Exactly. If the developer's don't find and patch them. You can be certain the script kiddies are going to find and exploit them. Irresponsible would be quite the understatement if a software company looked the other way in regards to "holes" in their software simply because it's not economical.
So lets tell Mr Stillman and all the teachers and secretaries there that they have to wear the tags as well so the PARENTS can watch them. I want to know just how "punctual" they are and what their attendance is.
calling a judge at any available number and registering your opinion about their work is entirely legal
Not only legal, but necessary for the system to work! How can an elected official represent the people if he doesn't know the people's opinion?
Now, strictly speaking, if your not an oklahoma resident, giving this particular judge your opinion doesn't, technically, count. But giving him your opinion may gave YOUR district's judge a clue about what your opinion is.
50 million people put their phone numbers on this list. Why? Because they don't want the telemarketing calls, obviously. Why don't they want the calls? Because they are not interested in the products they're selling. So then, doesn't this list of 50 million disinterested consumers save the telemarketing agencies a ton of money by letting them focus their calls on people who may actualy be interested in their products? thats 50 million less phone calls they have to pay for. how long does each phone call last if you hate telemarketers? We'll average a polite hang up to be 5 seconds. So that 25 million seconds, thats nearly 7,000 man hours SAVED by the telemarketers.
someone tell me again why they're against this list?
besides the fact that forgetting to "pack" the keyboard would leave a gaping hole in the structure and therefore I would see hard to not notice... it would, assuredly, not happen any more often than one forgets to pack the power adapter or spare battery...
Your statements lead me to conclude, perhaps falsly, that you don't travel on business much. Folks who travel and must work, answer e-mail, reasearch etc while on the road; I think will like the ability to both do some work in the airport in the normal laptop configuration, but once they get back to the hotel they can re-arang it a little bit to make the most out of typicaly uncomfortable chairs in tiny rooms when they have a couple hours of work to do while there.
I don't the intention of these designs to be "desktop replacements". To me, I think their intention would be a more flexible laptop.
It's a laptop that can be configured into a more comfortable usable position once you get to the hotel your staying at on your business trips. I don't know about you, but @ 6'3" I don't particularly like hunching over a laptop everytime I'm not at my office to work at my desktop.
I found this link to a report from the CDC. It makes a comparison of firearm and vehicle related deaths since 1968. It references a steady decrease in vehicle accident deaths with a steady increase in firearm related deaths and suggests the rates will flip flop with firearm deaths taking the lead by 2003. It makes a strong point that the vehicle related deaths have dropped because of numerous technical and systematic improvments to vehicle saftey (laws, roads, cars, etc) and notes the lack of these types of measures for firearms. I think you'll find it a good read.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0023655/m00 23655.asp#Table_1
I'll have been a member of netflix for 2 years come this march. I still think its a great and worthwile service. They way I look at it is price comparison. For $21.55 (4 movies out at a time) I average about 8 or 9 movies a month (sometimes more) which is less than $3 a rental. At local WalletBuster rental store a new release dvd is $4+ for 2 nights not to mention their raping of you for late charges. And the netflix selection still out matches ANY video store i have ever seen.
granted, there have been some changes recently that bother me, such as bonus disks being a seperate item from the movie disk... that bothers me, they used to ship them both in the same package but now you have to use two slots on your rental queue to get both the movie and the extras disk for those that come that way.
In regards to shipping, i live on the east coast as well and see 3-4 day shipping times on average, and if it's been longer than 3 days I mark it as late and they ship the next one on my list. I liked it better when you checked off the disk THE DAY you shipped it, not just when it turns up missing. but all in all I still really enjoy the service, but I am not a hard core movie watcher, my fiance and I watch probably 2 movies a week and we still pop into the WalletBuster outlet nearest us for the occasional new release and sudden urge rental.
all in all i give netflix 4 stars (I really like it)
my concern is this... the RIAA doesn't need to reverse engineer anything... the web site TELLS THEM how it's encoded. Does the fact people are given instructions on how to decode the coded message actualy negate the exact thing they were trying to accomplish?
It had nothing to do with the name of the newsgroup. The article itself states that Buffnet admitedly KNEW about the child pornography and failed to act upon that information. Both customers AND law agencies informed BuffNet of the existance of child porn on certain news groups and they did nothing. that to me IS negligence and deserves legal action.
I keep hearing more about corporations wanting to be considered more of an individual or as a citizen entity than as a corporation. would this mean then the "corporate citizen" would then have the right to vote?
I don't know about you but that scares the SHIT out of me.
One of our genius sales reps opened an attachment in his email which promptly fried his network connection and bluescreened his laptop. The company i work for is rather small. So apart from being a developer, we are also called apon to be tech support. So my time, which is billed out at about $100 - $150 (US) an hour to our clients is pretty valuable around here. Granted, the gentleman involved did not have any antivirus software installed and that would have prevented the issue, BUT, as many a million i'm sure don't have it installed, this is part of why the "cost of viruses" is so high. Because of this virus I spent the better part of the day trying to clean up his machine and get him back on the network. Probably a good 3-4 hours. That 3-4 hours was also time that he was not able to work because he did not have access to his files, contacts etc. so that now takes us up to 6-8 man hours. In this case the following was not true, but consider the possability that the infected machine was preventing the completetion of an immediate deadline. taking 3-4 hours of time to rectify the situation could put the whole project back 3-4 hours perhaps requireing 4 or 5 people to have to wait 3-4 hours for the situation to be resolved. So i think you can see how even a small instance of a virus in a small company could easily generate thousands of dollars in loss. By loss i mean time spent "on the clock" that the company had to pay me for that was not productive towards a clients goal.
So the "cost" of the virus in the most part, stems from a lack of prevention. if every machine in the world had antivirus software and the virus definition files are rutinly updated, I would guess that at least %90 of that cost would disappear. However No matter how often you update your software though, there is still the chance of catching a new strain of a virus so the cost will never disappear entirely.
another thought. the fact that someone even HAS to buy antivirus software and pay for update subscriptions at all is due to the fact that there even ARE virusus. I would consider that to be included in the "cost". If there were no virusus, we would not have to spend $40 on a copy of McAfee. And $40 per copy of the software, times a company of 500 machines (a small comapny when you consider things on a global scale) is $20,000...
Ok, people REALLY need to start READING the articles before they "reply" to them. These people were jailed for running a scam that made them £288,000 (if my math is right, which it usualy isn't). The only way spam relates is that's how they ran the scam. That and probably a form of virus attached to the e-mail to propogate the spam to more people. There are no first amendment issues. From the article, "The men pleaded guilty to fraud charges..."
what i'm curious about, is if this was in Los Angeles, why are all the amounts in pounds(£) and not dollars($)?
If the government is now going to require its use, then perhaps we can now convince "them" that there needs to be some sort of governing body watching exactly what is censored. To prevent things like Software A blocking websites to competing software B or blocking sites with bad reviews of Software A and the numerous idiotic instances of "censoring for your own protection" If the government is going to require this software then, IMO, it should then govern this software as it can directly affect protected free speach. Perhaps a federally maintained blacklist instead of each company making their own.
I don't care HOW they do it. But they had BETTER agree on one damn standard! Hire an arbitrator, i don't care but I am SO freakin tired of having multiple versions of the same "language" out there.
"Now that I am older and actually pay attention to some of the stuff in this world, among the things that've most disturbed me is discovering what the olympics is really about, what it really represents - "
not what it is.. but what it has become. perhaps it is just the ignorance of my youth but I remember it the way you do and have become truely disheartend at what the olympics now are. On one hand, i can understand that funding a team with corporate sponsorship is easier than with government dollars alone, and that it is easier to get corporate sponsorhip by promising the corporation a little "advertising space for your logo" but what bothers me is the down right nazi mentality that the corporations take during the games. "You're not allowed to drink pepsi on this property i don't care where you got it from or that you paid for it yourself" or was I the only one that noticed that during the swim meets there were pieces of duct tape over the logos on the computer monitors used by the judges? what.. that company didn't give you the monitors and made you pay for them so you're going to be a prick and cover they're names? What does that really say about the people who run this show? The sports and athletes have become a side show, something to draw attention to the logos they're wearing and to get you to watch tv long enough to show you a few $100,000 commercials.
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Exactly. If the developer's don't find and patch them. You can be certain the script kiddies are going to find and exploit them. Irresponsible would be quite the understatement if a software company looked the other way in regards to "holes" in their software simply because it's not economical.
hmmm Original site must have been a vampire.. cause I don't see it in your mirror. ;o)
No... that'd be me. 'Cause i'm going to prove him wrong.
Tiny and smaller creatures do not threaten an area and therefore do not provide flanking. So no, you cannot flank with your toad familiar.
or is this statement,
"DoubleClick says that it is 'developing technology that will enable pop-up ads to evade the blocking software.' "
a statement of intent to violate the DMCA?
So lets tell Mr Stillman and all the teachers and secretaries there that they have to wear the tags as well so the PARENTS can watch them. I want to know just how "punctual" they are and what their attendance is.
Think their tone will change?
calling a judge at any available number and registering your opinion about their work is entirely legal
Not only legal, but necessary for the system to work! How can an elected official represent the people if he doesn't know the people's opinion?
Now, strictly speaking, if your not an oklahoma resident, giving this particular judge your opinion doesn't, technically, count. But giving him your opinion may gave YOUR district's judge a clue about what your opinion is.
I don't get why telemarketers are against this?!
50 million people put their phone numbers on this list. Why? Because they don't want the telemarketing calls, obviously. Why don't they want the calls? Because they are not interested in the products they're selling. So then, doesn't this list of 50 million disinterested consumers save the telemarketing agencies a ton of money by letting them focus their calls on people who may actualy be interested in their products? thats 50 million less phone calls they have to pay for. how long does each phone call last if you hate telemarketers? We'll average a polite hang up to be 5 seconds. So that 25 million seconds, thats nearly 7,000 man hours SAVED by the telemarketers.
someone tell me again why they're against this list?
besides the fact that forgetting to "pack" the keyboard would leave a gaping hole in the structure and therefore I would see hard to not notice... it would, assuredly, not happen any more often than one forgets to pack the power adapter or spare battery...
Your statements lead me to conclude, perhaps falsly, that you don't travel on business much. Folks who travel and must work, answer e-mail, reasearch etc while on the road; I think will like the ability to both do some work in the airport in the normal laptop configuration, but once they get back to the hotel they can re-arang it a little bit to make the most out of typicaly uncomfortable chairs in tiny rooms when they have a couple hours of work to do while there.
I don't the intention of these designs to be "desktop replacements". To me, I think their intention would be a more flexible laptop.
It's a laptop that can be configured into a more comfortable usable position once you get to the hotel your staying at on your business trips. I don't know about you, but @ 6'3" I don't particularly like hunching over a laptop everytime I'm not at my office to work at my desktop.
I found this link to a report from the CDC. It makes a comparison of firearm and vehicle related deaths since 1968. It references a steady decrease in vehicle accident deaths with a steady increase in firearm related deaths and suggests the rates will flip flop with firearm deaths taking the lead by 2003. It makes a strong point that the vehicle related deaths have dropped because of numerous technical and systematic improvments to vehicle saftey (laws, roads, cars, etc) and notes the lack of these types of measures for firearms. I think you'll find it a good read. http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0023655/m00 23655.asp#Table_1
I'll have been a member of netflix for 2 years come this march. I still think its a great and worthwile service. They way I look at it is price comparison. For $21.55 (4 movies out at a time) I average about 8 or 9 movies a month (sometimes more) which is less than $3 a rental. At local WalletBuster rental store a new release dvd is $4+ for 2 nights not to mention their raping of you for late charges. And the netflix selection still out matches ANY video store i have ever seen.
granted, there have been some changes recently that bother me, such as bonus disks being a seperate item from the movie disk... that bothers me, they used to ship them both in the same package but now you have to use two slots on your rental queue to get both the movie and the extras disk for those that come that way.
In regards to shipping, i live on the east coast as well and see 3-4 day shipping times on average, and if it's been longer than 3 days I mark it as late and they ship the next one on my list. I liked it better when you checked off the disk THE DAY you shipped it, not just when it turns up missing. but all in all I still really enjoy the service, but I am not a hard core movie watcher, my fiance and I watch probably 2 movies a week and we still pop into the WalletBuster outlet nearest us for the occasional new release and sudden urge rental.
all in all i give netflix 4 stars (I really like it)
or even little drill bits.
my concern is this... the RIAA doesn't need to reverse engineer anything... the web site TELLS THEM how it's encoded. Does the fact people are given instructions on how to decode the coded message actualy negate the exact thing they were trying to accomplish?
It had nothing to do with the name of the newsgroup. The article itself states that Buffnet admitedly KNEW about the child pornography and failed to act upon that information. Both customers AND law agencies informed BuffNet of the existance of child porn on certain news groups and they did nothing. that to me IS negligence and deserves legal action.
I keep hearing more about corporations wanting to be considered more of an individual or as a citizen entity than as a corporation. would this mean then the "corporate citizen" would then have the right to vote?
I don't know about you but that scares the SHIT out of me.
with insurance!!! LMAO!!
One of our genius sales reps opened an attachment in his email which promptly fried his network connection and bluescreened his laptop. The company i work for is rather small. So apart from being a developer, we are also called apon to be tech support. So my time, which is billed out at about $100 - $150 (US) an hour to our clients is pretty valuable around here. Granted, the gentleman involved did not have any antivirus software installed and that would have prevented the issue, BUT, as many a million i'm sure don't have it installed, this is part of why the "cost of viruses" is so high. Because of this virus I spent the better part of the day trying to clean up his machine and get him back on the network. Probably a good 3-4 hours. That 3-4 hours was also time that he was not able to work because he did not have access to his files, contacts etc. so that now takes us up to 6-8 man hours. In this case the following was not true, but consider the possability that the infected machine was preventing the completetion of an immediate deadline. taking 3-4 hours of time to rectify the situation could put the whole project back 3-4 hours perhaps requireing 4 or 5 people to have to wait 3-4 hours for the situation to be resolved. So i think you can see how even a small instance of a virus in a small company could easily generate thousands of dollars in loss. By loss i mean time spent "on the clock" that the company had to pay me for that was not productive towards a clients goal.
So the "cost" of the virus in the most part, stems from a lack of prevention. if every machine in the world had antivirus software and the virus definition files are rutinly updated, I would guess that at least %90 of that cost would disappear. However No matter how often you update your software though, there is still the chance of catching a new strain of a virus so the cost will never disappear entirely.
another thought. the fact that someone even HAS to buy antivirus software and pay for update subscriptions at all is due to the fact that there even ARE virusus. I would consider that to be included in the "cost". If there were no virusus, we would not have to spend $40 on a copy of McAfee. And $40 per copy of the software, times a company of 500 machines (a small comapny when you consider things on a global scale) is $20,000...
Once companies see people are actualy willing to pay big bucks for this, NASA will start having compition for pasangers.
everything has a price.
Ok, people REALLY need to start READING the articles before they "reply" to them. These people were jailed for running a scam that made them £288,000 (if my math is right, which it usualy isn't). The only way spam relates is that's how they ran the scam. That and probably a form of virus attached to the e-mail to propogate the spam to more people. There are no first amendment issues. From the article, "The men pleaded guilty to fraud charges..."
what i'm curious about, is if this was in Los Angeles, why are all the amounts in pounds(£) and not dollars($)?
(now don't explode, give me a second a read this)
If the government is now going to require its use, then perhaps we can now convince "them" that there needs to be some sort of governing body watching exactly what is censored. To prevent things like Software A blocking websites to competing software B or blocking sites with bad reviews of Software A and the numerous idiotic instances of "censoring for your own protection" If the government is going to require this software then, IMO, it should then govern this software as it can directly affect protected free speach. Perhaps a federally maintained blacklist instead of each company making their own.
I don't care HOW they do it. But they had BETTER agree on one damn standard! Hire an arbitrator, i don't care but I am SO freakin tired of having multiple versions of the same "language" out there.
"Now that I am older and actually pay attention to some of the stuff in this world, among the things that've most disturbed me is discovering what the olympics is really about, what it really represents - "
not what it is.. but what it has become. perhaps it is just the ignorance of my youth but I remember it the way you do and have become truely disheartend at what the olympics now are. On one hand, i can understand that funding a team with corporate sponsorship is easier than with government dollars alone, and that it is easier to get corporate sponsorhip by promising the corporation a little "advertising space for your logo" but what bothers me is the down right nazi mentality that the corporations take during the games. "You're not allowed to drink pepsi on this property i don't care where you got it from or that you paid for it yourself" or was I the only one that noticed that during the swim meets there were pieces of duct tape over the logos on the computer monitors used by the judges? what.. that company didn't give you the monitors and made you pay for them so you're going to be a prick and cover they're names? What does that really say about the people who run this show? The sports and athletes have become a side show, something to draw attention to the logos they're wearing and to get you to watch tv long enough to show you a few $100,000 commercials.
*sigh* it honestly and sincerely saddens me.
why did you get modded down twice?!?! That clip was painful... funny... but painful.