Weird, I've never seen that using Netflix on a 16Mb Comcast or 50Mb RCN line using either a PS3 or WDTV Live. It's probably a problem with your ISP or player.
My current team is very good about providing positive criticism and admitting when our code sucks. We are all in it for the same reason, to produce a great product and make money, but last year was a different story. We had a guy who would never, ever take responsibility for bugs in his code and would openly criticize others because it wasn't done the way he would do it. No matter what your reasoning was, you were wrong, he was right. Period. He could have been a good developer had he actually taken input from the team.
These guys HAVE to go! They will bring down the morale and productivity of the entire team.
Knowing that your work will be negatively criticized obstructs the creative flow needed to produce quality code efficiently. I've personally lost hours either being upset or second-guessing my work because of unfair criticisms. Just replacing that one guy has made a world of difference. We are now very direct with each other, accept that we make mistakes, and can even jokingly say "What the fuck were you thinking on FooBar.java:152!" and no one will take offense.
Explain to him why his behavior is unacceptable, and if it doesn't change, let him go.
...if they first claim it was being taken in as evidence, then later they *deleted* the file--doesn't that constitute destruction of evidence (the source recording) on the police department's part?
Yes, it is absolutely destruction of evidence, but good luck finding prosecutor willing to press charges. Judges, prosecutors and cops all feel like they are on the same team, and they are not going to fight against one another.
Chelsea Improvement already had decent free wifi in parks. I've hung out at 14th St with my laptop a couple of times and the internet was respectably fast. I really wish they'd run it further south down the Hudson River Park so I didn't have to walk so far.
Below 14th St is West Village/Meatpacking. Just as hipster, but not Chelsea.
No, no, no. It's only redistribution if you lower middle-class taxes and raise upper-class taxes! Doing the opposite is called capitalism!
You are correct. If anything, Obama has done more to undo the Reagan-era tax changes that substantially redistributed money from the middle class to the upper-class.
Because the troll produces absolutely nothing that they can be sued in retaliation for. A large corporation ostensibly creates products in which they can be sued for patent violations on as well, creating the situation of mutually-assured-destruction that we have in the mobile sector now. You will become a target if you get too aggressive.
Patent trolls are just scumbag lawyers who produce nothing, provide no benefit to society and accept no risk other than the time they spend arguing in court.
Think of all the time (money) a company will need to spend to figure out the best place to set up a mine on an asteroid in order to extract enough material to make it worthwhile. Why would they go through those efforts when a competitor can just wait for them to do that, then setup a new mine right next to it? The competitor can then undercut the original company's profits immensely as they have no R&D expenses to pay.
That's what I see happening with the public domain option you speak of, and it is one extreme. The other is allowing anyone to "stake their claim", which won't work as the first company with enough money will just pop around to every asteroid staking it for themselves and wait for someone to actually want to use one of them, then charge them ridiculous rents... Kind of like patent trolls, or the domain registry.
There needs to be something in between these extremes, like "stake your claim, but if you don't actively use it within 5 years, you lose it". Or, "stake your claim, but you must rent it for a reasonable rate".
I'll probably get modded down by the free-market fundamentalists, but there needs to be some sort of regulation to ensure that technical advancement can happen while allowing profit and competition. That's what makes a healthy capitalist economy.
Back when there were a number of competing ISPs in CO, the incumbent telco (Qwest) were required to give last-mile access to any ISP that could connect to its ATM network. The problem was that Qwest charged $30/month for average-speed internet access, but charged $25 for last-mile access, giving the competitor a measly $5/mo/subscriber for the "expensive" traffic, i.e. the stuff going out to the internet. That pretty much killed any competition from other ISPs.
So no, the the line really is the most expensive part for telco competitors.
Any amount of security gained here is completely negated if they fall back to a plaintext connection and send your credentials over the wire.
And no, the MITM doesn't need to do anything at all with certificates. If he is in a spot on the network where he could possibly perform a MITM attack, he just needs to sniff out the traffic as Google happily falls back to a non-encrypted connection and fires off your password in plaintext or a with a weak digest.
The proper solution would be to allow the user to manage their trusted certificates, or as a more user-friendly option, cache the signing cert the first time they connect and warn if the server cert changes.
Laughing stock.. You said they couldn't remove IE, while they just wanted to remove the icon from the desktop, or even place it below the other online services. In fact (if you actually decided to read the thing and not come off looking like a complete tool):
Microsoft's restrictions succeeded in raising the costs to OEMs of pre-installing and promoting Navigator. These increased costs, in turn, were in some cases significant enough to deter OEMs from pre-installing Navigator altogether. In other cases, as is discussed in the next section, OEMs decided not to pre-install Navigator after Microsoft brought still more pressure to bear.
and
233. When Compaq eventually agreed to restore the MSN and Internet Explorer icons and program entries to the Presario desktop, it did so because its senior executives had decided that the firm needed to do what was necessary to restore its special relationship with Microsoft. On May 13, 1996, Compaq signed an addendum extending the firms' Frontline Partnership to the realm of network-related products. Pursuant to the addendum, Compaq agreed to ship Internet Explorer as the default browser product on all of its desktop and server systems, to adopt and promote Internet Explorer internally, and to focus the majority of Compaq's key network- oriented announcements and marketing activities on Microsoft's technologies and strategy. In September of the same year, Compaq agreed to offer Internet Explorer as the preferred browser product for its Internet products and to use two or more of Microsoft's hypertext markup language ("HTML") extensions in the home page for each of those products. Then in February 1997, Compaq committed itself to promote Internet Explorer exclusively for its PC products in exchange for Microsoft's agreement to pay Compaq a bounty for each user that signed up for Internet access using a Compaq PC. Despite the view of some within Compaq that the firm's goal should be "to feature the brand leader Netscape," Compaq elected not to resume the pre- installation of Navigator on its Presario PCs after it removed the joint Spry/Navigator icon. In fact, Compaq stopped pre-installing Navigator on all but very small percentage of its PCs.
234. In return for Compaq's capitulation and revival of its commitment to support Microsoft's Internet strategy, Microsoft has guaranteed Compaq that the prices it pays for Windows will continue to be significantly lower than the prices paid by other OEMs. Specifically, the operating system licenses signed by Compaq and Microsoft in March 1998 gave Compaq "[g]uaranteed better" pricing than any other OEM for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT Workstation (versions 4 and 5) until April 2000. Compaq's license fee for Windows is so low that other OEMs would still pay substantially more than Compaq even if they qualified for all of the royalty reductions listed in Microsoft's Market Development Agreements ("MDAs"). What is more, while Microsoft requires other OEMs to verify actual compliance with particular milestones in order to receive Windows 98 royalty reductions, Microsoft has secretly agreed to provide the full amount of those discounts to Compaq regardless of whether it actually satisfies the specified conditions. In addition to a guaranteed most-favorable price on Windows, Compaq has enjoyed free internal use of all Windows products for PCs since March 1998.
Demonstrably? Please demonstrate then. SOPA was a Republican-backed initiative.
You'll never see a Dem kicked knocked down as badly as this, because the progressive nature of the party allows for open discourse and dissenting ideas. The Republicans don't like any talk outside the party lines. Have you noticed that pretty much every bill consists of 100% of Republicans voting the exact same way?
There were TONS of things they did to violate antitrust laws with regards to IE, including coercing ISPs to make their websites IE-only by including ActiveX components on the front page and using FrontPage extensions which would create non-standards-compliant HTML and only render correctly on IE.
Is it even possible for a Republican to provide any facts to support their argument? It is all just emotion-triggering lies that can only influence someone with a 3rd grade education. Please, for the love of god, if you have something to say, post some fucking facts!!!
Your comment proves that your signature is completely insane.
I think Ron Paul's social policies would completely drive away the young, tech-savvy crowd. He's part of the anti-gay, anti-immigrant, pro-life, global-warming-is-good, Christian, right-wing propaganda machine known as the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
If you don't see it, then either you're blind, or you choose to get your information from unreliable sources. FACT: The deficit and unemployment rate have gone down steadily since Obama took office, except for minor bumps.
So yes, there is good reason to bash Romney... He wanted to reinstate the same Bush policies which put our country into this mess to begin with.
You are (possibly intentionally) conflating debt and deficit. The deficit was about $1.4 trillion when Bush left office, part of this was combined Bush and Obama budgets, but that is aside from my point that if you push that out over 4 years you get the $5 trillion debt number, which you were comparing to the $1 trillion deficit.
What is important, however, is that the deficit has steadily dropped over the last 4 years to around $900 billion, so while Bush consistently increased the deficit every year he was in office, Obama has consistently decreased it. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html
Bad you for personally? Really? I got a check in the mail from my insurance provider because they charged too much under the rules of "Obamacare". That certainly helped me, and will most likely help the rest of the nation, including you. Other than flatlining the previous 8 years of deficit increase, he hasn't been able to do much since the republicans will never. ever. ever. vote for any bill with a (D) on it.
So, as other people have asked: Why don't you give some examples of how he's been just awful for our country? Until then, I will just assume you are another mindless R-tard who votes with his gut rather than through critical thought and analysis.
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The State Government, on the other hand is debating on how to spend surplus money or just save for the next session.
You must mean the extra state tax income Austin so nicely generated for the rest of the worthless state.
How do you figure that much of the national deficit is due to California? They pay more to the feds than they take in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_spending_and_taxation_across_states
Oh how I love right-wing lies... Thanks to Obamacare, United Healthcare gave out refunds to members last year and dropped premiums.
But you certainly wouldn't want to use facts to support your propaganda party, right?
Weird, I've never seen that using Netflix on a 16Mb Comcast or 50Mb RCN line using either a PS3 or WDTV Live. It's probably a problem with your ISP or player.
https://vernonryoung.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/banning-assholes/
My current team is very good about providing positive criticism and admitting when our code sucks. We are all in it for the same reason, to produce a great product and make money, but last year was a different story. We had a guy who would never, ever take responsibility for bugs in his code and would openly criticize others because it wasn't done the way he would do it. No matter what your reasoning was, you were wrong, he was right. Period. He could have been a good developer had he actually taken input from the team.
These guys HAVE to go! They will bring down the morale and productivity of the entire team.
Knowing that your work will be negatively criticized obstructs the creative flow needed to produce quality code efficiently. I've personally lost hours either being upset or second-guessing my work because of unfair criticisms. Just replacing that one guy has made a world of difference. We are now very direct with each other, accept that we make mistakes, and can even jokingly say "What the fuck were you thinking on FooBar.java:152!" and no one will take offense.
Explain to him why his behavior is unacceptable, and if it doesn't change, let him go.
...if they first claim it was being taken in as evidence, then later they *deleted* the file--doesn't that constitute destruction of evidence (the source recording) on the police department's part?
Yes, it is absolutely destruction of evidence, but good luck finding prosecutor willing to press charges. Judges, prosecutors and cops all feel like they are on the same team, and they are not going to fight against one another.
Chelsea Improvement already had decent free wifi in parks. I've hung out at 14th St with my laptop a couple of times and the internet was respectably fast. I really wish they'd run it further south down the Hudson River Park so I didn't have to walk so far.
Below 14th St is West Village/Meatpacking. Just as hipster, but not Chelsea.
The preferred unit is furlongs/fortnight you insensitive clod!
No, no, no. It's only redistribution if you lower middle-class taxes and raise upper-class taxes! Doing the opposite is called capitalism!
You are correct. If anything, Obama has done more to undo the Reagan-era tax changes that substantially redistributed money from the middle class to the upper-class.
He probably got a lower IQ score than someone he thought was much less intelligent than himself. Now he's try to disprove the validity of the test.
Because the troll produces absolutely nothing that they can be sued in retaliation for. A large corporation ostensibly creates products in which they can be sued for patent violations on as well, creating the situation of mutually-assured-destruction that we have in the mobile sector now. You will become a target if you get too aggressive.
Patent trolls are just scumbag lawyers who produce nothing, provide no benefit to society and accept no risk other than the time they spend arguing in court.
Think of all the time (money) a company will need to spend to figure out the best place to set up a mine on an asteroid in order to extract enough material to make it worthwhile. Why would they go through those efforts when a competitor can just wait for them to do that, then setup a new mine right next to it? The competitor can then undercut the original company's profits immensely as they have no R&D expenses to pay.
That's what I see happening with the public domain option you speak of, and it is one extreme. The other is allowing anyone to "stake their claim", which won't work as the first company with enough money will just pop around to every asteroid staking it for themselves and wait for someone to actually want to use one of them, then charge them ridiculous rents... Kind of like patent trolls, or the domain registry.
There needs to be something in between these extremes, like "stake your claim, but if you don't actively use it within 5 years, you lose it". Or, "stake your claim, but you must rent it for a reasonable rate".
I'll probably get modded down by the free-market fundamentalists, but there needs to be some sort of regulation to ensure that technical advancement can happen while allowing profit and competition. That's what makes a healthy capitalist economy.
Back when there were a number of competing ISPs in CO, the incumbent telco (Qwest) were required to give last-mile access to any ISP that could connect to its ATM network. The problem was that Qwest charged $30/month for average-speed internet access, but charged $25 for last-mile access, giving the competitor a measly $5/mo/subscriber for the "expensive" traffic, i.e. the stuff going out to the internet. That pretty much killed any competition from other ISPs.
So no, the the line really is the most expensive part for telco competitors.
Any amount of security gained here is completely negated if they fall back to a plaintext connection and send your credentials over the wire.
And no, the MITM doesn't need to do anything at all with certificates. If he is in a spot on the network where he could possibly perform a MITM attack, he just needs to sniff out the traffic as Google happily falls back to a non-encrypted connection and fires off your password in plaintext or a with a weak digest.
The proper solution would be to allow the user to manage their trusted certificates, or as a more user-friendly option, cache the signing cert the first time they connect and warn if the server cert changes.
I'm interested to know what make & model that laptop is.
Laughing stock.. You said they couldn't remove IE, while they just wanted to remove the icon from the desktop, or even place it below the other online services. In fact (if you actually decided to read the thing and not come off looking like a complete tool):
Microsoft's restrictions succeeded in raising the costs to OEMs of pre-installing and promoting Navigator. These increased costs, in turn, were in some cases significant enough to deter OEMs from pre-installing Navigator altogether. In other cases, as is discussed in the next section, OEMs decided not to pre-install Navigator after Microsoft brought still more pressure to bear.
and
233. When Compaq eventually agreed to restore the MSN and Internet Explorer icons and program entries to the Presario desktop, it did so because its senior executives had decided that the firm needed to do what was necessary to restore its special relationship with Microsoft. On May 13, 1996, Compaq signed an addendum extending the firms' Frontline Partnership to the realm of network-related products. Pursuant to the addendum, Compaq agreed to ship Internet Explorer as the default browser product on all of its desktop and server systems, to adopt and promote Internet Explorer internally, and to focus the majority of Compaq's key network- oriented announcements and marketing activities on Microsoft's technologies and strategy. In September of the same year, Compaq agreed to offer Internet Explorer as the preferred browser product for its Internet products and to use two or more of Microsoft's hypertext markup language ("HTML") extensions in the home page for each of those products. Then in February 1997, Compaq committed itself to promote Internet Explorer exclusively for its PC products in exchange for Microsoft's agreement to pay Compaq a bounty for each user that signed up for Internet access using a Compaq PC. Despite the view of some within Compaq that the firm's goal should be "to feature the brand leader Netscape," Compaq elected not to resume the pre- installation of Navigator on its Presario PCs after it removed the joint Spry/Navigator icon. In fact, Compaq stopped pre-installing Navigator on all but very small percentage of its PCs.
234. In return for Compaq's capitulation and revival of its commitment to support Microsoft's Internet strategy, Microsoft has guaranteed Compaq that the prices it pays for Windows will continue to be significantly lower than the prices paid by other OEMs. Specifically, the operating system licenses signed by Compaq and Microsoft in March 1998 gave Compaq "[g]uaranteed better" pricing than any other OEM for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT Workstation (versions 4 and 5) until April 2000. Compaq's license fee for Windows is so low that other OEMs would still pay substantially more than Compaq even if they qualified for all of the royalty reductions listed in Microsoft's Market Development Agreements ("MDAs"). What is more, while Microsoft requires other OEMs to verify actual compliance with particular milestones in order to receive Windows 98 royalty reductions, Microsoft has secretly agreed to provide the full amount of those discounts to Compaq regardless of whether it actually satisfies the specified conditions. In addition to a guaranteed most-favorable price on Windows, Compaq has enjoyed free internal use of all Windows products for PCs since March 1998.
Demonstrably? Please demonstrate then. SOPA was a Republican-backed initiative.
You'll never see a Dem kicked knocked down as badly as this, because the progressive nature of the party allows for open discourse and dissenting ideas. The Republicans don't like any talk outside the party lines. Have you noticed that pretty much every bill consists of 100% of Republicans voting the exact same way?
Sorry, but that is exactly what happened: http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm#vf
MS pressured OEMs to make sure that Netscape was not included on any new machine.
Here's the best citation you can get: http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
There were TONS of things they did to violate antitrust laws with regards to IE, including coercing ISPs to make their websites IE-only by including ActiveX components on the front page and using FrontPage extensions which would create non-standards-compliant HTML and only render correctly on IE.
I'm sorry but rot-13 is no longer secure. I've upgraded everything to rot-26!
Is it even possible for a Republican to provide any facts to support their argument? It is all just emotion-triggering lies that can only influence someone with a 3rd grade education. Please, for the love of god, if you have something to say, post some fucking facts!!!
Your comment proves that your signature is completely insane.
I think Ron Paul's social policies would completely drive away the young, tech-savvy crowd. He's part of the anti-gay, anti-immigrant, pro-life, global-warming-is-good, Christian, right-wing propaganda machine known as the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons
If you don't see it, then either you're blind, or you choose to get your information from unreliable sources. FACT: The deficit and unemployment rate have gone down steadily since Obama took office, except for minor bumps.
So yes, there is good reason to bash Romney... He wanted to reinstate the same Bush policies which put our country into this mess to begin with.
You are (possibly intentionally) conflating debt and deficit. The deficit was about $1.4 trillion when Bush left office, part of this was combined Bush and Obama budgets, but that is aside from my point that if you push that out over 4 years you get the $5 trillion debt number, which you were comparing to the $1 trillion deficit.
What is important, however, is that the deficit has steadily dropped over the last 4 years to around $900 billion, so while Bush consistently increased the deficit every year he was in office, Obama has consistently decreased it. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html
Bad you for personally? Really? I got a check in the mail from my insurance provider because they charged too much under the rules of "Obamacare". That certainly helped me, and will most likely help the rest of the nation, including you. Other than flatlining the previous 8 years of deficit increase, he hasn't been able to do much since the republicans will never. ever. ever. vote for any bill with a (D) on it.
So, as other people have asked: Why don't you give some examples of how he's been just awful for our country? Until then, I will just assume you are another mindless R-tard who votes with his gut rather than through critical thought and analysis.