Why do so many Hollywood celebs and pro sports athletes have relationship problems?
My guess is they fail and cheat not much more often then the average relationship, you just hear about them more often. Your neighbor getting a divorce is not worthy of the national news.
If I get caught taking an audio CD from WalMart without paying, I MIGHT get a $50-200 fine. If I download those same 12 songs that were on the CD without paying and get caught, I may get charged $1000-15000 per song, that is about $100000-150000 total. How is the damages from one about 50000X more than the other? I "took" the SAME thing.
I love them. - Hours and hours of cool information. - Wildly different topics and "storylines" throughout the book. If you have no interest in a specific section, you can skip to the next section. - You don't have to read it in an order - Small and easy to carry around.
I watch most of my TV shows through Comcast on Demand. They seem to have about 1/2 the commercials compared to the broadcast version. I can still skip through them but I'm sure they can prevent me from doing that in the future. Similar to what I've seen on Hulu, a 30 second commercial here and there
Facebook has very little to lose and much to gain from getting into various hardware. This phone sales when compared to quantity sold of other models could be a bust but the real goal is not total sales. The more devices on the street that have Facebook integration, the harder or less likely people will be to switch to a competing social network. Think of all of the media boxes and internet connected televisions, blue ray players etc that have things like embedded like Netflix and Facebook. All of the companies with a Facebook presence, the +1 links etc.. IMO, this is why Netflix kept the the Netflix name on the streaming service and renamed the mail order spinoff. Facebook is turning into something similar to what AOL was, a semi walled interconnected community with some central control. They are building it in the other direction though, from open to closed.
I pay very little to no attention to a posts current mod status. I read through the sub threads that catch my eye and give a reply when I have something to add. I don't care if I'm replying to a +5 or a 0. I normally browse at 0 and I rarely see an obviously non troll post rated at 0 so I assume there is even less at -1. Temporary moderators are not picked because of their opinions so if groupthink or common trends are modded down, it truly is what a majority of people on/. would agree with. Not that I think people should moderate with opinion and I try not to but it does happen and different people view different comments differently. That's why I don't pay much very little attention to a comments current mod. As long as moderation system gets rid of the obvious trolls and spammers which it does, I'm perfectly happy with it. I do my part as well and post without the Karma bonus and let the system take my post where ever it needs to go.
Mortgage companies are required to state to you the percentage of loans they sell and I think the average time frame they hold a mortgages for or basically, the likelihood of your mortgage being sold. I seem to remember being explained that and signing something to that effect when I refinanced my house about 10 years ago.
Pick a lender that is less likely to sell it off? Of course their numbers or percentages could change drastically after you have your mortgage.
1:10 scale is the physical dimensions of the exterior or the "looks" and nothing else, it is in no way related to being 1:10 scale in performance and capability.
hundreds of millions of people do provide all that information to social networking sites without having their identities stolen should give you one clue
But not a single person that used a fake name had anything stolen. If I could use a fake name and address on my credit cards, my electric bill, any online shopping site, and with my bank, I would.
It might just be that Comcast and Verizon have much better peering partners (with respect to the targets of the tests) than Cablevision.
The uplink is part of the whole internet package that its customers are paying for and the service they expect. If their peering sucks and they have slow uplinks, maybe they should upgrade them or stop advertising 20mbps service when they absolutely know they can barely support 50% of that for many hours every day of the week. What stops Cablevision from offering a 40mbps service for more money knowing they can't support that either? It is unfair for the customers.
You can guarantee anything. If the guarantee is not met, you hand out some previously agreed on compensation. Without those checks and balances, the advertised rates are useless. For this scenario, Comcast and Verizon were able to maintain a certain speed to random sites that random users visited as a whole with their network but why couldn't Cablevision? The only two explanations are Cablevision users are going to vastly different sites online then Verizon and Comcast users OR Cablevision is grossly overrating and overselling their service cheating their customers. That is the whole point of this FCC test.
The problem for the non technical folks, they still have a very weak link. Most hotel, cafe etc wireless is wide open and unencrypted. A boost disk like this and an encrypted ttunnel that you can connect to would be more useful. Why don't hotels at least use WPA and have the key displayed the default hotel tv channel or on a small sheet of paper when they hand you the room key or something. That would better than wide open although it might cause some support headaches.
There are laws that allow the prosecution of people that fraud and steal. There are existing practices and best methods to increase security and protect valuable data on public facing internet sites and intranets.
Passing yet another law and adding a "monitor layer" in at the internet pipe or DNS level in an attempt to limit hacking and stealing does not make sense (specially one controlled by the government or special interests) and will not work any better than existing methods.
This is another attempt at corporations trying to get the taxpayers to foot the bill for their own security and to help maintain their business models and their own negligent lack of security. Why are my tax dollars going to protect the music and movie industries? Why is it being spent tracking down knock-off purses and rogue network switching gear? Why is being spent to help BOA improve their security?
I do not agree. The days of an physical desktop in the enterprise with all of your "stuff" on it are going away. The enterprises are moving in the direction of virtual machines and virtual applications. This provides the user with a BYOC (bring your own computer) option and still provide them with a consistent interface and a "computer" to them regardless of where they are connecting to it from, it could be their home laptop running XP, Windows 7, Apple, iPad, or even Linux, their moms desktop, an android device, some thin client on their desk at work. All they need is the receiver software installed on some compatible device which is a simple install and some type of network connectivity (an example here).
It is not a one size fits all, the dust is still settling and there are some issues that are a little less mature like checking out that virtual desktop or virtual applications and using them remotely without network connectivity but it will be solved.
I think this concept will start to break people away from the MS stranglehold where people want the same software products they have at home that they have at work. You will no longer NEED MS office at home or even to run Windows because you want to work from home and be productive. No more Citrix Presentation server where the apps are slightly different the icons are not the same as you "work" computer. No more GoToMyPC or what ever to connect to that physical desktop at your desk that you are familiar with.
People will not need native methods like MS office/Outlook etc on their tablet or phone any more to do work related stuff.
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot.
Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
People use the "cool" stuff because it is there and does not cost money. If there was a monetary charge for the same thing and no one used it, is that the fault of the people or the business offering. Do the people really lose in that situation? The business that does offer what someone wants and people are willing pay for it will be the winner for both groups.
It is your job to enforce the contract (agreement) with your ISP TOS. If you violate the TOS, they can cancel your account or whatever they decide to do for a breach of contract. That is soley an issue between you and your ISP. What happens illegally and involves criminal punishment has nothing to do with that, the police have to prove what person actually committed the crime. Not some random person who has his name on the ISP bill.
Using your logic of the IP, why doesn't the RIAA sue the ISP, after all, they own the IP address, why not sue the ISP's provider? Why do you think the IP trail should suddenly stop at someone called a "customer of the ISP whose name is on the bill"? Common carrier status should not end at the ISP billed customer name.
Your contract with the customer has nothing to do with who was actually using the internet at the time. What do you really not understand about that?
Listen man, you can pinpoint that one specific customer of your services had that IP/MAC at that time, you have NO IDEA who was actually sitting at that computer(s) behind that mac address. What SLA do you have that states that only the persons name on the contract can use the computer, not their relatives, the baby sitter, the neighbor over their wireless (hacked or open AP), their kids friends, etc? This was a CRIMINAL case, not a contract violation. It really should not be that hard to comprehend.
Another car analogy... I can rent a car and be the only authorized driver by contract. If I lend it to someone and they commit a crime, the police still have to PROVE who was driving the car. Sure, the rental place can charge me for the damages to the car under that contract and I can sue the real driver to get my money back from him but do you see the difference?
Apple is doing it for the users regardless if they want it or not. Why not give them the ability to purge the data let them delete or purge the data regardless if they want it or not. It could be simple option somewhere that does not take away from the pristine user experience.
I call bullshit on the whole thing anyway. A database of where I was last week/month/year has very little benefit to advertisers. Any benefit it does have is far overshadowed by the users personal privacy of having that data available to Apple and whoever else can access that info. What if my bank account balance was available to them, sure, it would help advertisers but what is the downside to my privacy to give that info up?
I have a separate account at a local small bank that is ONLY used for Paypal. My service there is "free" (checking, check card etc) so it doesn't cost me anything other than driving to the ATM on occasion to withdrawal/deposit for my various paypal needs. I'm usually in the area anyway because I frequent the grocery store in the same shopping plaza. My two forms of Paypal funds are my check card with a MC logo and that verifed checking account, both come from the same account pool of money in that bank.
Maybe this level of concern is not required but back when I got my Paypal account, many people were complaining about getting accounts locked, reversed payments etc...
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In many rural areas, water is provided by privately-owned co-ops
The electric service in rural areas is mainly from co-ops, the water is from your own hole and your own pump.
Why do so many Hollywood celebs and pro sports athletes have relationship problems?
My guess is they fail and cheat not much more often then the average relationship, you just hear about them more often. Your neighbor getting a divorce is not worthy of the national news.
Without a destination address, you can't search for a specific distance, what is not true about that?
I agree that any search can only give results IF people provide that information. That was what I thought I was saying.
Add search terms by town/city. That should be close enough to using miles for most people.
xbox town1|town2|town3|town4
or just the area names themselves if you are not looking for a specific item
town1|town2|town3
I use this search method all of the time. Including an RSS link.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/search
The only way you would ever be able to search my miles is if sellers had to put their entire address in their ad. That's not a good idea at all.
If I get caught taking an audio CD from WalMart without paying, I MIGHT get a $50-200 fine. If I download those same 12 songs that were on the CD without paying and get caught, I may get charged $1000-15000 per song, that is about $100000-150000 total. How is the damages from one about 50000X more than the other? I "took" the SAME thing.
I love them.
- Hours and hours of cool information.
- Wildly different topics and "storylines" throughout the book. If you have no interest in a specific section, you can skip to the next section.
- You don't have to read it in an order
- Small and easy to carry around.
No really, a World Almanac!
http://www.worldalmanac.com/world-almanac.aspx
I watch most of my TV shows through Comcast on Demand. They seem to have about 1/2 the commercials compared to the broadcast version. I can still skip through them but I'm sure they can prevent me from doing that in the future. Similar to what I've seen on Hulu, a 30 second commercial here and there
Facebook has very little to lose and much to gain from getting into various hardware. This phone sales when compared to quantity sold of other models could be a bust but the real goal is not total sales. The more devices on the street that have Facebook integration, the harder or less likely people will be to switch to a competing social network. Think of all of the media boxes and internet connected televisions, blue ray players etc that have things like embedded like Netflix and Facebook. All of the companies with a Facebook presence, the +1 links etc.. IMO, this is why Netflix kept the the Netflix name on the streaming service and renamed the mail order spinoff. Facebook is turning into something similar to what AOL was, a semi walled interconnected community with some central control. They are building it in the other direction though, from open to closed.
I pay very little to no attention to a posts current mod status. I read through the sub threads that catch my eye and give a reply when I have something to add. I don't care if I'm replying to a +5 or a 0. I normally browse at 0 and I rarely see an obviously non troll post rated at 0 so I assume there is even less at -1. Temporary moderators are not picked because of their opinions so if groupthink or common trends are modded down, it truly is what a majority of people on /. would agree with. Not that I think people should moderate with opinion and I try not to but it does happen and different people view different comments differently. That's why I don't pay much very little attention to a comments current mod. As long as moderation system gets rid of the obvious trolls and spammers which it does, I'm perfectly happy with it. I do my part as well and post without the Karma bonus and let the system take my post where ever it needs to go.
Mortgage companies are required to state to you the percentage of loans they sell and I think the average time frame they hold a mortgages for or basically, the likelihood of your mortgage being sold. I seem to remember being explained that and signing something to that effect when I refinanced my house about 10 years ago.
Pick a lender that is less likely to sell it off? Of course their numbers or percentages could change drastically after you have your mortgage.
1:10 scale is the physical dimensions of the exterior or the "looks" and nothing else, it is in no way related to being 1:10 scale in performance and capability.
hundreds of millions of people do provide all that information to social networking sites without having their identities stolen should give you one clue
But not a single person that used a fake name had anything stolen. If I could use a fake name and address on my credit cards, my electric bill, any online shopping site, and with my bank, I would.
It might just be that Comcast and Verizon have much better peering partners (with respect to the targets of the tests) than Cablevision.
The uplink is part of the whole internet package that its customers are paying for and the service they expect. If their peering sucks and they have slow uplinks, maybe they should upgrade them or stop advertising 20mbps service when they absolutely know they can barely support 50% of that for many hours every day of the week. What stops Cablevision from offering a 40mbps service for more money knowing they can't support that either? It is unfair for the customers.
You can guarantee anything. If the guarantee is not met, you hand out some previously agreed on compensation. Without those checks and balances, the advertised rates are useless. For this scenario, Comcast and Verizon were able to maintain a certain speed to random sites that random users visited as a whole with their network but why couldn't Cablevision? The only two explanations are Cablevision users are going to vastly different sites online then Verizon and Comcast users OR Cablevision is grossly overrating and overselling their service cheating their customers.
That is the whole point of this FCC test.
The problem for the non technical folks, they still have a very weak link. Most hotel, cafe etc wireless is wide open and unencrypted. A boost disk like this and an encrypted ttunnel that you can connect to would be more useful. Why don't hotels at least use WPA and have the key displayed the default hotel tv channel or on a small sheet of paper when they hand you the room key or something. That would better than wide open although it might cause some support headaches.
There are laws that allow the prosecution of people that fraud and steal. There are existing practices and best methods to increase security and protect valuable data on public facing internet sites and intranets.
Passing yet another law and adding a "monitor layer" in at the internet pipe or DNS level in an attempt to limit hacking and stealing does not make sense (specially one controlled by the government or special interests) and will not work any better than existing methods.
This is another attempt at corporations trying to get the taxpayers to foot the bill for their own security and to help maintain their business models and their own negligent lack of security.
Why are my tax dollars going to protect the music and movie industries? Why is it being spent tracking down knock-off purses and rogue network switching gear? Why is being spent to help BOA improve their security?
I do not agree. The days of an physical desktop in the enterprise with all of your "stuff" on it are going away. The enterprises are moving in the direction of virtual machines and virtual applications. This provides the user with a BYOC (bring your own computer) option and still provide them with a consistent interface and a "computer" to them regardless of where they are connecting to it from, it could be their home laptop running XP, Windows 7, Apple, iPad, or even Linux, their moms desktop, an android device, some thin client on their desk at work. All they need is the receiver software installed on some compatible device which is a simple install and some type of network connectivity (an example here).
It is not a one size fits all, the dust is still settling and there are some issues that are a little less mature like checking out that virtual desktop or virtual applications and using them remotely without network connectivity but it will be solved.
I think this concept will start to break people away from the MS stranglehold where people want the same software products they have at home that they have at work. You will no longer NEED MS office at home or even to run Windows because you want to work from home and be productive. No more Citrix Presentation server where the apps are slightly different the icons are not the same as you "work" computer. No more GoToMyPC or what ever to connect to that physical desktop at your desk that you are familiar with.
People will not need native methods like MS office/Outlook etc on their tablet or phone any more to do work related stuff.
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot.
Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
People use the "cool" stuff because it is there and does not cost money. If there was a monetary charge for the same thing and no one used it, is that the fault of the people or the business offering. Do the people really lose in that situation? The business that does offer what someone wants and people are willing pay for it will be the winner for both groups.
It is your job to enforce the contract (agreement) with your ISP TOS. If you violate the TOS, they can cancel your account or whatever they decide to do for a breach of contract. That is soley an issue between you and your ISP. What happens illegally and involves criminal punishment has nothing to do with that, the police have to prove what person actually committed the crime. Not some random person who has his name on the ISP bill.
Using your logic of the IP, why doesn't the RIAA sue the ISP, after all, they own the IP address, why not sue the ISP's provider? Why do you think the IP trail should suddenly stop at someone called a "customer of the ISP whose name is on the bill"? Common carrier status should not end at the ISP billed customer name.
Your contract with the customer has nothing to do with who was actually using the internet at the time. What do you really not understand about that?
Listen man, you can pinpoint that one specific customer of your services had that IP/MAC at that time, you have NO IDEA who was actually sitting at that computer(s) behind that mac address. What SLA do you have that states that only the persons name on the contract can use the computer, not their relatives, the baby sitter, the neighbor over their wireless (hacked or open AP), their kids friends, etc? This was a CRIMINAL case, not a contract violation. It really should not be that hard to comprehend.
Another car analogy... I can rent a car and be the only authorized driver by contract. If I lend it to someone and they commit a crime, the police still have to PROVE who was driving the car. Sure, the rental place can charge me for the damages to the car under that contract and I can sue the real driver to get my money back from him but do you see the difference?
Apple is doing it for the users regardless if they want it or not. Why not give them the ability to purge the data let them delete or purge the data regardless if they want it or not. It could be simple option somewhere that does not take away from the pristine user experience.
I call bullshit on the whole thing anyway. A database of where I was last week/month/year has very little benefit to advertisers. Any benefit it does have is far overshadowed by the users personal privacy of having that data available to Apple and whoever else can access that info. What if my bank account balance was available to them, sure, it would help advertisers but what is the downside to my privacy to give that info up?
The users do not want this.
I have a separate account at a local small bank that is ONLY used for Paypal. My service there is "free" (checking, check card etc) so it doesn't cost me anything other than driving to the ATM on occasion to withdrawal/deposit for my various paypal needs. I'm usually in the area anyway because I frequent the grocery store in the same shopping plaza. My two forms of Paypal funds are my check card with a MC logo and that verifed checking account, both come from the same account pool of money in that bank.
Maybe this level of concern is not required but back when I got my Paypal account, many people were complaining about getting accounts locked, reversed payments etc...
Only criminals are worried about protecting their personal data.
Only criminals have guns.
If you have both, you should go to jail without a trial just because.
I got a kick out of the "SMOKING KILLS" label in 1 inch bold block letters on every carton of cigarettes I saw on in the UK