Even though I'm not posting AC, I'm still violating this proposed law (as I understand it). Slashdot does not have my real name on file and they most certainly don't have my address!
4.1% can be made with low risk CD's (Certificate of Deposit). I think when somebody invests millions in a movie they expect slightly more return than that. So while not a loss, it's certainly not a sucess story.
You kinda can using something called DFS on Windows servers. It's kindof a pain to set up, but you can make it so F:\Share points to \\server1\share and F:\Stuff points to \\server2\stuff. Not perfect and AFAIK a PITA to set up, but possible.
I don't know anything about that specific case, but that concept should apply to the police as well... and as far as I know, it does (I have had law enforcement training). It doesn't protect the cop from social outcry, but it should protect them from legal liability.
I think the only other exception to this is using lethal force against someone who you believe is going to kill you. In that case you are permitted to kill in self defense as long as there is an obvious, immediate life-ending threat.[Emphasis mine]
The emphasised part of that statement above is false. You only have to be able to state that you felt there was a threat to your life. I mean, yes, it has to be reasonable. You can't say the guy was sleeping in my bed so I thought he was gonna kill me, but if you can honestly (or at least convinsingly) state that you were scared for your life, you are justified under self defense. If your "victim" is somebody who was illegally inside your house and consious, I'd say you have a pretty good self defense case (it looked like he was carrying a gun).
Being that I don't work for or have any association with Google, this is obviously just a guess. I don't think Google would turn over any data at that point. By the time that happens, Google will probably be pretty well entrenched in China. They'll claim, and rightfully so, that the Chinese governemnt has no juristiction of the servers that are not in China. The US will back them up. China will then be in the situation you allude to: either block Google, or drop the issue. If Google is well entrenched by that point, the average Chinaman will not be happy when they get the message that the Chinese government has taken away their Google. I mean, how would we feel if the US government said "No more Google, they wouldn't give us their search results."
Now I'm not foolish enough to think that blocking Google will cause a revolution, but I do think it would cause some social unrest. And as social unrest increases, a revolution does get closer.
Ya, I'd have to agree that states are a pretty bad way of breaking up job searches. Try Michigan, for example, which has an upper and lower peninsula and only one bridge that connects the two. To drive from Detroit, MI to Houghton, MI takes about 11 hours and 46 minutes according to Google. To drive from Detroit, MI to Washington, DC takes about 10 hours and 1 minute. So it 1.75 hours less for a person in Detroit to get to the nations capital than to another location in MI. And this isn't even corner to corner and is from the biggest city in the LP to one of the larger cities in the UP. Not that either of these would make a fun commute to work, but it's something I've always found interesting.
To some extent that may be true, but it's not a blanket statment. Heck, the job I'm doing right now I got through a monster.com posting.... kind of. I was actually rehired and talked to my old boss on the phone. He said if I was interested in the job, I had to submit my resume through monster.com. So even though I'd consider myself a quality canidate, and my new/old boss considered me a quality canadate, I'm still listed on a job search site!
It's nice in theory, but how many websites actually redirect you to a different hostname when you log in. In all honesty, the difference between secure.citibank.com and secure-citibank.com is probably not enough that the average person would notice. Or how about secure.citbank.com? How many people would notice the missing 'i'?
Then you have financial instituions like mine. They actually tell me that it's OK to enter my account information into an unecrypted form because it's being submitted to a secure server. Honest. You can trust us. While it is techincally correct, the only way to verify that is to view the page source.
And could a move like this backfire? Could Google decide they'd rather be based in a country that didn't restrict who they can do buisness with and move to, say, Canada. I don't think that would really be in our best interest.
I should also point out that any military members can efile both federal and state returns from free using a link from militaryonesouce.com. This is true for reservists as well as active duty and irregardless of your AGI.
So the IRS site seems a little light on details, but does a married couple filing jointly have to have a combined income of less than $50,000? I'm guessing that's the way it is, but I really don't know for sure.
(except they should be given money back for months they no longer wish to use)
Ya, that'd be nice, but it seems to be very much against Sony's policy. I got charged for an auto-renewal for a year of the game (about $150) after their website told me that my subscription was going to expire and I would no longer be able to play after that. I didn't get any sort of fore-warning that the charge was going to take place, it just happened. I called when I got my next credit card bill and they basically told me 'tough luck.' I hadn't played the game in about 6 months before this. Their attitude toward customer service soured me toward Sony Online Entertainment. Granted, I was a departing customer (though I did have a second account that I canceled on the spot), but it pretty much destroyed any chance of my becoming a returning customer.
For what it's worth, after I exausted my options with Sony (I asked to talk to the Reps boss and he would only give me an email address, which I used) I instead went to my credit cards fraud department. They immediately issued me a temporary credit pending investigation and as of yet have not rebilled me (though was more than a month ago). I'm not sure how long the 'investigation' is supposed to last, but they've been much better to work with than Sony has ever been. FWIW, the card I had used for that was my Discover card. In the future, I intend to make full use of their temporary card number whenever I make online or subscription type purchases.
95% of the readership believes there are two kinds of cookies... those that magically appear in mom's cupboard (or a speacial jar) and those that are generated by a webserver. How the former ones come into existance is of little consequence.
The original purchase could not be considered entrapment because he did make the offer on his website, but according to his account of what happened, when the second purchase was made for the sake of the investigator he said that he "didnt [sic] have a copy of it anymore" and that the person contacting him "could prolly still find it on p2p etc." The contacting person apparently then claimed "'im too stupid to find that kinda stuff, if you can find it again ill give you $40 for your trouble'" which could be considered entrapment. (Suspect says no, cop sweetens pot).
I have Exchange 2003 w/SP2 and Firefox 1.5.... it works in Firefox, but still not as well as it does in IE. I never ran Exchange w/less than SP2 (just installed it) but my wife's company also use Exchage 2003 and OWA doesn't seem to work quite as well in Firefox for her as it does for me. So I'm guessing they had some improvements in SP2.
I think that looks visually awkward- the grey box seems to simply "Stop". It looks aborted and wrong to me.
A better solution would be to put a curve on both the top and bottom, but then I have to ditch the green line. I like the green line.
OK, how about a little bit of both. Put the curve at the top as in this screenshot and put the green line at the bottom. Right now, even with the green line it looks like the gray box with the curve at the bottom is simply the other half of the curve from the full story above it.
Ya, but this guy has an absolutely brilliant idea.... I'll sum it up for you. Are you ready? He suggests that we should use mod points the way they were intended to be used!
The "Bell South is trying to target VOIP" argument has one huge hole in it unless I'm misunderstanding something. The customers that are most likely to ditch their phone lines in favor of VOIP aren't the ones who are going to be subscribing to Bell South's DSL service. They'll be subscribing to Cox or Comcast cable modems.
OK, so what happens when (I'm making these names up as I go) BellNorth, BellEast, BellWest, and BellSomewhereInBetween all also demand $1 per customer. That's not even necessarily customers that are buying from you, just the ones that are visiting your site (potential customers). So if we say that one in ten visitors actually end up buying (probably high, but what do I know). So now you're paying $10 for every one sale you make which yields you a whopping $10. You may be able to stay in buisness simply because BellWeAren'tThatBad decided not to use extortion, but they may account for about 20% of your buisness (if you're lucky). So now your $100,000/month is reduced to 20,000 in your pockets with 80,000 going to ISPs. And that's not even including your 1,000/month of bandwidth charges. So now you're down to 19,000. And you still need to pay the electric bill, employees, etc.
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Even though I'm not posting AC, I'm still violating this proposed law (as I understand it). Slashdot does not have my real name on file and they most certainly don't have my address!
4.1% can be made with low risk CD's (Certificate of Deposit). I think when somebody invests millions in a movie they expect slightly more return than that. So while not a loss, it's certainly not a sucess story.
If you were lookin' to get modded.... I think it worked :)
You kinda can using something called DFS on Windows servers. It's kindof a pain to set up, but you can make it so F:\Share points to \\server1\share and F:\Stuff points to \\server2\stuff. Not perfect and AFAIK a PITA to set up, but possible.
I don't know anything about that specific case, but that concept should apply to the police as well... and as far as I know, it does (I have had law enforcement training). It doesn't protect the cop from social outcry, but it should protect them from legal liability.
The emphasised part of that statement above is false. You only have to be able to state that you felt there was a threat to your life. I mean, yes, it has to be reasonable. You can't say the guy was sleeping in my bed so I thought he was gonna kill me, but if you can honestly (or at least convinsingly) state that you were scared for your life, you are justified under self defense. If your "victim" is somebody who was illegally inside your house and consious, I'd say you have a pretty good self defense case (it looked like he was carrying a gun).
Being that I don't work for or have any association with Google, this is obviously just a guess. I don't think Google would turn over any data at that point. By the time that happens, Google will probably be pretty well entrenched in China. They'll claim, and rightfully so, that the Chinese governemnt has no juristiction of the servers that are not in China. The US will back them up. China will then be in the situation you allude to: either block Google, or drop the issue. If Google is well entrenched by that point, the average Chinaman will not be happy when they get the message that the Chinese government has taken away their Google. I mean, how would we feel if the US government said "No more Google, they wouldn't give us their search results."
Now I'm not foolish enough to think that blocking Google will cause a revolution, but I do think it would cause some social unrest. And as social unrest increases, a revolution does get closer.
But there's a master key for those, too.
Locks only keep out honest people.
From the article: "February 17, 2006, 9:00 PM"
The 2004 link was from an older article. RTFS (Read the Frickin' Summary).
Ya, I'd have to agree that states are a pretty bad way of breaking up job searches. Try Michigan, for example, which has an upper and lower peninsula and only one bridge that connects the two. To drive from Detroit, MI to Houghton, MI takes about 11 hours and 46 minutes according to Google. To drive from Detroit, MI to Washington, DC takes about 10 hours and 1 minute. So it 1.75 hours less for a person in Detroit to get to the nations capital than to another location in MI. And this isn't even corner to corner and is from the biggest city in the LP to one of the larger cities in the UP. Not that either of these would make a fun commute to work, but it's something I've always found interesting.
To some extent that may be true, but it's not a blanket statment. Heck, the job I'm doing right now I got through a monster.com posting.... kind of. I was actually rehired and talked to my old boss on the phone. He said if I was interested in the job, I had to submit my resume through monster.com. So even though I'd consider myself a quality canidate, and my new/old boss considered me a quality canadate, I'm still listed on a job search site!
It's nice in theory, but how many websites actually redirect you to a different hostname when you log in. In all honesty, the difference between secure.citibank.com and secure-citibank.com is probably not enough that the average person would notice. Or how about secure.citbank.com? How many people would notice the missing 'i'?
Then you have financial instituions like mine. They actually tell me that it's OK to enter my account information into an unecrypted form because it's being submitted to a secure server. Honest. You can trust us. While it is techincally correct, the only way to verify that is to view the page source.
http://service1fcu.com/cuathome.php
And could a move like this backfire? Could Google decide they'd rather be based in a country that didn't restrict who they can do buisness with and move to, say, Canada. I don't think that would really be in our best interest.
I should also point out that any military members can efile both federal and state returns from free using a link from militaryonesouce.com. This is true for reservists as well as active duty and irregardless of your AGI.
So the IRS site seems a little light on details, but does a married couple filing jointly have to have a combined income of less than $50,000? I'm guessing that's the way it is, but I really don't know for sure.
Ya, that'd be nice, but it seems to be very much against Sony's policy. I got charged for an auto-renewal for a year of the game (about $150) after their website told me that my subscription was going to expire and I would no longer be able to play after that. I didn't get any sort of fore-warning that the charge was going to take place, it just happened. I called when I got my next credit card bill and they basically told me 'tough luck.' I hadn't played the game in about 6 months before this. Their attitude toward customer service soured me toward Sony Online Entertainment. Granted, I was a departing customer (though I did have a second account that I canceled on the spot), but it pretty much destroyed any chance of my becoming a returning customer.
For what it's worth, after I exausted my options with Sony (I asked to talk to the Reps boss and he would only give me an email address, which I used) I instead went to my credit cards fraud department. They immediately issued me a temporary credit pending investigation and as of yet have not rebilled me (though was more than a month ago). I'm not sure how long the 'investigation' is supposed to last, but they've been much better to work with than Sony has ever been. FWIW, the card I had used for that was my Discover card. In the future, I intend to make full use of their temporary card number whenever I make online or subscription type purchases.
To the best of my knowledege, OpenOffice.org has no built in function to move data between Excel and Access.
Somebody should have though of using a PDA as a cell phone/computer before.
Reminder:
This is slashdot.
95% of the readership believes there are two kinds of cookies... those that magically appear in mom's cupboard (or a speacial jar) and those that are generated by a webserver. How the former ones come into existance is of little consequence.
The original purchase could not be considered entrapment because he did make the offer on his website, but according to his account of what happened, when the second purchase was made for the sake of the investigator he said that he "didnt [sic] have a copy of it anymore" and that the person contacting him "could prolly still find it on p2p etc." The contacting person apparently then claimed "'im too stupid to find that kinda stuff, if you can find it again ill give you $40 for your trouble'" which could be considered entrapment. (Suspect says no, cop sweetens pot).
I have Exchange 2003 w/SP2 and Firefox 1.5.... it works in Firefox, but still not as well as it does in IE. I never ran Exchange w/less than SP2 (just installed it) but my wife's company also use Exchage 2003 and OWA doesn't seem to work quite as well in Firefox for her as it does for me. So I'm guessing they had some improvements in SP2.
OK, how about a little bit of both. Put the curve at the top as in this screenshot and put the green line at the bottom. Right now, even with the green line it looks like the gray box with the curve at the bottom is simply the other half of the curve from the full story above it.
Ya, but this guy has an absolutely brilliant idea.... I'll sum it up for you. Are you ready? He suggests that we should use mod points the way they were intended to be used!
The "Bell South is trying to target VOIP" argument has one huge hole in it unless I'm misunderstanding something. The customers that are most likely to ditch their phone lines in favor of VOIP aren't the ones who are going to be subscribing to Bell South's DSL service. They'll be subscribing to Cox or Comcast cable modems.
OK, so what happens when (I'm making these names up as I go) BellNorth, BellEast, BellWest, and BellSomewhereInBetween all also demand $1 per customer. That's not even necessarily customers that are buying from you, just the ones that are visiting your site (potential customers). So if we say that one in ten visitors actually end up buying (probably high, but what do I know). So now you're paying $10 for every one sale you make which yields you a whopping $10. You may be able to stay in buisness simply because BellWeAren'tThatBad decided not to use extortion, but they may account for about 20% of your buisness (if you're lucky). So now your $100,000/month is reduced to 20,000 in your pockets with 80,000 going to ISPs. And that's not even including your 1,000/month of bandwidth charges. So now you're down to 19,000. And you still need to pay the electric bill, employees, etc.
Yep, I'm sure it's worth it to just cave in.