Allow me to refine this fine explanation. A majority interest is when a single shareholder or group of shareholders owns more than 50% of all stock, and so can always override the votes of all other shareholders combined. A controlling interest is owning just enough stock to outvote the next largest voting block.
The buyer (Comcast) would like to buy a controlling interest in Disney, so they can appoint their own board members and chairman. So, if Eisner and his allies own 30% of all Disney stock, Comcast would need to buy just 31% to be able to outvote Eisner and friends every time. That gives Comcast the power to elect a new board of directors, who selects a new chairman of the board to replace Eisner. The new chairman serves Comcast, lest he also be replaced by Comcast.
I think it's only a "hostile" takeover when the management of the company to be bought opposes the sale. The company shareholders may be quite favorable to the buyout.
There is an effort to setup one of these networks in my county this year (2004). They expect to need two antennas to cover the entire county. Intel and IBM met with the public and municipal officials last week. So far, no company has offered to be the ISP, but BellSouth, Cox, and Alltel are obvious choices. Initially, service will be offered to businesses, later to residential customers. If the project goes through, Intel says this will be the first site in the United States to be covered.
Granted, prons are a delicoius, suculent seafod taht many enjoy. But really, they get way too much attentoin here on wwwslashdot.org, and I, for one, just don't understnd why we...
(one moment, someone is trying to tell me...) (Really? You're sure about that?)
There is an effort to setup one of these networks in my county this year (2004). They expect to need two antennas to cover the entire county. Intel and IBM met with the public and municipal officials last week. So far, no company has offered to be the ISP, but BellSouth, Cox, and Alltel are obvious choices. Initially, service will be offered to businesses, later to residential customers. If the project goes through, Intel says this will be the first site in the United States to be covered.
They took jet fuel, which is very similar to diesel, and catalytically converted it, separating out the sulfur, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, and the fuel cell ran.
While it's at least possible the catalytic conversion could be done on the vehicle, it seems they intend to remove the excess sulphur and carbon products before tranporting the fuel or filling vehicles.
Finally! A cheap, abundant source of sulfur and carbon as an industrial byproduct. Soon, I'll be able to take all that waste carbon and sulfur to make my... uh... (a little help here, please?)...
If banner ads and the like become unprofitable, online retailers will start providing content services to tempt traffic to their wares. Some of the content will be related to what's for sale. For example, the home improvement chains regularly promote classes and guides on home improvement projects. Other content sites will simply exist to remind you to shop at the sponsoring retailer. For example, we might expect to see a news site called Your-Favorite-Book-Retailer's News (.com). Expect to see pure content producers, such as magazine publishers, move to the "Search-the-Book (ala Amazon.com), but pay for the full content" model. We might also see consortiums of smaller manufacturers or trade groups sponsoring content sites. Think "MP3.com, brought to you by the Small Electronics Trade Association." Some content sites may not be explicitly commercially sponsored; they may use the PBS/NPR underwriting model extended to content sites. Think "Astronomy.com, underwritten by the Ford Foundation and brought to you by readers like you." Finally, we still have yet to see the type of banner advertising so common in sports events: simple branding by manufacturers, restaurant chains, and service companies on fixed signs. If McDonald's, Coca-Cola, and other heavyweights use more banner advertising, we may see banners that are really hard to filter; because, the ad images are just part of the site, itself. These branding ads may not even be linked; they may depend solely on you seeing and recognizing the brand name to be effective.
The FAQ on the Stots web site (and now Slashdot, of course) is the only place I can find use of the term "tool piracy". In the FAQ, the term is in quotes, as if this term is in common parlance. Is there some group that routinely uses this term? Have we just seen the birth of new jargon?
That's why I'm voting absentee until the electronic system in Georgia is changed. I usually have my vote made up well before election day, anyway. The absentee vote system gives me that nice paper trail. I'm still going to lobby the state against the current electronic system, but at least my own vote is safe. Perhaps, voters can stage an "absentee vote" protest to show their opposition to the electronic system.
The fear of what happened in Florida has driven many states to choose solutions such as Diebold, just to avoid embarassment. It seems to me that Georgia may have simply shifted that risk of embarassment to an all new system.
The article mentions the security consulting firm Geer started in the 90's. Geer knows how to start and run a company. By now, there are bound to be folks losing faith in their own tenure at @Stake. Perhaps this firing will be the birth of a new security firm, founded by Geer, former @Stake employees, and experts that declined to sign on to the security paper. With enough credibility, the new company might lure some of Microsoft's business away from @Stake.
Microsoft hired @stake to improve security in Windows. In order to improve security (or most anything), you have to recognize what is wrong with that security. @stake just fired someone for publishing independent research related to what @stake paid this person to do: be critical of Microsoft Windows security. This firing leads me to believe that @stake wants it's employees to be critical --but not too critical-- of Windows. And while @stake can surely find people to fill this mediocre requirement, they probably won't find the "best" people. Indeed, there might be a quiet exodus of talent from @stake after this, and @stake might have trouble naming a replacement CTO that has the same level of competence in Windows security. Perhaps, an Anonymous Coward from @stake will update us on the chilling effects, if any, inside the company.
Okay, so my state is one of the 37 states that now uses electronic voting. The state even has a cute web site up. We are using the much-maligned Diebold system. This e-voting system was adopted over fear of the paper ballot debacle in Florida.
How would you approach state and local representatives about removing, suspending, or replacing this expensive, highly touted system?
Sounds like a burdgeoning new market for the condom/prophylactic industry. Perhaps, we could soon buy mobile phone rubbers that work just like surgical gloves. Put them on the phone to protect from germs, and change regularly to prevent spread of infeciton.
These compression services are only really viable for dialup, because dialup is so slow.
I must respectfully disagree with you on this point. As residential broadband services expand to the capacity of the pipe to the area, both DSL and cable modem services get slower and less responsive. Imagine a caching/compression service (such as the ones described) at the point where the local DSL/cable neighborhood hits the pipe to the Internet. Redundant requests to the same site or download could be served locally, freeing the Internet pipe to serve up more exotic requests. I know there must be technical hurdles (some of them mentioned in earlier comments) that keep such a system from being completely practical today, but there seem to be benefits for both ISP's and end users.
Heavy rotation on the radio stations is apparently directed by recording industry marketing people, armed with statistics. BigChampagne gives these marketing people credibility, so the marketing people can apply more pressure on the radio stations to play what the marketing people want. This isn't about surveying P2P to find out what the radio stations should play, this is about harvesting P2P statistics to get more leverage over radio station play lists.
When he installed it and loaded the software, the software said to install the Windows 98 2nd Edition installation CD.
Oh, this is so true. That's why I've been putting a copy of Windows in a subdirectory on the hard drive since Windows 98. It just saves so much trouble, and hard drive space is cheap anyway.
You don't own the software you just bought. You only own a license to use the software owned by the software publisher. And that license comes with certain terms, detailed in the EULA.
Just to bring it to peoples' attention, something in excess of 3,000 people are KILLED every year by cars and trucks in the UK... and yet the UK is considered to have a "good" road safety record. That figure is in the region of a hundred times worse per passenger mile than the rail or bus system, the equivalent of a fully-loaded 767 going down every single month.
Just you hold on right there! What class of fully-loaded 767?
It's viral, so it's not really a vaccine. It's more like cow pox. Cow pox is contagious, but not severe. And, if you get cow pox, you become immune to small pox (and cow pox, of course) forever after.
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Allow me to refine this fine explanation. A majority interest is when a single shareholder or group of shareholders owns more than 50% of all stock, and so can always override the votes of all other shareholders combined. A controlling interest is owning just enough stock to outvote the next largest voting block.
The buyer (Comcast) would like to buy a controlling interest in Disney, so they can appoint their own board members and chairman. So, if Eisner and his allies own 30% of all Disney stock, Comcast would need to buy just 31% to be able to outvote Eisner and friends every time. That gives Comcast the power to elect a new board of directors, who selects a new chairman of the board to replace Eisner. The new chairman serves Comcast, lest he also be replaced by Comcast.
I think it's only a "hostile" takeover when the management of the company to be bought opposes the sale. The company shareholders may be quite favorable to the buyout.
There is an effort to setup one of these networks in my county this year (2004). They expect to need two antennas to cover the entire county. Intel and IBM met with the public and municipal officials last week. So far, no company has offered to be the ISP, but BellSouth, Cox, and Alltel are obvious choices. Initially, service will be offered to businesses, later to residential customers. If the project goes through, Intel says this will be the first site in the United States to be covered.
Official Home Page (only looks right in IE)
Stories from the local paper
Granted, prons are a delicoius, suculent seafod taht many enjoy. But really, they get way too much attentoin here on wwwslashdot.org, and I, for one, just don't understnd why we...
(one moment, someone is trying to tell me...)
(Really? You're sure about that?)
Never mind.
There is an effort to setup one of these networks in my county this year (2004). They expect to need two antennas to cover the entire county. Intel and IBM met with the public and municipal officials last week. So far, no company has offered to be the ISP, but BellSouth, Cox, and Alltel are obvious choices. Initially, service will be offered to businesses, later to residential customers. If the project goes through, Intel says this will be the first site in the United States to be covered.
Official Home Page (only looks right in IE)
Stories from the local paper
They took jet fuel, which is very similar to diesel, and catalytically converted it, separating out the sulfur, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, and the fuel cell ran.
While it's at least possible the catalytic conversion could be done on the vehicle, it seems they intend to remove the excess sulphur and carbon products before tranporting the fuel or filling vehicles.
Finally! A cheap, abundant source of sulfur and carbon as an industrial byproduct. Soon, I'll be able to take all that waste carbon and sulfur to make my... uh... (a little help here, please?)...
25,000 tons?! I'm sure I could build an unsolicated bulk email server that weighs less than 1 ton.
---Okay, so it wouldn't be amphibious.
If banner ads and the like become unprofitable, online retailers will start providing content services to tempt traffic to their wares. Some of the content will be related to what's for sale. For example, the home improvement chains regularly promote classes and guides on home improvement projects. Other content sites will simply exist to remind you to shop at the sponsoring retailer. For example, we might expect to see a news site called Your-Favorite-Book-Retailer's News (.com). Expect to see pure content producers, such as magazine publishers, move to the "Search-the-Book (ala Amazon.com), but pay for the full content" model.
We might also see consortiums of smaller manufacturers or trade groups sponsoring content sites. Think "MP3.com, brought to you by the Small Electronics Trade Association." Some content sites may not be explicitly commercially sponsored; they may use the PBS/NPR underwriting model extended to content sites. Think "Astronomy.com, underwritten by the Ford Foundation and brought to you by readers like you."
Finally, we still have yet to see the type of banner advertising so common in sports events: simple branding by manufacturers, restaurant chains, and service companies on fixed signs. If McDonald's, Coca-Cola, and other heavyweights use more banner advertising, we may see banners that are really hard to filter; because, the ad images are just part of the site, itself. These branding ads may not even be linked; they may depend solely on you seeing and recognizing the brand name to be effective.
The FAQ on the Stots web site (and now Slashdot, of course) is the only place I can find use of the term "tool piracy". In the FAQ, the term is in quotes, as if this term is in common parlance. Is there some group that routinely uses this term? Have we just seen the birth of new jargon?
That's why I'm voting absentee until the electronic system in Georgia is changed. I usually have my vote made up well before election day, anyway. The absentee vote system gives me that nice paper trail. I'm still going to lobby the state against the current electronic system, but at least my own vote is safe. Perhaps, voters can stage an "absentee vote" protest to show their opposition to the electronic system.
The fear of what happened in Florida has driven many states to choose solutions such as Diebold, just to avoid embarassment. It seems to me that Georgia may have simply shifted that risk of embarassment to an all new system.
The article mentions the security consulting firm Geer started in the 90's. Geer knows how to start and run a company. By now, there are bound to be folks losing faith in their own tenure at @Stake. Perhaps this firing will be the birth of a new security firm, founded by Geer, former @Stake employees, and experts that declined to sign on to the security paper. With enough credibility, the new company might lure some of Microsoft's business away from @Stake.
Look, I don't want to seem impatient here; but, could we just pick one wireless system now, so we can get started hacking it right away?
Microsoft hired @stake to improve security in Windows. In order to improve security (or most anything), you have to recognize what is wrong with that security. @stake just fired someone for publishing independent research related to what @stake paid this person to do: be critical of Microsoft Windows security. This firing leads me to believe that @stake wants it's employees to be critical --but not too critical-- of Windows. And while @stake can surely find people to fill this mediocre requirement, they probably won't find the "best" people. Indeed, there might be a quiet exodus of talent from @stake after this, and @stake might have trouble naming a replacement CTO that has the same level of competence in Windows security. Perhaps, an Anonymous Coward from @stake will update us on the chilling effects, if any, inside the company.
Okay, so my state is one of the 37 states that now uses electronic voting. The state even has a cute web site up. We are using the much-maligned Diebold system. This e-voting system was adopted over fear of the paper ballot debacle in Florida.
How would you approach state and local representatives about removing, suspending, or replacing this expensive, highly touted system?
Silver has long been used as an effective agent against germs. Perhaps the sterling silver faceplate will become standard issue on mobile phones.
Sounds like a burdgeoning new market for the condom/prophylactic industry. Perhaps, we could soon buy mobile phone rubbers that work just like surgical gloves. Put them on the phone to protect from germs, and change regularly to prevent spread of infeciton.
These compression services are only really viable for dialup, because dialup is so slow.
I must respectfully disagree with you on this point. As residential broadband services expand to the capacity of the pipe to the area, both DSL and cable modem services get slower and less responsive. Imagine a caching/compression service (such as the ones described) at the point where the local DSL/cable neighborhood hits the pipe to the Internet. Redundant requests to the same site or download could be served locally, freeing the Internet pipe to serve up more exotic requests. I know there must be technical hurdles (some of them mentioned in earlier comments) that keep such a system from being completely practical today, but there seem to be benefits for both ISP's and end users.
Heavy rotation on the radio stations is apparently directed by recording industry marketing people, armed with statistics. BigChampagne gives these marketing people credibility, so the marketing people can apply more pressure on the radio stations to play what the marketing people want. This isn't about surveying P2P to find out what the radio stations should play, this is about harvesting P2P statistics to get more leverage over radio station play lists.
When he installed it and loaded the software, the software said to install the Windows 98 2nd Edition installation CD.
Oh, this is so true. That's why I've been putting a copy of Windows in a subdirectory on the hard drive since Windows 98. It just saves so much trouble, and hard drive space is cheap anyway.
You don't own the software you just bought. You only own a license to use the software owned by the software publisher. And that license comes with certain terms, detailed in the EULA.
Or, I'd have to get work done. Or something.
Just to bring it to peoples' attention, something in excess of 3,000 people are KILLED every year by cars and trucks in the UK... and yet the UK is considered to have a "good" road safety record. That figure is in the region of a hundred times worse per passenger mile than the rail or bus system, the equivalent of a fully-loaded 767 going down every single month.
Just you hold on right there! What class of fully-loaded 767?
It's viral, so it's not really a vaccine. It's more like cow pox. Cow pox is contagious, but not severe. And, if you get cow pox, you become immune to small pox (and cow pox, of course) forever after.
...uses a complex mixture of DNA enzymes to determine where it should place its nought or cross...
Is it one of those obscure biblical units, like a cubit?
'Doth Job fear God for nought? --Job i. 9.'
Maybe it's some kind of animated character that ruins pizzas for fun.