how can you be put in jail for not knowing something? If only...
Seriously though, along your point, you can of course be put in jail for violating a law you didn't know existed. Ignorance is no excuse in those situations, but ignorance is not, of course, a crime. So your answer is: You can't.
Woah woah, Dvorak may like and prefer Windows, but if you had listened to This Week in Tech recently, you'd know that Dvorak actually recommends that people buy Macs for home use when they ask him for counsel on a computer purchase.
That said, I just bought my first Mac about a month ago (after thoroughly hating them from school in the System 8 days), and I love it. I also like the Mac OS. I also like Windows. Especially Windows networks. I also prefer Internet Explorer when I'm using Windows.
You don't have to hate Mac OS to like Windows. You don't have to hate Windows to like Mac OS. You can like both. You can also recommend one over the other, even if it's not your preference.
Very true. I always remember that Clinton lied under oath and he was impeached for perjury, not for a blowjob. However, that said, if you follow the logical chain of events (but not necessarily the legal ones), he lied to a grand jury to prevent the world from finding out about his politically incorrect sex life. Our current president lied to the entire nation to conduct an incredibly useless, fruitless war that has cost us a lot more money, time, and human life than Clinton's blowjobs. That, to me, and hopefully to most sane Americans, is much, much more immoral than lying to a grand jury (about a blowjob).
As much as I'd like to extend my point further, I doubt that doing so is going to wind up with a regime change sooner than January '09.:P
The point is that Bush, Cheney, et. al. BROKE THE LAW.
Unfortunately, that isn't enough to merit an impeachment. Or a trial. And Presidents in their second term don't need to bother caring about approval ratings either.
It's a subscription service and a brick and mortar blockbuster isn't.
I couldn't help but notice while reading this article how ironic the seemingly universal praise for netflix is in light of your words... It's a subscription model, everyone seems to love it, and you don't get to keep the movies when you're done watching them, or when you cancel the service.
Now, DRM issues aside (pretend it doesn't exist), why do we slashdotters go out of our way to praise netflix so, and then to continually bash other subscription based rental services from companies like Napster and Microsoft when they're doing almost exactly the same thing with better delivery times but only slightly different material? Do we, as consumers of this content, view both kinds so differently?
I've been going the same thing for a long time, in English. I start my captal G's in the center and work my way out, I write lowercase L's from the bottom of the line up. I think there are a couple others that I do that are very abnormal, but it's just more natural for me to do so. Over the last few years, I've been changing the way I write my G's after my father pointed out to me that it was weird the way I wrote them... I had always thought it was so difficult to pen them down in a readable fashion!
Considering that the wonderful US Congress can't even get a reasonable anti-spam law in place and instead created one that makes the problem WORSE
It's worth pointing out that even if spam was punishable by death, and also resulted in the execution of your friends and family before your eyes, we'd still get just as much spam. There are even tougher laws for a more illicit market: Drugs. You can go to jail for the better part of the rest of your life in some states, or at least long enough to ruin it, just for falling victim to a crack or heroin addiction (and of course, getting caught).
Last time I checked, draconian laws enacted by lawmakers who are incapable of understanding the problem in both situations STILL haven't helped either one.
I think the problem is that the population of people who pay enough attention to Wikipedia to notice and respond to deletion requests is not identical to the population who read and benefit from Wikipedia
That's one of the fundamental points of Wikipedia though. The whole "We is smarter than me" fundamental is the idea, but when it comes down to this, it seems that "me," rather than "we," is making the decision to delete and article.
But the truly galling part is that Comcast continues to repeat the same big lie they trotted out years ago: "We take the spam problem seriously". This is utter nonsense, of course; spam emission levels from their network continue to steadily increase, as they have for half a decade, to the point where their only serious rival for the #1 spot on the world's list of top spam-sending network is Verizon.
I'll admit that while I can set up an email server, I don't really know the ins and outs of the technical side of spam. Would port filtering (i.e. no outbound traffic on port 25) essentially fix the botnet spam problem? Don't get me wrong, I think port filtering is one of the most deplorable acts that my ISP, Cox, is guilty of, but for users that don't care about hosting a simple web, email, or ftp server, isn't it (technically) a good thing? Do the spam botnets already account for this type of filtering and employ a workaround?
[rant] Of course, rather than enforcing these incredibly restrictive filters, you should be able to make a call to your ISP and ask that they be removed at no charge (instead you have to upgrade to a business package). While I sympathize with ISP's that users who wish to do more business grade activity on a line should probably pay for a line that facilitates such actions, running a "Server" and running a "Business web site" are two completely different things. Meanwhile, if you drop the word "Server" when speaking with a rep from an ISP (because they're too freaking stupid to know what the difference between eBay and your personal web site with a couple utilities on it for direct download is) they shit a brick and tell you that you need a business line.
[/rant]
they had trustingly ridden the platform into the incinerator.
I don't understand how people could have done that, and I'm not even particularly good at FPS games. I quit HL2 because I couldn't solve some of the puzzles, but interestingly enough, Portal was the first FPS I've played in a long time that just made complete and utter sense to me. I got the portal concept before it was even explained (might have to do with the 20 minutes of Serious Sam that I played back in the day, they introduced portals into the Quake 3 engine. I thought it was a neat concept.)
That point in particular though in Portal, as you're riding the platform downward in that narrow hall, having been wondering the whole time why such an incredibly impersonal computer would be reassuring you over and over again that you're going to get cake as impetus to complete all the tests, and you see the black spray painted slice of cake on the wall, and an overwhelming sense of something just NOT being right as you're moving downward... You turn the corner and BAM, you know you're not getting any cake, and then the computer says you're going to die. I followed that with a verbal utterance of "What the fuck?!" and knee-jerk reacted to solve my situation with the only tools that were given to me in the series of tests: The portal device, and the expertise in using it to solve my dilemma.
Portal is one of the most well made and well done games I've ever played, and it's the reason I bought Orange Box instead of just TF2 (which kinda sucks imho). If you haven't done so yet, play through it with the director commentary, it's incredibly insightful.
Also: Am I the only one who went out and bought cake in the days following completion of Portal?
I hit up Usenet.com a couple of days after the lawsuit notice was filed, the site wasn't specific on their retention rates, only offering the bullshit figure of "1 to 3 months of binary retention." Having experience with usenet, I would never purchase service from a provider with such vague figures on exactly what they offer. That said, the parent might have a point that if there's a grace period during which content must be removed, and happens to be longer than their retention rates, the labels' lobbyists might want to start working on getting that changed.
Thanks. I ended up buying my Macbook Pro before the release of Leopard because I needed a laptop then and not at the end of the month and didn't look forward to spending another 130 bucks on an already overpriced computer, and snagging the Bittorrent or Usenet edition of the software wasn't a very appealing idea for various reasons (the least of which, ironically, is a moral one).
Turns out that my purchase date was October 1st. And that was because they didn't have any in stock on the 29th. Yay.
...would most likely yeild to the desire of my newly welcome, diamond encrusted, chapel dwelling overlords, and place their beowulf cluster wherever they see fit.
I was similarly burned on my left hand when I was 18. I didn't have any type of fuel on my hand though, I tripped and my hand landed in a fire because my friends decided to ignore some very common-sense fire safety rules and I was stupid enough to assume they wouldn't. My recovery process wasn't quite as bad as yours, and debriding a burn is NOT fun, as I'm sure you know. Never needed/heard about a compression glove either, but I wonder if your burns were more severe than mine, or if age had something to do with it.
Boycott Internet Explorer (and all of the loss of security, privacy, and control of your own computer that goes with it), use Firefox and a good anti-virus program, and don't do stupid things on the net and you're golden.
That's an absolutely stupid solution to the problem, because it doesn't actually address the root of the issue. The actual problem is allowing a stupid user and a web browser to run with administrator privileges. Firefox, Opera, IE7, it doesn't matter. When you click "Run" on "ZOMGFixMySystemAntiSpyware.exe," the browser and your antivirus software are the least of your problems. Nothing is going to fix a stupid user, or for that matter, a stupid administrator. You can hate and boycott Internet Explorer all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that your Firefox Fanboyishness is entirely misplaced and NOT the answer to the problem in question.
Running as administrator when you don't know how to prevent malware installation via good practices is incredibly stupid, and the answer to the problem isn't as simple as "Switch to this browser" or "Switch to this AV" or "Switch to Mac or Linux." Run with limited user privileges, and aside from serious exploits (which are outside the scope of this discussion), your problem is solved.
I feel your pain friend... I lost almost 3T of data a couple weeks ago, but it wasn't due to hardware failure... it happened on a RAID-6 array. An automated chkdsk munched all of it. I bought the hardware because, like you, I've lost data in the past due to unforseen failures, but just when you think you've covered all the angles, something else reaches out and bites you in the ass. It still goes to show though, that absolutely nothing can truly replace a proper backup, not even RAID.
Haha, I had thought of that just after I posted. I don't have a whole ton of Exchange deployments under my belt, but that would fit what I've heard as the M$ best practice of deploying Exchange on non-AD integrated servers. Which, when I heard it, made me recoil at having done it the wrong way at least once:P
The modern ball mouse was invented at Xerox PARC, a division of the Xerox corporation based out of California. Its usage was spread by Apple Computer, possibly with the Apple II. Could have been earlier though.
Not bad, but not big enough to be important. I'd like to see a... larger company switching to Linux if it's going to be claimed as news. Don't get me wrong, I prefer Microsoft stuff myself, but saving money when it comes to IT implementations (without resorting to piracy) is a very big plus, especially since you don't really have to look outside of the IT department in most cases to get approval for a change since there's no immediate cost involved.
On a side note, anyone think their two Windows servers are running Exchange?
If they are lying to the customers, that is bad. But I would imagine most people do not know how to make a recovery CD, painfully easy as it may be. Also, it would be more convenient than contacting the manufacturer for one.
I can only begin to imagine that it's probably behind that little "[OEM] Recovery Center" icon that is on the computer's desktop or start menu. Of course, with all the utterly useless shit that comes on boxed computers these days, it probably does take the qualifications necessary for an entry level tech job to wade through the preinstalled crap to find System Recovery Mecca.
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Seriously though, along your point, you can of course be put in jail for violating a law you didn't know existed. Ignorance is no excuse in those situations, but ignorance is not, of course, a crime. So your answer is: You can't.
Killing mod points. Modded "Troll" on accident.... I swear I don't represent the gov't agenda.
Woah woah, Dvorak may like and prefer Windows, but if you had listened to This Week in Tech recently, you'd know that Dvorak actually recommends that people buy Macs for home use when they ask him for counsel on a computer purchase.
That said, I just bought my first Mac about a month ago (after thoroughly hating them from school in the System 8 days), and I love it. I also like the Mac OS. I also like Windows. Especially Windows networks. I also prefer Internet Explorer when I'm using Windows.
You don't have to hate Mac OS to like Windows. You don't have to hate Windows to like Mac OS. You can like both. You can also recommend one over the other, even if it's not your preference.
Very true. I always remember that Clinton lied under oath and he was impeached for perjury, not for a blowjob. However, that said, if you follow the logical chain of events (but not necessarily the legal ones), he lied to a grand jury to prevent the world from finding out about his politically incorrect sex life. Our current president lied to the entire nation to conduct an incredibly useless, fruitless war that has cost us a lot more money, time, and human life than Clinton's blowjobs. That, to me, and hopefully to most sane Americans, is much, much more immoral than lying to a grand jury (about a blowjob).
:P
As much as I'd like to extend my point further, I doubt that doing so is going to wind up with a regime change sooner than January '09.
As illegal as that may be, my point still happens to stand, regardless of the way I went about making it.
The point is that Bush, Cheney, et. al. BROKE THE LAW.
Unfortunately, that isn't enough to merit an impeachment. Or a trial. And Presidents in their second term don't need to bother caring about approval ratings either.
If only he would cheat on his wife and lie about it... THEN we could get him out of office.
It's a subscription service and a brick and mortar blockbuster isn't.
I couldn't help but notice while reading this article how ironic the seemingly universal praise for netflix is in light of your words... It's a subscription model, everyone seems to love it, and you don't get to keep the movies when you're done watching them, or when you cancel the service.
Now, DRM issues aside (pretend it doesn't exist), why do we slashdotters go out of our way to praise netflix so, and then to continually bash other subscription based rental services from companies like Napster and Microsoft when they're doing almost exactly the same thing with better delivery times but only slightly different material? Do we, as consumers of this content, view both kinds so differently?
I've been going the same thing for a long time, in English. I start my captal G's in the center and work my way out, I write lowercase L's from the bottom of the line up. I think there are a couple others that I do that are very abnormal, but it's just more natural for me to do so. Over the last few years, I've been changing the way I write my G's after my father pointed out to me that it was weird the way I wrote them... I had always thought it was so difficult to pen them down in a readable fashion!
Considering that the wonderful US Congress can't even get a reasonable anti-spam law in place and instead created one that makes the problem WORSE
It's worth pointing out that even if spam was punishable by death, and also resulted in the execution of your friends and family before your eyes, we'd still get just as much spam. There are even tougher laws for a more illicit market: Drugs. You can go to jail for the better part of the rest of your life in some states, or at least long enough to ruin it, just for falling victim to a crack or heroin addiction (and of course, getting caught).
Last time I checked, draconian laws enacted by lawmakers who are incapable of understanding the problem in both situations STILL haven't helped either one.
They have a file for the canceled check in the accountant's office. It reads "Cost of Business."
I think the problem is that the population of people who pay enough attention to Wikipedia to notice and respond to deletion requests is not identical to the population who read and benefit from Wikipedia
That's one of the fundamental points of Wikipedia though. The whole "We is smarter than me" fundamental is the idea, but when it comes down to this, it seems that "me," rather than "we," is making the decision to delete and article.
But the truly galling part is that Comcast continues to repeat the same big lie they trotted out years ago: "We take the spam problem seriously". This is utter nonsense, of course; spam emission levels from their network continue to steadily increase, as they have for half a decade, to the point where their only serious rival for the #1 spot on the world's list of top spam-sending network is Verizon.
I'll admit that while I can set up an email server, I don't really know the ins and outs of the technical side of spam. Would port filtering (i.e. no outbound traffic on port 25) essentially fix the botnet spam problem? Don't get me wrong, I think port filtering is one of the most deplorable acts that my ISP, Cox, is guilty of, but for users that don't care about hosting a simple web, email, or ftp server, isn't it (technically) a good thing? Do the spam botnets already account for this type of filtering and employ a workaround?
[rant]
Of course, rather than enforcing these incredibly restrictive filters, you should be able to make a call to your ISP and ask that they be removed at no charge (instead you have to upgrade to a business package). While I sympathize with ISP's that users who wish to do more business grade activity on a line should probably pay for a line that facilitates such actions, running a "Server" and running a "Business web site" are two completely different things. Meanwhile, if you drop the word "Server" when speaking with a rep from an ISP (because they're too freaking stupid to know what the difference between eBay and your personal web site with a couple utilities on it for direct download is) they shit a brick and tell you that you need a business line.
[/rant]
they had trustingly ridden the platform into the incinerator.
I don't understand how people could have done that, and I'm not even particularly good at FPS games. I quit HL2 because I couldn't solve some of the puzzles, but interestingly enough, Portal was the first FPS I've played in a long time that just made complete and utter sense to me. I got the portal concept before it was even explained (might have to do with the 20 minutes of Serious Sam that I played back in the day, they introduced portals into the Quake 3 engine. I thought it was a neat concept.)
That point in particular though in Portal, as you're riding the platform downward in that narrow hall, having been wondering the whole time why such an incredibly impersonal computer would be reassuring you over and over again that you're going to get cake as impetus to complete all the tests, and you see the black spray painted slice of cake on the wall, and an overwhelming sense of something just NOT being right as you're moving downward... You turn the corner and BAM, you know you're not getting any cake, and then the computer says you're going to die. I followed that with a verbal utterance of "What the fuck?!" and knee-jerk reacted to solve my situation with the only tools that were given to me in the series of tests: The portal device, and the expertise in using it to solve my dilemma.
Portal is one of the most well made and well done games I've ever played, and it's the reason I bought Orange Box instead of just TF2 (which kinda sucks imho). If you haven't done so yet, play through it with the director commentary, it's incredibly insightful.
Also: Am I the only one who went out and bought cake in the days following completion of Portal?
I hit up Usenet.com a couple of days after the lawsuit notice was filed, the site wasn't specific on their retention rates, only offering the bullshit figure of "1 to 3 months of binary retention." Having experience with usenet, I would never purchase service from a provider with such vague figures on exactly what they offer. That said, the parent might have a point that if there's a grace period during which content must be removed, and happens to be longer than their retention rates, the labels' lobbyists might want to start working on getting that changed.
Thanks. I ended up buying my Macbook Pro before the release of Leopard because I needed a laptop then and not at the end of the month and didn't look forward to spending another 130 bucks on an already overpriced computer, and snagging the Bittorrent or Usenet edition of the software wasn't a very appealing idea for various reasons (the least of which, ironically, is a moral one).
Turns out that my purchase date was October 1st. And that was because they didn't have any in stock on the 29th. Yay.
Thanks for the link.
Either Google has some monstrous server farm somewhere,
Ahahahahaha. HAHAHA.
Do you realize that you just suggested that Google doesn't have a MONSTROUS server farm?
You're funny.
...would most likely yeild to the desire of my newly welcome, diamond encrusted, chapel dwelling overlords, and place their beowulf cluster wherever they see fit.
I was similarly burned on my left hand when I was 18. I didn't have any type of fuel on my hand though, I tripped and my hand landed in a fire because my friends decided to ignore some very common-sense fire safety rules and I was stupid enough to assume they wouldn't. My recovery process wasn't quite as bad as yours, and debriding a burn is NOT fun, as I'm sure you know. Never needed/heard about a compression glove either, but I wonder if your burns were more severe than mine, or if age had something to do with it.
But I thoroughly second your bullshit call.
Boycott Internet Explorer (and all of the loss of security, privacy, and control of your own computer that goes with it), use Firefox and a good anti-virus program, and don't do stupid things on the net and you're golden.
That's an absolutely stupid solution to the problem, because it doesn't actually address the root of the issue. The actual problem is allowing a stupid user and a web browser to run with administrator privileges. Firefox, Opera, IE7, it doesn't matter. When you click "Run" on "ZOMGFixMySystemAntiSpyware.exe," the browser and your antivirus software are the least of your problems. Nothing is going to fix a stupid user, or for that matter, a stupid administrator. You can hate and boycott Internet Explorer all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that your Firefox Fanboyishness is entirely misplaced and NOT the answer to the problem in question.
Running as administrator when you don't know how to prevent malware installation via good practices is incredibly stupid, and the answer to the problem isn't as simple as "Switch to this browser" or "Switch to this AV" or "Switch to Mac or Linux." Run with limited user privileges, and aside from serious exploits (which are outside the scope of this discussion), your problem is solved.
Fanboys piss me off.
Solve it like any government would handle an inflation problem...
Print more strings!
When I lost an 80GB drive a couple years ago
I feel your pain friend... I lost almost 3T of data a couple weeks ago, but it wasn't due to hardware failure... it happened on a RAID-6 array. An automated chkdsk munched all of it. I bought the hardware because, like you, I've lost data in the past due to unforseen failures, but just when you think you've covered all the angles, something else reaches out and bites you in the ass. It still goes to show though, that absolutely nothing can truly replace a proper backup, not even RAID.
Fscking Checkdisk...
Haha, I had thought of that just after I posted. I don't have a whole ton of Exchange deployments under my belt, but that would fit what I've heard as the M$ best practice of deploying Exchange on non-AD integrated servers. Which, when I heard it, made me recoil at having done it the wrong way at least once :P
The modern ball mouse was invented at Xerox PARC, a division of the Xerox corporation based out of California. Its usage was spread by Apple Computer, possibly with the Apple II. Could have been earlier though.
Not bad, but not big enough to be important. I'd like to see a... larger company switching to Linux if it's going to be claimed as news. Don't get me wrong, I prefer Microsoft stuff myself, but saving money when it comes to IT implementations (without resorting to piracy) is a very big plus, especially since you don't really have to look outside of the IT department in most cases to get approval for a change since there's no immediate cost involved.
On a side note, anyone think their two Windows servers are running Exchange?
If they are lying to the customers, that is bad. But I would imagine most people do not know how to make a recovery CD, painfully easy as it may be. Also, it would be more convenient than contacting the manufacturer for one.
I can only begin to imagine that it's probably behind that little "[OEM] Recovery Center" icon that is on the computer's desktop or start menu. Of course, with all the utterly useless shit that comes on boxed computers these days, it probably does take the qualifications necessary for an entry level tech job to wade through the preinstalled crap to find System Recovery Mecca.