Realistically, this is already the case. Children don't earn money, they are given it, usually by their parents.
You could argue that other people could give the children money, but if you're going to go there then other people could just give them the games you're restricting in that case as well.
Parents should have to take some responsibility for educating their children about what they believe is suitable for them. The idea that the government to take such a direct role in raising your children through legislation seems bizarre to me.
I suppose I could get work to pay, but that doesn't help me at home (no, I don't illegally copy software).
I suspect that's why they provide a named user option, where the license is tied to the specific user and you can use it on multiple computers so long as only one copy is used at any given time.
I always liked this comment by the VirtualDub author (quoting only part):
It's fairly well known that the NT file system (NTFS) is very bad at avoiding fragmentation, partly due to its allocation strategy of intentionally placing tiny gaps between files -- which is good if those files expand, but bad if they don't. Today, I see this in a fragmentation analysis report of my hard drive:
Fragments 111
File Size 444KB
Name WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$
The cluster size of the hard drive partition is 4K. This means that NTFS has successfully managed to create a huge directory in which not a single pair of clusters are sequential. I used to think that the Amiga standard file system was bad, but this takes the cake.
Bzzt! Wrong, some fool who doesn't understand what the term yield means pulls in front and cannot reach appropriate road speed, would be at fault not the person doing the lawful speed limit.
Perhaps this would be the case where you live. Here, you're expected to watch for hazards in front of you, and though they may be driving dangerously, the only real evidence of what happened will be the damage to the back of their car/front of your car. If you failed to notice what might happen and take action (i.e. slow down) then you'd be responsible.
Hell, I know one guy who was on a motorcycle in the outside lane on the motorway, and a guy on the inside lane decided he needed to take the offramp, so he swerved across, knocked the guy off the bike, and drove off. The police did track him down eventually. Then what? They charged the guy on the motorcycle for reckless driving because the only damage they could see was to the back of the other guy's vehicle.
Where I worked we had two colour laser printers - a Xerox DocuColor 1250 and a Konica Minolta 8050. I'm not sure what the Xerox cost, but I know the Konica was a little over $100,000 USD. It does acceptable - but not great - photo printing. I just thought I'd comment on what a higher end laser was capable of. It isn't the quality I'd want for archival.
For better quality, things were usually printed on our Epson Stylus 9600 (similar model) which was an ink jet (7 colour, I think, one of which was called "light black" - maybe Epson hasn't heard of "grey"?), a printer which was only a fraction of the price of the colour lasers ($5000). I think it had the photographic rather than UltraChrome inks you mentioned, but they seem to have done away with the distinction now.
Mind you, it was much, much slower as well, so the colour lasers definitely are good for speed. Though not particulary fast either. Offset press still seems a much faster option for anything that isn't variable (and cheaper, assuming you're doing enough of the same thing). Completely losing the plot though, aren't I? Most people printing a few photos aren't going to need super speed.
I don't know about there, but here in New Zealand if someone redirected your call to a $9.95/min number then they would be paying for the cost of that call. Is it different where you are? I just can't see the advantage of costing yourself that much money over this.
Oh, I agree it's a better situation than with Windows, and I did say only admin accounts could do it. My real point was in the situation of an installer any normal Mac user is going to expect to have to enter their password, so chances are the trojan will easily be able to get full access. If you ever want to trick a user into entering their password on MacOS X, I'd have to say an installer is probably the method that'd arouse the least suspicion.
Though, to be fair to Windows, all admin accounts on MacOS X can sudo and a common behaviour for an installer is to ask for your password so it can actually do the install before doing anything. So, add an extra step to this malware of pretending to be a real installer long enough to ask for your password and it could do a lot more damage.
<dm> I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem. <dm> For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me. <dm> Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better. * ion has quit IRC (Ping timeout) <dm> brings a tear to my eye...:') so true.. <dm> So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems. <dm> this person must be a kindred spirit of mine
I've been working with PeopleSoft asset management at my university for a year now. It's an absolute nightmare trying to do asset stocktaking (the software for this crashes (was using a symbol palm-based scanner), and also sometimes can't find items that were listed present in a room a minute ago, which oddly reappear when you leave the room to go scan barcodes elsewhere).
I really can't imagine the rest of their software is much better. I've discovered on the staff HR self-service portion of my uni's web site that you can view payslips for any employee if you just fiddle the system a little. It requires a legitimate staff login, but doesn't care which staff id you supply to the script.
All I can say is that at least PeopleSoft 8 (doesn't appear, so far, at least) to be as slow as PeopleSoft 7 was. Yeah, not as slow, that's a worthwhile feature.
This whole thing appears to be false, as they're claiming to run Safari on a machine that doesn't even supported MacOS X (10.2 being required for Safari). I can't even be bothered reading the rest of it.
Oh, admittedly the last time I used MacOS X it was sort of slow, but I haven't used it enough to say either way if it's that slow. I somehow doubt it.
Doesn't this just mean under such a system if someone wants to tamper then all they need to do is edit the electronic record and invalidate the paper votes which disagreed?
InternetNZ is lodging complaints against Christchurch spammer Shane Atkinson with three different regulatory bodies.
Atkinson has been identified in the media as being responsible for the sending of up to 100 million spam e-mails a day to promote his penis enlargement pills.
InternetNZ Vice-President, David Farrar, said that complaints are being lodged with:
- The Commerce Commission for breach of Section 10 of the Fair Trading Act 1986, relating to misleading conduct in relation to goods.
- The Ministry of Health for breach of the Medicines Act 1981
- The Privacy Commissioner for breach of the Privacy Act 1993
"Mr Atkinson is an unrepentant spammer who believes that those who don't want to receive spam should not connect to the Internet. InternetNZ disagrees that connecting to the Internet is a license for Mr Atkinson to promote his penis enlargement pills to every man, woman and child's e-mail address he can find" said Mr Farrar.
InternetNZ has been considering investigating the possibility of advocating for NZ legislation to combat spam.
"If nothing is done to stem the tide of spam, we will start to lose Internet users as they become overloaded with junk mail. It is estimated that just over 50% of all email travelling the Internet is now spam". said Keith Davidson, InternetNZ President
=93If spammers believe there is nothing wrong with spamming, then legislation will become a definitive requirement in New Zealand. Many other countries have passed or intend to pass anti-spam legislation. While New Zealand has been able to rely on industry self regulation and a high degree of co-operation between ISP's in the fight against spam, it is becoming apparent that further steps towards legislation may be desirable if attitudes like those of Mr Atkinson exist.=94 according to Mr Davidson
InternetNZ urges the appropriate regulatory authorities to prosecute Mr Atkinson to the maximum extent permissible under current laws." concluded InternetNZ Vice-President David Farrar
ENDS
For further information please contact: David Farrar Vice-President and Chair of Legal & Regulatory, InternetNZ david@farrar.com 027 447 0216
Keith Davidson President, InternetNZ president@internetnz.net.nz 027 430 3317
It does seem like soemthing that Mircosoft would put on a $279 CD of MS Office, to stop IT staff from making a few extra copies or to stop employees from making a personal copy at home.
I haven't a clue if you've ever used the corporate install media for Office, but Microsoft tend to make it as easy as possible to copy the actual media. It's designed so you can back it up to another CD or copy it to a server as a "network install point". The 'protection' is in the 'Product Key' and, more recently, 'Product Activation' (not present in business versions, as of yet, that I'm aware).
So, yeah, perhaps they might do it on home copies? But I don't see this affecting your example of IT staff.
*sigh* I don't even like MS, and I think product activation is highly aggravating, but I doubt they'd ever use something this stupid until it becomes as simple as their idea of product activation seems to them (a sort of 'one off' thing).
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, it used to be better documented, but it does remove your moderation if you post to a discussion.
http://science.slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm1800
It's pretty much showing that the US has the highest density of active blogs.
How is it showing that? The image in the article isn't based on geographical information.
Not that I disagree about the amount of rubbish on blogs.
And now even removed from the history as libel. Magical.
Realistically, this is already the case. Children don't earn money, they are given it, usually by their parents.
You could argue that other people could give the children money, but if you're going to go there then other people could just give them the games you're restricting in that case as well.
Parents should have to take some responsibility for educating their children about what they believe is suitable for them. The idea that the government to take such a direct role in raising your children through legislation seems bizarre to me.
I suspect that's why they provide a named user option, where the license is tied to the specific user and you can use it on multiple computers so long as only one copy is used at any given time.
Perhaps this would be the case where you live. Here, you're expected to watch for hazards in front of you, and though they may be driving dangerously, the only real evidence of what happened will be the damage to the back of their car/front of your car. If you failed to notice what might happen and take action (i.e. slow down) then you'd be responsible.
Hell, I know one guy who was on a motorcycle in the outside lane on the motorway, and a guy on the inside lane decided he needed to take the offramp, so he swerved across, knocked the guy off the bike, and drove off. The police did track him down eventually. Then what? They charged the guy on the motorcycle for reckless driving because the only damage they could see was to the back of the other guy's vehicle.
From google.com:
Results 21 - 28 of 28 for blogorank. (0.05 seconds)
Admittedly, there's only 14 results with dupes off.
For better quality, things were usually printed on our Epson Stylus 9600 (similar model) which was an ink jet (7 colour, I think, one of which was called "light black" - maybe Epson hasn't heard of "grey"?), a printer which was only a fraction of the price of the colour lasers ($5000). I think it had the photographic rather than UltraChrome inks you mentioned, but they seem to have done away with the distinction now.
Mind you, it was much, much slower as well, so the colour lasers definitely are good for speed. Though not particulary fast either. Offset press still seems a much faster option for anything that isn't variable (and cheaper, assuming you're doing enough of the same thing). Completely losing the plot though, aren't I? Most people printing a few photos aren't going to need super speed.
So I was a tech at a pre-press/print shop...
I don't know about there, but here in New Zealand if someone redirected your call to a $9.95/min number then they would be paying for the cost of that call. Is it different where you are? I just can't see the advantage of costing yourself that much money over this.
Oh, I agree it's a better situation than with Windows, and I did say only admin accounts could do it. My real point was in the situation of an installer any normal Mac user is going to expect to have to enter their password, so chances are the trojan will easily be able to get full access. If you ever want to trick a user into entering their password on MacOS X, I'd have to say an installer is probably the method that'd arouse the least suspicion.
Though, to be fair to Windows, all admin accounts on MacOS X can sudo and a common behaviour for an installer is to ask for your password so it can actually do the install before doing anything. So, add an extra step to this malware of pretending to be a real installer long enough to ask for your password and it could do a lot more damage.
sigh... Didn't mean to post AC.
#152037 +(940)- [X]
:') so true..
<dm> I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.
<dm> For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me.
<dm> Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better.
* ion has quit IRC (Ping timeout)
<dm> brings a tear to my eye...
<dm> So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems.
<dm> this person must be a kindred spirit of mine
> (c=
What's this? A poor replica of the old Commodore logo?
Or perhaps try the wikipedia entry here.
I've been working with PeopleSoft asset management at my university for a year now. It's an absolute nightmare trying to do asset stocktaking (the software for this crashes (was using a symbol palm-based scanner), and also sometimes can't find items that were listed present in a room a minute ago, which oddly reappear when you leave the room to go scan barcodes elsewhere).
I really can't imagine the rest of their software is much better. I've discovered on the staff HR self-service portion of my uni's web site that you can view payslips for any employee if you just fiddle the system a little. It requires a legitimate staff login, but doesn't care which staff id you supply to the script.
All I can say is that at least PeopleSoft 8 (doesn't appear, so far, at least) to be as slow as PeopleSoft 7 was. Yeah, not as slow, that's a worthwhile feature.
This whole thing appears to be false, as they're claiming to run Safari on a machine that doesn't even supported MacOS X (10.2 being required for Safari). I can't even be bothered reading the rest of it.
Oh, admittedly the last time I used MacOS X it was sort of slow, but I haven't used it enough to say either way if it's that slow. I somehow doubt it.
Doesn't this just mean under such a system if someone wants to tamper then all they need to do is edit the electronic record and invalidate the paper votes which disagreed?
and by your reasoning, birds, bats, and flying insects are more intelligent than humans.
This is sometimes true.
I'm even starting to like "virii".
I don't know. Perhaps it's time we had a standard for naming the plural form of virus. I hearby propose the suitably stupid sounding "virusen".
Probably your ISP. Mine's too slack to block it, so if you want to see the page, here's where it redirects you: http://sitefinder.verisign.com/lpc?url=notarealadd ressatall2323.com&host=notarealaddressatall2323.co m
You're going to blacklist all the gTLD servers? You really don't like DNS, do you?
[Copied from news.admin.net-abuse.email]
For immediate release - 15 August 2003
INTERNETNZ LODGES COMPLAINTS AGAINST SPAMMER
InternetNZ is lodging complaints against Christchurch
spammer Shane Atkinson with three different regulatory
bodies.
Atkinson has been identified in the media as being
responsible for the sending of up to 100 million spam
e-mails a day to promote his penis enlargement pills.
InternetNZ Vice-President, David Farrar, said that
complaints are being lodged with:
- The Commerce Commission for breach of Section 10 of the
Fair Trading Act 1986, relating to misleading conduct in
relation to goods.
- The Ministry of Health for breach of the Medicines Act
1981
- The Privacy Commissioner for breach of the Privacy Act
1993
"Mr Atkinson is an unrepentant spammer who believes that
those who don't want to receive spam should not connect to
the Internet. InternetNZ disagrees that connecting to the
Internet is a license for Mr Atkinson to promote his penis
enlargement pills to every man, woman and child's e-mail
address he can find" said Mr Farrar.
InternetNZ has been considering investigating the
possibility of advocating for NZ legislation to combat spam.
"If nothing is done to stem the tide of spam, we will start
to lose Internet users as they become overloaded with junk
mail. It is estimated that just over 50% of all email
travelling the Internet is now spam". said Keith Davidson,
InternetNZ President
=93If spammers believe there is nothing wrong with spamming,
then legislation will become a definitive requirement in New
Zealand. Many other countries have passed or intend to pass
anti-spam legislation. While New Zealand has been able to
rely on industry self regulation and a high degree of
co-operation between ISP's in the fight against spam, it is
becoming apparent that further steps towards legislation may
be desirable if attitudes like those of Mr Atkinson
exist.=94 according to Mr Davidson
InternetNZ urges the appropriate regulatory authorities to
prosecute Mr Atkinson to the maximum extent permissible
under current laws." concluded InternetNZ Vice-President
David Farrar
ENDS
For further information please contact:
David Farrar
Vice-President and Chair of Legal & Regulatory, InternetNZ
david@farrar.com
027 447 0216
Keith Davidson
President, InternetNZ
president@internetnz.net.nz
027 430 3317
It does seem like soemthing that Mircosoft would put on a $279 CD of MS Office, to stop IT staff from making a few extra copies or to stop employees from making a personal copy at home.
I haven't a clue if you've ever used the corporate install media for Office, but Microsoft tend to make it as easy as possible to copy the actual media. It's designed so you can back it up to another CD or copy it to a server as a "network install point". The 'protection' is in the 'Product Key' and, more recently, 'Product Activation' (not present in business versions, as of yet, that I'm aware).
So, yeah, perhaps they might do it on home copies? But I don't see this affecting your example of IT staff.
*sigh* I don't even like MS, and I think product activation is highly aggravating, but I doubt they'd ever use something this stupid until it becomes as simple as their idea of product activation seems to them (a sort of 'one off' thing).