These stupid fuckers are screwing all the other people in this country who make their living as temps, or more importantly, as in-place consultants.
No, the losing defendants are. If they had no cause of action, the plaintiffs wouldn't file. If the cases had no merit, they'd be dismissed. Blame the abusers of the contractors, not the abused contractors.
Some of the restrictions and "rules" were down right retarded. I won't even bother mentioning them.
Of course not. You haven't got the goods. This is just hot air.
The relationships with permanent employees (often in the same friggin' project) were strained and sometimes became akward.
No shit. They knew what was up. Your presence was a threat from management. "We don't really need permanent employees."
I could care less about the "let's hold hands and sing Kumbaya" crap, but LET ME DO MY JOB FERSSAKES. You're effin' paying for it anyway.
You're a contractor. You think management is wasting your time, but you are getting paid for it. What's the fuss? Come in, do what you're assigned, get a check, go home. What's the frickin' problem? Did you own stock in the company or something? What skin is it off your nose if management wants to be - in your opinion - inefficient? Did they contract your services as an efficiency expert?
YOU'RE A CONTRACT WORKER FOR THE LOVE OF ZOD!!
Not if the contract is used to get around labor laws, you aren't.
Lawsuits like this make my life hell and cost me the money of potential customers who are afraid of them.
Then blame the guilty defendants, not the plaintiffs. If there was nothing substantial going on, the cases would be dismissed before costing anyone much money. That some cases proceed to the point of issuing a judgment against the defendants is not the fault of the plaintiffs or the lawsuits.
NT4, Win2K, XP - they all have incompatibilities with applications of the same kind and severity as different flavors of libc or glibc on Linux might have. Problem is, you usually cannot recompile your commercial app and link it against the upgraded OS if you have Windows. So with Windows, users can easily end up with a application that requires an obsoleted OS that the Microsoft no longer supports.
But this is run-of-the-mill stuff with Linux. Apps are patched and recompiled to run on newer distros all the time, and users do not need to wait for the vendor to do it.
Can't address the topic? Easy! Change subjects! You must have learned that from right-wing pundits.
All I said was that it wasn't the user's fault that this bug was back again. And it isn't the user's fault.
This article is not about re-appearing bugs in Linux. That's why I didn't mention anything about whose fault they were. Otherwise, I'd have made a comment about it not being Linux users' fault.
Doesn't almost every ISP filter outgoing packets for a bit of sanity, especially valid (or reasonable) source addresses?
No, they don't. I have Adelphia at home, and can send packets with any source address I can generate. It is not as common a practice as it could or should be. I am sure that the gazillion UU.net access points leased to a half-gazillion ISPs large and small do not filter source addresses.
At what point do we cease blaming Microsoft for stupid user tricks?
The LAND bug was fixed long ago, before any firewalls were shipped with Windows. This is a very old bug that has managed to creep back into the code for the TCP stack somehow. It isn't the user's fault. The firewall, by the way, is not an acceptable fix for the LAND bug. The acceptable fix is for the stack not to crash the machine when presented with malformed input. The host should still run a firewall, but as a separate layer of security apart from basic input hygiene in the stack. But in any case, the developers have no excuse for re-introducing 8-year-old exploits into new code.
Some people seriously need to go fucking read Atlas Shrugged.
Yawn. The Book of Mormon was more interesting, and I'm an atheist. I'd rather pass a kidney stone than be subjected to the "writings" of Ayn Rand or L. Ron Hubbard or anyone else like them ever again.
Then take at least 2 courses in economics, and then read some about economic history, because nobody who understands economics, even economists on the left, promote such idiotic ideas.
If only Ayn Rand had done this. If she had, there'd be no "Atlas Shrugged." She would have learned how little she had to offer. Instead, she simply declared all previous philosophies obsolete, so she wouldn't have to bother putting her drivel in any kind of historical context. What a cunt.
Given the past exploits of the UoCS, it is quite possible that the pool of respondants was tweaked by throwing out enough negative responses to create the desired end result.
I can't take your claim at face value, since opponents of the UoCS have a history of taking a position and then "proving" the validity of their position with data that was either very selective or just plain fabricated.
Since you've produced no evidence whatsoever to back your claim, I must conservatively assume the latter is the case here.
Those are diffraction spikes produced by the four struts which hold the secondary mirror in the center of the aperture. The images have been processed to minimize the diffraction spikes.
My notebook was a Sharp Actius model. Not exactly a hole-in-the-wall PC shop. I had a product key, attached to the notebook, and the WinXP installed on the unit didn't require activation, either. But there was no CD-ROM from which you could recover individual XP system files, or perform a regular XP install.
It would sure make my job easier as a consultant.... "OK I need to replace this file, where's your XP CD-ROM?" "What XP CD-ROM?"
My new notebook came with WinXP installed, but did not come with a WinXP CD. It came with a System Restore CD prepared by the notebook vendor. It did not have individual XP system files in any form one could extract singly, even if one was a consultant.
I hear this is standard operating procedure now, to not give you a copy of the Windows software CD, but only a vendor-supplied System Restore CD.
Even normal companies can have practically all their external email communications shutdown if they're blacklisted by a site like spamhaus.
Spamhaus is widely viewed as irresponsible trigger-happy fanatics by responsible companies. They don't use Spamhaus' blacklist. If you are blocked by Spamhaus, you will only be unable to communicate with the fanatics, which is very far from "practically all."
ESA's Huygens home page has posted the first image from the surface. Looks like the Venus surface images from the Russian Venera lander. There are a lot of what look like round river rocks. Maybe they are eroded ice boulders.
I have a notebook that can power a 2.5" external HDD through the USB port. The same drive cannot get enough juice to run off my desktop PC's USB ports. It spins up, but doesn't completely mount on my PC. I have to plug in the stupid 110V power brick. A dual-powered enclosure would solve that problem, and let me throw away the brick.
The only thing I can think of to improve this device is if it had a internal battery, which could be recharged when it was powered by the USB port.
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These stupid fuckers are screwing all the other people in this country who make their living as temps, or more importantly, as in-place consultants.
No, the losing defendants are. If they had no cause of action, the plaintiffs wouldn't file. If the cases had no merit, they'd be dismissed. Blame the abusers of the contractors, not the abused contractors.
Some of the restrictions and "rules" were down right retarded. I won't even bother mentioning them.
Of course not. You haven't got the goods. This is just hot air.
The relationships with permanent employees (often in the same friggin' project) were strained and sometimes became akward.
No shit. They knew what was up. Your presence was a threat from management. "We don't really need permanent employees."
I could care less about the "let's hold hands and sing Kumbaya" crap, but LET ME DO MY JOB FERSSAKES. You're effin' paying for it anyway.
You're a contractor. You think management is wasting your time, but you are getting paid for it. What's the fuss? Come in, do what you're assigned, get a check, go home. What's the frickin' problem? Did you own stock in the company or something? What skin is it off your nose if management wants to be - in your opinion - inefficient? Did they contract your services as an efficiency expert?
YOU'RE A CONTRACT WORKER FOR THE LOVE OF ZOD!!
Not if the contract is used to get around labor laws, you aren't.
A contract is a contract.
Not if it's used to get around the law. Illegal contracts are null and void. Just because it's signed doesn't mean it's enforceable.
The suits are usually the recourse of people who did nothing to protect their marketability.
Sez you. Obviously you have an axe to grind.
Lawsuits like this make my life hell and cost me the money of potential customers who are afraid of them.
Then blame the guilty defendants, not the plaintiffs. If there was nothing substantial going on, the cases would be dismissed before costing anyone much money. That some cases proceed to the point of issuing a judgment against the defendants is not the fault of the plaintiffs or the lawsuits.
Short of it is... You agreed to the contract. If you don't like it, you can quit and get a different job. End of story.
Not if the contract is used to get around the law. Which the complaint alleges is the case. Not end of story. Time for a trial.
NT4, Win2K, XP - they all have incompatibilities with applications of the same kind and severity as different flavors of libc or glibc on Linux might have. Problem is, you usually cannot recompile your commercial app and link it against the upgraded OS if you have Windows. So with Windows, users can easily end up with a application that requires an obsoleted OS that the Microsoft no longer supports.
But this is run-of-the-mill stuff with Linux. Apps are patched and recompiled to run on newer distros all the time, and users do not need to wait for the vendor to do it.
Even parts of Sun.com run Linux:
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http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.su
Ergo, the bug isn't the user's fault, but getting exploited by it would be.
I can turn off the firewall on any modern Linux distro and it won't be zapped by an 8-year old exploit.
It is still not the user's fault. It is Microsoft's.
Can't address the topic? Easy! Change subjects! You must have learned that from right-wing pundits.
All I said was that it wasn't the user's fault that this bug was back again. And it isn't the user's fault.
This article is not about re-appearing bugs in Linux. That's why I didn't mention anything about whose fault they were. Otherwise, I'd have made a comment about it not being Linux users' fault.
Happy now?
Doesn't almost every ISP filter outgoing packets for a bit of sanity, especially valid (or reasonable) source addresses?
No, they don't. I have Adelphia at home, and can send packets with any source address I can generate. It is not as common a practice as it could or should be. I am sure that the gazillion UU.net access points leased to a half-gazillion ISPs large and small do not filter source addresses.
At what point do we cease blaming Microsoft for stupid user tricks?
The LAND bug was fixed long ago, before any firewalls were shipped with Windows. This is a very old bug that has managed to creep back into the code for the TCP stack somehow. It isn't the user's fault. The firewall, by the way, is not an acceptable fix for the LAND bug. The acceptable fix is for the stack not to crash the machine when presented with malformed input. The host should still run a firewall, but as a separate layer of security apart from basic input hygiene in the stack. But in any case, the developers have no excuse for re-introducing 8-year-old exploits into new code.
You won't win many people over to your side, if when they decide to change their mind and agree with you, you ridicule them for it.
And you'd be welcome to. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. This is the standard response the left gets from the right: don't like it, leave!
Drug patents expire in 20 years. 20 years from now you will be able to buy all the expensive drugs of today in generic versions for almost nothing.
Unless you're dead because you couldn't afford it 20 years ago when you needed it.
Some people seriously need to go fucking read Atlas Shrugged.
Yawn. The Book of Mormon was more interesting, and I'm an atheist. I'd rather pass a kidney stone than be subjected to the "writings" of Ayn Rand or L. Ron Hubbard or anyone else like them ever again.
Then take at least 2 courses in economics, and then read some about economic history, because nobody who understands economics, even economists on the left, promote such idiotic ideas.
If only Ayn Rand had done this. If she had, there'd be no "Atlas Shrugged." She would have learned how little she had to offer. Instead, she simply declared all previous philosophies obsolete, so she wouldn't have to bother putting her drivel in any kind of historical context. What a cunt.
In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?
SHUT OFF THAT GOD DAMNED RINGTINE OR IT'S YOUR JOB, YOU ASSHOLE!
Given the past exploits of the UoCS, it is quite possible that the pool of respondants was tweaked by throwing out enough negative responses to create the desired end result.
I can't take your claim at face value, since opponents of the UoCS have a history of taking a position and then "proving" the validity of their position with data that was either very selective or just plain fabricated.
Since you've produced no evidence whatsoever to back your claim, I must conservatively assume the latter is the case here.
Those are diffraction spikes produced by the four struts which hold the secondary mirror in the center of the aperture. The images have been processed to minimize the diffraction spikes.
My notebook was a Sharp Actius model. Not exactly a hole-in-the-wall PC shop. I had a product key, attached to the notebook, and the WinXP installed on the unit didn't require activation, either. But there was no CD-ROM from which you could recover individual XP system files, or perform a regular XP install.
It would sure make my job easier as a consultant. ... "OK I need to replace this file, where's your XP CD-ROM?" "What XP CD-ROM?"
My new notebook came with WinXP installed, but did not come with a WinXP CD. It came with a System Restore CD prepared by the notebook vendor. It did not have individual XP system files in any form one could extract singly, even if one was a consultant.
I hear this is standard operating procedure now, to not give you a copy of the Windows software CD, but only a vendor-supplied System Restore CD.
Even normal companies can have practically all their external email communications shutdown if they're blacklisted by a site like spamhaus.
Spamhaus is widely viewed as irresponsible trigger-happy fanatics by responsible companies. They don't use Spamhaus' blacklist. If you are blocked by Spamhaus, you will only be unable to communicate with the fanatics, which is very far from "practically all."
ESA's Huygens home page has posted the first image from the surface. Looks like the Venus surface images from the Russian Venera lander. There are a lot of what look like round river rocks. Maybe they are eroded ice boulders.
Spare us the poor, misunderstood American "victim" routine.
I have a notebook that can power a 2.5" external HDD through the USB port. The same drive cannot get enough juice to run off my desktop PC's USB ports. It spins up, but doesn't completely mount on my PC. I have to plug in the stupid 110V power brick. A dual-powered enclosure would solve that problem, and let me throw away the brick.
The only thing I can think of to improve this device is if it had a internal battery, which could be recharged when it was powered by the USB port.
Just when you thought your Series 60 smartphones were safe, a trojan has surfaced ... that disables all anti-virus software...
If the things need anti-virus software, they were never safe to begin with.
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*cough*bigbudgetcryptocomputers*cough*
*cough*subpoenaonmudoperator*cough*