I think this is a natural progression of ISPs-as-loss-leaders. Companies like Sky+BT, Talk Talk, Orange Mobile and so on give ISP access away for free. The money's got to come from somewhere, and the margins on the other services that those companies provide aren't enough.
GPS would give them the same data, though. It's just a matter of being able to use WiFi instead of or to augment GPS data. In short, they had a solution, thought it'd be cool to use another, now are in hot water. It's a moot point. The worse that can happen is that they be forced to dump the data and not use it and be fined. The second worse is to just be fined and somehow sanitize the data and convince the government it's kosher, the least is that they are scolded for doing it and nothing happens. Ultimate
I wish I had mod points right now... If you've used a Google product that told you your location without GPS or a cellular signal, you have benefited from their Wi-Fi data collection.However, I can't condone collecting "payload" data - only MAC and SSID.
If not exaggerated, that is mind-numbingly ****ed up. I understand it to be about the same way in the UK, but I didn't realize Canada had drank the kool-aid on this one.
We want free healthcare.
It's the insurance companies that pays for astroturfing that gives the appearance that we really don't want universal healthcare. What was really amazing was the number of medicare recipients protesting against universal healthcare.
The other amazing thing is how people believe that if we give tax cuts to the wealthy then jobs will magically appear. Never mind that we are talking about making Bush-era tax cuts permanent and not introducing new tax cuts. If the tax cuts were a panacea then why haven't they created new jobs in the past 3 years?
Mainstream media creates perceptions. Perceptions don't always reflect reality.
Also the US government always seem to do what is good for corporations and hardly anything good for consumers. They try to make it appear it was good for consumers. Take the current "Health Care Reforms" that the Democrats passed last year. It doesn't come close to making health care free, in fact it forces us to purchase health insurance. So on the surface it looks like the consumers are finally getting affordable healthcare, in reality the insurance corporations are getting customers who are forced to purchase insurance.
Next thing you'll see is the government promising more jobs from exports by initiating free trade with a country whose growing economy is based on jobs being outsourced from the US. Oh wait it looks like Obama wants to announce something....
Huh? Canadians in the US are almost always on TN-1 visas. The more expensive and complex H-1B permit is usually reserved for employees who don't qualify for TN visas.
Unfortunately, you give the US citizen an impossible-to-meet set of qualifications, but let the foreign help get by with far less than the US citizen.Then your fraud is exposed for all to see.
Most people I tell are shocked when I tell them that the income tax rates on individual income over $200000 was 92%, according to this Tax Foundation pdf file . This would be the equivalent of taxing millionaires at 92% today. The interesting thing is that the period from 1945 to 1963 was one of profound middle class economic security. When I read about Mr. Balmer's income tax shenanigans, I am reminded how much times have changed.
the design also decreases the effective tax rate on the rich and increases it on the poor and middle class for a net loss in revenue overall.... unless you want to include sale tax on stocks.
It's a functional language following in the footsteps of the ML category of languages, but written for the.NET platform. It's open source with a patent grant, and the F# team has made sure each release has both a.NET and a Mono installer.
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And why is the Coast Guard even involved in this?
Theft has a definition, it is not synonymous with copyright infringement.
I think this is a natural progression of ISPs-as-loss-leaders. Companies like Sky+BT, Talk Talk, Orange Mobile and so on give ISP access away for free. The money's got to come from somewhere, and the margins on the other services that those companies provide aren't enough.
was arrested for being escorted out of the area by TSA officers and supervisors.
"Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up"
Write messages in form of homemade captcha. Waste their space, waste their time, cost nothing if you even set up a bot for this evil endeavour.
Consider checking airplane passengers against a no-fly terrorist ear list: ~900,000,000 passengers/year x 0.4 error rate = ~36,000,000 false positives/year. Totally useless
that style will come back to bite TSA in the ear.
GPS would give them the same data, though. It's just a matter of being able to use WiFi instead of or to augment GPS data. In short, they had a solution, thought it'd be cool to use another, now are in hot water. It's a moot point. The worse that can happen is that they be forced to dump the data and not use it and be fined. The second worse is to just be fined and somehow sanitize the data and convince the government it's kosher, the least is that they are scolded for doing it and nothing happens. Ultimate
Am I the only one thinking of the latest South Park episodes?
If not exaggerated, that is mind-numbingly ****ed up. I understand it to be about the same way in the UK, but I didn't realize Canada had drank the kool-aid on this one.
We want free healthcare. It's the insurance companies that pays for astroturfing that gives the appearance that we really don't want universal healthcare. What was really amazing was the number of medicare recipients protesting against universal healthcare. The other amazing thing is how people believe that if we give tax cuts to the wealthy then jobs will magically appear. Never mind that we are talking about making Bush-era tax cuts permanent and not introducing new tax cuts. If the tax cuts were a panacea then why haven't they created new jobs in the past 3 years? Mainstream media creates perceptions. Perceptions don't always reflect reality. Also the US government always seem to do what is good for corporations and hardly anything good for consumers. They try to make it appear it was good for consumers. Take the current "Health Care Reforms" that the Democrats passed last year. It doesn't come close to making health care free, in fact it forces us to purchase health insurance. So on the surface it looks like the consumers are finally getting affordable healthcare, in reality the insurance corporations are getting customers who are forced to purchase insurance. Next thing you'll see is the government promising more jobs from exports by initiating free trade with a country whose growing economy is based on jobs being outsourced from the US. Oh wait it looks like Obama wants to announce something....
Huh? Canadians in the US are almost always on TN-1 visas. The more expensive and complex H-1B permit is usually reserved for employees who don't qualify for TN visas.
the design also decreases the effective tax rate on the rich and increases it on the poor and middle class for a net loss in revenue overall.... unless you want to include sale tax on stocks.
It's a functional language following in the footsteps of the ML category of languages, but written for the .NET platform. It's open source with a patent grant, and the F# team has made sure each release has both a .NET and a Mono installer.
No kidding. If your goal is to pick Office over Google Docs, you can list about a thousand things Office does that GD doesn't.
When you're half way to mars, a malfunctioning toilet would be a ****ty way to die.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of them!
RTFA. That's exactly what happend with HTTP. "It works". In the world of 1990. And then they started to "fix" it to keep up.
True, but neither did the poster originally making the analogy....