coke drinker innocently packs can of coke in carry-on, then gets arrested by airport security for trying to smuggle "electronic device intended to interfere with aircraft navigation" onto airplane.
Like Diogenes and his search for an honest man, I personally have never been able to find an honest headhunter! The sleaziest incident was when one of them slipped me $1000 cash in an unmarked white envelope to quit the job I'd just started and go to work for the job he had been trying to set me up with but was taking too long. Ah, those were the good ol' days...
1) The heck with shredders, buy a woodstove and feed it on paper. (This is also the best way to prevent identity theft.) 2) Haul your own trash to the dump. 3) Don't set out your trash can until you hear the truck coming down the street. Yeah, sure, the police are going to ooming screaming up in their squad car with the PA system blaring "Step away from that trash!" as the garbagemen attempt to empty it...
Uh, you can't track anything though just a GPS receiver, you also need some sort of transmitter! So we not just walk through the warehouse with an RF spectrum analyzer and see which can is transmitting?
How many of the file swappers are actually under the age of 18, and thus not legally capable of executing a signed confession? What would a Notary Public have done if that 12 year old girl came in to get her confession notarized? "Can I see a driver's license please? Two forms of picture ID?"
The set of people who are cluefull enough to know the amnesty exists, and yet still clueless enough to beleive it will do them any good, is actually quite small. Plus, it costs time and money to have your confession notarized. I wonder if any of those 838 are faked confessions sent in with the name of RIAA officials...
If I can't get a call from a job recruiter because some telemarketer weenie has the line tied up, then I would argue there IS a severe economic penalty for that unwanted phone call. I would also argue that this is why I can't simply not answer the phone -- I'm expecting a call from a recruiter, who may or may not have blocked outgoing caller ID.
I agree, however, that it is far better to clear up any questions of constitutionality now. If the law needs to be changed to address those questions, then so be it.
If they have to call me up to nag me for a donation, then I would argue that "charitable" donation isn't made entirely out of love -- it's partially done to avoid being nagged again.
The good news is that the political pendulum swinging from right to left to right appears to travel in aproximately 50 year cycles. That means we can look forward to another "Summer of Love" around 2019. The pendulum was due to stop swinging to the right and start swinging back left again in 2001, but unfortunately 9/11 has delayed that by a few years. Yes, we'll spend the next 20 years fighting to get back the rights we lost under the Patriot Act, but beleive me, eventually we will. You just need to take a long-term view so you don't get discouraged.
Doesn't every FBI agent swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States? Could they all take a moment to reflect on that oath now, please? I realize we can't expect every agent to be a constitutional scholar, but I'd expect them to be at least a little hesitant about invoking something as dubious as the Patriot Act... especially since any conviction they get as a result is likely to get thrown out on appeal, resulting only the waste of millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
The TCP/IP stack in Windows NT was based on BSD too. The only annoying thing I find about that is that they tore it out and replaced it with a less-capable TCP/IP stack for Windows 2000 (many of the ioctl's such as set receive and send buffer size no longer work... that's progress!)
They just felt silly writing their legal briefs for their antitrust suit again Microsoft using Microsoft Word. To say nothing about how easy it would be for M$ to put backdoors in the software and use it against them...
I would suspect that most gene sequences have been around long enough to be in the public domain. And you can't patent them either; God has produced several examples of prior art. Plus, the chances of anyone producing _exactly_ the same gene sequence as your pet are pretty small, unless you allow them to clone it, no?
If you want to force companies to relocate to a state that doesn't charge sales taxes on internet purchases, this is the way to go! I hope that most of the states pass this, then all the companies will relocate to Oregon, where we have no sales tax, period.
The problem is, admitting that you might be wrong is the sign of a good engineer; engineers always qualify their statements. Apparently admitting that you might be wrong is the kiss of death for a manager. That's why they avoid making decisions at all costs, and if they do make a bad decision, they blame it on someone else.
And you can damn well bet that IBM had a team of lawyers analyze this for a couple months and make sure it was bulletproof before they filed it. Looks like the SCO flea picked the wrong dog to bite.
And at close of business today, SCO stock is down only 2.94 or 17.06%. Seems like that IBM filing didn't have much effect at all... Darl, maybe you should have sold your stock when it was at 20?
The idea was to enable developers to write for both Unix and Linux with a common Application Programming Interface (API) and common Application Binary Interface (ABI). I thought that we already had that, and that it was called POSIX. Am I missing something here?
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coke drinker innocently packs can of coke in carry-on, then gets arrested by airport security for trying to smuggle "electronic device intended to interfere with aircraft navigation" onto airplane.
Like Diogenes and his search for an honest man, I personally have never been able to find an honest headhunter! The sleaziest incident was when one of them slipped me $1000 cash in an unmarked white envelope to quit the job I'd just started and go to work for the job he had been trying to set me up with but was taking too long. Ah, those were the good ol' days...
New Hampshire state legislators propose changing the state motto to "Live free... or don't!"
1) The heck with shredders, buy a woodstove and feed it on paper. (This is also the best way to prevent identity theft.)
2) Haul your own trash to the dump.
3) Don't set out your trash can until you hear the truck coming down the street. Yeah, sure, the police are going to ooming screaming up in their squad car with the PA system blaring "Step away from that trash!" as the garbagemen attempt to empty it...
Uh, you can't track anything though just a GPS receiver, you also need some sort of transmitter! So we not just walk through the warehouse with an RF spectrum analyzer and see which can is transmitting?
Will they be passing everything they learn on to the hackers attacking the Taiwanese web sites?
... but he's still responsible for the fact that one-handed people can't even login to windows!
How many of the file swappers are actually under the age of 18, and thus not legally capable of executing a signed confession? What would a Notary Public have done if that 12 year old girl came in to get her confession notarized? "Can I see a driver's license please? Two forms of picture ID?"
The set of people who are cluefull enough to know the amnesty exists, and yet still clueless enough to beleive it will do them any good, is actually quite small. Plus, it costs time and money to have your confession notarized. I wonder if any of those 838 are faked confessions sent in with the name of RIAA officials...
I agree, however, that it is far better to clear up any questions of constitutionality now. If the law needs to be changed to address those questions, then so be it.
If they have to call me up to nag me for a donation, then I would argue that "charitable" donation isn't made entirely out of love -- it's partially done to avoid being nagged again.
The good news is that the political pendulum swinging from right to left to right appears to travel in aproximately 50 year cycles. That means we can look forward to another "Summer of Love" around 2019. The pendulum was due to stop swinging to the right and start swinging back left again in 2001, but unfortunately 9/11 has delayed that by a few years. Yes, we'll spend the next 20 years fighting to get back the rights we lost under the Patriot Act, but beleive me, eventually we will. You just need to take a long-term view so you don't get discouraged.
Doesn't every FBI agent swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States? Could they all take a moment to reflect on that oath now, please? I realize we can't expect every agent to be a constitutional scholar, but I'd expect them to be at least a little hesitant about invoking something as dubious as the Patriot Act... especially since any conviction they get as a result is likely to get thrown out on appeal, resulting only the waste of millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
The TCP/IP stack in Windows NT was based on BSD too. The only annoying thing I find about that is that they tore it out and replaced it with a less-capable TCP/IP stack for Windows 2000 (many of the ioctl's such as set receive and send buffer size no longer work... that's progress!)
I guess even God is pissed about outsourcing all those jobs to India...
They just felt silly writing their legal briefs for their antitrust suit again Microsoft using Microsoft Word. To say nothing about how easy it would be for M$ to put backdoors in the software and use it against them...
I would suspect that most gene sequences have been around long enough to be in the public domain. And you can't patent them either; God has produced several examples of prior art. Plus, the chances of anyone producing _exactly_ the same gene sequence as your pet are pretty small, unless you allow them to clone it, no?
Great! For a small fee, I'd be happy to let people use my address for shipping, thus avoiding the sales tax, then reship it to you!
If you want to force companies to relocate to a state that doesn't charge sales taxes on internet purchases, this is the way to go! I hope that most of the states pass this, then all the companies will relocate to Oregon, where we have no sales tax, period.
The problem is, admitting that you might be wrong is the sign of a good engineer; engineers always qualify their statements. Apparently admitting that you might be wrong is the kiss of death for a manager. That's why they avoid making decisions at all costs, and if they do make a bad decision, they blame it on someone else.
And you can damn well bet that IBM had a team of lawyers analyze this for a couple months and make sure it was bulletproof before they filed it. Looks like the SCO flea picked the wrong dog to bite.
In fact, it was only the 6th worst loser on the NASDAQ today... come on, IBM, you can do better than that!
And at close of business today, SCO stock is down only 2.94 or 17.06%. Seems like that IBM filing didn't have much effect at all... Darl, maybe you should have sold your stock when it was at 20?
The idea was to enable developers to write for both Unix and Linux with a common Application Programming Interface (API) and common Application Binary Interface (ABI).
I thought that we already had that, and that it was called POSIX. Am I missing something here?
I think the theory is that terrorists will be too convulsed with laughter to bother with shooting at them...