I wish you'd mentioned that in your original post, because it read like "in two weeks we are making an attempt to land on the moon. We are considering dusting off one of the old Saturn series rockets or maybe going with something newer... what does Slashdot think?"
Sorry to hear about your loss of staff. Hope it all works out for you.
With respect to the legal question you've raised, the only answer here is "talk to a real lawyer." Trusting Slashdot to give you legal counsel is, TBH, just flat-out crazy.
This is true, but Slashdot might be a better place to go to seek advice on obnoxious flatmates...
"In Australia you have to log something like 200 hours of driving before they'll issue you a probationary license. While that means you'll be more likely to have encountered tricky situations with an experienced driver sitting next to you, it doesn't actually reduce the number of dickheads on the road."
I think it's only 100 hours (in Qld at least; may be different elsewhere), and the 'experienced driver' needs only have held an open license for 12 months or more.
Which goes a long way to explaining the number of dickheads on the road. Far from having an 'experienced driver' beside them, chances are they had just another dickhead sitting next to them for most of those 100 hours...
I just checked and in Victoria it's 120 hours (not the 200 I said first), and 10 of those must be at night. With your Learners permit you have to be supervised by someone with a full license (eg not on probationary license) which means they've held a license for at least 3 years. Generally speaking, people are quite a bit more sensible at 21 than they are at 18, although some still have a way to go even at 21.
But that still does nothing to stop people being stupid on the road if they are so inclined, what it does (in theory) is reduce the number of situations a new driver would encounter that they haven't encountered before.
I certainly hold no illusions that there are any more or less dickheads on the road in Victoria vs Queensland:)
I was listening to some people chatting about a recent car accident that someones daughter had. It seems that a kangaroo had jumped out in front of a car resulting in the next 3 or 4 cars crashing into the car in front. The daughter had been driving the second or third car. One of the comments made was something like "I don't understand why she was fined, it wasn't her fault". Stupid.
where the 'two second rule' was bashed into pretty much everyone
You assume that we actually 'train' people how to drive in the US. Mostly we make them do stupid 3 pt turns and think they're ready for the Indy 500. Teaching people *when* to do a 3 pt turn is far more important than 'how' to do it. But we don't really care about that type of thing.
It's actually an improvement on 40 years ago where you'd go for a spin around the block with the policeman sitting in the back doing his crossword. In Australia you have to log something like 200 hours of driving before they'll issue you a probationary license. While that means you'll be more likely to have encountered tricky situations with an experienced driver sitting next to you, it doesn't actually reduce the number of dickheads on the road.
Nor do we enforce traffic laws without any sense of consistency, so nobody even tries to follow the rules anyway.
It seems like we don't either - there just aren't enough police on the road. On my commute to work it seems like every second car is being driven by someone with a phone to their ear (whether it's unsafe or not, it's illegal in Australia), and half the rest are texting (unquestionably unsafe and stupid, and definitely illegal). Maybe we should start a "if you see someone driving while using a phone hold down your horn button until they stop" facebook group.
OTOH, if they strap the truth machine to your head and you tell the truth and they still don't believe you and don't let you be on your way, you have a definite grounds for wrongful detainment (after all, this machine either works or it doesn't right?).
That said, I think this device would be more useful in a courtroom than an interview room.
Seriously... it must have almost crossed their mind... and then we would have been without Toy Story and a whole load of other great films!
Well, unless the bad publicity would have precluded them from making Toy Story, why couldn't they have done both?
I might hesitate to take the kids out to see Toy Story if the poster contained something like "From the makers of Sarah meets the Tentacle Monster from the planet Eroticon 6". Also, Pixar love including subtle references to their other films... you just never know what they'd manage to sneak past the censors:)
On the other hand, i'm sure the "blooper reel" would be hilarious on their adult films!
I for one am glad that they didn't think to themselves "hey - I wonder if there's money to be made in the adult entertainment industry with this stuff..."
Seriously... it must have almost crossed their mind... and then we would have been without Toy Story and a whole load of other great films!
Why? Are you ashamed of it? I recommend doing what a woman would do when someone "catches" her masturbating: Tell that person that he/she is a pervert! And continue fapping. Because what you do is natural. What that person does is invading your privacy. If you suspect it being unintentional, ask politely to be left alone please first.
At least that's healthy (not influenced by religious schizophrenia) social protocol for this.
Exactly. That woman has a right to masturbate in private. Everyone else should just leave the cinema until she's done... perverts.
When people stopped downloading illegal content over your narrow pipe I bet there will be a lot more available bandwidth you to download the legitimate content you've been waiting for!
Did anyone really assume that SSL certs were legit? YOU'RE BUYING THEM - someone will always sell them to you. Suddenly self-signed, homebrew certs aren't so bad anymore are they?
If you can deliver the key (or even just the thumbprint) to me in a secure manner then i'm quite happy to use it to trust my connection to you. Otherwise I need to trust a third party to tell me that your certificate is actually your certificate and not someone else pretending to be you, which is the whole point of SSL. Well... and encryption of course, but that aspect is somewhat overrated in comparison.
Surely, if any a fraudulent certificate evert shows up, then the public keys for the issuing CA should be instantly removed? Even if they are Verisign themselves, if a fraudulent certificate exists, then trust is lost, and they cannot remain.
Who would do this? What is the 'parent body' of a CA? Is the CA business actually regulated in any way? And under what jurisdiction? The nature of 'root certificate' is that the keys are in Windows (or whatever operating system), so Microsoft (or appropriate vendor) would have to do it via an update, or the user would have to do it manually.
It's much more profitable to adjust the traffic light timings so that people have to travel 5-10 mph over the speed limit to get the green lights on a long stretch of road (and make the red lights last a long time). Then you have a steady stream of speeders to ticket.
Who sets the traffic light timings and who gets the collected revenue? Are they they same department? If not, I suspect it's well beyond two different parts of the government to coordinate themselves on that level and make it profitable for both parties without getting caught.
It's amazing how people can complain about the incompetence of government and then in the next breath accuse them of something that would require sophisticated coordination.
What if I am doing something wrong and I want to continue to get away with it? I should start protesting now right? And start sprouting nonsense about how this is a violation of our collective privacy and is another step in the slippery slope to 1984, and how everyone who disagrees with me is one of them. That way I can continue breaking the law in any way I choose.
I wish we had more camera's in Australia. Between pulling out of the driveway at work yesterday and reaching the traffic lights about 1km down the road I saw _three_ cars driven by young females who were half watching the road and half watching their phone, presumably texting or reading a text message, or else reading something that was making them giggle..
Slashdot Mirror
Would this not cause a security nightmare?
Agreed. Metal detectors are useless. Cavity searches for all!
I wish you'd mentioned that in your original post, because it read like "in two weeks we are making an attempt to land on the moon. We are considering dusting off one of the old Saturn series rockets or maybe going with something newer... what does Slashdot think?"
Sorry to hear about your loss of staff. Hope it all works out for you.
With respect to the legal question you've raised, the only answer here is "talk to a real lawyer." Trusting Slashdot to give you legal counsel is, TBH, just flat-out crazy.
This is true, but Slashdot might be a better place to go to seek advice on obnoxious flatmates...
Wouldn't the fact that the owner of the account is fully aware of the goings on count for something? (with evidence of awareness posted to slashdot)
"In Australia you have to log something like 200 hours of driving before they'll issue you a probationary license. While that means you'll be more likely to have encountered tricky situations with an experienced driver sitting next to you, it doesn't actually reduce the number of dickheads on the road."
I think it's only 100 hours (in Qld at least; may be different elsewhere), and the 'experienced driver' needs only have held an open license for 12 months or more.
Which goes a long way to explaining the number of dickheads on the road. Far from having an 'experienced driver' beside them, chances are they had just another dickhead sitting next to them for most of those 100 hours...
I just checked and in Victoria it's 120 hours (not the 200 I said first), and 10 of those must be at night. With your Learners permit you have to be supervised by someone with a full license (eg not on probationary license) which means they've held a license for at least 3 years. Generally speaking, people are quite a bit more sensible at 21 than they are at 18, although some still have a way to go even at 21.
But that still does nothing to stop people being stupid on the road if they are so inclined, what it does (in theory) is reduce the number of situations a new driver would encounter that they haven't encountered before.
I certainly hold no illusions that there are any more or less dickheads on the road in Victoria vs Queensland :)
I just leave the gap and occasionally curse at the dickheads who pull in front if i'm having a bad day. Nobody else is going to make me tailgate.
One day i'll install a horn that will make their windows shake :)
I was listening to some people chatting about a recent car accident that someones daughter had. It seems that a kangaroo had jumped out in front of a car resulting in the next 3 or 4 cars crashing into the car in front. The daughter had been driving the second or third car. One of the comments made was something like "I don't understand why she was fined, it wasn't her fault". Stupid.
where the 'two second rule' was bashed into pretty much everyone
You assume that we actually 'train' people how to drive in the US. Mostly we make them do stupid 3 pt turns and think they're ready for the Indy 500. Teaching people *when* to do a 3 pt turn is far more important than 'how' to do it. But we don't really care about that type of thing.
It's actually an improvement on 40 years ago where you'd go for a spin around the block with the policeman sitting in the back doing his crossword. In Australia you have to log something like 200 hours of driving before they'll issue you a probationary license. While that means you'll be more likely to have encountered tricky situations with an experienced driver sitting next to you, it doesn't actually reduce the number of dickheads on the road.
Nor do we enforce traffic laws without any sense of consistency, so nobody even tries to follow the rules anyway.
It seems like we don't either - there just aren't enough police on the road. On my commute to work it seems like every second car is being driven by someone with a phone to their ear (whether it's unsafe or not, it's illegal in Australia), and half the rest are texting (unquestionably unsafe and stupid, and definitely illegal). Maybe we should start a "if you see someone driving while using a phone hold down your horn button until they stop" facebook group.
OTOH, if they strap the truth machine to your head and you tell the truth and they still don't believe you and don't let you be on your way, you have a definite grounds for wrongful detainment (after all, this machine either works or it doesn't right?).
That said, I think this device would be more useful in a courtroom than an interview room.
...that we can see so clearly where we've been, but can't go there again.
OTOH, If the collective governments all 'admitted' that the moon landings were all faked, I bet we'd be back there again in 5 years.
For breeds that are too large, breed them down to a manageable size (if we can make a chihuahua surely we can make a dog sized tiger).
The dog sized tiger has been done already
Seriously... it must have almost crossed their mind... and then we would have been without Toy Story and a whole load of other great films!
Well, unless the bad publicity would have precluded them from making Toy Story, why couldn't they have done both?
I might hesitate to take the kids out to see Toy Story if the poster contained something like "From the makers of Sarah meets the Tentacle Monster from the planet Eroticon 6". Also, Pixar love including subtle references to their other films... you just never know what they'd manage to sneak past the censors :)
On the other hand, i'm sure the "blooper reel" would be hilarious on their adult films!
I for one am glad that they didn't think to themselves "hey - I wonder if there's money to be made in the adult entertainment industry with this stuff..."
Seriously... it must have almost crossed their mind... and then we would have been without Toy Story and a whole load of other great films!
i liked the first picture better
Why? Are you ashamed of it?
I recommend doing what a woman would do when someone "catches" her masturbating:
Tell that person that he/she is a pervert! And continue fapping.
Because what you do is natural.
What that person does is invading your privacy.
If you suspect it being unintentional, ask politely to be left alone please first.
At least that's healthy (not influenced by religious schizophrenia) social protocol for this.
Exactly. That woman has a right to masturbate in private. Everyone else should just leave the cinema until she's done... perverts.
When people stopped downloading illegal content over your narrow pipe I bet there will be a lot more available bandwidth you to download the legitimate content you've been waiting for!
Nice to get what you pay for instead of subsidising someone else :)
Who cares, 'burn' it right there and use the energy to pump water uphill.
If it works, which I doubt.
My car won't run on uphill water.
You buy electronics at crackhead prices, don't be surprised if you get burned.
I guess I should cancel my order for that $99 TouchPad, then?
Yes. But not for the reason you think.
Did anyone really assume that SSL certs were legit? YOU'RE BUYING THEM - someone will always sell them to you. Suddenly self-signed, homebrew certs aren't so bad anymore are they?
If you can deliver the key (or even just the thumbprint) to me in a secure manner then i'm quite happy to use it to trust my connection to you. Otherwise I need to trust a third party to tell me that your certificate is actually your certificate and not someone else pretending to be you, which is the whole point of SSL. Well... and encryption of course, but that aspect is somewhat overrated in comparison.
Surely, if any a fraudulent certificate evert shows up, then the public keys for the issuing CA should be instantly removed? Even if they are Verisign themselves, if a fraudulent certificate exists, then trust is lost, and they cannot remain.
Who would do this? What is the 'parent body' of a CA? Is the CA business actually regulated in any way? And under what jurisdiction? The nature of 'root certificate' is that the keys are in Windows (or whatever operating system), so Microsoft (or appropriate vendor) would have to do it via an update, or the user would have to do it manually.
It's much more profitable to adjust the traffic light timings so that people have to travel 5-10 mph over the speed limit to get the green lights on a long stretch of road (and make the red lights last a long time). Then you have a steady stream of speeders to ticket.
Who sets the traffic light timings and who gets the collected revenue? Are they they same department? If not, I suspect it's well beyond two different parts of the government to coordinate themselves on that level and make it profitable for both parties without getting caught.
It's amazing how people can complain about the incompetence of government and then in the next breath accuse them of something that would require sophisticated coordination.
So a guy speeds (which is admittedly potentially unsafe) and suddenly you got a mob of people beating him to death? That's supposed to be just?
No. Not just. Just effective.
What if I am doing something wrong and I want to continue to get away with it? I should start protesting now right? And start sprouting nonsense about how this is a violation of our collective privacy and is another step in the slippery slope to 1984, and how everyone who disagrees with me is one of them. That way I can continue breaking the law in any way I choose.
I wish we had more camera's in Australia. Between pulling out of the driveway at work yesterday and reaching the traffic lights about 1km down the road I saw _three_ cars driven by young females who were half watching the road and half watching their phone, presumably texting or reading a text message, or else reading something that was making them giggle..
Nope... it's his cousin. Small world huh?