binding in sane jurisdictions.
That, right there, is the catch. If you're in the US, you're not in a sane jurisdiction. Have you seen some of the egregious things they've been putting in EULAs these days that are actually being held up in court?
No, no he did not. William Bilodeau and Michael Songy developed this algorithm 2 years before Carmack recreated it. The fact that this method was being presented at Creative's developer conferences a year before Carmack invented it also doesn't help the credibility of his independent discover claim. Since there's no hard evidence, it would become a Carmack's word versus Creative's if anyone takes action, and with the timeline of invention/presentation of the technique, I would be inclined to side with Creative.
Of course, this is all hypothetical since id/Bethesda's lawyers are the ones telling him to rewrite that part of the code, and Creative hasn't actually done anything.
(For the record, I'm against software patents, I'm just speculating about how it would play out.)
Actually, when everyone rolled out their bandwidth caps, I checked into this. And no, I do not have more choices than that. It was AT&T, various AT&T resellers, Comcast, and a Covad reseller.
The Covad resellers were charging ~$100/mo for 3M/512k service. I accepted the fact I was going to be paying more, but nearly 4 times more is a bit much. I also got the feeling from talking with them that they didn't want to offer residential service, and their online information was either extremely out of date or missing altogether (generally not a good sign for an ISP).
If I post "New Lady Gaga Video" on YouTube and her label sends a takedown notice, there's nothing stopping me (other than taste) from immediately reposting it as "New Gaga Video", "New Official Lady Gaga Video", "New Lady Gaga Video 4 U!", etc. That's kind of a big loophole.
That's because you're thinking it falls under the wrong law. They should be going after you for a trademark violation instead of a copyright violation. "New Gaga Video" could be fine, but when you put up a video like "New Official Lady Gaga Video," you're pretty screwed.
I think that went out the window when they became a registered sex offender.
You'd be surprised what could get you on the registered sex offender list. When I purchased my house, I checked the list. Apparently, a guy down the street had a physical relationship with a 17 year old when he was 20. He's now on the list for life because of a vindictive parent, bad breakup, etc.
Well, for one, battery life. These things already have shrinking battery lives as more features get added with each iteration. Now you want to do something computationally expensive (relatively speaking) for everything on the device? That battery life will be killed.
...for now. Spam has troubles with greylisting simply because they haven't built simple queuing into their zombies yet. As soon as the implement something that tries 15-20 minutes after initial rejection, greylisting becomes useless.
I actually found SPF to work pretty well. That was until a business we work with didn't know how to configure theirs, and they created records to instruct all mail servers to reject any e-mail from them. Relayed this to them several times, but eventually, the order came down from on-high to in our company disable it for our servers.
And if he died on Saturday why is this on slashdot today, five days later?
Pure lack of media coverage. Based on my searching, it was originally just posted on some social networking sites (even the Slashdot link goes to a Google+ post). So, add the time for people to corroborate the rumor, add the fact that Jobs died a day or two before hand, add the fact that he's not a household name (despite the enormous impact he's had on people's lives), and you have almost no media coverage.
Slashdot Mirror
If on 9-12 we had wiped out two middle eastern cities... and DEMANDED that everyone involved with 9-11 be turned over to us or else...
Terrorisim would not be an issue today.
It sure as hell would be, especially since our government be the ones performing the terrorist acts. Unless you think completely obliterating large swaths of a foreign populace with no association to the acts of 9/11, and following up the violent exhibition of power with demands isn't terrorism.
Lets face it, we (the US) are not a popular country as it is because of our current wars. However, we are at least trying to minimize collateral damage and be somewhat helpful to foreign governments and citizens. If we took your route and started leveling cities because *someone* in their country was involved in a terrorist attack, I imagine our country would be standing alone in a war on our own soil.
Also, does that also mean DC should level Chicago and New York if we discover the existence of a homegrown terrorist group, such as the Michigan Militia or any of the Christian terrorist organizations?
Although a good number of Christians do still celebrate the original in it's original intention.
And that good number is 100%. Seriously, have you ever walked up to a Christian and told them the story of Christmas, and had them completely surprised because it's the first time they'd heard it?
I'm not sure how the GP ended up talking about Republicans
According to the original Slashdot article, this was originally brought to the floor by a Republican.
Based on other cases which have already received their decisions from SCOTUS over the past year, this isn't their intelligence test. They've already failed at protecting citizens, consumer protections, and very prominently shown they favor big corp/big gov over all else.
The infamous "You can waive your right to class actions and the corporation gets to choose the arbitrator if you sue" case was my "as basic as it gets" test for them. And boy, did they fuck that one up.
I'd amend that to a big "maybe" for sticking around.
All of what you said (and the initial reaction to quit in the GP) all hinges on the root cause of the mess. If it's a result of the predecessor not doing things correctly and flying by the seat of his pants, you're correct at jumping at the opportunity. However, if it's caused by management screwing IT every chance they get with poor timelines, lack of funding, no foresight, and so on, run like hell.
While I'm sure it's probably somewhat accurate, why not get the debt directly from the government agency who monitors the debt?
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
Also, it's $15,110,498,560,876.77 as of 11/30
Watching two people go back and forth about the bloat of Firefox versus IE is like watching two morbidly obese people argue about who's fatter.
Yea, sure bugs exist. But when you force this software on your customers, and restrict their ability to remove the software, you better make damn sure that software's secure.
You could have config options, piped to /dev/null when not in use, etc.
I've actually used PL/Perl in postgresql to do some pretty interesting stuff with the filesystem via triggers.
Yes, this outdated and rarely enforced law will surely be used to protect us by the government, who completely respects citizen privacy and stand up against corporate abuse...
</sarcasm>
It still has online connectivity, hence could have CarrierIQ.
Really need to check responses sooner than a days later..
Anyhoo, the AT&T decision in the Supreme Court has allowed companies to force you to waive your right to class actions. They're required to allow an opt-out, but the last real example I've seen is the PSN EULA, which removes the right to class action with a click, but requires that you write a form letter to their legal department within 7 (or 14, I forget) days to reinstate the right to class actions. They also state that they get to choose the arbitrator for any non-class action suits. Other fallout from this decision has had EA put in that you wait ALL rights to sue, but this was recent, and so far untested in courts.
Blizzard has had it's fairly abusive EULA held up in court so far. Theirs states that you do not own a copy of the games you purchase from them, but your $60 entered you into a contract that they can change or terminate at any time for any reason, revoking your rights to the software. They also specify that regardless of where you physically are, the jurisdiction for all legal matter is the County of Los Angeles. I'm quite sure this was chosen because it'd be more friendly to their cause. So far, they've won the case(s?) that have been brought using the "contract revocation" reason.
Sure! Unless your project spec requires that a standard actually exists to develop based upon... or you want to do less encoding work to push multimedia out to a client... or you don't want to do stupid javascript tricks reminiscent of the old NS4/IE5/IE5.5 days for compatibility problems across platforms...
I'm just poking fun, but right now, the biggest strike against HTML5 for me was its unwillingness to actually standardize. W3 has it as a "Last Call" draft, so maybe it'll be finalized in the near future. However, the fact the working group suggested it become a "living standard" makes me leery (and makes it nonviable for some projects).
All of which does nothing to protect you from the keylogger.
They are not legally binding in sane jurisdictions.
That, right there, is the catch. If you're in the US, you're not in a sane jurisdiction. Have you seen some of the egregious things they've been putting in EULAs these days that are actually being held up in court?
Carmack developed this algorithm
No, no he did not. William Bilodeau and Michael Songy developed this algorithm 2 years before Carmack recreated it. The fact that this method was being presented at Creative's developer conferences a year before Carmack invented it also doesn't help the credibility of his independent discover claim. Since there's no hard evidence, it would become a Carmack's word versus Creative's if anyone takes action, and with the timeline of invention/presentation of the technique, I would be inclined to side with Creative.
Of course, this is all hypothetical since id/Bethesda's lawyers are the ones telling him to rewrite that part of the code, and Creative hasn't actually done anything.
(For the record, I'm against software patents, I'm just speculating about how it would play out.)
I think your comment applies to pretty much every organization that has been drifting toward extremism (both political and non-.
It is when it comes to memory bloat. From what I hear, Minecraft has it's fair share of that, also.
I call BS. I bet you more choices than that.
Actually, when everyone rolled out their bandwidth caps, I checked into this. And no, I do not have more choices than that. It was AT&T, various AT&T resellers, Comcast, and a Covad reseller.
The Covad resellers were charging ~$100/mo for 3M/512k service. I accepted the fact I was going to be paying more, but nearly 4 times more is a bit much. I also got the feeling from talking with them that they didn't want to offer residential service, and their online information was either extremely out of date or missing altogether (generally not a good sign for an ISP).
If I post "New Lady Gaga Video" on YouTube and her label sends a takedown notice, there's nothing stopping me (other than taste) from immediately reposting it as "New Gaga Video", "New Official Lady Gaga Video", "New Lady Gaga Video 4 U!", etc. That's kind of a big loophole.
That's because you're thinking it falls under the wrong law. They should be going after you for a trademark violation instead of a copyright violation. "New Gaga Video" could be fine, but when you put up a video like "New Official Lady Gaga Video," you're pretty screwed.
Marketing.
I think that went out the window when they became a registered sex offender.
You'd be surprised what could get you on the registered sex offender list. When I purchased my house, I checked the list. Apparently, a guy down the street had a physical relationship with a 17 year old when he was 20. He's now on the list for life because of a vindictive parent, bad breakup, etc.
Well, for one, battery life. These things already have shrinking battery lives as more features get added with each iteration. Now you want to do something computationally expensive (relatively speaking) for everything on the device? That battery life will be killed.
...for now. Spam has troubles with greylisting simply because they haven't built simple queuing into their zombies yet. As soon as the implement something that tries 15-20 minutes after initial rejection, greylisting becomes useless.
I actually found SPF to work pretty well. That was until a business we work with didn't know how to configure theirs, and they created records to instruct all mail servers to reject any e-mail from them. Relayed this to them several times, but eventually, the order came down from on-high to in our company disable it for our servers.
And if he died on Saturday why is this on slashdot today, five days later?
Pure lack of media coverage. Based on my searching, it was originally just posted on some social networking sites (even the Slashdot link goes to a Google+ post). So, add the time for people to corroborate the rumor, add the fact that Jobs died a day or two before hand, add the fact that he's not a household name (despite the enormous impact he's had on people's lives), and you have almost no media coverage.