They've been forging packets. If the FCC can't do anything can the Federal Trade Commission step in? If I was Comcast I'd definitely prefer the FCC to the FTC.
They made a $101m bet with a golfing buddy that SCO would make it through 2008. That's all I can figure.
SCO has a negative networth and negative revenue growth(big liabilities). Basically they paid $100 million for a one in hundred shot at appeal. If it really is a 1/100 shot that some legal play works, SCO needs to be worth $10b+. I think it's 1/million shot, so a post miracle-victory valuation of $1trillion would be necessary. It's a bad bet,
$100 million might be small change for the investing company, but it's still worth a couple people's heads when it goes wrong.
Uhh, if there wasn't a union shop across the street would they have gotten union pay and benefits? Management isn't doing it because they're real nice guys, they just know their options are 1) pay union wages 2) pay union wages and have to deal with a union. Sounds to me like unions are required to keep honest people honest.
There are a few million easier ways to bring down an aircraft (or kill thousands and cause panic if that's your thing). Yes this is idiocy in engineering, but considering all the other threats I don't think it's way up the list. Ultimately, we aren't dead yet because there just aren't that many intelligent people that want to kill us, cause it just isn't that hard to pull off.
In many states, PI laws make googling a prospective employee a felony. In practice licensing only matters if you're planning on giving testimony or sitting outside someone's house all day (and need to give an officer a good explanation why).
If you can't get me an ftp client in under a week you can't complain about me using OSS when I feel like it. If you don't know what an ftp client is (I have had run ins with "IT staff" like this), then get the fuck out of my office. Yes, I'll fuck up once in a while, but that's because I'm actually getting shit done. It's hard to fuck up when all you know how to do is hit restart.
It's an incredible waste of resources. Creative ideas and approaches to a problem are a dime a dozen and therefor dirt cheap. Management gurus don't like to consider this because that's all they do. The implementation is the hard/time consuming/expensive part. If I'm running the show, I make a request for proposals, pick the best one and then implement it once. Apparently MBAs like to stick the rest of us with the costs of duplicating labor.
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Their secret? They hired engineers. I shit you not, they were a.com with all the tech outsourced. Apparently if you kiss enough asses and make enough powerpoints you start to believe that that's what makes shit happen. The leaches go from one very important golf game to the next while the engineers are busy making shit and rolling their eyes at the douchebaggery. Engineers make the world go round. The eyerolling I mean, something about angular velocity or some shit. Kind of slept through physics class. I was a business major at the time, didn't think it was very practical.
"Have some more sloppy joes. I made 'em ext"---whoops sorry wrong one.
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
He kind of annoys me by not answering any of the questions and instead links back to articles he's written before. Why bother giving an interview if you're just going to give a works cited page? I understand not wanting to repeat yourself, but when you're the Chuck Norris of infosec you have to in order to get through to the rest of us mere mortals.
NOOOOO!!! please not another upgrade. It nags me three weeks before an upgrade. NO, I DONT WANT TO FUCKING UPGRADE!!! And three weeks after an upgrade. I ALREADY FUCKING UPGRADED IT!!! Then it resets all my file extension defaults and starts opening everything in Acrobat Reader 8 even though I've told it a million times to open with Acrobat Pro 5. Fucking piece of shit must die.
Note to Acrobat developers, if anyone asks what you do, lie. It could be me. I will fucking kill you and then skull fuck you. I will kill your fucking family and skull fuck them. I will kill your fucking pets and skull fuck them. I will burn your fucking house down and find a way to skull fuck that too. And no jury will convict, they'll wish they had gotten to you first.
Sorry. The first hundred pages of my shit list are devoted solely to Acrobat. Deep breaths, deep breaths
Incorrect. Georgetown was founded in 1751. Other neighborhoods were also incorporated as villages prior to the creation of the District of Columbia.
The swamp land aside is straight out of a crappy elementary school textbook. The National Mall, parts of Southwest, and Foggy Bottom (State Dept., Watergate) were swamp land. The vast majority of the district was productive farm land.
If you want representation in Parliament get the fuck out of the colonies and move back to London.
Everyone sends their biggest lyering assholes into our backyards, and we don't even get a vote.
I'm fairly certain its bill number HR 3678. Go to thomas.loc.gov and search for the bill number, or just below the search box you can find a bill by sponsor, in this case Representative Conyers, John.
IANAL, but I believe this is the relevant section (sorry bout formatting):
SEC. 4. DEFINITION.
INTERNET ACCESS- The term `Internet access'--
A means a service that enables users to connect to the Internet to access content, information, or other services offered over the Internet ;
B includes the purchase, use or sale of telecommunications by a provider of a service described in subparagraph (A) to the extent such telecommunications are purchased, used or sold--
--1 to provide such service; or
--2 to otherwise enable users to access content, information or other services offered over the Internet;
C includes services that are incidental to the provision of the service described in subparagraph A when furnished to users as part of such service, such as a home page, electronic mail and instant messaging (including voice- and video-capable electronic mail and instant messaging), video clips, and personal electronic storage capacity; and
D does not include voice, audio or video programming, or other products and services (except services described in subparagraph A, B, or C that utilize Internet protocol or any successor protocol and for which there is a charge, regardless of whether such charge is separately stated or aggregated with the charge for services described in subparagraph A, B, or C.
So essentially this amendment was written by someone who has never used anything more advanced than a 4 function calculator.
but I don't think this will be dismissed, at least not for the reason given. It doesn't matter if it was legal or legally required in the PRC. Check the wikipedia page for Alien Tort Claims Act (enacted in 1789 mainly to deal with piracy) or google search unocal and slavery. Unocal got nailed for using slave labor in Burma. The Burmese government provided the slaves. The court doesn't care if abiding by US law means breaking a foreign government's law or not doing business in that country. A great legal scholar once said, "tough shit" (so he was my roommate and rather mediocre).
I think this is a very good thing. The ATCA simply requires corporations with US operations to follow very basic standards of human decency. If you want to assist a foreign government with genocide or running prison labor camps for dissidents don't expect to do it from U.S. soil. Corporations hate this of course, there's good money in human rights violations. Ethical and moral arguments clearly did not work for Yahoo and Google so maybe a lawsuit will remind them that there are consequences for being an accomplice.
I've been looking at grad school in RSA, but their telecom infrastructure is so craptacular I can't figure out how anyone teaches or learns IS there. There's some quality schools, they just have to deal with a hundred years of screwed up priorities. Different ideology, same rent seeking bullshit.
Incorrect. Most states that aren't tax dodges (I'm looking at you Delaware) also require some combination of annual reports, corporate bylaws, and pincipals (often just managing partner). Of course access is limited to these documents due to the nature of government IT. Some states provide net access to scanned corporate filings, others have paper indexes.
I opened this story solely to find this comment. I knew Electric Universe would get a mention.
The EU comments are always about as coherent as the LaRouche guy trying to sell papers on the corner. Is the EU theory some kind of cult for physics nerds or something? I find it bizarre that such an esoteric and ultimately inconsequential theory could create so much allegiance.
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Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action. ~Goldfinger How many times have they royally fucked up?
They've been forging packets. If the FCC can't do anything can the Federal Trade Commission step in? If I was Comcast I'd definitely prefer the FCC to the FTC.
Value to a company is inversely proportional to your value to management. Golf is hard and ass kissing is nasty. That's why they make the big money.
They made a $101m bet with a golfing buddy that SCO would make it through 2008. That's all I can figure.
SCO has a negative networth and negative revenue growth(big liabilities). Basically they paid $100 million for a one in hundred shot at appeal. If it really is a 1/100 shot that some legal play works, SCO needs to be worth $10b+. I think it's 1/million shot, so a post miracle-victory valuation of $1trillion would be necessary. It's a bad bet,
$100 million might be small change for the investing company, but it's still worth a couple people's heads when it goes wrong.
Uhh, if there wasn't a union shop across the street would they have gotten union pay and benefits? Management isn't doing it because they're real nice guys, they just know their options are 1) pay union wages 2) pay union wages and have to deal with a union. Sounds to me like unions are required to keep honest people honest.
I don't believe in imaginary property either, but I do believe in $10,000. ....I'll take the case!
There are a few million easier ways to bring down an aircraft (or kill thousands and cause panic if that's your thing). Yes this is idiocy in engineering, but considering all the other threats I don't think it's way up the list. Ultimately, we aren't dead yet because there just aren't that many intelligent people that want to kill us, cause it just isn't that hard to pull off.
In many states, PI laws make googling a prospective employee a felony. In practice licensing only matters if you're planning on giving testimony or sitting outside someone's house all day (and need to give an officer a good explanation why).
That would be true if they hadn't disabled it.
He named his kid Rufus? WTF is a matter with people these days? Someone call child services.
If you have the option of blaming a fuck up on Florida or any other individual/organization/phenomenon I suggest you go with Florida. Odds are.
If you can't get me an ftp client in under a week you can't complain about me using OSS when I feel like it. If you don't know what an ftp client is (I have had run ins with "IT staff" like this), then get the fuck out of my office. Yes, I'll fuck up once in a while, but that's because I'm actually getting shit done. It's hard to fuck up when all you know how to do is hit restart.
"If the people lose"
Where the fuck have you been?
It's an incredible waste of resources. Creative ideas and approaches to a problem are a dime a dozen and therefor dirt cheap. Management gurus don't like to consider this because that's all they do. The implementation is the hard/time consuming/expensive part. If I'm running the show, I make a request for proposals, pick the best one and then implement it once. Apparently MBAs like to stick the rest of us with the costs of duplicating labor.
See it everywhere. .com with all the tech outsourced. Apparently if you kiss enough asses and make enough powerpoints you start to believe that that's what makes shit happen. The leaches go from one very important golf game to the next while the engineers are busy making shit and rolling their eyes at the douchebaggery. Engineers make the world go round. The eyerolling I mean, something about angular velocity or some shit. Kind of slept through physics class. I was a business major at the time, didn't think it was very practical.
Overstock.com Divulges Secret To Its Cyber Monday Success
Their secret? They hired engineers. I shit you not, they were a
"Have some more sloppy joes. I made 'em ext"---whoops sorry wrong one.
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
He kind of annoys me by not answering any of the questions and instead links back to articles he's written before. Why bother giving an interview if you're just going to give a works cited page? I understand not wanting to repeat yourself, but when you're the Chuck Norris of infosec you have to in order to get through to the rest of us mere mortals.
NOOOOO!!! please not another upgrade. It nags me three weeks before an upgrade. NO, I DONT WANT TO FUCKING UPGRADE!!! And three weeks after an upgrade. I ALREADY FUCKING UPGRADED IT!!! Then it resets all my file extension defaults and starts opening everything in Acrobat Reader 8 even though I've told it a million times to open with Acrobat Pro 5. Fucking piece of shit must die.
Note to Acrobat developers, if anyone asks what you do, lie. It could be me. I will fucking kill you and then skull fuck you. I will kill your fucking family and skull fuck them. I will kill your fucking pets and skull fuck them. I will burn your fucking house down and find a way to skull fuck that too. And no jury will convict, they'll wish they had gotten to you first.
Sorry. The first hundred pages of my shit list are devoted solely to Acrobat. Deep breaths, deep breaths
Incorrect. Georgetown was founded in 1751. Other neighborhoods were also incorporated as villages prior to the creation of the District of Columbia.
The swamp land aside is straight out of a crappy elementary school textbook. The National Mall, parts of Southwest, and Foggy Bottom (State Dept., Watergate) were swamp land. The vast majority of the district was productive farm land.
If you want representation in Parliament get the fuck out of the colonies and move back to London.
Everyone sends their biggest lyering assholes into our backyards, and we don't even get a vote.
I'm fairly certain its bill number HR 3678. Go to thomas.loc.gov and search for the bill number, or just below the search box you can find a bill by sponsor, in this case Representative Conyers, John.
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IANAL, but I believe this is the relevant section (sorry bout formatting):
SEC. 4. DEFINITION.
INTERNET ACCESS- The term `Internet access'--
A means a service that enables users to connect to the Internet to access content, information, or other services offered over the Internet ;
B includes the purchase, use or sale of telecommunications by a provider of a service described in subparagraph (A) to the extent such telecommunications are purchased, used or sold--
--1 to provide such service; or
--2 to otherwise enable users to access content, information or other services offered over the Internet
C includes services that are incidental to the provision of the service described in subparagraph A when furnished to users as part of such service, such as a home page, electronic mail and instant messaging (including voice- and video-capable electronic mail and instant messaging), video clips, and personal electronic storage capacity; and
D does not include voice, audio or video programming, or other products and services (except services described in subparagraph A, B, or C that utilize Internet protocol or any successor protocol and for which there is a charge, regardless of whether such charge is separately stated or aggregated with the charge for services described in subparagraph A, B, or C. So essentially this amendment was written by someone who has never used anything more advanced than a 4 function calculator.
Tough shit. People need to know there are consequences for their actions. If you can't handle the consequences, don't fucking do it.
but I don't think this will be dismissed, at least not for the reason given. It doesn't matter if it was legal or legally required in the PRC. Check the wikipedia page for Alien Tort Claims Act (enacted in 1789 mainly to deal with piracy) or google search unocal and slavery. Unocal got nailed for using slave labor in Burma. The Burmese government provided the slaves. The court doesn't care if abiding by US law means breaking a foreign government's law or not doing business in that country. A great legal scholar once said, "tough shit" (so he was my roommate and rather mediocre).
I think this is a very good thing. The ATCA simply requires corporations with US operations to follow very basic standards of human decency. If you want to assist a foreign government with genocide or running prison labor camps for dissidents don't expect to do it from U.S. soil. Corporations hate this of course, there's good money in human rights violations. Ethical and moral arguments clearly did not work for Yahoo and Google so maybe a lawsuit will remind them that there are consequences for being an accomplice.
I've been looking at grad school in RSA, but their telecom infrastructure is so craptacular I can't figure out how anyone teaches or learns IS there. There's some quality schools, they just have to deal with a hundred years of screwed up priorities. Different ideology, same rent seeking bullshit.
Incorrect. Most states that aren't tax dodges (I'm looking at you Delaware) also require some combination of annual reports, corporate bylaws, and pincipals (often just managing partner). Of course access is limited to these documents due to the nature of government IT. Some states provide net access to scanned corporate filings, others have paper indexes.
I opened this story solely to find this comment. I knew Electric Universe would get a mention.
The EU comments are always about as coherent as the LaRouche guy trying to sell papers on the corner. Is the EU theory some kind of cult for physics nerds or something? I find it bizarre that such an esoteric and ultimately inconsequential theory could create so much allegiance.