Well if it's privatized, then maybe they'll do things more like Israel. I don't know much beyond anecdotes (on here) about their screening process, but I gather it's a simple and short Q&A where they profile you and search if needed. I hear it's more efficient and without the groping. I'm assuming they have a higher incident of people wanting to blow up planes over there that the US does, but I could be wrong.
This could be a good thing. Now if they are given the same powers to abuse that the current TSA has, then nothing will change. Hopefully a private company will pay their workers more and have incentive to streamline things to maximize their profits.
This will probably hurt the economy more due to putting people out of work. The TSA is a jobs program as well as a theater performance. I doubt many of them would be hired by private firms, as they can weed out the good ones, pay them more, and streamline the process to do it with fewer people.
Good info. I would guess that backfired on the firm using the e-minis as a hedge... Unless they anticipated selling them at such low prices when filled the buy orders...
But most likely the entire thing was choreographed and they made plenty of money (as well as their in-the-know friends). Firms with that kind of money don't fuck up.
We use Websense, but I have no idea how much it costs. Websense categorizes websites based on URL and you can block individual categories. You can also block protocols individually. You can also just log and not block. Very flexible. The database of categories is updated daily. You can customize what they categorize as much as you want. If you submit a request for global recategorization, it usually gets done within an hour. This goes out to the public database. This is common when you launch a website that used to be a parked domain. You make sure Websense has it categorized correctly rather than as "parked domain" because that one is usually blocked.
Now the problem with website categorization is that 90% of the internet is not categorized by Websense. Then there is the increasing problem of sites serving content from multiple URLs or IPs. SSL is only blockable if you explicitly put the IP in. URLs are parsed with regex, so you get some false positives sometimes.
You probably don't need to block sites as much as you need to block protocols. It does that too. You can also track bandwidth usage, etc. There is full AD integration and you can define different blocking policies based on group membership, etc.
You can do whitelist only with it if you want.
After writing all of that it sounds expensive. I don't know how much it costs. You can probably use Websense Express depending on your needs and number of employees.
On my Windows 7 machine, a full screen high def silverlight stream from netflix consumes significantly less CPU than the same resolution flash-based stream from ESPN3. Vsync isn't an issue, either. Perhaps it's my video card with hardware h.264 decoder or perhaps the silverlight implementation on XP is not too good. Just my experience.
Don't know what to tell you about silverlight on linux or why netflix doesn't care. There is probably not a significant enough market to justify the cost involved. It's all about money. There are no emotionally-based or irrational decisions being made, and they would support it if the money was there.
Good for this guy. I know nothing about ReactOS, but I'm happy for him. I dare say a lot of us are working on various pet projects that would get all sorts of funding and support if they were discovered by someone(s) capable of giving funding. As it's always been, it's about being in the right place at the right time and/or knowing the right people.
This is designed to make it easier for insurance companies to deny payment in more situations. The overhead created will increase costs for everyone and that's good for the people at the top.
We're witnessing the fall of corporatism in this country. It's quickly approaching the point where they won't have any producing employees left. I used to think there was some nefarious plan, but it's starting to look more and more like incompetence and shortsigtedness. Dunning-Kruger effect across the board. The sociopaths at the top in this country have been allowed to go on so long unchecked that human nature is kicking in and they are being self-destructive.
Car analogy: Stupid teenage driver runs red lights and takes corners too fast over and over again. The more he does it with success, the more brazen he becomes. Then he wrecks and hopefully dies.
Then someone trolls his memorial and goes to prison.
Don't get me wrong - I think this sounds like a fantastic idea by Intel. But is $2.5 mil a year (spit in the ocean for Intel) enough enticement to get a research university to forego any future revenues and other benefits of holding patents. Apparently it was at Carnegie Mellon . . . maybe i'm overestimating their annual research budgets . . . or perhaps overestimating the value of patents?
This is why I don't lend or give money to people. They always want more and what I do is never good enough.
But he speaks the truth. Linux needs some polish. I'll give you that they don't have the resources that MS and Apple have, but that doesn't really matter to the consumer.
I can now say 'I don't know, I don't use it anymore'.
Me too. I just shrug my shoulders and say it's not something I'm prepared to help them with. Life is too short.
Jolly good. I tell them AV is a scam, and if they are getting "infections" then they need to get their porn from some streaming service like xnxx or whatever it is and run chrome with an ad blocker and read the damn comments when they pirate (YAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!) something. Or cut the porn altogether and read the fucking comments. I've never got an "infection" from pirated shit when reviewing the comments and/or using a commentable usenet indexing service. I don't look at porn, because I have a hot wife that gets off well. Informative mod, right?
AV really is a scam, though; and people that fix computers need to quit pushing it. OR -- better yet, start by downplaying AV. I do this when someone really needs it: I point out how flashy and scary their symantec, mcaffee, avg, shit is and that it doesn't look a whole lot different than malware. They agree. Then I tell them it's because it's all a big racket and they actually fund the development of the viruses. They're shocked. Then I install MS Security Essentials. Then I point out how different it is by not being all flashy, scary, and costly, then point out that it's made by Microsoft, and then lie and tell them it's going to be included in future versions of Windows as part of the OS, and that MS is waiting to do this slowly so they don't get sued by the AV industry.
Which is probably fucking true. I mean... Look at the fucking AVG phone AV app. What the fuck is that?
With a UID of 29997, you are well aware that you can download free copies of Windows and get the best of all worlds: Decade old OS if that's your preference, something that actually works with all the hardware you can buy, and free!
If you prefer a free copy of Windows 7, you'll get something that works really well with all hardware (usually right out of the box, but you can get drivers for it without a recompile and you don't have to write them yourself), and...... IT'S FREE!
If you like giving your money away, then buy a tech net subscription and you can download all the tired old shit you want. You can even run DOS 5 (if that's your preference).
Mod me +1 informative for explaining the obvious to a 5-digit UID. Thank you.
Yeah, Brakes have a signal. A signal you can't see when the braking car is being tailgated by the H2 in front of you.
If the car in front of you is tailgating the car that's braking, then you'll get plenty of warning when they smash into that car.
So long as you aren't tailgating too, of course.
Around here, one common trick people in SUVs do is as follows:
On a 4 lane + turn lane road, they will haul ass up to a line of stopped cars at a stop light. The light is green, of course, but that makes no difference here because everyone waits about 1 to 2 seconds after the car in front of them moves before accelerating from a stop when the light turns green. But I digress.
Point is: there is a line of stopped cars, and the SUV (who planned to enter in the left turn lane all along) without warning, and with such a sharp angle of attack they nearly tip over, will dart into the left turn lane without even so much as touching their brake.
Me in and Corolla are basically going top speed toward a stopped car at this point. This is done maliciously around here, because I live in a very fundamentalist Christology area. People in SUVs feel they are doing Gods work when they cause grief to people in non-oversized cars.
I've implied that I'm not a Christian. Please mod me up.
In my experience, the drivers in the front simply don't notice or deliberately don't respond to you. Tailgating, even headlight-flashing doesn't do the job.
In my experience around here, headlight flashing or honking will get you brake-checked. That's someone slamming hard on their brakes for no reason but to cause you grief (in retaliation to the grief you are causing them).
I live in a red state with strong fundamentalist Christology beliefs. There is very little rational behavior around here and more of an every man for himself, fear and loathing, hateful and depressing situation. -- See? I'm implying that I'm not a Christian. Mod me up.
Have you ever speed up when anticipating the asshole trying to squeeze into that gap? You close that gap, and hillarity ensues as the back end of their SUV pops up as they slam their brakes to avoid hitting the guy in front of them. Then they look at you pissed. Bonus points if you look right at them and smirk (they need to know you did it on purpose).
I read the original piece on Ars (a superior tech news site with actual content in their articles). Let me get this straight... Slashdot, days after Ars posted their article, links back to it and calls it a story. Is it the linking to a second article that makes it a story?
This site is terrible. The user-generated content (comments) used to be worth something, but those are now complete shit as well. Fuck off, slashdot.
You've clearly never read any of Krugman's god-awful articles. He's always going on about how anyone who's successful needs to be (metaphorically) brutally raped with obscenely high taxes to provide luxuries to those who do nothing to earn it.
In my experience, everyone I know that has "earned" their large accumulation of wealth had some seed money given to them. Usually a large inheritance, court settlement, death insurance payout, being born into a wealthy family, etc. Nepotism gives lucky individuals an extraordinary advantage, too.
I know a few small business owners. Self-employed and well off. I hear these guys talk about how hard they worked for everything and how "lazy people" deserve nothing. I always find out they got some starting money. One went into business with his wife. A real ma and pa shop. Find out after a while that the wife had a filthy rich mother who funded all of the startup costs of the company and that the company was actually divided three ways between them. When the mother died, the wife got her third. Was not a pretty divorce.
Anyway, my point is that people that make sweeping generalizations about people less well off than them usually always forget that it wasn't just their "hard work" that got them where they are. Lots of people work very hard their entire lives and die poor.
Bitcoin is just point accumulation for geeks/nerds. No different than the slashdot karma system, RPGs, folding at home scores, etc. When you have nothing fulfilling in your life, you accumulate points to define yourself. Fucking sad.
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Well if it's privatized, then maybe they'll do things more like Israel. I don't know much beyond anecdotes (on here) about their screening process, but I gather it's a simple and short Q&A where they profile you and search if needed. I hear it's more efficient and without the groping. I'm assuming they have a higher incident of people wanting to blow up planes over there that the US does, but I could be wrong.
This could be a good thing. Now if they are given the same powers to abuse that the current TSA has, then nothing will change. Hopefully a private company will pay their workers more and have incentive to streamline things to maximize their profits.
This will probably hurt the economy more due to putting people out of work. The TSA is a jobs program as well as a theater performance. I doubt many of them would be hired by private firms, as they can weed out the good ones, pay them more, and streamline the process to do it with fewer people.
The NYSE Specialists are the real scumbags.
Good reading:
http://bearfactsspecialistreport.com/
Good info. I would guess that backfired on the firm using the e-minis as a hedge... Unless they anticipated selling them at such low prices when filled the buy orders...
But most likely the entire thing was choreographed and they made plenty of money (as well as their in-the-know friends). Firms with that kind of money don't fuck up.
We use Websense, but I have no idea how much it costs. Websense categorizes websites based on URL and you can block individual categories. You can also block protocols individually. You can also just log and not block. Very flexible. The database of categories is updated daily. You can customize what they categorize as much as you want. If you submit a request for global recategorization, it usually gets done within an hour. This goes out to the public database. This is common when you launch a website that used to be a parked domain. You make sure Websense has it categorized correctly rather than as "parked domain" because that one is usually blocked.
Now the problem with website categorization is that 90% of the internet is not categorized by Websense. Then there is the increasing problem of sites serving content from multiple URLs or IPs. SSL is only blockable if you explicitly put the IP in. URLs are parsed with regex, so you get some false positives sometimes.
You probably don't need to block sites as much as you need to block protocols. It does that too. You can also track bandwidth usage, etc. There is full AD integration and you can define different blocking policies based on group membership, etc.
You can do whitelist only with it if you want.
After writing all of that it sounds expensive. I don't know how much it costs. You can probably use Websense Express depending on your needs and number of employees.
Any ISP logs, etc. regarding the content accessed would show it to be accessed from the home's internet connection -- not the business's.
On my Windows 7 machine, a full screen high def silverlight stream from netflix consumes significantly less CPU than the same resolution flash-based stream from ESPN3. Vsync isn't an issue, either. Perhaps it's my video card with hardware h.264 decoder or perhaps the silverlight implementation on XP is not too good. Just my experience.
Don't know what to tell you about silverlight on linux or why netflix doesn't care. There is probably not a significant enough market to justify the cost involved. It's all about money. There are no emotionally-based or irrational decisions being made, and they would support it if the money was there.
Apparently Google Street View doesn't work without flash. Quite a pain in the ass.
Cool story, bro!
No shit. That was a great game. The first time I stole it was unintentional. Thought it was a bug until I was referred to as Thief.
Good for this guy. I know nothing about ReactOS, but I'm happy for him. I dare say a lot of us are working on various pet projects that would get all sorts of funding and support if they were discovered by someone(s) capable of giving funding. As it's always been, it's about being in the right place at the right time and/or knowing the right people.
Between this and Bank of America dropping thousands of jobs, I'm starting to wonder.
Yes, and the the citizens of the US will gladly give them more money to enrich the C*Os. The populace in the US loves taking it up the ass.
This is designed to make it easier for insurance companies to deny payment in more situations. The overhead created will increase costs for everyone and that's good for the people at the top.
Hopefully the system implodes on itself.
We're witnessing the fall of corporatism in this country. It's quickly approaching the point where they won't have any producing employees left. I used to think there was some nefarious plan, but it's starting to look more and more like incompetence and shortsigtedness. Dunning-Kruger effect across the board. The sociopaths at the top in this country have been allowed to go on so long unchecked that human nature is kicking in and they are being self-destructive.
Car analogy: Stupid teenage driver runs red lights and takes corners too fast over and over again. The more he does it with success, the more brazen he becomes. Then he wrecks and hopefully dies.
Then someone trolls his memorial and goes to prison.
Don't get me wrong - I think this sounds like a fantastic idea by Intel. But is $2.5 mil a year (spit in the ocean for Intel) enough enticement to get a research university to forego any future revenues and other benefits of holding patents. Apparently it was at Carnegie Mellon . . . maybe i'm overestimating their annual research budgets . . . or perhaps overestimating the value of patents?
This is why I don't lend or give money to people. They always want more and what I do is never good enough.
'nuff said.
Wow, how fucking insightful. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
You, however, are just a hateful shit.
But he speaks the truth. Linux needs some polish. I'll give you that they don't have the resources that MS and Apple have, but that doesn't really matter to the consumer.
LOL! You're fucking sig. Brilliant!
"I'll have a Coke, then."
I can now say 'I don't know, I don't use it anymore'.
Me too. I just shrug my shoulders and say it's not something I'm prepared to help them with. Life is too short.
Jolly good. I tell them AV is a scam, and if they are getting "infections" then they need to get their porn from some streaming service like xnxx or whatever it is and run chrome with an ad blocker and read the damn comments when they pirate (YAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!) something. Or cut the porn altogether and read the fucking comments. I've never got an "infection" from pirated shit when reviewing the comments and/or using a commentable usenet indexing service. I don't look at porn, because I have a hot wife that gets off well. Informative mod, right?
AV really is a scam, though; and people that fix computers need to quit pushing it. OR -- better yet, start by downplaying AV. I do this when someone really needs it: I point out how flashy and scary their symantec, mcaffee, avg, shit is and that it doesn't look a whole lot different than malware. They agree. Then I tell them it's because it's all a big racket and they actually fund the development of the viruses. They're shocked. Then I install MS Security Essentials. Then I point out how different it is by not being all flashy, scary, and costly, then point out that it's made by Microsoft, and then lie and tell them it's going to be included in future versions of Windows as part of the OS, and that MS is waiting to do this slowly so they don't get sued by the AV industry.
Which is probably fucking true. I mean... Look at the fucking AVG phone AV app. What the fuck is that?
With a UID of 29997, you are well aware that you can download free copies of Windows and get the best of all worlds: Decade old OS if that's your preference, something that actually works with all the hardware you can buy, and free!
If you prefer a free copy of Windows 7, you'll get something that works really well with all hardware (usually right out of the box, but you can get drivers for it without a recompile and you don't have to write them yourself), and... ... IT'S FREE!
If you like giving your money away, then buy a tech net subscription and you can download all the tired old shit you want. You can even run DOS 5 (if that's your preference).
Mod me +1 informative for explaining the obvious to a 5-digit UID. Thank you.
Yeah, Brakes have a signal. A signal you can't see when the braking car is being tailgated by the H2 in front of you.
If the car in front of you is tailgating the car that's braking, then you'll get plenty of warning when they smash into that car.
So long as you aren't tailgating too, of course.
Around here, one common trick people in SUVs do is as follows:
On a 4 lane + turn lane road, they will haul ass up to a line of stopped cars at a stop light. The light is green, of course, but that makes no difference here because everyone waits about 1 to 2 seconds after the car in front of them moves before accelerating from a stop when the light turns green. But I digress.
Point is: there is a line of stopped cars, and the SUV (who planned to enter in the left turn lane all along) without warning, and with such a sharp angle of attack they nearly tip over, will dart into the left turn lane without even so much as touching their brake.
Me in and Corolla are basically going top speed toward a stopped car at this point. This is done maliciously around here, because I live in a very fundamentalist Christology area. People in SUVs feel they are doing Gods work when they cause grief to people in non-oversized cars.
I've implied that I'm not a Christian. Please mod me up.
In my experience, the drivers in the front simply don't notice or deliberately don't respond to you. Tailgating, even headlight-flashing doesn't do the job.
In my experience around here, headlight flashing or honking will get you brake-checked. That's someone slamming hard on their brakes for no reason but to cause you grief (in retaliation to the grief you are causing them).
I live in a red state with strong fundamentalist Christology beliefs. There is very little rational behavior around here and more of an every man for himself, fear and loathing, hateful and depressing situation. -- See? I'm implying that I'm not a Christian. Mod me up.
Have you ever speed up when anticipating the asshole trying to squeeze into that gap? You close that gap, and hillarity ensues as the back end of their SUV pops up as they slam their brakes to avoid hitting the guy in front of them. Then they look at you pissed. Bonus points if you look right at them and smirk (they need to know you did it on purpose).
I read the original piece on Ars (a superior tech news site with actual content in their articles). Let me get this straight... Slashdot, days after Ars posted their article, links back to it and calls it a story. Is it the linking to a second article that makes it a story?
This site is terrible. The user-generated content (comments) used to be worth something, but those are now complete shit as well. Fuck off, slashdot.
You've clearly never read any of Krugman's god-awful articles. He's always going on about how anyone who's successful needs to be (metaphorically) brutally raped with obscenely high taxes to provide luxuries to those who do nothing to earn it.
In my experience, everyone I know that has "earned" their large accumulation of wealth had some seed money given to them. Usually a large inheritance, court settlement, death insurance payout, being born into a wealthy family, etc. Nepotism gives lucky individuals an extraordinary advantage, too.
I know a few small business owners. Self-employed and well off. I hear these guys talk about how hard they worked for everything and how "lazy people" deserve nothing. I always find out they got some starting money. One went into business with his wife. A real ma and pa shop. Find out after a while that the wife had a filthy rich mother who funded all of the startup costs of the company and that the company was actually divided three ways between them. When the mother died, the wife got her third. Was not a pretty divorce.
Anyway, my point is that people that make sweeping generalizations about people less well off than them usually always forget that it wasn't just their "hard work" that got them where they are. Lots of people work very hard their entire lives and die poor.
Bitcoin is just point accumulation for geeks/nerds. No different than the slashdot karma system, RPGs, folding at home scores, etc. When you have nothing fulfilling in your life, you accumulate points to define yourself. Fucking sad.