The best example of "hoisted with their own petard"!
Warner insisted itunes and the like clearly state that the downloaded file is not owned, but is licensed for the buyer's use. Very very specific about that.
Now all the sudden it's actually sold, when they realize the artist (who they claim they are protecting with this mess) points out that they get significantly more for a license than a sale.
They demanded it this way, let them pay for it.
If someone came and confiscated my computer, by the time I got to trial (many months, years even), what are the odds I would remember that password?
I travel abroad, and my laptop is encrypted with TrueCrypt. I change the pass weekly. If you grabbed my comp today, in a month I would have trouble remembering which password was in use at that time. In a year, no hope that I would remember it. I might, after a few hours of guessing and sparking memory get in... but if there is incriminating evidence on there... I would have even greater difficulty remembering.
I've been writing myself, and my jealousy spiked when i saw this thread.
Primarily for the reasons you cite. Why didn't i think of this a year ago when I was pouring through physics texts and examining long voyage conditions of the seafaring days?
I am an OTR truck driver... and this is no longer accurate. I use verizon tethering for my internet and in the two years I have been using it thus, I have not had a single failure within reason. (broke down in the middle of the mountains of nevada... no signal. But there was NO signal of any sort there, no radio, no TV, no cell of any company..)
There are many of us from back when there were no degrees in the field. The rare individual who had a degree at all had one in mathematics, or electronic engineering.
Steve jobs- No degree
Steve Wozniak - BS- E.E.
Bill Gates - No Degree (harvard drop out)
Steve Ballmer - BS mathematics and economics
Now that I agree with somewhat. I hate a "Send us your resume" request that is followed with a "please fill out this application that asks everything already on your resume".
So, I was living in northern Colorado, a stone's throw away from the Wyoming border. My dad had a heart attack, right when i was looking at moving on from my position. (The bankruptcy filing and 2 year ongoing pay freeze left me with a bad feeling...)
I decided to consider work near Dad in Oklahoma. I applied to a position in Tulsa, via Robert Half technologies, a recruiting/headhunter firm.
I get a call "hey, you look like a great match, and the client wishes to interview you."
I set a date and drive the 500+ miles to the interview.
They sit me down at a computer, have me log in to their web site, and fill out a form and take a test. they do not observe or proxy it.
When I finish, they tell me they will have the results in a day or two, and to have a nice afternoon.
Yes. They had me drive 500 miles, knowing full well my address was Colorado and phone number was a different area code entirely. (all of Oklahoma has 1 area code.) All to fill out an application and take a test on their website.
I have never spoken to Robert Half again, and tell anyone I meet to avoid them at all costs.
Take the entire fileset and encrypt the hell out of it.
Then take the RAID3 approach, without redundancy. calculate the parity stripes out of the data. send one parity set on one disk via courier 1, the other parity set on another disk via courier 2.
if either disk is intercepted, it is useless without it's counterpart. Even if both are intercepted somehow, they still have to figure out what all those ones and zero's mean, reconstruct the fileset, then deal with the encryption.
I am light sensitive. Not to the point of debilitation, but a bright light is painful. A set of high beams to the face on a dark night is a lot like ramming heated needles in to my eyeball. I can squint away regular beams, but high blind me. High beam halogens blind me initially, and obscure my vision with spots for 10 minutes after.
Why, exactly, are you so adamantly defending bright beams? They are useless in every sense of the word, improve nothing in the driver's visual path, and only serve to blind other drivers. They are intended for the RARE occasion that you need a wider peripheral view, such as a twisting mountain road. Not when you are headed down a 4 lane highway.
You're that guy that likes to cruise directly behind another car with the brights on, aren't you? I bet your fog lamps are on when there is no fog, too.
What this fails to account for is that those who produced the maps were comissioned and paid to do so.
If you are hired by a company to produce a map, and you do so, are you right to then demand another $160k before you hand over the finished work?
That is exactly what is happening here. These are public employees, paid with taxes, hired to do this public job, and produce public documents.
I work in oil and gas exploration. I have tried them all. While I can give a nod to the Toshibas, I simply could not hope to do this job without a Panasonic Toughbook. While it is heavier than a lot, it is not a huge burden. The bright backlit screen, ultra ruggedness, environmental seal, etc is a must have. And, since it needs no case or carrying bag, the weight is not so different. if you account for the bag and accessories needed for other laptops, the difference disappears. Wireless, G3, integrated DVD-RW, and a good powerhouse to boot.
The newest line (CF30) even offers a solid state drive option, IIRC. Even better.
Speech is allowed. In free Speech Zones, 1000 yards from the center of a given activity, and monitored by guards to ensure you don;t get loud enough to be heard at the event you are protesting.
Freedom, with varying values of Free.
Email, in a corporate environment, is a CYA measure. Standard procedure is:
1) Reply All to anything. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If a person wants to notify everyone from GOD (spelled CEO) down that your project is the cause of the delay, replying to that one person to point out they are the one withholding critical materials is useless. They all need to know that weasel is the problem, not your team.
2) Trimming any message before sending (to everyone, see above) allows the originator to argue that wasn't what they really said, throwing doubt on your reply. So a 1 sentance reply may be at the top of a 2000 word original.
3) Nothing is deleted. Ever. However, the higher up in the chain you are, the more likely you are to view the deleted bin as a storage area. You Exchange admins are painfully aware of this little gem of corporate life.
4) Every conversation is done via email. If you go to a meeting, the meeting will be transcribed and emailed to all who attended. If you call someone, they will ask for a summary of the conversation in email. CYA, you need to be able to point at anything you were told, or told someone, no matter how small or petty the issue may be.
More will come to me. Maybe I'll write it all up in a kind of cathartic purging and post it somewhere. I sense a Doctoral Thesis here....
That was called Odin's Eye, impossible to detect because it ran on a Linux client in promiscuous mode. It was very handy on those impossible hunts, like the Ancient Cyclops. I'm sure it was overused by many. I had it, and enjoyed knowing if the uber-rare spawn was up and where. I didn't care to use it for regular gaming at all. But be damned if i was going to wait at a spawn point for a week straight to try and get the first shot in on that over-ganked bastard. I'd rather log in every night at 3am and scan Odin to see if he's up.
heh. i still have that 4M SIMm that I saved for months to buy, at $800.
I had the baddest 386DX in town, baby!
Finally replaced it with a 486/100 with Diamond Stealth 2M and a Monster II 8M combo that rocked games mightily.
Someday I'll be able to affort to upgrade that one too.:(
The looooong delays waiting for ads is why i went to adblock in the first place.
Watching the metrics of sites I visited, I found that the bulk of the delays were for ads, usually offsite/ad provider services. These folks SEROULSY overload their servers, and don't care. Any web server that needs 45 seconds to send me 3k needs a major overhaul.
Pages i visit went from 30-60 second load times to 3-5 seconds instantly with adblock. the Web is not slowing down, the ad services are bottlenecking it.
The added benefit of no infecting ads is just icing on that cake. Anyone remember Weatherbug's bouth with malicious code in ads? (javascript hijacks and popup cascades, back then)
I worked at Maxtor when the purchase of Miniscribe happened. One of the people in shipping, who was a buddy, gave me a gift when he left the company: an ESD packaged brick with a MiniScribe label on it.
I still have it, somewhere.
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The best example of "hoisted with their own petard"! Warner insisted itunes and the like clearly state that the downloaded file is not owned, but is licensed for the buyer's use. Very very specific about that. Now all the sudden it's actually sold, when they realize the artist (who they claim they are protecting with this mess) points out that they get significantly more for a license than a sale. They demanded it this way, let them pay for it.
If someone came and confiscated my computer, by the time I got to trial (many months, years even), what are the odds I would remember that password? I travel abroad, and my laptop is encrypted with TrueCrypt. I change the pass weekly. If you grabbed my comp today, in a month I would have trouble remembering which password was in use at that time. In a year, no hope that I would remember it. I might, after a few hours of guessing and sparking memory get in... but if there is incriminating evidence on there... I would have even greater difficulty remembering.
Asimov and Heinlein went to laborious detail on the physics of travel. Early Heinlein very much so.
The janitor is the least respected person till there is puke to clean up, then he's the man of the hour.
I've been writing myself, and my jealousy spiked when i saw this thread. Primarily for the reasons you cite. Why didn't i think of this a year ago when I was pouring through physics texts and examining long voyage conditions of the seafaring days?
I am an OTR truck driver... and this is no longer accurate. I use verizon tethering for my internet and in the two years I have been using it thus, I have not had a single failure within reason. (broke down in the middle of the mountains of nevada... no signal. But there was NO signal of any sort there, no radio, no TV, no cell of any company..)
There are many of us from back when there were no degrees in the field. The rare individual who had a degree at all had one in mathematics, or electronic engineering. Steve jobs- No degree Steve Wozniak - BS- E.E. Bill Gates - No Degree (harvard drop out) Steve Ballmer - BS mathematics and economics
I laughed in the face of our HR rep when she showed it to me. "requires 4 years experience with java". that was early 1996.
Most CIO's were given testing prior to employment. And they passed the ENIAC exam with flying colors.
Now that I agree with somewhat. I hate a "Send us your resume" request that is followed with a "please fill out this application that asks everything already on your resume".
So, I was living in northern Colorado, a stone's throw away from the Wyoming border. My dad had a heart attack, right when i was looking at moving on from my position. (The bankruptcy filing and 2 year ongoing pay freeze left me with a bad feeling...)
I decided to consider work near Dad in Oklahoma. I applied to a position in Tulsa, via Robert Half technologies, a recruiting/headhunter firm.
I get a call "hey, you look like a great match, and the client wishes to interview you." I set a date and drive the 500+ miles to the interview.
They sit me down at a computer, have me log in to their web site, and fill out a form and take a test. they do not observe or proxy it.
When I finish, they tell me they will have the results in a day or two, and to have a nice afternoon.
Yes. They had me drive 500 miles, knowing full well my address was Colorado and phone number was a different area code entirely. (all of Oklahoma has 1 area code.) All to fill out an application and take a test on their website.
I have never spoken to Robert Half again, and tell anyone I meet to avoid them at all costs.
Take the entire fileset and encrypt the hell out of it. Then take the RAID3 approach, without redundancy. calculate the parity stripes out of the data. send one parity set on one disk via courier 1, the other parity set on another disk via courier 2. if either disk is intercepted, it is useless without it's counterpart. Even if both are intercepted somehow, they still have to figure out what all those ones and zero's mean, reconstruct the fileset, then deal with the encryption.
I am light sensitive. Not to the point of debilitation, but a bright light is painful. A set of high beams to the face on a dark night is a lot like ramming heated needles in to my eyeball. I can squint away regular beams, but high blind me. High beam halogens blind me initially, and obscure my vision with spots for 10 minutes after.
Why, exactly, are you so adamantly defending bright beams? They are useless in every sense of the word, improve nothing in the driver's visual path, and only serve to blind other drivers. They are intended for the RARE occasion that you need a wider peripheral view, such as a twisting mountain road. Not when you are headed down a 4 lane highway.
You're that guy that likes to cruise directly behind another car with the brights on, aren't you? I bet your fog lamps are on when there is no fog, too.
Now you can beat the crap out of the punk in the movie theater. It's self defense.
What this fails to account for is that those who produced the maps were comissioned and paid to do so. If you are hired by a company to produce a map, and you do so, are you right to then demand another $160k before you hand over the finished work? That is exactly what is happening here. These are public employees, paid with taxes, hired to do this public job, and produce public documents.
I work in oil and gas exploration. I have tried them all. While I can give a nod to the Toshibas, I simply could not hope to do this job without a Panasonic Toughbook. While it is heavier than a lot, it is not a huge burden. The bright backlit screen, ultra ruggedness, environmental seal, etc is a must have. And, since it needs no case or carrying bag, the weight is not so different. if you account for the bag and accessories needed for other laptops, the difference disappears. Wireless, G3, integrated DVD-RW, and a good powerhouse to boot. The newest line (CF30) even offers a solid state drive option, IIRC. Even better.
Speech is allowed. In free Speech Zones, 1000 yards from the center of a given activity, and monitored by guards to ensure you don;t get loud enough to be heard at the event you are protesting. Freedom, with varying values of Free.
I can't get my wife to go to such things. She'd rather be playing WoW, or woning bitches in TF2
Email, in a corporate environment, is a CYA measure. Standard procedure is:
1) Reply All to anything. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If a person wants to notify everyone from GOD (spelled CEO) down that your project is the cause of the delay, replying to that one person to point out they are the one withholding critical materials is useless. They all need to know that weasel is the problem, not your team.
2) Trimming any message before sending (to everyone, see above) allows the originator to argue that wasn't what they really said, throwing doubt on your reply. So a 1 sentance reply may be at the top of a 2000 word original.
3) Nothing is deleted. Ever. However, the higher up in the chain you are, the more likely you are to view the deleted bin as a storage area. You Exchange admins are painfully aware of this little gem of corporate life.
4) Every conversation is done via email. If you go to a meeting, the meeting will be transcribed and emailed to all who attended. If you call someone, they will ask for a summary of the conversation in email. CYA, you need to be able to point at anything you were told, or told someone, no matter how small or petty the issue may be.
More will come to me. Maybe I'll write it all up in a kind of cathartic purging and post it somewhere. I sense a Doctoral Thesis here....
That was called Odin's Eye, impossible to detect because it ran on a Linux client in promiscuous mode. It was very handy on those impossible hunts, like the Ancient Cyclops.
I'm sure it was overused by many. I had it, and enjoyed knowing if the uber-rare spawn was up and where. I didn't care to use it for regular gaming at all. But be damned if i was going to wait at a spawn point for a week straight to try and get the first shot in on that over-ganked bastard. I'd rather log in every night at 3am and scan Odin to see if he's up.
You poor sod. I was born there, and left as soon as I was able. That was 20 years ago...
"You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. This kite- it's environmental honey. Develop more things like it." uhh... http://xkcd.com/357/
heh. i still have that 4M SIMm that I saved for months to buy, at $800. I had the baddest 386DX in town, baby! Finally replaced it with a 486/100 with Diamond Stealth 2M and a Monster II 8M combo that rocked games mightily. Someday I'll be able to affort to upgrade that one too. :(
The looooong delays waiting for ads is why i went to adblock in the first place. Watching the metrics of sites I visited, I found that the bulk of the delays were for ads, usually offsite/ad provider services. These folks SEROULSY overload their servers, and don't care. Any web server that needs 45 seconds to send me 3k needs a major overhaul. Pages i visit went from 30-60 second load times to 3-5 seconds instantly with adblock. the Web is not slowing down, the ad services are bottlenecking it. The added benefit of no infecting ads is just icing on that cake. Anyone remember Weatherbug's bouth with malicious code in ads? (javascript hijacks and popup cascades, back then)
I worked at Maxtor when the purchase of Miniscribe happened. One of the people in shipping, who was a buddy, gave me a gift when he left the company: an ESD packaged brick with a MiniScribe label on it. I still have it, somewhere.