There never was! There are new efficiency standards, which both GE and Osram Sylvania say they can meet with new incandescents. The whole thing started as a talking point for a Republican primary, and took off when the punditry caught a whiff of it and smelled red meat.
It may not be a ban de jure but it is a ban de facto.
And once more efficient light bulbs became available, it stopped being a ban at all.
I like that way of handling it. I pay no attention to the ads that come with any statements I get, not that I get many since paperless makes so much more sense. ATM ads are just annoying. Give me my cash without insisting I view a commercial - that's not why I put my money in a bank.
I also shop at a grocery store that doesn't have any of those obnoxious club cards. Funny thing, they just give everyone the discount and it works. They have better prices than the other stores around. Rare time that I want something from a store with a club card, I mess with their data and use my sister's number, my inlaws' number, whichever I have for that location.
Some grocery stores do not give the discount. I just read a suggestion that you tell them you have a card listed under the number 867-5309. If you live in a large enough area, someone probably has that listed as their number.
So, I start a coupon publication like RedPlum. I design the coupons, and do everything for the local business. I then make different coupon circulars, based on people who shop at package stores, people who spend money at Hooters, drink at bars, shop at pharmacies, toy stores, dollar stores, high end stores, conferences, and people who pay for newspaper or magazine subscriptions. In fact, I can also throw a contest code in each circular as well. Whatever it is I want to target, with a large enough market, I can reasonably target that item.
I can now piece together some hints to prospective employers. (Of course they can't legally use this information against you, but they can still read "category A businesses" and conclude that you are not a proper fit for their organization based on something unrelated.)
Coupons Redeemed: Candidate A:
Pharmacies: 12 - possible health issues
Shopping Habits: Low income. Shops at toy stores. May have children.
Candidate B:
Bars and Package Stores: 8 - possible alcoholic
Information Providers: subscribes to magazines, shops at bookstores, attends conferences.
Of course, I'm not sure what the likelihood of this is, but I do know that data mining is a serious business.
This is of course where carefully laid out employment agreements come in. Unions used to be damn good about making sure you didn't fall into "cross-training" bullshit without the proper compensation. If I'm trained to fill two or three roles, and are expected to do so when need be, I am at least two or three times more valuable... right?
Sorry, but in my organization, if they can make you learn two or three roles, then they know you're willing to put up with or two or three times as much crap. It's the guy who threatens to quit who actually becomes valuable.
I'll base the plot here on what I've seen in other movies like Independence Day and War of the Worlds (the Tom Cruise version).
Aliens attack earth to steal our water on account of its amazingly high specific heat capacity which they need for cooling their interstellar space drives. Despite the ability to travel interstellar space easily, the aliens somehow failed to read Sun Tzu's "the Art of War" and, assembling in a highly primitive phalanx formation reminiscent of the techniques of Ancient Romans, they are slaughtered wholesale by Global Hawks and F-22/F-35's manned by a people's army of inspiring ethnic diversity.
Ah, the Stargate SG1 explanation: these people are a super advanced warlike society, but because they don't have access to western culture, they never learned the basics of combat. Well played, sir.
Bad Guys come, threaten the safety and well being of all loving earthlings - especially a Young Hero and his Unconsummated Love. Young Hero gets the shit kicked out of him. Unconsummated Love somehow placed in mortal danger. Young Hero finds a way to overcome the Bad Guys, rejoin his Unconsummated Love and save the entire world. Mix in oodles of special effects magic. $8 please, or whatever it is they charge for movie tickets nowadays.
You forgot the part where unconsummated love gets in fight with young hero, shortly before he gets the shit kicked out of him. He must lose everything while they play the "gee, your life has turned to shit" music. Then it is that much more dramatic when everything falls back into place.
As far as I can tell from this article, the only services that the RIAA provide are: 1. Providing loans to musicians who may have bad credit. 2. Acting as sort of a "production/distribution agent": They advise artists on how to get their work produced and distributed, pay for none of it, and take a 90% cut for their services. 3. Providing access to a distribution company. I would be surprised if the more traditional RIAA companies would be willing to unbundle their services, as it would give too many artists too much incentive to avoid step 3. They'd be throwing away a diamond to make room for cubic zirconium.
Agreed, but from the company's perspective, it is easier to change your product than to change the mindset of millions* of potential customers.
* There are billions of people in the world, but I am assuming that the number of people who could afford, and would be interested in, purchasing a device that posts your workout information to a social networking site is significantly lower.
And frequency of updates...FOSS really shines by putting something out there that is a little bit raw (initially), and refining it often. This obviously works better for software than it does for hardware.
For me, the slashdot break also breaks the context menu. As far as I can tell, the only way to follow a link is to reply, quote parent, and copy and paste from parent's HTML.
Besides, I though we left terminal computing (either smart or dumb) back in the '80's. Screw that crap, I'll keep my data and aps on my own computer, thank you.
No, ssh/VNC/X/MSTSC/"To The Cloud" (cue Hipster Victory music) is still alive and well.
Judging by the contents of my own key drives, there is almost never any user-identifiable information on these things. Any "I was just trying to see who's it was" argument is probably just cover for "I wanted a free key drive and didn't think to format it before I used it..."
Judging by the content of my own key drives, most people watch too much porn.
3) They executed software on a foreign USB stick they found on the ground. Aside of the question why they had the privileges to actually do any damage, who in his sane mind would do such a thing?
Yes, the people are to blame here. Who else?
From TFA:
60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers. And if the drive or CD had an official logo on it, 90% were installed.
Both the article, and TFA's source article are vague on this. It sounds like "installed" could have meant as a "plugged in", or installed as in "installing new hardware". (Of course, a windows system would have gladly executed any virus set to autorun, but my point is that I don't know if they were actually installing software that was on the drive)
Interesting. I was thinking something more embarrassing, but less harmful. Maybe a virus that downloads porn all day, hogging every bit of available bandwidth.
But, you are reminding me of all the urban legends being passed around as a child (people giving out poisoned Halloween candy full of aids-infected razor blades because they're devil worshipers). Maybe your approach is dramatic enough to inspire urban legends. It could destroy hardware, forward racist emails to all your coworkers, and cause every printer connected to print out "Congratulations! You have aids"* (in comic sans, of course).
So, no progress is bad. Spending every penny you have on progress is bad...If only there were some gray area, in between, where we could have some progress, without starving to death because we spent every penny of our country's GDP on research...If only someone would invent moderation...
His point is that wikipedia articles should (according to the rules) be owned collectively, rather than by individuals, which is pretty core to the collectivist ideology. Collectivism and communism are closely related.
Yes, but this is a loaded word. It's a little like describing antivirus software as "ethnic cleansing for data".
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There never was! There are new efficiency standards, which both GE and Osram Sylvania say they can meet with new incandescents. The whole thing started as a talking point for a Republican primary, and took off when the punditry caught a whiff of it and smelled red meat.
It may not be a ban de jure but it is a ban de facto.
And once more efficient light bulbs became available, it stopped being a ban at all.
I like that way of handling it. I pay no attention to the ads that come with any statements I get, not that I get many since paperless makes so much more sense. ATM ads are just annoying. Give me my cash without insisting I view a commercial - that's not why I put my money in a bank.
I also shop at a grocery store that doesn't have any of those obnoxious club cards. Funny thing, they just give everyone the discount and it works. They have better prices than the other stores around. Rare time that I want something from a store with a club card, I mess with their data and use my sister's number, my inlaws' number, whichever I have for that location.
Some grocery stores do not give the discount. I just read a suggestion that you tell them you have a card listed under the number 867-5309. If you live in a large enough area, someone probably has that listed as their number.
So, I start a coupon publication like RedPlum. I design the coupons, and do everything for the local business. I then make different coupon circulars, based on people who shop at package stores, people who spend money at Hooters, drink at bars, shop at pharmacies, toy stores, dollar stores, high end stores, conferences, and people who pay for newspaper or magazine subscriptions. In fact, I can also throw a contest code in each circular as well. Whatever it is I want to target, with a large enough market, I can reasonably target that item.
I can now piece together some hints to prospective employers. (Of course they can't legally use this information against you, but they can still read "category A businesses" and conclude that you are not a proper fit for their organization based on something unrelated.)
Coupons Redeemed:
Candidate A:
Pharmacies: 12 - possible health issues
Shopping Habits: Low income. Shops at toy stores. May have children.
Candidate B:
Bars and Package Stores: 8 - possible alcoholic
Information Providers: subscribes to magazines, shops at bookstores, attends conferences.
Of course, I'm not sure what the likelihood of this is, but I do know that data mining is a serious business.
I stand corrected. I knew the "Art of War" was eastern, but I guess I wasn't going to let fact stand in the way of a favorite rant.
This is of course where carefully laid out employment agreements come in. Unions used to be damn good about making sure you didn't fall into "cross-training" bullshit without the proper compensation. If I'm trained to fill two or three roles, and are expected to do so when need be, I am at least two or three times more valuable... right?
Sorry, but in my organization, if they can make you learn two or three roles, then they know you're willing to put up with or two or three times as much crap. It's the guy who threatens to quit who actually becomes valuable.
I'll base the plot here on what I've seen in other movies like Independence Day and War of the Worlds (the Tom Cruise version).
Aliens attack earth to steal our water on account of its amazingly high specific heat capacity which they need for cooling their interstellar space drives. Despite the ability to travel interstellar space easily, the aliens somehow failed to read Sun Tzu's "the Art of War" and, assembling in a highly primitive phalanx formation reminiscent of the techniques of Ancient Romans, they are slaughtered wholesale by Global Hawks and F-22/F-35's manned by a people's army of inspiring ethnic diversity.
Ah, the Stargate SG1 explanation: these people are a super advanced warlike society, but because they don't have access to western culture, they never learned the basics of combat. Well played, sir.
Bad Guys come, threaten the safety and well being of all loving earthlings - especially a Young Hero and his Unconsummated Love. Young Hero gets the shit kicked out of him. Unconsummated Love somehow placed in mortal danger. Young Hero finds a way to overcome the Bad Guys, rejoin his Unconsummated Love and save the entire world. Mix in oodles of special effects magic. $8 please, or whatever it is they charge for movie tickets nowadays.
You forgot the part where unconsummated love gets in fight with young hero, shortly before he gets the shit kicked out of him. He must lose everything while they play the "gee, your life has turned to shit" music. Then it is that much more dramatic when everything falls back into place.
As far as I can tell from this article, the only services that the RIAA provide are:
1. Providing loans to musicians who may have bad credit.
2. Acting as sort of a "production/distribution agent": They advise artists on how to get their work produced and distributed, pay for none of it, and take a 90% cut for their services.
3. Providing access to a distribution company. I would be surprised if the more traditional RIAA companies would be willing to unbundle their services, as it would give too many artists too much incentive to avoid step 3. They'd be throwing away a diamond to make room for cubic zirconium.
Agreed, but from the company's perspective, it is easier to change your product than to change the mindset of millions* of potential customers.
* There are billions of people in the world, but I am assuming that the number of people who could afford, and would be interested in, purchasing a device that posts your workout information to a social networking site is significantly lower.
are completely __________. Let's see how we can make it arhred* to read your damned comment.
* rearrange the letters
It's all about scale...
And frequency of updates...FOSS really shines by putting something out there that is a little bit raw (initially), and refining it often. This obviously works better for software than it does for hardware.
Even if it were possible, is it a good idea?
"Hey I know, let's make something that reproduces and can't be killed en-masse."
Or, in short, let's make an even more indestructible cockroach.
I never thought "immune to mass genocide" could be a drawback. Thanks world, for ruining yet another day.
I don't know if you'll see this, but tepples pointed out that in Firefox 5, you can double-right-click a link to get the context menu up.
To work around Slashdot's brokenness, did you try double right-click, then open in new tab? It appears to work for me in Firefox 5.
Sorry. Reading comprehension failure: I didn't see the double-right-click. That worked. Thanks.
To work around Slashdot's brokenness, did you try double right-click, then open in new tab? It appears to work for me in Firefox 5.
Yeah. The context menu doesn't appear for me in Firefox 5.
For me, the slashdot break also breaks the context menu. As far as I can tell, the only way to follow a link is to reply, quote parent, and copy and paste from parent's HTML.
Besides, I though we left terminal computing (either smart or dumb) back in the '80's. Screw that crap, I'll keep my data and aps on my own computer, thank you.
No, ssh/VNC/X/MSTSC/"To The Cloud" (cue Hipster Victory music) is still alive and well.
"too much porn"
Contradiction in terms. Explain plox?
It's too much when you're stuck to the seat.
"Wii did not use HD because HD cost/performance at the time was low"
It was high, which means expensive. Baahhh, elementary math ...
Can you blame him? He got his degree from Wii U!
Judging by the contents of my own key drives, there is almost never any user-identifiable information on these things. Any "I was just trying to see who's it was" argument is probably just cover for "I wanted a free key drive and didn't think to format it before I used it..."
Judging by the content of my own key drives, most people watch too much porn.
3) They executed software on a foreign USB stick they found on the ground. Aside of the question why they had the privileges to actually do any damage, who in his sane mind would do such a thing?
Yes, the people are to blame here. Who else?
From TFA:
60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers. And if the drive or CD had an official logo on it, 90% were installed.
Both the article, and TFA's source article are vague on this. It sounds like "installed" could have meant as a "plugged in", or installed as in "installing new hardware". (Of course, a windows system would have gladly executed any virus set to autorun, but my point is that I don't know if they were actually installing software that was on the drive)
Interesting. I was thinking something more embarrassing, but less harmful. Maybe a virus that downloads porn all day, hogging every bit of available bandwidth.
But, you are reminding me of all the urban legends being passed around as a child (people giving out poisoned Halloween candy full of aids-infected razor blades because they're devil worshipers). Maybe your approach is dramatic enough to inspire urban legends. It could destroy hardware, forward racist emails to all your coworkers, and cause every printer connected to print out "Congratulations! You have aids"* (in comic sans, of course).
So, no progress is bad. Spending every penny you have on progress is bad...If only there were some gray area, in between, where we could have some progress, without starving to death because we spent every penny of our country's GDP on research...If only someone would invent moderation...
I am half assuming and half hoping that he/she is being sarcastic about printing Wikipedia. Otherwise, the correct response is "DON'T DO THAT!"
His point is that wikipedia articles should (according to the rules) be owned collectively, rather than by individuals, which is pretty core to the collectivist ideology. Collectivism and communism are closely related.
Yes, but this is a loaded word. It's a little like describing antivirus software as "ethnic cleansing for data".