If less than 1000 persons' information is stolen, the business needs to do nothing. The business has up to 45 days (yes a month and a half) to notify the customers. The notification can be via email (regardless of whether or not email address the company has on record is valid or not). The person whose information was lost bears all charges for credit agency holds. It holds the business non-liable if these (very loose) procedures are followed.
I guess this bill is better than nothing, but just barely. All-in-all, it looks like another "lets do a (very) small thing for the consumer that we Congress-people can trumpet while making sure they actually have no legal recourse" bill.
And just how many genes were "made redundant" by this merger? Think of the alleles going hungry tonight because their parent chromosomes have lost their jobs. It's capitalism run wild, I tell you...
A programmers programmer knows how to create programs that are easy to use, and easy to support.
Horsecrap! A programmers' programmer knows that the only good interface is a command line with lots of obscure command flags. Oh how I find these days of --list and --recursive hideous - we all know that a simple -l -r (or better yet, -lr) should suffice! As for easy to support!?!??! Are you kidding! It should be easy to code to, once you understand the elititude and elegance of the original programmer's design. The fact that it takes three years to grok that is your problem, not the code's! Sheesh. Kids these days. Got their priorities all screwed up...
Their schools are now going to have some money that would have been spent on software that can now be spent on other things to improve their education.
Maybe this year. After looking at licensing costs for future years, the money spent to maintain computers that run the software, and the support costs in teaching the teachers to run this software, I'd be hard pressed to see a net win here. OTOH, once one has made the decision to start doen the slippery (and expensive) slope to have computers in the classroom (especially for the K-5 grades, where it has not been demonstrated that they make a difference in outcome), I guess a few nickels thrown into the pot won't hurt too much.
But seriously, this can set up some pretty interesting dilemmas, assuming you value highly the life of both, say, a sick child and a fetus.
On "take your child to work" day, a mother brings her eight year old daughter into the in vitro fertilization lab where she works. She leaves her child at a desk in her office to go to the restroom. On her way back, she is accosted by a co-worker and speaks with her for a few minutes. Unbeknownst to her, an electrical fire breaks out in a wall between a lab and her office. Her daughter, sitting in her office, is trapped by the fire and cannot escape without help. Luckily, the fire department is called. A firefighter, a good Catholic, sees in the lab hundreds of fertilized embryos. He can save the hundreds of human embryos or the girl. Which does he choose?
And why do I feel like I'm on the "Ask Kevin Smith" show (not that there is one of those or anthing, but this is the kind of question Randall would ask Dante)?
As a professional software developer, I pride myself on my ability to tell humor from truth. The one thing that quickly turns me away from any professional is when they have no sense of humor.
Pssst, Paul: there are a lot of interesting startups in what you'd call boring, flyover country. Telecommuting means that you can have outstanding information-based companies in Granite Falls, MN, Paragould, AR, or even Nampa, ID. In fact, a lot of people may even PREFER rural or small-town life, but they probably drive pickups or something (shudder).
That may well be. But the statistics show that they are the exception and not the rule. The fact that the majority of startups are happening in a handful of places and not others is a statistical fact. Is it due to the dire lifestyle of the places that don't tend to attract them? Maybe, maybe not. But from your post, I hear a lot of wounded pride because no one is recognizing good upstanding flyover Americans who work hard for a living. I can sympathize. I grew up in one of those places. But most people who grow up there want to get the hell out. There aren't any jobs, and most of the ones that are there are pretty uninteresting. As such, the talent pool is small. I'm sorry that you can't recognize this fact, but it is a fact. You may think of it as elitism but, in reality, it's as simple as this: Money attracts money. Small towns don't have enough of a resource base to attract talent. As such, they tend to stay poor. I'm sorry that you like living in a backwater, but that's the way it is. Have fun being a big fish in your little pond. And when someone with an ocean comes along and drains your pond, be ready to move.
We can get all those old Gigli DVD's incinerated! We can then start on the video oeuvre of Meryll Streep! I hope they burn in an enviromentally sound manner.
incredibly expensive shows like 24 and Lost WON'T EXIST if they can't make money
Last I heard, producers were doing fine with money derived from commercial ads during their first network runs, subsequent overseas network syndication, domestic cable channel syndication, and independent OTA syndication. Oddly enough, I haven't seen any decrease in these traditional revenue streams due to the availability of shows via download or via DVD. Something tells me these guys are still making money all along the chain.
I would! Just on general principles. Throwing paint is fun!
...nothing will ever come of insulting them.
Who said anything about insulting them? I just think they look better in Red. And, besides,there's yellow and blue for those who don't look good in red!
I really want to read this book. Do I get a refund or try to crack the DRM on something I just bought?
Well, there's this really wonderful resource called a library. Most towns have one, and you can usually find book-like materials there. If the particular book you want is not available there, there are these people (librarians, I believe they're called) there who can help you obtain the book from another library via a process called an Inter-Library Loan. Once you have procured the item you want you may read it.
Now, I would not deign to encourage this sort of behavior, but I also believe that, if one had access to the book, one could use a machine to make copies of this book without running afoul of the DMCA (this would endanger one due to the infraction of other copyright laws, but they are certainly less onerous -- and no more enforced -- than the DMCA). I hope that this solves your probelm.
Please accept this large steaming cup of shut the hell up.
Dear BigTanGringo - I sense a lot of bottled up violent impulses in you as demonstrated by the aggressive tone of your letter. Perhaps you played too many video games as a child. Sincerely, Dr. Messner
All property should be private, thereby allowing tort laws to cover the trespass (civil) and destruction (tort) that occurs from pollution.
Fine. I'll take the air as my property. Don't breath unless you want to pay me. You steal my air, I will send my private guards to force you to stop stealing my property.
At this point, I was beginning to think that the R's went after him because they were jealous. Well, at least until I heard about the whole Dusty Foggo hookers, poker, and scotch thing. I guess the R's are just dicks.
OK, the cheaply done artwork is fine - I mean who doesn't like to doodle. And, I can even understand the pagan coven - I mean, we all have to nurture our spiritual side. But the Dr. Who fanfic? That's sick man. You should get some counselling. Oh well, at least it's not Star Trek...
What if I cut the monkey training budget so my stock would go up one quarter of one percent?
Then you will have to hire trained monkeys and you will wonder why your current monkeys get cranky and while about working too hard when you can't find ones that will work for the relatively few peanuts you provide.
Slashdot Mirror
Just like Levitra.
I believe that a more effective grammatical phrasing would be: Is it because they is plain stupids?
I guess this bill is better than nothing, but just barely. All-in-all, it looks like another "lets do a (very) small thing for the consumer that we Congress-people can trumpet while making sure they actually have no legal recourse" bill.
And just how many genes were "made redundant" by this merger? Think of the alleles going hungry tonight because their parent chromosomes have lost their jobs. It's capitalism run wild, I tell you...
Horsecrap! A programmers' programmer knows that the only good interface is a command line with lots of obscure command flags. Oh how I find these days of --list and --recursive hideous - we all know that a simple -l -r (or better yet, -lr) should suffice! As for easy to support!?!??! Are you kidding! It should be easy to code to, once you understand the elititude and elegance of the original programmer's design. The fact that it takes three years to grok that is your problem, not the code's! Sheesh. Kids these days. Got their priorities all screwed up...
Maybe this year. After looking at licensing costs for future years, the money spent to maintain computers that run the software, and the support costs in teaching the teachers to run this software, I'd be hard pressed to see a net win here. OTOH, once one has made the decision to start doen the slippery (and expensive) slope to have computers in the classroom (especially for the K-5 grades, where it has not been demonstrated that they make a difference in outcome), I guess a few nickels thrown into the pot won't hurt too much.
On "take your child to work" day, a mother brings her eight year old daughter into the in vitro fertilization lab where she works. She leaves her child at a desk in her office to go to the restroom. On her way back, she is accosted by a co-worker and speaks with her for a few minutes. Unbeknownst to her, an electrical fire breaks out in a wall between a lab and her office. Her daughter, sitting in her office, is trapped by the fire and cannot escape without help. Luckily, the fire department is called. A firefighter, a good Catholic, sees in the lab hundreds of fertilized embryos. He can save the hundreds of human embryos or the girl. Which does he choose?
And why do I feel like I'm on the "Ask Kevin Smith" show (not that there is one of those or anthing, but this is the kind of question Randall would ask Dante)?
As a professional software developer, I pride myself on my ability to tell humor from truth. The one thing that quickly turns me away from any professional is when they have no sense of humor.
That may well be. But the statistics show that they are the exception and not the rule. The fact that the majority of startups are happening in a handful of places and not others is a statistical fact. Is it due to the dire lifestyle of the places that don't tend to attract them? Maybe, maybe not. But from your post, I hear a lot of wounded pride because no one is recognizing good upstanding flyover Americans who work hard for a living. I can sympathize. I grew up in one of those places. But most people who grow up there want to get the hell out. There aren't any jobs, and most of the ones that are there are pretty uninteresting. As such, the talent pool is small. I'm sorry that you can't recognize this fact, but it is a fact. You may think of it as elitism but, in reality, it's as simple as this: Money attracts money. Small towns don't have enough of a resource base to attract talent. As such, they tend to stay poor. I'm sorry that you like living in a backwater, but that's the way it is. Have fun being a big fish in your little pond. And when someone with an ocean comes along and drains your pond, be ready to move.
A: Because the stakes are so small.
Well, yeah. The robot would say that, wouldn't it?
Given that you read Slashdot, I doubt you have to worry about non-dirty sex, let alone the other kind.
But didn't the part where they sucked out your soul hurt?
Just kidding. More power to you. I have lots of relatives who are lawyers.
More cowbell!
We can get all those old Gigli DVD's incinerated! We can then start on the video oeuvre of Meryll Streep! I hope they burn in an enviromentally sound manner.
Last I heard, producers were doing fine with money derived from commercial ads during their first network runs, subsequent overseas network syndication, domestic cable channel syndication, and independent OTA syndication. Oddly enough, I haven't seen any decrease in these traditional revenue streams due to the availability of shows via download or via DVD. Something tells me these guys are still making money all along the chain.
That'll do for Shlashdotters.
Because God knows we have a dangerous enough presidency as it is!
I would! Just on general principles. Throwing paint is fun!
Who said anything about insulting them? I just think they look better in Red. And, besides,there's yellow and blue for those who don't look good in red!
Well, there's this really wonderful resource called a library. Most towns have one, and you can usually find book-like materials there. If the particular book you want is not available there, there are these people (librarians, I believe they're called) there who can help you obtain the book from another library via a process called an Inter-Library Loan. Once you have procured the item you want you may read it.
Now, I would not deign to encourage this sort of behavior, but I also believe that, if one had access to the book, one could use a machine to make copies of this book without running afoul of the DMCA (this would endanger one due to the infraction of other copyright laws, but they are certainly less onerous -- and no more enforced -- than the DMCA). I hope that this solves your probelm.
Dear BigTanGringo -
I sense a lot of bottled up violent impulses in you as demonstrated by the aggressive tone of your letter. Perhaps you played too many video games as a child.
Sincerely,
Dr. Messner
Fine. I'll take the air as my property. Don't breath unless you want to pay me. You steal my air, I will send my private guards to force you to stop stealing my property.
What a tool you are.
At this point, I was beginning to think that the R's went after him because they were jealous. Well, at least until I heard about the whole Dusty Foggo hookers, poker, and scotch thing. I guess the R's are just dicks.
OK, the cheaply done artwork is fine - I mean who doesn't like to doodle. And, I can even understand the pagan coven - I mean, we all have to nurture our spiritual side. But the Dr. Who fanfic? That's sick man. You should get some counselling. Oh well, at least it's not Star Trek...
Then you will have to hire trained monkeys and you will wonder why your current monkeys get cranky and while about working too hard when you can't find ones that will work for the relatively few peanuts you provide.