So long as they were willing to pay newegg for the 30-45 minutes to reinstall the factory installed OS to verify it wasn't a software issue, then I don't see the problem.
The original copyright owners are the only ones who have any right what so ever to give permission to copy their material. Hence the name copyright. And yes, the FBI had the permission via the MPAA/RIAA to copy the copyrighted material.
That aside, under both US and NZ law, the legal authorities have the legal right to seize and make copies if necessary.
I realize you were trying to be funny, that question isn't even relevant because your question should have been "copying without permission of the copyright owner isn't stealing". In this case the FBI did indeed have permission, so your question is irrelevant.
Generally the bad employees will bitch and demand "equal pay" for "equal work", when they don't actually provide equal work. In 2 of my last companies I knew exactly how much everyone made, and if some people found out I can guarantee you there would be some very unhappy employees even though they were getting paid much more they were worth.
I've also seen cases where a husband and wife were working at the same company and they were fairly close in pay, even though one of them wasn't in a position that should be making what they were and higher than their coworkers. Obviously this was because the company assumed the husband/wife knew what they were both making and it was their best interest to keep them fairly close in pay.
I also don't want my coworkers knowing what I make because they will likely try demanding more than they are making when they don't deserve it. They aren't nearly as good and no matter what is said or done, they will just become upset. In one company I was making more than both my direct boss (CIO), and his boss (COO/CEO) because I was in the very upper end (maybe a bit above) of what the market would pay, while my coworkers were mainly junior but some of them thought they were better than they were, but when the shit hit the fan, they would always come to me to help them with the difficult stuff.
Reminds me of a psychological study that was done that basically said, those were below average in skill almost always overestimated their skills greatly, and as actual skill increases, the less overestimated their self evaluation was to the point where the most skilled quite often actually underestimated their skills. That's the problem with everyone knowing what everyone else makes. People have an incorrect valuation of their own skills and contribution the vast majority of the time.
It's up until the day you've delivered the final product and they signed off on the work being completed. I'm always willing to do maintenance work at my regular hourly billing rate after the fact however. Oddly, my software hasn't ever broken and needed support after I've delivered it, but I've been called back for more (different) work at every client that I've done work for, so it all evens out in the end.
In the interest of freedom of choice, some users may not want to utilize this secure boot capability. In the UEFI system menu, they are able to disable the feature and things should operate like they do currently.
I know it's impossible to expect people to read the article, so I quoted the relevant portion here.
Connections to schools aren't that expensive. Most of the infrastructure is all bought and paid for through the 1996 telecommunications act. Schools, universities, and libraries get internet connectivity at absurdly cheap prices. In fact, in the state of Illinois, they don't even have to connect to the internet directly, they only have to get a line to one of the very many connection points to the state funded network, which has more than enough connectivity to the internet to handle any workload.
Actually, it is an operating system. It by itself is just a kernel, granted, but an operating system kernel is itself an operating system. I realize you were just trying to point out a triviality, but you are incorrect in your terminology. You may not use the term in that fashion, and you may prefer to call linux the kernel where as {flavor of the month} as the operating system so that you can try and draw a line to show the difference to people that aren't familiar with it, but that doesn't make it incorrect to label it as such. The linux kernel meets every requirement necessary to be called an operating system itself. If you can find a definition of Operating System by ANY relevant source, please provide it, because it meets every definition I've ever heard of.
What difference does it make if other OSes support secure boot, if you cannot install those OSes as a result of secure boot being used?
Then disable secure boot.For example, hold down shift while you turn on the computer to enter the UEFI. Select the "Security" section, then uncheck "secure boot enabled". Click OK. Reboot. Boy, that was hard.
This is a cop out; unless there is a simple way for users to install their own keys, this is something that will further restrict how people can use their computers. You can jailbreak your iPad if you want, but the majority of people have trouble doing so. There is a simple way for users to install their own keys, or disable secure boot entirely if they want. And selecting a menu option is not quite the same thing as download this program from this site, connect your iDevice, sideband load this, hit these 20 keys while you reboot, then make sure you check the version of iOS you are running because this backdoor doesn't work in the versions x,y,z.
...which is something Microsoft pressures them not to do on ARM devices:
And you can't load an alternate OS on my refrigerator, my drier either, or my TV. While it's technically possible I suppose, people aren't demanding it, nor would I suspect a large amount of users want to buy an ARM based tablet with windows 8 and want to dual boot to another OS. There are plenty of devices out there that can run the OS of your choice.
First of all the Secure Boot in UEFI wasn't mandated by Microsoft, it a feature they they have decided to implement. A feature any OS is free to implement, including linux. Secondly, motherboard manufacturers are able to add (or pre-add) any key (or none at all) if they choose. Thirdly, there is nothing keeping users from being able to install their own key (or additional keys) through the UEFI boot process, assuming the UEFI manufacturer provides one.
You can't use RGBA colors in IE 8, as well as some of the more interesting selectors (:empty,:disabled,:first-of-type,:last-child,:not, etc etc), opacity, text-shadow, animations, transitions, columns, box-shadow, etc.
Most of those can be worked around easily, or use something as a fallback. Some are a pain to not have.
The debt/GDP ratio of both the US and the euro countries sits at 86%. It's hardly "already way higher than most of Europe's". They are exactly the same, and the current US debt is DOWN from it's high point in the 1940's, about 20% lower. Hardly a terrible place to be.
You do understand from YOUR graph that the poverty rate has dropped from 23% to 14%. I will gladly accept that trend and hope it continues for the forseeable future.
If you drop support for IE 6, then you can actually start to develop 1 page, with standards markup and be fairly successful. If you drop support for IE 7, then the incompatibility issues are fairly infrequent. Dropping support for IE 8 doesn't typically get you a whole lot, except for rounded corners, and you can drop the odd opacity/gradient code (Which isn't hard to generate). Between IE 9 and firefox/chrome the oddities are just about even. Chrome has a few bugs, Firefox has a few bugs, and IE 9 so far doesn't have any bugs I'm aware of, but it has a few features missing that the others support (Text Shadows mainly).
If you have comcast, pay the extra $8 for the DVR, and complain about the price, and they will give you HBO free for 6 months to a year. They did 6 months free, 6 months @ $10/month for me. And you'll be at $78 for the first 6 months, and $88 for the second six months. Seems pretty close to what I said.
Oh, and that was the preferred package, not the baseline one. I wanted the preferred package because it included BBC America. It would have been about $20 cheaper per month if I wanted the next lower package.
XFINITY Bundled Services HD Preferred Xf 05/15 - 06/14 159.95 Includes: Digital Preferred, STARZ, Included Video Equipment, High-speed Internet and Digital Voice Unlimited Ret HD Pref Xf 12mo -39.96 Total XFINITY Bundled Services $119.99 Additional XFINITY TV Services High Def DVR 05/15 - 06/14 8.00 Includes: HD DVR Digital Box, Remote, DVR Service. HBO 05/15 - 06/14 17.99 Service Discount -7.99 Total Additional XFINITY TV Services $18.00
Copy and pasted from my comcast bill. $119.99 for cable + internet + voice. $8 for my DVR. $10 for HBO (It was free for first 6 months, $10/month for the 6 months after that)
So unless you know where I can get VoIP services (or phone line) and 20Mbit+/sec internet for less than $45/mo, I was pretty close to what I said.
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Those are called town portals.
So long as they were willing to pay newegg for the 30-45 minutes to reinstall the factory installed OS to verify it wasn't a software issue, then I don't see the problem.
Pursuit of Art, Science, Literature. Computers aren't very good at creative things.
The original copyright owners are the only ones who have any right what so ever to give permission to copy their material. Hence the name copyright. And yes, the FBI had the permission via the MPAA/RIAA to copy the copyrighted material.
That aside, under both US and NZ law, the legal authorities have the legal right to seize and make copies if necessary.
I realize you were trying to be funny, that question isn't even relevant because your question should have been "copying without permission of the copyright owner isn't stealing". In this case the FBI did indeed have permission, so your question is irrelevant.
Generally the bad employees will bitch and demand "equal pay" for "equal work", when they don't actually provide equal work. In 2 of my last companies I knew exactly how much everyone made, and if some people found out I can guarantee you there would be some very unhappy employees even though they were getting paid much more they were worth.
I've also seen cases where a husband and wife were working at the same company and they were fairly close in pay, even though one of them wasn't in a position that should be making what they were and higher than their coworkers. Obviously this was because the company assumed the husband/wife knew what they were both making and it was their best interest to keep them fairly close in pay.
I also don't want my coworkers knowing what I make because they will likely try demanding more than they are making when they don't deserve it. They aren't nearly as good and no matter what is said or done, they will just become upset. In one company I was making more than both my direct boss (CIO), and his boss (COO/CEO) because I was in the very upper end (maybe a bit above) of what the market would pay, while my coworkers were mainly junior but some of them thought they were better than they were, but when the shit hit the fan, they would always come to me to help them with the difficult stuff.
Reminds me of a psychological study that was done that basically said, those were below average in skill almost always overestimated their skills greatly, and as actual skill increases, the less overestimated their self evaluation was to the point where the most skilled quite often actually underestimated their skills. That's the problem with everyone knowing what everyone else makes. People have an incorrect valuation of their own skills and contribution the vast majority of the time.
It's up until the day you've delivered the final product and they signed off on the work being completed. I'm always willing to do maintenance work at my regular hourly billing rate after the fact however. Oddly, my software hasn't ever broken and needed support after I've delivered it, but I've been called back for more (different) work at every client that I've done work for, so it all evens out in the end.
In the interest of freedom of choice, some users may not want to utilize this secure boot capability. In the UEFI system menu, they are able to disable the feature and things should operate like they do currently.
I know it's impossible to expect people to read the article, so I quoted the relevant portion here.
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/6/uefi-secure-boot
Yes, if that is what you want.
Connections to schools aren't that expensive. Most of the infrastructure is all bought and paid for through the 1996 telecommunications act. Schools, universities, and libraries get internet connectivity at absurdly cheap prices. In fact, in the state of Illinois, they don't even have to connect to the internet directly, they only have to get a line to one of the very many connection points to the state funded network, which has more than enough connectivity to the internet to handle any workload.
That's because it IS "insecure".
Linux is not an operating system, it is a kernel.
Actually, it is an operating system. It by itself is just a kernel, granted, but an operating system kernel is itself an operating system. I realize you were just trying to point out a triviality, but you are incorrect in your terminology. You may not use the term in that fashion, and you may prefer to call linux the kernel where as {flavor of the month} as the operating system so that you can try and draw a line to show the difference to people that aren't familiar with it, but that doesn't make it incorrect to label it as such. The linux kernel meets every requirement necessary to be called an operating system itself. If you can find a definition of Operating System by ANY relevant source, please provide it, because it meets every definition I've ever heard of.
What difference does it make if other OSes support secure boot, if you cannot install those OSes as a result of secure boot being used?
Then disable secure boot.For example, hold down shift while you turn on the computer to enter the UEFI. Select the "Security" section, then uncheck "secure boot enabled". Click OK. Reboot. Boy, that was hard.
This is a cop out; unless there is a simple way for users to install their own keys, this is something that will further restrict how people can use their computers. You can jailbreak your iPad if you want, but the majority of people have trouble doing so.
There is a simple way for users to install their own keys, or disable secure boot entirely if they want. And selecting a menu option is not quite the same thing as download this program from this site, connect your iDevice, sideband load this, hit these 20 keys while you reboot, then make sure you check the version of iOS you are running because this backdoor doesn't work in the versions x,y,z.
...which is something Microsoft pressures them not to do on ARM devices:
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/
And you can't load an alternate OS on my refrigerator, my drier either, or my TV. While it's technically possible I suppose, people aren't demanding it, nor would I suspect a large amount of users want to buy an ARM based tablet with windows 8 and want to dual boot to another OS. There are plenty of devices out there that can run the OS of your choice.
First of all the Secure Boot in UEFI wasn't mandated by Microsoft, it a feature they they have decided to implement. A feature any OS is free to implement, including linux.
Secondly, motherboard manufacturers are able to add (or pre-add) any key (or none at all) if they choose.
Thirdly, there is nothing keeping users from being able to install their own key (or additional keys) through the UEFI boot process, assuming the UEFI manufacturer provides one.
Really, stop spreading your FUD.
http://edition.myjoyonline.com/pages/science/201204/84259.php
You can't use RGBA colors in IE 8, as well as some of the more interesting selectors (:empty, :disabled, :first-of-type, :last-child, :not, etc etc), opacity, text-shadow, animations, transitions, columns, box-shadow, etc.
Most of those can be worked around easily, or use something as a fallback. Some are a pain to not have.
My SSD can write at 1400MB/s, so I'm all set. Where do I sign up, and can you bond 3 of these together?
The debt/GDP ratio of both the US and the euro countries sits at 86%. It's hardly "already way higher than most of Europe's". They are exactly the same, and the current US debt is DOWN from it's high point in the 1940's, about 20% lower. Hardly a terrible place to be.
You do understand from YOUR graph that the poverty rate has dropped from 23% to 14%. I will gladly accept that trend and hope it continues for the forseeable future.
If you drop support for IE 6, then you can actually start to develop 1 page, with standards markup and be fairly successful. If you drop support for IE 7, then the incompatibility issues are fairly infrequent. Dropping support for IE 8 doesn't typically get you a whole lot, except for rounded corners, and you can drop the odd opacity/gradient code (Which isn't hard to generate). Between IE 9 and firefox/chrome the oddities are just about even. Chrome has a few bugs, Firefox has a few bugs, and IE 9 so far doesn't have any bugs I'm aware of, but it has a few features missing that the others support (Text Shadows mainly).
When it is legal for me to remove my license plates, or to encrypt them with a key that changes hourly, then perhaps you have a point.
The don't have two story buildings where you are from?
If you have comcast, pay the extra $8 for the DVR, and complain about the price, and they will give you HBO free for 6 months to a year. They did 6 months free, 6 months @ $10/month for me. And you'll be at $78 for the first 6 months, and $88 for the second six months. Seems pretty close to what I said.
Oh, and that was the preferred package, not the baseline one. I wanted the preferred package because it included BBC America. It would have been about $20 cheaper per month if I wanted the next lower package.
XFINITY Bundled Services
HD Preferred Xf 05/15 - 06/14 159.95
Includes: Digital Preferred, STARZ, Included
Video Equipment, High-speed Internet and
Digital Voice Unlimited
Ret HD Pref Xf 12mo -39.96
Total XFINITY Bundled Services $119.99
Additional XFINITY TV Services
High Def DVR 05/15 - 06/14 8.00
Includes: HD DVR Digital Box, Remote, DVR
Service.
HBO 05/15 - 06/14 17.99
Service Discount -7.99
Total Additional XFINITY TV Services $18.00
Copy and pasted from my comcast bill.
$119.99 for cable + internet + voice.
$8 for my DVR.
$10 for HBO (It was free for first 6 months, $10/month for the 6 months after that)
So unless you know where I can get VoIP services (or phone line) and 20Mbit+/sec internet for less than $45/mo, I was pretty close to what I said.