I really don't understand your complaint about people complaining. If otherwise happy customers didn't complain when new policies are introduced that they don't like then the company would be robbed of important feedback. If a company I don't like does something else that I don't like I probably wouldn't post message about how terrible their new policies is. But if you really want to use their services but there new policy is making you really mad, well then the company probably wants to hear about it.
So quite your bitching about other people bitching.
Maybe they should revers the trend of CEO's also being board chairmen. Have a strong separate chair that can champion long term profitability as a legitimate representative of shareholder interest.
How can this even be legal? I mean, I pay for electricity but the utility can't tell me that I can't plug a toaster in?
It is such a blatant bullshit cash grab why hasn't this practice been blocked by all the consumer protection and commerce laws out there? Isn't there something that applies?
Thank you for your kind words about Canada. For record I would like to state that when the current Conservative party won its first Minority governments, one of their agenda items was to deregulate the banking and industry. In the words of the Finance Minister "We want to introduce more innovation into the mortgage markets like our American cousins".
Thank goodness that they only had a minority government and their initiatives in this area failed. If they had succeeded, we would be in as big a mess as everyone else. Of course they didn't stop them from claiming credit for our mild recession. (They can take credit for it only by their failure to get their own way)
They now have a majority government, so we will have to see how big a mess they can make.
Dave
While arguments can be made around the edges of specific free trade arrangements, these arrangements are good for everyone in the long run. The emerging middle class in China well soon have the political clout to start demanding REAL reforms and REAL environmental standards very soon. Their domestic consumer demand will catch up to their production and then you can start bitching that there are no more cheap imports and you will have to wait a bit while your domestic production ramps back up. So the good news is that your kids will have homegrown jobs:)
The big hope is that China does a better job then the west did with the last remaining basket case Africa.
The thing that drove me crazy for the last 30 years was the extreme protection of agriculture both in North America and in Europe. If your not going to allow the developing world to work their way out of poverty by selling you low tech products like food then they are going to find other sectors within which to use their primary competitive advantage (labor in manufacturing assembly or services)
Which is why your phone needs a strong unlock pattern or password. Otherwise someone can pick your phone up off a bar table and own all your accounts via forgot password links.
I had always assumed that the disc in the mail service was a lost leader in order to build up subscribers for the eventual streaming service. Now that the streaming service is here I would find a way to fade out the snail mail version ASAP. Or at the very least make it profitable.
I witnessed the best bit of cynical news history yesterday and the anchor delivered it with a very straight face.
News anchor: More high ranking police and government officials resigned today due to allegations of corruption and payoffs from Murdoch Co.
News anchor: In related news the reporter who blew the whistle on the phone hacking was found dead in his apartment today, police do not suspect foul play."
The OP specifically mentioned that he is in a hosted environment. So any pen testing he is doing at the OS level or against a multi-teneted MySQL environment means that he is very possibly committing a crime unless he seeks permission.
Testing your website it self for vulnerabilities might be safe waters, running an aggressive Nessus scan against the server could be construed as attempting to breach 50 other websites and their databases.
I am not sure how this would directly effect me since I have my copy of VB6 Studio that I can use to maintain and tweak the couple a dozen VB6 DLL's that I use on a variety of websites. So I should be able to continue that whether they open source it or not.
The best part about this news is that it means I will finally be one of the cool kids using FOSS instead of a Micro$erf Dweeb.
Welcome to the benefit of a single payer medical system. You yanks sure missed out. There has been such a torrent of (paid for) anti-government rhetoric for the last 30 years that even your brightest have started to believe it.
Unfortunately for us, Canada lost the last election and we are stuck with the Harper Conservatives for the next four years. The MP in my riding is actually a founder of a not-for-profit organization that has a stated goal of dismantling the Canadian Health Care system. My theory is that Canada is now a fully captured Petro-state and the slow downward spiral of Americanization will continue.:(
Damned if I can find the link but I read a paper (think it was a google patent application) that discussed a technique of using subject area "experts" to rank a bunch of websites for quality/accuracy etc. Then they applied that as an extra factor in their link analysis.
So it was PageRank Plus. I wish I had the report because it improved search results a great deal over PageRank alone.
OK, So how can this be applied to comment threads? Could you use subject area "experts" to meta-moderator?
Corporations have been abusing our courts and being an affront to justice for a long time. I beleive in law and order but I beleive in natural justice a lot more. If this is the work of Anonymous, would you call it a criminal act? or justified civil disobedience in the face of illegitimate power?
Sadly there is no such thing. People are welcome to beleive any interpretation of the law they like and act accordingly. Any law is simply a prediction of how a judge will rule so if they think they can convince a judge of their interpretation that's it..
On the positive side, any un-warranted surveillance has to justified after the fact. Law enforcement is required to report actions taken which can then be audit by the courts. Not excusing this bill in any way, just saying...
Harper is one of the worst "We're doing it MY FUCKING WAY!" politicians we've had in YEARS, and that's WITH a minority.
We are doing everything right so you should sit down, shut up and do as your told.
- S. Harper
One of the funnier sides of elections is listening to politicians be so logically inconsistent and not even being aware of it. For example our local Conservative MP droned on about how well Canada is doing and about how much was due to his governments good management over the last 5 years. Then immediately warned of the dire and irreversible damage that would be befall Canada if they didn't get a majority. So which is it? Can you manage well despite a minority government? or does a minority government mean woe for all? Cause you can't have it both ways.
It says that officers can intercept private communications without a warrant if they fell that an offense is or would be committed immediately. (this part is probably in response to a real world case where officers were witnessing a child being molested in real time via internet video and needed to track the offenders location through ISP's in a hurry in order to stop the offense in process)
Further on in the bill is says that other exigent circumstances may allow interception without a warrant.
It reads like a bunch of other laws that are "Safe when used as directed".
Of course another solution would be to fund the courts so that proper judicial oversight can be in place *even* when your in a hurry.
Slashdot Mirror
I really don't understand your complaint about people complaining. If otherwise happy customers didn't complain when new policies are introduced that they don't like then the company would be robbed of important feedback. If a company I don't like does something else that I don't like I probably wouldn't post message about how terrible their new policies is. But if you really want to use their services but there new policy is making you really mad, well then the company probably wants to hear about it.
So quite your bitching about other people bitching.
I have always thought the "liberal" as in liberty meant the the individual is sovereign not not church nor king.
It was such a glorious thing when it swept across Europe that it makes me sad to see the Americans turn the word into some sort of derogatory term.
Maybe they should revers the trend of CEO's also being board chairmen. Have a strong separate chair that can champion long term profitability as a legitimate representative of shareholder interest.
What about having to explain to your 9 year old why this is the symbol for "Save" http://www.clker.com/cliparts/a/d/a/4/1194983782861263401floppy.svg.med.png
How can this even be legal? I mean, I pay for electricity but the utility can't tell me that I can't plug a toaster in?
It is such a blatant bullshit cash grab why hasn't this practice been blocked by all the consumer protection and commerce laws out there? Isn't there something that applies?
Thank you for your kind words about Canada. For record I would like to state that when the current Conservative party won its first Minority governments, one of their agenda items was to deregulate the banking and industry. In the words of the Finance Minister "We want to introduce more innovation into the mortgage markets like our American cousins".
Thank goodness that they only had a minority government and their initiatives in this area failed. If they had succeeded, we would be in as big a mess as everyone else. Of course they didn't stop them from claiming credit for our mild recession. (They can take credit for it only by their failure to get their own way)
They now have a majority government, so we will have to see how big a mess they can make. Dave
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:)
While arguments can be made around the edges of specific free trade arrangements, these arrangements are good for everyone in the long run. The emerging middle class in China well soon have the political clout to start demanding REAL reforms and REAL environmental standards very soon. Their domestic consumer demand will catch up to their production and then you can start bitching that there are no more cheap imports and you will have to wait a bit while your domestic production ramps back up. So the good news is that your kids will have homegrown jobs
The big hope is that China does a better job then the west did with the last remaining basket case Africa.
The thing that drove me crazy for the last 30 years was the extreme protection of agriculture both in North America and in Europe. If your not going to allow the developing world to work their way out of poverty by selling you low tech products like food then they are going to find other sectors within which to use their primary competitive advantage (labor in manufacturing assembly or services)
Which is why your phone needs a strong unlock pattern or password. Otherwise someone can pick your phone up off a bar table and own all your accounts via forgot password links.
I had always assumed that the disc in the mail service was a lost leader in order to build up subscribers for the eventual streaming service. Now that the streaming service is here I would find a way to fade out the snail mail version ASAP. Or at the very least make it profitable.
I witnessed the best bit of cynical news history yesterday and the anchor delivered it with a very straight face.
News anchor: More high ranking police and government officials resigned today due to allegations of corruption and payoffs from Murdoch Co. News anchor: In related news the reporter who blew the whistle on the phone hacking was found dead in his apartment today, police do not suspect foul play."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/18/rupert-murdoch-phone-hacking-scandal.html
Or make a big splash then accept high paying gig in new Cyber Warfare division.
The EPA is being sued.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23919234/ns/us_news-environment/t/states-sue-epa-move-global-warming/
The OP specifically mentioned that he is in a hosted environment. So any pen testing he is doing at the OS level or against a multi-teneted MySQL environment means that he is very possibly committing a crime unless he seeks permission. Testing your website it self for vulnerabilities might be safe waters, running an aggressive Nessus scan against the server could be construed as attempting to breach 50 other websites and their databases.
Oblig. http://validator.w3.org/
I am not sure how this would directly effect me since I have my copy of VB6 Studio that I can use to maintain and tweak the couple a dozen VB6 DLL's that I use on a variety of websites. So I should be able to continue that whether they open source it or not.
The best part about this news is that it means I will finally be one of the cool kids using FOSS instead of a Micro$erf Dweeb.
Welcome to the benefit of a single payer medical system. You yanks sure missed out. There has been such a torrent of (paid for) anti-government rhetoric for the last 30 years that even your brightest have started to believe it. Unfortunately for us, Canada lost the last election and we are stuck with the Harper Conservatives for the next four years. The MP in my riding is actually a founder of a not-for-profit organization that has a stated goal of dismantling the Canadian Health Care system. My theory is that Canada is now a fully captured Petro-state and the slow downward spiral of Americanization will continue. :(
Well....if I did something significant in Anonymous's name, that *they* did not agree with....I assume *they* would find a way to deal with me.
So if Sony was hacked by someone else, I imagine that Anon is working on exposing them or otherwise melting there cores.
Damned if I can find the link but I read a paper (think it was a google patent application) that discussed a technique of using subject area "experts" to rank a bunch of websites for quality/accuracy etc. Then they applied that as an extra factor in their link analysis. So it was PageRank Plus. I wish I had the report because it improved search results a great deal over PageRank alone. OK, So how can this be applied to comment threads? Could you use subject area "experts" to meta-moderator?
Corporations have been abusing our courts and being an affront to justice for a long time. I beleive in law and order but I beleive in natural justice a lot more. If this is the work of Anonymous, would you call it a criminal act? or justified civil disobedience in the face of illegitimate power?
Sadly there is no such thing. People are welcome to beleive any interpretation of the law they like and act accordingly. Any law is simply a prediction of how a judge will rule so if they think they can convince a judge of their interpretation that's it..
On the positive side, any un-warranted surveillance has to justified after the fact. Law enforcement is required to report actions taken which can then be audit by the courts. Not excusing this bill in any way, just saying...
We are doing everything right so you should sit down, shut up and do as your told.
- S. Harper
One of the funnier sides of elections is listening to politicians be so logically inconsistent and not even being aware of it. For example our local Conservative MP droned on about how well Canada is doing and about how much was due to his governments good management over the last 5 years. Then immediately warned of the dire and irreversible damage that would be befall Canada if they didn't get a majority. So which is it? Can you manage well despite a minority government? or does a minority government mean woe for all? Cause you can't have it both ways.
And don't forget to vote this Monday May 2nd!
The text of the first reading of the bill is here: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=4740653&file=4
It says that officers can intercept private communications without a warrant if they fell that an offense is or would be committed immediately. (this part is probably in response to a real world case where officers were witnessing a child being molested in real time via internet video and needed to track the offenders location through ISP's in a hurry in order to stop the offense in process)
Further on in the bill is says that other exigent circumstances may allow interception without a warrant.
It reads like a bunch of other laws that are "Safe when used as directed".
Of course another solution would be to fund the courts so that proper judicial oversight can be in place *even* when your in a hurry.
netflix.ca was down. So they were not unscathed just because no Americans were effected.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing Joe the Plumber that he was on his side.