the Herbalife Corporation can't exactly be held responsible for what their "independent distributors" do, can they?
Amway was found to be responsible for what it's suckers do. I belive that the basis was that Amway knew what the suckers were doing, and were lending support, even though it was offically against the policy.
Funny, cause the UK doesn't. It was downgraded from Class B to Class C last year, with a pilot program in one London borough with the only thing the police can do is confiscate it - a program that is exepected to be extended to the whole country soon, and the committe charged with making recommendations on drug policy have reported that it should be decriminalized, which is expected to be accepted by the Home Secretary. In fact, in the UK, the whole "War on Drugs" approach is widely seen as a failure, with the minor opposition party having decriminalization of all drugs (As happened in Portugal last year) as a platform, and many members of both major party agreeing with that policy. BTW, the drug most likely to be associated with crime is... alcohol. "between 72% and 82%, depending on the area, testing positive for alcohol. " (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studi es/runciman/pf7.htm)
This should probably be in the -Govt column instead/as well. It means you're working with idiots (Speaking from experience here). For example, the guy with a PhD in Spanish working tech support who could not plug in a computer.
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Satellites are very useful for sending _small_ amounts of information over long distances to destinations that are relatively isolated.
And large amounts of information over long distances which are not time critical, especially to many different locations, IE TV signals.
OS/390, AS/400, AIX, OS/2, OpenVMS, EPOC, LynxOS, QNX etc etc etc. Microsoft would have to do a LOT of catching up to get to where Java is today in terms of available platforms.
"ok let's stop development and everyone will go check code extremely carefully."
This is a really awful way of doing it. In order to get a good implemenation you need:
1) A solid design. That means no automatic execution of attachments.
2) Continuous review of the code. If the code sits for 3 years before it's reviewed, then you've exposed yourself to bugs in that time, and perhaps you've even accidentally built stuff which relies on that bug.
Not all programs output in such a way that adverts would make sense. For example, I can imagine that someone may wish to run a program which analyzes how well ranked their site is based upon various words over time. The natural output for this could be a chart. What do you do with the adverts?
That's slightly right. Unisys is the result of many mergers over the years, most recently (1986) between Sperry and Burroughs. Sperry was a 1955 merger between Remmington Rand and Sperry. Remington Rand were the producers of the 409, aka the Univac 60, which was in 1949, the first commerical business computer. So while part of Unisys was in from the begining, they're not a huge percentage of the modern Unisys.
Wouldn't that be better to do at the community level, either by their representatives in the libraries adminstrative system, or by the conditions attached to local funding?
They have on their page "1-800-991-3299". Now calling them up on that number would be wrong, and calling them from a US pay phone, which costs them an extra 35 cents every call, would be even wronger.
There are two main techniques used to find extrasolar planets.
1) The 'wobble' method. A planet in orbit around a star causes that star to counter rotate around the common centre of gravity. This only works for massive close in planets, but it will work for any orientation.
2) The eclipse method. A planet in orbit around the star will, if the orientation is right, periodically go between the star and us. This is obviously much more rare, but will detect any sized planet. This is how HD 209458's planet was detected.
SA is turned off nowadays, differental GPS made it silly. The civilian signal is now identical in accuracy to the military signal.
For the number of satellites, there are also 2 WAAS satellites. These are in geosync orbit above the pacific and atlantic coasts of North Americia, these receive corrections from 25 ground stations, and rebroadcast the corrections. Europe and Japan are also developing equvilant correction networks for their areas, so eventually there will be at least 29 satellites.
A big problem with firewalls is that they are in most cases managed by people whose job is to stop bad things happening, it is not their job to help make usefull things happen.
This is rubbish. You can EASILY ensure that no bad thing happens, just unplug the internet connection. Similarly, you can easily ensure that any application can do what it wants, just remove the firewall and replace it with a NAT box or router as required. Firewall administrators spend their time finding a balance which allows the useful stuff from happening with a minimal risk.
World! There are loads of people who have an interest in local interests from other parts of the world. Perhaps I'd like to watch Australian rules football, or Italian gameshows, or Chinese cooking shows.
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Authors != the publishing industry.
And the API calls are reasonably guaranteed to be stable, while HTML parsing can break at any time if Google decides to change their output format.
Amway was found to be responsible for what it's suckers do. I belive that the basis was that Amway knew what the suckers were doing, and were lending support, even though it was offically against the policy.
Funny, cause the UK doesn't. It was downgraded from Class B to Class C last year, with a pilot program in one London borough with the only thing the police can do is confiscate it - a program that is exepected to be extended to the whole country soon, and the committe charged with making recommendations on drug policy have reported that it should be decriminalized, which is expected to be accepted by the Home Secretary. In fact, in the UK, the whole "War on Drugs" approach is widely seen as a failure, with the minor opposition party having decriminalization of all drugs (As happened in Portugal last year) as a platform, and many members of both major party agreeing with that policy. BTW, the drug most likely to be associated with crime is ... alcohol. "between 72% and 82%, depending on the area, testing positive for alcohol. " (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studi es/runciman/pf7.htm)
This should probably be in the -Govt column instead/as well. It means you're working with idiots (Speaking from experience here). For example, the guy with a PhD in Spanish working tech support who could not plug in a computer.
And large amounts of information over long distances which are not time critical, especially to many different locations, IE TV signals.
OS/390, AS/400, AIX, OS/2, OpenVMS, EPOC, LynxOS, QNX etc etc etc. Microsoft would have to do a LOT of catching up to get to where Java is today in terms of available platforms.
Of course not. That was an example where the design is flawed, so no matter how perfect the code, it will always be insecure.
This is a really awful way of doing it. In order to get a good implemenation you need:
1) A solid design. That means no automatic execution of attachments.
2) Continuous review of the code. If the code sits for 3 years before it's reviewed, then you've exposed yourself to bugs in that time, and perhaps you've even accidentally built stuff which relies on that bug.
That works if you have 1, but if you've got 10 keywords a week, every week for a year, that's 520 adverts to display!
Not all programs output in such a way that adverts would make sense. For example, I can imagine that someone may wish to run a program which analyzes how well ranked their site is based upon various words over time. The natural output for this could be a chart. What do you do with the adverts?
That's slightly right. Unisys is the result of many mergers over the years, most recently (1986) between Sperry and Burroughs. Sperry was a 1955 merger between Remmington Rand and Sperry. Remington Rand were the producers of the 409, aka the Univac 60, which was in 1949, the first commerical business computer. So while part of Unisys was in from the begining, they're not a huge percentage of the modern Unisys.
Except that the US press is following the Whitehouse's censorship 'suggestions'. It's the BBC you go to find uncensored ramblings from OBL.
Wouldn't that be better to do at the community level, either by their representatives in the libraries adminstrative system, or by the conditions attached to local funding?
1K bytes has 2^(8*1024) possible states, that's approx 10^2400. Slightly larger than 4096.
They have on their page "1-800-991-3299". Now calling them up on that number would be wrong, and calling them from a US pay phone, which costs them an extra 35 cents every call, would be even wronger.
1) The 'wobble' method. A planet in orbit around a star causes that star to counter rotate around the common centre of gravity. This only works for massive close in planets, but it will work for any orientation.
2) The eclipse method. A planet in orbit around the star will, if the orientation is right, periodically go between the star and us. This is obviously much more rare, but will detect any sized planet. This is how HD 209458's planet was detected.
SA is turned off nowadays, differental GPS made it silly. The civilian signal is now identical in accuracy to the military signal.
For the number of satellites, there are also 2 WAAS satellites. These are in geosync orbit above the pacific and atlantic coasts of North Americia, these receive corrections from 25 ground stations, and rebroadcast the corrections. Europe and Japan are also developing equvilant correction networks for their areas, so eventually there will be at least 29 satellites.
This is rubbish. You can EASILY ensure that no bad thing happens, just unplug the internet connection. Similarly, you can easily ensure that any application can do what it wants, just remove the firewall and replace it with a NAT box or router as required. Firewall administrators spend their time finding a balance which allows the useful stuff from happening with a minimal risk.
World! There are loads of people who have an interest in local interests from other parts of the world. Perhaps I'd like to watch Australian rules football, or Italian gameshows, or Chinese cooking shows.
I disagree. It looks quite nice. Put on a nice titanium shalf, and it would make a lovely golf club.
Who is stealing when someone copies The Mona Lisa? The same act cannot logically be different depending on exactly when the original work was created.
Also, as the report indicates, the 1,214 is higher than the number of what most people would call 'kidnapping'.
In 40% of the cases, the 'kidnapper' is the kids parent. In other words, it's probably a custody dispute.
Another 5% of the cases, the 'kidnapper' is classified as the kid's 'boyfriend'. In other words, it's probably two kids running away together.
Finally, in all the cases, only 1 resulted in a death.
The general perception of a stranger going to abduct children, and kill them is not supported by this data.
Belly button fluff.