Even more to the point, if the interest Apple was paying on the debt was lower than the return they could make investing the $300M, then (everything else being equal), this wasn't the best use of their cash.
A good point, except for the fact that the debt was in the form of bonds that came due this month. They didn't have any choice but to pay them off.
Maybe your co-worker used the so-called faults of the mechanics of the game to justify his finally quitting. He finally convinced himself he had a reason to quit. Then you went and undermined his rationale and now he's gonna go right back to his habit. Nice going.:P
If you had RTFA, you would realize that the 9000 were collected by Hotmail's "spam traps", created for the sole purpose of collecting spam. Further, these 9000 were all part of the same campaign with fraudulent headers. The 9000 represent only a fraction of e-mail sent to Hotmail addresses as part of the campaign, but since the spam trap addresses could never have legitimately opted in, they are the smoking gun in the lawsuit against 'Snotty'.
I had a consulting gig in Newark once. A bunch of the big hosting companies bought space in a dump of a warehouse downtown (cheap real estate). Picture a freight elevator up 8 floors of filth then suddenly walking into a NOC with millions of dollars of equipment.
Anyway, we were brave enough to venture out for lunch, and we encountered three separate wig shops IN A SINGLE BLOCK! What kind of city has an economy that supports that!?!?!
his charitable foundation focuses on much more important things (clean water, medicine, etc.) for the Third World than internet access and free computers
Altruism, hah! He's taking care of the base subsistence level so that the Third World is free to spend its money on Microsoft products. Why would he give THOSE away for free!?!!
A&M / Geffen / Interscope / Universal / Island / Def Jam / MCA / Mercury / Polydor / Polygram
All owned by Vivendi (V) on NYSE. This is a French company, and probably held largely by Europeans (it is listed on many exchanges).
Arista / BMG / RCA
Owned by Bertelsmann AG. This German company is not traded on any American markets, so is probably not widely held by Americans.
Atlantic / Elektra / Warner Bros.
Part of the AOL/TW mega-conglomerate (AOL). Many U.S. investors, and unhappy ones at that.
Bad Boy
Puffy's label. Not publicly traded.
EMI / Capitol / Chrysalis / Virgin
I believe EMI is a British company. I could not find a listing on any North American Exchanges.
Columbia / Epic / Legacy / Sony
Ah, Sony (SNE). Fingers in so many pies. Most notably, Mariah Carey. Double-entendre intended.
Death Row. 2Pac (R.I.P.?) and a few others. Not public.
DreamWorks. Not public. But you could say that at least three Americans hold stock in this company (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen).
You would have to do your own research to come up with some hard figures, but in the list of Big Names, it seems that the RIAA is protecting mostly the interests of some privately held companies and foreign shareholders. Fairly scary stuff.
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So what exactly is the difference between an Enterprise and a Business?
In the original GTA for PC, the three cities were Liberty City, San Andreas (probably 'frisco, because of all the hills), and Vice City in that order. Not sure why they are skipping straight to Vice City - probably because of plot issues.
IMO, the original GTA had much more creative missions than GTA3, though the graphics and play control were a lot worse. I just stumbled on the missions with the Bitch 'n Dog food owner (GTA3) last night and they are AWFUL! Go pick up someone in a car, bring them back in the car, destroy the car. 4 separate missions, all the same!
I love the GTA3 engine - if they can bring back the writers from the first GTA series, they will have themselves a kickass game on their hands.
I think it's much more plausible that humans have adjusted their opinion of what an 'urgent' meow and a 'contented' meow are, rather than the cats adjusting to our 'language'. We observe a contented cat and the associated meow and we learn to recognize the difference. Which do you think is more likely? Cats have evolved a language to speak to humans, or humans have learned to recognize cats' language?
Comparisons to feral cats in zoos, let alone the wild makes no sense. It might make more sense to raise a feral cat in one's house from kittenhood and see if it made the same language adjustments. I very much doubt that the language is herditary.
Hey, I thought I was paying my subscription fee so I didn't have to see ads. How come I'm seeing ads for MATLAB now? Did I use up my 1000 pages already?
I think this attitude is very common among employers these days, but they are soon due for a wakeup call.
Much of the problem over the last 8 months was a kneejerk lockup on IT spending due to Sept. 11th and the associated hit on the economy. So there is a TON of money just waiting to be spent on IT again. A certain degree of "you're lucky you have a job" was to be expected in an economic slump, but now employers are starting to push things a little too far.
I see the IT economy really starting to pick up and soon employers will find that bullying their employees will result in their not having any good people left. I suggest you take a look at what's out there now. Don't just take your boss's word for it.
I know you're just clowning, but the binary is a tool uploaded to a honeynet server right after it was compromised and then executed on that machine.
The goal of this contest is for the security community to examine tools that are "in the wild" and forensically analyse them to determine origin, function, skill of the creator, etc. and present the forensic methods used. The community can benefit from this open sharing of methodology so we can all be aware of our opponents in the ring.
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but i thought apple was dying?
They're just trying to make sure their relatives don't have anything to pay off after they're gone.
Even more to the point, if the interest Apple was paying on the debt was lower than the return they could make investing the $300M, then (everything else being equal), this wasn't the best use of their cash.
A good point, except for the fact that the debt was in the form of bonds that came due this month. They didn't have any choice but to pay them off.
It's currently aliased to http://www.booble.com.
Maybe your co-worker used the so-called faults of the mechanics of the game to justify his finally quitting. He finally convinced himself he had a reason to quit. Then you went and undermined his rationale and now he's gonna go right back to his habit. Nice going. :P
How come Homer and Krusty look like clones?
Wow, your sig is perfectly on-topic!
Anyone know...if they sell old rovers anywhere, like on ebay or something?
Sure, I'll sell you one. Buyer pays shipping...
Those odds drop to nearly 0% when the security officers are wearing red.
If you had RTFA, you would realize that the 9000 were collected by Hotmail's "spam traps", created for the sole purpose of collecting spam. Further, these 9000 were all part of the same campaign with fraudulent headers. The 9000 represent only a fraction of e-mail sent to Hotmail addresses as part of the campaign, but since the spam trap addresses could never have legitimately opted in, they are the smoking gun in the lawsuit against 'Snotty'.
Yes, it would be very INTERESTING if SCO wrote it, wouldn't it?
I had a consulting gig in Newark once. A bunch of the big hosting companies bought space in a dump of a warehouse downtown (cheap real estate). Picture a freight elevator up 8 floors of filth then suddenly walking into a NOC with millions of dollars of equipment.
Anyway, we were brave enough to venture out for lunch, and we encountered three separate wig shops IN A SINGLE BLOCK! What kind of city has an economy that supports that!?!?!
his charitable foundation focuses on much more important things (clean water, medicine, etc.) for the Third World than internet access and free computers
Altruism, hah! He's taking care of the base subsistence level so that the Third World is free to spend its money on Microsoft products. Why would he give THOSE away for free!?!!
Don't worry. The rest of us still have plenty of uses for your wife...
Well, scanning the list of members yields:
A&M / Geffen / Interscope / Universal / Island / Def Jam / MCA / Mercury / Polydor / Polygram
All owned by Vivendi (V) on NYSE. This is a French company, and probably held largely by Europeans (it is listed on many exchanges).
Arista / BMG / RCA
Owned by Bertelsmann AG. This German company is not traded on any American markets, so is probably not widely held by Americans.
Atlantic / Elektra / Warner Bros.
Part of the AOL/TW mega-conglomerate (AOL). Many U.S. investors, and unhappy ones at that.
Bad Boy
Puffy's label. Not publicly traded.
EMI / Capitol / Chrysalis / Virgin
I believe EMI is a British company. I could not find a listing on any North American Exchanges.
Columbia / Epic / Legacy / Sony
Ah, Sony (SNE). Fingers in so many pies. Most notably, Mariah Carey. Double-entendre intended.
Death Row. 2Pac (R.I.P.?) and a few others. Not public.
DreamWorks. Not public. But you could say that at least three Americans hold stock in this company (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen).
You would have to do your own research to come up with some hard figures, but in the list of Big Names, it seems that the RIAA is protecting mostly the interests of some privately held companies and foreign shareholders. Fairly scary stuff.
So what exactly is the difference between an Enterprise and a Business?
Size.
Xbox is going to be the world's telephone/watercooler/flirtation device. Your sister will buy one.
If your sister buys one, I'll buy one...
In the original GTA for PC, the three cities were Liberty City, San Andreas (probably 'frisco, because of all the hills), and Vice City in that order. Not sure why they are skipping straight to Vice City - probably because of plot issues.
IMO, the original GTA had much more creative missions than GTA3, though the graphics and play control were a lot worse. I just stumbled on the missions with the Bitch 'n Dog food owner (GTA3) last night and they are AWFUL! Go pick up someone in a car, bring them back in the car, destroy the car. 4 separate missions, all the same!
I love the GTA3 engine - if they can bring back the writers from the first GTA series, they will have themselves a kickass game on their hands.
I think it's much more plausible that humans have adjusted their opinion of what an 'urgent' meow and a 'contented' meow are, rather than the cats adjusting to our 'language'. We observe a contented cat and the associated meow and we learn to recognize the difference. Which do you think is more likely? Cats have evolved a language to speak to humans, or humans have learned to recognize cats' language?
Comparisons to feral cats in zoos, let alone the wild makes no sense. It might make more sense to raise a feral cat in one's house from kittenhood and see if it made the same language adjustments. I very much doubt that the language is herditary.
...they will just do a rocket jump.
I thought that might go over most /. heads. But it was worth a shot. His half-hour interview this week cracked me up.
I feel bad for the "mirror" site you just provided. On the page:
PLEASE NOTE: A mirror of this page is also available with better bandwidth courtesy of Al Iverson at spamresource.com.
As a side note, I didn't realize Iverson was such a big anti-spam proponent. That must be what is keeping him from going to practice.
I noticed this story on CNN.com this morning. Not sure what type of software is in question here, but this study could be relevant...
It's funny. Laugh.
Hey, I thought I was paying my subscription fee so I didn't have to see ads. How come I'm seeing ads for MATLAB now? Did I use up my 1000 pages already?
I got a sorority's internal address and phone book in this fashion (off the Gnutella network). Too bad I don't live in Tennessee...
I think this attitude is very common among employers these days, but they are soon due for a wakeup call.
Much of the problem over the last 8 months was a kneejerk lockup on IT spending due to Sept. 11th and the associated hit on the economy. So there is a TON of money just waiting to be spent on IT again. A certain degree of "you're lucky you have a job" was to be expected in an economic slump, but now employers are starting to push things a little too far.
I see the IT economy really starting to pick up and soon employers will find that bullying their employees will result in their not having any good people left. I suggest you take a look at what's out there now. Don't just take your boss's word for it.
I know you're just clowning, but the binary is a tool uploaded to a honeynet server right after it was compromised and then executed on that machine.
The goal of this contest is for the security community to examine tools that are "in the wild" and forensically analyse them to determine origin, function, skill of the creator, etc. and present the forensic methods used. The community can benefit from this open sharing of methodology so we can all be aware of our opponents in the ring.