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Comment Re:Cue the 1st amendment nuts (Score 3, Informative) 593

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Now, do the police have a right to investigate? Absolutely. Do they have any right to detain the man? Absolutely not.

Actually, detention of suspects at the onset, during and after an investigation is common and not unconstitutional within limits. From TFS, this sounds like a pretty routine psych detention. I've had a friend detained on at least 2 occasions for psych evaluations, though in fairness he was committing trespassing crimes both times.

Comment Re:I will sell you this solution already debugged! (Score 1) 167

Easy solution. Make it so that spammers can see posts by everyone, including other spammers. That way spammers will think they are being successful, especially if you do an IP block on them.

Until the 2nd, 3rd, 4th account is identified and marked as a spam account, it won't be able to see the posts of the 1st account.

Comment Re:... then don't go there? (Score 1) 459

Murder is, by definition, the bad kind of killing. Other types of killing may exist-- it depends on the state.

And thus there is not a lot of agreement on "murder." Saying that different people define murder differently, but all agree that murder is bad, belies the GGP's point that there is universal agreement on a particular behavior.

Comment Re:Hate using my Email address as log in (Score 3, Insightful) 75

You don't have to create extra email address with Gmail. You can use periods or '+' to create custom email address that still get delivered to your inbox. Then you can set up filters or rules to treat them accordingly. For example, you could sign up with a site with "yourname+sitename@gmail.com" and the email will go to "yourname@gmail.com". So you can track address leaks/sales, or auto-delete/auto-star/auto-file emails from certain sites.

Comment Re:A counter to this...? (Score 2) 75

Well, at the mid-management level, I know that I had accounts on vendor/customer websites (e.g. newegg, Dell, Costco) because I had to do business with them for my job. In some cases, like Newegg, I had my on personal account as well.

I can easily see the need for an account on Dropbox or Twitter or FB or some other service that was tied expressly to your job, and not for you personally. I don't see as much of a case for C level positions, but I guess if you want to easily share files across computers it makes sense.

And re security, if you can't trust your CEO not to steal files, then you have bigger problems.

Comment Re:Any way around this? (Score 2) 75

"real" companies like the world's largest retailer (guess who) does exactly what you are proposing. No files come or go by HTTP or email. No thumb drives are available on any workstation attached to the LAN. Services like Dropbox are completely off the table.

I'm guess you're talking about a company like Wal-Mart. Are you saying that the Procurement department there can't receive any PDFs, spreadsheets, word docs or any other file from a prospective supplier via email? I'm pretty sure that's not correct. I used to work for a food company that did business with both Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, and I don't ever recall getting a request for help sending files to them (and trust me, my users would not have been able to follow whatever instructions they were given for alternative delivery methods).

I currently work for a large post-production company in the entertainment industry, where security is a big deal. But they don't impose the draconian security measures that are required for the production areas/networks on the rest of the business. The HR and Finance department have their own security needs (physical and electronic) that are different from Operations, and it wouldn't make sense to apply one rule to all areas.

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