Is this nation worth saving? It can't produce a programmer that can write a "SELECT" statement in 5 years of computer science training! Ill informed graduates need a serious lesson in "real life" and need to return to their collage with this results and protest.
I had six years of computer science, taught simple SQL to students as a TA, and now years later I look up SQL commands. It's just not worth remembering when I've got examples in my own code or online, and I use it so rarely.
In my most honest opinion, Jammie owes the record companies a couple dollars to pay for her downloaded songs. She owes something in the way of punitive damages. 24 songs, at a buck apiece, is 24 bucks. Drawing on ancient tort law, let's treble the damages, so she now owes 72 bucks. If she had been offered this deal from the get-go, her conscience might have convinced her that 72 bucks was a good deal, and paid it.
This got me wondering... If everyone in the world distributed every mp3 file in existence to everyone else, would the RIAA still demand thousands per song per person? There's a limit to what the possible damages could be (if everyone has the files to distribute, then they'd never buy them). It seems like the RIAA is not happy with getting $1 per song per person.
Even though Obama is taking the country downhill faster than Carter...
I think you misread the article. It's about Obama approving a plan to take *down* the country, as in knocking abandoned houses down with bulldozers, not take it *downhill*.
Except everyone is becoming mass downloaders.
or is that 'are becoming'?
Since you asked: "everyone" is a singular group noun in American English. Try using it with "are" in other contexts, and you'll see how strange it sounds: "Everyone are going to the store" vs "Everyone is going to the store"
Not to put words in GP's mouth, but I think he put quotes around "deal with all the traffic" to show that the ISP execs will announce this as a reason to raise rates uniformly, not because it's true.
Sure it does. Lock yourself in a bank vault filled with gold for a year. How much gold would you trade for water on day 2? How much gold would you trade for water on day 10? How much for food? How much would you trade for indoor plumbing on day X?
Okay, that's kind of a ridiculous scenario. But I'll tell you how gold loses value: if no one wants it. The only reason gold had "value" in ancient times was because people realized that it could be used as a medium of exchange. It had no value of its own other than being pretty. You couldn't eat it, you couldn't use it for armor or weapons. Mostly worthless except for being a fake mechanism of trade due to its rarity (harder for people to "pretend" they did a service or sold a good than by using a leaf or seashell in trade).
Gold's real value skyrocketed when we found out we could use it for stuff (electronics, medicine, etc), but its market value remained the same (everyone wanted it because everyone else wanted it). Now that credit and/or paper cash seems ingrained in our cultures, gold will lose value once people stop wanting it for anything but jewelry, electronics, and other actual uses. The gold bubble is going to burst soon, and people with a lot of it are trying hard to sell it off a little bit at a time, trying to con people saying "Only Gold is this stable", hoping to get real currency, or even better, durable goods and livestock. When you think about it, what's been more stable than *stuff*?
Because teh people iz scared. The gold can haz value but not the Euro!
The problem is exactly the reverse, of course. If a business has gone through the trouble to make an automated gold-selling machine that gives out gold in exchange for Euros, then that means the businessmen want Euros. Whenever I hear an ad on radio or TV for the same thing, I'm always perplexed (they just spent $$$ to advertise they're selling gold? Must mean gold is losing value).
If anything, the list looked like a buyer's log of someone who was in fact getting music for free but was still buying plenty of DVDs and video games.
My receipts would also look like a "buyer's log of someone who was in fact getting music for free but was still buying plenty of DVDs and video games" because I Don't Listen to Popular Music. Even if I did, I Would Listen To It On The Radio. Or maybe I would be given CDs as gifts. In fact, maybe my Best Buy receipts wouldn't show the purchases because maybe I'd been suckered into one of those 2-cent record-club scams.
20 Machines is _not_ a lot. Just buy 20 seats of FOOBAR, set each instance of your chosen AV product to update itself automatically, run autoscans overnight or at lunch, and proactively quarantine/delete and loudly announce when events occur. Even if everyone's not in the same building, this is good enough for just 20 machines. Heck, it's good enough for 100 machines.
[Sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk).
[Good IT] Here's a slightly different solution that addresses your needs without creating a security risk.
[Sales] Great, thanks!
[Good Admin to IT] Good job understanding the client's needs and thinking outside the box to get it done.
No, it goes like:
[Sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk).
[Good IT] Here's a slightly different solution that addresses your needs without creating a security risk.
[Sales] No, Dammit, we asked for (something that is a huge security risk). We already marketed (something that is a huge security risk). We'll lose $$$ if we don't get (something that is a huge security risk).
[Bad Administration to IT] ZOMG! $$$? Doit doit doit!
[Good IT to Bad Administration] But we'll likely lose $$$$$ when (something that is a huge security risk) is exploited.
[Bad Administration to IT] We _WILL_ lose $$$ if you don't do it. Forget it. FU. You're fired for being a recalcitrant douchebag. We'll hire someone who will do it for less money than we pay you.
But of course, if the media called it "screening" rather than "designing," people wouldn't get nearly as worked up about it - and they know this, so they go with the more provocative language.
That depends on your target audience. If you want to enrage pro-life folk, call it screening, and say that maybe hundreds of fertilized eggs are destroyed to get the "perfect" baby.
'Zieg Heil!' the fertility service proclaimed -- before capitulating to pressure to eliminate the eye and hair color screenings.
I would like to thank the academy for the honor of the Godwin with which I am being bestowed. I with full foresight call eugenics purveyors Nazi scientists.
The Java plug-in does not block applets from launching file:// URLs. Visiting a website containing a maliciously crafted Java applet may allow a remote attacker to launch local files, which may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Like any file from the malicious website in your browser cache. Oops.
So keep the generators on the ground. Use something like a giant piezoelectric crystal on the bars that hold the cable in place, replace the kite with a helium balloon... instant jerky-energy.
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Is this nation worth saving? It can't produce a programmer that can write a "SELECT" statement in 5 years of computer science training! Ill informed graduates need a serious lesson in "real life" and need to return to their collage with this results and protest.
I had six years of computer science, taught simple SQL to students as a TA, and now years later I look up SQL commands. It's just not worth remembering when I've got examples in my own code or online, and I use it so rarely.
In my most honest opinion, Jammie owes the record companies a couple dollars to pay for her downloaded songs. She owes something in the way of punitive damages. 24 songs, at a buck apiece, is 24 bucks. Drawing on ancient tort law, let's treble the damages, so she now owes 72 bucks. If she had been offered this deal from the get-go, her conscience might have convinced her that 72 bucks was a good deal, and paid it.
This got me wondering... If everyone in the world distributed every mp3 file in existence to everyone else, would the RIAA still demand thousands per song per person? There's a limit to what the possible damages could be (if everyone has the files to distribute, then they'd never buy them). It seems like the RIAA is not happy with getting $1 per song per person.
Obama's Copyright Policies? All Copyright belongs to the Federal Govt. Next up, Mr. Conway Twitty!
Zangief takes "Vodka Gobalsky" and does a spinning piledriver.
No, a third party has an MSI of Firefox. Mozilla still hasn't stepped up to the plate.
How does a "-1, Insightful" happen?
People? Gators.
Even though Obama is taking the country downhill faster than Carter...
I think you misread the article. It's about Obama approving a plan to take *down* the country, as in knocking abandoned houses down with bulldozers, not take it *downhill*.
Abandoned? Are you sure about that stipulation?
Technically, wouldn't you be drinking wine from a skraeling's skull since the skraelings were found in Vinland?
I'd love to know if they respond to a Freedom of Information Act request for the passwords
Do you really think the government is required to provide personal information from job applications in response to FOIA requests?
It will be a huge hassle, but they're be required to provide paperwork. A friend once referred to it as a meatspace DDOS. It'll look like this:
...
Name Website/email-host Username Password
Redacted Redacted Redacted Redacted
Redacted Redacted Redacted Redacted
Redacted Redacted
Except everyone is becoming mass downloaders.
or is that 'are becoming'?
Since you asked: "everyone" is a singular group noun in American English. Try using it with "are" in other contexts, and you'll see how strange it sounds: "Everyone are going to the store" vs "Everyone is going to the store"
Not to put words in GP's mouth, but I think he put quotes around "deal with all the traffic" to show that the ISP execs will announce this as a reason to raise rates uniformly, not because it's true.
actually deer is both plural and singular, whereas lumens or lumina are plurals for lumen
Actually, Whoosh is plural for plural, not plurals. It's pronounced just like the sound of something traveling fast above your head.
gold never really loses value*
Sure it does. Lock yourself in a bank vault filled with gold for a year. How much gold would you trade for water on day 2? How much gold would you trade for water on day 10? How much for food? How much would you trade for indoor plumbing on day X?
Okay, that's kind of a ridiculous scenario. But I'll tell you how gold loses value: if no one wants it. The only reason gold had "value" in ancient times was because people realized that it could be used as a medium of exchange. It had no value of its own other than being pretty. You couldn't eat it, you couldn't use it for armor or weapons. Mostly worthless except for being a fake mechanism of trade due to its rarity (harder for people to "pretend" they did a service or sold a good than by using a leaf or seashell in trade).
Gold's real value skyrocketed when we found out we could use it for stuff (electronics, medicine, etc), but its market value remained the same (everyone wanted it because everyone else wanted it). Now that credit and/or paper cash seems ingrained in our cultures, gold will lose value once people stop wanting it for anything but jewelry, electronics, and other actual uses. The gold bubble is going to burst soon, and people with a lot of it are trying hard to sell it off a little bit at a time, trying to con people saying "Only Gold is this stable", hoping to get real currency, or even better, durable goods and livestock. When you think about it, what's been more stable than *stuff*?
*Spelling corrected
indeed, taking a look at the price of gold lately and it is quite clear that it is way over-valued compared to its history...
So what changed? Answer: Gold actually has uses beyond being pretty, ductile, and imperishable now.
We use it in electronics, medicine, science, etc.
Because teh people iz scared. The gold can haz value but not the Euro!
The problem is exactly the reverse, of course. If a business has gone through the trouble to make an automated gold-selling machine that gives out gold in exchange for Euros, then that means the businessmen want Euros. Whenever I hear an ad on radio or TV for the same thing, I'm always perplexed (they just spent $$$ to advertise they're selling gold? Must mean gold is losing value).
If anything, the list looked like a buyer's log of someone who was in fact getting music for free but was still buying plenty of DVDs and video games.
My receipts would also look like a "buyer's log of someone who was in fact getting music for free but was still buying plenty of DVDs and video games" because I Don't Listen to Popular Music. Even if I did, I Would Listen To It On The Radio. Or maybe I would be given CDs as gifts. In fact, maybe my Best Buy receipts wouldn't show the purchases because maybe I'd been suckered into one of those 2-cent record-club scams.
20 Machines is _not_ a lot. Just buy 20 seats of FOOBAR, set each instance of your chosen AV product to update itself automatically, run autoscans overnight or at lunch, and proactively quarantine/delete and loudly announce when events occur. Even if everyone's not in the same building, this is good enough for just 20 machines. Heck, it's good enough for 100 machines.
How quaint. You think IT gets invited to meetings and is allowed to present documentation in their defense.
[Sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk).
[Good IT] Here's a slightly different solution that addresses your needs without creating a security risk.
[Sales] Great, thanks!
[Good Admin to IT] Good job understanding the client's needs and thinking outside the box to get it done.
No, it goes like:
[Sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk).
[Good IT] Here's a slightly different solution that addresses your needs without creating a security risk.
[Sales] No, Dammit, we asked for (something that is a huge security risk). We already marketed (something that is a huge security risk). We'll lose $$$ if we don't get (something that is a huge security risk).
[Bad Administration to IT] ZOMG! $$$? Doit doit doit!
[Good IT to Bad Administration] But we'll likely lose $$$$$ when (something that is a huge security risk) is exploited.
[Bad Administration to IT] We _WILL_ lose $$$ if you don't do it. Forget it. FU. You're fired for being a recalcitrant douchebag. We'll hire someone who will do it for less money than we pay you.
But of course, if the media called it "screening" rather than "designing," people wouldn't get nearly as worked up about it - and they know this, so they go with the more provocative language.
That depends on your target audience. If you want to enrage pro-life folk, call it screening, and say that maybe hundreds of fertilized eggs are destroyed to get the "perfect" baby.
'Zieg Heil!' the fertility service proclaimed -- before capitulating to pressure to eliminate the eye and hair color screenings.
I would like to thank the academy for the honor of the Godwin with which I am being bestowed. I with full foresight call eugenics purveyors Nazi scientists.
The Java plug-in does not block applets from launching file:// URLs. Visiting a website containing a maliciously crafted Java applet may allow a remote attacker to launch local files, which may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Like any file from the malicious website in your browser cache. Oops.
You could call the first one launched "The Sword Of Damocles"!
Tie it to the ground with the Gordian knot?
So keep the generators on the ground. Use something like a giant piezoelectric crystal on the bars that hold the cable in place, replace the kite with a helium balloon... instant jerky-energy.