From what I understand real shredding program write a series of bit patterns, because of disk encoding schemes, just writing #00, #FF a couple times doesn't guarentee that all of the bits on the physical media get flipped enough, well for military/government grade shredding anyways.
if you were a millionaire that tax break was hundreds of thousands of dollars That doesn't even make sense most mere millionares don't even gross a $100K a year, it's not uncommon that finally paying off your mortgage makes you a millionaire. Even if you meant millionaire to mean grossing a $1M or more annually a $100K tax break means your taxes went down an insane amount. Actually you sound like a guy I was talking to at the diner counter; he was gloating about how Carter's tax increase was really sticking it to the fatcats making over $70K a year. I asked him how much he made and told me about $45K, then he told me his wife made about $30K. That's when I broke the news to him that it was household income and his family was one of the fatcats getting it stuck to. Of course he didn't believe me, all I could tell him was do the math.
Less than 5% of the nations population control more than 80% of the wealth. And that's not going to change much because we primarily tax income not assets, even if you move the top tax bracket to 100%, it will take Bill Gates a while to burn through 11 billion dollars! The only people I know of that have successfully redistributed that amounts of wealth that you are talking about were Joe Stalin and Adolf Hitler and they had to kill over 30 million people to do it and the redistribution realy didn't last that long.
So depending on how loosely you define "centralized autocratic government", "dictatorial leader" and "forcible suppression of opposition" that would describe France; some how I bet the French would object. The truth is that the Communists on the left, and Fascists on the right aren't on opposite side of a political spectrum but rather beside each other, and hate each other because neither likes political competition.
I suppose there are also content providers using protcols like BGP, the utility of a high QOS connect to a limited set of services might by reduced if if meant that Google, Yahoo, Ebay ect. got throttled to those fat pipes.
While back I was reading about a company that was within 100 feet of being able to provide anybody in Manhattan with a OC768, that would be like having an internet backbone to your front door! The main difference between a lambda and 255 lamdas on a fiber is what you connect to each end and a few repeaters in the middle.
No he flamebaited them pure and simple, now he will duck out of the way and all the monkey boys will want to start throwing turds at each other; but before they can do that, they are going to have to pull their heads out of their asses before they can reach any good turds! Gnome has been making a lot of "useability" changes that a lot of us feel are counter productive. Linux needs a heavy weight desktop with all the bells and whistles, KDE is very good there, a light weight desktop and there are several good one for this fringe element, and it needs a mid-weight desktop and this is where gnome belongs. Unfortunatly when gnome changes, a lot of applications get dragged along kicking and screaming, that is one of the reasons that cinepaint is converting from GTK to FLTK, wouldn't it be ironic if Gimp decided to follow suit?
This is a case of politicians legislating something they dont understand. When has that ever stopped them before? I've talked to one of my state legislators at length, I was actualy driving him arround in a jeep and we were talking about legislation he sponsored for POW license plates on cars so I asked him "Germans are our allies now but were our enemies not too long ago, so would a German Soldier held as a POW by the American government be eligable, or a Russian Soldier was our allies in WW II but are our "enemies" now (this was back in the cold war days), does he get one?" He had never thought about it that deeply, but was a sincere and intelegent person. The reality is that our legeslators have been way over their heads for a long time and have relied on experts to help them with legislation and far to many times the foxes have been guarding the hen houses; we are actualy lucky that the foxes have been pretty honorable for foxes, things could easily be much worse.
just tell them the truth, 1. OpenOffice is free software, you can just download it or you can buy it on a CD to install for about $14.00 2. Anybody that can use Ms Office can use OO, OO does look a little and is organised little bit different, so people who just memorized click sequences might have a little learning curve, people who actualy learn MS Office have little dificulty. 3. People who learn OpenOffice, and MS Office are better in MS Office than people who only know MS Office are. 4. OO can output PDFs which most people can't modify 5. OO doesn't force you to pay for upgrades every two years or so.
OBTW if you want great looking documents, don't use a word-processor use a desktop publishing program, right tool for the right job
There is a big difference is somebody pushing the envelope realy hard to see when something hits the wall and saying something doesn't scale well. If what you're looking for is a magic-bullet to cure world hunger and global warming AJAX is going to fall short, but if you're looking for is to offer a user sane choises in a drop-down, AJAX is probably a good bet.
Elemental mercury is actualy pretty safe, organo-mercurial compounds are the toxic ones. Of course the popular press has made mercury an emotional issue like nuclear power.
I completely agree on a emotive level, but there are 3rd parties often sharing the same pipe. Baiting phishers is already considered sport by some people and this might become very popular. The other thing is if they are unquestionably illegal and completely inaccessable in a server in North Korea or China, and I'm questionably illegal and completely accessable in Michigan, who is going to worry more about the prosecuter just before an election year after the news paper decides internet "crime" is the latest fad news? This sueing Google is becoming quite a fad after all.
Granted someone could write a script to request a page 3 times with ie, firefox and opera a simple Perl script could do it, and tell the server that it's any browser you wanted, even all of them, even make up random browser IDs. I've often thought about writing one to send fake data to phishing sites, send them a bogus ID and CC info say every 15 seconds, but alas I suspect it would be satisfing fantasy but technically an illegal DDOS attack.
Google could really fark their daily by simpley saying" our records show that the entire IP-4 has clicked your add at least once so your ads for new customers would be shown until IP-6 come on-line."
Imagine a guy being paid to hand out leaflets in the street... suppose some other guy keeps walking back and forth taking a leaflet - is that the fault of the leaflet guy? As likely it's a guy wearing a gorrila suit, the leaflet distributor knows that different people change into and out of the suit on a regular basis, so he knows that sometimes the gorilla suit contains the same person, and sometimes its different, he doesn't know which because all he can see is the suit. That's why recording IP addresses don't make a lot of sense they are frequently reasigned, cookie tracking makes more sense but again people frequently delete them, particulary Europeans, as does a lot of anti-spyware programs. The real answer is if you have a clue about internet advertising, you know that non-unique clicks are a cost of doing business and plan acordingly; for an ISP not to know this is curious.
My understanding is that it's not about pedophilia, but rather that Muslims find out of wedlock birth so reprehensible and stigmatic that families often arranged marriges for girls long before they reach child-bearring age to avoid it. This practice is depreciated in modern Islamic society, but still practiced in some of the more backwrd fundementalist societies. Western surgeons make annual trips to some backward Islamic countries to perform surgeries to repair damage caused by barring children by childern.
Most likely none of it is in the Koran, just like most of Christianity is not in the Bible.
but Dan Quale still invented the internet right? No we have to agree the RMS is one of the noisiest and most visible to the unwashed masses; rather like Firefox and OpenOffice. Perhaps we should promote these projects as corporate open source projects rahter than the more commonly percieved community open source projects.
Obviously you have little insight into the military operations, there are always two aspects to it the offensive and the defense and these two aspects are not exclusive but inclusive. If the Air Force did not have the technical ability to defend its networks, and in some cases respond in kind ther would be little to prevent a determined enemy from inserting counterfitted targeting and launch commands, at that point the world would depend on the judgement of one or two persons to push the button or turn the keys to release the weapons under their control.
The Air Force has been doing the heavey lifting in this area for some time now even if it wasn't on their official misson statement.
Just pay some clown to sue you for patent infringement, stop making it and say no comment due to pending litigation; or just stop making it without comment. Hygenic just quit making Novus, denture soft lining material no reason given. I did notice that some patient's liners had a bizare coating of what appeared to be mucus and calculus that I assumed to be due to alergey issues, then they just quit making it. The rumors that one of the suppliers went out of business that did circulate, were bogus because this was the same material that they used in the space shuttle's SRB orings.
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The data was about events that occured after the study, so while Merck was technically correct to delete the data, there is an air of amorality about it. Dr. Claire Bombardier's, and the University of Toronto's reputations are going to be severly tarnished by this incident. Now because people have presumably died or have been physically injured because of the ommission of the data it isn't a streach to imagine neglegent homicide and criminal conspiracy to be looked at by prosecuters. Even if Merck had final edit rights on the paper and a NDA, I'm sure that Bombardier is going to wish she had written a letter to the editor about the data occuring after the study ended. The, they the article refers to is Merck/Bombardier, not the peer reviewers. There is no way for the peer reviewers to have known that pertainent data was withheld, the NEJM seems to be on solid ground here. This is a Good reason to use LaTeX!
As I understand it Canadian law sets up a tax on recordable media, to compensate lables for copying, and that file sharing is mostly legal in Canada. From those premises, isn't distributing DRMed CDs inside Canada at best "bad form" and at worst tax fraud? I guess somewhere in the middle might be consumer fraud, a Canadian has paid for the right to distribute, but the company failed to provide an unencumbered distributable media. Of course I'm just a dumb yank wondering about Canadian law so the whole thought might be whacked.
Not the same thing at all, it's much more reasonable that Dad, secures his CC from unauthorised use as a matter of routine. I'd also argue that it is reasonable for kids to have access to music CD and to play them in the computer while doing homework. I'm not sure that this crapware is any different than what a hacker would be doing; seems a company with sony's resources should know exactly what they are installing on a hapless user's computers. If there are security "vulnerablities" in the crapware, is it an accident or is it a backdoor? I just don't see the crapware as being different than any other trojan building a bot net; definately jail time.
That was probably the underlying stratagy, DRM some obscure artists, wait and see what happens and slowly move toward more popular groups. When the shit hits the fan they can play dumb and say why all of the excitement now we've been doing this for years and nobody cared. This way they've turned an intrusion into an easement, to stop it people will have to argue against the status quo. If anything they were more surprised by how quick the out-cry occured and how mainstream it extended, I guess that taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook like embrace and extend just doesn't work for anyone else.
yeah but Sony Entertainment's CEO, Andrew Lack, realy has his ass in a sling. The movies except for "Hitch" aren't even been grossing enough to cover production costs this year, and he failed to appoint a guy to run the music division when he got promoted from it, electing to run it himself. Now the Germans, the BMG part of SonyBMG, are calling for his firing, for something that nobody is sure about. The spyware/rootkit/computer invasion/GPL copyright violations are just icing on the cake, canning one of these ego-driven people hurts them worse than taking a million out of their comp package. This guy has blown a lot of hard won geek appeal for Sony which will hurt them across many divisions. They always taught us help one person and he tells two people, hurt one person and he tells ten; goodwill is easier to squander than to earn.
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From what I understand real shredding program write a series of bit patterns, because of disk encoding schemes, just writing #00, #FF a couple times doesn't guarentee that all of the bits on the physical media get flipped enough, well for military/government grade shredding anyways.
if you were a millionaire that tax break was hundreds of thousands of dollars
That doesn't even make sense most mere millionares don't even gross a $100K a year, it's not uncommon that finally paying off your mortgage makes you a millionaire. Even if you meant millionaire to mean grossing a $1M or more annually a $100K tax break means your taxes went down an insane amount. Actually you sound like a guy I was talking to at the diner counter; he was gloating about how Carter's tax increase was really sticking it to the fatcats making over $70K a year. I asked him how much he made and told me about $45K, then he told me his wife made about $30K. That's when I broke the news to him that it was household income and his family was one of the fatcats getting it stuck to. Of course he didn't believe me, all I could tell him was do the math.
Less than 5% of the nations population control more than 80% of the wealth.
And that's not going to change much because we primarily tax income not assets, even if you move the top tax bracket to 100%, it will take Bill Gates a while to burn through 11 billion dollars! The only people I know of that have successfully redistributed that amounts of wealth that you are talking about were Joe Stalin and Adolf Hitler and they had to kill over 30 million people to do it and the redistribution realy didn't last that long.
So depending on how loosely you define "centralized autocratic government", "dictatorial leader" and "forcible suppression of opposition" that would describe France; some how I bet the French would object. The truth is that the Communists on the left, and Fascists on the right aren't on opposite side of a political spectrum but rather beside each other, and hate each other because neither likes political competition.
I suppose there are also content providers using protcols like BGP, the utility of a high QOS connect to a limited set of services might by reduced if if meant that Google, Yahoo, Ebay ect. got throttled to those fat pipes.
While back I was reading about a company that was within 100 feet of being able to provide anybody in Manhattan with a OC768, that would be like having an internet backbone to your front door! The main difference between a lambda and 255 lamdas on a fiber is what you connect to each end and a few repeaters in the middle.
Perl isn't that bad and I'm speaking as someone who was trained as a COBOL programmer, if you can't program in Perl, you better forget about C or C+.
No he flamebaited them pure and simple, now he will duck out of the way and all the monkey boys will want to start throwing turds at each other; but before they can do that, they are going to have to pull their heads out of their asses before they can reach any good turds! Gnome has been making a lot of "useability" changes that a lot of us feel are counter productive. Linux needs a heavy weight desktop with all the bells and whistles, KDE is very good there, a light weight desktop and there are several good one for this fringe element, and it needs a mid-weight desktop and this is where gnome belongs. Unfortunatly when gnome changes, a lot of applications get dragged along kicking and screaming, that is one of the reasons that cinepaint is converting from GTK to FLTK, wouldn't it be ironic if Gimp decided to follow suit?
ROTF LOL, i can't believe I mixed up two useless VPs! nice catch
This is a case of politicians legislating something they dont understand.
When has that ever stopped them before? I've talked to one of my state legislators at length, I was actualy driving him arround in a jeep and we were talking about legislation he sponsored for POW license plates on cars so I asked him "Germans are our allies now but were our enemies not too long ago, so would a German Soldier held as a POW by the American government be eligable, or a Russian Soldier was our allies in WW II but are our "enemies" now (this was back in the cold war days), does he get one?" He had never thought about it that deeply, but was a sincere and intelegent person. The reality is that our legeslators have been way over their heads for a long time and have relied on experts to help them with legislation and far to many times the foxes have been guarding the hen houses; we are actualy lucky that the foxes have been pretty honorable for foxes, things could easily be much worse.
just tell them the truth,
1. OpenOffice is free software, you can just download it or you can buy it on a CD to install for about $14.00
2. Anybody that can use Ms Office can use OO, OO does look a little and is organised little bit different, so people who just memorized click sequences might have a little learning curve, people who actualy learn MS Office have little dificulty.
3. People who learn OpenOffice, and MS Office are better in MS Office than people who only know MS Office are.
4. OO can output PDFs which most people can't modify
5. OO doesn't force you to pay for upgrades every two years or so.
OBTW if you want great looking documents, don't use a word-processor use a desktop publishing program, right tool for the right job
There is a big difference is somebody pushing the envelope realy hard to see when something hits the wall and saying something doesn't scale well. If what you're looking for is a magic-bullet to cure world hunger and global warming AJAX is going to fall short, but if you're looking for is to offer a user sane choises in a drop-down, AJAX is probably a good bet.
Elemental mercury is actualy pretty safe, organo-mercurial compounds are the toxic ones. Of course the popular press has made mercury an emotional issue like nuclear power.
I completely agree on a emotive level, but there are 3rd parties often sharing the same pipe. Baiting phishers is already considered sport by some people and this might become very popular. The other thing is if they are unquestionably illegal and completely inaccessable in a server in North Korea or China, and I'm questionably illegal and completely accessable in Michigan, who is going to worry more about the prosecuter just before an election year after the news paper decides internet "crime" is the latest fad news? This sueing Google is becoming quite a fad after all.
Granted someone could write a script to request a page 3 times with ie, firefox and opera
a simple Perl script could do it, and tell the server that it's any browser you wanted, even all of them, even make up random browser IDs. I've often thought about writing one to send fake data to phishing sites, send them a bogus ID and CC info say every 15 seconds, but alas I suspect it would be satisfing fantasy but technically an illegal DDOS attack.
Google could really fark their daily by simpley saying" our records show that the entire IP-4 has clicked your add at least once so your ads for new customers would be shown until IP-6 come on-line."
Imagine a guy being paid to hand out leaflets in the street... suppose some other guy keeps walking back and forth taking a leaflet - is that the fault of the leaflet guy?
As likely it's a guy wearing a gorrila suit, the leaflet distributor knows that different people change into and out of the suit on a regular basis, so he knows that sometimes the gorilla suit contains the same person, and sometimes its different, he doesn't know which because all he can see is the suit. That's why recording IP addresses don't make a lot of sense they are frequently reasigned, cookie tracking makes more sense but again people frequently delete them, particulary Europeans, as does a lot of anti-spyware programs. The real answer is if you have a clue about internet advertising, you know that non-unique clicks are a cost of doing business and plan acordingly; for an ISP not to know this is curious.
My understanding is that it's not about pedophilia, but rather that Muslims find out of wedlock birth so reprehensible and stigmatic that families often arranged marriges for girls long before they reach child-bearring age to avoid it. This practice is depreciated in modern Islamic society, but still practiced in some of the more backwrd fundementalist societies. Western surgeons make annual trips to some backward Islamic countries to perform surgeries to repair damage caused by barring children by childern.
Most likely none of it is in the Koran, just like most of Christianity is not in the Bible.
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but Dan Quale still invented the internet right?
No we have to agree the RMS is one of the noisiest and most visible to the unwashed masses; rather like Firefox and OpenOffice. Perhaps we should promote these projects as corporate open source projects rahter than the more commonly percieved community open source projects.
dropping spaces that are the last character in a line isn't a bug; it's compression :)
Obviously you have little insight into the military operations, there are always two aspects to it the offensive and the defense and these two aspects are not exclusive but inclusive. If the Air Force did not have the technical ability to defend its networks, and in some cases respond in kind ther would be little to prevent a determined enemy from inserting counterfitted targeting and launch commands, at that point the world would depend on the judgement of one or two persons to push the button or turn the keys to release the weapons under their control.
The Air Force has been doing the heavey lifting in this area for some time now even if it wasn't on their official misson statement.
Just pay some clown to sue you for patent infringement, stop making it and say no comment due to pending litigation; or just stop making it without comment. Hygenic just quit making Novus, denture soft lining material no reason given. I did notice that some patient's liners had a bizare coating of what appeared to be mucus and calculus that I assumed to be due to alergey issues, then they just quit making it. The rumors that one of the suppliers went out of business that did circulate, were bogus because this was the same material that they used in the space shuttle's SRB orings.
The data was about events that occured after the study, so while Merck was technically correct to delete the data, there is an air of amorality about it. Dr. Claire Bombardier's, and the University of Toronto's reputations are going to be severly tarnished by this incident. Now because people have presumably died or have been physically injured because of the ommission of the data it isn't a streach to imagine neglegent homicide and criminal conspiracy to be looked at by prosecuters. Even if Merck had final edit rights on the paper and a NDA, I'm sure that Bombardier is going to wish she had written a letter to the editor about the data occuring after the study ended. The, they the article refers to is Merck/Bombardier, not the peer reviewers. There is no way for the peer reviewers to have known that pertainent data was withheld, the NEJM seems to be on solid ground here. This is a Good reason to use LaTeX!
As I understand it Canadian law sets up a tax on recordable media, to compensate lables for copying, and that file sharing is mostly legal in Canada. From those premises, isn't distributing DRMed CDs inside Canada at best "bad form" and at worst tax fraud? I guess somewhere in the middle might be consumer fraud, a Canadian has paid for the right to distribute, but the company failed to provide an unencumbered distributable media. Of course I'm just a dumb yank wondering about Canadian law so the whole thought might be whacked.
Not the same thing at all, it's much more reasonable that Dad, secures his CC from unauthorised use as a matter of routine. I'd also argue that it is reasonable for kids to have access to music CD and to play them in the computer while doing homework. I'm not sure that this crapware is any different than what a hacker would be doing; seems a company with sony's resources should know exactly what they are installing on a hapless user's computers. If there are security "vulnerablities" in the crapware, is it an accident or is it a backdoor? I just don't see the crapware as being different than any other trojan building a bot net; definately jail time.
That was probably the underlying stratagy, DRM some obscure artists, wait and see what happens and slowly move toward more popular groups. When the shit hits the fan they can play dumb and say why all of the excitement now we've been doing this for years and nobody cared. This way they've turned an intrusion into an easement, to stop it people will have to argue against the status quo. If anything they were more surprised by how quick the out-cry occured and how mainstream it extended, I guess that taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook like embrace and extend just doesn't work for anyone else.
yeah but Sony Entertainment's CEO, Andrew Lack, realy has his ass in a sling. The movies except for "Hitch" aren't even been grossing enough to cover production costs this year, and he failed to appoint a guy to run the music division when he got promoted from it, electing to run it himself. Now the Germans, the BMG part of SonyBMG, are calling for his firing, for something that nobody is sure about. The spyware/rootkit/computer invasion/GPL copyright violations are just icing on the cake, canning one of these ego-driven people hurts them worse than taking a million out of their comp package. This guy has blown a lot of hard won geek appeal for Sony which will hurt them across many divisions. They always taught us help one person and he tells two people, hurt one person and he tells ten; goodwill is easier to squander than to earn.