Diplomas may be relevant in many fields because they kind-of set a baseline of what is expected to 'know' in order to do the job.
That said, I had a colleague (in the IT field) who insisted that we call him by his Professor title. Which I did, until I found out that his PhD was in Zoology. Which is as relevant in the IT industry as my own Hotel & Restaurant Administration degree.
A brilliant new way of orchestrating a denial of service attack. Just post any link (the cnn.com home page, for instance, or the Apple Store) and claim it is the latest song by U2 - and have the IFPI send a DMCA takedown for you.
"The neighbors left their WiFi open, and thus, by default, it is sending out signals that effectively say "welcome, feel free to connect to this network."
Can I ask a hopefully relevant question: If my neighbors decide to play ball on my yard, does it make a difference whether I have a fence up? I see this as similar - an open WiFi is like an unfenced yard. But that doesn't generally (to me) mean that any passerby can sit down and have a picnic. Or does it (legally speaking)?
I'm pretty sure that Amazon makes everyone use their DRM regardless of whether you want to or not as part of it's terms and conditions for selling e-books.
That's actually not true. Publishers can request that their books be DRM free. But many publishers don't want that either. You know, because... pirates.
Take a look at at Baen and their model - subscriptions that get you 5-6 titles per month, lots of free books in many different formats. Don't meant to promote Baen, but their creative approach has gotten many of my acquaintances to try authors they otherwise would not have.
"it's time to sue the Government for violating the Constitution" It's called an election, and as long as _we_ keep voting for the same type of people over an over, we will get the same result.
I believe Netflix still uses the Amazon data center. They could easily copy their stuff to a data center down-under and all the cross-pacific bandwidth issues go away. The content is fairly static (written only once) so making a copy in Australia isn't the problem.
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"her wife"
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That said, I had a colleague (in the IT field) who insisted that we call him by his Professor title. Which I did, until I found out that his PhD was in Zoology. Which is as relevant in the IT industry as my own Hotel & Restaurant Administration degree.
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Re: Liar
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Suspected
"...shut down more than 1,300 websites suspected..."
"suspected" is not enough to ask anyone to do anything...
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Re: Its called 'election'
Here is a new idea - don't vote for these guys the next time.
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New Dictionary
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Denial of Service attack
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NDAs
Would the Harris Stingray be classified as a commercial product or service?
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Trespassing
Can I ask a hopefully relevant question: If my neighbors decide to play ball on my yard, does it make a difference whether I have a fence up? I see this as similar - an open WiFi is like an unfenced yard. But that doesn't generally (to me) mean that any passerby can sit down and have a picnic. Or does it (legally speaking)?
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That's actually not true. Publishers can request that their books be DRM free. But many publishers don't want that either. You know, because... pirates.
Take a look at at Baen and their model - subscriptions that get you 5-6 titles per month, lots of free books in many different formats. Don't meant to promote Baen, but their creative approach has gotten many of my acquaintances to try authors they otherwise would not have.
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Vote!
It's called an election, and as long as _we_ keep voting for the same type of people over an over, we will get the same result.
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You've got to be joking. The NSA is just going to say that the $4.5B is not part of their budget, so why should they care.
Only the Senators from Washington State will care.
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Waving
Especially since everyone is waving. :)
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Re: Aus bandwidth
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Dirt
I know this because one of our congressmen said so!
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False Witness
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Re: Mentos
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Re: Right to import
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