This is precisely the point of UNIONS. They are GOOD, they are RIGHT, they are on your side.
Yup... they sure worked well for the auto and steel industries in the USA. We've lost count of how many of those good manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas. And to make matters worse, now those same unions that supposedly cared about your job before it was shipped off are now trying to organize that foreign labor!
There was another example of this that occurred literally down the door from me. There are a lot of Mexican field workers picking mushrooms on the farms here (Chester County, PA) and a few years back they tried to organize in protest of bad working conditions. Eventually they were allowed to organize. What was their reward for this effort? They were replaced with different people.
IIRC unemployment is not paid by the general tax payers. Its paid by your former employer.
On paper, that is true. However, that money, along with the health insurance, benefits and other things that your employer supposedly pays for as well really just come out of money that was going to be paid to you anyway. The average employer pays about $1.35 to $1.50 per $1.00 that the employee receives. Amove that overage is cash that is put into the unemployment compensation fund. The fund would have no money if no one worked, so indirectly, you pay for it, as always.
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Can you generate a PDF with PHP without also generating an Adobe lawsuit?
There's no liability shield built in, but FPDF is a great tool that can generate PDFs using PHP without the need for using a commercially-licensed (read "expensive") PDF generating library. I like it because it is distributed under a BSD-like license.
Actually, this is already happening in the auto industry, in a certain sense. But if I was a US auto worker who was displaced by cheaper foreign labor, I don't think I would feel very happy about the same union whose primary function was to protect my job going and organizing the same people that took my job in the first place. I'd consider it a stab in the back.
So not only was Clinton required to appoint a Republican, but any choice not approved by the rest of the Republican party would have been shot down.
I am not sure of the composition of the FCC at the time but if it was a 2-2 split (minus Powell) then Clinton could have push through the nomination of a Democrat even through the Republican controlled Senate. Provided the nominee was not a total leftist crackhead the Senate would have most likely given its nod. As for Powell being a conservative, that would more likely cause problems in the so-called moderate to liberal wing of the Republican party. Clinton could have chosen a more centrist Republican for the job. The Senate cannot just tell the President who to pick, its up to the President to come up with the nominee and then present that person to the Senate for approval. The fact that Clinton chose poorly in the view of many readers here does not change the fact that the original poster's assertion, that the Republicans unilaterlly brought this upon us, is wrong.
Ask anyone from California if they think deregulating their power industry was a good idea.
Just because California only deregulated part of the power industry and introduced numerous financially punitive measures against the power industry doesn't mean deregulation as a whole sucks. We've had deregulated power in Pennsylvania for many years. You can choose whoever you want to generate your power. Power rates in general have gone down because of this and we've had no rolling blackouts or any other crap like that.
Do you even know what you're talking about? The current FCC Chairman was appointed by Bill Clinton. The fact that Bush made him chairman doesn't change the fact that Clinton was the one who brought him on board in the first place.
And for the NRA nuts; there's nothing in the consitution about being able to electrocute people.
You are right, and there are many court cases in which a victim attempted to prevent a crime by using pre-emptive lethal force. E.g., they would wire up a door or window to live electrical current. When the state would (from a legally correct standpoint) attempt to prosecute these people, the juries in these case had a tendancy to throw out the charges (also known as jury nullification).
The funniest "Boss Key" that I saw was in Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1. It popped up a DOS Edit box that had a letter you were supposedly typing to your mom in which you complained about how much you hated your job and your boss. LOL
Just wait until Apple starts selling MP3s of unsigned and indie-label bands for less than 99 cents a pop.
I don't think this is going to happen. Recall that Apple is doing this with the support of the music industry. If Apple were to antagonize the industry by pulling a stunt like this, the industry could easily yank its support and send legions of lawyers to Cupertino. Considering the resources that Steve Jobs put into making this deal work, I don't think he'd be foolish enough to take a risk like that.
When is the last time you've ever used 411? I don't think I ever have.
You don't need to use 411 to get a number that is available through 411. When a phone number becomes available like this, you can use websites such as anywho.com, superpages.com, etc. to find these numbers.
No, no, no, you wouldn't store the PINs, that would defeat the purpose. You would have to enter it every time like you do when you buy groceries with your ATM card.
If you order something from an online site at 3am, that site will not have someone there waiting on the other end to capture the PIN. It will definitely be stored somewhere, just like the rest of the credit card information. this is why the focus must remain on site security and not the credit card transaction security. Also, most online vendors do not process credit card information in real time, they usually process each day's transactions in a single batch during off-peak hours by reading the stored credit card information. Credit card information is usually put into these batches once things like inventory and shipping is verified.
Can anybody explain to me why credit cards don't have PIN numbers like my ATM card does? Wouldn't this stop a tremendous amount of fraud?
No, because the PINs would probably be stored in the same unsecure manner that the other credit card information was. This is why PINs in general and/or 3 digit auth codes will be ineffective. What's needed here is better site security, not better credit card security.
All someone needs is someone's card number and expiration date and they can do whatever they want.
Kinda... You can actually specify any date in the future and the transaction will validate (if you use a system like Cybercash or Authorize.Net). If however, you have a human on the other side who checks the entered credit card information against what they get from the credit card company, then that human can manually disallow the transaciton.
Unfortunately, the only real way to secure information is to store it in an encrypted form such that the key needed to decrypt the information is physically separated from the machine which contains the data. However, many websites currently use the "key under the doormat" approach to security, which in theory is no better than storing the data unencrypted and hoping that no one hacks into the system and sees it.
Microsoft site licenses usually require companies to pay for machines which don't have Windows on them. I can only imagine that Microsoft makes the same requirements on computer vendors when they sell machines without Windows, or with some other OS. So even if you buy a new machine without Windows, you will probably still be lining Microsoft's pockets buying such a machine.
And as another poster mentioned, you will probably spend way more money buying such a machine from some no-name vendor (and still pay the Microsoft tax) compared to the cheaper price of a name-brand laptop with Windows pre-installed.
One alternative for the poster is to sell a $50 pen with a free copy of Windows included:)
If people have more experience with Linux on those, perhaps they can share it.
I have a Fujitsu Lifebook 770TX (an older model laptop) on which I put Redhat 7.2. Here's what
I was not able to get to work, and I attribute this more to my not necessarily needing these features long enough to try and make them work as opposed to lack of hardware support in Linux:
The built-in sound... although this laptop has a Soundblaster compatible card
The built-in modem. It is a WinModem, and there are some Linux drivers for it, but since I use 802.11b 99% of the time and a Linksys 10Mbps PC Card Ethernet adaptor 1% of the time, I didn't care.
An IBM USB camera... although the laptop knows it is plugged in, I can't seem to get it to work, but once again its not that important.
With that in mind, I would consider that the most important and practical feature that I did get to work was support for wireless networking. I used Linux-Wlan-NG, along with a bit of tweaking to enable this laptop to run both Proxim and Linksys 802.11b cards. Aside from what I mentioned above, the laptop works quite well for pretty much all the work I do with it (mostly software development, various IM clients, web-surfing, and some word processing).
he was practically falling over himself to get killed!
That's because Brent Spiner wanted to kill off Data. Here are some more details.
Interestingly enough, Spiner echoes some of the same rantings seen in this thread:
Paramount is in it for the $$$ and not the fans
He's getting too old for the part
But from what I read in the article, it looks to me that he saw the ST franchise as a fast sinking ship and he wanted out ASAP before it tanked his own career.
I wasn't aware of 445 and 835. (I am in 215/267.) When was this announced, or are you in-the-know?
Its been in the beginning of our local (West Chester, PA) Verizon Super-Pages since 2001. According to NANPA, 835 and 445 have been "announced" but have not yet been officially put into service (they have an area code info page where you can look these up). This map on the NANPA page also shows them.
I am not sure how they do things in New York, but down here in Pennsylvania, any time a competing local exchange carrier or a cell phone carrier wants to provide service, they must buy the numbers from Verizon in 10000-sized blocks (1 entire prefix), even if they end up selling only 1 to 9999 lines. When they deregulated the phone system in this state, lots of companies bought up these blocks but never resold anything close to same amount to end-customers. The result (at least in Philadelphia) is that we now have 6 area codes for the city (215, 267 and 445) and suburban (610, 484 and 835) areas although there hasn't been a net gain in population in this region (mostly people moving out of the city and into the suburbs). I read somewhere that they are trying to reduce the block sizes down to 1000 numbers, but I am not sure how this is progressing.
Ok, so I am troll feeding... but as for this, when was the last time anyone has ever heard of Microsoft (or any other software company for that matter) being sanctioned when one of their products died and caused a customer massive support grief? Such recourse has never and will never happened. At least with Open Source software, you're not being forced to pay for the privilege of not having someone's ass on the line when your system is down
The posting refers to Taiwan, not mainland China. Taiwan, also known as the "Republic of China", is not the same country as China, also known as the "People's Republic of China". The former is a peaceful democracy, the latter is a belligerent, brutal totalitarian regime.
I see absolutely no harm in having tools that slow down teenagers from leaving goatse.cx sitting on library computers as a "joke" that my 5 year old daughter has to walk through.
How about a compromise solution? I'm sure anyone who is all for unfiltered access can certainly agree that there is content that is completely inappropriate for a child to view under any circumstances. So... how about setting up separate banks of computers in the library instead? One could be completely unfiltered, and accessible only to adults, and the other could be in the children's section, with filtered access, and hopefully a requirement that parents actively supervise their children's web-surfing.
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This is precisely the point of UNIONS. They are GOOD, they are RIGHT, they are on your side.
Yup... they sure worked well for the auto and steel industries in the USA. We've lost count of how many of those good manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas. And to make matters worse, now those same unions that supposedly cared about your job before it was shipped off are now trying to organize that foreign labor!
There was another example of this that occurred literally down the door from me. There are a lot of Mexican field workers picking mushrooms on the farms here (Chester County, PA) and a few years back they tried to organize in protest of bad working conditions. Eventually they were allowed to organize. What was their reward for this effort? They were replaced with different people.
IIRC unemployment is not paid by the general tax payers. Its paid by your former employer.
On paper, that is true. However, that money, along with the health insurance, benefits and other things that your employer supposedly pays for as well really just come out of money that was going to be paid to you anyway. The average employer pays about $1.35 to $1.50 per $1.00 that the employee receives. Amove that overage is cash that is put into the unemployment compensation fund. The fund would have no money if no one worked, so indirectly, you pay for it, as always.
Can you generate a PDF with PHP without also generating an Adobe lawsuit?
There's no liability shield built in, but FPDF is a great tool that can generate PDFs using PHP without the need for using a commercially-licensed (read "expensive") PDF generating library. I like it because it is distributed under a BSD-like license.
can they join techsunite.org now?
Actually, this is already happening in the auto industry, in a certain sense. But if I was a US auto worker who was displaced by cheaper foreign labor, I don't think I would feel very happy about the same union whose primary function was to protect my job going and organizing the same people that took my job in the first place. I'd consider it a stab in the back.
So not only was Clinton required to appoint a Republican, but any choice not approved by the rest of the Republican party would have been shot down.
I am not sure of the composition of the FCC at the time but if it was a 2-2 split (minus Powell) then Clinton could have push through the nomination of a Democrat even through the Republican controlled Senate. Provided the nominee was not a total leftist crackhead the Senate would have most likely given its nod. As for Powell being a conservative, that would more likely cause problems in the so-called moderate to liberal wing of the Republican party. Clinton could have chosen a more centrist Republican for the job. The Senate cannot just tell the President who to pick, its up to the President to come up with the nominee and then present that person to the Senate for approval. The fact that Clinton chose poorly in the view of many readers here does not change the fact that the original poster's assertion, that the Republicans unilaterlly brought this upon us, is wrong.
Ask anyone from California if they think deregulating their power industry was a good idea.
Just because California only deregulated part of the power industry and introduced numerous financially punitive measures against the power industry doesn't mean deregulation as a whole sucks. We've had deregulated power in Pennsylvania for many years. You can choose whoever you want to generate your power. Power rates in general have gone down because of this and we've had no rolling blackouts or any other crap like that.
Welcome to life under the Republicans.
Do you even know what you're talking about? The current FCC Chairman was appointed by Bill Clinton. The fact that Bush made him chairman doesn't change the fact that Clinton was the one who brought him on board in the first place.
And for the NRA nuts; there's nothing in the consitution about being able to electrocute people.
You are right, and there are many court cases in which a victim attempted to prevent a crime by using pre-emptive lethal force. E.g., they would wire up a door or window to live electrical current. When the state would (from a legally correct standpoint) attempt to prosecute these people, the juries in these case had a tendancy to throw out the charges (also known as jury nullification).
The funniest "Boss Key" that I saw was in Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1. It popped up a DOS Edit box that had a letter you were supposedly typing to your mom in which you complained about how much you hated your job and your boss. LOL
Just wait until Apple starts selling MP3s of unsigned and indie-label bands for less than 99 cents a pop.
I don't think this is going to happen. Recall that Apple is doing this with the support of the music industry. If Apple were to antagonize the industry by pulling a stunt like this, the industry could easily yank its support and send legions of lawyers to Cupertino. Considering the resources that Steve Jobs put into making this deal work, I don't think he'd be foolish enough to take a risk like that.
They became yet another comic book villain.
The Borg are effectively the Homer Simpsons of the Star Trek franchise. They get more and more stupid with each passing season.
When is the last time you've ever used 411? I don't think I ever have.
You don't need to use 411 to get a number that is available through 411. When a phone number becomes available like this, you can use websites such as anywho.com, superpages.com, etc. to find these numbers.
No, no, no, you wouldn't store the PINs, that would defeat the purpose. You would have to enter it every time like you do when you buy groceries with your ATM card.
If you order something from an online site at 3am, that site will not have someone there waiting on the other end to capture the PIN. It will definitely be stored somewhere, just like the rest of the credit card information. this is why the focus must remain on site security and not the credit card transaction security. Also, most online vendors do not process credit card information in real time, they usually process each day's transactions in a single batch during off-peak hours by reading the stored credit card information. Credit card information is usually put into these batches once things like inventory and shipping is verified.
Can anybody explain to me why credit cards don't have PIN numbers like my ATM card does? Wouldn't this stop a tremendous amount of fraud?
No, because the PINs would probably be stored in the same unsecure manner that the other credit card information was. This is why PINs in general and/or 3 digit auth codes will be ineffective. What's needed here is better site security, not better credit card security.
All someone needs is someone's card number and expiration date and they can do whatever they want.
Kinda... You can actually specify any date in the future and the transaction will validate (if you use a system like Cybercash or Authorize.Net). If however, you have a human on the other side who checks the entered credit card information against what they get from the credit card company, then that human can manually disallow the transaciton.
Unfortunately, the only real way to secure information is to store it in an encrypted form such that the key needed to decrypt the information is physically separated from the machine which contains the data. However, many websites currently use the "key under the doormat" approach to security, which in theory is no better than storing the data unencrypted and hoping that no one hacks into the system and sees it.
Microsoft site licenses usually require companies to pay for machines which don't have Windows on them. I can only imagine that Microsoft makes the same requirements on computer vendors when they sell machines without Windows, or with some other OS. So even if you buy a new machine without Windows, you will probably still be lining Microsoft's pockets buying such a machine.
:)
And as another poster mentioned, you will probably spend way more money buying such a machine from some no-name vendor (and still pay the Microsoft tax) compared to the cheaper price of a name-brand laptop with Windows pre-installed.
One alternative for the poster is to sell a $50 pen with a free copy of Windows included
If people have more experience with Linux on those, perhaps they can share it.
I have a Fujitsu Lifebook 770TX (an older model laptop) on which I put Redhat 7.2. Here's what I was not able to get to work, and I attribute this more to my not necessarily needing these features long enough to try and make them work as opposed to lack of hardware support in Linux:
With that in mind, I would consider that the most important and practical feature that I did get to work was support for wireless networking. I used Linux-Wlan-NG, along with a bit of tweaking to enable this laptop to run both Proxim and Linksys 802.11b cards. Aside from what I mentioned above, the laptop works quite well for pretty much all the work I do with it (mostly software development, various IM clients, web-surfing, and some word processing).
he was practically falling over himself to get killed!
That's because Brent Spiner wanted to kill off Data. Here are some more details.
Interestingly enough, Spiner echoes some of the same rantings seen in this thread:- Paramount is in it for the $$$ and not the fans
- He's getting too old for the part
But from what I read in the article, it looks to me that he saw the ST franchise as a fast sinking ship and he wanted out ASAP before it tanked his own career.I wasn't aware of 445 and 835. (I am in 215/267.) When was this announced, or are you in-the-know?
Its been in the beginning of our local (West Chester, PA) Verizon Super-Pages since 2001. According to NANPA, 835 and 445 have been "announced" but have not yet been officially put into service (they have an area code info page where you can look these up). This map on the NANPA page also shows them.Why are we running out of phone numbers?
I am not sure how they do things in New York, but down here in Pennsylvania, any time a competing local exchange carrier or a cell phone carrier wants to provide service, they must buy the numbers from Verizon in 10000-sized blocks (1 entire prefix), even if they end up selling only 1 to 9999 lines. When they deregulated the phone system in this state, lots of companies bought up these blocks but never resold anything close to same amount to end-customers. The result (at least in Philadelphia) is that we now have 6 area codes for the city (215, 267 and 445) and suburban (610, 484 and 835) areas although there hasn't been a net gain in population in this region (mostly people moving out of the city and into the suburbs). I read somewhere that they are trying to reduce the block sizes down to 1000 numbers, but I am not sure how this is progressing.
Anybody got Saddam's e-mail address?
press@uruklink.net. This account was broken into recently as well. Although this is a "press" email, it is the one that appears on Saddam's own webpage.
Did this guy watch The Simpsons last night? That episode would have clearly explained the impact of gun control :)
somebody's ass on the line if a system is down
Ok, so I am troll feeding... but as for this, when was the last time anyone has ever heard of Microsoft (or any other software company for that matter) being sanctioned when one of their products died and caused a customer massive support grief? Such recourse has never and will never happened. At least with Open Source software, you're not being forced to pay for the privilege of not having someone's ass on the line when your system is down
The posting refers to Taiwan, not mainland China. Taiwan, also known as the "Republic of China", is not the same country as China, also known as the "People's Republic of China". The former is a peaceful democracy, the latter is a belligerent, brutal totalitarian regime.
that won't help me if Bob Hacker over here can make it look like I never invested in the first place
For some of us, this could be a very good thing!
I see absolutely no harm in having tools that slow down teenagers from leaving goatse.cx sitting on library computers as a "joke" that my 5 year old daughter has to walk through.
How about a compromise solution? I'm sure anyone who is all for unfiltered access can certainly agree that there is content that is completely inappropriate for a child to view under any circumstances. So... how about setting up separate banks of computers in the library instead? One could be completely unfiltered, and accessible only to adults, and the other could be in the children's section, with filtered access, and hopefully a requirement that parents actively supervise their children's web-surfing.