I sort of assumed that when mail gets sent the MX records are checked anyway so that your email client knows where to deliver the message. I could be wrong on that though.
The issue in question seems to be the fact that the recipients have given permission to other parties (i.e. Google) to read the data. In this I would concede that there is nothing a sender can do to protect his/her data if the recipient is sharing it with others.
Unless the person setting their domain up does something unusual then you can tell it is being processed by google by looking at the MX records for the domain. If the user is just using GMail's ability to suck in email via POP or IMAP or is forwarding their mail to Google, then it would seem it would be the user who is sending your mail to Google who would be at fault.
Sure, but the refuted claim was "it's that there's no mouse and keyboard or printing support (as far as I know)". At least two of those three have been rebutted here.
This is the least restrictive of the Microsoft licenses and allows for distribution of compiled code for either commercial or non-commercial purposes under any license that complies with the Ms-PL. Redistribution of the source code itself is permitted only under the Ms-PL.[12] Initially titled Microsoft Permissive License, it was renamed to Microsoft Public License while being reviewed for approval by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The license was approved on October 12, 2007 along with the Ms-RL.[11] According to the Free Software Foundation, it is a free software license but not compatible with the GNU GPL.[6]
This page http://www.reactos.org/en/about_history.html talks about the history of ReactOS. Notice how it starts with "ReactOS project since 1996". Granted, not all of this was under the name ReactOS, but it was the same people. The page states that "In February 1998, ReactOS began.".
Sure, BES has that advantage. GP was responding to "unencrypted email (which is virtually all e-mail, and indeed all Android phones using the inbuilt GMail app), and almost any IM out there. I've also missed other equally unprotected means of communication. Why? Because at least BIS is encrypted in transit to and from RIM"
i.e. he was refuting the statement that Android phones send email unencrypted. This isn't true. Email is encrypted on the route to Google's servers. What happens from there is dependent on the eventual destination. This is the same standard that BIS meets, right?
I'm confused - you talk about readership being more about web technologies and startups with a tone that suggests that is a bad thing. You say you could care less about new jquery libraries. I guess I wonder how much less you could care. Then you talk about how entrepreneurs are mostly failures waiting to happen.
Based on the overall tone of your article I got the sense that you looked upon Hacker News in a negative fashion. Yet, you finished the post by saying it had a higher signal to noise ratio, implying that it was actually better than Slashdot.
It is and it isn't. Yes, the reality is that a lot of work in the workplace does happen in groups. At the same time, there is an expectation that each member comes to the table with a certain baseline skillset/knowledge base (i.e. that they have something to contribute). By permitting students to share all of their work they are enabling certain students to submit a result that does not reflect their understanding of the material.
In the end this is either a help or a hindrance for the student being carried. It is a hindrance if the student is capable of understanding the material but doesn't take the time to do so. Thus he/she does not get the value out of his education that he/she might have had he/she done the work and learned the material. In this case he/she paid the money for the degree but it doesn't get him/her as far as he/she could have gone had he/she put in the effort. It is a help for the student if the student would not have been able to learn the material (i.e. if they just were mentally unable to understand it). In this case, he/she has a piece of paper saying that he/she is more capable than the actual situation. Thus the degree might open doors that might have otherwise been closed and they can scrape by.
I both agree and disagree. Obviously if you are writing low level systems you want to make them as efficient as possible. One can't forget though that there are sometimes inherent limits that an application should respect. It isn't unreasonable, for example, to suggest that an application shouldn't try to use an SD card as its display buffer. Sometimes there are good reasons to tell an app "you can't do that".
It isn't the model the cable company wants you to follow, but I could see how it would be tempting. Presumably the extra $30/month isn't just for those two shows. The problem is the package system which forces you to buy $30/month of stuff when you really just want a small portion of what that buys.
Given this, it would be easier for somebody to justify 'piracy'. He is getting the content and the author/creator is being compensated (note that he claimed that he purchases the box sets when they come out). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the producer of the content actually receives more compensation from a DVD box set purchase than from cable subscription payments because the cable subscription payments would be distributed across all the content which presumably isn't the case when buying specific box sets.
I'm not saying that Cable/Satellite providers in Canada don't rip you off, but what you say just isn't true: You don't need an HD-DVR. You just need any old cable/satellite box. Bell's site completely sucks and I wasn't able to price anything out, but with Rogers you can get basic digital cable ($34.49/month), rent a receiver box ($4.56/month) and get the TMN and MPIX package ($20.95/month which includes HBO) for a total of $60/month plus fees (which admittedly always makes me cringe, but I don't know what they actually come to).
I do believe that Cable/Satellite is over priced and only get it because other household members want it, you greatly exaggerate the situation and only make yourself look silly.
Perhaps I'm daft and just don't understand what you mean. GP was talking about data usage as a function of subscriber density. Required bandwidth depends on more than just the number if subscribers per unit area. It also depends on how much data each of those subscribers use. I would presume that since data is three times as expensive as it is in the US that data usage per subscriber would be lower. That should (although it is admittedly not a simple relationship as it depends on human behaviour) mean lower required bandwidth.
I can't speak for Europe, but my impression is that data transfer is a lot more expensive here than it is in the US. From AT&T in the US $30 gets you a 3 gig data plan where in Canada that same $30 gets you a 1 gig data plan.
For the same spend in the US you get three times the data capacity.
So if by doing it wrong you mean the carriers in the US are not charging as much, then you're right.
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I sort of assumed that when mail gets sent the MX records are checked anyway so that your email client knows where to deliver the message. I could be wrong on that though.
The issue in question seems to be the fact that the recipients have given permission to other parties (i.e. Google) to read the data. In this I would concede that there is nothing a sender can do to protect his/her data if the recipient is sharing it with others.
Unless the person setting their domain up does something unusual then you can tell it is being processed by google by looking at the MX records for the domain. If the user is just using GMail's ability to suck in email via POP or IMAP or is forwarding their mail to Google, then it would seem it would be the user who is sending your mail to Google who would be at fault.
Ummm... you do realize that the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US dollar, right?
milk crates.
How about this - if you don't want browsers to track you with cookies then don't send cookies to the server!
Sure, but the refuted claim was "it's that there's no mouse and keyboard or printing support (as far as I know)". At least two of those three have been rebutted here.
According to wikipedia:
This is the least restrictive of the Microsoft licenses and allows for distribution of compiled code for either commercial or non-commercial purposes under any license that complies with the Ms-PL. Redistribution of the source code itself is permitted only under the Ms-PL.[12] Initially titled Microsoft Permissive License, it was renamed to Microsoft Public License while being reviewed for approval by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The license was approved on October 12, 2007 along with the Ms-RL.[11] According to the Free Software Foundation, it is a free software license but not compatible with the GNU GPL.[6]
This page http://www.reactos.org/en/about_history.html talks about the history of ReactOS. Notice how it starts with "ReactOS project since 1996". Granted, not all of this was under the name ReactOS, but it was the same people. The page states that "In February 1998, ReactOS began.".
16 years is a reasonable number.
Sure, BES has that advantage. GP was responding to "unencrypted email (which is virtually all e-mail, and indeed all Android phones using the inbuilt GMail app), and almost any IM out there. I've also missed other equally unprotected means of communication. Why? Because at least BIS is encrypted in transit to and from RIM"
i.e. he was refuting the statement that Android phones send email unencrypted. This isn't true. Email is encrypted on the route to Google's servers. What happens from there is dependent on the eventual destination. This is the same standard that BIS meets, right?
Apple computers can run Linux just fine. :P
They purchased the rights for Taiwan, not China.
Purchasing rights to use a trademark in Mexico does not give one rights to use a trademark in the United States.
I don't work in IT but I could see myself doing that out of curiosity.
I think this used to happen with my Xperia X10 quite frequently when it was dropped. I have a rubber case on it now though and it no longer happens.
I'm confused - you talk about readership being more about web technologies and startups with a tone that suggests that is a bad thing. You say you could care less about new jquery libraries. I guess I wonder how much less you could care. Then you talk about how entrepreneurs are mostly failures waiting to happen.
Based on the overall tone of your article I got the sense that you looked upon Hacker News in a negative fashion. Yet, you finished the post by saying it had a higher signal to noise ratio, implying that it was actually better than Slashdot.
I think some clarification is needed.
It is and it isn't. Yes, the reality is that a lot of work in the workplace does happen in groups. At the same time, there is an expectation that each member comes to the table with a certain baseline skillset/knowledge base (i.e. that they have something to contribute). By permitting students to share all of their work they are enabling certain students to submit a result that does not reflect their understanding of the material.
In the end this is either a help or a hindrance for the student being carried. It is a hindrance if the student is capable of understanding the material but doesn't take the time to do so. Thus he/she does not get the value out of his education that he/she might have had he/she done the work and learned the material. In this case he/she paid the money for the degree but it doesn't get him/her as far as he/she could have gone had he/she put in the effort. It is a help for the student if the student would not have been able to learn the material (i.e. if they just were mentally unable to understand it). In this case, he/she has a piece of paper saying that he/she is more capable than the actual situation. Thus the degree might open doors that might have otherwise been closed and they can scrape by.
You don't bury the survivors - you let their families do it when they die.
I both agree and disagree. Obviously if you are writing low level systems you want to make them as efficient as possible. One can't forget though that there are sometimes inherent limits that an application should respect. It isn't unreasonable, for example, to suggest that an application shouldn't try to use an SD card as its display buffer. Sometimes there are good reasons to tell an app "you can't do that".
It isn't the model the cable company wants you to follow, but I could see how it would be tempting. Presumably the extra $30/month isn't just for those two shows. The problem is the package system which forces you to buy $30/month of stuff when you really just want a small portion of what that buys.
Given this, it would be easier for somebody to justify 'piracy'. He is getting the content and the author/creator is being compensated (note that he claimed that he purchases the box sets when they come out). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the producer of the content actually receives more compensation from a DVD box set purchase than from cable subscription payments because the cable subscription payments would be distributed across all the content which presumably isn't the case when buying specific box sets.
I'm not saying that Cable/Satellite providers in Canada don't rip you off, but what you say just isn't true:
You don't need an HD-DVR. You just need any old cable/satellite box. Bell's site completely sucks and I wasn't able to price anything out, but with Rogers you can get basic digital cable ($34.49/month), rent a receiver box ($4.56/month) and get the TMN and MPIX package ($20.95/month which includes HBO) for a total of $60/month plus fees (which admittedly always makes me cringe, but I don't know what they actually come to).
I do believe that Cable/Satellite is over priced and only get it because other household members want it, you greatly exaggerate the situation and only make yourself look silly.
Or perhaps they have judged that people wouldn't pay what it would cost without the ads.
Perhaps I'm daft and just don't understand what you mean. GP was talking about data usage as a function of subscriber density. Required bandwidth depends on more than just the number if subscribers per unit area. It also depends on how much data each of those subscribers use. I would presume that since data is three times as expensive as it is in the US that data usage per subscriber would be lower. That should (although it is admittedly not a simple relationship as it depends on human behaviour) mean lower required bandwidth.
I can't speak for Europe, but my impression is that data transfer is a lot more expensive here than it is in the US. From AT&T in the US $30 gets you a 3 gig data plan where in Canada that same $30 gets you a 1 gig data plan.
For the same spend in the US you get three times the data capacity.
So if by doing it wrong you mean the carriers in the US are not charging as much, then you're right.
The latest nuclear fission technologies are a lot safer than most people believe.
I think you answered your own question there.
It's already called homeopathic medicine.
You mean like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slamball