I once aborted a non-compete by agreeing to sign it if the company would agree to pay me for the non-compete period if I was terminated for anything other than performance related issues. Sort of a half-assed golden parachute. I got the job without the non-compete.
>...you've just been added to my list of "stupidest comments ever" on Slashdot.
Just be sure to spell my name correctly. A-L H-U-N-T (did I type slowly enough for you?)
>we can't jail a corporation for a VIOLATION OF THE LAW
I can see where payola in the music industry is a dire problem worthy of 3 years of government effort (which amounts to about 3 days of private sector effort).
>I'd love, for personal reasons, to see the Mays boys of Clear Channel et al sent to federal PMITA prison until hell freezes over
This comment speaks for itself (though you might consider adding it to your little list). I have no clue who the Mays Boys are or if they should be on the air. Fortunately, free speech hasn't become an legal offense... yet.
I'll be sure to add you to my list of "thorns looking for a side".
Why should they pay the government $12.5M to the government? Has the government been harmed?
Please don't expect me to believe the government pissed away $12.5M investigating this case (unless they did it from their offices at the Maui Hilton). If the industry pays the money then it should be used for some related worthy purpose, not to fill the coffers of wasteful government agencies.
>So instead of doing something valuable like finding killer asteroids that actually exist and have hit the world in the last 100 years >we send a mission to Mars, send up commercial satellites on government paid for shuttles?
They need $1.0 billion that they apparently don't have and congress won't give them. Yet there seems to be $93.4 billion in the congressional sofa cushions for Iraq.
I take it you'll be Public Domaining your "Method For Creating Controversy from Casual Conversation Via Mindless Attack"?
Are you thinking GPL, CC, or what? Please be clear with the group in case anybody else runs out of actual thoughtful commentary and needs to resort to mindless bashing.
Ever wonder why you often hear the superbowl referred to as "The Big Game"? Because the NFL owns the word "Superbowl" so it can't be used without their express, written permission. I guess broadcasters won't be able to refer to the "Winter Games" in Canada?
Vancouver Winter Games Vancouver Winter Games Vancouver Winter Games Vancouver Winter Games
Just wanted to get that in for our Canadian friends. If you read this in Canada, I am hereby claiming "Prior Art" and granting all Canadians free use of any or all parts of the phrase "Vancouver Winter Games" in perpetuity.
Because we don't give a shit? I paid for Windows, and part of the deal is that it sends a few tiny packets of information occasionally to check it's legit.
No, it wasn't "part of the deal". MS acted in bad faith and changed the "deal" by adding WGA.
Is the reason you don't want to "put up with this phone home behavior" because your copy of Windows is pirated?
I'd imagine my new Toshiba laptop came with a real copy of XP, wouldn't you? I didn't get physical media except for the recovery disc. And WGA (which they pushed out via update without mentioning it, if you recall) seems to think I'm legit. Why? Do you know something I don't?
I suppose if there weren't horror stories about WGA failing on legit copies I might not be too concerned. They checked once - that should be the end of it.
Why, yes. Rechecking the activation key against an updated list of revoked licenses takes place as part of the periodic updates to "Windows Validation" delivered via Windows Update.
I am *so* glad Linux has evolved to the point it is today. I still have an XP partition and probably will for a while, but why MS expects people to keep putting up with this "phone home" behavior is beyond me. XP still handles ACPI better than Linux, but I'm happy to trade off a little convenience for control of my own machine.
A friend of mine is from New Zealand. They are fiercely independent and patriotic people, much like Mr. Chekov in Star Trek (everything was done first or better in Soviet Union, remember?). Well, the Kiwi's may even have a valid claim on the first Powered Flight. Though Mr. Pearce never claimed to have flown first because he didn't achieve a controlled landing.
Yeah, really - there almost ought to be a law against passing any new laws for 30 days after a disaster. Politicians always want to jump n some kind of bandwagon after something like 9/11, pass garbage legislation and then we live with it forever (except in Canada, apparently).
I wonder if this is the WGA update XP keeps pestering me to install every time I boot it. I let the bloody thing "validate" me long ago and then blocked it in my firewall from accessing the net. I swear, I'm *this* close (and I'm holding my thumb and finger VERY close together) to deleting the XP partition altogether.
Not so long ago, it was killer bees moving north from Central America that were going to mix with the more docile honey bees in the US. I wonder if there's any connection...
I suspect the vaccine is a good idea (it's still pretty new and we've seen new drugs withdrawn), but the government has no business mandating it's use. States/schools require certain vaccines to prevent outbreaks of contagious illness in schools and this vaccine does not qualify under that criteria. This is "thinkofthechildren" nanny state BS.
That said, if I had a daughter in that age range I'd seriously consider getting her the vaccine because it has to be administered early to be effective. And I really don't think it needs to be discussed with the kids any more than a measles vaccine does - it's just another shot they'd be getting.
"pay as you go" is nothing new. I saw it back in the early 90's when evaluating vertical applications for a trucking company. One package even had a dongle gizmo you had to plug into a serial port in order to use the software - maybe a few in different implementations. In the end I settled on one they could just buy and use.
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I once aborted a non-compete by agreeing to sign it if the company would agree to pay me for the non-compete period if I was terminated for anything other than performance related issues. Sort of a half-assed golden parachute. I got the job without the non-compete.
>Or use a firewall that checks egress, too. I use one, and find that RealPlayer and Adobe Reader also phone home
Zone Alarm does this just fine.
I know a lot of people will want to jump and and criticize ZA for one reason or another. But it's free and it stops outbound traffic.
Also from TFA:
Darn. You must be slipping. You forgot the "typo/grammar/spelling" flame. Try again.
>...you've just been added to my list of "stupidest comments ever" on Slashdot.
... yet.
Just be sure to spell my name correctly. A-L H-U-N-T
(did I type slowly enough for you?)
>we can't jail a corporation for a VIOLATION OF THE LAW
I can see where payola in the music industry is a dire problem worthy of 3 years of government effort (which amounts to about 3 days of private sector effort).
>I'd love, for personal reasons, to see the Mays boys of Clear Channel et al sent to federal PMITA prison until hell freezes over
This comment speaks for itself (though you might consider adding it to your little list). I have no clue who the Mays Boys are or if they should be on the air. Fortunately, free speech hasn't become an legal offense
I'll be sure to add you to my list of "thorns looking for a side".
Why should they pay the government $12.5M to the government? Has the government been harmed?
Please don't expect me to believe the government pissed away $12.5M investigating this case (unless they did it from their offices at the Maui Hilton). If the industry pays the money then it should be used for some related worthy purpose, not to fill the coffers of wasteful government agencies.
>So instead of doing something valuable like finding killer asteroids that actually exist and have hit the world in the last 100 years
>we send a mission to Mars, send up commercial satellites on government paid for shuttles?
They need $1.0 billion that they apparently don't have and congress won't give them. Yet there seems to be $93.4 billion in the congressional sofa cushions for Iraq.
Houston - we have a real problem.
>Wipe the drive and slap linux on it you whiner.
I take it you'll be Public Domaining your "Method For Creating Controversy from Casual Conversation Via Mindless Attack"?
Are you thinking GPL, CC, or what? Please be clear with the group in case anybody else runs out of actual thoughtful commentary and needs to resort to mindless bashing.
Ever wonder why you often hear the superbowl referred to as "The Big Game"? Because the NFL owns the word "Superbowl" so it can't be used without their express, written permission. I guess broadcasters won't be able to refer to the "Winter Games" in Canada?
Vancouver Winter Games
Vancouver Winter Games
Vancouver Winter Games
Vancouver Winter Games
Just wanted to get that in for our Canadian friends. If you read this in Canada, I am hereby claiming "Prior Art" and granting all Canadians free use of any or all parts of the phrase "Vancouver Winter Games" in perpetuity.
> DoJ Mulls Tracking Picture Uploads
There's still a great deal to be said for the dialup BBS.
No, it wasn't "part of the deal". MS acted in bad faith and changed the "deal" by adding WGA.
I'd imagine my new Toshiba laptop came with a real copy of XP, wouldn't you? I didn't get physical media except for the recovery disc. And WGA (which they pushed out via update without mentioning it, if you recall) seems to think I'm legit. Why? Do you know something I don't?
I suppose if there weren't horror stories about WGA failing on legit copies I might not be too concerned. They checked once - that should be the end of it.
I am *so* glad Linux has evolved to the point it is today. I still have an XP partition and probably will for a while, but why MS expects people to keep putting up with this "phone home" behavior is beyond me. XP still handles ACPI better than Linux, but I'm happy to trade off a little convenience for control of my own machine.
So, if/when the feds enact their fee, the states will repeal theirs, right?
No?
why aren't I surprised?
The answer to everything in the world is not having the federal government charge a fee and create more wasteful programs.
A friend of mine is from New Zealand. They are fiercely independent and patriotic people, much like Mr. Chekov in Star Trek (everything was done first or better in Soviet Union, remember?). Well, the Kiwi's may even have a valid claim on the first Powered Flight. Though Mr. Pearce never claimed to have flown first because he didn't achieve a controlled landing.
>It's the fact that muslix64's program is capable of decrypting a copyrighted work without permission. That's a violation of the DMCA.
Are you sure? My car is capable of going 100 mph and my car isn't illegal.
Yeah, really - there almost ought to be a law against passing any new laws for 30 days after a disaster. Politicians always want to jump n some kind of bandwagon after something like 9/11, pass garbage legislation and then we live with it forever (except in Canada, apparently).
I wonder if this is the WGA update XP keeps pestering me to install every time I boot it. I let the bloody thing "validate" me long ago and then blocked it in my firewall from accessing the net. I swear, I'm *this* close (and I'm holding my thumb and finger VERY close together) to deleting the XP partition altogether.
Not so long ago, it was killer bees moving north from Central America that were going to mix with the more docile honey bees in the US. I wonder if there's any connection ...
>It wasn't sweet, or cute, it was disturbing, and wrong on so many levels... (apparently small, unnaturaly placed children disturb me)
Hell, the kid was wearing a seatbelt. I thought he was setting a very good example. Maybe that's what the Aussie's were concerned about.
>People keep complaining about my sig. But they should just learn.
Maybe. Doesn't mean you're not a dick, though.
>There's a warning on the thermal compound that you shouldn't take it internally. Now I realize it wasn't specific enough to mention cats..
Even if it did, who's going to teach the cats to read?
I suspect the vaccine is a good idea (it's still pretty new and we've seen new drugs withdrawn), but the government has no business mandating it's use. States/schools require certain vaccines to prevent outbreaks of contagious illness in schools and this vaccine does not qualify under that criteria. This is "thinkofthechildren" nanny state BS.
That said, if I had a daughter in that age range I'd seriously consider getting her the vaccine because it has to be administered early to be effective. And I really don't think it needs to be discussed with the kids any more than a measles vaccine does - it's just another shot they'd be getting.
"pay as you go" is nothing new. I saw it back in the early 90's when evaluating vertical applications for a trucking company. One package even had a dongle gizmo you had to plug into a serial port in order to use the software - maybe a few in different implementations. In the end I settled on one they could just buy and use.
Most judges are/were attorneys - don't look for judges to do anything that might stem the tide of litigation in America.