Current TPS regulations punish the marketeer and do nothing about the company that ordered it and for the carrier supporting it. As a result unsolicited marketing has simply moved abroad. It started as far back as 2003 and has been moving full steam in that direction.
It is not a regulatory regime it is a marketing joke promoted by marketeers so not surprisingly as anything that is solely marketing driven it does not quite work.
Add to that - its "state of the art cryptography" is highly questionable. RC4 is a prehistoric algo.
While it is not a bad algo per-se it is extremely easy to f*** up at the implementation level. WiFi is one example of such royal cockup. There are others.
I would not trust a proprietary system that has not been open to scrutiny to implement RC4 based crypto correctly.
To be most exact they are also not allowed to use any of the seeds and have to buy licensed seed material from Monsanto every year.
Granted, very few farmers in the developed world do their own seeds nowdays. They go and buy seed material and there is a reasonably wide market for that. If GM in the form advocated by monsanto is allowed this market is killed outright and converted into a near monopoly for Monsanto. That is by the way the primary concern of legislators, regulators and governments in the EU. It is not the GM itself, it is the fact that if it is allowed a monopoly on par with United Fruit of old will shortly follow.
In any case GM as advocated by Monsanto is actually unnecessary in the longer term. Induced mutations (radiation, chemicals, etc) and other means to create initial material for the standard selection process are perfectly legal and are now widely in use throughout the industry. When this is combined with DNA sequencing and modern mol biol techniques to track the results it allows perfectly legal selection methods which result in pretty much the same as what Monsanto is trying to offer. It takes longer, but it is also applicable to plants and animals that are presently outside the GM scope. The super-wheat and super-corn obtained through such "legal" methods is probably less than 5-10 years away anyway and most importantly it will _NOT_ be a monopoly. There will be multiple varieties to chose from.
From this perspective the prohibition of Monstanto style GM is a very good thing. I am all for it.
Toxo used to be common everywhere. It is carried by rats and in the days before treated water and strict sanitary control of meat and other produce most of the population carried the infection.
Toxo infestation in the host is characterised by reckless behaviour and inability to assess risk as well as loss of instinct of selfpreservation. A rat infected with Toxo instead of running away from a predator will actually often go to it. This is actually a good treat in sports. All it takes is some percentage of the population to be infected to create a "win at all cost" mentality, peer pressure pretty much does the rest.
By the way, the decrease in the level of toxo infection from nearly 100% a century ago to sub 10% today may be the reason why we do not take risks so willingly any more.
The lessons have been learned. We now go and do velvet revolutions and install "democratic puppets" in their place propping them with money.
The system is actually flawless and simple in its perfection and the Russian are yet to find any countermeasures. I have seen it in action myself and know people who have participated in at least one country. I have friends from other ex-Eastern block countries who have observed it there.
1. In each country targeted for the next Velvet revolution the USA embassy through its cultural section sponsors a local baseball league. Totally legit and above board.
2. The "trainers" are the same each time. The same people who did the revolution in Chechoslovakia, went later to work in Bulgaria, Serbia and Georgia. They are in middle Asia now.
3. The "Velvet" revolution is always scheduled for winter and for a day with snow. It has never ever happened during other times. There is a reason for that. When trained baseball players throw snowballs with stone cores there is no need for weapons. However this needs snow, otherwise it is clear what is being done. As a result the government has no choice but to order the police to open fire in return (so far only Belorussia has had the guts to do that) or face the perspective of a lynch mob and resign. All it takes is 6-10 people who join the otherwise peaceful demonstration.
You are suffering from an "American Short Memory Syndrome". Iran used to be a secular republic before UK and US planted the Shah in the first place. This is what the GP is referring to.
It was the years of repression by the Shah regime which brought the Ajatollahs into power. If UK and US would have left the original Democracy in place the islamic revolution would have never happened.
We are currently dealing with the fallout from 40+ years of US/UK sponsored dictatorships around the world. While some places like Latin America are slowly shrugging off the worst of it, the middle east is still in the "chickens coming home to roost and having diarrhea" phase. Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon - you name it.
This is still continuing though we prop democracies now. All early post-iron-curtain governments in Eastern Europe were propped with suitcases full of green bucks. All velvet/pink/blue etc "bloodless" revolutions were rehearsed and organised. It is too early to say what exactly are we going to "eat" with this, but we surely will. Hopefully it will not be as indigestible as the current mess with two nuclear states on the verge of going renegade.
Some of the production is apparently quite high-tech. People build dedicated greenhouse installations under ground (to avoid detection via IR cameras). Water, hydroponics, etc is all automated.
For influenza (or most viruses for that matter) you do not need even that. They live for half an hour/hour tops outside the human body. Usually even less.
Now bacteria is a completely different ball game. Some of them (the ones that can produce spores) can survive even boiling the laptop and dipping it into bleach.
So frankly, the best thing to do is to do nothing at all.
First thing in cases like this is to check that you actually see the same in all colours. You can even test yourself. Get a set of coloured plastic foils from an arts & craft shop and see if there is a difference in the way you see printed text through a coloured filter. This is much more common than people think.
If that is the case VIM is not the answer as AFAIK it does only colour highlighting, not font based highlighting (old Turbo/Delphi style).
Farming out homework is something that has been going on since the days when the only thing that was studied in Heidelberg was theology.
There is nothing particularly new and surprising here except Internet enabling the homework to be farmed out further afield.
Further to this, a f2f examination can determine if the homework is real or not real in a matter of seconds. So anyone bitching about the practice becoming more prevalent should actually bitch about tests and assignments replacing good old f2f examination.
And if it was true all investment shops would have used this tech instead of paying silly money to people who know math and can do modelling. I have not heard of that happening just yet so as they say: "keep me posted..."
The actual reason for the game industry to be short on talented new hires is the "We do not work for the money, we work for the cool" requirement for being hired.
I had one or two brush-ups with the industry while looking for a job and frankly as once upon a time said by Greg Lake they are getting "Whatever Christmas they deserve".
While it is possible to hire a person from time to time on the basis of "Kewl", it is not possible to maintain an industry this way. Industries operate on the basis of "I work for money, if you want (Loyalty, Kewl, etc... underline the applicable) get a dog"Â
There is nothing more unpleasant than a golf course near a resort in a hot climate. It is like being on holiday in a swamp. Best example - Costa del Fuste on Fuerteventura.
If it is licensed not sold it is subject to a different taxation regime.
The vendors and especially the software ones cannot have it both ways. It is either a sale or a rent.
It it is a sale it is subject to appropriate financial regime for sales (VAT, can be registered as a capital asset, depreciation, etc). Income from sales can be taxed in a different jurisdiction. Even if the sale has taken place in a "nasty taxation" place like UK, Scandinavia, New York, etc, all taxation can be done in a place with lax taxation like Ireland in the EU or Texas in the USA.
If it is a rent it cannot be depreciated and cannot count for capex. It is opex, period. Similarly, income from rent in nearly all countries in the world must be taxed locally. The usual tax evasion practices of big software and hardware vendors are outright illegal and forbidden by law.
So frankly, if it is licensed and the licensing contract is valid - come on, try to prove it. All the defendant needs to bring are the taxation statements of company X. If X wins it will lose its taxation regime.
The life, universe and everything. Well... After all Douglas Adams was British.
Anyway. The law is not on the statute books and will most likely never be on it. At the same time Gordon Brown screwed the country economy by the tune of around 1B in "incentives" to purchase the missing votes from Northern Irish ex-paramilitaries. What a moron and what an idiotic waste of money.
It would not be necessary if engineers knew a little bit of economics. I am sick of repeating the same two questions all over again: "Where is the money" and "What is the ROI". That is to both MBAs and engineers by the way.
Ranger is not dead. They are selling them in the more fuel price-conscious areas like Europe. So all Ford needs to do is turn around and shift back production. It also has a reasonable lineup of fuel efficient cars made for EU. While I may think that Focus, Fusion and the Fiasco are crap they are what Joe Average Consumer likes. Ditto for GM.
So as a matter of fact this will not hurt most the American car industry that much (and if Crysler dies this is for the good of the humanity, about bloody time).
However, it looks like GM, Ford, etc are quite obviously using this is as a convenient scapegoat to trim the fat and close a few surplus factories instead of retooling them for small car production.
I have not followed the USA political scene for a while, but this is happening very close to elections and is baring some striking similarities with the things that happened in Pittsburgh and other steel industry centers when Bush got elected for the first time.
You should never defend someone who was stupid enough to import himself a mail order bl'ad. This very clearly puts in the right perspective his social skills, social orientation and actual capabilities as a human to fit into human society.
He however is definitely not alone, if he was Anastasia International would not have been targeting slashdot specifically for advertisements with pretty pictures of bl'ad in full war paint.
Screw the hardware accelerated 3D. What is more interesting - does it have support for hardware accelerated 2D and more specifically XVideo (MPEG accel will be a nice option). If not, I would keep my PC, thank you.
And how exactly will two different websites share the same IP I may ask? The cert is checked at handshake time so you can have only one website running on that IP.
That's one of the many uses of pound or other reverse SSL proxies by the way - to merge multiple websites behind the same IP. In my previous job at one point I had 6 or 7 different sites running on different servers and different OSes merged behind a single SSL frontend.
Neah, it is just the 11% that have an account in Lichtenshtein or a villa on Majorca in the name of their great grand aunt.
After the Euro changeover the German Tax office had a large contingent of their officers seconded to the Balearics and Canaries for a couple of years for a reason. Based on the submitted tax returns the burgers were poor as church mice. At the same time the construction industry in Spain was undergoing a multibillion euro boom with German money appearing out of nowhere. Most of it is still untraced by the way (though some taxes have been collected).
In any case, it is the country where tax evasion is so ripe that tracking evaders has escalated to the point of being the secret services. And on top of all they actually dare bitching about black market economies and such in Eastern Europe. They should fix themselves first.
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The problem is that the marketeer does not care.
Current TPS regulations punish the marketeer and do nothing about the company that ordered it and for the carrier supporting it. As a result unsolicited marketing has simply moved abroad. It started as far back as 2003 and has been moving full steam in that direction.
It is not a regulatory regime it is a marketing joke promoted by marketeers so not surprisingly as anything that is solely marketing driven it does not quite work.
And in which jurisdiction are you going to sue?
Add to that - its "state of the art cryptography" is highly questionable. RC4 is a prehistoric algo.
While it is not a bad algo per-se it is extremely easy to f*** up at the implementation level. WiFi is one example of such royal cockup. There are others.
I would not trust a proprietary system that has not been open to scrutiny to implement RC4 based crypto correctly.
To be most exact they are also not allowed to use any of the seeds and have to buy licensed seed material from Monsanto every year.
Granted, very few farmers in the developed world do their own seeds nowdays. They go and buy seed material and there is a reasonably wide market for that. If GM in the form advocated by monsanto is allowed this market is killed outright and converted into a near monopoly for Monsanto. That is by the way the primary concern of legislators, regulators and governments in the EU. It is not the GM itself, it is the fact that if it is allowed a monopoly on par with United Fruit of old will shortly follow.
In any case GM as advocated by Monsanto is actually unnecessary in the longer term. Induced mutations (radiation, chemicals, etc) and other means to create initial material for the standard selection process are perfectly legal and are now widely in use throughout the industry. When this is combined with DNA sequencing and modern mol biol techniques to track the results it allows perfectly legal selection methods which result in pretty much the same as what Monsanto is trying to offer. It takes longer, but it is also applicable to plants and animals that are presently outside the GM scope. The super-wheat and super-corn obtained through such "legal" methods is probably less than 5-10 years away anyway and most importantly it will _NOT_ be a monopoly. There will be multiple varieties to chose from.
From this perspective the prohibition of Monstanto style GM is a very good thing. I am all for it.
Not quite so
Toxo used to be common everywhere. It is carried by rats and in the days before treated water and strict sanitary control of meat and other produce most of the population carried the infection.
Toxo infestation in the host is characterised by reckless behaviour and inability to assess risk as well as loss of instinct of selfpreservation. A rat infected with Toxo instead of running away from a predator will actually often go to it. This is actually a good treat in sports. All it takes is some percentage of the population to be infected to create a "win at all cost" mentality, peer pressure pretty much does the rest.
By the way, the decrease in the level of toxo infection from nearly 100% a century ago to sub 10% today may be the reason why we do not take risks so willingly any more.
The lessons have been learned. We now go and do velvet revolutions and install "democratic puppets" in their place propping them with money.
The system is actually flawless and simple in its perfection and the Russian are yet to find any countermeasures. I have seen it in action myself and know people who have participated in at least one country. I have friends from other ex-Eastern block countries who have observed it there.
1. In each country targeted for the next Velvet revolution the USA embassy through its cultural section sponsors a local baseball league. Totally legit and above board.
2. The "trainers" are the same each time. The same people who did the revolution in Chechoslovakia, went later to work in Bulgaria, Serbia and Georgia. They are in middle Asia now.
3. The "Velvet" revolution is always scheduled for winter and for a day with snow. It has never ever happened during other times. There is a reason for that. When trained baseball players throw snowballs with stone cores there is no need for weapons. However this needs snow, otherwise it is clear what is being done. As a result the government has no choice but to order the police to open fire in return (so far only Belorussia has had the guts to do that) or face the perspective of a lynch mob and resign. All it takes is 6-10 people who join the otherwise peaceful demonstration.
Voila - a successful velvet revolution.
You are suffering from an "American Short Memory Syndrome". Iran used to be a secular republic before UK and US planted the Shah in the first place. This is what the GP is referring to.
It was the years of repression by the Shah regime which brought the Ajatollahs into power. If UK and US would have left the original Democracy in place the islamic revolution would have never happened.
We are currently dealing with the fallout from 40+ years of US/UK sponsored dictatorships around the world. While some places like Latin America are slowly shrugging off the worst of it, the middle east is still in the "chickens coming home to roost and having diarrhea" phase. Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon - you name it.
This is still continuing though we prop democracies now. All early post-iron-curtain governments in Eastern Europe were propped with suitcases full of green bucks. All velvet/pink/blue etc "bloodless" revolutions were rehearsed and organised. It is too early to say what exactly are we going to "eat" with this, but we surely will. Hopefully it will not be as indigestible as the current mess with two nuclear states on the verge of going renegade.
Yep.
Some of the production is apparently quite high-tech. People build dedicated greenhouse installations under ground (to avoid detection via IR cameras). Water, hydroponics, etc is all automated.
For influenza (or most viruses for that matter) you do not need even that. They live for half an hour/hour tops outside the human body. Usually even less.
Now bacteria is a completely different ball game. Some of them (the ones that can produce spores) can survive even boiling the laptop and dipping it into bleach.
So frankly, the best thing to do is to do nothing at all.
Doubt not
First thing in cases like this is to check that you actually see the same in all colours. You can even test yourself. Get a set of coloured plastic foils from an arts & craft shop and see if there is a difference in the way you see printed text through a coloured filter. This is much more common than people think.
If that is the case VIM is not the answer as AFAIK it does only colour highlighting, not font based highlighting (old Turbo/Delphi style).
Who told you that this is outsourcing?
Farming out homework is something that has been going on since the days when the only thing that was studied in Heidelberg was theology.
There is nothing particularly new and surprising here except Internet enabling the homework to be farmed out further afield.
Further to this, a f2f examination can determine if the homework is real or not real in a matter of seconds. So anyone bitching about the practice becoming more prevalent should actually bitch about tests and assignments replacing good old f2f examination.
Yep.
And if it was true all investment shops would have used this tech instead of paying silly money to people who know math and can do modelling. I have not heard of that happening just yet so as they say: "keep me posted..."
Spot on.
The actual reason for the game industry to be short on talented new hires is the "We do not work for the money, we work for the cool" requirement for being hired.
I had one or two brush-ups with the industry while looking for a job and frankly as once upon a time said by Greg Lake they are getting "Whatever Christmas they deserve".
While it is possible to hire a person from time to time on the basis of "Kewl", it is not possible to maintain an industry this way. Industries operate on the basis of "I work for money, if you want (Loyalty, Kewl, etc... underline the applicable) get a dog"Â
Missed one. Breeding mosquitoes in the ponds.
There is nothing more unpleasant than a golf course near a resort in a hot climate. It is like being on holiday in a swamp. Best example - Costa del Fuste on Fuerteventura.
If it is licensed not sold it is subject to a different taxation regime.
The vendors and especially the software ones cannot have it both ways. It is either a sale or a rent.
It it is a sale it is subject to appropriate financial regime for sales (VAT, can be registered as a capital asset, depreciation, etc). Income from sales can be taxed in a different jurisdiction. Even if the sale has taken place in a "nasty taxation" place like UK, Scandinavia, New York, etc, all taxation can be done in a place with lax taxation like Ireland in the EU or Texas in the USA.
If it is a rent it cannot be depreciated and cannot count for capex. It is opex, period. Similarly, income from rent in nearly all countries in the world must be taxed locally. The usual tax evasion practices of big software and hardware vendors are outright illegal and forbidden by law.
So frankly, if it is licensed and the licensing contract is valid - come on, try to prove it. All the defendant needs to bring are the taxation statements of company X. If X wins it will lose its taxation regime.
Lose-lose.
1. It is more counterfeit than stolen.
2. The french have actually charged eBay with both on a number of occasions.
The life, universe and everything. Well... After all Douglas Adams was British.
Anyway. The law is not on the statute books and will most likely never be on it. At the same time Gordon Brown screwed the country economy by the tune of around 1B in "incentives" to purchase the missing votes from Northern Irish ex-paramilitaries. What a moron and what an idiotic waste of money.
It would not be necessary if engineers knew a little bit of economics. I am sick of repeating the same two questions all over again: "Where is the money" and "What is the ROI". That is to both MBAs and engineers by the way.
Yep. My Daihatsu uses some. But Ze Germans have to have a panzer, not a car. With each model Golf has been gaining 200kg+
European are not light. Not even close:
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In fact the only cars whose weight is not increasing is probably the Japanese. Toyota and Daihatsu remain the few whose weight is under a ton.
Ranger is not dead. They are selling them in the more fuel price-conscious areas like Europe. So all Ford needs to do is turn around and shift back production. It also has a reasonable lineup of fuel efficient cars made for EU. While I may think that Focus, Fusion and the Fiasco are crap they are what Joe Average Consumer likes. Ditto for GM.
So as a matter of fact this will not hurt most the American car industry that much (and if Crysler dies this is for the good of the humanity, about bloody time).
However, it looks like GM, Ford, etc are quite obviously using this is as a convenient scapegoat to trim the fat and close a few surplus factories instead of retooling them for small car production.
I have not followed the USA political scene for a while, but this is happening very close to elections and is baring some striking similarities with the things that happened in Pittsburgh and other steel industry centers when Bush got elected for the first time.
You should never defend someone who was stupid enough to import himself a mail order bl'ad. This very clearly puts in the right perspective his social skills, social orientation and actual capabilities as a human to fit into human society.
He however is definitely not alone, if he was Anastasia International would not have been targeting slashdot specifically for advertisements with pretty pictures of bl'ad in full war paint.
Screw the hardware accelerated 3D. What is more interesting - does it have support for hardware accelerated 2D and more specifically XVideo (MPEG accel will be a nice option). If not, I would keep my PC, thank you.
And how exactly will two different websites share the same IP I may ask? The cert is checked at handshake time so you can have only one website running on that IP.
That's one of the many uses of pound or other reverse SSL proxies by the way - to merge multiple websites behind the same IP. In my previous job at one point I had 6 or 7 different sites running on different servers and different OSes merged behind a single SSL frontend.
Neah, it is just the 11% that have an account in Lichtenshtein or a villa on Majorca in the name of their great grand aunt.
After the Euro changeover the German Tax office had a large contingent of their officers seconded to the Balearics and Canaries for a couple of years for a reason. Based on the submitted tax returns the burgers were poor as church mice. At the same time the construction industry in Spain was undergoing a multibillion euro boom with German money appearing out of nowhere. Most of it is still untraced by the way (though some taxes have been collected).
In any case, it is the country where tax evasion is so ripe that tracking evaders has escalated to the point of being the secret services. And on top of all they actually dare bitching about black market economies and such in Eastern Europe. They should fix themselves first.