Kilometers-to-AU translation errors (nobody would be using "miles" in their calculations, now would they?) cumulative floating point rounding errors antenna positioning failure
There are more than enough problems that could re-occur, before you start looking for new ones.
Given that the lifetime of a CD-R is relatively short in the first place... Given the problems that various CD drives have (on occasion) in reading CD-Rs made by other drives...
with apologies to Stan Freberg and Billy May... What kind of nut would you have to be, to lock up your data with a secure key only to find out bit-rot had got inside
when the police knocks saying they suspect my basement to be a meth-lab and have an appropriate search warrant, well I'll gladly let them in and go look for themselves
With the correction, I would agree with you.
And the same should hold for encrypted data. Because they suspect me of doing a particular heinous act should not mean that *every* passcode in the house know should be made available. What, they want to see, perhaps, if my Death Knight has illegal drugs?
General lesson: Convenient or secure. That's an XOR.
I rather thought that security/convenience was analog, not digital. As in, you're never perfectly secure, and never perfectly convenient; and many states exist in between the extremes.
I'll grant you inverse correlation, but I wouldn't even really agree to a security-convenience "continuum".
I am so reminded of a line from The Chronicle along the lines of "How very twentieth century of you", as the character whips out a taser and stuns the miscreant.
There are nonlethal means of defending one's self, these days. While most may only work at arm's reach, that's also the range you're most likely to be at, in a situation you'd want to use a gun defensively.... and have any realistic chance of it being effective, anyway.
If they weren't out there publicly trying to get our rights taken away, they wouldn't attract crazy people, therefore they wouldn't need the armed security.
Y'know, I wouldn't take that bet. Crazy people are considered crazy in no small part because they use skewed logic, or no logic at all. And "taking away our rights" doesn't really top the agenda of people who need bodyguards. Nor, I expect, the rationale for most assaults upon people who feel a need for bodyguards.
Yup. Same ones accused at times of mob influence. Same ones that got their members health insurance and the 8 hour day.
Choose your cartel, man. Labor or Industry. There are no innocent parties in that debate.
I'll just note in passing the trend in the tech industry for "temporary workers", hired for precisely as long as the law allows, with the lack of benefits that the law requires of them for "full time, non-temporary" staff. IBM, Microsoft, I'm sure you can name others. Evades employment taxes along with that. Much cheaper, as long as people are willing to put up with it.
The history of labor is interesting, even in the summaried-to-death version present in Wikipedia. I'll let you do your own reading.
I hadn't actually heard of model rockets setting off brushfires, but apparently it happens.
However, first up in the google search results was the exact opposite, a brushfire setting off model rockets.
For those who hadn't kept up with it (myself included), in 2000, the Tripoli Rocketry Association and the National Association of Rocketry (rocket hobbyist associations) sued the BATF about their having classified model rocket engines above a certain size as "explosives". Fairly recently, they received a favorable judgement in court, vacating the regulation. It is apparently still up for appeal, so in effect, no change for now. (After all, the government can't admit it was WRONG, now can it? That would undermine Faith In The Goverment.)
> The only reason to put anything else in is for a stupid stunt to get some hits for your crappy blog....or to test the system.
In this case, the system failed.
Had you read TFA, you would have noted that an article WAS specified. See This link, for instance. It is not unreasonable for a request to use a snippet of an article to search THAT ARTICLE to see if the content is present.
> You're not supposed to... When you are talking about a machine, device, automated process or etc, "supposed to" is singularly inappropriate. It is what CAN be done with it that has any significance at all. If "supposed to" had any power, liability lawsuits would be very much limited.
Then you won't mind getting thrown in the slammer for having an empty alcohol bottle in your back seat, despite that bottle's last use as a planter. And for the governor's son to skate by with a warning after a near miss at 0.05% blood alcohol level (where the limit is 0.08%).
Common sense may be a good yardstick, but there have to be limits on discretion. And at that, you still have to be wary of allowing corruption a foothold.
> Sounds like you're working for large corporations where that kind of behaviour can go unchecked. In a small company, you'd be thrown out very quickly.
In a small company, such behavior would be less necessary, too. The Manager From Hell would become evident faster, and leave-taking would be the preferred choice, not the alternative. As well, a smaller company is more likely to care about its employees beyond simple numbers.
>If you disagree about what the business can pay you, or what you're worth, leave.
> If you're worth more, there will be demand. If not, the market has decided you're not worth more.
Glad to see another Adam Smith brand economist out there. There's a reason labor unions exist. And there's a reason that businesses don't show labor employees the books (outside of the accounting department and upper management employees).
There are a large number of businesses that are struggling out there. And a large number of small businesses that try their best to be fair to their employees. And a large number of companies of all sizes (*cough* walmart *cough*) that will "negotiate" terms that are strictly in their favor.
Think of 'employment' as a good, then consider the effects of monopoly and cartels...
You linked to the Pentagon Papers, which were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg.
Representing Ellsberg at trial was none other than Charles Nesson, known more recently on Slashdot for the defense of Tenenbaum (which can be looked up here).
On the other hand, MY pet peeve is drivers who drive 10 or 15 over the speed limit, then ride my bumper trying to get me to move over. Driving faster than the speed limit isn't a right.
I agree: never ignore a lawsuit. I think, though, that there are much better ways of showing evidence of service. Say, court records from the process server. But it does strongly imply that he was given official notice.
Still: lawyer up if at all possible. If nothing else, there's the dream of recovering costs from a frivolous lawsuit. It might also be possible to get the case separated from the other defendants, which would put a spanner in the plantiff's strategy.
I'd mod your reply up, but I'd already commented on this thread.
> I'm no Microsoft fan by a long shot, but so what if they had been violating the GPL all this time before releasing the source code?
So what if the movie studio didn't keep track of the first week's profits from a blockbuster?
So what if I didn't make car payments for the first three years I had the car?
So what if I only bought a copy of Celine Dion's latest hit after the RIAA sent me a "settlement hearing" letter about my P2P activities?
Microsoft got benefit from the product for the period before they released it under the GPL. The fact that they then subsequently complied with the GPL terms does not itself redress the previous harm.
Since when did Kansas City become a part of Canada?
You might look to the comment that was being quoted:
Governments also consistently ruled that if someone gives the barman a fake ID and they fall for it, it's still the barman's fault
[citation_needed]
No jurisdictional boundaries in the original quote or the request. Kansas City is thus a qualifying jurisdiction. Any conceivable response would have been local and anecdotal, given that this is a blog read world-wide.
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I'd be more worried about simple things like...
Kilometers-to-AU translation errors (nobody would be using "miles" in their calculations, now would they?)
cumulative floating point rounding errors
antenna positioning failure
There are more than enough problems that could re-occur, before you start looking for new ones.
> the schematics for the water-car will get out.
Sorry, been there, done that. I've been driving my fuel-cell car in reverse for months, selling off the excess hydrogen I've been producing....
> Most ISPs operate as either a monopoly or duopoly
This deserves some qualifiers:
The people providing broadband service to residences or business sites are as you describe: Comcast, Verizon, QWest; DSL, Cable, and Fios.
ISPs providing things like co-location service are not so much the monopoly or duopoly. Yet they, too, qualify for the description "ISP".
Some alternatives exist to wired broadband, but it has its own problems like "being subject to weather", "birds nesting in the antennas", etc.
> Power costs money
Knowledge is power.
I KNOW how you can save money...
What you are thinking of is Ex post facto, or retroactive laws: making punishable something that was legal when performed.
The Supreme Court has already surrendered on that issue. See here where the sex offender registry was deemed a matter of civil laws, not punishment.
Given that the lifetime of a CD-R is relatively short in the first place...
Given the problems that various CD drives have (on occasion) in reading CD-Rs made by other drives...
with apologies to Stan Freberg and Billy May...
What kind of nut would you have to be,
to lock up your data with a secure key
only to find out
bit-rot had got inside
(It's a small disk, now and it's always been...)
when the police knocks saying they suspect my basement to be a meth-lab and have an appropriate search warrant, well I'll gladly let them in and go look for themselves
With the correction, I would agree with you.
And the same should hold for encrypted data. Because they suspect me of doing a particular heinous act should not mean that *every* passcode in the house know should be made available. What, they want to see, perhaps, if my Death Knight has illegal drugs?
Not quite illegal to possess, but regulated.
And I expect that "assault with a deadly weapon" would not be among the charges, though "carrying an illegal weapon" might be.
However, wouldn't you agree, the perceived threat of violence is the primary reason why these folks have hired armed guards?
Fixed that for you. And yep, I would agree. The threat of violence may be implied or even imaginary.
Naw... You start taking pictures (and RFID snapshots) of police in the UK, they harass you on terrorism charges...
General lesson: Convenient or secure. That's an XOR.
I rather thought that security/convenience was analog, not digital. As in, you're never perfectly secure, and never perfectly convenient; and many states exist in between the extremes.
I'll grant you inverse correlation, but I wouldn't even really agree to a security-convenience "continuum".
But is it an EFFECTIVE foil-lined sleeve? Or is it a comfort device, like checking footwear at the airport is?
Would like to see a link to a comparison test of anti-RFIDsnooping technologies, if anyone has one.
I am so reminded of a line from The Chronicle along the lines of "How very twentieth century of you", as the character whips out a taser and stuns the miscreant.
There are nonlethal means of defending one's self, these days. While most may only work at arm's reach, that's also the range you're most likely to be at, in a situation you'd want to use a gun defensively. ... and have any realistic chance of it being effective, anyway.
If they weren't out there publicly trying to get our rights taken away, they wouldn't attract crazy people, therefore they wouldn't need the armed security.
Y'know, I wouldn't take that bet. Crazy people are considered crazy in no small part because they use skewed logic, or no logic at all. And "taking away our rights" doesn't really top the agenda of people who need bodyguards. Nor, I expect, the rationale for most assaults upon people who feel a need for bodyguards.
Yup. Same ones accused at times of mob influence. Same ones that got their members health insurance and the 8 hour day.
Choose your cartel, man. Labor or Industry. There are no innocent parties in that debate.
I'll just note in passing the trend in the tech industry for "temporary workers", hired for precisely as long as the law allows, with the lack of benefits that the law requires of them for "full time, non-temporary" staff. IBM, Microsoft, I'm sure you can name others. Evades employment taxes along with that. Much cheaper, as long as people are willing to put up with it.
The history of labor is interesting, even in the summaried-to-death version present in Wikipedia. I'll let you do your own reading.
I hadn't actually heard of model rockets setting off brushfires, but apparently it happens.
However, first up in the google search results was the exact opposite, a brushfire setting off model rockets.
For those who hadn't kept up with it (myself included), in 2000, the Tripoli Rocketry Association and the National Association of Rocketry (rocket hobbyist associations) sued the BATF about their having classified model rocket engines above a certain size as "explosives". Fairly recently, they received a favorable judgement in court, vacating the regulation. It is apparently still up for appeal, so in effect, no change for now. (After all, the government can't admit it was WRONG, now can it? That would undermine Faith In The Goverment.)
> The only reason to put anything else in is for a stupid stunt to get some hits for your crappy blog. ...or to test the system.
In this case, the system failed.
Had you read TFA, you would have noted that an article WAS specified. See This link, for instance. It is not unreasonable for a request to use a snippet of an article to search THAT ARTICLE to see if the content is present.
> You're not supposed to ...
When you are talking about a machine, device, automated process or etc, "supposed to" is singularly inappropriate. It is what CAN be done with it that has any significance at all. If "supposed to" had any power, liability lawsuits would be very much limited.
How about popcorn instead? I don't work there, you no longer work there, what's the stress?
> YES. Absolutely.
Then you won't mind getting thrown in the slammer for having an empty alcohol bottle in your back seat, despite that bottle's last use as a planter. And for the governor's son to skate by with a warning after a near miss at 0.05% blood alcohol level (where the limit is 0.08%).
Common sense may be a good yardstick, but there have to be limits on discretion. And at that, you still have to be wary of allowing corruption a foothold.
> Sounds like you're working for large corporations where that kind of behaviour can go unchecked. In a small company, you'd be thrown out very quickly.
In a small company, such behavior would be less necessary, too. The Manager From Hell would become evident faster, and leave-taking would be the preferred choice, not the alternative. As well, a smaller company is more likely to care about its employees beyond simple numbers.
>If you disagree about what the business can pay you, or what you're worth, leave.
> If you're worth more, there will be demand. If not, the market has decided you're not worth more.
Glad to see another Adam Smith brand economist out there. There's a reason labor unions exist. And there's a reason that businesses don't show labor employees the books (outside of the accounting department and upper management employees).
There are a large number of businesses that are struggling out there. And a large number of small businesses that try their best to be fair to their employees. And a large number of companies of all sizes (*cough* walmart *cough*) that will "negotiate" terms that are strictly in their favor.
Think of 'employment' as a good, then consider the effects of monopoly and cartels...
Wikipedia reveals an Interesting Fact:
You linked to the Pentagon Papers, which were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg.
Representing Ellsberg at trial was none other than Charles Nesson, known more recently on Slashdot for the defense of Tenenbaum (which can be looked up here).
On the other hand, MY pet peeve is drivers who drive 10 or 15 over the speed limit, then ride my bumper trying to get me to move over. Driving faster than the speed limit isn't a right.
The tragedy of a pro se defendant.
I agree: never ignore a lawsuit. I think, though, that there are much better ways of showing evidence of service. Say, court records from the process server. But it does strongly imply that he was given official notice.
Still: lawyer up if at all possible. If nothing else, there's the dream of recovering costs from a frivolous lawsuit. It might also be possible to get the case separated from the other defendants, which would put a spanner in the plantiff's strategy.
I'd mod your reply up, but I'd already commented on this thread.
> I'm no Microsoft fan by a long shot, but so what if they had been violating the GPL all this time before releasing the source code?
So what if the movie studio didn't keep track of the first week's profits from a blockbuster?
So what if I didn't make car payments for the first three years I had the car?
So what if I only bought a copy of Celine Dion's latest hit after the RIAA sent me a "settlement hearing" letter about my P2P activities?
Microsoft got benefit from the product for the period before they released it under the GPL. The fact that they then subsequently complied with the GPL terms does not itself redress the previous harm.
Since when did Kansas City become a part of Canada?
You might look to the comment that was being quoted:
Governments also consistently ruled that if someone gives the barman a fake ID and they fall for it, it's still the barman's fault
[citation_needed]
No jurisdictional boundaries in the original quote or the request. Kansas City is thus a qualifying jurisdiction. Any conceivable response would have been local and anecdotal, given that this is a blog read world-wide.