It's obvious Amazon know's how important the digital side is, B&N obviously does too. B&N is doing the only thing it can to try and punish DC for exclusive contracts. But as always this probably came down to money. B&N wasn't willing to pay what DC wanted for e-rights, exclusive or not, so it didn't get them. Amazon was willing to pay. They are bigger and this is them pushing DC plus B&N around probably. Amazon has had this practice for years - using it's size & cash to push out competitors. I don't see it as stupid on B&N's part ... just trying to hold it's ground so other vendors will think about the possible downsides to exclusive contracts.
>>No it's not. His first duty is to not violate the rights of individuals. If that means he leaves in a body-bag, well, that's sad but that's the way it is.
Wrong. He didn't violate anyone's rights.. In the US you ahve 1st amendment rights but you can't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater. You don't have the right to attack someone and not expect a response. In the video the kid had a chance to run away but didn't, he attacked - was he the agressor/victim? Who knows. Cop probably didn't but he certainly doesn't need to risk his life to find out. Not knowing the context, he might have made the right decision. You don't know, I don't know, but based on the video, I will give him benifit of the doubt. Should he have handled it different, perhaps, but your or anyones monday morning quarterbacking doesn't count -- unless there is more evidence than this video, I will be on the cop's side.
As to waiting, he walked up and took action. Once again, with nothing more than this video -- you can't evaluate the entire situation you can't correctly judge. Would be nice to have more info. Does the cop have a history of excessive force, does the kid(s) have history.
Still I not you didn't comment on the fact that video only shows one side, all the kid(s) were perfect angels right? If you are judging the actions of context why do you just accept that side? Easy to and fits the every cop is a jerk (plenty are BTW) .. mantra. The guy who pepper sprayed the ladies -- he should be crucified -- plenty of context and evidence he was wrong, here not the case.
I am in the camp of out of context -- I don't see that much wrong with his actions and give him the benifit of the doubt. Could it be to agressive, probably, but I don't know the context so I won't judge to harshly. The cop didn't start the fight, it's just his job to end it before it escalates - who knows what they were yelling - maybe the kid was saying he's going to be shooting someone.
The kid or kids could have a history, the cop is by himself. Does anyone know - maybe he broke up a fight last night with these kids, or they are known gang members, previous arrestees, or just boys who are being boys. Odd no one on news front seems to ask this question - it's not the storyline that sells now is it.
Also if he'd called for backup and the kid(s) got hurt he would be crucified for not stepping in quick enough. I doubt he aimed for the kids face too - tasers aren't that accurate.
Another point, he's out numbered 3 to 1 min (lots of other folks around that might get involved) he's at big risk of someone behind him or outside the immediate fight, etc.. pulling a knife or gun or whatever. His first duty is to go home alive IMHO.
Lastly it is funny though, in these situations, the one who gets the bullet or taser or whatever always seems to be angel among the devils.
But when Jasmine smiles when she first sees the magic carpet over the balcaony, it was the first thought I had. Always a girl for the guy with a nice car.
But when Jasmine smiles when she first sees the magic carpet over the balcaony, it was the first thought I had. Always a girl for the guy with a nice car.
I can't believe it took this long for someone to bring this up in an official capacity. I am sure filming security checkpoints and procedures would be considered a security violation. It's not surprising someone is intending to try and enforce this for all the wrong reasons.
I does however make sense that you don't want people filming your security process, it makes it easier to try and find a way around them, to study them. Not that they are effective, but it is what it is.
I am sure it's illegal to film many installations for security reasons, this would seem to be a reasonable case and tough to argue against even if the rule is being mis-used as it is in this case.
I would expect this one to be tough one to win in a court case.. but I feel people should continue to do this as a non-violent act of civil disobedience necessary for the preservation of what little individual rights we have left. If everyone films it will be real tough to put them all in jail.
Example -- interstate highways.. we didn't have to subsidize suburbs, cars, truck companies, overnight delivery, vacation travel, and on and on and on... all we had to do was build a killer highway system and infrastructure. The rest took care of itself. Broadband is the same way, make hi-bandwidth hookups (I am talking 100mbs and higher) available to everyone with massive backbones and the rest will take care of itself. Very simple and supportable by dozens of examples.
What about the backups (assuming the schools actually run them). Are there any rules about retaining them? They can purge pic's but I figure there could be some interesting subpoena action wanting to look at backup tapes if anything comes out anywhere. You know this is not the only school system doing this. The temptation is just to great, no way to control it. In particular if you consider the mindset of the average school administrator.
The problem described in this article is not an IT problem, it's a management problem. The corporate culture established in the companies described allow this kind of dis-functional atmosphere. If a company is well run, people will not be restricted from doing their jobs creatively or any other profitable way. But when management doesn't understand, doesn't care, etc.. then IT is tasked with this kind of stuff. If they do it on their own or are not open to the possibilities of properly implemented IT policy, they should be replaced.
IT should understand the job functions throughout the company better than just about anyone else in the company, they work in every area. If they don't they aren't doing their jobs.
This is what you get when a person who doesn't understand IT policy, corporate culture, management policies, etc.. writes an article about something he doesn't have a clue about. This is where IT should be responsive to his issues, work with him to define his needs and provide for them in a secure productive manner, if he worked someplace that has sound management and properly implement IT policies. Not surprised it's SLATE...
Obviously Chris you are not an IT support person. I've been doing real support since 1987 ... in todays world with every manf putting the cheapest handiest part in every machine keeping proper images of all machines and possible configs is a daunting proposition. Not to mention keeping those images up-to-date is almost impossible. I work for an integrator (after 15 years in corporate support) and my advice (often ignored) is to store all real data on the network, keep machines generic, keep your protection programs up-to-date with a centrally managed tool, lock down your firewall/content scan, and scan your email with an outside service (incoming & outgoing).
But when a company has 100 users and only 1 part-time IT person(who is not a professional IT person, the norm for a lot of companies today) it's almost impossible to find the resources so locking everything down is the only possible solution. Lost productivity for an individual user is nothing compared to the lost productivity when documents are lost, machines crippled, etc.
Sad, but just the plain fact. Since windows dominates, learn group policies, learn security and lock them down will make your overall users more productive.
But you must be open to every new advance and listen to your users needs (not just requests)... if the ask to do something they cannot do, then make a business case for it and implement it if there is a reason too. Our job here is to listen to the users and give them what they need, not what they think they want. We have to make sure we understand what they want to accomplish and work with them to provide that capability. That doesn't mean deny them every thing, just make sure it will provide a benefit, embrace the technology to make the company more efficient, responsive, etc.
IT staffs get into a rut of not learning and not growing like everyone else and it's even more deadly, but still you don't do things just because they are cool, they have to have a solid business reason behind them.
Just remember change is inevitable, but growth has always been optional.
If people would actually learn to think, this would not be such a problem.. the majority have the access and opportunity, but not the discipline to make good choices.
The young are especially vulnerable because they don't have the experience and are naturally inclined to rebel from the recommendations of the elder generation. Society due the the massive over-hype of every action/reaction now punishes more and more severely what used to be called the indescrestions of youth. The opportunity for a life altering mistake at a younger and younger age is increasing. Sexting and it's uproar is a good example, 100 years ago, it was 2 kids in a barn or a buggy, then it was 2 kids in the backseat of a car, then it got to be a half dozen in hostel .. no pictures (can't get them developed, everyone doesn't carry a camera, no easy way to distribute them), now one text with a pic from a readily available cell phone camera (even if it's not theirs and they didn't now about it), a bit of bad judgement at a party and it's worldwide on the internet w/no way to take it back. Then some idiot grandstanding prosecutor makes them a lifelong sex offender at 17 with a charge of child pornography. Plus it's on the news worldwide and Nancy Grace (she needs to get a life) covers it every night for 6 months on cable TV.
That's where the problem lies and that is where the 6 sigma range of the bell curve of reactions is killing us. It's not the middle 4 sigma, it's the outside 5% at each pole that is getting more and more outrageous. More dangerous acts, more knee-jerk grandstanding punishments like no-tolerance polices that get a kid suspended because they brought a butter knife to cut a school birthday cake, or a kid charged with a sex crime for some activity between a 15yo & a 17yo that has been going on since the dawn of time. It will only get worse and each side whips up more passion and daring. Not one piece of common sense applied because it's the next news cycle or election that is what everyone is concerned about.
Well I've taken this subject about as far as it can go... have a nice day/night/evening/morning or whatever ya'all.
I said in the original post that I don't necessarily see a causal link from the said evils to the problems of society today. I agree we lead overall better lives than 100 years ago and the establishment per say will always decry change.
In fact I think much of what we see existed always but we just hear about it more thanks to our expanded communication abilities and the fact that 20% of the population is a lot more people now that it was 100 years ago, so there is, quantitatively, more bad stuff going on. Politician's haven't changed at all, if you don't believe it read some 1880-1920's newspapers!
I also think we have dumbed down what we expect kids to accomplish and upped the opportunity for risk. If you don't think so, read some text books from 1900 and read the ones they use today. I think this is a result of our society basically going from entropy to chaos .. ie wider swings in our norms due to a relaxation of control over our behavior. I don't know if the is good or bad, but looking at history, the more "civilized" we become the weaker overall we become, to be replaced by a younger more vigorous rival.
I don't have an answer except that I think each generation tries to out-rebel the previous ones, they expand the limits of what's acceptable and it spirals to more and more (as us in the older generation see it) depravity, because we relax the controls - or it's too much work to enforce them.
The truth is the majority of kids are just fine, but kids today just have the opportunity to take many more risks than they did 100 years ago.
Or as my old scout master taught us, to learn - study, to obtain wisdom - observe. Which is something no one would say to a kid today because they would assume they couldn't understand it. Changed a lot in 30 years it has.
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Richie himself help bring to the light -- back to pascal everyone.
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Isn't Ice Pirates a bad Sci-Fi Movie
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B&N Knows what's important - So does Amazon!
Mike
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>>No it's not. His first duty is to not violate the rights of individuals. If that means he leaves in a body-bag, well, that's sad but that's the way it is.
Wrong. He didn't violate anyone's rights.. In the US you ahve 1st amendment rights but you can't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater. You don't have the right to attack someone and not expect a response. In the video the kid had a chance to run away but didn't, he attacked - was he the agressor/victim? Who knows. Cop probably didn't but he certainly doesn't need to risk his life to find out. Not knowing the context, he might have made the right decision. You don't know, I don't know, but based on the video, I will give him benifit of the doubt. Should he have handled it different, perhaps, but your or anyones monday morning quarterbacking doesn't count -- unless there is more evidence than this video, I will be on the cop's side.
As to waiting, he walked up and took action. Once again, with nothing more than this video -- you can't evaluate the entire situation you can't correctly judge. Would be nice to have more info. Does the cop have a history of excessive force, does the kid(s) have history.
Still I not you didn't comment on the fact that video only shows one side, all the kid(s) were perfect angels right? If you are judging the actions of context why do you just accept that side? Easy to and fits the every cop is a jerk (plenty are BTW) .. mantra. The guy who pepper sprayed the ladies -- he should be crucified -- plenty of context and evidence he was wrong, here not the case.
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The kid or kids could have a history, the cop is by himself. Does anyone know - maybe he broke up a fight last night with these kids, or they are known gang members, previous arrestees, or just boys who are being boys. Odd no one on news front seems to ask this question - it's not the storyline that sells now is it.
Also if he'd called for backup and the kid(s) got hurt he would be crucified for not stepping in quick enough. I doubt he aimed for the kids face too - tasers aren't that accurate.
Another point, he's out numbered 3 to 1 min (lots of other folks around that might get involved) he's at big risk of someone behind him or outside the immediate fight, etc.. pulling a knife or gun or whatever. His first duty is to go home alive IMHO.
Lastly it is funny though, in these situations, the one who gets the bullet or taser or whatever always seems to be angel among the devils.
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Re: Unbelievable
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Re: Re: Disney Sexual innuendo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl4hJ4j48s
But when Jasmine smiles when she first sees the magic carpet over the balcaony, it was the first thought I had. Always a girl for the guy with a nice car.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl4hJ4j48s
But when Jasmine smiles when she first sees the magic carpet over the balcaony, it was the first thought I had. Always a girl for the guy with a nice car.
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Suprised this took this long to come up...
I does however make sense that you don't want people filming your security process, it makes it easier to try and find a way around them, to study them. Not that they are effective, but it is what it is.
I am sure it's illegal to film many installations for security reasons, this would seem to be a reasonable case and tough to argue against even if the rule is being mis-used as it is in this case.
I would expect this one to be tough one to win in a court case.. but I feel people should continue to do this as a non-violent act of civil disobedience necessary for the preservation of what little individual rights we have left. If everyone films it will be real tough to put them all in jail.
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Change!!
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Subsidize the Infrastructure is correct...
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Not only are they purging pic's ...
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This is not an IT problem
IT should understand the job functions throughout the company better than just about anyone else in the company, they work in every area. If they don't they aren't doing their jobs.
This is what you get when a person who doesn't understand IT policy, corporate culture, management policies, etc.. writes an article about something he doesn't have a clue about. This is where IT should be responsive to his issues, work with him to define his needs and provide for them in a secure productive manner, if he worked someplace that has sound management and properly implement IT policies. Not surprised it's SLATE...
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But when a company has 100 users and only 1 part-time IT person(who is not a professional IT person, the norm for a lot of companies today) it's almost impossible to find the resources so locking everything down is the only possible solution. Lost productivity for an individual user is nothing compared to the lost productivity when documents are lost, machines crippled, etc.
Sad, but just the plain fact. Since windows dominates, learn group policies, learn security and lock them down will make your overall users more productive.
But you must be open to every new advance and listen to your users needs (not just requests)... if the ask to do something they cannot do, then make a business case for it and implement it if there is a reason too. Our job here is to listen to the users and give them what they need, not what they think they want. We have to make sure we understand what they want to accomplish and work with them to provide that capability. That doesn't mean deny them every thing, just make sure it will provide a benefit, embrace the technology to make the company more efficient, responsive, etc.
IT staffs get into a rut of not learning and not growing like everyone else and it's even more deadly, but still you don't do things just because they are cool, they have to have a solid business reason behind them.
Just remember change is inevitable, but growth has always been optional.
On the post: Some Quotes Of Note: Politicians Damning New Technologies/Cultural Artifacts
Re: *sighs*
The young are especially vulnerable because they don't have the experience and are naturally inclined to rebel from the recommendations of the elder generation. Society due the the massive over-hype of every action/reaction now punishes more and more severely what used to be called the indescrestions of youth. The opportunity for a life altering mistake at a younger and younger age is increasing. Sexting and it's uproar is a good example, 100 years ago, it was 2 kids in a barn or a buggy, then it was 2 kids in the backseat of a car, then it got to be a half dozen in hostel .. no pictures (can't get them developed, everyone doesn't carry a camera, no easy way to distribute them), now one text with a pic from a readily available cell phone camera (even if it's not theirs and they didn't now about it), a bit of bad judgement at a party and it's worldwide on the internet w/no way to take it back. Then some idiot grandstanding prosecutor makes them a lifelong sex offender at 17 with a charge of child pornography. Plus it's on the news worldwide and Nancy Grace (she needs to get a life) covers it every night for 6 months on cable TV.
That's where the problem lies and that is where the 6 sigma range of the bell curve of reactions is killing us. It's not the middle 4 sigma, it's the outside 5% at each pole that is getting more and more outrageous. More dangerous acts, more knee-jerk grandstanding punishments like no-tolerance polices that get a kid suspended because they brought a butter knife to cut a school birthday cake, or a kid charged with a sex crime for some activity between a 15yo & a 17yo that has been going on since the dawn of time. It will only get worse and each side whips up more passion and daring. Not one piece of common sense applied because it's the next news cycle or election that is what everyone is concerned about.
Well I've taken this subject about as far as it can go... have a nice day/night/evening/morning or whatever ya'all.
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Just an interesting thought - Review of Replys
In fact I think much of what we see existed always but we just hear about it more thanks to our expanded communication abilities and the fact that 20% of the population is a lot more people now that it was 100 years ago, so there is, quantitatively, more bad stuff going on. Politician's haven't changed at all, if you don't believe it read some 1880-1920's newspapers!
I also think we have dumbed down what we expect kids to accomplish and upped the opportunity for risk. If you don't think so, read some text books from 1900 and read the ones they use today. I think this is a result of our society basically going from entropy to chaos .. ie wider swings in our norms due to a relaxation of control over our behavior. I don't know if the is good or bad, but looking at history, the more "civilized" we become the weaker overall we become, to be replaced by a younger more vigorous rival.
I don't have an answer except that I think each generation tries to out-rebel the previous ones, they expand the limits of what's acceptable and it spirals to more and more (as us in the older generation see it) depravity, because we relax the controls - or it's too much work to enforce them.
The truth is the majority of kids are just fine, but kids today just have the opportunity to take many more risks than they did 100 years ago.
Or as my old scout master taught us, to learn - study, to obtain wisdom - observe. Which is something no one would say to a kid today because they would assume they couldn't understand it. Changed a lot in 30 years it has.
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