Not all airfields can accommodate the C-5, which is a huge plane. It needs a relatively long runway and the fueling requirements might be hard for civilian airfields to meet. For the same reason, I don't think it's likely the A-380 will win the competition. The President needs accessibility to as many airfields as possible in case of emergency, so being in a plane that can only land in huge airfields is inappropriate.
Credit reporting agencies may have updated information on your whereabouts but the law restricts them to report only with your permission and only for legitimate purposes. The financial penalties are severe. Therefore, I doubt that BestBuy or Samsung walked around pulling the credit reports of hundreds or thousands of consumers without their permission just to send an update disk.
Disaster recovery is a role better carried out by huge corporations rather than your average mom and pop or college kid. I'm sure we'd like to keep all of our data given that the odd statement PDF isn't very big but one flood or computer crash and you'll be calling Verizon for past statements.
That's not true. Companies settle because there is typically too much to put in the hands of a relatively uneducated judge and jury, even when you factor in the value of preventing future lawsuits. Patent litigation typically involves a company's most profitable products. Losing a litigation, or even being enjoined from selling the products while the suit is pending, would be disastrous to a company's business. Averting future lawsuits has no value if the current lawsuit bankrupts the company. Also, if you fight to the bitter end and happen to lose, and have to pay a large bounty, there really was no prevention anyway.
In many cases, the risk is simply untenable on any measure for an intelligent company to litigate patents to a verdict. Frivolous lawsuits are typically brought by "non-practicing entities," the polite term for patent trolls, in pro-plaintiff districts such as the Eastern District of Texas. Taking on all of the patent trolls is ridiculous because they only risk their legal fees while the defendant risks their livelihood. For instance, RIM refused to settle a patent infringement lawsuit targeting the Blackberry until the court threatened to shut off all Blackberries in the United States. RIM had to pay NTP $612 million to settle instead of the $20 million NTP was demanding before the adverse ruling. Microsoft lost a patent infringement lawsuit for $1.52 billion that was later reduced on appeal to $500 million. If you assume they could have settled the lawsuit for $10 million, the general counsel who lost the company $490 million would have a hard time explaining how that was worth the prevention, in light of the fact that paying out $500 million encourages even more patent trolls to fuck with you.
In a game theoretical sense, you may want to fight everything to the end. But settlements are usually fair in broad strokes degree because you have businessmen and lawyers calculating the validity and odds of various claims. Otherwise, you have a judge and jury who do not know that much trying to learn the law and the technology deciding the future of your company. If the judge decides to enjoin your product or the jury rules against you for $1 billion, you are shit out of luck.
I agree that the article missed lots of easy performance boosts. RAM is so cheap, they definitely should have maxed out the board. As far as the hard drive goes, they should have added a RAID controller card with 128 megabytes of on-board cache along with a bunch of 1.5 GB hard drives in RAID configuration. Multiple screens is the credited response. At the very least, they could drive a Dell 30" Ultrasharp and two 24" screens on the side.
Man, Apple really sold out to get all the DRM removed from their music. What rat bastards! It cannot possibly be the case that the music industry wanted more money for more rights and Apple yielded.
It's not clear that he's learned his lesson. From the skeleton JournalSpace page, "Here is what happened: the server which held the journalspace data had two large drives in a RAID configuration. As data is written (such as saving an item to the database), it's automatically copied to both drives, as a backup mechanism."
It's not backup! RAID provides reliability through redundancy. An on-site disaster, power outage, or software problem will cause you to lose your data.
If it were a conspiracy, the conspirators would undoubtedly want a better cover story than "I found a tiny microchip amongst 100 square miles of debris." And they would fabricate a better one. If you get to write whatever you want, you would want a story that is believable. For instance, the TWA Flight 800 explosion was blamed on a center fuel tank explosion. Wouldn't conspirators in the government want it to be a terrorist attack so as to buttress an invasion of some Arab country?
That's not true at all. We all recognize that breast-feeding is a private act that should not belong in public.
For example. Once there was a "breast-feed in" protest of some sort. Dozens of women were breast-feeding their babies in public. They were clogging up my commute. Anyway, I start taking photos of the hullaboo. Then all of a sudden, the women start yelling at me, calling me a pervert, etc. I pointed out that if they really want to have privacy, they shouldn't be doing this in public.
Just in case, however, I left as quickly as I could. You don't want to bring up women's protective instinct.
The most amazing forensic work I read of was the Lockerbie bombing of a TWA flight while in midair. The debris was scattered over many square miles. Yet the investigators were able to reconstruct the bomb and find the bomb's timing circuit. A chip in the timing circuit was traced to the perpetrators.
T-Mobile's web site will let you register with characters it cannot recognize. I use Keepass to generate and keep track of my passwords. It also uses extended ANSI characters for more safety. I created a secure password for the T-Mobile site and was able to register. However, I couldn't log in. I used the password recovery feature of the web site, which text messaged my password to me. The password showed up as question marks punctuated with letters and numbers. Apparently, the site accepts passwords that it cannot recognize.
You make a mistake yourself, friend. The comparison is against Honda employees who work in the United States, so the "socialized medicine" part never kicks in.
Also, the article happily ignores the fact that the Big Three have to pay out so much to retirees because of labor unions. And the fact that the labor unions want to get that level of benefits for their current workers when THEY retire.
In the real world, knowing what people know is very important. Releasing what you know and what you know others to know would be a disastrous turn for a national security agency (NSA). Whether the bad guys fell for your double agent's lies, for instance, is a crucial fact. If the NSA has compromised a whole bunch of communications systems, we don't want the people using the systems to know that they're compromised!
Sure. We'll just tell you how to make ICBMs (which is what most rockets basically are), nuclear bombs, F-22, stealth technology in general, the Blackbird, cruise missiles, warheads, explosives, carriers, and the supercomputers that the NSA use.
Your view on Sarbanne Oxley depends entirely on your political beliefs. A friend of mine who lost a fortune on Enron AND WorldCom claimed that SOx has cost him more money than both of those companies. He meant it literally. Keep in mind that SOx didn't kick in until 2003, and my friend has been in school since that time.
Personally, I find it suspicious that all the brilliant businessmen are complaining about SOx strangling their business. It's almost as if they can't cook the books anymore and they're chafing.
Policemen and firemen take up much more money in salaries and guaranteed retirement benefits than politicians, if only because there are so many more of the former group. Also, the result of cutting politicians' pay would be to make it so that only the rich and the corrupt can afford to be politicians.
If you read the article you'd understand there is a cyber war and it isn't just script kiddies or digital anarchists attacking secure computer systems. Secure NASA systems were rooted by a guy who sent 30 gigabytes of data to a location in Taiwan, where it probably was sent to China. That's not anarchy; it's an attempt to steal confidential data. And so it goes. A hacker got spyware onto a joint government/Lockheed system and stole some info there, but no one knows how much data was stolen.
There may be attacks that are pointless, but that doesn't mean there aren't highly targeted attacks meant to steal confidential information about space missions just as the world is re-entering the Space Race (China going to space, Indians to the moon, Americans to the moon and Mars, etc.)
Drug companies would be fucking doing jigs around their nicely-appointed offices if they didn't have to make any fucking vaccines, which are dirt cheap and used only three times per person per lifetime. Big pharma would much rather have you get chronic illnesses you have to take pills repeatedly for. I mean, if you don't get the MMR vaccine and get the mumps and end up needing some prescription drug for the rest of your life, THAT makes big pharma a whole shitload more money than the buck-fifty they sell the MMR vaccine for.
Few people understand that vaccines exist only because the government asks companies to make them and then has to insure them against the risk of lawsuits. Again, selling shots that cost a few bucks each and selling them to millions of kids a year is not a great business if you have to pay for the liability of one kid ending up with a nebulous disorder you cannot prove was not caused by your vaccine.
There are reasons to hate vaccines but most vaccines are not huge money-makers for pharma. Only the government cares because they have to come up with the standards and pay the insurance bills for it.
If germs actually could mutate in a manner that made themselves invulnerable to vaccines, we better start vaccinating the population of the Third World! Imagine all those non-vaccinated Mexicans with super-mumps and rubella!
Nah. I actually doubt that vaccinations and antibiotics work in that manner. With the exception of the flu, I'm unaware of a vaccine that stops working because the targeted bug evolved into a new form.
One could construe this as Obama being deviously brilliant. If he keeps Clinton and Richardson outside the loop then they will hate him and want to bring him down. He will have no idea what they're up to and he'd have to worry about them. But if he has them on his side, they can't stab him in the back without looking like bitter assholes. They have to take his agenda because he's THEIR President. Keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer.
Just because Obama assigned them to that post does not mean he has to do as they say.
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Not all airfields can accommodate the C-5, which is a huge plane. It needs a relatively long runway and the fueling requirements might be hard for civilian airfields to meet. For the same reason, I don't think it's likely the A-380 will win the competition. The President needs accessibility to as many airfields as possible in case of emergency, so being in a plane that can only land in huge airfields is inappropriate.
Greyhound may use a lot less gas than a driving yourself and/or the airplane.
Credit reporting agencies may have updated information on your whereabouts but the law restricts them to report only with your permission and only for legitimate purposes. The financial penalties are severe. Therefore, I doubt that BestBuy or Samsung walked around pulling the credit reports of hundreds or thousands of consumers without their permission just to send an update disk.
Disaster recovery is a role better carried out by huge corporations rather than your average mom and pop or college kid. I'm sure we'd like to keep all of our data given that the odd statement PDF isn't very big but one flood or computer crash and you'll be calling Verizon for past statements.
Eating food generally isn't considered an investment even though you need to eat to survive.
That's not true. Companies settle because there is typically too much to put in the hands of a relatively uneducated judge and jury, even when you factor in the value of preventing future lawsuits. Patent litigation typically involves a company's most profitable products. Losing a litigation, or even being enjoined from selling the products while the suit is pending, would be disastrous to a company's business. Averting future lawsuits has no value if the current lawsuit bankrupts the company. Also, if you fight to the bitter end and happen to lose, and have to pay a large bounty, there really was no prevention anyway.
In many cases, the risk is simply untenable on any measure for an intelligent company to litigate patents to a verdict. Frivolous lawsuits are typically brought by "non-practicing entities," the polite term for patent trolls, in pro-plaintiff districts such as the Eastern District of Texas. Taking on all of the patent trolls is ridiculous because they only risk their legal fees while the defendant risks their livelihood. For instance, RIM refused to settle a patent infringement lawsuit targeting the Blackberry until the court threatened to shut off all Blackberries in the United States. RIM had to pay NTP $612 million to settle instead of the $20 million NTP was demanding before the adverse ruling. Microsoft lost a patent infringement lawsuit for $1.52 billion that was later reduced on appeal to $500 million. If you assume they could have settled the lawsuit for $10 million, the general counsel who lost the company $490 million would have a hard time explaining how that was worth the prevention, in light of the fact that paying out $500 million encourages even more patent trolls to fuck with you.
In a game theoretical sense, you may want to fight everything to the end. But settlements are usually fair in broad strokes degree because you have businessmen and lawyers calculating the validity and odds of various claims. Otherwise, you have a judge and jury who do not know that much trying to learn the law and the technology deciding the future of your company. If the judge decides to enjoin your product or the jury rules against you for $1 billion, you are shit out of luck.
I agree that the article missed lots of easy performance boosts. RAM is so cheap, they definitely should have maxed out the board. As far as the hard drive goes, they should have added a RAID controller card with 128 megabytes of on-board cache along with a bunch of 1.5 GB hard drives in RAID configuration. Multiple screens is the credited response. At the very least, they could drive a Dell 30" Ultrasharp and two 24" screens on the side.
Man, Apple really sold out to get all the DRM removed from their music. What rat bastards! It cannot possibly be the case that the music industry wanted more money for more rights and Apple yielded.
It's not clear that he's learned his lesson. From the skeleton JournalSpace page, "Here is what happened: the server which held the journalspace data had two large drives in a RAID configuration. As data is written (such as saving an item to the database), it's automatically copied to both drives, as a backup mechanism."
It's not backup! RAID provides reliability through redundancy. An on-site disaster, power outage, or software problem will cause you to lose your data.
If it were a conspiracy, the conspirators would undoubtedly want a better cover story than "I found a tiny microchip amongst 100 square miles of debris." And they would fabricate a better one. If you get to write whatever you want, you would want a story that is believable. For instance, the TWA Flight 800 explosion was blamed on a center fuel tank explosion. Wouldn't conspirators in the government want it to be a terrorist attack so as to buttress an invasion of some Arab country?
That's not true at all. We all recognize that breast-feeding is a private act that should not belong in public.
For example. Once there was a "breast-feed in" protest of some sort. Dozens of women were breast-feeding their babies in public. They were clogging up my commute. Anyway, I start taking photos of the hullaboo. Then all of a sudden, the women start yelling at me, calling me a pervert, etc. I pointed out that if they really want to have privacy, they shouldn't be doing this in public.
Just in case, however, I left as quickly as I could. You don't want to bring up women's protective instinct.
The most amazing forensic work I read of was the Lockerbie bombing of a TWA flight while in midair. The debris was scattered over many square miles. Yet the investigators were able to reconstruct the bomb and find the bomb's timing circuit. A chip in the timing circuit was traced to the perpetrators.
That was pretty fucking cool, I thought.
T-Mobile's web site will let you register with characters it cannot recognize. I use Keepass to generate and keep track of my passwords. It also uses extended ANSI characters for more safety. I created a secure password for the T-Mobile site and was able to register. However, I couldn't log in. I used the password recovery feature of the web site, which text messaged my password to me. The password showed up as question marks punctuated with letters and numbers. Apparently, the site accepts passwords that it cannot recognize.
How bizarre is that?
You make a mistake yourself, friend. The comparison is against Honda employees who work in the United States, so the "socialized medicine" part never kicks in.
Also, the article happily ignores the fact that the Big Three have to pay out so much to retirees because of labor unions. And the fact that the labor unions want to get that level of benefits for their current workers when THEY retire.
In the real world, knowing what people know is very important. Releasing what you know and what you know others to know would be a disastrous turn for a national security agency (NSA). Whether the bad guys fell for your double agent's lies, for instance, is a crucial fact. If the NSA has compromised a whole bunch of communications systems, we don't want the people using the systems to know that they're compromised!
Sure. We'll just tell you how to make ICBMs (which is what most rockets basically are), nuclear bombs, F-22, stealth technology in general, the Blackbird, cruise missiles, warheads, explosives, carriers, and the supercomputers that the NSA use.
Or perhaps we won't.
Your view on Sarbanne Oxley depends entirely on your political beliefs. A friend of mine who lost a fortune on Enron AND WorldCom claimed that SOx has cost him more money than both of those companies. He meant it literally. Keep in mind that SOx didn't kick in until 2003, and my friend has been in school since that time.
Personally, I find it suspicious that all the brilliant businessmen are complaining about SOx strangling their business. It's almost as if they can't cook the books anymore and they're chafing.
I get the feeling that better prenatal care of the mother would prevent a lot of those premature births. A lot more than better incubators, I'm sure.
Policemen and firemen take up much more money in salaries and guaranteed retirement benefits than politicians, if only because there are so many more of the former group. Also, the result of cutting politicians' pay would be to make it so that only the rich and the corrupt can afford to be politicians.
If you read the article you'd understand there is a cyber war and it isn't just script kiddies or digital anarchists attacking secure computer systems. Secure NASA systems were rooted by a guy who sent 30 gigabytes of data to a location in Taiwan, where it probably was sent to China. That's not anarchy; it's an attempt to steal confidential data. And so it goes. A hacker got spyware onto a joint government/Lockheed system and stole some info there, but no one knows how much data was stolen.
There may be attacks that are pointless, but that doesn't mean there aren't highly targeted attacks meant to steal confidential information about space missions just as the world is re-entering the Space Race (China going to space, Indians to the moon, Americans to the moon and Mars, etc.)
Drug companies would be fucking doing jigs around their nicely-appointed offices if they didn't have to make any fucking vaccines, which are dirt cheap and used only three times per person per lifetime. Big pharma would much rather have you get chronic illnesses you have to take pills repeatedly for. I mean, if you don't get the MMR vaccine and get the mumps and end up needing some prescription drug for the rest of your life, THAT makes big pharma a whole shitload more money than the buck-fifty they sell the MMR vaccine for.
Few people understand that vaccines exist only because the government asks companies to make them and then has to insure them against the risk of lawsuits. Again, selling shots that cost a few bucks each and selling them to millions of kids a year is not a great business if you have to pay for the liability of one kid ending up with a nebulous disorder you cannot prove was not caused by your vaccine.
There are reasons to hate vaccines but most vaccines are not huge money-makers for pharma. Only the government cares because they have to come up with the standards and pay the insurance bills for it.
If germs actually could mutate in a manner that made themselves invulnerable to vaccines, we better start vaccinating the population of the Third World! Imagine all those non-vaccinated Mexicans with super-mumps and rubella!
Nah. I actually doubt that vaccinations and antibiotics work in that manner. With the exception of the flu, I'm unaware of a vaccine that stops working because the targeted bug evolved into a new form.
All the idiots who install Vista SP1, apparently.
One could construe this as Obama being deviously brilliant. If he keeps Clinton and Richardson outside the loop then they will hate him and want to bring him down. He will have no idea what they're up to and he'd have to worry about them. But if he has them on his side, they can't stab him in the back without looking like bitter assholes. They have to take his agenda because he's THEIR President. Keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer.
Just because Obama assigned them to that post does not mean he has to do as they say.