I'd be severely alarmed if critical systems or patient records were connected to the internet. It's bad enough that banks hold financial details on internet connected machines, but at least in that case there is some reason for it. But I can't see why a glucose monitor should be connected to the internet.
Hmm... Do you think it's significant that the eWorld site you linked to has a menu at the top with links to 'Related sites' and.. 'Interesting sites' !
.. with less risk would be to send a formal letter to someone high up that you believe that the information held on that server to be insecure, and ask that it be secured or your information be promptly removed. Offer to demonstrate how the information is insecure, maybe, but point out that since you have informed them of the possibility of an intrusion you will consider sueing (?) if *your* information is stolen. That will get their attention!
What do you expect? Herds of wilderbeest sweeping majestically across the plain???:o)
Seriously though, with this kind of game the gameplay is most important, sometime 'eye candy' gets in the way. I've lost count of the number of games I've seen that superficially look great, but the gameplay is poor because the developers have concentrated on the eye-candy.
From TFA: However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole. Hmm.. Nice they're so sure its not a threat!!
In TFA it says that it is not intended that the law apply to individuals, but to businesses.
That said, I can't see how this is anything other than a money-grubbing attempt by politicians keen to enhance their reputation by being on the "cutting edge".
Some politicians just cant cope with the fact that people can manage to run their lives without state intervention.
Does anyone remember that the BBC also transmitted BBC-Micro programs using Teletext pages? (as mentioned on this page) I never had a BBC Micro but my cousin did. You could either copy the pages off the screen or if you had a teletext adapter the computer could fetch them. They did this right up to 1987. Ahh, the old 8-bit days......
Here in the UK prostitution per se is not illegal (i.e. accepting money in return for sexual favours) - what is illegal is soliciting (i.e. advertising yourself or making offers of money in return for sex) or running a brothel or similar service. So if your girl says she'll give you a BJ if you buy her a new car, that's not illegal - but if she put the same offer on eBay it would be! I always thought the same was true in the most of the US states - but maybe I'm wrong.
Actually, speaking as someone who has operated a company and dealt with UK Customs & Excise, VAT is not 'horribly complicated' really, you just charge 17.5% on everything you sell, subtract from this amount the VAT on everything you buy in order to make/supply those goods, and return the difference to Customs & Excise. It only gets complicated if you are dealing with a mix of VAT exempt and liable supplies, or if your trying to claim every penny of expenses (depreciation, to offset you VAT liability. For most retail operations (i.e. box shifters) it's really quite simple.
The two sites offered a wide variety of computer software, computer games, music, and movies in digital format, including some software titles that legitimately sell for thousands of dollars, the DOJ says.
The bit that gets my interest is at the end:
The maximum penalties for a first-time offender convicted of conspiracy to commit felony criminal copyright infringement are five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, restitution to the victims, and the forfeiture and destruction of infringing copies and all equipment used to manufacture infringing copies.
How exactly do they determine the value of restitution? Any Fule No that the vast software and music downloads would not be purchased if not available for free. Especially software worth thousands, so where is the loss? Some people just like collecting.
When I last imported something from the US I got an AC converter from Maplin - cost me about £12. Unless the printer senses the mains frequency (!) then that would solve the problem!!
Sounds like enough is enough (which just locks down IE's security settings) which I installed on all the PC's in my company. Most of the users have no problem with the idea that they must say sites are "trusted", and EiE adds a couple of menu items that make it easy. Well worth a look for those of you to who find themselves supporting PC's for IE addicts.
At this moment I am proaudly wearing my "Cucci" wristwatch. A friend picked it up abroad somewhere a few years back, and gave it to me when I admired it having found it lying about in his den. I like it a lot, amazing how many people are fooled, especially since designer-wear is *so* not me! I always get a laugh when people ask me if it's genuine, and I say "Yeah, it's a genuine Cucchi!"
That's not generally the case. While I can't speak for people coming all over the world, speaking as an UK citizen who has had 2 H1B visa's in the past, I can say that I went through the process (and it is not an easy process, no matter how hard the employer works) because I saw it as an opportunity to improve my life. I would have stayed in the US, probably even become naturalised, but the jobs dissapeared before the expiry of the Visa. Many of the 'expats' I knew said the same and indeed the majority of them are now still in the US, most of them as US citizens, and intend to remain for the rest of their lives.
I can see why the H1B regs are the way they are, but they aren't right. IANAHistorian but I know of no economy that has submerged in the long time due to being 'flooded' with immigrants. It causes local problems, sure, but given that the US as a whole has one of the lowest population densities in the civilised world, this idea of being 'flooded' is a delusion in the mind of people looking for someone else to blame for the failure of their economy. The simple truth is that the US has priced themselves out of the market; an expensive workforce, huge litigation costs due to an overbearing legal system (patents, DRM, yada yada...) have made American industry uneconomic in comparison the the far east where there are fewer such restrictions. (The same applies to most of Europe, too, in case you think I'm being anti-American, which is not my intent). I'm not saying that we should give up our aspirations to a good standard of living, I just wish government would stop representing the immediate interest of big business and look at the longer term gains - investment in education, simplified legal structures, and yes, a more enlightened attitude to immigration. It's no wonder that many Americans 'fear' a flood of immigrants when the government appear to try so hard to keep them out!
Speaking as a UK Resident, I would consider moving to the US as retiring to a country with 1/10 the cost of living.. Especially since the recent changes in exchange rates...
I am not a lawyer, but I would imagine that if you offered all M$'s competition a licence for $1 and went after M$ for $500M then they might rightly say that you wheren't playing fair, and that they should be offered the $1 licence too. Of course you could always 'do a SCO' and say you're going to sue the ass off everyone but only actually sue the big money.
Why work for him? Work for yourself!! How much does it take to get out there with a CD of spyware removers and put an ad in the paper. People will pay $$$ per hour, if you can handle the sense of guilt.
The 'H1B' thing cuts both ways - you want the foreign workers out? Then will you want back all the US citizens working abroad in other countries? I don't know about India and China, but I sure bump into a lot over here in the UK. The failure of the software industry in particular (its what I know about, I can't speak for the engineering industry) is, IMNSHO, the fault of software patents and incompetent management more interested in pandering to shareholders than developing new ideas. Back in the 90's I applied for jobs in the US because I've always wanted to work out there. It's hard to get work on an H1B visa, you have to have specific skills that are in short supply. If you're a big corp I suppose it's probably easier to convince the INS to let you bring people in but it's still an expensive process. It's much much cheaper to 'outsource' to a foreign company, which is why I imagine that it is the management-siver-bullet du jour. Ironically here in the UK most of the high-profile foreign outsourcing projects have been seen to be somewhat unacceptable; some of our banks and other companies are abandoning their outsourcing of call centres, as the economies are not as profound as they imagined, and do not adequately compensate for the poor corporate image provision of customer service in that manner results in. ( I do love it when banks give up an unpopular cost-cutting measure and advertise it as a 'improved service' - like when Nat West stopped the hugely unpopular small branch closure campaign they began once their competition started to follow suit and then put in their adverts that they no longer had a branch closure policy 'unlike the competition'!!)
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I've made wine from raisins. Tasted quite good, in a peapod-burgundy kind of way.
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I'd be severely alarmed if critical systems or patient records were connected to the internet. It's bad enough that banks hold financial details on internet connected machines, but at least in that case there is some reason for it. But I can't see why a glucose monitor should be connected to the internet.
Don't forget, television is not real life.
At least, I hope not, I really hope not...
Well, as a student we just went to a field with a power pylon, and they just glow of their own accord.. due to the field strength.
Not a good idea in the rain, mind.
Hmm... Do you think it's significant that the eWorld site you linked to has a menu at the top with links to 'Related sites' and .. 'Interesting sites' !
Just joshing!
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.. with less risk would be to send a formal letter to someone high up that you believe that the information held on that server to be insecure, and ask that it be secured or your information be promptly removed. Offer to demonstrate how the information is insecure, maybe, but point out that since you have informed them of the possibility of an intrusion you will consider sueing (?) if *your* information is stolen. That will get their attention!
In fact, I can't see how this is a million miles away from what Logi Baird did with a Mechanical scanner, other than being more general.
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Oh, comments above have to be interpreted in the light of the fact that I can't RTFA because of
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What do you expect? Herds of wilderbeest sweeping majestically across the plain??? :o)
Seriously though, with this kind of game the gameplay is most important, sometime 'eye candy' gets in the way. I've lost count of the number of games I've seen that superficially look great, but the gameplay is poor because the developers have concentrated on the eye-candy.
From TFA:
However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.
Hmm.. Nice they're so sure its not a threat!!
In TFA it says that it is not intended that the law apply to individuals, but to businesses.
That said, I can't see how this is anything other than a money-grubbing attempt by politicians keen to enhance their reputation by being on the "cutting edge".
Some politicians just cant cope with the fact that people can manage to run their lives without state intervention.
don't your ears have skin? =/ .. Not since I started listening to KMFDM..... ;o)
Does anyone remember that the BBC also transmitted BBC-Micro programs using Teletext pages? (as mentioned on this page) I never had a BBC Micro but my cousin did. You could either copy the pages off the screen or if you had a teletext adapter the computer could fetch them. They did this right up to 1987.
Ahh, the old 8-bit days......
Here in the UK prostitution per se is not illegal (i.e. accepting money in return for sexual favours) - what is illegal is soliciting (i.e. advertising yourself or making offers of money in return for sex) or running a brothel or similar service. So if your girl says she'll give you a BJ if you buy her a new car, that's not illegal - but if she put the same offer on eBay it would be!
I always thought the same was true in the most of the US states - but maybe I'm wrong.
Actually, speaking as someone who has operated a company and dealt with UK Customs & Excise, VAT is not 'horribly complicated' really, you just charge 17.5% on everything you sell, subtract from this amount the VAT on everything you buy in order to make/supply those goods, and return the difference to Customs & Excise. It only gets complicated if you are dealing with a mix of VAT exempt and liable supplies, or if your trying to claim every penny of expenses (depreciation, to offset you VAT liability. For most retail operations (i.e. box shifters) it's really quite simple.
When I last imported something from the US I got an AC converter from Maplin - cost me about £12. Unless the printer senses the mains frequency (!) then that would solve the problem!!
Sounds like enough is enough (which just locks down IE's security settings) which I installed on all the PC's in my company. Most of the users have no problem with the idea that they must say sites are "trusted", and EiE adds a couple of menu items that make it easy. Well worth a look for those of you to who find themselves supporting PC's for IE addicts.
At this moment I am proaudly wearing my "Cucci" wristwatch. A friend picked it up abroad somewhere a few years back, and gave it to me when I admired it having found it lying about in his den.
I like it a lot, amazing how many people are fooled, especially since designer-wear is *so* not me!
I always get a laugh when people ask me if it's genuine, and I say "Yeah, it's a genuine Cucchi!"
That's not generally the case. While I can't speak for people coming all over the world, speaking as an UK citizen who has had 2 H1B visa's in the past, I can say that I went through the process (and it is not an easy process, no matter how hard the employer works) because I saw it as an opportunity to improve my life. I would have stayed in the US, probably even become naturalised, but the jobs dissapeared before the expiry of the Visa. Many of the 'expats' I knew said the same and indeed the majority of them are now still in the US, most of them as US citizens, and intend to remain for the rest of their lives.
I can see why the H1B regs are the way they are, but they aren't right. IANAHistorian but I know of no economy that has submerged in the long time due to being 'flooded' with immigrants. It causes local problems, sure, but given that the US as a whole has one of the lowest population densities in the civilised world, this idea of being 'flooded' is a delusion in the mind of people looking for someone else to blame for the failure of their economy. The simple truth is that the US has priced themselves out of the market; an expensive workforce, huge litigation costs due to an overbearing legal system (patents, DRM, yada yada...) have made American industry uneconomic in comparison the the far east where there are fewer such restrictions. (The same applies to most of Europe, too, in case you think I'm being anti-American, which is not my intent).
I'm not saying that we should give up our aspirations to a good standard of living, I just wish government would stop representing the immediate interest of big business and look at the longer term gains - investment in education, simplified legal structures, and yes, a more enlightened attitude to immigration. It's no wonder that many Americans 'fear' a flood of immigrants when the government appear to try so hard to keep them out!
Speaking as a UK Resident, I would consider moving to the US as retiring to a country with 1/10 the cost of living.. Especially since the recent changes in exchange rates...
C'mon, visiting the post office is ALWAYS a special occasion!!
I am not a lawyer, but I would imagine that if you offered all M$'s competition a licence for $1 and went after M$ for $500M then they might rightly say that you wheren't playing fair, and that they should be offered the $1 licence too.
Of course you could always 'do a SCO' and say you're going to sue the ass off everyone but only actually sue the big money.
Why work for him? Work for yourself!! How much does it take to get out there with a CD of spyware removers and put an ad in the paper. People will pay $$$ per hour, if you can handle the sense of guilt.
Sirrah, your sarcasm does your credibility no justice. Next you'll be trying to tell us there were no WMD's!
Yeah and I can't even get it to install on my Commodore PET.
I don't know about India and China, but I sure bump into a lot over here in the UK. The failure of the software industry in particular (its what I know about, I can't speak for the engineering industry) is, IMNSHO, the fault of software patents and incompetent management more interested in pandering to shareholders than developing new ideas.
Back in the 90's I applied for jobs in the US because I've always wanted to work out there. It's hard to get work on an H1B visa, you have to have specific skills that are in short supply. If you're a big corp I suppose it's probably easier to convince the INS to let you bring people in but it's still an expensive process. It's much much cheaper to 'outsource' to a foreign company, which is why I imagine that it is the management-siver-bullet du jour. Ironically here in the UK most of the high-profile foreign outsourcing projects have been seen to be somewhat unacceptable; some of our banks and other companies are abandoning their outsourcing of call centres, as the economies are not as profound as they imagined, and do not adequately compensate for the poor corporate image provision of customer service in that manner results in. ( I do love it when banks give up an unpopular cost-cutting measure and advertise it as a 'improved service' - like when Nat West stopped the hugely unpopular small branch closure campaign they began once their competition started to follow suit and then put in their adverts that they no longer had a branch closure policy 'unlike the competition'!!)