It's not at all surprising that they're taking that positions. Same sex rights is one of the few areas in which corporate America has been by and large ahead of the curve. I'd wager that if you took a survey at MS and similar corporations that support would be pretty high.
Plus IIRC they've been on that side on the last few times this has popped up for vote.
Child porn laws themselves aren't the problem, the problem is that they're selectively enforced and don't require any knowledge or intent on the part of the accused to be prosecuted that is the problem.
What I want to know is why none of the FBI agents working on those cases hasn't been prosecuted. If any of the rest of us were caught with the stuff on our machines for any reason we would be prosecuted.
That's why you insist upon the data being encrypted before being uploaded to the service and only being decrypted after it's safely on your computer. It greatly reduces the amount of things that can happen to it when it's out of your control.
Depends on the service. It makes me really nervous when cloud back up services don't explicitly promise that your data will be mirrored across at least 2 geographically diverse data centers. And that should be in the SLA.
Yes, although that's still less than ideal as theoretically if the cloud goes down and your home happens to be burgled or burns down you could still lose data. Of course the odds of all that happening at once are probably long enough not to worry about.
Personally, I back up one copy to Crashplan's servers and one copy locally. The reality is that you're far more likely to lose data to fat fingers or a virus than to burglary or fire. I rarely have had to actually download the backup for reasons other than verification that the backup is still good.
Unless they're complete morons they haven't lost any data. Anybody that trusts a cloud service to protect their data without retaining at least one copy is asking for trouble. So, unless their house burned down and their backups melted offsite as well they shouldn't have lost any data.
That being said, losing data to the feds that can then trawl through it looking for criminal offenses is much more reasonable. Although, those folks really should have chosen a service that encrypts the copies on the server.
No they haven't, they just don't rubber stamp them the way that they do in some places. If you really want to be safe go to Ireland, they rarely extradict anybody to the US. The last time I heard of them doing it was somebody that had killed 3 people in a drunk driving crash. Before that it had been literally years since they extradited anybody at all to the US.
Yes, but the main problem with DisplayPort is that of adoption. Firewire was better than USB2.0 also, but it was more expensive, didn't support USB1.0 and didn't have the install base necessary to be particularly attractive to device manufacturers. I know that it is still in use, but I haven't used it in years and most things are moving to USB 3.0.
Not quite, there are different revisions and you're not guaranteed to have everything working if you don't buy a recent enough cable. But, in practice they're not that expensive and anybody who needs the extra functionality is going to know what cable they need. In all cases though you'll at least get video and sound with any HDMI cable you buy.
You do realize that you can just buy a $5 adapter and conver the HDMI cable into one that plugs into a DVI connector, right? And you're not going to have an analog hole if you don't buy protected discs. Blurays are spectacular, but if you're that concerned about it you can either strip the protection or better stick with DVDs.
HDMI doesn't mandate that you use DRM, it just supports HDCP. If you're running Linux or are running Windows, but not using software that requires HDCP, then you're not likely to see any difference at all.
If you do, there are software packages available which allow you to strip out the encryption and depending upon where you are that may or may not be legal. If it's not legal then you really shouldn't encourage them to use that crap by buying protected discs.
I've heard that DisplayPort is technically superior, but at this point it's not going to be catching up, at least not in the mainstream. Reminds me a bit of Firewire, it was in someways superior, but outside of niche uses how many people even have a port anymore?
That's what I was wondering about. HDMI ports are physically smaller than DVI ports are and so you can put two of them on a half height video card relatively easily. But, I have a feeling that the HDMI connector is engineered to be plugged and unplugged more frequently as it's typically used for TVs and all manner of camera, game system, laptop and really anything that needs to plug into the TV.
Plus it does have a few extra features like the ability of the device that's plugged into the TV to adjust the sound.
What about the talent that's already here? It made sense for us to snag Einstein, von Braun and all those amazing European minds before, during and after WWII because they were so exceptional. But, by bringing in people on H-1B visas to fill jobs that could be filled by ordinary IT workers all you're doing is creating a dependence on foreign laborers to get the work done. It's very much the same sort of thing as why food shipments to starving countries are only a stop gap measure. Long term you provide a disincentive to self sufficiency.
Yes, those folks aren't bad people, but what you're failing to take into account is the folks that gave up and retrained before the economy went in the gutter and the number of positions which don't exist any more as companies cut back.
And how many folks end up with jobs in IT versus those that tried but got discouraged by the low pay early on and competition from H-1B visa holders that were imported to artificially depress wages?
It's not a prisoner's dilemma as the parties are in regular contact and in the prisoner's dilemma a large part of it is that there is no communication between the parties. A cartel is always going to be better for the individuals than going alone, that's why they form cartels and why antitrust regulations seek to prevent it. OPEC itself has had no problems existing for decades.
That was my thought, that whole situation didn't arise until the late '90s, prior to that there was no particular stigma attached to buying such diamonds as most people were unaware of the consequences.
DeBeers itself already had a monopoly in the diamond market and they were the ones that were convincing people to buy diamonds for engagement rings, prior to that it wasn't a common practice at all.
And if we didn't throw away so much money on the DoD and pointless war we could all have free cars. It's important to keep these things in perspective.
It's not unconstitutional otherwise Medicare would have been thrown out by now. If you don't want the healthcare you have options. I bet you could move to Somalia.
I have a seriously hard time imagining how people could view healthcare as a tool of oppression. Very, very few people opt out in any sort of genuine way now, and under the reform law all you have to do is cop a religious exemption or plead poverty and you're out of it. Doesn't sound very mandatory to me. And even if you don't do that, the fine itself for not having coverage is a lot less than what you would pay for insurance that you aren't going to use.
Not likely. It would probably mean that we'd be spending those dollars on other health care services. The reason why health care is so expensive in the US comes down to a few things. One, for profit entities in the system, that profit does jack shit for patients that can't afford coverage because it's expensive. Two the fact that you could get sick and then have your insurance dropped over a technicality or not renewed. Third the lack of preventative care that has been endemic in the system over the decades.
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It's not at all surprising that they're taking that positions. Same sex rights is one of the few areas in which corporate America has been by and large ahead of the curve. I'd wager that if you took a survey at MS and similar corporations that support would be pretty high.
Plus IIRC they've been on that side on the last few times this has popped up for vote.
Child porn laws themselves aren't the problem, the problem is that they're selectively enforced and don't require any knowledge or intent on the part of the accused to be prosecuted that is the problem.
What I want to know is why none of the FBI agents working on those cases hasn't been prosecuted. If any of the rest of us were caught with the stuff on our machines for any reason we would be prosecuted.
That's why you insist upon the data being encrypted before being uploaded to the service and only being decrypted after it's safely on your computer. It greatly reduces the amount of things that can happen to it when it's out of your control.
I assume you're joking, assholes like you make life miserable for those of us with serious allergies.
I'm pretty sure they aren't doing this research in the local park or at the mall.
No, the researchers are themselves a highly evolved mutation of the influenza virus.
Depends on the service. It makes me really nervous when cloud back up services don't explicitly promise that your data will be mirrored across at least 2 geographically diverse data centers. And that should be in the SLA.
Service animals are generally better behaved and other dogs shouldn't be coming into work, employees with allergies do have rights.
Yes, although that's still less than ideal as theoretically if the cloud goes down and your home happens to be burgled or burns down you could still lose data. Of course the odds of all that happening at once are probably long enough not to worry about.
Personally, I back up one copy to Crashplan's servers and one copy locally. The reality is that you're far more likely to lose data to fat fingers or a virus than to burglary or fire. I rarely have had to actually download the backup for reasons other than verification that the backup is still good.
Unless they're complete morons they haven't lost any data. Anybody that trusts a cloud service to protect their data without retaining at least one copy is asking for trouble. So, unless their house burned down and their backups melted offsite as well they shouldn't have lost any data.
That being said, losing data to the feds that can then trawl through it looking for criminal offenses is much more reasonable. Although, those folks really should have chosen a service that encrypts the copies on the server.
No they haven't, they just don't rubber stamp them the way that they do in some places. If you really want to be safe go to Ireland, they rarely extradict anybody to the US. The last time I heard of them doing it was somebody that had killed 3 people in a drunk driving crash. Before that it had been literally years since they extradited anybody at all to the US.
Yes, but the main problem with DisplayPort is that of adoption. Firewire was better than USB2.0 also, but it was more expensive, didn't support USB1.0 and didn't have the install base necessary to be particularly attractive to device manufacturers. I know that it is still in use, but I haven't used it in years and most things are moving to USB 3.0.
Not quite, there are different revisions and you're not guaranteed to have everything working if you don't buy a recent enough cable. But, in practice they're not that expensive and anybody who needs the extra functionality is going to know what cable they need. In all cases though you'll at least get video and sound with any HDMI cable you buy.
You do realize that you can just buy a $5 adapter and conver the HDMI cable into one that plugs into a DVI connector, right? And you're not going to have an analog hole if you don't buy protected discs. Blurays are spectacular, but if you're that concerned about it you can either strip the protection or better stick with DVDs.
HDMI doesn't mandate that you use DRM, it just supports HDCP. If you're running Linux or are running Windows, but not using software that requires HDCP, then you're not likely to see any difference at all.
If you do, there are software packages available which allow you to strip out the encryption and depending upon where you are that may or may not be legal. If it's not legal then you really shouldn't encourage them to use that crap by buying protected discs.
I've heard that DisplayPort is technically superior, but at this point it's not going to be catching up, at least not in the mainstream. Reminds me a bit of Firewire, it was in someways superior, but outside of niche uses how many people even have a port anymore?
That's what I was wondering about. HDMI ports are physically smaller than DVI ports are and so you can put two of them on a half height video card relatively easily. But, I have a feeling that the HDMI connector is engineered to be plugged and unplugged more frequently as it's typically used for TVs and all manner of camera, game system, laptop and really anything that needs to plug into the TV.
Plus it does have a few extra features like the ability of the device that's plugged into the TV to adjust the sound.
What about the talent that's already here? It made sense for us to snag Einstein, von Braun and all those amazing European minds before, during and after WWII because they were so exceptional. But, by bringing in people on H-1B visas to fill jobs that could be filled by ordinary IT workers all you're doing is creating a dependence on foreign laborers to get the work done. It's very much the same sort of thing as why food shipments to starving countries are only a stop gap measure. Long term you provide a disincentive to self sufficiency.
Yes, those folks aren't bad people, but what you're failing to take into account is the folks that gave up and retrained before the economy went in the gutter and the number of positions which don't exist any more as companies cut back.
And how many folks end up with jobs in IT versus those that tried but got discouraged by the low pay early on and competition from H-1B visa holders that were imported to artificially depress wages?
There's that. But it could also be the fact that MS really loves those H-1B Visas and the competition would have a hard time poaching those folks.
It's not a prisoner's dilemma as the parties are in regular contact and in the prisoner's dilemma a large part of it is that there is no communication between the parties. A cartel is always going to be better for the individuals than going alone, that's why they form cartels and why antitrust regulations seek to prevent it. OPEC itself has had no problems existing for decades.
That was my thought, that whole situation didn't arise until the late '90s, prior to that there was no particular stigma attached to buying such diamonds as most people were unaware of the consequences.
DeBeers itself already had a monopoly in the diamond market and they were the ones that were convincing people to buy diamonds for engagement rings, prior to that it wasn't a common practice at all.
And if we didn't throw away so much money on the DoD and pointless war we could all have free cars. It's important to keep these things in perspective.
It's not unconstitutional otherwise Medicare would have been thrown out by now. If you don't want the healthcare you have options. I bet you could move to Somalia.
I have a seriously hard time imagining how people could view healthcare as a tool of oppression. Very, very few people opt out in any sort of genuine way now, and under the reform law all you have to do is cop a religious exemption or plead poverty and you're out of it. Doesn't sound very mandatory to me. And even if you don't do that, the fine itself for not having coverage is a lot less than what you would pay for insurance that you aren't going to use.
Not likely. It would probably mean that we'd be spending those dollars on other health care services. The reason why health care is so expensive in the US comes down to a few things. One, for profit entities in the system, that profit does jack shit for patients that can't afford coverage because it's expensive. Two the fact that you could get sick and then have your insurance dropped over a technicality or not renewed. Third the lack of preventative care that has been endemic in the system over the decades.