As experience teaches us, the first thing that people who need to share do is "chmod -R a+rwx."
So, any security which requires signing of code to run will become looser and looser over time as problems are encountered. That bug is causing problems in production and it takes a week to validate and sign it? Loosen the validation to get it to 15mins, or turn it off completely.
I think that the union is trying to have US-style closed shops in New Zealand. Not a good plan.
"Closed Shops" are (from what I read) frowned upon (if not illegal) in New Zealand. It is up to the individual whether or not they join the union and pick up the collective contract. You can't force them, and you can't say, "You can only hire union members". This is different to the US and Canada which still allow "union shops" to exist.
Thankfully, Peter Jackson covers this in his statement:
"He always honoured actors' union conditions if they were union members"
You want to have a full union membership in the cast? Approach them and ask them to join.
The problem with the centrifuges is not the quality of the oil coming out. It's that they don't deal well with tarballs or dispersants. They need liquid oil so that it can be separated by spinning it.
Since you're spinning it to get the oil to rise to the top, if it doesn't flow (tarball), or doesn't separate (dispersant), the device ain't going to work. That is what the article was saying.
"he worries that much of the oil being picked up now will be too heavily degraded or contaminated
with dispersants to be easily separated."
I seem to remember that a ship sank on the set of Waterworld, and they had to pay a tonne of money to clean up the resulting debris and spills. I can see how that lesson would have been a driver for developing a technology to make it cheaper. Scratch that itch!
There is a magazine in the US, consumerreports.org. They perform independent product testing. The magazine is fully subscriber supported and (as far as I know) doesn't accept any advertising. They don't event accept free products for testing - they go out and buy them retail.
So, when they review a product, I tend to listen. Sometimes they aren't as indepth as you'd like, but that is visible because they also detail their testing methodologies.
There are various other organisations that follow the same format in other countries. I don't know if they are all affiliated. Here in NZ, there is consumer.org.nz.
It is much more likely that if Apple were to release an iPhone for Verizon that it would be an LTE device. It could then be a cornerstone for Verizon's new LTE network which is launching in late 2010/2011.
CDMA is a dead-end, there aren't any new rollouts and the existing carriers are all abandoning it for GSM/UMTS/LTE networks.
So, the question is - is there enough business on Verizon to interest Apple enough to work with a dead-end radio?
No, they don't make a phone that is "CDMA", as in "It will work with Verizon's CDMA network". They make a phone that is CDMA, as in "It uses WCDMA to access the radio network, the same as all other 3G UMTS phones".
You're being confused by the fact that they're calling it a CDMA phone, which means something entirely different over there than it does in the US.
Is it height over/under radar measurement? Is it height over/under normalised ellipsoid (no terrain)? If I see a red, does that mean that the satellite saw a stronger or weaker gravitational force at that location?
Telephony sessions are typically billed at the end of the session. Phone calls are billed when they are disconnected, SMS's when they are delivered, etc.
GPRS sessions (not individual sockets, the entire IP tunnel) are also typically billed when they are torn down too. This means that on some platforms data sessions can go unbilled for a long, long time. I've heard of months-long Blackberry sessions.
Now, the iPhone doesn't fully close down GPRS sessions when it goes idle, we saw that story a while ago. It does a fast disconnect, leaving the session running and hoping to reconnect to it later. What may be happening is that these sessions time out in the middle of the night, when the phone goes idle for long enough, resulting in a middle of the night charge for data from the entire day.
These long running sessions are being noticed by carriers, and they are starting to request mid-session commits, where the bill isn't updated at the end of the session, but at set intervals.
While the article is a little confusing, if you read it a couple of times, it becomes clear that the advertisements are only supplied with their "scheduled delivery" service. Basically, HP is signing up with content providers and Yahoo to provide content in your printer every morning.
The subscriber selects the content (newspaper sections), HP is responsible for fetching + formatting + advertisement insertion. Yahoo provides the localised (through IP address lookup) advertisements.
Basically, this is the Sci-Fi print-on-demand newspaper where the paper includes content from multiple sources.
So, no, advertisements aren't inserted into the middle of your print job.
I would say that the demand for the service is probably dwindling, but who knows. It will probably be a good little money maker for HP and Yahoo.
I've got herbicide resistant Black Nightshade in my lawn. It's kept in check by a hard frost, but here in Wellington New Zealand that doesn't happen very often. It's supposedly causing a lot of problems for pea farmers.
The data used in the research can be gathered from multiple sources, and is not necessarily gathered with funds from the government. Therefore, any requirement for public access would preclude the use of that data in research.
Since we're talking about weather data, many government weather offices charge fees for access to weather information, however, confidentiality clauses would also appear in health research (personally identifiable records, population studies, etc)
So, you're left with a choice, don't use the data and don't do your research, or do the research and don't release the data publicly.
Except the public who paid for the data isn't the same as the public who are paying the researchers.
Large amounts of the data under discussion are from _foreign_ governments. Additionally, researchers frequently have to sign confidentiality agreements in order to gain access to health records and other data. If that needs to then be public, they won't have access to it.
I'm guessing that the CPU limits are generous and are more about filtering out bad algorithms than bad languages.
For example, someone using stooge sort instead of quicksort...
While the language used would increase the budget, the algorithms used will very quickly swamp any language gains.
When I did programming contests, they were more bound on thought (how quickly you can come up with an algorithm) and then implementation time. Rarely did compute time come into it.
When you say "developer", I think individual employee. However, the individual employee isn't around long enough, the project validation will more than likely happen after the majority of them have finished, taken their final pay and left.
As for the actual contract? It reads like lawyer bait.
Consistent with the provisions of this Contract, the Vendor shall use the highest applicable industry standards for sound secure software development practices to resolve critical
security issues as quickly as possible. The "highest applicable industry standards" shall be defined as the degree of care, skill, efficiency, and diligence that a prudent person
possessing technical expertise in the subject area and acting in a like capacity would exercise in similar circumstances.
And finally, background checks? Seriously? Only if you want it to take 6+ months for me to hire someone.
The problem is that the publishers don't want to end up with another wallmart. Amazon and WallMart - because of the quantities that they buy, basically get to set the price. That eventually puts a squeeze on the producer.
It has nothing to the other sellers, more about protecting the margins that the publishers are enjoying.
Now, if the indie booksellers got together and formed a buying cartel they would start to see the same benefits, and Amazon would be complaining about them too.
Here are the current rules I use when handing out numbers:
1) Number that may attract spam - My cell (we're in a CPP instead of B&K country) 2) Company with a personal business relationship - cell phone 3) Company with a shared relationship - home phone 4) Work - home phone (don't want them to be able to get me when I'm out) 5) Friends - cell phone and home phone
Think about the rules you use. In the US, I'm assuming that you would hand out your home phone to possible spammers instead of your cell.
The problem with ENUM is that the data is stored in DNS. Which means it is harvestable and intended to be cached. I don't _want_ to share my email addresses, Facebook ID, work, cell and home phone numbers and IM addresses with anyone and everyone. That's just stupid.
ENUM is a Bell-Head protocol invented before spam. It was meant to be easily mirrored between carriers, with the standard behaviour of "caller pays".
What we really need is a protocol that will ask _my software_ where the call should be sent. The software is then able to decide based on the originating details if I want to receive the call, and what endpoint/protocol it should be sent to.
That's what I want. Invidividualised call control at the point of address resolution.
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As experience teaches us, the first thing that people who need to share do is "chmod -R a+rwx ."
So, any security which requires signing of code to run will become looser and looser over time as problems are encountered. That bug is causing problems in production and it takes a week to validate and sign it? Loosen the validation to get it to 15mins, or turn it off completely.
I think that the union is trying to have US-style closed shops in New Zealand. Not a good plan.
"Closed Shops" are (from what I read) frowned upon (if not illegal) in New Zealand. It is up to the individual whether or not they join the union and pick up the collective contract. You can't force them, and you can't say, "You can only hire union members". This is different to the US and Canada which still allow "union shops" to exist.
Thankfully, Peter Jackson covers this in his statement:
"He always honoured actors' union conditions if they were union members"
You want to have a full union membership in the cast? Approach them and ask them to join.
I think you should read the article again. :)
The problem with the centrifuges is not the quality of the oil coming out. It's that they don't deal well with tarballs or dispersants. They need liquid oil so that it can be separated by spinning it.
Since you're spinning it to get the oil to rise to the top, if it doesn't flow (tarball), or doesn't separate (dispersant), the device ain't going to work. That is what the article was saying.
"he worries that much of the oil being picked up now will be too heavily degraded or contaminated
with dispersants to be easily separated."
I seem to remember that a ship sank on the set of Waterworld, and they had to pay a tonne of money to clean up the resulting debris and spills. I can see how that lesson would have been a driver for developing a technology to make it cheaper. Scratch that itch!
There is a magazine in the US, consumerreports.org. They perform independent product testing. The magazine is fully subscriber supported and (as far as I know) doesn't accept any advertising. They don't event accept free products for testing - they go out and buy them retail.
So, when they review a product, I tend to listen. Sometimes they aren't as indepth as you'd like, but that is visible because they also detail their testing methodologies.
There are various other organisations that follow the same format in other countries. I don't know if they are all affiliated. Here in NZ, there is consumer.org.nz.
It is much more likely that if Apple were to release an iPhone for Verizon that it would be an LTE device. It could then be a cornerstone for Verizon's new LTE network which is launching in late 2010/2011.
CDMA is a dead-end, there aren't any new rollouts and the existing carriers are all abandoning it for GSM/UMTS/LTE networks.
So, the question is - is there enough business on Verizon to interest Apple enough to work with a dead-end radio?
No, they don't make a phone that is "CDMA", as in "It will work with Verizon's CDMA network". They make a phone that is CDMA, as in "It uses WCDMA to access the radio network, the same as all other 3G UMTS phones".
You're being confused by the fact that they're calling it a CDMA phone, which means something entirely different over there than it does in the US.
Is it height over/under radar measurement?
Is it height over/under normalised ellipsoid (no terrain)?
If I see a red, does that mean that the satellite saw a stronger or weaker gravitational force at that location?
Telephony sessions are typically billed at the end of the session. Phone calls are billed when they are disconnected, SMS's when they are delivered, etc.
GPRS sessions (not individual sockets, the entire IP tunnel) are also typically billed when they are torn down too. This means that on some platforms data sessions can go unbilled for a long, long time. I've heard of months-long Blackberry sessions.
Now, the iPhone doesn't fully close down GPRS sessions when it goes idle, we saw that story a while ago. It does a fast disconnect, leaving the session running and hoping to reconnect to it later. What may be happening is that these sessions time out in the middle of the night, when the phone goes idle for long enough, resulting in a middle of the night charge for data from the entire day.
These long running sessions are being noticed by carriers, and they are starting to request mid-session commits, where the bill isn't updated at the end of the session, but at set intervals.
While the article is a little confusing, if you read it a couple of times, it becomes clear that the advertisements are only supplied with their "scheduled delivery" service. Basically, HP is signing up with content providers and Yahoo to provide content in your printer every morning.
The subscriber selects the content (newspaper sections), HP is responsible for fetching + formatting + advertisement insertion. Yahoo provides the localised (through IP address lookup) advertisements.
Basically, this is the Sci-Fi print-on-demand newspaper where the paper includes content from multiple sources.
So, no, advertisements aren't inserted into the middle of your print job.
I would say that the demand for the service is probably dwindling, but who knows. It will probably be a good little money maker for HP and Yahoo.
Universities pay a copying levy on their photocopiers, or they did when I went to university.
I've got herbicide resistant Black Nightshade in my lawn. It's kept in check by a hard frost, but here in Wellington New Zealand that doesn't happen very often. It's supposedly causing a lot of problems for pea farmers.
The data used in the research can be gathered from multiple sources, and is not necessarily gathered with funds from the government. Therefore, any requirement for public access would preclude the use of that data in research.
Since we're talking about weather data, many government weather offices charge fees for access to weather information, however, confidentiality clauses would also appear in health research (personally identifiable records, population studies, etc)
So, you're left with a choice, don't use the data and don't do your research, or do the research and don't release the data publicly.
Except the public who paid for the data isn't the same as the public who are paying the researchers.
Large amounts of the data under discussion are from _foreign_ governments. Additionally, researchers frequently have to sign confidentiality agreements in order to gain access to health records and other data. If that needs to then be public, they won't have access to it.
Stupid judge, stupid finding.
From what I understand, the cameras are triggered by motion. If you cross a line while the light is red, you get photographed.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regulatory-devices/red-light-camera1.htm
If, say, _anyone_ released an RSS feed reader for the iPad, newspapers are just as dead as they are now.
Oh wait, someone has... A quick Google search returns several.
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I'm guessing that the CPU limits are generous and are more about filtering out bad algorithms than bad languages.
For example, someone using stooge sort instead of quicksort...
While the language used would increase the budget, the algorithms used will very quickly swamp any language gains.
When I did programming contests, they were more bound on thought (how quickly you can come up with an algorithm) and then implementation time. Rarely did compute time come into it.
It's always going to be worse.
Either you can brute force all of the cars in an area, or you can DoS them all.
When you say "developer", I think individual employee. However, the individual employee isn't around long enough, the project validation will more than likely happen after the majority of them have finished, taken their final pay and left.
As for the actual contract? It reads like lawyer bait.
Consistent with the provisions of this Contract, the Vendor shall use the highest applicable industry standards for sound secure software development practices to resolve critical
security issues as quickly as possible. The "highest applicable industry standards" shall be defined as the degree of care, skill, efficiency, and diligence that a prudent person
possessing technical expertise in the subject area and acting in a like capacity would exercise in similar circumstances.
And finally, background checks? Seriously? Only if you want it to take 6+ months for me to hire someone.
The problem is that the publishers don't want to end up with another wallmart. Amazon and WallMart - because of the quantities that they buy, basically get to set the price. That eventually puts a squeeze on the producer.
It has nothing to the other sellers, more about protecting the margins that the publishers are enjoying.
Now, if the indie booksellers got together and formed a buying cartel they would start to see the same benefits, and Amazon would be complaining about them too.
Because there isn't an easily found, well known file that is a handy index of all of the files on your system:
\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Search
Um, it's Australia, and the Federal Court in Australia.
Australia doesn't _have_ a Supreme Court, they have a High Court.
So, no, this probably isn't over yet.
I'd willingly give up hulu.com to avoid the flash advertisements.
Here are the current rules I use when handing out numbers:
1) Number that may attract spam - My cell (we're in a CPP instead of B&K country)
2) Company with a personal business relationship - cell phone
3) Company with a shared relationship - home phone
4) Work - home phone (don't want them to be able to get me when I'm out)
5) Friends - cell phone and home phone
Think about the rules you use. In the US, I'm assuming that you would hand out your home phone to possible spammers instead of your cell.
The problem with ENUM is that the data is stored in DNS. Which means it is harvestable and intended to be cached. I don't _want_ to share my email addresses, Facebook ID, work, cell and home phone numbers and IM addresses with anyone and everyone. That's just stupid.
ENUM is a Bell-Head protocol invented before spam. It was meant to be easily mirrored between carriers, with the standard behaviour of "caller pays".
What we really need is a protocol that will ask _my software_ where the call should be sent. The software is then able to decide based on the originating details if I want to receive the call, and what endpoint/protocol it should be sent to.
That's what I want. Invidividualised call control at the point of address resolution.