True, and IANAL either, but I can guarantee you any photographer who is worth their weight in salt has it in their contract (probably line 1) that they retain all rights to images. I know a couple photographers, and to suggest that anyone but them own the rights to their work would be tantamount to suggesting mutiny on a ship.
Is it so surprising that an artist would own his own work? Why should photography be any differnet than painting, writing, or composing music? If I buy a photograph from a photographer, I certainly don't have the right to reproduce that picture and sell it as many times as I want. I may own the physical picture, but I do not own the rights to the image.
"The government contacts a contractor search company who then searches for a contractor to do the work. Thinking about it, there'd still be the job of finding a contractor search company."
Or you could just skip all that nonsense and give the contract to Haliburton, like was done in the last 7 years. Streamlines the process and whatnot...
Knowing how to build the nukes is the easy part. Getting the enriched uranium is the tricky part. (But if it were me, I'd hit the former Soviet Union storage facilities. Word on the streets is some of them aren't exactly secure.)
Grenada was a disaster, and made the US look weak. Bosnia is still a mess and when Clinton tried to do something, all the conservatives said it was to deflect the Monica blowjob. Nobody cares about Haiti, including the US. If we really wanted to help, we could do something about the AIDS epidemic. Afghanistan is once again under drug lord and terrorist control, like it was before we "liberated" it. The Soviets couldn't do it in 10 years, and we went in, did a half-assed job in a year, and called it "good enough". Way to go USA! Let me re-phrase the question - "Have we sucessfully "liberated" any countries without oil lately??
"Then I assume you supported the US/British/Spanish/Australian invasion Iraq"
Why would you assume that when the invasion has absolutely nothing to do with freedom? How many countries has the US "liberated" that didn't have oil lately??
"I think you find that none of them are run by Bush."
"I think you find that none of them are run directly by Bush.
Fixed it for you.
"Looks nice, but finicky, prone to sudden spectacular failure, and hard to maintain."
Yep, also known as "job security" to me. Luckily I don't use Exchange Server though, so that eliminates a significant headache. Security polices "flowing" down can be a tricky web to untangle sometimes, but if you have a good idea and do some careful planning before implementing it, (instead of the "on the fly" method) it greatly reduces time spent figuring out stupid little quirks. I know that sometimes you get dumped into someone else's mess, and that sucks, but if you have any control over design you can make it easier on yourself. But really, that is an issue I have run into using any operating system with permissions.
My point about admistrating and hardening boxes still stands. All you have proven is that your LAN administrator may not know a lot about hardening Windows boxes, not that they are inherently less secure. (Say you lived in a house in the middle of a 5,000 acre plot of land in Idaho. You never lock your doors and windows to your house. Your odds of getting robbed are far less than the person with 12 locks on their doors in New York City, but it doesn't mean your house is inherently "more secure", or the NYC house is "less secure".) If I were a bad or lazy administator, I could take any OS and make it unsecure, and it isn't the operating system's fault. And, out of curiousity, which ports on Windows did you find open that were "obvious vulnerabilities"?? Could you take advantage of any of them, or is it all speculation on your part?? And did you try scanning from outside your trusted network to see if those same "vulnerabilities" still show up? On my network I run some file and print sharing and a few other services on my local subnet that may appear "open" if scanning from inside my VLAN from trusted addresses, but wouldn't appear at all from outside the same network. Simply running NMap from a trusted IP from within the network proves absolutely nothing.
And sheesh, I'm not being unpleasant, I'm being blunt. You were making a claim about security based on weak, anecdotal evidence that I refuted. If you can't handle a little criticism, I would avoid posting on Slashdot, period.
Congratulations, you just demonstrated the parent's point. Just because you don't know how to lock down your Windows boxes as easily as your Linux boxes says more about YOUR abilities than any inherent security in an OS. And BTW XP SP2 comes with the firewall enabled and most "extaneous services" shut off by default also, so what is your point? Are you really running a version of XP that you haven't applied the service packs to?? And NMap is a great tool, but if that is the only thing you are using to "secure" your boxes, you have a lot to learn about security...
Cleaning out your bank account causes no physical harm either, so by your logic can't be a criminal act. So in that caes, what are your bank account and routing numbers?
Yeah, it sounds like you are looking for a pretty specific setup.
I think most everything on your list except the 2560 x 1600 external isn't too hard to find. I just purchased a Dell Latitude D820 Core Duo 2.0 MHz for someone I work with that weighs in at about 6 1/4 pounds due to the 9 cell battery, which he said lasts over 5 hours. It has a 512 MB NVidia Quadro NVS mobile graphics card in in that will almost, but not quite, hit what you are looking for - it will do 2048 x 1536. It has a 15.4" screen, 2 GB of RAM, DVD-RW and cost him $1400 including shipping. That also include a 3 year warranty. Disclaimer - I do work at a university that gets discounts on Dell, Lenovo, and Apple hardware. However, I checked Dell's Small Business site, and with the discounts they have now the same rig would have been about $100 or so more. Disclaimer #2 - becuase the university I work has an arrangement with Dell, we also get their Higher Education and Government telehone technical support. This means we get to talk to native English speakers in good old Texas. I would hesitate to recommend Dell for home users unless you want to talk to a support center in India when you have problems. I also priced him out a MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16 MHz with the similar specs and it came to $2000 - with the university discounted price. The person I purchased the laptop for had used both PCs and Macs in the past, and to him the $600 savings was worth not having the Mac. Now my boss on the other hand, always goes out and buys whatever new toys Apple is putting out this month, no matter the cost. He is exactly Apple's target market.
Out of curiosity, which mobile video card will do 2560 x 1600? The MacBook Pro I looked at had an ATI Radeon X1600, not sure what the max external resoultion was though.
Whoosh!
Could you also give us you simplistic views of Bladerunner, A Clockwork Orange, Dune, Solaris and Ctizen Kane?? That way I won't have to waste all my time "thinking". You may want to stick with films starring Kevin Costner, that way your brain doesn't need to do any "heavy lifting"... Ever.
They can't even get real-time facial recogintion going and you think that lip reading thousands of different dialects is possible? It's a pipe dream at present. The price involved with the computing power they would need is, for now, completely cost-prohibitive. Plus, either system could be easily fooled by slight alterations in speech or appearance. These "high-tech" surveillance cameras are nothing but fear mongering techniques designed to "scare straight" the public who has no idea how techninically improbable these recognition systems actually are...
And for how many "terrorists" caught are normal everyday citizen's rights trampled, or the cameras used to extort, blackmail, and threaten those who the watchers don't agree with? The potential for abuse is thousands of times greater than the potential for good.
"Ballmer just defines ball game differently than you do. Lots of love, low sales is success for some. He would (obviously) prefer little love, high sales."
Any CEO who valued love above sales would be fired instantly. Both companies are running businesses and not lovefests. The entire point of a corporation IS to make money.
Actually, they are. You see, I hate environmentalists, so I pay extra for "Non-Green" power. This means I buy vouchers for my electricity that is only produced by burning inefficient, dirty coal. It also means I pay for power plants to deliberately produce more power than needed to offset all the "Green Power" vouchers. Take that you tree huggers!!
They were film prop fluorescents, not real ones. Film prop fluorescents have all the mercury removed and then replaced with asbestos, radium, and potassium cyanide...
Then maybe we should just pass a law "banning" the conversion of elemental mercury into organic mercury. Besides, everyone knows that "organic" is just a scam to charge you more!
And no, I'm not being serious so save the rants...
Aren't you talking about distribution, and not manufacturing? Making physical copies of software certainly requires money to manufacture,(equipment, raw materials, labor, etc.) but distibuting digital copies of software would not involve the same costs...
Metallica has had only one bass player die.(although the rest may as well have been)
To me And Justice is where it started to suck and I can't even listen to the Black album. It's like pop metal... They totally lost their edge and direction when the lost Cliff Burton.
Get the DVDs for Live 8. The Pink Floyd and The Who stuff is amazing. Also watching Pete Doherty cracked out of his mind doing T. Rex with Elton John was quite entertaining also...
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True, and IANAL either, but I can guarantee you any photographer who is worth their weight in salt has it in their contract (probably line 1) that they retain all rights to images. I know a couple photographers, and to suggest that anyone but them own the rights to their work would be tantamount to suggesting mutiny on a ship.
Is it so surprising that an artist would own his own work? Why should photography be any differnet than painting, writing, or composing music? If I buy a photograph from a photographer, I certainly don't have the right to reproduce that picture and sell it as many times as I want. I may own the physical picture, but I do not own the rights to the image.
"The government contacts a contractor search company who then searches for a contractor to do the work. Thinking about it, there'd still be the job of finding a contractor search company."
Or you could just skip all that nonsense and give the contract to Haliburton, like was done in the last 7 years. Streamlines the process and whatnot...
Knowing how to build the nukes is the easy part. Getting the enriched uranium is the tricky part. (But if it were me, I'd hit the former Soviet Union storage facilities. Word on the streets is some of them aren't exactly secure.)
Grenada was a disaster, and made the US look weak. Bosnia is still a mess and when Clinton tried to do something, all the conservatives said it was to deflect the Monica blowjob. Nobody cares about Haiti, including the US. If we really wanted to help, we could do something about the AIDS epidemic. Afghanistan is once again under drug lord and terrorist control, like it was before we "liberated" it. The Soviets couldn't do it in 10 years, and we went in, did a half-assed job in a year, and called it "good enough". Way to go USA! Let me re-phrase the question - "Have we sucessfully "liberated" any countries without oil lately??
"Then I assume you supported the US/British/Spanish/Australian invasion Iraq"
Why would you assume that when the invasion has absolutely nothing to do with freedom? How many countries has the US "liberated" that didn't have oil lately??
"I think you find that none of them are run by Bush."
"I think you find that none of them are run directly by Bush.
Fixed it for you.
"Looks nice, but finicky, prone to sudden spectacular failure, and hard to maintain."
Yep, also known as "job security" to me. Luckily I don't use Exchange Server though, so that eliminates a significant headache.
Security polices "flowing" down can be a tricky web to untangle sometimes, but if you have a good idea and do some careful planning before implementing it, (instead of the "on the fly" method) it greatly reduces time spent figuring out stupid little quirks. I know that sometimes you get dumped into someone else's mess, and that sucks, but if you have any control over design you can make it easier on yourself. But really, that is an issue I have run into using any operating system with permissions.
My point about admistrating and hardening boxes still stands. All you have proven is that your LAN administrator may not know a lot about hardening Windows boxes, not that they are inherently less secure. (Say you lived in a house in the middle of a 5,000 acre plot of land in Idaho. You never lock your doors and windows to your house. Your odds of getting robbed are far less than the person with 12 locks on their doors in New York City, but it doesn't mean your house is inherently "more secure", or the NYC house is "less secure".) If I were a bad or lazy administator, I could take any OS and make it unsecure, and it isn't the operating system's fault.
And, out of curiousity, which ports on Windows did you find open that were "obvious vulnerabilities"?? Could you take advantage of any of them, or is it all speculation on your part?? And did you try scanning from outside your trusted network to see if those same "vulnerabilities" still show up? On my network I run some file and print sharing and a few other services on my local subnet that may appear "open" if scanning from inside my VLAN from trusted addresses, but wouldn't appear at all from outside the same network. Simply running NMap from a trusted IP from within the network proves absolutely nothing.
And sheesh, I'm not being unpleasant, I'm being blunt. You were making a claim about security based on weak, anecdotal evidence that I refuted. If you can't handle a little criticism, I would avoid posting on Slashdot, period.
Congratulations, you just demonstrated the parent's point. Just because you don't know how to lock down your Windows boxes as easily as your Linux boxes says more about YOUR abilities than any inherent security in an OS. And BTW XP SP2 comes with the firewall enabled and most "extaneous services" shut off by default also, so what is your point? Are you really running a version of XP that you haven't applied the service packs to?? And NMap is a great tool, but if that is the only thing you are using to "secure" your boxes, you have a lot to learn about security...
Cleaning out your bank account causes no physical harm either, so by your logic can't be a criminal act. So in that caes, what are your bank account and routing numbers?
ANYTHING can kill you if you try hard enough...
But I think a good first step would be to ban Chuck Norris. Now who wants to tell him?
I would love to be immortal, but only for a while...
Yeah, it sounds like you are looking for a pretty specific setup.
I think most everything on your list except the 2560 x 1600 external isn't too hard to find. I just purchased a Dell Latitude D820 Core Duo 2.0 MHz for someone I work with that weighs in at about 6 1/4 pounds due to the 9 cell battery, which he said lasts over 5 hours. It has a 512 MB NVidia Quadro NVS mobile graphics card in in that will almost, but not quite, hit what you are looking for - it will do 2048 x 1536. It has a 15.4" screen, 2 GB of RAM, DVD-RW and cost him $1400 including shipping. That also include a 3 year warranty. Disclaimer - I do work at a university that gets discounts on Dell, Lenovo, and Apple hardware. However, I checked Dell's Small Business site, and with the discounts they have now the same rig would have been about $100 or so more. Disclaimer #2 - becuase the university I work has an arrangement with Dell, we also get their Higher Education and Government telehone technical support. This means we get to talk to native English speakers in good old Texas. I would hesitate to recommend Dell for home users unless you want to talk to a support center in India when you have problems. I also priced him out a MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16 MHz with the similar specs and it came to $2000 - with the university discounted price. The person I purchased the laptop for had used both PCs and Macs in the past, and to him the $600 savings was worth not having the Mac. Now my boss on the other hand, always goes out and buys whatever new toys Apple is putting out this month, no matter the cost. He is exactly Apple's target market.
Out of curiosity, which mobile video card will do 2560 x 1600? The MacBook Pro I looked at had an ATI Radeon X1600, not sure what the max external resoultion was though.
Whoosh!
Could you also give us you simplistic views of Bladerunner, A Clockwork Orange, Dune, Solaris and Ctizen Kane?? That way I won't have to waste all my time "thinking". You may want to stick with films starring Kevin Costner, that way your brain doesn't need to do any "heavy lifting"... Ever.
"I have just not seen laptop offerings competitive with Apple's."
Then take off your iBlinders and look around, there is a whole world out there you may not have seen!
They can't even get real-time facial recogintion going and you think that lip reading thousands of different dialects is possible? It's a pipe dream at present. The price involved with the computing power they would need is, for now, completely cost-prohibitive. Plus, either system could be easily fooled by slight alterations in speech or appearance. These "high-tech" surveillance cameras are nothing but fear mongering techniques designed to "scare straight" the public who has no idea how techninically improbable these recognition systems actually are...
And for how many "terrorists" caught are normal everyday citizen's rights trampled, or the cameras used to extort, blackmail, and threaten those who the watchers don't agree with? The potential for abuse is thousands of times greater than the potential for good.
"Ballmer just defines ball game differently than you do. Lots of love, low sales is success for some. He would (obviously) prefer little love, high sales."
Any CEO who valued love above sales would be fired instantly. Both companies are running businesses and not lovefests. The entire point of a corporation IS to make money.
Actually, they are. You see, I hate environmentalists, so I pay extra for "Non-Green" power. This means I buy vouchers for my electricity that is only produced by burning inefficient, dirty coal. It also means I pay for power plants to deliberately produce more power than needed to offset all the "Green Power" vouchers. Take that you tree huggers!!
They were film prop fluorescents, not real ones. Film prop fluorescents have all the mercury removed and then replaced with asbestos, radium, and potassium cyanide...
Then maybe we should just pass a law "banning" the conversion of elemental mercury into organic mercury. Besides, everyone knows that "organic" is just a scam to charge you more!
And no, I'm not being serious so save the rants...
And also a serious violation of Slashdot etiquette. No matter what happens, MS is ALWAYS evil here.
Aren't you talking about distribution, and not manufacturing? Making physical copies of software certainly requires money to manufacture,(equipment, raw materials, labor, etc.) but distibuting digital copies of software would not involve the same costs...
Metallica has had only one bass player die.(although the rest may as well have been)
To me And Justice is where it started to suck and I can't even listen to the Black album. It's like pop metal... They totally lost their edge and direction when the lost Cliff Burton.
Get the DVDs for Live 8. The Pink Floyd and The Who stuff is amazing. Also watching Pete Doherty cracked out of his mind doing T. Rex with Elton John was quite entertaining also...