Posts by Tom 13 7544 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
to police infringement on their own, here's the problem I'm left with:
If the company best known for it's computational indexing and search engines can't police infringement on a site they host, how is anybody else with resources magnitudes of orders less than Google supposed to do it?
Pint because maybe it will help me come up with an answer.
Militias are two states over in Montana. Oregon is Jeff Merkley (D) and Ron Wyden (D) in the Senate, so that would be Hippie an tree hugger country, not Redneck. So maybe it is ELF instead or Redneck, but what they hey, it's safer to pick on Rednecks.
It's a piece of crap. You have to do something else to enable it, then Adobe downloads the update. After the download completes, you have to close FireFox, accept the update, and install it. DLM is a piece of crap. And it only patches FF, not FF and IE. And it only works for Flash and Reader, not Shockwave. Did I mention this is a piece of crap?
Download and install the Secunia PSI util instead. It takes you to links that will fix everything.
them young'uns would think it was something new, especially after it got re-branded as Winix 12 or some such nonsense.
The fly in the ointment there would be they'd either have to put up or shut up on their pawn McBride and wouldn't be able to astro-turf against Linux after it was decided.
If a movie theater lets someone under the age in without a parent or guardian for a movie which has been rated, they can be prosecuted under the law. The cops just treat the offense as more akin to jaywalking than mugging: more of PITA to file the paperwork than anything else, so unless a parent makes a stink about it, something to be avoided.
What is voluntary, is the ratings assignment in the first place, which is run by a non-governmental agency.
A nameless MS shill coming out to try to divert attention from the valid issues in this thread.
If you bothered to look at any of the posts on "the original article" you'll note the same people bashing MS on this thread mercilessly bashed Siemens for their criminal stupidity on that thread. The point of both being in both cases vendors have included default accounts which are easily compromised. Siemens did actually manage to out-bad MS on this one because MS at least allows an admin to alter the default settings.
but for a corporation in the US, that doesn't matter. If you are a corporation, your obligation is to make money for your shareholders. If you don't you aren't fulfilling your fiduciary responsibility. If you want to be the sort of business you are describing you need to be a sole proprietor or a partnership, both of which have significant other risks. Not sure if an LLC would work, I've never looked at their specific rules for creation.
The best way for this to end is for the remaining craigslist founders to sell out their shares to Ebay for twice what they are currently worth and extract an explicit requirement that they not be forbidden to re-enter the line of business in which they are currently operating. Then they find a new name and start up the business again. It's the only way they eventually get to keep a list that runs along the lines of the business they want to run.
The problem is Adobe has extended what was once a simple program to the complexity of an OS without doing the associated security work. If all the program did was open a file to display fixed formatted type, none of these vulnerabilities would work. It is the addition of things like active URLs, forms completion, embedded sound, embedded movies, etc. that makes the program vulnerable to exploit. Some of those items are logical extensions to the basic program (URLS, forms) but even though they are obvious and logical, they require deeper thinking about security issues.
than the moron who said volcanoes produce less CO2 than mankind has over his history of burning fossil fuels (although I think I am going have to take up calling them "fossilized" fuels just for fun of it) when it is the reverse which is true and routinely mentioned on the Discovery Channel Mega Disaster episode about super volcanoes.
Granted, I have not yet lived quite a half decade, but I recall when I was about 12 reading in one of those environmentally aware nature magazines that parents bought for their kids about how we were guaranteed to run out of oil within 70 years, and how within 25 it would be unreasonably expensive for the average person to buy what little quantities were still available. We are more than a decade past that point and the only thing so far that has made gas unreasonably expensive for the average person to buy has been political interference in the production of oil.
since Windows 1.0. You're right they can't do a whole lot more to fix it now, but that doesn't get them off the hook for their previous bad behavior. Some of the first posting about this particular bug noted MS didn't even follow their own guidelines when writing software. I remember the days when you could only figure out how MS intended some new function to work after they released an app they developed that used the function and you saw how they called it.
People don't get their Christmas checks until December, so they won't be buying until then. Every businessman on this side of the pond KNOWS Christmas is make or break season for retail sales and they'd damn well better have their wares plentifully stocked at that time. If times are tough you also have to be making real deals that benefit consumers, not "we marked it up 75% so we could knock 30% off and call it a deep discount" sales.
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Gets old after a while doesn't it?
It's time the pampered politios stopped shaking down honest businesses with unending investigations that will just go away if only the company greases the right palms in just the right way. Coupons and discounts are a standard business practice here in the states, and some of them depend on your status like "student," "charitable," and "government." An investigation into allegations of kickbacks under this guise is nothing but a thugish shakedown on the part of our new Lords and Masters.
If the business execs en masse need a couple more years on XP, they will get. MS bent to their will with Vista, they will again with 7 if push comes to shove.
That being said, I fully expect most businesses will upgrade to 7 before the end of 2014. It is getting more problematic to support XP with newer hardware, and MS made progress on closing security holes with Vista, it was just a dog of a system and lacked vendor support in certain key segments of the market. At this point those segments are better filled.
It is already too late, your election process has been irrevocably determined to be susceptible to fraud. Holding the guy who disclosed this in jail will not make your election process less susceptible to fraud. It will make both your citizens and the citizens of other countries more suspicious of the corruption levels within your country. While you are correct that this is a highly sensitive matter, you seem to be engaging in Bizarro world logic and further irritating that sensitivity. Let the whistleblower out of the clink and resolve the matter in open debate.
Thank-you.
that clearly violates both the FOSS and monopoly licenses.
Flash is a plug-in that abides by their plug in protocols, Google search likewise. The plugin is separable from the FOSS license. Building support for H.264 directly into the browser is not. If the H.264 group want to build a plug-in so Firefox supports their codec, they are welcome to do so.
What ought to be subject to making a patent claim is the process by which the stack is built. Assuming of course it truly is novel and not obvious and spelled out in sufficient detail so that someone with the appropriate engineering background could make one based on the patent application.
Not that that seems to mean anything to the courts here these days.
Nevada isn't on the list, which means prostitution IS illegal in all of them and the Attorneys General are alleging craigslist facilitates engaging in illegal activity. Which is again, illegal. Maybe you can argue the case we'd be better off following Nevada's model, but the AGs are not being inconsistent.
The bit you missed is that Big Companies these days are mostly in bed with Big Government because it is easier to pay off, I mean donate to a candidate who can then pass laws that inhibit or prohibit competitors from cutting into your customer base. We saw this when Big Pharma and Big Healthcare Insurance were the first ones to sign off on Obamacare after they ensured their own profit streams. In short, Fascism at its finest, only when I say 'Fascism' I mean it's technical definition of Government controlling the country by controlling key parts of Big Business, not the usual libtard definition of 'I don't agree with what you are saying.'
Not saying you won't find any Big Companies that are actually engaged in the American entrepreneurial spirit, just that they are damned rare.
Mine have gone up by more than the rate of inflation every year for the last 20 years except this one. And the reason they aren't going up this year is the plan the company offered last year got so damned expensive they couldn't afford to offer it to me at twice my previous contribution. So it actually got switched out for and HSA which may or may not cost me more than last year. Won't know until the end of the year.
Why, yes he was! (http://www.cio.com/article/484265/FBI_Raids_Washington_D.C._CTO_Office_of_Vivek_Kundra_Obama_s_New_CIO).
Well then, I guess we KNOW this will be a well done project.
As to the funding level and whether or not they can be accomplished, John Smith 19's first five points nail a number of issue. The bits about the contractor size, not so much especially with the current employment retention rules. The reality is that the skill levels of both the Federal and the contracting staff vary just as much. The large contracts are purely a budgeting technique. They are intended to provide some flexibility in contracting. Running through a 6-month budget proposal cycle for any given small project to meet contracting guidelines itself adds tremendously to the cost of each contract. The large companies also can't go it alone, so they need to partner with smaller companies to do the job. Set asides for the various 8a categories, small businesses, economic development zones, etc guarantees that one of the major headaches for whoever wins the contract is making sure they have all THOSE ducks lined up as opposed to whether or not what their line people are proposing are good technical solutions let alone whether or not the good technical solution is appropriate to the business/government issue it is intended to address.
Why do I know all this? I work for a small contract who's a sub to a big contractor at a government agency. The contract under which my company has been working is not being re-competed because it is going to be subsumed under one of those new big vehicles. Or maybe not. The developing story has changed three times in as many weeks. Regardless of whether or not my company is one of the winners on the big contract, whoever wins will have to offer me a job with them. I also know that a major project that was supposed to be under way for our agency has just been put on indefinite hold/canceled and that a new solution is being sought. Rumor is instead of an internally supported system the new specs and the new contract will be in the cloud. I know more and more people are getting comfortable with that, but I really prefer my data and mail to be on servers under the control of the agency. Or at least as under control as it can get when there are more chefs in the kitchen than customers in the cafe.
there is no single root cause of the problem. There were MULTIPLE points of failure:
- pilots
- air service crews
- IT staff
- IT planners (Windows is a real-time system, and as a lowly help desk worker I help support it in my work environment but it shouldn't be in the control tower.)
All of them are equally guilty of killing 174 people.
Or at least I don't remember hearing about it. So I haven't used it either. If they were really pushing this I should have. Or maybe they did and with the cock-up that was Buzz, I wrote it off as a re-labeling push and put it out of my mind. Or maybe they've Borged so much already that I am reluctant to look at anything new they do, because I don't want them borging anything else. Being a conservative American, I'm big on decentralizing power. Google haven't been doing that recently.
Those are the reasons they failed and none of them has a magic bullet fix.
Not buying it from Michael Mann, not buying it from the Philly DA. String up that DA right alongside the administrator(s) who thought this was a defensible idea. A wise man once said "nothing focuses the mind as much as a good hanging" and it seems we need to focus a lot of minds in Philly.
Somebody has to upload the photo, and the time and location for the photo might not be real time. For instance, I recently went to a convention with some friends. Friends took lots of pictures. Friend uploaded pictures, but mostly more than 2 days after the event ended. Getting tagged for being at the convention at that point was sort of irrelevant for finding people there.
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