Heck, have the admins 'certify' a safe CD ripping app, and you are less likely to have people downloading random rippers from who knows where.
Most people are going to respect "Music must be ripped using THIS easy to use software so that we can secure against viruses."
Advocating ripping music on company computers make me wonder if someone couldn't get jammed up. I have got to believe not all of the music ripped would have proper license. I copied a CD from a buddy and then brought my copy into work and ripped it to my PC. I don't own the license for that music.
Couldn't this create an administrative, not to mention legal, nightmare?
That's why my server and all my workstations at the state agency I work (and am a network admin) for have publicly accessible IP's that are behind a fireware and consequently blocked from public connectivity? Yeah, that makes sense.;)
Since it looks like older cars wouldn't be required to retrofit - I would have one vehicle with a very, very large tank that I fill using the 1.2/mi and another that I would drive at the 24 per gallon vehicle - and accomplish that by siphoning the fuel out of the 1.2/mi vehicle. I would effectively drive for much less that way.:)
My concern with the restrictions on who can register is who gets to decide what the restrictions are? I own jcrouse.com for example, I use it exclusively for personal purposes (I don't even have banner ads or other advertising on it - not that I wouldn't change that in the future if I saw a benefit). Mainly a picture repository and email. I own jcrouse.net and I used to use it for some various projects I worked on but now basically for email. The webpage is a glorified placeholder. Since I don't have an actual project running on that page does that mean I shouldn't be entitled to that domain? What if I made jcrouse.com and jcrouse.net the same group of web pages and email?
I see what you're getting at about restrictions (squatters using commonly misspelled domain names for revenue and swiping popular names for future financial gain) - but the concern is two fold:
1. Who gets to decide why I can buy a.com or.net (or.whatever)
2. Why is it so "wrong" if I buy a domain to use it as an advertising placeholder. Annoying - very. Is it a 'Commercial domain' (.com)? I would say yes. Sleazy? Very. Wrong? I don't know. . .
I was able to get a client of mine syncing to her Palm on Vista 64Bit. There are some troubles with 64bit but 32bit is fully supported by Palm. This was her Palm Treo 750 - not sure which palm device you're using but you should be able to sync with 32bit Vista. This is not an endorsement of Vista (I am not running it on any of my personal machines) - just saying, 32bit and Palm make nice. For the record, Vista 64bit is Officially not supported by Palm. FWIW
Sure. I've got one. I have been working in the industry over 13 years though. I think a lot of it depends on your ability and your talent. I don't do very many things in life well, but this is one of them.:)
I still don't see where he was 'beaten up.' The article says "Two teens have been convicted by a Dutch court of coercing a younger boy into transferring items to their account within the Runescape virtual world, reports the Associated Press."
I see coercion but no physical violence. Again - I don't see how I am that important someone would assault me for my facebook or MySpace password. . . Come to think of it, I just got paid today, and based on what I see, there are not a whole lot of reasons to 'coerce' me out of my PIN. . .:)
Wow, I guess I didn't realize my secrets were so valuable that my friends would get tortured for my facebook password. ..
For the average person, dealing with their 'normal' social sites, aren't you getting a little overboard? I don't know of *anyone* that is going to hook battery terminals up to my buddy's testicles for my facebook, myspace, or even admin logins for my website.
Bank accounts, financial data, sure. Social networks and email? Probably not. If I am not mistaken, the OP was referring to those types of accounts?
The guy lives is a suburb of Toledo - Holland (Ohio - where this guys lives) is basically Toledo (I believe the limits abut the Toledo City limits). Odds are good he was driving through the city and got his tag ran for some reason - hasn't updated his expiration sticker, for example.
It happened all the time when I worked the Fayette Ohio Police Department (in Fulton County, the next county over from Lucas which is where Toledo and Holland are both located). Once it gets later in the year, often times tags will be run checking for an expired tag. I usually could see the month on the tag (Ohio's expiration tags change color each year, FL, where I work now does not - they're always yellow) but not everyone could. If the expiration sticker was dirty or otherwise obscured - often times a check for expiration happens simply by running the tag. Nothing 'Black Helicopter' or sinister about it. The others I cannot speak for - the Child Support folks? Maybe he owes back CS, I don't know and don't want to conjecture about his personal life when I have no idea.
Just sharing my insight on why TPD might have ran the tag. The other two - well, I won't try and justify their reasoning.
Or just do what I do when riding *or* driving - stop short (we call that Assured Clear Distance in the law enforcement business), watch your mirrors like a hawk and go to the right when you see the dumbass coming up on you like a freight train. I figure let him hit the guy in front of me, there's more metal between the guy in front of me and the crash than me, and if not there is at least less metal between my head and the guy trying to ass pack me.
So if it's illegal in KY, I assume there are individual penalties for doing so (by the actual customer). Enforce those laws on those residents. Problem solved.
If you make it very undesirable for the residents of your state to do something by enacting strong laws against such things and levying strong penalties on the same, it stops [most] folks from doing that. Also eliminates this whole jurisdictional issue.
You ask "how does the state know who is gambling within their borders?" I ask the same question when the swiped the domain names.....
I agree - I often skip the original article all together and simply just read the comments - I can sometimes find them more informative than an ad oriented article originally posted.
I remember when WD was the only drive to buy - they had lifetime warranties and lasted forever. I ran into several Maxtor drives in a row that failed inside a two year window but I've got two 60Gb drives that have been running 4 or more years (I don't usually turn my home system off).
What I am saying, I guess, is drive quality is a moving target. What used to be a fantastic drive now isn't quite as reliable (WD) and drives that used to be junk (Maxtor) have improved quite a bit.
I remember when IBM quit using their own branded drives and switched to Maxtor and I thought is was the worst thing in the world. Now I wouldn't view it so negatively.
What drive is the best depends on when it was manufactured.
Take it a step further - open the 'suspect' packages at check-in. You're *already* standing there and once the package is open and checked, it should be secured (lock or taped with owner's signature over the tape) in the presence of the owner. At that point, if the package is tampered with, and it was properly secured, it should be obvious at the time of package pick up and blame should be pretty easy to assess.
You're exactly right. I often have people ask me why I don't post all of the pics I post to my personal website on myspace or facebook. My short answer is - I *pay* for jcrouse.com, the hosting of my data, etc. and it is [essentially] my little spot on the `net. When I put it on Faceboook, there is an always changing EULA and the fact that I have no control over their servers, their policies, or *anything* that they do with my data. I don't even know if I even 'own' the pictures I post on those websites anymore. Since I make the EULA on what is posted on my website, I have a better feeling I own them.
This of course is not withstanding the EULA I have with my hosting provider. I know some, like godaddy have some weird things going on, and I am not trying to get into that discussion with this post (I don't use godaddy for that specific reason) - my point is, posting your [presumably] valuable information on something like Yahoo or Facebook could be problematic. You *don't* own the domain, you *don't* pay for the server space. You have no recourse if they delete, modify, censor, or otherwise (in your mind) misuse your data.
Which doesn't make sense to me - later in the article it says
"The responsibility is shifted to law enforcement," Speck said. "We've delivered to Internet service providers something they've called for.... This is not an intelligence-gathering tool. This is not for developing a list of users. This is an extension of what routers already do."
but it *is* an intelligence gather tool - clearly if it is modifying my ENCRYPTED traffic in an effort to compare a hash - isn't that exactly what this is?
I am all for getting bad stuff off the Internet, but what *I* think is bad and what someone else may differ. *That* is where the slippery slope is.
Or even for much less you could get an old PC (I actually use a Celeron 400 w/ about 256 mb of ram - way over the top for what I need) and use something like IPCop. That's a lot less than $300 and a lot more capable than a D-link or most other "home" routers.
Mine also says "For Home or Office use only." Nothing about airplanes.:)
Don't get me wrong, I think this whole mess over the electronic device usage has been taken a little over the top by the airline industry, but then again, if I can't use my cellphone on the plane, I guess I will just have to use their $2 a minute phone instead?
Wow, you've got a very gracious IT administrator. I cannot imagine having my users try and bring in their personal laptops and expect me to support them. Granted, I work for a state agency that is a call center for the taxpayers so they really don't take work home and the vast majority do not need access to state information outside the office.
We do have groups in other offices that have folks travel with laptops. Those must be encrypted and must be state owned hardware.
Some of my users are so problematic I end up reimaging their machines almost every other month. The additional problem is, working for the state, it is near impossible to make a user 'go away.'
Enforcing the policy is 100% the solution, providing said policy is adequate (another discussion entirely).
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Advocating ripping music on company computers make me wonder if someone couldn't get jammed up. I have got to believe not all of the music ripped would have proper license. I copied a CD from a buddy and then brought my copy into work and ripped it to my PC. I don't own the license for that music.
Couldn't this create an administrative, not to mention legal, nightmare?
That's why my server and all my workstations at the state agency I work (and am a network admin) for have publicly accessible IP's that are behind a fireware and consequently blocked from public connectivity? Yeah, that makes sense. ;)
Since it looks like older cars wouldn't be required to retrofit - I would have one vehicle with a very, very large tank that I fill using the 1.2/mi and another that I would drive at the 24 per gallon vehicle - and accomplish that by siphoning the fuel out of the 1.2/mi vehicle. I would effectively drive for much less that way. :)
Well, tell Direct TV to come get the two boxes (one a DVR) that I have in my back closet. I've not had Direct TV for over two years....
My concern with the restrictions on who can register is who gets to decide what the restrictions are? I own jcrouse.com for example, I use it exclusively for personal purposes (I don't even have banner ads or other advertising on it - not that I wouldn't change that in the future if I saw a benefit). Mainly a picture repository and email. I own jcrouse.net and I used to use it for some various projects I worked on but now basically for email. The webpage is a glorified placeholder. Since I don't have an actual project running on that page does that mean I shouldn't be entitled to that domain? What if I made jcrouse.com and jcrouse.net the same group of web pages and email?
.com or .net (or .whatever)
I see what you're getting at about restrictions (squatters using commonly misspelled domain names for revenue and swiping popular names for future financial gain) - but the concern is two fold:
1. Who gets to decide why I can buy a
2. Why is it so "wrong" if I buy a domain to use it as an advertising placeholder. Annoying - very. Is it a 'Commercial domain' (.com)? I would say yes. Sleazy? Very. Wrong? I don't know. . .
You go with that:
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I was able to get a client of mine syncing to her Palm on Vista 64Bit. There are some troubles with 64bit but 32bit is fully supported by Palm. This was her Palm Treo 750 - not sure which palm device you're using but you should be able to sync with 32bit Vista. This is not an endorsement of Vista (I am not running it on any of my personal machines) - just saying, 32bit and Palm make nice. For the record, Vista 64bit is Officially not supported by Palm. FWIW
Sure. I've got one. I have been working in the industry over 13 years though. I think a lot of it depends on your ability and your talent. I don't do very many things in life well, but this is one of them. :)
I still don't see where he was 'beaten up.' The article says "Two teens have been convicted by a Dutch court of coercing a younger boy into transferring items to their account within the Runescape virtual world, reports the Associated Press."
:)
I see coercion but no physical violence. Again - I don't see how I am that important someone would assault me for my facebook or MySpace password. . . Come to think of it, I just got paid today, and based on what I see, there are not a whole lot of reasons to 'coerce' me out of my PIN. . .
Wow, I guess I didn't realize my secrets were so valuable that my friends would get tortured for my facebook password. . .
For the average person, dealing with their 'normal' social sites, aren't you getting a little overboard? I don't know of *anyone* that is going to hook battery terminals up to my buddy's testicles for my facebook, myspace, or even admin logins for my website.
Bank accounts, financial data, sure. Social networks and email? Probably not. If I am not mistaken, the OP was referring to those types of accounts?
The guy lives is a suburb of Toledo - Holland (Ohio - where this guys lives) is basically Toledo (I believe the limits abut the Toledo City limits). Odds are good he was driving through the city and got his tag ran for some reason - hasn't updated his expiration sticker, for example.
It happened all the time when I worked the Fayette Ohio Police Department (in Fulton County, the next county over from Lucas which is where Toledo and Holland are both located). Once it gets later in the year, often times tags will be run checking for an expired tag. I usually could see the month on the tag (Ohio's expiration tags change color each year, FL, where I work now does not - they're always yellow) but not everyone could. If the expiration sticker was dirty or otherwise obscured - often times a check for expiration happens simply by running the tag. Nothing 'Black Helicopter' or sinister about it. The others I cannot speak for - the Child Support folks? Maybe he owes back CS, I don't know and don't want to conjecture about his personal life when I have no idea.
Just sharing my insight on why TPD might have ran the tag. The other two - well, I won't try and justify their reasoning.
Or just do what I do when riding *or* driving - stop short (we call that Assured Clear Distance in the law enforcement business), watch your mirrors like a hawk and go to the right when you see the dumbass coming up on you like a freight train. I figure let him hit the guy in front of me, there's more metal between the guy in front of me and the crash than me, and if not there is at least less metal between my head and the guy trying to ass pack me.
So if it's illegal in KY, I assume there are individual penalties for doing so (by the actual customer). Enforce those laws on those residents. Problem solved.
If you make it very undesirable for the residents of your state to do something by enacting strong laws against such things and levying strong penalties on the same, it stops [most] folks from doing that. Also eliminates this whole jurisdictional issue.
You ask "how does the state know who is gambling within their borders?" I ask the same question when the swiped the domain names.....
I agree - I often skip the original article all together and simply just read the comments - I can sometimes find them more informative than an ad oriented article originally posted.
I remember when WD was the only drive to buy - they had lifetime warranties and lasted forever. I ran into several Maxtor drives in a row that failed inside a two year window but I've got two 60Gb drives that have been running 4 or more years (I don't usually turn my home system off).
What I am saying, I guess, is drive quality is a moving target. What used to be a fantastic drive now isn't quite as reliable (WD) and drives that used to be junk (Maxtor) have improved quite a bit.
I remember when IBM quit using their own branded drives and switched to Maxtor and I thought is was the worst thing in the world. Now I wouldn't view it so negatively.
What drive is the best depends on when it was manufactured.
Take it a step further - open the 'suspect' packages at check-in. You're *already* standing there and once the package is open and checked, it should be secured (lock or taped with owner's signature over the tape) in the presence of the owner. At that point, if the package is tampered with, and it was properly secured, it should be obvious at the time of package pick up and blame should be pretty easy to assess.
You're exactly right. I often have people ask me why I don't post all of the pics I post to my personal website on myspace or facebook. My short answer is - I *pay* for jcrouse.com, the hosting of my data, etc. and it is [essentially] my little spot on the `net. When I put it on Faceboook, there is an always changing EULA and the fact that I have no control over their servers, their policies, or *anything* that they do with my data. I don't even know if I even 'own' the pictures I post on those websites anymore. Since I make the EULA on what is posted on my website, I have a better feeling I own them.
This of course is not withstanding the EULA I have with my hosting provider. I know some, like godaddy have some weird things going on, and I am not trying to get into that discussion with this post (I don't use godaddy for that specific reason) - my point is, posting your [presumably] valuable information on something like Yahoo or Facebook could be problematic. You *don't* own the domain, you *don't* pay for the server space. You have no recourse if they delete, modify, censor, or otherwise (in your mind) misuse your data.
Which doesn't make sense to me - later in the article it says
... This is not an intelligence-gathering tool. This is not for developing a list of users. This is an extension of what routers already do."
"The responsibility is shifted to law enforcement," Speck said. "We've delivered to Internet service providers something they've called for.
but it *is* an intelligence gather tool - clearly if it is modifying my ENCRYPTED traffic in an effort to compare a hash - isn't that exactly what this is?
I am all for getting bad stuff off the Internet, but what *I* think is bad and what someone else may differ. *That* is where the slippery slope is.
Or even for much less you could get an old PC (I actually use a Celeron 400 w/ about 256 mb of ram - way over the top for what I need) and use something like IPCop. That's a lot less than $300 and a lot more capable than a D-link or most other "home" routers.
Orcs.
Mine also says "For Home or Office use only." Nothing about airplanes. :)
Don't get me wrong, I think this whole mess over the electronic device usage has been taken a little over the top by the airline industry, but then again, if I can't use my cellphone on the plane, I guess I will just have to use their $2 a minute phone instead?
I thought glass was a liquid? ;)
Well, I live in Florida, should I just drive up and get him/her? :)
Wow, you've got a very gracious IT administrator. I cannot imagine having my users try and bring in their personal laptops and expect me to support them. Granted, I work for a state agency that is a call center for the taxpayers so they really don't take work home and the vast majority do not need access to state information outside the office.
We do have groups in other offices that have folks travel with laptops. Those must be encrypted and must be state owned hardware.
Some of my users are so problematic I end up reimaging their machines almost every other month. The additional problem is, working for the state, it is near impossible to make a user 'go away.'
Enforcing the policy is 100% the solution, providing said policy is adequate (another discussion entirely).