Comcast argues that Congress has not given the FCC the authority to act...
Then who gave the FCC authority in the first place to do anything?
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is a United States government agency, created, directed, and empowered by Congressional statute (see 47 U.S.C. 151 and 47 U.S.C. 154), and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current president.
The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 as the successor to the Federal Radio Commission and is charged with regulating all non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum (including radio and television broadcasting), and all interstate telecommunications (wire, satellite and cable) as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States.
So it was congress who gave them the authority to act and then took it away with another act?
The FCC has pending before it "hundreds of thousands of complaints" regarding the broadcast of expletives, Clement said. He argued that the appeals court decision has left the agency "accountable for the coarsening of the airwaves while simultaneously denying it effective tools to address the problem."
Giving government more power to control the people is NOT the same as denying them tools to address a problem. It's denying them tools to control the people
I am not in IT because I don't have "experience" - never mind that I DO KNOW MORE THAN THE IT PEOPLE DO.
Enough that I (without automated tools) rescued someone else in my department from a lost password by ripping the hash from SAM, de-syskeyed it, and looked it up with a rainbow table.
*sighs*There is a place in hell for me for replying to this...
Just because something CAN be done doesn't mean it SHOULD be or WILL be. Especially in IT. Just because we CAN read your emails doesn't mean that we DO. Just because we CAN hack files and recover passwords doesn't mean that's what policy states. We might not do something doesn't mean we don't Know HOW TO, it may mean we're not allowed to.
People think because I was born in the early 80 and wear vans and leather bracelets to work means that I'll let them do ANYTHING. But, I'm familiar with our policies... Hell, I WROTE SOME! So don't think that we're push overs
If someone in my department needs support, they generally come to me first. I only forward them to PC Support if its something other than user error (which is rare).
It may be a difference in opinion or company policy about the use of "power users". I know the director gets rather upset if we find a user doing IT work even WITH a blessing from the sysadmin. It's like the sheriff deputizing you to take out Val Vista and you take out his whole gang in the process. Well, the Sheriff still needs to answer to the Governor about why the hell he took out a whole gang when he was just going after one guy, or why the machine got reinstalled when all it needed was a service pack removed.
The worst type of user is the tech guy who doesn't work in IT. They always think they know better, they have a massive attitude, and a huge superiority complex.
Yes, the wizkids who think because they have XP Pro they are able to do anything....
No! Bad poweruser! No cookie! Best to show them why YOU'RE in IT and they are not. When they realize it's more than clicking the right buttons half the time and rebooting, they seem to calm down.
The way I saw it was that the time spent in the studio is what the cost was; pressing the CD was nothing. So the song itself and the time it took to mix it is actually where the cost is not the CD. If they only had 1 CD pressed they would charge far more for it than if they pressed 15,000 just to break even. The song itself is what cost them, not the CD.
I forgot that each song costs thousands of dollars.
Actually, a friend of mine was in a band and had their CD done at a professional studio. It cost them a ton of coin to produce it on their own. Even selling every copy they had pressed they just broke even on making it. So, they lost money when you took into account the gas money for trucking them around. And that was selling them at 15 bucks a pop.
Then again, if you own the studio I'm sure you get much lower rates.
Mostly all y'alls do steal music, so this case has got nothing to do with you.
First of all... What?! Secondly, I'm cheering because I don't want to be the target of "illegal p2p" because I download the latest version of Linux. There be legal p2p as well as pirates me matey...
I love that we put an Admiral in charge of a land war. Granted, he may have been a genius about the art of modern evolving warfare. But Fallon claimed ongoing misperceptions about differences between his ideas and U.S. policy where making it too difficult for him to operate.
And what happens when Hank Scorpio reveals he's really running Google
Get a yahoo mail account or a hotmail account or get cheap we hosting somewhere that offers email in with the package or setup my own email server with hookers and blackjack.
Wonderful thing about emails. They're easy to come by and I personally don't use GMail for professional use.
You have 6.5 gig of space on redundant remote servers. What are you backing up? Perhaps I do not understand what this application does and who needs it...
But even if the FCC decides that Comcast has violated Net neutrality principles, it's unclear what the agency can actually do to Comcast
Run to the end of their chain and bark? If they fine the company all they'll be doing is a fine against the customer that where being hurt by Comcast to begin with. Seems like this dog has no teeth. Maybe it was all just for show for the media...
present evidence in a court case while claiming they are an expert at gathering said evidence
It's said that an expert is someone who knows more about a topic than anyone else in the room. So, if the evidence is a flash drive you found I'm betting that you're far more experience than anyone else in the courtroom with it.
You still need a license to be a private investigator in a given state and there are other rules about presenting evidence... Then again IANAL
I've always seen IT more as the stage hands on the theater of business.
Without us the stars don't shine and the show doesn't go on. Very rarely do you get a producer or director who recognizes the work of the set designers or prop handlers but they're just as needed as the people on stage who bring the people into the theater.
I know, it's not a Car analogy... Maybe we're the pit crew for the race cars of the business world?
The CEO was once an IT grunt back in the old days. So, yes the tech has changed but he still sees the world through the IT "filter" as it where. Many decisions he has to defend to the board and rest of management because they make sense from the business side for IT (such as hot swap backup equipment). The other managers see it as expense, luckily the CEO sees it our way (yes, it's a cost now, but downtime mean more cost later)
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Thank you. My girlfriend is actually more into comics than I am... She's the one who got me into Sandman and Kabuki. We'll take your list and the others seeming to accumulate on this thread to our local book store!
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And this is why I like discussions like this one, I may find the title or author I may not of looked at before. I"m curious about From Hell by Alan Moore now and may have to pick it up after work.
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Okay, how about Kabuki by David Mack A guy who when to school in Kentucky
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That's a trope of lame Hollywood movies, not the best of contemporary literature.
I saw the watchmen as a satire of the genre. At the time we where presented with every super hero being a being that was perfect (a la superman). Watchmen did what Spider-Man does years later which pays into his success, which is really put the human back into super human. It's a very involving story and the artwork is done well. Turn the golden age of comics on its ear.
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It's a Gas... When heated past being liquid...
What happened to the days of articles having titles about the subject matter?
Versus tennis racket... Tennis racket FTW!
It's like the "fly on the wall" spy equipment that get squished before it gathers any actual information...
People think because I was born in the early 80 and wear vans and leather bracelets to work means that I'll let them do ANYTHING. But, I'm familiar with our policies... Hell, I WROTE SOME! So don't think that we're push overs
No! Bad poweruser! No cookie! Best to show them why YOU'RE in IT and they are not. When they realize it's more than clicking the right buttons half the time and rebooting, they seem to calm down.
The way I saw it was that the time spent in the studio is what the cost was; pressing the CD was nothing. So the song itself and the time it took to mix it is actually where the cost is not the CD. If they only had 1 CD pressed they would charge far more for it than if they pressed 15,000 just to break even. The song itself is what cost them, not the CD.
Then again, if you own the studio I'm sure you get much lower rates.
Secondly, I'm cheering because I don't want to be the target of "illegal p2p" because I download the latest version of Linux. There be legal p2p as well as pirates me matey...
Wonderful thing about emails. They're easy to come by and I personally don't use GMail for professional use.
You have 6.5 gig of space on redundant remote servers. What are you backing up? Perhaps I do not understand what this application does and who needs it...
You still need a license to be a private investigator in a given state and there are other rules about presenting evidence... Then again IANAL
I've always seen IT more as the stage hands on the theater of business.
Without us the stars don't shine and the show doesn't go on. Very rarely do you get a producer or director who recognizes the work of the set designers or prop handlers but they're just as needed as the people on stage who bring the people into the theater.
I know, it's not a Car analogy... Maybe we're the pit crew for the race cars of the business world?
The CEO was once an IT grunt back in the old days. So, yes the tech has changed but he still sees the world through the IT "filter" as it where. Many decisions he has to defend to the board and rest of management because they make sense from the business side for IT (such as hot swap backup equipment). The other managers see it as expense, luckily the CEO sees it our way (yes, it's a cost now, but downtime mean more cost later)
Thank you. My girlfriend is actually more into comics than I am... She's the one who got me into Sandman and Kabuki. We'll take your list and the others seeming to accumulate on this thread to our local book store!
And this is why I like discussions like this one, I may find the title or author I may not of looked at before. I"m curious about From Hell by Alan Moore now and may have to pick it up after work.
Okay, how about Kabuki by David Mack A guy who when to school in Kentucky