The cops have dozens of stupid lines that, if said authoritatively enough, will intimidate people into consenting to a search.
He told me he could have a search warrant in no time.
If that were the case, you'd have one by now. The fact is you can't get one at all, let alone in no time.
He said it could also take a while to process the warrant, and he would have to take me to the jail to wait.
"Am I free to go?" "Am I being detained?" "If so, what are the specific articularable facts to detain me?" "Am I being arrested?" "On what charge?" "Am I free to go?" "Am I free to go?"
He kept telling me he was going to have to search the bags.
"I will not physically resist you; however, I do not consent to a search of my bags, person, or any other search. Am I free to go?"
He never did search the bags or write me a ticket or tell me why he stopped me.
He stopped you because he thought you looked like a hippie (dirty laundry, etc.). He was expecting to find drugs in the bags.
99% of people would have just consented to the search. You stood up for your rights. Unfortunately, your only reward is being able to post a comment on slashdot about it and have it be modded up to +5 Insightful.:)
Customers want "acceptable" software. As long as it does what it is supposed to, doesn't have any show stopper bugs, and is available tomorrow, the customer will take it over any "good software" available the day after.
You say that as though the customer is somehow wrong for desiring software in this way.
As a business owner, I can tell you that if you give me a choice between using your software to make money tomorrow vs. waiting 6 months to use your software to make money, I'd be an idiot to wait 6 months. As long as you have something usable tomorrow, that's what I will buy every time. For all I know, in 6 months, you'll be wanting another 6 months... and another 6 months... and then another...
What good is "good" software if I can't even use it?
You should be paying for things online with single-use credit card numbers. Not because most online merchants are dishonest, but because most online merchants store your credit info and the folks who hack the merchants' systems are dishonest. They also come in handy for situations like your own, when a merchant tries to rebill you without your authorization.
Single-use numbers are available for Citibank and MBNA cards, but there are probably others. I would suggest using them.
Thank god I eventually was able to remember the password (not to the website, to the domain name that poined to the website). That was good enough to redirect to a server that I control. "vi robots.txt", and we're good to go.
Yeah, that page is now gone from google and wayback--the two main offenders.
I can think of a guy who was verifiably a coke-head, drunk-driving, partying-while-he-was-in-the-armed-services-where- he-should-not-have-been-partying (with the photos to prove it!), marijuana-smoking, draft-dodger.
His name is President George W. Bush.
I don't think him having a MySpace profile would have changed any of that.
In college, a buddy of mine took a piss in the middle of the road in front of his apartment. Of course, as he's finishing, he sees the flashing lights behind him of a police car. When the cop found out that he was within 50 feet of his apartment which presumably contained a toilet, he was cited for (I shit you not) "depositing human waste".
Fortunately for my friend, he went to court and the judge laughed his ass off before dismissing the charges. I guess not everyone is so lucky.
I'm not affiliated with Sunrocket in any way... just a happy customer. The main reason that I chose them was because of what they call "Bottom-line Pricing". With Bottom-line pricing, the price they quote is the price you pay. There are never taxes, surcharges, fees, cost recoveries, or any other additives to your bill.
If you sign up for their $9.95/month plan, you will receive a bill each month for precisely $9.95. Not a penny more, and not a penny less.
I can't tell you how refreshing that is from a "teleco". Pretty sad, eh?
So make the next mental leap. Suppose Microsoft were to, as I originally suggested, make Windows default the user to an account with no admin rights. Then when Grampa Bob tries to run TurboTax and it shits all over him (that's the technical term for, "Bob's attempted execution of the TurboTax application failed with a cryptic and unhelpful error message"), Grampa Bob is going to call up Intuit and say, "WTF?".
If Intuit doesn't want to have to deal with Grampa Bob and 50,000,000 of his closest friends who can't run TurboTax because Vista defaults to a user account, then Intuit can fix their application or cede all of their customers to TaxCut.
The pressure for apps to work with screen-readers comes from disabled users. The pressure for Lotus Notes to work correctly in a multi-user/roaming-profile environment comes from customers who want to set up their workstations that way. Neither of these have anything to do with OS security.
My point is that when a virus comes out and large numbers of Windows boxes are pwned, Microsoft comes out looking bad. Microsoft should be the one taking the lead on this. It's not Microsoft's responsiblity to make sure blind users can use Quicken. But the security and integrity of the OS is their responsiblity.
Microsoft needs to make it clear to application developers that if they don't create apps that run in userspace, their customers are going to be frustrated and confused and they'll wind up using their competitors' products.
How do you propose Microsoft "fix" it ? By writing everyone's applications for them ??
Oh, geez, I dunno. Perhaps by making the default Windows install have the user in an account with no admin rights? Then, application developers will realize that their apps won't run unless they design them to run in userland.
I mean, really. Why do 90% of Windows apps currently require admin rights to run? Lazy designers, that's why.
I use the Model View Controller design pattern for UIs. I would suggest you do the same. The View is your pretty HTML stuff, the Model is the crap you want to display, and the Controller is where the code goes to fetch that content and save user input.
Just because you fail to understand it, doesn't mean it's crap. The following are not crap, and were never crap: JMS, JMX, JNDI, MDB, Session EJBs, CMT, JSP, JAAS, and many others.
Really, the only part of J2EE that I can think of that was ever crap would have to be Entity EJBs (high overhead, high complexity, too expensive for simple DB access, too difficult to get complex queries to behave (BMP), required meaningless conversions due to nonserializability, etc., etc.).
...so I didn't have to. As a Java guy, I can say for certain that Java is NOT going to solve the OP's issues. They're just going to be trading a few million lines of bad C++ code for a few million lines of worse Java code.
OP should read what you wrote on CMM. Anyhow, I doubt the FDA would require CMMI Level 5. Probably Level 3. But what do I know? Also, if the work is for the government, they probably shouldn't be offshoring it.
I checked out the site, and these were my reactions to it:
The borrowers post what they need the money for, and their stories are identical to the stories I hear every day about why a tenant's rent money is unavaiable/late/whatever. There are some people out there who actually will come up with the rent money. There are some who really intend to come up with it, and believe that they can come up with it, but are unable. There are some who never intend to pay for what they consume and are just good at making up stories. Please, please be careful!
Be sure to spread your risk across many borrowers. When (not "if") one defaults, you won't lose your entire investment.
Be careful of people who, within the last few months, just had a major financial hardship (divorce, medical problem, job loss, etc.) I'm not talking about someone who had the problem 2 years ago and has his/her life more or less back on track... but the FICO score isn't up to where it should be yet. I'm talking people who are in he midst of financial turmoil. It's very tempting to take pity on those people because they are in trouble. Just make sure you are playing with money you can afford to lose. Their FICO and D:I may look ok now, but it's possible that their defaults on their obligations haven't caught up with them yet.
Before you lend any money, please become extra familiar with what the various FICO scores mean and what the debt to income ratio means. Those are the only verified pieces of financial info that you're going to get from the site. A good credit score but high D:I is a very risky loan. Be careful.
Make sure you're getting a good rate on your loans! You can get a 10% average return with an S&P 500 Index investment. What return are you getting on your money that you're lending out, when you factor in the default rate? Remember, these loans are not FDIC insured. Credit cards are charging these folks a minimum of 18%, and credit cards are not stupid. Make sure you're getting a huge return.
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99% of people would have just consented to the search. You stood up for your rights. Unfortunately, your only reward is being able to post a comment on slashdot about it and have it be modded up to +5 Insightful. :)
Wait until they commit a suicide attack and then arrest them and put what's left of their corpses on trial for the murders?
You French should really go out and get laid sometime.
If you want the state to enforce your agreement, you better write it down.
Annual payment on a 250k mortgage: $20k-30k/yr.
Most private schools have need-based scholarship money, especially for folks with multiple children enrolled.
Your neighbors have made for themselves some very poor financial decisions.
As a business owner, I can tell you that if you give me a choice between using your software to make money tomorrow vs. waiting 6 months to use your software to make money, I'd be an idiot to wait 6 months. As long as you have something usable tomorrow, that's what I will buy every time. For all I know, in 6 months, you'll be wanting another 6 months... and another 6 months... and then another...
What good is "good" software if I can't even use it?
Single-use numbers are available for Citibank and MBNA cards, but there are probably others. I would suggest using them.
Yeah, that page is now gone from google and wayback--the two main offenders.
His name is President George W. Bush.
I don't think him having a MySpace profile would have changed any of that.
Fortunately for my friend, he went to court and the judge laughed his ass off before dismissing the charges. I guess not everyone is so lucky.
In other words, the majority of kids want to be kids, and that pisses you off.
If you sign up for their $9.95/month plan, you will receive a bill each month for precisely $9.95. Not a penny more, and not a penny less.
I can't tell you how refreshing that is from a "teleco". Pretty sad, eh?
If Intuit doesn't want to have to deal with Grampa Bob and 50,000,000 of his closest friends who can't run TurboTax because Vista defaults to a user account, then Intuit can fix their application or cede all of their customers to TaxCut.
In case anyone wants to RTFA, I was finally able to get Coral to cache a copy of it. You can view the article in all its glory here.
Looks like isp-planet.com should have paid for the faster link!
The pressure for apps to work with screen-readers comes from disabled users. The pressure for Lotus Notes to work correctly in a multi-user/roaming-profile environment comes from customers who want to set up their workstations that way. Neither of these have anything to do with OS security.
My point is that when a virus comes out and large numbers of Windows boxes are pwned, Microsoft comes out looking bad. Microsoft should be the one taking the lead on this. It's not Microsoft's responsiblity to make sure blind users can use Quicken. But the security and integrity of the OS is their responsiblity.
Microsoft needs to make it clear to application developers that if they don't create apps that run in userspace, their customers are going to be frustrated and confused and they'll wind up using their competitors' products.
I mean, really. Why do 90% of Windows apps currently require admin rights to run? Lazy designers, that's why.
There is a PHP MVC framework fore you here.
I use the Model View Controller design pattern for UIs. I would suggest you do the same. The View is your pretty HTML stuff, the Model is the crap you want to display, and the Controller is where the code goes to fetch that content and save user input.
They're worse than you thought. Anyhow, they sleep about 60% of the day.
... if they have to switch to anything, they should be switching to .NET. They're a microsoft shop.
Really, the only part of J2EE that I can think of that was ever crap would have to be Entity EJBs (high overhead, high complexity, too expensive for simple DB access, too difficult to get complex queries to behave (BMP), required meaningless conversions due to nonserializability, etc., etc.).
OP should read what you wrote on CMM. Anyhow, I doubt the FDA would require CMMI Level 5. Probably Level 3. But what do I know? Also, if the work is for the government, they probably shouldn't be offshoring it.
The borrowers post what they need the money for, and their stories are identical to the stories I hear every day about why a tenant's rent money is unavaiable/late/whatever. There are some people out there who actually will come up with the rent money. There are some who really intend to come up with it, and believe that they can come up with it, but are unable. There are some who never intend to pay for what they consume and are just good at making up stories. Please, please be careful!
Be sure to spread your risk across many borrowers. When (not "if") one defaults, you won't lose your entire investment.
Be careful of people who, within the last few months, just had a major financial hardship (divorce, medical problem, job loss, etc.) I'm not talking about someone who had the problem 2 years ago and has his/her life more or less back on track... but the FICO score isn't up to where it should be yet. I'm talking people who are in he midst of financial turmoil. It's very tempting to take pity on those people because they are in trouble. Just make sure you are playing with money you can afford to lose. Their FICO and D:I may look ok now, but it's possible that their defaults on their obligations haven't caught up with them yet.
Before you lend any money, please become extra familiar with what the various FICO scores mean and what the debt to income ratio means. Those are the only verified pieces of financial info that you're going to get from the site. A good credit score but high D:I is a very risky loan. Be careful.
Make sure you're getting a good rate on your loans! You can get a 10% average return with an S&P 500 Index investment. What return are you getting on your money that you're lending out, when you factor in the default rate? Remember, these loans are not FDIC insured. Credit cards are charging these folks a minimum of 18%, and credit cards are not stupid. Make sure you're getting a huge return.
Good luck! I hope it goes well for you!
I would love to see the look on my neighbors' face if I got a milk cow and some chickens. Hahaha.