All that would be needed is for someone to submit random entries repeatedly. They could even be tailored for topic using search various techniques. Use several similar iterations of key subject words forcing the false positives to increase. They end up having to buy more storage, processing, hosting, usw, just to maintain their QoS. If false positives go up, their user base goes down, making it all unprofitable. Run 'em into the ground I say.
I had an English teacher explain this to us way back when I went to college. She one day mistakenly passed out folders with all the papers we had turned in for the semester. I took out all of mine and replaced them with a note stating that what's mine is mine and I'm keeping them.
I hate people that never respond. Sometimes they justify it as they were only CC'ed not in the main To:. Or they were one of a small list of recipients in the To:, even if the first listed.
I hate people that put return receipts on everything they send out. They get pissed when you elect not to send the return receipt.
I hate people who will copy a great number of people in an organization that aren't remotely involved with an issue just to point out that someone in the organization did something wrong. I usually reply-all to the originator with great condescension.
I hate people who prefer to give work instruction to you in person or over the phone or even IM instead email. They don't want to trouble even though I need the accountability.
It only mildly annoys me when someone forwards something to you that you were on copy of originally. All they had to do was look at who all the note was sent to.
As I mentioned in a previous post, rental car agencies can't fine you for speeding. This was probably ruled back in 2001 when it first started happening. The precident says they can't because they are not a law enforcement entity.
Cover the antenna with tinfoil. If they ask questions, say you read on teh intarweb that doing so protects the computer from harmful rf emmisions making it last longer. Hell, tell them I said it was so. As a matter of fact...
Covering the computer and antenna of a car's On Board Diagnostic system protects it from harmful radio frequency emmisions which will make the equipment last longer.
I seriously doubt the police would get involved in a ticketing racket with the local rent-a-car. And since thanks to a court decision which I can't link to because it happened so long ago and I don't feel like searching for it, rental agencies can't legally charge you for speeding because they are not government agencies.
Yeah, the black box suggests otherwise. But so do witnesses, skid marks and other accident data. The black box only helps. It doesn't provide a full picture of what actually happened.
Think of it this way. My employer (one being investigated by the SEC for such practices) offers employees the chance to purchase stock at a reduced rate, 85%. The stock tanks due to the recession. Of course the people at the top of the ladder get their stock first. Suddenly, there aren't enough shares to go around to all the people at the bottom who set the money aside. The company shrugs it's shoulders and hads back a portion of the money it's emplyees intended to invest. The employees have just given their employer a six month interest free loan AND they don't get their intended investment. So when the stock begins to climb again, the little guy has an executive foot in his face going up the ladder. Repeat every six months for five years with the same tired excuse that not enough shares were allocated for employee purchase. Needless to say, hope somebody goes to jail. And I hope they get fucked in the ass.
Zathras is always forgetting what Zathras told him. And Zathras is always loosing things Zathras gave him. And Zathras is always getting lost. But not Zathras. Zathras always remembers what he is told. Zathras always remembers where he puts things. And Zathras never gets lost.
But what if someone with more balls than brains decided to sit in court without a lawyer and let the MPAA bash him? If he has relatively little to loose, say his parents basement and a 10 year old domestic car, what harm could he really do to himself? So what if Joe Nerd owes the MPAA more money than he'll ever make in his lifetime. I doubt it will make people stop downloading. If anything, the MPAA will be viewed more so as a bully, bent on ruining anyone they come across. And he'll be thought of as the victim, not Universal or Sony or any other who was deprived of $15 for some shitty movie. They'll never be able to take the moral high ground then.
IBM sold my project four years ago. The year before and the year after, while we were still on IBM's infrastructure, I played around with their C4eb. I was cleaning up abused machines as well as sanitizing former coworker's computers. They of course got Windows 2K. I put the Linux option on one of my machines. It came prepackaged with WINE and NotesUnderLinux. I found a java client for SAP and was nearly fully functional. I found statistics on internal OS usage and noticed the other flavors of Linux being used. I dropped SuSE on a machine and configured it similarly to the preconfigured Linux RedHat image. (I forget the version.) IBM kicked my new employer off their Token Ring network, sending the IT team into a scramble to reimage all the machines. I found a note on mine demanding to know the admin password. I tried to inform them of the lack of an admin account, let alone password. That just pissed them off. I took a screenshot and let them roll the machine. They were imaging the computers for an active directory network while having everyone log into the local domain. How do these people find jobs? Anyway...... It is my understanding that many of the products IBM has, they test on their employees. I was once informed by security that there were web filtering packages employed to detect various inappropriate sights. To my knowledge, they never used it to block anything, only monitor. No one ever got fired solely based on what the filters picked up. But that's just speculation on my part. But yeah, it would say a lot for IBM to put it's money where it's mouth is for pushing Linux on the desktop and providing native software AND support.
I'd have to agree with relation between the two. But then again, SAP was written by Germans. I also wish they would come out with a non-java based Linux client.
Step inside any public high school, you won't likely find many of the 'elective' classes you remember. A friend of mine teaches and coaches wrestling. The wrestiling room is in the former shop class. I asked him what happened to all the equipment like saws and such. He said thanks to NCLB they didn't have the money to fund things like shop class. Federal mandate says that the money is to be used on core curiculum, ie test prep. So all the kids who might have benefitted from a little experience with power tools are now not even qualified to work construction. At least now they qualify to work fast food.
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All that would be needed is for someone to submit random entries repeatedly. They could even be tailored for topic using search various techniques. Use several similar iterations of key subject words forcing the false positives to increase. They end up having to buy more storage, processing, hosting, usw, just to maintain their QoS. If false positives go up, their user base goes down, making it all unprofitable. Run 'em into the ground I say.
I had an English teacher explain this to us way back when I went to college. She one day mistakenly passed out folders with all the papers we had turned in for the semester. I took out all of mine and replaced them with a note stating that what's mine is mine and I'm keeping them.
Bitch gives her too much credit. Call her a cunt.
I hate people that never respond. Sometimes they justify it as they were only CC'ed not in the main To:. Or they were one of a small list of recipients in the To:, even if the first listed.
I hate people that put return receipts on everything they send out. They get pissed when you elect not to send the return receipt.
I hate people who will copy a great number of people in an organization that aren't remotely involved with an issue just to point out that someone in the organization did something wrong. I usually reply-all to the originator with great condescension.
I hate people who prefer to give work instruction to you in person or over the phone or even IM instead email. They don't want to trouble even though I need the accountability.
It only mildly annoys me when someone forwards something to you that you were on copy of originally. All they had to do was look at who all the note was sent to.
From TFA She's not bad.
I did a cursory search for it, but only found references. Wether you like ST or not, it might be interesting given the title.
As I mentioned in a previous post, rental car agencies can't fine you for speeding. This was probably ruled back in 2001 when it first started happening. The precident says they can't because they are not a law enforcement entity.
The benefits of ABS are dubious at best. But most people wouldn't know that their car had ABS if it weren't for it being listed as a feature.
Every time I hear someone say this, I think of how boring or how stupid they truely are.
Sounds like someone had snakes in their cornflakes.
You forgot that the quality and timing of such hardware need not be so acurate as to be a bullet point for Hollywood police drama.
I seriously doubt the police would get involved in a ticketing racket with the local rent-a-car. And since thanks to a court decision which I can't link to because it happened so long ago and I don't feel like searching for it, rental agencies can't legally charge you for speeding because they are not government agencies.
Yeah, the black box suggests otherwise. But so do witnesses, skid marks and other accident data. The black box only helps. It doesn't provide a full picture of what actually happened.
the only portion of the news we can take at face value is based off of modeling, punctuated with a big question mark?
Think of it this way. My employer (one being investigated by the SEC for such practices) offers employees the chance to purchase stock at a reduced rate, 85%. The stock tanks due to the recession. Of course the people at the top of the ladder get their stock first. Suddenly, there aren't enough shares to go around to all the people at the bottom who set the money aside. The company shrugs it's shoulders and hads back a portion of the money it's emplyees intended to invest. The employees have just given their employer a six month interest free loan AND they don't get their intended investment. So when the stock begins to climb again, the little guy has an executive foot in his face going up the ladder. Repeat every six months for five years with the same tired excuse that not enough shares were allocated for employee purchase. Needless to say, hope somebody goes to jail. And I hope they get fucked in the ass.
At least there are people who will admit to liking Shatner's acting.
Good one. I think I know who I'll be voting for in the next election.
Zathras is always forgetting what Zathras told him. And Zathras is always loosing things Zathras gave him. And Zathras is always getting lost. But not Zathras. Zathras always remembers what he is told. Zathras always remembers where he puts things. And Zathras never gets lost.
But what if someone with more balls than brains decided to sit in court without a lawyer and let the MPAA bash him? If he has relatively little to loose, say his parents basement and a 10 year old domestic car, what harm could he really do to himself? So what if Joe Nerd owes the MPAA more money than he'll ever make in his lifetime. I doubt it will make people stop downloading. If anything, the MPAA will be viewed more so as a bully, bent on ruining anyone they come across. And he'll be thought of as the victim, not Universal or Sony or any other who was deprived of $15 for some shitty movie. They'll never be able to take the moral high ground then.
for being a personal page ala myspace.
IBM sold my project four years ago. The year before and the year after, while we were still on IBM's infrastructure, I played around with their C4eb. I was cleaning up abused machines as well as sanitizing former coworker's computers. They of course got Windows 2K. I put the Linux option on one of my machines. It came prepackaged with WINE and NotesUnderLinux. I found a java client for SAP and was nearly fully functional. I found statistics on internal OS usage and noticed the other flavors of Linux being used. I dropped SuSE on a machine and configured it similarly to the preconfigured Linux RedHat image. (I forget the version.) IBM kicked my new employer off their Token Ring network, sending the IT team into a scramble to reimage all the machines. I found a note on mine demanding to know the admin password. I tried to inform them of the lack of an admin account, let alone password. That just pissed them off. I took a screenshot and let them roll the machine. They were imaging the computers for an active directory network while having everyone log into the local domain. How do these people find jobs? Anyway......
It is my understanding that many of the products IBM has, they test on their employees. I was once informed by security that there were web filtering packages employed to detect various inappropriate sights. To my knowledge, they never used it to block anything, only monitor. No one ever got fired solely based on what the filters picked up. But that's just speculation on my part. But yeah, it would say a lot for IBM to put it's money where it's mouth is for pushing Linux on the desktop and providing native software AND support.
I'd have to agree with relation between the two. But then again, SAP was written by Germans. I also wish they would come out with a non-java based Linux client.
Step inside any public high school, you won't likely find many of the 'elective' classes you remember.
A friend of mine teaches and coaches wrestling. The wrestiling room is in the former shop class. I asked him what happened to all the equipment like saws and such. He said thanks to NCLB they didn't have the money to fund things like shop class. Federal mandate says that the money is to be used on core curiculum, ie test prep. So all the kids who might have benefitted from a little experience with power tools are now not even qualified to work construction. At least now they qualify to work fast food.
How about they work on getting people to speak proper English first, mmmk?