Maybe the mugee should spend say 90 days in jail as well?
Getting mugged isn't against the law. Assault and theft are.
I don't understand why you think I'm insinuating that there's any degree of equality between doing something you know is stupid, and doing something you know is illegal.
There's something you should read about called assumption of risk. If you knowingly put yourself in a situation where you are injured--even if it is in no way your fault--the fact that you knew such injury was a probable outcome of the situation you explicitly agreed to be or put yourself in can be used to nullify your right to collect damages from the person or entity responsible for your injuries.
I know it doesn't apply directly to our mugging situation, as we're discussing something criminal and not civil, but the logic behind it is not flawed. The perpetrators of the mugging incident would and definitely should be jailed to whatever terms are considered standard. But if the victim found a culpable party to file a civil suit against (e.g. the biker bar owner) for the incident, his assumption of risk would likely cause his claim to fail at trial.
Nothing is or really should ever be considered as the fault of a victim, else I'd think one would lose claim to that title. But if you run in front of a moving bus because you can't wait for the pedestrian signal and you happen to get hit because the bus can't stop in time, you're still the victim of a tragic accident, but you're also an idiot.
I'm saying that if you're too ignorant to understand that you're asking for it because you feel it's not worth your time to learn anything from your hands-on experience, then it's your own damn fault that you put yourself in that situation. I never said there was anything right or just about crime.
but surely somebody could just change the desktop colors...
It's worse than that, because it's even more obvious.
This is where the end-user epic fail really is:
Security Alert - Windows Internet Explorer
Or
Security Alert - Mozilla Firefox
End users have so trained themselves to not actually read dialogs that they simply can't tell something they've seen before from something they have not.
It doesn't take a genius to sit at a computer for hours, and hours, and hours on end, every day, at work and at home, to recognize that your "Security Alert - Windows Internet Explorer" causes the cursor to turn into a pointing finger, just like a hyperlinked picture does on the web.
It's the inability of people to grasp these kinds of subtleties, despite years upon years of on-hands experience, that makes security a nightmare and things like UAC such a necessity.... Of course, then we get back to the whole not reading dialogs bit.
Also, predatory software programmers really have culpability. [badanalogy] But to similarly say that it's not your fault you got mugged because you flashed $2000 in cash at 1:00 AM in a biker bar that you've been going to every night for drinks for the last 6 years makes you similarly sound like an idiot.[/badanalogy] Common sense has not much prevalence in the average end-user. Or mugging victim.
which means their list would need to include lotus.jpmorgan.com
Not necessarily.
I mean, think about it. All they'd have to do is update mobile Safari and force it to break the login page.
Admins would be scratching their heads for a while, and in the meantime, an underhanded developer could pay Apple some protection money to allow his "Universal Corporate Webmail".app to be sold in the app store.
For $10 + $5 Apple Certified Protection Racket... Err, Program.
I've never used an exchange deployment of more than two servers, but isn't that what Edge Transport Servers/Gateways are for?
I mean, I can understand why you'd use fewer exchange servers than you probably should for budgeting reasons or some such, but I'd imagine the federal gov't has more than enough money to implement MS Best Practices.
Even if you were running the best/fastest/greatest/ZOMGLinux mail server out there, if you built it to handle a quota that is getting exceeded, it will fail, given enough excess.
I bought Unreal 3 on steam because I couldn't find it in any of my local stores this past spring. I don't know if it's simply because it's not a Valve game, but when I bought it, they gave me a CD key that I was able to plug into the DVD scene release I had downloaded and immediately play online.
I only mention this because, when it comes to selling a game to another person, the most valuable asset, in all reality, is that CD Key.
The real point is that the current disparity between commercial links and residential links should be reflected by any any potential target of his theoretical DoS attack.
In other words, if the average home has 3 MBps currently, and the average business has 3 GBps, then a move to 1 GBps in the home should be reflected by businesses acquiring 1 TBps links for the price of what they currently have.
I don't know if that's a very accurate statement... but, well. If you play Warcraft III, you have undoubtedly played DotA. I'm currently building a gaming room out of spare computers and cheap graphics card specifically to play that game with friends, and since it's based of Warcraft III, the graphics requirements it has are met with video cards that generally cost $50 or less on sale.
I've found that the scripting (or something like that) is so incredibly heavy in that map that I can't actually run the game reliably on anything less than (roughly) a 2.4 or 2.6 GHz P4.
Soon as you get under that, frame rates can drop as low as 7 fps during big battles, which is when it matters most.
My real point though, is that, with the appropriate CPU, Warcraft III will run 1680x1050 on a Radeon 9600 XT, 9800 Pro, or GF4 4200 Ti (which I've personally verified). Those graphics cards are old as dirt, by today's standards, but you throw CPU speed from just a couple of years ago at the game, and it bogs down like Vista on a 386.
- $70 or $170 is a GREAT price for a graphics card.
$70 is great, $170 is a little high.
I mean, think about it, a console can debut as high as $600 (thank you Sony), and computers cost as little as $300.
I think it's great that the time has finally come when I can seriously find a deal on a computer for $300-400, spend $100-200 on a graphics card and have a system that can honestly play damn near any game on the market at my monitor's maximum supported res.
The other $600 between what I'll actually spend and the best card on the market is for the insane people that just have to turn every single goody the graphics engine supports up to the maximum setting.
it's just not being used against the targets that the writers had in mind when the law was written.
When MAFIAA agents wrote that bill and lobbied to get it signed, they damn well intended it to be used to ruin the lives of anyone who would later cross their paths, irrespective of any profit motives other than their own.
The law is irresponsibly unfair and unjust, quite possibly even to the wealthiest and most criminal of piracy enterprises.
Not trying to be off topic, but haven't they done this already?
That's not to say that alienating their customer base will mean lost sales though. Another market I can think of with a hugely alienated customer base--oil--is still raking in fine profits due to the fact that said alienation hasn't destroyed customer demand.
Perhaps if there were some mention of what broadcast radio stations were paying for their tithe or per-song charges we could make a reasonable comparison.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to count, with the same exquisite precision as IP broadcasting, how many people are listening to a terrestrial broadcast. Copyright holders decided that, since this metric exists for IP radio, it's the perfect platform for maximum monetary rape.
I actively encourage my students to use PDF files if possible...
Turning in assignments as PDF's makes sense. Since you don't need to edit the file, just read it, that seems like a pretty good solution.
I also specifically PROHIBIT MS Office 2007/2008.docx,.pptx,.xlsx,.xlwx, etc. formats. I'm not paying for an "upgrade"
Ohh, I get it! You're a Linux/OSX fanboy and purposefully want to make everyone else's work harder because you're an ignorant professor on his high horse, and fail so hard that you can't even download a compatibility pack.
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Maybe the mugee should spend say 90 days in jail as well?
Getting mugged isn't against the law. Assault and theft are.
I don't understand why you think I'm insinuating that there's any degree of equality between doing something you know is stupid, and doing something you know is illegal.
There's something you should read about called assumption of risk. If you knowingly put yourself in a situation where you are injured--even if it is in no way your fault--the fact that you knew such injury was a probable outcome of the situation you explicitly agreed to be or put yourself in can be used to nullify your right to collect damages from the person or entity responsible for your injuries.
I know it doesn't apply directly to our mugging situation, as we're discussing something criminal and not civil, but the logic behind it is not flawed. The perpetrators of the mugging incident would and definitely should be jailed to whatever terms are considered standard. But if the victim found a culpable party to file a civil suit against (e.g. the biker bar owner) for the incident, his assumption of risk would likely cause his claim to fail at trial.
Nothing is or really should ever be considered as the fault of a victim, else I'd think one would lose claim to that title. But if you run in front of a moving bus because you can't wait for the pedestrian signal and you happen to get hit because the bus can't stop in time, you're still the victim of a tragic accident, but you're also an idiot.
If you're disease free, white, well hung, not too old, not too fat, etc, and live near Virginia Beach
Well, you've come to the right place for disease free and white.
Not sure how close our mothers' basements are to Virginia Beach though....
That would certainly increase their sex appeal.
I'm saying that if you're too ignorant to understand that you're asking for it because you feel it's not worth your time to learn anything from your hands-on experience, then it's your own damn fault that you put yourself in that situation. I never said there was anything right or just about crime.
but surely somebody could just change the desktop colors...
It's worse than that, because it's even more obvious.
This is where the end-user epic fail really is:
Security Alert - Windows Internet Explorer
Or
Security Alert - Mozilla Firefox
End users have so trained themselves to not actually read dialogs that they simply can't tell something they've seen before from something they have not.
It doesn't take a genius to sit at a computer for hours, and hours, and hours on end, every day, at work and at home, to recognize that your "Security Alert - Windows Internet Explorer" causes the cursor to turn into a pointing finger, just like a hyperlinked picture does on the web.
It's the inability of people to grasp these kinds of subtleties, despite years upon years of on-hands experience, that makes security a nightmare and things like UAC such a necessity.... Of course, then we get back to the whole not reading dialogs bit.
Also, predatory software programmers really have culpability. [badanalogy] But to similarly say that it's not your fault you got mugged because you flashed $2000 in cash at 1:00 AM in a biker bar that you've been going to every night for drinks for the last 6 years makes you similarly sound like an idiot.[/badanalogy] Common sense has not much prevalence in the average end-user. Or mugging victim.
LogMeIn.
Hands down the best zero-config remote access software ever. Works through all sorts of NAT and firewalls, is free as in beer, and very easy to use.
which means their list would need to include lotus.jpmorgan.com
Not necessarily.
.app to be sold in the app store.
I mean, think about it. All they'd have to do is update mobile Safari and force it to break the login page.
Admins would be scratching their heads for a while, and in the meantime, an underhanded developer could pay Apple some protection money to allow his "Universal Corporate Webmail"
For $10 + $5 Apple Certified Protection Racket... Err, Program.
...is that anyone in any position with any capability of enforcing this who actually does so should be shot.
I've never used an exchange deployment of more than two servers, but isn't that what Edge Transport Servers/Gateways are for?
I mean, I can understand why you'd use fewer exchange servers than you probably should for budgeting reasons or some such, but I'd imagine the federal gov't has more than enough money to implement MS Best Practices.
Even if you were running the best/fastest/greatest/ZOMGLinux mail server out there, if you built it to handle a quota that is getting exceeded, it will fail, given enough excess.
I bought Unreal 3 on steam because I couldn't find it in any of my local stores this past spring. I don't know if it's simply because it's not a Valve game, but when I bought it, they gave me a CD key that I was able to plug into the DVD scene release I had downloaded and immediately play online.
I only mention this because, when it comes to selling a game to another person, the most valuable asset, in all reality, is that CD Key.
Actually, he has a very good point.
No, he doesn't.
The real point is that the current disparity between commercial links and residential links should be reflected by any any potential target of his theoretical DoS attack.
In other words, if the average home has 3 MBps currently, and the average business has 3 GBps, then a move to 1 GBps in the home should be reflected by businesses acquiring 1 TBps links for the price of what they currently have.
There was a Mac port? Touché Microsoft.
Also, not a Halo fan, if that wasn't obvious.
I'm usually playing on a 12.1" PowerBook
I'm sorry... but how does one play Halo on a PowerPC Mac?
Warcraft III have scaled very well,
I don't know if that's a very accurate statement... but, well. If you play Warcraft III, you have undoubtedly played DotA. I'm currently building a gaming room out of spare computers and cheap graphics card specifically to play that game with friends, and since it's based of Warcraft III, the graphics requirements it has are met with video cards that generally cost $50 or less on sale.
I've found that the scripting (or something like that) is so incredibly heavy in that map that I can't actually run the game reliably on anything less than (roughly) a 2.4 or 2.6 GHz P4.
Soon as you get under that, frame rates can drop as low as 7 fps during big battles, which is when it matters most.
My real point though, is that, with the appropriate CPU, Warcraft III will run 1680x1050 on a Radeon 9600 XT, 9800 Pro, or GF4 4200 Ti (which I've personally verified). Those graphics cards are old as dirt, by today's standards, but you throw CPU speed from just a couple of years ago at the game, and it bogs down like Vista on a 386.
Oh my god, you get modded down for telling a bad joke, and then get the karma back for admitting it was a bad joke?
FFS dude, if I do that kind of crap in public, I just look like an asshole.
Well done.
- $70 or $170 is a GREAT price for a graphics card.
$70 is great, $170 is a little high.
I mean, think about it, a console can debut as high as $600 (thank you Sony), and computers cost as little as $300.
I think it's great that the time has finally come when I can seriously find a deal on a computer for $300-400, spend $100-200 on a graphics card and have a system that can honestly play damn near any game on the market at my monitor's maximum supported res.
The other $600 between what I'll actually spend and the best card on the market is for the insane people that just have to turn every single goody the graphics engine supports up to the maximum setting.
it's just not being used against the targets that the writers had in mind when the law was written.
When MAFIAA agents wrote that bill and lobbied to get it signed, they damn well intended it to be used to ruin the lives of anyone who would later cross their paths, irrespective of any profit motives other than their own.
The law is irresponsibly unfair and unjust, quite possibly even to the wealthiest and most criminal of piracy enterprises.
More specifically:
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Gets my top vote hands down.
without alienating their customer base
Not trying to be off topic, but haven't they done this already?
That's not to say that alienating their customer base will mean lost sales though. Another market I can think of with a hugely alienated customer base--oil--is still raking in fine profits due to the fact that said alienation hasn't destroyed customer demand.
Perhaps if there were some mention of what broadcast radio stations were paying for their tithe or per-song charges we could make a reasonable comparison.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to count, with the same exquisite precision as IP broadcasting, how many people are listening to a terrestrial broadcast. Copyright holders decided that, since this metric exists for IP radio, it's the perfect platform for maximum monetary rape.
But.. The whole point is to test the model, and the models change, don't they?
Alas, no. It's suspected that the closer your computer climbs to the top of this list, the larger your penis becomes.
I merely pointed out that many mail server administrators will have done this frequently.
I've done it several times, but I always look it up.
It was informative, though.
Learning to deal with twits dictating from their high horse
I somehow expect more from one who claims to be a university professor.
Or one could read his post and discover that was never mentioned.
I actively encourage my students to use PDF files if possible...
Turning in assignments as PDF's makes sense. Since you don't need to edit the file, just read it, that seems like a pretty good solution.
I also specifically PROHIBIT MS Office 2007/2008 .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .xlwx, etc. formats. I'm not paying for an "upgrade"
Ohh, I get it! You're a Linux/OSX fanboy and purposefully want to make everyone else's work harder because you're an ignorant professor on his high horse, and fail so hard that you can't even download a compatibility pack.