The image database is often seperate from the articles and the company hosting the article often adds an image to emphasise.
I remember this exact thing happening with a Yahoo article a while ago. Can't remember a thing about it unfortunatly, all I remember is the story was about something in the U.S., and the image was of a U.K. footballer and the link was in the player's last name.
The court instead agreed with the RIAA that merely making a file available was sufficient to establish infringement. This will now give the RIAA further ammunition when the continue using the argument.
And when the defense brings up Atlantic v. Howell, we can hope that even the 'making available' bit goes away.
It's because everyone else is of the "Well, it won't happen to me, it only happens to the other guys" mentality.
What those execs fail to realize is they ARE the 'other guys' to everyone else.
If I proposed something like this to the companies I help support, I guarentee the first question I'd get would be "How much would it cost to impliment?"
Silly me, I thought the easy way would be to Get. A. Warrant. Plus it fulfills another coda of law enforcement: Cover. Your. Ass.
It would just be the cherry on top of this whole escapade if evidence from those computers is used in a trial...and it gets slapped down for violating the fourth amendment.
Or how about after your initial contract runs out? Right now I'm in a 2 year contract with AT&T. I don't expect my $40/mo to go down after I "pay" for my phone, even though that's the whole theory behind the contract.
Since the phone is now mine, why don't I get a lower, unsubsidized rate?
You are aware that more incidents of data theft and sabotage come from internal sources, right?
Outside hackers and crackers are NOT the primary worry of IT: it's protecting employees from each other. So if one of your colleagues goes to the dark side and uses your account for nefarious purposes, don't come crying to us.
And yet, that same management is riding our ass the whole time wanting more and more access. We don't give them rights, they just whine more and more. We do, they fuck things up, and they blame us.
It's a no-win situation and They. Never. Learn. (Plus, they sign our paychecks...)
Bad IT policy, or bad users? IT is sadly not as much a dictatorship as we'd like. If enough users whine, it ends up being policy that passwords get lax. These users "are too important to have to come up with complex passwords incorporating at least 3 different character types in 8 or more characters"
Make password policies too complex, users just write them down. Frying pan, fire...welcome to IT.
If memorization were de-emphasized in education perhaps the ability to quickly research subjects to form thoughts and opinions on them would be seen as something valuable. Isn't that what learning, and being smart, are all about?
Yes, but having students show proficiency in making conclusions involves lengthy answers. This is in direct contradiction to the ScanTron Staple of grading.
(Note, this is not a rag on teachers, but standardized tests.)
I was agreeing with you until the last line. People that recognize it's the interpretation that is more important will be smarter, but from what I've seen it's the quick regurgitation that's the more prized ability (on the internet of course).
I'm willing to bet that average end users get a much different experience then corporate customers, but I can provide my experience as a corporate customer.
Based on personal experience, you'd win that bet.
Laptop my boss purchased for personal use, Latitude (well, consumer line...I don't recall if that's the Latitude or not). Busted keyboard. Literally ended up taking MONTHS to get it replaced.
Stupid techs never listened to the diagnostics, best part was it got shipped to a repair depot, they turn it on, "Computer turns on fine. User needs to type password in." was the return. NEVER actually typed anything otherwise they'd see the keys jam and repeat.
Fortunatly, since the initial issue was placed before the warranty expired, all work was done under warranty (even though it was finally fixed 4 months AFTER the expiration date.)
However, on our Optiplexes and Inspirons, service is all but flawless. PowerEdge support is like five nines of satisfaction, and the PowerVault tape loaders? Best. Support. EVER. They'll literally bend over backwards to support those devices.
I cannot, for the life of me, recall one single instance where I have been completely disappointed by Dell support on our business class products, and we've had to call in about 40 LCDs, 40 HDs, 30 PSUs, and single digit quantities of mobos, cd-rom drives, RAM, and LTO tapes.
You realize that when you say it will cost "them" resources you really ought to be saying that it will cost us resources. Where do you think the Government gets it's funding from? I don't particularly relish the thought of my tax dollars being used for these purposes, how about you?
Then write to your Congresscritters and tell them you can't stand your hard earned tax dollars being spent on their little crusade.
Get your friends. Organize rallies. Rent a skywriter. Do something.
Just pick up a newspaper. Wall Street Journal runs (ran? haven't checked recently) full page LifeLock ads with the SSN in a font that runs across the whole width.
Slashdot Mirror
it was causing genuinely violent thoughts in my head.
against the devs for making such a terrible game?
Wish I had a mod point about now...
The image database is often seperate from the articles and the company hosting the article often adds an image to emphasise.
I remember this exact thing happening with a Yahoo article a while ago. Can't remember a thing about it unfortunatly, all I remember is the story was about something in the U.S., and the image was of a U.K. footballer and the link was in the player's last name.
The court instead agreed with the RIAA that merely making a file available was sufficient to establish infringement. This will now give the RIAA further ammunition when the continue using the argument.
And when the defense brings up Atlantic v. Howell, we can hope that even the 'making available' bit goes away.
It's because everyone else is of the "Well, it won't happen to me, it only happens to the other guys" mentality.
What those execs fail to realize is they ARE the 'other guys' to everyone else.
If I proposed something like this to the companies I help support, I guarentee the first question I'd get would be "How much would it cost to impliment?"
Silly me, I thought the easy way would be to Get. A. Warrant. Plus it fulfills another coda of law enforcement: Cover. Your. Ass.
It would just be the cherry on top of this whole escapade if evidence from those computers is used in a trial...and it gets slapped down for violating the fourth amendment.
Or how about after your initial contract runs out? Right now I'm in a 2 year contract with AT&T. I don't expect my $40/mo to go down after I "pay" for my phone, even though that's the whole theory behind the contract.
Since the phone is now mine, why don't I get a lower, unsubsidized rate?
You are aware that more incidents of data theft and sabotage come from internal sources, right?
Outside hackers and crackers are NOT the primary worry of IT: it's protecting employees from each other. So if one of your colleagues goes to the dark side and uses your account for nefarious purposes, don't come crying to us.
And yet, that same management is riding our ass the whole time wanting more and more access. We don't give them rights, they just whine more and more. We do, they fuck things up, and they blame us.
It's a no-win situation and They. Never. Learn. (Plus, they sign our paychecks...)
Bad IT policy, or bad users? IT is sadly not as much a dictatorship as we'd like. If enough users whine, it ends up being policy that passwords get lax. These users "are too important to have to come up with complex passwords incorporating at least 3 different character types in 8 or more characters"
Make password policies too complex, users just write them down. Frying pan, fire...welcome to IT.
Real systems involve users calling up every few months complaining they forgot their password when they end up changing it...
Sadly, these flat atoms will never get the attention that more endowed atoms get on a regular basis.
(4) would be a trick in CA, as number only plates are reserved for government cars (public transportation, police cars, fire trucks, USPS fleet...)
Well, if people can remember to just go to .disney, this problem solves itself.
If the CD is sent unsolicited (through USPS at least) and they try to get it back, they get slammed for mail fraud.
That'll be a trick even for their kettle of lawyers to get out of.
Great, now all Phoenix is going to say to NASA is TILT!
We're gonna have to fly someone up there to deposit a dollar in quarters into Phoenix now...
Poor bunny...
Sounds familiar...
Centralized hub, gets destroyed.
Decentralized hub, gets destroyed.
Even more decentralized...toss in misspellings...
Oh hell, did I just give the **AAs ammunition that copyright infringers are also pedophiles?
No problemo. Use Google to search for child porn. Bye bye, Google.
You're assuming people understand the meaning of 'independence.'
There's still a leap of logic between connecting the dots and then standing back and going, "It's a duck!"
If memorization were de-emphasized in education perhaps the ability to quickly research subjects to form thoughts and opinions on them would be seen as something valuable. Isn't that what learning, and being smart, are all about?
Yes, but having students show proficiency in making conclusions involves lengthy answers. This is in direct contradiction to the ScanTron Staple of grading.
(Note, this is not a rag on teachers, but standardized tests.)
I was agreeing with you until the last line. People that recognize it's the interpretation that is more important will be smarter, but from what I've seen it's the quick regurgitation that's the more prized ability (on the internet of course).
I'm willing to bet that average end users get a much different experience then corporate customers, but I can provide my experience as a corporate customer.
Based on personal experience, you'd win that bet.
Laptop my boss purchased for personal use, Latitude (well, consumer line...I don't recall if that's the Latitude or not). Busted keyboard. Literally ended up taking MONTHS to get it replaced.
Stupid techs never listened to the diagnostics, best part was it got shipped to a repair depot, they turn it on, "Computer turns on fine. User needs to type password in." was the return. NEVER actually typed anything otherwise they'd see the keys jam and repeat.
Fortunatly, since the initial issue was placed before the warranty expired, all work was done under warranty (even though it was finally fixed 4 months AFTER the expiration date.)
However, on our Optiplexes and Inspirons, service is all but flawless. PowerEdge support is like five nines of satisfaction, and the PowerVault tape loaders? Best. Support. EVER. They'll literally bend over backwards to support those devices.
I cannot, for the life of me, recall one single instance where I have been completely disappointed by Dell support on our business class products, and we've had to call in about 40 LCDs, 40 HDs, 30 PSUs, and single digit quantities of mobos, cd-rom drives, RAM, and LTO tapes.
You realize that when you say it will cost "them" resources you really ought to be saying that it will cost us resources. Where do you think the Government gets it's funding from? I don't particularly relish the thought of my tax dollars being used for these purposes, how about you?
Then write to your Congresscritters and tell them you can't stand your hard earned tax dollars being spent on their little crusade.
Get your friends. Organize rallies. Rent a skywriter. Do something.
Just pick up a newspaper. Wall Street Journal runs (ran? haven't checked recently) full page LifeLock ads with the SSN in a font that runs across the whole width.