* It will be defective by design from day one. * It will be easily disabled remotely. * MS will share some way to detect it with advertisers, who will then add functionality which refuses to display a page until you disable it. * It will have one or more security holes, allowing compromise of PII. * It will be dropped, at the last minute, from the release.
I don't quite understand how anyone can stay a Christian after reading the Bible. It's badly written Jesus fan-fic, co-authored by Abraham Z. Brite and Moses Pacione. I'd call it slash-fic, except there isn't enough sex in it.
It's not like Israel is the only country / group / whatever in the world who doesn't like Iran.
I know that if I were writing something that targetted a group, I'd add in at least a few things that pointed to "someone other than me", if only to confuse the matter / feed the conspiracy theorists.
Like, if I were targetting Israel with something, I'd have to slap in something about Mel Gibson being the source.
Where I am, is a lot less on the "secret agent" / James Bond side of things, and a lot more on social engineering.
Two vectors were talked about.
Vector 1: Middle East. Some guys decided they wanted to be insurgents, but didn't have explosives experience and really didn't want to be shot at. So instead, they loaded up viruses on a bunch of hardware (external drives, thumb drives, etc) and sold it to soldiers. Said soldiers then turned around and used these drives on not only their personal computers, but also on Unclass and Classified systems, where it quickly spread because of bad IS/IA policies.
Vector 2: Pentagon area. Similar situation, but instead of selling pre-infected items, some foreign power just left a lot of pre-infected thumb drives around various coffee shops, etc. While some were turned in to lost and found, others were picked up by people who said, "Hey! Free thumb drive!" and proceeded to use them at work and at home. And when work was in a government office that, again had poor IS/IA policies, suddenly you've got computers opening holes in firewalls and transmitting data out.
Hence the big change in policy, to ban thumb drives, turn off auto-run, etc.
It depends on the nature of the treaties between the two governments.
Just because the US Government wants something from another government doesn't mean they're going to automatically get it, even when a treaty is involved. National laws may carve out exceptions, and sometimes the government in question will just say "no", regardless of the treaties that are in place.
True, but the government often sets purchasing rules where they get the same deal as the best customer.
That is, if some of the customers get 10% off, some get 15% off, and some get 20% off, then the government gets the 20% off deal.
It isn't retroactive, mind you. If the best deal the corporation had was 15% off when the government bought X amount of gear, and then goes to 20% off six weeks later, the government doesn't get the extra 5% back. But they would get that on any new purchases made while that applied.
Add to that government purchase requirements involving small / minority / women owned businesses, vendor rotation requirements, minimum/maximum purchase, etc, and it can be extremely hard to keep up with it all.
It's a 750 dollar minimum with, as I recall, a few criteria that can allow for triple damages, such as willfull infringement.
So really, that is, by law, the miminum he could have been hit for.
Ultimately, if the RIAA decides to go back on the "sue-em-all" bandwagon, they'll just start raising the number of songs. Instead of going after someone for 24 songs, they'll instead go after them for 100 songs.
"Well, Bob, it's like this. Everyone in HR is playing Alliance, and trying to convince Blizzard that Locks are overpowered. You can't expect me to let them get away with that, now can you?"
They have to have some place to share tips on the best places to buy seed vaults, share bunker plans, and learn the proper use of the crowbar vis-a-vis ventilation access.
I would state it as, "they're providing a service that 99% of their customers don't use, or even realize is there".
So, for those 99% of the customers, there isn't a visable loss. Cox thus views it as, "they weren't using it before; why should their payments go down. If they want to use it now, their payments will go up."
The one that got me was their claims that they could cure colic.
Back pain? Sure, no problem. Neck pain? Sometimes; depends on why the pain is there. Shoulder pain? I'll even buy that one.
Colic? Often caused by gas, treated by moving the baby around. (Driving works, for some reason.)
But [Eddie Izzard] cracking the bones [/Eddie Izzard]??? Not so much.
I'm wondering how many chiropractically treated colic cases are going to wind up phsycially screwed up because of this... We won't know for another dozen years, tho.
Right, but they tell you up front that you'll pay that extra.
Every car commercial I've seen that talks about leasing is very clear that it's based on (something like) 12k miles a year on average, and that anything over that is a per mile charge.
They don't care, if you have a five year lease, that you went 18k miles in year 1, 24k miles in year 2, and 6k miles in year 3, 4, and 5. All that matters to them is that it never went over 60k miles.
And they put all that in the small print, and on the website, and the dealer who signs the lease will tell you again.
Verizon, on the other hand, says "unlimited", and when you ask their sales people, they say "unlimited".
That is, absorbing a twin (CSI episode, I think), or from a bone marrow donor.
A mouth swab won't include blood-based DNA.
Admittedly, the odds of this actually coming up in a criminal case are pretty low... but even knowing about it was apparently enough to get me dismissed from a jury.
Because it's the private sector receiving that money to build an infrastructure that meets the government requirements.
Or to put it more simply:
* Government give money to hospital. * Hospital supposed to use money to build computing infrastruture that makes medical records / insurance easier to process. * Hospital say "five year deadline too fast; we too stupid/bureaucratic to build infrastructure. We need more time so that money can be hidden / wasted / embezzled."
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It will have one or more of the following issues:
* It will be defective by design from day one.
* It will be easily disabled remotely.
* MS will share some way to detect it with advertisers, who will then add functionality which refuses to display a page until you disable it.
* It will have one or more security holes, allowing compromise of PII.
* It will be dropped, at the last minute, from the release.
...a pinch of oregano, 'cause you know a little goes a long way.
Does anyone -seriously- think that if Assange were locked up / killed / whatever, that this sort of thing would stop?
While he's more than "just a public face" in this issue, it isn't like Wikileaks would die with him, or that some successor wouldn't be spawned.
In short, dogs made man, what he is today.
What, not able to use commas properly?
Is the gene variant they've found in him that has never been found in any other vertebrate.
Ok, maybe not more important, be definately more interesting.
RABBIT SEASON!
I don't quite understand how anyone can stay a Christian after reading the Bible. It's badly written Jesus fan-fic, co-authored by Abraham Z. Brite and Moses Pacione. I'd call it slash-fic, except there isn't enough sex in it.
This.
It's not like Israel is the only country / group / whatever in the world who doesn't like Iran.
I know that if I were writing something that targetted a group, I'd add in at least a few things that pointed to "someone other than me", if only to confuse the matter / feed the conspiracy theorists.
Like, if I were targetting Israel with something, I'd have to slap in something about Mel Gibson being the source.
To keep the Germans from taking over France. Duh. :)
Where I am, is a lot less on the "secret agent" / James Bond side of things, and a lot more on social engineering.
Two vectors were talked about.
Vector 1: Middle East. Some guys decided they wanted to be insurgents, but didn't have explosives experience and really didn't want to be shot at. So instead, they loaded up viruses on a bunch of hardware (external drives, thumb drives, etc) and sold it to soldiers. Said soldiers then turned around and used these drives on not only their personal computers, but also on Unclass and Classified systems, where it quickly spread because of bad IS/IA policies.
Vector 2: Pentagon area. Similar situation, but instead of selling pre-infected items, some foreign power just left a lot of pre-infected thumb drives around various coffee shops, etc. While some were turned in to lost and found, others were picked up by people who said, "Hey! Free thumb drive!" and proceeded to use them at work and at home. And when work was in a government office that, again had poor IS/IA policies, suddenly you've got computers opening holes in firewalls and transmitting data out.
Hence the big change in policy, to ban thumb drives, turn off auto-run, etc.
It depends on the nature of the treaties between the two governments.
Just because the US Government wants something from another government doesn't mean they're going to automatically get it, even when a treaty is involved. National laws may carve out exceptions, and sometimes the government in question will just say "no", regardless of the treaties that are in place.
True, but the government often sets purchasing rules where they get the same deal as the best customer.
That is, if some of the customers get 10% off, some get 15% off, and some get 20% off, then the government gets the 20% off deal.
It isn't retroactive, mind you. If the best deal the corporation had was 15% off when the government bought X amount of gear, and then goes to 20% off six weeks later, the government doesn't get the extra 5% back. But they would get that on any new purchases made while that applied.
Add to that government purchase requirements involving small / minority / women owned businesses, vendor rotation requirements, minimum/maximum purchase, etc, and it can be extremely hard to keep up with it all.
Of course it's a slow news day.
Everyone is off playing Starcraft 2.
It's a 750 dollar minimum with, as I recall, a few criteria that can allow for triple damages, such as willfull infringement.
So really, that is, by law, the miminum he could have been hit for.
Ultimately, if the RIAA decides to go back on the "sue-em-all" bandwagon, they'll just start raising the number of songs. Instead of going after someone for 24 songs, they'll instead go after them for 100 songs.
"Well, Bob, it's like this. Everyone in HR is playing Alliance, and trying to convince Blizzard that Locks are overpowered. You can't expect me to let them get away with that, now can you?"
I always thought that one was about BeOS.
They have to have some place to share tips on the best places to buy seed vaults, share bunker plans, and learn the proper use of the crowbar vis-a-vis ventilation access.
Cutting edge technology.
He's management?
I would state it as, "they're providing a service that 99% of their customers don't use, or even realize is there".
So, for those 99% of the customers, there isn't a visable loss. Cox thus views it as, "they weren't using it before; why should their payments go down. If they want to use it now, their payments will go up."
Capitalism in action.
The one that got me was their claims that they could cure colic.
Back pain? Sure, no problem.
Neck pain? Sometimes; depends on why the pain is there.
Shoulder pain? I'll even buy that one.
Colic? Often caused by gas, treated by moving the baby around. (Driving works, for some reason.)
But [Eddie Izzard] cracking the bones [/Eddie Izzard]??? Not so much.
I'm wondering how many chiropractically treated colic cases are going to wind up phsycially screwed up because of this... We won't know for another dozen years, tho.
Right, but they tell you up front that you'll pay that extra.
Every car commercial I've seen that talks about leasing is very clear that it's based on (something like) 12k miles a year on average, and that anything over that is a per mile charge.
They don't care, if you have a five year lease, that you went 18k miles in year 1, 24k miles in year 2, and 6k miles in year 3, 4, and 5. All that matters to them is that it never went over 60k miles.
And they put all that in the small print, and on the website, and the dealer who signs the lease will tell you again.
Verizon, on the other hand, says "unlimited", and when you ask their sales people, they say "unlimited".
Is human chimerism (induced or innate).
That is, absorbing a twin (CSI episode, I think), or from a bone marrow donor.
A mouth swab won't include blood-based DNA.
Admittedly, the odds of this actually coming up in a criminal case are pretty low... but even knowing about it was apparently enough to get me dismissed from a jury.
Because it's the private sector receiving that money to build an infrastructure that meets the government requirements.
Or to put it more simply:
* Government give money to hospital.
* Hospital supposed to use money to build computing infrastruture that makes medical records / insurance easier to process.
* Hospital say "five year deadline too fast; we too stupid/bureaucratic to build infrastructure. We need more time so that money can be hidden / wasted / embezzled."
I think a roll of electrical tape would cover me for the year.
Along with the excuse of, "Yeah, I left it open. I must have turned off the lights and been in another room."
How would they prove otherwise?