The real story here is that project managers actually convinced someone (probably a lot of people) that their ideas about man-hours being measurable and having a specific cost are somehow grounded in reality. Bastards.
Umm, I don't think you understood what I meant, which is understandable considering that what I'm talking about is so ridiculous. I've seen more than one company issue email addresses using the template:
companyName_employeeName@gmail.com to its employees in complete disregard of the fact that you can get a Google Apps account for employeeName@companyName.com at no charge. You don't need an IT guy for that. One such company that I'm referring to was a small software development company that was probably the 2nd best in it's niche market.
As with most security issues, you need to start the mitigation process at layer 8. That is, you need to educate yourself about your bank's specific policies on what will happen when your card (or the information on it) gets stolen. Since policies vary from bank to bank, you'll need to ask them what your liability will be in different scenarios.
In most cases, credit cards offer more consumer protection in terms of your ability to reverse the charges (charge back) on purchases that you did not authorize. That also means that unscrupulous merchants who bill you for a product that they don't deliver face a much lighter penalty than those who take money directly from your bank account, but I digress. American Express has some of the most consumer-friendly policies in the industry (which is one reason why so few places accept it), so I would recommend you use them and just pay your bill on time every month in lieu of a debit card.
On the subject of technological security, I think it's interesting how credit card companies are so aggressively pushing for RFID-enabled cards. They claim that those cards are more secure, and a cursory examination would seem to confirm that. However, I've recently read a couple stories about how they are ridiculously easy to read and duplicate...even without the user's knowledge. If anyone can provide some expertise on that subject, I'd like to hear it.
the way things are going they'll just point people to "facebook.com/companyName"
At least that's more professional than the ad I recently heard advertising a company's @gmail.com email address. I mean, they let you use your own domain with Google Apps and it's completely free (basic edition anyway). How do people who use Gmail in their businesses not realize this?
The Catholic church teaches that Hell is the absence of God's grace, and not a literal physical torment. Catholics do not threaten people with torture (admittedly, not in recent years). That sort of thing is what you will hear coming from the various non-Catholic Christian sects in the US. The church knows that they have made mistakes. Nowadays, they teach the concept of a "living" church...one that acknowledges that change is inevitable and usually for the best.
I will admit though, that most of these reforms only took place as a result of Vatican 2, which took effect in 1965. It's better late than never...having been born after 1965, I really didn't notice.
Why not? He was one of them. He was employed by them. They were his friends and family. They didn't kill him. He died of natural causes (a stroke in his 70's). They just said that his idea of a heliocentric earth (one of many achievements) was heretical, but well after the fact. And then they admitted that they were wrong. What's not to forgive?
So, you're saying that they are now forgiving Copernicus for being right all along?
Of course not. I'm saying that they are admitting that they were wrong because they believe that Copernicus will forgive them. Catholics believe in the inherent fallability of man (read: original sin, etc.). And they believe that this fallability can be corrected through pennance and admission of guilt...unlike some who will never admit they are wrong because they believe that there is nothing to be gained by it.
Actually they used police forensic experts, who (surprise, surprise) were probably not priests. Darn. I guess you got me. You'll probably even point out that I goofed when I said they took six years even though they actually found the bones in 2005 after starting in 2004. In any case, it does not change the fact that the church is painfully well aware of advances in modern science and doing the best it can to reconcile those with their beliefs and those of their faithful followers.
This was no ordinary discovery. According to TFA, they spent six years searching for the remains. Once they were found, they used DNA markers (!) and facial bone reconstruction to positively identify the man as Copernicus. Everyone joking about how the church is 500 years behind in technology should take note.
They're doing this as a PR stunt to distract people from the mistakes they're making today.
If I designed a device to automatically lower fresh tinfoil hats from the ceiling whenever the one you're wearing now got worn out, I would make a mint.
Who cares what The Church does with whatever-is-left-of-his-body now? 500 years later?
Catholics care. They care because they believe in the sacrament of forgiveness. They care because they believe that people have immortal souls that can last more than 500 years after someone's death.
There are lots of Catholic schools in America (Catholics too, obviously) and they all teach that the Church has accepted the notion that man came about by the process of evolution, albeit a process conceived of and initiated by God. Also, I would guess that the vast majority of Christian schools in the country are Catholic, even though Catholics only make up 30 percent of US Christians.
Interesting point. Do you have any links you can share that explain their position? I must admit that when Oracle bought Sun I thought of it more as an acquisition of MySql and Java than anything else.
The Linux market seems very healthy at the moment and I hope it continues to be at least a duopoly.
Wouldn't that be a tri-opoly considering Oracle's Unbreakable Linux? Or, a quad-opoly, also considering Canonical's Ubuntu server offerings. I'll admit that I don't know much about the difference between Unbreakable Linux and Suse, but it seems that having a company like Oracle behind it would make it a more appealing 2nd option, right?
On a side note, I find it a bit odd that TFA kind of backs up this Redhad/Suse duopoly concept, even though it was written by Matt Asay, COO of Canonical.
Again, this proves just how utterly clueless judges (and politicans) are of how the Internet actually works
Heh...yeah. Those idiots think that torrents actually get used for piracy!..And that its not completely impossible to write a regex to filter out a list of file names. Oh, wait.
All disasters could have been prevented by taking some action, but there is no action we can take to prevent all disasters. That is my fundamental point and the reason I wanted to use stronger language. Risk vs. reward decisions are made every day and unless we want to revert back to the stone age, we must accept that the outcome of some decisions will have massive impact. I'm not saying we shouldn't make efforts to avoid oil spills...I'm saying that we need to keep things in perspective to avoid taking extreme actions based solely on anger or paranoia.
...should have been fairly obvious considering how the FTC approved the far more questionable acquisition of Doubleclick three years ago. They approved that one on the basis that competition would not be hurt since Google and Doubleclick were not technically in competition with each other. The companies were, nevertheless, placing ads in the same browser windows which brought up issues of consumer privacy...issues which were promptly ignored because, again, there was no threat to competition.
In this case we're dealing with a mobile advertiser merging with (until now) a primarily non-mobile advertiser. Again, no question about killing competition, and a much smaller price tag ($750M versus $3.1B) to boot. I'm not sure what type of consumer protection/privacy issues could be raised, but that's really not the question here.
The statistic you are quoting is for the People's Republic of China, not the ROC where the factory is located. I suspect the Taiwanese suicide rate is lower, but couldn't find any recent stats.
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You do realize that the show is based on a book, right?
The real story here is that project managers actually convinced someone (probably a lot of people) that their ideas about man-hours being measurable and having a specific cost are somehow grounded in reality. Bastards.
Umm, I don't think you understood what I meant, which is understandable considering that what I'm talking about is so ridiculous. I've seen more than one company issue email addresses using the template:
companyName_employeeName@gmail.com to its employees in complete disregard of the fact that you can get a Google Apps account for employeeName@companyName.com at no charge. You don't need an IT guy for that. One such company that I'm referring to was a small software development company that was probably the 2nd best in it's niche market.
As with most security issues, you need to start the mitigation process at layer 8. That is, you need to educate yourself about your bank's specific policies on what will happen when your card (or the information on it) gets stolen. Since policies vary from bank to bank, you'll need to ask them what your liability will be in different scenarios.
In most cases, credit cards offer more consumer protection in terms of your ability to reverse the charges (charge back) on purchases that you did not authorize. That also means that unscrupulous merchants who bill you for a product that they don't deliver face a much lighter penalty than those who take money directly from your bank account, but I digress. American Express has some of the most consumer-friendly policies in the industry (which is one reason why so few places accept it), so I would recommend you use them and just pay your bill on time every month in lieu of a debit card.
On the subject of technological security, I think it's interesting how credit card companies are so aggressively pushing for RFID-enabled cards. They claim that those cards are more secure, and a cursory examination would seem to confirm that. However, I've recently read a couple stories about how they are ridiculously easy to read and duplicate...even without the user's knowledge. If anyone can provide some expertise on that subject, I'd like to hear it.
the way things are going they'll just point people to "facebook.com/companyName"
At least that's more professional than the ad I recently heard advertising a company's @gmail.com email address. I mean, they let you use your own domain with Google Apps and it's completely free (basic edition anyway). How do people who use Gmail in their businesses not realize this?
The Catholic church teaches that Hell is the absence of God's grace, and not a literal physical torment. Catholics do not threaten people with torture (admittedly, not in recent years). That sort of thing is what you will hear coming from the various non-Catholic Christian sects in the US. The church knows that they have made mistakes. Nowadays, they teach the concept of a "living" church...one that acknowledges that change is inevitable and usually for the best.
I will admit though, that most of these reforms only took place as a result of Vatican 2, which took effect in 1965. It's better late than never...having been born after 1965, I really didn't notice.
No. They believe that he is in heaven and that, because of this ceremony, they will go to heaven too.
Why not? He was one of them. He was employed by them. They were his friends and family. They didn't kill him. He died of natural causes (a stroke in his 70's). They just said that his idea of a heliocentric earth (one of many achievements) was heretical, but well after the fact. And then they admitted that they were wrong. What's not to forgive?
So, you're saying that they are now forgiving Copernicus for being right all along?
Of course not. I'm saying that they are admitting that they were wrong because they believe that Copernicus will forgive them. Catholics believe in the inherent fallability of man (read: original sin, etc.). And they believe that this fallability can be corrected through pennance and admission of guilt...unlike some who will never admit they are wrong because they believe that there is nothing to be gained by it.
Actually they used police forensic experts, who (surprise, surprise) were probably not priests. Darn. I guess you got me. You'll probably even point out that I goofed when I said they took six years even though they actually found the bones in 2005 after starting in 2004. In any case, it does not change the fact that the church is painfully well aware of advances in modern science and doing the best it can to reconcile those with their beliefs and those of their faithful followers.
This was no ordinary discovery. According to TFA, they spent six years searching for the remains. Once they were found, they used DNA markers (!) and facial bone reconstruction to positively identify the man as Copernicus. Everyone joking about how the church is 500 years behind in technology should take note.
From TFA:
The tombstone is decorated with a model of the solar system, a golden sun encircled by six of the planets.
They stopped after Saturn because the next one is...you know...*dirty*
Church Admits Touching Children and Covering it Up Not Such a Good Idea.
Thanks. They've already admitted that, Troll.
They're doing this as a PR stunt to distract people from the mistakes they're making today.
If I designed a device to automatically lower fresh tinfoil hats from the ceiling whenever the one you're wearing now got worn out, I would make a mint.
Who cares what The Church does with whatever-is-left-of-his-body now? 500 years later?
Catholics care. They care because they believe in the sacrament of forgiveness. They care because they believe that people have immortal souls that can last more than 500 years after someone's death.
There are lots of Catholic schools in America (Catholics too, obviously) and they all teach that the Church has accepted the notion that man came about by the process of evolution, albeit a process conceived of and initiated by God. Also, I would guess that the vast majority of Christian schools in the country are Catholic, even though Catholics only make up 30 percent of US Christians.
Interesting point. Do you have any links you can share that explain their position? I must admit that when Oracle bought Sun I thought of it more as an acquisition of MySql and Java than anything else.
The Linux market seems very healthy at the moment and I hope it continues to be at least a duopoly.
Wouldn't that be a tri-opoly considering Oracle's Unbreakable Linux? Or, a quad-opoly, also considering Canonical's Ubuntu server offerings. I'll admit that I don't know much about the difference between Unbreakable Linux and Suse, but it seems that having a company like Oracle behind it would make it a more appealing 2nd option, right?
On a side note, I find it a bit odd that TFA kind of backs up this Redhad/Suse duopoly concept, even though it was written by Matt Asay, COO of Canonical.
Again, this proves just how utterly clueless judges (and politicans) are of how the Internet actually works
Heh...yeah. Those idiots think that torrents actually get used for piracy!..And that its not completely impossible to write a regex to filter out a list of file names. Oh, wait.
All disasters could have been prevented by taking some action, but there is no action we can take to prevent all disasters. That is my fundamental point and the reason I wanted to use stronger language. Risk vs. reward decisions are made every day and unless we want to revert back to the stone age, we must accept that the outcome of some decisions will have massive impact. I'm not saying we shouldn't make efforts to avoid oil spills...I'm saying that we need to keep things in perspective to avoid taking extreme actions based solely on anger or paranoia.
FTFA:
He added that there may have been a language barrier between the students and the driver, but he did not know the driver’s name or native tongue.
Sounds like the principal might share some of the blame here. I imagine it went something like this...
Principal: Now, I've already told you, you have to tell us your name before we let you drive the school bus.
Driver: Damn you and your "rules"!!!
In Soviet Russia, iPad mounts you!
...should have been fairly obvious considering how the FTC approved the far more questionable acquisition of Doubleclick three years ago. They approved that one on the basis that competition would not be hurt since Google and Doubleclick were not technically in competition with each other. The companies were, nevertheless, placing ads in the same browser windows which brought up issues of consumer privacy...issues which were promptly ignored because, again, there was no threat to competition.
In this case we're dealing with a mobile advertiser merging with (until now) a primarily non-mobile advertiser. Again, no question about killing competition, and a much smaller price tag ($750M versus $3.1B) to boot. I'm not sure what type of consumer protection/privacy issues could be raised, but that's really not the question here.
Sure, why not...
"I see you!! I see what you are doing!!! Return to the night!"
Yeah! And every time I click on a Youtube link I shake my fist in the air and say "Shut up you damn kids" too!
The statistic you are quoting is for the People's Republic of China, not the ROC where the factory is located. I suspect the Taiwanese suicide rate is lower, but couldn't find any recent stats.