Agreed, it can go either way. I know someone who is an "amateur" and goes around helping people with their living spaces (and does quite a good job), but there are some serious "pro" nut-jobs who I wouldn't let into my house normally.
There was some show (was it Bullshit?) where they selected 3 different Feng Shui consultants to come into a house and redecorate it. It was expected that, if this is a Science, they would come to similar conclusions regarding what the layout should be. At the very least, they should use the same logic and descriptions when rearranging things.
Of couse, they didn't. They were pretty crazy. But that doesn't mean that the information/rearrangement they gave was all completely crap. The colors of a room, the arrangement of the furniture, the type of light fixtures, etc, all have a very important effect on your (and your family's/coworker's) mood. Getting a third opinion from someone who rearranges things for a living and has thought about these things could make your life better or easier.
Some things are obvious. Anyone who's worked in a cubicle knows that it's best not to have your back to the entrance (and that natural light is important), but still people frequently don't do this in their home/office. Some are less obvious. People often fail to maximize their available space, or make a room difficult to pick up after or clean. By default, people arrange their living rooms (and bedrooms) around the TV, but if they're asked if that's the lifestyle they want, they say no.
That doesn't mean that you need an expensive waterfall in your entrance, or to paint your bedroom red, or to get a day-glo yellow couch. Or (in this case) you need to completely redesign your website so that water flows better (wtf does that MEAN?!).
when it was clear Apple was going to take forever to deliver a next-generation OS.
Copland gave me hope, but then they scrapped it. At that point I was a little disappointed, but was in no big hurry to switch.
By the time Rhapsody was in the works, it was really time that Apple got a new OS. The poor multitaking and bad memory management were a pain to deal with, and I was exited that maybe there was hope. I installed a beta version of it and was quite impressed (even though there weren't many apps available).
But then (in 1998) it, too was scraped (or transformed into OS X), and it was clear it was going to be quite a while before X came out. At that point I jumped ship over to Slackware Linux, which fulfilled pretty much all of my expectations.
I patiently waited until recently, when I picked up a MBP and am again enjoying the Apple experience.
I don't want my paper "analyzed" in any way by a machine. I have big enough problems with TA's who don't know what they're talking about, thank you very much.
Sorry for the newbie-question, I'm not someone who uses adsense.
Can't this 'fraud' be detected through log analysis (referrers, refearing search phrases, etc)? I would think that you could also configure adsense to link to a specific page (yoursite.com/adsense.php), and monitor it that way.
The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
This is already happening (accidentally). Scientists believe that global warming would be much worse right now if it wasn't for the large ammount of light which gets reflected by airplane contrails and particulate matter which we have introduced into the atmosphere. After 9/11 (when airplanes were grounded) this theory was confirmed.
It's possible that as we remove contaminants from our existing emissions, it could actually make the situation worse by accelerating the rate at which global warming takes place...
Not that we should avoid doing so, but we should also reduce CO2 emissions at the same time (or faster).
I agree completely. Remote root login is disabled by default, and system administrators should *not* enable it unless there is some damned good reason. Too often I have seen sysadmins simply enable root login, and twice now I've seen someone do key exchanges so that they can 'seemlessly' ssh as root between all of their servers.
I disagree, I think that if they had a do-over they would have settled that case much earlier on. 612 million USD is a lot of cash to spend on discouraging other people from filing similar law suits.
In any case, it certainly didn't work. The moral of the story (for companies like Visto) is not "it costs a lot of money to sue RIM" it's "suing RIM gets you $612 million."
Is easy to do under Linux or Windows, so you can already do this without any fancy hardware.
1) Plug in WAP wherever you are 2) Enable ICS or iptables on whatever computer has both the mobile internet card and a wifi card 3) Configure IPs to use the computer in step 2 as gateway 4) Profit! er, I mean: Surf!
We did this on the way up to defcon between 3 cars like 4 or 5 years ago...:)
"the Lane Keep Assist System keeps you headed in the right direction by using a camera on the rear-view mirror to watch the white lines and turn accordingly."
Let's hope that after the UK trial they remember to switch mirrors...
While I sympathize with the painful idea of dealing with 50+ tax codes, I think we all have to admit that the tax code (at some point), has to be adapted to include online purchases.
I hate taxes as much as the next guy, and I've certainly enjoyed nearly tax-free internet shopping for the past decade, but as more and more purchases are made online they begin to seriously cut into state and local government's revenues. Internet shopping has yet to eliminate my usage of roads, and someone has to fund them...
If companies only pay sales tax in their home states then I'd speculate that we'd see a rush on states like Oregon and New Hampshire by some dot-coms, so I think that sending taxes to the customer's state of residence may be the only good solution. I just hope we don't end up paying sales tax twice...
Has he contributed any of his time, money, or skills towards developing open source software? If not, he should shut up.
Look, I'm not trying to say that you have to be a programmer in order to criticize software, but you can't just flame "Open Source" like this. The whole idea is that bugs, when discovered, can be fixed, and that new features can be contributed by users. Can't say that about Closed-source.
If he has a beef with a particular peice of software, let him criticize that particular component, and offer meaninful assistance in the form of time or money.
In flying (to continue his analogy), the airlines are obligated to provide you with a level of service, since they don't allow you to jump into the conference room and set prices or decide whether to serve peanuts or not. Your choice is to deal with it, or start walking.
With Open Source, you're getting it free. It's not Otto-matic, and if the Ottos of the world have have a problem with that, they should get in on the action and lend a hand.
While it's true that some podcast client software just keeps downloading stuff you've pre-selected, I'd say that tracking the downloads of the files themselves is a pretty good way of estimating how many times something is listened to.
Not to mention, podcasters have a whole lot more statistics than, say, radio broadcasters do. This can even include a profile of the user based on all of the different podcasts he/she is subscribed to.
I interpreted this announcement as "Hey, instead of free and open podcasts, how about PAYING money for DRMed podcasts so that we can add ADVERTISEMENTS to them!"
When other countries, IOs, or NGOs complain about the US 'stranglehold' on the Internet, I always see it as someone complaining about a problem that doesn't exist. First off, the Internet functions regardless of who controls the root servers, and if (for some strange reason) the US government did do something foolish, others are free to use different servers.
Regardless, I'm trying to see it from their point of view. Can someone provide specific previous actions which could be used in the argument against continued US 'control' of the registry?
The real question is, can you run skype or other VOIP clients on it? Using VOIP when within range of a 802.11 network could save you a lot of minutes.
Not to mention making long distance calls via 3G internet access. You're still using your minutes, but now you can call anywhere in the world without having to get a second mortgage on your house.
Menzel defended this study, saying that Capgemini provides an independent view, but admitted "sometimes there are situations where you get together with the client and defend their data."
Yeah, sure. Those "situations" would be when "the client" gives you a lot of "their money".
How does this fix anything? Unless they have a solution capable of decrypting a PGP message transferred over SSL in less than 10 minutes, they're pretty much screwed.
Hell, gaim's encryption plugin gets around this. Surely the "evil terrorists" know about encryption at this point, eh?
Getting a little bit OT here but: ***WHY*** can't I use my cell phone on a plane again? If we can put a freaking 802.11 hotspot on there, surely verizon can put a mini cell on the plane.
I suppose it doesn't matter anymore...::busts out skype headset::
They've succesfully implated chips which, after intensive training, allow humans (and monkeys) to control various things by thought.
Initially it's difficult to operate. you think of something like "the color red", and it moves left. but after a while, your mind learns to just do it. Sort of like people recovering from a stroke...
When it takes them a week to "ship" the item. Both B&N and Amazon have this nasty habit of taking forever to ship many items. They give you *free* 3-day shipping, but they take 2 weeks to get started on it.
Here's another annoying feature I found (this one at B&N). I ordered a LOT of books (about 15) and took the free 3-day shipping. They had to break the order up into 3 shipments at different times (over about 4 weeks). EVERY SINGLE TIME they "shipped" (gave me my tracking number) on a wednesday night, which means they gave the product to UPS on thursday morning. Magically UPS now has an extra day to handle the package, because they don't deliver on Sundays.
I thought it might be coincidence at first, but after the 3rd time I figure they had some sort of an agreement with UPS. Now I don't ever pay extra for fast shipping, because they can still have you waiting for weeks anyhow...
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Agreed, it can go either way. I know someone who is an "amateur" and goes around helping people with their living spaces (and does quite a good job), but there are some serious "pro" nut-jobs who I wouldn't let into my house normally.
There was some show (was it Bullshit?) where they selected 3 different Feng Shui consultants to come into a house and redecorate it. It was expected that, if this is a Science, they would come to similar conclusions regarding what the layout should be. At the very least, they should use the same logic and descriptions when rearranging things.
Of couse, they didn't. They were pretty crazy. But that doesn't mean that the information/rearrangement they gave was all completely crap. The colors of a room, the arrangement of the furniture, the type of light fixtures, etc, all have a very important effect on your (and your family's/coworker's) mood. Getting a third opinion from someone who rearranges things for a living and has thought about these things could make your life better or easier.
Some things are obvious. Anyone who's worked in a cubicle knows that it's best not to have your back to the entrance (and that natural light is important), but still people frequently don't do this in their home/office. Some are less obvious. People often fail to maximize their available space, or make a room difficult to pick up after or clean. By default, people arrange their living rooms (and bedrooms) around the TV, but if they're asked if that's the lifestyle they want, they say no.
That doesn't mean that you need an expensive waterfall in your entrance, or to paint your bedroom red, or to get a day-glo yellow couch. Or (in this case) you need to completely redesign your website so that water flows better (wtf does that MEAN?!).
when it was clear Apple was going to take forever to deliver a next-generation OS.
Copland gave me hope, but then they scrapped it. At that point I was a little disappointed, but was in no big hurry to switch.
By the time Rhapsody was in the works, it was really time that Apple got a new OS. The poor multitaking and bad memory management were a pain to deal with, and I was exited that maybe there was hope. I installed a beta version of it and was quite impressed (even though there weren't many apps available).
But then (in 1998) it, too was scraped (or transformed into OS X), and it was clear it was going to be quite a while before X came out. At that point I jumped ship over to Slackware Linux, which fulfilled pretty much all of my expectations.
I patiently waited until recently, when I picked up a MBP and am again enjoying the Apple experience.
and let turnitin grade the papers for us?
I don't want my paper "analyzed" in any way by a machine. I have big enough problems with TA's who don't know what they're talking about, thank you very much.
Sorry for the newbie-question, I'm not someone who uses adsense.
Can't this 'fraud' be detected through log analysis (referrers, refearing search phrases, etc)? I would think that you could also configure adsense to link to a specific page (yoursite.com/adsense.php), and monitor it that way.
Am I way off base here?
It's actually more fun and has a better chance of getting you laid...
From the US Treasury web site:a l-tender.shtml
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/leg
The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
This is already happening (accidentally). Scientists believe that global warming would be much worse right now if it wasn't for the large ammount of light which gets reflected by airplane contrails and particulate matter which we have introduced into the atmosphere. After 9/11 (when airplanes were grounded) this theory was confirmed.
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Here's a (google video) link to a Nova program on the topic:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=736942431
It's possible that as we remove contaminants from our existing emissions, it could actually make the situation worse by accelerating the rate at which global warming takes place...
Not that we should avoid doing so, but we should also reduce CO2 emissions at the same time (or faster).
Now that they aren't on MTV/VH1 anymore, can you blame people for wanting to see them somewhere else?
I don't even know how to *buy* music videos, let alone why anyone would want to.
I agree completely. Remote root login is disabled by default, and system administrators should *not* enable it unless there is some damned good reason. Too often I have seen sysadmins simply enable root login, and twice now I've seen someone do key exchanges so that they can 'seemlessly' ssh as root between all of their servers.
Duh.
I disagree, I think that if they had a do-over they would have settled that case much earlier on. 612 million USD is a lot of cash to spend on discouraging other people from filing similar law suits.
In any case, it certainly didn't work. The moral of the story (for companies like Visto) is not "it costs a lot of money to sue RIM" it's "suing RIM gets you $612 million."
Is easy to do under Linux or Windows, so you can already do this without any fancy hardware.
:)
1) Plug in WAP wherever you are
2) Enable ICS or iptables on whatever computer has both the mobile internet card and a wifi card
3) Configure IPs to use the computer in step 2 as gateway
4) Profit! er, I mean: Surf!
We did this on the way up to defcon between 3 cars like 4 or 5 years ago...
two words: trained falcon.
"the Lane Keep Assist System keeps you headed in the right direction by using a camera on the rear-view mirror to watch the white lines and turn accordingly."
Let's hope that after the UK trial they remember to switch mirrors...
While I sympathize with the painful idea of dealing with 50+ tax codes, I think we all have to admit that the tax code (at some point), has to be adapted to include online purchases.
I hate taxes as much as the next guy, and I've certainly enjoyed nearly tax-free internet shopping for the past decade, but as more and more purchases are made online they begin to seriously cut into state and local government's revenues. Internet shopping has yet to eliminate my usage of roads, and someone has to fund them...
If companies only pay sales tax in their home states then I'd speculate that we'd see a rush on states like Oregon and New Hampshire by some dot-coms, so I think that sending taxes to the customer's state of residence may be the only good solution. I just hope we don't end up paying sales tax twice...
...should get this first. You know, mail men, dog-catchers, the guys who legislated this product's use, and of course, police officers!
-Derek
Has he contributed any of his time, money, or skills towards developing open source software? If not, he should shut up.
Look, I'm not trying to say that you have to be a programmer in order to criticize software, but you can't just flame "Open Source" like this. The whole idea is that bugs, when discovered, can be fixed, and that new features can be contributed by users. Can't say that about Closed-source.
If he has a beef with a particular peice of software, let him criticize that particular component, and offer meaninful assistance in the form of time or money.
In flying (to continue his analogy), the airlines are obligated to provide you with a level of service, since they don't allow you to jump into the conference room and set prices or decide whether to serve peanuts or not. Your choice is to deal with it, or start walking.
With Open Source, you're getting it free. It's not Otto-matic, and if the Ottos of the world have have a problem with that, they should get in on the action and lend a hand.
So shut up and start walking, or help push.
While it's true that some podcast client software just keeps downloading stuff you've pre-selected, I'd say that tracking the downloads of the files themselves is a pretty good way of estimating how many times something is listened to.
Not to mention, podcasters have a whole lot more statistics than, say, radio broadcasters do. This can even include a profile of the user based on all of the different podcasts he/she is subscribed to.
I interpreted this announcement as "Hey, instead of free and open podcasts, how about PAYING money for DRMed podcasts so that we can add ADVERTISEMENTS to them!"
Thanks, but no thanks.
When other countries, IOs, or NGOs complain about the US 'stranglehold' on the Internet, I always see it as someone complaining about a problem that doesn't exist. First off, the Internet functions regardless of who controls the root servers, and if (for some strange reason) the US government did do something foolish, others are free to use different servers.
Regardless, I'm trying to see it from their point of view. Can someone provide specific previous actions which could be used in the argument against continued US 'control' of the registry?
The real question is, can you run skype or other VOIP clients on it? Using VOIP when within range of a 802.11 network could save you a lot of minutes.
Not to mention making long distance calls via 3G internet access. You're still using your minutes, but now you can call anywhere in the world without having to get a second mortgage on your house.
Obviously these people have never read those MSFT funded TCO studies or they would never have let that commie OS through the door.
I'll bet they have, they actually wrote one of those studies
From TFA:
Menzel defended this study, saying that Capgemini provides an independent view, but admitted "sometimes there are situations where you get together with the client and defend their data."
Yeah, sure. Those "situations" would be when "the client" gives you a lot of "their money".
Very objective consultancy.
How does this fix anything? Unless they have a solution capable of decrypting a PGP message transferred over SSL in less than 10 minutes, they're pretty much screwed.
::busts out skype headset::
Hell, gaim's encryption plugin gets around this. Surely the "evil terrorists" know about encryption at this point, eh?
Getting a little bit OT here but: ***WHY*** can't I use my cell phone on a plane again? If we can put a freaking 802.11 hotspot on there, surely verizon can put a mini cell on the plane.
I suppose it doesn't matter anymore...
Does that mean that Google or whichever search engine he was using logged his search history and handed it over to police??
Most likely it means he went to the trouble to PGP encrypt his data, but not wipe his IE history.
Whoops.
So now when they kick you and your friends off the plane for using wifi while in flight, you'll be all good.
I think you might be wrong:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3503/
They've succesfully implated chips which, after intensive training, allow humans (and monkeys) to control various things by thought.
Initially it's difficult to operate. you think of something like "the color red", and it moves left. but after a while, your mind learns to just do it. Sort of like people recovering from a stroke...
When it takes them a week to "ship" the item. Both B&N and Amazon have this nasty habit of taking forever to ship many items. They give you *free* 3-day shipping, but they take 2 weeks to get started on it.
Here's another annoying feature I found (this one at B&N). I ordered a LOT of books (about 15) and took the free 3-day shipping. They had to break the order up into 3 shipments at different times (over about 4 weeks). EVERY SINGLE TIME they "shipped" (gave me my tracking number) on a wednesday night, which means they gave the product to UPS on thursday morning. Magically UPS now has an extra day to handle the package, because they don't deliver on Sundays.
I thought it might be coincidence at first, but after the 3rd time I figure they had some sort of an agreement with UPS. Now I don't ever pay extra for fast shipping, because they can still have you waiting for weeks anyhow...