That's an extremely small survey sample to try and draw relevant conclusions on. 30,000 might be a better indicator. Otherwise, you're talking too wide of a margin for error.
Exactly like WreckDiver said. Create a data warehouse that is populated on a regular basis (nightly seems a good idea), and let them touch the warehouse only. Keeps their paws off of your live database, and keeps your security in place, while giving them what they requested (just in a modified form).
As was mentioned above, a death certificate opens a wide swath of doors when someone passes away. Case in point is my grandfather, who just passed away last year. My mother was granted power of attorney before he passed away, but she also had official copies of his death certificate she would take with her to close out bank accounts, settle the credit accounts, etc. The problem is that it's a very long and laborious process (I'm still receiving mail for him, since I now live in his house, along with mail for his wife who passed away 5 years ago), and is something you only usually undertake (no pun intended) with official institutions, close friends, and family. Things such as high school reunion committees and Publisher's Clearing House tend to find their way into the trash can, since they're not worth wasting the postage on.
I've experienced something similar, and all I can say is that your privacy dies with you. Anything and everything you ever wrote, thought, or believed is now the property of your heirs (along with your other assets and debts). That is true if no will was prepared in advance. Wills do grant the power to transfer your assets, debts, and other such physical items to someone other than your heirs (look at all the trust funds setup after someone dies for starving children and the like). Also, should a will exist, it will still need to pass through probate, at which time someone (both creditors and heirs) can dispute the contents of the will and carve up the remains of the estate to their heart's content.
But how is anyone supposed to set up a lucrative, patent-protected energy monopoly/cartel with all that diversity? Do what others have done, become President!
Ok, you go find us some manufacturers that are STILL making these cars. Lupo was canceled in 2005, Insight in 2006. The 3L version of the Lupo had 78 mpg, not 88, and ran on diesel, which is far more expensive than even premium. The eventual replacement, the Fox, is not available in the US. The Insight was a 2-seater that did get 70 mpg, but was replaced by the 4-seater Civic, which only gets 40 mpg.
If you insist on giving recommendations, at least go with cars that are still in production and available to a wide audience. Toyota Prius would be a good start, but certainly not the only option.
A) Don't collect Social Security, and have made alternative plans for retirement since SS will be gone by the time I'm 67 (my full-SS retirement age, a whole 42 years from now).
B) Don't utilize government healthcare. Medicare is a farse that will not last until I'm old and gray.
C) I purchased my own house with money I collected working a job, something a growing number of people seem unwilling to do. I also purchase my food with the same money.
D) I went to a private elementary and middle school, then sat bored through 3 years of high school before finally receiving something resembling new material. I went to a local community college for college (where I now work), and will have my BS from a private university early next month.
No, I will NOT trust the government. Trust, like respect, is EARNED, not given. The government, in its current form, has done nothing to earn my trust in any way. In fact, Bush and his cronies have done everything in their power to undermine any trust I may have had prior to the start of his dictat...errr...Presidency.
The TSA has proven, time and again, its incompetence and inability to utilize oversight on its employees and practices. I see no reason to trust them that privacy will be maintained in this instance either.
That being said, I'd still rather be screened visually then have some gay porn star feeling me up in an open glass tube. That may work for some people, but I'm not that kind of a person.
The Debian Project community designed and evolved a solid governance system since 1993 able to stablish shared conceptions of formal authority, leadership and meritocracy, limited by defined democratic adaptive mechanisms. That sure in heck sounds like something the government would put out.
As with any good college system, however, it can and will be abused. As someone who works for an IT Department for a community college, I can vouch for that personally. Once the Marketing Department gets wind of this new way to contact students, they will be all over it like white on rice. A system usefulness is inversely proportional to the number of non-IT people wanting to utilize the system for their own means.
of a title that doesn't match the summary. The title implies 70% of ALL P2P users. When you actually read the summary, it's 70% of UK broadband P2P users that were surveyed. No margin of error mentioned, no mention of broadband or UK in the title either. Normally, I'd let this slide, but c'mon, it's not that hard to add in 2 more words...
synaptic is a killer application, the dumbed down version is literally idiot proof As a programmer with a decade of writing endless lines of code to plug holes that only idiots manage to find, I can wholeheartedly tell you, NOTHING is idiot-proof.
On another note, while bundling with a standard PC is the primary hurtful strike to Linux, another is what most of us know as "the blame game". Management needs a target to blame when something goes wrong. If its their own pet project, they'll try and find something outside their project to blame. In the case of the place I work at, managers have consistently avoided OSS simply because, when something goes wrong, you cannot blame the company that produced it and call up their support department to fix the problem. No, you have to wait for the community to release a bug fix or hope the programmers can resolve the problem themselves. When the VPs start pressuring the managers, and there's no "lack of support" to blame, then the manager's ability to make software decisions comes into play.
Yes, I do have first-hand experience with this. Two separate OSS packages were denied by our VPs simply because the only support offered by OSS was by the community. As a result, we spent money on less robust systems simply to have a support company to blame for problems. *shrugs* Que sera, sera.
It can be summed up in 3 letters: MMO. Massive multiplayer games just utterly killed the space/flight sim community. Those few MMOs that support joysticks dumb down the physics so much that using the keyboard/mouse is infinitely better. Allegiance was the last gasp of trying to get an MMO that actually required a joystick in someone's hand, and Microsoft screwed the pooch on that one.
A press release from the White House recently stated that Hell hath frozen over. Spokesmen close to the President hail this as a significant advance in the war against terror.
The validity of the copyright for Happy Birthday to You is also greatly in question, given the origin of the song itself. The copyright information on that can be found here.
Slashdot Mirror
That's an extremely small survey sample to try and draw relevant conclusions on. 30,000 might be a better indicator. Otherwise, you're talking too wide of a margin for error.
Follow the white rabbit. Knock knock, Neo...
So you're blaming the browser developers, who developed a quality product, for addons not working. That's quite...naive.
Exactly like WreckDiver said. Create a data warehouse that is populated on a regular basis (nightly seems a good idea), and let them touch the warehouse only. Keeps their paws off of your live database, and keeps your security in place, while giving them what they requested (just in a modified form).
Wouldn't it be...
I, for one, welcome our new robotic sailing overlords.
Comparably speaking, Sprint is also approximately 25% more expensive than other carriers for similar services with less the availability.
As was mentioned above, a death certificate opens a wide swath of doors when someone passes away. Case in point is my grandfather, who just passed away last year. My mother was granted power of attorney before he passed away, but she also had official copies of his death certificate she would take with her to close out bank accounts, settle the credit accounts, etc. The problem is that it's a very long and laborious process (I'm still receiving mail for him, since I now live in his house, along with mail for his wife who passed away 5 years ago), and is something you only usually undertake (no pun intended) with official institutions, close friends, and family. Things such as high school reunion committees and Publisher's Clearing House tend to find their way into the trash can, since they're not worth wasting the postage on.
Ok, you go find us some manufacturers that are STILL making these cars. Lupo was canceled in 2005, Insight in 2006. The 3L version of the Lupo had 78 mpg, not 88, and ran on diesel, which is far more expensive than even premium. The eventual replacement, the Fox, is not available in the US. The Insight was a 2-seater that did get 70 mpg, but was replaced by the 4-seater Civic, which only gets 40 mpg.
If you insist on giving recommendations, at least go with cars that are still in production and available to a wide audience. Toyota Prius would be a good start, but certainly not the only option.
Good dog!
Considering I, like most people...
A) Don't collect Social Security, and have made alternative plans for retirement since SS will be gone by the time I'm 67 (my full-SS retirement age, a whole 42 years from now).
B) Don't utilize government healthcare. Medicare is a farse that will not last until I'm old and gray.
C) I purchased my own house with money I collected working a job, something a growing number of people seem unwilling to do. I also purchase my food with the same money.
D) I went to a private elementary and middle school, then sat bored through 3 years of high school before finally receiving something resembling new material. I went to a local community college for college (where I now work), and will have my BS from a private university early next month.
No, I will NOT trust the government. Trust, like respect, is EARNED, not given. The government, in its current form, has done nothing to earn my trust in any way. In fact, Bush and his cronies have done everything in their power to undermine any trust I may have had prior to the start of his dictat...errr...Presidency.
The TSA has proven, time and again, its incompetence and inability to utilize oversight on its employees and practices. I see no reason to trust them that privacy will be maintained in this instance either.
That being said, I'd still rather be screened visually then have some gay porn star feeling me up in an open glass tube. That may work for some people, but I'm not that kind of a person.
As with any good college system, however, it can and will be abused. As someone who works for an IT Department for a community college, I can vouch for that personally. Once the Marketing Department gets wind of this new way to contact students, they will be all over it like white on rice. A system usefulness is inversely proportional to the number of non-IT people wanting to utilize the system for their own means.
Do you honestly think anyone would care?
Darn you for beating me to it!
of a title that doesn't match the summary. The title implies 70% of ALL P2P users. When you actually read the summary, it's 70% of UK broadband P2P users that were surveyed. No margin of error mentioned, no mention of broadband or UK in the title either. Normally, I'd let this slide, but c'mon, it's not that hard to add in 2 more words...
It can be summed up in 3 letters: MMO. Massive multiplayer games just utterly killed the space/flight sim community. Those few MMOs that support joysticks dumb down the physics so much that using the keyboard/mouse is infinitely better. Allegiance was the last gasp of trying to get an MMO that actually required a joystick in someone's hand, and Microsoft screwed the pooch on that one.
There's also one in Michigan. Your point?
A press release from the White House recently stated that Hell hath frozen over. Spokesmen close to the President hail this as a significant advance in the war against terror.
I yearn to have mod points simply to mod you up for that gem.
Where's the Windows key? *ducks the inevitable smack*
Common Law Copyright
The validity of the copyright for Happy Birthday to You is also greatly in question, given the origin of the song itself. The copyright information on that can be found here.