Someone has given out my phone number as hers, I get calls all the time, on my cell phone. This bill doesn't do anything about debt collectors calling you, it just means they can use automated software to do it. If they could before, they can now.
That's what I'm saying, the bill I downloaded doesn't change anything, certainly not the "any robocaller can call any cell phone" sense it gives right now. Do you see anything IN THE BILL that changes the way this works?
I don't see anything in the bill to object to. Telephone soliciting is still prohibited, and if a debt collector is after you I think you have other things to worry about.
In fact, the only scenario I can see as a real problem is when debt collectors rack up charges robo-calling you. Just take every charge off the amount you owe until it's a wash. Or actually pick up the phone and figure out how to deal with your debt, and inform them that you are being charged, and you do not have a prior business relationship as defined in the Communications Act and this is a mobile phone.
It should, but it doesn't. The Supreme Court decides if a law is unconstitutional. Not Congress, unless they feel like weighing in before passing it or repealing it after the fact, but that's optional.
Congress can pass any bill it feels like passing. It can disband the Supreme Court if it likes, but that would fail the constitutionality test and be thrown out. Most likely, the President would never even sign it so it wouldn't become law, just a bill passed by Congress.
I've been trolled, I'm sure of it at this point, and replying anyway because there are really people out there this stupid. Just in case. Go ahead and ask me who would throw out such a law were the Supreme Court disbanded by Congress and the bill were signed by the President, I know you want to.
Are you saying that you are the sole judge of what general Welfare means? Or are you going to leave that up to the people who actually have that responsibility, which is the Supreme Court?
"Sign this petition" is greyed out for me, IE 7 or FireFox 6. It says to sign in, but at the bottom is says Welcome {me} and I can't sign in - only sign out. Is this what everyone else is seeing?
In January, 4 members stepped down and 5 were added, including one Meg Whitman. In addition, during the spying scandal (Patricia Dunn), the board got shuffled as well. The board that made this decision is not the same one that hired Leo.
In addition, a shareholder lawsuit over Fiorina's golden parachute did nothing to prevent Hurd's golden parachute, which sparked another shareholder lawsuit.
The question you should be asking is, why does HP's board continually make bad decisions, even though it is made up of different people?
I'm still waiting for confirmation that the sun is the center of the universe. So far, that seems not to be the case. Earth is not conclusively the center of anything, either. So until I have a few more labs saying the sun is the center of the universe, I'll plug my ears.
Maybe Google is recovering all of the money lost due to crashes, corrupted files, and all the other nonsense we had to put up with because you paid hardware manufacturers not to put anythig else on their computers.
Every time I click and Vista doesn't do anything, I use google to find something entertaining to watch until Vista responds. Using FireFox. With NoScript.
I wish they would give it to me, but as long as they are taking it from you when my government couldn't, I'm perfectly fine with that. I use you cos I have to, not cos I want to, and that hurts every day. Spread your cheeks and see how it feels.
I'll do you one better. I was seeing someone who got endlessly annoyed at radio, at TV, at anything blatantly advertising becauese she understood what they were doing, and how. And it bothered her.
I never noticed. I knew that the new episode of House was coming soon, but I still can't tell you when. I can ask if she saw that commercial about the whatever, and she asks what's it for? I have no idea, it had the things in it. She didn't notice any of that, only that it was advertising.
I have an ad filter, and all of that filters out. I had to ask her when something started (I don't even remember what, some special deal) because I could not remember 10 seconds ago. 10 seconds into the next commercial, I realized I might have wanted to know whatever they were talking about. Really? They said it like 6 times, and you didn't get it? No, I said, I actually don't pay attention, like I've been telling you for the past several months. I ignore it, and I wish you would too.
I can listen to a radio spot, hum the tune, and be asked a simple trivia question about it, and I cannot tell you one fact about what they said. I tune out the words, any advertising information at all.
So they can measure anything they want to. Advertising, which is the only thing they want to know about, is completely lost on me. I watch the super bowl, don't care who wins, just to watch the commercials. And people ask me if I say the Chevy or the Whirlpool or whatever commercial.. I don't know. I saw the one with the hamsters, or the rock star, I don't know what brand. For a thousand dollars, I could not come up with the answer for more than maybe 1 out of 5.
Go to hell, advertising. Or not, I really won't notice. Won't miss you, won't notice you're gone. Just keep paying for free stuff like OTA television and radio.
Actually, fuck that. Everything that's advertised had to pay for the spot. I actually want to know what ads I'm seeing or hearing so I can avoid their products. If it's not good enough for my friends, it's not good enough for me, and we will find something else. Please, let me remember what adverts I have seen so I know what to avoid!/not an actual wish.
ZIP is protected by 32-bit CRC. You can get a valid ZIP header, and change any 4 bytes (not at random, do it carefully), and get a valid CRC-32 result.
I actually wrote a program 10 years ago to re-create a file with a known header and CRC-32 and size. It did not work, but I let someone run it for a while just to see what happened. They got matches every 5 minutes I think on a 500mHz machine, and each file was 4 bytes difference.
32 bits = 4 bytes, every valid CRC32 value can be covered with 4 bytes. It's obvious when you think about it that way. What was interesting to me was the consistency. CRC32 did not seem to have any hot spots or congestion, the results were fairly uniform. I was pleasantly surprised.
On a 512 byte sector, you're going to have a minimum exponent of 128 to account for all of the variations.
Yes and no. Most malware exploits holes that have been patched, so even Windows doesn't support it. Most measured by numbers of pure variants, not the number of copies in the wild. And of course third party applications will have the same problems on either system. Insecure Windows apps will be insecure ResctOS apps.
There are two camps in ReactOS development. One wants perfect binary compatibility, which means undocumented behavior and other quirks. Malware will like this. The other wants to follow MSDN documentation because that's what is freely available without much legal problem. Malware will be elss compatible with this.
Wine has a lot of unit/regression testing, and ReactOS uses that heavily. Write something on Windows, get the expected behavior, and make Wine behave the same. So user-mode, it will be very close to Windows. Wine does not do (much) kernel mode work, so it will be up to ReactOS group to determine what gets tested and how.
In summary, ReactOS will fall victim to any design flaws Windows has. It will not be compatible with malicious code that expects certain values to be in certain places (version checks such as the address of a function). It will also have bugs of its own which can be exploited.
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I see an OEM setting, so they can pre-install the Tablet interface on a tablet, the PC interface on a PC, and the user can still change it.
I don't see anything to support all these conclusions people are jumping to.
Brilliant marketing. Make a crappy operating system, but throw in some eye candy that everyone has to have.
2 camps of customers now - the ones that like it despite its flaws, and the ones who would never buy it.
Then fix all the bugs, but release it as a new OS. By that time hardware has caught up so the performance seems robust and snappy. 95 to 98, XP to XP SP2 (it took a while), Vista to 7.
W8 is the experimental failure that people will buy only because it comes on their computers, and W9 will be the one everyone else buys to upgrade their current computer. They get purchases from both camps, and continue to dominate the market.
Your conclusion needs work. Some insurance companies set allowed rates by averaging what costs are across several providers. You jack up the cost to bring up the average, since most people come in with insurance. Screwing the uninsured is merely a side effect.
It's not a good business model to significantly overcharge for a very small part of your potential market. That just makes them avoid you until it's impossible.
Also, these providers agree to a price list in order to be a provider for an insurance company. The only reason is that insured people will almost always go to a place that takes their insurance. Accept only a few insurance companies and you miss out on patients, so they agree.
In short, everything they do is oriented towards insured patients, with little regard for uninsured. Insured patients are 80% or more guaranteed because that's what the insurance company will cover. If they have to chase down payments from patients, it will be a small portion of the total bill. Uninsured patients may or may not pay, and may declare bankruptcy.
It's called a WinModem. The connections are in hardware, but the expensive DSP is done in software. So you just dial a modem-capable (SLIP/PPP) ISP and do the DSP in software. Any phone these days is capable of that.
Now, if only we were using a phone that we could see the source code, so we could figure how to route the software output to the phone instead of from the mic...
If "the real world" means the corporate world, do this. Take an application you don't care about and don't know how to use, and assign yourself a bug to fix, and give yourself a deadline pulled from a RNG.
Code is developed this way:
Start developement Shrink the team Fire all but 1 guy who does all the maintenance Bring in contractors Add a few people Shrink the team Fire the 1 guy who knows everything Scramble to find someone who knows the application Bring in contractors Select any step above at random
I'm not trying to be funny. End result is quirks, inconsistencies, inexplicable code blocks, bugs, performance issues, and all kinds of other bad things.
I'd say take things that are popular, well-used. libpng or zlib for example, or any other library that is most likely in something you use. Even if real-world code doesn't work that way, it's something that a lot of people are exposed to, if only via the API.
Usually there is sample code which shows how to use the library. Many eyeballs on that sample, and you have a good shared consciousness. It's not always how things work as I said, but it is what's being used.
I finally found you. I hate you. Not personally, but this kind of thinking. A TCP class raises a disconnected exception, the stream class raises an interrupted exception, the object class raises an error exception, and the application says "There was an error." What kind, and how do I fix it?
OOP error handling and code reuse can be done well, but it generally is not. The basic idea of a "return code", giving some sort of information or context about the error, is very important. Even if it's just preserving the exception information to bubble up.
I've collected probably a hundred Microsoft-specific error messages that don't mean what they say they mean. They add helpful text to say what you might fix, but that's a red herring. There is an underlying error which is caught but not bubbled up, and it leaves the user with little or no idea what to do.
You have to have the idea, if not the implementation, of returning something to the user.
And, I take exception to your assertion that exceptions don't make the code slower. Each class wraps its code in try/catch and has to deal with fairly complicated Exception objects in many cases. Did the file open? fopen() returns null, and you can get more information if you want it. OOP says you have to make an exception object and run catch code, and go up the stack and to the exceptions there.
Code that experiences no exceptions will not be noticeably slower, but code that relies on exception processing to try alternate methods or re-try will be a lot slower. This from someone who looks at C++ code at the (dis)-assembler level.
Take something you like and/or use. Or something like what you do if possible. Load it in a debugger, trace in to main or the language equivalent, and see where the calls go. You'll see quickly how the files are organized (if they are organized).
The more familiar you are with the app, the more sense the code will make.
Choose several - I've found every project has its own style, organization, or other peculiarities.
As someone said above, the real world is not all open source. Most of what I've seen in open source has nothing to do with what is done at large companies. The closest you might come is Red Hat, their distro-specific additions to Linux. But that's still open-source style.
When you feel comfortable, go to something that will blow your mind. The creative use of the preprocessor in MAME/MESS, and the ploymorphic implementation in C, makes this a wonder to behold. And not a great example unless your intent is to make an emulator.
The point is to learn more than one way of doing things, and find what you are comfortable with. Not how other people do it. Because there is no one way. If you want the one way, read a book instead.
For the lulz, and probably Texas was the biggest system they could get into quickly. There is little need to ask why they do things. It's a mob mentality.
-lulz -low hanging fruit -opportunity -someone probably got a speeding ticket in texas once -random
Pick one or more things on or off the list above, and there's your reason.
"LilyPond is mostly written in C++ and uses Scheme (interpreted by GNU Guile) as its extension language."
I like lilypond, but I really hate using it. I *really* hate making output that lilypond likes, because it involves Scheme, or Guile, or something, I don't know really. I'd like to, but I've been learning it for 3 years or so, and it still doesn't make sense.
Scheme, Lisp, Guile, wtf, I don't care, give me a format and I'm in. Give me a new language and I'm confused. Do I still like girls? I used to, has that changed?
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Someone has given out my phone number as hers, I get calls all the time, on my cell phone. This bill doesn't do anything about debt collectors calling you, it just means they can use automated software to do it. If they could before, they can now.
That's what I'm saying, the bill I downloaded doesn't change anything, certainly not the "any robocaller can call any cell phone" sense it gives right now. Do you see anything IN THE BILL that changes the way this works?
I don't see anything in the bill to object to. Telephone soliciting is still prohibited, and if a debt collector is after you I think you have other things to worry about.
In fact, the only scenario I can see as a real problem is when debt collectors rack up charges robo-calling you. Just take every charge off the amount you owe until it's a wash. Or actually pick up the phone and figure out how to deal with your debt, and inform them that you are being charged, and you do not have a prior business relationship as defined in the Communications Act and this is a mobile phone.
Anyone have a better summary?
It's a book review, not Cliff's Notes.
It should, but it doesn't. The Supreme Court decides if a law is unconstitutional. Not Congress, unless they feel like weighing in before passing it or repealing it after the fact, but that's optional.
Congress can pass any bill it feels like passing. It can disband the Supreme Court if it likes, but that would fail the constitutionality test and be thrown out. Most likely, the President would never even sign it so it wouldn't become law, just a bill passed by Congress.
I've been trolled, I'm sure of it at this point, and replying anyway because there are really people out there this stupid. Just in case. Go ahead and ask me who would throw out such a law were the Supreme Court disbanded by Congress and the bill were signed by the President, I know you want to.
Are you saying that you are the sole judge of what general Welfare means? Or are you going to leave that up to the people who actually have that responsibility, which is the Supreme Court?
"Sign this petition" is greyed out for me, IE 7 or FireFox 6. It says to sign in, but at the bottom is says Welcome {me} and I can't sign in - only sign out. Is this what everyone else is seeing?
In January, 4 members stepped down and 5 were added, including one Meg Whitman. In addition, during the spying scandal (Patricia Dunn), the board got shuffled as well. The board that made this decision is not the same one that hired Leo.
In addition, a shareholder lawsuit over Fiorina's golden parachute did nothing to prevent Hurd's golden parachute, which sparked another shareholder lawsuit.
The question you should be asking is, why does HP's board continually make bad decisions, even though it is made up of different people?
http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/20/technology/HP_board_of_directors/index.htm
I'm still waiting for confirmation that the sun is the center of the universe. So far, that seems not to be the case. Earth is not conclusively the center of anything, either. So until I have a few more labs saying the sun is the center of the universe, I'll plug my ears.
Maybe Google is recovering all of the money lost due to crashes, corrupted files, and all the other nonsense we had to put up with because you paid hardware manufacturers not to put anythig else on their computers.
Every time I click and Vista doesn't do anything, I use google to find something entertaining to watch until Vista responds. Using FireFox. With NoScript.
I wish they would give it to me, but as long as they are taking it from you when my government couldn't, I'm perfectly fine with that. I use you cos I have to, not cos I want to, and that hurts every day. Spread your cheeks and see how it feels.
I'll do you one better. I was seeing someone who got endlessly annoyed at radio, at TV, at anything blatantly advertising becauese she understood what they were doing, and how. And it bothered her.
I never noticed. I knew that the new episode of House was coming soon, but I still can't tell you when. I can ask if she saw that commercial about the whatever, and she asks what's it for? I have no idea, it had the things in it. She didn't notice any of that, only that it was advertising.
I have an ad filter, and all of that filters out. I had to ask her when something started (I don't even remember what, some special deal) because I could not remember 10 seconds ago. 10 seconds into the next commercial, I realized I might have wanted to know whatever they were talking about. Really? They said it like 6 times, and you didn't get it? No, I said, I actually don't pay attention, like I've been telling you for the past several months. I ignore it, and I wish you would too.
I can listen to a radio spot, hum the tune, and be asked a simple trivia question about it, and I cannot tell you one fact about what they said. I tune out the words, any advertising information at all.
So they can measure anything they want to. Advertising, which is the only thing they want to know about, is completely lost on me. I watch the super bowl, don't care who wins, just to watch the commercials. And people ask me if I say the Chevy or the Whirlpool or whatever commercial.. I don't know. I saw the one with the hamsters, or the rock star, I don't know what brand. For a thousand dollars, I could not come up with the answer for more than maybe 1 out of 5.
Go to hell, advertising. Or not, I really won't notice. Won't miss you, won't notice you're gone. Just keep paying for free stuff like OTA television and radio.
Actually, fuck that. Everything that's advertised had to pay for the spot. I actually want to know what ads I'm seeing or hearing so I can avoid their products. If it's not good enough for my friends, it's not good enough for me, and we will find something else. Please, let me remember what adverts I have seen so I know what to avoid! /not an actual wish.
ZIP is protected by 32-bit CRC. You can get a valid ZIP header, and change any 4 bytes (not at random, do it carefully), and get a valid CRC-32 result.
I actually wrote a program 10 years ago to re-create a file with a known header and CRC-32 and size. It did not work, but I let someone run it for a while just to see what happened. They got matches every 5 minutes I think on a 500mHz machine, and each file was 4 bytes difference.
32 bits = 4 bytes, every valid CRC32 value can be covered with 4 bytes. It's obvious when you think about it that way. What was interesting to me was the consistency. CRC32 did not seem to have any hot spots or congestion, the results were fairly uniform. I was pleasantly surprised.
On a 512 byte sector, you're going to have a minimum exponent of 128 to account for all of the variations.
Yes and no. Most malware exploits holes that have been patched, so even Windows doesn't support it. Most measured by numbers of pure variants, not the number of copies in the wild. And of course third party applications will have the same problems on either system. Insecure Windows apps will be insecure ResctOS apps.
There are two camps in ReactOS development. One wants perfect binary compatibility, which means undocumented behavior and other quirks. Malware will like this. The other wants to follow MSDN documentation because that's what is freely available without much legal problem. Malware will be elss compatible with this.
Wine has a lot of unit/regression testing, and ReactOS uses that heavily. Write something on Windows, get the expected behavior, and make Wine behave the same. So user-mode, it will be very close to Windows. Wine does not do (much) kernel mode work, so it will be up to ReactOS group to determine what gets tested and how.
In summary, ReactOS will fall victim to any design flaws Windows has. It will not be compatible with malicious code that expects certain values to be in certain places (version checks such as the address of a function). It will also have bugs of its own which can be exploited.
I see an OEM setting, so they can pre-install the Tablet interface on a tablet, the PC interface on a PC, and the user can still change it.
I don't see anything to support all these conclusions people are jumping to.
Brilliant marketing. Make a crappy operating system, but throw in some eye candy that everyone has to have.
2 camps of customers now - the ones that like it despite its flaws, and the ones who would never buy it.
Then fix all the bugs, but release it as a new OS. By that time hardware has caught up so the performance seems robust and snappy. 95 to 98, XP to XP SP2 (it took a while), Vista to 7.
W8 is the experimental failure that people will buy only because it comes on their computers, and W9 will be the one everyone else buys to upgrade their current computer. They get purchases from both camps, and continue to dominate the market.
Your conclusion needs work. Some insurance companies set allowed rates by averaging what costs are across several providers. You jack up the cost to bring up the average, since most people come in with insurance. Screwing the uninsured is merely a side effect.
It's not a good business model to significantly overcharge for a very small part of your potential market. That just makes them avoid you until it's impossible.
Also, these providers agree to a price list in order to be a provider for an insurance company. The only reason is that insured people will almost always go to a place that takes their insurance. Accept only a few insurance companies and you miss out on patients, so they agree.
In short, everything they do is oriented towards insured patients, with little regard for uninsured. Insured patients are 80% or more guaranteed because that's what the insurance company will cover. If they have to chase down payments from patients, it will be a small portion of the total bill. Uninsured patients may or may not pay, and may declare bankruptcy.
It's called a WinModem. The connections are in hardware, but the expensive DSP is done in software. So you just dial a modem-capable (SLIP/PPP) ISP and do the DSP in software. Any phone these days is capable of that.
Now, if only we were using a phone that we could see the source code, so we could figure how to route the software output to the phone instead of from the mic...
If "the real world" means the corporate world, do this. Take an application you don't care about and don't know how to use, and assign yourself a bug to fix, and give yourself a deadline pulled from a RNG.
Code is developed this way:
Start developement
Shrink the team
Fire all but 1 guy who does all the maintenance
Bring in contractors
Add a few people
Shrink the team
Fire the 1 guy who knows everything
Scramble to find someone who knows the application
Bring in contractors
Select any step above at random
I'm not trying to be funny. End result is quirks, inconsistencies, inexplicable code blocks, bugs, performance issues, and all kinds of other bad things.
I'd say take things that are popular, well-used. libpng or zlib for example, or any other library that is most likely in something you use. Even if real-world code doesn't work that way, it's something that a lot of people are exposed to, if only via the API.
Usually there is sample code which shows how to use the library. Many eyeballs on that sample, and you have a good shared consciousness. It's not always how things work as I said, but it is what's being used.
I finally found you. I hate you. Not personally, but this kind of thinking. A TCP class raises a disconnected exception, the stream class raises an interrupted exception, the object class raises an error exception, and the application says "There was an error." What kind, and how do I fix it?
OOP error handling and code reuse can be done well, but it generally is not. The basic idea of a "return code", giving some sort of information or context about the error, is very important. Even if it's just preserving the exception information to bubble up.
I've collected probably a hundred Microsoft-specific error messages that don't mean what they say they mean. They add helpful text to say what you might fix, but that's a red herring. There is an underlying error which is caught but not bubbled up, and it leaves the user with little or no idea what to do.
You have to have the idea, if not the implementation, of returning something to the user.
And, I take exception to your assertion that exceptions don't make the code slower. Each class wraps its code in try/catch and has to deal with fairly complicated Exception objects in many cases. Did the file open? fopen() returns null, and you can get more information if you want it. OOP says you have to make an exception object and run catch code, and go up the stack and to the exceptions there.
Code that experiences no exceptions will not be noticeably slower, but code that relies on exception processing to try alternate methods or re-try will be a lot slower. This from someone who looks at C++ code at the (dis)-assembler level.
Take something you like and/or use. Or something like what you do if possible. Load it in a debugger, trace in to main or the language equivalent, and see where the calls go. You'll see quickly how the files are organized (if they are organized).
The more familiar you are with the app, the more sense the code will make.
Choose several - I've found every project has its own style, organization, or other peculiarities.
As someone said above, the real world is not all open source. Most of what I've seen in open source has nothing to do with what is done at large companies. The closest you might come is Red Hat, their distro-specific additions to Linux. But that's still open-source style.
When you feel comfortable, go to something that will blow your mind. The creative use of the preprocessor in MAME/MESS, and the ploymorphic implementation in C, makes this a wonder to behold. And not a great example unless your intent is to make an emulator.
http://mamedev.org/
The point is to learn more than one way of doing things, and find what you are comfortable with. Not how other people do it. Because there is no one way. If you want the one way, read a book instead.
Keep going, ignore slashdot. We're ignorant sometimes. Welcome to the fun.
For the lulz, and probably Texas was the biggest system they could get into quickly. There is little need to ask why they do things. It's a mob mentality.
-lulz
-low hanging fruit
-opportunity
-someone probably got a speeding ticket in texas once
-random
Pick one or more things on or off the list above, and there's your reason.
I love cilantro, but I hate Scheme. Maybe your analogy is as accurate as one involving a vechicle. Guile might as well be Canturbury Tales to me.
"LilyPond is mostly written in C++ and uses Scheme (interpreted by GNU Guile) as its extension language."
I like lilypond, but I really hate using it. I *really* hate making output that lilypond likes, because it involves Scheme, or Guile, or something, I don't know really. I'd like to, but I've been learning it for 3 years or so, and it still doesn't make sense.
Scheme, Lisp, Guile, wtf, I don't care, give me a format and I'm in. Give me a new language and I'm confused. Do I still like girls? I used to, has that changed?
Nihongo ga benkyoushimasu. I need job.