From the article: Seeing tax dollars dwindling, neighboring Oregon has already started road testing the idea.
Of course, Oregon isn't as much fun for the right-wing to demonize. I'm not too surprised that CA needs new sources of revenue though. Since we only get back about $0.72 for each dollar we pay to the Republican-controlled Federal government, we've got to find some source of revenue that the red states can't steal from us to fund their creationism schools.
If you don't totally suck at teh programming, try writing some of your own tools for him
Or, if you do suck at programming, hook up with someone who doesn't. Necessity being the mother of invention and all , you may just build yourself a wildly successful product. Or, you might only have a fun time and help out your brother. Either way it's a win.
Plus, in many jursidictions, hacking the casino's technology will bring down whole legal shitstorm on you. If you want to fiddle with RFID chips, stick to Wal-Mart's.
eBay has fewer people checking on these things than you might imagine. Typically, nothing will happen until a complaint is raised. The eBay community are their own policemen.
The point was that with any widely used IT product, the number of security problems will increase as market share increases.
And the rebuttal was that that meme is a load of crap as evidenced in the comparison of Apache (widely-used, fewer exploits) vs. IIS (less-used, more exploits).
Faxing a death certificate looks like a simple, reasonable, step.
Although corporations own nearly every facet of American life, we are still free to ignore correspondence from them. Subpeonas are still necessary to compel a response.
My preferred host is me. Although your requirements may not allow it, consider doing it yourself. If you have a good broadband connection and a reliable box, running your own email and web services is not that difficult. I started doing it as a hobby just to see if I could and it turned out to be fairly easy to set up a server with Apache, Exim, Cyrus and SSH for access. The only major difficulty I had was once when a hard drive went bad and I was really busy with my full-time job and couldn't bring it back up for a couple of days.
The problem that I have is the fact that this manual appears to be publicly available.
It's an amusing conceit the many Americans have that the rest of the world is utterly incapable of figuring anything out on their own and must steal it from the USA.
Even worse is Price-Waterhouse for their online stock trading. They demand you use either a 6 or 7 character alphanumeric password. Needless to say, my account is closed there.
think what they're really trying to do grub some ad revenue and co-branding out of the current Firefox buzz.
You know, they can do both at the same time. I wish I could say that Speakeasy rocks, but they don't really. They are way expensive. The alternatives are the phone company and the cable company. In comparison, Speakeasy does rock but the bar ain't that high.
On the bright side, at least Callifornia has a huge new government jobs program.
Yes, and now the gap between the wealth-producing states and the wealth-consuming states will be even larger. We Californians will be forced to send even more of our federal tax monies to the backwards-assed states (i.e. "red") states.
Actually, he said that nothing can travel at exactly the speed of light. It can travel faster or slower, but not AT c. Faster than light travel simply introduces i (square root of -1) in places we aren't used to seeing it. It may not be physicaly feasible but it's mathematically possible.
Excellent post. I would just make one Yoda-like correction: There is no "try" when it comes to being on time - you MUST be on time. Leave early in case something goes wrong. A prospective employer does not care about a flat tire or a train delay.
Can we go ahead and just stick a big "L" on the collective Slashdot forehead now? You guys are redefining the words "sore losers".
Get one thing clear, pal. We are pissed! Every patriotic American ought to be mad as hell about the damage to this great country being inflicted by W and his cohorts. From the raping of our natural wonders to the rampaging federal deficit to the immoral war and support for torture, this President is as opposed to American values as any we've ever had. Sore losers? Hell yes, we're sore losers. We're losing something that really matters - a great country.
It's actually the other way around. The vast majority of litigation serves to redress a legitimate wrong. The exceptions are the ones where a sleazy lawyer is trying to game the system. It's these exceptions that are hyped by the right-wing in an effort to remove the last protections of the weak and powerless.
And you'd be wrong about that as well. However the argument over it would quickly descend into deciding what is wealth and what causes its creation, so I'll just leave it here.
On the contrary, litigation has added MASSIVE value to society. Without litigation, you'd be pledging allegiance to Standard Oil every morning. That is, if you haven't already been killed by a shoddy, fraudulently-marketed product or poisoned by chemicals leaching into your drinking water.
But I always try and use the exact same environment for all three. Even buying the same machine as the client if necessary (I'm a consultant, who only uses FreeBSD and Linux, btw).
Yes, but sometimes that simply isn't possible. Can you imagine trying to replicate the traffic and complexity of a Google or eBay on a dev machine? His question was to uncover some of the problems with testing on a facsimile of the prod environment.
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Seeing tax dollars dwindling, neighboring Oregon has already started road testing the idea.
Of course, Oregon isn't as much fun for the right-wing to demonize.
I'm not too surprised that CA needs new sources of revenue though. Since we only get back about $0.72 for each dollar we pay to the Republican-controlled Federal government, we've got to find some source of revenue that the red states can't steal from us to fund their creationism schools.
If you don't totally suck at teh programming, try writing some of your own tools for him
Or, if you do suck at programming, hook up with someone who doesn't. Necessity being the mother of invention and all , you may just build yourself a wildly successful product. Or, you might only have a fun time and help out your brother. Either way it's a win.
The next step is for the IRS and the SEC along with the Justice department to jointly open an investigation regarding this conspiracy.
In a Republican-controlled government? Never happen.
Plus, in many jursidictions, hacking the casino's technology will bring down whole legal shitstorm on you. If you want to fiddle with RFID chips, stick to Wal-Mart's.
eBay has fewer people checking on these things than you might imagine. Typically, nothing will happen until a complaint is raised. The eBay community are their own policemen.
The point was that with any widely used IT product, the number of security problems will increase as market share increases.
And the rebuttal was that that meme is a load of crap as evidenced in the comparison of Apache (widely-used, fewer exploits) vs. IIS (less-used, more exploits).
The even scarier fact is that someone took five minutes to pull some numbers out of their ass and somebody else took it as a valid estimate.
Notice how whenever you hear about some government agency fucking up an IT project, it's never the NSA?
That's because the first rule of working at the NSA is that you NEVER talk about the NSA.
Faxing a death certificate looks like a simple, reasonable, step.
Although corporations own nearly every facet of American life, we are still free to ignore correspondence from them. Subpeonas are still necessary to compel a response.
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2672 Bayshore Parkway # 703
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: 866-9-PARSEC(866-972-7732)
650-960-1884
Fax: 650-960-1881
Email: info@parsecinteract.com
Probably a mail drop
Depends on what you call costly but Speakeasy will do all that for about $50 a month.
My preferred host is me. Although your requirements may not allow it, consider doing it yourself. If you have a good broadband connection and a reliable box, running your own email and web services is not that difficult. I started doing it as a hobby just to see if I could and it turned out to be fairly easy to set up a server with Apache, Exim, Cyrus and SSH for access. The only major difficulty I had was once when a hard drive went bad and I was really busy with my full-time job and couldn't bring it back up for a couple of days.
The problem that I have is the fact that this manual appears to be publicly available.
It's an amusing conceit the many Americans have that the rest of the world is utterly incapable of figuring anything out on their own and must steal it from the USA.
You've obviously never worked on a government program. Sometimes the oversight is all there is and the project is just secondary.
Even worse is Price-Waterhouse for their online stock trading. They demand you use either a 6 or 7 character alphanumeric password. Needless to say, my account is closed there.
think what they're really trying to do grub some ad revenue and co-branding out of the current Firefox buzz.
You know, they can do both at the same time.
I wish I could say that Speakeasy rocks, but they don't really. They are way expensive. The alternatives are the phone company and the cable company. In comparison, Speakeasy does rock but the bar ain't that high.
- ISP's need to have a blacklist of customers who are known spammers. They need to share info.
That's like putting up a sign saying, "please sue me for libel". It would also probably put you afoul of anti-trust laws.
On the bright side, at least Callifornia has a huge new government jobs program.
Yes, and now the gap between the wealth-producing states and the wealth-consuming states will be even larger. We Californians will be forced to send even more of our federal tax monies to the backwards-assed states (i.e. "red") states.
Actually, he said that nothing can travel at exactly the speed of light. It can travel faster or slower, but not AT c. Faster than light travel simply introduces i (square root of -1) in places we aren't used to seeing it. It may not be physicaly feasible but it's mathematically possible.
Excellent post. I would just make one Yoda-like correction: There is no "try" when it comes to being on time - you MUST be on time. Leave early in case something goes wrong. A prospective employer does not care about a flat tire or a train delay.
Can we go ahead and just stick a big "L" on the collective Slashdot forehead now? You guys are redefining the words "sore losers".
Get one thing clear, pal. We are pissed! Every patriotic American ought to be mad as hell about the damage to this great country being inflicted by W and his cohorts. From the raping of our natural wonders to the rampaging federal deficit to the immoral war and support for torture, this President is as opposed to American values as any we've ever had. Sore losers? Hell yes, we're sore losers. We're losing something that really matters - a great country.
It's actually the other way around. The vast majority of litigation serves to redress a legitimate wrong. The exceptions are the ones where a sleazy lawyer is trying to game the system. It's these exceptions that are hyped by the right-wing in an effort to remove the last protections of the weak and powerless.
And you'd be wrong about that as well. However the argument over it would quickly descend into deciding what is wealth and what causes its creation, so I'll just leave it here.
Litigation never added value to society at all ...
On the contrary, litigation has added MASSIVE value to society. Without litigation, you'd be pledging allegiance to Standard Oil every morning. That is, if you haven't already been killed by a shoddy, fraudulently-marketed product or poisoned by chemicals leaching into your drinking water.
But I always try and use the exact same environment for all three. Even buying the same machine as the client if necessary (I'm a consultant, who only uses FreeBSD and Linux, btw).
Yes, but sometimes that simply isn't possible. Can you imagine trying to replicate the traffic and complexity of a Google or eBay on a dev machine? His question was to uncover some of the problems with testing on a facsimile of the prod environment.