Until the owner of the business comes to you asking about Bitcoin, you aint seen nothing. Especially when you tell your colleagues how much you made this last quarter (before it crashed again) and you get the "I asked you about this and you said not to worry about it" comment...
So yes, apparently IT is also good for dispensing financial advice now too.
LOL. Once again the government outsourcing their responsibility to private operators turns out to be (yet) another million dollar mistake, fully funded by the taxpayer. Except in this instance, it's not an expense, rather a lack of revenue, and no one is crying because we all know in Victoria cameras are revenue machines, not road rule enforcement/deterrent. That's why most of them are on straight sections of highway with limits of 100kph or more.
I reckon they should 'fine' the operator their commission for the year.
Commission? Yes, commission; the operator gets a slice of each ticket issued. You think that makes them do their utmost to issue as many tickets as possible? You bet, about $1bn worth every year.
Not the first time the US (or a particular state) has looked abroad for revenue ideas in the wake of higher expenses for State responsibilities. This is just one that is less politically toxic, unlike say forcing parents to pay for their State sponsored education...
In Australia, or Queensland to be specific, we have "Traffic Behaviour Monitoring Cameras" which are really just registration and insurance scanners. We don't have labels on the windscreen anymore, it's all digital, and the robots are the ones scanning the cars every day for compliance.
FWIW, the same practice is in place in several of the other States of Australia, in one form or another. Some states are deploying "red light/speed/registration" all-in one cameras at busy intersections. Victoria as one example of the far end, booked about $1bn in revenue from their camera operations last year. That's some serious 'road use tax'
No one should ever trust what comes out of his mouth, having three times been convicted by the ATO of tax avoidance schemes.
But FWIW, the issue is the contract Ten has with Fox, or as others like to point out in Bourke's word... "The product that [Murdoch AUS] is buying from [Murdoch USA] and is now arriving have been pirated out of sight."
The sale of "Product" was a means to an end to the real goal; to shift profits internationally through transfer pricing arrangements. Those economics don't work anymore as the content is moved digitally and through more streams, some legal, some not.
IMO Boo Hoo for the owners of Ten. Fire Sale your interests and let the local content owners thrive in a local market without the imported profit sucking garbage from across the Pacific.
I think the next logical step is to test "fire" an EM drive in the vacuum of space and see if it is still producing thrust when moving around the earth in both zero gravity and zero atmospheres.
A positive (speaking) result in that instance would go a long way to proving whether or not it was capable of driving future space exploration
From what I understood NetSuite is half owned by Larry (as the Ultimate Controlling Entity), not Oracle directly. It would appear that he's just shifting the ownership from personal control to corporate control, and paying a handsome sum in the process
Exactly! "This is hardly news in 2015" was my point; I just happen to use a Mac and it's been around for ages. Seems that Windows utility has been around for some time too although I'd never heard about it until reading this thread.
The Sunday Times has a story claiming that Snowden’s revelations have caused danger to MI6 and disrupted their operations. Here are five reasons it is a lie.
1) The alleged Downing Street source is quoted directly in italics. Yet the schoolboy mistake is made of confusing officers and agents. MI6 is staffed by officers. Their informants are agents. In real life, James Bond would not be a secret agent. He would be an MI6 officer. Those whose knowledge comes from fiction frequently confuse the two. Nobody really working with the intelligence services would do so, as the Sunday Times source does. The story is a lie.
2) The argument that MI6 officers are at danger of being killed by the Russians or Chinese is a nonsense. No MI6 officer has been killed by the Russians or Chinese for 50 years. The worst that could happen is they would be sent home. Agents’ – generally local people, as opposed to MI6 officers – identities would not be revealed in the Snowden documents. Rule No.1 in both the CIA and MI6 is that agents’ identities are never, ever written down, neither their names nor a description that would allow them to be identified. I once got very, very severely carpeted for adding an agents’ name to my copy of an intelligence report in handwriting, suggesting he was a useless gossip and MI6 should not be wasting their money on bribing him. And that was in post communist Poland, not a high risk situation.
3) MI6 officers work under diplomatic cover 99% of the time. Their alias is as members of the British Embassy, or other diplomatic status mission. A portion are declared to the host country. The truth is that Embassies of different powers very quickly identify who are the spies in other missions. MI6 have huge dossiers on the members of the Russian security services – I have seen and handled them. The Russians have the same. In past mass expulsions, the British government has expelled 20 or 30 spies from the Russian Embassy in London. The Russians retaliated by expelling the same number of British diplomats from Moscow, all of whom were not spies! As a third of our “diplomats” in Russia are spies, this was not coincidence. This was deliberate to send the message that they knew precisely who the spies were, and they did not fear them.
4) This anti Snowden non-story – even the Sunday Times admits there is no evidence anybody has been harmed – is timed precisely to coincide with the government’s new Snooper’s Charter act, enabling the security services to access all our internet activity. Remember that GCHQ already has an archive of 800,000 perfectly innocent British people engaged in sex chats online.
5) The paper publishing the story is owned by Rupert Murdoch. It is sourced to the people who brought you the dossier on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, every single “fact” in which proved to be a fabrication. Why would you believe the liars now?
So while I have nothing to hide, the data retention bit makes little to no difference to 99% of the population, not that I agree with it in the slightest. What stinks most about this bill is that 100% of the cost of this surveillance measure is to be borne by the consumer.
The government reckons the cost is $4 per person, per annum, so $80,000,000 per year (give or take) while the Telco industry say it will be closer to 10x that amount, meaning everyone's internet/phone bills will increase by around $5-10 per month.
While that may sounds like a trivial amount to some people, consider how much money that will pull OUT of the economy that small business relies on for income; disposable income.
I note in the OP that they are focussed on "Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cable Vision and one more" which is basically means they are only going to bother with cable providers that have localised monopolies where subscribers can't just switch to a new ISP.
While that may work where cable monopolies exist (i.e. USA) it would fail utterly in markets where xDSL is the more predominant carriage method as most people would just churn from one ISP to the next rather than pay a "fine" and admit guilt, especially if the "fine(s)" add up to more than the cost of changing.
It's actually 25km off the coast, not 25km from the reef. And by that, it means a dump site between the coast and the reef, not the ocean and off the continental shelf.
The sludge will increase the turbidity of the inner reef waters (cloudiness from the amount of suspended solids) and will carry well beyond the dump site. It's not toxic waste, but it is not pristine white sand either. The real problem though is the volume of the dump; 3 million m3 is a lot of material to spread over the sea floor.
Even the big players no longer identify themselves as being in the "tobacco Industry". They are now in the "Nicotine Delivery" business, one of the only non-controlled addictive drugs sold over the counter to anyone (of age) who wants it.
This method has been used by about a gazillion people in so many places, so many times, it just doesn't seem like news. Perhaps the only reason it is "news" is because these guys filmed it? I don't know.
I've done the same thing plenty of times to get in place I shouldn't be; all it takes is a pair of cohunas and a bit of front to just go right in where you want to, without stopping once to check you are in without being noticed.
"This is a free product offered with no additional support other than the documentation contained within the files." "Should you wish to procure additional support, options are available starting at" $X per hour or $Y per month/annum or however it is you charge. [..] I understand and agree to these terms. (Ticking the box activates the download button)
...because people of your intellect should not be let loose on the world's stage to tarnish the rest of the country.
The sad part is this peanut comes out with a new "thing" every other week to get his name and/or face in the media. I like how the media plays down his eccentricity by labelling him 'colourful' as opposed to eccentric (or mad) though. That might attract the lawyers...
So if you do something that is not a crime in your own country, but is in another, yet you never set foot in that country, you can now be extradited? Wouldn't that fall under persecution grounds for asylum? Maybe I should check with the Equadorian Embassy...
You write the terms in the statement/scope of work (SOW) regarding ongoing support. We basically give 30 days for user acceptance testing (UAT) in which time we will change or fix anything that is not being met as per the terms of reference in the SOW, then roll in to an annual support contract once the UAT is signed-off or exceeds 30 days. Most people call this an annual software maintenance fee, and provide access to patches, hot-fixes and other bug related support, but not feature enhancements or customer specific changes; that stuff is chargeable.
If you haven't got that stuff in writing before you start you are asking for a world of butt hurt.
In your current dilemma, as said above, weigh up the cost of support vs the cost of walking away, or... Argue that there is no support contract and if they want one then it costs $X per annum (X is usually 20% of purchase price)
The convincing argument for me is this - The reason given for doing this was to stop counterfits. However printing quality out of those printers is no where near enough to fool idiots down the street. What other reason is there then, other that to track the local people?
Maybe you out to check the quality of money in countries other than your own. Maybe you should also check the quality of laser printing at 2400x2400 dpi, or what constitutes a financial instrument.
No one is 'tracking' anything. Billions of pages are printed each day with micro dots, and its only when the law requires that they be 'identified' that they are, and there is a slew of privacy regulations that need to be adhered to.
Didn't this microdot beat up consiracy theory article also get a run a couple of years ago?
Sorry, you have it the wrong way around. By implementing these tracking features, the companies mentioned avoid disclosing 'real' access to the Government by making it simple and easy to comply with court ordered requests for identifying information, such as the time, date and serial number of the device used to create document X. We are only obliged to hand over that much. Imagine NOT being able to give it over easily and then having to allow spooks in to go though your sales history and shipping details for a period deemed neccesary by the courts! Which do you think is the better option?
You can either;
a) try to make it impossible to copy or otherwise produce (paper) money and other financial instruments such as postage stamps or bonds, which is both technically difficult to implement and probably trivial to circumvent, or b) not bother trying to block what you know (some) people are going to do and provide a mechanism to aid a criminal investigation while protecting that mechanisms data payload with a secondary level of encryption in its own right.
We've been doing option b) for at least 15 years.
Full Disclosure: I work for Xerox.
And tracking location? Puh-lease, when was the last time you bought a printer that had a GPS device installed?!
This isn't the first "cyber heist" in South Africa, just the first one to make the news.
Seriously, though, criminals realised long ago that you can steal more electronically than you can carry in a 'traditional' heist. Just look at the Russian's and their level of organised e-crime!
Especially those of us that deal primarily in accounts, deal with budgets, and worry about statistics.
I think what it really does highlight is that there is always at least one moron in the public administration system that no one can fire, thus they keep getting promoted so they become 'someone else's problem'. Eventually they become everyone's problem.
Then again maybe it's just not the one moron in public administration...
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Until the owner of the business comes to you asking about Bitcoin, you aint seen nothing. Especially when you tell your colleagues how much you made this last quarter (before it crashed again) and you get the "I asked you about this and you said not to worry about it" comment...
So yes, apparently IT is also good for dispensing financial advice now too.
LOL. Once again the government outsourcing their responsibility to private operators turns out to be (yet) another million dollar mistake, fully funded by the taxpayer. Except in this instance, it's not an expense, rather a lack of revenue, and no one is crying because we all know in Victoria cameras are revenue machines, not road rule enforcement/deterrent. That's why most of them are on straight sections of highway with limits of 100kph or more.
I reckon they should 'fine' the operator their commission for the year.
Commission? Yes, commission; the operator gets a slice of each ticket issued.
You think that makes them do their utmost to issue as many tickets as possible? You bet, about $1bn worth every year.
Not the first time the US (or a particular state) has looked abroad for revenue ideas in the wake of higher expenses for State responsibilities. This is just one that is less politically toxic, unlike say forcing parents to pay for their State sponsored education...
In Australia, or Queensland to be specific, we have "Traffic Behaviour Monitoring Cameras" which are really just registration and insurance scanners. We don't have labels on the windscreen anymore, it's all digital, and the robots are the ones scanning the cars every day for compliance.
FWIW, the same practice is in place in several of the other States of Australia, in one form or another. Some states are deploying "red light/speed/registration" all-in one cameras at busy intersections. Victoria as one example of the far end, booked about $1bn in revenue from their camera operations last year. That's some serious 'road use tax'
No one should ever trust what comes out of his mouth, having three times been convicted by the ATO of tax avoidance schemes.
But FWIW, the issue is the contract Ten has with Fox, or as others like to point out in Bourke's word...
"The product that [Murdoch AUS] is buying from [Murdoch USA] and is now arriving have been pirated out of sight."
The sale of "Product" was a means to an end to the real goal; to shift profits internationally through transfer pricing arrangements. Those economics don't work anymore as the content is moved digitally and through more streams, some legal, some not.
IMO Boo Hoo for the owners of Ten. Fire Sale your interests and let the local content owners thrive in a local market without the imported profit sucking garbage from across the Pacific.
I think the next logical step is to test "fire" an EM drive in the vacuum of space and see if it is still producing thrust when moving around the earth in both zero gravity and zero atmospheres.
A positive (speaking) result in that instance would go a long way to proving whether or not it was capable of driving future space exploration
From what I understood NetSuite is half owned by Larry (as the Ultimate Controlling Entity), not Oracle directly. It would appear that he's just shifting the ownership from personal control to corporate control, and paying a handsome sum in the process
Exactly! "This is hardly news in 2015" was my point; I just happen to use a Mac and it's been around for ages. Seems that Windows utility has been around for some time too although I'd never heard about it until reading this thread.
Not to create a Mac vs Windows argument, but Quicktime X has had screen recording for OS X since Snow Leopard
Normally it is Apple who are the laggards
Five Reasons the MI6 Story is a Lie
From the link;
The Sunday Times has a story claiming that Snowden’s revelations have caused danger to MI6 and disrupted their operations. Here are five reasons it is a lie.
1) The alleged Downing Street source is quoted directly in italics. Yet the schoolboy mistake is made of confusing officers and agents. MI6 is staffed by officers. Their informants are agents. In real life, James Bond would not be a secret agent. He would be an MI6 officer. Those whose knowledge comes from fiction frequently confuse the two. Nobody really working with the intelligence services would do so, as the Sunday Times source does. The story is a lie.
2) The argument that MI6 officers are at danger of being killed by the Russians or Chinese is a nonsense. No MI6 officer has been killed by the Russians or Chinese for 50 years. The worst that could happen is they would be sent home. Agents’ – generally local people, as opposed to MI6 officers – identities would not be revealed in the Snowden documents. Rule No.1 in both the CIA and MI6 is that agents’ identities are never, ever written down, neither their names nor a description that would allow them to be identified. I once got very, very severely carpeted for adding an agents’ name to my copy of an intelligence report in handwriting, suggesting he was a useless gossip and MI6 should not be wasting their money on bribing him. And that was in post communist Poland, not a high risk situation.
3) MI6 officers work under diplomatic cover 99% of the time. Their alias is as members of the British Embassy, or other diplomatic status mission. A portion are declared to the host country. The truth is that Embassies of different powers very quickly identify who are the spies in other missions. MI6 have huge dossiers on the members of the Russian security services – I have seen and handled them. The Russians have the same. In past mass expulsions, the British government has expelled 20 or 30 spies from the Russian Embassy in London. The Russians retaliated by expelling the same number of British diplomats from Moscow, all of whom were not spies! As a third of our “diplomats” in Russia are spies, this was not coincidence. This was deliberate to send the message that they knew precisely who the spies were, and they did not fear them.
4) This anti Snowden non-story – even the Sunday Times admits there is no evidence anybody has been harmed – is timed precisely to coincide with the government’s new Snooper’s Charter act, enabling the security services to access all our internet activity. Remember that GCHQ already has an archive of 800,000 perfectly innocent British people engaged in sex chats online.
5) The paper publishing the story is owned by Rupert Murdoch. It is sourced to the people who brought you the dossier on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, every single “fact” in which proved to be a fabrication. Why would you believe the liars now?
There you have five reasons the story is a lie.
So while I have nothing to hide, the data retention bit makes little to no difference to 99% of the population, not that I agree with it in the slightest.
What stinks most about this bill is that 100% of the cost of this surveillance measure is to be borne by the consumer.
The government reckons the cost is $4 per person, per annum, so $80,000,000 per year (give or take) while the Telco industry say it will be closer to 10x that amount, meaning everyone's internet/phone bills will increase by around $5-10 per month.
While that may sounds like a trivial amount to some people, consider how much money that will pull OUT of the economy that small business relies on for income; disposable income.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Just a different insect isn't it?
I note in the OP that they are focussed on "Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cable Vision and one more" which is basically means they are only going to bother with cable providers that have localised monopolies where subscribers can't just switch to a new ISP.
While that may work where cable monopolies exist (i.e. USA) it would fail utterly in markets where xDSL is the more predominant carriage method as most people would just churn from one ISP to the next rather than pay a "fine" and admit guilt, especially if the "fine(s)" add up to more than the cost of changing.
It's actually 25km off the coast, not 25km from the reef. And by that, it means a dump site between the coast and the reef, not the ocean and off the continental shelf.
The sludge will increase the turbidity of the inner reef waters (cloudiness from the amount of suspended solids) and will carry well beyond the dump site. It's not toxic waste, but it is not pristine white sand either. The real problem though is the volume of the dump; 3 million m3 is a lot of material to spread over the sea floor.
Here are some slightly more neutral (less left/right winged) views
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Even the big players no longer identify themselves as being in the "tobacco Industry".
They are now in the "Nicotine Delivery" business, one of the only non-controlled addictive drugs sold over the counter to anyone (of age) who wants it.
This method has been used by about a gazillion people in so many places, so many times, it just doesn't seem like news. Perhaps the only reason it is "news" is because these guys filmed it? I don't know.
I've done the same thing plenty of times to get in place I shouldn't be; all it takes is a pair of cohunas and a bit of front to just go right in where you want to, without stopping once to check you are in without being noticed.
...which plainly states that;
"This is a free product offered with no additional support other than the documentation contained within the files."
"Should you wish to procure additional support, options are available starting at" $X per hour or $Y per month/annum or however it is you charge.
[..] I understand and agree to these terms. (Ticking the box activates the download button)
As per the subject, this just adds to the reasons for using OpenGL
...because people of your intellect should not be let loose on the world's stage to tarnish the rest of the country.
The sad part is this peanut comes out with a new "thing" every other week to get his name and/or face in the media. I like how the media plays down his eccentricity by labelling him 'colourful' as opposed to eccentric (or mad) though. That might attract the lawyers...
So if you do something that is not a crime in your own country, but is in another, yet you never set foot in that country, you can now be extradited? Wouldn't that fall under persecution grounds for asylum? Maybe I should check with the Equadorian Embassy...
Read the article. it is less than 1% of people who visit the website
Totally agree with you there.
You write the terms in the statement/scope of work (SOW) regarding ongoing support.
We basically give 30 days for user acceptance testing (UAT) in which time we will change or fix anything that is not being met as per the terms of reference in the SOW, then roll in to an annual support contract once the UAT is signed-off or exceeds 30 days. Most people call this an annual software maintenance fee, and provide access to patches, hot-fixes and other bug related support, but not feature enhancements or customer specific changes; that stuff is chargeable.
If you haven't got that stuff in writing before you start you are asking for a world of butt hurt.
In your current dilemma, as said above, weigh up the cost of support vs the cost of walking away, or...
Argue that there is no support contract and if they want one then it costs $X per annum (X is usually 20% of purchase price)
The convincing argument for me is this - The reason given for doing this was to stop counterfits. However printing quality out of those printers is no where near enough to fool idiots down the street. What other reason is there then, other that to track the local people?
Maybe you out to check the quality of money in countries other than your own. Maybe you should also check the quality of laser printing at 2400x2400 dpi, or what constitutes a financial instrument.
No one is 'tracking' anything. Billions of pages are printed each day with micro dots, and its only when the law requires that they be 'identified' that they are, and there is a slew of privacy regulations that need to be adhered to.
Didn't this microdot beat up consiracy theory article also get a run a couple of years ago?
Sorry, you have it the wrong way around. By implementing these tracking features, the companies mentioned avoid disclosing 'real' access to the Government by making it simple and easy to comply with court ordered requests for identifying information, such as the time, date and serial number of the device used to create document X. We are only obliged to hand over that much. Imagine NOT being able to give it over easily and then having to allow spooks in to go though your sales history and shipping details for a period deemed neccesary by the courts! Which do you think is the better option?
You can either;
a) try to make it impossible to copy or otherwise produce (paper) money and other financial instruments such as postage stamps or bonds, which is both technically difficult to implement and probably trivial to circumvent, or
b) not bother trying to block what you know (some) people are going to do and provide a mechanism to aid a criminal investigation while protecting that mechanisms data payload with a secondary level of encryption in its own right.
We've been doing option b) for at least 15 years.
Full Disclosure: I work for Xerox.
And tracking location? Puh-lease, when was the last time you bought a printer that had a GPS device installed?!
This isn't the first "cyber heist" in South Africa, just the first one to make the news.
Seriously, though, criminals realised long ago that you can steal more electronically than you can carry in a 'traditional' heist. Just look at the Russian's and their level of organised e-crime!
Especially those of us that deal primarily in accounts, deal with budgets, and worry about statistics.
I think what it really does highlight is that there is always at least one moron in the public administration system that no one can fire, thus they keep getting promoted so they become 'someone else's problem'. Eventually they become everyone's problem.
Then again maybe it's just not the one moron in public administration...