re: cheaper than paying 20 creeps with greasy hair to change hard drives, stack servers into a rack and fuck up the rollout of new VMs. [emphasis mine, pointing out the ad hominem attack] .
Way to do an ad hominem attack on Linux on non-mainframe, dude! Those "creeps with greasy hair" are the Lintel guys about whom you're complaining and whom you've disparaged and thus made it harder for them to see or consider or accept your points (valid or not) about mainframes and system Z. Those guys are probably also a decent percentage of the audience here on slashdot. . If, on the other hand, you're a marketing shill and a marketing droid for IBM, then you're probably trying to reach the V.P. level decision makers and C.I.O.s, and in that case, calling those lower-level workers "creeps with greasy hair" ( as opposed to those wonderful starched-white-shirt-IBM-consultants-at-$1kph [one kilobucks per hour] who must use some ah-mazing hair-care products available exclusively from the salons of International Blowdry Machines ) makes sense. You're trying to make them feel shame for not using IBM. Way to use linux for personal gain and give nothing back to the community!
Re:Security credibility DEPENDS on peer review .
And this review pretty much shows that CipherCloud only performs
-- "per word" encryption into a limited range
-- uses the same separator code-word to delimit each new encrypted word
-- does no encryption on punctuation marks
-- leaves itself wide open to word-frequency attacks
And the image is a very necessary way to show it, though each reader could go to the ciphercloud web site and try it out themselves. .
Strangely, I can see their point of view of DMCA'ing the use of a complete copyrighted image, but I can also see the "fair use" point of view. At least the commentary and text on stackexchange has been restored. And the utter uselessness of ciphercloud's approach has been
Barbra Streisanded out into the open rather than being hidden away in the way they expected the DMCA takedown notice to effect. .
i don't see how "per word" encryption can be homomorphic, though. Well, any more than applying homomorphic encryption per word. blech.
Why is there any worry or concern over trolls getting access to a poorly password-protected account for a network that skews north of age 70 in its demographics and that skews south of 70 decibels in its television news shouting levels? Was this article submitted by the so-called "hackers" themselves? . At least Timothy's not drunk or high anymore as he was in the
"What do you get mugged in Central London and the local police are..." article from earlier today! Welcome back, grammar!
I've updated the hard-drives in my parents' old Tivo series 2 machines. I don't have access to a series one. I wish I could update the software in these machines with useful things. And Tivo is what ultimately led to GPLv3, with the "Tivoization clause" included to disallow the end-run which Tivo made around the GPL v2 license. .
As to the gradual decline in hardware/tech/software postings on/., I'm there with you. Look at my historical posts to see my rants about how the good tech topics barely get hits while the political and the anti-XYZ-software-company articles get most of the flames and hits... But every now and then, there are some interesting tech responses that still keep this site worth-while. At least they are still posting front-page articles about topics like this, even if many people don't post on them. When they stop posting tech like this, it'll be time to leave and let someone else turn off the lights after we're gone!
re: everything, including growing your own crops rather than buying them, is interstate commerce now [emphasis mine, on the word "now"] .
It's been that way since that decision was made in 1942, not so much now. I'm surprised that they're not attacking GNU and Linux for depriving the private corporations from profiting maximally on software based on this decision alone. Shimmeny-crickets, I hope I didn't just give them an idea for a new way to attack Free and Open Source Software!
re: There is nothing more scary to a non techie than the boot/kernel puking garbage on the screen. .
You are exactly right. The original Mac OSX boot-up experience is a nice clean boot up screen with a few simple small icons flying by. The original Mac OS7 OS8 and OS9 bootups have a happy mac icon centered on the screen and the small icons for the addons on the bottom of the screen. .
Linux boot-ups should have a simple graphical or text based boot up that says just a very few simple things:
booting up
checking drives
starting network
starting graphics
tada!
and allow for the user to hit one of the function keys or a space bar or something to allow for viewing of the detailed boot-up log. Most people don't really need to see all of the details and would certainly be scared by all of the words and labels that they might not understand. This is one area where OSX actually does a better job.
Hmm... look up "ideate" on wikipedia... get a lot of "designer"-y bullshit. Look up "ideation" on wikipedia, I know I've heard that word somewhere before...
Ideation may refer to:
-- Ideation (idea generation), the process of creating new ideas
-- Suicidal ideation, a common medical term for thoughts about suicide
Suicidal? So is fedora boot going to automatically "kill -9" itself everytime it boots? Has sentience arrived along with french existential angst for the OS? I would have expected french existential angst for
Mandriva, not for Fedora. [And Nietzchean nihilism for Suse? ] Anyway, this is just designer BS, adding colorful shiny chrome on top of the useful bits, isn't it?
Interesting that you said "a lawyer and a barrister have both taken up her case Pro-Bono [publico]" [emphasis mine]. I was under the impression that "barrister" was the British term for attorney and lawyer. A quick check on wikipedia shows otherwise. Thanks for educating me, or at least pointing me towards getting educated!
Barristers and solicitors in england are the splitting of the legal profession into two categories.
-- Those who can represent themselves in place of the client and conduct litigation on behalf of the client are called
solicitors, and solicitors are attorneys at law.
-- A barrister is not an attorney and is usually forbidden, either by law or professional rules or both, from "conducting" litigation. This means that, while the barrister speaks on the client's behalf in court, he or she can do so only when instructed by a solicitor or certain other qualified professional clients, such as patent agents.
-- A
lawyer is one "learned in the law", and can be an attorney, counsel, or a solicitor.
-- An is the official name for lawyers in certain jurisdictions, e.g. Japan + Sri Lanka + South Africa + U.S.A.
Perl for the win! It doesn't matter what language you speak natively, the symbols used in Perl will be fully incomprehensible!!! The learning curve is just as steep whether you are a native English speaker or a native speaker of French, Urdu, Chinese, Klingon, Swahili, or Dansk! :>)
The ability of Perl to mystify, astound, and obfuscate is so reknowned that there is even a contest dedicated to the ability of Perl to render unintelligible code:
the Obfuscated Perl Contest
Used properly, Perl can become a "write-only" programming language, such that no one else can decipher what you are attempting to do. ;>)
Just kidding. I am actually a fan of Perl, Python, C, C++, BASIC, Lisp, and Scheme. I hear good things about Logo and the turtle languages all allow keywords to be in any language. Just because the token for printing in BASIC is usually the english word "PRINT", there is no reason for it to be constrained to that. In the TRS-80, "PRINT" is retokenized as the question-mark symbol "?" which can also be used as a short-cut for the "PRINT" statement. My first programming language was BASIC (Level 1 basic) on the TRS-80 with 4K (4 kilobytes!!!) of memory. I am sorry that your daughter is turned off by the english language. Get your hands on a BASIC interpreter and change the interpreter for the keywords which you'd prefer. Or stick with Scratch as recommended above. .
Also, Lisp and Scheme are fairly cryptic and language agnostic, though parenthesis heavy: car, cdr, eval, print (damn, that last word is obviously english.) Good luck!
It's very easy to switch the locale in Scratch even while running scratch. Click on the left-most icon (a wire-frame globe icon) at the top-left, and that will allow you to select the language to use. :>)
Danish a.k.a.
Dansk, is already a supported language in
Scratch, as are 49 other languages as shown at http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Languages
The
New York Times is reporting that the two suspects attempted to light a bomb while engaging in gun-fire with the police during a standoff outside of the Watertown, MA, house of Andrew Kitzenberg. Andy Kitzenberg has been live tweeting images of the police activity, shootout, and bomb explosions, and a bullet going through his wall and his armchair on twitter as linked above.
Unfortunately, I must point out that you are still wrong. The article "a" is indefinite, whereas the article "the" is definite and more specific pointing to a specific instance or entity. IMHO, your statement and rebuttal is only accurate for "the united states of america" and not accurate or correct for the definition of "a democracy", using all well known definitions of democracy which I can find. .
Even using your own example of
it's like saying: "A required condition(s) for democracy is/are..."
you should be able to see that your example is specific for the democracy that is the United States of America as defined by the articles of the Constitution and the various Amendments I cited earlier. These specific articles and amendments apply specifically to the U.S.A. and do not apply generally to the concept of a "democracy" in the general sense. .
For the general definition of a democracy as defined by the Greeks, please see the three wikipedia articles below, all of which cite numerous references. Democracy refers to "ruling by the people" or "power held by the people" rather than by someone above or over the people.
Can they be seen in the videos/photos of the live fire exercises that occurred in downtown miami earlier this year? http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/blackhawks-used-in-military-training-exercise-in-miami/ is the only non-wacko-paranoid news site I can find that mentions it, though I remember more sites inculding the miami newspaper mentioning it when it happened. That CBS link also mentions
The training is designed to ensure that military personnel are able to operate in urban areas and to focus on preparations for overseas deployment. It also serves as a mandatory training certification requirement.
A similar operation took place in April 2011 in Miami's Brickell area, which frightened many residents in the area.
This time, the training operations were held away from residential areas.
Yahoo did something similar to this a few (four? five?) years ago when it was also trying to roll out a "social media" flavor-of-the-year. When you logged in, you'd see a sidebar (on the right, if I remember correctly) saying "XYZZ has been trying to reach you." Now, remember kids, this is on the yahoo web-mail page when you log in, so it's not just spam mailed by someone's account which was hijacked by a virus. It was actually a notification on the web user interface for their webmail. I ended up getting a few random junk mails from people whom I'd emailed two years prior to that and had no interest in contacting anymore (bad middle-school friendships gone awry...) and who decided to restalk me probably based on yahoo telling them that I'd been interested in reaching/connecting with them.
Regarding your statement:
Keep this in mind - in a democracy, anything that is not subject to a law to say otherwise:
-- 1. it is allowed for the citizens
-- 2. it is forbidden for the state/government.
Actually, that is not what the definition of a "democracy" is.
A democracy is defined more generally. Your specific items are actually enumerated amendments to the Constitution of the USA.
Your items (1) and (2) are specifically spelled out by the 9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. and the
10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So your statement is really wrong. The 9th and 10th amendment are all about specifying changes to the Constitution of the U.S.A., not about defining "what a democracy is."
Wow! Thanks, CPA Kelbear, for the detailed and thoughtful reply. I have a question re your statement:"Management should always provide an explanation of how these figures were derived so that they can be reconciled back to GAAP figures or else they have no meaning." Is there any consistency to the type of non-GAAP figures given out by the same company YYY over different quarters, or are they likely to vary the different ways to be non-generally-accepted so as to optimize and optimally positively spin each quarter's numbers?
Of course if they do publish and provide an explanation of exactly how they calculated their non-GAAP numbers (like the earlier/. article titled "Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study", where having direct access to the actual excel spreadsheet used allowed external parties to review and catch how the mistaken calculations occurred.
Re: As time went on, though, a number of... increasingly creative... legalisms were hacked together to allow contractual arrangements... or creativity in following the requirements .
Sounds a lot like the Passover requirement for the
removal of all grains which are Chametz from one's household being performed over time in various ways:
-- Bi'ur = burning one's chametz: actually searching for all chametz and actually destroying it (by fire, preferably)
-- Bittul = nullifying one's chametz: if there's any chametz left in this house, I renounce my ownership of it.
-- Mechirah = selling one's chametz. "Until five-twelfths of the way through Passover Eve one may sell or give ones chametz to a non-Jew, and it is no longer ones responsibility."
-- and an extra twist to Mechirah
One who keeps the sold chametz in his or her household must seal it away so that it will not be visible during the holiday. After the holiday, the non-Jew generally sells the chametz back to the original owners, via the agent; however, he is under no obligation to do so.
For chametz owned by the State of Israel, which includes its state companies, the prison service and the country's stock of emergency supplies, the Chief Rabbinate act as agent; since 1997, the Rabbinate has sold its chametz to Mr. Jaaber Hussein, a hotel manager residing in Abu Ghosh, who puts down a deposit of 20,000 shekels for chametz worth an estimated 150 million dollars.
These may also be called legal acrobatics as phrased in the article in the independent entitled "The Muslim guardian of Israel's daily bread" :
Through legal acrobatics, the forbidden goods belonging to the Israeli state are simply sold to Mr. Hussein for the duration of Passover and then revert back to the state once the holiday is over. Like the governmentâ(TM)s adherence to the Sabbath and to dietary laws, the ceremony sets Israel apart as a Jewish state that upholds religious traditions.
re: You know that crazy person that occasionally uses your Slashdot account? Cut their fingers off. When I read these rational and interesting posts, my head explodes. .
??? IDKWYTA: I Don't Know What You're Talking About... I'm always me.:>)
I didn't even know what the acronym G.A.A.P. stood for before this eveninig until I searched for it on wikipedia after seeing it on this/.post about yahoo (as is my usual thing to do whenever I see a word or phrase which I don't know). Seeing the definition made me parse the/. posting as being obvious.
If there's a "generally accepted thing", why would you go out of your way to not use the generally accepted way of doing things, especially when the SEC seems to mandate the use of GAAP in reporting financials. But thanks for agreeing with me.:>)
non-GAAP? You mean numbers that do not use GAAP = "Generally accepted accounting principles"? So if you're not using "generally accepted accounting principles", then the accounting principles you're using are generally not accepted. So you're using some weird other way of crunching the numbers to massage them into sounding better. .
Best to have real results that actually do follow GAAP. Those numbers would have to follow certain guidelines of Standard Accounting Practice :
Standard accounting practices require publicly traded companies to follow certain accounting rules when presenting financial statements so that the readers of the statements can easily compare different companies. Private companies are also often required by banks and shareholders, for example, to present information according to their specified rules. [emphasis from wikipedia article, not my bold-facing here:) ]
So instead of standard practices dictated by SEC rules, they sprinkled some fairy-dust and powdered-unicorn horns and some shredded nauga-hide on their statements and came up with a magical "with better-than-expected (non-GAAP) earnings of $420 million, or 38 cents per share". La-de-da-di-do! Magic. Get back to me with some real numbers like you're supposed to do as a publicly traded company. Isn't this somehow against SEC regulations? Jus' wonderin'...
Doesn't exactly the same thing happen all of the time with books and book review on Amazon? There's a war of shills advertising for the book with inflated reviews and the counter-surge of negative reviews for the books sold by your competitors. Or books written by authors you dislike or despise... .
What makes this different from positive advertising of your product's virtues or negative comparisons or statements about your competitor's products? Is it the hidden "agency" of using unattributed posters to say these negative things?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent
hmm, I wonder if they ever had any "Firewire"/ieee1394 Flash Drives? They would be useful for booting up older macs that had firewire but do not support USB boot disk volumes.
Slashdot Mirror
re: cheaper than paying 20 creeps with greasy hair to change hard drives, stack servers into a rack and fuck up the rollout of new VMs. [emphasis mine, pointing out the ad hominem attack]
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Way to do an ad hominem attack on Linux on non-mainframe, dude! Those "creeps with greasy hair" are the Lintel guys about whom you're complaining and whom you've disparaged and thus made it harder for them to see or consider or accept your points (valid or not) about mainframes and system Z. Those guys are probably also a decent percentage of the audience here on slashdot.
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If, on the other hand, you're a marketing shill and a marketing droid for IBM, then you're probably trying to reach the V.P. level decision makers and C.I.O.s, and in that case, calling those lower-level workers "creeps with greasy hair" ( as opposed to those wonderful starched-white-shirt-IBM-consultants-at-$1kph [one kilobucks per hour] who must use some ah-mazing hair-care products available exclusively from the salons of International Blowdry Machines ) makes sense. You're trying to make them feel shame for not using IBM. Way to use linux for personal gain and give nothing back to the community!
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And this review pretty much shows that CipherCloud only performs -- "per word" encryption into a limited range
-- uses the same separator code-word to delimit each new encrypted word
-- does no encryption on punctuation marks
-- leaves itself wide open to word-frequency attacks
And the image is a very necessary way to show it, though each reader could go to the ciphercloud web site and try it out themselves.
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Strangely, I can see their point of view of DMCA'ing the use of a complete copyrighted image, but I can also see the "fair use" point of view. At least the commentary and text on stackexchange has been restored. And the utter uselessness of ciphercloud's approach has been Barbra Streisanded out into the open rather than being hidden away in the way they expected the DMCA takedown notice to effect.
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i don't see how "per word" encryption can be homomorphic, though. Well, any more than applying homomorphic encryption per word. blech.
Why is there any worry or concern over trolls getting access to a poorly password-protected account for a network that skews north of age 70 in its demographics and that skews south of 70 decibels in its television news shouting levels? Was this article submitted by the so-called "hackers" themselves?
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At least Timothy's not drunk or high anymore as he was in the "What do you get mugged in Central London and the local police are..." article from earlier today! Welcome back, grammar!
I've updated the hard-drives in my parents' old Tivo series 2 machines. I don't have access to a series one. I wish I could update the software in these machines with useful things. And Tivo is what ultimately led to GPLv3, with the "Tivoization clause" included to disallow the end-run which Tivo made around the GPL v2 license. /., I'm there with you. Look at my historical posts to see my rants about how the good tech topics barely get hits while the political and the anti-XYZ-software-company articles get most of the flames and hits... But every now and then, there are some interesting tech responses that still keep this site worth-while. At least they are still posting front-page articles about topics like this, even if many people don't post on them. When they stop posting tech like this, it'll be time to leave and let someone else turn off the lights after we're gone!
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As to the gradual decline in hardware/tech/software postings on
re: everything, including growing your own crops rather than buying them, is interstate commerce now [emphasis mine, on the word "now"]
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It's been that way since that decision was made in 1942, not so much now. I'm surprised that they're not attacking GNU and Linux for depriving the private corporations from profiting maximally on software based on this decision alone. Shimmeny-crickets, I hope I didn't just give them an idea for a new way to attack Free and Open Source Software!
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You are exactly right. The original Mac OSX boot-up experience is a nice clean boot up screen with a few simple small icons flying by. The original Mac OS7 OS8 and OS9 bootups have a happy mac icon centered on the screen and the small icons for the addons on the bottom of the screen.
.
Linux boot-ups should have a simple graphical or text based boot up that says just a very few simple things: booting up
checking drives
starting network
starting graphics
tada!
and allow for the user to hit one of the function keys or a space bar or something to allow for viewing of the detailed boot-up log. Most people don't really need to see all of the details and would certainly be scared by all of the words and labels that they might not understand. This is one area where OSX actually does a better job.
-- Ideation (idea generation), the process of creating new ideas
-- Suicidal ideation, a common medical term for thoughts about suicide
Suicidal? So is fedora boot going to automatically "kill -9" itself everytime it boots? Has sentience arrived along with french existential angst for the OS? I would have expected french existential angst for Mandriva, not for Fedora. [And Nietzchean nihilism for Suse? ] Anyway, this is just designer BS, adding colorful shiny chrome on top of the useful bits, isn't it?
Interesting that you said "a lawyer and a barrister have both taken up her case Pro-Bono [publico]" [emphasis mine]. I was under the impression that "barrister" was the British term for attorney and lawyer. A quick check on wikipedia shows otherwise. Thanks for educating me, or at least pointing me towards getting educated! Barristers and solicitors in england are the splitting of the legal profession into two categories.
-- Those who can represent themselves in place of the client and conduct litigation on behalf of the client are called solicitors, and solicitors are attorneys at law.
-- A barrister is not an attorney and is usually forbidden, either by law or professional rules or both, from "conducting" litigation. This means that, while the barrister speaks on the client's behalf in court, he or she can do so only when instructed by a solicitor or certain other qualified professional clients, such as patent agents.
-- A lawyer is one "learned in the law", and can be an attorney, counsel, or a solicitor.
-- An is the official name for lawyers in certain jurisdictions, e.g. Japan + Sri Lanka + South Africa + U.S.A.
:>)
The ability of Perl to mystify, astound, and obfuscate is so reknowned that there is even a contest dedicated to the ability of Perl to render unintelligible code: the Obfuscated Perl Contest
Used properly, Perl can become a "write-only" programming language, such that no one else can decipher what you are attempting to do.
;>)
Just kidding. I am actually a fan of Perl, Python, C, C++, BASIC, Lisp, and Scheme. I hear good things about Logo and the turtle languages all allow keywords to be in any language. Just because the token for printing in BASIC is usually the english word "PRINT", there is no reason for it to be constrained to that. In the TRS-80, "PRINT" is retokenized as the question-mark symbol "?" which can also be used as a short-cut for the "PRINT" statement. My first programming language was BASIC (Level 1 basic) on the TRS-80 with 4K (4 kilobytes!!!) of memory. I am sorry that your daughter is turned off by the english language. Get your hands on a BASIC interpreter and change the interpreter for the keywords which you'd prefer. Or stick with Scratch as recommended above.
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Also, Lisp and Scheme are fairly cryptic and language agnostic, though parenthesis heavy: car, cdr, eval, print (damn, that last word is obviously english.) Good luck!
It's very easy to switch the locale in Scratch even while running scratch. Click on the left-most icon (a wire-frame globe icon) at the top-left, and that will allow you to select the language to use.
:>)
Danish a.k.a. Dansk, is already a supported language in Scratch, as are 49 other languages as shown at http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Languages
The New York Times is reporting that the two suspects attempted to light a bomb while engaging in gun-fire with the police during a standoff outside of the Watertown, MA, house of Andrew Kitzenberg. Andy Kitzenberg has been live tweeting images of the police activity, shootout, and bomb explosions, and a bullet going through his wall and his armchair on twitter as linked above.
One of the brothers went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin, one of the oldest high schools in the USA.
http://t.co/0A3Mjmshkz
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https://twitter.com/AKitz/status/325121071479156736/photo/1
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https://twitter.com/akitz = andrew kitzenberg's twitter site
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supposedly, backpacks on Laurel Street where a police shoot-out occured. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3664323&cid=43490229
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Even using your own example of it's like saying: "A required condition(s) for democracy is/are..."
you should be able to see that your example is specific for the democracy that is the United States of America as defined by the articles of the Constitution and the various Amendments I cited earlier. These specific articles and amendments apply specifically to the U.S.A. and do not apply generally to the concept of a "democracy" in the general sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#History.
For the general definition of a democracy as defined by the Greeks, please see the three wikipedia articles below, all of which cite numerous references. Democracy refers to "ruling by the people" or "power held by the people" rather than by someone above or over the people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
Can they be seen in the videos/photos of the live fire exercises that occurred in downtown miami earlier this year? http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/blackhawks-used-in-military-training-exercise-in-miami/ is the only non-wacko-paranoid news site I can find that mentions it, though I remember more sites inculding the miami newspaper mentioning it when it happened. That CBS link also mentions
The training is designed to ensure that military personnel are able to operate in urban areas and to focus on preparations for overseas deployment. It also serves as a mandatory training certification requirement.
A similar operation took place in April 2011 in Miami's Brickell area, which frightened many residents in the area.
This time, the training operations were held away from residential areas.
I can't remember if it was Yahoo Buzz or not...
2 -- something new,
3 -- something borrowed,
4 -- something blue,
Wait, isn't that what we were talking about?
-- 1. it is allowed for the citizens
-- 2. it is forbidden for the state/government.
Actually, that is not what the definition of a "democracy" is. A democracy is defined more generally. Your specific items are actually enumerated amendments to the Constitution of the USA.
Your items (1) and (2) are specifically spelled out by the 9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution :The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. and the
10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So your statement is really wrong. The 9th and 10th amendment are all about specifying changes to the Constitution of the U.S.A., not about defining "what a democracy is."
Of course if they do publish and provide an explanation of exactly how they calculated their non-GAAP numbers (like the earlier /. article titled "Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study", where having direct access to the actual excel spreadsheet used allowed external parties to review and catch how the mistaken calculations occurred.
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Sounds a lot like the Passover requirement for the removal of all grains which are Chametz from one's household being performed over time in various ways: -- Bi'ur = burning one's chametz: actually searching for all chametz and actually destroying it (by fire, preferably)
-- Bittul = nullifying one's chametz: if there's any chametz left in this house, I renounce my ownership of it.
-- Mechirah = selling one's chametz. "Until five-twelfths of the way through Passover Eve one may sell or give ones chametz to a non-Jew, and it is no longer ones responsibility."
-- and an extra twist to Mechirah One who keeps the sold chametz in his or her household must seal it away so that it will not be visible during the holiday. After the holiday, the non-Jew generally sells the chametz back to the original owners, via the agent; however, he is under no obligation to do so.
This brilliant charade of observance is also carried out at the governmental level (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chametz#Mechirah_practices ):
For chametz owned by the State of Israel, which includes its state companies, the prison service and the country's stock of emergency supplies, the Chief Rabbinate act as agent; since 1997, the Rabbinate has sold its chametz to Mr. Jaaber Hussein, a hotel manager residing in Abu Ghosh, who puts down a deposit of 20,000 shekels for chametz worth an estimated 150 million dollars.These may also be called legal acrobatics as phrased in the article in the independent entitled "The Muslim guardian of Israel's daily bread" : Through legal acrobatics, the forbidden goods belonging to the Israeli state are simply sold to Mr. Hussein for the duration of Passover and then revert back to the state once the holiday is over. Like the governmentâ(TM)s adherence to the Sabbath and to dietary laws, the ceremony sets Israel apart as a Jewish state that upholds religious traditions.
re: You know that crazy person that occasionally uses your Slashdot account? Cut their fingers off. When I read these rational and interesting posts, my head explodes. :>) /.post about yahoo (as is my usual thing to do whenever I see a word or phrase which I don't know). Seeing the definition made me parse the /. posting as being obvious.
If there's a "generally accepted thing", why would you go out of your way to not use the generally accepted way of doing things, especially when the SEC seems to mandate the use of GAAP in reporting financials. But thanks for agreeing with me. :>)
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??? IDKWYTA: I Don't Know What You're Talking About... I'm always me.
I didn't even know what the acronym G.A.A.P. stood for before this eveninig until I searched for it on wikipedia after seeing it on this
.
Best to have real results that actually do follow GAAP. Those numbers would have to follow certain guidelines of Standard Accounting Practice : Standard accounting practices require publicly traded companies to follow certain accounting rules when presenting financial statements so that the readers of the statements can easily compare different companies. Private companies are also often required by banks and shareholders, for example, to present information according to their specified rules. [emphasis from wikipedia article, not my bold-facing here
So instead of standard practices dictated by SEC rules, they sprinkled some fairy-dust and powdered-unicorn horns and some shredded nauga-hide on their statements and came up with a magical "with better-than-expected (non-GAAP) earnings of $420 million, or 38 cents per share". La-de-da-di-do! Magic. Get back to me with some real numbers like you're supposed to do as a publicly traded company. Isn't this somehow against SEC regulations? Jus' wonderin'...
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What makes this different from positive advertising of your product's virtues or negative comparisons or statements about your competitor's products? Is it the hidden "agency" of using unattributed posters to say these negative things? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_agency
But I thought that vans were from Flowers By Irene? [sorry, there's no screen cap of the Simpon's Flowers By Irene van at that link]
hmm, I wonder if they ever had any "Firewire"/ieee1394 Flash Drives? They would be useful for booting up older macs that had firewire but do not support USB boot disk volumes.
That makes sense also. But I also think that there's a possibility that they're working off of a sales list from the manufacturer.