This thing is not going down for $45 a share (60 billion). This is going down for $34 - $35. MSFT might be loaded but they will not go all the way to the mat. If MSFT makes a $35 offer and its not accepted...Microsoft won't have to wage a proxy fight, YHOO instititutional shareholders will do it for them. Yang and the board own like less then 6% of the company. While YHOO may point back to its high $35 price in November...a whole lot of stocks were high in November and tech is out of favor right now. MSFT backing out would take this stock to $17 in a hurry and is why ultimately MSFT wins and wins at a much lower price.
YHOO board comes out against, MSFT will rail that YHOO isn't worth that much, a month from now MSFT will offer a sweetened offer - call it $34 and propose its own slate of directors for the annual meeting. YHOO board will accept because they don't have a choice. MSFT will complete the purchase Jerry Yang and his cronies will go back to the bars in the Valley start their own venture capital firms or become part of one of the VCs like Kleiner-Perkins. Deal closes in the 4th quarter.
Plenty of very good companies still have a zero-sum mindset and it works. Take for instance GE. GE wants to 1 or 2 in any industry in which it competes. If it can't it will divest the business and move-on. The reason? Regardless of what industry you inhabit, if you are NOT 1 or 2 you will be constantly battling for survival.
BTW, every device I have wants to be hooked up to my PC including my Tivo, my phone, my camera, etc. If anything the proliferation of devices is making the desktop more important - not less. We are starting to see a network effect. It easy to have the PC as the hub because its a standard platform in which everything can interact.
The key is not to innovate, the key is to commercialize. If you can do both you are truly a game changer but given an option I would rather be able to execute then think up an idea.
Take for instance spreadsheets. VisiCalc was the first then Lotus 1-2-3 came on the scene and from there MSFT came up with Excel. Excel in its early versions was not nearly as good but with time MSFT blew past Lotus both with marketing (Office bundle) and features. Now it is the standard bearer.
The more appliances I have the more they want to be tethered to my home PC. I will assume that the MSFT desktop is safe for at least the next 10 years.
Norris has had good fun with Chuck Norris facts even going as far to cite the ones he liked the most. He has been very hands off when it came to the Internet world. You step over the line when you try to make a book and start selling for a profit. Without his likeness there is no Chuck Norris facts and they can be construed as derogatory. I see no problem here whipping out the lawsuit stick unless the publisher is ready to cut Chuck in for a good portion of the proceeds.
a former deputy sheriff. Don't point a gun at something you don't mean to kill. In this case, a Taser is a GUN. The lack of regulation and procedures regarding their use is troubling. If the paperwork involved was half of what was needed after pulling a gun then the incidents of their use would go down.
I believe a Taser is a safer and effective weapon, but should be respected just as much as a firearm when its drawn.
For those whoever worked with Lotus Freelance Graphics, it is still a better product then PPT. You could create your own templates, your own layouts, adjust colors easily on the fly. Everything you ever wanted in PPT but just much more flexible. That said, PPT rules the world. Unfortunately its not very good a delivering powerful multi-dimensional information.
For a good article on PowerPoint and its lack of information density, check out Edward Tufte's discussions on the subject http://www.edwardtufte.com/. PowerPoint while not evil itself is evil in its execution mainly due to its inability to fit more then a few information elements on the page.
The US traveling public who get to keep an artifically low price to travel. Everyone expects to fly $125 one-way, anytime, anyprice.
US Congress Critters who get to keep "jobs" in their communities.
Airline suppliers - the arms dealers - GE, Rolls Royce, Boeing, and Airbus along will all the other suppliers get to keep selling.
Oddly enough, the unions themselves. Go back to 2001 and Gordon Bethune of Continental was begging to let United die. Were it not for the bail out none of United would be in a job today.
It sucks to lose the pension plan, knew a number of people that lost theirs but still received a reduced payout. But given the option of no job and no pension plan vs. a job and at least a portion of the proceeds - the later worked for them.
BTW, you have it wrong its investor return, customer service, job security. In the end the investors were the ones holding the bag.
I'm seeing a lot of anger and discussion as to why are airlines *cheapening* the flight and do all of these things like what United does with Economy Plus or Continental and Northwest charging for exit row. So let me bring you into the world of US domestic air travel.
Domestic air travel is one of the five most price elastic products avaliable for purchase today. This means when you go on to Orbitz we all charge practically the same thing. Internal tests in the airlines have proven that a $5 difference in airfare will dry up your demand. So, no people for the most part say they want everything but time again have proven through actions that they will only buy for the most part on price. International flights are a different story.
Price, Schedule, Frequency in that order is how people buy airfare. The idea now is to shrink the price as much as possible and try to recoup through the difference with ancillary revenue streams. This is why you see such things as purchase of Snacks on Board, charging for pillows, SkyBus and RyanAir charging for everything. People complain about buying a $5 meal on the plane but you can create a better product and for most part people realize they will pay $10 in airport for the same caliber of meal.
Since the industry is so price sensitive it is trying to debundle the product. It costs money to serve meals and when you make as little as $200 on a flight from JFK to LAX TOTAL, you have to find other ways. So what do we do, we try to offer things that people are willing to purchase. Economy Plus 5 additional inches of leg room on most United flights...it makes a big difference when you go cross-country or across the ocean. Purchase an Admirals Club ticket from AA for $35 for the day so you have a place to shower and change because you can't check into your hotel in London until after 4:00 PM but you got there at 10:00 AM.
Programs like giving luggage priority to the customer that flys 1 or 2 times a year is to give customers what they want (a lower flight price), but also for those folks that want something extra a place where they can purchase it.
Submitter has never worked in the airline industry before.
You will notice bright orange tags as they come off the converyor belt in baggage claim. Those tags are for GS, 1K, Premier Exec, Premier, *Gold, and *Silver. The idea is that you alert ground crews to the bags belonging to the best customers so that they will offload those first. This is no different from AA, Delta, USAirways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, and every other airline that flies. All Tilton wants to do is offer this service as an add-on so if you are NOT an elite member and feel it necessary to get your bags off in a hurry (tight transfer in ORD or LHR perhaps) you can purchase that service.
Already done. Look at the Civ series. Civilizations taken on the dynamics and personalities of their leaders./still likes the Civ series better then any RTS game.
In an Alternate Reality(Score:4, Interesting) by Hangtime (19526) on Friday December 12, @01:21PM (#7702447) (http://slashdot.org/) (AP) Paris - 12/12/2003 10:53 AM Vivendi Universal today was among the host of media companies with record company subsidiaries reporting record profits for the third quarter. Jean-Marie Messier, CEO of Vivendi, attributed the stellar quarter to the company's partnership with the Napster Inc. Napster, a software program used to share and download music, started out as a way to pirate music, but turned legitimate in December 2000 with a broad licensing agreement between each of the five major record labels. Since that time, Napster has made agreements with 6 of the 7 largest US ISPs and OEM deals with computer manufactuers Hewlett Packard and Dell Computer to either install or give users the right to download music from the network. In the case of AOL and Earthlink subscribers, each customer pays an additional $10 a month to share and download from the network. In addition, deals with most of the top indie record labels have followed since 2000 giving Napster users the right to share and download those record label files from the Napster network.
"While we ceratinly were anxious at the beginning of the Napster "experiment", it has truly taken off. It is our hope that even more users will join the network, we are already seeing wonderful penetration in Europe." This past spring, Napster opened its gates to European users in one of the biggest product launches in history. "The network almost doubled the day we opened up to Europe. We are now seeing concurrent usage approaching over 500,000 users with nearly 100 Terabytes of files being shared on the network." explained chief technology officer Shawn Fanning. "With our improved distribution system, we hope to push on into Asia sometime in the 2nd quarter of 2004 once we reach deals with many of the labels there."
The success of the music industry stands in dark contrast to the rest of the economy which grew at an annualized rate of 1.2% this quarter while revenue among the five largest record labels was up 11% from last year. When questioned about Napster Messier replied "Napster has truly been an innovative product and has rewarded Vivendi shareholders and most other media company shareholders immensely."
... or make the guards the targets... That would be nice considering they should be better equiped and trained to handle the situation.
since they're being deployed randomly, they're LESS likely to notice "the same people" every day, not more.. Law enforcement are trained to look for people different from the rest of the crowd. Look at the Secret Service and how their protection details. They are trained to look for people that don't belong. Same goes for other agencies. Do it sometime when you are at a public event. Scan and look at where people's eyes are and their expressions. Are they looking at others, at the main event, down at the ground, do they look nervous, confused, steadfast.
since the guards are being deployed randomly, its a lot harder to protect them, or have a working plan to respond to attacks on them that isn't overly complicated Just because they're being deployed randomly doesn't mean protection is random as well.
breaking their morale will make them even less vigilant People that believe in what they are doing generally become more resolute after a crisis and all the problems that creates.
nobody will want to be near a rent-a-cop; thus everyone, even "those with nothing to hide" will act extremely uneasy around the "walking targets" This way of thinking generally pervades countries with a history of violence and corruption. However it doesn't seem to effect those where there is a rule of law.
Agreed that there is a better solution. Building schools in Afghanistan for the cost of a couple of Tomahawks so children don't have to go to Madrasah where the only thing that they learn is how to hate the US and recite the Quran is probably a better fit. However, we do have to deal with the mistakes made today and hope and plan for a better tomorrow.
Because anytime your doing it "for real" you risk being exposed. Unlike AI in video games people learn and again if your probing your creating a trail and pattern to be followed. If your constantly probing then you run the risk of being found yourself. Its better as an enemy to be do it once maybe twice as a dry-run and then do it for real. If you are doing it all the time you not only risk exposure, your putting additional pressure on your people.
If you have done it right you may give your security a general location and each patrol has an area within the airport so that they are all covered. Individuals have different patterns for searching. So if I have to watch 12 different teams that are all different in terms of who makes up those teams its going to make my job a lot tougher in pentrating. Maybe one person looks at this area, but another doesn't. If I can't bank on that person who does a crappy job being there when I want them to be there well I have to use a different approach or take a risk...oops canine unit came today, Abort.
To use your analogy but maybe a little more likely scenario, send security into the area behind the Starbucks kiosk. Why you ask? The problem is your trying to defend an infinite number of points while your enemy only needs one approach to win. Creating additional scenarios for them to plan for makes their job much more risky and much more complex. Randomness is your enemy when you're trying to plan and your friend when your trying to protect.
There is a difference between Security Through Obscurity and disguising the strength, numbers, and routines of your forces by trying to nullify patterns in your behavior. People pick up on patterns very quickly. Patterns makes it easy to train, equip and ultimately be successful when addressing fluid, complex situations. If I know that once I see people streaming from one platform I have 30 seconds before the next train arrives I have an advantage.
By truly randomizing protocols, I can no longer plan for one or two specific scenarios but must be ready for hundreds. This increases the time, energy, and manpower it takes me to prep and execute a mission. In fact, if I can't bank on the fact that there will NOT be a canine unit to take my plastic through security I may change my approach and try to work from a stand-off position rather then a close-end. This makes it easier for security because I can fortify and create choke points in and around my perimeter.
Security Through Obscurity relies on your ability to hide something alone (hiding a key) versus what this is (moving the key every 4 hours and randomizing the patrols in and around the key). There is quite a bit of difference between the two.
every country has this issue. All countries don't like foreigners taken their jobs. Look into any work visa program in any country and it is extremely difficult to gain authorization and very easy to make mistakes. When I was traveling back and forth to Canada with my company I was ALWAYS sure to brief the customs people that I was not there "for work" but rather "attending business meetings." There is a large difference.
Get a damn tape rotation going and call Iron Mountain for pete's sake. They come by pick up your tapes for offsite storage and return a month later with that same tape ready to go over the top. Couple this with encrypted data and put in a locked case, you don't have these problems. Common sense, damn.
Actually I totally disagree. I don't think the FAA or anyone in the government should be let near the ATC anymore. I say give it to the airlines to manage. They will do it better, cheaper, and more efficiently. And before you say "well business will cut corners"; the LAST THING an airline wants is a crash and therefore they will do the very best to keep the ATC up and running better then ever.
BTW, also you will get to your destination faster because once the ATC is actually efficient at what it does then it will no longer be necessary to put in additional ground delays or lengthen flights. Look up the stats most flights into NYC area over the last 5 years have had additional minutes put on the flight time not because it takes longer to get there but rather the FAA can't get their s**t together with the number of planes that need to go in and out therefore the airlines not wanting to be late just build the additional time into the flight while you sit on the tarmac.
The FAA has been trying to upgrade the ATC for nearly two decades and is roughly seven years behind schedule from the original plan's timetable not the one they just changed to make themselves not look like total asses. The FAA has FAILED miserably and it is all of us who suffering. From longer ground delays at our nation's largest airports to few flights in smaller communities due to unnecessarily constricted airspace - the FAA's making it more difficult for all of us to fly.
I would suggest everyone read Michael Boyd of Boyd Aviation, an aviation consulting firm, that has been highly critical of the FAA and over a decade ago brought the idea of "Free Flight" to Congress but since that time has been ignored. Boyd has his pulse on the aviation world better then anyone I know and writes a column each Monday.
Damnit, I don't have points are you would getting some right now. I have never even SEEN a Wii console for sale, PERIOD. I think this whole Wii thing is a government conspiracy. They don't actually exist.;)
I just purchased my Tivo Series 3 (the wife and I are Tivo nuts and we just bought an HDTV so it was required) and here's my notes so far.
1. Cablecard installation sucks. Make sure when you talk to the provider that they ALWAYS bring 2 Cablecards. It just took for times for TimeWarner to actually get cable going. None of this is Tivo's fault as much as its lack of understanding on the cable company side. The problems are in two places: one - firmware upgrades can take FOREVER, it literally took my 3 days to update the Cablecards, two: provisioning the TWC head-end folks have not quited figured this out yet and it took the guy talking to a friend to get the cards provisioned correctly. So when they come out make sure they try to flash the cards before they leave HQ and know someone on the other side that knows how to provision.
2. The lost 90 GB is not much of a problem. Tivo Series 3 have an eSATA connection that can be enabled through a backdoor code (see http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.ph p?t=350510 on how to do so). Then you get yourself a $50 enclosure and $300 1 TB drive and your rocking for approximately the same price.
3. I wish the OLED wasn't even there and I had $50 back. You can't see it half the time and its so small its tough to read from across the room.
4. THX: I don't have a home theater (working on that but gotta be a little more frugal now) so I wouldn't worry about it.
The $300 price point is the magic number and when it comes in watch out because these will start flying on the shelves.
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This thing is not going down for $45 a share (60 billion). This is going down for $34 - $35. MSFT might be loaded but they will not go all the way to the mat. If MSFT makes a $35 offer and its not accepted...Microsoft won't have to wage a proxy fight, YHOO instititutional shareholders will do it for them. Yang and the board own like less then 6% of the company. While YHOO may point back to its high $35 price in November...a whole lot of stocks were high in November and tech is out of favor right now. MSFT backing out would take this stock to $17 in a hurry and is why ultimately MSFT wins and wins at a much lower price.
YHOO board comes out against, MSFT will rail that YHOO isn't worth that much, a month from now MSFT will offer a sweetened offer - call it $34 and propose its own slate of directors for the annual meeting. YHOO board will accept because they don't have a choice. MSFT will complete the purchase Jerry Yang and his cronies will go back to the bars in the Valley start their own venture capital firms or become part of one of the VCs like Kleiner-Perkins. Deal closes in the 4th quarter.
Plenty of very good companies still have a zero-sum mindset and it works. Take for instance GE. GE wants to 1 or 2 in any industry in which it competes. If it can't it will divest the business and move-on. The reason? Regardless of what industry you inhabit, if you are NOT 1 or 2 you will be constantly battling for survival.
BTW, every device I have wants to be hooked up to my PC including my Tivo, my phone, my camera, etc. If anything the proliferation of devices is making the desktop more important - not less. We are starting to see a network effect. It easy to have the PC as the hub because its a standard platform in which everything can interact.
The key is not to innovate, the key is to commercialize. If you can do both you are truly a game changer but given an option I would rather be able to execute then think up an idea.
Take for instance spreadsheets. VisiCalc was the first then Lotus 1-2-3 came on the scene and from there MSFT came up with Excel. Excel in its early versions was not nearly as good but with time MSFT blew past Lotus both with marketing (Office bundle) and features. Now it is the standard bearer.
The more appliances I have the more they want to be tethered to my home PC. I will assume that the MSFT desktop is safe for at least the next 10 years.
MSFT makes in a quarter what it takes GOOG to make in a year. That is all.
MSFT: $4.2 Billion last quarter
GOOG: $1.1 Billion last quarter
Norris has had good fun with Chuck Norris facts even going as far to cite the ones he liked the most. He has been very hands off when it came to the Internet world. You step over the line when you try to make a book and start selling for a profit. Without his likeness there is no Chuck Norris facts and they can be construed as derogatory. I see no problem here whipping out the lawsuit stick unless the publisher is ready to cut Chuck in for a good portion of the proceeds.
a former deputy sheriff. Don't point a gun at something you don't mean to kill. In this case, a Taser is a GUN. The lack of regulation and procedures regarding their use is troubling. If the paperwork involved was half of what was needed after pulling a gun then the incidents of their use would go down.
I believe a Taser is a safer and effective weapon, but should be respected just as much as a firearm when its drawn.
For those whoever worked with Lotus Freelance Graphics, it is still a better product then PPT. You could create your own templates, your own layouts, adjust colors easily on the fly. Everything you ever wanted in PPT but just much more flexible. That said, PPT rules the world. Unfortunately its not very good a delivering powerful multi-dimensional information.
For a good article on PowerPoint and its lack of information density, check out Edward Tufte's discussions on the subject http://www.edwardtufte.com/. PowerPoint while not evil itself is evil in its execution mainly due to its inability to fit more then a few information elements on the page.
Watch Inside American Airlines on CNBC...broadcast last year and reruns generally on the market holidays. Sad but true.
So who "Wins" in your scenario.
The US traveling public who get to keep an artifically low price to travel. Everyone expects to fly $125 one-way, anytime, anyprice.
US Congress Critters who get to keep "jobs" in their communities.
Airline suppliers - the arms dealers - GE, Rolls Royce, Boeing, and Airbus along will all the other suppliers get to keep selling.
Oddly enough, the unions themselves. Go back to 2001 and Gordon Bethune of Continental was begging to let United die. Were it not for the bail out none of United would be in a job today.
It sucks to lose the pension plan, knew a number of people that lost theirs but still received a reduced payout. But given the option of no job and no pension plan vs. a job and at least a portion of the proceeds - the later worked for them.
BTW, you have it wrong its investor return, customer service, job security. In the end the investors were the ones holding the bag.
I'm seeing a lot of anger and discussion as to why are airlines *cheapening* the flight and do all of these things like what United does with Economy Plus or Continental and Northwest charging for exit row. So let me bring you into the world of US domestic air travel.
Domestic air travel is one of the five most price elastic products avaliable for purchase today. This means when you go on to Orbitz we all charge practically the same thing. Internal tests in the airlines have proven that a $5 difference in airfare will dry up your demand. So, no people for the most part say they want everything but time again have proven through actions that they will only buy for the most part on price. International flights are a different story.
Price, Schedule, Frequency in that order is how people buy airfare. The idea now is to shrink the price as much as possible and try to recoup through the difference with ancillary revenue streams. This is why you see such things as purchase of Snacks on Board, charging for pillows, SkyBus and RyanAir charging for everything. People complain about buying a $5 meal on the plane but you can create a better product and for most part people realize they will pay $10 in airport for the same caliber of meal.
Since the industry is so price sensitive it is trying to debundle the product. It costs money to serve meals and when you make as little as $200 on a flight from JFK to LAX TOTAL, you have to find other ways. So what do we do, we try to offer things that people are willing to purchase. Economy Plus 5 additional inches of leg room on most United flights...it makes a big difference when you go cross-country or across the ocean. Purchase an Admirals Club ticket from AA for $35 for the day so you have a place to shower and change because you can't check into your hotel in London until after 4:00 PM but you got there at 10:00 AM.
Programs like giving luggage priority to the customer that flys 1 or 2 times a year is to give customers what they want (a lower flight price), but also for those folks that want something extra a place where they can purchase it.
Submitter has never worked in the airline industry before.
You will notice bright orange tags as they come off the converyor belt in baggage claim. Those tags are for GS, 1K, Premier Exec, Premier, *Gold, and *Silver. The idea is that you alert ground crews to the bags belonging to the best customers so that they will offload those first. This is no different from AA, Delta, USAirways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, and every other airline that flies. All Tilton wants to do is offer this service as an add-on so if you are NOT an elite member and feel it necessary to get your bags off in a hurry (tight transfer in ORD or LHR perhaps) you can purchase that service.
*wacks subby over the head*
Already done. Look at the Civ series. Civilizations taken on the dynamics and personalities of their leaders. /still likes the Civ series better then any RTS game.
In an Alternate Reality(Score:4, Interesting)
by Hangtime (19526) on Friday December 12, @01:21PM (#7702447)
(http://slashdot.org/)
(AP) Paris - 12/12/2003 10:53 AM
Vivendi Universal today was among the host of media companies with record company subsidiaries reporting record profits for the third quarter. Jean-Marie Messier, CEO of Vivendi, attributed the stellar quarter to the company's partnership with the Napster Inc. Napster, a software program used to share and download music, started out as a way to pirate music, but turned legitimate in December 2000 with a broad licensing agreement between each of the five major record labels. Since that time, Napster has made agreements with 6 of the 7 largest US ISPs and OEM deals with computer manufactuers Hewlett Packard and Dell Computer to either install or give users the right to download music from the network. In the case of AOL and Earthlink subscribers, each customer pays an additional $10 a month to share and download from the network. In addition, deals with most of the top indie record labels have followed since 2000 giving Napster users the right to share and download those record label files from the Napster network.
"While we ceratinly were anxious at the beginning of the Napster "experiment", it has truly taken off. It is our hope that even more users will join the network, we are already seeing wonderful penetration in Europe." This past spring, Napster opened its gates to European users in one of the biggest product launches in history. "The network almost doubled the day we opened up to Europe. We are now seeing concurrent usage approaching over 500,000 users with nearly 100 Terabytes of files being shared on the network." explained chief technology officer Shawn Fanning. "With our improved distribution system, we hope to push on into Asia sometime in the 2nd quarter of 2004 once we reach deals with many of the labels there."
The success of the music industry stands in dark contrast to the rest of the economy which grew at an annualized rate of 1.2% this quarter while revenue among the five largest record labels was up 11% from last year. When questioned about Napster Messier replied "Napster has truly been an innovative product and has rewarded Vivendi shareholders and most other media company shareholders immensely."
That would be nice considering they should be better equiped and trained to handle the situation.
since they're being deployed randomly, they're LESS likely to notice "the same people" every day, not more
Law enforcement are trained to look for people different from the rest of the crowd. Look at the Secret Service and how their protection details. They are trained to look for people that don't belong. Same goes for other agencies. Do it sometime when you are at a public event. Scan and look at where people's eyes are and their expressions. Are they looking at others, at the main event, down at the ground, do they look nervous, confused, steadfast.
since the guards are being deployed randomly, its a lot harder to protect them, or have a working plan to respond to attacks on them that isn't overly complicated
Just because they're being deployed randomly doesn't mean protection is random as well.
breaking their morale will make them even less vigilant
People that believe in what they are doing generally become more resolute after a crisis and all the problems that creates.
nobody will want to be near a rent-a-cop; thus everyone, even "those with nothing to hide" will act extremely uneasy around the "walking targets"
This way of thinking generally pervades countries with a history of violence and corruption. However it doesn't seem to effect those where there is a rule of law.
Agreed that there is a better solution. Building schools in Afghanistan for the cost of a couple of Tomahawks so children don't have to go to Madrasah where the only thing that they learn is how to hate the US and recite the Quran is probably a better fit. However, we do have to deal with the mistakes made today and hope and plan for a better tomorrow.
Because anytime your doing it "for real" you risk being exposed. Unlike AI in video games people learn and again if your probing your creating a trail and pattern to be followed. If your constantly probing then you run the risk of being found yourself. Its better as an enemy to be do it once maybe twice as a dry-run and then do it for real. If you are doing it all the time you not only risk exposure, your putting additional pressure on your people.
If you have done it right you may give your security a general location and each patrol has an area within the airport so that they are all covered. Individuals have different patterns for searching. So if I have to watch 12 different teams that are all different in terms of who makes up those teams its going to make my job a lot tougher in pentrating. Maybe one person looks at this area, but another doesn't. If I can't bank on that person who does a crappy job being there when I want them to be there well I have to use a different approach or take a risk...oops canine unit came today, Abort.
To use your analogy but maybe a little more likely scenario, send security into the area behind the Starbucks kiosk. Why you ask? The problem is your trying to defend an infinite number of points while your enemy only needs one approach to win. Creating additional scenarios for them to plan for makes their job much more risky and much more complex. Randomness is your enemy when you're trying to plan and your friend when your trying to protect.
There is a difference between Security Through Obscurity and disguising the strength, numbers, and routines of your forces by trying to nullify patterns in your behavior. People pick up on patterns very quickly. Patterns makes it easy to train, equip and ultimately be successful when addressing fluid, complex situations. If I know that once I see people streaming from one platform I have 30 seconds before the next train arrives I have an advantage.
By truly randomizing protocols, I can no longer plan for one or two specific scenarios but must be ready for hundreds. This increases the time, energy, and manpower it takes me to prep and execute a mission. In fact, if I can't bank on the fact that there will NOT be a canine unit to take my plastic through security I may change my approach and try to work from a stand-off position rather then a close-end. This makes it easier for security because I can fortify and create choke points in and around my perimeter.
Security Through Obscurity relies on your ability to hide something alone (hiding a key) versus what this is (moving the key every 4 hours and randomizing the patrols in and around the key). There is quite a bit of difference between the two.
Two largest uranium exporting countries: Australia and Canada
Don't think you have to worry to much on the countries part when it comes to Uranium.
every country has this issue. All countries don't like foreigners taken their jobs. Look into any work visa program in any country and it is extremely difficult to gain authorization and very easy to make mistakes. When I was traveling back and forth to Canada with my company I was ALWAYS sure to brief the customs people that I was not there "for work" but rather "attending business meetings." There is a large difference.
Get a damn tape rotation going and call Iron Mountain for pete's sake. They come by pick up your tapes for offsite storage and return a month later with that same tape ready to go over the top. Couple this with encrypted data and put in a locked case, you don't have these problems. Common sense, damn.
*shakes his head in disgust at incompetence*
Actually I totally disagree. I don't think the FAA or anyone in the government should be let near the ATC anymore. I say give it to the airlines to manage. They will do it better, cheaper, and more efficiently. And before you say "well business will cut corners"; the LAST THING an airline wants is a crash and therefore they will do the very best to keep the ATC up and running better then ever.
BTW, also you will get to your destination faster because once the ATC is actually efficient at what it does then it will no longer be necessary to put in additional ground delays or lengthen flights. Look up the stats most flights into NYC area over the last 5 years have had additional minutes put on the flight time not because it takes longer to get there but rather the FAA can't get their s**t together with the number of planes that need to go in and out therefore the airlines not wanting to be late just build the additional time into the flight while you sit on the tarmac.
The FAA has been trying to upgrade the ATC for nearly two decades and is roughly seven years behind schedule from the original plan's timetable not the one they just changed to make themselves not look like total asses. The FAA has FAILED miserably and it is all of us who suffering. From longer ground delays at our nation's largest airports to few flights in smaller communities due to unnecessarily constricted airspace - the FAA's making it more difficult for all of us to fly.
I would suggest everyone read Michael Boyd of Boyd Aviation, an aviation consulting firm, that has been highly critical of the FAA and over a decade ago brought the idea of "Free Flight" to Congress but since that time has been ignored. Boyd has his pulse on the aviation world better then anyone I know and writes a column each Monday.
http://www.aviationplanning.com/asrc1.htm
Damnit, I don't have points are you would getting some right now. I have never even SEEN a Wii console for sale, PERIOD. I think this whole Wii thing is a government conspiracy. They don't actually exist. ;)
I just purchased my Tivo Series 3 (the wife and I are Tivo nuts and we just bought an HDTV so it was required) and here's my notes so far.
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1. Cablecard installation sucks. Make sure when you talk to the provider that they ALWAYS bring 2 Cablecards. It just took for times for TimeWarner to actually get cable going. None of this is Tivo's fault as much as its lack of understanding on the cable company side. The problems are in two places: one - firmware upgrades can take FOREVER, it literally took my 3 days to update the Cablecards, two: provisioning the TWC head-end folks have not quited figured this out yet and it took the guy talking to a friend to get the cards provisioned correctly. So when they come out make sure they try to flash the cards before they leave HQ and know someone on the other side that knows how to provision.
2. The lost 90 GB is not much of a problem. Tivo Series 3 have an eSATA connection that can be enabled through a backdoor code (see http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.p
3. I wish the OLED wasn't even there and I had $50 back. You can't see it half the time and its so small its tough to read from across the room.
4. THX: I don't have a home theater (working on that but gotta be a little more frugal now) so I wouldn't worry about it.
The $300 price point is the magic number and when it comes in watch out because these will start flying on the shelves.