It's bad in that, for some reason, stock price is used as both a metric and a threat.
Did we gain or lose any real property? No. Any key employees? No. Any top secret information? No. Did the market suddenly become irrelavent? No. Did *anything* actually change? No. Yet, suddenly, in the eyes of the world, we were worthless. Simply because we chose to re-invest profit, to gain greater profit down the road.
*That's* the problem with the current stock market; a share is no longer a share, but an obscene, grotesque parody of the trumped up self-importance of some day trader with his hand on the big, red SELL button, who thinks that he's a better CEO than anybody, regardless of the fact that, hey, he's never run a company, let alone a global corporation.
And if you can, find a song called 'Superfly's Johnson' by The Laziest Men on Mars. They took various sound clips from Daikatana, set them to a porn movie song (I think it's called Shafted) and, dammit, it works. It's funny as hell.
In theory? No. If it leads to greater profits, or prevents the loss of a market or large customer (give the product, sell the service/support/maintenance, etc etc) then, arguably, it's fiduciary misconduct NOT to do it.
On the other hand, speaking from experience, watching my company's stock go from 40 bucks to 10, in an afternoon, now less than 1, STRICTLY because the shareholders didn't like the 'we're investing our profits in R&D so we can show EVEN GREATER profits a year down the road,' you're right.
The stock market suffers from what I like to call Human Game Player syndrome; at some point, somebody stoppped playing the game, and started playing the rules, and now the system itself is useless.
The hard part is priming the databases. Maybe it would be worth it to have a database that can be downloaded and used as an initial point for new users - combined with "Spam", "Not Spam", "Whitelist" buttons in their client to automatically tweak the db to their usage patterns.
That depends. If what this fine fellow is learning is kendo, then yes; he'd be useless in a fight.
If, on the other hand, he's learning kenshindo, then he'd be full of dirty tricks and battle-worthy combat techniques.
And I'll point out that the Scottish fighting system is a bit less than optimal against a disciplined opponent; reference a cohort of 500 Romans destroying a mob of ten *thousand* angry Scots.
After all, Conner McLeod of Clan McLeod wound up learning Japanese swordplay techniques...:-)
Problem being, Lucas then went and made Ep.2, and invalidated the Zahn trilogy.
In Zahn's trilogy, one of the main ideas is that the Clone Wars were started by some third party, and the Old Republic fought them off. Palpatine then started the shift into the Empire.
It goes from there, and I'll refrain from discussing to avoid spoiling anything for new readers, but the novels no longer make sense, thanks to Ep.2.
Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command, followed by a bunch of CRAP from various people, such as the Jedi Search trilogy. Then, Zahn came back with Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future, where he attempted to FIX the entire run of novels. Then, they moved forward about ten years, went into the 'Expanded Universe' era with the Solo kids a bit more grown up, and a brand new menace from outside the Galaxy comes in.....
Hmmm. Somebody should market the 'sealed' cash register.
Bills and coins are placed into slots, where they're read in, scanned for authenticity, then stored (different slot for each denomination) and change is made by the machine; if the sale is 25 bucks, and they hand you a fifty, the machine spits out a twenty and a five.
Allows for scanning, which is hidden from the customer, tracking of amounts in/out, automatic notification of when more change is required, makes accounting/balancing easier, and reduces accidental short/over changing.
And when you do so, go back to the glory days of Napster, and return directory names as well as file names; helps you find complete albums that much more easily.
Actually, if you're doing a proper job translating (rather than simply transliterating the English words) it would go something like this.
Doctor: Hello, I'm Doctor Robinson, and this is Bill, who will be interpreting. I understand you're having some problems, Ted.
Bill: [You weak, spineless fool! You sicken me! I should kill you where you stand! Get out of my sight, you pathetic cur, and STOP! YOUR! WHINING!]
Ted: [But..but..but...when I was a child, my father did things to me....]
Bill: [*ROAR* If you do not CEASE this irritating monkey babble right now, *I* will do things to you to make that seem as a walk in the park! I would slay you with my bat'leth here and now, but do not think you have enough BLOOD in you to be worth the time!]
Ted: Doctor? I think I'm cured now. Just please, don't let him near me.....
Doctor: Excellent! Another full recovery.
Me, I think that most of the kids in college and uni today shouldn't be there. What we need are apprenticeships and tradespeople to be recognized as legitimate.
Please note that for the average college/uni student in Canada, it was so bad that it was literally standard practice to rack up 50K+ in student debt, graduate, get a job, declare bankruptcy, and move on. After all the 7 year stigma from bankruptcy was often a shorter period than the debt repayments....
It was so prevalent that laws are being written to exempt student loans from bankruptcy payments....
Now, your average home windows user really doesn't need to worry about somebody putting a vampire tap on their network, or putting VGA redirector onto their cables. But they DO need to worry about OE getting a macro and spewing out their CC numbers.
In *that* sense, it would be neat to say 'When visiting https://mybank.com, IE is to be secured totally' and not allow screenscrapes and what not. Even now, you could probably make a neat little macro that would watch for people opening common banking sites, take a few screen grabs, compress down to JPEG and mail them off.
And by the way, what's to stop someone from putting a wedge(tap) between your pc and your monitor?? They could siphon off your display output to a $29 VCR 8 hours at a time if they wanted. Most PC's being jammed under desks would never be noticed if an inline video tap was dropped in.
Why, the physical security you have in place. If they can get a tap onto your hardware, you're fucked, period.
Ideally, I'd prefer something that does reject the message if it's spam (SMTP result code 550 or something like that), unlike current Spamassassin or spamprobe setups that accept the message and only later decide whether it's spam.
If it's not directly aimed at you, you DO NOT delete or reject it. PERIOD. You tag it. Maybe you even quarentine it. But you DO NOT reject it out of hand.
But when they say 'Edit, or we don't carry it, and you lose over 30 percent of your gross for it, off the top,' they're certainly imposing their morality needlessly.
Maybe they dropped the EMP shielding as a needless waste of resources after the Humans were trounced. Maybe their little scout robos don't have it, but their full-bore combat machines do.
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It's bad in that, for some reason, stock price is used as both a metric and a threat.
Did we gain or lose any real property? No. Any key employees? No. Any top secret information? No. Did the market suddenly become irrelavent? No. Did *anything* actually change? No. Yet, suddenly, in the eyes of the world, we were worthless. Simply because we chose to re-invest profit, to gain greater profit down the road.
*That's* the problem with the current stock market; a share is no longer a share, but an obscene, grotesque parody of the trumped up self-importance of some day trader with his hand on the big, red SELL button, who thinks that he's a better CEO than anybody, regardless of the fact that, hey, he's never run a company, let alone a global corporation.
And if you can, find a song called 'Superfly's Johnson' by The Laziest Men on Mars. They took various sound clips from Daikatana, set them to a porn movie song (I think it's called Shafted) and, dammit, it works. It's funny as hell.
In theory? No. If it leads to greater profits, or prevents the loss of a market or large customer (give the product, sell the service/support/maintenance, etc etc) then, arguably, it's fiduciary misconduct NOT to do it.
On the other hand, speaking from experience, watching my company's stock go from 40 bucks to 10, in an afternoon, now less than 1, STRICTLY because the shareholders didn't like the 'we're investing our profits in R&D so we can show EVEN GREATER profits a year down the road,' you're right.
The stock market suffers from what I like to call Human Game Player syndrome; at some point, somebody stoppped playing the game, and started playing the rules, and now the system itself is useless.
Seconded.
http://www.spamassassin.org/publiccorpus/
That depends. If what this fine fellow is learning is kendo, then yes; he'd be useless in a fight.
If, on the other hand, he's learning kenshindo, then he'd be full of dirty tricks and battle-worthy combat techniques.
And I'll point out that the Scottish fighting system is a bit less than optimal against a disciplined opponent; reference a cohort of 500 Romans destroying a mob of ten *thousand* angry Scots.
After all, Conner McLeod of Clan McLeod wound up learning Japanese swordplay techniques...:-)
Problem being, Lucas then went and made Ep.2, and invalidated the Zahn trilogy.
In Zahn's trilogy, one of the main ideas is that the Clone Wars were started by some third party, and the Old Republic fought them off. Palpatine then started the shift into the Empire.
It goes from there, and I'll refrain from discussing to avoid spoiling anything for new readers, but the novels no longer make sense, thanks to Ep.2.
Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command, followed by a bunch of CRAP from various people, such as the Jedi Search trilogy. Then, Zahn came back with Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future, where he attempted to FIX the entire run of novels. Then, they moved forward about ten years, went into the 'Expanded Universe' era with the Solo kids a bit more grown up, and a brand new menace from outside the Galaxy comes in.....
Hmmm. Somebody should market the 'sealed' cash register.
Bills and coins are placed into slots, where they're read in, scanned for authenticity, then stored (different slot for each denomination) and change is made by the machine; if the sale is 25 bucks, and they hand you a fifty, the machine spits out a twenty and a five.
Allows for scanning, which is hidden from the customer, tracking of amounts in/out, automatic notification of when more change is required, makes accounting/balancing easier, and reduces accidental short/over changing.
Try the 'runas' command, available in XP and Win2k.
Also available in the GUI, by holding down the shift key whilst opening a context menu on something executable, if memory serves.
And when you do so, go back to the glory days of Napster, and return directory names as well as file names; helps you find complete albums that much more easily.
Ah, thank you. I've often wondered about the background behind the Malthusian proceedures in Brave New World; this would apparently be it.
Actually, if you're doing a proper job translating (rather than simply transliterating the English words) it would go something like this.
Doctor: Hello, I'm Doctor Robinson, and this is Bill, who will be interpreting. I understand you're having some problems, Ted.
Bill: [You weak, spineless fool! You sicken me! I should kill you where you stand! Get out of my sight, you pathetic cur, and STOP! YOUR! WHINING!]
Ted: [But..but..but...when I was a child, my father did things to me....]
Bill: [*ROAR* If you do not CEASE this irritating monkey babble right now, *I* will do things to you to make that seem as a walk in the park! I would slay you with my bat'leth here and now, but do not think you have enough BLOOD in you to be worth the time!]
Ted: Doctor? I think I'm cured now. Just please, don't let him near me.....
Doctor: Excellent! Another full recovery.
Actually, I think it's just more a harkening back to the original Metal Gear for the NES; jungle...dogs...
Holy SHIT!
Me, I think that most of the kids in college and uni today shouldn't be there. What we need are apprenticeships and tradespeople to be recognized as legitimate.
Please note that for the average college/uni student in Canada, it was so bad that it was literally standard practice to rack up 50K+ in student debt, graduate, get a job, declare bankruptcy, and move on. After all the 7 year stigma from bankruptcy was often a shorter period than the debt repayments....
It was so prevalent that laws are being written to exempt student loans from bankruptcy payments....
Exactly.
Now, your average home windows user really doesn't need to worry about somebody putting a vampire tap on their network, or putting VGA redirector onto their cables. But they DO need to worry about OE getting a macro and spewing out their CC numbers.
In *that* sense, it would be neat to say 'When visiting https://mybank.com, IE is to be secured totally' and not allow screenscrapes and what not. Even now, you could probably make a neat little macro that would watch for people opening common banking sites, take a few screen grabs, compress down to JPEG and mail them off.
And yet the wall didn't keep people out; it was a psychological tool to keep people in. Any idea how many times China was conquered?
Why, the physical security you have in place. If they can get a tap onto your hardware, you're fucked, period.
Remember, though, that this form of security (B level and up, if I recall the old Orange Book classifications) requires full hardware support.
If it's not directly aimed at you, you DO NOT delete or reject it. PERIOD. You tag it. Maybe you even quarentine it. But you DO NOT reject it out of hand.
No, WalMart, for example, doesn't edit.
But when they say 'Edit, or we don't carry it, and you lose over 30 percent of your gross for it, off the top,' they're certainly imposing their morality needlessly.
Use IEAK to build a custom version of IE.
Use Intellimirror if you're on an all Win2k+ network, to roll out, well, any software you want, really.
Use SMS if you're not on an all Win2K network, to, well, roll out any software you want, really.
Block the windowsupdate sites at your proxy.
Do NOT let users have admin access to their own machines.
In a Hockey game, what is there to prevent any player who realizes that they can just pick up the puck and carry it to the goal, from doing so?
Why, the referees.
In the Matrix, what is there to prevent any human from realizing that they can do whatever they can believe themselves doing?
Why, the Agents.
Maybe they dropped the EMP shielding as a needless waste of resources after the Humans were trounced. Maybe their little scout robos don't have it, but their full-bore combat machines do.