As a high achiever who graduated pre NCLB, I found high school to be extremely boring, lacking in challenge, and in general focused on getting as many morons degrees as possible.
I had the credits to graduate 2 years early from high school, however, because of required english courses which the school refused to allow me to take early, I was forced to slumber and completely waste 2 years of my life.
That being said, I found college to be at least as bad. I attended 2 universities over 3 years, I never once met a professor who cared about my development. I actively pursued opportunities to get more involved with various projects, but was always turned away as I was not in upper level courses yet. I was bored, and constantly felt like I was wasting my time. This only got worse after 2 years of C++ training, when the university changed everything over to Java.. which meant another year of writing hello world, bubble sort, quick sort, etc.
In the end, I was offered a job that made the opportunity cost of University prohibitive... I'm happy where I'm at now, but even before NCLB school was a waste of time for true over achievers.
I'm not arguing against the high taxes, or saying they are bad in any way. The original post seemed to be making the argument that europe pays higher prices for oil because they have almost zero domestic production, and that if we were to step up our domestic production we could lower prices. While increased production could lower prices for some short amount of time, it has nothing to do with whether that production is domestic or foreign.
I was simply pointing out the fact that Europe pays more because of taxation, not because of a lack of domestic production.
The reason european countries pay so much for gas is because there is about a 300% tax on the stuff... Oil costs the same amount everywhere. It's all traded on the same markets. Exxon Mobile sells a barrel of oil for $137 whether it was pumped out of the ground in Texas, Alaska, Venezuela, or Iran. It doesn't matter where the oil came from.
The only thing that effects the price besides the market price of oil is local taxation/subsidies. In China and India for example, the government buys that $137 barrel of oil, and then sells it to consumers for like $10/barrel. Sure the government loses money on this but they figure they'll make it up in economic growth. In Europe, they take that $137 barrel of oil and add a 2-300% tax so now the oil costs $270-400. hence the $8-9 price for a gallon of gas.
As far as the commercial web services part, there are certainly issue in this area that are not clear and are being raised.
The debacle last month with ExtJS proved this. They relicensed under GPLv3 and then began trying to demand money for a commercial license from everyone who used their javascript library in a commercial web site, stating that you cannot use their library in your website under the GPL unless you open source all of the code used to generate your website (html, css, js, and any server side code like PHP, Ruby, or Python).
Many people contacted the FSF over this issue, and the response was pretty much "we don't know the answer to that, the courts haven't decided it, and it would have to be decided on a case by case basis".
In my opinion it is 100% possible that a GPLv3 project will be able to get a court to rule that if you use open source software to power a web site then all of the source code that generates that web site must be open sourced. Again the FSF has NO ANSWER to this question.
I would also have checked the "requires immediate total cooperation from everyone at once" option.
Many many computers don't have TPM yet. I own 10 computers, none of them have a TPM.
So, I just can't play these games? The video game industry is going to limit its market base to only TPM enabled PCs? That seems like a dumb move. Their only other alternative is requiring everyone to cooperate with their scheme and buy a new PC with TPM.... Highly unlikely.
Personally, I tend to agree with these stories of shortages of engineering talent. I've been in tech for 12 years. I have met and worked with exactly 2 people in all that time that I would consider "good" engineers. I've worked with well over 500 tech/IT/software developers in that time on various teams and projects.
As others have posted, especially in IT I don't think there is a shortage of people in the field, but there is a huge shortage of actually skilled labor in the field. I feel it is this huge glut of unskilled, poorly trained IT people and developers that are holding our wages back. A company cannot reasonably assess the talent of anyone in the IT field, and so, they go with a least common denominator pay approach, because at least if they get crappy employees, they aren't paying them much.
But by your argument you are saying that if I copyright something I sacrifice my privacy. And anything that is written is automatically copyrighted by the author, so, give me your diary, because it is copyrighted.
What if a business writes down their internal strategy meetings? These are then copyrighted by the business. Should a competing entity be able to request those copyrighted works? Certainly not.
This is the problem with your argument, copyright applies to any document which is written. If I write a letter to my wife that document is copyrighted and I own the copyright. If a poem in that letter turns out to be a wonderful work, I am entitled to publish it, or exploit it for financial gain in any way I please. But it is not your right to request that letter from me, nor should any person be able to gain access to any document solely on the basis that the document is copyrighted. As I already mentioned, all written documents automatically fall under copyright unless they are explicitly released to the public domain.
Except you are 100% wrong. Copyright as created in the constitution provides "the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" to the author(s). The EXCLUSIVE right, IE, If I write something, and I don't want anyone but myself and my wife to read it, as the creator, I am allowed to restrict distribution to myself and my wife.
The constitution and copyright law provide absolutely 0 limit to the rights of the author. Getting a copyright on something does not require you to distribute it, or to distribute it for profit. It grants you the EXCLUSIVE right to do with it whatever you please. By copyrighting something it doesn't provide anyone else a right to access it.
Yeah Frontbridge is not really an option anymore. We are in pretty much the same boat (25 users, up from 10 6 months ago), and needed spam filtering. Our main sysadmin is a windows guy, he recommended frontbridge, and signed us up for a 30 day trial. It worked great, came to the end of the trial and tried to sign up. It took 5 days, and 8 sales reps to get us an answer. The answer being, unless you have MS Volume licensing, and greater than 100 seats, you can't sign up for Frontbridge.
So we signed up for Google/Postini, saved about $500/yr, and so far, same results as Frontbridge, no spam, everyone's happy.
This sounds insane... So basically we don't need menus any more because the applications will become self aware?!?
Every time MS has ever tried to use their software to "figure out" what I'm trying to do, or "be smart" I spend hundreds of hours undoing what the application thought I wanted. If their "AI" is off by just a little bit, it is a failure. Think about the annoyance that is clippy!
Maybe if "everything was a file" in windows like it is in *nix you could have your "create a file, then go word process on it" paradigm. Unfortunately, in windows you have to make sure and create that file as the right type or the os won't know what to do with it, and the user has to know what type to make the file.. which is a whole lot more training than just saving a file from word.
Well personally I think the whole idea of health insurance is flawed. Insurance is supposed to be a risk spreading mechanism. Well, everyone needs health care, there isn't a single person who doesn't, health care is standard maintenance. As such, there is no way to spread the risk. 100% of people have medical bills. If car insurance worked the way health insurance does, it would cover all maintenance, oil changes, tires, and probably even gas. And it would cost many thousands of dollars a year.
I would argue people have health insurance though because we get the bill. If doctors worked for free, what incentive would there be to spread any risk?
In the robbery case, probably your home owners insurance will pay your medical bills, it will be that insurance that pays for any other loss (property stolen, vandalism, etc)
Of course there isn't a clear line, it comes down to a personal decision of what the role of government is in our lives. I feel that government should handle "normal" things, like cops for robberies, fire department for fires.
By your definition, I certainly feel that Fossett put himself in the situation, sure it was a "regular" flight, it isn't like he was necessarily going out to fly stunts that we know of, but still, it would be akin to an expert snow boarder who goes back country/heli boarding, and gets into a situation that he doesn't expect, and needs to be rescued. In this case, it should be the individual's responsibility to either have the necessary insurance, or in some other way foot the bill. Maybe I'm heartless...
If you hare having a heat attack, and call 911, you are getting a bill. Sure its not for the call, but it is a direct result of the phone call. You would have to be a non-thinking person to think "Oh, I'm in an emergency, I can call 911 its free!" And not realize they are going to get a bill as a result of the call.
I have had that experience way more than once. Install rails, generate your rails app, build some models... everything is looking good... Upgrade rails itself... now the rails scripts, the ones the got copied into your app, not the ones you wrote, no longer work. They are importing things from the rails framework, and function calls have changed, parameters have been moved or removed, in short the rails API is not stable.
When this happens a bunch of code you didn't write, and don't control, and have no reason to control or update, or know how it works, makes it so your app is broken.
In contrast to this, look at Django. You install the django framework, when you generate your application it creates 1 file with some settings in it and a directory structure with some files with 0 lines of code in them. The django API is not stable either, but, all of the code in your application is YOURS. If you upgrade django and your app breaks because you were using a function that is deprecated, or in some other way the API changes, well it is YOUR code that is broken. In rails, even if you are 100% up to date on the changes going on, the functions that are going to be deprecated, the things that will be moved around... that doesn't matter, because you created your application on version 1.14, and a 1.14 app makes calls to functions that are no longer available in 1.23 or whatever version it is on now.
For a place that hates IP more than any other place on the internet, you guys sure are going to bat for JK... Why is it ok for her to sue her fans but if the RIAA sues its fans that is anathema?!? There isn't a single recording artist that is worth a billion dollars, yet we whine and moan that the millionaire recording artists are being greedy when they want to get paid for every single use of their songs.
Look, She wrote 1 children's story that happened to span 7 books. She is worth more than 1 billion dollars. Why can't she take her billion and go away? No instead, she is going to maintain that this guy who has spent huge portions of time promoting her work is unable to make any money whatsoever off of his time and energy. She has to be the most greedy evil person I've ever heard of... well aside from the Waltons.
Personally I disliked the harry potter books, I thought they were poorly written and incredibly stupid. I really don't like her as a person. She has always come of greedy and hyper-controlling to me. Her insane secrecy rules, suing everyone who touched one of her books 10 minutes before they were *supposed* to be released. She has this nice sob story about being a broke single mom... I wonder what happened to her kids when she got rich? Probably shipped them straight to boarding school and hasn't spoken to them since.
flying senators around the world on stupid junkets of course!
Seriously though, tax dollars don't pay for a lot of things. Do you think ambulance rides are free? What about life flight? No these things cost a lot of money. I live in Utah, people get lost in avalanches every year, and I know people get bills for those search/rescue efforts. Especially when they find you and you get life flighted out. That 20-30 minute heli ride is gonna cost you 40-60k.
If you are in a car accident and they life flight you, even if the accident wasn't your fault, guess who is getting the bill... that's right you. Granted you can probably recoup that in your lawsuit against the guilty party, just better hope you weren't at fault, cause if you were, then there is no recourse for you.
I don't know how many of you people have been serviced by "standard" emergency service. You get billed for it. If you are in a car accident and need to be life flighted, you get billed for it (40-60k). If you need an ambulance you get billed for it. If you are rescued in an avalanche you are billed for it (especially when they life flight you out).
search and rescue costs a lot of money. It is not a "standard" service. And, most of the time you get billed for the efforts of the rescuers.
If you call 911 for a medical emergency you better believe you're getting a bill for that ambulance. If you call for the cops or fire, you probably won't get charged, but there are circumstances where you do.
Further, people get charged all the time for search and rescue. I live in Utah, every year people are life flighted out of the mountains after avalanche or some other emergency. They get the bill every time. My father in law was life flighted last year against his will. He thought he was fine (it turned out he was) but the paramedics would not for fear of a lawsuit let him get down the mountain any other way. He was still billed $60k for the rescue/helicopter ride.
Wrong. This story is not the same one linked before, and it actually explains why this is an MS only problem (not all SQL injections just this one).
It is not an IIS problem it is a MS SQL Server "feature" whereby you can basically create a dynamic query that will go figure out your database schema for you, and dynamically perform updates on the table. This is not possible against Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, but MS SQL allows you to create a single query that can successfully attack any MS SQL database.
Usually SQL injection attacks are pretty extremely customized, because they have to deduce the database structure so that they can create a valid update query to insert the malicious code into the DB. This MS SQL feature allows you to automate the attack.
Still it is not MS's fault, but it is only affecting MS SQL server backed sites, and there are ways to secure your DB so this attack fails (so blame the DBAs first), second blame the web developers.
unfortunately, unless you are in the southwest (US), if you're "average", you'll need something a lot closer to $40k in solar panels, inverters, batteries, etc just to power your house. I don't know how much extra power you would need to charge your car too... but I've looked extensively at putting in a solar grid tie system which would make me grid neutral, and with installation, I'm looking at $47k (I use between 300 and 1200 kwh/mo winter to summer). To produce 1200kwh in a month assuming 10 hours of usable sunlight in a day * 30 days, you have 300 hours to produce 1200kwh, so you have to have 4kw of production on average over those 300 hours, a 200watt panel costs $1000, you need 20 of those at a bare minimum, so $20,000. Now, a 200watt panel will only realistically produce 100-150watts on average, so you need at least another 50% capacity, so now you're up to $30k in panels. mounting brackets, installation, another 10k, inverter for the grid tie, 5-7k.
Where I live they will give you a maximum subsidy of $6k... that barely covers the installation costs. Also the power company here doesn't pay you for extra power you put on the grid. You get credits on your account, but, under no circumstances will they write you a check. Even if you cancel your power account with a credit balance they won't pay you. In case you really don't want to live in such a backwards state, its Utah. Of course Utah gets about 80% of its electricity from coal and the last 20% from geothermal and hydroelectric, so all pretty cheap methods of generation. We only pay 7.5 cents/kwh. Compared to Nevada, Arizona, or California, this is rock bottom cheap.
Now, it might make sense if you have an EV, maybe you can have an extra battery pack, and maybe you only need 400 watts to charge that battery pack in 10 hours, so you can just spend $2000, no inverter needed maybe? the batteries charge with DC power? and each day you just leave a battery pack for your car charging, then switch it out. this would be much cheaper than the $10k still.
If there were showers available at all office buildings this might be an option... Unfortunately, if I rode to work I would get there drenched in sweat, stinking, and completely unfit to meet with clients and prospective clients all day, neither would any of my team members.
Programmers already have enough hygiene problems, no need to exacerbate it with additional sweat. Now telecommuting, that I am fully behind, and I telecommute at least 1 day and normally 2 a week, as do all members of my team.
math error. You state we could produce 26 billion gallons of ethanol, if you convert that to e85, you need.85 gallon of ethanol to make 1 gallon of e85, so instead of 26 billion *.85 it should be 26 billion /.85 which yields 30.6 billion gallons of e85. This exceeds your figure of 27 billion gallons of e85, but doesn't change the fundamental argument. This would require consuming the world's entire sugar crop to power just the US cars... Still a complete non-starter.
not neccessarily. While that often happens when you have a huge class, this class will be somewhat smaller. They can limit the class to people who have paid settlements to the RIAA, while not tiny, this is nothing like the windows pricing lawsuit a couple years ago where there were literally 50 million members of the class, and the maximum reward is the price difference in windows (like $20).
In a case like this, say they get 10,000 members of the class who have paid settlements of 3-5k. Well that is 30-50 million. If they can prove their case sufficiently, and it goes in front of a jury, I can easily see a reward of 75-100 million on this, and the lawyers will get paid, and all the members of the class will get reimbursed their settlement money.
The problem with class action suits is the huge classes. If you have a class of 10 million people no matter what happens, you're not going to get much money, cause no company can pay 10 million people $3000 each (30 billion dollars, not even MS could sustain a hit like that, and they have more cash on hand than most companies). If you have a smaller class, you can get justice from a class action suit, and you can cause a significant hit to the perpetrators. In fact, Anderson by herself has already received all of the compensation she can expect. She never had to pay the RIAA and her attorneys fees have been paid. Individual members of the class cannot afford to go after the RIAA for their $3k, it doesn't make sense for the attorneys to handle it as individual cases, they won't make money. The only way a thing like this can work is in a class
sure it represents 82% of the gas (probably by weight or volume) but not all greenhouse gasses are created equal.
You have to look at a few chemical properties of the molecules. H20 is a much more potent greenhouse gas than co2. like 10-20 times more effective at absorbing and holding on to heat. Methane is also much more potent (like 5 to 10 times more efficient at storing heat). So yes, CO2 by weight or volume may be the biggest, but if you have a gas that is 5% water and 95% C02 the water will absorb almost as much heat as the CO2. So it sure doesn't take a lot of water vapor to make up for its lack of volume.
maybe I'm confused by what you mean... but if the company set up wild card DNS, they could have www, mail, mx, whateverhost, point to the appropriate IPs, but then have a wildcard that catches somenonexistanthost.domain.com (or any other host name that is not actually defined) and points it to some IP address that the company controls, maybe this is an error page, maybe it is a page with ads, maybe it just redirects to their www address... however the company wants.
The point is, with this DNS setup, the DNS query will never return NXDOMAIN. It will always return a valid A record, so there is nothing for the ISP to replace/inject.
Couldn't a company "fix" this by setting up wild card dns so that any "mistyped" url will still get resolved by DNS, thus making this particular attack/injection by the ISPs impossible?
Also, the company could display ads, or some other thing on THEIR DOMAIN, instead of letting the ISPs do this?
Would this be horribly wrong if the companies themselves (ebay, paypal, etc) were displaying ad pages for subdomains?
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As a high achiever who graduated pre NCLB, I found high school to be extremely boring, lacking in challenge, and in general focused on getting as many morons degrees as possible.
I had the credits to graduate 2 years early from high school, however, because of required english courses which the school refused to allow me to take early, I was forced to slumber and completely waste 2 years of my life.
That being said, I found college to be at least as bad. I attended 2 universities over 3 years, I never once met a professor who cared about my development. I actively pursued opportunities to get more involved with various projects, but was always turned away as I was not in upper level courses yet. I was bored, and constantly felt like I was wasting my time. This only got worse after 2 years of C++ training, when the university changed everything over to Java.. which meant another year of writing hello world, bubble sort, quick sort, etc.
In the end, I was offered a job that made the opportunity cost of University prohibitive... I'm happy where I'm at now, but even before NCLB school was a waste of time for true over achievers.
I'm not arguing against the high taxes, or saying they are bad in any way. The original post seemed to be making the argument that europe pays higher prices for oil because they have almost zero domestic production, and that if we were to step up our domestic production we could lower prices. While increased production could lower prices for some short amount of time, it has nothing to do with whether that production is domestic or foreign.
I was simply pointing out the fact that Europe pays more because of taxation, not because of a lack of domestic production.
The reason european countries pay so much for gas is because there is about a 300% tax on the stuff... Oil costs the same amount everywhere. It's all traded on the same markets. Exxon Mobile sells a barrel of oil for $137 whether it was pumped out of the ground in Texas, Alaska, Venezuela, or Iran. It doesn't matter where the oil came from.
The only thing that effects the price besides the market price of oil is local taxation/subsidies. In China and India for example, the government buys that $137 barrel of oil, and then sells it to consumers for like $10/barrel. Sure the government loses money on this but they figure they'll make it up in economic growth. In Europe, they take that $137 barrel of oil and add a 2-300% tax so now the oil costs $270-400. hence the $8-9 price for a gallon of gas.
As far as the commercial web services part, there are certainly issue in this area that are not clear and are being raised.
The debacle last month with ExtJS proved this. They relicensed under GPLv3 and then began trying to demand money for a commercial license from everyone who used their javascript library in a commercial web site, stating that you cannot use their library in your website under the GPL unless you open source all of the code used to generate your website (html, css, js, and any server side code like PHP, Ruby, or Python).
Many people contacted the FSF over this issue, and the response was pretty much "we don't know the answer to that, the courts haven't decided it, and it would have to be decided on a case by case basis".
In my opinion it is 100% possible that a GPLv3 project will be able to get a court to rule that if you use open source software to power a web site then all of the source code that generates that web site must be open sourced. Again the FSF has NO ANSWER to this question.
I would also have checked the "requires immediate total cooperation from everyone at once" option.
Many many computers don't have TPM yet. I own 10 computers, none of them have a TPM.
So, I just can't play these games? The video game industry is going to limit its market base to only TPM enabled PCs?
That seems like a dumb move. Their only other alternative is requiring everyone to cooperate with their scheme and buy a new PC with TPM.... Highly unlikely.
Personally, I tend to agree with these stories of shortages of engineering talent. I've been in tech for 12 years. I have met and worked with exactly 2 people in all that time that I would consider "good" engineers. I've worked with well over 500 tech/IT/software developers in that time on various teams and projects.
As others have posted, especially in IT I don't think there is a shortage of people in the field, but there is a huge shortage of actually skilled labor in the field. I feel it is this huge glut of unskilled, poorly trained IT people and developers that are holding our wages back. A company cannot reasonably assess the talent of anyone in the IT field, and so, they go with a least common denominator pay approach, because at least if they get crappy employees, they aren't paying them much.
But by your argument you are saying that if I copyright something I sacrifice my privacy. And anything that is written is automatically copyrighted by the author, so, give me your diary, because it is copyrighted.
What if a business writes down their internal strategy meetings? These are then copyrighted by the business. Should a competing entity be able to request those copyrighted works? Certainly not.
This is the problem with your argument, copyright applies to any document which is written. If I write a letter to my wife that document is copyrighted and I own the copyright. If a poem in that letter turns out to be a wonderful work, I am entitled to publish it, or exploit it for financial gain in any way I please. But it is not your right to request that letter from me, nor should any person be able to gain access to any document solely on the basis that the document is copyrighted. As I already mentioned, all written documents automatically fall under copyright unless they are explicitly released to the public domain.
Except you are 100% wrong. Copyright as created in the constitution provides "the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" to the author(s). The EXCLUSIVE right, IE, If I write something, and I don't want anyone but myself and my wife to read it, as the creator, I am allowed to restrict distribution to myself and my wife.
The constitution and copyright law provide absolutely 0 limit to the rights of the author. Getting a copyright on something does not require you to distribute it, or to distribute it for profit. It grants you the EXCLUSIVE right to do with it whatever you please. By copyrighting something it doesn't provide anyone else a right to access it.
Yeah Frontbridge is not really an option anymore. We are in pretty much the same boat (25 users, up from 10 6 months ago), and needed spam filtering. Our main sysadmin is a windows guy, he recommended frontbridge, and signed us up for a 30 day trial. It worked great, came to the end of the trial and tried to sign up. It took 5 days, and 8 sales reps to get us an answer. The answer being, unless you have MS Volume licensing, and greater than 100 seats, you can't sign up for Frontbridge.
So we signed up for Google/Postini, saved about $500/yr, and so far, same results as Frontbridge, no spam, everyone's happy.
This sounds insane... So basically we don't need menus any more because the applications will become self aware?!?
Every time MS has ever tried to use their software to "figure out" what I'm trying to do, or "be smart" I spend hundreds of hours undoing what the application thought I wanted. If their "AI" is off by just a little bit, it is a failure. Think about the annoyance that is clippy!
Maybe if "everything was a file" in windows like it is in *nix you could have your "create a file, then go word process on it" paradigm. Unfortunately, in windows you have to make sure and create that file as the right type or the os won't know what to do with it, and the user has to know what type to make the file.. which is a whole lot more training than just saving a file from word.
Well personally I think the whole idea of health insurance is flawed. Insurance is supposed to be a risk spreading mechanism. Well, everyone needs health care, there isn't a single person who doesn't, health care is standard maintenance. As such, there is no way to spread the risk. 100% of people have medical bills. If car insurance worked the way health insurance does, it would cover all maintenance, oil changes, tires, and probably even gas. And it would cost many thousands of dollars a year.
I would argue people have health insurance though because we get the bill. If doctors worked for free, what incentive would there be to spread any risk?
In the robbery case, probably your home owners insurance will pay your medical bills, it will be that insurance that pays for any other loss (property stolen, vandalism, etc)
Of course there isn't a clear line, it comes down to a personal decision of what the role of government is in our lives. I feel that government should handle "normal" things, like cops for robberies, fire department for fires.
By your definition, I certainly feel that Fossett put himself in the situation, sure it was a "regular" flight, it isn't like he was necessarily going out to fly stunts that we know of, but still, it would be akin to an expert snow boarder who goes back country/heli boarding, and gets into a situation that he doesn't expect, and needs to be rescued. In this case, it should be the individual's responsibility to either have the necessary insurance, or in some other way foot the bill. Maybe I'm heartless...
how is the difference not semantic?!
If you hare having a heat attack, and call 911, you are getting a bill. Sure its not for the call, but it is a direct result of the phone call. You would have to be a non-thinking person to think "Oh, I'm in an emergency, I can call 911 its free!" And not realize they are going to get a bill as a result of the call.
you are wrong here.
I have had that experience way more than once. Install rails, generate your rails app, build some models... everything is looking good... Upgrade rails itself... now the rails scripts, the ones the got copied into your app, not the ones you wrote, no longer work. They are importing things from the rails framework, and function calls have changed, parameters have been moved or removed, in short the rails API is not stable.
When this happens a bunch of code you didn't write, and don't control, and have no reason to control or update, or know how it works, makes it so your app is broken.
In contrast to this, look at Django. You install the django framework, when you generate your application it creates 1 file with some settings in it and a directory structure with some files with 0 lines of code in them. The django API is not stable either, but, all of the code in your application is YOURS. If you upgrade django and your app breaks because you were using a function that is deprecated, or in some other way the API changes, well it is YOUR code that is broken. In rails, even if you are 100% up to date on the changes going on, the functions that are going to be deprecated, the things that will be moved around... that doesn't matter, because you created your application on version 1.14, and a 1.14 app makes calls to functions that are no longer available in 1.23 or whatever version it is on now.
For a place that hates IP more than any other place on the internet, you guys sure are going to bat for JK... Why is it ok for her to sue her fans but if the RIAA sues its fans that is anathema?!? There isn't a single recording artist that is worth a billion dollars, yet we whine and moan that the millionaire recording artists are being greedy when they want to get paid for every single use of their songs.
Look, She wrote 1 children's story that happened to span 7 books. She is worth more than 1 billion dollars. Why can't she take her billion and go away?
No instead, she is going to maintain that this guy who has spent huge portions of time promoting her work is unable to make any money whatsoever off of his time and energy. She has to be the most greedy evil person I've ever heard of... well aside from the Waltons.
Personally I disliked the harry potter books, I thought they were poorly written and incredibly stupid. I really don't like her as a person. She has always come of greedy and hyper-controlling to me. Her insane secrecy rules, suing everyone who touched one of her books 10 minutes before they were *supposed* to be released. She has this nice sob story about being a broke single mom... I wonder what happened to her kids when she got rich? Probably shipped them straight to boarding school and hasn't spoken to them since.
flying senators around the world on stupid junkets of course!
Seriously though, tax dollars don't pay for a lot of things. Do you think ambulance rides are free? What about life flight? No these things cost a lot of money. I live in Utah, people get lost in avalanches every year, and I know people get bills for those search/rescue efforts. Especially when they find you and you get life flighted out. That 20-30 minute heli ride is gonna cost you 40-60k.
If you are in a car accident and they life flight you, even if the accident wasn't your fault, guess who is getting the bill... that's right you. Granted you can probably recoup that in your lawsuit against the guilty party, just better hope you weren't at fault, cause if you were, then there is no recourse for you.
I don't know how many of you people have been serviced by "standard" emergency service. You get billed for it. If you are in a car accident and need to be life flighted, you get billed for it (40-60k). If you need an ambulance you get billed for it. If you are rescued in an avalanche you are billed for it (especially when they life flight you out).
search and rescue costs a lot of money. It is not a "standard" service. And, most of the time you get billed for the efforts of the rescuers.
People get billed for calling 911 every day.
If you call 911 for a medical emergency you better believe you're getting a bill for that ambulance. If you call for the cops or fire, you probably won't get charged, but there are circumstances where you do.
Further, people get charged all the time for search and rescue. I live in Utah, every year people are life flighted out of the mountains after avalanche or some other emergency. They get the bill every time. My father in law was life flighted last year against his will. He thought he was fine (it turned out he was) but the paramedics would not for fear of a lawsuit let him get down the mountain any other way. He was still billed $60k for the rescue/helicopter ride.
Wrong. This story is not the same one linked before, and it actually explains why this is an MS only problem (not all SQL injections just this one).
It is not an IIS problem it is a MS SQL Server "feature" whereby you can basically create a dynamic query that will go figure out your database schema for you, and dynamically perform updates on the table. This is not possible against Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, but MS SQL allows you to create a single query that can successfully attack any MS SQL database.
Usually SQL injection attacks are pretty extremely customized, because they have to deduce the database structure so that they can create a valid update query to insert the malicious code into the DB. This MS SQL feature allows you to automate the attack.
Still it is not MS's fault, but it is only affecting MS SQL server backed sites, and there are ways to secure your DB so this attack fails (so blame the DBAs first), second blame the web developers.
unfortunately, unless you are in the southwest (US), if you're "average", you'll need something a lot closer to $40k in solar panels, inverters, batteries, etc just to power your house. I don't know how much extra power you would need to charge your car too... but I've looked extensively at putting in a solar grid tie system which would make me grid neutral, and with installation, I'm looking at $47k (I use between 300 and 1200 kwh/mo winter to summer). To produce 1200kwh in a month assuming 10 hours of usable sunlight in a day * 30 days, you have 300 hours to produce 1200kwh, so you have to have 4kw of production on average over those 300 hours, a 200watt panel costs $1000, you need 20 of those at a bare minimum, so $20,000. Now, a 200watt panel will only realistically produce 100-150watts on average, so you need at least another 50% capacity, so now you're up to $30k in panels. mounting brackets, installation, another 10k, inverter for the grid tie, 5-7k.
Where I live they will give you a maximum subsidy of $6k... that barely covers the installation costs. Also the power company here doesn't pay you for extra power you put on the grid. You get credits on your account, but, under no circumstances will they write you a check. Even if you cancel your power account with a credit balance they won't pay you. In case you really don't want to live in such a backwards state, its Utah. Of course Utah gets about 80% of its electricity from coal and the last 20% from geothermal and hydroelectric, so all pretty cheap methods of generation. We only pay 7.5 cents/kwh. Compared to Nevada, Arizona, or California, this is rock bottom cheap.
Now, it might make sense if you have an EV, maybe you can have an extra battery pack, and maybe you only need 400 watts to charge that battery pack in 10 hours, so you can just spend $2000, no inverter needed maybe? the batteries charge with DC power? and each day you just leave a battery pack for your car charging, then switch it out. this would be much cheaper than the $10k still.
If there were showers available at all office buildings this might be an option... Unfortunately, if I rode to work I would get there drenched in sweat, stinking, and completely unfit to meet with clients and prospective clients all day, neither would any of my team members.
Programmers already have enough hygiene problems, no need to exacerbate it with additional sweat. Now telecommuting, that I am fully behind, and I telecommute at least 1 day and normally 2 a week, as do all members of my team.
math error. You state we could produce 26 billion gallons of ethanol, if you convert that to e85, you need .85 gallon of ethanol to make 1 gallon of e85, so instead of 26 billion * .85 it should be 26 billion / .85 which yields 30.6 billion gallons of e85. This exceeds your figure of 27 billion gallons of e85, but doesn't change the fundamental argument. This would require consuming the world's entire sugar crop to power just the US cars... Still a complete non-starter.
not neccessarily.
While that often happens when you have a huge class, this class will be somewhat smaller. They can limit the class to people who have paid settlements to the RIAA, while not tiny, this is nothing like the windows pricing lawsuit a couple years ago where there were literally 50 million members of the class, and the maximum reward is the price difference in windows (like $20).
In a case like this, say they get 10,000 members of the class who have paid settlements of 3-5k. Well that is 30-50 million. If they can prove their case sufficiently, and it goes in front of a jury, I can easily see a reward of 75-100 million on this, and the lawyers will get paid, and all the members of the class will get reimbursed their settlement money.
The problem with class action suits is the huge classes. If you have a class of 10 million people no matter what happens, you're not going to get much money, cause no company can pay 10 million people $3000 each (30 billion dollars, not even MS could sustain a hit like that, and they have more cash on hand than most companies). If you have a smaller class, you can get justice from a class action suit, and you can cause a significant hit to the perpetrators. In fact, Anderson by herself has already received all of the compensation she can expect. She never had to pay the RIAA and her attorneys fees have been paid. Individual members of the class cannot afford to go after the RIAA for their $3k, it doesn't make sense for the attorneys to handle it as individual cases, they won't make money. The only way a thing like this can work is in a class
sure it represents 82% of the gas (probably by weight or volume) but not all greenhouse gasses are created equal.
You have to look at a few chemical properties of the molecules. H20 is a much more potent greenhouse gas than co2. like 10-20 times more effective at absorbing and holding on to heat. Methane is also much more potent (like 5 to 10 times more efficient at storing heat). So yes, CO2 by weight or volume may be the biggest, but if you have a gas that is 5% water and 95% C02 the water will absorb almost as much heat as the CO2. So it sure doesn't take a lot of water vapor to make up for its lack of volume.
maybe I'm confused by what you mean... but if the company set up wild card DNS, they could have www, mail, mx, whateverhost, point to the appropriate IPs, but then have a wildcard that catches somenonexistanthost.domain.com (or any other host name that is not actually defined) and points it to some IP address that the company controls, maybe this is an error page, maybe it is a page with ads, maybe it just redirects to their www address... however the company wants.
The point is, with this DNS setup, the DNS query will never return NXDOMAIN. It will always return a valid A record, so there is nothing for the ISP to replace/inject.
Couldn't a company "fix" this by setting up wild card dns so that any "mistyped" url will still get resolved by DNS, thus making this particular attack/injection by the ISPs impossible?
Also, the company could display ads, or some other thing on THEIR DOMAIN, instead of letting the ISPs do this?
Would this be horribly wrong if the companies themselves (ebay, paypal, etc) were displaying ad pages for subdomains?