I would add this is completely typical of E*TRADE. If you are willing to use their web interface and what you want can be done there (and you can figure out how to do it - it's not the world's greatest interface), you're good. If you need any personal assistance they are hopeless, worse than other discount brokers, even. I'd never choose them myself, but they pretty much have a lock on the company stock option servicing market.
Well, at least where I am, there are not enough traffic cops to even nearly cover the city. Everybody is speeding, and I've seen quite a few red light runners. My car was hit and my wife injured by a red light runner several years ago. I'm all for cameras, although in my locality the camera programs have been shut down, since legally it appears a citation based on one cannot be enforced.
Even if warrantless surveillance, breaking and entering, etc. are a little bit effective, you are giving up a lot of freedom, and drawing a lot of innocent people into the net of law enforcement, to find a very few bad ones. The government does make mistakes, arrest and spy on people who are no threat, and also has a long history of using law and intelligence powers to target people they don't like for political reasons.
Plus, with all the powers they have, or want, some bad guys will slip through, anyway. You're not going to get perfect security, and getting that last few more percent of being more secure comes at a high price - like pushing us all into a police state.
> There is no way in hell that I would vote for Hillary. I'd take 4 more years of Bush before that...but hopefully we'll have better options.
I hope you're kidding but I'm afraid you're not. I'd vote for practically anything with a pulse before 4 more years of Bush.
I don't really get why people are not willing to let the government (which is nominally devoted to the public welfare) run something like healthcare, while they are willing to trust a large, voracious, profit-driven corporation to do it. There's a fine recent NYT article about insurers deliberately denying long-term care to elderly, frail, and confused patients who've paid for long-term care insurance. The private sector is plenty efficient - but it's efficient at making money for itself, not delivering public goods.
Right. Cost is an issue. Plus if I am going to shell out that amount of $$, I don't want to carry the device around everywhere. I prefer to carry a cheap phone that I can drop or lose and not worry much about. The cheap phone goes with me, the expensive iPod stays in a bag when I'm not using it. If the iPod/iPhone was a sub-$100 item, though, I might tote it around.
As a matter of fact, most of the native American population was killed off by disease, not warfare. So blaming them for not fighting harder seems more than a bit harsh.
Depends on where you live and what kind of school it is. But if you are going to start exposing students to literature, they will run into themes and topics of the type you mention - many schools at least where I am are ok with this if the text also has literary merit. Romeo and Juliet, for example, has more than a bit of sex, violence and swearing.
It is a weird coalition of those who think conservatism means things like being anti gay/abortion/sex-ed/birth control, and those who think conservatism means letting rich selfish guys stay rich and selfish. It is weird, and not very logical, but this coalition has elected several presidents and quite a few congressmen.
My understanding is that, due to the way TLS/SSL works, the weaknesses in SHA-1 do not really affect TLS transport-layer security. Hash-based digital signatures are used to validate certificates, though, so the possibility of forging a cert indirectly weakens TLS.
Blockbuster already has such a limited selection in their stores that it's not worth going there and browsing for movies. Half my local store is given over to video games for rent and new/used movies for sale, which I guess they are hoping will help keep them alive (I wouldn't bet on it, myself).
But also, isn't even download and burn, or visit kiosk and burn, heading for oblivion as well? Already a lot of people including me already have most of their music on hard disks. As hard drives get cheaper and DVRs become pervasive, putting movies on DVDs is on the way out, I think, just like putting music on CDs is unnecessary for a lot of audio consumers. Download and click play on your video server is more like the future.
I lived in Sri Lanka for a period that included the Black July episode.
I am very saddened by what has happened there over the past 25 years. I recognize the Tamils have legitimate grievances, but after all this time the failure to achieve a political settlement reflects very badly on both sides.
> Sure, the major platforms are supported, but that's it
What platforms do you want? Java is on 32- and 64-bit Windows, 32- and 64-bit Linux, Solaris (SPARC + Intel), AIX, HP-UX, OS X (Intel + PPC), IBM z/OS and iSeries, AND FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/java/) among other platforms. FreeBSD guys negotiated a license (but with Java GPL now they won't need to in future).
I would also disagree about portability of code. J2SE apps are very portable. Usually with zero platform specific code changes. J2EE is another story.
It also allows them to get some benefit even from options that are at their strike price or below. It is certainly innovative, but fundamentally I think this is also a way to persuade employees to sign on to or continue in jobs that will come with options priced at bubble levels. I don't think Google is going to $5000 a share anytime soon. But there are startups and early stage companies where 10x appreciation over several years is a reasonable possibility. Their challenge now is to keep people from walking away to those opportunities.
There are "3rd World countries" that actually have healthcare that is more widely available to their populations than is the case in the US - granted, not everyone is getting Mayo Clinic level care, but they can get vaccines, antibiotics, etc. Public services, yeah, not much and not very good, but if you are living outside a city you don't need many of them anyway. (I speak from some experience living in such places).
Agree. Plus there is the issue of how much time you need to get proficient. There is almost no way taking a CS class and doing a few assignments will give you enough practice to be really fluent in any computer language. It will get you semi-competent at best and you'll be a danger if let loose on a real-world project. But if you spend some extra time outside of class coding something you care about you may have a chance at proficiency. It is like the difference between someone who's going to a guitar lesson once a week vs. the guy who has has own band (however bad) and is spending all his spare time on it. Which is not to say some book knowledge and assistance won't help but practice is a big part of it, in my experience.
Agreed it's depressing but it is still possible to obtain interesting and useful items for amateur chemistry use from e-Bay and other sources. Unfortunately they are cracking down rather hard on amateur rocketry, though. A very large rocket club in the Bay Area just lost the use of their launching site - local authorities got too nervous.
Uh, Larry has publicly said it wouldn't make sense to buy Red Hat, because they don't own any IP. Why pay billions for a software base that you can take and fork for free?
Sarbannes-Oxley requires company officers to personally vouch for the accuracy of financial statements. This has caused companies to put in much more stringent internal controls so that they can ensure accurate reporting. But this doesn't mean filing inaccurate reports was allowed, previously. Nor was back-dating option grants.
> the designers decided to throw everything and the kitchen sink in there You mean, like a JIT compiler? The one thing that makes Java perform acceptably well, and is necessarily system dependent? Or maybe the Java libraries, without which the language is useless, and which also necessarily have system dependent parts..
The JVM is not just an application - it is a mediator between the OS and the virtualized API Java apps see, so the bottom layers have to be ported and cannot be generic.
There is a strange statement in the article where he talks about have a choice between being treated as a "pet" and being "conspicuous".. I had to read this a few times but finally I took it to mean that if he accepts the medal he becomes a public figure and he then figures he can't be silent on the controversy. If he just stays home he can stay a "pet" (i.e. other people can treat him as some kind of eccentric nutter, which apparently doesn't bother him at all) and be silent. So in brief it seems fundamentally he just doesn't care what other people think about him, but he doesn't like controversy.
Yeah, so I'd like see legislation that makes careless custodians of your information, like Chase, pick up the bill for all your lost money, time, etc. up to some fairly large limit, like $10K per credit card. I bet we'd see a lot more encryption and a lot fewer stolen laptops, dumped tapes, hacked websites, etc. Could still happen but they are bound to be more careful when it is not just their reputation but hard dollars also at risk.
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I would add this is completely typical of E*TRADE. If you are willing to use their web interface and what you want can be done there (and you can figure out how to do it - it's not the world's greatest interface), you're good. If you need any personal assistance they are hopeless, worse than other discount brokers, even. I'd never choose them myself, but they pretty much have a lock on the company stock option servicing market.
Well, at least where I am, there are not enough traffic cops to even nearly cover the city. Everybody is speeding, and I've seen quite a few red light runners. My car was hit and my wife injured by a red light runner several years ago. I'm all for cameras, although in my locality the camera programs have been shut down, since legally it appears a citation based on one cannot be enforced.
Even if warrantless surveillance, breaking and entering, etc. are a little bit effective, you are giving up a lot of freedom, and drawing a lot of innocent people into the net of law enforcement, to find a very few bad ones. The government does make mistakes, arrest and spy on people who are no threat, and also has a long history of using law and intelligence powers to target people they don't like for political reasons.
Plus, with all the powers they have, or want, some bad guys will slip through, anyway. You're not going to get perfect security, and getting that last few more percent of being more secure comes at a high price - like pushing us all into a police state.
> There is no way in hell that I would vote for Hillary. I'd take 4 more years of Bush before that...but hopefully we'll have better options.
I hope you're kidding but I'm afraid you're not. I'd vote for practically anything with a pulse before 4 more years of Bush.
I don't really get why people are not willing to let the government (which is nominally devoted to the public welfare) run something like healthcare, while they are willing to trust a large, voracious, profit-driven corporation to do it. There's a fine recent NYT article about insurers deliberately denying long-term care to elderly, frail, and confused patients who've paid for long-term care insurance. The private sector is plenty efficient - but it's efficient at making money for itself, not delivering public goods.
Right. Cost is an issue. Plus if I am going to shell out that amount of $$, I don't want to carry the device around everywhere. I prefer to carry a cheap phone that I can drop or lose and not worry much about. The cheap phone goes with me, the expensive iPod stays in a bag when I'm not using it. If the iPod/iPhone was a sub-$100 item, though, I might tote it around.
Insightful?? Please ..
As a matter of fact, most of the native American population was killed off by disease, not warfare. So blaming them for not fighting harder seems more than a bit harsh.
Depends on where you live and what kind of school it is. But if you are going to start exposing students to literature, they will run into themes and topics of the type you mention - many schools at least where I am are ok with this if the text also has literary merit. Romeo and Juliet, for example, has more than a bit of sex, violence and swearing.
I've had no trouble finding 40 tracks a month to download from emusic.
I'd prefer a lossless format or higher than 160bps MP3, which is what they offer.
The only other problem is, if you do want a band you've heard of, they may not have anything available or may only have obscure tracks.
>Corporations claiming human rights is a feature of the US legal system.
Feature, or bug?
It is a weird coalition of those who think conservatism means things like being anti gay/abortion/sex-ed/birth control, and those who think conservatism means letting rich selfish guys stay rich and selfish. It is weird, and not very logical, but this coalition has elected several presidents and quite a few congressmen.
My understanding is that, due to the way TLS/SSL works, the weaknesses in SHA-1 do not really affect TLS transport-layer security. Hash-based digital signatures are used to validate certificates, though, so the possibility of forging a cert indirectly weakens TLS.
Blockbuster already has such a limited selection in their stores that it's not worth going there and browsing for movies. Half my local store is given over to video games for rent and new/used movies for sale, which I guess they are hoping will help keep them alive (I wouldn't bet on it, myself).
But also, isn't even download and burn, or visit kiosk and burn, heading for oblivion as well? Already a lot of people including me already have most of their music on hard disks. As hard drives get cheaper and DVRs become pervasive, putting movies on DVDs is on the way out, I think, just like putting music on CDs is unnecessary for a lot of audio consumers. Download and click play on your video server is more like the future.
I lived in Sri Lanka for a period that included the Black July episode.
I am very saddened by what has happened there over the past 25 years. I recognize the Tamils have legitimate grievances, but after all this time the failure to achieve a political settlement reflects very badly on both sides.
> Sure, the major platforms are supported, but that's it
What platforms do you want? Java is on 32- and 64-bit Windows, 32- and 64-bit Linux, Solaris (SPARC + Intel), AIX, HP-UX, OS X (Intel + PPC), IBM z/OS and iSeries, AND FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/java/) among other platforms. FreeBSD guys negotiated a license (but with Java GPL now they won't need to in future).
I would also disagree about portability of code. J2SE apps are very portable. Usually with zero platform specific code changes. J2EE is another story.
Orchard Supply hardware in California recycles fluorescent tubes also.
It also allows them to get some benefit even from options that are at their strike price or below. It is certainly innovative, but fundamentally I think this is also a way to persuade employees to sign on to or continue in jobs that will come with options priced at bubble levels. I don't think Google is going to $5000 a share anytime soon. But there are startups and early stage companies where 10x appreciation over several years is a reasonable possibility. Their challenge now is to keep people from walking away to those opportunities.
Welcome to the new USA, where "rights" are things that the government and corporations have.
There are "3rd World countries" that actually have healthcare that is more widely available to their populations than is the case in the US - granted, not everyone is getting Mayo Clinic level care, but they can get vaccines, antibiotics, etc. Public services, yeah, not much and not very good, but if you are living outside a city you don't need many of them anyway. (I speak from some experience living in such places).
Agree. Plus there is the issue of how much time you need to get proficient. There is almost no way taking a CS class and doing a few assignments will give you enough practice to be really fluent in any computer language. It will get you semi-competent at best and you'll be a danger if let loose on a real-world project. But if you spend some extra time outside of class coding something you care about you may have a chance at proficiency. It is like the difference between someone who's going to a guitar lesson once a week vs. the guy who has has own band (however bad) and is spending all his spare time on it. Which is not to say some book knowledge and assistance won't help but practice is a big part of it, in my experience.
Agreed it's depressing but it is still possible to obtain interesting and useful items for amateur chemistry use from e-Bay and other sources. Unfortunately they are cracking down rather hard on amateur rocketry, though. A very large rocket club in the Bay Area just lost the use of their launching site - local authorities got too nervous.
Uh, Larry has publicly said it wouldn't make sense to buy Red Hat, because they don't own any IP. Why pay billions for a software base that you can take and fork for free?
Right, it was never legal.
Sarbannes-Oxley requires company officers to personally vouch for the accuracy of financial statements. This has caused companies to put in much more stringent internal controls so that they can ensure accurate reporting. But this doesn't mean filing inaccurate reports was allowed, previously. Nor was back-dating option grants.
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> the designers decided to throw everything and the kitchen sink in there
You mean, like a JIT compiler? The one thing that makes Java perform acceptably well, and is necessarily system dependent? Or maybe the Java libraries, without which the language is useless, and which also necessarily have system dependent parts..
The JVM is not just an application - it is a mediator between the OS and the virtualized API Java apps see, so the bottom layers have to be ported and cannot be generic.
There is a strange statement in the article where he talks about have a choice between being treated as a "pet" and being "conspicuous" .. I had to read this a few times but finally I took it to mean that if he accepts the medal he becomes a public figure and he then figures he can't be silent on the controversy. If he just stays home he can stay a "pet" (i.e. other people can treat him as some kind of eccentric nutter, which apparently doesn't bother him at all) and be silent. So in brief it seems fundamentally he just doesn't care what other people think about him, but he doesn't like controversy.
Yeah, so I'd like see legislation that makes careless custodians of your information, like Chase, pick up the bill for all your lost money, time, etc. up to some fairly large limit, like $10K per credit card. I bet we'd see a lot more encryption and a lot fewer stolen laptops, dumped tapes, hacked websites, etc. Could still happen but they are bound to be more careful when it is not just their reputation but hard dollars also at risk.