I think that's the best way to handle persistent spammers. Spend the anti-spam infrastructure budget on the dark web and hold a quarterly drawing to decide which top 20 spammer gets the contract.
... so obviously, the next logical step would be to demand $2M from the renter for the 10,000 miles driven.
Except the car is a one of a kind custom exotic car, and they've been using it for a exclusive high rollers limo service and claiming the car as their own creation. He's demanding a cut of the fares for the unauthorized limo use.
i.e. Claiming is work as their own, and transferring it to 3rd parties for publication is not the same as simply using it longer. If this were music or a movie, nobody has a problem understanding that each copy is a infringement. Count each copy printed in every unauthorized publication and I bet their not asking nearly what the MPAA or RIAA would for each violation.
The both of them engaged in play acting. The FBI wanted to oblige Apple to respond to thousands (or tens of thousands) of FISA requests a year. Also, Apple was happy to have a PR image of being secure while the FBI was happy if dumb criminals thought the iPhones were safe to store incriminating information on.
the people of Switzerland own guns to protect their country as part of the militia, the exact same thing our Founding Fathers said in the Constitution.
Are you lying, or just parroting what someone told you? The Founding Fathers studied the failings of governments of the past, and identified private gun ownership a crucial tool for the preservation of freedom. They also saw centralized power as a threat, and sought to empower the states. Militias and private weapon ownership were both thought to be so important the right should be embodied in the Constitution that was already growing longer than desired. Some argued that they needed to spell it out or liars would pretend to misunderstand what 'Shall not' doesn't have exceptions. Others said that if you list specifics, those same liars will claim everything not specifically spelled out isn't protected, that only a fool wouldn't understand and that the document was too long already. It looks like that first group had a point. (it's not one guy, and there was a great deal of arguing)
Here is a hint: We have the letters and minutes from the meetings and don't need a crystal ball to divine the intent of the words in the Constitution. If it's unclear to you, you may read the discussion about the writing and adoption of that part of the document to gain a deeper understanding.
> Why would a customer pay 3x for your employer's output than they would the Indian company?
All but two of the Indians I have worked with in the last 3 years have been fucking useless. They have no drive, no curiosity, and no initiative.... Anything that requires thought or reasoning skills? Forget it. When we saw just how terrible they were at everything, a back channel network was quickly established for when we need to get things done quickly and correctly.
The Indians working at the outsourcing firms are at the equivalent of a soul-less telemarketing job. They are rewarded for following a script, closing tickets quickly and are punished for any initiative that would take time. Of course your view of them looks like that. The management of the body shop trained them to do that to maximize profit under the stupid contract the US management signed. The Indian's themselves aren't stupid.(though the body shops may pay too little to attract the brightest) US companies could pay for better service, or open a 'support branch' in India so they could keep experienced people and train them to own problems while still paying lower wages.
It seems the US management doesn't care if the current support agreement doesn't work well and frustrates the US workers, and they're happy to try and turn employment at their company into share cropping. That's your problem.
Oooh gee, your voice is down? Why don't you email your voice team? Oh, your connectivity is completely cut and all your support is overseas? Why don't you write a letter?
Yes, right... Like you made any difference. When you boycott a giant like Sony, you're just one of an incredibly small number who will make no impact whatsoever.
Perhaps you've missed Sony's financial situation. Pre-rootkit I had a Sony TV; camcorder; reciever; digital camera; high end artisan monitor (21 inch
- used at 2048x1536 when LCDs were 1024x768); SVHS; 100 disc CD changer... I was the decision maker for purchasing computer equipment at work, and had been buying Sony products in the mix. Since that time? My career has taken off allowing for much greater toy spending. $10k+ in photo gear, but no Sony. There are no Sony TV/entertainment products in the new house, another $10k+ loss for Sony; 65 computer systems at work, with no Sony systems or peripherals. I'm asked for recommendations all the time, and never suggest Sony. Sony's rootkit cost them a minimum of $50k in direct sales, plus lost referrals. I had preferentially bought Sony before then.
There are so many folks doing the same that it has added up, and Sony's bottom line has suffered.
Cities without a geographical constraint spread out because it's cheaper than bundling all the people and pollution into one spot.
The greater Houston area is nearly the size of Conneticut. The whole state. Borders that prevent sprawl create cities dense enough that mass transit can work in. I'd love to see a 'just bike' person commute to the other side of town and back in August by bike. It'll be a 150 mile trip.
Anti-lock brakes, computer controlled transmission shifting, variable assist power steering, fly-by-wire throttle and closed loop engine management all require sensors. Taken together, those sensors exceed what's needed to explain VW's cars ability to distinguish between active driving and a steady state test.
Also, it will be China's communication equipment. It will have intercept capabilities built in for the use of China's intelligence agencies. While they'd have little interest in Cubans, they anticipate American tourists soon. Corporate espionage may be profitable enough to offset China's costs...
The laws are there to make it more difficult to conceal corruption or working against the interests of the administration (or people - in theory anyway).
Advanced knowledge of foreign policy changes or influence in setting policy can be *very* valuable. It currently appears she was in contact with folks who act to sell that influence, kept private so it could be for the benefit of the Clinton's vs the Democrat party or the current administration (with politicians of either party I'm assuming just adopting the best policy for the US without a quid pro quo at least isn't an option).
The emails to the defense department are only important in that the show Hillary was lying both about the date range she conducted official business on a private server and whether she turned over all emails relating to official business.
I was prescribed Paxil due to a misdiagnosis. Wow, that was awful. Whatever positive things it was supposed to do never happened, but if you wanted your sex drive destroyed and to have every sleeping moment be the most vivid dreams it did that for me. Of course, all of the dreams were directed by Steven King and I woke up screaming in a cold sweat but they were vivid. And if I could get back to sleep I'd have another just as bad on a new topic (they didn't repeat). I watched a friend be driven into paranoia by SSRIs. As the affects of the drug ripped her life apart, her doctor kept increasing her dose to 'fix it'. When last I heard from her, she'd lost her license, been fired and lost most of her friends -- an addicts journey except that she was following her doctors instructions.
It's interesting to me to see that some people have really been helped. That suggests that doctors need much narrower guidelines for prescribing these drugs.
We had an HP deskkjet 500 at work that pre-dated the razor blade business model for inkjets. It was well made, had a large ink tank that didn't dry up and didn't have a 'screw you' chip.
HP had a 'fix' for our printer to align it with HP's profit goals though. HP added two air bladders to new cartridges so that the ink volume was halved in our larger cartridge, doubling the cost per page. Thanks HP!
I, fr one, would rather pay $20/gallon of gas during a power outage
I, for one, am prepared for power outages.
You have a 400+ gallon tank of gas that you keep topped up with fresh gas? (it goes bad) That's barely enough to run one small generator for a few weeks, and after Katrina and Ike 3-4+ week outages were common so you'd need twice that much fuel.
Or Rita?
Wrong storm.
Right storm. Within a few hours a 200 mile wide band of gas stations were completely out of fuel, leaving evacuees stranded for 24 hours or more. This started days before the storm, not because of last minute panic and lack of individual planning. People who have jobs left work to discover every gas station withing range of their car was already out of gas. It was a lesson to city planners about what just-in-time fuel inventory systems have done to evacuation planning.
So sorry your google is broken, life must be hard for you.
Oh right, fucking nothing.
Know-nothing shitheads need to keep their god damned mouths shut until the find a fucking clue.
If CBC can be sued for use of the video without a license, CBC should be able to sue CNN no less successfully, and for no less than the same amount they were sued for, for falsely representing their authorization to license it to them in the first place.
That's how it works/is supposed to work.
The creator of the video isn't responsible for sorting out what arrangement CNN and CBC had, or whether they actually had one at all. In the still image arena, unethical businesses try making the claim that they licensed images from stock, or that they hired a web developer who stole the image (claiming that means they aren't legally responsible...). The law makes the person distributing the image/video responsible for making sure they have the right to, to cut through that kind of smoke screen.
You need enough octane to prevent pre-ignition. If your engine is high compression, you need a higher octane. Turbo and Supercharged cars need higher octane. You only need 'enough', but that varies with air temperature, engine load and the exact fuel formula.
They don't because white people realize that if you pull a gun on a cop, or try to fight a cop or run a cop over with a car your ass is likely to get shot, and deservedly so.
Or refuse a 'request' that would be unlawful if it were an order, and face harassment and arrest at the least. Or use a camera (witnessed NOLA officers beat a photographer prior to going after hippies in a dimly lit area - they've adapted to cell phone cameras!); or drive with out of state plates, etc...
Obscenity standards can be enforced (how you say it), content restrictions may not be enforced lawfully (the message of the speech). Restricting a specific person from speaking at all in a public forum without regard to content? No. Hell no. Crazy people and unpopular people may speak.
Our office does that too. I moved the remote temp/humidity sensor monitor for the UPS system into my office for a month in the summer. My desktop reach 125F one weekend, 130F+ two weekends and over 140F the hottest weekend. Everything with an electrolytic cap has had failure rates increase 2-400% due to the heat.
I'm with you on the issue that IT is a function of a business to enable business. I think however there are some real issues with what's going on here.
1) There is a firewall in place which appears to be impeding business from operating
2) The IT guy is trying to get justification from outside to continue impeding business instead of taking the opportunity to identify why the firewall is blocking sites which facilitate their business.
5) The boss seems to believe the users need to access these sites.
6) He wants to handle this on a case by case basis which seems to impede business enough that this has become an issue.
This apparently is a solution which doesn't do anything other than impede the workflow of the users.
At the company I work for, there is no web filter because of #5.
The users claim blocking the sites they most visit will impede work flow. They complain about network access speed.
A quick peek at logs shows the website most visited is Facebook. Bandwidth goes to Netflix, Youtube, other video streaming, Pandora, Spotify and other music streaming and then there is noise. The users insist their use of the Internet is work related.
If I were charged with keeping Internet use work related I'd want to review things too. Open access has resulting in a minimum of 90% non-work related traffic to the point that work related use suffers significantly. The worst offenders are the most vocal, and claim all use is work related. HR solutions haven't worked.
Open access doesn't work. Separate from IDS/malware serving website blocking (that needs a subscription from specialists to work effectively), black-lists plus spot check traffic reviews is probably the most open that can work assuming you have the spare manpower in IT to keep up and have management and HR support for dealing with serial abusers. I'd much prefer being able to allow occasional unrestricted personal use provided your work performance is good, but complaining to my boss because your Internet connection is too slow because Netflix is buffering?!?! Screw that!
I've been on Slashdot since you were jacking off to cheerleaders.
Slut shaming cheerleaders? Turn yourself into the Jezebel re-education camp immediately.
Bragging about a high six digit UID is sad. In fact, bragging about the age of your account for any reason at all except to joke about it in a 'get off my lawn' fashion is lame. How about writing intelligently so you have something of worth to brag about.
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with stretch goals that included finger removal.
I think that's the best way to handle persistent spammers. Spend the anti-spam infrastructure budget on the dark web and hold a quarterly drawing to decide which top 20 spammer gets the contract.
... so obviously, the next logical step would be to demand $2M from the renter for the 10,000 miles driven.
Except the car is a one of a kind custom exotic car, and they've been using it for a exclusive high rollers limo service and claiming the car as their own creation. He's demanding a cut of the fares for the unauthorized limo use.
i.e. Claiming is work as their own, and transferring it to 3rd parties for publication is not the same as simply using it longer. If this were music or a movie, nobody has a problem understanding that each copy is a infringement. Count each copy printed in every unauthorized publication and I bet their not asking nearly what the MPAA or RIAA would for each violation.
The both of them engaged in play acting. The FBI wanted to oblige Apple to respond to thousands (or tens of thousands) of FISA requests a year. Also, Apple was happy to have a PR image of being secure while the FBI was happy if dumb criminals thought the iPhones were safe to store incriminating information on.
the people of Switzerland own guns to protect their country as part of the militia, the exact same thing our Founding Fathers said in the Constitution.
Are you lying, or just parroting what someone told you? The Founding Fathers studied the failings of governments of the past, and identified private gun ownership a crucial tool for the preservation of freedom. They also saw centralized power as a threat, and sought to empower the states. Militias and private weapon ownership were both thought to be so important the right should be embodied in the Constitution that was already growing longer than desired. Some argued that they needed to spell it out or liars would pretend to misunderstand what 'Shall not' doesn't have exceptions. Others said that if you list specifics, those same liars will claim everything not specifically spelled out isn't protected, that only a fool wouldn't understand and that the document was too long already. It looks like that first group had a point. (it's not one guy, and there was a great deal of arguing)
Here is a hint: We have the letters and minutes from the meetings and don't need a crystal ball to divine the intent of the words in the Constitution. If it's unclear to you, you may read the discussion about the writing and adoption of that part of the document to gain a deeper understanding.
* You younger puppies ** probably don't remember vinyl records, which would sometimes scratch, then fail to move the needle from one groove.
Who doesn't remember vinyl?
No they can not. Patenting anything that occurs naturally
Exactly, just like software can't be patented!
> Why would a customer pay 3x for your employer's output than they would the Indian company?
All but two of the Indians I have worked with in the last 3 years have been fucking useless. They have no drive, no curiosity, and no initiative. ... Anything that requires thought or reasoning skills? Forget it. When we saw just how terrible they were at everything, a back channel network was quickly established for when we need to get things done quickly and correctly.
The Indians working at the outsourcing firms are at the equivalent of a soul-less telemarketing job. They are rewarded for following a script, closing tickets quickly and are punished for any initiative that would take time. Of course your view of them looks like that. The management of the body shop trained them to do that to maximize profit under the stupid contract the US management signed. The Indian's themselves aren't stupid.(though the body shops may pay too little to attract the brightest) US companies could pay for better service, or open a 'support branch' in India so they could keep experienced people and train them to own problems while still paying lower wages.
It seems the US management doesn't care if the current support agreement doesn't work well and frustrates the US workers, and they're happy to try and turn employment at their company into share cropping. That's your problem.
Oooh gee, your voice is down? Why don't you email your voice team? Oh, your connectivity is completely cut and all your support is overseas? Why don't you write a letter?
Yes, right... Like you made any difference. When you boycott a giant like Sony, you're just one of an incredibly small number who will make no impact whatsoever.
Perhaps you've missed Sony's financial situation. Pre-rootkit I had a Sony TV; camcorder; reciever; digital camera; high end artisan monitor (21 inch - used at 2048x1536 when LCDs were 1024x768); SVHS; 100 disc CD changer... I was the decision maker for purchasing computer equipment at work, and had been buying Sony products in the mix. Since that time? My career has taken off allowing for much greater toy spending. $10k+ in photo gear, but no Sony. There are no Sony TV/entertainment products in the new house, another $10k+ loss for Sony; 65 computer systems at work, with no Sony systems or peripherals. I'm asked for recommendations all the time, and never suggest Sony. Sony's rootkit cost them a minimum of $50k in direct sales, plus lost referrals. I had preferentially bought Sony before then.
There are so many folks doing the same that it has added up, and Sony's bottom line has suffered.
Cities without a geographical constraint spread out because it's cheaper than bundling all the people and pollution into one spot.
The greater Houston area is nearly the size of Conneticut. The whole state. Borders that prevent sprawl create cities dense enough that mass transit can work in. I'd love to see a 'just bike' person commute to the other side of town and back in August by bike. It'll be a 150 mile trip.
Anti-lock brakes, computer controlled transmission shifting, variable assist power steering, fly-by-wire throttle and closed loop engine management all require sensors. Taken together, those sensors exceed what's needed to explain VW's cars ability to distinguish between active driving and a steady state test.
Also, it will be China's communication equipment. It will have intercept capabilities built in for the use of China's intelligence agencies. While they'd have little interest in Cubans, they anticipate American tourists soon. Corporate espionage may be profitable enough to offset China's costs...
The laws are there to make it more difficult to conceal corruption or working against the interests of the administration (or people - in theory anyway).
Advanced knowledge of foreign policy changes or influence in setting policy can be *very* valuable. It currently appears she was in contact with folks who act to sell that influence, kept private so it could be for the benefit of the Clinton's vs the Democrat party or the current administration (with politicians of either party I'm assuming just adopting the best policy for the US without a quid pro quo at least isn't an option).
The emails to the defense department are only important in that the show Hillary was lying both about the date range she conducted official business on a private server and whether she turned over all emails relating to official business.
I was prescribed Paxil due to a misdiagnosis. Wow, that was awful. Whatever positive things it was supposed to do never happened, but if you wanted your sex drive destroyed and to have every sleeping moment be the most vivid dreams it did that for me. Of course, all of the dreams were directed by Steven King and I woke up screaming in a cold sweat but they were vivid. And if I could get back to sleep I'd have another just as bad on a new topic (they didn't repeat). I watched a friend be driven into paranoia by SSRIs. As the affects of the drug ripped her life apart, her doctor kept increasing her dose to 'fix it'. When last I heard from her, she'd lost her license, been fired and lost most of her friends -- an addicts journey except that she was following her doctors instructions.
It's interesting to me to see that some people have really been helped. That suggests that doctors need much narrower guidelines for prescribing these drugs.
We had an HP deskkjet 500 at work that pre-dated the razor blade business model for inkjets. It was well made, had a large ink tank that didn't dry up and didn't have a 'screw you' chip.
HP had a 'fix' for our printer to align it with HP's profit goals though. HP added two air bladders to new cartridges so that the ink volume was halved in our larger cartridge, doubling the cost per page. Thanks HP!
I, fr one, would rather pay $20/gallon of gas during a power outage
I, for one, am prepared for power outages.
You have a 400+ gallon tank of gas that you keep topped up with fresh gas? (it goes bad) That's barely enough to run one small generator for a few weeks, and after Katrina and Ike 3-4+ week outages were common so you'd need twice that much fuel.
Or Rita?
Wrong storm.
Right storm. Within a few hours a 200 mile wide band of gas stations were completely out of fuel, leaving evacuees stranded for 24 hours or more. This started days before the storm, not because of last minute panic and lack of individual planning. People who have jobs left work to discover every gas station withing range of their car was already out of gas. It was a lesson to city planners about what just-in-time fuel inventory systems have done to evacuation planning. So sorry your google is broken, life must be hard for you.
Oh right, fucking nothing.
Know-nothing shitheads need to keep their god damned mouths shut until the find a fucking clue.
I was just thinking that myself.
If CBC can be sued for use of the video without a license, CBC should be able to sue CNN no less successfully, and for no less than the same amount they were sued for, for falsely representing their authorization to license it to them in the first place.
That's how it works/is supposed to work.
The creator of the video isn't responsible for sorting out what arrangement CNN and CBC had, or whether they actually had one at all. In the still image arena, unethical businesses try making the claim that they licensed images from stock, or that they hired a web developer who stole the image (claiming that means they aren't legally responsible...). The law makes the person distributing the image/video responsible for making sure they have the right to, to cut through that kind of smoke screen.
so why did they fire him for it?
He made it easier for FB outsiders to get the information without paying.
He made the sheep more aware of the sheering.
You'd have to work very hard to build one with a greater variety and number of security problems.
just use regular!
You need enough octane to prevent pre-ignition. If your engine is high compression, you need a higher octane. Turbo and Supercharged cars need higher octane. You only need 'enough', but that varies with air temperature, engine load and the exact fuel formula.
They don't because white people realize that if you pull a gun on a cop, or try to fight a cop or run a cop over with a car your ass is likely to get shot, and deservedly so.
Or refuse a 'request' that would be unlawful if it were an order, and face harassment and arrest at the least. Or use a camera (witnessed NOLA officers beat a photographer prior to going after hippies in a dimly lit area - they've adapted to cell phone cameras!); or drive with out of state plates, etc...
Obscenity standards can be enforced (how you say it), content restrictions may not be enforced lawfully (the message of the speech). Restricting a specific person from speaking at all in a public forum without regard to content? No. Hell no. Crazy people and unpopular people may speak.
Our office does that too. I moved the remote temp/humidity sensor monitor for the UPS system into my office for a month in the summer. My desktop reach 125F one weekend, 130F+ two weekends and over 140F the hottest weekend. Everything with an electrolytic cap has had failure rates increase 2-400% due to the heat.
I'm with you on the issue that IT is a function of a business to enable business. I think however there are some real issues with what's going on here.
1) There is a firewall in place which appears to be impeding business from operating 2) The IT guy is trying to get justification from outside to continue impeding business instead of taking the opportunity to identify why the firewall is blocking sites which facilitate their business. 5) The boss seems to believe the users need to access these sites. 6) He wants to handle this on a case by case basis which seems to impede business enough that this has become an issue. This apparently is a solution which doesn't do anything other than impede the workflow of the users.
At the company I work for, there is no web filter because of #5. The users claim blocking the sites they most visit will impede work flow. They complain about network access speed. A quick peek at logs shows the website most visited is Facebook. Bandwidth goes to Netflix, Youtube, other video streaming, Pandora, Spotify and other music streaming and then there is noise. The users insist their use of the Internet is work related.
If I were charged with keeping Internet use work related I'd want to review things too. Open access has resulting in a minimum of 90% non-work related traffic to the point that work related use suffers significantly. The worst offenders are the most vocal, and claim all use is work related. HR solutions haven't worked.
Open access doesn't work. Separate from IDS/malware serving website blocking (that needs a subscription from specialists to work effectively), black-lists plus spot check traffic reviews is probably the most open that can work assuming you have the spare manpower in IT to keep up and have management and HR support for dealing with serial abusers. I'd much prefer being able to allow occasional unrestricted personal use provided your work performance is good, but complaining to my boss because your Internet connection is too slow because Netflix is buffering?!?! Screw that!
I've been on Slashdot since you were jacking off to cheerleaders.
Slut shaming cheerleaders? Turn yourself into the Jezebel re-education camp immediately.
Bragging about a high six digit UID is sad. In fact, bragging about the age of your account for any reason at all except to joke about it in a 'get off my lawn' fashion is lame. How about writing intelligently so you have something of worth to brag about.