It's bad enough that law enforcement can easily get subpoena's to track individual users now. Imagine if the government was IN CONTROL of the internet. You think we have security/privacy issues now? Shit. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Well, the truly first thing that gets fixed is the gas stations nearest the staging areas for the power companies. Then the hospitals/government get fixed. If those trucks run out of gas, nothing gets fixed.
To the corporation, iphones are toys, blackberries are tools. In a way they are right. There are precisely 0 fun things to do on a BB. It's sortof like how when the world was all big iron and green screens, the machines just worked. Once the users got PC's, they discovered wonderful, virus-ridden, bloated 3d screensavers of kittens chasing butterflies.
Sometimes things just need to work.
Another reason would be that a government typically charges $1 per page for Public Records Requests. So not only does it make it harder to scan through data, it makes the barrier to entry much higher. In this case, $24,000 higher. That's per news outlet that wants a copy. When I worked for a local municipality we would constantly get requests for vendor lists and taxpayer lists. They cost about $3500 to $7000 each, depending on the list. 99% would say never mind. Now, to be fair, these were people looking to build mailing lists for new businesses in the area.
Here in New Orleans, Ham operators are included in all emergency preparedness operations. During Katrina, we lost -=ALL=- communications, but Ham still worked, so now they are part of all EOP plans. For the record, local religious leaders are also involved in the planning and response staging. Why? Because faith-based groups were among the first people back in helping to feed all those that were left here.
I was in all those meetings when I worked for local government. Oh and yes, I was required to stay for the storm and aftermath in an IT support role.
To recap, old tech still has a function, as it was designed before the advent of distributed networks and can totally work without them. All they need is power. Land lines were dead, Cell phones were (sortof) dead, internet was dead. Sat phones worked, of course, but you had to be VERY high in government to warrant one of those. Cell phones were dead as long as you had a local number. The main CO was underwater, so none of the switching was working. Text messages still did, and your cell did most of the time IF you were using a non - 504 prefix.
Hehe, we had this problem at my old job. We fixed it by sending out a mail telling everyone that we were going to purge their trash. A week later, we set up a script to auto-purge anything in Deleted older than 30 days. It cleared up half our Outlook storage overnight, and saved 400-500 MB of shit every night that was previously just sitting in a store. Most people simply didn't realize when they "deleted" something it wasn't really gone. Even fewer know that even after emptying deleted items they still weren't really deleted from the store for 30 more days. Even fewer (like 1) knew how to REALLY delete using OWA.
I can certainly understand the reason to want to remove the icon from the screen. Users tend to believe that I don't mind having to pull that random database/word doc off of backup when they accidentally delete it. They don't care how much time it wastes so long as it's MY time, not theirs. Once they figure out that stupidity protection is NOT the reason we have backups, they can have their recycle bin back. Until then, I see no real reason to leave it on the desktop.
Besides, even when not on the desktop, it's still there in the file tree. Or they can shift-delete something if they REALLY mean delete. It's just not that big a deal.
Also, he COULD have just disabled the functionality if he really wanted to get rid of it. That way, things really ARE deleted without any external intervention. That's counter-productive to my reasoning, though.
Umm.... What is being paid for is the delivery system. In the case of Amazon, the publishers must pay Amazon a percentage to handle all the distro. In the case of Netflix, they ARE the distro, but must pay the content providers for the actual content. In either case, both the publisher and the distributor both get a cut. All that matters is how much of a cut.
It seems to be referring to disposing of the snow after the temperature reaches above freezing, but in a more controlled manner than it all just melting at once. This is to prevent the rivers from being hit with a massive amount of water all melting at the same time, thus overflowing the rivers and causing even more damage.
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You CAN'T default on a student loan. Since it's a gevernment backed loan, they will go as far as to garnish future wages, claim all tax refunds as offsets, and various other nasty things. See http://www.educationgrant.com/2010/04/07/what-happens-if-you-default-on-student-loans/
Yay!
It's bad enough that law enforcement can easily get subpoena's to track individual users now. Imagine if the government was IN CONTROL of the internet. You think we have security/privacy issues now? Shit. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Just ask Julia Roberts.
Well, the truly first thing that gets fixed is the gas stations nearest the staging areas for the power companies. Then the hospitals/government get fixed. If those trucks run out of gas, nothing gets fixed.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/parasite-makes-cat-urine-sexy-to-rats-110822.html In this example, the microorganism makes the rat attracted to cat urine, so it's reproductive cycle can advance. Very cool. Very creepy.
Is AT&T so desperate that they need to make money this way or are they so powerful and influential that they need not fear competition?
Yes.
Well, TFA specifically says SQUARE miles, so it's obviously a rectangle of some sort. ;8^)
To the corporation, iphones are toys, blackberries are tools. In a way they are right. There are precisely 0 fun things to do on a BB. It's sortof like how when the world was all big iron and green screens, the machines just worked. Once the users got PC's, they discovered wonderful, virus-ridden, bloated 3d screensavers of kittens chasing butterflies. Sometimes things just need to work.
Another reason would be that a government typically charges $1 per page for Public Records Requests. So not only does it make it harder to scan through data, it makes the barrier to entry much higher. In this case, $24,000 higher. That's per news outlet that wants a copy. When I worked for a local municipality we would constantly get requests for vendor lists and taxpayer lists. They cost about $3500 to $7000 each, depending on the list. 99% would say never mind. Now, to be fair, these were people looking to build mailing lists for new businesses in the area.
Hehe, I have a friend of mine that wrote her PIN number on the ATM at her bank.
It's not even undefined in math. It's - Infinity. Computers just don't handle infinity well.
About 12.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-robotic-exoskeleton,1629/ It can still be funny
How much does a U.S. green card cost again? Not much, just your soul. And your privacy.
"The average American watches approximately 153 hours of TV every month at home," That's 5 hours a day. Very, very sad.
http://narcoticnews.com/World-Record-Cash-Seizure-205+-Million-Dollars-in-Mexico-City.php
OK, I want a goddamned flying car that DOESN'T collapse during test flights, killing all on board. ;8^)
Just because that female TSA agent thinks you're fugly doesn't mean she didn't grope MY balls!
Here in New Orleans, Ham operators are included in all emergency preparedness operations. During Katrina, we lost -=ALL=- communications, but Ham still worked, so now they are part of all EOP plans. For the record, local religious leaders are also involved in the planning and response staging. Why? Because faith-based groups were among the first people back in helping to feed all those that were left here. I was in all those meetings when I worked for local government. Oh and yes, I was required to stay for the storm and aftermath in an IT support role. To recap, old tech still has a function, as it was designed before the advent of distributed networks and can totally work without them. All they need is power. Land lines were dead, Cell phones were (sortof) dead, internet was dead. Sat phones worked, of course, but you had to be VERY high in government to warrant one of those. Cell phones were dead as long as you had a local number. The main CO was underwater, so none of the switching was working. Text messages still did, and your cell did most of the time IF you were using a non - 504 prefix.
Hehe, we had this problem at my old job. We fixed it by sending out a mail telling everyone that we were going to purge their trash. A week later, we set up a script to auto-purge anything in Deleted older than 30 days. It cleared up half our Outlook storage overnight, and saved 400-500 MB of shit every night that was previously just sitting in a store. Most people simply didn't realize when they "deleted" something it wasn't really gone. Even fewer know that even after emptying deleted items they still weren't really deleted from the store for 30 more days. Even fewer (like 1) knew how to REALLY delete using OWA.
I can certainly understand the reason to want to remove the icon from the screen. Users tend to believe that I don't mind having to pull that random database/word doc off of backup when they accidentally delete it. They don't care how much time it wastes so long as it's MY time, not theirs. Once they figure out that stupidity protection is NOT the reason we have backups, they can have their recycle bin back. Until then, I see no real reason to leave it on the desktop. Besides, even when not on the desktop, it's still there in the file tree. Or they can shift-delete something if they REALLY mean delete. It's just not that big a deal. Also, he COULD have just disabled the functionality if he really wanted to get rid of it. That way, things really ARE deleted without any external intervention. That's counter-productive to my reasoning, though.
Umm.... What is being paid for is the delivery system. In the case of Amazon, the publishers must pay Amazon a percentage to handle all the distro. In the case of Netflix, they ARE the distro, but must pay the content providers for the actual content. In either case, both the publisher and the distributor both get a cut. All that matters is how much of a cut.
From TFA: "protecting both transparency and confidentiality" Yeah, those are basically mutually exclusive.
It seems to be referring to disposing of the snow after the temperature reaches above freezing, but in a more controlled manner than it all just melting at once. This is to prevent the rivers from being hit with a massive amount of water all melting at the same time, thus overflowing the rivers and causing even more damage.