My guess is that they feel like Google wants to emulate that facet of the Facebook model. It has been said that Facebook's database of user activities and preferences is superior because it shows a more qualitative preference than "a random Google search." By walling off authenticated users, they make it possible to tie search terms more accurately to a particular user. This should shift search preferences and habits results... perhaps even improve the quality.
I know this is a long shot. It just makes me mad. I am taking all your suggestions down.
I'm going to give this 30 days. If the work doesn't bare any fruit, I'll scratch up the money to buy a new one. If I catch the guy, you bet I will post an update on Slashdot!!!
Thank you, again!
Sorry for burring this update here, but I don't know how to update the article above.
I actually had my business partner on the hunt and we tracked it down to 4th District Vancouver. We also found out that the non-emergency VPD number takes you do a civilian call center. These guys seemed be misinformed about their own laws. So when we connected directly with 4th District, we got a call back from a detective who pulled the case. This happened on Friday. I had already submitted to Slashdot the night before.
Anyone know who to update the submission?
Very true.
Yeah, it is possible. I can file transfer a script to the machine silently, but I can't execute it. So then the trick becomes how do I pull off running it?
One option is to log into the session and run it. He will definitely see me snooping around.
The other option is to convince him to run it for me.... like attaching it to a video called "lesbian canadian mounties".
The problem is that I don't see any scripts readily available to conduct the feat and I'm a little unfamiliar with working on the OS at this level. So taking a crash course in this sort of work will not be easy... especially without the benefit of a Mac to test it on.
The one thing I have going for me is that there are numerous Automator and AppleScript guides for building an iSight capture script. I just lack the hardware to test it on.
I think what is lost in this conversation is that the game industry HAS been here before. Does anyone remember arcade games?
Play Time Crisis and try to tell me with a straight face that that series was a well made, complex strategy shooter that you could play for more than 5 minutes on less than $1 of coins.
I agree to an extent that the pay-as-you-go model is getting pretty pervasive and it should be implemented in more moderation. Just don't try to sell me that this will take over the WHOLE industry. It might fill the niche market of mobile apps, but I don't see this being the model of choice for console and PC markets. They are different audiences.
And, even if you're right, the likely result is that history will repeat itself like it did with arcades and the model will collapse in some measurable amount of time.
Someone check me on this, but the easiest DOD approved method is to use a drill a hole through the housing/platter. This exposes the HDD to the elements, spreads platter shavings across the platter (which lightly scrambles the magnetic field ), and puts A HOLE through your data. That makes it pretty hard to recover from.
The other option is to simply dismantle the drive. This has the added value is that you can then take out the rare-earth magnet. These little widgets have a whole mess of uses.
... we haven't cured cancer or AIDS... built flying cars or gotten 100 mpg on gasonline. A far more impressive headline: "Discovery Brings us One Step Closer to driving 100 miles on one Pigeon."
I'm sure that, with all the earth-like planets we find, we will STILL only find one where the advanced and powerful race has consistently worked against exploring all that it sees.... Earth
This isn't just a Bush Casualty. Decades union benifit agreements were made. Workers said "We want more money" and politicians, to kick the can down the road said "We can't give you money now, but we'll give you sweet retirement deals". The unions thought it was a good deal. It was sold to the American people as a "no-cost" benefit. Politicians got away with it because the state and federal budgets weren't constrained to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principals). In particular, the "Principle of periodicity" they skirted state that future benefits and payouts must be fiscally accounted for, incrementally between the date of the agreement and the date of the disbursement. Think about it, if I were a business owner and promised you, my employee, $1,000,000 bonus if you contingent upon you working for me till retirement age of 65. We agree and I do nothing in my accounting books to account for that $1,000,000 in the ensuing 40 years of labor. How will I have the money for you when you retire? That makes my agreement with you, at the very least, an empty promise... more likely, it's a breach of contract. Now, considering that you are not allowed to sue a government agency, and considering that many of the politicians that employed this practice have retired themselves (with their own self-appointed retirement packages), the current government has no choice but to do what it should have done all along, follow GAAP. To the best of my knowlege, they JUST started doing this under Bush even though GAAP has been around in some form for over 70 years (Please check this statement).
So why do USPS competitors not carry the same burden? Simple: If they are a publicly traded company, SEC requires them to follow GAAP in their operating reports. In other words, no agreement was made that went unfunded AND any agreement made has been incrementally ACCOUNTED for DECADES. The American people should be HOPPING MAD that we allowed ourselves to be fooled like this. "Because there is no such thing as a free lunch."
The DoD thinks fancy war-machines are sexy. To them, if it isn't powerful and deadly, it isn't sexy. Until they see the consequences of their poor performance, they will continue to take an uneducated approach to information security.
"It utilizes a small fusion reactor that he made when he was 14" (sic)
OK, great job kid. I just have one problem...
So after a quick rifle through my movie collection I recall a certain Doctor with DeLorean was powered by questionable amounts of radioactive plutonium in a home-made reactor. He had to trifle with a rowdy band of Libyans to get his material.
So who did you trick and to I need to be worried?
Amazing....
When BP spills some oil in the Gulf of Mexico (which shuts down tourism and fishing businesses along the Gulf Coast, and has a real potential to affect the eco system for 30 years in a 5,000 sq mile area)... talking heads say "We need oil! There's no other viable alternative"
When Fukushima spills some nuclear material (also hurting fisheries, tourism, and displacing families in a 400 sq mile area for a few years)... talking heads say "Nuclear reactors are unsafe!!! There are alternatives!!!"
AM I ON CRAZY PILLS OR IS THERE AN AGENDA HERE?!?!
Actually, it's Viagra and Prozak advertisements along with several desperate attempts by the "Prince of Nigeria" to wire money into a "safe account"
-Iranians get all the good emails
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... it's that it looks so damn cool doing it!!!
It looks like some sort of contraption you'd find in a Sci-fi movie.
My guess is that they feel like Google wants to emulate that facet of the Facebook model. It has been said that Facebook's database of user activities and preferences is superior because it shows a more qualitative preference than "a random Google search." By walling off authenticated users, they make it possible to tie search terms more accurately to a particular user. This should shift search preferences and habits results... perhaps even improve the quality.
Wish I did... :-(
I'm kicking myself now b/c of those iCloud features
I know this is a long shot. It just makes me mad. I am taking all your suggestions down.
I'm going to give this 30 days. If the work doesn't bare any fruit, I'll scratch up the money to buy a new one. If I catch the guy, you bet I will post an update on Slashdot!!!
Thank you, again!
Sorry for burring this update here, but I don't know how to update the article above.
I actually had my business partner on the hunt and we tracked it down to 4th District Vancouver. We also found out that the non-emergency VPD number takes you do a civilian call center. These guys seemed be misinformed about their own laws. So when we connected directly with 4th District, we got a call back from a detective who pulled the case. This happened on Friday. I had already submitted to Slashdot the night before.
Anyone know who to update the submission?
This is a great suggestion! Both this and the iCloud mentioned are the way I'll go in the future
Very true. Yeah, it is possible. I can file transfer a script to the machine silently, but I can't execute it. So then the trick becomes how do I pull off running it?
One option is to log into the session and run it. He will definitely see me snooping around.
The other option is to convince him to run it for me.... like attaching it to a video called "lesbian canadian mounties". The problem is that I don't see any scripts readily available to conduct the feat and I'm a little unfamiliar with working on the OS at this level. So taking a crash course in this sort of work will not be easy... especially without the benefit of a Mac to test it on. The one thing I have going for me is that there are numerous Automator and AppleScript guides for building an iSight capture script. I just lack the hardware to test it on.
I think what is lost in this conversation is that the game industry HAS been here before. Does anyone remember arcade games? Play Time Crisis and try to tell me with a straight face that that series was a well made, complex strategy shooter that you could play for more than 5 minutes on less than $1 of coins. I agree to an extent that the pay-as-you-go model is getting pretty pervasive and it should be implemented in more moderation. Just don't try to sell me that this will take over the WHOLE industry. It might fill the niche market of mobile apps, but I don't see this being the model of choice for console and PC markets. They are different audiences. And, even if you're right, the likely result is that history will repeat itself like it did with arcades and the model will collapse in some measurable amount of time.
...that God has a sense of humor and that truth is always stranger than fiction.
Residents on the Sun say their reception has gone up 100%
He just left to develop Apple's iCloud division!
Someone check me on this, but the easiest DOD approved method is to use a drill a hole through the housing/platter. This exposes the HDD to the elements, spreads platter shavings across the platter (which lightly scrambles the magnetic field ), and puts A HOLE through your data. That makes it pretty hard to recover from.
The other option is to simply dismantle the drive. This has the added value is that you can then take out the rare-earth magnet. These little widgets have a whole mess of uses.
... we haven't cured cancer or AIDS... built flying cars or gotten 100 mpg on gasonline.
A far more impressive headline: "Discovery Brings us One Step Closer to driving 100 miles on one Pigeon."
I'm sure that, with all the earth-like planets we find, we will STILL only find one where the advanced and powerful race has consistently worked against exploring all that it sees.... Earth
This isn't just a Bush Casualty. Decades union benifit agreements were made. Workers said "We want more money" and politicians, to kick the can down the road said "We can't give you money now, but we'll give you sweet retirement deals". The unions thought it was a good deal. It was sold to the American people as a "no-cost" benefit. Politicians got away with it because the state and federal budgets weren't constrained to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principals).
In particular, the "Principle of periodicity" they skirted state that future benefits and payouts must be fiscally accounted for, incrementally between the date of the agreement and the date of the disbursement. Think about it, if I were a business owner and promised you, my employee, $1,000,000 bonus if you contingent upon you working for me till retirement age of 65. We agree and I do nothing in my accounting books to account for that $1,000,000 in the ensuing 40 years of labor. How will I have the money for you when you retire? That makes my agreement with you, at the very least, an empty promise... more likely, it's a breach of contract.
Now, considering that you are not allowed to sue a government agency, and considering that many of the politicians that employed this practice have retired themselves (with their own self-appointed retirement packages), the current government has no choice but to do what it should have done all along, follow GAAP. To the best of my knowlege, they JUST started doing this under Bush even though GAAP has been around in some form for over 70 years (Please check this statement).
So why do USPS competitors not carry the same burden? Simple: If they are a publicly traded company, SEC requires them to follow GAAP in their operating reports. In other words, no agreement was made that went unfunded AND any agreement made has been incrementally ACCOUNTED for DECADES. The American people should be HOPPING MAD that we allowed ourselves to be fooled like this.
"Because there is no such thing as a free lunch."
The DoD thinks fancy war-machines are sexy. To them, if it isn't powerful and deadly, it isn't sexy. Until they see the consequences of their poor performance, they will continue to take an uneducated approach to information security.
boobs
androgynous boys
A technology that will make CSI *almost* worth watching.
"It utilizes a small fusion reactor that he made when he was 14" (sic)
OK, great job kid. I just have one problem...
So after a quick rifle through my movie collection I recall a certain Doctor with DeLorean was powered by questionable amounts of radioactive plutonium in a home-made reactor. He had to trifle with a rowdy band of Libyans to get his material.
So who did you trick and to I need to be worried?
Amazing.... ... talking heads say "We need oil! There's no other viable alternative"
When BP spills some oil in the Gulf of Mexico (which shuts down tourism and fishing businesses along the Gulf Coast, and has a real potential to affect the eco system for 30 years in a 5,000 sq mile area)
When Fukushima spills some nuclear material (also hurting fisheries, tourism, and displacing families in a 400 sq mile area for a few years)... talking heads say "Nuclear reactors are unsafe!!! There are alternatives!!!"
AM I ON CRAZY PILLS OR IS THERE AN AGENDA HERE?!?!
Actually, it's Viagra and Prozak advertisements along with several desperate attempts by the "Prince of Nigeria" to wire money into a "safe account"
-Iranians get all the good emails
are to die for...
9% Cyber Black Ops?...-Patriot Act
This is how it can go horribly wrong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E089FnwgUc
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