I won't take a job where the person interviewing treats me as if they are doing me a favor in offering the job.
I'm had at least a half-dozen interviews in the last 20 years where I am expected to declare exactly why I want the job....My usual thought is, "Well, I won't know if I want it until I have a few weeks to reflect upon the idea."....Not that I actually say that.
One needs to have a strong enough sense of self to remember: I'm interviewing them and not the other way around.
Interesting idea, but I don't think Google meets the definition of a content provider or distributor in the traditional sense, as they do not make a conscious decision to carry specific content like the video store does.
Agreed. It just gets fuzzy in that they also make a conscious decision to not censor specific content. (Though that is fully their right, as it is for any search engine. ie One has NO right to expect Google or any other search outlet to provide you access to any content, no matter how innocuous or vile. In fact, we have no right to expect our browser to render illegal content for us.
Did Hirsch just say that the online porn industry is doing more to protect minors from porn than Google or Yahoo?
And, as absurd as it sounds, are those statements maybe more correct than we'd like?
They might be...Through their search engine, Google is providing users access to content. In some ways, that is not entirely different from selling, say, dvds. But let's imagine that those are porn and feature 16 year olds. Or that I find kiddie porn in Google search.
In both cases, I have completed a transaction with a provider...I just didn't pay for one of them.
These kind of laws vary widely, but if a video store owner can be found guilty of distributing child porn, why can't Google?
My first exposure to Unix (1986) was on the AFS network at CMU. I don't about using this on Windows, but our disk access was never an issue.
Thanks for the reference, that really takes me back...
Recently I was a computing bind and had to make an unplanned laptop purchase at my local big box. Of course iy came with Vista.
After installing my favorite *NIX, I tossed the Recovery/Install disk straight into the trash. That took about 0.8 seconds
Hit me up on IRC if you want the optimization patch. Especially you MSFT engineers...
I haven't loaded up a file sharing program in years. (Back in the Napster/Limewire heyday years.)
Which programs are the RIAA using to "catch" folks these days?
I'm not naive enough to think my BSD and Linux machines can't be infected, but....
This would seem to be yet another argument for ports, apt, etc. I've never feared any of the software installed through those routes.
(Yes, I know security alerts arise and are addresses...I'm talking about over malware.)
Ok, I know about the Moonlight project, but has MS decided to hedge their bets on a completely proprietary presence (and framework)? Do they actually think that this will ward off the evil ogres of FOSS and help to sustain the monopoly?
A bit confused....
IANALBIPOOS....
So if the customs agent had demanded that he turn on the cell phone and display his call logs, would that have been legal?
Cell phones don't have logins (at least my doesn't), so why would data on the phone be any more/less subject to inspection (in comparison to the laptop)?
Why would you buy an iPod and expect it to work with something else? Look at Apple's website, look at the box, google "iPod linux".
Fair enough. I certainly wouldn't buy an iPod to work with my Linux machines.
But what can I but that supports ogg out of the box and will play nicely with Linux/BSD???
Slashdot Mirror
All good points here, but please be care with the allusions you make towards the BSD world.
They are very serious projects.
How long will it take? It doesn't matter because the open source community has the time and the manpower.
Quite correct.
Oddly, this is the same strategy used by Islamic terrorists.
You mean put debian on them?
This would be a much more sensible solution.
How many LIBRAIRIES OF CONGRESS is it?
Can't tell here, as I don't have Silverlight installed.
I won't take a job where the person interviewing treats me as if they are doing me a favor in offering the job.
I'm had at least a half-dozen interviews in the last 20 years where I am expected to declare exactly why I want the job....My usual thought is, "Well, I won't know if I want it until I have a few weeks to reflect upon the idea."....Not that I actually say that.
One needs to have a strong enough sense of self to remember: I'm interviewing them and not the other way around.
Interesting idea, but I don't think Google meets the definition of a content provider or distributor in the traditional sense, as they do not make a conscious decision to carry specific content like the video store does.
Agreed. It just gets fuzzy in that they also make a conscious decision to not censor specific content. (Though that is fully their right, as it is for any search engine. ie One has NO right to expect Google or any other search outlet to provide you access to any content, no matter how innocuous or vile. In fact, we have no right to expect our browser to render illegal content for us.
Did Hirsch just say that the online porn industry is doing more to protect minors from porn than Google or Yahoo?
And, as absurd as it sounds, are those statements maybe more correct than we'd like?
They might be...Through their search engine, Google is providing users access to content. In some ways, that is not entirely different from selling, say, dvds. But let's imagine that those are porn and feature 16 year olds. Or that I find kiddie porn in Google search.
In both cases, I have completed a transaction with a provider...I just didn't pay for one of them.
These kind of laws vary widely, but if a video store owner can be found guilty of distributing child porn, why can't Google?
Does it nag more than NoScript?
My first exposure to Unix (1986) was on the AFS network at CMU. I don't about using this on Windows, but our disk access was never an issue.
Thanks for the reference, that really takes me back...
Plenty of sarcasm.
Not a trace of irony.
In other news, TSA is looking in to claims that some inspectors were unfamiliar soap, shampoo and other personal hygiene products...
They read Slashdot?
Recently I was a computing bind and had to make an unplanned laptop purchase at my local big box. Of course iy came with Vista.
After installing my favorite *NIX, I tossed the Recovery/Install disk straight into the trash. That took about 0.8 seconds
Hit me up on IRC if you want the optimization patch. Especially you MSFT engineers...
Slashdot: "Content-free since 1997"
Will VLite work with an OEM recovery "install" disk?
Mentality of Apes
I haven't loaded up a file sharing program in years. (Back in the Napster/Limewire heyday years.) Which programs are the RIAA using to "catch" folks these days?
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I'm not naive enough to think my BSD and Linux machines can't be infected, but.... This would seem to be yet another argument for ports, apt, etc. I've never feared any of the software installed through those routes. (Yes, I know security alerts arise and are addresses...I'm talking about over malware.)
There are so many levels of evil and incompetence here to be pondered. What will this mean?
Ok, I know about the Moonlight project, but has MS decided to hedge their bets on a completely proprietary presence (and framework)? Do they actually think that this will ward off the evil ogres of FOSS and help to sustain the monopoly? A bit confused....
IANALBIPOOS.... So if the customs agent had demanded that he turn on the cell phone and display his call logs, would that have been legal? Cell phones don't have logins (at least my doesn't), so why would data on the phone be any more/less subject to inspection (in comparison to the laptop)?
Why would you buy an iPod and expect it to work with something else? Look at Apple's website, look at the box, google "iPod linux".
Fair enough. I certainly wouldn't buy an iPod to work with my Linux machines.
But what can I but that supports ogg out of the box and will play nicely with Linux/BSD???
OK, its not football, but it is the only Quake-based chess game I know of:
CHESS III ARENA
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
Now that Novell officially controls the UNIX trademark, I guess they'll turn around and sue themselves over some Linux code?