I wish you had to opt in to simple credit approvals, instead of struggling to opt out. I do not want anybody to get a credit card in my name without a serious check on their identity, including me! It is just so irritating that it is so easy.
I say screw the store. Sorry, but if you are willing to lend thousands of dollars somebody you do not know except from a short conversation, it should be your loss.
Every credit card should have a delay and you must send in a confirmation from a received statement before it goes online. I would be fine with having that procedure. The idea I must open a line of credit TODAY or I die is a big reason for this problem. Stores love it, I am sure, but it should be their risk.
Credit card issuers should have this be the norm. Maybe they should split the loss with the stores.
Your logic seems good to me, but I cannot see how it being television, or any other networked media is any different from virtually any software system. Selecting spellcheck is not much different from selecting record. Having a menu handle something new is not innovation.
Now, if MS can find a patent for an innovative system design that is only used for scheduling TV on a computer, then TIVO should worry. For example, a video filesystem or encoder, I could accept a patent for, if and only if that algorithm was not published in a journal somewhere before hand. It would need to be their research and algorithm. Opening up a math book and putting something found there into code is not innovation. It is assumed that any publicly known and public domain knowledge can be coded in some manner.
I am surprised the patent trolls are not chasing every video digitizer, including TIVO. That seems like a more integral component of TIVO tech than the menu system. If you cannot get it into digital form, you got nothing.
Some of these patents are so lame they are beyond belief. A menu system is unique? The general feeling of a Tivo, I had one for about 8 years, reminds me of DOS apps. You know, using the arrow keys to move around. Is bringing the concept of paper menus to a computer really innovative? Instead of a cursor you use your eyes to navigate a menu and you make your selection verbally. It is obvious that a pointer and a selection button would be needed to take over the role of eyes and verbal commands. How else would they have done it? Telepathy?
Software patents are evil. I can understand a unique complex algorithm, but menus? Showing descriptions? If they had such patents in the 1970s, we probably never would have had the PC revolution.
It seems anything that has networking added is suddenly new and completely innovative, too!
Does Intel hold the patent on addition or subtraction on a cpu? Not their specific hardware implementation, but the general concept of doing math with electronics, so they can patent troll everyone? I think George Boole got ripped off then by not patenting boolean logic on anything, including fingers, hydraulics and all future implementations thereof, including the human mind.
If I imagine a menu in my head to do a task, am I infringing?
I wish websites would use the function keys. That is the one thing I miss most with web apps, few hot-keys. Anybody who uses a word processor routinely knows the benefits of having special keys to go directly to an option. Web apps are mouse based and,though functional, leave out certain keyboard options that would make them far more useful.
The catch from what I see is that it does convert your database to DB2, but it acts like a DC server to redirect all functions of your current software to the DB2 database. It becomes the interface from your old applications to the DB2 servers. So, you need to run the 2BDB2 software indefinitely. That software mimics the DC product, so that is where the infringement suit comes in. CA may have a case and those clients using it may indeed need to pay CA for licenses. It is not just a pure onetime conversion.
If you really wish to migrate off, you need to design new software to interface with the DB2, so once your data is safe on DB2, you will not need 2BDB2 afterward.
The concern is the small sites like mine. I run a business and make my own simple website. I do not maintain it daily, there is no subordinate assigned to keep it up. One alt tag is missing and I will be sued out of existence. I spend most of my time running other portions of the business, like the real work I actually get paid to do for people.
Businesses are being closed daily through ADA lawsuits. It is one thing to suggest compliance to a list of good design points, but to make sites open to lawsuits is just another way to make the US uncompetitive. We must at least get a "You lose, you pay." tort system.
Maybe I do not wish to assist the blind in my business (IT). I actually had a blind client and he was a lot of trouble. He lost his sight, had all the tools, but was very angry at the world. He often took it out on me and one day I had enough and walked out. I didn't stop serving him because he was blind, but that he was an ass. I see helping the blind to be very difficult for all the technology is useless unless the people choose to use it. For all my efforts, I cannot make the blind see.
My wife is deaf and I find assisting the deaf as something I can do quite well. However, with the ADA, I can no longer pick my customers. If I help the deaf, but feel I cannot help the blind, will I be sued? So, when I end up closing my business due to a blind person being dissatisfied with my ADA efforts, the whole community will lose another resource, including the deaf.
Finally, I look at this as an infringement of my freedom of speech. They are in effect telling me how to communicate and with whom.
This works to a point. Having people there all the time, even when slow, makes your coffee shop look trendy. Nothing like an empty store to scream loserville.
Adapt the above mentioned scheme of free access per order with a variable rate of time. During the slow periods have 2 hrs while the rush hours have 30 minutes of access.
A regulated monopoly was not needed as much a well defined standard. We easily could have the lines owned by the community and they create the standards or at least demand a level of inter-operation. Do not confuse standardization with a need for monopoly.
I wonder about latency on the internet, too. It is not like from a server they know exact when you hit a key. They only know when it comes into their system.
That said, a piece of software could easily add specific characteristics to throw them off. For example, if you buffer the keystrokes you can send sentences at a quicker pace or alter the delay (right hand keys) to make it look like you are disabled.
What happens when I start hunting and pecking with two fingers? This is only useful, until people get smart.
It works great in that I have clients download my custom copy from my website. It has my IP hard coded in the config. Once it is running, which usually takes 2 clicks on Windows security windows, they just hit connect and I am in.
You can edit the graphics, too. Mine has my company name, phone number, etc.
The only negative, it is somewhat of a hog (due to encryption, I think), but it works and I do not have too much trouble getting even the inept connected. Vista needs to have the UAC disabled, unless you keep the user on the line. The security windows do not show up due to MS restrictions. I have not tried other programs under Vista, so I am not sure if it is a universal problem
So put that on a barcode and use a bar code scanner. If, you really want it to be secure have the barcode created without you looking at the password. So, unless you know how to read a barcode, you do not even know the password yourself.
This goes beyond DRM media offerings. This covers any cloud provided service.
An example is a client where a "knowledgeable" family member keeps pushing on-line backup as the ultimate solution, even claiming that other backups are no longer needed. Not that I would disagree with an automatic off-site backup, but you must allow for the company to go belly up.
In my research for them, I found that DataDepositBox.com is popular. However, from my communications with the company, it is clear that their admins are capable of changing your password and getting access to your key. I am not saying they are not a reputable service, nor that their staff are morally challenged. I am just stating the fact is that the company has the ability to access your data and they even claim they will provide your data to any government agency that properly requests it. Also, you will never have access to your encryption key, other than through them.
According to their terms of service, they only need to post information on their website prior to any discontinuation of service.
The key take away is that you must encrypt your data before you send it and there is always a chance they will not be there to provide your key to you when you may need them most. I am trying to explain this to my client, but they just bobble head what their family member told them. They seem to wish to ignore my recommendation of using an off-site backup along with a on-site tape or disk backup. The cloud is cool and slick, but you have to understand the limitations.,
The DRM issue is far worst for, from the outset, you are forced into a data lost potential you can never extricate yourself from. With all other cloud services, you have control of the data at some point. If, you lose anything, it is your fault. DRM just screws you over and you just await the ticking bomb to go off.
I would agree with having no sex offender registries. However, if you truly believe that the person will continue their behavior, then we need laws to keep them incarcerated longer or having a much more intense parole system for them. Their neighbors need not know, but they must have a short leash.
As for the people doing this search, they should be brought up on charges of wrongful restraint and molestation. Sorry, having a person caught with pills squealing on someone else is not cause for such a search. It is most obvious that kids will lie when caught. The real joke is this is about ibuprofen, which a child should be able to have anyway. A 13 year old should be allowed to self-medicate. The pill was the equivalent to 2 Advil, which is stupid when bottles of the stuff can be purchased anywhere.
Cables seems to the how big retailers screw you in the butt.
I have a local electronics store I go to. I know, I am very lucky. Firewire, USB and more are at great prices.
The first time a friend asked to go to a local "Office" store for a fireware cable, I went into shock, $35! Sears had an basic HDMI cable for $60. WTF! I have found them for $12 bucks at said electronics store.
The whole concept is ass backwards. Instead of having parents monitor their children, we demand every entity which has a DCHP server to save the logs for 2 years.
I use an AP, so I will have to figure out how to get that info out of my IP COP box. I am sure that it records it, but I run off a CF, so I flush the logs frequently. So, they are demanding that I provide at my expense, a PC or server capable of 99.999% uptime to catch the information via syslog. Then, I must provide a backup solution at an additional cost.
Sorry, the government has no authority to demand this. What's next? Have everyone buy an IP camera and record the activities outside their home for use by the police due to the occasional molester van. Again, all at our expense?
This is nuts, especially when MAC spoofing renders the entire effort a complete waste of time.
I am disappointed that MS is pushing out.Net 3.5 as a high priority update to v2. The real reason can be found looking up.Net 3.5 on Google. Developers want this out there and hoped it would have been in XP SP3. I really do not care what developers want. It is my system and the Windows updates need to be for system maintenance and not for pushing an agenda from MS and its developers.
I emailed MS and complained. I had not installed that update, so I had not seen the FF ext. Hearing this, I am even more alarmed over MS activities.
This ruling is pushing the notion of dictating the use of software after the sale. It comes down to, whether or not, a pipe wrench manufacturer can dictate that you cannot hit something with it. To have that action void the warranty is one thing, but to actually take the person to court to enforce this is another.
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I wish you had to opt in to simple credit approvals, instead of struggling to opt out. I do not want anybody to get a credit card in my name without a serious check on their identity, including me! It is just so irritating that it is so easy.
I say screw the store. Sorry, but if you are willing to lend thousands of dollars somebody you do not know except from a short conversation, it should be your loss.
Every credit card should have a delay and you must send in a confirmation from a received statement before it goes online. I would be fine with having that procedure. The idea I must open a line of credit TODAY or I die is a big reason for this problem. Stores love it, I am sure, but it should be their risk.
Credit card issuers should have this be the norm. Maybe they should split the loss with the stores.
Your logic seems good to me, but I cannot see how it being television, or any other networked media is any different from virtually any software system. Selecting spellcheck is not much different from selecting record. Having a menu handle something new is not innovation.
Now, if MS can find a patent for an innovative system design that is only used for scheduling TV on a computer, then TIVO should worry. For example, a video filesystem or encoder, I could accept a patent for, if and only if that algorithm was not published in a journal somewhere before hand. It would need to be their research and algorithm. Opening up a math book and putting something found there into code is not innovation. It is assumed that any publicly known and public domain knowledge can be coded in some manner.
I am surprised the patent trolls are not chasing every video digitizer, including TIVO. That seems like a more integral component of TIVO tech than the menu system. If you cannot get it into digital form, you got nothing.
Some of these patents are so lame they are beyond belief. A menu system is unique? The general feeling of a Tivo, I had one for about 8 years, reminds me of DOS apps. You know, using the arrow keys to move around. Is bringing the concept of paper menus to a computer really innovative? Instead of a cursor you use your eyes to navigate a menu and you make your selection verbally. It is obvious that a pointer and a selection button would be needed to take over the role of eyes and verbal commands. How else would they have done it? Telepathy?
Software patents are evil. I can understand a unique complex algorithm, but menus? Showing descriptions? If they had such patents in the 1970s, we probably never would have had the PC revolution.
It seems anything that has networking added is suddenly new and completely innovative, too!
Does Intel hold the patent on addition or subtraction on a cpu? Not their specific hardware implementation, but the general concept of doing math with electronics, so they can patent troll everyone? I think George Boole got ripped off then by not patenting boolean logic on anything, including fingers, hydraulics and all future implementations thereof, including the human mind.
If I imagine a menu in my head to do a task, am I infringing?
I wish websites would use the function keys. That is the one thing I miss most with web apps, few hot-keys. Anybody who uses a word processor routinely knows the benefits of having special keys to go directly to an option. Web apps are mouse based and ,though functional, leave out certain keyboard options that would make them far more useful.
The catch from what I see is that it does convert your database to DB2, but it acts like a DC server to redirect all functions of your current software to the DB2 database. It becomes the interface from your old applications to the DB2 servers. So, you need to run the 2BDB2 software indefinitely. That software mimics the DC product, so that is where the infringement suit comes in. CA may have a case and those clients using it may indeed need to pay CA for licenses. It is not just a pure onetime conversion.
If you really wish to migrate off, you need to design new software to interface with the DB2, so once your data is safe on DB2, you will not need 2BDB2 afterward.
Now we are getting to the essence of this, the ADA as an extortion racket
Who determines what is too hard to implement?
Courts, lawyers and juries.
That makes it so much more clear on how to proceed in my business.
Thanks ADA!
The concern is the small sites like mine. I run a business and make my own simple website. I do not maintain it daily, there is no subordinate assigned to keep it up. One alt tag is missing and I will be sued out of existence. I spend most of my time running other portions of the business, like the real work I actually get paid to do for people.
Businesses are being closed daily through ADA lawsuits. It is one thing to suggest compliance to a list of good design points, but to make sites open to lawsuits is just another way to make the US uncompetitive. We must at least get a "You lose, you pay." tort system.
Maybe I do not wish to assist the blind in my business (IT). I actually had a blind client and he was a lot of trouble. He lost his sight, had all the tools, but was very angry at the world. He often took it out on me and one day I had enough and walked out. I didn't stop serving him because he was blind, but that he was an ass. I see helping the blind to be very difficult for all the technology is useless unless the people choose to use it. For all my efforts, I cannot make the blind see.
My wife is deaf and I find assisting the deaf as something I can do quite well. However, with the ADA, I can no longer pick my customers. If I help the deaf, but feel I cannot help the blind, will I be sued? So, when I end up closing my business due to a blind person being dissatisfied with my ADA efforts, the whole community will lose another resource, including the deaf.
Finally, I look at this as an infringement of my freedom of speech. They are in effect telling me how to communicate and with whom.
This works to a point. Having people there all the time, even when slow, makes your coffee shop look trendy. Nothing like an empty store to scream loserville.
Adapt the above mentioned scheme of free access per order with a variable rate of time. During the slow periods have 2 hrs while the rush hours have 30 minutes of access.
I do not think that Mother Nature gives a damn.
Monsanto usurped Mom and Mom p'ownd Monsanto.
Man, meet earth.
A regulated monopoly was not needed as much a well defined standard. We easily could have the lines owned by the community and they create the standards or at least demand a level of inter-operation. Do not confuse standardization with a need for monopoly.
I wonder about latency on the internet, too. It is not like from a server they know exact when you hit a key. They only know when it comes into their system.
That said, a piece of software could easily add specific characteristics to throw them off. For example, if you buffer the keystrokes you can send sentences at a quicker pace or alter the delay (right hand keys) to make it look like you are disabled.
What happens when I start hunting and pecking with two fingers? This is only useful, until people get smart.
Obviously, holding security conferences and having everybody tight-lipped makes no sense. This is only about making the state look bad.
He may have been paid good, too. So, they may have just been looking for an excuse to bring in a recent college grad for chump change
Socialism is not new or different. If anything Glenn Beck shows that the more things change the more they stay the same.
For commercial use, I use PCHelpware. http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/index.html
It works great in that I have clients download my custom copy from my website. It has my IP hard coded in the config. Once it is running, which usually takes 2 clicks on Windows security windows, they just hit connect and I am in.
You can edit the graphics, too. Mine has my company name, phone number, etc.
The only negative, it is somewhat of a hog (due to encryption, I think), but it works and I do not have too much trouble getting even the inept connected. Vista needs to have the UAC disabled, unless you keep the user on the line. The security windows do not show up due to MS restrictions. I have not tried other programs under Vista, so I am not sure if it is a universal problem
So put that on a barcode and use a bar code scanner. If, you really want it to be secure have the barcode created without you looking at the password. So, unless you know how to read a barcode, you do not even know the password yourself.
This goes beyond DRM media offerings. This covers any cloud provided service.
An example is a client where a "knowledgeable" family member keeps pushing on-line backup as the ultimate solution, even claiming that other backups are no longer needed. Not that I would disagree with an automatic off-site backup, but you must allow for the company to go belly up.
In my research for them, I found that DataDepositBox.com is popular. However, from my communications with the company, it is clear that their admins are capable of changing your password and getting access to your key. I am not saying they are not a reputable service, nor that their staff are morally challenged. I am just stating the fact is that the company has the ability to access your data and they even claim they will provide your data to any government agency that properly requests it. Also, you will never have access to your encryption key, other than through them.
According to their terms of service, they only need to post information on their website prior to any discontinuation of service.
The key take away is that you must encrypt your data before you send it and there is always a chance they will not be there to provide your key to you when you may need them most. I am trying to explain this to my client, but they just bobble head what their family member told them. They seem to wish to ignore my recommendation of using an off-site backup along with a on-site tape or disk backup. The cloud is cool and slick, but you have to understand the limitations.,
The DRM issue is far worst for, from the outset, you are forced into a data lost potential you can never extricate yourself from. With all other cloud services, you have control of the data at some point. If, you lose anything, it is your fault. DRM just screws you over and you just await the ticking bomb to go off.
I would agree with having no sex offender registries. However, if you truly believe that the person will continue their behavior, then we need laws to keep them incarcerated longer or having a much more intense parole system for them. Their neighbors need not know, but they must have a short leash.
As for the people doing this search, they should be brought up on charges of wrongful restraint and molestation. Sorry, having a person caught with pills squealing on someone else is not cause for such a search. It is most obvious that kids will lie when caught. The real joke is this is about ibuprofen, which a child should be able to have anyway. A 13 year old should be allowed to self-medicate. The pill was the equivalent to 2 Advil, which is stupid when bottles of the stuff can be purchased anywhere.
Cables seems to the how big retailers screw you in the butt.
I have a local electronics store I go to. I know, I am very lucky. Firewire, USB and more are at great prices.
The first time a friend asked to go to a local "Office" store for a fireware cable, I went into shock, $35! Sears had an basic HDMI cable for $60. WTF! I have found them for $12 bucks at said electronics store.
The whole concept is ass backwards. Instead of having parents monitor their children, we demand every entity which has a DCHP server to save the logs for 2 years.
I use an AP, so I will have to figure out how to get that info out of my IP COP box. I am sure that it records it, but I run off a CF, so I flush the logs frequently. So, they are demanding that I provide at my expense, a PC or server capable of 99.999% uptime to catch the information via syslog. Then, I must provide a backup solution at an additional cost.
Sorry, the government has no authority to demand this. What's next? Have everyone buy an IP camera and record the activities outside their home for use by the police due to the occasional molester van. Again, all at our expense?
This is nuts, especially when MAC spoofing renders the entire effort a complete waste of time.
I am disappointed that MS is pushing out .Net 3.5 as a high priority update to v2. The real reason can be found looking up .Net 3.5 on Google. Developers want this out there and hoped it would have been in XP SP3. I really do not care what developers want. It is my system and the Windows updates need to be for system maintenance and not for pushing an agenda from MS and its developers.
I emailed MS and complained. I had not installed that update, so I had not seen the FF ext. Hearing this, I am even more alarmed over MS activities.
This ruling is pushing the notion of dictating the use of software after the sale. It comes down to, whether or not, a pipe wrench manufacturer can dictate that you cannot hit something with it. To have that action void the warranty is one thing, but to actually take the person to court to enforce this is another.