This is just a handy "laundry list" of countries that have had, currently have, or are likely to have their own annoying Peace Prize problems in the future. Nice of them to self-report; no need to follow every little thing in the news to pick sides the next time a Human Rights issue comes up.
This is interesting, in a "new fact to file away and ponder much later" but in no way new. Modern naval ships have had this type of technology for a very, very long time. By way of example, one of the more modern Frigates in the world, first deployed in 1990, can continue to acquire (via Identify Friend or Foe transponders, or IFF, which everyone uses and have for ages, plus various aggression-identifying logic systems), track and attack targets under a full combat level of alertness even if all personnel on board are dead.
Within the next 10 years practically every navy in the world will have this type of system in place; the only ones who currently do not are those whose ships are more than 20 years old and for whatever reason, could not upgrade the command-and-control system in the meantime.
Call me crazy, but I occasionally type with one finger while doing two things (one of which involves the KB) and the Caps Lock key is invaluable there, even for typing just one uppercase character. I do think that's something netbook users are going to want to do as often, if not more often, than, for example, traditional larger laptop users... similarly I like to spell properly, so I'm going to want to type DELL instead of dell, USPTO instead or uspto, and so on. I also use Caps Lock on my smartphone while texting... where yelling is often appropriate, not simple bad behaviour in a forum post.
The offered reason to remove the Caps Lock key is commendable... saving users from themselves... but isn't it easier to just correct bad behaviour with another post from a different user... which is practically guaranteed to happen, in my experience... than to take a useful tool away from everyone, including those who actually know how to use it?
This is the kind of "dumbing down" where everyone pays; I'm not in favour of it at all. It joins a long list of things we are being forced to do to help the functionally lesser members of our society, like Anti-Lock Brakes, which is fine if it's defeatable in a car but a pain if it's not (and if you can't see a situation where ALB is a hinderance to safety or control let's just agree we don't drive in the same places under the same conditions, and you can leave it on all the time).
I suppose I could have been more specific. I'll put it this way: the principal method ordinary soap uses to protect us is by allowing the bacteria to be washed away with water. The number that may die from other effects is significantly smaller and in essence incidental.
Soaps have a detergent action but proper hand soap is quite mild. Few people wash their hands with dish soap; it's a different formula entirely than Ivory bar soap (for example).
As for soap contributing to superbugs, its true that the specific agent in the OP, triclosan, don't work in the same way as others. None the less, those other agents are in the common antibacterial soaps and are part of the problem with regard to superbugs.
Hot tip: if it's labeled as a "deodorant soap" it's got antibacterial agents in it. The Irish Spring formula existed long before triclosan was used in such formulas. The original Deodorant Soap used carbolic acid and was marketed 100 years ago.
'Antibacterial' soap kills almost no bacteria that regular old soap doesn't. It is a marketing term that means nothing in the world of reality because soap itself destroys most strains of bacteria on contact. Therefore, this is something more going on here than just "not enough germs weakens immune system"....
Not true, actually. Soap simply breaks the bond between your skin and the oils your body produces. These oils are what prevents plain water from washing away bacteria.
So, washing with ordinary soap washes away bacteria; it does not kill them.
Antibacterial soaps do kill many of the bacteria, while also washing them away (as it is, after all, soap). By antibacterial soaps we are talking about products like Irish Spring; by ordinary soap we are talking about products like Ivory bar soap.
No antibacterial agent (that you can safely use in the home) kills 100% of the flora it's exposed to, and no soap washes away 100% it's exposed to.
Your body needs some types of bacteria to be healthy; as does your own skin. You don't really want to be killing helpful bacteria; you are less healthy as a result, but antibacterial agents are non-discriminatory. They kill the good with the bad. So, there's one problem with antibacterial soaps.
With ordinary soap, you wash away a large amount of bacteria but helpful bacteria remain in enough quantity that they can reproduce and do their helpful job.
Also, bacteria are able over time to resist agents deployed to kill them. So, if you use antibacterial soaps where ordinary soap would do, you end up with "superbug" infestations, like ordinary staph bacteria that morphs into aggressive agents that infect wounds in hospitals and are extremely difficult to control. There's the second problem with antibacterial soaps.
Use ordinary soap, wash as often as required, and live a healthy life. It's not complex.
I did not once mention the SEC. Of course the transaction is legal.
I'm talking as an investor. I play with my own money and I've learned some lessons along the way. An investor who does not perform due diligence when trading gets what he deserves.
I can assure you I never trade without checking the [perfectly legal] trading activity of insiders. This is stock market 101 stuff.
Good points, all, but I think you missed a thing or two.
The Japanese justice system has something like a 95% conviction rate. Virtually every single charge comes to court with a signed confession.
Call me crazy, but there is something suspicious about all that. I don't think Americans are going to support that level of... how would I put it... investigation... from the police.
And if they did, I'm sure they would show it by demanding it starts with the necessary changes to the Constitution to enable it. Which is pretty much the exact opposite of what I'm reading in the comments here.
Low volume price sounds about right. Might come down with higher production, but for that you need volume sales.
It's got to use basically the same chips as every other phone, because they are integrated... the features are built into the chipsets necessary to make something that will work as a cellphone, but not enabled. I very much doubt you could buy a chip that only makes calls from any fab, and even if you could, it would probably cost more than the chip they're using.
These guys are not Motorola/Nokia/SONY Erickson/etc. Probably sounds expensive as a non-subsidized price, but the chances of any carrier actually selling this phone are slim to none; they make too much money on the non-phone-call features, so it's not going to be the cheapest phone available no matter what.
[Missed my footnote]... but it also means no money for renewable energy, no farm subsidies, no foreign aid (1)..."
(1) Foreign Aid is always money transferred from taxpayers to corporations or citizens. When the Federal Government offers Foreign Aid to another country, what really happens is the Government spends all the money on US jobs and products. If it's food, they buy the food from US growers and give that away. If it's technology or some building initiative, all the companies involved are US companies with American employees. If it's development aid, they hire US citizens to do the liason. If it's military aid, they buy the planes from Boeing or weapons from Raytheon and then give them to the foreign government. Foreign Aid is simply just another government transfer to Americans.
"... Socially liberal does not mean "spend money".
Any other definition necessarily requires taking my money and giving it to someone else...."
Libertarians do have a political philosophy that straddles Democratic and Republican party lines. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that neither Republicans nor Democrats follow either liberal or conservative political philosophy strictly; each borrows some from both, despite which brush people tend to paint them with.
Libertarians support lowering taxes, eliminating taxes, and would be against any new taxes. If that sounds Republican, note that they would also support eliminating government programs and spending on anything except essential services. That might mean no welfare, no unemployment insurance, no spending on drug rehab centres, but it also means no money for renewable energy, no farm subsidies, no foreign aid (1), and get the Defence Department out of the highway building and waterway dredging business. Let the airlines and passengers pay for the airports, let the sports teams pay for the stadiums, let the universities fund their own research.
Socially, there is really no difference... it's "get government out of it" again. No restrictions on who can carry guns, no speed limits, no meddling in abortion debates or stem cell research, no teacher led school prayer but no restrictions on individual student religious expression. No DRM legislation, possibly no or very limited copyright and patent law. Let the gays in the military if that's what they want to do. Whatever, as long as it doesn't infringe on others rights to security and enjoyment of private property.
In other words, smaller government, period. No exceptions.
I'm not sure where the Tea Party fits in all this... they started out acting Libertarian but then the issues started coming up and many of their answers were just regular Republican policies rehashed a bit.
The Republican Party supports spending on areas that Libertarians would be stridently against, just like they would be against most Democratic spending initiatives.
Insiders selling company stock is always a Red Flag for investors. Whether that is justified or not in this case is up to the individual to decide, but it's a Red Flag for a reason... very often it means problems within the company and bad news follows.
There are perfectly good reasons for insider selling, and it helps to be very straightforward about it... it's not like you can hide it anyway, it's reported and watched vigorously.
Not being a Microsoft investor, and not particularly interested in their area of the market, it's not really important to me. But, if it were, I'd be very wary of the level of stock he's liquidating... 25% is a massive sell by the usual standards. 5% is probably not going to raise too many eyebrows... even 10% might be OK under the right circumstances.
But, since he can always pledge stock to back up any personal investment, this level is worrisome, I would think. It really means he's moving his money out of tech. And he's the CEO of a huge tech player. This is an unusual development by any investor standard.
Assuming you mean Java, and not JavaScript, I have a solution.
Turn off Java in the browser. I've had it off for years... apparently it has no Earthly use, as my browsing experience is completely unchanged. Banking, whatever... just works.
Hit the switch, and at least for that particular issue, it's gone. For good.
"... Compound this with the MacAfee Heel: most OTS boxes come with MacAfee installed at least as a demo...."
You've inadvertently hit the nail on the head. The scam is simple and effective because it exploits human logic. I've noticed most/.'ers think that users are naive, or clueless, or worse, but they're missing the beauty of the scam because they can't think like a non-sophisticated user... they're beyond it and don't have the same mindset anymore.
But, to get to the point, the PC comes pre-installed with some kind of AV, in demo mode. It works for a while, then times out or goes to some limited functionality. This is the AV vendor's only real means to get a license sold. I would bet that pretty much every user that falls for this scam has at least considered buying the demo up to full functionality, but balk at the cost.
Along comes Mr Fake AV. The user knows they have no or limited AV protection. They know everyone says they need some protection. The crooks know that all they have to do is price their scam SW lower than whatever McAffee (or whomever) wants for the demo to go licensed. McAffee has helped this transaction by setting the bar price-wise, and the scammer knows ALL the users have been exposed to the price via the demo, so he also knows ALL the users will see it as a bargain. Bingo. Hook, meet Line and Sinker.
Make all documentation as detailed as possible. Record every single change... if an Ethernet cable is switched out in the staff room, record as change. If a laptop moves from one office to another, record as deletion, document, record as addition, document. Include a full specification sheet, owner's manual, service manual, errata and updates to documentation, for each item, including the Ethernet cable. List the individual IP addresses affected by every change, do not use ranges. Print out the individual IP addresses of the entire network on changes that affect the network as a whole. If paper documents are required, create huge mounds of paperwork and deliver them to the authorities, but only at random intervals and as single documents, stapled together but not bound, in cardboard boxes. Send all documentation in single-spaced 6 point type with no page breaks, line breaks, indentations, or formatting. If digital records are demanded, password protect each page, use a password that requires the page number be entered as part of the username, and have the password session expire every five minutes. Require minimum 24 character passwords, generated by your own application and using the entire goddamn keyboard. Develop or purchase a proprietary, in-house encryption application, and use said application to encrypt all documents. Do not sell site licenses; sell per-seat licenses to the Government at a reasonable fee... say $199 a seat. Encrypt each individual device change as one document in non-editable PDF format, then include large numbers of "This Page Left Intentionally Blank" within each pdf, but not in a continuous set and never at the end of the document. Send a random number of duplicate copies of the same document in each batch. Send a random number of previously submitted documents with each batch. Insure that if government chooses "print", it prints out the entire batch of documents that form each set.
So that when you are watching a TV program, and the commercial comes on, and you switch to your alternate channel (we choose things like National Geographic HD with no ads, ever) you can still see the drivel view on the tiny display. You need enough to identify it's drivel, but not enough to have it intrude into your view. Picture-in-Picture gives you way too big a screen, and right in the way. I want a tiny, HD screen, alongside my 50-inch. Hi-Res, so it's clear and easily identifiable what's on it, but tiny, so it's just not big enough to intrude into anything.
Essentially, all I need to see is... not football... not football... okay, football. Switch to the big screen.
"... "io9 has a scary outline of five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters. Quoting: 'In August of 1950, ten B-29 Superfortress..."... means a story about how five times the US [population] [area] came close to accidental nuclear disasters. The hanging "s" on "disasters" doesn't really fit, but we've already read the "five times the US" bit and come to our comprehension. There's a word we sometimes use in English. It's called "the". It helps us understand sentences, used appropriately.
"lo9 has a scary outline of the five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters."
Oh, I see. Five incidents, not five times the US population. The "s" fits now too. Isn't English wonderful?
What he's really proposing is increasing the size of the aircraft where it's legal to fly with one pilot. Currently you need a co-pilot if there are 12 or more passengers (flight crew are considered passengers). Many commercial carriers who do fly the smaller aircraft, mostly to remote areas, have a co-pilot on board anyway; it's how you train your pilots. One would assume Ryanair simply want to poach pilots with experience from other airlines; otherwise the only other conclusion is they are fine with inexperienced pilots as well.
I won't go into how Ryanair fits compared to it's competitors or how a flight on their craft is different from other carriers, but broadly speaking I wouldn't trust any proposal from Ryanair on anything.
... for an obit in my experience. Our local paper (pop 230,000) would charge in the order of $2000 for 180 words. $450 would get you an obit roughly three times as long as this post.
I've been using a USB key built with the set of Portable Apps for banking when I'm off on jobs and am prohibited from connecting my laptop to the company's network (usually there will be a couple of PCs available to staff).
Firefox, an encryption app, a fairly feature-poor non-Adobe PDF creator/reader, a screen capture utility, and a text program pretty much rounds out the whole shebang. Account information and passwords are stored on an encrypted text page and cut-and-pasted when necessary, and I manually copy (again, cut-and-paste) into a simple text file any info I need, which is then encrypted and stored on the USB key.
Not perfect, but certainly better than just trusting another PC, reconfiguring the browser every time to stop it's automated "help" like storing user info and passwords, and having your sessions and metadata logged by the resident OS & apps.
"... The distinction you are trying to make is between debt capital (e.g. bonds, long term bank loans, any thing else that is financing) and other liabilities. Shareholders equity is not shown as a liability, and is not connected to the share price...."
True; I was referring to where shareholder's equity appears on the liability side of the balance sheet. Assets less liabilities = shareholder's equity; in other words it's whatever number required to make liabilities + shareholder's equity equal assets.
People print out documents because, for one, they want to view non-continuous pages. A monitor that could show, say 6 full pages might do the trick.
Another reason is to have a permanent copy; people all have a story where documents were lost due to some data-related problem.
Finally, some people want to mark up pages. Although there are ways to do that on a computer, vendor proprietary formats, cost of applications, and generally not really working as well as people want make print and the pencil by far the easiest solution.
They are the short term costs of doing business, and will be reflected in next year's financial statements as being fully paid out of operating revenue.
Debt is simply that... money you borrowed and will have to pay back some day.
Examples of liabilities are... employee wages, rents, utilities, paying the contractor who painted your office building, invoices for product delivered (last week) but not yet paid for (once every 30 days, etc), etc. Another (Big) example is shareholder's equity. That is money you technically owe, but never have to pay; if the stock goes to zero there is no payment required to cover that.
It's ongoing business accounting, with the payment coming out of your ongoing sales.
"... Yes, I know this, but how does it constitute fraud against the listener? It's not like anybody who listens to commercial radio would expect the music to be untainted by commercial interests...."
Perhaps you misunderstand the meaning of "Payola". I will only comment on the obvious difference: Payola is a kickback paid in secret to a staff member of the radio station; advertising is a contract for promotion with the money going to the corporate entity.
Payola is more akin to "coke and hookers" and although it's certainly not unheard of for "coke and hookers" to be part of a company to company "arrangement", it too would be illegal.
When I was in college a second language was still mandatory to graduate. Basically this meant at the time that you have to pass one full class in a non-English language. Today I don't believe a second language is mandatory any more, and 20 years before I was in school, it was four years of a second language or no diploma, sonny.
Anyway, I took French like I had for four years in High School (we could also take German at our school, it was a bit easier to learn).
My buddy in College took Chinese. I asked him if he'd ever spoken it before... not a word. Pure Rookie.
He would come to lunch and start doing these chinese characters for his assignment. Pretty much every class you had to write out some phrase in Chinese characters, and hand it in... this was for class credit.
He had this book; look up something, write a stroke, look up some more, write another stroke, and so on. I asked if it was hard. Nope, but you pretty much have to look all this stuff up every time, he said. Too many to remember, although you eventually figure some of 'em out. Basically, you talked in class and wrote this assignment between classes. He said it was one of the easiest classes he ever took; everyone was getting 100% on the class assignments.
I asked about the prof... doesn't he want you to do any closed-book exams (without the "little book" handy)? Nope, he said. The prof uses the little book too, all during the class.
Oh, I said.
So, you need to repetitively write the stuff down. Eventually you learn a few of them, but it's not expected that you learn them all. Apparently no-one does.
"... So many made up words, so little meaning. The term 'fraud' has been around since the dawn of the English language.
How is "payola" fraud? It is no different than paying to have advertisements run on the radio. It is paying for an advertising service...."
It's a fraud perpetuated on the public. And it is quite clearly different than paid advertising on the radio, because paid advertising is legal while payola was made a crime 50 years ago.
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This is just a handy "laundry list" of countries that have had, currently have, or are likely to have their own annoying Peace Prize problems in the future. Nice of them to self-report; no need to follow every little thing in the news to pick sides the next time a Human Rights issue comes up.
This is interesting, in a "new fact to file away and ponder much later" but in no way new. Modern naval ships have had this type of technology for a very, very long time. By way of example, one of the more modern Frigates in the world, first deployed in 1990, can continue to acquire (via Identify Friend or Foe transponders, or IFF, which everyone uses and have for ages, plus various aggression-identifying logic systems), track and attack targets under a full combat level of alertness even if all personnel on board are dead.
Within the next 10 years practically every navy in the world will have this type of system in place; the only ones who currently do not are those whose ships are more than 20 years old and for whatever reason, could not upgrade the command-and-control system in the meantime.
Call me crazy, but I occasionally type with one finger while doing two things (one of which involves the KB) and the Caps Lock key is invaluable there, even for typing just one uppercase character. I do think that's something netbook users are going to want to do as often, if not more often, than, for example, traditional larger laptop users ... similarly I like to spell properly, so I'm going to want to type DELL instead of dell, USPTO instead or uspto, and so on. I also use Caps Lock on my smartphone while texting ... where yelling is often appropriate, not simple bad behaviour in a forum post.
The offered reason to remove the Caps Lock key is commendable ... saving users from themselves ... but isn't it easier to just correct bad behaviour with another post from a different user ... which is practically guaranteed to happen, in my experience ... than to take a useful tool away from everyone, including those who actually know how to use it?
This is the kind of "dumbing down" where everyone pays; I'm not in favour of it at all. It joins a long list of things we are being forced to do to help the functionally lesser members of our society, like Anti-Lock Brakes, which is fine if it's defeatable in a car but a pain if it's not (and if you can't see a situation where ALB is a hinderance to safety or control let's just agree we don't drive in the same places under the same conditions, and you can leave it on all the time).
I suppose I could have been more specific. I'll put it this way: the principal method ordinary soap uses to protect us is by allowing the bacteria to be washed away with water. The number that may die from other effects is significantly smaller and in essence incidental.
Soaps have a detergent action but proper hand soap is quite mild. Few people wash their hands with dish soap; it's a different formula entirely than Ivory bar soap (for example).
As for soap contributing to superbugs, its true that the specific agent in the OP, triclosan, don't work in the same way as others. None the less, those other agents are in the common antibacterial soaps and are part of the problem with regard to superbugs.
Hot tip: if it's labeled as a "deodorant soap" it's got antibacterial agents in it. The Irish Spring formula existed long before triclosan was used in such formulas. The original Deodorant Soap used carbolic acid and was marketed 100 years ago.
'Antibacterial' soap kills almost no bacteria that regular old soap doesn't. It is a marketing term that means nothing in the world of reality because soap itself destroys most strains of bacteria on contact. Therefore, this is something more going on here than just "not enough germs weakens immune system". ...
Not true, actually. Soap simply breaks the bond between your skin and the oils your body produces. These oils are what prevents plain water from washing away bacteria.
So, washing with ordinary soap washes away bacteria; it does not kill them.
Antibacterial soaps do kill many of the bacteria, while also washing them away (as it is, after all, soap). By antibacterial soaps we are talking about products like Irish Spring; by ordinary soap we are talking about products like Ivory bar soap.
No antibacterial agent (that you can safely use in the home) kills 100% of the flora it's exposed to, and no soap washes away 100% it's exposed to.
Your body needs some types of bacteria to be healthy; as does your own skin. You don't really want to be killing helpful bacteria; you are less healthy as a result, but antibacterial agents are non-discriminatory. They kill the good with the bad. So, there's one problem with antibacterial soaps.
With ordinary soap, you wash away a large amount of bacteria but helpful bacteria remain in enough quantity that they can reproduce and do their helpful job.
Also, bacteria are able over time to resist agents deployed to kill them. So, if you use antibacterial soaps where ordinary soap would do, you end up with "superbug" infestations, like ordinary staph bacteria that morphs into aggressive agents that infect wounds in hospitals and are extremely difficult to control. There's the second problem with antibacterial soaps.
Use ordinary soap, wash as often as required, and live a healthy life. It's not complex.
I did not once mention the SEC. Of course the transaction is legal.
I'm talking as an investor. I play with my own money and I've learned some lessons along the way. An investor who does not perform due diligence when trading gets what he deserves.
I can assure you I never trade without checking the [perfectly legal] trading activity of insiders. This is stock market 101 stuff.
Good points, all, but I think you missed a thing or two.
The Japanese justice system has something like a 95% conviction rate. Virtually every single charge comes to court with a signed confession.
Call me crazy, but there is something suspicious about all that. I don't think Americans are going to support that level of ... how would I put it ... investigation ... from the police.
And if they did, I'm sure they would show it by demanding it starts with the necessary changes to the Constitution to enable it. Which is pretty much the exact opposite of what I'm reading in the comments here.
Low volume price sounds about right. Might come down with higher production, but for that you need volume sales.
It's got to use basically the same chips as every other phone, because they are integrated ... the features are built into the chipsets necessary to make something that will work as a cellphone, but not enabled. I very much doubt you could buy a chip that only makes calls from any fab, and even if you could, it would probably cost more than the chip they're using.
These guys are not Motorola/Nokia/SONY Erickson/etc. Probably sounds expensive as a non-subsidized price, but the chances of any carrier actually selling this phone are slim to none; they make too much money on the non-phone-call features, so it's not going to be the cheapest phone available no matter what.
[Missed my footnote] ... but it also means no money for renewable energy, no farm subsidies, no foreign aid (1) ..."
(1) Foreign Aid is always money transferred from taxpayers to corporations or citizens. When the Federal Government offers Foreign Aid to another country, what really happens is the Government spends all the money on US jobs and products. If it's food, they buy the food from US growers and give that away. If it's technology or some building initiative, all the companies involved are US companies with American employees. If it's development aid, they hire US citizens to do the liason. If it's military aid, they buy the planes from Boeing or weapons from Raytheon and then give them to the foreign government. Foreign Aid is simply just another government transfer to Americans.
" ... Socially liberal does not mean "spend money".
Any other definition necessarily requires taking my money and giving it to someone else. ..."
Libertarians do have a political philosophy that straddles Democratic and Republican party lines. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that neither Republicans nor Democrats follow either liberal or conservative political philosophy strictly; each borrows some from both, despite which brush people tend to paint them with.
Libertarians support lowering taxes, eliminating taxes, and would be against any new taxes. If that sounds Republican, note that they would also support eliminating government programs and spending on anything except essential services. That might mean no welfare, no unemployment insurance, no spending on drug rehab centres, but it also means no money for renewable energy, no farm subsidies, no foreign aid (1), and get the Defence Department out of the highway building and waterway dredging business. Let the airlines and passengers pay for the airports, let the sports teams pay for the stadiums, let the universities fund their own research.
Socially, there is really no difference ... it's "get government out of it" again. No restrictions on who can carry guns, no speed limits, no meddling in abortion debates or stem cell research, no teacher led school prayer but no restrictions on individual student religious expression. No DRM legislation, possibly no or very limited copyright and patent law. Let the gays in the military if that's what they want to do. Whatever, as long as it doesn't infringe on others rights to security and enjoyment of private property.
In other words, smaller government, period. No exceptions.
I'm not sure where the Tea Party fits in all this ... they started out acting Libertarian but then the issues started coming up and many of their answers were just regular Republican policies rehashed a bit.
The Republican Party supports spending on areas that Libertarians would be stridently against, just like they would be against most Democratic spending initiatives.
Insiders selling company stock is always a Red Flag for investors. Whether that is justified or not in this case is up to the individual to decide, but it's a Red Flag for a reason ... very often it means problems within the company and bad news follows.
There are perfectly good reasons for insider selling, and it helps to be very straightforward about it ... it's not like you can hide it anyway, it's reported and watched vigorously.
Not being a Microsoft investor, and not particularly interested in their area of the market, it's not really important to me. But, if it were, I'd be very wary of the level of stock he's liquidating ... 25% is a massive sell by the usual standards. 5% is probably not going to raise too many eyebrows ... even 10% might be OK under the right circumstances.
But, since he can always pledge stock to back up any personal investment, this level is worrisome, I would think. It really means he's moving his money out of tech. And he's the CEO of a huge tech player. This is an unusual development by any investor standard.
Assuming you mean Java, and not JavaScript, I have a solution.
Turn off Java in the browser. I've had it off for years ... apparently it has no Earthly use, as my browsing experience is completely unchanged. Banking, whatever ... just works.
Hit the switch, and at least for that particular issue, it's gone. For good.
" ... Compound this with the MacAfee Heel: most OTS boxes come with MacAfee installed at least as a demo. ..."
You've inadvertently hit the nail on the head. The scam is simple and effective because it exploits human logic. I've noticed most /.'ers think that users are naive, or clueless, or worse, but they're missing the beauty of the scam because they can't think like a non-sophisticated user ... they're beyond it and don't have the same mindset anymore.
But, to get to the point, the PC comes pre-installed with some kind of AV, in demo mode. It works for a while, then times out or goes to some limited functionality. This is the AV vendor's only real means to get a license sold. I would bet that pretty much every user that falls for this scam has at least considered buying the demo up to full functionality, but balk at the cost.
Along comes Mr Fake AV. The user knows they have no or limited AV protection. They know everyone says they need some protection. The crooks know that all they have to do is price their scam SW lower than whatever McAffee (or whomever) wants for the demo to go licensed. McAffee has helped this transaction by setting the bar price-wise, and the scammer knows ALL the users have been exposed to the price via the demo, so he also knows ALL the users will see it as a bargain. Bingo. Hook, meet Line and Sinker.
Make all documentation as detailed as possible. Record every single change ... if an Ethernet cable is switched out in the staff room, record as change. ... say $199 a seat.
If a laptop moves from one office to another, record as deletion, document, record as addition, document.
Include a full specification sheet, owner's manual, service manual, errata and updates to documentation, for each item, including the Ethernet cable.
List the individual IP addresses affected by every change, do not use ranges.
Print out the individual IP addresses of the entire network on changes that affect the network as a whole.
If paper documents are required, create huge mounds of paperwork and deliver them to the authorities, but only at random intervals and as single documents, stapled together but not bound, in cardboard boxes.
Send all documentation in single-spaced 6 point type with no page breaks, line breaks, indentations, or formatting.
If digital records are demanded, password protect each page, use a password that requires the page number be entered as part of the username, and have the password session expire every five minutes.
Require minimum 24 character passwords, generated by your own application and using the entire goddamn keyboard.
Develop or purchase a proprietary, in-house encryption application, and use said application to encrypt all documents. Do not sell site licenses; sell per-seat licenses to the Government at a reasonable fee
Encrypt each individual device change as one document in non-editable PDF format, then include large numbers of "This Page Left Intentionally Blank" within each pdf, but not in a continuous set and never at the end of the document.
Send a random number of duplicate copies of the same document in each batch.
Send a random number of previously submitted documents with each batch.
Insure that if government chooses "print", it prints out the entire batch of documents that form each set.
So that when you are watching a TV program, and the commercial comes on, and you switch to your alternate channel (we choose things like National Geographic HD with no ads, ever) you can still see the drivel view on the tiny display.
You need enough to identify it's drivel, but not enough to have it intrude into your view. Picture-in-Picture gives you way too big a screen, and right in the way. I want a tiny, HD screen, alongside my 50-inch. Hi-Res, so it's clear and easily identifiable what's on it, but tiny, so it's just not big enough to intrude into anything.
Essentially, all I need to see is ... not football ... not football ... okay, football. Switch to the big screen.
" ... "io9 has a scary outline of five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters. Quoting: 'In August of 1950, ten B-29 Superfortress ..." ... means a story about how five times the US [population] [area] came close to accidental nuclear disasters. The hanging "s" on "disasters" doesn't really fit, but we've already read the "five times the US" bit and come to our comprehension.
There's a word we sometimes use in English. It's called "the". It helps us understand sentences, used appropriately.
"lo9 has a scary outline of the five times the US came close to accidental nuclear disasters."
Oh, I see. Five incidents, not five times the US population. The "s" fits now too. Isn't English wonderful?
What he's really proposing is increasing the size of the aircraft where it's legal to fly with one pilot. Currently you need a co-pilot if there are 12 or more passengers (flight crew are considered passengers).
Many commercial carriers who do fly the smaller aircraft, mostly to remote areas, have a co-pilot on board anyway; it's how you train your pilots.
One would assume Ryanair simply want to poach pilots with experience from other airlines; otherwise the only other conclusion is they are fine with inexperienced pilots as well.
I won't go into how Ryanair fits compared to it's competitors or how a flight on their craft is different from other carriers, but broadly speaking I wouldn't trust any proposal from Ryanair on anything.
... for an obit in my experience. Our local paper (pop 230,000) would charge in the order of $2000 for 180 words. $450 would get you an obit roughly three times as long as this post.
I've been using a USB key built with the set of Portable Apps for banking when I'm off on jobs and am prohibited from connecting my laptop to the company's network (usually there will be a couple of PCs available to staff).
Firefox, an encryption app, a fairly feature-poor non-Adobe PDF creator/reader, a screen capture utility, and a text program pretty much rounds out the whole shebang. Account information and passwords are stored on an encrypted text page and cut-and-pasted when necessary, and I manually copy (again, cut-and-paste) into a simple text file any info I need, which is then encrypted and stored on the USB key.
Not perfect, but certainly better than just trusting another PC, reconfiguring the browser every time to stop it's automated "help" like storing user info and passwords, and having your sessions and metadata logged by the resident OS & apps.
" ... The distinction you are trying to make is between debt capital (e.g. bonds, long term bank loans, any thing else that is financing) and other liabilities. Shareholders equity is not shown as a liability, and is not connected to the share price. ..."
True; I was referring to where shareholder's equity appears on the liability side of the balance sheet. Assets less liabilities = shareholder's equity; in other words it's whatever number required to make liabilities + shareholder's equity equal assets.
People print out documents because, for one, they want to view non-continuous pages. A monitor that could show, say 6 full pages might do the trick.
Another reason is to have a permanent copy; people all have a story where documents were lost due to some data-related problem.
Finally, some people want to mark up pages. Although there are ways to do that on a computer, vendor proprietary formats, cost of applications, and generally not really working as well as people want make print and the pencil by far the easiest solution.
Liabilities are not debt.
They are the short term costs of doing business, and will be reflected in next year's financial statements as being fully paid out of operating revenue.
Debt is simply that ... money you borrowed and will have to pay back some day.
Examples of liabilities are ... employee wages, rents, utilities, paying the contractor who painted your office building, invoices for product delivered (last week) but not yet paid for (once every 30 days, etc), etc. Another (Big) example is shareholder's equity. That is money you technically owe, but never have to pay; if the stock goes to zero there is no payment required to cover that.
It's ongoing business accounting, with the payment coming out of your ongoing sales.
" ... Yes, I know this, but how does it constitute fraud against the listener? It's not like anybody who listens to commercial radio would expect the music to be untainted by commercial interests. ..."
Perhaps you misunderstand the meaning of "Payola". I will only comment on the obvious difference: Payola is a kickback paid in secret to a staff member of the radio station; advertising is a contract for promotion with the money going to the corporate entity.
Payola is more akin to "coke and hookers" and although it's certainly not unheard of for "coke and hookers" to be part of a company to company "arrangement", it too would be illegal.
Legally speaking, "Payola" is an illegal bribe.
When I was in college a second language was still mandatory to graduate. Basically this meant at the time that you have to pass one full class in a non-English language. Today I don't believe a second language is mandatory any more, and 20 years before I was in school, it was four years of a second language or no diploma, sonny.
Anyway, I took French like I had for four years in High School (we could also take German at our school, it was a bit easier to learn).
My buddy in College took Chinese. I asked him if he'd ever spoken it before ... not a word. Pure Rookie.
He would come to lunch and start doing these chinese characters for his assignment. Pretty much every class you had to write out some phrase in Chinese characters, and hand it in ... this was for class credit.
He had this book; look up something, write a stroke, look up some more, write another stroke, and so on. I asked if it was hard. Nope, but you pretty much have to look all this stuff up every time, he said. Too many to remember, although you eventually figure some of 'em out. Basically, you talked in class and wrote this assignment between classes. He said it was one of the easiest classes he ever took; everyone was getting 100% on the class assignments.
I asked about the prof ... doesn't he want you to do any closed-book exams (without the "little book" handy)? Nope, he said. The prof uses the little book too, all during the class.
Oh, I said.
So, you need to repetitively write the stuff down. Eventually you learn a few of them, but it's not expected that you learn them all. Apparently no-one does.
" ... So many made up words, so little meaning. The term 'fraud' has been around since the dawn of the English language.
How is "payola" fraud? It is no different than paying to have advertisements run on the radio. It is paying for an advertising service. ..."
It's a fraud perpetuated on the public. And it is quite clearly different than paid advertising on the radio, because paid advertising is legal while payola was made a crime 50 years ago.